Greetings!
I am not disagreeing with anything posted. I think the right
wing/satanist vector is important and should be researched. I would also
agree that, as Mogg says, that there are other, very different, vectors
operating too.
I just wanted to add two further modes of what might be considered
satanism that I have come across whilst researching and preparing texts
for publication under the Society of Esoteric Endeavour imprint.
Mid 19th C. Germany. A grimoire using Christian powers to control
infernal powers, so that both light and dark, good and evil are evoked.
Once the practitioner has mastered this duality he can control powers of
generation, itself a play of polarities.
Late 17th C. France. A literate practitioner of folk magic includes
invocations of Satan in his spells to heal and control animals. My
interpretation would be that it is the shocking nature of the blasphemy
that is considered to have a healing effect. Another spell uses
obscenity. There are other examples in folk medicine of people trying to
get a judder of revulsion for healing effect. For example British "Toad
Doctors" who might place a toad in its death throes inside the patient's
clothes.
With my best wishes
Ben
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