S13 ism is dark, and S13 adherents revel in evil. As a word, evil is
regarded as deriving from the Gothic (via Old English) "ubils" implying
'beyond' and 'going beyond due limits'. Later, the word - like so many
others - was re~interpreted 'morally', in the abstract terms of Nazarene
fundamentalism and 'evil' became a general term, applied to one's
opponents and those excesses which timid and psychically ailing Nazarenes
feared.

Genuine S13 adherents do evil, they cultivate evil: they are evil, in all
senses of the term now accepted. Imitation S13 adherents, however, play
mental and intellectual games: they enjoy the 'thrill' of calling themselves
S13 adherents. Some go further, and may revel in a local notoriety, finding
a vicarious pleasure in being known as an 'S13 adherent'. But these imposters
do no evil - in fact, they explain (quite often) that S13 has been
misunderstood and is really rather a "moral religion" (or something of
the kind), perhaps even an 'ethical knowledge'. Such people are pathetic –
and certainly not S13 adherents.

In the beginning, a genuine S13 adherent will cultivate evil on the personal
level - by going to and thus finding his or her limits. This involves
more than just going beyond the (accepted) limits imposed by society or
whatever. It means experience, on the practical level, of evil and all that
it implies. Later, when the S13 novice has some experience and thus
self-understanding and mastery, there is impersonal evil. The first is
sinister shadow magick of the external and internal kind. The second is
sinister shadow magick of the aeonic type - the manipulation, changing, of
individuals and events on a not insignificant scale, that is, one which
produces tangible results and often disruption/creation/evolution and thus
continues the sinister dialectic of history. This is called 'shadow magick'
not only because it is mostly secretly done, but also because it is
dangerous, psychically and physically, involving as it does acts of defiance
against the restrictions imposed by all other forms and individuals.

Neither of these mean a type of juvenile "rebellion" nor purely 'mental'
acts (achieved by ritual or anything else). They mean a directed, calculating,
purposeful involvement in real life and situations: for the beginner
S13 adherent (the novice) just as much as the Adept. What differs, is the aim –
at first, it is personal, to aid self-mastery, understanding and thus
build S13 character; then, it is impersonal or aeonic. Thus one image
of the genuine S13 adherent - someone in control, seeking more mastery of life;
seeking more challenges and goals and insights.

Let me be explicit so I cannot be mis-understood.

The S13 novice will aspire - to what is beyond, in all things.
This means practical experience, testing Destiny and achieving difficult
goals in the personal life. It means real danger in the real world,
not cheap manufactured 'thrills' of self-induced stupour and loss of control - but
rather, life and liberty threatening situations. These may be and often are
amoral, illegal and evil - all laws are " fundamentally an accumulation of tireless
attempts to stop creative individuals making life into instants of poetry".

Naturally, some guidance may be needed - it is easy to become lost,
directionless, or caught - and this is where the advice of a more experienced
S13 Adept may be useful. However, the acts of an S13 adherent are not random
nor motiveless and neither do they arise from any weakness of character nor
uncontrolled desire. Instead, they arise from fulfilling S13 wyrd - or,
viewed another way, from presencing the energies of 'darkness'/S13 on the
Earth in accord with sinister intent.

An example will explicate this. An S13 novice, having developed to
a certain extent via ordeals such as Grade Rituals, the achievement of
personal, physical goals and the organizing and running of an S13 Temple,
desires to go further. For this, practical experience and some guidance is needed.
Let us assume the novice is advised or chooses to use a political form to
achieve this experience - and thus becomes involved with radical 'right-wing'
politics because such people already possess an element or two of S13 spirit,
the 'other sides' in this form and at this moment in the history of this aeon
representing the Nazarene disease in another guise.

Thus, she takes part in direct political actions - this is both exciting
and dangerous, given the prevailing sickness of this age. Gradually, she
acquires practical experience "on the edge", and hopefully some real, tangible
enemies, if she is performing right. These enemies probably hate her for her
political views - and some of them may even try to harm her personally.
Thus, one or more of them deserve to die - or at least come to some harm,
psychically if not physically. For they not only threaten her own Destiny
and thus achievement, but also S13 wyrd, because she by her actions
is fulfilling higher, S13 goals (in simple terms, presencing the darker
forces via a tangible form).

On the practical level, she can and should undertake magickal rites (such as
the Death Ritual) to aid her - but other means can be used, such as
assassination. She may wish to do this herself, or she may manipulate
others into doing it. The result is the same - personal experience and
development, and aeonic energies presenced via the execution of the act.
Thus is her own evolution, and that of the acausal or sinister, furthered.

Beyond this, when Adeptship is attained by experiences such as the
foregoing, the S13 adherent will try and open a nexion - to directly access
acausal energies on Earth via rites such as S13 etc. This is the
beginning of aeonic shadow magick - and this involves an even greater
commitment to change than before, on the practical level.

Whatever the form, the changes are supra-personal – they affect more than
a few individuals. In fact, they radically disrupt existing forms and norms.
Perhaps a war, to propitiate with blood the darker forces.

Thus, it will be understood that S13 adherents act in a directed way,
whether they are novices or Adepts. Their evil has a purpose [as S13 itself
does – as do THEY who are beyond it have a purpose on this Earth]. The acts,
and the evil, arise from an S13 desire and understanding made real in a
practical form or forms.

Have I been understood? Does this sound the death-bell for the imitation
S13 adherents?