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 THE HIERARCHY OF DEVOURING

Luciferism can be understood in part as a

philosophical and spiritual extension of eating and
consuming. When compassion, empathy and
conscience are killed, then devouring and
consuming can swell proportionately. When the
impediments to personal power acquisition are
removed, then devouring the life energies of other
beings becomes easy: I become stronger as you
become weaker I absorb strength as yours flows into
me. I become capable of this because I do not
experience your pain, I don't care about your loss,
and I feel no remorse or regret about using, abusing,
and devouring you. On the contrary, I can come to
love your suffering and pain, and use it to help me
rise up the hierarchy of devouring. Your pain
refreshes and empowers me: by devouring your
energy and vitality, I can rise with joy, euphoria, and
ecstasy to become pure powaqqat'si.
We all devour. Luciferans and non Luciferans
alike; like it or not, we are all part of a food chain.
Luciferans simply accept this fact and
enthusiastically expand their range of food
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possibilities, from plants and animals to humans and
even to God.
All human beings are devourers. We eat other
living things. Billions of domesticated animals
come into existence apparently for the sole purpose
of our devouring. Our meat sources often live in
conditions of object misery, and are then coldly and
efficiently transformed into food. We shovel other
beings, both plant and animal, into our mouths
without much reflection on their suffering. We are
devourers, and ours is a world dominated by a
Hierarchy of Devouring.
The term “hierarchy of devouring” came to me
from Charles Templeton. He is now a well known
author, but used to be an aspiring preacher.
Apparently he had been quite good at it, packing
halls in Toronto and sharing billing with preachers
like Billy Graham. Eventually he became an atheist,
and publicly articulated why he no longer believed
in God.
He said he could no longer believe in a God
who would create a hierarchy of devouring. By this
he meant the entire structure of life on this planet,
which is apparently built on one command: eat or
die. Big animals eat smaller ones, they in turn eat
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yet smaller animals and so on down to the simplest
forms of life. At the top of the heap, at least for
now, are human beings. We are at the top because
we are excellent devourers.
“The heart and pulse of life” said Templeton “is
built around cruelty and power”. Just watch a deer
being eaten alive by wolves, its eyes screaming
pain while its entrails pour out over the frozen
grass. Templeton asked how any God could allow
and even reward such cruelty: if God is father, then
what kind of parent would submit his children to
such barbarity? Templeton's insight into the dark
side of Darwinian survival, caused him to question
and eventually lose his faith. What right does any
one being have to devour another? How could a
supposedly compassionate God sanction such a
hierarchical system of devouring?
This system of devouring is not limited to the
animal world. Large corporations devour and
consume smaller ones; large nation states devour the
resources of less powerful ones. On a personal
level, human beings constantly consume the
emotional and intellectual energies of others. The
hierarchy of devouring rips into our personal and
collective lives like a dripping claw. The strong
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devour the weak; not only physically, but
emotionally, financially, socially, psychologically,
and even spiritually. Eat or be eaten, consume or be
consumed, devour or be devoured, possess or be
possessed: this is the way of the world. Darwin
codified this obvious truth for biological science;
Machiavelli did the same for political science.
Economically we call it capitalism, a system
designed to reward the winners and punish the
losers struggling to survive and prosper on the
socio-economic hierarchy. Of course we deny this
reality. It is too painful. Imagine eating your fast
food meal while envisioning how it actually came to
be in your hand: from the slaughterhouse to the grill
is a legacy of ugliness. We deny it biologically just
as we deny it socially. We set up great civilized
codes as a bulwark against the harsh truth of the
devouring hierarchy.
Luciferans, however, not only acknowledge the
devouring hierarchy but embrace it. Their myths
celebrate the successful predator and devourer on all
levels of the physical hierarchy and on emotional,
cognitive and spiritual hierarchies as well. Their
symbols reflect fascination with the power of the
predator. Luciferans want to develop the predatory
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skills, attitudes, and beliefs, which can deliver an
advantage on the real cutting edge of competition.
Their heroes and mentors are all successful
predators: industrial barons, great historical
warriors, and successful leaders in the political
realm.
To a Luciferan, life is as it is. Cruelty and
devouring are the way of things, so why not adapt?
Why not admit the obvious and become good at it?
All else is simply illusion. There is only one reality,
and that is acquiring the power to devour "up the
hierarchy" biologically, personally, socially, and
politically.

DEVOURING UP HE HIERARCHY

Rising up the devouring hierarchy is the

Luciferan's goal, but to accomplish this rising, the
Luciferan has to first accumulate sufficient power.
Power comes in many forms, but has only one end:
elevation to the apex of the devouring hierarchy. In
order to obtain enough power, Luciferans must take
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power from other beings by absorbing their energy,
vitality, and life-force.
Eating plant life or animal flesh is only one way
to absorb energy: Luciferans must know how to
draw energy from other sources as well. Luciferans
need to expand their "diet" because the simple
physical devouring of plants or animals cannot
provide sufficient energy and power to scale the
hierarchy. To devour their way to the top,
Luciferans have to also learn how to ingest the
emotional, cognitive, and spiritual energies of
human prey.
Like any successful predator, Luciferans have to
find a way to expand their food resources. Just as
omnivorous predators are more successful than their
strictly carnivorous competitors, so too Luciferans
are likely to be more successful than their non-
Luciferan human competitors because their food
sources will include - in addition to plant and
animal life the full range of human energies
offered up from the body to the soul.
Luciferans have learned how to devour and
metabolize these human energies, to withdraw these
vital forces from their human victims in order to
enhance and vitalize their own lives. I do not
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completely understand how this powaggat'si process
works. I do know that the process exists, and that
Luciferans depend upon it to fully actualize and
empower their own drive for godhood at the apex of
the hierarchy.

PHYSICAL DEVOURING: RITUAL

SACRIFICE

When elevated to formal religious status,

devouring becomes sacrifice the ritual eating of the
victim's physical body. The logic of sacrifice is
grounded in devouring: since devouring unites all
forms of sentient life, logically it should form the
basis of many religious rituals. For example, Christ
is devoured in the Mass; communion is the act of
devouring the blood and body of Jesus Christ.
Christ was sacrificed, and apparently welcomed the
opportunity to be devoured rather than to devour.
For the practicing Luciferan, however, sacrifice
involves the ritual devouring of other life forms.
The ritual killing and eating of an animal, an
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enemy, or an innocent victim is a ceremonial way
of celebrating power acquisition through devouring.
More than just ceremonial celebration is
accomplished; Luciferans believe that the act of
devouring a human being's body parts bestows
special energy and power, which the Luciferan
needs in order to ascend the hierarchy. Luciferans
are not alone in this belief. A cult group in
Matamoros, Mexico, for example, recently killed
several human victims and devoured their body
parts. They were practicing an ancient and
venerated method of power acquisition, albeit in a
crude and ineffective manner. It may seem
disgusting and bizarre to outsiders, but makes
perfect sense as ritual.
In ritual sacrifice, several goals are achieved
simultaneously. First, the practicing cult member is
inducted into the group. A kind of initiation occurs,
the new recruit is bonded, and the entire
organization is strengthened. The ritual sanctifies,
celebrates, unifies, and elevates the group. Second,
the new member learns how to kill without
conscience and compassion for the victim. As the
altar-kill begs for life, as it screams its pain, rage,
and fear, the cult member has to harden and then
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destroy her own compassion and empathy before
killing. Thus the new recruit has only other group
members to turn to: all outsiders are simply
sacrificial offerings, nothing more than meat. Some
group members, thirdly, may believe they actually
absorb the power and energy of their ritual victim.
Victims thus become food. Their physical,
emotional, social and spiritual power is absorbed
and utilized to empower the group. Finally, the
group makes an offering to its God in exchange for
some kind of perceived spiritual power gain. The
cult member wants to devour before being
devoured. Ritual cannibalism and sacrifice are the
logical extension of this desire for power. The
group hopes that its God will accept the offering
and grant favors.
The Matamoros cult is not consciously
Luciferan. They are included here only as a
contemporary example of the compelling and
apparently enduring power of human sacrifice.
Human sacrifice may seem primitive, brutal and
bizarre to the civilized mind, but it has a long and
historically powerful history in our culture and
others. This history suggests that human sacrifice
will once again return. In the words of Patrick
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Tierney, author of The Highest Altar: the Story of
Human Sacrifice, "Not wanting to know about
human sacrifice is one of the dominant motifs of
religious history - almost as dominant as its
repeated performance... Blood sacrifice is the oldest
and most universal act of piety... sacrifice was the
essence of ancient man's sacred life ...From Israel to
Greece, from the Old World to the New, sacrifice
was the religious experience.
Tierney describes some of the reasons for
human sacrifice. The sacrificed becomes a spiritual
slave. The victim saves others as a surrogate or a
scapegoat to placate a God angry about sin. The
victim is granted immortality to become God-like.
The act itself creates wealth, power, and good luck
(especially if the victim is buried in, say, a buildings
foundation). Natural events come under control or
through the dynamic vows can be made and
fulfilled.
However confusing or inconsistent or perhaps
compelling - this logic might be, Tierney stresses
that human sacrifice “can only be comprehended by
a direct experience beyond rational thought”. True
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 As Rene Girard has pointed out in Violence and
the sacred, the logic of sacrifice is complex: all four
of the above reasons apply, and probably more as
well. He adds, “Religion shelters us from violence
just as violence seeks shelter in religion”. He was
not thinking of Luciferism here, but his words
perfectly define Luciferan sacrifice.
In contrast to the kind of primitive and
unsophisticated ceremonial sacrifice of the
Matamoros cult, Luciferans despise such clumsy
brutality. Luciferans are not group-animals. They
reject all organizational bonding unless it directly
serves their personal needs: other Luciferans are
only competitors to be overcome. For Luciferans,
devouring human flesh is an act barely removed
from devouring animals or plants. They seldom use
it because it yields little real energy or power. An
individual Luciferan might occasionally use ritual
sacrifice to solidify his control over a group of
submissive followers, but the act seldom yields
benefits sufficient to compensate for the risks of
discovery.
Ritually killing and devouring humans refreshes
and reminds Luciferans of their commitment to
devour their way up the hierarchy in pursuit of
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absolute power. As a symbolic act it has some
validity; as a practical method of power acquisition,
it is risky and seldom worth the effort. Emotional,
cognitive and spiritual devouring is far more
nutritious.

DEVOURING EMOTIONAL
ENERGY

Luciferans eat the emotional energy of victims.

They parasitically drain those around them, leaving
their victims desiccated, exhausted, confused,
despairing, and depressed. Victims can seldom
articulate the source of their depression; they just
feel drained, lifeless and empty.
All strong emotions are good food. Fear, hate,
love, jealously, anger, joy Luciferans learn to absorb
them all. Luciferans are especially attracted to
individuals who have a healthy emotional life, who
feel the depth of human emotion, and who can
therefore be drained of this vital energy. Luciferans
never truly return or reciprocate attention, love, or
affection, but absorb it, use it, and hoard it. They
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consciously set out to destroy healthy emotion by
devouring it.
Devouring does two things. First, it drains the
victim. Second, it strengthens the devourer. By
“taking in” and absorbing this emotional energy, the
Luciferan transforms it into useful predatory power.
At the same time, a despised victim from a lower
order of human life is destroyed.
Devouring or eating “emotion” is not difficult.
If emotion is energy, and the energy radiates
outward from the victim, then devouring means
making sure all of the victim's energy is directed to
only one source - the devouring Luciferan herself.
In order to direct, contain, and control this energy,
the Luciferan has to ensure that the victim is totally
infatuated and enthralled with no one and nothing
else. Luciferans thrive on the admiration and
devotion given to them by victims because they
have learned how to absorb it as food.
In order to ensure a steady flow of such
admiration, the Luciferan must use all of his
charisma and influence to ensure that the victim
cuts ties with family, friends, and other close
contacts. These other individuals are potential
threats, because the victim's emotional energy might
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"leak" in their direction. The victim must also be
disconnected from activities, hobbies, habits and
interests that provide happiness, stability and
refreshment, because these outside activities might
provide him with enough strength and energy to
challenge or even break free of the predator. The
victim must be isolated and cut off from all other
potential sources to which emotions might be
connected. This ensures that all energy will be
directed to the Luciferan, and also that the victim
will eventually collapse.
Collapse is desirable. Luciferans seldom drain
just one victim endlessly, allowing her to recover
just enough to continue a cycle of devouring. They
do not allow the victim time to recover for two
reasons.
First, the victim might gain enough strength to
pull away, and this would mean defeat. Defeat is not
just loss of food, but an actual drainage of Luciferan
vitality: energy is depleted through the loss. I am
not clear about the actual details of this process, but
it partly rests upon the notion that the Luciferan
connects so closely with his prey that if his victim
were to rip away prematurely, then part of the
Luciferan would go at the same time. In addition,
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the Luciferan would experience an immediate loss of
pride and self-esteem. Pride, power, and success are
everything to the Luciferan, so losing a victim
means experiencing the unbearable emotions of
shame, powerlessness, and failure.
Second, there is a kind of rush when the victim
finally collapses and breaks. This rush provides a
fresh impulse of energy: if emotional devouring can
be compared to making love, then the victim's final
collapse is the orgasm following foreplay.
Luciferans believe that, upon reaching the victim's
final emotional breaking point, something essential
and deeply satisfying passes from victim to
predator.
Having thus drained and used the victim, the
Luciferan moves on to other victims. Restored and
refreshed by victory because power has shifted from
the victim to the victimizer. The Luciferan never
feels remorse or guilt for her actions. In her mind,
she has the right to take from those too weak or
inferior to take from her. She feels stronger, more
vital, and more alive. No amount of counseling,
explaining, or threatening will change this basic
Luciferan belief: intensely alive, purposeful and
energized. Like any other predator, she, feels deep
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waves of organic pleasure in the act of stalking and
eating.
The actual mechanisms of energy transfer are
not clear to me. Part of process involves simple
inspiration: the Luciferan draws energy and joy
from this drainage, much as we might find delight
in a sunset or a beautiful work of art. But part also
involves an actual energy drain, much as a battery is
drained of electricity. Luciferans have learned to
draw energy from emotions just as our digestive
system has evolved to take energy from food.
The type of emotion collected and devoured is
irrelevant. Fear, anger, jealousy and hate can be just
as useful as love, affection, and trust, although
much more difficult to manage. Luciferans love the
adulation offered by victims, but can also thrive
equally on hate, rage, and hostility. We have all met
someone who seems to thrive on hostility; the
angrier we get the more satisfied the person
becomes. Luciferans can also experience such deep
satisfaction from their victims’ anger and hatred. As
long as the victim focuses completely on the
predator and slowly but surely leaks her vitality,
energy and strength into the predator, the end result
is the same. Not all emotional devourers are
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consciously Luciferan: the process also occurs as a
kind of emotional cannibalism in every day life.
For example, women who work in shelters
instinctively understand how this kind of emotional
cannibalism works, because they see its effects daily
in the deadened eyes of women seeking shelter from
abusive men. Unfortunately, women can be
emotional cannibals too, and are just as likely to be
attracted to Luciferism as men. Luciferism is not
sexist. Power is power, and Luciferans know that it
can gather around a woman as easily as a
man.
Educators and therapists working with children
can also instinctively recognize the signs of
emotional cannibalism. Some children seem
emotionally dead at an early age, unable to relate to
peers effectively, unable to share, to take criticism,
to play fairly. They begin to mimic the Luciferan
style in their relationships with others because, just
as the abused frequently become abusers, so too the
survivors of emotional cannibalism can become
devourers as well. Such children show cruelty
toward animals and other children, show little
remorse or guilt, lie frequently, and generally seek
to elevate themselves by lowering others. They are
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often intensely competitive, where winning is
everything and losing disastrous. This may be a
survival tactic for these children, because if they do
not practice to become better predators than their
abusers, then they will remain exposed and weak
prey to be devoured by their own abusers.
As these children grow older, they often come
to know that if they cause victims to trust, love,
open and give themselves, then when the devouring
inevitably occurs, the victim's shock becomes good
energy, good food. And so the cycle perpetuates
itself. Emotional cannibalism and the vampire myth
seem related: something is taken from the victim
(emotional energy or blood) who then has to
vampirize others to replace the loss. Emotional
vampires instinctively seek out others whose
emotional life is vibrantly alive because they see a
source of food. For Luciferans, emotional
devouring is part of a wider strategy of conscious
power acquisition, which also includes devouring
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 DEVOURING COGNITIVE
ENERGY

To understand how cognitive energy can be

devoured, we have to look at core identity, which
refers to the victim's “cognitive center” - the location
of core beliefs about self, world and reality.
Core identity can be understood as a complex
union of a number of forces: genetics, gender,
environmental influences, and so on. As identity
develops within the individual, a web or network of
related beliefs about self, reality, and other people is
created. This belief system is the foundation upon
which the individual maintains safety, security, and
sanity. It seems to be the source from which
decisions are made to meet basic needs such as
nourishment, love, and self actualization. By core
identity I mean the beliefs, values, schemas and
self-assessments by which each of us identify
ourselves as ourselves.
To better understand this, it might be useful to
think of beliefs as layered from surface to depth,
from less crucial to more central. Milton Rokeach,
an influential psychologist of beliefs and belief
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systems and author of the classic books, The Open
and Closed Mind and Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values
describes how shifts in peripheral versus core
beliefs can impact an individual.
Peripheral beliefs, those on the surface and
therefore less essential, are more easily altered, and
when changed have little impact on the person's
entire identity-belief system. I can shift my belief
that one laundry soap is better than another without
experiencing a dramatic ripping apart of my whole
belief system.
A shift in beliefs about the most effective
laundry soap might only alter my purchasing
behavior, but a shift in something deeper might
alter behavior in more profound ways. This is the
territory of what Rokeach calls “core beliefs”. If I
have been raised to believe in God in such a way
that this belief nurtures my entire reality orientation,
therefore providing order and security to my world,
then loss of this core belief deeply shakes my entire
being.
Using a systems theory approach, Rokeach
defines the central core region as holding the most
basic or “primitive” beliefs about self, reality, and
other people; the intermediate region contains
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beliefs about authority, about individuals and
sources which can be trusted; and the peripheral
region holds derived beliefs" which accumulate and
change over time. Change is easiest from the
outside-in, from less meaningful to more important,
from less essential to the absolutely crucial. Beliefs
are thus layered like an onion: I can switch my
choice of soft drinks without shaking the
foundations of my core identity, but I would have
more difficulty letting go of my memory of my
personal past or my beliefs about my own identity.
It is in this sense that I would like to use the term
“core identity” here.

BREAKING INTO THE CORE &

CREATING AN OBJECT-OF-FOCUS

Luciferans believe that core identity can be

devoured only when it is broken, like an egg or a
nutshell. Once broken, the victim's core identity
yields powerful energies. To break the victim's core
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it. To gain access, the Luciferan needs a powerful
key, for even the weakest human will not easily
open up such intimate territory. Access can be
gained by fashioning an object-of-focus.
To initially gain access to the victim's cognitive
core, the Luciferan has to fashion a lure, a device
which will invite the victim to open his core
identity. An “object-of-focus” is such a lure or key.
An object-of-focus can be a belief system, an
icon (such as a specific object or even the
Luciferan's personality), a sacred place, an intense
experience (euphoria, ecstasy), or any other thing
that the Luciferan has created and therefore
controls.
To construct an effective object-of-focus, the
Luciferan must have the skill to find just what each
victim is looking for, and then appear to offer it.
This is not as difficult as it sounds, because most
potential victims are seeking something: more
knowledge, more meaning, more power, more
money, better relationships, better sex. Most
victims will happily provide key information about
themselves to anyone who appears able to help them
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 The Luciferan thus has to appear interested in
the victim. Beyond this, the Luciferan has to appear
to have some special secret, some vast reservoir of
wisdom and power with which to answer the
victim's yearning, whatever it might be. The
Luciferan has to rely on accumulated personal
power, charisma, and innovation to seem attractive,
appealing, and wise to the victim: in other words, to
earn the victim's complete trust.
With this trust, the Luciferan can then discover
the victim's deepest questions about self, world, and
reality, the kind of questions that inhabit the victim's
deepest areas of core identity. With this information,
the Luciferan can then fashion an object-of-focus.
The object-of-focus must appeal to the victim's
mind, to his cognitions about self, world, and
reality. It must resonate with the deepest yearnings
of his core self. It must be specifically tailored to
invite the victim's curiosity, then his fascination,
and then his commitment. It must become the
victim's central focus and preoccupation. It must
inspire the victim's deepest loyalty and trust.
The object-of-focus must therefore be so
compelling that the victim invites it into the
territory of his core primitive beliefs. This
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invitation effectively opens up the victim's core
territory. The object-of-focus is thus both the lure
designed to attract the victim and the key to open up
his core identity. Once attracted, enthralled, riveted,
and entranced, the victim then opens herself; once
open, she becomes available for cognitive
devouring - that is, the Luciferan can feed from her
“core” and obtain powerful energy as a result.
Controlling the victim's core cognitive focus is
like a type of hypnotism: the victim’s full trust and
attention empties into a symbolic object-of-focus
controlled by the Luciferan. No matter what form
the object-of-focus takes, at its center it must
celebrate the Luciferan's personality: all facets of
the object must point toward the Luciferan as the
victim's ultimate destination. That is, the object-of-
focus must deify the Luciferan. The victim must
never know this or suspect any predatory motives,
however, especially at first. Later on it will not
matter.
As with emotional energy, once the victim's
cognitive focus is under control, then all else
follows. This is true because the victim's core sense
of identity, the full attention of her deep self, is
offered to the predator like a throat pulsing with
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sweet blood: the Luciferan actually eats his way
into the victim's core identity like a wolf into a
deer's brain.

ASSAULTING THE CORE

Once the victim has opened his core identity,

then the Luciferan can tear it apart in preparation for
devouring by using a process known as
brainwashing, thought reform, or “coercive
persuasion,” a process that will be called
psychological assault here. Psychological assault
can be understood by asking a simple question: is
assault possible without physical contact?
This question may seem rhetorical. The obvious
answer is “no”: a person cannot be assaulted unless
struck or harmed by fists or weapons wielded by an
attacker. But consider another type of assault. Is it
possible to mount a psychological assault, to beat
another person's core identity into submission using
psychological techniques? The answer here may be
a little harder to understand, a little less forthcoming.
Yet we already know more than we might think.
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 For example, we all know someone who carries
on through life as if beaten, head hanging down,
eyes locked to the floor. Submissive and afraid, this
person lacks self confidence, has a destructive self-
image, and views life as a series of impending crises
about to occur. It is as if something within him has
been violated and twisted, as if his core identity has
been literally beaten to a pulp. Physically healthy
but psychologically beaten: how many people
suffering like this have we met? I would suggest
that some of these people are not in this condition
because of personality flaws, but because they have
been psychologically assaulted.
A little closer to home, we all remember
personal encounters with someone who seemed to
abuse us psychologically. Perhaps it was a person at
work with authority over us, or maybe our parents,
spouse, or lover - whoever it was, somehow he or
she managed to violate something deep inside us.
Without being touched physically, somehow we
walked away feeling soiled and abused, our self-
worth and self-confidence shattered. It is as if this
person somehow reached inside to attack and then
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 I would like to suggest a way to describe this
kind of invasion by defining it as psychological
assault.
We all have fairly solid ideas about the nature
of physical or sexual assault. But what exactly is
psychological assault? How can a person be
abused psychologically? To answer this I would
like to offer a definition, and then explain each of
its components.
Psychological assault is the process by which
an individual or group utilizes known techniques to
systematically assault, break down, and replace a
targeted individual's core identity for purposes of
dominance and control.
Psychological assault has been reported and
investigated under a variety of names: “thought
reform”, “coercive persuasion” coordinated
programs of coercive influence and behavior
control", and so on. (See Cialdini, 1984; Conway
and Siegelman, 1978; Frank 1961; Lifton, 1961,
1987; Sargant, 1957, 1974; Schein, 1961; Singer
1972, 1986, 1990.) My definition has been drawn
from this tradition, especially from the work of
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 As with any new and emerging discipline,
definitions abound. I have coined a new term not
out of disrespect for past work but because there
are subtle but important differences of focus and
usage. As this field matures, hopefully a consistent
nomenclature will evolve.
Some key points emerge. Psychological
assault is a process. It happens over time. It is
ongoing. This implies some kind of relationship
between the abuser and the abused. Thus we find
that psychological assault occurs between parents
and children, in marriages, between employer and
employee, and so on.
The abuser may be an individual or a group.
More than one person can work in concert with
others in a group to commit psychological assault.
These groups may range from loosely knit gangs to
sophisticated organizations. Within advanced
organizations psychological assault can be so
endemic that the organization itself (as opposed to
individuals within it) can be described as abusive.
A known set of techniques can be used to
commit psychological assault. These techniques
have evolved in the last twenty years and can now
be described as a sophisticated technology. (These
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techniques will not be discussed here: please refer to
Singer, Schein, Lifton, and others for details). To be
effective, the technology must be systematic: it must
be used over time and in a specific sequence.
The technology has only one purpose: to assault
and break down a targeted individual's core
identity. When healthy, one's core identity is open,
positive, vibrant, and vital. When unhealthy, core
identity renders the person unworthy, hopeless,
isolated, and drained. Psychological assault
technology attempts to create a negative or even
self-destructive core identity in its target.
So why would anyone want to deliberately and
systematically destroy a person's core identity?
After all, what use is a person bent on self-
destruction? The reason is simple: dominance and
control. If I wish to control you, I may have some
trouble if your core identity is strong. But if I could
break down your core identity and then replace or
rebuild your identity in a way beneficial to me, then
my power over you would be strong indeed. Thus I
would cause you to believe at a core level that you
are hopeless without me, that disobeying me would
be tragic, that I am your superior in all ways. My
control over your identity is then inside you, woven
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deeply into the fabric of your being. When
achieved, such control is a power which renders all
others impotent: you will do as I say without
requiring rewards or coercion, money or force. For
the Luciferan, dominance and control is a kind of
food, an energy that can be metabolized to stimulate
and support personal growth.
Luciferans utilize the technology of
psychological assault to break their target's core
identity, and then feed on the energy released by this
breakdown. But the destruction of a target's core
identity is only a phase in psychological assault.
Once identity is undermined, it can then be changed
to allow the abuser to take control. If the Luciferan
succeeds in breaking a target's identity, a further and
final step can therefore take place: he can change
the victim's core identity in certain specific
directions. For example, a Luciferan charismatic
preacher will rant for hours about the evil ugliness
of the flock, about the absolute hopelessness of sin
leading to eternal hell, about the near presence of
Satan. His followers may then undergo a process of
identity-death, a sense of deep revulsion about
themselves and about human nature generally. But
the preacher's intention is to take his flock beyond
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self-loathing. He uses this state to create an
opening into which his own belief system can enter:
“Just follow me”, he says, “and you will be saved.
Just change your ways, and you will be
transformed. You will go beyond identity-death to
rebirth”. He might just as well add “I will then be
your parent. And you will obey me”.
In other words, psychological assault can be
used to undermine identity so it can be replaced.
Political demagogues, religious cultists, and leaders
of mass movements are familiar with this process.
The process could be compared to biological
imprinting: just as a little duckling will accept the
first moving object it sees as mother, so too a victim
of psychological assault will imprint a new identity
implanted by the abuser. If I believe Jim Jones is
God's only agent on earth that I therefore owe him
unquestioning loyalty and trust, then when he asks
me to drink deadly poison I will do it willingly. If I
believe he is a lunatic, then I will escape from him
or disobey his request if I can. This argument holds
for all other core beliefs about religious, political,
economic and other important motivating forces
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 The precise nature of the implanted identity
system, or object-of-focus, varies from abuser to
abuser. Some implant their own pathological
problems: hence the abused child later on in life
becomes an abuser, just like the abusive parent.
Some abusers implant religious notions of identity:
the abused person is defined by his or her adherence
to an ideologically correct set of attributes. Other
abusers implant therapeutic notions of correct
identity: therapy itself can become a process of
psychological assault in which the therapist
implants a favored identity system into the client/
victim. (Recent books such as Making Monsters by
Ofshe and The Myth of Repressed Memory by
Loftus explore the manipulation used by therapists).
The same can be said for political and educational
movements that care less for their followers’ or
pupils’ development than for their own ideological
definitions of reality.
The foundation of psychological assault rests on
the nature of power and control, dominance and
submission. The idea is simple: to control a man,
control what he believes to be true; to control what
he believes to be true, control his core identity. This
form of control is deeper and more effective than
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violence, rewards, punishments and other, forms of
power and control. Luciferans know this fact
intimately, and use it constantly. Psychological
assault the victim's core belief systems, while
spiritual devouring goes even deeper, into the soul
itself. Cognitive devouring occurs primarily in the
realm of the psychological, while spiritual devouring
occupies transcendent territory, the place pointed
out by Maslow, transpersonal psychologists, and
spiritual traditions generally.
Hundreds of powerful belief systems have
sought to capture and use this basic human urge for
soul transcendence. The spiritual search seems to
be as basic a human drive as food, safety, security
and love. Like any other human drive or need,
however, it can become food for Luciferan
devourers.
Soul energy is most easily devoured by
diversion. That is, the Luciferan finds the victim's
spiritual blood-pulse, and then diverts it, just as
emotional and cognitive energy are diverted from
the victim to the Luciferan predator. In this process,
the Luciferan swells as the victim is drained.
This devouring is possible because of the
victim's search for spirituality provides an opening
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for the Luciferan; the search itself means the victim
is open, looking, receptive, or even desperate. This
desperation comes from the unfulfilled yet driving
need for spiritual transcendence, a drive that seems
even more powerful than the struggle to find
personal identity. As with all predation, the victim's
desperate need always works in the predator's favor.
The Luciferan simply has to find effective
spiritual camouflage to lure the victim, and
therefore manufactures and sells her own unique
spiritual truth, a kind of narcotic to ease the victim's
pain. Once convinced that spiritual wisdom has
been found, the seeker / victim then opens his soul
to the Luciferan, offering up his immense need and
energy, surrendering himself to the Luciferan's
predation. This feeding swells the Luciferan with
pride, attention, and power: she literally grows
stronger on the vital spiritual energy drained from
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 SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS
ATTRACTING LUCIFERAN
DEVOURERS

Luciferans know that certain spiritual traditions

attract seekers who are willing to open their deepest
soul-essence. These seekers are easy prey, because
their desperation for spiritual wisdom renders them
careless. If the Luciferan can successfully disguise
herself as a spiritual "master" to whom the seeker
must open and submit, then seeker becomes
available for devouring.
Luciferans therefore hunt for various spiritual
traditions that demand profound self surrender.
These traditions all associate virtue and goodness
with opening and surrendering self to either an
outside power, such as god, or an internal source,
such as higher self. The seeker obviously wishes to
surrender to something wonderful, loving, and
compassionate; Luciferans can easily insert
themselves into the process by pretending to be this
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surrenders soul to the Luciferans, not to the spiritual
tradition; devouring then follows.
These spiritual traditions are varied, but can be
organized in the following categories.

SELF-ANNIHILATING TRADITIONS

Luciferan predators are attracted to spiritual

traditions emphasizing complete surrender of
personality, past, identity, and carnality while
promising initiation through transformation and
rebirth. In such traditions the victim is eager and
willing to lower all defenses and hand over self-
control. The goal is self-annihilation, meaning the
destruction of the ego and other “lower order”
aspects of self, as emphasized in various New Age,
Eastern, and charismatic Christian traditions. In the
hands of a loving and compassionate spiritual guide,
such trust can be beautiful. But in the hands of a
Luciferan, it is deadly. Once broken down and
converted, the victim can then be used. Unaware of
the deception, the victim truly believes that his new
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spiritual leader is the source and center of all truth
and beauty, and becomes willing do anything to
promote and proselytize the “Cause”. The
Luciferan encourages this devotion to the point that
it becomes the close-minded fanaticism described
by Eric Hoffer in his book The True Believer.
Caught in this way, the victim will expend
tremendous energy for the Luciferan, who then
becomes enriched materially, emotionally,
cognitively and spiritually in the process.
Luciferans thrive on unquestioning obedience and
adoration, and feel great pleasure in their ability to
command strict unquestioning obedience from their
followers. They devour the adoration released by
their followers' spiritual search, and will do
anything to keep it, including intimidation, murder,
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 ECSTATIC TRADITIONS

Spiritual traditions emphasizing trance, ecstasy,

euphoria, and rapture as a way-of knowing also
attract Luciferans. To enter these states, the searcher
has to release her conscious rational mind, let go of
defenses, and fall into the sheer power of the
experience. These states have been the fountain of
profound wisdom for art, literature, and religion, and
are sought in virtually all mystical, religious
traditions. Luciferans value them, however, because
they can be manipulated and used to create
addiction.
The experience of rapture itself is so
inexplicably overwhelming that many seekers come
to desire it for its own sake. Luciferans who know
how to induce these states can become ”spiritual
drug dealers”, creating deep dependence in their
followers. Techniques for inducing such
experiences are well known and documented, and
usually include sleep or food deprivation, repetitive
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trance induction through hypnosis, rhythmic
dancing or drumming, and so on.
Seeker victims who first experience these
wonderful states tend to imprint on the person or
group providing them. As with cognitive
devouring, this seems to work much like the young
duckling which, when first hatched, will bond or
imprint on its mother: experiments have shown that
this imprinting can be transferred to other items (i.e.
a stuffed 'mother') or even other species, including
humans. In the same way, when we first experience
transcendent rapture, the experience is so moving
that it can feel like an actual rebirth of new life.
Gratitude swells toward the “spiritual parent” who
provided this gift. If this parent is a Luciferan, then
the victim will imprint and bond with him.
The victim will then be controlled, and her
energies used and devoured. Cult leaders know
exactly how to induce this state, and exactly what
to do with it once achieved. In my experience,
cultic “weekend transformational seminars”, for
example, specialize in producing and then
manipulating transcendent and euphoric states of
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more information about weekend transformational
seminars).

TRADITIONS OF TRANCE
CHANNELING AND
SPIRIT POSSESSION

Spiritual traditions steeped in one form of spirit

invocation or another where the acolyte consciously
seeks, to put aside her own personality to let a
discarnate entity speak through her attract powerful
interest from Luciferans as well. The seeker /
victim willingly opens herself to be temporarily
possessed, to become a channel for some other
force. This opening attracts the Luciferan’s lust for
possession. Luciferans are drawn to such invitations
because the victim willingly opens and offers
herself for devouring and ownership. As with self-
annihilating and ecstatic spirituality, the Luciferan
can take and use the honest intentions of the seeker
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can range from enhanced material wealth to the
sheer delight of powaggat'si.
Cult leaders understand spiritual devouring, as
do Luciferan leaders of mainline religions. Luring,
capturing and devouring the spiritual hopes and
dreams of millions is good food, great money,
wonderful power. Political demagogues of all
stripes try to feed on this spiritual flesh as well.
The energy expended and exerted by seeker /
victim is more dynamic for Luciferans than that
radiated by the search for emotional fulfillment or
cognitive meaning. It is a force that has animated
and driven human history in all cultures: just think
of the influence of Christian energy or Muslim
power. As a force, an energy, it is a powerful vein,
rich in nutrients and sustenance for the Luciferan.
This is why Luciferans are always attracted to
powerful religious movements, especially those that
emphasize self-annihilation, ecstasy, trance
channeling. They want to eat rich food, and soul
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 DEVOURING IN MYTH

For Luciferans, devouring supplies power

sources deep within the devourer, thus empowering
ecstatic movement up the Luciferan hierarchy. For
non-Luciferans, however, devouring tends to be
repressed or even deeply feared. As with most
feared and repressed realities, it has fled to the
frightening realm of myth. Most mythological
creatures and monsters are feared primarily because
of their power to devour us. Vampires drain our
blood and therefore our vital energy: once the
vampire tastes our blood, we become one with him,
a slave, or a follower.
We are deeply and primally terrified of being
eaten. Hansel and Gretel are captured and prepared
as food for the witch; the Giant in Jack and the
Beanstalk “smells the blood” of his potential
victims.
References to this primal fear of being devoured
are everywhere in myth and horror stories. This
may reflect the collective memory of our primitive
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frightening animals. Or it may reflect a kind of
evolutionary prescience: if Darwinian laws hold
true, some form of predator should eventually
evolve to devour humans and control human
populations. This predator would be the next logical
leap in evolution, as far beyond us as we are beyond
cattle, Luciferans claim to be this next leap. Recent
fascination with the vampire (Anne Rice's work for
example) is probably built on this notion: vampires
are physically faster and stronger, possessing senses
far beyond their human prey. Once human, now
evolved beyond humanity, the vampire thrives on
the living blood of victims, devouring them in the
process. So does the werewolf: once human, he
becomes a predator, eating humans. Even the
zombies in the Dawn of the Dead movies eat
humans for food, (particularly brains, for which
these lurching creatures have a particular fondness).
Other fictional or mythological creations articulate
this same theme: the beast is let loose within the
human, and the human is transformed to devour
other humans.
Luciferism, however, does not want to just
release the irrational raging past - it wishes to give
the beast the power of rational thought without the
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impediments of compassion or conscience.
Luciferism seeks to go beyond simple myth to
genetically recreate and evolve the human mind, to
bypass connections between the brain's cortex and
the so-called 'mammalian' part of the brain, to unite
it to its earlier 'reptilian' core, and to connect both of
these to the higher spiritual self. The result might
be called a rational reptile, a thinking serpent, a
spiritually evolved snake.
Vampires and werewolves are myth, but
Luciferans seek to actively invoke and consciously
create a new human predator similar to the vampire.
In the process they also seek to create a new human
order.
This partly explains our prescient fear and
revulsion of Nazism: Hitler intended to create a race
of supermen highly evolved beyond lower human
life forms and prepared to annihilate all lesser
beings without guilt or remorse. Several well-
known works such as Goodrick-Clarke's The Occult
Roots of Nazism or Sklar's The Nazis and the Occult
explore the psycho-spiritual foundations of Nazi
thought, which sought the creation of a superman
elite, the extermination of lesser beings, and the
establishment of a New World Order. In a similar
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way, Anton Lavey, the self-confessed Satanist,
wrote in his book The Satanic Witch about his
notions of racial purity and cleansing, and about the
evolutionary superiority of his own brand of new
human.
Our collective fear of being devoured may
reflect our ancient past or our fears of a newly
evolving human predator. No matter, the point here
is clear: Devouring horrifies us, and so will
continue to animate our appetite for both ancient
and newly created devouring myths.

FROM MYTH TO REALITY:

RELEASING THE
PREDATOR WITHIN

According to Luciferan thought, to become

Luciferan we have to evolve into superior
devourers. We have to become faster, smarter and
more ruthless. We have to invite and embrace
predatory impulses. We have to release the
“spiritual reptile” within. We must do so without
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regret, doubt, conscience, or compassion. Once
released, these impulses lead us to see other humans
as prey. Luciferans know that weak humans can be
mined for various energies ranging from the
physical to the spiritual. Humans can be used,
drained, and discarded.
As the Luciferan gains power and energy
through devouring, he is gradually changed. He
becomes desensitized to his victim's pain, and easily
dismisses and rationalizes it. He compartmentalizes
himself. And then he annihilates the compartment.
The psychiatrist and researcher Robert Jay Lifton
describes the first part of this process as psychic
numbing and doubling: by suppressing or numbing
himself, the individual manages to live up to
external appearances of normality while actually
giving birth to a whole new personality complete
with a supportive belief system. In the same way,
the Luciferan gradually destroys his own capacities
for compassion toward his victims and becomes, by
degrees, remorseless. He invents a coldly
devouring double. He then becomes the double,
shedding his humanness like dead skin.
For Luciferans, this process of change is
deliberate and conscious, utterly different from the
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kind of criminality associated with the psychopath.
The Luciferan's transformation is rationally
engineered as part of his commitment to a belief
system, while the criminal psychopath is often
reacting to environmental conditioning such as
early childhood abuse.
The Luciferan wishes to release the predator
within, and despises the think sweet coating of
civilization, which suffocates this primal force. He
wishes to evolve and transform beyond conscience
and compassion. I am not certain how Luciferans
see this transformation unfolding. It is possibly
meant to occur over generations, through conscious
selective breeding by a Luciferan elite, and resulting
gradually from the conscious intent of contemporary
Luciferans. Or it may be a product of natural
evolution and Darwinian selection, creating species
as far beyond us as we are from apes, its ultimate
destination hidden and locked in the depth of genetic
necessity and designed to serve the needs of “selfish
genes”.
The transformation might result in physical
changes - that is, the evolution of a physically
superior predator possessing advanced powers of
body and mind - which may gradually result from a
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cumulative series of smaller changes beginning with
the decision to kill conscience and compassion.
These gradual personal and generational changes
would then make devouring easier, more
pleasurable, and ultimately as “natural” as a cat
toying with a half-dead mouse or an eagle lifting
into the air with its prey twisting in its talons. But
the ultimate transformation sought by Luciferans is
not in doubt. It is not physical but spiritual - the
evolution to godhood by devouring and absorbing
the energies of other beings.

BEING DEVOURED

Luciferans use personal power to gain more

power; they literally drain the vital energy of those
near them, absorbing or annihilating the victim's
identity in the process. Scott Peck, in his book
People of the Lie, described the kind of diffuse pain,
confusion, revulsion, and unease experienced by
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 It is as if Luciferans tap directly into the deepest
resources of the soul in order to siphon the energy
found there. Leonard Shengold comes close to
describing the process in his book Soul Murder,
which he defines as the deliberate attempt to
eradicate or compromise the separate identity of
another person. One person literally absorbs the life
of another; soul murder is described as an abuse of
power in which the stronger person breaks down
and destroys the inner resources of the weaker.
The actual experience of being devoured
emotionally, cognitively, or spiritually usually
occurs gradually over time. The devouring itself is
never obvious to the victim; if it was, then defenses
would be mobilized. Suffering occurs, but most
victims attribute it to some other cause: a physical
illness, personal weakness, or an external stressful
event of some kind.
From my own work with such victims, the
following symptoms and experiences seem
common. (I have used “transfer empathy” here,
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 INTIMIDATION
The devourer convinces you that you are in the
presence of someone stronger, better, wiser, more
self-assured, who loves you and cares for you
despite all your many weaknesses and faults. You
feel troubled, but every time you respond to a
perceived assault, she appears hurt or angry - “How
can you say that about me when I’ve only ever
shown you love and concern?” and will convince
you that you are wrong or deluded, (devourers
armed with psychological jargon are good at this:
the victim is “projecting”, “defending” and so
forth). On all issues you lose and she wins. You are
never right, never have a meaningful opinion, never
emerge feeling good.

THE RESULTS OF THE METHOD

You feel drained, cannot think clearly, cannot

organize your thoughts. This occurs during a direct
assault and then grows worse as the devouring goes
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on over time. Rational thought becomes fuzzy,
thoughts come and go randomly. You feel as if you
are drifting without center or anchor. You begin to
spin.
Planning and making decisions becomes
impossible. Because you cannot think clearly, you
cannot organize your thoughts enough to decide
what to do. You depend more and more on your
victimizer to make decisions for you, an
arrangement which of course fits his plans perfectly.
You feel more and more lethargic all the time.
Your body is heavy and unresponsive. Excitement
and enthusiasm are non-existent. Everything feels
dull, gray, and bleak. Even simple things take
massive energy: getting out of bed, finding the
coffee cup, feeding the cat. No matter how hard you
try to shake it off, it just will not leave.
You become plagued with health problems: lots
of minor infections, colds, flues. Headaches,
stomach problems, and muscle pains are common.
You feel weak and ill all the time, and cannot shake
it. You only feel good around the very person that
all your friends tell you is hurting you. You cannot
help it. The doctors cannot seem to fix your
illnesses.
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 You sleep too much or too little; sometimes a
period of insomnia follows excessive drowsy
drugged sleep. You want to be in bed or on the
couch all day. You do not dream much when you
sleep, and when you wake up you never feel
refreshed.
You begin to fear and mistrust your own
instincts, your own friends and family, your safety in
your own environment. You are plagued by a kind
of pervasive fear or even paranoia: you sense you
are under attack, but you cannot find the attacker.
You think it might be your parents, a trauma from
the past, your neighbor, a hidden conspiracy, the
government, and the media: you just cannot seem to
tell who or what is after you. You just feel
threatened. Your friends will often know on some
instinctive level that your real enemy is the devourer
right next to you, but you do not believe them.
You begin to doubt everything about yourself,
your beliefs, your pleasures, your past, your taste in
clothing or food. Your victimizer seems to know
more about what you need than you do. You’re
afraid to make decisions because you know they will
be wrong or stupid. Your devourer constantly
reminds you how hopeless you are.
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 Self-doubt flowers into full blown self hatred.
You feel yourself to be hopeless, worthless, stupid,
ignorant. You are a complete failure, and deserve
only the worst. You hate what you have become, but
feel powerless to change. You are so tired that you
cannot reach out for help, except to your devourer
who you now believe is your last hope.
Close friends, hobbies, etc. that you used to love
no longer bring any pleasure. Your victimizer or
“friend” defines them as evil or destructive, so you
cut yourself off from them. You find yourself
severing all connections to family and friends. You
begin to lose yourself; often the devourer will then
provide you with a new identity: different clothes,
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 DEPRESSION

Real depression and despair hit hard. You've

gone way past the “blues” into full darkness. The
black dog bites your heels, and no one is there to
help or understand. (The best book on depression
I've read is Cronkite's On the Edge of-Darkness.
Devouring is, of course, not recognized as a clinical
cause of depression, but the outcome is the same.)
Your appearance changes: people are shocked
when they see you because you've lost your
vivacity, energy, and enthusiasm. The sweet voice
of suicide calls your name.

ESCAPE AND RECOVERY

Luciferans believe that there is only one sure

way to end the assault: the victim has to break from
the devourer and leave the situation, because psycho
spiritual devouring demands a relationship between
devourer and prey, over time. This is not the quick
pounce and death of nature. The devourer has to
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convince the prey to open up and surrender, and the
only way to do this is to come in disguise. The
process ends when the victim gains enough strength
to leave, is removed by luck, or is aided by a force
greater than the predator's. Symptoms will continue
long after the assault, but the actual progress of
further devouring ends. Luciferan devourers will of
course do everything they can to prevent this loss.
Luciferans are not the only devourers:
devouring can be found anywhere, between parents
and children, employers and employees, husbands
and wives, friend to friend. Either party can be
predator, despite one apparently having more power
than another: wives can devour husbands, children
their parents, employees their employer. Economic,
professional, or political power assists Luciferans in
the devouring process (one of the reasons they
pursue it so avidly), but is not essential.
Recovery depends on the victim's recognition that
the assault has occurred. Recovery time in a safe
place is essential. Appropriate counseling may help,
but healing seems much like recovery from a
physical assault: the body, or in this case the soul,
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 Individuals who were basically healthy before
the attack but who were duped into a devouring
relationship are most likely to learn from the
experience and recover. Individuals who were
psychologically assaulted and devoured from an
early age have a much harder time, because being
devoured is familiar, safe, and even at times
exciting, especially if it has become associated with
sexuality during puberty. Masochism, bondage,
and other related forms of sexuality can result, and
such individuals will actively, if unconsciously, find
a predator to feed: even if a destructive relationship
is severed, they usually find another. They may
even find much joy in the ultimate annihilation of
identity, as in the Story of O, 9 1/2 Weeks and
similar novels where the victim finds a kind of
heroic transcendence in complete surrender to the
victimizer.

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 Laws of Power

1. Never outshine the master

2. Never put too much trust in friends
3. Conceal your intentions
4. Always say less than necessary
5. So much depends on reputation - guard it with your
life
6. Court attention at all cost
7. Get others to do the work for you, but always take
the credit
8. Make other people come to you - use bait if necessary
9. Win through your actions never through argument
10. Infection: Avoid the unhappy and unlucky
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your
victim
13. When asking for help, appeal to people's self-
interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy
15. Crush your enemy totally
16. Use absence to increase respect and honor

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17. Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of
unpredictability
18. Do not build fortresses to protect yourself —
isolation is dangerous
19. Know who you're dealing with — do not offend the
wrong person
20. Do not commit to anyone
21. Play a sucker to catch a sucker — seem dumber than
your mark
22. Use the surrender tactic: Transform weakness into
power
23. Concentrate your forces
24. Play the perfect courtier
25. Re-create yourself
26. Keep your hands clean
27. Play on peoples need to believe to create a cult-like
following
28. Enter action with boldness
29. Plan all the way to the end
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless
31. Control the options: Get others to play with cards you
deal
32. Play to people's fantasy
33. Discover each man's thumbscrew
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34. Be royal in your own fashion: Act like a king to be
treated like one
35. Master the art of timing
36. Disdain things you cannot have:
Ignoring them is the best revenge
37. Create compelling spectacles
38. Think as you like but behave like others
39. Stir up waters to catch fish
40. Despise free lunch
41. Avoid stepping into a great man's shoes
42. Strike the Shepard and the sheep will follow
43. Work on the hearts and minds of others
44. Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too
much at once
46. Never appear too perfect
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory,
learn when to stop
48. Assume formlessness

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