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A comprehensive guide to the history and practice of Angular Magic
Revealing the magical uses of number and geometry as tools for
introspection, self-development, and creating change in both the
inner and outer worlds, Toby Chappell explores the rites, history,
and potent practices of Angular Magic and Infernal Geometry, the
Left-Hand Path of Sacred Geometry. Focusing on the advanced magical
system of the Nine Angles, he details the system's development by
the early Church of Satan and later the Temple of Set, as well as
its internal body, the Order of the Trapezoid. He shows how the
system first emerged in the Ceremony of the Nine Angles, written by
Michael Aquino and published in Anton Szandor LaVey's The Satanic
Rituals. He explores historical influences on Angular Magic,
including Pythagorean number mysticism, John Dee's Enochian magic,
the theories of William Mortensen, and, most importantly, the
writings of H. P. Lovecraft as well as other contributors to his
Cthulhu mythos. The author analyzes the 3 key rites of Angular
Magic: Die Elektrischen Vorspiele, the Ceremony of the Nine Angles,
and the Call to Cthulhu, expanding upon them to demonstrate how
readers can craft their own rituals. He examines the Nine Angles
individually, detailing their keywords, powers, and related
deities, and explains how each can be used in magical practices and
as part of an ongoing initiatory process. He offers practical
examples, including use of Angular Magic in divination, sigils, and
magical symbols, and guidance on creating your own practices--a
core component of the ever-evolving Left-Hand Path. Offering a
self-directed path of magic and empowerment, previously unavailable
to those outside the Temple of Set, Chappell shows how the Nine
Angles must be worked with and experienced personally in order to
effect true transformation and change.
As a religious institution consecrated by and literally
acknowledging the Prince of Darkness, the Church of Satan enjoyed
an inspiring, and occasionally either thrilling or terrifying,
existence from 1966 to 1975. Beginning as a whimsical and satirical
countercultural statement against the social and
institutionally-religious hypocrisy of the 1960s, the Church of
Satan proceeded to evolve into a positive, sincere, and to its own
surprise] virtuous organization, though not without periodic
individual and group growing pains: the consequence of allegiance
to a supernatural entity only dimly apprehended and understood by
Western Judaeo-Christianized civilization. From its 1979 1st
Edition to this 2013 8th, _The Church of Satan_ remains the only
complete documentary history of that fascinating and bizarre
adventure, from Anton & Diane LaVey's founding of the Church in
their San Francisco home to its surprising dissolution into a
secular business a decade later and metaphysical supersession by
the Temple of Set. Ever since its 1981 2nd Edition, _The Church of
Satan_'s growing size made it impossible to print. Volume I of this
8th Edition finally fits all of the text and plates into fewer than
500 pages: 285,300 words, 39 chapters, 73 color plates. This
companion Volume II contains all 161 Appendices (247,000 words, 460
pages, B&W). Both volumes should be acquired and read together.
In 1975, after ten years of exploring its identity, the original
Church of Satan confronted the limitations of its Judaeo-Christian
imagery and a dismissal of humanity as a self-indulgent animal
species. An ethical crisis in that year resulted in the
organizational and metaphysical transformation of the Church into
the Temple of Set, which in subsequent decades went on to become
the preeminent initiatory institution premised upon the affirmation
and evolution of the individual consciousness to divine essence and
immortality. This book recounts the Temple's creation and early
development, by its founding High Priest, Michael Aquino. It is
more a memoir than a history, because the scope of the Temple and
the works of its many Initiates are far too diverse for any single
book. Included is also an extensive theoretical discussion of
Setian cosmology, philosophy, and magic: the famous "Black Magic"
from the _Crystal Tablet of Set_. The text is augmented by 97
detailed appendices on a variety of topics by many different
Setians over the years. This is a 2-volume work compressed to
reduce the 431,000-word set to below 1,000 pages. Volume I is in
color; Volume II black/white
As a religious institution consecrated by and literally
acknowledging the Prince of Darkness, the Church of Satan enjoyed
an inspiring, and occasionally either thrilling or terrifying,
existence from 1966 to 1975. Beginning as a whimsical and satirical
countercultural statement against the social and
institutionally-religious hypocrisy of the 1960s, the Church of
Satan proceeded to evolve into a positive, sincere, and to its own
surprise] virtuous organization, though not without periodic
individual and group growing pains: the consequence of allegiance
to a supernatural entity only dimly apprehended and understood by
Western Judaeo-Christianized civilization. From its 1979 1st
Edition to this 2013 8th, _The Church of Satan_ remains the only
complete documentary history of that fascinating and bizarre
adventure, from Anton & Diane LaVey's founding of the Church in
their San Francisco home to its surprising dissolution into a
secular business a decade later and metaphysical supersession by
the Temple of Set. Ever since its 1981 2nd Edition, _The Church of
Satan_'s growing size made it impossible to print. This 8th Edition
finally fits all of the text and plates into fewer than 500 pages:
285,300 words, 39 chapters, 73 color plates. A companion _The
Church of Satan II_ volume (imminently also available in this same
format & distribution) contains all 161 Appendices in a
similar-sized B&W book. Both volumes should be acquired and
read together.
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