The essence of Satanism, as we understand it in 352 can be seen as a kind of Buddhism, minus the bullshit. In 352, Satanism is a religion of nonreligion with three main focuses 1) The Rational deification of the physical human self; 2) The Liberation of the mental human self from religion; and 3) The progression to Enlightenment through direct existential experience of life. Generally, we refer to our Satanism as “Progressive Satanism,” as opposed to the lunatic Satanisms of most outsiders. It’s like “LaVeyan Satanism, but with a progressive “umph” & gusto.
Now, by “Rational deification of the physical human self,” it is meant that what the physical human animal is as nature has made it, is adored as being sacred and is deified as a god within the limits of Reason. That is to say that how we are, as we are effortlessly as nature has made us, is divine, and that this natural self is a god insofar as it’s passions, will, and desires are followed like the dictates of a deity. This is not to say that the self is “worshiped” as a god, because this “worship” is beyond the limits of Reason.
Being our own deity, it is rational to say that no deity should come before our own selves; better yet, no other gods should even exist. So we come to the second point: Liberation of the mental self. This is to say that religion is a mental construct which misdirects the mind from itself and focuses it onto another mind’s idea/concept. When your mind is distracted away from itself and loses itself in the ideas, convictions, and opinions of another mind.person, it is entrapped or it loses its individual freedom. Breaking free from all religion and moral systems is then the act self realization in which the self gains freedom. When the mind has been liberated and has become truly independent it may then experience life directly without a middle man to interpret reality for it. this brings us to the third point: The progression to Enlightenment thru direct experience of life and or reality.
Enlightenment is a process of becoming, a progression or gradual transformation brought about by the cultivation and experience of direct experience of life without moral or religious restraint. The mind must be allowed to be free like a growing child to make and learn from its owns mistakes. It is only from direct experience and the freedom to make and learn from mistakes that one becomes wise. Wisdom is in essence the fruits of direct experience, whereas knowledge is an acquired idea or thought. The difference between someone who “knows” something and one who is “wise” in that something may be illustrated with two people and a single map. One person can read this map and be an expert with it to the minutest detail of every street name and landmark on that map; but the person who takes that maps as a guide and actually experiences the area directly experiences something completely different and from his experience he becomes wise.
“Satan” within this “three step approach” to life is only a symbol which represents Nature in all its manifestations: Cosmic nature, earthly nature, human nature, and the natural laws which universally governs nature itself. The mythos of Satan is picked to correspond to nature, because nature itself and all that it is, stands in direct Opposition to religion and religous laws; as well as the laws of morals, and the laws of civilized social-orders such as cities and states. How so? When religion teaches that Man is made in the image of some god, Nature says that Man is a monkey or just an animal. When religious morals states that killing is bad, killing in Nature is what produces life (food and defense). When state law says that you can only marry one mate, Nature states the whole opposite and says marriage and monogamy doesn’t even exist.
So when I say that I am a “Satanist” I mean to say that I deify myself as the only god in my life; that I desire to be free from all religion; that I am in the business of enlightening myself from unrestrained direct experience of life; and that I embrace and live my life in-tune or in harmony to all that Nature is and represents. That’s it, and there is nothing more to my Satanism, besides the “accesories” which just make it look pretty.
By “accesories” we refer to any extra “thing” which helps us experience life and nature directly and live life to the fullest as sentient physical beings. Such as the Seven Fold Way of the ONA; money; jobs; friends; drugs; whatever; but these are nothing more than tools, or ornaments, which accesorized the foundation. Like a girl must first have her foundation on, before she accesorizes, otherwise, it doesn’t matter how expensive your Prada is or what you wear. If you forgot your foundation, your ass is gunna be ugly anyways, and any pretty girl who knows the science of makeup and glamour can see right past the Gucci and Prada for the ugly bitches that they are.
Most of these other Satanisms and religions have nothing but accesories and no foundtion. They are Ugly Bitch Religions (UBR’s) which are like those Monet girls: pretty beautiful from afar, but pretty far from beautyful up close. Wicca is an ugly bitch religion. Its got all these dumb magical accesories and rituals, but pretend gods… meaning: there ain’t shit there. Stuff like Thelema and the OTO are UBR’s… all this opulent pretentious accesories like lofty goals, secret rituals you can get on google, but divest the bitch of her eye catching accesories and what do you have? A stupid rule: Do whatever you want, or follow your will, which everyone in secular society already does anyways.
Blackwood’s “Purity and Excellence” Satanism doesn’t even have any accesories, it’s just a plain ugly po’bucker bitch who can’t even afford to accesorize or buy makeup to glamourize herself. Blackwood’s Satanism is a fat and ugly girl with glasses who shops at Big and Tall that wears second hand clothes (other peoples shit). That’s just majorly cheap. People we associate with are a reflection of who we are as a person; and the same goes with the types of religion we associate with. If you hang out with a cheap ass religion… your ass is cheap, and you’re not hanging out with us. Us pretty and popular girls like 352 and the ONA wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out with the likes of Blackwood’s Satanism, because we have fashionista style, great taste, and rich daddies. People like us, we smell good, our hair looks great; not too much jewelry where it looks like you never worn jewelry before; and our Prada is totally current. Meh, just sharing the same world wide web with him actually depreciates our value.
:Kayla
