It's funny how people try to see their own beliefs into a song. That being said, this song isn't atheistic. Ozzy here is questioning a powerful spirit or figure, not a omnipresent godhead, but more like a lower, earthly type of spirit, a dimuirge around the material plane who influences thoughts. He's referring to the figure literally. He's not saying it's imaginary. He says the followers are being mislead and selling their souls. The figure is playing with the followers, pretending to be an ally, but they don't know who the entity really is in actuality, as if the entity is wearing a disguise. The entity is a powerful trickster.
@squigglysnazz Agreed. The Demiurge (found in Gnostic beliefs) is a creator god created by the feminine divine as a failed counterpart to the true God. Not a true god, but the metaphysical equivalent of a spoiled brat. The demiurge is like a little child, it creates things for its own amusement and treats them how it will with no real regard to their well-being. Hence the line "and when you have played enough you just cast our souls into the dust". This song is Ozzy acknowledging this concept, and trying to understand it.
@squigglysnazz Agreed. The Demiurge (found in Gnostic beliefs) is a creator god created by the feminine divine as a failed counterpart to the true God. Not a true god, but the metaphysical equivalent of a spoiled brat. The demiurge is like a little child, it creates things for its own amusement and treats them how it will with no real regard to their well-being. Hence the line "and when you have played enough you just cast our souls into the dust". This song is Ozzy acknowledging this concept, and trying to understand it.
It's funny how people try to see their own beliefs into a song. That being said, this song isn't atheistic. Ozzy here is questioning a powerful spirit or figure, not a omnipresent godhead, but more like a lower, earthly type of spirit, a dimuirge around the material plane who influences thoughts. He's referring to the figure literally. He's not saying it's imaginary. He says the followers are being mislead and selling their souls. The figure is playing with the followers, pretending to be an ally, but they don't know who the entity really is in actuality, as if the entity is wearing a disguise. The entity is a powerful trickster.
@squigglysnazz Agreed. The Demiurge (found in Gnostic beliefs) is a creator god created by the feminine divine as a failed counterpart to the true God. Not a true god, but the metaphysical equivalent of a spoiled brat. The demiurge is like a little child, it creates things for its own amusement and treats them how it will with no real regard to their well-being. Hence the line "and when you have played enough you just cast our souls into the dust". This song is Ozzy acknowledging this concept, and trying to understand it.
@squigglysnazz Agreed. The Demiurge (found in Gnostic beliefs) is a creator god created by the feminine divine as a failed counterpart to the true God. Not a true god, but the metaphysical equivalent of a spoiled brat. The demiurge is like a little child, it creates things for its own amusement and treats them how it will with no real regard to their well-being. Hence the line "and when you have played enough you just cast our souls into the dust". This song is Ozzy acknowledging this concept, and trying to understand it.