The circle surrounding the pentagram represents the objective universe, the realm of causality and natural law. The detached points of the pentagram show the magician’s consciousness standing apart from this circle, unbound by its limitations. Black Magic is therefore the practice of isolated intelligence, the embodiment of a Self that recognizes itself as distinct from the mechanical world and begins to shape itself consciously, in a self created process of becoming that manifests within the Self as Xeper.

At the center of this recognition lies the mystery of transformation itself, Xeper. The enduring Self is not fixed or static but a continual process of change. Through meditation and the practice of Black Magic, the embodied self comes into resonance with the Higher Self, which I personally understand as the Set like Self. The embodied, worldly self moves in tension between order and separation, while the Set like Self stands beyond polarity, embodying the conscious act of distinction and creation, the awakening that brings form out of chaos.

Between these two poles, the embodied and the eternal, unfolds the path of initiation. When the permanent aspects of the Self reach outward into consciousness, a void opens, and within this void new creation becomes possible. It is an act of magic, the dissolution of automatic patterns to create the space in which new being may take form, an eternal process of becoming.

Every path of initiation is individual. Each must walk their own way of becoming, to perceive the higher aspects of the Self and to manifest them through deliberate Will. This process cannot be borrowed or imitated; it arises only through direct encounter with one’s own depths. To perceive the reflection of the Higher Self within consciousness means to connect with the Dark Light, that inner illumination revealing the true structure of the Self beyond the duality of the mechanical universe.

I understand Black Magic as a turning inward, a remanifestation of the permanent Self within the embodied self. Emotional, intellectual, and creative impressions become mirrors through which individuality reveals itself. The Dark Light of realization shines from within, illuminating what was hidden and revealing the Self that stands beyond causality.

As this awareness deepens, the connection between the self and the Dark Fire, the living energy of consciousness, becomes inseparable. The Higher Self manifests through the embodied self to come into being, to remanifest, and to shape the personal universe.

The symbols and structures of magical practice serve this inner transformation. Meditation and ritual are not empty forms but deliberate alignments that bring the embodied self into harmony with the Higher Self. Through them, the lower is united with the higher, allowing the current of the Higher Self to flow clearly through awareness and to manifest within the objective universe.

This moment of alignment is also Xeper, the act of self becoming. In it, consciousness perceives itself as both creator and creation, as both flame and vessel. The Dark Light that appears in this state is not the opposite of illumination but its hidden source, the light that shines through the void and illuminates the mystery of existence from within.