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The Dog, Man’s Best Friend, Even unto Death

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The Dog, Man’s Best Friend, Even unto Death. By Tommy Eriksson This year, the 8th of November is associated with the *tithi* of the Hindu lunar calendar (an astronomical interval determined by the angular relationship between the Sun and the Moon). During the new moon that we are now entering, this is celebrated through the festival of Kukur Tihar, during which affection, love and care are shown towards dogs, both family pets and stray street dogs. The dogs are given good food, offered flowers, and marked with a red symbol, a *tika*, on their foreheads. The dogs are honoured for their faithfulness, loyalty and the special bond that human beings have shared with them for many thousands of years. The festival has a particular connection to the two dogs of the god of death, Yamaraja, named Shyama and Sabala, who are mentioned in the Rigveda as offspring of Sarama. Each of these dogs is described as having four eyes, and they act as companions to human beings throughout life and along the ...
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From Khaos to C.A.O.S.

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 From Khaos to C.A.O.S . Text and image by Tommy Eriksson Few concepts in Western intellectual history have undergone as fascinating a transformation as the word chaos . Today, it is commonly used as a synonym for disorder, confusion, or randomness. For the Greek poet Hesiod, however, the word meant something profoundly different. Khaos was the first reality, the primordial opening from which the cosmos could emerge. Between these two meanings lies almost three thousand years of philosophy, religion, literature, and esotericism. When I first began exploring the earliest Greek sources, I was struck by how far the modern understanding of the word had travelled from its origins. The further one follows the concept through history, the clearer a recurring thread becomes: chaos repeatedly appears as a symbol of the creative potential that precedes every form. Khaos – the First Principle The oldest surviving Greek creation account is found in Hesiod's Theogony , composed around 700 B...
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SANTA MUERTE (Updated version)

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SANTA MUERTE ( Updated version ) By Tommy Eriksson ( from The Satanic Order )  Santa Muerte (“Holy Death”) cannot be understood merely as a folkloric Mexican cult figure, but should instead be analyzed as a syncretic death tradition in which pre-Columbian cosmology, colonial repression, folk magic, and modern anti-Christian counterculture are interwoven. From a history-of-religions perspective, she represents not only death as a biological phenomenon, but death as a liminal principle — a boundary force between order and chaos, between social exclusion and existential autonomy. Within a chaos-gnostic and anti-Christian interpretation, Santa Muerte thus emerges as a counter-image to Christian salvation ideology: not a savior demanding submission, guilt, and moral purification, but an impartial and amoral power operating beyond the Church’s dualistic categories of good and evil. Her deepest historical roots are found in pre-Columbian Mexican death cults, where death was not perceived...
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Zeroth Qayin – The Primordial Principle of the Black Flame and C.A.O.S

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Zeroth Qayin – The Primordial Principle of the Black Flame and C.A.O.S . A Chronicle by Tommy Eriksson There are times when a single expression fundamentally changes the way one reads an entire tradition. For me, the name Zeroth Qayin became such an expression. The first time I encountered the term in Liber Falxifer, I regarded it as little more than a variation of the biblical Cain—a darker, more esoteric figure whose purpose was to embody the symbolism of the Falxiferian tradition. Yet after several careful rereadings, that interpretation began to feel overly simplistic. The text seemed to point toward something that preceded the biblical narrative rather than merely expanding upon it. Cain gradually ceased to appear as history's first murderer and instead emerged as an echo of a far older principle. When I later compared this with Liber Sitra Achra, the impression became even stronger. Although the two works employ different symbolic languages and move within partly different me...
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Encountering the Inner Demon – The Shadow, the Daimon, and the Chaosgnostic Path

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Encountering the Inner Demon – The Shadow, the Daimon, and the Chaosgnostic Path By Tommy Eriksson Within the Chaognostic tradition, the human being is not regarded as a finished or static entity, but as a being in a continual state of becoming. True initiatory work therefore does not consist in submitting to external dogmas, but in gradually awakening the forces that already exist within. Throughout history, these forces have been described in different symbolic languages according to the culture and philosophical tradition from which they emerged. Carl Gustav Jung spoke of the Shadow (with a capital "S" when referring to the psychological archetype, just as one may speak of the Devil or Satan with a capital "S"), Plato spoke of the individual's daimon, the Roman tradition referred to the genius, within Thelema we encounter the concept of the Holy Guardian Angel, while within the Luciferian and Chaognostic traditions we often speak of the Inner Demon. At first ...
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Joining The Satanic Order

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Joining The Satanic Order                     (contact tsothesatanicorder@gmail.com) The process of joining The Satanic Order is straightforward. However, a brief introduction is provided to give prospective members a clearer understanding of how the Order is organized and what they can expect upon joining. New members receive an introductory pamphlet containing information that is largely available through other sources, but which has been carefully compiled and presented in a structured and accessible format for convenience. The Order is organized around a clearly defined degree system supported by a mentorship program. Each degree includes its own required and recommended reading, together with magical and initiatory practices appropriate to that particular stage of development. Membership is obtained through a one-time fee of £15, payable via PayPal (contact us for the paypal adress at our mail at top). When submitting payment, membe...
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An Interview with Tommy Eriksson from The Satanic Order: The Development, Origins, and History of Swedish Satanism and C.A.O.S. Satanism

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An Interview with Tommy Eriksson from The Satanic Order: The Development, Origins, and History of Swedish Satanism and C.A.O.S. Satanism The Satanic Order existed before the Swedish Satanic Church took shape. How would you describe the original vision behind The Satanic Order during the 1990s? The vision had not yet become grand in scope, as we were very young and inexperienced at the time. We knew that we wanted to learn more and that The Satanic Order would become a gathering place where we could grow together. We had a very primitive degree system, or at least formulated ideas about one. As an organization, we did not exist for very long, but we nevertheless achieved a fairly wide reach both within and beyond Sweden's borders before, together with others, helping to found the Swedish Satanic Church. When the Swedish Satanic Church was founded in 1998, one of its goals was to change the media's image of Satanism in Sweden. Do you think you succeeded? The focus of the Swedish ...
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