Writer: Hoku Lani
Subject: Satanic Truth
Link: MEWE / 11.04.2023
Satanic Truth
Is Satan real? This is a question often asked and not so easily answered. He is as real as El, Eloah, Elohim, or El Shaddai. In the earliest Hebraic traditions, this deity was named “El” and this was also the name of the basis of Abrahamic religions. El had a Divine wife, the Goddess Athirat of fertility. When the name YHWH, or Yahweh, came to be used to denote the primary god of Israel, Athirat was Asherah whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel.
LILITH
Because the understanding of Lilith most likely derived from Asterah/Istahar’s escape from the Nephilim, this would constitute a link between Lilith, Istahar, and lastly, Innana/Ishtar. The name Asterah, obviously relates to Asherah, The Hebrew’s queen of heaven, which was a take on older Sumerian beliefs of Inanna or Istar. This is evidence that old Sumerian beliefs and folk legends were eventually adapted to create Istahar/Asterah and subsequently, Lilith. There are also some similarities between.
GNOSTIC
An additional layer of confusion is found before this. We look at the Gnostics, who also separate the inferior god of creation from the superior god of redemption. The supreme god dwelt in unapproachable splendor in this spiritual world, and had no dealings with the world of matter. Matter was the creation of an inferior being, the Demiurge.
He, along with his aides the archōns, kept mankind imprisoned within their material existence, and barred the path of individual souls trying to ascend to the spirit world after death. Not even this possibility was open to everyone, however. For only those who possessed a divine spark (pneuma) could hope to escape from their corporeal existence.
Even those possessing such a spark did not have an automatic escape, for they needed to receive the enlightenment of Gnosis before they could become aware of their own spiritual condition.
JESUS MYTH
In most of the Gnostic systems this enlightenment is the work of a divine redeemer, who descends from the spiritual world in disguise and is often equated with the fictional Character Jesus, a man who allegedly performed miracles while followed around by twelve guys, that never bothered to record any miracles at the time?
It took some 70 to 90 years after the character’s crucifixion, a Roman penalty reserved mostly for rebels and insurgents, to write anything. Therefore I say God, and this character is equivalent to Satan. Unfortunately one may believe God doesn’t exist and Satan does, but this is somewhat muddled thinking. In short, if God is not real, how is that Satan is real?