What Asetianism Is and What It Is Not
There are words that catch in your subconsious mind and just won’t let you go. Asetianism was one of them for me. I first stumbled upon the path in a quest to create a vampire myth that would break literary lore of fang fiction drenched in blood. Instead, what I discovered was a living magickal current based in ancient Egyptian myth—and it wasn’t reconstructionist or role play. It was an active, breathing current from the past that is very much active today.
In a world that loves labels and soundbites, it’s tempting to flatten Asetianism into something simple: a gothic aesthetic, a club, a cult, a whispered secret society for the darkly inclined. But, none of it rings true to what it meants to live in attunement within the Asetian current.
Asetianism isn’t a costume, or a weekend thrill, or a religion carved in stone. (In fact, it’s not a religion at all). It isn’t about chasing power for its own sake, re-enacting Egyptian myths, or pretending to be a dragon reborn. If you’ve found yourself here searching for blood rituals and velvet capes, you’re in the wrong story.
So What Is Asetianism?
At its core, Asetianism is a magickal current of an ancient, living tradition. It is one that moves quietly beneath the surface of culture, history, and psyche. It is the legacy of Aset, the Egyptian goddess known in the West as Isis: mother of magic, mistress of shadow, sovereign of transformation. To walk the Asetian path is to seek depth rather than surface, to court the darkness within not for destruction, but for alchemy.
It’s a lineage, but not in the way most humans understand, and it is not one that you can claim as your own. It’s an ancient current that predates any modern label, passed not through dogma, but through gnosis, memory, and initiation. Asetianism asks you to dig past what’s fashionable and safe, and stand in the center of your own illusions. And then, if you’re willing, to build something true from what is left.
It is a path of paradox. It teaches that power is born of surrender. That to grow, you must kneel: to truth, to darkness, and to the flame of your own transformation. It asks for devotion, for sacrifice, and for the courage to become what you were always meant to be.
If you’ve ever felt unknown longing in your heart when ancient names are spoken, or a magnetic pull toward the shadow side of the divine, you are not alone. In the coming weeks, I’ll share more about what it means to walk this path for me: its principles, paradoxes, and how it haunts the stories I write.
But let’s start by clearing away the cobwebs. Before you can approach Eros Edge, and The Sanctuary of Shadows, you have to know what Asetianism is not.
Asetianism is not a spiritual path you walk for comfort.
It is a living myth that wakes you up at 3 am, demanding you remember. (and finish writing a book series!)
It’s the current that won’t let you go, and dares you to forget everything you learned about the world.
And what isn’t Asetianism?
- It isn’t a vampire fandom, or a roleplay club, or an aesthetic you can buy on Temu.
- It isn’t an excuse to avoid your shadow, or to chase power for the sake of ego.
- It isn’t a community that needs to prove itself to outsiders, or to win internet arguments.
- The Asetians don’t want your validation.
- It’s not for those who want to cosplay a myth and avoid its cost. (There is a cost!)
- It’s not accessible to the curious onlookers who just want to peek behind the veil.
- Asetianism is a gate that opens only for those who bleed for it, and who serve something higher than their own desires.
And Finally:
- The Asetians and the Order of The Aset Ka do not look for members, they do not recruit.
- You can not get an invitation to the Order, it does not exist for most humans.
- It doesn’t care about popularity or numbers or likes.
- The Discord server is where you will find students who study this path together. None of us are from the Order, or are Asetian. The server does not have a coven, and does not recruit. It exists as an independent study group only.
Why does the difference matter?
Because too many seekers are hungry to belong to a group, a coven, or a secret order, but they only find echoes and shadows. They are not willing to put in the extraoridinary amount of time and inner work to unveil the mysteries on their own. Often, they are just seeking fame, ego stroking, or to be validated as someone ‘special’. Magick does not work this way, it needs to come from within you, not learned by someone else ‘showing’ you.
And this Current, this Tradition and Aset Herself—deserves clarity.
Every myth that survives the centuries does so because someone chose to protect it, not dilute it. I write this not as a gatekeeper, but as a witness. Asetianism saved me by burning away my illusions and showing me what it means to remember who I am and who I was meant to be.
If you feel that pull, come closer.
If you don’t, respect the boundary.
Not every myth is yours to claim.
But if you are called, know this:
You are not alone in the labyrinth.
The current is alive, and it is waiting.
Em Hotep,
Arika Stone