I've been mentioning a man called the King of the Witches.

King of the Witches made a statement once in which he described how he came to regret his involvement

in the dark arts.

Come to believe that, after having sold his soul to the darkness, the subsequent death

of a mistress and his sister were the resulting price that he had to pay.

Sanders once said, I made a dreadful mistake in using black

magic in an attempt to bring myself money and sexual success. It worked. Walking through

Manchester, I was accosted by a middle-aged couple who told me that I was the exact double

of their only son who had died some years previously.

They took me into their home, fed, and clothed me, and treated me as one of their family.

They were extremely wealthy, and when I asked them, for a house of my own, with an allowance to run

it, they were quite happy to grant my wishes.

I held parties, bought expensive clothes, was sexually promiscuous.

But it was only after a time that I realised I had a fearful debt to pay.

And it would seem that Sanders believed that the suicide,

shortly after of one of his mistresses, along with his sister Joan, being accidentally shot

and then subsequently diagnosed with terminal cancer, was his price to pay.

Well, not only did he come to regret doubling in the Dark Arts,

but he studied the book of Admiralin the Mage,

a very ancient grimoire, and something that Alastair Crowley also took great pains to study.

And perhaps just like Sanders, the connection between him studying this book

would also become surrounded by those who became victim to strange, unexplained,

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