by: Tani Jantsang
A peak into this is in "COS" by Dr. Aquino, Chapter 15, on page 154 where it begins with a letter from "Billington." This is the rest of the story.
This is produced in order to fill in the gaps in a strange incident . Prior documents that had nothing to do with SSS/COS are removed. This is not produced to "bash" any organization, but to fill in the gaps on something that happened in 1972 when no one else had the pieces to the puzzle and no one else knew that copyrighted fiction-in-the-making was involved.
Also, let me state this very clearly. Neither Phil Marsh nor I, Tani Jantsang, had a thing to do with the creation of this SSS organization, or of the cards that people had at the time. Both of us saw these, both of us were handed "calling cards" but neither of us had a thing to do with the rediculous name of the SSS organization (which in Latin means absolutely nothing). It was taken by all people that ever saw these cards, to be a parody and joke at the expense of the Templars who did, indeed use the Baphomet to represent the goddess Sofia (Mary, Queen of Heaven).
No one in that group of people had anything to do with with public, organized, or any other kind of silly Satanism. The cards and the name of the SSS was considered to be a joke. The only member of it that ever had a thing to do with organized Satanism was W. Chojnicki - as the documents and letters below show.
Further, Lin Carter is the inventor of the silly "Demon Trinity" which is not Lovecraftian at all, but which is anti-Catholic in spirit. He himself was the "personna" of Anton Zarnak or Mr. N., the so-called occult investigator. He is the one that thought up the stupid name for those cards and who made them.
Neither Phil nor I were ever members of the SSS; nor would we ever join anything with a stupid name like that. The mythemes Carter was writing about were just not Lovecraftian, in our opinion; hence we formed our own group: first the SWS and then the Kishites.
The 1972 Fiasco: People into the Cthulhu Mythos and generationals (people from LHP type backgrounds, lodges, etc.) came head to head with Aquino who was then in the COS, and some other COS people - some of whom were in on the Mythos stuff. This fiasco was a mystery to the COS, claimed Gilmore in 1989 when asked about it, since they didn’t know any details. Well, I knew all about it since 1978. I told Peter Gilmore (of the Church of Satan) way back in 1989 about it; he claimed that LaVey had no idea what the "strange incidents" were about. Did LaVey know at the time? Or did he just tell Gilmore he didn't know? Who knows. Aquino definitely knew a piece of it: he bumped smack into it. Apparently, he didn't see much of the correspondence that passed between these cults at all; just a few things from Chojnicki which he saw wholly out of context (it would have been interesting to have seen his face when he read it)....
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Attached are pictures of the SSS (Societas Selectus Satanas) building, they had rented the upstairs rooms and apparently got permission to put SSS on the building, pictures of Lorri or Lorelei (Phyllis Rose), Bug-Shoggog (Bill S.), Zond Malek (Chojnicki.) and Dale Seago (I don't know what his mythos name was unless it was Alijah Billington), who comes off this compilation here as Aquino’s spy. Remember, it "comes off" that way because we know, on pure hindsight, that Seago left the COS with Aquino to form the TOS. This stuff happened in 1972, three years prior to that. There are also letters from Carter (Zarnak) to Bug and Zond in mythos lingo. One would have had to have known the mythos inside out - during a time when most of it was out of print - to even begin to understand what they were saying to each other, and then separate the in-jokes from the serious stuff.
On February 17, 2000, Dale Seago was contacted and asked to read this manuscript. He agreed with the details, but he denied being a spy for anyone; but admits to telling Aquino things as a military person (Dale was also in the military). Dale never met Chojnicki; Dale immediately recognized Phyllis Rose from the photo and did meet her, apparently he knew her; Dale did not know Bill S at all, not even by name. I met Bill S once. I knew Rose a little bit. Phil and I both met and visited Chojnicki in Pennsylvania when he was at Penn State U and again in New England where he moved after serving in the military himself. He was a photographer. This is where I got most of this correspondence from. I got the "Aklo Tablets" from our own group, not the SSS, though Chojnicki did start that document and started to write his own story for it, but never finished it (I wrote my own story for "how I got the Aklo Tablets" in the 1990's and published it.). Our original group was the Starry Wisdom Sect; our later group was Kishites and I took the Aklo text with me there.
This was fiction in the making, copyright stuff that we planned to pass onto Lin Carter for either his Necronomicon, or something else. It was Cthulhu Mythos fiction mixed with actual Esoteric Doctrines told using mythos words and names in an effort to systemitized the Cthulhu Mythos. Back then, not much was written on it and it was easy to do this. As I said, I finally typed the Aklo Tablets up myself, recently, and wrote my own story, since no one else ever got to it. The Aklo Tablets (not the story) are on
http://www.geocities.com/satanicreds/rit-aklo.html
Dale Seago was one of the main COS members that bumped into this. He may be the COS member that started the entire correspondence with these cults and anyone in the COS in the first place. I don't know. Chojnicki was a CoS member apparently, but never corresponded with any of them before this (?). (I never saw anything to COS members except Zabrecky and Seago. The membership or calling card for this SSS has a Baphomet with colored-in Hebrew letters on it (previous to 1972 they had this) and later they adopted a different one, see both versions, the later cards were not laminated (when you get a lot of members, that gets expensive!). The SSS and Baphomet were also used on correspondence between these Mythos "cult" people at least as early as 1963. The address on the letters is Lin Carter's. At that time, the SSS was in New York.
Short Preface
In the 1960’s Lin Carter, now well known in the Cthulhu Mythos (and loved and hated passionately) wanted to systemetize the mythos, correlate it to real things from other cultures, and ‘WRITE THE BOOKS’ as if they were authentic, worthy of what HP Lovecraft wrote about - SCARY - using real doctrines from other places in a mythos language. This never got done. Lin Carter got cancer.
1. From what I can gather up, Aquino who got dragged into it without knowing any details, and/or others and someone who stole something got into a royal miff with the the Church of Satan. It appears on hindsight as if Aquino was standing in the way of LaVey getting this. If this is incorrect, if Aquino was told to do what he did by LaVey, then we don't know this or have any correspondence showing this. Chojnicki and the others who would be in a position to know, claim that it was LaVey himself that played the games, condoned the theft of a poem/song and told his lower ranking members what to do. Then again, did anyone seriously write and SAY that this was a cooperative writing venture that would make a lot of money? If so, I do not have this correspondence. Again, this is not what Chojnicki told any of us. Consider that heaps of correspondence passed back and forth with these people, I have very little of this. From Aquino's own book, "COS," he apparently has even LESS of it. Much less of it. He doesn't even have the "Aklo Tablets" which he should have if he saw the entire letter that Chojnicki sent to Zabrecky!
2. This discouraged the intial people involved who had collected VOLUMES of data during a time when most Cthulhu mythos stories were out of print and never seen, and during a time when hardly anyone ever saw HPL’s own collected letters. Many of those people were extremely hostile to the COS and LaVey and all of that anyway. Apparently, some were not, but they soon became hostile.
3. Finally, later, Lin Carter got sick. He also made some serious enemies of other writers and publishers. To this day, he is passionately hated and also loved for his fun mythos. (Praise be to Xoth, in the Sign of Kish......:)
The entire endeavor, unfortunately missing all the research others had done which I had saved, (AND STILL HAVE MOST OF!!) fell into the hands of Robert M. Price who did a fine job of reprinting all of what Lin Carter had of it and publishing all of Carter’s works (which mention volumes of missing text, information and diagrams!). Price also got a heap of this from me early on, but didn't know what to do with it (nor do I think I ever sent cover letters explaining what it was or who it was for). Lin was too sick to do anything with it. Carter didn’t even know where it all went or who had it. Dick Tierney had some of it, but he had some kind of falling out with Lin Carter.
As I said, I have most of it, probably 99% of it. None of it is in etext, some isn't even typed. It's hand written. You can read a whole synopsis of some of this research and read some of it on this url: http://www.geocities.com/satanicreds/sirius.html
I will put the "explanation" from that document in this since it spells out the ROOTS of the Satanic Reds Organization, aside from the standard Roots we have in Dark Tradition. SR is an org - and the org itself has roots that are directly from the SSS and the SWS and the Kishites - not from any other more-modern occult order. These groups that formed were very secretive - you could not find them - they would find you if you were "the right kind." However, if they talked to you, they were not secretive at all!
As I said, I did send copies of some of it to Robert Price for Lin, but Lin was sick and Price didn’t know what it was for - or even what it was! It would have had to have been written up in a story form with plots. None of it was or is written in story form. It would have been had Lin done what he originally set out to do. The Cthulhu Mythos research was not just Dark Tradition; the Kishites brought that into it. It was everything from Gnosticism to even Christianity (Jesus the Fish - a good Deep One!) and Greek standard mythology.
How did Aquino get involved? Well, apparently, as I was told and as letters confirm, some of what appear on hindsight to be his clique were already involved, like Dale Seago. Dale Seago admits he knew at least one person from the early NJ mythos group. I am now in possession of photos of some of the people involved. Dale confirms that's him. But how did Aquino get involved?
Someone filched a song-poem I wrote. Somehow, it ended up printed in the Cloven Hoof. At the time, early 1970’s, Wayne Chojnicki and a bunch of university students were involved and Wayne tried to do something about the filched poem. There wasn’t much he could do except make threats because he wasn’t the author of the poem nor did he know who wrote it at that time. That’s how Aquino got involved. It looks like Aquino claimed to be THE spokesperson of the COS in his letter to Wayne. He also either 1. had the gall to pretend that these people believed in this stuff when it was OBVIOUS to everyone involved that letters had been passing back and forth with this kind of "cultish" language; or 2. he genuinely did not know what it was about and had no idea this was going on; in which case, that's hilariously funny! One look at a letter from Count Zarnak to Zond Malek or Bug Shoggog or any of the correspondence reproduced here would give you an idea of what a person might think if they had no clue what was going on. From Aquino's side of what he shows in his book "COS," he never saw the cult stories or any of that stuff - he only saw Chojnicki's letter. Chojnicki absolutely sent the partial story "Aklo Tablets" to Zabrecky with his letter.
Keep in mind - the people involved in this, including what we are calling generationals, were pissed off at Anton LaVey for this because Aquino was speaking FOR Anton LaVey. Keep in mind, on hindsight this looks radically different because in 1975, Aquino left the CoS to form the Temple of Set, taking the entire priesthood with him. So, on HINDSIGHT, it looks very different. Secondly, LaVey just took the Baphomet itself not knowing what it was and plastered it on a book "Satanic Bible" when the Baphomet is SOPHIA encoded with the Atbash Cipher with the letters for Baphomet! Seems he was in the habit of just taking things. As for the rest of the people involved, eg, in the groups I was involved with, the CoS was regarded as outcast. Why this was so is simple: the COS attracted the worst sorts of dregs and people who knew abolutely NOTHING about anything LHP. They were arrogant and always tried to start trouble by "acting tough." That's why. No one else did this. What was interesting to me now, on hindsight, is how Aquino was making demands on people (Chojnicki) to send correspondence to his address, not Central Grotto’s! According to Aquino, these all got sent to LaVey.
Here are some documents regarding this particular mess. It’s all I managed to collect - there are probably many more. As I said, I have most of the MYTHOS STUFF, however. Incredible stuff. Dark Tradition and other traditions in mythos words.
I have the documents shown here in their original form, copies of them, some hand-written, turned into etext. The typed letters are also in etext here with the typos and etc. all fixed. Anyone who wants to see these originals can write to PO BOX 85, Lehigh Acres, FL 33970-0085 for copies: send $6.00 to cover copy costs and postage, payable to Philip Marsh.
This appeared in the old Cloven Hoof. Truth to tell, it’s ALMOST a different poem!
"The Chant of the Strange Angles" - by Warlock John Dee SZZ-910
Note: Around 1989 when asked about this, Peter Gilmore said that no one knew who John Dee was, including Aquino. I imagine they asked about it. SOMEONE must know who SZZ-910 is. That's a membership number in the CoS.
"Through Strange Angles are the Gates
Through which Those Who lost can find.
They shall come forth and increase in all Their strength.
"Through the Angles of the Planes shall They come.
(verbatim, from my poem)
"And the Curves of Space shall break
And shall open Their Kind
Who walk between the stars and ride the wind.
"Through the Angles of the Planes shall They come.
"From the Sea's depths shall arise
That Beach hidden from all sight,
And One shall waken from His sleep and dream no more.
"Through the Angles of the Planes shall They come.
"Then the Sun shall be bedimmed
By those Globes of Light Unquenched
As the Lurking One shall cross the Gate of Time.
"Through the Angles of the Planes shall They come.
"Through Strange Angles are the Gates
Through which Those Who lost shall find.
They shall come forth and increase in all Their strength.
"Through the Angles of the Planes shall They come."
This appeared in the same issue on the same page of Cloven Hoof:
The Old Occultist's Almanac for April VII - by Warlock Solomon Weir SZZ-939
2 - (Sunday) Easter, an ancient European spring fertility festival named after Easter,
the Teutonic dawn goddess.
11 - (Tuesday) Birthday of Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey.
21 - (Friday) The Sun enters the sign of Taurus.
27-28 - (Thursday night) Full Moon, 7:45 A.M.
30-May 1 - (Sunday night) Walpurgisnacht, also called Beltane, May Eve, or Roodmas;
the sixth anniversary of the founding of the Church of Satan.
NOTE: Didn't they know that Easter comes from Ishtar? Guess not!
Letters THIS is a letter from DALE SEAGO using a name from a mythos story, A. Billington. NOTE: he is ASKING for contacts. On hindsight, this looks suspicious. It was in the Cloven Hoof. Apparently, Dale GOT contacted and it all turned sour.
"Concern'g ye Chant of ye Strange Angles from ye Booke of ye Arab Alhazred which our esteem'd Brother, Warlock John Dee, did submit in ye preceding issue: I was much astonish'd thereat, for I had thought mine own copy of Al-Azif to be ye Last. I desire greatly to discuss with him a matter of certain Business which I believe might be of interest to him, and which cou'd prove to be of no small benefit to us both, as well as advanc'g ye Cause of ye Gr. Old Ones & Hasten'g their com'g Again. I am at present us'g ye name "Dale Seago" & may be reach'd at ye H&HS Station, Correctional Facility; MCAS; Cherry Point, North Carolina 28533. Hop'g to have word from him so on as Brother in Satan & in Him Who is Not to be Nam'd I am"
Sincerely,
A. Billington, Gent. (Warlock, SZZ-927)
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The actual chant that I wrote, put to music:
1.
Through strange angles are the Gates
Through which those our Lords can find;
Come forth Old Ones and increase in all your strength!
Through the angles of the planes They shall come.
2.
The curves of space shall break
And shall open to our Kind;
Walk forever between space and beyond time!
Through the angles of the planes They shall come.
3.
From in the Mindless Void
A crawling chaos howls the night.
Come forth, Dark One, cross the barrier of Light!
Through the angles of the planes They shall come.
4.
All shall be stricken blind
By One whose Being cannot be.
Black God of Chaos, come forth from knighted void,
Through the angles of the planes They shall come.
5.
From inner-most infinity
A One who sees the All as Is,
Come forth and rend the veils that all may see!
Through the angles of the planes They shall come.
You are, were, and will be
And we, your children, One with Thee:
Come forth, Old One and release the barrier of Light
Through the angles of the planes They shall come.
NOTE: this refers to THE Old One, and the 5 towo forms connected to Dharma, or, in Pythagorean system, the 5 Daimones. It does not refer to anything Lovecraftian. I never heard of Lovecraft at the time I wrote this song. There were diagrams with this showing what it all meant - and written music.
Verse One had the lower 7 circles of the Sephiroth showing.
Verse Two had four circles on top horizontally, like OOOO
with four other broken circles below )( )(
Verse Three had the pentacle, 2 points up
Verse Four had a portion of upper triangle and ^
bottom alpha of the pentacle. V
Verse Five had the triangle with Eye in it.
Verse Six had the pentacle with Vajra in the center of it coming up from the bottom point of the pentacle, through the "house" or pentagon in the center, and up through the top where the triangle and eye would be in verse five.
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This is Chojnicki's letter to Bill S. Explanations and my notes in parenthesis.
February 15, VII A.S.
Bill S
(address)
Kearney, N.J.
Dear Bill,
Can you supply more information on the partial Razi Rota Nekiimanu you sent, specifically the Chant To The Void. Is this copyrighted? Did Riza write it? I would assume so since she wrote the rest of the Rota. That's some heavy stuff in there, our stuff. How do you suppose we can fit this into the Cthulhu Cycle Entities? All of the characteristics seem to fit into one entity, Nyarlathotep. Perhaps Atlach Nacha? Or some of the lesser entities from Derleth?
(They are referring to a Kabalistic book of notes, that is, Riza wrote it as notes and they called it the Razi Rota Nekiimanu). She didn't write the Chant to the Void, I, Tani Jantsang, wrote it as a song.)
I've run into a bit of a problem. Someone I sent copies to must have sent the song, rewritten as a poem, to the Church of Satan as it appeared in their newsletter the Cloven Hoof in an altered form, by John Dee. This could run us all into a lot of trouble, legal trouble, and if the Old Ones (particularly daddy-dearest) find out what we are up to, they'd shit a fit.
(He is referring to his parents or to Lin Carter).
I plan to send off a missive to the Church of Satan's Regional Agent, an idiot named Zabrecky, naturally, filled to the brim with proper mythos appellations and innuendoes and such ilk as this crowd seem to be used to. The way they sound, you'd think they had Beelzebub and Asmodeus over for dinner on a weekly basis. I wonder what they'd do if I ever asked to be invited so that I could see these demons they claim to conjure up. What's the use, they remind me of the loonie-tunes that talk to jesus. So I shall couch my missive in the appropriate terminology, and perhaps peak their interest as I assume these christlings never heard of these entities. You never know, the Church of Satan might even adopt the Cthulhu Mythos as their new religion--and believe in the entities to wit, that would be pretty much their speed. We could even get rich printing up the "real Necronomicon" and selling it to them. I'm surprised no one thought of that before.
(Chojnicki did do this, sent Zabrecky a letter. He got his answer and then Aquino stepped in and declared on this situation in a way that did not reflect the situation at all, as if he didn't know that a story was in progress. - Or, perhaps Aquino never SAW the story that was sent to Zabrecky? He reproduced Chojnicki's letter in his "COS" book, but not the story, not even a mention of it. (I have to IMAGINE getting a letter like that out of the blue, with no clue or explanation - and I have to LMAO).
Shavers has come up with a name appropriate to our congeries of college nerds: Dholes. On the bright side also, I came upon a most incredible find in used books: The Trail of Cthulhu by August Derleth. We are going to need help to translate all that Derleth wrote in there, he is an expert in Polynesian mythology--I mean the REAL THING, he even knew about Dravidians. Also, the Big N. plans on reprinting all of these in paper, or he did? I called him but didn't have time to get details, plus my ceph was clogged with worries mentioned above. He also plans to write a Necronomicon, but one in which short stories of his own are compiled. Also, me thinks we have to change the spelling a bit on the entities. Believe it or not, they are copyrighted I heard! What else? What is Zoth Syra? Sothis? Sirius? Or an entity and if so, what is the reference for this?
(The college clique is calling themselves The Dholes, at the time a very obscure term from the Mythos. They want to figure out what Derleth wrote in his fiction about Polynesians and fit real Polynesian lore into Mythos. Lin Carter plans to publish this in paper back - and finally did. At the time, Arkham House and August Derleth owned the copyright to the HPL spelling of these mythos names. The summation of that Polynesian stuff was finally written by me and published in Cthulhu Cultus with a map.)
May the Hounds of Tindalos bite the hands that steal another author's work. May the thing that howleth in darkness consume the perpetrators of this foul deed, for as ye know, They can assume the semblance of man. And may Yog-sothothe grant that ye Dholes find more bookshelves at ye Salvation Army at a reasonable price!
(They are referring to bookshelves for the apartment they rented to store this stuff and work on it. If this sounds like it was being kept a secret, consider that this was unpublished work and there was a lot of money that could be made from this: WAS MADE.)
Yours in the Dykand Star
Chojnicki, SSS. OST. CoS.
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From Chojnicki to Arthur Zabrecky February 17, 1972 as quoted in Aquino's book "Church of Satan" (Notes in parenthesis)
In the most recent edition of the C.H. is a work supposedly composed by John Dee, SZZ something or other, the work is entitled "The Chant of Strange Angles". It is my sad duty to have to announce at this time that, unless Mr. Dee is contacted and a sufficiently plausible reason for the publication of said "chant" is furnished to me, I and my order do hereby declare and pronounce a fate worse than death on one John Dee - the reason for such drastic action being that because of his lack of Satanic wisdom he, through the over-indulgence of his ego, (no, the theft of a person’s poetry) has placed in the hands of hundreds of unsuspecting members of the Church of Satan a possible means not only for their destruction but also that of the Church. (i.e., law suit)
The "Chant" is but a prelude or preparatory for a working involving the opening of a time gate, a warp in which are imprisoned a series of elementals who by violent means would render man into bondage. The entire working goes under the title of the Dhol Chants. (these were being written) The original copies of said Chants are part of the Aklo Tables, which also warn strongly against the release of said beings.(Refers to chant already written). These beings are not to be confused with the nature deities of old or even the supreme countenance of Lucifer himself. (See Al Pike on Lucifer and Pan. The Mythos is not Satanic or Pagan, HP Lovecraft said so.) For "Lucifer" is but the Hebrew Semitic name for the eldritch deity Shub-Niggarth of Lovecraftian fame. This is to whom the Church has ties (if any) in the format of a deitific figurehead, because S.N. is translated into the Black Goat of a Thousand Young. Sound vaguely like the Goat of Mendes? However, John Dee advocates utilization of 1/4 of the Dhol Chants by practitioners of our Church, who do not and at this time cannot comprehend what would be required to rid themselves of the plague which would not only triumph over the Christian do-gooders but our people too. These beings are not the Angels (angles) of Revelation of which Dr. LaVey speaks, as John Dee supposes, but are the antithesis of everything our Satanic lifestyle advocates... (i.e., HPL’s concepts are not christian and not satanic).
Do now what I request, for the internal security of the Church, or I'll have to hold you too responsible for this abomination. Don't make me harm you. I'll be expecting some reply in 3 weeks or less. The counter spell will be evoked at the end of that time, with a corollary spell to punish x3 those responsible for endangering this many of our people. This oath I make: "By the services of the Unspeakable Hastur and Maskim 7x7, and lastly that which is unnamable, what I have said will be done!
Shemhamforash! So mote it be!"
Vade retro Pan!
Chojnicki
(Obviously, as he wrote to Bill, he worded his request regarding copyrighted poem in occultnik lingo. This is not strange IF you consider that everyone was writing to each other this way - and it was all very tongue in cheek with the mythos crowd. He was threatening to do something regarding theft of poem, legal action, using mythos jargon as he said he would. This was obvious from the preface of the story which these people SAW. Aquino, in his version of this fiasco, presented only this letter which sounds crazy if you don’t know what they are talking about OR talking about written fiction in progress - the only other possibility is that Aquino never saw the draft for a story "Aklo Tablets.")
This is what they all saw! Zabrecky got a copy of this too. Did Zabrecky forward THIS to Aquino along with Chojnicki’s letter? This went with the above letter:
Starts here: The Aklo Tablets of the Dhole Chants
Aklo is the most ancient language used by the most horrific of cults throughout the ages. It was the language of the Valusians who worshiped the Great Yig. Yet Aklo also was used during a far remoter age when the Deep Ones and Outer Ones ruled. And as it was used in Dunwich in 1928 by our Brethren and The Brother who had too much of Outsideness in him to remain in our Plane, It is by the use of Aklo that the Angles of the Nine are opened wide by esoteric cults existing among peoples who carry our lore from prehistoric times. The Aklo Sabaoth refers to certain formulae that are hidden and contained within the Tablets themselves known to the Highest Adepts who have passed the lined of heritage. For it is said that in the features of man one may know their semblance. Be warned that the chanting and rituals carry an ancient warning against Unifying fields of Force that would nullify our own space-time continuum and all manner of sentient being and then shall the Gates be Open once again, and They shall rule where Once they ruled and walk where man now walks. Nyarlathotep, who takes on the form of man shall show us the way and then The Great Day shall come. And the Dykand Star shall break open and the day be with us, our Time shall arrive, for That Is Not-Dead that eternal lies and with strange aeons even death may die. And know the signs and signals of protection that you perform on the Aklo Sabaoth of the Dhole Chants well. Circumscribe ye circle and make the Sign of Kish.
"The Chant of Strange Angles"
Through strange angles are the Gates Through which those ancient Lords may flee, Come forth, and increase in all their strength. The very curves of space shall break, cease to be, And open to their kind: They who move in primal serenity And dwell forever between space and beyond time. In a mindless, black abyssal sea The Crawling Chaos howls in Eternal Night. Break the Barrier of Light and set It free And all would be stricken as blind By this One Whose Being can not be. The Black Lord of Chaos would unfold And from this innermost infinity The One Whose Eye Sees All as was and is Would come forth and rend the Veils that ALL may see. And it is through the angles of the planes they shall come!
Ends here.
Does this last part SOUND FAMILIAR? You bet.
This is all I had from Chojnicki but recognized what he was GOING TO USE for the chants; a text on cosmogenesis! I rewrote this story in a much more modern format with some "academic sounding stuff" in there, and wrote the chants out as per mythos format as was planned. It was LIN CARTER who had the original idea to do this and who had people helping him. Then I wrote the story "how I got the chants." So my theme deviates quite a bit from this thing Chojnicki wrote, but I HAD the actual text all these years. And all these years it NEVER GOT WRITTEN. One can clearly see "MY POEM" is inherent in this chant that appears on this page. The one in Cloven Hoof is slightly different yet. No one ever found out WHO wrote it in there, but "John Dee" has a COS membership number: SZZ-910. SOMEONE knows who he is.
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Zabrecky's Letter to Chojnicki
The following is a transcript of Zabrecky's letter to Chojnicki in regards of Chojnicki's request for John Dee's explanation of "The Chant of the Strange Angles." A copy of the original, hand-written letter is available.
21 FEBRUARY, VII A.S.
1118 CLIFTON BLVD. #21
CLEVELAND, OHIO 44102
MR. CHOJNICKI
(address)
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802
Dear Wayne,
I am in receipt of your Certified letter of 17 February, VII A.S.
I have set copies of your letter to Central Grotto per your request. Since I have had no personal contact with Mr. Dee SZZ-910, I have requested Central Grotto to forward a copy to him, as to send me his address so I can send him a copy. I'm sure Mr. Dee will offer some sort of explanation for this, and as soon as I hear from Central Grotto, I will inform you as to what is being done. If I can be of any further help in this matter, please contact me. I can be reached at 281-9865 (HOME) any evening of the week between 5:30 and 7:00 P.M., or often 10:00 P.M., if you feel a phone call is in order.
Please keep me informed on any new developments in this matter.
Rege Satanas!
(signed) Zabrecky, SZZ892
Regional Agent
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For the record, this is the man Aquino promoted to Grotto Leader or Regional Agent over Chojnicki (according to Wayne). Apparently LaVey promoted him since only LaVey could promote anyone. Chojnicki and his friends were involved in a real project - the project would have meant MONEY. In fact, it HAS AMOUNTED TO A LOT of money as hindsight has proven. At the time this happened, everyone blamed LaVey and believed Aquino was following LaVey's orders. This may be correct, though on hindsight, it seems different because Aquino, in 1975, split from the CoS.
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Now, for the TOUR DE FORCE and the one thing that, on hindsight, looks like Aquino directly stood in the way here. According to Gilmore in 1989, the version Aquino had of this had the bottom half of his letter cut off. See my notes marked in ( ) below letter as per number and in parenthesis.
Post Office Box 14394
Louisville, Kentucky 40214
February 25, VII (1972)
Mr. Wayne L.C (EZZ-919)
513 Mifflin Hall
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
Dear Mr. C.
The insolence and foolishness of your letter of the seventeenth to Mr. Zabrecky preclude a serious reply to your arguments. Needless to say, we are not impressed. (1.) It is not your place to advise the Church of Satan on matters of ethics, nor have you the right to subject our Regional Agent to such drivel.
By the fifth of March you will send a letter to Mr. Zabrecky in which you express your personal apologies for such conduct. You will send a copy of the letter to my office as well. (2.) And, if I should ever hear of your threatening another member of the Church again, you will have to answer to me.
If you wish to maintain the fantasy of a personal secret society, that is your affair. (3.) But I do not expect to see it connected by implication - in type of otherwise - with the Church of Satan. I believe that the Central Grotto has made this clear to you once before. (DID THEY??? Did LaVey?)
One more thing: You will cease the use of that stationery. (4.) As a distortion of the Central Grotto letterhead it is highly offensive to the Black Order. Your use of the insignia of the Church in print is restricted to the Sigil of Baphomet in the proper color-scheme of your degree. (5).
Rege Satanas!
Michael A. Aquino
Magister Caverni
NOTES:
1. LaVey might have been VERY impressed to see all this work - and would probably have liked to cash in on the profits it made when the stuff finally DID get printed. Then again, maybe not. Who knows.
2. Send a copy to HIS OFFICE? Note that HIS OFFICE is not 6114 California Street! This looks very strange. But then, Chojnicki's letter also looks very strange :). I can absolutely say that Chojnicki was one of the most practical, rational and kind people Phil or I met - but he had a totally mythos sense of humor as when he'd send "bottled shoggoth" to me in the mail (a bottle of a toy called "GOO." Or write postcards designed to be read by anyone handling them, talking about finding shoggoths in a cave. This was standard fare to joke like this.
3. No one ever said this organization Wayne had was secret - hell, Chojnicki sent Aquino a PHOTOGRAPH of the building! There were calling cards printed (I have Lin Carter’s). HOW secret could it be? Well, actually, in a sense they were secret - you couldn't find them. They'd find you! But they were OPEN about it if they talked about it at all. What was in there - works in progress to be printed - THAT was secret - just as Ann Rice keeps her notes for stories secret.
4. The stationary referred to was of two types, 1. a Serpent surrounding a 6 pointed star and 2. The Baphomet.
5. Aquino is restricting the use of OUR OWN SIGIL to OUR OWN PEOPLE??? This blew the top of some heads off and their rage was directed at LAVEY. Despite Aquino writing the letter - LaVey was the one claiming to be a HP when it was obvious he knew nothing about anything occult that was genuine LHP.
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Notes inside of text in parenthesis.
INTERDICTUM TO Sir Michael A. Aquino, IV-MC, CoS
FEBRUARY 29, VII A. S. (1972)
"Church of Satan" Ltd., Inc.
In regards to YOUR letter of the 25th, I am severely disappointed that the church has chosen to take this position;(I assume that you are representing the church), and that you, one who has been designated the HONOR of the title of a Master of the Realm, should see my rather potent request for at least an investigation as such a waste of your time. In case you are unaware, I was not so concerned with the fact that the chant in question was given out, but was more startled that it was incomplete and no qualifications for use were given. Your pompous indignation on the questioning of the logic of such an action, I find most disquieting; your title of church's "bishop" (was this his title?) by no means makes you an expert in every field, the fact that you have mastered certain degrees of the contemporary SATANIC dogma earns my respect and obedience, but by no means impresses me as to your qualifications in PRIMAL MAGIC. (the stuff IS old, and it’s NOT Western) I'm quite sure that his eminence Dr. LaVey will agree that no one man can be totally experienced in all the various formats of psychodrama. This particular format was the "mythos" I was taught, and in conjunction with the Satanic Bible which says all dogmas are to be questioned: who are you to state otherwise? Argue with Dr. LaVey!
If I am correct, the church of Satan has at least 2,000 members of various degrees, (he was incorrect, they had about 200) many of whom only have contact with the church through their local representative and the monthly C.H.; if this media is to he used to transfer SOUND doctrine, and Satanic ethic as well as occasional ritual (which was supposed to be dropped as of the first restructuring) the transmission should be whole and accurate. If our own members are to be misguided, in their own publication, I would refer then to pg.6 of C.H., the dissertation on Psychic Vampirism by Bro. Apollonius, LZZ-987... "Therefore the true deduction of Satanic ethic is not that one should not be a psychic vampire, but that one should never be the unwilling victim of one." By this, I do hold those responsible for the misdirection of our less versed brothers and any harm coming to them in conjunction with the incomplete information passed to them; had they had access to the entire chants or other supplemental instructions they could make their own decision and it would rest on them. You call yourself a representative of the Church, define "church"... it refers to a group of people who while having certain goals for themselves also have some common beliefs which bring them together UNIFIED, does unification entail ripping off your own people? I suggest that YOU read C.H.Mar.VII, Dr. LaVey's dissertation on the qualifications of Satanic Clergy, also some of the concessions he made to "paper priests".
Therefore, those responsible for the above incident had best be prepared for the fruits of their harvest, in that on the date previously mentioned, a ritual of a conditional format shall be done by myself and the "fictional" society whose office building is in tie enclosed photo (ever take a picture of your imagination?) whereby pending the decision of my order's council, one John Dee shall be put to the test, and those liable shall invoke the satanic Law of Threes.
(Actually, they sought legal advice but couldn't find out who John Dee was. The Picture referred to was the building in which they rented the apartment to store mythos stuff and typing equipment. Also, they couldn’t sue anyone for stealing a poem that I wrote - at the time Chojnicki didn’t know me, but others did, casually. Like, the thief knew me casually.)
Furthermore let it be known the Regional Agent Mr. Zabrecky will NOT be included in the previously aforementioned ritual in that he had complied to the best of his ability with my request as his office allowed, and in what I feel was the best interests of the church of Satan. I would be more inclined to entrust him to the office of a central chief because he is at least willing to accept the possibility of a oversight, keeping in mind that no one's so well versed that he is infallible. So check your knowledge of magic as for exactly what a "conditional" entails and you'll see that I'm acting rather reasonably considering the many aggravations that I chose to endure in tolerance of the glib tongue of certain other officials of the church.
To give you further wisdom to ruminate over, let me enlighten you to the functions of my "fictitious" order. We do not operate on a monetary base in the same fashion as the C. of S., but do have certain holdings, for example the "non-existent" office building in which though necessary and rather rare texts (one of which contains the equally "fictitious" Dole Chants are stored, in one form or another.
(In fact, these texts are still rare and some sell at $300 per book! They aren't fictitious if someone is writing them, and that was clear to everyone involved in this project.)
Our people receive promotions on the basis of mastery of skills and effectiveness in the context of their own chosen area of study of the magical realm; not on the number of recruits in the districts or researching obscure Germanic legendary figures. Occasionally there are "ties" for certain offices and duels of sorts ensue, (in this area if you choose to counter my (spell) pardon, psychodrama ritual, I'm willing to run the risk, but I do appreciate that your letter was in before the deadline date I issued) you see, I learned well, the laws of the jungle as we Satanists call them and considering myself in the unholy Satanic right, I find that at this time that the natural law of species preservation runs concurrent with my own purposes, so that in a fashion any practitioner of the dark sciences would be more than willing to oppose a person who would misguide those in his own order and side with one who fights for the relative safety of the whole. (in this case, the grass roots membership of the Church of Satan) Understand, I don't question your reply, for it was expected, but I ask "why?" the same question which get the Archangel Lucifer the creator's wrath. If you check my past record you will see the only times I've ever contacted the Central Grotto was when I thought I could be of service, the reason I was denied district coordinator was because Mr. Kincaid thought I might not be able to devote my full energies to the church, to which I replied that I would acquiesce to higher authority, and co-operate fully with Mr. Zabrecky which I have done, another time I rose to Dr. LaVey's defense at several lectures and informed the Central Grotto of the culprit who was responsible for this character assassination, and instead of writing him and warning to desist, they wrote me and condemned me for informing them, logical? ..HELL NO! What's the secret in getting you people to understand that I want to help the church. If the hierarchy is out to rip-off the membership and the membership rips-off each other you're falling into the same bag as the christian faiths, is that what you advocate? Even the charm in question is one which invites a form of slavery if you are familiar with its purpose. I was under the impression that a Satanist did that which bettered his situation; if necessary, at another's expense, but not his own. Would you sell yourself into bondage? If that be the case then the next time my renewal of membership comes around I'm taking a sabbatical leave, if I'm not already on the purge list.
Cut the pompous crap and get back to basics, help me to help you before someone does something we all regret. When all acquiesce to the will of one, what happens if that one makes a mistake? (Oh, well, the Temple of Set HAPPENED.) Think about it, who really runs this outfit, and what are the actual goals of the Church, it teaches self motivation and then demands (YOU in this case) its members accept unquestioningly, like sheep, a quotation by a member who does not list its purpose, those who chose to use said quote should have the option of knowing what it does, then when I question the wisdom of the incomplete quote YOU land on me.
As for the stationary I use, the elements of which bear a strong similarity to the central grotto's, should not make you irritated. The elements are each much older than the church.
(Here they are describing the stationary, the Baphomet of course, and another which was a serpent surrounding a 6 pointed star. I do not have a sample of this, but I did see it. It was a classic symbol.)
The dragon, the circle, the Hebrew equiv. for Leviathan, are all borrowed in a sense, and to the best of my knowledge are not copyrighted or registered, and the Necronomic star replacing the Goat of Mendes should have served to cue you to the amount of efficacy I possess in Primal Magic, that was earned. Besides my order didn't bitch when you used our former emblem inverted and twisted for a good luck sigil. See Below.
Yours Vexed and Disillusioned.
Chojnicki, GM,SSS:2nd.CoS.
Honorary Consul. OST (OST was the Order of the Silver Star -a Masonic thing).
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Explanations will be in parenthesis. (There are many typos in the original typed letter which is available on request through the regular mail - xerox copy).
April 3, 1972
Chojnicki (address) Pittsburgh, Penn 15527
Dear Bro. Zond:
Woldst deeply bee in thy debt, if yed condsend to apply appropriate numericls to ye next epistle. The mail takes forever if you don't put the damnd Zip Codes on these days.
(They used to try to write in HPL-mythos English a lot.)
As for the local happenings, Lorraine got in contact with that A. Billington that wrote in the Hoof. She might see him on some kind of Church of Satan wing ding on the 30th. His name is Dale. In the interim, we will be visiting my sister in Hollywood Florida. Looks like they want to horn in on our territory and have no idea how to even get hold of the stuff.
(Lori's name is actually Phyllis Rose. I had thought the reverse. Dale Seago, however, confirmed who she was. It has come to light that Dale Seago met her; he recognized her photo immediately. Here Bill is referring to material that is being collected for publication. This is known now on hindsight because Lin Carter said so and because material was published after his death by his executor - with "much missing." This was a plan to "write" the mysterious mythos books and make a good attempt to make them sound worthy of HPL's ideas. Apparently, it was perceived by these people that Aquino's clique or "a clique within the COS" was trying to get the information for their own purposes or for the COS. That is how it looked to me too, considering that the Aquino et.al. split from the COS. But this all happened long before that.)
The local Jersey members don't seem to be into the Mythos at all, more like Egyptian oriented. What else is new. She joined up with them too, found out zilch. Met the local Jersey woman, a Priestess or something. Pure air. So it looks like the shits flying with these others you contacted, that John Dee and Zabrecky. Someone oughta knock that Aquino guy on his ass.
(This Priestess in the NJ COS, Egyptian oriented was Lillith. She and her brother were heavily into Egyptoid things, according to this.)
Lori contacted the same guy you've been writing to, Dale. He's a marine, some kind of martial artist. Into the Mythos big time is right. I think also, they have a hunch the stuff is based on real Doctrines, she said he fishes for it. Mostly they are still into that Goetia junk, conjuring demons so she talks that instead of Mythos.
(Dale confirmed this about "talking about demons." This gives an idea as to what Dale, that's Dale Seago, was into: The Goetia junk. But apparently he was fishing for mythos information. He was reporting and sending all information from this mythos group to Michael Aquino.) (According to Dale Seago, as recently asked, he remembers this but does not feel he was being a spy. He says he was only letting another military person know what was going on. But he was in the Marines according to this. Aquino was in the Army....?)
You got problems alright. That song was written by Tanya or Tana the daughter of the people Lori's staying with. Riza's Ophite, she didn't write it, and Taya is infiltrating Nazis and other way out fringe groups. I sort of took that stuff Riza wrote. Heavy. Beyond me. What I do get out of it is items some evil shit, bad stuff, wouldn't want it to happen to you. Got the creeps when I touched it. Got a funny feeling about swiping it too.
(This is how I found out that they filched the poem from ME,TANI. "Lori" (Rose) was staying with us for awhile. I was in Arlington VA. Apparently they thought that taking this poem-song I wrote was a major big deal - which started the argument with Chojnicki to Zabrecky and where Aquino then stepped in.)
That Aquino guy has got to be a fuckin asshole and nothing less. They write Mythos, you write it back to them, they take up Mythos names, you use them too, and the fuckin asshole calls your letter insolent and foolish. They asked you quotations from stories they cannot get, you give it to them, then they thieve a song, call you insolent and foolish and kick you out. You do have to admit, what you wrote was a bit much in the far out range, references to some obscure Mythos there. Maybe you should just have told them that another person wrote that song and made it simple. They've been writing you the same kind of thing though, except what shit they write is age old hype tired demonology. What royal assholes. I don't buy into it. Probably want to hoard it all to themselves.
Mr. N. is planning to, or already did release "Trail of Cthulhu" from Ballantine Books. Yes oh Glorious Leader, lead on!
(Mr. N. is Lin Carter - HE released the book as we all now know on hindsight - he used to call himself N. Zarnak).
The more I read that shit. You don't have the right to subject their Regional Agent to such drivel? Sounds like their asshole Agent subjected himself to it when he chose to read it and instead of just seeing that a stolen song was involved, he believed that far out shit you wrote? What the fuck is this a Civil Rights issue now? That shit about the stationary. Nobody says boo when they steel our Banner. Maybe someone needs to write to that Black Pope and tell him to keep a leash on his dogs before he gets known as the Slack Dope. I think my feathers got ruffled. Maybe some donkey dong up his asshole will cure the pompous shithead dog. What disillusioned. Did you have illusions about what these people are? We sure don't. Lori has met them. Without exaggerating you could find a dumb christling that knows more about Satanism and the hypey grimoires we wrote for suckers to read of old, books these assholes are still buying. And the Jersey airheads with their books of Thoth don't even know what Thoth is, almost fuckin karma, they get all excited over Seth. Some would say that's to be expected since they are Seth's people after all -- ordained to remain stupid.
Do you think LaVey himself knows about this shit going on? You know, I know his history, he just isn't the type to come off like that. Lori says that both Dale and Aquino are in the Marines, maybe it's them because from the way she said he talks, on the phone (he refers to Dale Seago), he worships that guy Aquino as if there is no LaVey on top.
Maybe you got the wrong guys' picture attached to your dart board. (They had LaVey's picture up on a dart board) The Jersey airhead is in with the Aquino crowd too from what Lori says, maybe he's trying to take over the organization. You know the same kind of shit happened with Creeper Crawley adoring Dawn days, only he got caught and kicked but on his ass. There's money to be made these days now, and the Mythos will get big when N gets it all out in paper.
(Translation: Lillith is in with Aquino's crowd from what Rose found out, Dale worships Aquino as if he's the Big Boss of COS. That comes out loud and clear later on when you read Dale Seago’s parting letter to the TOS.)
Well, I'll be in Florida for 2 or 3 weeks with Lori, so write back when you get back to the U.
Yours in the Sign of Kish!
(signed) Bill
Bill, the Smolderer in Slime
(This following refers to stories they found (which only RECENTLY ended up being published.)
PS: Zoth Syra, entity and boyfriend from Spawm of the Green Abyss. C. Hall Thompson, John Hay has it, enclosed is copy.
PSS: I must get my hands on an electric typewriter, this thing sucketh muchly.
PSSS: I know "N's" real name. Count Zarnak
(That's Lin Carter, everyone knows this now).
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The following are copies of what DALE SEAGO wrote, either to Lori (Phyllis Rose) or to Bill S. I’m not sure to whom he wrote this and, at the time, it would have all sounded very mysterious and occult. Today EVERYONE recognizes it as passages from Cthulhu Mythos stories!
As for my own feeling of affinity with Ye Gr. Old Ones, me seemeth that ----- I’m sorry, I seem to feel more natural with the archaic form of English and that passage I quoted got me into it again.
Anyway, I seem to have an almost equal feeling for Nyarlathotep as your own, but there is also a strong (but different) sort of affinity with Yog-Sothoth.
In my Invocation (more of a litany) to N. I came up with a slightly different concept of N. from that in the stories. Are you familiar with the theory of a "universal subconscious" with which everyone is connected? It’s something like that. Part of it that I remember goes "Thee I invoke the Crawling Chaos...Thou art the soul and messenger of the Great Old Ones. (I.e., N. is the ultimate Great Old One of whom even Azathoth is only a shadow he casts for men to see - Dale’s note.) (NOTE: this is said by Derleth in the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, at the time, a hard to find story.) Thou art the Essence of all the Great Old Ones. Thou art the Essence of which all the Great Old Ones are but differing manifestations. Thou art Shub- Niggurath! Ia! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young! Thou art Cthulhu Ia! Cthulhu! Cthulhu ph’nglui mglw’nafh w’gah-nagl fhtagn! Ia!
Another letter from Seago: explanations in parenthesis
Would strongly recommend you reconsider any undertaking with Bro. Dee as mentioned in C. H. Mar. 7, A.S.; it seems the Dholes are not especially pleased with his stupid action of the previous issue as well as the church being unhappy with one who misguided our own people. Bro. Dee has about 2 weeks before those of our "elderly" friends take action against him.
I have certain books on "loan" Dzyan, Eibon and Pnakotic MS, which I feel might help in translation of certain ambiguous and potent mumblings. Am working on restoration of certain mutual friends of ours (Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Cthugha). (Refers to people who had taken these names, like Carter being N. Zarnak. I don’t know who all of them were, but met some of them later, e.g., Shaver was Cthugha, Bill was Bug Shoggog but possibly also Cthulhu, not sure, Chojnicki was Zond Malek and so forth just as Dale Seago was Alijah Billington and signed a letter with that name - EVERYONE was doing this.). I am limiting the crossing because the transition is not an all or nothing proposition, and some of the minions (like the Lloigor) don’t play nice. So can only help you under those conditions; considering the fact that I can do the Dhol chants either for or against you, think thinks over carefully!
May the Hounds of Tindalos never seek you!!
"Translations," I.e., typical mythos. Dzyan was being formatted into mythos lingo too - I have it! The Lloigor were a rival clique or frat club that had ransacked the mythos clique’s belongings which made them have to GET a rented apartment for it all. All of this WAS finally printed, as said before and as anyone into the mythos knows.
According to the "COS" by Dr. Aquino, Chojnicki wrote some of these paragraphs. However, I have a copy of this exact text in Dale Seago's hand writing! Not typed, hand written! He did not deny writing what I attributed to him when I sent him this entire file).
Another letter from Seago
Sometimes men can know Them near by Their smell, which is strange to the nostrils....but of Their semblance no man can know, save seldom in features of those they have begotten on mankind, which are awful to behold, and thrice awful are Those who sired them; yet of those offspring there are divers kinds in likeness greatly differing from man’s truest image and fairest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them.
Concerning ye Old Ones, tis writ they wait ever at ye Gate, and ye Gate is all places at all times, for They know nothing of time or place but are in all time and in all place together without appearing to be, and there are Those amongst Them which can assume diverse Shapes and Features and any given Shape and any given Face and ye Gates are for Them everywhere.
I think that is connected with your question, is it not?
I do not have the letter which presumably "asked Seago a question" or anything else.
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I have no idea who wrote this. But "Starry Wisdom" was Steve's group and I, Tani Jantsang, was part of this later on long after all of this COS mess happened; (it was FUN). Then it was just us and we had correlations of TONS of stuff with mythos. Complications arose when Brian Lumley copyrighted his entities and also he KNEW this had similarities to ancient stuff because he based it on that knowingly. The text of the letter is part of a quote from HPL's Dunwich Horror. I would assume someone asked for it. It was, however, this group of Starry Wisdom that perpetrated the scam joke about HPL’s wife Sonya Green and Crowley! And that joke is still going strong).
Ia Brothers Starry Wisdom:
Will learn the Aklo for the Sabaoth which mill not like, it being answerable from the hill and not from the air. That upstairs more ahead than I thought and is not likely to have much earth brain.
Gpa kept me saying the Dho formula last night and I think I saw the inner city at the two magnetic poles. I shall go to those poles as N said when the earth is cleared off if I can't break through with the Dho-Hna formula when I commit it.
They from air told me at Sabaoth that it will be years before I can clear off the earth and Gpa will be dead than so I will have to learn the angles of the planes and the formulas between the Yr and Nhhngr from N. N says He and They from outside will help but cannot take body without human blood. I can see Them a little when I make the Voorish sign and it upstairs is near like Them. He that came with Aklo Sabaoth said I may be transfigured there being much of outside to work on.
With combined efforts should accomplish The Purpose.
I await your reply. Reply from D.
In Sign of Kish
1 NOV 73
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I also have at least one letter I saved from Chojnicki to me with the same kind of lingo jargon in it, but then it trails off into serious matters trying to figure out where (in which story, by what author) this or that mythos entity appears and/or where to get these stories: they were OUT OF PRINT and HARD TO FIND back then.
No need to reproduce here - it only goes to show everyone was writing like this to each other and everyone had mythos names for themselves. In fact it was GREAT FUN before it was destroyed. (Aquino did not destroy it).
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The following is an excerpt from a letter from L. Dale Seago to the Priesthood of Set, 26 July XVII: 1982
As Dr. Aquino has stated, there has indeed been a smoke screen thrown up around all this [Seago's exit from ToS]: a smoke screen of emotional vitriol, lies and distorted and selectively-incomplete facts thrown up by Dr. Aquino to obscure the fact that a VI*, a Magus, at least one Master, and several Priests have all been able to see that magically there is something very dreadfully wrong with Dr. Aquino and the magical "atmosphere" of the Temple of Set.
The unthinkable has indeed occurred. It was unthinkable that Michael could ever become another Anton LaVey, not m the sense of a "sell-out," but in a deeper sense related to his definition and title of the VI* as Ipsissimus. Dr. Aquino has made much of LaVey's perspective becoming such that he could no longer distinguish between his personal will, that of the true founder of his Organization, and that Organization itself. In accordance with his own Oath as an Ipsissimus ("I promise to perceive every phenomenon as Set, that is, as myself"), sworn before Lilith Sinclair, Dr. Aquino has come to the same end of his Initiatory Quest. This, I think explains how he can be so Absolutely certain that Set - whom I have always, perhaps erroneously, perceived as a source of inspiration and initiatory guidance - is so humanly childish that he is throwing emotional tantrums out there in the Aether about Affronts and Abominations: "As above, so below" ... and vice versa! This is how he can be so Absolutely certain that this entity wishes to control our lives, our personal and social ethics, and our interactive associations through his High Priest. Michael Aquino has simply placed Set upon God's throne, and then sat down upon it himself.
Unfortunately, my own departure will probably not end the convulsions within the Temple. The "Setamorphosis" (Xem) Dr. Aquino once spoke of has begun to occur in some of us; and he missed it because of his conviction and insistence that he already is everything which anyone can Become. But perhaps this should be cause for rejoicing, for it means that now no Priest of Set needs his own individual Flame any more: Dr. Aquino can simply tell you what the Will of Set is for your life and actions in any given situation. Sing praises unto his name! Alleluiah! Amen and Amen!
And yet there are Individuals, Initiates, both within and without the Temple who remain such in spite of all this. Herein is another reason why the convulsions are not yet over. Dr. Aquino cannot rest until he has eliminated the last vestige of "cognitive dissonance" which tells him that the Temple and its members are not entirely a reflection of extension of his own will. He will not insist that everyone agree with him magically or philosophically, as you have already seen: that is unnecessary as long as he can control actions (as he has attempted to do since Ronald Barrett resigned) through executive policy statements as High Priest. Everyone is free to think as he pleases and hold his own opinions; but if you do not act in conformity with Dr. Aquino's personal opinions as translated into official policy, well you have already seen what you can expect.
Too many people have seen too much over the last two months. A number of Councillors have dared to vote "inappropriately," and now cannot be trusted. Now, also, if the By-Law amendments are passed, they can be eliminated by one of the five who voted according to Dr. Aquino's wishes in his first attempt to expel me - unless they can simply be controlled by a credible threat (whether express or implied) of expulsion. Those of you in the Order of Sekhmet may be something of a problem, being automatically tainted by association with me - unless you care to declare undying loyalty to the Organization and its Leader; and you may as well know also that I offer you no Organzation or membership card or medallion as alternatives. Priests and lay members who affiliated with the Order of Sekhmet shortly before and during the Conclave may therefore be relieved to know that your names were not submitted before things "blew up" with the 4 July fireworks. Whether anyone else besides myself resigns from, or remains in, the Temple does not matter to me: I refuse to be a Leader, and I will not play Michael Aquino to Aquino's LaVey.
With apologies to Robert W. Chalmers, "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living Osiris." Who among you now, I wonder, will dare to search Michael Aquino's scalp for the number 666 tattooed there a few months ago? And who among you, I wonder, will take his oath to love him more than all things, beyond life itself? But enough. To all you who remain, Initiates and Disciples of the Watch alike, I wish you the very best.
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END OF THIS PART OF THE STORY.
SEE PHOTOS of people and documents on following pages.
IMAGES - pictures of people:
IMAGES - pictures of building and cards.
IMAGES letters
Lin's letter to Bill in mythos lingo (this letter was modified to make it readable, the original was entirely in gothic script.
Lin's letter to Chojnicki in mythos lingo
Epilogue follows:
Roots of Satanic Reds and Unity in the Dark Traditions
The Roots of Satanic Reds Organization.
There were Hermeto-Kaballistic, Luciferian, Gnostic, self-admitted Satanists (by that name), Theosophists - and people interested in what was then a barely known author of strange fiction, H. P. Lovecraft. This goes back to before 1963 because at that time, my cousin, an adult, was well involved in this stuff and I ran into it at that time. These people did what all such people interested in similar things do: they formed groups, or "esoteric cults" of their own, meeting in homes, coffee houses, or wherever else. Many of them gave their group a nice, occult name, too but this time, it was a name related to the Cthulhu Mythos. Since all of that was invented by Lovecraft and his own "inner circle" it would be impossible for anyone else, even from the same tradition, to know what was being discussed. They collected information that showed mythological correspondences across cultures, knowing that there was one solid Dark Tradition that ran through these cultures and through the ancient world - a Tradition that was once esoteric and hidden from the Pagans of the Ancient World. This is what they all did in these groups with one very strange addition: they collected stories that were written by Lovecraft and anyone else in a related but invented mythology called the Cthulhu Mythos. Tracking down these Cthulhu Mythos stories, letters and notes was not easy back then; 99% of it was out of print and had only been in print in news stand pulp magazines! This stuff was nothing like vampire or werewolf or witchcraft lore. This was very obscure stuff at the time. It was HEAVY - and it tended to grab hold of people that we all recognized to be innately of the Left Handed Paths innately, even people being from traditionally esoteric but Right Hand Path traditions who were innately of the Left Hand were grabbed by this stuff. It was seriously like a Call. The Call of Cthulhu, perhaps. Or maybe better yet, the Call of NYARLATHOTEP! As Professor Robert M. Price wrote in "Crypt of Cthulhu #2" - if the Eastern Esoteric Tradition were to find a Cthulhu Mythos name for their Dark Lord of Transcendent Awareness, it would be Nyarlathotep. He is 100% right.
Many of these people knew some of the Dark Tradition (though not in a totally pure form) and many of the Theosophists linked to these small groups knew the Light Tradition in a highly confused form, but these were pretty good when it came to crosscultural information, especially almost wholly unknown Eastern stuff.
Back then, not everyone knew how to type, not everyone owned a typewriter, and there were no xerox machines or at least, not easy access to one which could be used to make many copies of personal stuff. Many of them had hand written notes on many things though, as far as I know, none ever presented the Dark Tradition in as pure and uncluttered a form as I (Tani Jantsang) have done for over three decades - and for public sale for more than one decade. Me and my relatives and friends brought a very pure, Turanian or Central Asian Dark Tradition (Eastern Esoteric Tradition and related traditions) into the groups we linked up with.
Understand, this was a lot of fun; it wasn't just serious study. I still have much of this material, and though it was since then typed from handwritten copies, it's not in any kind of etext form or on a computer disc.
In 1965 I saw a manuscript called "Sudanese Sirius System" by two Frenchmen, M. Graiule and G. Dieterlen, anthropologists. My cousin had it and I read it. He got it from the Societas Selectus Satanas, one of these groups, at this time out of Queens NY. It was translated in handwriting. I didn't know what to make of it and it sounded extremely bizarre and unrelated to anything Dark or Light that I recognized. It was about the star Sirius and fishmen. I knew what the Prachetasas were; but that was from India and the entire story was very different, seemingly unrelated; plus this manuscript didn't mention the Prachetasas. I also was at a disadvantage when scanning over some of the more familiar material; I'd run across names I didn't recognize at all and couldn't find in any standard source book. I had no idea what the Cthulhu Mythos was at this time and had no idea I was trying to find names that someone invented. One of the names I thought was just a misspelling of Yat-Zebaoth and the definition fit. (Yog-Sothoth!)
In 1970 I became very familiar with the Cthulhu Mythos and linked up to an offshoot group called Starry Wisdom Sect - the name was taken from one of the stories ("Haunter of the Dark"). I was loosely connected with them - but I made notes and passed them on and read everything. I noticed a clear distinction between some Lovecraft stories and others. Others were outre - the Cthulhu Mythos ones were outre in the extreme and they had a different feel to them. LIKE a Call! They GRABBED you - or they did not. It was that black and white.
In 1974 Phil Marsh was brought into the fold and I was, by then, fully familiar with the Cthulhu Mythos and, due to the former group, had just about all the out of print stories ever written in the old days by the originals. By that time, we called our own offshoot group Kishites, from the Babylonian city of Kish. The Sign of Kish is our 2 pointed up Pentacle - and it was this long before the Pythagoreans ever used it. Kish is an ANCIENT city. We had our own lingo-jargon for everything. When Lin Carter stuck the "Kishites" into a story, that was an acknowledgement of our group. That's what people would do, write each other's invented entities or groups into stories, include the strange races or cities (real or invented) into stories or even write about each other using a disguised name, as in "Haunter of the Dark," the character Robert Blake is Robert Bloch! And Robert Bloch then wrote a sequel to that tale! The Esoteric Order of Dagon was another group and that's either still around now, or a it's new group formed with that name. It may have been connected to the infamous (to hell with copyrights) Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association. Richard Tierney seems to have worked solo in collecting all the Simon Magus information and he wrote his superb Simon of Gitta tales, incorporating the Cthulhu Mythos into a heavily Gnostic and ancient world setting. He outright established that this Yog Sothoth is the Hebrew God!
This compilation of mythos/traditions work, with the intent to eventually put this either into story form, or write "the Secret Books" Lovecraft wrote about (which never existed!) was ongoing at least back in 1963; that's as far back as I saw dated letters and/or little membership cards proudly shown by the group with a smile. These were from the Societas Selectus Satanas (and by the way, they used the Baphomet in 1963), out of Queens, NY back then. The first group I was associated with in 1969, through an older friend, was called the Starry Wisdom Sect. They used a symbol that looked like a diamond shape with rays coming out of it. As I said, these were casual friends, people from lodge backgrounds and backgrounds similar to mine that used to hang out and get into this. And they all did their own version of "seek out and recognize" others which got pulled into the fold.
In 1974 we formed our own little group of about 20 people, the Kishites. That name was not yet in any Cthulhu Mythos stories, but we used it anyway. Keep in mind, that's a lot of people to have over your house at one time. So groups soon split off and took up new names: The Dholes, the Shantaks, the Voormi, etc., names from the Cthulhu Mythos that weren't already being used by another group. The Societas Selectus Satanas at this time, early 1970's, was out of McKeesport, PA and consisted of mostly college students. Xerox machines and available electric typewriters made all of this a lot easier.
While the Societas Selectus Satanas incorporated all the types of people mentioned above, the Starry Wisdom Sect had more people in it that were interested in the sciences, not just mythological correlations, and people who knew a lot about specific cultures of the past. The Kishites were purely a Dark Tradition faction of the SWS which also incorporated some sciences into it - and most of the people in it were my own cousins and close friends; but it was all interwoven with the Cthulhu Mythos, too.
In case anyone is interested, Satanic Reds is the Kishites with exclusive emphasis on the Pure Dark Tradition, no inclusion of any kind of fiction, and the inclusion of politics! Another difference is that Satanic Reds is purely open; our information is either free on a website or sold to anyone who wishes to know it.
These are our Roots.
Unity in the Adamantine Esoteric Tradition of the Boundless Darkness, what we call the Dark Tradition
This, what we present in our organization and sell essays on, is an Adamantine Doctrine said universally to have been The Doctrine of the prior world age, the 4th world age, the Satya Yuga. Pesh Hun transmitted it to the people in the Kali Yuga. Blavatsky was told some of this, for sure.
What absolutely legitimizes the entire Esoteric Tradition and all the related cultures (plural) that had it and still have it, as a whole, is their EMANATION doctrine about the Boundless Darkness, No Name, Aditi, Ain Soph, Apeiron,etc. and the Flame, Viraj, Vajra, etc. that is in that All Pervading Darkness - and the resulting doctrine of Being and Becoming. This is not exclusively in the Eastern lands since the "western civilization" Hellenic pre-Socratic traditions also have these doctrines of the Apeiron (the One) and the emamation, and the Five Daimones - but it is universally agreed upon by every scholar to be very Eastern in tone and intent - and that is where Pythagoreanism comes from. It is far more ancient than Babylon, also. It existed in India as the standard Shivaite Doctrine at least as far back as 7,000 BC.
But THIS is the unifying concept.
1. Unknown - Boundless Darkness. - That which is Arupa.
2. Non-Being and Being. The intermediate being-state is BECOMING. It does this out of Necessity.
3. Emanation of a Light, Flame, Vajra, Viraj, etc. as a 7-fold Formed and Ordered substance that BECAME all material (matter/energy) things.
4. Infusion of the Darkness as a 5-fold formless chaotic "force" of some kind, into the 7 which, in turn, drives it on to ever greater change and diversity, relentlessly driving it on to change, to BECOME.
It is very much unlike a creation doctrine; it is very much unlike paganism with many gods and goddess and half-godling "children of" the gods/goddesses. It is not dualistic at all. It is NOT for everyone! One is either Of It, or they are not. Repeat, it is not dualistic - so if you find some later dualism mixed into the pure doctrine, it is a later addition.
In addition, there are elaborations that are identical: how that darkness is always categorized in 5 distinct ways as it acts on "the nature" around us and how the Flame is within us as kundalini, Vajra, etc. How the Flame comes into living beings from the All Pervading Darkness, goes through living things as a Flame or kind of "Light" and then returns to that One Darkness. How the All Pervading Darkness itself never increases or decreases all the time this goes on. There are also very similar doctrines about what lacks this Flame within, in all these traditions. There is no judgement on such people. It is just that the Tradition is not told to them - hence it is esoteric. (Times have changed). I could say it this way: Aditi, Vach, Viraj are the same things, recognizable to anyone that knows this, as Kether, Binah, Hochmah. Same things.
This is one solid tradition amongst MANY whole cultures, parts of cultures and peoples. It is universally said to have been The Adamantine Doctrine by which all society was governened in a "Golden Age" during the Satya Yuga which is a prior world age. It is distinct from the trinity traditions, distinct from the dualistic traditions which oppose light and dark. It is distinct from paganism. It is distinct from the solar cults. It is NOT a salvation doctrine nor is there any kind of notion of a "personal Being" in the One Darkness.
It has nothing to do with rebelliousness or the mundane world of the herd and hypocrisy. It has nothing to do with that pro or con - all that is irrelevant. If you want rules, make them up. If you follow rules, then someone else made them up. That's how societies work. How societies work has nothing to do with the Doctrine. The need "in itself" for rules is contrary to the Dharmas. But rules are needed in SOCIETIES and we all live in societies, behaviors in these societies are set as a standard of "acceptability" by the people IN those societies; there is nothing divine about such rules or societal laws or morals or ethics; this has NOTHING to do with The Doctrine. There is a qualified difference. A Ngagspa (Dark Doctrine Adept) can behave one way in some remote area of Etsen Gol. That is, you would see the outer behavior of this person, you'd see him doing things. Let him come to the USA and live in the city. The Ngaspa ADAPTS easily enough. You'd see him doing other behaviors outwardly. Inwardly, he is the same Ngagspa. Outer behavior has nothing to do with the Inner Being. Following speeding laws on interstates, which the Ngagspa would do if he came here, has nothing to do with The Doctrine.
This is perfectly clear in the Esoteric Tradition whether you get it from the Dark Tradition section on our website or from a university or from an Adapt or whether one might tell you some of this, as someone told Blavatsky (and she garbled it all up and tried to change it....) It does NOT MATTER if confused persons, overly cerebral people or anyone else doesn't get it. Glaring and screaming out is the EMANATION doctrine and the BOUNDLESS DARKNESS concept - the Flame that is in that Darkness - from there comes Being and Becoming. Those things are OUTSIDE of Judeo-Christianity-Islam for the most part. These are the three MAIN things that bind these traditions into one Esoteric Tradition: Boundless Darkness, Flame in Darkness , Being/Becoming. These THREE things unify it into one Esoteric Tradition, in addition to the the actual teachings of the 7 and the 5 and The One, usually with focus on the FIVE and The One Darkness. They are LHP traditions though they also encompass RHP since the two are never opposed: they compliment each other when they are properly understood and practiced.
At least we have unified what belongs together as a core doctrine. I don't expect a very cerebral person stuck in the Judeo-Christian paradigm to hear a single "note" of what I said. And I'm not into explaining harmony to tone deaf people. It's a waste of time. The LHP does not work that way. You either hear the tune, or you don't. It is not like conversion doctrines. It is not like what has come to be thought of as RHP. Though that in itself is very confused and misnamed.
If you hear it, it definitely CALLS to you, you can't even resist it. If you don't hear it, I suggest you don't concern yourself with it and continue to PURSUE YOUR OWN things and be happy with what you have. To not do that is to participate further in non-being.
Obviously, in history, pieces of this One Doctrine have been absconded with, merged with things it was never a part of, such as the Logos cults - and then the Sun Cults of old. SAT and Sanatana: these concepts got confused with Saturn the planet - and then confused with the Sun. Some of the Doctrine got merged into the Dark Goddess concept - dualized - as what I'd imagine to be a reaction to the Solar Patriarchal peoples ruling those areas. In the Kali Yuga, this is bound to happen to anything from the Satya Yuga. No matter. None of that is relevant. We present tradition of the Boundless Darkness in a very unadorned and pure form. That is relevant.
Recently, supermassive black holes have been found - and now the conception of the all-destructive black hole has changed into one where these black holes have a lot to do with CREATION of galaxies, not just destruction. How would a Dark Adept see these things, since saying that such existed has been part of the doctrine anyway? As the fingers of the Boundless Darkness, the hand of the Sat Itself doing what it always does: folding/unfolding, push/pull. We would say that the "many" black holes one sees at the center of galaxies are really One Thing - made to look like many things in many places and times by the Illusion of Space/time. That is what we'd say.
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