The king of the gods was Zeus Pater, the Dyauspitr of India and the Jupiter of Rome, his ancient Indo-European name meaning “sky father”. But, as sky father, Zeus could bring lightning, hail, and roaring winds as well as kindly light and fertile rains: hence his name maimaktes, the wrathful one. In some localities, notably in ancient Crete, where he was Zeus Kuros, the characteristics of the king of the gods were decidedly chthonic and, it was only the authority of Homer that fixed him permanently in the classical consciousness as an ouranic (heavenly) deity.
We are more thinking about Zeus as being a chthonic or underworld god. The chthonic rule is that no one can return to life unless a substitute victim.
The consort of Zeus, Hera, queen of the gods, was originally a Mycenean goddess from Argos, assimilated into Greek religion during the Hellenic invasion of the penin-sula. As wife of Zeus, she became a sky goddess bringing both warm weather for crops and destructive storms as well. She was a chthonic goddess, identified with the primeval earth deity Gaia or as a goddess of fertility and child bearing. The primal
fertility goddess was lady of snakes and monsters such as Typhoeus and the Lernaean Hydra, the many-headed serpent.
The ethical ambivalence of the king and queen of the gods is reflected in their sexual ambiguity, for in a sense Hera was the female principle of Zeus, as Artemis was of Apollo, and Persephone of Plouton.
One day, Zeus visits the king of Arcadia, who unfortunately feels some doubt that his visitor is really who he says he is. In order to test his guest’s omniscience, the king serves him a disk in which the entrails of a baby are mixed with other meat. Zeus, tasting the food, immediately knows what has been done and in punishment sends a flood that sweeps over the earth, leaving only Deucalion alive to begin anew the race of men.
This is just the work of the Satanist, to sweep away today’s disgusting world religions and the consequences of it among people. Our own evil is the result of degeneration built up by these hypocrites.
Another story really worth mentioning, is that of Pandora (by the way), a minor god-dess who has been imprisoned in the underworld. Released onto the earth, she brings with her a jar (pithos), pulls out the bung, and lets a horde of evil escape to infest the world as it was rotten, and not the real world as it should normally be. The real world was to be found differently, through sinister metaphysical speculation, contemplation, and rituals even aesthetically.
In fact, the outstanding feature of Hellenistic religion was its syncretism, the search for a unified religion through combination in cult and myth of the gods of the Greeks with those of the cultures with which they came into contact. So, Zeus and Jupiter and Re and Ohrmazd became one, and thus the religions of the East penetrated the West.
“Lidagon” has the characteristics, and is the hidden pathway between the planets Mercury and Jupiter, constituting two triangles, one with Mars and the other with Ve-nus. What is a triangle in the Tree of Wyrd? It is a powerful interplay of force appear-ing within the magnetic field of the triangle of dark light, of livappear-ing fire, linkappear-ing the three planets, and manifesting as a united magnetic impulse. In other words, each tri-angle is a unit, joining the separate energies, influences and impulses from three ma-jor planets into one.
The Sun is indeed the great central of energy spreading it according to the different triangles.
The four triangles around the Sun are as follows:
1. Sun, Mercury and Venus 2. Sun, Mercury and Mars 3. Sun, Mars and Jupiter 4. Sun, Jupiter and Venus.
I would ask you to bear in mind that these energies are transmitted from one point to another, or passed through with transmuting effect from one planet to another, thus
bearing their own vibratory quality but carrying also that of the centre transmission (Sun). The different triangles serve different stages of unfoldment.
A triangle between Satanists can also be formed. The “Sinister Energy” can also be seen at work among groups of three earnest Satanists who persist in Dark pressure or seek to arouse the “Infernal Power” together to achieve their sinister ends. Good re-sults will certainly be achieved in both the “Greater and the Lesser Magick”.
The Planet Mars, named after the Roman God of War, was referred to by the Ancients as the “Lesser Malefic” (lesser magic). It governs desires, sexual energies, focussed energies, dynamic action, animal nature, force, power, strife, strain, adversity, work, achievement, competition, and death. Mars also rules weapons, war, accidents, vio-lence, surgery, tools, iron, and steel. The action of this Planet is sudden, forceful, and disruptive. The energy of Mars can be used violently and destructively, but with val-our and fortitude. The energy of Jupiter is backing as it were the energies of Mars as a more protective urge towards success, that every action may develop in a more or-derly way for the benefit of the fighter towards his victim. Jupiter is the planet of ex-pansion, aspiration, higher education, Satanic philosophical reasoning (Satanic be-cause it is the only philosophy that is absolutely humanistic and esoteric at the same time), justice (tooth for tooth, and eye for eye), and sovereignty.
All contributing to develop Satanically the consciousness, knowledge, skills, and in-dividual learning moving into experience of both the “light” and “dark” aspects of ourselves, making our own life really significant.