High language, low matter
The corpus regularly imports sacred authority—God, saints, demons, Biblical stories, occult offices, ritual and sacrifice—then forces it against profanity, sex, commerce, bodily waste or ridiculous institutional language. The resulting collision can be blasphemous, comic, ecstatic or all three.
Scripture as death technology
TERMINAL opens by counting seven Biblical suicides and rendering them as compressed precedents before jumping to a dark-web archive. The Bible is neither simply revered nor dismissed; it is treated as an ancient store of violent narrative forms.
Saint-making after sanctity
Absurd Saints and the broader sacred vocabulary repeatedly attach hagiographic pressure to unserious, compromised or bodily figures. ANICONISM can move from social religion and power to jokes about shit almost without transition.
Occult authority as suspicious credential
Cagliostro, hypersigils, demons and magical language frequently grant a work instant ceremonial force, but the corpus's own occult pages repeatedly distinguish inherited esoteric vocabulary from JQD coinage and from literal claims. Sacred language is useful because it compresses authority; that is precisely why it can also be abused.
See Religion, Ritual, Magic & Belief and Occultism & Esoteric Technologies.