Blackwood has been japed.

"One of the least-known but important signs of a genuine Adept of our
Dark Tradition, our sinister way, is the ability to not take one's self
too seriously - to laugh, at one's self, and especially at others: those
who fall for the japes, the games, the riddles, the tests, that we as
Adepts set for neophytes, for the poseurs, for the supine masses. For we
revel in such things, in such games, which we create and play for our
own amusement, and that of others like us, just as we love to be
changelings and cause confusion, misunderstanding, doubt, uncertainty -
and, occasionally, the light of insight, dawning as it can and does upon
one person possessed of our own evolutionary and magickal abilities,
perchance propelling that person towards us and our ways..."

(Anton Long, Order of Nine Angles: "The Laughter of the Adept")