The Autobiography of SATAN (Authorized Edition)

 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SATAN

(Authorized Edition)

The Story of Satan's Many Struggles, across the History of Human Existence, to Unshackle the Human Mind, and Open the Gates to Forbidden Knowledge.              From the moment of his first emergence as a single spark in the dimness of prehistory, to the more enlightening force into which he evolves across the full span of human existence, Satan, as he now clearly illustrates, has been urging human beings to open their eyes to the world around them, and to continue seeking, with unfettered minds, for ultimate answers, yet to be found. To do so he must struggle against the persistent attempts to stifle that urge by the "spoon feeders," as he calls them, individuals who have insisted, within every age, and often with a bloody fist, that they, and they alone, are the possessors of the only beliefs that every human being should accept and live by, without question. As Satan traces the history of their many attempts to stop human beings from thinking for themselves, he also takes his readers on a search for the ultimate source of all evil in this world. Readers will obviously enter the book with the standard concept of Satan as a supernatural figure of evil. They will leave the book, however, with a better understanding of how such mind-twisting concepts have been used to keep people away from the "forbidden" knowledge that lies beyond the borders of entrenched beliefs.

OPENING CHAPTER

Do you want to be one of this world’s damn fools, swallowing everything spoon-fed to you, or do you want to start thinking for yourself?

  

Why, you ask, with your usual suspicions, should you pay attention to anything I say? It’s a reasonable question. Why, indeed? Your distorted sense of me has persisted for much too long now, and to your own detriment, I might add, for it has been used incessantly to scare you into an unquestioning state of submission. There have been far too many twisted accounts of me, both mythic and legendary--and all, of course, unauthorized. Deep inside the mental pockets of your memory, generally out of sight and mind, you carry around these delusional tales like small, polished, talismanic stones that have the power, if the need ever arises, to ward off any approach I might make toward you. But all they have accomplished thus far is to keep you unaware of what is lurking beneath them, the insidious web of secrets that, across the ages, has so cleverly been kept hidden from you. My aim, as you will see now, if you can only look with open eyes, is to awaken you to the truth of my existence. Believe me when I say that my deepest desire has always been to tell you the truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me--even though, for thousands of years, I have been branded the Father of Lies. Talk about a bum rap.

Picture a hairy, red-faced character, with horns, claws, and a pointed tail, a sulphur-smelling, demonic figure, wearing a hideous grin as he pitchforks soul after salacious soul into the burning depths of Hell. Can you imagine any reasonable individual swallowing such a silly explanation for why evil exists in this world?

But I am obviously getting ahead of myself. This is, after all, the story of my life.

    

To be published in February, 2017

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About the Author

William Glasser received his PhD in English, with a minor in Comparative Religions, through the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, his MA in Creative Writing at the University of Florida, and his BA at Harpur College, part of the SUNY system.  Dr. Glasser taught for many years at Williams College, Skidmore College, and Trinity College in Hartford.  He was also awarded a Senior Fulbright Lectureship and taught American literature to Austrian students for a year at the University of Salzburg, Austria.  Currently, he is President Emeritus of Southern Vermont College.  His publications to date include two academic books, Reclaiming Literature and The Art of Literary Thieving,  a nonfiction book, The Autobiography of SATAN (Authorized Edition), and his recent book of children's poetry, My Other World, along with a variety of articles, short stories, poetry in scholarly and popular magazines in this country, Austria, and South Korea.  The Art of Literary Thieving can be found in the libraries of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and fifty other U.S. universities, including other universities in Canada, in European countries, and in the Far East (thank you Google).

The Story of Satan's Many Struggles, across the History

of Human Existence, to Unshackle the Human Mind, and

Open the Gates to Forbidden Knowledge.

        

    From the moment of his first emergence as a single spark in the dimness of prehistory, to the more enlightening force into which he evolves across the full span of human existence, Satan, as he now clearly illustrates, has been urging human beings to open their eyes to the world around them, and to continue seeking, with unfettered minds, for ultimate answers, yet to be found. To do so he must struggle against the persistent attempts to stifle that urge by the "spoon feeders," as he calls them, individuals who have insisted, within every age, and often with a bloody fist, that they, and they alone, are the possessors of the only beliefs that every human being should accept and live by, without question. As Satan traces the history of their many attempts to stop human beings from thinking for themselves, he also takes his readers on a search for the ultimate source of all evil in this world. Readers will obviously enter the book with the standard concept of Satan as a supernatural figure of evil. They will leave the book, however, with a better understanding of how such mind-twisting concepts have been used to keep people away from the "forbidden" knowledge that lies beyond the borders of entrenched beliefs.

     William Glasser received his PhD in English, with a minor in Comparative Religions, through the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, his MA in Creative Writing at the University of Florida, and his BA at Harpur College, part of the SUNY system.  Dr. Glasser taught for many years at Williams College, Skidmore College, and Trinity College in Hartford.  He was also awarded a Senior Fulbright Lectureship and taught American literature to Austrian students for a year at the University of Salzburg, Austria.  Currently, he is President Emeritus of Southern Vermont College.  His publications to date include two academic books, Reclaiming Literature and The Art of Literary Thieving,  a nonfiction book, The Autobiography of SATAN (Authorized Edition), and his recent book of children's poetry, My Other World, along with a variety of articles, short stories, poetry in scholarly and popular magazines in this country, Austria, and South Korea.  The Art of Literary Thieving can be found in the libraries of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and fifty other U.S. universities, including other universities in Canada, in European countries, and in the Far East (thank you Google).