The Rite of Indwelling

The Rite of Indwelling is a new Tenebrous ritual I’ve developed. Nine Keys of Abyssal Darkness offers two rites of communion with the Nekalah. One, the Rite of Descent, entails psychically entering into the acausal realm of the Dark Gods. The other, the Rite of the Threshold, involves meeting with them in a boundary zone between our world and theirs. Both have their applications and limitations. Such limitations recently prompted me to devise a third option. This post will describe my method and initial results.

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What do I personally do in ritual?

Ritual magick is not necessarily a topic of interest to all readers of Nine Keys of Abyssal Darkness. I reckon I now have enough readers, though, for at least some to be willing to engage in magickal experimentation. Such individuals may wonder: are there things I personally do in ritual that are not spelled out in Nine Keys? The book’s aim was to provide a framework individuals could elaborate on in accord with their needs and preferences. Insofar as I attempted to simplify down to essentials, though, I left out finer details of what exactly I do. This post will therefore document some of these details. Of course, one needn’t do things the exact way I do. But those trying my methods and getting different results from mine may find such details worth taking into consideration.

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Tenebrous house-cleansing: a variant of the Rite of Banishing

Having recently found myself “distracted by life,” I felt I needed something like a more thorough version of a banishing. What I ultimately did, I found to be highly effective. I therefore thought I’d share it here. It’s a similar sort of ritual to what some might call a “house cleanse” – hence, a Tenebrous house-cleansing. It should be relatively easy to perform for anyone familiar with Nine Keys of Abyssal Darkness’ Rite of Banishing.

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