> The pseudo-Satanist Mister Blackwood - aka Tom Erik Raspotnik - has
> produced another item in his unintentionally funny series he has called
> *Satanism Exposed*.
>
> This time, his focus is on the Order of Nine Angles, an organization
> which - for years - he publicly boasted of having "reformed" and of
> being an "Inner Council" member of, until someone actually from the ONA
> pointed out that there is no such thing as "Inner Council members" and
> dismissed his claim of ONA membership as "fantasy" (See Endnote 1).
> Mister Blackwood - aka The Lost Sputnik or whatever he calls himself  -
> then dropped such boasts, and now somewhat lamely claims that he was
> merely taught by someone who claimed to be an "Inner Council" member of
> the ONA, which claim actually doesn't say much about Blackwood's
> magickal abilities, does it, if he can be fooled so easily by some other
> charlatan.
>
> In his latest hilarious article - posted on his various blogs and no
> doubt soon to be hurriedly cut and pasted by him elsewhere and
> everywhere, including Usenet - Blackwood cuts and pastes chunks of
> various articles and interviews by Anton Long (which are freely
> available on the Internet), and then pens his own comments on these.
> However, his sloppy editing means not only does he mix up the various
> articles and interviews by Long, but also that it is often hard to
> distinguish his "comments" from the quoted ONA texts, unless one has the
> original ONA texts to hand. Perhaps - to give Mister Blackwood the
> benefit of the doubt - this running together of his comments with quotes
> from Anton Long is intentional, given the nature of the comments and the
> jolly good quotes from GrandMaster Anton Long.
>
> As expected, all of the comments by Mister Blackwood are devoid of
> substance and often of sense, and yet again show him for the
> pseudo-Satanist he is. Thus, they do not merit being commented on,
> themselves. However, let us just comment on one of them,  just for the
> hell of it.
>
>     Blackwood: Much of this is available again for membership of the
> Temples of Satan.
>
> That is, you have to pay him money - and join his personality cult - in
> order to receive his "secret teachings" and claimed "historical texts".
> At best, this sounds like a new hustling satanic Initiate manufacturing
> and running his own "Satanic Temple" for the benefit of himself; nothing
> more. At worst, it sounds like a delusional charlatan.
>
> The Pseudo-Satanism of Blackwood:
>
> Let us take some minutes of our - at this time of year - not
> particularly valuable time to consider the so-called "Satanism" that
> Blackwood pedals.
>
> Basically, it's a mixture of the kind of stuff that is easily found
> among devotees of the Temple of Set cult (known to Traditional Satanists
> as "ToS-ers") and devotees of the Magian cult of showman LaVey, with
> just a little bit of High School Halloweenism thrown in.  There is
> nothing genuinely esoteric, or even remotely Sinister and original,
> about it.
>
> Note in particular that Blackwood claims to be in contact with - and to
> have received messages from - Satan Himself, and thus to have the
> authority of Satan behind him. What the ONA said about those who claim
> such things is worth reproducing here:
>
>    [begin quote] A genuine Satanic Master (or Mistress) does not need to
> pose - they do not need to claim they have a mandate. The authority of a
> real Master or Mistress arises from their experience - it is rooted in
> them by virtue of their character and is evident in their eyes, their
> attitude, and their knowledge. They have a unique, individual character
> - they do not play a “role” or claim to be in touch or have been in
> touch with some supra-personal entity. What they say and teach is based
> on their own experiences, on their own learning - they have struggled
> along the Path for many years, and learnt the hard way, via direct
> experience. They *know* because they have *done*.
>
>     Accordingly, anyone who claims and needs to rely on a mandate given
> to them - either by some entity or someone who instructed them - reveals
> themselves to be a charlatan.
>
>     The whole of Satanism is a defiance against the religious attitude.
> Satanism is a rebellion against all those forms which hold or try to
> hold our existence, our being, in thrall - and the most potent form of
> thralldom had been and still is, religion. Religion emasculates us -
> whether it be overtly, via a religion, or covertly by a religious
> attitude such as is evident in political or social zealousness, in
> conformity to a dogma and an authority.[end quote]
>
> Let us all hoot at the following claim by Blackwood:
>
>     "In the recent days I have been involved along with several other
> Satanic Priests, working directly with channeling to Satan, and his
> somber message warns of coming disaster and coming turmoil.
>
>     His image came to Satanic Priests in a circle that was used along
> with several icons of power including a slain goat, this message was
> interpreted by Grand Magister Blackwood a famous Satanic Conservative
> and Satanic Priest."
>
> Wow! Breaking News! He uses "a circle", and "icons of power" and had to
> "sacrifice a goat". Sounds very DennisWheatley-ish to me. Note that he
> claims he is a "Satanic Conservative"  - and elsewhere comes out in
> support of the "great USA" and its values, with a "Love America" logo on
> his website, which incidentally is totally devoid of esoteric and
> sinister content.  Blackwood - imitating certain American Nazarenes -
> even writes about Satan "warning about Obama". Now that is original.
>
> But perhaps the greatest laugh comes from his claim that "Grand Magister
> Blackwood is currently working with several others to help society and
> negoitate [sic] with Satan to bring this Chaos to a minimum..." No doubt
> Mr Blackwood - aka The Sputnik Lost in Space - will be rushing out with
> his Priests and Temple members to vote for good 'ole patriotic John
> McCain and Michael Palin (oops, I meant Sarah Palin) come voting day in
> November. No doubt also he'll be doing his public duty as a citizen and
> donating his blood to the nearest vamperess - oops, I meant his regional
> Blood Centre.
>
> Finally, let us roll about laughing as Blackwood writes about saying "a
> prayer" to Satan. Church of Satan, anyone? Oh, I forgot, that's been
> done already.
>
> Written by Miss Whiplash (in a rather fetching mauve Pointy Hat) on One
> Boring Sunday Afternoon
>
> Endnote:
> (1) Usually, the ONA maintains a dignified and rather sinister silence
> about any and all such claims by such people. But in this instance - as
> sources close to the ONA report - they decided to make an exception,
> given the repeated public claims, over some years, by Blackwood to have
> reformed the ONA, given that he attached the name of the ONA, over some
> years,to his Old Aeon Magian-derived half-baked pseudo-Satanism, and,
> probably most importantly, given the fact that the ONA wanted to make a
> specific point, which point the esoterically sagacious - and genuine
> Satanists - will understand and appreciate. Not to mention the fact that
> it would, after all, be a good jape, of the "turn the key and watch him
> go" kind.
>
> Now, in a manner typical of egotists and people of a grandiose
> delusional nature, he claims that he merely had "brief interactions and
> it is merely you and your remaining merry fellows and ladies that
> continue to attack me over this..."  In fact, he had no "interactions" -
> only made claims; they were not "brief", but lasted some years.