There has been a silent coup and it has been turned into a bland neo-pagan financial racket with nothing particularly interesting or unique to say. Its a shame.
Though i no longer consider myself a Satanist, I have tremendous respect for Maxine as an actual occultist. Her work on astrology alone was world class. I dont understand why the Joyofsatan, the legacy of an actual lifelong occult mission by one genius (Maxine) has been hijacked in such a way. Can these people not go and create their own website and their own work instead of parasitising the work of another? Such neo-pagan organisations are everywhere already. Dissent has been quashed and sycophants have been exalted, and every sermon is some variation of a bland, uninteresting and unuseful motivational speech, topped off with a demand for money backed by the gods themselves! "Bro, buy my course and you will unlock the super secret vibration which will give you infinity powers! Its just like the system of initiation in Eleusis, except your rank entirely depends on how much money you make me!"
Lame.
Nothing of the sort. The idea of Satanism that most people believe in, resides in an anti-christian movement that emerged around 70 years ago, which I had written about in a short post here.
Many people and even among our own on the forums here who are attached to the Joy of Satan identity seem to forget, or not be aware of the context upon which the movement of Satanism has developed globally in the last 5-6 decades. Starting from the 1950s a widespread movement of "rebellion"...
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Zevism and Temple of Zeus are a lot closer to the ancient and original Satanism, and is completely separated from all the lies that the Yehuborim made against Satan and the Gods. This has always been our purpose from the beginning, to restore the ancient religion of humanity and also to demonstrate to everybody that it has nothing to do with the abrahamic religions, which High Priestess Maxine had started and we are continuing.
The "Satanism" that Lavey had created has a lot in common with christianity and he never intended to show the world the truth about the Gods, he only created a movement and a trend that opposed the christian norms and code at the time. High Priestess Maxine has drawn some inspirations in terms of design etc. but she went a step further and exposed that Satan and the Demons are not what the Yehuborim say they are and that they do not originate in christianity as "evil beings opposed to God".
However is it enough to change the perception of an entire planet about the Gods? For most people outside, Joy of Satan was no different than any other type of Satanism, and all other types of Satanism are just distorsions and variations of Lavey's "upside-down christianity" movement. Most people think of Satanism and Satanists as "sketchy, non-conformist, weird drug addicts who listen to rock and heavy metal". We have absolutely nothing to do with that and merely saying it is not enough to change a global stereotype.
We know Satan is Zeus but we also know Satan is Enki, Apollo, Zamolxis, Indra, Odin, Marduk, Thor etc. We need to show the world that christianity was a corruption and a reversal of much older religions that followed the same Gods under different identities, not the other way around. How can we do this in the best way possible? By presenting ourselves as a unification of all ancient cultures, where the Gods can be represented in front of the entire world under one flag.
A lot of "nostalgic" people may disagree but Temple of Zeus is a step in the correct direction and all the developments going on bring us closer and closer to an image and an identity that people will accept and acknowledge as legitimate and real, otherwise we are not going to succeed to take the world back from enemy hands. This warfare doesn't only consist of doing rituals from the comfort of your home, but in order to allow the Gods to manifest fully, we must create something that will draw as many people as possible towards the Gods.
If we are only to do rituals and RTRs we might succeed in 100-200 years but we do not have this time at our disposal.