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New Zealand Voice of Jan/Feb/Mar 1990 e.v.
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The Left-Hand Path Issue No. 1
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OUR AIM
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The aim of The Watcher is to serve as a forum for a broad spectrum
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of opinion within the range of the Left-Hand Path.
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Our journal is named in honour of the fabled Order of the Watchers
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who, under the leadership of Azazel, and at the instigation of Satan,
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rebelled against the tyrant-god Jehovah, descending to earth to establish
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familial relations with the "daughters of man". The offspring "became
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mighty men which were of old men of renown." (Gen. 6:1-5).
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The Watchers, according to the apocraphyl Enoch, taught their wives
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magic and botany, while Azazel taught man the craft of metallurgy, and
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introduced "the evil art of cosmetics."
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The tyrant-god in retaliation, brought forth The Deluge, imprisoned
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Azazel in the desert until the final judgement, when he will be hurled into
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everlasting fire, and made the Watchers look on while their children were
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killed. They were then bound in the valleys of the earth, so the legend
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goes, until the day when they will be cast into eternal torment in an abyss
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of fire.
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Satan and The Watchers are thus symbols of rebellion against
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tyrannical god and moral concepts which stifle human ascent. We take our
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stand on the side of rebellion leading to liberation from slave religions,
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moralities and ideologies, the chief one being in the West at this time
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Judaeo-christianity, with Marxism and the Puritan money ethic (ideological
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liberalism) being excrescences of this heritage.
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As advocates of continuing human ascent - biological, spiritual and
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intellectual - we adherents of the Left-Hand Path embrace the spirit of the
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fabled Order of Watchers for Liberty and progress. We shout: Hail Satan!
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Hail the Watchers!
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"Satan is the first free-thinker and Saviour of the world. He frees Adam
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and impresses the seal of humanity and liberty on his forehead by making
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him disobedient."
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-Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist philosopher.
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THE BIBLE IN THE BALANCE
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PART I : MARRIAGE & BLOOD SACRIFICE
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The two most common accusations against Satanists/Witches have
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traditionally been their supposed disruption, by hexing, of the christ
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ordained family concept (causing impotence in husbands, and so forth, ref.
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Maleus Malleficarum) and blood sacrifice.
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It is said that The Devil quotes scripture to prove his point. Let
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us therefore see what the Judaeo-christian scriptures themselves have to
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say on the subjects of marriage, the family and blood sacrifice:
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BLOOD SACRIFICE: SATANIC OR JEHOVIC?
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Whether or not Satanists have inappropriately indulged in ritual
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killing in the past, it is a fact that blood-sacrifice is sanctioned by the
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Judaeo-Christian god; it is a hangover from the primitive past, a part of
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both pagan and Judaeo-Christian religious heritages, but where is there a
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specific Satanic sanctioning for it?
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Turning to Genesis, we find that Jehovah was pleased with Abel's
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blood sacrifice, while he rejected the fruit offering of Cain, "a tiller of
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the ground." Genesis, Ch. 4.
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Since Jehovah is supposed to possess precognition he presumably
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knew in advance that his rejection of Cain's noble offering would result in
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dispute between the brothers and lead to murder. Jehovah was therefore
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guilty of setting-up Cain, but nevertheless it's always his hapless human
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children who must take the rap for his own lunatic whims and actions.
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The supremacy of blood sacrifice was therefore clearly established
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in the first chapter of the Old Testament, and culminates in the blood
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sacrifice of the tyrant-god's own alleged son in the New Testament.
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In other books of the Old Testament blood sacrifice - both human
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and animal - is specifically sanctioned as an appropriate offering to
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Jehovah.
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After giving birth it was commanded of Israelite women that they
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must bring a lamb as a burnt offering before Jehovah, and a young pigeon,
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or a turtledove for a sin offering, "unto the door of the tabernacle of the
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congregation, unto the priest: who shall offer it before the Lord and make
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an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her
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blood.
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"And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two
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turtles, or two young pigeons..." Lev. 12:6-8.
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In accordance with a deal he made with Jehovah to "offer up as a
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burnt offering" the first to come from his house to meet him after
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slaughtering the Ammonites, Jephthah sacrificed his daughter. Judges,
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11:29-39.
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II Samuel records that David allowed the Gibeonites to sacrifice
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then sons of Saul before Jehovah to end a famine. II Samuel, 21: 1-14.
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MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
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Christians like to pose as the champions of family values.
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The Christian doctrine towards the family may be discerned from
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this passage in the New Testament, when Jesus sates: "Suppose ye that I am
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come to give peace on earth? I tell you, nay, but rather division; for
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from henceforth there shall be five in one household divided, three against
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two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the
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daughter, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter,
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and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her
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daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
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Luke, 12: 51-53
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Probably many of us know examples of families split apart by
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religious division. Here is the divine sanctioning for it, and for the
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religious civil wars which have afflicted Western civilization for
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centuries, including the present-day Irish 'troubles.'
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The Christian view of marriage is elaborated upon by Paul in a
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really neurotic chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinthians. I
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Corinthians, 7: 1-9.
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Paul recommends that "it is good for a man not to touch a woman."
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But if he really must then this must be done within marriage "to avoid
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fornication."
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"Let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own
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husband... but I speak this by permission, and not of commandment, for I
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would that all men were even as I myself... I say therefore to the
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unmarried and the widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I am,
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but if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than
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to burn."
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Paul's neurotic and base discourse reduces marriage to nothing more
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than avoiding punishment for fornication, if one cannot contain oneself and
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really must associate with women.
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Fables can have much to teach us. Even the Judaeo-Christian fables
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can be instructive to the Satanist. While the fervent Christian
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hysterically condemns Satan as the instigator of the family conflict,
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malicious deeds against humanity, sowing discord and demanding blood
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sacrifice, we may turn to his own sources and expose his charges as nothing
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more than the projection of his tyrant-god's own foul creed upon that of
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his great Adversary and benefactor to humanity - Satan.
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ALEISTER CROWLEY : SATANIST
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by 'Thelemite'
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-------------------------- HYMN TO LUCIFER ------------------------------
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Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act?
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Without its climax, death, what saviour hath
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Life? an impeccable machine, exact
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He paces an inane and pointless path
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To glut brute appetites, his sole content
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How tedious were he fit to comprehend
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Himself! More, this our noble element
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Of fire in nature, love in spirit, unkenned
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Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end.
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His body a blood-ruby radiant
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With noble passion, sun-souled Lucifer
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Swept through the dawn colossal, swift aslant
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On Eden's imbecile perimeter.
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He blessed nonentity with every curse
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And spiced with sorrow the dull soul of sense,
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Breathed life into the sterile universe,
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With Love and Knowledge drove out innocence
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The Key of Joy is disobedience.
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According to Israel Regardie, "anyone who says Crowley was a
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Satanist and a devil-worshipper should have his head examined."
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Crowley's own references to Satan are stated by Regardie as being
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due to his desire to shock, be defiant, sarcastic or witty. (Regardie, The
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Eye in the Triangle).
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Let us therefore consider the writings of Crowley himself to see
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whether the 'Satanism' of this remarkable personality can be so readily
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dismissed.
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Crowley's literary executor and biographer, John Symonds, writes:
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"Crowley's philosophy takes a bit from here and a bit from there... but...
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he was more a Satanist than anything else. 'I serve my great Master
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Satan', he wrote in one of his franker confessions, 'and that august
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Council composed of Beelzebub, Lucifuge, Asmodeus, Belphegor, Baal,
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Adrammelech, Lilith and Nahema.': (John Symonds, The Great Beast).
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RESTORING DEVIL WORSHIP
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In his major work Magick in Theory & Practice, Crowley describes
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the manner in which Satan fits into his intricate cosmology: the Aeon of
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Horus, which he believed he was destined and chosen to proclaim to mankind,
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includes the formula FIAOF of which the 'O' component is "The exalted
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'Devil' (also the other secret Eye [phallic worship]) by the formula of the
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initiates of Horus... This 'Devil' is called Satan or Shaitan, and
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regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formula...
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"... We have therefore no scruple in restoring the 'devil worship'
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of such ideas...
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"Thus the 'Devil' is Capricornus, the Goat who leaps upon the
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loftiest mountains, the Godhead which, became manifest in man, makes him
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Aegipan, the All."
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DEFINING THE DEVIL
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Crowley's conception of the 'Devil' is not too far removed from
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that of contemporary Satanists. Crowley states that "The Devil does not
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exist", but then goes on to explain that "The 'Devil' is, historically, the
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God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much
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confusion of though that the Beast 666 [Crowley] has preferred to let names
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stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that Aiwaz -
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solar-phallic-hermetic - 'Lucifer' - is his own Holy Guardian Angel [Higher
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Self] and 'the Devil' Satan or Hadit of our particular unit of the Starry
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Universe. This Serpent, Satan is not the enemy of man, but he who made
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gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil..."
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In his ritual for the Attainment of Knowledge and Conversation of
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his Holy Guardian Angel, Crowley identifies himself as the servant of
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Satan, "the Devil, out Lord..." ... "whose number of magick is 666, the
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seal of his servant the Beast"(Crowley).
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The occult author Kenneth Grant, a former student of Crowley's and
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head of an English OTO lodge, comments that "this whole ritual is an
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invocation of Shaitan (Satan) or Set", Crowley's aim being union "with his
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Angel, Shaitan-Aiwaz."
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Satan is, in Crowley's cosmology, "the Sun-Father, the vibration of
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Life that Flames with this cosmic Energy", the solar-Phallic Current.
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In a ritual "to invoke the Energies of the Aeon of Horus, the
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ritual of the Mark of the Beast", the powers of ShT are called forth, ShT
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being Set/Satan/Shaitan, on which, writes Grant, "are concentrated the
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magical energies of the New Aeon."
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CULT OF SHAITAN
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Grant, in contradiction to Regardie, writes that Crowley's Thelemic
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philosophy (a synthesis of Nietzscheanism, Eastern and Western mysticism,
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gnosticism and mythology expressed in his own powerful poetical style) is
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Satanic or Shaitanic.
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Grant writes that Shaitan was the Chaldean form of the Egyptian
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Set. "The cult of Shaitan was established in Sumer by the prophet Yezid...
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Crowley... revived the cult of Shaitan or Set." (Grant, Outside The
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Circles of Time).
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It was Shaitan whom Crowley equated with Aiwaz, his own unconscious
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(Holy Guardian Angel); it was Baphomet, the idol of the Templars which
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Crowley adopted as one of his titles, which he equates with the 'Devil'
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(Crowley, 777 & Other Qabalistic Writings) and who but an inspired Satanist
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could write these powerful lines (?):
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"With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon
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the cross.
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"I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed and blind him.
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"With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist,
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Mongol and Din.
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"Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds.
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"Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all
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chaste women be utterly despised among you!" (Liber AL).
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A SATANIC DIRECTORY
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1. Church of Satan. Founded 1966 by Anton S. LaVey, author of The
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Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals. Box 210082, San Francisco, CA.
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94121 USA.
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2. The Black Flame. Quarterly magazine adhering to the Church of Satan.
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Editor: Peter H. Gilmore. Box 499, Radio City station, NY, NY 10101.
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3. Church of S.A.T.A.N. Founded by Rev. Yaj Nomolos, publishes the
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monthly Trident. Rev. Nomolos is author of a number of books on Satanic
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philosophy and ritual including, Social Realism & The Second Coming,
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Citizen Satan, Satanic Rites & Ceremonies.
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4. The Raven School/Church of the Raven, founded by High Priest Luther,
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who runs a correspondence course on Satanism and issues Cry of the Raven.
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Box 321 Meredosia, IL. 62665 USA.
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5. Order of the Nine Angles. Publishes quarterly Fenrir, and The Black
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Book of Satan. Describes itself as adhering to "traditional Satanism",
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"committed to increasing our conscious evolution as individuals." Write:
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Thormynd Press, Box 4, Church Stretton, Shropshire 5Y6 6ZZ England.
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6. The 88 Temple Ov Deities. Formed in 1987 by A.L. Souto. Combines
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Satanism and Qabalistic ritual. The Temple is producing industrial and
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ritual music with its own band Daab-Soul Destruction and issues a
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newsletter and other publications. Box 4546 Miami, Fl. 33014-0546.
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When Writing to any of these groups please remember to enclose a few
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dollars donation to cover postage, etc. The Watch will regularly report on
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these and other Satanic groups as our contacts expand.
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The Satanic Bible & The Satanic Rituals are available in NZ from:
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Typed in by Graeme Wilson (O.L.H.P.)
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If you want more info on any OLHP productions or want more info on
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Satanism, contact me via the following computer networks:
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Also I may be contacted on other NZ BBS's:
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Alternative Reality: +64 0-3-471-0414
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Waverley
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Dunedin
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South Island
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