Since GM Blackwood (aka The Sputnik Lost in Space) is still mouthing off about the Order of Nine Angles and other Satanists, readers might like to have a good laugh at the following, which appeared a few weeks ago on an Occult forum under the amusing title Looking for Girlfrend. It gives a good overview of the mind, character and personality of Mr Genetically Modified himself.
My name is Grand Master Blackwood.
I am the Leader of the Temples of Satan.
I own business and my own house. Very successful.
I am big boned and slightly over wate; but not fat.
I am gifted with the power to see great visions and speak to Satan regularly.
I have many a magickal powers.
I am looking for a girlfrend please write me at my yahoo address on my profile.
I am not gay, but from time to time, I enjoy the comapany of men. But just to talk in private. If you are a man and would like to talk in private with me please also write me.
Own house? Yeah, sure, that’s why you’re living in rented rooms and motels.
Own business? That’ll be your own empty Temple of Suckers, then.
Great visions? Not great enough, obviously, to foresee the derision that now comes your way.
Speak to Satan regularly? Sure thing, bud… Like paranoid schizophrenics regularly speak with someone.
Magickal powers? Sure, pal, but obviously not enough to get a girlfriend, or even a Girlfrend. Perhaps Mr Genetically Modified should try and get a girl-fiend instead. I have a few succubii going spare…
Not gay? Sure, dude, you’re just a little confused about your sexuality. Perhaps Satan will enlighten you during one of your nocturnal dialogs, when He might also teach you spelling and grammar. “Now, children, are you sitting comfortably…?”
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:
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.
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.
