#stanislaw przybyszewski

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(The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity by Per Faxneld and Jesper Aagaard Petersen, page 59)

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Oh to hell with it, one must overcome Satan and become Satan oneself!

- Stanisław Przybyszewski, from a letter to Ernest Prohazka

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what przybyszewski writing do you recommend?

The only one of Przybyszewski's books that I've been able to read is Die Synagogue Des Satan ("The Synagogue of Satan"), which has been translated into English (and even then it's been hard to find a copy). Die Synagogue Des Satan is basically Przybyszewski's quasi-historical narrative on the origin and development of Satanism (a.k.a. "the Cult of Satan", or "the Church of Satan" (not to be confused with Anton LaVey's Church of Satan)) into the present day (of his time rather). Everything else I've read of him comes from secondary sources, especially Per Faxneld's books on Satanism. I've also read a paper written by Karolina Maria Kotkowska, titled Sad Satan's Children: Stanisław Przybyszewski and Esoteric Milieus, which is a very good account of Przybyszewski's artistic philosophy and includes quotes from letters he wrote to various associates. As far as I know Die Synagogue Des Satan might be the only one of his books that has been translated into English, and everything else he wrote can only be read in either German or Polish (which, I admit, is a factor that made me want to consider learning German though I have never gotten around to it). I have found something on Amazon that was advertised as an English translation of his novel Satans Kinder ("Satan's Children"), but tbh I'm not sure if it's totally legit. I do hope I find a good translation of Satans Kinder some day because, from what Per Faxneld has discussed, it really does seem to me like it'd be worth reading. Same for his Nietzschean studies on individualism and psychology.

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Researching Stanisław Przybyszewski is funny nowadays because after a while the search results are just me posting about him.

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In this article, I take the concept of solarisation as presented by Valerio Mattioli of Gruppo Di Nun and basically turn it into an expression of the philosophy of Satanism, and Satan as our dark solar myth. Hopefully it's also pretty kinky.

Satan and the principle of the sun

For months I had been obsesssed with the idea of a link between Satan and the sun. I believe this fixation in recent times started off a whi

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Przybyszewski feels differently. He believes that no man should possess another human being, and has even offered the key of his apartment to Strindberg, so that he may avail humself of Przybyszewski's common-in-law wife. Strindberg has declined. Przybyszewski tells Munch that he believes sex to be life's basic substance, and the inner essence of individuality. The ever-creating, the transforming, and the destructive. "Sex created the brain", says Przybyszewski, "but between them there will always be a constant fight that will inevitably lead to death and destruction.".

- Edvard Munch (dir. Peter Watkins, 1974)

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I don't know why it took maybe a week or more to write this but this little ramble is sort of an attempt to expand on the overcoming that Stanislaw Przybyszewski talked about in his letters.

The Absolute Art of Overcoming

It is still all too frequent for modern Satanists or Satanist movements to ignore expressions of Satanism that pre-dated Anton LaVey, presum