Greetings!
I have heard it said that the Gods of the old religion are made the
Devils of the new. However in the case of modern western occultism what
one often sees is the Devils of the old religion made the Gods of the
new. Note Crowley's deification of the Beast and so forth, LaVay's
championing of Satan and so forth. This dynamic may have various
vehicles, sometimes intellectual research as to the nature of the old
devil searching out useful glamours for new religious endeavour,
reference to psychological justifications as with LaVay and the Process
Church. All this is healthy or at least harmless enough. I wonder if
similar dynamics operated in early Gnosticism.
I do, however, find it can be problematic when the political dimension
is invoked. For us Western liberal, educated folk the big political
Devil is of course the Nazi / Fascist axis. It is no surprise that Nazi
/ Fascist glamours utilised in some "Left Hand Path" & Satanist
circles. Nikolas Schreck is one of many who have utilised such glamours
in the past. I had considered this as about as important as wearing a
Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party but then I found that here in the UK
the head of the Order of Nine Angles was very involved in racist
political organisation and one of the Order's members was the "Brixton
Nail Bomber" whose attacks on coloured and gay scenes killed a number of
people.
My best wishes
Ben
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