Vampire Temple of Atazoth

 

 

The God Notion a Brain Matter Only

 

by Philippe L. De Coster

 

In the opinions of most people these days god is almost certainly an invention of the human mind rather then a true being in any traditional sense. Over the course of human history there have been thousands of different religions and different figures worshiped as gods. Since then a lot of these have fallen into abandonment in terms of being worshiped and people considering them to be the truth. With the world now consisting of only a few of the many religions that there once was it seems likely that this pattern will eventually come around again and that all religions will eventually falter and fade away.

 

Belief in God has long been held to be a superstition by the scientific community as the existence of such a higher power cannot be demonstrated through objective observation. While science is unable to prove whether or not God is real, the field of neurotheology has instead posed a new question that we can find answers to: is there activity in the brain specific to religious experience? Can science in fact shed light on Thoreau's question?

 

Rather, religion makes use of existing brain structures and their functions, and it appears that religious beliefs match up exceedingly well with those functions.

 

However, it is difficult to determine which of the functions related to religion ultimately provided the adaptive advantage that led religion to thrive throughout human history. Simply finding a relationship does not necessarily imply causality, and whether these findings ultimately imply that religion is nothing more than a brain-based phenomenon is another matter. The findings we are discussing link religion and the brain, but the brain may be receptive to religious experiences rather than creating them. Whether the brain generates religious belief or serves as a conduit for it remains a complicated question.

 

Ideas of spirituality were generated prior to neurobiology and gained immediate legitimacy as there was no knowledge of brains or the necessity of a brain to generate purposeful behavior. The current debate suffers from defining religion in terms of what western culture sees as a religious experience, or religious belief. The anthropology of religion needs to be recognized in order to separate magic, speculative explanations, and social meaning before deciding what neurological basis is active. At a time when religious beliefs stimulate some to blow themselves up, it is difficult to accept that religious beliefs are by nature adaptive.

 

It is also reasonable to speculate that, in an evolutionary time scale, gradual evolution of a range of brain functions enabled the emergence and adoption of myriad religious beliefs. Even modern biblical scholars and many religious practitioners would admit that there is little objective evidence that God has completely scripted the requirements of religious belief. The hypothesis to challenge here should be that religious belief emerged out of the cognitive and social capabilities of humans and that those abilities depended upon the structure and function of the human brain.

 

Counterfeit States of "Religious Consciousness"

 

There have always been persons who pretended to be participants in the mystic tradition who were decidedly not. The same is true in regard to Higher States of consciousness: there are people who experience counterfeit states and try to fool themselves and others that these are genuine.

 

Occurring within all religions, the phenomenon called "conversion" is actually nothing more than mind-control, programming, or brainwashing-- frightening a repentant, submissive person or group into a state of terror and subsequent release. Counterfeit "conversion" experiences were, for example, widely experienced in nineteenth century America, especially in what were called "revivals." Even today, "revivals" of one form or another are used by all so-called Christian faiths in manipulating obedient followers.

 

"Conversion" is an artificial, deleterious state induced in a submissive person by a self-serving religious leader. As the basis of his 1914 book entitled The Psychology of Religion, Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck examined a significant number of persons who had undergone the "conversion" experience.

 

He found that  "conversion does not occur with the same frequency at all periods in life. It belongs almost exclusively to the years between 10 and 25. The number of instances outside that range appear few and scattered. That is, conversion is a distinctively adolescent phenomenon."

 

Starbuck also discovered that imagination and social pressure were the two dominant factors in "conversion," and he was able to determine what "a small part rational considerations play in conversion as compared with instinctive." Surrender to the religious authority figure (minister or priest) is necessary for "conversion" to occur and results in the subject's ego being "lifted up into new significance."

 

The essence of "conversion" is the induction of a state of mere feeling which, when it has passed, leaves no spiritual improvement and often results in the subject feeling like a victim. Frequently the experience is so humiliating after the fact that the subject rejects not only the "conversion," but anything having to do with religion.

 

 

Starbuck discovered that the forces working in revivals are identical to suggestion and hypnosis--what we today would call brainwashing. The negative aspects of "conversion" are primarily caused by the self-serving religious leaders.

 

"An unwise and unfortunate use of revivals is that they take certain social standards and attempt to force them indiscriminately on all persons alike. The notion is formed, and, doubtless, rightly, that the only means of escape for one whose evil habits are deeply ingrained is through repentance, a definite regeneration and conversion. There seems to be practical ignorance of the other type of conversion, i.e., sudden awakening following the sense of imperfection, and still greater disregard of the fact that it is not natural for certain temperaments to develop spasmodically, or even to exhibit marked stadia in their growth. Consequently, the normal means of regeneration for the wayward and for hardened sinners becomes a dogma, and is held up as the only means of escape for children, for natures spiritually immature, for the virtuous, and for those temperamentally unfit. A certain competition for supremacy among churches, and for success among individual workers, exaggerates the evil. Each new convert is sometimes vulgarly called by revivalists another star in the crowns which they will wear in the future life. If there were only power of discrimination, they would see that their success in dragging many so-called converts into the whirl of excitement, hypnotising them, and leaving them empty afterward, is more fitly likened to the triumph of a man of prowess who wears scalps of victims as trophies."

 

The psychological manipulation of Christian believers has a long history. Leaving aside the peculiar mind manipulation practiced by Roman Catholicism, we can see that the basic tenets of Protestantism, from the time of Luther, were particularly well-suited to inducing terror in a submissive penitent.

 

 "God," says Luther "is the God of the humble, the miserable, the oppressed, and the desperate, and of those that are brought even to nothing; and his nature is to give sight to the blind, to comfort the broken-hearted, to justify sinners, to save the very desperate and damned. Now that pernicious and pestilent opinion of man's own righteousness, which will not be a sinner, unclean, miserable, and damnable, but righteous and holy, suffereth not God to come to his own natural and proper work. Therefore God must take this maul to hand (the law, I mean) to beat in pieces and bring to nothing this beast with her vain confidence, that she may so learn at length by her own misery that she is utterly forlorn and damned. But here lieth the difficulty, that when a man is terrified and cast down, he is so little able to raise himself up again and say, 'Now I am bruised and afflicted enough; now is the time of grace; now is the time to hear Christ.' The foolishness of man's heart is so great that then he rather seeketh to himself more laws to justify his conscience. 'If I live,' saith he, 'I will amend my life: I will do this, I will do that.' But here, except thou do the quite contrary, except thou send Moses away with his law, and in these terrors and this anguish lay hold upon Christ who died for thy sins, look for no salvation. Thy cowl, thy shaven crown, thy chastity, thy obedience, thy poverty, thy works, thy merits? what shall all these do? what shall the law of Moses avail? If I, wretched and damnable sinner, through works of merits could have loved the Son of God, and so come to him, what needed he to deliver himself for me? If I, being a wretch and damned sinner, could be redeemed by any other price, what needed the Son of God to be given? But because there was no other price, therefore he delivered neither sheep, ox, gold, nor silver, but even God himself, entirely and wholly 'for me,' even 'for me,' I say a miserable, wretched sinner. Now therefore, I take comfort and apply this to myself. And this manner of applying is the very true force and power of faith. For he died not to justify the righteous, but the un-righteous, and to make them the children of God.'"

 

Commentary on Galatians

 

In the nineteenth century this Protestant dogma so suitable to psychological manipulation was refashioned by revivalists such as Jonathan Edwards. His tormented parishioners left their nail marks as they gripped the church pews in paroxysms of terror while listing to Edwards rail about "Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God."

 

In the genuine mystical tradition, regeneration is the genuine state of higher consciousness achieved by the sincere seeker, of which "conversion" is the counterfeit.

 

 

"Hermetism. . . was in its primary intention and office the philosophic and exact science of the regeneration of the human soul from its present sense-immersed state into the perfection and nobility of that divine condition in which it was originally created."

 

 

M. A. Atwood, Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy, 1850
Starbuck, Coe, and other researchers into the phenomenon of "conversion" discovered that it was essentially an experience of compliant adolescents, men and women who had not yet developed the ability to think and act for themselves. In the mystical tradition, candidates for "regeneration" must be mature philosophers--lovers of wisdom--in the sense that Pythagoras and Plato would have understood the term.

 

"Candidates for the regenerate life, moreover, were such as were prepared, as how few of to-day are?, to renounce and transvalue all the world's values, to step entirely out of the world-stream by the current of which the majority are content to be borne along, to negate the affirmations of the senses and natural reason which for the multitude provide the criterion of the desirable and the true, and generally to adopt towards phenomenal existence an attitude incomprehensible to the average man to whom that existence is of paramount moment. They were animated by no motives of merely personal salvation or of spiritual superiority over their fellows; on the contrary they will be found to have been the humblest, as they were the wisest, of men. They had advanced far beyond that complacent stage where religion consists in fidelity to certain credal propositions and in 'being good' or as good as one can, and where sufficiency and robustness of faith are represented by the facile optimism of 'God's in His heaven; all's right with the world.' Their philosophic basis was rather that 'the world is out of joint' and all men with it, and in a condition sorely needing saviours and co-operators with God to reduce and adjust the dislocation."

 

M. A. Atwood, Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy, 1850

 

We must understand that "regeneration" is an actual fact within the mystical tradition, no mere allegory or metaphor. As we have been "generated" in the physical world, so we can--through the proper preparation and knowledge--experience "regeneration" into a Higher Consciousness.

 

 

Even though we have become entranced by the physical world, there still abides in us, though in a state of atrophy, a residual germ of the divine principle which can be stimulated into activity to raise the personal consciousness to the point of unity and identity with the Universal Mind.

 

Michael Persinger  thus argues that religious experience and belief in God are merely the results of electrical anomalies in the human brain.

 

Michael A. Persinger (born June 26, 1945) is a cognitive neuroscience researcher and university professor with over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He has worked at Laurentian University, located in Sudbury, Ontario, since 1971. In detail, Michael A. Persinger was born in Jacksonville, Florida and grew up primarily in Virginia, Maryland and Wisconsin. He attended Carroll College from 1963 to 1964, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967. He then obtained an M.A. in physiological psychology from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1971.

 

Persinger  opines that the religious bents of even the most exalted figures—for instance, Saint Paul, Moses, Muhammad and Buddha—stem from such neural quirks. The popular notion that such experiences are good, argues Persinger in his book Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs (Praeger Publishers, 1987), is an outgrowth of psychological conditioning in which religious rituals are paired with enjoyable experiences. Praying before a meal, for example, links prayer with the pleasures of eating. God, he claims, is nothing more mystical than that.

(Extract of my new book on preparation to be published shortly)

 

© February 2012 - Hagur

 Read also previous page in Dutch, as part of brain activity and consciousness:

http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/163941/3460198106.12.pdf

 

 

 

Those Who Have Risen

 

Acheron Lyric (1998)

 

1. Intro: Nosferatu Prelude

 

"True vampirism is far beyond what the Hollywood aesthetics that filmmakers like to portray. In reality, it is an ancient way of magick and manipulation that predates all known religions. Yes, psychic vampires and others do exist! So sacrifice your Lifeforce taken from the humans during the day unto the Undead Gods, “Those Who Have Risen”, and have gone before us, while you read and meditate on these conjurations. You know you must, and it is what you should do.!"

 

2. Lifeforce (The Blood) 

 

Within slaves lurks the sacred heart
A food that the chosen need
Flowing energy that must be absorbed
While the vampire feeds
The human species is its source
That's why they were bred
Immortals search for the taste of "The Blood"
So that they may be fed

Little by little victims are drained
To quench the savage thirst
Being careful not to take too much
For their tiny minds will burst
This precious power within the flesh
Is our living key
Lost children of the temple's brood
Soon you all shall see

Lifeforce, Lifeforce

Lifeforce, Lifeforce

Those who understand the pleasures of the drink
Shall realize the magick it possesses
And those who don't will never understand
Because they are not of our kind

Blessed be the blood!

 

3. Hekal Tiamat

 

We are the fears that lurk inside your mind
As ancient race of a vampiric kind
Ruthless predators in this world we dwell
Live the law of fang and claw, with no heaven or hell

Hekal Tiamat, Temple of the Dragon

We are the future, the future is our brood
The undead gods revealing hidden truth
Vampires are few, but we are also many
Weak humans alive, show our prey is plenty

Those amongst our kind embrace the given creed
Animal instincts are how we strive and feed
Our list is for the hunt and lifeforce energy
The temple now awaits the final catastrophe

Hekal Tiamat, Temple of the Dragon 

 

4. Necromanteion Communion

 

Breathe deeply, clear your head
Leave the world behind you
Undead gods, they await
So enter the chamber
Sit right down and gaze
Into the magick mirror
Your body, it feels
All the stored Lifeforce

Necromanteion communion, a vampiric rite
Necromanteion communion, the immortal sight
Necromanteion communion, beyond thoughts of time
Necromanteion communion, for the royal bloodline
Necromanteion communion, enlightenment from beyond
Necromanteion communion, sacred nightside bond
Necromanteion communion, on an astral plane
Necromanteion communion, those who have risen again

See the patterns of dark and light
The dreamlike images begin
Time to use vampiric eyes
To go even further
Remain calm, open the gate
Sense the manifestation
Sacrifice the Lifeforce
Now embrace the calling

Necromanteion communion, a vampiric rite
Necromanteion communion, the immortal sight
Necromanteion communion, beyond thoughts of time
Necromanteion communion, for the royal bloodline
Necromanteion communion, enlightenment from beyond
Necromanteion communion, sacred nightside bond
Necromanteion communion, on an astral plane
Necromanteion communion, those who have risen again

Hail the elder gods
The Annukaki kind 

 

5. Out of Body

 

Darkened night, candles lit
It is the time for a new body
Astral flight is in store
Meditate and try to focus
Let the weight disappear
Separate from the flesh
Levitate to a place
That is not this dimension

Out of body, astral rite
Nosferatu, beast of the night
Out of body, ecstasy
Vampiric blood within me
Human fools, come to me

Seeing through other eyes
Foreign form, but I am myself
Predator roaming free
Stalking prey, while being cloaked
Godlike in many ways
Feeding on those I want
Astral plane, my domain
"I' vampire, bow before me

Out of body, astral rite
Nosferatu, beast of the night
Out of body, ecstasy
Vampiric blood within me
Human fools, come to me

I sense my victim, my growing need
Attacking inside, I start to feed
Returning now, to my worldly state
Enjoying "the gift", my immortal fate

Out of body, astral rite
Nosferatu, beast of the night
Out of body, ecstasy
Vampiric blood within me
Human fools, come to me

 

6. Undead Celebration

 

Full moon rises, as clouds fill the sky
Bonfires burning for the priesthood of Ur

Ancient hymns being sung in Sumerian, invoking
All the kindred spirits of our kind
Hands are raised in the shape of the secret sign
To show allegiance to the darkside

The magical circle all join hands
Chanting the words of a vampiric rite

Ancient hymns being sung in Sumerian, invoking
All the kindred spirits of our kind
Hands are raised in the shape of the secret sign
To show allegiance to the darkside

An acolyte holds up a crystal skull and places
It into the trapezoid

Now those present look into the blackened sky
To commit an act of praise... akhkharu

Undead celebration
  

7. Final Harvest

 

For thousand of years the undead gods have worked
To create their own world
Civilisation is a product of these ancient ones
And is an experiment
They improved the herds of human stock, so that
They could feed
Vampires the masters, others the slaves,
Those who have risen now wait for the...

Final harvest

The apocalypse draws near, spreading rage and fear
Soon the earth shall see the great family

Final harvest

The apocalypse draws near, spreading rage and fear
Soon the earth shall see the great family

Cities shall be swept up in the agony
Of billions who are dying

Life energies will pass forth to a
Greater cause

The great undead gods shall return
To their thrones of power

The seventh seal is broken, as we see
The winged skull of Ur
 

8. Shurpu Kishpu

 

An ancient oral text, the book of dreaming
Revealing mysteries, true words of power
Royal vampiric spawn, open the secrets
This you must fully read, learn, realize and attain

Memorize instructions from the great teachers
Invoke the knowledge, which it contains
Immortality, it can be yours
Master the bridge between both of the worlds

The dragon speaks, so heed its cry, for there may be no other chance
Neophyte, it is time for you to grasp the face of the nefilim
The blessed Shurpu Kishpu is translated magical spell
Do you dare to take the steps to join the great family 

 

9. The Calling

 

Forces of darkness I conjure thee
Bring the ancients to my realm

Let the magick flow this night
To keep Lifeforce alive
Bless my sacred shrine
Glare with your dragon eyes

Feel the power that burns in me
Consume "the blood" of my victims

Let the magick flow this night
To keep Lifeforce alive
Bless my sacred shrine
Glare with your dragon eyes

Immortal gods, grant me, all the power and strength that you possess
Make me a part royalty, joining ancient ones

So mote it be!
   

10. Immortal Sigil 

Symbol of the bloodline, mighty fanged skull with wings
Rune of Ur's elite, charged with the blood of kings
Mindless sub-creatures see it, and understand its power
Standard for the strong, while the inferiors cower

Tribute to the Annunaki Enki, descendants from the sky
Twin cobras that acknowledge dualism of two sides
Vampires know its meaning, proving their kind is real
The winged skull of Ur, the family's vampiric seal

Forever I will pledge my life to this sign
I who come from royal blood am truly divine
Master of the weak and a curse to the herds
Listen close children hear all of my words...

Gods made in our image, a mortal blasphemy
White light religions maintain human slavery
We the supreme race come before all
Those who oppose our brood will surly fall...

This is "The Blood", take drink, it is the essence of our being
Now look upon this immortal sigil and declare unity of all clans

 

(CD produced in 1998, and release on Full Moon Productions. It seems, no longer available)

 

 

Striving for the Unity of All Vampire clans on Earth

 

 Atazoth Vampieren Tempel Codex

Vampiers in de Lage Landen (België, Nederland)

 

Reageren kan: hagurcomic@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

 

The Undead Gods "Those Who Have Risen"

 (Revised Version)

This is another study on personal psychic vampirism as a way of life understood along modern psychology and occultism as to the astral plane. Applying psychic vampirism is to develop the mystical vision of the “Higher Self” (Soul), and the unseen or astral (subtle) universe in which we all move and have our being, whether we know it or not. Psychic vampirism helps to grasp and to intuit ideas, helps to sense, register and record that which comes from the Archetypal Undead Gods, “Those Who Have Risen.” Discover and penetrate the secrets of psychic vampirism which in fact find its origins in Ancient Egypt before any other religion  saw the surface of the Earth. However, modern vampirism is not a religion but a way of life, where proper breathing is extremely important. Today, man is at the point where the principle of intelligence is so strongly awakened within him, that nothing can arrest his personal unfoldment, and react to a higher and better sense of psychic values.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Failing to find good literature on Vampirism in the Dutch language, to give the Psychic Vampires their due right, I decided to write this book on Psychic Vampirism, the way I see, believe and live it. This is my first written work in the Dutch language. The book is written the way I practice Psychic Vampirism, based on my occult past, and what Psychic or Energetical Vampirism has now brought to me. There is a Dayside and a Nightside of my Vampiric life. The Dayside, my normal life among the humans, and the Nightside entirely metaphysical, occultism in practice. I start the night making time for meditation, invoking the Undead Gods - Those Who Have Risen - first, realizing their presence, offering my Lifeforce gathered during day-time among the humans. This is also a time I am working at my own Vampiric transformation with the sure help and protection of the Undead Gods, - Those Who Have Risen -.  After I pursue with some other Vampiric occult work, as even being in bed and during sleep, the work continues. In the morning, I try to remember, making notes of it in a book, my own “Shadow Book” (called Grimoire), what had happened during the dreaming stages, my out of body experience, apparitions, etc. The life of the Vampire is an unfinished task; it takes 24 hours a day. I intend to write a second book in Dutch, before I continue in the English language as already published on Internet. I am a Vampire since October/November 2010, and ever since the books of Michelle Belanger were a great and sure help to me, based on Ancient Egypt Magic Tradition: The Psychic Vampire Codex and Psychic Energy Codex. And, I must say the best and most sincere on the subject, really books to be trusted.

 

Our Philosophical Occultism is from Ancient Egypt, the Shurpu Kishpu Tradition

 

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