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To: alt.satanism
From: gwilson@earthlight.co.nz (Graeme Wilson)
Subject: Have Fun And Go To Hell!
Date: 28 Aug 1994 03:53:36 -0500

                            Have Fun & Go To Hell
                 A friendly message from your local Satanists
 
                            Ordo Sinistra Vivendi
                                 P.O. Box 83
                                 Paekakariki
                                  Wellington
                                 New Zealand
 
THE NATURE OF SATANISM
 
        To many self-styled "Satanists", "Satanism" is nothing more than an
inversion of Christianity, a tantrum against a Christian background which is
often never disposed of.
        If they truly reject Christianity, then why the preoccupation with its
symbols? Why the constant harping on about Jesus and "god" in a self-conscious
effort to "blaspheme"? How can you "blaspheme" something you are not even
supposed to be a part of? How can you "blaspheme" the Christians' god unless
you accept his reality? How can you "blaspheme" Jesus unless you really
believe him to be the "son of god", as the Christians maintain?
        The excessive attempts to "blaspheme" - indeed the preoccupation
to be
"blasphemous" - indicate a mentality that is still fundamentally Christian.
        Sure, Christianity is still an enemy, one of several. Any dogma which
seeks to impose itself against the freedom of the individual to be as he is,
is an enemy.
        Christianity is the product of a certain type of person. People make
religions; religions do not make people. The Christian type is born.
        Satanists are outside of Christianity. Yet so many claiming to be
"Satanists" exist solely within the Christian context. They take their cue
from Christian theology and Christian imagery, and merely reverse it, to be
"blasphemous" in an effort to infuriate that jealous old Hebrew god Jehovah,
which they obviously believe in, and think they are so "evil" for doing so.
        The types of person attracted to Christianity and other such
repressive dogmas that stifle the life-force are themselves born devoid of
that life-force; i.e. genetically, biologically. They are in rebellion against
nature and the cosmos. They are, in esoteric terms, shut off from the Tree of
Life, empty shells - klippoths. Christianity is a death cult - an
inversion of
nature.
        Satanism is not inverse Christianity; Christianity is inverse nature.
Satanism is a reflection of nature and the cosmos.
        Our self-styled "Satanists" so obsessed with "blasphemy" are accepting
the Church's own definition of "Satanism".
 
Dark Force
        From whence Satan-ism then? From Sat and Tan, Sanskrit for the Dark
Force infusing the cosmos (Sat), and (Tan). The Hebrews recognised this
life-force as the enemy, and so "Satan" became their "adversary" because they
(the Jehovah cult) were shut off from the Tree of life (he flow of life).
        We see the Satanic cosmology in Tantra and Taoism among other ways,
reflecting the flow of the life-force in humanity; concepts far more ancient
than Christianity or Judaism.
 
Healthy Pentagram
        The symbol of this life-force is the pentagram with two points up.
This is not an "inverse" pentagram; it is the right way up, the Eastern star
in its correct position: a symbol of life, of health, of the Sat and the Tan.
Notice the centre forms the shape (pentagon) of a house with the five (Tan)
points representing how the Sat manifests in nature. The one-point-up
pentagram, so beloved by self-righteous New Age types, is the house reversed;
nature on its head.
        This Dark Force in nature creates and destroys, causes change in the
cosmos; what scientists today call "Entropy".
        Satan is the god/dess of life, the cosmocrator; Pan - the All.
        Come out of the cemetery, forget the death imagery and the morbidity;
rejoice in life, and have a happy day.
 
                                  THE DEVIL
                         - AS TRICKSTER/MOCKER/JOKER-
 
        The following was a dialogue with a French inquirer who sough
information on Satanism. His thinking on what Satanism was had been scrambled
by the propaganda of the Christling priests.
        "...Satanism attracts me. I am very serious and determined! I do not
consider Satanism to be 'fun'! I hate 'fun'! ... I want to live the Satanic
way. Can you help me?"
 
Reply
        I would like to make a few comments on some of your remarks, which I
hope you will not think patronizing.
        First, "Satanism isn't fun!" Surely the JOY of life is the very
essence of Satanism. What happened to the Devil as the cosmic Trickster -
virtually a Universal Archetype (Coyote to the American Indians, Loki to the
Norse, for e.g.)? The Devil as the Joker in the pack, the Mocker, that gives
unpredictability and chance to life?
        What about Satan as Dionysus or as Pan, as the frolicking, wild,
chasing, playing god of the pagans? That figure of merriment that the
Christling Church hated so much that he became the very face of Satan himself,
as the horned and goat-footed god of the witches?
        It is the Christling church which has defined Satan and Satanism as
sombre and the Satanist's favourite hangout as the graveyard. Some sorry and
misguided types actually fall for that and become the very definition of a
"Satanist" which the Christling priests invented. And of course some are
indeed sombre and joyless, so lacking in Life that their TRUE place is in the
Christling Church.
        What were the witches' Sabbaths of Medieval times other than a
cathartic release from the morbidity and stifling puritanism of the
Church? An
excuse for one big communal party, where such horrendous things as dancing
could be indulged in, which one could commit other "sins" such as gluttony.
Where the peasant folk could for once escape the watchful eyes of the joyless
prelates of the Nazarene, and have some FUN!?
        And these Sabbaths - these big parties - were then typically twisted
by the priests to be described as gatherings where the folk would be
forced to
kiss the arse of The Devil, to eat rotten food and drink urine.
 
Local night club
        Even that arch-propagator of misinformation, Dennis Wheatley, at least
had it right regarding the Sabbaths:
        "People all brought their contributions [of food and drink. The man
who represented the goat or stag god... would, we may assume, have been a
cheerful popular fellow and probably the village joker. Those who played
instruments would form a band... Everyone else danced, feasted, drank and
fornicated... Come cockcrow, and the revellers, tired but happy wended their
way back to their poor hovels, to face another week of gruelling work; but
with the cheering thought that its end they would dance, feast and enjoy free
love again."
                    (Wheatley, The Devil & All His Works)
 
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                 Transcribed by Graeme Wilson (OSV - Dunedin)
                     Internet : gwilson@earthlight.co.nz
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