Please be aware, the following episode contains some adult themes.

You're listening to Unexplained, with me, Richard McLean Smith.

We are the Witchcraft, part two.

That evening, after returning from Robert Rupinski's home,

Jack went directly to his study and closed the door behind him.

Placing the curious book on his desk, he turns the page and begins to read.

When the Neophyte enters upon the path of evil, they are but a drunkard,

groping in the dark.

When the Neophyte enters upon the path of good,

they can't but bear the dazzling brilliance of that light.

And on it continues, the words glowing like burning coal.

Dear children of earth, long have you dwelt in darkness,

quit the night and seek the day.

The book's title, Conx On Pax, is thought to derive from the Illusinian mysteries,

a secret right of the ancient Greeks, whose purpose, according to Plato,

was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended.

Although Jack doesn't know this, he feels something of its sentiment emanating from Alistair Crowley's text.

But what grabs him most, aside from Crowley's belief in the power of magic,

is his portrayal of life as a duality of the light and the dark.

Not for him, the piety and hypocrisy of a morally virtuous vision,

but rather something more mutable and honest, something more real.

Many hours later, when Jack finally makes his way to bed,

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