Luciferian 12 Steps: Step One

Hi, I’m Asher and I’m an addict and a Luciferian!

Hi Asher!

I believe that the 12 Steps can be looked upon as an initiatory magical system of personal transformation. I also believe the 12 Steps, despite their Christian-influenced origins, can be very Luciferian! In this series of posts, I am going to explain why. 

So without further ado, buckle up and get ready for Step One.

“Step One: We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.”

To the Luciferian or Satanist, an admission of powerlessness may seem an anathema. But honestly, all using addicts struggle to admit defeat, regardless of religion (or lack thereof). 

For the addict, drugs, alcohol, self-harm, or whatever the specific addiction may be will always ultimately bring us to our knees. Whether we hit “rock bottom” through overdose, imprisonment, disease, homelessness, loss of valued relationships, institutionalization, suicidality or any other means, we all hit it sometime. Addiction beats the shit out of us, and eventually we stop being able to come back for more and still walk away breathing. 

But even for those of us who know that the next drink, drug or whatever will certainly kill us, we still can’t stop on our own. 

That is true powerlessness. Being completely unable to walk away from something that is killing you. If you’ve never experienced addiction, or addiction that got to that level, this can be hard to imagine. 

When a person gets to that point, let’s just say they’re a little bit off the path of apotheosis. Whatever inner divinity they have, they aren’t tapping it. Your only God is your addiction. Not any other deity, and certainly not you! Addiction is in full control of your life.

That’s where the unmanageability part comes in. Even for the addict who has managed to stop using, the problems of life are overwhelming. Most of us, focusing all our time, energy and resources on feeding our addictions, have left our lives in a shambles. Finances, family, friends, work, school, and our own emotions have been neglected, ignored, abused, exploited, or abandoned. We tend to make a big mess when we are using. When we stop using, most of us have no idea how to pick up the pieces!

Worst of all, most of us use our addictions to medicate away our feelings and make ourselves comfortably numb. In the absence of our only coping mechanism, emotions are suddenly very present again, and they are threatening, alien, overwhelming. Most of us barely even know how to identify what we are feeling at this point, let alone deal with emotions constructively. We’re one-trick ponies. Using is the only form of coping that we know. 

So here we are, powerless, unmanageable, absolutely beaten to a pulp by addiction. Let’s pause now and think about rock bottom in a more spiritual way.

Let’s think about being thrown from a massive height into the depths of the pit. Let’s think about being stripped of everything we ever had and everything we ever were. Let’s think about losing our wings. Let’s think about falling down. I wonder who can relate?

Lucifer sure can. 

This is SPG amongst myself and some of my acquaintances, but we’ve noticed through the commonalities of our stories that Lucifer seems to be collecting those of us who have hit rock bottom. People who have experienced addiction, near death experiences and suicide attempts seem to be disproportionately represented among the Luciferians I know. 

And why not? Lucifer knows what it’s like. He knows better than anyone else what it means to fall down hard. He wants to see us pick ourselves back up, just like he did. 

There is strength to be found at rock bottom. There is enlightenment in the depths of the pit. To admit that you have truly lost everything that tied you to your old self, is to realize you are free to become someone new.

Think about the tarot card Death. It is a card of endings but also of new beginnings, of pain and suffering but also of transformation and freedom. It is a card of hitting rock bottom. It is the card of Step One. 

At the bottom of the pit, we are stripped of all our illusions. We find we cannot run away any more. We must face the truth about ourselves at last. 

But that’s a tall order for somebody still reeling from a long fall. 

Luckily, with Step Two comes the promise of much needed hope and support.  

SATANISM

jezter:

LaVeyan Satanism
The most well known branch of Satanism is the form created by Anton LaVey in the 1960s. He created the Satanic Bible, which remains the most available text on Satanic religion. He also formed the Church of Satan, which is by far the most well known and most public Satanic organization.

LaVeyan Satanism is atheistic. According to LaVey, neither God not Satan are actual beings. Instead, Satan is a symbol representing the qualities embraced by Satanists. Invoking the name of Satan and other infernal names is a practical tool in Satanic ritual, focusing one’s focus and will upon certain concepts.

The only “god” in LaVeyan Satanism is the Satanist himself. Satanism is a celebration of the self. It encourages people to seek their own truths, indulge in desires without fear of societal taboos, and perfect the self.

Theistic Satanism
Theistic Satanism, also known as Spiritual Satanism, recognizes the existence of supernatural beings. Oftentimes this being is called Satan, but sometimes other names are used. The Temple of Set is one of the most well known groups of theistic Satanists, although they no longer identify themselves as Satanic, seeing their movement as something new and distinct.

Regardless of the being or beings in charge, none of them resemble the Christian Satan. Instead, they are beings that represent the same general qualities as the atheistic Satanists associate with their symbolic Satan: sexuality, pleasure, strength, rebellion, etc.

Luciferians
Many see Luciferianism as another branch of Satanism (and generally a theistic branch, although there are some who see Lucifer as symbolic rather than an actual being). However, Luciferians see themselves as a separate religion.

Luciferians use the term “Lucifer” in its literal sense: “lightbringer” in Latin. Rather than being a figure of challenge, rebellion, and sensuality, Lucifer is a creature of enlightenment, the one who brings light out of the darkness.

He does not, however, present his gifts to everyone. Luciferians embrace the seeking of knowledge, delving into the darkness of mystery and coming out better for it.

Luciferians also stress the balance of light and dark and that each depends upon the other. Park of that light and dark pairing is spirituality and physicality. While Satanists revel in physical existence, and Christianity focuses more and spirituality, Luciferianism is a religion that seeks a balance of both, recognizing that human existence is an intersection of the two.

Nice summary, but I also see Lucifer as a figure of challenge, rebellion and sensuality. I guess maybe it’s appropriate that I call myself a “Luciferian Satanist.”

infernallyforever:

I’d just like to clarify something

Now, I’ve said before that I’m a worshipper of Lucifer. But I’d like to speak my mind on what exactly my form of “worship” is. What it is to me, it’s not what you traditionally would think of when you hear worshipper. I should honestly say I’m a huge admirer or him, as that’s probably most accurate. See, I don’t bow to him. I don’t kiss his feet, I don’t see him as an almighty god, I don’t see him as one that must be obeyed and seen as above all. In the past I have called him my god- but he is different than say, the Kemetic gods I work with. He, in a god sense, is a spiritual figure and being that I really look up to. That’s what he is to me. As a Luciferian, he is much like a guiding hand. But most importantly, he is like a quiet friend, the kind who is there to give you a little push in the right direction. We are equals. We walk side by side on the path. And that’s what I love most. I do have a deep love for him, and a deep admiration, and I suppose that’s what I call my worship honestly. Our bond is never weak, even when he is not around for some time. I feel as if we both learn from eachother and rejoice in eachother’s beings. And we accept and love eachother. I am not a servant. We rule ourselves in our own right and we bow to no one but ourselves. He may show me the way to strength, freedom, challenge, and rebirth, but it’s me who walks the path.

onceuponawildflower:

And so I come to this – white liberal Christian friends, I’m talking to you. I’ve seen a lot of condemnation of “violent response,” lots of selective quoting Dr. King, lots of disparagement of antifa and the so-called “alt-left,” a moral equivalency from the depths of Hell if I ever saw one. You want to be nonviolent? That is good and noble. I think…I think I do, too. But I want you to understand what you’re asking of the people who take this necessary stance against white supremacy, the people who go to look evil in the face. You’re asking them to be beaten with brass knuckles, with bats, with fists. To be pounded into the ground, stomped on, and smashed. You’re asking them to bleed on the pavement and the grass. Some of them are going to die. And you’re asking them to do that without defending themselves.

Are you willing to do that? Are you going to to go out when the Nazis come here, to the Bay Area, next week? Are you going to offer your body to them? No? Are you willing to take a bat to the head? To be surrounded by angry young men who want nothing more than to beat you unconscious, like they did Deandre Harris? Are you going to rely upon a different type of violence – that imposed by the state – to protect you – even knowing it is a danger to your neighbors? To outsource the violence your safety requires to someone else? Or are you just not going to show up, at the rally or afterward? To choose passivity over pacifism – because let’s be clear, nonviolence is still about showing up.

If you are unwilling to risk your bodily integrity to stand against literal Nazis, but you are willing to criticize the people out there who are taking this grave threat seriously but not in a way of which you approve….I just don’t know what to say to you. Truly. Your moral authority is bankrupt and you’re not helping. You’re a hypocrite.

Logan, Radical Decipleship

Link

Methods of divination – Wikipedia

brightestandbest:

This is actually the best page on wikipedia. People have apparently used literally EVERYTHING for divination. Highlights include:

  • cephaleonomancy/cephalonomancy/ˌsɛfəliˈɒnoʊmænsi/: by boiling a donkey’s head (Greek kephalaion, head [with meaning influenced by Greek onos, donkey] + manteia, prophecy)
  • scarpomancy: by old shoes (Italian scarpa, shoe + Greek manteia, prophecy)
  • scatomancy: by excrement (Greek skōr [skat-], excrement + manteia, prophecy)
  • rumpology (also natimancy): by buttocks (English rump + Greek -logiā, study)
  • spatilomancy: by animal excrement (Greek spatilē, excrement + manteia, prophecy)
  • styramancy: by observing patterns produced by chewing gum, gum wax, or products produced by the L. styraciflua tree
  • uromancy/urimancy: by urine (Greek ouron, urine + manteia, prophecy)

and

  • tyromancy/tiromancy /ˈtaɪəroʊmænsi/: by cheese (Greek tūros, cheese + manteia, prophecy)

Professor von Hintern, the eminent rumpologist, was a serious student of the occult. He had no interest whatsoever in mundane physical matters, and not a crass, salacious bone in his body. He examined every posterior that came before him with a cool, steady hand and an unflinchingly clinical eye. The joy he felt gazing upon a pair of nude buttocks was born only from his yearning for divine knowledge, not from any prurience. He reacted with wounded dignity whenever anybody implied otherwise.

Methods of divination – Wikipedia