First blog on our new website! Welcome!I'd like to share what this aspect of my work, the LVX Ferre (Ars Heosphoros) website, is all about. What follows is my subjective view about what the Left-hand Path is and is not.
I will employ a bit of deconstructive criticism.
Growing up and waking up
There are many, many paths and the Left-Hand Path (LHP) is generally understood to deal with the dark aspects of existence.
Just like the Right-Hand Path might have its star followers (law-abiding, rules-following, God-fearing, avoiding sin out of fear, kind and polite out of duty, maintaining celibacy -- basically denying full inner freedom and power), so does the LHP:
45 years old adolescents who still rebel against any system, angry and hurt men who believe Satan is their angry God and vengeance will soon be at hand, sad women who were perhaps mistreated from day one and now (unaware) swear by the darkest of demons but in truth, all they want is to be noticed and loved, etc.
Nothing of the above has got anything to do with the LHP as I perceive it, for, generally speaking, two processes are going on in any given human life:
- growing up (personal development) and
- waking up (spiritual awakening).
The above cases are maybe ripe for a quality humanistic psychotherapy session, not LHP and Dark arts, in my opinion.
Why humanistic? Because individualization and self-actualization (meaning, growing up and becoming a responsible, healthy, and happy person without childish games of pointing fingers and rebelling or screaming for attention) is the goal of the humanistic approach. And humanistic psychology deals with the personal aspects of human awareness: nothing spiritual or transcendental or even remotely Dark there.
One has to learn to walk (by growing up) first before one can fly in the sky of spiritual awakening.
LHP drama
Yes, many might join our ranks motivated by anger, pain, despair, and maybe find comfort in the company of other hurt and lonely people, probably desperately swearing their eternal allegiance to the "Dark and Wrathful Horned God" with little or no empirical knowledge of him whatsoever.
Engaging in the LHP can be, and indeed in many cases is, only a drama and a substitute for real-life; oftentimes the LHP club is merely a runaway strategy from deeper and mostly fucked up inner reality.
Is anything wrong with that? Nope.
So, what am I saying? That one has to be healed first to take the medicine? Nope.
Fire from within
To drive the points I'd love to make in this article right in, let us read this beautiful and touching poem (emphasis mine):
The Luciferian Witch
This religion is not your calling
Your insurrection is not a falling.
Seek culmination beyond the herd,
Your cultivation is self-conferred.
Azazel wants not your service,
Let not his presence make you nervous.
Satan is not our dark lord,
Nor a devil to be abhorred.
Not a source of quick reward,
But an arcane force to be explored.
Do not pray to Lucifer,
For that is not what He’d prefer.
Look inside to see the truth,
The black flame burns away uncouth.
Do not follow the path that is graveled,
But follow the one that is less traveled.
Find the demons deep therein,
Hail thyself!
Your power is within.
- Poem by John M Penkal, author of Truly Satanic vol 1. book.
LHP is only a process
My point is that LHP is so, so much more than seeking solutions on the outside, angry rebelling, naively bowing to some leader of a "dark coven" and playing the role of a dark one, for the goal of LHP is the same as that of most other paths:
freedom, self-respect, love, liberty, strength, health, liberating spiritual insight, wisdom, and pure joy!
Dealing with inner personal shadow and working with "dark" spirits is not the point of the LHP in and by itself - it is JUST a path, a process, nothing more.
Granted, it is a path or process that can be quite challenging and even dangerous simply because it takes more dedication, sincerity, openness, common sense, and wisdom to even walk the path, let alone master it, but it is still only a process and only a path.
And a lot of LHP followers confuse the two: the goal and the path, meaning that many take darkness as the goal instead of only as a path. It gets really, really dark if one does that.
True answers, long-lasting solutions to the human thirst for happiness can not be given from the outside, not even by Lucifer or Satan, as the lovely poem above so clearly points out.
What do you think/feel?
Darkness is not the goal
And so, the LVX Ferre (Ars Heosphoros) website and this aspect of my work are about our inner potential, inner journey through Darkness to the Light, and beyond them both. It is not about the drama around the darkness and "dark paths". Other websites deal with that effectively and profitably, it seems.
LVX Ferre is about the road less traveled: it is about the goal of the LHP which leads beyond Light and Darkness, and which de facto fortifies and indeed actualizes personal and transpersonal responsibility and freedom of serious adepts.
It is about employing the Dark side of existence to make things more real, more down-to-earth, more up close and personal, moving from head/mind to the heart/soul.
'All in' is the motto around here; all in, meaning embracing everything and denying nothing without attaching oneself to the process, regardless.
The above cases are maybe ripe for a quality humanistic psychotherapy session, not LHP and Dark arts, in my opinion.
Why humanistic? Because individualization and self-actualization (meaning, growing up and becoming a responsible, healthy, and happy person without childish games of pointing fingers and rebelling or screaming for attention) is the goal of the humanistic approach. And humanistic psychology deals with the personal aspects of human awareness: nothing spiritual or transcendental or even remotely Dark there.
One has to learn to walk (by growing up) first before one can fly in the sky of spiritual awakening.
LHP drama
Yes, many might join our ranks motivated by anger, pain, despair, and maybe find comfort in the company of other hurt and lonely people, probably desperately swearing their eternal allegiance to the "Dark and Wrathful Horned God" with little or no empirical knowledge of him whatsoever.
Engaging in the LHP can be, and indeed in many cases is, only a drama and a substitute for real-life; oftentimes the LHP club is merely a runaway strategy from deeper and mostly fucked up inner reality.
Is anything wrong with that? Nope.
So, what am I saying? That one has to be healed first to take the medicine? Nope.
Fire from within
To drive the points I'd love to make in this article right in, let us read this beautiful and touching poem (emphasis mine):
The Luciferian Witch
This religion is not your calling
Your insurrection is not a falling.
Seek culmination beyond the herd,
Your cultivation is self-conferred.
Azazel wants not your service,
Let not his presence make you nervous.
Satan is not our dark lord,
Nor a devil to be abhorred.
Not a source of quick reward,
But an arcane force to be explored.
Do not pray to Lucifer,
For that is not what He’d prefer.
Look inside to see the truth,
The black flame burns away uncouth.
Do not follow the path that is graveled,
But follow the one that is less traveled.
Find the demons deep therein,
Hail thyself!
Your power is within.
- Poem by John M Penkal, author of Truly Satanic vol 1. book.
LHP is only a process
My point is that LHP is so, so much more than seeking solutions on the outside, angry rebelling, naively bowing to some leader of a "dark coven" and playing the role of a dark one, for the goal of LHP is the same as that of most other paths:
freedom, self-respect, love, liberty, strength, health, liberating spiritual insight, wisdom, and pure joy!
Dealing with inner personal shadow and working with "dark" spirits is not the point of the LHP in and by itself - it is JUST a path, a process, nothing more.
Granted, it is a path or process that can be quite challenging and even dangerous simply because it takes more dedication, sincerity, openness, common sense, and wisdom to even walk the path, let alone master it, but it is still only a process and only a path.
And a lot of LHP followers confuse the two: the goal and the path, meaning that many take darkness as the goal instead of only as a path. It gets really, really dark if one does that.
True answers, long-lasting solutions to the human thirst for happiness can not be given from the outside, not even by Lucifer or Satan, as the lovely poem above so clearly points out.
What do you think/feel?
Darkness is not the goal
And so, the LVX Ferre (Ars Heosphoros) website and this aspect of my work are about our inner potential, inner journey through Darkness to the Light, and beyond them both. It is not about the drama around the darkness and "dark paths". Other websites deal with that effectively and profitably, it seems.
LVX Ferre is about the road less traveled: it is about the goal of the LHP which leads beyond Light and Darkness, and which de facto fortifies and indeed actualizes personal and transpersonal responsibility and freedom of serious adepts.
It is about employing the Dark side of existence to make things more real, more down-to-earth, more up close and personal, moving from head/mind to the heart/soul.
'All in' is the motto around here; all in, meaning embracing everything and denying nothing without attaching oneself to the process, regardless.
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