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NEW ZEALAND VOICE OF THE LEFT HAND PATH

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THE MAKING OF A SATANIC MYTH

....That was the headline carried across page 8 of The Independent (Sunday ed. 12 Aug 90), a leading British newspaper.
The topic was that dealt with by The Watcher #5, in which we
examined the spread of lunatic christian smear-mongering against Satanists, from the USA to Britain and South Africa. In that article ("Anti-Satanist hysteria spreading") we pointed out that christian fundamentalists, and
those neurotics and worse claiming to have been sexually abused by
Satanists, to have witnessed blood sacrifices and demonic manifestations,
etc., were receiving support and superficial 'respectability' from allies
in the tabloid press and police depts.
Although the anti-Satanist lunacy pushed by the tabloids and the christian crusaders has been taken seriously by social workers,
psychiatrists, et al., fortunately a responsible paper such as The
Independent has done a thorough job on the allegations.
The Independent backgrounds the hysteria in the US and UK, and
exposes the origins which are apparently to be traced back to British
Columbia, Canada. Here in 1976 Michelle Smith, a 22 yr. old who was under
the care of a psychiatrist after having miscarried, began to remember the
long repressed events of her childhood. From the age of four she had
suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse at the hands of a satanic
coven, which included her mother. She witnessed blood rites, including the sacrifice of babies and the mutilation of animals.
Michelle and her therapist, Lawrence Pazder, went to the Vatican
"to alert the church about the previously unheard of dangers to children
from Satanic cults worldwide." To warn the world they wrote Michelle
Remembers, published in the US in 1980 and in Britain the following year.
Thus was born from a psychiatrist's couch the anti-Satanist
hysteria which over the next decade was to spread throughout the USA, and
which is now cropping up in the UK and SA, with fallout in NZ arising occasionally in the form of teenage 'Death Metal' fans performing bloody
rites and christian bookstores stocked full of books on the Satanic dangers
of yoga, acupuncture, eastern Mysticism, etc. ready and waiting for the hysteria to reach NZ shores.
The Independent relates that in early August a conference on incest
was held at a London hospital, where a woman claimed "she had been the
victim for 16 yrs. of ritual abuse by Satanists", and told delegates "that human foetuses were being killed and eaten by members of 'Satanic sex
rings.'"
Perhaps the most alarming aspect that emerges from the anti-Satanic hysteria is that the wild and whacky tales are taken seriously by people in responsible community positions.
The heavily-publicized incest conference was co-organized by a
Harley St. psycho-therapist, Vera Diamond, who stated that several
children had been killed at Satanic rituals in Britain.
Psycho-therapist Norman Vaughton said that there were an estimated 10,000 human sacrifices a year in the USA, most of them "foetuses that have been bred specially."
The Independent reports that over the past two yrs. the British
public has been hearing increasing reports of 'Satanic ritual abuse' from social workers, therapists, and churches.
The paper states that having investigated the claims it has found
that "nobody has produced evidence."
"There have been police investigations across the US, in Canada,
the Netherlands, and now in Britain. They have produced no evidence, no bodies, no bones, no covens, no underground tunnels, no animal carcasses,
no blood-stains. Nothing. Just the occasional court case where the
pretence of supernatural powers was used to obtain silence and submission."
Continues The Independent, "our investigations have revealed that
the Satanic abuse myth originated in the US. It has been spread largely in fundamentalist christian circles, and it is now accepted as fact by many psychotherapists and police officers.
"The allegations began to surface only after the publication of the book Michelle Remembers."
The co-author, Dr Pazder, now married to Michelle, began organizing "Satanic cult crime" seminars across the US for therapists and the police. Panic began to spread. From 1984-1989, 100 people were charged with ritual sexual abuse. Of those approx. 50 were charged and half were convicted of child abuse. "No evidence of satanism was found in these cases."
"In other cases the allegations were dismissed as the worst
outbreak of mass hysteria since the Salem witchhunt."
(A plot hatched by a military chaplain against Dr Michael Aquino
and his wife Lilith, of the Temple of Set, resulted in the police officers involved being disciplined, a shake-up of the SF police dept. procedures,
and the total exoneration of the Aquinos, the doctor himself being a
respected member of both the military and academe).
In establishing how the "Satanic child abuse myth" spread from the
US to Britain, the article cites the work of Robert Hicks, an analyst with
the criminal justice dept. in Virginia, who "blames 'a loose network' of therapists, fundamentalist christians, serving and ex-police officers and
also the media for 'perpetuating the myth'".
He told The Independent, "there were no such stories before the publication of Michelle Remembers."
Dr Sherrill Mulbern, an anthropologist from the Uni. of Paris, who
has studied self-declared Satanic abuse survivors, notes the interpretation between therapists, patients, and the hysteria, which results in a
"paranoid reading of the data" by supposed 'experts.'
The article relates the story of a woman who claimed to a C of E
vicar (with whom she now stays) that she had been initiated into a satanic coven when a six week old baby, married to Satan when 11; raped by coven members and by demons; and witness to blood sacrifices. Some of the
happenings were conducted in a public park, but Satan made the coven
invisible (this explanation being sufficient to convince the vicar).
The Independent is to be commended for producing a responsible
report debunking the "satanic abuse myth" (as it is referred to). No doubt
the paper is now blacklisted by Christian zealots as being under Satanist control.

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THE HERESY OF THE LEFT HAND PATH
by R. Parker, Editor, "Exeat", England


One of the fundamental principles of the LHP in general and
Satanism in particular is the desire to know - in the senses of
understanding and experience. This principle is expressed by an attitude
of living, an attitude often evident in the personality of the individual - there is acceptance of challenges, a desire to explore or create but above
all an instinct for excellence. The follower of the LHP is seldom
satisfied, a natural rebel who has an instinctive aversion to accepting authority. He or she needs to find out by personal experience rather than
by accepting something dogmatically. He or she wants and needs to be a
leader rather than a follower.
Our societies, however, instead of producing such strong, proud and truly defiant and truly individual people, produce a conformist herd - and
what is startling is that most of this herd is created and moulded and maintained for the most of this herd is created and moulded and maintained
for the most part not by compulsion but rather by ideas. It is ideas which keep the vast majority in enslavement - ideas accepted, enshrined in dogmas
and made the basis for Institutions and state structures. The educational systems of all our societies are based on certain ideas and these ideas are inculcated into the young.
It will not surprise many readers that the majority of these ideas
- so detrimental to true individualists and thus conscious evolution -
derive from the poisonous philosophy of the Nazarene. One of the most pernicious of these ideas is the concept of equality (qv. the article by Faustus Scorpius in issue #2 of Exeat, "Contemporary Dogma"). Another is
what is inaccurately called 'democracy' and yet another 'freedom'. All
these are abstract notions, idealized forms, and such incapable
achievement, except on a purely individual forms, and as such incapable achievement, except on a purely individual basis. Yet generation after generation are tricked into believing in and trying to achieve these goals
on a State and supra-state level.
Consider, for example, 'democracy.' This is defined in many ways,
but in essence is taken to mean 'free elections' and a government of
elected officials who decide matters of policy. Any person actually
possessed of the faculty of thought will know the sham that is this
'democracy' - where promises are made but seldom kept, and where in general 'minority interests' are more important than 'majority interests' because
in electoral terms a minority vote is very crucial. Theorists trace
democracy to Greece -whereas anyone actually studying the wholesome society
of ancient Greece states would know that genuine 'democracy' was possible
only within a small 'polis' composed of people related by ties of blood.
At the time of writing, hundreds of thousands of American are poised to go
to war in the Middle East in an attempt to bring about a more 'democratic' State and to end what is regarded as 'tyranny.' Whether or not this in
reality is so is irrelevant - as is the fact that the US Government may or
may not in reality be fighting for oil or to keep Israel safe. What is important is that the 'ideas' behind the 'crusade' are accepted by millions
who are prepared to fight and die for them - the herd are so mesmerized by
the ideas and the rhetoric that they are not in any sense themselves free
and cannot, for instance, understand that even in their own country, the
US, those ideals do not exist in reality. Their government complains of
'human rights' violations yet ignores the daily brutality within America; spends vast sums to fight a foreign war but cannot keep peace on its own streets - talk about high ideals but ignore the death of Kimberley Harbour
of Boston gang raped, mutilated and murdered.... The pursuit of the ideal keeps individual mentality and consciousness on the level of the herd. In short, the State (and its dogma) reign, and the individual is ignored.

POSITION OF THE LHP
The LHP has always stood opposed to abstract ideas and collectivist thinking. It has always given individuals the opportunity to create from direct personal experience a way of living and a way of thinking truly original. Of course, this was and is a hard way, a hard school - full of danger. But that very danger ensured that those of herd feeling and herd instincts perished while the naturally strong, the naturally gifted
survived and flourished. The LHP enhanced life, gave increased vitality to
the individual - and created a lasting and genuine insight both personal
and supra-personal, which in time gave birth to wisdom. Thus was evolution achieved.
What should be happening is that this evolution should be spreading
to more than a few individuals scattered across the globe - there should
have been, due to the insights of creative individuals within
civilizations, a general upsurge towards insight: in short the emergence
of more and more 'Promethean' individuals imbued with creativity and zest - race after race of 'higher men' going forward to the very limits of evolutionary possibility. Instead there has been more and more conformity
- not less; more and more acceptance of anti-life and anti-natural ideas.
The triumph of the weak, the scum, the cowardly - rather than their defeat
and demise.
However, even the LHP and satanism have been infected by the
diseases of the herd: the fawning mentality which accepts rather than
desires to experience, that softness nurtured by society where extremes are classified and subjected to analysis and thus rendered safe; that desire to make dogma and deify worthless individuals. Satanism and the LHP are
concerned with direct, personal experience - of going to extremes - of
learning from those experiences and extremes, or being destroyed in the attempt. There is no acceptance of others, of groups, of dogmas, ideas or systems - there is only a prideful, fierce strong desire to achieve the ultimate, to experience the essence of Being, and this desire is
individual, never collective. What the LHP has done is to offer
opportunities - a certain guidance perhaps, or a way: if the way of
yesterday does not work or is insufficient, discard it, destroy it - but
create something new which enhances individual life and expands evolution. There is nothing sacred.
Today, morons of the herd are accepting - or beginning to accept -
some self-appointed authority within the LHP and satanism. There is no
such thing! For the genuine satanist would defy even Satan Himself! Of course, such Masters need to be fawned upon, need herd individuals - that
is the natural way of things, and good luck to those 'Masters' in their own evolution. But such types, and their modes of being, must not become
accepted as the 'norm', as authoritative - there must be someone to defy
them and there ways, someone or some others to carry on the inner task of
the LHP - of making more and more achieve genuine insight and fulfil the potential of divinity within us all.
The question is: which type are you - slave, or Master?

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The Temple of set was incorporated in 1975CE by Dr M. Aquino and other
senior initiates of the esoteric.
The Temple's philosophy is based on the evolution of individual
psychecentric consciousness towards its own divinity through the deliberate exercise of the intelligence and will, a process of becoming (Egyptian
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BOOK REVIEW

Naos: A Practical Guide to Modern Magick. Thurston West, 1989, Order of
the Nine Angles, Coxland Press, The Studio, Chalkpit Farm, Englefield
Estate, Berkshire RG7 5EE England
If you have found the medieval grimoires ridiculous, and the wiccan rites bland and childish, if you despaired that the Satanic "Black Book"
only existed in works of occult fiction, you will be delighted to have
Naos, for here is a truly Satanic grimoire.
The work begins with "Physis magick", internal magick used for
personal self-development. The whole system is based on the Order's
Septenary Traditions (the Seven Fold Way).
External magick is described as being the changing of events
according to the Will of the magician.
The "Sinister Tarot", its use, layout and attributes is given, and
will be of special interest to Satanists who have been obliged to use the Judaeo-Christian based Tarots, or the Crowley one at best.
The "Star Game" is a modern magickal innovation invented by the
author, a type of complex chess using seven-layered boards, and Jungian and alchemical symbolism as a magickal system in itself, to which prime
importance is attached in the ONA system.
Stages of initiation are described and consist of practical but rigorous exercises: physical and mental tests, tarot and other meditations
and visualization.

Part Two is concerned with "Esoteric sorcery". The methods of word vibration and esoteric chant are given, along with the correspondence of specific chants to spheres of energy.
"Frenzy magick" is defined as "becoming possessed by acausal
energies by creating through specific techniques a physical and emotional frenzy" with the use of dance, breathing exercises, physical exhaustion and music.
Visualisation technique is briefly and simply explained. Sigil
magic here involves the use of the Star Game and its alchemical symbols.
Sexual magick is the use of energies generated by the sexual act.
It is suggested that the act is ritualized to a certain extent, by use of
the appropriate incense, coloured candles and planetary alignments, visualization and chant.
Dark Pathways outlines the means of integrating the 'shadow'
aspects of the Self by utilizing the spheres and pathways of the Septenary system through spiral dance, chant/vibration and sigil visualization. A
table of correspondence of Path, Word of Power, sigil and Tarot image is provided. A second table comprises descriptions of the forces; e.g.
"Shugara" (corresp. to Tarot XVIII: The Moon), a dangerous energy invoked
for a destructive working, G Major being the key for invoking chant.
"Shaitan" is identified as the earth-bound representative of the Dark Gods; Perfume/incense is sulphur; stone, opal, etc.
The section on "The Dark Gods" explains that we are not solely
dealing with energies drawn from the individual unconscious, but with the
Dark Gods as actual entities, which can be made manifest by the use of techniques which reach the appropriate levels of the psyche. The 'Abyss'
is defined as that which separates everyday consciousness from that which apprehends the Dark Gods. The ordeal of the abyss involves the confronting
of these entities and acceptance of their existence as being apart from our concepts of 'good and evil'. The Dark Gods may enter our universe through "star gates", physical gates in the galaxy. The star gate in our solar
system is said to be located near Saturn.
A section of appendices describes such topics as: the Left Handed Path, the Septenary system, Magickal symbols and scripts, Hermetic
(individual, internal) rituals. The LHP, including 'traditional Satanism'
is defined as "the use of magickal energies to enhance the evolution of the individual", a willed act of confronting via symbols the 'dark' or hidden
side of consciousness and integrating it as part of the Self.
The Septenary system of the ONA is based on the symbolic map of consciousness and the unconscious as depicted on the Tree of Wyrd, a
European equivalent to the Hebrews' Cabbalistic Tree of Life. Each sphere
has its own Tarot, incense, and colour attributions, etc., which when used
in ritual can awaken that particular sphere of energy within the
individual. The Septenary Tree of Wyrd utilizes the Norse/Anglo-Saxon
pagan god-names, Odin, Thor, Loki, etc., with the connecting paths
attributed to Tarot images.
The final section comprises a number of ONA MSS. defining terms, providing further correspondences, and notes on music, symbols, alchemy...
A note on the acausal/causal explains that these terms refer to universe(s) parallel to our own physical one, the 'goal' of sentient life
being to increase the flow of energy from the acausal, and thereby become
part of the acausal. Initiation and the 'Mysteries' (i.e. the Seven Fold
Way) are the means to achieve this. The acausal and causal 'coincide'
within the individual psyche, archetypes being causal apprehensions of
acausal energy flowing from the acausal into our universe.
This reviewer looks forward to Thurston West's next book, also to
be published by Coxland Press, The Black Book of Satan.

SPECIAL OFFER TO WATCHER READER
The published price for NAOS is 26 pounds + 3 Pounds postage ($US68.00). Coxland Press has kindly offered Watcher readers a discount.
NAOS may be ordered direct from Coxland Press for 20 pounds + 3pounds p&p
by quoting The Watcher issue number. Write to: Coxland Press, The Studio, Chalkpit Farm, Englefield, Berkshire RG7 5EE, England.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS

The Heretic is the name of a new Satanist journal. Most of the
first issue comprises commentary on contemporary issues, with observations
on politics, education and censorship. Such a journal is to be welcomed as there is a need for more Satanists to assert their philosophy and how it relates to society, politics, culture...., an alternative ready to replace
the dying Old Order.
Send a large SAE or International Reply Coupons for a sample to:
The Heretic, PO Box 2042 Fairview Heights, Il. 62208, USA.

Balder, the name of both a society and a journal, is open to males
of at least 18 years. (plans are afoot to set up a Sisterhood section, invoking the Earth/Maternal element.). Fees: 30 Pounds yearly, or 35
Pounds in any other currency. The journal Balder is published monthly and
is free to members. "Articles by leading Brothers from all over Europe on magick, mythology, folklore, history, aeonics, Physis Training, and contributions from various secret societies", are included in the journal.
Members also receive a parchment membership scroll, 20% discount
off the Albion Pilgrimage (a tour of England's mystical and historic
sites), minimum 25% discount off all books and other items produced by the society, participation in quarterly celebrations, future provision for participating in workshops (those far away can do this via correspondence), contacts, and studies in various subjects leading to Grades.
Adds Stephen Cox: "Above all is the dynamic of the pan-European potential. Members now come from 9 countries and their combined knowledge, experience, comments, and communication serve to stimulate all of us.
Promote awareness of the individuality of each nation/tribe and rediscovery
of the identity of each, and yet an appreciation of the 'folk' mission of
the tribes combined. A tall order - but in even a little way we play our part!" Balder may be contacted c/- Stephen B Cox, The Studio, Chalkpit
Farm, Englefield, Berkshire RG7 5EE, England.

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

BRIMSTONE, quarterly journal of the Ancient Brotherhood of Satan. Editor:
John Dewey. Annual sub. $US18.00. Box 660 Marstons Mills, MA 02648, USA

CRY OF THE RAVEN, Quarterly of the Church of the Raven. $US15.00 from:
Night Owl, Box 321, Meredosia, Ill. 62665 USA

DARK LILY Quarterly. 6 Pounds overseas. BCM Box 3406, London, WC1N 3XX England.

EXEAT, a forum to explore the forbidden. 10 Pounds; Overseas air, $US35. Thormynd Press, Box 4, Church Streeton, Shropshire, England.

FACTSHEET FIVE Reviews of anything & everything. Sample $US 3.00, overseas
$7. 6 Arizona Ave. Resselaer, NY 12144 USA.

THE BLACK FLAME, quarterly affil. to Church of Satan. $US12.00; Overseas $16.00. Box 499, Radio City Station, NY, NY 10101-0499 USA.

TO THE LEFT, Thee Ministry Ov Shaitanic Quabala. Sub. by donation payable
to: A. Souto, Box 4546 Miami Florida 33014-0546, USA.

TRIDENT, monthly, Embassy of Satan. $US 36.00, Overseas $50.00. Box 666 Whitehall, Pa. 18052, USA.

THEE TEMPLE OV PSYCHICK YOUTH European Station Bulletin, for a sample send
3 IRCs to: Psychick Release PCP, PO Box 26067, S-10041 Stockholm, Sweden.

FENRIR, Journal of Satanism & The Sinister. Cheques payable to "Brekekk",
P.O. Box 109, Newport, Gwent NP6 1XZ Wales, U.K.

THE HERETIC, Box 2042 Fairview Heights Il. 62208 USA. SAE or IRCs.

BALDER, send donation for membership details. The Studio, Chalkpit Farm, Englefield, Berkshire RG7 5EE, England.

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