Satan and His Empire
by David R Ondrejko aka VonDraco
Satanists do not believe in Satan. On the other hand, Satanists do
believe in Satan. It depends on what you mean by "believe in" and
what you mean by "Satan."
Do I believe in a funny-looking creature in red tights with horns
and a tail? No. Neither do I believe in the literalist Christian lie that
He is a former angel of Jehovah thrown out of Heaven for being too
uppity.
What I believe in is a Satan that represents the so-called "dark side"
of humanity. He represents selfishness, anger, lust, hatred, pride
and all the allegedly negative emotions. He represents getting
whatever you want. He is not "real," in the sense that you and I are
real, or the President is real, or the shopkeeper around the corner is
real. What He represents is very real, however.
I do not believe in Him the way that Christians believe in their
pathetic deity. I do not worship the Dark Lord, nor do I look to Him
for a diabolic stamp of approval on the way I live my life. I am the
only being whose opinion ultimately matters. I am a Satanist
because it pleases me to be so, not because I have been threatened
or coerced or deluded into the religion.
Satan is as real as I am. What I mean by this is that insofar as I
manifest the Satanic ethos, Satan becomes real through me. I am, at
my best (worst?), the incarnation of Satan Himself.
What is the Satanic ethos? At its simplest, it is pure egoism: total
and exclusive concern for myself. I am nice to other people on
occassion because I want to be, not because someone is telling me
that I "should." I could just as easily be cruel to them, with just as
much moral foundation -- I was cruel to them because I *wanted*
to be cruel to them. More on this idea in a later chapter.
Satan is real because I am real, and we are one. His empire is my
empire and it grows daily, giving us greater power and influence.
The only "worship" that I do involves pleasing myself by doing
whatever I want to do.
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