This sermon continues interpreting the words of the first prayer.
The next line to consider is

	Your kingdom has come

Again, this references the line in the Lord's Prayer that says "Thy
Kingdom Come", and it is useful to consider the obvious difference. In
the Satanic prayer the emphasis is on the present day, whereas the
Christian version looks forward to some nebulous future time.

In turn, this is due to a fundamental difference in the way that the
present world is viewed. For a Satanist this world and the life within
it is all that matters. I've never seen a Satanist who spends much time 
thinking about what will happen after death. Personally, I expect there
to be nothing, and I do not think that I am unusual in holding to that 
viewpoint.

Much has been written about the way that a determined concentration on 
the next world can be used by the established churches to maintain and
even encourage injustice and domination within this world. This is 
undoubtedly true, but my point is much simpler - it is that it also 
prevents the full enjoyment of what this world has to offer. Instead
the Satanist says that you should live for today, as fully as you can,
and make of this world what you want it to be.


The other thing that can be read out of the line in the prayer, is that
this world is already Satan's kingdom. He is already in charge here, in
the practical sense that almost everything that happens is very much to
his taste. Not because there exists a cabal of Satanists who are secretly
running things (although I have seen that theory propounded in all 
seriousness) but simply because the standard every day self-centred
behaviour of people is enough to make a world that can easily be recognised 
as being in His image.

It is obvious to say that Satanists are viewed with extreme suspicion by 
the rest of the world. But it is equally true that in my normal dealings 
with the people around me, I do not think that I am viewed as particularly 
worse than anyone else, despite actively living what I consider to be a 
Satanic life. I think this is simply because most people are pretty much
on the same path. I think almost all of us are Satan's followers, whether 
we actively think of him as our master or not.

In which case, the legitimate question is why bother to be an active
Satanist at all. The answer, which I've given before and will repeat again,
is that an active engagement with Satanism is a way in which a person can 
learn to shape the world around them. Starting with real self-knowledge 
and self-acceptance, and moving into both selfish and self-less worship of 
Satan as some kind of Master, moves a person into controlling their own
life and that of the people around them.

I think this is already Satan's kingdom. And, to return to my first theme,
it is a lot more enjoyable if you are not a victim of the people that are
around you. Instead you should make them your victims, treating them in
the way that you wish. That is the Satanic way of living.