The framework laid out here aligns the pathways of ascension, we could define three primary ascension pathways:
The White Path (Ascension through Light)
The path of unity, love, wisdom, and harmony. Those who follow this path seek to align with divine will, creation, and higher consciousness through service, enlightenment, and connection. It is the path of healing, selflessness, and transcendence through surrender to the greater whole.
The Grey Path (Ascension through Balance)
The path of integration, power, and self-mastery. This is the middle way, the alchemical path that seeks to unify both light and dark into a singular force. Those who follow this path understand both creation and destruction, using them in balance to ascend beyond duality.
The Black Path (Ascension through Pure Darkness)
The path of absolute self-sovereignty, domination, and will. This is not merely the path of knowledge, power, or detachment (as in the grey path), but the full embrace of destruction, chaos, and absolute opposition to creation. To ascend in darkness is to become a force of pure entropy, one who not only rejects the divine but seeks to replace it with their own authority. It is the path of gods who create their own realities through force alone, bending existence to their will and severing all connection to unity.
In this Black Path, one does not seek balance, nor do they act out of weakness. They are not murdering out of impulse, shame, or survival, they murder because it is their nature and enjoy it, because they are destruction incarnate. This is where the distinction lies:
• A murderer who kills out of fear or compulsion is not fully dark, they are weak.
• A murderer who kills for pleasure is closer to pure darkness, but they are still bound by earthly sensation.
• A being who kills as an act of divine destruction, knowing exactly what they are doing and why, with full awareness and intent, this is someone who walks the ascended path of darkness.
The Black Path is terrifying because it is ascension, but in a form that most cannot comprehend. It is not mindless evil either, it is perfected cold calculated evil, the highest and most refined form of anti-creation. The ultimate beings of this path are not random killers or chaotic entities, they are ancient entities who, with full awareness, have rejected all that is and seek to become supreme through total negation of freewill.
This makes you wonder? Is this truly an ascension? Or is it simply an ultimate descent masked as power?
If we define ascension as merely “becoming more than one was,” then yes, this is a form of ascension.
But if ascension is about reaching a higher state of being, we have to ask! can the destruction of all things, including oneself, ever be truly a higher path?
