Ricktheheretic
"Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law"
I am aware of satanic groups that are non-Abrahamic. The Temple of Set revere a deity from the ancient Egyptian religion who was a "devil" and embodies pride and self-advancement through occult practice. Ordo Templi Orientis are Crowleyan or Thelemic, they believe in the Abrahamic god as an embodiment of the old aeon(age, realm), the aeon of Osiris/Hadit, the patriarchal religions. The last chapter of The Book of the Law introduces the aeon of Ra-hoor-khuit/Horus, the law of the new aeon is "do what thou will" or "follow your own conscience," this is the age when man becomes god. I think that to Aleister Crowley Satan or The Beast was just another aspect of the patriarchal god. In The Book of the Law Hadit is the serpent, he represents the will-to-power that established the patriarchal cults, like those of Osiris, Yahweh, Allah etc. who where the patrons of kings and had a devil counterpart that was the god of their peoples enemies, Set, Satan, Shaitan etc. Crowley proclaimed himself to be Satan or The Beast because he opposed the patriarchal religions in favor of the creed of the new aeon, "do what thou will shall be the whole of the law," of course this was interpreted as "always follow your higher consciousness/higher self." Crowley said something, "since the will is but the dynamic aspect of the self, and since two different selves could not possess identical wills; then, if thy will be God's will, Thou art That."-Liber II The Message of the Master Therion Aleister Crowley denied the duality of patriarchal religion in favor of a view where god is one, and "every man and woman is star. Every number is infinite; there is no difference."-The Book of The Law The Crowleyan/Thelemic view is that man's spirituality evolves and the devil eventually becomes god because the patriarchal, authoritarian model of religion becomes outdated and a new rebellious spirituality encourages everyone to follow their own will in the search of gnosis or enlightenment. I know that Crowley respected the Hindu and Buddhist religions a lot. The religions of the East seem to agree more with direct experience of the divine through mysticism than do the western patriarchal Abrahamic religions. There is a Gnostic/Christian form of Luciferianism. In the Christian Gnostic religion Jesus is a liberator from the aeon(age, realm) above who reveals the Judaic creator god to be fraud and turns the Jewish people towards the real Eternal Father. In Gnostic Christianity a false god creates the material world and imprisons spirits who fell from the aeon above in corporal bodies. The serpent on the Tree of Knowledge (gnosis) reveals to mankind their true nature and teaches them how to return to The Eternal Father. Its the false creator god, who is a fallen selfish being, who is the god of the Jews and the Jewish law that subordinates men to the material world and keeps them from seeking gnosis, he says "I am a jealous god, there is no god but me". In some Gnostic schools the serpent on the tree was Lucifer "the light bearer" or the fallen angel Sophia who repented and returned to the aeon above. Gnostic Christianity is based on Marcion, a bishop from the early church who embraced some dualistic ideas and had a problem with the nastiness of the Old Testament god. I know there is a mix of dualistic Hermetic and Platonic ideas from the ancient Greek world. I don't know how much Crowley was influenced by Gnosticism, but he was certainly a seeker of gnosis. I would like to end this with a quote.
“The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black God, but the negation of God. The Devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry. For the Initiates, this is not a person, but a force, created for good, but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or free will. They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythologic and horned form of the God Pan; thence the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the light bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend”. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
Thelema 101 at Thelema 101
The Gnosis Archive Sinagogue of Satan
“The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black God, but the negation of God. The Devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry. For the Initiates, this is not a person, but a force, created for good, but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or free will. They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythologic and horned form of the God Pan; thence the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the light bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend”. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
Thelema 101 at Thelema 101
The Gnosis Archive Sinagogue of Satan
