postmodern Satanism

May the blessings of this teacher reach you somehowIs magick dependent on tradition?What is the genuine worth of theGoetia or Book of Abramelin to themodern practitioner? Is there not asense in which we can say that itwould be comparable to the valuemodern scientists accord Aristotle’sPhysics? That is, one of historicalimport and psychological insight, butultimately dated beyond allpracticality. I would hold that to takeany other stance is to be guilty of thesame crime as the creationist Christianwho believes the Earth was called intobeing roughly six thousand years ago.In fact, I would hold that the situationis actually worse, akin to such afundamentalism, but also mixed witha stagnation of understanding. Whenwe examine the modern corpus of