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Each day I revere You, I can slowly feel the shackles of society loosen. More than ever, I want all the pleasures to be fulfilled and not be ashamed of it. Lord Satan, the Horned God, guide me into my whoredom. Show me the ways of the succubus and the ways of Mammon. I want my whoredom to make me money, good money, so that I can indulge in luxuries. I want to spread Your dark light onto the sleeping society, Lord Satan, the Horn God, make my voice irresistible, my charm addictive, and protect me from harm.

Where the sacred burns and the profane blossoms.

We do not come here to be absolved.

We come here to witness.

To stand before the beautiful and the terrible without lowering our eyes. To find meaning in ruins, elegance in decay, and truth in the shadows others refuse to enter.

The Temple of Gomorrah does not demand belief.

It demands honesty.

Here, darkness is not worshiped because it is evil. It is embraced because it is real. Fear. Desire. Grief. Longing. Obsession. Ecstasy. Mortality. These are not failures to overcome. They are chapters of the same human scripture.

We reject the illusion that beauty exists only in the pure, or that the sacred can only be found in the light. We have watched cathedrals crumble into dust. We have seen broken things become magnificent.

We do not fear the flesh, for it is no less honest than bone.

The body carries its own liturgy. Every scar is a verse. Every touch is a sacrament. Desire is not a corruption of the soul, but a mirror held before it. Within willing surrender, earned restraint, quiet vulnerability, and the exchange of trust and power, we find reflections of ourselves stripped of pretense. We seek neither indulgence nor denial as virtue. We seek authenticity without shame.

The flame that burns within this temple is not one of destruction alone.

It is revelation.

It consumes false holiness, borrowed convictions, and inherited guilt until only what is genuine survives the fire.

Every image placed upon these walls is an offering:

To horror.

To the gothic.

To blackened beauty.

To forgotten gods and fallen angels.

To ruined cathedrals and silent cemeteries.

To the elegance of decay.

To longing that refuses to die.

To the beauty of the unveiled form.

To devotion freely given.

To power freely surrendered.

To the profane made beautiful.

If you enter these halls, leave certainty at the door.

Bring your curiosity.

Bring your fears.

Bring your desires.

Bring every part of yourself that was taught to hide beneath respectability.

Nothing here asks you to kneel.

Nothing here asks you to repent.

It asks only that you look into the abyss long enough to recognize your own reflection, and find it worthy of neither worship nor condemnation.

Only acceptance.

Only truth.

Welcome to the Temple of Gomorrah.

source: @allispermissible