Don't get me wrong, I love fiction; alas, I just do not read it as much as I should. Instead, I opt for books that are more like essays, about folklore and superstition. Maybe it's for academic reasons, maybe it is because I am what they write about. But, no matter. I find it interesting and I have been able to connect almost all superstition and folkloric beliefs and realized that they are all universal. However, I read a book by a Satanist called Fosforos. Most people told me not to, claiming that the book was cursed and other odd things. But I went ahead and did it, and it was the most profound exploration of science, philosophy and religion that I've ever read. I know that a lot of people would judge me, saying that what this man claims is most untrue and therefore should be avoided, but I see striving toward the light and goodness as a bad thing.
To strive to light and only goodness is to deny the darkness hidden within us all. It is a path of ignorance, for you are denying the truth that nothing is good and nothing is bad. I can be good. I've helped children before, but I've also gotten angry and punch someone (Although, I don't fight anymore. I just stopped one day). The most interesting part of the book was the chapter on Polyharmonia, or the belief that we are all one. He claims that evil is caused by ignorance, and that ignorance breeds fear and paranoia and then goes on to create aggression. I think, that most Christians would agree with this man no matter his religious orientation. What was different, and a common feature for people considered heretics by the Christian church is that his understanding of the Bible and its history was better refined than the priest of this time. I learned a lot, but I'm still not finished with it. Here's an excerpt from page 18, which summarizes the topic of chapter one:
1) There is one all-encompassing cosmos, the existence of which is certain, eternal, and unconditional - of this there is no doubt.
2) Because it remains and does not change, oneness must be in a constant state of balance. Oneness, without anything external to it, must be unchanging in its basic being. Consisting of and having in itself the causes of change -laws- or rather the Reason that is their essence, oneness is the background against which that Reason acts and define its action. Therefore, it cannot be changed by that action without the laws themselves changing, which in turn would be in contradiction to their own basic being. If such were the case there could be nothing perceptible.
3) However, since the harmony in this unity can act as a foundation for the laws that govern existence and manifestation, it cannot be in contradiction with them. Therefore, in unity, as in everything that exist below it and in multiplicity - in other words, that which is inside of it in a fragmented and crystallized form, both in the spiritual and in the physical worlds - there must exist the same degree of opposite forces, polarities that together are perfectly neutral from the viewpoint of the whole.
The list itself is a lot longer than what is written, but it gives a fine example of what the book is really about. This is one of those books that I would have sitting on my desk to pick up whenever I need to fully understand a problem.
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