MY DARK, SATANIC LOVE
by Magistra Peggy Nadramia
I see a red door, and I want to paint it black. I'm one of the
things that goes "bump!" in the night. I'm a born Satanist. I'm a
happy little blob of custard and you can't nail me to any wall;
in fact, I'd pull those nails out and aim them at _you_. Tell me
how negative I am; tell me how I'm filled with hate. You're not
just stupid -- you're wrong.
Dracula loved his brides. Dr. Frankenstein loved his monster. My
Satanic love burns fiercely; it's perfect and uncompromising.
Firstly, necessarily, I love myself. I'm my own God, after all,
and I put no Gods before Me. I'm uppermost in my mind; I always
bring me flowers. Sometimes I realize I could have done something
better; sometimes I make mistakes. It's wonderful how I learn
from these things; it's exciting to have an opportunity to be an
even better Me. Even when I deny myself something, withhold
gratification, it's always in order to enjoy something even more
fulfilling and worthwhile down the road. This is why I can hate
so purely, so irrevocably, anything that wastes my precious time,
energy and attention.
Along with Me, I love He Who Is Not Me, my husband. He is, for
one thing, the consciousness in which I can see a wonderful
reflection of my own God, myself. His love for me qualifies him
with the very best of taste and discernment, after all; he
obviously knows what's good for _him_. My cells respond to his
pheromones, and being around him gives me a heightened feeling of
happiness, contentment and well-being. The shape of his face is
the dearest sight in the world to me. He is my mentor, my master,
my very best friend; I have placed with him my perfect trust, and
he accepts it as only a real man can. His hopes, dreams, goals
are mine; his disappointments are mine, too, and thusly I hate
whatever distresses him or gets in his way. This hate, too, is
black and pure, like gunpowder; it can burn as brightly and as
feverishly as my love.
Next, I love my tribe, my folk, those who are like as me. They
can be friends or family, but in my heart they are simply my
tribe, and the Black Flame burns within all of them. They light
my days and bring me joy through their achievements and antics;
they make the world a more interesting place, and only a Satanist
knows what a gift that is. Sometimes they are close enough to
share food or warmth or simply company; sometimes they are far
away, voices on phone lines, words on a page. But they're always
in here, part of me, my folk. I cannot feel indifferent toward
those who would distress my tribe. He who attacks them attacks
Me; he who places obstacles in their way earns my ire, my enmity,
my hate.
As a natural-born Satanist, I'm joyfully free of the
Judeo-Christian-Islamic bias against non-human animals, and so
have never questioned that what I feel and have felt for my pets
is pure and simple love. I love them more than I love many
people; I value their lives more highly. The Black Flame of Satan
burns dark and soft in animals, at its purest and deepest. I
bristle and chafe at the laws that give destructive, unwanted,
horrid little children more rights than my dog has. She is my
property, and I can only protect her as such. A product of a
thousand generations of breeding for domestication, for
compatibility with humans, she is nevertheless only a
hair's-breadth away from wild. As highly as I treasure her life,
so deeply does my hate run for those who would be cruel to her. I
bare my fangs at them.
I love everything that belongs to me, all my stuff. I love my
books, my music, my pretty china, my coffee machine, my raincoat,
my old, soft green blouse. I hate anybody who would steal,
destroy or disorder my precious stuff; why wouldn't I? What value
could such a creep have that would exceed that of my heavy
stoneware mug, my perfect leather bag?
Contingent on all of this, I love the world. It's so beautiful,
so perfect a setting for my God, Me. I love mountains, the sea,
acres of trees without a single house, rows of houses all antique
and charming, museums, fog, delicious nourishment, quiet
afternoons, star-filled nights. If only there weren't all these
anti-life bastards who want to fuck it all up, who hate
themselves so much they have to destroy the source of their own
sustenance. I hate them. Only in the depths of the Black Flame in
my heart is it known how much I hate them and what they've done
to the world, these library-burners, these child-molesters, these
people who, as Charlie said, kill things that are better than
they are. When they ask why we hate Christians, can they ever
really understand the answer unless they love as we do, love with
the dark, Satanic love of life and self?