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THELEMA, XEPER, DEITUS

by Magus Tsirk Susej

The purpose of this thesis is to elucidate upon the meaning and significance of the Word

of the Aeon of Lucifer, DEITUS, and the Law of the Aeon of Lucifer, THELEMA,

XEPER, DEITUS or Will to Come Into Being as a God. In so doing, I will also discuss

the Demonic Bible, the system of magic revealed to me by my Unholy Guardian Demon,

the spirit Azael, and the Embassy of Lucifer, the vehicle for the advancement of DEITUS

as the Word of the Aeon of Lucifer. This thesis may, therefore, serve as a commentary

on the Demonic Bible as well as an exposition on deitic philosophy and magic.

As stated in the Preface to the 2 nd Edition, the Demonic Bible is not a “work of fiction”

but is rather the foundation of what is now known as deitic magic. The roots of deitic

magic lie in thelemic (as practiced by the O.T.O./A.A.) and setian magic (from the

Church of Satan/Temple of Set tradition), but is also heavily influenced by the septenary

system of the O.N.A. It is only by THELEMA and XEPER that one can attain DEITUS.

An understanding of thelemic and setian philosophy is therefore necessary for an

understanding of many of the concepts presented in the Demonic Bible. This thesis will

address thelemic and setian philosophy as it relates to an understanding of DEITUS.

Let us begin, then, by considering the basic precepts of satanic belief. The start of satanic

enlightenment is the realization that all gods are created by man, all religions are

established by man, all “holy” books are written by man, and all temples are built by

man... there is nothing spiritual, there is nothing holy. It has been said that man creates

God in the image of himself and the devil in the image of his enemy. God is, it is

remarked, a projection of man’s ego. The Satanist says, “Why worship a god someone

else has created, and which represents someone else’s ego, when you can recognize a god

of your own creation… a god which has your best interests at heart.”

The Satanic view considers Satan as an archetype, a symbol of carnality as opposed to

spirituality. The Satanist realizes that it is the overpowering fear of death which causes

man to create heaven and hell, reincarnation, and all of the other fairy stories which deal

with life beyond death. There is only the flesh. Satanists, therefore, delight in the

pleasures of the flesh and in the joys that this world has to offer, and scoff at those who

reject what they have been given for the hope for some illusory reward beyond death.

Satanically speaking, churches are businesses which offer their followers the promise of

“salvation.” In order for this con-game to succeed, a church must convince its followers

that a) it is the only viable path to salvation, and b) without its service, they are going

straight to hell. Churches have, therefore, attempted to suppress the human ego by

making their followers feel guilt and shame for every natural inclination and suppress the

human intellect by demanding blind faith and obedience. By suppressing the human ego,

a church makes its followers feel inferior and remain in thrall to the institution. By

suppressing the human intellect, a church keeps its followers from questioning the logic

of its dictates.

The Satanist asks, “Why should I feel guilty for that which is natural and healthy? Why

should I not feel pride in that which I have accomplished? Why should I not question the

logic of what I have been told?” Satanism encourages the development of a healthy ego.

Only when a person has a healthy ego, can he truly afford to treat others with respect and

consideration. Satanism also encourages the development of a healthy intellect. Nothing

should be accepted without question; all things must be put to the test.

Satanists are not devil-worshippers. There is, in fact, no form of worship in satanic ritual.

Since all gods are created by man, Satanists refuse to treat their creations as superior to

themselves. The Satanist may call upon the names of various gods, and may even treat

them as his equals, but he recognizes that they exist to serve him. The Satanist is his own

god and his own redeemer. Just as he knows that there is no other god beyond himself,

he knows that it is useless to pray for the things that he wants. He is ultimately

responsible for his own success or failure. He must work hard and strive for the things

which he desires.

To accomplish his goals, the Satanist may choose to use magic in the performance of a

satanic ritual. Every religion has had some form of magic ritual or ceremony associated

with it, but the Satanist realizes that magic represents the ability of the human mind to

cause change in the natural world. In the Magical Art , I discuss the use of telepathic

“transmissions” to influence others. Magic also involves magnetism, psycho kinesis, and

the release of emotional energy from the magician. Satanic rituals are performed to focus

the mind and direct the flow of energy.

It has often been said that Satanists perform human sacrifices or engage in other criminal

acts such as molesting children or killing animals. The rationale behind this is that the

energy of the emotionally charged victim is released in the performance of the rite and

directed within the ritual to accomplish the will of the magician. These types of crimes

are very rarely ever committed by a Satanist for an obvious reason which has nothing to

do with moral or ethical beliefs. A Satanist cares about what is best for him and would

not engage in acts which would jeopardize his freedom or safety. The occasional deviant

may commit some horrific crime in the name of Satan, but the Satanist is no more

responsible for the crimes of the sociopath or child molester than a Christian is for those

of a deviant priest or minister who does the same.

While self-interest keeps the Satanist from breaking the laws or cultural standards of the

society in which he lives, a Satanist may question the definition of good and evil and the

values and ethics which his society has determined to be correct. “What is good and

what is evil?” the Satanist asks. “If you kill for your country you are called a hero, but if

you kill to avenge a wrong which has been done you are called a criminal.” Questions

like this are common among Satanists for the Satanist realizes that the definition of right

and wrong, of good and evil, changes from decade to decade and also from nation to

nation. There is no absolute good or absolute evil. There are only man-made laws and

codes of conduct. These laws and dictates are written and rewritten to meet the demands

of the society we live in. Occasionally, these laws are based on beliefs and values which

are no longer accepted and must be changed.

The Satanist questions all that he has been taught to believe. He realizes that history is

written by the victors of every war… the winner becoming the hero and the defeated the

villain. The values of the dominant society are the prevailing values of the world and it is

by these values which the past is judged and the world’s future is determined. The

Satanist recognizes that all ideologies, all political systems, all economic systems, and all

governments are equally flawed. Once men went off to kill or die for their King and their

God; now they do the same for “democracy” and “liberty.” But what is “liberty,” the

Satanist may ask, “for those who must be killed to be “liberated?” All things are

subjective and, therefore, nothing can accurately be judged except by its own standards

and ideals.

The Satanist condemns the Christian, not for his offences but rather, for his hypocrisy.

All men will do what comes naturally to them and so the Satanist is not surprised to see

the Christian having sex, drinking, gambling, and engaging in other “sinful” pleasures.

The Satanist does not even think badly of the Christian for doing such things. But the

Satanist can only feel contempt for someone who preaches against the pleasures of the

flesh and condemns others to eternal “damnation” while continuing to do these things

himself. These men are out drinking and lusting after women on Friday night and then in

church Sunday morning asking God to forgive them for their “sins” when they know they

will be back out the following weekend doing what they have always done. The Satanist

rejects them because they are hypocrites, and judges them by the standards they have set.

Why, you may ask, does the Satanist call himself a Satanist if he does not believe in the

literal existence of the devil? The Satanist, of course, recognizes the importance of ritual

and ceremony to satisfy certain human emotional needs. He sees nothing wrong with

religion, and in fact considers it essential to human behavior, but recognizes that churches

have used religion to manipulate the masses into obedience to their will. The Satanist

chooses his own god, one which will not make him feel guilty for being human, one

which will not condemn him for all his actions… the Satanist chooses a god who

represents the very carnal being who has the power to create a god in the first place.

Every society has invented a deity who represents the carnal; in this particular society this

being is called Satan. The Satanist does not worship Satan, but he chooses Satan as an

archetype of carnality. The god of the Satanist is within his own flesh and bone, within

his skin tissues and muscle fibers. He is the god of life and the god of the flesh… he is

the Dark Lord, Satan.

The gods and demons which the Satanist may invoke, in the performance of satanic

rituals, are archetypes associated with the “dark side.” These beings represent carnality

rather than spirituality, life rather than death, and indulgence rather than repression. In

the Magical Art, I make brief mention of the magician’s ability to impose a thought-form

onto an object which can influence anyone who comes in contact with it. I suggest that

this form of magnetism or mesmerism which is responsible for a place or object

developing an aura makes it possible that a god or demon will take on an identity, apart

from the magician, as a thought-form. This is essentially a subjective existence, rather

than objective existence, and the spirit is fundamentally archetypal in nature, but through

the magician’s subconscious mind the spirit may assume an identity separate from the

magician who summons him and act independent of the magician’s will.

It is for this reason that certain repressed individuals who have experimented casually

with the “occult” have had horrific experiences and, abandoning further experimentation,

fled to the nearest church to seek forgiveness for their sins. The demons they encountered

were the product of their own repressed emotions and fears of the unknown. If faced,

with courage and fortitude, the demons would have vanished and become once again

shadows. The Satanist has no need for ouija boards or spirit cards since he has exercised

the shells embedded in man’s subconscious. Neither does the Satanist require protective

pentagrams and “Names” of God to protect him, or call upon the lesser minions of Hell

for fear that the greater deities are too powerful to control. The Satanist calls brazenly

upon the very Gods of Hell and Lords of the Abyss, realizing that they can in no way

harm him for he is the master of his conscious and subconscious mind.

Aleister Crowley defined magic k as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in

conformity with Will.” Anton LaVey took this definition farther by defining magic as,

“The change in situations or events in accordance with one’s will, which would, using

normally accepted methods, be unchangeable.” Magic is the effect of the human mind to

change events or situations in accordance with one’s desire. The success of magic

depends upon an unbending will, intense emotional desire, and absolute faith in the

outcome. It also depends upon the proper timing, imagery, balance, direction, and

secrecy about magical activities. Many books have been written which give spells or

rituals to acquire love, wealth, and power, but the ability to use these spells effectively

cannot be taught. In some it may come more naturally than in others, but magic is an art

which can only be developed through experience.

Satanists do not burn candles of various colors for various wishes, or sing “ring around

the rosy” while dancing clockwise in a circle holding hands. Those who want to practice

magic but cannot divorce themselves from the stigma attached to the practice of

witchcraft and sorcery, call themselves “white witches” and base eighty percent of their

philosophy on the guild-ridden doctrines of Christianity. The Satanist looks with

contempt upon these hypocrites who denounce Satan with one breath while attempting to

practice the very art which historically has been attributed to the Dark Lord. The Satanist

recognizes that magic is magic, be it used to help or to hinder.

The last page of the Demonic Bible is a diagram entitled the Map of the Spheres . The

spheres illustrated are essentially archetypal. They have been described countless times in

grimoires and magical treatises. In the physical world there are four elemental spheres:

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. There are also the four great watchtowers: North, East,

South, and West. Above the earth are the seven planetary spheres: the Moon, Mercury,

Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Beyond the planetary spheres are the Fixed

Stars and the Primum Mobil, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and the heavenly spheres.

Beneath the earth lies the land of the dead (Hades), the Tartaran Abode (Hell), and the

realm of the abominations of Chaos.

All spirits, demons, angels, and other beings of an archetypal nature are said to reside in

one of the archetypal spheres. There are, for example, many ranks or orders of angels

such as Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Virtues, Archangels, etc.

Each angelic choir is said to reside in a particular heavenly sphere. Similarly, the fallen

angels may reside in Earth, Air, Fire, Water, or in the Tartaric Depths. Spirits which

dwell in the planetary spheres are often called Olympic spirits. These include lunar,

mercurial, venereal, solar, martial, jovial, and sanguine spirits. Traditionally, all spirits

may be invoked or summoned to appearance by the magician using certain formulas of

invocation or evocation.

Magicians of the Middle Ages would fast for many days and go without sleep or rest.

They would also abstain from sexual intercourse and idle conversation in order to focus

all of their attention on their magical art. They would pray to God fervently for the

power to command the spirits and would then summon or invoke the spirits with threats

and warnings to appear “peacefully and affably” ready to serve the whim of the magician.

The grimoires warn that the magician dare not leave the circle of protection without

discharging the spirit or err in the performance of the ritual or else the spirit will seize the

magician and kill him or else drive him insane. Ironically, the magician would have to be

insane to believe that the Great Adonai would grant him the power to command spirits in

order that he might destroy his enemies, obtain great treasure, and fulfill his sexual

desires with young virgins or that the demonic lords he calls upon would be so easily

intimidated by his threats.

If the magician sees a spirit appear within the triangle of evocation it is simply because

his mental state from fasting, fatigue, and fervent prayer has brought him in the point of

delusion. If the spirit appears but refuses to speak with him or to satisfy his demands, the

magician must continue his fast and make even more fervent prayer to God. To any sane

mind it is clear that the formula of the grimoires can only lead to the ruin of the operator.

When the magician reaches the point of total insanity he will finally hear the voices of the

spirits and enjoy the treasures he has longed for, but he alone will hear the voices and his

gold pieces will be bottle-caps and his diamonds rocks from the ground, and the demons

will laugh him to scorn for his greed as he dies alone and miserable, a wretch of a man.

The rituals of the grimoires are a trap to ensnare the deluded. They set the magician upon

a downward cycle of self-destruction. The flaw inherent in every grimoire is that the

magician is instructed to command the spirit to appear visibly and to satisfy his demands.

In order for the operator to see the spirit visibly, he must reach a point of total insanity. If

the spirit does not appear visibly, then the spirit has failed to satisfy the first demand of

the operator, and it is unlikely anything the operator asks of the spirit will come to pass.

As I have said, the success of magic depends upon will, desire, and faith. Every time a

spirits fails to appear (as the operator has not yet become delusional) it will chip away a

little at his strength of will and faith in his ability thus acting against the magician.

The Demonic Bible provides invocations for many demons. These spirits are treated,

however, as archetypal forms and no attempt is made to force the spirit to appear visibly

or to speak with the operator. Neither is any demand made of the spirit. If you lust after a

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