Sireal
Setian
Some thoughts inspired by a private discussion.
The path of Xeper is a journey to the Self. This journey is unique and highly individual. No one can judge your process so long as one is pursuing hir Xeper with integrity and honest effort. One of the main functions of an Initiatory body is to offer the individual initiate a peer reviewed assessment of their progress on the LHP. The propensity for power to corrupt at this level of initiation is more than alluring, but it is also a test of ones own integrity. Can an initiate objectively assess the state of another's Being without having achieved some mastery over their life themselves? I do not think so.
Say for instance, Betty who is 29 became a prostitute (instigated by her "dad" using her for sex since she was 9), drug addict and had her kids taken away by social services found out about the Temple through an overheard conversation wants to join but is turned down, finds all the stuff she can at the library and prints off all the pirated ToS material she can and works her *** off to learn and apply Xeper to her life eventually has been clean for a year and a half, has a modest apartment, $268.00 in her bank account, her kids living with her healthy and well fed and going to school and a job as a receptionist and is just barely making ends meet but Doing it. She sends in her appication and is accepted this time.
Then there is Tom who is 29 has a good job, breezed through school because of a high IQ and has never had anything really go wrong with his life, he finds the Temple because he always like to read everything he can find on the occult because it gave him a sense of power that others feared and sits at his computer play's D&D or WoWC and loves to talk about all the obscure books he's read on alt.satanism or some other list like this one and feels he's become a great magician because the Temple has given him a shot at becoming Adept-but he knows way more these folks anyway so he's not worried, he may even be writing books on the occult he's read so much, but never leaves his house and not much outside internal world ever occurs.
Here's Susan who has a Ph.D. in Physics has worked for a major bio-tech firm for ten years and has really begun to think about the magical life she left behind all those years ago, ever since one of her colleagues mentioned Setian philosophy to her and how his life had changed through his own will. Her grant funding is gauranteed for life, she's worked hard but see's the work benefits some mega corp that is spreading lethal pesticides all over planet and decides her ethical standards have not only been comprmised but she's part of the destruction of the places she's never been too. She reads the ToS web site and decides to join, she lurks for a few months reads and re-reads the CT, talks to a Master of the Temple about the undertaking and decides she is going to put this to the test and quits her job and starts her own company funded by selling her assets in order to actively help the countries she had been paid to destroy by her former employer...This means moving out of the $2500 a month appartment, selling the mercedes and getting a toyota but she does't care, and re-adjusts her life without too much difficulty and eventually developes a new pesticide that has no harmful affects on the environment.
Which of these people is recognizable as an Adept Black Magician?
Initiation does not happen through reading books or playing games, those things are just fun. Initiation is Hard Work and does not occur in static environments it thrives on change, chaos and the mastery of all environments. Initiation does not occur by listening to second hand information or mystical hogwash. True Initiation is passed from mouth to ear, in an environment where value judgments are not part of the curriculum but Recognition is.
The path of Xeper is a journey to the Self. This journey is unique and highly individual. No one can judge your process so long as one is pursuing hir Xeper with integrity and honest effort. One of the main functions of an Initiatory body is to offer the individual initiate a peer reviewed assessment of their progress on the LHP. The propensity for power to corrupt at this level of initiation is more than alluring, but it is also a test of ones own integrity. Can an initiate objectively assess the state of another's Being without having achieved some mastery over their life themselves? I do not think so.
Say for instance, Betty who is 29 became a prostitute (instigated by her "dad" using her for sex since she was 9), drug addict and had her kids taken away by social services found out about the Temple through an overheard conversation wants to join but is turned down, finds all the stuff she can at the library and prints off all the pirated ToS material she can and works her *** off to learn and apply Xeper to her life eventually has been clean for a year and a half, has a modest apartment, $268.00 in her bank account, her kids living with her healthy and well fed and going to school and a job as a receptionist and is just barely making ends meet but Doing it. She sends in her appication and is accepted this time.
Then there is Tom who is 29 has a good job, breezed through school because of a high IQ and has never had anything really go wrong with his life, he finds the Temple because he always like to read everything he can find on the occult because it gave him a sense of power that others feared and sits at his computer play's D&D or WoWC and loves to talk about all the obscure books he's read on alt.satanism or some other list like this one and feels he's become a great magician because the Temple has given him a shot at becoming Adept-but he knows way more these folks anyway so he's not worried, he may even be writing books on the occult he's read so much, but never leaves his house and not much outside internal world ever occurs.
Here's Susan who has a Ph.D. in Physics has worked for a major bio-tech firm for ten years and has really begun to think about the magical life she left behind all those years ago, ever since one of her colleagues mentioned Setian philosophy to her and how his life had changed through his own will. Her grant funding is gauranteed for life, she's worked hard but see's the work benefits some mega corp that is spreading lethal pesticides all over planet and decides her ethical standards have not only been comprmised but she's part of the destruction of the places she's never been too. She reads the ToS web site and decides to join, she lurks for a few months reads and re-reads the CT, talks to a Master of the Temple about the undertaking and decides she is going to put this to the test and quits her job and starts her own company funded by selling her assets in order to actively help the countries she had been paid to destroy by her former employer...This means moving out of the $2500 a month appartment, selling the mercedes and getting a toyota but she does't care, and re-adjusts her life without too much difficulty and eventually developes a new pesticide that has no harmful affects on the environment.
Which of these people is recognizable as an Adept Black Magician?
Initiation does not happen through reading books or playing games, those things are just fun. Initiation is Hard Work and does not occur in static environments it thrives on change, chaos and the mastery of all environments. Initiation does not occur by listening to second hand information or mystical hogwash. True Initiation is passed from mouth to ear, in an environment where value judgments are not part of the curriculum but Recognition is.
) gets blown out of the water on principle.
