Disclaimer: The following document fragment is presented from an in-character perspective, it should not be taken as the truth of the setting.
Context: A final text for this week’s topic of how mages may view morality, it serves primarily as a story to compliment the Lucifereans, going into the history of their beliefs. The story presented might be true, or it might just be a story.
And Hashem saw that the wickedness of Ha’adam was great in Ha’aretz and that every yetzer of the machshevot of his lev was only rah continually.
Yetzer hara – the inclination of man to evil – exists in all of us. We recognise that we must act against it. Thus we see it in the writing of our elder kin, speaking of the inherent wickedness in our hearts. Especially among the Mequbbal, it became a frequent topic of discussion. A matter of philosophy. Indeed, if you are familiar with the Luciferian coven, the Fellowship of Satanael, they are among the last to observe yetzer hara. The final adherents of the ideas once laid down in Kabbalist texts, otherwise lost to the annals of time.
But, they are not part of this story.
Instead, we shall speak of the Unnamed. Of course, that was not the title they bestowed upon themselves. But their fellow mages, having weighed their sins, stripped them of their pontifical title.
You see, one can see yetzer hara in oneself first and others second. Or see it in others first, and in oneself second. But the Unnamed saw it in everyone, while willingly blind to the darkness dwelling in their own heart. They saw themselves as standing above others, the pure and enlightened, bestowed by the Cosmos with kingship over the Ammei-ha’Aretz.
And so, misled by their hubris, they plotted and planned to erase yetzer hara from the world — a great cleansing of the impure, destined to take many among the Ammei-ha’Aretz and their fellow Mequbbal.
In secrecy, on a night when the Moon turned its gaze away, and the Cosmos hung above like a gem-studded tapestry, they gathered. And with the smoke of the burned offerings they loved so much, they attracted the attention of one among the Chaioth ha Qadesh. Some sources suggest that the Holy Living Being visiting the Unnamed that night was none other than Zerachiel, but only apocryphal sources ascribe any names to this visitor.
They, in false reverence, beseeched the Chaioth for the power to erase yetzer hara. And the Holy Being agreed, they brought wine, and it was blessed with Zerachiel lifeblood, drawn from a body no human weapon could touch.
The Chaioth ha Qadesh spoke: “Drink of this bitter chalice and may your blood be blessed to burn the wicked heart.”
And so the Unnamed drank and one by one, in agony, burned to ash before the Holy Being, and it found the redolence of their smoking flesh to be pleasing.
The wise Chaioth ha Qadesh then left, to summon others from among the Mequbbal and told them of the Unnamed, their wish and their demise. Thus were the event chronicled, save for the names of those slain that night.
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