Satan and Saturn
Saturn has also been associated with Satan and this, for numerous reasons.
First, many authors argue that the word Satan is derived from the word Saturn.
Second, Saturn is associated with the color black as well as Satan.
Third, Ancients considered Saturn to be the farthest planet from the sun , the latter
being associated with the principle of Good.
(Note that Pluto never was considered a planet).
Saturn is consequently the celestial body that is the less
exposed to the sun’s divine light and thus associated with the coldness of the
principle of Evil. Finally, the “great god Pan”, the horned deity, represented
Saturn in ancient paganism. This half-man half-goat creature is considered the
ancestor of our modern depictions of Satan.
“Pan was a composite creature, the upper part–with the exception of
his horns–being human, and the lower part in the form of a goat. (…)The pipes of
Pan signify the natural harmony of the spheres, and the god himself is a symbol
of Saturn because this planet is enthroned in Capricorn, whose emblem is a goat”
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Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages
So Pan was depicted with horns due to the fact it represented Saturn, the
ruler of the house of Capricorn which symbol is a goat.
Pan was the controlling spirit of the lower worlds. He was portrayed roaming
through the forests, penis erect, drunk and lascivious, frolicking with nymphs
and piping his way through the wild. We might say he ruled the lower nature of
man, its animal side, not unlike Satan.
Despite acknowledging its association with Evil, secret societies find the
veneration of Saturn necessary to obtain illumination. It is the necessary
counterpart of the principle of Good. Masonic authors clearly associate Saturn
with Satan:
“Saturn is the opposite to Jupiter; his symbol is the cross above the
sign of Luna. He is the Satan, the Tempter, or rather the Tester. His function
is to chastise and tame the unruly passions in the primitive man.”
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J.S. Ward, Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods
Probably the most extreme example of a secret society worshiping Saturn’s
Evil principle is the “Fraternitas Saturni”. This occult organization is based
in Germany and openly embodies the hidden side of Saturn worship.
“The Fraternitas Saturni (FS), the Brotherhood of Saturn, has become
known to English readers through fragmentary descriptions which emphasize the
sensational, sex-magical aspects of this lodge’s work or else its darker, more
Satanic, side.This is understandable in light of the fact that the FS is (or
was) the most unabashedly Luciferian organization in the modern Western occult
revival, and its practice of sexual occultism perhaps the most elaborately
detailed of any such lodge. The FS represents a unique blend of astrological
cosmology, neo-Gnostic daemonology, sexual occultism, and Freemasonic
organizational principles. This grand synthesis was originally the vision of one
man, the long-time Grand Master of the FS, Gregor A. Gregorius.”
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Stephen E. Flowers, Fire & Ice: The History, Structure, and Rituals of
Germany’s Most Influential Modern Magical Order: The Brotherhood of Saturn