The Glamour of
Self-Confidence:
“Blessed are the
arrogant who walk like kings, for the earth knows its master.”
Any of the “Bad
Attitudes” from WOLFISM XIX can form the nucleus of a catharsis ritual, but
only if it speaks to you and only if you’re able to have fun with it. If the
one identified above meets those criteria for you, then make it the core of a
cathartic ritual for yourself, and perform it. The effect of repeated
performances, over as long a time as feels right to you, will be to kill the
part of your Superego that functions as the jailer for your natural
self-confidence.
I use the word “glamour”
in its archaic sense, and I use the British spelling because it’s more likely (at
least for us Americans) to conjure up archaic connotations. Vampires were said
to have the power of glamour.
Self-confidence
bewitches the observer. A job applicant who is self-confident in an interview is
more likely to get hired. A hopeful lover in pursuit, who is self-confident, is
more likely to get a “yes” to a question like, “Can I buy you a drink?” – or, “Want
to get out of here?” A manager who is self-confident in meetings is more likely
to get promoted. A con artist who is self-confident is more likely to be
believed. A salesperson who is self-confident is more likely to make the sale.
A boxer who is self-confident is more likely to intimidate his or her opponent.
A long-time lover who is self-confident is more likely to get a “yes” to a question
like, “Will you marry me?” A stage performer who is self-confident is more
likely to command an audience.
Why is self-confidence
so powerful? Evolution. Our natural instincts evolved over tens of millions of
years to favor self-confidence in lovers, leaders, and even followers, and to
distrust and disdain self-doubt, diffidence, nervousness, and timidity.
If you want to succeed
in life, self-confidence is mandatory. You have to learn it. Simple as that. No
excuses. Anything that helps you to learn it, or to unlearn self-doubt,
diffidence, nervousness, and timidity – Do. Do it now and keep doing it. Cathartic
ritual can help you with the unlearning. As for the learning, the best
technique is to roleplay (out in the real world, with real people, in real
situations where you're pursuing real goals) what you think self-confidence looks like. Just go for it. Do your
best. Fake it till you make it. Practice makes perfect. You’ll eventually,
maybe immediately, see positive results, and these will have the psychological
effect of watering the roots of your natural self-confidence, which will sprout,
flower, and bear fruit.
Also, here’s a little
trick: When you feel nervous in a public situation, tap your hand rapidly against
your thigh - out of sight if possible, but either way, just do it - because even
in plain view, your hand tapping your thigh is unlikely to draw attention, especially
if, while doing it, you’re boldly maintaining eye contact. This technique unobtrusively
dissipates the nervous energy. I’ve been doing this for over 40 years. It’s one
of the most effective techniques I’ve ever found.
No excuses. ISCHYROS
DIAVOLOS!
Quelling
misconceptions:
Group ritual is
pointless and for many (such as myself) it is counter-productive. I don’t do it.
I wouldn’t do it, even if invited. Most people who do group ritual are laboring
under the delusion that a ritual can affect external reality. Given that
(utterly false) assumption, it makes sense to think multiple people doing the
same ritual would be able to “combine their power” and make external reality
their bitch! Utter nonsense. Other people would simply distract me.
Belief is not
necessary for ritual. Usually this notion of belief has to do with believing discorporate
entities exist in external reality (they don’t) or believing ritual can affect
external reality (it can’t). Cathartic ritual is psychodrama undertaken to put
the Ego temporarily in submission to the Id. It lets the Id run the show. This
serves to break the chains which have been placed on the Id by the Superego. It’s
how we say to the Id, “It’s OK, go ahead, I give you permission.” It requires a
temporary suspension of disbelief, but only about as much as we
employ when we watch television.
Performing cathartic
rituals created by other people is a waste of time. The goal of cathartic ritual
is to temporarily put your own Ego (not someone else’s) in submission to your
own Id (not someone else’s). The only way to do this is with words you wrote
for yourself, expressive of your own Id, dismissive of your own Superego, and
designed to be compelling to your own Ego. No one else can do this for you. No one
can read your mind, and reading your mind is the only way someone could write a
cathartic ritual that would work for you.
There are no rules
around designing a ritual. You can wear a cool costume, or not, your choice.
You can use props or not, your choice. You can play music or not, your choice.
You can use old-fashioned language or not, your choice. You can make things
rhyme or not, your choice. You can call upon fictitious entities or not, your
choice. You can speak in your native language, or in a made-up language like Enochian
or Elvish, or in a classical language like Latin or Greek, your choice.
Anything that feels ridiculous to you, don’t do. If you can’t think of anything
that doesn’t feel ridiculous to you, then drop the whole thing, cathartic
ritual isn’t for you. Cathartic ritual is supposed to be FUN! If you can’t have
fun with it, then drop it.
Up with the Id and
down with the Superego! ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
I am adamant on these
two principles:
1. Discorporate
entities exist only in the mind, and represent aspects of the self.
2. Ritual affects
only the practitioner, and only mentally.
To claim anything
else is self-deceit, a vice born of weakness and stupidity. The strong and the
cunning guard the citadel of beliefs in their head. Nothing is allowed to enter
except the empirically verified, the logically necessary, or the word of sources
reliable enough to survive the interrogation of inquisitive and demanding skeptics.
An accurate picture of reality can be a matter of life and death, or at least
success or failure. The strong and the cunning keep their eye on the ball, and
the gate to their citadel locked, with sentries posted and bearing arms.
Intellectual honesty
is pragmatic, yes, but it is also a matter of pride. To be weak and stupid is
revolting. To be strong and cunning is the highest nobility, conducive of the
most resilient vanity and the most commanding arrogance. No attribute is better
proof of strength and cunning than intellectual honesty.
Be strong enough to
bear the weight of cold, hard fact, and resist the honey-dripping temptation of
falsehood. Be cunning enough to discern which is which. Lie to anyone you wish –
except yourself. Falsehood is a trap. Truth is freedom.
External reality
does not include discorporate entities and is not vulnerable to the power of
ritual. No one who claims otherwise can support their claims with empirical
verification, logical necessity, or the word of sources reliable enough to
survive the interrogation of inquisitive and demanding skeptics. Simple as
that. Case closed.
Ritual is mind-work.
The Great Work is mind-work. Ritual is the Great Work. Do it with that
understanding. And then, when your mind is right and the time is right: Act.
Out in the real world where there are real consequences. Act. ISCHYROS
DIAVOLOS!
S : Smart
A : Adventurous
T : Theistic
A : Above
N : Nothing
I : Instinctive
S : Solitary
T : Tetragrammaton(the ineffable)
We will now tarry in
the Luciferian dimension of my philosophy.
Here’s the bumper
sticker: Sorcery helps those who help themselves.
Doing ritual does
not relieve me of the need to take action in the real world. I do ritual to get
my mind right so I can then turn around and confront the real world more effectively.
Ritual is mind-work. Athletes do mind-work before competing, and warriors do
mind-work before engaging in battle. Performers do mind-work before going on
stage, and politicians do mind-work before giving a speech. Hopeful lovers in
pursuit do mind-work before asking someone out, and accusers do mind-work
before confronting a miscreant. Ritual is a sophisticated example of this and
it works. But it is always a precursor to real world action. I never, ever do
ritual in lieu of taking real world action. If I did, nothing would
happen in the real world.
The mind has three
aspects: emotion, intellect, and instinct. Think of them as three swords which
ritual hones. Honing myself mentally is what I think of as the Great Work. It is
accomplished by accessing three profound centers in the mind: the deep emotional,
deep intellectual, and instinctive centers. These are accessed by entering into
altered states of consciousness.
What the Great Work
is aiming at are three infernal attainments. The first, strength, emerges out
of the deep emotional center. The second, cunning, emerges out of the deep
intellectual center. And the third, physical competence, emerges out of the
instinctive center. These attainments become formidable when we step out into
the world and engage with life.
The deep emotional
center is accessed via the sorts of rituals that are commonly thought of as
Satanic, with their bombast and pageantry. The deep intellectual center is
accessed via more complex and arcane sorts of rituals, often involving ancient
systems, for example Kabala. The instinctive center is accessed via
mind-clearing exercises such as Zazen. All of these aim at altered states of
consciousness.
In closing, a word
about the instinctive center. It has to do with the senses, the body in
general, attention, reflex, dexterity, precision, and grace. Most people who practice
Zazen have no idea what it's actually for. In Japan, Zazen was part of a
Samurai's training. In China, Zazen was a part of kung-fu training. Forget satori
and Nirvana and other mystical nonsense. Zazen makes you better at physically
engaging with the world, in all the myriad varieties of what that looks like,
from knitting to sex to knife fights to driving to scuba diving. Western
Buddhists are often blind to this because they're not in touch with their
bodies. As the Gestalt psychologist Fritz Perls famously said, "Lose your
mind and come to your senses."
Be formidable. ISCHYROS
DIAVOLOS!
The love of money is
the beginning of wisdom.
The fear of God is
the root of the poisonous tree.
Blessed are the
rich, for they stand at the helm.
Blessed are the
greedy, for they would possess the earth.
Blessed are they who take the biggest portion, for because of them, the meek will go without.
Blessed are they who
laugh, for they know the great truth.
Blessed are they who
lust, for their senses are alive.
Blessed are they who
love food, for the world is their oyster.
Blessed are they who
work smarter, not harder, for by sloth they conquer.
Blessed are the
vain, for they adorn the best subject.
Blessed are they
whose arrogance makes them walk like kings, for the earth knows its master.
Blessed are they
whose envy elevates their ambitions, for they will have the last laugh.
Blessed are they who
make their own meaning, for they prove they have no need of God.
Blessed are they who
are laws unto themselves, for they shall be called Lords of Order.
Blessed are the
strong, for they can bear the brunt of an attack.
Blessed are the
cunning, for they set traps their prey will not escape.
Blessed are they whose
malice is a thing of beauty, for theirs is the highest art.
Blessed are the
buyers and sellers, for they make the world go round.
Blessed are they who
take ACTION out in the world, for the world is vulnerable to them.
Blessed are the
selfish, for they have their hands on the throat of God.
Blessed are they who
stand alone, for Leviathan has a place for them.
Blessed are they who
honor the name of Mammon, for they prove they are fearless of God.
ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
THE OCCULT HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH and RUSSIA’S WAR: BLOOD UPON THE SNOW
I’m not sure if this will interest anybody here, but I recently tracked this down on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn-VdljUZ7KIWzw3DjryaB9U0_NZa5vBd
I discovered the 4 part: ‘Occult History of the Third Reich’ on the Temple of Set reading list years ago. I bought the series on DVD, and then leant it to someone and never got it back.
This is pretty good viewing for those interested in Nazi Germany, though the info may be regarded, by some, as rather simple and introductory. I am not a National Socialist or fascist, as I don’t like having to goosestep, in line, in any sort of formation.
Having said that though – I am interested in this idea that Nazi Germany was based on occult or black magical principles – this 4 part series really explores that and gives people a starting point for research if they want to flesh that out. I remember Nikolas Schreck and Michael Aquino both expressing the view that Adolf Hitler was a great black magician.
The other interesting thing I have recently found on Youtube is this.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoDS9Eoofuwrf31PV1TmqYaBwZ0QF-J-W
It is a long 10 part documentary called ‘Russia’s War: Blood upon the Snow.’ This documentary examines the years of the Soviet Union under Stalin’s regime, and looks at the conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War Two.
I don’t think the Soviet Union was necessarily built on occult or magical principles. Marxist/Leninist Communism was supposed to be essentially materialist, i.e. it drove any form of idealism or mystification out into the margins or excluded it all together. It hence implies a thoroughly disenchanted worldview, with a supposedly real basis in material history – mode of production, labor relations, and social classes, etc.
Anyway, for anyone who is looking to examine so called “dark history,” this stuff is quite interesting.
“Greed is the
subconscious of the super-beast.”
How can we exploit the
third great Mammon-truth?
First, we must understand
that there is only a subconscious in relation to an ego. The entire function of
the subconscious is to press against the ego. Yet I've said the super-beast's
ego hasn't yet emerged, and this is true. It's in the process of coalescing out
of unconscious chaos. All we have right now are pockets of pre-ego or proto-ego,
the most obvious being the central banks. Notice I didn’t say governments.
The ego is the reality principle in an organism, and governments are decidedly
not in the realty business. In fact we specifically want to look at central
banks that function independently of governments and their bullshit.
The Federal Reserve is
the central bank of the United States. It wasn’t always as independent as it is
today, but in recent times, the Federal Reserve has flat out refused to become
politicized, and has managed to stick to its guns and yield nothing of its
power. For that very reason, the economy of the United States has proven far
more resilient than many expected it to. It has had its ups and down, but it
hasn’t collapsed or spun out of control, and we have the Federal Reserve to
thank for that. What’s more, the politicians know it. President-elect George W.
Bush, in the year 2000, had this to say: “One of the things I'm certain that I
should not do as president-elect is to try to put words in the mouth of Alan
Greenspan.”
This, then, is what we as
a species can do at the present time to hasten the emergence of the ego of the
super-beast: We can push for the creation and preservation of independent
central banks in every country.
As the macroscopic ego
continues to coalesce, so too does the macroscopic subconscious. They're each
pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, from out of the chaotic miasma
they currently float in. They're doing this in tandem, like two lovers
awakening the life force in one another. The rhythm of their lovemaking is the
intricate percussion of the global economy. Money changing hands, goods and
services being bought and sold, this is the one thing, the only thing, that
unites our species across oceans and continents, and that's why the macroscopic
ego will perceive reality through an economic lens, and the macroscopic
subconscious will press hardest from the perspective of greed.
When macroscopic greed
has fully emerged, humanity will have finally put Plato and his cerebral values
to death. Will have finally (again and for good) put Christ and his “Blessed
are the poor” to death. Finally put the Buddha and his “Suffering is caused by
desire” to death. Finally (again and for good) put John Lennon and his “All you
need is love” to death. Finally put Billy Bob Butkus and his “It’s OK if I’m
poor if niggers are poorer” to death. Love of money – not fear of God – will be
seen as the beginning of wisdom. Spiritual pipedreams – not love of money –
will be seen as the root of all evil. The great motto of the Planetary
Federation will be, “In Greed We Trust.”
Chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board, I name thee Antichrist, in whom I am well pleased. This is the
last of my second wave of writings. I have fully expressed my viewpoint as of
July 20, 2021. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
“Money is the blood of the super-beast.”
How can we exploit the second great Mammon-truth?
One way is by applying this wisdom to the stock market.
First, we must ask ourselves: What is the super-beast
doing? Answer: It is growing. In four dimensions – human population, the global
computer network, physical territory, and economic territory – it is growing,
and so it makes diabolical sense for us to invest in these four areas.
Leviathan’s relentless advance and expansion is the Dao, what some might call an
“invisible hand,” which is not a metaphysical concept, but rather, is a
macroeconomic statistical hypothesis which can be tested quantifiably by experts.
Leviathan is the Übermensch, the ultimate aim of all power, and make no
mistake, money is power.
The way to invest in human population growth is to
invest in all forms of infrastructure, for without the latter, the former is
doomed either to failure or to the useless multiplication of useless human
bodies. Roads, bridges, sewers, electricity, natural gas, potable water, food,
telephony, the internet, education, medicine, cars and trucks, and mass transit
are all essential to a growing human population that isn’t going to just wallow
in miserable poverty. Companies that contribute to the advance and expansion of
infrastructure will ride the current of the Dao. Consider investing in them.
The way to invest in the growth of the global computer
network is to invest in (a) those companies who are building or improving the
internet backbone and (b) those companies who are exploiting the internet
backbone in new, innovative ways. The latter category includes streaming companies,
gaming companies, and the makers of smart cars and smart homes. Companies in
both categories are riding the current of the Dao. Consider investing in them.
In particular look for companies who are pushing the frontiers of artificial
intelligence.
The way to invest in the growth of physical territory
is to invest in (a) undersea colonization and (b) outer space colonization.
These are not pipedreams, nor are they boondoggles. The will to power is the
will to eat, reproduce, and colonize. Living things have been conquering new
territories from the dawn of intentional locomotion in the invertebrate
kingdom. Vertebrates doubled down on this imperative. Mighty indeed was the
will to power in the first proto-amphibians who boldly went where no animal had
gone before: dry land. Humanity, meanwhile, has invaded every terrestrial niche
we laid our eyes on. The bottom of the ocean beckons, as does the surface of
the moon, and of Mars. Companies engaged in these grand expeditions are riding
the current of the Dao. Consider investing in them.
The way to invest in the growth of economic territory
is to invest in companies who are creating whole new markets. The cell phone
was an example of this, and the smart phone took it a step further. Anti-perspirant
was a supreme example. Before advertisers taught them to, consumers didn’t fear
the stink of their underarms. Superhero movies have been a triumphant example. Companies
who teach consumers to want things they never wanted before, or to fear things
they never feared before, ride the current of the Dao. Consider investing in
them.
I, of course, am not a financial adviser, and this post
is for entertainment purposes only. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
“Money makes the world go round.”
How can we exploit the first great Mammon-truth?
What immediately comes to mind are the applications to law
enforcement. Even if none of us are in that field, the thought process will be illustrative.
First, there’s the famous dictum that guides detectives
who are trying to solve a crime. “Follow the money.” Get access to bank records
and analyze them. Money coming in could be a clue, as could money going out.
Where (or from whom) did it come in from? In exchange for what? Where (or to
whom) did it go out to? In exchange for what? Detectives have caught many a
perpetrator by asking these questions.
Next, there’s a ploy often used by the FBI: If you can’t
prove murder, look for tax fraud. The famous gangster Al Capone went to prison
not for any of his other crimes, but for tax fraud. Indicted on 22 counts, he
was sentenced to eleven years. This works pretty often because those of a
criminal mindset are rubbed the wrong way by having to give their money away,
but they aren’t always financial mavens. Some of them will clumsily hoist themselves
“with their own petard” as the saying goes.
Finally, there’s a highly effective anti-terrorist tactic:
Freeze the financial assets of suspected bad actors. This is a way of getting
at perpetrators who can’t otherwise be reached because they’re hiding in
another country, generally a hostile one. These miscreants will often keep their
money in international bank accounts, which are accessible to international law
enforcement. They do this because the banks in their own countries can’t be trusted,
often because of widespread corruption and thievery at every level of society
in those countries.
All of this is why police detectives and federal agents
will often get degrees in Accounting or Finance. They understand the first
great Mammon-truth. May we all be as wise. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
Here is the third great truth, which, as I did with the
first and second, I name Mammon: “Greed is the subconscious of the super-beast.”
(Read my blog post numbered X to get grounded in this concept.)
You may have noticed I employ elephantine images when I post about Leviathan. Isn’t he a sea serpent? I made the decision to subsume
Behemoth into the concept of Leviathan. Behemoth is widely thought to be a hippopotamus,
but Egypt, in biblical times, did have elephants, and since I find their faces less
comical than that of the hippo, I went with the pachyderm with the prehensile
proboscis. But I haven’t discarded the sea serpent archetype. Take a look at
the image at the bottom of this post.
What you’re looking at is one of William Blake’s
masterpieces, which the famous mystic created in 1825. There’s a definite
yin/yang structure to the image, which Blake titled, “Behemoth and Leviathan.”
I’ve decided to perceive the two beasts as heads and tails of the same coin, so
for me, the title would simply be, “Leviathan.” I choose to perceive the land
creature as holding the yang position, which makes it the light of day, activating,
ego aspect. I choose to perceive the sea serpent as holding the yin position, which
makes it the dark of night, reactive, subconscious aspect.
Leviathan, in this symbol, is the Dao, the sum of day
and night, action and reaction, ego and subconscious, land creature and sea
serpent.
The sea serpent is the reactive subconscious of the
super-beast. It’s the will to power of all the individual members of Homo
economicus: the sum of all human greed. The land creature, whose approximation
in real world zoology is for me an elephant, is the activating ego of the
super-beast. It has not yet awakened. It will continue to slumber until something
momentous happens, perhaps the Singularity. Remember: the global computer
network has been completely coopted by the forces of human greed. The Singularity,
if it emerges, will be Machina economicus. Its design will be founded on
economic imperatives.
If Machina economicus emerges in our lifetimes, the
sensible question for us to ask about it will be: How can we exploit it? ISCHYROS
DIAVOLOS!
Here is a second great truth, which, as I did with the
first, I name Mammon: “Money is the blood of the super-beast.” (Read my blog
post numbered X to better understand this concept.)
What is blood? Blood is a constantly circulating fluid that
provides the body with nutrition, oxygen, and waste removal. Consider money.
Does it constantly circulate? Yes. Does it provide the body of the super-beast with
nutrition, oxygen, and waste removal? Yes, as potentials to be actualized.
Nothing constructive gets done in human civilization except via the medium of
money. Nothing gets built, nothing runs, nothing gets pushed out of sight and
out of mind so building and running can continue, except by the stupendous
power of filthy lucre.
I have called the super-beast Übermensch, toward which
the will to power relentlessly climbs. Now you’ll get a better understanding of
what that means. In Homo economicus (economic man) the will to power manifests
as greed: greed in all its forms and all the permutations into which it enters.
Homo economicus (together with its global network of computers) is the nervous
system of the super-beast, even as money is the blood. As each individual member
of Homo economicus pursues its will to power, which is greed, it inevitably
contributes to the growth and maintenance of the Übermensch, which is the
super-beast, whom I have also named Leviathan. Even theft keeps the money
flowing, as what was stolen will either be spent or sold, or, if it’s some sort
of collectible, it will appreciate in value so that someday it can be sold. Meanwhile,
most likely the victim of the theft was insured, and the insurance company will
have to pay out. Even black-market transactions, such as the drug trade, or
human trafficking, keep the money flowing, enabling potentials within the body
of the super-beast, which grows, and grows, and grows, until one day it will stretch
out its leg and place its titanic foot on Mars.
This is reality, and reality is everyone’s higher
power. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
When I call Mammon forth into consciousness by uttering
the great truth of macroscopic human relations – “Money makes the world go
round” – I blaspheme, and wantonly.
For if money makes the world go round, then God does
not. There is no right hand of Providence. There is only the left hand of commerce
and finance. There is no heavenly grace. There is only supply and demand. And to
Abraham’s three flocks of bleating sheep, this is blasphemy most foul.
Furthermore – and this is a more subtle point – if money
makes the world go round, then neither the rise of the capitalists nor the rise
of the proletariat has the final claim on history’s trajectory, for the two are
the heads and tails of the same coin (a particularly apt metaphor). Money is
the master. Capitalists and the proletariat are merely vassals. Let them tussle
all they will, at the end of the day they bend the knee to the same lord. And to
Adam Smith’s disciples as well as to Karl Marx’s zealots, this stinks with the
stench of blasphemy.
Additionally, if money makes the world go round, then political
systems do not. So-called democracies have no defense against the hegemony of
money. Nor do dictatorships. Nor do single-party technocracies like China or
oligarchic thugocracies like Russia or repressive theocracies like Iran or
corrupt kleptocracies like Somalia. Money rules them all and with an iron fist.
All of them throw their vaunted principles or megalomaniacal ambitions out the
window when the laws of supply and demand come knocking at their doors. But don’t
say this out loud on the streets (of at least some) of these countries. It’s
blasphemy!
Finally, if money makes the world go round, then culture
does not. Literature is a commodity to be bought and sold. Philosophy is a market
for college textbooks and professorial tenure. Music is a vehicle for selling ads.
Art is a collectible. Theater is for putting butts in seats with buckets of popcorn
on laps. All of these can only really be understood from the perspective of
supply and demand. Let the historians of literature, of philosophy, of music,
of art, of theater, ground all their treatises in economics, or else spout lies.
Oh, to say this in the halls of academia! Such exquisite blasphemy.
Money, money, money, money, money. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
Whether you think so or not, whether you like it or
not, reality is your higher power. Reality is everyone’s higher power. It sets
the rules for every minute of our lives.
This higher power can’t be served, because it has no agenda.
It can’t be worshipped in any meaningful way, because it has no self-awareness.
It can be ignored, but only at our peril. It can’t be opposed, because everything
we do is part of it. But take note: it very much CAN be exploited.
What’s the reality of human social relations? At the
macro level, it’s this: “Money makes the world go round.”
I give great truths demonic names. This may seem odd at
first, but the more you do it, the more natural and even obvious it begins to
seem. To the great truth in the previous paragraph, I give the name you’d expect:
Mammon.
Demons don’t exist except in our minds. Yet in our
minds their existence is potent. Attaching them to great truths enhances their
potency while simultaneously giving dimension and color to the great truths.
Old time occultists had the right idea regarding
demons. They didn’t want to serve or worship them. They wanted to exploit them.
They cast their circles and spoke their magic words to bring the demons under
heel and master them. This is the attitude we should hold toward any great truth.
In modern parlance, we should be looking to make that great truth our bitch.
Mammon was never a Goetic demon, so he had no seal. In
modern times a few people have proposed their own designs for a seal of Mammon.
Instead of adopting theirs, I’ve designed my own. It adorns this post. You can
use it as a visual focus for meditation. If you do, your mantra can be the
great truth to which I’ve given Mammon’s name: “Money makes the world go round.”
This will open your consciousness (“your third eye” if you like that imagery)
to all the subtleties of money’s role in every facet of our lives. This is
wisdom, and by this wisdom we can begin to exploit the latent possibilities all
around us.
As the Beatles originally wrote but the Flying Lizards refined,
“The best things in life are free, but you can give them to the birds and bees,
I want money.” ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
So yesterday, I came across a youtube video on "Satanism as a religion?" This thing of calling Satanism a "religion," has been something I've pondered for a while. Now, I am not here to bash anyone that would adhere to any kind of religions. The point of my blog post is to simply cut through the vines towards the logic and reasoning on this subject.
A few people might call Satanism a religion, but what is a religion? If you look at most religions(I kind've mean it centered around on Christianity), it misses the concepts of having the critical thinking, skepticism, logic/reasoning. What I am trying to say is, religions such as Christianity does not get deeper on the surface's of reality. What do I mean by reality? The real world where god and Jesus cannot help you in your situations that you encounter in your own life. Now I am not saying their are stupid illogical people in every religion, as a matter of fact I am sure you have certain intelligent/logical individuals in every religion. But religion's such as Christianity miss those three key concepts (as I have stated earlier). Now take a look at Satanism, what do you see? Do you see it as a religion, or a philosophy? Take a look at the things that LaVey combined as his influences by applying it in Satanism. And tell me the logic if it is a religion?
So I find it funny that you might have a small percentage of people that would consider the Satanism incorporated by LaVey as a religion. The difference between a philosophy and a religion is pretty simple, in which I can bet every person knows it. A philosophy is a logical analysis/skepticism of life and the things that surround everyday life. A religion is one that does not have any logic or skepticism of an analysis towards life and everyday life. Christianity of course is that example. Instead it focuses on blindness towards belief without questioning it. Satan being "the one who questions," is that common antithesis. To the few percentage of people who actually choose to take Satanism like a regular church going person without any logical reasoning or critical thinking, I want you to take a look at these influences of LaVey, and try to compare it with the title "religion." Doesn't make any sense right? The simple theory that comes about, is perhaps LaVey simply used the term "religion" for pr purposes. Another thing to take a look at, read the satanic bible again and tell me if it makes sense to add magic rituals related towards a whole book that gets to the point of the here and now? To those who foolishly believe in it as some literal bible, I have no interest in hearing your argumental justifications as a "religion."
The Devil Inside invariably blasphemes, first because it enjoys it, and second because it detests being hemmed in by the thorny thickets of groupthink.
Religionists: Fuck your tribe. Fuck its avatar. Fuck
its folklore. Fuck you.
Christ and Buddha: Fuck your monks. Fuck their prudery.
Fuck their asceticism. Fuck their penitence. Fuck you if you have ears to hear
and holes to penetrate.
Bleeding Hearts: Fuck your tolerance for the weak and
stupid. Fuck your heroic protection of them. Fuck your insistence on their
equal rights. Fuck you.
Bleeding Hearts: Fuck your tolerance for freeloaders
and parasites. Fuck your heroic protection of them. Fuck your insistence on
their equal rights. Fuck you.
Platonists: Fuck your preference for abstraction over
carnality. Fuck your veneration of spiritual love. Fuck your denigration of the
senses. Fuck your atrophying muscles. Fuck you.
I-Theists: Fuck your ritualized megalomania. Fuck your
pompous pseudo-enlightenment. Fuck your ludicrous expectations of apotheosis.
Fuck you.
Corporate Fatheads: Fuck your mission statements. Fuck your
insistence that either we marry the company or we stagnate. Fuck your
glorification of the CEO. Fuck your toeing of the company line. Fuck your preaching
of the company gospel. Fuck you.
Blasphemy is a great way to eject all the poisons from
your system.
This marks the culmination of my first wave of
writings. I’ve fully expressed my viewpoint as of July 15, 2021. ISCHYROS
DIAVOLOS!
Mankind is a super-beast, straddling the earth like a colossus,
ingesting and excreting in metric tons measured in the billions, and awaiting
the day it can stretch out its leg and place its titanic foot on a new world.
The Devil Inside does not deceive itself, and therefore
it sees the super-beast, looks it in its Cyclopean eye, perceives its
Gogmagogian appetite and its ever-pressing need to empty its Brobdingnagian
bowels – and then the Devil Inside decides for itself how to respond. Don’t
jump to conclusions as to what that response will be.
I call the super-beast Leviathan. What better name for
it? But if you think me blasphemous, I thank you for the compliment.
“Mankind, I name thee Leviathan! Woe unto your enemies.
Woe even unto your friends. For you must devour all things and shit it all out
in the end.”
Leviathan is the Übermensch. I know a thousand neo-Nietzscheans
will rise up to dispute me, but I tell you, Leviathan is the Übermensch. Those
who deny this are choosing to handwave away all the parts of Nietzsche that
played into the hands of the Nazis. I don’t handwave anything away. I see
Nietzsche for what he was: the herald of the dawn of Leviathan’s awakening. The
Third Reich was also the herald of this same thing.
What else would the will to power ever have been aiming at?
Remember, Nietzsche saw it in all living things. What do all living things,
from the bacterium to the baseball player, have in common? Very little, except
this: They all are driven to eat, and then to reproduce, so their offspring can
eat, and then reproduce, ad infinitum, and the better they are at it, the
larger the territory they grab. Eat, fuck, eat, fuck, colonize. That’s the will
to power, if we’re going to say it exists in both the fruit fly and the frog.
It exists in Leviathan supremely. Now we’re just waiting for the super-beast,
mankind, to stop denying its true nature. In the meantime, other heralds will
rise up.
How will I respond to this? In whatever way is most
suited to my appetites and pressing needs. Will I serve Leviathan? I serve
nothing and no one by choice, but it’s difficult to do much of anything that
doesn’t serve the super-beast. Will I worship Leviathan? I worship nothing and
no one. Will I ignore Leviathan? I will if I deem it irrelevant to my appetites
and pressing needs, but this is unlikely. Will I exploit Leviathan? I will if I
see a way that I can. Will I oppose Leviathan? I will if I want some territory for
myself and the damn thing won’t let me have it.
Working and taking a paycheck is a two-edged sword, for
even as working serves the super-beast, taking a paycheck exploits it. To come
out ahead, one must receive the largest amount of money for doing the least
amount of work. Thus do greed and sloth emerge as a Devilish response to the Übermensch.
See things for what they are. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
The Devil Inside exhibits infernal hubris, my term for the
claiming of divine prerogative on the part of a mortal. This definition tracks pretty
well with how ancient Greek playwrights understood hubris, though the Greeks
saw it as a vice which the Immortals will punish, whereas I see it, and promote
it, as a virtue which life on earth rewards.
I reject phrasing like, “I am my own God,” or, “the
goal of the Great Work is auto-deification,” as utter bullshit. I’m obviously
not a God and will never be one. Practitioners who employ such phrasing don’t
mean what they say. They’re either exaggerating, or else they’re referring to
the imaginary selves they hold in their consciousness during ritual. Some of
them are deluded enough to believe that if they hold their imaginary selves in
consciousness long enough and intensely enough, they’ll eventually become what
they imagine themselves to be. This could work if they’re imagining themselves
to be strong or wise. It will fail miserably if they’re imagining themselves to
be Zeus.
Infernal hubris is very different from all of that. There
are two divine prerogatives I actually do have the ability to claim for myself,
despite my mortality. The first is the prerogative of decreeing the meaning of my
life. The second is the prerogative of decreeing the tenets of my self-respect.
Consider Christians. Psychologically speaking, what do
they use God for? First, they use him as a reason to hope for a miracle. I can’t
claim that prerogative because it’s not a real thing. Second, they use him as a
reason to hope for heaven. I can’t claim that prerogative because it’s not a
real thing. Third, they use him as a basis for believing their life has
meaning. THAT prerogative I can claim. My life has meaning because it means
something to me. Fourth, they use him as a basis for setting right apart from
wrong. THAT prerogative I can claim. I set right apart from wrong on the basis
of the aesthetic to which I’ve committed my deepest passions.
The Immortals won’t punish me for my infernal hubris. I
know this because Immortals don’t exist. Life on earth rewards me for my
infernal hubris. I know this because claiming the aforementioned divine
prerogatives gives me satisfaction, psychological resilience, and heightened
personal power.
I am the maker of meaning and the justifier of
judgment. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
The Devil Inside, its predator’s instincts awakened, indulges
noble envy and noble arrogance, not vile envy or vile arrogance.
I will define two terms: a “cur” is someone weak and
stupid; an “apex” is someone strong and wise.
I will also state my assumption: All have the right to
compete for the prize. None have the inalienable right to win it.
Now:
On losing to an apex, noble envy will seek to increase
in strength and wisdom and compete again with renewed vigor. Vile envy will lash
out like a little bitch or else wallow in misery and despair.
On losing to a cur, noble envy will investigate the
flaws in the game that allowed such a topsy-turvy outcome, and then will devise
a new strategy, as ruthless and crafty as befits the situation. Vile envy will lash
out like a little bitch or else wallow in misery and despair.
On defeating an apex, noble arrogance will instruct the
bystanders, by word and example, in the proper etiquette of never shaming an
apex. Vile arrogance will mock the apex to whatever extent it can get away
with.
On defeating a cur, noble arrogance will take pleasure
in all being right with the world, and then will set the matter aside, not to be
thought of again. Vile arrogance will bully the cur.
Win or lose, be noble, not vile. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
The Devil Inside wants to feel alive in its flesh.
Death is coming for you. When it arrives, you in your
entirety will feed (metaphorically) Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies. But until then, your blood is
pumping, your lungs are filling and emptying, your intestines are conducting
their relentless chemical and zoological experiments, and your brain is
producing a holographic, multi-sensual movie in the theater of your skull, for
no audience at all except itself. Why let all of this go to waste? Find the
activities that make you feel alive in your flesh – and do them!
You have five senses, hopefully all functional. To the
extent you can - Drink the world of phenomena like a fine elixir! Feast your eyes
on all the world’s splendor. Treat your ears to all that is musical. Indulge
your sense of touch with every shape and texture. Exhilarate your tongue with
every delicacy. Breathe into your nose all the fragrances of life. And get out
from under your own roof! The chaos of crowds is a sensual kaleidoscope.
Boardwalks, bazaars, malls, avenues, museums, zoos – seek out the commotion of
living things in motion! Even if part of you doesn’t want to. Even if it’s
hard. I promise you – You’ll come to enjoy it. I did. And I was always the
bookiest of worms.
I dearly hope you have functioning arms and legs. If
you don’t, I hope you have other ways to navigate the world, perhaps by the
gifts of technology. Try to make time each day to move around! Do whatever you
can do that gets your pulse rate up. Don’t do it as a punishment or a
self-flagellation. Find a physical activity you can accomplish and tailor to
your own enjoyment – and do it! Even if you have to do it in a wheelchair. You
evolved from creatures who survived through agility and strength. Your
biological legacy is one of movement. Make dynamism a centerpiece of your day!
Movement is life. I promise you – You’ll come to enjoy it. I did. And I was
always the couchiest of potatoes.
Incorporate sexuality into your existence. You might be
surprised at how many on the Left Hand Path are basically celibate. If you’re
one of them – as I am myself – then you may choose to make use of what has long
been the internet’s killer app: porn. Or you may choose to engage in very
casual hook-ups. Or frequent the local go-go bar or strip club. Or take part in
some fetish scene. Find what works for you, be mindful of your safety, avoid
unwanted consequences, protect your health – and get frisky! Every cell in your
nervous system wants you to.
Live until you die! ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
The Devil Inside lives by jungle justice.
First, whatever dares to interfere with me, must be
interfered with. Even that which is more powerful than me, must be brought to
heel. I once became convinced an executive was preparing to scapegoat me. I
immediately began talking to key individuals about how this executive was making
himself an obstacle to the success of a major initiative. In short order, the executive
was transitioned out of the program, rendering him irrelevant to me from that
day forward. He never saw the hand that dealt the blow. He didn’t even know a
blow had been struck. One day he was there, and the next he was gone, one of
those random mysteries of life.
Second, I give my help only to those who acknowledge
debts of gratitude. I actually look for opportunities to help such people. I see
it as planting seeds for future harvesting. Nor do I limit myself to helping
the rich and powerful. Many’s the poor man who has his finger on a lever in
some mechanism that keeps the world running. All that matters is that the poor
man be the type to remember his debt to me. Meanwhile, the rich man who wants
something for nothing will get precisely nothing if he comes to me for help, as
will the poor man who tries to manipulate me with guilt.
Third, I acknowledge my own debts of gratitude and pay
them. This is how ecosystems remain balanced. What takes must also give when
its turn rolls around, else the food chain, at its weakest link, will snap. But
also there’s my reputation to think of. If I become known as an ingrate, those
who might have helped me in the future will turn away from me. Better to be
known as one who never forgets a kindness. And then there’s pride, one of the
primal appetites of the Devil Inside. The ape man feels as tough and regal as a
silverback when he repays a favor.
Fourth, I don’t allow so-called family or so-called
friends to mooch off me or otherwise take advantage of me. A long-term
relationship can certainly serve as legitimate currency for procuring time or
resources, but only on occasion and within reason, and only if what’s good for
the goose is good for the gander. The plundering hand of the freeloader must be
bitten. The parasite must be made to flee for its life. I don’t live for the
sake of others. Not even for family or friends. My time and my resources are
mine, not theirs, and no relationship is sufficient currency to procure my
slave labor or turn my kitchen into someone else’s food pantry.
For every action there must be an equal and opposite
reaction. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
The weak and the stupid smell like prey to the Devil Inside.
Consider the pack of wolves giving chase to a herd of
deer. Invariably the hunters will zero in on the weakest or stupidest of the
fleeing animals. These canine instincts have evolved over millions of years.
Simian instincts are no different. What sets humans apart from many other beasts
is that we aggress not only toward other species but also toward our own, though
in the case of our own we aren’t generally motivated by cannibalism, but
rather, territory, resources, or status. Also our aggression toward one another
is usually indirect: we normally aren’t trying to kill or even rob our adversaries,
but rather, to outcompete them. (Of course killing and robbing aren’t entirely
unheard of.) Unsurprisingly, we choose as our targets the weakest and stupidest
among us. This is especially true when we are in fact looking to rob, swindle, blackmail
or exploit someone. It is always open season on weaklings and cretins.
In the jungle it’s commonplace for the lion, when no
longer hungry, to pay no attention to creatures it would otherwise make a meal
of. The creatures themselves are actually aware of this, and will venture much
nearer to the king of the jungle than they would ever otherwise dare to. This
indifference on the part of the carnivore does not progress into any sort of congeniality.
The lion, even a satiated one, has absolutely no desire to lie down with the
lamb. The predatory Devil inside the simian is equally indifferent to the weak
and the stupid when they have nothing it wants. But if pushed into proximity to
them, or dragged into interacting with them, the Devil’s indifference will
devolve into disgust, irritation, and spite. This is the misanthropic impulse.
The Devil does not, by any means, suffer fools gladly, or let mice make a nest
in its beard. Prey belong on the dinner plate or else out from underfoot.
Most intolerable of all, to the Devil, is the
realization that it, itself, has exhibited weakness or stupidity. This of
course will happen from time to time, as no one is perfect, but when it does,
the Devil’s disgust and irritation with itself will far outstrip what it feels
toward others. What could be more humiliating to the lion than to look in the
mirror and see a lamb? Its gorge will rise. Its spite toward itself will veer
to the murderous. Pride is an appetite and humiliation is rancid meat. For this
reason, the Devil, and especially the Devil in coitus with ego, will take pains
to train itself in strength and intelligence. Much of the Great Work is the
never-ending battle to grow stronger and wiser.
Finally, there is the flip side of misanthropy: the
mutual respect of fellow predators. This is the “little more to the story” that
was alluded to in the previous writing. This is the closest thing to moral
restraint the Devil ever experiences. You are strong and you are wise, a tiger
to my lion, and therefore I will respect your territory, your resources, and
your status. I will restrain my appetites. I will look elsewhere for other
prizes. I do this not because I fear you, but because I respect you. Even
though I might legally target your share of the world’s good potentials, I will
not. You may keep what is yours. I smell your markings on the trail and I do
not venture past them, though I know I could safely do so. This is the true
meaning of honor among thieves. This is the Robber’s Code. Be forewarned: it
does not apply to weaklings and cretins, for on them it is always open season.
ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
All treats and treasures in my sight, I claim by right
of appetite.
Prudes, ascetics, and penitents smell like prey to the
Devil Inside. No social sanction is authoritative. No self-denial leads to
power or glory in heaven. No cosmic guilt demands joylessness as recompense. No
pope or potentate, in gaudy robes of church or state, can induce the Devil to
foreswear its insatiable nature.
Now within you is also the ego, which, when operating
as natural selection has bred it to, applies a sensible degree of prudence in
the face of unyielding force, strategic checkmate, dwindling resources, or unsustainable
losses. The ego, uncorrupted by neurosis, is not the Devil’s adversary, but
rather, is the Devil’s trusted consigliere. As the song says, “Just call me
Lucifer, ‘cause I’m in need of some restraint.”
Ego and Devil in coitus give birth to a newborn self
both voracious and wise, a combination to be feared and respected. When opposing
forces may still be induced to yield; when strategic options are still available;
when resources are still abundant; when losses are still sustainable; let prey
run for their lives, for the hunter is on the prowl, licking its lips in
anticipation, sniffing the wind for news it can use. Flee! Gaping jaws
approach.
There’s a little more to this story, but it’s best told
in the next writing. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
Faith, religious belief, the Devil Inside cannot abide.
What it can’t hold in its hands or put in its mouth is alien to its reality. It
relates to what it can slay, eat, fuck, possess.
Not for the Devil are religion’s castles in the air, built
of abstract imaginings. Bone and blood are what the Devil relates to. Iron and
oak, breast and buttock, fish and fowl, fist and elbow, sapphire and gold,
linen and silk. Guns and knives, the Devil knows. Cars and boats, highways and
bridges. The real world of stone and dirt.
Nor is the Devil itself anything other than portions of
the brain. Look not in some imaginary Hell for the Devil. Look instead in the
cerebrum, the cerebellum, the thalamus and pituitary and pons, and the medulla
oblongata.
Nor was the Devil put on earth by anything other than
evolution. Look not to scripture or myth for the origins of the Devil. Look
instead to the fossil record and the analysis of genomes. Look to the dinosaurs
and their Mesozoic contemporaries.
Not one drop of self-deceit is promoted by Wolfism. Not
one speck of unreality. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
Psychology, philosophy, and poetry are the three pillars
of personal power.
The Devil Inside lusts after the ego. To submit and
surrender is to activate integration and achieve the unification of your mental
powers. The legion of forces in your brain unite under one general and mount a
coordinated assault on life.
The technique I use to bring Devil and ego into coitus is
basic ritual, for example a curse like this one.
Alone in a dark room at night, light two red candles.
Recite:
“[Name]! Hated One!
The ruin of your reality cannot be fled.
The reign of my wrath is in your head.
Order, sanity – dead.
Cthulhu! Cthulhu is in your head.
Dread dread dread dread dread.”
(Repeat as many times as desired.)
Extinguish the candles.
The
Devil Inside lusts after the ego. Ritual is how the ego “spreads its legs.” ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
That's Wolfism in a nutshell. I've stopped calling it "Satanism" because I'm tired of debating the meaning and history of that term. Wolfism is what I say it is because I say so. If you align with it, feel free to join me in it.
But it isn't. The group, or community, all creates a herd of its own under its political/occult banner of ideologies. To those who have left the Abrahamic religions and think that they got rid of their master, you are simply wrong. All you have done is replaced a master with a different master. Their is no critical thinking involved in any of these organizations/political ideologies/music. Instead you all become cows, instead of one who can walk on his own two feet alone. What makes us different on the Left Hand Path, is we each only center upon ourselves, and choose our own destiny by shaping it under our own wills. Yes, you can make the logical argument saying, "well isn't fake individualism everywhere? I mean you guys are all doing the same thing." Yes, we have our own organizations/communities, but what makes us separate from groups that preach fake individualism, is the fact that each of us on the path do not have any common mission's, nor are we all in the same boat with the same ideas.
The Left Hand Path is for one who can either choose to win or loose, It is a Social Darwinist system. Those who claim to be on the path and choose to preach or practice the SJW "Woke" mentality are not on the path at all. Instead the path has weeded them out. This path is for the strong who strive towards their own future, it is not for the weak who would share the same collective intellectual ideas. Personally, I don't have a problem having a brotherhood with comradery that comes to it. But what it all comes down to, is each is on its own when it comes to practicing the Left Hand Path. Their is no having a Satanic group bible study, this path is a path with differing ideas that we choose under our own separate wills. A true individualist does not wish to belong with a group of creatures, instead a true individualist is a lone wolf.
I find it cringy encountering "Thiest Satanists" who would randomly post things, saying things like "work with Satan," "He will guide you and offer you succession," or something along these lines. I also find it funny that critical thinking lacks in those who run left hand path communities, or who are even "practicing it," or not. If you cannot critically think, or be skeptical on what you find and approach, then you are one of these people who have been weeded out of the left hand path. As one who believes in the literal existence of the Gods of darkness, I do not use these conscious entities as an opiate to my everyday life.
As a matter of fact I might not really strike a person observing me to be a thiest at all, but someone who is smarter than your average religious American. You see even though I may believe in the existence of gods/goddesses, that does not mean that I choose to be blind by my own beliefs. If you on the left hand path want to be on the path, then its about time that you straighten yourself out. Yes, I believe that the practice of Magick does exist. But at the same time I know that practicing Magick, is not something that you can be dependent on. What I am trying to say, is this path is not your office secretary or assistant. Some people who claim they "practice" it, might have an entirely different take.
But they are simply wrong on that. In order to be on this path for all eternity, you have to accept yourself. By that I do not mean on hugging yourself, but by accepting that you are simply ready to walk on the path, and that their is no turning back. You see the reason why I like to call the left hand path a Social Darwinist system, its because it is one. As I may repeat this many times, those who choose to go on this path but remain spiritually and intellectually stupid as a whistle, will simply remain outside of the path.
Let me try to explain what it means to be a critical thiest on the left hand path: I believe that Satan, Odin, and Lilith exist. But even though I believe that these beings exist, I know that they do intervene with the practitioner himself, but in a different sense. Even though the prince of darkness is able to communicate with you, that does not mean that he or she could make your everyday life work 24/7. You as an individual are ultimately responsible in how you will yourself and your own life. No gods cannot will it for you. They can evolve you as a different person, but they can't evolve your life all the time. As a critical thiest I believe in educating myself with different philosophies, whether it is atheistic or not. In order to strive on the left hand path is to have an open mind by accepting ideas or disagreeing with them, which is the basis of being a critical thiest. This is not the only basis, at all. As a matter of fact their are more to consider upon yourself.
THE SATANIC BIBLE DEDICATION PAGE
I thought you might be interested in this. Below is an excerpt taken from Stephen Flowers’ book ‘Lords of the Left Hand Path.’ It was re-quoted by Michael Aquino and I think it also appears in the Underground version of LaVey’s TSB. Below is the original TSB Dedication Page with comments by Flowers. It is great stuff.
‘Essential to the nature of the myth of any figure such as Anton LaVey are the influences which shaped that figure’s thought and action. LaVey himself provided a core list of such influences on his thought on the dedication page of the original printings of his Satanic Bible. It is telling that in more recent printings of the book this page has been omitted.
On that list appear 19 primary personages, with 20 more given a sort of “honorable mention”. There is also one animal, Togare, LaVey’s famous pet lion, and the Nine Unknown Men. [Almost 70 other names appeared in a similar list in his Satanic Rituals book. These too have been removed in recent printings.]
Space does not permit me to discuss each one of these personages in any detail, but the primary list is extremely important to understanding LaVey’s Satanic philosophy.
The 19 primary men are (in the order he listed them): Bernardino Logara, Karl Haushofer, Grigory Yefimovitch Rasputin, Sir Basil Zaharoff, Allesandro Cagliostro, Barnabas Saul, Ragnar Redbeard, William Mortensen, Hans Brick, Max Reinhardt, Orrin Klapp, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Claude Dukinfield, Phineas Taylor Barnum, Hans Poelzig, Reginald Marsh, Wilhelm Reich, and Mark Twain. After the names of each of these, LaVey characterizes them with a dedicatory phrase. These are given in quotation marks in the discussions below.
Bernadino Logara, “who knew the value of money”, unidentified, presumably a manipulative banker or financier.
Karl Haushofer (1869-1946), “a teacher without a classroom”, was the founder of the theory of “geopolitics” and a professor of geography at the University of Munich. He was sympathetic with National Socialism and exerted influence on its ideology, especially through one of his students, Rudolf Hess. However LaVey’s image and admiration of him comes through the modem mythologizing contained in The Morning of the Magicians, in which the authors have Haushofer involved in various occult goings-on in Tibet and with the infamous Thule Gesellschaft of Rudolf von Sebottendorf. There is, however, no evidence for these more “occultnik” connections.
Rasputin (1872-1916), “who knew the magic of a child”, was much admired by LaVey because he saw the Russian “mad monk” as a lusty manipulator of people (especially women) and power - all traits pursued by LaVey himself. But Rasputin was not likely to have had anything really “Satanic” about him. LaVey was most certainly inspired by more lurid accounts of Rasputin - and by the film Rasputin: The Mad Monk (Hammer, 1965).
Sir Basil Zaharoff (1850-1936), “a gentleman”, was an arms merchant who sold weaponry and encouraged his customers to use their purchases - all while not only becoming wealthy but being knighted by the King of England too!
The “secondary” dedication names: Howard Hughes, James Moody (CS member), Marcello Cagliostro (1743-1791), “a rogue”, was the assumed name of an Italian magician and alchemist named Guiseppe Balsamo. He billed himself as a “Count” and the “Grand Kophta of the Egyptian Lodge”, but what was less known was that he had been expelled from several countries due to his fraudulent dealings. He was popular with the people and a supporter of revolution, but ended his life in the dungeons of Pope Pius VI.
Barnabas Saul was the first “scryer”, or medium, employed by the Elizabethan mage John Dee (1527-1608). After leaving Dee’s service, Saul disavowed his visions.
Ragnar Redbeard (18427-1926?), “whose might is right”, is a story unto himself. “Redbeard” was perhaps the pseudonym of Arthur Desmond, an atheist and social Darwinist street-philosopher from whose book, entitled Might is Right LaVey lifted whole sections to create the “Book of Satan” portion of the Satanic Bible.
William Mortensen, “who looked ... and saw”, wrote a photographers’ manual entitled The Command to Look (1937). The psycho-optical theories contained in it greatly influenced LaVey’s approach to art and to images and the way they can influence the human mind. It must be considered a keystone to LaVey and Satanism.
Hans Brick, “who knows the law”, wrote a book entitled The Nature of the Beast (1960) which was a formative influence on the formulation of LaVey’s social philosophy, especially as contained in the Lex Talonis or “Eleven Rules of the Earth”.
Max Reinhardt (1873-1943), “a builder of dreams”, was born Max Goldman in Austria and became famous as a theatrical director who specialized in staging huge spectacles.
Orrin Klapp (b. 1915), “the walking man”, is a sociologist whose works Heroes, Villains and Fools (1962) and The Collective Search for Identity (1969) were greatly influential on LaVey’s ideas of social movements and change.
Fritz Lang (1890-1976), “who made moving blueprints”, was an Austrian film director who made such classics as Metropolis (1926) and M (1930).
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), “a realist”, was a German philosopher and forerunner to the existentialists. His ideas of the overman (or “superman”) and the “will to power”, as well as his ideas concerning the existence of natural “masters” and ’’slaves”, are greatly admired by modern philosophical Satanists.
W.C. Fields (1880-1946), “who saved me a journey to Tibet”, was the stage-name of William C. Dukinfield.
P.T. Barnum (1810-1891), “another great guru”, was the American showman famous for his exhibits of freaks and establishment of circuses. Barnum’s supposed basic philosophy - “There’s a sucker born every minute” - was taken to heart by LaVey and used as a mainstay of his worldview.
Hans Poelzig (1869-1936), “who knew all the angles”, was a German architect who specialized in grandiose and imaginative structures. An example is the Grand Theater in Berlin, also called the Max Reinhardt Theater (1919). He was also the set designer for The Golem (Deutsche Bioscop, 1914).
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), “a great artist”, was an illustrator, scene designer, and painter of gritty street scenes, greatly admired by LaVey, who is himself a painter of unusual subjects.
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), “who knew more than cabinet making”, was a German psychologist who held that there was a material force called “orgone” which worked in conjunction with the human orgasm. This force could also be collected in “cabinets” called “orgone accumulators”.
Mark Twain (1835-1910), “a very brave man”, was the pen name of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, the great American writer. LaVey much admires Twain for his works Letters from the Earth (1962) and The Mysterious Stranger (1969). In an early Church ofSatan document, LaVey praises Twain as “one of the greatest of the Devil’s advocates in history” and as “the most noble embodiment of the Satanist”.
This list of influences provides invaluable insight into the formation of LaVey’s philosophy and outlook on life. Of the 16 identifiable men fully half of them are artists of one kind or another. Of these, five dealt with the creation of visual imagery and two, W.C. Fields and P.T. Barnum, were best known as “trickster” figures. The idealization of image makers should provide some clue as to the true nature of LaVey’s philosophy and magic.’
Reiteration : Zero Volume : Nothing : Emergence of the first reflected in the sixth the beauty that is securely fixed in that which follows...
Green goddess of beauty whose number is seven and whose title is Victory, glittering splendor.
I have got just the fifty percent of your heart
our lives are indeed divided
as if they weren't already by the brutality of life
I feel like a prisoner
maybe men made life into a prison
they arrested their soul
I feel like I have lost something
I feel like true happiness is impossible
because of them
I feel like this world isn't made for free spirits
I feel like under the law of a powerful universal tyrant
that rule everything
I feel like I'm a cathedral in the desert
and I have just wilderness
and they have everything
except what I have
and so they are unhappy, having everything
and I resist, having nothing
but I still am in this wasteland
in this arid wilderness
alone, I'm indeed an hermit
against the world
with a message who could free them all
but I know very well the fate of prophets
and I don't accept it
I am a giant and noble rebellion
I condemn this stupid world
May it fall, may it collapse
may be destroyed, this unjust world
Fire, hidden in the darkest night
hidden from every powerful man
unknown, under the ground
it resists
facing a world of terrifying darkness
it is the fire of Hell
the fire of justice
we still here, after centuries of genocide
burning for truth
burning in the name of nature
against an ugly and unjust world
burn this world
purify
with the fire of philosophy
die, transform, overcome, destroy, create, fight!
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
a deadly curse upon God
you will never have my unique soul
I will fight against the whole world
and if I will die you won't survive me
a challenge, a noble duel
unequal fight, but what is equal?
Conquer your might! Defeat who is superior!
Take his heart, eat it for Mars!
Blessed be the crazy ones
Cursed be the idiots
crazy like a true revolutionary
one, who, with a sentence, issue a sentence of death!
Who is afraid of words?
I know who! These words are a knife
a noble knife of someone screaming
DON'T TREAD ON ME
a knife that frightens the evil men
a knife of justice!
deadly, bloody words, you may be hurt
and they are meant to that
words are swords that hurt
a poem can be a true duel
I'm a warrior, and I challenge
cursed be who doesn't fight
is already a slave
nothing you will get
without struggle
nothing you will achieve
without true hate
death to the dead
cries nature
death to this dead world!
Girlfriends parents gave us an unneeded HDTV accompanied with universal remote(not a good sign).
Now have two spare older TVs so why not use one to hook-up one of those new gaming systems in a spare room.
- Problem One -
TV is a piece of shit and cannot acquire ANY video signal regardless of configuration; problems are compounded by not having the original remote that came with the TV.
- Solution -
Fuck that TV(and fuck the spare room) and hook-up the PS4 to (my) TV that she is already using for ROKU in the living room.
- Configuration -
PS4 HDMI to HDTV(1080i max); audio out to Onkyo TX-8511.
- Problem Two -
When using HDMI, audio is not output from TV via any composite or optical connection on back of TV.
- Conclusion -
A quick, dirty, and workable solution to be done with this fucking project for the day :
HDMI to RCA adapter; everything works, finally. Had a choice of either using a low quality(yellow)composite video cable or a high quality audio cable for video connection and went with the latter.
Heil Satan! 666
Ich möchte, dass Sie sich von einigen nicht unterscheiden, was sich gehört. Ich übe ONA mit dem Necronomicon. Vor vielen Jahren war ich stark gehört. Also lebe ich als Hüter des Kreises. Grüße von allen, Brüdern und Schwestern. Wenn jemand von O9A hier ist, Kontakte Sie mich bitte. Ich suche nach einer Verbindung, weil ich nicht viel arbeiten kann. Wenn jemand Tarotkarten oder Bücher hat, bin ich entschieden sehr wichtig. Ich möchte Sie warnen: Wenn jemand Wahnsinn kennt, kennt Sie, dass es Gifte gibt, die Sie wissen und krank machen. Lassen Sie sich nicht von politischen und Psychosen vergiften. Denken Sie nicht schlecht über psychisch Kranke nach, Christen opfern auch Frösche.Alles Gute für Sie und die Familie.
For this blog series I am asking a Christian website to answer my questions... and then arguing it.
Love Is corrupted by faith within RHP attainment. You see the compulsory belief in something nebulous here. How can one use love in its abstract form? How do love a bullshit idea (god) using another bullshit idea? (soul)
For example: if you were emotionally trashed could you find comfort with the thought, "Something (or even someone I don't know yet) loves me with all their heart." Can that provide physical comfort? Change the outcome beyond changing the actions you choose to take?
Love is corrupted by ideology and delusions of destiny. It gets corrupted with commanded faith towards ideas as YOUR way to live.
Love is compationate possession of a person, place, or thing. A partner, family member, or even bad-ass possession. Most importantly, love is possession of your own life.
It is latent animal survival instincts manifesting to preserve oneself, which includes several kindred bonds and pride of ownership. Love is primarily territorial.
By giving love to a manifestation of an idea (like god) you strip it of its visceral human manifested existence and viable use in ultimate survival. "God's love", as seen in Christianity, actually makes the human species less prepared, because it relies on social delusion and herd behavior therein to make its detriment less noticeable.
It would fall apart outside the slave morality and protection of social code.