Durgadas discusess the delusions of modern Satanism.

The Delusional Allure of Satanism

Dedicated to the world of
Vidya (Knowledge, Science), Nyaya (Logic) and Viveka (Discrimination and Reason)

By Durgadas, Ved Kovid

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When most of us grow up from the stage of childhood and realise the fantasies of Santa Claus and the Tooth-Fairy came to an end, so also we realise when possessing logic, that the dualism of a God and his arch-nemesis Satan fails to exist, although these have been gifts from the old Zoroastrian world with their Ahriman. 

The modern trends of Satanism are much like the ancient atheistic-materialistic Charvaka schools of India that denied anything but their own authorities, but their own system of logic itself crumbled due to ease of their mentally-fabricated flawed rationale!

Satanism today however has two main schools: Theistic Satanism (that appears somewhat oxymornic) and Atheistic Satanism.

Theistic Satanism rests upon Gnosticism and takes the demiurge for being the lesser God or Creator alone, whereas the Biblical Satan is said to be the real God behind the shadows of this Creator-God (who becomes the Gnostic Satan). We could better understand this by the roles of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman becoming reversed in Zoroastrian dualism. Atheistic Satanism is more of a modern sect that sets itself up in opposition to all religious beliefs and tenets per se and has no real philosophical basis.

Satan itself means "the adversary" in Hebrew and is often used as a common noun in the Old Testament, pertaining to human adversaries of Jewish Kings etc. and their actions.  

The reality of the world is that, despite the arguments of modern Satanism that they can exist without a God, the neo-Gnostic Satanists of today need one. This "God" is actually either (a) their tamasic reflection of perversity or (b) their alter ego!

This is quite in opposition to the equation Shiva = Satan and Brahma = Demiurge of the East by some Gnostics (forgetting that Brahman in India encompasses Brahma - Creator, Vishnu -Preserver and Shiva-Destroyer aspects rather than seeing them as contradictory or opposing forces); where Shaivites are yogics that really do renounce the world (similar to Franciscan monks) and while having their own social and religious orders, are extremely austere unlike Gnostic movements and modern Satanists who resemble more closely the rituals of the Orthodox Church to Catholicism.

Thus, Satanism still has the ritualistic aspect of priests, their rituals, sermons and their own books as well, whether derived from the older Gnostic texts, Gospels or modern inventions of various moral ethics to live by. Such still becomes a "religion" then, a society or social-order not unlike the Catholic Church that rests upon the naivety of mankind to join!

Really, a true confirmed atheist has no God, whether it be human or celestial. Satan then, becomes like Einstein, Oppenheimer, Rutherford and Newton, a God nonetheless; a figurehead of devotion and above all, infallibility (on a sociocosmic level).

What we are left with then, is the remnant of man's fear to actually be alone or, as the Buddhists call it, shunyata (void, emptiness) - the very root of our word and concept of zero!

This (apparent) lust for dualism is what causes a failure in the psyche of the modern-day Satanists. They are not the magical and secret society that the uneducated Christian underclass (notably Pentecostals) forms a conspiracy theory around, but rather the aspiring lower socioeconomic Satanists that wish to belong to the "Old Gentleman's Club" but like the harijan of India was to the illustrious Brahmin, fails to do so or even come close!

He thus falls into his own third world-order of mental complexities formed partially from his own zeal to be recognised, seen and somewhat adulated himself and seeks like peers for his own quasi-society of expressed testosterone rather than express it in typical male fashion of going out and buying a Ford Mustang or engage in some other (self-destructive) suitable mid-life crisis fix!

The two traditions that have been scientifically inept and culturally constipated (in need of a mental 'basti') are the derivatives from the pan-Abrahamic traditions of the Greco-Roman world that are in reality more reminiscent of Zoroastrian dualism, namely the 'heretic' traditions of Gnosticism-Satanism and Christianity.

Today however they both continue in the same zeal. The average Christian presents Christ in their own introverted fantasies and fetishes, while the Satanists superimpose the same. Both however are renounced from any real affinity of sources - the Germano-Keltic brood wishing to understand the mysteries of the old Latin world is no closer than the Latin Spaniards were to understanding the queer Native American traditions blind-sighted by their own indoctrinated dogmatism and preconceptions!"

If one is to call or see one's self as a good Christian, one should study first the history and gospels in their original Greek as with Yoga, we need to source back to the origins as also learn the Yoga Sutras etc. in the Sanskrit, lest we become faith-based parrots immersed in pseudo traditions of blind logic! Likewise, a real Gnostic would be one that has studied such relative to the (alive) traditions today, which sadly, cease to exist within the sphere of reality (logic, reason and all that is conducive to rationalism, philosophically or otherwise).

To the Christian, the allure is to be seen as the self-righteous pan-Samaritanism or 'Good Samaritan' by society, regardless of their own (personal) actions which more than often contradict this image, while the neo-Tantric Satanists envision their world of macabre settings and (repressed sexual) fantasies as one far beyond their reach, except at the end of the couch watching Paranormal Activity from the comfort of their own home! Risqué indeed!

The other failure of modern Satanists is to equate themselves with the Vamamarga or the Left Hand Path of India opposite the Dakshinamarga or Right-Hand Path. Yet, what they also do is superimpose again their own Christian dualism upon the world, for in India, things exist always in triples, hence we have the Dakshina (Right), Madhyama (Middle) and Vama (Left) hand paths, with all shades in between, not merely the Right-Left or dualism of God-Satan as modern Satanists try and argue! On this, note my article HERE for further clarification.

The European world through the mysticism taken to Europe by the lower-class Romani (Gypsies) from nomadic India (their language is still Sanskritic and left Persia around 1,500 years ago as groups of musicians and dancers loved by Persian Kings to entertain them in their Kingdoms as well as magicians and fortune-tellers) - derived much by way of divination by tarot, fortune-telling, phyisiognomy, chiromancy, astrology and via the Middle-East influencing the dress and dances there as with the Belly-Dancing in Northern Egypt to the Flamenco in Spain (which is why they resemble Indian dances and costumes) which shaped Europe and initiated a new wave of mysticism that evenually fused with the misconstrued aspects of  Chakra-balancing, Pranic-healing etc. derived from India via this strange non-original fusion. In such a manner, preconceptions were born due to this. 

As such, none of this resembles near the terrible rituals aimed at shattering the ego in the Eastern world, which is why we see western Satanists so eager to sirsasana (do a yogic headstand)  about and become the world's best hypocrites, speaking about the dangers of Ahankara or egotism / narcissism on one hand and their zeal to "uphold tradition", yet define 'tradition' by whatever they see fit in an almost Catholic attitude and go about their day plagiarising, spreading the 'good teachings' that were held close once by the Indian Brahmins and taken west and distorted by lower-caste tribes that the Romani or Gypsy comprised where such were further misconstrued until they merged with the hopeful pan-Gnostic and pan-Pagan aspects a few centuries ago, despite the historical fact that such ceased to exist in Europe for over a millennia, displaced by the Church! There is no direct link or lineages to these traditions unike their is of the Balinese Hindus, Brahmins, Yogis and Rishis of India, even the Buddhists in Asia and Taoists in China of continuous traditions without a break!

So, what is hoped for is merely the lower socioeconomic classes in the West wishing to present themselves as (poor) imitations of the [formally named] House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in power, of which the allure of their Satanism provides in their mind, but in reality provides no more than wishful thoughts and the power of 'bragbility' as one recently taking up Yoga classes or a vegan diet does amidst their peers to emit some kind of 'enlighten aura'!

Perhaps, following the Satanic trend and listening to the Soundtrack of 'Dangerzone', I shall adopt the Hindu model of ashaucha (uncleanliness) by consuming foodstuffs with the left hand (the "bathroom hand" in India, hence unclean) or violating tradition as the 'naughty boy' I am by placing books (representing wisdom), especially sacred ones, upon the floor of my home and around unclean animals as pets. Surely then, I can understand and come to even personify the real Satanic path! Or perhaps I am merely using sarcasm to portray a point...