The essence of our sinister Internal Magick is Copula cum Daemone, in either the literal sense of joining with certain acausal entities, or in the psychic sense of nurturing, releasing, and joining with one’s inner Baeldraca to thus become a causal-dwelling (but still mortal) sinister changeling. In the case of one’s Baeldraca, the joining is begun by the rite of sinister Initiation, nurtured by the journey to External Adept, released by the Rite of Internal Adept, and fully joined (re-united) with one’s causal being by a successful Passing of The Abyss.
In the literal sense, the joining with certain acausal entities can be done in several ways. First, by invoking them, through Dark Sorcery, into one’s own self. Second, by evoking them and then, again through Dark Sorcery, having a candidate (a mortal, willing or unwilling) be a host for the entity so evoked. Third, by opening a collocation of nine physical nexions and recalling The Dark Gods back to our causal realm.
A simple example of the first kind is the working with the pathways on the Tree of Wyrd (qv. Naos). An example of the second kind is The Ceremony of Recalling, as given in The Grimoire of Baphomet. A fictional account of such presencings of such acausal entities is given in Eulalia: Dark Daughter of Baphomet, and in the three stories, Jenyah, Sabirah, and In The Sky of Dreaming.
In a quite literal sense, some acausal entities – when manifest in the causal, are demons. Mischievous evil beings who – like most acausal beings – are shapeshifters, and can assume a variety of causal forms, benign, animal, human, or otherwise. Some of these types of acausal beings may have given rise to myths such as Dragons, and to legends about Succubi and Incubi. Some acausal entities, when manifest in the causal, are more akin to the δαίμων of classical legends – an internal source of energy to guide, inspire, provoke, mortals; or physically-presenced beings who watch over and guard certain sinisterly-numinous places; or beings, temporarily residing in the causal, who can restore the Cosmic balance by making mortals mad or bringing them misfortune or even killing them. Still other acausal entities, of a different acausal (but always shapeshifting) living species, are known to us by such causal names as we have assigned to them through a personal knowledge and past interaction with them – for example, Baphomet, Dark Goddess and Mistress of Earth; and Satan, The Lord of Darkness; both of whom can, if They so desire, join with us, physically, carnally, when They are presenced in the causal, on Earth, in some causal form that is pleasing to them, and us, and from which union They may gift us with an acausal, immortal, existence, if that, and we, be also pleasing to them.
Thus it is that the term Copula cum Daemone expresses the essence of our sinister Internal Magick, the essence of some of our demonic, dangerous (but often delightful), sinister practices, and also the goal of our Sinister Way, which goal is an immortal existence in the realms beyond this mortal, limited, causal, existence of ours.
