Chapter Fifteen: The Devil’s Temple
My room is the Devil's workshop. My creative things allow me to create prayer sheets and practice magic all the time. Creatively-artistically, productively, I serve my purpose the best that I can. Am an alone person even around others. I’d say I made a good life for myself, living in a three story home in San Francisco with my true friends. But it is The Devil for whom my true intentions shine. I do the Work of Satan and am very rewarded by it, as you may be too.
My room is a workshop, also a temple. My altar includes magic sigil bearing boxes full of glowing plastic stars, and there is a black cat clock above my altar. There is a bell there, a troll doll, and an idol of Santa Muerte. Elsewhere are black feathers, choice pens, special paper, ribbons, a stuffed animal (of a snake) and materials for my favorite form of magic: prayer sheets. Prayer/occult writing of which I have a lot of materials needed for it and I work on them daily.
It is a quite subtle effect for me. There’s nothing that stands out too much. I don't feel like I shouldn’t or don’t want to blend in. But honestly my friends do not care. They are in fact anti Christian people.
Idols are one of the best things in life. To privately pray to them and adore them has quite a therapeutic effect. A chalice drink is for practiced magicians a soothing thing. Being a competent magician takes a lot of work. When that work becomes easy we often forget that we are worthy of it. So we try the more difficult. That’s something we both should do and shouldn’t do. We should to become better at it overall. We shouldn’t because our own energy is drained by it instead of it flowing freely, naturally.
Work on the Temple during the witching hour. It is the best time to do so even if it takes much longer to.
As for a grander temple besides the one of your room: may it be full of the most attractive of idols (usually the wood carved or more difficultly metal-formed ones.) Prepare the protocol: do not engage with outsiders concerning it. Tarot card wallpaper, Satanic Communions, Death metal (or Black Metal, thrash, whatever else.) Have in it the most wicked of paintings. Watch horror flicks with one another (Like Warlock). Fully engage in the more Satanic stylized renderings of Halloween.
In whatever way: make it grand. Make it show off. Make it effective in invoking certain moods.
Make of it a place of solemn worship. A place of teaching magic. A place for warlocks, witches, who may finally breath in the open air (and hell I pray, it so stays.)
So gather the group that becomes larger. When it becomes large enough then establish that place the Devil has prepared for you. Gather then together, and build upon magical powers.