[Help] What is "Anti-Cosmic Satanism"?

[stalkinghyena]

I have to admit, I am a bit stumped. The term "anti-cosmic Satanism" has been popping up in my peripheral awareness this past week. It can't possibly be a new thing, but I am certain no one was ever dragged to the stake over it, so it can't be a very old thing either. So what is this thing, and what does it do?

 

[Adelina]

This term appeared in 1990s, it was used by Order which named itself "Temple of Black Light" which later transformed into "Templum Falcis Cruentis". The prominent figure in that Order was Niamarad Az Azaerate - 218. Their first public work was "Liber Azerate". You might want to read it yourself as it is quite explanatory on what all this Anti-Cosmic Satanism is about.

 

[voidcat]

I don't understand it much but it seems to be a gnostic take on Satanism. There seems to be a belief of the cosmic order of creation to be a lie and chaos to be truth. That true freedom is found in the chaos which existed before creation. It's also called chaos gnosticism. Reminds me of thursatru a path created from Norse mythology.

 

[Parallax]

So

This term appeared in 1990s, it was used by Order which named itself "Temple of Black Light" which later transformed into "Templum Falcis Cruentis". The prominent figure in that Order was Niamarad Az Azaerate - 218. Their first public work was "Liber Azerate". You might want to read it yourself as it is quite explanatory on what all this Anti-Cosmic Satanism is about.

the temple evolved into templum falcons crentis?
I do want to see where it headed.
Ixaxaar sells the books like the liber falxifer and did sell a few sitra achra editions.

 

[Xingtian]

Yeah from what I read of the public writings, it is basically a modern attempt to construct something like Sethian Gnosticism but with all the cool trappings of modern Satanism a la 90’s black metal. There are other influences. At least one of the rituals I read was clearly mimicking Tantric Buddhist deity yoga. It generally felt kind of amateurish to me, like “let’s see how much gnarly scary stuff I can mash together in one religion.” It felt like it was trying to give some ideological weight to the various boneheaded and self-destructive acts the black metal kids were infamous for in the 90’s. I first heard about them when Jon Nodtveidt of the black metal band Dissection (himself imprisoned after a a stupid murder) was talking about them in interviews and framed his music as a presentation of this “anti-cosmic Satanism” (I believe it was called the Misanthropic Luciferian Order at the time). After he got out of prison Nodtveidt released the final album Reinkaos, the lyrics of which were written by the Liber Azerate author (IMO it wasn’t very good). Shortly after he committed ritual suicide which I guess is supposed to be a supreme expression of free will and nobility of spirit.

 

[Parallax]

I think it takes influence from thelema, which of course is just the compilation of different techniques and such as needed for the individuals spiritual pursuits.
Channeling the energies of the current is legit.
I definitely think the TOBL Sitra achra is a superior energy compared to say something like asenath masons qlippoth system.

Yeah from what I read of the public writings, it is basically a modern attempt to construct something like Sethian Gnosticism but with all the cool trappings of modern Satanism a la 90’s black metal. There are other influences. At least one of the rituals I read was clearly mimicking Tantric Buddhist deity yoga. It generally felt kind of amateurish to me, like “let’s see how much gnarly scary stuff I can mash together in one religion.” It felt like it was trying to give some ideological weight to the various boneheaded and self-destructive acts the black metal kids were infamous for in the 90’s. I first heard about them when Jon Nodtveidt of the black metal band Dissection (himself imprisoned after a a stupid murder) was talking about them in interviews and framed his music as a presentation of this “anti-cosmic Satanism” (I believe it was called the Misanthropic Luciferian Order at the time). After he got out of prison Nodtveidt released the final album Reinkaos, the lyrics of which were written by the Liber Azerate author (IMO it wasn’t very good). Shortly after he committed ritual suicide which I guess is supposed to be a supreme expression of free will and nobility of spirit.

 

[Amur]

Anti-cosmic sounds a bit dumb since all the planetary spheres and hexagram operations are from unity itself.

**Just my 2 cents of it.

 

[Xingtian]

Anti-cosmic sounds a bit dumb since all the planetary spheres and hexagram operations are from unity itself.

**Just my 2 cents of it.

Yeah I think Plotinus et al would agree. But everyone has to struggle with the question of why there is suffering/ evil, and there was a trend in some late antique religious currents to see the cosmos as a prison and the planets as the prison wardens. I’ve always found this perspective fascinating but can’t quite grasp how someone could hold to it and function in the world. I guess Jon Nödtveidt had one answer to that!

 

[Xenophon]

Yeah I think Plotinus et al would agree. But everyone has to struggle with the question of why there is suffering/ evil, and there was a trend in some late antique religious currents to see the cosmos as a prison and the planets as the prison wardens. I’ve always found this perspective fascinating but can’t quite grasp how someone could hold to it and function in the world. I guess Jon Nödtveidt had one answer to that!

Actually, it's very simple. One looks for a way out of the prison while living a cover story. Read Nimrod De Rosario's, "Gnostic Fragments."