I remember years ago when I was starting out my occult studies, I read a book about Cabala. It was a load of shit. Since then, I’ve come across this nonsense a few times, but I generally steer clear of it.
I was perusing my library the other day when I found a slim volume called The Explicit Name of Lucifer. It looked like pretentious bollocks, but I’ve been going back and forth between horror novels and books about conspiracies for a few weeks now, and I had an urge to get Satanic.
So Jewish mystics used to believe that the letters of the Hebrew alphabet were actually living entities imbued with magical powers. The English alphabet is not quite as magical, and this is unfortunate as it’s probably the most commonly used alphabet by students of Western occultism. Most of us use English in our magical practice, but our alphabet is just a bunch of symbols that merely represent sounds. We want a cool magical alphabet, and we want ours to be edgy and alternative. If the Hebrew alphabet is made up of angelic beings, we want ours to be made of cool demons who have dreadlocks and nose-rings and wear slipknot t-shirts.
Most of this book is taken up with big pictures of the symbols that the author came up with to replace the letters of the English alphabet. He gives a little description of each too. Admittedly, these symbols are way sicker than the regular alphabet. These things look the way the singer from Korn sounds.
The author is a little vague on how you’d actually use these nu-letters, but I’m assuming you just write down your will’s true desire with these symbols and then set it on fire or something. I think the author may explain what to actually use them for in another of his books (which I will surely never read).
What he does explain is how to activate the script. This involves collecting a bunch of weird shit and mixing it together. One of the things required is the bones of a female child, so I reckon it’s fairly unlikely anyone has ever gone through with this nonsense. I get that the author wants to be dark and edgy, but I’m hoping that even the Cradle of Filth fans who read this crap will stop short of murdering (or exhuming) a little girl. The author named himself after a notorious child murderer too. What a dork.
Like I said, one the letters are activated, it’s not really clear what you’re supposed to do with them. This book is dumb and super lame. It truly reads like the ravings of a Marilyn Manson fan trying to scare their parents. Utter trash.
Nocturnal Revelries 