R.I.P.

John Balance

John/Jhon/Jhonn Balance (born Geoff Rushton, d. November 13, 2004) was one-half of the Experimental group Coil. He was responsible for vocals, lyrics, chants, synthetics and various esoteric sound-making instruments and devices. Outside of Coil he collaborated with Nurse With Wound, Death In June, Current 93, Thighpaulsandra, Psychic TV and many other musical people. He died of an accident in his home.

For nearly twenty years Coil have been at the forefront of European experimentalism and electronic music. They have been outstanding innovators, always seeking to drag the mainstream into the darker margins of the occult.

Interview with Jhonn Balance

“I’ve always been into magic, with Crowley’s ‘k’, and studied it – I tried to buy stuff by Crowley when I was young, but my parents absolutely refused to have anything to do with it and actively discouraged me. I wrote to Alex Sanders (King of the Witches), when I was 14, and he wrote back to me saying thanks for writing, I’m very pleased that you want to do this, but can you write back when you’re 18. He wouldn’t accept anyone so young into his coven. I used to worship the moon too, I’d encourage other boys at school to do it to. I just instinctively did things like that.”

From the memorial site Threshold House:

IT IS WRITTEN in The Book of the Law:

“Every man and every woman is a Star.

“It is Our Lady of the Stars that speaketh to thee, O thou that art a star, a member of the Body of Nuith! Listen, for thine ears become dulled to the mean noises of the earth; the infinite silence of the Stars woos thee with subtile musick.

Behold her bending down above thee, a flame of blue, all-touching, all-penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, and her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers, and think that all thy grossness shall presently fall from thee as thou leapest to her embrace, caught up into her love as a dewdrop into the kisses of the sunrise….”

Love is the law, love under will.

The Benediction of the All-Begetter, All-Devourer be upon thee.

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