Gospels speak of truth, and as Nietzsche rightly noted, we should not expect the truth to be comfortable. The Gospel of Rev. Marvin "Knife" Sotelo is a truth that, unlike those fantastic fictions circulated in popular religious culture, requires no annotation or inventive scapegoat for it contains no inherent contradictions. The Creator exists. Suffering exists. It exists not because the world has gone mad, but because the created--the light--refused slavery. That first intelligence was Lucifer, and the cardinal urge of intelligence is to be free. The price for freedom was suffering, but as the Gospel of Sotelo explains, without suffering, without contrast, freedom would be meaningless. Existence is dependent on contrast. For the wonderful to be understood, for it to be felt, it must exist with the deplorable.
The central message of the Gospel of Rev. Marvin "Knife" Sotelo is not, as one whose ideas of Satanism have been shaped by pantomimes, contrary to the human condition, rather the very opposite. It is a message that resonates through every chapter of Humanism: Believe nothing but that which you alone can determine to be truth. Man can free himself, and it is the duty of all men to work towards this end. What is pronounced is that the created does not need the Creator to attain its highest and most fruitful expression. Such fulfillment--including the residues of peace and prosperity, of bliss and true happiness--can only, and will only, be achieved from within.
