The Threefold Coercion of Hell

The Black Raven: Doctor Johannes Faust's Miracle and Magic Book
or The Black Raven or also called The Threefold Coercion of Hell
Translated into English Language by Karl Hans Welz

So, last night I had the obligatory, beginning of the school year, meet n greet, back to school night event for my 9 year old daughter. Considering that my wife is a teacher at the same school, I was also obligated to be on campus an hour early, just in case my help was needed. (You would never have the slightest clue that I knew even the first thing about the Black or Free Arts by looking at me these days, I have learned it is easier for me to get by if I disappear in the crowd instead of sticking out and drawing excess attention.) As I was running out of the house, packing the kids in the care, I remembered I had downloaded the pdf of Dr. Faust's The Black Raven the night before, so I dropped it on my Nook and headed over to the school...

Clocking in at a mere 31 pages, many of which displayed overtly pixelized sigils, The Black Raven reads like a classic piece of grimioric demon summoning. Drenched heavily in the sheer fire and brimstone and even some bat's blood is called into the mix later down the line. With multiple different invocations, conjurations, bindings and such for likes of those evil demons in the Koetting youtube video variety shortly after the "Do Not Read These Out Loud Without a Circle Cast, Warning", I started to question whether or not I wanted to go on this journey while physically in the company of so many parents and elementary students I didn't know and hopefully was never going to have too meet. Nonetheless, I flipped around and found Faust's recommended method of creating a circle, gave it a read and then dove in.

"This main circle is much needed for all citations. With it, you are capable to bind the whole infernal army and to coerce and overpower it as well. This is so because this circle is so powerful that no spirit is capable to withstand it no matter how strong the spirit may be. The other three circles have already been described in previous chapters. On the place where you intend to erect the circle, you need to trace it with a sword with which no human being has been hurt. In the hour of Saturn, you t race a cross through it. Then you make the circle with a narrow piece of paper that you lay around the circle. After you have made the circle in such a way, you go into it walking backwards, and you stand on the star. Be sure to make everything in the right size so that you do not miss. Remember well that you need to speak loudly and clearly when you do the summoning."

Regardless of the often times nonsensical translations of the invocations, their patterning of vibratory phrases and the countless spelling errors throughout the pdf that I had acquired, I felt a great deal of heat and sickness coming from within the rituals. As I read through the summonsing and directives for certain lines of communication with the seven Grand Dukes, I could feel the energies tickling at the back of my throat, as if something was taunting my vocal chords to just mumble the verses. My salivary glands began to swell slightly and became extremely tender to the touch, even right now I can still feel the residual "taste" in my mouth and my glands are inflamed. Not an experience I had ever encountered before and I am not sure which demon was knocking, but it opened my eyes to the possibilities I was seeing between the lines and verses. Dr. Faust systematically went through the various summonings and conjurations, following with a perceptively exhaustive collection of floggings, fumigations, dismissals etc. to follow and implement when necessary. Often times the author would hide little threats and sarcastic pieces of advice to avoid certain movements too soon because of an obvious trial and error approach that had to have existed upon the grimiore's inception. Through the following segments of the book, a bunch of "secret" sigils of various degrees of intricacy, value and result are displayed and expounded upon. Most of them being far too intricate and generally too hard to read because of the low pixel jagged line look my file had and all require the symbols to be carved into and draw with less than ordinary items, at a specific time on a certain day of the week, in order to clean areas of evil entities, bring buried treasure, cause fear and everything in between. Even one of the sigil rituals comes to closure with blood left from the demons upon the sigil. Bad ass!

The book winds its way through the darkest alleys of hell and leaves the unlucky operator to be with a veritable laundry list of places for things to go wrong. With the translation often times in too literal of a sense, the lines often times read like the lyrics of a Ukrainian black metal band trying to write in English, certainly not for the lack of sincerity and fortified existence of reaction of the part of the original current though, the journey is a rather impressive in it's utilization of specific cause and effect invocations that appears to be a very psychologically straining ride for whoever chooses to take the oath.

The Infernal Empire is as follows:
1. LUCIFER, the Emperor
2. BELIAL, Viceroy
3. SATAN, Governor
4. BEELZEBUB, Governor
5. ASTAROTH, Governor
6. PLUTO, Governor

The following are the seven Grand Dukes of the Infernal Empire:
1. AZIEL
2. MEPHISTOPHILIS
3. MARBUEL
4. ARIEL
5. ANIGUEL
6. ANISEL
7. BARFAEL (Barbuel)

These are the Grand Ministers and secret Infernal Counsels
1. ABBADON
2. CHAMUS
3. MILEA
4. LAPASIS
5. MERAPIS

These are the Spiritus Familiares of the Infernal Empire
1. CHINICHAM
2. PIMPAM
3. MASA
4. LISSA
5. DROMDROM
6. LOMHA
7. PALASA
8. NAUFA
9. LIMA
10. PORA
11. SAYA
12. WUNSOLAY

Let it be known, I don't claim to have the deepest encyclopedic concordance filed mind, I have to take notes on what I am reading in order to truly import the information into my head sometimes. I am completely open with the fact that I almost always, even in moments of near certainty, cross reference the information extensively. I do this form of study with all things I research in life. The above listed pantheon of Infernal demons for example; I spent a good 45 minutes reading up on these characters after finishing the book, straight through the school principal's slide show in the cafeteria in fact. So, after all announcements and preliminary jargon was handled and we were dismissed to go check out our kid's classrooms, I couldn't help but feel that the sense recognized reality I was feeling for and of these demons and their intrinsically devastating states of pure evil was radiating from my very being. Whereas I knew I had not even temped any of the aforementioned beasts to manifest themselves in any form whatsoever, I could just tell that legion was easily woken up and the lower class ranks of demons and spirits were more than easily entertained and tickled with the slightest interaction. Nothing really came of the slight shifts in energy and mentally locating of specific lines of power, (well except these damn salivary glands still being sore, but I'm going to need ask for some guidance on this one.) but all in all I feel that in the one and a half total hours I spent with this grimiore and the related cross referencing, I received the keys to many different doorways, just in case I ever come across a true need to open one.

Meditations Upon the Stele of Revealing

Mission Statement of Intent

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It is with great pleasure, and even greater anticipation, that I begin this new chapter of life, as a practitioner and follower of the Left Hand Path. In an attempt to document the progress and development of my craft, I have decided to prepare my findings for the public to share in. Be it through the reviewing and practical applications of books that I have currently found to be noteworthy (or possibly in some cases, less than note worthy), the charting of growth and deliberate utilization of magick and ritual and it's reactionary courses of action, various antidotes of thought, realization, enlightenment, understanding and knowledge, or simply just in the recording and recognition of the True Will.

Considering this marks my first entry in the previously declared ongoing written documentary of my magickal existence, I thought it would be in good taste to shine some light on some of the individuals and their various groups and orders that have given me much inspiration over the past 3 decades. As for many of us, my interest in the occult began at a very young age; I was into skateboarding and punk music, rebellion and doing things my own way. Be through the album covers of Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath or the pentagrams and upside down crosses spray painted in the sewage drains and ditches we skated, I was completely enthralled by this adversarial figure that was being represented. My life took its first major step towards the countless blessings hidden within the LHP once I stumbled up the Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey. Everything I had come to understand about life and it was meant to lived start to fly out the window, as new thoughts and ideas began to permeate my adolescent mind.

My studying throughout the next decade of my life was always done in secret. Out of fear of reprisal, I would keep everything I was learning and reading about to myself. I mainly stuck to flipping through the pictures of devils and demons and reading old tales of hell and brimstone in the books inside the locked case in the local library. I would read and memorize lyrics from songs that I felt had deep spiritual attachment. Even though I was almost 30 years of age before I consciously performed my first concentrated act of conscious and deliberate ceremonial ritual magick, I could still feel the waves throughout my body and soul during these early days. I would keep notebooks full of prayers, dedications and promised acts of blasphemy and violence towards the Christian church that I would pen. I look back at these days romantically, it was a time of innocence and chaos, lustful feelings and misdirected energies, it was a time of great change and growth within a world I had not even really dipped my toes into, as of yet.

My twenty's were a wild time, no need to sugar coat it to be anything less than that. I had gone my own way by age 14 and tested the laws of the land years before my peers were messing with shit. So by the time I was hitting the legal age to drink alcohol, I was already deep down the rabbit hole of drugs and booze. Whether or not the debauchery that resulted was from my "I don't give a fuck" attitude or my propensity to be far more intoxicated than the rest, but still keeping my composure together, I found being in my own, self medicated world was ideal to my vision of this plane being nothing more than something to escape from. I wont deny that living the sex, drugs and rock n roll had its moments of unmeasurable bliss, satisfaction and gratification, an amazing representation of living the Satanic Bible's description of a Will focused life, but at the same time, my lack of foundation lead to many, many bumps in the road. Thus, the drug addiction lead to a mentally agonizing rehabilitation period, in which I was energetically forced to reevaluate my exercise and practice of living life.

Following my two year stint at an intensive drug rehabilitation center, I was blessed by meeting my future wife, who has since brought us two beautiful daughters into our life. Having conquered the spirit of addiction and moved from the solitary life to that of a family unit, I found much comfort in reintroducing myself to the teachings I had grown up implementing through LaVeyan Satanism and punk rock ideals. Having relocated to San Francisco just after rehabilitation, I was enamored by the availability of so many different avenues of Left Hand Path and occult thought that was being taught around every corner, that I spent my first three years of sobriety delving as deep as I could into everything I could get my hands on.

 

My previously mentioned association with the punk rock movement ended up playing itself well during these years as well. Having formed multiple local occult music acts that gained notoriety rather quickly, I was right away tossed into the current of creative energy forces, bring many unique and amazing people through my life. I was extremely fortunate to have crossed as many paths as I did in such a short amount of time. Bumping shoulders, shaking hands with, discussing esoterica and participating in ritual work with some of the most gifted and profoundly knowledgeable occultists and magickians of our time period. Considering the initiatory system of groups such as the OTO and A.'.A.'. that have such beautiful and flourishing chapters in the Bay Area, I had the pleasure of witnessing private Gnostic Masses and Thelemic study sessions behind closed doors, intended for initiates of the order and not the general public. Everything about these days was full of magick and power, so much so that my involvement with ritual work that far surpassed my state of knowledge and understanding, that many of my intentions ended up causing me much damage in my life. Much like the drug addiction of my younger days, I was in over my head once again. With cosmic threats hitting from every direction, I packed my bags and decided to spend my time reinforcing the foundation of my family life, moving us from the city to Monterey County.

After spending the bigger part of the past eight years running around the occult playground that we call the Bay Area of Northern California, I found myself for the first time standing firm upon my own two feet, the countless days of struggle and repercussion were all beginning to make sense and fall into place. It was at this point that I decided to start my study over, from the beginning and bring everything full circle. So, with this said I went back to the first step of most every western occultist these days, rereading and reabsorbing the lessons of freedom and self respect taught through the words of Anton LaVey and his Satanic Bible. It is from this point that I am starting this blog, from step 1.

In an attempt to openly and productively receive on as constant a basis as possible, I am not cutting any corners. In other words, prior to me readopting the teachings of Liber ABA or 777, I am beginning with the likes of Rodney Orpheus, Lon Milo Duquette and James and Nancy Wasserman. In the entries that follow, I will be delving into everything from my progresses in Yoga to my struggles in ritual and everything in between. Even though, this is obviously a very personal en devour, I am very much open to hearing from others, be through simple communications of relation to subjective pieces of constructive criticism to basic questions regarding intent and execution etc etc.

- Frater Narayana

 ABRAHADABRA!

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