Feb.14, 2017

 

SANANDA:  ‘SATAN’S DRUMMERS – THE SECRET BEAT OF EVIL’ – PHOENIX JOURNAL #9 - CHAPTER  7

REC. #1   SANANDA

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1989   5:45 A.M.   YEAR 3, DAY 077

You need no “sign”, Dharma, for your space is clear and I am pre­sent.  Let us continue with our subject within this journal.  To request a “sign” that you might “know” is only to further doubt.  Because “another” says 10% of thy truth is tainted means nothing.  There is no accept­able percentage of taint within our works.  Per­haps errors can occur, for we are producing our work on a human level; perhaps sorting tools of words are used, but not “tainting”.  The intent, although unwittingly projected, is to stop the publica­tion of these journals.  No more and no less.  I am sorry for all parties involved but know, chelas, it will always be over worldly material desires that the perpetrators betray themselves.  In the instance of the Gatehouse, it is a mis­understanding regarding funds; in the projection of discred­iting your material, it is mis­perception.  Do not waste of your time in the pondering of “who” did “what” and further, how can you “lose” of a thing you never “had”.  You had your perceptions and others had theirs—do not fur­ther disturb yourself for it slows our work.  I have heard your call and I have received of it—we have a job to get on with and you shall do so, please.  The only Evil present in this space is that which we are in the printing thereof.

Let me surprise you even further, thousands of Satanists will ob­tain this book.  The evil per­sonality loves the ego stroking of recognition and it will shock some into change.  These jour­nals must be distributed far and wide—immediately—the truth is the only thing that can set you free.  Ones are now in the scan­ning of the pages and it requires study and attention to obtain and retain the value from these books.  He who simply scans and thinks he has absorbed it all should keep of his negative or discounting opinions to himself, for understanding will not be complete.  Nay, unfortu­nately for a weary world in trouble, we bring total truth and that is the sad part of it.  The joy held within is the “hope” for hu­manity which is brilliant indeed.  It is not through the efforts of higher beings; it comes from human realization and action which will produce the positive works and regain control and order from the chaos.  If each does his se­lected task, we shall get our work done in timely manner and great brotherhood shall spring forth from beauteous unity.  So be it; let us continue.

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PSYCHOLOGY OF EVIL

Let us set aside, for the present, the question of “reality” of a being called Sa­tan.  That point, whether it appears this way or not, is not the ultimate issue at hand.  If a thing exists as real­ity in the mind, be it singularly perceived or mass percep­tion—it becomes “real”.

I would like to insert a parable at this point.  Let us say a baby who is at the age of toilet train­ing is being scolded for soiling his diapers.  Now, let us say that there is a little puppy within the household; the puppy soils the floor and an adult strikes the animal and it dies of the blow.  What think ye the child’s mind ac­cepts regarding the dangers of such action?  Might the child become totally compulsive and obsessive in some deviation from accepted “norms”?

Let us consider for a moment how a concept becomes instilled within a mind.  “Magical think­ing” is uppermost and can take a variety of forms, but basically it is a belief that thoughts in and of them­selves may cause events to occur.  This is one point that is most important regarding even this document—peo­ple think that if they read of it, it then becomes birthed into re­ality.

Young children normally think magically—and here I do not refer to dream­ing and pretending.  I speak, for instance, of a child of say, five, who gets jealous of his new baby sister and thinks: “I wish she were dead!”  He might very well become to­tally obsessed and anxious, fearing that she actually will die because he wished it.  Or, what if the baby becomes ill, he may be con­sumed with guilt, feeling that his thought caused her to become ill.  Worse, what if for some reason the baby dies—I be­lieve I make my point.

The reason I dwell on these examples is that at some time within the life-span of such individu­als, they are very apt to make a “pact with the devil”.  Now why wouldn’t one make a “pact with God”?  Because the mind within knows the source of the problem and knows it is not “normal” belief or action to believe in “magic”.  “Magic” is somehow mentally related to “evil”.

It is when man faces unthinkable danger, sorrow, pain, etc., then is when he makes unbalanced promises to God.  He further does not seem to be too concerned with the breaking of these promises to God.  He really is nervous about breaking a pact with the Devil.  Do you find this interesting?

This is the danger of placing total trust in a fortune-teller; if, even in error of calculations of star signs, one is told he will die at a certain place and time, he will usually manage to do so—that is the horror of a “curse” for it is the belief in the magic itself.

Let us assume, further, that one of the above individual’s  be­liefs were based in Christianity.  Now you have presented an al­most im­possible confrontation to overcome.  According to this model, hu­manity (and perhaps the universe) is locked in a ti­tanic struggle between the forces of good and evil, between God or Christ and the Devil, Satan.  The battleground of this strug­gle is the individual human soul.  The entire meaning of human life revolves around the battle.  The only question of ultimate significance is whether the soul will be won to God or won to the devil.

By establishing a pact with the devil, a relationship of terri­fying “reality” has been fixed within the mind.  Now, the only way left to the individual is to dare to retract the pact and turn to the God source for protection.  It is not thus, but in a terrified mind it is the only solution.  This neurotic symptom, confronted, is of­ten a crucial turning point of existence within an individual which usually has cosmic significance.

We have now spoken of one aspect of magical belief which can leave a per­son crippled and the perceptions clouded as to truth.  No psy­chiatrist can “reason” a return to health nor can the in­dividual afflicted recognize his problem for the truth of the cause of his actions which would cause a pact with the Devil is hidden in the first place.

Now, here is where the self must go within and find the incident which caused the disarrange­ment in the first place and confront it head on.  This is where a trained hypnotherapist working in in­tegrity can be the only helpful entity.  The mind must move within self and “remember”, which it cannot do while in a con­scious state of being.

This is why, however, man lumps the hypnotist in the category of Devil’s ad­vocate and assis­tant; because evil does not want to let go once it has claimed a subconscious mind for itself.

It is most interesting to note that the medical profession does not have a very broad-minded approach to Evil as a valid factor and has refused to come up with a classroom field of psy­chology of evil.  Why would this be so?  Because the concept of evil has been central to “religious” thought for millions of years.  Therefore, you will keep it separated from your sci­ence of psy­chology and your human edicts come down “thou shalt not mix the two”.

Somewhere in the era of Mr. Galileo it became an unwritten so­cial contract that “natural” and the “supernatural” would for­ever be alienated.

Now look what you have set up in your evolvement with such atti­tudes.  Reli­gion agreed that the “natural world” is the sole province of the scientists.  Sci­ence agreed, in turn, to keep out of the spiritual, or anything to do with “values”.  Indeed, science defined itself as being “value-free”.

But how can you leave the most crucial cause out of mental unbal­ance?  Well, you cannot and therefore, you continue to have dis­torted, valueless humanity in epidemic proportion.  Worse, the med­ical discipline will accept the tool of hypnosis only on their lim­ited and inept guidelines—partially for fear they will assist in “curing” the patient and lose of the mammoth in­come guaranteed by mental illness.

It is a most difficult subject indeed, for it is a most non-defin­able term and science must have defined guidelines and la­bels for everything.  Theologians suffer no such compunction and will bite off all manner of evil demons whether or not they are, in reality, present.  There is no left brain/right brain delin­eation for the theologian.  Let’s just exorcise the demons and hope the human sur­vives.  Sometimes there is demon possession and it works; most of­ten it is mental misperception of fact and the patient is more traumatized by the ordeal and sent to his demise in an institution as “hopelessly insane”.

The problem of evil is a very big mystery indeed.  It does not sub­mit itself easily to reduction­ism.  However, some questions about human evil can be reduced to a size manageable for proper scien­tific investigation.  Nonethe­less, the puzzle pieces are inter­locked and severing them one from the other is all but im­possible.

Your major problem when regarding evil is that it cannot be sepa­rated from goodness.  For were there no goodness in the world, you would not be con­sidering the problem of evil.  I am constantly pe­titioned with, “Jesus, why is there evil in the world?”  Why do ye not ask me, “Why is there good in the world?”  Well, let me give you a few observations that we might get the bor­ing lesson matter over with and on to the violence of present evil, which you all seem to at­tune to much faster.

Evil is always in opposition to life.  It is that which opposes the life force.  It has, in short, to do with “killing” (murder)—namely, unnecessary killing, killing that is not re­quired for bio­logical survival.  Don’t get confused by the ab­stract definitions intellectually thrown at you which ren­der the explanation irrele­vant.  MURDER IS NOT ABSTRACT.

Don’t err in restricting murder to the corporeal state.  Evil is also that which kills spirit.  There are various essential at­tributes of life—particularly human life—such as sentience (emotional), mobility, awareness, growth, autonomy and “will”.  It is possible to kill, or attempt to kill, one of these at­tributes without actually destroying the body.  Thus you may “break” a per­son without harming a cell or hair on the physical body.

The desire for “breaking” of another, is usually the desire for control of that other—to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for them­selves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line.  This would be a term described in your vo­cabulary as “necrophilia”.  The opposite of a necrophile would be a biophile.  A biophile is a person who appreciates and fos­ters the variety of life forms and the uniqueness of the indi­vidual; whose aim it is to avoid the inconve­nience of life by transforming others into obedi­ent automatons, robbing them of their humanity.

Evil, then, is that force, residing either inside or outside of hu­man beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness.  Goodness is its opposite.  Goodness is that which promotes life and live­liness.

THE CENTRAL MESSAGE, WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE OF IT

You are going to take God, Christ-ness, and yourselves far more se­riously than you now do.  From the very beginning you have been told that God cre­ated you in His own image.  When are you going to take that seriously?  When are you going to recognize and accept the respon­sibility that you are Godly beings?  When will human life again have sacred importance?

I am come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abun­dantly.  Does it strike you as so strange that I, too, relished the things of the physical life and lived abundantly even two thou­sand years ago?  I was not so strange, I enjoyed weddings and cele­brations, wine, fine oils and good companion­ship.  Length of a life-span is of very little value compared to the vi­tality in the living.

I repeat—let the dead bury their dead, for if you are alive it has no relation­ship to you.  I dwell on the spirit of life, in liveli­ness.

Satan, the very spirit of evil, was a murderer from the begin­ning.  Evil has nothing to do with natural death; it is con­cerned only with unnatural death, with murder of the body or the spirit.  You ones in human format must take your human life so seriously that you also take human evil far more seriously—se­riously enough to study it with all the means at your command, in­cluding the methods of science.  You must recognize evil for that which it is, in all its ghastly reality.  This is not mor­bid.  To the contrary, it is in dedication to “life. . . .more abundantly”.  The valid reason to recognize human evil and study it well is to allow of the healing wherever you can, and eventu­ally wipe its ugli­ness from the face of this wondrous earth.

You can no longer simply turn your eyes and ears away from the problem which is growing in boundless measure—you must look at it most minutely and with intent to heal humanity of this blight.  Healing is the result of love; it is a most closely in­tegrated rel­ative of love.  Wherever there is love there is healing.  Where there is no love there is no healing.  There must be love of life and respect and reverence for life and liv­ingness—man turns to the Sa­tanic cults and worship to “belong”, therefore, to heal there must be “belonging” and love offered in abun­dance along with human caring.

You must know that all dis-ease is physical AND emotional so both must be considered in any instance.  You must further be able to distinguish between human evil, such as murder, and nat­ural “evil” as perceived through death and destruction resulting from fire, flood, and earth­quake.

Further, do not be misled into the assumption and perception that real evil does not have any­thing to do with a mother of one or five children who lives next door, or the deacon or minister in the lo­cal church building.  Evil human beings are most common and usually appear quite or­dinary and are mostly located in just such places.

There are several “levels” of evil possession and let us con­sider them in lumps.  One type of evil concerns those in the process of “sliding” into evil.  The other concerns those who have already slid, “fallen victim” to and been taken over by “radical” evil.  These are simply recognized myths upon your place and I find them suitable enough for description.

THE HELPLESS CHILD

This is a most unpleasant confrontation for parents do not wish to believe that they perpetrate evil upon their children unless they are openly practicing Satanic rituals.  However, the most abundant form of evil is passed through in just such manner.

To children, their parents are like gods.  The child assumes that that which the parent does is the way that things should be done.  They are not able to make realistic assessments of their parents’ behavior.  Treated badly by its parents, a child will usually as­sume that it (the child self) is the “bad” one.  If treated as an ugly, stupid second-class citizen, it will grow up with an image of itself as ugly and stupid, etc.  Reared without love, children come to be­lieve them­selves unlovable.  Whenever there is a major deficit in parental love, the child will, in all prob­ability, respond to that deficit by assuming itself to be the cause of the deficit, thereby devel­oping an unrealisti­cally negative self-image.  They will ultimately respond to what they perceive as some type of evil within themselves.

So what does this all have to do with evil in general?  Well, if you confront a child in trouble—look for the evil within the parental beings.  You will know and recognize it when it comes into your presence.  You, if you are within the light protec­tion, will be revulsed by the presence when it enters into your space.  You sim­ply will find the humans of evil-ness most un­pleasant within your proximity.  This is a most saving response to the impacted one—how­ever, if a child is involved and being in the living hell of a victim—you have responsibility to that little being.

There will be many symptoms to show you—for evil is obligated to wear a sign upon its coun­tenance.  First you will be uneasy in its presence, there will be a mixed note of fear and pity, and those possessed of evil live in sheer ter­ror for they most often are at­tempting to keep that portion of their being quite secret and thus hidden away.  BEWARE IF YOU KNOW ONE IS PRACTIC­ING EVIL IN ANY FORM AND YOU ARE COMFORTABLE IN THAT PRESENCE—YOU ARE IN TROUBLE!

EVIL VS. SIN

Let me draw a simple distinction between sin and evil, for both are constantly misunderstood.  SIN IS NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS THAN FALLING SHORT OF PER­FECTION—IT IS A FAILURE TO BE CON­TINUALLY PERFECT WHETHER INTEN­TIONALLY OR ACCIDEN­TALLY.  BE­CAUSE YOU ARE ALL HUMAN IT IS IMPOS­SIBLE FOR YOU TO BE ALWAYS IN PERFECTION, THERE­FORE, ALL ARE SIN­NERS.  “SINNERS” ARE NOT EVIL.

EVIL ONES ARE ONES WHO ARE SELF-RIGHTEOUS WHO BE­LIEVE THEY ARE WITHOUT SIN BECAUSE THEY ARE UNWILL­ING TO SUFFER THE DISCOMFORT OF SIGNIFICANT SELF-EXAM­INATION.

Unpleasant though it may be, the sense of personal sin is pre­cisely that which keeps your sin from getting out of control.  It is painful at times, but is a very great blessing because it is your one effective safeguard against your own proclivity for evil.

IF YOU ARE WILLING TO SERENELY BEAR THE TRIAL OF BEING DISPLEAS­ING UNTO YOURSELF, THEN YOU WILL BE FOR ME A MOST PLEASANT PLACE OF SHELTER.

Evil ones do not serenely bear the trial of being displeasing to themselves.  In fact, they don’t bear it at all.  There is al­most an unbelievable lack of self-re­crimination in evil ones.  They are prone to openly state flagrantly their self­ish actions without any seemingly hesitation whatso­ever.

The varieties of people’s wickedness are manifold.  Resulting from refusal to tolerate the sense of their own sinfulness, the evil ones become uncorrectable grab-bags of sin.  They are, for in­stance, remarkably greedy people.  Thus they are cheap—so cheap, in fact, that their “gifts” may indeed even be mur­derous in nature.

Sin is usually due to physical or character laziness and that is followed closely by pride.  Sins are quite repairable except the sin of believing one is without sin.

Here I wish to give great credit to Gerald Vann, THE PAIN OF CHRIST AND THE SOR­ROW OF GOD (Temple Gate Publishers, Spring­field, Illi­nois, Copyright by Aquin Press, 1974, pp. 54-55.)  I shall herein quote for un­derstanding most often comes as under­standing from hu­man viewpoint:

“There can be a state of soul against which Love itself is power­less because it has hardened it­self against Love.  Hell is essen­tially a state of being which we fashion for ourselves; a state of final separateness from God which is the re­sult not of God’s repu­diation of man, but of man’s repudiation of God, and a repudiation which is eternal precisely because it has become, in it­self, immov­able.  There are analogies in human experience: the hate which is so blind, so dark, that Love only makes it the more violent; the pride which is so stony that humility only makes it more scornful; the inertia—last but not least the in­ertia—which has so taken possession of the personality that no crisis, no appeal, no induce­ment whatsoever, can stir it into activity, but on the con­trary makes it bury itself the more deeply in its immobility.  So with the soul and God; pride can become hardened into hell, hatred can become hardened into hell, any of the seven root forms of wrongdo­ing can harden into hell, and not least that sloth which is boredom with divine things, the inertia that can­not be troubled to repent, even though it sees the abyss into which the soul is falling, be­cause for so long, in little ways perhaps, it has accustomed itself to refuse whatever might cost it an effort.  May God in his mercy save us from that.”

SCAPEGOATING

A most predominant characteristic of the behavior of the evil per­son is the constant scape­goating.  Because these ones feel them­selves above reproach, they must lash out at anyone who re­proaches them.  They will sacrifice any other to preserve their own self-im­age to the point of total absurdity to the witnessing entity.  They will go to preposterous limits to preserve that self-image of per­fection.  Since the evil, deep down, feel them­selves to be fault­less, it is in­evitable that when they come into conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the con­flict as the world’s (or other’s) fault.  Since they must deny their own badness, they must per­ceive others as bad.  They project their own evil onto the world.  They never think of them­selves as evil; on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others and proclaim it most loudly.

One author on your place defined evil “as the exercise of polit­ical power that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion—in or­der to avoid . . spiritual growth”.  In other words, the evil attack others in­stead of fac­ing their own failures.  Spiritual growth re­quires the acknowl­edgment of one’s need to grow.  If you cannot make that acknowl­edgment, you have no option except to attempt to eradicate the evidence of your im­perfection.

Incredible as it may appear, evil people are often destructive to unlimited ex­tents because they are actually attempting to “destroy” evil.  The problem, of course, is that they misplace the fo­cus and locus of the evil.  Instead of de­stroying others they should be de­stroying the sickness within self.  As life of­ten threatens their false self-image of perfection, they are most often busily engaged in hating and destroying that life—usually in the name of righ­teousness.  The fault, however, may not be so much that they hate life as that they do NOT HATE THE SIN­FUL PART OF THEMSELVES.

You must associate some words with evil people and those are “image”, “appearance”, and “outwardly”.  While evil persons seem to lack motivation to actually be good, they intensely de­sire to ap­pear good.  Their “goodness” is all on a level of pretense.  It is, in effect, a lie and the lie is not so much to de­ceive others as it is to deceive self.  These evil ones will not en­dure the pain of self-reproach.

AH SO—RIGHT OR WRONG

Self-deceit would be unnecessary if the evil had no sense of right or wrong.  You lie only when you are attempting to cover up some­thing you know to be illicit.  There is no need to hide un­less you first feel that something needs to be hidden.

Yes, a paradox!  Evil people feel themselves to be perfect, how­ever at some unacknowledged level of sense they know themselves to be most imperfect—which, of course, is intolerable and be­gins the cy­cle all over again.  At one and the same time, the evil are aware of their evil and desperately are trying to avoid the awareness.  Rather than blissfully lacking a sense of moral­ity, like the psy­chopath, they are continually engaged in sweep­ing the evidence of their evil un­der the floor covering of their own consciousness.  Therefore, the essential component of evil is not the absence of a sense of sin or imperfec­tion but the to­tal unwillingness to toler­ate that sense.  Just as with other problems, a good example of which is alcoholism—until the problem is ac­cepted and acknowl­edged, there will be no cure.

You can usually recognize evil by its very disguise.  The lie can be perceived before the mis­deed it is designed to hide—the cover-up before the fact.  You can witness the smile that hides the ha­tred, the smooth and oily manner that masks the fury, the velvet glove that covers the fist.  Because the evil are such experts at disguise, it is seldom possible to pinpoint the mali­ciousness of the evil.  The disguise is often impenetrable but what you can catch are glimpses of the uncanny game of hide-and-seek in the ob­scurity of the soul, in which it, the single hu­man soul, evades it­self, avoids itself, and hides from itself.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people most often are found is within your churches.  Does this make you feel com­fortable?  How better to conceal evil than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Chris­tian within your culture?  In other parts of the world you might have to turn to the good Hindu or good Moslem, etc.  This is not to cast the spotlight on the whole but rather to point out that evil people tend to gravi­tate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer unto them.

What might help distinguish the evil from the rest of you “sinners” is the spe­cific “type” of pain they are running away from—for all are running away from pain toward that which they clas­sify as hap­piness and joy.  The evil are not pain avoiders or lazy people in general; to the con­trary, they are most exert­ing in their continu­ing effort to obtain and maintain an image of high respectability.  They may very willingly, even eagerly, undergo great hard­ships in the search for status.  It is only one particular kind of pain they can­not tolerate and that is the pain of their own conscience, the pain of the re­alization of their own sinfulness and imperfection.

The evil hate the light—the light of goodness that shows them up, the light of scrutiny that ex­poses them, the light of truth that penetrates their deception.  The evil will, further, at­tempt to an­nihilate any and all who cast light on them and their activities and therefore the light bearer becomes in fact, the target of the evil aggressor.  To maintain the dark secret, the light must be ex­tinguished at any cost—participants of a group of evil congregates must cause ALL to prac­tice some extent of total evil action to maintain the lie.  Through participation is always the threat of discovery, so threats so heinous in nature that one would be terri­fied to reveal truth must be employed.  And so be it that we will leave this portion at this point.  It has been a lengthy session and it is time for a respite.

I will move to stand-by, that this chapter might be brought to a close.

I AM SANANDA TO TAKE MY DEPARTURE

 

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