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On today’s episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we’re tackling one of the biggest and most enigmatic names in the occult: It’s Dr Colonel Temple of Set founder and Satanist Michael Aquino! We’ll go through his factual history starting at Parsons Babalon Working birth to his time in the military as a special forces Psychological Operations officer in Vietnam to his satanic rituals with Anton LaVey! We’ll go through his life story including conspiracies about his death here on OSAPC!

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[00:00:00] Today we’re tackling one of the biggest and most enigmatic names in the occult. It’s Dr. Colonel Temple Ascent founder and Satanist Michael Aquino. We’re going to go through his factual history starting at Jack Parsons Babylon working birth to his time in the military as a spec ops psychological operations officer in Vietnam with his satanic rituals that he did with Anton lavey. We’re going to go through his life story including conspiracies about his own death here on a cult symbolism and pop culture.

[00:00:35] Now I’m gonna need you to stay subscribed to however you’re listening podcast probably, hopefully, or if you’re on the YouTube, because I’m rebuilding YouTube again. Stay subscribed for part two. All right, hit the subscribe or wherever you’re at. This part two is going to be the salacious part. We’re gonna unpack all these satanic panic allegations of child abuse at the Presidio in San Francisco and how this could connect into the blackmail operations of Epstein through Johnny Gosh.

[00:01:03] Various satanic texts. We’ll. We’ll review all these things.

[00:01:08] We’re gonna prove that Michael. Michael Aquino was in contact with the devil himself. I mean those are his own words, right? And we’re gonna discuss his connections the MK Ultra the will reveal what’s called the Velsburg working that he did at a Nazi castle in Germany.

[00:01:27] And the big granddaddy of them all, the. The conspiracy theory that is the reason you’re listening to this right now. The conspiracy that Michael Aquino is J.D. vance and Erica Kirk.

[00:01:44] I’m still reading. And look, here’s the thing.

[00:01:47] I’m still reading through. I’ve got various texts. Texts from Aquino. Three of them right now that I’m done with one, the two I gotta comb through still.

[00:01:57] I’m reading through these ritual texts from the Vevelsburg working in his psyop mind war document. And. But I wanted to get part one out there so you can start digesting this. All right, because it’s a long overdue topic. It’s a huge one. So get. Get comfortable.

[00:02:14] You know, put that tick tock, add brain to the side for just a couple hours for me. Okay?

[00:02:21] This one’s gonna go deep. Now part one’s gonna be a little short. It’s gonna be a little bit more of the official, you know, history.

[00:02:31] And we’re gonna blast through this thing because you can get really deep in the weeds when it comes to Michael Aquino. I found out. That’s what I found out.

[00:02:39] So anyway. Oh, also, be sure to whether you’re on the YouTube now or you’re not, go subscribe to my YouTube @ult symbolism. All one word links are always in the show notes at my link tree.

[00:02:50] I’m doing a live stream in May on May 21, 7pm Eastern Standard.

[00:02:56] Be there, be square. Because I’m going to unpack a crazy connection I found between Charles Manson, Paul Krasner and Epstein, which is going to be relevant to this MK Ultra stuff we’re going to talk about. Because I was, I was doing some research into Marjorie, Cameron and Parsons and oh boy, everything started falling apart. I said, you got to be kidding me.

[00:03:18] You got to be kidding me, folks.

[00:03:21] You know, also one last thing in housekeeping, we’ll get right into this. If you’re Patreon or VIP section tier 3 or 4, watch your email. I’m gonna send you your monthly email to remind you, like, hey, you get a new perk. And that is this brand new exclusive shirt that you can’t buy anywhere.

[00:03:38] Watch your email. Okay? It’s if by the time you’re listening, it might be there.

[00:03:43] We’re recording this May 11th. I’ve got a crazy schedule this next two months, so I’m going to be recording stuff way before the release date. So my apologies, but it’s just life’s gotten hectic for me last couple of months here.

[00:03:57] You might have that email already.

[00:03:58] Mid the mid month is when I send those emails. Okay, now let’s get into Michael Aquino sources.

[00:04:04] Those are very important.

[00:04:05] Most of the information you’re gonna hear today comes from Lords of the Left Hand Path By Michael Flowers, Ph.D. michael Flowers, excuse me.

[00:04:14] Mitch Horowitz wrote a couple articles. I read those.

[00:04:19] And like he’s got a sub stack, right? Like Mitch Horowitz, very one of the scholars and most well informed people about the occult. Right? And that Lords of the Left Hand Path of valuable resource. If you’re trying to understand a lot of this stuff, that’s a great resource. I mean, you could come to me where I try to like dumb this down to my dumb level.

[00:04:39] But if you want to get real, real thick into the weeds of it, that’s where you can go.

[00:04:45] Now, Michael aquino was born October 16, 1946, which to the astute listener knows this is precisely nine months after Jack Parsons Babylon working ritual.

[00:04:59] Aquino even commented on this. All right, and we’re going to unpack that in part two. I’ve got most of my notes done for part two. I got to finish the reading through some documents, but I’m Going to tie that in to all these crazy conspiracies. Because, of course, you know, the Babylon working was to manifest the. Of Babylon to create the Antichrist.

[00:05:23] So that’s what they wanted to do, and Akino might have been it.

[00:05:27] So Michael Aquino, born with chest hair in the.

[00:05:32] In the shape of a swastika.

[00:05:36] And apparently that was something he shares in common with Alistar Crowley and the Buddha.

[00:05:44] His brow, his crazy eyebrows is the things he’s kind of known for. Looking like Herman Munster or whatever.

[00:05:51] His brows were naturally curled into those horns apparently look like a. It looks like a doctor. Dr. Seuss character or something.

[00:06:01] Now, fun fact, the day he was born was also the day that the Nuremberg trial defendants were hanged.

[00:06:09] And this is important because later we find out his interest in the Nazis and how he would do a ritual at Velsburg Castle, which would basically be a huge moment in the Satanic occult variety.

[00:06:23] Now, he was an initiate of anton Lavey from 68 to 75.

[00:06:29] From there, Aquino starts the Temple of Set. Established all these groups across the world called pylons, and he sort of took the Church of Satan into the next level.

[00:06:42] And we’re going to unpack the details of all this. But from what I interpret here, lavey was more about taking the ceremonial magic, or the. The greater magic, they call it, and dumbing it down to more lesser magic, more practical, more. I always compare this to, like, mma, right? MMA is more of, like, a tactical thing, whereas, like, you go to karate class and sensei is teaching you all the katas or whatever, all the forms, and an MMA UFC come out, and everyone’s like, look, we don’t need all this silly, like, poses and stuff. Let’s just get right into grappling and whatever works, right? That’s kind of what lavey was doing. But then Aquino comes through and he takes it back into this more sort of theatrical, greater black magic stuff.

[00:07:35] His main mentors, or of course, Anton lavey, but it was also Aleister Crowley and Plato, the philosopher. And Aquino, of course, never met Crowley. He was dead long before.

[00:07:48] Right, well, no, let me. Let me know. Let me think about that. I think. No, Crowley was still alive, technically, because Crowley didn’t die until December 47, I believe it was.

[00:07:59] So, yeah, Aquina would have been alive technically, but he would have been, you know, a new A infant.

[00:08:04] Right?

[00:08:06] So Crowley would influence most of Aquino’s style, his philosophy, his theory of magic. And Aquino claimed himself to be Aleister Crowley, the magical legacy of the beast. He said he was the Second beast of the Revelation, everyone’s all hot in the pants to be like, I’m the new Crowley.

[00:08:27] These guys. And when you, when it’s funny, when you look at this from an outsider perspective and you read all their philosophies and ideas and stuff, it’s like, this is like a big theater nerd pissing contest, all of this. It’s like, remember when you were playing house as kids?

[00:08:44] And like, there’d always be someone who’s like, like trying to like, be ultra dramatic, right? Like, oh, now I’m in the hospital, I’m sick or whatever, you know, and it’s like, oh, there’s this drama, all this occult nerd drama.

[00:08:59] So if you’re, if you listen to this and you’re like, oh, I’m scared of these people. They’re talking to Satan. Like, no, I don’t know. They might be, but one thing I do know is that they’re very dramatic, okay?

[00:09:10] And Plato, of course, would be kind of the guy who would start a lot of the Gnostic thinking, right, with allegory of the cave from the Republic and also kickstarts the Dark Enlightenment because he’s very much anti government because they put his boy Socrates to death and he’s like, man, these. You can’t, you know, voting is stupid because it’s a popularity contest. And then the mouth breathers control the country and, oh, boy, that’s actually bad. What we need is an authoritarian CEO king.

[00:09:44] So anyway, Plato up there as one of Aquino’s inspirations. So Plato would be the core of the cosmology of, you know, mixed in with hermeticism, Renaissance magic. All these things would influence him, including H.P. lovecraft, John D.

[00:10:04] Frederick Nietzsche and nihilism and all this stuff, right?

[00:10:09] So let’s walk through how Aquino got into all this.

[00:10:15] He goes to college, gets his political science and bachelors, joins the army, goes to Fort Bragg with the 82nd Airborne, becomes a psychological operations special forces officer.

[00:10:31] Now, he was over in Vietnam, we’re going to come back to that here. But In March of 69, he’s on leave. He goes to San Francisco and there’s a place called the Black House where Anton Theay was headquartered out of.

[00:10:44] And he meets with Anton lavey, goes back to Fort Bragg, does a bunch of satanic rituals and stuff. He’s like, oh, I’m into this Church of Satan stuff now.

[00:10:56] And if you dig into his history, you’ll find many people claim that lavey actually met with Aquino at the screening of Rosemary’s Baby.

[00:11:06] Okay.

[00:11:09] The San Francisco premiere of Rosemary’s Baby is supposedly where he first met him.

[00:11:14] So whichever. I don’t know. I. And the way I understood it is he first met him there, then later went to the Black House. It doesn’t really matter now. While at Fort Bragg, Michael Aquino would marry a woman named Lilith Sinclair, who he notes down in his documentation as a nominal Mormon and whatever that means. Right.

[00:11:38] And the reason we bring that up is because the Mormons and the LDS have a very interesting foundation in Freemasonry through Joseph Smith, which includes ritual magic and ceremonial magic. Okay, so In June of 69, he ends up going to Vietnam with his Psychological Operations Battalion. They’re doing crazy stuff. They’re blaring these demonic screams from helicopters to try to screw with the North Vietnamese.

[00:12:08] Reminded me of Apocalypse Now. Right.

[00:12:11] Great movie. If you haven’t seen Apocalypse now, please, please watch it. It’s. It’s one of my favorites. And, you know, it’s. They’re. They’re flying over and they’re playing the. I don’t remember the name of the song. You know, the song with the helicopters.

[00:12:26] It’s disturbing in a way, right? Imagine someone was doing that to you in your country. Like, it’s terrifying.

[00:12:33] Not so. When you talk about, like, dark energy and black magic and Satanism and stuff, I mean, it doesn’t get much darker or more satanic than that. Right? You’re bombing these people’s villages and, oh, terrible.

[00:12:47] Now that’s not a commentary in the Vietnam War.

[00:12:53] That’s a topic to discuss at another time.

[00:12:56] Now there’s just a lot of effery, right, when it comes to the Vietnam War, like we would lie to many, many times. We were lied to about getting into it with the false flag at the Gulf of Tonkin. We were lied about POWs there getting families hopes up that their, you know, their loved one was there still alive. And really, the government was lying. And like, now they’re. They’re gone, long gone.

[00:13:20] So during the tour in Vietnam, he writes a text called the Diabolicon, and it’s inspired by Paradise Loss by Milton. And he calls it the most exalted statements of Satanism ever written. Because Satan is the hero in the story, which we’re gonna, you know, we’re gonna understand why all that is to these people.

[00:13:44] He keeps on moving up in the ranks of the church of Satan 1971, because he sends. He sends Anton Lavey a copy of the Diabolicon leve. Very impressed.

[00:13:55] So in 71, Lavey is like, Hey, I want you to write the introduction for the seventh edition of the Satanic Bible.

[00:14:04] So now he’s, you know, currying favor.

[00:14:07] He participates, Aquino participates in a film called the Asylum of Satan as an advisor, which supposedly there’s a real ritual to be found there.

[00:14:20] I haven’t watched the movie yet.

[00:14:22] You can find it, I believe, on YouTube. All right.

[00:14:27] Aquina would become the editor for Lavey’s newsletter called the Cloven Hoof, which would have. Which would run until 1975, until when Aquino would quit.

[00:14:40] There was this policy that Aquino was reading about in the newsletter where lavey, who is apparently struggling for money to keep the group afloat because these are very small groups, right? Like, we picture these, you know, the conspiracy theorist crowd. We talk about these groups as if they’re these massive organizations. And officially there’s, I mean, not that many people that are practicing. Everyone’s interested, but no one’s really practicing, right?

[00:15:08] Or at least that’s what they tell us. I mean, it could be everybody in the deep state in there, in the room.

[00:15:13] I wouldn’t be surprised. But officially, not a lot of dues paying members, supposedly. So lavey is like, okay, we’re going to start accepting payment to accelerate in your degree system. And Aquino didn’t like that. He was more of a purist. He was like, ill, bro. It gives me ick.

[00:15:30] So 1972, Lavey is writing the Satanic rituals document and ask Aquino to prepare some of the rituals. So he writes up these hpac HP Lovecraftian rituals, and in doing so, Akino invents the Yu Gothic language.

[00:15:47] This is all very. A very big deal in the occult realm.

[00:15:53] Then in 1975, during the summer solstice, Aquino calls upon the Prince of Darkness, and he answers, this is the writing of the text called the Coming Forth by Night.

[00:16:05] And what this does is it declares a transference of Satan’s infernal mandate from the Church of Satan with Anton lavey to the Temple of Set, which is Michael Aquino’s new organization that he now establishes in 1975.

[00:16:26] Now, Mitch Horowitz has an article on Medium about Aquino, and it shows the lineage from Crowley to lavey to Aquino, right? Because they’re into these aeons and these cycles. We, you know, if you’ve listened to me long enough, you know, especially with the Dark Enlightenment series, and then prior to that, in 2020, we talked about the Great Reset and the Generations book, and prior to that, we talked about Steve Bannon and traditionalism with the Kali Yuga.

[00:16:57] If there’s one thing I know is that these weirdo elites, these the predator class elites are really into this idea of cycles of humanity and how they can bring it about and force it along.

[00:17:12] And it’s no different for these guys, for these weirdos.

[00:17:17] So Wikipedia describes this ritual that he conducted.

[00:17:22] There’s one where he’s asking Satan for advice and Satan shows up and Satan’s like, hey, what’s up dude? My name is Set from ancient Egypt.

[00:17:32] And he clarifies who he is is like, you know what Aquino, I like you. I think you’re going to be the next guy to bring about my infernal mandate.

[00:17:42] And I should also note that he wrote this text through automatic writing.

[00:17:47] You know, it’s an occult practice where the practitioner inspired to write through forces in their head or whatever.

[00:17:58] So Aquino would start the Temple of set in 1975.

[00:18:02] He’s still in the military, goes to college. He gets his PhD in 1980 in Political Science from the University of California.

[00:18:11] Around this time, Ronald Barrett, AKA Anubis, that’s his magical name, Anubis. He becomes the new High Priest of Set which retires Aquino from the position. Again, something very revolutionary in these occult groups because they’re all self focused. Man can become God. Nonsense.

[00:18:32] So Aquino steps down as the High priest of his own organization and Anubis is now running it until 1982. There’s about 30 people in, 30 people in the Temple of Set at this point. Again, officially not a large group.

[00:18:47] Meanwhile, Michael Aquino becomes an adjunct professor and gets stationed at the Presidio in California San Francisco.

[00:18:56] Anubis would later retire.

[00:18:58] Aquino would resume his duties as the high priest until 1996.

[00:19:06] Somewhere here in here, Anton Lavey’s daughter becomes the high priest.

[00:19:12] But before we get further down there, in 1980 he also published a text called the From Psyop to Mind World War I can’t say the word.

[00:19:24] It’s a text that we’re going to go through in part two when we go into his MK Ultra connections.

[00:19:30] And in part two we’re going to talk about how Turning Point usa. That’s right, the one by Erica Kirk and Charlie Kirk.

[00:19:37] The one of the members of the board is Paul Valy who wrote this text with Aquino. Oh well, who would have thought.

[00:19:46] So 1982, Aquino goes to Germany and he goes to Velsburg Castle and he gets access to this private chamber to do a private ritual in the hall of the slain tower. And he does what would be called the Velsburg working which results in the new Order of the Trapezoid within the Temple of Set.

[00:20:14] Again, I like, part of me thinks these are just theater nerds playing house. Like, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Now he’s telling me we’re gonna have another organization within the organization, right? It goes on and on.

[00:20:26] And Horowitz says that Aquino.

[00:20:30] Because you’re probably thinking, what’s this guy’s obsession with the, with the Nazis, right? Well, Horowitz says that Aquino actually found the Nazis to be Republican repugnant, but were successful in summoning extraordinary psychic forces which were misdirected. So the Nazis clearly were very successful in gaining much power through occult practices.

[00:20:59] And I think that is intriguing. I don’t disagree with that on Reddit. A commenter in a post about Aquino. So I mean, take all this with a grain of salt. It’s some anonymous Redditor claims that Aquino is called Mein Kampf a political satanic Bible. Because when we talk about the Church of Satan and these Satanists, they’re what you call Social Darwinians, they’re kind of like ultra libertarians.

[00:21:26] And it’s the idea of like, manage to be able to pursue whatever they want at any cost.

[00:21:33] It’s like mega freedom. It’s like freedom on steroids to the point of only the strong survive.

[00:21:43] Like if someone’s too weak, you don’t help them and take care of them. You step on their throats and take what they have. Like that’s what they believe, right?

[00:21:51] And Christ, of course, the polar opposite, Christ is like, you take care of people.

[00:21:57] Now there’s a video interview where Michael Aquino talks about having this, this dagger that he had from an SS officer which is called an. A theme. It’s like a magical prop, if you will.

[00:22:12] In May 1986, ABC’s 2020 airs a show called Satanic Crime, which kind of launches what’s called the Satanic Panic. And Michael Aquina will get wrapped up in this. And we’re gonna again talk about this in part two with missing kids.

[00:22:31] So by October of 86, the San Francisco police would get a false accusation against Michael and Lilith Aquino, claiming that they were messing with a child.

[00:22:45] And they were eventually exonerated because it turns out they were in Washington D.C. at the time of the accused crime.

[00:22:53] Supposedly no evidence, no charges ever came to fruition. Now from this, you know the, the saying, if it bleeds, it leads, right? Any publicity is good publicity. Well, the Temple of Set grows in membership because it, it’s now in the news.

[00:23:11] And this is a very Interesting case. The whole Presidio thing is very interesting. And Wikipedia says that 58 out of a hundred kids, 58 out of 100 kids at this daycare showed signs of physical and mental essay.

[00:23:32] That’s a high percentage. Somebody was doing something with those kids.

[00:23:36] Now Horowitz says that Aquino would fight back against these, against these accusations, attempted legal action against the accusers, chaplain, father and the army psychiatrist who were stoking these false claims.

[00:23:55] But it gets hung up in like this problem between the civilian law and the military law.

[00:24:01] But they were able to get legal action against two books that talked about this called Painted Black and the New Satanist that were suggesting that Aquino was guilty. And they settle out of court.

[00:24:12] So officially, Aquino exonerated. Nothing to see here. Satanic panic, there’s conspiracies, that there’s more than meets the eye there. And we’ll talk about that in part two.

[00:24:24] So now we’re in 1990, Aquino retires from active duty and 93 he does another working with a proclamation to reorganize the Temple of Set in order to keep it current with technology because the Internet is starting to become a thing, right? In the 90s, a guy named Don Webb would become the high priest. From 96 to 2002. He was also a fiction writer, which we know the. The realms of science fiction and fantasy are being charged into reality through magic, magical operations and so on.

[00:25:01] This is the hyperstic of the ccru, right?

[00:25:06] And then comes Zena Lave, AKA Taylor Swift, Anton Lavey’s daughter. She would become the High Priest of the Temple of set in 2002, just for a few weeks. Then she quit. She had a falling out with her Anton. In the early nineteen nineteen nineties, levay would die in, I believe 96.

[00:25:25] So Xena and her partner Nicholas Shrek would end up joining the Temple of Set.

[00:25:33] There’s four degrees in the Temple of Set. There’s actually six from what I saw, but the book says four. So I don’t know if like two are honoraries or something, who knows?

[00:25:42] But there’s four degrees in Set and you can access the documents. It’s called the Crystal Tablet, the Ruby Tablet, the Onyx Tablet and the Sapphire Tablet.

[00:25:53] And the journal that the Temple of Set would publish is called the scroll of Set.

[00:25:59] And within the Temple of Set, you’ve got various orders. You’ve got the Order of Leviathan, the Order of the Vampire and the Order of the Trapezoid. Remember I said there was like. He did the second work and was like, oh, there’s going to be an inner working order now, all this stuff, right? Set up like a secret society, basically.

[00:26:19] Then, sorry, some of these notes are a little out of order. So the Diabolicon is actually poetry from eight demonic entities, including Satan, Beelzebub, Azazel, Abaddon, Leviathan, and so on.

[00:26:35] Oh, okay. This is in my notes. These are the different texts within the organization.

[00:26:39] Then you’ve got the. The Book of Coming Forth by Night, which is their most important text. Again, establishes the authority of the Temple of Set directly from Set, who’s like, hey, I’m the devil.

[00:26:50] You’re the new guy. Anton Levay’s Church of Satan, like, keep going, but you’re not doing nothing. Aquino, you’re the new guy.

[00:26:59] And it refers to what’s called the Word of Set, which is basically the evocations of John D. And they refer to these as the Enochian keys. Again, tying us into the history of alien contact, which is super interesting right now. Again, a reason you should consider all these topics because we all know that John D. And the Enochian Keys are what Crowley was using for his rituals. And Jack Parsons Babylon working. And now Michael Aquino, because again, Leve was more of like, man, this stuff’s like a little too highbrow. Woo, woo.

[00:27:33] We’re just gonna do like, you know, orgy stuff and hang out with witches and Set. Or then Michael Aquino through Set was like, no, you got it wrong, dude. We’re making contact.

[00:27:47] So much so that Michael Aquina would translate the Enochian cause into English.

[00:27:52] And I got a copy of this and it. It sure does talk about all of these things. In it, again, I’m going through various texts for part two. All right.

[00:28:03] It also talks about the language of chem, AKA alchemy, and the Keys of Enoch, which Set claims is an affront to him now. And it was a shadow of his true word. We’re talking about alien language contact, okay?

[00:28:20] Because alchemy goes back all the way to Thoth.

[00:28:25] All right? In Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egypt was like, Thoth came down was like, here’s the Corpus Hermeticum, here’s the Emerald Tablets. I’m all about alchemy. And here’s how you can become gods.

[00:28:37] Also says that he is the Set. Also says that he is the Hebrew Satan that brought forth a magus revealed to be Anton lavey. And Seth then claims that the authorship of the Diabolicon belongs to him.

[00:28:55] The one that Aquino brought to lavey during Vietnam, the one that was inspired by Paradise Lost, which is about Satan being a good guy.

[00:29:03] And Sets like, look, the Age of Lavey, the age of the Church of Satan, it’s over, son.

[00:29:09] Temple of Set is where it’s at.

[00:29:12] And. And Set also tells him, like, look, I was the same force behind Crowley’s Aon of Horus from 1904, and which we all know that Crowley was in contact with a spirit called Horus.

[00:29:25] And Set even addresses this and says that he manifested at the time as his opposing self called the Har Were.

[00:29:34] And then in 1966, Church of Satan started the New Age, which was the Aon of Satan. Now, Aquino, starting the Aeon of Set. Now, something really interesting here. Set is like, look, stop with all this ritual stuff. Just talk to me, son. It sounds a lot like Christ, right? Like, quit with all the crazy ritualistic rules and stuff. Just come and talk with me.

[00:29:56] And says that it’s time for the Aeon of Set to have people become gods individually on their own through direct contact with Set, later emphasized with what’s called the Word of the Aeon of Set as Kepper X E P E R, which means I have become.

[00:30:17] So the Temple of Set is the only, at this point, legally recognized Satanic church in America.

[00:30:25] And we find out there’s six degrees again. They talked about four earlier. You’d have to get it really deep in the weeds if you understand the difference. I don’t know. There’s six, though, and I think the fifth is Magus or Maga. Oh.

[00:30:39] So the teachings that are in all of these texts and stuff are ideas about the universe, the subjective reality versus the objective. Because it’s very philosophical in nature, right?

[00:30:51] Occam’s Razor, dualism of nature versus non nature, Plato, Pythagoras. Like, this is all very much going back through all the occult stuff, through alchemy, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism. It’s kind of all those things, I think, quote, the clearest, simplest, and yet most profound symbol of the Setian cosmology is provided by the Pentagram of Set.

[00:31:18] Aquino discusses this symbol in Appendix 1 of the Crystal Tablet. The perfect circle, which is a mathematical function of PI or P around the pentagram, represents the mathematical order of the objective universe. While the pentagram itself can be seen as representing the consciousness and rationality inherent in the subjective universe.

[00:31:39] The fact that its points do not touch the circle signifies that the powers of darkness are not derived from or dependent upon the natural order. The pentagram is shown with two points upward to imply change and movement in place of stasis. And rest. And also to proclaim the evolutionary dialectic of thesis combined with antithesis to produce synthesis, which is fun. Side note, which is funny because that’s very much.

[00:32:06] When you work in the cubicle Hellscape.

[00:32:10] That’s like one of those motivational posters.

[00:32:13] I’ve. I’ve read that in some of my systems engineering books. I swear I have.

[00:32:19] Okay. Produces synthesis instead of a foreordained and unavoidable absolute standard.

[00:32:27] That’s from the Lords of the Left Hand Path, I believe. I didn’t put it in my notes. My apologies. I’m pretty sure that’s what it’s from. That’s where most of this is from.

[00:32:37] Again, they also believe in ages or aeons, just like Crowley did, because they don’t think that time unfolds linearly, which sounds a lot like the recursive ideas of the ccru.

[00:32:46] Check out my Dark Enlightenment series if you’re into all this. Have I got a series for you. Because we talked about the CCRU making contact with HP Lovecraftian demons and how that ties into modern politics as well as. As well as.

[00:33:01] What else is there? So something else plugs in. Oh, yeah. The order of nine angles, which we’re going to talk about part two a little bit.

[00:33:08] So.

[00:33:11] So Akino does this ritual, June 21st on the solstice, 1975, called the Greater Black Magic, working to evoke Satan and to ask him again, we’re going back to the foundations of the Temple of Set, because he. He wants to talk to Satan about his non le satanic, you know, stuff. And Satan replies, tells Aquino, look, I am Set. I am an ageless intelligence.

[00:33:38] And he’s like, write this down. So through automatic writing, he channels Set, writes the book of the coming forth of the night.

[00:33:46] And Set tells him, satan, this whole time has been a mask for me, for Set.

[00:33:51] I’m the real thing. I’m the God of darkness from Egyptian mythology.

[00:33:56] And it’s time for the new age. This is the Aeon of Set.

[00:34:00] So to recap some of this, Crowley had the Aeon of Isis, Osiris, and Horus is what he was told to bring in Lavey. They keep moving the goalpost.

[00:34:11] Levay is like, okay, now it’s the Aeon of Satan.

[00:34:15] Then Akino comes on. Okay, now it’s the Aeon of Set.

[00:34:19] Meanwhile, Kenneth Grant had this aeon of Matt the A aon eon. And it just goes on. Like I said. I don’t know how much of this stuff is in these people’s heads. And they’re just being very, you know, drama theater nerds.

[00:34:35] But the idea here presented by Set is that intelligence can take on any form, which we’re going to find out. Aino talks about 2001’s monolith as this form.

[00:34:46] And Set is given shape by the universe which is created to provide the shape. Which sounds a lot like Kabbalah, right? Because in Kabbalah God creates this world in order to receive the divine light through the vessels. And they shatter because they can’t contain it. Because he wants to see his reflection, kind of.

[00:35:04] Now apparently this is all different from Satanic theory because Satan is still dependent upon God and nature for his existence, while Set, the Prince of darkness, is these things without any of these constraints. Because it’s intelligence has nothing to do with the physical realm.

[00:35:20] It’s separate from the universe. It’s an outside force. Which. Not to reference CCRU again, but that was what Nick Land was saying. He was called the outside, the adversarian force. Outside space, time.

[00:35:33] It’s a chaotic realm.

[00:35:37] And when we talk about these Left hand Pathers, it’s about separation or non union.

[00:35:43] And that all comes from this idea, right? To be outside of this realm and be in league with Set.

[00:35:55] It’s kind of. I would interpret this as going back through Descartes, you know, I think therefore I am. That’s the only thing you can know. Because everything in this realm could be deceptions through the five senses.

[00:36:10] And Set goes on to talk about this entity that was him called Harwer. And it was split into two.

[00:36:16] Now it’s Set in Harwer, kind of like the Horus Set combo of ancient Egyptian.

[00:36:23] They called the two faced God split into two. Well, Harwer was supposedly Awas, which Crowley said was the devil or the goat with Bobs that spoke to Crowley, but then would split into two Set in Harwer. I mean, what are they even talking about? Right?

[00:36:38] Point is this Set tells Akino we can create many gods this way, even through manifestation, which I read as a meme or Pepe or hypersition, whatever. This is what it says in the book.

[00:36:54] Other gods, whether Egyptian or foreign, are derivative of Set or of the human mind. This does not imply they are imaginary in the vulgar sense.

[00:37:06] The mind is capable of substantive creation. It can give life to stereotypical archetypal or unique gods or demons.

[00:37:16] Which is interesting because it plugs now into the whole realm of science fiction creating reality. Because Aquino, when he’s unpacking these ideas of Set, compares it to 2001 Space Odyssey with the monolith. With the monolith being the Luciferian source of knowledge, which as you’ve read in the Arthur C. Clark book series, that’s exactly what it is, you know, because in 2010, the monoliths consolidate mass to create a new sun that they call Lucifer.

[00:37:44] SET talks about the psyche being a gift of Satan or Lucifer. They call it the Black Flame. Again, it’s the idea that intellect comes through the Promethean Luciferian energies.

[00:37:57] The Temple of Set also would believe that consciousness isn’t dependent upon a human body and the rational black magician needs to seek immortality according to non natural technologies. And boy, does this plug into all the stuff about the Singularity and putting us in a digital matrix, digitizing our consciousness, just like in the Space Odyssey series, to become immortal and be outside of this meat sack.

[00:38:27] So the Temple of Set will go on. They would actually shun the usage of drugs because they’re all about sharpening the psyche to tune into this inner God that we can channel and. But ultimately Temple of Set, Church of Satan, they’re both leftand Path organizations, but Akino’s Temple of Set is different. They view SET as opposed to nature, but not part of nature, not everything. Whereas Church of Satan apparently views it the opposite.

[00:38:59] And the whole mythology is that Satan rebelled against God and this ancient cult of Set was rebelling against the current system that they had so that they could ascend and become gods themselves.

[00:39:12] And this is also part of this philosophical split between lavey and Aquino, because lavey was kind of ambiguous on the nature of Satan apparently, and seemed more into the aesthetics and theatrics of it all. Whereas Aquino envisioned Satan to be an actual entity from with which we should worship as Set.

[00:39:31] So Aquino, a Crazy life. We’re going to dig into some of the conspiracies in part two. This is the foundations of SET and the differences with the Church of Satan and so on.

[00:39:41] So Aquino, full of crazy, enigmatic things, including his own death, right? And was interesting because there was allegations of his death being not clear. I actually wrote the Temple of Set about this back in 2020 because the dates of death you could find on websites said that he died between June and July of 2020.

[00:40:03] Whereas some of the other websites said 2019.

[00:40:10] Some people said August 13, 2020.

[00:40:15] So I was like, what is going on? So I emailed the Temple Set directly. Lincoln Shaw, the executive Director, Magister Templi, would reply and simply send me a link to Aquino’s personal page which says this. It says, let it be known that on Sunday, September 1, LIV of the AON of Set Epissimus Michael Aquino, Ph.D.

[00:40:39] remanifested from his physical body as he had let the world know he had been experiencing declining health for seven several years.

[00:40:50] And I wrote back, trying to clarify and I see now, and I wrote like, hey, from what I understand, the Aeon of set started in 1975, you know, after completing that Aeon of Satan and doing the book of the coming fourth by night.

[00:41:08] So Aquino’s webpage says, Liv, 54th, right? So the 54th year of the Aeon of Set.

[00:41:17] So 54 added to 1975 does in fact take you to September 1, 2019.

[00:41:25] And that would mean.

[00:41:29] Well, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. No, in my. Okay, in my notes I put that would actually take you to 2029. And I was a little confused about this, right?

[00:41:39] But for September 1st to land on a Sunday like it says, it would have to be 2019. And he didn’t write me back, right? But turns out I was right. September 1, 2019 is the correct date.

[00:41:50] And now, and this was years ago I wrote this. But now when you go on Wikipedia and these other sites, it does say he died from a long illness on September 1, 2019, which came by way of Mitch Horowitz’s Modern Occultism book. And you can find it on his sub stack.

[00:42:08] And he talks about this. He said the news were circulating about his death in 2020 and the Setian Aquino apparently intended to keep his passing private, at which he succeeded remarkably well in a digital age.

[00:42:21] According to San Francisco county records, the Temple of Set founder died at 72 on September 1, 2019.

[00:42:28] Private sources whom I consider sound have told me that the retired officer had terminal cancer.

[00:42:34] His State of California Certificate of Death records records that he took his life with a self inflicted gunshot wound.

[00:42:44] So in conclusion that that wraps up part one, but stay subscribed. Right now hit the subscribe button because I’m coming right back with part two where we’re going to get into the conspiracy theories about a keynote which is going to be crazy and salacious. We’re going to talk about the Satanic, Satanic panic, allegations of child abuse at the Presidio and how it could very well connect into these blackmail operations and rings of Pedos through Johnny Gosh.

[00:43:13] We’re gonna go through the actual satanic text that he wrote that got him in contact with Satan himself. We’ll talk about the MK Ultra connections. I’m gonna go through the ritual he did at Velsburg at the nap the Nazi castle and the big one. The burning question is he JD Vance and Erica Kirk.

[00:43:31] I’m still reading through. I’ll let you know what I find.

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[00:44:36] But ultimately thanks for listening.

[00:44:38] Thanks for joining me on this adventure of trying to understand the occult right from a non judgmental place. I want to understand what they’re thinking. I don’t agree with it.

[00:44:48] I think some of the this stuff is fantastical and they’re theater nerds. But I could be wrong. That’s very curious. No, no matter what, it’s infotainment for you. All right. And I appreciate that you come to me for it. I try to source my data.

[00:45:01] No A no AI used in the process of this recording by the way. Not a. Not a lick of it because I don’t trust it. I think it’s nonsense. So thanks for listening. Thanks for subscribing. Till next time. Stay positive.

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