Cult Life Starting from a Suspect

A Guide to Founding an Occult Cult

From criminal suspect to pioneer of the occult-how do you efficiently establish a cult of your very own?

Seeker of knowledge, before opening this esoteric text, recite the unsealing incantation aloud. Repeat it seven times!

"The world shall fall, yet we rise ever higher!"

First, unravel a baffling mystery and open a bookstore.

Let the seekers come to you. And you shall become their mentor.

As your following grows, establish a university, recruit the most brilliant scholars, and conceal your doctrines within academia:

Sherlock Holmes-Professor of Chemistry (also teaching Criminal Investigation and Tobacco Appreciation)

James Moriarty-Professor of Mathematics (offering a seminar on "Criminal Psychology")

Charles Darwin / Jean-Henri Fabre-Professors of Biology (jointly leading a research project on "The Relationship Between Shelled Species and Human Origins")

Oliver-Professor of Sociology (regularly organizing world-class charitable fundraisers)

Jules-Campus Dean of Discipline (randomly selecting a student who has broken university rules for a financially ruinous round of Gwent)

More respectable than street preaching. More structured than a secret society.

Here, knowledge is both truth and mystery; teaching is both instruction and ritual.

Your students will become the future pillars of your cult. And your professors, whether they realize it or not, are all contributing to your grand undertaking.

P.S. I've personally tested this method, and it works. Those who follow may safely imitate it.