THE WARRIOR
		THE RED POWER
				STALKER TORTURE
	A personal reminiscence.  The Red gnosis, often manifesting as rage, has little use in an actual fight or hunting expedition, let alone the daily activities of work.  However, as a state from which to hurl powerful magics, you can find it your most reliable and easiest to access.  What does this say about us?  A friend of mine was receiving disturbing anonymous phone calls.  I asked for and got a roughly remembered transcript of  some of them.  I gathered that my friend had complained to the phone company, which was monitoring calls.  Purpose:  for the originator of the words of this transcript to be exposed and got rid of, such that my friend would get no reprisals.  I sigillized this statement of purpose onto the transcript sheet and tore the sheet into humanoid shape.  I placed a prepared symbol of conflict and destruction on its head, throat, chest and navel.  I stapled over its mouth and stapled its hands together.  I placed it on an alter in the middle of the chosen space.  Suitable incense and music, in my case frankincense and Slipknot.  Invocation of the Red power, with ad lib hakas and much waving of dagger.  Tortured and abused the paper effigy with dagger, and when it became just too ragged I beheaded and burned it.  Much jeering at the ashes as though the downfall of my enemy had already come to pass.  Banish.  Oh yes.  Postscript.  The phone calls stopped at once.  A few weeks later I heard that the police had identified the culprit and wanted a word with him.  Shortly thereafter, according to the police who interviewed his family, he bolted to Bombay and has not been heard from since.  So there.