“These evil sorcerers, dugpas, they call them, cultivate evil for the sake of evil and nothing else.
They express themselves in darkness for darkness, without leavening motive.
This ardent purity has allowed them to access a secret place of Great Power, where the cultivation of evil proceeds in exponential fashion. And with it, the furtherance of evil's resulting power.
These are not fairy tales, or myths.
This Place of Power is tangible, and as such, can be found, entered, and perhaps, utilised in some fashion.
The dugpas have many names for it, but chief among them is The Black Lodge... But you don't believe me, do you?
You think I'm mad. Overworked.
Go away.”
"Once upon a time, there was a place of Great Goodness, called The White Lodge.
Gentle fawns gamboled there amidst happy, laughing spirits. The sounds of Innocence and joy filled the air. And when it rained, it rained sweet nectar that infused one's heart with a desire to live life in Truth and Beauty.
Generally speaking, a ghastly place, reeking of Virtue's sour smell.
Engorged with the whispered prayers of kneeling mothers, mewling newborns, and fools, young and old, compelled to do good without reason ...
But, I am happy to point out that our story does not end in this wretched place of saccharine excess.
For there's another place, its opposite: A place of almost unimaginable power, chock full of dark forces and vicious secrets.
No prayers dare enter this frightful maw.
The spirits there care not for good deeds or priestly invocations, they're as likely to rip the flesh from your bone as greet you with a happy "good day."
And if harnessed, these spirits in this hidden land of unmuffled screams and broken hearts would offer up a power so vast that its bearer might reorder The Earth itself to his liking.
“Dugpas (Tib.). Lit., “Red Caps,” a sect in Tibet. Before the advent of Tsong-ka-pa in the fourteenth century, the Tibetans, whose Buddhism had deteriorated and been dreadfully adulterated with the tenets of the old Bhon religion,—were all Dugpas.
From that century, however, and after the rigid laws imposed upon the Gelukpas (yellow caps) and the general reform and purification of Buddhism (or Lamaism), the Dugpas have given themselves over more than ever to sorcery, immorality, and drunkenness.
Since then the word Dugpas has become a synonym of “sorcerer”, “adept of black magic” and everything vile. There are few, if any, Dugpas in Eastern Tibet, but they congregate in Bhutan, Sikkim, and the borderlands generally.”
— Mme. Blavatsky
“I had a vision of a world without Batman —
The Mob ground out a little profit and The Police tried to shut them down one block at a time.
And it was so... boring.
I've had a change of heart : —
I don't want Mr. Reese spoiling everything, but why should I have all the fun?
Let's give someone else a chance.
If Coleman Reese isn't dead in sixty minutes,
Then I blow up a hospital.”
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