Temple of the Black Light (TOTBL) is an international temple ...

pantheons of the dark traditions that represent the same illuminating and adversarial power we havelinked with Lucifer-Satan are: Kingu, Apep, Set, Typhon, Ahriman, Angra Mainyu, Shaitan, Surt,Loke, Exu Maioral, Samael, Lotan, Diabolus, Prometheus and Azerate, which is a word linked tothe fullness of the anti-cosmic power of the nightside.Before any of the abovementioned words/names can be used in order to establish contact with theessence that our temple links to the forms of Lucifer-Satan, their hidden meanings must first beunderstood and internalized by the initiate. For our truth is that all the names mentioned in this textrepresent, on different levels, one and the same power of our God and role model, the FirstbornSun/Son of the Black Light!Salve Lucifer-Satan!TOTBL – 218Evil, the Satanic IdealWithin many of the texts, rituals and invocations that are used in the Satanic tradition, Satan ispraised as the 'Lord of Evil' and evil seems to be portrayed as something 'good'. In order tounderstand this exaltation of 'evil' we need to first determine what it is that we, within the darktradition, mean by the word 'evil' when the term is used as a positive denomination.As Satanists and Chaosophists, we place ourselves above and beyond all moral illusions andconstrained ethical values that the ruling, demiurgic/archonic world order uses in order to enslaveand keep the subhuman cattle in check. Thus words like good and evil actually have no staticmeaning for us and must be understood as totally relative terms that only can express subjectivevalues.But we also understand that while we ourselves view the meanings most often associated with these11