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I saw the black serpent, as it wound itself upward around the wood of the cross. It crept into the body of the crucified and emerged again transformed from his mouth. It had become white. It wound itself around the head of the dead one like a diadem, and a light gleamed above his head, and the sun rose shining in the east. I stood and watched and was confused and a great weight burdened my soul. But the white bird that sat on my shoulder spoke to me ‘Let it rain, let the wind blow, let the waters flow and the fire burn. Let each thing have it’s development, let becoming have its day.’

Carl Jung, Liber Novus / The Red Book – ‘the way of the cross’ (via ophidiansabbat)
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Eat of the Forbidden Fruit
and ye shall be as Gods!
Eat and ye shall be Wise!
Said the Serpent to the Maid…

Said the Maid to the Man,
Said the Man to His Son,
Said the Son to His Wife…

And so said They,
from generation to generation,
til all Their Kindred knew the Secret.

And so, Beloved, must I say unto you:
Eat and ye shall be Wise!

 Andrew Chumbley, The Grimoire of the Golden Toad (via serpentandstang)
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When God created the first man Adam alone, God said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” [So] God created a woman for him, from the earth like him, and called her Lilith. They [Adam and Lilith] promptly began to argue with each other: She said, “I will not lie below,” and he said, “I will not lie below, but above, since you are fit for being below and I for being above.” She said to him, “The two of us are equal, since we are both from the earth.” And they would not listen to each other. Since Lilith saw [how it was], she uttered God’s ineffable name and flew away into the air. Adam stood in prayer before his Maker and said, “Master of the Universe, the woman you gave me fled from me!”

The Holy Blessed one immediately dispatched the three angels Sanoy, Sansenoy, and Samangelof after her, to bring her back. God said, “If she wants to return, well and good. And if not, she must accept that a hundred of her children will die every day.” The angels pursued her and overtook her in the sea, in raging waters, (the same waters in which the Egyptians would one day drown), and told her God’s orders. And yet she did not want to return.

They told her they would drown her in the sea, and she replied. “Leave me alone! I was only created in order to sicken babies: if they are boys, from birth to day eight I will have power over them; if they are girls, from birth to day twenty.” When they heard her reply, they pleaded with her to come back. She swore to them in the name of the living God that whenever she would see them or their names or their images on an amulet, she would not overpower that baby, and she accepted that a hundred of her children would die every day. Therefore, a hundred of the demons die every day, and therefore, we write the names [of the three angels] on amulets of young children. When Lilith sees them, she remembers her oath and the child is [protected and] healed.

Alphabet of Ben Sira 78
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12 They shall name it No Kingdom There,
   and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
   nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of jackals,
   an abode for ostriches.
14 Wildcats shall meet with hyenas,
   goat-demons shall call to each other;
there too Lilith shall repose,
   and find a place to rest.
15 There shall the owl nest
   and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow;
there too the buzzards shall gather,
   each one with its mate.

Isaiah 34:12-15, NRSV
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they say that knowledge was the first seed of corruption, but it wasn’t knowledge that felled man, it was the audacity to dream. reverie precedes the fall, but this didn’t feel like a fall at all; this felt like the sound of every chain breaking all at once, like breathing after being held beneath an ocean, like seeing light after an eternity of darkness.

it felt like being free.

eve cuts the shackles God gave her and spits when He says she is no more than adam’s rib. if corruption meant freedom, then she would shuck her divinity gladly, and when this story is retold they will say that she was both the beginning and the end of everything.

( God creates man, man creates machine, machine kills man, machine becomes God. )

eve kills god. checkmate. // k.g. (via opheliugh)
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Anarchic anger came to beat us down,
Until from all that battering we went numb
Like ravaged trees after a hurricane.
But in its wake we saw fierce angels come–
Not gentle and not kind– who threshed the grain
With their harsh wings, winnowed from waste.
They brought love to its knees in fearful pain.
Such angels come after the storm is past
As messengers of a true power denied.
They beat us down. For love, they thrash us free,
Down to the truth itself, stripped of our pride.
On those harsh wings they bring us agony.
Theirs is an act of grace, and it is given
To those in Hell who can imagine Heaven.

May Sarton, A Storm of Angels
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The first bit of conflicting testimony regarding monotheism that the Bible offers is the shadowy presence of rival deities.14 The Shema, the grand statement of monotheism, can be found near the beginning of the scroll of Deuteronomy (Dt 6:4). Near the end of the same scroll is a poem attributed to Moses that seems to suggest that, while the LORD may be One, the LORD is not the only one.

When the Most High apportioned the nations,
when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
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according to the number of the gods;
the LORD’s own portion was his people,
Jacob his allotted share. (Dt 32:8–9)

This text can be translated and interpreted in ways that are congenial to monotheism, and it is poetry, after all, so we must allow it some rhetorical flexibility. Still, it suggests that Yhwh is the God of Jacob (an alternative name for Israel in the Bible), but that other peoples have their own gods. We cannot read the minds of the ancient Israelites; we can only read the literary legacy they left to us in the Bible.When the First Commandment, in Ex 20:3, says, “You shall have no other gods before me,” we cannot penetrate behind that word, “gods.” Did the early Israelites understand these gods to be unreal and without substance? Or did they understand them to be cosmic figures of some import but who were out-of-bounds for them?

We read in the book of Judges, for instance, that the Israelites had
“abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt” and “followed other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were all around them” ( Judg 2:11–12). The simplest reading of texts such as these (and there are many more) is that perhaps some Israelites held that while Yhwh was the God of Israel, Yhwh was not the only god. There may well be other deities for other peoples, but Yhwh is the sole God who deserves Israel’s awe and singular devotion.

The Birth of Satan by T. J. Wray and Gregory Mobley
(via luciferianbuddhism)
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Judah,
    was Salvation worth 30 silver pieces?
Judah,
    your soul was worth none of them.
Judah,
    you hung yourself upon a tree and
    I heard your soul wailing for mine.
    (“God, o God, why have you abandoned me?”)
    At the beginning of the world,
    I held you, cradled you in my arms.
    Since the universe was but nitrogen and
    hydrogen and
    helium, I had known you.
    I knew your name, held it in my hands.
Judah,
    “Betrayer” and “Beloved” start with the same letter.
Judah,
    Betrayer, every step I had walked with you, I had known.
    Betrayer, I had chosen – still choose – you, knowing.
    I would still call you beloved.
Judah,
    if you had waited three days more:
    “Peace be with you.”
    (“I forgive you”)
Judah –
   Betrayer, Beloved:
   I love you despite all.

a love letter to the Betrayer // toza 06.09.2017

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