INTRODUCTION

     Greetings and welcome to my web site! The purpose of this site is to provide accurate information about the Temple of Set and my activities as a Setian. I have been a Setian since September 14, 1989 CE. I am the former webmaster of the Official Temple of Set Web Site, where you can find general information about the Temple of Set and its admissions policies. The Setian philosophy is summarized in the Word Xeper (pronounced "Keffer"), which is an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "to become, to be, to come into being."

     I regard the Setians I work with as peers. Although I am a Master of the Temple, I both teach and learn from Setians of all degrees. That's because I'm in this for Selfish reasons. After all, the Left-Hand Path is Self-oriented, so I'm not interested in working with people I can't learn something from. Two books I recommend to new Setians are The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution by Peter D. Ouspensky and Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Although these books are not explicitly Setian, they do touch upon the underlying principles of Setian philosophy.

     One of the most important Setian activites is Initiation. To initiate means to begin and Initiation means the beginning of liberation from control by external circumstances. This is a basic premise of the Left-Hand Path, the essence of which is Xeper. The Left-Hand Path involves the practice of an antinomian philosophy of apotheosis.

     The word antinomian is derived from the Greek anti, meaning "against" or "opposed" and nomos meaning "law." This is often misinterpreted by the ignorant and sometimes deliberately misrepresented by propagandists to mean that the Left-Hand Path involves criminal activity. Nothing could be further from the truth. The antinomian element of Left-Hand Path philosophy involves an opposition to control by external circumstances, whether social, political, or religious.

     The word apotheosis is also derived from the Greek and means "exaltation to a divine state, Self-deification and/or an exalted/glorified ideal." I use the word Self with a capital S to denote one's essential being, as opposed to the surface ego or mundane personality. This surface ego is merely the outer layer through which the Self experiences interface with the social and natural worlds. The Self is not, however, limited to these worlds. By liberating ourselves from control by external circumstances we become aware of and eventually become this Self, which is the very essence of who we are.

"There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious as the sun of midnight is ever the son." AL III-74