First off this review is about the book itself, BUT ALSO the associated music recorded by one of the top black metal bands in the game today! The manner in way of which this works hand & hand so indescribably well executed with the aforementioned album 1557 - The Rites of Nullification by the ridiculously talented Black Metal band Mephorash; in particular the first track Riphyon -The Tree of Assyrian Putrescent categorically and unapologetically ushers the Mephorash album & Rites of Nullification book into simple perfection, one so seamlessly that it almost seems completely effortless(but we know that’s far from the case)!
This bewitching black leather tome; emanates not just profound level of energy, but also the similarly drug like & intoxicating smell of the bound leather where it feels like time is paused. Adorned with gold foil lettering in addition to the gold foil Sigil that stands out on the cover; Plus a Gilt edged bookblock that sets this book onto another level.
The four Rites of Nullification comprise
of a detailed exegesis and expansion of a passage, in the book Back Magic Evocation of the Shem ha Mephorash, undernoting the demon Lekabel. Using the basic symbol set and techniques of Western esoteric tradition, the Rites, beginning with permutations of the sacred binary, give the practitioner a coherent framework and describe tools by which one can perform a ceremonial, symbolic epoché, in which that set of unexamined suppositions the witch conflates with the world are systematically stripped and destroyed, clarifying new dimensions of consciousness which lies just beyond the chaos of the horizon, systematically opening an aperture into a renewed universe beyond.
To do so, the Rites uncover four dragons who flow & meander their way through contemplative worlds. These worlds are formulated by this treatise of black magick, seeking to disturb and antagonize the four creative worlds of the Kabbalistic tree of life.
As the Witch invokes and dispatches these four primordial exarchs, the inherent instability of the worlds in which they reside, begin
to crack all at once within the universe, almost as if directly hit by a fierce bolt of a four-pronged lightning flash into a reflexionssprung, by which the whole habit field, the pane or manifold of consciousness built on unconscious and unexamined reflexive judgement and experience, collapses, a crumbling of the fortified tower of unaware self-identity, that primordial Qliphah which at first protects the inchoate and developing Witch by garrisoning their precious and vulnerable ego. Yet later it still transmogrifies into an albatross around the Witches neck, thus hampering and restricting the emergence of one’s own initiated witch-Self.
She effects this cataclysm via diffractive meditation within a binary switching matrix of sixteen meditative focal points which bound, as its vertices, an unstable four-dimensional cube, or tesseract, representing the ego's construction of the universe. That sounds complicated. It's not very. We here lay out the procedure in careful and exhaustive detail.