BOOYAHKAH!!!
for Sunday a little bit of the Beast. But first, some thoughts on Christianity when it first originated. What do you think it meant to the people of the time, to worship an enemy of the state, executed in the manner that thieves were, who purported to preach a doctrine that was centered on man rather than the Gods? It was the ultimate in subversion, a complete reversal of values. Could half of... the benefit of such a revolution been in its nature being contra to the prevailing order? Even today however, if christians were truly to take their doctrine to the limit, abiding in love, shunning the things of this world, truly obeying the dictates of their prophet and living as the disciples did, it would still be revolutionary. But I think something will still have been lost, because the reversal of values is no longer there. The antithesis of the prevailing order which would require a person to swim up-current morally is gone.
And I imagine the slave, beaten beneath the feet of colossal, monstrous gods, veiled in riches with their burning, searing eyes forcing the minds of men into submission, seeing this new god, anathema to the ones before him, that filled him where he was weak, that drew strength from all that other world threw away, and whispered a new language in dark places, that drew strength from other men, that... took on what was broken, that had its own destiny growing; the sewers, a winding, writhing white serpent, the congealed wailings of the dead perhaps, the dark brew of thousands upon thousands of years of sacrifice bringing men and women together, creating a new man, new riddles and new mysteries. It was the vengeance of the dead spilling over into the life of the world. And I wonder if all new gods are not that as well.
Couldn't the same be said for Thelema (as described in my last two paragraphs?