Forward to the Gutter Bible

Perhaps the less said
about this book the better. The publishers were tempted to release the tome
without comment, but the realization that few would understand the volume in
and of itself, precluded this route.

For our purposes, the
story begins on June the 21^st, of the year 2010, when the magician
Frater Zentra El wandered the late night streets of Manhattan in a state of
deep chemognosis. Upon spotting the book lying in the gutter, he at first
mistook it for one of his own magical journals, which are kept in similar
composition books. To his surprise, it contained magical wisdom far deeper than
he previously understood.

Who actually penned the
Gutter Bible? That remains a mystery to this day. It could simply be the
ramblings of an escaped mental patient. Perhaps the writer had some magical
training, perhaps not. It could have been transmitted by a goetic spirit, or
dropped through the cracks in reality. Close examinations have determined only
two things: that it is written in at least three different languages, and that
the author probably identified as female.

The only certainty is
that the writer, whatever it may be, touched something beyond most people’s
limited understanding of the universe. Spend just a few minutes examining the
pages and you’ll find yourself in a state of gnosis[1].
Deep examinations finds passages of psychological and emotional significance
that go beyond what a “stable” mind can comprehend.

For this purpose alone,
the Gutter Bible would be worth years of intensive study. Simply using it as a
portal to gnosis itself leads to spectacular results. Thankfully, some have
delved deeper.

Upon retrospect, this Scribe
cannot believe that when, and where, and most importantly, who, found the Gutter
Bible can be mere chance. This wisdom wanted to be found, and it chose a
Prophet[2]
capable of understanding the importance of what he received, and the ability to
use it. For after months of study, the Prophet, by means of divination and
illumination, came to a momentous conclusion. That what he possessed was the
basis for that which has been sought after by magicians for decades if not
centuries. He found a cipher to create a system of pure magick for the modern
era.

Since the dawn of
civilization, when the shaman was usurped by the priest, magick has been
polluted by religion and materialism. Since that time, magick has devolved into
an intellectual pursuit, with the roadmaps for understanding the underpinnings
of reality created by philosophers and viziers. They, consciously or subconsciously,
created systems that reinforced their religious and political agendas. Over
time, magick became enslaved to Judeo-Christian philosophy in the West, and Hindu-Taoist
philosophy in the East. No matter how revelatory the nature of any system’s
basis seemed to be, it still contained the elements of the theology understood
by its founders.[3]
The Gutter Bible has the unique advantage of being truly “found” wisdom that
bypasses the filters of previous revelations.

The Prophet’s recognition
of these properties is perhaps the greatest gift to magick in generations.

Emergent Magick

What the Prophet did not
do with the revelation is perhaps more important than what he created. He did
not perform an in depth intellectual analysis of the text. He did not seek
translation. Nor did he attempt to find the writer on the physical plane for
further clarification.

He realized that the only
true path to understanding the wisdom contained was through magick itself.
Enlisting the aid of the Seer, Soror Panthera, they plumbed the depths of the
Gutter Bible using divination, evocation, and invocation. Through their magick
they opened the door to a cosmos both frightening and awe inspiring, and
found an entity of purest magick.

This Scribe encourages
you to do the same. To find a name or a passage in the Gutter Bible, and make
it the source for your own magical workings. Don’t try to analyze
intellectually what you have read before you seek your own revelation in a
gnostic state.

To help facilitate this,
we include the base methods used by the Prophet and the Seer, and a fraction of
their own findings. We call this system, Emergent Magick, and have founded an
Order specifically for the practice.

Please email emergentmagick@gmail.com
for information on further updates to this volume, new publications, and places
to share your own findings.

The Scribe Frater
Threskiornis

February 12^th,
2016

[1]
For our purposes, gnosis refers to alternate states of consciousness used for
magical purposes.

[2] Frater
Zentra El

[3]
For example, while Thelema claims to be the revelations of Aiwass through
Crowley, Crowley could only relate the wisdom through his own understanding of
Egyptian and Christian symbolism.

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