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Petrus
post Apr 18 2008, 09:30 AM
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I was doing a search on the Web for a place that I'd found once with Bardon's Evocation online, and discovered it listed on a site that had a booklist of, quote, "Advanced Satanic Texts."

This is a guess, but from what little I've read of Bardon I would tend to suspect that he would find his work being classified as Satanic as being highly objectionable.

Does anyone know of a genuine reason why this book could be classified as being truly Satanic, or is it simply yet another case of Satanists hijacking pretty much everything associated with magic and claiming it to be exclusively a part of their belief system?

I've seen this going on for a while, and to be honest, it's starting to seriously annoy me. I know a Satanist online who apparently has the attitude that if you have anything to do with magic whatsoever, that automatically means that you're engaging in Satanic activity by default, even if your intentions aren't anywhere close to LHP. Do people agree with this, or is it simply yet another example of the ex-Christian/Satanist cognitive dissonance?

The idea of any one particular religion or belief system claiming a monopoly on magic bothers me, however; whether it's Judaism on the one hand, or Satanism on the other.


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post Apr 18 2008, 10:28 AM
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I have no idea why this would be included in anything remotely "satanic". I have no interest in this path as I understand it, but the methods are open to anyone who wishes to use the concepts, despite their leanings. I don't know anybody following this path, but its not exclusive to any path. If anything it was written along the lines of hermeticism, but is not confined to that area.

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post Apr 18 2008, 11:06 AM
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Bardon's evocation is a treatise on the bare bones of experimental magic. It's completely unspiritual, in terms of God or Satan, and is unbiased in the basis of it's uses, so it's just as much a satanic text as it is a christian text - which is to say, either party could make use of it.

There are, however, basic guidelines put forth in the book that are in line with 'white' or 'right hand path' magic, rather explicitly stated. According to all of bardons work, the justifiable uses of magic essentially amount to opening one's awareness and acceptance to a higher existence in some way - astral projection simply to transcend the fear of death; evocation simply to understand the existence of non-physical beings; mastery of the elements simply to achieve inner balance; much of it reads like the eastern texts on 'siddhis'. So, while it's open to the use of either RHP or LHP, a read straight from the book makes it hard pressed to consider it LHP.

It's funny, I think, how both Christians and Satanists often consider all magical practice satanic. Funny the similarities we find in opposites.

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