Jeremy Brown - The Testimony of Satan

Yet… patience is far more powerful than wrath and overcomes it like the showers of the sky calm the fires of forests… or the calm of the ocean at times seems to shield the shores from great storms… It is best that you store up the power of patience like a peaceful winter in which the snow like layers of peace and balance compact and are ready to be shed as creeks and rivers to enliven and moisten the earth of your mind and heart… For if you are rooted into lives where all is brittle, dry, and cluttered with brush full of disorder and dissonance, when the fires of wrath rise in you, it will have little to stop it or calm wrath’s motion because there will be little exuberance, abundance, or fertility in you to stop the movement of such degradation. …Many of you fail to see that it is life the chases away death…. So patience, which makes life possible allowing flowers to rise and bloom from stones cast down by watersheds, undoes the destruction of mudslides and the displacement of earth that is equal to the power exuded by giving into your wrath.

Take lust for instance. Lust craves attention without real thought or discretion. For instance, King Solomon had over 700 wives and 300 concubines. Although, Solomon was knowledgeable and the love God had for him was in many ways equal to his father, Solomon’s wisdom did not protect him from his own lust, consuming a grave amount of the glory God placed upon him and the luminescence he was noted for by his people and others afar. With this in mind, the great king was full of despair because in essence he served me although all he was given was by the glory of God… Solomon in the end, was quite perceptive and discovered that lust ends with a sense of meaninglessness and vanity, hollow and pointless, neither elevating or expanding one’s life, one’s heart, or mind, but condensing the human experiences of pleasure and happiness into moments where men are no more in control of their baser natures than beasts are in control of their instincts…

Lust leads to precarious situations in which your own bodies can turn against you through diseases that disfigure, cause pain, and kill. Or lust leads to thousands upon millions of children born of illegitimate unions… these children become pawns between the conflicts fed by wrath and despair between men and women…. Lust is my path through your loins to separate you from deeper unions with God as you seek to unite the God in you with the God in others. God between two people in matrimony is a blessing. Lust rips this embrace apart and places chaos not only between those who commit I, but those who are victims of infidelity. Lust is my manifestation that makes one take pride in the unsavory and celebrate self-degradation… It is true you were meant to be fruitful and multiply… it is true that sex by its physical nature is pleasurable… but pleasure can lead to appoint of losing control… However, for a select few among you, there is the point of control which is discovered through chastity…

Strangely enough, many of your ancient and modern societies look down and even attack those who practice chastity not only of the body but of the mind and spirit — and this pleases me. Chastity in so many ways is a path to be being blessed and controlling the eternal fires by using the ethereal fires to burn away false senses of love and happiness and revealing the truth that true happiness is not taken it is given… Simply lusting for things and people and then partaking in them does not result in happiness, but a short-lived false sense of peace when in fact this peace is not peace… Those involved are selfishly feeding off of each other’s life force and energy. Love is far different. Love gives; lust takes. Love is of God; lust is of me… With lust, two souls are not united; they are set apart and are isolated for their own sins… Each man or woman must answer for their sins whereas good deeds and points of altruism bring people together before God. Chastity provides clarity because there is less emphasis placed on the base and temporal world that can only be experienced through the senses. But this alone is not the real world, universe, or multiverse… what you refer to as reality is simply a manifestation of the existence that is eternal and is of God. It is true that there is hunger, thirst, pain, longing, and suffering, but the indicator that this world is not the end all of everything is that these seemingly negative feelings can be overcome through the focal point of the mind and use of the spirit… Therefore, lust must be overcome in order to rise higher in the real world beyond the mere sensations that one experiences in one’s loins and mind.

Gluttony is a fire of sin that consumes most notably at times of supposed celebration and revelry. Many look upon this sin with simple child-like minds, mistaking it for innocent fun when in fact it leads to so many imbalances and points of unseen destruction that are revealed when it’s often too late. Gluttony is seen even in your celebrations of the Christ and a number of others around the world. So many people forget the purpose of celebrating the manifestation of God and instead celebrate themselves. Self-serving is an essence of justifying gluttony, and I benefit from your level of mass consumption. The point of celebration was originality the camaraderie of humankind and its numerous but often pointless victories over my evil… Even with the power of God — so many of you come back to me in some form or another because when you honor yourself you honor God, but when you worship yourself — you dishonor God and by default worship me… Thus the shopping frenzies and battles that take place over the simplest trinkets parents want to give to their selfish and infantile children serve me for your fires burn not to consume what is negative in your hearts but what makes you greater. You are not burning the ethereal fires of giving to warm and comfort others but the eternal fires of sin against others and yourselves…

Gluttony does not consider the starving mother and the malnourished baby crying in the night… Gluttony does not consider what sin the mother may engage in just to feed her child… Problem is the mother does so many things against the better nature and peace within herself. She is so consumed by self-destruction, anger, and self-hatred that she tries to drown out the memories and sensations of her transgressions. When that happens, she no longer is focused on the child. So now I have — as sin — come between the child and mother… severing one of the greatest bonds in the conception of humankind… The child suffers from not only the lack of physical sustenance, but emotional and mental sustenance once provided by the mother… so it is more likely the baby will die or grow into a destructive man or woman full of hate for the world for he or she will hate God that once was seen in the visage of their mother…. But to such a child it will seem God has abandoned them and they will turn to me in all my forms, and the cycle will continue… The gluttony celebrated by so many is indirectly a celebration of the disparity of others, who do not and often will not have enough resources to live peacefully and happily. It is temperance that many forget to promote most, but especially at the times of celebration.

Temperancemust be maintained at all times. Vigilance is not simply a matter for looking for sin at your gates or within others, but my essence that lies within yourself. The eternal fires of gluttony can only be combatted by the ethereal fires of temperance. Though it is cliché these days, there is a profound wisdom I have never fully understood, and thus contemptuous of which is “it is better to give than it is to receive”. God has given and continues to give, but neither you nor definitely not I will give back as much — we can not — so why choose to? It is foolish in my opinion — and yet to get closer to Him, it is better that you give more, far more than you have been given, nor should you expect to receive anything in return… However, here is where the ethereal fire is stronger than the eternal fire — for to burn bright and to give in the name of God is greater than to take in my name or in the absence of God. God never has wanted a people — chosen or otherwise — to take land from others, to consume so much that they become drunk with elation and possess no control over the craving to have more. You were never to be gluttons who were driven by addictions for anything you needed, but it was your desires that led to this course of action and the continue war within each of you to control your wants and be clear on your needs. God gives and provides opportunity. Opportunity is strength, but abuse of strength to serve the whims and wants of anyone undermines temperance and serves only gluttony.