If you're in interested in being part of a local Satanic community, the chances you'll find an existing TST-related community within a few hours drive of your home grow ever greater with time, as groups are founded, grow, and become Chapters.
The Satanic Temple is organized into three levels, at least at the time of this writing:. Greaves is the official TST spokesperson as well. The Executive Ministry guides the overall strategy and direction of the organization and makes financial and legal decisions on its behalf.
The National Council decides which event and action proposals to approve and provides oversight and guidance to Chapter leadership. Each Chapter and group working towards chapterhood has a Point of Contact on the National Council, who acts as their group's advocate.
The Chapters. Each Chapter serves a city, state or region, offering a chance for members to come together and work on local issues. Chapters usually have one or two Chapter Heads. Chapters report to the National Council. Additionally, there are groups outside the official TST structure who are working towards Chapterhood but haven't yet been granted official status; I call these unofficial groups "proto-Chapters. The Satanic Temple is always growing, and there are TST chapters in many major metropolitan areas of the US at the time of this writing, as well as ongoing expansion to other countries.
If you're interested in joining a local chapter, you have several options for finding the group. You can also try searching for "the satanic temple" or "TST" along with the name of your city, state or region, both on the web and on Facebook or other social media. However, if the chapter isn't also listed on the main TST website, there's a chance it's not an official chapter and if it's using the TST name or graphics, is operating in violation of TST's copyright.
You'll also find a few communities who, while they do follow TST's Seven Tenets and share TST values, for one reason or another have decided not to follow the official route to Chapterhood and instead operate independently of the TST organization. Through your usages of the other realms you truly understand the self, but while on the demi godhead level if an experience or anything happens that causes doubt in your selected path then the other realms are still there for you to walk around as you see fit.
Realm 8 — Godhead — When you reach this realm you truly know the self and exactly what the self wants. You solidly have your personal fraction relating to your thought process and have attained the pragmatic maxim of applicability. This realm is yours and yours to own, it contains a large golden throne that the internal beast will sit in comfortably watching you reap the rewards that your system is bringing you.
As Satanists we will always be on the quest for knowledge, but when the godhead is achieved and understood all the other realms become redundant as all will take place in this realm. These Cognitive realms of Satanic thought are an advantageous outlook to the thought processes of any Satanist. Satanism has no room for external hierarchy but an internal one would ensure that we are crafting the right path to what we want to achieve.
Satanism is individuality, and the realms are individual to you, so walk them all, no matter how long it takes the Godhead will be reached when all the personal blocks fall in to place. Web View Mobile View. Right, Left, What! He will sometimes speak in vulgar terms, which is especially expressed in the bullying that Reficul and he torment Ivlis with.
He has his fair share of pushiness and pompousness but has also shown signs of a cheery childish side of himself, being carefree, and thinking highly of himself - using the Japanese personal pronoun "ore-sama" which in English is localized to "My Magnificence".
His interests are noticeably perverted, Satanick being seen with various peculiar objects and uses innuendos often in his dialogue. He may also have knowledge regarding medieval history and lore judging by his preferences, upon surveillance of his usage of the Pear of Anguish in the now-deleted MEMOs.
Similar to his older brother Fumus , Satanick will use some sort of tool when inflicting violence on others. Satanick's emotions vary from that of flamboyancy to ones of deep sorrow. His character chart on the Deep-Sea Prisoner character page shows that his emotions are all varied on the high spectrum.
It has been implied that due to past traumas, Satanick drifts between happiness and depression. Deep-Sea Prisoner has also said that when Satanick goes out with a man that he really does love, he will end up getting "kinda messed up in the head. Satanick's genderbend, named Satanica, has been said to have a strong mental state unlike Satanick. Deep-Sea Prisoner has stated that he was once "a person of great influence. Due to traumatic events in his past - one notable loss being someone he deeply cared for - Satanick has "old wounds that haven't been healed.
In Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea -Reboot- , Satanick was shown to have created various lifeforms to make his kingdom more lively. He is shown creating three divine beasts Aounabara , Artamos , and Kigisu to rule over the created Blue Sea , Totsusa Kingdom , and another still-unnamed kingdom in the skies. Being a demon king, Satanick has countless lovers, being described as a "playboy. However, Satanick knows of their existence and loves and spoils them; they are said to be on good terms with him.
Lil is Satanick's wife. Satanick's first time as a "top" was with Lil. She appears to be fine with her husband's promiscuous activities. The reason behind their marriage is "a secret. Glasses is Satanick's son - the only child born to Lil and him, and thus, the only legitimate heir. Glasses does not respond well to this, as his trademark line is " Go fucking die, dad. Fumus is the god of Satanick's world and his older brother.
Satanick is one of the few things Fumus is attached to. He is said to care for Satanick but in "a very bad way," [6] as he has been shown to enjoy both physically and emotionally torturing his brother.
An example of this was when Fumus destroyed the world that Victor Flankenstein had previously lived in, devastating Satanick. As the name of the comic states, Fumus seems to be a prominent cause behind Satanick's distorted views. It was later confirmed during a livestream that Fumus has had several physical relations with Satanick. At the same time, they were seen interacting in a mini-comic seemingly fine.
This seems to indicate that their relationship has many ups and downs. Deep-Sea Prisoner once tweeted that a phrase forbidden to be said to Satanick is, "You're a lot like Fumus," which contains implications that Satanick does not like being compared to his older brother. On the other hand, Satanick and Fumus' genderbend versions are on good terms.
Verna knows this and brings it up, asking her uncle if he wants her how he wanted her mother. Roger cannot escape his adolescent desire, for Edna and now Verna. She writes in an essay on the Trinity and sexuality,. That means the desires we live out in our bodies, in our sexuality in particular, speak to a deeper desire embedded in us—our desire for God and to be united with God. Our bodies tell truths about what we fundamentally desire as the imago Dei that our lips cannot as clearly.
I believe this is true for Roger as well. Deep within Roger is this insistent desire for sameness—we see this with his sexual desire for his half-sister and niece.
Though he tries to keep physical distance from Verna, remaining to her an innocent uncle, he inevitably finds himself in bed with her, a body sharing a fraction of the same chromosomes. Roger wants to be united with his half-sister and niece.
He wants union with sameness, the very thing he claims to be so repulsive in Christ. Roger wants a God who is not reviled by him, but who will stay curled up next to him, even after committing the most atrocious of sins. The next day, Verna will have to face the reality of her actions, that she abused her daughter. But until then, Verna and her abettor Roger unite their bodies together. He narrates:. Lying here with Verna, gazing upward I saw how much majesty resides in our continuing to love and honor God even as He inflicts blows upon us—as much as resides in the silence He maintains so that we may enjoy and explore our human freedom.
This was my proof of His existence, I saw—the distance to the impalpable ceiling, the immense distance measuring our abasement. So great a fall proves great heights. Sweet certainty invaded me.
He wants a God who understands him, who can be related to. Through sex, Updikean characters are met by their truest desires and cannot escape them, as we see with Roger and Verna. His antihero, Roger, does not hold the tension of both Yes and No in his theology, but completely rejects the Yes of God, including the self-revelation of God through the incarnation.
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