A Slave To Power

[william_kent]

I've been reading Robert Irwin's Satan Wants Me. Irwin was apparently a Islamic/Medieval historian before writing fiction full-time.

He was also briefly involved with The Process in their early London Scientology splinter group days

He appears in this documentary as far as I can recall



Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment

 

[versh]

I've been reading Robert Irwin's Satan Wants Me. Irwin was apparently a Islamic/Medieval historian before writing fiction full-time.

It's about a sociology student who slowly gets sucked into a Satanic lodge & initiated. And you watch how, despite at first having an ironic remove or feeling in control of the situation, the protagonist slowly comes to feel out of control/not himself. Like his own will and self-understanding has been hollowed out and replaced by the will of the initiators. All these subtle ways that he's mind-manipulated.

You ever seen an Arnie film called End of Days? I rewatched some of it the other night when I was going on about the Millennium. He's alcoholic atheist ex-cop who has to prevent Satan impregnating a specific woman and bringing about the end of the world on NYE 1999.

Anyway, there's a bit where The Devil tries to tempt him by offering him his dead wife and daughter back and he goes about it by telling him he's a good person, that nothing was his fault, he didn't do anything wrong, he didn't deserve it.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I've been reading Robert Irwin's Satan Wants Me. Irwin was apparently a Islamic/Medieval historian before writing fiction full-time.

It's about a sociology student who slowly gets sucked into a Satanic lodge & initiated. And you watch how, despite at first having an ironic remove or feeling in control of the situation, the protagonist slowly comes to feel out of control/not himself. Like his own will and self-understanding has been hollowed out and replaced by the will of the initiators. All these subtle ways that he's mind-manipulated.

 

[sus]

You ever seen an Arnie film called End of Days? I rewatched some of it the other night when I was going on about the Millennium. He's alcoholic atheist ex-cop who has to prevent Satan impregnating a specific woman and bringing about the end of the world on NYE 1999.

Anyway, there's a bit where The Devil tries to tempt him by offering him his dead wife and daughter back and he goes about it by telling him he's a good person, that nothing was his fault, he didn't do anything wrong, he didn't deserve it.

Immortality is canonically how Satan gets you, right?

 

[sus]

This is basically Satanic / Thelemite magic, right? This is what L. Ron Hubbard had? Parsons was a magician with fire, but Hubbard had the soft social magic that trumped Parsons' skillset.

 

[sus]

Aella once wrote an interesting post about it for LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bQ6zpf6buWgP939ov/frame-control