>>521314I would say my understanding is more "occult" than strictly satanic, since satanism tends to reject occult themes and just reverse things (which is lavey's contention in the satanic bible, that occultists are white magicians and have no affinity for the dark arts, which lavey scarcely lays out, but references how the sinister power of a black ritual is about harnessing the "electromagnetic" suffering of a creature more than its blood. Blood magic(k) to lavey is white magic(k)). O9A is "hermetic" by this same standard, and not just a philosophy of evil (especially if you just read david myatt's work - he is more of that "trad" wholesome nazi than a black metal kind).
Only tendencies like the noctulianism/vampirism of ToB is purely satanic, and i do find appeal in this, since it is dealing with spiritual evil and not just anti-christianity. It is about the powers of darkness before and after humanity, so it is qlippothic in this way. The theory-fiction of "iron gates" for example is about a post-apocalyptic wasteland populated by absolutely evil sorcerers who churn people up to feed the dark gods. It reminds me of the masterpiece "mad god" (2021) that everyone should see. I see my mission in life as analogous to this, but in the form of dark art and poetry, where i seek to capture the "dark logos" of dionysus rather than sink into the insectoid subhumanity of cybelean priesthood (see: the roman emporer Elagabalus).
>Or is this the original pagan concept for the black sun?I would say it is a preconception of that black sun, but also my own creation, but my quest began with the sacred (infernal) geometry of "the order of the trapezoid" collaborated on by anton lavey and michael aquino (before the order became a transitionary institution to aquino's temple of set). The symbolic rite of this order is actually part of "the satanic rituals" (a text written by lavey and aquino), which describes the "9 angles" of the trapezoid, which circulate the power of darkness in a circuit of evil genius. These are the derivative "9 angles" of O9A (but anton long changes their meaning to refer to an alchemical symbol instead).
But if you look at picrel you can see how the inverted divinity is voided, but in its absence, it enters into manifestation by the elements.
Around this time i was also pondering the mystery of rebirth and connected this with the winter solstice, and how the sun dies, but is reborn 3 days later (which is traced in the resurrection of christ, and why his (re)"birthday" is christmas). This story is also tied to the myth that christ goes to hell and is rejuvenated from this experience (like dante ascending to heaven after getting to the bottom of hell - which ties in with my geometry about the origin point).
The point basically is that Hell is the power of vitality, which replenishes the sun each year through its harvesting of darkness to itself. I learned this from walter russell's "secrets of light", where he explains that all light is inverted darkness. So light comes from an inversion of darkness, like life comes from an inversion of death. This to me (in conjunction with the taurus field) showed me how darkness is the essence of existence. This primordial darkness is the black sun, and its providential purpose is to find expression in the world through dark beauty (NOT ugliness, and ugliness is black metal, which is *part* of darkness, obviously, but true darkness is tragic, not idiotic).
This is why in my hegelian way, i see the fullness of evil, given to its truth, in the satanic ritual, or a work of art, or literature. Evil has no meaning without self-relation. This is because evil is not mere *pain*, but is the gaze of *suffering* as a qualitative supplement. Evil is Abstract, and lives in Fear, and Awe, like the great Night which preceded the Titans. Evil is the vanity of Nature which must be brought into universal form.