{"id":3269,"date":"2016-08-01T02:58:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2016-08-01T02:58:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:58:32","slug":"what-is-the-importance-of-the-left-hand-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=3269","title":{"rendered":"What is the importance of the Left Hand Path?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0By Zelzaa Crowley<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many out there who claim to be satanist but are not truly on the Left Hand Path. \u00a0I would venture to say that many of them do not even truly know what it is. \u00a0Being on the Left Hand Path is a journey towards self-deification.<\/span><\/p>\n

BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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All gods and goddesses are truly creations of mankind. \u00a0We are our own God and our own devil. \u00a0Satanism uses satan as a symbol of the carnality of man and our obligation and duty to serve ourselves first. \u00a0Why would I want to surrender myself and deny all of my natural urges for the sake of another being?<\/span><\/p>\n

If all gods and religions were truly formed and invented by men anyway, and they were, then why not make a god from myself and exalt and glorify myself. \u00a0After all, I am the most imporant person in my world. <\/span><\/p>\n

But in order for me to realize a place where I am worthy of such self-deification I must first free myself from the bondage of past thought and dogma and free my thinking to follow after my own desires and serve myself since I am god of my own world. \u00a0This then involves acknowledging my own desires instead of abstaining from them. \u00a0For instance, if I want sex instead of abstaining from it or, worse, partaking and then beating myself up for it, \u00a0I will just simply fulfill my desire without any guilt or condemnation since I am god of my own world and I create the rules by my own desires. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe this is truly what is meant by self-deification. \u00a0Rather than serving another being, I am serving myself and pandering to my own needs and desires first. \u00a0I am ruling my own world as a god. \u00a0This can only be done after one has abandoned all faith and hope in serving or believing in any other god. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is through ritual that we come to terms with our own emotion and desires. \u00a0It is through study and meditation that we come to understand these things. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The invocations of Satan do not bring some outside, powerful, demonic force into us. \u00a0No. \u00a0It simply awakens the black flame of individuality inside of us and brings us to terms with the “dark side” of our own natures. \u00a0This is truly the essence of the LHP. \u00a0\u00a0I am my own god. \u00a0What the religious world has declared “evil” and “sin” or “satanic” I embrace as a part of my nature and no one can condemn me for it because I am not bound by their dogmatic BS. \u00a0I am my own god and I am my own devil. \u00a0Coming to terms with that is the path to self-deification. \u00a0Ave <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0By Zelzaa Crowley There are many out there who claim to be satanist but are not truly on the Left Hand Path. \u00a0I would venture to say that many of them do not even truly know what it is. \u00a0Being on the Left Hand Path is a journey towards self-deification. BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[244,24,27,29,151],"tags":[51,58,228,171],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BLIO-QJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}