I am a cultist in the Cult of the Lavender Serpent. My name is Seth. I lived in another world than here, but during the Purge I escaped though the Woods that lie between worlds. I was a catlike creature there, and slowly out here in the world of Man, I became more like Man. It is spiritually cold out here, and meaningless. I don't know if I always lived in the other world, or if I started out here and was stolen by the beings from the other side of the Woods. I long to go back, even though it was torture. Through the negativity I endured, I became stronger. I miss it, I miss the intensity, and the ecstasy it produced as I overcame each test...
.... memory changes....
I am ascending in the Cult. I am a novice still, but I am gaining experience and knowledge and wisdom. My personal teacher is a Shadow, a being made of Void whose skin is a transparent membrane. I call him the Cut-Out-Man, and he is a hole in Existence. He holds my hand though the rituals. He is there to make sure I am not destroyed. When my mind is shattered, he puts it back together. When I need rest, he rests beside me. He is always there, except for trials in which I must go alone. We have begun to love each other in a more than platonic way. We may not yet become /that/ close...
....memory changes....
I am a priest in the Cult of the Lavender Serpent. I am in our monastery. I see darkish grey stonework and red. Windows flank me, I am in a special room. Outside, the gardens, and the sunlight. Inside, the altar, with items inside. I am preparing for a ritual in which I will meet with our deity...
....memory changes....
I am the High Priest of Hell. The Lord of Unpleasant Truth has come to my own exiled Lord, and has shown It, from the Mountain, the War-front. From that distant perch, they see us. We are lined up outside of Drive, with the cliff to our backs, and THEY are lined up before us, with THEIR horrid stain upon our world, behind THEM. Hell is ready to tear THEM apart; this will be ecstasy. We will crush THEM. I have lost my parasite, as has my Lord. And we see with the Eye of God, who is larger than either of us. The creator from the Beyond. It can now see within our world, once more. And with It's Power, we will again be One People.


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[ Originally posted here Jan 28 2014 as part of this: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/32174/some-of-my-various-selves 
It may have been written earlier. ]