Ritual Release of Hatred
Taken from EA Koettings Works of Darkness
(Ritual release of hatred is the most commonly recognized
method of “throwing a curse.” Concordantly, it is the easiest and
most natural means of performing Baneful Magick with the intent,
and hopefully the end result of killing the victim. Unlike the other
methods which follow, this particular one uses ritual mainly as a
backdrop to the release of the pent-up emotions – such emotions
themselves being the catalyst for the universal reaction when
focused towards the victim. As such, the Black Magician has less
control over how and when the victim will meet his end, simply
clutching his hatred and desire for death and transferring it to his
victim. In essence, he here is doing the reverse of what is done in
psychic vampirism; he is channeling into the victim his energy,
albeit specific, destructive, and ritually programmed energy.
Another drawback to exclusively using this method of
Baneful Magick is that its effects will remain largely unnoticed for
some time after its enactment. While in the majority, the victim
will seem unreasonably afraid of his Magickal predator after he is
effected by the ritual, and his life will seem to gradually make its
way into death, it is not unheard of for the victim to experience a
deal of success and happiness directly after being cursed, which
only further enrages the Black Magician.
The important key to successfully destroying another
person using this type of Baneful Magick is to rid yourself
completely of the emotion attached to him or her, in a violent and
destructive manner which will serve as a similitude of future
reality. This is not the popular voodoo doll curse wherein the
rootworker pricks a straw representation of the victim whilst in a
trance, emotionless expression and lifeless eyes swirling with
gyroscopic mezmerization, nor is it the shaman chanting to the
ancient gods as a wax figure is melted in a pot. Rather, an image is
made (one of the rare times that such a fetish is actually called for
in Black Magick) and the Sorcerer releases all of his anger, hatred,
and rage through stabbing, beating, spitting upon, and otherwise destroying the figure. The display is primitive, and is frightening
to behold as a third person, watching another go mad with rage and
let loose all of the emotions that polite society would have him
repress.
Often, as the final ounces of hatred have been spent,
emotions that have until then been hidden begin to surface in tears
and in words that sound so foreign and unspeakable. Your lips will
tell truths that your heart could never face. While previously
words of hatred were spat upon the effigy, sentiments of personal
pain and loss may find themselves spilling out as the outpouring
begins to wane. Rather than anger, you may feel a deep loss. The
final emotions which will surface at the conclusion of this part of
the ritual are likely to be those feelings that are true, all masks
being cast aside. All of this is to be unrestrained, allowed to
surface spontaneously and exhaust itself thoroughly.
The moment is unmistakable when all of your emotion is
drained from you and resides thereafter in your victim. In that
moment, you will collapse with an exhaustion which you have
never before felt, unique in its unconquerable, unshakable
profundity.
With great force of will to finish the ritual and permanently
remove your victim from this world, pull yourself to your knees,
focus your mind as much as you are able, and give your command.
“By the Powers of Darkness, by this unholy Black Magick,
(name of victim) is dead. The soul of _______ has fled from its
doomed flesh and the eye of death stares unblinking at ________.”
Specific commands may be made, and should not be prewritten,
but are to be given in spontaneity and moved by the Powers which
fill the Temple. In all commands, the death of the victim is to be
stated in the present tense, rather than the future. The future, even
the near future, is an ambiguous unit of measurement. The present,
right now, is absolutely certain and exact. Further, the moment the
ritual is completed, the victim has died, possessing no more life or
light; it is only a matter of time before the walking corpse falls.
In the ritual itself the altar should be set on the ground
holding a black and a red candle. The chalice should be filled with blood, either the actual life-fluid or its symbolic representation (the
latter being properly consecrated as such) and the ritual dagger
should be sharpened. Either on the altar drawn on large paper
upon which all implements will sit or on the southern wall should
the symbol of sulfur be placed. Although in this particular
Operation of Baneful Magick the symbol will not be consecrated
separately, it does still serve to focus the energies and emotions
called and generated towards a destructive goal.)
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