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The Satanic Bible

Anton Szandor LaVey

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 they'd be back 
at the carnival or some other place of indulgence.

"I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man 's carnal nature will 
out!"

From that time early in his life his path was clear. Finally, on the last night of April, 1966- 
Walpurgisnacht, the most important festival of the believers in witchcraft-La Vey 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 man's body 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

To: Bernadino Logara, who knew the value of money 
Karl Haushofer, a teacher without a classroom 
Rasputin, who knew the magic of a child 
Sir Basil Zaharoff, a gentleman 
Cagliostro, a rogue

Barnabas Saul, the link with Mount Lalesh 
Ragnar Redbeard, whose might is right 
William Mortensen, who looked . . . and saw 
Hans Brick, who knows the law 
Max Reinhardt, a builder of dreams 
Orrin Klapp, the walking man 
Fritz Lang, who made moving blueprints 
Friedrich Nietzsche, a realist

William Claude Dukinfield, who saved me a journey to Tibet 
Phineas Taylor Barnum, another great guru 
Hans Poelzig, who knew all the angles 
Reginald Marsh, a great artist

Wilhelm Reich, who knew more than cabinet-making 
Mark Twain, a very brave man

And to: Howard Hughes, James Moody, Marcello Truzzi, Adrian-Claude Frazier, Marilyn

Monroe, Wesley Mather, William Lindsay Gresham, Hugo Zacchini, Jayne Mansfield, 
Frederick Goerner, C.Huntley, Nathaniel West, Horatio Alger, Robert Ervin Howard, 
George Orwell, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Tuesday Weld, H.G. Wells, Sister Marie 
Koven, Harry Houdini, Togare, and the Nine Unknown Men.

INTRODUCTION I (1969-1972) by Burton H. Wolfe 
INTRODUCTION II (1972-1976) by Michael A. Aquino 
INTRODUCTION III (1976-2005) by Burton H. Wolfe 
INTRODUCTION IV (2005-) by Peter H. Gilmore 
PREFACE 
PROLOGUE

THE NINE SATANIC STATEMENTS

(FIRE) 
-BOOK OF SATAN- 
The Infernal Diatribe

(AIR)

-BOOK OF LUCIFER- 
The Enlightenment

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

VI Satanic Sex

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 BEL1AL- 
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

E. The Balance Factor

V The Satanic Ritual:

A. Some Notes Which are to be 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 and The Enochian Language (The nineteen Keys will be 
listed here in chronological order)

Underground Edition Extras

The Satanic Bible

INTRODUCTION by Burton H. Wolfe

This is the original introduction, used in the 1969 first edition through 1972

INTRODUCTION 
by Burton H. Wolfe*

In the summer of 1966, a few newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area began to take notice of 
a body of Devil- worshippers headed by a former circus and carnival lion handler and organist, 
Anton Szandor LaVey. Their practice of the black arts was nothing new in the world. It had traces 
in voodoo cults, a Hell-Fire Club that existed in 18th-Century England, a Satanic circle led by 
Aleister Crowley in England a century later, and the Black Order of Germany in the 1920' s and 
1930's. But two aspects of the San Francisco group made them different from their predecessors: 
they were blasphemously organized into a church, the First Church of Satan, instead of the usual 
coven Satanism and witchcraft lore; and they carried on their black magic openly instead of 
underground.

Wedding, baptism, and funeral ceremonies dedicated to the Devil were held in the Church of 
Satan, with the press invited. Rituals in the tradition of the black arts were staged at midnight in the 
old dark Victorian house of LaVey, an incongruous building among all the white and yellow stucco 
houses in the San Francisco neighborhood a short way from the cliffs along the Golden Gate. 
Occasionally the roar of a full-grown lion that lived in the black house with the LaVey family 
(Anton, 39; wife Diane, 26; and daughters Karla, 17, and Zeena, 6) reverberated through the night, 
spooking the neighbors, who were already upset about living so close to Hell.

Somehow it was all terribly provocative. Besides, the Devil has always made "good copy," as 
they say on the city desk. 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. When a wedding or funeral was held, with a naked woman serving as altar to Satan, the 
Associated Press and other wire Services were on hand to transmit the story and the scandalous 
photographs to thousands of periodicals. Groups affiliated with the Church of Satan were organized 
in other parts of America and in England, France, Germany, Africa, and Australia. In existence less 
than a year, the Church of Satan had already proved one of its cardinal messages: the Devil is alive 
highly popular with a great many people.

Anton LaVey, called "The Black Pope" by some of his followers, realized that two decades ago 
when he was playing organ for carnival sideshows. "On Saturday night," he recalls, "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 they'd be back at the carnival or some other 
place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's 
carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scourged by any white light religion."

Although LaVey did not realize it then — he was only eighteen — he was on his way toward 
formulating a religion that would serve as the antithesis to 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 be LaVey' s role in 20 th -Century civilization.

All of LaVey' s background seemed to prepare him for that role. He is the descendant of 
Georgian, Roumanian, and Alsatian grandparents, including a gypsy grandma who passed on to 
him the legends of vampires and witches in her native Transylvania. As early as the age of five, 
LaVey was delving into Weird-Tales magazines, and books such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 
and Bram Stoker' s Dracula. He felt different from other children, and yet he became a ringleader, 
glorying in the organization of mock military orders.

* Author of The Hippies and the forthcoming book, The Satanists. An article by Wolfe called "The Church That Worships Satan," 
the first complete study of the modern Satanic Church, appeared in the September 1968 issue of Knight magazine (Vol. 6, No. 8). 
Publishers Service, Inc., the producer of Knight, has graciously permitted portions of the article to appear in this introduction.

In 1942, when he was twelve years old, LaVey's fascination with toy soldiers branched off to 
concern about the world war. 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 masses of people. The idea took shape in his head that contrary to what the Bible said, the 
earth would not be inherited by the meek, but by the strong and mighty.

After entering High School, LaVey became something of an offbeat child prodigy. He did most 
of his studying outside the school, delving into music, metaphysics, and secrets of the occult. At 
sixteen he became second oboist in the San Francisco Ballet Symphony Orchestra. Bored with high 
school classes, he 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 Beatty noticed that LaVey was 
comfortable working with the big cats and made him an assistant trainer.

One day the circus calliope player became drunk. LaVey had taught himself to play the piano 
by ear and thought he could handle the organ keyboard well enough to provide some music for the 
performance that evening. It turned out that he played better and knew more music than the regular 
player, so Beatty kept him on the calliope. He accompanied the "Human Cannonball," Hugo 
Zachinni, and the Wallendas' high wire acts, among others.

When he was eighteen, LaVey left the circus and joined a carnival. He became assistant to a 
magician, learned hypnosis, and studied more about the occult. This 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; acts in which a second of missed timing meant accident; performances that 
demanded youth and strength, and shed those who grew old like last year's clothes; a world of 
physical excitement that had magical attractions. On the other side, he was working with the magic 
in the dark side of the human mind.

After he married, LaVey abandoned the wondrous world of the carnival to settle into a career 
better suited for a home life. He 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 leading him toward 
Satanism.

"I saw the bloodiest, grimiest side of human nature," he recalls. "People shot by nuts, knifed by 
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 it's God's will."

He quit in disgust after three years and went back to playing the organ, this time in nightclubs, 
to earn a living while he continued his studies into his life's fascination: the black arts. Once a week 
he held classes in ritual magic at his home. They attracted many who were, or have since become 
well known in the arts and sciences and business world. Eventually a "Magic Circle" evolved from 
this group.

The major purpose of the Circle was to meet for the performance of black rituals that LaVey 
had discovered. He had accumulated a library of works that described the Black Mass and other 
pagan ceremonies conducted by groups such as the Knights Templar in 14th-Century France and 
the Golden Dawn in 19th-century England. The original intent of these black orders was to 
blaspheme, mock the Christian church, and address themselves to the Devil as an anthropomorphic 
deity that represented the reverse of God. In LaVey's view, the Devil was much more than that. 
Satan represented a dark, hidden force in nature that was responsible for the workings of earthly 
affairs for which science and religion had no explanation and no control.

"At first I detected this force in small ways," LaVey explains. "It might be the discovery of an 
individual whose powers of wishing were so great that he could win horse races. In my case, I 
found I could conjure up parking places at the last minute in front of theaters, when none should 
have been there. I also discovered an ability through magic to bring reversals to enemies and gain 
advantage for myself. I realized I had stumbled onto something, and I would have gone on doing it 
on my own without any Magic Circle. But I also realized that for some things private magic was 
weaker than mass ritual magic."

Hence, on the last night of April 1966 — Walpurgisnacht, the most important festival in the lore 
of magic and witchcraft — LaVey shaved his head in the tradition of ancient strongmen 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 almost looked holy. But the Genghis Khan shaved head, his 
Mephistophelian beard, and his narrow eyes gave him the necessary demonic look for his 
priesthood of the Devil's church.

"For one thing," LaVey explains, "calling it a church enabled me to follow the magic formula 
of nine parts outrage to one part 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 correctly perceived, all other churches are based on worship of the spirit and denial 
of the flesh. He saw the need for a church that would recapture man's body and carnal desires as 
objects of celebration. "And," he adds, "since worship of fleshly things produces pleasure, there 
would then be a temple of glorious indulgence that would be fun for people. All the other churches 
are places of abstinence with services that people want to have over as soon as possible so they can 
get out and start enjoying life again."

In the Church of Satan, LaVey initiated clever psychodramas that would enable a group of 
flesh-worshippers to overcome the repressions and inhibitions fostered by the Judaeo-Christian 
tradition. He knew that the old concept of a Black Mass to satirize Christian services was 
outmoded. There was a revolution in the Christian church itself against orthodox rites and 
traditions. It was popular to declare that "God is dead." So, the rites that he worked out, while still 
maintaining the trappings of the ancient Black Mass, were changed from a negative mockery to 
positive forms of celebrations: Satanic weddings, funerals devoid of sanctimonious platitudes, lust 
rituals to help individuals attain their sex desires, destruction rituals to enable members of the 
Satanic Church to triumph over enemies and win their goals in life.

There is no altruism or love-thy-neighbor concept in the Satanic religion, except in the sense of 
helping other adherents of the Black Path to gain their desires by group energy. Satanism is a 
blatantly selfish, brutal religion. It is based on the belief that man is inherently a selfish, violent 
creature, that life is a Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest, that the earth will be ruled by 
those who fight to win the ceaseless competition that exists in all jungles — including that of urban 
societies. On that score, the Church of Satan may be justly criticized, although even its critics will 
have to admit that its philosophy is based on logic and real conditions that exist in the world.

On the other hand, the great contribution to civilized thought made by the Church of Satan is its 
celebration of the complete human being instead of the spirit alone. The signs are everywhere that 
humanity is striving to burst the restrictive bonds of religion. It was predicted in the Bible, for that 
matter, in symbolic passages that dealt with Satan chained for a thousand years, after which he 
would break free and foment deviltry on the earth. Now it is happening. Sex is exploding in movies 
and literature, on the streets, and in the home. People are dancing topless and bottomless. Youths 
are throwing off restrictions that deny pleasure in mind and body. There is a ceaseless quest for 
entertainment, gourmet foods and wines, adventure, enjoyment of the here and now. Man 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 neo-paganism and hedonism, and from it have emerged a wide 
variety of intelligent individuals — doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, writers, actors, 
stockbrokers, clerks, printers, nurses (to cite just a few categories of Satanic Church members) — 
who are interested in carrying the liberation of the flesh all the way to a formal religion.

In the Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey explains the philosophy of Satanism better than any of his 
ancestors in the Kingdom of Darkness, and describes the various rituals and trappings that have 
been devised to create a true church of flesh-worshippers. It is clear, from the interest in Satanism 
that erupted in 1968 along with the fascination directed toward Ira Levin's book Rosemary's Baby, 
that there are many people who would like to know how to start Satanic cults and ritualize black 
magic. This book shows them how to go about it and fills that need. It is also clear that there is a 
place for the formulation of teachings that constitute the antithesis to the repressive, inhibiting, anti- 
material dogma of Christianity and other antiquated religions. The Satanic Bible also fills that need.

Perhaps the most important social value of this book is its challenge to other religions: Deal 
with carnal desire and the flesh in a logical, rational manner or lose the struggle not only for men's 
bodies, but also their souls.

INTRODUCTION by Michael A. Aquino

This introduction appeared in the hardcover Satanic Bible from its first release in 1972 
throughout its existence, and in the Avon paperback edition from 1972 to 1976

Each successive era of man's cultural and ethical development has upraised its literary 
manifesto - an argument challenging existing norms and proposing a novel approach to the 
enduring issues of civilization. It has not infrequently been the case that the realities of political 
nationalism have been blended with the idealisms of extranational emphasis to produce what we 
now cautiously term existentialism. Pertinent works might include the Republic of Plato, the 
Politics of Aristotle, Machiavelli's Prince, and the writings of Nietzsche, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, 
and Sartre.

This is the book of our era.

The dawn of the Satanic Age was celebrated on April 30, 1966 - the Year One. On that date 
Anton Szandor LaVey consecrated the Church of Satan in the city of San Francisco and assumed 
office as its first High Priest. What had begun several years earlier as an intellectual forum 
dedicated to the investigation and application of the Black Arts has since expanded into an 
international philosophical movement of the first magnitude. Satanism, once the isolate province of 
furtive outcasts and radical eccentrics, has now become a serious alternative to the doctrines of 
theism and materialism. In its championship of indulgence instead of abstinence, the Church of 
Satan rejects the notion that man's progress is contingent upon his acceptance of a self-imposed 
morality. Sound judgment derives from the comparison and resolution of opposites, Satanists 
maintain, and one cannot presume to justice by honoring a single standard of behavior.

An empirical approach to morality is not a recent innovation; such theorists as Pythagoras, 
Hegel, Spencer, and Compte advanced the original propositions for man's intellectual 
independence from the natural order. And, though this concept has invariably provoked adverse 
reaction from society-oriented institutions, it is not an insubstantial viewpoint. One need only 
consider the spasmodic cataclysms of history to see how inadequately Homo sapiens cooperates 
with his fellows.

By itself, however, all theory is inconsequential. Until now the only advocates of a subjective 
morality were professorial abstractionists and -occasionally -the scattered and disorganized 
devotees of the traditional "White" witchcraft. Indeed the latter have enjoyed some notoriety of 
late, as their supposed proclamation of a liberal morality tempered by social correctness appeals to 
the bored but timid dilettante. Such aficionados of the occult profess a righteous horror of Black 
Magic or Satanism, which they denounce as a maleficent, degenerate creature of moral and carnal 
abuse.

The Satanist, on the other hand, regards traditional witchcraft as merely a neurotic reaction 
against the established religions of the parent culture. The worship of any deity or deities - under 
any guise whatsoever - is repulsive to the Black Magician, who considers all protestations of faith 
or trust in a supernatural protectorate to be humiliating demonstrations of cowardice and emotional 
insecurity. Satanism has been frequently misrepresented as "devil worship", when in fact it 
constitutes a clear rejection of all forms of worship as a desirable component of the personality. It is 
not so much an anti-religion - a simple rebuttal of any one belief - as it is an un-religion, an 
uncompromising dismissal of all insubstantial mysticism. As such it represents a far more serious 
threat to organized theologies than do the archaic customs of the old daemonologies.

Ritual and fantasy play a very real part in the activities of the Satanic Church, on the 
assumption that the experience and control of mental and metaphysical irrationality are necessary 
for the strengthening of the psyche. Thus a distinct effort is made to avoid what was perhaps the 
Achilles' heel of the Gurdjieff-Ouspensky school of subjective psychological evolution; earlier 
disciples of self-determined transcendentalism postulated that all non-materialistic sensations were 
a danger to the coherence of the student. Crucial to the concept of Satanic ritual is an appreciation 
of its illustrative and inspirational qualities without necessarily regarding it as inflexible reality.

Satanism is more accurately identified as a disposition than as a religion, as it is actively 
concerned with all the facets of human existence, not with only the so-called spiritual aspects. Yet

those who proclaim it to be a danger to justice and cooperative order have missed the point entirely. 
Satanism advocates unrestricted freedom, but only to the extent that one's preferences do not 
impinge upon another's. It should also be noted that Satanism is a philosophy of the individual, not 
of the mass. There are no collective policy statements save the famous Crowley admonition: "Self- 
deceit is the gravest of all 'sins'."

While the majority of the populace may instinctively incline to a de facto Satanism, the Church 
cautions that its propositions are not for the irresponsible. There are no Satanic missionaries, and to 
affiliate one must meet exacting standards. Inexperience is not dishonored, but pretentiousness, 
hypocrisy, and pomposity are treated with the scorn that they deserve. Satanism is no less an art 
than it is a science, and there is "no standard of measurement deified".

Dr. LaVey is uniquely prepared to author the new Diabolism. An American of Georgian, 
Alsatian, and Romanian Gypsy descent, he was quick to display the characteristic restlessness of 
his nomadic ancestors and an unusual empathy for their earthy, arcane lore. An early preoccupation 
with the military sciences led him to read the various logistical publications of the World War II 
era, only to discover that the proud visions of martial glory entertained in the first world war had 
given way to a detached, mercenary realism in the second. His experiences as a student did nothing 
to dispel this first taste of human cynicism, and LaVey's growing impatience with the sterile 
regimentation of conventional education drove him to seek the strange, surrealistic enchantments of 
the circus. He assisted Clyde Beatty as a wild-animal trainer, and he soon developed a strong 
affinity for the cats which was to mark his personality in a most curious manner. All animate 
creatures are basically bestial, he reasoned, and even the most refined social orders achieve at best 
only a flimsy suppression of this innate savagery. From the circus he proceeded to a carnival, where 
the glitter of the performing arts was tinged with the ever-present struggle for daily subsistence. 
Here LaVey worked in a pathetic but quietly dignified world of misfits, sideshow freaks, and 
human oddities; and here he was to learn the craft of the stage magician, whose success depends 
upon the contrived distraction of the audience's attention. With a certain grimness he noted the 
fascination with which the "normal" man regards his deformed comrades - a gloating satisfaction 
over the visiting of misfortune upon another instead of oneself. Becoming increasingly interested in 
this cruel, lycanthropic attribute of human nature, he studied criminology in college and eventually 
worked with the San Francisco Police Department as a photographer.

As a circus professional he had seen carnal man at his most artistic; now he was to view him at 
his most vicious. Three years of the gore, brutality, and abject misery that permeate the criminal 
subculture left him sickened, disillusioned, and angered with the rampant hypocrisy of polite 
society. He turned to the pipe organ as a means of living and devoted the greater part of his efforts 
to what was to become his life's work - Black Magic.

LaVey had long since rejected the stereotypical tracts on ceremonial sorcery as the hysterical 
products of medieval imaginations. The "Old Craft" with its superstitions, affected mannerisms, 
and infantile parlor games was not for him; what he sought was a metaphysical psychology that 
would approach the intellectual man only after giving due consideration to his brutal, animalistic 
origins. And so he came at last to the Goat of Mendes.

Satan is easily the most enigmatic figure in classical literature. Possessed of every conceivable 
wealth, and the most powerful of the Archangels, he spurned his exalted allegiance to proclaim his 
independence from all that his Heavenly patron personified. Although condemned to the most 
hideous of domains, a Hell totally shunned by the divinity, he embraced such privations as the 
burden of his intellectual prerogative. In his Infernal Empire one might indulge even the most 
extraordinary tastes with impunity, yet amidst such wanton licentiousness the Devil maintained a 
peculiar nobility. It was this elusive quality which Anton LaVey determined to identify.

After long years of research and experiment, he pronounced the guiding principle of Satanism: 
that the ultimate consequence of man lies not in unity but in duality. It is only synthesis that decides 
values; adherence to a single order is arbitrary and therefore insignificant.

LaVey's disturbing theories and bizarre operations of ceremonial Black Magic eventually 
attracted a following of similarly minded individuals. From this first small circle the Church of 
Satan was to emerge, attuned to its founder's contention that its messages would be presented most 
effectively through "nine parts social respectability to one part of the most blatant outrage".

The social impact and spectacular growth of the Church were to become something of a legend 
in themselves, but it was an essential part of LaVey's convictions that the formal institution's role 
was principally that of a catalyst. Contemporary civilization has proved too interdependent to 
permit the luxury of monastic isolationism. Satanism must accordingly assume a stance 
comprehensible to the average intellect. It was with such intent that the Satanic Bible was 
conceived.

The Satanic Bible is a most insidious document. One is strongly tempted to compare it with that 
obscure, malefic mythology The King in Yellow, a psychopolitical work that supposedly drove its 
readers to madness and damnation. As candid and conversational as the Satanic Bible might seem 
at first glance, it is not a volume to be gently dismissed. It is very much the product of our time, not 
only because such a book -together with its author -would more than likely have been destroyed in 
an earlier era, but because its creation was an evolutionary inevitability.

You, the reader, are about to be impaled upon the sharp horns of a Satanic dilemma. If you 
accept the propositions of this book, you condemn your most cherished sanctuaries to annihilation. 
In return you will awaken - but only to the most fiery of Hells. Should you reject the argument, you 
resign yourself to a cancerous disintegration of your previously subconscious sense of identity. 
Small wonder that the Archfiend's legacy has won him so many bitter enemies!

Whatever your decision, it can be avoided no longer. The Satanic Bible finally articulates what 
man has instinctively dreaded to proclaim: that he himself is potentially divine.

INTRODUCTION by Burton H. Wolfe

This second introduction by Wolfe was used from 1976 through 2005

On a winter's evening in 1967, 1 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 be 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 be the story, because that is 
nothing new in the world. There were Devil-worshipping 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 the 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 Devil's 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 had 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 contempt, 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 humanity's 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 LaVey 's sincerity, I had to convince him that / 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 in only the freak 
show kind of article. Finally, it was a so-called "girlie" or "man's" magazine, Knight of September 
1968, that published the first definitive article on LaVey, the Church of Satan, and LaVey' s 
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 Devil's 
Avenger, published by Pyramid in 1974. After the book was published, I became a card-carrying 
member and, subsequently, a priest of 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 LaVey's creation.

All of LaVey's background seemed to prepare him for his role. He is the descendant of 
Georgian, Roumanian, 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 Shelly' s Frankenstein and 
Bram Stoker's 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 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 Beatty 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 with them in the ring as a fill-in for 
Beatty. By age ten he had taught himself to play the piano by ear. This came in handy when the 
circus calliope player became 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 Zachinni, 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 year's 
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 when 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 they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew 
then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal 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 LaVey's 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 'it's God's will'."

So he quit in disgust after three years of being a crime photographer and returned to playing 
organ, this time in nightclubs and theaters to earn a living while he continued his studies into his 
life's 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 
LaVey's 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. 
LaVey's 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 embodiment of all heresies that liberate."

On the last night of April 1966-Walpurgisnacht, the most important festival in the lore of 
magic and witchcraft-La Vey 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 Khan-like 
shaven head, his Mephistophelian beard, and his narrow eyes gave him the necessary demonic look 
for his priesthood of the Devil's 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 man's mind and carnal 
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 Christianity's self-debasing services, thereby exorcising 
repressions and inhibitions fostered by white-light religions.

There was a revolution in the Christian church itself against orthodox rites and traditions. It had 
become popular to declare 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 sanctimonious 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 (LaVey's counterpart 
to covens) affiliated with the Church of Satan spread throughout the world, proving one of LaVey's 
cardinal messages: 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 can't release or even understand on their own." 
Nevertheless, LaVey himself soon tired of the games.

There were setbacks. First, some of LaVey 's 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 LaVey 's 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 Devil's 
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, LaVey' s 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 geometric spatial 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 formulaic cinematic presentations of Satanism as has Anton Szandor 
LaVey. Ritual and esoteric symbolism are central elements in LaVey 's 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 
powers within each individual'. Similarly, the ornate ritualism that is central to LaVey' s 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 LaVey' s 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 
Rituals, which covers more of the somber, complex material LaVey unearthed from his increasing 
sources. And third, The Compleat Witch, a bestseller in Italy, but, sadly, allowed by its American 
publisher to go out of print with its potential unfulfilled.

LaVey 's spreading out from organized church activities to writing books for worldwide 
distribution has, of course, greatly expanded Church of Satan membership. Satanism' s 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 scare 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 wouldn't have anybody to rage at and to take the 
blame for all the rotten things happening in the world. If they really feel this way, they shouldn't

have blown us out of proportion. What you really have to believe instead is that they are the 
charlatans, and they're really glad to have us around so they can exploit us. We're an extremely 
valuable commodity. We've 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 been 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 - 
doctors, 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 been 
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 
been many imitators, never attributing their source, and with good reason; because once the 
shabbiness and shallowness of the imitators have been compared to LaVey' s pioneering work, there 
can no longer be any market for the ripoff 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 Francisco

December 25, 1976 (XI Anno Satanas)

INTRODUCTION by Peter H. Gilmore

This introduction was used starting in 2005

Opening the Adamantine Gates 
An Introduction to The Satanic Bible 
by Magus Peter H. Gilmore

This book has the potential to change your life - it did mine. It is a diabolical work, written with 
elegance, earthiness, and might, serving quite magically as a mirror. If you look within these pages 
and see yourself; if you find its principles to be those you've lived by as long as you can remember; 
if you feel the evocation of an overwhelming sense of homecoming, then you will have discovered 
that you are a part of a scattered "meta-tribe," and the proper name for what you are is "Satanist."

I first encountered Anton Szandor LaVey through The Satanic Bible, at the age of thirteen when 
I was an avowed atheist. Not being partial to literature promoting faith of any sort, I was pleasantly 
surprised that this was no rant by someone claiming direct contact with Satan.

Instead, I found a common sense, rational, materialist philosophy, along with theatrical ritual 
techniques meant as self-transformative psychodrama. Here was a tool perfectly suited to my nature 
as a means for getting the most out of my life. I knew that "atheist" was no longer sufficient as a 
designation for myself. This book lead me to meet and befriend LaVey, working with him to 
administer the Church he created, and finally to succeed him as the second High Priest of the 
Church of Satan.

It is one of Anton LaVey 's numerous talents that his written words are vivid, brimming with his 
distinct personality. His well-wrought phrases give the sense of encountering the man himself, and 
such an impression is not a delusion. When my wife, Peggy Nadramia, and I met The Doctor" (an 
affectionate moniker used by those close him), we agreed that here was exactly the man we had 
dared to expect from reading his books.

Unlike the founders of other religions who claimed 'inspiration" delivered through some 
supernatural entity, LaVey readily acknowledged that he used his own faculties to synthesize 
Satanism. He based it on both his understanding of the human animal acquired from life experience 
and the wisdom he'd gained from other advocates of materialism, pragmatism, and individualism. 
His blasphemously named "Church of Satan" was consciously designed to be an adversary to 
existing "spiritual' belief systems. It was the first organization promulgating religious philosophy 
championing Satan as the symbol of liberty and individualism. Concerning his role as founder he 
said that, "If he didn't do it himself, someone else, per haps less qualified, would have." His 
perceptive insights thus lead him to give a proper name to a human type that has always been part 
of our species.

LaVey was born in Chicago in 1930, and his parents soon relocated to California, that 
westernmost gathering place for the brightest and darkest manifestations of that "American 
Dream." It was a fertile environment for the sensitive child who would eventually mature into a 
role the press would dub "The Black Pope." From his Eastern European grandmother, young 
LaVey learned of the superstitions that are still extant in that part of the world. These tales whetted 
his appetite for the outre, leading him to become absorbed in classic dark literature such as Dracula 
and Frankenstein. He also became an avid reader of the pulp magazines, which first published tales 
now deemed classics of the horror and science fiction genres. He later befriended seminal Weird 
Tales authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Barbour Johnson, and George Has. His fancy 
was captured by fictional characters found in the works of Jack London and Somerset Maugham, in 
comic strip characters like Ming the Merciless, as well as by historical figures of a diabolical cast 
such as Cagliostro, Rasputin, and Basil Zaharoff. More interesting to him than the available occult 
literature, which he dismissed as being little more than sanctimonious white magic, were books 
applied obscure knowledge such as Dr. William Wesley Cook's Practical Lessons in Hypnotism, 
Jane's Fighting Ships, and manuals for handwriting analysis.

His musical abilities were noticed early, and he was given free reign by his parents to try his 
hand at various instruments. LaVey was mainly attracted to the keyboards because of their scope

and versatility. He found time to practice and could easily reproduce songs heard by ear without 
recourse to fake books or sheet music. This talent would prove to be one of his main sources of 
income for many years, particularly his calliope playing during his carnival days, and later his 
many stints as an organist in bars, lounges, and nightclubs. These venues gave him the chance to 
study how various melodic lines and chord progressions swayed the emotions of his audiences, 
from the spectators at the carnival and spook shows to the individuals seeking solace for the 
disappointments in their lives in distilled spirits and the smoke-filled taverns for which LaVey's 
playing provided a moody soundtrack.

His odd interests marked him as an outsider, and he did not alleviate this by feeling any 
compulsion to be "one of the boys." He despised gym class and team sports and often cut classes to 
follow his own interests. Moving beyond the standard school texts, he absorbed volumes analyzing 
human behavior on every level, from the impulses of the individual to the dynamics of the herd. He 
watched films that would later be labeled film noir as well as German expressionist cinema such as 
M, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and the Dr. Mabuse movies. His taste for flashy apparel also 
served to amplify his alienation from the mainstream.

He dropped out of high school to hang around with hoodlum types and gravitated towards 
working in the circus and carnivals, first as a roustabout and cage boy and later as a musician. His 
always-active curiosity was rewarded as he "learned the ropes" from the carnies. He worked an act 
with the big cats-he had an affinity for these powerful predators-and later assisted with the 
machinations of the spook shows. He became well-versed in the many rackets used to separate the 
rubes from their money, along with the psychology that lead people to such pursuits. Under the 
name "The Great Szandor" he played calliope and organ for the bawdy shows on Saturday nights, 
as well as for tent revivalists on Sunday mornings, seeing many of the same men attending both and 
noting this telling contradiction. All of these activities provided a firm, earthy background for his 
evolving cynical worldview.

When the carnival season ended, LaVey would earn money by playing organ in Los Angeles 
area burlesque houses, and he relates that it was during this period that he met and had a brief affair 
with a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe, after accompanying her "chain-dragging" striptease at the 
Mayan Burlesque Theater. Moving back to San Francisco, LaVey worked for a while as a 
photographer for the police department, and, during the Korean War, enrolled in San Francisco City 
College as a criminology major to avoid the draft. Both his studies and occupation revealed grim 
insights into human nature and confirmed his rejection of spiritual doctrines. At this time he met 
and married Carole Lansing, who bore him his first daughter Karla Maritza, in 1952. A few years 
earlier LaVey had examined the writings of Aleister Crowley, so in 1951 he decided to meet some 
of the Berkeley Thelemites. He was unimpressed, as they were more mystical and less "wicked" 
than he supposed they should be for disciples of Crowley's libertine creed.

During the 1950s, LaVey supplemented his income as an investigator of alleged supernatural 
phenomena, handing "nut calls" referred to him by friends in the police department. These 
experiences proved to him that many people were inclined to seek a bizarre, "otherworldly" 
explanation for phenomena that had prosaic causes. His rational explanations often disappointed the 
complainants, so LaVey invented exotic sources to make them feel better, giving him insight as to 
how belief functions in people's lives.

In 1956 he purchased a Victorian house on California Street in San Francisco's Richmond 
District. It was reputed to have been a speakeasy, and was tricked out with secret passages, possibly 
to aid in clandestine carnal activities. He painted it black, thus creating a haunted intrusion on an 
otherwise typical block, matching his own unique presence. It was only natural that it would later 
become home to the Church of Satan. After his death, the building remained unoccupied, a 
brooding "shunned house," until it was demolished on October 17 of 2001 by the real estate 
company that owned the property.

LaVey met and became entranced by Diane Hegarty in 1959; he then left Carole in 1960. 
Hegarty and LaVey never married, but she bore him his second daughter, Zeena Galatea in 1964 
and was his companion for many years. Hegarty and LaVey later separated; she sued him for 
palimony and this was settled out of court.

Through his "ghost busting," and his frequent public gigs as an organist, including playing the 
Wurlitzer at the Lost Weekend cocktail lounge, LaVey became a local celebrity and his holiday

parties attracted many San Francisco notables. Guests included Carin de Plessin, called "the 
Baroness" as she had grown up in the royal palace of Denmark, anthropologist Michael Harner, 
Chester A. Arthur III (grandson to the U.S. President), Forrest J. Ackerman (later, the publisher of 
Famous Monsters of Filmland and acknowledged expert on science fiction), author Fritz Leiber, 
local eccentric Dr. Cecil E. Nixon (creator of the musical automaton Isis), and underground 
filmmaker Kenneth Anger. From this crowd LaVey distilled what he called a "Magic Circle" of 
associates who shared his interest in the bizarre, the hidden side of what moves the world. As his 
expertise grew, LaVey began presenting Friday night lectures summarizing the fruits of his 
research. In 1965, LaVey was featured on the "The Brother Buzz Show", a humorous children's 
program hosted by marionettes. The focus was on LaVey' s "Addams Family" lifestyle — making a 
living as a hypnotist, investigator of the paranormal, and organist, as well as on his highly unusual 
pet Togare, a Nubian lion.

In the process of creating his lectures, LaVey noticed many common threads, which he then 
began weaving into a tenebrous conceptual tapestry. When a member of his Magic Circle suggested 
that he had the basis for a new religion LaVey agreed and decided to found the Church of Satan as 
the best means for communicating his ideas. And so, in 1966 on the night of May Eve — the 
traditional Witches' Sabbath — LaVey declared the founding of the Church of Satan and 
renumbered 1966 as the year One, Anno Satanas — the first year of the Age of Satan.

The attention of the press soon followed, particularly with the wedding of Radical journalist 
John Raymond to New York socialite Judith Case on February 1st, 1967. Famed photographer Joe 
Rosenthal was sent by the San Francisco Chronicle to capture an image that went onward to the 
pages of the Los Angeles Times and other prominent newspapers. LaVey began the mass 
dissemination of his Philosophy via the release of a record album, The Satanic Mass 
(Murgenstrumm, 1968). The album featured a cover graphic named by LaVey as the "Sigil of 
Baphomet": the goat head in a pentagram, circled with the Hebrew word "Leviathan," which has 
since become the ubiquitous symbol of Satanism. Featured on the album was part of the rite of 
baptism written for three-year-old Zeena (performed on May 23rd, 1967). In addition to the actual 
recording of a Satanic ritual, side two of the LP had LaVey reading excerpts from the as-yet- 
unpublished The Satanic Bible over music by Beethoven, Wagner, and Sousa. His Friday lectures 
continued and he instituted a series of "Witches' Workshops" to instruct women in the art of 
attaining their will through glamour, feminine wiles, and the skillful discovery and exploitation of 
men's fetishes.

By the end of 1969, LaVey had taken monographs he had written to explain the philosophy and 
ritual practices of the Church of Satan and expanded them. His influences included philosophers 
such as Ayn Rand, Nietzsche, and Mencken, the base wisdom of the carnival folk, the observations 
of P.T. Barnum, and finally the imagery of the archfiend found in Twain, Milton, Byron, and other 
romantics. He prefaced these essays and rites with reworked excerpts from Ragnar Redbeard's 
Might is Right and concluded it with "Satanized" versions of John Dee's Enochian Keys to create 
The Satanic Bible. It has never gone out of print and remains the main source for the contemporary 
Satanic movement.

The philosophy presented in it is an integrated whole, not a smorgasbord from which one can 
pick and choose. It is meant only for a select few who are epicurean, pragmatic, worldly, atheistic, 
fiercely individualistic, materialistic, rational, and darkly poetic. There may be fellow-travelers — 
atheists, misanthropes, humanists, freethinkers — who see only a partial reflection of themselves in 
this showstone. Satanism may thus attract these types in some ways, but ultimately it is not for 
them. If it was only a philosophy, such individualists might be welcome; it is more. Satanism 
moves into the realm of religion by having an aesthetic component, a system of symbolism, 
metaphor, and ritual in which Satan is embraced not as some Devil to be worshipped, but as a 
symbolic external projection of the highest potential of each individual Satanist. The identification 
Satanists have with Satan is an intentional barrier against those who cannot resonate with this 
sinister archetype. The Satanic Bible was followed in 1971 by The Compleat Witch (re-released in 
1989 as The Satanic Witch), a manual that teaches "Lesser Magic" — the ways and means of reading 
and manipulating people and their actions toward the fulfillment of one's desired goals. The Satanic 
Rituals (1972) was printed as a companion volume to The Satanic Bible and contains "Greater 
Magic" rituals culled from a Satanic tradition identified by LaVey in various world cultures. Two

collections of essays, which range from the humorous and insightful to the gleefully sordid, The 
Devil's Notebook (1992) and Satan Speaks (1998), complete his written canon.

Since its founding, LaVey's Church of Satan attracted many varied people who shared an 
alienation from conventional religions, including celebrities Jayne Mansfield and Sammy Davis Jr., 
as well as rock stars King Diamond, Marilyn Manson, and Marc Almond who all became, at least 
for a time, card-carrying members. He numbered among his associates Robert Fuest, director of the 
Vincent Price "Dr. Phibes" films as well as The Devil's Rain; Jacques Vallee, ufologist and 
computer scientist, who was used as the basis for the character Lacombe, played by Francois 
Truffaut, in Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind; and Aime Michel known as a 
spelunker and publisher of Morning of the Magicians.

LaVey's influence spread through articles in the news media throughout the world, popular 
magazines such as Look, McCalls, Argosy, Newsweek, Time, and later Seconds, The Nose, and 
Rolling Stone, numerous men's magazines, and via talk shows such as Joe Pyne, Phil Donahue, and 
Johnny Carson. This publicity left a mark on novels like Rosemary's Baby (completed by Ira Levin 
during the early days of the Church's high profile media blitz) and Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness, 
and films such as Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Devil's Rain (1975), The Car (1977), Dr. Dracula 
(1980), and many of the "Devil Cult" films from the 1970s through today that picked up on 
symbolism from LaVey's writings. A feature length documentary, Satanis: The Devil's Mass 
(1969) covered the rituals and philosophy of the Church, while LaVey himself was profiled in Nick 
Bougas' 1993 video documentary Speak of the Devil.

The Doctor's musicianship is preserved on several recordings, primarily Strange Music (1994) 
and Satan Takes a Holiday (1995). These reflect his penchant for tunes from the 1930s through the 
1950s, which range from humorous to doom-laden as well as devil-themed songs. LaVey renders 
them on a series of self-programmed synthesizers, imitating various instrumental groups. They are 
impressive, as these are not multi-track recordings, but are done in one take with the sounds of the 
full instrumental ensemble created through the simultaneous use of numerous synthesizers played 
by LaVey's dexterous fingers as well as his feet on an organ- style foot pedal keyboard hooked-up 
via midi.

While his relationship with Diane Hegarty crumbled in the late 70s, a new lady would enter his 
life to become his final companion. Blanche Barton became his helpmate, co-conspirator, High 
Priestess, lover, and best friend. She bore him his only son, Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey on 
November 1, 1993. As his health deteriorated in the mid-90s, LaVey preferred to spend time only 
with the people whom he found enriching, gaining him a reputation as a recluse. He died on 
October 29, 1997, of complications arising from heart disease. There was no deathbed repentance. 
He went proudly as he lived, as a Satanist, his only regrets being that he was leaving the great party 
that was life, and that he would miss seeing his young son Xerxes grow to manhood.

According to LaVey's wishes, Barton succeeded him as the head of the Church after his death. 
In 2001, she passed on this position to myself, Peter H. Gilmore, by then a longtime church 
administrator and member of the Council of Nine. In 2002, Magistra Barton exchanged her position 
as High Priestess with my wife Magistra Peggy Nadramia, another veteran administrator who was 
serving as chair of the Council of Nine.

Two biographies have been written about LaVey: The Devil's Avenger (1974) by Burton Wolfe 
and Secret Life of a Satanist (1990) by Blanche Barton. In recent years detractors of LaVey with 
rather obvious agendas have disputed the authenticity of some of the events chronicled in these 
books. They accuse him of fabrication and self -promotional exaggeration. LaVey was a skilled 
showman, a talent he never denied. However, the incidents detailed in both biographies that can be 
authenticated via photographic, testimonial, and documentary evidence far outweigh the items in 
dispute. The fact remains that LaVey pursued a course that exposed him to unusual individuals 
from all strata of society. It climaxed with his founding of the Church of Satan, which lead to 
international notoriety. He was gifted beyond what is normally considered a standard for 
excellence, turning his hand to many arts with a deftness usually gained through dedication to only 
one muse. He lived his life as a true exemplar of all that he extolled — pursuing his pleasures 
without stinting while producing works only attained through vigorous self-discipline.

LaVey succeeded in avoiding the fate of Mrs. Cassan, a character from Charles G. Finney's The 
Circus of Dr. Lao, a favored novel of The Doctor. Her doom was to die and be forgotten, for her

life produced nothing that was memorable in either a creative or destructive manner. With his 
thoughts, now presented in multiple languages, continuing to inspire like minds around the globe, 
Anton Szandor LaVey has won a place in the arena of philosophical and religious discourse. We 
Satanists owe him our gratitude for symbolically opening the adamantine gates of Hell, by giving 
form and structure to a philosophy that names us as the Gods of our own subjective universes. His 
ultimate heresy against the complacent masses was to reject their idolized dictum that all men are 
equal. Consequently he challenged his comrades to exercise their faculties to judge and be judged 
in all that they do. He dethroned the seeking of external saviors and championed responsibility for 
all of one's actions and the resultant consequences. That is perhaps the most frightening principle to 
a society wherein none are held accountable for their behavior.

The Church of Satan remains a world-spanning cabal of those who work to continue human 
society's momentum along the vector set by LaVey. It shall remain the treasured domain of an 
imperious few, who live by their own blood and brains, who proudly reject any "good guy badge" 
and embrace the title of Satanist. There is nothing to fear in The Satanic Bible, for it will not 
transform you into something that you are not. It cannot convert you, or persuade you in directions 
not inherent in your nature. Its power lies in its ability to show you what you are through your 
reaction to its contents. Embrace them, and your life shall gain a new focus, for you will have 
sharpened your understanding of your self, and you will see more clearly how you differ from those 
around you. Reject some or all of these hardnosed postulates, and you are free to move on towards 
whatever other spiritual or conceptual haven that provides you with satisfaction. However, you will 
no longer be ignorant of what it means to be a Satanist. If you've grasped these fundamentals and 
have the talent to read people, you might notice that there are such individuals about you, and like 
LaVey himself, that they are some of the most just and fascinating folks you'll have the pleasure of 
knowing.

Magus Peter H. Gilmore 
High Priest, Church of Satan

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 brMe 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 mle the earth, and who, from their Hellish 
thrones, laugh with noisome mirth.

The flames of Hell bum 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 millerinium 
hath become as reality. Each, with his own "divine" path to paradise, hath accused the other of 
heresies and spiritual indiscretions. The Ring of the Nibelungen doth carry an everlasting 
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

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 least 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 
back 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 bum fierce . . . and purify! Read on and learn the Law.

THE 
BOOK OF

SATAN

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 reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten 
commandments.

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 slaves!

7. No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

8. I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and 
happiness.

9. I raise up in stem invasion the standard of the strong!

10. 1 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! 
1 1 . 1 blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with

sardonic wrath!

THE 
BOOK OF

SATAN

1 . Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence 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 begiririing 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 rend 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 he 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.

1 1 . 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 he - 
the he 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 he that is known to be a he is half eradicated, but the he that even intelligent 
persons accept as fact - the he that has been inculcated in a hide 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. Exteiminate 
them root and branch. Aririihilate them, or they will us!

THE 
BOOK OF

SATAN

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.

THE 
BOOK OF

SATAN

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

THE 
BOOK OF

SATAN

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 are 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!

1 1 . 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 tightiy shut, impervious to the most strenuous poundings 
of a thousand Lucifers. How understandable 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

f"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 tliinks of Satan as evil should consider all the men, women, children, and 
animals who have died because it was "God's 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 minking 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 doings. 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 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 honestiy 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 exactiy 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.

and be free to go out and sin again, usually the same sin.

There are 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 greatiy. 
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 
psychologically 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 the 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 a 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 term "Christian 
Atheist"?

If prominent leaders of the Christian faith are rejecting the past interpretations 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!

jSa religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire

system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, 
Jm and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he 
/ calls "God".

\ God can do all the things man is forbidden to do - such as kill people, perform miracles 
J 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 CEREMONY IN HIS NAME?

Man needs ritual and dogma, 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 parts, 
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 himself 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 in his flesh, then he either escapes 
from the cackhngs 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!"

THE GOD YOU SAVE 
MAY BE YOURSELF

SOME EVIDENCE OF 
A NEW SATANIC AGE

a 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 
W all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

9 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 
J 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 lMe 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 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 scoffer's 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 he 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 brings 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 man's 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 they all 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 churches have become. Why, they're 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 cannot 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 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 man's 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 man's 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 Martha's talk about the Lord's 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 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 consequences 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 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 
explained, is necessary.

Satanism differs greatly from all other so-called white- light, "white" witchcraft or magical 
groups in the world today. These self-righteous and supercilious religions protest that their 
members use the powers of magic only for altruistic purposes. Satanists look with disdain 
upon "white" witchcraft groups because they feel that altruism is sinning on the lay- away 
plan. It is unnatural not to have desire to gain things for yourself. Satanism represents a form 
of controlled selfishness. This does not mean that you never do anything for anyone else. If 
you do something to make someone for whom you care happy, his happiness will give you a 
sense of gratification.

Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this 
rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because if you "Do unto others as you would 
have them do unto you," and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to 
continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them

do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they 
deserve.

White witchcraft groups say that if you curse a person, it will return to you three- fold, come 
home to roost, or in some way boomerang back to the sender. This is yet another indication of 
the guilt- ridden philosophy which is held by these neo- Pagan, pseudo- Christian groups. White 
witches want to delve into witchcraft, but cannot divorce themselves from the stigma attached 
to it. Therefore, they call themselves white magicians, and base seventy- five per cent of their 
philosophy on the trite and hackneyed tenets of Christianity. Anyone who pretends to be 
interested in magic or the occult for reasons other that gaining personal power is the worst 
kind of hypocrite. The Satanist respects Christianity for, at least, being consistent in its guilt- 
ridden philosophy, but can only feel contempt for the people who attempt to appear 
emancipated from guilt by joining a witchcraft group, and then practice the same basic 
philosophy as Christianity.

White magic is supposedly utilized only for good or unselfish purposes, and black magic, we 
are told, is used only for selfish or "evil" reasons. Satanism draws no such dividing line. 
Magic is magic, be it used to help or hinder. The Satanist, being the magician, should have the 
ability to decide what is just, and then apply the powers of magic to attain his goals.

During white magical ceremonies, the practitioners stand within a pentagram to protect 
themselves from the "evil" forces which they call upon for help. To the Satanist, it seems a bit 
two-faced to call on these forces for help, while at the same time protecting yourself from the 
very powers you have asked for assistance. The Satanist realizes that only by putting himself 
in league with these forces can be fully and unhypocritically utilize the Powers of Darkness to 
his best advantage.

In a Satanic magical ceremony, the participants do not: join hands and dance "ring around the 
rosy" in a circle; bum candles of various colors for various wishes; call out the names of 
"Father, Son and Holy Ghost" while supposedly practicing Black Arts; pick a "Saint" for their 
personal guide in obtaining help for their problems; dunk themselves in smelly oils and hope 
the money comes in; meditate so they can arrive at a "great spiritual awakening"; recite long 
incantations with the name of Jesus thrown in for good measure, between every few words, 
etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam!

because - This is not the way to practice Satanic magic. If you cannot divorce yourself from 
hypocritical self-deceit, you will never be successful as a magician, much less a Satanist.

The Satanic religion has not merely lifted the coin - it has flipped it completely over. 
Therefore, why should it support the very principles to which it is completely opposed by 
calling itself anything other than a name which is totally in keeping with the reversed 
doctrines which make up the Satanic philosophy? Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a 
religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the 
personification of the Left Hand Path.

Inevitably, the next question asked is: "Granted, you can't call it humanism because 
humanism is not a religion; but why even have a religion in the first place if all you do is what 
comes naturally, anyway? Why not just do it?"

Modern man has come a long way; he has become disenchanted with the nonsensical dogmas 
of past religions. We are living in an enlightened age. Psychiatry has made great strides in

enlightening man about his true personality. We are living in an era of intellectual awareness 
unlike any the world has ever seen.

This is all very well and good, but - there is one flaw in this new state of awareness. It is one 
thing to accept something intellectually, but to accept the same thing emotionally is an 
entirely different matter. The one need that psychiatry cannot fill is man's inherent need for 
emotionalizing through dogma. Man needs ceremony and ritual, fantasy and enchantment. 
Psychiatry, despite all the good it has done, has robbed man of wonder and fantasy which 
religion, in the past, has provided.

Satanism, realizing the current needs of man, fills the large grey void between religion and 
psychiatry. The Satanic philosophy combines the fundamentals of psychology and good, 
honest emotionalizing, or dogma. It provides man with his much needed fantasy. There is 
nothing wrong with dogma, providing it is not based on ideas and actions which go 
completely against human nature.

The quickest way of traveling between two points is in a straight line. If all the guilts that 
have been built up can be turned into advantages, it ehrninates the need for intellectual 
purging of the psyche in an attempt to cleanse it from these repressions. Satanism is the only 
religion known to man that accepts man as he is, and promotes the rationale of turning a bad 
thing into a good thing rather than bending over backwards to eliminate the bad thing.

Therefore, after intellectually evaluating your problems through common sense and drawing 
on what psychiatry has taught us, if you still cannot emotionally release yourself from 
unwarranted guilt, and put your theories into action, then you should learn to make your guilt 
work for you. You should act upon your natural instincts, and then, if you cannot perform 
without feeling guilty, revel in your guilt. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, but if 
you will think about it, guilt can often add a fillip to the senses. Adults would do well to take 
a lesson from children. Children often take great delight in doing something they know they 
are not supposed to.

Yes, times have changed, but man hasn't. The basics of Satanism have always existed. The 
only thing that is new is the formal organization of a religion based on the universal traits of 
man. For centuries, magnificent structures of stone, concrete, mortar, and steel have been 
devoted to man's abstinence. It is high time that human beings stopped fighting themselves, 
and devoted their time to building temples designed for man's indulgences.

Even though times have changed, and always will, man remains basically the same. For two 
thousand years man has done penance for something he never should have had to feel guilty 
about in the first place. We are tired of denying ourselves the pleasures of life which we 
deserve. Today, as always, man needs to enjoy himself here and now, instead of waiting for 
his rewards in heaven. So, why not have a religion based on indulgence? Certainly, it is 
consistent with the nature of the beast. We are no longer supplicating weaklings trembling 
before an unmerciful "God" who cares not whether we live or die. We are self-respecting, 
prideful people - we are Satanists!

HELL, THE DEVIL,

AND HOW TO 
SELL YOUR SOUL

S atan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in

business all these years. The false doctrine of Hell and the Devil has allowed the 
Protestant and Catholic Churches to flourish far too long. Without a devil to point their 
fingers at, rehgionists of the right hand path would have nothing with which to threaten 
their followers. "Satan leads you to temptation"; "Satan is the prince of evil"; "Satan is 
vicious, cruel, brutal," they warn. "If you give in to the temptations of the devil, you 
will surely suffer eternal damnation and roast in Hell."

The semantic meaning of Satan is the "adversary" or "opposition" or the "accuser". The very 
word "devil" comes from the Indian devi which means "god". Satan represents opposition to 
all religions which serve to frustrate and condemn man for his natural instincts. He has been 
given an evil role simply because he represents the carnal, earthly, and mundane aspects of 
life.

Satan, the chief devil of the Western World, was originally an angel whose duty was to report 
human delinquencies to God. It was not until the Fourteenth Century that he began to be 
depicted as an evil deity who was part man and part animal, with goat- like horns and hooves. 
Before Christianity gave him the names of Satan, Lucifer, etc., the carnal side of man's nature 
was governed by the god which was then called Dionysus, or Pan, depicted as a satyr or faun, 
by the Greeks. Pan was originally the "good guy", and symbolized fertility and fecundity.

Whenever a nation comes under a new form of government, the heroes of the past become 
villains of the present. So it is with religion. The earliest Christians believed that the Pagan 
deities were devils, and to employ them was to use "black magic". Miraculous heavenly 
events they termed "white magic"; this was the sole distinction between the two. The old gods 
did not die, they fell into Hell and became devils. The bogey, goblin, or bugaboo used to 
frighten children is derived from the Slavonic "Bog" which means "god", as does Bhaga in 
Hindu.

Many pleasures revered before the advent of Christianity were condemned by the new 
religion. It required little changeover to transform the horns and cloven hooves of Pan into a 
most convincing devil! Pan's attributes could be neatiy changed into charged- with- punishment 
sins, and so the metamorphosis was complete.

The association of the goat with the Devil is found in the Christian Bible, where the holiest 
day of the year, the Day of Atonement, was celebrated by casting lots for two goats "without 
blemish", one to be offered to the Lord, and one to Azazel. The goat carrying the sins of the 
people was driven into the desert and became a "scapegoat". This is the origin of the goat 
which is still used in lodge ceremonies today as it was also used in Egypt, where once a year 
it was sacrificed to a God.

The devils of mankind are many, and their origins diversified. The performance of Satanic 
ritual does not embrace the calling forth of demons; this practice is followed only by those 
who are in fear of the very forces they conjure.

Supposedly, demons are malevolent spirits with attributes conductive to the deterioration of 
the people or events that they touch upon. The Greek word demon meant a guardian spirit or 
source of inspiration, and to be sure, later theologians invented legion upon legion of these 
harbingers of inspiration - all wicked.

An indication of the cowardice of "magicians" of the right-hand path is the practice of calling 
upon a particular demon (who would supposedly be a minion of the devil) to do his bidding. 
The assumption is that the demon, being only a flunky of the devil, is easier to control. Occult 
lore states that only the most formidably "protected" or insanely foolhardy sorcerer would try 
to call forth the Devil himself.

The Satanist does not furtively call upon these "lesser" devils, but brazenly invokes those who 
people that infernal army of long-standing outrage - the Devils themselves!

Theologians have catalogued some of the names of devils in their lists of demons, as might be 
expected, but the roster which follows contains the names and origins of the Gods and 
Goddesses called upon, which make up a large part of the occupancy of the Royal Palace of 
Hell:

THE FOUR CROWN PRINCES OF HELL

satan - (Hebrew) adversary, opposite, accuser, Lord of fire, the inferno, the south 
lucifer - (Roman) bringer of light, enlightenment, the air, the morning star, the east 
belial - (Hebrew) without a master, baseness of the earth, independence, the north 
leviathan - (Hebrew) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the west

THE INFERNAL NAMES

Abaddon - (Hebrew) the destroyer 
Adramelech - Samarian devil 
Ahpuch - Mayan devil 
Ahriman - Mazdean devil

Anion - Egyptian ram- headed god of life and reproduction 
Apollyon - Greek synonym for Satan, the arch fiend

Asmodeus - Hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally "creature of judgement"

Astaroth - Phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of Babylonian Ishtar

Azazel - (Hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war, introduced cosmetics

Baalberith - Canaanite Lord of the covenant who was later made a devil

Balaam - Hebrew Devil of avarice and greed

Baphomet - worshipped by the Templars as symbolic of Satan

Bast - Egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat

Beelzebub - (Hebrew) Lord of the Flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab

Behemoth - Hebrew personification of Satan in the form of an elephant

Beherit - Syriac name for Satan

Bile - Celtic god of Hell

Chemosh - national god of Moabites, later a devil 
Cimeries - rides a black horse and rules Africa 
Coyote - American Indian devil 
Dagon - Philistine avenging devil of the sea 
Damballa - Voodoo serpent god

Demogorgon - Greek name of the devil, it is said should not be known to mortals

Diabolus - ( Greek) "flowing downwards"

Dracula - Romanian name for devil

Emma-O - Japanese ruler of Hell

Euronymous - Greek prince of death

Fenriz - son of Loki, depicted as a wolf

Gorgo - dim. of Demogorgon, Greek name of the devil

Haborym - Hebrew synonym for Satan

Hecate - Greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft

Ishtar - Babylonian goddess of fertility

Kali - (Hindu) daughter of Shiva, high priestess of the Thuggees 
Lilith - Hebrew female devil, Adam's first wife who taught him the ropes 
Loki - Teutonic devil

Mammon - Aramaic god of wealth and profit 
Mania - Etruscan goddess of Hell 
Mantus - Etruscan god of Hell 
Marduk - god of the city of Babylon 
Mastema - Hebrew synonym for Satan 
Melek Taus - Yezidi devil

Mephistopheles - ( Greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. Faust

Metztli - Aztec goddess of the night

Mictian - Aztec god of death

Midgard - son of Loki, depicted as a serpent

Milcom - Ammonite devil

Moloch - Phoenician and Canaanite devil

Mormo - ( Greek) King of the Ghouls, consort of Hecate

Naamah - Hebrew female devil of seduction

Nergal - Babylonian god of Hades

Nihasa - American Indian devil

Nija - Polish god of the underworld

O-Yama - Japanese name for Satan

Pan - Greek god of lust, later relegated to devildom

Pluto - Greek god of the underworld

Proserpine - Greek queen of the underworld

Pwcca - Welsh name for Satan

Rimmon - Syrian devil worshipped at Damascus

Sabazios - Phrygian origin, identified with Dionysos, snake worship

Saitan - Enochian equivalent of Satan

Sammael - (Hebrew) "venom of God"

Samnu - Central Asian devil

Sedit - American Indian devil

Sekhmet - Egyptian goddess of vengeance

Set - Egyptian devil

Shaitan - Arabic name for Satan

Shiva - (Hindu) the destroyer

Supay - Inca god of the underworld

T'an-mo - Chinese counterpart to the devil, covetousness, desire 
Tchort - Russian name for Satan, "black god" 
Tezcatlipoca - Aztec god of Hell

Thamuz - Sumerian god who later was relegated to devildom 
Thoth - Egyptian god of magic 
Tunrida - Scandinavian female devil

Typhon - Greek personification of Satan 
Yaotzin - Aztec god of Hell 
Yen-lo-Wang - Chinese ruler of Hell

The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence 
of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty 
blow to his impoverished ego.

The pig was despised by the Jews and the Egyptians. It symbolized the gods Frey, Osiris, 
Adonis, Persephone, Attis, and Demeter, and was sacrificed to Osiris and the Moon. But, in 
time, it became degraded into a devil. The Phoenicians worshipped a fly god, Baal, from which 
comes the devil, Beelzebub. Both Baal and Beelzebub are identical to the dung beetle or 
scarabaeus of the Egyptians which appeared to resurrect itself, much as the mythical bird, the 
phoenix, rose from its own ashes. The ancient Jews believed, through their contact with the 
Persians, that the two great forces in the world were Ahura- Mazda, the god of fire, tight, life, 
and goodness; and Ahriman, the serpent, the god of darkness, destruction, death, and evil. 
These, and countless other examples, not only depict man's devils as animals, but also show 
his need to sacrifice the original animal gods and demote them to his devils.

At the time of the Reformation, in the Sixteenth Century, the alchemist, Dr. Johann Faustus, 
discovered a method of summoning a demon - Mephistopheles - from Hell and making a pact 
with him. He signed a contract in blood to turn his soul over to Mephistopheles in return for 
the feeling of youth, and at once became young. When the time came for Faustus to die, he 
retired to his room and was blown to bits as though his laboratory had exploded. This story is 
a protest of the times (the Sixteenth Century) against science, chemistry, and magic.

To the Satanist, it is unnecessary to sell your soul to the Devil or make a pact with Satan. This 
threat was devised by Christianity to terrorize people so they would not stray from the fold. 
With scolding fingers and trembling voices, they taught their followers that if they gave in to 
the temptations of Satan, and lived their lives according to their natural predilections, they 
would have to pay for their sinful pleasures by giving their souls to Satan and suffering in 
Hell for all eternity. People were led to believe that a pure soul was a passport to everlasting 
life.

Pious prophets have taught man to fear Satan. But what of terms like "God fearing"? If God is 
so merciful, why do people have to fear him? Are we to believe there is nowhere we can turn 
to escape fear? If you have to fear God, why not be "Satan fearing" and at least have the fun 
that being God fearing denies you? Without such a wholesale fear religionists would have had 
nothing with which to wield power over their followers.

The Teutonic Goddess of the Dead and daughter of Loki was named Hel, a Pagan god of 
torture and punishment. Another "L" was added when the books of the Old Testament were 
formulated. The prophets who wrote the Bible did not know the word "Hell"; they used the 
Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades, which meant the grave; also the Greek Tartaros, which 
was the abode of fallen angels, the underworld (inside the earth), and Gehenna, which was a 
valley near Jerusalem where Moloch reigned and garbage was dumped and burned. It is from 
this that the Christian Church has evolved the idea of "fire and brimstone" in Hell.

The Protestant Hell and the Catholic Hell are places of eternal punishment; however, the 
Catholics also believe there is a "Purgatory" where all souls go for a time, and a "Limbo" 
where unbaptized souls go. The Buddhist Hell is divided into eight sections, the first seven of

which can be expiated. The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire 
and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold 
region, a giant refrigerator.

(Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries 
have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. Pleasure and pain, like 
beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. So, when missionaries ventured into Alaska and warned 
the Eskimos of the horrors of Hell and the blazing lake of fire awaiting transgressors, they 
eagerly asked: "How do we get there?" !)

Most Satanists do not accept Satan as an anthropomorphic being with cloven hooves, a barbed 
tail, and horns. He merely represents a force in nature - the powers of darkness which have 
been named just that because no religion has taken these forces out of the darkness. Nor has 
science been able to apply technical terminology to this force. It is an untapped reservoir that 
few can make use of because they lack the ability use a tool without having to first break 
down and label all the parts which make it run. It is this incessant need to analyze which 
prohibits most people from taking advantage of this many faceted key to the unknown - which 
the Satanist chooses to call "Satan".

Satan, as a god, demi-god, personal saviour, or whatever you wish to call him, was invented 
by the formulators of every religion on the face of the earth for only one purpose - to preside 
over man's so-called wicked activities and situations here on earth. Consequently, anything 
resulting in physical or mental gratification was defined as "evil" - thus assuring a lifetime of 
unwarranted guilt for everyone!

So, if "evil" they have named us, evil we are - and so what! The Satanic Age is upon us! Why 
not take advantage of it and LIVE!

LOVE AND HATE

Satanism represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on 
ingrates!

You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and 
everything you lose your natural powers of selection and wind up being a pretty poor 
judge of character and quality. If anything is used too freely it loses its true meaning. 
Therefore, the Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those who 
deserve your love, but never turn the other cheek to your enemy!

Love is one of the most intense emotions felt by man; another is hate. Forcing yourself to feel 
indiscriminate love is very unnatural. If you try to love everyone you only lessen your 
feelings for those who deserve your love. Repressed hatred can lead to many physical and 
emotional ailments. By learning to release your hatred towards those who deserve it, you 
cleanse yourself of these malignant emotions and need not take your pent-up hatred out on 
your loved ones.

There has never been a great "love" movement in the history of the world that hasn't wound 
up killing countless numbers of people, we must assume, to prove how much they loved 
them! Every hypocrite who ever walked the earth has had pockets bulging with love!

Every pharisaical rehgionist claims to love his enemies, even though when wronged he 
consoles himself by tMnking "God will punish them". Instead of admitting to themselves that 
they are capable of hating their foes and treating them in the manner they deserve, they say: 
"There, but for the grace of God, go I," and "pray" for them. Why should we humiliate and 
lower ourselves by drawing such inaccurate comparisons?

Satanism has been thought of as being synonymous with cruelty and brutality. This is so only 
because people are afraid to face the truth - and the truth is that human beings are not all 
benign or all loving. Just because the Satanist admits he is capable of both love and hate, he is 
considered hateful. On the contrary, because he is able to give vent to his hatred through 
ritualized expression, he is far more capable of love - the deepest kind of love. By honestiy 
recognizing and admitting to both the hate and the love he feels, there is no confusing one 
emotion with the other. Without being able to experience one of these emotions, you cannot 
fully experience the other.

SATANIC SEX

TVIuch controversy has arisen over the Satanic views on "free love". It is often

assumed that sexual activity is the most important factor of the Satanic religion, and 
that willingness to participate in sex- orgies is a prerequisite for becoming a Satanist. 
Nothing could be farther from the truth! In fact, opportunists who have no deeper 
interest in Satanism than merely the sexual aspects are emphatically discouraged.

Satanism does advocate sexual freedom, but only in the true sense of the word. Free 
love, in the Satanic concept, means exactly that - freedom to either be faithful to one 
person or to indulge your sexual desires with as many others as you feel is necessary to satisfy 
your particular needs.

Satanism does not encourage orgiastic activity or extramarital affairs for those to whom they 
do not come naturally. For many, it would be very unnatural and detrimental to be unfaithful 
to their chosen mates. To others, it would be frustrating to be bound sexually to just one 
person. Each person must decide for himself what form of sexual activity best suits his 
individual needs. Self- deceitfully forcing yourself to be adulterous or to have sex partners 
when not married just for the sake of proving others (or worse yet, to yourself) that you are 
emancipated from sexual guilt is just as wrong, by Satanic standards, as leaving any sexual 
need unfulfilled because of ingrained feelings of guilt.

Many of those who are constantly preoccupied with demonstrating their emancipation from 
sexual guilt are, in reality, held in even greater sexual bondage than those who simply accept 
sexual activity as a natural part of life and don't make a big to-do over their sexual freedom. 
For example, it is an established fact that the nymphomaniac (every man's dream girl and 
heroine of all lurid novels) is not sexually free, but is actually frigid and roves from man to 
man because she is too inhibited to ever find complete sexual release.

Another misconception is the idea that ability to engage in group sexual activity is the 
indicative of sexual freedom. All contemporary free- sex groups have one thing in common - 
discouragement of fetishistic or deviant activity.

Actually, the most forced examples of non- fetishistic sexual activity thinly disguised as 
"freedom" have a common format. Each of the participants in an orgy removes all clothing, 
following the example set forth by one, and mechanically fornicate - also following the 
leader's example. None of the performers consider that their "emancipated" form of sex might 
be regarded as regimented and infantile by non- members who fail to equate uniformity with 
freedom.

The Satanist realizes that if he is to be a sexual connoisseur (and truly free from all sexual 
guilt) he cannot be stifled by the so-called sexual revolutionists any more than he can by the 
prudery of his guilt- ridden society. These free- sex clubs miss the whole point of sexual 
freedom. Unless sexual activity can be expressed on an individual basis (which includes 
personal fetishes), there is absolutely no purpose in belonging to a sexual freedom 
organization.

Satanism condones any type of sexual activity which properly satisfies your individual desires 
- be it heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or even asexual, if you choose. Satanism also

sanctions any fetish or deviation which will enhance your sex- life, so long as it involves no 
one who does not wish to be involved.

The prevalence of deviant and/or fetishistic behavior in our society would stagger the 
imagination of the sexually naive. There are more sexual variants than the unenlightened 
individual can perceive: transvestism, sadism, masochism, urolagnia, exhibitionism - to name 
only a few of the more predominant. Everyone has some form of fetish, but because they are 
unaware of the preponderance of fetishistic activity in our society, they feel they are depraved 
if they submit to their "unnatural" yearnings.

Even the asexual has a deviation - his asexuality. It is far more abnormal to have a lack of 
sexual desire (unless illness or old-age, or another valid reason has caused the wane) than it is 
to be sexually promiscuous. However, if a Satanist chooses sexual sublimination above overt 
sexual expression, that is entirely his own affair. In many cases of sexual sublimination (or 
asexuality), any attempt to emancipate himself sexually would prove devastating to the 
asexual.

Asexuals are invariably sexually sublimated by their jobs or hobbies. All the energy and 
driving interest which would normally be devoted to sexual activity is channeled into other 
pastimes or into their chosen occupations. If a person favors other interests over sexual 
activity, it is his right, and no one is justified in condemning him for it. However, the person 
should at least recognize the fact that this is a sexual sublimation.

Because of lack of opportunity for expression, many secret sexual desires never progress 
beyond the fantasy stage. Lack of release often leads to compulsion and, therefore, a great 
number of people devise undetectable methods of giving vent to their urges. Just because 
most fetishistic activity is not outwardly apparent, the sexually unsophisticated should not 
delude himself into tliinking it does not exist. To cite examples of the ingenious techniques 
used: The male transvestite will indulge in his fetish by wearing feminine undergarments 
while going about his daily activities; or the masochistic woman might wear a rubber girdle 
several sizes too small, so she may derive sexual pleasure from her fetishistic discomfort 
throughout the day, with no one the wiser. These illustrations are far tamer and more 
prevalent examples than others which could have been given.

Satanism encourages any form of sexual expression you may desire, so long as it hurts no one 
else. This statement must be qualified, to avoid misinterpretation. By not hurting another, this 
does not include the unintentional hurt felt by those who might not agree with your views on 
sex, because of their anxieties regarding sexual morality. Naturally, you should avoid 
offending others who mean a great deal to you, such as prudish friends and relatives. 
However, if you earnestly endeavor to escape hurting them, and despite your efforts they 
accidentally find out, you cannot be held responsible, and therefore should feel no guilt as a 
result of either your sexual convictions, or their being hurt because of those convictions. If 
you are in constant fear of offending the prudish by your attitude towards sex, then there is no 
sense in trying to emancipate yourself from sexual guilt. However, no purpose is served by 
flaunting your permissiveness.

The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives 
pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his pleasure- through- pain hurts him just as 
much as actual physical pain hurts the non- masochist. The story of the truly cruel sadist 
illustrates this point: The masochist says to the sadist, "beat me." To which the merciless 
sadist replies, 'ko!" If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason

not to indulge him in his wont.

The term "sadist" in popular usage describes one who obtains pleasure from indiscriminate 
brutality. Actually, though, a true sadist is selective. He carefully chooses from the vast 
reserve of appropriate victims, and takes great delight in giving those who thrive on misery 
the fulfillment of their desires. The "well-adjusted" sadist is epicurean in selecting those on 
whom his energies will be well- spent! If a person is healthy enough to admit he is a masochist 
and enjoys being enslaved and whipped, the real sadist is glad to oblige!

Aside from the foregoing exceptions, the Satanist would not intentionally hurt others by 
violating their sexual rights. If you attempt to impose your sexual desires upon others who do 
not welcome your advances, you are Mringing upon their sexual freedom. Therefore, 
Satanism does not advocate rape, child molesting, sexual defilement of animals, or any other 
form of sexual activity which entails the participation of those who are unwilling or whose 
innocence or naivete would allow them to be intimidated or misguided into doing something 
against their wishes.

If all parties involved are mature adults who willingly take full responsibility for their actions 
and voluntarily engage in a given form of sexual expression - even if it is generally 
considered taboo - then there is no reason for them to repress their sexual inclinations.

If you are aware of all the implications, advantages, and disadvantages, and are certain your 
actions will hurt no one who does not wish or deserve to be hurt, you have no cause to 
suppress your sexual preferences.

Just as no two people are exactly the same in their choice of diet or have the same capacity for 
the consumption of food, sexual tastes and appetites vary from person to person. No person or 
society has the right to set limitations on the sexual standards or the frequency of sexual 
activity of another. Proper sexual conduct can only be judged within the context of each 
individual situation. Therefore, what one person considers sexually correct and moral may be 
frustrating to another. The reverse is also true; one person may have great sexual prowess, but 
it is unjust for him to belittle another whose sexual capacity may not equal his own, and 
inconsiderate for him to impose himself upon the other person, i.e., the man who has a 
voracious sexual appetite, but whose wife's sexual needs do not match his own. It is unfair for 
him to expect her to enthusiastically respond to his overtures; but she must display the same 
degree of thoughtfulness. In the instances when she does not feel great passion, she should 
either passively, but pleasantly, accept him sexually, or raise no complaint if he chooses to 
find his needed release elsewhere - including auto- erotic practices.

The ideal relationship is one in which the people are deeply in love with one another and are 
sexually compatible. However, perfect relationships are relatively uncommon. It is important 
to point out here that spiritual love and sexual love can, but do not necessarily, go hand in 
hand. If there is a certain amount of sexual compatibility, often it is limited; and some, but not 
all, of the sexual desires will be fulfilled.

There is no greater sexual pleasure than that derived from association with someone you 
deeply love, if you are sexually well- suited. If you are not suited to one another sexually, 
though, it must be stressed that lack of sexual compatibility does not indicate lack of spiritual 
love. One can, and often does, exist without the other. As a matter of fact, often one member 
of a couple will resort to outside sexual activity because he deeply loves his mate, and wishes 
to avoid hurting or imposing upon his loved one. Deep spiritual love is enriched by sexual

love, and it is certainly a necessary ingredient for any satisfactory relationship; but because of 
differing sexual predilections, outside sexual activity or masturbation sometimes provides a 
needed supplement.

Masturbation, considered a sexual taboo by many people, creates a guilt problem not easily 
dealt with. Much emphasis must be placed on this subject, as it constitutes an extremely 
important ingredient of many a successful magical working.

Ever since the Judaeo- Christian Bible described the sin of Onan (Gen. 38:7-10), man has 
considered the seriousness and consequences of the "solitary vice". Even though modem 
sexologists have explained the sin of Onan as simply coitus interruptus, the damage has been 
done through centuries of theological misinterpretation.

Aside from actual sex crimes, masturbation is one of the most frowned upon sexual acts. 
During the last century, innumerable texts were written describing the horrific consequences 
of masturbation. Practically all physical or mental illnesses were attributed to the evils of 
masturbation. Pallor of the complexion, shortness of breath, furtive expression, sunken chest, 
nervousness, pimples and loss of appetite are only a few of the many characteristics 
supposedly resulting from masturbation; total physical and mental collapse was assured if one 
did not heed the warnings in those handbooks for young men.

The lurid descriptions in such texts would be almost humorous, were it not for the unhappy 
fact that even though contemporary sexologists, doctors, writers, etc. have done much to 
remove the stigma of masturbation, the deep-seated guilts induced by the nonsense in those 
sexual primers have been only partially erased. A large percentage of people, especially those 
over forty, cannot emotionally accept the fact that masturbation is natural and healthy, even if 
they now accept it intellectually; and they, in turn, relate their repugnance, often 
subconsciously, to their children.

It was thought that one would go insane if, despite numerous admonitions, his auto- erotic 
practices persisted. This preposterous myth grew from reports of wide- spread masturbation by 
the inmates of mental institutions. It was assumed that since almost all incurably insane 
people masturbated, it was their masturbation that had driven them mad. No one ever stopped 
to consider the lack of sexual partners of the opposite sex and the freedom from inhibition, 
which is a characteristic of extreme insanity, were the real reasons for the masturbatory 
practices of the insane.

Many people would rather have their mates seek outside sexual activity than perform auto- 
erotic acts because of their own guilt feelings, the mate's repugnance towards having them 
engage in masturbation, or the fear of their mate's repugnance - although in a surprising 
number of cases, a vicarious thrill is obtained from the knowledge that the mate is having 
sexual experiences with outsiders - although this is seldom admitted.

If stimulation is provided by envisioning one's mate sexually engaged with others, this should 
be brought out into the open where both parties may gain from such activities. However, if the 
prohibition of masturbation is only due to guilt feelings on the part of one or both parties, they 
should make every attempt to erase those guilts - or utilize them. Many relationships might be 
saved from destruction if the people involved did not feel guilt about performing the natural 
act of masturbation.

Masturbation is regarded as evil because it produces pleasure derived from intentionally

fondling a "forbidden" area of the body by one's own hand. The guilt feelings accompanying 
most sexual acts can be assuaged by the religiously- acceptable contention that your sensual 
delights are necessary to produce off- spring - even though you cautiously watch the calendar 
for the "safe" days. You cannot, however, placate yourself with this rationale while engaging 
in masturbatory practices.

No matter what you've been told about the "immaculate conception" - even if blind faith 
allows you to swallow this absurdity - you know full well if you are to produce a child, there 
must be sexual contact with a person of the opposite sex! If you feel guilty for committing the 
"original sin," you certainly will feel even deeper guilt for performing a sex act only for self- 
gratification, with no intention of creating children.

The Satanist fully realizes why religionists declare masturbation to be sinful. Like all other 
natural acts people will do it, no matter how severely reprimanded. Causing guilt is an 
important facet of their malicious scheme to obligate people to atone for "sins" by paying the 
mortgages on temples of abstinence!

Even if a person is no longer struggling under the burden of religiously- induced guilt (or 
thinks he isn't), modem man still feels shame if he yields to his masturbatory desires. A man 
may feel robbed of his masculinity if he satisfies himself auto-erotically rather than engaging 
in the competitive game of woman chasing. A woman may satisfy herself sexually but yearns 
for the ego -gratification that comes from the sport of seduction. Neither the quasi Casanova 
nor bogus vamp feels adequate when "reduced" to masturbation for sexual gratification; both 
would prefer even an inadequate partner. Satanically speaking, though, it is far better to 
engage in a perfect fantasy than to cooperate in an unrewarding experience with another 
person. With masturbation, you are in complete control of the situation.

To illustrate the undebatable fact that masturbation is an entirely normal and healthy practice: 
it is performed by all members of the animal kingdom. Human children will also follow their 
instinctive masturbatory desires, unless they have been scolded for it by their indignant parents, 
who were undoubtably berated for it by their parents, and so on down the retrocedent line.

It is unfortunate, but true, that the sexual guilts of parents will immutably be passed on to their 
children. In order to save our children from the ill-fated sexual destiny of our parents, 
grandparents, and possibly ourselves, the perverted moral code of the past must be exposed 
for what it is: a pragmatically organized set of rules which, if rigidly obeyed, would destroy 
us! Unless we emancipate ourselves from the ridiculous sexual standards of our present 
society, including the so-called sexual revolution, the neuroses caused by those stifling 
regulations will persist. Adherence to the sensible and humanistic new morality of Satanism 
can - and will - evolve society in which our children can grow up healthy and without the 
devastating moral encumbrances of our existing sick society.

NOT ALL VAMPIRES 
SUCK BLOOD!

Satanism represents responsibility to the responsible, instead of concern for psychic 
vampires.

Many people who walk the earth practice the fine art of making others feel responsible 
and even indebted to them, without cause. Satanism observes these leeches in their true 
light. Psychic vampires are individuals who drain others of their vital energy. This type 
of person can be found in all avenues of society. They fill no useful purpose in our 
lives, and are neither love objects nor true friends. Yet we feel responsible to the 
psychic vampire without knowing why.

If you think you may be the victim of such a person, there are a few simple rules which will 
help you form a decision. Is there a person you often call or visit, even though you really don't 
want to, because you know you will feel guilty if you don't? Or, do you find yourself 
constantiy doing favors for one who doesn't come forward and ask, but hints? Often the 
psychic vampire will use reverse psychology, saying: "Oh, I couldn't ask you to do that" - and 
you, in turn, insist upon doing it. The psychic vampire never demands anything of you. That 
would be far too presumptuous. They simply let their wishes be known in subtie ways which 
will prevent them from being considered pests. They "wouldn't think of imposing" and are 
always content and willingly accept their lot, without the slightest complaint - outwardly!

Their sins are not of commission, but of omission. It's what they don 't say, not what they do 
say, that makes you feel you must account to them. They are much too crafty to make overt 
demands upon you, because they know you would resent it, and would have a tangible and 
legitimate reason for denying them.

A large percentage of these people have special "attributes" which make their dependence 
upon you more feasible and much more effective. Many psychic vampires are invalids (or 
pretend to be) or are "mentally or emotionally disturbed." Others might feign ignorance or 
incompetence so you will, out of pity - or more often, exasperation - do things for them.

The traditional way to banish a demon or elemental is to recognize it for what it is, and 
exorcise it. Recognition of these modem- day demons and their methods is the only antidote 
for their devastating hold over you.

Most people accept these passively vicious individuals at face value only because their 
insidious maneuvers have never been pointed out to them. They merely accept these "poor 
souls" as being less fortunate than themselves, and feel they must help them however they 
can. It is this misdirected sense of responsibility (or unfounded sense of guilt) which 
nourishes well the "altruisms" upon which these parasites feast!

The psychic vampire is allowed to exist because he cleverly chooses conscientious, 
responsible people for his victims - people with great dedication to their "moral obligations."

In some cases we are vampirized by groups of people, as well as individuals. Every fund 
raising organization, be it a charitable foundation, community council, religious or fraternal 
association, etc., carefully selects a person who is adept at making others feel guilty for its

chairman or coordinator. It is the job of this chairman to intimidate us into opening first our 
hearts, and then our wallets, to the recipient of their "good will" - never mentioning that, in 
many cases, their time is not unselfishly donated, but that they are drawing a fat salary for 
their "noble deeds." They are masters at playing upon the sympathy and consideration of 
responsible people. How often we see little children who have been sent forth by these self- 
righteous Fagins to painlessly extract donations from the kindly. Who can resist the innocent 
charm of a child?

There are, of course, people who are not happy unless they are giving, but many of us do not 
fit into this category. Unfortunately, we are often put upon to do things we do not genuinely 
feel should be required of us. A conscientious person finds it very difficult to decide between 
voluntary and imposed charity. He wants to do what is right and just, and finds it perplexing 
trying to decide exactly who he should help and what degree of aid should rightfully be 
expected of him.

Each person must decide for himself what his obhgations are to his respective friends, family, 
and community. Before donating his time and money to those outside his immediate family 
and close circle of friends, he must decide what he can afford, without depriving those closest 
to him. When taking these things into consideration he must be certain to include himself 
among those who mean most to him. He must carefully evaluate the validity of the request 
and the personality or motives of the person asking it of him.

It is extremely difficult for a person to learn to say "no" when all his life he has said "yes." 
But unless he wants to be constantly taken advantage of, he must learn to say "no" when 
circumstances justify doing so. If you allow them, psychic vampires will gradually infiltrate 
your everyday life until you have no privacy left - and your constant feeling of concern for 
them will deplete you of all ambition.

A psychic vampire will always select a person who is relatively content and satisfied with his 
life - a person who is happily married, pleased with his job, and generally well-adjusted to the 
world around him - to feed upon. The very fact that the psychic vampire chooses to victimize 
a happy person shows that he is lacking all the things his victim has; he will do everything he 
can to stir up trouble and disharmony between his victim and those people he holds dear.

Therefore, be wary of anyone who seems to have no real friends and no apparant interest in 
life (except you). He will usually tell you he is very selective in his choice of friends, or 
doesn't make friends easily because of the high standards he sets for his companions. (To 
acquire and keep friends, one must be willing to give of himself - something of which the 
psychic vampire is incapable.) But he will hasten to add that you fulfill every requirement and 
are truly an outstanding exception among men - you are one of the very few worthy of his 
friendship.

Lest you confuse desperate love (which is a very selfish thing) with psychic vampirism, the 
vast difference between the two must be clarified. The only way to determine if you are being 
vampirized is to weigh what you give the person compared to what they give you in return.

You may, at times, become annoyed with the obhgations put upon you by a loved one, a close 
friend, or even an employer. But before you label them psychic vampires, you must ask 
yourself, "What am I getting in return?" If your spouse or lover insists that you call them 
frequentiy, but you also require them to account to you for their time spent away from you, 
you must realize this is a give and take situation. Or, if a friend is in the habit of calling upon

you for help at inopportune moments, but you similarly depend upon them to give your 
immediate needs priority, you must regard it as a fair exchange. If your employer asks you to 
do a little more than is normally expected of you in your particular position, but will overlook 
occasional tardiness or will give you time off when you need it, you certainly have no cause 
for complaint and need not feel he is taking advantage of you.

You are, however, being vampirized if you are incessantly called upon or expected to do 
favors for someone who, when you need a favor, always happens to have other "pressing 
obligations."

Many psychic vampires will give you material things for the express purpose of making you 
feel you owe them something in return, thereby binding you to them. The difference between 
your giving, and theirs, is that your return payment must come in a non- material form. They 
want you to feel obligated to them, and would be very disappointed and even resentful if you 
attempted to repay them with material objects. In essence, you have "sold your soul" to them, 
and they'll constantly remind you of your duty to them, by not reminding you.

Being purely Satanic, the only way to deal with a psychic vampire is to "play dumb" and act 
as though they are genuinely altruistic and really expect nothing in return. Teach them a 
lesson by graciously taking what they give you, thanking them loudly enough for all to hear, 
and walking away! In this way you come out the victor. What can they say? And when you 
are inevitably expected to repay their "generosity," (this is the hard part!) you say "no" - but 
again, graciously! When they feel you falling from their clutches two things will happen. 
First, they will act "crushed," hoping your old feeling of duty and sympathy will return, and 
when (and if) it doesn't, they will show their true colors and will become angry and 
vindictive.

Once you have moved them to this point, you can play the role of the injured party. After all, 
you've done nothing wrong - you just happened to have had "pressing obligations" when they 
needed you, and since nothing was expected in return for their gifts, there should be no hard 
feelings.

Generally, the psychic vampire will realize his methods have been discovered and will not 
press the issue. He will not continue to waste his time with you, but will move on to his next 
unsuspecting victim.

There are times, however, when the psychic vampire will not release his hold so easily, and 
will do everything possible to torment you. They have plenty of time for this because, when 
once rejected, they will neglect all else (what little else they have, that is) to devote their every 
waking moment to planning the revenge to which they feel they are entitled. For this reason, it 
is best to avoid a relationship with this kind of person in the first place. Their "adulation" and 
dependence upon you may, at first, be very flattering, and their material gifts very attractive, 
but you will eventually find yourself paying for them many times over.

Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on 
those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.

And if you are a psychic vampire - take heed! Beware of the Satanist - he is ready and willing 
to gleefully drive the proverbial stake through your heart!

INDULGENCE . . . NOT COMPULSION

THE HIGHEST PLATEAU OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 
IS THE AWARENESS OF THE FLESh!

fljf Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so

^Bjt^can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to 
Jm yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the 
£ Satanic belief is:

\ INDULGENCE INSTEAD OF ABSTINENCE

People often mistake compulsion for indulgence, but there is a world of difference 
between the two. A compulsion is never created by indulging, but by not being able to 
indulge. By making something taboo, it only serves to intensify the desire. Everyone likes to 
do the things they have been told not to. "Forbidden fruits are sweetest."

Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary defines indulgence thusly: "To give oneself up to; not to 
restrain or oppose; to give free course to; to gratify by compliance; to yield to." The 
dictionary definition of compulsion is: "The act of compelling or driving by a force, physical 
or moral; constraint of the will; (compulsory, obligatory)." In other words, indulgence implies 
choice, whereas compulsion indicates the lack of choice.

When a person has no proper release for his desires they rapidly build up and become 
compulsions. If everyone had a particular time and place for the purpose of periodically 
indulging in their personal desires, without fear of embarrassment or reproach, they would be 
sufficiently released to lead unfrustrated lives in the everyday world. They would be free to 
plunge headlong into whatever undertaking they might choose instead of going about their 
duties half-heartedly, their creative urges frustrated by denying their natural desires. This 
would apply in the majority of cases, but there will always be those who work better under 
pressure.

Generally, those who need to endure a certain amount of hardship to produce to their full 
capabilities are in basically artistic vocations. (More will be said later about fulfillment 
through self-denial.) This does not mean to imply that all artists fit into this category. On the 
contrary, many artists are unable to produce unless their basic animal needs have been 
satisfied.

For the most part, it is not the artist or individualist, but the average middle-class working 
man or woman who is lacking the proper release for their desires. It is ironic that the 
responsible, respectable person - the one who pays society's bills - should be the one given the 
least in return. It is he who must be ever conscious of his "moral obhgations", and who is 
condemned for normally indulging in his natural desires.

The Satanic religion considers this a gross injustice. He who upholds his responsibilities 
should be most entitied to the pleasures of his choice, without censure from the society he 
serves.

Finally a religion (Satanism) has been formed which commends and rewards those who 
support the society in which they live, instead of denouncing them for their human needs.

From every set of principles (be it religious, political, or philosophical), some good can be 
extracted. Amidst the madness of the Hitlerian concept, one point stands out as a shining 
example of this - "strength through joy!". Hitier was no fool when he offered the German 
people happiness, on a personal level, to insure their loyalty to him, and peak efficiency from 
them.

It has been clearly established that the majority of all illnesses are of a psychosomatic nature, 
and that psychosomatic illnesses are a direct result of frustration. It has been said that "the 
good die young". The good, by Christian standards, do die young. It is the frustration of our 
natural instincts which leads to the deterioration of our minds and bodies.

It has become very fashionable to concentrate on the betterment of the mind and spirit, and to 
consider giving pleasure to one's body (the very shell without which the mind and spirit could 
not exist) to be coarse, crude, unrefined, as of late, most people who deem themselves emancipated 
have left normalcy only to "transcend" into idiocy! By way of bending their behinds around to 
meet their navels, subsisting on wild and exotic diets like brown rice and tea, they feel they 
will arrive at a great state of spiritual development.

"Hogwash!" says the Satanist. He would rather eat a good hearty meal, exercise his 
imagination, and transcend by means of physical and emotional fulfillment. It seems, to the 
Satanist, that after being harnessed with unreasonable religious demands for so many 
centuries, one would welcome the chance to be human for once!

If anyone thinks that by denying his natural desires he can avoid mediocrity, he should 
examine the Eastern mystical beliefs which have been in great intellectual favor in recent 
years. Christianity is "old-hat", so those who wish to escape its fetters have turned to so-called 
enlightened rehgions, such as Buddhism. Although Christianity is certainly deserving of the 
criticism it has received, perhaps it has been taking more than its share of the blame. The 
followers of the mystical beliefs are every bit as guilty of the little humanisms as the 
"misguided" Christians. Both rehgions are based on trite philosophies, but the mystical 
religionists profess to be enlightened and emancipated from the guilt-ridden dogma which is 
typified by Christianity. However, the Eastern mystic is even more preoccupied than the 
Christian with avoiding animahstic actions that remind him he is not a "saint", but merely a 
man - only another form of animal, sometimes better, more often worse, than those who walk 
on all fours; and who, because of his "divine spiritual and intellectual development", has 
become the most vicious animal of all!

The Satanist asks, "What is wrong with being human, and having human limitations as well as 
assets?" By denying his desires the mystic has come no closer to overcoming compulsion than 
his kindred soul, the Christian. The Eastern mystical beliefs have taught people to 
contemplate their navels, stand on their heads, stare at blank walls, avoid the use of labels in 
life, and discipline themselves against any desire for materialistic pleasure. Nevertheless, I am 
sure you have seen just as many so-called disciplined yogis with the inability to control a 
smoking habit as anyone else; or just as many supposedly emancipated Buddhists become just 
as excited as a "less aware" person when they are confronted with a member of the opposite - 
or in some cases, the same - sex. Yet when asked to explain the reason for their hypocrisy, 
these people retreat into the ambiguousness which characterizes their faith - no one can pin 
them down if there are no straight answers that can be given!

The simple fact of the matter is that the very thing which has led this type of person to a faith 
which preaches abstinence, is indulgence. Their compulsive masochism is the reason for

choosing a religion which not only advocates self-denial, but praises them for it; and gives 
them a sacrosanct avenue of expression for their masochistic needs. The more abuse they can 
stand, the holier they become.

Masochism, to most people, represents a rejection of indulgence. Satanism points out many 
meanings behind the meanings, and considers masochism to be an indulgence if any attempt 
to sway or change the person from his masochistic traits is met with resentment and/or failure. 
The Satanist does not condemn these people for giving vent to their masochistic desires, but 
he does feel the utmost contempt towards those who cannot be honest enough (at least with 
themselves) to face and accept their masochism as a natural part of their personality make-up.

Having to use religion as an excuse for their masochism is bad enough, but these people 
actually have the effrontery to feel superior to those who are not bound- up in self- deceitful 
expression of their fetishes! These people would be the first to condemn a man who found his 
weekly release with a person who would beat him soundly, thereby releasing himself from the 
very thing which could, if unreleased, make him - as they are - a compulsive church-goer or 
religious fanatic. By finding adequate release for his masochistic desires, he no longer needs 
to debase and deny himself in his every waking moment, as do these compulsive masochists.

Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they 
were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers. The 
Christian Church knows that it is impossible for anyone to avoid committing these sins, as 
they are all things which we, being human, most naturally do. After inevitably committing 
these sins financial offerings to the church in order to "pay off God are employed as a sop to 
the parishioner's conscience!

Satan has never needed a book of rules, because vital natural forces have kept man "sinful" 
and intent on preserving himself and his feelings. Nevertheless, demoralizing attempts have 
been made on his body and being for his "soul's" sake, which only illustrate how 
misconceived and misused the labels of "indulgence" versus "compulsion" have become.

Sexual activity certainly is condoned and encouraged by Satanism, but obviously the fact that 
it is the only religion which honestly takes this stand, is the reason it has been traditionally 
given so much literary space.

Naturally, if most people belong to the religions which repress them sexually, anything 
written on this provocative subject is going to make for titillating reading.

If all attempts to sell something (be it a product or an idea) have failed - sex will always sell 
it. The reason for this is that even though people now consciously accept sex as a normal and 
necessary function, their subconscious is still bound by the taboo which religion has placed 
upon it. So, again, what is denied is more intensely desired. It is this bugaboo regarding sex 
which causes the literature devoted to the Satanic views on the subject to overshadow all else 
written about Satanism.

The true Satanist is not mastered by sex any more than he is mastered by any of his other 
desires. As with all other pleasurable things, the Satanist is master of, rather than mastered by 
sex. He is not the perverted fiend who is just waiting for the opportunity to deflower every 
young virgin, nor is he the skulking degenerate who furtively hangs around in the "dirty" 
bookstores, slavering over the "nasty" pictures. If pornography fills his needs for the moment, 
he unashamedly buys some "choice items" and guiltlessly peruses them at his leisure.

"We have to accept the fact that man has become disgruntled at being constantly repressed, 
but we must do everything we can to at least temper the sinful desires of man, lest they run 
rampant in this new age," say the rehgionists of the right-hand path to the questioning 
Satanist. "Why continue to think of these desires as shameful and something to be repressed, 
if you now admit they are natural?" returns the Satanist. Could it be that the white- light 
rehgionists are a bit "sour- grapes" about the fact that they didn't think of a religion, before the 
Satanists, which would be enjoyable to follow; and if the truth were known, would they too 
not like to have a bit more pleasure out of life, but for fear of losing face, cannot admit it? 
Could it also be that they are afraid people will, after hearing about Satanism, tell themselves 
"This is for me - why should I continue with a religion which condemns me for everything I 
do, even though there is nothing actually wrong with it?" The Satanist thinks this is more than 
likely true.

There is certainly much evidence that past religions are, every day, lifting more and more of 
their ridiculous restrictions. Even so, when an entire religion is based on abstinence instead of 
indulgence (as it should be) there is lMe left when it has been revised to meet the current 
needs of man. So, why waste time "buying oats for a dead horse"?

The watchword of Satanism is indulgence instead of "abstinence" . . . but - it is not 
"compulsion".

ON THE CHOICE 
OF

A HUMAN SACRIFICE

JFK

jfja Thu supposed puipose in performing the ritual of sacrifice is to throw the energy

^■jfprovided by the blood of the freshly slaughtered victim into the atmosphere of the 
Jm magical working, thereby intensifying the magician's chances of success.

W The "white" magician assumes that since blood represents the life force, there is no 
\ better way to appease the gods or demons than to present them with suitable quantities 
J of it. Combine this rationale with the fact that a dying creature is expending an 
overabundance of adrenal and other biochemical energies, and you have what appears 
to be an unbeatable combination.

The "white" magician, wary of the consequences involved in the killing of a human being, 
naturally utilizes birds, or other "lower" creatures in his ceremonies. It seems these 
sanctimonious wretches feel no guilt in the taking of a non- human life, as opposed to a 
human's.

The fact of the matter is that if the "magician" is worthy of his name, he will be uninhibited 
enough to release the necessary force from his own body, instead of from an unwilling and 
undeserving victim!

Contrary to all established magical theory, the release of this force is not effected in the actual 
spilling of blood, but in the death throes of the living creature! This discharge of bioelectrical 
energy is the very same phenomenon which occurs during any profound heightening of the 
emotions, such as: sexual orgasm, blind anger, mortal terror, consuming grief, etc. Of these 
emotions, the easiest entered into of one's own violation are sexual orgasm and anger, with 
grief mnning a close third. Remembering that the two most readily available of these three 
(sexual orgasm and anger) have been burned into man's unconscious as "sinful" by religionists, 
it is small wonder they are shunned by the "white" magician, who plods along carrying the 
greatest of all millstones of guilt!

The inhibitive and asinine absurdity in the need to kill an innocent living creature at the high- 
point of a ritual, as practiced by erstwhile "wizards", is obviously their "lesser of the evils" 
when a discharge of energy is called for. These poor conscience- stricken fools, who have 
been calling themselves witches and warlocks, would sooner chop the head off a goat or 
chicken in an attempt to harness its death agony, than have the "blasphemous" bravery to 
masturbate in full view of the Jehovah whom they claim to deny! The only way these mystical 
cowards can ritualistically release themselves is through the agony of another's death (actually 
their own, by proxy) rather than the indulgent force which produces life! The treaders of the 
path of white light are truly the cold and the dead! No wonder these tittering pustules of 
"mystical wisdom" must stand within protective circles to bind the "evil" forces in order to 
keep themselves "safe" from attack - one good orgasm would probably kill them!

The use of a human sacrifice in a Satanic ritual does not imply that the sacrifice is slaughtered 
"to appease the gods". Symbolically, the victim is destroyed through the working of a hex or 
curse, which in turn leads to the physical, mental or emotional destmction of the "sacrifice" in 
ways and means not attributable to the magician.

The only time a Satanist would perform a human sacrifice would be if it were to serve a two- 
fold purpose; that being to release the magician's wrath in the throwing of a curse, and more 
important, to dispose of a totally obnoxious and deserving individual.

Under no circumstances would a Satanist sacrifice any animal or baby! For centuries, 
propagandists of the right-hand path have been prattling over the supposed sacrifices of small 
children and voluptuous maidens at the hands of diabolists. It would be thought that anyone 
reading or hearing of these heinous accounts would immediately question their authenticity, 
taking into consideration the biased sources of the stories. On the contrary, as with all "holy" 
lies which are accepted without reservation, this assumed modus operandi of the Satanists 
persists to this day!

There are sound and logical reasons why the Satanists could not perform such sacrifices. Man, 
the animal, is the godhead to the Satanist. The purest form of carnal existence reposes in the 
bodies of animals and human children who have not grown old enough to deny themselves 
their natural desires. They can perceive things that the average adult human can never hope to. 
Therefore, the Satanist holds these beings in a sacred regard, knowing he can learn much from 
these natural magicians of the world.

The Satanist is aware of the universal custom of the treader of the path of Agarthi; the killing 
of the god. Inasmuch as gods are always created in man's own image - and the average man 
hates what he sees in himself - the inevitable must occur: the sacrifice of the god who 
represents himself. The Satanist does not hate himself, nor the gods he might choose, and has 
no desire to destroy himself or anything for which he stands ! It is for this reason he could 
never willfully harm an animal or child.

The question arises, "Who, then, would be considered a fit and proper human sacrifice, and 
how is one qualified to pass judgment on such a person?" The answer is brutally simple. 
Anyone who has unjustiy wronged you - one who has "gone out of his way" to hurt you - to 
deliberately cause trouble and hardship for you or those dear to you. In short, a person asking 
to be cursed by their very actions.

When a person, by his reprehensible behavior, practically cries out to be destroyed, it is truly 
your moral obligation to indulge them their wish. The person who takes every opportunity to 
"pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected 
masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes 
out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of 
your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw 
your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

It is sometimes easy to overlook the actual wrongdoing of the victim of your curse, when one 
considers how "unhappy" a person he really is. It is not so easy, though, to retrace the 
damaging footsteps of your antagonist and make right those practical situations he or she has 
made wrong.

The "ideal sacrifice" may be emotionally insecure, but nonetheless can, in the machinations of 
his insecurity, cause severe damage to your tranquility or sound reputation. "Mental illness", 
"nervous breakdown", "maladjustment", "anxiety neuroses", "broken homes", "sibling 
rivalry", etc., etc., ad infinitum have too long been convenient excuses for vicious and 
irresponsible actions. Anyone who says "we must try to understand" those who make life 
miserable for those undeserving of misery is aiding and abetting a social cancer! The

apologists for these rabid humans deserve any clobberings they get at the hands of their 
charges!

Mad dogs are destroyed, and they need help far more than the human who convenientiy made 
froths at the mouth when irrational behavior is in order! It is easy to say, "So what! - these 
people are insecure, so they can't hurt me." But the fact remains - given the opportunity they 
would destroy you!

Therefore, you have every right to (symbolically) destroy them, and if your curse provokes

their actual annihilation, rejoice that you have been instrumental in ridding the world of a

pest! If your success or happiness disturbs a person - you owe him nothing! He is made to be

trampled under foot! if people had to take the consequences of their own actions, they would think

twice!

LIFE AFTER DEATH 
THROUGH FULFILLMENT 
OF THE EGO

M an is aware that he will die, someday. Other animals, when nearing death, know

they are about to die; but it is not until death is certain that the animal senses his 
corning departure from this world. And even then he does not know exactiy what is 
entailed in dying. It is often pointed out that animals accept death gracefully, without 
fear or resistance. This is a beautiful concept, but one that only holds true in cases 
where death for the animal is unavoidable.

When an animal is sick or injured he will fight for his life with every ounce of strength 
he has left. It is this unshakable will to live that, if man were not so "highly evolved", would 
also give him the fighting spirit he needs to stay alive.

It is a well known fact that many people die simply because they give up and just don't care 
anymore. This is understandable if the person is very ill, with no apparent chance for 
recovery. But this often is not the case. Man has become lazy. He has learned to take the easy 
way out. Even suicide has become less repugnant to many people than any number of other 
sins. Religion is totally to blame for this.

Death, in most religions, is touted as a great spiritual awakening - one which is prepared for 
throughout life. This concept is very appealing to one who has not had a satisfactory life; but 
to those who have experienced all the joys life has to offer, there is a great dread attached to 
dying. This is as it should be. It is this lust for life which will allow the vital person to live on 
after the inevitable death of his fleshly shell.

History shows that men who have given their own lives in pursuit of an ideal have been 
deified for their martyrdom. Religionists and political leaders have been very crafty in laying 
their plans. By holding the martyr up as a shining example to his fellow men, they eliminate 
the common sense reaction that willful self-destruction goes against all animal logic. To the 
Satanist, martyrdom and non- personalized heroism is to be associated not with integrity, but 
with stupidity. This, of course, does not apply to the situations which involve the safety of a 
loved one. But to give one's own life for something as impersonal as a political or religious 
issue is the ultimate in masochism.

Life is the one great indulgence; death the one great abstinence. To a person who is satisfied 
with his earthly existence, life is like a party; and no one likes to leave a good party. By the 
same token, if a person is enjoying himself here on earth he will not so readily give up this 
life for the promise of an afterlife about which he knows nothing.

The Eastern mystical beliefs teach humans to discipline themselves against any conscious will 
for success so they might dissolve themselves into "Universal Cosmic Awareness" - anything 
to avoid good healthy self-satisfaction or honest pride in earthly accomplishments!

It is interesting to note that the areas in which this type of belief flourishes are those where 
material gains are not easily obtainable. For this reason the predominant religious belief must 
be one which commends its followers for their rejection of material things and their avoidance 
of the use of labels which attaches a certain amount of importance to material gains. In this

way the people can be pacified into accepting their lot, no matter how small it may be.

Satanism uses many labels. If it were not for names, very few of us would understand 
anything in life, much less attach any significance to it; - and significance compels 
recognition, which is something everyone wants, especially the Eastern mystic who tries to 
prove to everyone he can meditate longer or stand more deprivation and pain than the next 
fellow.

The Eastern philosophies preach the dissolution of man's ego before he can produce sins. It is 
unfathomable to the Satanist to conceive of an ego which would willfully choose denial of 
itself.

In countries where this is used as a sop for the willingly impoverished, it is understandable 
that a philosophy which teaches the denial of the ego would serve a useful purpose - at least 
for those in power, to whom it would be detrimental if their people were discontented. But for 
anyone who has every opportunity for material gain, to choose this form of religious thought 
seems foolish, indeed!

The Eastern mystic believes strongly in reincarnation. To a person who has virtually nothing 
in this life, the possibility that he may have been a king in a past life or may be one in the next 
life is very attractive, and does much to appease his need for self-respect. If there is nothing in 
which they can take pride in this life, they can console themselves by thinking, "there are 
always future lives." It never occurs to the believer in reincarnation that if his father, 
grandfather, and great-grandfather, etc. had developed "good karmas", by their adherence to 
the same beliefs and ethics as his present ones - then why is he now living in privation, rather 
than like a maharajah?

Belief in reincarnation provides a beautiful fantasy world in which a person can find the 
proper avenue of ego-expression, but at the same time claim to have dissolved his ego. This is 
emphasized by the roles people choose for themselves in their past or future lives.

Believers in reincarnation do not always choose an honorable character. If the person is of a 
highly respectable and conservative nature, he will often choose a colorful rogue or gangster, 
thereby fulfilling his alter- ego. Or, a woman who has much social status may pick a harlot or 
famous courtesan for the characterization of herself in a past life.

If people were able to divorce themselves from the stigma attached to personal ego- 
fulfillment, they would not need to play self- deceitful games such as belief in reincarnation as 
a means of satisfying their natural need for ego -fulfillment.

The Satanist believes in complete gratification of his ego. Satanism, in fact, is the only 
religion which advocates the intensification or encouragement of the ego. Only if a person's 
own ego is sufficiency fulfilled, can he afford to be kind and complimentary to others, 
without robbing himself of his self-respect. We generally think of a braggart as a person with 
a large ego; in reality, his bragging results from a need to satisfy his impoverished ego.

Religionists have kept their followers in line by suppressing their egos. By making their 
followers feel inferior, the awesomeness of their god is insured. Satanism encourages its 
members to develop a good strong ego because it gives them the self-respect necessary for a 
vital existence in this life.

If a person has been vital throughout his life and has fought to the end for his earthly 
existence, it is this ego which will refuse to die, even after the expiration of the flesh which 
housed it. Young children are to be admired for their driving enthusiasm for life. This is 
exemplified by the small child who refuses to go to bed when there is something exciting 
going on, and when once put to bed, will sneak down the stairs to peek through the curtain 
and watch. It is this child- like vitality that will allow the Satanist to peek through the curtain 
of darkness and death and remain earthbound.

Self-sacrifice is not encouraged by the Satanic religion. Therefore, unless death comes as an 
indulgence because of extreme circumstances which make the termination of life a welcome 
relief from the unendurable earthly existence, suicide is frowned upon by the Satanic religion.

Religious martyrs have taken their own lives, not because life was intolerable for them, but to 
use their supreme sacrifice as a tool to further the religious belief. We must assume, then, that 
suicide, if done for the sake of the church, is condoned and even encouraged - even though 
their scriptures label it a sin - because religious martyrs of the past have always been deified.

It is rather curious that the only time suicide is considered sinful by other religions is when it 
comes as an indulgence.

RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS

JSl The highest of all hohdays in the Satanic rehgion is the date of one's own birth. This

^■fe^is in direct contradiction to the holy of holy days of other religions, which deify a 
Jm particular god who has been created in an anthropomorphic form of their own image, 
£ thereby showing that the ego is not really buried.

\ The Satanist feels: "Why not really be honest and if you are going to create a god in 
J your image, why not create that god as yourself." Every man is a god if he chooses to 
recognize himself as one. So, the Satanist celebrates his own birthday as the most 
important holiday of the year. After all, aren't you happier about the fact that you were bom 
than you are about the birth of someone you have never even met? Or for that matter, aside 
from religious hohdays, why pay higher tribute to the birthday of a president or to a date in 
history than we do to the day we were brought into this greatest of all worlds?

Despite the fact that some of us may not have been wanted, or at least were not particularly 
planned, we're glad, even if no one else is, that we're here! You should give yourself a pat on 
the back, buy yourself whatever you want, treat yourself like the king (or god) that you are, 
and generally celebrate your birthday with as much pomp and ceremony as possible.

After one's own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht and Halloween 
(or All Hallows' Eve).

St. Walpurgis - or Walpurga, or Walburga, depending upon the time and area in which one is 
referring to her - was bom in Sussex about the end of the Seventh or the beginning of the 
Eighth Century, and was educated at Winburn, Dorset, where after taking the veil, she 
remained for twenty- five years. She then, at the instance of her uncle, St. Boniface, and her 
brother, St. Wilibald, set out along with some other nuns to found religious houses in 
Germany. Her first settlement was at Bischofsheim in the diocese of Mainz, and two years 
later (754 A.D.) she became abbess of the Benedictine nunnery at Heidenheim, within her 
brother Wilibald's diocese of Eichstadt in Bavaria, where another brother, Winebald, had at 
the same time also been made head of a monastery. On the death of Winebald in 760 she 
succeeded him in his charge, retaining the superintendence of both houses until her death on 
February 25, 779. Her relics were translated to Eichstadt, where she was laid in a hollow rock, 
from which exuded a kind of bituminous oil, afterwards known as Walpurgis oil, regarded as 
having miraculous efficacy against disease. The cave became a place of pilgrimage, and a 
great church was built over the spot. She is commemorated at various times, but principally 
on May 1st, her day taking the place of an earlier Pagan festival. Amazingly enough, all of 
this rigmarole was found necessary simply to condone the continuance of the most important 
Pagan festival of the year - the grand climax of the spring equinox!

The Eve of May has been memorialized as the night that all of the demons, specters, afreets, 
and banshees would come forth and hold their wild revels, symbolizing the fruition of the 
spring equinox.

Halloween - All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Day - falls on October 31st or November 1st. 
Originally, All Hallows' Eve was one of the great fire festivals of Britain at the time of the 
Druids. In Scotland it was associated with the time when the spirits of the dead, the demons, 
witches, and sorcerers were unusually active and propitious. Paradoxically, All Hallows' Eve

was also the night when young people performed magical rituals to determine their future 
marriage partners. The youth of the villages carried on with much merry-making and sensual 
revelry, but the older people took great care to safeguard their homes from the evil spirits, 
witches, and demons who had exceptional power that night.

The solstices and equinoxes are also celebrated as holidays, as they herald the first day of the 
seasons. The difference between a solstice and an equinox is a semantic one defining the 
relationship between the sun, moon, and the fixed stars. The solstice applies to summer and 
winter; the equinox refers to autumn and spring. The summer solstice is in June, and the 
winter solstice is in December. The autumn equinox is in September, and the spring equinox 
is in March. Both the equinoxes and the solstices vary a day or two from year to year, 
depending on the lunar cycle at the time, but usually fall on the 21st or 22nd of the month. 
Five to six weeks after these days the legendary Satanic revels are celebrated.

THE BLACK MASS

N o other single device has been associated with Satanism as much as the black mass.

To say that the most blasphemous of all religious ceremonies is nothing more than a 
literary invention is certainly a statement which needs qualifying - but nothing could 
be truer.

The popular concept of the black mass is thus: a defrocked priest stands before an altar 
consisting of a nude woman, her legs spread-eagled and vagina thrust open, each of her 
outstretched fists grasping a black candle made from the fat of unbaptized babies, and 
a chalice containing the urine of a prostitute (or blood) reposing on her belly. An inverted 
cross hangs above the altar, and triangular hosts of ergot- laden bread or black- stained turnip 
are methodically blessed as the priest dutifully slips them in and out of the altar- lady's labia. 
Then, we are told, an invocation to Satan and various demons is followed by an array of 
prayers and psalms chanted backwards or interspersed with obscenities ... all performed 
within the confines of a "protective" pentagram drawn on the floor. If the Devil appears he is 
invariably in the form of a rather eager man wearing the head of a black goat upon his 
shoulders. Then follows a potpourri of flagellation, prayer-book burning, cunnilingus, fellatio, 
and general hindquarters kissing - all done to a background of ribald recitations from the Holy 
Bible, and audible expectorations on the cross! If a baby can be slaughtered during the ritual, 
so much the better; for as everyone knows, this is the favorite sport of the Satanist!

If this sounds repugnant, then the success of the reports of the black mass, in keeping the 
devout in church, is easy to understand. No "decent" person could fail to side with the 
inquisitors when told of these blasphemies. The propagandists of the church did their job well, 
mforrning the public at one time or another of the heresies and heinous acts of the Pagans, 
Cathars, Bogomils, Templars and others who, because of their dualistic philosophies and 
sometimes Satanic logic, had to be eradicated.

The stories of unbaptized babies being stolen by Satanists for use in the mass were not only 
effective propaganda measures, but also provided a constant source of revenue for the 
Church, in the form of baptism fees. No Christian mother would, upon hearing of these 
diabolical kidnappings, refrain from getting her child properly baptized, post haste.

Another facet of man's nature was apparent in the fact that the writer or artist with lewd 
thoughts could exercise his most obscene predilections in the portrayal of the activities of 
heretics. The censor who views all pornography so that he will know what to warn others of is 
the modem equivalent of the medieval chronicler of the obscene deeds of the Satanists (and, 
of course, their modem journalistic counterparts). It is believed that the most complete library 
of pornography in the world is owned by the Vatican!

The kissing of the Devil's behind during the traditional black mass is easily recognized as the 
forerunner of the modem term used to describe one who will, through appealing to another's 
ego, gain materially from him. As all Satanic ceremonies were performed toward very real or 
material goals, the oscularum infame (or kiss of shame) was considered a symbolic requisite 
towards earthly, rather than spiritual, success.

The usual assumption is that the Satanic ceremony or service is always called a black mass. A 
black mass is not the magical ceremony practiced by Satanists. The Satanist would only

employ the use of a black mass as a form of psychodrama. Furthermore, a black mass does 
not necessarily imply that the performers of such are Satanists. A black mass is essentially a 
parody of the religious service of the Roman Catholic Church, but can be loosely applied to a 
satire on any religious ceremony.

To the Satanist, the black mass, in its blaspheming of orthodox rites, is nothing more than a 
redundancy. The services of all established religions are actually parodies of old rituals 
performed by the worshippers of the earth and the flesh. In attempts to de-sexualize and de- 
humanize the Pagan beliefs, later men of spiritual faith whitewashed the honest meanings 
behind the rituals into the bland euphemisms now considered to be the "true mass". Even if 
the Satanist were to spend each night performing a black mass, he would no more be 
performing a travesty than the devout churchgoer who unwittingly attends his own "black 
mass" - his spoof on the honest and emotionally- sound rites of Pagan antiquity.

Any ceremony considered a black mass must effectively shock and outrage, as this seems to 
be the measure of its success. In the Middle Ages, blaspheming the holy church was shocking. 
Now, however, the Church does not present the awesome image it did during the inquisition. 
The traditional black mass is no longer the outrageous spectacle to the dilettante or renegade 
priest that it once was. If the Satanist wishes to create a ritual to blaspheme an accepted 
institution, for the purpose of psychodrama, he is careful to choose one that is not in vogue to 
parody. Thus, he is truly stepping on a sacred cow.

A black mass, today, would consist of the blaspheming of such "sacred" topics as Eastern 
mysticism, psychiatry, the psychedelic movement, ultra- liberalism, etc. Patriotism would be 
championed, drugs and their gurus would be defiled, acultural militants would be deified, and 
the decadence of ecclesiastical theologies might even be given a Satanic boost.

The Satanic magus has always been the catalyst for the dichotomy necessary in molding 
popular beliefs, and in this case a ceremony in the nature of a black mass may serve a far- 
reaching magical purpose.

In the year 1666, some rather interesting events occurred in France. With the death of 
Francois Mansart, the architect of the trapezoid, whose geometries were to become the 
prototype of the haunted house, the Palace of Versailles was being constructed, in accordance 
with his plans. The last of the glamorous priestesses of Satan, Jeanne -Marie Bouvier 
(Madame Guyon) was to be overshadowed by a shrewd opportunist and callous business- 
woman named Catharine Deshayes, otherwise known as La

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