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Satanism is the belief of a person being his or her own God and having the qualities of Satan as a non-entity.

History

Satanism was first created as a religion on the night of April 30th and the early morning of May 1st, 1966, on the Spring Equinox (Walpurgisnacht). The creator, Anton Szandor LaVey, created Satanism and also started the official Church of Satan. The Church of Satan was in San Francisco, California (the living place of LaVey), but has since moved. LaVey died on August 29th, 1997, and the next High Priest, Peter H. Gilmore, took his place. Gilmore moved the Church of Satan headquarters to Hell’s Kitchen in New York City, New York.

Core Beliefs

Satanism is the belief that one’s own self is a God to his or her own life. Satanists are Atheists who believe in no supernatural God or any metaphysical beings.

On another note, Satanism comes from the word Satan in Hebrew, “adversary”. It is through this belief that Satanists believe that they are the adversaries of all religions and beliefs. Satanists in no way worship the devil or any entity of similarity to Satan or demons.

Satanism encourages that humans are meant to act like indulgent beings and adversarial tendencies. Satanists believe in many morals and values:

  • ”Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
  • The Seven Deadly Sins (Lust, Anger, Greed, Pride, Sloth, Envy, and Gluttony)
  • Indulgence over Abstinence
  • Kindness and respect to those who deserve it
  • To doubt everything until proven accurately and within logic and reason of human nature
  • Do not hurt any animals unless for food or for protection

It is with these rules that Satanists conduct themselves accordingly.

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!


The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth

1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.

2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.

3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.

4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.

6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.

7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.

8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself. 9. Do not harm little children.

10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.

11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

The Nine Satanic Sins

1. Stupidity

2. Pretentiousness

3. Solipsism

4. Self-deceit

5. Herd Conformity

6. Lack of Perspective

7. Forgetfulness of Past Orthodoxies

8. Counterproductive Pride

9. Lack of Aesthetics

Concerning Minors

Although they are not restricted from practicing Satanism, it is impossible to join the Church of Satan as a minor. Pastors and preachers have in the past said Satanism is the capturing of young children. This is not true considering young children are not permitted.

Concerning Branch-Off Satanists

There are many fake organizations that are split into three groups of Satanism. Theistic Satanists who follow the Devil as an entity, copy-cat Satanists who claim to be the real form of the Church of Satan, and Satanic Cults.

Theistic Satanist organizations such as the Temple of Set, Demonolatry, and Diabolists consider the Devil to be a real being and a God. They are known as Christian Satanists because they believe in the Christian God and the man called Jesus, but they worship the other side of the same belief.

Copy-cat Satanists are organizations like the Satanic Church and the First Church of Satan who have the same basis of the Church of Satan, but have come after the creation of the Church of Satan, claiming to be the true followers of LaVey and their individual selves.

Satanic Cults are those little clubs you hear about on the TV that include a gathering of teens performing ancient magick with black candles and tortured animals. They are not Satanists, but merely teenagers and mindless adults who make Satanism their own violent mind-set of mentality to enrage and rebel against the masses.

Magic

Satanists practice a form of magic. There is Greater Magic and Lesser Magic.

Lesser Magic is the practice of three simple rituals; the destruction ritual, the lust ritual, and the compassion ritual. These rituals are the basis of the magic and are meant as partial psycho-dramas.

Greater Magic is classified as Ritual and Ceremonial. Ritual magic is actual magic and power of the being themselves affecting others around them. Ceremonial magic is merely an act or a drama/theatre show on past monarchies and beliefs.

Books

There are few books that can describe Satanism.

  • The Satanic Bible
  • The Satanic Rituals
  • The Satanic Witch
  • The Devil’s Notebook
  • Satan Speaks

All of these were written by LaVey.

  • The Satanic Scriptures

The S.S. was written by Gilmore as still has yet to come out.

Sources

-The Satanic Bible written by Anton Szandor LaVey

-www.churchofsatan.com

-The Satanic Rituals written by Anton Szandor LaVey

-www.satanism101.com

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