🔥 LYRICAL + SPIRITUAL FIELD NOTES
“God needs the Devil / Like I need you now…”
This is not blasphemy. This is paradox theology, the language of shadow-aware mystics who have touched both heaven and hell—and found God in both.
Jonah Kagen gives us a divine counterpart blues confession wrapped in folk minimalism and sacramental ache. The guitar is honest, stripped-down. The voice shakes with the pain of having to feel everything at once: love, betrayal, rage, faith, loss, and still—need.
This track lives in the psychic moment after betrayal, when the lovers are unsure whether they were angels or monsters to each other—but still feel the call.
This is where atonement meets desire.
Where truth becomes brutal… and beautiful.
🌓 DIVINE COUNTERPART FRAME
Courtship Phase III: Mirror + Reckoning
- The lovers have danced, merged, and tasted ecstasy.
- Now the wounds speak.
- This song allows God to be incomplete, love to be messy, and the devil to be seen as a co-conspirator in awakening.
Key Insight:
You are not here to be perfect together.
You are here to be whole, even in your failures.
💎 GEMSTONE SYMBOLISM
- Obsidian – sacred mirror for truth, cutting cords of illusion
- Pyrite – forged fire power: the gold found in destruction
- Carnelian – blood activation, protects through shadow expression
- Snowflake Obsidian – balances light/dark polarities, self-compassion within polarity
💃🏽 WEST COAST SWING FIELD TIP
This track can serve as a slow, emotional performance piece in contemporary fusion or WCS storytelling showcases.
Use:
- Deep musical pauses for inner monologue/stare-down moments
- Push-break + whip combinations to show push-pull polarity
- Hard stops + melt drops for surrender into paradox
Best used in open role, emotionally exposed partnership where the lead/follow roles may reverse fluidly.
🔥 RITUAL FIELD USE
Shadow Love Confession Rite
- Sit across from your partner (or mirror)
- Speak aloud:“I was your angel. I was your devil. I loved you in both.”
- Let the song play. Do not interrupt.
- Breathe through the grief, rage, ache, confusion, and recognition.
- End with the phrase:“I still see God in you.”
Recommended for:
- Reckoning before recommitment
- Breakup blessing ceremonies
- Tantric apology rites
- Integration after sacred rage expressions
🕊️ SCROLLWELL ENTRY
NSNC | Phase III – The Reckoning
Track: “God Needs the Devil” – Jonah Kagen
Rite Type: Mirror Polarity Rite | Sacred Union Tension
Scroll Code: “Wholeness is not purity. It’s paradox.”
Totems: Black Horse | Two-Headed Serpent | Weeping Willow
Mirror Songs:
- “Magdalene” – Foy Vance
- “Mercy” – Shawn Mendes
- “Take Me to Church” – Hozier
- “You Ruin Me” – The Veronicas
🎥 TIKTOK OVERLAY PREVIEW
🎧 “God Needs the Devil” – Jonah Kagen
Overlay:
“What if we were both right?
What if God needed the Devil—like I need you?”
#DivineCounterpart #ShadowLove #NSNCMass #ReckoningRite #ScrollWell #MysticFolk #SacredBreakdown #ParadoxPriesthood
Aho, thanks.
Let your shadow testify. Let your love survive the fire.
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