Darkness. It’s a feeling that people get overtime that they can’t really put a finger on at first. It happens at Halloween during the fall season, and so some people call it spooky. It happens when people watch horror movies or read horror fiction. It is some times called creepy, and when people see spiders, snakes, and bats, many are frightened, and call it scary. Throughout life different topics arise in mainstream media like true crime and horror gore realism, and trends get focused on like the gothic subculture, and eventually satanism and witchcraft groups. These collaborate together to make a culture of darkness that people begin to admire their experience and try to formulate practices about what they are feeling.
In devil worship I focus on not being redundant and stupid, and never missing the basic point. And as the typical situations spin further the karmic wheel, inevitable disagreements surface by Christians who would make the argument that Satan is making his moves to keep people from eternal life and salvation as enemy to Christ and his followers, and falling into a trap that I will eventually be punished for. Even though this view I see as immature timid, sick, and weak naivety and very shallow, I actually can agree that it is a way that Satan and his kingdom works.
I like the story of Pandora’s box. As the story goes, pandora was a female deity who opened a jar that unleashed curses on the world of sickness and death. Through the adversity of misfortune that befell the earth when the box was opened, many found hope. I see this relative to the holy scriptures teaching of both the serpent in the garden tempting eve to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and the Christian argument of predestination and the foreknowledge of god in relationship to his son’s achievement for the redemption of mankind. Yes there were troubles and evils, but also hope and salvation.
In order to experience the one, there must exist the other. Christians should recognize the fact that if it were not for Satan existing and the world existing in the way that they have, Christianity would not have happened at all.
There has been the point brought up in a question by Anton LaVey, could the human race continue to exist if they ceased wholly from preying upon each other? I reflect on this regularly about the stratification of mankind in evolutionary form. Satan has been defined loosely as a balancing factor within an entropic design of survival of the fittest. I am one who leans more on the spiritual side of these feelings of inner awareness and cognition and have grown more mature over the years which during that growth I had not exactly seen things within this perspective.
In terms of these perspectives Satan is a real and viable force to be reckoned with, and I would invite people to look into these practices and find what resonates with them.
