For the magician, every day is a battle to hold back the forces of Evil.
- Voudon Gnostic Workbook, Chapter 9, The Battleground of the Gnosis.

Stoop not down into the darkly splendid World wherein continually lieth a faithless Depth and Hades wrapped in clouds, delighting in unintelligible images, precipitous, winding, a black ever-rolling abyss, ever espousing a body unluminous, formless and void.
–Chaldean Oracles
Who shall speak, that hath not attained, neither in this world or the world above? For it is written
Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
--Mark 3:28-9
Thus is the word of CHORONZON “I”, and this is the word against the Spirit, the irredeemable utterance that binds the soul to the Sons of Iniquity and thereby renders the light of the Father and shuts it up in darkness. This is the crime of the Black Lodge and the Adepts thereof, the hiding of the Pearl of light in the false structures and darkness of Self. And these shall come against thee and plague thee as the demons of the waste do plague those that travel there by night and thou shall overcome the seductions of the Black Brothers, for even as the light is concealed it doth burn infinitly hotter and shall, in the fulness of time, devour the ones who seeks to horde this treasure against the will of the Father. And when the demons of the mind and self are burned up, all that shall remain is Silence.

A Comment upon Liber OS ABYSMI vel DAATH
1. This book is the Gate of the Secret of the Universe.
- the gate is the entrance to the Great Outer Abyss. The secret is the passage through Abyss and the reintegration of the magicians psyche in Binah, the first sephirot on “the other side” which exists in the pleroma, the dwelling of the Eternal Gods. (see 9coils, verse 3)
2. Let the Exempt Adept procure the Prolegomena of Kant, and study it, paying special attention to the Antinomies.
Etc. Let the student be guided by his ingenium and ability to discern those works which shall be of use here. While the works mentioned by A.C. are useful there has been much written in this vein since the War
9. Let him also be accomplished in Logic. (Formal Logic, Keynes.) Further let him study any classical works to which his attention may be sufficiently directed in the course of his reading.
10. Now let him consider special problems, such as the Origin of the World, the Origin of Evil, Infinity, the Absolute, the Ego and the non-Ego, Freewill and Destiny, and such others as may attract him.
11. Let him subtly and exactly demonstrate the fallacies of every known solution, and let him seek a true solution by his right Ingenium.
Here the method is provided for the invocation of the Abyss. Essentially, the goal is to breakdown the structures in the ego which create the illusion that the Universe is a unified around the Self. These complexes act quite subconsciously and because they are hidden from the conscious mind are not questioned. By studying the philosophical texts, the aspirant will (should) become aware of the fact that philosophy is built on a foundation of sand in that philosophers must assume certain untestable theorems (such as the existence or not of God or Evil or Truth or the nature of these things). It is impossible to begin from first principles. As the first principals of any system are by definition (following the logic of the Incompleteness Theorem) untestable from within the system itself, and therefore unprovable, any serious persuit of the works sited above should cause the aspirant to come to the conclusion that the catagories of metephysics exist ONLY in the mind or perhaps, not at all. Since this is the foundation of the Ego (the assumptions of existance and its “meaning” irregardless of the specific tenets the individual consciousness has been indoctrinated into) the aspirant will at this point be overcome by an existential dread as understanding dawns upon him \ her that ‘true’ (i.e. beyond the phenomenal) REALITY IS UNKNOWABLE TO REASON. Reason creates constructs of logic that, while successful in limited application are useless in contemplating the entirety of the universe. Words and symbols are not things but dichotomies and so fail when confronted by the Abyss. Then he will come to understand that since the Ego, a construct of these very signs, cannot know itself, it is NOT the SELF (or, the self is NOT - these are difficult concepts to describe, obviously). And with this, one comes to the edge of the Abyss.
12. In all this let him be guided only by clear reason, and let him forcibly suppress all other qualities such as Intuition, Aspiration, Emotion, and the like.
13. During these practices all forms of Magick Art and Meditation are forbidden to him. It is forbidden to him to seek any refuge from his intellect.
As the Ego is a product of the false constructs of reason, irrational or “super-rational” considerations are to be set aside for the duration of the Work.
14. Let then his reason hurl itself again and again against the blank wall of mystery which will confront him.
15. Thus also following is it said, and we deny it not. At last automatically his reason will take up the practice, sua sponte, and he shall have no rest therefrom.
16. Then will all phenomena which present themselves to him appear meaningless and disconnected, and his own Ego will break up into a series of impressions having no relation one with the other, or with any other thing.
17. Let this state then become so acute that it is in truth Insanity, and let this continue until exhaustion.
Once the Ego loses its grip on the mind, it will collapse inward on itself, attempting to shore up its base by attaching itself to any flotsom that is drawn into the gravitational pull of the nothingness of the Abyss. It shall depend on the aspirant to save it, evoking demons of desire and fear, hoping to draw the Awareness into identification with the body. One must be on guard lest the destruction of the self be arrested, else the remaining ego-complex be inflated, for here is where the minds of men produce the waking horrors of the World. Annihilation must be total.
18. According to a certain deeper tendency of the individual will be the duration of this state.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
19. It may end in real insanity, which concludes the activities of the Adept during this present life, or by his rebirth into his own body and mind with the simplicity of a little child.
Jesus said, `The person old in days won’t hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live. For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one.` Gosp. Thos., Logion 4
The danger here is not metaphorical, in that the mechanisms of the Ego are still functioning without the “program” which controls it. The program is of course the construct of the world socially imprinted upon the Ego from the moment the awareness is brought into the cold light of day. As such, if the Ego is left to integrate itself outside of the strictures of social boundaries and is as yet unascended, the most bizarre and terrible pathologies shall manifest as the awareness coalesces around the KAOS of the true SELF. And he shall fall from the Tree into the Pit. Once this occurs, the aspirant shall become a thing of utter darkness and shall ravage and rend all that comes within his sight, until such time as the body giveth up the life and he shall be freed. Woe to him who has fallen thus, for thy life is forfeit and each second must be paid for against the tides of time.
20. And then shall he find all his faculties unimpaired, yet cleansed in a manner ineffable.
Having swept away the masks of I, the gates of the fortress are thus open and the Adept is free to perceive the Universe as it is, the Boundless continuum of being which flows ever from the Breath of the FATHER. And no-thing shall be seperated from any other, and all things shall be seen as permutation of the One thing, and thus are all things but modes of the Infinite.
21. And he shall recall the simplicity of the Task of the Adeptus Minor*, and apply himself thereto with fresh energy in a more direct manner.
* the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel
22. And in his great weakness it may be that for awhile the new Will and Aspiration are not puissant, yet being undisturbed by those dead weeds of doubt and reason which he hath uprooted, they grow imperceptibly and easily like a flower.
And here is set a stumbling block against those who look onto the work of the Adept with fear, for they shall see the adept filled up with the Emptiness of Eternity and shall speak against him, saying, ‘he hath not attained, he liveth still and hath his root in the Earth even as before.’ Whomsover shall look upon the Master thus and speak thus shall be accursed, and a thousand plagues be upon them and their seed (meaning their future incarnations, not their children), for they knoweth not, and will not, and dare not, and if they cannot even keep silent they shall have none save the caresses of CHORONZON himself, and they shall be bound at the end of the time alloted, and cast into the Bottomless Pit. For whomsoever seekest with purity of purpose shall attain, and whomsoever shall stand against the Adepts shall be devoured from within, that the Light that dwelleth within be freed and all else be burned up as the chaff seperated from the wheat.
23. And with the reappearance of the Holy Guardian Angel* he may be granted the highest attainments, and be truly fitted for the full experience of the destruction of the Universe. And by the Universe We mean not that petty Universe which the mind of man can conceive, but that which is revealed to his soul in the Samadhi of Atmadarshana.
There can be no comment to this, save only an affirmation of our commitment unto the truth thereof.
*The Angel appears once the Aspirant has successfully endured the Ordeal of the Abyss and taken his place in the GWB as a Master of the Temple. See Liber 418, 8th Aethyr.
24. Thence may he enter into a real communion with those that are beyond, and he shall be competent to receive communication and instruction from Ourselves directly.
Hath not the Teacher said unto thee ‘thou holdest in thy hand the Keys to the Kingdom, and also of DAATh and Hell? If thy master hath set thee upon the road, shall you not journey onward, toward the height and the ultimate attainment. Each to each, unto the Word and the mysteries shown forth by the Angel. All else shall be bound up in Silence.
25. Thus shall We prepare him for the confrontation of Choronzon and the Ordeal of the Abyss, when we have received him into the City of the Pyramids.
- see 14th Aethyr, Which is Called UTI (Liber 418)
26. So, being of Us, let the Master of the Temple accomplish that Work which is appointed. (In Liber CDXVIII. is an adequate account of this Ordeal and Reception. See also Liber CLVI. for the preparation.)
see Liber 418 – the Vision and the Voice, infra
27. Also concerning the Reward thereof, of his entering into the Palace of the King's Daughter, and of that which shall thereafter befall, let it be understood of the Master of the Temple. Hath he not attained to Understanding? Yea, verily, hath he not attained to Understanding?