WHO THE HELL IS SATAN?

Here's my understanding of this "Old Enemy" as the literary scholar

Neil Forsyth coined and what I consider to be the foundation of what

is called Satanism.

Satan has always existed, only under other names and guises, Satan

is a powerful and primordial archetype of man's psyche . . . a meme,

or what some may now call a "Godform", I think the Magus of Chaos,

Peter Carroll used that term?

This archetype is the reflection of how we perceive ourselves in

relation to what we call the "others". Satan is a social and cultural

phenomenon as old as the mind of humanity itself. There has always

and will always, be essentially two worldviews consisting of

oppositions and they are "Us & Them" or "Me" and "the rest of you" .

. . etc.

Sumerian and Akkadian tablets concur with this worldview from the

earliest known writings, the ancient Egyptian word for an Egyptian

meant "human", which excluded all who were not Egyptian to be

relegated to 'non-human', the Greek word for non-Greeks was

"barbaroi" (barbarians). The Jewish Essenes called anyone, not an

Essene "ha satan" (the adversary), Zoroastrianism set forth the

dualistic "good" (what we believe in) and "evil" (what they believe

in).

"A society does not simply discover its others, it fabricates them, by

selecting, isolating, and emphasizing as aspect of another people's

life, and making it symbolize their difference"

- William Scott Green (Professor of the history of religion - ancient Judaism, biblical studies, and the theory of religion)

So, who/what is this Satan?

He simply is who you are not!