A question arises of what does this world look like to the angels and holy souls above, in the real world?
Well, the answer is quite simple. You know that prologue, John 1:5 from the Bible?
“The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

“The Darkness”. That’s what this world is, and that is how it is known.

I think it’s one of those simple questions that have very complex answers. The religions of course claim God did, but I find this to be a lazy answer that produces more problems later on, when one tries to explain features of this world that are inconsistent with something a good God would conceivably create. Sure, it’s a philosophically elegant answer, and in a sense it is actually true – because God is the actual “hardware” this world runs on. If you touch this world deeply enough to reach beyond it, you find God. As you do, you find out that this world is nothing but a very thin veil of illusion, that paradoxically both does and doesn’t exist, at the same time. It doesn’t exist as what it purports to be, and yet it does exist as it can be perceived. So, when you scrape away the illusion of the world, the reality that is revealed beneath it is that of God.

However final this revelation seems to be, I later discovered there to be more to it. You see, at one point I found out that Sanat Kumar actually “owns” this world and seems to have designed it outright, which was quite shocking since he also turned out to be the actual person behind the aliases of Satan and Mara, in Christianity and Buddhism respectively. What was shocking to me is not the possibility that Satan designed this world, because any insight into the nature of this world would make this quite believable; however, the technical skill behind it seemed so great, and so inconsistent with what I knew of Sanat Kumar and his abilities, that I felt genuine fear, because if he’s so skilled and powerful as to do that, we must all be doomed.

Later, it was revealed that the answer is much more complex, and much less frightening. You see, God apparently created the real world, the one He would design, but for some reason it was brought up that the souls might wish to explore their creativity by making something different, and so God created an artifact I call The Jewel. I don’t actually know what it is – it feels like a normal spiritual artifact, but also like an abstraction layer, a conscious being with God’s creative power but without a will of its own – and yet not quite, as I found out. Basically, it has to execute orders of an authorized person, but he has opinions and will voice them quite clearly if he doesn’t like what you’re doing. The Christians would call him some kind of an Angel, but I don’t think that would be true, because it attempts to reduce reality into something that no longer rings true.

Of course, when God created this, it became obvious that serious problems might arise if someone used The Jewel to create something inappropriate, so someone was given the task of evaluating and authorizing all requests for use. That person, whom I internally call the Sentinel, felt more like what the Christians would imagine an Angel to feel like. No wings though, but old, wise and in service of God.

Here we encounter Sanat Kumar. The biblical story about Satan gets it completely wrong. He’s not the greatest of God’s angels; far from it. He actually feels like an inferior kind of spiritual being that looked at those above him with envy and all kinds of anger, jealousy and spite, and in his mind invented all kinds of philosophy to elevate himself and denigrate those above him – I think he was the original egalitarian, thinking that everybody should be equal in God, and not as they were in reality, where some were enormously great, while those like himself despaired as they beheld them from below. What particularly annoyed him was the fact he perceived, that those great souls he envied all seemed to bask in God’s presence and draw their power and greatness therefrom, and the thought formed in his mind: if not for the ubiquitous presence of God from which they derive their power, they would all be just like him, and if all were reduced to the same, fair playing ground, where they could not reach for God whenever they need an answer to any question or power to achieve any goal, what would they do then? And from this thought, he apparently started to form a plan, but since he himself was a being of lesser order, he lacked the power and the means to bring it to fruition. However, there happened to be just the thing he needed, and so he approached the Sentinel and asked for permission to use The Jewel to create a new world, that would equalize the playing ground between the souls, and show which ones would truly choose God when God were not obvious and ubiquitous, and in fact reality seemed to contradict and obscure it; will they still find a source of light to shine and be great, or will they be revealed as frauds, who seem to shine only when there’s abundant light around them? Will they shine in darkness as well?

The Sentinel turned his piercing insight onto Sanat Kumar, and saw his envy, jealousy, malice, hatred, and desire to be perceived as more than his actual stature, which was defined by the lowly emotions he seemed unwilling to renounce. Sanat Kumar felt that the Sentinel beheld him with pity and saw him as lowly and flawed, and his anger flared. However, the Sentinel knew that God’s plan in creating The Jewel was to allow exactly this lowly kind of beings to explore creative options in order to see why God’s original creation was in fact optimal, and why it was the way it was, and you can’t do that unless you play with “what ifs”, make something different and see why it’s not good. So, he understood that the implicit premise of it all was to allow creation of inferior worlds, by inferior minds, because a superior mind would instantly prune the tree of options, see why most of them are bad, and be left with what God originally created, and praise Him for His genius.

Pondering this, the Sentinel was inclined to approve the request, but with certain limitations. He would make the experiment temporary, because Sanat Kumar looked like someone who would create something nasty and very much opposed to God’s plans, so precautions absolutely had to be put in place. Also, everybody who was to participate had to do so willingly. Sanat Kumar also had his stipulations. He wanted to prohibit God from interfering – basically, if God wanted to do something in his world, he would have to play by his rules, if not to completely invalidate the experiment. Essentially, God was free to offer himself as an option for souls to choose, but this option could not be presented in such a way as to overwhelm and be perceived as the only possible or rational choice. Also, if the experiment is to be limited to a certain time, this time is to be kept secret.

As they almost agreed to the terms, another being appeared and addressed the Sentinel, warning him of Sanat Kumar and his designs. There were no precedents to draw experience from, but he felt great danger from this entire thing, and urged the Sentinel to reject it outright, mostly on the general principle that all that is good is derived from God, and blocking and inhibiting God’s presence, glory and power will produce outcomes that are the opposite of good, but since dark evil of the kind we later came to know never existed in the history of God’s creation up to that point, his argument was perceived as abstract and intangible, and the Sentinel basically told him to have more faith in God, because God is so great He can overcome anything. His mind was also preoccupied with something else, that he perceived as more spiritually rewarding and important than this seemingly marginal affair in which the glory of God was obscured, so he dismissed that other being’s concerns and approved Sanat Kumar’s plan and gave him limited permissions to command The Jewel to that effect.

I wish I could say that something dramatic happened, like the heavens darkening and the voice of God ominously thundering “What have you done?!?”, but I remember merely moving away with a premonition of grave impending doom.

As more and more souls got entangled into this terrible mess of a world, people started to perceive a problem, and here we come to the third creator of this world. It’s you.

You see, the world consists of three major elements. The first is the creative power of God, invoked by The Jewel. The second is the design of Sanat Kumar, limited by the terms imposed by the Sentinel, who by the way doesn’t exist anymore because he seems to have been crushed by the gravity and consequences of his sin of omission and a grave lapse in his duties, which were to prevent this exact thing from ever happening. The third major element of this world is the energy invested by the souls that come to incarnate here, and this energy powers up all kinds of traps and attractors, making it more appealing, harder to resist, and worse, the way all traps are made worse by things that make them appear more beautiful and appealing. If this place looked as nasty from the other side as it is experienced by those unfortunate enough to be trapped in it, hardly anyone would ever come here. However, fools seem to be easily convinced by either an appeal to their vanity, thinking they will succeed where countless others have failed, by a promise of spiritual evolution better and faster than what is possible in heaven, or, in case of the worst ones, by a promise of fulfillment of all kinds of desires that can’t be fulfilled in heaven, because they require limitation and absence of God. Some are even attracted by compassion, hoping to be able to rescue those previously trapped. All those attractors are powered by the energy invested by the trapped souls, who project their dreams and hopes in this place as it devours them and drinks their life away, turning it into bait for the next generation of fools.

So, to answer the initial question, this world was created by God, Satan and you.

I actually had this article on my ToDo list for months, but decided against writing it because I thought it would not be of any use to anyone, but then Robin asked me a question along those lines which obviously means that at least one person would find it useful. Oh well, I might as well write it down so that I don’t have to think about it any further.

The standard theory on how kalapas work assumes aggregation of kalapas from all kinds of sources, mostly from karmic transfers and compassion, and compression into more dense structures, a process which is very similar to what a refrigerator is doing – it compresses gas, which extracts heat from it. The spiritual analogue of heat is chaotic energy of the spiritual particles, and to compress them and remove chaos from them implies suffering, because this chaotic energy needs to be experienced by your soul and released, and here’s where up-stream kriya, the inner space and resonance techniques do their thing. Basically, they give you the tools to deal with this and not die or go crazy from the intensity of spiritual trauma, but the essential mechanism of this release of chaotic disturbance from a mass of kalapas is suffering. During this process, the question of where to get enough kalapas for the process is not something you would normally ask, because, if anything, you get more stuff on your plate than you can safely deal with, and the question is how to survive the process and undergo it safely. Essentially, the question of yogic practice and the preparation for the initiation into vajra is not even something a soul would have if it didn’t have enough “mass” to actually go through it, and at that point it’s the condition of that spiritual mass that is the problem; essentially, you are a chaotic mess and this needs to be “defragmented”, compressed and transformed. So, essentially, the issue of getting enough astral kalapas in order to undergo transformation into vajra never arises, which is why I never talked about it, having literally no reason to, since the number of people who would benefit from such a treatise is zero.

However, there’s the issue of “wielding” spiritual matter. Essentially, you can wield spiritual substance that is of a lower qualitative order than what your soul is made of. This would assume that your soul is more-less coherent, meaning that it doesn’t contain inclusions of lower energies, but let’s for the sake of argument assume a “clean” situation, and we can deal with the exceptions and complications later.

So, let’s assume your soul is made of astral matter. This means you can “wield” prana, or “work with energy” as it is usually called. If you tried to wield astral, that would end badly, because your soul would merge with the astral substance you tried to control and this would fall under the category of karmic transfer at best, if the amount you “touched” was small enough, and in the worst case your soul would lose its integrity and disperse in the larger chunk of astral substance, at which point your spiritual existence would end, at least as you know yourself.

If your soul is made of vajra, however, you can wield astral matter quite safely. You can create astral beings, you can destroy them, you can create complex astral structures, but you can’t wield vajra; basically, you can’t create a vajra object unless you somehow split your soul in two, which is something you would want to avoid at all cost, and I don’t know how that could even be done. However, at some point you evolve enough to be able to wield vajra, which means your soul substance is of an even higher order. Normally, one would be able to wield blue vajra if they attained core-density of Shivaratri, the black vajra, or the black night of Shiva, the black aspect of the “atmic level”, as this is known in some literature. I am pretty sure that the beings who evolved into the other, “white” polarity of the atmic level can also wield blue vajra, since their power level is the same, but different in a male-female way. I’m also not sure that the female Gods actually perceive this as “wielding vajra”, because from their perspective they might just exist on that level and witness blue vajra conform to their will. As I said, it’s similar to a male-female difference, and at that level you will simply recognize what’s natural for you and what feels good, and you’re also not going to be doing the same things the same way in all situations, because creating things of beauty might have different requirements than fighting evil, in a sense that one would strive to attract things to oneself, and the other will concentrate willpower in order to overcome and transform the present state.

So, let’s summarize. In order to wield a substance, you need to be initiated into a qualitative level above it, and by “initiated into” I mean “made of”. However, wielding prana and astral (citta) is pretty easy to imagine, since there’s prana and astral everywhere around us. It’s easy to imagine a compressor pulling in the air from the environment and filling a metal container. However, it’s not like there’s an abundance of vajra-matter floating around so that you can just reach out for it and will it into action, and that’s where we come to the actual point of this article. When you wield a substance, you call it into existence, ex nihilo, or ex brahman, if you will. Those kalapas were not there previously, because if so you’d have to do a karmic transfer/purification to integrate them and conform them to your will, which is a different process, one you would go through in order to grow your soul. No; if you wanted to wield vajra, vajra would manifest from the creative potential of God, which you tapped into. Basically, aspects of the Absolute would manifest in the Relative, existing at the energetic level you are able to invoke and wield.

This, of course, implies that in order to wield Shivaratri, or the white equivalent of the Goddess, you need to be made of a substance at least one qualitative level higher.

I don’t know if I can even describe what the order of magnitude of these things is, since there are no human words for any of this; I’m basically making up the language and ideas as I go. However, imagine a very big cloud of gas. That’s citta, the astral substance. Now imagine it compressed to the point where the nuclei of the gas particles touch, and the protons beta-decay into neutrons, and the entire star of normal matter is compressed into an object few meters across made of “neutronium”, where the stuff itself is actually a giant vortex of quark-gluon plasma, essentially one big neutron, only made of many quarks and gluons, and not just neutrons tightly packed together. Let’s say this is a good analogue for vajra; blue vajra specifically. That thing is already unimaginably dense and powerful, like liquid lightning with the density so great that lead and gold feel like gas in comparison, and so hard that diamond feels like air. Now imagine millions of such neutron stars compressed into a huge supermassive galactic black hole, where you need a lot of blue vajra to get even a tiny particle of Shivaratri. OK, now imagine “that something” which wields Shivaratri like it’s smoke.

Yeah. It’s not something that relates to the practical experience of many beings, which is why this is probably the most useless article I ever wrote.

Yesterday I had a reason to think about some of the presuppositions of Satanic ideology, namely Thelema (the Will). Essentially, they idolise the Will as if it were some kind of a cornerstone thing, not realising what smarter religions do instantly: that Will is merely the first derivative of one’s nature. The Buddhists would say that one’s Will, defined as a general force behind one’s desires, will be a vector sum of all the energetic momenta that make up his soul. Translated to English, after the different things that fight for supremacy within your soul cancel each other out, if there’s any of the momentum of force remaining, it will be directed at something, and you can call this remainder Will, if you like, and this vector always powers Samsara, investing energy into one’s further bondage. The Hindus would say that your Will is conditioned by both your past karma and the disorderly state of your mind, making your will essentially a result of your conditioning and limitations. This is why only God and liberated souls have free Will, while others are merely oxen bound to the plough of the forces that enslave and condition them. The Christians state this in a less analytical way, but with the same purport: a human soul is conditioned by both sin and the nature of the body, which condition the direction and quality of its will. Without God’s grace, or as they would say, without Holy Spirit, a human soul is destined to wallow in the mud of the world, being motivated by pain of existence to commit sin, which then causes further pain of existence, motivating it to further sin, until death, and without redemption such sinful soul falls into hell, which was originally meant as Gehena, which was a name of a pit outside Jerusalem where the Hebrews threw corpses of diseased cattle and other trash to rot – essentially meaning an endpoint of total destruction, death without a future or afterlife. So, essentially, what the Christians are saying is that unless the light of God is lit within one’s soul, his inner darkness and depravity will cause him to think the thoughts and do the deeds of further darkness and depravity, his nature bound in a vicious circle that ends in his doom.

So, what do I think, which of those three is right? I think they all are. All of them formulate the problem correctly, with various degrees of poeticism or mathematical exactness, where Buddhism looks like someone applied mathematical analysis to the problem, where you can literally work with vectors, matrices, function derivatives and so on, and use them to explain things, which has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is the analytical clarity that is not clouded by emotionality, and the disadvantage is that it’s easy to forget that the fundamental vector elements it’s explaining are emotional momenta of all kinds, and while this abstract interpretation is useful to an expert, a beginner who is completely bound into this snare of unclear emotions will hardly benefit from it, which makes the Hindu model more useful, and the Christian one more useful still, if you want to explain things to a complete beginner who might not care for the analytical exactness, and just wants to understand his problem and solve it. Unlike the foolish Satanists who say that this is your life, this is your Will and you need to live your life and impose your Will upon the world, in which others are either tools or obstacles, the Christianity makes a very radical statement: you are dead, rather than alive. What you see as your life and Will are merely death-throes of an empty, godless existence. Since everything that motivates your Will is either ignorance or suffering, everything you do will just shovel manure on the shitpile that is your life. The only way to get out of this doomed position is to stop trying to save yourself and impose yourself upon the world, but instead recognise your worthlessness and helplessness and reach out to God, who is the true Life, and the true Meaning, or Logos in Greek. Rather than wallow in darkness or curse it, one is saved by accepting light and meaning of God into their life, and only at this point can you truly see the darkness that was your former life; if there’s no light in your life, you can’t understand you’re in darkness, because darkness is all you know; it’s “normal”. Only after the light appears can you understand your former darkness in contrast. So, essentially, Buddhism explains things as they actually work, and Christianity explains things as they feel. Both are perfectly valid and accurate.

The further issue I have with Satanism is that it’s teenage rebellion against parental and societal authority that’s somehow codified into ideology. It’s basically a scream of a frustrated teenager who discovered that he is a person and wants to live his own life, and not be defined by external authorities. What this fails to understand is, of course, that this is not a valid model for interpreting the human condition. You are not an inherently free being that is being bound by external forces. You are an inherently conditioned being, bound by your past karma multiplied by your ignorance, and in this quagmire that defines your soul, the more energetically you move to free yourself, the deeper you sink. You are not a free being surrounded by things that limit you. You are a conditioned, ignorant and sinful being, surrounded by others of your kind, each wallowing in the mud of your inner depravity, interacting in selfish and sinful ways and causing each other further suffering and ignorance. So, basically, as much as others limit you and contribute to your suffering, you likely do the same to them, and this creates the collective mess of sin and depravity with very little redeeming light, if any.

So, the way out of this predicament is not found through attempts of emancipation or self-assertion, since that’s what everybody tries and invariably fails at, because you can’t pull yourself out of the mud by your hair. No; your salvation is not in your hands. Your salvation is possible only by identifying what light it is possible for you to perceive in your darkness, grasp at it and give it preference over whatever you think you are and over whatever you think is your Will and desires. As you feel the light and allow it to heal you, the fractures in your soul will heal, and its nature will improve, having been healed by the light of God. Your thoughts and emotions will then be more of the nature of God’s light, than of the darkness that preceded it, and, paradoxically, as you surrender your Will to God, your Will becomes more free, as conditioning upon it is removed; it’s a paradox, but the path of self-assertion and emancipation only strengthens the chains that bind you; as you let go of self, you gain insight, freedom and power, because you understand that “self” is not your miserable darkness, “self” is what you find only in God’s presence, in the light of truth, when you understand that emancipation of true self comes not from a struggle against Other, but through release from the bondage of spiritual darkness and depravity that defined your miserable existence.

So, no, you’re not a spark of light in the darkness of the world, where God is a limiting force that tries to make you conform to expectations, where you heroically rebel against bla bla bla. Nonsense. You’re a fool, ignorant and depraved, weak and cowardly, and God is the light you reject, and since this light is the necessary prerequisite of courage, heroism and virtue, you possess neither. God is not that one great being that wants to keep you small, as Satanist fools assume. No, God is the Force that can make you a Jedi. God is that greatness that makes all that embrace it great. Without God, there is nought but depravity and darkness.

So, no, Satanism isn’t a struggle of light against darkness, it’s a struggle of darkness against fictions of its own foolishness and delusion. It’s a struggle of darkness that sees the light as a terrible beast that threatens its existence and wants to dispel it, to which I say, good. Die, then, so that truth and virtue may be born.