There is no longer any need for sexual repression. As long as there are two consenting adult partners and you make each other happy, there is no need for guilt or even excuses. We do have birth control these days, so there is no need to bring children into the world before their time. We also have disease control techniques, so with a little discretion, we can even avoid that. The important thing to remember is that sexual experience is fulfilling both physically and psychologically. It is also most important to the unfolding of the personality, the building of self esteem and the measurement of self worth in any individual. Success in finding and pleasing sexual partners enables us to grow to our full and joyous potential, ultimately making us ready to accept and maintain a successful and permanent family relationship. Today, there are many permanent relationships that are in no way successful. That is why there is in excess of a fifty percent divorce rate.
Most of the time, the individuals concerned are emotionally immature and were not ready to join in a lifetime commitment. They are for the most part inexperienced and have no real idea of what is expected of them. They have lived in a hush-hush world of secrecy all of their lives and never had a chance to learn by experience. Then, all of a sudden, they wake up in a situation with which they are ill prepared to cope. What is the problem? The problem is mysticism which is the major negative root of all problems in our society. Even wild animals are better prepared to face life and relationship than are human offspring. Advantage #15 is setting yourself free to grow to full potential and then to live, laugh, love and be happy for the rest of your days. "There is joy in Satanism."
There are those adults living today who were raised under the bonds of mysticism and are sexually repressed because of parental teaching and restriction. The parents learned it from their parents and handed the sickness down to their children ad infinitum. This has to stop! There is no need or benefit to such alien teaching, none whatsoever. Ask yourself, "Is it good for me or bad for me?" Are you one of these adults who suffer under the repression of mysticism? If you are, then it is time to break free, for in the real world, the one in which you live, there is no natural mysticism. Therefore, any mysticism that chains you to limitation, repression and loss is in itself aberrant, wrong and of no value. Ask yourself, "What good does it do?" "Save me from what?" "Does it make me happy?" The true answer is, you can't get a positive answer from something inherently alien, inhuman and negative. Advantage # 16 is realization and no longer hiding from the truth. "To thine own self be True"
There are those who consider themselves unattractive. This is simply not possible as somewhere, someplace there is someone who has been waiting for you. You just haven't found them yet. Perhaps it is that you are still hiding or covering up your natural beauty and radiance under a dowdy facade. Perhaps you have been unconsciously using that dowdy facade as a fail-safe mechanism to make it impossible for you to break the rules of mysticism or for your intended partner to find you. Perhaps subconsciously you believe to never try is to never fail. Quite frankly, there are some "Butt-ugly" people out there who have been successful at finding mates. It makes you wonder. But that's my point. There is someone for everyone, and that's a proven point.
However, your point is to wiggle out from under that negative form of thinking and cast off your disguise. The real you is waiting to emerge, so let yourself out. Get a new hairdo, change clothes, get a makeover or a personal trainer. Do whatever, but get a new lease on life. Quit wearing gray sweats all the time and do something nice for yourself. Start small and grow large in stature, build some self worth and self respect. Build a new and better image and make yourself attractive. Above all, allow yourself to gain some experience and prepare yourself for the time when your true partner will appear. Advantage #17 is shining the apple. "Satan is thinking of you."
"There are none so blind as those who will not see." Yes, the world is full of losers who never quite put it all together in the same place at the same time. They come in all sizes and shapes and can be found anywhere from living room sofas to leaning against a cold brick wall in some midnight alley. For them, the lights never quite came on, and they just couldn't make it on their own. These people fail to understand that the world owes them nothing. Sure, their families might support them as children, and later, a mate or friends might support them for a while. But sooner or later, all that comes to an end.
Anyway, luck has a way of running out when people prove themselves to be losers. True, there may have been a time when the losers tried to go to school, learn a trade, hold a job or do something constructive, but they failed because they didn't apply themselves or have the tenacity to overcome their own shortcomings. In other words, life didn't come easy for them so they quit trying, expecting others to take charge of their lives. This was and is too much to expect as successful people are survival oriented, and understand that they must take responsibility for themselves. Of course, the losers keep kidding themselves along. However, for each of them there either was or is soon coming, that rude awakening when the door slams shut behind them and the sidewalk becomes their home. Are you facing a crisis? Could this happen to you? Perhaps, but it doesn't have be that way. Instead, you can start right now and take charge of your own life. This is called taking one day at a time and putting one foot in front of the other in a focused direction. It entails awakening the survival instinct within yourself, and you have to do it as no one else can do it for you.
Start today, and plan for your future. Look around you and ask some questions. Get some help and then apply that help. If you fail at first, ask why. Learn to analyze your situation and demand some answers from yourself. Here is a secret: no one likes to give up their pleasures for work, so make your work a pleasure! Find something gainful that you like to do, and then pursue it as a career. Set obtainable goals for yourself and then work hard to achieve those goals. In doing so, you will prove to yourself that you can win! One day, you will say to yourself, "If I can do that, I can do this!" At that time, you will lay out a new and higher set of goals, and if you will then apply yourself, you will accomplish those goals too. Advantage #18 is letting go of the mysticism of the past and taking charge of your own future. Hail Satan!
Sailors hated and feared the Doldrums which were places in the vast oceans where the winds stopped blowing for long periods of time, leaving them stranded and in dire straights. The only way out of the Doldrums was to row the ship out of them and into the wind again, but it was any body's guess whether the crew would survive the experience.
Adepts hate and fear runaway emotions for much the same reasons. Sooner or later unchecked emotions or desires will blow or drive us into a belt of calms, and then leave us stranded without a paddle.
When your id serves up a hot, new desire that really looks good, it is a hard thing to turn it down. However, an adept will do just that. I don't intone that an adept won't eat when it is dinner time, as dining is a known experience, and if the adept adheres to his/her reason, then there is no problem. However, if the adept is offered something he/she doesn't understand, they must wait until they do fully grasp the situation before accepting the offering. Just because an adept wants something doesn't mean that he/she will take it-- at least not right away. There is much to be considered. Good for me/Bad for me?
So, emotions mainly make us want or desire and drive us into situations where we shouldn't go or don't want to be. Either that or they make us feel low, sad or depressed because of a failure on our part or because of the actions of some other person who's esteem we hold dear. Perhaps, that person rejected us or just couldn't understand some point we were trying to make to them. Perhaps, we were trying out for a team or working to win a scholarship and didn't make it. There are also situations that bring up the emotion of happiness. For example, let us say that we did make the team and were instrumental in winning a game or perhaps, we won the attentions of someone we liked. The important thing is that we learn to control all emotions so that they don't work against us. How many times has there been a bad accident while driving home from winning a game? How many times has a special person been warm to us one day and cold on another? The important point in dealing with emotions is to never let them control us or make any appreciable difference in our core life experience.
There are those who are manic depressives. Their emotions rise to the greatest of highs and the lowest of lows. These mood swings are derogatory to a stable lifestyle and must be dealt with most offen by medication. There is a tale about a king who had these wide emotional swings, and due to them, his kingdom was crumbling. To stop this deplorable situation, his second in command gave the king a simple golden ring with nothing more than a simple engraving upon it which read, "And this too, shall pass...." Always remember that when your emotions rise up in your throat-- this too, shall pass!
The ring was indeed helpful, but, with solid training in self discipline and control, the episodes of the king's violent mood swings would become more infrequent or even nonexistent. Now why all of this? Well, first we learn to control ourselves with the simple stuff. Later, we must learn to control ourselves on the larger playing field of life where we seriously interact with others, because the emotions that can cause us the most trouble are those that arise from the interaction with other people.
There are those emotionally immature persons who immediately react violently when offended. They may feel that their territory has been breached or that a rival person has shown attention to a man or woman that they considered their personal possession. Often, they will even kill such a trespasser or rival when their emotions flare up and they can't control them. Such persons as these, are doomed. If the law doesn't catch them, then it is just a matter of time until one of their own or a rival person destroys them. All this due to unchecked emotion. All this destroys lives and returns nothing. It is common knowledge that in tight social environments highly emotional people are excluded. Even in wolf packs, the Alpha wolf has been known to break the neck of a aberrant cub who needlessly harms his siblings. Why should the pack be weakened by one aberrant member?
Gain control over your emotions as you can't even own yourself, let alone someone else! Look in the mirror. Today, you are older than yesterday. but not as old as tomorrow. See, you can't control your aging, so you don't even own your body. You can't control its natural functions, how are you going to control another? However, you do own your mind and you can control it! So what if a boy or girlfriend or even wife or lover runs off with someone else? Is it worth ruining your life over? Is it worth destroying other people over? If the person wanted to stay with you, they would have done it. A few weeks from now, you will have another, even better mate or perhaps the old one will come crawling back... An adept will not allow the actions of another to affect or redirect his/her life experience. When an event is over, an adept merely looks for the value in the experience and then awaits the next opportunity. ADVANTAGE # 19 is becoming the master of your emotions before they master you. "Take charge and become!"
The concept of self esteem seems rather important in the minds of toady's warm, fuzzy thinkers, but to create a false sense of self worth when the person is actually deficient among his or her peers is setting that person up for a big fall later on when he or she actually has to compete in the real marketplace. Eventually, such persons will have to compete in the cut-throat market, and if they are not actually up to it, they will soon find themselves setting upon the curbside, wondering just how they got there. As is said, "Those who can do, while those who can't, teach." If a person is good at repairing automobiles or weaving baskets, then let them do just that. Not everyone is going to be a physicist or philosopher. Besides, sooner or later even a physicist will need a brake job.
Each person has gifts or talents, read that proclivities, that if reinforced, will make them exceptional among their peers. It is best to establish a person's strengths and build them up into an asset or resource than to make them believe that they are wonderful in all things. Why should everyone be a jack of all trades? Why not let nature take its course and create specialists who are really good in their own particular disciplines? Those persons who can do something worthwhile really well and get paid for it are happy people. ADVANTAGE #20 is coming to grips with who you are and then enjoying being that to the fullest! "Know the Dark Joys."
One of the greatest dysfunction's of modern times is failed relationships, and they seem to be happening with greater and greater frequency these days. Perhaps, it is that no one is any longer teaching the right way to live. At one time when people were few, each individual was of the greatest importance to the tribe as that person's skills and abilities were invaluable and near irreplaceable. Therefore, every effort to encourage community and brotherhood was taken seriously.
Today, however (for the moment) there are a great many more people, and too many of those people are developing an attitude that they can do without their brother, sister, friend or spouse. The old adage that there are many more fish in the sea seems to be taken for granted, and husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings and friends will part company over the simplest of disagreements. How many husbands (or wives for that matter) have left a spouse of long standing for a fling or new relationship only to discover a few months later that they have irreparably erred on the side of judgment and left a good home for a poor one?
The big cities are awash with young people who are living in near desperation and at the mercy of those who would abuse and use them for ill purposes just because they can get away with it. These kids have left their homes and families in quest of some sort of ideal, change or to be able to do what they want when they want, giving up the safety of their nest, voluntarily. They are reactionaries in search of a dream that doesn't exist. The reality is that they have few salable skills in the cutthroat market except to be used by the predators, inhabiting the underbelly of society for their own nefarious purposes. The kids have literally traded their headache for an upset stomach.
When Cain Killed his brother, Able, oh so long ago, his reality changed for the worse and forever-- his loss was great when he regained his senses and faced reality. What Cain had done was to destroy his own nest and was summarily flung into the outer darkness to fend for himself. Things are no different toady. Unrestrained emotions flare forth and do untold damage to others, bringing on the wrath of society and the long arm of the law into play. Countless lives have been ruined by unbridled emotions, mostly because young people are not taught any better way of dealing with common relationship problems. Simply learning the rule of three would save people a world of hurt.
The adept's way of dealing with relationships is to gain a multi-perspective and a keen understanding of all that enters his/her circle of awareness. That's being able to see and being able to comprehend in two or more directions at once. In other words, an adept learns to both look at situations from his or her own point of view and to also view and contemplate them from the perspective of other affected individuals. The key to successful relationships is to always check things out from several angles before acting: Just ask these simple questions: "Good for me / bad for me...? Good for you / bad for you...? Good for us / bad for us...?" Then perhaps after a time, you discover that you are large enough to leave a few of the marbles on the table without feeling deprived. If you haven't learned the secret of the master gambler, then return to Satanic Advantage #1 and learn it at all costs! ADVANTAGE #21 is creating win / win situations. "There is more to life than playing cards."
There once was a man who searched the world over for the perfect mysticism that would indeed comfort his soul through all eternity. He searched high, and he searched low. He fell in step with many different disciplines, and followed in the footsteps of many different holy men. However, no matter how much he humbled himself, no matter how many debasement's he suffered upon his countenance, each attempt failed in some important measure. None it seemed, had all the right answers at all the right times in all the right places. Always, a gaping hole would appear in the fabric of their mystical logic when subjected to perfect scrutiny, and this was not acceptable. After all, he was offering perfect faith for perfect mysticism, was he not? In effect, he was paying perfect money for a perfect product and was disillusioned by the perfect failure of all his mystical aspirations and those of his mentors. He was offered everything from prayer wheels to floating, blue feathers, but none had solid enough roots to carry a person any appreciable distance along the road of life, let alone carry his/her soul along that path that winds through the stars where the cosmic winds blow for eternity upon eternity. Finally, there came a day when he had to stop kidding himself and take stock of reality as it was and is and always will be.
Anyway, he followed the trail of the elusive perfect mysticism to the ends of the Earth and one day found himself sitting upon a great stone before a still pond of clear water. Soon, he found himself gazing into the water and saw his own reflection upon the mirror of that perfect surface. It was then he realized that He and his here-and-now environment were the only realities he had to deal with, now or ever. It was then that he realized that he was gazing upon the face of God or at least one of the many faces of God and knew in his heart that at last he had found perfection. All that mattered was within himself, and if he would perfect that, all else would fall into step with him. Absentmindedly, he tossed a pebble into the center of his own image and watched the ripples radiate out from the center and came to another revelation: he was the center of his own existence and his words and actions, more than anything else, would, for better or worse, control his own past, present and future. There was no mysticism in his new-found revelation, and none was needed. ADVANTAGE #22 is gazing into the mirror of life and accepting the obvious truth.
For everyone who knows anything, there are millions of souls who know nothing. Once you have lived well, sought the truth and found it, growing strong in your own essence and security, leave a legacy behind for others. Join the society of the Old Ones who are remembered as those who have gone on before. At first we draw on others, using every ploy to learn and grow and be and do. Later, we gain experience and expand and flower into greatness, raising our stature until we are known and well respected.
However, there comes a time when we have it all and are secure enough to pass on our knowledge to the youngers who know little. This is where we can grow even more by becoming a respected mentor who can save them many weary miles on their life's journey. It costs us little but time and consideration of our fellow man. It is no sacrifice to leave a legacy of knowledge and well-being behind us that will in some way uplift the human race, making life easier and better for those who pass our way. Besides, the notoriety is somewhat pleasing. Advantage #23 is casting a long shadow.
I wish you well!
Father Leved
