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The Rooster and the Pearl
13 years ago
It must be emphasized that:
We are not an official Church of Satan group. We are not here on behalf of the Church of Satan. We are not a "Satanic Community."
We are a group on FurAffinity that are made up of individuals who follow the Church of Satan and the works of Anton LaVey. I’ve read through Aesop’s Fables a number of times, and each time I have been astonished by how closely each lesson relates to Satanic values. This time, I have decided to record my thinking for the benefit of other Satanists, who I feel could make the most use of Aesop’s wisdom.
Every week, I will publish a journal comparing the moral of one of Aesop’s fables to our Satanic values, starting in this journal with “The Rooster and the Pearl.”
“A Rooster was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shining amid the stray. “Ho! Ho!” quoth he, “that’s for me,” and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? “You may be a treasure,” quoth the Rooster, “to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barely-corn than a peck of pearls.”
I find it uncanny how much this fable relates to my previous journal, wherein I discussed the value system utilized by the everyday Satanist. Where our value system is subjective, the value system outlined by Aesop is objective. What in the hell would the rooster need a pearl for? It is useless to him, no matter how much the Rooster treasures it. The rooster utilizes this objective value system appropriately when he equates the pearl, a treasure to men, with a barley-corn, a treasure to roosters.
The value system we use as Satanists is indeed ours to command, but we must command it with our rationale, not our emotions. Let’s take the example of bowling with your shit friend from the previous journal: giving that activity little to no value is perfectly reasonable in the context of emotion. But what if that shit friend has something you desire, and bowling with him would help butter him up? Obviously, you would place a much higher value on that activity.
Remember: we Satanists are calculated hedonists, not creatures of brash impulse. Emotions are indeed valuable to us, but we cannot let them alone dictate our values, lest they cloud our respective visions altogether.
"Another man's trash is another man's treasure."
Every week, I will publish a journal comparing the moral of one of Aesop’s fables to our Satanic values, starting in this journal with “The Rooster and the Pearl.”
The Rooster and the Pearl“A Rooster was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shining amid the stray. “Ho! Ho!” quoth he, “that’s for me,” and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? “You may be a treasure,” quoth the Rooster, “to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barely-corn than a peck of pearls.”
PRECIOUS THINGS ARE FOR THOSE THAT CAN PRIZE THEM.I find it uncanny how much this fable relates to my previous journal, wherein I discussed the value system utilized by the everyday Satanist. Where our value system is subjective, the value system outlined by Aesop is objective. What in the hell would the rooster need a pearl for? It is useless to him, no matter how much the Rooster treasures it. The rooster utilizes this objective value system appropriately when he equates the pearl, a treasure to men, with a barley-corn, a treasure to roosters.
The value system we use as Satanists is indeed ours to command, but we must command it with our rationale, not our emotions. Let’s take the example of bowling with your shit friend from the previous journal: giving that activity little to no value is perfectly reasonable in the context of emotion. But what if that shit friend has something you desire, and bowling with him would help butter him up? Obviously, you would place a much higher value on that activity.
Remember: we Satanists are calculated hedonists, not creatures of brash impulse. Emotions are indeed valuable to us, but we cannot let them alone dictate our values, lest they cloud our respective visions altogether.
PLACE VALUES ON THINGS IN ACCORDANCE TO LOGIC, NOT YOUR IMPULSES.
"Another man's trash is another man's treasure."
Though I don't ascribe myself to a single view, anymore. I find useful bits in many different philosophies and systems.