Rite of the Spider's Egg (Original Form)

[notes revised 15 August 1995 e.v. by Patrick Crumhorn and Sr. Lillyth]

OBJECT: Exploration of the implied pathway between the Dayside and Nightside Trees by way of the "gate" of resonance between Daath and Yesod. The transference and transmutation of consciousness-energy from one "side" of the Tree to the other and back again via the gate located at the intersection of the tunnels of Parfaxitas (=450) and Saksaksalim (=300).

Two participants, one the Dayside "victim/sacrifice", the other the Nightside Lilith-succubus/Xastur-Spider Goddess.

Phase I: (Yesod --> Daath): Dayside evokes Lilith through VIII°, chant, and visualization. Lilith is slowly drawn to the aspirant by the buildup of sexual tension. At the point of orgasm, Lilith orally receives the seed-energy of the victim, in an astral vampiric mode. Dayside falls into a trance-paralysis from the sudden withdrawal of vital force by the succubus, and becomes Negative. This is the path 27 (Tower of Silence).

Phase II: The passing of Dayside energy into Lilith's vortex begins a process of transformation. She becomes Xastur, Spider-goddess of the Daath-Yesod Nightside gate. As the transformation of the Goddess (=25) occurs, so does the seed-energy of the "victim" transmute within Her, in an alchemical process. It has been distilled into the kalas (=52) of the Nightside. Xastur concentrates this transmuted energy into a dark Egg (=252). This is the Path 25 (Art/VITRIOL).

Phase III: (Daath --> Yesod) A reenactment in reverse of Phase I. Xastur moves the Egg towards her Gate via VIII°. At climax, she releases the kala-egg into the mouth of the entranced "victim", who is "resurrected" thereby as a Master of the Knowledge of the Dark Dream of Lilith/Xastur. This is the resolving of the Hod-Netzach (Parfaxitas/Tower) and Yesod-Tiphareth (Saksaksalim/Art) crossroads that leads downwards from Yesod to the Black Sun of Nightside Tiphareth.

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