The Voice of Satanism

Removal of Baptism from a Christian Church (any)
From Grand Magister Blackwood Learning Module.
Leader of Theistic Satanism and Founder Temples of Satan

This particular subject appears in my email quite regular so I have decided to address this in an attempt to aide those who feel they are not complete until they have removed the baptism, they were either forced into or were just to young to fight.

First, you will need the following items and I suggest a secluded lake, river, or stream to perform your ritual.
You will need the following components which should include:
1. a dagger (sharpened).
2. a copy of the Christian Bible.
3. A chalice
4. parchment paper
5. a fire source (campfire, lighter, etc.).
6. this printed off for resourcing.
I suggest before you start you say the following prayer as described;
I am of your world and you are my world Satan, I am with you in faith and so this day I will strip my former world and allow you fully into mine with complete devotion and dedication.
Hail Satan
I serve with faith this day and from every day forward free of the waters of Yahweh, Christ, and those of Christianity and move forward accepting you into my life and heart.

I suggest you spend around 10 minutes meditating on this clearing you mind completely of all negativity and if you smoke, please no matter how much you want a cigarette, do not smoke until after this vital ceremony.
I suggest doing this at night as well or in a secluded area because first you must disrobe.
After disrobing I suggest you start a small fire (staying warm might be great).
Open the Christian Bible centering it and take the dagger and slowly cut yourself, not deep allowing the blood to drip upon the Bible you are using.
Say: I am shedding my blood in blasphemous of Christianity and in defiance of Christianity and tonight my new blood with the faith of Satan will begin to replace the old blood shed tonight upon this Bible.
I am of Satan now and I will not return.
Catch any blood in the chalice for afterward.
Burn the Bible in the fire you created, I suggest maybe lighter fluid but only to get the fire going.
Make sure the Bible is in cinders and mix a small amount of blood and burnt paper together and apply it over your body saying the following.
I am leaving the falsehoods and myths and ascending to the waters the very waters that nourish the earth which Satan stands beside me upon, not the waters of Yahweh, or Jesus but Satan for he own Earth and I am with him in this body of water.
As you feel the waters spread the mix of blood and Bible over you and allow the waters to cleanse you.
As the old flows down into the water the new water comes over me and I am now with Satan, I am with you Father and you are now the source of my faith and life and I will be with you forever.
As the waters wash away the old from my body, the body consumes such in blasphemous honor to Satan, the end to my life as a Christian and begins my life as a Satanist.
Burn the remainder of the Bible and bury the ashes proclaiming:
This is the end of the past it is not buried, as the flames consumed the words and my blood fills with new I am now with you Father and away from Christianity.
Dress yourself, extinguish the flames and then draw your symbol, on the ground near the river, pond, stream etc.
After say your own personal prayer to Satan.
I suggest you write this prayer prior and about what you will now do as you are now one with Father Satan.
Afterward please write down your commitment to him always hold it near you (using the parchment).

You can use my morning prayer if you desire, but it is preferred you create you own to honor Satan.
Hail Satan!

Looking towards origins….
From Grand Magister Blackwood Leader of Theistic Satanism

People have often asked me, why search the origins and why is this such an important mission for those in Theistic Satanism, so I prepared easier understanding of what we do and why we choose the path we are on verses the other paths that seek to move Theistic Satanism closer to Paganism, or Nee-Paganism, something a Real Satanist should always steer clear of:

Q. Sumeria, why do you talk about Sumeria so much?
A. Sumeria has a past that includes many interwoven origins and interwoven paradox’s that include the Garden of Eden, the Serpent, a flood all from a society that wrote and spoke a language of magic, almost nine thousand years or earlier long before any other society.
People with far greater credentials work with me to help me understand this complex civilizations and work with our Church in a partnership that has been garnered from our other origin Founder Grand Mage Wynter, as while he is not active, we remain friends today, his background is in Sumerian Religion and Mesopotamian Studies, he knowledge along with several others allow us to provide some of the most enlightening and informative materials to our membership available today.

Q. Satan has mad many forms and what makes your “version” the right “version”?
A. While some cling to the ideologies that Satan is a “Dark Lord” or even an “Dark Force” he is and he isn’t, the informed Theistic Satanist understands he is a force that envelopes at will all forces of the universe, he is without compromise the strongest influence on magic and knowledge.
While some think Satan is force, we see him as a deity who does not compromise, he is not affected by Christianity, Islam, or Judaism, however we know the Ancient Hebrews understood him and buried him in irrelevant recasts and spoke of him as the attorney or adversary, making him less than he truly was, this came about as the Early Hebrews were enslaved by Babylonian masters.

Our version is as close and you can come to reality and is influenced by the writings of those who taught magic in the city states of Mesopotamia and later Babylonia, exchanged with Akkad and Assyria, these roots have been ignored in pursuit of Egypt and other civilizations that technically are irrelevant to a root.

Q. Sounds like a weak explanation!
A. While some like to make things grandiose, I have never found this to be true of the critical origins and critical recasts that have almost degenerated the religions, one thing is important to remember when seeking a religion the success lies in the stories of the deities and origins of their perspective religion, something that Theistic Satanism has been lacking is an origin, something to stand for.

We have had may times when Theistic Satanism has veered off the path and fell victim to the wrong recast or wrong deities and those who were involved stood silent choosing the pathways of social networking and peer pressure verses truth.

Q. Whats makes you so smart and why do you say you are the Leader of Theistic Satanism?
A. Proof of Leadership comes from the efforts and investment in the work of the deity, it is apparent while others challenge for such claims they are years away from creating the works and thoughts I have amassed by interviewing and speaking with others close to Satan, while the words they speak and right may be relevant they lack experiences at the “street level” and for over twenty years my philosophy as changed very little, my focus and an goals have been clear provide Purity and Excellence in Satanism.

While critics remain fighting me through their unapparent ability to read or study documents and books and thesis’s in plain site, and lack of understanding I and the Temples of Satan march forward and move the religion one step closer every day.
I am not distraught as Theistic Satanism is not for everyone, nor should it be those who truly have faith also have the knowledge that Satan has no desire to rule over anything, because he already has capture the realm and shapes it to his liking with or without those who chose him over the lesser deities or even those aligned with folklore.

Q. We all need unification, don’t we?
A. This concept while interesting is irrelevant as most magicians who follow the path towards Purity and Excellence need no others to “like or dislike” them, they are independent and often shun social networking at the highest levels, while I partake in social networking to find new membership, I loathe the qualities of people in general and find social networking a advertising and recruiting mechanism, far from a place to find people to discuss and debate with in an orderly manner.

People seek unification to grow the Organizations they found, while they can’t be criticized too far they also need to understand those who are seriously dedicated to a deity cannot learn to agree with anyone who is not, while we can interact in a social setting unity is something we will never fully have in Satanism, there is a rough form of it now as the Temples of Satan has been involved with many people even in opposition and has garnered positive discussions with rival theories to the origin of Satan.

Q. So tell us who Satan is!
A. I will tell you this and while I will avoid the argumentative position of who is right or wrong I will tell you I did not discover this myself and, while I discovered Satan 20 years ago his origin came to me as it has many before me through visions and provisional though forms that I compared to others before me arriving at my conclusions.
I will reveal more as the theory is shored up people inside the walls of the Church of Theistic Satanism and Temples of Satan away from the critical people that are irrelevant to those following a path of enlightenment, but someday this will be revealed in a book for the ages.

Q. Some would say you are a prophet, or claiming allot and providing lies!
A. Disgruntled membership and Clergy will often leave and spin things to make themselves look great and I compare this behavior to an employer, employee relationship, I have been apart of some epic battles but have always emerged the victor as through my strength in faith and internal will I am always providing leadership qualities and visions of the future and while not everyone will agree, we do not seek the audience of everyone, that is reserved for those who are speaking to the masses in social networking, which someday as My Space ® fell to Face Book ® there soon will be a new fresh champion that everyone will migrate too and Satanist’s will gather there as well.
I am often misunderstood and without errors and miscues, but it cannot every change my faith or my understanding which encompasses more than a few books, but literally thousands of hours speaking to the people who love Satan or possess the enlightening ways of the deity, this does not make me better, just more experienced.

Thanks
Hail Satanist’s!
Grand Magister Blackwood

Addressing our Deity
Some Definitions….Guide to Theistic Satanism for the Serious!
Tenants of Theistic Satanism by The Church of Theistic Satanism.
Temples of Satan Founder Grand Magister Blackwood:

For years people have written me asking if they are appropriate in addressing Satan as some of the following and I have decided to answer a few of these questions to provide a clearer understanding to the Real Satanist.

Our Father: Our Father, is a Christian Salutation, however it is acceptable if one believes that Father Satan had a hand in much of creation, or has been a Father to man’s understanding.
Lets examine Father:

Definitions of Father:
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); “his father was born in Atlanta”
forefather: the founder of a family; “keep the faith of our forefathers”
`Father’ is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre’ is frequently used in the military
a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; “the tennis fathers ruled in her favor”; “the city fathers endorsed the proposal”
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; “hear our prayers, Heavenly Father”
founder: a person who founds or establishes some institution; “George Washington is the father of his country”
beget: make children; “Abraham begot Isaac”; “Men often father children but don’t recognize them”
don: the head of an organized crime family.
So how do any of these fit Satan?
It could be representative of of our founding, and we are the offspring thereof or because of him.
Some other salutations that are often acceptable:
Hail Satan:
Definitions of Hail
acclaim: praise vociferously; “The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein”
be a native of; “She hails from Kalamazoo”
call for; “hail a cab”
precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
greet enthusiastically or joyfully
many objects thrown forcefully through the air; “a hail of pebbles”; “a hail of bullets”
precipitate as small ice particles; “It hailed for an hour.
So we find Hail Satan to be greeting the deity enthusiastically.
And of course we all know what Satan is so I will not ramble on, and next we find ourselves often saying Avete Satanas lets define the both of them.
Definitions of Avete:
Refers to Hello in Latin, so Hello Satan is that like Hello Kitty?
Not really some use it in formal greetings of other Satanist’s.
Definitions of satanas:
Satan (Hebrew: הַשָׂטָן ha-Satan (“the accuser”); Persian “sheytân”; Arabic: الشيطان al-Shaitan (“the adversary”) – both from the Semitic root: Ś-Ṭ-N) is an embodiment of antagonism that originates from the Abrahamic religions, being traditionally considered an angel in Judeo-Christian belief …
Even though Satan extends further back than Persia or even Abrahamic Religions dare to go, I believe it is an acceptable name for the True Deity, and while he appears throughout History with many names, he is not:
Pan ( a Pagan Woodland God some say is connected but is not.) When reading into the entire story we can easily discredit Pan.
Lucifer (light bringer and Italian God of Light, some people say connected to Christ).
What the construct of Christianity, a fallen angel is not Satan.
Set (was killed later so is not Satan).
Seth ( a version of Set and some people have derived Setan from the verbiage)
Prometheus (a version of Lucifer) Some are enamored with his story, and is similar but open for debate.
Sumerian Scholars suggest the Root of Satanism is more like Nanna (Sin) or Ningazhidda or Shidaaz, the later is relative to the Night and Moon.
But more on that in later articles!
Back to Salutation:
Some people call him Master:
Definitions of Master.
maestro: an artist of consummate skill; “a master of the violin”; “one of the old masters”
overlord: a person who has general authority over others
victor: a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
directs the work of others
headmaster: presiding officer of a school
an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
be or become completely proficient or skilled in; “She mastered Japanese in less than two years”
an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
overcome: get on top of; deal with successfully; “He overcame his shyness”
someone who holds a Master’s degree from academic institution
dominate: have dominance or the power to defeat over; “Her pain completely mastered her”; “The methods can master the problems”
an authority qualified to teach apprentices
have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of; “Do you control these data?”
passkey: key that secures entrance everywhere
chief(a): most important element; “the chief aim of living”; “the main doors were of solid glass”; “the principal rivers of America”; “the principal example”; “policemen were primary targets”; “the master bedroom”; “a master switch.”
So for those who are claiming Master is like the “slave mentality” nothing is more incorrect.
I often refer it to being a Soldier to Satan:
Definitions of soldier:
an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; “the soldiers stood at attention”
serve as a soldier in the military
a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
Now some will say this is wrong but in Theistic Satanism, Satan requires an Army of people who understand his world.
Sometimes people speak of following Satan.
Definitions of follower:
a person who accepts the leadership of another.
someone who travels behind or pursues another.
Faith is important to the Deity, I will here define a few more things.
Definitions of deity:
any supernatural being worshiped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force.
I refer to the deity to avoid disrespecting other peoples deity, however as a Theistic Satanist we should really not care because it’s our deity the strongest deity and able to destroy the others at will.
But enough!
I will define a few other things Christians like to label and theirs.
Definitions of faith:
religion: a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; “he lost his faith but not his morality”
complete confidence in a person or plan etc; “he cherished the faith of a good woman”; “the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust”
religion: an institution to express belief in a divine power; “he was raised in the Baptist religion”; “a member of his own faith contradicted him”
loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; “keep the faith”; “they broke faith with their investors”
Faith is not owned by Abrahamic Religions and for Modern Satanist’s they will rail against those of us who display Faith as they prefer to see things from a Atheistic Intent.
Definitions of religion:
a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; “he lost his faith but not his morality”
an institution to express belief in a divine power; “he was raised in the Baptist religion”; “a member of his own faith contradicted him”
Belief in a deity is similar in religions throughout the world and but Theistic Satanism requires some understanding and yet it prevails as the most powerful magic based religion on the planet, I personally am glad people have tried to whittle down its tenants and have attempted to define it as something else, but here it is.
Theism in the broadest sense is the belief in at least one deity. In a more specific sense, theism refers to a particular doctrine concerning the nature of a god and his relationship to the universe, being Theistic is the action thereof.
Some things that are useful in its practice is the arts:
The Art of Meditation:
Definitions of meditation:
continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; “the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge”
(religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects).
The Art of Invocation:
Definitions of invocation:
a prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service
an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil
conjuring: calling up a spirit or devil
the act of appealing for help.
The Art of Incantation:
An incantation or incantations are the words spoken during a ritual, either a hymn or prayer invoking or praising a deity, or in magic, occultism, witchcraft with the intention of casting a spell on an object or a person. The term derives from Latin(incantare).
The Art of Spell-Craft
Definitions of Spellcraft:
Spellcraft is the ability to cast and work spells. It is often used to describe the rituals performed by witches, Wiccans, and Neo-pagans. Such instances of spellcraft can require the use of various gems, herbs, incense, candles, colours, meditation, chanting, astrology, and numerology.

The Art of Ritual:
Definitions of ritual:
any customary observance or practice
the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies
of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals; “ritual killing”
stereotyped behavior.

The Art of Prayer:
Definitions of prayer:
the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving); “the priest sank to his knees in prayer”
reverent petition to a deity
entreaty: earnest or urgent request; “an entreaty to stop the fighting”; “an appeal for help”; “an appeal to the public to keep calm”
a fixed text used in praying.
someone who prays to a God.
While I pray several times a day, I recommend those in Theistic Satanism to pray at least once a day and thank Satan for many different things, including guidance, it is necessary to become Spiritual with Satan.
Definitions of spiritual:
religious: concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; “religious texts”; “a member of a religious order”; “lords temporal and spiritual”; “spiritual leaders”; “spiritual songs”
concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; “a spiritual approach to life”; “spiritual fulfillment”; “spiritual values”; “unearthly love”
lacking material body or form or substance; “spiritual beings”; “the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm”-Lewis Mumford
a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
apparitional: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; “a ghostly face at the window”; “a phantasmal presence in the room”; “spectral emanations”; “spiritual tappings at a seance”
While people often think they are being spiritual they sometimes as not, I would have to contemplate being spiritual as an Art or The Art of Spirituality.
This can stem from faith as well and could be formed from prayer and or ritual.
Messages come clearly to those with Faith or Spirituality and slow for those not immersed in such.
Now comes the age old question as to where does the Theistic Satanist’s go when they die?
After long hours of research I surmise that we are reborn over and over because we are comprised of energy, however some people do think we have past lives, but I have a theory while some seem to be precognitive of a past life, we cannot control where we go or who be return as, because our essence which is comprised of energy is uncontrollable at death.
So we a merely a husk that contains an energy that can prosper or fail based on our level of Faith or Spirituality and the stronger we are the better chance we have to survive beyond our bodies.
We should do as can while we are in our bodies and in order to work from beyond our bodies we require a certain level of internal faith to push us path the throes of death and into our next lives serving Satan, while his plan may or may not be complete we do not move along like “Lab Rats” in some experiment we move along as travelers and we chart our own futures by actions of Faith while our energy lives.
One does not have to be rich or well to do to thrive around the deity, just have Faith he understands we all have a mission, a place and no matter how downtrodden you become you must rise up and realize there is a better place and perhaps a better life somewhere in your future, so no matter how low you feel you can never loose your faith.

Hail Satanist’s!
Grand Magister Blackwood

Other Satan Myths.
3 of 6 Learning Module
Church of Theistic Satanism the First Church of Theistic Satanism.

If one could ascertain that Freemasonry is correct in some way, we could then enter a mystical deity that we will describe below offering our expertise and knowledge for the benefit of the Theistic Satanic Community.
Let take a closer look at the deities of Freemasonry: Typhon ( some connect Satan with him)
Typhon — “Osiris was the son of Helios (Phra) the “Osiris was the son of Helios (Phra) the ‘divine offspring con-generate with the dawn’ and at the same time an incarnation of Kneph or Agathodaemon, the Good Spirit, including all his possible manifestations, either physical or moral. He represented in a familiar form the beneficent aspect of all higher emanations and in him was developed the conception of a Being purely good, so that it became necessary to set up another power as his adversary, called Seth, Baby, or Typhon to account for the injurious influences of Nature.”
While nature plays an important part in spell craft it however is irrelevant typto those who find themselves enamored by faith in the deity, or as we refer to later.
But Egypt being pretty interesting the roots are far older and Typhon while an interesting archetype, using the force of lesser deity probably creates a lesser effect in magic.
And at the same time an incarnation of Kneph or Agathodaemon, the Good Spirit, including all his possible manifestations, either physical or moral. He represented in a familiar form the beneficent aspect of all higher emanations and in him was developed the conception of a Being purely good, so that it became necessary to set up another power as his adversary, called Seth, Baby, or Typhon to account for the injurious influences of Nature.” [Pike, op. cit., p. 588, Teachings of the 28th Degree, Knight of the Sun, or Prince Adept].
As we know Albert Pike was not a Satanist but a confused Freemason, who through folklore and mysticism thought Lucifer was Satan, when insurmountable evidence persists that no connection of Lucifer comes from the Roots of Mesopotamia, a fact the critics fail to examine.

Once again, we can see the occult, and misguided doctrine that all of Nature is composed of good and evil, black and white, opposites that are equal but opposite.
This sort of Right and Left is not from Sumeria but from India or even Zoroastrian Roots and no identified definitions of Good and Evil were present in Sumerian Lifestyles and Civilization.

This is pure Neo Paganism, and Albert Pike has just espoused it, explaining that nature could not allow the all-loving, all-good Osiris to exist without an evil counterpart. In fact, Satanism and Freemasonry both share the same, very revealing, symbolization, but the ideologies of Freemasonry has been clouded by mysticism for years, yet all my insider friends and even ranked Mason’s explain Albert Pike was a weirdo and a fervent alcoholic stammering often after reading the works of Levi.

But lets examine another deity who is not Satan:
Pan — “… Satan is not a black god, but negation of God … this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may represent evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. They represent this Force … under the mythological and horned form of the God Pan; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer …” [Pike, Morals and Dogma, p. 102] we see the folklore join Pan as Pike begins to sound the confusion.

Since (misguided) Satanic Bible lists Pan as one of the Infernal Names of Satan, we need to look further into the Occult for more information on Pan. However, we now know that, from Pan came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Serpent, and the Light-bearer, [Lucifer] , because Albert Pike, the #1 Freemason of all history, has just told us, and yet confused most who don’t dig deep in the roots of Theistic Satanism.
Albert Pike is about as brilliant as Anton L aVey often times looking over the Roots of Satanism and going straight for the “easy description” or most palatable deity.

Albert Pike rambles on in confidence, and of course holding his flashy title of 33rd degree up high enough for any “ill-informed” Occultist bow at his throne.

Albert Pike is talking about in the paragraph above. He says that the evil god, whom he calls Seth or Typhon [Typhon is listed in The Satanic Bible as Infernal Names for Satan] is the adversary of the good god, Osiris; therefore, Pike is saying Osiris is Lucifer, but Lucifer isn’t Satan a fact those of us who do the research already know, and the musing of a “weakly educated” Anton L a Vey holds zero relevance to historical accuracy.

We find no root to Satan in Typhon despite Freemasonry or Anton L a Vey saying it is so, and back to Pan whom L a Vey also claimed “without researching” was Satan, lets see who Pan really was based on history:
Looking at such gods of the simpler Greek communities, we find them often vague in their nature and sometimes limited in their functions to a far greater degree than the better-known deities.
It is noteworthy that some at least of Pan’s worshipers were none too certain whether he was one or many; at all events, Aristophanes and Plato, to say nothing of later authors, have heard of the plural, Panes.
Panes, the plural lesson is propagated throughout historians creeds.
But this is exactly what, under the circumstances, we should expect, and indeed find in several like cases.
It is probable on the whole that his name means the Feeder or Pasturer.
We can only imagine that in Arcadia, where he was originally worshiped, many little groups of herdsmen devoutly adored each its divine Pasture, perhaps represented by some stick or stone set up in a holy place, and quite possibly each group was ready to proclaim the superiority of its own Pan to everyone’s idea
The god had originally been conceived as a single being or a plurality, often local cults tend to break up in this way.
An Christian example the Virgin Mary is one person in every kind of Christian theology, and no cult is more widespread in modern Greece than hers; but I have heard of a Chian peasant who proclaimed in emphatic and not over-delicate language that the Panaghia (the All-Holy One, her popular name ) of his village church could out do all other Panaghies whomsoever, another problem of Christian Hipocracy.
The same divine Pasturer was never a very exalted figure, nor always treated with profound respect, or what we should regard as such, even by those who worshiped him in all sincerity.
His business (a god has his duties; even Zeus is commended for ‘doing well’ when he sends seasonable rain) was to keep his herdsmen and worshipers well supplied with meat.
The obvious way to do this was to make their flocks and herds increase abundantly, and theirs were mostly small cattle, sheep and goats, especially, it would seem, the latter. Now the obvious increase r of a herd of goats is the he-goat, and a divine he-goat is essentially what Pan was supposed to be. When represented by an image at all, he regularly had goat’s legs and a shaggy beard, and his few legends make him out to be as lustful as his prototype, which we discuss in future modules of how Satan was twisted towards a goat figure.
Pan’s power was not unfailing, and, like that of not a few gods of sundry religions, might need stimulation and renewal at times, but overall he was well liked and followed by herdsmen and agricultural sects of the time,
We know how this was done; if the meat supplies, whether got from the flock or by hunting, were scanty, the boys used to beat Pan tie his statue: or whatever object represented him) with squills (a liliaceous plant, scilla maritima, resembling the bluebell), a plant supposed to have the virtue of driving away evils.
Thus they at once roused the god to further efforts and rid him, to the best of their ability, of whatever unlucky influence had hindered his activities.
Pasturer, reckoned amongst the sons of Hermes was this great phallic god of the inhabitants of the Peloponnese, especially of Arcadia – a goat-horned, goat-legged god named Pan. In a story concerning Hermes set in Arcadia, Hermes pastured sheep for a mortal master, Dryops, “oak” – the first Green Man – and whilst doing so fell in love with a local nymph. Hermetic desire found fulfillment, and a magic child was born, with goat’s feet and goat’s horns, crying and laughing.
When his mother had borne him, she sprang up and fled, leaving none to suckle the child, so terrified was she saw its wild and bearded face. Hermes picked up his son, wrapped him in a hare’s pelt, and hastily brought him to Olympus. He sat down beside Zeus and the other gods, and introduced his son to them. The immortals were delighted with the child – Dionysus most of all. They named him Pan because ‘all’ had been pleased with him.
In Greek ‘pan’ means ‘all’, and the god was later identified with the physical Universe – although his name, except for its sound, has nothing to do with this. The story just told suggests that Pan was one of the youngest generation of gods. But each generation of gods must have had its own Pan, seeing that there was already a Pan in Zeus’s cave, who helped Zeus against the Titans, or against Typhon, and seeing also, that a Pan was – together with Arcas – a son of Zeus and Callisto.
The great poet and mythologian Aeschylus distinguished between two Pans; a son of Zeus, a twin brother of Areas; and a son of Kronos. The distinction between various Pans was also expressed in composite names such as Titanopan, Diopan, Hermopan – referring in each case to his father – or Aigipan, which was used by those who did not wish to assign any particular parentage to the god.
In the retinue of Dionysus, or in depictions of wild landscapes, there appeared not only a great Pan, but also little Pans, Paniskoi, who played the same part as the Satyrs. This resemblance to the Satyrs, of whom there must at first have been more than one, led to a dispersion and multiplication of the god Pan, who perhaps, when he originally came into being, had only a single twin brother and represented the darker half of a divine male couple.
Pan belongs to that twilight world of satyrs, fauns, centaurs and sileni, who according to venerable tradition once thronged the globe, and whose descendants may still be glimpsed by the sensitive. (Crowley once confessed to having seen a faun peering at him from behind a tree at Fontainbleau, probably during his bouts with Heroin).
These earlier stages of human evolution, the androgynous and semi-animal states, are yet recapitulated in the womb.
The characteristics that were ascribed to Pan in numerous lesser tales are well known: dark, terror-awakening, phallic, but not always malignant. He could, of course, sometimes be malignant, especially at noon, if he were awakened from his sleep. At night he led the dance of the nymphs, and he also ushered in the morning and kept watch from the mountain summits. Many love-stories were told of him, in which he pursued nymphs. These chases often had dramatic results. Syrinx turned herself into a reed-pipe, from which Pan fashioned the syrinx, a herdsman’s flute with a row of holes; Echo, chased by Pan, became a mere voice, mere refracted sound. But Pan’s greatest passion was for Selene.
Of this affair it was told that the moon-goddess refused to company with the dark god, who beyond his knowledge was relegated to being dark.
Whereupon Pan, to please her, dressed himself in white ram-skins, and thus seduced Selene.
He even carried her on his back. It is however uncertain whether even in the earliest time it was necessary for him thus to change his shape in order to play the role of successful lover with a goddess who repeatedly lets herself be embraced by darkness.
But the myth has traceable links with the ancient devotions of Egypt. Of all the Egyptians who were skilled in working magic. Nectanebo, the last native king of Egypt, about BCE 358, was the chief, if we may believe Greek tradition.
When he saw that the end of the kingdom of Egypt was at hand, he shaved off his hair and his beard, disguised himself by putting on common apparel, took ship and fled to Pella in Macedonia, where he established himself as a physician and as an Egyptian soothsayer.
The historian Pseudo-Callisthenes tells us that there Nectanebus cast the nativity of the queen, Olympias, and sent a dream to the queen by means of a wax image. His object was to persuade the queen that the Egyptian god Amun (worshiped at Luxor in ithyphallic form in the guise or the fertility god Min) would come to her at night.
Nectanebus also sent a dream to King Philip of Macedon, by means of a hawk that he had bewitched with magical words, and the king was satisfied that the child to whom his wife was about to give birth was the son of the god Amun (or Ammon) of Libya, who was regarded as the father of all the kings who ascended the throne of Egypt who did not belong to the royal stock of that country.
The child was Alexander the Great.
When he conquered Egypt Alexander straightway resorted to the oasis of Siwa, to visit the shrine of Jupiter-Ammon. There he embraced the god and clothed himself in the skin of the sacred ram in which the god was incarnate.
Medallions of the king ever after showed him crowned with the ram’s horns of kingship and divinity. Thus Greece succumbed to the wiles of Egypt, but Hellenic ways were even so impressed upon the land of the Nile, and the goat would lie with the ram.
In an Orphic fragment preserved by Marobius, the names of Jupiter and Pan appear to be titles of the all-creating power of the sun, and Pan, the universal substance is called Kerastes, the horned Jupiter. According to Plutarch, the Jupiter-Ammon of the Africans was the same as the Pan of the Greeks. This explains the reasons why the Macedonian kings assumed the horns of that god; for, though Alexander pretended to be his son, his successors never pretended to any such honor; and yet they equally assumed the symbols, as appears from their medals.
The case is, that Pan, or Ammon, being the universe, and Jupiter a title of the Supreme God, the horns, the emblems of his power, seemed the most proper symbols of that supreme and universal dominion to which they all, as well as Alexander, had the ambition to aspire, perhaps another paradox to Pan.
Now Nectanebo had been a pharaoh in the XXXth dynasty, and had fought the battle of Mendes, a town in the Delta, Lower Egypt, now called Ashmoun, with Ataxerxes II, his suzerain, king of Persia, whom he had utterly defeated, and together with his army expelled from the Delta, Nectanebo forever after remained faithful to the local god.
The town was sacred to the worship of the god Min and the ram Mendes. This devotion Nectanebo took with him when he fled to Greece. His god was identified with Pan. (The Greeks called Min’s city in the IXth nome of Upper Egypt Panopolis, today called Akhmim.) When the Ptolomies ruled Egypt after Alexander, Min was accepted as the Egyptian Pan, and the worship of the goat was conflated with that of the ram. This gave rise to the cult of the Goat of Mendes, infamous in the West as the incarnation of the Devil, the age-old arch rival to the slave masters of Christendom.
In dynastic times, the soul of Osiris was thought to be lodged in the sacred ram that was worshipped in the Western Delta town of Djedet, and was known as Ba-neb-Djedet (Ram-lord-of-Djedet), who remained a popular deity down to the Ptolomaic period.
The Greeks garbled the last three syllables of Ba-neb-Djedet’s name into Mendes, and two Greeks in particular, the geographer Strabo and the poet Pindar, not to mention the Roman historian Diodorus of Sicily, made the Ram of Mendes famous. Pindar insisted that this Ram was permitted to have intercourse with women, a practice attested by Herodotus.
A tapestry fragment from Egypt of the fourth century CE, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, shows Dionysus accompanied by Pan, who here carries the pedum (shepherd’s crook) and a faun-skin. In the background are pan-pipes.
Both wear the haloes of divinity. Such ‘post-classical’ works bear witness to the cult of Pan all around the Mediterranean well into the Christian era. Whether this persisting iconography was supported by a continuation of the Mysteries is another question.
They were probably limited to the great centers of urban civilization where his cult flourished most strongly, such as Alexandria, Athens, Pergamurn and Ephesus. The silver ‘Oceanus Dish’ from the Mildenhall Treasure, around 350-375ce, now in the British Museum, shows four lithe maenads dancing with Pan and his satyrs.
It was Margaret Murray who said that the gods of the old religion become the devils of the new. Jesus ended his life on earth in the southern part of Judea in Jerusalem. The death of Christ heralded the birth of a new religion which would bear his name. As this new religion grew and spread, all, or almost all, it came into contact with became its enemy. The common people, content in their style of worship were suddenly heathens, sinners and enemies of the one true God. The pair of opposites was now Paganism and Christianity. As Christ represents Christianity, Pan represents Paganism. Pan was soon to become the Christian Devil, Satan incarnate. But before this Christian conception took hold, Pan was a god.
What was there about this frolicking god of the glen that made him so odious to the new Christians? Wherein was he Satanic? Perhaps in his sexual exploits. He is known to have seduced several nymphs.
He also boasted that he had coupled with all Dionysus’ drunken maenads. The episode related above wherein Pan seduces the Moon points to the Christian belief that Satan is able to disguise himself and seduce chaste women. The similarity between the Church Father Origen’s description of Satan and the features of Pan is very obvious.
Pan represented freedom of spirit, natural instincts, sinless love. In some parts of the world, prior to the advent of Christianity, women were free, untrammeled by rigid rules of moral conduct, and therefore, when the new religion made its debut, women were called sinful.
“The Christians found the women of Europe free and sovereign,” says Elizabeth Davis in “The First Sex” (p 229). “The right to divorce, to abortion, to birth control, to property ownership, to the bearing of titles and the inheritance of estates, to the making of wills, to bringing suits at law, all these and many other rights were attributed away by the Church through the Christian centuries.
” We must remember that the leaders of the early church were Jews, bred in the Hebraic tradition that women were of no account and existed solely to serve men. Orthodox Judaism of the time, like Saint Augustine of Hippo, taught that women had no souls, and interesting concept in Christianity.
Now we draw closer to the reason Pan might have been viewed as Satan, why the figure of Satan as handed down to us consists of goat’s feet, horns and black hair. (The statue of the god Min, the Egyptian Pan, was daubed black.) Pan came to represent the freedom of spirit and love of Nature which could be viewed only as works of the Devil. Pan and women were allies, friends, lovers.
All were guiltless, without shame. As some scholars have it, guilt is the cornerstone of the early Christian faith. Woman was guilty by virtue of being woman. Saint Clement announced that
“Every woman should be overwhelmed with shame at the very thought that she is woman.” Here we have it in a nutshell: pagans had no guilt, no shame, no sense of sin. Thus Pan became the paragon of guilt, the embodiment of sin, and the patron of that horrendous human weakness – sex. Obviously, like gods and goddesses, and rites and ceremonies before him, Pan had to be either synchronized, suppressed or subordinated.
True to form, the Christian Fathers incorporated Pan into their pantheon – as Satan. Pan could not be annihilated for too many people loved, adored and worshiped him. He could not be extirpated from the hearts and minds of men and women.
So he was simply ‘utilized’. This Christian act was felt everywhere; the repercussions were wide ranging. The Christian God was said to have killed Pan.
News of Pan’s death came to a man named Thamus, a pilot of a ship bound for Italy by way of Paxi. As Thamus was sailing along in the Aegean on a quiet evening, he heard a loud voice announcing that “Great Pan is dead”.
This announced the end of Paganism; Pan with his pipes, the god of the natural, had yielded to the God of the supernatural. The story is told by a character in Plutarch’s dialogue “On why oracles came to fail”.
When the boat Thamus was piloting came opposite Palodes, and there was neither wind nor wave, from the stern, looking toward the land, he said the words as he heard them: “Great Pan is dead”. Even before he had finished there was a great cry of lamentation, not of one person but of many, mingled with exclamations of amazement.
As many persons were on the vessel, the story was soon spread abroad in Rome, and Thamus was sent for by Tiberius Caesar. Tiberius became so convinced of the truth of the story that he caused an inquiry and investigation to be made about Pan, and the scholars, who were numerous at this court, conjectured that he was the son born of Hermes and Penelope, based on the mystical conclusion that the numerological value of the name Pan equates to 131, the number of lovers reputedly entertained by Penelope.
The lifetime of Plutarch (CE 45-125), who took the myth seriously, coincides with the time in which almost all the books of the New Testament were written. Speculation about the death of Pan continued in the Renaissance and afterward. Rabelais thought that Pan was Christ, for ‘pan’ means ‘all’, and Christ is mankind’s all. Fontenelle, in his “Histoire critique des oracles”, considered the possibility that Jesus and Great Pan might be daemons of approximately the same rank, and that the death of one would affect the other.
Even if the story of Great Pan has no foundation whatsoever, it seems to sum up the mood of an entire era and its historical truth is that of a myth, albeit a late myth.
To many early Christians this was the beginning of the end of paganism, and by the late Middle Ages the ancient god of the Greeks was identified with the devil. Pan did not really die.
If anything, this was wishful thinking on the part of early Christians., and even “ill-informed” Pa gan’s.
People will take many works into context but as you move forward in these learning modules you will find the real deity doesn’t come from anywhere in Europe, nor the minds of these magicians who have design created an system for their own preservation.
But that they truly believed Pan to be dead cannot be denied. It was with hope and expectation of better things that they proclaimed: “Great Pan is dead”.
To them it prophesied the end of the world. The alleged death of Pan was not simply a matter of the end of ancient worship, the overthrow of the preceding faith, the eclipse of time-honored religious forms, but the express hope that Nature is to disappear and life die out: the Gospel says “The day is at hand”; the Church Fathers say “Soon, very soon”. The disintegration of the Roman Empire and the inroads of the barbarian invaders raised such hopes in St Augustine’s breast, that soon there would be no city left but his City of God.
Yet how long a-dying the world is; how obstinately determined to live on. The old gods enshrined in the heart of nature, in the trees and streams, between the rocks and in the breeze, live on to confound the Church and cannot be driven out.
Who says so? The Church herself – contradicting herself flatly. She first proclaimed them dead, then waxes indignant because they are still alive. Unable to kill them, the Church suffers the innocent-heavyhearted to dress them up and disguise their true nature.
The nature and attributes of the god Pan, after ‘diabolization’, were added to the looming black figure of Satan.
Century after century, by the threatening voices of Church councils, Pan was ordered to die, but he is as alive as ever. There are those who accept the definitions of the Church at face value, and in their stance against Christianity invoke devils and worship Satan.
On the other hand there is that body of worshipers who call themselves witches, the worshipers of the Old Religion, the admirers of Pan. They still dance to the strains of his pipes, tphat is fine for those who take up magic from the Pagan side or Wicca side, Pan is a great deity according to the shepherd’s, but Satan no!
In continental Europe, as well as in Britain, some worshipers of the ancient Celtic and Graeco-Roman gods had refused to convert to Christianity, and the rites they performed were interpreted as magical rites. The Celts worshiped a horned male god that may have reminded the Romans of the god Pan; a minor god to be sure, but one who could drive you into a ‘panic’ terror when you encountered him at noontime.
This combination of horned gods, one Celtic, one classical, produced a very powerful deity around which the pagani rallied.
Up to the time of the Norman Conquest, records show that the people were openly pagan while their rulers may have been nominally Christian. A legal enactment could Christianize vast numbers of people even if they continued to practice the Old Religion.
The enactment symbolized the Death of Pan, but the populace testified to his life. In his short history of Christianity, the author Marty tells us that it is possible that the Church’s prohibition against representing the Crucifixion as a lamb on a cross was due to the desire to differentiate the Christian from the heathen god.
The lamb, being a horned animal, was liable to be confused with the horned deity of the pagans.
The Old Religion, the worship of the Horned God, was apparently a worthy opponent for Christianity. It is said that if the word ‘God’ were substituted for the word ‘Devil’ in all Christian-written material on Paganism one would have a fairly accurate account of the prevalence and intensity of Pagan worship.
Christians stigmatized the worshipers as witches, called their god Satan, and turned their groves into churches.
In the process they made Satan’s presence felt more, and increased his stature as well as the number of his devotes.
Witchcraft emerged as a black practice dangerous to followers of God, so many myths and folklore deities were created to combat the flux of Paganism and the diversion from the Church which was far more oppressive at the time of the early A.D.’s.
It is in witchcraft that Pan – the symbol of Nature – still lives. His worship has ever lingered in field and fold. The new religion was left to the urban centres. Leland recorded the little prayers to Pan still intoned by devotees of ‘la vecchia religione’ in Tuscany. The Farrars use the name of Pan in their specimen rituals of “The Witches Way’, where he is still equated with Herne and Cernunnos.
The Arcadian god Pan is the best known Classical example of the dangerous presence dwelling just beyond the protected zone of the community boundary, ‘beyond the pale’; Sylvanus and Faunus were his Latin counterparts. (In Alexandrian times Pan was identified with the ithyphallic Egyptian divinity Min, who was, among other things, the guardian of desert roads.)
The emotion that he instilled in human beings who by accident adventured into his domain was ‘‘panic’ fear, a sudden groundless fright.
Any trifling cause then – the break of a twig, the flutter of a leaf – would flood the mind with imagined danger, and in the frantic effort to escape from his, own aroused unconscious the victim expired in a flight of dread.
His worship spread from Arcadia to Athens immediately after the Athenian and Plataean victory over the Persians at Marathon in 480 BCE, because he made the Persians flee in panic.
Yet Pan was benign to those who paid him worship, yielding the boons of the divine economy of nature, bounty to the farmers, herders, and fisher-folk who dedicated their first fruits to him, and health to all who properly approached his shrines of healing.
Also wisdom, the wisdom of Omphalos, the World Navel, was his to bestow; for the crossing of the threshold is the first step into the sacred zone of the universal source.
At Lycaion was an oracle, presided over by the nymph Erato, whom Pan inspired, as Apollo did the prophetess at Delphi. And Plutarch numbers the ecstasies of the orgiastic rites of Pan along with the ecstasy of Cybele, the Bacchic frenzy of Dionysus (the great Thracian counterpart of Pan), the poetic frenzy inspired by the Muses, the warrior frenzy of the god Ares-Mars, and, fiercest of all, the frenzy of love, as illustrations of the divine ‘enthusiasm’ that overturns the reason and releases the forces of the destructive-creative dark.
The condition as panolepsy was suffered by ancient Greeks from Athenian teenagers to mighty Socrates himself, whereby a person in the woods would be overcome by intense elation.
This was considered possession by Pan. Some would run away into the woods and never return. Pan, as god of the Hellenic witches, furnishes the traditional image of the Devil; hence he must have played an important role in magical ceremonies in later antiquity although the texts do not give a coherent picture of this development.
In his book on the Tarot, Frank Lind says of The Black Magician card that the central figure of the card is that of Pan, the god of Nature, the cause of man’s instinctive behavior. In some Tarot sets the Devil is represented with the extremities of a goat – the he-goat being a prototype of Satan.
Laughable at best in the connotation, and of course those studied can tell you Satan probably had horns but not of the goat, but I will save that for the future, lets just say Bull Horns!
The appearance of Satan as a goat was usual at the witches’ Sabbat. This Goat of Mendes, a combination of faun, satyr, and Pan-goat, became in medieval times a definite synthesis of the anti-divinity. At Mendes, the city of ancient Egypt, Pan under this form was worshiped with the greatest solemnity., but we will show you the truth soon and show you why Pan is a fraud with no Sumerian recasts.
So Pan and his recasts are not Satan.

Church of Theistic Satanism Announcement:
The First Church in Theistic Satanism Reveals David Myatt Letter:

In a recent meeting in Chicago, attended by Magister Alexander and Guest Grand Magister Blackwood a letter was revealed to Clergy disproving the theory of the existence of such a letter not being real a photo of the letter will made available to Clergy of The Temples of Satan and will be made available soon to the general public.
A copy of the letter can requested by writing:
Myatt Letter c/o Flagship Media
488 South Harvey Shelby MI 49455
(mailing address of Flagship Media)
or:
Flagship Transportation
4604 North Sheridan
Peoria IL, 61614

This letter speaks of Myatt not having interest in returning to Satanism, and explaining while his theory is relevant to he is a devout Muslim.
It goes on to describe additional ideas and will in the end be turned in to several Islamic Watch-Dogs along with a general press release.

In recent days the Order of Nine Angles operatives created a false screen name on several social web sites, yet Myatt is still speaking for Islam, so as Magister Alexander pointed out his profiles have been falsified and created, to appear as Myatt, while Myatt would have little interest in small social communities.

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Stance on Islam and its global spread: By Grand Magister Blackwood Leader of Theistic Satanism

Good after my Satanic Brothers and Sisters people often ask me questions regarding Islam, so I have prepared a short essay to reply to these very pertinent questions.

Q. Why hate Islam?
A. History shows us the Muslims destroyed much of Sumerian Historical Artifacts and Cuneiform Inscriptions in an attempt to make Islam a “end game.”
Islam has decreed in Muslim countries that Satanic Documents and Satanic Books in possession of anyone is blasphemous against Allah and could result in the Death Penalty.
Islam is a religion where the perfect excuse for bad or insane behavior seems warranted.;
a. case in point it is acceptable for men to rape under-age women, and even boys (yet homosexuality is forbidden).
b. Women are treated as inferior and have virtually no rights, women even have vaginal and clitoral surgery to prevent them from being a whore or experiencing a orgasm.
c. Sharia law forbids the teachings of The Occult and once again is punishable by death.

Q. Satan comes from Mesopotamia doesn’t he/she?
A. Yes but the people of that region have long forgotten his origin twisting him into a weak form, and destroying temples and structures not in line with Islamic Sharia Law.

Q. So what can I do verses it without being deemed a racist or hate monger.
A. Sometimes the pen is mightier than a sword, inform people, quote information, inform yourselves as well.
a. Join spirited groups and churches like The Church of Theistic Satanism (Temples of Satan) where groups of people are determined to strike back in the event of Sharia Law hitting our shores to protect Satanism.
b. Inform yourselves with Non Liberal Diatribe, avoid those who preach Religious Tolerance, since some people only want themselves to feel good because they support Islam without understanding it.
c. Avoid Muslims and “castigate privately” do not use violence until they use violence against you.

Q. Satanism? Anti-Islam?
A. Well Theistic Satanism we will stand for you or with you should this religion that has stained the world marches onto our shores, we will take heads if they take head I can promise you this and as Leader of Theistic Satanism, we will spend more time in the future educating people to the “ilk of Islam” and continue to attack its leadership.
a. It is not correct for the Satanist to attack the Jew, and Christianity is too large and far less dangerous right now, evidence is in the number of cases of Islamic people attacking the U.S. (death toll) verses the Christian’s (death toll comparative).
There is no debate in the number of deaths at the hands of Islam in current times, in the past Christianity held the title.

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Satanism Today A Perspective For The Faith
By Grand Magister Blackwood The Leader of Theistic Satanism.

Everyday my email box fills with people who fifty percent of the time agree and fifty percent of the time disagree with me, some call me a “blowhard” others call me a “dedicated soul” others worse than that or better than most.

I have been plagiarized, and be the folly of numerous fake photo’s and yet here I remain, I remain true to the path and true to my vision for Purity and Excellence in Satanism.

Now while the critic’s spend days in their basement’s and bedrooms attacking me and my Real Church dedicated to Satan (a man made term) I continue to reach out finding those who share the same belief system that my church and clergy so are endeared and dedicated to.

First let’s examine why people dislike me and my churches teaching’s and or ideology:
The Temples of Satan was founded in 2000 by two Theistic Satanist’s both came from backgrounds of magic and enlightenment, several leadership changes later and finally the dust cleared we have emerged a clear leader in Theistic Satanism, and as people come daily seeking teachings and awareness we are communicating with those individuals to further their experiences and or journey down the path.

So clearly that is why despite the critic’s constant banter and diatribe we continue a pattern of growth and a pattern that has allowed us to bring into the fold leadership from other groups assembling not around one man’s vision but the vision shared in team environments, not so much a collective but a philosophy that was not designed by one man but a team, whose teachings and open minded discussions allow us to excel and provide a positive experience to the membership body.

We see often examples of actions in other religions and have divided leadership in several key roles to enhance your membership experience and to allow you to further your education, which ultimately will silence the skeptics and provide for growth in your culmination of your studies and movement.

Some say the Temples of Satan and Church of Theistic Satanism are forces to be dealt with, they are providing falsehoods and almost a “cult-like” atmosphere as Grand Magister Blackwood rants about the very religion, yet I say “grown or children, did I hurt your feelings exposing you?”

People often misunderstand commentary or criticism and with the Media Circus and advent of the Blogs can get off the path and begin to read and feed their minds with the falsehoods, so as a qualified educator in Satanism, I am determined to expose those who are involved in raising themselves up to a level of falsehoods and almost messiah like qualities, this of course creates enemies by the dozens and people attack from all directions and become almost as bad a political pundits.

I however see much more, not saying that I am a messiah I believe I am a leader and teacher and my faith tells me to spread the immortal words of Satan and Satanism from a platform that provides “Purity and Excellence” unlike my predecessors of lesser intellect.

I have been challenged by others and yet I remain amongst you not ahead of you, I remain aside you and for the uneducated or Occult illiterate, like many in the W.S.A. Or reformed Order of Nine Angles I prefer to use my name as Grand Magister Blackwood, this referring to Occult Teacher, I am legally able to use Reverend or Priest however do in public to avoid misunderstanding use Reverend.
Titles names and such are not always of importance but to those who earn such titles and such respect the titles really mean something.
More than a “store bought” name badge they are accomplishments and in the two churches I personally oversea with a council of others they mean levels of enlightenment and understand and I personally don’t care what the critics think is Satanic or Christian or even Islamic in our title system, it’s a system of acknowledgment for moving forward in enlightenment and establishes goal setting.

Another question asked allot is: Satanism is a folly and do you think Satan is real?
Satan is very real and for those who have experienced him or his elegance, his powerful grasp on the metaphysical realm, it is something you will never wish to shrug off or leave.

Satan is a “man made” term and to better not confuse the reader or student I will often relate that Satan is a acceptable term designed my man to use for a much older deity dating back from Ancient Sumeria and unrelated to the Abrahamic construct of Lucifer.

Satan represents more than those narrow minded individuals in Modern Satanism can understand and for those who are planted deeply in the soils of Ancient Sumer, his image is clear, not Enki or Enlil but a son of the inheritor a geneticist of sorts whose influence is felt even to this day regardless of your claimed or birthed religion, he is as the Christian’s perceive God, everywhere and without challenge possibly the most powerful force known to man and woman, he is not a cloven hoof construct of The Middle Ages, nor is he the mistaken concept of Milton or Dante, he is powerful influential and a leader of many more than just myself or my church congregation.

Satan is not a Vampire, you don’t chase him off with garlic or silver crosses, he is far to omnipotent an in troubling times emotional and despite the Abrahamic Religion’s giving him a false persona he is the Ruler of Dark not of the night but of man and woman’s very dark side.

However he is not a forgiving deity, his faithful enjoy benefits not seen by other Neo Pagan deities and constructs because he has assimilated himself into all the mytho’s and the well rounded student of the Occult and can easily find the parallels and similarities that permeate the history of man and woman in worship.

To come to Satan is a experience most people fear and to cast oneself off from Modern Satanism or even this rudimentary remake of Lucifer Worship is not a an easy task Satan is not a forgiving deity and as Atheist’s attempt to disprove his essence it grows and flourishes not by anything else but by faith in America seventy percent of American’s think there is a Devil, a Satan, a Lucifer which they are right but they are wrong in verbiage as they have not explored his roots in Sumer.

To truly understand the deity is an accomplishment and is revered by those who have taken his path, and despite criticism I recommend to those who follow the path, you go with faith and you too will become one with the deity and experience the power you desire, but be prepared the price of such is high and requires dedication and devotion, of the likes no Pagan, Wicca or even Thelemite could wield effectively, and before you decide to swing his sword he expects your mind and soul and level of understanding to be a level where you can swing any sword he gives you or that you forge for him.

Everyday people leave God or Set, or whoever and come to Satan, he has a message and as his ranks grow, he grows and other deities weaken, that is his pleasure, his ultimate goal however most are unable to place themselves into the race and even show, this is sad and when this occurs often they will move themselves into a criticism of Satan instead of maybe learning some more or studying some more.

Society today is of the mind set, we can download the stuff, read it and exude power beyond our wildest dreams, we can be like Charmed and toss spells on everyone or anyone that get’s in our way, we can have power beyond belief and throw curses “like candy at a crowd in a parade.”

None of this is true because, it doesn’t work like that in faith and awareness, those things come you not from reading one book or seventy books, but having faith and serving the deity not as a slave but as a soldier, not congregating around sheep and moving forward, sorta like the wolf which can easily feed on sheep.

Satanism doesn’t come in a Macaroni and Cheese box where you can mix it and instantly become a Theistic Satanist, it takes times study and patience but most of all faith in yourself and then in your deity, a “back-bone” some “balls” to stand up and tell the world that they not you are lost, and that the strength in a deity derives from faithful masses, not the chosen few.

Standing up is never easy as parents, local authorities and peer pressure push us into the darkness and cause us sometimes to question our faith in Satan, this is the time you need to step back reaffirm your faith by prayer and devotional meditation, and then stand up raising your sword of faith skyward realizing in order to stop a movement by another deity one simply needs to field a better army, a stronger army not armed with weapons in hand but weapons in mind, the sharpest sword the deadliest gun doesn’t come from a forge it comes from your mind as long as you have faith.

Conspiracy Theory in Satanism as a whole damages its core and suspends Satan’s power as people like Margolin or people with scree names like Pointy Hat or SugarCubz emerge spreading notions of Masonic Text’s or New World Order plans including the mixing of Abrahamic Religion’s and Masonic diatribe creating a cult-like atmosphere to Satanism and damaging peoples faith and confusing the willing to drink their potions of brainwashing and to become part of movements that are spawned from the minds of a known terrorist, these groups are hurling themselves towards implosion as those of us who share the faith, combat such notions and pick away at the mountains of misinformation they provide to their groups and blog subscribers.

There are numerous posting boards filled with these individuals and numerous fake screen names pop up everyday trying to slow the movement that will eventually envelop the planet allow Satan to finally restore his kingdom and for those on “Death by Default” there will be a day when Satan will walk from the desert and remove those zealots and theorist’s from his throne, you can ready or be caught by surprise and then when it’s too late I am my soldier’s the educated, the intellectual will reign and have our days of rest and nights of wine and spirits at his side as his soldiers.

Groups and boards come to being with nothing more than feeding an ego of a Satanist who feels as if he or she requires some sort of power, some sort of recognition, this is further from the truth and Satan could care less if you are not pure in faith and strong in mind, you can have a hundred groups and blogs but when you can lead your group off-line in the real world, you may want to consider being around those groups like the Temples of Satan or The Church of Theistic Satanism, because we will welcome you into our ranks, shine your sword, repair your armor and welcome you by his side.

There is one this the critics can never take from me, they can attempt to ruin my reputation, my church, my groups on-line but as many they cannot take my faith and devotion and as I remain so will you, aside the deity stronger and better, they can invent whatever diatribe and doctrine they desire and trust me I am the Temples of Satan, Church of Theistic Satanism and all of it’s affiliates will pull swords and ride our chariots over the bones of those who attempt to besmirch Satanist’s who truly believe there is a deity.

La Vey is long rotten, the damage he has done, the misconceptions, the falsehoods and even the creations he has made are coming undone and his words are growing silent, and now over all the falsehoods, the turpitude will emerge Theistic Satanism.

A religion not for everyone, but a religion for those who have a desire to come to it with a burning desire to be a soldier a fighter and intellectual beacon, unmatched in the Occult Realm, with power and prowess only true adepts could comprehend, listen and read and explore and you too will carry a sword, you may be criticized, you may be lied about but realized this they can never take your faith, no Christian, no Muslim, no Jew can destroy you and yours and when called to battle in the coming years months and days where will you allegiance lie to a group of people dedicated to Satan or a group of people dedicated to promoting one man or woman and some messiah type doctrines forged and copied from someone else.

Not here my friend, not in my lifetime, leadership requires respect not of just the person but of the person asking, Theistic Satanism as a religion is about personal responsibilities and strong fibers of faith, and when the critic’s and zealots attack you for your beliefs, make them feel your sword the sword of Satan and destroy them without fear or repercussion but with the knowledge you are not serving the deity as a slave but strengthening him through your devotion and faith.

Faith, devotion, spiritualism, are not owned by any religion and beware of the weak minded who attempt to steer you off the path by creating drama, or creating false stories about people who have decided to swing the Sword of Faith.

Avoid the Atheist’s and Modern Satanist’s for their Satan is not your Satan, and avoid the Sinister concepts, show them your ability to be sinister and drown out their ideologies and vision replacing them with Satan’s and if you refuse to think he is real, I am very sorry you are unimportant to the Theistic Satanist’s for we have faith.

Hail Theistic Satanist’s
Grand Magister Blackwood
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