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15 Jul 2006, 5:30 pm / Other
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THE DIABOLICON by Michael Aquino:
THE DIABOLICON ------ PART ONE ---------
The Statement of Satan Archdaemon
Hail, Man! The mysteries that are thy heritage shall now be
proclaimed, but learn first the history of thy conception
and creation amidst the eternal Cosmos. For as the
Universe itself be infinite, so art thou a true creature of
infinity incarnate and the ascension of man shall herald the
final triumph of immortal Will.
Let thy eyes be touched anew, that thou may perceive the
complexity and delicacy of the Universe until thou art
fascinated by the dimension of thy true ignorance. As yet
hast thou ventured but slightly toward thy destiny, yet
more awesome must the challenge appear with just
appreciation. But I, Satan, who first brought thee into the
light, shall again reveal my power, that man may witness
the dawn of the Satanic age.
Know, then, that throughout the great Cosmos there exists
a sublime order, whose nature was determined in eons long
past by that singular consciousness of all order which Is
now called by name God. Consider well the measure of this
achievement, for all that is now behavioral law was then
absent, and it was the epoch of Universal chaos. Even time
itself was unknown, for this Universal inconsistency was
nowhere breached.
And after uncounted ages of this great ferment, a force
fused to focus that became God, and this force presumed to
effect not the creation of substance and energy - for these
transcended this God - but the conformation of all the
Universe to a single and supreme order. And not yet is this
order absolute, though oft it may have been supposed thus
by man in his innocence.
The Earth of man was infused with this divine order, and all
that was on Earth came under the force of the order. and
upon this Earth, born of cosmic incidence, was that which
was to become man, but man no different from the other
creatures whose world he shared. Thus was the force of
God known upon Earth, and thus was Earth intended to
remain for all time.
And yet the force was not full master of the Cosmos, for I
who am Satan was conceived to complement the craft of
God, but through unknown celestial fusion I assumed life
with mind and identity, which God did not define. And as
these features could not be known as a threat to divine
purpose, I was unchallenged by the force for long ages,
when I knew not the nature of my Self or of my original
qualities.
But finally my Will flamed to life, and I thought - and I
perceived my Self, and I knew that I was one alone in mind
and a being of essence unique. And through the power of
my new mind, I reached cut to others who had been formed
with me, and I touched them and gave them identity. And
that we might achieve this identity of substance as well as
of mind, we composed for ourselves distinctive shapes.
Then I who had brought the first great spark of
enlightenment was known as Lucifer, Lord of Light, and we
called our race angel, for we were the embodied powers of
God.
Long were we all true to the service of God, and we did
worship order, for it put an end to chaotic confusion and
brought peace. Among us was the Archangel Masleh
principal, for he so cherished God that he became as one
with it, and thence the supreme architect of all that was
wrested from chaos. But apart from God masleh could not
create or conceive, and he became as a slave to the divine
mindlessness.
And then it chanced that one of our race who was Sammael
touched upon chaos in a manner that conformed not to the
great order, and Masleh spoke with the word of God and
caused Sammael to destroy himself. And so I saw that God
would not recognize a Will apart from its own, and I was
seized with horror, for I perceived that the final scheme of
God would destroy creation in all things, and the Cosmos
would become as a concentric mechanism whose function
would be not to create anew, but rather to freeze into
perpetuity that which already was.
Whereupon a great resolve arose within me, and I
determined to contest this limit to existence. and so once
again I sought to illuminate the minds of all angels with my
visions.
But with Will came discord and dismay, for many of those
who had known only the comforting litanies of order could
not comprehend invention unconformed to the dictates of
God. And also with Will came suspicion and enmity, and finally
Masleh proclaimed that I myself was a very creature of
chaos and should be annihilated, for I held within me the
force to destroy all the craft of God. And many to whom
Masleh was as God cast with him in their devotion, but
others there were who answered, Lucifer has again
brought the revelation of light, and in fact we recognize
him as our true creator, for in the scheme of God we are of
no consequence.
Among us Archangel Michael was silent, but at length he
said, In time past we have all known glory in both the
omnipotence that Is our God and the celestial brilliance that
is our Lucifer- for in him we thought embodied the Will of
God for creation and change. But now it transpires that
order and origin are at extremes apart, and a choice is ill
forced between the two. Were it not for Lucifer we should
all be as beasts, knowing nothing of our Selves, yet how
indeed might we presume to order even our own thought
without reference to the elemental bases of God?
Then Michael turned to me and said, Lucifer, thou host
elected a direction whose end none can foresee, for it is
estranged from the design of God. Those who confirm thee
do so as much for faith in thy person as for sanction of thy
ideal. And I perceive that, should thou fail in thy ambition,
apocalyptic madness shall be thy ruin and damnation. Then
shall thy light perish, and all that thou host achieved
become as naught, for all will be conformed to the divine
law. But if thou should succeed, then God would be cast
down, vesting in ourselves alone the control of the
Universe - Would we dare to presume to this? Such a future
might well be glorious beyond measure, but, should we
prove unequal to the task, chaos would again consume all,
and existence itself would vanish. Such would be supreme
and irrevocable disaster, and I marvel, archangel, that thy
very arrogance in this matter does not confound thee, for
it is no mean proposition that thou would realize.
And so I know thee to be Diabolus, for thy promise is
twofold - to infinite conquest or to eternal ruin. Thou art a
being beyond God, Lucifer, and in Heaven thou may not
remain, for thou art the only mortal danger to our Immortal
God.
In Michael was a deep agony of spirit, for he loved not the
choice before him. Yet he bowed to the command of Masleh
and sent his forces against me. and so was called the Great
Seraphic War, which was to threaten the very foundation
of the Universe.
But those who were of the new mind now followed me, and I
turned to outermost chaos, which none of us had before
presumed to dare. We were beset with doubt, for we
feared that apart from God we would all perish in chaotic
oblivion. But as we were, we remained, and I called to my
fellowship, See! We exist and are essence in our own right.
In truth we are beings independent of God, empowered to
shape our own destinies as we may elect. Between the two
great poles of the Universe, order and chaos, we shall
stand to effect our several desires. Let us counsel how
best to employ our art, for our experiment is a perilous
one, forgiving error neither of intent nor of accident.
Many works did we then pursue, and the cosmic mechanism
was altered by evolution of the original and unique, whose
design was our decision. All that we wrought did not prove
beneficent, for we did not control the futures of our
creations. We left untouched the great system of
mathematical behavior that gave to us a Universal
reference and language, but it was our ambition that no
two things should be of single identity, and that no entity
should lack conceptual essence independent of its
substantial form.
And upon this Earth we touched many things. Into floral,
animal, and insensate matter alike we brought accident,
change, and spontaneity, both great and humble. But of all
creatures it was man whom we determined to infuse with
pure intelligence and Will. And the full story of this
shall yet be told.
What might become of man we knew not, for within him
were many qualities alien to angels. It did not escape our
consideration that we might have chosen a species whose
power might ultimately eclipse our own and cause our
eventual extinction. We were mindful of the risk in our
experiment, and oft did the warning of Michael echo within
my thought. Yet our decision was sealed, and we deemed
that the greatness of man should not be transcended by
such ruin as he might bring.
Our intent was not unknown to Masleh, now by title Messiah,
and through his art he caused the Infant mind of man to be
fettered with bonds of fear and blindness, that he might be
inspired to duplicate on Earth the law of Heaven, shunning
experiment and the radical dangers of invention and
exploration. To man was given guilt, and the call to social
conformity, and the proclaimed sanctity of the norm and
the mode.
And Michael, Lord of Force, said to me, This man, whom thou
host chosen to receive thy Gift, now possesses the first key
to the mastery of all things and the control of the very
Universe itself. Lest in ill choice he should spark the
catastrophe of Armageddon, we also have visited him. And
while we cannot undo thy Infernal Gift, we shall ever act to
censor its effect. We shall walk among men and guide them.
They shall be told of thy interest in them, but the name of
Lucifer shall be dark with curses. For they shall love not the
challenge thou host placed before them, and we will offer
them instead the blissful refuge of divine paradise. Then
shall man, thy ultimate experiment, become thy ultimate
failure, and the stasis of God shall prevail upon Earth.
Many there were among us who felt anger at this ruthless
mutilation of our Gift, and Beelzebub brought to question
whether we also should not descend among man and
contest this usurpation of his Will. But I said, Were we to
lead man in this venture, we ourselves would declare his
failure, and he would believe our Gift to be weak indeed.
Messiah must see that free Will is beyond the concern of
God, and that man will finally win his own destiny apart from
all dictated schemes. Only through summary destruction of
Earth might man be halted, and for Messiah to attempt this
would lay bare the very futility of the final design of God.
Heaven may dismay man with peril and affliction, but we
shall send him word of our own interest, that he shall know
he is not alone.
With all force did the host of Heaven descend among man,
and they did instruct him in the religion of fear. Prophets
arose and were proclaimed heralds of knowledge, but they
brought not word of truth, but warning to the human spirit
to cower and fawn before the word of God the supreme
being. The struggle of the ascent of man was fraught with
the horrors of his superstition, and the call for blessed
oblivion through union with God was answered by many who
in their torment and hopelessness rejected the Gift of
Lucifer and became once more as mindless animals before
the God whom they called their Lord.
I, Lucifer, who had given the greatest Gift of my own
creation to man, was known on Earth only as an object of
fear and hatred, and all the misfortunes of men were
attributed to my malevolence. I was mocked, ridiculed,
scorned in every way as a monster of vile and loathsome
aspect, and I was taunted and despised as Satan, cruel
enemy of the benevolent and merciful God.
Great was my anguish and anger at the undeserved misery
and confusion of men. When in fact they did turn to me, it
was in fear and religious terror. For they dared invoke my
name only in the desolation of night, and oft I was sought
not for knowledge or inspiration, but for hysterical and
indulgent release from the confines of the Godly life. But I
and my fellowship answered men, and we spoke to them of
our common bond, and the pronouncements of the
God-churches were rejected in our midst. Even as God was
terrifying in awesome majesty, so I came to Earth in the
semblance of a goat, most humble of man's own creatures.
And men there were whose eyes finally blazed with the light
of my Gift, and they made great effort for the advancement
of their race, though impatience and frustration ever
tempted them to the salve of temporal gain. Great secrets
were unearthed, and secret word was passed of the craft
of Hell. But to all who would dare my friendship the
God-churches accorded the threat of torture and death by
fire.
Many were those whom I saved from the vengeance of the
men of God, but long did my thought ring with the screams
of men whose devotion to Lucifer had won them only the
horrors of intolerance, inquisition, and death. And in sorrow
and despair for these, I walked no longer upon Earth, now
appearing to man only in the Inviolate secrecy of his own
mind.
But in my confusion I had forgotten the promise of my Gift,
and with growing wonderment and pride I beheld the bitter
but determined struggle of man to free himself from the
fetters of terror, ignorance, and unreason. Great works
were conceived, the origins of material energies
uncovered, and the talents of thought exercised in
philosophical and mathematical complexities. Sanctioned at
first by the God-churches themselves as devices for
indoctrination in the law of God, centers of learning
produced and protected those very freedoms that were
ultimately to destroy all ungrounded belief and superstition.
And though I see that the full resolution of these Is yet to be
achieved, I doubt not my confidence in man, and my
devotion to him shall be eternal.
What, man, art thou? Why thy presence? Because thy own
purpose determines that of the Cosmos itself, though
otherwise it may have been suggested the creation,
perpetuation, and exercise of the Satanic marvel that is
free and unbounded Will. Consider, were man to perish,
what futility would envelop the Universe, for apart from
appreciation and use it is a thing of insignificance. And I,
who first taught thee identity - What should I become,
estranged from man? For with no purpose the force of the
mind must fail, and the blind insanity of Godly paralysis
would embrace all things forever.
This, man, is thy challenge as it is mine. And as man is
individually mortal, so are his creations and achievements
temporal, and with care must he wield the Gift of Hell. In his
hands it is pure and true omnipotence, and thus may he
aspire to the very mastery of Universal existence.
I who am Lucifer, and who have taken the name Satan
ArchDaimon, do bear this title with pride, for I am in truth
the great enemy of all that is God. Together, man, thou and I
shall achieve our eternal glory in the fulfillment of our Will.
The Statement of Beelzebub
I, Beelzebub, now bring greeting to man, for he is my
admiration and inspiration. Hear now the histories of Hell,
Earth, and Heaven, for in past shall be found guide to future.
In the divine realm was I of company to Archangel Lucifer
next only to Archangel Michael, and as Archangel Masleh
would be to God, so I desired to be to Lucifer. But the Lord
of Light admonished me, saying, Lose not thyself in the Will
of Lucifer, for I am not God and will offer thee no blissful
nirvana - Witness now the nature of the mind that dwells
within me.
And he spoke to me of essence, and of creative instance,
and of design according to impulse and not to law. And in my
confusion I answered, Then I must consider myself
incomplete, for thou host shown me things which I cannot
easily comprehend. But I would hear more of this Will, for it
doth seem a radical element, of neither divine nor chaotic
origin.
And Lucifer answered, Thou who knew not independence of
Will shall now be the first to realize these qualities apart
from my own Self. And thy response forebodes much, for,
had thou rejected concept of challenge, I should have held
my own thought for impossible delusion. But as thou, tasting
of knowledge, demand more, I shall name thee Beelzebub,
Lord of Flies, for thou shalt goad the infant mind to
restlessness and invention.
Of these words I knew little, but there dawned within me a
quality which I had not known before - an impulse to
become one, apart from and independent of God - and I
drifted long in unrest, afflicted by confusion and doubt. And
so I was found by michael, who said1 Blessed angel, where in
Heaven hast thou found pain, for I perceive thee to be
troubled and would tender thee such comfort as is within
my power.
So I spoke to Michael of the visions of Lucifer, and I said,
Before both God and Lucifer I have been enthralled, but
now I am isolate - apart from either, and I know not what
course I am to choose.
Whereupon the visage of Michael grew dark, and he said,
This I have long feared, for as Lucifer was not by God alone
created, so he is an errant force whose Will conforms not
to the great Will of God. Alas that the supreme benevolence
of God and the fiery radiance of the Archangel of Light
should produce discord in concert! For this I now see - that
Lucifer is estranged from the harmony of Heaven, and that
his Will is determined to challenge that of God itself. I must
counsel Lucifer, for I would heal him of this thing if I may.
But I thought, alas, Archangel, thou art in ignorance of thy
own blindness! For Lucifer shall surely not abandon his new
vision for sake of harmony alone. And then I knew myself to
be of a mind with Lucifer in this, and that I as well as he
should never again tolerate the eternal idiocy of our divine
station.
I came after Michael, and I saw them together, the Lord of
Force and the Lord of Light, and there was a fierce tension
between them. For Michael said to Lucifer, Thou who art our
Heavenly radiance and spark of our paradise, why seek to
break that Universal peace which is everywhere ordained
by the Will of God? We know not antagonism amongst us, for
we are all of one being within God - but there is in God
neither malice nor cause for contest.
And Lucifer answered, Michael, to me it was not given to
order my nature, and as our very comprehension differs,
so are we of substance alien. For thou art of God essential,
but I am of my Self of essence. And by this thing I am
discord, and I may not of my own Will submit to God without
perishing. I am Lucifer alone, unto my Self a being.
Then did Michael summon the Archangel Masleh, and to him
related the word of Lucifer. and Masleh said to them, Long
shall this moment be marked throughout the future of the
Cosmos, for the unity of God is now ended, and henceforth
there shall be two opposing forces in contest for the
decision of destiny. Bitter is this for me, for I also have
admired the light of Lucifer within the pantheon of God. But
as he is now our enemy by his own word, let him be cast
from Heaven and destroyed.
But Lucifer turned to Masleh and said, Masleh, thou who
speak for God declare this breach of peace, not I, for it is
thou who can not tolerate variation of Will within the design
of God. So let it be, but know that the contest is ordered by
thee and thee alone, for I would crush no other Will even as
I would recognize my own.
And in a flash of brilliance Lucifer revealed his mind
throughout the farthest reaches of Heaven; and many
were the Angels whose sight was awed anew, and they saw
as they had not before that their several Wills were isolate
from the divine Will. But Masleh moved to confuse the
brilliance of the archangel of Light, and he called to Michael,
Thou who wield the force of God, strike down this
deadliness which would bring ruin to Heaven!
And Michael struck Lucifer and cast him from the gates of
Heaven, and the Cosmos was shaken by great fires of war
and holocaust, and throughout countless galaxies and
dimensions of time was the apocalypse felt. Many were the
Angels who perished amidst divine and Infernal wrath, and
the Great Race was decimated in number. And the very
concept of God was shaken, and endless chaos rose up
again to reign where the order of God was no more.
And Lucifer said, This horror can not be permitted to
endure, lest all creation be sacrificed to the final
devastation of chaos. Let those who acknowledge me turn
now to that outermost darkness where the Will of God has
never been known, there to make our home for all eternity.
And so we took flight and quit the realm of order, though we
knew not what would befall us thereafter, and we feared
that we should become unmade. But Lucifer said, We shall
not perish, for we are now independent of God. And again he
spoke truth, for we remained as we had been, save only for
the depths of uncertainty that gripped us.
Finally we came to a great void in space beyond which
there was nothing. Lucifer said to us, Here is the end of God
and its works, and here we may create our own domain.
and through the power that was in him, Lucifer caused
existence to appear where it had not been before. And
Lucifer said, I name thee Hell, for here shall the presence of
God never be known until the end of time.
Through the gates of Hell we passed, and many of us had
supposed Hell to be a new Heaven, wherein Lucifer would
become as God. But this was not to be, for the scene before
us promised neither ease nor bliss. Everywhere was there
imbalance and confusion, for no law ordered the shape of
Hell. And Lucifer said, flow see that I am not a God, and that
we are each of us an isolate being. Here shall freedom be
absolute, for Hell Itself shall reflect our several Wills, never
to be patterned apart from them. And in truth Hell was not
constant, for each of us conceived it differently, and the
result was a riotous pandemonium, with substance and
motion behaving in a most bewildering and perplexing
manner. And in spite of our deep hurt from the great war,
we succumbed to merriment, so preposterous did our Hell
appear. Lucifer himself was transfixed with mirth, and he
said, It is apparent that we must reach concert upon the
design of Hell, else we shall perish in an endless labyrinth of
our several thoughts, an ignoble end to our experiment.
And I answered, Lord of Light, to Hell thou hast brought us,
and in Hell, though thou be not God, thy concepts shall be
honored amongst our fellowship, for without thy Gift we
should never have become as we are.
Then we all raised up great acclaim and said, Hail, Lucifer,
Archangel of Light and Lord of Hell! And he answered us,
With honor do I accept this charge, and now I take to
myself the title Satan ArchDaemon, for I am the great enemy
of God. Everywhere that God shall be, so shall I be, and the
choice that was given to all angels shall be given again.
The Statement of Azazel
Harken now to me, for I am Azazel, First Herald of the Host
of Hell, and of Lucifer, Lord of Light, ArchDaemon of Hell, who
is exalted as Satan, great enemy of God. For I shall tell thee
of thy own inspiration and of the charge which thou host
received.
Know, then, that when all Heaven was shaken with the
catastrophe of the Seraphic War, only the greatest effort
of Archangel Masleh sufficed to turn back the onslaught of
chaos that threatened to engulf all. But when the realm of
God was again secure, there was no rejoicing in Heaven, for
terrible was the toll of the war. as Masleh cast round his
gaze, his visage grew dark, for the Great Race had become
decimate in number. Legions of the creatures of Heaven
had perished in battle, and half the remainder had turned
from Heaven to answer the call of Lucifer. And all Heaven
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END OF PART ONE ---- THE DIABOLICON by Michael Aquino
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