Darren Lorente-Bull

"Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot." Robert Anton Wilson Six months ago, seeking a new metaphysical model, I approached the IOT ( the Illuminates of Thanateros).  The Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT) is an international magical order formed in the early 1980s, officially around 1987, by Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin, key figures in the development of chaos magic. Emerging from the ideas in Carroll’s Liber Null and Sherwin’s writings in the late 1970s, the order took its name from “Thanatos” (death) and “Eros” (sex), representing the polar forces of magical energy and human experience. The IOT was created to promote chaos magic as a practical, results-oriented system stripped of dogma, emphasizing techniques such as sigil work, altered states, and belief as a tool to be adopted and discarded. Its objectives include fostering magical training and initiation within a struct...

Dedicated to James Bardwell. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. Matthew 6:6 Can one be a Christian on his own terms? Can one be a Catholic a la carte ? The answer to both questions according to the church ( churches) will most definitely be a resounding no. And the church with its esteemed theologians, solid history and powerful infrastructure, holds the weight of this argument in its favour. Christianity is the church. There is no salvation  outside of the church and the church administers the Sacraments. When I say church I don't only mean the Roman Catholic Church or any of the other Apostolic churches, I also mean all the Protestant ones in all their subdivisions, from the Anglican ones to the evangelical ones where one has to register as a member. All these churches, despite their differences, will coincide when it comes to the necessity of the church,...