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constitutionally an external field 102 , not a brain-
internal electrochemical process.
The Egyptians investigated not only the
Thought-Field of the MindStar (hereinafter “MS”)
but its eightfold composition through anamnesis,
but that’s not needed to dispel the brain-materialism
myth. For instance:
1. Brain activity isn’t the same as thinking, feeling,
or seeing.
2. No one has remotely shown how molecules
acquire the qualities of the mind.
3. It is impossible to construct a theory of the mind
based on material objects that somehow became
conscious.
4. When the brain lights up, its activity is like a radio
lighting up when music is played. It is an obvious
fallacy to say that the radio composed the music.
What is being viewed is only a physical
correlation, not a cause. 103
The “soul” thus not really being all that difficult
to discover and distinguish, it is somewhat
surprising how little attention conventional religion
has devoted to it, as now reviewed:
102 Cf. MindStar & MindWar for a detailed discussion of Life-
& Thought-Fields - again too extensive for this book. For
instance physical sensory & body-functional mechanisms can
be traced to specific sections of the brain, but thoughts and
memories cannot be localized, nor measured in terms of access
speed/complexity.
103 Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, and Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi,
Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy, Professor of Neurology,
Harvard Medical School Director, Genetics and Aging at
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), “Good News: You Are
Not Your Brain”, The Huffington Post, May 27, 2012.
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B. Judæo/Christian Soul
From Webster’s International Dictionary:
soul:
(1) The immaterial essence or substance,
animating principle, or actuating cause of
life or of the individual life.
(2a) The psychical or spiritual principle in
general shared by or embodied in
individual human beings or all beings
having a rational and spiritual nature.
(2b) The psychical or spiritual nature of the
universe related to the physical world as
the human soul to the human body ...
While a superficially-impressive attempt, this
definition finally falls back on empty circularity.
What is an “animating principle”, and would the
soul not exist if it did not animate externalities?
What is meant by “psychical” and “spiritual”? As
Robert Anton Wilson quipped in Schrödinger’s Cat:
Theology was a system for explaining things
by coining words which nobody could understand
and then pretending that the words meant
something. 104
The Hebrews drew no distinction between
human souls and the animating force common to all
animals ( nephesh). Although some part of this force
was thought to survive the destruction of the body, it
was regarded with superstitious terror and referred
to ambiguously by the terms elohim and rephaim.
These shades drift forever in El’s [Mesopotamian]
104 Wilson, Robert Anton, Schrödinger’s Cat. New York: Pocket
Books, 1979, page #98.
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underworld of Kur-nu-gi-a or Sheol, a dim, dismal
prison.
As the dictionary definition implies, there has
been relatively little Christian examination of the
“soul” beyond the Jewish model. There have been
some notable artistic speculations as to what a
Christian Heaven or Hell might look like, per
Michelangelo, Bosch, Blake, Goya - but “souls” just
appear as humans, whether redeemed or roasted.
One is tempted to conclude from this
surprising absence of depiction or even curiosity
that post-Enlightenment Christians, and probably
Jews, don’t seriously believe in their own myths
anymore - and upon death expect nothing but the
Big Black Sack of oblivion.
Indeed this supposition goes a long way toward
explaining the conspicuous breakdown of traditional
morality in modern Judæo/Christian cultures. If no
one really believes in posthumous judgment and
accountability anymore, there is no reason except
the rather tenuous motive of “self-respect” to behave
“morally” - assuming that all individuals and
communities can even agree upon that concept.
The result is a climate of anything-goes
opportunism and licentiousness - not at all the
reasoned Indulgence advocated by Anton LaVey in
1966, but a brattishly vulgar descent to itch/scratch
carelessness and gratification-tantrums.
In Walt Disney’s Pinocchio (1940) a mysterious
coachman entices delinquent boys (including the
naïve puppet) to an anarchic “Pleasure Island”,
wherein they can rampage like jackasses ... until
they discover that, like Odysseus’ crew bewitched by
Circe, they have become actual donkeys, to be sold
into a life of slavery and humiliation.
Look around; notice all the ears and tails.
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C. Egyptian MindStar
This is necessarily an introduction and a
summary. A detailed explanation requires a book in
itself. 105
One of the more interesting secrets of Satanism
is that bodily “death” does not mean personal
o b l i t e r a t i o n , b u t s i m p l y t h e M S T - F i e l d
relinquishing of a no-longer-needed OU sensory
interface.
But also as previously discussed herein, this
disconnection does not precipitate a posthumous
“redemption/judgment/consequences scenario. It is
rather “a first step into a larger universe”, or more
precisely, any number of them.
The Egyptians discovered that, unlike the
Hebraic “amœbic lump of nephesh”, the MS
manifests itself in one or more of eight
concentrations or “emanations”.
It is important to understand that this is not an
“armchair” list, but the presentation of a box of tools
for you to identify in your own self: familiarize,
activate, extend, Xeper.
Each emanation proceeds from the [more] OU-
linked to the [more] SU-linked. Predictably this
makes the more basic ones that much easier to
identify based on their familiar, if subconscious OU-
usage.
The Egyptian priesthoods knew that each living
creature possesses several existence-emanations
above and beyond the metabolic mind/body.
All sentient beings possess the first four ( khat,
ren, khabit, ab).
105 Aquino, Michael A., MindStar. San Francisco: Barony of
Rachane, 2nd Edition, 2018.
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Beings endowed with the Gift of Set (awareness
of isolate self-consciousness) the next two ( ba, ka)
as well as in those of initiatory capac
ity and
attainment the next one ( sekhem), and in unique
instances the ultimate one ( akh).
Upon being alerted to each emanation, simply
redirect your thought “inward” until you find and
recognize it in yourself. You may be surprised at how
effortless this is. [As effortless and self-evident,
indeed, as all of the “great truths” presented in
“Lucifer”, each of which you find, perhaps to your
surprise, that you “know already”. Welcome to
anamnesis.]
The MS is a gateway, a map to your personal
Grail Castle. Once you know that it exists and is
there to be quested and found, you have only to
enter freely and of your own will.
1.
Khat
The body-emanation. The khat is integral
with the being’s physical body, and is the original of
what later, lesser cultures would represent as the
“energy body”, “body of light”, “astral body”, etc. In
current field theory it constitutes the life-field of the
person, controlling and directing its material
counterpart’s organization, regeneration, and span
of existence. During physical life it is coextensive
with its material counterpart. After material death it
may remain with the corpse to serve as a medium
for the other emanations, or it may merely linger
near its remains. Jungians perceived the khat as the
“earthbound” anima, and in the oriental vision of
the Golden Flower it was known as the kuei:
Tao the undivided, Great One, gives rise to
two opposite reality principles, Darkness and
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Light, yin and yang. These are at first thought of
only as forces of nature apart from man. Later the
sexual polarities, and others as well, are derived
from them. From yin comes K’un, the receptive
feminine principle; from yang comes Ch’ien, the
creative masculine principle. From yin comes
ming (life); from yang comes hsing (essence).
Each individual contains a central monad
which, at the moment of conception, splits into life
and essence ( ming and hsing). These two are
super-individual principles and so can be related
to eros and logos.
In the personal bodily existence of the
individual they are represented by two other
polarities, a p’o soul (or anima) and a hun soul (or
animus). All during the life of the individual these
two are in conflict, each striving for mastery. At
death they separate and go different ways. The
anima sinks to earth as kuei, a ghost-being. 106
It is the khat which is drawn into or activated
from within a corpse in necromantic magical
workings. As the reader may surmise, the khat is
also the vehicle for the zombie practices of
Voodoo. 107
106 The Secret of the Golden Flower by Richard Wilhelm
(Trans) (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1931. A classic
of Chinese Taoism describing the process of the attainment of
transcendental existence by the means of creating a mandala
from the personal subconscious. A key influence in the magical
philosophy of Golden Dawn Rosicrucian W.B. Yeats. Cf. also a
more recent translation by Thomas Cleary (San Francisco:
HarperSan Francisco, 1991).
107 For details of zombification see Wade E. Davis , The Serpent
and the Rainbow (New York: Warner Books, 1987), concerning
Haitian Voodoo and actual zombie creation - not by
supernatural means, but by the secret use of poisons. The book
is based upon field research by the author, who holds
undergraduate degrees from Harvard University in
Ethnobotany and Biology, and a Ph.D. in Ethnobotany.
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2. Ren
The name-emanation. The Egyptians
understood the power of names to identify, define,
protect, and empower individuals - most
conspicuously in the various names taken by each
pharaoh. Collectively and separately each name
affected the very essence of the person, and the
greatest curse [as also illustrated in literature and
film] was to be denied all names. 108 Externally a
name can be used to summon or compel, whether
physically incarnate or not. The neteru also have the
power and the discretion to give names as well as
take them, and through such names to take form
and voice.
3. Khabit
The shadow-emanation. This is the
connection of the still-incarnate khat with the life-
forces of the natural neteru, enabling it to function
as the organizing and controlling energy (the
individual “life-field”). If the khabit is destroyed, the
life-field de-energizes and the physical body expires.
108 For example, in Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars,
the Egyptian priests who sought to prevent the feared
sorceress-Queen Tera from returning to incarnate life
attempted to destroy all inscriptions of her name in her tomb,
as well as in other references to her. [They failed.]
In H.P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, the
name and all references to the Colonial sorcerer Joseph
Curwen were tracked down and obliterated by the vigilantes
who murdered him.
Elsewhere in exoteric history it was a common practice for
Egyptian pharaohs and priesthoods to attempt to deface or
erase the names, images, and monuments of feared or hated
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In Black Magic the khabit can also be sent out by its
owner as an instrument of influence upon others.
After the physical body is destroyed or no
longer needed, the khabit becomes an avatar of the
neter Anubis, overseeing guidance of the
[noninitiate] consciousness through the incoherence
of the Tuat into the stabilization of Amenti. An
initiated consciousness needs no such guidance.
4. Ab
The heart-emanation. The physical locus of
individual identity and consciousness, hence the
bridge between the OU of the neteru and the SU of
the four metaphysical emanations. It is through the
ab that an individual realizes and recognizes
incarnate identity and uniqueness, and following
destruction/expiration of one’s body it is through
the ab that one can reenter the OU [as a “ghost”,
through “possession” (more precisely merger with
another, incarnate ab), or through thought-
transference].
It is also in the ab that the strength and quality
of one’s maat (inclination to “good” or “evil”)
reposes. This is echoed in the later Indian
mythologies of karma, and was the reason for the
posthumous “weighing of the heart against a
feather” in Egypt. After bodily death the maat
within the ab overwhelms it completely, so that any
subsequent manifestation in the OU is likely to be
an extreme concentration of either beneficence or
malevolence.
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5. Ba
The core-emanation. This is each sentient
being’s sense of self-awareness, of unique and
absolute distinction from everything else (both other
sentient beings and the entire OU). Thus it is the
manifestation, or Gift, of Set, the neter of non-
nature, in each so-conscious entity.
The ba becomes stronger through increased
self-exploration and -realization: the initiatory
process of Xeper. Unlike natural initiation, which
draws the individual into alignment, harmony, and
ultimately conscious absorption into and
indistinction from one or more of the natural
neteru, Xeper of the ba does not dissolve the self
into Set, but attains and sustains a cohesive essence
of its own.
The anamnesis or “remembered knowledge”
experienced by the slave boy in Plato’s Meno is
perhaps more accurately described as the physical-
process, stimulus/response brain reaching in to the
ba for bits of its immortal, eternal wisdom. But this
is akin to reaching for a coal in a hot fire. It is
stressful to do, and the result can be held only for a
fleeting moment without further stress. The
superficial/physical “self”, which through material
“hits” continuously reassures itself that it is the only
self, is shaken by exposure to its falseness, its
nothingness. It backs away from such “close
encounters”, dismisses them as “illusions”,
“fantasy”, “imagination”, etc., and hastens to rebuild
its fortress of material-sensation walls.
Absent Setian orientation and initiation, a ba
simply continues as one’s sense of identity, thus the
“essential self” around which all of the other souls
coalesce and recognize themselves. Within
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noninitiates this results in the ba being sensed as a
dreamy, meditative “state of being” which, if
indulged in with persistence and intensity, leads to
its overwhelming the other souls, hence “nirvana”
and similar states of ba-ecstasy.
6. Ka
The transmigration-emanation. The ka is
the complete mirror-image of all eight natural and
non-natural emanations, fused into an avatar,
Doppelgänger, or Horla, a completely metaphysical
remanifestation of oneself which can exist and
displace without limit, both within the non-natural
universe generated by one’s ba and within the