The Satanic Bible: Central Religious Text of LaVeyan Satanism

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For LaVey, the human being was explicitly viewed as an animal, [62] who thus has no purpose other than survival of the fittest, and who therefore exists in an amoral context. The Church of Satan became increasingly doctrinally-rigid and focused on maintaining the purity of LaVeyan Satanism. Karen Ralls, author of the Knights Templar Encyclopedia, argues that it is significant that "no specific evidence [of Baphomet] appears in either the Templar Rule or in other medieval period Templar documents. Raynouard, and "supposed that the Templars had a secret doctrine and initiations of several grades", which "the Saracens had communicated. Baphomet signifies Βαφη Μητεος, baptism of Metis, baptism of fire, [46] or the Gnostic baptism, an enlightening of the mind, which, however, was interpreted by the Ophites, in an obscene sense, as fleshly union.

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At the same time, Lévi polemicized against famed Catholic authors such as Jules-Eudes de Mirville and Roger Gougenot des Mousseaux, who regarded magnetism as the workings of demons and other infernal powers. LaVeyan groups also cropped up elsewhere in the world, with a particular concentration in Scandinavia; most of these Scandinavian groups either split from the Church of Satan or never affiliated with it. In designing these rituals, LaVey drew upon a variety of older sources, with scholar of Satanism Per Faxneld noting that LaVey "assembled rituals from a hodgepodge of historical sources, literary as well as esoteric".Characterising LaVey as a Nietzschean, the religious studies scholar Asbjørn Dyrendal nevertheless thought that LaVey's "personal synthesis seems decidedly his own creation, even though the different ingredients going into it are at times very visible. In February 1967, LaVey held a much publicized Satanic wedding, which was followed by the Satanic baptism of his daughter Zeena in May, and then a Satanic funeral in December. Its early members were the attendees of LaVey's Magic Circle, although it soon began attracting new recruits.

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It was performed by LaVey at the request of Olsen's wife, complete with a chrome-helmeted honor guard.The flame of intelligence shining between his horns is the magic light of the universal balance, the image of the soul elevated above matter, as the flame, whilst being tied to matter, shines above it. LaVey played up to his Satanic associations by growing a pointed beard and wearing a black cloak and inverted pentagram. These rites are based on three major psycho-emotive themes: compassion ( love), destruction (hate), and sex (lust). Such neutrality correlates with LaVey's philosophical view of an impersonal, and therefore amoral, universe.