Delving into the history of satanism always somehow seems to lead back to the intelligence services as in the following article:
Marketing, The Last Of The Black Arts – The most effective yet underrated black magician is a person who you’ll never ever see credited in occult circles, yet he was, and still is truly a force of nature. Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew studied the mind, not for the minds sake, he studied for profit and ultimately the corporation’s sake. Bernays used his magic to stimulate consumption through impulsive indulgence, to sell canned spaghetti, cigarettes, soda-pop and war, for his own amusement and prosperity… some would say Bernays is the evilest of all evil doers. He definitely trumps Crowley, Levi and LaVey as far as manipulation of the mind goes, Edward Bernays changed the way humanity as a whole thinks.
I’ve studied Bernays, and at times almost feel bad about using his black magic teachings and marketing techniques for fun and profit… especially when helping to spark a campaign that turns toxic, that creates monsters, such as I have done with The Satanic Temple. The organization started off as a filmmaker’s parody to lampoon outdated politics and to produce a future documentary, the group is now working to become a full fledged religion.
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I was approached about this project by my old pal Doug Mesner, a one eyed kid from Detroit and the person I unmasked as Lucien Greaves in Vice Magazine a couple of months ago. Doug and I share a rich history together, it’s a small part of my history and a large part of Doug’s.
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m proud of my pupil for so many things, even some of the stuff Doug has done with The Satanic Temple. At the same time, I’ve become very skeptical of The Satanic Temple, its motives, and its owners. Two of the three behind The Satanic Temple have never been associated with Satanism or any occult group, nor do they appear to have any substantial achievements that can be credited with anything but buying their way in with their family’s money. Spectacle Films is rich kid Cevin Soling, Harvard graduate, director, producer, and the person pulling and paying for the strings of The Satanic Temple. Rich kid #2 is David Guinan, producer, director and creative director at Arise Media. My old pal Doug Mesner is a Harvard graduate who studied cognitive science, (in layman terms, cognitive science is the study of the mind including – psychology, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology and the study and design of intelligent agents). Finally, Doug Mesner is a card carrying member of The Church of Satan, yet he chooses to use the fake name Lucien Greaves when he’s publicly speaking about Satanism — all the while boasting bravery for coming out of the Satanic closet!
I guess you could say, I take my personal, creative and political history seriously and my association with Anton LaVey just as serious. Once you are honored and given an award from the one and only Black Pope himself, in my world, there’s not much that can top that, and it certainly cannot be topped by a comedy act turned cult, after all there is nothing worse than when funny turns serious!
Doug has unfortunately taken his cognitive science degree and started a collegiate debate he feels satisfied he could win time and time again, a debate that regards religion as needed by the human animal and claims Satanists “are doing good” – perhaps the goal all along was to form a cult, a cult that is positioned as an anti-cult cult… I was warned of this possibility years ago, first when Doug asked me to help him with research on The Process Church, which he insisted was skeptical inquiry, but seemed instead to be a search for a primer, and then later when I was enlisted by Mesner, along with Douglas Rushkoff and Michael Shermer for the non-profit group, “The Center for Healing Spiritual and Cultic Abuse“. The group died off fast, regardless the warnings of Doug’s intent rolled in.
Methinks Harvard turns out these great debate artists, they can talk their way into any position of power without having to ever mean what is said, because of course, they can also talk their way out of anything they have said… it’s all open to interpretation, it’s all relative – maybe Doug Mesner aka Lucian Greaves is the Satanic, white, Obama. He’s sure starting to sound that way to me.
Is starting a religion and/or becoming a filmmaker even a respectable use of that Harvard degree in cognitive science? Why would someone study the mind to then go and make films if their intent wasn’t a want of manipulation? Art and film schools certainly are not producing brain surgeons. Then Doug told me his main motivation for The Satanic Temple was profit, to create a “substantial income”, that was enough for me to want to cease helping in any way, and to question the true intent of this project. While I am all for profit, I want nothing to do with a cult. Because the people The Satanic Temple wants to extract money from are MY people – metalheads, the angry and anti-social, those of the Hessian culture...
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I recall Doug Mesner telling me the C.I.A. had asked him to write some private reports for them, maybe in my most paranoid state I could run with and ramble about the possibilities there… More likely, The Satanic Temple is just the act of a group of social and career climbers using slick psychological marketing tricks in the tradition of Edward Bernays to meet their ends. But at the least, I think anyone could question and everyone should question the intent of a guy from wealth and without ties to the occult as to why he has decided to fund a Satanic religion while pulling the strings of a guy who has such a brilliant mind, who has studied the science of the mind at one of the top learning facilities in the world, and maybe, just maybe you could come up with the same conclusion I have, that The Satanic Temple has ulterior motives above and beyond helping mankind or making a movie.
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letsdothis2 ago
Links between the Process Church and the military unit SHAEF: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2643401/13369160
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Bernstein,_Baron_Bernstein
Night Will Fall (2014)- Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.
http://stories-of-london.org/the-granada-theatre-circuit-giant-sidney-bernstein/
SHAEF patch origin http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/170697-shaef-patch-origin/
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'Teamski', on 14 Mar 2013 - 4:13 PM, said:
Neat story! Thanks for sharing.
-Ski
Thanks Ski, It's good to know the history behind the patch. I am intrigued by the two people named as the final designers. "The final design was produced by Colonel Lack, with the artistic help of Corporal D. Q. Goodall, an ATS girl. " These two people obviously are British. I'm just speculating here but when I see credit going to a colonel and a female corporal, I wonder if the corporal may have had more to do with the design than the colonel? By the way, ATS stands for Auxiliary Territorial Service and was the equivalent of our WAACS or WACS. The most famous "ATS Girl" is her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, pictured here in her uniform along with her mother, Queen Elizabeth, her father King George VI and her sister Princess Margaret.
Origin of the Rainbow Patch https://dmna.ny.gov/arng/42div/?id=patch