Who is Satan?
Don David Scott, the Raven
[reformatted by tn]
"I was not pleased to good buy in a admit devil and benefits him, in
the birth high opinion of the word. I pleasant to get conduct of him
personal and become his skull of staff."
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 5
(1929; rev. 1970).
Maybe the lexicon definition of Satan choice peelings some
light on this subject: (by chance not):
"Satan... noun
Theology.
The brutally evil adversary of God and sensitivity,
smoothly well-known with the supervise of the fallen
angels; the Sprite.
[Humble English, from Old English, from Tardy Latin
Sat'n, from Greek Satanas, Satan, from Hebrew
satan, devil, adversary, from satan, to censure.]"
The American Birthright Dictionary of the English
Talking, Third Rise.
The Passing Columbia Encyclopedia says:
"Satan [Heb., = adversary], in Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam, the drive of evil conceived as a
person; similarly called the Sprite. In Christian tradition
Satan was the supervise of the angels who rebelled
versus God and who were cast out of heaven. He and
his followers are seen as tempters of sensitivity and
the foundation of evil in the world. He has many
other names, such as Lucifer, Beelzebub, Eyesore One,
and Prince of Thickness."
Dictionaries attempt to devote us with basic definitions,
important words in their broadest high opinion. One want of a
lexicon is to supply the speakers of a dialogue with
meanings popular to all, thereby allowing us to understand
each other. Encyclopedias similarly define vocabulary of popular exploit, but they go a relocate exterior by deliverance essays on subjects
which words perform tricks. The philosophies from which Satan arose sprang from the faraway formerly, and from a uproar of cultures.
We choice capture to tumble (as from the Right of entry to Hell) deeper in to the breach of history.
"Dwell in who think the Sprite to be a well-wisher of
Eyesore and angels to be warriors for Enormous realize
the demagogy of the angels. Belongings are zealously
aloof challenging."
Milan Kundera (b. 1929), Czech screenwriter, give a ruling.
The Magazine of Hilarity and Forgetting, pt. 2, ch. 4
(1978; tr. 1980).
Philosophies in wide and this trouble in correct yearn for
engineering to perceive. Religious zeal to truth, not an meekness
of the wisdom of others but first a technological study of
truth, is edging.
Sagacity require be your tool of disdainful in any study. Haunt Intellectual works have covered this trouble and I do not persist to do aloof
than scratch the leaving of Satan's origin.
My purpose is to initiate the capture for knowledge. I conviction that my jettison carrying out choice ardor the yearn for in others to study this trouble in aloof solidity. In the extreme, I choice spitting image my carrying out in fat narrate. Now, let's get our hands coarse...
In the beginning, the Hebrew god was exclusive of form and burrow. His population, the Hebrew tribes, were essentially hunter-gatherers; if you had it, they required you down and killed you for it. They
took from others and as a consequence prepared it their own. What the "bulwark of Jericho" came impetuously down, as you can see in the Torah, the
Hebrews killed every man, organism and child. As well as, by direction of their "god," they detached the heads of the fallen and build
them to the split ends of stakes for organize. This was to benefits as a mention. It similarly provided the Hebrews with an wherewithal.
The hypothesis that completely "our people" is everyday and anyone excessively is
"not everyday" is not real McCoy. In all honesty, it is popular connecting tribes even today in "in the early hours," for lack of a make public word, societies.
Yet their distressed performance to their god was noted by other
tribes. Noted, and dealt with. Background as soon as group
recycled them as slaves as soon as winning the war versus them and consequently lessening their own heads from the risk.
Hebrew philosophy has, about recorded history, been eclectic.
They smoothly spellbound the imaginings of their "oppressors" during their religion. "We are because punished by god" the holy men would say,
"why are we because punished?" The answers to these questions
usually took the form of "god is teaching us..." Dressed in the time
586-538 BCE the Hebrews entered a tutorial historians grasp the
BABYLONIAN Confinement, where the Persians recycled them as slaves. The Persians thought in two basic gods, the god of night and the god
of day, a god of light and a god of stupidity. In the role of you may well strain off defective way of life at night, the god of stupidity seemed
less-than ideal to the Hebrew captives. They diagnostic that the
god of light must be JHVH, their god, and that the god of stupidity must be his adversary. "Satan" in Hebrew hole "adversary," and
consequently, Satan was untutored.
Hurriedly as soon as Satan's "start" the hypothesis of Hell gained meekness.
Preceding to this, the formalized ideology was that all population (Hebrews)
who died went to Sheol. Sheol was a place of shadows where the
world no noise existed but remained still out of your settlement, a attitude world that you walked for infinity. You went to Sheol
nevertheless your vulgarity or devoutness. Our hypothesis of ghosts emerged from this belief.
The Persians similarly are grown for the doctrines of a on its last legs eyeball, the renewal of the dead, a purpose of world
history, new beliefs about the end of time, and a aloof involved
and entire set of beliefs wearing angels. Roughly, the
Hebrews did not come up with extensively on their own. Their belief develop reminds me of a closely controlled doll shop.
"We may not pay Satan point, for that would be
unfortified, but we can at nominal respect his talents.
A someone who has for immense centuries maintained the
critical notice of spiritual show the way of four-fifths
of the everyday quickness, and political show the way of the whole
of it, must be fixed the use of executive
abilities of the loftiest order."
Grade Twain (1835-1910), Arrived the Jews, in
Harper (New York, Sept. 1899; repr. in Slam
Essays, 1963).
A poke about of the Bible choice relent no interpretation of Satan's origin. Encouragement, no interpretation of gods' event for allowing Satan to remain motionless is liable. The christians, who built their religion on a reinterpretation of Judiastic thought, exalt
elaborated on the origin and sculpt of Satan. Ceiling christian
theology personifies Satan as god's real challenger, who is an
person, a real because.
This hypothesis is nowhere to be found in the christian bible or
Hebrew torah. In the bible, he is completely a "drive" in a
"created order," not a real because. The name "fallen angel"
was similarly appended by christianity. The belief in a master
of the powers of stupidity belonged to hang around ancient cultures, upper limit considerably the Chaldeans, the Persians, and the Babylonians.
Zoroastrianism's Ahriman and the Egyptian God Set, all
mad go well together features to Satan.
Satan has been called hang around property, in the New Tribute he is named "the tempter, the slanderer, the cynic, the con artist,"
vocabulary which the Hebrews without problems recycled for Jesus. A poke about of the wisdom of Jesus in imitation of to the doctrines of the Torah, would devote an brand new mortar for proving the Hebrews correct,
at nominal with regards to Judiasm.
With the go on in incentive, we choice return to the private
meaning of "Satan," adversary. To me, as a Satanist, Satan
represents the opposer to all judeo-christian principles and
boundary. Satan is the embodiment of Eyesore, where Eyesore
hole fleshly, blasphemous, and disrespectful. Satan represents
the fulfillment of the fleshly life, the enjoyment of the
hip and now, and the relief of the attend to from the
fetters of judeo-christian culpability.
Who is Satan?
Oh test the names He has been given:
Archfiend, Prince of Thickness, Prince of this world,
serpent, Old Serpent, Tempter, Rival, Antichrist,
Preponderance Heckler, Heckler of mankind Diabolus, Leave of
Falseness, fallen angel, ascend angel, evil genie, Shaitan,
Eblis, spirit of evil, drive of evil, Angra
Mainyu or Ahriman, the Stormy Sprite, the Sprite, the
Eyesore One, Acute One, Old Make, Apollyon, Abaddon,
Satan, Lucifer, Emperor of Hell, angel of the intense pit...
Who is Satan? He is the blistering adversary of the boorish
death-cult religions. He is the light springing from the
stupidity of history. He is the true friend of mankind.
But upper limit of all....
"The Prince of Thickness is a gentleman."
(William Shakespeare in Emperor Lear, act 3, sc. 4.
Vocal by Edmund the Bastard.)
Rain cats and dogs Satan!
Don David Scott
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