From:    Balanone                               Area: Base of Set
To:      Tristan                                12 Feb 95 17:52:26
Subject: sacrifice                              UpdReq 

On Feb 07, 1995,
Tristan wrote to Dark Star
re: Re: X-Files
T> But I
T> actually  do have a serious question that I've picked up
T> from my reading. The Temple of Set has a very strict
T> injunction against destruction of biological organisms in
T> ritual. ... But the TOS ... seems to hold a philosophical
T> position against the  destruction of bio-organisms, to the
T> point that drinking blood would be banned. Could explain the
T> reason for this? Would eating bread in ritual be excluded
T> (since yeast died to make the bread)? I am assuming that
T> Setian are not neccesarily Vegans so the injunction must
T> only apply to ritual, is this correct? Am I floundering in
T> the dark?
The central philosophy of the Temple of Set, the Aeon of Set, and each
Setian is Xeper, self-creation into higher life. Trying to describe that
higher life, the word I keep coming back to time and time again is
"Nobility" -- as King Arthur's nobility was to medieval chaos, so our
Nobility will be to modern day's behaviors.
Part of that nobility comes from a distaste for causing unnecessary
pain or death. Therefore we disdain from ritual sacrifice of any
conscious animal.
We also look to Set as an example of what higher life can be like, and
find that he is called the Highest of Life in our writings. It simply
doesn't make sense to try to work with the Highest of Life while
destroying life, does it?
There's generally no need to destroy any living thing in ritual, since
there are always better and more noble ways to raise your magical
powers than through the destruction of life.
Of course there can always be exceptions. I once did a pest-removal
ritual to rid an apartment in Harlem of cockroaches. In that specific
situation, the ritual destruction of two cockroaches was fully justified
and appropriate.
As for eating bread in ritual, don't worry about the yeast, nor the
wheat (another bio-organism) -- they're insignificant. The important
question is, what are you doing and why? What is the benefit? What is
the goal? What is the symbolism? Are you working toward Nobility or
reverting to lower states of development?
Xeper, and the rest comes of its own accord.
Balanone
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From:    Dark Star                              Area: Base of Set
To:      Juliet                                 13 Feb 95 23:29:50
Subject: Re: Blood under the bridge             UpdReq 

 JY> _The New Satanists_ contains a slanderous account of the Temple of Set
 JY> and Dr. Michael Aquino.
 JY> Anyone who wants an expose of the lies in that section of her book can
 JY> obtain a copy from the Temple of Set by sending an S.A.S.E. to them at:
 JY> Post Office Box 470307 San Francisco, CA 94147
Jul> A rebuttal?  Great stuff!  I'll get hold of it and post it into the
Jul> Occult echo on my net (since it's available for ftp I assume it can
Jul> be freely distributed).
If you prefer, you can request a copy by e-mailing your request to:
                    2784041@mcimail.com
You are welcome to distribute it freely.



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