Ars Diabolicum
Et Vis Viridatis Serpentum
by Gilberto de Lascariz
The Brotherhood of the Serpent of the Dawn (Irmandade da Serpente da Alba) was founded in Portugal in the 1990s. Its acronym, ISA, pointed to Isis, specifically her dark aspect as the secret lover of Set. Her son, Anubis, was conventionally attributed to Nephthys, her complementary aspect.
The Serpent has been Portugal’s totem since ancient times, and the ISA sought to revitalize this archetype of the Portuguese soul, which has surfaced multiple times in its collective and artistic imagination. The poet-seer Fernando Pessoa gave it Word—that is, Divinely Inspired Voice—through his book The Path of the Serpent (O Caminho da Serpente).
The Serpent represents the Initiate who follows the Path—or Vau, the bridge that connects the opposing banks of the River in the limbo of ambivalences, during this twilight of the Kali-Yuga. According to René Guénon, this epochal phase is defined by the magical formula of the “union of opposites.” From this point onward, the primal recesses repressed by the Old Judaeo-Christian Aeon become the key to the ascension and annihilation of dualities, through their reabsorption into the Void and the Transcendent.
Ars Diabolicum lays bare the doctrine and many of the rituals of the ISA, or the Black Isis.
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Table of Contents
Presentation
Introduction
THE SNAKE OF DOWN
The Gnostic-Luciferian Path of Regeneration and Awakening
239 The double chain of the dragon
The viridarium corvis and the ophidic-gnosic current
1. THE OPENING OF THE ROAD
The creed of the inverted god
CATECHISM I
The rite of Kephas
CATECHISM II
Lux-Nox
CATECHISM III
The rite of the Apostasy of the ego
CATECHISM IV
The invocation of the Arcane lineage
CATECHISM V
Prayer to the Holy Relic
CATECHISM VI
Opening of the sinister path
CATECHISM VII
The rite of the delight of god
CATECHISM VIII
The Hounsel
CATECHISM IX
2. THE BRIDAL CHAMBER
Offering to the holy daemonium
CATECHISM X
Chant to the icon of flesh
CATECHISM XI
In the garden of Venus
CATECHISM XII
3. THE MYSTERIES OF THE SAR
The ritual of the Perusta Path
CATECHISM XIII
Ritus Canum Domini
CATECHISM XIV
The mark of the beast
CATECHISM XV
The rite of union with the daimon
CATECHISM XVI
4. THE DEVIL’S MASS
The golden mass of the devil
CATECHISM XVII
Adoration of the exiled king
CATECHISM XVIII
The rite of the bread and the rose
CATECHISM XIX
MISSA GNOSTICAE DAEMON QAYIN
CATECHISM XX
Liber vel 77 et 0
CATECHISM XXI
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Hardcover Edition - Limited to 200 hand-numbered copies
384 pages. Black cloth hardcover, with stamping in gold.
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About the Author
Gilberto de Lascariz is a writer and occultist. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he has lived in Portugal since a young age. He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law in Lisbon, while simultaneously pursuing Sanskrit Language and Culture at the New University in Lisbon. From a very young age he was involved in various esoteric societies of a Rosicrucian and Masonic nature, having taken vows in the Nyingma-Pa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
He is Magister Maximus of the Brotherhood of the Serpent of the Dawn and holds the 33rd, 66th, 90th, 95th, and 97th degrees, being Deputy International Grand Master of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm of the Sovereign Hermetic Sanctuary of Lusitania and of the Sovereign Sanctuary of Brazil of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm; Unknown Superior of the Ordre Martiniste Operant (via Ambelain and Mauer), as well as Reau-Croix of the Ordre des Chevaliers Élus Coëns de l’Univers; Benefactor Knight of the Holy City of the Grand Prieuré Indépendant et Souverain; Bishop of the Apostolic Gnostic Church and the Johannite Gnostic Church; Baille-Ge of the Franco-Haitian Black Cobra Tradition and Initiate of the Red Cobra (Bertiaux-Duez-Pedutti); 16th Degree of the OTO-FH and High Priest 16th Degree of the Chorozon Club (Bertiaux-Duez-Pedutti), as well as Master of the Fraternité Thérapeutique et Magique de la Myriam (via the Henadel, Giudicelli Lineage); 9th and 11th Degrees of the former Brazilian Sanctuary of the Ordo Templis Orientis (Merlin Tradition 9th and 12th, etc.).
The Portuguese Gothic culture magazine Elegy Ibérica considered him in 2006 to be the most important figure in neo-pagan esoteric thought in Portugal.
