The Satanic Way of Living

Anton Long 103yf

The way of living that a Satanist undertakes is one which allows an exultation
- an affirmation of individual existence. This way is an intentional one - that
is, a conscious striving to achieve something, to excel, to experience and learn
and discover.

Furthermore, the Satanist makes his or her own rules as they progress. That is,
they rely on their own judgement, their own instinct. If they are genuine
Satanists, this judgement and this instinct will be noble - an expression of a
healthy and strong personality. As they progress, gaining more experience of
life, themselves, the cosmos in both its causal (or physical) and its acausal (or
magickal) aspects, this judgement and instinct will become refined will
become a more exact reflexion of the Satanic ethos. But, despite this progress,
the overcoming of challenges, the achievements, the exultation that arises
when one lives Satanically, will never end. If they do, if the acts cease, then
the Satanic intentionality has been lost - and one is not living Satanically
anymore.

Thus, even a Satanic Master or Mistress (or even a Grand Master) will not be
satisfied to remain where they are - there remains more to be achieved, more
to be learnt, discovered; more change to produce. If they are or do become
content, they have begun to undermine their own achievements.

It is not generally understood, outside of certain elite esoteric circles, that each
'magickal title' or Grade - which outwardly signifies the achievement by an
individual of reaching a certain point along the Occult or esoteric quest - is
valid only for as long as the essence it re-presents is alive within the
Individual. That is, this essence, is living [a combination of causal and
acausal 'life'] - it is given birth by a genuine Initiation and its requires
nurturing. If it becomes neglected, it will die - and the individual will lose that
vital acausal aspect which Initiation awakens.

A title or a Grade mean nothing in themselves - they are appearance, a symbol

of something beyond their causal forms. What is real is the acausal aspect of
the individual which it is the aim of genuine esoteric traditions and teachings
to awaken/create, nurture and bring to fulfilment/maturity. This is a living part
of the Initiate - and its growth is their responsibility: only they can affect
changes, causing it to flourish, or to die. Thus, no one can award any genuine
magickal or Occult grade on another - what is 'awarded' thus is only the
lifeless empty outer form, which esoterically is meaningless. In Satanism, this
essence is sinister - in effect, it is the acausal itself, that creative or vital force
which binds existence and makes evolution possible. Satanism is an
identification with this essence, not an attempt to disguise or distort it by the
duality inherent in moral and ethical abstractions; not an attempt to stifle its
growth and potential by pretending it is something else. Because of this, there
are some who would claim that only Satanism - or at the very least only the
Left Hand Paths (genuine ones) - enable the intent of the Occult quest to be
realized by an individual: that other paths or ways briefly give birth to the
essence only to kill that essence by restrictions and strangulating causal forms
(such as ethics, dogma and subservience).

What this living essence means for the Initiate, the Adept or Master/Mistress,
is that, being living, it can die. It dies by neglect - by letting go of the acausal
within one. In other words, by not continuing the quest, by closing the nexion
to the acausal that a genuine Initiation opens and which each subsequent stage
of the way opens ever wider. [The final aim is of course for the individual to
become the acausal - in Satanism, become-one with Satan - and thus to have
created for oneself an acausal existence.]

The nexion closes by complacency - that is, by not accessing any more vital,
acausal energies. Such energies are accessed, made real, by striving, by
exulting, by overcoming challenges, by deeds which cause excellence.
Complacency is a satisfaction, a self-delusion, a lack of intentionality. One's
life has ceased to be used to make real and continue the esoteric quest - it has
become instead just a living, in the causal everyday world. One's concerns are
no longer for the acausal - for the numinous, for that which vitalizes and
which engenders creativity, discovery, exultation. Instead, one's concerns are
for the mundane, the illusive forms which hold the majority and by which they
are enabled to live their puny lives. In brief, one has ceased to strive to be like
a god, and become ordinary again - without a Destiny, and without the desire
to make that Destiny real.

The intentionality of the Satanic quest - the need to continually re-affirm one's
Satanic intent and thus Initiation - applies to the Satanic Master or Mistress
just as much as to the new Initiate: often more so. A real-life example may
perhaps best illustrate what is meant here.

When someone who now has reached the stage of Satanic Mastery was still
striving for Adeptship, he strove passionately, like the good Satanist he was,
to achieve things in the real world. He exulted in living; possessed an arrogent
assurance that he was special - that he had a Destiny. This nourished him, in
the many conflicts of his life, and enabled his survival. It gave him a real
Satanic strength - to act, regardless of the consequences. He never desired to
be ordinary, to be secure, to be safe: his life, he knew, was a means to achieve
his Satanic goals.
In those early years he strove to effect changes in the real world. He was
sometimes, in those years, seen by others as a fanatic, a political agitator,
Satanist, a criminal, a terrorist, a debauchee ... He was striving to presence
dark forces on Earth and he was ruthless, at times,with others, and all the time
with himself. He experienced the dark side of himself - and others. He strove
and experienced, and seldom satisfied for long - there was real dynamism in
him which could not be contained. He was, in an important sense,
irrepressible because he knew he had a Destiny and because he owed
allegiance to no one. Of course, this Destiny was often intangible - unknown
in its realness. But he saught by his living, by his striving, to discover what it
was, to learn. And he did learn, as a genuine Satanist does, by hard, extreme
experiences; by living on the edge, by triumphing in adversity. In those years,
he had no security of family, employment or material wealth, or even a
'home'; and, equally importantly, he had no one telling him what to do - trying
to restrain him by 'ethical guidelines'. He was too proud, too defiant, too
individualistic. That is, he was genuinely Satanic. He lived Satanism as few
'Satanists' did or had done.

After Adeptship, his methods were refined - he became more subtle in the
sinister sense because he understood more, possessed an over-view, a
knowledge beyond personal insight. The means were consciously understood -
the Destiny understood. Thus, the many ways of living, the acts, the striving
were a means to something both personal and beyond the personal and as a
consequence they were less frenzied, less compressed in causal time. The
goals were generally longer ones, more calculatingly chosen and thus less
instinctive. His Destiny compelled what most would see as a precarious life,
without any obligations or security. From the ways of living, from the
experiences came more knowledge and achievements; manipulation of causal
forms and creativity, and thus a move beyond Adeptship where a genuine
sythesis was obtained.

After some years, he had become quite comfortably off with a multitude of
material possessions (a house, an Apartment). He had acquired a Profession
which enabled the implementation of some sinister plans, a subtle guiding of
others and opportunities for new learning. He had a plethora of creative
achievements behind him, a wealth of past sinister experiences, and a personal
influence in certain Satanic circles. A lover, a Mistress, even a few personal
pupils ...

In all this, was a danger - the overwhelming of the inner Satanic essence by
the outward causal, often material, forms. A dimming of the Satanic fire; the
inertia of a contented bourgeois existence, despite the Satanic deeds. A living
of the 'role' of Master. A self-satisfaction with what has been achieved rather
than a desire to achieve even more.
Each person who ventures thus far faces the same problem: there is a staying-
where-one-is, or the leap forward occassioned by the desire to fully complete
the quest, to defy the inertia that middle/old age seeks to impose upon one. To
thus be one of the very few who travels thus far. Most who reach this stage -
and that actually is not many, despite the claims - are content: they have found
their Destiny, and it is to be a Master or Mistress; perchance to teach;
perchance to work deeds of magick, hidden; perchance to influence the causal
flow and forms by one's chosen tasks and way of living.

Our Master, however, was not content. He desired an elemental resurgence of

the Satanic essence - he did not want to become soft. He desired new
experiences, new challenges; to discover and learn. To test himself again. So
he gave up his Profession, his material security, his homes and his 'role' (such
as it was) until he had nothing except what was inside. And he resolved he
would go on defying, on learning, until the very end - like a combat Veteran
who cannot settle into civilian life and who always returns to the struggle,
until a final battle claims him ..

Naturally, the spineless affectations psueds who masquerade as 'Satanic'

Masters (or even the stages beyond!!) would deny all this - particuarly in
relation to a Master not being content and desiring to immolate himself with
the essence of the acausal and so strive in the real world with no affectations
and no security (of a 'role', or material possessions or obligations or whatever)
to presence that acausal and so achieve even further change. They would deny
it because they try to make the image of a 'Master' in their own image - i.e.
either someone bound by ethical standards and "sacred" obligations [read
'doing an imitation of a Nazarene prelate'] or someone soft, weak and who
reeks of the pacifist, bourgeois vices rather than the virtues of the battlefield.
Or, indeed, they make the image a combination of these two.

The Satanic way of living of each Satanist never ends until their causal death -
and if it does, they have not fulfilled their full potential, not travelled along the
path to its very ending. To believe otherwise is simply to believe - that is, not
to know.

The only limitations upon living are those we impose upon ourselves or allow
others to impose upon us. The essence of the Satanic way of living is to defy
and overcome to the very end.

- Order of Nine Angles -

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