Chapters Twenty-five and Twenty-six Summary and Analysis

Chapter Twenty-five is a collection of loosely connected thoughts from Damien's time in jail. Damien reports the progress that he is trying to make by performing the HGA prayer ritual. He speaks of the work he puts into the ritual without having yet seen any payoff in the form of the angel for which he searches. Through this time he gives up on faith and magick. He is dreaming of being free, dream from which he does not want to wake up. He writes of being exhausted to the bone but still not willing to stop looking for the beauty in life which he describes as magick. Summer brings with it heat and mosquitoes. It is this time of the year that Damien hates. One day, a bird lights on Damien's windowsill. He believes that...