Reading this page, and all the pages of Black Souls following this one, implies reading The Satanic Path, GSB's self-published guide to Satanism. You can find TSP at this link. If you haven't read TSP, it's probably hard to understand what's said from here on out. But you can't talk about Black Magic without first having assimilated some basic concepts of Satanism from the point of view of Traditional Satanism. For that, there is TSP, which I invite you to read before going any further.

Acausal thinking is basically the understanding of the acausal and acausal energy as these "things" are. Thinking acausally means understanding the acausal beyond all causal abstractions and beyond all causal symbols and symbolism, where such causal symbols include language, words and terms that are part of language. In a sense, acausal thinking can be considered a developed and improved form of acausal Satanic Empathy, although in essence it is really a distinct, new, and evolutionary ability, the genesis of which was acausal empathy.

Once a certain amount of skill in acausal thinking and acausal empathy has been acquired, the sorcerer can conduct rites to open or create a direct nexion for the acausal and thereby access the acausal energy, or presencing - bringing into the causal - certain Dark Entities, certain acausal beings, for whatever purpose the sorcerer desires.

"Hell," "The Underworld," "The Abyss," "The Dark Realm," "The Dark Domain," "The Demon Realm," "The Shadow Realm"... call it what you will. These are causal names for the acausal. And with these causal names are associated images, symbols, figures, texts. Lucifer or Baphomet, Satan and the demons, devils, monsters and ghosts, each with its own symbols or chants. And then concepts like darkness, the river of blood, the eternal fire, the eternal fall into the Abyss. Ideal images that border on fantasy and imagination or superstition, which all have one thing in common: to visualize and describe in a causal way, for our causal mind and language, the acausal world.

The expert Satanist who has managed to go beyond blasphemy as an end in itself, or the sorcerer who has studied Black Magic, does not visualize the acausal as Hell and does not associate demons with symbols of the Jewish Kabbalah. These are causal concepts. These subjects have developed acausal thinking and are able to see things differently. But then, what is the acausal? And how can we describe it in the "least causal" way possible?

The acausal can be thought of as:

- similar to a "parallel universe" (one or more alternate dimensions) existing parallel to our physical temporal universe;

- a useful means of describing and understanding the "collective unconscious"

- both of the above.

The acausal entities (read "demons", "Satan", "ghosts", "dark presences"...) that tradition says reside in the acausal, can be thought of as archetypes of the collective unconscious (of our psyche) and/or (and simultaneously) as real beings that exist in an alternate (supernatural) reality and that can, or have the ability, to manifest themselves in one form or another in our world, in our universe. It is up to the sorcerer to conduct practical experiments, on himself and others, to find the answers for himself. Because obviously, as we have now understood, the real answers are of an occult type and therefore inexplicable in words. These hands-on experiments involve the use of the dark arts you are learning about by reading Black Souls.

Acausal Thinking then becomes a turning point for Black Magic. Do you want to think of a demon as a big naked muscular being with a big dick that rapes you at night? Fine, you can. But with the awareness that acausal thinking offers you, that is, with the awareness that that demon (and we will see what we mean by the word "demon") is not really as you visualize it. That demon is much more: it is an acausal being with its own acausal nature, it is not made of flesh and it does not necessarily have horns. If it is made of flesh, then you are not dealing with the demon but with the causal person or animal in which the acausal entity has decided to reside, usually temporarily. The concept of "demonic possession" is very helpful in approaching this concept, being very careful not to be influenced by horror movies and to believe that the acausal entity is controllable, eliminable or contained in some causal way (e.g. with a crucifix or something similar).

Do you think it is a concept too difficult to understand? It probably is, but much less than you think. Do you think you have never had to deal with an acausal presence in the causal? That's not true: you have already done it. Observe your black mirror. When we say that that black mirror is no longer a frame of wood and plastic stained with black but is a nexion, we are thinking acausally. We see a causal object and we perceive in it an acausal nature that is inherent in it, in an occult and inexplicable way, but understandable to the sorcerer. The making and first uses of a Black Mirror are the best way to start dealing with the acausal, involuntarily.

Follow me in reading Black Souls to delve deeper into the occult themes of acausal thought and from now on start to deal with them in a practical way in the rituals of Black Magic.