kerriscott
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Yes indeed, which was one of the intentions behind publishing such material. The O9A was/is being heretical, adversarial, and presented/presents a different version of modern 'satanism' to that of LaVey and Aquino and others. Anton Long said as much way back in a letter to Diane Vera dated 28th May 1992:My knee jerk reaction to this subject (and the O9A overall) is that it continues to give satanists and modern pagans (as there are still stereotypes that all pagans are satanists) a bad name
"By making certain material available on sacrifice, for example and by writing certain MSS dealing with that and other dark topics, I and others have done two things. First, made it clear that such material is part of my tradition and that it recounts what was/is done. Second, returned to Satanism that darkness and evil which really belongs to it (at least in the novice stage).
I have no desire to give Satanism a 'good name' on the contrary. I wish it to be seen as I understand it to be really dangerous and difficult." Source - The Satanic Letters of Stephen Brown, 2 vols, Thormynd Press, 1992
I have no desire to give Satanism a 'good name' on the contrary. I wish it to be seen as I understand it to be really dangerous and difficult." Source - The Satanic Letters of Stephen Brown, 2 vols, Thormynd Press, 1992
Also, in a letter to Aquino dated 20th October 1990:
"There may be the adoption of an adversarial role in order to attack accepted (or even unconscious) dogmas within the broad spectrum of the LHP movement - but that is as it should be, for individuals questing after knowledge who refuse to meekly believe. Once again, a 'role' is only a role, played out in the quest for understanding." Source - The Satanic Letters of Stephen Brown, vol i. 1992.
Terms such as 'murder', self-enlightenment, religion, and 'rotten', need defining and understood in relation to various -isms and -ologies, and also need to be understood in relation to the accepted norms (and prejudices) of our current societies. All this can induce some self-reflection.Isn't murder in the name of self-enlightenment or religious commitment pretty rotten
Again, to promote such understanding and such self-reflection was/is another of the aims of such adversarial material, and of the adversarial O9A.