Ophite? Pan Cult? Pythagoreans? Traditional? Generational?
Tani
Jantsang
See Poem: "Baphomet"
and "Hymn to Satan" in the long essay "Sigil of Baphomet."
These two poems alone are also viewable at Hr.Vad's website: http://www.apodion.com/vad/dark/
1.
Generational Satanism
Families,
clans, whole peoples born into a specific tradition under whatever name they may
call it in their own language: most of these are in the East, not in the West.
See articles on Website at www.apodion.com/vad/dark/index.shtml by the same name
("Generational Satanism"). See articles on the same Website www.apodion.com/vad/dark/index.shtml
"All Things," "Dark Force in Nature," and "Sat and Tan."
This doctrine consist of the OLDEST and PURIST form of Dark Doctrine.
The
Doctrines of the Boundless, All-Pervading Darkness. It is not personified, never
thought of as a literal Being or God, it is NOT CENTRALIZED (BIG difference here
with this). This is the ROOT of all of it, the main thing. This is the MOST important
aspect of Satan, above/beyond any archetypal form or myth or legend. The doctrines
are of yin, sat, sod, and atma (breath of life), kundalini force, chi. The pre-Hindu
Naga word SAT means "boundless All" it is a Boundless Darkness that
existed prior to the Cosmos. It is the Dark Force which permeates and motivates
all of Nature, all of the Cosmos whether animate or inanimate! It balances the
Universe, it is the Cosmocrator of the Pythagoreans! It is that which push/pulls
ALL THINGS into birth/death. This force is also called ENTROPY for it consumes
time/space and all things but, in doing so, new life is created. It is the Pythagorean
Apeiron, the Hellenic and Hermetic Ouroboros, the serpent devouring its own tail
- the alpha and the omega - the "solve et coagula" of the Pan Cults:
(words written on the arms of the sitting Goat of Mendes), that is the dissolution
and coagulation (manifesting) of existence! The doctrine is of the One (TO EN
in Hellenic) and the All (TO PAN in Hellenic). All comes from the One and returns
to the One - ergo The All IS The One (concept of Samsara in Tantra). The SAT (boundless
darkness) TAN: (BECOMES, STRETCHES FORTH). Combine the words: SAT TAN. Knowing
this requires Kundalini Yoga (Kundalini means Serpent). It is not energy, nor
is it matter! However, it molds everything that is energy/matter. There
is no stasis anywhere. The Satan PUSHES everything into existence and PULLS everything
back to its doom or primary essence. It pushes/pulls at the SAME TIME. Goethe
in his play about Faust said it this way: It WILLS the Evil - but DOES the Good!
Generational Satanists are merely people born
INTO cultures that always had, STILL have, these traditions. They don’t all
speak the same languages however, being raised in this and easily able to recognize
THEIR OWN iconography, they can RECOGNIZE this in any form they see it in, easily.
You doubt this? Ok: They can recognize it AS easily as a Catholic can recognize
a Protestant cross! Or as easily as any Protestant could recognize the image of
the Catholic Virgin Mary or any Catholic Saint. Just as any Roman could recognize
their own God Mercury when they saw the God Hermes; or Venus when they saw Aphrodite,
or Mars when they saw Aries! From childhood, they grow up INSIDE this culture;
the iconography and imagery is automatically recognized - they don’t have
to "figure it out!"
2. Pan
Cult or Traditional Satanism
See
essay "Real Wicca" for shorter version examples (compared to Robert
Graves' massive volume, "White Goddess"). This was present in agrarian
societies, primarily in the West. It’s very old, but not AS old (or pure)
as the former. This definitely ties into Wicca, whether one wants to deny that
or not.
You can find out ALL about Traditional
Satanism (though modern Wiccans will deny it) by reading Robert Graves: "The
White Goddess." He IS a scholar. This is Mother Goddess, Nine-Fold Muse,
Tanist Son, or Pan cult WITCHCRAFT, with the howling dogs, wolves or jackals protecting
the Mother Goddess. This type of Satanism was amongst the agrarian peoples in
more rural areas. I need say no more on this except to point out that in the Middle
Ages, the Pope and his Bishops clearly recognized a PAN cult - not so much a Mother
Goddess Cult - where Pan became the Tanist son: and this took root amongst exploited
and miserably persecuted people. It was like a revolt against a "Jesus"
who had been turned into a monster of cruelty instead of the loving Prince of
Peace. I will agree ENTIRELY with Michelet on this with regards to the European
Middle Ages: all of it was a revolt against tyranny when the Pope controlled armies
and was allied with cruel Kings. Revolt against Altar and Throne. This IS TRADITIONAL
Satanism no matter what you call it: it was ADVERSARIALISM to the letter! The
much later decadent and perverted practices of Royalty doing Black Masses, like
LaVoisin, can be dismissed as NO FORM of Satanism: these people deserved to have
their heads chopped off. Traditional Satanism is portrayed beautifully in the
movie, "The Wicker Man." Note that it is entirely agrarian and NOT SO
MUCH the Dark Doctrine at all.
RIGHT
VERSUS LEFT HAND PATH? WHITE VERSUS BLACK?
Totally
misunderstood but a "big deal" to MODERN Wiccan. See essay "Real
Wicca" and "Tantra, Vajrayana, and Pythagoreanism " that document
this thoroughly.
They have made Left
Hand Path either evil, harmful, destructive and selfish; or they view it as a
system where the Divine IS manifested in Nature, permeating it, motivating it
(which is OK but WHY split something in half?) They have made Right Hand Path
into good, helpful, creative and altruistic; or they view it as being opposed
to the world, a doctrine of salvation. (This is NOT good, they’ve thrown
BOTH HALVES in the garbage!). Consider it this way and stop dualizing everything:
EVERYTIME YOU EAT - you obviously DEPRIVE another starving person of HIS share
of the food. HA!
EASTERN DOCTRINES ONLY have
what might LOOSELY be called left/right in terms of where a person SITS! Yup!
Dark and Light are NOT CONCEIVED of as evil/good - not even remotely thought of
in that manner by Eastern peoples OF these traditions. One is YIN and the other
is YANG. The YIN CAN exist alone, however. The YANG CAN NOT! They are NOT dual
halves of the same thing: NO! They are NOT some Western symmetry! The concepts
themselves are ALIEN to Western thought save with the Pythagoreans who consider
the Apeiron (boundless darkness) as self-existent and not in NEED of anything,
including a half that’s light. The Slavic Pre-Christian tribes had the same
identical concept and called it CHARNAYA BOG - nothing much is known of THEIR
OWN Dark Doctrine: they got forcibly Christianized and it was obviously wiped
out. It also didn’t help when Tatars that ruled them for so long became Moslems
during Batu Khan’s time. But that concept of VITALITY of a kind can be seen
there, even during Atheist Soviet Union times - their views of Nature were different
from those in the West. Charnaya Bog means Black God. Kara Bog is Tatar for Black
God: same as MAHAKALA of the Buddhist Tatars and Tibetans: GREAT BLACKNESS. NONE
of these people were dualist and that they tuned into Dialectical Materialists
is no surprise: that’s Dark Doctrine applied to the practical world of socio-economics
and politics! The most recent PURE version of Dark Doctrine can be seen in Chairman
Mao Tse-tung’s essay: "On Contradiction." I have an annotated version
translating back the Communist words he uses into Doctrine words we all understand
immediately. I will say, again, this doctrine is IMMEDIATELY recognizable to anyone
BORN INTO this tradition.
3. Ophite-Jewish
or early-Gnostic Satanism
This,
early on, is comparable to Eastern Doctrines: See essay "Kaballa - Dark Tradition"
for fuller explanation.
Ophites are
of the Hebrew peoples originally and go back to the Seiri cults that Moses railed
against: Moses called them Obites - hence the term "obic." Start with
the Kaballistic Tree. The Sephiroth are equated with the Tantrik Arupa (Formless
Beings), Hindu Asura, or Hellenic Archons ( Ancient Ones). In this system there
is a Primogenitor - it is male/female. It was sometimes referred to as merely
Thelema (Will). Next there is Binah or Sophia also called Agape (Love), who is
the offspring of Primogenitor alone. Next Hochmah also called Logos (later Christos)
is the Son born from Primogenitor and Mother. But then the Mother mingles/merges
with the Son to emanate the other seven Sephiroth or Archons (In the Tantrik system
there are FIVE Asuras and SEVEN Devas, that would be the Five Dharmas [truths]
and Rupa [Forms]. The Bahu or Demiurge or Prana may or may not be believed to
have spawned forth Sophia Achamoth (comparable to Ophioneus) (this depends on
how early or late the Gnosticism is). In later Gnosticism of NON-Jews, this became
dualized where Jehova was the father and Demiurge or Ilda Baoth (Ialdabaoth) was
the Devil that cursed man to have flesh; or vice versa: Jehova was the Devil against
creation of LIFE and the Demiurge was the True God that gave all fleshly things
LIFE. Many later cults sprang from these amongst the Gentiles who dualized all
of it. The Sephiroth, manifested as Elohim IN the world, were called, in the Hellenic
language, Aeons (ancient but existing in Time, not outside of time as the Archons).
In Tantra these are Rupa (formed), in Hinduism they are the Devas. Again, in later
Gnostic religions amongst Gentiles, Aeons and Archons got switched around. It
is interesting to note that the Aryan Persians also switched the Asuras and the
Devas so that Asuras became their Ahura Mazda and all the Devas were demonized
as children of Ahriman, such as Aeshma Devi (the Hebrew Ashmodai - Asmodeus)!
These formless Arupa or Asura were also later believed by some (more religious
types) to be a race of beings far more advanced than our own who live beyond or
outside of our "World" or Cosmos. It is mythology about these Ideas
that have come down through the Christian times, with much filtering and distortion,
as gods, devils, angels, demons, djinn, afreet, and so on. Then they were perceived
as beings that either possessed cosmic power and wisdom compared to ourselves,
or had powers comparable to the Greek pantheon, and who often vied with each other
(in later Gnostic thought amongst Gentiles). At first they were thought of as
supernatural; even later Gnostic thought perceived them as not really supernatural
per se, but still more advanced than mere man, and even later, smarter thinkers
perceived them as elemental forces and tried to think of them in terms of science.
Remember, this was amongst the Gentiles who turned this all into Gnostic-ISM having
totally forgotten the concept of GNOSIS! Saying "Gnosticism" is like
saying "Knowingism."
It was later believed
that there were two ways to achieve Gnosis. One was through meditation where the
mind is silenced, no thoughts occur (like in some Yogas) until only a single object
of concentration remains where you try to focus that through the "Third eye."
This deteriorated into the most insane and rigid forms of asceticism, where cult
members would even murder babies born to them because to "make more flesh"
was considered evil! The other idea to "get Gnosis" was in a kind of
Dionysian experience where the mind is raised to a very high pitch of excitement
while focus on an idea is fixed or maintained. And if you know ANY history, you
can see that these deteriorated into the most twisted, perverted forms of sexuality
possible to conceive of. (Odd how these things managed to constantly deteriorate
in the Western World where dualist schizoids abound! Well, actually it’s
NOT odd at all...)
But back to the normal methods
of attaining Gnosis: There is a push/pull effect on the kundalini flow that might
be felt. The eye-chakra and heart-chakra get merged and one KNOWS. I will add:
Modern neurology would state that this is the ONLY way a person even has logic
- to have feeling/thinking centers of the brain merged (you don’t FEEL this
in the brain, but it IS happening in the brain). Another word for Gnosis in Taoism
is Clarity. This doesn’t mean you know what the next lottery numbers are
going to be. It means you WILL be capable of LOGIC and KNOWING regarding things
of the physical world around you, and knowledge about yourself.
4.
Pythagoreans or Western Generational (Note, Pytha means Serpent). See essay "Western
Roots Part One" for details and "Tantra, Vajrayana and Pythagoreanism"
for more detail and comparisons with other Dark Traditions. See also on Website
www.apodion.com/vad/dark/index.shtml article "Generational Satanism"
on that website
The Pythagorean system,
while not Gnostic, termed the Five Truths on the pentacle (starting from the bottom
point and going clockwise): Zoos, Psyche, Physis, Hypopteros Drys, and Dikaion.
These principles are how Pythagoreans might be said to "categorized entropic
force working in the world." The "awful" forms of these Five Truths,
or Howler Forms (defenders of these five principles that shouldn’t ever be
IN the world) were : Ophioneus, Echidna, Cthonie, Eurynome, and Callirhoe. The
LINES CONNECTING Alphas on the Pentacle also had functions: The line connecting
Dikaion to Physis was called Epieikeia (Equity). The line connecting Dikaion to
Psyche was called Eleutheria (Freedom/Liberty) and the line connecting Psyche
to Hypopteros Drys was called Omonoia (Unity). Do you recognize those words as
Masonic in ENGLISH? They are quite famous! In modern times they are said this
way: Equality, Liberty, Brotherhood! Equity, Liberty, Unity! RECOGNIZE IT? Also,
the line going straight up the center of the pentacle from the bottom point and
crossing through the intersection in the middle of the star was called Eros.
When
I say the Pythagorean system was not Gnostic, it doesn’t mean that Pythagoreans
didn’t have GNOSIS. Gnost-ICS were like "Know-ISTS." Gnosis means
to KNOW as if with direct perception. This system goes back to the Orphics who
preceded the Pythagoreans and about whom much GARBAGE has been written. Here’s
the straight dope. Go get the Pre-Socratic stuff and READ IT IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
and see for yourself! Within the Pentacle of the Pythagoreans is not just the
Pentagon, but also the Double Headed Eagle if one knows what to look for (sorry,
I don’t have the ability to make graphics here). There is also the Double
Headed Eagle or the Tem Oph Ab (Duplex Avis Generation). Eagle being more like
a feathered Serpent. Tem Oph Ab is Baphomet spelled backwards by the way. Bahu
Mid was the Babylonian name of the Baphe Metis. It means Baptism/initiation into
measurement, the metric system.
What
is a Devil Worshiper?
It can be one
of three distinct things:
1. Anyone that has
any of the Satanic Traditions and is accused of worshiping a Devil by Christians
or Moslems!
2. Anyone from a NON-Satanic tradition
that in-his-heart identifies the Satanic concepts WITH the antithesis of his own
religion (Christian or Moslem) - and so decides to FEEL that he is worshiping
a Devil! A dual opposite of a God he really still believes in.
3.
Particularly decadent (insanely so) people who try to "latch onto" Dark
Doctrines in order to FEEL "big and bad" or in order to justify some
utterly perverted act they desire to commit. The worse of them worship what ANYONE
IN ANY SOCIETY would call "evil" as their own moral absolute. (E.g.,
harming torturing an innocent child - anyone would consider that evil.)
They
ALL are still wallowing in a dogma they were born into and think that, to be a
Satanist, they must use that dogma in REVERSE, turn all Christian or Moslem beliefs
upside down. They are usually unable to see even GOOD IDEAS from Christianity
or Islam.
The Satanist does not recognize "good
and evil" per se - only cause and effect. (E.g., when bombing countries in
war, many innocent children are killed or mutilated: but it’s GOOD to bomb
the enemy.....
or so the reasoning goes and EVERYONE
reasons that way! EVERYONE!)
What
about animal sacrifices?
Do
Satanists engage in animal sacrifice? No. But the Christian Santeria cults DO
- and now it’s legal! Jews also have a ceremony they do to make meet Kosher
which many others think is cruel to animals. Keep in mind, ALL people
used to hunt and kill their own meat (animals). No big deal. Otherwise (without
stating what we might think or feel about these two examples), little asocial
brats that delight in torturing animals should be SHOT before they grow up and
become serial killers.
What do Satanists
feel about sex?
Not much ado about it.
It’s how all animals make more of themselves - by mating. When a girl is
FERTILE she is a woman - in most cultures this holds true today. When a boy matures,
he is a man. Homosexuality: it is purely dependent on the rest of the culture
one lives in. No comment. These days it might be wiser for Christians to ask "What
do MOSLEMS feel about sex!"
What do Satanists
feel about eating?
Uh.... no one ever asks
that question.
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