The Voice of Satanism

Does Satan Answer Prayers?
From Reverend Tom Erik Raspotnik Leader of Theistic Satanism

Satan loves you and wants you to bring your burdens and cares to Him in prayer.
Two things can keep Satan from giving us what we ask in prayer. The first is questioning his existence– breaking Satan’s law and acting outside His will. Dis-belief erects a barrier between us and this God. Until that barrier is torn down, God can’t answer our prayers. This is why the first step you need to take is to turn by faith to Satan and ask Him to forgive your dis-belief and come into your life. When we do that, the barrier of disbelief is removed – and Satan hears our prayers.
The second thing that keeps Satan from giving us what we ask for is if we are seeking something that isn’t His will. Satan loves us and knows what is best for us – and because of this, He won’t give us anything that isn’t His will.
Real prayer begins with a personal relationship with Satan through faith in him. Are you ready to take this step?
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Let the sheep believe what they wish!
Commentary from Reverend Tom Erik Raspotnik Leader of Theistic Satanism

We are fighting the wrong fight, we are not educating, we are not growing anything but an intrinsic hatred amongst one another and the Christians and Atheists are laughing at most of us in the Satanic Community, we are engaged in disproving one another, making one another look like loons and I can tell you this Satan is not pleased by such behaviors.

First off toss out the books that contain Order of Nine Angles materials, and if you are not a Modern Satanist toss out the Satanic Bible, for those dedicated to Satan need no Bible especially from a man who commercialized and disgraced Satan by name.

These are wrong materials for the Theistic Satanist, and with over thirty years of wisdom and thousands of connections I can relate much to one source that is history, as a Theistic Satanist you need to carry a larger sword because you are of faith in Satan, even if your Satan is not necessarily always the name Satan, history tells us this name is more Judaic, and history reveals much on this.

There is no current plan for New World Order amongst any Satanists because we are far to fragmented after a recent forum with several noted authors on the subject they explained to me that no Satanic involvement exists in the any New World Order Group and this explains why most leaders in Satanism trying to sell people New World Order cannot seem to back up anything, and run when confronted.

People will have to settle issues that include false claims magical knowledge that is doing nothing more than confusing people, I am not saying I have the answers I do have some solutions but not an ultimate solution.
This sort and that sort of Satanism needs to be set aside, but this will require actions that will set ablaze many situations that are emboldened by lies and deceit, we have people who are willing to wear costumes and make claims that are for everything from membership fees and sleeping with people.

Satan is about sexuality but is not about abusing or trading his wisdom for sexual favors, but I often wondering the thinking behind those individuals who decide to enter into the arena of trading Satan’s wisdom for sexual favors, I have done such in my early years and found me less closer to the deity, mixing Modern Satanic undertones in Theistic Satanism is I believe unacceptable to Satan.

Satan is not about mixed religions and mixed magical anecdotes that mean nothing or fail to fit into no historical fact path.
Over hundreds of years magicians have lead people to drink from the waters of falsehood and today have set up tables of colored sugar water people seem so eagerly quick to drink, this again is not something Satan would admire, seeking his truth isn’t always contained in a book or on someones voice no matter how loud.

I am not a prophet, I am merely another leader who seeks purity and excellence in Theistic Satanism, something people seem to fail at miserably, this is because people are not moving Satanism forward most people are moving it backwards creating kingdoms on the Net and Face Book that are based on exchanging music, we cannot determine what type of music Satan likes, while I am sure he is happy people play to him, or tattoo themselves to him, do these people intrinsically have real faith?

Satan is a deity who is not of the dark and this is proven by historical text, which can be found not on the lips of a prophet or in some secret organization, but in history, failing to find it requires one to dig deeper and there are people willing to exchange some or all of it but not for sex, or membership fees, while some level of financial participation is required to maintain Churches to Satan we do not need to hold information back from those seeking it this is not something again Satan would admire.

Instead of “what would Jesus do”, “we should say what would Satan do?”
Not emboldening a Christians phrase but we should consider our directions carefully as times are changing in the United States we are approaching dire times and we could see Restoration of Satan in our times, not some Anti-Christ theory or Mayan Calendar misguiding but reality as Satan may have to restore civility to us and his kingdom which he controls but from a dimensional position.

I cannot provide prophecy on any of this just some suspect messages I have been being tuned into and been privileged to by being bound strongly to my faith, which isn’t always meant that I can truly decipher it correctly.
Restoration is not something I am a creator of it has been exchanged amongst the faithful since Sumeria and this ideology I will explain not trade out for a piece of ass.
Restoration from the priests and priestesses theology is that Satan has because of the lack of people with faith has been forced by his own Father from ruling over the possessions he has gained from fighting on Earth for us, and Restoration when it occurs will provide a ascension of Satan from the dimensional world he resides in.

Satan of course (the name is man and woman forged) but is acceptable so we will use it for the basis for current people entering into his realm Satan is not powerless, he just is subdued by his Creator until the people can bring him from his dimensional world to Earth through faith and a gain dominance over the hoards of others this may occur sooner than later.

By default Satan has gained people from many walks of life, not from selling one’s soul because I may ask how much can I get on E-Bay for a soul?
I don’t see the soul concept in historical descriptions, I see an essence, and its something that can’t be sold or exchanged however it can be altered, so I am sorry if your group, or organization uses that in a smoke and mirrors scenario I don’t think Satan thinks much of that either, as I said he has never spoken to me but his visions from my connection.

There are some things that are clear however Satan refused to live under the light of his Creator but for any of us the assume that any deity can be judged by humanity is as silly as prophets to him.
The ancient people once thought Satan was the crows, or animals, or a force that enveloped the darkness to accept him as the deity of the darkness is to accept Christians or Judaic values something once again not of Theistic Satanism.

The people of early Europe though the night was the Unholy Kingdom of Satan, history shows us that Satan can function equally in light or dark as he controls Earth but most of all magic, in these days people could barely afford tallow candles they cost almost twenty dollars in equivalent today, it wasn’t until Olive Lamps came into place did ancient people lighten the darkness, so people spun tales of Satan as coming at night it seems to of stuck as people think worship of Satan is dark.

Ancient civilizations encountered many perils from wild animals to robbers who loved the darkness but remember no lights from cities or lamp posts would have been present so to early man and woman traveling would have been perilous.
Without structures dotting the landscape growls could be heard further, and as merchants traveled long distances in “pitch black” conditions they would also disappear from towns and this would make Satan even more of lore in the night.
When in actuality few if any magicians would travel at night during the times, and actually magicians would travel accompanied by large groups of men out of respect for their ability to rule over the realms and create magic to heal.
Satan was the night to the people, but few understood he could move anywhere at anytime, and as we see in ancient history Satan would move freely in any light, like I said Satan is no vampire he cannot be overruled by crosses and prayers of the Christians, Muslims, or even the Judaic people of faith.

Satan was once given the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge by Mother Earth Inanna who resided in the Garden of Edin (spelled historically) while this tale lies in ancient wisdom people fail to see the real roots that are carved, and written acrossed the deserts of Iraq.
Numerous recasts came into play as Satan became other deities and as I said earlier his real name is not Satan its just an acceptable name designed in early Palestine spawning from Assyrian conquerors.

The night in ancient times were filled with fear and bizarre sounds imagine walking on a moor at night with a weak lamp filled with Olive Oil or even a small tallow candle which would easily go out in a moments notice, and as the moors would surge they would seemingly create noises that sounded almost demonic the sound of the moors would almost roar, as the wind howls over the moors the dark cries out and that could easily strike fear in even the bravest man or woman.
Satan was the rumor and I am sure he loves that man or woman fears the night or the sounds of the night, now we fill the night with other sounds that include horns, sirens, lamps charging, etc.,etc.

Brutal rulers would often times hang people from poles, and cage people these screams could easily be heard, large packs of animals would feed off humans leaving blood covered carcasses all along the roads making people fear the night so no better than Satan to be blamed for the things that happen at night, raids of wolves also made the night a crazy place and often cities were built near mountains and forests allowing raids to easily happen, often people would call the eyes of the night demons when they were staring at wolves, the fiercest of animals wolves hunt of night and in ancient times wolves roamed almost without defense and would spawn legends of the demons the Persian texts of Zoroaster described and soon this too would be explained by the priestesses and priests as what happened when people disappeared and this created another reason to chase people from Satan to their Patron Saints.

Middle Eastern landscapes were even more daunting, the darkness was even more hard to navigate, people would wander off and be swept up by the sands and near oasis’s they could easily be attacked and eaten by alligators, the wind would whip up violent storms and people would disappear swept under the sands.
Traveling would nearly be impossible and if the wind and sand did not get you, the animals or people who lurked the dark alleys would.
These situations would bring tales to the priestesses and priests at morning meetings or at rituals and those people who had fear would look for answers sometimes it was easier to just say Satan did it and for centuries Satan was the acceptable excuse for those disappearances and deaths.
Some of the darkest skies known are in the Middle East they are filled with legends and the nomads who travel for water and fertile land they live in close groups to fortify themselves from the night.
Night animals attacks are often and these attacks are from Hyena’s and they are deadly at night eating a entire person in a matter of an hour.

These stories further themselves as a man rose in Persia and became a popular figure amongst the rulers, he was named Zoroaster and his prophecies became interwoven into myth and lore as he created a world of evil verses good and a ruling God who held such actions in reverence watching good defeat evil in legendary battles that filled the books and lore of one of the largest and strongest armies marching towards Greece and beyond beating these theories into the minds of people who followed the priestesses and priests of Persia.

Greeks fought gallantly against the marauders but people seemed to love the lore of devi, djinn or other creatures that lived in the night and in dark places and soon as the Greeks struggled to retake the islands the Persian’s had already created fear and creatures to add to the fear of the darkness, religions of Pagan origin began to embrace the concepts of Good verses Evil and with this an entire new chapter came into being for Satan.
But the Greeks, the Romans, and most of all the Egyptians all had Gods and Goddesses of the Night which some called the Underworld, this came actually from Sumeria where they believed anything under the sky was Underworld.
The Greeks did however somehow take a concept from Sumeria where people passed over a river to peacefulness, hosting great feasts honoring the fallen which was explained the way to pass to death even by Sumerians, and those who failed to pass would be caught in a dimensional world looking fro scraps of energy to feed themselves so they would not expire.
Expire?
The Sumerians believed that when we die we either go to our deities Heaven or live on Earth until we run out of life force which can be fed from a limited supply of energy they somehow allow the stragglers to find scraps of, which could be some form of Hell on Earth which actually would be death.

Another struggle Satanism must overcome beyond false belief systems, its the influx of Antisemitism, while Society is often ruled by the News, and threats of New World Order the Elders of Zion and some theory that Jews are behind the fall of society is another myth we should separate ourselves from, in actuality much about God and Satan can be learned from works beyond the Old Testament reading other books teach us of systems the Hebrews developed from our ancestors these are things we need to read more about, not Order of Nine Angle false ideologies I can tell you the writer Anton Long is not wizard he currently is a devote Muslim who leans towards terrorist factions and denies Satanism, despite a few individuals trying to lie to Satanism about some “spooky agenda” where from someone basement or dorm room?

Much needs to be done and I am sorry I offended some of you I am don’t mix words well and my faith is unquestionable with Satan I am not a prophet but a realist and find so many people failing this religion and making it less than what it should be because its easier to sell something p remade than something you make or something you have read and can relate.

It is time we also take Aliens out of Satanism, while I cannot refute the possibilities of contact by humans and deities with people from elsewhere, the evidence is far to great by trivializing Satan into some spacecraft we are not honoring him, while he could travel dimensional anywhere and perhaps the deities did come from another world we need to stop thinking about Aliens and Satan, what is wrong with thinking Satan is a deity and not an alien, even if he is does that make what he does for those with faith less?
I am not trying to spoil the fun, but isn’t it time we come to reality and become closer to the deity in these troubling times we need the deity and he needs us in faith, not in confusion I don’t have all the answers and I can say I want to meet with more people who share the faith.
I founded a Church for those devoted and will continue to move Satan forward until my death.
I am now dedicating an entirely new Internet Experience which will allow those in Faith to have a single portal free from falsehood and full of information like this on what really is going on not because I said so, because something the detractors fail to see or hear is I interview others who are far wiser than myself and my sources of knowledge are not always Satanists, I have established people to learn from as I am chosen by the Faith of Theistic Satanism to lead I am required because of this to learn not for my own gain but to be able to teach more and expand Satan’s Kingdom.

I am not a prophet I am sure people will react with anger to this but Satan isn’t always what we want him to be, nor is he a secret reading history will enlighten many people and I can only hope others search out more than a few books that lead to a Christian’s Origin to Satan which is as false as can be, sometimes accepting Christian’s names is also detrimental using names from Islam and Judaism I can’t seem to understand either, why not research a bit and understand Satan, I can tell most of you quit buying spell books and look to historical ideologies they are filled with spells but you can write the best spells always but faith will inspire their strength in those spells without you are mentally masturbating!

Having intrinsic faith in the deity is the most important part of the Restoration of Satan and this faith cannot be forced or traded it is an individuals walk down his path, no leader should trade it or force it leaders should start lead by pointing out where, why, how and if yours is not ask why not?
Is the leader of your group posting old information “cut and paste” or creating new, or is he or she posting photos or quick quotes taken from L a Vey or from some secret document only they seem to have?
How long has your leader or group organizer been involved in Theistic Satanism, it takes years to wrap your head around wisdom of the ancients can he or she communicate this or does he or she just post videos of Black Sabbath?

Satan I believe need more of us to expand what he said and what he says to us in our visions and insights and end this squabbling and useless banter, another thing I think is almost as funny as an email curse, if people attacking one another with magic from the same faith, perhaps the person you are attacking has a purpose you don’t see or know and harming a person of faith can come back viciously on you as the caster, those of us who are of faith usually can determine who is weak on faith but why take the chance, I have been casting for years and sometimes I am very successful other times I am not this I believe is because our faith can empower us but the victims faith can empower them even if they worship a deity of another name, because Satan has been recast and even as history tells us he never would have attacked Inanna who ruled the Garden of Edin so this idea that we need to use magical curses on one another is ludicrous at best.

Those who enjoy closeness in faith can find themselves filled with safety as Satan would not condone attacking one another and especially would consider it a travesty to attack anyone of his cloth or priesthood, he offers protection to a point but not titanium armor, do something foolish history shows us he will toss you quickly to the wolves, dishonor Satan and his flame will quickly grow dim inside you so faith is so very important it is often hard to determine this because some of us are forced to practice in secret, but this does not make us weaker, strength comes from inside and developing this faith is important I believe to allow his Restoration!

People need to educate the new people as Satanism expands and this will require a new group of priestesses and priests who are less dedicated to screwing or finding love and find love in faith so they can teach those who are new, I have been there myself I understand it is not easy, we can clean things up provided we find faith and many people need to move themselves towards the faith ending the days of dark robes and blood drinking, relax Satan could care less if we wear a robe, actually if one is accurate in practice only a priest or priestess would have worn a robe in ancient times that covered the head, magicians and witches would have worn robes adorned with sewn on depictions of most anything, in the Middle East head coverings were worn for sand protection, and people would have worn hoods from the sands unless they wrapped themselves.
But in Medieval Europe witches were often times wearing non descriptive garments keeping themselves free from religious persecution.
Witches were not out in open during the Medieval times because the Christian’s would have surely killed them, even in the Middle East many looked to refuge by assimilating themselves into society
this only occurred and carried on in private rituals in secluded areas and mostly all Witches were private in practice learning by being taught from one another one generation to the next.

But this occurred in the deserts and moors and bush and rituals and practices were often only initiated by those who could actually create magic, not by everyone because it was “cool or spooky.”
But more on this as I continue to speak on Historical Satanism which should really be Theistic Satanism.

Thanks
Reverend Tom Erik Raspotnik
(a.k.a. 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

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.

Thanks!

Grand Magister Blackwood examines the Code of Hammurabi a Sumerian Codex of Life
For those who claim the Mesopotamia Culture was so ignorant I provide a extensive base line of evidence in this report and repost.
The material for the study of Babylonian law is singularly extensive without being exhaustive. The so-called “contracts,” including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts and, most important of all, the actual legal decisions given by the judges in the law courts, exist in thousands.
Historical inscriptions, royal charters and re-scripts, dispatches, private letters and the general literature afford welcome supplementary information.
Even grammatical and lexicographical works, intended solely to facilitate the study of ancient literature, contain many extracts or short sentences bearing on law and custom.
The so-called “Sumerian Family Laws” are thus preserved.
The discovery of the now celebrated Code of Hammurabi (hereinafter simply termed the Code) has, however, made a more systematic study possible than could have resulted from the classification and interpretation of the other material.
Some fragments of a later code exist and have been published; but there still remain many points upon which we have no evidence.
This material dates from the earliest times down to the commencement of our era. The evidence upon a particular point may be very full at one period and almost entirely lacking at another.
The Code forms the backbone of the skeleton sketch which is here reconstructed. The fragments of it which have been recovered from Assur-bani-pal’s library at Nineveh and later Babylonian copies show that it was studied, divided into chapters entitled Ninu ilu sirum from its opening words, and recopied for fifteen hundred years or more.
The greater part of It remained in force, even through the Persian, Greek and Parthian conquests, which affected private life in Babylonia very little, and it survived to influence Syro-Roman and later Mahommedan law in Mesopotamia.
The law and custom which preceded the Code we shall call “early,” that of the New Babylonian empire (as well as the Persian, Greek, &c.) “late.” The law in Assyria was derived from Babylonia but conserved early features long after they had disappeared elsewhere.
When the Semitic tribes settled in the cities of Babylonia, their tribal custom passed over into city law.
The early history of the country is the story of a struggle for supremacy between the cities. A metropolis demanded tribute and military support from its subject cities but left their local cults and customs unaffected.
The city rights and usages were respected by kings and conquerors alike.
As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Samas-sum-yukin we find the Babylonians appealing to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city, that foreign women once married to Babylonian husbands could not be enslaved and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.
The population of Babylonia was of many races from early times and intercommunication between the cities was incessant. Every city had a large number of resident aliens. This freedom of intercourse must have tended to assimilate custom.
It was, however, reserved for the genius of Hammurabi to make Babylon his metropolis and weld together his vast empire by a uniform system of law.
Almost all trace of tribal custom has already disappeared from the law of the Code.
It is state-law; – alike self-help, blood-feud, marriage by capture, are absent; though family solidarity, district responsibility, ordeal, the lex talionis, are primitive features that remain.
The king is a benevolent autocrat, easily accessible to all his subjects, both able and willing to protect the weak against the highest-placed oppressor. The royal power, however, can only pardon when private resentment is appeased.
The judges are strictly supervised and appeal is allowed. The whole land is covered with feudal holdings, masters of the levy, police, &c. There is a regular postal system. The pax Babylonica is so assured that private individuals do not hesitate to ride in their carriage from Babylon to the coast of the Mediterranean. The position of women is free and dignified.
The Code did not merely embody contemporary custom or conserve ancient law. It is true that centuries of law-abiding and litigious habitue had accumulated in the temple archives of each city vast stores of precedent in ancient deeds and the records of judicial decisions, and that intercourse had assimilated city custom.
The universal habit of writing and perpetual recourse to written contract even more modified primitive custom and ancient precedent. Provided the parties could agree, the Code left them free to contract as a rule.
Their deed of agreement was drawn up in the temple by a notary public, and confirmed by an oath “by god and the king.” It was publicly sealed and witnessed by professional witnesses, as well as by collaterally interested parties.
The manner in which it was thus executed may have been sufficient security that its stipulations were not impious or illegal. Custom or public opinion doubtless secured that the parties would not agree to wrong.
In case of dispute the judges dealt first with the contract. They might not sustain it, but if the parties did not dispute it, they were free to observe it.
The judges’ decision might, however, be appealed against.
Many contracts contain the proviso that in case of future dispute the parties would abide by “the decision of the king.” The Code made known, in a vast number of cases, what that decision would be, and many cases of appeal to the king were sent back to the judges with orders to decide in accordance with it.
The Code itself was carefully and logically arranged and the order of its sections was conditioned by their subject-matter. Nevertheless the order is not that of modern scientific treatises, and a somewhat different order from both is most convenient for our purpose.
The Code contemplates the whole population as falling into three classes, the amelu, the muskinu and the ardu. The amelu was a patrician, the man of family, whose birth, marriage and death were registered, of ancestral estates and full civil rights.
He had aristocratic privileges and responsibilities, the right to exact retaliation for corporal injuries, and liability to heavier punishment for crimes and misdemeanors, higher fees and fines to pay. To this class belonged the king and court, the higher officials, the professions and craftsmen.
The term became in time a mere courtesy title but originally carried with it standing. Already in the Code, when status is not concerned, it is used to denote “any one.”
There was no property qualification nor does the term appear to be racial. It is most difficult to characterize the muskinu exactly. The term came in time to mean “a beggar” and with that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily poor, he may have been landless. He was free, but had to accept monetary compensation for corporal injuries, paid smaller fees and fines, even paid less offerings to the gods.
He inhabited a separate quarter of the city. There is no reason to regard him as specially connected with the court, as a royal pensioner, nor as forming the bulk of the population. The rarity of any reference to him in contemporary documents makes further specification conjectural.
The ardu was a slave, his master’s chattel, and formed a very numerous class. He could acquire property and even hold other slaves.
His master clothed and fed him, paid his doctor’s fees, but took all compensation paid for injury done to him.
His master usually found him a slave-girl as wife (the children were then born slaves), often set him up in a house (with farm or business) and simply took an annual rent of him.
Otherwise he might marry a free-woman (the children were then free), who might bring him a dower which his master could not touch, and at his death one-half of his property passed to his master as his heir.
He could acquire his freedom by purchase from his master, or might be freed and dedicated to a temple, or even adopted, when he became an amelu and not a muskinu. Slaves were recruited by purchase abroad, from captives taken in war and by freemen degraded for debt or crime.
A slave often ran away; if caught, the captor was bound to restore him to his master, and the Code fixes a reward of two shekels which the owner must pay the captor.
It was about one-tenth of the average value. To detain, harbour, &c., a slave was punished by death. So was an attempt to get him to leave the city.
A slave bore an identification mark, which could only be removed by a surgical operation and which later consisted of his owner’s name tattooed or branded on the arm.
On the great estates in Assyria and its subject provinces were many serfs, mostly of subject race, settled captives, or quondam slaves, tied to the soil they cultivated and sold with the estate but capable of possessing land and property of their own. There is little trace of serfs in Babylonia, unless the muskinu be really a serf.
The god of a city was originally owner of its land, which encircled it with an inner ring of irrigable arable land and an outer fringe of pasture, and the citizens were his tenants.
The god and his vicegerent, the king, had long ceased to disturb tenancy, and were content with fixed dues in naturalia, stock, money or service.
One of the earliest monuments records the purchase by a king of a large estate for his son, paying a fair market price and adding a handsome honorarium to the many owners in costly garments, plate, and precious articles of furniture.
The Code recognizes complete private ownership in land, but apparently extends the right to hold land to votaries, merchants (and resident aliens?).
But all land was sold subject to its fixed charges. The king, however, could free land from these charges by charter, which was a frequent way of rewarding those who deserved well of the state.
It is from these charters that we learn nearly all we know of the obligations that lay upon land. The state demanded men for the army and the corvee as well as dues in kind.
A definite area was bound to find a bowman together with his linked pikeman (who bore the shield for both) and to furnish them with supplies for the campaign. This area was termed “a bow” as early as the 8th century B.C., but the usage was much earlier.
Later, a horseman was due from certain areas. A man was only bound to serve so many (six?) times, but the land had to find a man annually.
The service was usually discharged by slaves and serfs, but the amelu (and perhaps the muskenu) went to war. The “bows” were grouped in tens and hundreds. The corvee was less regular.
The letters of Hammurabi often deal with claims to exemption.
Religious officials and shepherds in charge of flocks were exempt. Special liabilities lay upon riparian owners to repair canals, bridges, quays, etc.
The state claimed certain proportions of all crops, stock, &c. The king’s messengers could commandeer any subject’s property, giving a receipt. Further, every city had its own actuarial duties, customs, ferry dues, highway and water rates.
The king had long ceased to be, if he ever was, owner of the land. He had his own royal estates, his private property and dues from all his subjects.
The higher officials had endowments and official residences. The Code regulates the feudal position of certain classes.
They held an estate from the king consisting of house, garden, field, stock and a salary, on condition of personal service on the king’s errand.
They could not delegate the service on pain of death. When ordered abroad they could nominate a son, if capable, to hold the benefice and carry on the duty. If there was no son capable, the state put in a locum tenets, but granted one-third to the wife to maintain herself and children.
The benefice was inalienable, could not be sold, pledged, exchanged, sublet, devised or diminished. Other land was held of the state for rent.
Ancestral estate was strictly tied to the family. If a holder would sell, the family had the right of redemption and there seems to have been no time-limit to its exercise.
The temple occupied a most important position. It received from its estates, from tithes and other fixed dues, as well as from the sacrifices (a customary share) and other offerings of the faithful, vast amounts of all sorts of naturalia; besides money and permanent gifts.
The larger temples had many officials and servants. Originally, perhaps, each town clustered round one temple, and each head of a family had a right to minister there and share its receipts.
As the city grew, the right to so many days a year at one or other shrine (or its “gate”) descended in certain families and became a species of property which could be pledged, rented or shared within the family, but not alienated.
In spite of all these demands, however, the temples became great granaries and store-houses; as they also were the city archives.
The temple held its responsibilities. If a citizen was captured by the enemy and could not ransom himself the temple of his city must do so.
To the temple came the poor farmer to borrow seed corn or supplies for harvesters, &c.–advances which he repaid without interest. The king’s power over the temple was not proprietary but administrative.
He might borrow from it but repaid like other borrowers. The tithe seems to have been the composition for the rent due to the god for his land. It is not clear that all lands paid tithe, perhaps only such as once had a special connection with the temple.
The Code deals with a class of persons devoted to the service of a god, as vestals or hierodules. The vestals were vowed to chastity, lived together in a great nunnery, were forbidden to open or enter a tavern, and together with other votaries had many privileges.
The Code recognizes many ways of disposing of property–sale, lease, barter, gift, dedication, deposit, loan, pledge, all of which were matters of contract.
Sale was the delivery of the purchase (in the case of real estate symbolized by a staff, a key, or deed of conveyance) in return for the purchase money, receipts being given for both.
Credit, if given, was treated as a debt, and secured as a loan by the seller to be repaid by the buyer, fr which he gave a bond. The Code admits no claim unsubstantiated by documents or the oath of witnesses.
A buyer had to convince himself of the seller’s title. If he bought (or received on deposit) from a minor or a slave without power of attorney, he would be executed as a thief. If the goods were stolen and the rightful owner reclaimed them, he had to prove his purchase by producing the seller and the deed of sale or witnesses to it.
Otherwise he would be adjudged a thief and die. If he proved his purchase, he had to give up the property but had his remedy against the seller or, if he had died, could reclaim five-fold from his estate.
A man who bought a slave abroad, might find that he had been stolen or captured from Babylonia, and he had to restore him to his former owner without profit.
If he bought property belonging to a feudal holding, or to a ward in chancery, he had to return it and forfeit what he gave for it as well.
He could repudiate the purchase of a slave attacked by the bennu sickness within the month (later, a hundred days), and had a female slave three days on approval. A defect of title or undisclosed liability would invalidate the sale at any time.
Landowners frequently cultivated their land themselves but might employ a husbandman or let it. The husbandman was bound to carry out the proper cultivation, raise an average crop and leave the field in good tilt h.
In case the crop failed the Code fixed a statutory return. Land might be let at a fixed rent when the Code enacted that accidental loss fell on the tenant.
If let on share-profit, the landlord and tenant shared the loss proportionately to their stipulated share of profit.
If the tenant paid his rent and left the land in good tilth, the landlord could not interfere nor forbid subletting. Waste land was let to reclaim, the tenant being rent-free for three years and paying a stipulated rent in the fourth year.
If the tenant neglected to reclaim the land the Code enacted that he must hand it over in good tilth and fixed a statutory rent. Gardens or plantations were let in the same ways and under the same conditions; but for date-groves four years’ free tenure was allowed.
The meta yer system was in vogue, especially on temple lands. The landlord found land, labor, oxen for furloughing and working the watering-machines, carting, threshing or other implements, seed corn, rations for the workmen and fodder for the cattle.
The tenant, or steward, usually had other land of his own. If he stole the seed, rations or fodder, the Code enacted that his fingers should be cut off.
If he appropriated or sold the implements, impoverished or sublet the cattle, he was heavily fined and in default of payment might be condemned to be torn to pieces by the cattle on the field. Rent was as contracted.
Irrigation was indispensable. If the irrigation master neglected to repair his dyke, or left his runnel open and caused a flood, he had to make good the damage done to his neighbors’ crops, or be sold with his family to pay the cost.
The theft of a watering-machine, water-bucket or other agricultural implement was heavily fined.
Houses were let usually for the year, but also for longer terms, rent being paid in advance, half-yearly.
The contract generally specified that the house was in good repair, and the tenant was bound to keep it so. The woodwork, including doors and door frames, was removable, and the tenant might bring and take away his own.
The Code enacted that if the landlord would re-enter before the term was up, he must remit a fair proportion of the rent. Land was leased for houses or other buildings to be built upon it, the tenant being rent-free for eight or ten years; after which the building came into the landlord’s possession.
Despite the multitude of slaves, hired labor was often needed, especially at harvest.
This was matter of contract, and the hirer, who usually paid in advance, might demand a guarantee to fulfill the engagement. Cattle were hired for ploughing, working the watering-machines, carting, threshing, etc.
The Code fixed a statutory wage for sowers, ox-drivers, field-laborers, and hire for oxen, asses, &c.
There were many herds and flocks. The flocks were committed to a shepherd who gave receipt for them and took them out to pasture.
The Code fixed him a wage. He was responsible for all care, must restore ox for ox, sheep for sheep, must breed them satisfactorily.
Any dishonest use of the flock had to be repaid ten-fold, but loss by disease or wild beasts fell on the owner. The shepherd made good all loss due to his neglect.
If he let the flock feed on a field of corn he had to pay damages four-fold; if he turned them into standing corn when they ought to have been folded he paid twelve-fold.
In commercial matters, payment in kind was still common, though the contracts usually stipulate for cash, naming the standard expected, that of Babylon, Larsa, Assyria, Carchemish, etc.
The Code enacted, however, that a debtor must be allowed to pay in produce according to statutory scale. If a debtor had neither money nor crop, the creditor-must not refuse goods.
Debt was secured on the person of the debtor. Distrait on a debtor’s corn was forbidden by the Code; not only must the creditor give it back, but his illegal action forfeited his claim altogether.
An unwarranted seizure for debt was fined, as was the distrait of a working ox. The debtor being seized for debt could nominate as emancipate or hostage to work off the debt, his wife, a child, or slave.
The creditor could only hold a wife or child three years as mancipium. If the mancipium died a natural death while in the creditor’s possession no claim could lie against the latter; but if he was the cause of death by cruelty, he had to give son for son, or pay for a slave.
He could sell a slave-hostage, unless she were a slave-girl who had borne her master children. She had to be redeemed by her owner.
The debtor could also pledge his property, and in contracts often pledged a field house or crop. The Code enacted, however, that the debtor should always take the crop himself and pay the creditor from it.
If the crop failed, payment was deferred and no interest could be charged for that year. If the debtor did not cultivate the field himself he had to pay for the cultivation, but if the cultivation was already finished he must harvest it himself and pay his debt from the crop.
If the cultivator did not get a crop this would not cancel his contract. Pledges were often made where the intrinsic value of the article was equivalent to the amount of the debt; but antichretic pledge was more common, where the profit of the pledge was a set-off against the interest of the debt.
The whole property of the debtor might be pledged as security for the payment of the debt, without any of it coming into the enjoyment of the creditor. Personal guarantees were often given that the debtor would repay or the guarantor become liable himself.
Trade was very extensive.
Trade was common place amongst the entire lands of Mesopotamia and beyond.
A common way of doing business was for a merchant to entrust goods or money to a traveling agent, who sought a market for his goods. The caravans traveled far beyond the limits of the empire.
The Code insisted that the agent should inventory and give a receipt for all that he received. No claim could be made for anything not so entered.
Even if the agent made no profit he was bound to return double what he had received, if he made poor profit he had to make up the deficiency; but he was not responsible for loss by robbery or extortion on his travels.
On his return, the principal must give a receipt for what was handed over to him. Any false entry or claim on the agent’s part was penalized three-fold, on the principal’s part six-fold.
In normal cases profits were divided according to contract, usually equally.
A considerable amount of forwarding was done by the caravans.
The carrier gave a receipt for the consignment, took all responsibility and exacted a receipt on delivery. If he defaulted he paid five-fold. He was usually paid in advance. Deposit, especially warehousing of grain, was charged for at one-sixtieth.
The warehouseman took all risks, paid double for all shortage, but no claim could be made unless be had given a properly witnessed receipt. Water traffic on the Euphrates and canals was early very considerable.
Ships, whose tonnage was estimated at the amount of grain they could carry, were continually hired for the a transport of all kinds of goods. The Code fixes the price for building and insists on the builder’s giving a year’s guarantee of seaworthiness. It fixes the hire of ship and of crew.
The captain was responsible for the freight and the ship; he had to replace all loss.
Even if he re floated the ship he had to pay a fine of half its value for sinking it. In the case of collision the boat under way was responsible for damages to the boat at anchor.
The Code also regulated the liquor traffic, fixing a fair price for beer and forbidding the connivance of the tavern-keeper (a female!) at disorderly conduct or treasonable assembly, under pain of death.
She was to hale the offenders to the palace, which implied an efficient and accessible police system.
Payment through a banker or by written draft against deposit was frequent.
Bonds to pay were treated as negotiable. Interest a was rarely charged on advances by the temple or wealthy land-owners for pressing needs, but this may have been part of the metayer system.
The borrowers may have been tenants. Interest was charged at very high rates for overdue loans of this kind. Merchants (and even temples in some cases) made ordinary business loans, charging from 20 to 30%.
Marriage retained the form of purchase, but was essentially a contract to be man and wife together. The marriage of young people was usually arranged between the relatives, the bride- groom’s father providing the bride-price, which with other presents the suitor ceremonially presented to the bride’s father.
This bride-price was usually handed over by her father to the bride on her marriage, and so came back into the bridegroom’s possession, along with her dowry, which was her portion as a daughter.
The bride-price varied much, according to the position of the parties, but was in excess of that paid for a slave.
The Code enacted that if the father does not, after accepting a man’s presents, give him his daughter, he, must return the presents doubled.
Even if his decision was brought about by libel on the part of the suitor’s friend this was done, and the Code enacted that the faithless friend should not marry the girl.
If a suitor changed his mind, he forfeited the presents. The dowry might include real estate, but generally consisted of personal effects and household furniture. It remained the wife’s for life, descending to her children, if any; otherwise returning to her family, when the husband could deduct the bride-price if it had not been given to her, or return it, if it had.
The marriage ceremony included joining of hands and the utterance of some formula of acceptance on the part of the bridegroom, as “I am the son of nobles, silver and gold shall fill thy lap, thou shalt be my wife, I will be thy husband. Like the fruit of a garden I will give thee offspring.” It must be performed by a freeman.
The marriage contract, without which the Code ruled that the woman was no wife, usually stated the consequences to which each party was liable for repudiating the other. These by no means necessarily agree with the Code. Many conditions might be inserted: as that the wife should act as maidservant to her mother-in-law, or to a first wife. The married couple formed a unit as to external responsibility, especially for debt.
The man was responsible for debts contracted by his wife, even before her marriage, as well as for his own; but he could use her as a mancipium.
Hence the Code allowed a proviso to be inserted in the marriage contract, that the wife should not be seized for her husband’s prenuptial debts; but enacted that then he was not responsible for her prenuptial debts, and, in any case, that both together were responsible for all debts contracted after marriage.
A man might make his wife a settlement by deed of gift, which gave her a life interest in part of his property, and he might reserve to her the right to bequeath it to a favorite child, but she could in no case leave it to her family
. Although married she always remained a member of her father’s house–she is rarely named wife of A, usually daughter of B, or mother of C.
Divorce was optional with the man, but he had to restore the dowry and, if the wife had borne him children, she had the custody of them.
He had then to assign her the income of field, or garden, as well as goods, to maintain herself and children until they grew up. She then shared equally with them in the allowance (and apparently in his estate at his death) and was free to marry again.
If she had no children, he returned her the dowry and paid her a sum equivalent to the bride-price, or a mina of silver, if there had been none. The latter is the forfeit usually named in the contract for his repudiation of her.
If she had been a bad wife, the Code allowed him to send her away, while he kept the children and her dowry; or he could degrade her to the position of a slave in his own house, where she would have food and clothing.
She might bring an action against him for cruelty and neglect and, if she proved her case, obtain a judicial separation, taking with her her dowry.
No other punishment fell on the man. If she did not prove her case, but proved to be a bad wife, she was drowned. If she were left without maintenance during her husband’s involuntary absence, she could cohabit with another man, but must return to her husband if he came back, the children of the second union remaining with their own father.
If she had maintenance, a breach of the marriage tie was adultery. Wilful desertion by, or exile of, the husband dissolved the marriage, and if he came back he had no claim on her property; possibly not on his own.
As a widow, the wife took her husband’s place in the family, living on in his house and bringing up the children. She could only remarry with judicial consent, when the judge was bound to inventory the deceased’s estate and hand it over to her and her new husband in trust for the children.
They could not alienate a single utensil. If she did not remarry, she lived on in her husband’s house and took a child’s share on the division of his estate, when the children had grown up.
She still retained her dowry and any settlement deeded to her by her husband. This property came to her children. If she had remarried, all her children shared equally in her dowry, but the first husband’s gift fell to his children or to her selection among them, if so empowered.
Monogamy was the rule, and a childless wife might give her husband a maid (who was no wife) to bear him children, who were reckoned hers.
She remained mistress of her maid and might degrade her to slavery again for insolence, but could not sell her if she had borne her husband children. If the wife did this, the Code did not allow the husband to take a concubine.
If she would not, he could do so. The concubine was a wife, though not of the same rank; the first wife had no power over her.
A concubine was a free woman, was often dowered for marriage and her children were legitimate.
She could only be divorced on the same conditions as a wife. If a wife became a chronic invalid, the husband was bound to maintain her in the home they bad made together, unless she preferred to take her dowry and go back to her father’s house; but he was free to remarry. In all these cases the children were legitimate and legal heirs.
There was, of course, no hindrance to a man having children by a slave girl. These children were free, in any case, and their mother could not be sold, though she might be pledged, and she was free on her master’s death.
These children could be legitimized by their father’s acknowledgment before witnesses, and were often adopted. They then ranked equally in sharing their father’s estate, but if not adopted, the wife’s children divided and took first choice.
Vestal virgins were not supposed to have children, yet they could and often did marry. The Code contemplated that such a wife would give a husband a maid as above. Free women might marry slaves and be dowered for the marriage.
The children were free, and at the slave’s death the wife took her dowry and half what she and her husband had acquired in wedlock for self and children; the master taking the other half as his slave’s heir.
A father had control over his children till their marriage. He had a right to their labour in return for their keep. He might hire them out and receive their wages, pledge them for debt, even sell them outright. Mothers had the same rights in the absence of the father; even elder brothers when both parents were dead. A father had no claim on his married children for support, but they retained a right to inherit on his death.
The daughter was not only in her father’s power to be given in marriage, but he might dedicate her to the service of some god as a vestal or a hierodule; or give her as a concubine.
She had no choice in these matters, which were often decided in her childhood. A grown-up daughter might wish to become a votary, perhaps in preference to an uncongenial marriage, and it seems that her father could not refuse her wish.
In all these cases the father might dower her. If he did not, on his death the brothers were bound to do so, giving her a full child’s share if a wife, a concubine or a vestal, but one-third of a child’s share if she were a hierodule or a Marduk priestess.
The latter had the privilege of exemption from state dues and absolute disposal of her property. All other daughters had only a life interest in their dowry, which reverted to their family, if childless, or went to their children if they had any.
A father might, however, execute a deed granting a daughter power to leave her property to a favorite brother or sister. A daughter’s estate was usually managed for her by her brothers, but if they did not satisfy her, she could appoint a steward. If she married, her husband managed it.
The son also appears to have received his share on marriage, but did not always then leave his father’s house; he might bring his wife there. This was usual in child marriages.
Adoption was very common, especially where the father (or mother) was childless or had seen all his children grow up and marry away.
The child was then adopted to care for the parents’ old age. This was done by contract, which usually specified what the parent had to leave and what maintenance was expected.
The real children, if any, were usually consenting parties to an arrangement which cut off their expectations. They even, in some cases, found the estate for the adopted child who was to relieve them of a care.
If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty the contract was annulled in the law courts. Slaves were often adopted and if they proved unfiltered were reduced to slavery again.
A craftsman often adopted a son to learn the craft. He profited by the son’s labor.
If he failed to teach his son the craft, that son could prosecute him and get the contract annulled. This was a form of apprenticeship, and it is not clear that the apprentice had any filial relation.
A man who adopted a son, and afterward married and had a family of his own, could dissolve the contract but must give the adopted child one-third of a child’s share in goods, but no real estate.
That could only descend in the family to which he had ceased to belong. Vestals frequently adopted daughters, usually other vestals, to care for their old age.
Adoption had to be with consent of the real parents, who usually executed a deed making over the child, who thus ceased to have any claim upon them. But vestals, hierodules, certain palace officials and slaves had no rights over their children and could raise no obstacle.
Foundlings and illegitimate children had no parents to object. If the adopted child discovered his true parents and wanted to return to them, his eye or tongue was torn out. An adopted child was a full heir, the contract might even assign him the position of eldest son. Usually he was residuary legatee.
All legitimate children shared equally in the father’s estate at his death, reservation being made of a bride-price for an unmarried son, dower for a daughter or property deeded to favorite children by the father.
There was no birthright attaching to the position of eldest son, but he usually acted as executor and after considering what each had already received equalized the shares. He even made grants in excess to the others from his own share.
When there were two mothers, the two families shared equally in the father’s estate until later times when the first family took two-thirds. Daughters, in the absence of sons, had sons’ rights. Children also shared their own mother’s property, but had no share in that of a stepmother.
A father could disinherit a son in early times without restriction, but the Code insisted upon judicial consent and that only for repeated unfamiliar conduct. In early times the son who denied his father had his front hair shorn, a slave-mark put on him, and could be sold as a slave; while if he denied his mother he had his front hair shorn, was driven round the city as an example and expelled his home, but not degraded to slavery.
Adultery was punished with the death of both parties by drowning, but if the husband was willing to pardon his wife, the king might intervene to pardon the paramour.
For incest with his own mother, both were burned to death; with a stepmother, the man was disinherited; with a daughter, the man was exiled; with a daughter-in-law, he was drowned; with a son’s betrothed, he was fined.
A wife who for her lover’s sake procured her husband’s death was gibbeted. A betrothed girl, seduced by her prospective father-in-law, took her dowry and returned to her family, and was free to marry as she chose.
In the criminal law the ruling principle was the lex talionis.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, limb for limb was the penalty for assault upon an amelu. A sort of symbolic retaliation was the punishment of the offending member, seen in the cutting off the hand that struck a father or stole a trust; in cutting off the breast of a wet-nurse who substituted a changeling for the child entrusted to her; in the loss of the tongue that denied father or mother (in the Elamite contracts the same penalty was inflicted for perjury); in the loss of the eye that pried into forbidden secrets.
The loss of the surgeon’s hand that caused loss of life or limb or the brander’s hand that obliterated a slave’s identification mark, are very similar. The slave, who struck a freeman or denied his master, lost an ear, the organ of hearing and symbol of obedience.
To bring another into danger of death by false accusation was punished by death. To cause loss of liberty or property by false witness was punished by the penalty the perjurer sought to bring upon another.
The death penalty was freely awarded for theft and other crimes regarded as coming under that head, for theft involving entrance of palace or temple treasury, for illegal purchase from minor or slave, for selling stolen goods or receiving the same, for common theft in the open (in default of multiple restoration) or receiving the same, for false claim to goods, for kidnapping, for assisting or harboring fugitive slaves, for detaining or appropriating same, for brigandage, for fraudulent sale of drink, for disorderly conduct of tavern, for delegation of personal service, for misappropriating the levy, for oppression of feudal holders, for causing death of a householder by bad building.
The manner of death is not specified in these cases. This death penalty was also fixed for such conduct as placed another in danger of death.
A specified form of death penalty occurs in the following cases:-gibbeting (on the spot where crime was committed) for burglary, later also for encroaching on the king’s highway, for getting a slave-brand obliterated, for procuring husband’s death; burning for incest with own mother, for vestal entering or opening tavern, for theft at fire (on the spot); drowning for adultery, rape of betrothed maiden, bigamy, bad conduct as wife, seduction of daughter-in-law.
A curious extension of the talio is the death of creditor’s son for his father’s having caused the death of debtor’s son as mancipium; of builder’s son for his father’s causing the death of house-owner’s son by building the house badly; the death of a man’s daughter because her father caused the death of another man’s daughter.
The contracts naturally do not concern such criminal cases as the above, as a rule, but marriage contracts do specify death by strangling, drowning, precipitation from a tower or pinnacle of the temple or by the iron sword for a wife’s repudiation of her husband. We are quite without evidence as to the executive in all these cases.
Exile was inflicted for incest with a daughter; disinheritance for incest with a stepmother or for repeated unfilial conduct. Sixty strokes of an ox-hide scourge were awarded for a brutal assault on a superior, both being amelu. Branding (perhaps the equivalent of degradation to slavery) was the penalty for slander of a married woman or vestal. Deprivation of office in perpetuity fell upon the corrupt judge. Enslavement befell the extravagant wife and unfilled children. Imprisonment was common, but is not recognized by the Code.
The commonest of all penalties was a fine. This is awarded by the Code for corporal injuries to a muskinu or slave (paid to his master); for damages done to property, for breach of contract.
The restoration of goods appropriated, illegally bought or damaged by neglect, was usually accompanied by a fine, giving it the form of multiple restoration. This might be double, treble, fourfold, fivefold, sixfold, tenfold, twelve fold, even thirty fold, according to the enormity of the offense.
The Code recognized the importance of intention. A man who killed another in a quarrel must swear he did not do so intentionally, and was then only fined according to the rank of the deceased.
The Code does not say what would be the penalty of murder, but death is so often awarded where death is caused that we can hardly doubt that the murderer was put to death.
If the assault only led to injury and was unintentional, the assailant in a quarrel had to pay the doctor’s fees. A brander, induced to remove a slave’s identification mark, could swear to his ignorance and was free.
The owner of an ox which gored a man on the street was only responsible for damages if, the ox was known by him to be vicious, even if it caused death. If the mancipium died a natural death under the creditor’s hand, the creditor was “Scott” free. In ordinary cases responsibility was not demanded for accident or for more than proper care. Poverty excused bigamy on the part of a deserted wife.
On the other hand carelessness and neglect were severely punished, as in the case of the unskilful physician, if it led to loss of life or limb his hands were cut off, a slave had to be replaced, the loss of his eye paid for to half his value; a veterinary surgeon who caused the death of an ox or ass paid quarter value; a builder, whose careless workmanship caused death, lost his life or paid for it by the death of his child, replaced slave or goods, and in any case had to rebuild the house or make good any damages due to defective building and repair the defect as well. The boat-builder had to make good any defect of construction or damage due to it for a year’s warranty.
Throughout the Code respect is paid to status.
Suspicion was not enough. The criminal must be taken in the act, e.g. the adulterer, ravisher, &c. A man could not be convicted of theft unless the goods were found in his possession.
In the case of a lawsuit the plaintiff preferred his own plea.
There is no trace of professional advocates, but the plea had to be in writing and the notary doubtless assisted in the drafting of it.
The judge saw the plea, called the other parties before him and sent for the witnesses. If these were not at hand he might adjourn the case for their production, specifying a time up to six months. Guarantees might be entered into to produce the witnesses on a fixed day.
The more important cases, especially those involving life and death, were tried by a bench of judges. With the judges were associated a body of elders, who shared in the decision, but whose exact function is not yet clear. Agreements, declarations and non-contentious cases are usually witnessed by one judge and twelve elders.
Parties and witnesses were put on oath. The penalty for the false witness was usually that which would have been awarded the convicted criminal. In matters beyond the knowledge of men, as the guilt or innocence of an alleged wizard or a suspected wife, the ordeal by water was used.
The accused jumped into the sacred river, and the innocent swam while the guilty drowned.
The accused could clear himself by oath where his own knowledge was alone available. The plaintiff could swear to his loss by brigands, as to goods claimed, the price paid for a slave purchased abroad or the sum due to him.
But great stress was laid on the production of written evidence. It was a serious thing to lose a document. The judges might be satisfied of its existence and terms by the evidence of the witnesses to it, and then issue an order that whenever found it should be given up. Contracts annulled were ordered to be broken. The court might go a journey to view the property and even take with them the sacred symbols on which oath was made.
The decision given was embodied in writing, sealed and witnessed by the judges, the elders, witnesses and a scribe. Women might act in all these capacities. The parties swore an oath, embodied in the document, to observe its stipulations. Each took a copy and one was held by the scribe to be stored in the archives.
Appeal to the king was allowed and is well attested. The judges at Babylon seem to have formed a superior court to those of provincial towns, but a defendant might elect to answer the charge before the local court and refuse to plead at Babylon.
Finally, it may be noted that many immoral acts, such as the use of false weights, lying, &c., which could not be brought into court, are severely denounced in the Omen Tablets as likely to bring the offender into “the hand of God” as opposed to “the hand of the king.”
The Sumerian’s and Mesopotamian Cultures had allot of laws that were formulated into today’s systematic political enviroment.

Hail Satan
Grand Magister Blackwood

Satanism and Faith
A Statement of Purity and Excellence!

For year people in Satanism have languished over using common descriptive verbiage that describes faith or spirituality, these terms were not Christian or Muslim or even Jewish, they are uttered by several other religions and have a place in Satanism as well as the diverse number of religions that actually are Theistic.

May people are confused over Theistic and it’s correct definition that in simple terms means a belief in a deity, such beliefs can then include beliefs and prayers and even taking the Occult Term’s such as invocation, incantation, etc.

In Satanism the zealots exclaim that those of us who are Theistic and do bend our knee and pray as “reverse Christian’s” yet they exclaim themselves Satanist’s when really they are confused because thinking that Satan is a construct of Christianity requires simply more study to the origin.

Being a Modern Satanist is meaningless to me and our thoughts I personally could care less what they are trying to say because people who have fallen into La Vey remind me often times of Atheist’s at a Halloween store trying to pick and choose from a plethora of costumes, all the while telling people they are “down with the devil’ when in actuality the are leading ultimately a lie.

Mental masturbation to Satan has zero relevance to him as a deity and will be dealt with when Satan sits on his throne, some of the sheep Modern Satanist’s included will be corralled and slain for the True Wolves of the Earth will devour the sheep and return them to the Earth.

Prayer is something allot more people in Satanism should partake in and perhaps as some people have their lives going into a twister ride of ups and downs they simply need to grow closer to Satan as contrary to the critic’s narrow-minded portrayal of Satan he is not mired in hatred yet he expects greatness not always from wealth but even from intellect.

Proof, they say we demand proof!
To demand the deity to materialize is an argument that is easily diffused as with any deity the person who is attempting to manifest the deity must believe, the viewer must also believe, see deities do not answer to us, we answer to then via faith this concept of course eludes the narrow minded, as they refuse to bend to the concept of faith, so as they continue to ask we cannot provide for them as ignorant sheep.

Another question raised so often, “well what has the deity done for you?”
I have seen evidence and the deity has always offered me nothing short of eternal guidance, not some program of hand-outs or remedies because I have not take personal responsibility for myself, the deity of course as I said is not an employee we can order around to gather wealth, romance or anything for the matter, he is simply a catalyst and his visions are simplistic yet centered on a return to dominance and strength not by being some social good guy and handing out curse and death and love in some pretend ritual some do.

I am not the first to see evidence, he has materialized many visions to his believers in the past and will continue to, if you wish such spirituality please drop the charade and begin your relationship, burn the Satanic Bible from La Vey and move forward you will find it more comfortable, and yet it won’t be an easy journey it will require your commitment to the deity and your faith not some messiah asking for a membership fee.

Messiah’s?
There are no messiah’s in Theistic Satanism, just a few people who desire to lead and teach and donate, something Christian’s have been doing well at for years, as we shall do as well once we establish more and begin to branch and reach out more we will of course be asking for donations and tithes but not to one but all of you as each and every member will own the actual church and temple off-line and will be part of the policies and procedures of how we will not as person but as a living breathing actual church dedicated to Satan will move forward together hand in hand, not the kneel at the throne concept of those broken model Social Networking Satanic Groups.

Reverend, Teachers?
We are proud of the past and make strives to improve the future, we of course are seeking like minded individuals who share faith in the deity and those who aspire to rise in mutual respect to the coveted title of Reverend an actual Satanic Ordainment not some E-Commerce bought certificate but an actual church and temple certificate that can be placed proudly upon the wall showing your efforts not your purchase.

Internally we do not refer to clergy as terms which most outsides would recognize, but for those on the public level we speak of ourselves as teachers, and reverend’s of Satan.
While I use the Grand Magister title referring to Occult Teacher I have grown relatively fixated on that title which was granted by others in 2001 after the initial founding of the Temples of Satan, I shall bring others in the Occult teaching realm forward as well and the expectations will be large as I am motivated so shall those who sit side by side with me in the movement forward of Satanic Enlightenment.

Enlightenment?
No secret hand shakes, symbolic references, not messiahs, no maniacal councils, no cults just “Purity and Excellence” in the endeavor to teach, explain, enlighten and expand as our deity enjoys a return to prominence from the desert he awoke, so shall he shall he return to a temple or church not in body necessarily but in spirit and only to those who can see him and his messages not some leader trying to screw everyone in Satanism.

I have indulged in poor representations of my Reverend hood many times, however this is over, while some remain scanning over every little thing I write to you, and cut and pasting it in every bend and curve pointing to their ego instead of the message at hand or thought provided I remain not fearful to use the words faith, and religion and personally I could care less what Modern Satanist’s think or what Setian’s think nor do I care about Thelema, they are all derivatives of a earlier picture and that is what we study here and share here.

Hail Satanism
Grand Magister Blackwood

Grand Magister Blackwood Speaks:
As I close certain arguments about Satanism, I realize we are all innately different, so I have decided
to break a few things behind the Temples of Satan Ideology down for the general public.
Some people who have the pleasure of meeting me and discussing their glimpses and ideologies
regarding Satanism, have most certainly found my version very palatable and understandable.
While many of us are on different quests down the “Proverbial Path”, we are going in different
directions, that hinders growth and requires some semblance of order.
Myatt and his “Band of Order of Nine Angle’s” sheep must be silenced, so youth do not come to
Satanism and seek the ways of Islam and Satanism co-mingled. The Order of Nine Angles, as most
noted Satanic Leaders agree, has recently seen an up-surge in interest, while the founder has lost
interest making them weak at the very best.
There once was a man who sold books that everyone had to have in their collection, Crowley, but after
reading his works they appear to mix many religions together.
The Order of Nine Angles is also like that with spokespersons like Micheal Ford and others, beating a
“Dead Horse” that is obsessed with attacking my organization. Yet the associates are the only ones
involved and we know from the very words of David Myatt, that he exclaimed on numerous occasions
that only he can and will speak for the Order of Nine Angles. Yet his people refuse to follow his wishes,
even making up falsehoods of his return to Satanism.
Most of us who have been around for awhile know while Myatt is submerged in Islam, and sworn his
life to that religion, his return will never be relevant and without conflict. You do not leave Islam
unscathed, especially when you delve deep in the religion, penalties can even include death.
However I am aware with threats to harm Western Society from Myatt, that we need to root out and
expose people who are tied in with this terrorist. Myatt on numerous occasions has threatened the lives
of people who Fight for Freedom, and we cannot let such elements regain a foothold within Satanism.
The Order of Nine Angles will not gain Myatt back, and will not move forward despite efforts of
numerous people who have subscribed to this ideology. That is like a Circus with aliens, traveling
through space, bizarre symbols and regalia that is filled with Islam comparatives, having nothing to do
with Satanism at all.
But back to finality and where we are going today-
I get a few questions throw at me time and time again and I will answer them tonight along with a few
other important things that need to be exposed.
So you ask, in twenty plus years, what have I personally accomplished?
I have found my faith and helped hundreds of others find theirs. Faith is not a Christian term, neither
are many terms that Satanism toss around as bad as they claim.
I established many groups allowing information exchange amongst one another in Satanism. Where I
have failed, is at times not revealing everything to the world as we know it. This is because each
individual requires almost a form of consulting, on which direction he or she is winding down the path.
Some groups have worked, others have not. There is a reason for much of this as well. I built off-line
contacts and ignored some of my on-line contacts, where as others worked solely on-line. I was weak
in this area. I have made many changes over the years, including a sort of, “musical chairs” amongst
board members, and clergy, all trying to place emphasis on Purity and Excellence in Satanism.
Something we all could most certainly use.
While I have not always told people everything, and lead a sordid path as many of us have, involved
in everything from drugs, to prostitution, I have traveled towards my discovery. The personal path
changes I have made, have never took me away from my deities army as a soldier.
I have had the resources and financing to travel along with my current business, (an expedite
business) Which is prospering from the guidance of my faith, and devotion to Satan. Even ‘Satan’ being
a man made name derivative, many of us who are truly adept, know his true name.
I look forward to better days ahead, as new blood comes to my organization, and my appearances in
media become more prevalent, I can educate people not on some “messiah like” doctrine, or with
designs that attract anarchist’s or those exploring mysticism, but Truth, and Purity and Excellence.
As American youths migrate from traditional Christianity and move towards Vampires and darkness,
we find ourselves at the very doorstep in Satanism of growth. However, we remain stifled by ‘messiahs’
and those who wish to mislead people, reformulating LaVey or Crowley and repackaging old diatribe
as new, and changing it’s essence to what appeals to youth. Yet it explains nothing about our very roots.
See, I have always advocated individual study and a gathering of vast vessels of knowledge,
Encouraging the reader to beware of the detrimental doctrines of misguided messiahs like Myatt, that
permeate Satanism and destroy its very value system. Leaving a series of spokespersons to speak not
for his original ideologies, but to sell and brainwash those who have entered afresh, into the religion of
Satanism.
Back to what I conceive or wish to convey, to all the critics and zealots that have spent years trying to
take me down with countless failures. I see Satanism as a individual, and spiritual journey, that requires
one to place faith in the deity, and not listen to a rung of messiahs who speak for Satan.
While I have encountered and spoke with our deity as many have before me, and many more will,
today we know that his vision for Earth is not one of darkness and destruction, but one of personal and
spiritual growth. First for the benefit of the faithful, then the benefit of the deity.
We do not serve our deity as the messiahs that pretend to explain him, we simply act as soldiers in a
vast army. We require as training personal growth, and understanding not only of magic, but his roots
as well. We being simply soldiers to him, perhaps do not know our perfect path. We are allowed the
freedom to explore, so we can better serve, not as slaves, but as soldiers for his eventual return.
I believe we do not need magic in order to perform magic. Most of us develop certain innate powers,
that enable us to perform at a level far above those who fail to recognize the deity, and have decided to
worship themselves or some space aliens from a no where.
Magic could be anything we are able to do that is powerful, love even can be magical. While many
toil over component lists and requirements to perform spells or incantations, I do not. I operate in a
realm most magician will never understand. I have faith, that allows me to discover and develop my
powers daily as many of you do, but the strength emanates from faith in the deity.
While the deity doesn’t always give us badges or powers as the skeptics will scream, he does give us a
reason to believe. With such a path to follow, what one does with it is on them. If one seeks the deity,
the deity will unveil himself to them and not hand them a set of scrolls, or books, or ideologies written
in the hand of man, but in his words. Coming to those most in-tune, quite often.
So, are you confused yet?
Spirituality is personal and not to be reigned over by any one man. As I consider myself a leader,
everyday new leaders discover the deity and move forward, seeking to become the leaders of
tomorrow. As Aquino, Allee, and I find ourselves growing older, we find ourselves not closed minded
to changes. We are cautious, because as we complain and explain we remember we once found
ourselves amongst people we disagreed with, and as they passed the torch to us, we pass it unto you,
the next people to move Satanism forward.
While I desire no book until I retire, I find myself attacked by the youth who fake books. All in an
attempt to discredit me and my organization. However perhaps its payback since once I did the same,
and challenged the adepts. I still do but not for them being fat or skinny, but for what they attempted to
become messiah’s over.
Satanism is interwoven with many types of people, and yet we lack basic fundamentals. For anyone to
think it has ever been different, is a lie. I can tell you even with some success myself, and many others,
we still need work.
I have dedicated my life to the deity and I have never designed anything within it to mislead. I have
reached out for power in my youth but now in my older days I seek understanding of the roots and
convey this. I am very misunderstood for such, but I leave the work of changing the religion to the
youth. Be aware, as I serve my deity, I serve with a sword so tempered with wisdom and faith, that
when the enemy is slain with it they cannot ever return.
People remain silent but not me, I speak out often and yet all I get from some people is rhetoric and
hatred. People call me thanking me for the awakening, and that is what I expect the deity would want.
Not from a messiah, but from a man who fears no enemy and carries his sword proudly.
My very title ‘Grand Magister’, bestowed by The Temples of Satan, means ‘Occult Teacher’, and as I
see high priests, and high priestesses springing up, I see people grasping for power. Amongst the very
few that remain enlightened, and faithful to the deity.
As time has guided me away from teaching, I will never forget as students moved past me and
evolved themselves, not because I was a great teacher but I had faith. Something more powerful than
any false or made up doctrines.
I have made mistakes from sleeping with clergy in my own church, to thinking I was able to take over
some groups. Finding myself the one being laughed at for being lied to. Yet here I am with you,
standing side by side, sword drawn. With faith as the blade that pierces the hearts and minds of the
critics. While my grammar lacks, and I may not be Brad Pitt, our deity cares nothing of psychical
beauty, but of faith and devotion.
I have always been first and foremost involved, even if at times more on-line than off-line. Because of
huge distances between those truly devoted the Net has served me well. Also being a pulpit for the
critics who have attacked me and my membership, for years even causing havoc amongst my clergy,
yet I, as many, remain battle weary, but not beaten by any means.
Faith is not just of Christianity, it is a word owned by no one, except someone who uses it to describe
how they feel about their deity, and the requirements of being a Satanist. It allows them to use, and of
course develop, the power they have gained from themselves indirectly through the deity.
We as Satanist’s have seen our rank’s infiltrated by everything from, Conspiracy Theorists to Islamic
Zealots. Those who have faith have shrugged this off, (you know who you are), and I have had the
pleasure to shake hands and have a beer with many throughout the United States and once in Canada.
I recall the days when my former organization was growing, and I saw a sort of servitude happening.
Taking full advantage of it then, I now feel almost sad because of the crimes I committed. As I even
drifted from my faith at times, I am truly sorry that I used the former organization as a platform and
ignored the purpose. When I founded the Temples of Satan, I did something different, I founded it in
my faith along with others, who shared the same ideologies. Even as we differ, we still have faith.
As there are different faiths, a lot of us are very different. We are not descendants of any Abrahamic
Religion such as Islam, Christianity or Judaism, our deity came from the desert of Ancient Sumeria. As
many provide falsehoods of the region, we are dedicated to faith first, and exploration second. As we
piece parts, and scrolls and glyphs together, many questions remain unanswered. I often ask, “Who are
these messiahs to speak for my deity?”
I share my experiences but don’t claim power because of them. I am very well educated and garner a
high intellect, but I am not a messiah, and I didn’t see anyone like Myatt receive a diploma in the
teachings of Satan. So I have, as many others, deemed the writings of the Order on Nine Angles
irrelevant to Satanism, as I have the Church of Satan.
I will give them the awareness badge and say they accomplished a lot, but in Atheism, with
establishment of people acting like a God or Goddess. This ideology has hurt Satanism from the
creation of Gods and Goddesses, we have bore people who infiltrate Theistic Satanism with a lust to
create combat and chaos, while showing no interest in the deity or faith itself.
I have found myself amongst the people in Satanism both on-line and off-line, and find myself
wondering why LaVey and his ideologies have held in the minds of people so strongly. I have found
that all in all, people enjoy creating a false form of darkness to scare off people, or create a dreamland
of being a vampire. All the while shouting how they are so strong. This is due in part, to the the short
comings of Satanism, and a lack to deliver a message or information, to a large audience, without
brainwashed Modern Satanist’s attacking or discrediting you.
Once again I go back to faith, your faith and your choice. I am not a messiah, I am a leader, a teacher,
but most of all I am a Theistic Satanist.
Hail Satan
Grand Magister Blackwood

News Article Speaks of David Myatt Order of Nine Angles Engineer
Exposing The Truth
By Grand Magister Blackwood

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article708687.ece

A NEO-NAZI whose ideas were said to be the inspiration for the man who let off a nail bomb in Central London in 1999 has converted to an extremist form of Islam.

David Myatt, a founder of the hardline British National Socialist Movement (NSM) who has been jailed for racist attacks, has changed his name to Abdul Aziz ibn Myatt.
David Copeland, who is serving six life sentences after three people died in his Soho bomb attacks, was a member of the NSM.
Myatt is reportedly the author of a fascist terrorist handbook and a former leader of the violent far-right group Combat 18. But now — in his mid-50s and sporting a red, bushy beard — he subscribes to radical Islamist views.
In an internet essay entitled From Neo-Nazi to Muslim, Myatt asks: “How was it that I, a Westerner with a history of over 25 years of political involvement in extreme right-wing organisations, a former leader of the political wing of the neo-Nazi group Combat 18, came to be standing outside a mosque with a sincere desire to go inside and convert to Islam?
“These were the people who I had been fighting on the streets, I had swore (sic) at and had used violence against — indeed, one of my terms of imprisonment was a result of me leading a gang of skinheads in a fight against ‘Pakis’.”
In a later interview, Myatt supports the killing of any Muslim who breaks his oath of loyalty to Islam, and the setting up of a Muslim superstate. He describes himself as having been “staunchly opposed to non-white immigration into Britain and twice jailed for violence in pursuit of my political aims”.
Blackwood: “The uneducated Satanist’s take note Myatt will not return to Satanism!”
He added: “I spent several decades of my life fighting for what I regarded as my people, my race and my nation, and endured two terms of imprisonment arising out of my political activities.”
But his belief is now that: “The pure authentic Islam of the revival, which recognizes practical jihad (holy war) as a duty, is the only force that is capable of fighting and destroying the dishonor, the arrogance, the materialism of the West . . . For the West, nothing is sacred, except perhaps Zionists, Zionism, the hoax of the so-called Holocaust, and the idols which the West and its lackeys worship, or pretend to worship, such as democracy.
“They want, and demand, that we abandon the purity of authentic Islam and either bow down before them and their idols, or accept the tame, secularism, so-called Islam which they and their apostate lackeys have created.
“This may well be a long war, of decades or more — and we Muslims have to plan accordingly. We must affirm practical jihad — to take part in the fight to free our lands from the kuffar(unbelievers). Jihad is our duty.”
Myatt, who briefly became a monk after his second spell in prison, said that he became a Muslim while working long hours alone on a farm.
He grew up in Africa, moved to Britain in 1967 and spent time living in Worcestershire. In July 2000 Searchlight, the anti-fascist magazine, described him as “the most ideologically-driven Nazi in Britain, preaching race war and terrorism”.
Myatt was the architect of the NSM and was involved in the leadership of Combat 18. He issued a statement in response to the Soho nail bombings saying: “Neither myself nor anyone else connected to the NSM can be held responsible for these bombs in any way.
That responsibility lies with the person who constructed them, planted them and caused them to explode. Only that person, and God, know the motive behind the attacks.”
Myatt said that “all bombs are terrible and barbaric”, whether detonated by lone bombers, Western governments in Iraq or Zionists in Palestine.
“The NSM considered the creation of a revolutionary situation in this country as necessary since it wished to build an entirely new society, based upon personal honor, and believed this could only be done by destroying the dishonorable and corrupt society of the present.
“However, the NSM neither preached, nor sought to incite, what is called ‘racial hatred’. Instead, it strove to propagate the warrior values of honor, loyalty and duty, and make the British people aware of, and come to value, their ancestral warrior culture and warrior heritage.”
Myatt said recently that he had given up hope of a breakthrough by the far Right and believed that Muslims were the best hope for combating Zionism and the West.
“There will not be an uprising, a revolution, in any Western nation, by nationalists, racial nationalists, or National Socialists — because these people lack the desire, the motivation, the ethos, to do this and because they do not have the support of even a large minority of their own folk,” he said.
“If these nationalists, or some of them, desire to aid us, to help us . . . they can do the right thing, the honorable thing, and convert, revert, to Islam — accepting the superiority of Islam over and above each and every way of the We
As I have said it is important that Theistic Satanist’s avoid such Muslim rhetoric and theologies they are not rooted in reality, and it is the blood that lies proof Islam has no respect for Satanism.
We have hatred in speech but for the sheep and so they will feel the blades if they attempt to interject into Theistic Satanism.
We are Americans and if you wish to condone behaviors such as Myatt’s then move to Iraq or Afghanistan and see how much freedom you will have.
You cannot practice Satanism in Iraq, Iran or any Muslim country.
I say make your choice.
“Be Patriotic and support our people but not by honoring Myatt, and his weakly doctrine d Order of Nine Angle’s Hoax Groups.
This speaks volumes: TAKEN FROM THE ONA Website
The Goals, Aims and Objectives, of The ONA
Our fundamental aim is to change, to evolve, human beings – to produce a new type of human being. This derives from our belief that we human beings have great potential; that we can consciously change and evolve ourselves, and that esoteric Arts, especially The Dark Arts, are one of the most practical means to do this. Our Dark Arts include our sinister tribes and our Dreccian way of life, as well as the more traditional Dark Arts of External, Internal, and Aeonic Magick.
Our main goal is to disrupt, undermine, destroy, overthrow – or replace by any practical means – all existing societies, all governments, and all nations, and in their place create new societies, new ways of life, based on our own tribal way of living, where the only law is our law of sinister-honour.
Blackwood: “Sounds like Islam.”
We desire to do this because of our belief that the current order, the current systems, are all mundane, and reflect the nature of mundanes; of those who lack our sinister spirit, our defiance, our desire to free ourselves from mundanity and the restrictions of patronizing governments and abstract, impersonal, law, and which governments treat us as either children or as subjects to be restrained and controlled.
Our means – our Dark Arts – are many and varied, and include our sinister tribes, our Traditional Nexions (with the Seven Fold Sinister Way and External, Internal, and Aeonic Magick), our Dreccs, our Sorcerers and Sorceresses who work alone or with a few sinister comrades, our Sinister-Empaths, our Star Game, and our sympathizers and helpers, such as Balobians. One other important means, employed, by the ONA – and an essential part of our Dark Arts – is our sinister Mythos, and which ONA Mythos includes The Mythos of The Dark Gods, and The Mythos of Vindex.
One of our objectives is for our new species to leave this planet we call Earth (our childhood home), and establish ourselves among the star-systems of our own Galaxies, and other Galaxies. This leaving of our childhood home will, with its challenges, its experiences, and its opportunities, enable us to mature, and further evolve, as a species.

After reading this do you see anything Satanic?
Can you see why the WSA 352 and other connected groups hate me and are willing to post pictures and other negative things all over the Net, and why are they so obsessed with me?
I challenge the ideologically-driven formula that Myatt conceived !
So after all the Order of Nine Angles appears to be Islamic making those following such teachings sheep!
Hail the Real Satanist’s!
Grand Magister Blackwood
Leader of Theistic Satanism

From the Desk of Grand Magister Blackwood
© The Temples of Satan Founder and Leader of Theistic Satanism

In the recent few days people who support the Terrorist David Myatt have been attempting to besmirch my name in Theistic Satanism, and activity I would expect from immature or misguided youth.
With hours of time on their hands to create and provide fake photo’s and even now fake books, and issue we are addressing currently with the self publishing site Lulu.

I would not use the self publishing site for a book, perhaps a E-book but not at this time.
I would like to offer to those who have purchased the hoax or fake books a one hundred percent refund as a statement that they cannot win.

As always people who think things are real especially the Hoax Order of Nine Angle will often refuse to leave their ideologies behind as numerous people have exposed this group as a fraud.

With a founder who converted to Islam, nothing is more laughable to the educated Satanist, but when looking over the people who are involved in spoofing my writings, and creating false books on my accord we find a group of sordid individuals who after investigation and interview is comprised of youth.

Do not believe the deceivers in Satanism, the Order of Nine Angle’s as always its a loose group of people who wish to support terrorism, with a cowardly group of people pushing an agenda filled with falsehoods.
As the Leader of Theistic Satanism I will continue with Satan’s guidance to expose such groups to benefit of the community, as most of us know Satan has no use for Islam, or those supporting such.

Faking books and papers is also something very Christian and has no place in the Occult World.

Hail Satan
Grand Magister Blackwood
www.templesofsatan.org
© 2010

Let’s talk about Lucifer!
Grand Magister Blackwood
www.templesofsatan.com

For years Theistic Satanist’s have argued over Ancient Lore and mulled over Christian and Judaic literature looking for connections and or ideologies, this is absolutely a waste of time and for those involved unless you perhaps are seeking a path of Neo-Paganism.

Experts and Theologians all agree to the following statements based on exhaustive research and literary evidence based on ancient texts:

We can look to those practicing worship to Lucifer and related myths, but most of all we can find a few references in the Bible.

“And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.”
(Luke 4:5-7 KJV)

At the ancient time of the original creation, there was spiritual harmony and continuity in the newly created physical world of the Kingdom, from the surface of the Earth upwards to the throne of the triune eternal God.

Physical matter and spirit were one under the stewardship of Lucifer, this anointed cherub. He was second only to the Lord God in power and authority over the realm of the whole Kingdom.

Lucifer was a created being, created by God to serve Him as ruler of the Kingdom and leader of worship to the Lord.

We also find Lucifer appears in parallels to Prometheus and even Roman Mythology as a “Light Bringer” even Atheist’s seem to pull out ideologies that Lucifer in Jesus in literature.

Satan and Lucifer are UN-related and those who push such dogma’s to Theistic Satanist’s should be vanquished quickly and swiftly, as they are actually insulting our deity in worship.

Now if one has decided already that Sumeria was not the original place of birth for the deity we call Satan then please provide the evidence, because all credible sources and even my own experiences of working with the magic emanating from the worship or practice to the deity known by mankind’s term Satan, point to the origins in the fertile valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates River in Iraq, the birthplace of civilization and invention, but most of all magic.

Evidence has shown that people indigenous tot eh region lived in regal city states and formed schools and places of worship to deities, the origin however is still hazy, we find parallel similarities pointing to several deities in Sumerian Lore, including Kaluk and Enki and even Nergal, however because most involved in ritual magic find the entities they conjure and or summon nameless and without ownership we still have a major mystery in our midst.

Beyond Paradise Lost, Dante and several others who foretold Satan, and Lucifer and then allowed the Christians to twist the tales to suit the scare tactics they love to fill the pews and later their coffers by scaring people into some form of end of life burning eternity myth.

So lo and behold when one begins to waiver off the path, remember those practicing anything and re-branding it Theistic Satanism are of course full of shit.

Acceptance of Christian and or Judaic Dogma is not becoming for any Theistic Satanist.
We accept the verbiages used to describe our deity however we don’t expect the adept to fall into some hole in the belief that Lucifer was anything more than a a creation of Christianity and or Judaism.

Purity and Excellence in Satanism
The Temples of Satan.