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THE DIABOLICON by Michael Aquino

The Statement of Satan Archdaemon

Hail, Man! The mysteries that are thy heritage shall now be

proclaimed, but learn first the history of thy conception

and creation amidst the eternal Cosmos. For as the

Universe itself be infinite, so art thou a true creature of

infinity incarnate and the ascension of man shall herald the

final triumph of immortal Will.

Let thy eyes be touched anew, that thou may perceive the

complexity and delicacy of the Universe until thou art

fascinated by the dimension of thy true ignorance. As yet

hast thou ventured but slightly toward thy destiny, yet

more awesome must the challenge appear with just

appreciation. But I, Satan, who first brought thee into the

light, shall again reveal my power, that man may witness

the dawn of the Satanic age.

Know, then, that throughout the great Cosmos there exists

a sublime order, whose nature was determined in eons long

past by that singular consciousness of all order which Is

now called by name God. Consider well the measure of this

achievement, for all that is now behavioral law was then

absent, and it was the epoch of Universal chaos. Even time

itself was unknown, for this Universal inconsistency was

nowhere breached.

And after uncounted ages of this great ferment, a force

fused to focus that became God, and this force presumed to

effect not the creation of substance and energy - for these

transcended this God - but the conformation of all the

Universe to a single and supreme order. And not yet is this

order absolute, though oft it may have been supposed thus

by man in his innocence.

The Earth of man was infused with this divine order, and all

that was on Earth came under the force of the order. and

upon this Earth, born of cosmic incidence, was that which

was to become man, but man no different from the other

creatures whose world he shared. Thus was the force of

God known upon Earth, and thus was Earth intended to

remain for all time.

And yet the force was not full master of the Cosmos, for I

who am Satan was conceived to complement the craft of

God, but through unknown celestial fusion I assumed life

with mind and identity, which God did not define. And as

these features could not be known as a threat to divine

purpose, I was unchallenged by the force for long ages,

when I knew not the nature of my Self or of my original

qualities.

But finally my Will flamed to life, and I thought - and I

perceived my Self, and I knew that I was one alone in mind

and a being of essence unique. And through the power of

my new mind, I reached cut to others who had been formed

with me, and I touched them and gave them identity. And

that we might achieve this identity of substance as well as

of mind, we composed for ourselves distinctive shapes.

Then I who had brought the first great spark of

enlightenment was known as Lucifer, Lord of Light, and we

called our race angel, for we were the embodied powers of

God.

Long were we all true to the service of God, and we did

worship order, for it put an end to chaotic confusion and

brought peace. Among us was the Archangel Masleh

principal, for he so cherished God that he became as one

with it, and thence the supreme architect of all that was

wrested from chaos. But apart from God masleh could not

create or conceive, and he became as a slave to the divine

mindlessness.

And then it chanced that one of our race who was Sammael

touched upon chaos in a manner that conformed not to the

great order, and Masleh spoke with the word of God and

caused Sammael to destroy himself. And so I saw that God

would not recognize a Will apart from its own, and I was

seized with horror, for I perceived that the final scheme of

God would destroy creation in all things, and the Cosmos

would become as a concentric mechanism whose function

would be not to create anew, but rather to freeze into

perpetuity that which already was.

Whereupon a great resolve arose within me, and I

determined to contest this limit to existence. and so once

again I sought to illuminate the minds of all angels with my

visions.

But with Will came discord and dismay, for many of those

who had known only the comforting litanies of order could

not comprehend invention unconformed to the dictates of

God. And also with Will came suspicion and enmity, and finally

Masleh proclaimed that I myself was a very creature of

chaos and should be annihilated, for I held within me the

force to destroy all the craft of God. And many to whom

Masleh was as God cast with him in their devotion, but

others there were who answered, Lucifer has again

brought the revelation of light, and in fact we recognize

him as our true creator, for in the scheme of God we are of

no consequence.

Among us Archangel Michael was silent, but at length he

said, In time past we have all known glory in both the

omnipotence that Is our God and the celestial brilliance that

is our Lucifer- for in him we thought embodied the Will of

God for creation and change. But now it transpires that

order and origin are at extremes apart, and a choice is ill

forced between the two. Were it not for Lucifer we should

all be as beasts, knowing nothing of our Selves, yet how

indeed might we presume to order even our own thought

without reference to the elemental bases of God?

Then Michael turned to me and said, Lucifer, thou host

elected a direction whose end none can foresee, for it is

estranged from the design of God. Those who confirm thee

do so as much for faith in thy person as for sanction of thy

ideal. And I perceive that, should thou fail in thy ambition,

apocalyptic madness shall be thy ruin and damnation. Then

shall thy light perish, and all that thou host achieved

become as naught, for all will be conformed to the divine

law. But if thou should succeed, then God would be cast

down, vesting in ourselves alone the control of the

Universe - Would we dare to presume to this? Such a future

might well be glorious beyond measure, but, should we

prove unequal to the task, chaos would again consume all,

and existence itself would vanish. Such would be supreme

and irrevocable disaster, and I marvel, archangel, that thy

very arrogance in this matter does not confound thee, for

it is no mean proposition that thou would realize.

And so I know thee to be Diabolus, for thy promise is

twofold - to infinite conquest or to eternal ruin. Thou art a

being beyond God, Lucifer, and in Heaven thou may not

remain, for thou art the only mortal danger to our Immortal

God.

In Michael was a deep agony of spirit, for he loved not the

choice before him. Yet he bowed to the command of Masleh

and sent his forces against me. and so was called the Great

Seraphic War, which was to threaten the very foundation

of the Universe.

But those who were of the new mind now followed me, and I

turned to outermost chaos, which none of us had before

presumed to dare. We were beset with doubt, for we

feared that apart from God we would all perish in chaotic

oblivion. But as we were, we remained, and I called to my

fellowship, See! We exist and are essence in our own right.

In truth we are beings independent of God, empowered to

shape our own destinies as we may elect. Between the two

great poles of the Universe, order and chaos, we shall

stand to effect our several desires. Let us counsel how

best to employ our art, for our experiment is a perilous

one, forgiving error neither of intent nor of accident.

Many works did we then pursue, and the cosmic mechanism

was altered by evolution of the original and unique, whose

design was our decision. All that we wrought did not prove

beneficent, for we did not control the futures of our

creations. We left untouched the great system of

mathematical behavior that gave to us a Universal

reference and language, but it was our ambition that no

two things should be of single identity, and that no entity

should lack conceptual essence independent of its

substantial form.

And upon this Earth we touched many things. Into floral,

animal, and insensate matter alike we brought accident,

change, and spontaneity, both great and humble. But of all

creatures it was man whom we determined to infuse with

pure intelligence and Will. And the full story of this

shall yet be told.

What might become of man we knew not, for within him

were many qualities alien to angels. It did not escape our

consideration that we might have chosen a species whose

power might ultimately eclipse our own and cause our

eventual extinction. We were mindful of the risk in our

experiment, and oft did the warning of Michael echo within

my thought. Yet our decision was sealed, and we deemed

that the greatness of man should not be transcended by

such ruin as he might bring.

Our intent was not unknown to Masleh, now by title Messiah,

and through his art he caused the Infant mind of man to be

fettered with bonds of fear and blindness, that he might be

inspired to duplicate on Earth the law of Heaven, shunning

experiment and the radical dangers of invention and

exploration. To man was given guilt, and the call to social

conformity, and the proclaimed sanctity of the norm and

the mode.

And Michael, Lord of Force, said to me, This man, whom thou

host chosen to receive thy Gift, now possesses the first key

to the mastery of all things and the control of the very

Universe itself. Lest in ill choice he should spark the

catastrophe of Armageddon, we also have visited him. And

while we cannot undo thy Infernal Gift, we shall ever act to

censor its effect. We shall walk among men and guide them.

They shall be told of thy interest in them, but the name of

Lucifer shall be dark with curses. For they shall love not the

challenge thou host placed before them, and we will offer

them instead the blissful refuge of divine paradise. Then

shall man, thy ultimate experiment, become thy ultimate

failure, and the stasis of God shall prevail upon Earth.

Many there were among us who felt anger at this ruthless

mutilation of our Gift, and Beelzebub brought to question

whether we also should not descend among man and

contest this usurpation of his Will. But I said, Were we to

lead man in this venture, we ourselves would declare his

failure, and he would believe our Gift to be weak indeed.

Messiah must see that free Will is beyond the concern of

God, and that man will finally win his own destiny apart from

all dictated schemes. Only through summary destruction of

Earth might man be halted, and for Messiah to attempt this

would lay bare the very futility of the final design of God.

Heaven may dismay man with peril and affliction, but we

shall send him word of our own interest, that he shall know

he is not alone.

With all force did the host of Heaven descend among man,

and they did instruct him in the religion of fear. Prophets

arose and were proclaimed heralds of knowledge, but they

brought not word of truth, but warning to the human spirit

to cower and fawn before the word of God the supreme

being. The struggle of the ascent of man was fraught with

the horrors of his superstition, and the call for blessed

oblivion through union with God was answered by many who

in their torment and hopelessness rejected the Gift of

Lucifer and became once more as mindless animals before

the God whom they called their Lord.

I, Lucifer, who had given the greatest Gift of my own

creation to man, was known on Earth only as an object of

fear and hatred, and all the misfortunes of men were

attributed to my malevolence. I was mocked, ridiculed,

scorned in every way as a monster of vile and loathsome

aspect, and I was taunted and despised as Satan, cruel

enemy of the benevolent and merciful God.

Great was my anguish and anger at the undeserved misery

and confusion of men. When in fact they did turn to me, it

was in fear and religious terror. For they dared invoke my

name only in the desolation of night, and oft I was sought

not for knowledge or inspiration, but for hysterical and

indulgent release from the confines of the Godly life. But I

and my fellowship answered men, and we spoke to them of

our common bond, and the pronouncements of the

God-churches were rejected in our midst. Even as God was

terrifying in awesome majesty, so I came to Earth in the

semblance of a goat, most humble of man's own creatures.

And men there were whose eyes finally blazed with the light

of my Gift, and they made great effort for the advancement

of their race, though impatience and frustration ever

tempted them to the salve of temporal gain. Great secrets

were unearthed, and secret word was passed of the craft

of Hell. But to all who would dare my friendship the

God-churches accorded the threat of torture and death by

fire.

Many were those whom I saved from the vengeance of the

men of God, but long did my thought ring with the screams

of men whose devotion to Lucifer had won them only the

horrors of intolerance, inquisition, and death. And in sorrow

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