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PostSubject: The Prince of Darkness   The Prince of Darkness Icon_minitimeThu Sep 13, 2007 9:34 am

In Obeah related to Orisha worship you can become an Obeahman or a Obi-man. This signifies that your pathway is particularly dark and evil. Usually the Obeahmen sooner or later will move to secluded places and perform dark forms of magick mainly connected to the Dead. The Orisha of the Obi-men are called Bones. Bones is the King of Death, and has many features in common with Ghuede of the voudon pantheon, and oddly enough, the Prince of Darkness, Mara in the Buddhist religion. Another deity of great importance is Oduda, which means "The Black One," a complementary mirror-figure of the male King of Death, or "Dark One". She is the principle balancing and most of all - complementing Bones. In features she is closely linked to Maman Brigitte and also resembles the Hindu-Indian Mother Kali (Kali-Ma) in her aspect as Dhumavati and Baghalamukhi combined. The spirit known in the outer world as Anima Sola is also of great importance, but my vow of silence restrains me for telling much about her in the open.

It must be understood that the path of Bones is a special path not suitable for anyone. The path has a tendency to turn the practitioner of his magic into anti-social beings who inhabits what can look like a disrespect for the life of human beings. The initiation of Bones is only given to those who truly belong in this path of empowerment. The access offered to the wisdom of existence and how to change it relies on the practitioners ability to recognize his or hers own heart of hearts in a manner that draws proper cells of attunement close to the practitioners of the Dark Luminosity of Self and the Light of Death. The path of Bones is lethal in the way that he gives his children tools and formulates of a direct and instant function that infuse the ability to severely destroy whatever comes in the Obeahmans path. I have heard stories about Obeahmen who charge people only a few pennys to kill off someone, like they really want to just kill for the sake of killing. These are rumors, maybe a few occasions has given rise to this rumor – since the danger inherent in solely working with the forces of Night and Death is evident. But the same rumors also surround Paleros, without having much substance in them – with of course, a few exceptions.


It is proper to mention vouden at this juncture since Obeah in practice is very similar to vouden. But there are some differences. For instance, Satan is personified in this tradition as all the princes of Hell are. This is due to the great influx of western theurgical teaching and the importance stressed on kabbalah and gematria. The different Grimoires are frequently used by the Obeahmen, like Grimorium Verum and Goethia as well as the VI and VII Books of Moses (it should be mentioned, traditionally it is said that Moses only wrote FIVE books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The other two books, which are claimed to be written by Moses, contain the witchcraft of Egypt from the time of Moses). Both of these books have an especially great importance since Moses is seen as the snake-charmer and among the greatest of magicians having turned a wooden staff into a snake in front of the Egyptian pharaoh. The snake or serpent in the Egyptian language was called Ob and most likely the root for the word Obeah.

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