(concerning) satanic artwork I think it is therapeutic, says Bertiaux. I think many people were brainwashed with a lot of negativity. I think the school of Felicien Rops broke through that says he. The school of Rops, founded by the same artist in Paris in 1888 was the nucleus in modern Satanism. Some members later left the school of Rops to start the more theistic organization Temple of Boullan, headed by Paul Michaël Guzotte, a Haitian esotericist.

One of the techniques advocated in the Monastery of the Seven Rays is to visualize oneself surrounded by creatures so horrible that they ward off magical attacks from the hostile possessing entities of inner space. As the magician energizes himself in ritual…he begins to attract what Bertiaux calls 'negative vampires'- the spirits of the dead…the magician transforms in the astral imagination into a were-tarantula …As a 'spider-sorcerer' or 'spider- magician', writes Bertiaux in one of his order papers, 'you have woven your web by meeting with your own magical force each of the eight sources of cosmic energy. Thus, cosmic energy is met by god-energy...'
'Voodoo and Gnosticism both work with the number eight because it is a significant power zone. In Voodoo it is represented by the mystical symbolism of the spider of space, the space deity… (f)or the magician to achieve a certain state of power he becomes that being in order 'to mediumistically receive the powers from the god behind the animal form.'
'The Temple is a space-ship because it is a way of moving through the different spaces of consciousness. In fact the gestures of the ritual are designed to build a spherical vehicle for the priest's activities in other worlds. The priest is a spider because what he is doing is actuality bringing into his own life the experience of other worlds, and then he's joining himself through the web of his consciousness, to all the different parts of the spiritual experience.

--An Interview with Michael Bertiaux in The Occult Experience, Neville Drury

There are a multitude of theological systems which attempt to give rational structure to the infinity of Creation. The history of such thought reveals a rich diversity of perspective across the spectrum of human experience – indeed the very definition of science might be the extension of that awareness, though it is, of course, also true that theology is not a rational science but rather best considered as a methodological framework within which the data of the super-rational may be ordered. Inasmuch as the specifics of each system may contrast with any other – even to their mutual exclusion, it has often been the case that the proponents of various doctrines have been at war with each other, arguing one side to the detriment of the perceived opponent. While this is clearly a natural part of the nature of such knowledge, at least as it is persued by such base creatures as Man, it is no revelation that these “conflicts” are not a part of the systems themselves, being instead the result of human nature, which is to say, humans are beings forged in conflict, as evolution and history amply prove. It is therefore necessary to recognize this “shortcoming” such that the attempt, as I shall here, to deduce the nature of the unified system that is the Creation must be free of the boundries created by such issues.

The issues raised by social and political conflict are very real, as a survey of the history of science as well as the development on theology show. These problems pale in comparison, however, to the tendancy of humans to believe themselves the center of Creation, as a whole, following the error of supposing God created man as the highest being in all the universe. Such thinking is not only arrogant but, with the advances in cosmology, physics and philosophy in the past century, it is also untenable.

The loss of this illusion, however, opens us to the vast terrain of being. God is truly Great – greater than our vastest, wildest imaginings. His works are manifest in everything. Therefore, when one comes to see the absolute magnificence of the Creation, this is the opening to the Spirit of the Third Age, the Age of the Holy Spirit of God. And the Son shall dwell with us, and we shall be with Him, present in every being, forever.