The Western Gate

Vision of the Crossroads
by Leonard Dewar
Sirius Limited Esoterica

From the perspective of ‘Traditional witchcraft’ comes this offering from Sirius Limited Esoterica. I don’t know anything about the author and there is only a limited introduction as to his background etc.

Yes! It’s one of those books from the path often associated with Pseudo Satanica and anything that reeks of alternate esoterica be it under some title like Primal Craft, Become a living God, or anything crooked,winding or “traditional”
The style is easy to read and there is a plethora of spitting venom at society and its lies, our history and manipulation. It’s nothing that anyone treading in these circles wont have heard before, the conspiracists, pot smokers, and generally anyone who sticks two fingers up at the status quo (good!) but doesn’t offer a better system on which to follow (bad). Of course this all designed to remind us of our conditioning, after which, no doubt, we can be conditioned into something else.
So, here of course we are concerned with the nature of our spiritual growth, or enjoyment of both acknowledgement of our inner self and our fleshly concerns.
It takes a while to get going in the book as we have to endure the usual backlash against Abrahamic influence and a potted history of the adversaries of ‘God’ who perhaps were in fact ‘God’ previous to the new manipulation of control, again, it’s nothing many wouldn’t have come across before, as I’ve said before. Few people wont have heard of Lillith or Cain (Qayin) who have the means to buy these volumes and in that respect the audience are being preached to, again (!) There’s nothing wrong with reiterating, but at times it feels like a ‘starter’ book, an introduction to the/a ‘path’, without knowing more about the authors background or experience, his works, accomplishments etc its presented exactly like that, a presentation as if we were at a lecture or reading from the basics to hopefully some new insights.
There’s nothing surprising or secrets revealed, save perhaps the authors spin on things which would give some meat to being an original dish.
From what perspective are we approaching? seems to be anything that is regarded elsewhere as sinister, the left hand path, whether its Lillith and her horde of demonic children, any secular religion with a penchant for celebrating death and of course Lucifer and Satan. Oh and Azazael… don’t forget Azazael.

There are numerous words errors here and there, spacing issues that though don’t affect the read, just annoys, makes me wonder why the book costs so much when clearly it has not been proof read and corrected.

There is a ritual, 99 days reciting to awaken the ‘witch blood inheritance!’ It must be uninterrupted or else start again…repeat the prayer eighty one (!) times in the sacred 9×9, which is 81? Not 99, but every 30 days burn a candle, doesn’t say for how long, over what duration etc,, and at the end of 9×9… where’s the other 18 days? To the 99…. I’m sure the answer must be in the confusion somewhere. But 99 days repeating the same call, prayer and it’s not even an overtly dramatic pretentious or blustering call? Oh….And don’t try and research this ‘ancient’ rite, it won’t be found, ….of course it wont.

Lilith in the book is represented “as the ‘mother of the witch blood’ or the mother of those who possess the mark of Qayin.” (P.199) ? This may be news to many I’ve known, certainly for the sake of feminism a figure such as Lilith can be symbolic.

There are of course typical of such ‘left hand’path literature the usual littering of ‘woe betides’ and at your own risks and warnings all of which obviously will fall on deaf ears. Do we obey or not? Obey ? When the author has spent so much time destroying societies false virtues and designs… obey? There’s an attempt at discussing morals and ethics which is welcome in the attempt and pitiful in conclusion.

If you’ve enough will and determination to continue after the 99 days, or was it 81, habitual brainwashing/numbing ritual there is another rite to practice;-
this will involve some blood, semen and spit to offer ‘her’ on a new moon. In a clay pot though doesn’t say where this pot should subsequently be stored etc. If you’re menstruating then of course this blood will do and obviously a woman would have to bring herself to climax as a substitute for semen.
It’s all a bit of anticlimax after all that.
To be honest I’m not sure if the inertia or lust was there in the first place, one minute the author champions his own culture, then harps on about Azazael and Lilith and then redressed this by examining how cultures took this and that to equal their own path which is fine were it not for him telling us this a some lost witch grail blood line heritage. This hotchpotch brew of conflicting herbs and uncomplimentary spices.
It is apparent in most Left Hand Path and devotional works, the vast majority of them hail the adversary and challenger who refused to bow before creation and yet subsequently we’re asked to bow and prostrate and make offerings to it?
“I refuse to submit, so submit to me” (?)
Doesn’t anyone actually understand the hypocrisy of this? If I were the antithesis of that archetypal creator would I really expect those who’d follow even my shadow to bow down as I myself refused to? Do they not understand anything, that devotion is in itself a bondage upon free will, that a guided path is a blinkered and lead path, it’s not called the crooked path for dramatic effect.
Luckily or not, the author has so many mixed messages and confusions that it would be impossible to actually tread this path as a definite and finished article. “The only way to walk this path,”he says, “ is to walk”, well cast me down with a feather, by Jove, it was so obvious wasn’t it ?