“Then from the ground the earth split wide, exhaling breath-wet and
mustywarm. Were it not for tomorrow yesterday would never end!’”
Satan is the intoxication of life: a fierce and ecstatic joy that is
present in all sentient life. He is the Earthbound God, The Dark Lord of the
causal universe, and the emissary of the Darkness that waits beyond the matrix
of illusion. All matter contains, to a lesser or greater degree, the Dark
energies that brought life into existence; and it is these Dark and savage
forces that are personified by The Lord of the Earth. Moreover, it is this
Darkness, both within the
cosmos and Humanity itself, that inspires and drives those rare
individuals ‘beyond the common measure’ to the celestial destiny of Civilisation
and its new worlds beyond the stars.
Since Neolithic times, He has stirred the supernatural fires of sorcery
and terror. Satan is part of our collective psychology and is as fundamental to
our being as we are to His! The Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, pointed to those
who do not know Nature as being neurotic; unaware of reality from whence sprung
The Devil. Jung goes further, to explain that Satan is a ‘racial memory’: an
atavism of earlier times when the Human race was closer to the land.
Consequently, it is this connection with the carnal, the innate, that draws
adherents to Satanism. He cannot be separated from that which
gave life to Humanity; for as long as the world exists so too shall
Satan.
Nevertheless, it is this carnality, which in its Dionysiac form, is a
powerful attractant to adherents: it is the corporal, sensual and ebullient
nature of the Left Handed Path that is intuitively recognised by those who are drawn
to Satanism. For Satanism is a paganistic ‘presencing’ of the awe and joyousness
of the primal - of physical existence itself. The promise that is the jewel of
Becoming realised through temporal and divine delights. And because Satan is
identified with sensuality He is, by association, reaffirming existence; it is
this profane aspect that is the most satisfying emotionally and intellectually.
In the dark history of the Human race, it is The Devil who offers His allies a
way forward. It is, in this sense, the purpose of all sinister works of magick:
to ‘drawforth’ from the earth that which exists in empathy with Nature. Through
Him, sinister energies are ‘earthed’ and adherents attain the attendant benefactions
of insight and liberation: for it is He that proffers the fruits of existence; so
that we, as numinous beings, are able to rejoice in the experience of all
things. In this way we, as individuals, may truly come to know ourselves.
Since the reformation, The Devil has been a symbol of resistance against
the hegemonic forces which seek to subordinate and exploit the Wyrd of Western
civilisation; and as the thorn in the side of orthodoxy, The Devil is a fitting
standard to be borne with nobility by those who are defiant and proud. The word
Devil is derived from the Greek, ‘diabolus’, for ‘the accuser’.
Thus, the gifts of Satan can be understood tangibly as liberation from hegemonic
tyranny and the celebration of life and all that strengthens and enriches.
As Satan embodies the physicality of existence, so too does He
re-present those forces which restore cosmic balance through destruction and renewal.
The Prince of Darkness, is the destroyer of the diseased, the weak and degenerate
- He is the lightening-bolt that ignites the cosmic fire of change from which
arises a new and divine race of Beings.
‘For Hel is in the secret untamed places of the earth; and to savour
life in all its sadness, and joy, terror and beauty, is to profoundly presence
The Prince of Darkness in our everyday world.’
