From the Book of Abrasax by Michael
Cecchetelli
On Curses
“I do caution any who would make use
hereof that while I find the imagined law of karma laughable and
inexistent (sic), it is wise to exercise discretion when working in a
harmful forms of magick. This I say not of fear of some universal
blowback by which the harm one has done is brought back upon them.
But because however proficient you may become in this form of magick,
there is always one more so. While karmic repercussions will
certainly not strike upi down, one more skilled or experienced than
yourself very well may.”
And you may bet that one who sells such
services or offers the ever popular trade for some form of sex, has
learned how to pin the blame for the curse squarely on your shoulders
like a huge target and intends to use you as food for whatever
negative energies they normal evoke or even worse if you are allowed
to witness such profoundly evil rights, to use you to invoke the
creature into instead of themselves. With enough exposure to said
practitioner, they may not even require you be present for the
invocation.
Keep in mind that the creature summoned
are not so much evil as outside the normal human religious experience
and the normal human form, that to invoke them is to risk serious
damage to your body and mind (brain).
In the book Michael Cecchetelli cites
the example of Sonor Lyric who attempted an invocation of an ancient
Sumerian “god” and wound up catatonic for several days in
Bellevue Hospital and then spent another week relearning how to
speak. After two years she had regained less than half her previous
mental capacities which points in modern day medicine to a massive
stroke and brain damage. Attempting to imprint a creature's mental or
brain structure upon a brain that is simply too dissimilar to it will
cause massive brain damage either physically as is obvious in this
case or mentally as in the case a number of “mad monks”.
Further in discussing the act of
invoking a god to share mental space with one, Michael further points
out the ecstatic state that the ritual itself creates is often
mistaken for a successful summoning leading the person to believe
they now are cohabited by a god when in fact, nothing is further from
the truth. The person's mental state further deteriorates as they
follow the edicts of the god which are really nothing more than their
unconscious playing the role and fail time and time again until they
are desperate to please what they think is a god in more and more
depraved and negative manners which is nothing more than punishing
themselves for the failures. The evil is not only within themselves
but is themselves as the invocation failed.
Be extraordinarily wary of those who
through an accident of genetics are capable of imposing not
necessarily thoughts but moods upon those around them. They are
capable of convincing others to follow them in exchange for this
ecstatic state which quickly becomes addictive, giving them an army
of people willing to do anything no matter how depraved, evil and
negative to once again experience this “high” of “god”
touching them. Hence, the phenomena of the 'tent revival' and 'faith
healing' is cited as an example. The most suggestive are placed in
the front rows and as they become in effect hypnotized, the effect or
energy then travels backwards from them in wave after wave until the
entire congregation except for those who are not capable of entering
the hypnogogic state are enveloped in it and willing to do or believe
anything and often not remember it for several days or week when it
will manifest in snippets of memory or through vivid dreams. Keep in
mind the action of this energy follows simple physics, reaching the
back boundaries of the tent which will be closed to anyone entering
or leaving and normally guarded by those immune to the hypnogogic
state, once again through an accident of genetics, and then the
energy rolls forward again catching anyone it missed and building on
itself in a simple phase locked loop until the person who initiated
it breaks the loop or another of stronger abilities, hijacks it. The
breaking of the loop allows the energy to be directed at a specific
target for whatever the intent is of the party capable of doing so.
This energy could actually be used to
heal a person but since the manipulators of this energy are generally
uneducated in medicine or anything in the realm of higher education
since this ability allows them to manipulate people for personal gain
with little effort, they are only capable of fooling the person or
hypnotizing them into thinking they are healed if they are not
employing shills to playact the part. The hypnotized person will
eventually, sooner rather than later, need a follow up session at
great cost as the effects of hypnotism wear off. To effect a real
healing the healer would have to knowledgeable enough in medicine to
know how to use the energy to alter the physical body and repair it.
As it is, the 'healer' is just imposing the energetic pattern of
their body upon the 'healed' and as with all energy, it gradually or
quickly dissipates. This is why nurses became so proficient at the
“laying of hands” form of healing so quickly when others did not.
They were aware of what actually needed changing in the person and
simply provided the energy and direction for the body to heal itself.
The failures were often due to either misdiagnosis or the person,
themselves, not wanting a healing due to secondary gain from the
illness.
However, enough failures will shake the
person's confidence enough to prevent them doing any healing or
magick for that matter. One of the often used tricks of those with
power and few scruples is to pack the group or clientele with people
who are going to nay-say the work of the Magus or psychic until the
person's confidence is in shreds and thus they eliminate the
competition. Oddly, if one looks at things rationally, there is no
shortage of work for a Magus, healer or psychic and hence the act of
destroying all competition is nothing more than greed and insecurity
which will eventually be the downfall of the party doing it as each
time they do this, they are affirming to themselves that they are not
as good as they would pretend to be or the person they are
destroying.
You see, there is no need for karma or
a big bad god. Eventually the people committing these negative acts
simply destroy themselves and rather nastily as that little voice in
the back of one's mind always saying you aren't as good or good
enough is a very slow death.
