I'm posting this later than I wanted to, and labeled this Yesterday's chat even though it wasn't yesterday just to keep my facebook notes organized. - I actually started writing this on Monday but i got caught up in some business that I had to take care of, and so I wasn't able to post this until now... I want to discuss the last Video Chat that I hosted at my site now because love to review what happened and give you a preview of what is coming up for next weekend.
This last video chat that I hosted at spiritualsatanist.com was so much fun! The best part of it all was that my husband joined in and discussed his experiences in using ritual magic. The focus of our discussion was the use of ritual in Satanism, and many of us there had experiences that we shared with one another.
Ritual is used by many Satanists for a variety of purposes. It's used for worship and for magic. Ritual allows us to participate in Satanism in a personal and meaningful way. Ritual allows us to be closer to Satan, and it also allows us to manifest our dreams and our desires through symbolism and the use of magical tools.
We discussed the use of ritual tools last weekend, prior to this discussion on ritual methods. Ritual can be performed by anyone who has an interest in using those same ritual tools in the proper way to create results. I say proper because there are specific types of rituals that Satanists can do, and while these rituals are often personally created, some of us use prepared rituals that we may tailor to suit our individual needs or desires.
I discussed the historical aspects of ritual in Satanism as well, by describing how early Satanism represented the denial of the church through rituals of blasphemy. We talked about LaVey's black mass, a ritual that he created to mock the catholic church. Maybe LaVey didn't realize the impact of this ritual for Satanists who want to express their Satanism from the very start, because many Satanists have used it ever since to deny and break away from their former religion and enter into Satanism. The black mass has been used prior to LaVey's time as a way to mock the state religion of Rome, long before Romans had accepted Christianity as state religion. LaVey certainly didn't invent the use of this ritual because it had been in use centuries before his time - but he did modify a similar style of ritual to mock the catholic church.
This kind of ritual has been written about by authors for many centuries, who wanted to illustrate the fantasies of those who believed that there were people who would mock the Christian church in blasphemous rituals. An example of this can be found in the stories of LaVoisin, and the tales of Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet. Defrocked priests and nuns who were less than virtuous would participate together in these rituals, turning the cross upside down, pissing in the holy water, while the nun laid upon the altar in naked splendor. Robed participants would look on and keep guard over them, under the flickering light of candles made of the fat of newborn babies. These tales were meant to horrify, disgust and frighten those who read them.
Unfortunately, many believed these stories to be true, when in fact they were only literary representations of Satanism in society, tales that were used for sensationalism or for the purpose of spreading moral panic in society. Propaganda like this had been spread about in society for a long time, for centuries, and even to this day - the Satanic Panic an example of this type of storytelling that was meant to influence the public into believing that there were Satanists performing rituals of blasphemy. While no evidence of blasphemous rituals exist outside of literature, some to this day still believe that these rituals really occurred, including some Satanists who want to make these fictional tales a part of their own Satanic history.
Perhaps LaVey was amongst these people who thought those stories about Satanic Ritual were true, and whether he included stories like this in his books for the purpose of illustration or to provide history for Satanists, he wasn't the only one to believe that such stories were fact, instead of fiction or propaganda. Very few were able to comprehend how these stories were meant to be used by Christians against those who were not a part of Christianity, such as the Jewish, were ere often accused of performing rites like these, just as witches gathered at their ' sabbats'.
That was then, and this is now. Ritual for Satanists today are varied in their meaning, and have a meaningful purpose. Satanists use rituals of worship and admiration to profess their love for Satan. We also use rituals to symbolize what we want, so that we can manifest our magical desires. Even though we have rituals available for us to use today, it is unfortunate that many of these Satanic rituals are developed by religious leaders in Satanism, to function as useful tools for their cult members.This means that the variety of rituals that we have are really only useful to those who are a part of those organizations.
Despite this, I would like to provide the kinds of rituals that any Satanist from any path can use, and through this many Satanists would be able to have access to rituals that they can modify for their own purposes. Hopefully this will be better than those who seek to join an organization, just to have access to their documents and rituals that they create for the purpose of the promotion of their own cult.
Rituals aren't hard to create, and in our discussion this weekend, I described how to make them from a simple three step formula - Each ritual has an opening, the beginning, and a middle, where the offering or declaration is made, and a closing or ending, where the ritual ends or closes. So, with this formula, rituals are easier to understand and much faster to create.
I described the ritual that I created for Mars, which you can see at my website. I talked about the process that I used, where I researched the legends of Mars as a Roman god and as a planetary energy, which went on for five days, the last day of this where the ritual was performed. It was the kind of ritual that was very personal and very satisfying because of the results. I wanted to do this ritual because I am an Aries, and mars is aspected in my chart in some very nice ways, but beyond that, I wanted to get closer to one of the lovers of Venus; this was an adventure that brought me satisfaction and happiness and I learned things about my own nature within because of it
After ths ritual was released to my website, a youtube user [involved with a branch of the OTO, and Golden Dawn] contacted me and made a review of this ritual, where he tried it out and modified it for his own purposes, stating that it was an excellent ritual that brought effects almost immediately. I contacted him and thanked him for trying out this ritual, and thanked him for reviewing the experience at YouTube.
Unfortunately, Youtube is often a harsh environment where anything goes, and people will go out of their way to insult others, and to be very immature and rude, and so he had troubles with atheists and others who wanted to put him down for exposing his magical and occult interests. He removed this video review and closed his account. It's a shame but that's how it goes. Over the years I've learned to ignore the idiots there but not everyone is able to have strength in that way to just let it slide off their back like it does not matter. I do not have a copy of his review.
So, on Sunday, my sweet dear husband (his name is Bill) decided to join me on camera. We discussed our own personal adventure with ritual. We described how before we met, we both used ritual to get what we wanted through the use of magic - him with a very basic ritual under the moonlight and me with my adventures with Goetic demons.
We did a ritual the same week, and this is the ritual that brought us together. We met a week later, at where I work, and it was love at first sight. The goal with my ritual was to find a teacher who would guide me and direct me towards some resources where I could learn direct magic, meaning that it is magic without the use of ritual - and Bill's interest with his ritual was to find a friend, companion and lover, to come into his life because he felt that it was the right time to reach out 'to the universe' (as he calls it) to have this person come into his life.
Both of our rituals had a very meaningful impact because a week later we found each other. Bill has more than 30 years experience in direct magic, and he calls it 'mentalism', and he became my lover, friend, confidant and teacher. He taught me what he knew from his experiences in magic and since then I have become his protege. So our experiences are both an example of ritual in action, the kind of ritual that manifests something beautiful, real and true.
Maybe Bill will join us this weekend, we can only hope. Our discussion this weekend will be about "Living the Magical Life" - a discussion on what it is like to use ritual, and how ritual can work to change your life in good ways, and what it is like to live as a magician or witch. hope that you can join us, because as each weekend goes by, I am enjoying the live Video Chats that we have had.
I have had so many good discussions and 'I really enjoy communicating ideas on magic and Satanism with my friends and fans. There is nothing better than a face-to-face chat, live and in person. I know that many have learned from my writings and videos, and through this chat, I am afforded one more opportunity to reach out to others and share my knowledge.
Feel free to comment below, and add any suggestions or ideas on how to make this experience better. Your opinion is important, it matters and I would like to know. Thank you to all that visit. You make it all worthwhile!
Join us this Saturday and Sunday, starting at 7pm, in our chatroom. You can access the chat by following this link: http://www.spiritualsatanist.com/chatrooms.html - This same link will also take you to our IRC chat, where we can discuss Satanism and magic, every day of the week. IRC is a text chat and it is very easy to access. If you do visit the IRC channel, please keep in mind that I try to be present from 7am eastern time (USA) till 3-4am at night - and if I don't answer as soon as you pop in the chat, I may be AFK [away from keys] - so don't leave as soon as you enter if no one answers. We are present for most of the day and we try to answer you as soon as we become available.
My chatrooms are different than most chatrooms for Satanism. We stay on topic, so there is always a good discussion going on, and we do not participate in discussing random off topic things such as movies, music or anything that is mundane. Our IRC chat, and the video chat is and always will be a very calm and peaceful environment where you can learn, share and enjoy discussions on Satanism and the occult - there is no judgmentalism, no arguing, because we keep it very peaceful so that it can serve Satanists as a place to find knowledge. Thank you for participating, and I will see you there!
- Venus Satanas
HAIL SATAN!
This last video chat that I hosted at spiritualsatanist.com was so much fun! The best part of it all was that my husband joined in and discussed his experiences in using ritual magic. The focus of our discussion was the use of ritual in Satanism, and many of us there had experiences that we shared with one another.
Ritual is used by many Satanists for a variety of purposes. It's used for worship and for magic. Ritual allows us to participate in Satanism in a personal and meaningful way. Ritual allows us to be closer to Satan, and it also allows us to manifest our dreams and our desires through symbolism and the use of magical tools.
We discussed the use of ritual tools last weekend, prior to this discussion on ritual methods. Ritual can be performed by anyone who has an interest in using those same ritual tools in the proper way to create results. I say proper because there are specific types of rituals that Satanists can do, and while these rituals are often personally created, some of us use prepared rituals that we may tailor to suit our individual needs or desires.
I discussed the historical aspects of ritual in Satanism as well, by describing how early Satanism represented the denial of the church through rituals of blasphemy. We talked about LaVey's black mass, a ritual that he created to mock the catholic church. Maybe LaVey didn't realize the impact of this ritual for Satanists who want to express their Satanism from the very start, because many Satanists have used it ever since to deny and break away from their former religion and enter into Satanism. The black mass has been used prior to LaVey's time as a way to mock the state religion of Rome, long before Romans had accepted Christianity as state religion. LaVey certainly didn't invent the use of this ritual because it had been in use centuries before his time - but he did modify a similar style of ritual to mock the catholic church.
This kind of ritual has been written about by authors for many centuries, who wanted to illustrate the fantasies of those who believed that there were people who would mock the Christian church in blasphemous rituals. An example of this can be found in the stories of LaVoisin, and the tales of Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet. Defrocked priests and nuns who were less than virtuous would participate together in these rituals, turning the cross upside down, pissing in the holy water, while the nun laid upon the altar in naked splendor. Robed participants would look on and keep guard over them, under the flickering light of candles made of the fat of newborn babies. These tales were meant to horrify, disgust and frighten those who read them.
Unfortunately, many believed these stories to be true, when in fact they were only literary representations of Satanism in society, tales that were used for sensationalism or for the purpose of spreading moral panic in society. Propaganda like this had been spread about in society for a long time, for centuries, and even to this day - the Satanic Panic an example of this type of storytelling that was meant to influence the public into believing that there were Satanists performing rituals of blasphemy. While no evidence of blasphemous rituals exist outside of literature, some to this day still believe that these rituals really occurred, including some Satanists who want to make these fictional tales a part of their own Satanic history.
Perhaps LaVey was amongst these people who thought those stories about Satanic Ritual were true, and whether he included stories like this in his books for the purpose of illustration or to provide history for Satanists, he wasn't the only one to believe that such stories were fact, instead of fiction or propaganda. Very few were able to comprehend how these stories were meant to be used by Christians against those who were not a part of Christianity, such as the Jewish, were ere often accused of performing rites like these, just as witches gathered at their ' sabbats'.
That was then, and this is now. Ritual for Satanists today are varied in their meaning, and have a meaningful purpose. Satanists use rituals of worship and admiration to profess their love for Satan. We also use rituals to symbolize what we want, so that we can manifest our magical desires. Even though we have rituals available for us to use today, it is unfortunate that many of these Satanic rituals are developed by religious leaders in Satanism, to function as useful tools for their cult members.This means that the variety of rituals that we have are really only useful to those who are a part of those organizations.
Despite this, I would like to provide the kinds of rituals that any Satanist from any path can use, and through this many Satanists would be able to have access to rituals that they can modify for their own purposes. Hopefully this will be better than those who seek to join an organization, just to have access to their documents and rituals that they create for the purpose of the promotion of their own cult.
Rituals aren't hard to create, and in our discussion this weekend, I described how to make them from a simple three step formula - Each ritual has an opening, the beginning, and a middle, where the offering or declaration is made, and a closing or ending, where the ritual ends or closes. So, with this formula, rituals are easier to understand and much faster to create.
I described the ritual that I created for Mars, which you can see at my website. I talked about the process that I used, where I researched the legends of Mars as a Roman god and as a planetary energy, which went on for five days, the last day of this where the ritual was performed. It was the kind of ritual that was very personal and very satisfying because of the results. I wanted to do this ritual because I am an Aries, and mars is aspected in my chart in some very nice ways, but beyond that, I wanted to get closer to one of the lovers of Venus; this was an adventure that brought me satisfaction and happiness and I learned things about my own nature within because of it
After ths ritual was released to my website, a youtube user [involved with a branch of the OTO, and Golden Dawn] contacted me and made a review of this ritual, where he tried it out and modified it for his own purposes, stating that it was an excellent ritual that brought effects almost immediately. I contacted him and thanked him for trying out this ritual, and thanked him for reviewing the experience at YouTube.
Unfortunately, Youtube is often a harsh environment where anything goes, and people will go out of their way to insult others, and to be very immature and rude, and so he had troubles with atheists and others who wanted to put him down for exposing his magical and occult interests. He removed this video review and closed his account. It's a shame but that's how it goes. Over the years I've learned to ignore the idiots there but not everyone is able to have strength in that way to just let it slide off their back like it does not matter. I do not have a copy of his review.
So, on Sunday, my sweet dear husband (his name is Bill) decided to join me on camera. We discussed our own personal adventure with ritual. We described how before we met, we both used ritual to get what we wanted through the use of magic - him with a very basic ritual under the moonlight and me with my adventures with Goetic demons.
We did a ritual the same week, and this is the ritual that brought us together. We met a week later, at where I work, and it was love at first sight. The goal with my ritual was to find a teacher who would guide me and direct me towards some resources where I could learn direct magic, meaning that it is magic without the use of ritual - and Bill's interest with his ritual was to find a friend, companion and lover, to come into his life because he felt that it was the right time to reach out 'to the universe' (as he calls it) to have this person come into his life.
Both of our rituals had a very meaningful impact because a week later we found each other. Bill has more than 30 years experience in direct magic, and he calls it 'mentalism', and he became my lover, friend, confidant and teacher. He taught me what he knew from his experiences in magic and since then I have become his protege. So our experiences are both an example of ritual in action, the kind of ritual that manifests something beautiful, real and true.
Maybe Bill will join us this weekend, we can only hope. Our discussion this weekend will be about "Living the Magical Life" - a discussion on what it is like to use ritual, and how ritual can work to change your life in good ways, and what it is like to live as a magician or witch. hope that you can join us, because as each weekend goes by, I am enjoying the live Video Chats that we have had.
I have had so many good discussions and 'I really enjoy communicating ideas on magic and Satanism with my friends and fans. There is nothing better than a face-to-face chat, live and in person. I know that many have learned from my writings and videos, and through this chat, I am afforded one more opportunity to reach out to others and share my knowledge.
Feel free to comment below, and add any suggestions or ideas on how to make this experience better. Your opinion is important, it matters and I would like to know. Thank you to all that visit. You make it all worthwhile!
Join us this Saturday and Sunday, starting at 7pm, in our chatroom. You can access the chat by following this link: http://www.spiritualsatanist.com/chatrooms.html - This same link will also take you to our IRC chat, where we can discuss Satanism and magic, every day of the week. IRC is a text chat and it is very easy to access. If you do visit the IRC channel, please keep in mind that I try to be present from 7am eastern time (USA) till 3-4am at night - and if I don't answer as soon as you pop in the chat, I may be AFK [away from keys] - so don't leave as soon as you enter if no one answers. We are present for most of the day and we try to answer you as soon as we become available.
My chatrooms are different than most chatrooms for Satanism. We stay on topic, so there is always a good discussion going on, and we do not participate in discussing random off topic things such as movies, music or anything that is mundane. Our IRC chat, and the video chat is and always will be a very calm and peaceful environment where you can learn, share and enjoy discussions on Satanism and the occult - there is no judgmentalism, no arguing, because we keep it very peaceful so that it can serve Satanists as a place to find knowledge. Thank you for participating, and I will see you there!
- Venus Satanas
HAIL SATAN!
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