Divided

In response to being accused of casting out devils by being demonic himself, Jesus said, If Satan’s kingdom is divided against itself how can Satan’s kingdom stand? Looking at that thought as a general truth: since the very essence of satanism is egotism which is self-worship, one’s own pleasure at the expense of anything and anyone else, then a kingdom of separate egos must as a whole be divided against itself. Each ego must desire to be the king of creation, else this is not egotism! Thus the emotions such as envy which are natural emanations of that spirit - of one ego recognising another ego’s apparent triumph as its own failure to be the head.

And so if pushed to its natural conclusion, satanism or egotism, rather than a united kingdom of devotion to a common leader, must be divided against itself. If I give obedience to another, then my ego is not the final word, which is in contradiction to egotism. Just at the level of feeling, this would inevitably lead to envy and hatred at the failure of my ego to be king - and so this is kingdom divided against itself. These cracks can papered over in some temporal setting, of having some innocence to conquer and defile, but if a kingdom of egotism is left in its ‘purity’, closed in upon itself and no longer having access to such external outlets, then such a kingdom, which we call hell, really is hell.