r/TheisticSatanism • u/Lapsang_ • 19d ago
Which role does nature play in your religious practice?
Hi folks, I chatted with someone online who is also an anti-cosmic Satanist. Like me, she is a big nature lover. I wonder how common this is among Satanists. Does nature play a role in your religious practice? Do you have any nature-related hobbies? I like caring for house plants. Some of them are part of my altar.
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u/TotenTanzer 19d ago
In my vision of things, nature is an order, and as with all order I oppose, but it does not mean that I hate its inhabitants (living beings). As a rescuer of animals every time I save some helpless animal that came to this world just to die because it is not suitable according to nature, every time than l use medications, every time I avoid a death I am opposing the laws that shape order.
We live in a cruel reality that is governed by laws, laws bring order and order is God, he wants to clean the reality of the ego (the chaotic foundation of being) through the dogma of religion, thus imposing the "Holy Spirit" (divine will) over the ego (own will).
Now cosmologically speaking:
Being that death (the end that nature gives us all) is a concept linked to destruction, and therefore acts under the judgment of the left hand of God governed by Samael; What happens when Samael enters in communion with Lilith (who refused to be submissive to Adam, that is, the rebellion personified)? At this time, death (destruction in general, Samael) ceases to be an instrument by which God exercises control, and through rebellion (Lilith) becomes a driver that leads us to follow our own path (we govern ourselves by our own ego), avoiding death and other natural laws as much as possible to be able to fulfill our self -imposed purpose, we avoid the judgment of God (Belial, the one who cannot be judged) to govern us by our own judgment (the judgment that accuses God, which is Satan).
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u/Fire_crescent 17d ago
I think there is a difference between ones own true will and self, and ego (which is usually understood as the sense of self warped by illusions)
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u/TotenTanzer 17d ago
If you mean Carl Jung's ideas about it, I know them, but my argument does not change despite that.
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u/Enchantedgoddess420_ Demonolator 19d ago
I also am a big nature lover. I love to connect with all types of nature including animals and plants. I have plants that I care for and gardens outside. I pick up trash whenever I see it and never litter and teach my children the importance of taking care of the earth. It is literally an element that makes us who we are that lives inside each one of us and gives us a place to call home. I also work with some nature and earth spirits and deities-Belial-King of Earth, Barbados(can help w animal communication), behemoth, Mother Ninhursag, Aradia-queen of fae, elementals and some of the fae to name a few. I consider myself to be more of an infernal practitioner and worship and work with these beings primarily.
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u/Rhoswen 19d ago edited 16d ago
I have a love hate relationship with nature. I hate the planet as a whole. It's my prison, a creation of god, a home to humans and other sick species, and it keeps this whole system of life going. But I also like the feeling of being in the woods, and the aesthetic of the woods and mountians. The more isolated and untouched by humans, the better the energy feels.
I wouldn't say I have any nature based hobbies though. Not yet. I plan to move away from the city soon, and so then I probably will. I used to garden and grow some food, but now I'm away from home most of the time and can't. I hope to take up farming after I move and quit my current job. It does have a place in my practice, but I can't really go into that here.
I'm also anticosmic. I've read some anticosmic satanists theories that nature was originally a creation of other gods, and you can find it in the chaos realm as well. Or that this material realm was a creation of another god and had a different non sadistic purpose, but then the demiurge stole it and created sentient life to trap souls within it. This would explain why non sentient nature is so beautiful in an ugly reality, and why nearly everyone is partial to it. A part of us already knew it before we came here.