Glimpses of the Left..

'1'111' Hand Path adept to recognize, and explore inner
I )urkness in order to illuminate it with knowledge and
ullderstanding. The experience offered by the Right Path is one-
"Ilit-d. to monotheistic to "see the God" means to
,-xperience cognition as a part of a human consciousness paradigm. To
'''·'',,,r,,.,,, the whole of means also "to see Devil."9 The
with God - the ultimate of the Right Hand Path - r"r,rp�:pn1r"
IIl1'lting of an individual in the collective in the ocean of
forces that constitute the universe. The undergoes a
I'OI1Scious process of integrating his and thus, he is to preserve the
unity and resist the force of the collective consciousness. As Peter J. Carroll
at the moment of death the individual life-force is into
"the pool of this world which itself known to us as
n'lphomet." To monotheistic this is the union with
Cod. To the Hand Path it means to be "devoured by the Devil
lind he to avoid it."lO
In Hand Path philosophy, man cannot oppose higher
force. The Left Hand Path traditions do not share this conviction. The
Hymbolic exile of humans from the Garden of like the myth of the fall
of Lucifer, the of individual and
becomes a transcending the frames imposed by God. In
I and in the Void, he creates his
own world. The into Darkness is a evolution man. The
of Eden represents childhood - the time when man feels safe and is
on a higher the omnipotent " The act of ''''''''''1'1'0'
the Garden of is a step maturity, independence, liberty, but
olso responsibility, as man starts to make decisions about his own life. To
this step is to enter the Left Hand Path - and to walk this
to the and face Unknown, the
IrrationaL We have to descend into the Darkness in a
quest for liberty and individual godhood .
• Peter J. Carroll: Liber Kaos
III Peler J. Carroll: Liber Null & Psychonaul