Coven: Sympathy for the Devil

Bounce bounce bounce bounce to the Holiday Inn to meet witches. Yes, a surreal american dream. All wear black and talking about henbane. Which is mystical psychedelic having to do with darker type trips. And very scary. We are told. And we so believe. We have gone through everything before. And for them maybe this was part of it. Although it doesn’t seem just right today.

But they think it works for them so it must. Wired in two and a half years ago in Indianapolis Indiana and putting it out for the rest of the kids. Maybe you’ll dig it too kids just lissen to this keen black mass and everything and see how we’ve brought ourselves up from nothing to poverty dig it. To end or start a thought. But it is real even with that thing on the record Dick Clark or whoever DO WHAT YOU WILL heheheheh business it is real and if they don’t do it in private the way they do it on the record or the stage you’ll excuse them kids because then how’d they play their instruments and we just want to give you a taste and let you find out for yourselves if you want to try because THEY ARE ALL AROUND YOU and if you want to find them you can and they’ll teach you what you have to know.

It’s a real a heavy a workable yoga and once you’re into it it’s like any other total involvement thing and you can joke about it and work it into eating mashed potatoes or whatever you like to do. Here’s an interesting thought kids: the dude that wrote all the commercial stuff they’re starting off with is named Donlinger which is kind of like a combination Donleavy and Salinger which is kind of how this thing is writing. And you ask about power. After this they’re going to get into it a little heavier for ya kids and by the fourth or fifth album they’re going to be ' laying it all out there on the vinyl and if that doesn’t scare you kids it sure makes me stop and think a minute.

Meet energy rocketing around the cosmos. Energy you can use if you can reach it and this is the way it may be thought. The church turns its back on it but you feel it and if that’s what evil is well you can dig it. You feel it anyway and can’t reject it. Because it’s too real. And if you’ve been brought up in the church and think in religious terms this is what you turn to. Archaic as the church but much more vital. And real. In the same sense. Because real mainstream religion has an aura about it too and maybe you need that or at least have come to accept it and you don’t have to go very far to be a satanist.

What do you want anyway. An end to repressions inhibitions constraints. Well ok. And that’s what all that free meat energy means and you call it by name the Left Hand Path. Force of darkness. The arcane.

The black. Evil is live spelled backwards.

And if you’re a twentieth century baby some of the archaic trappings have to be explained and the whole thing has to be put in perspective. It centers around the id. Dark seat of inner drives. And the forces exist or are created and if you perceive them then fuck epistomology and dig it. And call them demon or prowess no matter it’s just like an LSD vision anyway so what difference does it make if it lives or you’ve put it inside that pentacle because you’re dealing with an elemental force that you can use or can destroy you and if you become nonfunctional what difference does it make if you’re crazy or you’re possessed and if you can use it what difference does it make if it’s Lucifer himself or the unholy force of your will because all any of this is is a way to get through this incarnation the best you can.

Fully conscious children of Freud and LSD see all of this and take a utilitarian stance. Find the ritual a helpful yoga. Find the orgy a helpful yoga. Are not overburdened by the discipline. Are not trying to turn day to night. Loki gets her milk here but she dropped acid back in ‘66 and hasn’t quite been the same since. Takes it all in with a nod and well yes ok I can see it no you’re not really fooling yourself but then neither was Solomon. And I wonder what he believed.

There are killer forces involved. Ace mystic Crowley and his faithful assistant lock themselves in a tiny room to find the Pipes of Pan and get into something they can’t handle. Faithful assistant has his brain burned out and Crowley winds up in an institution. But then you knew you had it in you. Didn’t you. And like everything else it’s just a question of not taking on anything you’re not ready for. Not letting these forces loose without a direction. Not getting so ego laden that it all turns on you and Christ should have been in a rock and roll band j because it’s safer as an ego release than being a mess iah. Or doing things on people at least partly because psychic powers are easily extened and who knows but that someone may just turn around and get you back really good.

Withcraft is wisecraft and will and participation in the order of the universe. Praying is hoping but you don’t pray to these forces you go in and take a hand. If you Can handle it you do it. You’re using the force that you’ve learned, that you’ve worked up and you direct the energy to a real end. It’s completely selfish. Completely a survival tool. But always conscious of getting to the core and escaping the wheel of rebirth. And the danger is in overreaching.

Balance. Dualism. The order of the universe is in shifting complementaries. They believe that one side is currently on the upswing and in achieving the new balance will carry them along. If you can hook into it. Just free your mind and release your emotions and concentrate your will and hold on tight. And oh it’s not so strange but 1 do believe it’s not for me.

Are they witches? Are you a hippie?