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Called "The Black Pope" by many of his followers, Anton La Vey 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 halfnaked 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—LaVey shaved his head in the tradition of Ancient executioners and announced the formation of The Church Of Satan. He had seen the need for a church that would recapture 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 . . ."

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One might expect The Satanic Bible at least to offer a few prancing demons or a virgin sacrifice, but if you hopped this train expecting a tour of the house of horrors, you're on the wrong ride. Far from a manual for conquering the realms of earth, air, fire, and water, The Satanic Bible is Anton LaVey's manifesto of a new religion separate from the "traditional" Judeo-Christian definitions of Satanism. While LaVey rails against the deceit of the Christian church and white magicians, he busily weaves his own deceptions.

The Satanic Bible claims the heritage of a horde of evil deities--Bile', Dagon, Moloch, and Yao Tzin to name a few--but these ancient gods have no coherent connection between each other or to Satanism, except that all have been categorized by Christianity as "evil." Calling on these ancient names like a magician shouting, "Abracadabra," LaVey attempts to shatter the classical depiction of Satanism as a cult of black mass and child sacrifice. As the smoke clears, he leads us through a surprisingly logical argument in favor of a life focused on self-indulgence. The Satanic Bible is less bible and more philosophy (with a few rituals thrown in to keep us entertained), but this philosophy is the backbone of a religion that, until LaVey entered the scene, was merely a myth of the Christian church. It took LaVey, and The Satanic Bible, to turn this myth into a legitimate public religion. --Brian Patterson

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Called "The Black Pope" by many of his followers, Anton La Vey 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 halfnaked 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—LaVey shaved his head in the tradition of Ancient executioners and announced the formation of The Church Of Satan. He had seen the need for a church that would recapture 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 . . ."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks; 1st edition (December 1, 1969)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0380015390
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0380015399
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 0.68 x 6.75 inches

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Anton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey; April 11, 1930 - October 29, 1997) was an American author, musician, circus and carnival performer, and occultist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of LaVeyan Satanism. He authored several books including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil's Notebook, and Satan Speaks!. He released three albums, The Satanic Mass, Satan Takes a Holiday, and Strange Music.

LaVey was labelled many things by journalists, religious detractors and Satanists alike, including "The Father of Satanism", the "St. Paul of Satanism", "The Black Pope", and the "evilest man in the world".

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Daniel W.

Forbidden knowledge

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2023

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Alot of forbidden knowledge and hints to higher occult organizations in this book,
don't take this book as the be all and end all of religion; but it is one of the better books out there!
Read this, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Law, into even alchemy and the world tree ciphers!
You have to know what to take as the truth and what to throw out as a lie!
You must become illuminated!

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Tracy Sullivan

Illuminating

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2023

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One of the most powerful and influential texts of the last 100 years. It neuters monotheism. Hail Satan and Hail Thyself

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Ivynosa

Very Good Philosophy for it's Time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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It challenges the narrative of society to feel shame for being human, and offers philosiphies for finding self-love in a society which teaches self-persicution. The audience it addresses is for those raised by religious doctrine who may live in shame and fear, and it's helped me realize I'm only human. I keep this book close and read it frequently to remind myself to be kind and forgiving to myself.

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Anthony Burson

A good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2022

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It's a good book, don't get me wrong, but it's a little too dark for my liking.

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Jeff Marzano

The Dark Side

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This is a short and relatively unsophisticated book. You can read it in a few hours.

Generally speaking the author's views were extremely influenced by his own beliefs and prejudices. He mentions a lot of the common accusations that people direct towards Christianity such as the Catholic Church adulterated the original pagan rituals. He wasn't crazy about the Eastern religions like Buddhism either.

Revenge and sexual gratification were strong and re-occurring themes for Mr. Lavey. He says Satanism is concerned with man's carnal nature and not his spiritual nature. His worldview was sort of animalistic.

For some people the term 'the occult' does not automatically convey something dark. But for Mr. Lavey it did. He states that nobody who ever pursued occult knowledge did so for non selfish reasons. They all had a lust for power according to him. He says there is no difference between white and black magic. Thus he viewed so called 'white' witches with disdain. He may have been correct about the white witches I don't know. Witchcraft is not something I would ever mess around with in any form.

There's statements in this book that are just plain wrong such as reincarnation is not real. The perspective for the entire book is this current life experience. His idea of life after death is we live on by the respect and fear we create in the minds of other people. Concepts like reincarnation and Heaven and Hell do not fit into that narrow philosophical framework. Whether this is what he really believed or if he wanted people to not think about anything outside of their current life I don't know. The idea that someone like this may have intentionally lied to cause people to underestimate the horrific consequences of their choices is a rather ominous suggestion.

Over the many centuries people somehow became aware of the names of certain demons and powerful supernatural entities. He says there's four main Princes Of Hell who are Satan, Lucifer, Belial, and Leviathan. He includes certain mythological figures like Pluto and Thoth in his list of infernal names. But not everyone feels those entities are evil.

The demons can truly be called gods. As far as mortals are concerned they know everything.

Little would I have imagined that in 2011 a group of demons would begin appearing to me and talking to me for a period of several days. Asmodeus and the boys told me many strange things. I got the impression from those experiences that Mr. Lavey was the mythological Prometheus returned. Whether that is really the case I don't know. Prometheus is the Satanic figure in Greek mythology and he was a sort of anti hero for the Greeks.

Indeed Zeus, Poseidon, Prometheus, Osiris, and many of the other mythological figures are very real. Edgar Cayce was I believe Osiris returned. The great Thoth may have been Christ in His Egyptian form. Thoth was the architect of the Great Pyramid and he was a teacher of mathematics and occult sciences.

The rituals described in this book are extremely dangerous and ominous in their implications. Once people start standing around an altar with a nude woman on it and call upon the princes of Hell this is the most serious of issues. Satan is real and he cannot ignore certain types of words that are directed towards him. He must respond.

Most frightening for me is the idea that involvement in these black arts leads to choices which must be followed through to their completion. If someone throws a curse out they should not feel any remorse no matter what happens to the targeted person. If someone puts a lust spell out they must follow through and consummate their relationship with the other person. Failure to follow these warnings will cause the spell to harm the person who casts it. There is no turning back.

Don't underestimate the dangers that can be unleashed by daring to practice these black arts. This is a book about making choices that can cause tragedies without considering the consequences of those choices. Mr. Lavey states there are no consequences. But not everyone agrees. And some know there are consequences but they don't care.

The universe is always listening. Don't forget this.

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As advertised

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Bought this book and received this book.

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Book did not arrive in new condition

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I bought this book “brand new” and it arrived with a creased cover and obvious signs of wear on the cover and pages. The replacement I received was also worn in the cover area and they will not replace it a second time so I am returning both. I have no issue with the book itself it was amazing but I will be taking a star off for the poor condition and failure to replace.

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Audrey

The foundation of modern Satanism

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2022

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A classic religious work and the modern codifier for non-theistic Satanism. I was apprehensive of reading this at first given Lavey's at times fascistic admiration for Social Darwinism and Eugenics but thankfully it is absent here. What we do have is a book filled with deconstruction of the Abrahamic faiths in all it's oppressive nature. A book filled with treatises on self-ownership and self-empowerment. A book that recognizes Satan as the spirit of rebellion, symbol of reason, and lover of worldly pleasures. Highly recommended but do keep a critical eye because there is a good reason the Church of Satan has fallen in membership and in relevance: Much of Lavey's thought and interests laid in elitism or at least the foundation for later elitism.

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JayMadd

Put That Sacrificial Dagger Away And Free The Goats!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 26, 2018

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Okay, so there's a big stigma about what exactly a Satanist is or what a Satanist does. People often fear what they don't understand, so I'll clear this up briefly for all the curious amongst you currently scanning the reviews section: a Satanist does not sacrifice people or animals - those are devil or demon 'worshippers' (and yes, they are very scary people). Okay? Cool!

This book actually attracted me more towards its philosophy than its actual religion and, honestly, it was an incredible read! Religious or not, give this a shot because if you're anything like me (and you enjoy learning about many different things) you will learn a LOT from this. I personally feel more enlightened, centered within myself and more confident after reading this (believe it or not)! And if you're in a metal band, then it's also great for lyrical inspiration.

I personally score this as a solid 10/10 and would love to read more into this type of work!

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Pat Fenus

There's always two sides to every story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 17, 2018

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This book saved my life!
No it didn't stop a bullet, but when I first bought it many years ago I suffering from clinical depression and was feeling suicidal.
This book made me come to terms with life and death and made me realise I'm not alone in the world.
Everyone should read it. It won't be for everyone but you won't know until you give it a read. As the old saying goes. There are two sides to every story.

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You attract some funny looks and reactions from

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A must read! The first book I haven't been able to put down in a long time.

F.Y.I - don't read this while travelling through airports. You attract some funny looks and reactions from people

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Snaggletooth

Hail Satan!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 28, 2019

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Was it just me, or is this book hilarious at times? It's like it was written by Ricky Gervais 50yrs ago and honestly that's not a put down in the slightest. Stuff like not turning the other cheek if someone hits you, just "smash them in the head" instead. Ive been an Atheist for years and to be honest I totally avoided anything to do with Satanism as I believed Satanists to be just as bonkers as Christians (in believing supernatural hogwash). Turns out though, I was wrong. This little book was a joy to read and it's form of Satanism really rang a (Hells) bell for me. Hail Satan!

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Sez86

Very interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 22, 2019

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I was interested in finding out more about this religion after seeing their tweets owning numpties. This was a very interesting read and throws up some interesting ideas. Do not be fooled, this is not about worshiping evil, it is more about accepting that humans are animals with insticts that should be celebrated.

However, I am a life-long non-believer of any spiritual things so was not converted. I will definitely read again though.

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