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THE UNHOLY PROJECT ARCHIVE - EXHIBIT #E063

This is a voluntary ritual that can only be performed by high-ranking hell-descendants. I don’t know all the reasons they might choose to do this, but there are some signs that the demons in question perform this ritual as a way to honor Lucifer or to show great remorse after “breaking his code”, but there might be more reasons for it.

Lucifer's code?

First time seeing this. Need more info.

All hell-descendants are immortal and have no concept of death or a state of nonexistence. Therefore, choosing to perform this ritual is probably considered the most honorable way of paying tribute to Lucifer himself. 

How the demons perform this ritual is not clear to me yet. But what happens is that if the ritual is successfully completed, the demon in question will cease to exist. I’m currently unsure what happens to their essence after they are gone; whether it’s possible for it to be reborn into a new demon, fused with another existing one, or even if such a thing can exist without a body. 

Demon essence

Does it really exist? How does it work?

I have stumbled upon two, no, three pieces of evidence so far that indicate such a ritual even exists. 

One was an old lady who swore to have lived with a high-ranking demon for years before the demon broke Lucifer’s code and went through TSAA to show his remorse for what he had done. She didn’t tell me what code the demon had broken. My suspicion is that he got involved with a human (the old lady) in a way that he was not supposed to.

The second piece of evidence is a chapter from an old exorcism book I found in my father’s library. It has been a very long time since I read it, and I cannot recall the name of the book or how it looked or what else was written in it. If I didn’t trust my memory enough, I would have thought I dreamt the thing, that no such book ever existed. In that chapter, the writer claimed to have been in cahoots with a high-ranking demon. The demon was given a task which he failed to complete. He decided he’d rather die than face Lucifer’s disappointment. 

And the third piece of evidence. It’s not… I’m not sure if it really was TSAA. I have this tape recording of me and another creature. I don’t know what to make of it. I don’t remember having that conversation at all. Don’t know when or where it happened; all I have is the tape itself. Parts of it are missing, and I can’t make much out of what is recorded. The creature I encountered there referred to herself as Naauha, and from the pieces of information I can gather, she must have been a very high-ranking demon, or maybe something else entirely. She went through a ritual voluntarily to die. It sounds a lot like TSAA to me, but there’s something missing, and I can't put my finger on it. I’d rather count this one as 'potential evidence' for this ritual until I have more information that can actually confirm it. 

There are almost no physical cues when a demon is performing this ritual. The temperature rises, and the demon itself seems to go through a trance state. Whatever happens afterward is something that cannot be witnessed in our reality. It is believed that the whole ritual takes about 20-30 minutes to complete. 

If I had to guess what happens to the demons during the ritual, I would say they are subjected to some kind of torture that ends with them being burned in fire. All hell-descendants are of fire, and thus, it would make sense that a similar thing would also be the end of them. The temperature rising around the demon going through this ritual would also back up this theory. Although it mustn’t be the same fire they are born and live with, it cannot be. There has to be a higher form of it, a kind of “true fire” that kills them.

True fire

J. M. P.'s speculation or a real thing?

The old woman who told me her account of the ritual also mentioned that the demon’s skin started to crack toward the end, and there were tears in his eyes before he disappeared. Were they tears of pain or regret or sorrow, I am not certain. She also told me the demon did not just disappear or turn to ash. His body slowly cracked like clay and faded into shadow.

I am not quite sure what she meant by a physical body fading into shadow, but I guess that is the best way she could describe something supernatural. At first, I thought she meant it turned into dust or evaporated into smoke. But she was very adamant about telling me I was wrong. That it wasn't either of those things. Oh, how I hope I can witness it firsthand one day.

This concludes the diary entry of Jonathan M. Palmer on The Self-Annihilation Act. 

There is currently no more information at hand regarding this ritual. 

THE UNHOLY PROJECT ARCHIVE - 1982