Temple of the Black Light

[DCLXVI]

http://www.templeoftheblacklight.net

Can anybody share some information about this group?

[Torey]

I would love to hear if anyone could, too. I looked into them a long time ago and can find nothing else about them other than what's on that site...and they're not accepting new members.

[Darth Brooks]

Their concept of "Draconian Setianism" is pretty interesting. Their interpretation of Set appears to be modeled after a post-New Kingdom/Late Period version of Him, in which He is confused with Apep. Yet they also make mention of certain predynastic and Old Kingdom elements, like the "seven stars of the Setaue" (i.e., the Big Dipper). On the whole it seems like they've been reading their Don Webb, but I find the identification with Apep (not to mention the invocations of Apep) disturbing. This is not something one usually sees among Setians, and it could have dangerous psychological effects in practice. (Invoking Apep was never considered a good idea, not even by the ancient Egyptian Setians.) So I have mixed feelings about the website itself. As for the actual group, I have never heard of them before, but I can see strong Temple of Set influences (they spell the Egyptian word "khepher" as "Xeper", like Temple members do). Except even Temple of Set members don't identify Set with Apep.