What To Say To A Seeker by Wendyinthemist – Non-Fiction

What to say to a seeker after Satan when so much material is sitting on shelves and seen on sites on the internet and elsewhere saying that there way is the best way to satisfy the success you seek.

I am rightly criticized when one tells me my Tumblr fails when it comes to sharing the mechanics necessary to follow the Dark Lord. This was brought to my attention tonight in a back-and-forth exchange of messages with a follower.

I have to agree. I am not Wicca’s Gerald Gardner, who I have read and who is seen as a guru among gurus when it comes to witchery within and without Wicca though today some would disagree for any number of reasons.

Why is that?

I have over and over shared my propensity toward the simple when it comes to approach. Allow me to compare it to a mission trip I went on where our church was one of a number who were contributing toward the purchase of a church in the former Soviet Union. When we considered their plans and the costs, I was surprised by what they expected and wanted. For you see,  they felt that in order to be effective they needed a structure similar to area Russian Orthodox Cathedrals.

It was a “Culture,” thing for them. Personally, I wondered about the Christian God and what he thought. And I see the same with the Dark Lord. What stands out to me is pagan religions had great temples but in all the world until Christianity, the Judeo-Christian God was worshiped in one place, Jerusalem.

What I know now is churches are built often for the vanity of men who most often have the best intentions to glorify God and want structures to keep us focused on “The above.”  But is that what he truly wants, this Judeo-Christian yahweh? Doing good and meeting these needs costs cash and all of us have different priorities.

Its easily said the same occurs with satanists today and among the witches where the trappings of the Christian church and other religions are intermixed. What has happened and is happening is we criticize the revealed religions while at the same time adapting to them.

I have recently taken to asking why the Satanic Temple has an idol when they don’t believe in Satan or the Supernatural and the head is a goat, etc, when none of that plays into their non-theology. What is sad is so many follow and find themselves feeling like fools when they realize what is happening.

And too many who are trying to or want to follow Satan want to see the nudes on the altar and participate in all manner of orgies as seen in photos from the Church of Satan and it’s leader, Anton LaVey, who, like the Temple advanced everything under the guise of Satan and satanism but believed in none of it, creating a convoluted non-theology (they don’t believe in a god much less God) which calls for all to pray to nothing for something when there is nothing to get something from.

And those that want to follow the biblical Satan have problems, as least in my mind, since how can a created being be deity when deity does the creating and Satan is supposed to be deity but if he is the biblical Satan he is created.

Then, a rehashing of my old concerns. I am created as I am with a mind and with senses and things sensual and sexual are an everyday part of who I am because I am created this way. Never perfect, born in sin, live in sin, die in sin, spend the greater part of the afterlife in purgatory if I’m a Catholic.

And never sure of when I will arrive at my final destination while others hold that the degree of happiness I will receive in paradise is based on how good I was on earth when that is impossible in the first place because even when I pray for forgiveness and it is granted, the sins still come because I can be sinning while I pray for forgiveness because my prayers are seen as selfish or I may not be sincere enough.

I’m just going through the motions. I can’t win even in death. The theologians can’t agree on crap. I know. I’m married to one. From seminary until today I have listened to him and others and even me arguing the fine points of Christian thought and no one really agrees. We are drowning in information and starving for wisdom.

I’m certainly not wise but I take this moment to reclaim and repeat what I find works for me and that is the Dark Lord comes from the mists of prehistory and simple belief under-girds what it is to know him and have a relationship with him.

I look to the past and common sense to “See him” and how he “Relates” and find that he demands belief but not necessarily all the trappings that we see in the occult and in religion unless we feel comfort in using them. But that opens us up to asking:

Does “Doing the rituals,” keep us focused on belief or is it simply going through the motions. Again, that is something that is known only to the follower. And all of us are at different places on the left hand path where we can end up losing ground as we deal with life issues, etc, in that relationship or at least feel we do.

For me, the key is the relationship and I feel free to acquire and require those ritual acts, etc, I choose to use out of a sense of honoring and relating to the Dark Lord.   What I do and how I worship can be discovered by reading my articles about me and worship and the Dark Lord. If someone wants instruction on the “Involved,” aspects of worship and daily relating to the Dark Lord, whatever I share will be upstaged by others and there is a wealth of information out there already.

But these are like diets and everyone has one that worked for her. Realize I am talking to myself here. Maybe I need to write a brief treatise on Wendy’s Way to Worship  or  Wendy’s Road to a Right Relationship with the Dark Lord with steps one through ten. One can say I’m being facetious but I am not.

Why can’t there be Wicked Wendy’s Simple Steps to Satan? Maybe because everyone’s journey is different and there will always be someone coming up with what they advance as  a or the “Better way.” These weren’t the focus of this Tumblr. Here I simply share my thoughts with me in hope they will encourage others to find their own way. I know who I believe in.