Postmodern Satanism ~ Jason King

[Born]

Recently, Mr. King has been gracious enough to provide and allow the posting of Postmodern Satanism in .pdf...There is also a link to where the book can be purchased...$10.00.
Jason King ~ Postmodern Satanism.
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Jason King also has his own channel on youtube.
Here is Postmodern Satanism in Mr. King's own words...

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[Born]

"Religionists are bound together in their creeds and dogmas, but not so the Satanist. In fact, it is much the opposite, as the Satanist stands apart from such group-think and herdism. While conversant in all the various mentalities which have governed the development of cultures, the Satanist is willfully selective of what he or she chooses to adopt in his or her own personal approach to modeling the world. In other words, whereas the sheep are victims of their ideologies, ingrained since childhood or selected out of psychological weakness, the Satanist is able to approach all systems for what they are: the creations of human beings, and equanimously take what works from each while discarding the detritus.

The Satanist molds their own unique system as best fits their particular situation. It is for this reason that there has been notorious difficulty in uniting Satanists together under a single banner. And we should take solace in this fact, as the herd mentality is toxic to the Satanic viewpoint. But unlike the other side, our diversity is our strength, not our weakness, or something to be overcome through ideological submission. The path of the individual Satanist is one of personal discovery and transformation."

Directly quoted from Postmodern Satanism authored by Jason King.

I had made statements in the past that I intended to review this book. Upon reading this work, I had found a resonance so profound, I could relate it to no other book except for TSB. Of course, I've found it quite hard to review this book conclusively, when I find myself reading it a second time and still learning very much while researching my own points of interest.

There has been an assumption or two when 'plugging' this book, that the author could be considered just another 'devil worshiper' and would likely espouse a great deal of Anton LaVey's work while refusing to give credit where it is due. I've found that this is quite far from the truth of this book, and in fact 'LaVeyanism' is hardly touched on. In fact, there's only one reference made in recommendation to reading TSB.

In order to illustrate this point, I'm going to include what Mr. King has placed as 'Syllabus' within, which gives insight to his influences and recommendations...

Syllabus I: Philosophy
(Philosophy, the 'love of wisdom', is the Queen of Sciences in the classical educational system. It provides a necessary cornerstone for the development of gnosis and underlies all other fields of enquiry by virtue of it's generality. The Satanist should be an avid student of philosophy, for without it, they are destined for mediocrity.)

A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
The Republic - Plato
A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
The Phenomenology of Spirit - G.W.F. Hegel
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

*Selected Volumes of The Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series (editors listed):
Truth - Simon Blackburn, Keith Simmons
Meaning and Reference - A.W. Moore
The Problem of Evil - Marilyn M. Adams, Robert M. Adams
The Philosophy of Religion - Basil Mitchell
Free Will - Gary Watson
Causation - Ernest Sosa, Michael Tooley
The Philosophy of Time - Robin Le Poidevin, Murray MacBeath
The Philosophy of Science - David Papineau
The Phiosophy of Mathematics - W.D. Hart
Theories of Ethics - Philippa Foot
Perception - Howard Robinson
Time - Philip Turetzky
The Nature of Mind - David M. Rosenthal (ed.)

Syllabus II: Science and Mathematics
(Hard Science and Mathematics present the most fundamental and real analysis of the world - as it is, in it's very essence, both scientific and mathematical. The natural outgrowth of philosophy - her firstborn child, it is crucial for the Satanist to master these realms. Ignorance of science and mathematics is simply ignorance.)

Principles of Mathematics - Bertrand Russell
Mathematical mysteries - Calvin Clawson
Prime Obsession - John Derbyshire
Imagining Numbers - Barry Mazur
Infinity and the Mind - Rudy Rucker
Equations of Eternity - David Darling
Substance and Function - Ernst Cassirer
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point - Huw Price
Nothingness - Henning Genz
Constants of Nature - John D. Barrow
In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks - Gerard 't Hooft
Warped Passages - Lisa Randall
The Trouble with Physics - Lee Smolin
The Emergence of Life on Earth - Iris Fry

Syllabus III: History and the Humanities
(Perhaps the most eclectic syllabus offered, and not without reason. The Humanities encompass all the fields which mark our originality and creativity as a species - to be ignorant of these is to be ignorant of SELF. History and Fiction blend together into that which for lack of a better designation can be called the Epic of Existence, and the student is encouraged to discover that very thing which transcends such seemingly disparate categories.)

The Lucifer Principle - Howard Bloom
Human Accomplishment - Charles Murray
The Modern Mind - Peter Watson
The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil (I [Born] recommend this book as well as 'The Singularity is Near' by the same author)
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
A People's History of the united States - Howard Zinn
Theories of Personality - Calvin S. Hall, Gardner Lindzey
The Odyssey - Homer
Gardner's Art Through the Ages - Fred Kleiner, Christin Mamiya
A History of Knowledge - Charles Van Doren
Supernatural - Graham Hancock
Cosmos and Psyche - Richard Tarnas
Humanity - James Peoples, Garrick Bailey
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Atoms of Language - Mark C. Baker
Dune - Frank Herbert [Born]*Great book!
The Big Book of NLP Techniques - Schlomo Vaknin
The Psychology of Consciousness - Robert Ornstein
Everything is Under Control - Robert Anton Wilson
Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams
A Peace to End All Peace - David Fromkin

Syllabus IV: Religion and Eastern Philosophy
(The shortest syllabus offered, for these topics possess not only the most promise, but the most disadvantage as well.Religion represents the best in mankind, and yet also the worst. It is the meeting of numinosity and the theorizing mind; the crystallization of a superfluid. Sublime thought merges with the basest of of prejudices, as the most eminent Principle is subjected to the brute categorizations of human thinking. The truest religion lies not in texts, but in the innermost being of those whom they are addressed.)

A History of Religious Ideas (3 Vols.) - Mircea Eliade
World Scripture - Andrew Wilson (ed.)
Jesus Christ, Sun of God - David Fideler
The Seven Mysteries of Life - Guy Murchie
The Gnostic Bible - William Barnstone (ed.)
The Origins of Koran - Ibn Warraq (ed.)
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Language and Myth - Ernst Cassirer
The Practice of Dzogchen - Tulku Thondrup (ed.)
Time, Space and Knowledge - Tarthang Tulku
The Supreme source - Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Matrix of mystery - Herbert Guenther
Luminous Mind - Kalu Rinpoche

Syllabus V: The Occult
(The occult sciences comprise all those fields of study which have remained resistant to a purely materialistic analysis. These topics are generally met with polite laughter by the uninformed, but are in fact the boundary conditions to our present stage of cognitive understanding. Whereas the religions of the world have bastardized and publicized the true occultism, this syllabus approaches these topics from the proper angle of mystification.)

The Kybalion - "Three Initiates"
Three Books of Occult Philosophy - Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Sepher Yetzirah - Aryeh Kaplan (ed.)
The Secret Doctrine - H.P. Blavatsky
Book Four - Aleister Crowley
The Book of Thoth - Aleister Crowley
The Mystical Qabalah - Dion Fortune
John Dee's Five Books of Mystery - Joseph Peterson (ed.)
Lords of the Left Hand Path - Stephen Flowers
Cults of the Shadow - Kenneth Grant
Nightside of Eden - Kenneth Grant
Azoetia - Andrew Chumbley
Howling at the Sky - Roger Williamson
The Lucifer Diaries - Roger Williamson
The Key of It All - (2 Vols.) - David Allan Hulse
Liber HVHI - Michael Ford
Gates of the Necronomicon - Simon
Sinister Forces (3 Vols.) - Peter Levenda
The Voudon Gnostic Workbook - Michael Bertiaux
The Satanic Bible - Anton Szandor LaVey

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is ready for something 'fresh' and have broken free of the hindrances of 'following' any one group, church, man or philosophy / religion. Enjoy this book, take what you find useful and discard the rest, just as the author intends. Once you've read it, feel free to come back and review, discuss or state opinion...

[Satanic International Network]

Who is that drunk fucker in the video? No ...not the drunk with the black light the drunk with the chops! Anyhow I think the book is awesome. It falls with in my top 3 books about satanism . And I am not just saying that cause Jason is an admin and might hijack my SIN site....lol