COMMENTARY ON

"Lost in Paradise: Milton-Hatred," by nocTifer



its Prelude makes it clear that the story isn't literally
true, it is a story conveying philosophy and artifice.

the first portion of the scripture sets the scene for the
origin of authority and action at Earth: the Underworld.

the second portion of the scripture introduces the main
character of this scripture: Satan (thereafter never given
the same name twice).

it also introduces his right-hand man,
Beelzeboul/Beelzebub/etc.

so the main character is Satan, sitting in some throne in
the Underworld.

the main character of this Satanist scripture.

the Underworld ruler is ancient and somehow connected to the
planet in an essential manner.

more information is given about the Underworld Lord's
servant and helper, in fact, than the Infernal Lord Hirself.

the over-riding symbolism is terran, earthy, and
mass-related.

through the course of the rest of the scripture it will
become clear that the means of entry into this Underworld is
by dying. the phenomenon is called 'The Gate of Death'.
only beings that can die or that did die may enter the Underworld
uninvited, we are unsure if the Underworld Lord controls
this mechanism (or anything else) and uses it as a shield.

or if that being is changeable so much as to have control
and rulership over death also. in any case the sky gods
aren't capable of getting down to the Underworld.

this sets the stage for the entirety of the Christian
mythos.

the bits about tribes and floods and whatever take place
after the sky gods arrive. they are originally star gods,
apparently, from beyond Earth. their invasion has not
originated human beings to the planet, and their ability to
transcend death (as the son of the Tribal chieftain invader
who is orchestrating the installation of his son as the
universal ruler transgresses the codes of his own tribe to
breed inter-species to effect it) is demonstrated handily,
simultaneously disclosing to the sacrificed deity some kind
of grand joke has been played upon him.

that is, the Christian scripture's context and character are
descriptively fitted into another cosmological paradigm,
this one as mythologically-based, but featuring an
Underworld deity, and with the skygod chieftain, YHVH, and
his child, YHShVH, who seeded himself forcibly upon Mary
contrary to the very laws of his father, were encountered by
the Satan in the heavenly expanse, which was newly being
dominated by their kindred stargods. SHe was accompanied by
the other gods from the Earth. Satan comes in late because
it isn't encountered by most of the gods from the skies and
stars until it wants to be.

the method of transmission described is that Mary was raped
by an alien god who put *himself* into her womb with the
help of an archon. we might wonder who the mother god of
YHShVH is. do gods generally have mothers? presuming that
gods do not need a parent, or that a human will substitute
for at least one of them (maybe they don't reproduce, they
divide like amoebae), they do appear capable of breaching
the Gate of Death through a mating with a human being
(several gods having died and survived the experience).

Earth is some kind of fortress prior to humans, Satan
dwelling in the impregnable Underworld alongside the
manifestation of the cosmos as such. YHVH is portrayed
therein as a stargod of distant origin from Earth who cannot
get into the Underworld by way of the only gate known
(death). the first deities mentioned are Gaia and Uranus,
who did have an historical relationship as partners. Satan's
right-hand man as a child of these two may mean something.
no mention of the mother of the child, however. does this
mean that gods reproduce asexually?

they are somehow related in alliance. Uranus' son is said to
be part of the 'New Brood', Beelzeboul, serving Satan. 

the cosmos may well be considered terracentric. if so, this
Underworld deity may be comparable to a Creation god.

a conventional Christian appellation is provided for Satan
and we come upon the first hint that the reference to the
Infernal Lord will continually vary:


	'the god of this world'.


this makes it plain that the Underworld Lord isn't just a
jailer or Land of the Dead guardian, but the actual
authority of the planet.

the scripture in analysis explains that Satan was around
during the formation of this planet, at least.

it includes the arising of Man and does not describe this as
any kind of Creation.

so by this scripture we can see that Satan finds the human
species somewhat tedious, but is interested in the species'
developments of technology and reflection.

the fact that the description of the human species as
"Grindingly-slow parasite" indicates that Satan, here, is
superior to primitive Man and either has little patience or
is a faster developer.


the secondary section is about the invasion of the star/sky
gods. led by the arrogant chieftain. he is not initially
named, though titles are bandied for recognition.

initially we get a second taste of the variety by which
Satan is known, the name or referent to Hir consistently
shifting. this is almost redundant in its reference to
'Scratch' by proxy and 'Old Hairy'. then Satan speaks for
the first time in the scripture, delighted, amused, and
purposeful. we are given our first glimpse of the Infernal
array, not dominated and constrained as is described by
anti-Satanists.

an interjection here about the previous activities and
interactions between the demondim and the celestials.
previous commentary established 'the Consolidation' as the
cooling and encrustation of the planet which SHe has
observed.

and even the right-hand of Satan, Beelzeboul, previously
associated with Uranus and Cronus and Hades and Saturday's
demon, is renamed through the course of the scripture. all
of them change symbolically by name during the text. a clear
distinction is made between terran and celestial entities.

here the particulars relating to the tyrant are provided, to
which worshippers of the god would very likely object.
clearly this is the reference to Jehovah, and still no name
is given.

the arrogant chieftain god and his council, together with
his son, had come to crown the son ruler and dominator of
Earth and all its compounds, but they could not breach the
Gate of Death and reach the Underworld, and the Earth Deity
residing in Gaia's interior. mocking Christian and Jewish
gods as it does, it portrays believers in the gods as dupes,
flim-flammed by an archon with promises of treasures it will
never deliver.

this is supposed to be one of a number of a large list of
titles and names for the Infernal Lord, Satan. (The Prince
of the Aerial Powers) the invaders are having their
investment ceremony. crowning their Jesus Christ as King of
all the local zones.

the speech is lifted from Milton, against whom this
scripture rails with futile gestures at the poet. from a
comparable ceremony in Paradise Lost, twisted here into a
conquest in preparation to dominate Earth and its surrounds.

so Satan and Yahweh and Yaheshua and the rest take a look at
one another and decide that they're comparable. they may be
of a species therefore. this is no insult to the Yahweh god,
just a come-uppance. it leaves possible still the actuality
was a completely even measure. a Satanic keel is being
leveraged here, between insult and respect. like wolves
sniffing new pack-members, they size one another up.

the aggressive bluster begins with the defensive aspect of
the Yahweh god's armies (Michael). for some reason they are
getting upset, apparently because the lines of authority
aren't agreed. presumably this reveals to the stargod
invaders that some other intelligence of comparable power is
in their midst.

this is where Satan gets a starring role, central to the
scripture, but comparable to other scripture advocating
authority methods. the role of Satan is supportable as a
resistor of oppression to an unwanted invading deity and his
council. Satan is now the hero who opposes tyrannical
oppressors. as is usual, within religious scriptures the
focal entity assumes a protagonist role. the whole cosmology
is Satanist (in this case terra-centric). the gods are all
subsets of a cosmos we don't know how it got where it is.
they meet and vie for dominion like so many other gods have.

Satan having upstaged the invading chieftain god and his
Council, which immediately leads to warfare, and amongst
gods this isn't pretty. it treats the Jewish gods as
humanoid in very many details. including their emotionalism
and arrogance.

when we last left our hero (Satan), he was upstaging a
blowhard YHVH in a ceremony designed to make his son,
YHShVH, the ruler of the Earth zone and its local
principalities, even though they couldn't penetrate the
Underworld.

conflict breaks out, and a division rends the celestial
invader's ranks as Satan convinces them of the folly of
their attitudes and beliefs:

now remember that they were disguised and tricked the
tyrant chieftain YHVH and his son and Michael their
blustery marshal.

'Belial' is another name of the great anti-god, or at
least one upon which curses are heaped by Christians.

then Satan responds to the blowhard.

now Semyaza is the name of the rebellious angels from
the Books like Noah and Enoch

Satan helpfully informs the reader what the character of
these beings truly is:

(again reflected off of the poet, Milton, though the
antagonists and protagonists are of course inverted in
context. but this is too much for the stargods to bear.
Satan's influence is to convert a greater portion of the
angels of the warlord. so it does not appear that the
Underworld intelligence needs worry much about the invading
stargods. they can't get through the Gate of Death and they
can be bested in combat.

here's how it worked:

this sets the *actual* stage for the coming of the
Christ Jesus. a spying assignment from his dad.
now the character of the Christian and Jewish gods are
displayed as scheming and deceiptful.

it should be noted that the epithet 'the Evil One' is
accepted by the Satanist for some reason. likely due to
the fact that this is an obvious slam by anti-Satanists.

and yet it is the rash and brutish contingent which
wants continued hostilities. the son of the tyrant is
scolded into seeding himself into the womb of a human and
being born in a mortal body.

this hadn't been tried (ever? often?) before.

perhaps because they'd just had a bunch of them make
Nephilim or demons or whatever was possible.

the Gate of Death keeping the stargods from the
Underworld was going to get a visitor from the skies,
trying to pierce the Underworld Gate for his comrades in
the heavens.

the son's accomplices took care of the Bethlehem star.
but Satan isn't worried.
he's actually *excited* about this development.

SHe exclaims that the chieftain tyrant god will be
suffering on account of it.

and if we look back in time we can see that the Jews
have suffering greatly because of the development of
Christianity and its anti-god stories, projections, what
are known today as subversion ideologies.

the categories get shifted around depending on the level
of propaganda.

in its most extreme form it can approach anti-god
status. the point is the Great Adversary concept.

here the Satanist is extended a link between Satan and
Faustian tradition, a fairly common association after
Marlowe and Goethe.

(Mephisto, Mephistopheles, etc.)

now the next portion of the Satanist scripture is
somewhat unclear as to what precisely is done by the
Infernal One to dupe Jesus.

there is definitive reference ('common tale') to the
gospels, jesus stories. the stargod's son seeded itself
inside a human female and got birthed to mortality.

here the gospels themselves are being recontextualized
and re-explained for the reader.

this seems to make *Christians* responsible for their
own demise, and not during the time of some fantasy
Christ, but during the development of the religion as a
whole. the focus shifts to the 'recognition' that he was
of a different species, a half-breed perhaps, and was
therefore an abomination.

that is, the Satanist sees this from a natural
standpoint of coercive manipulation of the human female,
of its own species.

there were reasons why these beings had rules against
mating with humans.

what were they?

Jewish gods.

usually talking about the Fallen Ones

sometimes called angels

and their children with human women apparently.

their chieftain god did it. sometimes it is an emissary that
provides the actual annunciation/consummation, of course.
but how many other Jewish gods made children with human
virgins? Gnostic gods too? was there a sequence of virgin
births set into a pattern? :)

there's some kind of Joke that was played on Jesus to have him
dying on the cross and breaching the Gate. apparently it
only works for him and every one of them would have to
seed humans and die (in the same way?) before being able
to make it through. no telling if the Gate is adjustable
and Jesus was the lucky one?

the Gate of Death *wasn't* breached by Jesus, but the
religious who worship him think that it was (projected
into the future).
there's a few other dying invaders around.
they regularly glance off and land on the surface of the
planet, maybe.


so Jesus is used as a pawn by the Underworld Daemon

to manipulate human beings.
he says previously 'a means to thin the Herd'.

this doesn't appear to be a pastoral voice describing
herd-thinning, but a feral voice, a hunter of deer and
other herding animals rather than speaking of shepherding
and flocks.

to the Satanist the matter of the place is central
because it appears that the Satan being dwells inside the
planet. perhaps it is incubating.

it does so just posterior to advising that what is to be
contained in the story is not in fact history, and so
there is no reason to regard it as such.

Jesus the Satanist.


in this scripture he seems to be unwittingly doing
Satan's bidding and converted to an Underworldling.

how did they do that?
how did they mate with the women?
what happened to the women who bore them?
how did that happen? was it anything like Mary?
this scripture identifies the two incidents as of common
species. so if it was against some kind of rule to mate with
human beings, why did the chieftain god allow his son to do
it? only to break down the Gate of Death? were they of a
common calibre with Yahweh? this Satanist scripture
indicates that they are of a kind. did Yahweh lay with Mary?
this Satanist scripture indicates that it was Jesus.
apparently some kind of common male motif.

except he doesn't have to kill his father to make Mary his
lover. the implication is scandalous but subtle and lacks
graphic content.

otherwise the OEdipal implications would be more plain.
they think nothing of the human female in actuality as
here portrayed. she is used as a vessel to achieve an end
(the breach of the Gate of Death).

we might consider the way that Jesus uses Mary's womb to
vanquish the Gate of Death as an incredibly symbolic event.
ignore for the moment the implications of being your own
father, the vulva has been for millenia the obvious 'Gate of
Life' for the species human. Jesus therefore passes through
both human gates and somehow the Gate of Death remains. we
might wonder whether the Gate of Life is somehow
precursively necessary to the integrity of the Gate of
Death.

everything after that point Jesus has no control over.
we do not know that he is able to return to his home or
to his godfather.

Jesus becomes the hero of the Underworld. why could Jesus
turn humans toward atheism? and how? it seems that the
extremity of the focus drives the human animal toward
absurdity. so the Devil actually fans the flames of the
Jesus sacrifice, knowing that his aim (to break the Gate of
Death) will be thwarted by the transformation to human
being, simultaneous to improvements in human behaviour.
Jesus had probably never been a human being before, and
didn't know what the Devil could do to him.

the poverty of the spirit, so called, might have made him
susceptible to Mastema's influences, taking a course which
is fruitful for all living species resident to Terra (focus
on suicide for altruistic means (human)). one might call
it a kind of Gaian Imperative (Euthanasia), saviour gods
forming a corps(e): Balder, Mitras, etc. toward hospice
improvements.

the true insult of the Satanist scripture is to Mary, whose
rape by her to-be-born son is one of the more bizarre
aspects of this otherwise inversionist redaction of
Miltonian dimension. moreso than any other facet, however, i
note that the Satanist scripture is Neopagan in its eclectic
draw from Middle-Eastern and Near-Eastern deities, treating
of the deities themselves in a manner not unlike that of
some Gnostics. its redefinition of terracentric deity locale
and invading pantheon force from the stars does have features
reminiscent of Scientology or of religious superheros.

see also the first Commentary on this scripture.
©2006-2666 nocTifer (nagasiva yronwode) all rights reserved.

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