In Defense of Kasdeya

Recently it seems an alleged Washington D.C. attorney named Dick Kirchner is running around the web saying he had Kasdeya Rite of Ba’al verified as not authentic by a Penn University German professor named Brubaker. You can see where he claims this on this blog.

Let me state some facts:

First off, Mr. Kirchner is not registered to practice law in DC. Here is the database in which to look this up:

http://www.dcbar.org/find_a_member/index.cfm

In the United States, attorneys have to register and this information is public. He is, however, registered in the state of Pennsylvania. You can find this information on the following site by doing a quick search.

http://www.padisciplinaryboard.org/pa_attorney_search.php

I can only guess the reason he made it a point to say that he’s a “D.C. Attorney” is to somehow make his personal opinions seem more important or legitimate than that of the “average” man.

While I make no bones about Mr. Kirchner’s view that Kasdeya is not authentic (he is entitled to his opinion), I do object to the fact that he *made up* a professor at PennU to make his view appear legitimate. There is no professor Brubaker of German at PennU and you can verify this for yourself by going to the following website and looking Mr. Brubaker up:

https://medley04.isc-seo.upenn.edu/directory/jsp/fast.do

If the search comes back for you as it did for me – you’ll see there are six Brubakers, but none of them are German professors. If I am wrong, please correct me.

Myself and the Purswells would be very interested to hear from Mr. Brubaker himself so we could learn how he was able to decide if an English manuscript (with no German ties), written in modern English (there was nothing Medieval about the text published in Kasdeya Rite of Ba’al) was not authentic.

I would be interested in hearing Mr. Kirchner’s explanations of these verifiable untruths (mistruths?), especially since he seems to take issue with authenticity.

Please note that I’m not saying his review has no merit. He is free to find all of my work utter crap and to call all Daemonolaters frauds if he so chooses. I just don’t think making up fake professors to make your opinion seem more legitimate is the way to go.

Of course none of this explains why Mr. Kirchner’s alleged brother, Shawn, wrote me back in 2010 from the same email address Mr. Kirchner wrote his review from ([email protected], telling me he had a high profile client who needed me to help him get rid of a stalker via magickal work. I am going to share the text of one of the emails so you know this isn’t b.s. –  My comments are italicized so you know that he is replying to my response to his initial request for the help.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:58 AM, <geetar1870@XXXXX> wrote:
Dear Stephanie,

Thank you for permitting me to address you by your first name and for your very detailed reply. I will try to address the portions of your letter by point of reference because you have been very kind in anticipating all of the complexities of this matter in your reply.

The possible remedy here may be more long-term. We can structure a series of transactions with $1250 released on the first. I can certainly guarantee you more business from a variety of contacts (DC-Phila-NYC), as well as the named client. I have to get my co-counsel to sign off on this so the September deadline may be too optimistic. What I anticipated is more in line with your autumnal equinox rite (Halloween), referenced in your on-line .pdf work on demonolatry, which suggests this time would be particularly auspicious for what we’re thinking about here. Would this work, or is the September date better from a magickal perspective? Then, we could assess the affects of the magick. This is all open to negotiation as to your wants and needs, and we can certainly go from there.

I have to start by knowing more about this woman and the situation in general. Her name, a picture (if you can find her on the Internet and send me a link I really can go from there). The first thing I’d do is visit her astrally to see what it is exactly that we’re up against

I can say confidently that the woman is not a witch but a certifiable sociopath. Like many individuals under this classification of the DSM-IV they possess a lot of qualities which seems to suggest “psychic” or “occult properties” which are, in fact, nothing more, than somebody with a lot of time on their hands and with a very strong intent to drive somebody crazy, i.e., stalk somebody for whom they have a perceived grievance. I have done intel on her through the LAPD and Phila vice and have found out that she practices a particularly weird variant of Charismatic Christianity (non-denominational, fundamentalist Jesus-freak). Having seen her handiwork however, I must tell you it is very creepy and I can understand the client’s cause for alarm. The issue regarding revealing names, pictures, dates and documentary evidence brings up another residual issue which we can cross later. Would you be amenable to a waiver and confidentiality clause? This is so that I do not end up having my client — or myself — pick up a 2709 violation which is summary offense harassment in my state of licensure and even potentially a misdemeanor. Not good for a lawyer.

If you have retained counsel, maybe I can speak with your lawyer. This would obviate the need for us to speak directly and also would guarantee that everybody here transacts the confidential information including payment under the required evidentiary privileges. I work for a living too, and this is not what I normally do. That said, your youtubes suggest a caring person with a very prestigious pedigree. Frankly, I’m surprised you’re not already working for the Clinton family (just kidding).

Though I have a suspician there’s a lot more to this story than I’m being told. My Daemon guide has warned me to be vary cautious about this whole situation. Something doesn’t smell right.

Again, I can relate only the “dry facts”, as it were, now as documented by the client’s letter to you via my office. There is a lot more, but until we have something in place protecting confidentiality I cannot relate anything further. But, in a nutshell, the demonic divine is correct and there is “a lot more to this story than [you’re] being told [right now].” And it pretty much is all about money.

So know up front that while my magick always produces results – they may not be the result the client wants especially if I am not being made aware of everything.

Okay, the latter quote is kind of scary. Are you saying my client might be hurt by all of this? Per your own writings (and forgive me for using your own words) “[entities] are neither good nor evil, but somewhere in between”. I believe this would apply to mortals as well as daemons. My client and his wife are no candidates for Xian sainthood; nonetheless, they do not deserve to be hounded by a complete psychotic for over five years. Again, we need to talk confidentially about this perhaps through counsel if you desire it, but certainly clear the air about what is going on before we decide to do anything for real.

To close, please consider just talking this over with me. What I can do is prior to the phone call, send you a pdf file that would document under penalty of perjury that: 1) the call is not conducted on a recorded line (which is a felony in our jurisdiction); 2) all information in the conversation would be complete truth and fully disclosed; and 3) No Xians are involved in this matter in any way (save the assailant) and the client’s wife (a so-called Jack-Mormon).

I realize you are a very busy person and I thank you again for your time. I am deeply indebted for all the work you have done so far and I feel you are the return of an once well-respected European tradition of the sorceress as an honored and socially-functional role.

I am, until we communicate again, yours faithfully,

Shawn K.

 

Basically, after this correspondence I  said I was uncomfortable with it, too much money was involved, too many legal issues, and I politely declined to help this client.  Then he turned around and offered to be my attorney as to help expand my audience for the Demonolatry books. He also mentioned that my book Outer Darkness was one of the reasons he contacted me to begin with. He figured I did this sort of thing all the time. I’d include all the emails – but they’re very long and exhaustive and I’d have to write a serial blog – but anyone interested in reading them can write me at [email protected] for full transcripts if you wish (with any really private information removed).  The only reason I use what I have here is because Mr. Kirchner chose to use his real name on his comments about Kasdeya so I figured it was fair game.

So basically – once I declined work for his client and gently turned him down when he offered to be my attorney, Mr. Kirchner, or rather his *brother*,  started writing me very bizarre emails and they started freaking me out. They’d be really nice in one breath, praising my work, and in the next breath – he’d cut me down.  Then I got this email titled LET ME IN.

Shawn K. geetar1870@XXX

10/1/10

to me
Hello Stephanie.

The above-named film was released today. You’re in it.

You play the fucking hero.

 

Maybe I’m paranoid, but that was just messed up. I didn’t answer it. Then on 10/4/10 I got the following email:

Thanks for (slightly) cursing me!

Yeah, you are right that the Dukantes are Princeton grads. But I’m pretty sure that that Francis guy owned half of Florence. See item 7, below.

Now I see what’s going on. Why was this truly necessary Stephanie, given that I began as (at least tentatively) one of your fan club?

Rest assured that I will NOT contact you again.

1. A dream in which a satanist cult was chanting satanis satanis in my backyard, and trying to get me to chant the same, waking my father up from his death slumber and thereby pissing him off such that he went raging around the old playground equipment;

2. A dream in which they put a giant black adder in my bed waking me from a sound sleep and having to go watch AC360 on the couch at 3:00 am;

3. A few days thereafter seeing a huge black snake carcass run over in front of my mailbox the same being in apparent Ingress to my front yard;

4. Walking home from hurricane winds and rains, a decrepit evergreen was wind struck falling merely feet away from me;

5. The weekend after writing S. Connolly re the Let Me In movie, pinched or stung as if by a yellow jacket right on my testicles, dropping my pants and changing my clothes;

6. At 845 am on the morning of monday, Oct. 4th, a hippie in a Subaru drove up on my front yard, put his hazards lights on, and took out some kind of machine. It had small clocks and dials on it. It was definitely not a laptop. It appeared he was taking pictures or recording something about my property. I came out in my shorts, shirtless. I asked him what the fuck. He immediately drove off.

7. The query to myself that this is Definitely a Non-Brahmin path (Geeta chaps. 16-17) to which, occasionally, Brahmins become attracted, Re: Richard & Selinda Dukante.

Shawn K.

 

After this I wrote him back explaining I hadn’t cursed him and that maybe he should seek professional help (mental). Next thing I know he’s turned it into some huge drama and thinks I’ve cursed him.  I finally write back the following.

You clearly misunderstood what I said. I said that if YOU USED MAGICK THAT WAS UNJUSTIFIED (meaning you were cursing people who didn’t deserve it) it could come back on you. If it did come back on you – then that was THE UNIVERSE giving you the backlash — not me! Did you use magick? If the answer is no, then why would you be getting a backlash?

How all that turned into a paranoid dellusional fantasy about me cursing you, when quite frankly I don’t know you from Adam, is beyond me. Just because I decided not to help you and just because I wasn’t responding to your strange e-mail does not make me evil or out to get you. Nor does it imply I’m cursing you. It just means I don’t want to talk to you. Period. It’s that simple. I’m a very busy person with a real family and a real life. I don’t have time to sit around cursing complete strangers. Nor do I have time for this silliness.

Have you considered there’s nothing supernatural going on at all and it’s all coincidence? Have you considered perhaps you’ve pissed off a client? Nope – you immediately assume *I* did something. Sorry to inform you but my sun and moon don’t rise and fall around *you*. Like I said — I don’t even know you. So why you’ve got me in your sights and why you’re harassing me is beyond me. Just because you’ve read some of my books gives you no right to send me e-mail telling me I’m cursing you. It’s ridiculous and it borders stalker behavior given your recent e-mails.

Please stop contacting me and please stop accusing me of this nonsense. I wish to have no further correspondence with you.

S. Connolly

Then I start getting emails from D. A. Kirchner apologizing for his brother’s behavior.  He explained his *brother* was lying. His brother wasn’t a lawyer, but rather he just helped around the office. He also told me there was no big client and evidently this Shawn was just a fan of my books. Then he asked me if I’d keep talking to Shawn. I said no. I wanted nothing to do with him.  I did get one last email from Shawn and it was quite sweet. It said:

Stephanie.

I realize I am NOT supposed to be writing you.

But I just want to thank you for being one of the most creative people I have ever met in my life. Thanks to you I have creative meaning and excitement in my life and my life has artistic vibrancy again. I feel like I did when I was 18 again, like I am on the verge of something.

Prior to reading your books my life was boring and meaningless. You have introduced me to an ancient path where I now walk, breathlessly.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Your loyal fan,

From Shawn K

Is anyone else here reading this and seeing scenes from Stephen King’s Misery? If not, must just be me. I’m your number one fan….  I’m really not trying to be mean here, but the harassment has to stop somewhere as do the lies. So back to the story.

Then in February of 2011 I start getting letters from a woman who calls herself JAW. She starts out by telling me Lulu screwed up her order for Kasdeya. I immediately rectify the situation by getting her some new books. Of course this conversation starts out how Lulu sucks. I agreed (at that time I was getting ready to kick Lulu to the curb anyway). Next thing I know, JAW starts asking me why the general public doesn’t have access to group specific texts and GenDem private publications. I explain gently that who certain texts are available to is up to the groups they’re for, or the people whose family information it is. It’s not for me to decide. JAW begins to sound like Shawn did. Really nice, followed by smashing insults and criticisms. So she starts getting nasty with me.

As with all nasty people – the second you get nasty back at them – they’re very offended. JAW was no different.  She was very offended when I told her how things worked, she accused me of hiding material that she had a right to. She started acting like she knew Selinda and Richard Dukanté, and how dare I not give her what she’s entitled to. I told her to cut me out of the middle and just go to Selinda herself. If she knew Selinda and was entitled to the information – why did she need me? That resulted in another tirade. Finally I did lose my cool, said some mean spirited things (i.e. questioned her ability as a magician since she didn’t understand Dukanté’s ascension formula, which you’d know if you knew him, right?). She came back with how low that was (it was). And so I told her I didn’t want any further correspondence with her. End of story.

Fast forward eight months later. A woman named P.K. contacts me because she won the Grimoire of St. Cyprian in last year’s Halloween drawing. But she writes to make sure I haven’t cursed the book. That’s when I find out she is allegedly Shawn’s mom. What’s bizarre is all four of them now, Shawn, Dick, JAW and PK all sound alike. Maybe a coincidence. Sure, I could chalk it up to that. So I assure Ms. PK that I will not curse the book, I do not curse strangers, and I send the book to her. All is quiet until suddenly I start getting bizarre posts on my blog from a woman named S, who accuses me of not editing Michael Ford’s work good enough. I had to gently explain that I had nothing to do with Michael Ford. She also starts making bizarre assumptions about Demonolatry and name-dropping as if she knows me and Mike Delaney, and Selinda. And again – she sounds very much like Shawn, Dick, JAW, and PK.

Finally, the straw that broke the camel’s back. PK contacted me to ask when Keys of Ocat would be available. I told her. Next thing I know I’m getting an email from her saying how my publisher for the project is awful about getting books to people and if I publish with them I’m doing a disservice to my readers etc…  She cites another author’s book (that was shipped late due to some production issues – really not a big deal in the publishing world if you can believe that!) as the reason for concern, then starts the name-dropping again. She drops a number of names of authors who’ve written about Hekate and then tells me those authors are eagerly awaiting to critique my research on Hecate (What research? The book I’m working on includes Hecate, but isn’t about Hecate). Not to mention I know a few of those authors she mentions and I asked them if they were waiting for Keys of Ocat and got a definite, “No.”  More lies.  Again, compliments laced with thinly veiled insults. Then she goes on to tell me the copy of Grimoire of Cyprian I sent is, in fact, cursed and she wants to return it to me.  You know that old axiom “Don’t Feed the Trolls”? I’d had enough fun and I basically told her I thought she was full of it and needed to go away and not contact me again.

That’s when, on a whim, I decided to run PK’s IP address against S, Shawn, Dick,  and JAW, and to compare all their addresses and  information. Lo and behold, the IPs go back to one cell phone (an iPhone even!) and one computer, and three distinct mailing addresses. A reverse lookup tells me who owns these houses (public information folks!). There is no PK. There is a person who lives at the address I sent IC to who is named P, but the last name is different. Across the street from her, though, the nice old lady who lives there has the same last name as P allegedly did. And lo and behold, the old woman whose last name is K- her address leads directly to Dick K. in Pennsylvania. JAW’s mailing address, where I sent Lulu’s bad order, also goes back to Dick K. – a PO Box in Maryland about 60 miles away from Dick K.’s Pennsylvania address.

There’s something fishy going on here if you ask me – and I want it to stop. I have folders of emails (replete with IP addresses), screen shots from the web verifying all of this information, print outs of the screen shots — all of it ready to go to the authorities if necessary to prove internet harassment. I also have witnesses who have seen the emails and who helped me look up and verify this information. Someone has too much time on their hands to spend this much effort to screw with me. And then to make up a professor as proof that Kasdeya has no merit is truly screwed up. Sorry – but it is.

Guess this old gal isn’t as dumb as she looks. If anyone has any factual, verifiable information to the contrary – please let me know. I would appreciate it. If I’m wrong I want to correct myself and issue a public apology if necessary. Otherwise, I have a right to state verifiable facts until I’m proven wrong.