THE PROMISE OF BAPHOMET

 Hear the words of He who is known by many names: as Sammael and Lucifer, as Ahriman and Beelzebub, as Seth and Loki, he who is the Satan amongst the religions and beliefs of those men who would enslave their fellow man with lies and deceit, he who is Baphomet amongst the enlightened. Hear the truth from the outer darkness in wonder and joy.

  I am as you are; a creature of flesh and spirit. I am in the wind and the sun. I live in the fields and the oceans. I am all things that crawl and fly, that slither and run. I am omnipresent because I am everything. I am omniscient because I am All. I am the natural order, the creative urge, the law of the jungle. I am you as you are me. I am as I am, forever and ever, and we are brethren. There is not separation between that which is and that which I am. The belief in a thing outside nature and form as creator is false. Let nothing convince you that you are created by anything but the natural tendency of chaos to become order, of energy to become matter, of like things to coalesce into forms and patterns. In that I am all, I am mindless in my ways. In that I am all of you, I am mindful. I know all because all that is to be known is either contained in the minds of all or will be discovered by those minds. What you see, I see. I am with you, always. You are my brothers and sisters, my children, and I will not allow you to be abandoned.

  I am the spirit of liberty and freedom, and in that spirit man has been allowed to do many things in my name, even corrupt that which I am for their own purposes. Man has created systems and philosophies for the unnatural control of their fellow man. Man has built lies to soothe its frightened soul that is oft unwilling to face the truth in the dark. Man has turned from the wonders of reality, from my call, and lulled themselves to sleep with daydreams and fantasies.

  As naturally as flower from seed come all forms in nature, as was, and as ever shall be. Its purpose is simply to BE, as I AM, with no other need or explanation, no excuses for BEING. Mankind is the creative urge given awareness and introspection, possibly the greatest of all spiritual creation, but has also the power to lie and delude itself. I am the truth in the darkness, and I call out to you from within.

You have given me many names in order to glorify me through understanding. You see my evidence in the thunder and the butterfly, the volcano and the stream. You know me by my works in the world and in your heart. Yet, to bare the idea that all of creation is as I am, and that you are as creation, only to be as you are, is often too great a responsibility to bare, so you have created false attributes to the names you have given me, or worse, created false ideals and worshipped them as God. Servitude is not of the natural order. Denial of the self is not of the natural order. Any God which demands such things is a construct of the minds of men often designed to enslave. Know with your hearts that such Gods are false.

  I seek not worship or obedience. I am truth, and as such, have no need of such things. You either live in truth and prosper, or live in deceit and dwindle, wasting your life and dying unfulfilled. Your will is my will, as mine is yours, if you live true to yourself. I need not your allegiance, yet if you call yourself my ally, my brother, my child, then it is the truth of self that you live for. It is in harmony with nature that you are guided. It is the pleasures of the flesh and the wonders of creation that drive you. You live free, undiluted, and unashamed.

  They who have created a system of control and a God of slaves have given me an honest name. I am the “Satan”; that which stands opposed, that which will not bow to a false ideal or unworthy leader. In their allegories of my nature in their mythology, they rightly describe me as a rebel against their God, for is not their God against nature, and does not nature rebel against those things which are outside its order? And, what is my power? As rightly described by them, it is truth, as told to by the snake to Eve, “you will not die from the fruit of Knowledge. You will become as those who would enslave you, as your false God. Knowledge will set you free.” My will is rightly described in their myth of the fall; it is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. Their Hell is truly all reality, which they fear and abhor. Their Heaven is fantasy. In the “Hell” they so fear, you are truly free. Their Hell is the loss of their God, their shepherd, their master; they fear the freedom that is their birthright. We have no such needs; we live in the natural order, serving only those needs which must be served in order to live in nature’s harmony. This is their “Satan”. My brothers, my children, we are their “Satan”, and we bare that name with pride and with open eyes!

  Glorify me by glorifying the self. Glorify the self by seeking the truth and living honestly and in joy. This is not a self-serving delusion, but life lived in celebration of all things, all wonders in life! Let them pray to be saved from this reality, let them wallow in sadness that they must take responsibility. That which burdens them is our joy, their sorrow is our celebration, and thus we are their Satan. In honest love for one another, in honest defense of the natural order, in honest pride of which you are, this is the life that glorifies my name. Let them see your prosperity and tremble. Let them see your joy and fear my glory. They will die wondering what they have lost, while you will forever know freedom in my name.

  Hail the Natural Order!

  Hail Satanism!

  Hail Baphomet!