Dante’s Inferno gave us a hauntingly beautiful cartography of damnation—circles within circles, each a poetic reflection of the seven deadly sins. But for those walking the magical path, especially the Left-Hand Path, we understand something more. Hell is not a dogmatic scarecrow conjured by religious moralism to frighten the soul into conformity. Hell is real. Not in a literal sense—but as initiatory terrain. It is the crucible in which the self is dismembered, transmuted, and reforged.
This is not metaphor for the faint of heart. Whether you’re in the middle of an emotional collapse, experiencing a spiritual death, or have inadvertently awakened darker forces through premature exposure to the death current, this may serve as your map through the abyss.
Because let’s be honest—when going through hell, you might as well ask the devil for directions.
The first act of the necromancer is to resurrect themselves from the dead.”
When walking through hell, you already have the weapons—now fight.”
The “descent into hell” is a universal stage in spiritual transformation, especially for those on the left-hand path.
Archetypes like the zombie, ghost, vampire, necromancer, and werewolf represent real psychological and energetic phases of the spiritual death-rebirth process.
Depression, apathy, and disassociation are not merely medical—they may be initiatory symptoms of ego death and spiritual transformation.
Dopamine-driven distractions like social media or porn keep individuals in the zombie state—half-dead, still seeking external validation.
The ghost stage is about becoming internally driven, no longer seeking to be seen or validated from outside.
The necromancer stage involves personal resurrection, summoning willpower, discipline, and imagination to rebuild from nothing.
The vampire represents mastery of value, influence, status, and self-directed desire.
The werewolf is symbolic of the integration of instinct and divinity—a wild, awakened, sovereign self.
Meaning, as Viktor Frankl taught, is the key to survival and transformation in suffering. Magic is the science of meaning.
“A ghost needs no audience—it creates because it must, not to be seen.”
“The zombie consumes to feel alive; the magician dies to be reborn.”
We joke. But the descent is no game.
To walk the Left-Hand Path is not to wallow in darkness—it is to stand upright within it. Where others kneel and beg for salvation, the black magician bleeds with purpose. It’s not suffering that makes the initiate—it is the posture one adopts within suffering.
Pain is not proof that something is wrong. In this path, it is often proof that something is working.
This guide is not for the curious. It is for the crucified—the ones who’ve crossed the threshold and are staring into the abyss without a map. This is for those who have felt the psychic entropy tearing at their identity and still have the will to read on.
Many who dabble in dark magic get swallowed by it—not because of some cartoonish demon, but because they lack the psychic scaffolding to support the forces they’ve unleashed.
The problem isn’t the darkness—it’s the failure to integrate it.
This failure is often rooted in religious trauma. Many fear the very archetypes they summon. Symbols like Lilith, Samael, or the Qlippoth are invoked but not embraced. They are treated as taboo, monstrous, foreign—when in truth, they are mirrors. And what isn’t integrated, becomes invasive.
The descent begins when the self fractures. The mask slips. The identity forged through social validation, familial conditioning, and religious fear collapses.
Welcome to hell.
The journey begins in the shadow of the moon—that primal, intuitive, reflective force often tied to mystery, madness, and memory. Here dwell the haunting archetypes of our collective nightmare: zombies, ghosts, vampires, necromancers, werewolves.
These are not just myths. They are psychological states, energetic configurations of the soul during disintegration. The Qlippothic Tree—often called the Tree of Death in the Kabbalistic tradition—maps these states through shells like Gamaliel (obscured dreams), Samael (poison of God), and Lilith (lust and illusion).
Each of these spirits is not evil. They are the masks the unconscious wears when your ego no longer protects you. To move forward, you must wear them consciously.
After the initial rupture of the self, you may find yourself trapped in the zombie state. Dopamine-dead, hollowed out, disconnected. Trapped in cycles of meaningless stimulation—porn, social media, consumerism, status-seeking. There is no drive. No inspiration. The soul retreats.
Here lies the danger of survival without purpose. The walking dead live among us—addicted to being seen, addicted to distraction, but completely severed from their inner fire.
This stage is marked by numbness. By simulation over sensation. And many never leave.
To escape, you must let the zombie rot. You must die. Properly.
The next phase is the ghost. No longer seeking external validation, the ghost becomes invisible—to others and, often, to themselves. It stops performing. It vanishes from social life. From expectation. It haunts reality without needing to be acknowledged.
This is the most agonizingly lonely phase. But it is also the most powerful.
Because in this stage, the ego has died, but the soul begins to whisper. You are no longer defined by reflection. You start to matter—not in a public way, but in a magical way. You influence reality without needing approval. The ghost is a secret king. A hidden queen. A silent god.
If you can stay in this stage long enough, without returning to your old self, the necromancer is born.
A phrase from Dr. Thomas Karlsson captures this perfectly:
“The first act of the necromancer is to resurrect themselves.”
You are your first spell.
No longer motivated by passion or novelty, you begin to move with discipline. You do not wait for inspiration. You act. You train. You build.
Ghost mode becomes ghost mastery. You no longer hide—you reconstruct. Piece by piece. Action by action. With blood. With grit. With sorcery.
You begin to feel life force again. And with that, something darker and more refined begins to stir.
With resurrection comes hunger. But this is not the blind hunger of the zombie. This is the refined desire of the vampire.
The vampire does not settle. It does not scavenge. It hunts. It raises its standards. It surrounds itself with value, with power, with refinement.
The vampire learns to seduce through mastery, not manipulation. It doesn’t leech—it leverages. It feeds, yes—but it also gives. It creates exchange. It chooses what to consume and what to reject.
This is the stage of conscious boundaries, high standards, and unapologetic desire. The vampire does not feel shame for needing energy—it simply insists on worthy sources.
And finally, the beast awakens. Not as chaos, but as command.
The werewolf is the union of the id and the super-ego. Of God and animal. No longer at war, they become allies. The sacred and the savage merge into one will.
This is sovereignty.
The magician who reaches this stage can shift between realms. They can walk among beasts and angels without losing themselves. The wild no longer controls them. They ride it. They no longer fight their nature. They shape it.
Here is where the Black Sun rises—not as death, but as the radiant darkness of divine autonomy.
All of these stages are metaphors, yes—but they are real. Not because they exist in some astral map, but because they exist in you.
Magic is not ritual. It is not theater. It is the science of meaning-making.
As Viktor Frankl wrote, those who survived the Nazi death camps didn’t survive because they were stronger. They survived because they had meaning. The body obeys the mind. And when the mind finds meaning, it finds power.
When we give our suffering purpose, we transform it from punishment into power. From death into alchemy.
So if you are walking through hell, know this:
You already have the weapons.
You already have the wisdom.
The fire is within you.
The devil doesn’t mock you—he invites you to remember.
Because on this path, pain is not the enemy. Fear is not failure. The abyss is not the end. It is your beginning.
Welcome to the forge.
Now fight.
Adam is the founder and host of the Cvlt of You and creator of the Secret Science occult system.
He holds various occult lineages as well as initiatory levels in orders such as the Golden Dawn, The Dragon Rouge, Freemasonry and the Rosicrucian Order as well as several other lesser known groups and covens.
Founder of the Order of Delirious Saints and CTO of Sinappsus International, Adam boasts mastery in over 65 different tech stacks and languages as well as being a master NLP practitioner, hypnotist, Shamanic BDSM facilitator and Shibari healer.
“Magic is the science of meaning-making—it is not escape, but transmutation.”
“Status isn’t evil—it’s currency. The vampire learns to spend it consciously.”
True transformation begins when the beast within no longer controls you—but obeys you.”
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