Occult Emails

“Thank you for asking these questions.

1. The cabal was created in order to add to the mystery surrounding these aesthetically dark books and their sales, it was more active a few years ago and was an effort by the author to form a group or coven like others had before him. These sorts of things are generally made up of the author or leader and his friends or closer contacts and then lower initiates kept in those sorts of positions in order to purchase books or support the larger pyramid structure. The author is someone who put together books for those preferring a certain aesthetic, the information in the books is in many ways invented by the author or only roughly inspired by other things but is believed by the author to be just as effective as anything else, if not more, because they believe in the ahistoricity of magical writing and following inspiration for writing these things and that belief is what matters and that experiences authenticate things. Such people are in some ways similar to Aleister Crowley or view themselves as such but were very likely strongly inspired by the Chaos Magick movement as well as Satanist groups and the idea of making non-traditional new systems which if studied carefully reveal the underlying thoughts and systems of beliefs involved or required and thus their likely sources of inspiration as well.

2. The tower and the void and all that are archtypes for various things and have built up frequent mention in Occult literature and literature at large. They are considered authentic as described and imagined but the term “tower” coupled with “void” has generaly no long historic legacy. It is a new idea inspired by the themeatic popularity of foreboding attached to towers and the interest among Occultists and those interested in the dark aesthetic with the term “void”. The Tower theme and the Void theme both have their own legacies in literature and thinking but the “Tower of the Void” is inspired somewhat by writings using the word Void like if Aleister Crowley has ever used it. The ideas are considered real by those writing them though because they follow the line of thinking that archtypes are real and one creates with their imagination real spaces and things which take on a life of their own when given attention or are repeatedly referred to or returned to.

3. They don’t want to be contacted and there are not many of them anyway, especially not in contact with each other. Their reason for this is to avoid being pestered and it also makes things more mysterious and less able to be attacked by people who then pick up on inconsistencies or share private conversations. Deadwood is interested in sharing ideas and profiting from them, he doesn’t do it to give himself to the service of helping people really, nor does he likely strongly believe in what he has submitted, but allows himself the flexible position to deny it all or follow other systems or techniques of his own invention or otherwise which fit on his overall structure of ideas which are not so atypical in modern magic communities.

4. I have talked to all sorts of people and many would testify to experiences or non-experiences related to any number of these books, from E.A Koetting things to Deadwood’s works and their own. These sorts of successes seem to confirm in the minds of such authors that indeed humans can think themselves into anything, which has its origins largely in the New Thought philosophy of the 19th and 20th century which led into the New Age movement and is the dominant thinking in most Occult circles today, even on this website. The idea seems to be authenticated by the sorts of experiences people have, that skeptics might call self-generated passive hallucinations and confirmation bias. Many people attracted to the Occult are teenagers when they first become interested. Many people leave the Occult in their mid to late 20s and 30s as various responsibilities and pressures catch up to them.

It is worth examining what your interests and goals are and what they might represent. If the lofty promises in magical texts seem not to have been achieved by anyone, its likely that such claims are inconsistent with the range of possibilities available to one in reality.

In order to achieve anything, one needs access to the resources. There has to be the operator, the means by which the goal is achieved, and the target achievement or what is to be acted upon or used as the base which the means are applied to or influence. In most magical communities and discussions, the means or the reality of the means is completely bypassed or impossibly inefficient.

An example of this is reaching out your hand to a glass of water and hoping, which is running on fumes, that it will fly into your hand.

How will it fly into your hand? The how requires means. People can state all sorts of means, the stating or belief in means doesn’t make them happen, they need to really be available and manipulated in order to interact with reality.

So in one case the Operator has the Means of using the Resources of their legs and arms to walk over and pick up and hold the glass. In another case the Operator asks someone present to get the glass and bring it to them. This will not be possible if no one is around to do so or willing. It will also not be possible if the Operator has no legs or arms with which to get it, or no mouth or knowledge of language with which to ask someone to get it.

When one starts to break down things for careful analysis, the world becomes clear, and even magical seeming things can become possible so long as there is the Operator, the means and resources accessed and manipulated by the Operator, and the target or goal or base which is acted on, which in the above example was the glass of water. If there was no glass of water, then the means would not be able to bring a glass of water over. “