I know this does seem contradictory, but it is not. For one, the power meditations manifest in irreversible changes in the mind and soul. This goes into future lives as well, and explains how some people are 'gifted' in telepathy, astral preception and have much more intuition than the average person. Those who have these gifts have at one time or another in former lives, performed work on their soul through meditation. Not necessarily Satanism, but some form of meditation, that opened the mind and soul. This sort of thing remains on the soul permanently. The above is one. Now, here is more... Nate Leved of Black Roses, wrote a very important truth: the deeper you go into Satanism, this is analagous to climbing higher and higher with the rope being snipped out from under you and the deeper you go, the more rope is snipped out from under you. In addition to the meditations, Satanism opens our minds to many truths. Satanism = knowledge and 'Satan' means 'truth' in Sanskrit [one of the oldest of languages]. This is analagous to learning the truth about santa claus, the easter bunny and then there was the 1939 movie 'The Wizard of Oz' where the little dog Toto pulled back the curtain and exposed the big, bad fearsome wizard for just a harmless ordinary man, who remained hidden and masked his true identity to remain in control. Once one learns the truth concerning anything, there is no going back. I hope I am making some sense here. In closing, yes the dedication is permanent. 'You can check out any time, but you can never leave.' What those few are doing by 'reversing the ritual' is they are checking out, and nothing more. They all come right back sooner or later.