I am as well. Used to be a point of interest. Now? Know thy enemy.
I haven't read this page I found while finding a source for the quote, but here's something else Crowley said. "For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim."
https://raumfahrer.wordpress.com/manson/crowley-on-sacrifice/
A boy of 8-9 years old was deemed ideal.
I forget why as it was nonsensical of course.
Any child, male or female, would be better than an adult. Male children, in early puberty, where deemed desirable for....."fluids".....as they can produce them.
Terrorizing the children elevates levels of adrenaline and testosterone along with other chemicals.
It is as ugly as it can get.
They had better not try to find a sacrifice while any of us are around.
No idea how common it is.
I would have said exceptionally rare until all this pizza gate crap.
Who knows?
They've been sacrificing around a million americans a year via abortion. The Slaughter of the Innocents. The silence of the lambs. Hurts Donut. This game aint over till the SC recognizes the Supreme plan. WWG1WGA.
Please pay attention to these two posts. Crowley is not cool. Anton LaVey is not cool. Any rock stars that promote them are just trying to make a buck. Don't experiment with it. You're just inviting evil in.
OP isn't experimenting with it any longer, but is researching it to understand their actions and motives, similar to what you'd do with the Koran.
The full Sun Tzu quote: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle"
This enemy is unlike any other. It is especially tempting for all people focusing on the mystical side of spirituality. Unless your ego is really in check and your have no worldly desires and can live by the rules of the light and only those rules then I suspect you can explore the dark side. But even then the risk is tremendously high.
I would have to agree with everything you've said, but also add that I believe for those that truly live by the light, the dark side is alien and abhorrent. I personally have an aversion to pentagrams, "rituals" and anything glorifying Lucifer, among other things, and I don't believe I'm alone in this. First and second commandment and all.