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