What is called the Lord in the Bible is the Ahrimanic force you speak of and Satan is an archetype. Within Satanism just a symbol of rebellion, one I like… but outside Satanism a term that is somewhat confusing.
Satan/Ahriman hides in plain sight as the Lord in the OT aka the Demiurge. That’s my feeling on it.
yes. this was a painful one for me to accept. A tough red pill. But I see it that way too.
I discussed this in my thread
Terror at Crossing the Threshold.
I do think it might be a little more complicated as well than just the Lord in the bible = Ahriman.
Let me explain what I mean: (this comes from a mishmash of my own experience/knowledge and thoughts and the Ahrimanic stuff is large from Rudolf Steiner)
This world is meant as the grounds for us to grow.
We grow through challenge and opposition.
The challenge comes from the nature of the physical, how this world is made.
It is made by Ahriman. He is Lord here over the physical, material world.
Torah also emanated from Ahriman... but...
within the Torah are secrets encoded for the Most High God - that God which is above Ahriman and is essentially, of Love.
Ahriman is meant as a challenger - to oppose full growth into the Truth/Light/God/Love.
So one embracing "the Lord" from the Torah is living with the box that will never enable them to embrace the fullness of God.
But the Torah is also like a riddle, a mystery. To crack the code reveals a path to the One True God that unites all things
and is the Life in the Stone. So torah is not entirely divorced from God though its external expression is Ahrimanic,
just as on this Earth one can transcend the matter-based reality even though its external expression is Ahraminic.
The Torah, especially Genesis Chapter 1, but also throughout, is a code book of Alchemy.
Alchemy teaches how to take the Terra Damnata which is Ahriman's curse and transform it to know the True God
in the Self and to transcend the death that is also from Ahriman's influence over matter.
And back to our thread.
I never use the argument "God gave us this land" as a point in any debate about why Israel and the Jews, for many reasons,
one being, such a thing is VERY Ahrimanic and very "My God is better than your God" sort of foolishness.
Something I have yet to share however is this -
I believe the way the Torah is created to offer opportunity, in the End of Days, which I do believe we are in now,
to correct the errors of our Patriarchs and Matriarchs.
The purpose of this is for healing, and reconciliation and ultimately the love that will radiate from that healing and reconciliation will be tremendous.
Call it part of the Game of Life.
So... in the Torah, the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Ishmael and Hagar is where the rift begins.
It's clear Sarah is jealous/envious/resentful that her son, Isaac, when he finally comes, will not inherit Abraham's kingdom.
So she has Abraham cast out Hagar and Ishmael. <-- this was the original rift.
I believe the most high God is orchestrating the bringing together of Israel with Ishmael to sort this out.
to reconcile this original error.
I do not believe Ishmael did anything wrong. Ishmael laughed as Abraham and Sarah declared that anyone who witnessed the birth of Isaac, the miracle, should laugh. the name Isaac (Yitzhak) literally means "he will laugh." Well, Ishmael did.
I do not believe Hagar did anything wrong. She was even known to be a righteous woman in the Torah and had her name changed.
so i do think the Jewish people have to acknowledge this error.
Hopefully, then, they can be guided to find the way to make amends with Ishmael's descendants.
So, in this light, Ahrimanic influences in the torah are not just evil, bad, false, but designed with a purpose, as described in the above, and including Alchemy and other paths to the Most High God.
