WanderingProtagonist wrote: ↑December 1st, 2023, 12:59 am
Well what are your thoughts on real Satanism since you mentioned Christianity being false, what do you think of the story regarding Lucifer that defies this GOD who you say is Yahwe. I honestly had no idea about any of this really.
The story of the illuminating rebel who opposes a tyrannical god and bestows upon mankind forbidden knowledge goes back much further than the Book of Genesis.
The story can be found most famously in the Greek myth of Prometheus and the Theft of Fire. According to this myth, Prometheus, the rebellious titan, gave man the "Fire of the Gods" against the prohibition of heaven, before being banished to the mountains of the Caucasus for his act of defiance.
However, the most ancient version of this story is the Sumerian myth of Enki and Adapa (the Sumerian precursor of the biblical Adam) according to which Enki, the god of wisdom, revealed to Adapa the
Design of Heaven and Earth. Enki taught mankind the various arts of civilization (this can be seen in a Sumerian text called
Enki and the World Order) as well as secret knowledge which only the gods/Anunnaki possessed, thus angering the sky god Anu.
This same Sumerian myth is the earliest known version of the story of the illuminating rebel and recounts how a rebellious god went against the others and gave mankind some form of higher knowledge.
However, the whole biblical Satan narrative from the time of the New Testament, which conjures up the image of a fallen angel who spreads evil throughout the world and looks to steal people's souls, is nothing more than a late Jewish parody of the rebel figure of a much more ancient pre-biblical story. If you want to know who the evil one is, just read the Old Testament and take a look at the countless atrocities attributed to the god of the Jews (i.e., Yahweh).
The modern Satanist phenomenon, as well as the so-called "Left-Hand Path" occultism of the last few centuries, is simply an esoteric current born out of the "dark side" of the Jewish Kabbalah and which incorporates the whole Jewish/Christian parody of Satan the evil horned devil and his demons of hell. It's all just a Kabbalistic invention.
The Kabbalah features a unique cosmology. You might be familiar with the diagram of the "Tree of Life" which is supposed to represent the higher worlds of creation and the divine with the 10 Sephirot (vessels or divine attributes/emanations), each ruled by a particular archangel.
However, what most people don't know is that the Kabbalistic cosmology also includes an inverted counterpart of the Tree of Life – the "Tree of Death", which represents the lower hellish realms with its own
qliphoth (vessels or emanations of evil) which correspond to each of the Sephirot of the higher realms and are said to be governed by different demons. The Kabbalah is therefore dualistic, with Angelic vs. Satanic realms.
In the Renaissance period, the Jewish Kabbalah became popular in European esoteric circles and this led to synthesis of Jewish mysticism and European Hermeticism (which is ultimately Greco-Egyptian in origin). One of the main representatives of this Renaissance syncretism was the philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. The result of this unholy mixture was the European Qabalah (written with a "q"), which would ultimately infect the autochthonous European esoteric milieu for centuries to come and would influence all of the subsequent well-known occult societies from the Rosicrucians and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (and, by extension, Alistair Crowley's Thelema) to Freemasonry and Theosophy.
Many of these occult societies claim to work with the Qliphothic forces of the dark side of the Kabbalah. For this reason many people consider them "Satanic" and practitioners of the "Dark Arts".
Nevertheless, I am of the view that both sides of the Kabbalah – both Angelic and Satanic/Qliphothic – are really just two sides of the same coin, both evil systems created by the same demonic entity (Yahweh) and which put practitioners in contact with the same negative Kabbalistic spiritual energy. In other words, it's just a false dualism.