Is Astarte Left Hand Path?

[NewAgePrincess]

I have heard her described as the queen of heaven. But she is a ferocious Goddess of fertility, sex, and war.

She is strongly in opposition to Yaweh, Jesus, even saint Mary from my experience with her

So I think that she is counter demiurgic. Or is there no concept of a thing as demiurge in those old Pantheons and is that a stretch?
Also I know a lot of LHP people grab deities from random Pantheons and religion without full comprehending what they are getting into. I just let deities approach me and my needs.

 

[Wintruz]

I have heard her described as the queen of heaven. But she is a ferocious Goddess of fertility, sex, and war.

She is strongly in opposition to Yaweh, Jesus, even saint Mary from my experience with her

So I think that she is counter demiurgic. Or is there no concept of a thing as demiurge in those old Pantheons and is that a stretch?
Also I know a lot of LHP people grab deities from random Pantheons and religion without full comprehending what they are getting into. I just let deities approach me and my needs.

Yes, and in fact, in some ways, this is the really esoteric, hidden side of the Left Hand Path.

Various manifestations of this spiritual power are honoured by serious initiates. Kali (probably the oldest/darkest manifestation of this presence), Ishtar, Aphrodite, Venus and Crowley's Babalon are all prominent. However, because what She represents is highly personal and individually approached, She isn't as well attested to in the language-based systematisation of the Left Hand Path as the Prince of Darkness. Exceptions are Crowley's emphasis on Babalon (his writing is not able to get beyond his own female-neuroses though so he brings all of that baggage), Jack Parson's obsession with that same principle and the Schrecks' Demons of the Flesh book which shows the pre-figuring of the Babalon archetype in pagan goddesses and their relevance for the Left Hand Path.

One way into an initiated understanding of this is to conceive of the Prince of Darkness as Isolate Intelligence. Astarte (interestingly, the late Hellenic Egyptians conceived of Her as a consort of Set), is then the use of pleasure to expand and transform consciousness. There are many layers to this. Consider the name "Babylon" as "Gateway" and the connection between this and the physical apparatus of women. She is, in a certain sense, ecstasy incarnate. The homoerotic Greeks (and, through them, the Romans) gave this ecstasy role to Dionysus because it was thought that ecstasy was purer when the sex wasn't tied to reproduction - so this aspect isn't as prominent in Aphrodite and Venus as it is in the Levantine manifestations.

 

[OberonFromTheHills]

Spirits are neither that or that. As you mention she has so many aspects. Some of them definitely evolved to become Mary The Queen of Heaven and others not.

You might be in contact with one/many aspects of her that weren't "canon" to Mary's birth. That doesn't mean some other aspects aren't in Mary either.

You can also tell with the demon called "Astaroth." People recorded encounter a succubus like entity similar to the goddess in her queen of prostitutes. Other had a male like figure that represent the lower side of Jupiter.

 

[NewAgePrincess]

kali is my mommy

 

[Xag9]

Absolutely she does.

She is demonised thus demonic derived as independent manifestations of her whole being for example astaroth who is derived from ashtoreth.

Another example is the demon Beleth who acts as an independent manifestation of the title mistress which exactly what the name belet means.

 

[Mars]

Do you even know what left hand (wet) path actually means?

Divine feminine is a statute of the ars regia. Not a pick me from one of its paths.

 

[IllusiveOwl]

(wet)

I am so profoundly curious, can you elaborate on this?

 

[Mars]

Term for the left hand path.

Theres other paths beside the left (wet) and the right (dry). Theres also the direct (radical/ fire/ venus) path. It's what I'm doing.

Then there is the path of breath (pranajama/ air) or path of blood (earth).

Its just different ways for the same. Like how theres different ways to solve a mathematical formula. Or to code a function for a program. As above so below.