Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

his keys under a lamp post because the light is better there. We know—
can describe—the stages of growth of flowers, animals, people… but
not the life force itself, the drive: what engineer, inventor and mystic
Arthur Young called “the quantum of action.” Of this we know
nothing, and are happy to know nothing. And thus we become
victims. 149
Again, this could be viewed as simply a case of primitive instincts not
yet bred out of Homo Sapiens, though this is mythologizing science,
so to speak, creating a “rational” answer which is merely a tautology;
the instinct exists because it exists. 150 . But there seems to be an older,
ancient really, perspective that is a part of the human psyche, though it
can be drowned out with all the absurdities of the information age,
which simply knows, apriori of any education or indoctrination, that
the spiritual is real, more real in fact than anything we can touch or
smell, outside of the cycles of birth – life – death. We may each see it
colored by our experiences and personalities, as pure and perfect Light
or dark and malevolent and devouring, or more probably, as amoral
and or unconcerned with our petty lives and pathetic achievements.
Primitive man sought to appease, not confront it. And yet, there were a
few, extraordinary individuals, as Dee and Crowley and Parsons
perhaps were. Once science was a part of their search, before it
became Science and opened its eyes, declaring, like the Gnostic
creator (demiurge) Ialdabaoth, there is no god (or reality) other than
me! Yet no matter how much lip service is paid to that idol, the fact is
that the world has continued to be as vast and mysterious as it was to
the our ancestors; if anything, we can simply see a little farther.
Therefore, in answer to the first question, we may answer, that yes,
whatever this order, this presence may “actually” be, it is as real as
thought, as love, as hope. Maybe more so.
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Sinister Forces A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft Vol 1, The Nine, Peter
Levenda, Trine Day, 2005
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As in, for example, explaining love as a survival instinct. While that may sound like an
explanation, in fact it says nothing about love as experienced or for that matter anything else,
as it would be just as easy to say love is completely separated from the survival instinct and in
fact often causes the survival instinct to be “overruled”.
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