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SATAN, THE SON, THE WOMAN

The reader asks how an idea is born. He would like to know what to do to get there too. But he who has important things to say is in a hurry to express himself and cares little whether one knows the road he has traveled. Besides, the paths of knowledge are multiple, and only the goal is one. The divergences come from the fact that one often stops mid-way, or at some other point, and announces that he has arrived.

Now, no one has arrived if he has not stopped worrying about material life. None of those who believe that the supreme knowledge is given to improve life down here has arrived. That is the irrefutable sign, and don’t ask us how we have operated if hunger still scares you, and sickness terrifies you.

No book read in a comfortable armchair can instruct, and no knowledge learned in order to shine can open the eyes.

If we speak, it is only because the hour has come, and the Divinity, which is triple and also one, requires that Its truth be proclaimed. It is a necessity for God, not for mankind.

The hour has sounded of which it is said: Many are called, few are chosen. But where are the chosen? We do not see them. . . . Who knows, perhaps just one is enough . . .

That is also a sign of imperfection: the fear of finding oneself alone.

But now we take up our subject, the leaves fall to the November wind, winter approaches, the seed has been sown in the vast plains of the North.

Satan and the Son, the second term of the Trinity, are one: two opposites in one, two poles of the same axis. He who bows before the Son bows before his enemy Satan, and he who goes to the black mass believes he is praying to Satan but he is praying to Christ, and in the shadow of souls the Black and the White find each other again in a single entwining.

Men have separated the Gentle Lamb from the tragic Abettor of Evil, because in their primary essence these two were separate. The law of the divine Breath willed it, and Jesus had the terrifying illumination of it when he cried out on the cross: Oh! My Father, why have you abandoned me?

The Father did not abandon the Son, it was the Son who detached himself, as is logical. But he who flees feels himself pushed on by an inescapable law, and that gives him the impression that he is being pushed away. He curses the law of flight, he becomes his own enemy.

Satan is on the horizontal line (see chapter 1), the will to stop. He says: “I myself am of divine essence. I will be God wherever I find myself. If my power is limited, it is because the Law pushes me beyond myself. So I will resist the Law, I will pluck the apple from its tree and, evolving in a spiral around myself from the depths of my center, I will vanquish God, I will be God.”

It is on the horizontal line that this Thought is born. It maintains itself eternally, for everything is eternal in Divinity. Raise yourselves above yourselves to understand that.

But upon the horizontal line there always lives this other Thought as well: “I will go ahead, for I am imperfect. I will go farther, farther still, to the place where the Light is again found. There the Celestial Star shines, my haven is there, I will lead mankind there.”

Obviously, he who, because of the law of the fall, is precipitated into the creation cannot conceive of his salvation outside of the salvation of the others. For the others are him, and he is the others. The Father has not created anything without the Son, and all things exist through the Son; this dogma is true.^*3 But the Father does not need the others, who, anyway, are nothing, and that is why the Son endlessly begs the Father to accept them: make them one in us, as we are One, You and I.^†1

The Father has his law, as the Son has his. For the human brain this law is called Justice, and an iron rod symbolizes it. If one [person] suffices for the shining forth of the Light, one will be there. If several are needed, there will be several. A certain prophet foresaw that there would be one hundred forty-four thousand; what does it matter, because everything happens as it must. We, La Flèche, have received the order to say that a single woman suffices. We do not take pride in it, we write it to obey.

What then is needed? A very simple thing: for Satan to recognize himself in the Christ and that Christ in his turn should say: I was Satan . . . two brothers, a single essence.

Why a woman for this reconciliation? Why a woman to persuade the will-to-stop to accept the law of flight and also to convince him who has left the Father to return to the Father because the true path is the line that is oblique to the nature of Satan?

Why? Because, as we said in the first number of La Flèche, the divine Breath^‡1 traces by its movement the three sides of the triangle: from the culminating point the fall, from right to left, to the horizontal base and after running along this baseline, still from right to left, the ascension back to the point of departure. This triple movement is eternal and included always at every point, but the profane will never understand it. It suffices then for one to follow this statement according to the notion of time and of space.

The ascension on the line of return implies the harmonious combination of the will-to-stop with the energy of the flight. This fusion of the two opposing wills in a single new movement cannot be achieved without the influence of a third force, and notably of that, which, emanating directly from the Father, constitutes for the double Son the irresistible attraction of the Woman. We said in our first number why this force is of necessity feminine. It is the negative of the Father, travel in the opposite direction: no longer from above to below, but from below to above. It is essential to understand that.

In the projection of the divine into the human, that is to say in human life, where everything is nothing more than repetition and resemblance to the divine plan, the moment of the beginning of the return [ascensional] movement must be symbolized, or consecrated, by an analogous magical operation: a woman must become the instrument of redemption for a man.

This is delicate to explain, and we need to open a parenthesis to make clear what the shadows of the Christian era have obscured. We must tell what purpose should be served, so that all things may be fulfilled, by the union of the man and the woman on the bed of love.

All flesh is the condensation, or better, the immobilization of spirit. All flesh is Satan; all life is the Son in flight. To accept the flight and push back against the immobilization; that is what the predestined woman must do: she who will mark the beginning of the new era in human history. This rite is formidable, for it demands on the part of the woman a love of superhuman power combined with capacity for renunciation that is no less unusual.

The woman who will place herself at the head of humanity for the new march will adore the man who will be offered to her, will recognize in him the White and the Black, will absorb the White, will keep it in the depths of her flesh a certain number of days (3,385), then, slowly and painfully, will detach herself from it. Then the Son, nourished by the flesh of the woman, will shine again through her discarnate, and the man who shall have served for this magic and in whom from then on there will remain only Black will suffer atrocious moral torments. The woman will see that and will rejoice, for thus the wound will be washed, and the Good separated from the Bad: the flight from the stopping.

In the womb of the woman, the spirit will have received the beneficial satanic (carnal) energy, and one will see at the end of the operation, after the 3,385 days, the male essence in the feminine substance.

The woman in whom this will be accomplished will dictate to the new generations the rites of the Religion of the Third Term.

We have used the future tense to describe all of that, but take note: these things are accomplished, and Satan is redeemed.

The divine magical operation of which we have just spoken has been carried out in the course of the last nine years. Exactly from the fourteenth of July 1921 to the twentieth of October 1930. This is what authorizes us to unveil the mystery, so that all those who are worthy of it should have their share of joy. There are beings who have suffered much during these nine years because, without knowing it, they were participating in the act of magical transubstantiation. Their vital energy was taken as a contribution. At present, peace is again upon them, and joy returns to their homes. And in the heavens the intermediary forces sing Ave Maria.

Humanity as a whole will feel the effect of the magical redemption little by little, with the establishment and diffusion of the new rites. On this subject one can profitably read the article of our friend and colleague Auguste Apôtre^*4 on the black, white, and golden masses.