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Samaelism is the only new religion where mysticism and mysteries meet rationality and philosophy.

About Samaelism

What is Samaelism?

Samaelism is a new religion included in CESNUR among the new LHPs movements of the XXI century. Despite the jewish influence of its name, Samaelism is an independent movement that has changed and evolved to gain its doctrinal and theoretical autonomy.

What we believe in?

The main axiom of Samaelism is that the Creation (i.e. Universe) has originated from a primordial and almighty metaphysical substance called Farmacon. This substance its impersonal, unborn, infinite and almighty, so that contains all the potencies of the Being. The Deity, in Samaelism, is seen as the personification of this substance, and therefore as the expression of those potencies that, in the initial state of the Farmacon, were not manifested in act.

The Samaelite Cosmo is therefore a place of oppositions, tensions and even contradictions, where the two forces of aggregation (i.e. Philia) and destruction (i.e. Thanatos) play a central role in the eternal oscillation between “potency” and “act”, between “non-Being” and “Being”.

Why the Serpent?

Although Samaelism strongly believes that the Deity is unknowable and impossible to be properly represented, our sacred icon is shaped as a Serpent. The reasons of this choice are multiple, but they all refer to the ancient traditions of the mediterranean Basin, where the serpentine iconographies where the expression of opposition, tension, fear and fight, but also of healing, sacredness, knowledge.

Gnosiology

Samaelism believes in science and rationality as tools to understand and deepen one’s knowledge of our Universe. The role of mysticism and mystery is central for the samaelite only in their relationship with the Deity, where science and philosophy cannot help us.

The gaze that Samaelism turns to the world is not full of pride, but full of amazement: since it is through amazement that the premises for knowledge are created. Samaelism is therefore the religion of amazement, but also of abandonment: to apply silentium and contemplation means to look at what you don't have and wanting it with all your own being. In this sense there is no other foundation for faith that this lack, no other meaning that this desire for fullness.

It is precisely by virtue of this deep yearning for fullness and union with the Deity that the samaelite lives every day of his life: both the lay and the Hiereús of our Order know that it is only through the sense of proportion and through contemplation derived from the inner peace provided by prayer, study and reflection that it is possible to rejoin the divine essence.

Social Doctrine

Looking at the Nothing as the horizon of existence, the samaelite also knows that it is not appropriate to make any discrimination: taking the infinite omnipotence of the Serpent as a term of comparison of the human, all those useless differences that for millennia have constituted a factor of social disintegration and racial segregation fall apart. There are no blacks or whites, heterosexuals or homosexuals, there are no strong and weak sexes or gender issues: we are all equal before the Nothingness.

This is why anyone can be a samaelite.

Samaelism is an inner spark that exists apart from all these things.