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The Order of Nine Angles (ONA or O9A) is a Satanic left-hand path and terrorist network that originated in the United Kingdom, but has since branched out into other parts of the world. Claiming to have been established in the 1960s, it rose to public recognition in the early 1980s, attracting attention for its neo-Nazi ideology and activism.
There, Kassler counsels Satan, who really just wants to tell his story to the good doctor. Satan longs for everlasting empathy and is therefore convinced that if he can just get someone to listen to his story, humankind will understand his perspective. In return, Satan promises to answer the question of life after death.
Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshiped, rather a reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will". [236] LaVeyan Satanists embrace the original etymological meaning of the word "Satan" (Hebrew: שָּׂטָן satan, meaning "adversary"). According to Gilmore, "The Church of Satan has chosen Satan as its primary symbol because ...
Whereas in Christian doctrine Satan was an enemy of not only god but humanity, in the romantic portrayal he was a brave, noble, rebel against tyranny, a friend to other victims of the all powerful bully, i.e. humans. These writers saw Satan as a metaphor to criticize the power of churches and state and to champion the values of reason and liberty.
Here, Satan is both one of the Bənē hāʾĔlōhīm in the heavenly court, as well as a mal’āḵ expressing God's interaction with humanity. [ 35 ] Michael D. Coogan notes that it is only in the late books that the terms "come to mean the benevolent semi-divine beings familiar from later mythology and art."
From the beginning of Christianity, adherents have held that possession derives from the Devil (i.e. Satan) and demons. In the battle between Satan and Heaven, Satan is believed to engage in "spiritual attacks", including demonic possession, against human beings by the use of supernatural powers to harm them physically or psychologically. [1]
A satan is involved in King David's census and Christian teachings about this satan varies, just as the pre-exilic account of 2 Samuel and the later account of 1 Chronicles present differing perspectives: And again the anger of the L ORD was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them, saying: 'Go, number Israel and Judah.'
The Elohist sources speak of bənē hāʾĔlōhīm ("sons of God"), manifestations of the Divine and part of the heavenly court in the Canaanite pantheon. [5] According to Genesis 6:1–4 the bənē hāʾĔlōhīm descended to earth and mated with human women and beget the Nephilim, followed by God sending down a flood clean the world from humans.