I've been continuing my project of digging deeper into the history of the Tempel ov Blood's online presence and outside of the usual Martinet Press Wordpress I've found a number of other Wordpress websites that were a bit more difficult to find, but they served well in finding more photographic history of the Tempel's activities.
The dating seems to be far from exact as I only have access to what people bothered to archive, but Beast Barracks seems to be contemporary with the Martinet Press Wordpress and their earliest posts seem to date to 2016. The Iron Gates Now Wordpress seems to date to around 2020 and although I've tried to look further, it seems to infinitely loop itself upon further scrolling. I don't recommend going through it as there's a rather disturbing collage of gore featuring the corpses of children. The Wordpress of Commandant Cultus seems to date to 2021 and appears to have been started as an attempt to create a storefront for various Tempel ov Blood merchandise, ranging from a banner of the Tempel's crest as well as Iron Gates t-shirts. Later in around 2022 it seems to have developed into storefront primarily devoted to ritual implements, occult literature, and jewelry as well as overpriced spells and rituals. Interestingly, this seems to have been the first storefront for The Satanic Front as well, featuring the first edition of their handbook.
Another quite interesting thing I found is the website Cult of Abhartach which hosts both Death Spiral Press and a history of the Tempel ov the Black Vampire. On the News tab one can also find a rather curious interview with a certain Daniel Barker (no relation to Dr. Daniel Charles Barker of Kingsport College) which details early Tempel ov Blood history as well as Sutter's involvement, they seem to have gone by the psuedonym NSK. There's a couple notable items on the Death Spiral Press storefront. First there's Psycho-Politics ov Predation which is the book that would eventually become Liber 333. NSK states that the original title was intended to be Psycho-Politics of Predation but there's an edition of Liber 333 that dates to 2008 intended for distribution to the Tempel of THEM, and my PDF copy of the NSK edition of Liber 333 dates to 2011, so I myself wonder why the name seemed to oscillate between these two choices. The other interesting artifact is the Codex Karnac which is a collection of MSS (essentially an occult manuscript) from Blood Lord Karnac Velton, purported to be the original Blood Father
of the Tempel ov Blood. I'm quite curious as to its contents as I have both Liber 333 on hand and a PDF collection of every edition of False Prophet and both of these barely have any writings (if any at all) attributed to Karnac Velton.
Roughly, I think the most fascinating thing about these discoveries is that it does show to me that although Sutter was an FBI informant and his overall direction for the group can only be an object of speculation, there were, in fact, people working beside him in the Tempel that saw it as a genuine initiatory Left-Hand Path organization and that the concept of predatory spirituality
was taken quite seriously by a small number of adherents. I consider the works of the Cult of Abhartach to be the most faithful to the original project of the Tempel ov Blood as well as its origins in Order of Nine Angles spirituality.
My reading practice has developed to the point where I feel the need to pair some of the writings I read with others, thus my first experiment in this will be reading Là-bas by Joris-Karl Huysman, the classic of Satanism, alongside The Trial of Gilles de Rais by Georges Bataille since the thrust of the plot comes from the main character Durtal's attempts to write a book about Gilles de Rais before becoming more and more initiated into Satanism. Both of these I will read in both English and French. For Iron Gates I'm considering a combination of Georges Bataille's Literature and Evil as well as his Erotism: Death and Sensuality. I'd also like to reread the writings of the CCRU, my collection of Fanged Noumena, and Cyclonopedia alongside a rereading of Liber 333.