Isn some of that Dark Tradition Satanic stuff syncretistic or a synthesis of many things?
================================================== Yes. What we present, especially in the sold Monographs, is the Dark Tradition stripped of cultural baggage that was added much later by various cultures. This tradition is not in all cultures, but it is in some cultures in part or in whole, and we do write about these and explain it in detail without degenerating into the abstract or the hypermystical. Incorporated into the Dark Traditions are all things that touch on it or focus on it: Hermeticism, certain aspects of the Kaballa, Taoism, certain whole schools of Tantra, Shivaism and Vedanta wherefrom we get the words Sat and Tan; Orphism and Pythagoreanism wherefrom we get the pentacle to represent the 5 Truths/Wisdoms (which are identical to the 5 Dharmas of Tantra). . It is interesting that the root word Sat in modern Sanskrit means Truth of the inner kind. In the West this, as Satan, got inverted to mean the Lie, or Satan as the Father of Lies. This could be one of the earliest kn
