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Internet Book of Shadows

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Book of ShadowsHouse Cleansing RitualNeopagan PracticeWiccan Ritual Instructions

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This is a short collection of three occult/esoteric texts ("Libers") from the *Internet Book of Shadows*, an online compendium of neopagan and magical writings, authored under the pseudonym Draconis/Ank-Sha-Saroon. The work blends Thelemic imagery (the Beast, the New Aeon, Liber-style numbering) with eclectic neopaganism, drawing on figures like Aleister Crowley while invoking a broad pantheon including Isis, Hecate, Pan, and Nuit. Its central argument is that Christianity — specifically the figure of Christ, recast as a "Child of the Beast" — has enslaved humanity through shame, which the author identifies as the only true sin; the corrective is self-knowledge, will, and love. Liber II provides a practical initiation ritual involving blood, a cup, a dagger, and a pentagram-style star, oriented toward self-dedication to the Goddess and her consort. The writing is theologically eclectic and internally contradictory (desire is called both the enemy and something to pursue freely), and the prose is rough and repetitive rather than polished. A reader would find this representative of late-1990s amateur online occultism — anti-Christian in tone, syncretic in theology, and more emotional manifesto than structured magical system.