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To: alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.misc,alt.magick.order From: boboroshi@satanservice.org (SOD of CoE) Subject: Secular Humanism and Satanism (was Magical Authority ...) Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 08:32:57 GMT 50010705 VI! om Hail Satan! Happy Lunatix! catherine yronwode (cat@luckymojo.com): >: Isn't that essentially what both Crowley and Lavey were doing -- linking >: secular humanism with Satanism and/or humanist freethinking with >: Hellfire type clubs? bkm0482@u.cc.utah.edu (Brenda Mobley): > Yeah. I've been going on alt.satanism every once in a while and getting > some Christian to accuse me of being a Satanist because I'm a humanist. > ...In this day and age you can hardly not be a humanist, of course, > if you're thinking at all. my impression is that the truly thoughtful will recognize that humanism is overly limited in scope, and that the whole of the biosphere is linked together in shared destiny, Her health our responsibility, and this means holistic thinking rather than speciesism. humanism is outmoded based on this criticism, rather than a requirement. > Satanic mysticism is just an attempt to patch up the hollow gaps left > by the loss of a childish magical thinking. no it is not, ideally. ideally it is a method by which an individual liberates hir consciousness toward greater authenticity and volition. > It works for a while. The brain produces mystical experiences. all mystics aren't after certain kinds of experiences, and this is particularly true of Satanists, some of whom are strict materialists and some of whom are incredibly imaginative. > For every hard core atheist, there are flocks of doubters, all > sensing something and its effects. theism is not necessary to mysticism of any kind. this is proven by Buddhists for centuries. > ...it's in our brains. Eris runs the show. We just can't > extricate ourselves from the embrace of culture. this is the purpose of Satanic mysticism, by the standards of many. > Can we move past polarity and dualism without frightening ourselves > so badly that we wind up grasping at the wind for any kind of > reassurance? why move past them? why not just incorporate them all into grand metaphors for valuable experiences and not worry too much about whether things are in twos or threes or singles? I LIKE many of the dualist an polar models representing things. > Still calling myself a humanist, humans depend upon the health of the biosphere. it is in our best interest to encourage vigour rather than decay. do you, as a humanist, agree with this analysis? blessed beast! boboroshi@satanservice.org: Satanic Outreach Director, Church of Euthanasia: http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/) Satanism Archive: http://www.satanservice.org/
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