A little about Aestheteka...

 

Imagination is the only limitation and with practice it can be expanded indefinitely

There is a great deal of misunderstanding attached to Occultism. There is a great deal of confusion in the world of the non-initiated as to which sects, cults, theologies and philosophies are evil and which are good.
Any form of labeling attracts judgment; any form of justification of belief attracts positioning on an imagined Balance Scale where it may tip from right to left or vice versa depending on the subjective opinion of the critic in question.
Many disciplines actively promote themselves so as to best present themselves as being Left Hand Path, Right Hand Path, Paths to Eternal Enlightenment, or Debauchery Unrestrained.. Umbrella terms such as Gardnerian Wicca, Crowleyan Thelema, Western Mystery Tradition, LaVeyan Satanism, Christian Gnosticism, and so on, drag often only thinly related paradigms together and group them as if they were books on a shelf. Some organizations deliberately exclude themselves from this positioning and in doing so incur the wrath of the ignorant and uneducated.

Aestheteka was founded on three principles:

 

Aesthetics

Hedonism

Esoterica

 

The three Steles of Aestheteka being:

Beauty

Pleasure

Wisdom 

 

It is the search for the Self through mortal and Occult means, via the three stages that the Buddha took:

 

1. Indulgence

2. Abstinence & Reason

3. Balance and Understanding

 

1. Indulgence

The first stage of Aestheteka, Indulgence, is, in the words of the Gnostic text The Thunder, Perfect Mind:

 

For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins,
and incontinencies,
and disgraceful passions,
and fleeting pleasures,
which (men) embrace until they become sober

 

It is an exploration of the Jungian Shadow, a descent into the Abyss – a full dive – with the intention of emerging wiser. Many New Age beliefs promote the attainment of Enlightenment directly by merely abstaining and looking Heavenward in action and thought. Aestheteka postulates that until one has experienced the mire of the soul, and seen one’s true reflection – and the true face of God – one will only see a weak imitation of Heaven and be deluded into believing it to be the Truth.

 

Aestheteka has no single belief system as all are plausible and all are contemptuous. It is the Individual Self who must decide which route to follow; Aestheteka merely provides the Muse and the starting place; inspiration to commence a long and hazardous journey to meet one’s Self.

 

In the Great Tradition, Aestheteka sees the need of the Luciferi – The Serpent, Prometheus, Jesus Christ, Buddha – as a means of enabling the soul to look upon the misshapen face of God and know It, and all Its Creation, to be a lie and an illusion.

 

 

To Man we cry: “I am I”

To God we say “Thou shalt die”

 

 

Non Serviam

Fay ce que vouldras

 

Through mortal pleasure and the darkest pits of the soul, with the Light of the Unknowable our final goal we delve and skirt insanity, pleasuring our shallow Selves in the knowledge that this life is not eternal and what must come – and what has gone before – are known only to those who actively seek their meaning.

With a glass of wine in one hand, a naked and nubile form in another, and God snivelling at our feet, we look forward to that distant light that elusively beckons, the Shining Lucifer to wake us from our horrid dream and release our imprisoned souls from these rotting carcasses of flesh and bone and hair and skin that gradually drag us down to where the mulch and humus of those and that which have died before will embrace our remains, and with our Selves Knowing we may step away from that endless turning of the wheel and follow the Morning Star as it leads us into the next evolution of our Being.

 

By what ever means comfortable and desirable and pertinent to the Individual Self.

 

“Et in Arcadia ego…… ME”

 

Read Sophia Bestiae - The Wisdom of The Beast for a better understanding of Aestheteka's positioning in the Great Work. We are a starting place; we do not pretend to be the Goal or even the Path. First, however, one must destroy the old to commence the new, and destroy the old - utterly, completely and without remorse or mercy - we do.

Read Grimoire Bestiae  - The Bestian Rites of Aestheteka for a complete Left Hand Path ritual guide to working through the first stage of Aestheteka.

 

2. Abstinence & Reason

The second stage of Aestheteka, Abstinence combined with Reason, is, in the words of the Gospel of Matthew 7:7:

 

        Ask, and it shall be given you;

        seek, and ye shall find;

        knock, and it shall be opened unto you

 

Read Zen Gnosis for personal understanding of post-Abyss work concerned with improving the Self whilst removing the false trappings of the ego.

Emerging from the Abyss we shake off the cloaks we wore while exploring the darker facets of our Selves and gaze about us in wonder, armed with what we have learned and what we know. While there's no need to be ascetic we certainly no longer need the extensive debauchery which has brought us this far. We find our feet on firmer footing as certain truths have emerged which permit us a grounded starting point from which to continue. Here are a few observations concerning relevant topics by Edward O'Toole:

 

God

I believe in the existence of the Israelite YHVH but in no way would I class him as good. Also, being a Gentile, he's utterly irrelevant for me. Read Sophia Bestiae for my finer thoughts on this matter.

Jesus

I don't believe in Jesus the man as there's no contemporary evidence for his existence. I like his philosophies (the general Gospel ones and not the Jew-centric aspect of his teachings) but these aren't represented in any quantity in the New Testament, only in the 'heretical' texts. My money's on Jesus being a combination of several historical figures with a good deal of myth, hearsay and fiction thrown in.

Gods

I believe in gods and see them, for the most part, as being the former higher race on Earth. They should be honoured and respected where appropriate but not worshipped.

Heaven

Not in the fluffy cloud type where eternity is spent at God's feet but in the form of a combined essence of allness in which the spirit is released after death....possibly....

Hell

We're living in it

Afterlife

I've seen substantial evidence (some first hand) for reincarnation, NDEs and OBEs (suggesting Heaven), haunting, childhood dreams suggesting the disintegration of matter in a purely atheistic, rotting fashion, so no definitive idea. I'm hoping for Valhalla personally.

Magic

There is magic, both in the Thelemic and the hocus pocus sense. The world is full of magic and at some point our intellect will understand it as another conventional energy type; until that point we'll continue to hack away at it in a primitive fashion. My thoughts on parapsychology are exactly the same.

Demons

I'm with Professor Hawking on the multiverse theory and my betting is that's where they're from - somewhere out 'here'. An invocation/evocation/summoning is like turning a specific key in a specific lock in the dark and opening a door so that the beastie within can escape. I'd also go as far as stating that on occasions they can do this of their own free will, or be accidentally summoned. Far from being a religious (or anti-religious) phenomenon, they're an aspect of our multiverse which we don't understand and their rules appear to be different than those of our reality.

Ghosts

They exist. I've seen them, I've photographed them and I've recorded them speaking. There are many different types and I've got several theories as to what and why they are. Once again, the multiverse theory plays quite heavily in this field.

Life

This is something upon which I often ponder. The Judeo-Christian theory is bollocks, of that I'm sure (e.g. that we're here solely to prove how suppliant we can be to God's will). I lean more towards the eternal spirit being trapped inside a shambling, rotting corpse trapped inside False Reality by Ialdabaoth et al - more on which can be read in Sophia Bestiae. The Gnostic, especially Ophidic, concept just really rings true for me.

Aliens

Both extraterrestrial and interdimensional, and especially extraspectral (look at the lovely NASA tether footage taken with a UV camera). We are most definitely not alone and I pity the Flat Earthers who state otherwise as they're in for a big shock. Aliens created us (or at least played with our genes) and they've had a hand in our continuing progress, if it can be called such. The one thing that really bugs me though is the 'why?' I don't buy into the philanthropic ET idea. We're either here to terraform the Earth as a future home or waystation for an impending alien fleet or we're on the menu at this galactic rest stop. I know I've disagreed publicly with proponents of (via Reverse Speech) Reptilians but I do wonder just why our sentient species has been permitted to increase so monumentally over the last century and simultaneously release souls from expired members (which does throw a spanner in the reincarnation theory works unless we count Time as cyclical or at least irregular post-mortem) - perhaps we already are a soul-meat farm for some interdimensional race?

Satan

Nope. Don't buy that one.

Lucifer

I've written on this way too much. Read Sophia Bestiae or Grimoire Bestiae for my thoughts. And, yes, there is a huge distinction between Satan, Lucifer and the Devil.

Civilization

We didn't invent it. It's not ours. We're born into it and we borrow it but Hurricane Katrina was a very good example of exactly where we stand with that one.

Evolution/Creation

I'm a fan of Lloyd Pye and his intervention theory. Combine that with the Gnostic text 'On the origin of the world' (which I rewrote as both the screenplay 'God?' and a story - prologue to Sophia Bestiae) and that's basically my stance.

The Bible

Oi! Fey! Where to begin? Better not... Read Sophia Bestiae for the Old Testament and wait for my upcoming work for the NT. I'm not Jewish so the OT is irrelevant, regardless of what Paul and later theologians and apologists wrote. As the NT is basically about Paul and not Jesus, it's also irrelevant.

The Occult

Seek and ye shall find... It's always been a toss up between that quote, Non Serviam, Do what thou wilt and Pascal's Our nature lies in movement as to which should be my life's motto. I think I'll keep all three (I was never any good at maths)

Dimensions

This and the multiverse is where I think we'll find the key to understanding everything. Until we can fathom out how to change frequencies and look 'here' rather than 'up there' we'll just keep going round in circles