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 Zues. They were probably just shuffling pages around to a new domain. Restructuring, I assumed.
I had some contact with a JoS member who wanted me to become a part of the organization, which I politely declined. Not before offering my critique of the internet-based religion, pointing out that its fixation on bashing Jews was rather ironic because their entire premise was just an inversion of the Judeo-Christian worldview. Performing “reverse-torah rituals” only reinforced the idea that the Bible has legitimate magical powers, filled with words received from a supernatural origin.
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.
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