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Do you think there’s any power in the black mass?
Hey.
As in a witches sabbat? Well yeh sure. I mean gone are the days when you would kiss Satan’s arse and suckle from his teat to receive diabolical powers, but any meeting of a coven has inherent power to it by numbers alone.
Naturally depending on the individual skill of each member, if it’s a particulary new coven of initiates then no, not really. A single occultist could easily be more advanced than a whole gathering. But a coven of learned experts? Well yes, then that would be a force to be reckoned with.
The Black Mass is distinct from Witches’ Sabbat.
The Black Mass was supposed to be performed by an apostate catholic priest. It was performed over a nude woman who served as an “altar.” It was a extended blasphemous parody of a Catholic mass, the high point of which was the desecration of the sacraments of the communion– trampling on the host, pissing in the wine, defiling them with sexual fluids, etc, etc. There were supposedly variations.
Just like the Witches’ Sabbat, it was a supposedly Satanic rite and just like the Witches’ Sabbat, we aren’t 100 percent sure it ever happened back in the day.
The Witches’ Sabbat was different because it was usually an outdoor affair, it did not require an apostate priest, it was more folksy/less formal/not reliant on an extended parody of Catholic liturgy. There are commonalities, such as the defilement of sacred objects, but it’s a different ceremony and different vibe. Witches’ sabbats were supposed to be performed by regular folks on the outskirts of small towns and in the countryside, Black Masses were rumored to be performed by the elites of society, such as members of the court of Louis XIV.
christianity: the lord is my shepherd and i am a lamb whom He will guide to safety
judaism: we call ourselves “the god-punchers”, bc we like to remind Him of that time He lost a fight against our great-great-great-granddad
i see a lot of confusion in the tags so here’s an explanation of the joke!
- the joke of this post is referencing the story of Jacob in Genesis. Jacob is one of the legendary Patriarchs of Judaism whom all non-convert Jews claim descent from, so he technically is my great-great-….-granddad.
- At one point, Jacob meets a stranger on the road, who he ends up fighting for a reason the text is unclear about. Jacob wins the fight, and the angel reveals that he was actually a holy spirit in disguise.
- The precise identity of the man is a point of contention in all traditions- there’s an even split between if it’s God himself or an angel sent as an emissary.
- Regardless, the man blesses Jacob and names him Israel- ישראל, yisra’el. The name is complicated to translate, but one popular one is “he who wrestles with God”. His descendants adopted this as one of their ethnonyms- בני ישראל, b’nei yisra’el, the children of Israel, the Jewish people.
- So saying we Jews call ourselves “the god-punchers” is a loose translation, definitely, but I’d give an honest argument that it accurately portrays the spirit of the phrase, especially by giving it a glib and boastful modern phrasing.
- for the nitpickers: yes, “The Lord is my shepherd” is a part of Jewish belief too! It’s from a passage in Psalms, which is a book that Jews and Christians do share.
- But the relationship that we Jews have with HaShem is complicated and occasionally even adversarial. The Christian relationship, on the other hand, is much more, well, patriarchal. Jesus is a father figure who is always good and never needs a stern talking-to from His creations.
- In contrast, the Torah and Talmud are full of stories of Jews arguing with HaShem- and winning, and HaShem being ecstatic that He lost the argument. Bickering with our deity is a sacred Jewish tradition that continues to the present day.
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