The satanic element

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“I’m different from everyone else” and then all Hell breaks loose. Or just a bit of Hell, depending on just how special we are.

Regular commenter Llama writes recently: “Someone thought it would be funny to shit on my career plans and my plans to help other people.” This may be a baffling experience, but not all that uncommon. I know Kristi has been through this with alarming regularity as well. So this seems a great occasion to revisit the concept of the General Law which personifies as Satan.

Mouravieff is the one who calls it the General Law, a concept that is unfortunately hard to Google since the first thousand pages will probably be filled with lawyers. But it represents the force that keeps the world spiritually asleep. It can be seen at its best as a form of inertia that keeps people in place so they don’t break formation. The saint and the loony are both constrained by the same force, and it is not always easy for the casual bystander to say who is who. Whenever someone steps out of row, rocks the boat, changes course or speed compared to the world around him, the General Law kicks in. This is what it does at its best, rounds up the strays.

But when a person begins to accumulate Light, the General Law personifies as Satan (a name that means Adversary). It can adversely affect us either internally or externally. Internally it amplifies temptations, stirs up thoughts and emotions that seem to come from nowhere and ignore our attempts of control, makes us sensitive to pain and makes us feel heavy and tired. (This comes in addition to any medical conditions we may have – don’t ignore those. Life is short enough as is and the path is long.) We may even feel revulsion at the thought of spiritual exercise, a pretty clear sign that the Adversary is at work.

Externally, the Adverse element stirs up people of a suitable disposition and makes them single us out for attack. They are of course not aware who or what is controlling them, they just have a vague feeling that we are troublemakers and don’t know our place. This is indeed exactly what happens: We are leaving our place as passive pawns in society (a role that is valuable in a certain perspective, actually, but which stands in the way of Awakening). Those who act on behalf of the Adverse element will feel a deep sense of satisfaction in making trouble for us, as if from a job well done. Jesus Christ put it this way: “There will come a time when everyone who kills you think he does God a service that way.” This came to pass during the rapid expansion of early Christianity, one of the more disruptive forces of its age. It could happen again, but for most of us in this era it doesn’t go that far. It is not restricted to Christians either; this is a General Law, after all.

And yes, this means that if you are among those who sometimes take a pleasure in putting people in their place, you may at those times be the handyman of the Adversary. This could happen to anyone, but it is not something to aspire to, although someone will end up doing it. As Jesus Christ says: “Woe to the world because of snares! For there must be snares, but woe to the person who sets the snare!” The snares are there to keep people stuck in place, so they don’t leave their place in the lattice.

By now we have a pretty clear idea what is going on with our reader. He is rocking the boat, stepping out of line, having ambitions we did not tell him to have. He must be put in his place. Let the shitting commence!

This General Law is why throughout the ages, men of an esoteric bent have become hermits, unless or until they have a specific task they must do to help others. They stay hidden as long as reasonably possible. Actually this is not the first: At first they will tell everyone, but reaching a certain stage of knowledge, they tend to go underground to reduce the backlash as much as possible. To come back to my hero Jesus Christ, the gospels mention him impressing people at the age of 12, when he could kind of get away with it. Then he disappears from view until he is 30! There are innumerable legends of what he may have done during that time, but from an esoteric point of view it is overwhelmingly likely that he stayed hidden in plain sight, spending his time and energy inwardly without giving away any hints of who or what he was.

Of course, once you begin to help people, there is no hiding anymore. That’s when all that hidden preparation pays off. Or so I have been told. I, after all, am just some guy playing The Sims and eating yogurt. If you want to know the Truth, you can’t avoid going to your own heart and asking there for advice.

10 thoughts on “The satanic element

  1. What do you make of Cantor’s argument for God? Only one that actually makes sense that does not involve pantheism. Amazing that stuff like this does not enter the popular conciousness.
    I’ve become extremely jaded and frustrated over the years.

    • That’s an excellent blog post! With blogs like that, there is really no need for me to explain these things. Anyway, as I said, if we take it upon ourselves to put others in their place, we become handymen of the Adversary, the constraining force. This is the opposite of the aspiration to empower people for all future. If we don’t put these people in their place, they will no doubt go about their own imaginary job of putting other people in their place… but still, we have avoided becoming tools of the demonic force, and that’s bound to be a good thing in itself.

  2. I need a solution to the situation I am in. I really feel fucked. I was told to contact you in meditation. I feel helpless and drained.

    I feel hateful towards almost all humans.

    • Dude, you’re talking to the guy who was actively training and planning to kill his evil demonic classmates for the good of all mankind, to rid the world of their evil demonic presence. Until the day I saw the light, and the light told me: “Nobody else can lift your hand”. So instead of thinking about what they had done to me, I started thinking about what I should do with my body and my life while I had them.

      A long time later, one of my arch-enemies from back then killed himself. By then, I was living in a brightness my younger self could not have imagined. Our path diverged on that day, when I realized that these other guys were outside me and could not command my neural circuits. The responsibility was mine alone. I have made many mistakes since, but I never forgot completely, and over time the truth became more obvious and brighter. Meanwhile, the delusions of my former enemies also became stronger, and darker. One path ending in despair, another… well, it hasn’t ended yet, but it is growing brighter and brighter.

  3. I feel like I am well enough to not have my problems Get taken seriously but still unwell enough to do anything.

    I feel like If I don’t Get back at these people then they will simply attempt it again.

    I feel horrible.

    My life has been nothing but grief since I was born.

    The situation I am in seems so ambiguous and I don’t know what to do!

  4. I wish you well, Llama. That isn’t worth much, I’m sure, but I wanted to tell you that. You’ve also done well finding Magnus. He is a good and sensible person, and a good friend to have on your side. God bless you.

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