Extreme Path Beliefs

**Why do we have to practice extreme mystery paths, "extremely".**

**For instance, in the Craft movie, even they go to practice in the wilderness.**

**For those that have depression, and are mooded by atmospheres and other aesthetic conditions, is it really ok for us to jump in a bus and travel 20 miles outside the city to a place we hardly know surrounded by goddess knows what?**

**It seems for those who are personality type INTJ, we want to make decisions that may not be in our best interest. We are the ones that like the ideal of reinventing something, but we should stay away from the sheer 1% extremeness we so often take to invent our craft or religious experience(s) that mean more to us that say somewhat familiar and in our neck of the woods, that is why people think Satanists are nut cases, and look at their religion or experiences with contempt. In the old days it was common, due to personality type, for people to go out to the country for a while or camp site to commune with Satan.**

**Last night, during one such "destination" I discovered I don't have to go five miles outside the city to celebrate satanism, my way or any others' way. People think for some odd reason that we will be more accepted by Satan or other Deity if we do. This is a bit of naivety on our parts. It's remote, out in the middle of nowhere, the stars are beautiful but I feel like I am being watched. Why am I doing this to myself? What if some nut job convinces to take a whole bunch of people, teens or whatever on a satanist adventure and they get out there and he starts wielding some knife and three of them die? What then happens? Craziness that is what. Your walk with Satan is supposed to be personal and private, not shared with anyone.**

**I invite you to take the Truity Personality Test (the full report costs money) but it can shed some light on the personality types you match. Answer honestly and not the way you think you should answer which may make you the life of a party when we know its not true. You may not have a big altar, or a statue of Baphomet, or even something that represents Satan, or a sigil of Baphomet to hang up but no one said you needed any of that! That is what CoS and TST and other orgs do, because no one has ever done anything else. As we go through our lives, our personality types change, because we change hormones up when we go through menopause, and peri menopause as well.**

**That is why I started the Satanist Artist Contest, I wanted to see how people saw Satan who are Satanist, without using any of the known symbols or figures like baphomet to show how we perceive Satan, I wanted to see how people saw them. I don't consider Satan to be a man or a female, but both in energy and neither in flesh/energy and I also see Satan as an Omnipotent being. (This runs through the end of 2020 and you mail entries to anamassienahc@gmail.com**

**Satanists themselves have had to come out of left field basically always to write about their paths and how they see satanism. The road is lonely because not everyone who is a satanist is one and not everyone who walks the road continues. Some default, some go elsewhere, some move on to another spirituality or hang somewhere in the middle of things. I promise you that the 58% of Satanists you see are a rare personality type known as INTJ or ESTJ.**

> ***These are my basic results as I am moving deeper into menopause and out of peri menopause:***
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> *ESTJ - The Supervisor*
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> *VERY GOOD MATCH*
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> *ESTJs are hardworking traditionalists, eager to take charge in organizing projects and people. Orderly, rule-abiding, and conscientious, ESTJs like to get things done, and tend to go about projects in a systematic, methodical way.*
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> *ISTJ - The Inspector*
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> *VERY GOOD MATCH*
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> *ISTJs are responsible organizers, driven to create and enforce order within systems and institutions. They are neat and orderly, inside and out, and tend to have a procedure for everything they do.*
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> *INTJ - The Mastermind*
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> *GOOD MATCH*
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> *INTJs are analytical problem-solvers, eager to improve systems and processes with their innovative ideas. They have a talent for seeing possibilities for improvement, whether at work, at home, or in themselves.*
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## *Protecting Yourselves:*

**I want people, who want to dedicate service of themselves to Satanism, any path or branch start to see things more realistically and keep themselves out of danger. If a religious leader says that you need to pay money or go on a retreat for a satanist experience please leave their flock alone and report them to the authorities. The same can be said of any mystery tradition, even branches of Christianity. Protect yourself from crazies pretending to be something their not just to harm someone or a whole bunch of people. Practice safely and IN an area you know about. YOU will not make a brighter or darker connection to Satan or any other deity or non by being in the wilderness. Stay around home and stay safe.**

**--Ana Massien**