In this episode, we turn from our examination of historical Masters to the living documents of Setian practice and revelation. We descend into the mysteries of The Xem Working—a record of inspired magical experience produced by Ronald Keith Barrett during his tenure as High Priest of the Temple of Set—and we explore its profound teachings on the nature of Higher Man, the judgment of the Elect, and the true meaning of Xeper. We ask: What does it mean to confront the darkness within and without? And what secrets does this Working hold for the Initiate who dares to sit in the moonlight and open the gates?

We begin in the crucible of personal magical practice: a mountain in California called Khemset, the site where Barrett was preparing to build his future home. It is the late 1970s or early 1980s, a period of transition and internal debate fol ...