Black magic

Black magic (Latin: maleficium) is the pernicious side of magical practice. It is based on gaining dominion over certain inner forces of nature by circumventing one's own moral development through unlawful, often bestially evil machinations, and on conquering other beings through harmful spells. To practise it is to enter into an alliance with Ahriman, and begins where occult activity is carried into the world without unselfish worldly interest. To an even greater extent, the seduction to black magic comes from the Asuras, who are spirits of the very strongest egoism.

„... black magic begins where occult activity is carried into the world without one being able first to extend one's interests to world interests, without one being able to value other interests more than one's own interests.“ (Lit.:GA 145, p. 149)

Literature

• Schwarze und weisse Magie, Sonderheft 12 der Flensburger Hefte, Flensburg 1993
• Destruktive Kulte - Schwarze Magie - Sexualmagie, Flensburger Heft Nr. 33, Flensburg 1991
• Hexen - New Age - Okkultismus, Flensburger Heft Nr. 13, Flensburg 1988
• Moderne Spiritualität. Wege und Irrwege, Urachhaus Vlg., Stuttgart 1997
• Guido und Michael Grandt: Schwarzbuch Satanismus, Knaur TB Vlg., München 1996
• Ricarda S.: Satanspriesterin. Meine Erlebnisse bei einer schwarzen Sekte, Heyne TB Vlg., München 1989
• Rudolf Steiner: Grundelemente der Esoterik, GA 93a (1976), XIX, Berlin, 17. Oktober 1905 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Kosmogonie, GA 94 (1979) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Mythen und Sagen. Okkulte Zeichen und Symbole, GA 101 (1992), ISBN 3-7274-1010-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Aus der Bilderschrift der Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104a (1991), ISBN 3-7274-1045-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Geistige Hierarchien und ihre Widerspiegelung in der physischen Welt, GA 110 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-1100-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Welche Bedeutung hat die okkulte Entwicklung des Menschen für seine Hüllen (physischer Leib, Ätherleib, Astralleib) und sein Selbst?, GA 145 (2005), ISBN 3-7274-1450-2 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Initiaten-Bewußtsein. Die wahren und die falschen Wege der geistigen Forschung., GA 243 (2004), ISBN 3-7274-2430-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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