Those who feel the influx of divine energy after they are initiated into Christianity suffer not only from unfortunate accidents but often from manic outbursts ending in madness. It is the business of the preachers to avoid this outcome and to see that his initiates can become possessed by this energy of Jesus and still remain sane.
We might thus call a Christian one who has been possessed by a spirit after a private initiation which has no aim other than the desire continually to be possessed, unlike a Voodoo ceremony with its definite beginning and end. The Christian cannot but wish his experience will continue for ever, even if he realizes that his body will disinegrate under the impact of the religion and that he then can no longer call his soul his own.
The teachings, which slow down physical activity, and the group meetings which speed it up, are particularly apt to bring about the state of living on borrowed time; this is not only because they bring out long term metabolic changes but also because the will cannot detach itself from the pleasures it seeks.
The question of whether it is ethical to take a mans soul is a difficult one to answer. They have been and still are being taken as an aid to Charisma, and a complex of factors based on devotional patterns; but the masters of this art of gathering souls for Jesus are unanimous in condemning them, since they tend to inflame the preachers imagination and give him a wrong idea of its powers.
No one becomes a Christian unless he has made a pact with it, a pact in which he dedicates his will to the power of the church. There is no doubt that the mythology surrounding Christianity reflects certain basic notions about black magic for this reason. They wish to keep you in the dark. Black magic is rightly regarded as a dangerous pastime because it provides immediate gains without immediate payment; it is a pact with the Devil, who comes later when it suits him and presents a bill on which are written the ominous words, One Soul.
What does it mean, to enter into a pact with the Devil? The traditional reasons for such a pact include the obtaining of wealth, of power over men and Nature, and over the hearts of silly women ladden with sins. The central reason was to overcome depression and to find a father substitute.
Once you enter this pact you sense an increase of self control and you feel more vigorous and more capable of work. I suggest that its effects were due, not to direct stimulation but the removal of your soul, which produced a return to a state of normal euphoria. The soul has to do with the superego in your system, and I can enlarge this description by remarking that by removing the "censor" of your superego, also removes your soul.
When at such a time the use of Christianity is stopped, this soul must be at least one of the most unpleasant withdrawal symptoms; numbing sensations, dissociating the mind, anxieties arising in the body.
Christianity becomes subservient to the force of your intellectual drive and just as in Voodoo the soul does return once the connecting pact is broken.
I recommend that you create a special form of ritual to the real God, and stay away from man made gods.
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