Nargagole - How to 'Pray' lyrics

lord satan summon not as if he** were some spirit of the air1; invoke not the master unless you mean your magick self (known as satan also)2; do not beg for favours like a dog!!!3 but sacrifice – make holy? nonsense no!!! god smells not the burning bones below!!!4 nor cry for mercy – in this life or hereafter;5 do not grovel on the ground before some oriental potentate;6 proclaim not in public that others might admire your piety or stand in judgement by it being not as you!!!7 but to yourself with self as silent witness to your love 8 say plainly the four words great and holy:9 "god i love you!!!" ** god cannot be a**umed to possess gender because this would make god a particular whereas god as supreme object of devotion must be a general case the male pronoun is included for reasons of scanning (such as there is!!!) and brevity 1 the opening line is clearly against the magicians who reckon man is above the gods and is therefore entitled to summon them; this is true of 'spirits' but not of lord god satan!!! 2 it is the magickal self who commands the appearance and departure of occult entities because he has created them (they are aspects of the magickal self); but god is above and beyond the magickal self; confusingly the magickal self is called satan because the self is hidden dark and powerful – of 'force and fire'; and a unity unto himself; this 'deity' may be freely invoked at any time for any reason; 3 our word 'to pray' comes from the greek 'precare' meaning 'to beg'; man is not a dog but a god – see point 6 below; the hebrew word for 'to pray' is l'hitpallel meaning 'to stand in self-judgement (before the lord)' by this means j**s believe they can make themselves worthy enough in the sight of the lord; whereas satanists know they are already 'worthy' before the lord; 4 in ancient greek religion after the meat from the sacrificial victim had been divided among the priests the left-over fat was wrapped around the thigh bones of the animal and these burnt upon the alter – it was said the smell wafted up to heaven and was pleasing to the gods satan is the life force this force used to be present in the animal before it was needlessly k**ed; at the same time god is immanent in nature (for example god is the bones and the fat) he is also beyond and aloof from the material world – therefore he could not smell the burning bones below; 5 satanism both as a philosophy and as a religion utterly rejects the notions of man's 'original sin' and that god stands in judgement of man's sin; therefore his mercy is not required!!! there is no such duality as good and evil; there are only consequences favourable or no; 6 the idea of grovelling before the oriental king was that your head should always be lower than that of the ruler but in satanism man is equal to the god; the believer is made divine by loving divinity; god is simply other than man; 7 much religious expression is simply egotistical; hence the sad case of religionists – they seek to use religion as a way to promote themselves (they have an inferiority complex) and to have power over others; satanism is implacably opposed to religionism; 8 only the self is ultimately interested in your expression of love (agape) for the lord; the feelings of intense pleasure (indulgence) you experience when contemplating your love for god are for and made by yourself although religion is born from when people unite to experience that pleasure as a community; when all is said and done humans are social animals it is hard to criticize such a collectively held desire; 9 the four holy words: 'i' – you are divine for loving god; 'love' – god is simply love; 'you' – god is personal if nonintervening – you love god unconditionally not because if you scratch his back with flattery god will scratch yours!!! but god's existence is a**umed; this a**umption is the source and basis of one's love for god in the original ms: 'not-holy' : neither holy nor unholy but beyond the duality these words express!!! but 'holy' just means 'completely of the whole': with the four words the devotee expresses him/herself completely!!!