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Ascension of the Magicks - __denby - 04-28-2026 Ascension of the Magicks A Primer of Magicka and Spirituality of the Sangreal ~~~ Of the great and terrible things roared forth unto the differentiated abyss, there were a series of words in counter-nature to the Illumination, woven by the great thinking beast that themselves underpin the torrents of creation issued forth out of the shadowed Mother. Intelligence, raw and pulsing with disgust and bile, like tainted surreptitious worms the power and will of the beast was lashed to the abyss. It was the nature of this corruption, the thing that could behold and the beholder of the thing to be corrupted which imbued within it a sort of power. Understanding, or the capacity to understand being given unto the great beast, its emanation having the capacity for metacognition, saw itself as the first child. Of blackest mirror, issued forth out of an act of carnal anger between illumination and the abyss. The cosmic dance had been set forth, and it was the echo of the child's anguish that set certain things into motion. Where of the Illumination descended the known Wills, the emanations of the childly beast enraptured the cage of experience that the godhead now found its power mired. In such, the tone and the hand may itself emanate and shape these. Such is the secret knowledge that is claimed to be held by those who in clandestine cloisters worship. Culturally speaking, the words contained in the 'Ascension of Magicks' are commonplace. Some used as curses, some seen as words unworthy uttering for their connections to death and disease. Hedge-witches mutter them and alchemists trace the runes associated with them out of mere superstition - yet there are still rumors of those who work real power. It is said the power of the Beast, whose worshippers refer more reverently as the Child, marks those that wield it. Progression along the 'path' erodes the light of the divine that flickers within.  It is worth noting that the Ascension starts at 'thirty', noting that there must have been thirty utterances of the Beast in that event of pre-incarnate rage that underweaves our current presence in the Sangreal. Six forms - themselves being both words and symbols, somehow - represent the six elements, known as magicks of the elements. 30. Pashteq - Water - a Circle. 29. Amahn - Air - a Dot. 28. Kalion - Fire - a Line. 27. Molliyan - Earth - a Triangle. 26. Encegon - Metals - a Square. 25. Pashkegon - Light - a Triangle divided left by line. Reaching the twenty-fourth form, it is suggested by texts that one passes a threshold in some supernatural power. Many of the hedge-magick association suggest that only after 'mastery' of the previous five forms, is one able to progress. Whether this means having used it, having drawn it, memorized it or something else - the layfolk is unsure. Of the next set of forms, we find represented the five courses of emotion that tie man and beast together in form. These are known as the magicks of the spirit. It is assumed that a master of these forces would possess the capacity, somehow, to manipulate it within their own and other flesh. 24. Mohtep - Thought - a Square flanked right by two Dots. 23. Qolpha - Control - a Triangle bisected and crowned by Line. 22. Emis - Prophecy - Two Squares adjacent. 21. Kohn - Suffering - Double Triangles crowned by Line bearing a single Dot. 20. Daija - Bliss - Triangle divided left by Line, flanked by three Dots separated by Line. Upon the nineteenth form, there is only one historical account of a practitioner. A solar elf of the House Ireaht possessed runic seals of the 19th Form, Ykele allegedly granted to him by a divine emissary. This elf of Ireaht could in essence, cure any ailment and restore even lost limbs and organs - it is with this known record, that there is some guarantee the names and forms of magick are legitimate. A mechanism of use still eludes even the devout practitioners. From the nineteenth form, we descend through what are known as magicks of the blood, the shackles of divine flame within flesh. 19. Ykele - Healing - Double Square crowned Triangle. 18. Golyon - Harm - Square emerging Line right, flanked by four Dots, buttressed Line right. 17. Aishtep - Aging - Triangle trisected top by double line, central Dot and flanked by two Dots. Accompanied right Triangle bisected by Line left legged by Line. 16. Cacoillon - Necromancy - Double square capped top and bottom by Triangle, bridged double Line. 15. Mintassa - Polymorphosis - Tenth framed triangle, bisected by line, downward facing. Of thirty utterances, only nineteen possess known symbols reflecting them. The final four with known symbols are those known as the magicks of the spheres. Associated with the physical structure of the realm of the Sangreal, it is presumed that knowledge or effectuation of these forms would enact some sort of control over these fundamental forces. It is noted that as the descending order progresses, the complication of each symbol increases. 14. Poryphassa - Space - Tenth quadresected line and thrice Dot arrayed leading left to ascendant right. 13. Axkon - Gravity - Tenth square trine Dots, facing down. 12. Belisor - Acceleration - Tenth, containing descending Triangle, framed ascending Triangle crowned by two Dots. 11. Ont - Time - Tenth trisected above and below, crowned by Triangle and footed by Line. Some scholars would suggest the 'casting' of spells was accomplished either by compounded runic inscriptions, or by the vocalization of the symbols' less-than-divine nomenclature. A scrap of spellpaper from the aforementioned House Ireaht presumably describing rune placement reads, 'Amahn-pashteq trisected below Kalion, crowned in Molliyan and served by ...' No surviving fragments fully describe the process by which one 'activates' these runes - though it is also believed this may have been a symbolic language describing some internal esoteric process. ~~~ ~ ~ ~ The final set are rumored to exist, approaching a concept known as 'Monadus'. A state of being known as 'the abyss of mind' is referenced as being necessary to achieve forms beyond the 11th. Given that the lowest form known to have been utilized in ancient history to be the 19th, it would be an impressive 'mage' indeed to achieve the 11th. A man (or woman) of measure beyond measures. Cults, as one knows require the uninformed to see a path of 'ever-striving'. These are known as the 'passage of the archmage.' 10. Tont, 9. Yamele, 8. Gokyon, 7. Seb, 6. Saballon, 5. Quinto, 4. Quartos, 3. Theysan, 2. Dorok, 1. Ayne, 0. Monadus.