The occult quest is ultimately to discover that all forms are temporal and that one should never become attached to them if higher levels of initiation are sought. “Never love anything so much you cannot see it die” is the sixth point of the 21 Satanic Points written in the Black Book of Satan and adequately expresses the mindset required to break through the mirror of forms which hides the essence of each form and its facsimiles.
This is not to say that forms are unimportant; indeed they are cardinal, as they provide a visible gate to the form’s essence, one that can be opened while navigating the occult secrets of that form. Opening the gate is easier than one might think; the hard part is realising it has opened and entering it, because the gate will always appear as locked while we cannot bear to see the form die.
Theistic occultists understand that death is a natural changing of energies. These energies do not perish, they simply fade out of existence and hide in nothingness until it is time for them to return, just like Nature’s seasons. The same goes for forms. Forms fade in and out, disappearing and returning as part of an intrinsic process shared between nature and consciousness; consciousness of man and woman, of things which possess the ability to become.
Due to this process being an event which can occur independently of human proximity, the error we make is trying to change or subject to death a form in the wrong season. This translates to trying to force open the gate within the form before it has been unlocked by the natural changing of energies and opened by our apprehension of the sixth Satanic Point.
This is why the Authority of Individual Judgement allegedly pioneered by O9A (which permits anyone to change, alter or reform O9A gnosis and practice provided they abide by the Code of Kindred Honor) cannot, and never could, help one find a path to Lapis Philosophicus. If we imagine the essence of a form as a strand of silk that is weaved through several doors (foundations of a form): when someone changes the form as and when they desire they close one of the doors, thereby severing the strand of silk and thus the connection to the essence of that form. This prevents the gate from ever being opened to the essence behind the form, and so one has to move to a different form that has stronger foundations and an ethos that does not permit the altering of its magick system without considerable thought given to the natural changing of energies and such a change in the form coinciding with them.
A retort to this postulate could come in the form of the Gods/Goddesses of whichever pantheon being intimately tied to the essence and therefore requiring only their presencing, but the system through which an acaual being is presenced — and how the practitioner uncovers gnosis and builds empathy with it — changes the intensity of that being’s energy once presenced. Since the magick system is considered a foundation of the form, this means that a door cannot be closed on the strand without the natural changing of energies weaving it through another door, lest the gate never open.
Conversely, never truly committing to a form places us in a limbo of abstraction where we pretentiously debate the intangible and never achieve any REAL progress, moving from form to form, never satisfied or feeling like we belong; never willing to learn the design of a form so that we may be able to locate the key and unlock the gate. This act is not loving something so much you cannot see it die, it is never loving something at all, which is why the gate will never open so long as this is one’s method of navigating the hidden.
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