Temple of Set

The Temple of Set is a left-hand path initiatory order founded in 1975. Initiates take the title "Setian". The Temple is incorporated in California as a non-profit religious organization.

The temple had c. 200 members in 2007.

Background

The Temple of Set was consecrated in Santa Barbara, California during the summer solstice of June 1975, by Michael A. Aquino, in a "greater black magic" ritual that resulted in what Aquino regards as an inspired text titled The Book of Coming Forth by Night. Aquino later stated that the name of the text is an "evident negation" of the name of the Ancient Egyptian Book of Coming Forth by Day, also known as the Book of the Dead. Aquino's working has been compared to Aleister Crowley's "Cairo Working" of 1904, which resulted in the Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema by followers of Aquino.

The Temple was founded by members of the Church of Satan, who left that organization in 1975 because of administrative and philosophical disagreements with its founder Anton Szandor LaVey. Michael Aquino had joined the Church of Satan in 1969 and risen rapidly in the Church's hierarchy. Aquino has stated that he believed LaVey not to be merely a charismatic leader but to have been actually appointed by Satan himself (referring to this charismatic authority as the "Infernal Mandate") to found the Church. After the split of 1975, Aquino believed LaVey had lost the mandate, which the "Prince of Darkness" then transferred to Aquino and a new organization, the Temple of Set.

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Temple Of Set

by: Benediction

Temple of Set
Exorcise inadequacy
Depravity disrepair
Alleviate unthinking plight
Ontologically unfair
Dualistic minds
In a twisted reality
Flesh and senses reunite
Monodichronic consanity
Existence is confinement
Borders to be cast down
The coward's laws lie raped
A butchered priest lies phone
Betrayer, know that we'll respect
No laws but our fucking own
Rusted edifice
Neolithic dreamtime's end
Seize the source
Salvation's divident
Reap the beheld
Reborn through force of will
We're witnessing the end of time
In the temple of Set
Converge within the primacy
Contiguity once more
The disparate remade a whole
Elimination flawed
Carnal desire rules
Lust for flesh dominates
Only flesh dominates
All barriers overruled
We are one
Committed to no supine god
State of permanent confusion
Come join the bacchanalian feast
Orgiastic, all pleasures perversely released
No law to deny us our lust
All that which was divine
Blasted into dust!
In the temple of Set




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