The New Gods and the Exploration of the Nightside   Text & Illustrations By Frequency 435 Artwork by Frequency 402 Nightside Publications Seattle WA, 2010 Preface     This  book  is  the  product  of  one  of  the  members  of  the   Autonomous  Individuals  Network  23,  a  bearer  of  the  23   current,  but  should  in  no  way  be  considered  to  be  an  official   statement  of  doctrine  or  in  any  way  shape  or  form  a   statement  of  beliefs  on  the  part  of  the  network  as  a  whole..   There  is  little  actual  doctrine  and  much  divergence  of  views   in  the  network  and  everyone  is  encouraged  to  develop  their   own  take  on  things,  with  everyone  bonded  together  by  the   general  impulse  of  the  23  Current,  which  is  a  raw,   tribalistic,  chaos  (with  twinkles,  that  keep  it  going  roughly   towards  some  as  yet  expansive  but  unknown  goal)   inhabiting,  destroying,  and  making  use  of,  a  post-­‐industrial   age,  the  core  flow  of  a  truly  new  and  not  just  announced  but   already  partially  lived  aeon.  This  document  reflects  my   personal  attitudes  towards  magick,  towards  the  interaction   between  theory  and  practice,  and  to  the  relevance  of   previous  systems  and  ways  of  thinking  from  the  old  aeon.   Others  will  disagree  with  these  approaches.       AIN  23  can  be  reached  at:         http://www.ain23.com       Autonomous Individuals Network P.O. Box 163138 Sacramento, California 95816 USA Introduction:  Magick  and  Models     What  this  little  booklet  deals  with  is  the  complex   structure  of  the  universe  as  seen  through  several  different   magickal  systems  that  have  been  combined,  bastardized,   taken  apart,  put  together,  and  put  together  purposefully   wrong.  To  get  the  most  out  of  the  booklet  I  would  advise   you  to  not  actually  believe  in  any  of  the  paradigms  used  in   the  descriptions  but  instead  take  them  as  symbol  systems   that  provide  references  to  how  features  of  the  unseen  realm   function.  The  world  beyond  the  world  is  not  just  a  blank   slate  that  any  symbol/belief  system  can  be  projected  onto   without  consequences,  in  the  sense  that  while  you  can  in   fact  project  anything  you  want  onto  it,  what  you  get  back  in   feedback  from  the  universe  will  likely  cause  you  to  alter   your  paradigm  in  ways  that  make  it  conform  more  to  what's   out  there,  in  whatever  flawed  way  we  can  perceive  and   describe  it,  than  what's  inside  your  head.  You  may  start  out   with  using  characters  from  pop  culture  to  describe  a  system   of  belief,  but  in  working  it  practically  there  will  inevitably   be  commentary  and  feedback  given  in  the  form  of  results   either  going  awry  or  succeeding,  or  causing  something   totally  unexpected  to  happen,  that  will  direct  your  system   to  one  that's  more  in  line  with  whatever  it  is  that's  out   there.     It  should  also  be  noticed  that  different  concepts  that   make  use  of  the  same  name  can  be  used  in  parallel  without   problem.  A  person  can  invoke  Satan  in  the  morning,  Satan   in  the  afternoon,  and  Satan  in  the  evening  and  every  time   have  a  different  idea  of  what  they  are  invoking,  and  be   successful  with  them  all.   This  being  the  case,  the  work  at  hand  is  a  mish-­‐mash   of  paradigms  and  concepts  from  different  paradigms  that   are  the  result  of  approaching  the  universe  from  a   ceremonial  magick/Golden  Dawn  paradigm  combined  with   Thelema  and  what  could  be  called  "Fringe  Thelema",  i.e.  the Typhonian  Thelema  of  Kenneth  Grant  and  the  pseudo-­‐ Thelema/Voudou-­‐Gnostic  system  of  magick  elaborated  by   Michael  Bertiaux,  along  with  elements  stemming  from  the   Fraternitas  Saturni  and  the  Ma'atian  current,  the  thought  of   Frater  Achad,  with  a  background  in  Chaos  magick,  Wicca   fluffy  and  otherwise,  and  general  Paganism  also  been   thrown  into  the  mix…as  well  as  Satanism  and  the  Left  Hand   Path,  with  much  coming  from  general  experience  (as  a  non-­‐ member)  with  the  Temple  of  Set  paradigm.  The  thought  of   The  Process  Church  of  the  Final  Judgment,  on  top  of  all  of   this,  heavily  influenced  the  project.  All  of  this  has  been   thrown  at  the  universe,  the  universe  has  given  its  response,   and  a  semi-­‐coherent  incorporation  and  processing  of  that   response  into  a  new  understanding  of  things  has  given  birth   to  these  writings,  both  in  the  general  sense  and  in  the   specific  sense  of  the  system  described  later  on.  The  system   itself  was  arrived  at  through  a  year  long  sustained  working.     I  don't  claim  any  authority  for  all  of  this  beyond  the   fact  that  I  consider  it  to  be  a  good  guide  to  the  magickal   universe.  Other  people  have  produced  other  guides  and   models  and  all  of  them  have  some  truth  to  them.  This,   however,  is  mine,  one  that  was  arrived  at  as  a  sort  of   summation  of  long  period  of  personal  magickal   development  and  general  working.     What  these  writings  are  is  in  a  sense  a  palimpsest,   something  where  ideas  have  been  worked  over  multiple   times  from  multiple  perspectives  but  where  each  layer  still   exists  within  it  and  contributes  to  it.  Some  times  there  is   repetition,  as  one  thing  is  explained  one  way  and  then   explained  in  a  slightly  different  way,  maybe  with  some  new   language.  I  would  encourage  the  reader  not  to  dismiss  the   repetitions  or  to  try  to  find  the  one  truth  within  the   multiple  ways  that  the  concepts  are  expressed  but  to  try  to   contact  the  underlying  reality  that  they  describe. Nothing  in  this  book  is  true,   everything  in  this  book  is  true,  and   in  any  case  everything  is  permitted.     -­-­-­  Frequency  435