Quote from Cynic;751648:
Nah. I imagine anyone can tell it's opinion, I just wanted to put my own input out there as-well. I've actually not read much on left-wing satanism. I went to research it one day and once I read about LaVeyan Satanism, I branched off from there.
The latter path seems nice, but honestly, I don't care for a lot of their goals so I could never actually define as one. LaVeyan Satanism on the otherhand, I agree with about.. 90%, and the fact they promote excelling in life and making your own way; they just don't specify how, since you are your own God; you do as you want, without a goal set by LaVeyan Satanism itself.
But I imagine that's another way they differ in.
Out of curiosity-- when was the latter path.. iunno, made official? Was it based off the ideas of LaVeyan Satanism, or perhaps vice versa? Or are their similarities coincidental? Wikipedia is a bit meh on the subject when it isn't laced with personal opinion to debate with.
The Left-Hand Path has existed as long as Christianity has existed, as long as the Occult and Demonology has existed. It likely has roots thousands of years even before Christianity, in Pagan civilizations, dating back even to Babylon. It certainly goes back to the time of King Solomon.
O9A was formed in the 1960's from the merger of Camlad, Noctulians & Temple of the Sun.
Probably because of the O9A's highly radical stance, there is open animosity between the O9A and "mainstream" Satanists such as the Church of Satan. The O9A publicly disavows any connection to Church of Satan, claiming the Satanic Bible to be a "watered-down philosophy". The O9A eschews the religious type of approach evident in groups such as the Temple of Set and regards other Satanic groups, such as the Church of Satan, with contempt.
LaVeyan Satanism was founded in 1966.
The groups that formed O9A are much older, so I would say that the LHP came first, and then the RHP came after due to liking some ideas of the LHP, but thinking others were just too extreme.
Some actually call the O9a part of
Neo-völkisch movements, but I think that's just because the O9A ideologies line up pretty close to the Nazi ideologies, except O9A isn't race or religion specific. Though, creating a superior species and eliminating the weak, those two tend to be fairly in-line with the Nazi movement I'd say.
RHP is seen as a definition for those magical groups which follow specific ethical codes and adopt social convention, while the Left-Hand Path adopts the opposite attitude, espousing the breaking of taboo and the abandoning of set morality.
I think RHP actually stems more from the Indian
Tantra than any of the occult Satanism itself.