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Post by Ikaros on Dec 28, 2010 22:32:38 GMT -6
Lord Satanis,
I am very interested to know if you have studied the works of William Blake? His Proverbs of Hell and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell are two prime examples. I sense a lot of his heresies in your writings.
By His loathsome tentacles!
Ikaros
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Post by I AM the Way on Dec 30, 2010 11:44:23 GMT -6
Lord Satanis, I am very interested to know if you have studied the works of William Blake? His Proverbs of Hell and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell are two prime examples. I sense a lot of his heresies in your writings. By His loathsome tentacles! Ikaros I know of him and have read a bit of his work, but never studied William Blake. What about those two prime examples seem similar to my heresies?
Awake!
Venger As'Nas Satanis High Priest Cult of Cthulhu
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Post by Ikaros on Dec 30, 2010 19:19:42 GMT -6
From what I've been able to glean from your writings and the various posts, I see a lot of similarities. For example, some of the Left Hand Path stuff is echoed in the Proverbs. Specifically:
22. The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. 23. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. 24. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. 25. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
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28. The fox condemns the trap, not himself. 44. The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. 66. Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius 67. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
These make up a part of the larger The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Some excerpts from the wider piece include:
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. Energy is the only life and is from the Body, and reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. Energy is Eternal Delight.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling. And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.
Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
William Blake was quite radical in his time for his unorthodox beliefs. He used a lot of Christian symbolism and places Satan in the hero's position many times. Simplistically, he saw that religion (specifically the Xians) were confining and restricting the evolution of humanity and it was only by exercising our Energy through our Desires, that we might escape it. This strikes me as similar to what Cthulhu Cult says of the lesser gods.
Do these examples make that clear? I fear I haven't explained myself to the best. Lord Satanis, what are your thoughts.
Awake!
Ikaros
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Post by I AM the Way on Dec 31, 2010 11:17:38 GMT -6
Yes, I believe you've struck upon interesting stuff, brother. I'll do some research.
Awake!
Venger As'Nas Satanis High Priest Cult of Cthulhu
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Post by formallyknownasczhanjeem on Dec 31, 2010 16:47:40 GMT -6
the red type i like it, to be off topic. hail Cthulhu!
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