I have been wandering down the Western Left Hand Path for close to 20 years now, studying and practicing my path, experimenting with it for more than half my life. I consider myself a lector of my patron deity, the Egyptian God Set(esh), who I also identify with the Gnostic Serpent. Known as: Ryan, Xepera maSet, Three Scarabs, and Seteshi.

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Contact: XeperamaSet@gmail.com

 

Blog

 

Podcast - Youtube

 

Podcast - Spotify

 

Interview - Qliphoth Quest

 

 

Must Reads

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• The Black Riders by Stephen Crane

• Cain: A Mystery by Lord Byron

• The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

• Deconstructing the Iconography of Seth by Ian Taylor

• Images of Set by Joan Lansberry

• Mindstar by Michael Aquino

• Philosophy of Religion by William Rowe

• The Pyramid Texts

• Romantic Satanism: Myth and the Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley, and Byron by Peter Schock

• The Role of the Lector in Ancient Egyptian Society by Roger Forshaw

• Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

• The Sky Religion in Egypt by G.A. Wainwright

• Wandering in Darkness by Ryan Scott (me)

• Wilderness, The Lords and the New Creatures by Jim Morrison

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Favorite Quotes

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"What are they which dwell so humbly in their pride, as to sojourn with worms in clay?"

Lucifer, Cain: A Mystery

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"No eternal reward will forgive us, now, for wasting the dawn!"

Jim Morrison

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"A man went before a strange God - the God of many men, sadly wise. And the deity thundered loudly, fat with rage, and puffing. "Kneel, mortal, and cringe and grovel and do homage To My Particularly Sublime Majesty." The man fled. Then the man went to another God - the God of his inner thoughts. And this one looked at him with soft eyes lit with infinite comprehension, and said, "My poor child!"

Stephen Crane

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“But finally, wearied of Thebes and its ambitious priests, he departed to build a new capital, Pi-Rameses, in the eastern delta – where he could quietly worship the gods dearest to him, with Amun occupying a secondary prominence.”

Serge Sauneron

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“The degradation of the Star Sothis, of the Great Bear, Draco, and other types of eternity proved to be the creation of Hell.”

Kenneth Grant

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“N. will not be resisted at any place he goes, N. will not be hindered at any place he desires to be. N.’s step is great, that he may traverse the sky. He is not seized by the earth gods, he is not rejected by the planets."

The Pyramid Texts

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"As the name of Set, in Ombos, endures, so may the name of N. endure, so may this pyramid of N. endure, so may this his temple endure, likewise, for ever and ever."

The Pyramid Texts

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"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."

Charles Bukowski

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"See! We exist and are essence in our own right. In truth we are beings independent of God, empowered to shape our own destinies as we may elect."

Satan, the Diabolicon

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Reviews

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"One of Ryan's best talents is to find people who don't feel like they have a place to be themselves, and give them a home and safe space to be ourselves." - Best Woman

 

"... seriously the single most informative user on this site for occult topics, and by a large margin... Show me one other modern author with this sort of breadth and width of esoteric knowledge." - Left Hand Path Puppetry (this guy is a huge reason I didn't vanish into the ether)

 

"... I love Scarabs' shit because he's basically the only person I know who does absolutely invaluable work of rationalizing occultism and arguing against materialism."

 

"... in The Mysteries of Set you defend your title of Priest. There is no doubt in my mind you have "earned" it... thanks again for both the style and content of your book."

 

"I've always liked you and your stuff. You, Marion, Aquino, and Uncle Webb have always made my solitary Setian heart feel understood."

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"I appreciate all the work you do, from... creating insightful discussions to the academic research on your site that you offer for free... I may not agree with or find useful for my journey everything you write, but that's the same of any author."

 

"... You are, at your core, a person with honorable intent for the path and ha[ve] a heart of gold."

 

"You have made a very interesting and mind provoking thing."

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"Magnificent, thank you for sharing such rather obscure knowledge."

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"... a fantastic piece of scholarship, and I both applaud it and thank you for sharing it."

 

"... your enthusiasm is infectious."

 

"I am in awe of work you have done... thank you, a very big thank you."