The Black Ship [Paperback]

Malphas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 3, 2009

Part grimoire and part manifesto, The Black Ship presents the vision of the Pandemonium Mandala, teaches the lore of the emergent Daemonic race and is the blueprint for a culture based on Left-Hand Path principles. It begins with such basics as the invocation of the personal Daemon and new ways of consecrating working tools and personal space before exploring work with Ancestral spirits, the Mysteries of the Lesser and Greater Sabbats, the Sacrament of the Royal Blood of Chaos and the techniques of Transmogrification. It then explores the Daemonic rationale underlying new conceptions of politics, law and the evolutionary implications of space migration. Finally, The Black Ship concludes with a Chaosmological vision of this universe that both relates to and differs from ancient Gnostic teachings, with some new elements that may surprise.

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About the Author

Malphas has been studying and practicing the Art of Magic for roughly three decades. For even longer, he has been participating in the rising Dark Culture commonly associated with the Industrial and Gothic musical genres. His current work, The Black Ship, goes to the common source of these two loves.

Malphas knows how to build great Houses and Citadels. He knows the thoughts and plans of the enemy and how to throw down all of their barricades and edifices. He brings together good builders and workers, even unto 40 legions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Waning Moon Publications (September 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982354924
• ISBN-13: 978-0982354926
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #958,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book..., October 20, 2009

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Obeahdemon (London UK) - See all my reviews

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This is definitely one of the best books I've read on the left hand path (and I've read many). Unlike most books in this genre, the author provides a congruent paradigm in which the practices relate.
As the author says in his introduction, this book is really aimed at practitioners with experience, but having said that; I would recommend it to anyone starting out in the left hand path - I wish it had been available to me 20 years ago.
The beauty of the book is that is not dogmatic, nor does it give many 'cut and dried' rituals. This is left to the inventiveness of the practitioner. What it does do however is give a excellent paradigm in which to advance through the dark path. Some parts of the practice don't appeal to me personally (the veneration of ancestors for example) but the author does give solid reasons for their inclusion, and, like so much of the rest of the material could easily be adapted.
Some of the authors ideas are quite 'out there' but no less excellent for all that.
Overall well worth a five star rating. This is a serious book for serious practitioners and not for the casual dabbler; but then to be fair, a dabbler wouldn't be able to use this book since it focuses so much on inner introspection and self knowledge.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent primer for working with one's higher Genius, February 28, 2011

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The author is clearly well versed in the left hand path approach to working with one's higher genius or daemon. To question the specifics of the author's metaphysics, as some other reviewers have done, is I think to miss the point entirely. The reader would do well to view this work in the same light as one might view the works of Hakim Bey or similar authors who seek less to inform and more to inspire. The intent here is that the reader will not merely read and analyze the information within, but rather use it as a jumping off point for personal work of an empirical nature. It is less important that the ideas within are accurate, but rather that they are coherent (as in fact they are) and aid in one's apprehension of one's higher genius and subsequent transformation. In short, it doesn't matter if it's true. It only matters if it works. And, speaking as one who has actually taken this work out of the realm of theory and into the realm of practice, it does.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uncle Setnakt Approves, January 31, 2010

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Don J. Webb "horror writer" (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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Malphas has created an interesting book. Among Classical Theurgists Daemons were that class of being, half way between humans and gods. Their mere being provided a gateway -- way for the human to transcend the laws of the here-and-now. In most traditional system some greater Being sends you a Daemon to help you out, because It thinks your goals are worthwhile or your Virtue great. They're handy entities that help the human stop being a thing that exists by type -- "What you is is what you is" and become a being that can shape his fortune both in this and other realities. Malphas reveals in simple terms that these beings are you -- an not totally awakened part of you. If you use a rational self-aware and self-enlightened philosophy -- rather than herd-supertisition other-centric false altruism -- you can be the God that grants the Daemon to you. With simple to follow practices from both traditional magic and modern philosophy, Malphas shows you how to meet the Daemon, and become the Daemon. This is a book that would have delighted Thomas Jefferson, Anton LaVey, Socrates, Heideigger and even Uncle Setnakt. Well done! The perfect Walpurgusnacht gift. A nice maunal for increasing Power, Pleasure and Knowledge.