Marx and Satan by Richard Wurmbrand

Posted by admin_akashic on Feb 15th, 2022 in Space

Characteristically, “Oulanem” is an inversion of a holy name. It is an anagram of Emmanuel, a Biblical name of Jesus which means in Hebrew “God with us.” Such inversions of names are considered effective in black magic.

We will be able to understand the drama Oulanem only in the light of a strange confession that Marx made in a poem called “The Player,” later downplayed by both himself and his followers:

The hellish vapours rise and fill the brain,

Till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed.

See this sword?

The prince of darkness

Sold it to me.

For me he beats the time and gives the signs.

Ever more boldly I play the dance of death.

These lines take on special significance when we learn that in the rites of higher initiation in the Satanist cult an “enchanted” sword which ensures success is sold to the candidate. He pays for it by signing a covenant, with blood taken from his wrists, agreeing that his soul will belong to Satan after death.

(To enable the reader to grasp the horrid intent of these poems, I should mention – though with natural revulsion – that “The Satanic Bible,” after saying “the crucifix symbolizes pallid incompetence hanging on a tree,” calls Satan “the ineffable Prince of Darkness who rules the each.” As opposed to “the lasting foulness of Bethlehem,” “the cursed Nazarene,” “the impotent king,” “fugitive and mute god,” “vile and abhorred pretender to the majesty of Satan,” the Devil is called “the God of Light,” with angels “cowering and trembling with fear and prostrating themselves before him” and “sending Christian minions staggering to their doom.”)

Now I quote from the drama Oulanem itself:

And they are also Oulanem, Oulanem.

The name rings forth like death, rings forth

Until it dies away in a wretched crawl.

Stop, I’ve got it now! It rises from my soul

As clear as air, as strong as my bones.

Yet I have power within my youthful arms

To clench and crush you (i.e., personified humanity]

with tempestuous force,

While for us both the abyss yawns in darkness.

You will sink down and I shall follow laughing,

Whispering in your ears, “Descend,

come with me, friend.”

The Bible, which Marx had studied in his high school years and which he knew quite well in his mature years, says that the Devil will be bound by an angel and cast into