The Quest I On...
🏛 Harnessing Destruction to Create
There once stood a 60-foot maple tree in the front yard of a man who had never felled a tree.
It had grown old, and rot had set in—unseen at first, then undeniable. Left standing, it would collapse onto the house. Left alone, it would become the weapon of entropy.
So the man took up a chainsaw. Not because he had done it before, but because the time had come. He cut it down, not with vengeance, but with reverence.
And then—he carved.
From its living stump, three icons rose:
- 🗡 The Sword in the Stone — symbol of restrained power and the burden of divine responsibility
- ♞ A Knight on a Round Table — not triumphant, but vigilant; not king, but strategist
- 🏆 The Holy Grail — raised skyward, not to save the world, but to ask: what might yet be poured into this?
He had not merely removed a threat. He had sculpted a doctrine.
"That which we must say to the crowd is: We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. The religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine... the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay. For Lucifer is the God of Light and Good, struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of darkness and fanaticism."
— Albert Pike, Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, July 14, 1889
but wait…
What the hell is the Luciferian doctrine?