Results for “Monotheism and dualism”

Romantic Satanism

Romantic Satanism concerns literary and political readings that give Satan a positive role in opposition to tyranny or conventional authority. It should be distinguished from membership in a religious organization.

The Satanic Temple

The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religious organization whose public principles and activism differ from those of the Church of Satan and from theistic Satanist devotion.

Reading religious primary sources

Primary sources provide direct evidence for a text, community, or historical setting. Reading them well requires context, precise citations, and comparison with other evidence.

David Myatt

The life and writings of David Myatt, covering his extremist activism, later philosophy, and disputed identification as Anton Long.

Polytheism

Polytheism involves belief in multiple deities. The existence of several gods does not by itself settle their relationships, moral authority, or the forms of devotion directed toward them.

Sallos

A Goetic duke, also called Saleos, described as a peaceful soldier riding a crocodile.

Marchosias

A Goetic marquis with a winged wolf form, described as a fighter who hopes to return to a heavenly throne.

The Satanic Rituals

Anton LaVey’s collection of ceremonial material, published as a companion to The Satanic Bible.

Gnostic Mass

The central public liturgy of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, written by Aleister Crowley as Liber XV.

Tiamat

The primordial sea figure in the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish, defeated by Marduk in its account of cosmic ordering.

Abaddon

A biblical name associated with destruction, used in Revelation for the angel of the abyss.

Banishing rituals

Ceremonies intended to clear, delimit, or reorder a ritual setting, with methods that vary by tradition.

Prayer in theistic Satanism

Prayer is intentional communication addressed to a deity, spirit, sacred power, or ultimate reality. It can include praise, petition, confession, thanksgiving, lament, dedication, silence, repetition, or simple direct speech. In theistic Satanism, prayer usually means addressing Satan or another spiritually real being rather than speaking only to oneself or performing a purely symbolic exercise.

Ritual in theistic Satanism

Ritual is patterned action given special religious, symbolic, social, or transformative significance. Ritual can mark time, establish sacred space, communicate with a deity, express commitment, create community, memorialize the dead, enact a transition, or focus attention on a chosen purpose. In theistic Satanism, ritual commonly includes devotional action directed toward Satan or other spirits…

Acausal (David Myatt)

Order of Nine Angles (O9A)

Tarot

Tarot developed as playing cards before becoming an influential tool of occult interpretation. The history of the cards differs from later claims about their hidden origins.

Unverified personal gnosis

Unverified personal gnosis identifies a spiritual claim or interpretation whose source is personal experience rather than established textual or communal authority.

The Book of the Law

The three-chapter revelatory text at the center of Thelema, also titled Liber AL vel Legis.

Heptameron

A grimoire of angelic conjuration organized around the seven days of the week.