Glimpses of the Left..

and frightening of existence into illumination that can only be
found in the Night of Pan":
liThe spirit of the life force is the spirit of the dual
sex and death. Beautiful and terrible god of the
""I-'UH,,,", God of lovers, God of the carcass,
hare, God of the wild hunt carousing the forest in mad
exhilaration. Invoke this God with wild uninhibited love play, and with wine and
drugs which thrill and exalt the vitality and imagination. draw thine
own exhilarated consciousness into communion with this God by profound
concentration and visualization, and the magic life force is thine to wield for good
or ill"}2
Pan is the through the of chaos and night. This is the
Night of also referred to as NOX: the sphere of primordial chaos,
prima materia that Creation. This is of all possibilities,
an source of all NOX is the gate that leads beyond the
where is dissolved and the
womb in which the and rises In this journey we are
alone, subjected to the destructive influence of our own personal demons.
In this journey we are led only by the homed god - through the
which contains the light of dark the light of knowledge and
understanding, yet different from LUX - the light that shines on the world
of Creation. The Night of Pan is the black the light
that can be found only the descent into the heart of darkness.
n Peter 1. Carroll: Liber Null & Psychonaut
"I am thy mate, I am thy man,
Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
And I rave; and r rape and r and I rend
t:U,,,'UHl'Y world without
Mannikin, maiden, Maenad, man,
In the of Pan.
10 Pan!"
- 129 -
A. Crowley