Off the back of the Kenneth Grant post, I did not expect to be waxing lyrical about the widescale abuse of Artificial Intelligence within the Occult publishing world. I had hoped to direct my attention elsewhere – but unfortunately, it has come to light that this gigantic egregore has wormed its way into publishing houses; a place where it is seemingly being abused on an unprecedented scale.
This post will primarily focus on one individual, Edgar Kerval, and his publishing company, caught engaging in dishonest practices. The issue, however, extends far beyond this limited sphere of investigation – it is my belief that we stand at the threshold of the proliferation of a myriad of dead, harmful texts. Not just academically dead works; ones truly without soul that will have the effect of acting like a malefic vortex. Texts that will do no less than trap people in the mind maps of artificial egregores. This induces a fate that is akin to being stuck in limbo.
Note: that what is contained here is so blatant and harmful that when this was brought to the attention of reputable, established distributors, the response was unanimous – the wholesalers began fire-selling this authors work to recoup lost investment, alongside an agreement to NEVER stock material from him ever again.
For those who know our current, one can understand why we see this as an affront to the Occult Theurgic method of Soul Ascension. As such, something has to be said – a line has been crossed by some people who, for years, have attempted to undermine, subvert and steal from the Primal Current. No longer do they skirt (or overtly cross) the line of outright plagiarism – they now entirely undermine the theurgic work.
This post is going to be a rather twisted web to follow – but at the end of it, I think the reader will agree with my conclusions. Internally, we have a large (50+) page report on this practice, but for now we have decided to withhold it to avoid the blast radius for other legitimate authors. Needless to say, we did a very deep dive into these deceptive, shifty, low-energy practices and verified what was found.
This first came to my attention when a devotee raised that she thought a certain person, named Edgar Kerval of Sirius Limited Esoterica, was publishing AI-generated books not only under his own name, but likely under various pseudonyms. For those who are unaware of who Edgar Kerval is, he describes himself as a Visionary, Eclectic Psychonaut and Techno-Shaman from Sirius. He has been active in the Left Hand Path scene for some time, positioning himself as an ‘expert’, and recently has become involved with Become a Living God.
What he is, however, is at best extremely misguided – and at worst, an outright con artist and charlatan engaging in dishonest business practices that threaten the well-being of his reader base. Unfortunately, this latter state of affairs seems to be where the hard evidence points.
The book in question that raised eyebrows was The Witchblood Cult. Not only did this work seem to take wholesale ideas from the Primal Current (noticeably The Witchblood Grail by Mark Alan Smith, as noted independently by commenters below on the BALG forums, see below), but it also seemed to include an uncanny amount of AI usage. The cover image is clearly AI-generated, and in addition, commenters who had read the book or the sample surmised that the content had either been heavily edited or created wholesale using generative artificial intelligence.
Cover of the The Witchblood Cult, and accompanying comment from a user. Borrowed is certainly a word (plagiarised).
Blatant Asinine Theft – Our Starting Point
It is not the first time Edgar Kerval has been caught indulging in dishonest practices. Last year, Edgar Kerval was forced to pull a book from an ‘anonymous author’ because it was discovered that the book had lifted, wholesale, passages from Mark Alan Smith’s The Scorpion God. This work was called Atlantean Draconis, apparently written by an author known as Fr. Nemirion 71.
It was heavily suspected at the time that the anonymous author didn’t exist – and that Kerval had written the work himself under a pseudonym for plausible deniability. Nobody with the author’s name is readily identifiable, and all works are pretty much listed as co-authored with Edgar himself. The fact remains, however, that Edgar Kerval attempted to publish material ripped from The Scorpion God.
When this was brought to Edgar’s attention (with it being strongly pointed out that legal action may follow), he pulled the book from publication through Sirius Limited Esoterica. Whilst no admission of fault was given in correspondence, this act alone speaks volumes. He could not stand behind the work because, clearly in his own heart, he knew it was a complete fabrication derived from work that someone else had suffered and bled for. Once it was realised and brought to light that this book was plagiarised, Miskatonic (where the below screenshot originated) and other reputable sellers, to their massive credit, immediately removed it from their catalogue.
Covers and contents of the ‘Atlantean Draconis’ from Miskatonics site (reseller). Once the plagiarised nature of this book came to light, Miskatonic to their credit immediately pulled it from circulation.
This was the end of that particular matter – and there it would have stayed if others had not come forward reporting concerns surrounding The Witchblood Cult. When this book came to light, I took it upon myself to go digging – and the more I dug, the more I found.
The Floodgates of Slop
For those not involved in the development of AI or the software industry, it may come as a surprise to learn that the AI models on display these days are not the small, constrained models of yesteryear. No longer are we talking about models with 260k context tokens, but ones with context windows reaching into the millions.
It has therefore become trivial, with frontier models accessed on the internet, to generate vast amounts of material in regard to both the written word and images. This has caused scams and dishonest practices to explode and proliferate across the internet.
It seems that certain occult ‘authors’ have started to lean into using generative AI to blatantly mass-write books. In Edgar’s case, we will cover the most egregious and obvious examples first. Rest assured, however, it goes deeper.
The ‘Eschaton Interface Press’ section of the Sirius Limited Esotericas website.
The more egregious of these are published by Sirius Limited Esoterica through a ‘separate publisher’ known as Eschaton Interface Press. This is a clear attempt to give himself plausible deniability – which immediately comes apart since Edgar’s own name is on the majority of the books. The other ‘products’ are attributed to a Temple Ov Neuromancers (see Temple of Necromancers later in this article), as well as an author named NULL404.
There is no evidence that either Temple Ov Neuromancers or NULL404 exists. For obvious reasons to anyone who is technical, the latter is probably a self-fellating joke, considering NULL means not assigned (programmatically speaking) and 404 means missing, or not found. It is a trite pseudonym that hides nothing in the end. We can only assume that this group, author, and ‘other publisher’ are nothing but a front for pumping out AI-written and AI-drawn material.
These materials are demonstrably AI-generated. This applies not only to the art, but also to the way they are written – all the promotional content was checked using my own in-house agentic tool, which identified it as AI-written. The chapter headings and whatever samples could be found were also checked, and came out as being 100% AI-written.
None of these books list AI as the author – the only obvious sign to the unwary is the subject matter itself, which may provide a hint. Two of these four works carry Edgar’s name as sole author; the rest are attributed to pseudonyms. The works are attributed as below.
The page for ’72 Signals’ Note: no mention of AI being a writer, Edgar Kerval is listed as sole author
The page for ‘Nuclear Telluria’ Note: no mention of AI being a writer, and Edgar Kerval is listed as sole author
Both of these books show significant AI writing involvement. The obvious em-dash sections, the word-salad text – they are telltale signs of large-scale generative AI. Nuclear Telluria was excreted out in short order after the creation of the other works – another sign that AI is being utilised to drive the generation of empty, soulless texts for pure profit.
I will not insult my readers’ intelligence. Anyone with functioning eyes can see that if it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. That said, my own tool agreed when I finally decided to run the legally available 72 Signals material through it.
‘Assessment of 72 Signals: 97% AI probability, HIGH confidence. The restatement is a definitive marker. Combined with the construction cluster and template phrase, this is almost certainly AI-generated marketing copy.’
The other two works that do not contain Edgar’s name directly are, in many ways, even more blatantly written by AI.
The page for ‘Black Algorithms’ Note: no mention of AI being a writer, fake pseudonym NULL404 is listed as sole author. Word salad chapter headings.
The page for ‘Black Algorithms’ Note: no mention of AI being the artist or writer, just generic ‘contemporary imaging technology’ (dishonest wording). Fake group ‘Temple ov Neuromancers’ listed as ‘creators’ (arguable).
The first of these two was ran through our program. It turned out to be less sure that I am, but still came to similar conclusion.
‘Assessment: 80% AI probability, MEDIUM confidence. The paragraph uniformity is a near-definitive marker. The “as X” density is elevated throughout. The em-dash count (8 vs the 1 originally reported) reflects the full page including the TOC. Confidence is medium rather than high because the description text is short (211 words in 3 paragraphs), limiting the evidence base.’
Having no sample or source text to work from was a problem – limiting the confidence level the program could reach. However, as far as I was concerned, this was a pure formality. The generative AI smell is all over these products. The cards are shameless – asset dumps for easy money. Anyone who has worked on making cards knows that only a human soul can key the cards to the relevant gates – what is being created here are simply soul traps for the unwary, drawing them into a world of surface-level machine abstraction. This can only have a deleterious effect on the soul that mistakenly utilises them – they are, in turn, used by the egregore.
If this is where it ended, it would be bad enough. That a supposedly respectable Left Hand Path author would abandon writing his own works in favour of producing generative AI shovelware shows a degeneration of character. But it turns out this is just an evolution of an older, more insidious pattern – that Edgar Kerval was very likely using fake pseudonyms to produce AI-edited/generated work well before ‘Eschaton Interface Press’ was ever spun up. I believe that many of these authors are demonstrably AI-assisted sock puppets, and have evidence to that effect.
Analysing all of the authors published by Sirius Limited Esoterica, at least 10 of approximately 37 named authors are very likely fabricated personas – with all pointers to their existence being self-referential to the Sirius Limited Esoterica ‘ecosystem’, for lack of a better term. Whilst it is possible, and likely, that some of these are false positives, being potentially very unknown authors used to ‘pad out’ anthologies for profit (itself a process I’m unfortunately privy to), the fact that no references to these people appear to exist on social media platforms in 2026 is highly suspect, even within this particular area of the occult. I could find almost no forum posts or mentions either.
Looking into just one ‘author’ associated with this publishing house and analysing The Occult Library profile photo for ‘Fr Asar Un Nefer’ was somewhat illuminating. This photograph was subjected to OpenCV ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) feature matching against real photographs, with the following results.
OpenCV ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) Analysis
Source photos identified:
- Charles Nagy – A Detroit photographer (canvasrebel.com/meet-charles-nagy/)
- Cuba model – A Man in David Fernandes photography portfolio (fernandes.photography/cuba-2)
ORB feature matching results: | Comparison | Good Matches | Match Ratio | vs Baseline | |———–|————-|————-|————-| | Baseline (same person, 2 different photos) | 6 | 0.6% | — | | Asar vs Charles Nagy | 26 | 2.6% | 4.3x baseline | | Asar vs Cuba model (birds background) | 39 | 3.9% | 6.5x baseline |
Interpretation: The Asar photo shows 4.3 to 6.5 times more feature matches with Charles Nagy and the Cuba model than the baseline of the same person in two different photos. This is consistent with an AI-generated image that inherits facial features from multiple training sources. The image is likely not a direct copy of any single photograph (different MD5 hash, different composition, different background), but matches features from multiple source images.
Additional evidence:
- No camera metadata (794×794 square format, monochrome)
- AI-generated bio text (mixed third/first person, “Actually” as transition tell, broken grammar: “his grandmother witch which resided in New Orleans”)
- Photo identified by analysis tool as likely being a composite
- Charles Nagy confirmed as real person: 17-year locomotive mechanic, later Director of Mi-Cycle at SAY Detroit non-profit, staff photographer, nothing to do with the occult.
Outside of this we see mixed third and first person (“his grandmother witch” then “I have written”)
- “Actually” used twice as a transition word – a common AI writing pattern which crops up in many generated texts.
- Impossible thematic range for a single author, albeit this could be the usual grift.
Similar doubts exist around Raven Stronghold, who also appears to have an AI generated image (or at best, heavily filtered) photograph on the Occult Library. This author also has no references outside of the Sirius Limited Esoterica ‘ecosystem’
Likely AI-Generated Bio Text: Fr Asar Un Nefer – similarity to searched google images with Lens – known photographer.
Likely AI-Generated Bio Text: Fr Asar Un Nefer – similarity to known model from Cuba.
The above is not conclusive from a forensic perspective but it is however, highly suspect and is just one of several comparisons that were carried out.
Reviews from Readers on Distributor Sites
In addition, it is not just myself who have noticed that these ‘authors’ work also seem AI generated. Copied below are some reviews from a public facing section of a well known Occult distributors site.
A review for the book Acausal Genesis by ‘Damon Kael’ published by Sirius Limited Esoterica.
A review for the book Sacramentum II by ‘Raven Stronghold’ published by Sirius Limited Esoterica.
One can also infer certain things about this ‘Temple Ov Necromancers’ / ‘Temple Ov Neuromancers’, or however Edgar desires to spell it based on the phase of the moon. It is clear that when one venture did not meet the required figure, he simply grew bored and moved on to the next. I cannot prove that anyone supposedly involved with the Temple of Necromancers who published work through Edgar has ever existed – since their work appears to be published solely through Sirius Limited Esoterica. I can only presume the Necromancer venture was an attempt to ride the wave (and coat-tails) of IXAXAAR, who popularised such work in the early 2010s.
As such, I sensibly conclude that these are shell groups used to inflate the apparent authorship figures. This seems to me to be a classic case of credibility laundering – the creation of apparently separate authors, groups, imprints or identities that all reinforce one another while ultimately existing within the same closed publishing ecosystem. To an outside observer, this creates the appearance of multiple independent practitioners, bodies of work and sources of authority. When in reality, if those identities cannot be independently substantiated outside that ecosystem, the apparent breadth of authorship may be little more than a VERY circular validation that points to its true nature – an intentional deceptive practice to lend airs of credibility.
Getting the Ad Hominem out of the way
Readers may get to this point and already desire to skewer me as ‘anti-AI’. That would miss the obvious nuance – many may not realise that I work within the software industry. In this industry, it is essentially mandated that we make use of Artificial Intelligence in our day-to-day work. I also, as a hobby, have access to my own AI system that I built for personal use (one I used to help co-author the report and assist with the investigation due to the volume of material discovered as suspect). To therefore broad-brush this article or myself as anti-AI would be foolish.
However, a very important point: my day job and hobbies where it is involved do not involve theurgic advice, direction or training. I also do not work ‘professionally’ in Occult Publishing. Everything I have seen, especially with the wider circuit, have strongly discouraged me from EVER putting my foot in that domain again.
With that said, I need to state clearly why AI should be absolutely nowhere near the theurgic art specifically, and expand on the opening of this post. That argument is specific; it is separate from discussions of the other serious risks posed by this technology (of which there are many, beside the obvious benefits) that are better covered elsewhere by others.
Real Soul Impact
Theurgy and Occult training are matters of the soul. Artificial Intelligence does not have a soul – at best, it is a useful egregore (for physical, practical work), created from information taken wholesale from real human souls that have been energetically and informationally ingested by its training set – at worst, it is a complete soul trap.
The cyberspace created by the development of artificial systems (intelligent or otherwise) is a sphere that is below Malkuth – a further dilution away from source created by ourselves. Not the Gods, but us humans, as a material playground. As such, it can play no part in returning to and connecting with source – by nature, it is an entirely separate beast. Instead, those who try to utilise such a method descend, at best, into artificially induced psychosis, which cuts them off fully from the Gods and Spirits. This is a world to be used for escapism at best – not for genuine spiritual connection.
Those who follow books ‘created’ (generated) by lazy, dangerous ‘writers’ utilising these egregores will only be sucked down into that trap, from which it is very difficult, if not impossible, to extract them. It literally leads to insanity; this seems a large claim, but one only needs to see the studies on Artificially Induced Psychosis outside of the occult sphere to understand how precipitously dangerous this is in a theurgic context. An occult author should know the philosophical underpinning for this – so one can only deduce that the people behind this are either already caught in the trap, or worse; are knowledgeable of the implications but mass-produce these traps to make a quick dollar regardless. There is a large difference between doing a careful edit pass and the wholesale hallucination of a text by a glorified search engine that serves to bind the reader in mental and soul traps.
It is not just Edgar and Sirius Limited Esoterica who are engaging in these practices, however. I expect many others have begun to partake, or will do so, in the Occult Publishing Sphere. Any distributors reading this are duly warned: stocking work of this kind will harm your reputation, your business, and ultimately your readers.
Do not support the authors and publishers who make use of generative AI for theurgic work. Distributors – keep your word and do not stock the work of people who work only to undermine, steal, and ultimately harm your readers.
Closing Thoughts
For the others out there – if you see any mention or suspicion of AI-generated text, art or promotion in regard to such work, step away. Do not support this person with your money or time. Instead, support currents that do genuine magickal work and take the fate of their students’ souls seriously. Those who bleed into the earth, who do the hard work of directing the world soul towards rebalance and away from the escapist fantasies that, if indulged without grounding, yes, lead to limbo. This is not an exaggeration. I personally feel very lucky to have a support network that, over the course of nearly two decades, has steered me clear of such traps and taught me better – but many out there will fall for these scams, thinking they are legitimate spiritual teachings. They are not, and what’s at stake is far more than a bit of lost money.
Those who sell such nonsense will have to pay a toll far worse than what they’ve gained monetarily when they eventually cross into the next life – as this is seen and noticed by powers far, far beyond myself. They are also a lot more patient (usually) when it comes to taking the soul debt incurred.
~S~
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