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Imperceptibility is where true power lies—not in domination or visibility, but in the quiet, invisible forces that shape the world without being captured. Deleuze and Guattari describe this as escaping the stratifications of identity and control, blending into the flows of life, and becoming part of something larger, something ungraspable. Ideas work the same way. They are imperceptible, abstract, yet profoundly potent. They ripple through societies, changing minds and systems without ever needing to be seen.

This isn’t about disappearing or withdrawal; it’s about movement—deterritorialization, escaping the rigid frameworks that demand recognition and order. In a world obsessed with surveillance, spectacle, and categorization, imperceptibility resists. It flows through the cracks, bypassing systems of power and asserting a quieter, deeper influence. Imperceptibility is not weakness. It’s the power of subtlety, the force of transformation that doesn’t rely on being seen. Like nature, like art, it operates beneath the surface, reshaping the world through connection and creation. True power is this: the ability to act without being pinned down, to affect without being controlled, to dissolve into the plane of life and reshape it from within. It’s not about being loud or visible; it’s about being everywhere, all at once, without leaving a trace.

Bael, the first spirit of the Goetia, embodies this principle. He is a symbol of the Sun—not as illumination, but as an overwhelming force of invisibility. The Sun is so bright it erases everything behind it, hiding the world in plain sight. This is not a contradiction; it is the essence of power: to be so present that you become imperceptible. Occultism understands this paradox. Bael’s power of invisibility is not about absence—it’s about dominance so complete it erases distinction. The Sun blinds, not by hiding, but by being so vast, so all-encompassing, that it outshines all else.

Like the machinery of modern power, it creates a reality where you cannot see beyond its light, yet its very presence remains intangible, ungraspable. This is the logic of invisibility. It doesn’t mean being unseen; it means being so present that you define what can and cannot be perceived. It is the power of the Sun, the power of Bael, the power that makes everything visible—and in doing so, conceals itself. True dominance is not being noticed; it is erasing the possibility of anything else.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

Mathers, S. L. MacGregor (Translator). The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King. Weiser Books, 1995.

Happy birthday!

Thank you! That was a great article that was produced and I agree with it in the sense of what is most powerful of all. My experience that I connect to this os one where I was 13 or 14 years old, and I walked in a forested area in Hawaii one day and a whisper entered my mind like someone whispering and said to watch this, and explained that I'll meld into the environment and be invisible. Within a few moments of that, people were looking for me and could not find me or see me, and walked right up to me and were looking right through me and past me right up close. They then abandoned the search and walked back to the road and I followed, and then they were startled when I suddenly seemed to appear right there with them. Rather recently I was reminded of that again and thought that if I never appeared or re-appeared again, I would have been a missing person even if I was totally just present but like a ghost that no one could see. This same "watch this" whisper has occurred many times in relation to numerous miraculous things, another of which I was reminded of today, just a few hours ago, when I saw a bull's head at a Halloween shop, one that I purchased another year after a "watch this" incident occurred where I was told in the whisper that the train is going to be stopped and will not move until I decide to get off the train at the stop to go to the store. Then the train stopped just before the exit, in front of the store, and in doing so threw everyone around me onto the ground, prostrating. I wanted to test how long it would go, so I didn't agree or make up my mind to get off the train. Nothing happened for all that time. Then I decided and agreed that I'll get off, and it threw everyone on the ground except me and started immediately, instantly the moment I made the decision. In the store I found they would be having a sale on everything, and either got the things then or planned to on the day of the sale if that wasn't the sale day. That Bull's head was on the top shelf and overlooking me as I slept, and the realistic heart prop I purchased also sat next to me on a golden uplifted tray, right now a bracelet with lots of snakes intertwining sits on that tray and the heart is somewhere, probably nearby. I was looking for something today there, but this store had much less than even the other one, plus the costume materials are pretty poor and uncomfortable, so I'd rather just find some pieces here and there to put together anything. They didn't have any good props either anymore. Today was a weird day where I was awoken and not long after as I was sitting up, there was a knock on the door, and it was a guy who repaired the dryer machine and couldn't find the guy he wanted to talk to in order to inform him, so instead told me and asked me to test the machine, so I had to spend 2.50 to do so. I then wanted to see if the machine could hold weight, so I brought down some clothes and sheets quickly and put them in the machine. It turned out that when I checked again, my cards had been in the pockets of what I had thrown in and they were all melty and bent from the heat, so that was annoying. Overall, I had a nice day afterwards. While walking back from the Halloween shop I saw a bent credit card on the ground, but it was made of paper, but it was weird to see a bent credit card on the day that my credit card got bent also, among other cards. I ended up going to the same restaurant I went to on my birthday and seeing the same guy who served us on that day. I have two more tasks to do before the month is over, and this season seems like high time for strange and mysterious Bael themes. There was also a girl in the bus who had a spider in her bag and then the spider left, and was luckily not hurt or killed or pursued violently, but made it safely under a seat. A tree also had loudly scraped where I was on the bus, since I was in a middle area with an accordion-like portion that stretches and bends. There were a number of other unusual things repeating and we also did some things we hadn't in all this time, like sitting at the bar area in the restaurant and walking down a street we hadn't before in order to see the Halloween store's mew location. When you first encountered me mamy years ago now, I was helping at a Halloween store as a manager there and this was the competing chain, so it is kind of like a full circle thing going on this birthday. I've also been trying to complete the collection of books from Paizo's Pathfinder which may include Bael among other names of demons, one of the particularly prominent names has been Shax during this period.