Ryan Kelley was a bit of a wild spirit as a youth and his parents,
first generation irish imagrents didnt approve of it at all. The drinking
they could understand, even the music they didnt have a probelm with, but
when he began questioning the Church, and when the drugs and sex started
they would hear no more of it. So as soon as he turned 18 they sent him
packing with $500 in his pocket and whatever he could carry with him.

A couple of friends he had made while he was working at the local
coffee shop agreed to put him up while he was getting on his feet. He
spent the next year working at the coffeeshop and as a bike currier saving
up enough cash to take his college boards and get enrolled in Berkley School of
Music for the next year. Of course this left enough money for
him continue living the life he so adored: drumming and drinking and
getting high.

One of his buddies turned him onto Peter Carroll and Richard
Ostman Spare and their writings on chaos magic, a girlfriend got him into
tantra, another friend intorduced him to the concept of dating boys, so it
was an interesting year to say the least. He truely felt the doors of
perception, as Huxley called them, opening. He began getting high and
drumming for hours and hours, some night only getting an hour or two at
best.

He felt energy growing within him more and more after each night
of this. He began to see things in a whole new light, people took on new
meanings and he watched the web of reality unfold before him. He then
learned that during those ecastic drumming sessions he could move strands
of those threads and alter reality. Evenatully one of the people in his
drumming circle approached and knew what was going on. He was brought into
the Tradition and began learning the lessons that would allow him to be a
magus of the Cult of Ecstasy.

That was one year ago....

Now on the dawning of anew millenia he waits to see whether the
Christian god will try to honor the contract he made with mankind
two-thousand years ago...and what this will do to his Family, his brothers
and sisters of the Art, in thier battle to free the soul of Mankind.