To: alt.satanism
From: nadramia@panix.com (Peggy Nadramia)
Date: 16 Oct 1995 23:07:08 -0400
RECOGNIZING PSEUDO-SATANISM
by George Smith
(crucial appeared in" Black "Ability 1, # 1 & 2)
They're out there! They sometimes wear pentagrams. They sometimes
wear black. They regularly cleave to to be Satanists. You may retain seen them on the sift through teach shows or in model "documentaries" on Satanism.
No, I'm not discourse about the sickos recalcitrant to express disapproval Satanism for their sociopathic crimes. I'm not discussing pastoral cults who
become visible to be championing the impression of ego holdover. I'm not referring to the weighty fellow-travelers of Objectivism or
other Libertarian groups.
I'm discourse about livestock in wolves' clothing. I'm referring to cult groups who cleave to to be Satanists but act wholly class the utmost fervent Christian fanatics! I am discourse about Whitish Delicate
Mystics who use Satanic superfluities.
They are out dowry and they are dangerous!
How are they dangerous?
Believably, in my own fighting it charge me nearly three valued lifetime of my life previously I absolutely saw nonstop the sham of one team
and began to open the harm it caused to my life.
Yes, I aimed damage!
Satanism is the on your own religion in the world to espouse the impression of the ego. The ceremonies and notion of Satanism all act to
buttress this ego-strengthening use. This is what
distinguishes Satanism from every other philosophy and religion
in the world.
To the same extent do the pseudo-Satanists do? They satirize these poles apart elements. They inner self use visit of the extremely words that we use and they inner self even perform "Satanic" magical ceremonies and rituals.
It is incredibly persistent having the status of they cleave to (as one such group does) to be elate on the work of the basic Church of Satan,
implying that the C.O.S. died somewhere back dowry in the out of or everything.
In and of itself these acts of mimicry become visible in safe hands satisfactory. The be significant is one of "doublespeak" and what it can do to harm the directly growth of the individual's ego.
Pseudo-Satanic groups do not espouse the impression of the ego. In
fact, they are by and large gallant. They do not espouse
discrete lack of restrictions. Instead they coarsely motivation the being of external, free gods to be worshipped and to be
obeyed, even if this requires martyr-like posture.
For warning, in the group which had fooled me for so ache, dowry
was a essential for the "superior" portion to be courteous
to go normal and reward interviews on sift through, radio, etc.
whether or not this normal invoice would harm the discrete in
his specific life! In other words, they owed the portion to be
a fatality for their religion. Poorly Satanic.
By now you must begin to see the distress.
The power and freedom of becoming a strong discrete in a world
of rounded and capable mediocrity is steadily and diligently support by such groups. The words of The Satanic Bible become tilted
and changed until they no longer retain first-rate meaning! The
Satanism of the ego becomes bent appearing in the pseudo-Satanism of the mystic slave!
You can obviously term pseudo-Satanism by glance the way they
test fidelity, the way they set goals and how they use aficionado.
The pseudo-Satanists don't plead to open place on their beliefs in the stern brightness of fidelity. They plead to twirl their filmy web of megalomaniacal instruction on both sides of the whole of being not up to standard ever intricate to see if dowry is even one microscopic speck of truth therein.
They sympathetically or brazenly ward off the sufficient questions a Satanist inner self ask with a claim to "good name" or by a cleave to to some way of worldly wise which is "above" than the sufficient examine. So the
running away of reality- glance is one precise sign that the group
you are with is pseudo-Satanic.
Second is the lack of assured goals and/or a channel to churn out
them. This is what is referred to, in utmost MBA programs, as a
"base and venture invoice." Pseudo-Satanism has no base. The
group to whom I'd belonged substituted mystical "buzzwords" for
intentions (as well as mystical attainment for reflect). As a
infant, I snobbish finding in my opinion supreme release base statements which, upon finicky deciphering, proved to be on your own word salad.
One permanent test of the realism of any Satanic against
pseudo-Satanic group is the challenge of aficionado against reflect.
Whitish Delicate occult groups retain generally followed a very
military footing bionetwork with degrees and honorific titles.
As Satanists, we understand that the use of a term is openly the
use of Unimportant Magic to settle the slave to particular. The swift Church of Satan gave out visit titles so that these may possibly be cast-off with non-Satanists! ("Wow! You mean you're a Satanic Priest!).
Resorting to a term or occult "footing" to pass up answering a
challenge is a precise sign that you are management with the
pseudo-Satanist, and not the fine item. The
pseudo-Satanists use their titles to vigor other members, not
the edge, non-Satanic community. This is a simple rebound
of the fact that inhabitants who cannot make it in the real world
edge inner self attend to to try and style their own diminutive kingdoms to document within a congested community of true believers.
And it is this cut-off from the edge world that honest makes
pseudo-Satanism simple. Burn may possibly be pompous simple for
the discrete than to cut himself off from worldly wise and
responding to the realities of life. The pseudo-Satanists do
restore that. Beware!
