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SHUGARA

XVIII MOON / LUNA

 

Hecate, the Greek Goddess of Magick and ghosts who roams at night and is accompanied by the
three Eryngoes and Cerberus the dog of Hell (“spirit of the Abyss”) and acts in relationship to
Medusa, Hydra of Kali (Kali-Uma = formlessness or nothingness); the werewolf howling under
the full moon as symbol of hidden longing and unconscious emotions.

The darkness and light reflect our periods of receptivity and creativity and of contemplation and
action. The ancients personified these two lights as the Sun God and the Moon Goddess, who
were seen to be the source of the masculine and feminine energies. The sun and the moon are
complementary opposites. As the masculine principle embodied in our notion of God and the
feminine principle as Goddess, they are the polar manifestations of the same primal,
undifferentiated dark force.

The sun emanating bright light and warmth projects its fiery, creative energy outward. The
reflective quality of the moon distributes this light to earth during the night hours of dew and
moisture, providing the fertile matrix out of which life can germinate and grow. The moon as
muse, mediates between the sun and earth, giving her substance to the planet. Earth cannot
assimilate directly the powerful energies of the sun without being consumed in the flames of this
constant high-voltage energy. The moon intervenes for us and distributes the sun’s light in a
rhythmic pattern of increase and decrease, which we experience in the tides of the oceans and the
flow of women’s blood. So the moon enables earth beings to gradually absorb the solar light and
use it to create our organic and psychic life.

The Moon as sinister planet is the symbol of evil, the Mother-Queen of the planets and
sovereigns of the vegetable world and fertility as a whole.

 
In the Tree of Wyrd one may considered Saturn, Moon and Mercury as another more hidden
triangle but more rightly called “a triad”, because it concerns the threefold and specified
function, as it happens here to be the consciousness (mind). While this triad, and call it the
sinister triad, becomes active through the mediumship of the personality, the three centres do
work together, governing the whole man.

Saturn, the Greater Malefic, capable of consciousness, is the collective unconscious, and its
contents known as “archetype”. The Moon is the personal unconscious, while Mercury is the
conscious mind. Saturn’s action is slow en enduring; the Moon’s action changes and fluctuates,
while Mercury’s action is rapid, unpredictable, and explosive.

While the horns of the Devil are a mark of his power, comparable with the mitre of a bishop; the
Moon is also horned, and does not only signify fertility but also night, darkness, death (or, death
to … but alive to …), and therefore the underworld. The horns of animals bring to mind the
danger represented to man by some beasts, or the hostile war animals that appear in many
mythologies, or the fundamental, mysterious and frightening otherness of animals. The powder
of a horn can be a poison as well as an alexipharmic or an aphrodisiac, and the wearing of horns
during rituals signify fantasy rather than fertility. Horns appear not only on the Devil but also on
evil spirits in variety of mythologies. However, the horns of the Devil as symbol signify not only
power, but also his association with death and the underworld, also sexuality, controlled or
uncontrolled, or even destructive.

While the sinister dwelling place of the Satanist is the underworld under the guidance of the
Moon Goddess; it is first of all, a state of mind. When we embrace the dark and allow ourselves
to enter unto the unknown dimensions of our minds, we are let to observe the following seven
rules:

(1)    Self-control and discipline on the Sinister Pathway.

(2)    The evil desire (intention) to attain one’s wishes by the removal of all obstacles until
satisfaction is reached.

(3)    Violent emotional reaction, cultivating the will-to-evil.

(4)    Revenge, hate, acquisitiveness, and similar things.

(5)    One should never refrain or kill out his desires.

(6)    Deliberate destruction of everything that is hindering, or just standing in the way, such as
religious hypocrisy and the like.

(7)    Cutting off all links that are not tied to the Aryan Race.

In fact, the sinister is never the desire to be destructive (although we have to be just doing that
most of the time), as it is an effort of “will” and is essentially an activity of the Sinister Triad,
involving the carrying out of those measures which hinder the freedom of humanity such as the
war against religious fanaticism.  Burning churches here and there as in Norwegian will not alter
the situation, rather the destruction of forms of consciousness which express themselves in those
corrupt areas of thought-forms. For instance, in the killing of religious ideologies which down
the ages have conditioned humanity. Let us hold the destiny of humanity in our minds and hands
using the fist, working intelligently and potently against religious slavery. Also, the Aryan Race
must by all means be protected. The leaders of religious movements constitute a real danger to
human development.

The problem of every Satanist is also one that each Sinister Master has to face in connection with
his own evil development, for this dark energy is the needed dynamic or potency which enables
him to tread the sinister pathway of the Chthonic Evolution.

Meditate on the following aspects for increased steadfastness on the path of darkness and death.

(1)    Self-will.

(2)    Determination.

(3)    Fixity of purpose.

One of the most important discoveries of depth psychology, for the study of diabology, is the
power of sinister projection.

When we are unaware of the process of repression within ourselves, we project the negative
elements that we refuse to recognise within ourselves onto others, especially onto individuals and
groups that we identify as enemies or potential enemies. The source of the cruel and greedy
feelings that I sense within me must be X, whom I dislike. This now justifies my hostility to X.
The more powerful my own repressed cruelty, the more cruel I imagine X to be.  If the feelings
are powerful enough, I may self-righteously judge that such a cruel person as X is a menace to
society and ought to be removed by force. I may end by venting my own hidden cruelty upon X,
justifying it on the basis of his alleged cruelty, which I have myself projected upon him. Here is
“Black Magick” very important.

THE GODDESS HECATE

Carl Gustav Jung considered myth’s as reality and not as mere idle inventions. He claimed, “they
are powerful and omnipresent psychological realities”. For him, Satan, Gods and Goddesses are
very powerful, for they are not only the expression of individual repressions but also a reflection
of the autonomous, timeless, and universal collective unconscious.

Hecate, the lady of the underworld, of the Chthonic Rites, and of Black Magick, has three faces
symbolising her power over underworld, earth and air. This threefold power of Hecate is
comparable to the triple lordship over sea, earth and sky exercised by Poseidon, whose trident,
which symbolises the lordship, passed into the iconography of the Devil as the modern
“pitchfork”.

Hecate is most often linked with the dark of the moon and presides over Magick, ritual, prophetic
vision, childbirth, death, the underworld, and the secret regeneration. Mistress of the crossroads,
the lunar Goddess dwells in caves, walks the highways at night, has sex on the vast seas, and is
the force that moves the Moon.

In the reflection of the Moon, she is a primordial figure in the oldest stratum of our unconscious.
Her genealogy leads us back to her birth at the beginning of time as a daughter of Nyx, Ancient
Night. On an inner level Hecate is a guardian figure of the mysterious depths of our unconscious
that accesses the collective memory of the primal void and whirling forces at the onset of
creation.

Hecate’s destructive powers at the expense of her creative ones, until at last she was invoked
only as a Goddess of the netherworld in clandestine rites of Black Magick, especially at places
where three roads met in the darkness of night.
 

Hecate teaches us that the ways to the vision that inspires evil and renewal is to be found in
moving through the darkness. As we enter into Hecate’s realm, we must confront and come to
terms with the dark and unconscious side of our inner nature. If we are to receive her gift of
vision and renewal, we must face this dark Goddess within ourselves, honour, praise, and make
our peace with her. Study her character, and make your own outside rite to be used when the
Moon is best seen and reflected. If you cannot do it outside, have your own ritual indoors, but
have first a rather long walk under the dark light of the Moon and gaze at her, thinking about
Hecate and yourself. Indoors keep windows and doors wide open, practising your ritual in de
middle of the night and with as less light as possible, using candles.

In the ritual do not forget to offer and consecrate the chalice with strong wine (I usually use red
or white port of good quality, offering the best). When you drink from the chalice, it is
considered to be Hecate’s gift to you.

This is a well-known practice in India, in Hinduism and among guru’s, the offering of fruit and
the like to Gods and Goddesses, and afterwards distributed to the disciples to be reverently
consumed in front of the shrine.  They call it “prasadam”. They claim that God, Goddesses and
guru’s enter into the offering, therefore it should be deeply respected, consumed, sharing the
“gift” to others as an expression of dedication, and be infernally blessed.

YOUR MIND, YOUR PERSONAL

UNDERWORLD
 

Hecate teaches us that the way to this vision that inspires the sinister is to be found in moving
through the darkness of mind.

As we enter into Hecate’s realm, we must confront and come to terms with the dark, the
unconscious side of our inner nature. If we are to receive her gift of vision and dark renewal, we
must face the dark Goddess within ourselves, and create our personal underworld.
 

CULMINATING AGGRESSIVE ENERGY

(My own underworld)

(1)    Pick a sinister project to which you want to give more “skim”.

(2)    Now, laying that project aside for the time being, and get in touch with your aggressive
feelings. Feel their vigour, their vibrancy, the effect they have on your body, and the hurt
they will eventually cause your victims.

(3)    Now realise that these feelings are powerful energy at your disposal, precious forces that can
do things and really hurt if need be.

(4)    Now vividly imagine yourself in the midst of your project. Call to mind as many details as
you can with your imagination. Imagine the moves involved, intensified by the evilness you
have chosen to invest in them.

This meditation should be done before undertaking a Chaos ritual per example, or any other
sinister action. Use the appropriate “Sinister Tarot Atu” during your meditation. “Facit indignatio
versus”, “My anger creates my verses” (Latin poet Quintilianus).