Satanic Mind is Balanced

This page is a look at what constitutes a natural and normal mental outlook from a Satanic point of view and a comparison of how white light ideals distort this balance.

The Holistic Mind in its Natural State is a Balance

		Grey is the imperfect color of mankind. The upturned pentacle means this is the way I see Human Beings. This kind of balanced person accepts the Aspects of Satan as below: Leviathan: Mankind is emotionally honest and can accept his most powerful energies: Sexual desire, fear and love Lucifer: Mankind can reach up and freely reach out for enlightenment and take the Left Hand Path quest for knowledge Belial: 'Without a master'. We are worthless if we cannot look after ourselves. Our grasp of reality and control of it is our embrace of Belial, the Earth This balance of forces holds up mankind in our most natural and powerful state. From this stability we are able to reach as high as possible.
Separating Good and Evil Causes Imbalance
		Our carnal, selfish side is the force behind our altruism or worth. Some teachings or feelings can cause us to deny that this is true. Worshipping Allah or God can cause this[1] Belief in absolute good and evil causes this[2] Having a 'Goodguy Badge'[3] is being someone who wishes to be seen or to feel that they are doing good for its own sake and not due to ulterior motives or selfishness.

Denial of selfishness:

"Accepting that all altruism is long term selifshness and that any good motive is based on carnal, animal instinct is an essential part of our emotional honesty. Without this we are not in touch with ourselves and we become less understanding of our motivations and desires. Without self understanding there is less control and increased stupidity: This kind of stupidity leads to cause evil and foolishness"

Vexen Crabtree, "White Light Religions and Other Religions" 2002 Sep 09

Rejection of parts of ourself:

"Evil is not simply the contradiction of good that can be avoided by goodness; instead it is an aspect of good itself that we have seperated from good so that the other side may continue to exist as good"

Akron in "The H.R.Giger Tarot" from the Introduction to card 9, Justice

"'The word jinn probably means covert or darkness. Jinns are the personifications of what is uncanny in nature, or perhaps the hostile and unsubdued aspects of it.' The Jinn, representing the unsubdued aspects of nature and man, represent truth, something that I believe Satanism stands for, along with power as the two go hand in hand. By attempting to seperate themselves and rejecting the Jinn, Muslim theology is imbalanced in some of the same ways that any other white light reilgion is. It is more correct, more human, more honest and morally superior to accept and embrace all of humanity and nature, including the parts of ourselves that mainstream religion would otherwise use to bestow us with dehabilitating guilt complexes."

"Comments on Islam" by Vexen

Belief in heaven, nirvana, a blissful afterlife:

"When the centre of gravity of life is laid, not in life, but in a beyond - in nonentity, - life is utterly robbed of its balance. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all reason, all nature in the instincts, - everything in the instincts that is beneficent, that promotes life and that is a guarantee of the future, henceforward aroused suspicion. The very meaning of life is now constructed as the effort to live in such a way that life no longer has any point."

"The AntiChrist" by Friedrich Nietzsche, para43

The existence of suffering of pain cannot be ignored

"It may indeed be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. [...] Since the evil facts are as geuine parts of nature as the good ones, the philosophic presumption should be that they have some rational significance, and that systematic [feel-good religion], failing as it does to accord to sorrow, pain and death any positive and active attention whatsoever, is formally less complete than systems that try at least to include these elements in their scope. The most complete religions would therefore seem to be those in which the pessimistic elements are best developed. Buddhism, of course, and Christianity are the best known to us of these."

"The Varieties of religous experience" by William James, p170 [Book Info / Quotes]

Christianity and Buddhism are frequently morbid in their degradation of real life, Christians holding that we live permanently in sin and Buddhism that all of our desires and wants are misguided and ultimately betray us to further suffering. On William James' authority I accept that many other religions do not quite so degrade human life - and as such Christianity and Buddhism formally take more notice of suffering and despair than other religions.

However although many religions attempt to explain evil and suffering, and justify it, and even accept it as part of the make-up of human nature, they are imbalancing. "Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint. Even repentance and remorse, affections which come in the character of ministers of good, may be but sickly" [James, p137]. By seperating good and evil, and adding to it with guilt (for sin) and self denial (for desire) in additon to the suffering that is felt in the first place, white light religion is a dangerous trap.

We are frequently the sources of suffering, but, the white light doctrines add to that misery through their attempts to justify suffering.

Instead, it is healthier that we look at good and evil not as seperate things, and we look upon ourselves as complex social animals whose wants and wishes need to be balanced by intelligence, integrity and self-control but we should not add disease upon dis-ease by attributing ourselves with supernatural levels of badness! Christianities' life of sin, and Buddhisms' life of pointless desire are both lives of unnecessary and destabilizing illness.

Conclusion:
Extreme white light/optimistic/happy-minded doctrines are delusional. Satanism is holistic both philosophically, theologically and psychologically accounting for what we would call "good" and "evil". Satanism allows for the self-development and life-embracing doctrine that is required for healthy-minded and indulgent types, but also of all the religions has the most developed doctrine of despair and evil as part of the universe and natural world. Our doctrines are more sensible, wiser and healthier for the self than any that splits mankind up into metaphysical "good" will versus "evil" will. We are holistic beings, and the most apt theology of life is one that does not reject any part of us, but that uses our weaknesses as our strengths. All of our good depends upon our evil.

Satan is the symbol of intelligence and enlightenment, beauty and love, strength and self-empowerment, happiness, life but also of death, despair and darkness and in total to be a Satanist is to accept a balanced philosophy of everything!