The inaugural free course · LHP 101
A definitive public introduction delivered through ten video chapters, eight fixed weekend sessions, faculty guidance, weekly homework, and a final examination. Free to join; never self-paced.
The teaching covenant
Ten chapters 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 the full ten-part sequence live across eight classroom appointments. Two Saturdays carry paired chapters; every other meeting carries one. There is no prerecorded substitute for the first run.
Ten live chapters · 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 meetingsEach week’s homework must be submitted and graded before the next week’s modules unlock. Faculty may grant an earlier manual release when work is provided ahead of schedule, but early access is discretionary and cannot be promised.
Graded 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 · Ten-part video series
Ten video chapters are taught through eight fixed weekend sessions. Open each chapter 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.
Ancient transgressive currents and the institutional construction of the Adversary.
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.
FocusWhy institutions and civilizations demonize individual sovereignty.
Key thesisThe Left Hand Path becomes legible wherever authority produces and condemns its opposition.
The South Asian ritual context, translation history, and limits of Western equivalence.
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.
Thelema, Theosophy, True Will, self-mastery, and the remaking of the term.
FocusHow Western esotericism adopted, altered, and polemicized the Left Hand Path.
Key thesisWestern occultism frequently transformed liberation into a contested identity and moral category.
Satan and Lucifer across theology, literature, psychology, and initiatory symbolism.
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, organized Satanism, individualism, responsibility, 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.
Aesthetic occultism, misinformation, identity performance, and spiritual consumerism.
FocusHow platforms, aesthetics, misinformation, and consumer culture reshape the contemporary Path.
Key thesisWhen the Path becomes performance, appearance displaces discipline, study, and accountable practice.
The demands of the Path and the emergence of the Infernal Covenant.
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.
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.
Creation, transmission, ethical sovereignty, synthesis, and examination preparation.
FocusA long-term vision of creation, transmission, family, teaching, and durable institutions.
Key thesisThe Path does not have to end in chaos; disciplined sovereignty can become creation and legacy.
Work, marking & progression
Students complete four weekly written assignments and a final examination. In later Cohorts, the following week’s protected modules remain locked until faculty has graded the preceding homework. The final examination requires the Week Four homework grade.
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 ten chapters 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.
The current Cohort begins 19 September 2026. Ten chapters meet or release across eight Saturday and Sunday sessions over four consecutive weeks.
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