Joy of Satan Rebranding
As I was updating my Links section, clicking through to ensure each one actually led somewhere, I discovered that the JoS Incubus/Succubus article was missing. This wasn’t all that surprising, since I knew Joy of Satan was changing into Temple of Zeus. They were probably just shuffling pages around to a new domain. Restructuring, I assumed.
I don’t believe the Bible has any more magical credibility than Liber Lilith, or Alastair Crowley’s The Book of the Law. All that really matters is what we, the readers, decide to do with those words.
Is it possible that my emails held some sway over the leadership at JoS? Triggering this paradigm shift? Probably not. The whole edgy, disenfranchised internet crowd is forever moving towards greater extremes of Left and Right.
Anyway, I went searching for the original article. Though I might not agree with the religion, I appreciated Maxine Detriech’s writing about her interaction with an incubus-type spirit and the intimacy she experienced. Come to find out that Temple of Zeus has a new article, denouncing succubus and incubus spirits as a masturbatory fantasy. Whoever wrote this clearly has no experience interacting with a sex demon. I suppose that means High Priestess Maxine was defrocked? Or perhaps she died?
I’m not going to waste the bandwidth trying to look into what actually happened. All I’ve got is this article and I’ll do my best to give a response from the perspective of an experiencer of the phenomena.
Here’s the TL;DR of JoS/Temple of Zeus’ new stance on sex spirits, as handed down from their High Priest:
Incubi and succubi are an intentional mistranslation by medieval Christians of Plato’s daemons. The author posits that the Greek term, eros, has nothing to do with sexuality - certainly not when it comes to these intermediary spirits. The rabbinical tradition, through texts like the Zohar, only added to the mania of sexually repressed religious men. The rabbis were simply mythologizing their neuroticism as nightly visitations from demons collecting nocturnal emissions.
This new High Priest, Zevios Metathronos, dismisses the experiences of modern contactees as indulging in digital echo chambers of powerful self-suggestion.
He also posits that sex spirits do not exist in the Western tradition - not until Christianity came along. The early church fathers demonized all the former deities of polytheistic paganism, and pathologized unsanctioned sexuality in general. Premarital sex is bad, therefore demons must encourage and take part in such debauchery.
He’s got a bunch of sources in the footnotes. It’s a well written take from a rather prudish perspective - not too dissimilar from what one would find in an established psychology journal. Many modern academics also believe the succubus phenomena is merely self-suggestion, auto-eroticism, and even schizophrenia. The only point they would disagree on is the ancient Greek deities being a literal force in the world.
I agree with many of the historical observations made by our High Priest friend here. Yes, the Christians did demonize all of the ancient deities wholesale. Yes, Plato likely didn’t have a concept of sex spirits, based on his writings. Yet I think the author is intentionally leaving out a whole host of historical and mythological precedent for sexuality being very much entwined with spirituality.
- The cult of Dionysus, Bacchus’ orgies, and the like.
- Zeus himself impregnating many human women and nymphs against their will.
- The Isis/Venus fertility cults.
The author argues that all of these supernatural carnal unions were edifying one-off events for the mortal counterpart and ultimately resulted in conceiving the old great heroes of legend. Yet clearly, Eros does not preclude sexuality. That fact is inescapable, as much as our Joy of Satan revisionist author attempts to compartmentalize the two.
The motivation behind this article becomes more apparent towards the end as he makes these points:
Spiritual Damage (Relating to modern succubus relationships.)
- It replaces real divine connection with masturbatory fantasy.
- It trains the practitioner to associate spiritual experience with sexual arousal.
- It creates dependency on a fantasy.
Firstly, it is not a fantasy. The Temple of Zeus organization was born out of the writings of a woman who asserted these experiences were, in fact, real. This liturgical about-face smacks of attempting to court traditional conservatives - those who are trying to escape the Judeo-Christian framing for their morality, while yet still appearing virtuous.
They’re taking paganism and making it lame!
Not that it’s any of my concern, but I can only imagine this new theology will alienate anyone who has a genuine spiritual experience that happens to have a sexual component. Wouldn’t be the first time. Won’t be the last. It’s always better to keep one’s mouth shut about such things in a religious context. Yet it DOES happen. Even to people who have never heard of this phenomena. Even to atheists.
That leads me to Kundalini. I’m aware that the concept comes from the East. Though the experience with that powerful current can be had by anyone. Kundalini is intrinsically linked to sexuality. That’s where true enlightenment begins, with the sexual spark of creation. When properly encouraged and harnessed, this energy rises up the spine, awakening the entire individual to a non-physical reality. I believe succubi are the caretakers of this current, often mischaracterized by those who can’t be bothered to understand them.
Based on my first-hand relationship with a sex spirit, they do not encourage the wasteful expulsion of that powerful vital energy. They bask in it. They fan the flames of our base desire so that it can be transformed into something greater. That’s the whole theme of this blog: Sexual Alchemy. And I believe it’s the occulted basis for many of our most sacred ancient myths - such as Perceus conquering Medusa. It’s the lesson they were all attempting to convey: the proper use of that energy. Succubi understand this on instinct. It is always we humans who go about mucking it up, getting in our own way.
For those who are genuinely interested, read the first book in my Links section, Donald Tyson’s Sexual Alchemy. It has the most comprehensive record of historical examples of sacred sexuality and amorous spiritual entities. My next suggestion would be Ida Craddock’s writings - another scholar who delved deep into the ancient myths and their occulted sexual teachings. This is no mere masturbatory fantasy.
But this sort of spirituality distracts away from producing more white babies, so to Hell with it, right? I get the sense that this reinvented Joy of Satan Ministries hasn’t dropped its fixation on National Socialist politics, hence this attempt at creating hard boundaries: Such as “spiritual cannot be sexual.” I suppose it was inevitable that the political would overpower liberated spirituality, since so few have genuine encounters with the divine.
With all that being said, I’m not going to sit here and pretend that summoning a succubus demon is the most virtuous thing one could do. It is, in fact, an act of rebellion - a shrugging off of the traditional order that says we must marry and reproduce. That is the reason for the associations with Lilith, or any of the other underworld goddesses of ancient times. It is a sign of the days that we live in - where the embrace of demon-kind is preferable to the insanity of human females.
Can you really blame us? Does any man reading this want to tolerate being shacked up with an unhinged, political-activist tyrant of a woman who is, in reality, married to the State? And any children that might result from said union are forcefully injected with poisons, further reinforcing the reality that they are also owned by The Powers That Be?
I don’t know about you guys, but I find the whole situation awfully fucking grim - like something out of a dystopian novel. Forgive me if I’m not jumping up and down with excitement at the prospect of taking part.
That’s all I have to say on the matter.
Thankfully, there are beautiful, loving succubine entities, who happily frolic and play over their chosen sleeping man, rousing him to wakefulness in perfect bliss. They do not shackle him with creeds or dogmas. They do not wield the State against him as chains or a weapon. Instead, they cling to him, basking in the wonderful burning sensation that his manhood provides, doing everything she can to ensure their union never ends.
