Left hand path from my research has more to do with making yourself a "God" and living by your own moral codes and taking your power back. I think "dark" stuff gets intertwined but doesn't it penetrate every institution? Christianity and Islam has murdered, rape millions in the name of God
My research (and experience with many Left Hand path "movements," "currents," organizations, and paradigms (such as many view quite a few Gnostic sub-paradigms), a specific movement called The 4th Way (Gurdjieff), all share the general tenets of Left Hand Path "core philosophies" of which you highlighted, Baccarat.
The Right Hand Path essentially submits one's existence to an external authority and/or a finality of outcome external to one's ability to control.
These are very basic descriptions and there's much more to each.
What I had hoped to convey is that underneath the overall Left Hand Path "umbrella" is what I refer to as "Left-down." This is all and only my own term. What the term points to is the direction taken within the grand framework of Left Hand Path among particular currents that use "magickal" practices for personal or "group" gain
against others. This then moves further "down" when these practices could be called "magickal ritual abuse" and "magickal ritual sacrifice."
That the "Christian paradigm" is a currently, worldwide known paradigm and in many regions of the world is a dominant paradigm held deep within the psych-spiritual regions of an individual's consciousness, it is easy to understand how the dynamic of - God and God's angels vs a super natural "adversary" (Satan) and Satan's demons spurs the terms - Satanic Ritual Abuse and Satanic Ritual Sacrifice.
Do these practices happen? Maybe... some would say definitely, some would say likely, some prefer to believe it isn't happening in any organized fashion, some don't even entertain the possibility. The biggest point of all is - where across that entire spectrum does your opinions/beliefs fall? And then, how does your belief/or opinion
help yourself and perhaps more critically - help others?
Because that was the single biggest point Alex attempted to bring out starting around 1 hours and 37 minutes and until one can get past the understanding that, by placing a potential practice within a framework of a specific paradigm (The Christian Paradigm), one creates a massive barrier between reaching a operation method of being whereby we effectively co-create a better reality for us all because
we are blocked from broadly achieving this operational methodology because of a religious paradigm
accepted by far too many as fact and, to a far greater extent, accepted within the deeper sub-conscious that
it may be fact.
There can be no greater understanding than the actual "how" "the individual conscious agent" functions within
and affects the full reality experience as to the form of manifestation of
the actual shared reality(s) we experience.
This is how the individual impacts all.
And it is up to each individual to achieve these understandings. IMO it is the 100% fullest responsibility of each and every individual at each and every level of their individuated experience, whether within this "ordinary reality" (some call call physicality, some call the material realm) or from the anchored viewpoint of a possible extended reality (or sub level within extended reality). This is the Grand Cosmic Game to use a metaphor. And a Left Hand Path oriented understanding (understanding and acting on one's own personal responsibility as tenet #1) is, for me, T H E - V I E W - T O - H O L D. It is separate from one's personal position with regards to themselves as an individuated conscious agent and one's view towards other individuated conscious agents.
What I also like in your post, Baccarat, is your pointing out one's "moral codes." I don't need an external framework telling me what is right or wrong or pushing on me what is right or wrong. I only owe it to myself to bring forth from within
what I think and feel is right or wrong. Yet, what is a fact about this "ordinary reality" we share, there are those who threaten the future or others to continue to share this "ordinary reality." So this makes "Earth Game" within the Grand Cosmic Game" an interesting sub-level (where "intensity" is its number one feature).
This means we have to form collectives, collective norms whereby society can protect the opportunity for all conscious agents that manifest in bodily form within this "Earth Game" sub-reality to have a.) a right to a future, unbroken/continuous individuated experience (prior to physical death - the end of the sub-game) and b.) that each individual experiences the freedom to feel alive, to have the opportunity to love life while c.) not threatening the opportunity of others to experience a fulfilling a.) and b.) and then d.) what do we do with those who cross lines where they can be assessed properly and to each, their own proper degree, so that we can strive to provide them an opportunity to reform or where we must take measures to protect the rest of society.
And we must accept that none of the above is likely to be done
perfectly. And further to that
not very many of us would unanimously agree as to what would be considered perfect.