The idea of Salvation comes, I believe, from the one whom suffering breaks apart. He who masters it, on the contrary, needs to be broken, to proceed on the path toward the rupture.-Georges Bataille, Inner Experience Within some cleft of history emerged the fallenness of humanity. First we become aware of impersonal minds, entities, abstract…
Tag: theology
Hypostatic Struggle in Scorsese’s Last Temptation of Christ
Another episode of A Satanist Goes to the Movies. As I mentioned in the episode on Hitchcock’s Rope, this is a project I’ve been wanting to do for a while, a look at the religious themes in the films of Martin Scorsese and in particular at a trilogy of films, The Last Temptation of Christ,…
Judas
The story of Judas may have been the first thing I noticed about Christianity that didn’t quite add up.
Entering the Circle: Towards a Satanic Theology
Ever since I transitioned this project from being primarily a blog to being primarily a podcast, I’ve been using the tagline, “Exploring the Bible, Christianity, and other religions and sacred texts through the lens of Satanism in order to reinvent religion for myself.” Aside from some of the early creative and constructive work, I’ve mostly emphasized the exploration part of that tagline, but this episode and the next will be focusing more on the invention aspect. My intention here is to construct a sketch of a Satanic theology, and to that end, I’ll be discussing what theology means, both in general and in relation to the specific source I’ll be drawing from; discussing some of the potential qualities that a Satanic theology would have; and offering some preliminary results. A proper and complete Satanic theology would be better suited to something the length of a book, and perhaps that’s a book that I’ll write one day, but given the space available to me here, I’ll have to confine myself to a more limited collection of ideas. I’ll also be introducing the approach I’ll be taking next episode, which will likewise be a theology, but a very different one and much more experimental in character.