In adapting itself to blindness and opposition of narrow mindedness and restriction originating in limited minds, Progressive Satanism has taken as its province the area of life and action which is partially invisible to the ordinary person. In alignment with our progressive doctrine, no attempt is made to present our material in accordance with the limited framework of ordinary literature and small stagnant minds.
Progressive Satanism is seen and described by the WSA Is a personal journey, or series of journeys, with progression and transmutation being the end desire. There is a system, and a Guide. The journey is both literal and metaphorical. The initiate may undertake long and trying personal journeys in life to obtain enlightenment and adepthood. The journey for the initiate is one of direct experience of life and the “outstepping” of his current sphere of physical, mental, psychological, societal, and spiritual limitations. By this we mean that the Progressive Satanist must put acquisition of knowledge aside for a direct experience of life and that he must strive to push the envelope of his present conditional limitations, by not only trying and experiencing new things, but also seeing what he can do and get away with in society and with people. Every act done for the sake of experience and growth is fair game.
Next comes the matter of the Teacher or Guide. The Guide arrives in a place, to the seeker, at the needed time, and teaches those who are seekers after Truth. Within the WSA the Teacher and Guide can be no individual person. This Book itself is the sole Guide and Teacher which is itself only a foundation stone to the disciple, and not the Temple. These teachings are combinations of philosophy, practice, and living. The disciple must be willing to offer himself and his attention to this teacher if he is to learn, otherwise his ego and his own convictions will get in the way of his progression. The actual steps of entering true discipleship is hard, because although an individual thinks he wants to learn, he has self-pride. In other words the seeker wants to learn but cannot learn because his self-pride is a barrier. Such is the mental habit of most people. This habit is an internal conflict between the individual’s desire to progress and his ego, which must be overcome if illumination is to be realized.
In a stagnant and degenerated belief system, self-pride and one person’s codified belief system and convictions takes central stage which everyone must conform to, if they desire to be recognized as a member of that system. Conviction is the antithesis of illumination. A sign of a deteriorated belief system is when when its members seek only occult fulfillment, or sells its sermons to its own members for profit. Orthodoxy of doctrine or rigid dogma and restrictions of members to evolve by their own efforts by venturing beyond established or official doctrine are also signs of system degeneration. Degenerate systems, like degenerate genes produce degenerate members and false wisdom, or teaching which rather than progress an individual, maintains and sustains the degenerate belief system itself. False wisdom is worse than anything, because it is a deception which weakens the individuality, uniqueness, and power of development of the member. The same is true with meditation. Meditation, like prayer, gives some sort of calmness, but it is a preparatory step, and gives calmness as a signpost only. When calmness has been attained, many become addicted to it, or hold onto it, and their progress is frozen at that point. They have become stagnant, just as with convictions, and the journey stops.
Indulgence or the satiation of fleeting impulses and desires is also an obstacle to progression. Not having any intelligent control over your own passions and impulses is like a horse carriage being pulled by wild horses while you are helpless inside the carriage – not driving, and going nowhere in particular. The disciple must learn take charge of and tame these horses, and steer the carriage into a determined direction, focusing his passion and emotion on the destination. Random passions and impulses and the reaction to them is like the randomly scattering incoherent light of a flashlight, it is not potent, and does very little. Whereas controlled passion and emotions and the reactions to them, is like the coherent light of a lazer; when focused intensely this lazer will cut through metal like butter. The only difference here is random incoherency and intense coherency. The same goes for the mind and its thoughts. Random thoughts don’t do much but make random opinions. Whereas intensely focused coherent thought can manifest dreams into reality.
People become slaves to indulgence and their desires, using it to make themselves oblivious to reality, so much like many things that numbs our mind and eyes to reality like television, the city, religion, politics, drugs, alcohol, sex, or any obsession. Under this heading comes the shallow Satanisms and religions which are dramatic and appealing in appearance and writing, but useless in the long term. If the person has been involved with a religion for ten years and he is no better off than he was ten years ago, without having any real world results to show as the fruits of the religion; then he has not progressed, and has wasted ten years of his life supporting a parasitic superorganism to which he is the host.
People who are lost in the illusion of these obstacles do not know, nor has ever known the objective of all illuminating belief systems, which is to produce the Perfect Man, and to relink him or yoke him to the cosmos and nature which he has lost touch with, and therefore these people are merely dabbling. They use their accumulation of knowledge and collection of book wisdom to convince themselves that they are progressing. Dead, thoughtless computers do the same thing. Conviction is not fact.
Reverting back to the Guide or road map of the WSA. The Book itself is the teacher and common foundation stone upon which each individual erects his own Temple. Each temple then in this landscape is unique and will house a collection of different tomes of wisdom. The collective body of all these tomes is what makes Progressive Satanism great. This is in direct opposition to those stagnant religions which preaches freedom of thought, but forces and spoon feeds its official doctrine and orthodoxy on all its adherents. Everyone in this respect ends up thinking and believing the same opinions and teachings. There is no room for evolution or growth in this condition.
The Guide of the WSA has two faces – an outer exoteric one, and an inner esoteric one; a revealed doctrine and system, such as the rites, Satan, and visible teachings, and the hidden doctrine. They are teachings behind teachings. That is to say, there is an overt face of the teachings, which is the WSA, Initiates, and religious Satanic Doctrine. For the ordinary person this is all they will see and react to. But for the illuminated, this is only the outward face. Beneath the superficial satanic imagery and trappings, the illuminated will see the real light and secret doctrine. In this way Progressive Satanism also differs greatly from other brands of Satanisms. If you were to remove Satan and the dark imagery of most of these Satanisms you would be left with a very shallow reactionary thinking process against Christianity and nothing more. Whereas if Satan and the dark imagery were to be removed from Progressive Satanism, it would still remain intact as a self sustaining system.
Water, as they say, seeks its own level. For the Progressive individual, it is sufficient that a source of truth shall be available, wherever it is hidden. People are attracted to whatever corresponds to their true nature. Providing that the way to the genuine system is visible to the enlightened, people will make their way to either in accordance with their inward nature and tendencies. Some will see a devil, and a means to justify their actions and convictions; while others will see Supernal Light, Truth, peace of mind, and inexhaustible abundance, which lays silent beneath everything. In this context this Book is merely a weak commentary for the Great Book of Life and Nature, and at best nothing more than an arrow which point the traveler into a direction for him to walk. Progressive Satanism is like a ladder, on which we are all at different levels of understanding, with a different perspective, but we are all moving up.
The symbolism, ceremonies, and entire superficial system of Progressive Satanism is allegory in expression. When partially understood it alludes to the illuminated recalling having originated in the stars and cosmos before formal earthly life, all with the same essential Light, from which we all came, as such we are all brothers/sisters, children of a single source. Mankind has become lost and fixated in illusions and must be awakened to remember their original immortal nature. Like children who think and feel the movies they watch on a screen are real, when there is a world more real then what their eyes and attention is fixated on. Mankind is in the same obsessed condition. His eyes and attention once was fixated on the natural world of flesh and stone, believing that there was nothing more to reality than this. Now he has delved deeper into dementia and has lost himself in a world of his own making, his own human civilization, and the urban settlements he was born and raised in. He is asleep and is out of touch with a reality far more real and embracive. He has become confused believing that his human civilization and the mentality, psychology, and conditions of his human civilization is “real life.” The Progressive Satanist must now awaken and learn to see his urban reality for what it is: a man made substitute for Nature; and he must re-link (re-ligi) himself with that same nature the illusion of the city has separated him from.
In the human breast, there is love; the love of Supreme Beauty. All mystics sing the same song of yearning and longing for the One Beloved. There are many differences in detail, in language, in expression, in description, but beneath all this, all are united as drops of one ocean. Within Progressive Satanism, The Deity is feebly imagined in dark imagery as Satan or the Prince of Darkness, because the cosmos, is 99% dark, and the only light within this infinite darkness are stars of infernal plasmic flames; and what living worlds there are, are worlds of flesh, which is the domain of Satan. All are seekers of Supernal Light, and the way that leads to it are many, but it is One. Therefore, if your yearning is true and sincere in intention, you will find the beloved. The Supreme Being can in noway be expressed, thought of and comprehended with whatever human Intelligence may imagine or argue. Neither can reason prove the Supreme Intelligence nonexistent because reason first relies only on five senses to collect information to process, then it judges these with its own concepts it has thought up itself and with its own convictions.
In this sense reason cannot behold anything outside itself, it only understands only what it has conceived itself, and reality is beyond the grasp of the five senses and human understanding. We can neither reason where we have come from, how we came to be here, and where we are going. If reason were essential to human progression, Nature would have given it to us as an instinct, that we might be born reasonable creatures. But this is not so. We are born as children with wild vivid imaginations, lost most of the time in dreams and fantasy, and we spend half of our mortal existence in worlds of dreams, as if we alway have one foot in the mundane world and one in the world of dreams. And it is the childlike curiosity, creativity, mentality, dreams and imaginative fantasies of Einstein and all great scientists and inventors that have shaped and created the present world we live in, not by reason and certainly not by rigid orthodoxy.
According to Progressive Satanism, Reality is the Universal Will in dynamic expression, the true knowledge, Supernal Light and Supreme Beauty whose nature is self manifestation, self expression, self creation, and self progression reflected in the mirror of the cosmos. This world in comparison with reality is a mere illusion, or nonreality, the combined product of the excitation of five senses. The phenomenal world is an outward manifestation the One Real. The Real’s essence is above human knowledge. In its essence it is attributeless, nameless, indescribable, incomprehensible universal mind, to which our minds are droplets in a vast ocean. But Deity may be understood to be All-Giving; All-Allowing; and All-Loving because it is only when we are given our free will to experience existence and make mistakes do we learn and progress. To better understand this take two sisters for example. One is sheltered and forbidden to go out of the house to experience what is outside. Her every action and thought is controlled by her parents and she may only think nice thoughts and do nice things. Her sister rebels and runs away. Although she may live a hard life outside, she is the wiser of the two because not only is she directly experiencing life, but also, with her thoughts and actions uncontrolled,she makes mistakes and learns from them. Her sheltered sister will grow to be an idiot, which is her parent’s fault.
Man is the microcosm in whom the attributes of the Supreme Intelligence are manifest in imperfect and diminutive form. Like his Source, he too, by his core nature, is self manifesting, self expressing, self creating, and self progressing. The Supreme Architect is eternal beauty and the nature of beauty is self expression and desire to be loved. And since everything is this same single Source in different forms and manifestations; all things have a desire to be noticed and adored, especially us. Thus we base our doctrine on the principles of love and adoration. Love is the essence of life, all great religions, and the cause of creation and its continuation. To love and adore Life is the method and way of relinking oneself to nature and existence. The Supreme Being is unknowable, but may be gradually experienced through it’s phenomenal expressions and diversity. Man possess three natures: Sensual, Intellectual, and Spiritual. He must use all three natures and human endeavors to fully experience Supreme Beauty. There is Oneness in all things. The creator and creation are different forms of each other. To experience creation is to experience the Creator. To adore creation with your whole body, mind, and soul, is to adore the Creator with your whole body, mind, and soul. The Deity is experienced within man’s three hearts, as is symbolized in the WSA: the physical one to the left; the animal one to the right, and the spiritual one in between. All three hearts must beat in harmony to fully experience creation.
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