The Hyde Project
Digital media also work. Fortunately, digital images of occult artwork are rarely useful, since the level of detail is usually not high enough to depict the complex and often tiny images sufficiently well to allow the viewer to gain the necessary unconscious insights. Exceptionally detailed digital images are possible, but require elaborate and specialised digital cameras, stabilised tripods, and either large, high-resolution prints of the images or extremely high definition monitors. Unfortunately, it’s possible to make visual grimoires that are specifically designed for use in digital format. These grimoires are quite rare, since few sorcerers who perform traditional magic understand computer graphics well enough to great such images, but one famous example exists – The Hyde Project.
This multimedia work consists of dozens of still images and an elaborate musical soundtrack. It was first seen on the web in 1998, and while the Laundry immediately took it down from UK servers and computers, it had already spread worldwide. Today, it is most often posted from servers in Eastern Europe, but there are believed to be dozens of copies on CDs and flash drives all across the UK. Largely, it is owned and viewed by eccentrics in the new-age movement.
The typical viewer is also interested in hallucinogens and using meditation and other techniques for cognitive expansion and enhancement and spiritual growth; few of them are willing to study it long enough and carefully enough to understand its actual message. However, while very few seek out this work to learn occult secrets, some viewers are sufficiently dedicated that after a few months of careful viewing they realise that they understand some facets of the universe that were previous opaque to them, including sorcery.
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