The inaugural free course · LHP 101
A definitive public introduction delivered through eight slide-led lessons across fixed weekend sessions, faculty guidance, weekly homework, and a final examination. Free to join; never self-paced.
The teaching covenant
Eight lessons move with one Cohort across eight Saturday and Sunday sessions. Historical analysis, archetypal psychology, religious studies, occult philosophy, modern frameworks, and the Collegium’s Infernal Current perspective are studied through scheduled discussion, homework, grading, and examination.
Atius Dade and Dirah Dade teach eight lessons live across eight classroom appointments, with one assigned slide set per lesson. Recordings of completed classes remain inside the protected course for enrolled students.
Eight lessons · eight fixed sessionsEnrolment remains free. The recorded teaching is delivered only through protected Collegium course modules on the published Cohort timetable. Atius and Dirah also lead one live faculty meeting at the beginning and one at the end.
Site-hosted study · two live meetingsReview both lessons and their slides, then complete the weekly 50-question quiz. A score of at least 60% (30/50) unlocks the next scheduled week; waiting for a homework grade is not required. Faculty may grant an earlier manual release when work is provided ahead of schedule, but early access is discretionary and cannot be promised.
Quiz-gated progression · no self-pacingLearning outcomes · Beginner–Advanced
By the end of the series, students should be able to distinguish history, archetype, philosophy, and modern practice—and defend that distinction under examination.
Identify transgressive and adversarial precedents that predate the modern Left Hand Path label.
Explain why institutions construct autonomy, rebellion, and the Adversary as social or religious threats.
Place Vāmācāra in its South Asian context and distinguish it from later Western reinterpretations.
Trace the Western remaking of the term through Theosophy, Thelema, and modern occult identity.
Compare Satan, Lucifer, and the Adversary across theological, literary, archetypal, and initiatory models.
Describe the structure, ethics, and psychological claims of organized modern Satanism.
Critically evaluate aesthetic occultism, misinformation, performance, and consumerism online.
Articulate sovereignty as a discipline of integration, autonomy, responsibility, and self-authorship.
Explain why the Infernal Covenant joins freedom to structure and accountability.
Formulate a future-facing Left Hand Path centred on teaching, ethical sovereignty, creation, and legacy.
Four-week Syllabus · Eight lessons
Eight lessons are taught through eight fixed weekend sessions. Each lesson has its own slide set. Open each lesson below for its focus, topics, and governing thesis. Readings, live-room links, assignments, and examination questions will be issued by faculty on the Cohort schedule.
Shamanic inversion, Dionysian ecstasy, Setian isolation, Promethean fire, and destruction as transformation.
FocusTransgressive and adversarial currents long before the modern term existed.
Key thesisThe Left Hand Path did not begin as a modern label; its precedents appear wherever sacred disobedience is framed as transformative power.
How authority converts social rules into sacred dogma and constructs autonomy as moral danger.
FocusWhy institutions and civilizations demonize individual sovereignty.
Key thesisThe Left Hand Path becomes legible wherever authority produces and condemns its opposition.
Vāmācāra, disciplined transgression, colonial distortion, and the Western occult remaking of the term.
FocusVāmācāra, ritual transgression, and the South Asian context from which the modern phrase was translated.
Key thesisThe phrase entered Western occult vocabulary from a specific ritual and religious context—not as a synonym for Satanism.
The adversary from Hebrew prosecutor and Christian enemy to Romantic rebel and modern mirror of sovereignty.
FocusThe development of Satan and Lucifer as theological, literary, psychological, and initiatory figures.
Key thesisThe Devil became a mirror through which successive cultures examined authority, will, knowledge, and selfhood.
LaVey, symbolic Satanism, ritual psychodrama, institutional order, boundaries, and power ethics.
FocusHow modern Satanism became an organized philosophical and religious system.
Key thesisLaVey turned rebellion into a system with explicit institutions, texts, practices, and ethical claims.
Digital access, misinformation, aesthetic performance, consumer identity, and the crisis of rigor.
FocusHow platforms, aesthetics, misinformation, and consumer culture reshape the contemporary Path.
Key thesisWhen the Path becomes performance, appearance displaces discipline, study, and accountable practice.
Self-authorship, shadow integration, discipline, autonomy, and radical accountability without saviors.
FocusThe Collegium’s working philosophy of sovereignty, disciplined integration, and responsibility.
Key thesisThe Path is not defined by darkness; it is defined by what it demands of the practitioner.
The Infernal Covenant, functional structure, ethical sovereignty, living lineage, and creation beyond reaction.
FocusThe case for an accountable structure within a sovereignty-centered current.
Key thesisFreedom needs structure, ethical limits, and responsibility if it is to survive its own contradictions.
Work, marking & progression
Students review eight lessons, complete four weekly 50-question quizzes, submit written assignments, and take a final examination. Each quiz covers the two lessons studied that week. A score of at least 60% (30/50) is required to unlock the next scheduled week. Homework opens after reviewing and completing that week’s teaching lessons; faculty feedback remains available but is not a release prerequisite. The final examination requires all four weekly quiz passes.
Only enrolled, age-verified members see protected modules, assigned prompts, and submission forms. An early manual release may occasionally be granted when homework is completed ahead of schedule, but it is entirely at faculty discretion and is not guaranteed.
Faculty · Left Hand Path, Satanic Studies, Demonolatry & Goetia
Atius teaches Left Hand Path and Satanic Studies, with supporting work in occult history, adversarial philosophies, personal systems, and source-aware comparison. Dirah teaches Demonolatry and Goetic practice, bringing disciplined attention to ritual method, spirit catalogues, practitioner records, and the relationship between historical sources and living systems.
Together they teach all eight lessons live across eight sessions for the inaugural run. In subsequent Cohorts, they lead the opening and closing live faculty meetings.
Free enrolment · Verified adults only
There is no application fee, tuition charge, or paid-student admission requirement for LHP 101. A free Collegium member account is required to protect class access, homework, exam records, and the 18+ boundary.
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