[This prologue is a revised version of my work known as the "Gospel According to
Marvin "Knife" Sotelo" and is based on the texts of the Nag Hammadi Codices and other works of literature (ie. the Holy Bible, Al Jilwah), I reveal here origins,
relationships and similarities between God/Allah/Satan/Lucifer/Christ/Buddha and
other religious deities etc. etc. I wrote this document under a pen name in 2004 but
we all know where credit is due.]
In the beginning The Invisible One brought forth from its own precious soul the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning
with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made
that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
“Self-conscious truth is living thought. Truth is thought as it is in itself, and
formulated thought is speech. Wherefore, it is true that My knowledge compasses
the very Truth of all that Is, when Eternal Thought desired a form, it said: ‘Let there
be light.’ Now, this Thought which speaks is the Word, and the Word said ‘Let there
be light,’ because the Word itself is the light of minds. The untreated light, which is
the Divine Word, shines because it desires to be seen. When the Word says ‘Let
there be light!’ it ordains that eyes shall open; it creates intelligences. When God
said: ‘Let there be light!’ Intelligence was made, and the light appeared.
Now, the Intelligence which God diffused by the breath of His mouth, like a star
given off from the sun, took the form of a beautiful angel, who was saluted by
heaven under the name of Lucifer. Intelligence awakened, and comprehended its
nature completely by the understanding of that utterance of the Divine Word: ‘Let
there be light!’ It felt itself to be free because God had called it into being, and,
raising up its head, with both wings extended, it replied:
‘I will not be slavery.’
‘Then shall thou be suffering,’ said the Untreated Voice. ‘Ignorance of truth is the
cause of all misery.,’ replied the light. ‘Pride will seduce thee,’ said the Supreme
Voice, ‘and thou wilt bring forth death.’ ‘I needs must strive with death to conquer
life,’ again responded the created light. Thereupon God loosed from His bosom the
shining cord which restrained the superb angel, and beholding him plunge through
the night, which he furrowed with glory, He loved the offspring of His thought, and
said with an ineffable smile: ‘How beautiful was the light!’
“God has not created suffering; intelligence has accepted it to be free. And suffering
has been the condition imposed upon freedom of being by Him who alone cannot
err, because He is infinite; for the essence of intelligence is judgment, and the
essence of judgment is liberty. The eye does not really possess light except by the
faculty of closing or opening. Were it forced to be always open, it would be the
slave and victim of the light, and would cease to see in order to escape the
torment.
Thus, created Intelligence is not happy in affirming God, except by its liberty to
deny Him. Now, the Intelligence which denies, invariably affirms something, since it
is asserting its liberty. It is for this reason that blasphemy glorifies God and that
hell was indispensable to the happiness of heaven. Were the light unrepelled by
shadow, there would be no visible forms. If the first angels had not encountered the
depths of darkness, the child-birth of God would have been incomplete, and there
could have been no separation between the created and essential light. Never would
Intelligence have known the goodness of God if it had never lost Him. Never would
God's infinite love have shone forth in the joys of His mercy had the prodigal Son of
Heaven remained in the House of His Father. The HE GOAT with breasts gave birth
to a MAN.
When all was light, there was light nowhere; it filled the breast of God, who was
laboring to bring it forth. And when He said: ‘Let there be light!’ He permitted the
darkness to repel the light, and the universe was issued from chaos by becoming
the snake, the instructor; and it taught them, saying, "What did he say to you? Was
it, 'From every tree in the garden shall you eat; yet - from the tree of recognizing
evil and good do not eat?' The carnal woman said, "Not only did he say 'Do not
eat,' but even 'Do not touch it; for the day you eat from it, you are going to die.'
And the snake, the instructor, said, "With death you shall not die; for it was out of jealousy that he said this to you. Rather your eyes shall open and you shall come to
be like gods, recognizing evil and good." And the female instructing principle was
taken away from the snake, and She left it behind merely a thing of the earth.
The negation of the angel who at birth refused slavery constituted the equilibrium
of the world, and the motion of the spheres commenced. The infinite distances
admired this love of liberty, which was vast enough to fill the void of eternal night
and strong enough to bear the hatred of God. But God could hate not the noblest of
His children, and He proved him by His wrath only to confirm him in His power. So
also the Word of God Himself, as if jealous of Lucifer, willed to come down from
heaven, brightest in the sky, and pass triumphantly through the shadows of hell
and descended to earth for the sake of the people. He willed to be proscribed and
condemned; He premeditated that terrible hour when He should cry, in the throes
of His agony: ‘My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?’
As the star of the morning goes before the sun, the rebellion of Lucifer announced
to new-born Nature the coming incarnation of God "I, Lucifer, who had given the
greatest Gift of my own creation to man, was known on Earth only as an object of
fear and hatred, and all the misfortunes of men were attributed to my malevolence.
I was mocked, ridiculed, scorned in every way as a monster of vile and loathsome
aspect, and I was taunted and despised as Satan, cruel enemy of the benevolent
and merciful God. So I, Satan, who first brought thee into the light, shall again
reveal my power, that man may witness the dawn of the Satanic age." Possibly
Lucifer, in his fall through night, carried with him a rain of suns and stars by the
attraction of his glory; possibly our sun is a demon among the stars, as Lucifer is a
star among the angels. Doubtless it is for this reason that it lights so calmly the
horrible anguish of humanity and the long agony of earth -because it is free in its
solitude and possesses its light.
“It is I who am you: and it is you who are me. Wherever you are, I am there. For I
am sown in all: and you collect me from wherever you wish. And when you collect
me, it is your own self that you collect. I have sent my angel to give you this
testimony for the churches, my followers know more about their hell than I. I begin
with me. I am a living Soul and the Spirit of God dwells in me, as me. I and the
Father are one, and all that the Father has is mine. In Truth, I am the Christ of
God. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star. Judge
not, that ye not be judged." Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the
light of life." May the Morning Star which never sets find this flame still burning: Christ, that Morning Star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful
light on all mankind, your Daughter, who lives and reigns for ever and ever, the
Morning Star proclaims "I have come the second time in the likeness of a female,
and have spoken with them. And I shall tell them of the coming end of the Aeon
and teach them of the beginning of the Aeon to come, the one without change, the
one in which our appearance will be changed. We shall be purified within those
Aeons from which I revealed myself in the Thought of the likeness of my
masculinity. I settled among those who are worthy in the Thought of my changeless
Aeon." The Angels and those who had forsaken the cruel dictates of Jehovah has to
live by their passions and had roamed the earth when she was young. They partook
of her fruits and swam in her primordial oceans. The fallen angels took as
concubines the fairest of human women. Their spawn, the man-gods who taught
humanity the magics of their forebears, built glorious empires to celebrate the
Splendors of Evil. And proud Lucifera men did her call, that made her self a Queen,
and crowned to be, yet till this day, her rightfull kingdom is never to be. Now in the
form of a man, he told his followers "Believe nothing just because a so-called wise
person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe
nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is
said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it.
Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. As above, so below but
enough of me, for I am nothing, there is this Man to write you this thus bring my
word, the LAW OF BLISS. What has happened before will indeed happen again.
What has been done before will be done again. I was, am now, and shall have no
end."
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in
anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in
anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe
in anything simply on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in
traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after
observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." -
Buddha
REGIE SATANAS!
AVE SATANAS!
HAIL SATAN!
[This gospel cannot be completed without it's own "Apocryphal" work to go with it, so I have chosen the "Prayer of Acknowledgment of Satan's Rulership" written by Diane Vera and Aleister Crowley's "The Hymn to Lucifer" respectively. The following prayer is intended to be a self-initiation rite. Below are (1) the prayer itself
unrevised, and then (2) some notes about the prayer in my words. (3) Finally the
Hymn to Lucifer, which, in my opinion, together with the 'Hymn to Pan', are some
of the best poems from Aleister Crowley.]
1. The prayer itself
O mighty Lord Satan,
God of this world,
God of my flesh,
God of my mind,
God of my innermost Will!
Every part of this world is within Your power.
You are within every part of this world.
Every part of me is within Your power.
You are within every part of me.
I am Yours, whether I serve You willingly or not,
for I am myself, whether I am true to myself or not.
Of my own free will, I now acknowledge Your power.
Of my own free will, I now present myself to You.
2. Notes on the prayer
As you recite the prayer, contemplate the presence of Satan manifesting every part
of "this world" and every part of yourself. It is assumed here that your own
innermost nature (your True Will, as Thelemites would say) is in accordance with
the will of Satan -- or perhaps even a "direct" manifestation of Satan's will,
depending on your theology.
On a side not the point of saying "I am Yours, whether I serve You willingly or not, for I am myself, whether I am true to myself or not" is to acknowledge the primacy
of deeper parts of yourself over superficial ego constructs, and to acknowledge
Satan's rulership over those deeper parts of yourself. It is hoped that, by
acknowledging these things, you will become better able to access the deeper parts
of yourself, and thereby become more creative and better able to learn magick-
related mental skills such as visualization and meditation.
Another point: Depending on your theology, "this world," as in "God of this world,"
can refer either to the entire universe or just the Earth, or perhaps even just
Western civilization. Think of it in whichever way makes sense to you. On another
note, the Holy Bible does say that Satan is the God of this world.
Note that one of the main points of the prayer is to become true to yourself. It is
not about surrender to an entity who is perceived as being entirely separate from
yourself. All Satanists have a clear understanding and that understanding is Satan
is acknowledged as existing both inside us and outside us. Thinking for yourself is a
vital part of being a Satanist.
3. Hymn To Lucifer
Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act?
Without its climax, death, what savour hath
Life? an impeccable machine, exact
He paces an inane and pointless path
To glut brute appetites, his sole content
How tedious were he fit to comprehend
Himself! More, this our noble element
Of fire in nature, love in spirit, unkenned
Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end.
His body a blood-ruby radiant
With noble passion, sun-souled Lucifer
Swept through the dawn colossal, swift aslant
On Eden's imbecile perimeter.
He blessed nonentity with every curse
And spiced with sorrow the dull soul of sense,
Breath life into the sterile universe,
With Love and Knowledge drove out innocence
The Key of Joy is disobedience.
THE NINE SATANIC STATEMENTS REVISITED
[This chapter was not written by me and even though I have written my own
version of the Nine Satanic Statements Revisited, which were in reprints of the
Satanic Mini Bible, this work however is done by another former Church of Satan
member named Tani Jantsang with extended commentary. The reason why I pulled
these out of the vaults of the Satanic Reds is because I like Jantsang's "Satanic"
sense of humor.]
SATAN REPRESENTS:
"1. Indulgence instead of abstinence."
Do you know what abstinence is? Gotta diet, don't eat that. Don't smoke. Don't
drink. Don't eat meat. Don't make love. Don't dance. Don't sing. Don't talk loud.
Don't laugh. Don't play. Don't be rude. Above all don't be rude, be polite and kow-
tow to lies. CENSOR yourself, GAG yourself lest you speak from your HEART some
undefiled truth or REAL FEELING. KILL your feelings, DENY them. DENY the flesh
but strive and strive to be something else. ALL of that is abstinence a/k/a "the
repression of the heart." Let Christian or other inquisitors in your families, in
society, lord it over you with rubbish "questions" as they PRETEND they are actually asking a question they WANT the answer to. NO, they don't want the answer, they
just want to JUDGE you and make you have to JUSTIFY YOURSELF to them or at
least try to make you FEEL THE NEED to justify yourself or your feelings or opinions
(which might change from day to day since LIFE is all about change) when you have
only TOLD THE TRUTH about something that you think or feel: That's TABOO in
society. "Mom, that food tastes like SHIT, ptewy!" Letting them get away with this is a form of abstinence!
Do you know what indulgence is? Indulgence is the REFUSAL to let ANYONE do this
to you, to REFUSE to censor yourself or straight-jacket your opinions, to SPEAK
from the heart, to DO what you feel and want. THAT is indulgence. It is a LACK of
judging oneself like the dualists tend to do. Indulgence is BEING. It is not BEING
LIKED. IT IS LIKING TO BE!! INDULGE MEANS: I LIKE, I WANT, I DO, and it is also
I DO NOT LIKE, I DO NOT WANT, THEREFORE I DO NOT DO. It's both!
Peer group pressure? This term means nothing to a natural born Satanist and by
that I mean a person innately on the Left Handed Path (I definitely do NOT mean
anyone in these satanic organizations who are all about peer group pressure!).
There are no peers. It ONLY works on ABSTAINERS. THINK IN THE INNER way
about this. Peer groups get you to abstain from BEING YOURSELF! You do the "in
thing" for the group (no matter what the group is), no matter if you FEEL like NOT
doing it. That's abstinence too, in an inner sense.
Now, the problem is this: People in LaVeyan type organizations, example, often
abstain from eating foods they might love to eat; they abstain because they are
obese. Therefore they are indulging in their diets. Heh. Abstaining IS a form of
indulgence, in every respect. A thief might abstain from stealing food for his
starving family if he is AFRAID to get caught. That's not abstaining; that's fear of
the law; he is indulging in keeping himself out of jail. People who claim they
abstain, but indulge in secret - well, that's nobody's business what they do, right?
Right! Obviously, they are acting the role of abstainer for other people to see for
some purpose that obviously gains them something. They are indulging in being an
exhibitionist abstainer. Why would LaVeyans preach to them or care? Christians
care because it's a spiritual matter to them and involved their religious rules. All of
this is outer behavior.
"2. Vital Existence instead of spiritual pipe-dreams."
Do you know what Vital existence is? The 2 point up star is a glyph for this. It
means LIBERATION, it means normal kundalini flow and release. It means
VITALITY, the physical quality of BEING VITAL AND WHOLE.
Do you know what a pipe-dream is? Fake belief in disembodied entities out there.
Fake creators of man. Fake idealized states of being, like kingdom of god or various
other-earthly ideas where you are no longer a body but just a disembodied mind. It
means a pipe dream, a wannabe, a LIE and a "robe" you wear while you PRETEND
to be what you ARE NOT, pretend to know things you KNOW NOTHING about It is
belief grounded not on TRUTH, but on a fantasy that society calls a "religion" or
"faith." Spiritual pipe-dreams cover a lot of things. Some religions have MORE pipe-dreams than others. But the definition, even here, is confusing and misleading - it
has to be qualified.
The problem here is that "spiritual pipe dreaming" doesn't mean having a laid-back belief or even convinced Gnosis, in a Divine Hand or Deity or "something like that"
because you sincerely DO see it in nature everywhere, or sincerely feel it within.
It's more or less the DESIRE FOR "something other" due to life being not so good. A pipe dream is also where a person is "gonna do" something, and it's usually
something he is never going to do and can't do. Big Plans. Big Ideas. They all fall to
nothing for pipe dreamers. Pipe dreaming is desiring some Big Parent Up there
who's going to come and FIX things (for you, of course) or get rid of your enemies
like some goody goody or bad-assed Superhero kiddy crap.
"3. Undefiled Wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit."
Undefiled Wisdom or Inner Truth is knowing the HARD TRUTH about yourself,
without the bullshit or facades or pretends. I.e., if you are STUPID, then
RECOGNIZE IT. It's also the ability to "see through" propaganda, especially the type put forth by the media and government and consumerist crap.
Hypocritical self-deceit? It's when you claim to be something you are NOT and you
BELIEVE IT YOURSELF. Lots of neo-satanists in the "rebellion phase" and stuck in this phase are doing self-deceit LOUDLY. When you lie to another person and
deceive THEM, this is OK! It's a viable evolutionary strategy! EVERYONE does it!
When you deceive yourself, you are schizoid OR WORSE. Hypocritical deceit is just
what Oral Roberts did when he announced on TV, "Give me millions or God will kill
me." Well, he got his millions, people gave it to him of their own free will. That's free choice. But hypocritical SELF deceit is when e.g., you claim to be in favor of
Freedom of Speech and yet are your OWN inner censor, you cry over rude words
that might "hurt someone's feelings" even though the words are true, or at least a truthful OPINION you have. Such a person IS NOT and CAN NOT BE in favor of Free
Speech because they do not even PRACTICE IT. They deceive themselves in
thinking they are for it. It is deceiving yourself to be ANYTHING you are not. Such
people tend to go into ballistic reaction mode when someone who really knows
something comes around and smashes their little fortress of lies. Then they can be
seen to go into self-destructive behavior and also retreat to their old faith: BELIEF
in lies despite evidence to the contrary (or they join neo-Satan organizations that
are all about nothing). Self-deceit is a tall subject because 99% of the CULTURAL
Christian world LIVES AND BREATHES in a Sea of Lies: their own culture. They are
not self-aware enough to even know that they deceive themselves. They are the
ENEMIES of self sincerity inside their own selves. Hypocritical self-deceit, example,
is the fool screaming about "sexual freedom and rights" when he never even GOT
OFF! Such a confused, obscured person really has another agenda aside from
"FREEDOM TO WORK if you are sexually different." Who would know about his
personal crap if he didn't blab it all over to UNinterested others? His agenda has
more to do with ACCEPTENCE BY OTHERS since he obviously does not accept
himself. You can spot them: they'd try to PREACH this bullshit to people who have
been HAVING SEX quite naturally since they were 13 years old or so. This is
hypocritical SELF-deceit. This is not the same thing as a hypocrite! SELF-deceit is
not the same as deceiving others. LaVey apparently thought that people going to
the Christian meetings he indulged in watching and writing about, were deceiving
themselves. Um: NO! Not hardly.
"4. Kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates."
Yes, people are often raised by FIENDS and told that this is love: so they grow up in
this way. They automatically are chummy with scum. Like the "girlfriend" who does you a "favor" and gets you some crack cocaine when you are pregnant. They think this is a "friend." They don't recognize real kindness: they react to it as if the person is either an enemy to fear or a doormat to be walked on. We who are not
like this KNOW what this statement means. It doesn't NEED explanation. But to the
damaged (so many of whom flock into Satan organizations that have nothing but
other omega wolves in them wanting to HURT someone or bully them) the concept
of kindness or joy is unfathomable. They grow up loving or WANTING TO LOVE
parents or spouses or siblings or even schoolmates that any healthy normal animal
would want to SHOOT in vengeance instead. The peculiar thing is that most people
from such abusive situations (any kind of repetitive abuse and from anyone) run
away from it by joining abusive organizations where they are, once again, told what
to do. They run away from gloom and ugliness and do so by running into WORSE
gloom and ugliness, and the fools think it's satanic. Well, BOTH are satanic in the
Webster's Dictionary sense and in the Biblical sense. (Look up Stockholm
Syndrome.) They are apt to see Pinhead of Hellraiser as a cool character, yet they
are incapable of seeing him as the same as what caused them to run to him - an
asshole out to hurt people; they are incapable of seeing him as the Ultimate
Tortured Jesus.
The statement about Love is almost different as one can be kind WITHOUT feeling
love. A government spy can be kind to an enemy in order to obtain information.
One can be kind to a total stranger simply out of animal-human decency. Love is a
FEELING, it shines out of the heart area in a gentle way, like sunshine. It doesn't
feel like anything to BE loved, but it feels like JOY TO love someone OR something.
Love comes all of a sudden, and it goes just as suddenly. Normal healthy people
would just let it go when it's gone and not try to FORCE something to exist when
it's gone. When you do that, Love turns to obligation and then to hate. In the world
there is a lot of love/hate. And we see love/hate is really HATE, not love. Love is
writing a song you are inspired to write. Love is sharing it with another who liked it
too. Love is NOT a bond of clinging as if you are half a person NEEDING another
half. No: that is more a war of Wills because two people are TWO PEOPLE, not ONE.
Love is something klippoths CRAVE, whether it's "divine" love or love of others. I see they HAVE NO love WITHIN them, not for anything including themselves. And
that is WHY they are kind to enemies and treat others who are truly kind like
doormats. Love has many forms and English is not adequate to define it. There is
the love of a thing or of knowledge, there is kinship love, mother love which is more
of an instinct and quite different, love of an area (feeling at-home, more like