Contents:
- Undefiled Wisdom
- Taking Truth Seriously
- Satan represents Doubt
- Hoary Falsehood
- Lucifer, Crown Prince
1. Undefiled Wisdom
I worship truth. I worship reality. The best symbol of reality is Satan. In order to be true to my beliefs, I must seek out the truth, to know. In Satanism, the self is God. Out of the self comes ones own experience of life. This experience of life is sacred. A Satanist does not pollute this life with skewed perceptions of reality. To have a skewed perspective on reality is, for a Satanist, to worship a falsehood. Satan is the worshipping of truth and reality, and the abolishing of falsehood, deceit and lies. The Third Satanic Statement does not lack clarity:
3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit!
Satanists seek do abolish foolish things and things that cloud the mind or will. The worship of truth is a compelling journey that invigorates life and gives meaning. The destruction of lies is an unholy mission that we have dedicated our lives to. The preservation of lies is the abode of religious dogma. In dogma lies an absence of thought and an failure to search for truth.
Earthly success and happiness are foiled by lies: The more you worship truth, the more it is that truth itself makes you happy. The rosary beads of a Satanist are the gems of truth that shine through the dark glass through which we try to understand the world. The only black light to illuminate our way is the path of Enlightenment, of Lucifer, Crown Prince of Hell.
2. Taking Truth Seriously
"He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom"The Satanic Bible, Book of Satan 2:7
To be easily convinced is to be weak. To be strong is to take truth seriously: If you doubt everything you are told, then you are compelled to search for truth rather than condemned to accept misinformation and confusion. To avoid confusion, you must question everything!
I take my beliefs seriously. As a result, I am stubborn about what I believe. I require reasons for things, I want deep understanding of how something can be true. Without those, I am reluctant. The more intellectually slack a person is, the easier it is to convince them of something.
3. Satan represents Doubt
"Satan represents Doubt. God did not want Adam and Eve to eat of the Tree of Good and Evil. Allah did not want his creation to doubt his word. In both theologies, it was Satan, the most intelligent created being, who stood up against this enforced ignorance. Satan tells mankind: Search for knowledge, even in taboo places. Shaitan told the Djinn: Let us test God's word, let us not mindlessly believe all that God says. Although these myths are irrelevant to the modern world, the role of Satan is very much relevant to our lives and our search for knowledge. Enlightenment is the ability to look past stated truth and dogma, and Lucifer is the Crown Prince of Satan that represents our search for enlightenment."
"Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway
through which truth passes would be tightly shut"
LaVey
4. Hoary Falsehood
The Book of Satan is the first book in the Satanic Bible. It states:
"No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!7
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.8"The Satanic Bible, The Book of Satan 1:7-8
And the Second Satanic Statement reads:
2. Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
Spiritual pipe dreams are forms of hoary falsehood that feed on peoples' shallow emotional wants. Dogma stifles thought. Vital existence is the reality of life. Satan represents the truth and the search for truth, and as such Satan as it should do, represents the abolition of religious dogma. The traditional churches and religions of mankind are the symptoms of mental disease. How many hundreds and thousands of times in history has scientific truth been oppressed by the murderous, holy rage of the Christian and mainstream churches? Their search for truth has ended; the only truth they are seeking is that which confirms what they already think. The search for truth is unholy, anti-establishment, irreligious and above all Satanic.
All of this talk of the worshipping of truth and the seeking out of lies highlights the Cardinal Sin of Satanism: Stupidity.
"Satan is our Saviour Against Hoary Falsehoods
Satan is our symbol. It is a choice to stand against stupidity, the cause of all that is bad in the world, in mankind, the cause of counterproductive pride, hate, evil. Stupidity is the true source of traditional evil in the world, beckoned into existence by lazy minds and anti intellectual muses, stupidity is the power of the herd; it is brutal unreasonable failure.We choose the opposite to this human evil; the thinker, the intellectual, the productive or successful, the strategist and the source of all that is good. This is represented by Satan, Lord of the Inferno, and any other personal religious icon or god is seen as a lesser symbol, a symbol of self deceit."
"Stupidity is the Cardinal Sin of Satanism" by Vexen, 2002 Jan
This page drew on a lot of material from pages I've already written because I felt it pertinent to bring together various strands: Such as the 2nd and 3rd Satanic Statements and the Cardinal Sin, into reflection with each other. Satanism as the worship of truth highlights Satan as the enemy of religion and stupidity.
5. Lucifer, Crown Prince
This devotion to hard reality and truth is hedonism-when-applied-to-the-head. Lucifer, the Crown Prince of the Eastern Cardinal, is the path of more philosophically minded Satanists. This page is therefore the path of Lucifer rather than the paths of the other types of Satanists. As I myself align strongly with the Lucifer Aspect of Satan this essay is biased: There are Satanists who would disagree with the very idea of spending so much time on intellectual endeavours. Many other Satanists have more practical-elitist skills and follow the paths of Belial or Leviathan.
The search for truth is not always the same as the search for mere happiness. Happiness can result from misdirection and ignorance; therefore the search for truth is nobler. Albert Einstein, one of the most prominent Human intellects, once concluded that there is no simple answer to the question of how far the search for truth should cast a shadow on happiness:
“Should truth, for instance, be sought unconditionally even where its attainment and its accessibility to all would entail heavy sacrifices in toil and happiness? There are many such questions which, from a rational vintage point, cannot easily be answered or cannot be answered at all.”Albert Einstein1