Depends on what you mean by [how one defines and understands] "evil."
I wrote an essay a while back about the "evil" force in nature. I'll quote the relevant part, which might help you:
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And so to me right now,
Satan is something real I can observe in the real world. The clue to
what Satan is, is hidden in the meaning of the word “Satan,”
meaning things like “adversary,” “enemy.” Another clue to
what Satan is, is hinted at in the book of Job where Satan actually
makes his first real appearance in the bible. Job is afflicted with
Adversities in life. He suffers, meets up with trial, tribulation,
and hardships. Being raised both a Christian and a Buddhist, it
didn’t take me long to find this same “Satan” in Buddhism,
which helped me further understand just what exactly Satan is in the
real world.
The story about the
Buddha begins when his mother- the queen - was pregnant with him. By
tradition and culture, this queen and her husband the king went to
see a fortune teller to learn a few things about their child. The
fortune teller reveals that if the child remains within the royal
palace, he will grow up to one day be a great king who will rule the
whole known world. If he ever leaves that palace, he will be a pauper
and beg for alms for the rest of his life.
So the king raised
Gautama [Buddha] enclosed in the royal palace, which he was never
allowed to leave. The king shielded his son Gautama from the ugliness
of life by forbidding such things as old people, sick people, ugly
people, diseased people, peasants, farm laborers, etc from entering
the palace. Only healthy, beautiful people were allowed inside the
palace. And the king gave his son Gautama a harem of wives and
concubines and gifts of gold, the best food in the kingdom. So for
the first few decades of his life, young Gautama lived in such an
opulent life, oblivious to the world outside his palace.
One fateful day, the
guards at the palace entrance fell asleep, and the gate was left
opened and unprotected. Not knowing she wasn’t allowed into the
palace, an elderly woman walking with a cane walks into the palace to
make a complaint to the king about how her people in her village were
starving. The elderly lady was said in some versions of the story to
be an “angel/deva” in human disguise. So the elderly lady wanders
and found young prince Gautama. The young prince at first was
horrified. He had never seen an elderly person before. Prince Gautama
thought the elderly lady was a demon and yelled for the guards. As
the guards were coming the elderly lady told Gautama that she wasn’t
a demon. She was just an old lady who had come to ask the king for
food to feed her village.
Curious the Prince asked
the elderly lady why she looked the way she did and why she walked
with a cane. The elderly lady says: “How I look, is how all humans
look when we get old. Our beauty fades, our teeth fall out, our skin
wrinkles, our back is bent, we need a cane to walk about. You too
prince, will grow old and look like me one day.” With that, the
guards had come and dragged her out and away.
Meeting that elderly lady
caused the young prince to realize inside that all this time, he had
been living a sheltered life, inside the walls of his palace. And the
life and world of that palace was fake. That he had been living
inside an illusory world, a delusional world, an idealistic world,
which wasn’t real. That there was a whole different world beyond
the walls of his palace.
And so one day, Prince
Gautama dressed up as a commoner and ran away from home by jumping
the walls of his palace, to see the outside world. He wanders around
and sees the real world. The story says that Prince Gautama during
his wandering encounters what are called the “Four Adversities.”
These were: 1) Old Age, 2) Sickness, 3) Death, & 4) a Shramana.
The first three
symbolized the universal Adverse Conditions of mortal existence. All
mortal creatures suffer old age, sickness/disease, and death. These
three symbolizes the universality of this Force of Adversity in the
Natural Order. Natural Order meaning nature and the physical world.
That in this Natural Order there exists an adversarial condition of
some kind, which is always present called “Shram.” The Shramana
was a person who believed that only by facing Shram, by struggling
with this adversarial condition of the natural world, can one truly
be enlightened about the mysteries of life. “Shramana” means “One
Who Struggles,” similar to what the Arabic word “Jihadi” means
in one sense.
After meeting the four
adversities, the Buddha goes on a quests to figure out why we humans
are born in this life, only to suffer from adversity. For a while
Gautama followed various gurus and sects, but he was never satisfied
with answered he learned. So one day he retreated into the forest and
decided to be a Shramana, to find the answer to his questions by
himself. In Theravada Buddhism, the process of you going about using
intuitive understanding to find answers to your own questions about
life, the world, self, and reality is called “Sambuddhi.” Sam
meaning “Oneself/Same” and Buddhi meaning “Intuitive
Realization.”
So, from those two
ancient sources of insight, we see a common current. We see that life
or nature has a quality or character or condition to it which is
Adverse, which is an Adversity to all mortal creatures, which causes
suffering, trial, tribulation. And that against this Force of
Adversity, we must struggle.
And so interestingly, we
read in the piles of manuscripts of the Order of Nine Angles about
the Devil Card of the Tarot this topical insight:
“Sinister
awakening - Nature as it is, raw and unaffected. That primal
awareness of the vibrance of life that possesses and creates the
‘accuser’, that provokes acts that challenge the existence of the
‘sacred’. The real meaning of liberation unchained by temporary
abstract ideas; the laughter of the savage, wild god. Terror to the
uninitiated.” –CB,
Septanery Tree of Wyrd
And
the insights of Atu 7, [the seventh trump], symbolizing
Azoth/Satanas, from the same book: The
Menstruum - the Sinister aspect implicit within the ‘homogenous
metallic water’: the explosive factor in the delicate balancing of
life-enhancing elements. Change by adversity – the ‘Accuser’.
The brutal realities that threaten to devour the abstract, the
romantic. Insight and control via the understanding of the Primal -
or destruction by it.
Nature
itself – the Natural Order – is Adversarial and challenging.
Nature in the raw: is primal, savage, and wild. The “Accuser” –
Satan the Adversary – is that Force of Adversity which is born and
created from raw nature. And it is this Force of Adversity in the
Natural Order that changes us. Nature, in the Sinister Tradition of
ONA is Baphomet:
“Baphomet
has, in the past, been assumed to be, or come to be regarded as, The
Dark Goddess, the violent, bloody, fecund Mistress of Earth, who is
also mistress-bride-mother of Satan.”--Pseudo-Mythology
and Mythos Lovecraft, The Dark Gods, and Fallacies About The ONA
If
Satan is the Adversarial Force in nature, then Satanism is simply the
vehicle that leads the Satanist to the direct experience and
apprehension of Satan. That is the most basic and fundamental
definition of Satanism I can come up with from my experience which
fits into one sentence: Satanism is a means which leads a person into
the direct experience and apprehension of Satan the Force of
Adversity in Nature. And that is how simple Satanism is. As ONA
explains it:
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The
essence of genuine Satanism can be simply stated: it is a way to
inner development, the goal of which is a new individual. This way
involves three essential stages and these exemplify the spirit of
that way and the individuals who follow it.
The
first is direct experience, the second is direct practice and the
third self-development. The first involves direct experience of both
the external 'world' and the inner (or psychic) 'world' through
striving to achieve certain goals both practical and magickal. The
second involves using 'practical' (or causal) and 'magickal' (or
acausal) energies to manipulate others, situations and energies in a
practical way - producing changes in accord with certain goals. The
third involves beginning the process again but starting from the new
level of self-understanding and ability attained -pursuing different
(and probably more complex) goals
A
Satanist is an individual explorer - following in the footsteps of
others (and perhaps using their guide books) but always seeking
further horizons, daring to defy convention (in ideas as well as in
morals and attitude) yet part of an evolutionary succession enabling
what is experienced to be understood and become beneficial. For this
reason, a genuine Satanist understands tradition as important and
necessary - the culmination of centuries of insight and experience a
useful guide which enables further progress and exploration: a
starting point for that inner and outer journey which is begun by
Initiation, as well as a map of the way chosen and followed. --ONA,
The Tradition of the Sinister Way, OTONEN
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--Source: archive.org/stream/NexionZine1.3/Nexion%20Zine%201.3#page/n15/mode/1up
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I would disagree in seeing or modeling the universe as a mechanical machine personally.