Finally there is the fifth order, the Cenobitical Order of the Destroyer.
“As the ages spiral down into Infinity, we survive in the Kali Yuga,
and Leviathan awaits in the Primordial Abyss to bestow a blessed curse upon the Aeons,
Shiva lurks to destroy!”
In this order, we meet Shiva the Destroyer: To destroy one’s pettiness, sorrows and short-comings. The three prongs of the trident of Shiva represents the Power of Will, the Power of Knowledge and the Power of Action.
Shiva (the greatest of all left-hand path deities) is Transcendental; Shiva is Spirit. The Hindu god Shiva’s early incarnation was Pashupati, a horned god. Shiva is the masculine force, while Sati (Shakti) translates to power, and is considered the feminine force. Together they are two primary anthropomorphic archetypes as described by Carl Jung, elements of the collective unconscious.
You will learn Nietzschean, Jungian, Western and Eastern left-hand path philosophies while challenging one’s self not only mentally, but physically. You shall participate in a great, “self-overcoming”. You will learn to become master of your internal chaos, embrace your personal demon and partake in the limit-experience of ” . . . divine ecstasy and extreme horror”.
When the Cenobite has passed this order, they have risen to the degree of Hyperborean. The highest degree in The Sect of the Horned God.
The Five fetters, or bonds, to break in the Order of Shiva:
FIRST GATE: Bhaya (fear) Visualization of one’s personal demon.
SECOND GATE: Ghina (disgust) Transgressive or antinomian acts.
THIRD GATE: Lajja (shame) Revaluation of the body.
FOURTH GATE: Moha (delusion) Analogical thinking (including microcosmic or macrocosmic correlation).
FIFTH GATE Varna (station in life) Revaluation of all values.
Shiva the Destroyer is darkness manifest, the master of thieves and villains, who can be found lurking in the cremation grounds with a serpent coiled around his neck, along with a necklace of skulls. It is not uncommon for him to be accompanied by a band of blood-thirsty demons, along with evil spirits, ghosts, and vampires. And a glance from his third eye in the center of his forehead has the power to eliminate everything in existence.
Why destruction? Why Shiva the Destroyer? Because destruction allows for a new creation, thus facilitating the smooth transitions from one stage to another.
Participation in this order is by invitation only.
Instructor: The Dark Fool
Course developed by: Thomas LeRoy and the Dark Fool
Course layout: Lisa Corrine
