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Satan cu siguranţă a fost cel mai bun prieten pe care biserica l-a avut
vreodată, pentru că a păstrat-o în afacere în toţi aceşti ani. Falsa doctrină
despre Iad şi Diavol a permis Bisericilor Protestantă şi Catolică să înflorească
foarte mult. Fără un Diavol pe care să-l arate cu degetul, religioşii căii
mâinii drepte nu ar fi avut nimic prin care să-şi ameninţe discipolii. "Satan vă
duce în ispită"; "Satan este prinţul răului"; "Satan este vicios, crud, brutal,"
avertizează aceştia. "Dacă vă lăsaţi ispitit de Diavol, cu certitudine veţi
suferi osânda veşnică şi veţi arde în Iad."
Satan, conducătorul dracilor din Lumea Vestică, era la origine un înger a cărui
sarcină era aceea de a raporta lui Dumnezeu lipsurile oamenilor. Nu doar până în
Secolul al XIV-lea el era înfăţişat ca o zeitate rea, în parte om, în parte
animal, cu coarne şi copite ca ale ţapului. Înainte ca Creştinismul să-i dea
numele de Satan, Lucifer, etc., partea trupească a naturii umane era guvernată
de zeul apelat ca Dionysos sau Pan, descris ca satir sau faun de către Greci.
Pan era iniţial "personajul bun" care simboliza fertilitatea şi fecunditatea.
Asocierea ţapului cu diavolul este găsită în Biblia Creştină, unde ziua cea mai
sfântă a anului, Ziua Răscumpărării, era celebrată prin tragerea la sorţi a doi
ţapi "fără cusur", unul pentru a fi oferit lui Dumnezeu, şi altul lui Azazel.
Ţapul purtând păcatele oamenilor era condus în deşert şi devenea "ţap
ispăşitor". Aceasta este originea ţapului folosit încă în ceremonii gazdă la fel
cum era folosit în Egipt, unde odată pe an este sacrificat unui Zeu.
SATAN -- (Hebrew) adversary, opposite, accuser, Lord of fire, the inferno, the
south
LUCIFER -- (Roman) bringer of light, enlightenment, the air, the morning star,
the east
BELIAL -- (Hebrew) without a master, baseness of the earth, independence, the
north
LEVIATHAN -- (Hebrew) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the west
Numele Diabolice
The pig was despised by the Jews and the Egyptians. It symbolized the gods Frey,
Osiris, Adonis, Persephone, Attis, and Demeter, and was sacrificed to Osiris and
the Moon. But, in time, it became degraded into a devil. The Phoenicians
worshipped a fly god, Baal, from wich comes the devil, Beelzebub. Both Baal and
Beelzebub are identical to the dung beetle or scarabaeus of the Egyptians which
appeared to resurrect itself, much as the mythical bird, the phoenix, rose from
its own ashes. The ancient Jews believed, through their contact with the
Persians, that the two great forces in the world were Ahura-Mazda, the god of
fire, light, life, and goodness; and Ahriman, the serpent, the god of darkness,
destruction, death, and evil. These, and countless other examples, not only
depict man's devils as animals, but also show his need to sacrifice the original
animal gods and demote them to his devils.
At the time of the Reformation, in the Sixteenth Century, the alchemist, Dr.
Johann Faustus, discovered a method of summoning a demon -- Mephistopheles --
from Hell and making a pact with him. He signed a contract in blood to turn his
soul over to Mephistopheles in return for the feeling of youth, and at once
became young. When the time came for Fautus to die, he retired to his room and
was blown to bits as though his laboratory had exploded. This story is a protest
of the times (the Sixteenth Century) against science, chemistry, and magic.
Pious prophets have taught man to fear Satan. But what of terms like "God
fearing"? If God is so mercifull, why do people have to fear him? Are we to
believe there is nowhere we can turn to escape fear? If you have to fear God,
why not be "Satan fearing" and at least have the fun that being God fearing
denies you? Without such wholesale fear religionists would have had nothing with
which to wield power over their followers.
The Teutonic Goddess of Dead and daughter of Loki was named Hel, a pagan god of
torture and punishment. Another "L" was added when the books of the Old
Testament were formulated. The prophets who wrote the Bible did not know the
word "Hell"; They used the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades, which meant the
grave; also the Greek Tartaros, which was the adobe of fallen angels, the
underworld (inside the earth), and Gehenna, which was a valley near Jerusalem
where Moloch reigned and garbage was dumped and burned. It is from this that the
Christian Church has evolved the idea of "fire and brimstone" in Hell.
The Protestant Hell and the Catholic Hell are places of eternal punishment;
however, the Catholics also believed there is a "Purgatory" where all souls go
for a time, and a "Limbo" where unbaptized souls go. The Buddhist Hell is
divided into eight sections, the first seven of which can be expiated. The
ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and
torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy
cold region, a giant refrigerator.
(Even with the threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian
missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel.
Pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. So, when
missionaries ventured to Alaska and warned the Eskimos of the horrors of Hell
and the blazing lake of fire awaiting transgressors, they eagerly asked: "How do
we get there?"!)
Satan, as a god, demi-god, personal saviour, or whatever you wish to call him,
was invented by the formulators of every religion on the face of the earth for
only one purpose -- to preside over man's so-called wicked activities and
situations here on earth. Consequently, anything resulting in physical or mental
gratification was defined as "evil" -- thus assuring a lifetime of unwarranted
guilt for everyone!
So, if "evil" they have named us, evil we are -- and so what! The Satanic Age is
upon us! Why not take advantage of it and LIVE! *
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* (evil reversed)