why would you want to worship satan?

i mean, why.

what's wrong with deej?

To meet loose women.

satan inspired the better albums

eternal life, duh!

also decadent & hedonistic rewards on the material plane.

I've always found satan worship a tedious and kind of lame obverse of Xtianity.

same reason you'd want to worship anything that rules you. cause it makes you, you! :)

hail satan btw

worshipping satan just feels like a youthful indiscretion. like, if you're still doing it after age 30 what's wrong with you.

If M.G. Lewis' The Monk is to be believed, it is because he first appears to you in a pretty erotic fashion:

Ambrosio started, and expected the Daemon with terror. What was his surprize, when the Thunder ceasing to roll, a full strain of melodious Music sounded in the air. At the same time the cloud dispersed, and He beheld a Figure more beautiful than Fancy's pencil ever drew. It was a Youth seemingly scarce eighteen, the perfection of whose form and face was unrivalled. He was perfectly naked: A bright Star sparkled upon his forehead; Two crimson wings extended themselves from his shoulders; and his silken locks were confined by a band of many-coloured fires, which played round his head, formed themselves into a variety of figures, and shone with a brilliance far surpassing that of precious Stones. Circlets of Diamonds were fastened round his arms and ankles, and in his right hand He bore a silver branch, imitating Myrtle. His form shone with dazzling glory: He was surrounded by clouds of rose-coloured light, and at the moment that He appeared, a refreshing air breathed perfumes through the Cavern. Enchanted at a vision so contrary to his expectations, Ambrosio gazed upon the Spirit with delight and wonder: Yet however beautiful the Figure, He could not but remark a wildness in the Daemon's eyes, and a mysterious melancholy impressed upon his features, betraying the Fallen Angel, and inspiring the Spectators with secret awe.

Like Edward Cullen, with bonus crimson wings :)

orgies would have to get boring after a while. I wonder if they ever say, "Anyone know any good songs? Lets have a singalong instead."

satan seems like a cool dude, but more someone you'd hang out with rather than worship

this also goes for god and jesus

peter otm

orgies would have to get boring after a while

Oh, c'mon. We were having a Baal.

A+

Just want to make sure you guys know that peeps in the Church of Satan don't actually worship Satan. Its more like Wiccan Objectivism or something. Also, The Satanic Bible is a pretty good read, or at least it was when I was 15.

Church of Satan don't actually worship Satan.

man that's a pr problem and a half

Lame Top Ten Reasons For Worshipping Satan

10. You find the liturgy inspiring.
9. Endless opportunities for dressing up.
8. Fun with pitchforks.
7. Rocking that goatee look.
6. Everyone needs a hobby.
5. Free IQ & personality test.
4. Bugs the Jehovah's Witnesses no end.
3. Big fanboy of Peter Cook.
2. Fits well into your busy schedule.
1. Come for the satanism, stay for the pie!

so Satan is just the sponsor of that church?

xxp

Satanists look like Ruth Gordon.

the money and the power

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/repub.jpg

tbh I've never really understood what the process of 'worship' entails, how you can really be sure the worshiping was completed. How do you know you've done it unless you say "entity, I'm worshiping YOU" or when you're done someone saying "man we worshiped like crazy just then" (this would at least clue you in something happened). The only "Satanist" I know worships by waving a walrus penis bone in the air while reading some stuff out loud in a cloak. That is actually pretty fucking awesome BUT how does that really indicate fealty to a dark lord?

why isn't this question seen as a corollary to the atheism/agnosticism/religiosity one? do people have numinous or spiritual experiences in the natural world, or with other people, that lead them to conclude, yes, i just feel a closeness to satan?

xps

I have this problem with the ritual I grew up in, actually. How does spending one hour listening to boring people talk, singing three or four hymns, and eating torn up Wonder Bread and drinking wee plastic cups of water indicate, "Hey there Heavenly Father I am worshiping YOU." It's not explicit enough for me!

xp to my boring self

obvious boring point but a lot of "satan worshippers" don't believe in God or Satan - "satan" is a metaphor for principles of self-rule, will, etc

actual satan worshippers, the few you'll find, often believe that he will trade you power for your fealty

that seems to me to be a fundamental misunderstanding of Satan...?

"why I worship satan" only turns up 10 results on Google btw, of which this seems to offer a good idea of what's in play

I must admit I've never got how stupid you'd have to be to trade 40 or 50 years of awesome high-livin' for an eternity of exquisite torment.

which one? i mean, both are, but i wonder which one you're asking about

xp to dan

To answer: LeVay saw Satan is an allegory for pleasure and the base, natural tendencies of humanity -- pride-fullness and strength over humility and meekness. Thus what LeVayian satanists worship is themselves, in a kind of weird hedonistic but hobbesian humanism.

more important question is why WOULDN'T you wanna worship Satan, since he's clearly in charge down here

(which one does: the idea that he'll give you temporary power in exchange for you soul, or that he [nb there is no actual "he" in this understanding] embodies principles rejected by Christianity but which are in fact healthy human normal impulses/needs? the latter is, in crudely summarized form, LaVeyan Satanism)

@ HI DERE

"satanism" as in Church Of is objectivism with a dollop of challops

it is tiresome

i mean, what differentiates 'satanism' from atheism then? or "objectivism" (since it was brought up)? is there some metaphysical element that's important? otherwise, why bother with mucking about with a character from christian religious tradition? except to piss of your parents.

xps

I was talking about the "power for your soul" thing, to wit:

I must admit I've never got how stupid you'd have to be to trade 40 or 50 years of awesome high-livin' for an eternity of exquisite torment.

to piss of your parents. xp

hoos it's got its uses as a sort of palate-cleanser for people who have baggage imo

also ppl get naked and freaky, always pro-anything that encourages people to get down with their naked selves

anytime satan tells u ur past remind him of HIS FUTURE

haha i just c/p'd your typo btw, that wasn't supposed to be a zing

plz tell me that you are not talking about piss of your parents as a palate-cleanser

are you sure it was not a typo?

and right i mean i say "to piss off your parents" as a kind of tossed off stand-in for "getting rid of childhood religious baggage/damage" i guess

Joshua Tree selling all those copies is just not gonna seem worth it after the first couple of decades submerged in a lake of burning excrement.

in general afaik the whole worshipping satan thing is a little bit of a misnomer - most of it is the sorta triumph of the self "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" kinda vibe, or at least it is once you get away from the 15 year olds w/ouija boards demographic

jesus christ like 40 xposts or something

otherwise known as Minnesota

i mean, what differentiates 'satanism' from atheism then? or "objectivism" (since it was brought up)? is there some metaphysical element that's important? otherwise, why bother with mucking about with a character from christian religious tradition? except to piss of your parents.

satanism specifically celebrates principles that Christianity rejects - self-interest, pursuit of pleasure. it "worships" an entity in which it only believes as an indwelling archetype of a "nobler"/truer/more useful self. atheism has no affirmative values in itself; it's just the belief that there is no God. no set of believes is necessarily attendant upon being an atheist -- it's not an ideology.

Satanism isn't atheistic because Levay did believe in and promote basic animism and the idea that magickal ritual could effect outcomes of events.

satanism = only very slightly occultist ultralibertarianism afaic

yeah but LaVey is just a publicity whore, his "beliefs" are what can keep his rent paid. that basic animism of his relies on no animating force, it's incoherent.

whereas Crowley, maybe a diff. deal

That theisticsatanism thing seems pretty standard gnostic to me.

best argument for lavey style satanism tbh is wicked ripping lounge organ tunes

why not get into neo-platonism then? or, like, convert to judaism. christianity rejected plenty of shit!

julian the apostate or marcus aurelius seem like harder dudes than these golden dawn jokers.

atheism has no affirmative values in itself; it's just the belief that there is no God. no set of believes is necessarily attendant upon being an atheist -- it's not an ideology.

This is kind of a tautology though, isn't it? You can be an atheist and not be a satanist. You can be a materialist and still have moral values...

yeah that's about right MW it's just like a modern reading of gnosticism -- incoporates some ideas about "self" etc that had bubbled up in the time between the actual capital-G Gnostics & the 19th c.? it's also, I think (vide Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, et al) a French reaction to the role of the church in everyday life & thought

Funny that you should mention Aurelius, goole, 'cause that kind of stoicism was exactly the 'religion' I was interested in in my seeking days.

This is kind of a tautology though, isn't it? You can be an atheist and not be a satanist. You can be a materialist and still have moral values...

right, goole had just asked

what differentiates 'satanism' from atheism then? or "objectivism" (since it was brought up)? i

and it's basically in the former case "satanism contains affirmative values" whereas atheism does not, really

eh goole idk theres a definite weird modernist bent wrt church of satan stuff that isnt quite there in the others you listed, and if i was a little more focused i could expand on that but i just got a flyer about a new "how to play black sabbath on the ukelele" tab book so i am a little unsteady at the moment

xposts again

a French reaction to the role of the church in everyday life & thought

I can kind of see how an anti-Christian in 'the first daughter of the Chruch' might be tempted by that particular flavor of the occult.

but i just got a flyer about a new "how to play black sabbath on the ukelele" tab book so i am a little unsteady at the moment

Genuine lols

xxxxxxxOh excellent! Does that mean we get to talk about Mithraism now?

julian the apostate or marcus aurelius seem like harder dudes than these golden dawn jokers.

? none of these people were satanists, and if Julian or Marcus is more impressive than Mather or Yeats it's because they were, y'know EMPERORS

Funny that Mithra's b-day is at the winter solstice, like some other dude we know, isn't it?

xxxxp well obviously The Cathars > Church of Satan in pretty much every regard, but the OP didn't ask why people become dark age cultists.

so, let me break it down to an extent:

1. i want to piss off my parents, or parent culture, or the daddy god, or whatever

2. there is an actual prince of darkness who will give me powers on earth if i suffer in hell forever later

3. "god" is a false tyrant and there are other forces at work in creation that have been called "satan" and i want to worship those instead

4. "satan" means really cool animalistic human drives like getting laid, doing whatever you want, being awesome, and that's what i feel like doing

am i missing anything? pretty weak imo, if that isn't obvious by now

naw thats about it I think.

I probably just read too many books about the Roman invasion of Britain plus always had my curiosity piqued by the secrecy and veiled references about mystery cults. Throw in a little sympathy for modern-day "maybe what we all need is a good rebirth from the dark place/os/Mother" (just kidding okay maybe not really kidding), and I'm there for whatever the secret ceremony consists of.

naw thats about it I think.

yeah I agree that's most modern-day self-proclaimed Satanists. but when you start dragging Golden Dawn/Crowley/mystery cults into it I think we're dealing with people/groups that had a more complex, interesting take on things and I wouldn't really call them satanists.

Missed that Pythagoreanism keeps you from eating chili or burritos.

this book is amazing btw

Yeah, I haven't read it in a while but Shakey's right.

satanism = only very slightly occultist ultralibertarianism afaic

from what i understand LaVey took quite a bit from Ayn Rand. social darwinism ideas figure prominently, too

i just got a flyer about a new "how to play black sabbath on the ukelele" tab book so i am a little unsteady at the moment

outbreak of ukelele acts kind of offers definitive proof of satan imo

satan inspired the better albums

― melody-hating aggr0 nerd (San Te), Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:35 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

la vey's organ jazz records suggest otherwise

also, black sabbath is more of a christian band to me than a satanist band

re: 2 - they're not going to suffer like regular sinners. Hell is Heaven to satanists, eternal reward for the devil's work. Good is Evil and Evil is Good.

and Shakey & his link otm, magic != satanism, that's the #1 christian lie which justified the Inquisition and all that.

the whole period of early christianity is so fascinating and wild

is it me or is there a funny blind spot in the popular self-conception of western history -- the roman empire has tons of "pull" as a fascinating subject, stories, plays, movies, the gods, the wars, etc. everyone knows the roman empire. but as soon as christ shows up, it disappears. there was a christian roman empire for like 400 years. if you count the byzantines (who called themselves romans!) there was a christian "rome" for about 1400 years. but everybody just wants spartacus and julius caesar. weird, no?

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:dZ-4N-Gnv12SUM:http://i34.tinypic.com/15co9pz.jpg&t=1

^^^OG satanic rock fuiud

xp Christianity not very interesting fodder, imo.

Just to be slightly esoteric, myself and because it's almost germane to this thread, I'd like to give a shout-out to Amin Maalouf's novel, 'Gardens of Light'.

almost all of country, R&B, and blues, and gospel (obv) seems fundamentally christian to me...not like every song is praise jesus but they exist in a christian worldview IMO

there's plenty or work done on the Holy Roman Empire I think

idk goole, obv i am saying this as doofus atheist and all but i think #3 is the one that the more serious types mostly are working on and i think it might have a bit of merit as an ethos. ie the christian god is an enslaver and freedom from him lies in opposition etc.

lots and lots of nietzschean stuff informing these dude tbh.

fuckng xposts again

from what i understand LaVey took quite a bit from Ayn Rand. social darwinism ideas figure prominently, too

oh, if i had bothered to read the entire thread i would have seen objectivism mentioned

though yeah hc classicists are like, w/e, that's not real classics

yeah but that's germany!

xp 2 aero

The New Testament just doesn't have any sweeping, dynastic, Michener-esque saga interest, nor does it have any really compelling personalities besides the main one, and there's enough about him already.

Also tbh early Xtianity WAS a wild time and it would upset the apple-cart of a lot of comfy modern-day Christian assumptions.

i think it might have a bit of merit as an ethos

say what you will about the tenets of LaVeyan Satanism, at least it's an ethos, dude

sorry party foul

well then how did this non-michener-esque set of texts take over a very michener-esque political entity? i mean? it's crazy stuff

xp

idt too many of my favorite metal bands actually worshipped no devil but man was that metal about satan some really fun stuff like MERCYFUL FATE, SLAYER, VENOM, DEICIDE, POSSESSED....

Everyone loves ancient Rome because of their sweet British accents, am i rite?

If King Diamond asked me personally to join in his Satan worshipping, then I would be an emphatic YES.

Frankly a lot of this comes down to the fact that Crowley, who was pretty clearly a racist and not the nicest dude ever was nonetheless a sharp dude that knew how to cloak his philosophical deistic stuff in a certain way that can be a little hard to unravel but has some underpinnings, and LaVey was mostly kinda a hippie free love charlatan that knew how to sell himself real well.

i'm too narcissistic to worship anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oOHZvAYmxk

vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5PsmWZEW4

(fair point to be noted - Crowley not by definition a satanist as much as an occultist but whatever, some of that is prob coded self-preservation)

Crowley's never struck me as particularly concerned about race (I can't recall any references to it in the stuff I've read) but won't argue that he was by and large an asshole.

btw if you play those vids simultaneously and don't lol you may be dead

hoo boy theres some anti-semetic crowley stuff out there that is pretty o_O xpost

but whatever, some of that is prob coded self-preservation)

he advertised himself as "the great beast 666" in the name of self-preservation?

more like in the name of self-promotion

hoo boy theres some anti-semetic crowley stuff out there that is pretty o_O

that doesn't surprise me at all given that the majority of Europe in Crowley's time was positively frothing with anti-semitism (altho lol irony coming from someone so invested in appropriating the Kabbalah)

btw if you play those vids simultaneously and don't lol you may be dead

― vehemence is mine (Edward III), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:43 (1 minute ago)

i love you

but then the appropriation of other culture's religious systems was a HUGE part of the occult explosion in the 20th century. it was all basically "ooh look I am a white man bringing you the ancient mystic texts from India/Judaism/China/Egypt/wherever"

xp

crowley's onna those dudes though, like even if there's no evidence of it at all, i would bet my house he was a total racist piece of shit

he wasn't racist, he hated everybody!

j/k yeah I would bet the same m@tt

Crowley's one of those people who was a combination of complete asshole/charlatan/egomaniac and rather amazingly diligent and clever scholar/synthesist/performance artist. like, he was a very sharp guy who unearthed and distributed a wealth of fascinating information that was previously unavailable in the West, but he had a tendency to do it in the most obnoxious, self-aggrandizing, self-serving way.

here's some nice Crowley from 1911

Human sacrifices are today still practised by the Jews of Eastern Europe, as is set forth at length by Sir Richard Burton in the MS. which the wealthy Jews of England have compassed heaven and earth to suppress, and evidenced by the ever-recurring Pogroms against which so senseless an outcry is made by those who live among those degenerate Jews who are at least not cannibals.

(sourced from reknowned repository of information wikipedia)

jews did 1911

c'mon, he says at least they're not cannibals

lol at ref'ing Burton (who I have a much harder time believing was an anti-semite)

also lol @ Crowley implying he has some principled problem with human sacrifice

i like that one song by a dude who underrates aerosmith and so i am down w/ those who hail satan yo

but yeah tbh theres so much handwaving and distraction going on w/ the dude that its hard at times to figure out what is belief and what is aggrandizment/shock value. you could prob make a fairly strong argument that much of the motivation for his endeavors was managing to find a way through occultism to live as an openly bisexual man with some element of status in the time period.

This song came on shuffle while I was driving & I felt it should be included in this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xKnORyaBuw&feature=player_embedded

devilly stuff is fun in a "lol satan" kinda way for many of us metalheads. ie, chanting "Hail satan" at a concert can be fun and all but like uhm people that actually do theistic devil worshipping, uhm, where are these people, cuz they're loons?...most I know are Laveyan Satanists or just self-proclaimed ones. I myself am an atheist

(Glen Benton is quite an idiot it should be noted)

glen benton is hilarious. he saw a bigfoot once.

deicide \m/

btw, I thought about starting a "why would you want to worship seitan?" thread and then decided not to

you're welcome

Deicide does rock, I saw em earlier this year and they tore it up....

btw, I thought about starting a "why would you want to worship seitan?" thread and then decided not to

you're welcome

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, October 14, 2010 6:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is there a thread for parody threads you mercifully decided not to create?

because i've had like five of these recently.

http://blogs.southshorenow.ca/vegan/files/2008/04/praise-seitan2-720949.gif

good non-symbolic/metaphorical reason for worshipping satan:

you're a really messed up christian, so you still believe in god and stuff, but for some reason you really want to stick it to him / hate christ instead of accepting him as your savior, so you invert everything out of desperation (all the while knowing but hiding from yourself that god is the lord of all, christ is the path to salvation, etc.).

variant of that:

toady to supreme evil hoping to appropriate some of evil's power for one's miserable self.

what do we think of the Rev. Steven Johnson Leyba? http://www.stevenleyba.com/

and this: http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=steven+johnson+leyba&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1238&bih=668

he's pretty cool, in his own way.

satanism is buffoonery of the highest order. christianity at least contains some worthy collectivist notions alongside its reactionary features.

because it is rad and makes scary girls have intriguement issues

http://www.entrances2hell.com/

tbh I've never really understood what the process of 'worship' entails, how you can really be sure the worshiping was completed.

have u never heard of a little word called AMEN

YO GO TO BED

is it considered satan worship to shout "ALL HAIL SATAN" along with yer Mercyful Fate cds? is it like the karaoke-"n****" problem where we're supposed to stay silent during that part or be lumped in with the crowd?

cozen what in the hell

btw that leyba guy sounds like a trip

Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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gonna b on radio 87.7 radio valencia SF talking about how shitty and flatminded your art is, no pomo

Satan is another aspect of God, and since people seem to want to worship God, it only makes sense that some people would want to worship one of his aspects.

Not much weirder than worshipping Kali bringer of death or Siva the destroyer, or becoming a Thug, when you think on it.

oh okay

wait, THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE EITHER

not much weirder, no

kinda rad:

http://www.templeoftheblacklight.net/

Aimless i rilly rilly hope you're kidding about Kali and Shiva.

Leyba also once had performance in front of the Mayor and many other SF city officials where he was sodomized with a whiskey bottle.

anyhoo, thread immediately made me think of this...

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/pict/3602636769124040_1.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/magazine/the-devil-in-long-island.html

Definitely my favorite spelling of the dark lord's name was in high school seminary, one of my classmates walked up to the whiteboard and said, "I think we all know who the bad guy in this story is" and then wrote

SAINTEN

in dry erase marker.

I hope they then cavalierly tossed the marker into the whiteboard tray, folded their arms across their chest, and leaned against the wall with a knowing look on their face

This was the same kid that had us all look at a painting of Jesus while we all listened to Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do, I Do It For You." In spite of this he was a pretty awesome guy.

http://thinningtheherd.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/clockwork_big.jpg

http://www.templeoftheblacklight.net/

I expected more velvet posters. :(

I wish there was something like Milton's Satan or Blake's Milton's Satan, or the guy I am starting to see as the magic third here, which is the force of Bruce Haack's "Electric Lucifer" – I wish the vital essence of these guys was in anything! Maybe then I would be a religious person.

Not a "religious person" but a person who burnt with...that burning!

Milton's Satan was forced into too much work being Pride poster child to really shine.

http://visualizing.org/full-screen/54597

Satan is just alright with me

orgies would have to get boring after a while

Oh, c'mon. We were having a Baal.

― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:47 (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a+ indeed

so, let me break it down to an extent:

1. i want to piss off my parents, or parent culture, or the daddy god, or whatever

2. there is an actual prince of darkness who will give me powers on earth if i suffer in hell forever later

3. "god" is a false tyrant and there are other forces at work in creation that have been called "satan" and i want to worship those instead

4. "satan" means really cool animalistic human drives like getting laid, doing whatever you want, being awesome, and that's what i feel like doing

am i missing anything? pretty weak imo, if that isn't obvious by now

― goole, Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:22 (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

5. isnt hilary

ever since I got the Baphomet tatt I've had one friend and my parent asked me if I worshipped Satan and I realized if I go out of town into a bad part of town that tatt plus me muttering to myself must keep the nutters away

(i don't think, fuck worshipping anything or anybody other than as a momentary sex ritual)

dude that is not how to brag the sex that is being had should be longer than momentary

xxp I'd worship Ronald McDonald if I thought it would keep the nutters away

Mayor McCheese is a jealous god.

you should worship satan because he says you shouldn't worship anyone

it's a paradox, man

gotta worship somethin'

u might live in a mansion, u might live in a dome

so, let me break it down to an extent:

1. i want to piss off my parents, or parent culture, or the daddy god, or whatever

the satirical element is a big factor. historically satan has been a scapegoat for abuses of church and state. LeVayan stylee leans heavily in this. but its subculture doesn't seem scripturally based at all (in fact quite the opposite) so i dont think actual worshipping is a requirement or even relevant.

2. there is an actual prince of darkness who will give me powers on earth if i suffer in hell forever later

the demonic hierarchy, with its angelic origins, is still subservient to God. it is only through God's authority and your pure faith that you can control them. you could maybe get by with a faith that connotes satan as an aspect of the true god but if you aren't writing the names of God in your magical circle you probably gonna be out of luck. also you aren't given any powers, it's simply a matter of calling up the spirit who specializes in X, and having THEM do the work while you lord your unwavering faith over them. as far as suffering in hell forever, that's not going to happen 1) if you possess this unwavering faith that is letting you control these demons in the first place and 2) hell itself may have a beginning and an end.

3. "god" is a false tyrant and there are other forces at work in creation that have been called "satan" and i want to worship those instead

if God is the source of sources then there are no "other forces at work", it's all God, including Satan.

4. "satan" means really cool animalistic human drives like getting laid, doing whatever you want, being awesome, and that's what i feel like doing

it wasnt satan who said "go forth and multiply" or "everything that lives is food for you".

if you want to do whatever you want then there's no reason to appeal to authority - spiritual or corporeal - on the matter. modern consumerism offers an endless supply of avatars of hedonism. knock yourself out, just don't hurt anyone.

thanks adam

cos he is king

who wants or needs a king? they just fuck you over.

trickle-down necronomics

http://i.imgur.com/7OqvTQO.png

Going back to the roots: Church of Ahriman (Dakhma of Angra Mainyu).

Though I suspect Zoroastrian apostates didn't use as many strobe lights.

Any aspect of Sumerian folklore considered false teachings...

Honestly, I think more people could get behind evil if its symbol was a peacock.

Angra Mainyu chose to be evil: "It is not that I cannot create anything good, but that I will not." And to prove this, he created the peacock.

im calling it: all the occult hipster stuff around nowadays is gonna result in new cool diy Christian mysticism movements in ~10 years

I'm currently reading James Wasserman's In The Center Of The Fire - his memoir of working at Weiser Books in the midst of mid-70s occultism in NYC. It's not a particularly book and most of the writing is repetitve "took speed, performed ritual, took speed, fought lawsuits from people claiming ownership and/or IP rights to some piece of text, took speed, performed ritual, repeat until o.d. or psychic death", but it is useful history for anyone writing about this particular time and place.

OTOH, look… I don’t want to drugsplain, but it seems like the last thing anyone would want to do before getting their Thelema on is to load up on bathtub amphetamines. I’m pretty sure outer dimensional entities don’t like cold calls from cranked-up speed freaks. I know I wouldn’t.

"particularly great book"