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The Satanic Bible Anton Szandor LaVey
INTRODUCTION by Burton H. Wolfe
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
THE NINE SATANIC STATEMENTS
(FIRE) --BOOK OF SATAN-- The Infernal Diatribe [I] [II] [III] [IV] [V]
(AIR) --BOOK OF LUCIFER-- The Enlightenment
Wanted!: God - Dead or Alive The God You SAVE May Be Yourself Some Evidence of
a New Satanic Age Hell, the Devil, and How to Sell Your Soul Love and Hate
Satanic Sex Not all Vampires Suck Blood Indulgence... NOT Compulsion On the
Choice of a Human Sacrifice Life After Death Through Fulfillment of the Ego
Religious Holidays The Black Mass
(EARTH) --BOOK OF BELIAL-- The Mastery of the Earth
Theory and Practice of Satanic Magic: (Definition and Purpose of Lesser and
Greater Magic) The Three Types of Satanic Ritual The Ritual, or "Intellectual
Decompression", Chamber The Ingredients Used in the Performance of Satanic
Magic: Desire Timing Imagery Direction The Balance Factor The Satanic
Ritual: Some Notes Which are to be Observed Before Beginning Ritual The
Thirteen Steps Devices Used in Satanic Ritual
(WATER) --BOOK OF LEVIATHAN-- The Raging Sea
Invocation to Satan The Infernal Names Invocation Employed Towards the
Conjuration of Lust Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Destruction
Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Compassion The Enochian Keys and
The Enochian Language (The nineteen Keys will be listed here in chronological
order.) The First Key [ENOCHIAN || ENGLISH] The Second Key [ENOCHIAN ||
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[ENOCHIAN || ENGLISH] The Seventeenth Key [ENOCHIAN || ENGLISH] The Eighteenth
Key [ENOCHIAN || ENGLISH] The Nineteenth Key [ENOCHIAN || ENGLISH] AFTERWORD
by "The Webmaster"
INTRODUCTION Burton H. Wolfe* On a winter's evening in 1967, I drove crosstown
in San Fransisco 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 I
intended to do some serious research instead of adding to the accumulation of
hack articles dealing with the Church of Satan as a new type of freak show. I
boned up on Satanism, discussed its history and rationale with LaVey, and
attended some midnight rituals in the famous Victorian manse once used as Church
of Satan headquarters. Out of all that I produced a serious article, only to
find that was not what the publishers of "respectable" magazines wanted. They
were interested 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 Pryamid 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 inhereted 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
Fransisco 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
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
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 evaneglists 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 Fransisco. That led to his first conformist job, photographer for
the San Fransisco 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 descibed 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 - LaVey ritualistically shaved his head in
accordance with magical tradition and announced the formation of the Church of
Satan. For proper identification as its minister, he put on the clerical collar.
Up to that collar he looked almost holy. But his Genghis 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 inhibitations
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 phenominal. By 1967 the
newspapers that were sending reporters to write about the Church of Satan
extended from San Fransisco 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-growm 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 spacial concepts in what he terms "The Law
of the Trapezoid". (He scoffs at current faddists who are "barking up the wrong
pyramids".) He was also becoming widely sought as speaker, guest on radio and
television programs, and production and/or technical adviser to scores of
television producers and moviemakers turning out Satanic chillers. Sometimes he
was also an actor. As sociologist Clinton R. Sanders points out: "...no
occultist has had as direct an impact upon 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 throwm 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 FRANSISCO December 25, 1976 (XI Anno Satanas)
PREFACE This book was written because, with very few exceptions, every tract and
paper, every "secret" grimoire, all the "great works" on the subject of magic,
are nothing more than sanctimonious fraud - guilt-ridden ramblings and esoteric
gibberish by chroniclers of magical lore unable or unwilling to present an
objective view of the subject. Writer after writer, in efforts to state the
principles of "white and black magic", has succeeded instead in clouding the
entire issue so badly that the would-be student of sorcery winds up stupidly
pushing a planchette over a Ouija board, standing inside a pentagram waiting for
a demon to present itself, limply tossing I-Ching yarrow stalks like so many
stale pretzels, shuffling pasteboards to foretell a future which has lost any
meaning, attending seminars guaranteed to flatten his ego - while doing the same
to his wallet - and in general making a blithering fool of himself in the eyes
of those who know!
The true magus knows that occult bookshelves abound with the brittle relics of
frightened minds and sterile bodies, metaphysical journals of self-deceit, and
constipated rule-books of Eastern mysticism. Far too long has the subject of
Satanic magic and philosophy been written down by wild-eyed journalists of the
right-hand path.
The old literature is the by-product of brains festering with fear and defeat,
written unknowingly for the assistance of those who really rule the earth, and
who, from their Hellish thrones, laugh with noisome mirth.
The flames of Hell burn brighter for the kindling supplied by these volumes of
hoary misinformation and false prophecy.
Herein you will find truth - and fantasy. Each is necessary for the other to
exist; but each must be recognized for what it is. What you see may not always
please you; but you will see!
Here is Satanic thought from a truly Satanic point of view.
The Church of Satan San Fransisco, Walpurgisnacht 1968
PROLOGUE The gods of the right-hand path have bickered and quarreled for an
entire age of earth. Each of these deities and their respective priests and
ministers have attempted to find wisdom in their own lies. The ice age of
religious thought can last but a limited time in this great scheme of human
existence. The gods of wisdom-defiled have had their saga, and their millennium
hath become as reality. Each, with his own "divine" path to paradise, 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 burn fierce . . . and purify!
Read on and learn the Law.
THE BOOK OF SATAN
I
1. In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may
hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show
a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong! 2. Open your
eyes that you may see, Oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered
millions! 3. For I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to
interrogate the "laws" of man and of "God"! 4. I request 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 stern
invasion the standard of the strong! 10. I gaze into the glassy eye of your
fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split
open his worm-eaten skull! 11. I blast out the ghastly contents of
philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath!
THE BOOK OF SATAN
II Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a
tree. 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! Gather around me, Oh! ye
death-defiant, and the earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold! Too
long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought! Too long
right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets! 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! He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of
great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all
unwisdom. 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! As environments change, no human
ideal standeth sure! Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne,
let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for under the domination of
an inconvenient falsehood, no one can prosper. Let established sophisms be
dethroned, rooted out, burnt and destroyed, for they are a standing menace to
all true nobility of thought and action! 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! The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the
holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie - the lie everyone believes to be a
model truth. It is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and
delusions. It is a hydra-headed tree of unreason with a thousand roots. It is a
social cancer! The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the
lie that even intelligent persons accept as fact - the lie that has been
inculcated in a little child at its mother's knee - is more dangerous to contend
against than a creeping pestilence! Popular lies have ever been the most potent
enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut them
out, to the very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch.
Annihilate them, or they will us!
THE BOOK OF SATAN
II Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a
tree. 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! Gather around me, Oh! ye
death-defiant, and the earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold! Too
long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought! Too long
right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets! 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! He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of
great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all
unwisdom. 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! As environments change, no human
ideal standeth sure! Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne,
let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for under the domination of
an inconvenient falsehood, no one can prosper. Let established sophisms be
dethroned, rooted out, burnt and destroyed, for they are a standing menace to
all true nobility of thought and action! 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! The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the
holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie - the lie everyone believes to be a
model truth. It is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and
delusions. It is a hydra-headed tree of unreason with a thousand roots. It is a
social cancer! The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the
lie that even intelligent persons accept as fact - the lie that has been
inculcated in a little child at its mother's knee - is more dangerous to contend
against than a creeping pestilence! Popular lies have ever been the most potent
enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut them
out, to the very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch.
Annihilate them, or they will us!
THE BOOK OF SATAN
II Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a
tree. 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! Gather around me, Oh! ye
death-defiant, and the earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold! Too
long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought! Too long
right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets! 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! He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of
great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all
unwisdom. 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! As environments change, no human
ideal standeth sure! Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne,
let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for under the domination of
an inconvenient falsehood, no one can prosper. Let established sophisms be
dethroned, rooted out, burnt and destroyed, for they are a standing menace to
all true nobility of thought and action! 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! The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the
holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie - the lie everyone believes to be a
model truth. It is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and
delusions. It is a hydra-headed tree of unreason with a thousand roots. It is a
social cancer! The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the
lie that even intelligent persons accept as fact - the lie that has been
inculcated in a little child at its mother's knee - is more dangerous to contend
against than a creeping pestilence! Popular lies have ever been the most potent
enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut them
out, to the very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch.
Annihilate them, or they will us!
THE BOOK OF SATAN
III "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?
Is it natural for enemies to do good unto each other - and WHAT IS GOOD? Can
the torn and bloody victim "love" the blood-splashed jaws that rend him limb
from limb? Are we not all predatory animals by instinct? If humans ceased
wholly from preying upon each other, could they continue to exist? 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? 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? 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! He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog! 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
IV Life is the great indulgence - death, the great abstinence. Therefore, make
the most of life - HERE AND NOW! 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! Say unto thine own heart, "I am mine own redeemer."
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. Then all thy
bones shall say pridefully, "Who is like unto me? Have I not been too strong for
mine adversaries? Have I not delivered MYSELF by mine own brain and body?"
THE BOOK OF SATAN
V Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth - Cursed are the
weak, for they shall inherit the yoke! Blessed are the powerful, for they shall
be reverenced among men - Cursed are the feeble, for they shall be blotted out!
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! Blessed are
the victorious, for victory is the basis of right - Cursed are the vanquished,
for they shall be vassals forever! Blessed are the iron-handed, for the unfit
shall flee before them - Cursed are the poor in spirit, for they shall be spat
upon! 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! Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are
the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!
Blessed are the valiant, for they shall obtain great treasure - Cursed are the
believers in good and evil, for they are frightened by shadows! 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! 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! 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! Thrice cursed are the weak whose insecurity
makes them vile, for they shall serve and suffer! The angel of self-deceit is
camped in the souls of the "righteous" - The eternal flame of power through joy
dwelleth within the flesh of the Satanist!
(AIR)
THE BOOK OF LUCIFER
THE ENLIGHTENMENT The Roman god, Lucifer, was the bearer of light, the spirit of
the air, the personification of enlightenment. In Christian mythology he became
synonymous with evil, which was only to have been expected from a religion whose
very existence is perpetuated by clouded definitions and bogus values! It is
time to set the record straight. False moralisms and occult inaccuracies must be
corrected. Entertaining as they might be, most stories and plays about Devil
worship must be recognized as the obsolete absurdities they are. It has been
said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free.
It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation. Without the wonderful
element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut,
impervious to the most strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifers. How
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!
- W A N T E D ! - GOD DEAD OR ALIVE IT is a popular misconception that the
Satanist does not believe in God. The concept of "God", as interpreted by man,
has been so varied throughout the ages, that the Satanist simply accepts the
definition which suits him best. Man has always created his gods, rather than
his gods creating him. God is, to some, benign - to others, terrifying. To the
Satanist "God" - by whatever name he is called, or by no name at all - is seen
as the balancing factor in nature, and not as being concerned with suffering.
This powerful force which permeates and balances the universe is far too
impersonal to care about the happiness or misery of flesh-and-blood creatures on
this ball of dirt upon which we live.
Anyone who thinks of Satan as evil should consider all the men, women, children,
and animals who have died because it was "God's will". Certainly a person
grieving the untimely loss of a loved one whould much rather have their loved
one with them than in God's hands! Instead, they are unctuously consoled by
their clergyman who says, "It was God's will, my dear"; or "He is in God's hands
now, my son." Such phrases have been a convenient way for religionists to
condone or excuse the mercilessness of God. But if God is in complete control
and as benign as he is supposed to be, why does He allow these things to happen?
Too long have religionists been falling back on their bibles and rulebooks to
prove or disprove, justify, condemn, or interpret.
The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is
responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that
someone cares. No longer will we sit back and accept "fate" without doing
anything about it, just because it says so in Chapter such and such, Psalm so
and so - and that's that! The Satanist knows that praying does absolutely no
good - in fact, it actually lessens the chance of success, for the devoutly
religious too often sit back complacently and pray for a situation which, if
they were to do something about it on their own, could be accomplished much
quicker!
The Satanist shuns terms such as "hope" and "prayer" as they are indicative of
apprehension. If we hope and pray for something to come about, we will not act
in a positive way which will make it happen. The Satanist, realizing that
anything he gets is of his own doing, takes command of the situation instead of
praying to God for it to happen. Positive thinking and positive action add up to
results.
Just as the Satanist does not pray to God for assistance, he does not pray for
forgiveness for his wrong 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 honestly sorry about
what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no
business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place. But this is
exactly what happens. People confess their sins so that they can clear their
consciences - and be free to go out and sin again, usually the same sin.
There are many diferent interpretations of God, in the usual sense of the word,
as there are types of people. The images run from a belief in a god who is some
vague sort of "universal cosmic mind" to an anthropomorphic deity with a long
white beard and sandals who keeps track of every action of each individual.
Even within the confines of a given religion, the personal interpretations of
God differ greatly. Some religions actually go so far as to label anyone who
belongs to a religious sect other than their own a heretic, even though the
overall doctrines and impressions of godliness are nearly the same. For example:
The Catholics believe that the Protestants are doomed to Hell simply because
they do not belong to the Catholic Church. In the same way, many splinter groups
of the Christian faith, such as the evangelical or revivalist churches, believe
that the Catholics are heathens who worship graven images. (Christ is depicted
in the image that is most psychologically akin to the individual worshipping
him, and yet the Chrisitans 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! THE GOD YOU SAVE MAY BE YOURSELF ALL 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, 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 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 cacklings and
carpings of the righteous, or stands proudly in his secret places of the earth
and manipulates the folly-ridden masses through his own Satanic might, until
that day when he may come forth in splendor proclaiming "I AM A SATANIST! BOW
DOWN, FOR I AM THE HIGHEST EMBODIMENT OF HUMAN LIFE!" SOME EVIDENCE OF A NEW
SATANIC AGE THE seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride,
envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of
these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.
A Satanist knows there is nothing wrong with being greedy, as it only means that
he wants more than he already has. Envy means to look with favor upon the
possessions of others, and to be desirous of obtaining similar things for
oneself. Envy and greed are the motivating forces of ambition - and without
ambition, very little of any importance would be accomplished.
Gluttony is simply eating more than you need to keep yourself alive. When you
have overeaten to the point of obesity, another sin - pride - will motivate you
to regain an appearance that will renew your self-respect.
Anyone who buys an article of clothing for a purpose other than covering his
body and protecting it from the elements is guilty of pride. Satanists often
encounter scoffers who maintain that labels are not necessary. It must be
pointed out to these destroyers of labels that one or many articles they
themselves are wearing are not 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
lie in bed long enough you may find yourself commiting 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
all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.
"Times have changed. Religious leaders no longer preach that all our natural
actions are sinful. We no longer think sex is dirty - or that taking pride in
ourselves is shameful - or that wanting something someone else has is vicious."
Of course not, times have changed! "If you want proof of this, just look at how
liberal 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
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