RE: Does God exist -
06-07-2006, 01:30 PM
God implies in one of his commandments that man is his likeness and no man shall make another man yet in cloning human is light yrs away.
wats ur take?
I believe man is making progress in decording Gods work? Did you kow that Defence advanced research project (DARP) the company behind robotic cars has a clon already?
this shows that God is nonentity and his mystery has been discovered?
Does heaven really exist? supposedly Home of God.
lets just say. one day we will get there.
Did you know the sun is being cloned by 8 countries through binary fusion.
PS: Back up your argument with verses from the bible .as I do with facts from mans achievement
@Tetley
Enjoy
SATAN IS MY SAVIOR
Called The Black Pope by many of his followers, Anton LaVey began the road to High Priesthood of
the Church of Satan when he was only 16 years old and an organ player in a carnival:
On Saturday night I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing the organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday night theyd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence.
I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that mans carnal nature will out!
From that time early in his life his path was clear. Finally, on the last night of April, 1968 -Walpurgisnacht, the
most important festival of the believers in witchcraft-LaVey shaved his head in the tradition of ancient
executioners and announced the formation of The Church Of Satan. He had seen the need for a church that
would recapture mans bocly and his carnal desires as objects of celebration Since worship of fleshly things produces pleasure, he said, there would then be a temple of glorious indulgence -
The Satanic Bible Anton Szandor LaVey
For Diane
INTRODUCTION by Burton H. Wolfe 9
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
THE NINE SATANIC STATEMENTS
(FIRE)
-BOOK OF SATAN-
The Infernal Diatribe 27
(AIR)
-BOOK OF LUCIFER-
The Enlightenment 37
I Wanted!: God-Dead or Alive
II The God You SAVE May be Yourself
III Some Evidence of a New Satanic Age
IV Hell, the Devil, and How to Sell Your Soul
V Love and Hate 64
VI Satanic Sex 66
VII Not all Vampires Suck Blood
VIII Indulgence . . . NOT Compulsion
IX On the Choice of a Human Sacrifice
X Life After Death Through Fulfillment of the Ego
XI Religious Holidays
XII The Black Mass
(EARTH)
-BOOK OF BELIAL
The Mastery of the Earth
I Theory and Practice of Satanic Magic (Definition and Purpose of Lesser and Greater Magic)
II The Three Types of Satanic Ritual
III The Ritual, or "Intellectual Decompression;' Chamber
IV The Ingredients Used in the performance of Satanic Magic:
A. Desire
B. Timing
C. Imagery
D. Direction
Ii. The Balance Factor
V The Satanic Ritual:
A. Some Notes Which are to he Observed Before Beginning Ritual
B. The Thirteen Steps
C. Devices Used in Satanic Ritual
(WATER)
-BOOK OF LEVIATHAN-
The Raging Sea
I Invocation to Satan
II The Infernal Names
III Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Lust
IV Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Destruction
V Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Compassion
VI The Enochian Keys (The nineteen Keys will be listed here in chronological order)
INTRODUCTION
Burton H. Wolfe*
On a winters evening in 1967, I drove crosstown in San Francisco to hear Anton Szandor LaVey lecture at an open meeting of the Sexual Freedom League. I was attracted by newspaper articles describing him as the Black Pope of a Satanic church in which baptism, wedding, and funeral ceremonies were dedicated to the Devil. I was a free-lance magazine writer, and I felt there might he a story in LaVey and his contemporary pagans; for the Devil has always made good copy, as they say on the city desk
It was not the practice of the black arts itself that I considered to he the story, because that is nothing new in the world. There were Devil-worshiping sects and voodoo cults before there were Christians. In eighteenth-century England a Hell-Fire Club, with connections to the American colonies through Benjamin Franklin, gained some brief notoriety. During the early part of the twentieth century, the press publicized Aleister Crowley as the wickedest man in the world. And there were hints in the 1920s and 30s of a black order in Germany.
To this seemingly old story LaVey and his organization of contemporary Faustians offered two strikingly new chapters. First, they blasphemously represented themselves as a church, a term previously confined to branches of Christianity, instead of the traditional coven of Satanism and witchcraft lore. Second. they practiced their black magic openly instead of underground.
Rather than arrange a preliminary interview with LaVey for discussion of his heretical innovations, my usual first step in research, I decided to watch and listen to him as an unidentified member of an audience. He was described in some newspapers as a former circus and carnival lion tamer and trickster now representing himself as the Devils representative on earth, and I wanted to determine first whether he was a true Satanist, a prankster, or a quack. I had already met people in the limelight
of the occult business; in fact, Jeane Dixon was my landlady and I had a chance to write about her before Ruth Montgomery did. But I considered all the occultists phonies, hypocrites, or quacks, and I would never spend five minutes writing about their various forms of hocus-pocus.
All the occultists I had met or heard of were white-lighters:
alleged seers, prophesiers, and witches wrapping their supposedly mystic powers around God-based, spiritual communication. LaVey, seeming to laugh at them if not spit on them in con-tempt, emerged from between the lines of newspaper stories as a black magician basing his work on the dark side of nature and the carnal side of humanity. There seemed to be nothing spiritual about his church.
As I listened to LaVey talk that first time, I realized at once there was nothing to connect him with the occult business. He could not even be described as metaphysical. The brutally frank talk he delivered was pragmatic, relativistic, and above all rational. It was unorthodox, to be sure: a blast at established religious worship, repression of humanitys carnal nature, phony pretense at piety in the course of an existence based on dog-eat-dog material pursuits. It was also full of sardonic satire on human folly. But most important of all, the talk was logical. It was not quack magic that LaVey offered his audience. It was common sense philosophy based on the realities of life.
After I became convinced of LaVeys sincerity, I had to convince him that I intended to do some serious research instead of adding to the accumulation of hack articles dealing with the Church of Satan as a new type of freak show. I boned up on Satanism, discussed its history and rationale with LaVey, and attended some midnight rituals in the famous Victorian manse once used as Church of Satan headquarters. Out of all that I produced a serious article, only to find that was not what the publishers of respectable magazines wanted. They were interested only in the freak show kind of article. Finally, it was a so-called girlie or mans magazine, Knight of September 1968, that published the first definitive article on LaVey, the Church of Satan, and LaVeys synthesis of the old Devil legends and black magic lore into the modern philosophy and practice of Satanism that all followers and imitators now use as their model, their guide, and even their Bible.
My magazine article was the beginning, not the end (as it has
been with my other writing subjects), of a long and intimate association. Out of it came my biography of LaVey, The Devils Avenger, published by Pyramid in 1974. After the book was published, I became a card-carrying member and, subsequently, a priest in the Church of Satan, a title I now proudly share with many celebrated persons. The postmidnight philosophical discussions I began with LaVey in 1967 continue today, a decade later, supplemented sometimes these days by a nifty witch or some of our own music, him on organ and me on drums, in a bizarre cabaret populated by superrealistic humanoids of LaVeys creation.
AH of LaVeys background seemed to prepare him for his role. He is the descendent of Georgian, Romanian, and Alsatian grandparents, including a gypsy grandmother who passed on to him the legends of vampires and witches in her native Transylvania. As early as the age of five, LaVey was reading Weird-Tales magazines and books such as Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and Bram Stokers Dracula. Though he was different from other children, they appointed him as leader in marches and maneuvers in mock military orders.
In 1942, when LaVey was twelve, his fascination with toy soldiers led to concern over World War II. He delved into military manuals and discovered that arsenals for the equipment of armies and navies could be bought like groceries in a supermarket and used to conquer nations. The idea took shape in his head that contrary to what the Christian Bible said, the earth would not be inherited by the meek, but by the mighty.
In high school LaVey became something of an offbeat child prodigy. Reserving his most serious studies for outside the school, he delved into music, metaphysics, and secrets of the occult. At fifteen, he became second oboist in the San Francisco Ballet Symphony Orchestra. Bored with high school classes, LaVey dropped out in his junior year, left home, and joined the Clyde Beatty Circus as a cage boy, watering and feeding the lions and tigers. Animal trainer Bratty noticed that LaVey was comfortable working with the big cats and made him an assistant trainer.
Possessed since childhood by a passion for the arts, for culture, LaVey was not content merely with the excitement of training jungle beasts and working them in the ring as a fill-in for Bratty. By age ten he had taught himself to play the piano
by ear. This came in handy when the circus calliope player came drunk before a performance and was unable to go on; LaVey volunteered to replace him, confident he could handle the unfamiliar organ keyboard well enough to provide the necessary background music. It turned out he knew more music and played better than the regular calliopist, so Beatty cashiered the drunk and installed LaVey at the instrument. He accompanied the Human Cannonball, Hugo Zachia, and the Wallendas high-wire acts, among others.
When LaVey was eighteen he left the circus and joined a carnival. There he became assistant to a magician, learned hypnosis, and studied more about the occult. It was a curious combination. On the one side he was working in an atmosphere of life at its rawest level of earthy music; the smell of wild animals and sawdust; acts in which a second of missed timing meant accident or death; performances that demanded youth and strength, and shed those who grew old like last years clothes; a world of physical excitement that had magical attractions. On the other side, he was working with magic in the dark side of the human brain. Perhaps the strange combination influenced the way he began to view humanity as he played organ for carnival sideshows.
On Saturday night, LaVey recalled in one of our long
talks, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning whim I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday night theyd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that mans human nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scourged by any white-light religion.
Though LaVey did not realize it then, he was on his way toward formulating a religion that would serve as the antithesis of Christianity and its Judaic heritage. It was an old religion, older than Christianity or Judaism. But it had never been formalized, arranged into a body of thought and ritual. That was to become LaVeys role in twentieth century civilization.
After LaVey became a married man himself in 1951, at age twenty-one, he abandoned the wondrous world of the carnival
to settle into a career better suited for homemaking. He had been enrolled as a criminology major at the City College of San Francisco. That led to his first conformist job, photographer for the San Francisco Police Department As it worked out, that job had as much to do as any other with his development of Satanism as a way of life.
I saw the bloodiest, grimiest side of Human nature, LaVey recounted in a session dealing with his past life. People shot by nuts, knifed by their friends; little kids splattered in the gutter by hit-and-run drivers. It was disgusting and depressing. I asked myself: Where is God? I came to detest the sanctimonious attitude of people toward violence, always saying its Gods will.
So he quit in disgust after three years of being a crime photographer and returned to playing organ, this time in night-clubs and theaters to earn a living while he continued his studies into his lifes passion: the black arts. Once a week he held classes on arcane topics: hauntings. E.S.P., dreams, vampires, werewolves, divination, ceremonial magic, etc. They attracted many people who were, or have since become, well known in the arts and sciences, and the business world. Eventually a Magic Circle evolved from this group.
The major purpose of the Circle was to meet for the performance of magical rituals LaVey had discovered or devised He had accumulated a library of works that described the Black Mass and other infamous ceremonies conducted by groups such as the Knights Templar in fourteenth-century France, the Hell Fire Club and the Golden Dawn in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. The intent of some of these secret orders was to blaspheme, lampoon the Christian church, and address themselves to the Devil as an anthropomorphic deity that represented the reverse of God. In LaVeys view, the Devil was not that, but rather a dark, hidden force in nature responsible for the workings of earthly affairs, a force for which neither science nor religion had any explanation. LaVeys Satan is the spirit of progress, the inspirer of all great movements that contribute to the development of civilization and the advancement of mankind. He is the spirit of revolt that leads to freedom, the embocliment of all heresies that liberate:
On the last night of April 196&~Walpurgisnacht, the most important festival in the lore of magic and witchcraft-LaVey
ritualistically shaved his head in accordance with magical tradition and announced the formation of the Church of Satan. For proper identification as its minister, he put on the clerical collar. Up to that collar he looked almost holy. But his Genghis Khanlike shaven head, his Mephistophelian beard, and his narrow eyes gave him the necessary demonic look for his priesthood of the Devils church on earth.
For one thing, LaVey explained himself, calling it a church enabled me to follow the magic formula of one part outrage to nine parts social respectability that is needed for success. But the main purpose was to gather a group of like-minded individuals together for the use of their combined energies in calling up the dark force in nature that is called Satan.
As LaVey pointed out, all other churches are based on worship of the spirit and denial of the flesh and the intellect. He Saw the need for a church that would recapture mans mind and casual desires as objects of celebration. Rational self-interest would be encouraged and a healthy ego championed.
He began to realize that the old concept of a Black Mass to Satirize Christian services was outmoded or, as he put it, beating a dead horse. In the Church of Satan, LaVey initiated some exhilarating psychodramas, in lieu of Christianitys self-debasing services, thereby exorcising repressions and irdubitions fostered by white-light religions.
There was a revolution in the Christian church itself against orthodox rites and traditions. It had become popular to dare that God is dead. So, the alternative rites that LaVey worked out, while still maintaining some of the trappings of ancient ceremonies, were changed from a negative mockery to positive forms of celebrations and purges: Satanic weddings consecrating the joys of the flesh, funerals devoid of sancti monious platitudes, lust rituals to help individuals attain their sex desires, destruction rituals to enable members of the Satanic church to triumph over enemies.
On special occasions such as baptisms, weddings, and funerals in the name of the Devil, press coverage, though unsolicited, was phenomenal. By 1967 the newspapers that were sending reporters to write about the Church of Satan extended from San Francisco across the Pacific to Tokyo and across the Atlantic to Paris. A photo of a nude woman, half covered by
a leopard skin, serving as an altar to Satan in a LaVey-conceived wedding ceremony, was transmitted by major wire services to daily newspapers everywhere; and it showed up on the front page of such bulwarks of the media as the Los Angeles Times. As the result of the publicity, grottos (LaVeys counterpart to covens) affiliated with the Church of Satan spread throughout the world, proving one of LaVeys cardinal m~ Sages: the Devil is alive and highly popular with a great many people.
Of course Lavey pointed out to anyone who would listen that the Devil to him and his followers was not the stereotyped fellow cloaked in red garb, with horns, tail and pitchfork, but rather the dark forces in nature that human beings are just beginning to fathom. How did LaVey square that explanation with his own appearance at times in black cowl with horns? He replied. People need ritual, with symbols such as those you find in baseball games or church services or wars, as vehicles for expending emotions they cant release or even understand on their own. Nevertheless, LaVey himself soon tired of the games.
There were setbacks. First, some of LaVeys neighbors began complaining about the full-grown lion he was keeping as a house pet, and eventually the big cat was donated to the local zoo. Next, one of LaVeys most devoted witches, Jayne Mansfield, died under a curse he had placed on the head of her suitor, lawyer Sam Brody, for a variety of reasons I have explained in The Devils Avenger; LaVey had persistently warned her away from Brody and felt depressed over her death. It was the second tragic death in the sixties of a Hollywood sex symbol with whom he had been intimately involved; the other was Marilyn Monroe, LaVeys paramour for a brief but crucial period in 1948 when he had quit the carnival and was playing organ for strippers around the Los Angeles area.
On top of all that, LaVey was tired of organizing entertainments and purges for his church members. He had gotten in touch with the last living remnants of the prewar occult fraternities of Europe, was busily acquiring their philosophies and secret rituals left over from the pre-Hitler era, and needed time to study, write and work Out new principles. He had long been experimenting with and applying the principles of geo. metric spacial concepts in what he terms The Law of the
Trapezoid. (He scoffs at current faddists who are barking up the wrong pyramids.) He was also becoming widely sought as speaker, guest on radio and television programs, and production and/or technical adviser to scores of television producers and moviemakers turning out satanic chillers. Sometimes he was also an actor. As sociologist Clinton R. Sanders points out: . . . no occultist has had as direct an impact upon fonnulaic cinematic presentations of Satanism as has Anton Szandor LaVey. Ritual and esoteric symbolism are central elements in LaVeys church and the films in which he has had a hand contain detailed portrayals of satanic rites and are filled with traditional occult symbols. The emphasis upon ritual in the Church of Satan is intended to focus the emotional powcrs within each individual. Similarly, the ornate ritualism that is central to LaVeys films may reasonably be seen as a mechanism to involve and focus the emotional experience of the cinema audience.
At last LaVey decided to transfer rituals and other organized activities to Church of Satan grottos around the world, and devote himself to writing, lecturing, teaching-and to his family:
wife Diane, the blonde beauty who serves as High Priestess of the Church; raven-haired daughter Karla, now in her early twenties, a criminology major like her father before, spending much of her time lecturing on Satanism at universities in many parts of the country; and finally, Zeena, remembered by people who saw the famous photo of the Satanic Church baptism as a tiny tot, but now a gorgeously developed teenager attracting a growing pack of wolves, human male variety.
Out of LaVeys relatively quiescent period came his widely read, pioneering books: First, The Satanic Bible, which at this writing is in its twelfth edition (and this is my second, revised introduction, after having written the original introduction to the first edition) - Second, The Satanic Ritual, which covers more of the somber, complex material LaVey unearthed from his increasing sources. And third, The Corn pleat Witch, a bestseller in Italy but, sadly, allowed by its American publisher to go out of print with its potential unfulfilled.
LaVeys spreading Out from organized church activities to writing books for worldwide distribution has, of course, greatly expanded Church of Satan membership. Satanisms growing popularity has naturally been accompanied by scare stories from
religious groups complaining that The Satanic Bible now Outsells the Christian Bible on college campuses and is a leading causative factor in youngsters turning away from God. And certainly one suspects that Pope Paul had LaVey in mind when he issued his worldwide proclamation two years ago that the Devil is alive and a person, a living, fire-breathing character spreading evil over the earth. LaVey, maintaining that evil is live spelled backward and should be indulged in and enjoyed, answers the pope and the religious sent groups this way:
People, organizations, nations are making millions of dollars off us. What would they do without us? Without the Church of Satan, they wouldnt have anybody to rage at and to take the blame for all the terrible things happening in the world. If they really feel this way, they shouldnt have blown us out of proportion. What you really have to believe instead is that they are the charlatans, and theyre really glad to have us around so they can exploit us. Were an extremely valuable commodity. Weve helped business, lifted up the economy, and some of the millions of dollars we have generated have in turn flowed into the Christian church. We have proved many times over the Ninth Satanic Statement that says the church-and countless individuals cannot exist without the Devil.
For that the Christian church must pay a price. The events that LaVey predicted in the first edition of The Satanic Bible have come to pass. Repressed people have burst their bonds. Sex has exploded, the collective libido has beer released, in movies and literature, on the streets, and in the home. People are dancing topless and bottomless. Nuns have thrown off their traditional habits, exposed their legs, and danced the Missa Solemnis Rock that LaVey thought he was conjuring up as a prank. There is a ceaseless universal quest for entertainment, gourmet foods and wines, adventure, enjoyment of the here and now. Humanity is no longer willing to wait for any afterlife that promises to reward the clean, pure - translate: ascetic, drab-spirit. There is a mood of neopaganism and hedonism, and from it there have emerged a wide variety of brilliant individuals~octors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, writers, stockbrokers, real estate developers, actors and actresses, mass communications media people (to cite a few categories of Satanists)
who are interested in formalizing and perpetuating this all-pervading religion and way of life.
It is not an easy religion to adopt in a society ruled so long by Puritan ethics. There is no false altruism or mandatory love-thy-neighbor concept in this religion. Satanism is a blatantly selfish, brutal philosophy. It is based on the belief that Human beings are inherently selfish, violent creatures, that life is a Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest, that only the strong survive and the earth will be ruled by those who fight to win the ceaseless competition that exists in all jungles including those of urbanized society. Abhor this brutal outlook if you will; it is based, as it has beer for centuries, on real conditions that exist in the world we inhabit rather than the mystical lands of milk and honey depicted in the Christian Bible.
In The Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey has explained the philosophy of Satanism more profoundly than any of his ancestors in the Kingdom of Darkness, while describing in detail the innovative rituals and trappings he has devised to create a church of realists. It has been clear from the first edition that many people want to read this book to learn how to start satanic groups and ritualize black magic. The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals are the only books that have demonstrated, in a way that is authentic and true to relevant traditions, how all of that can be done. There have beer many imitators, never attributing their source, and with good reason; because once the shabbiness and shallowness of the imitators have been compared to LaVeys pioneering work, there can no longer be any market for the rip-off artists.
The evidence is clear to any who are willing to view the record: Anton LaVey brought Satan out of the closet and the Church of Satan is the fountainhead of contemporary Satanism This book summarizes the message both convey, and remains both challenge and inspiration, as timely today as when it was written
SAN FRANSISCO December 25, 1976 (XI Anno Satanas)
The Satanic Bible
PREFACE
This book was written because, with very few exceptions, every tract and paper, every secret grimoire, all the great works on the subject of magic, are nothing more than sanctimonious fraud -guilt-ridden ramblings and esoteric gibberish by chroniclers of magical lore unable or unwilling to present an objective view of the subject. Writer after writer, in efforts to state the principles of white and black magic, has succeeded instead in clouding the entire issue so badly that the would-be student of sorcery winds up stupidly pushing a planchette over a Ouija board, standing inside a pentagram waiting for a demon to present itself, limply tossing I.Ching yarrow stalks like so many stale pretzels, shuffling pasteboards to foretell a future which has lost any meaning, attending seminars guaranteed to flatten his ego - while doing the same to his wallet-and in general making a blithering fool of himself in the eyes of those who know!
The true magus knows that occult bookshelves abound with the brittle relics of frightened minds and sterile bodies, metaphysical journals of self-deceit, and constipated rule-books of Eastern mysticism. Far too long has the subject of Satanic magic and philosophy been written down by wild-eyed journalists of the right-hand path.
The old literature is the by-product of brains festering with fear and defeat, written unknowingly for the assistance of those who really rule the earth, and who, from their Hellish thrones, laugh with noisome mirth.
The flames of Hell burn brighter for the kindling supplied by these volumes of hoary misinformation and false prophecy.
Herein you will find truth-and fantasy. Each is necessary for the other to exist; but each must be recognized for
what it is. What you see may not always please you; but you will see!
Here is Satanic thought from a truly Satanic point of view.
The Church of Satan
San Francisco, Walpurgisnacht 1968
PROLOGUE
The gods of the right-hand path have bickered and quarreled for an entire age of earth. Each of these deities and their respective priests and ministers have attempted to find wisdom in their own lies. The ice age of religious thought can last but a limited time in this great scheme of human existence. The gods of wisdom-defiled have had their saga, and their millennium hath become as reality. Each, with his own "divine" path to paradise, bath accused the other of heresies and spiritual indiscretions. The Ring of the Nibelungen doth carry an ever-lasting curse, but only because those who seek it think in terms of "Good" and "Evil"-themselves being at all times "Good." The gods of the past have become as their own devils in order to live. Feebly, their ministers play the devil's game to fill their tabernacles and pay the mortgages on their temples. Alas, too long have they studied "righteousness," and poor and incompetent devils they make. So they all join hands in "brotherly" unity, and in their desperation go to Valhalla for their last great ecumenical council. "Draweth near in the gloom the twilight of the gods." The ravens of night have flown forth to summon Loki, who hath set Valhalla aflame with the searing trident of the Inferno. The twilight is done. A glow of new light is borne Out of the night and Lucifer is risen, once more to proclaim:
"This is the age of Satan! Satan Rules the Earth!" The gods of the unjust are dead. This is the morning of magic, and undefiled wisdom. The FLESH prevaileth and a great Church shall be builded, consecrated in its name. No longer shall man's
salvation be dependent on his self-denial. And it will be known that the world of the flesh and the living shall be the greatest preparation for any and all eternal delights!
REGIE SATANAS!
AVE SATANAS!
HAIL SATAN!
THE
NINE
SATANIC
STATEMENTS
A
1 Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence!
2 Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
3 Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit!
4 Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates!
5 Satan represents vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek!
6 Satan represents responsibility to the responsible, instead of concern for psychic vampires!
7 Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all
fours, who, because of his "divine spiritual and intellectual development," has become the most vicious animal
of all!
8 Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!
9 Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years!
(FIRE)
THE BOOK OF SATAN
THE INFERNAL DIATRIBE
The first book of the Satanic Bible is not an attempt to blaspheme as much as it is a statement of what might be termed "diabolical indignation." The Devil has been attacked by the men of God relentlessly and without reservation Never has there been an opportunity, short of fiction, for the Dark Prince to speak Out in the same manner as the spokesmen of the Lord of the Righteous. The pulpit-pounders of the past have been free to define "good" and "evil" as they see fit, and have gladly smashed into oblivion any who disagree with their lies - both verbally and, at times, physically. Their talk of "charity," when applied to His Infernal Majesty, becomes an empty sham
and most unfairly, too, considering the obvious fact that without their Satanic foe their very religions would collapse. How sad, that the allegorical personage most responsible for the success of spiritual religions is shown the leas' amount of charity and the most consistent abuse and by those who most unctuously preach the rules of fair play! For all the centuries of shouting-down the Devil has received, he has never shouted hack at his detractors. He has remained the gentleman at all times, while those he supports rant and rave. He has shown himself to be a model of deportment, but now he feels it is time to shout back. He has decided it is finally time to receive his due. Now the ponderous rule-books of hypocrisy are no longer needed. In order to relearn the Law of the Jungle, a small, slim diatribe will do. Each verse is an inferno. Each word is a tongue of fire. The flames of Hell burn fierce .. . and purify! Read on and learn the Law.
THE
BOOK OF
SATAN
I
1 In this arid wilderness of Steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!
2 Open your eyes that you may see, Oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered millions!
3 For I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the "laws" of man and of "God"!
4 I request reasons for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commands.
5 Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!
6 I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The TRUE prince of evil-the king of the slaves!
7 No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
S I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
9 I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong!
10 I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!
11 I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath!
II
1 Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid in-competence hanging on a tree.
2 I question all things. As I stand before the festering and varnished facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing scorn: Lo and behold; all this is fraud!
3 Gather around me, Oh! ye death-defiant, and the earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold!
4 Too long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought!
5 Too long right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets!
6 No creed must be accepted upon authority of a "divine" nature. Religions must be put to the question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted-no standard of measurement deified. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!
7 He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom.
8 The chief duty of every new age is to upraise new men to determine its liberties, to lead it towards material success-to tend the rusty padlocks and chains of dead custom that always prevent healthy expansion. Theories and ideas that may have meant life and hope and freedom for our ancestors may now mean destruction, slavery, and dishonor to us!
9 As environments change, no human ideal standeth sure!
10 Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne, let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for under the domination of an inconvenient falsehood, no one can prosper.
11 Let established sophisms be dethroned, rooted out, burnt and destroyed, for they are a standing menace to all true nobility of thought and action!
12 Whatever alleged "truth" is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!
13 The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie -the lie everyone believes to be a model truth. It is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and delusions. It is a hydra-headed tree of unreason with a thousand roots. It is a social cancer!
14 The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the lie that even intelligent persons accept as fact-the lie that has been inculcated in a little child at its mother's knee is more dangerous to contend against than a creeping pestilence!
15 Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them:
Cut them out, to the very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch. Annihilate them, or they will us!
III
1 "Love one another" it has been said is the supreme law, but what power made it so? Upon what rational authority does the gospel of love rest? Why should I not hate mine enemies-if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?
2 Is it natural for enemies to do good unto each other-and
WHAT IS GOOD?
3 Can the torn and bloody victim "love" the blood-splashed jaws that rend him limb from limb?
4 Are we not all predatory animals by instinct? If humans ceased wholly from preying upon each other, could they continue to exist?
5 Is not "lust and carnal desire" a more truthful term to describe "love" when applied to the continuance of the race? Is not the "love" of the fawning scriptures simply a euphemism for sexual activity, or was the "great teacher" a glorifier of eunuchs?
6 Love your enemies and do good to them that hate and use you-is this not the despicable philosophy of the spaniel that rolls upon its back when kicked?
7 Hate your enemies with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law!
8 He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog!
9 Give blow for blow, scorn for scorn, doom for doom-with compound interest liberally added thereunto! Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, aye four-fold, a hundred-fold! Make yourself a Terror to your adversary, and when he goeth his way, he will possess much additional wisdom to ruminate over. Thus shall you make yourself respected in all the walks of life, and your spirit-your immortal spirit-shall live, not in an intangible paradise, but in the brains and sinews of those whose respect you have gained
IV
1 Life is the great indulgence -death, the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life-HERE AND Now!
2 There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth!
3 Say unto thine own heart, "I am mine own redeemer."
4 Stop the way of them that would persecute you. Let those
who devise thine undoing be hurled back to confusion and infamy. Let them be as chaff before the cyclone and after they have fallen rejoice in thine own salvation.
5 Then all thy bones shall say pridefully, "Who is like unto me? Have I not been too strong for mine adversaries? Have I not delivered MYSELF by mine own brain and body?"
V
1 Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth-Cursed are the weak, for they shall inherit the yoke!
2 Blessed are the powerful, for they shall be reverenced among men -Cursed are the feeble, for they shall be blotted out!
3 Blessed are the bold, for they shall be masters of the world-Cursed are the righteously humble, for they shall be trodden under cloven hoofs!
4 Blessed ate the victorious, for victory is the basis of right Cursed are the vanquished, for they shall be vassals forever!
5 Blessed are the iron-handed, for the unfit shall flee before them-Cursed are the Poor in spirit, for they shall be spat upon!
6 Blessed are the death-defiant, for their days shall be long in the land -Cursed are the gazers toward a richer life beyond the grave, for they shall perish amidst plenty!
7 Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs-Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!
8 Blessed are the valiant, for they shall obtain great treasure
-Cursed are the believers in good and evil, for they are
frightened by shadows!
9 Blessed are those that believe in what is best for them, for never shall their minds be terrorized-Cursed are the "lambs of God," for they shall be bled whiter than snow!
10 Blessed is the man who has a sprinkling of enemies, for they shall make him a hero -Cursed is he who doeth good unto others who sneer upon him in return, for he shall be despised!
11 Blessed are the mighty-minded, for they shall ride the whirlwinds -Cursed are they who teach lies for truth and truth for lies, for they are an abomination!
12 Thrice cursed are the weak whose insecurity makes them vile, for they shall serve and suffer!
13 The angel of self-deceit is camped in the souls of the "righteous"-The eternal flame of power through joy dwelleth within the flesh of the Satanist!
(AIR)
THE BOOK OF LUCIFER
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The Roman god, Lucifer, was the bearer of light, the spirit of the air, the personification of enlightenment. In Christian mythology he became synonymous with evil, which was only to have been expected from a religion whose very existence is perpetuated by clouded definitions and bogus values! It is time to Set the record straight. False moralisms and occult inaccuracies must be corrected. Entertaining as they might be, most stories and plays about Devil worship must be recognized as the obsolete absurdities they are. It has been said "the truth will make men free." The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the most strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifers. How understand-able that Holy Scripture should refer to the Infernal monarch as the "father of lies"-a magnificent example of character inversion. If one is to believe this theological accusation that the Devil represents falsehood, then it surely must be concurred that it was HE, NOT GOD, THAT ESTABLISHED ALL SPIRITUAL RELIGIONS AND WHO WROTE ALL OF THE HOLY BIBLES! When
one doubt is followed by another, the bubble, grown large from long accumulated fallacies, threatens to burst. For those who already doubt supposed truths, this book is revelation. Then Lucifer will have risen. Now is the time for doubt! The bubble of falsehood is bursting and its sound is the roar of the world!
-WANTED!-
GOD
DEAD OR ALIVE
IT is a popular misconception that the Satanist does not believe in God. The concept of "God," as interpreted by man, has been so varied throughout the ages, that the Satanist simply accepts the definition which suits him best. Man has always created his gods, rather than his gods creating him. God is, to some, benign-to others, terrifying. To the Satanist "God"-by whatever name he is called, or by no name at all-is seen as
the balancing factor in nature, and not as being concerned with suffering. This powerful force which permeates and balances the universe is far too impersonal to care about the happiness or misery of flesh-and-blood creatures on this ball of dirt upon which we live.
Anyone who thinks of Satan as evil should consider all the men, women, children, and animals who have died because it was "God'ss will." Certainly a person grieving the untimely loss of a loved one would much rather have their loved one with them than in God's hands! Instead, they are unctuously consoled by their clergyman who says, "It was God's will, my dear"; or "He is in God's hands now, my son." Such phrases have been a convenient way for religionists to condone or excuse the mercilessness of God. But if God is in complete control and as benign as he is supposed to be, why does He allow these
things to happen? Too long have religionists been falling back on their bibles and rulebooks to prove or disprove, justify, condemn, or interpret
The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares. No longer will we sit back and accept "fate" without doing anything about it, just because it says so in Chapter such and such, Psalm so and so -and that's that! The Satanist knows that praying does absolutely no good-in fact, it actually lessens the chance of success, for the devoutly religious too often Sit back complacently and pray for a situation which, if they were to do something about it on their own, could be accomplished much quicker!
The Satanist shuns terms such as "hope" and "prayer" as they are indicative of apprehension. If we hope and pray for something to come about, we will not act in a positive way which will make it happen The Satanist, realizing that anything he gets is of his own doing, takes command of the situation instead of praying to God for it to happen. Positive thinking and positive action add up to results
Just as the Satanist does not pray to God for assistance, he does not pray for forgiveness for his wrong doing In other religions, when one commits a wrong he either prays to God for forgiveness, or confesses to an intermediary and asks him to pray to God for forgiveness for his sins. The Satanist knows that if praying does no good, confessing to another human being, like himself, accomplishes even less -and is, furthermore, degrading.
When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that it is natural to make a mistake -and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place But this is exactly what happens. People confess their sins
so that they can clear their consciences-and be free to go out and sin again, usually the same sin.
There are as many different interpretations of God, in the usual sense of the word, as there are types of people. The images run from a belief in a god who is some vague sort of universal cosmic mind" to an anthropomorphic deity with a long white beard and sandals who keeps track of every action of each individual.
Even within the confines of a given religion, the personal interpretations of God differ greatly. Some religions actually go so far as to label anyone who belongs to a religious sect other than their own a heretic, even though the overall doctrines and impressions of godliness are nearly the same. For example: The Catholics believe that the Protestants are doomed to Hell simply because they do not belong to the Catholic Church. In the same way, many splinter groups of the Christian faith, such as the evangelical or revivalist churches, believe that the Catholics are heathens who worship graven images. (Christ is depicted in the image that is most physiologically akin to the individual worshipping him, and yet the Christians criticize "heathens" for the worship of graven images.) And the Jews have always been given the Devil's name.
Even though the god in all of these religions is basically the same, each regards the way chosen by the others as reprehensible, and to top it all, religionists actually PRAY for one another! They have scorn for their brothers of the right-hand path because their religions carry different labels, and somehow this animosity must be released. What better way than through "prayer"! What a simperingly polite way of saying: "I hate your guts," is the thinly disguised device known as praying for your enemy! Praying for one's own enemy is nothing more than bargain-basement anger, and of a decidedly shoddy and inferior quality!
If there has been so much violent discrepancy as to the proper way in which to worship God, how many different interpretations of God can there be -and who is right?
All devout "white-lighters" are concerned with pleasing
God so that they might have the "Pearly Gates" opened for them when they die. Nevertheless, if a man has not lived his life in accordance with the regulations of his faith, he can at the last minute call a clergyman to his deathbed for final absolution. The priest or minister will then come running, on the double, to "make everything right" with God and see to it that his passport to the Heavenly Realm is in order. (The Yezidis, a sect of Devil worshippers, take a different viewpoint. They believe that God is all-powerful, but also all-forgiving, and so accordingly feel that it is the Devil whom they must please, as he is the one who rules their lives while here on earth. They believe so strongly that God will forgive all of their sins once they have been given the last rites, that they feel no need to concern themselves with the opinion God may hold of them while they live.)
With all of the contradictions in the Christian scriptures, many people currently cannot rationally accept Christianity the way it has been practiced in the past. Great numbers of people are beginning to doubt the existence of God, in the established Christian sense of the word So, they have taken to calling themselves "Christian Atheists." True, the Christian Bible is a mass of contradictions; but what could be more contradictory than the tea" "Christian Atheist"?
If prominent leaders of the Christian faith are rejecting the past interpretation of God, how then can their followers be expected to adhere to previous religious tradition?
With all the debates about whether or not God is dead, if he isn't he had better have MEDICARE!
THE GOD YOU SAVE
MAY BE YOURSELF
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of "an He has created an entire system of gods with
nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego and cannot accept it, he has had to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God"
God can do all the things man is forbidden to
such as kill people, perform miracles to gratify his will, control without any apparent responsibility, etc. If man
needs such a god and recognizes that god, then he is worshipping an entity that a human being invented Therefore, HE IS WORSHIPPING BY PROXY, THE MAN THAT INVENTED GOD.
Is it
not more sensible to worship a god that he, himself, has created, in accordance with his own emotional needs -one that best represents the very carnal and physical being that has the idea-power to invent a god in the first place?
If man insists on externalizing his true self in the form of "God," then why fear his true self, in fearing "God,"-why praise his true self in praising "God,"-why remain externalized from "God" IN ORDER TO ENGAGE IN RITUAL AND RELIGIOUS CRREMONY IN HIS NAME?
Man needs ritual and dogrna, but no law states that an externalized god is necessary in order to engage in ritual and ceremony performed in a god's name! Could it be that when he closes the gap between himself and his "God" he sees the demon of pride creeping forth-that very embodiment of
Lucifer appearing in his midst? He no longer can view himself in two ports, the carnal and the spiritual, but sees them merge as one, and then to his abysmal horror, discovers that they are only the carnal -AND ALWAYS WERE! Then he either hates him-self to death, day by day -or rejoices that he is what he is!
If he hates himself, he searches out new and more complex spiritual paths of "enlightenment" in hopes that he may split himself up again in his quest for stronger and more externalized "gods" to scourge his poor miserable shell. If he accepts himself, but recognizes that ritual and ceremony are the important devices that his invented religions have utilized to sustain his faith in a Lie, then it is the SAME FORM OF RITUAL that will sustain his faith in the truth -the primitive pageantry that will give his awareness of his own majestic being added substance.
When all religious faith in lies has waned, it is because man has become closer to himself and farther from "God"; closer to the "Devil." If this is what the devil represents, and a man lives his life in the devil's fane, with the sinews of Satan moving his flesh, then he either escapes from the cacklings and carpings of the righteous, or stands proudly in his secret places of the earth and manipulates the folly-ridden masses through his own Satanic might, until that day when he may come forth
in splendor proclaiming "I AM A SATANIST! BOW DOWN, FOR I AM THE HIGHEST EMBODIMENT OF HUMAN LIFE!"
SOME EVIDENCE OF
A NEW SATANIC AGE
THE seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are:
greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these sins as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.
A Satanist knows there is nothing wrong with being greedy, as it only means that he wants more than he already has. Envy means to look with favor upon the
possessions of others, and to be desirous of obtaining similar things for oneself. Envy and greed are the motivating forces of ambition-and without ambition, very little of any importance would be accomplished.
Gluttony is simply eating more than you need to keep yourself alive. When you have overeaten to the point of obesity, another sin-pride -will motivate you to regain an appearance that will renew your self-respect.
Anyone who buys an article of clothing for a purpose other than covering his body and protecting it from the elements is guilty of pride. Satanists often encounter scoffers who maintain that labels are not necessary. It must be pointed out to these destroyers of labels that one or many articles they themselves are wearing are not necessary to keep them warm. There is not a person on this earth who is completely devoid of ornamentation. The Satanist points out that any ornamentation of the scoffers body shows that he, too, is guilty of pride. Regardless
of how verbose the cynic may be in his intellectual description of how free he is, he is still wearing the elements of pride.
Being reluctant to get up in the morning is to be guilty of sloth, and if you lie in bed long enough you may find yourself committing yet another sin-lust. To have the faintest stirring of sexual desire is to be guilty of lust. In order to insure the propagation of humanity, nature made lust the second most powerful instinct, the first being self-preservation. Realizing this, the Christian Church made fornication the Original Sin. In this way they made sure no one would escape sin. Your very state of being is as a result of sin-the Original sin!
The strongest instinct in every living thing is self-preservation which beings us to the last of the seven deadly sins-anger. Is it not our instinct for self-preservation that is aroused when someone harms us, when we become angry enough to protect ourselves from further attack? A Satanist practices the motto, If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other! Let no wrong go unredressed. Be as a lion in the path-be dangerous even in defeat!
Since mans natural instincts lead him to sin all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there. Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.
Times have changed. Religious leaders no longer preach that all our natural actions are sinful. We no longer think sex is dirty -or that taking pride in ourselves is shameful -or that wanting something someone else has is vicious. Of course not, times have changed! If you want proof of this, just look at how liberal the churches have become. Why, theyre practicing all the things that you preach.
Satanists hear these, and similar statements, all the time; and they agree wholeheartedly. BUT, if the world has changed so much, why continue to grasp at the threads of a dying faith? If many religions are denying their own scriptures because they are out of date, and are preaching the philosophies of Satanism,
why not call it by its rightful name -Satanism? Certainly it would be far less hypocritical.
In recent years there has been an attempt to humanize the spiritual concept of Christianity. This has manifested itself in the most obvious non-spiritual means. Masses which had been said in Latin are now said in native languages-which only succeeds in making the nonsense easier to understand, and at the same time robs the ceremony of the esoteric nature which is consistent with the tenets of the dogma. It is much simpler to obtain an emotional reaction using words and phrases that can-not be understood than it is with statements which even the simplest mind will question when hearing them in an understandable language.
If priests and ministers were to have used the devices to fill their churches one hundred years ago that they use today, they would have been charged with heresy, called devils, oft-times persecuted, but certainly excommunicated without hesitation.
The religionists wail, We must keep up with the times, forgetting that, due to the limiting factors and deeply engrained laws of white light religions, there can never be sufficient change to meet the needs of man.
Past religions have always represented the spiritual nature of man, with little or no concern for his carnal or mundane needs. They have considered this life but transitory, and the flesh merely a shell; physical pleasure trivial, and pain a worthwhile preparation for the Kingdom of God. How well the utter hypocrisy comes forth when the righteous make a change in their religion to keep up with mans natural change! The only way that Christianity can ever completely serve the needs of man is to become as Satanism is NOW.
It has become necessary for a NEW religion, based on mans natural instincts, to come forth. THEY have named it. It is called Satanism. It is that power condemned that has caused the religious controversy over birth-control measures-a disgruntled admission that sexual activity, for fun, is here to stay.
It is the Devil who caused women to show their legs, to
titillate men-the same kind of legs, now socially acceptable to gaze upon, which are revealed by young nuns as they walk about in their shortened habits. What a delightful step in the right (or left) direction! Is it possible we will soon see topless nuns sensually throwing their bodies about to the Missa Solemnis Rock? Satan smiles and says he would like that fine - many nuns are very pretty girls with nice legs.
Many churches with some of the largest congregations have the most hand-clapping, sensual music-also Satanically inspired. After all, the Devil has always had the best tunes.
Church picnics, despite all of Aunt Marthas talk about the Lords Bountiful Harvest, are nothing more than a good excuse for Sunday gluttony; and everyone knows that lots more than Bible reading goes on in the bushes.
The fund-raising adjunct to many church bazaars is commonly known as a carnival, which used to mean the celebration of the flesh; now a carnival is okay because the money goes to the church so that it can preach against the temptations of the Devil! It will be said that these things are only pagan devices and ceremonies-that the Christians borrowed them. True, but the Pagans reveled in the delights of the flesh, and were condemned by the very same people who celebrate their rituals, but call them by different names.
Priests and ministers are in the front lines of peace demonstrations, and lying on railroad tracks in front of trains carrying war materials, with as much dedication as their brothers of the cloth, from the same seminaries, who are blessing the bullets and bombs and fighting men as chaplains in the armed forces. Someone must be wrong, someplace. Could it be that Satan is the one qualified to act as accuser? Certainly they named him that!
When a puppy reaches maturity it becomes a dog; when ice melts it is called water; when twelve months have been used up, we get a new calendar with the proper chronological name; when magic becomes scientific fact we refer to it as medicine, astronomy, etc. When one name is no longer appropriate for a given thing it is only logical to change it to a new one which
better fits the subject. Why, then, do we not follow Suit in the area of religion? Why continue to call a religion the same name when the tenets of that religion no longer fit the original one? Or, if the religion does preach the same things that it always has, but its followers practice nearly none of its teachings, why do they continue to call themselves by the name given to followers of that religion?
If you do not believe in what your religion teaches, why continue to support a belief which is contradictory with your feelings. You would never vote for a person or issue you did not believe in, so why cast your ecclesiastical vote for a religion which is not consistent with your convictions? You have no right to complain about a political situation you have voted for or supported in any way-which includes sitting back and complacently agreeing with neighbors who approve the Situation, just because you are too lazy or cowardly to speak your mind. So it is with religious balloting. Even if you cannot be aggressively honest about your opinions because of unfavorable con-sequences from employers, community leaders, etc., you can, at least, be honest with yourself. In the privacy of your own home and with close friends you must support the religion which has YOUR best interests at heart.
Satanism is based on a very sound philosophy, say the emancipated. But why call it Satanism? Why not call it something like Humanism or a name that would have the connotation of a witchcraft group, something a little more esoteric
something less blatant. There is more than one reason for this. Humanism is not a religion It is simply a way of life with no ceremony or dogma. Satanism has both ceremony and dogma. Dogma, as will be exp |
