Dominion

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves. — Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace The Lightbringer Finale of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer Lightbringer! Enlightenment! Light, illumination, knowledge! Every Luciferian associates Lucifer with enlightenment and the delivery (and deliverance) of knowledge, but most would be hard pressed to say exactly why. Our own exegesis is scant once you depart Christianity, and within Christianity, Lucifer is barely described at all, and then not consistently. Few scholars can agree whether was being described a literal being or a hateful metaphor for a king of Tyre, or Babylon, as political propaganda about them forms the core of most Christian belief. For a…

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You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.– Arthur C Clarke The Wayfinder Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer To say that no one has blazed a trail for us would be an understatement. In most of the world, the way is relatively smoothed for conformists willing to maintain the status quo, while outsiders are left to fend for themselves. There are personal and social resources that are simply unavailable to people unwilling to toe the line. In particular, religious communities look out for each other in advantageous ways, and for the crime of non-participation, we are simply excluded from any of…

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“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost The Rebel Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer [Written by Jinx Strange, from the Luciferian Dominion Patreon] More than any other time in my adult life, things feel like too much. There is so much going on, a lot of it is really bad. As a person who naturally wants to protect and provide, it’s very difficult for me to feel so out of control when so many people I love are hurting. It’s a suffocating, weightless feeling. I feel like I’m falling. A mangled King James proverb (from Proverbs, appropriately) says that “pride goeth before a…

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The species in which peace and mutual support are the rule, prosper, while the unsociable species decay. ― Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about. – Margaret J. Wheatley Community Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer Not everyone deserves our love. It would be stupid, even self-destructive to invest that kind of emotional energy without discrimination. We are not infinite being with infinite resources and we have to use discernment to know where to best apply our gifts, and love is absolutely a gift. We don’t love the pedophile. We don’t love the…

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 “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” — Bilbo Baggins Adventure Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer For the last few years, it’s felt really good to have routines. The world is chaotic and shitty, and our suite of regular comfort activities is one of the ways we soothe and feel like we have some control. The world is changing, though. That is precisely the anxiety we’re trying to escape. But we should be wary about being too comfortable, not only from a belief in…

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“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” ― Rosa Luxemburg The Liberator Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer Liberation, like Enlightenment, is a term that gets thrown around a lot in Satanist and Luciferian circles without ever managing to actually mean anything. Most of us think of liberation as being free from constraints, but the conversation tends to peter off there. Do we believe in abject unrestriction to act upon every whim? Do we believe in speech that is purposefully misleading, or designed to poison? Do we believe in freedom to shit down the well? Frankly, I don’t believe most people are responsible or considerate enough…

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If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven’t, respect by others is a necessity. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb Hail Thyself Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer First, let’s define what “hailing yourself” means to me, in this context: it is a non-judgmental, full-throated acceptance, endorsement and acknowledgment of exactly who and what you are. In Satanism, hailing something isn’t just a meek, quiet approval. It’s something you shout. It’s something you project! Hail Satan! Effusive self-praise is kind of like eating ice-cream for dinner; sometimes it’s a necessary morale booster, but it just feels like bad advice to give someone. You’re going…

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Home is where the heart is. — Pliny the Elder Sanctuary Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer With the caveat that no harm is done to people or ecology, we believe that everyone is entitled to sovereign space to keep their ways and provide for themselves as best they are able. Of course, no such entitlement exists under capitalism, where people are farmed like livestock and must “earn” their right to shelter through wealth generation, an intentional product of land enclosure. Be as that may, we believe that sacred space should be established in every kind of living arrangement that nourishes the soul. Human beings need periods of peace…

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O, Death! O, Death! Won’t you spare me over til another year Well what is this that I can’t see With ice cold hands takin’ hold of me Well I am death, none can excel I’ll open the door to heaven or hell Whoa, death someone would pray Could you wait to call me another day — Lloyd Stanley, O, Death, Appalachian dirge Death Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer In the United States, death has been removed from its place in the natural life cycle. Like anything that can be under capitalism, it has been alienated and commodified. Like most of human civilization, the wealthy are affording lavish…

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Half gods are worshiped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Blood Part of the 2022 Advent of Lucifer Blood is the ultimate expression of life force. Your blood is the ultimate expression of you – it contains your whole story. Where you’ve been, where you’re going. Your DNA. Your health, past, present, and future.Taste a drop of someone’s blood and you might learn how they will die, if you speak the language. We use it to seal the most solemn of pacts because blood always comes at a price. Blood isn’t merely transactional, however, and it isn’t really just about…

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