Aestheteka Occult Ideology

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

There is a lot of stigma attached to Satanism. 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

Esoterica

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

Indulgence

Balance and Understanding

Aestheteka 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 Lucifers – 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.

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