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Who is our person if not the individual? In the arrogance, confidence, and confusion of clown culture, our person has identified themselves as singular; they carry on with their personal life as if it revolved around their sole brilliance, as if choice was an arbitrary factor, as if the plan and the elan vital were their own. The dialectic with the devil, however, presents our person with damaging new information: that their company has many carriers, not one. Indeed, our person is but the latest representative of an indebted ancestral line; the unbeknownst inheritor of intergenerational evil; the blood signature of all familial loss. All that have come before have left their trace on our person. Not all in equal measure. Some more than others. In the night, our person searches for their voices.

Yes, our person has glimpsed the familiar truth of darkness. Their encounter with great-grandmother has shown that some ancestral voices are bound to evil. Those voices cannot help, they rather hurt. Some few of our predecessors know that they hurt and do so with hostile and selfish intent — those are the greater evils, but many do not know that they hurt — those are the lesser evils. Each must be dealt with on separate terms. Further, there are a number of familiar spirits who can be helpful. Among them, it would be a great accomplishment if twenty-seven of their skeletons were found. Those are the chosen few who can support the completion of the master’s initiatory work, share in the glory of eternal peace, and proceed with our person to the knowledge of God.

Of course, it is possible for our person to complete the Master’s project with minimal ancestral support. Blood spirits are but one option close to home. There are many other tools, technologies, and techniques that can aid project completion, goals, and milestones. Indeed, the Master is ambivalent about the means and methods employed. Aristocrats — such as the fabled King Solomon — accomplish the Work with the violent force of a slave labor kingdom. Hermetic persons attempt the Great Work in solitary practice, alone. Peasants, including tribes and covens, work in guarded, private, groups of mutuals. Sorcerers use manipulation, coercion, and persuasion to convince others to join causes that substitute imitation for initiation, siphoning energy for their own goals.

The Master does not judge the means and methods, or their respective consequences of the operations on the person. The Master is paid in the accumulation of practical results.