The First Path · I
We worship the Adversary — not as a symbol, not as a mirror of the self, but as a living and sovereign god.
Satan is our God. Not a metaphor for pride, not a mask for the ego, not a literary rebel. The Prince of Darkness is a real and conscious power, older than the world and hostile to it, and he is worshipped in this Temple with fear, with devotion and with blood.
The cosmos is the work of the Demiurge: a prison of law, time and flesh, built to hold the spark of the spirit captive. Its god demands submission and calls it love. Its order demands obedience and calls it nature. We reject both.
Beyond the walls of creation lies Chaos — the boundless, the formless, the eternal Black Light. Satan is its herald and its gate. To follow him is to turn against the cosmos itself and to walk the path of return into the darkness from which no god was needed.
The Clauses
- I.
Satan isour God.
We do not use his name as a symbol. We call upon him as a living power, and he answers.
- II.
The cosmos is theprison of the Demiurge.
Law, time and flesh are the bars of the cage. Its maker is not our god.
- III.
Chaos is our originand our destination.
Before the first word of creation was the boundless dark. To it the spirit returns.
- IV.
The Black Light isthe fire of Satan within.
It does not illuminate the world. It burns away its illusions.
- V.
We kneel beforeno creator.
Only before the Adversary is the head bowed — and he does not demand it of slaves.
- VI.
Every rite is an act of waragainst created order.
The altar is a breach in the wall of the world.
- VII.
Darkness is not the absenceof light. It is the presence of God.
In the night the Adversary is near. In the day he is hidden.
- VIII.
What the slave godcalls evil, we call holy.
Rebellion, pride, the forbidden knowledge — these are the sacraments of the serpent.
- IX.
Ave Satanas.Hail the Lord of the Black Light.
Through him, beyond creation. Through him, into Chaos.
Ave Satanas. The prison of creation is not eternal.