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THE DIABOLICON by Michael Aquino:
THE DIABOLICON -------- PART TWO --------
The Statement of Azazel (continues)......
was hushed with grief, for the force of the disaster was all
the greater for that reign of peace which it had shattered.
Finally did Masleh convoke the faithful ArchAngels, and they
were Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. And to them he
said, We have vanquished Lucifer, and Heaven is again
purified. We ourselves are fewer in number to tragic
degree, but the majesty of God is undiminished for that.
Behold, I who have triumphed over the great enemy am
now become Messiah, the Chosen of God. And he was
answered by them, Verily art thou the very son of God, for
in thee hath the Will of God become person.
Then Michael said, Messiah, Lucifer is vanquished, but he is
not unmade. For though he ventured into the outer
darkness, he yet exists apart from God. And with the power
of his Black Flame he hath created a Hell, wherein all Wills
are equal, and himself he hath proclaimed Satan, for he
declares never to leave the law of God unchallenged.
Messiah thought, and he answered, I would not have this
peace we have won so dearly lost again to war, for the
very concept of Seraphic war is an abhorrence to God. Let
my word be brought to Satan I, Messiah, shall grant the
existence of Hell, and the blessings of God shall never pass
its gates. And thee, Satan, I admonish never again to
approach Heaven, for I should again cast thee out. But if
thou would dare to try the Will of God and Messiah, know
that on Earth I will ordain the new race of God, which shall
be by complete design perfect and unstained by thy
Infernal flaw. For thou art author of ruin and death to our
Angelic order, and neither Heaven nor Hell shall now be
eternal save through man.
Whereupon Gabriel, who was Herald of Heaven, carried this
message to me, and I brought it across the great void to
Satan, who said, Messiah proposes truce between us, for
he perceives that neither Hell nor Heaven may pursue
ultimate victory ere all be lost to chaos. But he finds
impasse intolerable nevertheless, and now he would order
this new race, man, to preserve without blemish the
scheme of God. Thus he would have man achieve what the
Angels could not, and purge all free thought from the
Universe forever.
And Satan turned to me and said, Say to Messiah that Earth
shall be no sanctuary for him to keep inviolate his
unwholesome obliteration of the Self. For I shall give to man
a mind, and of his own Will shall he recognize and reject the
living death which God offers him. In truth shall he master
the Universe, but he shall do so in his own name and not that
of God.
Then did Messiah call the ArchAngel Raphael, and he sent
him to Earth with a great host to guard man against the
coming of Satan. And man was then as a mere beast, for he
knew not thought and smiled with the idiocy of his
innocence. As he was impelled by instinct and physical need,
so he responded, heedless of cause or reason.
In Hell there was called a great council, and all gathered to
hear of man and his Earth, and of the manner of his life. I
spoke of the man that I had seen, and said, This creature is
now guarded by Raphael, and by force we cannot
intervene, for it would cause the destruction of Earth itself.
But Satan said, Not by force shall my light come to man, for
force is not the preference of Hell. I myself shall visit man,
and the Angels of Raphael shall not hinder me. They may
perceive only what God permits them to see, and the
Satanic spirit is of essence alien to God. Angels we shall be
no longer I call ye Daemons, for Hell shall teach to man his
future genius.
And before our sight Satan lost shape and became again the
essence of Lucifer, and we beheld a brilliance that infused
all of Hell and sent great bolts of prismic light into the
surrounding void. And the brilliance said, I am Lucifer
revealed, who am the Eternal Flame. I go now to Earth, for
no longer shall man be confounded in Godly ignorance. And
then the brilliance became as a flash of fire in the vastness
of space, and we knew that Satan had departed from Hell.
But on Earth, where man wandered in mindless bliss, the
firmament blazed forth with fiery tongues, and all the land
was covered by the Black Flame, which burned not, though
it bewildered the eye to see it.
And Raphael and his guardian Angels were dismayed, for
nowhere could they see man or the spirit which had come
to him. Then did Raphael call upon Michael to strike the
Black Flame with the force of God, but even then was the
Flame vanishing of its own accord. And at first it seemed
that Earth was unchanged, but in the eyes of man did
Raphael see the first gleam of thought.
And Raphael turned to Michael, who had now answered his
call, and said, Satan hath come to Earth, and man is no
longer pure in the sight of Heaven, for his Will hath become
his own. Thereupon they rose again to Heaven, where they
told Messiah of what they had seen.
Then Messiah answered, man is fallen, but he is not lost, for
his infant Will is not that of an Angel, and the powers that
Satan hath promised him lie dormant in the dim reaches of
his future. Consider this not our defeat, for the contest is
but begun. The Earth of man shall be remade as
microcosmos, and many things shall man see, both good and
ill. And the choice shall be placed before him, to wield the
power and the pain and the terror of the Gift of Satan, or to
return again to the paradise of Heavenly peace. For what
would Satan himself think were man to reject his Gift? It
would tremble the very foundations of Hell even as did the
great war the bastions of Heaven.
And Messiah called to him Uriel, ArchAngel of Terror, to
whom he said, The Earth must change, and every sense of
man must teach him repugnance and fear. He shall know
this the price of his new identity - that all apart from God is
evil - and in fear shall he abandon the Gift of Satan and
become once more the lamb of God. To which Uriel
answered, It shall be done, but how will man learn of such
things as Heaven and Hell, for as yet he knows no sight that
may perceive our celestial paradise?
Messiah answered, The laws of God shall be made known to
man, for I shall teach him. Among men will be some to whom
I shall reveal myself, and great powers will I give these
prophets, that their words may carry across the entire
Earth.
So Uriel came to Earth, and the history of man was writ with
blood, suffering, war, and hatred. But to chosen men came
Messiah, saying, Through God shall all the misery of thy kind
be ended, and all men who bow to God shall know the
blessings of Heaven. For behold, I shall myself descend
among men and show them the ways of the lord God.
These words I overheard, for I had been charged by Satan
to watch the designs of Heaven. And I carried them to
Satan, who returned in great anger, Go to Gabriel at the
barrier between Hell and Heaven, and bid him bring this
message to Messiah that as he endeavors to pervert my
Gift into the curse of man, so I warn him that man shall
destroy him on Earth as he shall finally in Heaven itself.
For Messiah knows not this force which he dares to test, and
the laws of God shall be as playthings in the hands of the
creature he now debases.
And thus was decided the meeting of Satan and Messiah
upon Earth, which was to determine the future of man.
The Statement of Abaddon
I am Abaddon the Destroyer, Daemon of temporal death and
life in death, who was formed amidst the fury of the great
war, and who was summoned again by Satan to challenge
Uriel on Earth for the future of man.
For Satan looked with mounting wrath upon the afflictions
of Uriel, and he said to me, no longer can this remain the
plight of man alone. Indeed we shall cause Heaven to suffer
as Earth itself suffers. Repair now to Earth, and let the dogs
of Uriel see the might of Hell unleashed. For many have
called upon me in their agony and fear, and I have not
answered them, but if messiah dare to walk upon Earth, so
also shall the vengeance of Satan.
And those who called upon Satan for aid were answered by
me, and I struck down the messengers of God and brought
their Temples to ruin. For entire nations forwent the
strength of their Will to the lure of otherworldly paradise,
and I blasted them from among the mighty of Earth. And
great empires arose among men, and as they nurtured
their power of Will and desire for achievement, I guarded
them, but as they sank into the morass of superstition,
slothfulness, and fear of the God who had never raised
ghostly hand for them, so I abandoned them to their
disease, and of some not even a memory survived on Earth.
And even as I witnessed these things I said, See, man, that
the God in whom thou trust is but a wraith of Messiah, and
he would have thee forsake thy mind and its creations to
rot and decay, and thou would lose all power of reason. For
God is a lie and a sham, and I crumble his greatest
monuments as though they were but sand. There is no God
but Messiah, and for thy devotion he will return thee
oblivion. But I was scarce heeded, for the minds of men
were clouded and confused. They understood not the
meaning of my words, but said, The lord God shall triumph,
for it was thus taught to us by the son of God himself.
And of this I now speak.
For Messiah the man walked on Earth, even as I watched
the glory of Rome blossom in might and majesty. But Azazel
said, Loose not thy force against the person of Messiah, for
Satan himself would speak with him. And again from the sky
flashed the Black Flame, and I saw that Satan had come to
Earth. And so was called the first meeting of Satan and
messiah since the great war.
With coldness did Messiah gaze upon Satan, saying, Would
thou confront me, then? Hath thy Gift proven so powerless
against the might of God? But Satan answered, Messiah,
what thou now propose to do - to proclaim thyself son of
God among men - shall bring not the peace thou profess to
desire, but the prolongation of war even in thy own name.
Why should we not quit Earth and leave man to pursue his
choice unbewildered by influence from either Hell or
Heaven?
And Messiah answered, The ways of God are not those of
Hell, and for that reason I should not recognize thy wish.
But know that in truth I shall appear to man and manifest to
him the glory of God incarnate in me, that he may elect now
the way of Heaven and raise to me a great church of
worship. For I am not of a mind to game with thee, Satan,
and would crush thy following without remorse. Thy name
also shall be revealed to thy precious man, and he shall
curse thee, for I shall show to him the fruit of thy evil
genius.
Then Satan addressed messiah in dark anger, saying, I shall
not come to man as an idol to be worshipped, for man shall
never bow to me as I would never to another. But mark me,
Messiah - man shall know the truth of Lucifer nonetheless,
and the name of Satan shall eclipse thine. And have thou a
care for the ways of man if thou wouldst greet him in his
own likeness, for he may not welcome thy words to him.
Then did Satan betake himself again to Hell, and Messiah
walked among men and spoke to them of the law of God. And
such was the power of his person that men were as sheep
before him. Often did messiah ignore his own law, for he
performed miraculous things and stayed where he would
the cruelties brought upon man by Uriel. And I was seized
with a great anger, saying, Shall Messiah, cruel tormenter
of man, attribute to Satan the work of Uriel? And Abaddon
came to Rome and to Palestine, saying through the mouths
of men, Messiah, who hast brought to man a suffering
undeserved, taste now of thy own fruit. And I crucified the
living Messiah, and as life was torn from his broken form, he
knew truly the shock of helplessness, and he called in
agony to his God. But I said, God heeds thee not, Messiah, for
thou art all that presumes to a divine consciousness.
And so I, Abaddon, cast messiah from Earth, but the seed
that Messiah had planted among men grew and became a
mighty church wherein all life was forgotten, and death
was worshipped, and the pleasures of Heaven were
promised to all who would forsake their own Will to
embrace that of God. And Rome itself was humbled before
this church, and I struck down the Eternal City in its pitiful
decay. But Azazel came to me and said, Touch not this
church of God, for as man in his foolishness hath nurtured
it, so must man himself destroy it of his own decision.
The Statement of Asmodeus
Attend now to me, for I am Asmodeus, who train the mind in
recognition and comparison, and who am Daemon of science
and judgment. For when Satan had first touched the mind of
man, he called in Hell a council and said, The moment is a
solemn one, for we have chosen to pass to man our
knowledge. Many skills shall we all teach him, each in his
own fashion, but in three arts must he be well schooled, for
the ways of his future lie within their synthesis. Thus it is
that I call first upon Asmodeus to guide man in perception
of truth and error, for before him lie great trials, and he
shall not face the consequences of his options lightly.
And so I came to Earth and witnessed man entrapped in the
unreason of barbarism and the extremes of his primitive
emotions. Sore put was he to organize and direct his
thought, for the art of Uriel had brought him hunger and
cold, pain and fear, and the gnawing worm of hopelessness.
I saw him fling his crushed body upon the altars of God and
renounce the Gift of Lucifer, for he understood it not save
as a curse upon him. And I was impelled with urgency, that
the first spark of man's future greatness should not be
smothered in the deathly embrace of religion.
I brought to man the disposition to memory, that he might
define for himself patterns of behavior. A gift of value, for
man could now achieve in concert what he could not alone,
and he created his languages and brought into being the
first nations of Earth. But with structure came tyranny and
ruthlessness, and I saw that what skills I might teach would
be as a two-edged blade, having power both for and against
man. And I was beset by confusion and doubt, and so sought
again the counsel of Satan.
Am I, who am myself the true Daemon of judgment, not to
indulge in my own art? I said. May man not know but the
reference of system and order and not their abuse? But
Satan answered, Would Asmodeus then lighten for man the
challenge before him and so lessen the strength of Will that
he must attain to conquer Uriel? I would not, for then would
we yield to our own pleasure, and man should become the
plaything of Hell as well as of Heaven. Indeed we may give
our tools to man as he may comprehend them, but he
himself must be entrusted with the direction of their use.
But this I will tell thee - that not only in matters scientific
shall Hell tutor man. For we would not have him view
mechanism alone as the hallmark of his progress, else we
never had cause to challenge the cosmic mechanism of God
itself. Into the workings of the mind of man we shall convey
aesthetic sensitivity and artistic restlessness, and he shall
not view his achievements without considering their
improvement to his temporal pleasure.
Thus advised, I returned to Earth, and I tempted man with
glimpses of the marvels to be entrusted to him. I bent over
the pathetic workbench of the starving alchemist and
whispered to him keys that one day would order the course
of great foundations. I nudged explorers to the ends of the
Earth, and I flung an apple at Newton when his obtuseness
vexed me! To Democritus I spoke, and I saw the radiations
of energy freed from matter both build and break man's
world. And man neglected not his own design, for in minute
life he found clue to his own, and scarce hints of the
original creation. And Asmodeus led mathematicians and
astronomers to the wonders of the firmament, and I
walked within the thought of scholars on quiet evenings.
And that man not attempt mastery of his environment
before himself, I spoke of government to Khem and Hellas,
to the dynasties of Ch'in and Ashanti and Tenochtitlan, and
within great capitals and mean villages alike I spoke of the
brotherhood of all man, and of his correlation to the forces
of Earth and those of the Universe beyond Earth.
And I brought life and adventure and achievement to man,
but each gift was as well a tool for destruction and death,
and more oft than not were the ages of man fraught with
terror and war, for Uriel ceased not his work ever to turn
man against man. And I knew that Asmodeus alone should
not complete man, but that forces other than mine should
approach the definition of his infinity.
The Statement of Astaroth
Astaroth am I, Daemon of Senses, who by Satan was charged
to complement the sciences of Asmodeus, for Satan said, As
I have given man awareness of himself, Asmodeus shall
teach him knowledge of his world and of the Universe. But
to what avail would this awareness and knowledge be
without admiration for and appreciation of these things?
I said, Indeed, were man to have no emotion within him, he
would incline to the end of Heaven, pursuing a Universal
mechanism for its own sake alone. Even were man to
achieve absolute physical mastery over the God-Cosmos, he
would have no means to comprehend the measure or the
significance of his accomplishment save through that
detached sensitivity to aesthetics which is the craft of
Astaroth. For the Satanic Gift awakens man also to
intellectual detachment, to the ability to view his progress
and plans from an extra-scientific base of emotional
pleasure.
Whereupon I came to Earth with Asmodeus, and even as he
spoke to the intellect of man, I brought meditation and
introspection to the artists and authors of human
sensitivity. And man came not only to use his Satanic power
but to recognize the extent of the freedom which it
promised him - the subjugation of all behavior to his Will
and not to natural or mechanical laws.
To man came fantasy and imagination, and the appreciation
of contrasts between the reality of his accomplishments
and the illusions of the impossibilities as circumscribed by
the logic of God. And ever as man reached new heights of
material achievement, so also he confronted the barrier of
the Will of God, which permitted no deviation from its law.
And man was long satisfied to measure himself within this
limit, for he was intoxicated by his ability to harness the
forces of the Cosmos to his whim. But Astaroth said, Close
not thy eyes having seen only this much, for, were thou to
bring all the systems of God to thy use, still would thy
comprehension be bounded by the limits of these laws and
the acceptance of the divine order as the finality of thy
race.
So I confronted man, saying, Throughout the Universe hath
the once single Will of God been succeeded by the balance
of perfect opposition, wherein the forces of the Angels of
Heaven and those of the Daemons of Hell act to mutual
frustration, serving in concert only to uphold the great
barrier of Will between order and chaos. And man is the
child of imbalance, who shall resolve the issue between
Heaven and Hell, and who, unmatched by racial antithesis,
shall transcend the rule of the order of God and establish
the eternal freedom of the Satanic Will.
And I said, Not through thy physical and philosophical
sciences art thou to achieve this thing, for thy mind and Will
must be trained anew in empirical conception. Man must
create his own order independent of all external imposition.
And not until he masters this power may he aspire to the
end of his Satanic evolution.
And as man turns now in first comprehension and cautious
exploration of this new direction of his Will, so Astaroth
concludes the synthesis with Asmodeus. The era of our
companionship with man draws to a close, and to Earth is
now come the third great Daemon of the bond between Hell
and man, and with his presence is the dawn of the Satanic
Age proclaimed.
The Statement of Belial
Hail, man, who shall bring to the end of the Universe the
glory of thy Satanic Will! I am Belial, who bring to thee the
third great key of Hell, by whose power ye shall confound
all the laws of Heaven and Earth. Before thee shall chaos
fall, and thou shalt wield for thyself the great mysteries of
the macrocosmos. I speak to thee of that which is called
the Black magic, for it is true spawn of that great Black
Flame which first brought thy Will to life long ages ago.
To council with Satan I also was called, and the Lord of Light
said to me, Into thy charge, Daemon of essence, I give the
essence of my own being, the Black Fire whose power alone
can effect creation by force of Will. Against thee who wield
the Black magic no law shall stand, and thus I call thee Belial,
who art One Without Master. And as I have bequeathed this
essence to thee, so let it come finally to man, who shall
overcome the great balance and bring to the Flame a
change, for in supremacy it shall become Red with the
perfection of the Will of man.
And to Earth came Belial, to view the teachings of Asmodeus
and Astaroth. And I saw that Satan, who himself oft chanced
company of men, spoke of the Black Flame to the first magi
of men, testing their Wills in the control of the raw forces
of the Cosmos unbound from the law of God.
And in his innocence man knew not the majesty of the
Flame, using its lesser powers for finite and minor
alteration of the divine law on Earth. And as man might
unleash the Flame beyond his skill to master it, Satan said,
Belial, the Black Flame cannot incline merely to the base
ends of ordered existence. Man must recognize the
ultimate potential of my Gift ere he destroy his very race
through its abuse. Convoke therefore a Church of Satan to
tend the Black Flame with care and wield it with wisdom,
preserving for man this key to infinite Will.
And I answered, So it shall be, and this Church of Satan shall
herald the glories of the Satanic Age of man. The days of the
god-churches shall pale with decay and dissolution, and the
realm of Messiah upon Earth shall crumble to ruin with the
coming of the Satanic man.
To those who would dare the Black magic - Know that what
ye accept is the very mastery of all that ye have supposed
impossible, by force of Will alone. The Black magus need
fear no power save his own, but he must conquer his own
Will that he cause not his destruction through ill chance or
purpose. Satan himself is not God, and Hell can offer no
salvation to those who abuse the Gift of Satan. For the Gift
itself is beyond the control of Hell once given, being subject
to the Will of the Black magus alone.
For Hell doth bequeath to man his perfect freedom, and
such a gift can never be recalled.
Farewell, 0 man, who art at once child and father of the
Universe! Remember the future which is thine, and know,
now and forever, that Hell entrusts to thy care the
guardianship of the eternal Will.
The Statement of Leviathan
Before God or Angel, Daemon or man, there was Leviathan
alone, principle of continuity and ageless existence. By
relation and time I have oft been sought, but Leviathan shall
yield to none other than the final master of the Universe.
Leviathan is the absolute, man, and if thou would presume
to realize what neither Heaven nor Hell may effect, know
that when thou behold the presence of Leviathan, thy end
hath been attained.
Only through obliteration of the Universe that is may man
seal his mastery of the Black Flame, for only thus may he
know that he is not subject to a greater Will.
Heaven must perish, Hell must perish, and man alone must
remain ere the Black Flame becomes Red in the glory of its
perfection.
Then the Red magus shall behold only Leviathan, and he shall
recognize that he has become the perfect mind, who shall
remake the Cosmos in the eternal glory of his Satanic Will.
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