Ok people of Dark Forum, I need your help! I need to learn how to preform a Black Mass, and I need to know how in less than four days. It's for both personal use and to give a detailed description to my History class. So any help you could provide I would be thankful.

What is your religion and what is your purpouse of performing such a rite?

There is no set Black Mass ritual, rather the ceremony is a parody on the holy Catholic Mass. One ritual is that it is performed in entirety, or in parts, backwards. The Mass may include inverting the cross, spitting and stepping on the cross,stabbing the host and other obscenities. Urine, supposedly, was at various times substituted for holy water, or for the wine. Sliced pieces of rotted turnips, black leather, or black triangles were substituted for communion bread. Black candles were used instead of white ones. A defrocked generally performed the Black Mass wearing vestments of black or a color of dried blood, and embroidered with inverted crosses, a goat's head (referring to Baphomet), or magical symbols.

The magical significance of the Black Mass rests in the belief that the Holy Mass involves the miracle of the transubstantiation, that is, the magical or mystical changing of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. If the priest can affect this miracle within the Holy Mass, then, it is reasoned, the priest, or magician, could effect similar magic in other masses for other, usually harmful, purposes. The Catholic Church condemned priests who attempted to subvert the Holy Mass for evil purposes, such as cursing a person to death, as early as the 7th century.
The origins of the current known versions of the Black Mass date back to the 14th century in France. This was the time when the Church was persecuting heretics.The Knights Templar, in particular, were accused of conducting these Masses and also other blasphemous rites in which they denounced Christ, worshipped idols composed of stuffed human heads, spit on and trampled the cross, and worshipped the Devil in the form of a black cat. Through accusations and trails the order was tumbled, but whether all the accusations were true still remains a mystery to many.

There is recorded the arrest of a French baron, Gilles de Rais, who was accused of conducting Black Masses in the cellar of his castle in order of acquiring riches and power. The accusation claimed that he kidnapped, tortured, and murdered more than 140 children as sacrifices.
There was reportedly one notorious mass performed for the mistress of Louis XIV, the Marquise de Montespan. Montespan had sought the services of La Voisin to arrange the Black Mass because she thought the king was interested in another woman. {COLOR=crimson]While using Montespan as a naked alter, [/color]Guiborg said three Black Masses over her, invoking Satan and his demons of lust and deceit, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, and Astaroth, to grant Montespan whatever she desired. Supposedly while incense burned, the throats of children were cut, and their blood drained into chalices and mixed with flour to make the host. Whenever the mass called for kissing the altar, Guiborg kissed Montespan. He consecrated the host over her genitals, sticking pieces into her vagina. An orgy followed the ritual. The bodies of the children were later burned in the furnace of La Voisin's home.

During the 19th century the Black Mass went into further decline. A London fraternal group call the Hellfire Club, in the latter part of the century, was said to perform a Black Mass regularly to worship the Devil. Although, speculation is that the ritual was little more than sexual escapades with large quantities of alcohol. In 1947, a Black Mass was performed at the graveside of Aleister Crowley, who in life thought himself the Antichrist. When the Church of Satan was founded in 1966, the Black Mass was not included among its rituals because the founder, Anton Szandor LeVey, thought the Black Mass was outmoded.

However, other satanic groups do conduct their versions of the Black Mass that include deviant sexual acts and orgies, necrophilia, cannibalisms of sacrificial victims (including human beings), and drinking the blood of the victims.


I understand wanting to disavow God, but as far as any magick goes, whether it be black or white, it is something you must study for years before attempting. Why on Earth you would want to perform such a ritual and why you would think DF members would know how is beyond me. But if you somehow succeed in finding your virgin sacrifice (or a suitable corpse) and summoning up demons to do your evil bidding, just remember that your deeds will come back on you threefold. Happy Hunting!

Hmm that will be one hell of a show and tell.

Q: does your teacher know you are going to perform a black mass???

I'm not going to preform it per say, I just need a detailed description of how to for a paper in History. We all were assigned to write a five page report on things dealing with Witchcraft and the Salem Witch Trials. (Sad thing was, we drew our topics out of a fucking hat....no really, we did.) Needless to say, I got "The ritual of the Black Mass." *shrugs*

Well, Druidess beat me to it, and there really isn't much more anyone can add to that. *claps* Anywho, good luck on the report.

well that shows what your teacher knows, witches(in the earthy sense) don't have black masses *winks*

black mass sounds sickening *shudder