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We have described religion's purpose. It is a rough description and cannot be misinterpreted as a full treatment of religion. No religion is ever broken down to its most basic components and expects to survive as what it was. Long before we speak of any established religion, the cycle of religious development would have looped for many generations, among human beings who took from this inquiry into the evil what they could or wanted. It is an error to speak of an "essential religion" that can be fully formed. It starts out of superstitions and taboos when it exceeds anything beyond a spiritual treatment of the material world. By the time anything we would recognize as a significant religious system arises, the hermit's work had developed a large system, that largely escaped the purview of religion. In a time before there was a large body of written work - where there was either the one book that was canon, or there was no writing at all nor a reliable oral tradition - religion was the likely way understanding of a perilous world with known evils could be known beyond some trivial statements. We must not forget that for most of history, the idea that "education" had any necessary knowledge was not computed. Education was not about learning, but a rite of passage. Any learning was left to the youth, who would sink or swim, among nations that cared little about the survival of those who could not pass these trials. This ugliness when exposed makes clear that humans never had a chance of being anything good, though for all of the ugliness, there was too little of it to change the world or the wants of people for something different, and too little of it to really impose an ideology or rigid cycle on anyone. Freedom in the genuine sense existed as a condition of primitive society producing men and women who could exist or do much at all. This was prior to the unworkability of slaveries beyond local displays of domination over those who were "natural inferiors" and had little expectation that their lot among this demonic race was going to be any different. That is, it wasn't inevitable that humanity would be enslaved the first moment it became technologically possible. Far from it, humanity resisted its fate and continues to resist its fate, because the superstition about "historical progress" will never pass the smell test of anyone who remembers "oh yeah, those people really are jackasses and we were so much better when we didn't let them do any of this". Excuses are made about the inevitability of enclosure or political necessity. These fall apart because political leaders, once they have ensured hegemony and marshal the resources of their society, see that the thrill of dominating another and the thrill of torture is onerous and counterproductive if they wanted anything from that society. All of the death that is declared "natural law" but the eugenic creed is completely a choice of certain people who set about engineering a situation where no one and no thing would tell them no, and to this day, it can only insist that such a thing must happen, against any good reason why it "has" to happen. If the world worked in the way such a religion insisted it did, humanity would be much worse. Just how much worse, I have not enough words to describe. It is sufficient to know based on knowledge of the cycle that however evil humans may be, we know far greater evils are possible. Such is the nature of Abomination. What I describe in this chapter as "the Satan" is not Abomination or any fickle regressive faggotry. It is rather something which makes discourse about a "god" something more than a very powerful superstition and taboo, and something altogether different from the development of the religious cycle. It is not "Satan" itself that is the object of greatest interest to me, but the Satanic Cycle - the chief cycle that would be invoked for temporal and political power over humans. It is a peculiarly human thing, and it is with the Satan that "human" as a category of things in the universe can actually exist in a recognizable form. The Satanic impulse then backdates its own existence, as is its habit, to place itself at the genesis first of the human race and the first human, and then of the universe itself. By "the Satan" I refer to any such godhead or concept of the divine which makes such an imperious claim, regardless of whether it is a "Satanic" god, or a counterpoint to such a deity, which is a necessarily higher form of religious development which pays homage to its root and its genesis.

We can envision the "pre-Satanic" world as one where the gods were understood primarily as animistic metaphors, rather than actual theological things with political relevance. The religion of humanity, even in later years, is syncretic and often mashes together whatever works for the adherent. To this day, much of humanity only takes in parts of the dominant theological religions - the Satanic religions, in this author's view - as it suits them or as they accede to in the course of interacting with such institutions. Many people in 20th century society saw religion as something they only carried on out of a sense of tradition, and because religion or some spiritual sense of the world placed everything they knew into a useful context. We have seen the consequences of institutionally mandated "atheism", which contrary to its pretensions is highly religious and demanding of adherents in ways that the old religions were not. Outside of the parts of the world where "the Satan" was a central figure in cosmology and concepts of spiritual authority, religion remained more akin to philosophy or a mashed-up assemblage of whatever worked and the teachings of gurus, sages, or in later days writers and artists who entered the modern canon. This treatment is crude and does not include the genuine mass religion which exists in the world among the people. But, for that mass religion to be properly known, the theological and "Satanic" religion must be understood as one of central importance to religion generally. Mass religion is the first genuine counter to the Satanic religion that exists within a religious framework, and it does so because it was possible to attack religion on its own grounds, which obligated religions to adapt as well. This set off a society-wide historical cycle which continues to this day, and has made recorded history sensical. Before this, a record of history is spotty in part because the ruling ideas did not value this record, and it was further a record that was never for public access in any way. The taboo and general fear of the Celtic druids killed anyone who dared speak of the religious mysteries, and this idea would pass on to infect their descendants. It is an inheritance in British occultism and a part of American civic religion, now merged with many other foul rituals from around the world and selecting the best of the worst for superior malice. The occult tradition is itself something only fully sensical when religions become mass religions. The occulting of religious institutions is an inferior model, and one that is far less clever than the partisans of institutions want it to be. It is only through the denuding of mass occultism and the context which made it comprehensible that the institutional occulting of the 20th century was "saleable". That description is for a later time. The important thing here is that "Satan" and occulting and mystery have little to do with each other. The Satan, historical and today, is not particularly subtle. Its "occulting" relies more on anvilicious fear, as Masonic-inspired pablum makes clear as the art of American culture is degenerated to its lowest stage. Fear is a terrible occulting strategy. I do not downplay the occulting of intelligence agents, whose dissemination of information and theories thereof are at the highest level yet known, far beyond anything this humble author could hope to describe. Yet, for all of their knowledge in spying and lying, it is not terribly difficult to figure out the intelligence agency. This is in part because it has been standing policy of the intelligence community to leak "hints" that resemble the genuine condition. This indicator grants to the intelligence university its apparent wisdom and establishes intelligence agents as spiritual authorities, abrogating native sense by working through its assumptions and superstitions. The amplification of general fear serves a much different purpose - it is an exultant shouting of "DIE!" Its purpose is not to control information, so much as it is a symbol of power to make resistance to the eugenic creed and the ruling order appear hopeless, so that the condemned sink into despair, or burn enthusiasm towards worthless or just plain silly objectives. Intelligence agencies do not really possess "special super-knowledge", but they possess things that most of us lack - an abundance of time in labor-hours and expertise that is tasked specifically with gathering intelligence, machinery to do likewise, and an obsessive interest with knowing things for whatever purpose the agency has. Most of all, the intelligence agent benefits from what it lacks - any of the onerous burdens placed on other orders of society, who must either work, fight, or pray, with all of the perils those tasks entail. The rival and fear of the intelligence agent is other intelligence agents. Its chief enemy, to be attacked in the commons, is the same as ever - the lowest class, who are never to be admitted into the agency's ranks under any circumstances. To do so violates the most sacred oath of the human race.

For the most part, though, occulting of any sort is less interesting than some access to truth that religion can provide. By both a sense of evil and existing superstititons which can be based on reality, and a native sense that fit any of that into any worthwhile framework or world-system, intelligence would develop what counted as formal knowledge in primitive and ancient times. The religious sense made formalization of a whole body of knowledge possible, in a way cruder, ad hoc systems of knowledge did not. For example, currency or money would be impossible without a spiritual and religious concept of debt and its tallying, and the enforcement of that debt by something other than violence or naive trust. Niceness was less effective an enforcement tool than the evil that religion dealt with, and so the superstitions of debt were very often superstitions of a malice that took on novel forms as technology and the conditions of the world allowed. Evil ruled humans because of their peculiar history, but humans largely didn't need to be "human" for most of history. All the way up to modernity, much of humanity lives apart from "humanity" as a spiritual concept of great currency, where a "religion of Man" prevailed over the older religions which concerned an unliving world and unliving deity, where humans were themselves part unliving. Most of all, biopolitics that dominated modernity was far removed, and was recognized correctly as a pernicious thing to be avoided. I cannot here give a full account of the precursors of biopolitics and the cult of the flesh, the lurid orgies and their precursors. The flesh is often claimed by the Satan, but the Satan is at heart a theological and abstract construct. It claims the flesh to declare that it is greater-than-flesh and must do so, but throughout its existence, the Satan is primarily a creature of intellect and advertises itself as such, however spurious its reason is and however much it detaches from truth - and most of all, detaches the damned of the Earth from truth and mandates this disconnection in all things.

Of all the gods of the human race - and this will be true of all of the aristocratic gods by design - the Satan is the most attached to temporal authority and the world we live in. Its declaration is that it is the world, and in doing so, it completes an interruption of the cycle and establishes a new one - the Satanic Cycle, which will be the weaponized instrument which made the Great Taboo and Great Insinuation inescapable, and began the full enclosure of the world in an effort to remake all there is in its image, so that there would be nothing else. All of the aristocratic gods are, once their particular finery is removed, visages of the Satan, who is in the aristocratic mind always glorious and eternally victorious. Satan is the Spirit of Man, and the adversary of "men" - men who are not allowed into the great club. This is the necessary division - between those selected to live, and those selected to die - that the eugenic creed represents in our time. But, the will of the Satan is not reducible to the faggotry of eugenics, and it does not command any loyalty except among initiates who are convinced that the Satan is their personal god granting personal reward and the glory of self-abasement towards a phalanx in the Satan's name. For all of the evil of the Satan, this author gives the Satanist more credit than a eugenist fag, and they are fags. The eugenist is the enabler of today's Satan, and in turn, the enablers of eugenism are feeding from the trough at a lower rung of the great ladder. So, who or what is this figure? It deserves a proper introduction, and now is the time to do so.

For generation after generation, the makeshift religions and frameworks that are developed become a monopoly of gurus, pedagogues, cults, associations with lurid rituals and symbols of power. None of these can decisively win, and none of them adequately answer the evil that made religion relevant. After enough time, superstititons are prevalent enough that they circulate generally and in conditions of antagonism in close quarters - the same conditions which mark the first civilization and the establishment of temples and a "temple economy" governed by priests commanding labor by various schemes and the rule of fear. The Satan claims that it is coterminous with civilization, but this is a historical revision which amplifies the Satan's claims and stretches its cosmology to a time prior to its full genesis as a theology. The precursors of the Satan certainly exist - there are all-powerful heads in the heavens of barbarian society which offer power and malevolence to those who can command it. It is only the conditions of civilization that are ripe for the development of the Satan proper. Where does the Satan arise? It arises in the superstition of the self, the mind, and a conceit blown up far beyond anything consciousness, sense, and the self ever actually referenced.

At the core of the Satan is spiritual authority deemed to be property of a particular mind, which grants to it qualities that become realized after sufficient inquiry into the nature of information and knowledge. The authority is transmuted into a substance that is unknowable to those without a password guarded by the Satanist, and given a peculiar wholeness that the ostensible "totality" never has. For most of us, spiritual authority is understood to be an abstract thing and never a substance to claim like some piece of technology. No man or idol of any sort possess any authority by Being or "just being" as the fags proclaim. The Satan is simultaneously obsessed with technology in a way that produces a familiar smell to those of us in the early 21st century, and it abhors any technology that is not locked down, enclosed, and aligned with the will of the One, who is the master to the slaves who do not possess connection with the One. It is information in a specific context, but once that context is established it is expanded into a general and universal rule about information, and the entities which manage it. This includes human beings and living entities with some consciousness, and it includes machines and institutions which are granted human-like status based on a conceit of information, substituted for knowledge proper. All of this is to say - the Satan operates on a very elaborate superstition which is aware of superstition itself, and relies on self-reference and infinite regress to make political claims about information processing, and in its cosmology, about reality itself. This is the necessary seed from which the Satan springs, and it is familiar to those who read this book. The regression to the primordial light is in of itself a weak appeal to historical authority, trivially demonstrated to be pointless. Why would the past have control over the present in this way, when the past is no more? For this to arise, the interests of civilization must develop sufficiently for property beyond personal possessions to be enforceable, and enclosure has to a potential. There is a crass belief that property and devilry go hand in hand, but this is a deliberate perversion. Nothing about property and genesis requires anything like "the Satan" or anything more than the recognition that property and genesis are realities that humans accept as historical facts and superstitions that have a lot of moral weight assigned to them. That is, it would not be a crime to hold property out of a sense that property is "Satanic", nor is property eternal. Property deeds are dissolved or converted into other types of property for any reason we can imagine, for property's value is not a self-evident fact and Absolute. Property is a convention we developed about claims to what is effectively the past, because we recognized there was a past and conditions in that past that we wanted to preserve beyond possession, memory, or record of it. There are obvious reasons why we would defend property given the lack of alternatives or trustworthiness of humans who are known for the malicious proclivity. But, property claims as deeds have little to do with the Satan. In principle, all of those deeds are recorded as information, and the deeds can be abrogated by nothing more than a dictation that they are no more. They are not abrogated by a simple will or anything anyone says, and they are not abrogated by simple deeds or brute force. To abrogate property requires an application of law to stick - to claim that there is no property, there never was property, and it disappears from record.

The rapid switching of information to make this trick real has been described before. It is not the switching of information itself which makes it "Satanic", but it is a necessary precondition - that "contradiction" can be weaponized and used to assert reality. This works on the sense of human beings and the essentialization of their person and an institutional and technological representation of them which becomes unmentionable. The circuit of information must be overwhelmed and melted down, so that it becomes nothing more than primordial pressing. The religious cycle and superstition around it makes this possible. But, asserting the cycle alone has only a miniscule effect. Ripe conditions for the abuse of such information control must exist. This was only possible when command of information required something far beyond the native faculties of human beings, and formal systems of knowledge required pedagogy and initiation into secrets that were not so freely reproducible or things independently reconstructed. The existence of the conditions did not make this information control inevitable or even an inexorable tendency. Information control of this sort did not, in of itself, necessitate "the Satan" or any particular malice that was all-consuming or adversarial. Nor did the mere assertion that there was a "Satan" make it necessarily glorious or Absolute.^[1] There was a choice and motives for this to be a viable option, and "the Satan" is not automatically the best choice in all situations, without regard to local conditions. A Satanist themselves can understand this - the Satanic religion is one for aristocracy and its enablers, and not meant for mass consumption in most cases. When it is promulgated as a mass religion, it is always to maximize a cull as they occur so often in human history.

The Satan is premised on monopoly of information in a given space with motives peculiar to its superstition, rather than "mere" monopoly. By itself, monopoly is just a fact of economic life where it exists. The consequences of monopoly are well known, and if we do not speak of education regarding political economy and its offshoots, we live with those consequences every day. The monopoly of information for the Satan must be made total and fuse the spiritual and temporal as one for the purposes of rule. The ruler themselves knows that this is a trick, but the ruled are never allowed to acknowledge what is done to them, even when it is barked in their face, to emphasize that the Satan will always rule. This habit is not done because it is in of itself effective, but because the superstition that "this works" feeds itself, and feeds a sentiment of the rulers and, most of all, their enablers. We would ignore it if we could ignore the evil, but evil does not allow itself to be ignored, and among the tools of the Satan is to proclaim that they can ignore inferiors, while making that fact known. A Satanic race, which humanity is by this point, cannot break from this because of its history, rather than any mechanical or natural reason why this should work. It is a problem averted by removing oneself from the company of humans, or at least the company of those who are passionately committed to Satanic behavior. Most humans, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn, are not as given over to this "pleasure" as the ruling ideas declare. The prevalent ideas in any era are not the ruling ideas, however much this appeals to ideology and the fags who indulge in it. Very often, the ruling ideas are contradicted and allowed to be contradicted, so long as the humiliation of social inferiors is a constant. Rulers delight in possessing a right to transgress the decencies set for inferiors, whether those decencies were those the inferiors made for their own sake, or were farcical "decencies" imposed by threat of violence or social humiliation, which are the decencies aristocracy publicly upholds as part of their constant pressing of the nerve of power, their Satanic impulse as their very own special race. The Satan is not premised on any consent of the governed, and no polity in human history has ever hinged on public opinion or support of any large number of its people. Decent government - that is, a government that anyone would want to build - would require this, and it is a constant game played to tell those who have no power that they must grasp and behave wholly opportunistically that governments are by default decent.^[2] Whether a Satanist or anyone else believes decent government is a goal or a possibility is unrelated to this. I say before and can say again that the value of decent government is not lost on anyone who thinks about this situation for five minutes, even with crude information. But, if the monopoly on information is Absolute, thinking about the situation for the condemned for any length of time changes nothing, while their situation - with or without their knowledge - presses them to act, goads them to act.

What is sought is a spirit of domination on this basis, rather than domination or authority generally. The Satan does not win domination automatically, or abase itself to power simply because. The meaning of its name - "adversary" - indicates what it is to the religious which best described this function. It is a particular type of domination rooted in superstitions regarding the mind, information, and humanity. It could, in principle, exist outside of humanity and without regard to any human condition; but, due to what humans are, the Satan as "the Satan" - as any superstition granted deification - is an especially human construct, and must be so. The Satan aspires to become God, usurp God, and expects this cycle to continue. In other words, the master-slave "dialectic" - which should not be given the name "dialectic" since it is some philosophical faggotry to destroy the true root of such a thing - is an essentially Satanic view of the world, and not the limit of Satanism. It is rather a necessary condition that theology developed from.

To call it a "master" and "slave" view of the world is the conceit of fags, or a clever ruse to disguise the real root of this spiritual authority. There are many paths to slavery should one want that institution, and slavery and mastery are in the end conditions that are realized, rather than ideal states that can be established. Slavery, wherever it exists, can only survive as an institution, rather than by the whims of any particular agent. If someone is held in bondage purely by insinuation and no violent force, those who hold the slave will constantly fear revolt, and would have to devote value to controlling information artificially. This works if someone is confident in all conditions controlling the slave's behavior, and that confidence may be warranted by knowledge of the body, natural laws, and so on which make clear, for example, that animals are unlikely to revolt, as no such revolt has been known for all of the centuries of animal husbandry. A careless herdsman will lose his livestock, just as a negligent slave owner can lose his slaves to disease or any productive value. The impulse of domination is not carried out for material or immediate purposes, when such a "master-slave" view is invoked by philosophy. It is instead their faith in a superstitious monopoly on information - to declare, and enforce very violently, that the dominated are retarded and nothing else. Domination itself need not rely on this, and very often, the Satanist is not dominant on a cosmic scale, and holds dubious value in temporal authority. The Satan appears as a shared interest - a commonwealth not of property or technology or anything we would value, but a commonwealth of like-minded people who understand that if the Great Game ever ended, it would be the end of them. Therefore, the devotees of such a cult must insist on this program until it works, and then assert that it is above all other laws, "above God", accomplishing its cosmic mission. The Satanist views other gods it usurps, correctly, as rival Satans. Once successful, the victorious Satan casts losers into the ranks of the struggling, while the condemned live in squalor, largely ignorant of the contest for spiritual authority from the Satanists' view. This is Orwell's idealized view of class struggle - the "High", the "Middle", and the "Low". No such struggle actually plays out in the material world which must be consequential. The struggle is sold as a "class struggle" after the fact, when social classes are essentialized and excuses are made for their existence. The true struggle is for control of institutions, the information they rely on, and the spaces they rule. If that is granted, the minds and souls of subjects, however many there are, will no longer be relevant, so long as the struggle is confined to this, and does not question why the struggle takes place, or why it should take place. For most of the "Low", the idea that this struggle pertained to them is some faggotry unrelated to anything they wanted. The same was true of the commoners who were among the liberal revolutionaries. They did not see themselves as "the Low", for many of them already bought into title, property, and positions where they had an active stake in the world. Very often, the commoners were where they were because they held technology and services the more competent of the nobility desired, and accumulated money and wealth while the old nobility were stuck marrying for money rather than aristocratic status as they believed natural. Most of these people saw themselves from the outset as men with all of the relevant knowledge and experience to rule, however well it actually turned out for them. Behind the smoke and mirrors, the tripartite "ruling idea" did not describe what could truly rule much at all. It described an ideology that some took part in while it was profitable. The revolutionaries did not see their role as liberation of the masses, but as liberation of themselves which they held to be common sense and a thing they won by accumulating power and influence over the centuries. What the masses thought of any of this was nobody's serious concern, beyond whatever assets could be stripped from them by one or the other. For many who were party to the struggle, they were not fighting for an ideology or such a barren conceit as class privilege. They first fought for themselves and their property, and for those they swore alleigance to. They fought for a world they were always a part of, because they held some stake in it, and this included many of the lowly wretches, who despite the ruling ideas, did indeed have much to lose from the struggle of their social superiors. Very often - and 20th century public opinion relied on this common sense fact - the masses have no loyalty to any program or party contesting the institutions, because the institutions are not there for them and don't even pretend to be with any seriousness at any time and place in human history. If humanity made institutions worth a single damn, we would not be in this sorry situation in the present century.

Domination of this sort works through the individual, but is not so centered on the individual as ideology must assert. The cult of the self and many such superstitions regarding mind, Being, and so on, only intend this self-indulgence for the "slaves", but the objective is less that of slavery as property or a technology, or a moral belief in slavery for its own sake. The objective is spiritual domination, which is a very potent tool for realizing anything the dominator would want. Those objectives are not beholden to any other interest necessarily, nor are those interests beholden to this one and only spiritual authority. There can be distinct "Satans" that believe they have a monopoly on information. It is a quality of "the Satan" that it comprehends knowledge and embodies it in some way, whether the object deemed a "Satan" comprehends anything or this is a supposition of entities which are knowing in some way. Without knowledge, the Satan cannot operate at all, and so knowledge and the Satan are seen as coterminous. The same is not true of other spiritual authorities necessarily, which can and sometimes must be prior to knowledge in any sense we would regard it as a process. The Satan has no unique status, but asserts it is "the Unique" because of its monopoly and how it asserts it. A Satanist is perfectly aware at all times of the secrets to its monopoly, and always - as if axiomatic in its behavior - acts in accord with such. Someone who is not so encumbered must be hobbled, by ideology if possible, but by violent force in nearly all situations. It is for that purpose that a Satan guards its monopoly - to make sure they stay viable to usurp the highest spiritual authority, which is construed in its mind as another Satan like itself. Thus, "the ruling ideas are always the ideas of the ruling class", which adopts and ejects members throughout the ages. Whether those ideas are actually what temporal rulers believe or act on is not relevant, and the common people believe in whatever, largely without regard for the contest posed to them, because most people see correctly the contest is waged for spurious reasons, just like the wars waged with full intent to cull the numbers of the poor. For those attuned to this type of spiritual authority, the contest is itself the purpose, and the assets to be won and exploited are fuel for the ritual fire. The value to be attained is not commercial and never was, but spiritual authority. The Satan is one such authority, but more important is that is a weaponization of authority itself. In this way, domination and struggle, which are always local events involving entities which are capable of such and which can be dominated or party to a real and material struggle, become forces unto themselves. There are other paths to essentialize struggle and monopoly, but the Satan is one of them which operates with its telltale signs, and which became a going concern for itself. Just as the Satan deposes other Satans, the Satan does not abide anything that isn't like it, and always seeks to define other things entirely on the terms the Satan will allow them to join the contest. Any direct challenge to the Satanic ethos is treason or insanity, both of which are inextricably linked in such a view of domination. The final key is command of technology and the law - to weaponize the judgement of sanity, as every law code does and must to be law. The purpose of a declaration of insanity in the law was to not try cases that are not within the purview of any political state's law. This declaration of insanity must be monopolized by a spiritual authority which can weaponize it and make it wholly arbitrary, so that the sane are made insane for treason against the Satan, and the insane are made sane if their insanity is temporarily or permanently useful for the Satan, "above God" and above all. Anything less would be a pale excuse for a Satan and unworthy of the name.

Information and technology must translate to something tangible and real to suggest that it can perpetuate itself as a whole machine. The preferred image, one invoked now, is a super-organism which bears little resemblance to life, which is presented as "life above life", while the living are "life unworthy of life". No such organism exists in the way that any body exists, but the conflation of this technology with life itself is necessary for the project to get off the ground. It must present an organization and the whole society as a "totality" beyond description, yet anyone describing a single aspect of it must be shouted down and forbidden to speak of anything in front of them. This is not possible if social and political conditions are clearly comprehensible enough for the native interests and faculties of the subject. The conditions of society, and the conditions of subjects, are not fixed or anything that can be taken for granted. The assertion of false egalitarianism and false universalism is only possible after large-scale brainwashing to assert them. For most of humanity, distinction in ability and distinction in social class is evident based on the behavior of people, the technology untilized by them, and its real and meaningful effects on a world outside of anyone's conceits about it. These distinctions do not in of themselves have any necessary spiritual or moral value whatsoever. In a spiritual sense, all men are equal; or, phrased better, all men are equally worthless in the eyes of Heaven. Still, the worthless men are still men and recognized as such. That is simply a fact. Because that fact is very useful for us to remember, no insinuation or taboo can truly make it so. Ritual sacrifices can be codified and glorified, but somewhere, the human knows - guilty until proven innocent - that another creature much like themselves was tortured and terminated, and invoked the ritual in part as an assertion of what they want the whole world to be. It is never personal. In that case, the personal is political and spiritual, and cannot be seen as anything else. Guilty until proven innocent, and they have been proven guilty beyond all doubt. We have in the law mentioned that guilty until proven innocent is the rule of the world, and innocent until proven guilty is a requirement of legal courts so that a trial and judgement may take place. That is a convention for us, and it is a convention that exists for an institutional purpose rather than any spiritual commitment to the presumption of innocence. Humans are, from a cursory examination of them, born guilty of a host of crimes simply by their repeat and flagrant behavior, which many of them see no reason to alter in any way. This knowledge is so necessary that nearly every human alive - I would dare say every human short of those who are completely incapacitated to even move or speak - will be aware of humanity's guilt and repeated guilt, carried out flagrantly and without regard for any consequence. Why would they, absent any consequence, and a society built to ensure that consequences are handled in a way that already shifts war guilt to those least involved in perpetuating it? We can see early on that habitual lying is possible in one regard, but humanity largely carries on. What if habitual lying can be weaponized and became an essential part of the concept of the self, and the dominant "theory of mind"?

For this to be best understood, the "self" is not fixed in any particular way that makes it absolute. The entire superstition must be built atop a foundation that tells us, very plainly, that human beings, or any other entity with such a pretension, really is just a creature from the muck. There would certainly be some consciousness, but like any real entity, it only understands itself by relating to a world outside of it. There are many practical reasons why this entity would adopt a sense of its "self" that don't require a great evil or malevolence, and one benefit of the self is security against malevolence. The self recognizes that it will sleep, transform, and does not mean anything more than the facts and meaning that its existence makes evident. There is no great "history of the self" that suggests any purpose for this conception of "self". It could very well be that the entity saw its existence as ephermeal, and while it would operate on its own power and carry interests, none of those interests suggested that its "self" is superior to the world itself, or any other "self". It wouldn't have to care about any grand world-historical mission at all, or if it did care, its cares would be tempered by the realization that there is a world outside of it. This is something I revisit constantly throughout these books. I hope in the later books I have to revisit it less, but the conceits of the self have poisoned genuine knowledge, including that which would allow such an entity to exist at all.

There is not one act or deed where before this point we speak of man's innocence, and after of man's fallen nature. The ritual sacrifice, and all of the events which have been repeated ad nauseum, never had to continue. It would be trivial to cease them. We do so in spite of ourselves and our history for reasons and by happenstance which makes continued and unlimited sacrifice impossible. After all that has happened up to this day, we could stop any time and this problem really would go away so far as it is a demon within the human spirit. The world cannot be saved because the world, after all is done, does not need us to save it. The world has in its way dispensed justice and made clear the consequences of humanity's deeds. Whether humans regard it is quite irrelevant. The world has no reason to ever heed the impetuous demands of these filthy and stupid apes who believed they were greater than it.

This discourse only intensifies among humans in their relations, rather than any necessary condition of the world or of the human body and consciousness itself. The potential of the Satan does not guarantee its rise. Only the essential breakdown, where a connection is made among minds that such a thing is possible and conditions are ripe to realize it, allows "the Satan" to manifest as a going concern. It is the result of struggles between humans, for humans, and the human spirit formed out of this limited, proprietary information. A crass view is that this is reducible to civilization, and therefore civilization, industry, and any economic activity is ipso fact Satanic and therefore self-justifying. But, many civilizations do not adhere to anything about "the Satan" and see correctly the ruin such a thing brings. Many barbarous people invoke the same demon with sufficient understanding, appropriate to their strategy regarding the world and other humans. Competition and struggle themselves do not necessitate this treatment of information. It comes back instead to one constant - the cult of the self, and its elevation above the world and above humans.

Mere inequality of status means nothing. The spiritual and religious inequality the Satan invokes is something more than an inequality of essences. It is a permanence, stigmata marked ritualistically on humans from cradle to grave. The ritual sacrifice must not merely be tolerated or glorified. It must be the germ and central example for humans to follow. It must be converted from a labor of foulness to proprietary knowledge, and in doing so, knowledge itself is dominated by the ritual sacrifice. It is here where retarded takes on the power we know today, where before it was an insinuation of lesser importance. A conceit of intelligence as property must overtake anything intelligence actually was, and this becomes the basis for a whole view of religion, spiritual authority, and political power. For it to work, the self must be transformed into an instrument of the religion, with no barrier between the religion and the world. The human agentur is nothing more than an enabler of the religion, and at the same time its self must be Absolute - it must be convinced that it is a god co-equal with the universe itself, and then that its conceit is superior to the world of before. This operates at the seat of consciousness, and must construct a whole other world-system appropriate to its aims. That is where the Satan begins. It is also the beginning of any who would give themselves over to religion and the study of evil, without invoking anything about a "Satan" or any preferred ontology. It is possible to think like this while recognizing that it is a fallacy. The Satanist does not need any fallacy, for it possesses a key to temporal power that is taken as the primary spiritual authority. Only here are temporal and spiritual authority one - and all are subsumed into the One. All of the world will be modified to conform to its world-historical mission, and that mission entails the struggle of man against man and nothing else. It is that which consume all that exists, and it does so for its own sake.

It is here where the conceit of self must become parodic, and then every concept of self and mind must be deemed offspring of the Satan and only the Satan. It is genesis and death, ruling from cradle to grave. It knows no other way and needs no other way. Anything outside of the "spirit of man" is retarded and inadmissible, even the simplest things. Reality itself will be rebuilt in its image - in the image of "God", who is also the spirit of Man and nothing else. All other gods are not merely inferior, but cannot exist at all. If that is true, then all men who do not fit the criteria for admission do not exist. This by itself is not the entirety of "the Satan", but it is another necessary precondition.

What this means is that the Satan is at heart a theory of how spiritual authority can be contested by men, eliminating all non-human competitors. It is also a dogma of Man's collective war against the rest of the world. All men who are not requisitioned for the great war against nature, so that Man cannot claim that it alone is synonymous with Nature and shall reform it in His image, are there to be the purest slaves, and can do nothing else. The slaves do not "love their slavery", but will be exhorted to, for there is no other idea. To do otherwise is total death. It is further a contest between different religions and deities - how one spiritual authority displaces another in the world we live in. It is a particularly human entity, and it claims that it is synonymous with all things human.

This alone does not make a Satan impressive, nor do its conditions arise "as if by nature". Many of the conditions allowing this treatment of information and enforcement of a theory of mind were a design conceived long before those conditions were available, and it was the design of certain people to ensure that those conditions appeared inevitable and that there was never any other way it could have been. Those people encounter a world that rejects then, but when meeting opposition, they will try the same thing repeatedly and eventually attain different results, for the world is never fixed in a way that will make its operations a perfect clockwork. They will adapt their strategy with the same essential core - building excuses and elaborate games which always secure the eugenic legacy of the Satan and its bloodlines. The aristocracy - the heredity status of "the best" - is a superstition which makes itself real, and then asserts its indispensibility above all. This it does despite aristocracy's political function being wholly vampiric, holding the world and humanity in contempt. An aristocrat can choose to be something else, and often does out of necessity or because he can. But, aristocracy's core essence, and the faith that will always speak to it in the final judgement, is the Satan and nothing else. Absent any compelling argument, aristocracy will revert to its natural proclivity. That is easy and right and affirms its own existence. For this to work, the aristocratic consciousness and self must assert itself, overriding native sense entirely. This at first afflicts aristocracy itself, and then it is mandated for all of mankind, as far as it can be pushed.

It is not the idea or the fact of the Satan that makes it potent, but its praxis and actions. What is the root then of its action? The cult of the self, and its imposition by temporal authority, which it claims as a monopoly particular to its deity, rather than a merely political concern. It operates on the isolated, systematized person who is the new interpretation of an existence that was once of flesh and energy in a world that did not concern its self or existence at all. It is not enough for the person to be established as a person. The imposition of the cult of the self onto the person must be Absolute, and this is what makes the cult of the Satan a rarity until modern times. It is impossible for most humans to meet the standards of the Satan, which are in the end set wherever the Satan and the Satan alone wants them. The only human who can meet the standards of the Satan is the Perfect Man - the Christ. You see here the Luciferian and Promethean myth, which was adopted as the true heart of Christianity, and why the cult of the Christ - a highly sacreligious cult if one is at all aware of what spiritual authority was contested - would be promoted, making anvilicious comparisons to an obviously fictitious character whose own story contradicts itself. Such a baseline is implied and then made inaccessible without the blessing of priestly adjudication. The monopoly on social standing must be asserted by an institution, rather than a private will, but that institution uses a singular man or face as its Earthly representation. This it does not because humans "need" it or because of sentimental attachments to a human person. It does this as an exercise of the "spirit of Man" and the cult of the self. The institution with the monopoly is presented as a stark, demonic, unknowable edifice imposed on the world. Man is to become like the institution, in the form of the ideal subject. Redemption, which once concerned a very worldly evil, is now converted to a cult of the self, of the Christ, of the person. It was much the same with Babylonian Satan-worship, where the ruling king was the standard and arbiter, and similar icons and images were nakedly presented. The Christian view of icons was a particular inheritance belonging to a much higher stage of development, but at its core, the religion is, like its predecessors, preoccupied with the godhead and the Satan. No religion from the region would have been any different, and its adoption served the interest of aristocracies they came into contact with.

A religion incorporating this understanding is not ipso facto suggesting an endorsement of the Satan as the supreme authority. Very often, the Satan is a figure to be feared or avoided, even for the adherents. There is not one man who can challenge the Adversary, and no association or institution which can challenge it either. The Satan is anathema to mass politics or the occultism of the hermit. The Satan despises above all the hermit, who is by its reckoning the "true adversary". Its exhortation - to ascribe to the hermit who did nothing the crimes of the Satanist. This need only be weaponized and expunge all else that would interfere with the grisly task. The hermit who adopts the Satan is very clearly claiming the world, and that his "personal god" will now be imposed on the world. It keeps privacy as a privilege only for those who agree with the Satan, and this overrides what he would have wanted. He must abide the Satan like anyone.

The effect of this is a type of self-indulgence that is unmistakable to those who see it in the flesh. Pomposity hitherto unknown must enter the human family. This is not the simpler arrogance or confidence of men, or a bullheaded stubbornness only the gods may cease. A fervent faith in wrongness as that "empires make their own reality" must dominate over all else, and this is most felt in the internal monologue. All past sentiments must be purged, replaced only with the will of the Satan. This is what Galton exhorts his followers to do, against all sense, because the thrill of doing it is morally and ethically valued above anything else. Circular logic becomes not just dogma, but is declared to be a super-science. Even among those who do not realize it, the Satan is infectious and remains a perilous threat in any cosmology where such a figure is the pre-eminent adversary.

The "Satanic Cycle" is the necessary instrument of such a faith. Where the religious cycle is occasionally useful for other investigations of evil or for understanding the world, the Satanic Cycle is a conscious use of the cycle itself for the process of knowledge. That is, it must make claims about knowledge and information which turn inward and ensure that nothing outside of it is possible, and make itself real through an appeal to proprietary information. Nothing else will make real the Satan, and all more developed manifestations of such a thing return to this cycle, more than any other religion could possibly be. The cycle must be placed at creation and existence itself, and every possible germ of knowledge or information. It must invade all spaces, all reality, and make all appear as a loop on eternal repeat, only changing in a way which seeks to revert to an Absolute, preferred state of reality, and only allowing procession of anything through stages which are fixed, marked from cradle to grave, and immaculately constructed to remove any error or imperfection which suggests any other world is possible, or anything exists outside of the image of the One.

It is a necessary quality of the Satanic Cycle that it denies its own existence, which is unique among religious cycles, while asserting that is Absolute in ways no other cycle does. It is possible, and probable, that religions will understand that invoking the cycle as a koan is ultimately a short-hand for the believers to describe "a stable systemic thing that is really really complicated". Most religions invite someone to figure out this cycle for themselves, so that they better utilize it in the future. The proprietary information of the Satanic Cycle forbids this, except for initiates who are committed with all of themselves for the cause. Superficially, self-criticism and theory are permissible and even encouraged. Yet, the cause of the One and the totality is so all-consuming that if anyone were to look at it as insanity, it would be ipso facto a rejection of all existence. This is the image of nihilism in the Satanic view - that a nihilist's crime is refusal to accept the True God, and a presumed apostasy. Since among the claims of the Satan are the souls of all from conception who are under its domains, with all of the implications that states would make in political and temporal affairs, the apostasy is presumed as the default, for to disbelieve in the Satanic cosmology is retarded and you don't want to be retarded, do you? Why we are supposed to believe in this as the default is never quite clear, but that itself is an invocation of the Satanic cycle. The effect precedes cause, yet it does not. Causality exists and is fixed by intelligent design, yet time travel is invoked ad nauseum with the stupidest assertions about the nature of such a thing, requiring multiple assertions about time and mediation of reality to sustain such a fiction. Here we see the true heart of Orwell's doublethink - something that was known long before he wrote that abominable book, and something that was yet another intelligence test to see if someone retained "oldthink" in our reality.

It is not enough that this habit is occasional, or even ubiquitous but set aside temporarily. For the Satanic Cycle to be effective, any example in the world which suggest it is not imbued in fundamental reality must be inadmissible. This desire oriented every aristocratic program of science and thought, and has remained a preferred objective of cult thinking for centuries. A parodic, infantilized version of it is presented as pablum for the mases. Those who are given such pablum are told that behind a curtain, "the real science" is withheld, forever ahead of the unwashed masses. Behind the curtain, the same game is played to rise another level, and so on, and so on. There is a small order at the top after all degrees of initiation and compromise of the self for the cause are demanded. Many examples of this cult scam are found in history and today. The model comes from a religious society of the association, much like a mafia, but it is a particular type that deals in this monopoly on information granted temporal authority. I have already referenced some of the groups engaged in this. A middling scam artist can make one of these up if he or she so chooses, and reproduce the effects - for a time. They will find that, much like the genuine article, there is nothing at the top, and the One only abides the One. For any serious cult engaged in this, those who rise up the ranks will perform and sacrifice something substantial for a piece of blue sky, but at the end of it, there is something real at the end after all. That is the power of the greatest of lies - the lie of the self made Absolute and above nature, declared to be the true nature and the sole true living inhabitant of this world. All who live in its light are now "in". The habit of political associations, for whom this is more of a practical matter, is now fused to aristocratic spiritual authority and aristocratic associations. The associations of humanity may now be moved by agentur, and if they are displeasing, wrecking may commence.

Within the group, the Cycle is presented as a course of honor with a way out. Outside of the group, the Cycle is presented as a boot stamping on the face forever. This is the experience of most of us in this world, and we have been told not to acknowledge too frankly that this is what it is, and the implications of such a world - if the Satanic Cycle holds authority over the world in truth, and can enclose that substance we lived on before the claims were fully realized. This has been an exhausting task, but for the power of the cult to hold its inner circle to grow, it only has one option - expand or die. This has little to do with any necessary economic and political imperative, as if it were the result of a mistake or ulterior motive. It is not even a consequence of Empire. Many empires in history - and this was true of the Rome Caesar won and of the Han Chinese Empire - were ruled by men who saw that their domains were large enough, and that expansion would be costly, offer few rewards, and invite instability.^[3] The feeling of an urge to expand is premised not on the general fear. The primary impulse of the fear is survival, and expansion creates risks. A drive to dominate for this purpose is a tenet of the Satan that precedes Empire, and would have to for Empire to not ask if its project was worth the long-term costs or a thing that can never reform out of necessity. Sclerotic states that absolutely refuse to reform are the creations of aristocratic group-think. They are the story of republics or of monarchies that are decrepit and become the playthings of advisors or palace eunuchs. The Satan is rarely the sovereign's person; its aspiration is to be the totem of a group which calls itself the political elite. A political elite proper does not need to be "Satanic", but the unified "elite volk" is always a Satanic trope, always calling on the blood and heredity of the group even though it is complete faggotry a child can see through. Deliberate and brazen faggotry of the sort is the point - a triumphant wrongness that affirms that the power of the elite can impose on reality.

I must differentiate between the Satanic Cycle and various destructive cycles or tools. The Satanic Cycle is peculiar to a spiritual koan which places it above reality, whereas destructive feedback loops are explicable by logic in ways that aren't difficult to figure out. This is difficult because of how the Satanic Cycle is invoked to make natural destructive cycles and feedback loops "spooky" and, by insinuation, claim that the frogs will turn gay unless absolute power is invested in the Satan and the body of the true believers. This is an old game, but it is one that only works by exploiting the interest of people in an enclosed space. For most of history, and up to today, this method is far from effective. Even today, it only operates through sufficient moral persuasion, or because it has made agentur by excessive and glorified torture that is institutionally mandated and upheld as a glory of the creed. The eugenic creed makes living abortions proudly, and this is less about any necessity, and more an affirmation of the Satanic cycle. It would be possible for the eugenic creed to carry out its mission with secrecy, and pretend the society is mostly working. But, the visibility of living abortions serves its Satanic core, which will always be a priority over any ulterior motive the eugenists believe they serve by seeking power. What good is power, as they will tell you, with no one to worship you? Abasement and the thrill of making it happen is the greatest reward. They love nothing more than seeing the most abject slaves love their master. Yet, the wiser Satanist understands the peril of this game. The thrill of torture is a doctrine for the enablers - the "Outer Party" if you will - but among the "Inner Party", it is a thing of jokes and laughter. Yet, they reap the benefits, as the "man in the middle" always does with such intrigues.

We can find mythological examples, like Sisyphus pushing the rock, the circles of Hell and description of Satan throughout art and history, or Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown. The exhaustion of the cycle is prominent and the joke is that this is all premised on a monopoly of information, a thing that isn't even an idea. It instead operates at some step of the knowledge process which translates raw information to a symbol, or a symbol to something tangible. Knowledge proper is a separate monopoly, and in many cases the cycle is freely abandoned as a favor to those who are "in". Meaning is always forbidden unless it is the anvilicious meaning. The habits of public relations are ancient in their origin. Modern public relations, and the cybernetic control of society, only showed the way to make real at all levels what the Satan had always desired. The Satan is not the sole entity capable of this, as if no one else thought of the idea.

Who then is "the Satan" really marketed to? As a doctrine of the proprietors, it is a weapon and nothing more. Control of information and subversion of knowledge appeals most to the same people who found civilization, law, and political grand theories attractive - the commons, or the "middle class", whose focus was technological. The commons has a choice - kick down, or struggle against the world and perhaps succeed, either by defeating the sitting Satan or joining it. What follows is never a trivial game. But, for the losers who are the majority, the hoodwink, the dread that is a telltale sign of the Satan, is repeated until resistance is exhausted. The lore and art of the Satan is too vast for me to recount. In all cases, it invokes the Satanic Cycle, and then regression to the "mean" - to the primordial core, and to the most ancient rite of the human race, which as we know is human sacrifice.

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