Astaroth 03.11

In Nomine Dei nostri, Satanas Luciferi Excelsi.

In this series of portraits, I pay my tribute to the Demons by my own modest skills and talent. This is the third portrait in the series, and it's special because.... it was actually thanks to Astaroth that I returned to spirituality these many years ago.

Please note that this is an old artwork I am only publishing because of its personal meaning to me. It still has a deep significance to me and I am extremely fond of it, so please, be nice.

Furthermore, this series of portraits has a significant history for me. By the time I started it, I was in a time of great personal sorrow. I had lost my path, I had come to conflicts in my understanding of the spiritual, inner conflicts I couldn't seem to resolve and because of that and some things of life I had nearly lost touch with faith at all, for years. But in this saddest and most difficult time, the Demons reached out to me, I felt Them once again and returned to my old ways, to my devotion, to Them and to Lucifer - and He welcomed me back with joy, not a bit of reproach for my straying. It is returning to Them that brought life back in me and helped me through the times of sorrow.

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IMPORTANT.

Satan Lucifer and the Demons of Hell are highly noble beings, mentors to everyone who believe in Them, and personally to me They are as important to me as my life.

These portraits are a tribute to Them, an expression of both what I believe and what They mean to me in my life. I shall absolutely not tolerate words of blasphemy here.

Any comments I find disrespectful, offensive or abusive in any way, will be erased indiscriminately.

DO NOT use without my written permission!