Ignatius Kal founded Saghori in 2020.
He was born on Equinox 1971, 17,35h, born in the sign of fire. Grewing up in Berlin, he embarked on a search for a higher truth at an early age.
He studied religions and occultism, was initiated into the traditions of voodoo and tantra, and has been a member of the Fraternitas Saturni lodge for many years.
He is a spiritual researcher and artist, and has been following the magical path for over thirty-five years.
Let’s let him speak for himself:
“When the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck during my birth, I encountered death for the first time, and something like a fear of death. And the cold dusk after the birth didn’t really seem familiar to me either. I started collecting skulls and bones as a child, I loved horror stories and, as an unwanted astral wanderer at the time, I floated confusedly under the ceiling at night. As a result of an eye operation in early childhood, I was blindfolded for a long time. This opened my third eye and I began to ‘see’, although I no longer recognized my biological parents.
Then came art, I had to paint what I saw and what I didn’t see, the darkness behind everything. I searched for the beyond, for God, for truth. There was nothing but this search. And the question of what consciousness is and what states of consciousness there are. I have always been an explorer, a discoverer, in other realities, in spiritual spaces.
And also an enjoyer of life, just because it is life.
I built an altar when I was fourteen, and the power that appeared was so intense that I didn’t dare go back into the room. Even my stepmother spoke of a strange atmosphere. I was always calling God and the devil alternately, depending on what was alive in me at the time. And I never understood what it was all about. An intensive period of Bible study began. From early morning prayer to evening mass, I was there. I had excellent Bible teachers who had an enormous amount of background knowledge. They deciphered the original texts and revealed deeper truths to me. But when I was no longer allowed to listen to Black Sabbath, I left this world and continued my search. I began to call upon the old gods in Wicca, performed pentagram rituals and succumbed to the LiberAlvelLegis. I rejected all social form, lived seven years without a home, on the streets, in institutions, in the dust. It was all part of the journey.
First the darkness, then the light. In 1997 I discovered Buddhism, I sat in Zen temples and attained Satori in December 2001. But the path had only just begun there. A thousand dancing nights, a thousand books read, a thousand rituals celebrated. I wanted to find the origin and found access to Voodoo. I was initiated, Legba opened up new dimensions for me. Let’s dance the dance of the gods. And then Saturn appeared, with leaden heaviness, darkly looming on the horizon, and showed me the threshold.
Oh Saturna, you are so deep. Your silence was the sound to which I was now allowed to dance. And the gods gave me the thunderbolt as a weapon to destroy everything that is not indestructible. I destroyed myself and my world. And Shiva came and danced with me. And Kali became my wife, as we are one. The serpent power tore everything away, the new birth in the cosmos came as a great death.
When Aghori met me, I was already there. It was like a revelation. Everything suddenly made sense. Every movement of the Aghori is like my own body.
Many years ago, an entity called Rajaman had introduced himself to me as my guru. He looked like one of those Indian saints, his arm raised in tapasaja and dead. He had no jathas, but sat in a meditation posture. His gaze touched my soul. I lost his trail a little in the bushes of time, but he affects every second. At that time I had nothing to do with ‘India’ and was unsettled, as I had actually expected a different teacher. But that’s the way the paths are.
And as I sat in Samadhi, my whole life suddenly revealed itself as a path, which in its architecture is a map to the highest realization. Why should I be the only one to take this path? So I made an offer to the universe. I would teach and pass on my path, but only on one condition. I don’t want to present myself as a teacher or a master if I am not one. And you are only a teacher when a student makes you one. If I’m not asked a question, I won’t answer.
The deal: A person unknown to me, who knows nothing about me, should knock on my door and ask me to be their guru. Otherwise, I will not offer myself to anyone.
Exactly twenty-four hours later, I received a message from the other side of the world. An Aghora-Sadhaka became aware of me at the exact time I was pitching this deal to the universe. He wrote to me and asked me if I would like to become his guru, he felt addressed and was looking for instruction. The deal with the universe was done. I didn’t become the man’s guru, but we became best friends and have been walking this path together ever since. He is a highly initiated master who also has his struggles.
It is important to ask the universe, otherwise it becomes an ego trip.
I am no Guru, no nothing…
I am here through Chinnamasta…. she motivated me, she is my prayer. JAI MAA
Kali be my guide. To her is my service, my life, my love…
Drink her sun, drink her moon, drink her fire.
Oh BHAIRAVI
KAAL BHAIRAVA
And now I have to work here, so that we can all dance.”