​Afterword

This book can be taken in more than one way. It can be read as an attempt to look at causality from another angle and leave everything else aside. It can also be read as an effort to give philosophical ground to the Left Hand Path and the Nightside. That choice belongs to the reader, not to me.

Books of the Left Hand Path were never meant for wide acceptance, and the reason is obvious. This is even more true of a philosophical work of the Left Hand Path. Such writing does not promise comfort, consensus, moral reassurance, or spiritual shelter. For that reason I never expected agreement from many.

That you have read this far is enough. You stayed with the argument long enough for it to become a real encounter rather than a reaction to a title. Whether you accept it, reject it, or use only part of it no longer matters. The essential thing is that the book has been read from within.

I have no need to tell the reader what must be done with it. Someone will recognize here a language for intuitions and crossings that had no precise form before. Another will reject the whole idea.

I wrote this book to think the structure through as far as I could and to give it form. That is enough.