"Contrary to the generally accepted belief, the most highly initiated philosophers symbolized the eternally existing state of divinity by darkness rather than by light. In all the cosmological systems of enlightened pagans there was first darkness--an immeasurable extent of profundity which defied definition. From this Darkness, which is the first God, proceeded Light, the secondary divinity. Light moved upon the face of Darkness and through its activities the world, or embodied divinity, comes into manifestation. The radiant spirits of Light set up their temporary kingdom in the midst of Darkness. But Light is finite, and Darkness is infinite. In the last Age the night of oblivion descends once more upon the universe and the sovereignty of the Darkness is re-established."
~ Manly P. Hall, 'The All-Seeing Eye'
How does one disclose the devil? I mean without ending the world. The word apocalypsis in Greek does not just mean “revelation” in the sense in which it was appropriated by John of Patmos — or whoever actually wrote the Book of Revelation. It also means “disclosure” in a way that makes it related, if not synonymous, to the ancient Greek conception of “truth” as alethea. The word lethe, from the verb lethomai, means a forgetful concealing or occultation, such that the privative a-lethea means “un-concealment” or “dis-closure.” This is not “truth” as it was later misunderstood to be veritas or veridical correspondence of a claim or an idea with some putatively objective reality. Rather, it is an unveiling or revelation, one that is always only partial, from out of predominant occultation. As Martin Heidegger suggested, it is like the moonlight suddenly pouring through a small clearing in a dark forest at night.
When hardly anyone understands the fundamental falsity of veritas, and fails to fathom that nothing is ever really “true” in that way, how can discussions about the “disclosure” of the deepest and darkest secrets in the world be anything other than a preface to mass deception? I mean the so-called “UFO (or UAP) Disclosure” discussion, which has long since also become a broader conversation about the paranormal in general because it is clear to anyone involved, in a more than superficial survey of the subject, that psychic phenomena and other aspects of the occult cannot be exorcised from the mass of “UAP” data going back many decades. In a manner that can often be irksome, some of the researchers involved have resorted to simply referring to the whole mess as “the phenomenon.” But this is not just a flabbergasted throwing of one’s hands up in the air. It is also telling, since the term phenomenon was used in a technical sense by Immanuel Kant to designate the perceivable manifold as limited by the structure of our own consciousness — including our human perception of time — but behind which lies some inscrutable noumenal thing.
My contention is that this Thing is Satan. Far from the naïve and ignorant belief that “Satan” is an adversary who only makes sense in the context of Christianity, anyone who is familiar with my philosophical corpus will already know, for reasons that will be summarily reviewed in this book, that the devil is far older than the Christian God. Whether in the form of the Scytho-Sarmatian “Satana” or as Prometheus, an ancient Greek conception that also took shape under significant Iranian influence and that is based on the champion of Satana, and is ultimately one and the same figure as Mithra, Satan is very old indeed. Much older than monotheism. But here we remain within the aesthetic realm of mythology and theology.
What I contend in my writings, and revisit here, over the course of an extended meditation, is a claim that cuts to the core of ontology and epistemology, and one which has ethical implications that are deeply disturbing. Namely this, that “God” is an invention of the devil. That Satan — or Satana — is not only older and more primordial than monotheistic conceptions of God, but that the devil actually shaped the history of mankind in such a way as to test the character or ethos of individuals and societies against the captivating power of this theological delusion. In other words, as I suggested in Iranian Leviathan (2019), the Book of Job needs to be read backwards. That was, as I argue there, the intention of the Mithraic Magi who guided the liberated Jews of Babylon in the construction of the late form of Judaism that went on to become foundational for Christianity. Like Emperor Xerxes himself, they were esoteric Satanists.
~ Excerpt: SATANAEON [Introduction]
by Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD.
This book is for you, Satana.
Every witchy woman in my writing has been but a mask you wore.
As a philosopher in your court, like Heraclitus and Nietzsche, I offer myself as your sacrifice.
I accept my place as your prophet.
From out of my ashes, may your Aeon dawn, Satana.
Hail to your rising star!
"The Devil is not an enemy to be vanquished but a harsh mistress in a cosmic drama that provokes individuals to step up their game. This devil is often a witchy woman in disguise - the Aeon wearing one of her masks" ~ Jorjani
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“One must realize that war is shared, and Strife is Justice, and that all things are ordained in accordance with conflict. The counter thrust brings together, and from tones at variance comes perfect attunement, and all things come to pass through conflict. They do not comprehend how a thing agrees at variance with itself; it is an attunement turning back on itself, like that of the bow and the lyre. The hidden attunement is better than the obvious one.”
~ Heraclitus
