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The Satanic Temple

2025-05-11T03:36:26Z

Maestro grandeur: adding latest ACLU Iowa case but case# still unknown

* The [[United Federation of Churches, LLC]] does business as "The Satanic Temple", and owns its trademarks. It was originally registered in 2014. Its governing persons are jointly [[Cevin Soling]] and [[Douglas Misicko]], as well as their pseudonyms. It is a for-profit Limited Liability Company.
* [[The Satanic Temple Inc]] achieved Public Charity Status in 2019 as "a church or a convention or association of churches." It was originally registered in 2017 as "The Satanic Temple" before changing to its current name following the change in its federal tax status. Its governing board consists of Misicko, solely.

Both entities have been involved in a number of [[lawsuits]] under the name "The Satanic Temple", including "Inc" taking over some recent appeals of cases begun by "UFC LLC". In addition, TST members have been involved in religious discrimination arguments when representing themselves or when represented by the ACLU.

=Lawsuits=
==Nonprofit Church Lawsuits==
The Satanic Temple Inc. became the primary legal entity used for in suits involving "The Satanic Temple" beginning in 2019; this followed IRS recognition of the entity as a nonprofit church. The shift would include at one instance of taking over case begun by United Federation of Churches LLC. However, a point of contention in [[Cave et al v. Thurston]] between TST and the state of Arkansas has been which entity has actually officially involved in that case, begun in May 2018.

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | The Satanic Temple Inc. Cases
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
!style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Public Monuments
|04/22/2025
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston ("Boston flag")
|US District Court of Massachusetts - Boston
|[http://courtlistener.com/docket/69911722/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:25-cv-11024]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
|
|
|Suit targeting city of Boston for not flying TST flag and demanding Jan. 14 be declared "Satanic Appreciation Day".<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69911722/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ CourtListener.com], ''The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston'', Complaint — Document #1.</ref><ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2025/satanists-run-another-boston-lawsuit-flagpole UniversalHub.com], "Satanists run another Boston lawsuit up the flagpole", April 22, 2025.</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
|5/03/2023
|[[The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago]]
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/?order_by=desc 1:23-cv-02780]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
|
|
|''Suit targeting the city of Chicago for failure to invite TST minister Adam Vavrick to give invocation.<ref>[https://www.courthousenews.com/satanic-temple-sues-chicago CourthouseNews.com], "Satanic Temple sues Chicago", May 3, 2023. ''The Satanic Temple sued the city of Chicago in federal court Wednesday over its refusal to allow an ordained minister of the Satanic Temple to deliver an invocation before City Council meetings “without providing any clear explanation of why.” The Establishment Clause requires that the opportunity to deliver a legislative prayer be made available “in a non-discriminatory manner,” according to the lawsuit.''</ref>Suit voluntarily dismissed with prejudice July 24,2024, after plaintiff Vavrick announced his departure from TST's Ministry program July 8.<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/36/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/ CourtListener.com], ''Civil case dismissed with prejudice - Document #36'', The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago (1:23-cv-02780), Northern District of Illinois.</ref><ref>[https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=726422036 Facebook.com], Facebook update by Adam Vavrick July 8, 2024: "Left Job at Satanic Ministry - Minister of Satan"</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Defamation
|11/23/2022
|[[Satanic Temple, Inc v. Jessica Snow]]
|261st Civil District Court (Travis County, Texas)
|[https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/app/RegisterOfActions/#/B6CCF0E9F718EE227EE4C550504C3D86C158247E2E208022B462965B12347FD0101CD04A60AF9128B5D056B2BE3B4DE66B4FA22B17CC2BF0D2D0C538F868656117FF6C86F26AEA7998297F12FCC8F50B/anon/portalembed D-1-GN-22-006797]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |No Movement
|
|
|''Suit targeting "The Satanic Housewife" for TikTok videos.<ref>[https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/78/D-1-GN-22-006797_-_Plaintiff%27s_Original_Petition_w_Ex_76AC6EC7_-_2022-11-23.pdf TST complaint] filed Nov. 23, 2022</ref><ref>SatanicEurope.Wordpress.com, [https://sataniceurope.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/the-freedom-to-offend/ analysis] and [https://sataniceurope.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/the-satanic-housewife/ interview with defendant].</ref><ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-housewife-videos-and-legal-threat-by-the-satanic-temple/ QueerSatanic.com], ''“The Satanic Housewife” videos and legal threat by The Satanic Temple''</ref> No docket activity since complaint filed in November 2022. ''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Abortion
|9/30/2022
|[[The Satanic Temple v. Little]]
|US District Court for the District of Idaho
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392308/the-satanic-temple-v-little/ 1:22-cv-00411]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69009053/the-satanic-temple-v-labrador-et-al/ CourtListener.com], ''The Satanic Temple v. Labrador, et al.'' (24-1243), in United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; case opened March 1, 2024.</ref>
|
|''Idaho abortion ban challenge. Complaint largely identical to The Satanic Temple v. Rokita (22-1859) except for references to Idaho instead of Indiana.''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Abortion
| 9/21/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple v. Rokita]]
| US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/the-satanic-temple-v-holcomb/ 1:22-cv-01859]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/66/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-rokita/ CourtListener.com], ''Order on Motion for Leave to File AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim — Document #66'', District Court, S.D. Indiana</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68071163/satanic-temple-inc-v-todd-rokita/ CourtListener.com], ''Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Todd Rokita (23-3247)'', Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit</ref>
|
| ''Indiana abortion ban challenge but involving no specific pregnant client. TST represented by [[W. James MacNaughton]].''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
| 9/08/2022
| [[Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human Svc]]
| US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66693942/satanic-temple-v-tx-hlth-and-human-svc/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 22-20459]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Failed motion
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66693942/69/1/satanic-temple-v-tx-hlth-and-human/ CourtListener.com], ''Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human, Published Opinion — Document #69, Attachment #1, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit''</ref>
|
| ''Originating from U.S. District Court case 4:21-CV-387 ("[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. et al v. Hellerstedt et al|Ann Doe I]]")''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
| 6/06/2022
| [[Matthew Kezhaya v. City of Belle Plaine]]<ref>Matthew Kezhaya is listed as "Movant - Appellant" with "The Satanic Temple Inc." as Plaintiff and renamed after case was initially mistakenly captioned</ref>
| US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806046/matthew-kezhaya-v-city-of-belle-plaine/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 22-2183]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Sanctions imposed
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806046/804826251/1/matthew-kezhaya-v-city-of-belle-plaine/ CourtListener.com], ''Attorney Matthew Kezhaya appeals an order of the district court* sanctioning him and his co-counsel under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. We conclude that there was no abuse of discretion, and therefore affirm the order.''</ref>
|
|''TST lawyer [[Matthew Kezhaya]]'s failed appeal of sanctions in the amount of $16,943.40 from [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc#entry-58 0:21-cv-00336-WMW] ("Satanic Temple I")''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Commerce
| 2/25/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation]] ("Lamar II")
| US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 5:22-cv-05033]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Dismissed (unclear)
|
|
|''TST Inc. withdrew from a previous state-level lawsuit in February 2021. August 2023 dismissal in context that "parties have resolved all issues between them".''<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/79/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation, Stipulation — Document #79</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Defamation
| 2/16/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC]]
| US District Court for the Southern District of New York
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ 1:22-cv-01343]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/27/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com] The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Memorandum & Opinion — Document #27</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/134/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Memorandum & Opinion — Document #134</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/136/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Notice of Appeal — Document #136</ref>
|
| ''Lawsuit relates to Newsweek's coverage of [[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al|UFC LLC v. Johnson et al]]''<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-accusations-lawsuit-1644042 Newsweek.com], ''Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit'' by Julia Duin, Oct. 29, 2021</ref><ref>[https://queersatanic.com/footnotes-to-newsweeks-orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-by-accusations-lawsuit/ QueerSatanic.com], ''Footnotes to Newsweek’s “Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit”'' by @QueerSatanic, Nov. 4, 2021</ref> ''All claims dismissed.''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Abortion
| 2/1/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al]] ("Ann Doe II")
| 459th Civil District Court (Travis County, Texas)
| [https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/app/RegisterOfActions/#/EB351E1BD0C0C3335AD50A4075095FD7922A6CB13590D6A71A54E3ED5014C5018B9423851665908716918A3069A1B837ECF77F0AF5C8E3C79DBCC144E03437E47C0596704C203B87C161CDB380DF7AEE/anon/portalembed D-1-GN-22-000560]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |No Movement
|
|
|''State-level filing distinct from "Ann Doe I" filed the year before in federal court. No docket activity since attorney vacation notification in June 2022''

|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Abortion
| 2/5/2021
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. et al v. Hellerstedt et al]] ("Ann Doe I")
| US District Court for the Southern District of Texas
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ 4:21-cv-00387]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/67/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Hellerstedt, Order — Document #67</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601012/18/satanic-temple-v-young/ CourtListener.com], Satanic Temple v. Young (23-20329) in Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, filed July 10, 2023</ref>
|
|''District court case fully dismissed July 3, 2023.<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/67/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss, July 3, 2023, without leave to replead.</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/68/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], Final Judgment, July 3, 2023</ref>, appellate case dismissed because TST "desire to avail themselves of the right to replead"<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601012/18/satanic-temple-v-young/ CourtListener.com</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public monuments
| 2/4/2021
|[[Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of| Satanic Temple, Inc v. Belle Plaine, City of]] ("Satanic Temple II")
| US District Court for the District of Minnesota
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/43/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ CourtListener.com], ''Defendant’s motion for sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336, (Dkt. 17), is GRANTED.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)
<ref name="Belle Plaine appeal">[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66651784/the-satanic-temple-v-city-of-belle-plaine/ 0:21-cv-03079], Case filed: Sept. 16, 2021, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals for original case [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122] ("Satanic Temple I"), consolidated with with [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806077/the-satanic-temple-v-city-of-belle-plaine/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 0:21-cv-03081], appealing original case [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336] ("Satanic Temple II")</ref>
|
|''Duplicative lawsuit. Judge sanctioned TST for filing second suit before first was complete''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
| 1/20/2021
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston]] ("Boston Invocation")
|US District Court of Massachusetts - Boston
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ 1:21-cv-10102]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2023/judge-rules-boston-city-council-doesnt-have-let UniversalHub.com], ''Judge rules Boston City Council doesn't have to let Satanists give an invocation if it doesn't want to'', July 31, 2023</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67667225/satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc CourtListener.com], Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston (23-1642), Court of Appeals for the First Circuit</ref>
|
|''TST lawyer Matthew Kezhaya sanctioned for actions related to attempt to depose then-mayoral candidate Michelle Wu on Election Day.<ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2022/federal-judge-satanists-who-tried-force-michelle UniversalHub.com], ''Federal judge to Satanists and their lawyer, who tried to force Michelle Wu to spend Election Day answering their questions: Hell, no'', April 6, 2022</ref> First circuit affirms lower court ruling dismissing TST lawsuit, including protective order.<ref>[https://ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servlet/TransportRoom?servlet=ShowDoc&pacer=i&caseId=50578&dls_id=00108175549 USCourts.Gov], We hold that TST has not shown that Boston's legislative prayer practice, either on its face or as applied, violates the Establishment Clause or the Massachusetts Free Exercise Clause. Further, the district court did not abuse its discretion by issuing a protective order preventing TST from deposing Mayor Wu. We affirm entry of judgment for Boston.</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Commerce
| 9/27/2020
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC]] ("Lamar I")
|19th West Circuit Court 5 (Benton County, Ark.)
|[https://caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=C&case_id=04CV-20-2100&begin_date=&end_date= 04CV-20-2100]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Terminated (unclear)
<ref>[https://caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=C&case_id=04CV-20-2100&begin_date=&end_date= 04CV-20-2100] - Case Filed: Sep. 27, 2020; [https://web.archive.org/web/20210520054832/https://contexte.aoc.arkansas.gov/imaging/IMAGES/DMS/CK_Image.Present2?DMS_ID=C1520BBC8A01E75D790FB8CBD91388441378F38F4E9F2CA99747DFB43A95B8CBA9AD539D7BA6940D86B479E061824217D0BB406894028B58F7DF3AA8BF973CBD&i_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontexte.aoc.arkansas.gov%2Fimaging%2FIMAGES%2FDMS Terminated]: Feb 26, 2021 via [https://casetext.com/rule/arkansas-court-rules/arkansas-rules-of-civil-procedure/rule-41-dismissal-of-actions#:~:text=Rule%2041%20%2D%20Dismissal%20of%20Actions%20(a)Voluntary%20Dismissal%3B,trial%20is%20by%20the%20court. voluntary dismissal (without prejudice)]</ref><ref>[https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/the-satanic-temple-bought-11971116 Dallas Observer], "Satanists Posted a Dallas Billboard Advocating for Reproductive Rights: 'Abortions Save Lives!'" Dec. 22, 2020, ''In September, TST sued Lamar Advertising Co. for religious discrimination because it had refused to post the religious organization’s designs. The advertising giant denies the temple’s initial allegations, according to a TST press release. Although Goodwin can’t comment on the active lawsuit, she said TST ultimately struck a deal with billboard company Clear Channel Outdoor.''</ref>
|
|
|''TST Inc. withdrew lawsuit but no terms available, if any''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
| 3/2/2020
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. City of Scottsdale]]
|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59746236/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-scottsdale/ 20-15338]
! -
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fO3ojPSA7I Video of Oral Arguments to 20-15338 The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Scottsdale]</ref><ref>[https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/19/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-satanist-invocation-in-scottsdale-az/ Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Blocking Satanist Invocation in Scottsdale (AZ)], by Hemant Mehta for Friendly Atheist</ref><ref>[https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2021/05/19/20-15338.pdf United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision] upholding lower court ruling</ref>
|
|''Case begun by [[United Federation of Churches, LLC|UFC LLC]]''<ref>Court of Appeals Docket #20-15338, District Court# 2:18-cv-00621-DGC, U.S. District Court for Arizona, Phoenix</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public monuments
| 4/25/2019
|[[Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of]] ("Satanic Temple I")
|US District Court for the District of Minnesota
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.startribune.com/satanic-temple-lawsuit-against-belle-plaine-will-move-forward-despite-court-dismissal-of-most-of-its-claims/572010332/?refresh=true StarTribune.com], ''Satanic Temple lawsuit against Belle Plaine will move forward, despite court dismissal of most of its claims; 1 of 10 counts still remains in the Scott County battle over church and state'', Aug. 4, 2020</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/109/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ CourtListener.com], ''ORDER. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 1. Defendant's motion for summary judgment as to Plaintiff's promissory-estoppel claim in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv-1122 81 is GRANTED. 2. Plaintiff's motion to strike in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv- 1122 100 is DENIED. 3. The magistrate judge's January 26, 2021 Order in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv-1122 79 is AFFIRMED. 4. Defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 10 is GRANTED. 5. Plaintiff 039;s motion to strike in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 29 is DENIED. 6. Defendant's motion for sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 17 is GRANTED. Within fourteen days after the date of this Order, Defendant shall file a mot ion and supporting evidence as to the attorneys' fees Defendant incurred responding to the complaint and seeking sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336. (Written Opinion) Signed by Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright on 9/15/2021. Associated Cases: 0:19-cv-01122-WMW-JFD, 0:21-cv-00336-WMW-JFD (RJE)'' </ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)<ref name="Belle Plaine appeal"></ref>
!
|''Original lawsuit.''
|}

==For-Profit Corporation Lawsuits ==
The United Federation of Churches, LLC has been involved in a number of [[lawsuits]] since its formation.

In 2018, the company sued Netflix Inc. and Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. in the Southern District of New York over use of a breastless Baphomet statue with children in ''The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'', claiming defamation and that its intellectual property rights had been violated, harming its business reputation.<ref>[https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Netflix-Satanic-Temple.pdf Courthousenews.com], ''By misappropriating TST Baphomet with Children (which is a registered copyright and famous mark of TST) to publish this false and defamatory depiction of TST, Defendants have engaged in three classes of wrong: copyright infringement (Claim 1) trademark violation (Claim 2), and injury to business reputation (Claim 3).''</ref>

The suit was eventually dismissed with prejudice after Netflix agreed to give a copyright credit on all episodes that had been filmed.<ref name="Bloomberg">[https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netflix-makes-amicable-deal-with-the-devil-over-sabrina-1 Netflix Makes ‘Amicable’ Deal With the Devil Over Sabrina], Bloomberg.com, Nov. 23, 2018, ''An attorney for the Temple, Bruce H. Lederman, told Bloomberg Law Netflix agreed within 10 days of the Temple’s suit to give the it (sic) copyright credit for the statute on all episodes that have been filmed.''</ref>

The following list is non-exhaustive and includes several cases represented by lawyers of The Satanic Temple but did not include them as plaintiffs.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | United Federation of Churches LLC court cases
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Commerce
|4/5/2023
|[[United Federation of Churches DBA v. Johnson AKA et al]] ("Queer Satanic II")
|King County Superior Court
|[https://dja-prd-ecexap1.kingcounty.gov/?q=node/411&199355=411110 23-2-06120-9 SEA]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
|
|
|''TST re-filed a new case in Washington state court while pursuing an appeal of the same claims in federal court. Case was stayed pending resolution of TST's appeal of federal case in Ninth Circuit then dismissed with prejudice Sep. 24, 2024.''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Defamation & Commerce
|4/3/2020
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al]] ("Queer Satanic I")
|US District Court for the Western District of Washington
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:2020-cv-00509]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Affirmed In Part; Vacated & Remanded In Part
(split)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66805454/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-david-johnson/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc CourtListener.com], United Federation of Churches LLC v. United Federation of Churches LLC v. David Johnson, et al (23-35060)</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)
|''Initial claims dismissed[https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/UnitedFednofChurchesLLCvJohnsonNo220cv00509RAJ2021BL69458WDWashFe][https://casetext.com/case/united-fedn-of-churches-llc-v-johnson]; amended complaint re-filed[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/33342602/United_Federation_of_Churches_LLC_v_Johnson_et_al], motion for re-consideration dismissed[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]; motion to dismiss granted[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/48/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]''; ''Ninth Circuit appeal affirmed in part, vacated and remanded in part [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66805454/40/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-david-johnson/], remainder voluntarily dismissed by Plaintiff[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/58/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Commerce
|11/8/2018
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al]]
|US District Court for the Southern District of New York
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8152228/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-netflix-inc/ 1:2018-cv-10372]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
(Success)

<ref name="Bloomberg" /><ref>[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/26138833/United_Federation_of_Churches_LLC_v_Netflix,_Inc_et_al PacerMonitor.com], United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al</ref>
|
|
|''TST utilized outside law firm D'agostino, Levine, Landesman & Lederman LLP''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Public monuments
|7/12/2018
|[[Cave et al v. Thurston]]
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Ongoing
|
|
|''"Doug Misicko" and "Satanic Temple" listed as Intervenors''<ref>Arkansas Civil Liberties Union [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/1/cave-v-thurston/ filed a complaint to begin the case 5/23/2018]] on behalf of its clients, but The Satanic Temple and its clients made their [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/17/cave-v-thurston/ motion to join as Intervenors] 7/12/2018, beginning TST's involvement.</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|2/28/2018
|[[Doe v. Greitens et al]] ("Judy Doe") <ref>"The Satanic Temple" was not named in the lawsuit as a plaintiff, but "Judy Doe" used the same attorney, [[W. James MacNaughton]], who represented "Mary Doe" at a similar case in Missouri's State Supreme Court and the failed federal case for "Mary Doe"</ref>
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6322005/doe-v-greitens/ 4:18-cv-00339]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5c714ba3342cca67d9445894 CaseMind.org], Motion to Dismiss: Granted Defendant. ''This matter seeking declarative and injunctive relief comes before the Court on Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's Complaint for failure to state a claim, [Doc. No. 17]. Plaintiffs seek (1) declaratory judgment that certain Missouri Statutes are void and (2) injunctive relief against Defendants' enforcement of the statutes. For the reasons below, Defendants' motion to dismiss will be granted.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/27b897fd742c1efe2e3272626c46ed70 Federal appeals court axes Satanic Temple abortion lawsuit], AP, June 9, 2020. ''The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday filed by a member of the Satanic Temple against a Missouri abortion law. ... An anonymous woman, Judy Doe, sued, arguing the law violates her religious freedom as a Satanic Temple member. The Satanic Temple doesn’t believe in a literal Satan but sees the biblical Satan as a metaphor for rebellion against tyranny. A federal district judge last year ruled against Doe, and the appeals court agreed.''</ref><ref>No. 19-1578, ''A Missouri law requires Judy Doe to certify that she has had a chance to review certain information before having an abortion. This requirement, she alleges, violates her Satanist beliefs. The district court dismissed both of her First Amendment claims, and we affirm.'' ([https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/06/191578P.pdf PDF])</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/2894/804010620/3/judy-doe-v-michael-l-parson/ CourtListener.com], Published Signed Opinion, Judy Doe v. Michael L. Parson (19-1578), filed 3/20/2019 </ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Appeal to SCOTUS denied
(failure)

<ref>No. 20-385, ''Petitioner Judy Doe (“Petitioner”) moves, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §455(a), for the disqualification of the Hon. Amy Coney Barrett from consideration of the Petition for Certiorari, Case No. 20-385 (the “Petition”) due to her publicly expressed religious beliefs that a human being comes into existence at conception, abortion is murder and Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (“Roe”) was a “barbaric” decision that should “be put to an end.”'' ([https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-385/158957/20201028113343173_final%20motion.pdf PDF]) </ref><ref>"[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/supreme-court-refuses-to-disqualify-justice-barrett-from-the-satanic-temples-abortion-case-301171560.html Supreme Court Refuses to Disqualify Justice Barrett from The Satanic Temple's Abortion Case]", Press release, Nov. 12, 2020 </ref><ref>20-385, "Certiorari Denied" ([https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/112320zor_7l48.pdf PDF])</ref>
|''TST had also sought to disqualify new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett''<ref>[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-385/158957/20201028113343173_final%20motion.pdf SupremeCourt.gov], ''Motion by Petitioner for the Disqualification of
The Hon. Amy Coney Barrett''</ref><ref>[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/supreme-court-refuses-to-disqualify-justice-barrett-from-the-satanic-temples-abortion-case-301171560.html PRNewswire.com], ''Supreme Court Refuses to Disqualify Justice Barrett from The Satanic Temple's Abortion Case''</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
|2/26/2018
|[[Satanic Temple et al v. Scottsdale, City of et al]]
|US District Court of Arizona - Phoenix
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:2018-cv-00621]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Judgment in favor of Defendants
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/92/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ CourtListener.com], ''ORDER AND JUDGMENT: Judgment is entered in favor of Defendants on all of Plaintiffs' claims. Signed by Senior Judge David G Campbell on 2/05/2020. (REK) (Entered: 02/06/2020)''</ref><ref>[https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2020/02/29/scottsdale-wins-court-battle-against-satanists-over-invocation/4903564002/ Scottsdale wins court battle against Satanists over right to give invocation; Satanists appeal, Arizona Republic], Feb. 29, 2020. ''A U.S. District Court judge ruled this month that Scottsdale did not discriminate against the Satanic Temple when the city blocked a member of the group from giving an invocation before a City Council meeting in 2016.''

''Judge David Campbell ruled the Satanic Temple did not prove the city had denied its request because of its religious beliefs.'' [https://apnews.com/article/3d00de948174ad7c0a36093f1fdf1752 (AP summary)]</ref>
|
|
|''Case continued by [[The Satanic Temple Inc]] ''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|6/23/2015
|[[The Satanic Temple et al v. Jeremiah Jay Nixon et al.]] ("Mary Doe II")
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7760360/the-satanic-temple-v-jeremiah-jay-nixon/ 4:2015-cv-00986]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed
(failure)
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6155672/the-satanic-temple-v-mike-parson/ 16-3387], ''08/28/2018 Open Document JUDGMENT FILED - The judgment of the Originating Court is AFFIRMED in accordance with the opinion. ROGER L. WOLLMAN, MICHAEL J. MELLOY and RAYMOND W. GRUENDER Hrg Sep 2017 [4698520] [16-3387] (AMT) [Entered: 08/28/2018 07:49 AM]'', US Eighth Circuit of Appeals</ref>
|
|''Mary Doe was not pregnant at time of filing federal case, so court determined she lacked standing''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|5/11/2015
|[[Mary Doe v. Jeremiah J Nixon et al]] ("Mary Doe I")
|Circuit Court of Cole County, Missouri
|[https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/caseNoSearch.do 15AC-CC00205]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)

<ref name=":1">''The Missouri Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a case brought by a woman who said the state’s abortion restrictions violated her religious beliefs. ... The case dates to 2015, when Doe’s attorneys argued her case in front of the Cole County Circuit Court. Circuit Judge Jon Beetem dismissed the case.'' [https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouris-high-court-tosses-case-alleging-abortion-law-violated-satanic-temple-members-rights/article_ae0e57c3-305e-51e6-b6cd-28699d41fada.html Missouri's high court tosses case alleging abortion law violated Satanic Temple member's rights], ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', Feb 13. 2019</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |State Appeals Court ordered transfer
(neutral)

<ref>[https://www.courts.mo.gov/file/OSummary_WD80387.pdf WD80387], ''Because we believe that this case raises real and substantial constitutional claims, it is within the Missouri Supreme Court’s exclusive jurisdiction under Article V, section 3 of the Missouri Constitution, and we hereby order its transfer'' ([https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=118276 PDF])</ref><ref>[https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/planned-parenthood-satanic-temple-score-initial-wins-in-abortion-fight/article_4f02f86c-ff07-5bc3-bcc9-2ce44be31cc2.html Planned Parenthood, Satanic Temple score initial wins in abortion fight], St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 3, 2017</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |State Supreme Court affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/searchDockets.do SC96751], ''Mary Doe appeals the circuit court’s judgment dismissing with prejudice her second amended petition seeking to enjoin the enforcement of the portion of the Missouri Informed Consent Law... This Court affirms denial of Ms. Doe’s request for injunctive relief. The informed consent law does not adopt any religious tenet, as Ms. Doe claimed. ...Moreover, the informed consent law neither requires a pregnant woman to read the booklet in question nor requires her to have or pay for an ultrasound. It simply provides her with that opportunity. .. The circuit court did not err in dismissing Ms. Doe’s petition for failure to state a claim.'' ([https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=136817 PDF])</ref><ref name=":1" />
|''State supreme court upheld lower court decision unanimously, but two of seven justices had concurring opinion''
|}

==Other Lawsuits==
Early legal cases involved The Satanic Temple or its members being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, however, contrary to popular belief, the Temple's only involvement in the ACLU's successful case to to remove the 10 Commandments monument from the Oklahoma State Capitol (Prescott v. Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission) was a footnote from the opinion.<ref>[https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=476438#d4ft8 OSCN.net], Footnote 8. ''One such request was from the Satanic Temple, who requested "a monument to Baphomet, which is a form of Satan, to be placed on the Capitol grounds." Record on Accelerated Appeal Ex. 4 (Deposition of Trait Thompson at 30). On December 19, 2013, the Commission minutes reflect Commission Chair, Trait Thompson, moved to put a moratorium on monument requests:''</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | Cases by others involving TST
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
!style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Public Monuments
|4/25/2025
|[[Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers, Inc. v. Reynolds et al.]]
|District Court for Polk County, Iowa
|[Case # Unknown]
!style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Ongoing
|
|
|''[https://www.aclu-ia.org/sites/default/files/05771_cvcv069066_pfld_14653453.pdf Petition] filed challenging the assertion of executive privilege and requesting Governor Reynolds' office release public records about a decision to block The Satanic Temple of Iowa from holding an event at the State Capitol.''<ref>[https://www.aclu-ia.org/en/legal-documents aclu-ia.org], Legal Documents for April 25, 2025</ref>
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |School
|3/19/2024
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Shelby County Board of Education]]
|US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68356813/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-shelby-county-board-of-education/ 2:24-cv-02178]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
|
|
|''Plaintiff represented by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Kramer Law Center of Memphis. Case dismissed with school board paying FFRF's legal fees and promising not to discriminate against TST.<ref>[https://ffrf.org/news/releases/breaking-ffrf-settles-satanic-temple-discrimination-lawsuit-with-memphis-area-school/ FFRF/org], ''BREAKING: FFRF settles Satanic Temple discrimination lawsuit with Memphis-area school'', July 18, 2024</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |School
|3/30/2023
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District]]
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67112434/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district/ 5:23-cv-01244]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
<ref>[https://www.aclu.org/cases/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district?document=Settlement-Agreement-TST-v-SVSD ACLU.org], ''Settlement Agreement'', Nov. 16, 2023</ref><ref>[https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/saucon-valley-school-district-to-pay-satanic-temple-200k-in-legal-fees-over-after-school/article_82401e5c-84df-11ee-8a82-f3d05414da7b.html WFMZ-TV], ''Saucon Valley School District to pay Satanic Temple $200K in legal fees over After School Satan Club legal issue'', Nov. 16, 2023</ref>
|
|
|''School district had withdrawn use of facility for After School Satan club after bomb threat made but claimed an advertising violation; a judge required school to fulfill previous agreement as litigation continued, with school district ultimately paying ACLU $200,000 for legal costs.''<ref>[https://www.aclupa.org/en/cases/satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district ACLU.org], "ACLU Sues Saucon Valley School District for Prohibiting After School Satan Club from Meeting in District Facilities", May 1, 2023</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|9/11/2018
|[[Mayle v. Chicago Park District]] ("Emotional Support Hog")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7862874/mayle-v-chicago-park-district/ 1:18-cv-06211]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7862874/64/mayle-v-chicago-park-district/ CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss/Lack of Jurisdiction</ref><ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-emotional-support-pig-20190710-ikpu3r6is5evvkjyyqk3k53lsi-story.html ChicagoTribune.com], July 10, 2019, ''Chicago man continues legal fight to bring his ‘emotional support’ pig to parks''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
|
|''Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# [https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/30887949/Kenneth_Mayle_v_City_of_Chicago,_et_al 0:19-cv-03208]''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|4/24/2018
|[[Mayle v. The State of Illinois]] ("Bigamy II")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7373722/mayle-v-the-state-of-illinois/ 1:18-cv-02924]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7373722/22/mayle-v-the-state-of-illinois CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss/Lack of Jurisdiction</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
|
|''Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# [https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/27846458/Kenneth_Mayle_v_State_of_Illinois,_et_al 0:19-cv-01691]''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|5/5/2017
|[[Mayle v. The Congress of the United States of America]] ("In God We Trust")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6181929/mayle-v-the-congress-of-the-united-states-of-america/ 1:17-cv-03417]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-god-we-trust-money-religion-chicago-lawsuit-20180604-story.html ChicagoTribune.com], June 5, 2018; ''Chicago man, self-described satanist, loses latest battle to remove 'In God We Trust' from U.S. money''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure) <ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/17-3221/17-3221-2018-05-31.html Justia.com], '' The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of his complaint, rejecting claims under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Free Speech, Free Exercise, and Establishment Clauses. ''</ref>
|
|Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# 17-3221
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|4/10/2017
|[[Mayle v. Orr, et al]] ("Bigamy I")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13396641/mayle-v-orr/ 1:17-cv-00449]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20170411a06 Leagle.com], Dismissal order</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13396641/39/mayle-v-orr/ Courtlistener.com], Motion for extension to file notice of appeal denied</ref>
|
|
|''Pro se TST Member; intended appeal failed due to Plaintiff msising filing deadline''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Invocations
|1/9/2017
|Hunt v. Kenai Peninsula Borough
|United States District Court - District of Alaska
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60826742/hunt-v-kenai-peninsula-borough/ 3:17-cv-00007]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Returned to State Superior Court (neutral)
|
|
|''ACLU representing a TST member''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Invocations
|12/14/2016
|[[Hunt, Lance vs. Kenai Peninsula Borough AP]]
|Third Judicial District Superior Court - Anchorage
|[https://records.courts.alaska.gov/eaccess/home.page.14 3AN-16-10652CI]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs (success) <ref> PeninsulaClarion.com, Satanic Temple invocation prompts protest, walkouts at assembly meeting, June 18, 2019></ref>
|
|
|''ACLU representing a TST member''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public Monuments
|5/4/2016
|[[Kondrat'yev et al v. City of Pensacola et al]]
|Northern District of Florida (Pensacola)
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14450966/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola/ 3:16-cv-00195]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs (Success) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14450966/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola/#entry-41 CourtListener.com], ORDER. Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment (doc. 31 ) is GRANTED. Defendants' motion for summary judgment (doc. 30 ) is DENIED. Bayview Cross violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court and circuit precedent, and it must be removed within thirty (30) days. The City is ordered to pay damages to the plaintiffs in the amount of $1.00; and parties are directed to follow the local rules of this court with regard to attorney fees to which plaintiffs may be entitled. Signed by SENIOR JUDGE ROGER VINSON on 06/19/2017. (MB) (Entered: 06/19/2017)</ref>
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Affirmed (success) <ref>[https://casetext.com/case/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola Casetext.com], No. 17-13025, Sep. 7, 2018. ''The City of Pensacola, Florida appeals a district court decision ordering it to remove a 34-foot Latin cross from a public park on the ground that the City’s maintenance of the cross violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Having concluded that we are bound by existing Circuit precedent, we find ourselves constrained to affirm.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Reversed (failure) <ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/17-13025/17-13025-2020-02-19.html Justia.com], Case: 17-13025, Feb. 19,2020. ''Having reconsidered the case in light of American Legion, we conclude, as the Supreme Court did there, that “the Cross does not offend the Constitution.” See id. at 2090. For the foregoing reasons, we hold (1) that we remain bound by this Court’s decision in Rabun to conclude that plaintiffs have Article III standing to challenge Pensacola’s maintenance of the Bayview Park cross, but (2) that when American Legion—rather than Rabun (and through it, Lemon)—is applied, the cross’s presence on city property does not violate the Establishment Clause. REVERSED.Case: 17-13025 Date Filed: 02/19/2020</ref>
| ''[[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] representing a TST member, between first appeal and second appeal, U.S. Supreme Court decided'' American Legion v. American Humanist Association ''leading to 11th Circuit Court to reverse decision.
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Public Monuments
|3/24/2015
|[[Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. et al v. Franklin County, Indiana]]<ref>United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple was a plaintiff on the case, however, both it and the [[Freedom from Religion Foundation]] were represented by Gavin Minor Rose with the ACLU of Indiana</ref>
|US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13307466/freedom-from-religion-foundation-inc-v-franklin-county-indiana/ 1:2015-cv-00484]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settled Out of Court (success) <ref>[https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/12/21/satanic-temple-lawsuit-over-nativity-scene-dismissed/77693518/ IndyStar], "Satanic Temple lawsuit over Nativity scene dismissed", Dec. 31, 2015. ''As part of the settlement, the county agreed to let nonresidents apply for a permit, but they must have a local contact''</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210208013949/https://thomasmoresociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FFRF-v-Franklin-Co-1-15-cv-00484-Fully-Executed-Settlement-Agreement-1.pdf Thomas More Society], Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release of Claims</ref><ref>[https://www.eaglecountryonline.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-settlement-in-place-for-satanic-display-at-courthouse/ Eagle 99.3 FM], "Lawsuit Settlement In Place For Satanic Display At Courthouse" Dec. 18, 2015. ''According to the settlement, Franklin County has agreed to amend its ordinance concerning displays at the courthouse within 30 days. The amended ordinance for the courthouse display permitting process will accept the designation of a local contact in lieu of requiring that sponsorship be wholly by citizens of Franklin County. Essentially, The Satanic Temple could put up its goat-head display at the courthouse if it finds a resident of Franklin County or any adjacent Indiana county (Dearborn, Ripley, Rush, Decatur, Fayette, or Union counties) willing to serve as that local contact. The contact must be a person who lives or works in Franklin County and assumes responsibility for the display.''</ref>
|
|
|ACLU representing [[United Federation of Churches LLC]]
|-
|}

==Other Legal Actions==
Additionally, there are an unknown number of other cases The Satanic Temple or its affiliate entities may have been involved in either in the capacity of submitting amicus briefs, as with ''St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore'', or other legal complaints that are not lawsuits.<ref>([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60382291/st-michaels-media-inc-v-the-mayor-and-city-council-of-baltimore/ CourtListener.com], 1:21-cv-02337, St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore</ref><ref>[https://the.satanic.wiki/images/1/1a/38_4CA_21-2158_-_Amicus_TST.pdf No. 21-2158], ''Amicus brief for The Satanic Temple, Inc. In support of St. Michael’s Media, Inc. Arguing for affirmance'' (PDF)</ref>

For example, in communication with the state of Arkansas for Cave v. Thurston, The Satanic Temple revealed that TST had raised three administrative complaints to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination:<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/12/cave-v-thurston/ CourtListener.com], Cave v. Thurston, Exhibit 12 - Satanic Temple Responses to Def.'s First Requests April 10, 2020</ref>
# The Satanic Temple v. Window World of Boston LLC (18BPA02782)
# The Satanic Temple v. Twitter (18BPA00827)
# The Satanic Temple v. Facebook (case number unknown)

Additionally, as part of their federal lawsuit against the city of Boston, Mass., a fourth such case came to light:<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/100/14/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ CourtListener.com], Exhibit 14 - MCAD Complaint — Document #100, Attachment #14</ref>
<li value="4">The Satanic Temple v. City of Boston (18BPA02946)</li>

However, TST had only publicly revealed the complaint against Twitter as part of a fundraising effort, which also involved disclosing that attorney [[Marc Randazza]] was representing the Temple in the complaint, over the objections of many local chapters. <ref>[https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MzUwMzg= Flipcause.com], ''The Satanic Temple vs. Twitter. Support The Satanic Temple's fight against religious discrimination.'' ($5,649 Raised of $50,000)</ref>

A final category is legal threats sent to critics and former members, which The Satanic Temple has a reputation for going back as far as 2014, as described by the Temple's first "high priest" Brian Werner.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ZIN4aZ8IMz0?t=419 YouTube.com], ''High Priest Brian Werner resigns from The Satanic Temple'', relevant portion at 6:59 - "I get an email from the lawyers accepting my resignation with an attached six page non-disclosure agreement. Really dude? After everything you and me have been through in the last three years? You've been a guest in several of my homes. You know my wife. I've been a guest in yours. You've embraced me and called me brother. You couldn't even pick up a telephone and tolk to me? You had to hide behind the lawyers. What is this, Scientology?"</ref> However, it was also present as part of the Great Schism of 2018, which involved TST threatening many of them.
<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheSatanicWiki/status/1462231609776619521 Twitter.com], @TheSatanicWiki posting The Satanic Temple's National Council Meeting Notes for Sept. 9, 2018. Relevant portion: "Legal letters have been sent to ex-CHs [Chapterheads] who have violated NDA [Non-Disclosure/Non-Disparagement Agreement] / AA [Affiliate Agreement] terms"</ref> Finally, an especially egregious example came to light in June 2022 when The Satanic Temple sent a series of emails to the TikToker @TheSatanicHousewife in reaction to one of her videos, threatening her with a lawsuit if she did not record the prepared statement they sent her.<ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-housewife-videos-and-legal-threat-by-the-satanic-temple/ QueerSatanic.com], ''“The Satanic Housewife” videos and legal threat by The Satanic Temple''</ref>

== Criminal Court Cases ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Issue
!Date Filed
!Case Name
!Original Jurisdiction
!Case Number
!Result
!Notes
|-
|Attempted bombing
|5/7/2024
|United States ''v.'' Terpstra
|US Western District of Michigan
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68510101/united-states-v-terpstra/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-cr-00067]
|Ongoing
|Defendant Luke Isaac Terpstra also indicted on federal charges relating to Michigan case# 2024000021.
|-
|Attempted bombing
|4/15/2024
|United States v. Palmer
|US District Court of Massachusetts
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68446029/united-states-v-palmer/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-mj-01222]

[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68514994/united-states-v-palmer/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-cr-10132]
|Ongoing
|Defendant Sean Patrick Palmer accused of throwing an improvised explosive device, charged with "18 U.S.C. § 844(i) - Maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or explosive"
|-
|Attempted bombing
|[UNK]
|State of Michigan v. Terpstra
|78th District Court (Newaygo County, Mich.)
|2024000021
|Ongoing
|Defendant Luke Isaac Terpstra accused of making explosives in his home with plan to "blow up" TST headquarters; charged with "Explosives - Possession of bombs with unlawful intent" in January 2024; state ID# 202402057
|-
|Vandalism
|[UNK]
|State of Iowa v. Cassidy
|Polk County (Iowa) District Court
|SRCR376781
|Pleaded guilty
|Defendant Michael Patrick Cassidy was accused of hate crime in relation to destruction of a winter holiday Baphomet display at the Iowa state capitol; charged with "729A.2 Violation of individual rights — hate crime"; Cassidy pleaded guilty to misdemeanor and received two years probation.<ref>''Michael Cassidy, a former congressional and legislative candidate, was set for trial June 3, but his attorney filed a guilty plea on his behalf to an aggravated misdemeanor count of third-degree criminal mischief''. [https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2024/05/28/iowa-capitol-satanic-temple-display-vandal-michael-cassidy-sentenced-probation/73881680007/ DesMoinesRegister.com], May 28, 2024</ref>
|-
|Arson
|[UNK]
|State of Massachusetts v. Lucey
|Salem (Mass.) District Court
|[UNK]
|In custody at Bridgewater State Hospital as of 2/22/2024
|Defendant Daniel Damien Lucey accused of setting a fire at The Satanic Temple headquarters in June 2022; was charged with "arson, civil rights violations and destruction of a place of worship"; State ID# M140599
|}

="The Satanic Temple" in its own words=
An incomplete list of the ways The Satanic Temple has described itself for official purposes, such as court complaints, depositions, press releases, and internal documents, with each listed in reverse chronological order (most recent at top, earliest at bottom).

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+
!Date
!Short Description
!Source
!Long Description
|-
|5/03/2023
|'''"a non-theistic religion, federally recognized as a church and a religious public charity"'''
|The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago ([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/ 1:23-cv-02780])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple, Inc. is a religious corporation organized under the laws of Massachusetts and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. ... The Satanic Temple (“TST”) is a non-theistic religion, federally recognized as a church and a religious public charity. IRC §§ 170(b)(1)(A)(i); 501(c)(3). ... TST has more than half a million members located in every state (including Illinois) and internationally.
|-
|4/05/2023
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al ("[[Queer Satanic II]]")
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) (abbreviated “TST”) ... TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/30/2023
|'''"a non-theistic, religious not-for-profit corporation"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67112434/1/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district/ (5:23-cv-01244])
|Plaintiff, The Satanic Temple, Inc., is a non-theistic, religious not-for-profit corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, MA. TST has more than 700,000 individual members, who are located in every U.S. state, including in Pennsylvania and within the SVSD. TST also has recognized congregations in every state, including in eastern Pennsylvania. TST has been recognized by the IRS as a church, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code § 170(b)(1)(A)(i), and as a religious corporation, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(3).
|-
|12/05/2022
|'''"a nontheistic religion whose membership openly defies the authority of God and the Church"'''
|Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human Svc ([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/2/20/22-20459_Satanic_Temple_v_TX_Hlth_and_Human_Svc_TSTOpeningBrief_00516567427.pdf 22-20459])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”) is a nontheistic religion whose membership openly defies the authority of God and the Church. ROA.23. To the congregants of TST, Satan deserves veneration as a revolutionary antihero who stood up against impossible odds to seek justice and egalitarianism for himself and others.
|-
|11/23/2022
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Jessica Snow
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/78/D-1-GN-22-006797_-_Plaintiff%27s_Original_Petition_w_Ex_76AC6EC7_-_2022-11-23.pdf D-1-GN-22-006797])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (“TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 560,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|9/30/2022
|'''"a religious association"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Little ([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392308/1/the-satanic-temple-v-little/ 1:22-cv-00411])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple (“TST”) ... is a religious association with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST has over 1.5 million members worldwide, including over 3,500 members in Idaho.
|-
|9/21/2022
|'''"a religious association"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Holcomb
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/1/the-satanic-temple-v-holcomb/ 1:22-cv-01859])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple (“TST”) ... is a religious association with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST has over 1.5 million members worldwide, including over 11,300 members in Indiana.
|-
|2/25/2022
|'''"a Massachusetts religious corporation" and "a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/2/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/ 5:22-cv-05033])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST,”) plaintiff, is a Massachusetts religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization with an international following exceeding 540,000 and which was recently the subject of the film, Hail Satan? ... TST’s membership can be found in every State, importantly to include Arkansas and Indiana.
|-
|2/16/2022
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation which is organized" and "a private figure"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ 1:22-cv-01343])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”), Plaintiff, is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation which is organized under the laws of Massachusetts and is headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts.

...

TST is a private figure. TST is a private figure because it is not a household name.
|-
|2/01/2022
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation "'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a2/D-1-GN-22-000560-Plaintiffs-Original-Petition-with-Exhibits-2022-02-01.pdf D-1-GN-22-000560])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (“TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 560,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?” ... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|1/03/2022
|'''"an umbrella term for a religion"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/217/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|“The Satanic Temple” is an umbrella term for a religion which is given legal structure by a constellation of affiliate entities. There is no entity named “The Satanic Temple” anymore because the errantly-named “The Satanic Temple” corrected its name to “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” See EXHIBIT 1 (articles of amendment, dated May 24, 2019, renaming the organization from “The Satanic Temple” to “The Satanic Temple, Inc.”)
|-
|11/03/2021
|'''"an atheistic religious corporation"'''
|St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. Baltimore et al.
([https://queersatanic.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/38_4CA_21-2158_-_Amicus_TST.pdf 21-2158])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”) is an atheistic religious corporation with membership exceeding 530,000 throughout all 50 States and internationally.
|-
|5/24/2021
|'''“a religious organization”'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/26/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches (dba “The Satanic Temple” (abbreviated “TST”)…
…
TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/29/2021
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/22/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches (dba “The Satanic Temple” (abbreviated “TST”)...

...

TST is a religious organization.
|-
|2/05/2021
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Hellerstedt
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ 4:21-cv-00387])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 270,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|2/04/2021
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Massachusetts"'''
|Satanic Temple, Inc., The v. City of Belle Plaine, MN
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/1/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 200,000 and was recently the subject of the film, “Hail Satan?” ... TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include Minnesota.
|-
|1/31/2021
|'''"a nonprofit religious corporation with no parent corporations"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. City of Belle Plaine, et al
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/0/0f/21-3079_Belle_Plaine_v_Satanic_Temple_TST%27s_Brief_5122392.pdf 21-3079])
|Plaintiff-Appellant The Satanic Temple, Inc. is a nonprofit religious corporation with no parent corporations and no publicly held corporations own 10% or more of Plaintiff-Appellant’s stock. As a nonprofit religious corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant has neither stock nor owners.
|-
|1/24/2021
|'''"an infamous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/2/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ 1:21-cv-10102])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is an infamous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 270,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?” ...TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include the Boston metro area.
|-
|9/27/2020
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a1/04CV-20-2100_-_SATANIC_TEMPLE_INC_V_LAMAR_ADVERTISING_OF_LOUISIAN_Complaint.pdf 04CV-20-2100])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”)...

...

TST, plaintiff, is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization with membership exceeding 100,000 and which was recently the subject of the film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include Arkansas and Indiana, and internationally.
|-
|4/10/2020
|'''"not a discrete entity with tax returns"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/12/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|TST’s objection was sustained except to the extent TST was ordered “'''the Satanic Temple''' to produce current bylaws, operating agreements, or analogous documents.” Order at p. 20 (emphasis in original). The order directs TST to confer with all parties for a reasonable protective order. Intervenors propose an attorney’s-eyes-only protective order with an obligation to delete the information following the entry of a final order, and all filings marked “confidential” and filed under seal.

...

“The Satanic Temple” is not a discrete entity with tax returns. Intervenors thus have no responsive documents.
|-
|4/03/2020
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) (abbreviated as “TST”)...

...

TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/10/2020
|'''"a tax-exempt religious organization" that "can also engage in for-profit commerce"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/124/7/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|''Q. Okay. So which -- which organization is the Intervenor, The Satanic Temple, in this litigation?''

A. It's The Satanic Temple.

''Q. Okay. The Satanic Temple, Inc.?''

...

A. To me the Intervenor is The Satanic Temple as a religious organization. This kind of paperwork is meant to justify different facets sometimes of The Satanic Temple. But to me it's all this larger religious body, this -- this organization of -- of The Satanic Temple.

...

I don't even see those things as under any type of umbrella. These are -- and, you know, things like [[Reason Alliance]] and the [[United Federation of Churches]] are completely different to me than something like [[Cinephobia]]; because Cinephobia is representative of another project within The Satanic Temple. United Federation of Churches, Reason Alliance where more things, entities that emerged from consultation with either accountants or lawyers meant to help us better manage The Satanic Temple. But to me The Satanic Temple has always been this kind of one thing.

''Q. So and I'm -- I'm trying to understand how you understand this to work. So you claim that The Satanic Temple is tax exempt?''

A. No. It demonstrably is.

''Q. Okay. But when you talk about The Satanic Temple that includes organizations that are for profit and not tax exempt; right? You see the struggle I'm having?''

A. I -- I don't -- I don't see that as being -- I mean, I see plenty of religious organizations that operate in the same -- same manner, so it's not something to me that makes me think that this is something untoward or something questionable. ... there is a tax exempt religious organization of The Satanic Temple; but it can also engage in for-profit commerce, a online Web store or whatever else. And, you know, my understanding of it is that this is how you do those things, how you do those various things.
|-
|9/26/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts non-profit corporation"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/5/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|TST is given corporate structure by “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” which is a Massachusetts non-profit corporation. To the extent the request seeks to discover information about members and agents of TST, the request is not proportional to the needs of the case because TST is a complex and international organization with local chapters dispersed throughout the world and whose leadership structure is in constant flux. The current membership of TST exceeds 50,000 individuals, many of whom participate in a leadership role for various charitable and religious activities.

Compounding the difficulty of adhering to the request, individual participants of TST very often have pseudonyms to protect their safety. The volume of information sought is overwhelming and has no passable bearing on the questions of this case.

Not only is the information sought onerous to procure in the first place, Rule 26 requires ongoing supplementation. Every time a volunteer steps down from–or steps up to–a leadership position would require a new supplement.

...

The IRS letter was produced on September 5.
|-
|8/30/2019
|'''"a nascent religious organization"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/57/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|THE SATANIC TEMPLE, a voluntary group of persons, without an Arizona charter, formed by mutual consent for the purpose of promoting a common enterprise or prosecuting a common objective

...

Principally, this amendment adds the various juristic bodies which, at various times, have given an organizational structure to the voluntary association of self-identified Satanists practicing under the moniker “The Satanic Temple.” Because their shared religious beliefs transcend the corporate form, and as a fallback should the Court find a fatal deficiency for any or each of the organizations, “The Satanic Temple” is reserved as an unincorporated association under Rule 17(b)(3)(A).

...

The Satanic Temple (“TST”) is a nascent religious organization.

...

TST is organizationally complex. On the international scale, TST is given structure through [[The Satanic Temple, Inc.]], a Massachusetts corporation. The Satanic Temple, Inc. has been formally recognized as a tax-exempt religious organization under IRC § 501(c)(3). At the times relevant to this litigation, TST was given structure through [[United Federation of Churches, LLC]] (dba “The Satanic Temple,”) a Massachusetts LLC.

On the local scale, TST is given structure through local chapters. Sometimes, but not always, a local chapter organizes into a formal entity. Currently, the Arizona Chapter is given structure through [[Adversarial Truth, LLC]] (dba “The Satanic Temple – Arizona Chapter.”) At the relevant times of this litigation, the Arizona Chapter was simply “a voluntary group of persons, without an Arizona charter, formed by mutual consent for the purpose of promoting a common enterprise or prosecuting a common objective.”
|-
|8/12/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts religious corporation" and "a Massachusetts LLC" and "an Arizona LLC"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/53/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|The Court directed Plaintiffs to “file a short memorandum with the Court that explains what their intent is with respect to having the real party in interest appear in the case.” Doc. 48.

Plaintiffs intend to join the following entities: [[The Satanic Temple, Inc.]], a Massachusetts religious corporation, [[The United Federation of Churches LLC]], a Massachusetts LLC, dba “The Satanic Temple” and [[Adversarial Truth LLC]], an Arizona LLC, dba “The Satanic Temple (Arizona Chapter).” For brevity, “The Satanic Temple” is shortened to its common moniker, “TST,” and interchangeably refers to both LLCs and the corporation.

...

TST, both as the local Arizona chapter and the national organization, must separately prove their standing. The three entities are functionally interchangeable because they are associations of Satanists. For ease of reading, all are treated here.

The three entities interchangeably referred to as “TST” are interrelated. Adversarial Truth LLC is the Arizona Chapter of The Satanic Temple. Michelle Shortt is the sole owner of Adversarial Truth LLC.

United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) is the predecessor entity to The Satanic Temple, Inc. United Federation of Churches is owned by two individuals residing in Massachusetts. This entity was in existence at the time of the events in question.

The Satanic Temple, Inc. is an IRS-recognized “church,” complete with a 501(c)(3) ruling letter. Being a nonprofit corporation, The Satanic Temple, Inc., does not have “shareholders” as much as it had “organizers.” This entity was formed after the events in question.
|-
|7/22/2019
|'''"United Federation of Churches, LLC", which is "a tax-exempt organization"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/2/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|Intervenors do not object to providing the current full legal name of The Satanic Temple. On information and belief, the full legal name of the organization is still United Federation of Churches, LLC.

...

The Satanic Temple is a tax-exempt organization. The IRS letter relating to that status will be supplemented at a later time.
|-
|4/25/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts church"'''
|Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/1/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122])
|Plaintiff TST is a Massachusetts church organized under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It holds weekly religious services at its headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts.
|-
|11/08/2018
|'''"a Massachusetts limited liability company"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc.
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8152228/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-netflix-inc/ 1:18-cv-10372])
|Plaintiff, United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple (“Plaintiff” or “TST”)...

...

Plaintiff TST is a Massachusetts limited liability company, with its principal place of business located at 64 Bridge Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970.
|-
|7/12/2018
|'''"an organized religion"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/17/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|The Satanic Temple is an organized religion.
|-
|2/28/2018
|'''"an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty"'''
|Doe v. Greitens
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6322005/1/doe-v-greitens/ 4:18-cv-00339])
|Plaintiff is a member of The Satanic Temple, an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty.
|-
|2/16/2018
|'''"(DBA of UFC) Religious Organization (applied for 1023) whose members support campaigns based on tenets"'''
|TST Organizational Hierarchy and Structure ([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/76/TST_Organizational_Hierarchy_Structure.pdf internal document])
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC]]: Registered The Satanic Temple as a trademark...
The Satanic Temple (DBA of UFC): Religious Organization (applied for 1023) whose members support campaigns based on tenets. TST organizational structure outside of EM exists to support chapters and campaigns....

[[Reason Alliance]]: Limited Partnership (LTD)...

[[Sixty Four Bridge LLC]]: Museum/Gallery property owner...

[[Salem Art Gallery]]: DBA for Sixty Four Bridge LLC

...

SAG is a separate entity owned by Sixty Four Bridge LLC. It is decidedly not a chapter of The Satanic Temple. If it were a chapter, it would need a Chapter Head, Media Liaison and complete governance by NC. It is not in the best interests of 80% of the functions of the building for TST Salem to exist. It seems appropriate for merch, weddings, rituals and other TST initiatives to fall under the governance of [[Executive Ministry|EM]]. These aspects of the building make it TST Headquarters.

...

For understanding this organizational structure in context, think of the five functions (headquarters, art, museum, venue, media) as separate tenants of SAG. They are all run differently and serve entirely different purposes. Understanding this will help us move forward coherently.
|-
|2/16/2018
|'''"has chapters throughout the United States and Europe"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/1/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple has chapters throughout the United States and Europe with over 50,000 members.
|-
|6/23/2015
|'''"an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Jeremiah Jay Nixon
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7760360/1/the-satanic-temple-v-jeremiah-jay-nixon/ 4:15-cv-00986])
|The Satanic Temple is an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty.
|-
|3/24/2015
|'''“an international religious organization”'''
|Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Franklin County, Indiana
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13307466/1/freedom-from-religion-foundation-inc-v-franklin-county-indiana/ 1:15-cv-00484])
|The United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple (“The Satanic Temple” or “TST”) is an international religious organization that is incorporated in Massachusetts and has its primary place of business in Somerville, Massachusetts. However, it has several chapters located throughout the United States.
|}

=References=
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[[Category:Lawsuits]]
[[Incorporated Entities]]

Schisms

2025-05-10T22:05:13Z

Maestro grandeur:

The Satanic Temple has undergone a number of schisms since its foundation. This list is incomplete and under construction.

=2018=
==Jex Blackmore schism==
As later detailed in ''Hail Satan?'', Jex Blackmore was dismissed from the organisation in early 2018 following an "unsanctioned" performance art piece containing what were deemed to be inflammatory statements.<ref>[https://wordandway.org/2019/05/29/getting-in-on-and-tossed-out-of-the-satanist-temple-joke/ Word & Way article]</ref><ref>[https://www.jezebel.com/satanic-artist-and-activist-jex-blackmore-on-her-contro-1834791520 Jezebel interview]</ref>. Blackmore, however, contended that this was a personal art statement and that the request for her resignation reflected sexist/non-inclusive attitudes within TST leadership.<ref>[https://medium.com/@JexBlackmore/the-struggle-for-justice-is-ongoing-6df38f8893db Jex Blackmore on Medium - "The Struggle for Justice is Ongoing"]</ref>
As a result the Detroit chapter also left TST.

==Global Order of Satan schism==
In 2018, TST UK collaborated with artist Darren Cullen in the Kreuzpflicht activism project<ref>[https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/kreuzpflicht Kreuzpflicht project]</ref>. This responded to new legislation in Bavaria, Germany, which required crucifixes to be hung in the foyers of public buildings; this was justified by authorities as the cross was seen as a "cultural symbol" rather than a religious one. The project mailed modified crucifixes to public bodies, which could only be hung inverted.

The project caused conflict with TST International Council, as the UK Chapter received no response from enquiries within TST and proceeded with the project without receiving official permission. As a result the UK Chapter Head was dismissed. After a vote was taken among UK members for a new Chapter Head, the member selected was rejected without explanation by TST International Council.

This precipitated an independence vote among European Chapters, after which the UK Chapter disaffiliated from TST and was joined by chapters from
* Sweden
* France
* Italy
* Germany
* Austria
* West Balkans
* Hungary
* Belgium
* Switzerland
* Denmark
* Australia ("following Eurovision rules")
<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Sjv1YUuRyntqwdAN/ Global Order of Satan independence announcement] </ref>

Filming for the documentary ''Hail Satan?'' took place immediately after the UK Chapter's decision to leave TST, and included interviews with many of the members of the UK chapter about the background and motivations for their departure. However none of this material made it into the final cut of the film, with the released cut instead giving the impression that the interviewed members remained part of TST.

After first naming themselves Satanic Temple International, the new organisation later rebranded as Global Order of Satan and continues to operate independently as of 2024.<ref>[https://www.globalorderofsatan.com/about-the-global-order-of-satan/history-and-background-of-the-global-order-of-satan/ About The Global Order of Satan]</ref>

==Randazza schism==
After hiring right-wing lawyer Marc Randazza to represent TST, the Los Angeles<ref>[https://www.vox.com/2018/8/9/17669894/satanic-temple-alt-right-marc-randazza-lawyer-lucien-greaves Vox article]</ref> and Portland<ref>[https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/08/18/satanic-portland-leaves-national-satanic-temple-over-a-lawyer-with-ties-to-the-alt-right/ Willamette Week article]</ref> chapters left TST in protest, and the New York chapter head resigned among other high-profile departures.

=2023=
==David Silverman schism==
On June 5th, 2023, David Silverman tweeted a photo with [[Doug Misicko]] at the Baphomet statue in TST's [[64 Bridge LLC|Salem HQ]].
David Silverman is the former president of American Atheists, before departing under a cloud following sexual assault allegations <ref>[https://www.conservapedia.com/Firing_of_David_Silverman_from_the_American_Atheists_organization Conservapedia article]</ref>. He subsequently became known for posting transphobic comments on Twitter. Following criticism for being photographed in public with him, [[Doug Misicko]] doubled down, attacking critics.<ref>[https://x.com/LucienGreaves/status/1666566543642075137/ Lucien Greaves on Twitter]</ref>

Queer Satanic posted about this event:<ref>[https://medium.com/@queersatanic/whats-going-on-with-david-silverman-and-the-satanic-temple-3aeadc6fd7e Queer Satanic article]</ref>.

Following a number of additional dismissive comments, a number of TST groups disaffiliated from the main organisation, including TST UK (rebranding as Satanists in the Wilderness) and Sober Faction.

=2024=
==Memegate / Eternal Nobodies schism==
In May 2024, emails between [[Doug Misicko]] and a TST Minister were released in which the Minister was unceremoniously fired.
Subsequently, Doug appeared on the [[Podcasts/The Satanists Nextdoor Ep46 Internal Strife and the Path Forward for TST|The Satanists Next Door Podcast]], further attacking critics who he described as "eternal nobodies".<ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-temple-and-its-eternal-nobodies/ QueerSatanic: The Satanic Temple and its Eternal Nobodies]</ref>

A number of prominent members (including [[Greg Stevens]] and [[Chalice Blythe]])and groups disaffiliated from TST following this series of events, including:
* Director of Ministry [[Greg Stevens]] leaves/is fired
* Head of [[After School Satan]] and Ordination Council [[Chalice Blythe]] leaves
* The Satanic Temple Minnesota leaves, becoming "Minnesota Satanists"
* The Satanic Temple of Florida leaves, becoming "Sunshine Serpent Society"
* The Satanic Temple of Australia leaves
* The Satanic Temple of Colorado leaves, becoming "Satanic Colorado"
* The Satanic Temple of Alabama leaves, becoming "Alabama Society for Pluralism and Freethought"
* The Satanic Temple of North Carolina leaves, becoming North Carolina Satanists
* A majority of The Satanic Temple Germany members and Ministers leave
* The Satanic Temple France withdraw from the TST Candidate Groups programme, becoming France Satanique et Francophones
* The Satanic Temple Nevada leaves, becoming Battle Born Satanists
* The Satanic Temple South Carolina leaves
* The Satanic Temple Idaho leaves
* The Satanic Temple Dallas/Fort Worth leaves
* The Satanic Temple Louisiana leaves
* The Satanic Temple New Jersey leaves, becoming Jersey Satanists
<under construction>

==References==

The Black Flame

2025-04-22T23:11:06Z

Maestro grandeur: /* Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2 */

According to the [[Church of Satan]], ''The Black Flame'', "the International Forum of the Church of Satan", began in 1989, during a period when its previous publication ''[[The Cloven Hoof]]'' was on hiatus. ''The Black Flame'' ultimately produced 16 editions from 1989 to 2005, produced first with the intention of being quarterly, before being produced bi-annually, and finally intermittently.

<hr>

==Table==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The Black Flame
|-
! Year !! Edition !! File | Notes
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||first publication, original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 2
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 1
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 3]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(3).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(1).pdf|scan]]
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 3]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(3).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 4]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(4).pdf|scan]]||announcement of switch to biannual instead of quarterly production
|-
|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(1-2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1992||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 3 and No. 4]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(3-4).pdf|scan]]||gratuitous quote by Adolf Hitler: "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
|-
|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVII AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(1-2).pdf|scan]]||page one missing, including first portion of "Thoughts on the Riots", HIV/AIDS blame debate begins here
|-
|1993||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(3-4).pdf|scan]]||''Siege'' by James Mason reviewed
|-
|1994||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(1-2).pdf|scan]]||Deboo's article opposing fascism, Moynihan's article on the "Faustian Spirit" of fascism
|-
|1995||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(3-4).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1996||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (1-2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|2000||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (3-4).pdf|scan]]||Anton LaVey memorial issue
|-
|2005||[[The Black Flame No. 16]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 16.pdf|scan]]||final ''Black Flame'' volume, page 1 is repeated,
|}

==[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 1|Volume 1, Number 1]]==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': [[Peter H. Gilmore]] ("Have your cake and eat it too!"), Max ("The Devil in Daylight"), Clinton Smith ("Recognizing Pseudo-Satanism"), Morgain Blake ("Choosing a Familiar"), Pagan X ("Invocation to Cthulhu", "Invocation to Shub-Niggurath"), Nemo ("The Purpose of Life", "A Piece of the Action: A Ceremony of Satanic Magic"), [[Peggy Nadramia]] ("Odditorium"), Max ("Mystical Junkie"), Diabolos Rex ("Yuggoth Text");

'''subjects''': n/a

'''ads''': none

'''other''': quote by Russian violinist Jascha Heifetz; Odditorium mentions include ''Freak Show: Presenting Human'' ''Oddities for Amusement and Profit'' by Robert Bogdan. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988; hardcover; 322 pages; $29.95); ''Critique: Exposing Consensus Reality'' (magazine); ''S.E.T. FREE'', the newsletter of the ''Society to Eradicate Television''; ''School is Hell'' by Matt Groening (Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; paperback; about 50 pages; $5.98)

==Volume 1, Number 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("We are legion!"), [[Blanche Barton]] ("The Satanic Witch, Now Playing At Theatres Near You", quote box, "Archetypes, the Fourth Dimension, and Everything"), Magdalene Graham of ''Dark Lily'' magazine ("Re-Defining Satanism"), Max ("The Best Satanic Revenge", "Slaying the Monster"), Setnahkt ("A Statement Against Normalization"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium", "Magic Lantern Show: Satanic Cinema"), Nemo (book review, movie review, "Satanism, Reason, and Mysticism"), Alex Loss (report in "Hellspawn"), Algar Langton of Thormynd Press ("Order of Nine Angles"), Pagan X ("Man In Black"), Glenda Green ("Imagine Before 1966"), Julian Karswell ("A New Satanic Solid?"), Paul Aarons ("Satan's Protest"), Morgain Blake ("Dressing Like Hell"), [[Tani Jantsang]] ("Mephistopheles-Nyarlathotep-Ob-Satan"), Diabolos Rex (art "Oderatüs Beastüalis");

'''Subjects''': ''[[Dark Lily]]'' magazine (Magdalene Graham), Rev. Yaj Nomolos, The 88 Temple Ov Deities (Miami, Fla.), Adel Lazch Souto, The Raven School/Church of the Raven, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), High Priest Luther, [[Order of Nine Angles]], ''Fenrir'' (ONA newsletter)

'''Ads''':'' [[Lamp of Thoth]]'' magazine (Chris Bray), ''The Satanic Witch'' by Anton Szandor LaVey ([[Feral House]]), Magickal Childe (New Age shop formerly "The Warlock Shop"), ''Tortures & Torments of the Christian Martyrs'' by Antonio Gallonio (Feral House)

'''Other''': Friedrich Nietzsche quote, L. Frank Baum quote via The Scarecrow; Odditorium mentions include ''The Magicians: An Investigation Of A Group Practicing Black Magic'' by Gini Graham Scott, PhD. (New World Books, San Francisco, 1986; softcover, 219 pages, $15.00); ''The Satanic Witch'' (formerly ''The Compleat Witch'') by Anton Szandor LaVey (Feral House, Los Angeles, 1989; soft cover, 274 pages, $9.95); Re/Search by Andrea Juno and V. Vale; ''Dark Lily: The Voice of the Left-Hand Path''; ''GANYMEDE'' magazine, ''Modern Ritual Magic: The Rise of Western Occultism'' by Francis King (Avery Publishing Group, Garden City Park, NY, 1989; softcover, 224 pages, $10.95), formerly ''Ritual Magic in England''; Satanic Cinema mentions include "Batman", "Dead Poets Society";

==Volume 1, Number 3==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 1(3).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Lex Talonis"), Nemo ("Shemhamforash! The Value of Defiance", "A Saturnalia Song", "Antichrist!", "Sheldake and Sorcery"), Wayne Hill and Tani Jantsang ("Satan Claus - The Truth about Santa Claus", "D.A.L.E.C.s from Hell"), Wayne Hill ("Devilish Versions of Xmas Songs"), Tani Jantsang ("Praise the Call", "On the Obscure[?] Cult of Attis"), Elizabeth Selwyn ("The Right-Wing Left Hand Path"), Max (The Useful Lycanthrope", "Curses!"), R. Elizabeth Fox ("Osmoconsciousness"), Excelsior Nineangle ("XXV!"), Peggy Nadramia ("If You're So Satanic, How Cum You Ain't Rich?", "Odditorium"), Morgain Blake ("I'm Dreaming of a White Saturnalia"), Honey LaSalle ("The First Garter Belt"), K. Bolton ("Breaking Down the Stereotypes"), Glenda Green ("Earthquake of 1989"), Natasha Page ("Free Among the Dead [Part 1]"), Diabolos Rex, [[Anton Szandor LaVey]] ("Eleven Satanic Rules of Earth", "Hymn of the Satanic Empire");

'''Subjects''': The Raven, Magickal Childe (New Age shop), The Occult Emporium, ''Satanism In America'' by Shawn Carlson and Gerald Larue.

'''Ads''': The Raven Course, The Occult Emporium, Satanism In America (book), LaVey's book The Satanic Witch, Tortures And Torments Of The Christian Martyrs, Magikal Childe,

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 2, Number 1==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 2(1).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Eugenics"), K. Bolton ("Friedrich Nietzsche - Satan's Hammer", "Exploding the Myth of 'Satanic Communism'"), Earl Hammons ("Hell Reigns"), Tempest ("What is Evil?"), Nemo ("Satanism and Life after Death"), Richard de Lago ("Hearty Meal" illustration, Chalice in Wonderland), Natasha Page ("Free Among the Dead [Part 2]"), Diabolos Rex ("Asylum ov Satan and the Art of Evil"), Tani Jantsang ("Man Is Indeed, Just Like Any Other Animal), Morgain Blake ("Have You Tried A Catalog?"), Peggy Nadramia ("Magic Lantern Show"), Max ("The King of Yellow"), Honey LaSalle ("Stalking the Wild Witch-Wear"), Philip Marsh ("Satanic Roots [Part 1]");

'''Subjects''': [[Feral House]], ''Satanism In America'', [[Order of the Left-Hand Path]] (New Zealand), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes" (film by [[Nick Bougas]] starring Anton LaVey)

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

''''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 2, Number 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 2(2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Alienation"), Nemo ("Satanism Needs An Enema!", "The Physics of Mysticism"), Reuben Radding ("Some People Are More Equal Than Others"), Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire ("Your Christian Blood"), Tani Jantsang ("Undefining Satanism"), Ipsissimus John Wayne ("How to Win Enemies and Influence No One: A Satanist's Guide to Losing Personal Power"), Andre T. Soly ("Ode to Jacques de Molay"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium", "Magic Lantern Show"), Max "Tradi-shuns"), James Sass ("Ed Gein, America's Secret Hero"), Philip Marsh (Satanic Roots [Part II]"), Jayne Wayne ("The Fine Art of the Nasty-Gram"), Diabolos Rex (Tulpa Spell Bondage);

'''Subjects''': Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', ''Dark Lily'', ''Abrasax'' by Ordo Templi Baphe-Metis (James M. Martin), Magickal Childe, "Death Scenes"

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

''''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 2, Number 3==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 2(3).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Apocalypse Now", "Leonard Bernstein [1918-1990]"), Reuben D. Radding ("The Satanic Justice of Spillane", "Creeping Pestilence"), Andre T. Soly ("One-Way Love [to Honey LaSalle]", "Take My Wife, Mr. Goodwrench... Please?"), Eden 162 ("T.O.P.Y. and Satanism"), Nemo ("Might Is Not ''Always'' Right"), Max ("The Big Finish", "Flowchart of the Gods"), Peggy Nadramia ("Oditorium", "Magic Lantern Show"), Unknown Author ("Sources, Where to Find It"), Diabolos Rex ("The Asylum of Satan"), Tani Jantsang ("Satan or Lucifer: Identical or Opposite?"), Philip Marsh (Satanic Roots [Part III]"), Richard De Logo ("Cockeyed Religion"), [[Jeffrey Deboo]] ("The Artist Whose Canvas is the Soul");

'''Subjects''': ''Abrasax'', [[Temple ov Psychick Youth]], ''Dark Lilly'', Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', Magickal Childe, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (shop), "Death Scenes"

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 2, Number 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 2(4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Iron Youth"), Reuben Radding ("Sigmund Freud: His Links to Satanism", "Everything Spiritual is Something... Carnal!"), A. Toplin ("The 'If' of Destruction"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium"), Richard de Lago ("Popekabob"), Diabolos Rex ("Tulpa 333"), Max ("The King In Yellow"), Wayne Hill ("Tenders of the Flame [Part 1]"), Nemo, Andre T. Soly ("Lex Talonis"), Wolf ("The Fiery Curse"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Pazuzu"), Alan Driscoll, Louis Pierre Garou, Scott Stets, Max;

'''Subjects''': ''Lamp of Thoth'' (magazine by Chris Bray), ''Dark Lily'', ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, Feral House, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes";

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 3(1-2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Misanthropy, the Satanic Lifestyle"), Reuben Radding ("G. Gordon Liddy: Will", "On Not Sinking To The Enemy's Level"), Jeffrey Deboo ("The Magic of the Will", "Nazism, Racism, and Satanism", "Some Thoughts On Satanic Ethics"), Nemo ("The Devil, You Say?", "Wimpy Wiccans and Would-Be Witches"), Max ("Lesser Is More"), [[Boyd Rice]] ("The Eternal Troubadour Speaks: Tiny Tim Walks Down Memory Lane with Boyd Royce"), Peggy Nadramia ("Sparks - What's Going On Out There", "Odditorium"), Christine Murphy ("Canis Familiarus"), Wolf ("The Freedom Fighter", "I Am I", "Succubus"), Richard De Lago ("Creation Exultation"), Magdalene Graham ("Satanist, Heal Thyself! I'd Rather Not..."), Zero Sven ("Love Where Nothing Is Amiss"), Clifford J. Case BMC USN, Ret. ("A Veteran's Thoughts On Memorial Day"), Wayne Hill ("Tenders of the Flame [Part 2]"), Craig J. Hawkinson ("Walpurgisnacht 1991 [XXVI Anno Satanas]"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Anima");

'''Subjects''': runic T-shirts ([[Abraxas Foundation]]), G. Gordon Liddy, ''Dark Lily'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Wake'' (Abraxas Foundation), ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, ''Siege'' ([[James Mason]] and [[Michael J. Moynihan|Michael M. Jenkins]]), Storm Productions, Tiny Tim, Temple of Elite (Novato, Calif.), Action Designs, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire (Lacey, Wash.), Feral House

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 3, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 3(3-4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Stratification: A Hard Reality", "Thoughts on Grottos"), Anton Szandor LaVey ("Politically Incorrect Manifesto", "Richard Straus: Helden-Composer", "Parks - What's Going On Out There?"), Blanche Barton ("Representation vs. Misrepresentation"), Jack Dog ("12/19/91"), Jeffrey Deboo ("Satan's Purge"), George Zaharopoulos ("Dominion"), Nemo ("Beer", "Satanic Self-Defense"), Phantom ("House of Indulgence"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium"), Wolf ("Power"), Reuben Radding ("Inside the Fence"), Gary Irwin ("Satan Wins Again"), Peter Luger ("David Duke: Trend for the '90s?"), A. Toplin ("Ritual Equipment: All the Right Stuff"), Doug Richards ("The Revolution"), Karl Lee Harvey ("Beasts of the Field"), Arturo Soto ("Feeding Ground"), Scott Stets ("The Call to Great Pazuzu, God of the West Wind"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Humwawa the Just");

'''Subjects''': "Dreams Shall Flesh" by White Stains (Psychick Release PCP), Embassy of S.A.T.A.N. (Jay Solomon a.k.a. "Yaj Nomolos"), ''Abrasax'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', Nick Bougas, ''Satanism in America'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, Magical Childe, The Church of War - The Final Religion, Action Designs, "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire, Gun Owners of America, Adversary Music, The Centre for the Academic Study Extremes in the Human Experience, Research Project (Gary Franklin), ''Siege'', James Mason, Michael J. Moynihan, [[David Duke]], Storm Productions, Trevor Brown, Coup de Grace Publication, Doug Richards (Knights of Satan),The Temple of the Left Hand Path, ''Dark Lily'', Doran Ragnarok, The War Church

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 4, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 4(1-2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Thoughts On The Riots", "Beethoven", "Sparks"), Christopher Bilardi ("A Caveat"), Jeffrey Deboo ("Response to Mr. Bilardi", "The First Satanic Sin", "Some Thoughts on the Riots"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("A Mortal's Perspective", "Chuzhbog"), Phantom ("Sanctuary", "Satanism: The Necessity of Vital Existence"), R. Elizabeth Fox ("Cultural Literacy and the Satanist"), Doug Richards ("Condemnation of Elysium"), Nemo ("Satanic Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous", "Rethinking Self-Defense Handguns")), Aware ("Existing Within A Multi-Religious Relationship"), Mark Hanks and Andrea Welch ("Adoption vs. Abortion"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium"), R.T. Dorsey ("American Rifleman excerpt"), William Gidney ("The Ode to Leviathan"), Robert J. Perdew ("Don't Blame Me"), Richard de Lago ("LaVey Dollar Bill"), Honey LaSalle ("Skirts 'n' Heels"), Christine Murphy ("Assignation");

'''Subjects''': Magikal Childe; The Church of War, ''From the Pit'' (Michael Fox), ''Promethean Circle'' (John Hiotellis, George Zaharopoulous), Adversary Music, Nick Bougas, Lamp of Thoth, Abrasax, Action Designs, Storm Products, Beethoven, ''The Fifth Path'', NON, ''Answer Me!'' magazine ([[Jim Goad]] and Debbie Goad), ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, "Murder" (Alamut Records), CCS (Centralia, Wash.), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 4, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 4(3-4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Lance Thimmes ("Cover Image"), Anton LaVey ("Desiderata Satanicus"), Peter H. Gilmore ("The Tide Turns", "Interview with Anton Szandor Lavey", "Pretenders to the Throne: Regarding the Temple of Set", "Sparks"), Blanche Barton ("Elbow Patch Commandos"), Peggy Nadramia ("Interview with Anton Szandor Lavey", "My Dark Satanic Love", "Odditorium"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Carnivora #1", "Coping with Involuntary Human Contact Part 1: Grocery Shopping", "I Hate Everyone"), Michael J. Moynihan ("Does Satan Drive a Pontiac Firebird: An Interview with King Diamond"), Joy Lambert, William Everisto, Ken Gage, Andre T. Soly ("The Taoist"), Bill Ehmann Jr. ("Antichrist"), Nemo ("Who's There?"), George Sprague ("In The Blink of An Eye"), [[R.N. Taylor]] ("What If They Gave a War and Nobody Came?"), Mark Banks and Andrea Welch ("Laugh! The Death Penalty"), Unknown Author 1 ("Dueling Dualities"), Tobias Leshand(?) ("Lovecraft, Landscaping, and the Law of the Trapezoid"), Jeffrey Deebo ("Herd Elitist Ideologies: A Field Guide"), [[K.R. Bolton]] ("Eugenics and Dysgenics"), Deacon Brodie ("PC in DC"), Jeffrey Wade Nagy ("My Concerns About Christianity"), R. Elizabeth Fox ("The Ultimate Explanation");

'''Subjects''': ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Dark Lily'', King Diamond, ''Devil's Advocate'' (Ron Harris), Abyss Distribution, ''From the Pit'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, ''The Archives of Aesthetic Nihilism'' (Aes-Nihil Prod.), Order of the Evil Eye (Acheron), Grotto ODM (Stratford, Conn.), The Infernal Garrison (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), the Shiva Grotto (Kokomo, Ind.), "Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey" directed by Nick Bougas, ''The Fenris Wolf'', The Church of War, ''Promethean Circle'', ''Dark Reflections'' (Jeffrey Deboo), ''Occultic Haven'', Temple of the Vampire, ''Abrasax'', ''The Fifth Path'', Death in June, Blood Axis, Feral House

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 5(1-2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Diabolos Rex ("cover image"), Peter H. Gilmore ("Time Travel - Cheap and Easy"), Anton Szandor LaVey ("Report from the Battlefront"), Peggy Nadramia ("Bob Larson Interview", "Odditorium"), Jeffrey Deboo ("Fascism and the Diety [sic] of Rebellion"), Michael J. Moynihan ("The Faustian Spirit of Fascism"), K. Bolton ("Satanic Dialectics: The Balance Factor..."), Unknown Author 1 ("Here are some of my prime gripes regarding modern life..."), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Race", "Coping With Involuntary Human Contact Part 2: The Unwashed Masses"), Walter J. Gallo, Reuben Radding(?), Unknown Author 2 ("Early in the history of the Church of Satan..."), Unknown Author 3 ("Heavily implicit in the program of Pentagonal Revisionism...), Unknown Author 4 ("It appears more and more every day..."), Unknown Author 5 ("Mentalism. No other field of conjuring..."), Unknown Author 6 ("Having Catholicism instilled...")], Unknown Author 7 ("Drugs"), Unknown Author 8 ("It seems that nowadays..."), Deacon Brodie ("Ward 7"), Doug Edward Richards ("Spokes In A Wheel");

'''Subjects''': Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey (birth announcement), Timothy Patrick Butler, The New Englande Orange Power Companie Inc., [[Bob Larson]], ''Promethean Circle'', ''Order of the Evil Eye'', ''Dark Reflections'', ''From the Pit'' (now Michael Rose), "Liers in Wait" by Spear of Destiny (Railroad Records), ''The Fifth Path'', ''Asylum of Satan'', ''Lucifer Rising'' by Gavin Baddeley, Temple of the Vampire, ''Wolf-Age Magazine'' (Rev. Vincent Crowley), Occultic Haven, ''Abrasax'', Philip Marsh, The Infernal Garrison, ''The Devil's Advocate'', JacKas Productions, "Siege" by James Mason, Feral House;

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 5, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 5(3-4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Anton LaVey ("Thank God For Satan", "The Third Side: The Uncomfortable Alternative"), Peter H. Gilmore ("Intellectual Black Holes", "Sparks"), Michael J. Moynihan ("Anton Szandor LaVey Interview"), Blanche Barton ("Sycophants Unite!", "Mandatory Education: Teaching Pigs to Sing"), Bob Rust ("The Wondrous Wisdom of Walt Disney"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("From Late Gothic to the Renaissance in the North"), Bradford de Rastrick ("The Latest 'Infernal Machine'"), Peggy Nadramia ("Satan On line: Should You Bother?", Odditorium), Tani Jantsang ("Cthulu Mythos"), George Sprague ("Special Effects, the Ritual Chamber & You"), Steve Meisenbach, [[Joshua Buckley]], S.A. Blacart and Richard de Lago ("Psi-Pinocchio and the Puppet Master"), Lydia Gage ("The Lost Art of Corsetting, or Waist Not, Want Not"), Azazel (Responsibility to the Responsible"), Lupo LeBoucher ("The Left Wing Today"), Nemo ("Self-Sufficiency and Satanism");

'''Subjects''': "The Satanic Mass" (Amarillo Records), "S.W.A.T." (Amphetamine Reptile Records), "The History of Formerly Salty Areas" by Timothy Patrick Butler (Cat Box Productions), ''Wolf-Age'', ''The Raven'', "The Cult of Othin" by H.M. Chadwick (Looking Glass Press), Philip Marsh, ''The Gates of Hell'' by George Sprague, ''The Occult Book of Wisdom'' by Magister C. James Case, Larry Wessel's "Tauroboleum: The Tijuana Bulllfight Documentary", "Hail Victory" by Acheron (Metal Merchant Records), "Charles Manson commemoration" (Storm), ''From the Pit'', Order of the Evil Eye, Papa Legba's "Satanic Merchandise" ''Promethean Circle'', ''The Devil's Advocate'', ''Lucifer Rising'', ''Diabolica'', Temple of the Vampire, Diabolical Creations (IZM Enterprises), Blood Axis (Storm), Feral House

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 6 (1-2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Pervasive Pantywaistism", "Sparks") Anton LaVey ("They"), Nick Bougas ("Portrait of Anton LaVey"), Blanche Barton ("Satanic Feminism"), Magister Jeffrey W. Nagy (Anti-Christ Superstar: Rev. Marilyn Manson), Joseph Cultice ("photo of Marilyn Manson band"), Irrev. Gavin Baddeley ("We Are All Individuals [Except That Guy Sitting On His Own In The Corner"]), Tani Jantsang ("Aw Shucks, I'm Only Just An Animal..."), Robert Rust ("A Heathen Manifesto"), Joshua Buckley ("Satan's Little Helper"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium"), Michael J. Moynihan ("RaHoWa"), Azazael ("The Day The Earth Stood Still?"), Rev. Ken Gage ("Agnostic Satanism And Other Delirium"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Obituary"), R. Elizabeth Fox ("Satanism And Osmoconsciousness"), Michael Rose ("The Satanist In The Garden"), Nemo ("Satanism and Objectivism"), Phantom ("From Prohibition to Precedent"), John C. Davis ("Unarmed Self-Defense and the Satanist");

'''Subjects''': Baphomet Pentagram Pendant (Netherworld), Philip Marsh, The Electric Hellfire Club ([[Thomas Thorn]]), ''The Black Pun-kin'' (Ottowa, Ontario, Canada - Robert Lang), Shane M. Lassen, Feral House, Daughters of Darkness (Gotherotica Productions), Wesselmania (Larry Wessel), ''From the Pit'', RaHoWa, George Eric Hawthorn (George Burdi), ''Not Like Most'', ''Diabolica'', The Satanic Salon's "Fuck You America" Violence Toward Women (SS Renegade Artists), ''The Raven'', Moribund Cult, The Salt Lick (Timothy Patrick Butler), Recordings by Anton Szandor LaVey (Amarillo Records), The Grand Grimoire (Trident Books), Temple of the Vampire, ''Den Sataniska Bibeln'' (Looking Glass Press), Altar Egos (Thomas Pickering), ''Ohm Clock Magazine'' ([[Aaron Garland]]), ''The Devil's Advocate'', Michael Hunt Publishing, Blood Axis, Storm, Tilt Works

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 6, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 6 (3-4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore ("Towards the Well-Known Religion"), Anton LaVey ("Lot Lice", "Why Bartenders Don't Lend Money) , Blanche Barton ("In Memoriam: Anton LaVey, The Devil's Henchman"), Boyd Rice ("Remembering LaVey"), Nick Bougas ("Poppycock!"), [[Adam Parfrey]] ("The Tragedy of Anton LaVey"), Priestess Ruth Waytz ("Who's Minding the Church?"), Carl Abrahamsson ("Respect to a Master Magician"), Nemo ("I Remember the Doctor"), Reverend Gregory Sprague ("Thank You, Dr. Lavey!"), Magister Jeff Nagy ("Dark Comrade"), Draconis Blackthorne ("Devil Father"), Irrev. Gavin Baeddely ("Anton LaVey—An Appreciation"), Reverend Thomas Thorn ("Diabolical Machinations"), Robert Lang and Diana DeMagis ("In Tribute to Anton LaVey"), Lou Hutchinson ("Return to the Void", "7 Chakras of the Black Pope"), Christopher J. Turner ("Like This With The Devil"), Magister Clifford Case ("The Kabinet of Doktor LaVey), Tabone J.P., Peggy Nadramia ("Heart of the Lion, Eye of the Snake"), Michael Moynihan ("Ulver"), Jim Mitchell ("On The Importance of Great Big Asses"), Robert Rust ("Toward A New Lounge Culture"), Kevin Filan ("Satanism and the Afro-Carribbean Traditions"), Steven Ericson ("Archeron: Magister Vincent Crowley"), Satan's Commissar ("Seeing Red"), Blackjack ("You'll Hear From My Lawyer!"), Herbert Paulis ("The Crusades And The Baphomet"), Reverend K.S. ("To Arms"), Anthony, Michael Rose ("The Terror By Night");

'''subjects''': Anton LaVey

'''ads''': Action Designs, The Dying Pig, ''Lucifer Rising'', Ulver (band), Temple of the Vampire, Azure Green, Purging Talon Publishing, Acheron, ''The Cloven Hoof'', Dark Doctrines Monographs (Philip Marsh), The Black Pun-Kin, From the Pit, First Store Publications, ''Isis and Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon'' by Doran Wittelsbach, Storm, Blood Axis, Allerseelen, David E. Williams;

'''other''': <Odditorium not added>

==The Black Flame No. 16==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 16.pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Magister Robert A. Lang ("About our cover image"), Magistra Blanche Barton ("Milestones: Walpurgisnacht of XXXVI A.S."), Magus Peter H. Gilmore ("Milestones: Walpurgisnacht, XXXVII A.S.", "17 October, XXXVI A.S."), Magistra Peggy Nadramia ("Jimmy Vargas: Tease, Torch & Noir", "Odditorium"), Jimmy Vargas ("My Shadow Bride"), Joshua Buckley ("Catholics, Goering, and Charlton Heston: A Friendly Chat with the Only Pop Singer Who (Might) Still Matter"), Reverend Michael Moynihan ("Peter Mlakar: NSK's Satanic Technocrat", "Turn Off Your Mind" review, "Trevor Brown"), [[Charles Krafft]] ("Peter Mlakar"), Archangel's Suave Tiki ("In Your Confidence: A fragmentary history of the Socialites"), Warlock Kevin I. Slaughter ("Dirty Books: The Insolent Dr. Bowdler, His Compatriots, and Their Fear of Blushing"), Magister Michael Rose ("Renfields"), Reverend Carl Abrahamsson ("Mannequin of Madness: The Story of the Doll' "), "An Interview with Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba"), Agent Cyanide ("Lessons in Online Stupidity: a 'Train-of-Thought' Essay", Delusions of Godhood), PWG ("100 Artists See Satan" review), Aaron Garland ("Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant" review, "Ten Years of Madness" review), Sir Chaos ("Hand of Death: The Henry Lee Lucas Story" review, "Lucifer Dechconee" review), Magister George Sprague ("The Jesus Mysteries" review), Warlock R. Merciless ("Romantic Satanism" review, "Giosue Carducci: 19th Century Poet, Statesman and Satanist"), Magister Lestat Ventrue ("The Court Composer" review, "Musick in Theory and Practice" review, "The Law of 8ve" review), Bryan Moore ("Threnody for Humanity"), Warlock Draconis Blackthorne ("The Abominable Dr. Phibes" review, "The Black Cat" review, "Aristotle: The Satanic Philosopher"), Mike ReCasino ("Chocolat" review"), Colonel Akula ("Freaks" review, "The Ring" review, "Chuckles for Tchort: The Satanic Humour of the Great Benny Hill"), a sympathetic rebrobate ("A Satanists's Introduction to William Blake"), Warlock Jack Malebranche ("The Cycle: Fecundity Demands a Cruel Balance in Anthony Burgess' ''The Wanting Seed''), Ulf Herder ("Gone Feral: Adam Parfrey's Ministry of Unsafe Information", Magister Robert A. Lang ("Collecting Souls in a World of Cyber Junkies", "The Art of Ritual: Concrete Visualization"), Reverend Herbert Paulis ("Who Teachers The Teachers?"), Agent U.V.Ray ("Satan, the Libido, and the True Nature of the Beast"), Blackjack ("Kiss My Satanic Ass: A Guide to the Science of Insulting"), Father Christopher Mealie ("After the Absurd");

'''Subjects''': Jimmy Vargas, Peter Mlakar, Laibach, Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), United Satanic Apache Front (USAF), Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba, William Blake, Anthony Burgess, Giosue Carducci, Adam Parfrey, Trevor Brown, Aristotle, Benny Hill;

'''Ads''': David E. Williams CDs, Purging Talon (Not Like Most, Book of Satanic Quotations, DVDs), Adversary Recordings, Dark Candles, Sin Set Books... The Temple of the Vampire, The Black House: A Tribute to the Devil's Lair, Church of Satan Emporium, Arkham Studios, Germ Books + Gallery, Coop Stuff (Chris Cooper), Church of Satan Emporium (Diana DeMagis, Robert A. Lang, Ian Reid), Trevor Brown, ''Fang and Claw: A Treatise on Practical Combat'' by Colonel Akula, Theatre of the Macabre, Satanism Today, "Audio Structure Spirits" by Cotton Ferox (Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert), Feral House (''Sin-A-Rama''; ''When Sex Was Dirty''; ''Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion'');

'''Other''': Purging Talon Publishing, ''Rule Satannia: The Voice of Satanism'' (UK), ''S-Magazine'' (Virginia), ''Bloodfire!'' (Bloodfire Grotto, Les Hernandez a.k.a. Rev. Bloodfire), ''The Trident: The Magazine of Modern Satanism'' (Missouri), ''The Ghost #1'' (Colonel Akula), ''The Dark Corner: Finnish Reflections on Satanism, Issue #1'', ''Skratte #1'' (Kentucky), ''Lifeforce: The International Vampire Connection to Cabal'', ''The Devil's Diary'' (Draconis Blackthorne), ''Sinister'' (Michael Rose), Predatory Instinct Productions, ''Man and Technics'' by Oswald Spengler, ''The Crowd: Book One'' by Gustave LeBon, ''Man into Wolf'' by Robert Eisler, ''Anti-Krist'' (Sweden), Bloody Beautiful #1, #2 (BUA Productions), ''Zinnober #6'' (Germany), Stigmata Press (Everett, Wash.), ''Filthy Habits #2'', Feral House, Dominion Press, ''Runa: Exploring Northern European Myth, Mystery and Magic'', ''Absinthia Taetra'', ''Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious, or the Anatomy of the Image'' by Hans Bellmer, ''TYR, Myth « Culture - Tradition, Issues #1''...

The Black Flame

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Maestro grandeur:

According to the [[Church of Satan]], ''The Black Flame'', "the International Forum of the Church of Satan", began in 1989, during a period when its previous publication ''[[The Cloven Hoof]]'' was on hiatus. ''The Black Flame'' ultimately produced 16 editions from 1989 to 2005, produced first with the intention of being quarterly, before being produced bi-annually, and finally intermittently.

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==Table==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The Black Flame
|-
! Year !! Edition !! File | Notes
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||first publication, original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 2
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 1
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 3]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(3).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(1).pdf|scan]]
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 3]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(3).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 4]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(4).pdf|scan]]||announcement of switch to biannual instead of quarterly production
|-
|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(1-2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1992||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 3 and No. 4]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(3-4).pdf|scan]]||gratuitous quote by Adolf Hitler: "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
|-
|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVII AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(1-2).pdf|scan]]||page one missing, including first portion of "Thoughts on the Riots", HIV/AIDS blame debate begins here
|-
|1993||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(3-4).pdf|scan]]||''Siege'' by James Mason reviewed
|-
|1994||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(1-2).pdf|scan]]||Deboo's article opposing fascism, Moynihan's article on the "Faustian Spirit" of fascism
|-
|1995||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(3-4).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1996||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (1-2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|2000||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (3-4).pdf|scan]]||Anton LaVey memorial issue
|-
|2005||[[The Black Flame No. 16]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 16.pdf|scan]]||final ''Black Flame'' volume, page 1 is repeated,
|}

==[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 1|Volume 1, Number 1]]==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': [[Peter H. Gilmore]] ("Have your cake and eat it too!"), Max ("The Devil in Daylight"), Clinton Smith ("Recognizing Pseudo-Satanism"), Morgain Blake ("Choosing a Familiar"), Pagan X ("Invocation to Cthulhu", "Invocation to Shub-Niggurath"), Nemo ("The Purpose of Life", "A Piece of the Action: A Ceremony of Satanic Magic"), [[Peggy Nadramia]] ("Odditorium"), Max ("Mystical Junkie"), Diabolos Rex ("Yuggoth Text");

'''subjects''': n/a

'''ads''': none

'''other''': quote by Russian violinist Jascha Heifetz; Odditorium mentions include ''Freak Show: Presenting Human'' ''Oddities for Amusement and Profit'' by Robert Bogdan. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988; hardcover; 322 pages; $29.95); ''Critique: Exposing Consensus Reality'' (magazine); ''S.E.T. FREE'', the newsletter of the ''Society to Eradicate Television''; ''School is Hell'' by Matt Groening (Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; paperback; about 50 pages; $5.98)

==Volume 1, Number 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("We are legion!"), [[Blanche Barton]] ("The Satanic Witch, Now Playing At Theatres Near You", quote box, "Archetypes, the Fourth Dimension, and Everything"), Magdalene Graham of ''Dark Lily'' magazine ("Re-Defining Satanism"), Max ("The Best Satanic Revenge", "Slaying the Monster"), Setnahkt ("A Statement Against Normalization"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium", "Magic Lantern Show: Satanic Cinema"), Nemo (book review, movie review, "Satanism, Reason, and Mysticism"), Alex Loss (report in "Hellspawn"), Algar Langton of Thormynd Press ("Order of Nine Angles"), Pagan X ("Man In Black"), Glenda Green ("Imagine Before 1966"), Julian Karswell ("A New Satanic Solid?"), Paul Aarons ("Satan's Protest"), Morgain Blake ("Dressing Like Hell"), [[Tani Jantsang]] ("Mephistopheles-Nyarlathotep-Ob-Satan"), Diabolos Rex (art "Oderatüs Beastüalis");

'''Subjects''': ''[[Dark Lily]]'' magazine (Magdalene Graham), Rev. Yaj Nomolos, The 88 Temple Ov Deities (Miami, Fla.), Adel Lazch Souto, The Raven School/Church of the Raven, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), High Priest Luther, [[Order of Nine Angles]], ''Fenrir'' (ONA newsletter)

'''Ads''':'' [[Lamp of Thoth]]'' magazine (Chris Bray), ''The Satanic Witch'' by Anton Szandor LaVey ([[Feral House]]), Magickal Childe (New Age shop formerly "The Warlock Shop"), ''Tortures & Torments of the Christian Martyrs'' by Antonio Gallonio (Feral House)

'''Other''': Friedrich Nietzsche quote, L. Frank Baum quote via The Scarecrow; Odditorium mentions include ''The Magicians: An Investigation Of A Group Practicing Black Magic'' by Gini Graham Scott, PhD. (New World Books, San Francisco, 1986; softcover, 219 pages, $15.00); ''The Satanic Witch'' (formerly ''The Compleat Witch'') by Anton Szandor LaVey (Feral House, Los Angeles, 1989; soft cover, 274 pages, $9.95); Re/Search by Andrea Juno and V. Vale; ''Dark Lily: The Voice of the Left-Hand Path''; ''GANYMEDE'' magazine, ''Modern Ritual Magic: The Rise of Western Occultism'' by Francis King (Avery Publishing Group, Garden City Park, NY, 1989; softcover, 224 pages, $10.95), formerly ''Ritual Magic in England''; Satanic Cinema mentions include "Batman", "Dead Poets Society";

==Volume 1, Number 3==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 1(3).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Lex Talonis"), Nemo ("Shemhamforash! The Value of Defiance", "A Saturnalia Song", "Antichrist!", "Sheldake and Sorcery"), Wayne Hill and Tani Jantsang ("Satan Claus - The Truth about Santa Claus", "D.A.L.E.C.s from Hell"), Wayne Hill ("Devilish Versions of Xmas Songs"), Tani Jantsang ("Praise the Call", "On the Obscure[?] Cult of Attis"), Elizabeth Selwyn ("The Right-Wing Left Hand Path"), Max (The Useful Lycanthrope", "Curses!"), R. Elizabeth Fox ("Osmoconsciousness"), Excelsior Nineangle ("XXV!"), Peggy Nadramia ("If You're So Satanic, How Cum You Ain't Rich?", "Odditorium"), Morgain Blake ("I'm Dreaming of a White Saturnalia"), Honey LaSalle ("The First Garter Belt"), K. Bolton ("Breaking Down the Stereotypes"), Glenda Green ("Earthquake of 1989"), Natasha Page ("Free Among the Dead [Part 1]"), Diabolos Rex, [[Anton Szandor LaVey]] ("Eleven Satanic Rules of Earth", "Hymn of the Satanic Empire");

'''Subjects''': The Raven, Magickal Childe (New Age shop), The Occult Emporium, ''Satanism In America'' by Shawn Carlson and Gerald Larue.

'''Ads''': The Raven Course, The Occult Emporium, Satanism In America (book), LaVey's book The Satanic Witch, Tortures And Torments Of The Christian Martyrs, Magikal Childe,

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 2, Number 1==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 2(1).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Eugenics"), K. Bolton ("Friedrich Nietzsche - Satan's Hammer", "Exploding the Myth of 'Satanic Communism'"), Earl Hammons ("Hell Reigns"), Tempest ("What is Evil?"), Nemo ("Satanism and Life after Death"), Richard de Lago ("Hearty Meal" illustration, Chalice in Wonderland), Natasha Page ("Free Among the Dead [Part 2]"), Diabolos Rex ("Asylum ov Satan and the Art of Evil"), Tani Jantsang ("Man Is Indeed, Just Like Any Other Animal), Morgain Blake ("Have You Tried A Catalog?"), Peggy Nadramia ("Magic Lantern Show"), Max ("The King of Yellow"), Honey LaSalle ("Stalking the Wild Witch-Wear"), Philip Marsh ("Satanic Roots [Part 1]");

'''Subjects''': [[Feral House]], ''Satanism In America'', [[Order of the Left-Hand Path]] (New Zealand), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes" (film by [[Nick Bougas]] starring Anton LaVey)

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

''''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 2, Number 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 2(2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Alienation"), Nemo ("Satanism Needs An Enema!", "The Physics of Mysticism"), Reuben Radding ("Some People Are More Equal Than Others"), Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire ("Your Christian Blood"), Tani Jantsang ("Undefining Satanism"), Ipsissimus John Wayne ("How to Win Enemies and Influence No One: A Satanist's Guide to Losing Personal Power"), Andre T. Soly ("Ode to Jacques de Molay"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium", "Magic Lantern Show"), Max "Tradi-shuns"), James Sass ("Ed Gein, America's Secret Hero"), Philip Marsh (Satanic Roots [Part II]"), Jayne Wayne ("The Fine Art of the Nasty-Gram"), Diabolos Rex (Tulpa Spell Bondage);

'''Subjects''': Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', ''Dark Lily'', ''Abrasax'' by Ordo Templi Baphe-Metis (James M. Martin), Magickal Childe, "Death Scenes"

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

''''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 2, Number 3==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 2(3).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Apocalypse Now", "Leonard Bernstein [1918-1990]"), Reuben D. Radding ("The Satanic Justice of Spillane", "Creeping Pestilence"), Andre T. Soly ("One-Way Love [to Honey LaSalle]", "Take My Wife, Mr. Goodwrench... Please?"), Eden 162 ("T.O.P.Y. and Satanism"), Nemo ("Might Is Not ''Always'' Right"), Max ("The Big Finish", "Flowchart of the Gods"), Peggy Nadramia ("Oditorium", "Magic Lantern Show"), Unknown Author ("Sources, Where to Find It"), Diabolos Rex ("The Asylum of Satan"), Tani Jantsang ("Satan or Lucifer: Identical or Opposite?"), Philip Marsh (Satanic Roots [Part III]"), Richard De Logo ("Cockeyed Religion"), [[Jeffrey Deboo]] ("The Artist Whose Canvas is the Soul");

'''Subjects''': ''Abrasax'', [[Temple ov Psychick Youth]], ''Dark Lilly'', Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', Magickal Childe, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (shop), "Death Scenes"

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 2, Number 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 2(4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Iron Youth"), Reuben Radding ("Sigmund Freud: His Links to Satanism", "Everything Spiritual is Something... Carnal!"), A. Toplin ("The 'If' of Destruction"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium"), Richard de Lago ("Popekabob"), Diabolos Rex ("Tulpa 333"), Max ("The King In Yellow"), Wayne Hill ("Tenders of the Flame [Part 1]"), Nemo, Andre T. Soly ("Lex Talonis"), Wolf ("The Fiery Curse"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Pazuzu"), Alan Driscoll, Louis Pierre Garou, Scott Stets, Max;

'''Subjects''': ''Lamp of Thoth'' (magazine by Chris Bray), ''Dark Lily'', ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, Feral House, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes";

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 3(1-2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Misanthropy, the Satanic Lifestyle"), Reuben Radding ("G. Gordon Liddy: Will", "On Not Sinking To The Enemy's Level"), Jeffrey Deboo ("The Magic of the Will", "Nazism, Racism, and Satanism", "Some Thoughts On Satanic Ethics"), Nemo ("The Devil, You Say?", "Wimpy Wiccans and Would-Be Witches"), Max ("Lesser Is More"), [[Boyd Rice]] ("The Eternal Troubadour Speaks: Tiny Tim Walks Down Memory Lane with Boyd Royce"), Peggy Nadramia ("Sparks - What's Going On Out There", "Odditorium"), Christine Murphy ("Canis Familiarus"), Wolf ("The Freedom Fighter", "I Am I", "Succubus"), Richard De Lago ("Creation Exultation"), Magdalene Graham ("Satanist, Heal Thyself! I'd Rather Not..."), Zero Sven ("Love Where Nothing Is Amiss"), Clifford J. Case BMC USN, Ret. ("A Veteran's Thoughts On Memorial Day"), Wayne Hill ("Tenders of the Flame [Part 2]"), Craig J. Hawkinson ("Walpurgisnacht 1991 [XXVI Anno Satanas]"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Anima");

'''Subjects''': runic T-shirts ([[Abraxas Foundation]]), G. Gordon Liddy, ''Dark Lily'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Wake'' (Abraxas Foundation), ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, ''Siege'' ([[James Mason]] and [[Michael J. Moynihan|Michael M. Jenkins]]), Storm Productions, Tiny Tim, Temple of Elite( Novato, Calif.), Action Designs, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire (Lacey, Wash.), Feral House

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 3, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 3(3-4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Stratification: A Hard Reality", "Thoughts on Grottos"), Anton Szandor LaVey ("Politically Incorrect Manifesto", "Richard Straus: Helden-Composer", "Parks - What's Going On Out There?"), Blanche Barton ("Representation vs. Misrepresentation"), Jack Dog ("12/19/91"), Jeffrey Deboo ("Satan's Purge"), George Zaharopoulos ("Dominion"), Nemo ("Beer", "Satanic Self-Defense"), Phantom ("House of Indulgence"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium"), Wolf ("Power"), Reuben Radding ("Inside the Fence"), Gary Irwin ("Satan Wins Again"), Peter Luger ("David Duke: Trend for the '90s?"), A. Toplin ("Ritual Equipment: All the Right Stuff"), Doug Richards ("The Revolution"), Karl Lee Harvey ("Beasts of the Field"), Arturo Soto ("Feeding Ground"), Scott Stets ("The Call to Great Pazuzu, God of the West Wind"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Humwawa the Just");

'''Subjects''': "Dreams Shall Flesh" by White Stains (Psychick Release PCP), Embassy of S.A.T.A.N. (Jay Solomon a.k.a. "Yaj Nomolos"), ''Abrasax'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', Nick Bougas, ''Satanism in America'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, Magical Childe, The Church of War - The Final Religion, Action Designs, "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire, Gun Owners of America, Adversary Music, The Centre for the Academic Study Extremes in the Human Experience, Research Project (Gary Franklin), ''Siege'', James Mason, Michael J. Moynihan, [[David Duke]], Storm Productions, Trevor Brown, Coup de Grace Publication, Doug Richards (Knights of Satan),The Temple of the Left Hand Path, ''Dark Lily'', Doran Ragnarok, The War Church

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 4, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 4(1-2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Thoughts On The Riots", "Beethoven", "Sparks"), Christopher Bilardi ("A Caveat"), Jeffrey Deboo ("Response to Mr. Bilardi", "The First Satanic Sin", "Some Thoughts on the Riots"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("A Mortal's Perspective", "Chuzhbog"), Phantom ("Sanctuary", "Satanism: The Necessity of Vital Existence"), R. Elizabeth Fox ("Cultural Literacy and the Satanist"), Doug Richards ("Condemnation of Elysium"), Nemo ("Satanic Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous", "Rethinking Self-Defense Handguns")), Aware ("Existing Within A Multi-Religious Relationship"), Mark Hanks and Andrea Welch ("Adoption vs. Abortion"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium"), R.T. Dorsey ("American Rifleman excerpt"), William Gidney ("The Ode to Leviathan"), Robert J. Perdew ("Don't Blame Me"), Richard de Lago ("LaVey Dollar Bill"), Honey LaSalle ("Skirts 'n' Heels"), Christine Murphy ("Assignation");

'''Subjects''': Magikal Childe; The Church of War, ''From the Pit'' (Michael Fox), ''Promethean Circle'' (John Hiotellis, George Zaharopoulous), Adversary Music, Nick Bougas, Lamp of Thoth, Abrasax, Action Designs, Storm Products, Beethoven, ''The Fifth Path'', NON, ''Answer Me!'' magazine ([[Jim Goad]] and Debbie Goad), ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, "Murder" (Alamut Records), CCS (Centralia, Wash.), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 4, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 4(3-4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Lance Thimmes ("Cover Image"), Anton LaVey ("Desiderata Satanicus"), Peter H. Gilmore ("The Tide Turns", "Interview with Anton Szandor Lavey", "Pretenders to the Throne: Regarding the Temple of Set", "Sparks"), Blanche Barton ("Elbow Patch Commandos"), Peggy Nadramia ("Interview with Anton Szandor Lavey", "My Dark Satanic Love", "Odditorium"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Carnivora #1", "Coping with Involuntary Human Contact Part 1: Grocery Shopping", "I Hate Everyone"), Michael J. Moynihan ("Does Satan Drive a Pontiac Firebird: An Interview with King Diamond"), Joy Lambert, William Everisto, Ken Gage, Andre T. Soly ("The Taoist"), Bill Ehmann Jr. ("Antichrist"), Nemo ("Who's There?"), George Sprague ("In The Blink of An Eye"), [[R.N. Taylor]] ("What If They Gave a War and Nobody Came?"), Mark Banks and Andrea Welch ("Laugh! The Death Penalty"), Unknown Author 1 ("Dueling Dualities"), Tobias Leshand(?) ("Lovecraft, Landscaping, and the Law of the Trapezoid"), Jeffrey Deebo ("Herd Elitist Ideologies: A Field Guide"), [[K.R. Bolton]] ("Eugenics and Dysgenics"), Deacon Brodie ("PC in DC"), Jeffrey Wade Nagy ("My Concerns About Christianity"), R. Elizabeth Fox ("The Ultimate Explanation");

'''Subjects''': ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Dark Lily'', King Diamond, ''Devil's Advocate'' (Ron Harris), Abyss Distribution, ''From the Pit'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, ''The Archives of Aesthetic Nihilism'' (Aes-Nihil Prod.), Order of the Evil Eye (Acheron), Grotto ODM (Stratford, Conn.), The Infernal Garrison (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), the Shiva Grotto (Kokomo, Ind.), "Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey" directed by Nick Bougas, ''The Fenris Wolf'', The Church of War, ''Promethean Circle'', ''Dark Reflections'' (Jeffrey Deboo), ''Occultic Haven'', Temple of the Vampire, ''Abrasax'', ''The Fifth Path'', Death in June, Blood Axis, Feral House

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 5(1-2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Diabolos Rex ("cover image"), Peter H. Gilmore ("Time Travel - Cheap and Easy"), Anton Szandor LaVey ("Report from the Battlefront"), Peggy Nadramia ("Bob Larson Interview", "Odditorium"), Jeffrey Deboo ("Fascism and the Diety [sic] of Rebellion"), Michael J. Moynihan ("The Faustian Spirit of Fascism"), K. Bolton ("Satanic Dialectics: The Balance Factor..."), Unknown Author 1 ("Here are some of my prime gripes regarding modern life..."), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Race", "Coping With Involuntary Human Contact Part 2: The Unwashed Masses"), Walter J. Gallo, Reuben Radding(?), Unknown Author 2 ("Early in the history of the Church of Satan..."), Unknown Author 3 ("Heavily implicit in the program of Pentagonal Revisionism...), Unknown Author 4 ("It appears more and more every day..."), Unknown Author 5 ("Mentalism. No other field of conjuring..."), Unknown Author 6 ("Having Catholicism instilled...")], Unknown Author 7 ("Drugs"), Unknown Author 8 ("It seems that nowadays..."), Deacon Brodie ("Ward 7"), Doug Edward Richards ("Spokes In A Wheel");

'''Subjects''': Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey (birth announcement), Timothy Patrick Butler, The New Englande Orange Power Companie Inc., [[Bob Larson]], ''Promethean Circle'', ''Order of the Evil Eye'', ''Dark Reflections'', ''From the Pit'' (now Michael Rose), "Liers in Wait" by Spear of Destiny (Railroad Records), ''The Fifth Path'', ''Asylum of Satan'', ''Lucifer Rising'' by Gavin Baddeley, Temple of the Vampire, ''Wolf-Age Magazine'' (Rev. Vincent Crowley), Occultic Haven, ''Abrasax'', Philip Marsh, The Infernal Garrison, ''The Devil's Advocate'', JacKas Productions, "Siege" by James Mason, Feral House;

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 5, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 5(3-4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Anton LaVey ("Thank God For Satan", "The Third Side: The Uncomfortable Alternative"), Peter H. Gilmore ("Intellectual Black Holes", "Sparks"), Michael J. Moynihan ("Anton Szandor LaVey Interview"), Blanche Barton ("Sycophants Unite!", "Mandatory Education: Teaching Pigs to Sing"), Bob Rust ("The Wondrous Wisdom of Walt Disney"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("From Late Gothic to the Renaissance in the North"), Bradford de Rastrick ("The Latest 'Infernal Machine'"), Peggy Nadramia ("Satan On line: Should You Bother?", Odditorium), Tani Jantsang ("Cthulu Mythos"), George Sprague ("Special Effects, the Ritual Chamber & You"), Steve Meisenbach, [[Joshua Buckley]], S.A. Blacart and Richard de Lago ("Psi-Pinocchio and the Puppet Master"), Lydia Gage ("The Lost Art of Corsetting, or Waist Not, Want Not"), Azazel (Responsibility to the Responsible"), Lupo LeBoucher ("The Left Wing Today"), Nemo ("Self-Sufficiency and Satanism");

'''Subjects''': "The Satanic Mass" (Amarillo Records), "S.W.A.T." (Amphetamine Reptile Records), "The History of Formerly Salty Areas" by Timothy Patrick Butler (Cat Box Productions), ''Wolf-Age'', ''The Raven'', "The Cult of Othin" by H.M. Chadwick (Looking Glass Press), Philip Marsh, ''The Gates of Hell'' by George Sprague, ''The Occult Book of Wisdom'' by Magister C. James Case, Larry Wessel's "Tauroboleum: The Tijuana Bulllfight Documentary", "Hail Victory" by Acheron (Metal Merchant Records), "Charles Manson commemoration" (Storm), ''From the Pit'', Order of the Evil Eye, Papa Legba's "Satanic Merchandise" ''Promethean Circle'', ''The Devil's Advocate'', ''Lucifer Rising'', ''Diabolica'', Temple of the Vampire, Diabolical Creations (IZM Enterprises), Blood Axis (Storm), Feral House

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 6 (1-2).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("Pervasive Pantywaistism", "Sparks") Anton LaVey ("They"), Nick Bougas ("Portrait of Anton LaVey"), Blanche Barton ("Satanic Feminism"), Magister Jeffrey W. Nagy (Anti-Christ Superstar: Rev. Marilyn Manson), Joseph Cultice ("photo of Marilyn Manson band"), Irrev. Gavin Baddeley ("We Are All Individuals [Except That Guy Sitting On His Own In The Corner"]), Tani Jantsang ("Aw Shucks, I'm Only Just An Animal..."), Robert Rust ("A Heathen Manifesto"), Joshua Buckley ("Satan's Little Helper"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium"), Michael J. Moynihan ("RaHoWa"), Azazael ("The Day The Earth Stood Still?"), Rev. Ken Gage ("Agnostic Satanism And Other Delirium"), Timothy Patrick Butler ("Obituary"), R. Elizabeth Fox ("Satanism And Osmoconsciousness"), Michael Rose ("The Satanist In The Garden"), Nemo ("Satanism and Objectivism"), Phantom ("From Prohibition to Precedent"), John C. Davis ("Unarmed Self-Defense and the Satanist");

'''Subjects''': Baphomet Pentagram Pendant (Netherworld), Philip Marsh, The Electric Hellfire Club ([[Thomas Thorn]]), ''The Black Pun-kin'' (Ottowa, Ontario, Canada - Robert Lang), Shane M. Lassen, Feral House, Daughters of Darkness (Gotherotica Productions), Wesselmania (Larry Wessel), ''From the Pit'', RaHoWa, George Eric Hawthorn (George Burdi), ''Not Like Most'', ''Diabolica'', The Satanic Salon's "Fuck You America" Violence Toward Women (SS Renegade Artists), ''The Raven'', Moribund Cult, The Salt Lick (Timothy Patrick Butler), Recordings by Anton Szandor LaVey (Amarillo Records), The Grand Grimoire (Trident Books), Temple of the Vampire, ''Den Sataniska Bibeln'' (Looking Glass Press), Altar Egos (Thomas Pickering), ''Ohm Clock Magazine'' ([[Aaron Garland]]), ''The Devil's Advocate'', Michael Hunt Publishing, Blood Axis, Storm, Tilt Works

'''Ads''': <undifferentiated from above>

'''Other''': <Odditorium not included>

==Volume 6, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 6 (3-4).pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore ("Towards the Well-Known Religion"), Anton LaVey ("Lot Lice", "Why Bartenders Don't Lend Money) , Blanche Barton ("In Memoriam: Anton LaVey, The Devil's Henchman"), Boyd Rice ("Remembering LaVey"), Nick Bougas ("Poppycock!"), [[Adam Parfrey]] ("The Tragedy of Anton LaVey"), Priestess Ruth Waytz ("Who's Minding the Church?"), Carl Abrahamsson ("Respect to a Master Magician"), Nemo ("I Remember the Doctor"), Reverend Gregory Sprague ("Thank You, Dr. Lavey!"), Magister Jeff Nagy ("Dark Comrade"), Draconis Blackthorne ("Devil Father"), Irrev. Gavin Baeddely ("Anton LaVey—An Appreciation"), Reverend Thomas Thorn ("Diabolical Machinations"), Robert Lang and Diana DeMagis ("In Tribute to Anton LaVey"), Lou Hutchinson ("Return to the Void", "7 Chakras of the Black Pope"), Christopher J. Turner ("Like This With The Devil"), Magister Clifford Case ("The Kabinet of Doktor LaVey), Tabone J.P., Peggy Nadramia ("Heart of the Lion, Eye of the Snake"), Michael Moynihan ("Ulver"), Jim Mitchell ("On The Importance of Great Big Asses"), Robert Rust ("Toward A New Lounge Culture"), Kevin Filan ("Satanism and the Afro-Carribbean Traditions"), Steven Ericson ("Archeron: Magister Vincent Crowley"), Satan's Commissar ("Seeing Red"), Blackjack ("You'll Hear From My Lawyer!"), Herbert Paulis ("The Crusades And The Baphomet"), Reverend K.S. ("To Arms"), Anthony, Michael Rose ("The Terror By Night");

'''subjects''': Anton LaVey

'''ads''': Action Designs, The Dying Pig, ''Lucifer Rising'', Ulver (band), Temple of the Vampire, Azure Green, Purging Talon Publishing, Acheron, ''The Cloven Hoof'', Dark Doctrines Monographs (Philip Marsh), The Black Pun-Kin, From the Pit, First Store Publications, ''Isis and Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon'' by Doran Wittelsbach, Storm, Blood Axis, Allerseelen, David E. Williams;

'''other''': <Odditorium not added>

==The Black Flame No. 16==
'''Original scan''': [[Media:The Black Flame 16.pdf|scan]]

'''Contributors''': Magister Robert A. Lang ("About our cover image"), Magistra Blanche Barton ("Milestones: Walpurgisnacht of XXXVI A.S."), Magus Peter H. Gilmore ("Milestones: Walpurgisnacht, XXXVII A.S.", "17 October, XXXVI A.S."), Magistra Peggy Nadramia ("Jimmy Vargas: Tease, Torch & Noir", "Odditorium"), Jimmy Vargas ("My Shadow Bride"), Joshua Buckley ("Catholics, Goering, and Charlton Heston: A Friendly Chat with the Only Pop Singer Who (Might) Still Matter"), Reverend Michael Moynihan ("Peter Mlakar: NSK's Satanic Technocrat", "Turn Off Your Mind" review, "Trevor Brown"), [[Charles Krafft]] ("Peter Mlakar"), Archangel's Suave Tiki ("In Your Confidence: A fragmentary history of the Socialites"), Warlock Kevin I. Slaughter ("Dirty Books: The Insolent Dr. Bowdler, His Compatriots, and Their Fear of Blushing"), Magister Michael Rose ("Renfields"), Reverend Carl Abrahamsson ("Mannequin of Madness: The Story of the Doll' "), "An Interview with Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba"), Agent Cyanide ("Lessons in Online Stupidity: a 'Train-of-Thought' Essay", Delusions of Godhood), PWG ("100 Artists See Satan" review), Aaron Garland ("Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant" review, "Ten Years of Madness" review), Sir Chaos ("Hand of Death: The Henry Lee Lucas Story" review, "Lucifer Dechconee" review), Magister George Sprague ("The Jesus Mysteries" review), Warlock R. Merciless ("Romantic Satanism" review, "Giosue Carducci: 19th Century Poet, Statesman and Satanist"), Magister Lestat Ventrue ("The Court Composer" review, "Musick in Theory and Practice" review, "The Law of 8ve" review), Bryan Moore ("Threnody for Humanity"), Warlock Draconis Blackthorne ("The Abominable Dr. Phibes" review, "The Black Cat" review, "Aristotle: The Satanic Philosopher"), Mike ReCasino ("Chocolat" review"), Colonel Akula ("Freaks" review, "The Ring" review, "Chuckles for Tchort: The Satanic Humour of the Great Benny Hill"), a sympathetic rebrobate ("A Satanists's Introduction to William Blake"), Warlock Jack Malebranche ("The Cycle: Fecundity Demands a Cruel Balance in Anthony Burgess' ''The Wanting Seed''), Ulf Herder ("Gone Feral: Adam Parfrey's Ministry of Unsafe Information", Magister Robert A. Lang ("Collecting Souls in a World of Cyber Junkies", "The Art of Ritual: Concrete Visualization"), Reverend Herbert Paulis ("Who Teachers The Teachers?"), Agent U.V.Ray ("Satan, the Libido, and the True Nature of the Beast"), Blackjack ("Kiss My Satanic Ass: A Guide to the Science of Insulting"), Father Christopher Mealie ("After the Absurd");

'''Subjects''': Jimmy Vargas, Peter Mlakar, Laibach, Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), United Satanic Apache Front (USAF), Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba, William Blake, Anthony Burgess, Giosue Carducci, Adam Parfrey, Trevor Brown, Aristotle, Benny Hill;

'''Ads''': David E. Williams CDs, Purging Talon (Not Like Most, Book of Satanic Quotations, DVDs), Adversary Recordings, Dark Candles, Sin Set Books... The Temple of the Vampire, The Black House: A Tribute to the Devil's Lair, Church of Satan Emporium, Arkham Studios, Germ Books + Gallery, Coop Stuff (Chris Cooper), Church of Satan Emporium (Diana DeMagis, Robert A. Lang, Ian Reid), Trevor Brown, ''Fang and Claw: A Treatise on Practical Combat'' by Colonel Akula, Theatre of the Macabre, Satanism Today, "Audio Structure Spirits" by Cotton Ferox (Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert), Feral House (''Sin-A-Rama''; ''When Sex Was Dirty''; ''Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion'');

'''Other''': Purging Talon Publishing, ''Rule Satannia: The Voice of Satanism'' (UK), ''S-Magazine'' (Virginia), ''Bloodfire!'' (Bloodfire Grotto, Les Hernandez a.k.a. Rev. Bloodfire), ''The Trident: The Magazine of Modern Satanism'' (Missouri), ''The Ghost #1'' (Colonel Akula), ''The Dark Corner: Finnish Reflections on Satanism, Issue #1'', ''Skratte #1'' (Kentucky), ''Lifeforce: The International Vampire Connection to Cabal'', ''The Devil's Diary'' (Draconis Blackthorne), ''Sinister'' (Michael Rose), Predatory Instinct Productions, ''Man and Technics'' by Oswald Spengler, ''The Crowd: Book One'' by Gustave LeBon, ''Man into Wolf'' by Robert Eisler, ''Anti-Krist'' (Sweden), Bloody Beautiful #1, #2 (BUA Productions), ''Zinnober #6'' (Germany), Stigmata Press (Everett, Wash.), ''Filthy Habits #2'', Feral House, Dominion Press, ''Runa: Exploring Northern European Myth, Mystery and Magic'', ''Absinthia Taetra'', ''Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious, or the Anatomy of the Image'' by Hans Bellmer, ''TYR, Myth « Culture - Tradition, Issues #1''...

The Satanic Temple

2025-04-22T21:04:35Z

Maestro grandeur: /* Nonprofit Church Lawsuits */ adding new Boston suit

* The [[United Federation of Churches, LLC]] does business as "The Satanic Temple", and owns its trademarks. It was originally registered in 2014. Its governing persons are jointly [[Cevin Soling]] and [[Douglas Misicko]], as well as their pseudonyms. It is a for-profit Limited Liability Company.
* [[The Satanic Temple Inc]] achieved Public Charity Status in 2019 as "a church or a convention or association of churches." It was originally registered in 2017 as "The Satanic Temple" before changing to its current name following the change in its federal tax status. Its governing board consists of Misicko, solely.

Both entities have been involved in a number of [[lawsuits]] under the name "The Satanic Temple", including "Inc" taking over some recent appeals of cases begun by "UFC LLC". In addition, TST members have been involved in religious discrimination arguments when representing themselves or when represented by the ACLU.

=Lawsuits=
==Nonprofit Church Lawsuits==
The Satanic Temple Inc. became the primary legal entity used for in suits involving "The Satanic Temple" beginning in 2019; this followed IRS recognition of the entity as a nonprofit church. The shift would include at one instance of taking over case begun by United Federation of Churches LLC. However, a point of contention in [[Cave et al v. Thurston]] between TST and the state of Arkansas has been which entity has actually officially involved in that case, begun in May 2018.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | The Satanic Temple Inc. Cases
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
!style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Public Monuments
|04/22/2025
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston ("Boston flag")
|US District Court of Massachusetts - Boston
|[http://courtlistener.com/docket/69911722/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:25-cv-11024]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
|
|
|Suit targeting city of Boston for not flying TST flag and demanding Jan. 14 be declared "Satanic Appreciation Day".<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69911722/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ CourtListener.com], ''The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston'', Complaint — Document #1.</ref><ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2025/satanists-run-another-boston-lawsuit-flagpole UniversalHub.com], "Satanists run another Boston lawsuit up the flagpole", April 22, 2025.</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
|5/03/2023
|[[The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago]]
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/?order_by=desc 1:23-cv-02780]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
|
|
|''Suit targeting the city of Chicago for failure to invite TST minister Adam Vavrick to give invocation.<ref>[https://www.courthousenews.com/satanic-temple-sues-chicago CourthouseNews.com], "Satanic Temple sues Chicago", May 3, 2023. ''The Satanic Temple sued the city of Chicago in federal court Wednesday over its refusal to allow an ordained minister of the Satanic Temple to deliver an invocation before City Council meetings “without providing any clear explanation of why.” The Establishment Clause requires that the opportunity to deliver a legislative prayer be made available “in a non-discriminatory manner,” according to the lawsuit.''</ref>Suit voluntarily dismissed with prejudice July 24,2024, after plaintiff Vavrick announced his departure from TST's Ministry program July 8.<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/36/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/ CourtListener.com], ''Civil case dismissed with prejudice - Document #36'', The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago (1:23-cv-02780), Northern District of Illinois.</ref><ref>[https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=726422036 Facebook.com], Facebook update by Adam Vavrick July 8, 2024: "Left Job at Satanic Ministry - Minister of Satan"</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Defamation
|11/23/2022
|[[Satanic Temple, Inc v. Jessica Snow]]
|261st Civil District Court (Travis County, Texas)
|[https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/app/RegisterOfActions/#/B6CCF0E9F718EE227EE4C550504C3D86C158247E2E208022B462965B12347FD0101CD04A60AF9128B5D056B2BE3B4DE66B4FA22B17CC2BF0D2D0C538F868656117FF6C86F26AEA7998297F12FCC8F50B/anon/portalembed D-1-GN-22-006797]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |No Movement
|
|
|''Suit targeting "The Satanic Housewife" for TikTok videos.<ref>[https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/78/D-1-GN-22-006797_-_Plaintiff%27s_Original_Petition_w_Ex_76AC6EC7_-_2022-11-23.pdf TST complaint] filed Nov. 23, 2022</ref><ref>SatanicEurope.Wordpress.com, [https://sataniceurope.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/the-freedom-to-offend/ analysis] and [https://sataniceurope.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/the-satanic-housewife/ interview with defendant].</ref><ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-housewife-videos-and-legal-threat-by-the-satanic-temple/ QueerSatanic.com], ''“The Satanic Housewife” videos and legal threat by The Satanic Temple''</ref> No docket activity since complaint filed in November 2022. ''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Abortion
|9/30/2022
|[[The Satanic Temple v. Little]]
|US District Court for the District of Idaho
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392308/the-satanic-temple-v-little/ 1:22-cv-00411]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69009053/the-satanic-temple-v-labrador-et-al/ CourtListener.com], ''The Satanic Temple v. Labrador, et al.'' (24-1243), in United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; case opened March 1, 2024.</ref>
|
|''Idaho abortion ban challenge. Complaint largely identical to The Satanic Temple v. Rokita (22-1859) except for references to Idaho instead of Indiana.''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Abortion
| 9/21/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple v. Rokita]]
| US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/the-satanic-temple-v-holcomb/ 1:22-cv-01859]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/66/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-rokita/ CourtListener.com], ''Order on Motion for Leave to File AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim — Document #66'', District Court, S.D. Indiana</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68071163/satanic-temple-inc-v-todd-rokita/ CourtListener.com], ''Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Todd Rokita (23-3247)'', Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit</ref>
|
| ''Indiana abortion ban challenge but involving no specific pregnant client. TST represented by [[W. James MacNaughton]].''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
| 9/08/2022
| [[Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human Svc]]
| US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66693942/satanic-temple-v-tx-hlth-and-human-svc/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 22-20459]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Failed motion
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66693942/69/1/satanic-temple-v-tx-hlth-and-human/ CourtListener.com], ''Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human, Published Opinion — Document #69, Attachment #1, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit''</ref>
|
| ''Originating from U.S. District Court case 4:21-CV-387 ("[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. et al v. Hellerstedt et al|Ann Doe I]]")''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
| 6/06/2022
| [[Matthew Kezhaya v. City of Belle Plaine]]<ref>Matthew Kezhaya is listed as "Movant - Appellant" with "The Satanic Temple Inc." as Plaintiff and renamed after case was initially mistakenly captioned</ref>
| US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806046/matthew-kezhaya-v-city-of-belle-plaine/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 22-2183]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Sanctions imposed
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806046/804826251/1/matthew-kezhaya-v-city-of-belle-plaine/ CourtListener.com], ''Attorney Matthew Kezhaya appeals an order of the district court* sanctioning him and his co-counsel under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. We conclude that there was no abuse of discretion, and therefore affirm the order.''</ref>
|
|''TST lawyer [[Matthew Kezhaya]]'s failed appeal of sanctions in the amount of $16,943.40 from [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc#entry-58 0:21-cv-00336-WMW] ("Satanic Temple I")''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Commerce
| 2/25/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation]] ("Lamar II")
| US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 5:22-cv-05033]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Dismissed (unclear)
|
|
|''TST Inc. withdrew from a previous state-level lawsuit in February 2021. August 2023 dismissal in context that "parties have resolved all issues between them".''<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/79/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation, Stipulation — Document #79</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Defamation
| 2/16/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC]]
| US District Court for the Southern District of New York
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ 1:22-cv-01343]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/27/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com] The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Memorandum & Opinion — Document #27</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/134/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Memorandum & Opinion — Document #134</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/136/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Notice of Appeal — Document #136</ref>
|
| ''Lawsuit relates to Newsweek's coverage of [[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al|UFC LLC v. Johnson et al]]''<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-accusations-lawsuit-1644042 Newsweek.com], ''Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit'' by Julia Duin, Oct. 29, 2021</ref><ref>[https://queersatanic.com/footnotes-to-newsweeks-orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-by-accusations-lawsuit/ QueerSatanic.com], ''Footnotes to Newsweek’s “Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit”'' by @QueerSatanic, Nov. 4, 2021</ref> ''All claims dismissed.''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Abortion
| 2/1/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al]] ("Ann Doe II")
| 459th Civil District Court (Travis County, Texas)
| [https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/app/RegisterOfActions/#/EB351E1BD0C0C3335AD50A4075095FD7922A6CB13590D6A71A54E3ED5014C5018B9423851665908716918A3069A1B837ECF77F0AF5C8E3C79DBCC144E03437E47C0596704C203B87C161CDB380DF7AEE/anon/portalembed D-1-GN-22-000560]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |No Movement
|
|
|''State-level filing distinct from "Ann Doe I" filed the year before in federal court. No docket activity since attorney vacation notification in June 2022''

|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Abortion
| 2/5/2021
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. et al v. Hellerstedt et al]] ("Ann Doe I")
| US District Court for the Southern District of Texas
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ 4:21-cv-00387]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/67/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Hellerstedt, Order — Document #67</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601012/18/satanic-temple-v-young/ CourtListener.com], Satanic Temple v. Young (23-20329) in Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, filed July 10, 2023</ref>
|
|''District court case fully dismissed July 3, 2023.<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/67/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss, July 3, 2023, without leave to replead.</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/68/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], Final Judgment, July 3, 2023</ref>, appellate case dismissed because TST "desire to avail themselves of the right to replead"<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601012/18/satanic-temple-v-young/ CourtListener.com</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public monuments
| 2/4/2021
|[[Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of| Satanic Temple, Inc v. Belle Plaine, City of]] ("Satanic Temple II")
| US District Court for the District of Minnesota
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/43/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ CourtListener.com], ''Defendant’s motion for sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336, (Dkt. 17), is GRANTED.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)
<ref name="Belle Plaine appeal">[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66651784/the-satanic-temple-v-city-of-belle-plaine/ 0:21-cv-03079], Case filed: Sept. 16, 2021, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals for original case [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122] ("Satanic Temple I"), consolidated with with [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806077/the-satanic-temple-v-city-of-belle-plaine/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 0:21-cv-03081], appealing original case [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336] ("Satanic Temple II")</ref>
|
|''Duplicative lawsuit. Judge sanctioned TST for filing second suit before first was complete''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
| 1/20/2021
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston]] ("Boston Invocation")
|US District Court of Massachusetts - Boston
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ 1:21-cv-10102]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2023/judge-rules-boston-city-council-doesnt-have-let UniversalHub.com], ''Judge rules Boston City Council doesn't have to let Satanists give an invocation if it doesn't want to'', July 31, 2023</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67667225/satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc CourtListener.com], Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston (23-1642), Court of Appeals for the First Circuit</ref>
|
|''TST lawyer Matthew Kezhaya sanctioned for actions related to attempt to depose then-mayoral candidate Michelle Wu on Election Day.<ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2022/federal-judge-satanists-who-tried-force-michelle UniversalHub.com], ''Federal judge to Satanists and their lawyer, who tried to force Michelle Wu to spend Election Day answering their questions: Hell, no'', April 6, 2022</ref> First circuit affirms lower court ruling dismissing TST lawsuit, including protective order.<ref>[https://ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servlet/TransportRoom?servlet=ShowDoc&pacer=i&caseId=50578&dls_id=00108175549 USCourts.Gov], We hold that TST has not shown that Boston's legislative prayer practice, either on its face or as applied, violates the Establishment Clause or the Massachusetts Free Exercise Clause. Further, the district court did not abuse its discretion by issuing a protective order preventing TST from deposing Mayor Wu. We affirm entry of judgment for Boston.</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Commerce
| 9/27/2020
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC]] ("Lamar I")
|19th West Circuit Court 5 (Benton County, Ark.)
|[https://caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=C&case_id=04CV-20-2100&begin_date=&end_date= 04CV-20-2100]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Terminated (unclear)
<ref>[https://caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=C&case_id=04CV-20-2100&begin_date=&end_date= 04CV-20-2100] - Case Filed: Sep. 27, 2020; [https://web.archive.org/web/20210520054832/https://contexte.aoc.arkansas.gov/imaging/IMAGES/DMS/CK_Image.Present2?DMS_ID=C1520BBC8A01E75D790FB8CBD91388441378F38F4E9F2CA99747DFB43A95B8CBA9AD539D7BA6940D86B479E061824217D0BB406894028B58F7DF3AA8BF973CBD&i_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontexte.aoc.arkansas.gov%2Fimaging%2FIMAGES%2FDMS Terminated]: Feb 26, 2021 via [https://casetext.com/rule/arkansas-court-rules/arkansas-rules-of-civil-procedure/rule-41-dismissal-of-actions#:~:text=Rule%2041%20%2D%20Dismissal%20of%20Actions%20(a)Voluntary%20Dismissal%3B,trial%20is%20by%20the%20court. voluntary dismissal (without prejudice)]</ref><ref>[https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/the-satanic-temple-bought-11971116 Dallas Observer], "Satanists Posted a Dallas Billboard Advocating for Reproductive Rights: 'Abortions Save Lives!'" Dec. 22, 2020, ''In September, TST sued Lamar Advertising Co. for religious discrimination because it had refused to post the religious organization’s designs. The advertising giant denies the temple’s initial allegations, according to a TST press release. Although Goodwin can’t comment on the active lawsuit, she said TST ultimately struck a deal with billboard company Clear Channel Outdoor.''</ref>
|
|
|''TST Inc. withdrew lawsuit but no terms available, if any''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
| 3/2/2020
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. City of Scottsdale]]
|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59746236/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-scottsdale/ 20-15338]
! -
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fO3ojPSA7I Video of Oral Arguments to 20-15338 The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Scottsdale]</ref><ref>[https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/19/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-satanist-invocation-in-scottsdale-az/ Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Blocking Satanist Invocation in Scottsdale (AZ)], by Hemant Mehta for Friendly Atheist</ref><ref>[https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2021/05/19/20-15338.pdf United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision] upholding lower court ruling</ref>
|
|''Case begun by [[United Federation of Churches, LLC|UFC LLC]]''<ref>Court of Appeals Docket #20-15338, District Court# 2:18-cv-00621-DGC, U.S. District Court for Arizona, Phoenix</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public monuments
| 4/25/2019
|[[Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of]] ("Satanic Temple I")
|US District Court for the District of Minnesota
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.startribune.com/satanic-temple-lawsuit-against-belle-plaine-will-move-forward-despite-court-dismissal-of-most-of-its-claims/572010332/?refresh=true StarTribune.com], ''Satanic Temple lawsuit against Belle Plaine will move forward, despite court dismissal of most of its claims; 1 of 10 counts still remains in the Scott County battle over church and state'', Aug. 4, 2020</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/109/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ CourtListener.com], ''ORDER. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 1. Defendant's motion for summary judgment as to Plaintiff's promissory-estoppel claim in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv-1122 81 is GRANTED. 2. Plaintiff's motion to strike in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv- 1122 100 is DENIED. 3. The magistrate judge's January 26, 2021 Order in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv-1122 79 is AFFIRMED. 4. Defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 10 is GRANTED. 5. Plaintiff 039;s motion to strike in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 29 is DENIED. 6. Defendant's motion for sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 17 is GRANTED. Within fourteen days after the date of this Order, Defendant shall file a mot ion and supporting evidence as to the attorneys' fees Defendant incurred responding to the complaint and seeking sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336. (Written Opinion) Signed by Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright on 9/15/2021. Associated Cases: 0:19-cv-01122-WMW-JFD, 0:21-cv-00336-WMW-JFD (RJE)'' </ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)<ref name="Belle Plaine appeal"></ref>
!
|''Original lawsuit.''
|}

==For-Profit Corporation Lawsuits ==
The United Federation of Churches, LLC has been involved in a number of [[lawsuits]] since its formation.

In 2018, the company sued Netflix Inc. and Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. in the Southern District of New York over use of a breastless Baphomet statue with children in ''The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'', claiming defamation and that its intellectual property rights had been violated, harming its business reputation.<ref>[https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Netflix-Satanic-Temple.pdf Courthousenews.com], ''By misappropriating TST Baphomet with Children (which is a registered copyright and famous mark of TST) to publish this false and defamatory depiction of TST, Defendants have engaged in three classes of wrong: copyright infringement (Claim 1) trademark violation (Claim 2), and injury to business reputation (Claim 3).''</ref>

The suit was eventually dismissed with prejudice after Netflix agreed to give a copyright credit on all episodes that had been filmed.<ref name="Bloomberg">[https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netflix-makes-amicable-deal-with-the-devil-over-sabrina-1 Netflix Makes ‘Amicable’ Deal With the Devil Over Sabrina], Bloomberg.com, Nov. 23, 2018, ''An attorney for the Temple, Bruce H. Lederman, told Bloomberg Law Netflix agreed within 10 days of the Temple’s suit to give the it (sic) copyright credit for the statute on all episodes that have been filmed.''</ref>

The following list is non-exhaustive and includes several cases represented by lawyers of The Satanic Temple but did not include them as plaintiffs.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | United Federation of Churches LLC court cases
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Commerce
|4/5/2023
|[[United Federation of Churches DBA v. Johnson AKA et al]] ("Queer Satanic II")
|King County Superior Court
|[https://dja-prd-ecexap1.kingcounty.gov/?q=node/411&199355=411110 23-2-06120-9 SEA]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
|
|
|''TST re-filed a new case in Washington state court while pursuing an appeal of the same claims in federal court. Case was stayed pending resolution of TST's appeal of federal case in Ninth Circuit then dismissed with prejudice Sep. 24, 2024.''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Defamation & Commerce
|4/3/2020
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al]] ("Queer Satanic I")
|US District Court for the Western District of Washington
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:2020-cv-00509]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Affirmed In Part; Vacated & Remanded In Part
(split)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66805454/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-david-johnson/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc CourtListener.com], United Federation of Churches LLC v. United Federation of Churches LLC v. David Johnson, et al (23-35060)</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)
|''Initial claims dismissed[https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/UnitedFednofChurchesLLCvJohnsonNo220cv00509RAJ2021BL69458WDWashFe][https://casetext.com/case/united-fedn-of-churches-llc-v-johnson]; amended complaint re-filed[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/33342602/United_Federation_of_Churches_LLC_v_Johnson_et_al], motion for re-consideration dismissed[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]; motion to dismiss granted[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/48/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]''; ''Ninth Circuit appeal affirmed in part, vacated and remanded in part [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66805454/40/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-david-johnson/], remainder voluntarily dismissed by Plaintiff[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/58/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Commerce
|11/8/2018
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al]]
|US District Court for the Southern District of New York
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8152228/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-netflix-inc/ 1:2018-cv-10372]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
(Success)

<ref name="Bloomberg" /><ref>[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/26138833/United_Federation_of_Churches_LLC_v_Netflix,_Inc_et_al PacerMonitor.com], United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al</ref>
|
|
|''TST utilized outside law firm D'agostino, Levine, Landesman & Lederman LLP''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Public monuments
|7/12/2018
|[[Cave et al v. Thurston]]
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Ongoing
|
|
|''"Doug Misicko" and "Satanic Temple" listed as Intervenors''<ref>Arkansas Civil Liberties Union [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/1/cave-v-thurston/ filed a complaint to begin the case 5/23/2018]] on behalf of its clients, but The Satanic Temple and its clients made their [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/17/cave-v-thurston/ motion to join as Intervenors] 7/12/2018, beginning TST's involvement.</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|2/28/2018
|[[Doe v. Greitens et al]] ("Judy Doe") <ref>"The Satanic Temple" was not named in the lawsuit as a plaintiff, but "Judy Doe" used the same attorney, [[W. James MacNaughton]], who represented "Mary Doe" at a similar case in Missouri's State Supreme Court and the failed federal case for "Mary Doe"</ref>
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6322005/doe-v-greitens/ 4:18-cv-00339]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5c714ba3342cca67d9445894 CaseMind.org], Motion to Dismiss: Granted Defendant. ''This matter seeking declarative and injunctive relief comes before the Court on Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's Complaint for failure to state a claim, [Doc. No. 17]. Plaintiffs seek (1) declaratory judgment that certain Missouri Statutes are void and (2) injunctive relief against Defendants' enforcement of the statutes. For the reasons below, Defendants' motion to dismiss will be granted.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/27b897fd742c1efe2e3272626c46ed70 Federal appeals court axes Satanic Temple abortion lawsuit], AP, June 9, 2020. ''The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday filed by a member of the Satanic Temple against a Missouri abortion law. ... An anonymous woman, Judy Doe, sued, arguing the law violates her religious freedom as a Satanic Temple member. The Satanic Temple doesn’t believe in a literal Satan but sees the biblical Satan as a metaphor for rebellion against tyranny. A federal district judge last year ruled against Doe, and the appeals court agreed.''</ref><ref>No. 19-1578, ''A Missouri law requires Judy Doe to certify that she has had a chance to review certain information before having an abortion. This requirement, she alleges, violates her Satanist beliefs. The district court dismissed both of her First Amendment claims, and we affirm.'' ([https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/06/191578P.pdf PDF])</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/2894/804010620/3/judy-doe-v-michael-l-parson/ CourtListener.com], Published Signed Opinion, Judy Doe v. Michael L. Parson (19-1578), filed 3/20/2019 </ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Appeal to SCOTUS denied
(failure)

<ref>No. 20-385, ''Petitioner Judy Doe (“Petitioner”) moves, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §455(a), for the disqualification of the Hon. Amy Coney Barrett from consideration of the Petition for Certiorari, Case No. 20-385 (the “Petition”) due to her publicly expressed religious beliefs that a human being comes into existence at conception, abortion is murder and Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (“Roe”) was a “barbaric” decision that should “be put to an end.”'' ([https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-385/158957/20201028113343173_final%20motion.pdf PDF]) </ref><ref>"[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/supreme-court-refuses-to-disqualify-justice-barrett-from-the-satanic-temples-abortion-case-301171560.html Supreme Court Refuses to Disqualify Justice Barrett from The Satanic Temple's Abortion Case]", Press release, Nov. 12, 2020 </ref><ref>20-385, "Certiorari Denied" ([https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/112320zor_7l48.pdf PDF])</ref>
|''TST had also sought to disqualify new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett''<ref>[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-385/158957/20201028113343173_final%20motion.pdf SupremeCourt.gov], ''Motion by Petitioner for the Disqualification of
The Hon. Amy Coney Barrett''</ref><ref>[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/supreme-court-refuses-to-disqualify-justice-barrett-from-the-satanic-temples-abortion-case-301171560.html PRNewswire.com], ''Supreme Court Refuses to Disqualify Justice Barrett from The Satanic Temple's Abortion Case''</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
|2/26/2018
|[[Satanic Temple et al v. Scottsdale, City of et al]]
|US District Court of Arizona - Phoenix
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:2018-cv-00621]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Judgment in favor of Defendants
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/92/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ CourtListener.com], ''ORDER AND JUDGMENT: Judgment is entered in favor of Defendants on all of Plaintiffs' claims. Signed by Senior Judge David G Campbell on 2/05/2020. (REK) (Entered: 02/06/2020)''</ref><ref>[https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2020/02/29/scottsdale-wins-court-battle-against-satanists-over-invocation/4903564002/ Scottsdale wins court battle against Satanists over right to give invocation; Satanists appeal, Arizona Republic], Feb. 29, 2020. ''A U.S. District Court judge ruled this month that Scottsdale did not discriminate against the Satanic Temple when the city blocked a member of the group from giving an invocation before a City Council meeting in 2016.''

''Judge David Campbell ruled the Satanic Temple did not prove the city had denied its request because of its religious beliefs.'' [https://apnews.com/article/3d00de948174ad7c0a36093f1fdf1752 (AP summary)]</ref>
|
|
|''Case continued by [[The Satanic Temple Inc]] ''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|6/23/2015
|[[The Satanic Temple et al v. Jeremiah Jay Nixon et al.]] ("Mary Doe II")
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7760360/the-satanic-temple-v-jeremiah-jay-nixon/ 4:2015-cv-00986]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed
(failure)
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6155672/the-satanic-temple-v-mike-parson/ 16-3387], ''08/28/2018 Open Document JUDGMENT FILED - The judgment of the Originating Court is AFFIRMED in accordance with the opinion. ROGER L. WOLLMAN, MICHAEL J. MELLOY and RAYMOND W. GRUENDER Hrg Sep 2017 [4698520] [16-3387] (AMT) [Entered: 08/28/2018 07:49 AM]'', US Eighth Circuit of Appeals</ref>
|
|''Mary Doe was not pregnant at time of filing federal case, so court determined she lacked standing''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|5/11/2015
|[[Mary Doe v. Jeremiah J Nixon et al]] ("Mary Doe I")
|Circuit Court of Cole County, Missouri
|[https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/caseNoSearch.do 15AC-CC00205]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)

<ref name=":1">''The Missouri Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a case brought by a woman who said the state’s abortion restrictions violated her religious beliefs. ... The case dates to 2015, when Doe’s attorneys argued her case in front of the Cole County Circuit Court. Circuit Judge Jon Beetem dismissed the case.'' [https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouris-high-court-tosses-case-alleging-abortion-law-violated-satanic-temple-members-rights/article_ae0e57c3-305e-51e6-b6cd-28699d41fada.html Missouri's high court tosses case alleging abortion law violated Satanic Temple member's rights], ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', Feb 13. 2019</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |State Appeals Court ordered transfer
(neutral)

<ref>[https://www.courts.mo.gov/file/OSummary_WD80387.pdf WD80387], ''Because we believe that this case raises real and substantial constitutional claims, it is within the Missouri Supreme Court’s exclusive jurisdiction under Article V, section 3 of the Missouri Constitution, and we hereby order its transfer'' ([https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=118276 PDF])</ref><ref>[https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/planned-parenthood-satanic-temple-score-initial-wins-in-abortion-fight/article_4f02f86c-ff07-5bc3-bcc9-2ce44be31cc2.html Planned Parenthood, Satanic Temple score initial wins in abortion fight], St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 3, 2017</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |State Supreme Court affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/searchDockets.do SC96751], ''Mary Doe appeals the circuit court’s judgment dismissing with prejudice her second amended petition seeking to enjoin the enforcement of the portion of the Missouri Informed Consent Law... This Court affirms denial of Ms. Doe’s request for injunctive relief. The informed consent law does not adopt any religious tenet, as Ms. Doe claimed. ...Moreover, the informed consent law neither requires a pregnant woman to read the booklet in question nor requires her to have or pay for an ultrasound. It simply provides her with that opportunity. .. The circuit court did not err in dismissing Ms. Doe’s petition for failure to state a claim.'' ([https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=136817 PDF])</ref><ref name=":1" />
|''State supreme court upheld lower court decision unanimously, but two of seven justices had concurring opinion''
|}

==Other Lawsuits==
Early legal cases involved The Satanic Temple or its members being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, however, contrary to popular belief, the Temple's only involvement in the ACLU's successful case to to remove the 10 Commandments monument from the Oklahoma State Capitol (Prescott v. Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission) was a footnote from the opinion.<ref>[https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=476438#d4ft8 OSCN.net], Footnote 8. ''One such request was from the Satanic Temple, who requested "a monument to Baphomet, which is a form of Satan, to be placed on the Capitol grounds." Record on Accelerated Appeal Ex. 4 (Deposition of Trait Thompson at 30). On December 19, 2013, the Commission minutes reflect Commission Chair, Trait Thompson, moved to put a moratorium on monument requests:''</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | Cases by others involving TST
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |School
|3/19/2024
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Shelby County Board of Education]]
|US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68356813/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-shelby-county-board-of-education/ 2:24-cv-02178]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
|
|
|''Plaintiff represented by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Kramer Law Center of Memphis. Case dismissed with school board paying FFRF's legal fees and promising not to discriminate against TST.<ref>[https://ffrf.org/news/releases/breaking-ffrf-settles-satanic-temple-discrimination-lawsuit-with-memphis-area-school/ FFRF/org], ''BREAKING: FFRF settles Satanic Temple discrimination lawsuit with Memphis-area school'', July 18, 2024</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |School
|3/30/2023
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District]]
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67112434/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district/ 5:23-cv-01244]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
<ref>[https://www.aclu.org/cases/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district?document=Settlement-Agreement-TST-v-SVSD ACLU.org], ''Settlement Agreement'', Nov. 16, 2023</ref><ref>[https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/saucon-valley-school-district-to-pay-satanic-temple-200k-in-legal-fees-over-after-school/article_82401e5c-84df-11ee-8a82-f3d05414da7b.html WFMZ-TV], ''Saucon Valley School District to pay Satanic Temple $200K in legal fees over After School Satan Club legal issue'', Nov. 16, 2023</ref>
|
|
|''School district had withdrawn use of facility for After School Satan club after bomb threat made but claimed an advertising violation; a judge required school to fulfill previous agreement as litigation continued, with school district ultimately paying ACLU $200,000 for legal costs.''<ref>[https://www.aclupa.org/en/cases/satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district ACLU.org], "ACLU Sues Saucon Valley School District for Prohibiting After School Satan Club from Meeting in District Facilities", May 1, 2023</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|9/11/2018
|[[Mayle v. Chicago Park District]] ("Emotional Support Hog")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7862874/mayle-v-chicago-park-district/ 1:18-cv-06211]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7862874/64/mayle-v-chicago-park-district/ CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss/Lack of Jurisdiction</ref><ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-emotional-support-pig-20190710-ikpu3r6is5evvkjyyqk3k53lsi-story.html ChicagoTribune.com], July 10, 2019, ''Chicago man continues legal fight to bring his ‘emotional support’ pig to parks''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
|
|''Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# [https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/30887949/Kenneth_Mayle_v_City_of_Chicago,_et_al 0:19-cv-03208]''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|4/24/2018
|[[Mayle v. The State of Illinois]] ("Bigamy II")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7373722/mayle-v-the-state-of-illinois/ 1:18-cv-02924]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7373722/22/mayle-v-the-state-of-illinois CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss/Lack of Jurisdiction</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
|
|''Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# [https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/27846458/Kenneth_Mayle_v_State_of_Illinois,_et_al 0:19-cv-01691]''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|5/5/2017
|[[Mayle v. The Congress of the United States of America]] ("In God We Trust")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6181929/mayle-v-the-congress-of-the-united-states-of-america/ 1:17-cv-03417]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-god-we-trust-money-religion-chicago-lawsuit-20180604-story.html ChicagoTribune.com], June 5, 2018; ''Chicago man, self-described satanist, loses latest battle to remove 'In God We Trust' from U.S. money''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure) <ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/17-3221/17-3221-2018-05-31.html Justia.com], '' The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of his complaint, rejecting claims under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Free Speech, Free Exercise, and Establishment Clauses. ''</ref>
|
|Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# 17-3221
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|4/10/2017
|[[Mayle v. Orr, et al]] ("Bigamy I")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13396641/mayle-v-orr/ 1:17-cv-00449]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20170411a06 Leagle.com], Dismissal order</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13396641/39/mayle-v-orr/ Courtlistener.com], Motion for extension to file notice of appeal denied</ref>
|
|
|''Pro se TST Member; intended appeal failed due to Plaintiff msising filing deadline''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Invocations
|1/9/2017
|Hunt v. Kenai Peninsula Borough
|United States District Court - District of Alaska
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60826742/hunt-v-kenai-peninsula-borough/ 3:17-cv-00007]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Returned to State Superior Court (neutral)
|
|
|''ACLU representing a TST member''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Invocations
|12/14/2016
|[[Hunt, Lance vs. Kenai Peninsula Borough AP]]
|Third Judicial District Superior Court - Anchorage
|[https://records.courts.alaska.gov/eaccess/home.page.14 3AN-16-10652CI]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs (success) <ref> PeninsulaClarion.com, Satanic Temple invocation prompts protest, walkouts at assembly meeting, June 18, 2019></ref>
|
|
|''ACLU representing a TST member''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public Monuments
|5/4/2016
|[[Kondrat'yev et al v. City of Pensacola et al]]
|Northern District of Florida (Pensacola)
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14450966/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola/ 3:16-cv-00195]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs (Success) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14450966/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola/#entry-41 CourtListener.com], ORDER. Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment (doc. 31 ) is GRANTED. Defendants' motion for summary judgment (doc. 30 ) is DENIED. Bayview Cross violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court and circuit precedent, and it must be removed within thirty (30) days. The City is ordered to pay damages to the plaintiffs in the amount of $1.00; and parties are directed to follow the local rules of this court with regard to attorney fees to which plaintiffs may be entitled. Signed by SENIOR JUDGE ROGER VINSON on 06/19/2017. (MB) (Entered: 06/19/2017)</ref>
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Affirmed (success) <ref>[https://casetext.com/case/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola Casetext.com], No. 17-13025, Sep. 7, 2018. ''The City of Pensacola, Florida appeals a district court decision ordering it to remove a 34-foot Latin cross from a public park on the ground that the City’s maintenance of the cross violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Having concluded that we are bound by existing Circuit precedent, we find ourselves constrained to affirm.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Reversed (failure) <ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/17-13025/17-13025-2020-02-19.html Justia.com], Case: 17-13025, Feb. 19,2020. ''Having reconsidered the case in light of American Legion, we conclude, as the Supreme Court did there, that “the Cross does not offend the Constitution.” See id. at 2090. For the foregoing reasons, we hold (1) that we remain bound by this Court’s decision in Rabun to conclude that plaintiffs have Article III standing to challenge Pensacola’s maintenance of the Bayview Park cross, but (2) that when American Legion—rather than Rabun (and through it, Lemon)—is applied, the cross’s presence on city property does not violate the Establishment Clause. REVERSED.Case: 17-13025 Date Filed: 02/19/2020</ref>
| ''[[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] representing a TST member, between first appeal and second appeal, U.S. Supreme Court decided'' American Legion v. American Humanist Association ''leading to 11th Circuit Court to reverse decision.
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Public Monuments
|3/24/2015
|[[Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. et al v. Franklin County, Indiana]]<ref>United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple was a plaintiff on the case, however, both it and the [[Freedom from Religion Foundation]] were represented by Gavin Minor Rose with the ACLU of Indiana</ref>
|US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13307466/freedom-from-religion-foundation-inc-v-franklin-county-indiana/ 1:2015-cv-00484]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settled Out of Court (success) <ref>[https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/12/21/satanic-temple-lawsuit-over-nativity-scene-dismissed/77693518/ IndyStar], "Satanic Temple lawsuit over Nativity scene dismissed", Dec. 31, 2015. ''As part of the settlement, the county agreed to let nonresidents apply for a permit, but they must have a local contact''</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210208013949/https://thomasmoresociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FFRF-v-Franklin-Co-1-15-cv-00484-Fully-Executed-Settlement-Agreement-1.pdf Thomas More Society], Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release of Claims</ref><ref>[https://www.eaglecountryonline.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-settlement-in-place-for-satanic-display-at-courthouse/ Eagle 99.3 FM], "Lawsuit Settlement In Place For Satanic Display At Courthouse" Dec. 18, 2015. ''According to the settlement, Franklin County has agreed to amend its ordinance concerning displays at the courthouse within 30 days. The amended ordinance for the courthouse display permitting process will accept the designation of a local contact in lieu of requiring that sponsorship be wholly by citizens of Franklin County. Essentially, The Satanic Temple could put up its goat-head display at the courthouse if it finds a resident of Franklin County or any adjacent Indiana county (Dearborn, Ripley, Rush, Decatur, Fayette, or Union counties) willing to serve as that local contact. The contact must be a person who lives or works in Franklin County and assumes responsibility for the display.''</ref>
|
|
|ACLU representing [[United Federation of Churches LLC]]
|-
|}

==Other Legal Actions==
Additionally, there are an unknown number of other cases The Satanic Temple or its affiliate entities may have been involved in either in the capacity of submitting amicus briefs, as with ''St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore'', or other legal complaints that are not lawsuits.<ref>([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60382291/st-michaels-media-inc-v-the-mayor-and-city-council-of-baltimore/ CourtListener.com], 1:21-cv-02337, St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore</ref><ref>[https://the.satanic.wiki/images/1/1a/38_4CA_21-2158_-_Amicus_TST.pdf No. 21-2158], ''Amicus brief for The Satanic Temple, Inc. In support of St. Michael’s Media, Inc. Arguing for affirmance'' (PDF)</ref>

For example, in communication with the state of Arkansas for Cave v. Thurston, The Satanic Temple revealed that TST had raised three administrative complaints to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination:<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/12/cave-v-thurston/ CourtListener.com], Cave v. Thurston, Exhibit 12 - Satanic Temple Responses to Def.'s First Requests April 10, 2020</ref>
# The Satanic Temple v. Window World of Boston LLC (18BPA02782)
# The Satanic Temple v. Twitter (18BPA00827)
# The Satanic Temple v. Facebook (case number unknown)

Additionally, as part of their federal lawsuit against the city of Boston, Mass., a fourth such case came to light:<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/100/14/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ CourtListener.com], Exhibit 14 - MCAD Complaint — Document #100, Attachment #14</ref>
<li value="4">The Satanic Temple v. City of Boston (18BPA02946)</li>

However, TST had only publicly revealed the complaint against Twitter as part of a fundraising effort, which also involved disclosing that attorney [[Marc Randazza]] was representing the Temple in the complaint, over the objections of many local chapters. <ref>[https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MzUwMzg= Flipcause.com], ''The Satanic Temple vs. Twitter. Support The Satanic Temple's fight against religious discrimination.'' ($5,649 Raised of $50,000)</ref>

A final category is legal threats sent to critics and former members, which The Satanic Temple has a reputation for going back as far as 2014, as described by the Temple's first "high priest" Brian Werner.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ZIN4aZ8IMz0?t=419 YouTube.com], ''High Priest Brian Werner resigns from The Satanic Temple'', relevant portion at 6:59 - "I get an email from the lawyers accepting my resignation with an attached six page non-disclosure agreement. Really dude? After everything you and me have been through in the last three years? You've been a guest in several of my homes. You know my wife. I've been a guest in yours. You've embraced me and called me brother. You couldn't even pick up a telephone and tolk to me? You had to hide behind the lawyers. What is this, Scientology?"</ref> However, it was also present as part of the Great Schism of 2018, which involved TST threatening many of them.
<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheSatanicWiki/status/1462231609776619521 Twitter.com], @TheSatanicWiki posting The Satanic Temple's National Council Meeting Notes for Sept. 9, 2018. Relevant portion: "Legal letters have been sent to ex-CHs [Chapterheads] who have violated NDA [Non-Disclosure/Non-Disparagement Agreement] / AA [Affiliate Agreement] terms"</ref> Finally, an especially egregious example came to light in June 2022 when The Satanic Temple sent a series of emails to the TikToker @TheSatanicHousewife in reaction to one of her videos, threatening her with a lawsuit if she did not record the prepared statement they sent her.<ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-housewife-videos-and-legal-threat-by-the-satanic-temple/ QueerSatanic.com], ''“The Satanic Housewife” videos and legal threat by The Satanic Temple''</ref>

== Criminal Court Cases ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Issue
!Date Filed
!Case Name
!Original Jurisdiction
!Case Number
!Result
!Notes
|-
|Attempted bombing
|5/7/2024
|United States ''v.'' Terpstra
|US Western District of Michigan
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68510101/united-states-v-terpstra/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-cr-00067]
|Ongoing
|Defendant Luke Isaac Terpstra also indicted on federal charges relating to Michigan case# 2024000021.
|-
|Attempted bombing
|4/15/2024
|United States v. Palmer
|US District Court of Massachusetts
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68446029/united-states-v-palmer/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-mj-01222]

[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68514994/united-states-v-palmer/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-cr-10132]
|Ongoing
|Defendant Sean Patrick Palmer accused of throwing an improvised explosive device, charged with "18 U.S.C. § 844(i) - Maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or explosive"
|-
|Attempted bombing
|[UNK]
|State of Michigan v. Terpstra
|78th District Court (Newaygo County, Mich.)
|2024000021
|Ongoing
|Defendant Luke Isaac Terpstra accused of making explosives in his home with plan to "blow up" TST headquarters; charged with "Explosives - Possession of bombs with unlawful intent" in January 2024; state ID# 202402057
|-
|Vandalism
|[UNK]
|State of Iowa v. Cassidy
|Polk County (Iowa) District Court
|SRCR376781
|Pleaded guilty
|Defendant Michael Patrick Cassidy was accused of hate crime in relation to destruction of a winter holiday Baphomet display at the Iowa state capitol; charged with "729A.2 Violation of individual rights — hate crime"; Cassidy pleaded guilty to misdemeanor and received two years probation.<ref>''Michael Cassidy, a former congressional and legislative candidate, was set for trial June 3, but his attorney filed a guilty plea on his behalf to an aggravated misdemeanor count of third-degree criminal mischief''. [https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2024/05/28/iowa-capitol-satanic-temple-display-vandal-michael-cassidy-sentenced-probation/73881680007/ DesMoinesRegister.com], May 28, 2024</ref>
|-
|Arson
|[UNK]
|State of Massachusetts v. Lucey
|Salem (Mass.) District Court
|[UNK]
|In custody at Bridgewater State Hospital as of 2/22/2024
|Defendant Daniel Damien Lucey accused of setting a fire at The Satanic Temple headquarters in June 2022; was charged with "arson, civil rights violations and destruction of a place of worship"; State ID# M140599
|}

="The Satanic Temple" in its own words=
An incomplete list of the ways The Satanic Temple has described itself for official purposes, such as court complaints, depositions, press releases, and internal documents, with each listed in reverse chronological order (most recent at top, earliest at bottom).

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+
!Date
!Short Description
!Source
!Long Description
|-
|5/03/2023
|'''"a non-theistic religion, federally recognized as a church and a religious public charity"'''
|The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago ([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/ 1:23-cv-02780])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple, Inc. is a religious corporation organized under the laws of Massachusetts and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. ... The Satanic Temple (“TST”) is a non-theistic religion, federally recognized as a church and a religious public charity. IRC §§ 170(b)(1)(A)(i); 501(c)(3). ... TST has more than half a million members located in every state (including Illinois) and internationally.
|-
|4/05/2023
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al ("[[Queer Satanic II]]")
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) (abbreviated “TST”) ... TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/30/2023
|'''"a non-theistic, religious not-for-profit corporation"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67112434/1/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district/ (5:23-cv-01244])
|Plaintiff, The Satanic Temple, Inc., is a non-theistic, religious not-for-profit corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, MA. TST has more than 700,000 individual members, who are located in every U.S. state, including in Pennsylvania and within the SVSD. TST also has recognized congregations in every state, including in eastern Pennsylvania. TST has been recognized by the IRS as a church, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code § 170(b)(1)(A)(i), and as a religious corporation, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(3).
|-
|12/05/2022
|'''"a nontheistic religion whose membership openly defies the authority of God and the Church"'''
|Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human Svc ([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/2/20/22-20459_Satanic_Temple_v_TX_Hlth_and_Human_Svc_TSTOpeningBrief_00516567427.pdf 22-20459])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”) is a nontheistic religion whose membership openly defies the authority of God and the Church. ROA.23. To the congregants of TST, Satan deserves veneration as a revolutionary antihero who stood up against impossible odds to seek justice and egalitarianism for himself and others.
|-
|11/23/2022
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Jessica Snow
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/78/D-1-GN-22-006797_-_Plaintiff%27s_Original_Petition_w_Ex_76AC6EC7_-_2022-11-23.pdf D-1-GN-22-006797])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (“TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 560,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|9/30/2022
|'''"a religious association"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Little ([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392308/1/the-satanic-temple-v-little/ 1:22-cv-00411])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple (“TST”) ... is a religious association with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST has over 1.5 million members worldwide, including over 3,500 members in Idaho.
|-
|9/21/2022
|'''"a religious association"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Holcomb
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/1/the-satanic-temple-v-holcomb/ 1:22-cv-01859])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple (“TST”) ... is a religious association with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST has over 1.5 million members worldwide, including over 11,300 members in Indiana.
|-
|2/25/2022
|'''"a Massachusetts religious corporation" and "a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/2/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/ 5:22-cv-05033])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST,”) plaintiff, is a Massachusetts religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization with an international following exceeding 540,000 and which was recently the subject of the film, Hail Satan? ... TST’s membership can be found in every State, importantly to include Arkansas and Indiana.
|-
|2/16/2022
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation which is organized" and "a private figure"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ 1:22-cv-01343])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”), Plaintiff, is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation which is organized under the laws of Massachusetts and is headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts.

...

TST is a private figure. TST is a private figure because it is not a household name.
|-
|2/01/2022
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation "'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a2/D-1-GN-22-000560-Plaintiffs-Original-Petition-with-Exhibits-2022-02-01.pdf D-1-GN-22-000560])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (“TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 560,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?” ... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|1/03/2022
|'''"an umbrella term for a religion"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/217/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|“The Satanic Temple” is an umbrella term for a religion which is given legal structure by a constellation of affiliate entities. There is no entity named “The Satanic Temple” anymore because the errantly-named “The Satanic Temple” corrected its name to “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” See EXHIBIT 1 (articles of amendment, dated May 24, 2019, renaming the organization from “The Satanic Temple” to “The Satanic Temple, Inc.”)
|-
|11/03/2021
|'''"an atheistic religious corporation"'''
|St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. Baltimore et al.
([https://queersatanic.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/38_4CA_21-2158_-_Amicus_TST.pdf 21-2158])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”) is an atheistic religious corporation with membership exceeding 530,000 throughout all 50 States and internationally.
|-
|5/24/2021
|'''“a religious organization”'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/26/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches (dba “The Satanic Temple” (abbreviated “TST”)…
…
TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/29/2021
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/22/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches (dba “The Satanic Temple” (abbreviated “TST”)...

...

TST is a religious organization.
|-
|2/05/2021
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Hellerstedt
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ 4:21-cv-00387])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 270,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|2/04/2021
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Massachusetts"'''
|Satanic Temple, Inc., The v. City of Belle Plaine, MN
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/1/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 200,000 and was recently the subject of the film, “Hail Satan?” ... TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include Minnesota.
|-
|1/31/2021
|'''"a nonprofit religious corporation with no parent corporations"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. City of Belle Plaine, et al
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/0/0f/21-3079_Belle_Plaine_v_Satanic_Temple_TST%27s_Brief_5122392.pdf 21-3079])
|Plaintiff-Appellant The Satanic Temple, Inc. is a nonprofit religious corporation with no parent corporations and no publicly held corporations own 10% or more of Plaintiff-Appellant’s stock. As a nonprofit religious corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant has neither stock nor owners.
|-
|1/24/2021
|'''"an infamous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/2/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ 1:21-cv-10102])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is an infamous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 270,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?” ...TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include the Boston metro area.
|-
|9/27/2020
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a1/04CV-20-2100_-_SATANIC_TEMPLE_INC_V_LAMAR_ADVERTISING_OF_LOUISIAN_Complaint.pdf 04CV-20-2100])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”)...

...

TST, plaintiff, is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization with membership exceeding 100,000 and which was recently the subject of the film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include Arkansas and Indiana, and internationally.
|-
|4/10/2020
|'''"not a discrete entity with tax returns"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/12/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|TST’s objection was sustained except to the extent TST was ordered “'''the Satanic Temple''' to produce current bylaws, operating agreements, or analogous documents.” Order at p. 20 (emphasis in original). The order directs TST to confer with all parties for a reasonable protective order. Intervenors propose an attorney’s-eyes-only protective order with an obligation to delete the information following the entry of a final order, and all filings marked “confidential” and filed under seal.

...

“The Satanic Temple” is not a discrete entity with tax returns. Intervenors thus have no responsive documents.
|-
|4/03/2020
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) (abbreviated as “TST”)...

...

TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/10/2020
|'''"a tax-exempt religious organization" that "can also engage in for-profit commerce"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/124/7/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|''Q. Okay. So which -- which organization is the Intervenor, The Satanic Temple, in this litigation?''

A. It's The Satanic Temple.

''Q. Okay. The Satanic Temple, Inc.?''

...

A. To me the Intervenor is The Satanic Temple as a religious organization. This kind of paperwork is meant to justify different facets sometimes of The Satanic Temple. But to me it's all this larger religious body, this -- this organization of -- of The Satanic Temple.

...

I don't even see those things as under any type of umbrella. These are -- and, you know, things like [[Reason Alliance]] and the [[United Federation of Churches]] are completely different to me than something like [[Cinephobia]]; because Cinephobia is representative of another project within The Satanic Temple. United Federation of Churches, Reason Alliance where more things, entities that emerged from consultation with either accountants or lawyers meant to help us better manage The Satanic Temple. But to me The Satanic Temple has always been this kind of one thing.

''Q. So and I'm -- I'm trying to understand how you understand this to work. So you claim that The Satanic Temple is tax exempt?''

A. No. It demonstrably is.

''Q. Okay. But when you talk about The Satanic Temple that includes organizations that are for profit and not tax exempt; right? You see the struggle I'm having?''

A. I -- I don't -- I don't see that as being -- I mean, I see plenty of religious organizations that operate in the same -- same manner, so it's not something to me that makes me think that this is something untoward or something questionable. ... there is a tax exempt religious organization of The Satanic Temple; but it can also engage in for-profit commerce, a online Web store or whatever else. And, you know, my understanding of it is that this is how you do those things, how you do those various things.
|-
|9/26/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts non-profit corporation"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/5/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|TST is given corporate structure by “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” which is a Massachusetts non-profit corporation. To the extent the request seeks to discover information about members and agents of TST, the request is not proportional to the needs of the case because TST is a complex and international organization with local chapters dispersed throughout the world and whose leadership structure is in constant flux. The current membership of TST exceeds 50,000 individuals, many of whom participate in a leadership role for various charitable and religious activities.

Compounding the difficulty of adhering to the request, individual participants of TST very often have pseudonyms to protect their safety. The volume of information sought is overwhelming and has no passable bearing on the questions of this case.

Not only is the information sought onerous to procure in the first place, Rule 26 requires ongoing supplementation. Every time a volunteer steps down from–or steps up to–a leadership position would require a new supplement.

...

The IRS letter was produced on September 5.
|-
|8/30/2019
|'''"a nascent religious organization"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/57/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|THE SATANIC TEMPLE, a voluntary group of persons, without an Arizona charter, formed by mutual consent for the purpose of promoting a common enterprise or prosecuting a common objective

...

Principally, this amendment adds the various juristic bodies which, at various times, have given an organizational structure to the voluntary association of self-identified Satanists practicing under the moniker “The Satanic Temple.” Because their shared religious beliefs transcend the corporate form, and as a fallback should the Court find a fatal deficiency for any or each of the organizations, “The Satanic Temple” is reserved as an unincorporated association under Rule 17(b)(3)(A).

...

The Satanic Temple (“TST”) is a nascent religious organization.

...

TST is organizationally complex. On the international scale, TST is given structure through [[The Satanic Temple, Inc.]], a Massachusetts corporation. The Satanic Temple, Inc. has been formally recognized as a tax-exempt religious organization under IRC § 501(c)(3). At the times relevant to this litigation, TST was given structure through [[United Federation of Churches, LLC]] (dba “The Satanic Temple,”) a Massachusetts LLC.

On the local scale, TST is given structure through local chapters. Sometimes, but not always, a local chapter organizes into a formal entity. Currently, the Arizona Chapter is given structure through [[Adversarial Truth, LLC]] (dba “The Satanic Temple – Arizona Chapter.”) At the relevant times of this litigation, the Arizona Chapter was simply “a voluntary group of persons, without an Arizona charter, formed by mutual consent for the purpose of promoting a common enterprise or prosecuting a common objective.”
|-
|8/12/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts religious corporation" and "a Massachusetts LLC" and "an Arizona LLC"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/53/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|The Court directed Plaintiffs to “file a short memorandum with the Court that explains what their intent is with respect to having the real party in interest appear in the case.” Doc. 48.

Plaintiffs intend to join the following entities: [[The Satanic Temple, Inc.]], a Massachusetts religious corporation, [[The United Federation of Churches LLC]], a Massachusetts LLC, dba “The Satanic Temple” and [[Adversarial Truth LLC]], an Arizona LLC, dba “The Satanic Temple (Arizona Chapter).” For brevity, “The Satanic Temple” is shortened to its common moniker, “TST,” and interchangeably refers to both LLCs and the corporation.

...

TST, both as the local Arizona chapter and the national organization, must separately prove their standing. The three entities are functionally interchangeable because they are associations of Satanists. For ease of reading, all are treated here.

The three entities interchangeably referred to as “TST” are interrelated. Adversarial Truth LLC is the Arizona Chapter of The Satanic Temple. Michelle Shortt is the sole owner of Adversarial Truth LLC.

United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) is the predecessor entity to The Satanic Temple, Inc. United Federation of Churches is owned by two individuals residing in Massachusetts. This entity was in existence at the time of the events in question.

The Satanic Temple, Inc. is an IRS-recognized “church,” complete with a 501(c)(3) ruling letter. Being a nonprofit corporation, The Satanic Temple, Inc., does not have “shareholders” as much as it had “organizers.” This entity was formed after the events in question.
|-
|7/22/2019
|'''"United Federation of Churches, LLC", which is "a tax-exempt organization"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/2/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|Intervenors do not object to providing the current full legal name of The Satanic Temple. On information and belief, the full legal name of the organization is still United Federation of Churches, LLC.

...

The Satanic Temple is a tax-exempt organization. The IRS letter relating to that status will be supplemented at a later time.
|-
|4/25/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts church"'''
|Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/1/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122])
|Plaintiff TST is a Massachusetts church organized under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It holds weekly religious services at its headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts.
|-
|11/08/2018
|'''"a Massachusetts limited liability company"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc.
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8152228/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-netflix-inc/ 1:18-cv-10372])
|Plaintiff, United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple (“Plaintiff” or “TST”)...

...

Plaintiff TST is a Massachusetts limited liability company, with its principal place of business located at 64 Bridge Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970.
|-
|7/12/2018
|'''"an organized religion"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/17/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|The Satanic Temple is an organized religion.
|-
|2/28/2018
|'''"an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty"'''
|Doe v. Greitens
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6322005/1/doe-v-greitens/ 4:18-cv-00339])
|Plaintiff is a member of The Satanic Temple, an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty.
|-
|2/16/2018
|'''"(DBA of UFC) Religious Organization (applied for 1023) whose members support campaigns based on tenets"'''
|TST Organizational Hierarchy and Structure ([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/76/TST_Organizational_Hierarchy_Structure.pdf internal document])
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC]]: Registered The Satanic Temple as a trademark...
The Satanic Temple (DBA of UFC): Religious Organization (applied for 1023) whose members support campaigns based on tenets. TST organizational structure outside of EM exists to support chapters and campaigns....

[[Reason Alliance]]: Limited Partnership (LTD)...

[[Sixty Four Bridge LLC]]: Museum/Gallery property owner...

[[Salem Art Gallery]]: DBA for Sixty Four Bridge LLC

...

SAG is a separate entity owned by Sixty Four Bridge LLC. It is decidedly not a chapter of The Satanic Temple. If it were a chapter, it would need a Chapter Head, Media Liaison and complete governance by NC. It is not in the best interests of 80% of the functions of the building for TST Salem to exist. It seems appropriate for merch, weddings, rituals and other TST initiatives to fall under the governance of [[Executive Ministry|EM]]. These aspects of the building make it TST Headquarters.

...

For understanding this organizational structure in context, think of the five functions (headquarters, art, museum, venue, media) as separate tenants of SAG. They are all run differently and serve entirely different purposes. Understanding this will help us move forward coherently.
|-
|2/16/2018
|'''"has chapters throughout the United States and Europe"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/1/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple has chapters throughout the United States and Europe with over 50,000 members.
|-
|6/23/2015
|'''"an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Jeremiah Jay Nixon
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7760360/1/the-satanic-temple-v-jeremiah-jay-nixon/ 4:15-cv-00986])
|The Satanic Temple is an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty.
|-
|3/24/2015
|'''“an international religious organization”'''
|Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Franklin County, Indiana
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13307466/1/freedom-from-religion-foundation-inc-v-franklin-county-indiana/ 1:15-cv-00484])
|The United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple (“The Satanic Temple” or “TST”) is an international religious organization that is incorporated in Massachusetts and has its primary place of business in Somerville, Massachusetts. However, it has several chapters located throughout the United States.
|}

=References=
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[[Category:Lawsuits]]
[[Incorporated Entities]]

Kerry Bolton

2025-04-16T23:52:56Z

Maestro grandeur:

'''Kerry Raymond Bolton''' (born 1956) is a New Zealand white supremacist and Holocaust denier. In 1981, Bolton and former National Front leader David Crawford founded the New Zealand branch of the neo-Nazi paganist group "Church of Odin".

Bolton later founded the neo-Satanist group "[[Order of the Left Hand Path]]". In 1990, he began self-publishing ''The Watcher'', which became ''The Heretic'' and then ''The Nexus'', and "there arose alongside Satanic philosophy an increasing emphases on what could be called esoteric Nazism or esoteric Nationalism".<ref>''Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path, a Case-study of a Satanic/Neo-Nazi Synthesis'' (2008) by W. R. van Leeuwen ([http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/2446/thesis.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y PDF])</ref>

Bolton contributed to the [[Church of Satan]] publication [[The Black Flame]] several times and his group was advertised in it. Bolton was a vocal admirer of the book ''[[Might Is Right]]'' by [[Arthur Desmond]].

==References==

Kerry Bolton

2025-04-16T23:49:52Z

Maestro grandeur: creating page

'''Kerry Raymond Bolton''' (born 1956) is a New Zealand white supremacist and Holocaust denier. In 1981, Bolton and former National Front leader David Crawford founded the New Zealand branch of the neo-Nazi paganist group "Church of Odin".

Bolton later founded the neo-Satanist group "[[Order of the Left Hand Path]]". In 1990, he began self-publishing ''The Watcher'', which became ''The Heretic'' and then ''The Nexus'', and "there arose alongside Satanic philosophy an increasing emphases on what could be called esoteric Nazism or esoteric Nationalism".<ref name="van Leeuwen-2008">{{cite book|last1=van Leeuwen|first1=W. R.|title=Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path, a Case-study of a Satanic/Neo-Nazi Synthesis|date=2008|url=http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/2446/thesis.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y}}</ref>

Bolton contributed to the [[Church of Satan]] publication [[The Black Flame]] several times and his group was advertised in it. Bolton was a vocal admirer of the book ''[[Might Is Right]]'' by [[Arthur Desmond]].

==References==

K.R. Bolton

2025-04-16T23:41:02Z

Maestro grandeur: creating re-direct

#REDIRECT [[Kerry Bolton]]

The Satanic Temple

2025-04-12T21:39:24Z

Maestro grandeur: /* Nonprofit Church Lawsuits */ updating that Newsweek lawsuit is appealed

* The [[United Federation of Churches, LLC]] does business as "The Satanic Temple", and owns its trademarks. It was originally registered in 2014. Its governing persons are jointly [[Cevin Soling]] and [[Douglas Misicko]], as well as their pseudonyms. It is a for-profit Limited Liability Company.
* [[The Satanic Temple Inc]] achieved Public Charity Status in 2019 as "a church or a convention or association of churches." It was originally registered in 2017 as "The Satanic Temple" before changing to its current name following the change in its federal tax status. Its governing board consists of Misicko, solely.

Both entities have been involved in a number of [[lawsuits]] under the name "The Satanic Temple", including "Inc" taking over some recent appeals of cases begun by "UFC LLC". In addition, TST members have been involved in religious discrimination arguments when representing themselves or when represented by the ACLU.

=Lawsuits=
==Nonprofit Church Lawsuits==
The Satanic Temple Inc. became the primary legal entity used for in suits involving "The Satanic Temple" beginning in 2019; this followed IRS recognition of the entity as a nonprofit church. The shift would include at one instance of taking over case begun by United Federation of Churches LLC. However, a point of contention in [[Cave et al v. Thurston]] between TST and the state of Arkansas has been which entity has actually officially involved in that case, begun in May 2018.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | The Satanic Temple Inc. Cases
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
|5/03/2023
|[[The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago]]
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/?order_by=desc 1:23-cv-02780]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
|
|
|''Suit targeting the city of Chicago for failure to invite TST minister Adam Vavrick to give invocation.<ref>[https://www.courthousenews.com/satanic-temple-sues-chicago CourthouseNews.com], "Satanic Temple sues Chicago", May 3, 2023. ''The Satanic Temple sued the city of Chicago in federal court Wednesday over its refusal to allow an ordained minister of the Satanic Temple to deliver an invocation before City Council meetings “without providing any clear explanation of why.” The Establishment Clause requires that the opportunity to deliver a legislative prayer be made available “in a non-discriminatory manner,” according to the lawsuit.''</ref>Suit voluntarily dismissed with prejudice July 24,2024, after plaintiff Vavrick announced his departure from TST's Ministry program July 8.<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/36/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/ CourtListener.com], ''Civil case dismissed with prejudice - Document #36'', The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago (1:23-cv-02780), Northern District of Illinois.</ref><ref>[https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=726422036 Facebook.com], Facebook update by Adam Vavrick July 8, 2024: "Left Job at Satanic Ministry - Minister of Satan"</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Defamation
|11/23/2022
|[[Satanic Temple, Inc v. Jessica Snow]]
|261st Civil District Court (Travis County, Texas)
|[https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/app/RegisterOfActions/#/B6CCF0E9F718EE227EE4C550504C3D86C158247E2E208022B462965B12347FD0101CD04A60AF9128B5D056B2BE3B4DE66B4FA22B17CC2BF0D2D0C538F868656117FF6C86F26AEA7998297F12FCC8F50B/anon/portalembed D-1-GN-22-006797]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |No Movement
|
|
|''Suit targeting "The Satanic Housewife" for TikTok videos.<ref>[https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/78/D-1-GN-22-006797_-_Plaintiff%27s_Original_Petition_w_Ex_76AC6EC7_-_2022-11-23.pdf TST complaint] filed Nov. 23, 2022</ref><ref>SatanicEurope.Wordpress.com, [https://sataniceurope.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/the-freedom-to-offend/ analysis] and [https://sataniceurope.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/the-satanic-housewife/ interview with defendant].</ref><Ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-housewife-videos-and-legal-threat-by-the-satanic-temple/ QueerSatanic.com], ''“The Satanic Housewife” videos and legal threat by The Satanic Temple''</ref> No docket activity since complaint filed in November 2022.
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;"|Abortion
|9/30/2022
|[[The Satanic Temple v. Little]]
|US District Court for the District of Idaho
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392308/the-satanic-temple-v-little/ 1:22-cv-00411]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"| Dismissed (failure)
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69009053/the-satanic-temple-v-labrador-et-al/ CourtListener.com], ''The Satanic Temple v. Labrador, et al.'' (24-1243), in United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; case opened March 1, 2024.</ref>
|
|''Idaho abortion ban challenge. Complaint largely identical to The Satanic Temple v. Rokita (22-1859) except for references to Idaho instead of Indiana.''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Abortion
| 9/21/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple v. Rokita]]
| US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/the-satanic-temple-v-holcomb/ 1:22-cv-01859]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"|Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/66/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-rokita/ CourtListener.com], ''Order on Motion for Leave to File AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim — Document #66'', District Court, S.D. Indiana</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68071163/satanic-temple-inc-v-todd-rokita/ CourtListener.com], ''Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Todd Rokita (23-3247)'', Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit</ref>
|
| ''Indiana abortion ban challenge but involving no specific pregnant client. TST represented by [[W. James MacNaughton]].''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
| 9/08/2022
| [[Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human Svc]]
| US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66693942/satanic-temple-v-tx-hlth-and-human-svc/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 22-20459]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Failed motion
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66693942/69/1/satanic-temple-v-tx-hlth-and-human/ CourtListener.com], ''Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human, Published Opinion — Document #69, Attachment #1, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit''</ref>
|
| ''Originating from U.S. District Court case 4:21-CV-387 ("[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. et al v. Hellerstedt et al|Ann Doe I]]")''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"|Other
| 6/06/2022
| [[Matthew Kezhaya v. City of Belle Plaine]]<ref>Matthew Kezhaya is listed as "Movant - Appellant" with "The Satanic Temple Inc." as Plaintiff and renamed after case was initially mistakenly captioned</ref>
| US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806046/matthew-kezhaya-v-city-of-belle-plaine/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 22-2183]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Sanctions imposed
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806046/804826251/1/matthew-kezhaya-v-city-of-belle-plaine/ CourtListener.com], ''Attorney Matthew Kezhaya appeals an order of the district court* sanctioning him and his co-counsel under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. We conclude that there was no abuse of discretion, and therefore affirm the order.''</ref>
|
|''TST lawyer [[Matthew Kezhaya]]'s failed appeal of sanctions in the amount of $16,943.40 from [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc#entry-58 0:21-cv-00336-WMW] ("Satanic Temple I")''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Commerce
| 2/25/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation]] ("Lamar II")
| US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 5:22-cv-05033]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Dismissed (unclear)
|
|
|''TST Inc. withdrew from a previous state-level lawsuit in February 2021. August 2023 dismissal in context that "parties have resolved all issues between them".''<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/79/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation, Stipulation — Document #79</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Defamation
| 2/16/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC]]
| US District Court for the Southern District of New York
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ 1:22-cv-01343]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/27/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com] The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Memorandum & Opinion — Document #27</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/134/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Memorandum & Opinion — Document #134</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/136/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Notice of Appeal — Document #136</ref>
|
| ''Lawsuit relates to Newsweek's coverage of [[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al|UFC LLC v. Johnson et al]]''<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-accusations-lawsuit-1644042 Newsweek.com], ''Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit'' by Julia Duin, Oct. 29, 2021</ref><ref>[https://queersatanic.com/footnotes-to-newsweeks-orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-by-accusations-lawsuit/ QueerSatanic.com], ''Footnotes to Newsweek’s “Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit”'' by @QueerSatanic, Nov. 4, 2021</ref> ''All claims dismissed.''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Abortion
| 2/1/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al]] ("Ann Doe II")
| 459th Civil District Court (Travis County, Texas)
| [https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/app/RegisterOfActions/#/EB351E1BD0C0C3335AD50A4075095FD7922A6CB13590D6A71A54E3ED5014C5018B9423851665908716918A3069A1B837ECF77F0AF5C8E3C79DBCC144E03437E47C0596704C203B87C161CDB380DF7AEE/anon/portalembed D-1-GN-22-000560]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |No Movement
|
|
|''State-level filing distinct from "Ann Doe I" filed the year before in federal court. No docket activity since attorney vacation notification in June 2022''

|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Abortion
| 2/5/2021
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. et al v. Hellerstedt et al]] ("Ann Doe I")
| US District Court for the Southern District of Texas
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ 4:21-cv-00387]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/67/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Hellerstedt, Order — Document #67</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601012/18/satanic-temple-v-young/ CourtListener.com], Satanic Temple v. Young (23-20329) in Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, filed July 10, 2023</ref>
|
|''District court case fully dismissed July 3, 2023.<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/67/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss, July 3, 2023, without leave to replead.</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/68/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], Final Judgment, July 3, 2023</ref>, appellate case dismissed because TST "desire to avail themselves of the right to replead"<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601012/18/satanic-temple-v-young/ CourtListener.com</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public monuments
| 2/4/2021
|[[Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of| Satanic Temple, Inc v. Belle Plaine, City of]] ("Satanic Temple II")
| US District Court for the District of Minnesota
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"|Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/43/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ CourtListener.com], ''Defendant’s motion for sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336, (Dkt. 17), is GRANTED.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)
<ref name="Belle Plaine appeal">[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66651784/the-satanic-temple-v-city-of-belle-plaine/ 0:21-cv-03079], Case filed: Sept. 16, 2021, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals for original case [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122] ("Satanic Temple I"), consolidated with with [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806077/the-satanic-temple-v-city-of-belle-plaine/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 0:21-cv-03081], appealing original case [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336] ("Satanic Temple II")</ref>
|
|''Duplicative lawsuit. Judge sanctioned TST for filing second suit before first was complete''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
| 1/20/2021
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston]]
|US District Court of Massachusetts - Boston
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ 1:21-cv-10102]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2023/judge-rules-boston-city-council-doesnt-have-let UniversalHub.com], ''Judge rules Boston City Council doesn't have to let Satanists give an invocation if it doesn't want to'', July 31, 2023</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67667225/satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc CourtListener.com], Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston (23-1642), Court of Appeals for the First Circuit</ref>
|
|''TST lawyer Matthew Kezhaya sanctioned for actions related to attempt to depose then-mayoral candidate Michelle Wu on Election Day.<ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2022/federal-judge-satanists-who-tried-force-michelle UniversalHub.com], ''Federal judge to Satanists and their lawyer, who tried to force Michelle Wu to spend Election Day answering their questions: Hell, no'', April 6, 2022</ref> First circuit affirms lower court ruling dismissing TST lawsuit, including protective order.<ref>[https://ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servlet/TransportRoom?servlet=ShowDoc&pacer=i&caseId=50578&dls_id=00108175549 USCourts.Gov], We hold that TST has not shown that Boston's legislative prayer practice, either on its face or as applied, violates the Establishment Clause or the Massachusetts Free Exercise Clause. Further, the district court did not abuse its discretion by issuing a protective order preventing TST from deposing Mayor Wu. We affirm entry of judgment for Boston.</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Commerce
| 9/27/2020
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC]] ("Lamar I")
|19th West Circuit Court 5 (Benton County, Ark.)
|[https://caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=C&case_id=04CV-20-2100&begin_date=&end_date= 04CV-20-2100]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Terminated (unclear)
<ref>[https://caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=C&case_id=04CV-20-2100&begin_date=&end_date= 04CV-20-2100] - Case Filed: Sep. 27, 2020; [https://web.archive.org/web/20210520054832/https://contexte.aoc.arkansas.gov/imaging/IMAGES/DMS/CK_Image.Present2?DMS_ID=C1520BBC8A01E75D790FB8CBD91388441378F38F4E9F2CA99747DFB43A95B8CBA9AD539D7BA6940D86B479E061824217D0BB406894028B58F7DF3AA8BF973CBD&i_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontexte.aoc.arkansas.gov%2Fimaging%2FIMAGES%2FDMS Terminated]: Feb 26, 2021 via [https://casetext.com/rule/arkansas-court-rules/arkansas-rules-of-civil-procedure/rule-41-dismissal-of-actions#:~:text=Rule%2041%20%2D%20Dismissal%20of%20Actions%20(a)Voluntary%20Dismissal%3B,trial%20is%20by%20the%20court. voluntary dismissal (without prejudice)]</ref><ref>[https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/the-satanic-temple-bought-11971116 Dallas Observer], "Satanists Posted a Dallas Billboard Advocating for Reproductive Rights: 'Abortions Save Lives!'" Dec. 22, 2020, ''In September, TST sued Lamar Advertising Co. for religious discrimination because it had refused to post the religious organization’s designs. The advertising giant denies the temple’s initial allegations, according to a TST press release. Although Goodwin can’t comment on the active lawsuit, she said TST ultimately struck a deal with billboard company Clear Channel Outdoor.''</ref>
|
|
|''TST Inc. withdrew lawsuit but no terms available, if any''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
| 3/2/2020
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. City of Scottsdale]]
|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59746236/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-scottsdale/ 20-15338]
! -
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fO3ojPSA7I Video of Oral Arguments to 20-15338 The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Scottsdale]</ref><ref>[https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/19/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-satanist-invocation-in-scottsdale-az/ Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Blocking Satanist Invocation in Scottsdale (AZ)], by Hemant Mehta for Friendly Atheist</ref><ref>[https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2021/05/19/20-15338.pdf United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision] upholding lower court ruling</ref>
|
|''Case begun by [[United Federation of Churches, LLC|UFC LLC]]''<ref>Court of Appeals Docket #20-15338, District Court# 2:18-cv-00621-DGC, U.S. District Court for Arizona, Phoenix</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public monuments
| 4/25/2019
|[[Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of]] ("Satanic Temple I")
|US District Court for the District of Minnesota
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.startribune.com/satanic-temple-lawsuit-against-belle-plaine-will-move-forward-despite-court-dismissal-of-most-of-its-claims/572010332/?refresh=true StarTribune.com], ''Satanic Temple lawsuit against Belle Plaine will move forward, despite court dismissal of most of its claims; 1 of 10 counts still remains in the Scott County battle over church and state'', Aug. 4, 2020</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/109/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ CourtListener.com], ''ORDER. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 1. Defendant's motion for summary judgment as to Plaintiff's promissory-estoppel claim in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv-1122 81 is GRANTED. 2. Plaintiff's motion to strike in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv- 1122 100 is DENIED. 3. The magistrate judge's January 26, 2021 Order in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv-1122 79 is AFFIRMED. 4. Defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 10 is GRANTED. 5. Plaintiff 039;s motion to strike in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 29 is DENIED. 6. Defendant's motion for sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 17 is GRANTED. Within fourteen days after the date of this Order, Defendant shall file a mot ion and supporting evidence as to the attorneys' fees Defendant incurred responding to the complaint and seeking sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336. (Written Opinion) Signed by Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright on 9/15/2021. Associated Cases: 0:19-cv-01122-WMW-JFD, 0:21-cv-00336-WMW-JFD (RJE)'' </ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"| Affirmed (failure)<ref name="Belle Plaine appeal"></ref>
!
|''Original lawsuit.''
|}

==For-Profit Corporation Lawsuits ==
The United Federation of Churches, LLC has been involved in a number of [[lawsuits]] since its formation.

In 2018, the company sued Netflix Inc. and Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. in the Southern District of New York over use of a breastless Baphomet statue with children in ''The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'', claiming defamation and that its intellectual property rights had been violated, harming its business reputation.<ref>[https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Netflix-Satanic-Temple.pdf Courthousenews.com], ''By misappropriating TST Baphomet with Children (which is a registered copyright and famous mark of TST) to publish this false and defamatory depiction of TST, Defendants have engaged in three classes of wrong: copyright infringement (Claim 1) trademark violation (Claim 2), and injury to business reputation (Claim 3).''</ref>

The suit was eventually dismissed with prejudice after Netflix agreed to give a copyright credit on all episodes that had been filmed.<ref name="Bloomberg">[https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netflix-makes-amicable-deal-with-the-devil-over-sabrina-1 Netflix Makes ‘Amicable’ Deal With the Devil Over Sabrina], Bloomberg.com, Nov. 23, 2018, ''An attorney for the Temple, Bruce H. Lederman, told Bloomberg Law Netflix agreed within 10 days of the Temple’s suit to give the it (sic) copyright credit for the statute on all episodes that have been filmed.''</ref>

The following list is non-exhaustive and includes several cases represented by lawyers of The Satanic Temple but did not include them as plaintiffs.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | United Federation of Churches LLC court cases
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Commerce
|4/5/2023
|[[United Federation of Churches DBA v. Johnson AKA et al]] ("Queer Satanic II")
|King County Superior Court
|[https://dja-prd-ecexap1.kingcounty.gov/?q=node/411&199355=411110 23-2-06120-9 SEA]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
|
|
|''TST re-filed a new case in Washington state court while pursuing an appeal of the same claims in federal court. Case was stayed pending resolution of TST's appeal of federal case in Ninth Circuit then dismissed with prejudice Sep. 24, 2024.''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Defamation & Commerce
|4/3/2020
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al]] ("Queer Satanic I")
|US District Court for the Western District of Washington
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:2020-cv-00509]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Affirmed In Part; Vacated & Remanded In Part
(split)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66805454/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-david-johnson/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc CourtListener.com], United Federation of Churches LLC v. United Federation of Churches LLC v. David Johnson, et al (23-35060)</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)
|''Initial claims dismissed[https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/UnitedFednofChurchesLLCvJohnsonNo220cv00509RAJ2021BL69458WDWashFe][https://casetext.com/case/united-fedn-of-churches-llc-v-johnson]; amended complaint re-filed[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/33342602/United_Federation_of_Churches_LLC_v_Johnson_et_al], motion for re-consideration dismissed[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]; motion to dismiss granted[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/48/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]''; ''Ninth Circuit appeal affirmed in part, vacated and remanded in part [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66805454/40/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-david-johnson/], remainder voluntarily dismissed by Plaintiff[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/58/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Commerce
|11/8/2018
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al]]
|US District Court for the Southern District of New York
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8152228/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-netflix-inc/ 1:2018-cv-10372]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
(Success)

<ref name="Bloomberg" /><ref>[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/26138833/United_Federation_of_Churches_LLC_v_Netflix,_Inc_et_al PacerMonitor.com], United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al</ref>
|
|
|''TST utilized outside law firm D'agostino, Levine, Landesman & Lederman LLP''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Public monuments
|7/12/2018
|[[Cave et al v. Thurston]]
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Ongoing
|
|
|''"Doug Misicko" and "Satanic Temple" listed as Intervenors''<ref>Arkansas Civil Liberties Union [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/1/cave-v-thurston/ filed a complaint to begin the case 5/23/2018]] on behalf of its clients, but The Satanic Temple and its clients made their [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/17/cave-v-thurston/ motion to join as Intervenors] 7/12/2018, beginning TST's involvement.</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|2/28/2018
|[[Doe v. Greitens et al]] ("Judy Doe") <ref>"The Satanic Temple" was not named in the lawsuit as a plaintiff, but "Judy Doe" used the same attorney, [[W. James MacNaughton]], who represented "Mary Doe" at a similar case in Missouri's State Supreme Court and the failed federal case for "Mary Doe"</ref>
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6322005/doe-v-greitens/ 4:18-cv-00339]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5c714ba3342cca67d9445894 CaseMind.org], Motion to Dismiss: Granted Defendant. ''This matter seeking declarative and injunctive relief comes before the Court on Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's Complaint for failure to state a claim, [Doc. No. 17]. Plaintiffs seek (1) declaratory judgment that certain Missouri Statutes are void and (2) injunctive relief against Defendants' enforcement of the statutes. For the reasons below, Defendants' motion to dismiss will be granted.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/27b897fd742c1efe2e3272626c46ed70 Federal appeals court axes Satanic Temple abortion lawsuit], AP, June 9, 2020. ''The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday filed by a member of the Satanic Temple against a Missouri abortion law. ... An anonymous woman, Judy Doe, sued, arguing the law violates her religious freedom as a Satanic Temple member. The Satanic Temple doesn’t believe in a literal Satan but sees the biblical Satan as a metaphor for rebellion against tyranny. A federal district judge last year ruled against Doe, and the appeals court agreed.''</ref><ref>No. 19-1578, ''A Missouri law requires Judy Doe to certify that she has had a chance to review certain information before having an abortion. This requirement, she alleges, violates her Satanist beliefs. The district court dismissed both of her First Amendment claims, and we affirm.'' ([https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/06/191578P.pdf PDF])</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/2894/804010620/3/judy-doe-v-michael-l-parson/ CourtListener.com], Published Signed Opinion, Judy Doe v. Michael L. Parson (19-1578), filed 3/20/2019 </ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Appeal to SCOTUS denied
(failure)

<ref>No. 20-385, ''Petitioner Judy Doe (“Petitioner”) moves, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §455(a), for the disqualification of the Hon. Amy Coney Barrett from consideration of the Petition for Certiorari, Case No. 20-385 (the “Petition”) due to her publicly expressed religious beliefs that a human being comes into existence at conception, abortion is murder and Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (“Roe”) was a “barbaric” decision that should “be put to an end.”'' ([https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-385/158957/20201028113343173_final%20motion.pdf PDF]) </ref><ref>"[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/supreme-court-refuses-to-disqualify-justice-barrett-from-the-satanic-temples-abortion-case-301171560.html Supreme Court Refuses to Disqualify Justice Barrett from The Satanic Temple's Abortion Case]", Press release, Nov. 12, 2020 </ref><ref>20-385, "Certiorari Denied" ([https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/112320zor_7l48.pdf PDF])</ref>
|''TST had also sought to disqualify new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett''<ref>[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-385/158957/20201028113343173_final%20motion.pdf SupremeCourt.gov], ''Motion by Petitioner for the Disqualification of
The Hon. Amy Coney Barrett''</ref><ref>[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/supreme-court-refuses-to-disqualify-justice-barrett-from-the-satanic-temples-abortion-case-301171560.html PRNewswire.com], ''Supreme Court Refuses to Disqualify Justice Barrett from The Satanic Temple's Abortion Case''</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
|2/26/2018
|[[Satanic Temple et al v. Scottsdale, City of et al]]
|US District Court of Arizona - Phoenix
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:2018-cv-00621]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Judgment in favor of Defendants
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/92/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ CourtListener.com], ''ORDER AND JUDGMENT: Judgment is entered in favor of Defendants on all of Plaintiffs' claims. Signed by Senior Judge David G Campbell on 2/05/2020. (REK) (Entered: 02/06/2020)''</ref><ref>[https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2020/02/29/scottsdale-wins-court-battle-against-satanists-over-invocation/4903564002/ Scottsdale wins court battle against Satanists over right to give invocation; Satanists appeal, Arizona Republic], Feb. 29, 2020. ''A U.S. District Court judge ruled this month that Scottsdale did not discriminate against the Satanic Temple when the city blocked a member of the group from giving an invocation before a City Council meeting in 2016.''

''Judge David Campbell ruled the Satanic Temple did not prove the city had denied its request because of its religious beliefs.'' [https://apnews.com/article/3d00de948174ad7c0a36093f1fdf1752 (AP summary)]</ref>
|
|
|''Case continued by [[The Satanic Temple Inc]] ''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|6/23/2015
|[[The Satanic Temple et al v. Jeremiah Jay Nixon et al.]] ("Mary Doe II")
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7760360/the-satanic-temple-v-jeremiah-jay-nixon/ 4:2015-cv-00986]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed
(failure)
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6155672/the-satanic-temple-v-mike-parson/ 16-3387], ''08/28/2018 Open Document JUDGMENT FILED - The judgment of the Originating Court is AFFIRMED in accordance with the opinion. ROGER L. WOLLMAN, MICHAEL J. MELLOY and RAYMOND W. GRUENDER Hrg Sep 2017 [4698520] [16-3387] (AMT) [Entered: 08/28/2018 07:49 AM]'', US Eighth Circuit of Appeals</ref>
|
|''Mary Doe was not pregnant at time of filing federal case, so court determined she lacked standing''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|5/11/2015
|[[Mary Doe v. Jeremiah J Nixon et al]] ("Mary Doe I")
|Circuit Court of Cole County, Missouri
|[https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/caseNoSearch.do 15AC-CC00205]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)

<ref name=":1">''The Missouri Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a case brought by a woman who said the state’s abortion restrictions violated her religious beliefs. ... The case dates to 2015, when Doe’s attorneys argued her case in front of the Cole County Circuit Court. Circuit Judge Jon Beetem dismissed the case.'' [https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouris-high-court-tosses-case-alleging-abortion-law-violated-satanic-temple-members-rights/article_ae0e57c3-305e-51e6-b6cd-28699d41fada.html Missouri's high court tosses case alleging abortion law violated Satanic Temple member's rights], ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', Feb 13. 2019</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |State Appeals Court ordered transfer
(neutral)

<ref>[https://www.courts.mo.gov/file/OSummary_WD80387.pdf WD80387], ''Because we believe that this case raises real and substantial constitutional claims, it is within the Missouri Supreme Court’s exclusive jurisdiction under Article V, section 3 of the Missouri Constitution, and we hereby order its transfer'' ([https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=118276 PDF])</ref><ref>[https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/planned-parenthood-satanic-temple-score-initial-wins-in-abortion-fight/article_4f02f86c-ff07-5bc3-bcc9-2ce44be31cc2.html Planned Parenthood, Satanic Temple score initial wins in abortion fight], St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 3, 2017</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |State Supreme Court affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/searchDockets.do SC96751], ''Mary Doe appeals the circuit court’s judgment dismissing with prejudice her second amended petition seeking to enjoin the enforcement of the portion of the Missouri Informed Consent Law... This Court affirms denial of Ms. Doe’s request for injunctive relief. The informed consent law does not adopt any religious tenet, as Ms. Doe claimed. ...Moreover, the informed consent law neither requires a pregnant woman to read the booklet in question nor requires her to have or pay for an ultrasound. It simply provides her with that opportunity. .. The circuit court did not err in dismissing Ms. Doe’s petition for failure to state a claim.'' ([https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=136817 PDF])</ref><ref name=":1" />
|''State supreme court upheld lower court decision unanimously, but two of seven justices had concurring opinion''
|}

==Other Lawsuits==
Early legal cases involved The Satanic Temple or its members being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, however, contrary to popular belief, the Temple's only involvement in the ACLU's successful case to to remove the 10 Commandments monument from the Oklahoma State Capitol (Prescott v. Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission) was a footnote from the opinion.<ref>[https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=476438#d4ft8 OSCN.net], Footnote 8. ''One such request was from the Satanic Temple, who requested "a monument to Baphomet, which is a form of Satan, to be placed on the Capitol grounds." Record on Accelerated Appeal Ex. 4 (Deposition of Trait Thompson at 30). On December 19, 2013, the Commission minutes reflect Commission Chair, Trait Thompson, moved to put a moratorium on monument requests:''</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | Cases by others involving TST
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |School
|3/19/2024
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Shelby County Board of Education]]
|US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68356813/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-shelby-county-board-of-education/ 2:24-cv-02178]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
|
|
|''Plaintiff represented by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Kramer Law Center of Memphis. Case dismissed with school board paying FFRF's legal fees and promising not to discriminate against TST.<ref>[https://ffrf.org/news/releases/breaking-ffrf-settles-satanic-temple-discrimination-lawsuit-with-memphis-area-school/ FFRF/org], ''BREAKING: FFRF settles Satanic Temple discrimination lawsuit with Memphis-area school'', July 18, 2024</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |School
|3/30/2023
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District]]
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67112434/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district/ 5:23-cv-01244]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
<ref>[https://www.aclu.org/cases/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district?document=Settlement-Agreement-TST-v-SVSD ACLU.org], ''Settlement Agreement'', Nov. 16, 2023</ref><ref>[https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/saucon-valley-school-district-to-pay-satanic-temple-200k-in-legal-fees-over-after-school/article_82401e5c-84df-11ee-8a82-f3d05414da7b.html WFMZ-TV], ''Saucon Valley School District to pay Satanic Temple $200K in legal fees over After School Satan Club legal issue'', Nov. 16, 2023</ref>
|
|
|''School district had withdrawn use of facility for After School Satan club after bomb threat made but claimed an advertising violation; a judge required school to fulfill previous agreement as litigation continued, with school district ultimately paying ACLU $200,000 for legal costs.''<ref>[https://www.aclupa.org/en/cases/satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district ACLU.org], "ACLU Sues Saucon Valley School District for Prohibiting After School Satan Club from Meeting in District Facilities", May 1, 2023</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|9/11/2018
|[[Mayle v. Chicago Park District]] ("Emotional Support Hog")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7862874/mayle-v-chicago-park-district/ 1:18-cv-06211]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7862874/64/mayle-v-chicago-park-district/ CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss/Lack of Jurisdiction</ref><ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-emotional-support-pig-20190710-ikpu3r6is5evvkjyyqk3k53lsi-story.html ChicagoTribune.com], July 10, 2019, ''Chicago man continues legal fight to bring his ‘emotional support’ pig to parks''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
|
|''Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# [https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/30887949/Kenneth_Mayle_v_City_of_Chicago,_et_al 0:19-cv-03208]''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|4/24/2018
|[[Mayle v. The State of Illinois]] ("Bigamy II")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7373722/mayle-v-the-state-of-illinois/ 1:18-cv-02924]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7373722/22/mayle-v-the-state-of-illinois CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss/Lack of Jurisdiction</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
|
|''Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# [https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/27846458/Kenneth_Mayle_v_State_of_Illinois,_et_al 0:19-cv-01691]''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|5/5/2017
|[[Mayle v. The Congress of the United States of America]] ("In God We Trust")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6181929/mayle-v-the-congress-of-the-united-states-of-america/ 1:17-cv-03417]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-god-we-trust-money-religion-chicago-lawsuit-20180604-story.html ChicagoTribune.com], June 5, 2018; ''Chicago man, self-described satanist, loses latest battle to remove 'In God We Trust' from U.S. money''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure) <ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/17-3221/17-3221-2018-05-31.html Justia.com], '' The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of his complaint, rejecting claims under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Free Speech, Free Exercise, and Establishment Clauses. ''</ref>
|
|Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# 17-3221
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|4/10/2017
|[[Mayle v. Orr, et al]] ("Bigamy I")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13396641/mayle-v-orr/ 1:17-cv-00449]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20170411a06 Leagle.com], Dismissal order</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13396641/39/mayle-v-orr/ Courtlistener.com], Motion for extension to file notice of appeal denied</ref>
|
|
|''Pro se TST Member; intended appeal failed due to Plaintiff msising filing deadline''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Invocations
|1/9/2017
|Hunt v. Kenai Peninsula Borough
|United States District Court - District of Alaska
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60826742/hunt-v-kenai-peninsula-borough/ 3:17-cv-00007]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Returned to State Superior Court (neutral)
|
|
|''ACLU representing a TST member''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Invocations
|12/14/2016
|[[Hunt, Lance vs. Kenai Peninsula Borough AP]]
|Third Judicial District Superior Court - Anchorage
|[https://records.courts.alaska.gov/eaccess/home.page.14 3AN-16-10652CI]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs (success) <ref> PeninsulaClarion.com, Satanic Temple invocation prompts protest, walkouts at assembly meeting, June 18, 2019></ref>
|
|
|''ACLU representing a TST member''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public Monuments
|5/4/2016
|[[Kondrat'yev et al v. City of Pensacola et al]]
|Northern District of Florida (Pensacola)
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14450966/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola/ 3:16-cv-00195]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs (Success) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14450966/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola/#entry-41 CourtListener.com], ORDER. Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment (doc. 31 ) is GRANTED. Defendants' motion for summary judgment (doc. 30 ) is DENIED. Bayview Cross violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court and circuit precedent, and it must be removed within thirty (30) days. The City is ordered to pay damages to the plaintiffs in the amount of $1.00; and parties are directed to follow the local rules of this court with regard to attorney fees to which plaintiffs may be entitled. Signed by SENIOR JUDGE ROGER VINSON on 06/19/2017. (MB) (Entered: 06/19/2017)</ref>
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Affirmed (success) <ref>[https://casetext.com/case/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola Casetext.com], No. 17-13025, Sep. 7, 2018. ''The City of Pensacola, Florida appeals a district court decision ordering it to remove a 34-foot Latin cross from a public park on the ground that the City’s maintenance of the cross violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Having concluded that we are bound by existing Circuit precedent, we find ourselves constrained to affirm.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Reversed (failure) <ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/17-13025/17-13025-2020-02-19.html Justia.com], Case: 17-13025, Feb. 19,2020. ''Having reconsidered the case in light of American Legion, we conclude, as the Supreme Court did there, that “the Cross does not offend the Constitution.” See id. at 2090. For the foregoing reasons, we hold (1) that we remain bound by this Court’s decision in Rabun to conclude that plaintiffs have Article III standing to challenge Pensacola’s maintenance of the Bayview Park cross, but (2) that when American Legion—rather than Rabun (and through it, Lemon)—is applied, the cross’s presence on city property does not violate the Establishment Clause. REVERSED.Case: 17-13025 Date Filed: 02/19/2020</ref>
| ''[[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] representing a TST member, between first appeal and second appeal, U.S. Supreme Court decided'' American Legion v. American Humanist Association ''leading to 11th Circuit Court to reverse decision.
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Public Monuments
|3/24/2015
|[[Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. et al v. Franklin County, Indiana]]<ref>United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple was a plaintiff on the case, however, both it and the [[Freedom from Religion Foundation]] were represented by Gavin Minor Rose with the ACLU of Indiana</ref>
|US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13307466/freedom-from-religion-foundation-inc-v-franklin-county-indiana/ 1:2015-cv-00484]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settled Out of Court (success) <ref>[https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/12/21/satanic-temple-lawsuit-over-nativity-scene-dismissed/77693518/ IndyStar], "Satanic Temple lawsuit over Nativity scene dismissed", Dec. 31, 2015. ''As part of the settlement, the county agreed to let nonresidents apply for a permit, but they must have a local contact''</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210208013949/https://thomasmoresociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FFRF-v-Franklin-Co-1-15-cv-00484-Fully-Executed-Settlement-Agreement-1.pdf Thomas More Society], Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release of Claims</ref><ref>[https://www.eaglecountryonline.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-settlement-in-place-for-satanic-display-at-courthouse/ Eagle 99.3 FM], "Lawsuit Settlement In Place For Satanic Display At Courthouse" Dec. 18, 2015. ''According to the settlement, Franklin County has agreed to amend its ordinance concerning displays at the courthouse within 30 days. The amended ordinance for the courthouse display permitting process will accept the designation of a local contact in lieu of requiring that sponsorship be wholly by citizens of Franklin County. Essentially, The Satanic Temple could put up its goat-head display at the courthouse if it finds a resident of Franklin County or any adjacent Indiana county (Dearborn, Ripley, Rush, Decatur, Fayette, or Union counties) willing to serve as that local contact. The contact must be a person who lives or works in Franklin County and assumes responsibility for the display.''</ref>
|
|
|ACLU representing [[United Federation of Churches LLC]]
|-
|}

==Other Legal Actions==
Additionally, there are an unknown number of other cases The Satanic Temple or its affiliate entities may have been involved in either in the capacity of submitting amicus briefs, as with ''St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore'', or other legal complaints that are not lawsuits.<ref>([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60382291/st-michaels-media-inc-v-the-mayor-and-city-council-of-baltimore/ CourtListener.com], 1:21-cv-02337, St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore</ref><ref>[https://the.satanic.wiki/images/1/1a/38_4CA_21-2158_-_Amicus_TST.pdf No. 21-2158], ''Amicus brief for The Satanic Temple, Inc. In support of St. Michael’s Media, Inc. Arguing for affirmance'' (PDF)</ref>

For example, in communication with the state of Arkansas for Cave v. Thurston, The Satanic Temple revealed that TST had raised three administrative complaints to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination:<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/12/cave-v-thurston/ CourtListener.com], Cave v. Thurston, Exhibit 12 - Satanic Temple Responses to Def.'s First Requests April 10, 2020</ref>
# The Satanic Temple v. Window World of Boston LLC (18BPA02782)
# The Satanic Temple v. Twitter (18BPA00827)
# The Satanic Temple v. Facebook (case number unknown)

Additionally, as part of their federal lawsuit against the city of Boston, Mass., a fourth such case came to light:<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/100/14/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ CourtListener.com], Exhibit 14 - MCAD Complaint — Document #100, Attachment #14</ref>
<li value="4">The Satanic Temple v. City of Boston (18BPA02946)</li>

However, TST had only publicly revealed the complaint against Twitter as part of a fundraising effort, which also involved disclosing that attorney [[Marc Randazza]] was representing the Temple in the complaint, over the objections of many local chapters. <ref>[https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MzUwMzg= Flipcause.com], ''The Satanic Temple vs. Twitter. Support The Satanic Temple's fight against religious discrimination.'' ($5,649 Raised of $50,000)</ref>

A final category is legal threats sent to critics and former members, which The Satanic Temple has a reputation for going back as far as 2014, as described by the Temple's first "high priest" Brian Werner.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ZIN4aZ8IMz0?t=419 YouTube.com], ''High Priest Brian Werner resigns from The Satanic Temple'', relevant portion at 6:59 - "I get an email from the lawyers accepting my resignation with an attached six page non-disclosure agreement. Really dude? After everything you and me have been through in the last three years? You've been a guest in several of my homes. You know my wife. I've been a guest in yours. You've embraced me and called me brother. You couldn't even pick up a telephone and tolk to me? You had to hide behind the lawyers. What is this, Scientology?"</ref> However, it was also present as part of the Great Schism of 2018, which involved TST threatening many of them.
<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheSatanicWiki/status/1462231609776619521 Twitter.com], @TheSatanicWiki posting The Satanic Temple's National Council Meeting Notes for Sept. 9, 2018. Relevant portion: "Legal letters have been sent to ex-CHs [Chapterheads] who have violated NDA [Non-Disclosure/Non-Disparagement Agreement] / AA [Affiliate Agreement] terms"</ref> Finally, an especially egregious example came to light in June 2022 when The Satanic Temple sent a series of emails to the TikToker @TheSatanicHousewife in reaction to one of her videos, threatening her with a lawsuit if she did not record the prepared statement they sent her.<ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-housewife-videos-and-legal-threat-by-the-satanic-temple/ QueerSatanic.com], ''“The Satanic Housewife” videos and legal threat by The Satanic Temple''</ref>

== Criminal Court Cases ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Issue
!Date Filed
!Case Name
!Original Jurisdiction
!Case Number
!Result
!Notes
|-
|Attempted bombing
|5/7/2024
|United States ''v.'' Terpstra
|US Western District of Michigan
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68510101/united-states-v-terpstra/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-cr-00067]
|Ongoing
|Defendant Luke Isaac Terpstra also indicted on federal charges relating to Michigan case# 2024000021.
|-
|Attempted bombing
|4/15/2024
|United States v. Palmer
|US District Court of Massachusetts
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68446029/united-states-v-palmer/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-mj-01222]

[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68514994/united-states-v-palmer/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-cr-10132]
|Ongoing
|Defendant Sean Patrick Palmer accused of throwing an improvised explosive device, charged with "18 U.S.C. § 844(i) - Maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or explosive"
|-
|Attempted bombing
|[UNK]
|State of Michigan v. Terpstra
|78th District Court (Newaygo County, Mich.)
|2024000021
|Ongoing
|Defendant Luke Isaac Terpstra accused of making explosives in his home with plan to "blow up" TST headquarters; charged with "Explosives - Possession of bombs with unlawful intent" in January 2024; state ID# 202402057
|-
|Vandalism
|[UNK]
|State of Iowa v. Cassidy
|Polk County (Iowa) District Court
|SRCR376781
|Pleaded guilty
|Defendant Michael Patrick Cassidy was accused of hate crime in relation to destruction of a winter holiday Baphomet display at the Iowa state capitol; charged with "729A.2 Violation of individual rights — hate crime"; Cassidy pleaded guilty to misdemeanor and received two years probation.<ref>''Michael Cassidy, a former congressional and legislative candidate, was set for trial June 3, but his attorney filed a guilty plea on his behalf to an aggravated misdemeanor count of third-degree criminal mischief''. [https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2024/05/28/iowa-capitol-satanic-temple-display-vandal-michael-cassidy-sentenced-probation/73881680007/ DesMoinesRegister.com], May 28, 2024</ref>
|-
|Arson
|[UNK]
|State of Massachusetts v. Lucey
|Salem (Mass.) District Court
|[UNK]
|In custody at Bridgewater State Hospital as of 2/22/2024
|Defendant Daniel Damien Lucey accused of setting a fire at The Satanic Temple headquarters in June 2022; was charged with "arson, civil rights violations and destruction of a place of worship"; State ID# M140599
|}

="The Satanic Temple" in its own words=
An incomplete list of the ways The Satanic Temple has described itself for official purposes, such as court complaints, depositions, press releases, and internal documents, with each listed in reverse chronological order (most recent at top, earliest at bottom).

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+
!Date
!Short Description
!Source
!Long Description
|-
|5/03/2023
|'''"a non-theistic religion, federally recognized as a church and a religious public charity"'''
|The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago ([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/ 1:23-cv-02780])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple, Inc. is a religious corporation organized under the laws of Massachusetts and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. ... The Satanic Temple (“TST”) is a non-theistic religion, federally recognized as a church and a religious public charity. IRC §§ 170(b)(1)(A)(i); 501(c)(3). ... TST has more than half a million members located in every state (including Illinois) and internationally.
|-
|4/05/2023
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al ("[[Queer Satanic II]]")
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) (abbreviated “TST”) ... TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/30/2023
|'''"a non-theistic, religious not-for-profit corporation"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67112434/1/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district/ (5:23-cv-01244])
|Plaintiff, The Satanic Temple, Inc., is a non-theistic, religious not-for-profit corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, MA. TST has more than 700,000 individual members, who are located in every U.S. state, including in Pennsylvania and within the SVSD. TST also has recognized congregations in every state, including in eastern Pennsylvania. TST has been recognized by the IRS as a church, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code § 170(b)(1)(A)(i), and as a religious corporation, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(3).
|-
|12/05/2022
|'''"a nontheistic religion whose membership openly defies the authority of God and the Church"'''
|Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human Svc ([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/2/20/22-20459_Satanic_Temple_v_TX_Hlth_and_Human_Svc_TSTOpeningBrief_00516567427.pdf 22-20459])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”) is a nontheistic religion whose membership openly defies the authority of God and the Church. ROA.23. To the congregants of TST, Satan deserves veneration as a revolutionary antihero who stood up against impossible odds to seek justice and egalitarianism for himself and others.
|-
|11/23/2022
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Jessica Snow
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/78/D-1-GN-22-006797_-_Plaintiff%27s_Original_Petition_w_Ex_76AC6EC7_-_2022-11-23.pdf D-1-GN-22-006797])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (“TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 560,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|9/30/2022
|'''"a religious association"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Little ([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392308/1/the-satanic-temple-v-little/ 1:22-cv-00411])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple (“TST”) ... is a religious association with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST has over 1.5 million members worldwide, including over 3,500 members in Idaho.
|-
|9/21/2022
|'''"a religious association"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Holcomb
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/1/the-satanic-temple-v-holcomb/ 1:22-cv-01859])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple (“TST”) ... is a religious association with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST has over 1.5 million members worldwide, including over 11,300 members in Indiana.
|-
|2/25/2022
|'''"a Massachusetts religious corporation" and "a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/2/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/ 5:22-cv-05033])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST,”) plaintiff, is a Massachusetts religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization with an international following exceeding 540,000 and which was recently the subject of the film, Hail Satan? ... TST’s membership can be found in every State, importantly to include Arkansas and Indiana.
|-
|2/16/2022
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation which is organized" and "a private figure"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ 1:22-cv-01343])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”), Plaintiff, is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation which is organized under the laws of Massachusetts and is headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts.

...

TST is a private figure. TST is a private figure because it is not a household name.
|-
|2/01/2022
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation "'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a2/D-1-GN-22-000560-Plaintiffs-Original-Petition-with-Exhibits-2022-02-01.pdf D-1-GN-22-000560])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (“TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 560,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?” ... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|1/03/2022
|'''"an umbrella term for a religion"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/217/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|“The Satanic Temple” is an umbrella term for a religion which is given legal structure by a constellation of affiliate entities. There is no entity named “The Satanic Temple” anymore because the errantly-named “The Satanic Temple” corrected its name to “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” See EXHIBIT 1 (articles of amendment, dated May 24, 2019, renaming the organization from “The Satanic Temple” to “The Satanic Temple, Inc.”)
|-
|11/03/2021
|'''"an atheistic religious corporation"'''
|St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. Baltimore et al.
([https://queersatanic.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/38_4CA_21-2158_-_Amicus_TST.pdf 21-2158])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”) is an atheistic religious corporation with membership exceeding 530,000 throughout all 50 States and internationally.
|-
|5/24/2021
|'''“a religious organization”'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/26/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches (dba “The Satanic Temple” (abbreviated “TST”)…
…
TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/29/2021
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/22/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches (dba “The Satanic Temple” (abbreviated “TST”)...

...

TST is a religious organization.
|-
|2/05/2021
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Hellerstedt
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ 4:21-cv-00387])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 270,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|2/04/2021
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Massachusetts"'''
|Satanic Temple, Inc., The v. City of Belle Plaine, MN
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/1/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 200,000 and was recently the subject of the film, “Hail Satan?” ... TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include Minnesota.
|-
|1/31/2021
|'''"a nonprofit religious corporation with no parent corporations"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. City of Belle Plaine, et al
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/0/0f/21-3079_Belle_Plaine_v_Satanic_Temple_TST%27s_Brief_5122392.pdf 21-3079])
|Plaintiff-Appellant The Satanic Temple, Inc. is a nonprofit religious corporation with no parent corporations and no publicly held corporations own 10% or more of Plaintiff-Appellant’s stock. As a nonprofit religious corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant has neither stock nor owners.
|-
|1/24/2021
|'''"an infamous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/2/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ 1:21-cv-10102])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is an infamous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 270,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?” ...TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include the Boston metro area.
|-
|9/27/2020
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a1/04CV-20-2100_-_SATANIC_TEMPLE_INC_V_LAMAR_ADVERTISING_OF_LOUISIAN_Complaint.pdf 04CV-20-2100])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”)...

...

TST, plaintiff, is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization with membership exceeding 100,000 and which was recently the subject of the film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include Arkansas and Indiana, and internationally.
|-
|4/10/2020
|'''"not a discrete entity with tax returns"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/12/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|TST’s objection was sustained except to the extent TST was ordered “'''the Satanic Temple''' to produce current bylaws, operating agreements, or analogous documents.” Order at p. 20 (emphasis in original). The order directs TST to confer with all parties for a reasonable protective order. Intervenors propose an attorney’s-eyes-only protective order with an obligation to delete the information following the entry of a final order, and all filings marked “confidential” and filed under seal.

...

“The Satanic Temple” is not a discrete entity with tax returns. Intervenors thus have no responsive documents.
|-
|4/03/2020
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) (abbreviated as “TST”)...

...

TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/10/2020
|'''"a tax-exempt religious organization" that "can also engage in for-profit commerce"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/124/7/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|''Q. Okay. So which -- which organization is the Intervenor, The Satanic Temple, in this litigation?''

A. It's The Satanic Temple.

''Q. Okay. The Satanic Temple, Inc.?''

...

A. To me the Intervenor is The Satanic Temple as a religious organization. This kind of paperwork is meant to justify different facets sometimes of The Satanic Temple. But to me it's all this larger religious body, this -- this organization of -- of The Satanic Temple.

...

I don't even see those things as under any type of umbrella. These are -- and, you know, things like [[Reason Alliance]] and the [[United Federation of Churches]] are completely different to me than something like [[Cinephobia]]; because Cinephobia is representative of another project within The Satanic Temple. United Federation of Churches, Reason Alliance where more things, entities that emerged from consultation with either accountants or lawyers meant to help us better manage The Satanic Temple. But to me The Satanic Temple has always been this kind of one thing.

''Q. So and I'm -- I'm trying to understand how you understand this to work. So you claim that The Satanic Temple is tax exempt?''

A. No. It demonstrably is.

''Q. Okay. But when you talk about The Satanic Temple that includes organizations that are for profit and not tax exempt; right? You see the struggle I'm having?''

A. I -- I don't -- I don't see that as being -- I mean, I see plenty of religious organizations that operate in the same -- same manner, so it's not something to me that makes me think that this is something untoward or something questionable. ... there is a tax exempt religious organization of The Satanic Temple; but it can also engage in for-profit commerce, a online Web store or whatever else. And, you know, my understanding of it is that this is how you do those things, how you do those various things.
|-
|9/26/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts non-profit corporation"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/5/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|TST is given corporate structure by “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” which is a Massachusetts non-profit corporation. To the extent the request seeks to discover information about members and agents of TST, the request is not proportional to the needs of the case because TST is a complex and international organization with local chapters dispersed throughout the world and whose leadership structure is in constant flux. The current membership of TST exceeds 50,000 individuals, many of whom participate in a leadership role for various charitable and religious activities.

Compounding the difficulty of adhering to the request, individual participants of TST very often have pseudonyms to protect their safety. The volume of information sought is overwhelming and has no passable bearing on the questions of this case.

Not only is the information sought onerous to procure in the first place, Rule 26 requires ongoing supplementation. Every time a volunteer steps down from–or steps up to–a leadership position would require a new supplement.

...

The IRS letter was produced on September 5.
|-
|8/30/2019
|'''"a nascent religious organization"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/57/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|THE SATANIC TEMPLE, a voluntary group of persons, without an Arizona charter, formed by mutual consent for the purpose of promoting a common enterprise or prosecuting a common objective

...

Principally, this amendment adds the various juristic bodies which, at various times, have given an organizational structure to the voluntary association of self-identified Satanists practicing under the moniker “The Satanic Temple.” Because their shared religious beliefs transcend the corporate form, and as a fallback should the Court find a fatal deficiency for any or each of the organizations, “The Satanic Temple” is reserved as an unincorporated association under Rule 17(b)(3)(A).

...

The Satanic Temple (“TST”) is a nascent religious organization.

...

TST is organizationally complex. On the international scale, TST is given structure through [[The Satanic Temple, Inc.]], a Massachusetts corporation. The Satanic Temple, Inc. has been formally recognized as a tax-exempt religious organization under IRC § 501(c)(3). At the times relevant to this litigation, TST was given structure through [[United Federation of Churches, LLC]] (dba “The Satanic Temple,”) a Massachusetts LLC.

On the local scale, TST is given structure through local chapters. Sometimes, but not always, a local chapter organizes into a formal entity. Currently, the Arizona Chapter is given structure through [[Adversarial Truth, LLC]] (dba “The Satanic Temple – Arizona Chapter.”) At the relevant times of this litigation, the Arizona Chapter was simply “a voluntary group of persons, without an Arizona charter, formed by mutual consent for the purpose of promoting a common enterprise or prosecuting a common objective.”
|-
|8/12/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts religious corporation" and "a Massachusetts LLC" and "an Arizona LLC"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/53/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|The Court directed Plaintiffs to “file a short memorandum with the Court that explains what their intent is with respect to having the real party in interest appear in the case.” Doc. 48.

Plaintiffs intend to join the following entities: [[The Satanic Temple, Inc.]], a Massachusetts religious corporation, [[The United Federation of Churches LLC]], a Massachusetts LLC, dba “The Satanic Temple” and [[Adversarial Truth LLC]], an Arizona LLC, dba “The Satanic Temple (Arizona Chapter).” For brevity, “The Satanic Temple” is shortened to its common moniker, “TST,” and interchangeably refers to both LLCs and the corporation.

...

TST, both as the local Arizona chapter and the national organization, must separately prove their standing. The three entities are functionally interchangeable because they are associations of Satanists. For ease of reading, all are treated here.

The three entities interchangeably referred to as “TST” are interrelated. Adversarial Truth LLC is the Arizona Chapter of The Satanic Temple. Michelle Shortt is the sole owner of Adversarial Truth LLC.

United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) is the predecessor entity to The Satanic Temple, Inc. United Federation of Churches is owned by two individuals residing in Massachusetts. This entity was in existence at the time of the events in question.

The Satanic Temple, Inc. is an IRS-recognized “church,” complete with a 501(c)(3) ruling letter. Being a nonprofit corporation, The Satanic Temple, Inc., does not have “shareholders” as much as it had “organizers.” This entity was formed after the events in question.
|-
|7/22/2019
|'''"United Federation of Churches, LLC", which is "a tax-exempt organization"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/2/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|Intervenors do not object to providing the current full legal name of The Satanic Temple. On information and belief, the full legal name of the organization is still United Federation of Churches, LLC.

...

The Satanic Temple is a tax-exempt organization. The IRS letter relating to that status will be supplemented at a later time.
|-
|4/25/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts church"'''
|Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/1/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122])
|Plaintiff TST is a Massachusetts church organized under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It holds weekly religious services at its headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts.
|-
|11/08/2018
|'''"a Massachusetts limited liability company"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc.
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8152228/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-netflix-inc/ 1:18-cv-10372])
|Plaintiff, United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple (“Plaintiff” or “TST”)...

...

Plaintiff TST is a Massachusetts limited liability company, with its principal place of business located at 64 Bridge Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970.
|-
|7/12/2018
|'''"an organized religion"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/17/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|The Satanic Temple is an organized religion.
|-
|2/28/2018
|'''"an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty"'''
|Doe v. Greitens
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6322005/1/doe-v-greitens/ 4:18-cv-00339])
|Plaintiff is a member of The Satanic Temple, an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty.
|-
|2/16/2018
|'''"(DBA of UFC) Religious Organization (applied for 1023) whose members support campaigns based on tenets"'''
|TST Organizational Hierarchy and Structure ([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/76/TST_Organizational_Hierarchy_Structure.pdf internal document])
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC]]: Registered The Satanic Temple as a trademark...
The Satanic Temple (DBA of UFC): Religious Organization (applied for 1023) whose members support campaigns based on tenets. TST organizational structure outside of EM exists to support chapters and campaigns....

[[Reason Alliance]]: Limited Partnership (LTD)...

[[Sixty Four Bridge LLC]]: Museum/Gallery property owner...

[[Salem Art Gallery]]: DBA for Sixty Four Bridge LLC

...

SAG is a separate entity owned by Sixty Four Bridge LLC. It is decidedly not a chapter of The Satanic Temple. If it were a chapter, it would need a Chapter Head, Media Liaison and complete governance by NC. It is not in the best interests of 80% of the functions of the building for TST Salem to exist. It seems appropriate for merch, weddings, rituals and other TST initiatives to fall under the governance of [[Executive Ministry|EM]]. These aspects of the building make it TST Headquarters.

...

For understanding this organizational structure in context, think of the five functions (headquarters, art, museum, venue, media) as separate tenants of SAG. They are all run differently and serve entirely different purposes. Understanding this will help us move forward coherently.
|-
|2/16/2018
|'''"has chapters throughout the United States and Europe"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/1/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple has chapters throughout the United States and Europe with over 50,000 members.
|-
|6/23/2015
|'''"an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Jeremiah Jay Nixon
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7760360/1/the-satanic-temple-v-jeremiah-jay-nixon/ 4:15-cv-00986])
|The Satanic Temple is an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty.
|-
|3/24/2015
|'''“an international religious organization”'''
|Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Franklin County, Indiana
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13307466/1/freedom-from-religion-foundation-inc-v-franklin-county-indiana/ 1:15-cv-00484])
|The United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple (“The Satanic Temple” or “TST”) is an international religious organization that is incorporated in Massachusetts and has its primary place of business in Somerville, Massachusetts. However, it has several chapters located throughout the United States.
|}

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'''Peggy Nadramia''' is the current "high priestess" of the [[Church of Satan]] and chief executive officer of [[Hell's Kitchen Productions, Inc]].<ref>[https://dos.ny.gov/corporation-and-business-entity-search-database DOS.NY.gov], DOS ID 1202795</ref> Since 1981, Nadramia has been married to [[Peter H. Gilmore]], current high priest and head of the Church of Satan, according to the organization.<ref>[https://churchofsatan.com/history-peggy-nadramia/ ChurchOfSatan.com]</ref>

==References==

Michael Aquino

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'''Michael Aquino''' was a high ranking member of the [[Church of Satan]] who left in 1975 over a disagreement with [[Anton LaVey]] and formed the [[Temple of Set]].

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The Satanic Temple

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* The [[United_Federation_of_Churches,_LLC|United Federation of Churches, LLC]] does business as "The Satanic Temple", and owns its trademarks. It was originally registered in 2014. Its governing persons are jointly [[Cevin Soling]] and [[Douglas Misicko]], as well as their pseudonyms. It is a for-profit Limited Liability Company.
* [[The Satanic Temple Inc]] achieved Public Charity Status in 2019 as "a church or a convention or association of churches." It was originally registered in 2017 as "The Satanic Temple" before changing to its current name following the change in its federal tax status. Its governing board consists of Misicko, solely.

Both entities have been involved in a number of [[lawsuits]] under the name "The Satanic Temple", including "Inc" taking over some recent appeals of cases begun by "UFC LLC". In addition, TST members have been involved in religious discrimination arguments when representing themselves or when represented by the ACLU.

=Lawsuits=
==Nonprofit Church Lawsuits==
The Satanic Temple Inc. became the primary legal entity used for in suits involving "The Satanic Temple" beginning in 2019; this followed IRS recognition of the entity as a nonprofit church. The shift would include at one instance of taking over case begun by United Federation of Churches LLC. However, a point of contention in [[Cave et al v. Thurston]] between TST and the state of Arkansas has been which entity has actually officially involved in that case, begun in May 2018.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | The Satanic Temple Inc. Cases
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
|5/03/2023
|[[The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago]]
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/?order_by=desc 1:23-cv-02780]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
|
|
|''Suit targeting the city of Chicago for failure to invite TST minister Adam Vavrick to give invocation.<ref>[https://www.courthousenews.com/satanic-temple-sues-chicago CourthouseNews.com], "Satanic Temple sues Chicago", May 3, 2023. ''The Satanic Temple sued the city of Chicago in federal court Wednesday over its refusal to allow an ordained minister of the Satanic Temple to deliver an invocation before City Council meetings “without providing any clear explanation of why.” The Establishment Clause requires that the opportunity to deliver a legislative prayer be made available “in a non-discriminatory manner,” according to the lawsuit.''</ref>Suit voluntarily dismissed with prejudice July 24,2024, after plaintiff Vavrick announced his departure from TST's Ministry program July 8.<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/36/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/ CourtListener.com], ''Civil case dismissed with prejudice - Document #36'', The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago (1:23-cv-02780), Northern District of Illinois.</ref><ref>[https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=726422036 Facebook.com], Facebook update by Adam Vavrick July 8, 2024: "Left Job at Satanic Ministry - Minister of Satan"</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Defamation
|11/23/2022
|[[Satanic Temple, Inc v. Jessica Snow]]
|261st Civil District Court (Travis County, Texas)
|[https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/app/RegisterOfActions/#/B6CCF0E9F718EE227EE4C550504C3D86C158247E2E208022B462965B12347FD0101CD04A60AF9128B5D056B2BE3B4DE66B4FA22B17CC2BF0D2D0C538F868656117FF6C86F26AEA7998297F12FCC8F50B/anon/portalembed D-1-GN-22-006797]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |No Movement
|
|
|''Suit targeting "The Satanic Housewife" for TikTok videos.<ref>[https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/78/D-1-GN-22-006797_-_Plaintiff%27s_Original_Petition_w_Ex_76AC6EC7_-_2022-11-23.pdf TST complaint] filed Nov. 23, 2022</ref><ref>SatanicEurope.Wordpress.com, [https://sataniceurope.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/the-freedom-to-offend/ analysis] and [https://sataniceurope.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/the-satanic-housewife/ interview with defendant].</ref><Ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-housewife-videos-and-legal-threat-by-the-satanic-temple/ QueerSatanic.com], ''“The Satanic Housewife” videos and legal threat by The Satanic Temple''</ref> No docket activity since complaint filed in November 2022.
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;"|Abortion
|9/30/2022
|[[The Satanic Temple v. Little]]
|US District Court for the District of Idaho
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392308/the-satanic-temple-v-little/ 1:22-cv-00411]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"| Dismissed (failure)
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69009053/the-satanic-temple-v-labrador-et-al/ CourtListener.com], ''The Satanic Temple v. Labrador, et al.'' (24-1243), in United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; case opened March 1, 2024.</ref>
|
|''Idaho abortion ban challenge. Complaint largely identical to The Satanic Temple v. Rokita (22-1859) except for references to Idaho instead of Indiana.''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Abortion
| 9/21/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple v. Rokita]]
| US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/the-satanic-temple-v-holcomb/ 1:22-cv-01859]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"|Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/66/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-rokita/ CourtListener.com], ''Order on Motion for Leave to File AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim — Document #66'', District Court, S.D. Indiana</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Ongoing
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68071163/satanic-temple-inc-v-todd-rokita/ CourtListener.com], ''Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Todd Rokita (23-3247)'', Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit</ref>
|
| ''Indiana abortion ban challenge but involving no specific pregnant client. TST represented by [[W. James MacNaughton]].''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
| 9/08/2022
| [[Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human Svc]]
| US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66693942/satanic-temple-v-tx-hlth-and-human-svc/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 22-20459]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Failed motion
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66693942/69/1/satanic-temple-v-tx-hlth-and-human/ CourtListener.com], ''Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human, Published Opinion — Document #69, Attachment #1, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit''</ref>
|
| ''Originating from U.S. District Court case 4:21-CV-387 ("[[The_Satanic_Temple,_Inc._et_al_v._Hellerstedt_et_al|Ann Doe I]]")''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"|Other
| 6/06/2022
| [[Matthew Kezhaya v. City of Belle Plaine]]<ref>Matthew Kezhaya is listed as "Movant - Appellant" with "The Satanic Temple Inc." as Plaintiff and renamed after case was initially mistakenly captioned</ref>
| US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806046/matthew-kezhaya-v-city-of-belle-plaine/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 22-2183]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Sanctions imposed
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806046/804826251/1/matthew-kezhaya-v-city-of-belle-plaine/ CourtListener.com], ''Attorney Matthew Kezhaya appeals an order of the district court* sanctioning him and his co-counsel under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. We conclude that there was no abuse of discretion, and therefore affirm the order.''</ref>
|
|''TST lawyer [[Matthew Kezhaya]]'s failed appeal of sanctions in the amount of $16,943.40 from [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc#entry-58 0:21-cv-00336-WMW] ("Satanic Temple I")''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Commerce
| 2/25/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation]] ("Lamar II")
| US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 5:22-cv-05033]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Dismissed (unclear)
|
|
|''TST Inc. withdrew from a previous state-level lawsuit in February 2021. August 2023 dismissal in context that "parties have resolved all issues between them".''<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/79/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation, Stipulation — Document #79</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Defamation
| 2/16/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC]]
| US District Court for the Southern District of New York
| [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ 1:22-cv-01343]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
|
|
| ''Lawsuit relates to Newsweek's coverage of [[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al|UFC LLC v. Johnson et al]]''<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-accusations-lawsuit-1644042 Newsweek.com], ''Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit'' by Julia Duin, Oct. 29, 2021</ref><ref>[https://queersatanic.com/footnotes-to-newsweeks-orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-by-accusations-lawsuit/ QueerSatanic.com], ''Footnotes to Newsweek’s “Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit”'' by @QueerSatanic, Nov. 4, 2021</ref> ''All claims dismissed.'' <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/27/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com] The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLCm Memorandum & Opinion — Document #27</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/134/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, Memorandum & Opinion — Document #134</ref>
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Abortion
| 2/1/2022
| [[The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al]] ("Ann Doe II")
| 459th Civil District Court (Travis County, Texas)
| [https://odysseyweb.traviscountytx.gov/app/RegisterOfActions/#/EB351E1BD0C0C3335AD50A4075095FD7922A6CB13590D6A71A54E3ED5014C5018B9423851665908716918A3069A1B837ECF77F0AF5C8E3C79DBCC144E03437E47C0596704C203B87C161CDB380DF7AEE/anon/portalembed D-1-GN-22-000560]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |No Movement
|
|
|''State-level filing distinct from "Ann Doe I" filed the year before in federal court. No docket activity since attorney vacation notification in June 2022''

|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Abortion
| 2/5/2021
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. et al v. Hellerstedt et al]] ("Ann Doe I")
| US District Court for the Southern District of Texas
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ 4:21-cv-00387]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/67/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Hellerstedt, Order — Document #67</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601012/18/satanic-temple-v-young/ CourtListener.com], Satanic Temple v. Young (23-20329) in Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, filed July 10, 2023</ref>
|
|''District court case fully dismissed July 3, 2023.<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/67/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss, July 3, 2023, without leave to replead.</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/68/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ CourtListener.com], Final Judgment, July 3, 2023</ref>, appellate case dismissed because TST "desire to avail themselves of the right to replead"<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601012/18/satanic-temple-v-young/ CourtListener.com</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public monuments
| 2/4/2021
|[[Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of| Satanic Temple, Inc v. Belle Plaine, City of]] ("Satanic Temple II")
| US District Court for the District of Minnesota
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"|Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/43/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ CourtListener.com], ''Defendant’s motion for sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336, (Dkt. 17), is GRANTED.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Affirmed (failure)
<ref name="Belle Plaine appeal">[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66651784/the-satanic-temple-v-city-of-belle-plaine/ 0:21-cv-03079], Case filed: Sept. 16, 2021, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals for original case [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122] ("Satanic Temple I"), consolidated with with [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66806077/the-satanic-temple-v-city-of-belle-plaine/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 0:21-cv-03081], appealing original case [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336] ("Satanic Temple II")</ref>
|
|''Duplicative lawsuit. Judge sanctioned TST for filing second suit before first was complete''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
| 1/20/2021
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston]]
|US District Court of Massachusetts - Boston
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ 1:21-cv-10102]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2023/judge-rules-boston-city-council-doesnt-have-let UniversalHub.com], ''Judge rules Boston City Council doesn't have to let Satanists give an invocation if it doesn't want to'', July 31, 2023</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67667225/satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc CourtListener.com], Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston (23-1642), Court of Appeals for the First Circuit</ref>
|
|''TST lawyer Matthew Kezhaya sanctioned for actions related to attempt to depose then-mayoral candidate Michelle Wu on Election Day.<ref>[https://www.universalhub.com/2022/federal-judge-satanists-who-tried-force-michelle UniversalHub.com], ''Federal judge to Satanists and their lawyer, who tried to force Michelle Wu to spend Election Day answering their questions: Hell, no'', April 6, 2022</ref> First circuit affirms lower court ruling dismissing TST lawsuit, including protective order.<ref>[https://ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servlet/TransportRoom?servlet=ShowDoc&pacer=i&caseId=50578&dls_id=00108175549 USCourts.Gov], We hold that TST has not shown that Boston's legislative prayer practice, either on its face or as applied, violates the Establishment Clause or the Massachusetts Free Exercise Clause. Further, the district court did not abuse its discretion by issuing a protective order preventing TST from deposing Mayor Wu. We affirm entry of judgment for Boston.</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Commerce
| 9/27/2020
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC]] ("Lamar I")
|19th West Circuit Court 5 (Benton County, Ark.)
|[https://caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=C&case_id=04CV-20-2100&begin_date=&end_date= 04CV-20-2100]
! style="background:#F8CBAD; color:#000000;" |Terminated (unclear)
<ref>[https://caseinfo.arcourts.gov/cconnect/PROD/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=C&case_id=04CV-20-2100&begin_date=&end_date= 04CV-20-2100] - Case Filed: Sep. 27, 2020; [https://web.archive.org/web/20210520054832/https://contexte.aoc.arkansas.gov/imaging/IMAGES/DMS/CK_Image.Present2?DMS_ID=C1520BBC8A01E75D790FB8CBD91388441378F38F4E9F2CA99747DFB43A95B8CBA9AD539D7BA6940D86B479E061824217D0BB406894028B58F7DF3AA8BF973CBD&i_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontexte.aoc.arkansas.gov%2Fimaging%2FIMAGES%2FDMS Terminated]: Feb 26, 2021 via [https://casetext.com/rule/arkansas-court-rules/arkansas-rules-of-civil-procedure/rule-41-dismissal-of-actions#:~:text=Rule%2041%20%2D%20Dismissal%20of%20Actions%20(a)Voluntary%20Dismissal%3B,trial%20is%20by%20the%20court. voluntary dismissal (without prejudice)]</ref><ref>[https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/the-satanic-temple-bought-11971116 Dallas Observer], "Satanists Posted a Dallas Billboard Advocating for Reproductive Rights: 'Abortions Save Lives!'" Dec. 22, 2020, ''In September, TST sued Lamar Advertising Co. for religious discrimination because it had refused to post the religious organization’s designs. The advertising giant denies the temple’s initial allegations, according to a TST press release. Although Goodwin can’t comment on the active lawsuit, she said TST ultimately struck a deal with billboard company Clear Channel Outdoor.''</ref>
|
|
|''TST Inc. withdrew lawsuit but no terms available, if any''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
| 3/2/2020
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. City of Scottsdale]]
|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59746236/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-scottsdale/ 20-15338]
! -
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fO3ojPSA7I Video of Oral Arguments to 20-15338 The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Scottsdale]</ref><ref>[https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/19/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-satanist-invocation-in-scottsdale-az/ Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Blocking Satanist Invocation in Scottsdale (AZ)], by Hemant Mehta for Friendly Atheist</ref><ref>[https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2021/05/19/20-15338.pdf United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision] upholding lower court ruling</ref>
|
|''Case begun by [[United Federation of Churches, LLC|UFC LLC]]''<ref>Court of Appeals Docket #20-15338, District Court# 2:18-cv-00621-DGC, U.S. District Court for Arizona, Phoenix</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public monuments
| 4/25/2019
|[[Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of|Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of]] ("Satanic Temple I")
|US District Court for the District of Minnesota
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
<ref>[https://www.startribune.com/satanic-temple-lawsuit-against-belle-plaine-will-move-forward-despite-court-dismissal-of-most-of-its-claims/572010332/?refresh=true StarTribune.com], ''Satanic Temple lawsuit against Belle Plaine will move forward, despite court dismissal of most of its claims; 1 of 10 counts still remains in the Scott County battle over church and state'', Aug. 4, 2020</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/109/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ CourtListener.com], ''ORDER. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 1. Defendant's motion for summary judgment as to Plaintiff's promissory-estoppel claim in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv-1122 81 is GRANTED. 2. Plaintiff's motion to strike in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv- 1122 100 is DENIED. 3. The magistrate judge's January 26, 2021 Order in Satanic Temple I, No. 19-cv-1122 79 is AFFIRMED. 4. Defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 10 is GRANTED. 5. Plaintiff 039;s motion to strike in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 29 is DENIED. 6. Defendant's motion for sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336 17 is GRANTED. Within fourteen days after the date of this Order, Defendant shall file a mot ion and supporting evidence as to the attorneys' fees Defendant incurred responding to the complaint and seeking sanctions in Satanic Temple II, No. 21-cv-0336. (Written Opinion) Signed by Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright on 9/15/2021. Associated Cases: 0:19-cv-01122-WMW-JFD, 0:21-cv-00336-WMW-JFD (RJE)'' </ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;"| Affirmed (failure)<ref name="Belle Plaine appeal"></ref>
!
|''Original lawsuit.''
|}

==For-Profit Corporation Lawsuits ==
The United Federation of Churches, LLC has been involved in a number of [[lawsuits]] since its formation.

In 2018, the company sued Netflix Inc. and Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. in the Southern District of New York over use of a breastless Baphomet statue with children in ''The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'', claiming defamation and that its intellectual property rights had been violated, harming its business reputation.<ref>[https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Netflix-Satanic-Temple.pdf Courthousenews.com], ''By misappropriating TST Baphomet with Children (which is a registered copyright and famous mark of TST) to publish this false and defamatory depiction of TST, Defendants have engaged in three classes of wrong: copyright infringement (Claim 1) trademark violation (Claim 2), and injury to business reputation (Claim 3).''</ref>

The suit was eventually dismissed with prejudice after Netflix agreed to give a copyright credit on all episodes that had been filmed.<ref name="Bloomberg">[https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netflix-makes-amicable-deal-with-the-devil-over-sabrina-1 Netflix Makes ‘Amicable’ Deal With the Devil Over Sabrina], Bloomberg.com, Nov. 23, 2018, ''An attorney for the Temple, Bruce H. Lederman, told Bloomberg Law Netflix agreed within 10 days of the Temple’s suit to give the it (sic) copyright credit for the statute on all episodes that have been filmed.''</ref>

The following list is non-exhaustive and includes several cases represented by lawyers of The Satanic Temple but did not include them as plaintiffs.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | United Federation of Churches LLC court cases
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Commerce
|4/5/2023
|[[United Federation of Churches DBA v. Johnson AKA et al]] ("Queer Satanic II")
|King County Superior Court
|[https://dja-prd-ecexap1.kingcounty.gov/?q=node/411&199355=411110 23-2-06120-9 SEA]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed (failure)
|
|
|''TST re-filed a new case in Washington state court while pursuing an appeal of the same claims in federal court. Case was stayed pending resolution of TST's appeal of federal case in Ninth Circuit then dismissed with prejudice Sep. 24, 2024.''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Defamation & Commerce
|4/3/2020
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al]] ("Queer Satanic I")
|US District Court for the Western District of Washington
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:2020-cv-00509]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" | Affirmed In Part; Vacated & Remanded In Part
(split)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66805454/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-david-johnson/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc CourtListener.com], United Federation of Churches LLC v. United Federation of Churches LLC v. David Johnson, et al (23-35060)</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)
|''Initial claims dismissed[https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/UnitedFednofChurchesLLCvJohnsonNo220cv00509RAJ2021BL69458WDWashFe][https://casetext.com/case/united-fedn-of-churches-llc-v-johnson]; amended complaint re-filed[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/33342602/United_Federation_of_Churches_LLC_v_Johnson_et_al], motion for re-consideration dismissed[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/30/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]; motion to dismiss granted[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/48/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]''; ''Ninth Circuit appeal affirmed in part, vacated and remanded in part [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66805454/40/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-david-johnson/], remainder voluntarily dismissed by Plaintiff[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/58/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/]''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Commerce
|11/8/2018
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al]]
|US District Court for the Southern District of New York
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8152228/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-netflix-inc/ 1:2018-cv-10372]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
(Success)

<ref name="Bloomberg" /><ref>[https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/26138833/United_Federation_of_Churches_LLC_v_Netflix,_Inc_et_al PacerMonitor.com], United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al</ref>
|
|
|''TST utilized outside law firm D'agostino, Levine, Landesman & Lederman LLP''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Public monuments
|7/12/2018
|[[Cave et al v. Thurston]]
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Ongoing
|
|
|''"Doug Misicko" and "Satanic Temple" listed as Intervenors''<ref>Arkansas Civil Liberties Union [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/1/cave-v-thurston/ filed a complaint to begin the case 5/23/2018]] on behalf of its clients, but The Satanic Temple and its clients made their [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/17/cave-v-thurston/ motion to join as Intervenors] 7/12/2018, beginning TST's involvement.</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|2/28/2018
|[[Doe v. Greitens et al]] ("Judy Doe") <ref>"The Satanic Temple" was not named in the lawsuit as a plaintiff, but "Judy Doe" used the same attorney, [[W. James MacNaughton]], who represented "Mary Doe" at a similar case in Missouri's State Supreme Court and the failed federal case for "Mary Doe"</ref>
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6322005/doe-v-greitens/ 4:18-cv-00339]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5c714ba3342cca67d9445894 CaseMind.org], Motion to Dismiss: Granted Defendant. ''This matter seeking declarative and injunctive relief comes before the Court on Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's Complaint for failure to state a claim, [Doc. No. 17]. Plaintiffs seek (1) declaratory judgment that certain Missouri Statutes are void and (2) injunctive relief against Defendants' enforcement of the statutes. For the reasons below, Defendants' motion to dismiss will be granted.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/27b897fd742c1efe2e3272626c46ed70 Federal appeals court axes Satanic Temple abortion lawsuit], AP, June 9, 2020. ''The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday filed by a member of the Satanic Temple against a Missouri abortion law. ... An anonymous woman, Judy Doe, sued, arguing the law violates her religious freedom as a Satanic Temple member. The Satanic Temple doesn’t believe in a literal Satan but sees the biblical Satan as a metaphor for rebellion against tyranny. A federal district judge last year ruled against Doe, and the appeals court agreed.''</ref><ref>No. 19-1578, ''A Missouri law requires Judy Doe to certify that she has had a chance to review certain information before having an abortion. This requirement, she alleges, violates her Satanist beliefs. The district court dismissed both of her First Amendment claims, and we affirm.'' ([https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/06/191578P.pdf PDF])</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/2894/804010620/3/judy-doe-v-michael-l-parson/ CourtListener.com], Published Signed Opinion, Judy Doe v. Michael L. Parson (19-1578), filed 3/20/2019 </ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Appeal to SCOTUS denied
(failure)

<ref>No. 20-385, ''Petitioner Judy Doe (“Petitioner”) moves, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §455(a), for the disqualification of the Hon. Amy Coney Barrett from consideration of the Petition for Certiorari, Case No. 20-385 (the “Petition”) due to her publicly expressed religious beliefs that a human being comes into existence at conception, abortion is murder and Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (“Roe”) was a “barbaric” decision that should “be put to an end.”'' ([https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-385/158957/20201028113343173_final%20motion.pdf PDF]) </ref><ref>"[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/supreme-court-refuses-to-disqualify-justice-barrett-from-the-satanic-temples-abortion-case-301171560.html Supreme Court Refuses to Disqualify Justice Barrett from The Satanic Temple's Abortion Case]", Press release, Nov. 12, 2020 </ref><ref>20-385, "Certiorari Denied" ([https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/112320zor_7l48.pdf PDF])</ref>
|''TST had also sought to disqualify new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett''<ref>[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-385/158957/20201028113343173_final%20motion.pdf SupremeCourt.gov], ''Motion by Petitioner for the Disqualification of
The Hon. Amy Coney Barrett''</ref><ref>[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/supreme-court-refuses-to-disqualify-justice-barrett-from-the-satanic-temples-abortion-case-301171560.html PRNewswire.com], ''Supreme Court Refuses to Disqualify Justice Barrett from The Satanic Temple's Abortion Case''</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Invocations
|2/26/2018
|[[Satanic Temple et al v. Scottsdale, City of et al]]
|US District Court of Arizona - Phoenix
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:2018-cv-00621]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Judgment in favor of Defendants
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/92/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ CourtListener.com], ''ORDER AND JUDGMENT: Judgment is entered in favor of Defendants on all of Plaintiffs' claims. Signed by Senior Judge David G Campbell on 2/05/2020. (REK) (Entered: 02/06/2020)''</ref><ref>[https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2020/02/29/scottsdale-wins-court-battle-against-satanists-over-invocation/4903564002/ Scottsdale wins court battle against Satanists over right to give invocation; Satanists appeal, Arizona Republic], Feb. 29, 2020. ''A U.S. District Court judge ruled this month that Scottsdale did not discriminate against the Satanic Temple when the city blocked a member of the group from giving an invocation before a City Council meeting in 2016.''

''Judge David Campbell ruled the Satanic Temple did not prove the city had denied its request because of its religious beliefs.'' [https://apnews.com/article/3d00de948174ad7c0a36093f1fdf1752 (AP summary)]</ref>
|
|
|''Case continued by [[The Satanic Temple Inc]] ''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|6/23/2015
|[[The Satanic Temple et al v. Jeremiah Jay Nixon et al.]] ("Mary Doe II")
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7760360/the-satanic-temple-v-jeremiah-jay-nixon/ 4:2015-cv-00986]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed
(failure)
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6155672/the-satanic-temple-v-mike-parson/ 16-3387], ''08/28/2018 Open Document JUDGMENT FILED - The judgment of the Originating Court is AFFIRMED in accordance with the opinion. ROGER L. WOLLMAN, MICHAEL J. MELLOY and RAYMOND W. GRUENDER Hrg Sep 2017 [4698520] [16-3387] (AMT) [Entered: 08/28/2018 07:49 AM]'', US Eighth Circuit of Appeals</ref>
|
|''Mary Doe was not pregnant at time of filing federal case, so court determined she lacked standing''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Abortion
|5/11/2015
|[[Mary Doe v. Jeremiah J Nixon et al]] ("Mary Doe I")
|Circuit Court of Cole County, Missouri
|[https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/caseNoSearch.do 15AC-CC00205]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" | Dismissed
(failure)

<ref name=":1">''The Missouri Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a case brought by a woman who said the state’s abortion restrictions violated her religious beliefs. ... The case dates to 2015, when Doe’s attorneys argued her case in front of the Cole County Circuit Court. Circuit Judge Jon Beetem dismissed the case.'' [https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouris-high-court-tosses-case-alleging-abortion-law-violated-satanic-temple-members-rights/article_ae0e57c3-305e-51e6-b6cd-28699d41fada.html Missouri's high court tosses case alleging abortion law violated Satanic Temple member's rights], ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', Feb 13. 2019</ref>
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |State Appeals Court ordered transfer
(neutral)

<ref>[https://www.courts.mo.gov/file/OSummary_WD80387.pdf WD80387], ''Because we believe that this case raises real and substantial constitutional claims, it is within the Missouri Supreme Court’s exclusive jurisdiction under Article V, section 3 of the Missouri Constitution, and we hereby order its transfer'' ([https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=118276 PDF])</ref><ref>[https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/planned-parenthood-satanic-temple-score-initial-wins-in-abortion-fight/article_4f02f86c-ff07-5bc3-bcc9-2ce44be31cc2.html Planned Parenthood, Satanic Temple score initial wins in abortion fight], St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 3, 2017</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |State Supreme Court affirmed
(failure)

<ref>[https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/searchDockets.do SC96751], ''Mary Doe appeals the circuit court’s judgment dismissing with prejudice her second amended petition seeking to enjoin the enforcement of the portion of the Missouri Informed Consent Law... This Court affirms denial of Ms. Doe’s request for injunctive relief. The informed consent law does not adopt any religious tenet, as Ms. Doe claimed. ...Moreover, the informed consent law neither requires a pregnant woman to read the booklet in question nor requires her to have or pay for an ultrasound. It simply provides her with that opportunity. .. The circuit court did not err in dismissing Ms. Doe’s petition for failure to state a claim.'' ([https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=136817 PDF])</ref><ref name=":1" />
|''State supreme court upheld lower court decision unanimously, but two of seven justices had concurring opinion''
|}

==Other Lawsuits==
Early legal cases involved The Satanic Temple or its members being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, however, contrary to popular belief, the Temple's only involvement in the ACLU's successful case to to remove the 10 Commandments monument from the Oklahoma State Capitol (Prescott v. Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission) was a footnote from the opinion.<ref>[https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=476438#d4ft8 OSCN.net], Footnote 8. ''One such request was from the Satanic Temple, who requested "a monument to Baphomet, which is a form of Satan, to be placed on the Capitol grounds." Record on Accelerated Appeal Ex. 4 (Deposition of Trait Thompson at 30). On December 19, 2013, the Commission minutes reflect Commission Chair, Trait Thompson, moved to put a moratorium on monument requests:''</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+ style="text-align: left;" | Cases by others involving TST
|-
! scope="col" | Issue
! scope="col" | Date Filed
! scope="col" | Case Name
! scope="col" | Original Jurisdiction
! scope="col" | Case Number
! scope="col" | Original Result
! scope="col" | First Appeal
! scope="col" | Second Appeal
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |School
|3/19/2024
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Shelby County Board of Education]]
|US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68356813/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-shelby-county-board-of-education/ 2:24-cv-02178]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
|
|
|''Plaintiff represented by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Kramer Law Center of Memphis. Case dismissed with school board paying FFRF's legal fees and promising not to discriminate against TST.<ref>[https://ffrf.org/news/releases/breaking-ffrf-settles-satanic-temple-discrimination-lawsuit-with-memphis-area-school/ FFRF/org], ''BREAKING: FFRF settles Satanic Temple discrimination lawsuit with Memphis-area school'', July 18, 2024</ref>''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |School
|3/30/2023
|[[The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District]]
|US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67112434/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district/ 5:23-cv-01244]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settlement (favorable)
<ref>[https://www.aclu.org/cases/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district?document=Settlement-Agreement-TST-v-SVSD ACLU.org], ''Settlement Agreement'', Nov. 16, 2023</ref><ref>[https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/saucon-valley-school-district-to-pay-satanic-temple-200k-in-legal-fees-over-after-school/article_82401e5c-84df-11ee-8a82-f3d05414da7b.html WFMZ-TV], ''Saucon Valley School District to pay Satanic Temple $200K in legal fees over After School Satan Club legal issue'', Nov. 16, 2023</ref>
|
|
|''School district had withdrawn use of facility for After School Satan club after bomb threat made but claimed an advertising violation; a judge required school to fulfill previous agreement as litigation continued, with school district ultimately paying ACLU $200,000 for legal costs.''<ref>[https://www.aclupa.org/en/cases/satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district ACLU.org], "ACLU Sues Saucon Valley School District for Prohibiting After School Satan Club from Meeting in District Facilities", May 1, 2023</ref>
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|9/11/2018
|[[Mayle v. Chicago Park District]] ("Emotional Support Hog")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7862874/mayle-v-chicago-park-district/ 1:18-cv-06211]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7862874/64/mayle-v-chicago-park-district/ CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss/Lack of Jurisdiction</ref><ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-emotional-support-pig-20190710-ikpu3r6is5evvkjyyqk3k53lsi-story.html ChicagoTribune.com], July 10, 2019, ''Chicago man continues legal fight to bring his ‘emotional support’ pig to parks''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
|
|''Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# [https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/30887949/Kenneth_Mayle_v_City_of_Chicago,_et_al 0:19-cv-03208]''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|4/24/2018
|[[Mayle v. The State of Illinois]] ("Bigamy II")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7373722/mayle-v-the-state-of-illinois/ 1:18-cv-02924]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7373722/22/mayle-v-the-state-of-illinois CourtListener.com], Order Granting Motion to Dismiss/Lack of Jurisdiction</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure)
|
|''Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# [https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/27846458/Kenneth_Mayle_v_State_of_Illinois,_et_al 0:19-cv-01691]''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|5/5/2017
|[[Mayle v. The Congress of the United States of America]] ("In God We Trust")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6181929/mayle-v-the-congress-of-the-united-states-of-america/ 1:17-cv-03417]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-god-we-trust-money-religion-chicago-lawsuit-20180604-story.html ChicagoTribune.com], June 5, 2018; ''Chicago man, self-described satanist, loses latest battle to remove 'In God We Trust' from U.S. money''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Affirmed (failure) <ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/17-3221/17-3221-2018-05-31.html Justia.com], '' The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of his complaint, rejecting claims under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Free Speech, Free Exercise, and Establishment Clauses. ''</ref>
|
|Pro se TST Member; Appeal Case# 17-3221
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Other
|4/10/2017
|[[Mayle v. Orr, et al]] ("Bigamy I")
|US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13396641/mayle-v-orr/ 1:17-cv-00449]
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Dismissed (failure) <ref>[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20170411a06 Leagle.com], Dismissal order</ref><ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13396641/39/mayle-v-orr/ Courtlistener.com], Motion for extension to file notice of appeal denied</ref>
|
|
|''Pro se TST Member; intended appeal failed due to Plaintiff msising filing deadline''
|-
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Invocations
|1/9/2017
|Hunt v. Kenai Peninsula Borough
|United States District Court - District of Alaska
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60826742/hunt-v-kenai-peninsula-borough/ 3:17-cv-00007]
! style="background:#FFEB9C; color:#9C6500;" |Returned to State Superior Court (neutral)
|
|
|''ACLU representing a TST member''
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Invocations
|12/14/2016
|[[Hunt, Lance vs. Kenai Peninsula Borough AP]]
|Third Judicial District Superior Court - Anchorage
|[https://records.courts.alaska.gov/eaccess/home.page.14 3AN-16-10652CI]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs (success) <ref> PeninsulaClarion.com, Satanic Temple invocation prompts protest, walkouts at assembly meeting, June 18, 2019></ref>
|
|
|''ACLU representing a TST member''
|-
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Public Monuments
|5/4/2016
|[[Kondrat'yev et al v. City of Pensacola et al]]
|Northern District of Florida (Pensacola)
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14450966/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola/ 3:16-cv-00195]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs (Success) <ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14450966/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola/#entry-41 CourtListener.com], ORDER. Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment (doc. 31 ) is GRANTED. Defendants' motion for summary judgment (doc. 30 ) is DENIED. Bayview Cross violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court and circuit precedent, and it must be removed within thirty (30) days. The City is ordered to pay damages to the plaintiffs in the amount of $1.00; and parties are directed to follow the local rules of this court with regard to attorney fees to which plaintiffs may be entitled. Signed by SENIOR JUDGE ROGER VINSON on 06/19/2017. (MB) (Entered: 06/19/2017)</ref>
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Affirmed (success) <ref>[https://casetext.com/case/kondratyev-v-city-of-pensacola Casetext.com], No. 17-13025, Sep. 7, 2018. ''The City of Pensacola, Florida appeals a district court decision ordering it to remove a 34-foot Latin cross from a public park on the ground that the City’s maintenance of the cross violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Having concluded that we are bound by existing Circuit precedent, we find ourselves constrained to affirm.''</ref>
! style="background:#FFC7CE; color:#9C0006;" |Reversed (failure) <ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/17-13025/17-13025-2020-02-19.html Justia.com], Case: 17-13025, Feb. 19,2020. ''Having reconsidered the case in light of American Legion, we conclude, as the Supreme Court did there, that “the Cross does not offend the Constitution.” See id. at 2090. For the foregoing reasons, we hold (1) that we remain bound by this Court’s decision in Rabun to conclude that plaintiffs have Article III standing to challenge Pensacola’s maintenance of the Bayview Park cross, but (2) that when American Legion—rather than Rabun (and through it, Lemon)—is applied, the cross’s presence on city property does not violate the Establishment Clause. REVERSED.Case: 17-13025 Date Filed: 02/19/2020</ref>
| ''[[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] representing a TST member, between first appeal and second appeal, U.S. Supreme Court decided'' American Legion v. American Humanist Association ''leading to 11th Circuit Court to reverse decision.
|-
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Public Monuments
|3/24/2015
|[[Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. et al v. Franklin County, Indiana]]<ref>United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple was a plaintiff on the case, however, both it and the [[Freedom from Religion Foundation]] were represented by Gavin Minor Rose with the ACLU of Indiana</ref>
|US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13307466/freedom-from-religion-foundation-inc-v-franklin-county-indiana/ 1:2015-cv-00484]
! style="background:#C6EFCE; color:#006100;" |Settled Out of Court (success) <ref>[https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/12/21/satanic-temple-lawsuit-over-nativity-scene-dismissed/77693518/ IndyStar], "Satanic Temple lawsuit over Nativity scene dismissed", Dec. 31, 2015. ''As part of the settlement, the county agreed to let nonresidents apply for a permit, but they must have a local contact''</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210208013949/https://thomasmoresociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FFRF-v-Franklin-Co-1-15-cv-00484-Fully-Executed-Settlement-Agreement-1.pdf Thomas More Society], Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release of Claims</ref><ref>[https://www.eaglecountryonline.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-settlement-in-place-for-satanic-display-at-courthouse/ Eagle 99.3 FM], "Lawsuit Settlement In Place For Satanic Display At Courthouse" Dec. 18, 2015. ''According to the settlement, Franklin County has agreed to amend its ordinance concerning displays at the courthouse within 30 days. The amended ordinance for the courthouse display permitting process will accept the designation of a local contact in lieu of requiring that sponsorship be wholly by citizens of Franklin County. Essentially, The Satanic Temple could put up its goat-head display at the courthouse if it finds a resident of Franklin County or any adjacent Indiana county (Dearborn, Ripley, Rush, Decatur, Fayette, or Union counties) willing to serve as that local contact. The contact must be a person who lives or works in Franklin County and assumes responsibility for the display.''</ref>
|
|
|ACLU representing [[United Federation of Churches LLC]]
|-
|}

==Other Legal Actions==
Additionally, there are an unknown number of other cases The Satanic Temple or its affiliate entities may have been involved in either in the capacity of submitting amicus briefs, as with ''St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore'', or other legal complaints that are not lawsuits.<ref>([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60382291/st-michaels-media-inc-v-the-mayor-and-city-council-of-baltimore/ CourtListener.com], 1:21-cv-02337, St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore</ref><ref>[https://the.satanic.wiki/images/1/1a/38_4CA_21-2158_-_Amicus_TST.pdf No. 21-2158], ''Amicus brief for The Satanic Temple, Inc. In support of St. Michael’s Media, Inc. Arguing for affirmance'' (PDF)</ref>

For example, in communication with the state of Arkansas for Cave v. Thurston, The Satanic Temple revealed that TST had raised three administrative complaints to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination:<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/12/cave-v-thurston/ CourtListener.com], Cave v. Thurston, Exhibit 12 - Satanic Temple Responses to Def.'s First Requests April 10, 2020</ref>
# The Satanic Temple v. Window World of Boston LLC (18BPA02782)
# The Satanic Temple v. Twitter (18BPA00827)
# The Satanic Temple v. Facebook (case number unknown)

Additionally, as part of their federal lawsuit against the city of Boston, Mass., a fourth such case came to light:<ref>[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/100/14/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ CourtListener.com], Exhibit 14 - MCAD Complaint — Document #100, Attachment #14</ref>
<li value="4">The Satanic Temple v. City of Boston (18BPA02946)</li>

However, TST had only publicly revealed the complaint against Twitter as part of a fundraising effort, which also involved disclosing that attorney [[Marc Randazza]] was representing the Temple in the complaint, over the objections of many local chapters. <ref>[https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MzUwMzg= Flipcause.com], ''The Satanic Temple vs. Twitter. Support The Satanic Temple's fight against religious discrimination.'' ($5,649 Raised of $50,000)</ref>

A final category is legal threats sent to critics and former members, which The Satanic Temple has a reputation for going back as far as 2014, as described by the Temple's first "high priest" Brian Werner.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ZIN4aZ8IMz0?t=419 YouTube.com], ''High Priest Brian Werner resigns from The Satanic Temple'', relevant portion at 6:59 - "I get an email from the lawyers accepting my resignation with an attached six page non-disclosure agreement. Really dude? After everything you and me have been through in the last three years? You've been a guest in several of my homes. You know my wife. I've been a guest in yours. You've embraced me and called me brother. You couldn't even pick up a telephone and tolk to me? You had to hide behind the lawyers. What is this, Scientology?"</ref> However, it was also present as part of the Great Schism of 2018, which involved TST threatening many of them.
<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheSatanicWiki/status/1462231609776619521 Twitter.com], @TheSatanicWiki posting The Satanic Temple's National Council Meeting Notes for Sept. 9, 2018. Relevant portion: "Legal letters have been sent to ex-CHs [Chapterheads] who have violated NDA [Non-Disclosure/Non-Disparagement Agreement] / AA [Affiliate Agreement] terms"</ref> Finally, an especially egregious example came to light in June 2022 when The Satanic Temple sent a series of emails to the TikToker @TheSatanicHousewife in reaction to one of her videos, threatening her with a lawsuit if she did not record the prepared statement they sent her.<ref>[https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-housewife-videos-and-legal-threat-by-the-satanic-temple/ QueerSatanic.com], ''“The Satanic Housewife” videos and legal threat by The Satanic Temple''</ref>

== Criminal Court Cases ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Issue
!Date Filed
!Case Name
!Original Jurisdiction
!Case Number
!Result
!Notes
|-
|Attempted bombing
|5/7/2024
|United States ''v.'' Terpstra
|US Western District of Michigan
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68510101/united-states-v-terpstra/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-cr-00067]
|Ongoing
|Defendant Luke Isaac Terpstra also indicted on federal charges relating to Michigan case# 2024000021.
|-
|Attempted bombing
|4/15/2024
|United States v. Palmer
|US District Court of Massachusetts
|[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68446029/united-states-v-palmer/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-mj-01222]

[https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68514994/united-states-v-palmer/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc 1:24-cr-10132]
|Ongoing
|Defendant Sean Patrick Palmer accused of throwing an improvised explosive device, charged with "18 U.S.C. § 844(i) - Maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or explosive"
|-
|Attempted bombing
|[UNK]
|State of Michigan v. Terpstra
|78th District Court (Newaygo County, Mich.)
|2024000021
|Ongoing
|Defendant Luke Isaac Terpstra accused of making explosives in his home with plan to "blow up" TST headquarters; charged with "Explosives - Possession of bombs with unlawful intent" in January 2024; state ID# 202402057
|-
|Vandalism
|[UNK]
|State of Iowa v. Cassidy
|Polk County (Iowa) District Court
|SRCR376781
|Pleaded guilty
|Defendant Michael Patrick Cassidy was accused of hate crime in relation to destruction of a winter holiday Baphomet display at the Iowa state capitol; charged with "729A.2 Violation of individual rights — hate crime"; Cassidy pleaded guilty to misdemeanor and received two years probation.<ref>''Michael Cassidy, a former congressional and legislative candidate, was set for trial June 3, but his attorney filed a guilty plea on his behalf to an aggravated misdemeanor count of third-degree criminal mischief''. [https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2024/05/28/iowa-capitol-satanic-temple-display-vandal-michael-cassidy-sentenced-probation/73881680007/ DesMoinesRegister.com], May 28, 2024</ref>
|-
|Arson
|[UNK]
|State of Massachusetts v. Lucey
|Salem (Mass.) District Court
|[UNK]
|In custody at Bridgewater State Hospital as of 2/22/2024
|Defendant Daniel Damien Lucey accused of setting a fire at The Satanic Temple headquarters in June 2022; was charged with "arson, civil rights violations and destruction of a place of worship"; State ID# M140599
|}

="The Satanic Temple" in its own words=
An incomplete list of the ways The Satanic Temple has described itself for official purposes, such as court complaints, depositions, press releases, and internal documents, with each listed in reverse chronological order (most recent at top, earliest at bottom).

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+
!Date
!Short Description
!Source
!Long Description
|-
|5/03/2023
|'''"a non-theistic religion, federally recognized as a church and a religious public charity"'''
|The Satanic Temple Inc. v. The City of Chicago ([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67320005/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-the-city-of-chicago/ 1:23-cv-02780])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple, Inc. is a religious corporation organized under the laws of Massachusetts and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. ... The Satanic Temple (“TST”) is a non-theistic religion, federally recognized as a church and a religious public charity. IRC §§ 170(b)(1)(A)(i); 501(c)(3). ... TST has more than half a million members located in every state (including Illinois) and internationally.
|-
|4/05/2023
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al ("[[Queer Satanic II|Queer Satanic II]]")
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) (abbreviated “TST”) ... TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/30/2023
|'''"a non-theistic, religious not-for-profit corporation"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67112434/1/the-satanic-temple-v-saucon-valley-school-district/ (5:23-cv-01244])
|Plaintiff, The Satanic Temple, Inc., is a non-theistic, religious not-for-profit corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, MA. TST has more than 700,000 individual members, who are located in every U.S. state, including in Pennsylvania and within the SVSD. TST also has recognized congregations in every state, including in eastern Pennsylvania. TST has been recognized by the IRS as a church, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code § 170(b)(1)(A)(i), and as a religious corporation, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(3).
|-
|12/05/2022
|'''"a nontheistic religion whose membership openly defies the authority of God and the Church"'''
|Satanic Temple v. TX Hlth and Human Svc ([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/2/20/22-20459_Satanic_Temple_v_TX_Hlth_and_Human_Svc_TSTOpeningBrief_00516567427.pdf 22-20459])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”) is a nontheistic religion whose membership openly defies the authority of God and the Church. ROA.23. To the congregants of TST, Satan deserves veneration as a revolutionary antihero who stood up against impossible odds to seek justice and egalitarianism for himself and others.
|-
|11/23/2022
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Jessica Snow
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/78/D-1-GN-22-006797_-_Plaintiff%27s_Original_Petition_w_Ex_76AC6EC7_-_2022-11-23.pdf D-1-GN-22-006797])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (“TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 560,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|9/30/2022
|'''"a religious association"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Little ([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392308/1/the-satanic-temple-v-little/ 1:22-cv-00411])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple (“TST”) ... is a religious association with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST has over 1.5 million members worldwide, including over 3,500 members in Idaho.
|-
|9/21/2022
|'''"a religious association"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Holcomb
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364722/1/the-satanic-temple-v-holcomb/ 1:22-cv-01859])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple (“TST”) ... is a religious association with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST has over 1.5 million members worldwide, including over 11,300 members in Indiana.
|-
|2/25/2022
|'''"a Massachusetts religious corporation" and "a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Media Corporation
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63115599/2/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-lamar-media-corporation/ 5:22-cv-05033])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST,”) plaintiff, is a Massachusetts religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization with an international following exceeding 540,000 and which was recently the subject of the film, Hail Satan? ... TST’s membership can be found in every State, importantly to include Arkansas and Indiana.
|-
|2/16/2022
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation which is organized" and "a private figure"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63011247/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-magazine-llc/ 1:22-cv-01343])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”), Plaintiff, is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation which is organized under the laws of Massachusetts and is headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts.

...

TST is a private figure. TST is a private figure because it is not a household name.
|-
|2/01/2022
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation "'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a2/D-1-GN-22-000560-Plaintiffs-Original-Petition-with-Exhibits-2022-02-01.pdf D-1-GN-22-000560])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (“TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 560,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?” ... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|1/03/2022
|'''"an umbrella term for a religion"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/217/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|“The Satanic Temple” is an umbrella term for a religion which is given legal structure by a constellation of affiliate entities. There is no entity named “The Satanic Temple” anymore because the errantly-named “The Satanic Temple” corrected its name to “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” See EXHIBIT 1 (articles of amendment, dated May 24, 2019, renaming the organization from “The Satanic Temple” to “The Satanic Temple, Inc.”)
|-
|11/03/2021
|'''"an atheistic religious corporation"'''
|St. Michael's Media, Inc. v. Baltimore et al.
([https://queersatanic.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/38_4CA_21-2158_-_Amicus_TST.pdf 21-2158])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”) is an atheistic religious corporation with membership exceeding 530,000 throughout all 50 States and internationally.
|-
|5/24/2021
|'''“a religious organization”'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/26/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches (dba “The Satanic Temple” (abbreviated “TST”)…
…
TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/29/2021
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/22/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches (dba “The Satanic Temple” (abbreviated “TST”)...

...

TST is a religious organization.
|-
|2/05/2021
|'''"a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Hellerstedt
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59182019/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-hellerstedt/ 4:21-cv-00387])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is a famous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 270,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, including Texas.
|-
|2/04/2021
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Massachusetts"'''
|Satanic Temple, Inc., The v. City of Belle Plaine, MN
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59240138/1/satanic-temple-inc-the-v-city-of-belle-plaine-mn/ 0:21-cv-00336])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 200,000 and was recently the subject of the film, “Hail Satan?” ... TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include Minnesota.
|-
|1/31/2021
|'''"a nonprofit religious corporation with no parent corporations"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. City of Belle Plaine, et al
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/0/0f/21-3079_Belle_Plaine_v_Satanic_Temple_TST%27s_Brief_5122392.pdf 21-3079])
|Plaintiff-Appellant The Satanic Temple, Inc. is a nonprofit religious corporation with no parent corporations and no publicly held corporations own 10% or more of Plaintiff-Appellant’s stock. As a nonprofit religious corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant has neither stock nor owners.
|-
|1/24/2021
|'''"an infamous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31223191/2/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-city-of-boston/ 1:21-cv-10102])
|The Satanic Temple, Inc., plaintiff, (abbreviated to “TST”) is an infamous IRS-recognized atheistic religious corporation with its principal place of business in Salem, Massachusetts. TST’s membership exceeds 270,000 and was recently the subject of the acclaimed film, “Hail Satan?” ...TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include the Boston metro area.
|-
|9/27/2020
|'''"an IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization"'''
|The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Lamar Advertising of Louisiana, LLC
([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/a/a1/04CV-20-2100_-_SATANIC_TEMPLE_INC_V_LAMAR_ADVERTISING_OF_LOUISIAN_Complaint.pdf 04CV-20-2100])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple, Inc. (“TST”)...

...

TST, plaintiff, is an IRS-recognized atheistic religious organization with membership exceeding 100,000 and which was recently the subject of the film, “Hail Satan?”... TST’s membership can be found in every state, importantly to include Arkansas and Indiana, and internationally.
|-
|4/10/2020
|'''"not a discrete entity with tax returns"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/12/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|TST’s objection was sustained except to the extent TST was ordered “'''the Satanic Temple''' to produce current bylaws, operating agreements, or analogous documents.” Order at p. 20 (emphasis in original). The order directs TST to confer with all parties for a reasonable protective order. Intervenors propose an attorney’s-eyes-only protective order with an obligation to delete the information following the entry of a final order, and all filings marked “confidential” and filed under seal.

...

“The Satanic Temple” is not a discrete entity with tax returns. Intervenors thus have no responsive documents.
|-
|4/03/2020
|'''"a religious organization"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17042463/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-johnson/ 2:20-cv-00509])
|Plaintiff United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) (abbreviated as “TST”)...

...

TST is a religious organization.
|-
|3/10/2020
|'''"a tax-exempt religious organization" that "can also engage in for-profit commerce"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/124/7/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|''Q. Okay. So which -- which organization is the Intervenor, The Satanic Temple, in this litigation?''

A. It's The Satanic Temple.

''Q. Okay. The Satanic Temple, Inc.?''

...

A. To me the Intervenor is The Satanic Temple as a religious organization. This kind of paperwork is meant to justify different facets sometimes of The Satanic Temple. But to me it's all this larger religious body, this -- this organization of -- of The Satanic Temple.

...

I don't even see those things as under any type of umbrella. These are -- and, you know, things like [[Reason Alliance]] and the [[United Federation of Churches]] are completely different to me than something like [[Cinephobia]]; because Cinephobia is representative of another project within The Satanic Temple. United Federation of Churches, Reason Alliance where more things, entities that emerged from consultation with either accountants or lawyers meant to help us better manage The Satanic Temple. But to me The Satanic Temple has always been this kind of one thing.

''Q. So and I'm -- I'm trying to understand how you understand this to work. So you claim that The Satanic Temple is tax exempt?''

A. No. It demonstrably is.

''Q. Okay. But when you talk about The Satanic Temple that includes organizations that are for profit and not tax exempt; right? You see the struggle I'm having?''

A. I -- I don't -- I don't see that as being -- I mean, I see plenty of religious organizations that operate in the same -- same manner, so it's not something to me that makes me think that this is something untoward or something questionable. ... there is a tax exempt religious organization of The Satanic Temple; but it can also engage in for-profit commerce, a online Web store or whatever else. And, you know, my understanding of it is that this is how you do those things, how you do those various things.
|-
|9/26/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts non-profit corporation"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/5/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|TST is given corporate structure by “The Satanic Temple, Inc.” which is a Massachusetts non-profit corporation. To the extent the request seeks to discover information about members and agents of TST, the request is not proportional to the needs of the case because TST is a complex and international organization with local chapters dispersed throughout the world and whose leadership structure is in constant flux. The current membership of TST exceeds 50,000 individuals, many of whom participate in a leadership role for various charitable and religious activities.

Compounding the difficulty of adhering to the request, individual participants of TST very often have pseudonyms to protect their safety. The volume of information sought is overwhelming and has no passable bearing on the questions of this case.

Not only is the information sought onerous to procure in the first place, Rule 26 requires ongoing supplementation. Every time a volunteer steps down from–or steps up to–a leadership position would require a new supplement.

...

The IRS letter was produced on September 5.
|-
|8/30/2019
|'''"a nascent religious organization"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/57/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|THE SATANIC TEMPLE, a voluntary group of persons, without an Arizona charter, formed by mutual consent for the purpose of promoting a common enterprise or prosecuting a common objective

...

Principally, this amendment adds the various juristic bodies which, at various times, have given an organizational structure to the voluntary association of self-identified Satanists practicing under the moniker “The Satanic Temple.” Because their shared religious beliefs transcend the corporate form, and as a fallback should the Court find a fatal deficiency for any or each of the organizations, “The Satanic Temple” is reserved as an unincorporated association under Rule 17(b)(3)(A).

...

The Satanic Temple (“TST”) is a nascent religious organization.

...

TST is organizationally complex. On the international scale, TST is given structure through [[The Satanic Temple, Inc.]], a Massachusetts corporation. The Satanic Temple, Inc. has been formally recognized as a tax-exempt religious organization under IRC § 501(c)(3). At the times relevant to this litigation, TST was given structure through [[United Federation of Churches, LLC]] (dba “The Satanic Temple,”) a Massachusetts LLC.

On the local scale, TST is given structure through local chapters. Sometimes, but not always, a local chapter organizes into a formal entity. Currently, the Arizona Chapter is given structure through [[Adversarial Truth, LLC]] (dba “The Satanic Temple – Arizona Chapter.”) At the relevant times of this litigation, the Arizona Chapter was simply “a voluntary group of persons, without an Arizona charter, formed by mutual consent for the purpose of promoting a common enterprise or prosecuting a common objective.”
|-
|8/12/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts religious corporation" and "a Massachusetts LLC" and "an Arizona LLC"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/53/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|The Court directed Plaintiffs to “file a short memorandum with the Court that explains what their intent is with respect to having the real party in interest appear in the case.” Doc. 48.

Plaintiffs intend to join the following entities: [[The Satanic Temple, Inc.]], a Massachusetts religious corporation, [[The United Federation of Churches LLC]], a Massachusetts LLC, dba “The Satanic Temple” and [[Adversarial Truth LLC]], an Arizona LLC, dba “The Satanic Temple (Arizona Chapter).” For brevity, “The Satanic Temple” is shortened to its common moniker, “TST,” and interchangeably refers to both LLCs and the corporation.

...

TST, both as the local Arizona chapter and the national organization, must separately prove their standing. The three entities are functionally interchangeable because they are associations of Satanists. For ease of reading, all are treated here.

The three entities interchangeably referred to as “TST” are interrelated. Adversarial Truth LLC is the Arizona Chapter of The Satanic Temple. Michelle Shortt is the sole owner of Adversarial Truth LLC.

United Federation of Churches, LLC (dba “The Satanic Temple”) is the predecessor entity to The Satanic Temple, Inc. United Federation of Churches is owned by two individuals residing in Massachusetts. This entity was in existence at the time of the events in question.

The Satanic Temple, Inc. is an IRS-recognized “church,” complete with a 501(c)(3) ruling letter. Being a nonprofit corporation, The Satanic Temple, Inc., does not have “shareholders” as much as it had “organizers.” This entity was formed after the events in question.
|-
|7/22/2019
|'''"United Federation of Churches, LLC", which is "a tax-exempt organization"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/212/2/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|Intervenors do not object to providing the current full legal name of The Satanic Temple. On information and belief, the full legal name of the organization is still United Federation of Churches, LLC.

...

The Satanic Temple is a tax-exempt organization. The IRS letter relating to that status will be supplemented at a later time.
|-
|4/25/2019
|'''"a Massachusetts church"'''
|Satanic Temple, The v. Belle Plaine, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15064653/1/satanic-temple-the-v-belle-plaine-city-of/ 0:19-cv-01122])
|Plaintiff TST is a Massachusetts church organized under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It holds weekly religious services at its headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts.
|-
|11/08/2018
|'''"a Massachusetts limited liability company"'''
|United Federation of Churches LLC v. Netflix, Inc.
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8152228/1/united-federation-of-churches-llc-v-netflix-inc/ 1:18-cv-10372])
|Plaintiff, United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple (“Plaintiff” or “TST”)...

...

Plaintiff TST is a Massachusetts limited liability company, with its principal place of business located at 64 Bridge Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970.
|-
|7/12/2018
|'''"an organized religion"'''
|Cave v. Thurston
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7274697/17/cave-v-thurston/ 4:18-cv-00342])
|The Satanic Temple is an organized religion.
|-
|2/28/2018
|'''"an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty"'''
|Doe v. Greitens
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6322005/1/doe-v-greitens/ 4:18-cv-00339])
|Plaintiff is a member of The Satanic Temple, an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty.
|-
|2/16/2018
|'''"(DBA of UFC) Religious Organization (applied for 1023) whose members support campaigns based on tenets"'''
|TST Organizational Hierarchy and Structure ([https://the.satanic.wiki/images/7/76/TST_Organizational_Hierarchy_Structure.pdf internal document])
|[[United Federation of Churches LLC]]: Registered The Satanic Temple as a trademark...
The Satanic Temple (DBA of UFC): Religious Organization (applied for 1023) whose members support campaigns based on tenets. TST organizational structure outside of EM exists to support chapters and campaigns....

[[Reason Alliance]]: Limited Partnership (LTD)...

[[Sixty Four Bridge LLC]]: Museum/Gallery property owner...

[[Salem Art Gallery]]: DBA for Sixty Four Bridge LLC

...

SAG is a separate entity owned by Sixty Four Bridge LLC. It is decidedly not a chapter of The Satanic Temple. If it were a chapter, it would need a Chapter Head, Media Liaison and complete governance by NC. It is not in the best interests of 80% of the functions of the building for TST Salem to exist. It seems appropriate for merch, weddings, rituals and other TST initiatives to fall under the governance of [[Executive Ministry|EM]]. These aspects of the building make it TST Headquarters.

...

For understanding this organizational structure in context, think of the five functions (headquarters, art, museum, venue, media) as separate tenants of SAG. They are all run differently and serve entirely different purposes. Understanding this will help us move forward coherently.
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|2/16/2018
|'''"has chapters throughout the United States and Europe"'''
|Satanic Temple v. Scottsdale, City of
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6726362/1/satanic-temple-v-scottsdale-city-of/ 2:18-cv-00621])
|Plaintiff The Satanic Temple has chapters throughout the United States and Europe with over 50,000 members.
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|6/23/2015
|'''"an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty"'''
|The Satanic Temple v. Jeremiah Jay Nixon
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7760360/1/the-satanic-temple-v-jeremiah-jay-nixon/ 4:15-cv-00986])
|The Satanic Temple is an association of politically aware Satanists, secularists and advocates for individual liberty.
|-
|3/24/2015
|'''“an international religious organization”'''
|Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Franklin County, Indiana
([https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13307466/1/freedom-from-religion-foundation-inc-v-franklin-county-indiana/ 1:15-cv-00484])
|The United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a The Satanic Temple (“The Satanic Temple” or “TST”) is an international religious organization that is incorporated in Massachusetts and has its primary place of business in Somerville, Massachusetts. However, it has several chapters located throughout the United States.
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Anton LaVey

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'''Anton Szandor LaVey''' born "Howard Levey" was founder and leader of the [[Church of Satan]] until his death in 1997. LaVey welcomed neo-Nazis into the Church.

With his then-partner Diane Hegarty, LaVey wrote ''[[The Satanic Bible]]'', published in 1969.

The Black Flame No. 16

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Partial and mostly uncorrected text (3/18/25) of [https://the.satanic.wiki/images/e/eb/The_Black_Flame_6_%281-2%29.pdf The Black Flame No. 16].

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WELCOME
This is the final magazine-format issue of The Black Flame. Our next issue, number 17, will be in book form. We are not taking
subscriptions or pre-orders, as we have not yet determined the price. Anyone who paid for an issue beyond number 16 will be
contacted at the time that the price for number 17 is established. Our current issue is focused on music and art via interviews,
and we have substantial essays exploring poets who we consider to be de facto Satanists: William Blake and Giosue Carducci. We
begin by reprinting some important announcements regarding the Church of Satan which were frst published on our oficial
web site: Wee: a , as The Devil always has the last laugh. We have as well
our usual arrayof intriguing articles and reviews to pique your interest. Until next time—Hail Satan! Peter H. Gilmore
CONTENTS
2 Milestones by Magistra Blanche Barton and Magus Peter H. Gilmore
6 INTERVIEW: Jimmy Vargas, tease...torch &...noir by Magistra Peggy Nadramia
9 ‘Catholics, Goering and Charlton Heston” by Joshua Buckley
2 eter Mlakar: NSK’s Satanic Technoerat by Reverend Michael Moynihan and Charles Krafft
15 A frag y history of the Socialites by Archangel’s Suave Tiki
” Dirty Books: The Insolent Dr. Bowdler, His Compatriots, and Their Fear of Blushing
by Warlock Kevin |. Slaughter
6 Renfields by Magister Michael Rose
” Mannequin of Madness: The Story of “The Dell” by Reverend Carl Abrahamsson
20 INTERVIEW: Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba by Reverend Carl Abrahamsson
23 Lessons in Online Stupidity by Agent Cyanide
24 ODDITORIUM by Magistra Peggy Nadramia and guest reviewers
32 A Satanist’s Introduction to William Blake by a sympathetic reprobate
a ‘THE CYCLE—Fecundity Demands a Cruel Balance in Anthony Burgess’ The Wanting Seed
by Warlock Jack Malebranche
i ducci: 19th Century Poet, Stat ist by Warlock R. Merciless
Inno a Satana (Hymn to Satan) by Giosue Carducci-translated by Warlock R. Merciless
INTERVIEW: Gone Feral: Adam Parfrey's Ministry of Unsafe Information by Ulf Herder
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49 Collecting Souls in a World of Cyberjunkies by Magister Robert A. Lang
50 _ INTERVIEW: Trevor Brown by Reverend Michael Moynihan
54 The Art of Ritual by Magister Robert A. Lang
55 Who Teaches The Teachers? by Reverend Herbert Paulis
37 Satan, The Libido, and the True Nature of the Beast by Agent UVRay
58 Aristotle: The Satar
59 Del
Philosopher by Warlock Draconis Blackthorne
ns of Godhood by Agent Cyanide
My Satanic Ass! A Guide to the Science of Insulting by Blackjack
62 Chuckles for Tchort—The Satanic Humour of the Great Benny Hill by Colonel Akula
64 After The Absurd by Father Christopher Mealie
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===ABOUT OUR COVER IMAGE===
Magister Robert A. Lang
Amon: The Kemetic Ram or The Gate of Baphomet Tarot Card
‘The earliest forms of ram deities in Egypt were fashioned after the first ram (Ovis longipes
species. ‘These creatures were renown for their long wavy horns and heavy build. The most familiar deities personified in
this manner were: the neters Khnum and Banebdjedet, worshiped at the Delta town of Mendes. ‘The second species introduced
around the 12th Dynasty was the Ovis aries platyra aegyptiaca which had a lighter build and curved horns. ‘This species we see in
the form of Amon or Amun whose name means the “hidden one” or “that which is hidden (occult).” From the New Kingdom
onwards Khnum was largely synthesized and worshiped in the form of Amon. Banebdjedet was still worshipped at Mendes,
however, this image in time was largely synthesized with that of the image of Amon as well. The Greek historian Herodotus, who
visited Egypt around 450 BC, claimed to have witnessed the sacrifice ofgoats at Mendes. These goats were likely not goats at all
bur more likely the Ovis longipes rams with horns that could have easily been mistaken for thatof a goat. From these accounts the
goat of Mendes sprang forth, the ram/goat fertility symbol we use to this day in the form of our Baphomet (a derivation from the
term “abu fihamat * meaning father of wisdom) symbol. Aside from wishing to get away from the overused Eliphas Levi imagery
of Baphomet, I chose the image of Amon for this card as it was the dominant fertility symbol of ancient Egyptian times. The
dominance of the deity can be deduced by the fact that the beard of Amon is long and thin near the chin and wider near the ti
Yes, a trapezoid! Beards of lesser deities were depicted with a tuft or a small beard as was Khnum and Banebdjedet. Also the word
Kemet means “black land” which is the word the Egyptians used to describe Egypt itself. The term “black land” refers to the
fertile Nile silt which was annually spread across the land by inundation. Since the history of the Baphomet is thoroughly covered
in High Priest Gilmore's essay “The History of the Use of the Sigil of Baphomer in the Church of Satan” at www.churchofsatan.
com and by Reverend Paulis within the last issue of The Black Flame magazine, | will conclude this brief history of it’s most in-
triguing beginnings.

i Jim: the sheep, which was considered impure in ancient Egyptian culture, the ram was venerated for its fertility aspects.
The Gate of Baph t: To gain the undefiled wisdom. Symbolism of the card
pots symbolizing mastery over the world and acceptance of one’s true nature and the realities of the world. One trap-
ezoidal lame pot pillar on the viewer's left points downward and symbolizes the carnal path. ‘The other on the viewer's
right points upward symbolizing the spiritual path, For ritual purposes I placed the flame pots to be defined by the users point
of view. The ram sits upon the trapezoidal throne which is the Abraxis, neither left nor right, good ot evil, but both; the third
side, the rim of the coin, the pragmatist, the balance factor. ‘Ihe seal of the Ninth Gate emblazoned on the front of the trapezoid
will be detailed in the booklet, which will be available with the deck. Upon the pillars are the images of Typhon who, as well as
Leviathan, represents the essence of the Dragon of the Abyss; that chaotic force in nature which spawns destruction and creation.
‘The Pythagorean star denotes the perfect balance of all the elements in the universe: two points upward in defiance and three
points downwards in denial of the Holy trinity with the center point also representing the Excalibur, binding it to the earth
The duality of the sexes is represented by the female breasts (the earth mother) and a cobra phallus for the male elements. The
cobra carries a double-edged meaning for this card, as it was also worn by the Pharaohs ofantiquity and symbolized the power
to strike out at will; in this case to uphold natural law “Lex Talionis” as well as the 11 Rules of the Earth. ‘The silver bat winged
moon (a variation of the Temple of the Vampire winged skull of UR symbol which is wonderfully described by Nemo at www.
vampirctemple.com) represents sovereignty and mastery of the powers ofdarkness, the Nine Gates, and influence over the real
world. The two cobras to either side ofthe moon, depict the understanding that man is a creature of conceptual consciousness,
one cobra representing the conscious (the material world), the second cobra representing the subconscious (the magical world),
and the moon is “the true self.” ‘The entire background wall of this chamber is a rendition of the ancient Egyptian spell on how
to become a snake (another Satanic symbol). ‘The upper left-hand corner partially shows the slithering body of Apophis with the
legs of a human. The mastery of this card (that which is hidden/the hidden one) is only possible by possessing the ability to pass
through the gates before it. ‘This is the hallmark ofthe true Satanist. The concepts of the other gates will be made more broadly
known in the near furure, Hail Satan!

===MILESTONES===
Indulgence was the “watchword” chosen by
Anton LaVey when he founded the Church of Sa-
tan in 1966, I think a case may certainly be made
that this concept has in the interim made a lasting
impact on human society. As we look through the
landscape of what is currently offered, we see that
Dr. LaVey’s vision has had broad cultural effect, as
the amount of freedom for personal pleasure has
abundantly increased on all levels of social strata.
Dr. LaVey also noted that a prime danger was
that the old concept of finding a “scapegoat” co
blame for one’s actions is becoming part of the weft
and weaveof our society. The escape clause that some
“Devil made me do it” is behind the current victim-
culture of “political correctness’ that has seen full
fruition in the extant laws of many nations.
ninals who commit reprehensible acts are
often deemed blameless, while nebulous currents
in society itself are given the mantle of responsibil-
ity for demented, irresponsible behavior. We see
our judiciary tacitly accepting the idea that people
are automatons, who must of necessity be pro-
grammed from without by societal influences. This
absolves criminals from blame when they do what
is consensus “evil.” and seeks to put the responsibil-
ity anywhere but upon the heads of the perpetra-
tors. Hence, we witness the widely-practiced twisted
theory of injustice which mandates that “blameless”
criminals must be offered mercy and forgiveness.
Satanists now call for a hale to this grotesque-
ry. We do this through the advocacy of our current
watchword: Justice. Our means for its implemen-
tation is “Lex Talionis"—that punishment must fit
in kind and degree the crime. Such a dictum has
been cherished in ancient cultures and is overdue
for a full-scale rebirth. The doom which should
be over every person is: “Let it be upon your own
head.” Only you can take credit for your successes,
and only you must be at fault for your failures. It
is high time to put an end to the perpetual whin-
ing, finger pointing, and begging for special dis-
pensations. And the current of general opinion is
now flowing towards our desired direction.
‘The recent terrorist attacks on the United States
evoked a worldwide fervor that just retribution be
meted out for these criminal acts. Mercy is being
discarded in favor of a true Satanic passion for jus-
tice. We have reached a historical “fulerum point”
cly-embraced values may
now be leveraged in our desired direction. ‘The
time is now for Satanists, and others who cherish
individual liberty, co expose the madness of reli-
gious fanaticism, wherever it may arise, and show
the world-at-large that freedoms are threatened by
those willing to die for their immaterial deities. We
may see a continued societal transformation, if the
understanding of the nature of the current situa-
tion is kept in sharp focus, ‘The former days of for-
giveness will be ended as aroused nations visit their
‘wrath upon those who are enemies to the freedoms
offered by sccular civilization.
‘To conclude this address, I seress chat our or-
ganization and philosophy are both “organic,” ever
evolving, for they are predicated on the continued
deepening of our understanding of the beast called
‘Man, Such knowledge may be utilized to broaden
the horizons of freedom and responsibility—but
this practice demands virtuosity. Anton LaVey es-
tablished an insightful foundation which stands us
in good stead as we further explore the implications
of his ideas while we elaborate the applications of
Satanism in our current cultural milieu, setting
Sie ania peace sence
the “fundamental tone,” and we now compose ex-
quisite symphonies from the resultant overtones,
provoking “sympathetic vibrations” in those of like
We sll nove become hideboun, asthe
sainal progesion a ssion sl
nature.
cabal, Satanists continue 0 discover this wicked
philosophy through our website, our publications,
and our dedicated representatives. The new Age of
c—this age of indulgence, ego, and self-explo-
ration—is well underway, with the Church of Sa-
tan as the vanguard. Dramatic social, artistic, po-
litical, aesthetic and magical changes throughout
the past decades have been triggered by those who
have embraced the Devil’s dictums as recorded by
Anton LaVey in that unassuming litte black book
published in 1969. Whether they broadcast their
alkgienet oc thelr Jee wel cage
the infernal plan hid
axiomatic to our philosophy. Satanism’s essence is
to flow with Nate oe forward!
So, my Epicurean comrades, we are in exciting
times. Indulge, innovate, and celebrate the unique
life that is your precious treasure, as well as the
lives of those dear to you, who entich your days by
their very existence. The world is ours, so go forth
and fill your experience with satisfaction. As you
flow with the eternal now, may it be in exquisite
pleasure. Hail Satant

====‘Walpurgisnacht of XXXVI A.S.====
‘Magistra Blanche Barton
1n the last page of The Satanic Rituals, Dr
LaVey highlighted the common year 2002
as being significant to the evolution of Satanism.
Ic is now the end of the second Working Year
in this new Age of Fire which he establis
1966. “Meaningful and portentous messages are
cast forth each eighteen years,” our Magus wrote,
“and are acted upon for che eighteen years which
follow, at the end of which a new statement ap-
pears.” So it is particularly appropriate that, on
this night, I announce the final stage of our transi-
tion in leadership. One year ago, Peter Gilmore
became our High Priest. Tonight, his wife, Peggy
Nadramia, is hereby appointed to take her rightful
place at his side as High Priestess of thehe Cin
of Nine. High Priestess Nadramia, as you read
in my Walpurgisnacht greeting last year, is an ac-
complished and astute woman who doesn suffer
fools well. She elegantly blends a gracious heart
‘with an iron fist, and has been applying both in
her many years of online and in-person interac-
tion with members and media. Together, High
Priest Gilmore and High Priestess Nadramia have
generated potent magical energy berween them as
husband and wife, and will now be able to apply
that same balance, cooperation and vitality to the
Church of Satan.
We have already seen the positive results of
the eastward shife in our administration over this
past year. Memberships and inquiries are being
processed more quickly, our grotto system has
been weeded out and strengthened, new Grotto
Masters have been approved worldwide, our
a contact has beondend, and we are review-
ns in order to welcome care-
fly alec individeals nwo the core of our dak
So it has always been.
To guide your life by the Nine Satanic State-
ments, fo strive to fulfill your own ego, your own
indulgence and to forever seek undefiled wisdom,
is a potent brew. Those who are not Satanists can-
not sce how such a hedonistic philosophy could
be practical, with everyone seeking only his own
pleasure, his own selfish ends. But we in this sin-
ister alliance know the truth, don't we? That is
precisely why this is such a self selecting
Those who don't understand Satanism are either
repulsed by it, or misapply it to their own detri-
ment or destruction. ‘Those who truly do under-
stand it, and who are attracted to it for all the right
reasons, apply the principles responsibly and gain
all they desire. It is a sword which destroys those
who misuse it and insures victory to those with
the courage and depth to wield its power.
This is the religion that constantly reveals itself
anew to each of us. Because of the complexity of
the Left-Hand Path, even after 28 yearsas a devout
Sacanise, Lam incrigued by che permutations I cre-
ate and discover, hypnotized by the siren-song of
my own relentless demons. For us, this is the only
way to guide our lives—through those twi
whispers from our own condemned, selfish souls
Though the last 4 1/2 years without Dr. LaVey
have been difficult, and the pain after his death
was wrenching, I would not alter one moment of
the past 18 years of my life. What I learned from
him and experienced with him in our yeats to-
gether was well worth the tormenting aftermath,
Tam more determined than ever that the secrets
he entrusted to me, the madness and passion we
explored shall not be wasted.
When we make significant life-decisions, we
try to place ourselves ten years in the future and
ask ourselves, “What if I dont do this? Will I re-
grec it? No matter what happens as a consequence,
could Five with myself if I miss this opportunity?”
And,
ticle about Anton LaVey so many years ago, when
ie right, you hear a litte “ping” in your head. It
doesn't require the destruction of others; it doesn't
lead to social anarchy and the decay of civiliza-
tion, this idea of indulgence and ego supreme. On
the contrary, the changes we feel destined to make
are often advantageous to others of our kind, as
well. The pieces mesh together perfectly, as in an
incricate watch. Ultimately, Satanists have the
long-range good sense to understand we all must
contribute to civilization and protect our Earthly
shana Alexander wrote in her excellent ar-
resources in the best ways we see fit. Its often the
Satanic forces within a society who sce most clear-
ly the distasteful sacrifices that must be made to
preserve our comforts. On a more personal level,
wwe recognize that to be offensively self-absorbed
means to alienate all friends, family and possible
business allies— ‘Magic comes into play
to balance our ego needs. But that’s one of many
secrets Those Without will never understand. And
ies just as well we keep them to ourselves. They
need their menacing monsters and Puckish imps
adventurers—and we do it so well,
whether in jackboots and leather or a jingling
fool's cap. As the Ninth Satanic Statement
plies, what would they do without us?
So each of us has his or her assigned roles,
shifting kaleidoscopically, as we progress through
our lives. I met Anton LaVey on May Day 1984,
the day after the previous High Priestess, Diane,
walked out of the Black House for good. 1984
was the first Working Year of the Age of Satan.
Dr. LaVey and I had our son, Xerxes, in 1993, at
the apex ofthe second Working. Now, the second
the side of Dr. LaVey.
‘This past year has been one of great pleasure
for me, and I wanted to share a metaphor I have
used to explain my conception of my position and
duties as your High Priest. Since I am a musician,
having studied both conducting and composi
tion, [often tend to cast my imagery based on this
significant part of my creative practice. I see the
Church of Satan as resembling a vast symphony
orchestra of diabolical virtuosos, each with skills in
playing their unique “instruments”—their talents.
security was very tight, and this contributed to it
being a great success. We will continue with far-
ther such experiments, choosing participants with
care so that our yield will be of the highest order.
We have been hard at work in acknowledging
the many Active Membership Applications that
have been pending, and many of you will have
by now received your certificates welcoming you
to the first degree as Satanists in the Church of
Satan. We still have many more to process, and it
is our goal to forge ahead and thus open the gates
esteemed ensemble, and the “score” of which I
lead us in performance is the philosophy of Satan-
ism created by Anton LaVey and embodied in his
many works. As is the regular practice of conduc-
tors, I have studied both the historical context as
well as made an in-depth analysis of Dr. LaVey’s
“score,” so that my interpretation is authorita-
tive. Having worked for many years directly with
“che composer” has also provided me with neces-
sary insights into his unique methods and means.
‘This Sinfonia Diabolica, which we perform with
plete, We Working
pita Wy ieee bar ng es ee De
and High Priestess, looking to future expansion
and connection, utilizing new technologies to ac
tualize ancient goals, The source of the energy we
raise and focus remains the same; our dark Fre-
quency remains as constant as polar north. Do
riot be confused or distracted by those who would
dilute our sengh. The game remains the same
but the di
the maxi is one
Sar tale tees call ne
rs to come forth from the texture of the ensemble
and “sing solo” with great ardor. It is a score that
also allows for cadenzas—passages wherein solo-
ists soar in brilliant improvisation based on the
materials of the score itself. And also it is a score
which allows for continued expansion—ever
more colorful elaborations ofits orchestration as
and
making it all the easier to dispose of the Geecad
deadwood (efficiently allowing them to think they
are rejecting us). Choose carefully, listen well to
those demons within and never falter. Ir’ all part
of the Devils game. On this night of wickedness
and remembrance, may you continue to conjure
forth as much satisfaction and indulgence in your
role as I do in mine. Hail Satan!

====Walpurgisnacht, XXXVII A.S.====
Magus Peter H. Gilmore
Or this triumphant anniversary of the found-
ing of the Church of Satan, we administra-
tors take time to celebrate the vitality of our ex-
traordinary members, who make up a world-wide
body thar is enjoying self-satisfaction and moving
our culture in directions to our values.
1 take great personal pride this night in wel-
coming Peggy Nadramia as High Priestess of the
Church of Satan. Our previous High Priestess
Blanche Barton details this completion of our
transition begun a year ago today in her moving
message on this Walpurgisnacht of XXXVI. As
noted in this message, Magistra Templi Rex Bar-
ton is exchanging positions with previous Magis-
ra Templi Rex fadramia, so she
sumes the chair of the Council of Nine and will
continue to contribute her wisdom. towards the
evolution of the Church ofSatan, as well as pursu-
ing her own projects that continue to expound her
insights gained during her many years working at
and evolving possbiliti
ent ate Mss wie oc wel eral in
classical music performance might not be aware
that it has long been the practice of conductors
to adjust the scores they are performing to take
advantage of the continuing development of the
instruments in the orchestra, facilitating greater
expression of the intentions of the composer. And
so it is my task to evolve the implementation of
Sess LaVe pile prerpiocs ¥
yatiently await.
In celebration of this Walpurgisnacht, Rever-
end Matt Paradise has released his first book, The
Book of Satanic Quotations. Click on the image
below to visit his site and order this excellent col-
lection of Infernal ammunition.
‘My deepest thanks go to the treasured individuals
who have added their strengths towards our sharcd
vision over this last year—you continue to earn my
ove and respect, as you honor me as well as the work
of Dr. LaVey, with your inestimable contributions.
So, in the name of High Priestess Nadr-
amia, Magistra Templi Rex Barton, and myself,
I send forth our darkest blessings to all of our
members and true Saranists the world over. May
you celebrate this night of nights with abundant
pleasure and extraordinary satisfaction. We
beara legacy, crystallized and identified by our
founder Anton Szandor LaVey, that has come
forth from the shadows to claim its due—it is a
glorious time to be a Satanist. Hail Anton Szan-
dor LaVey! Hail Satan!

====17 October, XXXVI A.S.====
Magus Peter H. Gilmore yesterday, the infamous Black House—Dr. LaVey's residence for many years and the birth-
place of the Church of Satan, was demolished.

For the past several years, the Black House at 6114 California Street sat empty and brooding,
jal “shunned house.” Like the San
“concert of inspired music” arising from the very
heart of the Infern
“The Church of Satan has always been a labo-
ratory for experimentation in evolving an organi-
zation of radical individualism, and that process
continues. Towards that end, our specific Special
Interest Groups are soon to be announced via E-
Bulletin to our members (we are completing our
‘organization of the methods for their function-
ing), and will thus launch a new phase in creative
exchange. While it has been our past practice to
have small-scale gatherings of productive mem-
bers, this last Halloween marked our first large-
scale coming together of outstanding individuals.
Reverend Ventrue, abetted by his talented cohorts
Witch Hecate and Reverends Sprague and Ken-
nedy, made it possible for a celebratory fellowship
of hand-picked invitees to assemble in the Dal-
las area. It was truly an energizing time, galvaniz~
ing new projects as well as providing indulgence
in many shared passions—promoting a veritable
chain-reaction of reinforced ideas and goals. ‘The
Bactoce lair of Dr. LaVey’s mentor, Cecil Nixon,
iewasnot meant to survive the death of the unique
owner who had given it preternacural life.
Tk was the real-world equivalent of fictional
“haunted houses” belonging to charming outsid-
ers, like the Addams Family domicile of both car-
toons and video. With Dr. LaVey as its genius loci,
it became a nexus point for those who shared his
Satanic sensibilities. lewas truly an “unholy of un-
holies” for the select group of sinister individuals
who were fortunate enough to be invited to cross
its threshold and pass through the stygian pall of
the entry hallway. Those of us who enjoyed many
hours in its tenebrous embrace will never forget its
charm—and its mysteries.
With its passing, it gains greater power as it
moves into the realm of legend. Now it continues
to exists the archetype for laits belonging to many
of the members ofthe Church of Satan. And in the
years to come it shall continue to serve as an inspi-
ration for those infernal souls who have the will to
construct their own dark sanctuaries.

===Jimmy Vargas: Tease, Torch & Noir===
AN INTERVIEW
BY Peggy Nadramia

'''What musicians had the greatest influence on your work?'''

As for our music influences and what we relax to, it’s tantamount to the same thing. It is wise to categorize my musical philosophy as “tease &... noir,” hence the title of the first cd you received from us. That is our gospel of thought, faith, fetish, vision, and soundtrack. The tease side of us is heavily influenced by the 1930's and 1940's burlesque music peelin’ out of the strip torch &. joints and pleasure houses of Americana “sin alley” of that period—the sinuous jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley hymns that were transposed to the burlesque stage away from their milquetoast pop leanings. 1 dug a lot of the serpentine tango and Latin music that was hugely popular in the underground cabarets around the war time—sweet copulatin’ rhythms. As for names, Gershwin for those Jewish blue note symphonies that he was so adept at writing—highly sensual and melancholic strains in all his work. Lyrically, for their great sense of double entendre and triple rhymes, Lorenz Hart and Johnny Mercer, both American writers of the Broadway and Hollywood golden period. As for Europeans? Got to be Erik Satie for his misty melancholic piano pieces, Gorecki, and Rachmaninov—beautiful necromantic writers[.]

As for torch, ditto the above plus of course Iealian opera and the bel canto singers a la Sinatra, Al Bowlly (English, 1930's), and Benny More (Cuban 1930's singer)

Noir—German atonal masters like Schoenberg; Wagner, Gershwin again for his dark urbanity. His teacher Darius Milhaud (one of the famous “Les Six’ of French cabaret composers of the early 20th century). Modern composers don't ecessarily grab me. People get confused with the making of great records with great songs, Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor being some—they are brilliant producers, however.

For the offbeat I always dug Harold Partch (American composer)—all theoretical, of course, however, inspiring from an arranging point of view.

'''What do you listen to when you want to relax and feel good?'''

Other music that I do dig is bop, jazz, Dizzy Gillespie and Parker, and John Coltrane during his free period in the early sixties where his jazz held rage and political attitude. They are the “high priests” on my turntable at five in the afternoon.

'''Your music is imbued with a hopeless longing for a love the singer knows will never return in is lifetime. I imagine him walking empty city streets, remembering her figure here on a corner, there in a doorway; he seeks her yet he knows he will not find her. As a listener I empathize completely because your music also inspires me with a longing for a past time that I never experienced; I think many Satanists feel this way and it’s one of the things that characterize our “outsider” nature, We watch noir films, read old detective novels, collect artifacts and dream about an idealized past that may never have existed, ‘What aspects of this past life do you miss the most, aside from Elizabeth? How has the present culture alienated you, if at all?

I'm not necessarily a Satanist—an outsider definitely. To be honest with you I don't know whether that makes me a Satanist. I always saw Anton LaVey as not being strictly a Satanist—his lack of patience with stupid willful people in some way shares the same bed as Jesus when he was beatin’ up schmucks in the temple. I always dug LaVey's separatism. As for the love interest observation you've made in your question, it isntt just Elizabeth Shore that one misses, its also the avatar that rebirthed her. We have released the enhanced CD “Shadow Bride Sunday Mourning,” both the videos, voice-over and the hidden chapters not released in the book My Shadow Bride last year. It documents the Vargas and “Scarlatta” " relationship—the woman who “birthed” Elizabeth back and Jimmy's affair with her. There are two other stories in the series that all link upand have nothing to do with Elizabeth, but it unveils a final testament to how this whole goddamn thing—and I do mean goddamned—hopefully we can get to release them within a year or so.

But getting back to the question, yes, I feel a total separatism. One always is searching for that other half and one has to brace oneself that one is never going to be graced by them in this lifetime. Well, it is better to walk alone in the midnight, my own shadow can keep me warm. Anyway, the songs that I am writing are female-driven, snapshots of her, and you can still make love to them via the playing of those songs. They are all loser taxi dance songs anyway.

'''How do audiences react to your performances? Do you find audience members dressing in period clothes as you do and also carrying a torch for a time when men were men and women were dames?'''

You know, we haven't played to an audience for some time. Either its the choice of putting out records and videos and writing books or doing tours. Well, the concrete work at the moment is more important. In film and records, phantasms live forever— one never dies.

'''Swing, kittens! From my viewpoint, the youngsters who enjoy this fad have swing confused with everything from rockabilly to square dancing. I think it’s great that people want to get dressed up to go out, sit in a real chair and be served a real drink. But how do you feel about seeing the outer trappings of your past lifestyle reflected back by trendy young club-goers?'''

As for the swing revolution, it has spiraled into squaresville territory—the swing market had no idea what the hell Jimmy Vargas was about... they just wanted to dance. That market was not attracted to the aesthetic of the forties, the politics of the era, nor understood the major sexual, social, and spiritual changes that gestated our of World War II. Ironically, the architects of that swing revolution in San Francosco (sic) such as Mick Moss (editor of ''Swingtime'', the bible that did start it all and gave the growing community their own media outlet)—his offsiders like filmmaker Rand Alexander, cartoonist Fritz Starker, and photographer Mark Jordan (who shot reams of classic “teaserama” snaps of Dita—the new Betty Page who could be a Satanic icon according to the Lexicon of Dr. La’ ) were highly intelligent, articulate individuals. Many an hour we would spend talking about the spirit and the psychology of the 40's Americana culture and our deep transmagorical connection to it. These guys didn't start up a cultural revolution so they could have somewhere to dance—they were making a major point about a pop culture that had got way from a sense of roots (i.e. grunge) and in the swing sensibility there was a sense of connecting eith a community, old-fashioned courtship, and real creativity using the benchpoint of 40s Americana culture. It was no attempt to recreate he forties, but simply take the aesthetic, the spirit, and the intellect of that time and place it in he here and now. It was an aesthetic movement. They were redefining masculinity, which had been greatly besieged by feminism and the homosexual revolution in the 70's and 80's, by understanding that past masculinity. They were a lot more aware of what was the feminine. They were also aware that the forties was an extremely political and sexually dislocated time, and the nineties in some way mirrored the same spirit of upheaval through the Reagan years. The leaders of the initial swing movement were also totally ''au fait'' with the gospel of noir—they knew exactly from where I was coming. They in their own search of the tease, torch, and noir aesthetic recognized certain identical rites of passage as my own. I had at least for a short time found a brotherhood.

But getting back to your earlier question about how I feel about clubgoers treating it as a fad, well, I don’t own a copyright on it either, nor am I a swing kinda guy as authorized by Madison Avenue. I'm more into... yes, you guessed it, tease, torch, and noir, burlesque and hard bop kind of soundtracks. Ironically, out of the swing scene has now gestated the neo-burlesque _movement—a lot of it looks very ad hoc. Some of the gals and comedians have nailed the soul of it. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. At least the showgirl look is a lot more my kind of fetish—the swing chicks were all a little bit Doris Day for me. Mind you, some of my classic triptease soundtracks like “Tallulah’s Boudoir” from “Tease, Torch and Noir” was totally misunderstood by the burgeoning burlesque scene in San Francisco and I suppose I don't really care. I don't want to belong to any movement: that’s the liberating part of being a former ghost. You find nothing really matters. except the songs you leave behind. Gee, you ask simple question, guys, and I get right off the point, but I'm simply premeditating other questions that you might wanna ask as a result of my answers.

'''The Los Angeles you portray in your music is one that comes out after dark. I see streetlights streaking by outside car windows, smoky nightclub scenes, darkened doorways that lead into mysterious dens of pleasure, pain, and release. Are you a night person? What attracts you about the nocturnal?'''

Yes, undoubtedly I'm a night person. At night you can hear your dead loves a lot more easily, and you can be blessedly alone.

'''You describe “Shadow Bride” as a soundtrack. Has there been any attempt to market your novella as a film treatment? Any interest shown?'''

Yes, the albums are soundtracks, and as stated previously in “Shadow Bride” there is a downloadable book of the same name. Also, I had stated this earlier, we are putting finishing touches to the videos to those two albums with a voiceover that tells about the Jimmy Vargas story, his connection with The Dahlia, and more importantly his relationship with his muse... Lily Scarlatta. In actual fact, the book that is connected to that enhanced CD is called “Shadow Bride... Scarlatta Salon,” Is more about the bizarre relationship between myself and Lily rather than focusing on the Black Dahlia. We had a life and death beyond beloved Elizabeth have we been fighting off aspersions over our own Black Dahlia story, from both Ellroy and John Gilmore fans...sorry! Elizabeth was a pleasure th. For too long hauntress of the night. She had many, many men—in both physical and literary ways. Nobody owns her—as also Elizabeth no longer owns me. As for anyone else wanting to make a movie of The Vargas/Dahlia/Scarlata connection—well no, no offers as of yet. That's why our 15 minute music “peep-a-loopa” production. Should be ready by end of 2001 (sic).

'''Anton LaVey appears as a key character in your roman a clef and your portrayal of him is fairly sympathetic. What led you to your interest in LaVey? Did you ever meet him while you were living in San Francisco?'''

Met the Doctor in “46 in Hollywood...yes, regardless of other biographical allusions to him always being on the road with the circus. He knew
Elizabeth Short. He knew why and who killed her—regardless of his media ''volte face'' about her demise, he was greatly dismayed by the ferocity and the true evil of her murder.

'''LaVey would have found your obsession with 40's California noir and your identification with the Jimmy Vargas persona completely fascinating and definitely in line with his own Satanic aesthetic. How do you feel about your work being labeled “Satanic”?

You know something... I'm a believer of Jesus... yeah... hold it.. don't flip the page, kids. Jesus believed in the road less traveled, he was separatist in many cases, just as I am, and inevitably exactly what the great Doctor LaVey became. Don't get he facts of Jesus confused with the propaganda of the church. They are two totally separate entities. If he came back today, they'd probably label Jesus as a Satanist and probably try to conduct an exorcism of him in St, Peter's Square! He was the true outlaw... akin to a great jazz musician who never signed to a multi-corporate record label, but finds after he has passed on, his side band has assigned his back gospel catalogue to squaresville Sony records and finds his records are racked alongside Sarah Church's in the easy listening spiritual section.

I believe in an afterlife. I have seen the veil between the Earth and the stars. We ain't here by accident. We have fated connections for being here that are repeated life after life. That's where I do differ from the great Doctor, however, and I do stress however, many things that he'd stated made hardcore sense to me. We both dug ''noir'', he adored burlesque and the female pulchritude that was a feature of it. He was a fetishist of the first order—me ditto. His basic logical old-fashioned common sense was to me that he was against the restraining Victorianism and prudery of political correctness.

As I am, he was a self-made man who didn't look to anyone to carry his water. His biography with Blanche was to me an affirmation of a lot of things I felt myself but could not find the community to express such revelations. I think he was a unique, inspiring individual, and that individuality found itself best served, best expressed from the creche of what we call Satanism. His departure is a national tragedy. You can't replace men such as Dr. LaVey. I grieve at his earthly departure. As for my work being Satanic, that’s for your readers to decide. As for your other sub-question—yes, I met Dr. LaVey thrice in San Francisco, as in my book “Shadow Bride” one of the local promoters was trying to get him to do a show in North Beach with us in View of us to play support to him. It never came about. Bur too late, I had realized we had been playing support to him all the time. By the way, he had changed his name in the book to Zoltan in due respect to him, and his estate. We knew the people who really mattered would know who the head of the “Church of Baal” was, and that’s all that mattered.

'''What are you working on right now? What is in store for a Vargas fan like myself?'''

We have released the DVD noir narrative and music video collection ''My Shadow Bride''. Forthcoming is the sequel to the ''My Shadow Bride'' story called ''Temple of Life'' to be released in March 2005, and we have just finished shooting the final trilogy to the whole Shadow Bride series, a short dialogue movie and music video collection called ''Scarlet Widow'', at the ready around July 2005. Our website, www.jimmyvargas.com, has made its debut.

Thank you! Yours in the tease, torch, and ''noir''. ''Jimmy Vargas''

The photographs illustrating this interview are courtesy of and copyright © by Jimmy Vargas.

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===Catholics, Goering, and Charlton Heston===
'''A Friendly Chat With The Only Pop Singer Who (Might) Still Matter''' by Joshua Buckley

cenius is seldom appreciated. Itshould
come as no surprise, then, that David
EWilliams—perhaps the greatest
singer-songwriter currently plying
his trade on these here shores—has spent virtually
his entire carcer laborin,
Spinning out catchy, musically accomplished
Pop anthems with a vocal style reminiscent of
Neil Diamond on Quaaludes, Williams deserves
the appellation of genius more than almost any
of his “underground culture”-racket inferiors.
Emerging from the shatcered ruins of Western
Civilization like some wandering, postmodern
Minnesinger, Williams tweaks his tunes wit
perverse Romantic sensibility somewhere
between the sublime and the absurd. Unlike
the wan, opium-addled Decadents of ages past,
however, Williams weaves his tales of horror and
catastrophe out of the never-ending succession of
personal and socieral disasters lurking just behind
the window-dressing of bourgeoisie reality. ‘The
priest who sodomizes the altar boy. The office-
pool typist who slaughters his co-workers. ‘The
congenial hospice worker with a taste for geriatric
poontang. Uncomfortably intimate glimpses of
the abyss. Zap it all with Williams’ gallows’ humor
and inordinately clever sense of irony, and you've
got Pop music that deserves to survive.
If I were King, and you were all my boot-
licking vassals, David E. Williams would be at
the Top of the Pops. He'd have his own special
on VH-1, Throngs of pre-pubescent girls would
mob him in airport terminals. As it is, we live
in a world of shit. The least you can do is buy
his records.
Why all this gloom and morbidity? Couldn't you
find more edifying things to write songs about,
like feeding the homeless and ending racism?
‘What do you mean? I have plenty of songs
about ending the homeless and feeding racism.
= reviewer commented that your music tends
“sexualize history.” You seem to hi
Soin for juxtaposing the tragedies wrought
by garden variety sexual predators with the more
inspired conquests of history's real
murderers.
Surely, though, you must admit
that “garden variety predators” are
afforded limitless opportunities by
history's ever-unfolding pageant
of soft fleshy underbellies craving
violation. In the past, individuals of
a certain temperament have been able
to positively express violent energies
in noble causes like the spread of Western
ion, Well, we just don't have that sort
eae anymore, But all that energy has to go
somewhere. Unfortunately, heroism is perverted
by the humanist ethos into crime, and then what
happens? Some little boy is raped by the parish
priest. Nice job, everyone!
|, you seem to have a unique appreciation—
or at least a different approach—to these sorts
of subjects.
Well, I could argue that I have somewhat less
of an appreciation than the typical goch/industrall
pocalypse culture dilettante. Ive never, like, been
feted We cae cite Wikio ca al wi
sx, “The Ballad of Edmund Kemper” ln ft, 1
teally don't have much true crime or horror on my.
bookshelf ac all.) Regrettably, the murders in my lyrics
sprang from troubled thoughts in a troubled mind
during troubled times. Thankfully—at least from my
viewpoine—things arent so troubled any more and
one of my latest songs is about a game warden.
Your lyrics are also filled with Catholic imagery.
I'm guessing thiswas a big part of the atmosphere
you grew up in.
Yes, that’ correct. [attended Catholic school for
six years, but left because of an i
boys held me down while a seventh boy squeezed
my nuts, “Show me exactly where he touched you,”
Sister Leonore demanded afterward. It was all very
embarrassing. I was alsoan altar bay for quite some
time, though I can't recall (at least consciously)
having my nuts squeezed during that endeavor.
‘The war between Christianity and liberal
humanism can only be viewed asa catfight between
simpering sister ideologies. Liberal humanism is
merely Christianity in its most degenerate form.
‘Who can fathom what awaits us in the next stage
of human de-evolution? Irs hard to imagine
anything worse than this contemporary culture
where laziness and poor personal hygiene are held
aloft as che highest attributes.
Catholicism, on the other hand, represents
(Christianity in its least degenerate form. Growing as
itdid ourof Rome, it has always allowed for continual
manifestations of good old-fashioned European culture—you know, breathtaking cathedrals, homosexual geniuses and wars of Colonial conquest. Hello, Columbus! If only we could get this Polish pope to stop apologizing to everyone!

How would you characterize your typical
© of any particularly
unusual reactions to your music?
listener? Are you awar
Sweet young girls and sweet young, boys
with fantasies of murder. Some find the work
absolutely serious and others find it utterly
ridiculous. Each is absolutely
convinced of his or her interpretation.
and utterly
What about your own interpretations? What
motivates you to actually sit down and write a
piece of music?
In terms of the lyries, there is no real “sitting
down.” My better songs get written in the back of
my head, as I'm going about my daily business. Ill
be mulling over these thoughts and feclings while
T'm on the bus or sitting at work or something
Then,I'l run to, like, a pul
them onto a piece of paper which I'll shove into
a shire pocket. One notable exception is “Severed
Hand Holding Daisies.” I distinctly remember
writing the lyrics to this song as I lay naked and in
tearsat the footof my keyboard. | knowit sounds
kind of goofy...
lic restroom and scrawl
So that was inspired by some kind of personal
experience
Well, yes. [had an unrequited love for this gil
Twas hangingout withat the time, Her big theory
was that the conception of Christ was anything
bur immaculate...you know, chat Joseph raped
Mary. Ie’ notall that brilliant speculation...kind
of obvious really. Anyway, she thought it was a
great idea for a song, but never got around to
writingit. So T did. In a song about her.
Who's your favorite Nazi?
You can always tell a lot about a person by his
or her answer to this question. The egotist goes
for Hitler. The wishy-washy intellectual goes for
Spee. The vulgarian goes for Streicher. Who
is my favorite Nazi? Reichsmarshall Hermann
Goering! Fat and jolly and he got the last laugh
at Nuremberg.
Has there been much of a furor (Fihrer2) over all
the references to the Third Reich in your lyrics?
“The second CD was released in Germany, where
they're a bit sensitive about such things.
Now, now, Joshua, let's not go giving people
the idea I'm some sort of Nazi propagandist. Like
most of my characters, the Nazis in my songs come off about as heroic as Colonel Klink in
Hogan's Heroes (or, maybe Dirk Bogarde inmii
Night Porter). I mean, “Legends of the S.S. is
about a pair of homosexual lovers who go on a
Nazi-inspired murder spree until one of them dies
of ALLD.S. And “Sarah's Booted Boy” is about an
S.S. guard who falls in love with a female Jewish
prisoner. “Oh, all the love that I have found/ in
the manure and stony dregs./ I saw the ovens of
Birkenau/ between your bony legs.” This sort of
thing would not go over too well at the Propaganda
Ministry! “Entartetel” Anyway, to answer your
question, YES, people get very bent our of shape
But not in Germany.

Tell me about your background as a musician.
Vegan takin piano lessons in the fourth grade
and continued for eight years.
practicing two or three hours a day. As a pianist, I was
certainly a lot more dexterous back then.
In high school and college, I played keyboards ina
band called Lemon Schubert. We composed all kinds
of silly music—prog rock, pseudo jazz fusion, space
Ar one point, I was
rock, Portentously,one of our songswas called “Albert
Spee.” I miss those Lemon Schubert guys. Except for
ime, the other members were all related and they were
all devoutly Russian Orthodox, even though Black
Sabbath was their favorite band. I believe thae one of
them is actually a priest now
T must also confess to having worked in cover
bands. You probably can't imagine me playing “Born to Be Wild,” but it happened. It happened quitea bit
there fora while
What does your family think about your music?
Well, my brothers are born-again Christians,
and although they've never come out and said
anythis T think they disapprove greatly. Wher
they heard T was working on a movie sounds
they seemed very happy to hear that no lyrics were
involved. “Oh good,” said one. My sister and her
husband claim that they like it, but it's so different
from anything in their CD collection that I really
think they're just trying to be nice. (And I guess
they're succeeding). My mom seems to enjoy my
live performances, but claims ignorance of the
lyrics. She says it sounds like I'm just singing “blah
blah blah” in a very deep voice. It upsets her to read
about the lyrics in newspaper or magazine articles
When she hears a new record is coming out, she
always asks: “Irs not more ‘dirty’ songs,
ularly upset by “Severed Hand
That's not right,” he says.
my father, he’spar
Holding Daisies.”
What about the women in your life? Are they
worried about ending up as fodder for your lyrics?
They're more worried they wont.
‘What kinds of things do you enjoy reading? Your
music seems far more derivative of certain Decadent
and Expressionist literature, than it does of any
particular music genre that comes to mind.
Well, thank you, I guess Tl accept that as a
compli Iwas an English major in college
studying hard for 4 years—so the assumption
is probably not entirely off the mark... (even
though college was a long time ago!) I much
prefer fiction and poetry to philosophy, that’ for
sure! My major influences growing up were Kurt
Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Eugene Tonesco
and Sylvia Plath. Sylvias just the best,
recommend her highly enough. Don'tbe scared off
by the feminist propaganda of her other admirers.
OF course, the most recent book I read was The
Courage to be Free, by Charlton Heston.
ind I cant
Heston? You're not some kind of gun nut are you?
Well, I do belong to the NRA. Charlton
Heston is my president. My personal belief is that
one is irresponsible if one does not own a gun.
That doesn't make
Also, Hest
of Planet of the Apes are some of the most poetic
passages in the history of misanthropy. I believe
that Rod Serling wrote them, but only president
's monologues at the beginning
Heston could recite them in a manner that will
make them live forever. (Or at least until the apes
take over—WHICH WILL HAPPEN IF WE
DON'T ALL HAVE GUNS!)
Ultimately, what is David E, Williams’ message
for the late, great planet Earth?
Catholics, Goering, and Charlton Heston.

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===Peter Mlakar: NSK's Satanic Technocrat===
by Michael Moynihan and Charles Krafft

ince 1980 the Slovenian musical
juggernaut known as as been
craftily exposing—while at the same
time capitalizing upon—the weaknesses
of pop culeure for totalitarianism,
Usilizing stylistic trappings from a half-century
earlier, Laibach (whose name comes from the
occupied German designation for their hometown
of Ljubljana) marched onto the world stage and
demanded that people take notice. And they did.
But what still often remains unrecognized or
misunderstood is the fact that Laibach is just one
in a greater machine, otherwise known
hort for Neue Slowenische Kunst (New
Slovenian Art), NSK is a collective endeavor with
of tentacles: an fine art group known as
Inwin, a “cosmo-kinetical” theater company called
Noordung, the “New Kollectivism” graphic design
section, and most intriguingly, a “Department of
Pure and Practical Philosophy.” Furthermore, since
1990 NSK has declared themselves a sovereign,
virtual state, words, “a transglobal
They issue their own
stamps, passports, and proclamations, and open
temporary embassies wherever they go.
The representative for the philosophical
branch of NSK is Peter Mlakar, a philosopher and
writer of extreme erotic literature. For years he has
ibacl
in their
borderless. state-in-time.”
spoken at the openings of Laibach concerts and
other important NSK events; already a decade
ago his early speeches were compiled into book
form in REDEN AN DIE DEUTSCHE NATION
(Speeches to the German Nation; Vienna: Verlag
Turia & Kant, 1993). He has also published three
philosophical works in the Slovenian language,
SPISI_ 0 NADNARAVNEM (Essays on the
Supe il Analecta, 1992), UVOD
0G: Introduction to God; Ljubljana:
Za ba NSK, 1997, and published in Croatian,
Zagreb 2000), and HRIBI IN DOLINE (Hills
and Valleys; Zalozba NSK, 1999). As one mij
expect, Mlakar’s style is declarative and bombastic,
but his form of rhetoric also illuminates existential
conundrums of the sort that most people prefer
not to be confronted with. In response to Essays on
the Supernatural, awell-known Slovenian Catholic
philosopher remarked that such “
be opposed with counter-argument, but only with
prayer and fasting,”
‘When notcomposingspeechesorphilosophical
a work “cannot
tracts, Peter Mlakar also pens perverse erotic tales
under the nom de plume *P. Traven.” Two books of
these stories—which bear titles like “Confession,”
"rime and Punishment,” and “Living Bidet”—
have appeared in his native language, earning him
accolades as the “De Sade of Slovenian literature.”
Slavoj Zizek, the popular Lacanian philosopher,
even extolled these writings as “great literature for
all time,” and urged that the stories “should be
lectured in primary schools.”
Peter Paracelsus is another of Mlakar's many
names, When donning his Paracelsian cap he
promotes “Satanic Techno” and in 1994 released
an eponymous debut CD (on the Nika + Ropot
label), done in collaboration with the Laibach
subgroup 300,000 V:K. A new album is reported
¢ imminent, ‘The music is electronic and
Luciferian, butalso embodies an entire philosophy
of desire: “Ie is our wish that the pleasure we are
now experiencing might not end, and we cannot
imagine the pain that is unbearable lasting forever
Satanic Techno is that state when the pain or
pleasure are no longer submitted to a process
of their own natural determination, but are a
matter of the will of the scientific mind, which
is able solely for its own enjoyment to manage
the psychological structure and has an effect on it
independently of the subject’ will, and which also
abolishes a cast-iron law of nature.” In a manner
not dissimilar from Laibach, Peter Paracelsus
subverts a pop genre to his own ends, injecting it
with an overt ideology, in contrast to the insidious
bur covert commodity fetishizing of most music
industry output.
The following interview with Herr Mlakar
was assisted by Charles Krafft, an American
artist from Seattle with longstanding ties with
the NSK camp. Krafft has made his mark with
DISASTERWARE™, a line of finely-wrought
delfiware pieces featuring poignant scenes from
lara unending history of turmoil and
distress. His work so impressed NSK thae they
Secriaioged Kate we design all the porcelain
flacware for their official state functions (these works, along with Kraff’s Porcelain War Museum
Project and other creations, are documented
in the new monograph Charles Kraffis VILLA
DELIRIUM, San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2002)
By way of concluding this introduction to our
interview, a few lines of reminiscence from Krafft
will shed further lighton our subjec
L firs ran across the writings of Peter Mlakar in
the extraordinary art book Neue Slowenische Kunst
(Los Angeles: Amok, 1991). Those dated translations
Of bis short exiays, aphorisms, edicts, and speeches
reignited my waning interest in poetry, Years later,
I still find myself copying and sending these bits out
10 persons who I feel can appreciate the subtlety of
Mlakars metaphysics and “totalitarian” balderdash,
Tam still waiting for translators t0 deliver his 100
‘major books (publishedin German and Slovenian) on
Eros and spirituality. To date, my efforts to faciliate
this here have been met with academic ousrage.
I got to know Peter Mlakar personally when
I accompanied Laibach on their “Occupied
Europe NATO Tour” to Sarajevo in 1995. For
an American to fully understand Laibach and
the NSK enterprise you must spend some time
with them and this I naively did. The highway to
Sarajevo was being held by Serbs so we drove along
the bombed-our back roads, through devastated
Mostar, down into the besieged city for two
historical concerts in the National Theatre which
happened 10 coincide with the announcement of
the Dayton Peace Accords. It was the rocknvoll
experience of a lifetime and Peter rose to the
occasion with a series of oficial speeches delivered
with his usual panache. One night, on the way
back to our guest house overlooking the burned-out
1984 Winter Olympics facility, the taxi couldn't
make it up the icy bill so we climbed out and started
walking home. Halfivay there he stopped in the full
moonlight to access the ruined city and declared, ‘T
love the smell of blood and snow! Its so Tolitoy. If 1
could bortle this scent T would make a new perfume
‘for the 21st century and call it FORGIVENESS.”

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WE ARE LEGION!
Peter H. Gilmore, ye Editor

Welcome to the second issue. fellow Satanists. Since our debut, I have been spending numerous hours over the airwaves of North America spreading the word to curious listeners about true Satanism, as opposed to the laughable and out-dated portrait sketched by credulous talk show hosts and the fundamentalist scare-mongers. What delighted me most was my discovery that the seed of The Satanic Bible has produced some fascinating and flourishing spawn, scattered throughout the continent.

Oh yes, I encountered the rabidly stupid, but also many fellow travelers who appreciated, often agreed with and even embraced our philosophy of rational self-interest. True to form, the most Satanic individuals who called in to chat did so during late night shows. Yes, we Satanists ''are'' the men in black, vampires and werewolves that raven in the night.

The rumors that the Satanic research labs deep beneath the Pentagon are even now perfecting the virus that will make stupidity painful to the perpetrator, are true as well. Would that their efforts could be hurried.

We have here gathered evidence that there is a diversity among our kind that is a sure sign of the health of our ever-growing movement. Satanism Promotes .the myriad personal pathways developed by the compleat Satanists who have risen above the herd of sheeple. The Satanist sees himself as different, experiences a sense of alienation from those surrounding him. This is the first step of Individuation. One looks to his neighbors and questions the very foundations of their values. The true Satanic question is WHY? Are you a person of self-made soul, or have you simply absorbed what is being hawked in the cultural market place? Are you self-aware? Do you feel proud that you are not embraced by the teeming masses? How do you view those people whom you encounter in your daily existence who are also in some sense outcast?

The true Satanist will deal with people as individuals, eschewing collectivist doctrines such as racism. Satanists do not simply tolerate the freaks and misfits of society, they seek them out to gain wisdom from their fellow lone wolves. We are truly Wolfen, howling in the night our songs of noir melancholy. But sometimes we choose to run in packs. We might even try to shake up the complacency of those who thoughtlessly embrace consensual-reality, by demonstrating that there is far more in Hell and on Earth than could ever be dreamt of in their philosophies.

And sometimes we find those feral children, wolflings who are abandoned because their alien natures are sensed by others, who reject them. They have yet to comprehend their uniqueness, and we embrace these fellow children of the night, lighting their way along the Left-Hand Path with the Black Flame. What wonders we have to show you, who would cast off your mantle of self righteousness to enfold yourself in the cloak of Luciferian understanding.

The heights are not for the timid. Do you dare to look into the black, smoking mirror of Tezcatlipoca? Care to join us?

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The Satanic Witch, Now Playing At Theatres Near You
by Blanche Barton

when we're at our lowest point of respectability and highest point of glamour. Whether you choose to convey an image of barely-contained, repressed sexuality; mysterious excitement and adventure; or

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With last month's re-release of Dr. LaVey's Comp/eat Witch (now retitled The Satanic Witch), we'd better be prepared for the resulting shock waves of indignant denial which will no doubt reverberate throughout the Feminist/Wicca-q-aft community. Those of us of the female persuasion will especially be called to task for aligning ourselves with any man or organization promoting such male-chauvinist propaganda. After so many unchallenged years these counterfeit sorceresses have insisted the "Craft of the Wise" is most certainly not associated with that Wicked Fellow down under, along comes this textbook for Satanic enchantment, Phoenix-like. Just when they thought it was safe to go back in the water...
As Miss Nadramia mentioned in the last issue

films and stories that rabid feminists point accusingly toward to show how rotten men have always been to us. Entire volumes could (and no doubt will) be written on how the various aspects of film noir embody Satanic thought, as Nemo cleverly demonstrated in his comic "Piece of the Action" ritu published in last quarter's Black Flame. Just as the Wiccan Goddess worshippers can't get it througt their thick skulls how women can possibly be Satanists (not addressing the female element!J, feminist critics of film noir seem to be watchini different films from the ones I've seen. In their rolei as smart-mouthed secretaries, unsavory but devoted molls, gum-snapping cporines, sultry nightcluo singers, kept women and conniving 'wives, they are perplexing but sensuous mysteries to their male

blushing, virginal charms, review the classic film noir to isolate appropriate hair styles, quips and gestures. All the trappings of too-heavy makeup, uncomfortably high heels, tight skirts and binding garter belts will make you feel more distinctly
feminine apd consequently more potent. '

RE-DEFINING SATANISM
by Magdalene Graham of Dark Lily Magazine

of The Black Flame, bucking the feminists can be dangerous. But as icon-blasting Satanists we're in the enviable position to demand of critics, "What has the 'liberation movement' done for you lately'?" Created an atmosphere of tokenism, quotas and enforced egalitarianism that only hampers truly qualified women'? Made men so resentful as a result of top-of-the-clock women's penis envy that men won't lift a finger to help, protect or defend women even when they want and need it? Established mandatory evangelical zeal and a victimization mentality so ingrained that all females over eleven years old must wail over our "years of enslavement"? Go down, Moses; let my people go! If we don't shout hallelujahs with the rest of the congregation we're considered apostates, traitors to our sex.
The truth is women were more limited than liberated by the haranguing of our Sixties sisters. Here we had a nice cushy system all worked out and they had to blow it for all of us. There have always been opportunities for women, and perceptive men (as opposed to ersatz "sensitive" men) have been our most avid supporters. A woman of 1930's or '40's America (supposedly the height of sexual repression) had access to an entire arsenal of looks, sex appeal, intelligence, treachery, trickery and guile to mix into

counterparts.
Okay, so once in a while a woman gel! slapped around a bit or murdered, or maybe Jamei Cagney shoves a grapefruit in a girl's face now and then, but more often than not it's the female lead who prevails in the final denouement, usually at the expense of the anti-hero protagonist. A "little makeup and high heels doesn't make a woman stupid -- and in the film noir universe it was the ones who looked the most vulnerable you had to watch out for. Cornell Woolrich, for one, certainly wrote more than one sympathetic anti-hero role for a murderess. Nolt paperback titles from the period, many of which were eventually adapted for the screen, can suggest the cinematic scope of femininity: Dolls Are Deadly, Savage Bride, Dames Don't Care, Deadlier Than The Male (adapted as Born To Kill), This Woman is Dangerous, The Devil's Daughter, Phantom Laay, The Bride Wore Black 1
Not all the juiciest female roles were in frorll of the camera, either. If you'll look closely at the credits, many of the best, now extremely inflammatory, screenplays and original novels wer! written by women. Ida Lupino made her mark n I only as a fine actress but also as a screenwriter ano director of some respectably taut mysteries. Joai

The slogan "Evil is Live spelt backwards"
was effective (though "Devil" on the same principle put us in the past tense) but its shock value and therefore usefulness has long since receded. It is now counter-productive if being evil is regarded as a necessary qualification to be a follower of the Left-Hand Patli. So let us relegate that myth to the junk heap, along with the other nonsense about Satanism being an offshoot of Christianity (even the Christians' bible testifies against that).
Satanism is no longer a hook on which the unenlightened can hang their guilt-complexes. Two ho sand years of being the "scapegoat" has mev1tably left us on the defensive. In any statements f?r public consumption, we have expended too much h e and energy in explaining what we are not, and this preponderance of the negative has created a void rat er than a valid exegesis. Now we are once again
?emg accused of sacrificing babies and indulging in illegal sexual acts. People assume that we gain some advantage by so doing, though no one has ever detailed how such acts could increase Knowledge, and Knowledge is what Satanists are seeking.
Orthodoxy substitutes Faith for Knowledge. No one can form an objective judgement without experience, but experience is forbidden to the

freedom of thought is one of the essential liberties.
Probably the greatest question on Earth is the inescapable fact of death. Freed from the tenets of orthodoxy and its improbable placebos, we want to know what really happens when our mortal body ceases to function. We also wish to learn how to become more effective whilst on Earth, how to achieve in many ways. Myths and legends do not interest us. We are concerned with Reality. We want to know. Those four words summarize the Satanic quest.
We do not believe that some mysterious and awesome diety (whether or not he has horns and tail) is going to hand us that Knowledge in return for our
_allegiance (or that problematic entity the "soul"). Knowledge is achieved by learning, working, experimenting, experiencing and thinking. That is why the orthodox religions fulminate against us, because they are aware of the insecure foundations of their own dogma. It is our existence that threatens them.
Faith is the true evil. Blind, unquestioning faith in a religion or a cause has made men go to war, commit unspeakable acts of persecution and terrorism against other human beings. The Satanist does not offer such allegiance. It is his principle to ask "Why?"

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lethal doses as she saw fit. The sexual revolution,

Harrison produced such noir standards as Ride Th1 followers of established religions. Belief is

One little word that could shatter empires. No wonder I

which actually cloaked the finest de-sexualizing of women since the witch hunts, has taken the sting out of the most prurient techniques that used to be part of every successful woman's repertoire.
Some of the most powerful aspects of women,

Pink Horse, Phantom Lady and They Won't Believe Me. And though not a film noir director per se, bd rather among that genre's Germanic forerunners, Len1
Riefenstahl was no piker when it came to makingf
potent, dramatic film.

demanded. Centuries ago, this may have been a useful contribution to the stabilization of Society (though the xcesses of the Inquisition and similar efforts in all Uropean countries and their colonies give rise to some doubt about this method being justified).

they are so afraid of us.

or at least how men perceived our power, can be seen in the best of the hardboiled, noir paperbacks and

In The Satanic Witch, Dr. LaVey encourage! . women to once again capitalize on a range of prove

However, in the present day, it is illogical to that the survival of nations and alliances would

movies of the mid-1940's to mid-'50's -- exactly the

female archetypes. We seem most productiV r _a fected by people's belief or lack of belief in any
ehg1ous system. Freedom is today's demand, and

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STATEMENT AGAINST NORMALIZATION
( A Horned Salute to Anton Szandor LaVey)
bySetnakht

Living well is definitely the best revenge. To indulge in your most cherished, vices and feel totally fulfilled is the true meaning of the well-worn phrase "knowing how to live."
I have met a number of black magicians who
claim to be able to contFol their own destinies through the force of their wills, but unfortunately, the majority of them lose control when they suddenly have to sneak off for a quick cigarette or can't pass a bar without feeling the need. This brings me to the conclusion that "living well" should really be "enjoying well."
The well-balanced Satanist knows that all of
the vices are enjoyable, although I have known a few dark practitioners who hate the taste of alcohol and gag at the smell of smoke. These people avoid such unenjoyable pursuits by choice (which is very Satanic), but to the norm, all of the vices, such as tobacco, alcohol, fine food, fine wine, clothing, exercise (yes, exercise) and sex, to name a few, are the rewards that we seek to alleviate the hard work that we put in as part of our daily existence.
The problems begin only when the reward
interweaves with the mundane and becomes a part of daily existence. The work day is broken up with innumerable smoke breaks and a few intoxicants at lunch and after work. Despite the motto "too much of a good thing can be wonderful," such compulsive behavior causes a magician to lose control of his or. her existence. That which was a source of pleasure now becomes a controlling factor in the magician's life. This is unacceptable, since a true Satanist has no master.
The solution? Moderation. "Isn't that a
Christian ethic?" you may ask. Not really. The Delphic Oracle first advised "moderation in all things" six hundred years before the birth of Christ. Total abstinence (which is associated with pain) is practiced by ascetics such as Christians, Platonists, some Buddhists, etc. Moderation merely allows the Satanist two options. Sample all the vices without being hooked on any one of them. Remember, if you only indulge a little, you can afford the very best. The compulsive smoker has to smoke White Owls, while

alcohol tolerance than for the enjoyment of the drink This is truly asinine behavior and hateful to the moderate Satanist. Exercise is another example. Everyone enjoys a little, even if it's just walking. Bu! what a sorry sight it is to see jogging junkies with knee bandages and braces to support body joints that have been destroyed by their compulsion. This sa addiction can end in a heart attack or heat stroke.
Moderate samplers soon learn that thos,
around them associate them with class, not because they are affected -- that would be the work of a poseur or his current cousin the yuppie -- but because they really do know what is good and enjoyable foJ themselves. You enjoy! You have fun! And in this decade of forced gaiety, you are respected and envie by the slaves of vice.
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We refuse the subconscious. We live in a society t!iat defines every wild energetic thought -- whether bestial or godlike -- as a "subconscious" response. Society tells us to ignore these feelings and desires, since they come from some imaginary cellar of the mind. We refuse the subconscious and claim the right to evaluate our own impulses on our own terms.
2. We recognize the hypnotists. Clearly a society that creates a subconscious can control it. We are constantly barraged by advertisement, entertainment, "news." Despite the so-called "content" of these items, we recognize the vast array of techniques to enforce the status-quo world views. Many of these techniques were created by our heroes (e.g., the montage of Eisenstein or the camera angles of KaFl Freund); we are saddened that their work has been co-opted by profane hands. We recognize the hypnotists and claim the right to turn away from their swinging watch fobs.
3. We shall Jive as Nemo. If we separate ourselves from society by an act of will, we will not -- can not
-- live in a vacuum. We eschew vonu primitivism. Instead, like Verne's hero, we will cruise through the depths taking what we will from their culture. We will pull our heroes from their history books, pull our magic from their bankrupt mythological systems, pull their most hateful and abhorred symbols from their cesspit minds to use against them. We shall live as Nemo -- invisible and invincible.
4. We will not accept the cult of Osiris. The profane orld has become entranced with heroic death - Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Jimi Hendrix. These spectacular deaths are held out as beautiful models. Get cut off in mid-career -- burn out like a comet -- so that the momentum of your life carries over into a death cult. Like the Osirisians of ancient Egypt, we're expected to put all our wealth (and being) into a glorious death monument. We refuse to feed death cults. We will not accept the cult of Osiris; we will choose eternal becoming over ending.
5. We reject the second skin. What is in theory the most private section of personality, current society has made the most public. Sexual fetishes are
commercialized. Society presents all sex acts in prepackaged fantasies. Persons no longer touch each

LaVey, Jean Baudrillard, and William Burroughs in this arena. We reject the second skin and stand in raw sensuous contact with the universe.
6. We will appropriate time for our own uses. The profane world has attempted to reduce time into nostalgia, frustration and (pallid) futurism. They have tried to deny that other directions of time may exist (despite the math of their physicists). We will accumulate time -- growing wise rather than old. We will be crafty rather than frustrated. We will create a better future by working our collective WILL upon the curved and angular streams of time. We can direct our attention backwards finding the cave-man within us or forwards to draw upon the accomplishments of future selves. We will not accept science fiction as a
substitute for reality nor lose ourselves in the pages of ,I
Gothic novels. We will appropriate time for our own , I
uses and clocks will melt in the heat of our Satanic gaze.
7. We refuse normalization. We won't lose our lives in statistical death. We won't surrender just because the law of averages says that so many should fail. We won't allow our ideals to be rounded back into shape by Valium, or booze, or TV. We won't be cured of our madness. The walls of Satan's asylum stand to keep the "normals" out. We refuse normalization and
replace the bell curve with our pentagram. I
8. We exorcise ignorance. We do not cling to I I superstition, although we do not hesitate to foist superstition upon those whom we would control. We
are well-read in the sciences, and we take any scientific phenomenon that pleases us for our own use. We have long fastened upon the scientific method for our researches. As Crowley said: "We care for neither Virgin nor pigeon/the method of science, the aim of religion." We exorcise ignorance from ourselves and use it as a tool against others.
9. We point the way for others. Despite the overwhelming tides of Judea-Christian oatmeal that threaten to drown our curry, we publish, we speak, we leave a mark. Again we acknowledge Anton Szandor LaVey for opening this channel (in this age). If media were cut off from us, we would go underground
following the example of centuries of sorcerers. If our I I
tradition disappears, we will do as our Yezidi brothers

the Satanic moderate can afford a fine hand-rolled
Havana seed cigar. Get the point?
Many of the magicians of this decade indulge in vices that may not be all that enjoyable but do so because of peer pressure; for example, cocaine use

other -- no longer fuck one another -- but that they come in contact with that second skin, that TV cunt or
;oc..We will tear through that cellophane by eun1tmg the aspects of the sexual and religion. We

and return to Earth in a future time to re-establish our ways. We point the way for others so that they may kindle the Black Flame of allternity in their own breasts.

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otent mysticism remains, not the vitality of nic magic. When a person surrenders rational y-testing for wishful daydreaming, he is not a ist. He is a fool.
"Satan represents wisdom, instead of

here's what Vale and Andrea have to say in their introduction: "Pranks are most admirable when they evoke a liberation of expression...and challenge the authority of appearances."
Issue #12 is devoted to "Modern Primitives,"

The Magicians: An Investigation Of A Group Practicing Black Magic by Gini Graham Scott, PhD. (New World Books, San Francisco, 1986; softcover, 219 pages, $15.00). Guest Reviewer: Nemo
All Satanists are tired of hearing nothing but

In other words, new members would initially be attracted to join the group to gain real power through magic•but would then be subtly manipulated into substituting a goal of mystical achievement. They would be seduced away from their original Satanic'

critical self-deceit." The Satanic Bible.

. (Peggy Nadramia returns with the following 'ws and notices.)

and is concerned with tattooing and piercing. The pictures alone are worth the price of admission, but the motivation behind many of these self-modifications is also really interesting. This issue includes an interview with Dr. LaVey and Blanche

the most superstitious, fear-ridden nonsense about our religion. Self-serving private investigators trying to drum up business will lend their "expert" opinions by making claims to the most inane drivel while fanatical fundamentalist Christians will testify that the Devil makes everybody do it.
Here we find a scholarly and in-deptli analysis of the psychological and sociological motivations for the formation and maintenance of a group of modern self-styled "Satanists." In my own opinion, the values and beliefs held by the group examined demonstrate that they are not Satanists; however, you are free to draw your own conclusions and, in any event, they do represent a modern group of occultists who claim to be Satanists.
Dr. Scott's book is divided into three sections dealing with historical and current magical thought in society, a detailed examination of the group and an examination of the psychological implications
involving emotional needs, group dynamics and the

tendencies for earthly, material achievement by the She's back in day-glo orange and you can get
necessity to "accept the hierarchy and their place in your hot little hands; yes, it's The Satanic within it" (to have an identity as a group member) and · h (formerly The Comp/eat Witch) by Anton this conformance would result in the desired mental dor LaVey (Feral House, Los Angeles, 1989; soft change. (This psychological principle is called the r, 274 pages, $9.95). And you thought you knew Theory of Consonance and was created by noted t Satanic magic was all about! Learn to size up psychologist Leon Festinger). · rs, friends and prey with the LaVey Personality The result was painful to read: fhesizer (diagrp.m included inside the front and
"Even when events occur that might appear to ' covers). Choose your undies with an eye for the disconfirm belief in personal power, (membersj, · of the Forbidden, and find out the right way to continue to believe, since they interpret or reinterpret , in and out of sub-compact cars. Includes a new. the events to preserve their beliefs. For example, word by Magistra Zeena LaVey; she offers some when I drove to the conclave with Armat, Khet, LAt ·guing iµsights into the life of the little girl we last and Athena, numerous problems plagued our group . pictured iq a red robe in front of the naked altar, from the outset. First Lat was late, and we weren'.t wing gum and swinging her bare feet. Also a able to leave until about an hour later than·planned. · inating biography of the author by Blanche Then after we had driven for about fifteen minutes,¥ Rtt_on (whettin ourappetites for the ull-length
Athena and I discussed how we purchased our robes, 1c;m forthcommg from the same publisher). The Armat suddenly remembered she forgot hers ana lffich originallx appeared in 1970, and fashion trends turned back to get it. About half-an-hour later, when only carried out Dr. LaVey's sage advice to the

Barton. These publications are beautifully produced,
8 1/2" X 11" with color covers and over 200 pages each. Look for them in any good bookstore or write to Re/Search, 20 Romolo .St., Suite B, San Fran,cisco, CA 94133. Oh, and did I mention -- she said coyly - that Issue #13 will b,e a comprehe sive survey of the essential 20th century philosopher, Anton Szandor LaVey?
DARK LILY:The Voice Of The Left-Hand Path (see Magdalene Graham's article "Re-Defining Satanism" with her aqdress elsewhere in this issue).
Compelling in cobalt blue, neatly produced little ,
pamphlets of Satanic thought and dialogue. Not ' I
mystical claptrap or occultnik in-fighting, just well-thought-out essays by a rational person who has spent her adult life in Satanism. Nine issues have been released and the tenth is due soon.
Overseas orders are £1.75 per issue, £7.0o' annually. I
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concomitant effect upon "the believer's perception of reality." Far from being dry, I found insight and value on almost every page, as well as some sections involving Dr. Scott's personal investigations wrought with the same captivating excitement usually found only ih an excellent suspense novel.
While there are numerous fascinating ideas to examine, the most important from a Satanic point of view involved the personal surrender of power in the search for power that Dr. Scott' observed. The membetS:lrip of the group evidenced personal histories which,indicated frustration (in c'areer, personal finance and interpe'rsonal r'elation·ships) and the substitution of belief for reason.
In numerous example's, Dr. Scott mentions the belief the members held that they could get whatever they wanted through magic while failing to meet the normal measures of success found in mid9le-class America. This disparity between belief and reality f ·overcome, according to Dr. Scott, via the influence of group dynamics which served to redefine what the individual "wanted" (such as money, lo've and real power) as non-material and non-measurable self-"evolution" expressed by the Egyptian word "Xeper."

we were on the 'freeway, one of the tires went flat and ikaies; why else do we see all these lingerie catalogs 'we had to pull off the road. Armat took out,the spar,e P1;hing frothy garter belts, merry widows and and we put it on. But as soon as Lat removed the jack, b tiers? Phil Donahue did a whole show about the she discovered this tire was flat, too. As she hiked off charm of garter belts; apparently, they're a bedroom the call the AAA, the rest of us waited by the side of ential. Sodon't let anyone tell you this advice
the road. However, having these problems did not •: · okay back in the Sixties..." Take it from a witch lead anyone to question their possession of magic - Q read this dangerous book at age seventeen, and powers, since (members) can dismiss such day-to-day UF} those stiletto heels on the trail to your nearest
problems on the basis that magical power is bes't iX>kstore.
reserved for personal magical, development, no, Andrea Juno and V. Vale named their trivial, mubdane matters... (Members) also maintain P lishing venture very aptly; Re/Search does all the belief by claiming the problems they experience a(e tijWork for you, interviewing the world's part of the'i'r magical growth. This occurs in two way . ,jvidualists a,nd mutants and letting you read (and
First, the individual regards these problems as a s •. through, the eyes of photographer Bobby Neel
learning experience that furthers his magical 4 ms) the results. Reading an issue of Re/Search-is development. And, secondly', he encounters mo1;e av!ng an all-night discussion with 'a parade of problems as he evolves magically since he is,less able cmatmg folk, and I don't think Andrea or Vale to deal with the mundane world." ha1t'e ever missed a question I would have asked. Issue In this startling analysis of a modern group 6( #J-1 is all fibqut pranks, and they don't mean some "Satanists," there are important lessons to be learned, at mity doofs pissing all over a bespectacled nerd. and- this review has only touched a few of the manY, y of the pranks related jlere can only be described points Dr. Scott made. However, the most important • · onceptual art events. Includes interviews with lesson to be learned was that doubt, and hence reasoh, othy Lea,-y and Abbie Hoffman, but the highlight must be a vital component of the Satanist philosophy.. , e issue is the section about Boyd Rice. We When belief subsumes the role of reason, onlY ••hed until the tears streamed down. If-you want to
•· ·. W what interest these pranks have for Satanists,

GANYMEDE is billed as "an open forum for
gay and bi-sexual initiates involved with the esoteric sciences." Issue #8 shows strong"Crowleyan and
O.T.O. influences. Of interest is a brief study of phallicism in the Old Testament (by Frater Sodomiticus, no less!), a discussion of William S. Burroughs' concepts of sexuai magic (including sex-demons), and a revealing account of the funeral of Alex "Witch King" Sanders. The editor seeks articles by Satanists concerning male-oriented magical topics. For the easily offended (why are you reading this?) be forewarned that there is discussion and artwork concerning the worship of the Boy God. An arcane and demonic drawing graces the centerfold. C/O 19 Surrey Road, Peckham Rye, London SE15 3AS England.
MODERN RITUAL MAGIC: The Rise of
Western Occultism by Francis King (Avery Publishing Group, Garden City Park, NY, 1989; softcover, 224 pages, $10.95). Formerly Ritual Magic in England, this is a hilarious sojourn into the flubs, fluffs and crack-ups in and among the Golden Dawn and its offshoots. Revealing as a "what not to do" guide for any who would create an "occult" order. Far more valuable than the actual writings of the organizations themselves.

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byNEMO

that what is real is something other than what you know about. They tell you that reality can't be perceived with the senses. They tell you that what you see bear, feel, smell and taste is not the real world but
an illusion, a dream. Furthermore, they will tell you

Your thoughts exist. They are real. Your emotions exist. They are real. Your dreams exist. They are real. However, and this is vitally important if you want to remain as the source of power in your
own life (which is why we are SORCERERS), they

"Satanism demands study, not worship"
Anton SZ1ndor La Vey

As magicians, we Satanists desire to produce change in our earthly environments. We accomplish this either directly by acting upon the particular elements we wish to alter or we accomplish this indirectly by moving others to make these changes for us. Magic involves changing our objective environment.
Mystics have an entirely different purpos.e.
Mystics seek to acquire an experience which is held to be beyond the capacity of the human mind to identify or explain: the ineffable. Mystics wish to change their own beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions. Mysticism involves changing our consciousness.
Now there are many persons who advocate using mysticism as a means to magic. In other words, they will hold that by altering your state of consciousness, the magician can access external

increase or decrease of sensory stimulation beyon that you cannot even mentally conceive of reality and the normal limits required for the senses to operate it is not merely unknown to the mind but unlmowable! efficiently. In other words, themystic te po arily piease note that the word unlmowable means that you
alters his body chemistry enough to permit him to can never have knowledge about reality. You are
hallucinate. " forever barred from it. You can't perceive it. You We all hallucinate every night when we sleep can't even conceive it.
and dream. However, the normal chemiStry associatea What the mystic will then tell you, however,
with dreaming does not cause the breakdown in the is that you can achieve a "higher" awareness of it
(usual) automatic formation of perceptions _w ich th,e beyond the senses and mind. Usually this explanation mystical techniques do. In short, the mystlcmduces will include some form of "God" and take the
psychosis of short duration. approach of becoming one with God, who is infinite, Now the word "psychosis" is an emotionally. and thereby "becoming" God or becoming infinite.
loaded word, as it should be. Having worked Then after such an experience, while you will not professionally as a psychotherapist with psychotics in actually remember the experience (your puny little a modern hospital, the claims of wishful modern human mind can't grasp it, you see), you will mystics that their mystical "unionS''. are not tai_n_te'd essentially have a "hangover" effect from it.
with the same qualities as the droolmg, self-soiling (The mystics never really do explain how you catatonic are only wishful thinking. Psychosis is can know about knowing something you can't know nothing more than a dream gone wild, wherein the about, but then, mystics have no problem with logical
psychotic cannot (or will not) distinguish betw n the contradictions. After all, if you did become infinite,
irrational elements of his dream and the legitimate you would cease to have any boundary and an entity

are only subjectively real. They are not objective facts of reality.
The psychotic locked into his subjective world (and hospital ward) has confused the items of his experience which others can verify, with the items of his experience no one can verify.
It is probably true that there are chemical causes behind most psychoses. An animal with the same degree and kind of comparable chemical change would never question the objective reality of its experience. A human being can. The mystic won't. The Satanist will.
The identification of objective reality is based upon the demonstration of what is perceived among people, or, to simplify somewhat, objective reality is identified through testable agreement.
The psychotic hallucinating an elephant in his isolation cannot demonstrate the elephant to others around him. If two other psychotics claim to see the elephant, it might be time to look for evidence of
either an elephant or collusion. (Many psychotics

change. Certainly this approach is highly regarded in
Tlie Satanic Bible in that raising the emotions is a

evidence of his senses.
"Aha!" the mystic' will reply."And

without boundaries is no longer an entity at all. It what ceases to have identity. Further, consciousness

have sharp wits and a good sense of humor.) If
everyone sees an elephant, it's time to call the zoo.

powerful example of making a shift to an altered state
of consciousness to produce greater magic.
However, what does it mean to accept the doctrine of mystic-ism as a means to magic? Can a Satanic magician also truly be a mystic? Or are the two incompatible and mutually exclusive?
Aleister Crowley was probably the best known popular exponent of "magic through mysticism." In his writings on "magick," Crowley highly regarded the act of invocation in which the practitioner would increasingly identify with a chosen "godform" until becoming, at least temporarily, totally identified with that god. From this mystic "union" Crowley claimed to derive some aspect of the god invoked.
This is an ancient concept found throughout history, wherein the priest will allow himself to be possessed by the god to convey the god's thoughts to the laity or exert some of the god's powers (such as healing or destruction). We see it actively pursued

makes you believe that your senses are 'legitimate'.? requires something to be conscious of. If you are How can you be so certain that the vision of th,e everything that is, there is nothing else to be psychotic is not as real to him as your 'reality' is t conscious of, and hence you would not be conscious.
you?" . . Ergo an infinite God can't exist and would not be It is just such a twisted viewpomt, generateo conscious if it could.)
by the mystical doctrine, that causes me to write these Of course, the mystical doctrine can only
words! make it impossible for you to ever "know" anything at My usual reply to such an attack is to simp'.y all. Knowledge becomes impossible for the human
point out that the psychotic is still locked up on his mind in a world where what you perceive and think ward whereas I am free. However, this is not the real about is an illusion and reality is barred from issue and is not the true shame of the mystic who conscious experience or understanding.
would make such a statement. Using this fundamental mind-killer, mystics
"Satanists are realists." have oppressed the human race throughout all of Do you agree? Then exactly how do Y0f recorded history by institutionalizing their doctrine as
determine what is real? religion.
If you base it strictly on what you perceive, "Satanists are realists." How do Satanists how do you know you aren't dreaming those know what is real? They know it by the use of reason.
perceptions right now? Dreams are real to you as 100 Reason is what separates the Satanist from the mystic as you may be dreaming. Pinching yourself can hUt• and elevates him above the superstitious, teeming just as much in a dream, though it will leave fewer masses.

The mystic opposes all this in principle. In the guise of modern physics, he will tell us he has proven (by reason) that causality (upon which reason depends) is an illusion and therefore the universe is "stranger than we can imagine." Of course, how can he use reason to disprove reason? Yet this ploy, of using reason to destroy reason, of logic to disprove logic, of rationality to invalidate rationality is precisely the one indulgence the Satanist can't afford.
We are the magicians, not the audience. If we cannot know what is real or unreal, then we cannot know anything. If we cannot know anything, then we can't learn anything. If we can't learn anything, we certainly can't learn how to perform magic to get what we want. If we don't know anything, how can we even know what we want, anyway? Thus the rejection of reason for mysticism, results in an absurd avalanche of transparent contradictions.
The use of mystical techniques can be valuable in altering consciousness to access the

today in Voudoun as well as the modern New Age

bruises after you awaken.

st nd

. Reason requires that when you confront an

greater magic of Satanism, that passage between

"channels". We find it in recent history with the formerly very popular Spiritualism movement and in ancient history with the Greek Oracle at Delphi.
The techniques used to induce mystical "union" are varied and include drugs, physical exhaustion, ,fasting, dancing, prolonged solitude, mutilation, sleep deprivation -- in brief, any excessive

If you choose to evade the que iona tre I dea that is irrational, you do not choose to believe in everything as real, then what do you mean by tlfe It anyway. You do not surrender your rationality to word "real?" If everything to you is real then yoqr the whims of starry-eyed morons who proclaim that concept of real has no identity; there is no boundan' everything you know is wrong and nothing you can to separate your "real" from anything "unre l." (AJso know is real. you do not accept the idea of other
this is a standard viewpoint of many psychotics.) "realities" when the word "reality" already includes
What is left? Well, the mystics will tell you everything that exists.

subjective and objective experience, but to be a mystic and a Satanist is impossible by definition. Further, it is something very sad to see when someone attempts it.
The "Nine Satanic Statements" can be
summarized in a single sentence: Satan represents
reason, not mysticism.

HELLSPAWN:
MYRIAD MANIFESTATIONS OF INFERNAL INDIVIDUALITY

Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey and his eyes ere opened to the truth of Satanism. At the age of
:venteen he met Michael W. Hardy, who was nvolved in Qabalistic occult methods. After months
f argum nt covering Satanism? the oc u t and

Satan as interpreted by Luther.
The Raven philosophy is embodied in these excerpts from Cry of the Raven #3. Who is Satan? He is everything the realist stands for. We see him as a symbol of freedom, realism, self-esteem. We worship

The Church of Satan launched the Age of Satan in 1966 C.E. and remains the flagship of our movement. We have recently seen the emergence of new manifestations, based on Dr. La Vey's seminal writings, and here Jet them speak for themselves. Ed.
The Church of SA.T.AN.
P.O. Box 666, 'Whitehall, PA 18052

"Societies of the masses are the same everywhere...a few chiefs ordering around a lot of Indians. Satanism is a unique society in this respect, being made up of only the chiefs."
Rev. Yaj Nomolos
On July 31, 1987 E.V., our group celebrated Lughnasadh as a Satanic holiday by indulging ourselves in a public display of our powers of

record the event. The remaining four cleared the
picnic table. From paper bags poured forth robes, chalices, altar implements ... the works... an a Satanic altar was quickly assembled on the table with candles and incense ignited. Amidst the ringing of the bell
before the largest and heaviest Baphomet in th; world, the company launched into a Black Mass, a1,
The Satanic Bible.
From the outset, the public was stunned into silent immobility, wide-eyes fixed upon this sudden wonder. None moved or spoke, as the creative step was reached through the incantations and ceremonies. At this point, Rev. Nomolos, bedecked in his robes and priestly vestments, addressed this audience, and roared forth the entire text of the constitutional statute guaranteeing freedom of religion.
The ritual was then closed in the usual manner, all regalia stowed away, and the party moved

religion m general, Hardy decided to JOtn the Left-Hand Path. They both began to seek a place for ritual magick and affiliation. But the Church of Satan was in California, all the "Satanists" in Florida were too cultish, and they had already rejected established forms of worship. They decided, then, to build their own establishment, using The Satanic Rituals by Anton Szandor LaVey on the holidays, and their own rituals on meeting days.
The Temple began its search for human individualism through the destruction of personal laziness and mental numbness! Remembering the teachings of The Satanic Bible -- that we are animals, sometimes more through the aspirations of intelligence and magickal knowledge, sometimes less through the low points of crime and drug abuse -- the Temple stresses the belief that there is no God outside the individual, no power beyond that of Man, whether

life, nature, wild-life, all life. We believe we can achieve anything we set our minds upon, the only limitation being ourselves. We represent the opposite, and go against the grain of those who worship death. We believe we shall live many lives, learning many different lessons.
We are not burdened with shalts or shalt nots, nor do we burden others with laws that cannot be kept. If we make mistakes we are willing to pay for them, but we pay the price, then walk on feeling no regret. In the learning experience of life we will have many challenges, many tests, but from these we grow stronger! We take pride in ourselves and care only for those who deserve our care. We do not tum the other cheek, we get even. In the animal kingdom the weak step aside for the mighty. We believe that only the strong will survive. We feel no pity for those who are
too weak or lazy to work for a goal or dream. We ''

influence. In broad daylight, seven of our men and

off the field without leaving a trace behind. As OUJ · through physical work or magickal work.

believe the only evil is a wasted life. We worship life

women appeared at the Muhlenberg College duck pond picnic area, at 11:00 a.m., joining many people frolicking under sunny skies and upon lush grass carpeting. Nearby, a 15-foot high steel boiler-plate "sculpture" of a horned god, trampling a human being under-hoof, formed the backdrop for our picnic table.
After some minutes of acting like picnickers, Rev. Nomolos gave the pre-arranged signal, causing two members to take security stations about the perimeter, and one member to deploy with cameras to

cars pulled away, we looked back to observe the onlookers, still gaping at the sculpture, mesmerize9 by what they thought they had seen... which had quickly disappeared as if in smoke... leaving behin the monolith.
Exactly one week later, this 15-foot, 12-ton
sculpture was exclusively removed from the park. Nol a word appeared in the media. Our group rejoiced in the successful accomplishment of the magickal power of invisibility. A joyful Lughnasadh to all.
HAIL SATAN!

The 88 Temple Deities
Report by member Alex Loss
The 88 Temple Ov Deities w s formed in 1987 C.E. as a mixture oJ Satanism and Qabalistic ritual. The Qabalah, not being a true religion, was easily manipulated to fit the ritualistic an,d dogmatic needs of the Satanist. The founder of the Temple, Adel Lazch Sou:0, was a childhood practitioner of Santena, due to his parents' interest in that religion, and began his quest into Satanism at the young age of nine. Upon entering various branches of the Floridian "Satanic" cult , he realized that this was not the proper path, and had many bad experiences wi\h those claiming to be the "true Satanists."'
In 1985 C.E., Adel obtained 'J1JI

It is difficult being Satanists in the land of Miami Vice, because here we have people who call themselves Christian Activists (aka God's Terrorists). These people write letters threatening bombs, death, etc., in an attempt to close down the Temple's activities. We gain members through small classified ads in newspapers and other magazines. People write to us and we try to develop a correspondence, a relationship through the mail to find out what kind of person this is, before we let them apply or meet the members. Application is the form of introductory membership that we use; we then perform what is called "The Black Celebrations," the initiatory rite. A sort of feast of food and fun!
Now in 1989 C.E., Adel and Michael (named the Council of Two by the Temple) have set higher goals for the Temple and are presently working with their own band, Daab-Soul Destruction, producing industrial and ritualistic music.
For more information on the Temple's activities, write to:
The 88 Temple Ov Deities P.O.Box 4546
Miami, FL 33014-0546
The Raven School
The Raven School is located in the quiet town of Meredosia, Illinois. High Priest Luther offers his course on Satanism through mail order only, and also Ublishes a Satanic Journal called Cry of the Raven. he Raven follows the teachings of the Church of

and self-achievement.
Those interested in High Priest Luther's course in Satanism can receive it for $29.95 plus
$3.00 postage. Those enrolled in the course receive a free one year subscription to Cry of the Raven, which is $15.00 when ordered separately. For further information contact Luther at:
The Night Owl
Box 321, Meredosia, IL 62665
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Luther's altar at the Raven School.
Jusr when you thought ir was safe ro begin making the calk show rounds, safely dismissing rhe

Members of the Church of S.A.T.A.N. celebrate Lughnasadh.

claims that Satanists indulge in ritual orgies and naked frolics in celebration of Satan, along comes a group from Great Britain that fu/fi/ls some of the media hype that is derived from the "Traditional" portrait of Devil Worshippers. The preceding groups have developed from the writings of Dr. La Vey. This group that takes the name Satanist has evolved in reaction against the movement started by the Church of Satan. We present their concept of "Traditional Satanism" in contradistinction to that which our readers practice. They have a different, and at times antagonistic, position towards us, but we think that you might like to be informed about this group. Dennis Whea t/ey fans, take note! Ed.

Order of theN"me Angles
The Meaning of Satanism
A/gar Langton
Traditional Satanism may be said to possess two main themes: the Dark Tradition containing the techniques and so on of black magick (the seven-fold

consciousness of their members. They most certainly do not possess any esoteric knowledge and have no interest in creating from the power of the Abyss the next stage of human evolutjon. Other groups which emerge from time to time -- like the 'Church of Satan' which once and briefly flourished in America ,
-- concentrate on the pleasure principle and market a
rather stupid mish-mash of qabalistic magic and I legends about the 'dark forces.' Such groups never possess in any way the essence of Satanism which lies
in its magickal Alchemy: that is, the seven-fold way
to the divine, the creation of a new individual imbued with the Satanist spirit.
Genuine Satanic Orders and Adepts -- of which there are very few -- possess not only this practical way, this magickal Alchemy, but also, esoteric teachings which have never been published (such as the •star Game,' a means of developing various areas of individual consciousness; or •esoteric chant,' a powerful magickal technique). This is i
marked contrast to groups like 'The Temple of Set' 1
which teach a pathetic philosophy of LaVey-type "Satanism" to which is added on an unedifying mix of

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:: Has room for thirteen more tired souls.
Oh we \Jicce, have we been deceived. and truly This night seen the Devil of rumor?
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sinister way) and opposition to the religion of the Nazarene and those philosophies deriving from it.
Satanists despise the religion of the Nazarene and for centuries have waged a war against it. They see it as a negation of those natural instincts that urge us to conquest, which increase our vitality, and which give us the desire to know. Yet Satanism is much more than a rejection of the disgusting religion of Yeshua.
Most importantly, perhaps, Satanism (of the genuine sort) is a means whereby individuals may enhance their own conscious evolution and thus their lives by developing their latent abilities -- their vitality, personality and knowledge as well as their "occult" faculties. The means to this are the "seven-fold sir1ister way" and those rituals of black magick which express the Satanist spirit. These means are basically a system of individual training, and this training is organized by Satanic groups and Orders by a means of seven grades. Such groups and Orders do not proselytize and concern themselves not at all with the "ritual rompings" associated in the popular mind with "Satanism."
Traditional Satanism is very different from the media image -- which mostly concentrates on a variety of ritual practices and invocations to the Devil
-- as well as quite distinct from the various and many self-styled "Satanist" groups which continue to appear at fairly regular intervals. Such groups are mostly a cover for personal indulgence of quite often a sexual or monetary nature, and while they make use of the

historical myths and traditions relating to the "Prince of Darkness" as well as a desire to make Satanism somehow respectable and/or accepted by the "authorities.11 Such groups and individuals wish the "buzz" of Satanism (in academic terms, its numinosity) without the dangers inherent in followin the dark path to Adeptship and certainly without the hardship (both personal and psychological) which the genuine way of Satanic self-development requires. Satanism, by its nature, can never become respectable
-- it is the way for a very few, although today and i,n the foreseeable future that few is greater in number than it was.
Satanism detests the religion of the Nazarene because it makes the individual impotent in this life, whereas Satanism regards this life as an opportunity, not given again, to reach upwards toward th.e greatness of the gods. It opens up the possibility of U} creating for ourselves not only a glorious existence o,n this earth but also of creating both by our way of living and our dark magick, an existence for ourselves beyond our own death. Genuine Satanism opens up for us the gates that lead to the path from Initiation to Adept to Master/Mistress to immortality. This path is difficult, and to follow it takes many, many years.
If this has piqued your interest, the ONA als publishes a newsletter called Fenrir, the seventh issue to emerge soon. For information write to:
Thormynd Press

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A New Satanic Solid?
Julian Karswe/1
While perusing the New York Times on 5 September, I chanced across an intriguing article by Malcolm W. Browne detailing an investigation of quasicrystals, a form of matter previously thought to be impossible outside of theory. This matter is midway between the uniform lattice structure of crystals, and the chaotic jumble of atoms which comprise all other solids. The atomic patterns of quasicrystals are ordered in subtle and non-repetitive arrays which exhibit "fivefold symmetry," which had been considered impossible. Researchers also suspect that the electron spectral structures of this substance
will be in accordance with the Phi ratio, which we see

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Satanic Cinema
byPeggy Nadramia
BATMAN: The Satanist Hero Arises!
Guest reviewer: Nemo
In the last Cloven Hoof, Anton LaVey spoke of the need for the Satanist portrayed as a hero in the mass media. This prediction has now come to pass. Surprise! The movie Batman has given us the first modern Satanist-hero box office smash.
I felt some trepidation entering the empty theater late Sunday night. The worker drones were in their beds preparing for their dreaded Monday migration to "work," leaving the cinema· nearly deserted. I remembered with a shudder the shallow sham of the Adam West television series but felt that maybe, just maybe, there might be a fair rendering of... what I didn't know, as the theater dimmed.
The music thundered out with a theme that seemed familiar and in a moment I caught the same thrill of martial power I felt upon hearing the score from the movie Dune. They were close enough to have sprung from the same mind. Later I would recognize both to be a minor key rendition of a famous Cole Porter song!

ADDENDUM:
by Peggy Nadramia

Another refreshingly Satanic aspect of this new Batman is his relationship with Vicki Vale. She
,, ·s presented in contrast to him, often dressed in bite; she's not a ballbreaking, often-blundering Lois Lane but a lady in need of protection from a genuine villain. She cares about her hero in his Bruce Wayne aspect as well. And best of all, unlike the altruistic superman who never consummates his relationship with Lois, preferring to sacrifice his love for her to his sense of duty, Batman indulges in this new passion. His personal happiness is his first priority. And as we know, nothing is more dangerous to the
1 status quo than two people deeply in love -- because nothing can come between them. Hail, Batman!
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few examples.
Batman is represented as a consummate lesser-magic practitioner. He uses little-known devices and techniques to create an image of supernatural power. The second viewing of the film revealed that the wires he descended upon were always presented to the camera, but, like those of his prey, my eyes were riveted upon the image of a huge vampire-like apparition slowly floating out of the darkness. His movements were minimal and therefore difficult to predict. Every action had a purpose.
This issue of purpose underlines the critical Satanic quality of the Batman: intelligence. It would have been all too easy for the director to have cast a huge giant of a man, a muscle-bound hunk, to play Batman. I remember from my youth that the _comic book Batman was a giant with tremendous strength and acrobatic agility. Yet with surprising foresight, Batman was played by an average-sized man lacking a square jaw and sometimes even wearing spectacles. In short, Batman relied upon brain and not brawn.
Why climb up a wall hand-over-hand, when a machine can swiftly and silently pull you upward, conserving your strength and lending to your image? Why rappel back down again when the same mechanism can perform the same benefits... and leave you an escape route? Why carry a weapon when your body can be a weapon? Why carry a weapon when

your "invisible" body armor both protects you and
builds your reputation as a supernatural entity whom bullets can't kill?
Batman evidenced a Satanist psychology as well. He did not always know if what he did was "best." He held doubt, that supreme rational quality, as a ground for his mental judgement. Justice ruled his actions. He obviously wanted no part in the ineffectual organized despair of the public police forces. Again, his interaction was direct and ruthless. If criminals died as the result of his work, no big deal. Revenge was not a subject for questioning, either. When Bruce Wayne identified the murderer of his parents, there was never the slightest hesitation in his stated intention of killing the killer... after suitable physical punishment, of course.
Finally, there was the majestic dignity of a
prideful, purposeful full human being in Batma There was no dividing this from his obviously Satanic vampiric appearance, horns, black costume, and all: The gothic setting, the squalor and steam/fog-strewn city scenes, the dark night all played perfectly into this exaltation of the essence of true Satanism.
Little do the masses who adulate this new Star Wars realize the subtle and profound remoldin_g of their consciousness which has resulted from th1S brilliant and gifted presentation of magic. If by an)' chance you have not viewed this film, GO! And dress in black...

school's past heroes. "Once they were just like you... and now they're fertilizing daffodils." The boys take this to heart and form a little group of bon vivants, wearing dark robes and congregating in a cave in the hillside, indulging in tobacco, liquor, women (at least obliquely) and the words of the masters. They rediscover ritual, reaffirm a sense of aesthetics. They play pranks! (See "Odditorium," this issue 'IBF.)
Unfortunately, being young and very romantic, one member makes an error and chooses to sacrifice his own life rather than live the one his father had chosen for him. The film's final image is triumphantly Satanic, however; the class' remaining individuals climb upon their desks and stand above the herd in protest, overturning, however briefly, pompous authority, and changing their own perspectives forever. l'a wp!

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Satan's Protest
by Paul Aarons

Charles C. Franks 1512 E. Main Amarillo, Texas 79101
ACTING ATTORNEY FOR:
Lucifer, Beelzebub & Satan, Inc. 1 Brimstone Plaza
Sol I (Mercury)
Galaxy Theta 5 •1
'2/8/88
Council For Universal Supervision Office of Fair Trade Practices Suite 666, Universal Center Mendub4
Galaxy Alpha 1
Attn: Truth in Advertising Section Sirs:
We herewith petition The Office of Fair Trade Practices, hereafter referred to as OFTP, to investigate the following alleged violations of proper business conduct. To wit, one, Jehovah, Lord of Hosts, hereafter referred to as "God," has been guilty of the following:

1) "God" attempts to undermine legitimate competitors through the systematic annihilation of said competitor's customers and facilities, via both personal action and the acts of his followers. As proof of this allegation we offer the accused's own propaganda release, commonly referred to as The Holy Bible (see enclosure) and suggest you refer to sections pertaining to; The Tower of Babel, Jericho, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Great Flood, and The Plagues of Egypt. Further evidence can be obtained by researching the Archives with reference to; The Christian Crusades, Antisemitism, pipe bombings of Abortion Clinics, stonings, Puritan Punishment Rituals, and Witch Burnings. Should these cases not be deemed sufficient by the OFTP, further cases will be furnished on request.

2) "God" has engaged in slander and libel in his attempt to discourage customers from the legitimate use of competitor's services. In the case of my clients (hereafter referred to as Satan), "God" h s publicly attacked them on the following counts:

A) Choice of home office location. Satan chooses Mercury because of its warmth, due to its proximity to the local sun. My client's choice has been maligned by its competitor, who claims Satan is trying to lure mortals to that location; that particular planet being too close to the primary for mortal comfort. Never has my client promised nor sought to transport his customers to Sol I. Satan feels "God" is trying to justify his choice of slum property on the outer worlds by attacking my client unfairly.

B) "God" accuses Satan of requiring unorthodox actions from his clients, including, but not necessarily limited to, virgin sacrifices, compacts involving one's "soul," and meetings held at unconventional hours. The only thing ever sacrificed to my client by virgins is something they were most anxious to rid themselves of in the first place. It would appear the only person who places value on virginity is the person who no longer suffers from its pressures. As to the statement about "souls," is not the contract with "God" also for the "soul"? As for the meeting times of our covens, is that not the legitimate concern of its members? Surely the first practice noted (see article 1) would justify any effort to achieve safety.
C) "God" has asserted that Satan uses unethical practices to entice customers to his service. These lures are said to include money, sex, success, intelligence, happiness and power. Are these not the very items our service is franchised to supply?

3) :f:inally Satan must protest that the services both companies have been franchised to render are not, in fact, being supplied by "God." The services rendered by our company (see 2C) are exactly the same as promised by our competitor. The only major difference being the time of delivery. In the case of Satan, he renders service and follows with billing, as outlined in the text of standard business practices. "God," on the other hand, demands payment in advance and assures delivery only after the client's death. It should be evident to
the OFTP that the deceased are in no position to protest non-fulfillment of contracts.

In summation, Satan implores the council to act quickly to protect the consumer on the following causes: Even though Satan supplies immediate services and "God" only promises to deliver at some future time; despite the fact that Satan has never been recorded as harming any group, city, individual, or company, where as "God" is noted for his destructive nature; and finally, while Satan supplies mortals with the needs indigenous to the nature of Man and "God" attempts to justify his failure to deliver by asserting that practicing denial now, leads to rewards in the future, of those very things denied. Through a most effective media campaign, my clients have been labeled villians. Unfortunately, mortals are foolish enough to believe it. Any delay endangers council integrity.
Sincerely Yours,

Charles C. Franks Attorney Penthouse C
431 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005 Sol Ill

P.S. Please note the change of address for the purposes of correspondence. I only recently became a client of Satan.
enc. cc/Satan

Dressing Like Hell
by Morgain Blake
As Beau Brummel would have said if he had practiced Greater Magic, there are times when clothes make the magician. Have you noticed, for instance, the number of black practitioners who take their calling so seriously that they always dress in black from head to foot? On some magicians this looks sinister and imposing and gives them an aura of mystery. Others merely look sallow, or like defrocked priests whose (defrocked) housekeepers still buy their wardrobes. If you must dress in black, show some style! A well-cut black suit with an inverted pentagram in the lapel is far more imposing than a cheap motorcycle jacket, an old Black Sabbath t-shirt and your faded black Levis.
Ah, rituals! How many times have those of us who attend group rituals seen these "Adepts" of the sartorial. Sleazies who shop for ritual garb at Biker or Bondage Boutiques. There are enough zippers, snap
:ings a d grommets to outfit a tailor, and everything 1s a size too small and made of extremely uncomfortable materials. Rarely does a handsome stud or a voluptuous temptress dress in this style rather we see those who think their forte is sex or
wonder when it might better be sentiment. Ba.ck of

recite as they put on their vestments. The theory behind this is that these prayers would enable the priest to transform himself, to celebrate the rite as a priest, not as a mere man.
Here are a few things to consider when buying or making a ritual outfit. Is it comfortable? After a l, you may have to wear it for a long time, under cucumstances which may be hot or cold, and where you may or may not be able to, or be required to sit or stand. Is it sturdy? You don't want to raise

Sick of shopping? Want to make one? Any sirnple caftan pattern will do, or you can just make the lapels on a bathrobe pattern longer, make the sides more ample, and provide a very secure fastening. If you're feeling more ambitious, Butterick and other pattern makers have a nice line of Halloween costumes. (I know I've advised you against those, but
1 keep reading!) If you remove all the touches which tart them up into a Hollywood cartoon vision of evil, the costume of Maleficent from Snow White or a generic wizard outfit can be quite impressive. I must warn you that this will probably be even more expensive than buying a robe, especially if you make a pattern which calls for satin or satin-like fabric. After all, you'll end up needing about eight to ten
11 yards of fabric, depending on how much body you
need to cover.
You also may wish to swallow your pride and seek advice from a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. When they aren't dressing like Mongols or medieval lords, these guys often have the snazziest and most appropriate ritual garb of any magicians I've ever seen.
Remember, in traditional folklore, the devil is often a well-dressed, elegant individual! Nuff said? Go forth and shop, ye sinners!
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my closet types leave their robes wadded up in a ball somewhere. If a seam rips, it's never mended. If food, mud, semen or other bodily fluids make their way onto the robe, it is rarely (or never) washed. Sometimes, though not always, the let's pretend folks belong to the Society for Creative Anachronism. They are likely to come to a ritual in doublet and hose or dressed as a member of a Mongol horde. I've yet to see one show up in a robe with stars and moons and sporting a pointy hat, but I'm sure I will someday.
Mr_ and Mrs_ Normal don't have or won't wear

your arm to swing your sword and hear the armholes· rip out of your garb, do you? (Though Compleat Witches might consider the tricks of indecent exposure in this light.) Is it washable (back of the closet types, take note)? Is the color appropriate for the ritual we're performing? There are times when other colors can be better than black, depending on the ritual. A good, screaming red or fuschia works well for lust, and green after all, is the color of that
wonderful stuff we all do rituals to obtain, and I'm not referring to salad. You might look up occult color

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shuts and walking shorts while you 're trying to concentrate your will on the task at hand. I don't know about you, but I simply can't concentrate in the presence of tie-dyes!
So, what would Magister Brummel advise a

resonances these colors evoke in you. It is crucial that you feel empowered by your outfit, so go with what makes you feel best, what reaches your deep self.
Do I buy it, make it or have it made? Robes can be hard to come by. Whatever you do, don't buy

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but does anything untoward ever happen to these people? Hell, yes! (Pun intended.) I really don't know anyone who goes through this existence without some sort of unhappiness or awful experience. I believe,
though, that unlike the existentialists, we are a product of our experiences only if we choose to be.

modern practitioner to wear to a ritual? And how
would he answer the question, "Why dress up at all?" The serious magician understands that most of us
ust alter som g significant in our surroundings m order to practice magic. Sometimes this is done by

those cheapo things that are available in mall toy
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The black magician looks at life as a series of challenges where we are dealt a situation that is puzzling or, in some cases, absolutely devastating.
Like the fatalist, though, I believe that good can only come if bad happens to you. But unlike the fatalist, I

medit tio!l, sometimes with incense or music, or any
combmat10n of the above as well as other tricks. But the concept of changing one's being with one's clothes is very old. Priesthoods of many religions ave h d robing rituals for millenia. A good example 1s tl).e hst of prayers which Catholic priests used to

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also believe that a far greater treasure (what the fatalist calls good) is gained if you take up your mental scimitar and disarm and dismember that which besets you. How is this done? Very simply.
1.) Don't panic_ Hysteria only stirs up the magical atmosphere around you like a tornado and

makes the magician a victim of his or her own devices. Stay calm should be the motto of your first challenge.
2.) Think the situation through- If you are
truly honest with yourself, you will realize that in all black-and-white situations, there are various shades of grey. Seldom is there a scenario where it's just them against us. If this is the situation, it is easily remedied with a well-placed curse. Otherwise, you may have to rethink how you are to approach the problem at hand. You may have to increase the amount of wile and guile (lesser magic) to chieve your goal, or you may have to overcome a personal fear which is inadvertantly causing you to fail.

of your meditation. Soon bad luck becomes just a passing irritation and achievement is almost too easy,1 When this happens, set higher challenges for yourself or just enjoy your achievements. ',
What happens to those misguided folks who·
try to avoid their monster or try to buffer their'' existence through alcohol or drugs? The beasts get bigger and bigger, until the hapless victim is consumed by them. Want an example? Look at the person passing you on the street in ragged clothes: rooting around in dumpsters for aluminum cans' mumbling to himself. Don't you wonder what' monster ate him?

To p eface: Faust is stagnating, he is fed up with life, he 1s havmg pleasure and doing things but he no· long r i ha:"ing any fun. He tires of his existence, fmdmg 1t too mundane, and winds up opening a Chri tian Bible. He reads from the chapter on John and frnds that what he reads is just not enough. He questions this "word" and wants to know w·hat was before that, in fact, he wants to know everything. And so -- Something appears to Faust and he uses all his sorcery to identify it, failing miserably. It is not a creature of fire, air, water or earth, he determines, and so! What is Mephistopheles? Literal
English.
Faust: What is your name?
Meph.: This question appears trivial for one

cann t annihil_ate the all-macrocosm, so you begin it only m the mmute-microcosm. (Dr. LaVey's Dark force in Nature -- or entropy.) .
Meph.: And certainly not much is accomplis ed thereby. That which stands opposed to the Nothrng, that something, this lumpish/ clumpish/awkward world, for all that I have already done, I don't know how to get at it. With waves, storms, quakes, conflagrations, on land and sea, all remains peaceful. And that damned spawn brood of Man and beast, I have not hurt them at all: how many have I already buried; a new fresh blood ever circulates, the way it goes on, one might become rageful ! (Rather like cleaning your home and expecting it to remain clean forever...)

These two rules seem simple, but how do I
overcome my personal monster? I usually start with a good deep meditation. First I relax and bring myself into my own personal altar chamber. I achieve this setting by imagining myself in a different dimension where no walls or sense of time exist. In the immense expanse of blackness stands an iridescent inverted pentagram framed by a trapezoid. I stand in the center of the pentagram, clothed in leathery black armor, holding a glistening sword before me. I say: There is no one who can conquer me, for I am unconquerable. My greatest aid is my ego. The hand which guides my universe is my own. Mth the aid of my demon self I will slay this which beseiges me, for I am GOD! The will is all-consuming, the will survives. I will, I will, I
WIIL! MY WILL! BEAT THE CHALLENGE, MEET

Mephistopheles-Nyarlathotep
Ob-Satan
by Tani Jantsang

Who is Mephistopheles? Is he Lucifer? Is he an angel of light? Is he a funny devil? Is he THE Dark Force in Nature?!?
In order to comprehend Faust one must be
familiar with the concepts Goethe dealt with, what he was familiar with, and exactly what he wrote down, not in archaic English, not in translated English poetry (which loses meaning) but in the Moderq German he used, the same German used today in

" who despises the Word, for one who withdraws from all Appearances and only seeks the Deep Essence.
Faust: One can ordinarily read the Essence of
, you Beings, you Lords, from the names where it all-too-clearly points; as when one calls you God of Flies, Despoiler, or Liar. Okay, then! Who are you?
Meph.: A part of that Force that constantly Wills evil, and yet constantly Creates the Good!
Faust:'What is meant by this word-puzzle?
Meph.: I am the Spirit that always denies - negates! And I have a right to do so: because all that arises into Being is worthy only to perish back to its
.(Zugrunde*) Source. Thus it would be better if
I) Othing began. So then, it is all that you call "sin "
"destruction,"' in short (what you call) "evil" -- that is my proper element.

The play continues without much more of this subject except for an excerpt in the second part where Mephistopheles is mocking the word "past": "Cre_ated to b s_natched up as it emerges -- to othmg. There 1t 1s, past/over/done. What is there to read in that? It is just as good if nothing should Be - and yet, it surely drives itself in a circle/cycle as if it Were. For this reason, I love the Eternal Void."
What is he? Surely he is a Prince or Lord of Dar ness, and certainly he is a satan, an adversary. But 1s he also that which sustains or pushes creation on its course? Yes. He is a Dark Force in Nature - nature being this material cosmos. He is Entropy in quantum mechanics, an irresistible and irreversible force. Is he death or Life? Surely, life without living
is not life at all, and death makes way for the new, for

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At this point, I tense all of the muscles in my body and imagine myself mangling some horrid beastie which represents my ill fortune. Having completed this task, I :relax all my muscles and return to the dimension which we term the real world. I rise slowly, refreshed and armed with the knowledge that something has changed in the world because of my meditation -- something positive.
If my automobile breaks down, I do not allow
myself to become upset, I fix it. If work becomes a drag, I work my way through like a juggernaut until all is accomplished. I never let myself become defeated or depressed or frustrated for I know these are the true beasts that drag us into the realm of the fates.
Since bad times, like good times, are transient
and don't last forever (though they seem to), I realize that my reward is forthcoming -- even if it's only a

regular newspapers. I
Goethe knew Greek and Latin. Lucifer means
Bright One or Light Bearer.
Mephisto philes means Lover of the Dark (obscure/hidden/murky/cloudy). Or -- Mephis sophil philes: Lover of the Knowledge of the Dark.
Goethe was also quite familiar with the
Qabalah, studied it, and with books circulating in hi time, combining Qabalah and alchemy. Thus he was familiar with the title "satan" and with what the Hebrews who wrote it meant by the title: Samael or Ob which encompasses many entities combined intd one Being/fhing/Force.
Throughout the play there are also thre
concepts put forth:
1.) That of the world/matter/flesh/stars/trees, etc. -- in other words, our material cosmos, our
universe.
2.) The Light or Logos which in Christian

(*Zugrunde: no real English equivalent. It does not mean really to perish as in die, nor does it mean annihilate. It also does not mean to go back to the source by retreating or turning around backwards an retracing steps. It means to go forward and whilst gorng forward, perish. In Faust, "as all things must do." It could be translated as ground-source, or Source -- "perish by going forward to its origin.")
Faust: You call yourself a part, and yet stand whole before me?
. eJ?h.: The modest truth I speak to you:
while t 1s httle madhouse Mankind vulgarly and complacently considers himself a whole -- I am part of the part which was All in the Beginning, a part of the Darkness which gave birth to the Light, the
:oud/arr?gant Ligh that now contests/battles with
. other Night her ancient rank for space; and certainly
} does not succeed, since for all its striving, it remains ttered/stuck to bodies, connected to dependent

change. When one cleans house and sets things to o:der, they do not remain in order (especially with kids) and the house does not remain clean -- an endless cycle expending much energy. This is entropy. It is also life, and living, a lived-in house, a fun house. To watch for every speck of dust and become a clean fanatic is not living, it is slavery. Mephistopheles would say, however: "Why even have a house, then." In this he shows himself to be, then, adverse to "homes" since in the end, they all fall to ruin anyway.
If Mephistopheles would then say, "Why build the house at all," the answer can only be: because I live, I not only exist, but I vitally exist and if I stop doing, simply because, as you say, it will all crumble, it would be like saying "stop Time." It would be the ultimate stagnation. And of note one
would remind Mephistopheles -- the one thing Faust never said was: "Stop, o moment, you are so fair."

call from an old friend I haven't seen in years or

mythos is called a word. It does not imply sunlight or, u
electromagnetic light. Faust is reading about this;-.

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Faust never begged to stop the entropy -- and thus

finding a stray twenty-dollar bill. I realize that things are better because I have conquered the beast.
Something that I've also noticed is that the
more monsters you conquer, the smaller the succeeding monsters will be. Soon you will be able to ac omplish your goal with only the passing thought

when he "gets into mischief.11
3.) The void or Eternal Darkness, or Mother Night, a thing/being/force which said this word and thus brought forth the Logos which Faust is indeed curious about.

autiful; the body hinders its passage- 1ay. So I hope Won't last long, and hope it perishes soon, back to 1 &hground-source with these bodies -- (forward to
\V ere it originated).
Faust: Now I know your worthy duty! You

survived his ordeal! The ultimate answer to "Why build the house at all?" is: "Because I like it; the Dark Force in Nature propels us on to live, embracing the wonders of Life. To rebel against it is futile!" And I'a
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Archetypes, the Fourth Dimension, and Everything
by Blanche Barton

one's mind asks, "If this is a physical place, how do I get there?" From this other-world mountaintop (Olympus, Oz, Valhalla...) you could not only see into the future and past (like being on top of the moving train, as Einstein explained) but also manipulate the

volume called H1w ls That?, remarkably still in print. In it are dozens of photos of character actors categorized into general groups: snoops, cheap dames', femme fatales, tough guys, fall guys, society matrons ... Look through the photos carefully and try

"I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folk are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed."
--The Scarecrow, quoted in The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

As a child, do' you remember organizing make-believe games for neighborhood kids (who, of course, depended on you to set the day's itinerary) and getting frustrated because the other kids wouldn't stay in character? Though you had no way of . knowing it, you were already intuitively applying sound magical ideas. Certain gifted children appreciate "complete packages": unusual characters, archetypes, total environments. You can depend on them to sense when something doesn't quite fit. That's why Disneyland/World can be such fantasy lands for perceptive kids, and adults--everything is precisely as it should be, down to the smallest detail. This passion for convincing play-acting and complete illusions is tied directly to the science of aesthetics, which can be defined in one word as completion, and becomes paramount in successful magic.
What exactly is this pre-science we call magic? How and why does it work? What are the mechanics and laws of magic? And does it tie into any known physical laws, or scientific speculation? As Satanists, we are also scientists of sorts, experimenting with principles on the borderlands of accepted knowledge--the occu/t--where others dare not go. Since this is science beyond the pale, much of the magical theories and methods we develop and pass secretly among ourselves are necessarily distilled more from mythical or fictional speculation, than from proven scientific facts. We could speculate that perhaps past magicians (as all conservators of language and ideas should rightly be called) have encoded their practical, pre-science discoveries into metaphorical images to be decoded by qualified magicians of the future, as individual capacity and necessity dictate. Whether or not this is valid, clues to a magical science seem to be found in that netherworld of mythic imagery, where science and metaphor overlap.
I As Joseph Campbell, Jung and others have so effectively explained, the universal archetypes of various mythologies have an active part in our everyday lives. Archetypes, as literary or conceptual devices, are visions developed in the collective overmind which can be used to represent universal

images and characteristics. Through a cumulative, interactive process, archetypes are not only formed by , our thoughts, but they also dictate to us what 1 something should look like. As a group mind, we've ' accumulated standards by which we can determine 1 for example, "That's not what I think of when I think {i of a regular chair, so whoever constructed this chair either didn't know what he was doing or was trying to reinterpret conventional chair design." The same kinds of expectations have been established for 1 personality types, real or imaginary--heroes wear white hats, monsters are scaley, little boys carry an 1 accumulation of strange things in their pockets...
Archetypes aren't confined to the pages of Greek or Roman mythology. Folklore is an ongoing process, as reflected in the excellent popular books on Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand. The modern equivalents to Zeus and Aphrodite are the Mafia and UFO's, their images formed more by television portrayals than facts. But the process of impression on the overmind is the same. If enough people are terrified by potent images of demons in Bosch's,, "religious" paintings or in movies, might the demons f take on physical substance because of the adrenal 1
output of the viewers? Imposed visions reflect, define
and direct us all. As if absorbed through the air, universal metaphors compel us, often when we are least aware of their influence on a conscious level. They are the direct line to the subconscious, seemingly from another dimension entirely, communicating to us only through dreams, or other creative avenues for more abstract thought.
We all know what archetypes are, in a literary 1 or even psychological sense. But blended with the Socratic notion of "ideals," archetypes gain physical dimension. Instead of limiting archetypes to metaphorical devices, Socrates proposed a set of representations floating about "out there," implying an additional dimension beyond the established three. Physical manifestations, which we see on this plane, are direct, physical reflections of these "ideals" from a theoretical 4th dimension located somewhere in the ethers.
This is where psychology, philosophy and sociology leave us. Now the magician steps forward. Adding Dr. LaVey's theories of archetypes, demonic°' geometries (see Long's The Hounds ofTinda/os and Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark), and diabolical frequencies to the theoretical pot, he sees how easy it would be to impose his magical will if he had access to this dimension of the unconscious. Immediately

other dimensions to conform to your will, if the 4th
dimension is beyond and inclusive of the other three. perhaps this could best be termed the Unified Field which creates a superseding force of its own, even though this field has not yet been conceived as being wavelengths of thought.
If these subconscious images are universal constants, what would happen if a person made hims lf fit a specific archetype which might be found in this supernal character closet? By becoming a complete illusion, a character that would draw on elements already within you, you could create a warp
-- a controlled suspension of objective reality (unlike drugs, which create an uncontrolled, undirected suspension of objective reality). By making yourself the closest you can get to an archetype, acccording to the dictates of a mass mind, you transport yourself into the 4th dimension directly, become an active entity peopling that alternative, physical realm and communicate your will through the ethers, unfettered by the laws of the conventional three. There, you can freely superimpose your adrenally-augmented desires, in keeping with Wilhelm Reich's speculations on Cosmic Superimposition. By creating a convincing illusion, you enter that mythic dimension beyond space and time, developing your ability to suspend both.
Deciding on a character you want to emulate is simply playing out the hand you've already been
?ealt,.filling in the missing pieces. If you are prone to 1Solat10n and obsession, you '11 find it easier to fixate on a particular image and immerse yourself c?mpJetely in a modified image. Notice, I didn't say a different image because the ideal archetype is one selected to augment what seeds are already there. It's better, as Dr. LaVey has already written, to commit yourself to an uncommon image -- tap into something tha was once universally known and admired, but Which has since been discarded. Of course, that's not hard since there are so few characters around these days. Aping the latest rock star or movie personality does not an archetype make. But don't be timid about detai_ls, even unsavory ones. Cleanliness and purity in any illusion usually conveys sterility, not reality. Leave a few ragged edges; leave opportunities for Prurient enchantment. Certain elements might be considered irritating or indecent by today's neo-Victorian standards, but if particular habits, smells or antics are consistent with your character, People will be righteously offended -- and remember.
One of the best sources for types is a thin

to visualize a character that would be closest to your personality. Remember the balance factor. Don't choose something you ultimately can't pull off. Try to keep consistent with your true type, not what you would like to believe you are. There is nothing more absurd than a perfect intellectual type trying to look like John Garfield or Sterling Hayden. The most successful character actors have capitalized on their assets, whatever they may be. If you make an u_nforgettable rumpled detective type, don't dress up ltke Mandrake the Magician. You'll have more power, make more of an impression on people and consequently on the ethers, by corning across as a prim, repressed librarian if that's what your general
looks and disposition dictate than if you buy a long .,
black wig and try to look like Vampira.
The most important thing is to stay in character. Since current stars don't depend on glamour anymore, they don't have to worry about being photographed without proper makeup and attire. But there was a time when stars had that other-worldly quality and worked to maintain it at all costs. When you're alone, don't drop your acquired gestures or change into blue jeans and a sweatshirt. Don't let the illusion lapse for yourself. You're the most important audience you have to convince. It will be hard at first, of course, and may well take years of experimentation to refine your "look," but serving a magical apprenticeship was never supposed to be easy. Through discipline, you '11 eventually achieve a startling transformation. You'11 look at yourself in the mirror and realize you're wearing the clothes rather than forcing the clothes to wear you. Ultimately, the character becomes one with your flesh. You'll experience with the eyes and mind of an immortal, immutable being.
Unfortunately magical power isn't quite as easy as Samantha Stevens would have us believe, translating thoughts into immediate results simply by wiggling your nose. "Subjecive reality" theories, like the speculations outlined in the New Age classic Space-Time and Beyond are terribly inviting and not altogether invalid. If such theories were entirely valid, though, there would be a way for an Advanced Magician to alter immediate physical reality at will. As I've observed, that's not quite the case. Yes, we can alter subjective reality but, like it or not, we are limited by the archetypal visions developed over the centuries in the collective overmind.
You cannot walk through walls or un-create a table just by thinking it. No matter how hard you

concentrate, if someone hits you over the head with a creating archetypes, through music, poems, movies table, you'll know it. It'll be just as solid as ever. No comic strips, novels, paintings... By channeling thei; matter how much you develop your force of mind and procreative energies into a more universally. will, you are but one mind in the face of billions who appealing package than simply popping out children

tap into the Socratic "table"
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expectations rather than a dismal absorption back

Perhaps, too, such a morass of pure energy, any
theory might account for individuation or distinction
certain types of "psychic" obliterated for eternity.
or Fortean phenomena -- 1 That's why we, as Satanis
mysterious disappearances, J reject herdism in all itl
for example. Small items · myriad expressions.
people "misplace" that then : find disturbing similariti<j
re-appear sometime later JI in all Satanists -- almo· might actually be supernatural links
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into another dimension for a -- perhaps because, in t ·
short time. Have you ever most physical sense, w:
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truer than you suspected, a manifestation of the vortex influence, maybe some part of our life force can a that might form around strong personalities. will survive on the wavelengths that comprise thi
The more archetypically aligned you are, the "dimension of mind" as Rod Serling would call it. more powerful your influence. More than that, if it is doubt, that's what is alluded to in the third section possible for us to survive the limits of physical the Book of Satan: "Thus shall you make yourse existence, it would be in direct proportion to an ability respected in all the walks of life, and your spirit : to create an indelible echo or ghost impression, as if your immortal spirit -- shall live, not in an intangib1 on a photographic plate. For untold eons, imaginative paradise, but in the brains and sinews of those wI10 people have been insuring their immortality by respect you have gained."

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PERVASIVE PANTYWAISTISM
BY PETER H. GILMORE

ollycoddles abound. Wimps are on the rise. Sissies hold sway. Our society is pervaded by a patrorusing protectivity, shielding the timorous from ideas that might be inimical toegos fragile assodden tmue paper. What ever happened to cultivation of strength and self
awrance, once the hallmark of American culture? The minions of "political comctness" and anew generation of whiner-spawn have attained the Jegislative power toenforce their pusillanimous intolcrancc for any difference in opinion. Behold the vile cowardice that reigns in just about every public forum. Wi censorship, barl on the principle that individuals must be protected from any negativity or they will suffer irreparable trauma and thus deserve reparations from the state to satisfy their shattered self-image. Here is the new standard for behavior, ranging from universities to work places, from the print.eel word tocyber-space, and itisenshrined by the various media who have unit.eel tocrush those who refuse to abandon their critical b:ulties.
The contemptible cont.emporary credo is to seek the approval of all and sundry, while
eliminating any critical commentary. It has become a thought-crime to voice the opinion that you don't embrace everyone in one sloppy hug of "brotherhood."There is, however, one group which all are permitted to deride, censor, and against which hatred may be freely exercised those tarred with the label "racist." Here is today's ultimate bugaboo, far worse than being deemed a child molest.er. (They get "therapy" and are released to repeat their acts, or if a clergy person, simply transferred to a new parish to continue to do their Lord's work.)
Bob Grant, a well-known talk show host on WABC Talk Radio, was fired because ci increased lobbying against him by various "PC" forces who hai branded him a racist. Grant, a self-avowed conservative, does not hesitate to speak his mind against those whom he perceives to be miscreants and malefactors. And bravo to him!His candor, as well as his rational defense of his thinking, was refreshing to hear. He was hired shortly thereafter by a competing station to continue to air his views for a large audience who does appreciat.e hearing his opinions, and supporting or debating them. The situation may be grim, but not completely hq,eless.
People are deathly afraid of wonk; they can't bear anything being said against them. To be "dissed" is the equivalent of being destroyed. Satanists deplore such weakness. It was once expect.eel that one instinctively evaluated the gain-sayer (as well as the flatterer), automatically reacting with either pleasure, disappointment or even indifference based on the relative merits of this individual. Now, all are required to tout everyone else without discrimination (a word that now has an "evil" connotation and previously meant the exercise of one's selectivity based on educat.ed appraisal.). Satanists have not lost this instinct; we welcome the conflict of ideas, and are excit.ed by differences. It is by actions that we judge. Words are mere window-dressing.
We must cultivat.e a neo-Darwinian arena wherein opinions may dash in the bright glare ci mid-day, light glinting off sabre-sharp tongues which slash against the armor of cultivat.ed wit and erudition in a true conflict of ri roaring repartk.e. We expect to see the sands stained crimson and will be ready to wield our discrimination boldly, without stint, to either raise a thumb in approval or give the sign of rejection. We will celebrat.e the victorious while the vanquished are ' carted off as refuse. This is the climate that will foster the re-emergence of int.ellectual rigor, and will present competing concepts for all to see and judge accordingly. It is time to end this childish insulation from the real world and go out to experience the invigoration to be had from a world of variety. If you come across that with which you don't agree, you'll be able to identify those who hold such values and deal with them as you will. Control of speach is not control of thought. The current climate has caused many to hold secret their true fee which often grow to strange shapes in their restraint, bursting forth in extremity which isshocking to the naive, but expect.eel by the aware.
ut the triumphant strains of "My Way" ring their clarion call to those who refuse to disguise their true thoughts beneath a rictus of false polit.eness. Ent.er into the fray with claws extended, flying your true colors-winning friends and foes, or walk away and find another exchange more to your liking. You can soar, or crash and burn, but doso on your own. Don't go crying tosome societal authority to wipe thesnot off your nose and kick the ass of your betters. Perhaps you want to remain in diapers all of your life, but don't expect Satanists tostick around and smell the load. Manure is best when buried as fertiliz.er.

HEY control everything we do. There is no human activity that THEY do not influence. THEY are everywhere, infiltrating the lives of even the strongest
resistors.
Who are THEY?
How strange that humans can easily and readily externalize gods and devils, space aliens and UFOs, non Aryans and fascists. Yet they find it difficult to entertain a notion that human hands and human minds serving human interests are sophisticated enough to exert control.
You say they do. They blame Satanists. THEY are not Satanists.
When a rational mind hears another blame THEY for a negative event or situation, THEY are dismissed as a non existent convenient catch-all employed by limited minds.
Consequently, no one with any mental prowess uses the term, THEY.
H only dummies use the THEY reasoning, those whose mental capacity might really suspect, let alone detect, chicanery avoid it. By their avoidance, they close any doors before they attempt to enter.
There is no single THEY. That's why conspiratorialists search in vain or blame convenient enemies.

Any vested interest which contrivedly interferes with your best interests is11-IEY. The greater the need to make money, with little or no conscience, the greater the incidence of THEYs. H everybody is on the take, if everyone wants to win the lottery, some aspirants are more successful than others. Agencies of self-interest proliferate in a world of wannabes and big shots. The most successful, by dint of their established formulae for success, become the THEYs.
THEY do not want you to win. You win, THEY lose. THEY depend upon your ignorance and stupidity. THEY don't want anyone giving the show away. That's why THEY ridicule anyone who refers to THEY. THEY wish to abort speculation. THEY cannot afford to allow for speculatwn.
Before any discovery can be made, speculation must be entertained. A simpleton who says: "What will THEY think of next?" is closer to discovery than those who ridicule him for saying "THEY."
THEY discourage logic and reason. It is unprofitable. There are seldom any hints or clues as to who THEY are. THEY survive by misdirection.
"New and Improved" is what THEY depend upon for their sucker's game. "Issues" maintain distraction and misdirection. Mainstream interests are mainline drugs.
Fashion, style, trends, are common denominators. Common denominators are imperative, that THEY might remain in control.
THEY can be compared to the myth of the Mafia or

Organized Crime. There need exist no network or central control. THEY exist independent of one another. Yet in their perceived tyranny, THEY would appear to be organized.
They cannot be broken or banished, because THEY are not an organization. Humans are so conditioned to organized lives that they cannot conceive of such a thing as power through disorganization. H one lives an institutionalized life, which most do, it is uncomfortable to move outside the herd. THEY depend on mass mindlessness and will destroy anyone or anything that threatens it. More than ever before in mankind's history, survival of the many is dependent on the success of the few. THEY, by whatever name, are the few. Collectively, THEY are powerless. Individually, THEY are ruthless and unscrupulous.
THEY are not fraternal. THEY do not help each other. Their strength lies in that THEY each concentrate on their own vested interests, with no collusion. Then, THEY are free to whip and lacerate the herd, without peer interference without time and energy wasted on networking and organization. THEY have all manner of weaponry-whether deliberately neglected, yet more formidable than ever, or innovative technology. Control is achieved and maintained by radiation, saturation, and isolation; using sound and light waves, weather control, environmental substances, pharmaceuticals, atmospheric modification, etc. The greater the vested interest, the more formidable the arsenal THEY maintain.
It is a war in which the people of the world are the victims; a soft and flaccid enemy, too short-sighted and dull witted to constitute a threat. It is the easiest war ever fought, where each new collective stupidity and despotically selected memory is a victory.
• • • • •
Purtrait of Anton LaVey by Nick &up

HE SMARI'EST, MOST PASSIONATE, MOST
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN I've met have been Satanists. I don't mean "beautiful on the inside where it really
counts;" I mean gorgeous, vibrant, curvy women. Most non-Satanic men find Satanic women intimidating-too intelligent or too pretty, or worse yet, both at the same time. It takes a special
woman to be a Satanist. Only the most truly liberated are summoned to Satan's legions. Up until quite recently, the ratio of Satanic men to women had been about 10 to 1, but that seems to be shifting. More and more young women are going through the process of exploring feminism and Wicca, seeking feminine pride, identity and powei; and discovering only impotence, limitations and puritanical self-righteousness. Wicca and feminism share a flaccid, lackluster attitude and presentation. Satanic women like drama/adventureand know how to conjure it for themselves.
Satanists have an innate complexity of mind that hungers for
uncompromising examination and speculation, not superficially comforting pap. We don't need to be comforted; we prefer the invigorating, bracing winds of truth ;md terror.
Our culture has been influenced enough by Anton LaVey and his books so that it's now cool for young women to dress like Satanic witches and think. like the Devil Himself. Camille Paglia and others now get honorifics for challenging traditional feminism, defending women's rights to wear heels and makeup. Those who study such trends are calling this "lipstick feminism" (from the more honest "lipstick lesbians"), "non-traditional feminism" or "anti-feminist feminism." Big news. So 7he Satanic Witch came out 26 years ago, girls. Did you just get around to reading it? To me, it's still the same old game of cribbing from Anton LaVey's books, catering to the new Satanic generation, but not wanting to acknowledge those blasphemous philosophical roots. Jayne Mansfield recognized that, for the first time in her life, she had found a philosophy through which she could be a businesswoman, an intellectual, a mother and a sexpot all at once. She wouldn't be criticized for committing the ultimate sin of reconciling irreconcilables.
Satanic women don't want to gain their strength by castrating men, or by making themselves out as victims. Whether they're providing healing and inspiration to those under their roofs, cracking the whip in corporate circles, managing their own home based businesses or maneuvering whatever they need to survive, all are applying and increasing their power-not whining about why they don't have any! We don't need "feminism" on our sleeve as our primary identity. We have our identity as Satanists. Satanic women are fierce; fierce defenders of their men, of their children, of their ideas and values. Wiccans understand the female archetype in a completely different way than Satanists do. We know that
Woman is Nature-Darwinian law as well as peaceful, awe-inspiring sunsets. Women can be conniving and ruthless, plotting and vengeful. "Mother Nature" isn't loving and all-embracing. She's selective, cruel and unyielding.
Wicca is trying to keep up with Satanism by sprinkling in Valkyries, the Dark Goddess, and other more menacing images of the Mother Goddess. But it still remains lackluster and uninspiring

because it's isolated-dependent on internal references and icons. It becomes shallow, stilted and flaccid. By trying to ignore or deny the authority or existence of great men, they're disconnecting their religion from ennobling music, poetry, literature, art, architecture, science and philosophy. Satanists recognize that the force of
Western civilization has always been a masculine, heroic, Promethean drive toward adventure and exploration. Feminist/ Wiccan cant is ultimately "soul candy," like the term that's evolved for po ience and psychology-thisis the equivalent. You may seek it out when you need bolstering up, thinking that you'll be inspired and spurred to greater achievements, lured by promises of unique feminine perspective and strengthening. But ultimately it's not satisfying. The illusion of strength is superficial; the nagging victimization becomes insulting. Not like reading Dostoevsky or Will Durant, Wuthering Hei,ghts, or Jane Austen, or Plato's Dialogues or Erasmus' "The Praise of Folly", oi; obviously, 1he Satanic Bible. I refuse to limit my role models only to other women just because I happen to be one,. I gain power from the metaphors and heroes I choose regardless of their gender.
Our decisions are based on real-world concerns, not in defense of an inadequare ego. When a Satanic woman and her mate decide if they'll have children, or who will work in the outside world and who will stay home with the kids, it's a pragmatic question-who has more earning power? Who's invested more money and time developing their career? Who's more capable of earning money at home as opposed to in the workplace? Who's better able to have the patience and other attributes necessary to raise a child? The Satanic woman doesn't need a job to define her capabilities; nor does she need to have children to feel "fulfilled." She reserves her "nurturing" for those who deserve her help and encouragement namely: herself, her mate, and those few she chooses to call friends. She finds a man who can express her Demonic or she conjures up a Lover for herself; she isn't desperate for love, vulnerable to ploys from fast talkers.
Many young bottom-of-the-dock women who are looking for
gothic strength in a man, can't find it in the simpering she-males around them-so they manifest their Demonics themselves, dressing in black leathei; black stockin and carrying a big black whip. A compleat, Satanic witch can best spend her time in constant, intimate spiritual and sexual contact with her strongest Demonic archetype-Satan Himself. In practicing her arts of enchantment, manipulation, inspiration and protection in the real world, she strengthens both herself and those she chooses to love. She becomes a direct line to our Source. That's why a powerful sorceress must be cautious about aligning herself with, and transferring power to, unworthy men.
Identity and stimulation. Dr. LaVey has pinpointed these two elements as primary commodities. Satanism provides us with both. I don't need to be pigeonholed as a "feminist," or any other convenient label. None of us are so charitable to the weak-minded that we allow ourselves to be so easily categorized and dismissed. I am proud to call myself a Satanist, thereby aligning myself with the strongest minds, bodies and Will on Earth.
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just hit town? Nope, it's just Marilyn Manson and frienru here to
take over (at least for a couple hours). Then off to another town to dominate. This newest rock icon isn't just playing the Devil's game without taking the Devil's name, in fact, he's the musical Anti-Christ smashing allconceptions of the behavior of typical rock and roll.
Seeing the intense show in San Francisco, one would figure his demeanor would be that of an ego-inflated weirdo. Such isn't the case. After the show, my wife and I went into a very calm, blue bus to meet with this showman, and to my delight I found avery modest, fan-appreciating gentleman.
Two months later, during a telephone interview, I was granted unprecedented access to and through the mask collectively known as Marilyn Manson. Here he is for you, dear reader. the man, the myth, the new icon.
JN: Where did the name Marilyn Manson derive from?
MM: Six years ago, when I was writing, I used a pen name. This pen name described my personality and what I grew up
:k:lmiring-Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. Both were icons for different reasons. They both reached opposite extremes. This is something I have always

TWIGGY RM11REZ DAISY BEP.KONITZ WAYtE GACf MARILYN MANOON GINGER FISH

felt in my own character-opposite extremes, dichotomy, diametrically opp archetypes. I grew up reading Nietzsche, Crowley, LaVey. In such, Satanism seemed right to me. '"Marilyn Manson" is Satanic in its mystery.
JN: Do you feel Satanism is incorporated
into your music?
MM: Not overtly-subconsciously.I have to thank LaVey for inspiration. I incorporate Satanic philosophy, more times subtly than others. It gets across the philosophy without the name "Satanism." After people get close to me, I let them know of my affiliation with the Church.
The band isn't overt with symbolism of Satanism, no upside-down crosses or Baphomets. I have been more outspoken about Satanism the last year or so, and the fans seem to understand the philosophy.

The music is very eclectic, always taken from everywhere. It's kind of a "Willy Wonka" world: the visual concepts, always creating art-such as body art, always expres.mig what's on my mind. It's very ritualistic. The concert isSatanic. Just by being in the audience, you are entering my own personal Satanic ritual. However, I'm not a salesman for the Church of Satan.
Iget adrenal energy from the crowd, and they get it from me. This energy motivates me, makes me feel completely vital on stage. After the show, I feel drained and have no more emotion, which is the exact prescription for a ritual in 7he Satanic Bible. I've found performing to be the m powerful thing I've tapped in to.
JN: What of this new movie that you and Twiggy are involved in?
MM: Yes, it's the new David Lynch

movie, called "Lost Highway." In this movie, I have a pornographic scene with Patricia Arquette. It's a menage a trois. David Lynch is kind of sket.chy. He works
completely with people'c imagination. It ends up being a "snuff'" film for me, because I end up dying in the movie, naked in a puddle of blood. David Lynch was talking about using some of our so from our new

"Satanic music is music that affects your life."

Marilyn Manson

EP in the movie. It was a great honor to be involved with the project. I've always been a big fan of his. Acting issomething I'd like to get more involved in.It stirs something inside; it gives me a new way to express myself.
JN: Are you Marilyn Manson?
MM:Yes and no. It represents different sides of my personality. Marilyn Manson is the more animalistic side of myself, as in lycanthropy. This transformation can happen anywhere, usually on stage. It could happen in bed. Then again, it might not. My fans are Marilyn Manson. They give me power. My motto is "I am you." We are the embodiment of disbelievers, the Anti-Christs, if you will.In the end, it's Marilyn Manson.
JN: How have your experiences been with
Dr.LaVey?
MM: Flattering, exciting-an interesting person to meet, inspirational-wise. I've had a lot of great conversations with him. I have listened to him play music at his house. I felt like a part of hisfamily, as if he were a father figure to me. People have often asked me "What Satanic is music? Is it just what Dr.
LaVey plays?" Yes it is, and no it isn't. H you grew up listeajng to the music of the 40's, that music would be evocative to you. In my case, it was the music of the 70's and the 80's. People my age find this music
much more powerful. Satanic music is music that affects your life. I had musical influences from Black Sabbath and other groups like Alice Cooper, David Bowie, The Stooges, and Kiss. It wasn't necessarily the music I liked, but that they stood out as icons.
Nowadays, nobody is taking a stand as an icon. And that's what I'm here to do-fill the void of iconography. Doctor is an icon for his reasons and I'm one for my own.
After all, isn't that what iconography is all about-Gods doing different things to affect people in a similar way? I need to see icons myself.

JN:.(\nything you'd like to add that you haven't had the opportunity to express in the "traditional" media?
MM: I've read discussions on Satanists needing to dispel myths about animal sacrifice, child molestation, etc. At the same time I feel there is a need to keep the myths intact. Satanism draws power from the misconceptions as well as from the conceptions. In a perfect world, Satanism wouldn't be suppressed, but then consider if it was, what would we be? I think that

Satanists all like to be the underdog. That's what makes it work. As much as I'd like to destroy Christianity, I think it needs to exist for us to feel as strong as we do-not tosay that we rely on it, but the world wouldn't be as fun if it didn't exist. This is one thing I think Satanists need to realize, that it is OK to fun. I find positive things out of negativity. Marilyn Manson is what I care for deeply and would die for.
JN: What is Anti-Christ Superstar?
MM: We are about to work on a record entitled, "Anti-Christ Superstar." After ten years in a private Christian school, I was inundated and told about things like Armageddon, the Rapture, taking the Mark of the Beast, etc. When I realized it wasn't going to happen, I felt fortunate, but at the same time I felt cheated. For me, the things that had tormented me as akid, I have become. What Iset my mind on was, if Armageddon wasn't going to happen, I was going to bring it upon the world myself. I

"I take the role of the Anti-Christ ... It will scare America, and rightfully so."
Marilyn Mamon
felt the obligation to be exactly what they had me me so afraid of. So on this record, I take the role of the Anti-Christ. This record is me asserting myself in that position. It is the tale of how things are going to happen in the future. It will scare America, and rightfully so.

Like what he has tosay or not (Ido), he's real and he's here to stay. He is affecting change in our world and his own. He's a Satanist to the bone, and lives his lifestyle of choice without stinting. He's shown you a "Portrait of the American Family," he's showing you how the world "Smells Like Children," who may very well follow this new "Anti-Christ Superstar."
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The time has come for better things."

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HERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK
about the political stance of
Satanism recently. More specifically the tired old fascism argument. Is Satanism inherently fascist? Nazi even? Certainly anyone picking up much recent Satanic literature could be forgiven for seeing Satanism as little more than offensive window-dres.1ing for white supremacist occultniks.
I don't think that's very helpful. Not because Satanism is fascist or isn't fascist. It's
because this swastika-waving, Niettsche spouting circus really rather mwes the
point. Worse than that, it's getting rather old. Allow me to elaborate. Satanism IS political. Anything, or anyone, that interacts with the society surrounding them is political. The idea that you have to buy into left, or right wing models is a smokescreen, a democratic simplification to tum the political arena into something that resembles a football field, so your average idiot feels comfortable with it. Ironically enough, the further beyond the cliches of left or right wing tradition an individual is, the more interactive, and hence political they're likely to be.
Satanism does have dogma that could be regarded as political. Dogma that create a framework around which Satanic political positions can be established (note positions, not position singular). Firstly, Satanism is about rebellion. It's important to remember that rebellion implies resistance to an established order for a reason. Mindless intransigence or contrariness for the sake of it is not Satanic, but self-destructive and infantile. The Satanic current stands as a counterbalance to witless·orthodoxiesand the more inane or stagnant tendencies within the status quo. Satanism is a catalyst, a perspective that favours inspiration over perspiration, a faith for heretics.
The second relevant Satanic dogma is the worship of variety and quality over quantity. Satanism could be regarded as being a theatrical extreme of the western cult of the individual. The Eurocentric perspective has attained pre-eminence because of attitude, which places the value of the individual asequal (or in the case of the Satanist, superior) to the value of the society en masse. LaVey's "rational self-interest"is a manifestation of this western tradition,
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which contrasts starkly with Oriental concepts of conformity and democratic ideas of the greatest good for the greatest number (Similar concepts of conformity and •cog in the machine• mentality are at the core of Judeo-Christianity).
The last element I'd like to draw in here is that of intelligence and wit. H there's one characteristic that aSatanist cannot live without, then it's an active brain. Without a little native wit then all Satanic dictums become worthless or even destructive.
Rational self-interest is myopic selfishness in the hands of a fool, the urge that draws a child to eat so much chocolate cake that he'll throw up. Lucifer is an icon for free will.
The serpent that tempted Eve offered her the apple of wisdom, and this is the fruit our enemies are most anxious should remain untouched.
These three concepts are enough to illustrate the point I'm endeavouring to get lams. Firstly the Satanic position is not automatically fascist just because Nazism is "evil•. Society's rejection of something often means it's worth looking at, but should not encourage automatic adoption of whatever the taboo may be. Satanism tests taboos: some may be legitimate, others are redundant or even ripe for destruction.
Satanism is interested in taboo or "evil•, but an interest does not imply endorsement, only an open and pragmatic llllild as to the shifting geography of morality. Anybody whosei7.CS upon objectionable imagery simply because it is objectionable-collecting a hodgepodge of iron crosses, Baphomets or whatever,-is more likely to be displaying adolescent angst than actually exploring the forbidden philooophies behind them. It is to be expected that our enemies should indulge in the common human fallacy that an interest in a"forbidden• area immediately confirms support for it. It is a little depressing when this same misapprehension is adopted within the Church of Satan's own ranks.
It has been said before, but it obviously
has to be said again, that th Satanists screaming for a white supremacist state of supermen are yet more turkeys voting for Christmas. The whitebread world they want to join has noplace for deviance or originality. Satanism is a philooophy of indulgence, of the carnal, not a hate faith for

scapegoaters. Democracy fosters the repugnant cancer of conformity, but fascism positively demands it.Most people want to be told what to do and fascism could be called a pragmatic acceptance of that. The true Satanist sighs, and accepts this as a sad fact of life, rather than jerking himself off on how "special• this makes him.
Certainly Satanists are smarter than your average drone, or at least they had damn well better be if they want tosurvive
anything other than a walking Halloween novelty. But do we really need to go on about this with such embarrassing regularity? To use a little barroom psychology, the man who makes the most lurid comments on passing women is usually a virgin, the fellow who gives the bloodiest occounts of his past brawls is probably a wimp. The same idea can be applied to th whoseem dedicated to advertising their own "genetic superiority'".
Darwinian natural selection is a law which, if it is accurate, works regardless of our actions. • Assisting natural selection• is a little like going around throwing things at the floor in order to promote the law of gravity. Certainly Darwinian concepts help explain the way that species, cultures, or even individuals interact, and they are useful and intriguing because of this.Darwinism is not a tool or active position, merely a way of understanding certain mechanics of the world.
Examination of most radical right wing groups show them to be far from master stock. Rather they are more often individuals looking for excuses for their own inadequacies Oewish conspiracies, Commies, foreigners stealing their jobs and women, whatever) and spurious claims to superiority tosubstitute for actual achievement or creativity. The Satanist should not join these weakling scapegoaters. The traditional Satanic role is to adopt the mask of the scapegoat rather than join in his persecution. Proudly take on the mar of what other men seek to deride and destroy, for deep down, it is what the herd fear the most.
I could go on, but I think you can see
what I'm talking about. H there is a true Satanic political archetype then it is Machiavelli, not Adolph Hitler. Read Machiavelli's 1bePrince and you'll find it surprisingly vague and morally neutral-it's

not a •why to•so much as a ow to• book. The point being that Satanism is about achiev4ig what you want, rather than what some political idealogue or other thinks you should want (be it workers rights, racial purity, or a chicken in every pot). The only honest politics are those motivated by your own fetish, whim, and aesthetics, thw there are as many political positions as there are thinking individuals (which may not be--all that many), and these can shift from month to month.
Standard political stances have much in common with religion (indeed astute political theorists, like Marx and Hitler, made a deliberate attempt to slide politics into the slot in people's psyches wually occupied by religion). At best orthodox politics are hypocritical mock motives for getting what you want (I really want it •for the people• or "to stimulate economic growthj, at worst political theories are artificial systems which go against the grain of human instinct, and twist people into poorly functioning creatures. Like religion, political traditions have utopias and distopias, saints and scapegoats. And like religions, political traditions are for saps.

So if you must air your political laundry in Satanic journals then make it original, exhilarating informed. Shock, stimulate or provoke. If you're going to be predictable and dull, at least be realistic and practical-coffee bar revolutionaries are more oftei:J comical than cutting edge. There isspace for the radical right wing in Satanism-indeed the tradition of heresy and the canon of the western cult of the individual are wholly incomplete without Niet he. But there are also left wing influences on Satanism (Medieval Satanism actually began as what was, arguably, a
proto-socialist protest against the bonds of
feudalism).
Satanism is losing many potentially productive and able individuals who dismiss the Church of Satan as a "right wing organisation•. Satanism does seem to be becoming too comfortable a refuge for conservatives who want an outlaw badge and weekend fuhrers still anxiow to shock grandma. There's a lot more to Satanism than that. Okay, the war against the prevailing masochism of the colonial guilt trip is productive, and Satanists should be at the forefront of the counterattack of the

rationalists against the relativists. The romance of the teutonic spirit fits in well with Satanism's interest in pragmatic romanticism. And of course the interest in political taboo is only natural. Even toying with the methodology of the fascists can yield results. But aligning yourself with Heinrich Himmler (or Nancy Reagan as some seem to) is not innately-Satanic•. It's
silly. • • • • •

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UH-HUH HUH-HUH WOOF,
WOOF. EeeeoaaAA ohAAA eeow.
000-000, 000-000. I might not be speaking this right, but then they don't speak English, either. But we do"speak the same language• in terms of how we feel, what we feel, and what we do up to the point where they do not have to use artifice to survive (or at least most of them don't have to, but some do!). But rarely do they destroy their own environments (though some did and went extinct).
Be this as it may, animals that have
sound and/or draw as their own main avenue of communication, instead of highly developed senses of smell or chemical communication (which is far more direct than any manner of speech can possibly be and whose "words• some have groped to
understand), have all managed to come up

tendency can be seen in the two versions listed first, though there arc many versions of the exact same thing.
I call them, "variations on a Wail: Woe
is Me, I Wannabe.•
God (that's going to be the1opj took Those Psop/6 off the Special Tree of Saved and now they can, get to the Special Kingdom where only the E/8ctgo. And We got put on the Special Tree Instead, in their place. But if you ant wmhy(Define this? They never do.) you can hitch a ride on the Special Tree too. All you have to do is join our club and believe in God's Son,though there is that little matter of other chores you have to do to make your life more miserable. Then as long as you lobotomize yourself, castrate yourself Inwardly, destroy all manner of Eros you may have In your heart and become as numb as the dead, you can stay on the Special Tree. You only need to obey these rules and perpetuate this on your children and on anyone else you might bump into who still has a smile on their face and joy in their lives. Wipe off their smiles, destroy their joy, and you will have made aconvert. As for Those People
who got taken off the Special Tree wanodn,refuse to

ground, or, un•trees, ru,t-trees. So when they stop trying to horn-in on what they can dearly see as 1be Alive, they resort to these other "Variations on the Wail.• One can almost audibly hear their screaming as they attempt to squirm away from the self loathing they feel toward their own broken humanity.
We are the Shining Light Race, whose ancestors came to this planet from another planet. Our superior Shining Race arrived in Atlantis, or Heliogoland, or Antarctica, or the Arctic, and we found the primitive (and darker, dark aired, dark-eyed) human beings on Earth. Our Shining Race taught them all they knew as If we were Divine Angels. But then some of our Shining Angel Race sought to mix with the daughters of these inferior humans and wie thereby polluted our race. This is how all the other races of humans came into existence.

And they believe this in the face of truths which do show, especially with recent excavations (and the pushing aside of 200
years of this type of lie preached by ignoring

with their own mytho-poetic rende of

do this-they ant DAMNED. They

go to

their own beginnings. Yet they who did this said these thin of themselves and these ideas sprang from a culture of their very own, grounded and rooted firmly in the earth, as arc a tree's roots. That these various and still-survivingcultures will not (or can not) share this with those outside their own culture is no mystery. An example most common in the West could be the Hebrew rendering of their own beginninp, which they tell you again and again can not be taken at face value-can not be read literally. And yet they will not tell others just how to read their self-written history and they really do not owe anyone this, despite the fact that others have tried to take this from them.
The Amerindians do the same thing. So do
the Polynesians. So do the Freemasons.
Now that this small obstacle of mytho poctry is out of the way, let me count the ways in which the unrootcd, the no-culture, the have-not5-thosc who despise their own humanity-try to claim for themselves something "more than just an animal,• something "better than you,• as they do not just need to "feel good• about themselves. They can not even accomplish this they first categorize other animals (people included) as somehow -im• than they arc. The biggest, most widely-spread, and strongest example of this klippothic

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our Special Kingdom, they'll go to a place where there is all this fire. Of course, later on if groups of you wish to slaughter some of them, it's okay because, after all, they are damned anyway. So nward Soldier9--go to itr
'19have this Manifest Destiny, you see, which gives Us the right to destroy other cultures, destroy other traditions, interfere with all manner of natural mechanisms and with Nature Herself, hunt animals for sport, ensl11Y8 humans of darker colors for gain, and otherwise take all we want from them. After all, We only had to destroy any semblance of humanity, destroy every ounce of Eros, become hard, cold, and so isolated from any feelings that We no
longer feel anything at an. That is how We ant
able to do this to those of the same species as us. And yes, there is that matter of their coming to understand how klippothic We are and then rising up In revolutions to slaughter us. And there is also the matter of our having gained nothing at all, in the end, for all our greed. And there is also the bothersome matter of having endangered the entire ecosystem. But We have that Manifest Destiny and isn,our dust better
than their dust?

And yes, one can visibly sec this same type, or their descendants today, trying to "get in on· those very cultures they destroyed and wondering why they are now greeted with hostility and hatred.' You see, besides having a split now between their thinking and feeling selves, they have selective amnesia and imagine,others have it
. too. They are as trees with no I'OQ .in"the

all more ancient and eye-witness accounts), just who and which cultures did create those marvelous civilizations along a wide bend of land stretching from·Southem Europe and North Africa to Asia, where palm trees grew and it was quite hot and sunny-a climate the Shining Ones would not have been able to live long in comfortably. Truth in fact is that when these dumb strangers first saw the Naga civilization of India, the Pclasgian civilization of Athens, or the Dynastic civilizations of Egypt, it was they that imagined that the creators of it were Gods or
· Demons and/or semi-divine. It was never the indigenous peoples who made these civilizations that ever had such notions about themselves. It was the dumb strangers who warred with these cultures, took them over, wrote down tales about it interpreting the mytho-poetry in a literal sense for f.ulurc to ever pp it for real, and who finally caused the extinction of these cultures which arc now just a memory.

We are the Secret Undead Rulers who came to Earth from outer space and taught the primitive human beings all they know. We enslaved the humans and made them work for us by giving them religions to believe in whera we were the real rulers that hid behind the names of their Gods. And we talk to the Undead Gods right now and we stffl rule the world with our hidden hand. And you can join us by talting to the Undead Gods yourself, but there are

conditions: you have to take this all seriously and not have fun with with silly tales by told by Bram Stoker, or Ann Rice, or Brian Lumley. You have to strive at that work-ethic to improve yourself and prove you are worthy (that word again). And keep in mind, only the benighted fools out there, the mere animals, do not believe we exist Oust as similar "deceived fools" don't believe in God's Son who has the Special Tree).
The proof of this is that advanced human civilization just •appeared• one day; we know this because it's written. (And they read it all the way they read that other book, the one about the
god's son.)

Yes, it was written by those who wandered into these civilizations and who sang the praises of them but who had no part in their creation. And what they wrote down was woefully misinterpreted and is being taken literally by Wailing Wannabes who still sing the praises today. The truth, which the most moden excavations reveal, is the fallacy of these wails and also shows just who built these civilizations. These civilizations gradually and quite naturally came into being due to pressures in the environment. The only thing that "suddenly appeared" were the dumb strangers who wandered into this and decided to try to write it all down-so they could memoriu it? Probably. Well, memorizing didn't do the Dorians any good, nor did it do the Ptolemies any good. And when the same people tried to take credit for the recent American Revolution, which they had no part in, it didn't take knowing ancient history or fathoming ancient or foreign languages to see how drastically the culture set up by the founders of the U.SA. changed in less than 250 years.

We are not like any other animal. There is something Special about our brains and it was not aliens who are the cause of this because aliens would be unfamiliar with human anatomy. Those who imagine this are decieved. It was an Entity which did this by altering and shaping our brains. And, of course, I was told this directly by this Entity. That is why we feel lonely and separated from the Nature around us. This is why we feel cast out and detached from life. We
are like heads separated from our bodies. The
peop1e who focus on their bodies are merely into "Natural Religion.• We who know better are into the "Religion of the Mind." We seek to explore this separateness we have and find out more about it.

First of all, who says that an alien couldn't pose as an Entity? Who says that an Entity has to be speaking the truth? This flies in the face of the fact that they could find out a lot more about this "separate" condition and find out exactly what is

wrong (not right) with them through modern neurology. They could even volunteer for tests which would explain this clinically and in detail. That they do not go for these hard, cold truths shows that they do not wish to find out anything about why they are this way. They are content to simply have faith that all humans are the same as they are. That flies in the face of other humans who haven't got a clue as to what these people's horrific mind/body dualism might be like, because these normal, merely-animal humans are not broken animals. This flies in the face of neurology which shows that normal humans are exactly like animals and that only some, whose brains are developmentally damaged, are not like animals because the parts of their brains are not wired into the "main computer" portion of the brain.

We are descended from aliens that came here long ago and mated with our ancestors and these aliens are here again and they communicate with the Chosen Few. We know this because we have no Rh factor in our blood. And such aliens have had contact with all the great teachers that humanity ever had.

This flies in the face of the fact that people today, like Einstein, Heisenberg, Feynman, and many others not as famous or not even in the profession, are still able to prove thin about the Hidden Reality of Nature without outside help. And some of us are easily able to handle hard-sciences while the Wailing Wannabes can be blatantly seen to be "wannabe able" who just can't quite "make it." They often get into the colleges and memoriu the formulae which they then proceed to pontificate like "Sages on their Stages." But they can't apply these formulae-a real problem today in schools.
We are the Original Man from the Original Continent and we are the Fathers and Mothers of the other humans who got everything they have from us.

This is the least far-fetched of the Wails out there. Yes: Africa is where we all evolved, but the Australopithecines and various types of Homo were not members of any of the races we see here today. And, while everyone can be truthfully said to have gotten their genes from one of these groups of original Homo genus in Africa, it does not follow that two million years later Chinese civilization was taught to the

Chinese by Africans. It is also true that many of those great civilizations that dumb strangers stumbled into were North African and made by Africans; but there are many Africans in Africa and it was not the Bantus or the Zulus who made these civilizations, or even lived near them. The faces themselves on the statues of the most marvelous and ancient Egyptian artifacts, when seen in their original excavated form and from all angles, do indeed look like some kind of Negro with a hint of Asian blood-some more, some less. I personally saw and touched the Tut exhibit. He rather resembles Muhammad Ali, the fighter-a dead ringer, in fact.
Now all of this "I'm an alien" religion flies smack in the face of the human genome reality and the very last one about the "Original Man" has been proven to be true by the human genome! Lastly, our genes and the genes of chimpanzees are 99% identical.
Well now, there's us! Andaw shucks,
we aren't aliens and don't want to be. We don't quite know what to make of all that wailing about Heaven and Hell we hear, nor do we know exactly what a god issupposed to be. And we are alive, not dead or undead. We feel a dark force in nature flowing through us and know other animals and plants have this too. And we have come to learn that the Wailers have, sometimes, referred to this force as evil, adevil-Satan. We know they don't like us very much, yet we never did anything to deserve their hate. We never wanted to rule them and never tried to. We never enslaved other humans or harmed them and the only time we ever harmed an animal was to eat it; but animals themselves eat other animals so this is quite normal and natural-it's called the Food Chain. Some of us have said, in reaction to these klippoths, "God? I am my own God since that dark force flowing through me is my deification."
But we hardly mean this the way 1bey think we do. What do they think we mean? That we are genies that can blink reality into existence with a mere thought? Well now, there is no such thing! We know that Reality is like a brick on the head! You either physically and carnally deal with it, or "ha!" it surely will deal with you! We know that the law of the World is eat and be eaten (eventually). We know that the "world" is a hostile place and it is made even more hostile by these klippoths who keep com-

plaining about how hostile it all is.So it rains and you get wet and cold. Hell-put on a damned rain-coat. And we learned to keep warm by artificial means-we used fire, devel oped steam, etc. We didn't have enough time, in tenns of evolution, to finish developing that nice warm subcutaneous body fat (of which we still have some), which not only retains heat in cold climes but insulates against heat in hot climes. We stillcan ac climatize to a certain degree. And just what kind of animal, mere animal, am I anyway?
Well, I'm sort of like a primate, but I've got no body hair to speak of and I have subcutaneous body fat rather like a seal-but not as much. I can float, too; even my knees are buoyant. I never knew a time I could not swim under water and come up for air like a sea mammal. And I am a mammal, which includes primates. I'm a carnivore too, but not hardly near the top of the predator line as is a lion or tiger, or even a dog! I can shed tears like no other primate can, but there are other mammals who can do this: aquatic mammals. I can also hold my breath like they can and I'm born with the same diving reflex that they have. I feel I am a gentle kind of animal. Perhaps my ancestors were
friendly and kind to the canine top predators
and that's why do like us today and make good friends. We tend to make friends with cats too, though I feel that they more or less tolerate us and remain aloof. Lots of other animals are befriended by us and they befriend us in tum; but this is not unusual if you see a dog befriend aduck, as I've seen. I am a playful sort of being. I can be ve
and can be angered into violence, but this feels awful and upsets my otherwise inwardly peaceful nature.
Klippoths tend to always be angry; their anger is really directed at themselves and it feels good to them to lash out at any scapegoat they might find to relieve their own inner torment. I tend tostay away from such other humans. I can even almost understand what they mean now, when they talk about Hell. They mean their own lives. They don't mean my life. My life must be what they mean when they talk about Heaven. I have joy in some of the most simple thin : a song I hear or write, a
delicious food, a cup of coffee, a good movie, a roller-coaster ride, dancing, playing cards, the beach. Simple and merely human enjoyments.
Why would someone call me aDevilfor

these thinp Is it because of the way I look? Maybe. But I think perhaps it is more- so be cause I am a total animal, a perfect animal as best as evolution has allowed me to evolve, though I had no say in who my ancestors
were and what choices they nwe. I am mere
ly an animal, like any other animal. I would
not want to be something else and can't even fathom this because I am me./am what Iam. Not so much who, but what.
I'm glad I'm me and not an alien, or outcast in nature, or elected for some kingdom, or undead. Undead? Does this mean "alive"? Well, no. They don't mean that. I see klippoths as being undead, or
dead-alive in some way. They surely feel that way themselves and I can hear this no matter what key they sing their Wail of Woe in.
They whittle away their wondrous lives with pipe-dreams, imagining they are "other than" animals or "more than" animals. They shun the undefiled truth even when it is right in front of their faces and even in modem laboratories today. The Truth does not set these people free-it condemns them to see: they are their own curse.
There is a definite type of progression that damaged humans tend to take: step-by step they get duped by the same klippoths who write the same versions of the same anti-animal-nature tune. It is asif it is a strenuous effort for them to keep their feet rooted in the ground of reality and not take note of this lunatic babbling. They seem to be walking on level ground and then they trip or slide down, their heads spin around and something takes over that obviously feels good to them. Then they take "the vacation from themselves"-they find an escape from the reality of themselves. That would mean that being who they are is
painful; the religion is the drug. People lured by these untruths are damaged, more or less. The ones who think it up and believe it are completely klippothic and, while they are not recognizable to damaged humans, they are blatantly recognizable to normal, whole, undamaged animal-humans.
For example, one can see the word "electricity,• in the 19th century pseud occult schools of non-thought. They thought it meant a kindof ethereal spirit in the air. Yet "air" to them was empty space; they didn't even realiu it was an atmosphere filled with matter-material, not empty.
Now one can see the term "bioelectrical" being slowly shifted into something other

than what it is. Bioelectrical refers to electricity in us, as compared to a machine. It is electricity working in conjunction with a certain and specific type of chemistry.
Together they make "aliveness.• Slowly, this tips into '"lif force,• then "Lifeforce,• and finally "soul.• Now they are no longer talking about bioelectricity. They are being religious asif they are not sentient be
able to grasp the nature of this force. Then they parrot the word and imagine that they are, above all,sentient.
Slowly, in terms of a few hundred years, various forms of human societies took shape. Nomadic ones lived in harmony with the earth, created things of their own, but never sang their praises or wrote them down; they lived with very limited farming and relied on animal husbandry and following the herds around. They lived in movable structures that they'd build and take down as they moved. Trader, merchant, guild-craft societies (living on limited fishing and farming, and trading for the rest of what they needed), found this a way to live in warmer climates. They wrote things down in heavily myth poetic and coded forms in order to keep their crafts secret. (!'his still goes on and recently a person who already knows chemistry partially broke this kind of code used by Isaac Newton and others. Yet no one knew chemistry when Newton's peers were doing it; no one could break the code which read like religionQ
Lastly, there were the vast agricultural parasites that not only ruined their land, but parasiti7.ed other people with top-heavy forms of government. They are the people who had all of those God-Kings (humans worshipped as gods), who also had human sacrifice and chattel slavery. In order to even do this kindof thing they had to breed out every ounce of compassion, love, Eros and empathy from their ranks. They also had to breed for types that would obey mindlessly. These societies also enslaved their own females and treated them as they treated animals. And they sang their own praises, conquered others, and ruined other civilizations in their wake. This is how human martial societies and warfare came into being.
Yet these things did not happen in one man's lifetime. Somehow, this tips into the lie that "it happened all of a sudden." No, it was simply that no one else left written

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ASCENT to the top of nature's order, but almost nothing is
mentioned about how man's true animal nature and attendant behavior have placed him there.
Just as the natural human sex drive was, until fairly recent times, suppressed by the omnipresent purveyors of Judeo Christianity, man's agressive instincts are even now vehemently denounced and held in bondage by the self-appointed thought police of our culture.
Agressive impulses and actions can serve as dark agents of positive change, and they remain dark only because man has forbidden himself from shining light on all the elements of his emotional repertoire and increasing his self-understanding. It is to man's detriment that he refuses to examine and exploit his own intense passions and forceful drives. Hatred is a primary example of this phenomenon and is the most reviled of man's inherent feelin .
Hatred is an integral part of human advancement when used in a controlled manner. Hatred of weakness in ourselves commands us to continually make ourselves stronger. Hatred of despicable characters, backed by a firm resolve not to tolerate them, is what halts rampant proliferation and keeps them from over-running their betters. Hatred of abominable circwnstances is what keeps us from sliding headlong into them.
A person who suppresses his hatred to any great degree is a less discerning judge of the nature of thin and their relative merit than one who harbors a reserve of hatred to utiliz:e at will. When one encounters an affront to one'ssensibilities or a person who acts in a manner contrary to one's health and happiness, hatred is naturally summoned forth, and may be used in helping to get rid of the malignant force.
Hatred is a key element in a person's subjective reasoning faculty, as is love, and its presence indicates that a new strategy, whether active opposition or simple avoidance, is needed in dealing with whatever has stirred it.
Ideally, hatred lies dormant until needed. One who vents his hatred outside of the proper context is certainly acting inappropriately and against his own

interests; nevertheless, he is at least acknowledging a feeling p by all animals. Those who deny their hatred are denying and intentionally destroying their capacity for judging the relative worth of an object, person, idea, or action. If such a person does not hate someone who senselessly attacks him, is that attacker equal to those who assist him after the attack? Is a snakebite equal to a kiss on the cheek? Is a rare, well-crafted gem equal to a shoddy piece of mass market merchandise?
Both love and hate are meaningless when not balanced by each other. It seems absurd to state such an obvious truth, but without hatred there can be no love, for there is no extreme without an opposite by which to judge it in relation. To love something fiercely is to concurrently hate its opposite just as fiercely. To love an aesthetically pleasing architectural marvel and how it positively transforms its environment necessarily indicates a hatred for dismal looking eyesores and how they degrade an environment. To love and embrace a philosophy that empowers and enhances your life is to hate the philosophy that would constrain, weaken or clash with your soul-oriented values.
Discrimination, guided at its extreme ends by love and hate, is what ultimately facilitates the pursuit of a course that provides the greatest degree of health and happiness. Contemporary morality has inverted this course by decreeing that tolerance be championed at all costs, and that discrimination be buried as an enemy of equality, democracy and the "we are all Gcxi's children" religious mythos. Ironically, hatred can erupt spontaneously when tolerance and nolHliscrimination are forced on a population or an individual.
The more highly developed the senses,
the greater the ability to make distinct;ions as to the worth of something, and thus, to discriJ:ninate between that which might be beneficial and that which might be detrimental. The greater the degree of discrimination an individual possesses and exercises, the better he will be able to tailor his world to suit his own needs and tastes.
It can be argued that humans, in relating to an environment with countless
factors that work to undermine their well being, feel hatred more frequently than they

feel love. Love can be a rare and vague emotion in a world where each man is a potential enemy to be competed against; where material wealth must be wrested away from those wishing to retain it; where cunning, guile, and occasionally force must be used in the unending struggle for survival and supremacy. Life is a battle on all fronts at all times; a battle to maintain physical health when work and time debilitate the body, and to maintain mental health in the face of attempted manipulation by the parade of people with which one comes into contact; a battle to resist and rise above conditioning in the face of an endless onslaught of church, state, and commercial interests who sponsor indoctrination through potentially brain warping media machinations.
A wise man once said that "Paranoia is just another form of awareness." In an increasingly resource hungry and overpopulated world, we are all under siege. At any given time there are a host of forces that are "out to get you." This builds a sense of deep-seated belligerence towards the visible and invisible forces that must be contended with, and when endurable limits have been strained past the breaking point, a cataclysm of hatred inevitably erupts, fueling the fire of revolutionary action necessary to produce change. Nothing less than hatred will serve to facilitate this change. Hatred has played an important role in every beneficial social revolution and every war of liberation ever fought.
To hate a foe who seeks to undermine one's life is instinctual behavior that assists in the continuance of life. The more you love and treasure your life, the stronger your hatred towards anything endangering it will be.
Contrary to popular belief, instinct is not merely an internal mechanism governing responses such as hunger, sex, or the fight-or-flight response. Instinctive behavior is any action impelled from within. This covers a gamut of impulses, including hate. Any instinctual impulse that is not identified and exercised in a functional manner will certainly become a source of unease in the person harboring it. All instinct arises from reason. Innate motivation and response constitutes the survival apparatus developed through

evolution to act appropriately in any given . situation.
The most well developed of our innate behaviors is predation, and this is another example of a natural instinct long suppre.ssed by pious cultural overlords. No action so vividly illustrates the will to power that animates all as the hunting down, capturing and devouring of one animal by another. The capturing of prey as a means of survival is the activity which sustains all life. The food chain that the human animal sits atop is maintained entirely by predation.
The modern consumer who buys his meat from a supermarket is still a part of this process. So many steps have been added to divorce him from the direct experience of this predation that he feels utterly alienated from the interconnected web of life. No one is exempt from the hard reality of predation.
Predation does not begin and end with the quest for food. Predation can take on an
almost infinite variety of forms, ranging from the petty to the colossal. Fram vagrants begging change on the street to the manipulation of the economy on a grand scale by the financial elite, predation is indulged at all levels of society. Even the weakest can prey upon a stronger individual simply by clinging to him for the strength he can provide. Every type of character in the spectrum of humanity preys upon the others to provide what it cannot provide itself, or what can be gotten more easily through predation. The desire for food, sex, money, and a myriad of psychological needs compels the human animal to prey upon as many others as is needed to achieve the desired end.
Man has extended the parameters of his
existence beyond the simple nutritional, sexual, and territorial drives of his fellow animals primarily through predation, and as man's world has expanded, the range of predatory opportunities has correspondingly grown and expanded.
Predation is the cornerstone of the
American religion of salesmanship. Oeverly conceived advertisements that are beamed directly into the homes of the public, prey on the hopes, fears, insecurities, and egos of the docile television viewers with perfectly performed attempts to extract money from the hapless consumer with the least possible effort. The product is being sold not on its merits or quality, but on its ability to dazzle the prospective buyer with the promise of realized dreams, the substance of which are precisely determined by market researchers.
Televangelists take this process to its

logical conclusion by offering not a tangible product, but the realization of a lie-dream called '"salvation" to their cash-coughing constituents. Clever predators, indeed. No cold calling, nodoor-to-door selling, no product demonstrations-just an hour of arm-flailing exhortations each week and the ever expanding mass of low arder humans, mentally incapable of grabbing life by the reins, put Christ and the preacher in the driver's seat by dialing in their dollars.
This is, of course, the pinnacle of predation. But whatever the level of sophistication, every act of predation is fueled by the same animal impulse to strengthen and increase one's being by exploiting avictim. The greater the ability to plunder, the greater the success one will have as a human animal. The greater the cleverness and mental acuity one has developed, the less one will have to rely on mere physical strength as base-level humans do in their attempts at predatory manipulations. Not to develop your predatory instincts, no matter what your station in life, is to risk becoming prey-a decidedly unwelcome power relationship.
For the CEO and the ghettodweller alike,
the world is a hunting ground, and only those with the keenest wits and most ravenous natures will survive and prosper.
All animals, plants, microbes, and organic matter of any kind feed on each other, just as a conquering army does its conquered people and their riches. Through this endless process, the feeding organism strengthens itself and moves up the evolutionary ladder.
Evolution is driven by spurring attackers to develop ever more elaborate strategies to neutralize defenses or turn them to their advantage. This is how a living being becomes stronger and more clever. This is how humans have evolved from single-celled organisms into the complex creatures we are now. From the most minute molecules in the atmosphere to planets colliding and combining their mass, the free play of force is the constant factor in the universe, causing the transformation of one form of matter into another.
Whether it's a war to acquire new land, or the violent internal hemmorhage of a land fighting to recapture its soul, war is an organic response by human be struggling to assert their will and impose new order on the environment with which they interact. From our earliest beginnin as single celled organisms we have fought our way to where we now stand by competing with other

organisms for food and territory-first on individual and tribal levels, and now on national levels as opposing armies do battle.
As primates, human DNA is nearly identical to that of the great apes; and one can see reflections of our basic warlike nature in the others of our order.
Primatologist Jane Goodall noted an instance in which a group of chimpanzees she'd been observing, systematically hunted down and killed individuals from a neighboring group, eventually wiping out the entire community. This war of total eradication was waged to extend the territory of the dominant group of chimpanzees so that they would have greater amounts of land to live off and breed, free from the adversaries who once held it.
All of our history corresponds exactly to this scenario. As primates, purposeful vengeance is at the core of our being. All human and animal groups cooperate with those most closely tied to themselves genetically in order to form the strongest, most capable fighting unit possible before mounting an attack to advance the territorial imperative.
Any wildlife environment is a world of
vast variation in quickness, cleverness, strength, and ferocity. The wildebeest, being weak and slow, roams the savannah acutely aware that it could, at any particular moment, be attacked and consumed to extend the life of any predator roaming the same territory with the strength and cunning to catch him and bring him down. Those lacking this awareness will f.ill quickly. So too it is with the human animal. A tribe or group may develop in some remote area of the world and reach a level at which it is content to remain, believing that it has reached the pinnacle of human achievement only to f.ill prey to those who were not so content. When a civilization rests on its laurels it atrophies while others continue to develop, building new armaments, exploring new territories and seeking richer lands. When these two civiliutions meet, the backwards and contented one will become prey to the stronger, predatory civilization as surely as the wildebeest is devoured by the lion.
The Aztecs were shocked to learn that the Spaniards even existed, let alone that they had sufficient military strength to completely subdue their empire. The Spaniards had developed in a different environment, and because of it they had the strength and determination to take away what the Aztecs had built. Throughout

South America, the Spaoiarm were amami at the material resources they had acquired by force. There was only one way to efficiently extract and proccs.1 these resources-slave labor. The indigenous population was harnessed to satisfy the nee& of the expanding Spanish empire. This same story has been enacted throughout man's history whenever an empire or tnbe, pushing beyond its original boundaries, encounters agroup that is capable of subjugating or enslaving. At times, a people will not desire toextend beyond its territories but will still take whatever riches its neighbors possess. This is what the Germanic barbarians did when they sacked and overran Rome-a social system far more complex than their own, but one which had decayed to the point where it was ripe for plunder. These tribes incorporated elements of Roman culture into their own, just as the Roman had incorporated aspects of Greek culture. It is one of the positive aspects of martial conflict that the culture of the victorious nation is expanded by the selective adoption of those elements of the vanquished which the victors deem worthy of assimilation into its own culture.
Cultures and tribes become familiar with one another more so through war and slavery than by any other process. It has taken oceans of blood and rivers of the sweat of slaves to produce the small advances in human history that are taken for granted.
White Europeans enslaved each other regularly as they made war on each other which was constantly. There was a time when the Danes enslaved the English, as ludicrous as that sounm today. The tribes of Europe, among them the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Picts, Goths, Franks, Huns, V
C.elts, and Vanda1s invaded and enslaved
each other, each time settling in areas they had conquered. Tribes with a close racial identification merged into larger tribes.
Nations were formed and made war on each other. These wars subsided and larger governmental systems came into being.
Trading relationships developed, followed by wars over that trade. Greater expanses of territory were conquered, and the people were enslaved and assimilated. It continues this way until it is no longer logical for the various nations to make war on one another. The nations of Europe, sharing a common heritage, are growing ever more intertwined. This evolution, however, did not occur through peaceful contemplation of ethnic similarities throughout Europe, but through the violent ebb and flow of the victor and

the vanquished.
Sometimes war between ethnic groups is averted when different groups are united under a larger banner or system. But if the ancient hatrem run deep enough, they will assert themselves assoon as the system begins to falter, as is now clearly the case in eastern Europe. Regions convulse in ethnic warfare soon as serious political instability develops.
The mind reels when it considers the amount of conflict that lies in store for an underdeveloped continent such as Africa, which has been divided into nation states that do not reflect the traditional tribal divisions and has not had the opportunity to evolve in a natural way. Africa is a continent that has not entirdy felt itself out through warfare and trade between its hundrem of rival tribes. These animosities have existed from time immemorial and have manifested themselves through continuous cycles of tribal warfare, each tribe selling its neighbors into slavery, first to the Arabs, and then to the Europeans. It was African tribal chiefs and kings who initially proposed selling their African "brothers" to European commercial interests. These chiefs and kings themselves had African slaves. The tribes of Africa are divided in much the same way that the tribes of Europe were divided thousands of years ago, and massive carnage will take place before any higher stage of societal evolution is reached by African people.
Just as antibodies killoff disease producing bacteria, so warfare and bloodshed can cleanse the body of humanity, pushing it to a higher stage of evolution. Warfare can decrease population pressures on the environment, thus allowing the human population to function in accordance with nature.
In the natural world, with all conquest comes subjugation. Organisms are brought under dominion for the purpose of laboring in the service of those who have conquered them. Phot thesis, the most important metabolic innovation in the history of this planet, is the result of plant structures taking independent microbes and enslaving them within the plant for the purpose of trapping energy from the sun. All green plants exist as a result of this enslavement.
In the animal kingdom, the leader of a group controls the actions of the lower group members and enjoys the spoils of the hunt, or food gathered separately from the others in the group. For example, after a food gathering the leader of agroup of

chimpanzees will drag his portion of the feast away from the crowd. When an Arctic wolf pack downs a kill, the alpha (lead) pair are given the first choice of meat from the carcass even though the whole pack took part in the kill.
The hierarchy of any group of animals is what holm it together as a cohesive whole. Without leaders, groups of animals would lose all sense of social cohesion and become easy prey for any tightly organized group of predators. But they do have leaders, and never do these leaders give in to the whims of the les.Kapable of their kind.
The alpha female in a wolf pack emits a pheromone that stops ovulation in the other females. The weaker and slower wolves are kept from breeding through physical force, and social pres.sure. Exclusive breeding rights go to the alpha pair-the strongest, fastest, and most cunning of the pack. This allows the wolves to naturally breed to the highest possible state of evolution.
Worker bees slave continuously under the supervision of the queen bee, who is treated with deference; she is the only one allowed to feed on the finest hooey which the bees produce. The queen does not toil and lives many times longer. The worker bees ensure the queen's longevity. The queen is responsible for orchestrating the labor necessary for the hive's survival, and her underlings instinctively recogni7.e this. Here is one of the glories of the animal kingdom-the intuitive understanding of
hierarchy and each member's place within it.
In the same way, slave laborers toiled under the god-kings of Egypt and built the pre-eminent structures of the ancient world-the pyramim. Conceived in the minds of the god-kinp, they were constructed by the subjugated - As
ideally occurs in any social organization, the levels of production were stratified for the benefit of the natural elite.
Slavery is defined as"one bound in servitude to aperson or household as an instrument of labor,• and though the labor varies, almost all humans are slaves to a greater or lesser degree. And insofar as we are bound to the natural laws that govern life, we are all slaves. All slavery has not been of the illogical and inorganic kind as that which brought Africans to the slave blocks of Europe and North America.
Indentured servitude, a "softer" form of slavery, was an excellent avenue for commoners to get a foot in the door of the New World and to advance themselves.
Slavery can help a group ascend the

evolutionary lacWer, if only by making it stronger and more disciplined. Ethnic groups held in bondage by invaders, if pOS!CSSed by a strong enough instinct for self-preservation, have thereafter strengthened their defenses against pos.sible subjugators, just as a plant will evolve toxins to discourage those who would feed upon it.
Slavery has never ended, even if its more overt forms have been disguised. The modern time-clock punching industrial employee is rightfully referred to as a "wage slave.,. He labors in an economy created outside of himself toserve the interests of indifferent controllers. The level of skills he possesses determines his value to the company, and the lower his skill level, the more he must exert and endanger himself for his mere survival, and the greater the number of people who directly control his actions. He is merely a replaceable cog of a machine in which he has not a whit of influence in the operation. The masses of eastern Europe and the old Soviet Union were enslaved by the communist system for much of the twentieth century. In the same way, the masses of the western world, and increasingly the rest of the world, toil in the service of the multinational corporate capitalist economy.
As the human population grows, the market devaluation of those lowest on the economic totem pole accelerates. This is especially so in an age where automation is fast becoming capable of fulfilling most human labor requirements.
This is hardly a new circumstance. Machine inventors have always striven to become more adept at creating machines that replicate and replace human movements in the completion of labor, and when they
have been successful a surplus labor pool was
created. This invariably results in tremendous social upheaval. With the invention of the cotton gin, coun farm laborers were rendered obsolete and forced to contemplate their expendability in the grand scheme of things. The unskilled rural farm dwellers then flooded the cities, and this proceM was accelerated during World War Two and the post-war production boom, when urban areas were homes to heavy industry of all types.
Now the factories and foundries are dosed and the lowest level proletariat is
once more. The robotics revolution is making increasing demands on human
:daptability, and the rise of artificial intelligence will increase these demands exponentially.
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As industrial robots demonstrate their utter superiority at the taus that workers now occupy (the performance of which has, to date, been their greatest social merit), one can see the pool of surplus labor building up quickly. Only this time, to further complicate matters at the time in human history of their greatest displacement at the hands of technology, the population of the unskilled is also increasing at its fastest rate ever. The current social apparatus can in no way contain the problems that willensue from this development.
The productive members of modem society, in combination with the money and resources extracted-from them and allocated by government agencies, are all that sustains the par:wtic body of non-contributing members of society. This artificial life support system retards the process of attrition that would naturally befall the indolent and inept.
The absurdity of a system that rewards those least necessary to the proper functioning of society should be obvious to any individual with a cognizmt mind. But the mind of man has long been indoctrinated by the decree that man is his brother's keeper, and that all men are brothers in Christ. This unsound notion has been woven through all of our public institutions, and even those individuals who perceive it as irrational are forced by law to finance it.
This oppressive situation has wrought a nightmarish surge in the reproduction rate of humanity's least desireable elements: those who are incapable or unwilling to add to the quality of life on Earth. As these subtractive elements breed out of control, we can expect apocalyptic levels of crime, violence, and societal decay and ruin.
The intelligent and advanced have been bound to the very segment of the population who, left to their own devices, would sink without a trace. As it is, they threaten to pull all that is worthwhile down with them. Sheer massive numbers are quite capable of overrunning anything they wish-as the old maxim goes, "Quantity has a quality all its own.•
The suicidal course of the modem world will only be reversed when we allow those who survive by feeding off of the productive, to meet their own ends without the assistance of their current hosts. This will ultimately lead to the creation of a sustainable society.
When man allows himself to break from the delusionary insistence that all men

are created equal, a natural hierarchy will form and he will no longer be tethered to the mass culture in which the lowest common denominator is sought. The human world, just like the rest of the natural world, is composed of unequal parts: individuals with widely differing strengths, weaknesses, and awarenesses. There are those who are capable only of ingesting what is created outside themselves. There are those who lack all imagination and higher intelligence, and those who set new
standards and create ideals for others to follow. The mass of humanity has always been pulled unknowingly along by the most brilliant in the human intelligence pool.
Throughout the forceful struggle of man's evolution, from his first use of ashin bone as a club to the exploration and colonization of space, it has been the inventive capacity and culture bearing capabilities of superior individuals that have pulled man from stagnation to the next level of development. And throughout man's history, the role of the rank-and-file has been to follow the leaders.
Today, the leading influence is the media, and the degree to which one is conditioned by its persuasions determines the level of enslavement to the ideas, opinions and images of others. Those most susceptible to outside influences and least capable of independent thought and action are those most shaped by media and societal conditioning. Those of the lowest cognitive and creative ability will always swim in the wake of those who have the will and creative ability to assemble their perceptions and ideas into an inspired vision.
A natural hierarchy has always existed in the human world, but in his instinctive ability to discern and evaluate the differences in his peers, man has been greatly impaired by the hazy mysticism and illogical doctrines ofJudeo-Christianity. Following the biblical exhortation to "love your enemy'° requires abandonment, not just of aitical reasoning. but of the survival instinct itself.
Judeo-Christianity has attempted to psychologically castrate man and deny him all the primal powers that have ensured his vigorous existence by insisting that instinctual impulses are wrong and that the emotional energy associated with innate biological drives must be suppressed. The internali7.ation of this message has consigned man to a neurotic condition, unsure of and at odds with his basic self.
In his "unregenerate'° state, aware of his
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total nature and capable of using all the elements that make him whole, man is physical energy, free to pursue the course his vitality dictates. He who would ride the lightning of his own inner storm need only free his mind from archaic taboo and learn to utiliu all of his natural and agressive instincts and actions.
Regardless of the level of an individual's intelligence and self-control, it is true of all humans that the raw animal drive wills us forward to conquer new realms.
Both the physical establishment of territory and the loftiest quests for scientific discovery are driven by our primordial will to power. By recognizing and revelling in our animal nature, we are harnessing the forces of our own higher evolution.
All who embrace this reality would do well to absorb the predatory credo so powerfully expressed in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer: "By what he calls the better part of his nature, man has been betrayed, that is all. At the extreme limits of his spiritual being man finds himself naked as a savage. When he finds God, as it were, he has been picked clean; he is a skeleton. One must burrow into life to put on flesh. The word must become flesh, the soul thirsts. On whatever crumb my eye fastens, I will pounce and devour.If to live is the para mount thing then I will live, even if I must become a cannibal...Physically I am alive.
Morally I am free. The world which I have
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Shane M. Lassen
Long shall you live in the hearts of those you inspire.
The Dark Muse flowed through you, Friar of Medmenham, and within you the Black Flame rose to a veritable Inferno.

We mourn the loss of a friend and brother without you our worlds are lessened indeed.

You lived life to the fullest- flamed and tossed the fires about you,
igniting in those fortunate enough to be near
a part of your passion for the pleasures of this world.

As your body is bourne out upon the Ebon river into Darkness Eternal, you will continue to touch us
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AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS THORN OF THE ELECI'RIC HELLFIRE CLUB

ROM MICK JAGGER AND
JIMMY PAGE toBlack Sabbath
and Mercyful Fate, Satan has always had a niche in the annals of Rock'n'Roll. Peel back the aesthetic trappings which surround most ostensibly "'Satanic• bands, however, and chances are you'll be utterly disappointed. For beneath the veneer of demonically-inspired visuals, schlocky gorefest lyrics, and stale B-movie posturing, their would-be Satanic allegiances turn out to be just as empty as their heads. Lucky for you, those in search of real, Satanic Rock need look no further-the Flcctric Hellfire Club delivers on all counts.
Formed in 1991 by Thomas Thorn, a
former member of perky disco fetishists My life With The ThrillKill Kult, the EHC's first four offerin of netherworldly noise contain some of the finest Satanic bluster this side of Ndson Riddle's Wttchcraft.
Invoking the same deft infusion of sample dense techno that characterized early Thrill Kill discs-albeit with an edge more reminiscent of Thom's Heavy Metal counterparts-the group's thoroughly infectious music is a nigh perfect mix of unbridled electronic fury and taut danceability, misanthropic hatecore and cleverly sardonic humor. Toss in the Chili's psychedelic sensibility, which owes more to the Process Church than 'fim Leary or Barbara Ram-Das, and you get some idea of the Hellfire experience.
But while fans will continue tosee in the EHC simply a continuation of Thom's explorations as a Thrill Killer, in many ways the band harks-backto another, lesser known entity, aptly christened Slave State. Utilizing an arsenal of totalitarian imagery and stark, heavy-handed electronics, the handful of bootlegged cassettes produced under that grim banner might more reoo.ily be described as Throbbing Gristle meets Skrewdriver. And, much to the consternation of bedwetting critics who'd consign the Hellfire Chili's violent exhortations to mere ton in-cheek shenanigans, nowhere is the EHC/Slave State connection more evident than on Kiss The Goat, the groups latest LP on Goth giant

Cleopatra. In fact, even "card-carrying" Satanists might find Thom's gleeful enthusiasm for Satanic terrorism, church burning, and serial murder a tad hard to swallow. No matter. Because, whether or not you agree with everything the EHC has
to say (and it stands to reason that many of you won't), it must be stated unequivocally: while trite nitpickers will ramble on endlessly about what does or doesn't constitute "real• Satanism, how to dispense with unpalatable Christian stigmas (as if we
should care what Tbey think), and what color underwear Dr. LaVey wears, Thom and Co. are out in the real world, putting their convictions to work. How many of you can say the same?
Condensed from a somewhat broader conversation, the interview that follows was conducted by phone from the Hellfire dub'ssecret Wisconsin headquarters, a rambling two-story affair which houses the band's impressive collection of Pee Wee Herman action figures. Sadly, keyboardist Shane Lassen (aka the Rev. Dr. Luv) had been killed in a violent car accident only days before. In remarkably good spirits considering the circumstances, the ever personable Mr. Thom whipped up a heapin' helpin' of venomous invective. Enjoy!

What do you find so compelling about someone like Ricky Kasso or Sean Sellers? Most Satanists would probably write
them off as psychotic mental midgets.
We glorify them in the same way that the Nazis did Horst Wessel. If the propaganda's to believed, he was little more than a two-bit pimp whose death made good fodder for so and who served as an ideal martyr for the cause. One of the problems I have with Satanism as a purely philosophical path is this: we're fighting a war against Christianity, and if you take everything they fear out of it-theDevil worshipping imagery and such-then it's no longer something they're afraid of, it's no longer a threat. So why glorify someone like Kasso? Because if you take all the Christian scare books, the Is Your O,i/d a Devil WOT9:Jipperibooks, you'll find these people constantly held up as examples of the worst things that could possibly happen. That's what fucking scares 'em-that Sean Sellers is taking drugs and doing rituals from the

Necronomicon, thinks he's possessed by the Devil, and blows his parents away with a
.44. Likewise Ricky Kasso, which is basically the same story. The thing is, they view these people as the ultimate symbol of what Satanism can do, so I put them up on a pedestal as a threat. The fucked-up stoner kids who haven't really formed a philosophy around their spiritual rebellion, they're the front-line warriors at this point. In Norway, the whole Inner Circle of the Black Metal Mafia are in jail, but the church burnings continue. Ask them who's doing it-it's the thirteen and fourteen year-old Black Metal fans from out in the middle of nowhere. They've picked up the torch.
Another area in which we differ greatly with the by-laws of the Church of Satan is that we don't condemn the use of min& altering D are very much a part of our creative and ritual process, and I think that the combination of black magic and hallucinogenic drugs, particularly at avery early age, is a very volatile one. So we're definitely not against it. There are lots of people out there whose station in life is such that the most they'll ever aspire to is landing in prison. Better they end up there for making statements against Christianity than for killing their girlfriend over some stupid argument.
Even so, isn't intelligence a fundamental
part of Satanism?
In most instances, yes. One of the thin I've said about the EHC is that we're definitely elitists and there's no question that we consider ourselves superior to the masses. We borrowed the name of the Hellfire Oub from a group of aristocratic gentlemen who believed it was basically their birthright to do whatever they wanted. There's some truth to that with us. If you look at Satanism
a philosophy, intelligence and the ability to reason are some of the most important characteristics a human being could have. At the same time, if you look at Satanism as a spiritual belief, a cultural phenomenon, or for that matter, a political movement, it's impossible to tell people they're not smart enough to be involved. I'll probably catch a lot of flak for this, but the vast majority of people that come up to us and flash Church of Satan membership cards are some of the biggest dolts. That's not to say that that's

what the Church is made up of, just that any screening process you establish will ultimately be ineffective. The fact of the matter is that if you're presented with a bunch of idiot.rtake their money and put them to work.

On "Satan's little Helpen," you dedicated Night of the Bucknives to James Mason. It could be argued that Mason's fascist philosophy is anti-individual, and thusly anti-Satanic.
Actually, Ionly thanked Mason for the title. I think he's an interesting individual and Siege is a very worthwhile book which contains a wealth of valuable ideas.
Specifically, I was enamored of that particular section and the fact that Mason recognizes Charles Manson as a revolutionary figure. That's avery real and very important idea, particularly as far as our band is concerned. As for Mason's fascism, it probably is anti-individual, and that's why no one in the EHC is especially interested in joining any sort of political movement. Political movements in general are anti-individual. The whole thing comes down to this: the more rules you set up, the easier it is to break them, and the harder it is to live up to the standards that you've set.
We're all very human and very fallible in our own way. Those kind of alignments aren't really compaoble with where we're at now, or where we're going.

But there is a certain convergence of fascist and Satanic currents.
Oh sure, no question. When people talk toLaVey about the optimum government, he talks about a benign police state. We a1so recognize that 99% of the people in this world are sheep and cattle, who want to be told what to do. It gets back to the whole question, "isn't some sort of intelligence implicit in any Satanic philosophy?" If what you're talking about is a new Satanic World Order, then you'll have to acknowledge that half the people who'll have to accept it won't even understand it. That's what it comes down to. There are these endless arguments that take place in 1be Bl4Ck Flame and on the
internet about how Satanism and fascism are totally incompatible because Satanism is the ultimate form of individualism and libertinage. I think that's a bunch of crap. If you live in the real world, you have to acknowledge that there needs to be certain kinds of control. It's a matter of putting the right people in power.

There's also the question of aesthetics. Slave St2te in particular was always rife with fascist imagery.
Yeab, sure. I mean I was looking back at some of the older stuff, and despite all the political effrontery, Slave State was avery Satanic band. We utilized the symbolism and even incorporated magic and ritual. We did a Halloween show one year where we recited Crowley'sRigptso/Man, and when we got to the part where it says "Man has the right to kill those who interfere with these Rites,• we played our version of Whitehouse's Rigpt To Kill. The thingis that it all works hand in hand-one hand washes the other, as they say. Satanism and fascism are basically inseparable elements, and Slave State was definitely interested in presenting it that way. But times change. I've gone through a lot of changes, and been involved with some very bizarre thin most significantly during the three years I spent with My life With The Thrill Kill Kult. There were things I became less interested in, t that became cliched, and things that became
more inspiring in the process. Conceptually, Slave State and the EHC are very much the same, they just deal with the issues in dif ferent ways. WithSlave State, most people just thought it was the most offensive thing they'd ever encountered, because they were dealing with master/slave relationships on every level: political, sexual, spiritual. It had something to offend everyone, which was one of the great thin about it. Anybody who has any of the old Slave State demos can see that I've cannibaliud a lot of the lyrical content-the refrain "This is the new way, This is the New Age," for instance, comes from an old Slave State song. It's all there, and it's all intrinsically connected.
Does your audience underst3nd these things?
Our audience encompasses everyone, from acid-dropping Raver kids to neo-Nazi skinheads, and what they take home from it really isn't my concern. What we're doing is creating a forum for our creative urges and our belief system, and it would be foolish to think that everyone is going to understand everything that we put into it. I feel differently every day, and every day the different so mean different things to me.
I went to art schoo where everyone is always saying "You have to justify this," or "You have to make a statement, because you can't just go around throwing imagery in people's faces," which I was notorious for. I'd create a lot of paradoxical juxtapositions where you'd have a pornographic image

along with an image from Nazi German•y . They're like '"What are you trying to say?• t'm saying whatever you're getting from it. That's my whole deal. There was aguy in my class who painted a picture of a nude man with a nude little girl on his lap. Some people would say it reminded them of a sensitive moment between a father and a daughter, and somebody else would be horrified because it reminded them of being molested by their Uncle Frank. Images are completely subjective. Your reaction is programmed by whatever emotional baggage you bring to them. There are some people who say our whole Satan thingis just some big gimmick, that it's real funny and cute, like H. R. Puffinstuff meets the Church of Satan. Then there are guys who are like "Man, you guys are the most brutal, awesome band. We dropped acid, listened to your record, and went out and spray-painted
Hau Hellfire in pink all over a church.• We
actually saw that on CNN-it happened somewhere in Georgia. It really brin a smile to my face to think that we're inspiring that kindof activity. As for the people who think that this is all some big joke, rm not going to try and convince them that our path is the right one. We know the way the world is going. It's coming down fast.
Most people aren't worth arguing with.
Well exactly, that's the whole thing, isn't it? Most people are just so incredibly stupid that I don't even waste my time arguing with them.

rm sure your shows have drawn some pretty strange characters out of the woodwork.
Kaleb Fairly comes to mind, he's the real celebrity. He came tosee us after murdering a woman and her daughter where he worked, and later explained to the police that the scratches on his face were from mashing at our show. He came up to us after it was over, and very sincerely explained that he needed help establishing a more personal relationship with Satan. He'd tried everything-"I've read 1be Satanic Bible, rve done the Satanic rituals, I've read the Nex:ronomicon." Of course he omitted the fact that he'd just killed a woman and her child, then raped their corpses after they were dead.

How concerned are you with ritual at this point? Is Satanism a primarily secular lifestyle?

No, I don't sec it as a secular lifestyle.
Again, my spiritual beliefs are probably somewhat different than certain people in the Church, basically because I genuinely accept and acknowledge the presence of demonic and spiritual entities. There are several thin that have happened since the death of our keyboard player which leave me with no other choice than to believe that there is a spiritual dimension, and that we've been communicated with. Most people in the Church of Satan would probably equate these thin with some working of the inner mind. I don't care what you call them.
There are strengths, powers, and dieties of all different levels which exist throughout this world and which have consciousness and characteristics that are unique and personal unto themselves. They're not some abstract, amorphous energy current. The energies exist asentities, and through ritual we're interested in connecting with, evoking and, to a certain extent, making pacts with these entities.
Does it all get channded into the11UJsic?
I would hope so. I've said this a million times in the past week when people have asked about Shane's death, you know "Where is he now?• Shane has moved on. It's basic physics that life is composed of matter and energy. Matter can be destroyed, and energy can't. Energy is what animates the spirit, so we're trying to channel spiritual energy through electronic equipment. There have been certain times when it's been remarkably effective. That's why we chose the name the Electric Hellfire Cl use we're interested in electricity as a path down which spiritual energy can travel.

What other mwicians, films, etc. have successfully harnessed these energies?
Hmmm. I'm always at a loss when people say "List your ten favorite movies,• or "List your ten favorite books,• because I gain moments from everything. I don't know of that many people who are consciously working to incorporate these things, although Blood Axis certainly comes to mind. One of their initial so was actually entitled Ekctricity. For me, electronic music has always been the most powerful music. Even early on, I was inspiredby oupslikeDevoand Orchestral Maneuven in the Dark, because they were using sounds that were so otherworldly. There's a strength, a beauty, and a ace you can pull from synthesizers

that simply can't be found in any other instrumentation. Even the greatest symphony doesn't compare to the sounds generated through electronic synthesis.

Are you a misogynist?
(µufl,ing) Yeah, I would probably fit into that category. I'm a misogynist in the same way that I'm a misanthrope-I really don't have much use for mankind in general, and I really despise any kindof weakness or submission. At the same time, it's an integral part of what I would consider my sexual or fetishistic preferences, so it's really a vicious circle. But yeah, it's nothing I'm ashamed of.
I know that it's the nature of human communication to classify, so all this terminology is ultimately necessary. But the fact of the matter is that for me, it's com pletely and totally irrelevant-it doesn't mean anything. Are you a fascist? Are you a racist? Are you a sexist? Are you a misog ynist? They're irrelevant terms, which are all a part of the victim culture that I despise. I don't buy into it. It all comes down to this: I'm not a part of your victim culture, but if you want to put your head on the chopping block, go ahead and call me names. As long
I'm the one wielding the axe...

All the "'Politically Correct" business is really just a sublimation of Judeo Christian values. Which brings us back to Satanism as a political phenomenon.
I think so. It's all One, like Manson said-"The Truth is One.• It doesn't matter what you call it, you can call it politics, you can call it religion, but it's all the same fucking thing. It all stems from the same source, and it all ends with the same result.
As for these people that run around with pretensions that they're going to change things, the fact of the matter is that mankind has worked for hundreds of years to interfere with the natural order, tostop the natural order-to keep mutants and miscreants alive. You can hold nature in check but you can't bring it to a screeching halt, and I think that that's b ically what we're looking at now. Nature is pushing against the fence that technology has used to pen it in, and the fence is going to come down very shortly. There's going to be a return to a more natural order.

Wall something nobler rise from the ashes?
I would hope so-that's natural order.
Lightning strikes, burns the forest down, and the forest grows again. It may take a

hundred years, but the forest grows again. I definitely believe that that's nature's way, and right now I definitely sec a lot of shit around me which will at some point have to be eliminated. I can only hope that something nobler will rise up from it. I don't want tosound like I'm subscribing to some apocalyptic philosophy, but just look around! One can only hope that we're living in the final days, that we're watching the decline of the Roman Empire all over again, because we live in a world of shit and decadence. Which is not to say that I'm not contributing to all of this, because I am. I'm a libertine to the nth degree, and that makes me as guilty as the rest. At the same time, I take full responsibility for my actions.
Back when I was managing a record store, I would come in contact with these kids who had just incredibly smart mouths. When I was a kid that age, I would have been terrified of someone who looks like me-I damn sure wouldn't have tried shoplifting around him. These kids felt safe though, because they have no concept of responsibilityor consequences. The socio political infrastructure has removed the very idea of consequences. There are kids out there shooting each other for gym shoes. It can't l t long. There are too many pissed-off people out there.

Retribution is inevitable.
Exactly. Sure it is.

If some higher power were to grant you a mandate for genocide, where would you get started?
(µughs) Oh man, I don't think I should answer that.
That's probably answer enough.
Yeah, I think we'll leave it at that.
Does Satan have a sense of humor?
I would think so. LaVey has constantly said that in order to be a Satanist you've got to have agreat sense of humor. H you personify these powers, God is like the
y old man-if you look through the Bible, God's the one sitting up on his throne turning people into pillars of salt. Then on the other hand it's like, who didSatan ever kill? It's like God doesn't get the joke, whereas Satan is Lord of this Earth. In order to be the governor of this state, you've got to have a pretty solid sense of humor. Because when you look around and sec all the rubbish that's masquerading as humanity, you've got to just sit back and laugh. .....

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•DEATH SCENES: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook, text by Katherine Dunn, edited by Sean Tejaratchi; Feral House, Portland, OR, 1996; ISBN 0- 922915-29-6; $19.95. Available in most bookstores or by adding $2.00 and ordering it directly from Feral House, P.0. Box 3466, Portland, OR, 97208. http://www.buzzcut.com/central/feralhouse.
It seems that Jack Huddleston, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department during the golden age of noir, 1925-1945, kept an extensive album of crime scene photos. Thanks to the unerring collectors instincts of Nick Bougas, this flaking testament was brought to light several years ago in the video documentary by the same name. Now you can hold your own copy of Huddleston's photo journal. His sometimes-typed, more often hand scrawled captions and commentary advise us that "crime doesn, pay,• but what becomes eminently clear is that while Jack may have told himself that his purpose was to teach the citizenry a lesson, he was simply hooked on gore. There are roughly 150 pages of black-and-white photos from those old-timey days, computer-enhanced where the years had taken their toll on paper and chemicals, but otherwise unretouched. Dunn's introduction is brilliant, her observations keen; she tells us that Jack's collection is •an historical and cultural artifact, a time capsule that reveals seldom seen sub-stratas of American life and death. One of the scrapbook's immediate effects is to deflate rosy nostalgia with the proof that there were no 'good old days.' It is startling to realize that these crimes were committed in atime we tend to consider innocent-before television, before the special effects violence of modem movies, most of them even before the mass horrors of WW II. Our capacity for savagery and eccentricity hasn, changed in the last fifty years.• Highly recommended.

•COLD-BLOODED: The Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious Pied-Piper of Tucson, by John Gilmore; Feral House, Portland, OR, 1996; ISBN 0- 922915-31-8; $12.95. Available in most bookstores or by adding $2.00 and ordering it directly from Feral House, P.O. Box 3466, Portland, OR, 97208. http://www.buzzcut.com/central/feralhouse.
The first in a new true-crime series from Feral House, this details the life of convicted triple murderer Charles "Smitty" Schmid, a popular high school BMOC in Tucson in the Sixties. Smitty was a flaked-out Lothario who couldn't decide if he was Bvis or Nietzche. He took his girlfriend out to the desert and bonked her on the head with a rock when she became a pain in the ass. The cops tried for years to find out who did it-and by then the mlltler had become a joke among the local teenagers.
Gilmore's writing is strong. Recommended for true crime fans.

•ROLLERDERBY: The Book, by Lisa Crystal Carver; Feral House, Portland, OR, 1996: ISBN 0- 922915-38-5; $14.95. Oversized trade paperback. Available in most bookstores or by adding $2.00 and ordering it directly from Feral House, P.O. Box 3466, Portland, OR, 97208. http://www.buzzcut.com/central/feralhouse.
This is the first volume in Feral Houses new

Popcult Series, and comprises Issues 1-16 of the personalzine by the fonner Lisa Suckdog; it sports a full-color cover photo. There are acouple of eflective photos of.Lisa's favorite model, Cindy Dall, and Boyd
Rice contributes a true experience article on his sexual coming-of-age. An anticipated high point was Lisa's discovery of abag of love letters lefl behind by a former neighbor, but the letters themselves are hard to read and Lisa adds too many of her own comments. On the whole, it was way too girly and scatterbrained for me.

•THE BOMB: The Classic Novel of Anarchist Violence, by Frank Harris; Feral House, Portland, OR, 1996: ISBN 0-922915-37-7; $12.95. Trade
paperback. Available in most bookstores or by adding $2.00 and ordering it directly from Feral House, P.O. Box 3466, Portland, OR, 97208. http://www.buzzcut.com/central/feralhouse.
Aleister Crowley ca0ed this book a masterpiece and referred to it as his favorite novel. It concerns the real life Haymarket affair, an occurrence of political disobedience that predates the Unabomber and Oklahoma City by about a hundred years. The story is told from the point of view of the man who threw the bomb, the man who escaped justice while five labor protesters went to their deaths after being railroaded in an unjust trial. Harris' narrative is gripping and this is a wonderful read. This edition
also contains line drawings of the story's chief participants that date from the tum of the century.

•THE OCTOPUS: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith; Feral House, Portland, OR, 1997: ISBN 0- 922915-39-3; $19.95. Hardcover. Available in most bookstores or by adding $2.00 and ordering it directly from Feral House, P.O. Box 3466, Portland, OR, 97208. http://www.buzzcut.com/central/feralhouse.
Casolaro was a freelance investigator who died
in a hotel room while investigating various connections among the Iran-Contra deal, the Savings and Loan affair, and much more. Authorities deemed his death a suicide, but those close to him knew he'd been threatened numerous times as he dredged up hidden information about various govemment conspiracies. The authors worked from Casolaro's original notes and interviewed his key informants to bring us aclearer picture of the possible reasons behind the investigator's death. Recommended for those who know they're all out to get us.

•'ZINES: Volume One, edited by V. Vale: V/Search, San Francisco, CA, 1996; ISBN 0-9650469-0-7;
$18.99. Oversized trade paperback. Available in most bookstores, or add $2.00 and order if from V/Search, 20 Romolo St., #B, San Francisco, CA 94133.
An attractive compendium of interviews with 'zine editors and clips from some of the more interesting 'zines out there in 'zine land. My favorite was Mystery Dste, published by a lady who collects all those teen girl books, mags and accessories from the Fifties and Sixties. There's also a brief history of 'zines and a long contact list in tiny print. And please take it from me: it's pronounced "ZEEN." A friend who put in several years working in an underground bookstore bemoans the frequent mispronunciation of customers looking for... "ZEINS."

•TOTAL ABUSE; Collected Writings, 1984-1995, by Peter Solos; Goad To Hell Ents., Portland, OR, 1996; $10.00. Available in some bookstores (Isaw it in the Virgin MegaSlore in Times Square) or by adding $2.00 and ordering it from Goad To Hell Enterprises, P.O. Box 31009, Portland, OR, 97231.
This volume is hard to take and def111itely not everyone's cup of hemlock. Peter Sotos was the first 'zine editor jailed just for writing about violence. The three issues of his magazine, Pure, have been coUected here with Toot a collection of his narrative
• reations" of a series of child murders, and PBIBSite, the twenty issues of Sotos' newsletter about pomography. Also included here is an introduction by ANSWER Meis Jim Goad (who has looked down the litigation barrel because of his own publication) as well as Jim's exclusive interview with Sotos. Jim tells us that Sotos is "the world's foremost practitioner of verbal brutality;• in fact, his writing is radiant with obsession. His ability to identify wilh the killers he writes of is nothing short of preternatural, putting any fictional "profDer" to shame. But if you can't take hearing about children being hurt, you can't take Sotos- he'U shove it down your throat. Highly recommended, with the above caveat.

•THE MAGIC OF S.I.N., by Szatanna Sekhmet; San Antonio, TX, 1995; available for $20 from P.O. Box 352, San Antonio, TX 78292.
Full-sized, about 200 pages with plastic spiral binding and card stock covers; attractive desktop typesetting with some pen-and-ink illustrations.
Szatanna contacted every member of the Satanic Interest Network and some responded; she solicited photos, mini-biographies and any formal rituals or invocations they had written and put everything together in what amounts to the •group grimo/m' of a certain percentage of the S.I.N. membership.
Chapter One details her campaign to become the first Satanic den mother to her devilish pen pals. Szatanna makes a valiant eflort at glamorizing these Satanists, taking their own words and working them into gushy, Hedda Hopper-esque portraits that give maybe a little more credit than is due. She includes their own rituals, one of which is closely adapted from another published by the Temple of the Vampire, and unaccredited. In one of her own "fiats,• Szatanna refers to a fDm starring Boris "Karlov." Bui if youre not put oflby such quibbles or by a tad too much •occultnik-ism,• then you might e11oy sharing the ideas and words of these other Satanists.

•DUE NORTH, by Mitchell Smith, (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992; ISBN 0-671-738n-1. Hardcover).
Psggy Nadrsmia, rsviewsr.
I've been a fan of Mitchell Smith's since I read Stone City, his prison novel. This one escaped my notice until recently, and it may actually be in paperback now. There is more Satanic philosophy and controversy in this novel than in a shelf full of esoteric grimoires. It's the story of a white woman who makes her home in the mountains of Alaska, three days from any human habitation. Using her dog team to cover 140 miles of trap line, she lives by herself after her husband is slain and eaten by a
grizzly bear, right before her eyes. She must retum to
the lower states to help in some family matters, but brings the natural laws and attitudes of the "animal kingdom" with her, with startling results. Some

Satanists wil recogrize themselves in Sara, n wl1 find the way others i&act to her... familiar. Highly recommended.

PERIODICAL REVIEWS
by P8{/gf NsdrsmiB

•THE CLOVEN HOOF, The Official Bulletin and Tribunal of the Church of Satan, The Original Voice of Contemporary Sataniam. Single issues available for $5.00, $7.00 foreign; four-issue
subscriptions are $35.00, $40.00 f019ign from P.O.
Box 210666, San Francisco, CA 94121.
lasue #126 explains that the Hoofhas been on aseven-year hiatus, and that it being the year 30, it is time to once again publish a Satanic trlxmal to unify a mowment that is reaching critical mass.
Indeed, di.Wing the hiatus, some 40 Satanic
magazines and newsleltera sprang up to fll the void left by the Hoot. This issue featlns Blanche Barton's lengthy and detailed examination of Wicca as the neo-Christianly it reaDy is. There is a 1&print d Dr. LaVey's essay, "The Homs d aDiemma," and it is hoped that the editors wil continue to 1&print essays that those new to Satanism may have missed. Th8l8 are several new departments established wlh this 'Renaissance" issue d the Hoof. 'By Any Other Name," a watchdog column mentioning works that spin-di Satanism withoLi taking the Devil's name; 'I Arn (Urban) Legend," covering fumy and sily media nmors aboLi Dr. laVey and the Church of Satan; and "Gramarye," in which LaVey discusses the
<iabolicai arts. The back cover 1&prints an elderly ad for Wate-On, true heresy in the face of today's obsession with l.llderfed women. Need some true Satanic wisdom? "Don't let them cal you Skinnyl'
lasue #127 featlns a tw or cover by the ar18t Coop; this sexy witch's red chemise is about to be takenby the wild bii she has those garters and stockilgs to keep her warm. Among the offerings in this issue are some more suggestions from Dr.
LaVey on total environments and musical choices, as well as "The World's Most PowerhA Religion.• He1& LaVey states that "since Satanism is essentialy a religion of the self, the individual and his personal needs come first. If that means playing wlh trains or spike-heeled shoes or si19ng in the t.t>. those
are its sacraments and devotions. Taking inventory
of old comic books is counting beads on a rosary, each book being a station of the cross.• Hear, hear! Don't feel you'19 being "ul1)!0ductive" the next time you forego an evening answering mail for the guilty pleasul8S d taking oii all yOll' Stsr Tf8ktoys and carefuly dusting them off, reattaching parts and re gluing disobedient decals. You'1& actuaRy performing demonic ablLiions, a pleasurable and necessary part d your Satanic development. Also in this issue is a Satanic Profile of Edward G. Robinson, one that wil have you eyeballing those video shelves insearch of his most infernal performances. "The Gl8at Dragon's Tale' by Nemo might be nice to share with some younger Satanists. "Wicca: Exposed (And Exorcised)' by Blanche Barton l8veals the fakery in volved in these "sacred tradtions" and includes a devastating excerpt from a letter in Dr. LaVey's files, wherein I is revealed that the very WOidWiccan was in troduced by English occulisls toGerald GWler as a joke-one he fell for Ike aton d bricks. Barton also in cludes a riualk> get those phony "wiches" oii d )'Oll'
hai'for good. Th818's also .-i intereslilg
exchange program going here wlhthe PkJtzvillB TtmBS,
miss the account of the hair-puling match be tween Mrs. Uppt and Mrs. Stanky when one criticizes the other's meatloaf recipe. Hoo hal
Issue #128 catches yotl' iittention wHh a head

shot d a gogg!Hyed Chrismtype lady against the
most amazing shade d pea g199n; rve heard Dr. LaVey l8fer to this color as iee ess green' bLi I'm not Bin what that means. Blanche Barton offers some perspective on what Satanists might expect to see in their own child1&n as they come of age; her editorial, "Generation 666" and her al1icle "Thiteen Eugenic Im Environmental Departul8S Toward a New Satanic Bhnic' both offer ideas on nurturing the Satanic flame that may indeed pop up inour own progeny. Nll'll8r0 Uno is" course, "No T.V." Also encolnged are homeschooling and alowing child1&n lots of time alone to bl.ild up their own inl918Sts and iriiative. The1& are fflOl8 departments in this issue, including several pages of Satanic newsbits, reviews and interesting lettera. Anton LaVey discusses fetishes and "The Wrtch's Shoe as Weaponry,• giving some very nuts-and-bols advice for what you can do wlh that stiletto heel should you ever encounter someone unwise enough to occasion yotl' i1&.
Obviously, no Satanist should be without a st.msc'1)1ion to the Hoot, what a1& you waling for?

•THE RAVEN: The Magazine of Satanic Good Living, available for $4.00 single, $15.00 for a four issue sub9cription from the Grotto ODM, P.O. Box 163, Stratford, CT, 06497-0163.
Okay, I'll be honest: this is my next-most
favorite Satanic magazine. The Rsvstfs wit is razor sharp and its sense d justice is riglt on the money. I have six issues siting he1& since the last "Odditorium" (which only shows you how devotedly I've been worshipping the Goddess Peggy). When
you open up an Issue of The RBVflfl, it would enhance your experience to have their theme song, "Al8 You Having Any Fun?' perfonned by Tony Bennett with the Count Basie Orchestra, playing in the background.
Issue #16, Walpurgia, XXX: The CfNer sports a rather bling editorial cartoonby Michele Frost on the Oklahoma City bombing. Favorie iems: the back-to-back reviews d two metal bands, Acheron and Deicide, comparing the truly Satanic nattn "
one to the me1& fashion statement d the other. Least
favorite item: the piece aboLi St. Paul. The cooking
column, "Helfs K"rtchen," is always a pleasUl8.
Issue #17, Summer Solatlc:e, XXX: Another d Michele Frost's cartoons adoms the cover, this one a commentary on the editor of anow-deceased "Smanic" pt.tllication.This issue marlcs the P19niere of The Rs'lfllfs OYat logo, designed by Tunothy Palrick Biiler. FaYOrie lems: Neil Srnlh's poem, "If You W818 the Only Dog in the WoM(choke), and the pctu'eS d al the oldcompuers. Least e tern:Taot WOid S8l¥d1 Q hale tosquint). Leam IJopel' glling melmds inthis issue's "Hers Kik:hanl"
Issue #18, Autumn Equinox, XXX: No cover,
just a generic batch labell It's aconcept. Favorite lems: all the sttM about the Warrens (hey, if Ed can face Lorraine in the morning, what's a hideous demon from the bowels of Hell?) and those one Uners from drivers explaining why they just crashed theircars:"An invisi>le car came oii d nowhere, struck my car and vanished!' Least favorie item: yet another manifesto from the Fien:e Advocates d Toast. When wil the Staunch Defendera d Gravy get their say? Sheeshl The demonology WOid search 18Vealed the name "Furftl'." I'm su1& that's the demon inhabiting my oriental rug. Loki cook anything for this issue bii he does answer some intriguing questions, incltdng: 'Do you know Martha Stewart?' to which he 1&plies, "She is a cunt."
Issue #19, Wint• XXX-XXXI: The Ravstfs covers continue their ninimalist tl8nd wlha xeroxed lalelfrom abottle ct Mezcal. Statement? Favorle

ilem8: Loki's "Things Thal Arff1t the Piss rud Me" (8X81'11M= "The Fn,gal Gol.rmel, Jeff Smlh, thal old, faggoty quaei1') Nel Srnlh's bit abolJ his 8Kchlrlge v.th the pt.mlisher " another 'zine. lmagile
(JJotilg Hamlet and Aon Merahon inthe same article?
The mind 188181 Least faYOlte lem: None.
lasue '20, Walpurgla, XXXI: A classic still d Bela Lugosi as Dracula graces this cover. Favorite lern: hands down, it has to be Loki's description of the Grotto ODM's trip to Mister C's Restainnt in Omaha. The incredible details d this actual slvine to bad taste are too numerous to list, bLi what stands
ru is the mirialu1& Sicilian village, complete in every
aspect including a tiny ittle Pope counselng a tiny lttle prostitiit on the error d her waysl (Or maybe he was getting her rate schedule; nu?j Also noteworthy was "The Ballad "the Bobbit! Hilbillies'
by Paul Henderaon: "Penis, thal is. Clean w.
M'ISSed the nuts." least favoflte item: Cambra'& article on Sodom and Gomorrah was atad pedantic. Loki was obviously too busy 1&covering from his meal at Mister C's to cook anything (sniff!).
lasue #21, Summer, XXXI: Michele Frost is back wlha fullcolor cartoon on the ValuejeC crash, wlh two alligators eating (ahem!) •anne food."
FllYOlle lems: P.Scoll Holaider has contrb.ted two not8¥Alfthy pieces d fiction, and Michael Rose tels us "Why Fools Should Not be Permlted to Wm." This issue is chock.ful d good sttMas The Rtlvsrfs edlors haw been bringing inmol8 wrilers from the Satanic sph818. Least faYOrie lem:more sUf abou the PhanK>hs. Herbert Pauls is aguest in"Hers Kitchen," contrblting some spicy paprika recipes that wolil go fNf1I big at your next Dracula party. Be SUl8 to include SIM:Nlz with coffee aflerwald.
lasue #22, Autumn/Halloween XXXI: A Christmas-themed cover illustration by Michele Frost advises us that ever, living tree is worth a thousand Christs. Th8l8 819 some thoughts on the commert:ial izalion d Halloween and George Sprague and Shawna Kennedy contribute acouple d humorous articles, including "The Air Bag d Tllin.• The stand oii piece of the issue, however, is aselection from an old book on cocktails, The Hour, pt.tlished in 1948. It is incredl>ly misanthropic, blasting the average American's trivialilation d liquor consumption by men:ilessly lampooning that avatar d tackiness, the home bar: ihey have not got the imagination or the companionableness nor the
tunan sensitiveness that good drinking nurtUl8S to a
r,t,r,N." Words to live by...
•FROM THE PIT,by Magister Michael
Rose, P.O. Box 1413, ,AL35602-1413.
This wilbe Oll' last f8View d From The Pit because Magister Rose has decided to suspend pt.t>lication. He is doing so for the best d 1&asons: it has stopped being fun. To quote from his priceless "good)ye speech' in the very last issue: "Pelhaps I is because I have said all I had to say. Perhaps I'm just tired of dealing with the many assholes who delude themselves into thinking they are Satanists just because nobody else lbs them. Well, I don't
tike them either." Michael Rose's writing will continue and you1I undoubtedly see ITIOf8 d I in the pages d TBFas wel as in some d the other Satanic magazines mentioned he1&.
Volume 5, lasues 1-4: this compilation d the last four issues d From The Pitis available in softcover for $12.00 US, $15.00 foreign-or you can Older the black, hald>ound edlion for $25.00 US,
$30.00 foraign. I recommend the latter, as I makes a wonderful addHion to your bookshelves.
lasue #1: every Issue d FTP includes a
thougl1ful editorial, a r8View section, "wcifets Lllnuy,"

and Noteworthy Quotes. This one also has an interview with satanic 8111st Timothy Patrick Butler, along with numerous examples of his art (Iparticularly liked "The Majesty of Dung"). Michael Rose offers his thoughts on animal sacrifice, satanic victims and "Satanic brotherhood." Poetry by Sean Currie.
Issue #2: An Interesting th18e-way discussion
of the S.I.N. (Satanic Interest Network). It is hel8in established that a) S.I.N. IS a Satanic pen-pal club,
b) participation in S.I.N. is not a requi181Tl8nt for Satanists, and c) one need not partake of something to criticize it. Rose offers his thoughts on legitimizing Lovecraft, art, alternatives to phannaceutical animal testing, how to be a Satanic breeder, and his advocating of slavery. Also included is a touchilg memorial to Ida Lupino and a lowly picture of her.
Issue 13: Joshua Colvi'I 18lates some amusing
conversations aboii Satanism he's had with strangers. Professional magician Rev. George Sprague wries aboii magic. Magister Rose conlamplates "the fascist question" as It 181ates to the Church of Satan: "the error of the eruenched advocates of fascism and lbertarianlsm is thal they mistake means for ends." And "Klling Tme" once
agail looks at "dealilg with Christians and other kindl8d vermin.¦
Issue #4: Rose takes a look back at the Individuals who helped make Pl,t>ishing FTP an interesting ventul8 (heh heh) and then questions whether the Christians are corning, after all. George Sprague contribiies •1Am Cursed," and Robert Lang witnesses achanneled message from Vlad the Just (formerly known as Vlad the Impaler). Thel8 are selections from the works of William G. Sumner, and Rose discusses the question of whether any Satanist is "evil enough." (Apparently, this is acause of concern among younger Satanists, no dolbt akin to that of the thirteen-year-oldgir1 who looks in the mirror and asks rhetorically, "Arn I pretty enough?") Thel8 is a"Ritual to Secul8 Cooperation,• and "Confessions of a LaVey Lackey" will no doubt raise a few eyebrows. Of LaVey's detractors, Rose states: "they chose to worship a 'god' who declined to 18Ward them in what they thought was an adequate manner. Good riddance.¦ As in every issue of FTP,
the artwork of Timothy Patrick Butler abounds in ail is splendor, as wel as that of other artists, and thel8 is poetry and ads for other Satanic publications.
Highly recommended.
Volume 4,Issues 1-4: reviewed in the last issue of TBF and now also available in the desirable hardcover format for the same prices listed above for Volume 5.
-MANFRED, Lord Byron, P.O. Box 1413, Decatur,
AL 35602-1413 ($6.00; $8.00outside of U.S.).
Michael Rose has 18printed and Pf8S8nls his forward to Byron's dramatic poem, and also includes the "Stanzas to Augusta• which are relevent. An nspiring piece which deserves to be read.
-OIABOLICA, available for $5.00 US, $6.00 foreign, from P.O. Box 53, Allen Park, Ml 48101-0053.
Volume II, Issue #1 includes "Thirteen Questions Wih Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey,• and the cover photo of the High Priest is a truly memorable one. The interview is short but very pertinent, and concludes with the statement by LaVey that "the time for Satanism has come. With It nut come a refresh er in Fl8udian and Darwinian awal8ness... Ail I did was pull the switch..." I was also pleased with articles by Michael Rose and George Sprague. Quotable quotes, internet issues and a discussion of male bashing on TV talk shows rounds out a fine issue.
Volume II, Issue #2: This the Satanic Witch

issue, and all contents al8 by Satanic women, including the art by Kali and Michelle Frost. In an interview with Magistra Peggy Nadramia, she warns the 18adership: "Don't let the Satanic Witch fool you; she is often the Church's fiercest defender and most diligent networker, despite her skillful use of her power to cloud men's minds.• Also contributing 818
Lynne Crowley, Deborah Ryder, Lydia Gage, Tani Jantsang, Diana DeMagis and of course, Blanche Barton. In "Satan Is Not a Woman,• Barton describes the Satanic yin-yang perfectly: "My Male self taunts me, whips me, challenges and rewards me. The feminists haw cheapened this internal/external interaction until both men AND women now feel tainted with new feminist-imposed insectJities and expectations." There's even an excerpt from Atlas Shruggedby Ayn Rand; I can just see her, being drug kicking and SCl8all'ling into the pages of a Satanic 'zinel I had some doubts about this project when the ediors announced i, bii I think they lid a fine job with their "chick ghetto.¦Give i a shot-pink cowr, and all.

-NOT LIKE MOST, A Publlcatlon of Satanism In Action, avaiable for $2.00 US, $3.00 foraigl, from Purging Talon Publishilg, P.O. Box 8131, Bur1inglon, VT05402.
Issue #1: A great little Satanic magazine is born, fl8e of pretensions and full of imaginative, energetic graphics and ideas. Editor Matt Paradise bundes together a handful of articles in his digest, including his own opinion pieces on war and depopulation as wel as a look at Xtian news and black metal music. Favorite item: "Martyrs Al8 a Dime a Dozen, Or Why I Don't Scrawl Pentagrams Everywhel81"
Issue #2: Mol8 of a good thing, the second
issue featul8s a Satanic Media Watch column and some 18views of other Satanic publications. The articles seem to center around the inhel8nt problems with xtianity: "the rhetoric behind modem xtianity lies in its rotted and disgusting roots.¦
Issue 13; Not Like Most really hits its stride with the third issue, leaving reaction to the Xtian plague behind and forging ahead with Satanic concerns. The19's a good ovelView of most of the Satanic websites which internet newbies will find useful as they venture forth. Herbert Pauis looks at Satanism in Austria, and edior Paradise gives solid
answers to a slew of the "F18QU8ntly Asked
Questions" Satanists must deal with 19gUarly. Also included is aciscussion of noise polliiion, a pet peeve of many Satanists. Loved the cover graphic and the page design in general.
Issue #4: Starts off with the editor's discussion of Satanism and the "goth" aesthetic; definiely worth 18acing. For those who collect riuals, thel8 is an "Initiation for Evangelcals" by Michael Rose. "Here There Be Liars" explores the toddler tactics of those
pseudo-Satanists w to save us allfrom that evi
LaVey guy, and a Satanic Melia Watch column along with a Satanic news column, "On the lrnmal Front,• are useful and tinely. Mr. Paradise conducts an intriguilg interview wlhan incarcerated Satanist, and a discussion of necrophilia follows. Extensive 1911iews, attractive and wily use of graphics and layoii; a welcome addition to the field of Satanic magazines. Highly 18COmmended.

-SATANIC PARENTING, Sharing ldeuforthe lnfemal Empire, available for $2.00 for asingle issue or $6.00 for four issues from 12M Enterprises, P.0. Box 353, Maple Park, IL 60151. Edited by Lydia Gage.
Issue #1:¦whyWait?" asks the headline on the first page--why, indeed, except that tackling this

818a of Satanic intel8st took major guts. Can you imagine the hay Bob Larson co make with the tlle alone? But as Lydia 18minds her readership, "within a group of people such as ourselves, a separate race if you wll, we should be sharing our ideas and joys 19garding our child19n.¦ This little newsletter is not out to explain away myths about Satanism or to promote tolerance of our religion; in fact, this magazine takes little notice of non-Satanists as all. It is the first of what I think wil 19p19sent the next wave in Satanic publishing: material by Satanists, for satanists ALONE. Priestess Gage happily makes this a homespun lltle nllllber, including artwork by her chikll8n and funny anecdotes. Also included: "Why I Hate Barney" and a piece about
homeschoolilg, an idea that every Satanic Pal8nl
nut consider in lieu of subjecting their senslive, Intelligent child to the mass brainwashing machine that is plA>lic "education."
Issue #2: Detailed article on creatilg a learning environmen for your dildren, plus a piece on talking to chil1118n aboii 'Magic.• While Satanists usually take anon-involvement stance wlh their childl8n ('We don't indoctrinate at an early age-that's for Christians...") ii can be impossl>le to quash an intelligent child's curiosity about what Morn and Dad do with those cancles and bells and swords late at
1191. Children know magic is18811 So Lydia came up
wih a little magical workilg that she could shal8 with her six-year-old daughter. Thel8 are also some l8views of videos for kids, and opinion pieces on marriage and celebrating herd holidays wlh the non Satanist branches of your family.
Issue 13: Mol8 discussion of the social aspects of homeschooling, and Lydia includes abibliography. II is intel8sting to note that homeschooling is the one 818a whel8 Satanists are cheek and jowl with right wing Christians- they don't want their kids educated by the liberal humanists, either. Also included are some brain games for childl8n and some little fables. This publication is essential for Satanic pa19nts and also recommended for non-parents who are intel8sted in hearing of the trials and triumphs of raising progeny in "the Satanic condition.•

•DEVILCOSM: Satanic, lconoclutlc and Occult Music, available for $3.00 US, $4.00 fol81gn for a single issue, $12.00 US, $16.00 fo19ign for a four issue subscription, from DWR, P.O. Box 173, Madison, IN 47250.
Issue #1: Whal a great idea for a Satanic magazine! The editor of Oe'd/cosm declares that its PlfPOS8 is to "herald and iluminate the power of the musical artform in evoking and emerging a new Satanic age... to inspire a collective vision of the Satanic empil8." Editor Eric W. Thompson views music as one of the highest fonns of SOl'C8fY, and
811811 attempts to explol8 the Satanic aesthetic in music. There 818 extensive music reviews, and a rather myopic article aboii Ragnar Redbeald that cidn't belong hel8 at d. The la)'Old is interesting graphically, but the publisher should have stuck with one or two fonts throughw-photocopyingisn't kind to gimmicky typefaces.
Issue #2: Somewher8 between the first and second issues of Devl/cosm, the editor fell for Northern European paganism in abig way. The focus of the magazile is still on beauty in music and art and how Satanic aesthetics 818 therein expressed. This is admirable. Bii now there's a lot of •neo fascist" huffing and puffing, with athought-provoking article by K.R. Bolton and the usual from Fraternitas Loki ("Satan is Dead," or haven't you heard?). I was hoping the editor would keep his vistas a tad wider. He's running avaluable music distribiiion selVice for

those in areas wile.re19COrdings of bands like Non
and Death In June are hard to come by.

•SCAPEGOAT MAGAZINE, available for $5.00 US,
$6.00 foreign, or subscri>e to three issues for $15.00 US, $18.00 foreign, Goat's Head P19SS, P.O. Box 36121, Los Angeles, CA 90036-0121.
Volume 2, Issue #2: Crisp type and color
,n>tos pt.t Scspsgostone leg up on many other Satanic magazines, and the change from digest-size to full-size is for the better, I think. This issue featul9S interviews with Grand Belial's Key,Michael Moynihan of Blood Axis and Timothy Patrick Butler. There is an extensive review section wih print and music reviews, and articles and poetry by Walter C.
Cambra and John Crawford. Editor John Kaminiecki
contributes his own editorial, "Issues of Detestation." Volume 2, Issue #3: The elusive Rex Diabolos
Church of the Asylum of Satan is interviewed in this issue, and fuB-page color fn)los of tim and his art are included. Also Interviewed are David Vincent and George Eric Hawthorne. More writing by Cambra, John Crawford and K.R. Botton ("Bolshevism in the Roman Empire" and "The Pollical and Racial Views of H.P. Lovecraft").
Issue #8: Kaminiecki includes a travelogue of sorts on his trip to the Mojave, and wistfuOy deta s the isolation and quiet it affords. K.R. Botton and Wafter Cambra again cor1ribute thougttful analyses cl other religious systems, and there's aninterview wih Michael Rose. A piece on tattoo artists Dave Zero and Janet Alfington includes full-color photos, and Spahn Ranch is also interviewed. The r8View section is bountiul.
Issue 19: Thouglt-provoking interviews with
Boyd Rice, The Electric Hellfire Club, Type 0
Negative and Blanche Barton. Great fuO-page
,n>tos of Boyd with unclothed damsels. Articles include "Jung and the Volkisch Movement" by K.R. Bolon, and "A Working Class Vs. An Elite Class" by editor Kaminiecki. The graphics are attractive. Ttis mag improves with fNtry issue and is recommended. Note: subscri>ers receive an additional supplement, Black, between issues of Scapegoat

•THE RAGING SEA: The Voice Of Reason, c/o The Leviathan Grotto, P.O. Box 5297, Sarta Cruz, CA 95063-5297. The first three issues, described below, are $2.95 each. The upcoming issues, we are told, will be larger and wil cost $3.95.
Issue #1: Rev. Michael Charles Boe welcomes us to his first issue, and offers a final solution to the real problem in beautiful Santa Cruz-not earthquake damage and beach erosion, but indigent street people. Among other ttings, Boe gives an enlighten ing discussion of the "political prisoner," Mumia Abu Jamal, a convicted cop-killer now lionized by liberals fNtrywhere. An auspicious beginning.
Issue #2: Upgraded to saddle-stitch binding and with more pages, ttis Satanic forum discusses eugenics and the population bomb, and gives a reading list for further study in these areas. A short but well-wrought ritual to rid oneself of frustrations
and obligations is offered, as wen as more
suggestions for creating a total environment. The centerfold is an entertaining collage of newsclips, including this heac:line: "Fourth grader accused of waving pickle." The ed'llor reviews the Loompanics edition of "Might is Right," and Michael Thule contri>utes a piece on Satanic parenting. "The Real Witch" answers a question about a woman's scent problem, and there is a letters column and a new "Weird Facts" column. Continued improvement!
Issue #3: Discussed in this issue: new inventions to monlor and control the activities of

private citizens; clsease and its role In Nature; how to become invisible; the real Holocaust (animal testing);
C.M. Kornbluth's classic short story, "The Marching Morons,• and lot, lots more, including an interview wlh the Electric Hellfire Club's Thomas Thorn. The Raging Sea is a welcome addition to the fl81d of
Satanic magazines and you should definitely be on their listl

-CONQUER NOWI - Proudly Upholding the Standard of the Strong, available for $5.00 from The War Grotto, rJo K.S. Anthony, 3288 21st St., #67, San Francisco, CA 94110.
Issue #4/5: The edlor uses a typewriter, bti keeps tis layout simple and tis reproduction top notch so that l's nfNtr a chore to read ttis Satanic magazine. Composed in the main of diatribes and essays by Anthony, this issue deals with those who'd Ike to redefine Satanism away from the tenets and principles JU forth by The Sstsnic Bib/8, and that includes child-molesters.The editor gets a tad more personal than those of other Satanic 'zines, and talks about his favorite possessions, people and the things they've taught him. There's an interview with Michael Moynilan and some reviews. I particularly like Anthony's tendency to fll tis pages with lltle pieces like •songs You Didn't Know Were Satanic."
Issue #6: Anthony continues a discussion of race begun inthe p-evious issue, and talks about his new program to work ou, pump up and make tis body a fitting vessel for the Satanic mind seething within it. He interviews Michael Rose and publishes what is probably the first photo (however bleary) fNtr seen of this elusive gentleman. More of the editor's Kiplingesque poetry is included.

•THE BLACK PUN-KIN, Canada's Satanic Forum, available for $7.00 US, $10.00 foreign from P.O. Box 32017, 1386 Richmond Rd., Ottawa, Ontario, K2B 1A1, Canada.
Volume 2, Issue #1: "Baroque" is the only way to describe the page design in the Pun-kin; clip-art, line art, fancy borders, standing heads and Ulustrations cram fNtry page. Add to this the fact that each page is also printed on various colors of paper, and you've got a magazine that appears almost to be tattooed, rather than printed. Bti that's what I Ike
about looking at all these Satanic magazines-?ach
Satanist's vision of what he wants in his 'zine is so different. Diana DeMagis, Robert Lang and Rev. Doug Richards are the chief contribtiors to this issue, bringing both polemic ("It's Tme To Clean Housel") and practical concerns (DeMagis offers recipes for aromatherapy and tasty concoctions). Also contri>uting are Michael Rose, Dan King, Hans SchOren, Shadow, Salama, Vmcent Crowley and others. Jack O'Lantern and Ima Witch offer advice. Wowl This is chock-full.
Volume 2, Issue #2: The cover is adorned with Robert Lang's illustration, •Justice,• wherein a Thor Ike figln (wih a face that looks very familar...) drives a chariot pulled by two fierce goat creatul9S, their eyes flashing along with the lightning that fills the background. The page design is cleaner and looks more pulled-together, although stil filed with the profuse illustrations that make the Pun-kil unique. Articles include "Ahkenalon the Heretic" by Lang and "The Curse of Tutankhamun" by Curtis LeBlanc. There's poetry by Dan King, S.T. Campbell, Piety Lloyd, and Diana DeMagis contributes a short piece of fiction. And much morel
Volume 3, #1: Ttis issue we have Dr. LaVey's
visage on the cover in yet another of Robert Lang's tnbutes; I think the Doc makes an excellent Pharoah, don, you? Inside, the Egyptian theme continues with

Lang's Satanic ritual, "Spring Equinox Along the Nile." Ritual coUectors: take note, as this issue also contain Michael Rose's "Initiation for Evangelicals." The Nile ritual would be an excellent addition to any
...,coming Walpu,gis celebration. The usual departments are back in ttis "Fun With Scanner" issue, as weU as a new and lengthy r8View section. Witch Marguerite talks about aging into a Satanic senior, and reminds us aboti the qualities of women and fine wine. Order the Pun-lcin now and you'll also receive what must be the first Satanic paper airplane.
Float this one across the office and see who pops out of his cubicle! Definitely a singular flavor in the Satanic mix and highly recommended.

•THE DEVIL'S TAVERN, the International Forum of the Infernal Ganison, available for $6.00 from Douglas Richards, P.O. Box 16474, Pensacola, FL 32507-6474.
Volume 1,Issue #1: Ttis Satanic magazine is published by Church of Satan Priest Doug Richards and his mate D811ane Richards. The look is reminiscent of the above-mentioned Pun-kin, but thats because so much of Doug's diabolical artwork is featured in both publications. This premiere issue
of the TBM!l/71 featul9S a d'lalribe onthe subject of Satanic bonds, as well as instruction from Robert Lang for using Satanism as avehicle to indulge inall your fantasies. Dartane Richards talks about "Satanism as The Smoking Gun,• and there's fN8n a Satanic prayer. Another interview wlhMagistra Peggy Nadramia, a "Satanic Chain Letter" and a thouglt-provoking piece on liberty and law by Ken Gage round out this issue.
Volume 1,Issue #2: Editor Doug Richards discUSS88 a Sign of the Tmes, and an article on Magister Peter H. Gilmore's visit to lecture at Mt. St. Vincent College is reprinted. Darlane Richards wams us of "The Asshole Syndrome"-as we all know, the Center for Disease Control hasn't made adent in this epidemic. "To Lust or Not to Lust" takes astab at some advice for the Satanic Warlock, and there are several poetry selections from D811ane. These two issues comprise an auspicious beginning; why not belly up to the bar at The DBvi/'s TsvBrrfl

•THE NAMMTAR JOURNAL, a publcation from the Church Of Tiamat Grotto, is avaDable for $5.00 from Slite#51, 60 Newtown Rd., Danbury, CT06810.
Issue #3: Thougltful diatribes on various topics by Editor Curtis M. LeBlanc, including the "Elite in the Ghetto,• taxation of churches, Charlie Manson, and the old gods (including Kutulul). Michelle Frost and Richard de Lago each contribute acartoon, and there's a sprightly review section.
Issue #4: New computer equipmert and software have spiffed up ttis publication, although it was rather neat and readable already. LeBlanc writes well; his arguments are well-rendered and his syntax good. Ttis time he takes on stratification, stabimng the Satanic age, the neglected side cl Gothic, art and spirituality, and much, much more. I particularty
e11oyed his instructions on contacting a Satanic organization, entitled "Pipe-Dreams Do Not Count." Michael Rose contributes an article, "The Lion and the Child."
Issue #5: Wherein a set of commandments are
laid out by LeBlanc, and he discusses winning the battle with the Christians, probing the Bible for useful tidbits, ne as it applies to those with a Satanic nature, and my very favorie: the various ways members of cifferent religions approach weight loss. Wiccan: How about atub of Rocky Road, before I leave to meet with the other sisters of my coven?
And lots morel You get your money's worth with this

magazine.
In Issue #5, the editor announced a name change to The Godhsad Dispstch. I've also seen announcements of the magazine's name being changed to Tht1 Old Goost1/wry Dispatch. I haven't seen either of these, but LeBlanc's work is consistently Intelligent and worth your time.

eLIFEFORCE, The International Vampire Forum, ptj)ished by the Temple of the Vampire, P.0. Box 3582, Lacey, WA 98509.
The Temple of the Vampire is the public experiment being conducted by a few members of the ancient Hekel Tiarnat, the Temple of the Dragon. Acllerents believe they are predatory vampires feeding on the energies of other humans; they feel they are members of a lost Family and seek each other out to develop their abilities to gain energy and commune with the Ancient Vampires. Their newsletter is only available to members. Membership is gained for a one-time fee of $100, and subscriptions to the monthly Uft1fo,r;t, may be purchased for $50 annually. Also available is Tht1 Vamp/n, ConnecUon, for contacting other members of the Family. Membership in the TOV can involve ascending levels of initiation and recognition, higher studies and periodic evaluations. The Temple recognizes both a Dayside and aNightside to the Vampire's nature, the Dayside being a philosophy
consistent with that of the Church of Satan.
Most recently received in this office is Tht1 Vampin, Adtlpt Bib/t,, consisting of a discussion, 'What is TnAhr and then instruction in the Four Dimensions of Experience, the Nine Gates and Angles, and the Doctrine of Dreams. This Bble is available for $25.00 donation; this may be for members only, so it would behoove you to inquire. Also available are further advanced studies Bibles: The Vampit, Prsdstor Bib/6, Tht1 Vsmpin, Pdt1sthood Bib/ti, and Tht, Vampire SorctlfY Bible. Their cost is the same ($25 minimum donation) and these books explore the sophisticated philosophy and ritual techniques of the Temple of the Vampire.

•THE LADY O SOCIETY NEWSLETTER, available
from BCM/3406, London WC1N 3XX, UK. This newsletter appears quarterly and asubscription includes membership in the Lady O Society, a correspondence society for submissive ladies. Ladies: $10 per annum; Associate members (single gentlemen or couples): $20.00. Back issues are available for $5.00. This society/newsletter is presided over by erotic author Deborah Ryder.
The publication is presented ina very sparse, computer-typeset, double column format, but each issue is crammed with discussion of sub/dom issues and experiences, as well as contact ads for all the members and listings of ptj)lications, products and 8ll8nts of interest to those in the sub/dom lifestyle. Today it's politically incorrect for a woman to openly relinquish her witl to a man, and hence these ladies are very heretical and Satanic. To quote a letter from aMaster: 'A submissive... can only aspire to serve, to seek to pe,fect her submission to the man she has chosen as her Master... If she allows the submissive side of her nature to take over, recognition of a truly dominant man becomes much easier.' These tales of delicious submission are terribly romantic. The latest issue is #12, which appeared in September, and another issue is due in December 1996. To repeat: you can meet others with these interests through this newsletter.

•ENDEMONIADA, available for $3.00 cash only or
M.O. made out to Elena Leon, frQm Lucifera, 611 W.

152 St., #1-D, New York, NY 10031.
Issue #6: This is a black metal music 'zine for Satanic females. It's full of poor to fair artwork dealing with the usual themes of bondage and vampirlsm, interviews with metal bands and ads for
same. The name of the magazine is difficult to say
and easy to forget. The typewriter graphics are sloppy, and interspersed with hand-printed heads and inserts where the ecfltors were too lazy to go back to the typewriter or comptAer. No page numbers, but this is a pretty hefty 'zine for a tiny price. Interviewed in this issue are Deathrune, Burled Beneath, Enslaved, Deceased, Hellbound, Danza Macabra, Accursed, Mutema, Enchantment, and Thrust.
Lut Poetry and Art Issue, (no number en).
Lots of poetry by many different alAhors. The graphics have not improved, still no page numbers and too many handwritten titles and fillers. However, there is one standout: the artwork by Lainen, which is consistently fine. The poetry is fraught with the usual problem encountered by amateur poets: lack of a single controlling image. Nebulous feelings abound; for example: 'I'm slowly &/ painfully losing/ my mind/ My world is cold &/ dark/ I cUng to nothing for/ there is/ nothing there/ to embrace/ I'm so lonely/ I'm trapped inside/ on [sic) emotionless state/ Hoping someday will/ open the/ door of darkness/ & shine/ light on my/ morbate (sic) soul..."

•THE AMBASSADOR is available from the Embassy of Lucifer. PO Box 1229, Terrace, B.C. VSG 5P7, Canada; single issue $4.00 (Cana<ian funds).
Although this purports to be a weekly ptj)lication, we
have only one issue here.
Volume 1, Issue #2: Nine pages, printed on only one side, stapled in one comer, entirely comprised of Crowley's Tht1 Book of the LBwand a little piece of Egyptoid clip art. If you think this is worth four bucks, go for it.

•BATTLE OF BEWITCHMENT is available from Robert Hoog, P.O. Box 5069, 451 05 Uddevalla, Sweden; asingle issue is $6.00 US.
Issue #3: BeautifuUy designed and executed with professional graphics and typesetting, this issue is abargain. The glossy cover wraps around a wealth of articles by authors like Michael Rose, Timothy p. Butler (also an interview with this Satanic artist), and Peter H. Gilmore. There are more interviews with the bands Bay Laurel, Disgrace, lsten, Sacramentum, Internal Bleeding and Immolation. So if music and Satanic thought are among your interests, youl find much to sample here. Highly recommended.

•THE PUBLIC SATANIST, A Publication of Satan's Playground Grotto, is available from P.O. Box 201835, Bloomington, MN 55420; make $5.00 check or money order payable to Brett Randall for asingle issue.
Volume 1,Issue #1: A strong beginning for
another Satanic joumal that has its roots in the Internet. Mr. Randall took his first step into public Satanism by creating an attractive and informative website, then pulled together his contacts and design abillies into this publication. The layoti is attractive; there is a great deal of Satanic poetry and an interview wlh Herself, Magistra Peggy Nadramia.
Recommended.

•DARK RISING, Official Forum of the Black Order
of the Shaltan Warrior, available for $3.00 from
P.O. Box 8392, Tampa, FL 33674. Cash or money orders made out to Brad W. Reinert (no checks).
Volume 1,Issue #1: 'One nation, under

Satanl" shOlds the cover of this new Satanic magazine. Among the topics discussed are Welfare and the Homeless, Peace and Jesus Freaks. Lots of clippings to fill the pages, some of them rather lrterest ing, such as some relatively rare pictures from the Church c1Satan's ear1y days. The editor also includes
anumber of poems which I believe are also song lyrics.
The Order of the Shaian Warrior puts forth 14 laws which are generally consistent wlh Satanism's eslablished Rules of the Eath. There is a Wal c1 Fools l8S8IV8d for future issUIIS, and readers 118 Med to submit the names of any 'idiots who have been kicked
w of Satalhood." I wil beinlr9Jing to see where this
ll,t>licalion goes inthefwe.
Volume 1, Issue #2: Hey, where's the Wall of Fools? I was looking forward to that. Well, we must settle for an amusing collection of Satanic comic strips, a sutiable-for-framing centerfold of a pentagram with goat's head, and reprints lengthy interviews with Vincent Crowley and Peter H. Gilmore. This magazine could go places if the editor finds more original material to publish. Keep your eye on Dark Rising.

•THE ABYSS, available for $4.00 US, $6.00 elsewhere, from the Black Order of Pan-Europa, P.0. Box TT4, Clarkton, MO 63837.
Issue #1: Includes work by Kerry Bolton, David Myatt and several others, inclucing the editor, Max Frith. Among the subjects discussed are 'Pagamm: A National Socialist VtM," 'long Live Death,' 'The Black Order Motorcycle Club," and 'Aryans From Outer Space.' The editorial speaks of our movement,
points out where this movement has failed and where
• could be improved. It speaks of European man and his sides, both light and dark, and purports tobring about action and change only by changing the way the members of this movement may think and process the information they receive. But I cant seem to find a single instance where the editor tells us
what the movement is. I assume its a white, European thing, and I was intrigued to see the editor speak of his 'brethren" fighting for freedom in Northem Ireland, as this issue has been largely ignored in the other Euro-pagan publications. I think
• would be just as easy for someone of European
descent to look upon the successful conquerors, the English, as his 'brethren.'

•RAYENS' CHATS, available for $5.00 from J.P. Tabone, B.P. 236, 31004 Toulouse Cedex, France.
"The Graphic Issue, Number One,• contains interviews with Timothy Patrick Butler and Michael Moynihan. When asked aboti his debates with the more 'libertarian" factions within Satanism, Moynihan states that ihese 'anti-fascist,' so-called Satanists are not even worth discussing. They're abunch of fools." Butler addresses the same issue: 'There have been a few extremely vocal anti-fascist wrters thal would like to make abigger issue of fascism than is warranted. These armchair philosophers have nothing better to do all day than scream from their little soapl)oxes. Personaly, I have drawings to make.' Also included are several pages of music and print reviews and some discussion of other Satanic magazines.

•PROGRESS REPORT, The Church of Epiphany, 4533 MacArthur Boulevard, Sule 339, Newport Beach, CA 92660. No prices listed, bti the issues are small affairs; send $5.00 and see what they'll send you.
The Church of Epiphany is named after Lisa Bonet's character in the film 'Angel Heart' (based on the fine novel FsDing Angt,lby William Hjortsberg).

Their beliers 818 based on those of the Yezidi religion, and this group is led by an "Archimandrite" who answers questions and issues edicts in each
Report. Wilie the CoE l8fers to its gocflead as the Peacock Angel, they nonetheless propose irter comroonication with other Satanic groups. Their symbol is a serpenl and they have anabiclng irterest in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. They 818 very anti Christian and quote frequently from the Bible to support their argllrl8rts.

-ONSLAUGHT, available for $6.00 US, $7.00 fol8ign, from the Church of Luciferian Light, P.O. Box 7207, Tampa, FL 33673.
Volume 5, Issue #1, Autumn, XXX A.S.: News and updates on the Satanic scene, as well as some discussion of ritual elements, including a ritual applying sexual acts to meet various goals. A good portion of this 'zine is taken up by the basic membership information and instructions for joining the Church of Luciferian Light. Extensive 181/iews, and a touching memorial page noting the passage of Draegon Undomiel's canine companion, Axzel zueI, or Mr. Puppy. Neat daisy-wheel or typewriter o
that is unfortunately in all caps.
•REALIST PUBLICATIONS, P.O. Box 1627,
Paraparaumu Beach, New Zealand, is abusy little concern that makes possible the following magazines and monographs. Their prowcts are always produced neatly but tunbly, in stapled cigest-size
with typewriter typesetting and no extra cover materials. However, you will always find them to be well-18Searched and chock-full of information and ideas you won, find elsewhel8. The writing and publishing efforts of K.R. Bolon and his colleagues wel8, and conlinue to be, extl8mely influential in the upsurge of pan-European paganism and inlerast in classical European cultu18. You can examine Bolton's influence in many other Satanic and neo fascist zines, or you can get it right from the source by sampling what Realist Publications has to offer.
THE FLAMING SWORD, Issue #6, $5.00
surface, $7.00 air: Under discussion we find Jotunss, an American motorcycle club that ftn:tions as an Odinist religious order, as well as character analysis of the Loki, Shiva and Hel8S myth-figtns. Thel8 is an extensive int81View with David Myatt, author of 1118 EnlgltBnment Of NstionBI Socialsm, and a ciscussion of the Holocaust. Reviews of books and periodicals are also included.
THE HERETIC, Issue #12, $5.00 stlface,
$7.00 air: Included in this issue is possbly the most extensive and thoughtful irterview yet conducted with Magister Peter H. Gilmo18 of the Church of Satan.
Robert N. Taylor is also irt81Viewed. While interviews are common in Satanic 'zines, Bolton always conducts his at a high intellectual level and gives his subjects ample space for thoughtful 18plies. Prinl and audio reviews comprise the rest of the issue.
THE NEXUS (now comprising both The Raming SWonfand 1118 HBretkf,, $5.00 surface,
$20.00 for four issues, $7.001$25.00 for air. Issue #1: Joumal of the Kulturkampf/
Realpolitik/Esoterrorism is how The NBXUS descrl>es itsel. This issue expl018S the life of D'Annunzio, warrior bard, and concludes the int81View with Robert N.Taylor. Thel8 is the usual review section, and some 188ponses to statements and ideas inthe previous issue. One of the strong poirrts of Bofton's editorial policy is his abiity to get quibblers to tum what might be a whiny letters column into actual essays of 18Sponse. This is what makes a magazine into a real forum, and fflOl8 ptj)lishers shoukl try it.
Issue #2: An irterview wjth Kadmon, the

person behind the magazine Aatll andthe musical project Alleraeeren, and abrief examination of Satanic activiy in Poland. Also a salute to James Hartung Madole, the "father of Post-War Ocwt Fascism.• Reviews, poetry and mo18.
Issue 13: This time the irterview is with George Eric Hawthorne d the band RahoQ; he's also the publisher of RIJSislancB magazine. Some historicafbackgroundis given on"the SWoro of
VICIOry: the legend of Surtr's flamingsworo.· Also
included among the reviews and poetry is "The
Cosmological Magick of National-Socialism" and "In the Shadow of the Talmud."
Issue #4: "A Tale of Two Books" leads this issue, discussing two new volumes about the Third Reich, GOflbb6/s: 1118 MaslBlmind of the Thitri Reich by David Irving and Hit/Br's Willing ExBCUtionBrS: OrrilnllfY Gllf1Tllllls and thB Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen. Thel8 is also a discussion of the alliance of Gennany and Tibet during WWII, mol8 about Madole's stormtroopers, some background about white MusUms (greenshirts), a memorial to Raf Van Hine, and much mol8.
Issue #5: "Marinelti and Fwirism" are
discussed, as well as "Nationalism: NatU18's Decree," "Altnism as a SuNival Mechanism" and "Celile the lfl1)ossble.• Thel8 is also a tribiie to "the astral Fascist,• Wlliam Dudley Pelley.
Issue #6: An irterview with Christian Bouchet of the NotMllle Resistance and ThBIBmB', "Schmz ataffel and the Runes"; aninleNiew with Sarole Industries, an American company producing l8COl'd ings and publications which l8COllCile "the apparent diametric opposition of the totalitarian and the avant garde.• The usual extensive reviews, and morel

•MONOGRAPHS from Realist Publications: LOVECRAFT'S FASCISM: the Political and
Raclal Views of H.P. Lovecraft, by W. Grirnwakl,
$5.00 US. The author makes acase for a Lovecraft who is a true Aryan pagan at heart. Lovecraft 18ferl8d to Hitler as "profoundly sincel8 and patriotic,• and his views of man-as-animal al8 revealed in the staternert: "Twenty centuries of
flabby Christian fakery have not succeeded in changing our naturas one jot.•
DIETRICH ECKART: Hitler's Occult Mentor, by W. Grimwald, $15.00 US. Heavily footnoted and with several photographs, this volllrl8 attempls to
clear away the myths about Eckart who was a key
figln cuing the l1ild Reich.
FASCISM AND THE FUTURIST AESTHETIC,
by K.R. Bolton with articles by Flippo Marinelli,
$10.00 US. This volume includes Bolon's article 'Marinetli and Futurism" from a18C8nt issue of his magazine 1118 Nexus, along with 18prirted articles by the poet Marinetti himself.
ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION: Soclal and
Political Thoughts of the Great Beast, by Frater Scorpio, $10.00 US. The author tells us that "Thelema was not announced by Crowley as mel8Iy another occultic system for bourgeoisie dabblers. It is a martial, fighting creed. And Crowley said it P19Cisely... 'Let every manbear anns, swift to 1888111 oppl88Sion... generous and ardert to draw sword in any cause, if justice or freedom summon him.'•
•FILOSOFEM, available for $7.50 US from Blood
Axis, 5 Rue Gabriel Pieme, 57000 Metz, France.
Volume 1,laauea #1 and #2: Neat little digest, three slender columns of daisy-wheel oiiiu that is clear and l8adable. The Noldland Forlag, who pubish Rosof8m, consider themselves Heathen TNOnic Wodenists, and most of the material herein

reflects this point of view. Thel8 is writing by Vargr Vila.mes Larusson a/Wa "Court Grishnacht," who was given twenty-one years in prison for "killing a
Communist" and luning churches. Michael Moynihan, K.R. Bolon and David Myatt all cortribi.u interesting pieces, and there 818 two rousing poems by George Zaharopoulos. The other cortributors, however, would obviously be mol8 comfortable writing in their native language and perhaps should be encouraged to do so; their essays are mllky.
Volume 1,Issues 13 and #4: MOl8 of the same, with the addition of Steven Bernard Cox. The
include Bolton's "Eugenics and Dys genics," Moynihan's "Dionysos-Dilhyra,rt,en" and "Overcome and Conquer (Part One)" by Vidar Von Hersks.
Volume 2, Issues #1 and #2: The sole conlributors this time 'round are Von Herske, Myatt, Bolon and R. N. Taylor. Taylor has two poems, one long, one short, but both 818 memorable and evocative. The editor allows both Bolon andMyatt ample space for lengthier articles, something one
sees too little of in most magazines of this type.
Volume 2, Issues 13 and #4: Moynihan explores the myriad levels of meaning behind the
Wols Angs rune, and Zaharopwos and Von Hersks
team up to discuss Gl88k mythology. Another lenglhy article by Myatt, "The ReslJ'g8flC8 of the West,• rounds ou this issue.
Volume 3,Issues #1 and #2: A diverse and jam-packed issue, wlh the retum d most of the cortribiiors as well as the welcome addition of Robert Ward, late of 1118 Fdth Path. Bolon discusses
H.P. Lovecraft, and TaylorconsidersT.S. Eliot, as well as cortribiiing "Faust - aGothic Epic inFour Movements.·

•AORTA, available for $5.00 US, International M.O. or cash only, from G. Patak, P.O. Box 778,A-1011, Vienna, Austria.
Issue #1: Digest-sized journal, stapled with clean typewriter typesetting and acard stock cover. Ken Anger's "Lucier Rising" is the subject of this issue, with an article in German followed by the Ef9ish translation.
Issue #17: Same Gennan/English format. "F'ldus: Images of l..,91t" is this issue's article, and ii concerns the artist Fldus who was bom over a hoodr8d years ago in Germany and whose work depicts joyfu, innocel11y llJde AJyan folk against triumphm and light-filled backgrounds.
Issue #19: Michael Moynihan and Blood Axis are the subjecls of this issue, and thel8 is yet anolher interview with Moyrihan as well as ashort essay by
K.R. Bolton, along with several inleresting photos.
•BAaDER, the Pan-European Fraternity or Knowledge, available for $8.00 US from 60 Elmhurst Road, Reading, Berkshil8 RG1-5HY, England.
Issue #681&9: This is achock.full issue, with articles on "Mysterious Cemoonos,• "Dl8ams and Their Significance,• "SI. August Caesar,• "Swastika: Lost Sign of F188rnasonry,• and much, much mol8.

•THE WARCOM GAZETTE, available from Warcom Media, P.O. Box 1175, San Jose, CA 95108. Price unknown; $5.00 shoukl get you a couple of issues.
Issues April 1995 through October 1996: This is an actual newsletter, often only two or four pages long, with professional-looking des91, graphics and typesetting. Discussed: NAFTA and the dollar vs. the peso; the objects d Wan:om's Fealfess Leader, Beau Lippincott's, personal wrath; James Mason; Jim and Debbie Goad; Robert N. Taylor; stllf Beau Lippincotl likes; random thoiqrts abou

motorcycles, cars, the Olympics, Dennis Rodman, Marge Schott and golf: Recommended.

•THE RATIONAL RACIST, available for $4.50 from The Gidney Mission, P.O. Box 7657, Port St. Lucie, FL 34985-7657.
Volume 1, laue #1: Twelve pages of neat desktop graphics and typesetting; this is the first project fromMourning Star Mecla, a civision of the Gidney Mission. You might 19merrber ecitor/ptblisher Willam Gidney from his days in the First Occulic Ctuch and his edtorahip of Tssts From ths CsJJ/dron. The first article in this issue is an exhortation to the white European and European American to follow the wrler on his road to promoting the racial identity of whites. He tells us, "Think globally; act locally.• The goals here are wry arrbitious and include plans for a Universal Collegiate of Cultural Loyalists, an organization comprised of the c,r,ms-dt1-/a-cn,ms of racially
conscious White Intelligentsia. They in tum wil create a United White Colege Finl and recnit on the colege campuses of America. This type of program was also inthe works by the Objectivists back in the Se1181ties and E91ties, by the way. Also included hare is a piece pointing oul the successful
techniques employed by black racists. The author, "Laura Palmer," also brings the significant point that the mo19 intellectual among while racists keep quiet about theil' views for the simple reason that they do not wish to be identified wih the tobacco chewing lowbrows who usually •represent" Whiles on talk shows, etc. Palmer observes that black activists dont allow "the least among them" to get in front of a camera. This is athought-provokingfirst issue.

-OHM CLOCK, available for $4.00 US, $6.00
foreign, from P.O. Box 8590, Reno, NV 89507.
laue #3: Full-sized, wih professional graphics and layout, this issue interviews James Mason, Kadmon of Allerseelen and Aorta, the band KIii Switch Kllck, and another band called EyeHateGod. Editor Aaron Garland takes alook at the art, nuic and poetry of R.N. Taylor in"VISions of aModem Day Viking," and thel9s an extensive section of soood 18Views.
Issue #4: This issue marks an upgrade to classy, slick cover stock. Interviews with George Eric Hawthome of Rahowa, artist Trevor Brown, Vincent Crowley of Acheron, articles on Gnosticism and the lndo-European Wor1dview, and much, much more. Many reviews. Recommended.

•RESISTANCE, available for $4.95 US, $5.50 Canada, from Resistance Recolds, P.O. Box 24700, Detroit, Ml 48224. They offer acomplete line of recordings, tee shirts, videos and back Issues, au available by credit can:I by faxing them at 810-684- 7958, or by contacting theil' website at www.resistance.com.
Issue #7: BOINGI Who said while racialists were all drooling Neanderthals? They'd better not say ii to the guys at RBS/stancs. This is a full-color,
slick newsstand magame that wwd fit right in
beside the latest issue of Sassy. There are eight pages of news and views from aroim the racialist comml.llity, and ashort piece responding to the many myths of the Pro-White movement. Most intel9sting was a lengthy article about a real Waffen SS soldier, along wtth numerous pictures from his personal scrapbook. Music is definitely another focus here, with articles about several Pro-Whtte bands, as
well as intet8stlng exceriu from the edttor's mail>ag. Resistance Recolds lsts their products in the back with an order form. Even If you dor1'l aQl98 with their

beliefs, you should get acopy for your colection; you simply haw to see Rssislllnc8 to beliew how professional a racialist rnagazi1e can be.

•THE HOOVER HOG, available for $2.50 from Rich8ld (Chip) Smith, 621 Kings Row, Charleston, WV25314.
"A Review of Dangerous Ideas" is how the premier Issue bis itself, and the edlor juqis right in by (tling us his seven page analysis of al four issues of ANSWER Ms/, "the only magazine worth hating." ActuallyI Clip loves this history-making magazine written and plblished by Jim and Debbie Goad, and his reasons and 19actions are quite erdertaining. He goes on to discuss Adam Parf19y's Cult Rapture anthology, Big Macs, and more. Up
coming issues include a libertarian-atheist's argu ments agianst abortion, a cfiscussion of holocaust revisionism, laws reganing kiddie pom, and many mo19 "tools for dangerous thinking.• Chip is smart
and his magazine, I'm sure, will get even better.

ep()() POO MAGAZINE, available for $3.00 for one issue, $5.00 for two, or $10.00 for a four-issue sooscription from Pi.wging Talon Pt.misting, P.O. Box 8131, Bur1 n, VT 05402.
lllue #10:118 a fat digest fr X 8.5j wilh Mly,
I a tad busy, graphics, chock-ful of fWlny filers and innovative design features. Poo Poo looks at pop cul!A, the music scene and life in general with a witty irreverence and a total disdain for religion.
Articles in this Issue include "You're All Fascists... And No, I Won't Suck Your Dick!," •r Wanna Fuck You, Tipper Gorel" and "Go To Hell? I Work Therel"
lasue #11: This time around edttor M.C. Caucasian Pimp treats us to "Butchering The Human Carcass For Human Consumption," "Catholicism:
Cross-Waving Orgy of the Damned," and "An Open Letter To Those Colection Agency Assholes." The contents page has aquote from Goebbels: "When I hear the word cultu19, I reach for my goo.•
Issue #12: This is the female-bashing issue. Offerings include "The Natural Beaiiy of VIOience," "Fuck You and Your Feminine Side," and "It's a Misogynist's Lie." I particularly 9r10)'9d ., Hate the Fucking Telephone" by staff wrler Vanlla Christ.
Issue #13: The standout in this issue is Vanilla Clvist's commerrtary on the "goth" scene, •r Wear Black On The Oulside Because I'm Black On the
Inside... Here, Eat This Black Rose While I Slit My Wrist in D-Minor.• Christ makes this observation about the originality of goth bands: •rt I had adime for every goddamned black and whtte photo I've been shown of a bunch of goth punks in acemetery,
striking some dramatic pose next to a marble monument or a wrought-iron gate, I'd be Donald Fucking Trump!" Christ's overview of fast food chains Is also wel worth the read, and should probably be repr.-rted in Th8 Raven (although they are a tad more genteel). Of the late night Demy's experience, Christ
observes, •r can't say much for the decor, but I do
recall the waitresses as being evil warty demons from
Poldenl Creme hell." Recommended.
FLAMES FROM THE INTERNET, Issue #1,
available for $2.00 from the adcnss above. M.C. Caucasian Pimp's and Vanlla Christ's adllenlures with Christians in the online chat rooms of the lnlemet. If yowe never been in an online chat or are just wondering what this Internet thing is all about, this might give you an idea of how much time youre
saving every day!

•PRIMAL CHAOS, available for $5.00 per issue or
$10.00 for a two-issue subscription from Wendy Van Dusen, 1072 Folsom St., #388, San Francisco, CA

94103.
Issue #12:Music, art and underground c.. u19 are the focus hel9, and the mag boasts a slick color cover with artwork by Tp. Buller. Interviewed in this
issue: The Electric Hellfire Club, Type O Negative, auhor Dennis Cooper, Blag Dahlia, Trial of the Bow, and Anal Cunt. lntel9sting page designs and a large review section.
Issue #13: A sexy yomg devil girl sucks a popeicle ori the cover by artist Coop, who is interviewed (by another artist, Timothy Patrick Butler) In this issue along with Barlanart&:et, Whltehouu, Charles Gatewood, Urge Overt&:111, and Noothgrulh. Coop's work is largely cenl819d on bodacious babes and beautiful cars. Says Coop:"l've always had kind of a fascination with mechanical objects... As far as
women are concerried, I have no fucking idea how
IIM,ywork.• Recommended.

•KILL 'EM ALL ZINE, available for $3.00 from Nemo Unlimlted, Ud., P.O. Box 466, Wickliffe, OH 44092- 0466.
Issue #1: Serial Mll'ders and Other Violence is the theme annom:ed hel9. This 'zine is neatly produced wilh a clean page style wilh few graphics or photos, saddle stitched with a while can:I stock cowr. Articles include "VIOience-the Sow Cherry in America's Pie" and "Serial Mllders & The
Satanic/Rituaistic Crimes Myth."
•WORM GEAR, available for $5.00 from P.0. Box
426, Mayfield, Ml 49666.
laue #2: A ful-sized 'zine that you your money's worth of articles and interviews with various metal and underground bands. This issue has an interview withMagistra Peggy Nadramia, and while I haven't seen any other issues, I understand that the editor has taken to inlerviewing other Satanists regularly. Unlike some other music 'zines, this one has an attractive and readable page design.
-SEN IS DEAD, avalable for $5.00 from P.O. Box
3166, Holywood, CA 90028.
Issue #25: Conlains Part Two of Darby and Kerin's visit with Anion LaVey. The trendy ch/quilas are mostly inleresled in the swprisingly cfllltinct malelfemale roles Dr. LaVey and tis companion
Blanche Barton have asslln8d---60 clfferenl from the relationships they see around them in scenester Hel, no dotbt. The Doc shoots straight from the lip,as usual: "Whether women wart to admit ii or not, many women's fantasy is to meet a man who can change their lives••." Miss Barton busts out a few quotable
quotes hersel: "It's better to be used than useless..." Altogether an enlightening interview that no dolbt threw a few monkey wrenches the way of the cl0119- cigaratte-and-patcho1Ai crowd.
•YOUR FLESH, available for $5.00 from P.O. Box 583264, Minneapolis, MN 5 3264.
Issue #29: This Is the Ten Year Anniversary Issue. While thel9 are several inleresting articles, essays and interviews here, the mail focus is on dozens and dozens of 19views, listing magames,
books, 19COOings, videos and even television shows from the past year or so. As such, I is quie a vollffle and wel worth the tiny price, I only for Debbie Goad's examination of the Riot Grrrls: "Rrrealy
Bonring." You can imagine what effort ii took for Debbie to intentionally misspell something, and ignore what looked like a typol

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•ESOTERRA, The Journal of Extreme Culture, available for $6.25 from Chad Hensley, 630 S. Carollon Ave., #110, New Orleans, LA 70118.
Issue #5: The Super Sized Satanic MUlic Special! lrtelViews with Marilyn Manson, Blood Axis, Whitehouse and The Electric Hellfire Club, all accompanied by many photos. Thel8S a sermon by Robert DeGrimston, "After the Deluge,• and an exploration of the chaos concept by Stephen Sennltt. Charles Nemo cortrl>ites an article on the Satanic Crines myth, and leBah Wendell offers "Love Among the Tombs." Also among the contributors 818 Karen K. Taylor, Robert Ward, Wihrn G. Pugmire,
Genesis P-Orridge and Frater Koth, who takes a look at the wOl1c of H.P. Lovecraft. The edtor is a poet and includes a section of poetry along with the
articles and essays. The magazine is attractive with a slick cover. A contender to fill the gap left by Wards The FHth Path. Recommended.

-METAL FEST MAGAZINE, available for $4.00 from
Michael Hurrt Publishing, 360-23 W. Bloomingdale, IL60108.
Issue #1: The focus is on metal · , obviously, with that Satanic twist we al live for. Included in this issue is anessay by George Eric Hawthome, "Deblllking the Great Lie," which wll appear as an afterword in a new edition of Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard.

•DELIRIUM, available for $5.00 from Sophie Diamartis, n9Riverside Dr.#A-11, New York, NY 10032.
Issue #3: The slick cover is a disconcerting solid green, but sports a rather attractive woodcut style drawing of Vlad Tepes Dracula, known among Satanists as Vlad the Just. This is a magazine about vampires and related cuKural artifacts. Unlike many other vampire mags, it is not scruffy, but beautifully laid out and very professional-looking. Its also well worth the tiny price, chock-full of information and reviews. Among the subjects discussed are Type 0 Negative, Marilyn Manson and the Vampyr Theatre. Michael Moynihan contributes a review.

•WICKED MYSTIC, available for $5.95 US, $7.95 foreign, from Andre Sheluchin, 532 LaGuardia Place, #371, New York, NY 10012.
Issue #25: Takes a look at over 300 websites worth visiting for the horror freak, and includes ten horror stories and even more poetry and artwork. Slick two-color cover by R.H. Phister.

•THE ENEMY, available for $4.00 from P.O. Box 5661, Richmond, VA 23221. Make check/M.O. payable to Mike LLian,
luue #1: Social Darwinist essays and poems wor1ced no irteresting photo-collages, wih some Mber stamping and hand-coloring; digest-sized. This issue concludes with the statement that "Every woman adores a Fascist."
Issue #2: Now on full-sized, unbound 'parchmert" sheets, each page carries a separate essay by Jom Baltema, in a differert attractive fort.
There are uoseveral ilustrations by Mike Lt.ian,
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•CONCUSSION, available for $7.00 from 115 Timbercove Dr., Cam II, CA 95008.
Issue #2: A metal 'zine with nice production values and lots to read and see. Interviewed in this issue are The Electric Hellfire Club, David Vincent of Morbid Angel, Bathory, Deicide, and lots more, plus reviews and ads.
-OPEN FORUM, available for $10.00 cash from Lianos,
P.O. Box 8343, Athens (Omonia), GR-10010, Greece.
Issue #9: A compact little digest discussing sexual issues and governmeml edicts control6ng sexual freedom; includes erotica and personal ads. Tastefully done; you could read this on the subway. They stand for "freedom for all sexual/sensual interactions between consenting individuals without any interference from the theofascist zealots & government automatons..."

-STRANGE FIRE, available for $3.00 from P.O. Box 1219, Allston, MA 02134.
Issue #3: A tracitional small press <lgest, wih thougttful essays on witchcraft, gnosticism and "Pandemonaeon:• Also includes several strange stories, poems and some artwork by "E. Zam' of Massachusetts.Reviews of afew occult books.
•DESCENT, available for $6.00 worktNide from P.O. Box 95931, Seattle, WA 98145.
Winter/Spring 1995: A we igned music mag with a devlish/golh flawr; the usual irnrviews with bands like Satyrlcon, Mystifier, Typhon, Unpure, etc., plus articles, reviews and a section of artwork by Tania Steine.
•THE PROJECT from A-ALBIONIC RESEARCH,
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l'U admit most of this goes way over my head, bit if worldwide conspiracies and imminert collapse are your thing, these are the people to contact.
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•DARK'S ART PARLOUR, 5249 Lankersheirn Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601, (818) 752-6080.
A "Darkside" art gallery with regularly featured group exhbftions, plus a mail order catalog of prints, posters, books, sculpture and tee shirts. They included the art of Timothy Patrick Butler and Steve Johnson Leyba in a February 1997 exhibition.

•THE MAGIC SHOP, 1501 Pike Place, #427,
Seattle, WA 98101; www.speakeasy.org/magic. A source for the stage magician, or the part
time dabbler who likes to impress his friends with flash paper during group rituals. Yes, they do mail order. Classic books tool

-MICHAEL HUNT PUBLICATIONS, 360-23 W.
Schick Rd., Bloomingdale, IL60108.
In additiOn to their upcoming new edition of Might Is Right, this publisher puts out a plethora of other products, including the "forbidden" comics of Mike Diana, "Cards of Carnage,• Strsngs Ssx Storiss from h:e Backwards, and much more. They regularly sponsor Metalest.

-OARK DELICACIES, 3725 W. Magnolia Blvd.,
Burbank, CA 91505; (818) 556-6660.
Besides being atotally cool and complete store for the horror Bficionsdo, these people put wa little newsletter updating their customers on their evem, which include reguar book signings by authors like

Wiltiam Peter Blally, S.P. Somtow and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. They also produce an annual Horror Writers and Vampire Calendar ($18.96 includes postage). If you live wlhin 100 miles of Burbank, you should pey them a visit. They also retail wonderful life masks of the Hollywood greats, Including Karloff and Lugosi.
•KINO VIDEO, 333 w. 39 St., Sule 503, New York, NY 10018; (800) 562-3330, fax (212) 714-1871.
If you can't find ft anywhere else, ask Kino. Their last promotion was "Treasures From the Weimar Rept.blic." They produce and sell excellent releases of silert films.

•ATOMIC BOOKS, 229 West Read Street,
Balimore, MD 21201 USA, Phone: 410-728-5490,
Fax: 410-669-4179, BBS: 410-889-3543
http://www.atornicbooks.com/atomicbk/
Here's an exemplary source for prirted material
biling itself as "Literary finds for mutated minds."
•MEGACOOPERATION, Versand c/o H. SchOren,
l.indenweg 3, 59192 Bargkamen, Germany. Phone:
01721236 22 03, Fax: 02307/29 96 99.
This looks tobe the continent's finest import specialit for El9ish and American books with new age, occult, and esoteric subjects. Also carries 8SS811ial oils, candles, au<lo-hypnosis programs,
medallions and nu:h morel Get their catalog for 5 OM, 10 OM otaide of Europe.

•ABYSS DISTRIBUTION, 48 Chesler Road,
Chesler, MA 01011-9735. Phone: 413-623-2155,
Fax: 413-623-2156. E-mai: Abyss Dist@aol.com.
Still the best SOll'C8 for occul and new age iterature, music, and paraphernalia. They include the left-Hand Path, so give them your business!

-MUSEUM REPLICAS, 2143 Gees MiU Road, Box
840, Conyers, GA 30207, Phone: 1-800-883-8838.
Still the best source for medieval and fantasy weapons, made for battle and at reasonable prices. Send $2.00 for a catalog (write for delails oiaide of U.SA.).

-ST. MICHAEL'S EMPORIUM, Gothic Renal•
sance Attire for the New Dark Age, Catalog #6, ($4.00). 156 East 2nd Street, Suite 1, New York, NY 10009. Phone: 212-995-8359, E-mail:
stmichemp@aol.com.
Fanlasy leather armor and masks, jewelry, swords and cloaks-they've got quite an array of merchandise to delight and excite.
•NECRONOMICON PRESS, Catalog 1996 ($1.00),
P.O. Box 1304, West Warwick, RI 02893. Phone:
401-828-7161. Fax: 401-826-1151.
Here is THE source for Lovecraftiana, from obscure works by the Old Gent to rare editions of his fiction and works by others inhis circle, as well as
scholarly studies of this literature. If you are fascinated by such, you must order their catalog!

•THE DEVIL'S BOOKSHELF, P.O. Box 666,
Daylona Beach, FL 32115-0666 ($5.00 for a catalog).Phone: 904-255-4346.
Here is a fine source for rare and out-of-prirt
Satanic, OCCIM, horror, true crime, and erotica titles. They also sell human skuls and skeletons! A wealth of material for discerning bbliophiles.

•NIGHT OF PAN BOOKS, 347 Lisbon Ave., Bllfalo, NY 14215 ($1.00 for catalog). Phone: 716-833-5336. Another fine source of rare, ow-of-print occul,

•ANTI-, P.O. Box 1765, Burbank, CA 91507. Phone:
800-599-ANTI, Fax: 213-644-70n.
Catalog nuimer two featll'98 varied roosic(Punk, Garage, Sulf, Rockablly, Psychedelia, etc.) as wen as posters, T-shirts, and &ghters (some with Images by Coop). Great devil on the covert
-RANSOM NOTE GRAPHICS, P.O. Box 13314,
Oakland, CA 95661. Phone: 510.530-7996.
A so..-ce of tiuy iconoclastic T-shirts (from exploitation TV & film to serial kllers and freaks). Also includes acatalog of Blackest Heart Videoe.
•ADVENTURES UNLIMITED, Wlntar/Sprlng 1997 Catalog ($4.00), One Adventtn Place, P.O. Box 74, Ke on,1160946.
Lists books and videos on fringe beliefs, UFO's, conspiracies, Nazis, and mysteries of aD sorts. Also Includes an ad for their World Explorers Club which has a guide for oousual and exotic trips.
.. NFERNACULA, Dlabollctl Arta I Craft Worb,
P.O. Box 792 666, San Antonio, TX 78279-2666.
Fax: 210-348-8666.
This Is Issue V of acatalogl'zlne which includes an intelView wlh Magiater Vincent Crowley (with qtite an lllustralionl) as well as fiction and poetry.
The mail fealtn18 the merchanclse offered by lnfBfTIBCUltl. Uniquely designed items include posters, banners, attar cloths, medalions, cande holders, statues and more. We have one of the 10 ilch He Goat Demon statues and he Is a powe,tu Satanic figtn. His goat head soonourU a lllUSCWlr torso. He has goat-Ike legs and taB, as well as a sizeable tunan endowment and stands proudly on a trapezoidal base. The catalog is filed with sexual imagery (women cavorting with creatul8S simUar to this figin), so an age of consent form is needed to receive thi8 l)li>lcalion. $3.50 ($4.50 olAside the U.S.) wll get you a copy.
-SIGIL OF BAPHOMET MEDALLIONS, AZAZEL,
P.O. Box 53, Allen Park, Ml 48101--0053.
From the folks who bring you 0/Bbolica, you can now purchase these fine pewter medallions. The slgil is one Inch In diameter and is finely detailed and raised from a roughly-textured background. A 24 inch chain Is Included for the price of $15.00, post-paid (add $3.00 for shipment outside the U.S. Checks and money orders should be made ow to Azazel). These 1118 well-wrougrt sigils that should stand up to
frequent use, and they're just the proper size to make
atastefuly ciscreet statement abOIA your affiliation
when you're out and about.
GUEST PRINT REVIEWS

-i WAS A 1950'1PIN-UP MODEL from the collection of Mark Rotenberg. $14.45 ppd, Shake Books, 449 12th St.., Brooklyn, NY 11215, (718) 499-6941 ISBN:
0.9626833-7-X
Georgs SprsgUB, fBViBwer.
If a pictin Is worth a thousand words, then this book is worth two hundred thousand and then some! This is apictorial guide into the world of pill-up photography of the 1950's. In her introduction, assis tant ecitor Lal.l'a Mirsky beckons us to remember the day we found Dad's S8Cl8l shoebox filed with black and-white pictul8S of beautiful girls, all in various stages of undress. Miss Mirsky takes us on a brief exetnion of the social climate of the day, the photographers, some famous name models and ittle bits and pieces that paint the pk:ltn of those saucy

times. "The 1940's and '50'a were a time when sax was NAUGHTY, when there was somethi1g left to the imagination." Hear, heart She bemoans the pasa ing of this style of photography (don' we all?) and concludes her introduction wlh an imlitation to •Join us and 18Cf881e those innocent day&-When sex was naiqrty but thrillng, when the girl next-door stl looked like one, when the forbidden world beckoned softly yet ilT8Sistl>ly." What m018 can be said?
These tantalizing pictul8S 1118, of course, in black-and-white. They 1118 arranged by style in chapters spoiling such tasty tiles as "Skirts Ahoy!", "Th9'S and Whipsters,• "Venus in Furs,• "G-I-R-0- W-L" and of course "Celebriy Cutles." All 18d blooded wolves and st.devla should add this one to their collection!
-DARK NATURE: A Natural History of Evll, by Lyall Watson (Harpercollins, New Yorlc, NY 1995; 318 plus xvi pages, ISBN 0-06-01768&-1,$25.00, hardcover)
Kt1vin ShlJlton, mvit1wtlf.
Biologiat and nattl'aist Lyal Watson's Ofllk Nsltnbegins promsingly. Watson provides empirically sound support for the proposlion that so caled "good' and "evir 818 not simple clchotornies , blA instead 818 inextricably linked to each other wittlJl nature. "Good" and "evil,. to the extent they exist al all, 818 interdependent by-products of physical, not metaphysical, forces.
Regrettably, howewr, Watson falters when he strays from his field of expertise into the murlder waters of human behavior. His forays into moral philosophy terminate in what can only be descri>ed
as acolossal failure d necve. Instead d asustained
att to apply the insights of Dalwilism and sociobiology to the specific pecuiariiea of the human species, Watson grarU us a dispensation. For Watson, human morally alone somehowtransoends the iron dictates of Dalwinism. Watson quotes wlh
approval the character of the missionaly (!) n the film
ThtJ Alrlcsn Oullflf'f. "Nature...is what we 818 in this world to rise Bl:xNe." Hmm, tel me: where do I seem to have hea,d thstbefore?
It gets even worse. Wherea9 Robert Wrigt's recent work on evollAionaly psychology, ThtJ Moral AnimBI, absurdly invokes Mil's long-dead phlosophy of Utilitarianism as a bulwark against the inner beast,
Watson keeps Fenris at bay by retreating Into the
tepid waters of Aristotle's "golden mean": "Aristotelian ethics is the ethics of 1ust enough.' ...If 'good' can be defined as that which encol.l'ageS the integrty of the whole, then 'evil' becomes anytting which diaturbs or dis such completeness. [It is)
[aJnylhing uniuy or over the top. Anything, in short,
that is bad for the ecology It [natural law) looks a
lot less like 'survival of the fittest' and far more lb 1he fitting of as many as possible to survive'." Yes the sound you just heard was that of de Sade, Nietzsche, and Redbeanl turning over in their graves. Oddly enough, none of these gentlemen's
names appears in Watson's bibliography or index,
which leads one ulinately to wonder about the survival value of selective perception.

-SECRETS OF MAKING AND BREAKING CODES,
by Hamilton Nickels (Citidel Press, New Yorlc, NY,
1994; 136 pages, ISBN ().8065-1563-5, $6.95,
paperback).
Andre Schltlsingw, revitJWBr.
Let's say you and I 818 trapped behind enemy lines and we need some concealed method to get information back and forth between each other. One method descri>ed by author Hamilon Nickels would be to choose abook that weboth have in our

possession. For the 9ak8 of this 9C8fllrio, let's use the one book that all Citizena of the Infernal En.-,e should have on the shel(thal's ). In this sinple
method we'I use sets of rurbenl, the fir9t one to indicate the page rumer of where the word is to be found and the second rumer to to indicale the actual word as it appears in the WOid coll'lt of the selected page. Thus; 119/2, 205/2, 123/4, 225117, 135/4, would be decoded as "ritual-nine-o'clock· brino-robes." Another encoded menage miglt be
sent as; 44/1, 204179, 10CW, 60/38, 98131, 43/21,
100'93, and would be decoded as... You can '9119
this one out you,981.
Priced and packaged as a practical field manual, Nickels pr888llts an array of code systems ranging from simple book codes (as I Just demonstrated) to more advanced systems uaing compwer programs and "code machine9." Nlcket9 doesn't Just gloss over terms or dazzle you with impractical examples. Each code system discusaed is presented In layman's terms and worked out machanlcally, with the help of easy to ooderstand digram& and tables, to enstn obtainable resuls. And
as the title implies, systems for bfeaklng code9 n
also CXM1red with the same stepby step sinplcity. So if you have a1981 need for this type of skill or you just want to have some flJ'I then thi9 book is for youl

•THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE, by Lionel Tiger, (Little, Brown and Coq,any, Boeton, 1992; 330 pages, ISBN 0-316-84543-4, $22.95, hard cover).
.Anal§ Schltlsln(l(H', n,vitJWBr.
Did you ever wonder why sugar is sweet or why sex Is auch a big deal, or more precisely, why we 1118 drawn to characteristlc8 of certain persons, places, and ttings? Proposed here 818 sclentilic answers to why •everyone wants to feel more important than someone else." It's pleasin of
course; the "what" in "what's in It for who1' and the root of all i'Qllgences. It aeems that it's not for nothing that we should be in such serious pinlild
what make9 us feel good, as the pleasure is not and end in lself blA has Is rawalds, and Is need18 therefore atamped on to 01M' genetic codes. Also covered are such issues as political and religious attempts toregulate and control pleasin and what we may have to look forward to in the twure (more pleasure pills?). Although it was probably not Dr.
Tiger's Intention, studies like this one help to substantiate the work of Dr. LaVey and add credbility to Satanism as a religion.

•REMEMBERING SATAN, by lawr8nce Wriglt (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994, 205 pages, ISBN 0-67!M3155-1, hardcover).
PhBntom, nwiewtJr.
I should have heeded Magister Gilmore's advice in TBFVol. 5, #1 & 2 and stayed away from the "poisoned writings" of this author. InMr. Wl91l's latest attempt to make money by the use of the word "Satan,• he tries to write a 90's version of Mlchllllt1 RBfTIBt'Tlbtlrsby chronicling the plight of the ii-fated lngrMI family. According to Wriglt, Mr. and Mrs.
Ingram were pillars intheir small conwnunly, heavily
iM>lved in their local sheriff's department and church activliea. One day, the Ingram's two dauglters suddenly "recalled" that at avery young age they were fon:ed to take part in "Satanic" blood Ofgies where they were sexually torttnd, branded, fon:ed to winess the slauglter of armials and babies, etc., ad 11Buswm. Wright early on tries to entice the 19ader by proclaiming that this could be the fir9t "true" case which can expose the horrors of the "underglOIJ'ld ne4work" of Satanists. He spends the majority of the book detailing the daaqters' •revelatlona" of physical

and sexual abuse at the hands of a"satanic cut" wlichconsisted of their pa19,u and two other prolllll8nt figul8S in their town. SIIJ)risingly, the zormie-like father confessed to the police about the 'satanic sex rituals" while the two other accused adamantly proclaimed their innocence (no charges W8l8 ever brought against Mrs. Ingram). At. every opportooity Wright feeds the Geraldo-style hysteria by alluding to such nonsense as Satanists who carry around portable crematoria to destroy the evidence of slaughtered infants.
However, as I prepared to discard this book in
disgust, Wright revealed something both profound and shocking: the tnAh. As the book draws to a close, Wright somewhat reluctantly describes how an independent psychiatrist discovered Mr. Ingram's extreme suggestbility and fragile mental state, which had resijted in his confession. Before the psychiatrist was caled in, Mr. Ingram had simply agreed with every allegation his daughters came up with, despite the glaring inconsistenceies in thei' stories. This doctor tested Mr. Ingram's mental capacily by tellng him a made-up account of sexual abuse that he claimed the daughlers had described. Given afew hotn to himsel, Mr. l'98ffl proceeded to write out a detailed confession and even elaborated on the purely fictional tale! Wright, albeit reluctantly, then explains how the charges against the other two defendants are dropped because of the inconsistencies and complete lack of evidence relating to "Satanic Ritual Abuse.• Mr. Ingram, in an obviously disoriented state of mind, plead guilty to a lesser charge of sexual abuse, but currently denies any wrongdoing ever occurred, arguing that his faulty memories were a result of suggestion only.
Despite the Satan-bashing, there are some fun moments. For instance, there is the comedic account c1 when the defense attomeys tried to get the daughters to submit to a thorough physical exam in order to test their repeated allegations of being ritually branded, scarred, and w-open by Salanists. However, when It came lime for the daughters to be examined, they screamed crazily and refused to disrobe. &bsequently, they were examined, and to no Salanist's surprise, absolutely noscars, ws, or brancings were found! If only daytime tak shows were so thorough!
Atthough Mr. Wright appears cfisappointed that
her has not yet found baby-torturing Satanists, he does at least lend some support to the argument that the phenomena of "False Memory Syndrome" must
be scrutinized and that authorties should not blindly believe "recaHed memories" as they didin the Ingram case. As Wright puts it: "At no time did the detectives ever consider the possbility that the source of the memories was the investigation itself-there was no other reality. In the end, all that was salvageable was Ingram's experimental attempt to find memories in
his mind by confessing to them" (p.195). If nothing else, this book is an amusing story of talk-show dysfunctionalty at ls finest, with Satan being absolved of al wrongdoing.

•THE AMERICAN HERETIC'S DICTIONARY, by
Chaz Bufe, (See Sharp Press, P.O. Box 1731, Tucson, AZ. 85702, 1992; 85 pages, $7.95).
Joel Bjorfing, rewswtN.
Attention: heretics, scoffers, cynics, social critics, and ulopian dreamers-Ths AITIBricsn Htntlc's DiclionBtyis sacred writ of brash non coriormity. tt is entertaining, humorous, crass, and at times crude. From A-Z, i tackles (or should I say 'bushwacks") definitions conceming religion, politics, sexuality, business, racism, and national pride.
For example, "Americanism': is defined as "the

abilly to sinuaneously kiss ass, follow y0II' boss' Olders, swalow a pay cut, piss in a bottle, cower in fear of job loss, and brag aboul )'Otl' freedom."
'Maniage" is •a tender1y romantic. socially
important ceremony conducted lllder state and church auspices in which two irdviduals receive a license to have sex."
"God" is •an unsavory character found in many popuar works of fiction, both ancient and modem,• and •an explanation which means 'I have no
explanation.' •
ThB Amtlficsn HINBtlc's Dlcl/onBfYwas inspired by Armrose Bierce's Ths Dwlfs Dlclionsry. At times, its frankness makes the reader wince. It challenges the gray matter, but ii relentlessly bucks traditional morals and mores. It holds nothing sacred.
Waming: this book is not for the thin-skinned.

MUSIC REVIEWS
by Pt1ttlf H. Gl/mon,

-SATAN TAKES A HOLIDAY, Anton Szandor LaVey, CD, Amarllo Records, P.O. Box 24433, San Francisco, CA 94124.
The recording you've all been waling for is here! Anton LaVey, who has given private concerts to fortunate incividuals, has here pl9S8fVed on else a taste of what everyone else has been missing. This coleclion of evocative songs will transport you into realms of mystery and romance. Co-conspirators Blanche Barton and Nick Bougas lend their vocal finesse in crystallizing the varied moods-m>m the passion of "Chloe" to the gleeful "Satan Takes A Hoilday" Qn both orchestral .and vocal arrangements!), the pathos of "Helo, Central, Give Me No Man's Land" to the exoticism of "The Whirling Dervish,• you'll find musical magic to enflame your vital humors. Don't miss the jaunty "Yankee Rose" as well as the gothic dirge from Satsnls, composed by Anton LaVey. You can't live without this CD!
-DEATH'S GLADSOME WEDDING, Hymns and
Marchea from Transylvania's Notorious Legionari Movement, CD, Hierarchy H3303 CD, World Serpent Distribtiion, Unit Ti7 Seager Buikings, Brookmill Road, London SE8 4HL. UK.
Boyd Rice presents vintage recordings which JnS8M1 tunes meant to stir the blood-end that they surely do. These marches and hymns are well on:hestrated and sung with gusto-great theme music for your personal vicloriesl

•THE GOSPEL OF INHUMANITY, Blood Axis, CD,
Storm Records, P.O. Box 3527, Portland, Or, 97208
(also available from Cthulhu Records in Europe).
Michael Moynihan, with Robert Ferbrache, has here created an audio experience that evokes the Dark tides of historlcal necessity. Touch points of Western culture (musical: Bach, Prokofiev; literary:
Nietzsche, Pound) are kemals of inspiration from whichthese visions are wrought. Here you will find an operatic, apocalyptic series of soundscapes, linking
contemporary musical sensibillies ("Eternal Soul" in particular) wlh the greater currents of Westem tradlion. The packaging is also quite elegant, with many relevant images to further simulate. Power and poetry are her&-get ill
"ISS THE GOAT, The Electric Hellfire Club, CD, Cleopatra Records, 8726 S. Sepulwda Blvd., &'le. D- 82, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
An i"1)1'8SSive follow-up al>um to the debul Bum Baby, Bum/The sound is darker, "heavier," more like Ive performances. Thom & Co. have explored avery broad range of Satanic topics here,

from ritually 8IIOcalive pieces to socially milln anthems, transcending tndllonal imagery to get to the truh of Satanism-quie a scope for one album! The lyrics to "Slaughler of Elysium" are pa,ticulalty
inspiring, a great tum aboul to Goethe's AndiB
Freudtl, and the strong setting fulfils these lyrics. The signature ever-present techno-dnm beats l9V8al themselves to be nothing less than the pulse of monstrous machines of annihlatio the mask is off and the Xtian scum can't find a place to hide. A very powerful working is contained on this CD, and you will want this for your colection.

•CALLING DR. LUY, The Electric Hellfire Club, Cleopatra Records, 8726 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. D- 82, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
Their new powerhouse release comes after the death of Shane Lassen (the Rev. Dr. Luv) co-founder of the band, and serves as a trbute to their fallen noble comrade. The music of KISS was a formative influence, hence the cover of the eponymous song. Here you wll still find their driving techno-beats, sassy and celebration of Satanic existence-proper as a fl.rlerary trilnn for Satanists
whine abou afterlives, bd cherish the
achievements of the departed. Shane flY88 here in the he8lts and minds of his brothers, and it is a listening experience you won't want to miss.
-CULT OF THE HOLY WAR, RAHOWA, CD,
Resistance Records, P.O. Box 24700, Detroit, Ml
48224.
This album came as a delightful surprile. Having been impressed with the publishing skills demonstrated by Mr. Hawthome's R11slsta11CB magazine, I can say that there are ample musical talents displayed here as well. Unlike much "racialist" music, these songs acknowledge and draw inspiration from the wealthy legacy of European classical music, blended wfth con1emporary idioms.
The lyrics are poignant, evoking a twilight sensibilfty
that sees deepening darlcness before the new dawn--wlhin which these waniors will remain steadfast until the battle is over. There is plenty of sentiment that is truy Satanic, particulariy "Might Is Right" and "God Is Dead,• clearly inspnd by the man:h from Kilar's score for Bram Stokers Dracula.
From lyricism to metal savagery, sel-glorificalion and pride are thematic, and vigilance is championed.
Whether you are a racialist or not, you wll find much
fine music here, and I look fOIW&ld to future projects by this band.

-c>CTOBER RUST, Type O Negative, CD, Road
runner Records, 536 Broadway, New YOik, NY10012.
Pagan eroticism is the main theme here, as Mr.
Steele's deep, resonant voice is supported by the slick strains of his talented cohorts. Occasional dissonant outbursts mark climaxes to the general air of sensuality. This al>um is an oasis for ladies seeking a masculine musical presence in the generally androgyne desert of contemporary rock music (the testosterone-overdosedmetal genre excepted). The accompanying booklet is set in a spiffy runic font designed by Mr. Steele. Pn,i,am au tracks 1, 2 & 15 (a r,IOke• and spoken Intro & outro),
as they are just distractions.
-t HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO LOVE YOU, David
E. Williams, Cthulhu Records, c/o W. Stasch,
Postfach 200465, 47424 Moers, Germany.
Mr. Wiliams continues to intrigue wlhhis exquisitely crafted surreal lyrics, voice in pithy, Uleful songs. The textul8S here are miriature tone poems; driving, cajoling, stiffing and hypnotic. He

wastes no time, plooging Into agiven mood and bringing it to full bloom, then swiftly finishing to mow on to another song. The packaging is elegant with beautiful stailed glass images by Jucilh Schaechter
as wen as a portrait photo of the trolbador. Williams'
art continues to explore the human condition-a journey both harrowing and enlightening, and you are fortunate to be lnvied along. May there be many more such excursions.
•FIRE OF ICE, Changes, CD, Storm, P.O. Box 3527, Portland, OR 97208-3527•
Folk music to follow the apocalypse--tt1 tracks were recorded in the late 60s and recently remastered, resurrecting the spirit of the original Process Church of the Final Judgement. R.N. Taylor's lyrics are pithy and poetic and perfectly set by the melodious strains of Nicholas Tesluk's guitar. This package is beautifully designed and filed with relevent notes by Taylor. Truly a gate irto the past.
Don, miss the lmited edition single featuring the title track from the CD as well as the ulll'8leased "Icarus"-on gold vinyl. Hear the audo archetypes of which the "flower power" ditties were mere shadows.
•FREEDOM THROUGH ABILITY, Republic, -r,
Storm, P.O. Box 3527, Poltland OR 97208-3527. More vintage music from Storm. Harold Arthur
McNeill crafted these two visionary calls to strength
and order in 1982 In Seattle, and they certainly
proved to be ahead of their time. (On white vinyl)
-SONGS OF THE CELTIC NIGHT, Trio Nocturne,
CD, Trio Nocturna Music, P.O. Box 52580, Atlanta, GA 30355. http://www.acmeatlaru.com/music/lrio noctuma
Here's a truly musical ensemble which performs traditional cellic music, as well as original compositions, that evoke pre-Christian Europe. The ensermle includes cellic harp, violn, keyboards, u!lian pipes, and the crystal vocals of Angela Howel. Haurting as silver moonlight ensorcelling the moors.
•VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS, No Festival of Light, Cassette, Slaugtcer Productions, c/o M. Corbelli, Via Tartini, 8-41049, Sassuolo (MO) Italy.
Fredrik BergstrOm's latest release falls irto the category of electronic sooodscape-very brooding and mysterious. These pieces generally would do
well as evocative background for infernal mediation,
though some of the timbres are assaultive.

-UNHOLINESS RISING, lnsatanity, Cassette, Mark Rhochar, 1104 Morris Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148. 215-467-1657.
Black Metal, straight-up. Heavy and fast with Satanic lyrics i,owled basso profundo. Satanic allegiance is clear, technical skils are solid-now it is time to stretch those leathern wings and fly into unexplored territories-I'm certain they're up for it.

•RER.ECTIONS OF A TROUBLED TIIIE, Whisper
To A Scream, Cassette, BlackMosaic Ert., 101 Bog
Rd., Rockland, ME 04841.E-Mail: eeejr@midcoasl.com
SA. Blacart's angry andpassionate lyrics are propeled byY<el wrought rock music composed by he MdE. Ecker. They deftly use the idiom to hold upa mirror which reflects images that might dislll'b some.
•VAMPIRA, CD, Cassette, Dustin Hardman Ertertain ment, P.O. Box 1510n, Tanpa, FL33684-10n.
Vampire-themedBlack Metal demo, fast and furious with some gothic sound effects. Definitely not prissy, Anne Rice-type vampirism!

•BLOOD OF KINGU, Maatema, Cassette, Mo1us Musik, Daniel Helelheos, 37-891h Street, #1N, Jackson Heights, NY 11372 ($5, $6 overseas).
Miny metal with ultra-deep voices growling forth lyrics that abjtn Christianity and pay homage to Sumerian demons. There are some evocative infernal soundscapes, irterspersed, which point the way for future development.
•WARCOM PRESENTS BLOOD CEMENT, Blood
Cement, Cassette, Warcom Me<faa, P.O. Box 1175,
San Jose, CA 95108.
Agresslve tone sculptures that pulse with malignant intent. Some grant respite (even the bun of a human voiceHslands of mere tension in a universe at total war.

-SENNACHERIB, Warcom, Cassette, Warcom
Media, P.O. Box 1175, San Jose, CA 95108.
Sennacherib I is created from the sound of Aryton Senna's final crash in the Formula 1 Grand Prix on 1 May, 1994. SsnnschBtfb //includes addiional sounds from this fatal race. Both are fine
examples of akind of musique conmte, and show a
mastery of technique and aesthetic judgemert.

-COSMIC WAR, Youth of Steel, Casette, Helllrax,
P.O. Box 40717, Cincinnati, OH 45240 ($6.00 ppd).
lrteresting ideas but crudely recorded. Boyd Rice speaking with Bob Larson is used as the starting poirt for some dark background sounds In the first cut. There follows a series of soimscapes that are ominous and apocalyptic, as well as simpler vocals plus accompaniment. Experience and access to better recording equipment should culivate the
potential exhibited here.
•FUNERARY CALL, Harlow MacFartane, Cassette,
O.G.D. Productions, P.O. Box 8458, Victoria, BC,
vaw ss1, Canada
We recelvecfan intelesliig cassette of ¥<el orchestrated tone painting&-the advanced tracks meant for a -r that was irtended for release by the Swiss la:>el Infernal Holocaust Productions. You migtc cortact O.G.D. to see what they are upto,as th8l8 is talent inMacFarlane's music and probably a refined
taste inwhat his company is cunertly producing.

•SECOND CUMMING, Unholy Erection, Cassette, U.E.H.Q., P.O. Box 896, Johnstown, PA 15907.
Quirky, crude, sex-obsessed tunes that often come off as rap music parody. Perfect for an X-rated Dr. Demento show. They have a free newsletter, BHfcsks, which has ordering irtormation.

•MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC & MORE MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC, CD, various
composers, Masatoshi Mitsumoto conducting the RSO of Cracow, MMM, Dept. 1, P.O. Box 7088, Burbank, CA 91510-7088.
These two CD's are truly exciting releases in
the genre of horror/science fiction sounclrack preservation. Each album presents thorough suies of music from classic fHms, newly recorded. The first album covers Thsml, It CsfTIB From BBneath Ths Sss, It Cams From Outsr Spscs, and Ths Mols Psop/8. Mun two includes Ths 8Bast From 20,000 Fathoms, TBflllltu/a, Gorgo, and ThB Monolith Monsters. Each is accompanied by abooklet with extensive program notes, examples of the scores, and reproductions of film posters. In sholt, these are two of the best sooodlrack anthology recoldings l'w ever heald. There's a great deal of truly exciting music here (time travel back to the 50's anyone?).

•ELATION-ELEGANCE-EXALTATION, 1c1ee Des
Nordena, Gymnastic Recolds, Dianastrasse 1,
80538 M0nchen.
A fascinating colection of songs, incessantly shlting moods and styles with the innocent I
of achild following what is of Interest at the moment. There is acold and shimmering quality, but there are dark depths beneath the frozen surface. Motoric rhyttrns often begininpop-lill& ir.oocence only to
develop a sinister quuty as the kaleidoscopic
textures shift and reveal new perspectives. The sounds here are more sculptural than composed-a unique and seductive synthesis.

.PLECID, Plecld, CD, Ajnatryler Davis, P.O. Box 11741,Olympia, WA 98502.
Apparently derived from the mystical Plecid Fou1dalion, this album feahns 7 Gothic pieces, active rhythmicaly and softly-contoured meloclcally to produce that hypnotic state that Invites waking dreams. It is a confident debut album that shows pronise for deeper fulin explorations. The album
1981 is starkly designed, metallic JUP1e onblack
with no Hner notes, simply the titled printed onthe booklet-nothing more, the song titles are listed on the CD itself.
-SAINTS & SORCERERS, vartoua artists, CD, St.
Thomas Records, P.O. Box 7427, Orange, CA 92613. This is acompilation album featuring Michael
St. Thomas' choices of the best neo-Golhic bands and their diverse approaches to fulfillng the evocation of the Dark Side. Stand outs: Ntw York Room's evocative "Minion Of The Gypsies,• Morphine Angel's catchy "Breakfast With Cthulhu" (who could resist that title?), and Cruclorm's cunuatively effective "Dies lrae." If neo-Gothic music is of irterest, or if you just wart a survey of the genre, then this album will be what you seek.

-DISILLUSIONED, Praise Of Folly, CD, St. Thomas
Recolds, P.O. Box 7427, Orange, CA 92613.
Well produced •gothic" tunes, which haw dark• toned vocals owr fairly uimeat (mostly) music- would probably be played in Fon,vsr Knights club, The Raven, to comfolt the mortals.

•FILOSOFEM, Burzum, CD, Feral House Audio,
P.O. Box 3466, Portland, OR 97208. www.buzzcul.com/central/feralhouse.
Feral House's first official release onils brand new audio label is meant to captalize on the rdoriety of Kristian "Varg-Count Grishnaddi'Vllcemes, YA1o l8COrded ttis pior to his lncaroerali>n for lclinganother "Black Metal" performer as ¥<el as blming ctuches. Musically ii is typical of lhis genre: murky, "heavy,• wfth little variation between trades. It seems that murder and vandalism have finaly gee181818d the desired atlertion for Vbmes (I should sell like hotcakes). His rrusic on this album certainly doesn, command ii.
•FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS, Evil God
Revival, CD, Black Vatican Productions, Rofocale
Records, 1800 S. 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148.
Jerry Blase and crew are back with solid, agressive metal. Vocals include the requisite roars, but the leading lines are sung and comprehensible! The lyrics are appropriately apocalypic (though
typos abound in the booklet). Fans of the genre wUI definitely e11oy this album his band's last release).

eLUQFER, Lucifer, CD, Sco,pion Recolds, P.O. Boe 1835, NewYork, NY 10025 ($10 In US, $11 elswhere).
Here's ano-nonsense metal band with
straigttfofwardSatanic allegiance (just YA1al Mom and

Dad think Junior is lislaning to as he's painting his nals black andscrawling pentagrams on his notebook). The oveniding aeslhetic is "heavy,• but there 818 lyrical rroments (acoustic (Jlftar, harpsichord). The lyrics eschew obtuseness for canoor--there's no mistaking v.tiat they mean. The vocals range from basso
poflrdo growls to 00\llter-tenor shieks. Thel8's a sold command of the malerial, wtich is almost beginning to SOtn:t like.nostalgia in the wake of the
..-er-stilling melal scene.
•THE WAY OF THE WOLF, Charles Manson, CD, Pale Horse, Inc., P.O. Box 5701, High Point, NC 27262. Phone/Fax: (910) 889-6643.
Another entry into the growing discography of Charles Manson, and once again this contains tlJl8S that would surprise most. Manson plays acoustic giitar and sings in his world-weary voice with music that wouldn't be unexpected from Leon Redbone, but with lyrics that crystallize his unique take on our time
-and they are full of poetic and surreal metaphor. He is indeed a survivor, and hasn't let incarceration silence him, presenting here backgound music for the Coffeehouse of the damned.

•TRIARCHY OF THE LOST LOVERS, Rotting
Christ, CD, Century Meda Recof'ds, 1996. 1453-A 14th Street #324, Santa Monica, Ca. 90404.
MelodolJs metal from the Greek llldeivound
band. Strong cover Image by Steven Kastner.
.PASSAGE, SamHI, CD, Century Meda Records, 1996. 1453-A 14th Street #324, Santa Monica, Ca. 90404.
Metal that is heavily textured with electronic
percussion and orchestral sounding keyboards. There is quite avariety to the arrangements, making for afresh approach that stands out from the pack.

-IRRELIGIOUS, Moonspell, CD, Century Media Records, 1996. 1453-A 14th Streetl324, Santa Monica, Ca. 90404.
Gothic-hued metal with creative arrangements
and varied vocal styles (from goth drones to metal
!JOWis). Some cuts have that low-budget horror fim
somclrack atmosphenr-spooky fun!

-MICE HUNT MUSIC: MUSIC TO RAISE THE DEVIL, MUSIC TO CONTROL THE WEAK, various
artists, 3 CDs, Mike Hunt Publishing, P.O. Box 226,
Bensenville, IL 60106 (Send $2.00 for acatalog).
Here's a three CD set documenting Milwaukee's Metal Music Mania X fest, with music from approximately 50 bands. There's an amazing range here from main stream to underground. If this gsnre is to your liking, here's a fine survey of the current stat&-of-th&-art.
tQUEST OF THE MOON BREED, Legion of Sleep,
Ice Records, P.O. Box 422965, San Francisco,
Q\ 94142-2965.
Metal music which has layers to i;ve added dsplh and texture (gregorian chants, spoken texts, vaoous samples)-a sort of aucio collage.

EXOTICA EXTRAVAGANZA!

The CD has brought with it a tidal wave of 18· releases of music which we've previously had to seek on vinyl at yald sales and in basements and attics-those musical evocations of far away places Oncluding outer spacel) which were designed as background for adult e11oyment of cocktails in an appropriale total environment. Lounge music is bringing back lounge culture, and with it an

appreciation of music that is emotionally potent, full of memorable tunes and scintillating orchestrations. There's a sense of playfulness in the wild experimentationwith the new technique of •stereo,• that hasn't been equalled since. This is music made for Indulgence, and is thus truly Satanic in its affirmation of the joy of living.
The Martin Denny revival (helped along ingreat measure by Boyd Rice) brougtt forth others, like
Esquivel, in a form of musical arohaeology- 18COgruing these musicians as the wizards that they are. Here are some CD's that we've found to be partiwarty fun and would make a worthy adcition to
,mry Satanist's colledion (and al of them come with
beautlul, nostalgicaly designed booklets).

•COCKTAIL MIX: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy, various artists, CD, Rhino Records, ISBN 1- 56826-587-5.
Here's a marvelous collection, compiled by Irwin Chusid, that will sweep you away. Includes: David Carroll's "Hell's Bells" --e. delightful bit of Mephistophelianism,"War Dance of the Wooden Indians," "Accidental Slip on an Oriental Rug,• and the mechanistic "Powerhouse" (fans of Wamer Bros. cartoons will remember this relentless portrait of acliviy). Excelent liner notes complete the package.
-ULTRA LOUNGE: Space Capades, various artists,
CD, Capitol Records.
Brad Benedict compiled this tour ds lorctJ
which includes such lush exotica as Les Baxter's
•ca1c a.· & "Sabre Dance" (faster than Khachaturian's original), Joe "Fingers• Carr's "Istanbul (Not Constantinople),• another version of "Powerhouse,• and to top it off, Jack Malmsten doing
•Satan Takes a Holiday"! Can you live without it?
•VOODOO! The Exotic Sounds of Robert Drasnln, Robert Drasnin, CD, Dionysus Records, Bacchus Archives, PO Box 1975, Burbank, CA 91507.
If you love Martin Denny, then you11 be glad to
pick 14> this amazing abu1'11-118rfect for your next luau! Drasnin's jazzy COl'furations of Polynesia wil sweep you away. Extraordinary arrangements!

•THE TIKI TONES: Idol Pleuures, The Tiki Tones, CD, Mai Tai D00120, Doclor Dream Records, Inc., 841 W. Collins, Orange, CA 92667.
More music by which to feast on "long pig.• These are bouncy tunes (basically gular and organ) to enliven your bikini beach party. Particularly piquant is a rendition of "Gomez,• the signature theme for the
characterfrom the T.V. version of Ths Addams Family.

•THE BEST OF EARTHA KITT, Eartha Kitt, CD, MCA Records, MCLD 19120.
Here's the al>tJn to introduce you to the vocal wlchcraft of the seductive, feline, Eartha. She sings here of pleasure, and true feminine power-an exemplar for Satanic Witches everywhere! Included
are Satanic classics ·1 Want To Be Elli," and"I'd
Rather Be Burnt As A Witch." Don't miss this one!
DARKWAVE

This is a fine company that distributes, as wel as releases under their Proje/dand Re//t:labels, music that evokes an ambient darkness-all the shades of gray and black that exist in the ever-broadening underworld known generically as "Gothic.• They've even been touring several of their bands recently for live performances of what is usually stucio-generated sound. Here's a brief sllV8y of some of their

releases and titles (contact info follows this survey):

-PROJEKT-

•AMPLEXIS, Collected Works from the 1995 LTD Sarles, Vldna Obmana, Thom Brennan, Stave Roach, CD, Projekt•PRO72.
This is a1&-issue of works that were originally on the Amplexis Limited Edition Series from 1995·. They make a fine grouping here. Obmana's piece oonmies stimmering washes of background SOtn:t wlh active percussion tracks in the foraground, though they fade 011to leaw 111019 of a"niglt rooslc" wlh crickel-like sounds. Bel and gong tones bring a later, gentle dimax that vanishes in the distance.
Brennan's piece is more oninous, with deep bass
drones crowned wlh pulsing percussion. Roach presents dark tones which constantly slide in pitch, giving a drifting foundation, punctuated by deep drum blasts and forlom flute cries. Later, inexorable tribal rhythms arise, and a subsequent brightening of the timbre, finally to descend into darkness.

-CAVERN OF SIRENS, Steve Roach, Vldna
Obmana, CD, Projekl 73.
A colaboration album, demonstrating a huting blend of the styles fwld in Amp/Bx/s. Ever 81/0Mng SOtlldscapes, oceanic in their tides of metamorphosis, alow you to ride the stylistic wrem that 818 energized by trmal percussion and weals owrthe dafkar, deeply IIOllaling sonic textures.
•ARCANTA, Arcanta, CD.
One is immedialely struck by the haunting quality of Thomas Carlyle Ayres' fine voice, arcing in middle-Eastern flavored melody. Canonic chanting and subtle drones fill out the texture in "A Fool's Cry,• and "Desert Prayer,• while more active, celtic sounds (strummed guitar) and lyrics in English f1V91l "Maya.• "Via Dolorosa• ends with Ayres' voice rising above a dark texture, to finish with lightly vibratoed tones.
•REMNANTS OF A DEEPER PURITY, Black Tape
For A Blue Girl, CD, PRO-68
Sam Rosenthal crafts romantic, synthesized backgrounds for sensuous vocals. The texture is filed 011 with cello, violin, and guitar to maJce for a rich tapestry for these melancholy songs. Some 818 oceanic SOllldscapes while others present their material more directly (less ambience).
•VANE, Bleak, CD.
Fifteen songs here feature a more grinding, repetitive mood, with heavy, abrasive textures drges for ablasted post-industrial landscape. Jolting and disturbing, they are assaultive sonic geographies.
•EVER, Love Spirals Downward, CD.
Suzanne Perry and Ryan Lum present lyrical, whistful songs (dominated by acoustic gular and vocals), interspersed wlh more ambient Synth-toned offerings. The general mood here is far liglter than other l8COl'dings on this label.

-coLD, Lycla, CD, PR067.
In ther sbcth album, L)eiscontinue their noir aural journeys. Mournful and gelid, the rich arrangements provide appropriate ton&-painting for the icy lyrics.

-RELIC-

•TWILIGHT OF PERCEPTION, Vidna Obmana, CD.
This is acoDection of single pieces which previously appeared on compilation CD's as well as

previously ooreleased trades. If you e11oy Obmana's evocations, which often have asourdrack ambience in that they ara visually as wel as emotionally laden, then you won't want to miss this colection.

-GHOST STORIES, Slap, The Happiness Boys,
Belt, CD.
Stephen Nester's ttne musical incarnations (from 1982-1994) are 19presenled hel9. The music is electronic, with19peating cell structures, sometimes evocative of other styles (from cartoon kitsch to
Stravinsky-esque mythmlc propulsionHairly 19Ienlless in pixillaled evolution. Thel9 819 some contemplative Islands, but 1981assured that they will be assaufted. The polystylistic melange is ultimately intrigling and 19pays close listening.

-COLD MEAT INDUSTRY (from Sweden)
eftEXEREI Ill ZWJELIGHT DER FINSTERNIS,
Aghast,CD.
Here is a series of grimly ritualistic invocations.
Whisperad YOC8ls waft like acool breeze from a frozen caim on a folbidden mountain's summit. This could definitely provide a background for a midnight, necromantic ritual.

•REAPING THE FALLEN...THE FIRST HARVEST,
Orclo Equllibrlo, CD.
Shadowed soundscapes and umbral songs make for a tapestry of rich timbres. This would serve well to invoke the dieties of datkness as they attend an S & M sabbath.
etN NOIIINE DEi NOSTRI SATANAS LUCIFER! EXCELS!, IIZ.412, CD.
This album begins with typical subterranean sounds and an 11'1Cf9dited Ill (slowed down) of Dr. IAVey pronouncing the eponymous invocation. It continues with murky tracks that braak no new ground-thel9 are collaged sounds and sound-bytes (Bob Larson!), but they al9 not clear enough to work. Lots of black sound but not much musical substance.

•REISER AV EN DIMENSION UTJENT, llortils, CD.
Poetic joumey through a dimension that is not unknown to those who travel it's dim byways. Folk ike melodic fragmera btild to portentous, almost balbaric statements, Uke a sourdrack for an interior film on mythological an:hetypes.

•WITHIN THE DEPTHS OF SILENCE AND
PHORIIATIONS, Raison D'ttre, CD.
Wei reaised soundscapes that seem to evoke asuspension of time. Very ambient, these textures make for background depth, quite good for meditative musings and exploration of your labyrinthine interior.

• ...AND EVEN WOLVES HID THEIR TEETH,
various artists, CD.
Here's an anthology album to introduce isteners to the artists signed to Cold Meat Industry. From the on:hestra-ike sounds of lldfrostto the minimal organ tones of Kannanlc, thefe's quite a range here, of talent as well as style, all of it in a darker vein. There's lyrlclsm and savagery, and you
are sure to find something to your taste amongst
these 14 cuts, then you can pursue your fawrites' complete albums.

•LET US LEAD, Pulssance, CD.
Here's an apocalyptic album that sounds like it's from a soundtrack for one of those films about a child Hellspawn just waiting to bring about the end of

the world. They use on:hestra-like and choral taxtur9s for a grandiose intro as weU as for other passages, and this makes for an imaginative and vivid experience. The bombast is very wel handled.
-OTHER LABELS

•CONTINUUII, A Spider Records Collection,
varlouurtiata, CD.
An introduction to the artists on Canada's Spider Records label. RhBB's Obssssion is well produced and sung bti not overly dark or ambient. Alch6mybrings us back into familiar waters, wtth a couple of quiet, moody tunes. Thrivs presents heavy gothic with silky female vocals. Hfinishes the album wih four quirky tunes, dominated by drum machine and sampled sound bytes.

•L'AIIE B.ECTRIQUE, Die Fonn, CD.
From Germany's Hypsrium label comes this fine, "tn)s gothique" entry which ranges from quiet reveries to heavier, p!Oplilive songs. There is often adance beat present, to lend life to the sepulchral proceedings. The arrangements sparkle with surprises and Blane P. sings with crystaline clarity.
So if any of these above albums al9 of interest, please contact Darkwave at P.O. Box 166155, Chicago, IL 60616. Be sure to check out their site for complete listings, band tour information, and complete ordering instructions at:
http://www.proJekt.com
What are you waiting for?

GUEST MUSIC REVIEWS

-WHITE SOLIDARITY-Various Artists, CD, Svea Music, available domestically from Resistance Records, PO Box 24700, Detrol, Ml 48224.
Joshua BucldBy, rtwiBWBr.
Here's your passport to the world of White Power Rock'n'Roll, whether you can stand the joumey or not. As you might expect, much of the music on this seven band compilation is thug rock, pure and simple. Nevertheless, the complete and utter lack of subtlety-most skinhead music is about as subtle as a Doc Marten to the face-is half of what makes the Resistance stuff so damn entertaining. While at worst, a lot of this tends to lapse into adreary caricatul9 of eighties Heavy Metal, bands like Fortreaa (Australia) and Freikorps
(Gennany) manage to pump ow some genlinely
911oyable old-style Punk, the saving grace of a genre
that often comes off as embarrassingly pretentious.
Yet while this is a problem with any overtly political music, be it Billy Bragg or Skrewdrfver, one has to wonder if anything this inflammatory can be considered polttlcal at all--at leastin the conventional sense. One thing's for certain: in contrast to most
"violent" musicians, whose incendiary aesthetic is often scantly more than acynical marlceling ply, these guys 819 for fN/.This in itself warrants mention, if not admiration. And, whether you ag199 wih their unabashedly racist convictions or not, they're certai preferable to the "alternative" set's sel-deprecating whine.
Of particular interest here 819 two Ctn by Swedish powerhouse Vlt Aggression, whose patently distinctive sound clearly demonstrates the degl9e to which Black Metal groups like Bunum and Emperor have infiltrated the Scandinavian skinhead scene-a trait even more discemible in fellow Swedes Division S. Nor will you want to miss Finlands Mistreat, whose broken Engfish •Vatch out NBB-grmust be heanf to be believed. If

Rock'n'Roll's primary function is to challenge social norms and couch potato coq>lacency (which is sxactlywhat ll>eral critics will tell you), then White Solldarlty is the genuine article.

•HATESVILLE, The Boyd Rice Experience, CD, World Serpent.
Joshua BucldBy, nwiBWBf.
The latest inSatanist Boyd Rice's series of anuing concept d>ums, the Experience inckldes many of the same folks responsible for the cop-rock juggemaut SWAT. In many regards superior to 19C8nt NON offerings, which with the Ragnarok Rune EP seem to have taken asomewhat retrogressive turn, Hatuvllle resurrects much of the smirky Iconoclasm that made Mu•,:, .. rtlnl•, •nd M/anthropysuch aclassic. As with that seminal slab, what you'I find here is a diverse assemblage of "spoken wor,;f brow beatings and other roorderous ITUlings, dastardly ditties and hale-mongering
hannonies--?n other words, real neat stuff only the
black-hearted coud love. And si1ce this last description undoubtedly applies to you, Hateavllle's aplace you'I visi time and time again. While thel9, you'll encoiner Adam Parfrey's Raes Riot ("Thel9 W8l8 just so many damn yellow people..."), Shall'I Partridge's Piss Ant, and the indomitable Herr Rice's
Dsydrssm, a vindictive volley at RtlS•rch's V. Vale that's bound to raise a few hackles. The most wlatile cut by far is Jim Goad's LBfs Hsar It For V/olsnce ToWBlds WomBfl, a nearly seven minute tirade some will remember from ANSWER Msls much maligned Rsps issue. As for the rest, it's mol9 of the same.
Hateaville, you might say, is the kind of spot Ml8l'8 the stupid, ugly, and just plain annoying 819 meted ()\j exactly the treatmert they so richly dese which, Ll'lder opooium conditions, would probably inwM being skewered aive like so many human
shishkebabs. Wrth all this misanthropy inc:19asir9Y entering the mainstream, albeit as some kind of hip diversion, the tine to siphon 0\4 our t88/ enemies
can't be far off...
•DER GROSSE RAUSCH/WIEDER KEHR,
Waldteufel, -r,Volkways, PO Box 72525, New Orleans, LA 70172-2525.
Joshua BucklBy, rsviswsr.
One of the more exciting things to land in my mailbox in the past few months (save maybe for Anna Nicole Smith's April Psnthouss spread), Weldteufel is a side project of M8l1ws Wolf, a name generaly linked with atavistic percussion terrorists Crash Worship. As wilh that august institution, the almosphere here is fraug with ritual intensity and a truly heathen orientation. The difference, however, is that while Crash Worahlp's chaotic invocations have remained fairly ambiguous over the years, Waldteufel's cavernous conjurings are an apt distillation of Wolfs Norse pagan soul. Beautifully packaged with a painstaking eye for detail, don, be surprised if they resonate wtth your own.

•TRIUMPH OF THE WILLIAMS, David E. Williams, Storm Records, P.O. Box 3527, Portland, OR
97208-3527.
Joshua BucldBy, rsviBWBr.
Virtually tllknown and undeservedy ignored, David E. Williams may be the greatest lving roosical genius to grace these shores since, well, since ever. An ooinposing cross between Woody Alen and Rudolph Hoess, Wiliams' music ascends heights of psychotic perversily typically 1988rved for a good Ellie Wiesel page-tumer, all tinged with enough obsessively neurotic hand-wringing to make even the most steeley-eyed sociopath ne,vous. I imagine a

c:hldhood spent dodging fleet-enema bags and schoolyard barbs, or maybe just abrainy suburbanle laddispassionately puling the wings off bwt81flies wtile his less prodigious peers trade bt.i>l"gum caRls and head-lice. No matter the SOtlC8, Willams' L11V11911e is one that must be experienced firsthand to be appreciated -and appreciate it, you shall. These are stirringly lyrical portraits of the reality saner souls have chosen to ignore,·a wOl1d populated with ruddy complexioned Sew leaders who plunder the puckered rectums of their ul'Mitting yotihful charges and shifty-eyed Rohypnol rapists, content to stalk the parking lots of middle school sweetheart dances and garish neon roller rinks. Oh yeah, and you can dance to •.Three words: BUY THIS NOW. Limited to 666 copies (surprise, surprise), which sl'lowd keep you record collector geeks happy.
-SMELLS LIKE CHILDREN, Marilyn Manson, EP,
Nothlng-lnterscope.
Jslfsrey Nagy, reviewer.
Mr. Manson and his gang (-bang) quartet continue to erase the fine line between right and wrong, good and evil, male and female in their child lice romp SmBl/s Uks Children. Wilie not a full length albc.m, I is a hefty soundtrack of Wily Wonka-ish nigljmares.
Included are remixes of various songs from their delu album, PortrBit of BIi AmBlfcsn Family, as well as Mans like covers of a few of Marilyn's personal favorites (there's an especially good
ramake of the Eurylhmlca "Sweet Dreams;. These
are well S8MKI by the twisted melocies emerging from the keyboards of Madonna Wayne Gacy. Other things of note Include aconversation between a pharmacist's wet-dream of a patient with an overly under-standing female specialist, as well as a redneck rencltion of 'Cake and Sodomy."
Sm8l/s Uks Children amotnS to an irt81'8Sting co ion that could easily be a som<lrack for Manlyn Manson's life story, or even scarier-your own!
-MARK BIRNBAUM PLAYS RAGTIME PIANO,
cassette, Bums Procb:tions, 117 West 751h St. NYC, NY 10023 USA. ($12.00 US ppd, $15.00 fol8ig1 ppd).
Andt8 Schlesinger, reviewer.
If you're like me and you think of ragtime as just another auspicious time of the morth, than this one is for you. In this self-titled release, Dr.Bimbaum treats us to a meat and potatoes sampler of ragtime CIMll1Including works from Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton, to name afew. It's this one time "Joe Franklin Show" pianist's skil and depth which are showcased here, occasionally 8CCOn1)8l1ied by Birrbaum in vocal black-face, which is always in good taste. Bimbaum's approach here seems to be, keep it simple, and it's an approach that succeeds as thsre is no sweetening or electronics to d I the edge
ol what I thoug1l up ul1il now was just bubble-gum and blues. Close your eyes and see what happens when you listen to this one!
-00D BI.ESS SATAN, Mephiskapheles, CD, DistrblAed by Moon Records, Post Office Box 1412 Cooper Station, NYC NY 10276 USA.
Andt8 Schlesinger. reviewer.
It's not Rock'n Roll... Mephiskaphtlts play 'Ska" nuic,that Jamaican (Ilia England) import that brouglt us such bands as Madnesa and had earlier i;wnbirth to what we now know as Reggae.
Thankfuly Mtphlskaphtles fall short of that big
band sound which seems to dominate the styles of
many or their better known contemporaries. However, the complexfty or rhythms (riddims),

melodies, and vocal acats 818 by far more soulfu than their two-toning peers. Don't look for any esoteric <lalog or backtracking as the message here is to just have fun, alhot.91their seemingly lnnocert corruption of some familiar commercial jingles could help to take some of the press1n off of Procter & Gamble. This is the jwigie music that anti-Rock 'n' Roll evangelists should be concemed with. And wouldn't you know ft, Christian Ska bands have recertly formed in retaliation.

•ANTI-GOD, ANTI-CHRIST, Acheron, CD,
Mori>und Records, P.O. Box 77314, Seattle, WA
981n-0314, tel/fax: 360-732-7285.
BriBII Kenyon, reviewer.
It has been three years since Florida's Achtron has released anything new. With their latest creation, Anti-God, Anti-Christ, many things have changed. They are now on a new label, Moribund Records, owned by Church of Satan member Odin Thompson. Tiis release shows Acheron growing musically wlh the addition of a full time keyboardist, which co111>lements the band very well. The musicianship on Anti-God, AntJ.Christ surpasses everything Achtron has done in the past. Whle remailing true to thei" rools, the music has become much more technical. Magister VHlC8rt
Crowley's vocals are stronger as and much dearer
than in the past, Lyrically, Anti-God, Anti-Christ is the most blasphemous album Crowley has written, with songs Ike "Fuck the Ways of Christ," 'Shemhamforash: The Ultimate Blasphemy,• and 'Blessed by Damnation." Here you wil also find the songs "Baptism for Devlyn Alexandra," written for his daughter, and acover of NON's (Magister Boyd Rice) 'Total War." As in the past there are Intros by special guest, Magister Peter H. Gilmore, bef0f9
each song wih quotes from Nietzsche's The Antichrist With the irtros solllding better than ever, they play an irnportart role in setting the mood for the songs. The cover artwork was done by Church of Satan Magister Rex Diabolos Church, who is also
responsible for the visual demonic corturations gracing Acheron's previous releases. Anti-God, Anti Christ is the best that the black/death metal scene has to offer and is qule refreshing. It will take Acheron to a level of achievemert that they have not
yet experienced. Ant fan of this genre wil be able to
appreciate this album. There wll also be avinyl version being released wlh extra tracks. For more information on this and Achtron write to Mori>und Records at the above address.
SATANIC CINEMA
by P81Br H. Gl/mot'8
Earth v& the Flying Saucers, Aglln?

It seems that in the last year a major shift in attitude has happened onthe big1Cf88n concerning the approach taken to humanly's contad with af1811 races. Gone is that sheei>like looking-up to a beneficert "Gods-from.space" crystaRized in Closs Enco1J1118rs of the Third l<Jndor worshipping a troll like Jesus as seen in E.T. the Extrsttlrr8strfa/ (both Speiberg works). Now we're back to the SO's, wlh aliens seen as J)tl8 threats, but ones which our species can combat using pluck and intelligence mind and force.
Frst up is lnd8f)8ndsnce Day, which is obviously an unacknowledged remake of the 1953 George Pal adaptation of d8 facto Satanist H.G. Weis' novel WBr of the Wafds. It merely has added 90's eye-blasting special effects andPC muti-ethnic casting to the framework of the old film. Instead of an

organic virus (put there in "God's infinlle wisdom" as the epilog to Pars film statee-an1H81gious Wells was surely splnring in his grave) as key to the invader's defeat, we have the scieltllls UUlg a coq>t.Cer virus dallvered by aMacintosh Power Book (Macirtoeh ii the comiuer of choice of Satanists everywher&-Mac compati)ity clear1y demonstrating the advanced technology of the aliens).
There are truly spectacular Images of destruction but the characters are mere stereotypes (not archetypes), the plot is full of Implausible coincidences and this film often quotes rire sequences and images from the earlier flm (which I watched the evening before I went to aee the new film). The aflens themselves are only inler8sted in JUl(iering Earth's 1810Ul'C88, then IIIOlling on (a none-too-subtle characterization of what corporate America has done to third woftd coinries). Humanity Is like a cockroach infestation to be cleared away (one thinks that they woukln, have trowled the few survivors, once tunan military response was neutralized). Their threat is impersonal.
Next we have Th6 AnfvaJ, a conspiracy invasion film wherein one sciertist discovers that ihey're here" and altering our ecology so that our wOl1d wil be fit for cololizing by the invaders. They have justified this because humans have siq)ly abused this planet's ecology and thus they're going to take it for themselves, 90 their threat isn't personal. As the film prosJ9SS81, the sciertist gathers all the pieces of the story and finally
succeeds in alelting the wOl1d to the danger. This is a fine little flm, that hearks back to Th6 OulBrLJmits approach to such stories, wlh the 60's ecological concerns.
Next is Star TrBI<: First Contact. This flm tries to play both sides of the fl81d, by having the federation's greatest nemesis, The Borg (a blo mechanical race that absorbs (convelts, or Bise
how Christian of them!) other sertiert races) attacking Earth (great space battle scene) then l\llring back in time when defeated to get Earth at a more wlnerable period. Of course the vaiart craw of Th6 EntfJrprfss D(aspiffy new ship) are hot on their heels, and they help the invertor of the Warp Drive (a raa/person, they discov9r, not the idol they
worship inthe 23rd century) to do his ttlilg tobring about tunanity's first contact with benevolert aliens he VIJcans) thus initiating an era of peace and prosperity for an Earth that just came out of ls third and most devastating wor1d war. For StBr TrBI< TNG
fans, there's much fun here, even though the film has avery cllllky start. The effects are first-rate and the Borg Queen, played by Alce Kriege, is atine dimensional character, both menacing and seductive to Picard and Data. The Borg 818 a truy mgturing menace as they want you, not dead, but alive and part of their collective. Their threat is very personal! There is an amazing scene in a holodeck 1940's ckb (beautifully f8alzed and qule Satanic in aesthetics) wherein Picard kils some Borg solclers, then •
through their flesh and metal bodies to find a piece or
equipmert that wil give him informalion. He is nJhless and unsertirnenlal, as these Borg had shortly before been part of hiscrflll,
It is irteresting to note that the original creator of Star Trek, Gene Rodclemeny, has created an ls To-Be for humanity's futur8, and with the amazing success of this ertertaiMlenl franchise is really infilrating consciousnesses 8IOllld the globe (people all over the earth know who the Klingons and Ronuans 818, but how many can tel you about Ulysses and Achiles?). In recent years there have been "dalW elements ns aren't so clear CUI, death is frequertly ares"1of irtenldion

TAUROBOLIUM
THE TIJUANA BULLFIGHT DOCUMENTARY

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"Too bad Larry Wessel wasn't around with his camera in Rome filming the Circus . .
Maximus." -Anton Szandor LaVey, CHURCH OF SATAN
"The horrifying scenes are reminiscent of the descriptions of sacrifices in ancient Aztec temples."
-Adam Parfrey, APOCALYPSE CULTURE .
"A spellbinding visual account of the last great blood sport" -Nick Bougas, DEATH SCENES ..yf z
" This is the 'last word' on the subject iOle! Larry!" -Peter H. Gilmore, THE BLACK FLAME \ 0·. i "Super job, one of the most exciting jobs on the subject I've seen. iEnhorabuenas! Both Ears "#- and Tuzl/"-Barnaby Conrad, MATADOR ), ..
$25 • 1 hr. 48 min. • Color • VHS 8
CARNY TALK
AND OTHER AMUSING ANECDOTES BY ROBERT WILLIAMS AS TOLD TO LARRY WESSEL
The King of Lowbrow Art tells us about the hidden history of I 950's America: Sideshow Freaks, Benzedrine,
Hotrods and Motorcycles, Lesbians, Mortuary Parties, Skuzzy Women, Clyde Rollins and the Barrel of Death, Hospital Still Borns, the Great Fecal Matter, and much, much more! Musical score by John Shourt.
"Repulsive, Amusing and Amazing!" -China Jim, ART? ALTERNATIVES
$25 • l hr. 11 min. • Color • VHS

Sugar and Spice SUGAR AND SPICE
Cross over the gender-line with Larry Wessel as he explores the fascinating world of Transvestites, Drag Queens and Transsexuals! Starring Sandie Crisp as the Goddess Bunny, Miss Kelly, Karen Dim and
her alterego Jeff Gann, Tyrell Morris and Amy, John Epperson as Lypsinka, Glen Meadmore, Las
Reinas de Esta Noche, Gender, The Cosmic Danielle, Alexis Miranda, Las Reinas de Las Estrellas, Sharon Kane, Chi Chi La Rue and the artwork of John Wayne Gacy !
"An Outrageous Vision! You'll Love This!!" -Lois Commondenominator, DRAGAZINE
$25 • 1 hr. 59 min. • Color • VHS

UL TRAMEGALOPOLIS
A two and a half hour Hell-Ride through the vast continuously urban sprawl known as Los Angeles. Explore the War-Zone From within it's riot-torn, graffiti-covered walls.
Listen in horror to the terrifying true stories of Charles Manson's cellmate. Visit the
McMartin Preschool, subject of the longest running criminal trial in the history of the United States. Meet religious fanatics, movie stars, drug addicts, gang-bangers and bulimics. See why Southern California is the fruit and nut capital of the
world!
$25 • 2 hrs. 35 min. • Color • VHS

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wih other species, and this ndlecls 111019 accurately onthe real nattnof htlTl8flfty. HoW9V8r, !tis ideal ized view of rnattn intelligent people going forth to explore the galaxy could only happen in a culttn that sends out its best members (Star Fleet Academy may have reversed the CU119nl educational trends of lowering standards-they'd have to produce people equipped to handle the realities of galactic explora tion). Perhaps there is a slbtle message here?
Finally we have an acknowledged homage to the 50's with-Tlrn Burton's Mars Attsc/cs. Here the lurid trading cards are brought to the screen in a festival of vivid destruction. The martians are just as tacky and stupid as the humans and Burton's
mismhropy is well <isplayed in all the characters parodies of archetypes that are really closer to the truth. There is rooch mayhem as the martians
ly abuse the earthlings who finally find a very
tacky weapon to destroy the invaders. They are quite in their invasion and e11oy wholesale
destruction as wel as personal torture.
The filmmakers tip their hats to Earth vs. the Flying Sa/JCSrs in the design of the martian ships and in scenes showing their attack and final defeat. lnlerior saucer designs refer to Forbidden PIB118t.
There's a wonderfully apt score by DaMy Elfman, complete with Theremin obblgsto. Quie a fUMy film, wih some powelfully ominous as well as grotesquely funny images.
So, the viewpoint shown insuch films as AliBn and John Carpenter's remalCB of The Thing, as well as their 50's progenitors, has been triumphant-the struggle to slJVive in a dangerous universe has won
OIJ Oll8r passive worship of "something from above.• There's 111019 to come with the fourth entry in the AlifHI saga, as wen as the film of Starship Troopers he novel which gave Aliens much of its flavor) soon to hit the theatres. I definitely find this a preferable trend-worship is out and Darwinism is inl

WESSELMANIAI

Gifted film-maker Larry Wessel keeps the his coming with further errtries in his line of video documentaries. You can count on these to take you on atour through the very heart of Darkness of each SUlject for l.alTy's camera functions as a surgeon's scq,el, and you're along for the forensic journey.
-CARNY TALK, And Other Amusing Anecdotes By Robert Williams As Told To Lany Wessel. VHS, I hour and 11 minutes.
Did you ever want to spend some time with artist Robert Williams? Wessel has captured Williams, who proves to be a fine raconteur, with revealing tales abolJ America in the 1950's that strip rNlay the pseudo-imocence of that decade so cherished by the nostalgia merchants.
-SUGAR AND SPICE, VHS, 1 hour and 59 mini.Aas.
The world of Transvestles, Drag Queens and Transsexuals has rarely been shown wih such can dor. Wessel gives an intimate portrait of luminaries as Lypsinka, The Cosmic Daniele, Glen Meadmore, and the "absolutely fabulous" Goddess Bunny.
•ULTRAMEGALOPOLIS, VHS, 2 hours and 35
minutes.
An amazing and harrowing tour of the urban Hell known as Los Angeles. From the McMartin Pre school to the riot decimated rubble--still ermlazoned wlh i,affiti, you'I see the blasted architecture and meet the shel-shocked inhabiants. Wessel's camera
pays Vergil to your Dante on a journey through all
!he ciroles of this contemporary Tartarus.

The above mentioned films can be purchased for $25 each (postpaid-dleck and money orders made OIJ to Larry Wessel). Lany Wessel, P.O. Box 1611, Manhattan Beach, CA 90267-1611.

Howard Stem's Private Parts

Howard Stem is today's leading radio comedian and he has done more for free speach and iconoclasm than anyone ever to grace the airwaves. For those anal-retentive folk who want to control what yousee and hear, Stem seems to be the living embodiment of Satan, and for their wortd view-he isl Stem has conquered radio with his syrdcaled morning show and television with anamazing show (originally on channel 91) that roke new grollld in OY9f'-the-top mockery of all things sacred and profane. This was climaxed by his pay-per-view beauty pageant parody,
and his direct-to-video release Butt Bongo Fiesta. His later efforts for the El Network (an interview show and the current video broadcast of his daily radio show) seem almost sedate by comparison.
Stem conquered the print word with his hilarious autobiography Private PBrts and its equally funny follow-up Miss A1118rlcs. Now he's finally earning his previously self-proclaimedcoronation as "King Of All Media" with the release of producer Ivan Reitman and director Betty Thomas' adaptation of PrivBte PBtts.
This movie is hilarious and touching. Stem's life as ageeky outsider who uses his comedic talents to move the wortd is followed from his chikllood (when he's constantly admonished by his father Ben to
"Shi.A upl Si down!" and when he conceived the ls To-Be of becoming a disk jockey), to his triumph on NBC in New York City, where he reached number
one in the ratings-<lespite the fact that the network
Itself was trying to tame him with a particularly arrogant asshole of a program director known aptly as "Pig Vomtt.• His subsequent firing from NBC and later mega-triumph in syndication will perhaps be covered in the sequel.
His true talent lies insaying what comes into his fertile mind, and this film has some deligltful sequences which show him exercising this ability, to
the chagrin of his bosses. His long-time relationship with his wife Alison is explored, particularly the strain of being married to a creative out law who uses everything, including his intimate personal life, as fodder for his comedic genius. See the film (Tiny Tim
has acameo). Read his books. Watch his videos. And, if you are fortunate enough tobe in one of the areas that can receive his radio show, listen-for this
is the arena in which his genius bums most brightly. And kudos go as well to his staff: Robin Quivers, Fred Norris, Jackie Martling, Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate, and "Sttitering John" Melendez.
In all mecia, Howard is cherished by Satanists because he pelforms thehn:tion of being society's jester. He mocks the pretentious, whether they be in
poliics or show business (his awearance as Fartman
on the ulra-prententious MTV music awards was a landmark), exposes the hypocrisy in contemorary
racial issues, and rips the de off of an who present lies for the truth. He asks the questions no one else would dare ask. He speaks the thoughts currently forbidden by the straight-jacket of political correctness.His admonition to "Be honest" has been the bane of the vapid morons presented by our cultn's hypesters as he puts them on the hot seat and we get to watch them fry. His "Wack Pack" is a colection of freaks and misfis the likes of which
would grace any old-time carnival midway. Among them are Fred the Elephant Boy-who has a pecuiar speach impediment, Kenneth Keith Kalerbach-who

performs bizarre acts of bodiy degradation, and Nicole Bass--the world's largest female body builder, as wel the midgets and giants who make frequent appearances on his show, who are cherished for their uniqueness. He has performed massively attended funerals against his radio competitors which we recognize as ritual curses on a grand scal&-end they work! Not to mention the fact that he makes jokes about being the Devil to goody-goody Kathie Lee Gifford and has Marilyn Manson on his soundlrack ab.Im (a best-seller even before the film opened). Does Howard show sympathy for the Devil? You be the judge.
Howard Stem IS the trickster archetype from world mythology made flesh. Is he an Anti-Christ? For my money, you bet he isl
GUEST VIDEO REVIEW

•THE MAGIC OF THE SIDE SHOW, featuring Todd
Robbins & Michael Wilson, VHS Video, 2 hours,
$40.00 plus $2.50 shipping; Stevens Magic Emporium, 2520 East Douglas, Wichfta, KS 67214 Phone: 316-683-9582
Rev. G80f1J8 Spragl/8, reviewer.
Take a trip into the exciting and incredible world of the side show! Step rigIt in as Todd Robbins, working performer al the last remaining ten in-one side show in Coney Island, presents incredble feats such as glass eating, swofd swallowing, pounding a nail up his nose and many other strange feats that are both delightful and disgusting! Marvel
as Michael Wilson, "The Illustrated Man,• <isplays his body which is covered with tattoos! Interesting to note, Michael has the five Hindu chakras tattooed on his chest and the uppennost chakra is depicted by the Baphometl
Todd Robbins not only performs his feats, but
goes into some explanations of how some of them are actuaUy done. He also shares some views on side shows and their history, explalning how people are drawn in to see the show. Amazing performances, amusing anecdotes and thrills abollld
in this video. If you have ever wanted to see these
amazing feats and 9ll9f'I understand how some are
done, this video is for you.
GUEST MUSEUM REVIEW

-OFF THE BEATEN PATH: SAN DIEGO'S MUSEUM OF DEATH
Phantom, reviewer.
Upon a recent visit to San Diego, amidst the myriad of tourist shops and coffee houses, I came
across asomewhat ot4-of-place litle shop entitled "The Museum of Death" which I believe all Cos members would e110y. After paying the qule reasonable $4 admission fee, I was able to observe genuine serial killer art by the lkes of Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, and John Wayne Gacy (to name a few), various execution devices, a ffllJtitude
of crime scene photos, and books and newspaper clippings al dealng with (you guessed ill) DEATH. There are also a few surprises, such as actual blood
splattered clothing taken from an executed convict, death certificates, a real-life two-headed turtle, and even an upright coffin fitted with a television playing such favorites as Death Scenes.
I had a chance to speak wihproprietor James Dean Healy, and alhough he denies being a Satanist, he certainly fits the de !Beto category as he takes his work wry seriously. He has visited runerous serial kilers, including the ones previously mentioned, and has kept in close contact with others. In ptn Satanic sentinent, he informed me that

rather than glorifying death, he is merely presenting it in its most gruesome, unadulterated fonn in order that one may appreciate the ephemeral nature of life, and live it to Its fullest.
He also told me, unfortunately, that his landlold
was putting pressure on him to move the museum, as he considered it detrimental to the surrounding tourist area. As of the date of this writing (2 January, XXXII), Mr. Healy was considering a move to San
Francisco to escape such close mindedness.
Although still in the begiooing stages, there is much to enchant here. The Museum of Death can be found at548 Fifth Ave, San Diego, CA92101; Phone: 619-338-8153, Fax:619-338-0003. Check It out!
BOOKS, PERIODICALS, 'ZINES
by Pstsr H. GilfTIOfB

•DEN SATANISKA BIBELN, by Anton Szandor I.JJ.Vey, SWedish translation by Carl Abrahamsson (Looking Glass Press, Box 8105, S-104 20 Stockholm, Sweden, 1995; 188 pages, ISBN 91- 88708-02-0, $25 US cash includes postage, add $10 if paying by check, paperback, 5 7/8" x 81/4").
Here is abeautiful translation, exquisttely designed and produced-with avery striking color cover design with a red Sigil of Baphomet and an image of Dr. I.JJ.Vey amidst rising flames. This joins the ranks of several Olher English, paperback editions and stands strong with truly Satanic elegance, and It is avaBablel Even if you can't read SWedish, you'll certainly want to add this to your colectlon, and it does include the original dedication. Get it nowl

•THE DEVIL, The Archfiend In Art from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century, by Luther Unk (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY 1996; 208 pages, ISBN 0-8109-3226-1,price unlisted, hardback).
Here is a fine study of the imagery of Satan as depicted in Western art, profusely illustrated. The author uses the Christian perspective of Satan, but does expose Christian reactions toward other cuftures for some particular instances. While the focus is limited (we never get to see the heroic imagery that emerged later), the author points out that Satan is this period is not given much personality, being reduced to grotesquery. Thus he
never seems adversarial to the Christian order, merely an unpleasant functionary in the ordained scheme of things. The author calls images wherein Satan is a huge, non-anthropomorptic monster, "Satan as Godzilla"! (it shouldn't come as a surprise that Link teaches at auniversity in Tokyo.

•A HISTORY OF THE DEVIL, by Gerald Messadill (KodanshaAmerica, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011, 1996; 377pages, ISBN 1-56836-081-9,
$27.00, haldback).
For some odd reason this author seems ignorant of Carus' pioneering (and superior) work on this subject. He does a fine job examining various world cuftures for an analog to the Devil as seen in a very narrow Christian perspective, and thus finds very few examples of Satan. He does grasp the origins of duafism in Zoroastrianism, and traces these influences on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. When It comes to coramporary Satanism the author very smugly dismisses our movement, having only cursorily explored Its philosophy-he obviously feels It is beneath him to spend any time trying to grasp It and simply regurgitates the simplified, ignorant views of other Christian writers (his descrii:tion of Dr.
LJJ.Vey physica.Dy is In error as well as one of the tit res of his books, though perhaps this is a translation

problem). This flaw aside, there is some worthwtile information about various cuftures' views of Evil.

-SATAN'S SILENCE, Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modem Witch Hunt, by Debbie Nathan & Michael Snedeker (BasicBooks, HarperCoRins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299, 1995; 317 pages, ISBN 0-465-07180-5,
$25.00, hardback).
Another study of the Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria which explores the history of this period and also examines the role of victimology oriented feminism's support (ideologically and financially) of it.
The authors do a fine job of covering this insanity and they uncover the Impulses behind those who fostered this madness. It is still remarkable how so many miscarriages of justice happened so recently, with Christian anti-sexuality as the fuel that fed the bonfires upon which many lives were destroyed. The authors call for prosecution of real sexual abusers, and exoneration of those who were the victims of the. madness.

•UNHOLY ALLIANCE, A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult, by Peter Levenda (Avon Books, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, 1995; 407 pages, ISBN 0-380-
m22-3, $6.99, paperback).
Luridly written and confused, this attemi:ts to be an exposll but ends up as aturgid potboiler that never def1vers on the innuendos tossed about in early chai:ters. An "X-Files" type of abook that is all flash and irrational conclusions with no substance, sure to be embraced by those who'd tike to believe in some vast conspiracy out to destroy the •goodness" of liberal humanism. A waste of time for any seeking real infonnation.

•INFLUENCING MINDS, A Reader in Quotations, by Leonard Roy Frank (Feral House, P.O. Box 3466, Portland, OR 97208, 1995; 245 pages, ISBN 0-
922915-25-3, $12.95, paperback).
A fascinating collection of quotations from a wide variety of authors (though Anton I.JJ.Vey is surprisingly not represented) on the topic of influencing minds. Makes for exceDent excremedttation chamber reading.

•DARK CARNIVAL, The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre, by David J. Skal & Bias Savada (Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, 1995; 359 pages, ISBN 0-385-47406-7,$23.00,
hardcover).
A penetrating and sympathetic look at a cinematic master. His archetypal images, best remembered from Oracu/s and FIHks, stUI move us, though often today they 818 transmuted by later filmmakers who have diluted the quintessential power found only in the originals. With many fas cinating photoi,aphs and detailed filmographies, this should prove to be the definitive volume on a master magician whose work should be well known to Satanists. "Browning brings us the bad news attendant on the most technologicaDy advanced century in history that is simultaneously the cruelist. We 818 animals, con men, thieves, and vampires, Browning tells us in film after film, driven by overpowering primitive emotions-beyond any real freedom and dignity. Pain and alienation teach no lessons: they only madden."

•NOT OUT OF AFRICA, How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, by Mary Lefkowitz (BasicBooks, HarperCol&ns, 10 East

531d Street, New York, NY 10022-5299, 1996; 222
pages, ISBN 0-465-09837-1, $24.00, haldback).
A scholar of ancient Gl88C8 and Rome refutes the wilder claims of recent Afrocentricists. Though she treads lghtly and only implies the charlatanry of some outrageous individuals and their claims, it becomes clear through this weU-argued book that Otdrageous propaganda and fanlasy is being spread in the name of political correctness (which is thus sacrosanct from discussion and debate) in universities which should be forums for the testing out of various theories based on the best possible factual data available. She examines how some of these theories have arisen, and how and why they
have been promulgaled. Let us see if this is the
curtain-raiser for other books which wiU expand upon this important issue.

•ABRAHADABRA, A Beginner's Guide To Thelemic Magic, by Rodney Orpheus (Looking Glass Press, Box 8105, S-104 20 Stockholm, SWeden, 1995; 198 pages, ISBN 91-88708-01-2,
$16.95, paperback).
Here is a wel wrlten and witty introduction to the Thelemic practices synthesized by Aleister Crowley. If you 818 new to ritual magic, or need to ground a too eclectic current practice, this handbook will focus your efforts and dil8cl you to additional sources to enrich your practices (They even 18COmmend Dr. LJJ.Vey's works).

•THE END OFAACISM, by Dinesh D'Souza (The Free Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, 1995; 724 pages, ISBN 0-02-908102-5, $30.00, hardback).
D'Souza is back with another excellent book addl8SSing the current racial tensions in our society. He examines the origins of racism (not out of ignorance, but scientific attemi:ts at classification) and brings to light many buried truths concerning this highly charged topic. Myths 818 laid waste, cuftural relativism is critiqued, the civil rights industry is exposed, and ultimately the author calls for freedom of association, as opposed to the falsity of state enforced "brotherhood." As a libertarian, D'Souza
trusts in the current generation to reject irrational
discrimination in favor of color-blind human rights and judgement based onindividual merit.

•VA VA VOOMI Bombshells, Pin-ups, Sexpots and Glamour Girls, by Steve Sulivan (General Publishing Group, Inc., 2701 Ocean Park Blvd., Ste. 140, LA, CA 90405, 1995; 288 pages, ISBN 1-
881649-60-1, $17.95, trade-paperback).
If you're looking for a festival of pulchritude ttis is itl With sultry Mamie Van Doren on the cover, this is a treasure trove of Satanic Witches to enchant and delighl (you'll never be able to look at currently touted "beauties" again). Divided into four sections, we are treated toMovie Bombshells, Glamour Girls, Pin-up Queens, and Strippers. There's avideo list of the •100 Sexiest Movie Performances of the Va Va Voom Era" so you can find out what you've been missing, unless you're one us connoisswrcads.
Even though Sul&van mentions Jayne's Church of Satan connection as a negative, the positive aspects of this book make it a worthy addition to your coleclion. Don't miss this one!

-SHADOWS OF THE MIND, A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, by Roger Penrose (Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxfold OX2 &DP UK, 1994; 457 pages, ISBN0-19-
853978-9, $25.00, hardback).
Platonist physicist Penrose explores the state

of lllderstanding of the.unillerse and points towards ar&as which need exploration so thal we can truly lllderstand the phenomenon of consciousness, which camot successfully be explained in terms of ilcreasing computational complexity (thus he successfully attacks the possbiity of artlicial ntelligence based on cum1nt methods and understandings). An excellent discussion of the nature of consciousness that eschews mystical sokltlons and seeks carnal answers.

•VITAL DUST, Life As A Cosmic Imperative, by Christian de Duve (BasicBooks, HarperCollins, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299, 1995; 362 pages, ISBN 0-465-09044-3, $25.00, hardback).
Biochemist de Dwe examines the origins of life itself and posits it to be an inevitable occurance that is caused by the very structure of our Unillerse,
which wYI continually evolve towards greater con1)1edy. If you seek a greater understanding of rrfe's place in our Unillerse, this wiU provide iri&ligent insigla as weft as providng a glimpse of the shadow of the Dark Force in Nature.

•THE DEVIL, A Visual Gulde To The Demonic, Evil, Scurrilous, And Bad, by Genevieve Morgan and TomMorgan (Chronicle Books, 275 Fifth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, 1996; 175 pages(6.75" x 7.51, ISBN 0-8118-1176-X,$17.95, hardback).
The authors have assentlled a tiuy sumptuous book, with very classy design, fiHed with color images and beautiful type-setting. The contents are asort of light survey of Hellish things, including Infernal Names, mythology, and various things you've probably encoootered in greater depth elsewhere.
They've left ou the Chun:h of Satan (for shamel,
being ptj)lished oti of San Francisco), and their section on Satanism is from a Christian perspectille The attraction is the beauty of the product, acoffee table book that is a pleasure to peruse just because of the imagery alone.
•THE DEVIL'S MISCHIEF, edited by Ed Marquand (Abbeville Press, 488Madison Avenue, New York. NY 10022, 1996; 184 pages (7.5" x 5.1251, ISBN 0-
7892-0136-4, $17.95, hardback).
Uke the above mentioned book, here's another small volume that is quite beautiful, with high production values. It purports to be The Devil's story in his own words, bti he •speaks" through fine exerpts of Satanic literature such as Twain, Baudelaire, Milton, France, Bulgakov, and others.
Their are fine color images, some quite imaginative.
Another little gen for your colection.

•DANGER IS MY BUSINESS, An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines; 1896 - 1953, by Lee Server (Chronicle Books, 275 Filth Slreet, San Francisco, CA 94103, 1993; 144 pages, ISBN 0-8118-0112-8, $17.95, trade papetback).
Here's a fine introduction to the phenomenon of Pulp Magazines, which spawned several genres of written entertainment (among them horror, science fiction, hard boiled, action-adventure) and launched several classic writers into the consciousness of
readers. Lavishly illustrated with covers that convey
1¥Wingly archetypal images, Server points the way for those who haven't al,eady found the later reprints olsuch folks as Lovecraft, Howard, Bloch, Smith, WeMman, Cave, Chandler, Hammett, Kiitner, Clarke, Asimov, and Bradbury to name a few. The Pulps car ried talent and trash, and served to fire the imagina tion of millions, and you'll get afine introduction to them in this astute and irlormatille book.

•THE GRAND GRIMOIRE, translated by Gretchen Rudy, edited by Antonio Venitiana del Rabina, (Trident Books & Ara Obscura, P.0. Box 85811, Seattle, WA 98105, 1996; 117 pages, ISBN 1-
879000-01-6, $95, leatherbound).
Here's an elegant new edlion of this nolorious book of Solomonic magic. One of the most posh p19sentations Ive yet seen (I received a colT8cted proof which has well designed type setting, but I also receilled a pictur& of the final cover which is leather wlh an embossed inverted pentagram and the title
eimossed in gold-very impressive),

-INSIDE TERADOME, An llustrated History of Freak Film, by Jack Hunter (Creation Books, 83, Clerkel'IN811 Road, Landon, EC1, UK,1995; 245 pages, ISBN 1-871592-41-0, $16.95trade paperback).
Here's a fascinating study which r&ally explores the sit,ject, starting with a history of freaks and freak shows to p19pare you for their advent on the siver screen. There's even a poelive mertion of the Chun:h of Satan (tllotql the atihor isn, aware of Dr.
LaVey's role inthe rebirth of US interest in Browning's Fl'BS/ctJ as a place which accepted freaks into its ranks, and they mention Sstllllis as well as
SpBBk of lhB Devi/. The book is weD designed and full of fine Ulustrations. n wil remain a fine source book for al irterested in human oddities.

•V IS FOR VAMPIRE, The A-Z Guide To Every thing Undead, by David J.Skal (P8111J,i'l Books, 375 Hudson Street, New York. NY 10014, 1996; 288 pages, ISBN 0-452-27173-8,$15.95, trade paperback).
Skal is back, who you'll r&member for his excellent previous books Hollywood Gothic and The Monster Show, and he's written a ligt't-hearted and very biased encyclopedia of vampi1&-lore which covers films, personalties, history, literature, and anything he could think of to d'ISCUSS. There 818 truly excellent appendices which list vampir& films and novels by year of release/publicationas well as a list of vampire and vampir& related creatures from arollld the wortd. This is an excellent SOtJC8 book and a really fun read (and nicely ilustrated as well).
el.ET usPREY, Tony Sokol, VampyrTheatre, P.O. Box 6012, S. Hackensack, N.J. 07606 ($4.93).
Tony Sokol has been the moving force behind Ls CommBdis Del Ssngue: Vsmpyr Theslr8, which has produced plays exploring vampirism. This is a play which was first pelfonned in 1993, and it is illustrated with stills from one of the productions.
Vampire sliclsnsdos wll relish this rtualistic
exploration wherein various postulants present themselves to the vampires in sean:h of satisfying various needs. Audience participation is encouraged at times in acontrolled fashion. I have yet to see one of their productions, but this script seems to be a fine basis on which to build an effectille theatrical experience.

eCTHULHU CULTUS, 1-5, edited by Tani Jantsang and Philip Marsh. $1o each volume from P.Marsh,
P.O. Box 534, Capiva Island, FL 33924.
These delightful volumes pr&sent new fiction, poetry, humor pieces, essays, art, and even sheet music which takes Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos as a starting point. If Lovecraft you pleasure, then you wl1e11oy these writings which play in his universe. AtAhor.l include: Robert M. Price, Crispin Bumham, Tani Jantsang, Philip Marsh, Jeff Gerber, Casey Ley, Peter Gilmore, Wayne Hicks, James Ambuehl, E.P. Berglund, Ales GuBlotte, and Jeffrey
Thomas. If you write Lovecraftian pastiches, then
youmigt't submit works for futur& volumes.

•FECAL FORCES ZEEN IS, Boris "Kukatz"
Milakovic, fN. Duha 30, 34000 Pozaga, Croatia.
Here's something you don\ see ewryday: a punk anan:hist Satanic metal 'zine from Croatia. It's very much a Pt.Ilk 'zine in design (hard on the eyes), Wit does haw energy. No price listed but I'm certain they'd trade.

-SECONDS, pubUshed by Steve Blush, edited by George Petros, 24 Fifth Avenue, Suite 405, New York, NY 10011, Phone: 212-260-0481. lntemet Browser@itMna.com.
Still r&igns supreme as the source for IOOSical
<iscussion and controwrsy beyond PC stricttns. I you realy want to read about the thinking behind contemporary musicians and olher cultural icons, then this is THE forum for dangerous discussion. Every issue has someone that will be of inter&st to the Satanist. Here's a listing of otistanding irterviews from recent issues: #31-Danzig, Tom Jones; #32--Chal1es Manson, Calvin Schenkel, Slayer;, In June, David Bowie; #34- Ambient Teq>le of Imagination; #35-Carrille Paglia, Boy George, Foetus; #36-Rahowa; #37- Easy Listening & Lounge Revival Special (don't miss this onel); #38-Mike Diana, Boyd Rice (excellent photos of Boyd wlh nude ladies, plus an intro by Adam Plllfrey); #39-Coop (great illustrationsl),Type 0 Negatille, Harlan Ellison, Ozzy Osbooole; #40- Marilyn Manson [Interviewed by Boyd Rice!), J. G. Balald, Lyndon LaRouche, Andnl Lassen; #41-Lisa Carver, Ron Jeremy, Richard Ramirez, Burzum; #42. Pantera, Xenakis, Bjorlc; #43--Tiny Tm,
Danzig, Electric Hellfi18 Club, Sol lnvictus, Absu.
Back issues are $5.00 each (plus $2.00 for foreign slipping). And they still have #27 which featured an inteNiew with Anton LaVey. You can't afford to be without SECONDS.

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OU THINK YOU represent unppPUlar views as a Satanist? Do people give you a bani time for your
beliefs? you're far from the only one, as George Eric Hawthorne will be happy to inform you. Hawthorne is a true pariah on the current cultural landscape (landfill?), and as the frontman for Canada's RAHOWA (short for RAcial HOiy WAr), he has taken his fair share of criticism.
Howevo; if you care to go beyond media catch-phrases and actually listen to what he has to say, it would undoubtedly fly right over the heads of m t redneck racists or Hitlerian hatemongers, as much as it'd rile up the typical liberal humanist. And beyond this, his musical group recently released a CD, Cult of the Holy War, that could well climb right up the indie charts if it weren't for his thoroughly uncom promising-yet extremely eloquent-lyrics.
Combined with neo-classical influences and inspiration from Ragnar Redbeard, it's an impresm,e piece of work that many Satanists would find inspiring, even if they don't completely agree with Hawthorne's platform.
h's no secret that his gl magazine, Resistance, has been attracting a lot of attention lately, along with the releases on his succesdu1 record label of the same name. A significant proportion of attention has also come from Satanists, enough so to stircontroversy in the pages of the latest issue. h seemed appropriate to turn the tables and fire off a round of questions in Geoige's direction to find out just where he stands.

How is it that you came around toyour pn:sent oudook] From what I understand you had a very different one as a youngstet; which was not particularly racially oriented.
I was raised in the suburbs, and the only non-Whites that lived near us were pretty submissive. Back in the seventies, Canada was almost exclusively White. Although my parents were not "racist• per se, they definitely taught us not to race-mix, explaining that "you just don't do it.• This feeling was more of a response to it being socially unacceptable than having some phil ophical premise.
As I got oldo; and the racial makeup of Canada began to change, I was confronted with different cultures and ethnicities. Initially, I had no problem with this, as I stuck with the white guys, and was never really bothered by the muds. I had some non-white friends, but this was more of a result of being on the football

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team and being vice-president of the student council than anything else. I ran with the "in crowd•;I was a jock, and I founded a weight lifting club. High school years were easy for me, as I was well-liked and accepted, and coming from an upper-middle class family, I had nice and did not suffer from any deprivations. For many reasons, I was destined for this average life as an upwaroly mobile, affluent bowgeois guy with no concerns except planning my next vacation to the Gulf of Mexico or Vail.
But my life took a wicked turn when I staned reading Nietzsche. Suddenly, something deep and forbidden in my racial soul was evoked, and I knew that I wanted much more from life than to be sentenced to an existence of excessive comfort. I started looking at life differently. No longer was materialism important to me; theLaw of Blood spoke the wisdom of the Ancients.
I began to seek out the things truly potent in tern culture, and developed a voracious appetite for reading classic literature. Plato, Thucydides, Cicero, Shakespeare, Poe, Bacon,
Dostoyevsk:y, Shaw, and of coune Nietzsche filled my nights and moments between Ilost interest in mind.less pursuits like exces.m,e drinking, and shunned the drug use I saw amongst my friends. Although I did not know it at the time, I was finding myself amidst the

modem labyrinth of anti-culture, n:disoovering the collective wisdom of my forefathers in an era when it is buried deep in layers of rancid phil ophical excrement.

What was your fll"SI: exposure to religion?
I was raised as a Roman Ottholic, and fed it through my mother's milk. I was the head altar-boy at my Parish, and served mas.ses sometimes up to 5 or 6 days per week. I heard everything that there was to learn about that religion. I literally memorized the mass word for-word, and when coupled with my high schooleducation at an all-boys Catholic school run by Christian Brothers, I knew the faith inside and out. Being a fanatic, I was a devout followo; ch never to be one of those drifting souls that was neither good enough for Heaven, nor bad enough for Hell. Nothing could be worse than the Christian notion of a "puigatoiy•; a place where the mediocre get to spend a huge chunk of their after-life. Give me the option of hanging out with maniacs or saints over that contemptible lot, and rll take it everytime.
At about the age of 15 or 16, I started to seriously question my religion. I was a.wng questions that were far too difficult for my
priest to answei: But these were basic, logical, common-sense questions, ones that must have been tackled by every believo; I thought. At first I assumed that it was just my priest that couldn't give the answers, that he spent too much of his time dipping into the "blood of Cluist• instead of studying priesthood. So I searched, talked to many priests, and they all . had the same pathetic answers for me.
I was insulted! Surely my religion was based on a foundation more solid than the fluff I was being given! But time would prove other wise. Soon I was to learn that the faith I had been reared on was nothing more than another one of man's Dark-age attempts at explaining the vast unknown. And around it, they had erected this farce, this con-job, this racket that milked them of their money and vibrancy. h became my destiny to destroy it.

Is religion even necessary? Does it serve a positive function?
That would belike a.wng if reading
served a positive function. If you are reading lies designro to neuter you and render you listless, then it serves a negative one.
Conversely, if the book provides you with
qualified, intelligent answers, and healthy

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philosophical mind-food, then yes, it would serve a positive function.
Some religions destroy people, turning them into malleable, cooperative plebeians. Others provide a healthy ideological backbone and supplement it with a strong community interaction with other like-minded individuals. So it really depends on the religion in question. The Islamic religion seems to have served the Arabs quite well, although it was a disaster for the (mitially white) Moors, who pr.icticed miscegenation after putting Islam before Racial Loyalty.
Some people need religion. My girlfriend is an Odinist Pagan, and although she is like a Satanist in that she dOC5n't believe in the literal existence of the Norse Gods, it gives her an ancient faith and tradition to provide her with a healthy point of reference. I however; am an Atheist, or more appropriately a Creatoi; and this empowers me more than any other belief system could.

"\bur initial major involvement in the racial movement was via The Chwcli of the Creator, which was known for its vehement anti-Christian st3nee. W.U this part of its appeal for you?
The W1:iite Mm'.s Bible and Nature'.s Eternal Religion, the two basic books of the COTC, emancipated me from the remaining Christian residue that even NietzSChe couldn't fully purge. I saw the Racial issue as profoundly im
ponant as destroying diristian.ity, because I don't believe White people can act with the neceswy ruthlessness while stillsaddled with the Christian baggage.

How did you become a member of the organization]
I was 19 years old, and in my first year of University (we have grade 13 here in Canada), and I was given a copy of 11,e W1,ite Man'.s Bible. I read it in two days, and immediatdy wrote the COTC for more information on bow to build a Church here in Canada.I thought that I would be enrolling in an eneigetic, viable religious movement, that was
and active. Although the group had been around since 1973, and had been founded with over $1 million of the founder's money, it was adiso mess, a:nd very poorly promoted.

Why did you leave the COTO
After time, the frustrations of dealing with the poor leadership structure just got to me. Ifeh like I was sinking wasted energy into a losing venture. So I politely resigned, and eventually formed Resistance Records, the first ever "pro-White• or "Euro-centric•

recording label in the world. There had been other racial music released, but never from a label that was owned and operated by the Racially Loyal.

I have many of your older articles from OOTC publications, whkh m
very intelligently done. Howevez; one can't say the same for much of the rest of their newspaper and propaganda. Did you not feel like you were battling against a major current just trying to push things in a dynamic, thoughtful direction?
Sometimes, yes. However; you must remember that the group's publication, RIKiaJ Luyalty, was almost universally disappointing for Creators. It did not reflect the state of mind or mental capacity of the Creators I was meet ing across North America, and corresponding with from all over the world. It was a very poor representation of the COTC, and it was the two aforementioned books that were the main source of propaganda.
It seems to me that many of the most for ward thinking, competent and progmsive racialists like yourself all emerged from OOTC. Why might this be, especially given their bmrre ideas about having everyone dress up in frontier western outfits waving "It's Great to be White" flags?
that is an unfair general.iz.ation of the OOTC. One member; who called hitnsdf V1etor '\Xblf, promoted some off-the-wall i ,
but not one Creator I ever met actually went and put on a Ranger's costume or had a flag that said •1t•s Great to be Whit.e." That was viewed as a corny idea generated by some geeky old guy, and not representative of the membership at all.
The members that I knew were of above average intelligence, were well-educated, and were some of the toughest motherfuckers who could ever hope to have on your side. Of course, the group was so extreme that it attraeted its share of lunatics, which the Satanic movement also dOC5, but it was neverthe a movement filled with the progressive-minded.
Oearly Nietzsche is a major influence. How did you come across his writing and where do you think its value lies?
One of my high school English teachers once hdd up a sheet of paper and said, "if you want a real education, drop out of this facility today, and go buy the 100 books on this list of classic tomes.• While I didn't drop out, Idid go and purchase dozens of the books, beginning with Nietzsche, which my teacher told me was the haroest to fully grasp. While I did have to re-read many ponions at first, Igradually

became acclimated to his condensed writing style, a:nd internaliud the nu:mge well
I think that Niettsche's greatest contribution to philosophy, besides having been a major inspiration to Ragnar Redbeard (author of Might is Right), is his discussion of the coming of the Overman, the next evolution of mankind, provided that we regain our foothold and cleanse ourselves of unpure ideologies that restrain us. I also appm:iated his disdain for"W.lgnerian-style Nationalism, instead preaching unity amongst all of Europe.

Nietzsche often levded scathing aiticism at "anti-Semites". How do you interp t these sentiments from him?
Anyone who has read 11,e Antichrist will know that Niewche was the most profound anti-Semite on the block. He made such a thorough, coherent, and coTldemoiog <::ase against the Jews in that book, that it perplexes me that anyone has any doubts about his opinion on the mattec Jewish apologists point to comments he scrawled late in life, while in a syphilis-induced delirium. No, like it or not, Niewche was a Jew-hatei; and a profound one at that!

Likewise, many would claim Nietzsche avoids any absolute racial stance. Is this merely due to his living in a less troubled time than we do presently?
What was the issue of Race to someone living in the 19th c.entwy? There was no non White encroachment on Europe's Racial integrity. Without the modern-day mud-slide we are witneSSing, is it any doubt that Niewche left a non-issue
Saying that Nietzsche took no absolute Racial stance is like saying that he did not take environmental protection seriously. The issue was irrelevant to his time. However; much of Niewche's writings deal with his concept of genetic elitism, so you don't have to be a brain swgeon to take those clear observations and apply them to the modern Racial issues. If Niewche lived today, he would agree with most of my platforms, but hate my band, writing our music off as a •well-orchestrated assauh upon the nerves", which is how he also defines W-ignerl

Many in the racialist movement claim to be advancing or protecting an advanced cultu while-with extremely few aceptions-these same people seem utterly
unable to produce any superior cultural works themselves. How do you feel about this? I know a number of people who have no problem with racial ideas, but on the other hand shudder at the thought of a

world run by some of the obviously inferior
racla1 "leaders".
The •leadership• of the Racia&t movement is pathetic indeed. So is much of the membership. But then again, as I look around me today, I see little reason not to be a seething misanthrope! The idea itself does not belong to any rm-potfohre, and his cast of lfDw,n Hooes rejects, but rather to the ebb and flow of the Universe, and the greater wealth of wisdom from time immemorial These ethics are true and just, irrespective of the foo of modem man, or the CWTent fashion of political co Racia&m is absolute ttuth, and no beer-bellied redneck can claim ownership of it.
I should also interject that there are hundnm of decent, solid, highly intelligent young men and women that I personally work with and communicate with involved in the Racialist movement. Theleadership is filled by people that have nothing to lose by being outspoken. The quality members of the movement don't show up on GeraidlJ.

How did your initial efforts into the realm
of music come about?
I first played with a band in grade eight. covered some popular metal tunes at the
time. I was 12, so I thought KISS was just about the apex of musical ability! I also really loved Led Zeppelin, which is an influence that definitely outlasted Gene Simmons & Co. I also played trombone in brass band, and later formed a highschool rock band that wrote its own music. I still have some shitty tape kicking around here somewhere.

RAHOWA is often categorized as a "skinhead" band but this seems more and more of a misnomet How would you describe what you're trying to accomplish and how is k different from the rest of the current racla1 music scene?
I am trying to explore the emotional and intellectual depths of the Fascist ethic through the expmon of music. As this idea becomes more and more intimate to me, our music becomes more and more revealiog and profound. Our next project, 1beIron DrtAm, will take it all to a new level
Skinheads were initially pissed off at our metamorphosis, because we were always this really popular •Skinhead• band. But we were never into playing Oi music, or playing untalented crap just to provide some lunkheads with a soundtrack. to get pissed to. On the contrary, we have always tried to take Skin heam to a higher level, and we get along best with those Skins we can relate to, the perrentage of the Skin scene that iseducated and forward-thinking. I like people who are

not intimidat.ed by any idea.

From where did the prominent classical influences on Clllt of the Holy War arise?
Jon Latvis (lead guitai; cello, piano) is a highly accomplish ical musician, having been trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music.inToronto for several years, where he
earned a grade eight cello and a grade nine piano. But I think he could go even highei: He is a total virtu o, and the most talented musician I have everseen. MTV couldn't handle this guy's talent for minute.
I have always loved Bach especially, and my appreciation of other music from the Baroque and Gothic/Gregorian period led me to this place where my han:i metal influences collided with my icalattraction.
RAHOWA became the outlet for the fusion
that OCCUITcd.

'1bu have asked your readers in Resistllnce whether "Satulism is forbidden by the skinhead thought police?" What brought about this question and how do think the average racialist feels about such things?
there is a lot of resistance toSatan ism amongst Racialists, mainly due to lack of knowledge, and a residue of Christianity. But we are getting tons of letters from Satanist Black Metal and Death Metal bands, as well as lots of fans of Satanic music.
As an atheist, I look at the whole Christian/Pagan/Satanicsquabble and sigh a little, wondering why so many people need religion. But I guess it is a fact that people do, soI have come to accept it.I judge people based on their individual value, not based on whether or not they attach the correct label to themselves.
Unfortunately, many Skinheads don't feel that way. But I like to push every issue that upsets them, because it gets them to think about the things that they try and avoid. The more those wheels tum, the faster the machine cangol

How do you personally feel about the issue, as I know you are at least f.uniliar with the philosophy of Satanism?
since every Satanist I have spoken to about the issue doesn't believe in the literal existence of "the devil," I don't understand why they don't just call themselves atheists, and avoid becoming the next fund-raising story on this Sunday's televangelist broadcast. That having been said, I have met some fantastic, brilliant people that are Satanists, so I respect the movement as being able to attract and inspire some worthy men and women.
I think that the Racialist movement

ulrirnately benefits from having Satanists involved. I know that many Satanists agree with our world-view, so why not work together? I am one of the m t anti-Christian prophets I know, soif I work with some Ouistian Racialists who are solid people dedicated tosimilar ideals, then I sure ashell am going to work with Satanists that fit the same criteria. Fuck, I would work with Hare Krishnas if they met my prerequisites!

How do you see Resistance Records
devdoping over the coming years?
I want our magaz.ine to become biggei; more frequent (bi-monthly and then monthly), and filled with better articles every mue. I pour myself into each issue, and it islike an extemion of myself, so Idamn well intend on it progress ing, just like I seek to a,pirel
As for the label, I want to see it sign less bands, and move more volume of all the records we have already released. have only pressed 6,000 RAHOWA's Cult Of1heHoly War, which is our fastest selling album, and I think that it should be heaid by (IJ,000 and then (IJ(J,000 before it slows downl This is wishful thinking, of course, and it requires some pretty hard work to promote this, considering some of the obstacles in our way.

What are the main ones you face?
A music industry that shuns us ...indie labels that actively work against our efforts, threatening to boycott stores and 'zincs that cany our records or ads ... big media that makes us look like the anti-Christ hate corporation of the century -· stores that won't cany our CDs ... companies that won't p
our records ...studios that won't record us. The list goes on and on. are as black as black sheep get, and there is no let-up in sight.
Through all of this, we keep laughing, "00 enjoying the fun of upsetting the puny little minds that tty so hard to be "correct" in their pathetic little lives. get to speak out on issues that concern us, make a few bucks along the way, be creative in the proces.s, and find our way into history books as the m t notorious and officially hated company of the late 20th C.enturyl What more could I guy ask for from life???
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To contact George Eric Hawthorne-

write:
5060 Tecumseh Rd. E., Suite 148, Wmdsor, ON, N8T 1C1, Canada.

email: rahowa@resistance.com

HE EARTii HAS NEVER
STOOD STll.L; since my
childhood, in fact as far back as I can remember, I have heard about Christianity. Contrary to popular belief, I don't need to hear the •Good News". rve heard it loud and clear, and all too often. h'sa good story but any story gets boring after awhile. The Christians claim it's the literal word of God, but they seem to disobey it nonchalantly.
Why? Because, I fear, they really know
much to their dismay-it's not the word of God and if "Faith without works is dead,,. then someone better graha shovel.
Why do they hold on to this dying faith?
They have been conditioned, like Pavlov's d to respond. They have, for the most p-art, been intensively indoctrinated (read
brainwashed) into this cult since the day they were born and the cult leaders leave their flock gbenoiud, confused, and 20% lighter in the walled When I was a child, tithes were only 10%, why did a supposedly omnipotent God need apay raise? Maybe to keep up with the cost of living? Meanwhile the only solace the Christian can find is that "it might be true." This has become the cry of desperation of many followers of many faiths when their "logic" fails to convince me of the existence of any god.
Christians claim that their creed is "love thine enemy" and everyone has •free will,,. yet they behave as oppressors of personal liberty (by law or murder) to reinforce their malevolent control over society. The facts are that the Christians have been reponsible for
the Inquisition, the Crusades, du:Salem Wttch hunts and, whenever empowered, the ritual murder of anyone who didn't conform
to their religion. They have banned the work of scientists and authors in the guise of protecting society from immorality, but their true motivation was to prevent the spread of scientific knowledge, new philosophies, and any ideas that conflicted with their religious doctrines. These are the facts and they are not indispute and, in fact, they would stop at nothing to preserve their place insociety.
According to Christian dogma, the first sin of
mankind was the pursuit of knowledge (of good and evil). Truly •ignorance is bliss," or at lean piety, in Christianity.
In this, Christianity's desperate hour, and throughout their history, they have sought to stop the flow of progn:M and

personal liberty. Even now, they are hard at work to remove the gun from your hand, eliminate your ability to get an abortion, restrict what you may see or read on the internet, put prayer back in your public school system and have it reinforced at your State colleges and universities. H you don't believe me, call your COngreMman and ask him or her about the Contract with the American family. This piece of •reform," sponsored by the right-wing, is an effon to turn back the clock of progress on personal liberties because its purveyors supp y "know what's best" for the country. Excuse my arrogance, but when did they get a clue?
The Holy Bible says that theEanh stood still one day. The Eanhhas never stood still; since my childhood, in fact as far back as I can remember, I have known that the eanh revolves around the sun and on it's own axis. And now that rm older, I know that our sun is moving away from the center of theMilley Way galaxy, which in tum is moving away from the center of a superstring of galaxies.
And this superstring, presumably, is moving away from the center of the universe where the Big Bang, not creation, staned it all.So, as Galileo told his sister almost -400 years ago, the Holy Bible is wrong-"the Eanh has never stood still.,. And, in all of known existence, ther is not one scientific fact which supports the existence of any god. rm thankful that there's no Inquisition to come after me and make me renounce my beliefs.
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MEANINGS and interpretations, even amon Satanists. The sig
nificance of Satanic God(s) is, as it should be, utilitarian and highly individualistic. (If something is working for a person, then ob viously he or she should take it to the limit.) This lack of simplicity regarding the subject of the "divine" is most likely why so many non-Satanists have difficulty understanding our position. Often, words like God and Satan are used (by Satanists) in a symbolic way to represent the highly complex and relatively unknown forces at work (or play) in this Universe of which we are a part. To complicate matters furthei; some Satanists engage in confrontational histrionics which, although perhaps fulfill them personally, fail to demonstrate their intellectual grounds (and fail to "win friends and influence people"-which is a whole other argument on the superfluousness of Satanic PR.) Likewise, despite our sense of rational skep ticism and studious worldliness, many so called scholars are also confused about Satanists, perhaps because we so often cloak ourselves in elements of horroi; myth and supernature.
I have recently recovered from a bout of local cyberspatial obsession-in which I took to task agnosticism and a number of other loosely related subjects-and, therefrom, bring you both the delirium of the cyber masses and my remedy unto the same. But before this presentation, I shall describe ex actly how delicate some subjects are in rela tion to Satanism.
For example, let's take the "God is Dead" movement. We know it primarily from philosophical history (which is intellec tual initsdetails). It also serves as a catchy marketing device for a band of Satanic mwicians, ACHERON-which is commen dable. But, taken on its face value, it
presumes that God (in the traditional sense) must have been real and alive at one time; supporting "God is Dead" literally is neces sarily inattentive to the fact that there is no evidence for the existence of any and all gods, unless one is fooled by the godly corpses which are propped up and animated by the slaveringly devout.
To say "God is Dead" might not be so Satanic if we must presume irrationality. In-

stead, and this may further mislead the al ready mislead, saying "God is Alive" could be aSatanic proclamation, if by it we mean He is only alive in as much as His drowning body bobs afloat in a sea of His followers' verbal dianhea-or if by it we mean He is alive in whatever way we choose to define Him. One must be cautious, for the ice isn't always as thick as it appears. By my way of thinking, God is a meaningless slogan left over from a failed ad campaign, and "He" can be exploited in many ways by many persons.
All this brings us to the question of ag nosticism and precisely what that wmd means. Is agnosticism compatible with Satanism?
Calling themselves agnostic, I've been in communication with several people who didn't realize the Christian implications be hind the concept of agnosticism, which I'll explain after this refresher on the subject.
The term "agnosticism" was coined by the English rationalist Thomas Huxley in the 19th Century. By the little of his work that I've so-far read, I would conclude that he either wasn't sure himself what he meant by agnosticism or else he was socio politically cautious in exploring its usage.
Whatever the case, I don't think M& Huxley would approve of the way "agnosticism" is popularly used today. "Agnostic" is derived from the Greek wont agnostos, meaning "unknown" or "unknowable," and it is generally used to define the position that "it is impossible either to refute ordemonstrate God's existence on the basis of available evidence." This definition is rather narrow minded, for the agnostic position applies to much more than just God.
Geoige H. Smith put the problem of ag nosticism in perspective in his book, Atheism: The Case Against God. His wont ing is too suitable to paraphrase; I give you Mt Smith's wonts:
"Agnosticism is not an independent position or middle way between theism and atheism, because it classifies acconting to dif ferent criteria. Theism and atheism separate those who believe in a god from those who do not. Agnosticism separates those who believe that reason can not penetrate the su pernatural realm from those who defend the capability of reason to affirm ordeny the truth of theistic belief."

You see, a person can be any combina tion: agnostic theist, agnostic atheist, non agnostic theist or non-agnostic atheist ( - this last is closest to Satanism).
On the broadest leve agnosticism is a belief in "unknowability" which practically equates to transcendentalism-that the char acter of ultimate reality is unknowable.
Satanists can not reasonably support agnos ticism because it is a position of anti-reason, claiming as it does that things exist which are "beyond reality" and which can not ever be known by humankind. But if there are things beyond reality and forever unknow able, how do agnostics know this? Faith?
How do they know our future scientific, technological achievements will not some day disrobe all the unknown/unknowable and lay the cosmic "secrets" naked before us? And what makes the agnostic so sure per petual unknowables exist? One would have to have knowledge of something which pos sesses the trait of "unknowability" before one could advance a logical argument for that something. And, obviously, if one has knowledge of such an unknowable, then that unknowable must actually be knowable after all and be within reality's scope.
Another reason agnosticism is un reasonable is that by its acceptance of the un knowability of matters (like God), it allows credibility to every presupposition (be it God, Satan or the Tooth Fairy) by way of the shady logic that "because there is no evidence for or against the said presupposi tion, the presupposition must be a valid one." In this way, uncertainty is the hand of proof. By their f sitting-their total suspension of judgment-the agnostic validates everything equally, failing to under stand that a lack of evidence for something (like God) is refutation enough against that something (like God) until conaete evidence turns up otherwise. The Satanist does not jump the fence of reason, but rather looks to examine just what territory the fence encloses.
"If Satanists are not agnostic, does that
mean they are Gnostic?"
Here, of course, we must be careful to distinguish our rejection of agnosticism from our equally Satanic rejection of Gnosticism. Gnosis, as defined in its relation to Gnas-

ticism, is an "esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be sential to salvation.• Obviously, we consider all"spiritual truths" to be wholesale lies. The Satanist is non-agnostic, or one could say he or she is a gnosis atheist, in the sense of gnosis being a stance for reason and reason's capability to affirm or refute the validity of anything.
Using the shield of "agnosticism" is no defense against one choosing if one is a theist or a non-theist, as it is a blanket statement of mystical uncertainties. Agnosticism has be come the refuge for cowaals who fear the so cial prejudices that are engendered against
the Godless label, atheism. Agnosticism is also a convenient dodge to substitute faith in place of reason.
And speaking of faith, the Christians I've come across using the Devil's cyberspa tial technology are still whining about the
risingSatanic nature of modem society and the seemingly anti-Christian sentiments in mass media. 11 I'm not sure how accurate this assessment is, as X-ians have been saying such for a long, long time. But I am sure we need to remind them of a few thin because they are always forgetting their

theology...
If the truth is Christian-bashing, so be it-these truths are carnal ones, not "spiritual." That the material evidenre does not support Adam & Eve, viJgin births, miracles and resumctions issomething I would not fon:e on anybody; perhaps reality is only for the few who can handJe it and remain content. X-ians should study their bible and remember that "faith" should be
their modus operandi. When they start look ingfor reasons to support that faith, then they are no longer relying on faith, but rather reason; then they have abandoned the pri& ciple their Jesus allegedly said: blessed are those who have not seen, but believe.
Satanists should be reminded also that it was the X-ian founder Paul who said that all
which do not proceed out of faith are
evil.
Thus, Paul lumps reason with evil, which should put us diabolists on firm ground-with the non-spiritual world any way. When X-ians stick to faith, fine; we can not argue with this freedom. Argumentation is dependent on reason. Christians are not.
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y PET RAT AND FRIEND for
two very short years recently passed away. Travis was loyal,
affectionate, sensitive and loving--more so than most humans EVER could be. On the night that he died, his cool, limp little body struggled to breathe as I held him in my hands. He communicated clearly to my wife and I that he did not want to die. We tried to put him in his cage, but he mustered every bit of strength that he had to jump back into my hand. He wanted to be with ME, to say goodbye. I realized that by sheer force of will, he
was staying alive as long as possible, for MY benefit. He really, truly LOVED
me-loved me enough to endure pain and discomfort just so we might spend these last few hours together. What human being would do that? Finally, I turned down the lights and coaxed him back into his cage. I could see that con tact with me was cruelly prolonging his life. I kissed him goodbye. He died about two hours later.
The next day I lifted his cold, stiff
body into his favorite empty Kleenex box. I broke into tears-he was usually so wann and animated. Now he was simply still.

I would step over the bleeding bod ies of str t people without giving the matter a second thought. I don't give a damn about suffering people in Bosnia, Somalia, Ethiopia or Rwanda. I cheer every time the State of California puts another criminal to death. I shrug when I hear that a fourteen-year-old kid is rid dled with bullets in a gang shoot-out. I marvel at the stupidity of people who die

in trailer parks when hurricanes and tor nadoes strike. These people are incapable of mustering one-tenth of the amount of loyalty, love, enthusiasm or will that my rat Travis displayed on this single night.
When I appeared as a guest on Bob Larson's TALK BACK radio show, Bob said, "...This guy thinks a rat's more important than a human being..." Damn straight, Bob. When human beings live
up to the standards set by Travis, I'll reconsider. I know that won't happen, though And people wonder why we're misanthropes.
Each time I passed by Travis' cage after he died, I felt a sense of incom pleteness. Travis was my familiar, and he took part of me with him when he
., passed on. I knew what I had to do. I found a quiet spot in Golden Gate Park in back of the Japanese Tea Garden to bury Travis. I said a few words, shed some more tears, and walked back to my car. I headed immediately to the pet store and procured a sweet little gold colored rat whom I have named Jupiter. Jupiter and I are still getting used to each other, but I already like him better than the guy who sold him to me.
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to define what he means, then he is hiding

Nazi leadership. They claimed they were

would say that we all know what Satanism is, that there is no need to
define what we mean when we label our selves in this manner. We should get on with creating thin of value and not waste our time on such trivial debates as whether Satanism is compatible with fascism, and boldly proceed with what our guts tell us, because, after all, we arc the elite and supe rior Satanists.
The fact of the matter is, these debates are extremely important. To relegate your ethics (your guide to action, what is right and wron&) to your guts is to relegate your decision making to what I call osmocon sciousncss. And just what, you may right fully ask, is osmoconsciousncss?
To begin with, everyone has one. You can't help acquiring one as you grow up in any culture. You get it from your parents, the TY, and from every other human that you encountei; either in person or in any sort of media. You have acquired it by os mosis, and most of the shccple assume it to be consciousn and substitute it for thinking. h is the subconscious accumula tion of a junk pile of unexamined con clusions and generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, wishes, doubts, and fears thrown together by chance. h has been integrated by the sub conscious into a mongrel philosophy, and it is responsible for emotional responses (your guts), which arc usually counterproductive.
To the degree that your osmocon sciousncss corresponds to what is real, it causes your guts to tell you the correct ac tion to take. Since osmoconsciousness is a chancy grab bag, your decisions and be havior will have a chancy grab bag sort·of outcome. To the degree that you correct the ineffective aspects of the osmocon sciousncss, your guts will speak to you more effectively. One extremely effective way to change this unconscious jumble of ideas is to examine those ideas, define them, and discover their consequences. Then the ineffective and counterproductive ideas can be rejected. Only by carefully defining our words can we be sure that we understand each othci; let alone ourselves. Otherwise, we are just babbling at each othei; no mean ing, just wasted breath. Ha person refuses

something, from you the listcnci; or from himself. Ha person cannot define what he means, then he is simply repeating phrases, like a parrot, without meaning.
H you think this is of minor impor tance, note what has happened to the civil rights movement, and the NAACP. The leaders of the original civil rights move ment did not clearly define what their goals were. In very blurry terms, the original goal seems to have been something like equal treatment under the law. Now it has come to mean special treatment for the most obnoxious or wealthy group by the law. Originally the NAACP had within its platform the complete integration of the school system. I hear (meaning that this in formation has not been validated) that they have been co opted by a radical group which is calling for the re-segregation of the schools. Bill Clinton and other politicians use blurry meanin and obfuscation in notoriously great quantities to further their own ends, especially to get elected.
From what I have read in the Satanic
literature, especially that of Di: LaVey, Satanists tend tobe individualists. An in dividualist does not run anyone's life except his own, is neither master nor slave, and docs not sacrifice himself to anyone. There is great joy to be had from making the sheeple do what they do best, which is being run by their osmoconsciousness.
Pushing sheeplc buttons can be very enter taining for short periods of time. It can be likened to games such as teasing the kitten or bear baiting.
The trappin of Nazi fascism were well designed for messing with the shccplc. Howevei; to say that therefore the philos ophy behind Nazi fascism is compatible with Satanism is like saying that because we use similar tools we are of similar mind.
This is simply not true by any stretch of the imagination. Over and over again, in the words of the Nazi leaders (and also those of their philosophical mentors), the individual is nothing. The individual is to be ruled by the group, the state. The group
(or its representative, the state) can sacrifice the individual at its whim. Any focus on personal desire is to be discouraged. These are the ideas of Kant, Spenglei; and of the

being rational. This doesn't mean that they were rational.
Howevei; as has been proven many times, by the Nazis and scores of others, the vast majority of the shecplc do not want to be individualists, no matter what slogans they spout. It requires too much responsibility, too much thinking.1iy to teach their children the basics of individual powei; and the sheeple will hunt you down and weed you out. I have read of several cases where parents have begged the school system to teach decision making to their children, but when their children stancd to make their own decisions, the teachers were fired and the school systems sued.
These sheeple deserve what they get; dys
functional families, failed and unhappy lives, fcai; uncertainty, and despair. Rather than think their way out of their unhappi ness, they bury it in bland, soothing white noise, which they refer to as culture. They want a benevolent dictatorship, but they would never admit that. It has to be has dressed in the right words. The Christian Bible had it right, the shccplc arc thorough ly hypnotized by the word. When their families fall apart, their teens commit crimes or suicide, or they become the vic tims of crime, they look for someone to blame, and it certainly can't be themselves. After all, the shccple did all the right thin they bought the right clothing, they watched the right shows, they spoke the correct slogans, believed the correct politicians, supported the right causes.
What else is there?
W, there is individualism, but that's unacceptable to all but those born to it.
Keeping in mind that the shccplc outnum ber us vastly, we individualists, who have difficulty joining together because we are individualists, must understand one another very well if we are to be triumphant as a class. We can never be a group. Howevei; if our class is to rule, we must be very aware of exactly what we mean when we are con sulting with each othei; especially if con certed action is to be taken. We must be very aware of each of our own self-interests, keep them in mind, and also be able to un derstand very specifically the self interest of the other members of our class. We will

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otherwise be constantly working at Cl'Os.5-purposes. Self examination is very necessary, because to lie to ourselves is to under cut our own personal powec
In just what manner should we rule? We certainly cannot force individualism on the sheeple or make them act rationally. It doesn't work. The term fascism keeps coming up. Can an individualistic class impose a fascist dictatorship without destroying themselves? I seriously doubt it.Is there a name for the most practical system that individualists could impose on the sheeple so that we can maintain the lifestyle to which we aspire without having to bother with them? If so, I certainly don't know what it is.
If left to their own devices, the sheeple will eventually come up with someone to rule them, so constant monitoring for such threats to our power would be required. What a drag! They have to be told what to do all the time. They have to be content enough to keep them passive. They have to be made to produce enough to keep themselves happy. How about a version of the current conspiracy theories? Let the sheeple mess with their own government, but we, the elite, pull the strin from behind the scenes. A dangerous but exhilarating game for those with the desire for it.So how do the rest of us individualists keep from being screwed by any of these systems if we just want to be left alone, and have no desire for political power over the sheeple? As individualists, we always have social powei; and play it accordingly. Political power is another matte&
It would seem that Dr. LaVey is indeed correct that the sheeple are hopeless peasants and require rulers of one sort or anothec It is also true that Satanists do not want to be ruled, and indeed make ex cellent rulers when so inclined. I certainly hope there will be an answer as to how to reconcile this matte& In the meantime, dear Satanic readers, check your premises, define your worcb, and seek harmony in your own class.
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Athens. Unlike most other philosophers,

philosopher deals with reality, it is a suffi.

OPHY begins and enck with the
•holy" trinity of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The fact is that there were many other philowphers, who often had views quite different from these three. Some find the roots of Satanism in these philosophers, but I feel a much ter affinity with a philosopher carrying on the work of one of the p Socratic philosopheI'S-4philosophy quite different from that espoused by that well known trinity.
The p Socratic philosophers regan:led themselves as physicists as well as philosophers. These men often approached things from two sides. On one hand, they looked at the nature of the world, the primal substance of existence. On the other, they examined ethical and sociological matters.
One example is Heraclitus. On the physical side, he believed that life was characterized by struggle, and that the best men eschew the way of the mob. Another of these p Socratic philowphers was Democritus, who founded the school of philosophy known as Atomism.
Democritus' Atomism held that there were only two things in the world: atoms and void. Atoms are indivisible things from which all matter is made, which move through void in straight, p nnined courses. One of Democritus' successors, Epicurus, deviated from this, saying that these atoms did not move in straight, p determined courses. He suggested that there was a slight swerve in the movement of the atoms. This slight swerve added an element of unpredictability to the world so, in a sense, Epicurus could be called the father of chaos theory. I mention this only as a bit of background information. It is not the Atomism of Epicurus that is of pricipal in terest to us here. Instead, I will concentrate on his ethical and social ideas.
Unfortunately, most of Epicurus' writ
mp are lost to us. I suspect that the Chris tian mob took great delight in consigning his works to the flames. One of the early Chris
tian leaders, Jerome, denounced one of the foremost Epicureans in Rome, the poet Lucretius, as a madman. What does survive is of great value. It is, in my opinion, of in finitely more value than the wri of the Stoics and Platonists.
Epicurus taught in hisgarden in

Epicurus also taught women. Philowphical ly, Epicurus taught that the highe.t value was pleasure. This was something unheard of at that time. Many had accepted the idea that Man did, in &ct, act in the pursuit of pleasure, but this was seen as a defect in Man's nature. Epicurus said that Man should
regam pleasure as his goal. This philosophy is often interpreted as mere unlimited
license, but it is not. Epicurus was quite clear in stating that mere licentiousness often brought with it far more pain than pleasure. Epicureanism can not be easily pigeonholed as a sort of at,drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die" type of philosophy, al though this is the common perception. As Satanists, we should know from firsthand ex perience that the common perception is often quite different than the reality. '"No pleasure is a bad thing in itself: but the means which produce some pleasures bring with them disturbances many times greater than the pleasures." Do these sound like the worosofamerelibertine?
Epicurus was also a dedicated proponent of common sense. While other philosophers believed that the world that we cari see, and heai; and touch, is somehow un real-or less real than some kind of •ideal" world, Epicurus believed that only a fool rejected the evidence of his senses. To Epicurus, the phenomenal world was not just an apparent world, but the one and only world. This categorical rejection of other worldliness is all too scarce in the shadowy world of philosophical metaphysics, and I for one find it quite refreshing. In keeping with this distinctly materialistic philosophy, Epicurus rejected any notion of life after death. To Epicurus, the idea that you might feel pain after you died was ridiculous. The dualistic notion that there is a spiritual realm that exists separate and apart from the physi cal world was alien to his philosophy. Pain and suffering are products of flesh, therefore, when that flesh lies cold and dead, there can be no pain.
All things considered, Epicurus is a
philosopher whom Satanists would do well to explore. I do not generally recommend philosophers. Most are fools engaging in debates every bit as meaningless as the old theological dispute over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. When a

dently rare occurrence to be worth looking into.

Don't u Have Anything Mo Important To \lorry About?

Most Satanists whose names and adcfre5. ses have become known have probably got ten letters from a variety of strangers. I generally answer the interesting ones and laugh at, then discard, the others. There are some letters, howevei; that just annoy the Hell out of me. These are the letters from those who are sniffing around for interesting
new go.mp.
Recently, I heard from such a person. At first, this individual asked if he cou1d ask me some questions about myself and the Churcli of Satan. So f.u; so good. Howevei; this individual decided toslip in a few ques tions about Dr. La y'spersonal, private life. Even if I could, I wouldn't answer such ques tions. I consideml answering all but these of. fensive questions, but finally decided not to answer any of his questions, and used the SASE he'd provided for the answers to tell him why he wouldn't be getting any answers. As expected, I got a letter complain ing of my unfaimes.s. Was I unfair? I don't think so, but it doesn't mattei; These nosy gossip-mongering dimwits just rub me the wrong way.
What is it with these people? Just be cause they shell outsix bucks for acopy of 11:,e Sat4nic Bible they think that they own a piece of Anton La y? Sorry, asshole,
again! Dr. La y knows that there is an in terest in his life and philosophy. For this reason two biographies have been written about him, and he has done interviews ex pounding his views. He has really made quite a bit of information about his life avail able to the public. If this is not enough infor mation for you, then that's just too bad.
Dr. La y'spersonal, private life is just that. It is personal. That means that it is his, to share with those of his choice. It is private. That means that if he didn't decide to tell you about it, then it's none of your damned business. Finally, it is his life. You should try to get one. Maybe then you wouldn't be so concerned about the personal minutiae of:lli La y's.
Magister Michael Rose

¦ BjECTIVISM, THEPHILOSOPHY

cal accepting the sacrifice of another to one's

mon with Objectivism than with any other

OF AYN RAND, is an ack- nowledged source for some of the
Satanic philosophy as outlined in 1be Satanic Bible by Anton La\ey. Ayn Rand was a bril liant and insightful author and phil0.10pher and her best-selling novels Atlas Shrur,ged and 7be Fountainhettd continue to attract deserved attention for a new generation of readers. I am a sttong admirer of Ayn Rand but I am an even stronger admirer of Anton
La\ey for the vital differences between the philosophies of Objectivism and Satanism.
First, Objectivism holds that metaphysics, that branch of philo.,ophy which concerns itself with the nature of reality, determines the nature of epistemol ogy (which is concerned with how man quires knowledge) as well as ethics (which is concerned with valuing human action), politics (social ethics) and art. Current philosophical disagreement on this issue still continues. It is, in f.ict, an unproven asser tion by Rand that one's metaphysical as sumptions determine one's ethics.
You don't have to start with metaphysics to create your ethics. Satanism does not assert that the fundamental truth of the nature of reality (metaphysics) is known. In fact, Satanists utili7.e two different metaphysical assumptions reganling reality
evidenced in Satanic ritual as opposed to
the rest of life. In effect, Satanists are p
matic reganiing their beliefs regarding reality. Thus, as Satanists do not claim to know the absolute "truth• reganling what is real they

self (to paraphrase the end of Galt's oath from Atlas Shrur,gtd). The Satanic view sees as ethical the reality of domination of the weak by the sttong. The assertion in Objec tivism is that the use of force tocause others to submit to the will of the sttonger or cleverer individual is "wrong• for the in dividual. This is a second major assertion which Satanism finds unproven by the Ob jcctivists. Consequently, the Satanist is far more flexible in the choice of actions avail able than is the Objectivist who cannot simply accept his personal needs as absolute ly reliable to determine the best course of tion in any circumstance.
Fourth, Objectivism is purely atheistic
with a complete rejection of the value of a god in their metaphysics. The Satanic view of this is in pure agreement except in two areas. The Satanist holds that the meaning of god is useful when one holds it to mean the most important person in an individual's universe and chooses that person to be him self. The Satanist also ascribes magical god like qualities to himself when indulging in the alternate view of reality enjoyed in ritual. In both instances, Satanism sees the cultural effect of religion and god as an emo tional asset to be tapped rather than simply rejected. In other words Satanism is a religion (with the individual as God) and Objectism isn't.
Let me conclude this brief overview by adding that Satanism has far more in com-

religion or phil0.10phy. Objectivists endorse reason, selfishn greed and atheism. Objec tivism sees Christianity, Islam and Judaism as anti-human and evil. The writing, of Ayn Rand are inspiring and powerful. H the reader has not yet experienced her power; try her novelette Anthem for a taste. You will almost certainly come back for more.
At the same time, Satanism is a "brutal•
as well as a selfish philosophy. donot hold, as do the Objcctivists that the universe is "benevolent.• Satanists view the world as neutral, beyond the concepts of benevolent or treachcrou.,, good or evil. Satanism enables the Satanist to codify his life beyond the ethical and metaphysical straightjacket which Objcctivism unfortunately offers.
This is not written to attack Objcctivism but merely to clarify the areas of difference.
Satanism drew from Objectivism as even Rand drew from others. Both are, how ever, unique. Each is different from the othec
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Second, Satanism does not hold that "a life appropriate to a rational being• is the sole standard of ethical right as does Objec tivism. H anything, Satanism holds that in dulgence in life or "fun" as perceived by the individual is the highest standard of ethics. Satanists see that Objcctivism has enthroned reason above the individual as opposed to utilizing this sole means to knowledge as a tool to achieve a purpose. Satanism enthroned the individual as a whole, not reason, as the supreme standard to determine the value of actions (ethics).
Third, Rand's philo.,ophy rejects as ethi-

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The intent of The Satanic Bible was for anyone who read it to put the princi pls therein into practice, and we do see groups that follow its inspiration.
One such is The Order of the Nefarious Mass founded by Harry J. Mowry, Jr. (P.O. Box 6911, Pittsburgh, PA
15212). The ONM has two main purpos es. The first is "to provide a means for an individual to experience direct dia logue with others who, like themselves, embrace Satanic thought and practice in the Pittsburgh area. This dialogue may include participation in religious rites and ceremonies. In doing so, it is the desire of the ONM to build the individ ual ego, to further exploit one's poten tial, and to enhance one's character."
- "The secondary purpose of the ONM is to intelligently and responsibly engage in actively dispelling misinforma tion regarding our beliefs and practices. This is intended to secure a more safe and non-inhibiting environment for the Satanist to flourish." These above pas sages are quoted from the brochure
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Mowry.
Mowry definitely takes these pur poses to heart by providing a solid forum for ritualizing for his members, as the photograph of his chamber proves. He vigorously pursues the second pur pose by producing informational pam phlets that define his organization's beliefs and practices with concise and concrete e says. Aside from the introduc tory pamphlet about the ONM, they
have also produced "Black Magic: What In Heaven's Name ls It?" demystifying this subject and "The Truth About SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse)" which debunks the Christian hysteria that still has linger ing traces after its heyday in the 1980's.
Mowry has represented Satanism to the local press with wit and intelligence

left to right: Priest Ondrejko, Jeff Mine, Priest Mowry
and they have responded accordingly. He has even taken his beliefs into the public forum by debating street preach ers, and more than holding his own by countering the Christian fire and brim stone with devilish humor and logic!
ONM is open to members of other Satanic organizations, and stresses its allegiance to the priciples of Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible. They may be contacted at the above address, and be sure to enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope as well as a donation of $1.00.
On the other side of the globe, Jeisman Rubicante (a member of the Church of Satan) has founded The Sentinel of The Satanic Empire the purpose of which is to give knowledge and guidance to its members and to act as a sentinel against anti-Satanic propa ganda in Australia.
As acting priest, Mr. Rubicante pro-

Jefsman Rubicante, S.E.E. founder
vides guidance by publishing highly detailed papers which explore Satanic aspects of literature (such as Milton, Dante, and Baudelaire) and history (the

Knights Templar and the Yezidis) as well as Satanic references in the Bible. He also has a fine sense of graphic design and has created personally significant variations on traditional Satanic sigils as well as new emblems which crystallize his magical goals.
Ritual is a concern for members in their private pursuits, while the group itself works to dispell misinformation regarding Satanism as presented in vari ous media. They have an internal hierar chy based on the members' mastery of knowledge of Satanism. Communication skills are naturally prized because of the intention of presenting information to the media and thus the public. This has been successful even to the level of Mr. Rubicante's interview with Australian Rolling Stone on the topic of Satanism and Black Metal.
This active and selective group was
founded on 31 October, XXIX A.S. and seems to be flourishing in its chosen tasks. They may be cntacted at: S. S. E.,
P.O. Box 5342, Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500, Australia.
Finally, there is a new Grotto in Canada called NOCTURNAL REFLECTIONS, THE LEFT HAND PATH OF THE LOWER
MAINLAND. They currently are in devel opment and seek local members who want to "Get in touch with (their) dark side!" They are dedicated to the philoso phies of Anton Szandor LaVey and the study of the Vampyric. They may be contacted at P.O. Box 61600, RPO Brookswood, Langley, B.C. V3A 8C8 Canada. E-mail: midnight@blaze.bc.ca.

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The Evolution of Satanism and the First Amendment Behind Bars
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." First Amendment, 1791.

published by an Anton Salvadore Lavay" (sic)! Id., 509 F.Supp at 1260. As can be expected of misguided imbeciles, this self-styled "Satanist" also admitted to sac rificing cats and pigeons as part of his religion. Id., 705 F.2d at 918. Although the court easily saw through the plain

CTOBER 7, 1994 C.E. should be remembered as an important date in Satanic history. That is
the day Church of Satan style rituals were formally recognized and approved by a federal court in Denver, Colorado, granting prisoners the right to possess ritual items as outlined in The Satanic Bible. This article will chronicle how courts have interpreted prisoners' First Amendment rights in regard to Satanism and in particular, the practices and phi losophy of the Church of Satan through the years, and it will soon become apparent to the reader that the case of Howard v. United States will not only have a great impact on prisoners, but possibly all who have adopted the phi losophy we call Satanism.
During the course of my legal
research on Satanism, I discovered numerous criminal cases discussing drugged-out, socially retarded Christians lighting black candles before committing heinous crimes, and then pleading insan ity or the famous "devil-made-me-do-it" defense. I will not discuss these deci sions as they have little to do with con temporary Satanism or the First Amendment and further create no bind ing precedents, being decided on their facts rather than legal analysis. My research did reveal, however, four civil cases specifically mentioning the Church of Satan and Dr. LaVey which will be the focus of this discourse. Although these cases only involve prisoners (and I, like most Satanists, am far from a fan of pris oners' rights), it must be stressed that under established legal principles these decisions can have a resounding effect on all Satanists.
To fully understand the importance of any legal decision, one must first realize that our legal system is based on the principle of stare decisis, which is Latin for "let the decision stand."
Essentially, stare decisis means that before a court decides a question of law, it must ascertain whether the issue has already been decided upon by a superi or court in that jurisdiction. If a higher court has made a ruling on a legal issue,

the lower courts in that jurisdiction must
follow the now binding precedent. Courts in other jurisdictions who have never ruled on a certain matter, however, usually examine these other decisions and, if persuasive enough, adopt them into law. It follows from this reasoning, and history has shown, that a published legal decision can carry enormous weight on a national level even on a semi-relat ed matter. Keep this principle in mind as you read about the following cases.
Kennedy v. Meachem, 540 F.2d 1057, 382 F.Supp 996 (10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1976 c.e.) is the first case on record dealing with prisoners who claim ed that their First Amendment right to practice Satanism was violated when officials prohibited their religious activi ties. The three inmate/plaintiffs demand ed that they be allowed to possess Satanic ritual items and stated that while they were "not members of the Church of Satan proper, they were following Dr. Anton LaVey's philosophy to the letter." Id., 540 F.2d at 1059. Although the court did not formally recognize Satanism as warranting First Amendment protection in the prison context it, in fact, dismissed the Government's argument that Satan ism was not a religion by stating: "In our record there are no averments, proof or findings that a religious belief is not involved..." Id. at 1060. The court held however, that if the government could show that the practice of Satanism would result in security risks at the prison, the restrictions were justified as the State's interest in maintaining order and disci pline inside the prison outweighed the inmates' First Amendment rights. Id. at 1061.
No further decisions were published in this area until 1983 c.e., when the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Judicial Circuit decided Childs v. Duckworth, 705 F.2d 915. See also, 509
F.Supp 1254 (lower court decision, 1981 c.e.). In Childs, the rather confused plaintiff/prisoner claimed to be a mem ber of various "Satanic" groups and pro fessed his adherence to "The Satanic Bible, Satanic Rituals and Satanic Laws as

tiffs lack of sincerity concerning which "Satanic church" he belonged to, it described The Church of Satan in a sur prisingly neutral, if not favorable, light:

The Satanic Church of America, founded in 1966 by one Anton Tszandor (sic) LaVey, a former ani mal trainer and carnival organist, is the best known of the Satanic cults. This Church, which in 1977 claimed more than 10,000 members, publish es a periodical, appropriately named, The Cloven Hoof, and its founder has authored three religious tracts, The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals and The Comp/eat Witch, which con tain the Church's teachings. Of the various Satanic cults, this group is one of the least spiritual, for its members worship Satan, not as a supernatural being, but as a symbol of man's self-gratifying animal impulses. Id., 705 F.2d at 919.

The Childs court, in denying plaintiffs claim, again did not decide the question of whether Satanism was a religion sub ject to First Amendment protection in the prison context, but rather adhered to the long established rule that "prison officials may legitimately impose certain restric tions on the practice of religion in prison, including the right of association, which would be unconstitutional if imposed outside the prison." Id. at 920, citing to the United States Supreme Court decision of Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 545, 546
0979 c.e.).
While the foregoing decisions appear rather innocuous, a wealth of misinformation and ignorance regarding contemporary Satanism was laid into law in Mccorkle v. Johnson, 881 F.2d 993 (1989 c.e.). In Mccorkle, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit went one step further than just denying a prisoner's claim to possess ritual items and practice Satan ism. The court confirmed the local
prison warden's "finding" that the teach ings of The Satanic Bible by Dr. LaVey "present a significant threat to security

and order within the prison...and that persons following its teachings would murder, rape or rob at will without regard for the moral or legal consequences." Id., 881 F.2d at 995.
The court then took the prisoner's description of a "Satanic Book of Rituals" as gospel when he described its rituals as involving "the sacrifice of a female virgin, ...wrist slashing, blood drinking, the consumption of human flesh-usual ly fingers--, [and) ...candles made from the fat of unbaptized infants." Id. While the court did not explicitly state that the "book of rituals" the plaintiff described was authored by Dr. LaVey, the implica tion (and, in my opinion, total lack of independent research on the court's part) is obvious. Even more disturbing is the court's failure to distinguish the phi losophy found in The Satanic Bible from the repulsive and illegal practices of Christian devil-worshippers. The court lumps the two groups together and con cludes that "the plaintiffs asserted rights to worship Satan can be exercised only at a significant cost to guards, other pris oners, and society in generaL" Id. at 996. This case is a prime example of the old legal adage: "Bad plaintiffs create bad law."
The most bothersome aspect of the McCorkle decision was its potential effect on future cases pursuant to stare
decisis principles. For instance, imagine a civil or criminal trial where it is revealed that a defendant is a member of The Church of Satan or admits being influ enced by Dr. LaVey's texts. If the defen dant's character is at issue, a meticulous plaintiffs lawyer will likely discover the McCorkle case and milk its so called "findings" for all they are worth. Although having one's religious beliefs in issue may be a rare situation legally (discus sion of a witness's religious beliefs are generally prohibited under the Federal Rules of Evidence), the potential persua sive effect of McCorkle on future Satanism cases (prisoner and otherwise) was devastating-that is, until Howard v. United States was decided.
In Howard v United States, 864 F.Supp 1019, 1994 U.S. Dist LEXIS 14648
(1994 c.e.), a federal prisoner, Robert James Howard, professed a strong adher ence to the philosophy of Dr. LaVey and The Satanic Bible and demanded that he be allowed to possess various items to perform Compassion, Destruction and personal rituals. In granting Howard's request, the court gave the Church of Satan a long overdue "legal boost."
While arguing his case, the articulate Howard dismantled many of the miscon-

ceptions concerning contemporary Satanism: "My religious beliefs are non violent in nature. I believe in a humanis tic ethical system which would never allow for violence, rape, human sacrifice, animaf sacrifice, bloodletting or other practices inaccurately described by the government and the Federal Corrections Institute..." Id., 864 F.Supp at 1022. It should also be noted that Howard admirably requested no special treat ment, but rather "only asked for the same privileges granted to every other

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religious group." Id. at 1026. The court summarized Howard's beliefs as follows:

He vehemently denies wanting to perform any bloodletting rituals or any violent acts that are against prison rules. Plaintiff stressed that he has made mistakes--one of which landed him in jail-but stated that none of those things were done in the name of the Church of Satan.
...Howard also testified [concerning) misconceptions about Satanists and Satanism in general. First he noted that much of LaVey's writing, includ ing The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals was done in symbol-

ic language [and) that references to human sacrifice are symbolic only. Plaintiff also asserted that Satanism is a 'religion of reality': 'The reality is...[that) we can't just go breaking laws...' ...Therefore, The Church of Satan does not advocate breaking laws. Id. at 1022, 1023.

Of prime importance is that in its well-reasoned decision the court distin guished the practices of the Church of Satan from the Christian devil-worship indulged in by the plaintiffs in
and McCork!e. In short, the court found that there was not "one shred of evi dence" indicating that the requested ritu als would cause inmate unrest or be considered abhorrent to others: "While [security and order issues) might be a proper concern about some other types of Satanism discussed in the reported decisions, the facts in this case do not support the government's argument. I
emphasize that my ruling does not require prison officials to accommodate every form of Satanism " Id. at 1025,
1026, 1030.
While the full effect of Howard v United States remains to be seen, the positive and accurate portrayal of con temporary Satanism is now legal prece dent. Once again, hard evidence has prevailed over ignorance and twisted Christianity. As the Howard court stated: "We should not lightly conclude that because of its content, Satanism is to be denied the full protections of the First Amendment. We ought to give the devil bis due." Id. at 1030.
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Author's Note: As of the date of
this writing (April, 1997 c.e.), Howard v, United States has been cited as prece dential authority in at least three pub lished decisions nationwide. See general ly, Ramirez v. Coughlin, 919 F.Supp. 617 (Northern District of New York, 1996 c.e.); Samad v. Horn, 913 F.Supp. 373 (Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1995 c.e.); and Walker v Johnson, 891 F.Supp. 1040 (Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1995 c.e.).
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N MOST SELF-DEFENSE situations, the best weapon with which to safeguard your continued health and happiness is
a handgun. Yet there are situations in which it is unwise or impractical to use your pistol, and sometimes the circum stances of the developing situation are such that you cannot get to your weapon. If you aren't physically and mentally pre pared to deal with such crises in which for tactical reasons you cannot or should not use your handgun, then chances are that the outcome of your confrontation will prove that you deserved whatever you got, be it a bloody nose and bruised pride or your torn and bleeding carcass lying in the street. Survival of the Fittest.
With what, then, to fill the void found between the rapid and deadly use of your firearm and the unfortunate corpse which results as a consequence of your unpre paredness? Obviously, you must be pre pared for a hand-to-hand fight; and to maximize your chances of survival in such c-ombat, you must be trained and used to this kind of fight. Where then to find this training, and what distinguishes training of real value from that which will do nothing more than flatten your wallet while inflat ing your head with false confidence, an illusion of combat-worthy skill, and theo ries which are a blatant waste of the air used to speak them?
Although I've spent half my life devel oping myself through the practice of the budo (martial ways) of Japan, I avoid
using the term 'martial art' and dislike being called a 'martial artist' because of my distaste for the common associations
which arise in the mind of most individu als using those terms when talking with me about what I am and do. Awareness of just what these associations are connected to will help you to know what to avoid when searching for the right man to train you for combat.
There are a slew of "masters" and "doctors;, of the "martial arts" out there who are more than ready to take your money. Teaching watered-down, ultimately useless "martial arts" is what these people do for a living and as such, they are more concerned with keeping you as a paying customer than they are in doing whatever it takes to insure your combat-readiness. This is common herd mentality-the idea that consumerism is more desirable than anything of real substance. Indeed, many of these shysters will insist that new stu dents sign a legally binding contract which "guarantees" that for "X" amount of do!-

Jars, one will receive one's black belt in "Y" amount of time. They're preying on the common misconception propagated by the homo normalis media-that to be awarded a black belt affords one some sort of invincibility-which is patent,
grade-A bullshit. They're selling their stu dents a sense of self-worth which is ulti mately a thin veneer at best. I personally know a score of black belts who couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag, much less stand a chance ofsurvival in a life-or-death streetfight. I could go on at length, but you get the picture: don't let yourself get suckered by someone out to make a quick buck off your very real desire to get some quality training.
Also, get away from anyone who extols to you the 'virtues of sport karate,' for they want you to subscribe to their· masturbatory, ego-stroking fantasy that in learning how to "play tag" with someone of roughly the same weight as yourself while wearing foam protective padding and within strict "fair play" rules will somehow teach you how to dominate a streetfight. More bullshit. Or if, when asked about sparring, they say something about "no-contact sparring" and the respect for all human life which your spar ring partner represents...need I say more?
Therefore I refuse to group or allow myself to be grouped with these charlatans through the use of the terms 'martial art' and 'martial artist,' and you should now see why you should avoid them in your search for quality training .
When forced into using terms...what I do is budo and what I am is bushi (war rior). This is indicative of a fundamental difference between what it is that I do, and indeed am, and what it is that they do and are (or aren't, as the case more proba bly is). And that brings us to the question of what it is that sets training of value apart from 'play training.'
Notably absent from our training (that of my teacher-who studied from child hood in Okinawa and Japan the true mar tial ways of the real masters, and the two other students who have what it takes to thrive on and grow from the valueable, applicable training) is empty theory. We learn concepts of motion and alignment, but there is no element of vague or untest ed theorization. Grasp of the knowledge presented is shown not by rote repetition, but in actual application. Ask one of your local "karate masters" how he would react to a headlock and he'll weave for you a nice tale about how he would do such-

and-thus...but that's all you'll get. By way of contrast, yesterday the four of us spent three hours doing nothing but applying full-strength headlocks to one another and working to escape from those headlocks.
In our training, we work out on bare concrete and sometimes gravel or in the snow. There are no pads, either on the floor or on ourselves, and everything we do is full-contact-no pulled punches or half-assed headlocks...and that's crucial to training for real life (or maybe I should say "real death") encounters. H. P. Lovecraft opened his famous essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" with the often-quoted, "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." If your body and mind are accustomed to headlocks, chokeholds, the receiving of punches, kicks, headbutts,
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become inured to levels of pain that homo normalis does not even know exists.
In a recent communication with Magistra Peggy Nadramia, she quoted Dr. LaVey as having remarked once to her in conversation that "The animals must be our gurus now." And that idea is important here. This no-nonsense training of mind and body can be likened to the rough and-tumble play of housecats (or any other mammalian young given to such things-wolf cubs, the offspring of large cats, etc.). They wholeheartedly engage in play which simulates actual fighting and care not for a nip here, a scratch there, or the bodyslams that happen so often in the course of their play. Yet when they are mature, these same actions in which they engaged with their littermates are taken up to the level of combat, and the concepts which the cat learned in violent play become devastating.
This training is ultimately Satanic in that it is completely devoid of bullshit everything you do works, and you know because you've done it. If you can't make something work, you then figure out why not. Your search for training of this caliber (pun intended) will probably be very diffi cult, but necessary...for this is the kind of training that you must undergo in order to maximize your chances of mastering a
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VOLUME 6
NUMBERS 3 & 4
WHOLE NUMBER 15
ISSN 1523-410X
THE CHURCH OF

WELCOME
Greetings! It has been quite some time since we released a new issue of The Black Flame and we apologize for the lengthy hiatus. In the interim, we have lost our High Priest, Anton Szandor LaVey, so this issue is a tribute dedicated to memories of this out standing individual. We now intend to produce only one issue peryear, and we've begun with this issue to whole number them. Thus, the issue you hold inyour hands, Volume 6, number 3 & 4, has become whole number 15. This is the first issue which we produced entirely on our Macintosh (the previous issues having all been made with our aging Atari), so we've given the entire publication a face-lift. We ran out of room for Aliar F,gOJ, which will return with our next issue. Enjoy the contents and please continue to submit materials which demonstrate the richness of creativity to be found in the members of the Church of Satan.
Hail Anton Szandor LaVey! Hail Satan! -Peter H. Gilmore
CONTENTS
2/3 LOT LICE / WHy BARTENDERS DON'T LEND MONEY
by Anton Szandor LaVey
4 IN MEMORIAM ANTON SZANDOR LAVEY
acollection of remembrances and images by those who knew him
28 0 D D I T O R I U M
reviews of print media, audio, film, video, and performances of interest to Satanists
48 INTERVIEW: U L V E R
by Michael Moynihan
54 ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GREAT BIG ASSES
by Jim Mitchell
56 TOWARD A NEW LOUNGE CULTURE
by Robert Rust
58 SATANISM AND THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN TRADITIONS
by Kevin Filan
61 INTERVIEW: A C H E R O N
by Steven Ericson
64 Seeing Red
by Satan's Commissar
68 you'LL HEAR FROM My LAWYER!
by Blackjack
69 THE CRUSADES AND THE BAPHOMET
by Herbert Paulis
75 To Arms
by K. S. Anthony
76 FICTION: T H E T E R R O R B y N I G H T
by Michael Rose
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NTO EVERYONE'S LIFE APPEAR
individuals who just don't seem to want to go away. They surface in many forms, but have cer tain common denominators. They are epito mized by the guy who is 86'ed from the local bar
for stirring up shit, falling through the plate glass door and suing, welching on bar tabs, and carelessly almost setting the place on fire. A week after he is told his business is no longer welcome, he pops in and tries to cadge a drink from his old buddy, the bar tender. Just like nothing had happened.
In the circus, they are referred to as "lot lice" -
winos who, no matter how many times they are given the bum's rush, keep coming back and hanging around. They drop their lit cigarette butts in the sawdust right next to the Big Top during a sellout performance.
Actually, they are easy enough to deal with, but it means a little cutting off of the milk of human kindness. The Church of Satan, like any operation, has always had its share of lot lice. There are simple ways of dealing with them. The first is the "Freeze." That means that no mention is made of them, no phone calls are returned, and there is no way they can sneak under the tent flap (retain any social benefits, while ostra
cized, in a casual or roundabout manner).
Certain outmoded responses still work, because

such simplistic and readily understood statements as, "Get lost!", "Take a hike!," "I got nothing to say to you, go away, you smell bad!", "You're bad news!", "Go peddle your papers!", "Somebody get that bum outta here!", "Are you still hanging around?", or that suc cinct, but lucid directive, "Go fuck yourself!"
Unfortunately, political correctness and increased concern for the rights of others, however unworthy, has encouraged lot lice, who cannot possibly understand why anyone should take exception to their M.0,, let alone ostracise or hold a grudge against them. After all, are they not still a part of "the occult community" and what's a little difference among colleagues? It is pre cisely this attitude that maintains "dialogue," better spent on productive comrades, than on contentious, malcontent, and parasitic lot lice.
Remember: you give their lives meaning. They need you: You don't need them. Even as their sworn enemy, you represent a presence in their otherwise barren and rejected identities. That's why lot lice will always be found hanging around the Big Top. And they always have plenty of criticism and advice on how the show should be run. And no matter how many times a bar tender kicks their ass out onto the sidewalk, a few days later, they'll still poke their ugly faces in the door to see the action inside.

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CLUB loans a customer ten dollars, chances are good that he'll not only lose his ten dollars, but lose the customer as well. Here's how it works: This particular customer (of no great merit) spends all
his dough drinking at the Hi-Tone, which leaves him with out funds for much of anything, including getting home. He's been drinking all night, spent his money, and has no choice but to hit the bartender up for ten bucks, so he can at least call a cab. The bartender figures: what does he have to lose - the guy's broke and not good for any more business, so he lends the guy ten.
True to form, the customer promises to pay the bar tender next time atound. He departs the scene and might go home, but more likely staggers up the street to the Ajax Club with ten whole dollars in his pocket. The Ajax isn't as classy or as popular as the Hi-Tone; they get some real bums, and you have to toe-dance around the cockroaches, but they serve the same liquor, so the guy figures why not stop for a night cap. He has ten whole dollars. Because the Ajax needs the business (much of it is rejects and overflow from the Hi-Tone), they are more than happy to see him lurch through the door. He is greeted with congeniality, made to feel at home, and they even dust off a bar stool for him. Of course, he's buying his drink with the bartender's

money from the Hi-Tone Club, but we'll pass over that.
Later that week he gets paid. Where does he go to spend his pay check? Why, to the Ajax, of course. Aside from the fact that they give him a big bar-type hug, a slap on the back and a hearty handclasp,. he actually feels more comfortable in the less formal surroundings where he can snort louder and blow his nose on the floor. Besides, if he goes back to the Hi-Tone Club, the bartender will soon bring up the unresolved matter of where's his ten bucks from last week. So he stays clear of the Hi- Tone Club and his obligation, preferring the ambience of the Ajax, where he is made to feel like a Poo Bah and can Xeper off both his shoes.
So, the Hi-Tone Club loses a steady paying cus tomer, and its bartender loses his ten dollars. As for the caliber of the customer, the loss is negligible.
As for our customer: he still surreptitiously pokes his nose in the Hi-Tone Club whenever he trudges past, just to check out the action. His con versation at the Ajax usually evolves to the patrons and action at his prior hangout. After all, he is still an active part of the occult community and wants to keep up on what's happening.
Sound familiar? ...

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IN MEMORIAM
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The Devil's Henchman
Blanche Barton

"BLANCHE!"

STOPPED DEAD IN MY TRACKS,
MY eyes quickly scanning the parked cars and doorways opening onto the busy sidewalk. It had been exactly three months since Dr. LaVey died, but
I had heard his voice just then, just as clearly as I had heard him call my name a thousand times. People passing on the sidewalk glanced sidelong at this woman blocking their path, her eyes beginning to fill with tears. I was so hungiy to hear his voice again. Even though my logical mind quickly chastised me that the "voice" I so willingly imagined was an audito iy illusion created by overlapping street sounds, wind, rain and various voices, I wait ed, longing for the dream to return for just one more fleeting moment. It didn't, of course. I walked on, continuing my appointed errands, head down, wiping the tears away yet again, and feeling like a shade, slightly out of phase with the rest of the world.
When I was younger and, oh, so much smarter than I am now, I thought people who mourned were pretty silly. The person's dead, I thought smugly to myself. You can't bring him back by ciying over him. How selfish of people to keep weeping and moaning. Their tears are for themselves, their own loss-not the person who died. And they should be strong enough to just get on with things. Life is for the living. That's one reason why I was attracted to Satanism-no pap about heaven, an afterlife, survival of the soul. reincarnation, karma When you're dead, you're gone. We
don't have any way of knowing what happens beyond the veil, if anything-and anyone who

says he does is a liar. If you evoked enough terror or sympathy during your lifetime, that is your only bid for immortality. You will be remembered. But you won't know it and it won't really matter to you one way or the other. Yet, regardless of logic, no matter how prepared you think you are for "the inevitable," it's amazing how the brain scram bles to make sense of the death of someone whose life is so intimately intertwined with yours. The loss creates a physical ache, like taking a punch in the stomach. It leaves you raw, rudderless and disoriented. Part of it is the shock of the sudden interruption of habit-we talked, we laughed, played with our son, watched movies together, ate dinner together, met with friends. All of that is sud denly gone. It's eerie, being forced from any reality you've gotten used to. We've all expe rienced that. A new house, a different job, having a baby, breaking up with a partner... any radical change leaves eveiything slightly skewed, until you establish new habits and that sense of unreality fades. But with Dr. LaVey, he influenced the lives of so many peo ple, not just those in his immediate environ ment, that we've all felt a level of disorienta
tion since his death.
Many of us found in Anton LaVey a hero that we couldn't find anywhere else. There were many who never met him but who felt connected to him in an almost supernatural way, admired him, identified with him and were deeply affected by his death-perhaps more than they would have expected them selves to be. Before I ever met Anton LaVey, I gained strength from his existence. I always knew he was out there. I thought of him on his birthday and wondered what he might be doing to celebrate. I had conversations with him. When I was faced with challenges in my

life, I thought, "How would Anton LaVey handle this? He wouldn't give up or back down!" And because I knew he walked the earth somewhere-defiant, accomplished, determined and proud- I conjured forth the strength within myself to prevail as I imag ined LaVey himself would.
When I finally had the chance to meet the man some eight years after I'd joined the Church of Satan, I prepared myself for inevitable disappointment. No one could pos sibly live up to the expectations I had man aged to pile upon this one human being- it would be unfair to expect him to. I promised myself I'd still respect him even if he had a funny high-pitched voice, had put on a lot of weight since his last photo session or was rather humorless, dull and stuck on himself. Imagine my embarrassment. Dr. LaVey was a dazzling presence. He was a sexy, intense, witty, talented, dangerously perceptive man. I wasn't prepared for his jokes, or his musical talent. On then-new Prophet 5 and Juno 60 keyboards he'd spent hundreds of hours pro gramming himself, he played songs I knew and loved, arrangements I heard in my own mind but had never heard anyone actually play that way. That first night, May Day 1984, flew by. By dawn, after a night of music and laughter and memories and stories, I felt like I'd stepped into a linear accelerator-and I knew I could never leave him. I met him the next night for dinner and he kissed me as we watched the sunset from Sutro Park, over looking the Cliff House. As we said goodbye that night (the next morning-ask anyone who ever met the man, his meetings usually lasted 'til dawn if he liked you), he held me close and whispered that he needed me. I moved to San Francisco four months later.
Over the past thirteen years, I've been

privileged to become intimate with a complex, driven man. I·often felt living with him was like living in a pressure cooker. Dr. LaVey was the personification of the evil arche type-stubborn, brilliant, opinionated, intu itive, self-oriented, brutal but never cruel except to those who deserved it. Somehow he was always able to reconcile his bitterness with his basic Romantic nature. He was veiy demanding, no less of himself than of the peo ple around him. His work was indulgence for him; he wrote and practiced his music right up until the time he died. He was a skilled and sensitive lover, an encouraging teacher, an adoring father to our son, and my chosen master. Know this: Dr. LaVey never compro mised, never once contemplated "making peace with God" or whatever other fool ishness some strong minds sink to when they get old, soft in the head, facing death.
Toward the end, he became more misan thropic and homicidal than ever. The ugli ness beyond his lair became intolerable - . ugly people, inane advertising, frenetic music, bad drivers. He always carried a gun when we went out and he was afraid he might use it in a mighty fit of dark mal ice some day.
It was his will and sometimes his will

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around the globe; a religion that will be with us when the last human dies. The demons of rea son and science have been unleashed on the world, for better or worse, and Satanism is part of that revolution. Think, challenge, outrage the meek and the self-righteous-that's the best way

come down with a plop, dropped not in mag ical, Technicolor Munchkinland but in dull, monochrome Kansas. Dr. LaVey made the world potent, portentous, bristling with mag ical possibility and dark purpose. Now it's up to us to personify his Satanic spirit-commit ted to the Dark Forces, guided by his words. There will be debates and challenges and accusations now that the Doctor is gone. His enemies will work harder than ever to tiy to discredit him, to attempt to destroy the organ ization and philosophy he has created. But the truth of the matter is that what Anton LaVey achieved is unassailable. He has given us a

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edly as Tiny? I mean, Tiny had had a heart attack recently, sure, but had sounded so strong and vibrant when last I spoke to him. He, like LaVey, was only in his sixties. I did n't want to think about it anymore. But still I wondered ...could it be possible? The answer,

WAS IN NEW YORK WHEN I GOT
the news. I'd just given a concert and was at a party being thrown in our honor at a club called The Bank. A half dozen or so Church of Satan kids were
gathered around my table, full of questions about Anton LaVey.
"What's he really like?"
"Like no one I've ever met before or probably ever will meet again."
The questions came fast and furious until one fellow asked, "Who's going to take over the Church when Anton dies?"
"He's too mean to die." I shot back, "He's told me that he can't afford theluxury of death, because his passing would please too many ass holes. So he's just going to have to tough it out and will himself to live forever." This response brought chuckles all around.
"Besides," I continued, "no one could fill those shoes, ever."
By and by, a girl came up to me and told me there was a call for me. The phone was in the basement. It was Peter Gilmore and he sounded strange. His voice was hoarse, strained. 'Tm afraid I have some bad news," he started, and a chill ran through me, I knew the rest. In the milliseconds before he continued, my mind raced to reassure itself that the bad news couldn't be that, Anton
LaVey couldn't be dead. But he's still so young. But I just saw him. But this, but that. Peter's words left me numb. I had just seen LaVey recently, interviewed him for SecondJ. He'd seemed so hearty, vivacious. He'd gotten the transcript of the interview and intro I'd written, and called up, thanking me profusely. He was always so grateful for any little thing you did on is behalf. We had a great conver sation that day; he was in high gear and sounded ready to take on the world. His ener gy and enthusiasm were so infectious that at the end of a meeting or conversation, you'd be so charged with adrenaline and so stimulated by the exchange of ideas that you yourself felt ready to take on the world. The Doctor signed off that day with a gruff "Hail Satan!" and lit tle did I suspect that those were the last words he would ever speak to me.

THOUGH I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT HE WOULD BE
around a lot more years yet, I had considered the notion of his mortality on a few recent occa sions. My friend Giddle Partridge had called to tell me of a dream she found disturbing.

She's been someplace or other where she ran into Anton LaVey and he asked if she was going to be seeing me anytime soon. "Sure, I see Boyd all the time," she replied.
"Well," he said, "the next time you see him, let him know I'm planning my funeral."
The following night, LaVey appeared in another dream: "Have you seen Boyd yet?" He asked.
No, she hadn't.
"Well, be sure to give him my message.
It's important."

Giddle was haunted by the macabre dreams, and called me as soon as she awoke from the second one. I dismissed them as just dreams, yet can't deny I was disturbed. So much so that I squeezed in a trip to San Francisco a week before I was due to leave the country. I'd initially thought it would be far less hectic to interview LaVey after my return from Europe, but now decided to squeeze it somehow into my schedule. Seeing LaVey that visit, he seemed so hearty and fiery, all thoughts of the creepy dreams van ished, only to return on the train journey home. Transcribing the interview, my thoughts drifted to Tiny Tim and how I had interviewed him less than a week before his death. I thought about how much I missed him, and what a loss it was. There was no one else quite like him, except in an odd way, LaVey. Then the image of Giddle's dream returned to me. I looked at the yellow legal pad on my lap, its lines covered with LaVey's words and ideas. Suddenly, a terrible thought crept into my mind. Was it possible that I would lose LaVey as suddenly and unexpect-

unfortunately, was forthcoming.

I MUST CONFESS A BIT OF SHOCK ON MY
own part regarding my response to LaVey's passing. The overwhelming sadness and sense of loss that I'd expected would plague me never quite reached the severity that I thought they would. They were there, natu rally (and still are), but were overshadowed by something far more intense. I cannot think of him in terms of what I, or any of us, have lost in his passing; but only in terms of what he has meant to me as a vital part of
my life during the last decade or so. To be accepted into the inner circle of this great man has been perhaps the most rewarding event in my life thus far. I have never lost the sense of awe I felt at being accepted by this man as friend, confidante, or acolyte.
He has been part of my life for 27 years. At the age of 13, I cut his pictures out of magazines and dis played them prominently on my wall. These few simple images spoke to my soul. They conveyed volumes to me. They told me of a man who lived his fantasies and pursued his obsessions.
They spoke of a man who lived by his own inner law, a man whose will was so strong he could bend the world to it. They spoke of a man who pros pered in the real world, not despite being an outsider, but because of it.

GoING THROUGH MY TEENS IN THE EARLY 70's,
I lost track of Anton LaVey and of Satanism, but the conclusions he had ca sed me to draw stayed with me.

ARRMNG IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE LATE 70's,
I would find my mind drifting back to LaVey. We'd drive past a dark-looking house and I'd ask, "Is that the Church of Satan?" I'd invari ably be told that "Anton LaVey only deals with millionaires and movie stars, not the gen eral public anymore."
"Good for him," I'd think to myself.
Eventually, I met Jim Osborne, an underground artist who was a legend of sorts. Osborne was the kind of guy who knew everything. He wasn't a know-it-all, just someone who knew it all. And it turned out he knew LaVey. We were discussing I don't know what one evening, and he said, "You know who you should meet? Anton LaVey. He is into exactly what you're into, and I mean each and every single thing, from Ed Gein to Tiny Tim." (Mind now, this was at a

time when absolutely no one was into Ed impressed that someone my age was so pas- and far more. Better in fact than I could have Gein or Tiny Tim.)· sionate about Little Peggy March, whom he imagined. I arrived at eight in the evening and I'd said, "Sure, I've always wanted to also greatly admired. We launched into a dis- didn't leave until well after sunrise. I came meet him," and since I'd met virtually every cussion about girl groups. I remember him again the following week, and continued to other celebrity who'd ever interested me, I saying, "This is dangerous music, Boyd. come every week for the next few years until assumed our paths would cross sooner or Songs like 'Johnny Get Angry' and 'I Will I moved out of state. Those nights were truly later. It seemed inevitable that we'd meet Follow Him' could never be done in today's magical. That house is like some hermetically eventually, especially in a city as small as San climate. But people like us have to bring back sealed alternate reality that exists separate Francisco. I'd seen a shiny black Jag once, this sort of thing." We talked at length and I and distinct from the rest of the world. bearing the license plate SZANDOR, parked was indeed stunned to see how closely our LaVey's personality was so thoroughly in a Cala Foods lot at 3:30 in the morning and obsessions mirrored one another's. As. the film imbued in every square foot of the place that had hung around to see if it indeed belonged screening seemed to be on the verge of start- it seemed an extension of him, a part of him. to The Man. ing, he asked for my number, saying "We And he too sensed a deep feeling of intercon- I had to run off before the driver should continue this conversation some time. nectedness to the house. It was like a work of appeared, but thought, "What's a guy who I'll have my gal Friday set up a meeting with art that he'd created over the course of a life- only befriends millionaires and movie time. He felt so close to the place that
stars doing in a supermarket at 3:30 ..._. he referred to it as one might refer to

in the morning anyway? Probably not him."I would later find out that

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a dear old friend. I remember return- ing from a restaurant one evening

the vehicle was indeed his. and seeing LaVey's pained expression
I kept hearing rumors about the as he noticed in the light of the full
guy. I heard that he had put his wife moon that the paint on the front of
into a hypnotic trance that he could the house was beginning to crack and
re-activate at any time, simply by peel.
uttering some short, post-hypnotic "That's just awful," he comment-
phrase. Whenever the woman's pres- ed. "This house has been so good to
ence began to grate on his nerves, me that I really owe it to it to hire
which was evidently quite often, he someone to put on a coat of paint." merely had to say the phrase. She'd fall His sentimentality toward the
silent, exit the room, and go recline on house was such that I could sense he
the bed. And she'd remain there in a felt almost as though the place was an
state of hypnotic slumber until such old friend and the friend was in ill
time as he saw fit to return her to the health. I too ha a longstanding love land of the living. fte moat l&uchable novelt7 ,-et pro- affair with e house. As. a kid I'd
It sounded like something right 4'ace4. It la made of rubber, and J"OU dreamed of traveling to San
out of an episode of Dari.: Sha'Jowd. Pbaina onobnll•y fteoetb. lwowhe.ntthue" and •tand tbe Francisco to visit the Church of
The more I heard about this guy, the u be ¦lowly coll&psea and ftn.ally Ilea Satan. I'd gaze at a picture I had of more I wanted to meet him. doWll and dies 1n the moat natural m&n• Karla standing in front of it and try to We finally met at a film festival I Der. You can blow him up as often as imagine how amazing the interior
was involved with. He'd come to deatrecl,and each time he Will SO through must be. So I told LaVev in no uncer-

meet T.V. Mikels, a polygamist of

the aame performance to the great "
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sorts who made the films Adtro place myself. I had to really twist his
Zombiu and The Corpde Grin'JerJ. arm to get him to agree, but finally he
LaVey was interested in polygamy ,_..._ 2)7f:ac' Ma', J)l'lc• ·JSo relented and said, "Well, okay, if
(and exploitation films) and was 8 fOZ' 40o,. 1 4os. for '1.35 :polSi;"alcL you're sure you really want to."

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An artist friend named Harvey Stafford helped and we completed the

spirit. As. he strode into the theatre, LaVey you." He did and I went out to see him. task in several days. When the Doctor came out looked for all the world like a figure off the It was, befittingly, a damp, foggy night. to inspect the job he was as joyous as a child. His big screen-a film noir crime boss, an arch- The fog horn moaned in the distance. As. I was eyes sparkled and he had a huge grin on his face.
villain. He was impeccably dressed, and exud- buzzed through the security gate, the door He was able to take the greatest pleasure out of ed a presence that was larger than life. I stood swung open, and Blanche stood in the door- the simplest little things like that, which is why I and stared. Gawked. Should I approach this way, holding back a snarling wolf-dog who relate this episode. It's one of his qualities I man and tell him how profoundly his works was straining at its leash. "Calm down, admired the most.
affected my early development, or should I Bathory," she admonished the beast, who was He never allowed his cynicism to get in pay him respect by honoring his privacy. I clearly in attack mode. I was ushered into an the way of that sure childlike enthusiasm. Most was torn between the two options. So, I stood elegant purple room, and Blanche left to fetch people with his level of cynicism allow it to watching him, trying not to stare, but staring some coffee. I was alone in the dimly lit room, sour them on life. Not him. He was able to get nonetheless. Suddenly, he glanced around filled with strange paintings, stuffed animals, extremely passionate about the sorts of things and his gaze met mine. He walked over to demonic doodads and a gynecological table. that most people either take for granted or where I was standing and said, "Is your name The bookshelves still bore the warning label don't even notice: a favorite brand of cookie, an Boyd? I think we share some mutual inter- I'd read about in Man, Myth and Magic at age old hat store in the neighborhood, a faded ests." As he introduced himself, I was 13: "Anyone caught removing books from advertising slogan painted on the side of a stunned. Anton Szandor LaVey, talking to these shelves will have their hands amputat- brick building, a certain alley that he liked the me! And he knew who I was. He said he was ed." It was great-everything I'd expected look of. Here's a man who fucked sex symbols,

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hung out with the famous, the rich, the power ful, founded his own religion-and he could still get excited by something as simple as a cookie or an alley. The people who imagine him to be brooding, gloomy and "down" have no idea of the vast scope of his personality or his complexity. He was complex. The different aspects of his personality were like a puzzle formed of lots of interlocking pieces, and a lot of the pieces seemed to be diametrically opposed to one another, but he
made them all fit and he made them work.
Most people are either sweet by nature or cruel, serious or goofy, and so on. In LaVey these things seemed to exist side by side, and in greater quantity than most people. When he was angry he was really angiy. He'd fly into a rage and you'd swear he was ready to reach for his gun and murder someone. When he was tender he was intensely so, and anyone who didn't know him would be lead to believe he was the sweetest man on earth. He seemed to experience everything far more deeply than most people do.

HE WAS AN ADEPT MIMIC, AND
would take on the personality of different characters he'd invent ed. One was an old Asian man who went to Reno to see a cer tain prostitute. One was a film noir mob boss. Another was a German movie director a la Von Stroheim, and yet another was a Yiddish fella whose name was Rudi something-or-other. He'd go into these characters without warning and sometimes the cha rade would last for hours. And it was like you were talking to another person. After five or ten minutes you'd find yourself for getting it w Anton LaVey you were talking to. He called me late one night and the moment I heard him bark out my name, I knew that the film noir crime boss was on the line.
"Boyd. It's The Old Man, I
hear some of those New York hot shots are tiyin' to blow smoke up your ass. Well, you just tell em that The Old Man says 'No dice.' If they start to piss and moan about it, just pass the buck. Never put your ass in the fire if you can pass the buck."
He had a rule about not giving advice unless it was asked for, and this schtick was a roundabout way for him to give me council about an awkward situation I was in with

some New York media folks. The details of the situation escape me now, but they're unimportant anyway. I accepted the council and extracted myself from the situation.
"If it was up to me I'd help you guys out, but The Old Man said I shouldn't.''
Couldn't I just run it by him, they queried, tiy to reason with him?
I passed the buck. ''You have no idea how difficult Anton LaVey can be to deal with.

Downright impossible. I'm afraid it's hopeless."
Dejected, they hung up the phone and never bothered me again.
Those of us who knew The Doc know how dearly he cherished humor. Judging by ninety-nine out of a hundred Satanists I've come across, most seem never to have heard about his oft-repeated observation that a Satanist without a sense of humor would be a tedious pain in the ass.

ONE OF LAVEY'S "NECRONOMICONS" WAS
the Johnson Smith catalog, a turn-of-the centuiy mail order guide featuring a count less selection of gags, tricks, and novelties. He could thumb through this book for hours, reading the various blurbs and descriptions and laughing uproariously. His favorite gags, of course, were those which preyed upon people's foibles and frailties, or in which humor was derived through caus ing discomfort and/or humilia
tion to the unwitting victim. He liked one ad so much he had it enlarged and framed to hang on the wall of his kitchen. It depicted an "Anarchist Stink Bomb," a small vial which, when broken, released a chemical that produced "a most disagreeable odor.'' One dropped in a room was said to produce "more consternation than a Limburger cheese.'' The illustration depicted a crowd of people grimacing and hold ing their noses, exclaiming such things as, "WOW, P.U.!" and "That's an awful smell, boys!"
In a brief aside I'm remind ed of the time LaVey in fact gave me a huge chunk of Limburger cheese.
"We were going to throw this out," he told me, "but then I thought, 'Hey Boyd can do something funny with this.' " He unwrapped the foil surrounding the cheese and a foul odor began to pervade the entire room. I winced and tried not to breathe. I can still picture him, standing there laughing heartily with that Limburger in his hand. I left the house at dawn and boarded a bus full of early morning com muters. As I unwrapped the cheese, people looked over their shoulders and craned their heads, disturbed by the sudden, overwhelming smell of shit on the bus.
Those who could, moved as far forward as possible. I hid the cheese on the hot wheel well at
the back of the bus, and as it heated up it began to melt and smell even worse. As the bus got closer to downtown it was packed so full that at least half the people on it were incapable of doing anything to escape the awful smell, except to simply get off before their stop. More than a few did. The only word that can possibly describe the scene is right out of Johnson Smith: consternation. When I described the scene to LaVey the fol-

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lowing week, he laughed non-stop, from start to finish.

ONE WEEK, LAVEY SAID HE'D SEEN A COPY OF
the Johnson Smith catalog at a bookstore near his house, and anxious to have a copy of my own, I went to the store the moment I awoke the following day. Alas, the book had been sold only an hour or two before. Relating my sad story to the Doctor the fol lowing week, he reached down next to his chair and picked up something.
"I didn't want this to fall into the wrong hands," he told me, "here this is for you." It

Sometimes they take you to some pretty ugly places, places that piss people off. So be it. They deserve to be pissed off. It may not be my intention or your intention to piss them off, but more often than not that's a by-prod uct of what we do. And, hell, if you're not pissing off someone, you must not be follow ing the right path."
He was a true leader, and when one of his own was under attack, he took it very per sonally. Rather than worry about the very real possibility that I might be a liability to him, he sought to bolster my morale. He encouraged

thing truly marvelous. I know LaVey took great pleasure in the fact that a new generation looked to him for inspiration. And that it was a generation who could really grasp his ideas and apply them, not just dabblers and occultniks. Like the Doctor always reiterated: timing is everything.
LaVey lived long enough to enjoy the sweetest vengeance one can exact on their detractors: success. Of course, he had always been a success-anyone who lives on their own terms by their own law is a success. Even during his self-imposed exile as he cut himself

was the Johnson Smith catalog. Since we both stayed up all night and went to sleep at dawn, he too must have gone to get the book the moment he got up.
I was touched. He must have known a few dozen people, probably more, who'd have given their eyeteeth for a copy of that catalog, and he gave it to me. And every time I crack the pages, I am transported back to the nights we spent chuckling in the Black House. I can hear his voice every time I read the descrip

Anton LaVey was not what you'd call A people
person. He hated people -despised them. He'd been disappointed by people big time. And yet he never lost his ability to trust in the people who merited his trust.

tions for itching powder, sneezing powder, or "the dying pig." And I can hear that rich, hoarse, full laugh of his.

ANTON LAVEY WAS NOT WHAT YOU'D CALL A
people person. He hated people-despised them. He'd been disappointed by people big time. And yet he never lost his ability to trust in the people who merited his trust. He was so sour on hu'manity, the human race, that he seemed to cherish those he was close to in a way so passionate and intense that it more than compensated for all those who didn't (couldn't) measure up to his standards.
Sure he was authoritarian, autocratic (his term), a harsh task master. He was also one of the most loyal and supportive people
I've ever met. To LaVey, loyalty was not an empty term, it was a way of life.
I remember a time when things were looking terribly bad for me. People were demanding that my records be banned, taken off the shelf. They were saying I was an ass hole, too harsh, far too extreme. I had no desire for my b d PR to reflect negatively on the Church of Satan, and I suggested that I could tender my resignation rather than cast an unpleasant shadow over the organization. LaVey's response: "Bullshit! You aren't an asshole, Boyd, they are. You aren't too harsh, they aren't harsh enough. You aren't too extreme, they aren't extreme enough."
"Dammit, Boyd," he exclaimed, "You're an iconoclast! Satanism is about iconoclasm. It's about stepping on people's toes every now and then, because anyone who remains true to their vision has got to step on some toes along the way. Trusting your vision, your instincts, means following them to wherever they lead you, and let the chips fall where they may.

me in the very things other people discour aged. When everyone I knew counseled me to calm down and be more moderate, he'd say, "Never calm down, Give it to 'em with both barrels." He was the only person who was there for me, there to fan the flames when everyone else wanted to douse them. And I appreciate that more than words can say. Like I said, loy alty was more than just a word to him.
AND l PRIDE MYSELF ON THE FACT THAT l WAS
there for him when not a whole hell of a lot of other people were. Not that he wanted a throng of people around-quite the contrary. But I was a very vocal proponent of LaVey at a time when the S-word was very uncool. It was seen as "some sixties thing," and LaVey was often dismissed as a phony, a con man, a hack, a has-been. Many even thought LaVey was dead! "Anton LaVey?! Is he still alive?" But I could see that a whole generation was slowly starting to come around to the ideas that he'd been promulgating all along, ideas I'd never lost sight of. And I knew it was inevitable that those ideas would grow and spread and flourish. And that the naysayers would eat their words. It doesn't surprise me that Anton La.Vey has suddenly become hip. Or that there are probably more people now who think he's a wise man than there are who think he's a con man. I knew it would happen. And the aspect of it that I derive the most joy from is not the fact that it did happen, or that I was right, or even that I had the privilege to be along for the ride so to speak, but that Anton lived long enough to see it happen. A lot of great men don't live to see such a massive resur gence of interest in their work. Poor Ed Wood died a few short years before his works were rediscovered and finally embraced as some-

off from practically everything, his books stayed in print and continued to sell and his name was still good copy. The media was still hounding him and Geraldo was offering him six figures to show his face on camera. But the success of recent years is the "fuck you" vari ety of success, the sort that definitively says to any remaining detractors: 'Tm right, you're wrong. I win, you lose."

LAV D AAIBDTHEARENAA NNE HEWAS
a very happy, extremely satisfied man. And never more so than since the birth of Xerxes. I'm only sad that he didn't have more time with the boy, and vice versa.

l DON'T KNOW WHICH I'LL MISS MOST ABOUT
LaVey, his great kindness, or his greater mean-ness. He would speak at length (and in great detail) of unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence, and I would be left wondering whether he was sharing a dark fantasy with me or a cherished secret memory. He spoke of hunting humans in such vivid detail, that I was transported to the scene of which he spoke. I could feel myself crouching in the shadows, the cold night wind sending a chill through me as I lay in wait for a passing victim.
He described waiting in · some bushes alongside a trail in, say, Golden Gate Park or the Presidio. No telling how long you'd have to wait, so you'd want a jug of water and another empty jug to piss in. You'd want a weapon of stealth, like a garrote, a knife, or an icepick...

Ex-POLICE OFFICERS AND JOURNALISTS HAD
phoned me from time to time to inquire whether or not I thought it was possible that La.Vey was the Zodiac Killer. At times like this I almost wondered. He'd been inter-

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viewed in one of the books on the Zodiac, and asked what he imagined the killer's motives to be. "Maybe," replied LaVey, "he just likes hunting humans." Anton suggested the author check out an old film called "The Most Dangerous Game." In it, a recluse living on an island engineers shipwrecks so that the pas sengers who end up stranded on his shores can be hunted down and killed as sport. The recluse is an ex-big game hunter who's no longer satiated by merely killing animals. The film was a favorite of LaVey's. He screened it
for me and afterwards we discussed some plot

vidual comes off as mere silliness to anyone even a little bit more worldly. And in the case of most strippers (and unfortunately, most Satanists), that's usually just about everyone. So far, so bad.
The prime objective of those seeking to reinvent themselves is to establish their indi viduality. Their individuality is very impor tant to them, as they never tire of reminding us. But wait: if they are truly individualistic, then why would they feel the need to reinvent themselves? A person would only desire to be

pursue it. Nine times out of ten (or more), the machinations employed to remake oneself end up as little more than attempts to murepruent oneself; and unsuccessful attempts at that.

THOSE WHO SEEK FREEDOM, POWER, OR
identity via Satanism are, by definition, those who lack these things to begin with. LaVey always made it exceeedingly plain to me that the Church of Satan was meant to be a clearing house for people who already possessed these qualities, and had built a successful life around them.

changes that would make it even better.

IF EVER HE WAS FEELING OUT OF SORTS,
conversations about killing people (who to kill and how to kill them) would cheer him right up. He'd take fiendish glee in describing some incompetent person he'd had dealings with, and what, ideally, he thought should

I can truthfully say that the actuality
of LaVey was far beyond anything his myth could ever be...

happen to them. "If you were looking for the perfect candidate for human sacrifice," he'd say, "you wouldn't have to look any further." Over the years I've heard a lot of horri
ble things about LaVey. Some of them were true, and some of them were false. I won't bother to confirm or deny any of them. There are certain historical figures around whom a myth evolves, and by its very nature the myth constitutes a far greater truth than any actual ity ever could. Someone once said that histo ry is truth that eventually becomes a lie, and that myth is a lie that eventually becomes truth. I feel lucky to have known LaVey. I experienced LaVey as an actuality and on the level of myth. And I can truthfully say that the actuality of La.Vey was far beyond anything his myth could ever be, no matter how wild or lurid. I'll miss The Old Man.
"Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively." JamuEllroy

ADDENDUM
(and the future?)

MOST SATANISTS I'VE MET SEEM TO BE PEOPLE
who want·to reinvent themselves. Nothing wrong with that. 999 people out of a thousand would probably be far more interesting if they
rou!J reinvent themselves. The fly in the oint
ment is that "if they could" part of the equation. Try though they may, most fail miserably.
They usually start by re-christening themselves. They choose a new moniker more resonant with their desired identity. It's obvi ously selected with an eye towards making a statement. It's chosen because it sounds seri ous, or scary, or mysterious, or deep, More often than not, it's merely whacky. Like a stripper's stage name, selected to exude glam or and exotic allure, what seems like the acme of self-aggrandizement to a fairly naive indi-

something other than what they are if they were dissatisfied with what they were to begin with. A person who lived according to their own inner law wouldn't automatically be more individualistic by adopting a stupid name like "Damien Dracula" or "Nikolas Schreck." A true individual could be named John Doe or John Smith, and it wouldn't diminish his individuality. I don't even honor the concept of individuality as such. Man is an animal that gravitates to certain archetypes. The few people I've met who've seemed truly individualistic, were in fact just people who more fully eml,o'Ji.eJ one archetype or another, and embodying an archetype involves more than mere mimicry.
LaVey used to say to me that man is the
only creature with the power to reinvent him self, and when he does, he's derided as a phony. I understand what he's saying, and yet I disagree. Man can alter his appearance, change his name, wear a new uniform, or remake himself in any of a thousand ways, but his character remains the same.
At the risk of sounding smug and conde scending, I never felt the compulsion to rein vent myself. It has been a full time job just being myself, though it has required no great effort or expenditure of will on my part. Like Popeye used to say: "I am what I am and that's all what I am." That, to me, is Satanism. It's about (first and foremost) being what you are. Not wanting to be something or trying to be something.
Perhaps this is the single aspect of modem Satanism that I find the most distasteful. That it has helped, in some degree, to fuel that modern conceit that anyone can be whatever he or she chooses to be. Certainly, I would concur that the superior man is capable of unimaginable powers of self-transformation. But I would be quick to add that the superior man is also the person least in need of self transformation, and therefore least likely to

SATANISM IS PERHAPS THE ONLY MODERN
creed in which faith and belief and lip service account for absolutely nothing. What's para mount is how you live your life, since living in accordance with your true nature makes you happier and increases your power. Following this path, it seems to me, is not a matter of choice to the born Satanist. It is a decision (if it can rightly even be regarded as such) of the instinct and not the intellect. It is a manifesta tion of the power you already possess, rather than the desire to attain the power you lack.

I'LL BEG YOUR PARDON IF I SOUND LIKE A SOUR
puss. It's just that I'm not an organization man or team player. Never have. been. The cynic in me tells me that people ruin every thing. You can have the best idea on earth, and when people get ahold of it they'll turn it into a mockery.
I have no doubt whatsoever that LaVey's
ideas will survive him. That's never been in question. What is questionable is whether or not those who trumpet them most loudly will apply them, or just discuss them endlessly in words. Ideas that make the transition to a liv ing principle have an almost alchemical power. Ideas and words are no longer even ideas. Stripped of their power, they become dead, and serve a function quite the contrary of their initial intent.
The final disposition of any idea, no mat ter how earthshaking, is always the same. Many will believe it. Still more will speak of it. Few will live it. I say this not as a cynic or gloom-monger, but as a realist.
There have been many pronouncements about the eventual repercussions that will come about as a result of the life and ideas of Anton LaVey. I have only one such pronouncement, and I can guarantee you that that it's true: only time will reveal whether Anton LaVey was the first true Satanist, or the last. ...

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LaVey is wonderfully alive...for these reasons and countless more:
1. You don't die until you're forgotten.
2. Fresh, formerly unexplored ideas have a long shelf life.
3. The vision and gifts of a Barton named Blanche.
4. The eerily appropriate arrival of adorable demon seed, Xerxes LaVey.
5. I recall hearing that other writers like Samuel Clemens, Jack London, and Ayn Rand also "died" some time ago...you couldn't prove it by me.
6. Power: on...the disc spins...the needle drops and "presto!"--dynamic music from His heart and hands can magically (and forever) flood the room.
7. The torch is passed and now resides in the iron grip of many a faithful
and competent flame tender.
8. Let's face it...the damage is done...for as long as there's an "occult" section in retail bookstores, the mindless and confounding social landscape will eternally be challenged by a new breed of "Bible-thumpers"
...pragmatic misfits with a mission.
9. In truth, it's the modern world that's dead...to leave it honorably, as a legend, is, in a sense, to begin to live.
10. He isn't gone...He's here with me.
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ing the yenta-like Karla to begin to under stand Zeena's boundless dislike. Zeena was far more the live Satanic Witch, and an apt choice to introduce The Satanic Witch. And so it happened.
After publishing The Satanic Witch, the anti-Anton LaVey sector rose out of the clos et. Chain stores canceled their orders of The Satanic Witch after Geraldo Rivera's documen tary sideshow blaming Anton LaVey for all of America's cultural problems. Then I received

OYD RICE'S ENTHUSIASM
for new discoveries is infectious. Back in 1987, he began raving about Anton LaVey, insisting I meet him.
Sure. Why not? Sounded interesting. I had a copy of "The Satanic Mass" Ip, found it amusing. This LaVey guy apparently played oboe-my instrument-and we shared birth days. In "The Satanic Mass" recording, Wagner recordings played behind boisterous readings of The Satanic Bible, a book I had at the time only glanced at, laboring under the misconception that it was loaded down with occult jargon.
Filled with other people's various opinions about the man, I half-expected Anton LaVey to be some sort of ludicrous Aleister Crowley wannabe. Nothing could be further from the truth. This friendly, highly agreeable man seemed to combine elements of H.L. Mencken, Ben Hecht, Ivan Albright, Weegee, Koria Pandit, Tod Browning, Charles Addams and Ming the Mercaess. He was the real thing. A true individual. Not a phony. Not a jargon fiend. And decidedly not an idiot.
Before visiting the Black House, I found a library copy of what later became The Satanic Wtich-first published under
the corny '70s title, The Comp/eat Wtich. Then out-of-print, I found the book to be remark able. Behaviorist low-downs from a dark, mordant mind, untainted by obligatoiy bows to Christian morality. The bibliography was in itself amazing: a list of curious books from which Anton grabbed and syncretized a wild array of information.
Upon 'my first reading, The Comp/eat Wtich felt like a guilty pleasure. Publishing snobs would turn up their nose-and this is exactly what happened with my Amok Press partner before we sundered the business, and started our own imprints. "Why are you pub lishing Anton LaVey, and all that Satanic trash, Adam? I thought you knew better."
I didn't know any better. Surrendering to my better instincts of torturing follow-the leader sophisticates, I published The Satanic Wtich as the first Feral House title. It fit. The Satanic Wtich became a litmus test, detecting the assholity of hipsters whose opinions were totally dependent on others.
At our first all-night meeting, Anton

impressed me with an encyclopedic knowl edge of weird, Fortean events, and his per sonification of the true outsider. His opinions and interests were so apart from mainstream that I felt an immediate kinship. And as I understand, so did he..
A week later, Anton's youngest daughter, Zeena, unexpectedly appeared at the door of my Echo Park apartment, presenting me with a liter of Stolichnaya. This curvy surprise embodied almost all of her father's advice and pronouncements in The Satanic Witch. Fortunately for me, my girlfriend was spend ing time in New York.

Though Zeena met with directors like Curtis Harrington and John Waters, and took acting classes from Bruce Glover (Crispin's father), she couldn't pull off an act ing career. To help fill the coffers, she started participating in Ed Wood-style seances and corny Satanic "counseling" to the lonely and desperate. It must have been frustrating for this 23-year-old girl to reside in a noisy Hollywood apart ment, and raise a ten-year-old boy. Why wasn't she able to fulfill her career ambi tions? Studio system mediocrity? Not enough aggression and persistence? Lack of sufficient talent or brain matter? In short time, Zeena began to blame her failures on her father, a man whose advice she followed to the word. Resentment rose to the surface.
The time I knew her, Zeena conducted hate-sessions about her older sister, Karla. Seemed they were in competition for their father's affection, which seemed to be show ered more completely on Zeena. It took meet-

a long letter from Michael Aquino, urging me to get in touch with him so he could tell me what was wrong with Anton LaVey and The Satanic Wtich. Aquino seemed to spend many hours a day contemplating and writing about his love/hate obsession with Anton LaVey. Here was the man who accused Anton LaVey of not doing enough for the deity that was supposed to represent his own invented reli gion. Here was the man who tried to subvert Anton LaVey's entire organization by sending out letters to the entire CoS membership, urg ing all to betray LaVey and enlist in his Temple of Set. In the years following, Aquino self-published and sold a large array of anti-LaVey documents that can be summed up by saying: Anton LaVey was
a phony; only Michael Aquino should be seen as the true Satan man. (Well, per haps Aquino is. Anton LaVey can be bet ter seen as a thinker, phaosopher and fas cinating eccentric. Channeling demonic deities is best left to Michael Aquino.)
Zeena and her new-found mate and defender (the pseudonymous Nikolas Schreck) attempted to convince Anton unsuccessfully-to hand over the reins to the Church of Satan. Around the same time, Anton was besieged by Zeena's mother and former common-law wife,
Diane, with a court case to provide her lots of money because she claimed to have been a battered and put-upon slave for many years.
Anton LaVey was hounded from from all sides, either by hysteria-inducing televised subterfuge, those who desired to become and replace him, and the muddy hypocrisy of in fighting family members. Who would want to be in his spot?
Because he avoided seeing a lawyer, or even a notary, Anton's jotted-down will was contested (successfully) by Karla, who tem porarily forgave all grudges with Zeena to make a claim on King LaVey's estate. The question remains: how could Zeena make a claim on her father's belongings after renouncing him and claiming on a Christian program to have cursed him to death? After her father died, she chose to pass around an essay titled "The Real Anton LaVey," which tried to chip away at her father's image, pri marily using an article by Lawrence Wright for Rolling Stone magazine, which both she and

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Karla once denounced as vengeful idiocy sloppily researched?
The answer is simple; Zeena, mate Nikolas, and Michael Aquino all still seem anxious to piss on the founder of the Church of Satan so that they can assume his role. None of them successfully lassooed the Church of Satan when Anton LaVey was alive; the least they could do is bring it all down after the Black Pope died. Even curses,

Who's Minding The Church?
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famously used by Anton LaVey when he told about casting the evil eye on Sam Brody before he and his client Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident, would be employed by daughter Zeena against daddy. Perhaps Zeena is more her father's daughter than she would like to admit.
The people anxious to become Anton LaVey are the most fervent in tearing his image down. What makes these individuals so driven to say that Jayne Mansfield wasn't really quite that friendly with Anton LaVey - that her friendship
was simply a publicity stunt? What drives them to write that Sammy Davis, Jr. did n't really know Anton LaVey that well? And what's this about Los Angeles' Mayan Theater-where many photos exist of bur lesque acts bannered across its marquee never actually featured burlesque acts, so Anton LaVey could have never performed there? What about the tale of Anton LaVey hitting little Zeena's pet dog? Or that housing his pet lion Togare was some-sinis ter plot to make the ani mal sick? On and on and on go the revisionist tales... Anton's death was required for the would-be leaders to try to grab the crown.
Even if all the wannabes' attacks are true and their ulterior
motives non-existent, even if the Anton LaVey
saga was built on invention alone, how is that different than any other religion, sect, cult or folklore on this planet?
What's important about Anton LaVey is not how well he knew Sammy Davis, Jr., but how well he created a different, alt:emative and stimulating way of looking at and contra dicting the mainstream game. He will never be replaced, and his influence will be felt for a longtime. ...

en will people stop asking me what's going to happen to the Church of Satan now that Dr. LaVey is no longer with us?
Well, NEVER, which is why I feel com pelled to take a moment to offer some per spective on the subject.
First, let me ask you this: Does the Catholic Church close up shop when a Pope dies? No. Does anything change with the new Pope? Not really. All other religions are
allowed to continue on for decades and even centuries without this kind of question, so why should the Church of Satan not be afford ed this same courtesy?
(Not that I would eagerly make this association, but the also-founded-in this-century Church of Scientology was neither expected to close its doors nor issue any kind of formal declarations upon the death of founder L. Ron Hubbard )
The truth is Dr. LaVey's written words and philosophies are very much alive and are widely available in many languages, at most libraries and chain bookstores, and can even be ordered from several sites on the internet.. This will not change. As it was
during his life, anyone at all can read The Satanic BiJ,ft, The Satanic Wttch, The Satanic
Ritual,, and any other of Dr. LaVey's numer ous works.
My relationship with the Dr. was a per sonal one; perhaps this is why I view my rela tionship with the Church as personal as well. What will be different now? Nothing. I have lost a dear and treasured friend and I will have to deal with that in my own way. But as for the Church itself, well, there will be just

as many mandated formal meetings as there were before. The Dr. will participate in "the Satanic Community" just as much as he ever did. He will continue to avoid public appearances and he will not grant interviews. The daily operations of the Church, which were never made public during his life, will remain unseen by you now and in the days to come.
What I can't figure is why suddenly everyone who can pronounce the word Satan wants, no, IS ENTITLED to be kept abreast of the tiniest of intimate details regarding the Church's daily business, as if that were ever accessible before. As if you would care. (As if we would tell you.)
As if.
The Church of Satan for me has always been a few close friends who share a philosophy and a value system, who enjoy and prefer each other's company and counsel. The Church has also wildly enhanced my abilities in my chosen field of Making It Hot For Them.
In many ways, the Church of Satan is the most important thing in my life. But if I were to awake tomorrow 'to a phone call informing me that the Church had been dissolved, or that Prominent Satanist Bob Larson was taking over as High Priest, well, so be it.
It was fun while it lasted.
Like anything else, the Church is bound to evolve, and it went through a lot of changes with Dr. LaVey at the helm. I, too, am bound to evolve if I am to survive, and believe me, I intend to survive. Since I never relied on the Church (or the Dr.) to define my identity, I really don't much care what happens now, because as I have said at least a million times now, the answer is Nothing.
It goes without saying (although I cer
tainly do say it) that my life has been enhanced by and since my membership in the Church of Satan. It's given me just that little bit more, but that "more" is being added to
ME. The truth is that I am the Church of Satan, not Dr. LaVey. What I do to continue my work is all that matters. The rest (as Eliot said so perfectly) is not our business.

HAIL DR LAVEY!

HAIL SATAN! ...

THF BlRCK FlRITIE #15 -13,

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Res-pect to a Master Magician
Carl AbrahamJJon
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one befitting the amazing character he was. He had a will to live, a will to indulge and a will to explore the areas, phenomena and peo ple he was attracted to. And what characteris es a true magician? This very trust in intu ition, the acceptance of hunches and emotions as guidelines. The breaking of taboos regard ing social and moral conventions and habits. The creation of one's own gratifying universe, one's own perfect world.

FIRST, I WAS SHOCKED,
saddened and depressed by the news. 67 years is far too tender an age to die. I was just going to ax him and let him know the
good news that the first edition of the Swedish Satanic Bi/Jk had sold out and that we're press mg more.
l had so much looked forward to anoth er meeting in San Francisco during 1998. Time to chat, to watch some movies, have grand dinners, listen to music... But no, destiny would have it otherwise.
As a youngster of 21, I recorded a track with my band White Stains. The
song was a pompous ode to Jayne Mansfield-Satanic Goddess-and the lyrics touched upon the relationship between her and the Church of Satan. Just for the hell of it I sent a copy of the record to Dr. La.Vey, as it was an homage to him as much as to Jayne.
Lo and behold! I received a jovial let ter with Satanic thanks. I knew very well that he didn't like the music (totally nonsen sical rock'n'roll), but somehow the words must have been audible in-inmy opinion a terrible mix.
He made me a member (an honour indeed!) and when I visited San Francisco in 1989, I met the Doktor and Blanche for the first time. Nights of won der, nights of magic. And nights of many good movies.
And thus it continued up until 1993, when I last met him. I had been in San Francisco every other year or so and each time was a joyous occasion. Not just for the fun and the good times, but for the fas
cinating feeling of "Wowl" that always hit me whenever I left The Black House.
He made an impact.
And he made this impact not only by fas cinating people with his experiences, collec tions and many, many talents. No, he made an impact by reading people there and then and, if he felt the person or persons in question deserved it, he transmitted chosen tidbits of magical wisdom through anything from sto ries, anecdotes, jokes or through wonderful musical sessions in his kitchen.
Magic moves in subconscious and emo tional realms. The Doktor knew this very well and appreciated people who resonated with his own interests in culture. Through an

active resonance, he would communicate not with the actual words spoken or the keys played, but rather with the powerful atmos phere he created through them.
He was a master.
Anything he wanted to, he could achieve. And he certainly achieved a great deal during his varied and colourful lifetime. But there comes a time in every true magician's devel opment where he or she starts to consider the wellbeing of others and/or so-called higher

goals. And this was no. different in· Dr. La.Vey's case. .
Where most people mistakenly see him
as a self-possessed charlatan, it doesn't really take much effort to see a man who strived really hard to share his findings and results with others. Through his own person, through his books, his records, videos, inter views etc. His material is now readily avail able for the (in)taking. The future will show who can grasp what it's all about and who has the guts to go his/her own way. These people will shine. These people will be proud. These people will be strong. They will be Satanists. They will cherish life.
The Doktor cherished his amazing life,

Dr. LaVey personified all of these traits and qualities, and even took it to the length of creating an entire Church based upon this, his philosophy of life.
If you decide to move upstreams, you're
likely to find more interesting fish. But you11 also run into more trouble and harder work. The Doktor led a controversial life, filled with strife and troubles simply because he advocated a true freedom. A freedom that allows those who dare to create brave new worlds and majestic manifestations of subjective quality rather than of externally
imposed quantity.
His terminology naturally raised more than a few eyebrows-and the hatred of many a bigoted and fearful fool. But that aside, the true "threat" that the Church of Satan poses lies in the fact that it's a synthesis of ideas and directions that has the power to liberate those who are
bold enough to tread on the Satanic path, those who embrace reality as fact, and those who see magic not as a fascinating system of symbols but as an actual tool for change.
He was an advanced magician with his own complicated systems of ritual and he was also an elitist. He couldn't have cared less if people in general "under stood" what he was transmitting. But he cared a whole lot for the the fact that the material should be available-you never know when a young Satanist awakens to his (or her, for that matter) call! And the words of wisdom from the Occult Synthesizer par excellence, the Great Szandor, will always be helpful to those persons who dare see through their own fears and who can appreciate an obstinate
attitude as a magical formula. He was-truly-a master.
With respect, love and condoleances to the Doktor's family, I end this death rune. I've reached the end of memory lane. It's time to work.

Carl AbrabamJdon, Satanist of Letters

P.S. (Is that P(}dt Scriptum or Pro Satan?): In case you have the time and opportunity to read this, Anton: I thank you from the depth of my soul for all the encouragement, inspira tion and love you passed in my direction over the years in many different ways. That will never, ever be forgotten. And neither willyou, Doktor LaVey. Neither will you. ...

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I Remember The Doctor

He did not flatter. He gave his opinion. He did not impose his opinion. He entertained. He enjoyed being entertained.
I recall at one point in the early morn ing hours when he seemed asleep, sitting back in his chair. Yet I saw the glint of his eyes watching me carefully through narrow slits, watching, listening, considering. I realized that this was another trait this man possessed. He could fool the casual observ

MET ANTON SZANDOR LAVEY IN
the flesh exactly once, but I felt I had always known him.
Some years ago my wife and I received an invitation through Blanche Barton to meet the creator of modern Satanism at the Black House in San Francisco. It was an honor to be received by this man of myth and mystery. Even now, after the years, I remember the time spent with his family with warmth and an abiding fondness for this complex and yet wonderful man.
I remember how, upon entering the dark hall,I was warned by Ms. Barton to step around the aging dog who slept in the passageway. Coming from a family who loved pets, this complete accomodation for the habits of an elderly animal was famil iar and understandable.
As any true entertainer, showman, or good magician knows, first impressions

are important and lasting. The Doctor made his appearance sometime after my wife and I had settled in our chairs, talk ing with Ms. Barton. He strode into the room, taller than I expected, though I had already expected a tall and large man. I felt his presenceas much as saw him loom ing before me.
His handclasp was firm, his smile gen uine and, as in all faces of those who are truly alive, his eyes sparkled with the light of life. I remember him immediately asking, "Well, what do youthink of me?" I also remember thinking how unabashedly open this question was, how many avenues of conversation it opened, how this question was a statement and a summation of every thing that made up Anton Szandor LaVey.
Never before in my life had I been so charmed as by the honest and open remarks from this man who loved life as his self-made religion. He made compliments.

er into believing that here was a man asleep, when instead, there was a razor sharp mind brightly ablaze with attention. Here were levels within levels of depth.
It became clear to me that this was a man who treasured his role as a host and appreciated his company. When later we went to a fine restaurant, I saw even more deeply that this was a man dedicated to his written principles of valuing the pleasures of life. He exemplified the most civilized aspects of what living life as a human being means. He was a gentleman.
I cannot capture but a shadow of the deep meaning those few hours had for me. I had found a friend as well as a man in harmony with his nature as a man. I found a kindred spirit.
I shall miss him forever. I shall treas ure his memory forever. I am honored to have known him.
I shall never forget him. •

Thank you, Dr. Lavey!
&verend George Sprague
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source that is brutal, fierce, and just. I will miss the man, but there is that which remains. Dr. LaVey forged a mighty torch. Its black flame has blinded many and inspirod oth ers. This torch was held by LaVey, and as time passed, he allowed others to place their hands on this torch. His hands are

VER BEEN IN A CAGE WITH
a lion? A good friend and associate has two lions. The oldest is two years old, weigh ing in at a mere 240 pounds.
Though not completely grown, he is a formidable creature, very strong and capable of extracting a good portion of your body with one bite. When in the cage, you realize he is studying you, test ing you, and sizing you up. Ultimately, you realize you are in his domain because he is allowing you to be there. And you'd better not do anything to lose this implied trust! Such was the feeling I had when I first met Dr. LaVey.
A more fitting night could not be conjured: cool, thunder and lightning, rain. As I awaited my appointed time, I tuned my rental car's radio to the local classical music station. Wagner's "Die Gotterdammerung" was playing. And

for me to describe the intens ty of our conversation. Dr. LaVey possessed an incredibly penetrating intellect and I was privileged to listen to his insights on var ious topics of interest. I was also privi leged to hear him perform on the organ anarray of themes and emotions, master fully executed. The look on his counte nance was unforgettable, even moreso when he stared right at me, our eyes locked on nothing but each other's. Just like the lion, he was studying and sizing me. I was not uncomfortable at all, rather, I was assured that all I had respected and admired in LaVey was there. I confirmed that I was right to be where I was. All I had felt was real and all I still needed to learn was ahead. Doctor was right: if you.are a Satanist, you were born this way.
My respect and loyalty increased, and with each subsequent visit, I was ever more

now gone, but the torch has many loyal bearers. To the horror of those who don't take us seriously, we now have a unified front of fierce, dogged Satanists to steer this world into its next phase, just as Dr. LaVey had foreseen. The weaklings will try their best to cast their stones of discord. Little do they know what they are up against! They will hate and fear us, as they should. We will revel in their agony, as we should.
The principles expounded by Dr. LaVey will continue to inspire those who are creators, innovators, and those who work diligently in isolation from the great est contaminant this planet has ever known: the human herd. As I stated, the torch LaVey forged and lit burns hotter than ever. I am proud and deeply honored to have been allowed to place my hands firmly on this torch. To the sheeple: beware l This torch can and will deliver a deadly blowl

then it was time to meet the man I actu ally never expected to meet. It is difficult

convinced that Dr. LaVey had indeed locked on to a dark source as no other man had. A

Thank you, forever!

Dr. LaVey. Lex TalioniJ

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Dark Comrade
Magilter Jeff Nagy

not close with some infinite words of wis dom. He may have wanted us to put his death aside, but I still mourn; he may have wanted us to march on, which I can see we are doing and hopefully you are too. I do

TON SZANDOR LAVEY.
The very name conjures up different images for different people. For me, it conjures up eelings of warmth toward my
mentor, teacher, compatriot, and most importantly, my friend. I could never picture a better image of the devil in human form. Anton LaVey was a ruthless gentleman in perfection.
My experiences with him make me grieve his loss. The hours I spent with him lis tening to him play music in his kitchen, hours of him telling me stories of the arcane, he and I cracking obscure old jokes that made each other double over in laughter, spending hours in the legendary ritual chamber, watching old movies in the Purple Parlor, and just chatting on anything imagi nable. Some stories I would love to tell you (if I know you, perhaps I have) some others only my grave will know.
One thing that is definite is that not only his memory, but his books, music and organi zation will live on through those he has touched. His music and stories stick with me in a very sentimental and occult way. It was a priveledge to have had these things touch my life in a very real way. The friendships I have developed through him will endure the pas sages of time as will his words of wisdom con cerning the human equation.
He let me into a world of the 1940's that

I had always longed to enter. In this world the sidewalks were always damp, the ladies wore too much make-up, neon flashed above dimly lit barrooms, there was differentiation of the sexes, a world where if one got
out of line they got whacked. He shared with me experiences and happenings from this peri od of post World War II history where he felt most at home. His friendship was something I cherished, and his memory will remain alive in the generation of Satanists to come. It is experi ences such as these that can never be duplicated, only remembered. I have a few pho tos of us dressed to the nine's in 40's style gangster regalia, which I cherish. It serves me as a reminder that what I was doing was making an impact.
I never set out to do a project with pleasing Dr. LaVey to be my outcome. However, I will be the first to admit that when something I did touched him in a pro found way, it made me feel like it meant a lit tle bit more. That bit of recognition from such an important character is something I cherished and will miss.
I am not going to pretend to know exactly how the Doctor would have wanted us to feel or act in this tragic event, so I can-
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know that over the years that I knew Doctor, I came to know his family and friends quite well, and I support them 100% in these still-trying times, especially to our High Priestess Blanche Barton and his son,

Xerxes. They are his living legacy and these people I stand beside proudly!
I have a picture of Doctor and I that was taken in the Purple Parlor some 7 years ago that I keep on my desk in my den. It has always served as a reminder that I must be doing something right and has become quite talismanic for me. That is Satanic. I thank Doctor for creating some of the most beauti ful things the modern world has seen. I will always miss my friend...
Hail Anton S:zandor la Vey! ...

Devil Father
Draconil Blac/cthorne

NTON SZANOOR
la Vey has been as a "Devil-Father" and "Daemon Brother" to me, ever since I
heard about there being a Satanic Bi,b/e in existence. Ironically, it was brought to my attention by a Christian sheep who was trying to pass his propa ganda over onto me at a Christian School I was attending.
I acquired this text at a B. Dalton Bookseller. I perused it wild-eyed, and quickly thereafter pur chased it. I'll never forget the look on the cashier's face as she scanned it through. It was a tempo rary thrill that would be only a preface to all the

gawkings I would receive as time went on. It reminds me of that scene in Speak of the Devu when Togare's "voice" aptly described the fawning sheeple as, "what a tray of fish!" Indeed. A rotten bunch for sure.
I absorbed the philosophy whole-heart edly, reading it in about two night's time.
Soon thereafter, I would purchase The Satanic Rilua&, Companion to The Satanic Bwle, and eventually the other works followed as they were made available. And each and every time, came that ubiquitous glare of hor ror from cashiers that such a thing existed.
Very much the same way the Doctor became enthralled by Might /,1 Right, so I was with The Satanic Bwle.
I sat down at my desk, alone in my room, extinguishing all outside noise, turned on my study lamp, and began a journey that would take me into the deepest recesses of myself, bringing forth that daemon within, conjured in fierce plumes of blackest flame. Leviathan was awakened. Cthulhu met the stars. ...

#15 THE BL RC K Fl Rm E

Anton Lavey An Appreciation
lrre". Ga"in Baddeky
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sonality shines through in everything he wrote, and it's tempting to think that getting to know Anton LaVey's work allows you to get to know Anton LaVey. Naturally, that's never really true, and just when you thought you had the measure of this extraordinary writer, he'd pull the rug from under you with a well-aimed aside or a wicked sting planted at the tail-end of a paragraph. This too was an element of the literary persona of

T WAS ONE OF ANTON LAVEY'S
unquestionable gifts that he was multitalented. He brought his own unique qualities to everything he turned his hand to with a skill which appeared enviably effortless. There are many aspects of life that will be much the poorer for the loss of Anton LaVey. I was privileged to meet him on a few accasions, and while I can confirm he was charming and erudite company, I don't feel qualified
to comment upon his character or inner life

(and worse) that lines many occult book
shelves.
This accessibility can be deceptive, however. Return to something LaVey's writ ten and you'll usually find something you missed last time, an angle or observation that didn't really click the first (or indeed second or third) time you read the piece.
I believe what

Anton LaVey-part hell-fire sermoniser, part ad copy-writer for snake-oil, part medieval grimoire scribe, part hard-boiled noir street philosopher-but above all whol ly original. Perhaps LaVey's most important message was about the importance of gen uine originals, and in his writing, as in the rest of his life, he taught by example.

made LaVey so

on this basis. Similarly, while I have enjoyed one of his remarkable keyboard perform ances and listened with interest to his theo ries on music, I am no musician and don't feel adequate to the job of assessing his skills in that field. As far as practical occultism goes, I am merely an enthusiastic dabbler,
and the task of paying proper tribute to his magical skills must =
fall to one better equipped for the job than myself.
I am a writer by trade and inclination, and I'd like to offer a few observations on Anton LaVey's prodi gious ability with the written word. Like many people it was in this fashion that I first encountered Anton LaVey, in the form of his Satanic Bihle. l confess that my initial response was one of suspicion. It seemed too straightforward,

objectionable to so many "occultists"
was his crime of lucidity and clarity.
Beneath this compulsively readable style, The loss of a man as extraordinary as LaVey's writing contains subtexts that creep Anton LaVey is one that is only mitigated by
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to believe that much of his writing remains in the archives await ing publication and I anticipate its arrival with an exciteinent which I can't remem ber having felt for any other upcoming book release. Until that time, I shall do again what I did when I first heard the awful news of his death and reread some of his old material. I recom mend it. Put down this paltry offering

not Byzantine enough. In other words, way too sensible to be "authentic Satanism." I was, of course, wrong. I believe what made LaVey so objectionable to so many "occultists" was his crime of lucidity and clarity. As LaVey observed himself more than once, deliberate obfuscation and cryp tic evasion plague occultism. The great secret so much of this hides is that there is no great secret. LaVey had no need for such enigmatic pomposity for the simple reason that he genuinely had something worth sell ing. As a result, in the field of occult litera ture LaVey's work shines like a diamond of vivacity and accessibility among the mud

up on you with real elegance. I try and lace my own writing with hidden "hooks" designed to fool readers into coming to my point of view, while believing they got there all on their own. It's a trick I'm pretty sure I subconsciously picked up from LaVey, and one I suspect I'll never master nearly as well. Writing, like music and pretty much every other creative discipline, can be approached with an occult agenda. LaVey did so and showed what powerful dividends such an approach can pay.
Of course technique was only half the picture and LaVey's writing is as distinctive and flavorsome as it is well crafted. His per-

from my pen and pull down your favorite
LaVey essay from the shelf. I guarantee it won't be as good as you remember it-it'll be better. ...

THE BLRCK FLRmE #15 Z_Jf]

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DIABOLICAL MACHINATIONS
- My first and last meeting with Anton Szandor LaVey
Reverend Thorruu Thorn
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desertion and the events that lead up to it.
Rather than pandering my momentaiy weakness, Ms. Barton stated plaintively that "powerful men often have that effect on those around them." I think I might have blushed. Her tone was authoritative and almost fierce, as if defending one of her own. I realized that she was all too accustomed to dealing with similar situations and had little use for those who could not be relied upon or trusted. I was impressed by the power she radiated and by

ODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY, A
day upon which we, as Satanists,
. traditionally celebrate our exis tence in the world. While I plan to do exactly that "in extremis" later
this evening, it seems only fitting that at the moment I find myself reflecting upon a meet ing that, albeit brief, made an indelible mark on my life.
I met Anton LaVey on what was easily one of the worst days of my life, certainly an all time low in my career. Earlier in the year, the death of Shane Lassen (my best friend,
business partner, and co-founder of The
Electric Hell6re Club) had dealt a crippling blow to both myself and the band. In spite of this tragedy, we managed to compose and record an album a mere three months later and, following its release had embarked on a short west-coast tour with our new line-up. We had enlisted our longtime friend Boyd Rice (a C.o.S. Magister, for those unaware) to open shows with his one-man sound project NON. We were only three shows into the tour, two days past my birthday, when the band disintegrated before my eyes after a night of alcohol-fueled bickering. Tensions had been riding high as the cold reality of Lassen's absence set in, and suddenly two members of a four-person unit hopped a bus and went home.
I honestly don't think my spirits have ever been lower. Even as I learned of Shane's death, there was never any question of whether or not the band would continue. Now it seemed both pointless and impossible. Boyd, who had remained mute and impartial through the, entire debacle, approached and
spoke to me as I sat alone pondering my fate. "How would you like to meet LaVey tonight?" he asked, and I instantaneously exchanged my hangdog expression for one of wonder and amazement. "Are you kidding?" I demanded, half rhetorically and half believing this was some cruel joke, a coup de grace intend ed to shatter the remains of my self-respect. Magister Rice smiled. "They're expecting us at 11:00" he stated simply, and suddenly the world looked completely different.
I thought a lot. I thought hard, about the reasons I had started the band in the first plare and the paths that had led me to my current situation. My dilemma seemed to dwindle in magnitude the more I thought about it. Slowly but surely, answers

to my problems began to manifest themselves. I spent the rest of the day on the telephone, culling contacts and numbera from local and my friends at Hell's Kitchen in New York By the time the sun set, I had a band again. As quiclqy as it had fallen apart, it had been resurrected, reborn and baptized, in the name of Satan.
We parked the vanona side street and walked the remaining two blocks to the house on California
Street The infamous Black House-tall and nar row, rudel}, sandwiched ey its neighbora, but lwk
ing proudw and ominous\y nonetheless, stilllooking smart in the paintjob Boyd and Nick Bougas had given her a few yeara earlier: As we reached the rather innocuous gate, the lock buzzed open in true Addams Family style. We were indeed expected.
We were greeted at the door by High Priestess Barton, who cordially escorted us to the ritual chamber and seated us on a deep black leather couch situated behind a bed of nails that had been converted into a stylish coffee table with a piece of plexiglass. The room was dimly lit, as was the rest of the house, in deference to the Doctor's light sen sitivity, but many of the notorious room's arti facts were still plainly visible. Directly to my right was a theatrical coffin from which Manson Family murderess, Susan Atkins, once emerged (somewhat prophetically) as a "vampire" in Dr. LaVey's "Topless Witches" burlesque show. Near the fireplace was a. unique rocking chair that had once belonged to Rasputin. I must admit that I was in total awe of the situation. I had read about this veiy room and the items it contained since I was eleven years old. Now I was sitting in it, waiting to meet Dr. LaVey. Ms. Barton seated herself close to me in a peculiar-looking chair that I would later learn was (rather appropri ately in this case) the "Inquisitor's Chair" from the original Hellfire Club.
I was immediately struck by the formali ty of the setting, which resembled a cross between a job interview and an audience with royalty or, in this case, the Black Pope. I was excited and more than a little nervous and, in retrospect, I imagine it showed as Miss Barton did her best to set me at ease while making her assessment. I was stunned by how much she knew about both me and my music. She had, without question, done her home work. I winced when she asked how the tour was going and stumbled through some feeble, self-deprecating version of my band-membera'

how completely she embodied that old apho rism that behind eveiy great man is a great woman. I told her that despite all the obsta cles that had thrust themselves in my path over the last 12 hours, solutions that all seemed somehow interconnected had sponta neously revealed themselves, and that the Church of Satan was apparently their com mon denominator. She smiled knowingly and explained that this was what they referred to as "diabolical machinations" and that I could rest assured it was no coincidence. The exchange was brief, but if my confidence in myself or my mission had been weakened that day, she had without question restored it. I realized then that, in spite of the fact that I had never met them, this was my family.
Ms. Barton excused herself to see if Dr. LaVey was ready. As she exited, Boyd turned to me and said 'Well, you must rank pretty high on the list, they only open the ritual chamber for special occasions. Most people only get to see the kitchen." I beamed. I was in heaven, or should I say Hell? Suddenly, Dr. LaVey appeared from the shadows and extended his hand. "Thomas Thorn, it's a pleasure to finally meet you. I have heard so many good things about you." I thought of all my friends who had apparently spoken so well of me and made a mental note to thank them. All the myths and rumors of a dodder ing old man in frail health were quickly dis pelled by his entrance, and I would soon gain firsthand experience of his quick wit, razor sharp intellect, and an archive of memories and knowledge that seemed as vast as the universe itself.
We talked at length on topics too varied to mention, ranging from my native Wisconsin (where he spent vacations in his early childhood) to Dashwood's Hellfire Club (our band's namesake) wherein he revealed that the canopic jars atop the infamous fire place mantle contained vertebrae from the backbones of several members. It seemed that the man could talk on any subject and had personal experience of some sort with each and eveiy one. One of the fascinating things
about Dr. LaVey was that he instinctively knew your interests, was more than willing to share what he knew of them, and well equipped to discuss them in great depth. Eveiyone I know who met him concurs on this point. He could be anyone to eveiyone, as
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much at ease in conversation with a dock worker as with a rocket scientist. We spoke of people and places, things both commonplace and fantastic. Occasionally the Doctor would rise and retreat to some unseen passage at the back of the room, reappearing momentarily with some remarkable object or piece of mem orabilia relating to our conversation. He was jovial yet dead serious at the same time, accentuating his remarks with a severe
expression or poignant gesture...at one point

as I was in that which he was sharing with me.
It has been said that the Church of Satan is a sort of "mutual admiration society," and I was beginning to realize that this extended all the way up to its founder. LaVey never set out to create a cult of personality with himself as the nucleus. He simply created and nurtured an environment wherein individuals who shared common outlooks and common inter ests could interact and exchange ideas, all the

SO proud of you." I was flushed with pride and a true sense of honor; I didn't know what to say. For probably the first and last time in my life I was speechless. I stammered a "thank you" and departed. In retrospect, I now realize that he knew he would probably
never see me again. Despite his apparent vitality, he had been ill for some time and was aware that his days were numbered. He used those days wisely, setting things in order and

patting the automatic pistol he wore on his hip as he spoke of dealing with intruders. He was a truly mesmerizing raconteur, and hours passed like minutes.

He will continue to speak for years to come, decades,
perhaps even centuries. That choice is ours.

We eventually moved from the ritual chamber to the kitchen for tea and coffee. The hallway connecting the rooms was completely unlit and I found myself groping my way along in funhouse fashion. The kitchen was, by comparison, more brightly lit, though mas sive cobwebs hung from the ceiling, partially obscuring the visions of Hell painted on the walls. There were more curios and oddities scattered throughout the room, and I com mented that all the homes I had visited in the last week (Boyd's, Coop's, and n w the Black House), like my own, were brimming with peculiar and unique collections. It was as if we all clung to moments, to the ideas and emotions personified by these objects. NOf course we do! We're SATANISTS!" he exclaim d, smiling broadly. No other explana tion was necessaiy. In the corner were banks of keyboards-synthesizers, samplers, and organs of eveiy shape and size. Doctor LaVey sat down and immediately began to play: marches and fanfares, waltzes and hymns, arabesque and fandango-from bump & grind to sentimental melody. Dr. LaVey's musical vocabulaiy was as vast and varied as his worldly knowledge. His playing had me laughing one moment and tears welling up in my eyes the next. We talked shop, shared trade secrets and he told more stories. He demonstrated the technique he contrived as an advisor for Vmcent Price in the Dr. Phibes films (whose main character was an organ• playing evil genius not-so-coincidentally named "Anton'). It was nearly six in the morning when our little soir e drew to a close and we began to say our good-byes.
The remarkable thing for me about this
meeting was the fact that Dr. LaVey seemed genuinely as happy to meet me as I was to meet him. What I had hoped for was an opportunity to listen to the man and learn more about him. I figured that if I was lucky I might get an opportunity to explain a bit about who I was and the things I did. To my surprise, I discovered that the Doctor was already quite aware of both. I was treated nei ther as pilgrim nor pupil, but as a peer. The conversation was by no means one-sided, and he appeared as interested in what I had to say

while sharing their work among those most likely to appreciate it. In this vein, Dr. LaVey had professed himself a great admirer of my music, and I nearly fainted. Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not the sort of person who craves compliments or requires any sort of outside qualification to feel that what I cre ate is worthwhile. On the contraiy, I have continued to do what I do in spite of both a
lack of acclamation and an overabundance of criticism. Nonetheless, when a figure who has been as influential in the evolution of my per sonal philosophy as Anton LaVey praises my work, the effect is, to say the least, unsettling.
By the end of our meeting I realized that it was our common interests and outlooks that had brought us together. While he remained a larger than life figure in my eyes, someone to whom I looked up, he looked back with the same respect and admiration I had shown for
him. If I had ever sought some reward for my work, this was more than enough.
Aswe prepared toleave, Dr. LaVey presented· me with a Church of Satan membership card. des ignating me a priest. We'd be honored tocountyou among our ranks Thomas" he stated. I
accepted the ordination. I felt a bit awkward, not even having been an official Church member prior to the meding. As if reading nw thoughts, he reminded me that rank within the organiz.ation is relative to our achievements in the real wodd and expressed his confidence that mine had been more than adequate fur priesthood. "Of course this is a mere formality," he added. "You've been doing the Devil's work furyears!"
As Dr. LaVey walked us toward the door, his two-year-old son Xerxes tugged at the leg of his trousers. "Dada, stay!" he crowed. The Doctor smiled and crouched to embrace his child and said "Don't you woriy. Dada isn't going anywhere. I'm staying right here with you." It was a touching moment, and I think about it when I selfishly wish I had had mor time with him myself. Then again, what he said was true. He hasn't really gone away. He has stayed right here, in our hearts. Right before I left the house, Dr. LaVey took my hand in both of his and, while staring me straight in the eye, said "Thomas, I just want you to remember one thing: I am

placing people who he trusted in positions of authority within the Church. The fact that he left me with such a powerful image of him and his belief in me is testimony to the sort of man he was and the determination with which he lived his life. I can't count the times I have found myself plagued by self-doubt or sheer frustration at the banality of this world and those who inhabit it, only to come back to that one simple statement. That single vote of con fidence will live forever in me, a constant
reminder of what it truly means to call one's
self a Satanist.
I went to this meeting with many questions about who and what Anton Szandor LaVey real ly was; aD of which were answered within the 6rst few minutes. The media and other mischie vous entities have consistently attempted to paint a picture of LaVey as a hater of rock music and rock musicians, a crotchety old man who denied
any connection to this new generation of Satanists and that which they create. Onthe con traiy, he knew that he had played an instrumen tal role in the insemination of Satanic images, themes, and in some instances philosophy into popular culture, rock music included. From Venom to Deicide, Marilyn Manson to The Eledric Hell6re Club, we have all been touched by his words and wisdom. There is no doubt in my mind that he was aware of what he had spawned through his work. He was our father, and we are his children. He would no sooner reject or deny us than he would his own son.
He lived many lives, and I am to this day grateful that I had this brief opportunity to learn from his experiences in person. Nonetheless, I have said before and will say again: Dr. LaVey wrote just as he spoke. Eveiy time I read something he wrote, I can hear him speaking. He lives on through that which he has left us. He will continue to speak for years to come, decades, perhaps even cen turies. That choice is ours. The torch has been passed. The future is in our hands.
As I celebrate my own life on this day each year, I will invariably relive this meeting and salute Dr. LaVey along with the gifts he
gave not only to me and my generation, but alsb to those yet to come.
August 22, 1999 ...

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In Tribute: Anton Lavey (1930-1997)
Rohert Lang and Diana DeMagu
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ations. As a result, he was able to subject him self to an environment of his choosing. He influenced history and built an immortal empire. A driving force within all Satanists.
All of our primacy goals have been accomplished through application of Satanic philosophy; goals that may have not been so easily obtained had Dr. LaVey not packaged it up so neatly and appropriately. We have much fun upholding and standing at the bat

ANY WONDROUS MEN
and women throughout his oiy have been influential to ur personal life. These peo le have stimulated us;
influencing us to achieve and create, conquer and destroy and above all to live and love life. Alexander The Great, Vlad Tepes, Nero, Cleopatra and Rasputin are but a few. Personalities such as Edward G. Robinson, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe and Vmcent Price. Writers the likes of H.P. Lovecraft,
Robert E. Howard, Edgar Allan Poe, Nietzsche and Mark Twain. Surprisingly, as great as these icons remain, we cannot profess to actu- . ally love them. After all, we did not know them on a personal basis.
, Why is it then that upon hearing the news of Dr. LaVey's death, we experienced such a abundant sad ness and feelings of deprivation? Why did my mate and I shed those tears? Why are we writing this? The answer is...we loved Anton LaVey, a man we never even met, yet felt as if we knew.

they do as a matter of fact!" I handed her my ten dollar bill and walked out the door. Strangely enough the cashier was smiling as I left. I kept the book beneath my mattress with my other forbidden tomes and read it whenev er the time was made available. In secrecy and while my parents were asleep on Easter I per formed my first ritual opening a Pandora's box of pleasures that has never ceased to provide me with delight to this day.
The encountering of some truly magnifi-

tlefront of the satanic empire. The Church of Satan has enriched our lives and provided Diana and I with a common bond many part ners can only dream of having.
These are the words we would have liked to say to Dr. LaVey personally; instead we say them to the part of him that lives within all of you I
The night we heard of Doktor's death, Diana and I brought outdoors Satan TakM a Holway, turned the volume loud and took a walk in our forest. It was foggy and the red pulsing lights from the twin
radio towers provided a film noire ambience as Anton's key boards resounded throughout the trees. We held hands, laughed, cried, celebrated his life with a toast of our favorite wine and when we emerged we were inspired more than ever to work towards our future.

Pater meus me dicabat, Dr. LaVey me dicabet bene. Hail Anton Szandor La.Vey! Long live the Satanic empire!

Few have had the capability There remains a fine' line
to be so loved by strangers; to between love and hate. We can
touch other peoples' lives the also hate those whom we have
way he has ours. To bring past never met. Those whose insecu-
and present together by pre- rity makes them vile. Those who
serving that which' he held would ride on Anton's coattails
dear to him. A true ecologist even in death. Those who have
to the end. been failures at all they have
Anton LaVey was no attempted. You have failed
stranger to me. I raised myself again! You know nothing ofloy-
on his philosophy since I was in alty and love. Unlike you who
my early teens. His stimulating would tiy to mar his name,
books, essays, music and videos Anton LaVey is a success. His

tempered with his wonderful

"Return to the Vold" by Robert Lang

works stand on his own merit.

sense of humor provided me with different He needs no defenders and no matter what insights while maturing and encouraged my cent people, who have become our dearest of you perceive to have stolen from him in death. creative and analytical mind, like fine tuning a friends, was the result of affiliation with The You will never obtain it. The truth is known. delicate instrument. I was finally able to iden- Church of Satan (Doktor's brainstorm!). What he has started will continue on by those tify with someone who saw the world the way Throughout the years, they have been a who are loyal to that vision. You who are not I did. For the first time in my life I realized source of what we like to refer to as a Satanic will be trampled beneath cloven hoof and will that I was a Satanist. I bought The Satanic Fix; providing encouragement, help and be resplendently impaled by our sacrifice BiMe around the age of thirteen. I remember inspirations in our continuing endeavors, and through vengeance we WILL rest!
the excitement of going into the bookstore to the sharing of ideas, interests and hobbies

purchase my first forbidden tome. A little alien to that of the herd. A true Cabal! nervous at whether or not the cashier would As an exemplar, Anton was King of his let me purchase it or not I slammed it down in kind. He lived a lifestyle we strive for. He defiance in front of her! "Do your parents alienated himself from the rush and quell of know you are buying this?" she said. "Yes humanity, making a living from his own ere-

Lex Talionis! Hail Blanche! Hail Xerxes! Hail Satan!

&Wtlil:i1;111:Wil:MW·

7 Chakras of the Black Pope by Lou Hutchinson
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Lik"e This With The Devil
ChriJtopher J. Turner

devoid of any creative spark that they can commit themselves unreservedly to ruining his name. In their hysterical campaigns to ''bring downn the Church of Satan, they con firm the power it holds over their lives. The attention that is paid to Anton LaVey's past and the momentum of his organization proves his influence more than any self-congratulat ing prose ever could. Why does it matter so

NTON LAVEY WAS A VERY
generous man.
Not only did he single-handedly make the world safe for Satan; he put on a great

they have no power of their own and seek it through others; in this case Anton Szandor LaVey, a figure they can never detach from or

much to them? Dr. LaVey has been accused of using Satanism simply for publicity in order to make a name and a quick buck for

show while doing it. In a city known for its colorful characters and unique oddities, Anton LaVey stood out-frightening some, inspiring others and always making a strong impression. His writings, recordings and other creations have inspired many people down the Dark Path, and embody a constant and immutable element of Western society the Faustian need to continually create no matter what obstacles arise. Regardless of

The Church of Satan is alive with
people committed to carrying that standard forward-to upholding what LaVey set into motion...

what those who criticize or nit-pick at
LaVey's life and legend say or do, nothing changes the fact that he provided (and continues
. to provide) many people with some small excite ment, intrigue and drama, . which they are mostly incapable of creating for themselves. And in terms · of creativ·e output, he· exemplified the standard he always said was the essence of Satanism: to be productive, creative, and self-directed. A lot of people can't stand that. It makes them feel inferior.
Anton LaVey was very generous in provid ing himself for parasites to latch onto and exploit. To disaffected anti-social illiterate losers, talk show
hosts, and"all those Great Black Magicians, LaVey's selfless gift grants a fleeting sense of smarmy moral richness to those who need it to get through the fa ade of another lie-infest ed day. On a different (yet so similar) front, many people have bought and continue to buy into the pentagram-fetishized delusion of power graciously provided them courtesy of the High Priest of the Church of Satan. They ignore the Doctor's repeated insistence that true power and self-mastery are innate, instinctual and carnal in the Higher Men and Women that comprise Hell's true citizenry and instead believe that labels are everything. The common denominator shared by those who are played into The Great Prank is that

purge from their own insensate being. LaVey has provided journalistic hacks with a grand target to further advance their own careers, and offered pseudo-occultniks the rejection no longer provided by the mainstream reli gious communities. And amid all this whim sical psychic mischief,.he initiated a danger ous new era where Satan could be respect fully and rightfully given his due. The cycles of time and their seasonal shifts move on as always, and Anton LaVey was a Magus, indeed the Magus attuned enough to tap into and activate the energy needed to inaugurate the modern Age of Satan.
Even in death, I;>r. LaVey continues to provide sustenance to those out there so

himself. His cntics are doing the same thing, only instead of thinking up their own angle, they're simply using the road Doctor paved decades before. Why? They finally know what he knew, that Satan is a volitional, motivating force, and therefore moves product and "makes good copy,n as Burton Wolfe put it•in the introduction to The
Satanic Bihk. How·does
Dr. LaVey, the "charlatan faker,n differ from his detractors? Simple: he lived a real life dedicated to creation and was open ly ego-driven in his deter mination to impose him self on the world-con sciousness. While these
ends might be desired by his enemies and imi tators, Dr. LaVey's difference is that he suc ceeded. He has a solid body of original, unique work behind him which, even if you reject the philosophical or religious elements of Satanism, is nonetheless compelling and reflective of modernity in all its Hellish tur moil. (Somehow his critics never actually dis cuss the writings, paintings, environments or music of Anton LaVey, preferring to hunt for gossip or inconsistencies in the legend of his life. The purpose of this is to obscure the actu al ideas he advanced in an attempt to bring LaVey down to their level. A typical distrac tion tactic commonly employed by politicians and Christian fund-raisers, among others) In

short, Anton LaVey is alive in his work. The Church of Satan is alive with people commit ted to carrying that standard forward-to upholding what LaVey set into motion and preserve it from the corruption that the @thy purveyors of The Lie would love to distill it with. It will survive and grow because nature demands continual resistance against disease and weakness-exactly the qualities of this age that we oppose and transcend.
Why will it survive? Because even if

spent their money (somehow I suspect that's exactly what he did). But I know firsthand that there are many of us in the Church of Satan who are attracted to and inspired by the sym bology of Satanism and use it as a tool to real ize creative ends through applied resonance. Beyond that, we work to extend our living wills beyond this mortal shell that serves as a palace of indulgence here in the Immediate. In short, we practice magic. We aren't going any where, no matter what fate befalls the Black

hell-bent against progress. It became obvious to me that everything that has been tagged "of the Devil" has been what pushed Western society forward, and that propagandists com mitted to the status quo have always worked hard to stop or silence these Demonic under currents. And of course no society can live without its Devils. After discovering this, I read all of Doctor's books and found that they not only said the same thing, but also organ ized a structured, rational and wondrous

every single charge leveled at Anton
LaVey was 100% true, it wouldn't change the fact that over the years, intelli gent, creative people have been inspired by him and signed on. Others validate the dream through the success of its applica tion. Also, people love a good story, and Dr. LaVey spun a great yarn. All of Docto 's detractors use a search for the truth" as a veil to obscure the very real and potent ideas he loosed upon the world. They are only committed to the "truth" when it serves their personal interests and grow angry when called out for being what they are: desperate zeros on a hopeless hunt for attention. People aren't after truth; they're after glory. So far as I can tell, this is a universal human tru ism in itself. These enemies of our Church believe that if they can get people to reject Anton LaVey's vision, they can then try to claim it as their own.

dogma around it, and as a bonus, included the jaded, misan thropic and cynical humor that was his trademark. That was enough for me. I saw to it that Hell on Earth's only official membership roll had my name on it. I made my Pact and I'm keeping it.
I offer all this both as a tribute to a unique and inspiring man, and in hopes of offering a solid per spective regarding the future of the Church of Satan, and the real motives behind those who criticize it. Anton LaVey did the impossible; he made religion both rational and fun." He also demanded that what most would rather hide from themselves be not only seen, but allowed its diabolical voice. Nothing can change that. There's no going back.
I am not a man of faith or icons. I would sooner put my faith in
a bowl of ice cream than I would a God, a Devil, or the legend of

They are wrong, and the sorry sideshow they make of themselves is just another prank the Doc couldn't help but play.
If the Church of Satan were nothing
more than the Anton LaVey Fan Club, then it wouldn't be strong enough to survive his death. The personality cultists and the silly fools who thought that getting a little red card would suddenly give them an identity and power are going to have to find something new to do with themselves. I hope Doctor laughed long and hard at those types . and guiltlessly

tfouse, or whatever negative press the weak lings spin to help ease their own dissatisfaction for a moment. The legend exists and will con tinue to inspire Hell's cruel, brilliant minority. That's what matters.
For myself, I realized that the Devil was a damn good role model by studying history. So often throughout the centuries, innovators, artists, scientists, craftsmen and other true progressives have been accused of doing the "Devil's Work" by the Christian Church, who are committed to a stern and humorless God

another man. That alone is more Satanic than a hundred red cards, Baphomets and inverted crosses, which is exactly what Anton LaVey said all along to any with ears to Hear and eyes to See. I am proud to praise him, and proud to hail those who continue consorting with the Demons he loosed among us.
Anton LaVey may be gone, but we haven't heard the last from him. As long as that Flame burns within the heart of man, the Show will go onI ...

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·The Kabinet of Doktor Lavey
Magif ter Clifford CMe

sacrilege to prefer the callipygian Rubenesque female form, as opposed to the Playboy bunny, I know what I like. All the more if she is aware of the Law of the Forbidden and wearing hirsute. With a lubricious leer, Doktor passed on a few words of Cyrenaic wisdom. "Give satisfaction to your sensibili ties. The madness of desire, lust, greed, anger,

FIER BECOMING A .MEMBER
of the Church of Satan, it has been my good fortune to have had a number of nocturnal ren dezvous with Doktor LaVey.
During my travels as a merchant seaman over the past twenty years, I have had occasion to pass through San Francisco on flights to catch a ship or check in at the Seafarer's Union hall. After my first meeting with Dr. LaVey in the mid '70's, which lasted from twilight to dawn's early light, I was always welcome in his lair. I would make arrangements to meet with Doktor at Dante's on Fisherman's Wharf or a restaurant in the North Beach area he frequented. We would enjoy an epicu
rian feast of surf and turf, maine lobster and Cajun steak. After satisfying our gusto we would repair to the Black House on California Street. We were met in the dark hallway entrance by his familiar, a bull terrier. There were other animals as the years went by.
We entered the Stygian library where he switched on a gloomy lamp over his favorite chair. After indulging in libation to the Devil, we relaxed around a glass coffee table support ed by a mermaid. The shadowy room became a Plato's cave for me as he talked in low and even tones. He scourged the human waves of mediocrity that assailed the Church of Satan. He mocked the bedeviled herd with the pierc ing cunning of his analysis. The herd is enslaved by its own virtues. The truth hurts, he observed, and truth begets hatred. I know how cruel the truth is and often the delusion is more consoling. Puritanism is not morality, but a psychic disorder. He exposed those responsible for "Satanic Panic" as emotional ly unstable people that went off the deep end, thus creating a lemming effect.
Sometime after the witching hour, I was invited into the kabinet of Doktor LaVey. There, I recognized an eight-strand braid, black cincture draped across. the ends of the keyboards. It was a gift I had given him on his birthday, some years ago. He sat down and began to conjure the muse Euterpe. This was

an unexpected treat. The icy church atmos phere was charged with fulgurous flame. Toccata and Fugue burst forth with Luciferian intensity. With sinistral artistxy he evoked his demonic, acrid harmonies, poly
phonic variations and fugue-like flights from the other side of good and evil. Then a change of pace to circus calliope, marches and hauntingly sentimental medleys. My appreciation for strange music has been enhanced 1010• I had the foresight to bring some blank tapes. Now I may evoke the Doktor's spirit at will.
On one occasion, after our usual hearty meal at a North Beach bistro, the conversation got around to such com mon interests as weapon ry and women. He pulled
from his belt a stainless stell claw-shaped knife called the Harpy-a fitting name for such a nasty looking weapon. Just so happened I had one in my waist band as well. We were on the same wave length. Some cutlery shops refuse to carry the Harpy. The Doktor had a nice col lection of firearms as well. I had just bought a Smith and Wesson
.44 special at the San Francisco Gun Exchange, a G. Gordon Liddy recom mendation. The Doktor
called it a pocket rocket. After returning to the Black House that night, he displayed his favorite sidearm, a Walther P38, among oth ers of his collection. He invited me out to his country place for some target practice. Much to my regret, I had to leave on a jet plane to catch a ship.
We shared a taste for the human quality in the earthy art of Reginald Marsh and the sensual paintings of Rubens. While it may be

the most unreasonable of passions, all are wis dom and reason since they are a part of the order of nature. A Satanist is a man attuned to his own nature." Then, with a sharp, cunning sneer of the cynical libertine, he spoke in a low monotone: "Satanism separates the egoist from the egotist. Your ego is not free if you allow your vices and virtues to enslave it. The intellect has too long ruled, it is the will-that old-fashioned will, to exercise itself to the utmost. Do what you will.Develop your instincts to the uttermost. Life is a bloody struggle for survival. Be advised, might con quers right, ergo, might is right. 'Tis a lovely thing to know a thing or two." Doktor LaVey is my ego ideal.
I had been collecting epigrams with a cer tain Satanic slant for a few years and occasion ally they were published in The Cwven Hoof. Doktor LaVey suggested I make them into a book. I published them in 1977 titled The Occult Book of Dia/Jolik Knowl.edge. I received orders from all over the world. He advised me to change the name to The Occult Book of Saianic Wi.1dom. This is a work in progress now.
At another time in San Francisco I had
been browsing at the San Francisco Gun Exchange when I saw the Fairb.rirn Applegate Combat Smatchet. I bought one of a series of 200. That evening, I met the Doktor for our usual ritual at the Black House. I did the "Crocodile Dundee" thing. "Doktor, do you have a knife with you?" He drew his Harpy and I drew my Combat Smatchet. "That's not a knife. THIS is a knife I" He must have been intrigued with it. The
next time I saw one it was on the front cover of The NOde magazine; the Doktor had a Combat Smatchet in his right fist.
Doktor LaVey has enriched my life in so many ways with music and art appreciation and the general pursuit of the mystery of living as an outsider. This pursuit of curiosity will last all the rest of my life, and for this I am forever grateful. .....

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Heart of the Lion, Eye of the Snake
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was squeezing her lungs and stiffening her legs. When this happened, I'd watch Dr. LaVey get down on the floor beside this mon ster of a dog, place his hands on her face, stroke her head, and in his own gravely voice, mutter to her: "Go'sleep. Go'sleep, Bathory. Good dog. Good dog." He wanted to help her end her suffering but detested the idea of bringing her out of her own environment to a vet. His own pain was very evident.

T NEVER OCCURRED TO ME,
during the precious years I had with him, that one day I'd be writing a trib ute to Anton LaVey, my teacher and friend. I've written many words about
him, of course, in letters and essays in which I'd attempt to explain him and his work to others, Satanists and otherwise. But a tribute to a man who seemed so vitally alive every time I spoke with him, every time I looked into the glittering obsidian depths of his eyes? Surely his body of work, literary, musical, artistic, all speaks volumes of tribute. But here I am nonetheless.
I could choose any number of subjects to focus upon in this tribute. As I'm always say ing, the things Doctor told me· about women and men, music and food, build ings and cars, books and the weather, all prove to be more and more accurate as the years wear on and my experience of the world gets wider. And frankly, I'm not sure I want to share all these precious con versations with the world at large, and the Doctor would have echoed this sentiment.
There were moments, secrets, revelations that I think I1I keep to myself for awhile. There is one area of Dr. LaVey's personal ity, however, upon which I'm happy to shed further light.
The first time I had occasion to meet with Anton LaVey, he told me: "The animals must be our gurus now." I've probably become something of a bore on this subject, but those words have rung so true for me over the years that I can't help wanting to share them with other Satanists on a regular basis. What LaVey is reminding us is that Man is just another animal, and that every time we tie ourselves into.intellectual knots on one issue or another, we. really ought to take a look at what an animal would do, how it would react, what priorities might apply.
LaVey spent a lot of time studying ani mals; he worked with them and shared his life and home with them. He knew something about almost every species you'd mention; he could find something Satanic in the behavior of a cat, a spider, a reptile or a bird.
I'm particularly compelled to share my experiences of LaVey and his behavior and attitude toward his own animals and those of others in light of certain accusations that he abused his animals. Consider that the source for all this is his youngest daughter, alongside

the fact that his oldest daughter, the one who'd been with him the longest, boarded her own pet with him whenever she was out of town. I'm willing to state here and for the record that of all the tall tales told about Anton LaVey, the accusation of animal abuse is certainly the most preposterous. It's a lot of malarkey, kids. And since these accusations malign LaVey in a manner calculated to hor rify his followers on a matter we hold very close to our hearts-our pets, our household animal friends-you have to recognize them for what they are.
On my first visit to the Black House, I met Bathory, Zambezi, Cromwell and Boaz. Bathory was a female wolf mix dog, large and

dark, who spent most of her time guarding the front hallway. She'd wait behind the front door when we'd return, growling deeply, and it was only LaVey's voice that would calm her to the point where we could safely open the door. Even then, guests were instructed to inch past her, not petting or speaking to her. She was a bristly old thing, in her latter years and only interested in her Master and the nice lady who put her food bowl down. Her barks and growls terrified would-be intruders. LaVey clearly loved her, would stroke her face and head as he passed through her domain. During a subsequent visit, maybe a year or two later, Bathory was dying. Dr. LaVey had acquired drip pans at the auto parts store and placed them with newspapers in the front hall so Bathory could do her busi ness without having to make the climb up and down the front steps. She spent most of her time sleeping, and her breathing grew more labored as each day passed. She'd sometimes become agitated, as if she was fighting off death, fighting off this creeping coldness that

Cromwell was a fluffy Maine coon cat who lived with his adopted brothers in the kitchen area of the house; he's remembered by most of the ladies who visited there as the kitty with the big catcher's-mitt paws who liked to slowly and playfully reeeaccch for your nylons. He also deposited his downy hair everywhere, including the Doc's keyboards, but LaVey never seemed very perturbed by this; it was just part of the environment, and Cromwell was a citizen with equal rights whose hair would simply have to be tolerated. Hence the frequent use of the sticky-roller before we all piled into the cars for a late din ner or breakfast. Cromwell's hair would often knot up into what we pet owners call "mats." Luckily, he had a favorite Priestess who would brush him during her visits, and the Doc was very pleased with this kind of use
ful Satanic service on his behalf. Cromwell passed away right around the time his Master did.
The Doctor would only describe Zambezi as "a jungle cat." He is small, but his coat is golden like a cougar's, with the sort of fluffy, caramel-colored belly fur you only see on wild felines. He is quixot ic, very affectionate but capricious; .he would test Doctor's patience by running across the keyboards and resetting all the synthesizers. "Damn it, Zambezi!" you'd
hear from the kitchen, then Doctor would mutter something about letting the cat com pose his own music. His favorite place in the kitchen was always atop the snake cage, flicking his tail and looking winsomely at his audience. One night during our visits when Zambezi was still young, he was allowed out into the parlor and Doctor played with him for well over an hour, tossing him little balls of paper that the cat would retrieve from the end of the long front hallway.
Boaz is a boa constrictor; during his time at the Black House, he lived in a warm cage that was installed above the computer table in the kitchen, to one side of the array of synths. He would often raise his head and bob it back and forth during one of Doctor's concerts. High Priestess Barton would sometimes remove him from his cage and hold him around her shoulders, swaying back and forth and letting him climb from one visitor's neck to the next while Doctor played some appro priate tunes. I watched Doc talk to Boaz, and about Boaz, one night when dawn was press-

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. ing on the windows. His own mysterious eyes had a faraway look as he contemplated the snake, who regarded him similarly. "Boaz," he whispered in that hoarse, primal voice we all . loved so much, "what time is it?" The snake just flicked its tongue at him. "That's right, Boaz. It's mouse time. Mouse time." Doc turned and looked at me. "He can wait," he said. "He makes a game of waiting. And he'll be hungry, too. It'll be so long since his last

Towards The Well-Known Region
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mouse, he'd have to be starving. But he'll wait. He lays there so still, while the mouse runs all over the cage. And then suddenly, out of nowhere, he'll strike so fast, like lightning, and the mouse is gone. It's beautiful to watch." Doc settled back into his chair, look ing down in the way we all became so familiar with, his eyes hooded, his own body com pletely still. Then he muttered, "It's wolf time now. But when wolf time is over, it's time for the reptile. Time for the sudden strike."
One night on our way to dinner, one of us remarked that there was a spider on the car door as she opened it. Dr. LaVey jumped out from his own seat behind the wheel, and walked swiftly to the other side of the vehicle. "Be careful, be careful," he cautioned, and placed his hand where the young lady point ed, encouraging the little spider to hop aboard. When the creature had crawled up his finger, LaVey walked over to the nearest tree, and again placed his hand there until the spider had disembarked.
Dr. LaVey loved to tell stories about the pets in his past; he regarded each one of them · as a friend, a family member who had unfor tunately passed out of his life. Even though I never met Typhon, his bull terrier, or Klaxon the black cat, I can recognize them in photos from his frequent tales and descriptions of these favorites. I never heard anything in his voice that didn't indicate that he had the high est regard for animal life, that it meant as much to him as it did to me. Did Anton LaVey get angry? You bet he did, but never at an ani mal, as far as I could tell. Animals were only being themselves; even when they did things that annoyed the Hell out of you, it was only because your human constructs interfered with their natural behavior.
Going over these memories makes me sad, because it reminds me of how much I miss my teacher and friend, and how I'll spend the rest of my life thinking, "I wish the Doc could hear this, tell me what he thinks about that." But it also reminds me of how fortunate I was to have this opportunity to spend time with LaVey, to learn from him, to look into his eyes and see him looking back at me, as scary as that could be sometimes. I'm determined to share the truth of what I learned and experienced with others who matter, and who would have mattered to LaVey. I think he would have wanted you to know the real deal. ....

STILL MISS HIM, MY FRIEND,
mentor and colleague. Much comes within my purview that I would have delightedly brought to his attention, to cause him to smile, to scowl, to com
miserate, or to laugh. He remains so vividly in my consciousness, and I know it shall be ever thus. He shared his vital existence with me, and I am fortunate to have been so honored.
Now, fellow Satanists, it is time to share with you all something that he knew and which shouldn't be a secret: Satanism is for the living. And living well is always the best revenge-though we won't discount the satis faction of turning our
enemy's eustress into distress. Our mission is Lex Talionis!
None of us has let our grief stop us from doing what we must, as we flow with the eddies of that Dark current which perme ates and motivates ALL, so clearly seen and etched by Dr. LaVey in his words and deeds.
But since his passing, we've noted (the stench is unavoidable) the inevitable dog and pony shows that have set up traps and kiesters, attempting, ever so feebly, to distract us from our full lives, to obscure the crystal clarity of Anton LaVey's words, and to lure
the bewildered into giving them the unearned. We remain acutely aware of histoiy, particularly concerning religious movements, and have thus seen it all before-we do undemand the nature of the human beast, after all. and watch with amused contempt. We have a map of this well-trodden ground, and there have as yet been no hidden val leys in the landscape.
The pretenders to the throne began years ago, claiming Anton LaVey somehow betrayed the Prince of Darkness, who with drew his mandate. Such silliness. This idea (and so very revealing of those who would utter it), that the Prince of Darkness gives anyone a mandate through direct communica tion, and would be an entity who would con cern itself with such petty human affairs (but we have heard that tale oft before) is com pletely foreign to Satanic thinking. Satanists know that they are Satanists, with every

breath they breathe, with every beat of their heart, with every thought that flashes through the firmament of their intelligence, and with every act of justice. That is all the mandate they need. Real Satanists don't need "initiato ry institutions" to grant them a pedigree they know in their very flesh from the start that they are one with the Unbounded Darkness. There is no question, no need of opening up a connection. It is either there, as it is in all carnal animals, or it is not, because your nature is that of a broken thing, a seeker after something without to complete an interi or lacking. Such poor creatures who feel out
side of nature (and they are) will always place some sort of God above them. They might claim to be "Satanists," or "evolved Satanists," or the ones to "return to Anton LaVey's original teach ings" (though when viewed, there is noth ing in LaVey's writings to support these claims). They are not
.. capable of knowing in
their very sinews, that they are indeed God, and don't need to tilt at windmills in a quest to "become" a God. Satanists are always becom ing, as they flow with the Dark Force, just as they move according to the laws of physics. No revelations needed. Simple as falling off a log. As has been said: if you are a Satanist-no explanation is needed, if you aren't-no expla nation is possible.
This shabby sideshow has recently spawned additional "attractions." You will easily find bloated barkers shouting from their soapboxes that Anton LaVey betrayed his original concepts-the brilliant insights that caused him to give the proper name to a human type that has always been part of our species-or that his chosen successors have somehow strayed from the true mission that began the First Church of Satan. As if they ever knew what this was in the first place, having never even met or communicated directly with Anton LaVey. But the truth will out for any with consciousness to grasp. Just read Anton LaVey's very direct words for yourself, and then look at the hard evidence. Those who point you towards a belief in

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"celestial higher intelligences" as being a part of Anton LaVey's seminal definition of Satanism are counting on your lack of intelli gence, higher or lower. Those clamoring for Satanists to band together in a "community," to work for specific sociopolitical ends, to be "one big happy family (hug)" are simply look ing to place themselves in a spotlight, which they are counting on you to cast upon their sony selves.
There are those who will claim that the Church of Satan is no longer a vehicle for the realization of the destiny of those who clearly see and consciously acknowledge their kin ship with the Lord of this World. Nonsense. Such prattle comes only from those who have shamed our institution through past ill-calcu lated antics, and now must txy to cleanse themselves through distance from the only legitimate cabal. They fail to realize it is they, not the Church of Satan, that failed, and they are simply cutting themselves off from the source. Their choice. As outcasts by their own hand, they cannot know of the many who still come to us, who are proud to make allegiance with the body created by the man who gave a proper name to their true nature, and who move society by their potent deeds in directions that other Satanists will savor. We haven't locked the door through which they've chosen to exit. It will remain open for those who are part of our tribe-errors of impulsiveness may be corrected.
It is a mistake to believe that one must be a member of the Church of Satan to be a Satanist. We have never said that-how could we? Satanism is yours by birth, and obtaining a membership card will neither confirm nor deny the nature that you bear in your flesh. Anton LaVey accurately named and clearly defined an existing reality. And he thus acknowledged that Satanists have always been a part of society, the carnal animals who see more clearly and open the way for the oth ers who do not share in their Undefiled Wisdom. And Satanists always find a means

What membership does confirm, is that you have acknowledged Anton LaVey's terminology for what you are and that you wish allegiance with others who have done the same. Your card is a key, a sign to others in the cabal (recall the secret hand-signals of other underground societies?), that will

as what burned so brightly within him is blaz ing furiously in the hearts and minds of his true heirs, wherever they are to be found. We're busy making maps of those yet unknown regions, as it is in our nature to explore and expand upon our grasp of the ALL. And we apply that knowledge, with sur-

for prospering in whatever society exists they don't waste time in pining for some ideal that can never be obtained. Let the sheep be lead by those-who paint an impossible vision, who will perish amidst plenty, wasting their efforts for a pipe-dream, whether it be spiritu al or sociopolitical.
Satanists are not seeking saviors, which

...Satanists have always been a part of society,
the carnal anirnals who see more clearly and open the way for the others who do not share in their Undefiled Wisdom.

is why we have opted out of the majority of doctrines offered by the rest of the world's religions. We look with particular contempt on those who approach us, offering their (always unproven) "talents" towards advancing Satanism from what they, as outsiders, perceive as stasis. If they only knew. But they can't, and they will move on to those who ciy out for direction-lem mings have never been in short supply, whether they wear crosses or pentagrams.

open doors for those who have the where withal to deliver the goods. But the card is not a mask. It will not hide the true nature of those who would pretend to the majesty of Satan.
Such is as obvious to us as that informed smile that limned the visage of Anton Szandor LaVey. And more so than any symbol or sigil, this is the real ensign of the Satanist, who embraces life to the fullest and moves within the Devil's fane. Anton LaVey is with us still,

gical accuracy towards the ends of our choice. That is but one of the many pleasures that comprise our chosen indulgences.
The Church of Satan is our standard, held high and proudly calling our brethren as it whips about in darkling fuiy. It remains the rallying point for those who dare to live with a fullness that makes the timid cower. The world is ours for the taking, as it always has been-so pardon our boarding house reach as we grab what belongs to us. ....

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the Appendices of Hogshire's handy volume; the author also instructs the reader on how to obtain those collectable back issues. Trip to the Wynn Dixie, anyone?

By Peggy Nadramia

What follows is a compendium of the publications, Satanic and otherwise, that we've received in this office since we last published The Black Flame. Since that has been a rather lengthy amount of time, it is highly recommended that you write to the editors first, ascertaining current prices and availabil ity. Even if a magazine is no longer available, we are mentioning it here for your information, and to maintain a timeline of Satanic activity and ideas.

'Ille X-Rated Bible: An lmwerent SUney of Sex In the Scriptures, by Ben Edward Akerley. ISBN 0-922915-55-5, trade paper back, 269 pages, illustrated, $14.95; Los Angeles, 1998.
Originally published by the American Atheists, this book is something no Satanist should be without, especially if you're one of the obnoxious types who likes to quote the Bible back at Christians in person and in print. There are chapters on nudity, homosexuality, bestiality, prostitution, sexual mutilation-oh, the fun never ends, and the little woodcut illustrations are fine.

BOOKS
'Ille Kasldah of Naji Abdu EI-Yezdl, pub lished by Michael Rose, 1998; available for $6 US/$8 foreign, from Michael Rose, P. 0. Box 14 t3, Decatur, AL 35602-14 t3.
In reality, this piece, in the form of an epic poem, is the work of Sir Richard Francis Burton, a noted traveler and de-facto Satanist who brought The Arabian Nights and The Kama Sutra to Western minds. In the Kasidah, Burton con templates doubt about the faith of his fathers and that of the world around him; e holds it all to be false, yet simultaneously "true• to those weak enough to indulge In it. Burton follows Man from happy beast to one shackled by Code and Creed. Rose's little digest-sized volume repro duces an old typesetting of the poem with love ly Byzantine borders; definitely an item to include on your Satanic bookshelf. To quote the author: "These echoes of a voice long-stilled, haply shall wake responsive strain7

The Mlllennlum: Aspects From Another Angle, by George Sprague. ISBN 1-57502- 634-1, trade paperback, 62 pages, $8.95; Mesquite, TX, 1999. Order from: George Sprague, P. 0. Box 852943, Mesquite, TX 75185-2943.
Rev. Sprague tackles the millennium from a Satanic, and ultimately very rational and sardonic, perspective, flipping through the views of many radical religious groups and pondering their inconsistencies. While you may feel that last New Year's was the biggest flop of the century-didn't even get to break out that water and dried food you've been hoarding-you'll still get a chuckle out of Sprague's overview. "You can't reason with an idiot,• he observes. Words to live by...

The Conqueror Manifesto, by Peter G. Helmkamp, available from Of God's Disgrace Publishing, P. 0. Box 8458, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3S1. Make international money order payable to H. Macfarlane, or send well-hidden cash.
This little black book is perfect-bound with

a silver foil stamped cover. It is basically an invective, declaring the existence of the Serpent Race and adjuring its members to get off their butts and seek Godhood through Heretic Supremacy. Among the Appendices is Magistra Tani Jantsang's article, "Sat Tan7

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PIiis-A-Go-Go: A Flenclsh lmesdgadon Into PIH Mllltl:edng, An, History and Consumpllon, by Jim Hogshlre. ISBN 0-922915-53-9, full sized trade paperback, 256 pages, heavily illus trated, $16.95; Los Angeles, 1999.
Wow! This compendium of all things lozenge-like was born from the author's own 'zine of the same name, and his knowledge is ency clopedic. Ads and photos pop from every page. I was especially interested in the drugs for men strual pain, wliich were invented in the days when this was largely thought to be "non-organic," or all in a girl's head. The ad for Gynorest shows a pre teener stuffing both hands into her crotch and smiling rather goofily into space. Cramps or mas turbation? Drug laws, pill history, an explanation of those "secret codes" on prescriptions, rape drugs, and an extensive listing of source material round out this exhaustive collection.

Grossed OUt surgeon Vomits Inside Patient: An Insider's Look at 5upermart&:et Tabloids, by Jim Hogshire. ISBN 0-922915-42-3, trade paperback, 147
pages, $12.95; Los Angeles, October 1997. you know them, you love them, you espe
cially adore the articles about Satan being spot ted in a cloud formation, on a burnt piece of toast or captured by monks in a remote Spanish village. Now learn how the writers get those sto ries, as well as how these recurrent themes and obsessions reflect on our society as a whole and Americans in particular. The tabs have been instrumental at times in planting and promoting propaganda, and you can view actual memos in

An invaluable index is included.

Sex American Style: An Illustrated Romp lbrough the Golden Age of Heterosexuality, by Jack Boulware. ISBN 0- 922915-46-6, full-sized paperback, 247 pages,
$16.95; Los Angeles, 1997.
This is a scrapbook of the free-sex culture that overwhelmed the media in the '60's and '70's; if you were around, even as a youngster, you were a part of it. Photos and reproductions of advertising fill the pages here; I was fondly reminded of the Pussycat Theater and that giant eyeball over the old Show World peep parlor. The author leaves no stone unturned, reviewing the history of TV shows, films, music albums, tabloids, paperback fiction and how-to books that considered every side of heterosexuality, and then some. The explosion of birth control and VD clinics, sex toys, wife-swapping and porn, porn, porn are examined at length. One fact, at least, becomes overwhelmingly clear when viewing the many photos: breasts were real, and the stan dards for nude beauty were nothing near the rigid, surgically-maintained ideals of today. This book is fun, and a must-have for anyone decorat ing his total environment in a 70's love-pad theme. Let it all hang out, baby!

Slnlwwelpeter: Fearfill Slottes and VIie Plaures to Instruct Good Uttle Folks, by Heinrich Hoffman, Illustrations by Sarita Vendetta. ISBN 0-922915-52-0. Full-sized paperback, color illustrations, 176 pages, $24; Los Angeles, 1999.
Hoffman, the director of an insane asylum, wrote these stories in 1844 to instruct his small son in the proper manners of living. The charac ters who illustrate the many bad habits and faults are both fascinating and repellent. Vendetta's illustrations bring them sordidly to life. It seems this volume became quite popular in its day, engendering a propagandistic parody by the WW II British intelligence, entitled "StruwwelHitler.• It is included herein for your edification. If you are partial to Edward Gorey like stories of mean children and always enjoy

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the grimmest of fairy tales, this cup brims for you. Besides that, it is a lovely thing; the skull and-scissors endpapers are especially attractive.

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Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
Founded in 1970 by Peter Lund and Robert K Brown (who would later move on to publish Soldier of Fortune magazine> Paladin Press first specialized in military action/adventure books of the non-fiction type. With an initial stock of main ly reprints of hard-to-find military manuals, Paladin Press eventually expanded its list to offer original titles covering paramilitary interests and beyond. Now, 30 years later, Paladin is clearly at the forefront of a publishing genre that has seen its share of hits, misses, and Paladin wannabees. Paladin Press has become a virtual library on every aspect of the art and science of war, both physical and psychological. Paladin's catalog offers practical field manuals starting at just a few dollars all the way up to pricey text books and
. videos, too (this reviewer notes that Paladin is breaking into software as welll.
Subjects covered in Paladin's catalog include: survival, martial arts, knives and firearms, personal and financial autonomy, Spy Tech., Police Science, etc. Be aware that Paladin's list includes many titles that are clearly intended for educational use only and it would not be the first time that someone was incrimi nated for possession of one of their more infa mous titles. Although their web site is convenient and looking better and better with every visit, I recommend their hard copy catalog. After you are done salivating over their extensive list and reviews of not-always-so-easy-to-find books and instructional videos, your Paladin Press catalog will look great on top of your covert coffee table or included with your stack of SOF in your bath room magazine rack. Included below are just some of the titles available the world's largest and most respected publishers of action titles.

Contingency ca¦albllHsm: SUperllankore SUnlvallsm's DIiiy Little Secret, by Shlguro Takada. ISBN 1-58160-025-9. Trade paper
back, 152 pages; Boulder, 1999.
Peggy Nadromia, reviewer.
Do you get a little thrill at the thought of consuming "long pig"? Then this book is for you.

The author explores the facts and fiction about cannibalism and takes a took at the most famous incidents of survival cannibalism and wartime eating of "the monkey meae Purely for entertainment purposes, he includes recipes, wine suggestions and a butcher's chart.

Scams Jl.:rOIII the Great Beyond: How to Malae Easy Money Off.•.New Age Nonsense, by Peter Huston. ISBN 0-87364-912-5. Trade
paperback, 200 pages; Boulder, 1997.
Peggy Nadramia, reviewer.
If you've ever wondered how practitioners "get into· promoting cracked theories and wacky religions, the answer is simple: the dough-re-mi. Huston exposes what's behind all those spoon-bending crop-circling tricksters and even tells you how to start your own cattle mutilation scare, for entertainment purposes only, of course. If you already have people ask ing you to cast spells for them because they've heard you're kind of "witchy," well, here's how to capitalize on it. Now repeat after me: "Energizing... Experiential... Synergistic .. ."

Skid Row Beat: A Slreel Cep's walk on the WIid Side, by Loren W. Christensen. ISBN 1-58160-012-7. Trade paperback, 189
pages; Boulder, 1999.
Peggy Nadramia, reviewer.
Christensen provides us with a lengthy compendium of cop stories, all taken from his days patrolling a skid row neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Each tale is no more than a couple of pages long, and they are grouped by the main thrust of their subject matter: sex, vio lence, bodily excretions, etc. Some are funny, others are touching, most are gritty. This·little book makes great reading and a is a thoughtful gift for the mope who has everything.

Knights of Daltmess: Secrets of the Worttl's Deadliest Night Flghten, by Dr. Haha Lung. ISBN 0-87364-971-0. $14.00, soft
cover, illustrated, 160 pages; Boulder, 1998.
Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
From the man who brought us such titles as The Ancient Art of Strangulation Dr. Lung takes us on an in-depth look at the true dark side of humanity: the world of night fighting and the elite groups who have made this their modus operan di. Drawing on techniques and traditions rang ing from the ancient Japanese Ninja and Teutonic Berserkers to contemporary military Special Forces and the criminal underworld, the author discusses unconventional, yet practical, methods of night time and low light combat Topics covered here are the history and devel opment of night fighting, the psychology of low light operations, physical training, basic proce dures in reconnaissance, perimeter, structural, and other "obstacle" assaults, and the various paraphernalia and weapons best suited for such tasks. Both entertaining and practical, this is an excellent primer (as well as a handy training

manual) to elite and unconventional warfare.

The Safe House: Setting Up and Running your OWn Sanctuary, by Jefferson Mack. ISBN 0-87364-989-3.
$18.00, softcover, 96 pages; Boulder, 1998.
Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
The Feels use them. Criminals use them. Diplomats and mercenaries depend on them. Is it safe? No, I mean is it SAFE? After you read this book you may ask yourself the same ques tion as you decide whether or not that structure you call your home and the situation you are liv ing under is truly outside the prying eyes of those who would rain on your parade (or what ever you might be doing in your basement workshop). The Safe House has often played an intricate part in covert operations, both legal and illegal, throughout history. While both gov ernment agencies and revolutionaries alike have used these hide-outs to protect witnesses, evade search and detection, or just as place to catch your breath and get a shave and a show er, chances are you will never notice them. That house across the street might be one or the flower shop on the corner could be a front for any thing and any activity one might want to keep hidden from anyone who might want to know. The real point of this practical guide is that you too can run and maintain your very own Safe House and the author goes into great detail on how to accomplish this: who needs a safe house, planning and construction Un most cases you will not need to hire a contractor>, use of human resources, hiding out on your own, practical alternatives to actual construction or purchase, covering your tracks and becom ing virtually Invisible while hiding in plain sight, as well as a look at both best and worse case scenarios. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to keep the "Jones's" (or Big Brother) from keeping up with them.

Techniques In Counter SUnelllance: The Fine An of Bug Extermination In the Real Wortd of Intelligence Gathering, by Marinelli Companies. ISBN 1-58160-020-8.
$18.00,solla:M!r, ltl:s1rated, 120 pages; Bot.tier, 1999.
Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
As a practical field guide to personal secu rity and Counter-Spy Tech this book is an excel lent companion to The Safe House by Jefferson Mack <see above review> and is a must-have manual for anyone concerned with surreptitious eavesdropping and unwanted visual observa tion on· their private lives. Covering everything from basic everyday security measures, easily conducted by the average citizen, to more advanced techniques in electronic guards and surveillance countermeasures used in high end industrial espionage, the author discusses the use, detection, and disabling of telephone taps and radio frequency bugs, the placement of
intrusion alarms, as well as information for those who wish to go into the business of bug exter-

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mination ·for themselves. Also included in this book are diagrams and construction plans for building simple counter-surveillance devices and a helpful section of uses and reviews of commer cially available products. Reasonably priced and written in layman's terms, this book will make a
great source of information to anyone wishing to spray for bugs or swat that fly on the wall.

llle Greatest Karate Fighter Of All nme: Joe Lewis and His American Karate System, by Joe Lewis and Dr. Jerry Beasley. ISBN 0-87364-981-8; $20.00, softcover, pho tos, 104 pages; Boulder, 1998.
Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
Written in a somewhat abrasive and in your-face style, I was at first a little irritated by Joe Lewis's less-than-humble recollection of the events which led up to his being known as the founder of American full-contact Karate. The book covers his exploits from his early days as a US Marine in Okinawa where he first took a serious interest in Karate and earned his black belt in a relatively short period of time, and his rubbing elbows, punches, and kicks with martial arts legends such as Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, to his introduction of full contact kickbox ing to the United States, his high-profile career as a consultant and actor in many action films and his being recognized world wide as one of the greatest Karate fighters of all time. There are braggarts and then there are those who have earned bragging rights and although I will leave it up to the reader to decide which side of a roundhouse kick Joe Lewis falls on, if he had only accomplished half of what he claims then his bite is far worse than his bark.
Joe.Lewis literally and figuratively pulls no punches as he describes his full contact career as a series of legally sanctioned sports-related beatings he administered to the competition while co-author and partner Jerry Beasley sup plements Lewis's accounts with a sober and fact-based timeline that more than supports Joe's personal history. Although this book might have stood on its own as a biography, the authors have included equally fascinating sec tions on Lewis's theory and practices (with an emphasis on practice) of his developed system of full-contact Karate, both as self-defense and as a competitive sport. It may take some time for the reader to feel comfortable with this book, but I think that after a while you'll learn to appreciate the history and practice of a guy who writes like he fights-in a down-to-earth style without a lot of the pretentious one-armed drunken monkey martial arts mysticism that seems to pervade many books of this type.

11le Ultimate Internet Terrorist: How Hacken, Geeks, and Phreaks can Ruin your Trip on the Information SUperhlghway_ and What you can Do
to Protect )'ourself, by Robert Merkle. ISBN 0-87364-970-2; $18.00, softcover, 152

pages; Boulder, 1998.
Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
Malicious hacker and reputed former <?> member of the infamous CDC (Cult of the Dead Cowl cyber gang, Merkle takes us on a midnight backstreet ride into the underworld of Darkside computer hacking. At the very beginning, the author gives us fair warning as to the potential ly dangerous contents of this book and although some of this information seems to be a little out dated and obsolete in the fast paced and ever developing world of computer applications (this reviewer notes Merkle's negative opinion on Macintosh computers), this is clearly one of those books that Paladin advises to be used for "Educational Use Only.' Although intended as a manual for preventive self-defense on the Internet and world wide web, the information gathered in this book could all too easily be wmed around and used as a "how to• manual for cyber-destruction of a virtual enemy. But don't let
the potentially hazardous material found in this book scare you away, as "fight fire with fire· and vigilante-style justice still seems to be the prevail ing law in the outlands of cyberspace.
Topics include both preventive and aggres sive measures to be taken against commercial email advertisements, chain letters, and the oth erwise shameless waste of computer and Internet bandwidth <aka SPAM>, the pros, cons, and relative ease of cyber-stalking, the ultimate in cyber slumming: the infamous "chat room," nukes and vlrii, hired guns and virtual sitting ducks and the ways in which to find exactly what you will need to keep your head above water without getting blown out of it Author Robert Merkle is entertaining as he is informative and he seems to be part of a current trend at Paladi.n Press towards young, humorous, and hip terror tech savvy writers that this reviewer is hoping to see more of. This book is "virtually" guaranteed to bring you up-to-date, for the, most part, on hacker terminology, theory, and practice while discussing basic to advanced procedures to keep you from winding up as random-access road kill on the information superhighway. Be forewarned though, it could also possibly put you in the digital driver's seat.

llle Ultimate Internet Outlaw: How Surfers Steal Sex,. Software, CDs, Games, and More TOP-Secret Stuff on the Information SUperhlghway, by Robert Merkle. ISBN 1-58160-029-1. $15.00, softcov
er, 96 pages; Boulder, 1998.
Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
This second and latest book by cyber high way hit man Reibert Merkle is the perfect com panion to his last book The Ultimate Internet Terrorist. This time uberhacker Merkle shows us the "how to• on a variety of techniques used by underground surfers and darkside freaks to freely procure software, applications, pornogra phy, games, pornography, music, pornography, confidential personal information... and did I

mention pornography? If we are to take Merkle's book seriously, we will have to realize that the thriving on-line porn industry provides an endless array of potential targets with the obvi ous incentives for geeks who can barely grow hair on their faces to practice their fine art of cracking passwords and sniffing out exploits. It's these kids with nothing better to do than try-try again and run that play till they get it right who the author recognizes as the up-and-coming cyber banditos of tomorrow, and if they have something to prove or gain, they will do it even if it takes all night. This is the same ground level brute-force persistence that has been used by code heads since the days of the Commodore 64 and the same techniques that Merkle himself was weaned on and that he cites and recommends.
Make no mistake, this books does not pro vide you with a magic word that will open up the pay sites and MP3 vaults of the Internet, but it will show you how real hackers use tried and true methods to bypass certain front doors (and back doors> to web sites as well as how to look for the applications you will eventually need as you progress from user to geek in your nev erendlng search and seizure of unadvertised freeware, shareware, and the all elusive WAREZ sites. This is the real thing and ifs dubious skills such as these that have landed Merkle in his current job as a probable net security consult ant <rather than a federal prison) and that have made him one of the foremost authorities on computer Internet hacking. Once again, this book is highlighted by the same wit and dead pan humor seen in Merkle's Internet Terrorist as well as being high on the "For Educational Use Only" list for which Paladin has become famous.

The Basement Buggers Blble: llle Professlonal's Gulde to Creating, Bulldlng, and Planting Custom Bugs and Wiretaps, by Shifty Bugman. ISBN 1- 58160-022-4. $48.00, softcover, photos, illus trations, 310 pages; Boulder, 1999.
Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
This is the "who, what, where, when, why," and most importantly the "how to• for the con struction and placement of unconventional lis tening devices and techniques known collective ly as "bugs and wire taps If this step-by-step, transistor-by-solderpoint, collection of devices and applications were not made so entertaining, with the inclusion of often humorous scenarios and true-to-life capers, It would be just another exhaustive manual covering every aspect of, well, buggery, from determining the right "gim mick" for the job, drawing board schematics and construction, to actual bug and wiretap deploy ment and signal retrieval. Author Shifty Bugman, another one of Paladin's new breed of hip, young Techles, doesn't waste any time in stating a clear warning that construction and possession of any of these items, without proper authorization and licensing, can land you in a federal prison-as many of his colleagues have found out-or a

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offer-you-cannot-refuse job working for "The Man,· as Shifty eventually learned.
If you really can't live without knowing the answer to "What goes into placing a wiretap?" and you lose sleep at night wondering "What type of bug is sufficient for recording the sounds of executive board meetings?" and if you really
must know virtually everything concerning
building and deploying bugs and wiretaps, then, by all means, buy this book.

Tactical Baton: 5lreet Slick Personal DefenSe System, with Datu Kelly S. Worden. ISBN 1-58-160-024-0. $59:95, two volume VHS
video, 120 minutes per tape; Boulder, 1998.
Andre Schlesinger, reviewer.
Perhaps you've seen them? Known generi cally as a tactical or telescoping baton or wand, with brand names such as A.S.P. and Cobra, these retractable and sometimes coiled or spring-loaded steel nightsticks can be hidden in a waist pocket to be taken out at a second's notice and extended with the flick of a wrist into a an intimidating, although nonlethal, bludgeon. Made famous by. CIA and Secret Service agents and then infamous by the Tanya Harding assault inci dent some years ago as the "Tanya Tapper; this highly concealable, strong but light-weight, close quarters weapon is perfect for self-defense and crowd control. It would only make sense that there is more to the use of this semi-exotic weapon than just whacking away at heads and knee caps and Datu Kelly S. Worden's instruc tional videotapes take you where no weapons manual can, right into Worden's training hall, where he demonstrates his own technics devel oped from years of training in Filipino martial arts.
This video course, designed to be adapted to standard police batons as well, is a must-have for anyone who makes the legendary nightstick or any of its modem variations part of their defensive tools. In four hours of instructions, Warden takes you though basic strikes and blocks to more advanced "finishing" techniques and combina tions of baton and unarmed combat Highlights of this video course are the tactical baton's uses against seemingly superior and lethal weapons. As a user of one of these weapons for job-related purposes, I highly recommend this two video set for anyone cu ntly using a tactical baton or for those considering taking up its use. As an addition to Paladin's growing list of available instructional videos, this adds a new dimension to learning martial arts technics only available through class es and often incomplete manuals and diagrams.
I'm looking forward to seeing a greater number of Paladin Press's upcoming and existing titles released in the video format
SATANIC PERIODICALS
THE CLOVEN HOOF, The Official Bulletin and Tribunal of the Church of Satan, PMB ?365, P. 0.

Box 390009, San Diego, CA 92149-0009. Send
$5.00 for a single issue <-$7.00 foreign) or $35.00 for an eight-issue subscription ($40.00 foreign>.
Issue #1Z9. This 32-page, full-sized mag
azine with two-color cover is the original voice of contemporary Satanism and essential read ing for anyone interested in Satanism, Anton L.aVey or the Church of Satan. If you don't read the Hoof (which has been published in one form or another since the foundation of our organiza tion in 19661 then really, your questions are get ting very boring and you're just NOT doing the homework. No other publication has better reflected l.aVey's attitudes, thoughts, aesthetics
and sense of life over the years; if you've been paying attention, there is no reason to accept anyone else's assessments of L.aVey's "chang ing direction" or •evolving misanthropia You
can see everything for yourself in the Hoof, and
make your own judgments.
This issue's cover is graced by Coop's ren dering of a hefty devil-girl in garters and stock ings, getting ready to put out the fire in your heart Essays include the original publication of
l.aVey's "The God of the Assholes,· "The French, They Are a Funny Race" and "The Last Mystery,· in which he discusses the role of Satanism in the future. Magister Michael Rose contributes a dis cussion of Film Noir, Shawna Kennedy talks
about belly-dancing, Nemo takes a look at Satanic self-defense, and High Priestess and Editrix Blanche Barton treats us to scads of reviews, news, and a look at l..aVey-lookalikes and rip-offs. She also debates the question, "Is Satanism a Religion?" And of course, there is the ubiquitous Much More. I was tickled by the piece suggesting alternative expletives to the usual gutter talk. and have resolved to add "Aw nertz!" and "Son of a sea cook!" to my daily speech.
Issue #130. This issue follows the same
format but is 44 glossy pages in length; it announces the death of Dr. L.aVey and contains many memorials and reminiscences by Satanists who knew him, as well as by those who never met him but whose lives were irrev ocably touched by his words and leadership. There is also a fine collection of photos of the Great Man, and both covers are portraits suit able for framing. Of primary interest is an essay the Doctor composed after his near-death experience in 1995, as well as a short piece he wrote from his bed. He was musing on the sound of rain hitting his old house just before daybreak. and how fortunate he felt to be right where he wanted to be, doing just what he wanted to do, while the rest of the world rose in the pre-dawn darkness to follow their round of hours according to the will of circumstance and the desires of others. He had no such obliga tions; he had exactly what he wanted in the shape of an old gun, in an old house filled with the old things he loved, and an ocean of hours ahead of him in which to enjoy them. Old and rich is how he described himself; wise, vital and rich is how I remember him. High Priestess

Barton finishes the issue with clarity and inspira tion in her essay, "What Do We Do Now?" Every Satanist worth his salt should have this issue.

THE RAVEN, P. 0. Box 482, Stratford, CT 06615-0482, ravenpub@wocldnetatt.net. Make
your $4.00 check or money order payable to
N. B. Smith. "The Satanic Journal of Humor and Good Living-the Lighter Side of the Dark Side."
Issue #23/#24. More humor from
Sprague and Kennedy; Loki tells us "How To Be an Asshole" while traveling by air; Rev. Smith discusses the Jungle music of yma Sumac and the consumption of rye whiskey-that's what my Uncle Frankie always drank. Loki gives us a few recipes for cocktail nibblers, all of which sound great, but has he ever had one of Rev. Schlesinger's devil dogs, I ask you?
Issue #25/#28. If you don't read The
·Raven, you're way out of the Satanic loop. It's one of my favorites, because it doesn't take itself or anything else too serio.usly. There are no proclamations from High Priest Damien Evilcroft, and pentagrams do not enhance every page,. There is, instead, barbed wit , tips for enjoying food and drink. and much mockery of the high and mighty, as well as the low and tacky. Dig in! The cover of this number is graced by a moving photograph of Rev. Smith and his brother as boys, both looking down in wonder at the light emanating from a huge Jack-o' lantern. So begins this Halloween issue, with a discussion of aphrodisiac food and a zesty recipe for crab cakes (my favorite!>. Next along is "The Night Before Samhain" by Rev. George Sprague and Shawna Kennedy. Walter C. Cambra contributes a thoughtful article, as e does in almost every issue.
Issue #27/#28. In this issue, were treated
to "The Shorter, Harsher Version· of that big summer movie, "The Titanic," as wel_l as "What a Jerk We Have in Jesus," by Sprague and Kennedy. Don't miss the lengthy discussion of the Martini.
Issue #29/#30. Priestess Ruth Waytz
contributes her memories of the Formosa cafe in Hollywood. Comparisons of the mental and atti tudinal differences between the sexes go on at length. There's a charming little poem by Rev. Smith's great-uncle, some music reviews, a revi
sion of the Martini recipe, a discussion of the
Darwin Awards (haven't heard of these? you don't know what you're missing!) and a new tool for Satanic Good Living: the Toilet Fishing Game.

THE RAGING ·SEA, Issue #4. No contact information, because you can't get this issue or this magazine anymore; however, I thought you should know that once upon a time, in the sea side town of Santa Cruz, California, a Satanic 'zine was published by Church of Satan Priest Michael Boe.
This issue had a way-cool cover illustration of a lounge in Hell, and the mix of articles was far beyond "the usual" for a Satanic publica-

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tion-sure, there was the usual pissy attitude about helping others less fortunate and the com plete irritation and intolerance of the status quo but we were also treated to articles about Satanic ecology, Satanic ways to survive a 9-to-5 job, and recommendations for books and materials for the Satanic education of our youth. Contributors included Magister Jeffrey Nagy, Rev. K.S. Anthony, Robert Lang of The Black Punk.in, and Jeffrey Scott. This one will be missed.

NOT UKE MOST: a Publication of Satanism in Action, P. 0. Box 8131, Burlington, VT 05402, http://www purginqta!on. comlnIm.
boysatan@aol com. $5.00 per issue, $7.00 for eign. Cash or money orders payable to Matt G. Paradise-no checks!
Issue #5. Have I said enough of Rev. Matt
G. Paradise's wonderlul graphics and witty take on Satanism and beyond? If you don't read Not Uke Most, then you're missing some of the most refreshing viewpoints from the young Turks of Satanism. "Personal Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Satanic Art of the Duel" by Richard Canino is a stand-out in this issue, which is the last digest sized entry into the magazine's repertoire.
Issue #8. The editor puts it out in the wind as he starts off the issue with "Satanism and Racialism: Dividing Lines and Common Ties:· Those who'd like to paint the Church of Satan with that Nazi brush do so at their own peril; here's a Priest who's not afraid to take on the topic and put it in its place. There's a won derfully crabby piece called "The Superhighway to Hell!"-in other words, a look at Satanic web sites. "Make Your Own Damned Graphics!" Wish I could tattoo THAT on the forehead of every "satanic" keyboard cowboy. Edward Parker gives us his interview with the Man Himself, Satan, who in typical fashion turns the tables on his interviewer.
Issue #7. Are the Spice Girls Satanic witch es? Find out by reading Rev. Paradise's "The Satanic Heavyweight Championship: Spice Girls Vs. Marilyn Manson." After all, didn't L.aVey's seminal work bring forth the very best formulae for the creation of Girl Power? This side-by-side comparison is very revealing. On a more serious note (no, really) Brett Cullen offers "The Jungian View & Satal'lism." And much more in this issue, including the usual exhaustive reviews and informational listings of websites and news.
Issue #8. Hidey ho! We start off with
"Rosemary Revisited," in which Rev. Paradise takes a loving look at one of the best horror movies of all time. He observes keenly that "Rosemary's Baby shows us both sides of the human coin, that we are both benevolent and brutal... When all the other fun fear is shed, the deepest layer of terror is the realization of human nature." Remind me to take you past Rosemary's building when next you visit New York City. In case you didn't know, Bill M. reminds us all that "Goodguy Badges Suck!" For those of you who just can't get enough Satanic

rituals in your collection, R. Merciless gives us "Satanic Ritual of the Hot Fudge Sundae." How can you resist a working that ends with a maraschino cherry, or as Merciless calls it, "the red, wet symbol of carnal rapture?" Hey, let them film THIS one for CNN.
Issue #9. Never one to back down from a fight, Rev. Paradise takes on the incident in Littleton in his lead-off article. He observes cor rectly that many Satanists held their breath dur ing the first few days of media blameshifting, waiting for the Satan card to be thrown down (after all, they wore black, didn't they?). "When you force anti-human Christian values and impossible to attain moralisms upon kids whose marked intelligence repels them from such a servile and unconditionally accepted mindset, don't be surprised if he/she lashes back in resentment" Rev. George Sprague made a visit to the Preparedness Expo <y'know, freeze-dried food, radios you crank, money-making opportu nities to take advantage of the resultant chaos, etc.I and lived to tell us the humorous tale. And we are edified by the historical overview Rev. Paradise makes of "The Satanic Side of the Enlightenment." Not Like Most is another must have for your Satanic bookshelf.
Issue #10. Rev. Paradise covers his Halloween in New York City, including photos of our trip to the Carnegie Deli. Bagel witta schmear. He also puts together a useful collec tion of quotations from de-facto Satanist H.L Mencken, which I hope will lead readers to his work. "Dating Outside your Race" (the Satanic race, that isl will also prove beneficial to those of you who just can't figure out why your rela tionships self-destruct in direct proportion to your self-actualization as a Satanist. Kevin I. Slaughter takes a look at the thoughts and work of Rev. Steven Leyba, whose mural was recent ly painted over in a bar in San Francisco. The owners, who had originally commissioned the work, did this without allowing him to capture his images in photos or video. New York Press columnist Jim Knipfel contributes "Satanism After L.aVey." Lots of reviews and another install ment of SuperHighway to Hell, as well as some more fine writing from the editor, round out a wonderful issue of NLM.

FIRST STONE PUBLICATIONS
P. 0. Box 642112, San Francisco, CA 94109. Make all checks and money orders payable to Christopher J. Turner.
I have before me an array of products from two intelligent, inspired and vital young men, Rev. K S. Anthony and Christopher J. Turner of the Church of Satan. And it makes me very angry. It makes me angry because in the last year or so, I should have been reading these publications at length; I should have been able to peruse these essays and articles, savoring them, perhaps rereading, and by all means I should have written letters thanking them for each and every one. Instead, I've been spend-

ing my time defending Anton L.aVey and the Church of Satan from our detractors and imita tors, cleaning up the hassles sent my way by the pissants who can't measure up, and answering endless questions from the pudding heads who Just Don't Get It I'm guilty of wasting my time and attention on enemies and ingrates when I should have spent it on those who deserve it. And these young men definitely deserve my attention, and yours as well.

1HE PSEUDO-SATANIST'S BIBLE by Rev.
K.S. Anthony, $3.00 from the address above. How I adore this little red cardstock-cov
ered pamphlet; no Satanic library should be without it. Billed as "A Book for Assholes, Creeps and Imposters," it's a wonderfully witty send-up of L.aVey's Statements, Rules, Sins, etc., but tai lored for the marching morons who will never Get It. The dedication page alone was enough to win my heart; among the pledges there, he includes "to the pretenders to the throne, who will never even see it."

CONQ.UER NOW, edited by Rev. K. S. Anthony.
Issue #8. This is in traditional "'zine" for mat, about 14 pages with a stapled, fluorescent pink cover. Highlights include "Material Girl 101," in which Liz informs us of what we'd NEVER hear at a Satanic barbecue: "Let's all join hands and sing, 'Cumbaya'." Right. And I loved the "pulp fiction," a little story called "Cannon" that was dripping with hardboiled double-entendre.
Issue #9 is the final issue, and is dedicat ed to the Kultural Diktator and New Wave Revolutionary noisician, Robert X. Patriot Real life stories and anecdotes about RXP, plus fan fiction and "The Devil's Little Instruction Book" fill the 52 pages of this Satanic collector's item.
$5 US/$8 foreign to the address above.

1HE BEST OF CONQ.UER NOW, available for
$7.00 from the address above.
A fat little digest incorporating the best of Rev. Anthony's articles and essays from the aforementioned eight issues. "It seems that all my beliefs are somehow indicative of a person ality disorder to those who don't agree with me... I have stopped questioning my code of ethics and have started questioning everyone else's... £There are! any number of milksop bog trotters who attempt to use Satanism to justify or strengthen their own disreputable weaknesses, fringe political ideologies or pathetic compul sions. They are, to be blunt, weaklings who ding to something stronger than themselves (in this case, Satanism> in order to feed their impover ished and beaten egos. So, along with an actual Alien Elite, we have a horde of outcast, boorish, quarterwits who have nothing better to do than declare themselves high pontiffs, priests, kings and Gods while engaging in trivial bitch-fights with other fuck-ups who know as much about Satanism as Bob Larson's pet platypus." Such

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are the revelations Rev. Anthony brings us, and he definitely pulls no punches. As he discusses sticky issues like racial identity, he cuts himself no breaks; he questions his own conclusions, honoring few sacred cows. This digest also includes interviews with Michael Moynihan and Magister Michael Rose. There will be no more
issues of Conquer Now, but I feel confident
and fortunate-that we will hear more from Rev.
K.S. Anthony.

THE ICE CREAM MANIFESTO, $3.00 from
the address above.
Another little digest with cream-colored cardstock cover. C. J. Turner throws out the first ice-ball in the war of consciousness of ice cream personalities and the coming Ice Age. Will you follow Haagen, or Ben and Jerry? By such choices is a man's honor known, to say nothing of a lady's. Let big spoons prevail...

THE FIRST STONE, $5.00 per issue from the address above, and quite a bargain for these fat, full-sized magazines of some 70 pages.
Issue #2. The editor and principle con tributor takes a look at pill-popping,_employ ment-driven headache distress, and also overviews Satanism as it is portrayed in current newspaper articles. He examines the hate crime principle, and relates the experiences of one young Satanist on the mass transit system. Shoshanna tells us of the diabolism of cats. And much more.
Issue #3. Spiffy, shiny black cover, saddle stitched, creamy interior pages. Things start right up with "Manners: Would They Fucking Kill You?" The editor discusses what truly makes a place or even a moment in time "haunted" with meaning and magical energy; this was particularly inter esting, along with "The Compass his own take on the innate drives that motivate humans. He also takes a quick look at what excuses David Berkowitz is making lately; apparently, this Epsilon Double Minus was at the center of some brilliant Satanic conspiracy. Uh-huh. Mr. Turner rounds out the issue with a piece of his own evocative fiction, "Returning Favors.·
Issue #4. "Only a Devil" starts the issue off with a bang; with a nod to the noir movies many of us love, Mr. Turner gives us a vignette about a walk on a dark, rain-soaked night, and a mysteri ous man the protagonist encounters along his way. This will strike a chord in the hearts of many Satanists; when they stay in, we go out I found much to chuckle over in a short piece about those "way Satanic dudes· who think they must put down LaVey-not Satanic enough-in order to prove their own righteously evil status in the world. "Eyes on Sara's Run· is fiction, part of a series of short works the editor has titled "Tales From the Plague," and is also noteworthy.
Issue #5. It's a big one, and I can only touch on my favorites. "Caffeine Morality: Dark Nights Out With the Devil's Bean" was a great choice to get the issue going, and is a wonder-

ful crystallization of what we urban Satanists experience as we try to live our nocturnal lives cheek-and-jowl with the herd. Rev. K. S. Anthony gives us "Precious Things," an essay about hold ing on to those relics and antiques that give us pleasure. If you can hear the term "Social Darwinism" without a knee-jerk reaction of one kind or another, you might find Andrew A V.s essay of particular interest. There's an extended interview with My Ownself, conducted by Magister Jeffrey Nagy a couple of years ago, and then rescued from the morgue of The Raging Sea. "Currents" is another fine piece of fiction from Mr. Turner's "Tale From the Plague; and Brad Ashlock contributes 'J\fter the End of Evil," a quick look at the history of Satan in human culture. There's lots more in this and every issue of The First Stone, but you should really find that out for yourself. This journal is a must-have compendium of thoughts and images from one of the most interesting new writers in Satanism.

EYES ONIY, P. 0. Box 1339, New York, NY
10159-1339. Make check/MO for $3.00 payable to Andre Schlesinger. Maninblack@prodigy.net
This is Folder 1, FIie 1, or in spook
speak, the premiere issue of the Maninblack Grotto's newsletter. The focus of this new Satanic publication is "The Other Side of Conspiracy"; in other words, they're looking out for your best interests. This transmission gets off to a flying start with a reprint of Anton LaVey's "THEY," which pretty much sums up the reason ing behind the mission of these MIBs. Other arti cles include "Covert Overtness" by ?100261, who discusses the fact that "the subconscious aspect of the human personality is constantly bombarded by electronic frequencies and mind-altering subliminals at every turn Citizen Mealie gives us some facts on Satanic "spymas ter," Antonio Prohias, the artist behind Spy Vs. Spy. Okay, c'mon, who rooted for White Spy? Nooobody. Rev. K. S. Anthony guests with "Onward, Citizen Soldier!" And the issue is nice ly topped off with Sensei John C. Davis' "SCS Satanic Combat Sciences-A Primer I wrote the
foreword to this very edgy new publication, so I don't want to repeat myself too much. But EYES
ONLY represents the beginning of the next phase in Satanic publishing (and recording, designing, etc.): material by Satanists, for Satanists, narrowcasted to our kind of interests and proclivities. Now eat this review.

THE YIN CONDUCTOR, a publication of The Alien Elite, 1255 N. 6th St., Laramie, wy
82070. Make check or money order payable to Lu Hutchinson, $4.00 US, $6.00 foreign.
. Volume 1, #1 . An auspicious debut of
this 18-page newsletter by a Church of Satan member. The design is sharp and attractive, and editor Luis Large's drawings and computer graphics add a unique touch. Articles include

"Some Implications of the Fire Age· and "Pop Goes the Devil-Satan and Modern Music: A Performer's Perspective," both by the editor.
Volume 1, #2. Luis Large talks about the
beginnings of his work as The Alien Elite, back in the bad old days of the late 80's. He includes dippings from his many media meltdowns-an interesting and useful historical perspective on the "Satanic panic" of that era. Large also dis cusses orgonomy and takes on pop music again in "Mosh Pit Metaphysics." Both issues are pep pered with witty and well-designed filler items called "Dark Humor'.' I recommend this one highly.

DIABOLICAL DIATRIBES, Paul Dunphy, P. 0.
Box 354, Troy NY, 12182, devUpaul@aol com.
$5.00 US / $7.00 foreign ought to cover it.
Issue #1. A publication of the "United Satanic Front,· most of the material in this neat ly-produced 36-page magazine is written by Church of Satan members Paul Dunphy and Phil Marfuta. Some interesting articles, including "Satan: Our Mascot· and "A Walk Through the Underworld: Mythological Archetypes in Satanic Ritual." Definitely worth your time.

THE DEVll!S ADVOCATE, Ron Harris, 45
High St., New Haven, CT 06510. A check or money order for $6.00 made payable to Ron Harris should get this one for you.
The name of this fine 56-page, full-sized magazine by a Church of Satan member will be changing soon. However, Ron has definitely proved himself with this "Spring Issue· contain ing interviews with Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson, Josh Silver of Type-0 Negative and Thomas Thorn of Electric Hellfire Club. Ron's editorial, "Beavis and Butthead Satanists" is con cerned with the use of the Devil's name by heavy metal groups who portray Satanism as a blood drinking, animal-sacrificing cult. This issue also contains work by Leilah Wendell and Per Malloch. you oughta get it!

DIABOLICA MAGAZINE, Azazel, P. 0. Box
53, Allen Park, Ml 48101-0053. Make your check or money order for $6.00 US / $7.00 payable to Azazel.
Issue #5. Chock-full of good reading, including an interview with Rev. Thomas Thom, and articles by Magister Michael Rose, Magistra Tani Jantsang, Rev. George Sprague, Gage's Page by Ken Gage, and Azazel's photo-essay, The Fetish Fashion Show. There's dark poetry and lots more. Get your own copy of this attrac tive magazine published by Church of Satan Priest, Azazel.

SCAPEGOAT, P. 0. Box. 381198, Hollywood,
CA 90038-1198, (323) 466-7441. Make check
or money order for $5.00 US $8.00 foreign payable to John Kaminlecki.
This Satanic magazine by Church of Satan member John Kaminiecki focuses on interviews of Satanically-inspired musicians, artists and

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other mover-and-shakers of the Lefthand Path. and includes lots of wonderful photographs. Issue #10 is no exception, with interviews with Magister Vincent Crowley of Acheron, occult publisher and writer Carl Abrahamsson and musician Glenn Danzig, among others. This is a special Poetry Issue and also includes essays by Kaminiecki and Kerry Bolton.
Issue #11. Interviewees this time around
include Adam Parfrey, Douglas P. and photogra pher Janet Allington, whose photographs are nice ly-reproduced in color along with her interview.
Issue #12. Wendy Van Dusen graces the
cover, bedecked in black beret and little else. Her musical expression, Neither / Neither Wor1d is the focus of an interview. Other inter viewees include Kerry Bolton, Ordo Equilibrio, Lord Wind, Angel Corpse and Michael Moynihan. Great photos abound. Editor Kaminiecki discusses "PIG: A film by Nico B," and Kerry Bolton examines Enochian.

MOURNING STAR, 325 SE Pt. St. Lucie Blvd.,
Suite ?V, Pt. St. Lucie, FL 34984. Make your $6 check or money order ($8.00 foreign) payable to editor William Gidney.
Volume 1, Issue #1. The start of an
interesting publication, filled with the opinions of its editor in well-developed articles and essays, as well as amusing filler items and cute little graphics. We begin with a long review of a book by gay poet Victor Mingovits, entitled "A Satan Worshiper's Guide to the American Northeast." How did I miss this one? A nice piece of fiction follows, based on a Tarot reading; Ygraine dis cusses evolution, and the editor includes his own memoriam to Dr. LaVey.
Volume 1, Issue #2.. The editor discuss
es "First Phase Satanism,· and gives us his take on "The Magic Words Also discussed is the structure of the Church of Satan and its Grotto system, Satanic culture and philosophy, false memory syndrome and much more. Poetry and an intriguing photo collage are also included.
Volume 1, Issue #2.-revlsed. This
issue reworks some of the material cited above and includes a compeHing little essay by a 16- year-old Satanist as well as an extended dis cussion of ."Online Satanism, or Fuckyou.Com.· There's a review of Pacino's "The Devil's Advocate• in a column called Satanic Sinema.

THE BLACK PIINKIN, P. 0. Box 320V, 1386
Richmond Rd, Ottawa, ON Canada K2B 1A1. Make your $7.00 US (within the US) check or money order payable to Robert A Lang. Canadians: send $7.00 CN, foreign orders are all $10.00 US funds.
Volume 3, ISsue #2.. This wonderful lit tle magazine of Satanic magic, philosophy and fun never fails to please and keeps improving. In this issue we are presented with some history in the forms of Alexander the Great and Vlad Tepes, and there is an extended and very informative discussion of the deities of Gallic

Rome, as well as those of the Druids. So much for those peace-loving, Mama-worshipping tree-hug gers getting all the credit in paganism! Magister Peter H. Gilmore is interviewed, and Magister Michael Rose contributes some of the writing we miss so much now that he has retired From the Pit (though be on the lookout for his return to
publishing with a new magazine called Sinisten.
We get some recipes for "red food," in which raspberries are the featured ingredient and edi tor Diana DeMagis interviews longtime Church of Satan member Marguerite Thompson on her year-round Halloween decor. A Satanic ritual enti tled "The Day of the Animals" is also included. This fine issue (an essential for every Church of Satan member's library) finishes up with editor Robert Lang's inspired drawing of Dr. LaVey as an Egyptian Pharaoh. Highly recommended.
Volume #4, Issue #1. The artwork is the
real stand-out in this issue, with color paintings on both front ("Abraxas Rising") and back ("Ghoul Queen Nitocris") covers by Magister Rex Diabolus Church. Robert A. Lang's work improves and evolves with every publication he creates; in this issue, his "Hell's Garrison" on the inside front cover is breathtaking. There is also a very well-rendered, if somewhat porno Satanic, comic strip by Erik Brown. An extended interview with Magister Church reveals much about the nature of his Satanic muse, and Magister Michael Rose contributes essays and a short story. There is a touching tribute to long time Church of Satan member Marguerite Thompson, as well as a reprint of the newspa per article inspired by her funeral, the first pub lic Satanic graveside rite since the Seventies. Co-publisher Diana DeMagis gives us "The Selfish Side of Death," along with her usual "Witch's Corner." "A Werewolf Ritual" by Robert Lang as well as another by Gregorii Warne that will bring out the Highlander in you, as well as more fine articles, illustrations and reviews round out another fine issue of the Pun-Kin.

MINIONS FROM BEYOND, Issue #1. This is
a magazine of horror fiction from the same pub lishers as The Black Punkin. Pricing and address information is the same. A full-sized, black-and white production of some 56 pages with a glossy, coated cover, Minions is well-stocked with horror stories by some of the more well known names in the small press field, including
D. F. Lewis and Ken Goldman. Michael Rose also contributes two stories, and Robert Lang provides most of the fine illustrations. A must for fans of horror fiction, especially you Lovecraftians.

BLOODRRE!, c/o Les Hernandez, VOO Tulip Ln. SW, ?31-301, Tumwater, WA 98512. Make check/MO for $5.00 per issue payable to Les Hernandez.
Issue #1. A neat digest-sized journal of
readable typewriter-text interspersed with some truly wonderful pen-and-ink drawings of

Lovecraftian deities. The contents are usually by the editor or Michael K Silva, who also provides the artwork. The premiere issue features a funny little poem about a eulogy, as well as a short but useful overview of the life of Howard Phillips
Lovecraft. It's been my experience that many
young Satanists like to say they are Lovecraft fans but few can demonstrate even the most basic knowledge of his work; the fellows here at 8/oodfire! are clearly exceptions. Eric Humphreys bemoans the loss of truly-cool vampires to the effeminate Anne Rice variety, and Mike Silva talks about voyeurism in "Diabolical Peek-A-Boo
Issue #2.. Cloning gets the once-over in
"Dr. Frankenstein's Repair Shop," and Lovecraft is again the subject as the editor demonstrates the Satanic elements of this writer's work. There is a rather humorous analysis of the Ten Commandments (which I always refer to as the Ten Suggestions, along with a comedian whose name I've forgotten) as well as a look at a future of mass-market Satanism in "Satano-Burger." This fine issue is rounded off with Tani Jantsang's seminal essay, "The Church of Satan vs. the Temple of Set'
ISsue #3. "Werewolves" and "Cannibalism:
Exploring The Human Dish" by Silva are stand outs in this issue, as well as the complete "Neter" by Tani Jantsang. Don't miss the fiction, a lovely Lovecraftian pastiche. Hope this one is still going; ifs surely worth your time and attention.

SATANISK BULLETIN, Nordborggade 45 1. th., 8000 Arhus C., Denmark. Vad@jmage dk for complete price and payment instructions.
Issue #1. This is essentially a Danish-lan guage magazine about Satanism and the Church of Satan. It's a great-looking little digest; the graphics are wonderful, and improve with each issue. This, the first brings the various newspaper articles covering Dr. LaVey's death to the Danish, although they are in their original English. The editor is Hr Vad, and his Writers include Corax, Paimon, NyMann and Max Schmeling.
Issue #2.. I'm guessing at the contents, but there appears to be an article about the Baphomet symbol, and the wearing of it, and the appearance of a funny comic strip entitled "Grotten• which I happen to know is about a
bunch of rather hapless Satanic wannabes. Some
pictures of the Black House are also induded.
Issue #3. I see something about the Marquis de Sade. There's an interview with King Diamond, an overview of the "Satanic Panic" as it occurred in Denmark, and U'm going out on a limb here> an article taking a look at the phe nomenon of "LaVey-Bashing There's another cute cartoon. This magazine is a must for any Danish Satanist.

THE SILENT WAR, c/o Nick J. DiPerna, P. 0. Box 524, Leicester, England, LE3 OZP. Two pounds Sterling is the listed price; inquire.
Issue #3. A variation on the Baphomet
design graces the cover of this 24-page journal

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of articles and opinion. There is definitely a con spiracy-theory slant to this one. The "truth" behind the death of Princess Diana is briefly dis cussed, as well as some of the traditions behind the celebration of Halloween, and alien abduc tion. Also included is "Oversocialization and the Psychology of Modem Leftism," and ·sorcery for the Masses!' Nice typesetting.

BLACK ORDER OF THE DRAGON, Axis
Press, c/o Black Funeral, 1236 W. 43rd St.,
?107, Houston, TX 77018. Four dollars ought to cover each of these, if they are still available. This Order purports to be ·a Vampiric Black Magick Circle which offers guidance with the secret art of Vampirism." lsid
Issue Clhulbu. 18 pages of typewriter typeset rituals, along with some Satanically-ori ented filler graphics. Rituals include "Cthulhu," "The Hunt of the Shadow Wolf" and "Nosferatu, Upon Wings of Wamphyri."
Issue Art of wamphyrl. Heftier, with about 30 pages of the same. Herein discussed: "Unleashing Fenrir,• "Astral Projection and Wampyric Rising," "The Dark Rites of Satan," "The Union of Satan and Baphomet," lycanthropy along with a werewolf ritual, and much more.

OHM CLOCK MAGAZINE, P. 0. Box
230033, Tigard, OR 97281-0033, e!ixxir@spiri tone com. Make your $5.00 check <$7.00 for eign> payable to Aaron Garland.
Issue #5, Spring 1998, the final issue. you might want to inquire as to availability, for this is definitely for you collectors: cover by Magister Rex Church, as well as an interview with same; a lengthy interview with Michael Moynihan; another with musician David Vincent; much more.

SATAN'S SWEET SLAVERY, SSS Productions,
P. 0. Box 28914, Columbus, OH 43228-0914.
Send $6.00 cash or stamps ONLY If you're lucky, the editor/publisher will include some stickers saying things like, "Animal mutilating, baby killing, spray painting, Devil worshipping psychos... Satanists are cool!" and "Fuck God!" Sure to get your car windows smashed in any parking lot...
Issue #6(66). The cover of this full-sized,
56-page, stapled-together magazine sports a portrait of Richard Ramirez that compares him to the Devil. This is hardly flattering to our buddy, Old Scratch. The fact that Ramirez drew a pentagram on his palm and shouted "Hail Satan!" in a courtroom is no reason for real Satanists to be giving this typical perp the time of day. The cops who caught him and have writ ten about him are referred to by this publication as "donut eaters." Well, the Church of Satan counts many "donut eaters· among its mem bers; they represent an arm of our society that stands for justice and responsibility, two very Satanic concepts. Ramirez is now on the receiv ing end of as much justice and responsibility as

our legal system cared to dole out; I wish it could have been more. If he'd crawled through the bedroom window of a real Satanist on that first fateful night of his series of murders, he might have been stopped in his tracks by the true nature of Lex Talionis. I suppose Ramirez' Satanic fanboys are inspired by the muddled invocations <like lyrics to a third-rate . heavy metal songl this skell was heard to shout at his trial: ·1 am beyond experience... I am beyond good and evil..." If this sounds familiar, boys and girls, it's because it's the usual jailhouse talk. Ramirez committed his crimes to satisfy his screwed-up sexual urges, not to strike a blow against Christians or to promote his own version of "Satanism." This guy is no "Satanic soldier"; your donut-eating friends, who took an oath to serve and protect you and your loved ones, are a lot closer to that ideal, even when the bad apples among them demonstrate feet of clay. 'Nutt said about that.
Apart from the focus on Ramirez, this mag azine is an amalgam of confusing first-phase Satanism, often attempting to use sarcasm and failing dismally, leaving the reader to wonder if the editor was actually trying to provide Christian detractors with more ammunition than actual information. One essay suggests to the reader that it's fine to abuse Christian children, as the seed of Christianity has put them beyond the pale of possible ·recovery" anyway. Huh? There are a few high points, however: an inter view with Magister Vincent Crowley, an article describing how Satanic the Spice Girls can be, and the news clippings all cheered me up. There are some well-rendered pen-and-ink drawings perking up these pages <which are often wanting in design elements and proof reading) but the editorial informs us that alas, the artist is ·an asshole" so I guess these are the last we'll see. The magazine also included a flier for the editor's own organization, Youth Against Christ, said group representing not ·youth" in years but a "New Age of blasphemers."

THE HOOVER HOG, $4 from Richard (Chip) Smith, PO Box 7511, Cross Lanes, WV25356-0511. Issue #2 got here a long time ago; I real
ly hope this mag is still going because it's great. Subtitled "A Review of Dangerous Ideas Entertainment for the Discriminating Thought Criminal," the Hog reviews dozens of books but also tackles lots of sticky issues. Would you believe an atheist makes a case against abor tion? Another writer examines mature males who are attracted by barely-pubescent females; only recently has this become taboo in our society. Holocaust Revisionism and its treatment in the media are also taken into account. Eighty professionally-set pages that are well worth the tiny price.

UFEFORCE: The Bulletin of the Temple of the Vampire, P. 0. Box 3582, Lacey, WA 98509. Available only to members; member-

ship is $25 US, $30.00 foreign. htto://www net com.com/ -temple
Membership has its privileges, and certain
ly membership in this well-established group puts one in touch with an array of activities and publications. I have before me quite a number of issues of Lifeforce; no dust has settled on their fangs since we last mentioned them in these pages. I'm often asked if the TOV is
·satanic," and by their own definition, and mine, they certainly are. For those interested in vam pires and vampire aesthetics, the lOV has much to offer. There is a Vampire Bible (this arrives with your membership donation) as well as indi vidualized Bibles for each level of membership: Predator, Priesthood, Sorcerer, and Adept One can also purchase a Vampire Medallion and Vampire Ring. Back issues of Ufeforce are avail able in the form of a digest, Bloodlines. And membership also puts the Vampire Connection, a pen pal list of sorts, at your clawed fingertips. Each issue of Lifeforce includes Q&A between the editor and .lOV members as well sharing of experience from same, an overview of upcoming vampire-related events, pertinent book reviews, information on how to connect with other Vampires and Vampire Groups, and usually one article by the editor. The topic here can vary, but includes subjects like dressing for Vampiric success, how to deal with skeptics and fools, the Knights Templar and Vampirism, Satanism and Vampirism, a memoriam to Anton LaVey, the Vampire ethic, how to use and be used by the mass media, voting, Vampiric rein carnation, and a recurring column on magical
laws, "The Dayside."

THE LADY O SOCIETY NEWSLETTER,
BCM/3406, London, England WC1N 3XX. One issue is available for $10.00 US cash, 4 pounds in the UK, 5 pounds outside of the UK or US. Make cheques/money orders payable to Ryder. This is the newsletter for the Society for Submissive Ladles, and self-realized, bottom of-the-clock Satanic witches (and those who love them) will find much to enjoy within these pages, even if only to add fuel to their fantasies. The format is an actual newsletter (so many use the name but look like slick magazines), that is, ten or so neatly-typeset, double-columned pages stapled in one comer and folded Into an envelope. There are usually some comments and news from the editor, Deborah, and mem bers relate their experiences in testing the waters of sub/dom adventure. The bulk of each issue is taken up with classified ads for submis sive ladies seeking dominant men, and vice versa, and most of these are located in the United Kingdom. Deborah does all the forward ing of responses to these coded ads, so it's fair
ly safe and some participants invite penpals.

THE NEXUS, Realist Publications, P. 0. Box 1627, Paraparaumu, New Zealand. A four-issue subscription is $20.00 US, air mail $25.00. you

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can probably order one issue for $6.00.
This is the journal edited and largely writ ten by KR. Bolton, who has been doing this for about ten years and who has gained both respect and renown for his thoughtful and well researched articles on culture and world poli tics. Over the past couple of years, Bolton has changed his publication's tagline from "Kulturkampf-Realpolitik-Esoterrorism,• to "Metaphysics and the Third Way; settling lately upon "A Journal of Modern Heresies It is digest-sized with a self-cover, saddle-stitched and generally between 20 and 30 pages. The type is small, in double-columns and it is always chock-full of essays and reviews. I have about ten issues here; the journal is on a very regular schedule and a subscription is therefore well worth your while.
Bolton's regular interviews with various fig ures in what he refers to as the "occult-fascist axis" are quite in-depth, and he analyzes current news events as well as movements of the past. Profiled in these issues are figures like Evita Peron, Finnish·pagan nationalist Vihtori Kosola, Savitri Devi, "Priestess of Hitlerism," Julius Evola, Subhas Chandra Bose, Stalin, Nicola Bombacci, Jean Thiriart, and Herbert Spencer. Subjects dis cussed include the "Secret Teachings of Kabbalism; Odinism, art vs. anti-art, psychody namics, Tintin, the Faustian soul, and the main tenance of bio-diversity.

CROSSING THE ABYSS, Michael L. Lujan, P.
0. Box 5661, Richmond, VA 23220; thulean@hotmail.com. Check or money order payable to the editor, or cash in a registered let ter; $5.00 USA, $7.00 foreign.
Issue #3, Autumnal Equinox, 1997. The
White Order of Thule gives us this 36 page, full sized magazine with attractive graphics and many thoughtful articles dealing with culture, pagan pathworking and racial consciousness. Included in this issue: "Wherefore Satan?" by Max Frith, and "Hel's Horde: Satanic Forum" by Collyn Branwell.
Issue #4, Summer 1998. More of the
same. The graphics are even better, and many sigils and runes are in evidence. Authors include Kerry Bolton.

VANILLA CHRIST
P. 0. Box 1394, Burlington, VT 05402, vchrist@aol com. Make checks payable to Kevin Montanaro.

DE SADE Magazine, $4.00 per issue from the address above. 'Nilla has ceased publishing this classy little 'zine devoted to things dark and painful, but you can still obtain copies of the back issues.
Issue #2 is digest-sized and I found the
essay by a young lady with a tickle fetish partiru larly compelling. Also of note was "Conditional Love" by Master Kinx. The layout is great arid there is a good-natured sense of humor in evidence. ·

ISsue #3. Goes to a full-sized format with no loss of looks. The cover sports a tagline: "An exciting excursion into non-traditional sexuali ty... Your source for intelligent eros.• And that's definitely what you get here. There's an exten sive listing of mail order sources for equipment, clothing, footwear and other fetish items that you really should check out if you like to experiment with BDSM scenarios, or even if you just like to look like you might. "Real Life Cybersex" gives you an actual exchange between two online doofuses <have I told you my opinion of online relationships? never mind) that's worth a look. Fetish photographer Ted Samotowka contributes a gallery of his photos and a discussion of same.

BLACK: Humanity's Ugly Side, $5.00 from Vanilla Christ (address above).
Issue #1. The focus is definitely on the dark side of things: horror, true crime, and any thing with a Satanic appeal. 'Nilla has a keen eye for layout and graphics and this full-sized maga zine demonstrates that spiffily. The cover sports a crime scene photo of a headless corpse-sit ting up-that will definitely give you pause. Fellow traveler Charles Nemo shares with us his visits to John Wayne Gacy, and the article includes reproductions of Gacy's portraits of Manson and Gein. 'Nilla contributes an overview of the Jack the Ripper murders.
Issue #2. Deformed baby skeletons grace this issue's cover, but fear not: so does a seal announcing that it is Kosher for Passover. What a relief. Anyway, this is the children's issue, believe it or not. I particularly enjoyed 'Nilla's own version of those Charles Atlas ads we all remember from the backs of comic books. Mr. Natural gives us some useful information on the care and use of the crossbow, and there is also a how-to guide on necrophilia. Perhaps 'Nilla should start his own helpful how-to series: "Vanilla Christ's Living: It's a Dark Thing

ENDEMONIADA, c/o Lucifera, 611 W 152nd St, *1D, New York, NY 10031. These issues are
big; send $5.00 cash for each one.
Issue #8. First and foremost, this is a music 'zine. Every issue is filled with interviews of metal bands, particularly those featuring women and/or a Satanic focus. But the female editors, Lucifera and Xastur, are Satanists and always include material of interest to Satanists in between their reviews of shows and sexy draw ings of Satanic heroines. This issue includes a review of Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil. During "A Personal Moment With Lucifera; we are privy to her views on short-sighted Wiccans and atheists. Also of note is an interview with the effervescent Sophie Diamantis, NYC-based Satanic bon vivant.
Issue #9. I loved the piece on Tura Satana, characterized quite correctly by Lucifera as "the demonic, brutal vixen Satanic rough rider Ken Gage gives us a new ritual, "The Pack of Lies Curse•-very evocative. Lucifera and

Andreas take a look at ancient Greece from a Satanic perspective.
Issue #10. I should say a word about reg ular cover artist Satana. She draws these Satanic amazons with Junoesque figures and usually a BDSM element to their gear. Satana really should be designing costumes for "Xena" and perhaps even for the women of the World Wrestling Federation. Lately she's been includ ing these sexy female figures with big-eyed alien heads, however, and they're creepy and give me bad dreams. The standout in this issue is an extended interview with Thomas Thorn of the Electric Hellfire Club. The magazine's appearance continues to improve.
Issue #11/12. We jump to spiral binding, and this is more of a book than a magazine. The ladies involved put a great deal of energy into Endemoniada, and have eliminated the hand written page numbers of yore, utilizing n.eater appearing computer typesetting. Satana's cover art on this one is the best I've seen from her. There is a tribute to Wendy 0. Williams of shav ing-cream-pasties fame; this Plasmatic died last year but was a powerful female figure in music in the 80's. There's also an interview with another regular artist, Marcel Locke, whose female figures-and faces- are nicely-rendered. All of these issues continue to bring us the pen and-inks of P. Emerson Williams, whose work should find its way to a professional horror jour nal or anthology some day.

OBSCURA #1, "Dark Underground Music Culture," is produced by a Church of Satan member Dominik Tischleder, and is entirely in German. It's a slick, newsstand-quality produc tion with wide distribution, and this issue includes articles on Anton LaVey, Stephen Kasner, John Aes-Nihil, R. N. Taylor, and much more. you can order this for 550 DM (or con tact them for the prices in US funds) from Obscura Magazln, Postfach 17 02 73, 53028 Bonn, Germany. Obscura-magazjn@gmx net, htto·Umttglied tripod de/obscora/.

THE BLACK STAR CHRONICLES, Order of
the Black Star, P. 0. Box 206743, Louisville, KY
40250-6743, blackorder@satanjsm101 com. Send $3.50 money order or cash. An attractively designed 16-page introduction to the Order and to Satanism. Reads almost like a website on paper. Basic material on the tenets of Satanism, plus a little about scarification and weird sculpture.

COMPULSION #3, P. 0. Box 36, Enfield, EN3
4ZX, England. Make checks/money orders for 5 pounds Sterling only, payable to Tony Dickie. Within the UK the price is 3 pounds.
This glossy-covered, perfect-bound digest contains interview with Blood Axis, R.N. Taylor, Timothy Patrick Butler, as well as articles on Anton LaVey's music, Tiny Tim, and James Mason's Universal Order. Quite the Satanic gratr bag! If you can't get up the pounds Sterling, you

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can also order this one from Storm <see above) for $5.00 US.

FULL FRONTAL NUDny, Predatory Instinct Productions, 1959 N. Peace Haven Rd., +203, Winston-Salem, NC 27106. Make check/money order for $3.00 payable to Kevin I. Slaughter.
Issue #1.. Brash little digest-sized, saddle
stitched 'zine with big-busted devil girl on the cover, pinching her nipples. Dares to present "unrepentant misanthropy, nihilism, egoism, cyni cism, and a whole lotta love for the ladies!" Columns include 'J\sk Dr. E," whose advice to the lovelorn includes observations like, ·1 have never heard such a pathetic story in my entire life
There's also an extended and multi-faceted analy sis of the performance art of the editor's musical incarnation, "Urillia SekC The graphics are very suave; love the leopard-print borders. Meee-YOW!
Issue #2. Hey! Why does my copy have
this huge "Not For Sale" sticker on it? What, am I gonna unload comp copies at a flea market? Sheesh. Wonderful article about Darwin, illumi nated with lots of little anti-evolution cartoons from the time of the publication of Origin of Species. The monkey heads in the page comers also set off the piece nicely. I also enjoyed the first-person recollections of District Attorney Norn De Plume, in his essay, "Trust."

AGES OF FIRE, Knights of Baphomet, Poste
Restante, Jembanegade 5, 6230 Rodekso, Denrnarl<.
20 KR. Danish-language Satanic publication.
Neatly-done photocopy with staples, nice pen-and-ink cover illustration. Editor Lars N. Dirksen contributes something called "Satan's Disco; along with several other pieces, and there's an interview with Max Schmeling. Some intriguing poems <these in English> by Mikael Haas are included, and Jimmy Hansen con tributes a review of ·suffocation."

SEASONS OF THE FENRIS, Journal of
Satanic Neo-Fascism, edited by William Draconis, P.O. Box 6109, Boulder, CO 80306. Listed price is $1.00 US/$2.00 World, but I'd double it to allow for postage.
Issue #1. This full-sized, side-stapled 'zine
is just what it sounds like, and if you don't know what that m,eans, the cover consists of a large photo of Adolph Hitler wearing a swastika emblazoned armband. From the editorial: •1 couldn't care less if [the magazine) is too Satanic for most Fascists and too Fascist is for most Satanists. There are enough publications in exis tence which foster unity and if my beliefs margin alize my publication, so be it." With that we swing into an abridged essay by Mussolini. The rest of the 18 pages consist of reviews, quotes from Nietszche and some "kultur kampr graphics.

'DIE WINE OF SATAN, Issue #1, by Markku Siira of Finland. No address information because the editor decided to pull the plug on this one a couple of months after sending me the issue.

It's regrettable because I really liked the title, and the cover graphics. The contents include an overview of the David Berkowitz case, and his
claims of a "Satanic conspiracy; along with a refreshing exploration of artificial companions and total environments. Siira offers the proposal that the ultimate Satanic political position should be Groucho Marxism, and there's a poem that, for Satanic journals, is above-average. Perhaps the Wine of Satan will flow again some time; I certainly hope I get a share.

PSICOTERROR, c/o Renzo Parodi, Calle el Galeon 202, Urb. La Calesa, Surco, Lima 33, Peru. $6.00 US.
Issue #5. This Satanic music-oriented
'zine, written entirely in Spanish, promises that future issues will be in English. That's unfortu nate; I'd rather they kept spreading the word in their own language. The cover on this issue is very classy: a beautiful black-and-white painting of a ram-homed devil ravishing a lushly-nude female, tasteful and evocative. Inside there's an interview with Magister Vincent Crowley, along side a cute cartoon of Crowley with Bob Larson. Another article discusses the work of Blood Axis, and there's the ubiquitous Richard Ramirez article. The editor makes good use of photos and·graphics, and I'd say this one was worth your time, if you have an interest in read ing about Satanism and music in Spanish.

THE SENTINEL OF THE TWILIGHT, Post
Office Box 11110, 5200 EC's - Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Make money order for $7.00 US payable to O.J.F. Voets.
Issue #0. Besides being dedicated to the
ideas and principle in The Satanic Bible, the edi tor plans to make his publication a vehicle for aesthetic terrorism, diabolical art, hate, and how to enjoy living. Hmm.. He includes a memorial to Dr. LaVey, an interview with musician Gunther Theys, an explanation of his own misanthropy, and an anonymous diatribe called •1 Hate This Fucking Planet."

DOCTRINES OF DEMONS, The Book of
Belphagor, c/o The Alastor Association, 2429- A Main St., Suite 415, Snellville, GA 30278. No listed price; inquire. Entire contents by some one named Conditor Malorum.
Anti-"Negro" statements abound, despite the fact that in other areas of the magazine the author stresses the Satanic evolution of each individual. "Loki's Laughter" discusses some very funny ideas for bumper stickers, including "I'd Rather Be Burning Bibles" and "My Kid is a Brainwashed Fool at IBlankl Bible School!" A rit ual called "The Ceremony of the Fallen Angels" is also provided.
FICTION MAGS
POETRY UNDER A DARK SPELL is a
digest-sized collection of over 40 poems by

Satanic essayist Walter C. Cambra. you can order it from Cody's Bookstore in Berkeley, CA Of particular interest is a poem about Dr. LaVey entitled "The Man in the Moon."

PENNY DREADFUL, Tales and Poems of Fantastic Terror, 407 W. 50th St., +16, Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019. Free with a 9" X 7" self addressed envelope bearing about one dollar's worth of postage.
Issue #2. A digest-sized journal of horror fiction and poetry, with neat, attractive graphics and an air that is reminiscent of the golden age of little fiction magazines. The editor, M. Malefica Grendelwolf Pendragon Le Fay, defi nitely has a Satanic slant to his choices, and there is much richness here for the Satanist who enjoys dark fiction. Standouts in this issue include the editor's own 'Ye Blodded Mone" and "Lilith" by Richard J. Treitner.
Issue #3. My favorite herein was "Revenge
of the Ape Girl" by Donna Taylor Burgess.
Issue #4. A little jewel of a poem, "Heartless," by Bobbi Sinha-Morey, caught my eye. Issue #5. Of note is "Christening" by J. A Belia!, which contains the line, ·1 then called upon/ the Lord of the Night/ and begged that my son/ might drink of great fortune/ dance
with the Graces/ and roar at the sun
Issue #6.The editor readily embraces the number of the Beast. Of note in this issue are "The Silence" by Hillary Bartholemew and "The Synagogue of Satan" by William P. Robertson, but there are many Satanically-inspired inclu sions; drink deep.

NOT ONE OF US, c/o John Benson, 12 Curtis Rd., Natick, MA 01760. Make checks for $4.50 payable to John Benson.
Another neat and attractive digest-sized lit tle magazine of horror and "outsider" fiction and poetry. The quality of the work here is always very high, and the writers contribute their more outre and unclassifiable pieces.

PULP, A Magazine, Issue #11, c/o Ramrod productions, P. 0. Box 548, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254-0548. Make check/money order payable to Clancy O'Hara.
Another little magazine of "lurid tales" that doesn't take itself so seriously, and is less pol ished and professional than those mentioned above. However, you might find the story "My Sharona" rather compelling.

DREAMS OF DECADENCE, Vampire Poetry and Fiction, $5.00 per issue from DNA Publications, P. 0. Box 2988, Radford, VA 24142-0928.
Once more evoking the best days of the lit tle magazines, this digest-sized two-color pro duction from the same folks who bring you Weird Tales holds treasures for you vampire afi
cionados. There is poetry, fiction and some lovely B&W drawings by Albrecht. The o 31,

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effect is that of the scholarly amateur journal, rather than the slick newsstand magazine, and that's a good thing.

WEIRD TALES, same as above, price $4.98.
Well, you should all know the name of the pulp magazine that has been in existence since the 1930's and has brought you the best horror and science fiction stories of all time. It's still around and it's still publishing those stories. If you are truly interesting in the Lovecraftian side of horror fiction, then you need to obtain an issue of the venerable "WT," and then you need to subscribe.
MAINSTREAM MAGS
MODE, the New Shape in Fashion. This is a very cool fashion magazine for women who do not look like walking skeletons, but who like to celebrate their curves to the joy of those who appreciate female pulchritude. The clothes are great, and so are the make-up and hair tips. There are usually profiles of successful women in vari ous fields who got where they are without com promising their health and natural beauty with compulsive dieting. It's on most newsstands, but you can subscribe by calling 1-888-610-6633.

LEG WORLD, Spreading the Truth. It's a skin mag from the folks at Hustler, with the focus on the feet and legs of sexy gals-stockings and garter-belts abound. Editor Rick S. Hall <former ly of the legendary Pantyfine Feven does his best to cater to this fetish, and the result is def initely a cut above the corporate stroke-book. Subscriptions are available from 1-800-328- 6704, or pick one up at your newsstand for
$5.99, if you're not too chicken.

TAIL SPINS, P. 0. Box 1860, Evanston, IL
60204. One issue is $3.00 US/$5.00 world.
Issue #30 contains a compelling overview on cannibalism, as well as a look at hermaphrodites. And if you've ever wondered what that really entails, well, there are drawings.

GRIMOIRE OF IEXAIJ'ED DEEDS, $4, 248
Lakeview Ave., Suite 237, Clifton, NJ 07011.
This is Issue #13 and it includes an inter view with Magister Vincent Crowley of the late, lamented Acheron. The Grimoire focuses on metal, but even if you don't care about this style of music, you'll often find editor Bill Zebub's interview questions hilarious. He uses early modern English pronouns; in other words, he calls people "Thee" and "Thou.• Considering the Beavis-and-Butthead intelligence level of many of his subjects, this makes for a rather amusing juxtaposition. Pretty Valerie, a Batgirl of sorts, graces the full-color cover.

CARPE NOCTEM, 510 E. 17 St., Ste. 302,

Idaho Falls, ID 83404, 1-888-SPOOKY2.
www.carpenoctem.com. Single issues are $5.00 on many newsstands.
I'm looking at Issue #M, and although the focus is, well, kinda •goth,· I think it has a lot to offer to the Satanically-inclined, or at least those who agree with the editorial contention that
•every day is Halloween!" The editor shares her experiences of being a "spooky parent." There's a fashion spread with source information for those of you who go for that Bad Kitty look. The atmospheric paintings of Anna Noelle Rockwell are featured, and nicely reproduced, and there's a chat with horror author Nancy Kilpatrick. This magazine also offers a scad of display ads from companies who can supply far-flung darkside types with the kind of clothing, books, music, and artifacts for which we are always searching.

CYBER-PSyCHOS A.O.D., c/o Jasmine Sailing, P. 0. Box 581, Denver, CO 80201. Make check or money order for $6.00 payable to Jasmine Sailing.
This full-sized mag is almost a book, and is chock-full of poetry, fiction, photos, drawings and opinion from many fellow travelers and darkside wayfarers. It's kind of wacky and a little disorganized, but the effect is energetic and always interesting.

BLACK CAT 13, 5045 Picadilly Dr., Madison, WI 53714. catblack13@aol.com. Send $5.00 to Tim Burton.
I'm looking at Issue #2, and it's full of trib
utes to the monster movies we grew up with, par ticularly vampire movies. Nice use of rescued graphics from old movie posters and adverts.

GICK! Horror, Splatter and Exploitation! Published by Stigmata Productions, Inc., P. 0. Box 5273, Everett, WA 98201-5273.
http:/members aol com/trashfiend/page/index btm. Money orders only for $5.00 per issue, made out to Scott Stine.
Issue #1. This slickly-produced mag with full-color covers focuses on video reviews of films made in the aforementioned genres. If you're a fan of the gore, you need to keep up with Gick! This issue also includes an overview of the films of Amando de Ossorio Rodriguez.
Issue #2. The theme this time around is "The Devil His Dues," and it's a overview of Satan-movies in the Seventies. If you're a fan and collector of this genre, you really must check this out. I was especially pleased with a reproduction of the advertising poster for "Simon: King of the Witches," one of my old Saturday night favorites. The inside back cover also offers an attractive tribute to Dr. LaVey.

PAGAN REVIVAL. P. 0. Box 686, Bowsell, CA
92003-0686. Make check or money order for
$5.00 payable to Wyatt Kaldenberg.
This magazine deals in Euro-Paganism, promoting Asatru and the old Norse gods, and

is most interesting when providing information that shows the inherent problems with entrenched organized religions, including Islam.

DAGOBERT'S REVENGE, Musick, Magick, Monarchism, c/o Tracy R. Twyman, 2301 New York Ave., +2, Union City, NJ 07087, www.homestead com/DagobertsRevenge, dwayna@ix.netcom.com.
Issue #2, Volume 2. Another 'zine with
Hitler on the cover, and a rather romantic figure he cuts. Of interest here was the article detail ing, with illustrations, the emblems of Freemasonry by Mark Well. Also noteworthy was an essay by Stephen Dafoe entitled, "Do the Templars Still Exist?" Music is often the sub ject in this magazine, and singer Rose McDowell is interviewed.

ESOTERRA, The Journal of Extreme Culture, each issue·available for $7.50 US/$9.00 for eign. Make checks payable to Chad Hensley, 410 E. Denny Way, +22, Seattle, WA 98122. http://www.galaxy-7.net/esoterra.
Issue #6 (out of print>. uMacabre,
Occult, Satanic, Sexual" is how this mag describes itself. This issue is graced with a wild, full-color, psychedelic cover by Alan Moore, who also has interview. Other interviewees include Genesis P-Onidge, Strength Through Joy, sorcerer Andrew Chumbley and ·ground breaking horror author, lain Banks. Several pieces focus on the black metal musicians of Norway, and an extensive discussion of The Process Church promises to be merely Part 1 of a continuing work. Reviews and much more- each issue of Esoterra is worth the price with over 80 pages and full-color covers.
Issue #7. uDark Ambient Agenda" is
what's in store with this issue. This time around, the interviewed include Joe Coleman, Allerseelen, and others. Debbie Jaffe enlight ens us to the attitudes and feelings of a female submissive. The article by R.N. Taylor on the Process Church continues, and another exten sive article on strange cults is included. Interesting art on both covers.
Issue #8. uNoise, Nihilists, and
Nightmares:' Thomas Ligotti is interviewed and contributes some of the weird fiction that has made him one of the most respected figures in contemporary horror. His sometime-partner in dark dreams, artist Harry 0. Morris, lends his artwork to the covers and many interior pages, and Forrest Jackson gives us a run-down on the career of this mysterious writer, publisher and manipulator of strange and haunting images. There are other interviews, with David Tibet, John Wayne Gacy and lain Sinclair, and the third installment of Taylor's history of The Process.

RESISTANCE, available for $6 US/$8 foreign,
P. 0. Box 67, Hillsboro, WV, 24946, wwwresjst ance com.
Issue #8. This is a music and political

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magazine focusing on white racialist bands and issues. Very slick and professional, newsstand quality mag features an interview with David Lane Wodensson, author of "the 14 words.• And a little history about Scottish hero, William Wallace, known to most as the figure behind the popular film, "Braveheart.· Lots of reviews, inter views with band members, and dreamy pictures of pretty white women and children.
Issue #9. This issue brings us a history of
Skrewdriver, a look at skinheads in the military, racist cop websites, and lots more news and reviews. I particularly enjoyed Joachim Peiper's daring article about what it takes to be a real Aryan soldier; he decries the proliferation of tat toos and piercing by skinhead types, and char acterizes most racialists as undisciplined rabble who dance like savages to a screeching ''.A.fricanized cacophony" they call "music." Peiper sneers at the notion that such a group could ever, in their present state, aspire to form a disciplined militia.
CATALOGS &
SOURCES
S T O R M
P. 0. Box 3527, Portland, OR 97208-3527.
Blood@teleport.com. All checks/money orders payable to Storm; foreign orders, use International Money Order or USD cash in a registered letter; allow 6 weeks for delivery. All prices include postage.
This is the mail order and music publishing company operated by Michael Moynihan and Blood Axis, distributing recordings on vinyl and CD, books and merchandise of their own cre ation along with that of others. Their catalog is extensive; you can ask to be added to their mailing list for a complete listing. I've taken spe cial note of the following:
Triumph of the Williams by David E. Williams-a four-song EP on red vinyl, limited to 666 copies. Williams' dark orchestrations and wildly lounge-y delivery makes this worthy of any collector's top shelf. $6 US/$8 elsewhere. Williams' first CD, A House for the Dead, a Porch for the Dying is also available. Tune into the composer the' late lamented Fifth Path described as "Liberace with a brain tumor." $17 US/$20 elsewhere.
A new compilation CD entitled Lucifer Rising, includes Blood Axis, Allerseelen, Bobby Beausoleil, others. $17 US/$19 elsewhere.
If you missed Moynihan's Lords of Chaos, the
book that made history with its in-depth research into the Black Metal subrulture and the psycho logical and cultural forces that created it, then you can still snag a copy from one of the authors him self-hey, maybe he'll autograph it $18 US/$25 elsewhere. A promotional poster for the book is also available, and pictures a dramatic, full-color burning church. Perfect for your next Sunday school cookie sale. $6 US/$10 elsewhere,

M I K E H U NT
Michael Hunt Publishing, P. 0. Box 226, Bensenville, IL 60106. mmhunt13@aol.com. (773) 847-7100. www.mikehuntsonfire.com. Checks or money orders by mail; to order by credit card, call 888-303-KILL.
This is the upstart little chance-taking pub lisher who , first got in hot water with Mike Diana's outrageous comics. Now they sell all kinds of weird and unique books, recordings, etc. and you'll need to get a copy of their Monitor for a complete listing. But here's a few things you can get right now:
Dana Plato's last Breath a booklet and CD
with 70 minutes of interviews. If the tragic fall of poor little Kimberly Drummond from the sitcom "Different Strokes· interests you, here's a bonanza. $24.90 includes shipping.
Bettle Page Uncovered. a thirty-minute video
of the famous nude model, without whom thou sands of slacker girls would have no hairdo. Bettie's backroom posing and many and varied garter belt combinations helped formulate men's fetishes for several generations. And she had such a nice smile... $24.90 includes shipping. candles! Mike Hunt brings you the world's most unlikely subjects for memorial "bingo can dles," but that's the charm of it. Charles Manson-Helter Skelter candle. Mike Diana Christ Be Gone candle. Bettie Page-Domination candle. Inquire as to the availability of their two original candles, commemorating Anton LaVey and Aleister Crowley. All $13.00 each.

cargo Cult Books and Notions, 2804 Stuart St., Berkeley, CA 94705.
Science fiction, horror and media series books.

Mythos Books, 218 Hickory Meadow Lane, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901-2160. (573) 785-7710.
Pwynn@ldd net.
Books and curiosities for the Lovecraftian Scholar and collectors of horror, weird and supernatural fiction.

caduceus Books, 28 Darley Road, Burbage, Hinckley, LE10 2RL, England. http://wwwcadu.demon.co uk.
Serious books for serious occultists. If you'd
like to start building a library like the ones you saw in Polanski's "The Ninth Gate," look no further.

Trident Books, P. 0. Box 85811, Seattle, WA 98105. Wdevil@aa net (206> 523-4824.
Limited edition, hardbound reproductions of some famous old grimoires.

Night of Pan Books, 179C Norwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222. (716) 886-2271.
Mkolson@ibm net
http//www lector com/nop/nop/htmt Occult books.

Klno Video, 333 W. 39 St. Suite 503, New
York, NY 10018. (800) 562-3330.

http-//www kjno.com.
All those old movies you can't find on video? Kino has 'em. you can't flip through one of their catalogs without ordering something.

Sexy Shoes, Leslie Shoe Co., 480 N. Second St., P. 0. Box 48, Rogers City, Ml 49779-0048.
(800) 716-8617.
http·//wwwsexyshoe com.
An old friend of TBF, this company is still sending out those slim little catalogs of high heeled, spiked shoes. A haven from the chunky soles! They've also started selling seamed stockings with Cuban heels. Now where did they get THAT idea?

Gargoyles Statuary, 4550 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105. (800) 253-9672.
http-//www gargoylestatuarycom,
Step right up, getcha griffins, icons and chimeras right here!

Sdcken From Hell, c/o Room 13, 1997 Friendship Dr., Suite E, El Cajon, CA 92020. (619) 449-1313.
If you like stickers and tee shirts with a rather dark sense of humor. My personal favorite: "Rejoice! For We Have Horrified and Repulsed Them!"

Good Guy Badges were being distributed for a time by the Legion of Pan, P.O. Box 60804, St. Petersburg, FL, 33784-0804. you might want to inquire to see if you can still obtain these-they make great gag gifts.

GUEST REVIEWS BOOKS
lheDart( Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe. Morningstar Books, P.O. Box 4032, San Rafael, CA 94913-4032, 1995, 219
pages, $12.95, ISBN 0-9644873-4-9, softcover.
Phantom, reviewer.
"The Christian church has left a legacy, a world view, that permeates every aspect of Western society, both secular and religious. It is a legacy that fosters sexism, racism, the intoler ance of difference, and the desecration of the natural environment. The Church, throughout much of its history, has demonstrated a disre gard for human freedom, dignity, and self-deter mination Id., p. 1
The foregoing is just part of the introduc tion to an invaluable resource for Satanists and non-Satanists alike. This book should be required reading for every person of school age and, certainly, for the rest of us who may have
missed its release. In a mere 219 pages, Ms.
Ellerbe tears off the "Goodguy badges• millions of Christians hide behind and chronicles in great detail the horrors wrought by Christian rule. Page after page, the truth emerges about

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Christianity's ruthless intolerance for any other political or religious group and how, by hiding behind a false cloak of righteousness, the Christian church has justified the most horrific atrocities yet known by man.
In an easy to read and concise format, Ms. Ellerbe presents a stinging indictment of Christianity's fascistic bid for power which has resulted in the torture, imprisonment, mutilation and murder of millions of individuals. She also
sets forth Christianity's attempt to hinder and destroy advancements in the fields of educa

ing Christian starts ranting about the alleged ille gal activities of Satanists. Rather than waste your time in debate, simply throw this book on his or her lap and yell, "Oh yeah, at least I can present proof of the crimes your religion has committed in the name of God. Explain this!"
This book is definitely worth the money and will·fit in nicely on one's bookshelf right next to The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche and Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Do not miss this one.

amulet gives him the power to rid himself of all of that of himself that he despised. He is trans fonned into a warrior that looks and fights better than . anyone else-but in his destruction of his past, he does not realize that he also destroys his present In short, by not knowing his true will, he sets forth on his own destruction.

lnftuence--the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Oaldini. William Morrow & Co, Inc., NY ISBN 0-688-12816-5. 320 pages.
Ole Wolf, reviewer.

tion, technology, art, science, medicine, history

TIie Neverencllng Story, by Michael Ende.

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and commerce. No stone is left unturned as the church's history is revealed in all of its ugly grandeur: laws are passed requiring persons to agree with church doctrine or face execution; massive book burnings are held to eradicate "anti-church" literature; pagan celebrations are converted into Christian holidays; thousands are brutally slaughtered who simply adhere to other religious faiths (women are raped and killed, chil dren are not spared); the concept of "devil-wor ship" (as a simple inversion of Christian rites) is invented to justify the extermination of enemies; and the 300-year practice of "witcti-hunting" as a way to spread fear, hysteria and provide a con venient scapegoat-are just some of the topics examined. The current political influence of the religious right and its attempt to dub the United States a Christian nation is also mentioned as carrying on the tradition of intolerance.
As to the latter, Ms. Ellerbe presents some wonderful quotes which should send the Pat Robertson types into a frenzy. For instance, she cites to a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate in V97 c.e. which reads, "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" (p. 183). She also con cludes her work with this gem from our friend Thomas Jefferson:
"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uni formity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support error and roguery all over the earth <p. 185, 186)
Although she states that her book "is cer tainly not intended as a defense of or tribute to any other religion: Ms. Ellerbe appears to have a rather Wiccan and feminist slant Her view point is also much more anti-Orthodox Christianity than it is pro-Satanism. However, despite these minor biases, Ms. Ellerbe writes fairly objectively and is to be given a great deal of credit for her thorough research. Each chap ter is heavily footnoted and there is a lengthy bibliography for those wishing to further explore the topics presented.
Even if you are among the many who finds today's Christianity irrelevant, this book is sure to make your blood boil. It also provides vital ammu nition the next time some Goodguy-badge-wear-

Doubleday, 1983. ISBN 0-525-45758-5. 396
pages. $19.99; hardcover.
Ole Wolf, reviewer.
The story is about a child, Bastian, who has a miserable childhood. His parents don't care about him, and he is picked on at school for wearing glasses, being overweight, and not being too bright either. He escapes the abusive real world by making up fairy tales in his mind-stories of bravery, virtue, and knights fighting dragons. One day on his way to school he suddenly stops at a book store, where he steals a book called The Neverending Story. He escapes into a small chamber at school and starts reading...
The book cover depicts a white serpent and a black serpent forming a wheel by biting each other's tails. The first part of the book is written in green and red letters: green when the story goes on in Bastian's fantasy, and red when the story continues in the real world.
The first part of the novel describes a land of fantastic creatures that is haunted by the Nothing. The Nothing consumes land and crea tures, but is not of space and time. Creatures that are ·attacked" by the Nothing find them selves, not with holes in their bodies, but with parts of them that are simply MISSING-not replaced by space. At a point in the novel where the main character is very close to the origin of the Nothing, he observes how he himself and others are mindlessly drawn towards the Nothing, casting themselves into it.
As the story progresses and Bastian identi fies with the characters in the novel, the green and red sentences becomes interleaved, and suddenly Bastian has become unable to discern between reality and fantasy. In his imagination, he finds himself in the book-in Fantastica, as the land is called, and the text is now only in green. At his arrival in fantasy world, Bastian is given a medallion by the "Childlike Empress" who rules the world. The amulet, "Auryn," is generally referred to as "the Glory" or "the Gem Un the Danl!ih translation it is in fact referred to as "the Pentacle!") On the back side of the amulet is an inscription reading: "Do what you wish."
Bastian is told that he is the new hero that has saved the world, and by wearing the amulet he can do what he wishes. He interprets the inscription on the amulet as that he can do any thing he pleases, including changing himself. The

the sound of her young, and gathers under neath her a stuffed version of her mortal enemy, a polecat, which has been rigged with a small tape recorder. The familiar sound cheats the mother turkey into thinking that the stuffed polecat is one of her young, and she reacts mindlessly.
Robert B. Cialdini has analyzed the princi ples employed by those that influence and coerce others to follow their will, and concludes that man is indeed just another animal. Like our feathered or furred brethren, we respond auto matically to simple stimuli. A "trigger feature· is enough to activate a prerecorded tape, as it were, containing a sequence of behaviors.
The stimulus-response behavior is a "click whirr!" behavior in Cialdini's lingo, because you click a button, and the appropriate tape spins.
Such automatic, mindless behavior is the result of millions of years of evolution, and have proven useful for survival. Instead of being dis tracted by a decision landscape with an incal culable number of options to be considered, simple shortcuts often suffice. For example, if you're in doubt, it is often advantageous. to do what the majority does. Similarly, if someone offers you a gift or a favor, we have become conditioned to eventually returning the favor without stopping to think about it. While Satanists may initially shun such behaviors, it is worthwhile remembering that these behaviors have emerged because they were advanta geous, and I dare say, in general, still are.
Unfortunately to most, just like predators that trick their prey into a trap by posing as friends, each natural behavior can be observed and used by people skilled in applied psycholo gy. By pushing the correct buttons, one can exercise influence on a person to make deci sions whose importance is that of life and death to the individual.
Cialdini divides the means of influencing into six categories: (1) reciprocation, which requires a person to return a favor; (2) consis tency, which means that if you've made a com mitment, you'll stick to it; (3) social proof, where
social acceptance evidences success; (4) liking, which means that if you like a person, you'll agree; <5> authority, where titles and uniforms can bend your will; and (6) scarcity, the principle that if there isn't much of it, you'll want it more than ever.

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The categories are not distinct, and largely overlap. Surprisingly, Cialdini only mentions shared aspects between earlier described cate gories when he discusses a particular category, but doesn't discuss how a "bigger picture· is shaped. Nonetheless, his findings are at times very recognizable to those of us that have a his tory of being difficult to manipulate, but also at times astonishing. Who would have thought that the influence imposed by canned laughter is no different than that which led to mass suicide in the Jonestown incident in the late 1970's?
Cialdini is fully aware that our natural behavior has a flip side to its advantage, and states in the epilogue: "Unlike the animals, whose cognitive powers have always been rela tively deficient, we have created our own defi ciency by constructing a radically more com plex world. But the consequence of our new deficiency is the same as that of the animals' long-standing one This is noteworthy. Driven by a desire to be convenienced and having cre ated a highly advanced society by means of our "divine" intelligence, we only find ourselves as victims of what-based on our deeds-may best be termed stupidity disguised as intelligence.
Cialdini worries that by tricking our natures, we learn that our decision landscape cannot be trusted. Those who have read Antonio Damasio's Descartes' Error may recall the brain-damaged "Elliot,· who was incapable of advantageous decisions and behaved fright eningly like the Christian image of the ideal man. If we mindlessly let ourselves be influ enced, the future looks grim indeed. Cialdini warns us against those who threaten our exis tence by destroying the carnal instincts that have helped us survive. The feeling Cialdini is coerced to ignore is the feeling (in the pit of the stomach) that some of us get when we're about to make a mistake. He feels his very body being violated when someone takes advantage of him by exploiting his carnal instincts. Admitting to being the victim of many people that have taken advantage of him, Caldiani sees influence as exercised by psychic vampires as highly dam aging. He has but one advice: retaliate whenev er you can-exploit those that would exploit you (only!), and do not be guilt-ridden with concern for psychic vampires.
It is perhaps tempting to become one of the exploiters that use the herd to his or her own advantage. But, if you despise herd men tality, the question is whether you would truly want to be a herd leader, or whether you would rather not lead, and not have the herd around.
I recommend the book.

WIiiiam Monensen: A Revival. Tucson Center for Creative Photography ISBN: 0938262-33-5.
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
For the astute Satanist, mastery of the "occult" principles which affect human exis tence has little or nothing to do with memoriz-

ing medieval grimoires or dressing up to per form archaic rituals based on 19th century cer emonial magic. Anton LaVey realized that prag matism renders most old-fashioned hocus pocus ludicrous and obsolete, and as a result he formulated his own theories of modern magic which were largely based on his sharp and unforgiving appraisal of human nature. This isn't to say that LaVey did not have his own precur sors and mentors, but rather that they are invariably individuals whom the ignorant might never have realized were de facto Satanists, and therefore conduits for the dark current One such personality was American photographer William Mortensen (1897-1965). As Blanche Barton notes in The Secret Life of a Satanist: "A 14-year-old LaVey expanded his theories on visual patterns when he discovered The Command to Look by William Mortensen. Ostensibly a guide to picture-taking, the small book forever changed the way LaVey perceived the world around him'.'
This exhibition catalog represents a long overdue reassessment of Mortensen, whose com pelling work seemed for years to have been cast aside into the dustbin of history.Mortensen devel oped an elaborate and disciplined style of theatri cal photographic image-creation in Hollywood during its heyday of the '20s and '30s. Mortensen's pictures were widely popular during his own time, but after the ascension of the ideal of "straight' or "pure• photography via naturalists
such as Ansel Adams, Mortensen was bound for denigration as a "trick photographer" and, ulti mately, an irrelevant fantasist Yet it is exactly the element of foreboding fantasy, macabre myth, and
gothic eroticism that makes Mortensen's work so enticing, as he consciously strove to conjure allegorical forms from his mind's eye using models, a palette of infinite shadows, and delib erate manipulation of his negatives.
Although he was eventually castigated as a popular hack and later excised from the history books, subtle ripples of Mortensen's influence can nonetheless be seen in the pop culture underground of fetish photography and even the staged mutant dramas of Joel-Peter Witkin. Besides an array of rarely seen plates in color and b/w, this finely printed volume also presents three essays on Mortensen's life and work, illu minating his obscure origins and relations with notorious Hollywood legends such as Fay Wray and Cecil B. DeMille. The weakest text of the three is a tedious attempt to re-cast Mortensen as an unsung hero of homosexual collaborative art despite the fact there is no evidence in the slightest that this was the case. But hell, since "queer theory" provides an opportunity for such post-modernist web-spinning, it's no surprise to find intellectual opportunists riding the gambit to the hilt. A more fruitful and intriguing explo ration would have been to examine the genuine Satanic angle of Mortensen's ouevre, since LaVey was one of the only visible public figures to tip his hat to Mortensen after WWII. The

importance of the photographer for LaVey stems not only from a similar sense of aesthet ics and a common interest in both eerie and erotic imagery, and LaVey was impressively able to re-interpret a number of Mortensen's theo ries and apply their insight to the real world as opposed simply to the fantasy realm of the arti ficial. Thus the fundamental principles of "Sex, Sentiment, and Wonder" provide the enticement for the viewer's prurient eye in Mortensen's hierarchical universe of madonnas and mon sters, just as they do in LaVey's manifested world of witches and warlocks.
With Mortensen's well-deserved revival only now beginning to gestate on the cusp of the millennium, this tome will provide a new generation with a fascinating initial glimpse into the haunting image-laden realm of a seminal creative outsider. For those conversant with LaVeyan philosophy, this is an even more fruitful resource and the dark power of the photogra pher's obsessive work will be immediately apparent. !For ordering by credit card, call (520) 621-7968. Or send $27.00 postpaid from the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-01031

Adolph HIiier: Black Magician by Gerald Suster. Skoob Books Ltd, 1996, ISBN 1- 871438-83-9, 222 pages, perfectbound.
George Sprague, reviewer.
By now most are aware that Adolph Hitler had more than a passing interest in the Black Arts. Several authors have explored this theme and usually wind up on some extrapolation regarding the existence of modern day organi zations that are quasi-Nazi, are scheming to take over the world and bring Hitler back from the dead or Argentina. This book is not one of those. Suster's premise is that Hitler was not a madman since mad people are not in control of their faculties. Hitler was not very intelligent either, so the only possibility for his rise to power was that he evoked mastery from his subconscious.The methods employed were the ones ascribed to black magic. It seems rather ignorant of Suster to say Hitler wasn't intelligent or for that matter mad. Intelligence and mad ness often go hand in hand. Furthermore, bring ing out the contents of your subconscious does n't guarantee success. Unless you possess the intelligence and ability to act upon that which was brought forth you aren't going to achieve much. But there is a reason why Suster takes this position toward Hitler. Gerald Suster was a student and friend of the now-deceased Israel Regardie. Regardie was Aleister Crowley's sec retary, and was instrumental in the Golden Dawn revival of the 1980s.
Being a "white" magician, Suster can't bring himself to acknowledge anything positive from sources other than his beliefs. For instance, he mentions Dr. LaVey and the Church of Satan, states this is the largest growing reli gion of our times but no outstanding success

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stories, no important figures have emerged to affect the world. yet, he faults historians for ignoring the influence of the occult on Hitler because "occultists are not of consequence, no occultist having ever achieved anything of importance Therefore, Hitler could not have been into the occult! Suster mentions Hitler wisely hid his true affiliations with occult groups so as not to alienate the populace. Isn't it possi ble this is the same for prominent members of the Church of Satan who wisely keep private their true affiliations so as not to hinder their position and careers, etc? After all, Satan does n't require martyrdom!
No matter how objective white light reli gionists seem to appear, they just can't handle the facts of Satanism. We will always be held in contempt by these ones; we will be feared and spoken of in nervous tones and that is exactly as it should be.
Suster does a good job of presenting his case in light of his assumptions, though. He begins with Hitler's birth, what the world was like, what socio-political and occult philosophies were prevalent. He looks at the influences of Nietzsche, Wagner and Schopenhauer, of Aleister Crowley, and various occult groups in Europe and Japan. And he looks at the ways that black art rituals and ideas in general shaped the course of action that the Third Reich embarked upon.
The same is done with prominent figures in the Nazi party, notably Himmler, Goering, Heydrich, and Goebbels. Suster doesn't hide his contempt for the Nazis but insists on portraying all these influential characters as being lacklus ter and not too bright. Again, he seems to ignore the fact that there are different degrees of intelligence and just because some may not have been accomplished in their youthful aca demic endeavors doesn't make them idiots. This book is easy to read as Suster has a smooth, flowing style. I could have done without the moralizing warning at the end-"beware lest other Hitlers take over"-but I understand his position. He is, after all, a product of Golden Dawn morality! And there are some very nice pictures of Hitler, Himmler and others. The cover is quite striking: Hitler's face peering at you from a -dark background (a close-up of the Nazi eagle), under his face a red section with the title in black. Above Hitler's head and to the left a gold Nazi eagle and swastika, on the right a gold Horus, Egyptian god of war. Just the thing to leave on your coffee table when Aunt Martha comes to visit!

llte Complete Book of Devils and Demons. Barricade Books, New York, NY, 1996; 279 pages, ISBN 1-56980-077-4, $12.95, softcover. llte Complete Book of the Devil's Disciples. Barricade Books, New York, NY, 1996; 363 pages, ISBN 1-56980-087-1, $12.95, softcover. The Complete Book of vampires. Barricade Books, New York, NY, 1998; 366 pages, ISBN

1-56980-125-8, $14.95, softcover. by Leonard R. N. Ashley Kevin Shelton, reviewer.
On the surface, Professor Emeritus Ashley's series of books about the occult glitter with prom ise. Their veneer of comprehensiveness and their alluring bibliographical treasures beckon to the reader. .The author even reprints in Vampires Ludwig Tieck's classic tale "Wake Not The Dead," a necrophilous masterpiece that deserves greater acclaim from afidonados of the Undead. Professor Ashley does cast a wide net; unfortu nately, he also ensnares himself within it His labors are severely compromised by slipshod attention to detail, fatuous misinterpretations, irrelevant, irritating intrusions of personal opinion, saccharine moralizing and pious banalities ("Evil is real"l, and, at times, outright dishonesty.
Space limitations prevent me from fully detailing Ashley's auctorial inadequacies. Here, then, is a representative sample of them. First, the dates cited in his books are frequently inac curate. Second, Ashley is, to put it mildly, no friend of the Church of Satan's. While I do not fault him for that, I do fault his refusal to research the subject properly. In Ashley's simple world-view, Satanism is devil-worship, and noth ing else. He despises the Church of Satan, yet his best arguments against "Sandor LaVey" lsic) consist of smirky S-M innuendoes and snide comments about LaVey's pet lion. Third, Ashley bows reverently before all things Wiccan. He never thinks to question that group's ridiculous claims about its origins or about the so-called "Burning Times Instead, despite his preten sions to serious research, Ashley seems conve niently ignorant of recent scholarship, such as Robin Brigg's Witches and Neighbors, that vio lates his cherished assumptions. Fourth, and most damning, Ashley frequently fails to read the books that he cites, and thus pretends to a level of erudition he does not possess. For instance, he refers to Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story collection Les Diaboliques as a "short story," and he states confidently that Kenneth Grant's Cults of the Shadow appeared in 1926! Such statements prove that Ashley has never seen, let alone read, these books (among oth ers). He is, therefore, a liar and a sciolist of the lowest order.
I refuse to waste further time and space documenting this man's scholarly atrocities, except to add that his tone, attitude, and approach reveal no respect for his readership or his subject-matter. For these reasons, I recom mend Ashley's books only to die-hard com pletists. Everyone else should scan his works in the bookstore aisles, extract the few pearls they contain, and then leave them to the remainder bin oblivion that they otherwise deserve.

A Gulde to the Cthulhu CUit, by Fred L. Pelton. Armitage House, 5536 25ht Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA, 98105-2415, www.tccorp.com, 1998;
148 pages, ISBN 1-887797-06-8, $9.95, softcover.

Tani Jantsang, reviewer.
This book is written in true Lovecraftian fashion; that is, one does not know which per son referenced is real or not, or exactly when anything referenced was published before, if ever. For instance, what are Arkand and Zoltan? From which myth realm are these place-names taken? And was there really an "Etymological Considerations of the Cthulhu Mythos" pub lished by Mr. Pelton in 1945? This book imme diately puts a smile on the face of any seasoned Mythos aficionado and will probably make new comers drool.
The book claims to be a newly published set of theses that were written in the 1940's. I might tend to believe this, since the writer seems unaware that the octopoidal first spawn of Cthulhu still exist I.Rising With Surtsey). The writer is unaware of the short synopsis of mythos history as shown in The Black Flame (Volume 5, numbers 3 & 4l, or of the etymolog ical similarities between some of the mythos deities and names from other esoteric dark cul tures. Mr. Pelton seems also to have never read R'lyehian As a Toy Language, a thesis by Philip Obed Marsh proving that the R'lyehian we all know (and love) is a creole. This essay was praised by Dr. Burleson, a professor of literature, and Mark Zender, a professor of linguistics who has studied Polynesian and other creoles first hand. There is a long passage of translated R'lyehian as was first shown by Lin Carter of which Mr. Pelton seems unaware. IThe forego ing are all real people!) Oddly, mysteriously, two references, 29 and 30, which refer to the pre Adamic races alluded to in the Bible are miss ing. Perhaps it was too dangerous to give the references, since we are still around today and one of us is reviewing this book?
One other mention, someone might be inclined to tell Mr. Pelton, that the Aklo Tablets have been translated; they appear in Cthulhu Cultus, issue number 4. That monumental endeavor was to be undertaken by occultist Lin Carter and an unnamed member of the notoriu ous Church of Satan in the early 1970's. It was finally pieced together in the 1990's and, of course, published as fiction.
The rites in the book make for delicious reading, though this reviewer wishes they were translated into modern English. The remaining portion of the book contains the Sussex Manuscript. All in all, a great book!

camal Alchemy: A Sado-Maglcal Exploration of Pleasure, Pain, and Self-Tnnsfonnatlon by Crystal Dawn and Stephen Flowers. Runa Raven press, P.O. Box 557, Smithville, TX 78957, 1995; trade paperback, $13.00 (add $1.50 to direct orderl.
C.R. Dendy, reviewer.
We've all seen voluminous so-called "occult" books which take up shelf space and collect dust. These are the books that go on and on, page after page of mumbo-occult-jumbo.

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Once in a while, you'll see a small volume of very solid principles, a book that doesn't waste your time, or shelf space, a book that gets straight to the point and stays there. This is exactly the kind of book Carnal Alchemy was for me. You won't find any shabby I've-got-a-com plex spiritual nonsense within its pages. The authors lay down solid working techniques for a pioneering branch of sexual magic called "Sado-Magic.· What's more, Sado-Magic is examined from a historical perspective, and there's a nifty little resource guide in the back for your Sado-Magic equipment and contacts. Finally, there's a bibliography of general sex magic texts for further study, in which Blanche Barton's Secret Ute of a Satonist is the first book listed! Also, in Chapter Two, there is a highly positive and intelligent section on Anton Szandor LaVey, his life-philosophy and views on the dom inanVsubmissive roles in relationships, etc. Need I say more? This work is a small, compact. pow erful volume to be added to any Satanic library for serious exploration of Sado-Magic.Not only is it a tool for breaking societal taboos and herd programming, it's also a tool to free you from your personal taboos. In short: This is a liberating book every Satanist can enjoy.

MUSIC/ AUDIO / PERFORMANCE
Deepnet, Various Artists, Side Effecls/Soleilmoon. Side Effects, PO Box 83296, Portland, OR 97283.
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
A double CD of non-classifiable ambient compositions by a divergent roster of artists, many of whom have long plumbed the depths of electronic sound (Lustmord, Adi Newton, Chris and Cosey, Paul Haslinger, Monte Cazazza, plus a few relatively lesser-known enti ties, Char1es Uzzell-Edwards and Atom Heart!. Brian William's liner notes state, "It seems inevitable that individuals with integrity are the only ones willing and able to pursue their own vision, whatever the outcome.· These senti ments certainly apply far beyond the world of music, but they are an apt accompaniment to this release as well. Many of these tracks on Deepnet contain almost no referents to rhythm or any other aspect of what is normally consid ered popular music. They are far more akin to amorphous soundtracks, some more dreamlike and others more nightmarish in overall effect. Considering the primarily electronic nature of these works, one compelling aspect results as they conjure the imagery of organic processes and mutation, or in the case of Monte Cazazza's powerful "Extinction Part 1; the slow fading of life itself. The latter piece represents some of Monte's most evocative soundwork that has yet been released, and is hopefully a portent of the future. Adi Newton's project Psychophysldst sounds like the ambient counterpart to his more well-known offspring Oock OVA (as one might

expect>, Chris and Cosey's CTI contribution is on par with the best of their work in that guise, and Lustmord continue to explore the chasms of pure, reverberating frequencies they initially split open to expose on their previous albums. All told, this unsung compilation is one of the most effective examples of mood music in recent years.

Held,self-titled CD. Bastet Recordings, P.O. Box 170, 116 47181 Duisburg, Germany, or Heid
c/o Olsson, Sanatorievagen 11, SE-856 43 Sundsvall, Sweden.
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
An excellent debut of an obscure Swedish dark ambient project with a inclinations toward Germanic mysticism and the exploration of the shadowier nooks of the subconscious. This lim ited edition of 500 copies may be difficult to find, but they are due for a second album soon on Malignant Records. If their subsequent efforts evoke a similar vein of wyrd and ominous aural convergences as this initial upsurge, they are definitely worthy of continuing attention.

Actus, Sacro Sanctum, Cthulhu Records, Postfach 200465, 47424 Moers, Germany.
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
Actus is an acronym for "Archaic Cultural Tradition United in a Society" and the name gives a hint toward these Hungarians' interest in tradi tional European culture and spirituality. Their lat est album is a testament to the aesthetic victory of force, form, and depth over the superficiality and triviality of the modern age. The musical styles they employ vary across the album, but nothing is out of place-witness for example the traditional Hungarian folk instruments which cunningly loop through sections of a driving electronic backdrop on the epic "Babel Pit" Actus also make the fine commitment of singing all their songs in their own enigmatic native tongue, a rare feat during a time when most bands from foreign lands will automatically adopt English to hopefully pull in a few more listeners. Sacro Sanctum is also a historic release for Actus themselves, as it commemorates their tenth year of existence. The booklet is replete with stunning photographs from a jubilee con cert held in a castle for this occasion, and these add an even deeper dimension to the sounds on the disc. Resounding with uplifting choruses and melodies, this.is not music for malcontents or the perennially gloomy-or, on the other hand, maybe it should be. Very inspired, thoroughly unique, and highly recommended.

Ulver, Themes from William Blake's 'The Maniage of Heaven and Hell! Voices of Wonder, PB 2010, GrOnerl0kka, N-0505 Oslo, Norway.
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
Ulver have carved a name for themselves as the most unpredictable and talented band to emerge from the Norwegian Black Metal scene. Their vision of Satanism and their musical

experimentation have led them down a widely divergent path from most of their contempo raries. This ambitious double CD, based on the heretical writings of William Blake, delivers a dizzying array of sonic textures ranging from the familiar to the utterly unknown. From the outset it becomes immediately evident that this is no Black Metal recording, nor is it a pop record. Ulver have created an epic form of tone poem utilizing elements from a wide range of musical elements, all woven into a tapestry that dashes any easy categorization. Not for the short-sight ed or simple-brained; quite rewarding for the free-spirited and mighty-minded.

What IS Elemal, Various Artists, Middle Pillar, PO Box 555, New york, NY 10009.
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
This compilation aims to introduce listen ers to various bands in the increasingly overlap ping worlds of gothic, atmospheric, neo-folk (or call it "apocalyptic" if you insist>, and other "dark" musics. It is released by Middle Pillar, a distributor who specializes in these realms. Most of the bands here record for other com panies, so this not a shameless self-promotion for the label, and it is nicely presented in a fold out digipack type case attractively designed by Derek Rush. The sonic contents are sometimes evocative and sometimes not, but overall they make a positive impact and will certainly tip the listener off on which bands warrant further investigation. Highlights include the classically tinged The Machine in the Garden, Unto Ashes' quaint and nursery rhyme-like contribution, Tony Wakeford's medieval Quartet Noir, Dream Into Dust's eerie soundsc(r)ape, Backwortd's lush and folksy lament, and Lundvall & Wakeford's serpentine "The Big Nowhere• (which manages to arrive somewhere in the vicinity of incidental music for a film noin, and Zoar's unfolding and escalating "Beauty of Obscenity

Der Blutharsch, Self-Titled CD, Wir Kapitulieren Niemals/World Serpent, Postfach 596, 1060 Wien, Austria.
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
Over the past few years the Vienna group The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud stirred up significant interest across Europe before its two protagonists irrevocably parted ways. The band had blended elements of both medieval and military music, and Der Blutharsch, the solo project of Albin Julius (formerly The Moon's male half), picks up the latter strain with unre strained relish. Utilizing loops, samples, and even entire songs lifted from past mobilizations of the Teutonic war machine, Der Blutharsch resurrects the glory of conquest in all its guises, from its grim face on the battlefield to the drunk en revelry of the officer's cantina. Anyone aller gic to the idea of German world domination might best plug their ears to this clarion blast of millennial marschmusik.

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Sollnvlctus, All Things Strange and Rare, Tursa/World Serpent, BM: Sol, London WClN 3XX England.
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
This six song mini-album is comprised of otherwise hard-to-find Sol lnvictus tracks from compilations, a 7" single, as well as a release which originally accompanied a hardcover book of Tony Wakeford's large and eloquent lyrical oeuvre. "Looking for Europe" starts off in a nois ier remix from the album version. "A Palace of Worms· is a sound collage incorporating ele ments of Sol lnvictus and Evil Twin, a side proj ect of sometime-Sol members Karl Blake and David Mellor. Blake's forlorn reading of a section from Crowley's "Hymn to Pan" and Mellor's piano playing are both memorable ingredients.
The song originally appeared on the now impos sible-to-find Cthulhu Records compilation The Lamp of the Invisible Light. "Hedda Gabbier" is a cover version of a cynical John Cale number. The last three pieces, ·on and On," "The Coffin Road," and "Above Us the Sun· round this out
with both melodic and dissonant atmospheric qualities, linked together with a simple rever berating piano refrain. Besides being a nest of rare and sought-after songs, this is also a fine introduction to Sol lnvictus for those otherwise not yet acquainted.

Genltorturers, Sin City, Cleopatra,13428 Maxella Ave 4/<251, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
A number of years have passed since the first album came out by this SIM shock-rock conglomerate and attracted a considerable amount of press. Its predecessor Sin City, how ever, cuts a far more impressive niche for itself than their earlier effort. The songwriting has evolved into a trademarked style, a well wrought combination of electronics and sam ples driven forth by electric bass and guitars. Former Morbid Angel frontman and COS mem ber David Vincent provides the low-end founda tion and is a strong presence throughout. Frontwoman Mistress Gen's vocals are extremely bold and dynamic, and for those with an appetite for aggressive rock and perverse imagery, this will be a decadent treat. Even bet ter, catch their incredibly indulgent live show presuming the local authorities allow it to make a stop in your town.

11le Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoll Jamboree, Scarecrow Stuffing, Dark Holler Records, PO Box 9, Upperco, MD 21155-0009, email: spectrallight@hotmail.com
Michael Moynihan, reviewer.
The "spectral light" emanating from this wonderfully macabre curio of an album is guar anteed to cast as much in shadow as it illumi nates. Here is genuinely eerie music, played on traditional acoustic instruments and offered up without a hint of pretense. Founded by musician and illustrator Timothy Renner, TSLMFSJ nur-

tures its inspiration in the bygone hollers of the folk culture which was brought to these shores by early emigrant Europeans in the form of song and ballad, wrenched and mutated over the course of generations, only to eventually be abandoned or overwhelmed by an onslaught of more easily marketable forms of pop music for drones. Luckily there are still a few brave souls
· like Renner and his cohorts who are willing to give us songs of putrefaction and bone collec tors, death and damnation, with an occasional hymn to God just for good measure (or maybe as a last ditch plea after committing a desperate and bloody crime of passion), all finely played on clawhammer banjo, slide guitar, squeezebox, fiddle, dulcimer, and sundry other creaking and wheezing devices. You're not likely find this dark gem in stores, so write to the label directly for ordering information.

NON, GOD & BEAST, Mute Records, 429 Harrow Road, London W10 4RE, England.
A. A. Cederberg, reviewer.
This is the most recent release of Cos Magister Boyd Rice's NON, and co-conspirators this time include Douglas P. <Death In June), Rose McDowall <Strawberl)' Switchblade, Current 93) and Dave Simmons. God & Beast features somewhat familiar, but nevertheless relevant themes and concepts explored on var ious earlier releases by Herr Rice. Present are the symbols used by NON: the Wolf's Hook runes and the Totenkopf <Death's Head), this time accompanied by naked ladies engaged in various activities. The liner notes speak of man being both God and Beast, but that these two aspects of his being have been waging war with each other for centuries. The notes con tinue: "...But there exists, however, a long for gotten place in the soul where God and Beast intersect. To go to that place is to witness the death of one world and the birth of another... join me·.
The music is in the tradition of NON: cold and powerful soundscapes and rhythms, partly overlaid with spoken word. This stuff really takes you by the throat. Particular highlights are "The Law" and a new version of the classic "Total War," which is now harsher and more violent than the original version, much due to the added noise, raw drum-sounds, and more aggressive vocals. There are even some secrets to discover here, if you dare to look for them. Highly recommended.

Scorpion Wind, Heaven Sent, Twilight Command, a division of New European Recordings.
A. A. Cederberg, reviewer.
Boyd Rice and Douglas P. are at it again, this time along with John Murphy <ex-member of SPK and Current 93). The last time the two afore mentioned guys did something together (along with Michael Moynihan) was back in 1990, the result being the now-classic album Boyd Rice and Friends: Music, Martinis and Misanthropy.

Heaven Sent revolves around similar themes as explored on M, M and M, such as the Abraxas, natural order and even Martinis, yet doing so in a more lyrical and dramatic manner via the utiliza tion of the works of individuals like De Sade, Meister Eckhart, D'Annunzio and Jung to present their philosophy. This, coupled with orchestral and melodic compositions delivered via guitars, trumpets, percussion, keyboards, and samples, creates a truly unique and magical work. A per fect example of the world that Heaven Sent rep resents is the song ''The Cruelty of the Heavens,· in which Boyd recites a piece about the Gnostic diety Abraxas.The album ends with the eerie "Message...," that features the last messages left by a British girl, Jane Greenhow, on the answer ing machine of Jim and Debbie Goad, editors of the notorious ANSWER Me! magazine. Jane had sent the Goads her life's savings in money orders, and shortly after the above mentioned messages were left, committed suicide along with two of her friends.
Heaven Sent was recorded in Australia, so quite naturally the CD booklet features photos of Scorpion Wind alongside of Koala bears. So put on this album, pour yourself a Martini, and toast the world's funeral pyre.

NON, Receive the Flame, Mute Records, 429 Harrow Road, London W10 4RE, England.
A. A. Cederberg, reviewer.
The new release of Boyd Rice / NON, is more in the vein of his earlier works than the previous album, as it contains no vocals what soever, and yet it never fails to speak to those who are able to listen closely enough. It features eight tracks, beginning with ':<\lpha," ending with "Omega'.' To set the mood, the album overs feature obscure fetish photography and the now traditional quotes, this time by greek pre Socratic philosopher Heraclitus.
NON could be described as archetypal, organic music; it's the beautiful and terrifying sound of life and death, creation and destruc tion, sex and violence intertwined. It communi cates with the listener on a very instinctual level and reaches the very core of ones being, bring ing forth feelings one never knew exsisted in the first place. To call it ·noise· and leave it at that, is an oversimplification, but then again such reactions are to be expected, as this is music only the few among us can appreciate. So you'd better leave aside everything you think music should be like before you get into NON. It's worth it.

nae Nltha Fields, Various artists, ULTRA,
P.O. Box 11736, Atlanta, GA 30355, USA.
A. A. Cederberg, reviewer.
An excellent compilation CD conceived by Joshua and Karmen Buckley, and released by the new ULTRA label. The main theme and source of inspiration here seems to be Northern European Paganism, and features Fire + Ice, Lux E Tenebris,
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Alraune. Standouts include Waldteufel's "Perchtentanz" with its stirring percussions, and Blood Axis, with the moving 'The Hangman and the Papist", which was originally written by David Cousins at the beginning of the 19705. The layout is very stylish, and the CD itself features an image by Fidus, "The German Victory'; from 1919.

Blood Axis / Allerseelen, 7" Split Single. Stateart c/o Koch, Roseggerstr. 2, D-30173 Hannover, Germany.
A A Cederberg, reviewer.
The Blood Axis portion of this split single is an arrangement of the traditional Irish "The March Of Brian Boru". The version appearing here differs from the one on "BL6T", and is in many ways superior to it. This is much due to the electric and bowed bass played here by Aaron Garland, which gives the song a more aggressive and effective edge. Allerseelen per form "Kaferlied'; a "technosophic" tribute to the German writer and thinker Ernst Junger, who died last year at the age of 102.

Blood Axis, BL6T: SACRIFICE IN SWEDEN,
CD/ limited edition DLP. Cold Meat Industry, PO Box 1881, 581 17 Linkoping, Sweden.
A A Cederberg, reviewer.
A new release of Michael Moynihan's Blood Axis (famed for its album "The Gospel of Inhumanity"), BLOT consists of material per formed live in Linkoping, Sweden for the 10th anniversary feast of the cult label Cold Meat Industry. The concert was performed by Michael Moynihan on vocals and bodhran, Annabel Lee on electric violin and melodeon, and Robert Ferbrache on guitars and key boards. For those unfortunate individuals out there not familiar with Blood Axis, it could be described as the Will-to-Power captured in a web of sound, lyrics and imagery, synthesizing the traditional and the futuristic.
There is a wide range of material here, both old and new. The opening track is "Sarabande Oratoria," which features a speech by the English faustian fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, along with what sounds like a church organ playing a stirring melody. Other tracks include "Herjafather," a shamanic invocation to
Odin, "Seeker," originally by Fire + Ice;
"Electricity," one of the earliest Blood Axis tracks, "Lord of Ages," a hymn to the Persian Solar god Mithras, worshipped by Roman sol diers, selections from "The Gospel of Inhumanity," etc. Considering this is a live album, the sound is of suprisingly high quality, some tracks definitely superceding the original versions with increased bombast and aggres sion (particularily "Eternal Soul" and "Reign I Forever").
As is to be expected with anything put out by Moynihan or Blood Axis, the packaging and design here conveys a supreme sense of aes thetics and style. The cover features a painting by famous Swedish artist Carl Larsson called

"Midvinter Bl6t" ("Midwinter Sacrifice"), which depicts the king Domalde in an act of self-sacri fice at a pagan temple in Uppsala. The CD comes in a special digipack with a slide-out case, and a booklet that features woodcuts and color pictures from the live performance.
BLOT is an inspiring celebration of force and form, and is highly recommended.

Ordo Equlllbrlo, Conquest, Love and Self Perseverance, Cold Meat Industry. PO Box 1881, 581 17 Linkoping, Sweden.
A A Cederberg, reviewer.
The Swedish group Ordo Equilibrio are back with their third, and possibly most com plete release yet. Ordo Equillbrio ("Order of Balance") has been described as "apocalyptic industrial folk". This definition actually suits quite well, as their music ranges from powerful hymns like the opening track "Phosphorous Ascending / Anthem of Venus," to decadently ambient and ritualistic soundscapes such as "Mistress of Hourglass Figure," to more melod ic and somber pieces such as the stunning last track "Man Always Forgets.· The instrumenta tion is diverse, utilizing acoustic guitars, deep toned drums, chimes, celestial strings, jew's harps, moans, whips and many other things. The lyrics revolve around Natural Order, sexu ality (particularily of a Sadomasochistic or fetishistic nature>, misanthropy and other Satanic subjects, delivered by both a female and male vocalist. All in all, a truly unique, and thoroughly Satanic synthesis.
When I saw Ordo Equilibrio perform live, they were lit by burning torches, and had tied a topless woman at the center of the stage, creat ing a very strong atmosphere, both emotionally and visually. They reflected a perfect merge of power, beauty and sexuality-I was awed. Through Conquest, Love and Self-Perseverance you may experience the same.

Death In June, Take Care and Control, NER.
A A Cederberg, reviewer.
According to my knowledge, .this is the most recent album of Douglas P:s Death In June, this time produced in collaboration with Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch. Even though the music on Take Care and Control ranges from orchestral and melodic songs, militant hymns, and piercing soundscapes to more ambient pieces, there is an underlying feeling of whole ness here. This combined with masterful arrangements and instrumentation, and very elegant and poetic lyrics make this a truly evocative work. Particular standouts are "Smashed To Bits," "Little Blue Butterfly," and "Kameradschaft." The CD comes in an attractive digipack, and also included is a booklet featur ing complete lyrics and somewhat humorous pictures of Douglas and Albin in action.
I got my hands on Take Care and Control around last year's Winter Solstice. Where I live, the winter is cold and harsh, with short days and

long nights. During this period I spent an exten sive amount of time in solitude, reading, writing and listening to this CD, which fitted perfectly to such a noir atmosphere.

Burzum, Daudl Baldrs, Misanthropy Records/ Amazonian Music.
A A Cederberg, reviewer.
As you all know, Burzum is the musical project of notorious Norwegian Varg Vikernes, who is currently serving a maximum prison sen tence for murder and church burnings. Daudi Baldrs is a follow-up to Filosofem, and at the same time a musical departure from the Black Metal Filosofem and earlier albums represent ed. Daudi Baldrs is a completely instrumental record, done with synthesizers. It tells the story of the death of Balder, who in Norse mythology is the god of light and beauty. The story is accompanied by unique and very evocative art work by someone who goes by the initials of ''T.S." Unfortunately, the music here doesn't real ly stand up to such mythic scenarios. Aside from a few nice tunes, the six tracks are repetitive, pompous and far too long. To my knowledge, this album is intended as the first part of a trilogy, so let's hope the next one is more interesting.

Tbe Electric Hellfire Club, Empathy for the
Devil, Cleopatra Records, www.cleorecs.com.
A A Cederberg, reviewer.
Are you tired of rock bands that toy around with Satanism and Satanic imagery, but when confronted with it, take the apologist position of
·we don't really mean it," or simply don't have a clue as to what Satanism is really about? Are you tired of the ·no fun· attitude of many Black Metal bands, who take their Satanism so seri ously, that you can't take them seriously? Well, here is a group that takes the Devil's Name, and truly plays the Devil's Game: Satan's favorite rock band The Electric Hellfire Club is back with Empathy for the Devil: A Collection of Creepy Covers and Holiday Hymns. What has become known as the "Hellfire sound" consists of a unique mixture of psychedelics, rock, glam, goth, metal, industrial and samples, topped off with the malicious voice of Satanist singer/song writer Thomas Thorn.
This album consists of two discs. The first
one contains mainly cover songs, like "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Highway To Hell," that have appeared on various compilations before. The definite highlights are the previous ly unreleased "Devil Inside" and "The Bishop's Folly," <a new track that will also be included on the EHC's forthcoming album Witness The Millennium) that present a new, heavier EHC. The second disc features "Halloween Medley," which was previously available only on the hard to-find "Trick or Treat" orange vinyl.
Empathy for the Devil is the perfect soundtrack for your Halloween parties and other devilish get-togethers. The man down stairs must be pleased.

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ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR LIVES!-MARILYN MANSON AT THE UTICA AUDITORIUM,
Concert, May 6, 1997 c.e.
Phantom, reviewer.
'WELCOME TO THE FAMILY" an ominous voice announced over the elaborate sound sys tem, causing the tension in the audience to rise to a fever pitch. In fact, the tension had been ris ing in central New York for quite some time, ever since Rev. Manson and company announced they were going to play in Utica. Almost immediately, fanatical parents and even more fanatical Christians lobbied the local Common Council to ban the show and pro duced petition after petition denouncing the
·satanic teachings and practices" of Manson. Local priests and ministers desperately urged their flocks to picket the performance and to not let their youth be exposed to Satanism by letting them go to the concert.
The protests made front page news for weeks and even the national media showed an interest as the fateful date approached. However, the sheer idiocy and hysteria of the protesters was not lost on the media. In response to arguments that an outright ban on the show would be unconstitutional and result in litigation, one particularly vocal shit-disturber was quoted on the national news as stating, "I'm sick of hearing the First Amendment ... and free dom of expression!" Other statements such as "The founding fathers are probably rolling over in their graves thinking that the First Amendment protects Satanists" were prominent, such persons obviously not having read the article "From Prohibition to Precedent' in TBF, Vol. 6 t 1 & 2. However ignorant, desperate lawmakers in fact passed a unanimous (non-binding) resolution to ban the show citing Satanism that "might tend to pollute the minds of our youth" and promised to use or pass any law possible to stop the per formance. Luckily, there was not enough time to repeal the First Amendment and, after a last minute attempt to stop the show by citing to an unpaid $10 local licensing fee failed, the stage was set for Mansdn.
The Mayor allocated additional police offi cers to the auditorium and over 50 security guards were called in to keep the peace. To top off the hysteria, hours before the show, a bomb threat was made. Hearing all of this, I arrived at the auditorium expecting a barricade of Christians and irate parents. I soon discovered that, while the media would have one believe such lunacy was the majority mindset, the TV cameras outnumbered the roughly dozen pro testers who quietly prayed and held a large cru cifix off to the side of the venue! Having enough of the media and Christian circus, I unobtrusive ly entered the arena and took my seat to the side of the stage.
The venue and audience were much small er than their prior tour dates, probably as a result of Manson's decision to play several upstate New York cities within a short time
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span, although the audience appeared militant ly loyal. The 2,500 plus fans were primarily teenagers and with the multitude of inverted pentagrams, crucifixes and "666" symbols being displayed it was hard not to think of the event as an Iron Youth rally. Then, in a mass of distortion resembling an electronic symphony, Manson .took the stage as Antichrist Superstar and did not disappoint. Song after song the anti Christian venom spewed forth with raving and moshing fans screaming along with virtually every word.This was especially true during "Get your Gunn· (a veiled reference to the murder of abortion Doctor David Gunnl as the fans sang along to such LaVey-inspired lyrics as "Pseudo morals work real well on the talk shows for the weak, but your selected judgments and good guy badges don't mean a fuck to me!"
In response to the threat that he would be closely monitored for illegal activity, Manson ignored the heavy security presence and instead played into protesters' fears that he "openly advocated violence toward Christians· at his shows. 'We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism of Christianity!" Manson shouted at one point (a sentiment he would repeat to a less receptive audience four months later at the MTV Video Awards). Later, in reference to the lame bomb threat, Manson bellowed, "It's going to take a lot more than a bomb to stop the fall of Christianity.· He then lead the crowd through a refrain of "Shoot, Shoot, Shoot 'em Motherfuckers!" before launching into his cryp tic piece "The Reflecting God" which has its own share of apocalyptic lyrics:·1 went to God just to see, and I was looking at me, saw Heaven and Hell were lies, when I'm God everyone dies!" The good Reverend also performed a purely nihilistic solo version of Prince's "1999" which all Satanists should have in their private collec tions. Perhaps the crowning moment, however, occurred during the title track when Manson appeared in full Antichrist Superstar garb amidst a fascist backdrop of flags bearing his Antichrist symbol. Manson frolicked from the podium and mocked the Christians as he ruthlessly screamed the lyrics: "The time is come, it is quite clear, your Antichrist is almost here Repent!" before shredding a bible and tossing it into the mass of fans who hungrily devoured its tattered pages.
If ear-splitting music is not your cup of tea, the theatrics alone were worth the plice of admission. One backdrop at first resembled the stained glass windows of a Christian church only to reveal, when the lights were positioned prop erly, Saints violently impaled on steel poles. Other backdrops included an enormous American flag embellished with Manson's mag ical symbol (borrowed from the "Danger Electricity" signl. Not to be outdone by stage props, during his rendition of ·sweet Dreams (are made of thisl" Manson violently shattered a bottle against his chest producing a large gash. Blood flowed steadily for the remainder of the

night At another point, Manson cut a truly demonic presence as he mounted 8 foot metal stilts and crutches and crept across the stage bathed in green light Halloween-like distortion filled the auditorium between songs and there was no shortage of smashed equipment left at the end of the show.Three encores later, the rit ual was over and the crowd filed quietly out of the auditorium.
Much to the dismay of the Christians, no arrests or serious injuries were reported and life resumed in this small central New York city, albeit with a few more indoctrinated Satanists under its watchful eye. Agree with his antics or not, Rev. Manson is surely a vital presence to be reckoned with and his celebrity status has paved the way for many a CoS member to come forth from the darkness and be held in awe by the masses.
FILM/ VIDEO
DAIMAJIN, 1HE REIIIRN OF DAIMAJIN &
1HE WRA1H OF DAIMAJIN, VHS Video. 90
minutes each. A.D.V. Films, 5750 Bintliff *217,
Houston TX, 77036-2123 Phone:(713)977-
9181.http://www.advfilms.com.
Michael Rose, reviewer.
Imagine a hybrid of The Seven Samurai, The Go/em, and Godzilla. Actually, you don't have to imagine it, because that is what these movies are.
Combining elements of the Japanese giant monster movies and the Samurai movies, the premise of these films is that a powerful demon, Majin, is bound inside a huge statue resembling a haniwa figurine. When the victims of injustice call out for justice the statue comes to life, its featureless stone face transforming into the scowling visage of the Majin, and wreaks havoc on the unjust
It is appropriate that the first of this series, Daimajin, which translates roughly as "great demon; was produced in 1966. These wonder fully Satanic films show the force of justice to be Satanic. The "good" gods help no one. It is only when the call for vengeance goes out that the demonic Majin comes forth to set things right Another appropriate element comes at the con clusion of the final movie. As Daimajin departs, having destroyed the deserving parties, we hear nine resounding strokes of a gong. As the screen goes dark one almost feels like saying "So it is done!" having experienced the joy of seeing this "Monstrous machine of annihilation" smiting the unjust in the name of vengeance.
These videotapes are really well done, with clean prints presented in a wide-screen format with clearly readable subtitles. A final attraction, as if anything else was required, is the wonder ful music of Akira lfukube, who also provided the music for the original Godzilla. If you like Japanese monster movies, or Samurai movies, or just good Satanic fun you should add these titles to your collection.

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QUICK TAKES
This issue grew to be far larger than we expect ed, and, even at 80 pages, we had to cut a great deal of material which will have to wait for our next issue. I usually write some fairly extensive reviews, but due to. lack of space, must now take my cache of material and tell you that you should get the items I'm about to list-they merit your attention. Hie thee to Amazon.com.
My apologies to these worthy creators for not having the space to personally sing a hymn of praise to each of you.
Peter H. Gilmore, editor.
BOO KS
Lucifer Rising, by Gavin Baddeley, ISBN 0- 85965-280- 7. $16.95. Plexus, London, 1999.

Lords of CltaoS, by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Sodertind.ISBN 0-922915-48-2. $15.95. Feral House, USA, 1998.

15IS AND BE)'OND: 1he Biography of cedl E. Nixon, by Doran Wittelsbach. ISBN 0-966008-0-4. $16.00 + $3.00 shipping.BU A
Productions, V01 Broadway #347, Vancouver, WA 98663, 1997. (also available from Feral House)

1he Satanic Bible and 1he satanic Rituals, German language versions by Ingrid Meyer, ISBN: 3-00-004343-8 <.581, 3-00-005255-0 <-SR>.
Second Sight Books, 1999. www second-sight
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TRUE BLOOD by Charles Gatewood and David Aaron Clark. ISBN 0-86719-443-X.
$19.95. Last Gasp Books, USA, 1997. wwwJastgasp.com

llombshells, Glamour GIits of a Lifetime,
by Steve Sullivan. ISBN 0-312-16790-3.
$19.95. St. Martin's Griffin, USA, 1998.

war of the WOrtds: Global DlspatcheS, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. ISBN 0-553- 57598-8. $6.50. antam Books, USA, 1997.

Godzilla Goods!

Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo, by Stuart Galbraith IV. ISBN 0-922915-47-4. $16.95.
Feral House, USA, 1998. www.feralhouse.com

Japan's Favorite Mon-Sta', by Steve Ryfle. ISBN 1-55022-348-8. $19.95. ECW Press,
Canada, 1998. www.ecw.ca/press

Lovecraftlan Lore!

A Cllndbu MytllOs Blbllograplly & Concordance, by Chris Jarocha-Emst. ISBN 1-887797-01-7. Armitage House, USA, 1999. www.tccorp.com

Della Green: Allen Intelligence, edited by
Bob Kruger & John Tynes. ISBN 1-887797-09-
2. Armitage House, USA, 1997. www.tccorp.com

H.P. Lovecraft's 1he Haunter Of 1he Dark and other Grotesque Visions by John Coulthart. ISBN 1-902197-02-X. $199.95. Oneiros Books, UK, 1999. htfD://freeyellow.com/members6/ooeiros/jndex.
b1ml

Clhulhu CUltuS #6 - •• edited by P. Marsh & T. Jantsang. $10.00 each. P. Marsh, PO Box 85, Lehigh Acres, FL 33970-0085.
PERIODICALS
PANIK MAGAZINE, 996 Redondo Ave.,Ste. 626,
Long Beach, CA 90804.giblah@earthUnk.net

SECONDS, The Art of the Interview, 24 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 405, NYC 10011. www.secondsmagazjne.com
MUS IC
Nick Bougas presents Celebrltles At Their Worst, Volume 2, two cd's, Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God, P.O. Box 420464, San Francisco, CA 94142, USA.

L'On:ltestre Nolr, Tony Wakeford, TURSA, http://easyweb,easynetco.uk/-flux/

Project Thule, Cosmic Law, P.O. Box 40361, Central Station, Portland, OR 97240

Jesus of Borg, Crudmilation of the Human Collective, 325 SE Pt. St. Lucie Blvd., PMB 1, Pt. St. Lucie, FL 34984.

Rigor Sardonlcous, Rlsus ex Mortuus, Smiling Death Records, c/o Joseph J. Fogarazzo,
P.O. Box 77, Selden, NY 1V84.

Rigor Sardonlcous, Apocalypsls Damnare, Smiling Death Records, c/o Joseph J. Fogarazzo,
P.O. Box 77, Selden, NY 1V84.
Wendy cartos, Tales of Heaven and Hell, East Side Digital, 530 North 3rd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401. www.nosjde.com/esd/

Eric Kauschen, Daric: Knight of the Soul, Saundhaus, 3649 Lawton Street, Ste. 6t3, San Francisco, CA 94122. saundhaus@ao!.com http://members.ao1com/saundhaus
VIDEO
1he Devil's Rain, 1:26, 1975. VCI Home Video, 800-331-4077. Digitally re-mastered, widescreen format-with an Anton Lavey cameo appearance, how could you resist?

Straw Dogs, 1:58, 1971. Anchor Bay Entertainment, 500 Kirts Blvd., Troy, Ml 48084. Uncut, widescreen format-Pekinpah's classic tale of an intellectual who retaliates with force when pushed beyond the brink.

WESSELMANIA, P.O. Box 1611, Manhattan Beach, CA 90267-1611 USA. Each video is $25 (postpaid), $30 outside the USA (postpaid), Send SASE for free catalog.

New titles from that cutting-edge video misan thropologist. Don't miss 'em.

•TATIOO DEWXE: Portrait of a Tattoo Partour, 1:42, 1998. Observe those who give and get ink.

-SEX, DU1II and Ille HOU.ywooD MYS11Q.UE,
2:35, 1999. John Gilmore on the dark side of Hollywood, plus a visit with Forry Ackerman.

•SONG DEMO for a HELEN KELLER WORLD,
2:00, 1999. Inside look at a John Trubee rehearsal and recording session.
FILM
Boogie Nights-a Satanic fable which shows that one must embrace and develop his unique talents, and which warns of the dangers of indul gence becoming compulsion as well as counter productive pride. Brilliant on all counts.

Sleepy Hollow-Tim Burton presents Sleepy Hollow as Arkham, and Walken's Hessian is a monster of nearly classic stature. Christianity is portrayed as the source for malevolence and injustice, and each frame looks like a dark-hued painting of scenes from a Hammer horror film.

1he DeYWs AdYocate--Keanu Reeves is fine and Pacino is excellent as the kind of Satan we'd all enjoy knowing, who really understands the human animal and who dispenses some truly Satanic words of wisdom. Great fun!

11le Ninth Gate-Polanski comes home to Satan with this bibliophilic take on the usual Dennis Wheatley deviltry. Langella makes a suave Satanist and there's plenty of style and lush imagery accompanied by Kilar's brooding score.

Dark City-Intelligent science fiction noir where in one man fights to discover the truth about his own nature and that of his haunted, surreal world.

11le Matrix-How to become a God in a shared subjective reality which masks a monstrous truth. Quite an essay on magic for the perceptive. •

rNe invite our readers to submit reviews of books, music, film, video, or events which they've found Satanically significant-follow our format and email to JBf@churchofsatan com!

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lnTERVIEW

Gann: I remember his name came up a couple of times in connection with literary history classes at school, but it wasn't until I saw all the homage paid to him by UK music-maestros Coil that I was inspired to check him out more closely. I came across a spe cial edition of The Marriage of Heaven anJ Hell during a weekend trip to London with my friend Ihsahn (Emperor) a couple of years ago. Needless to say, I was awestricken.

ORWAYS UNDERGROUND
music scene is a veritable witch's cauldron. While the Black Metal which devel oped there in the early '90s
may have fanned flames both literal and figu rative, many of the bands endeavored to be little more than low-fidelity emulators of their genre's primitive founders. But that is far from the entirety of the matter, and for every few dozen substandard groups content to chum out two chord buzzsaw noise, there have been at least one superior confederation of musicians with loftier visions to pursue. Ulver is a perfect example, and are almost certainly the most unique and unpredictable band to emerge out of the Norwegian subcul ture. Their first album, Bergtatt (Spellhound), alternated between a Gregorian strain of com plex Black Metal and esoteric acoustic land scapes. The second, Kve/J#anger (Evening SongJ), was entirely comprised of baroquely rendered folksongs compositions with nary an electric instrument to be found. NattenJ MaJrigal (The MaJrigal of the Night) completed the initial Ulver trilogy, spitting forth a mael strom of amplified sonic lycanthropy. A beau tiful boxset of these first three efforts in pic ture disc format is available on European import. Most stunning of all may be the latest effort, The Marriage of Heaven anJ Hell, which breaks down all boundaries and will probably shock even dedicated admirers of Ulver's diverse past work. A massive endeavor inspired by William Blake's verses of the same name, The Marriage is light-years away from any simple categorization. Nor can it be dis missed as the work of dilletantes, for the musi cianship is impeccable and complemented by

a powerful command of modern studio recording technique. None of this is acciden tal of course, and the men behind Ulver demonstrate an intelligence on par with their musical accomplishment. What follows is somewhere in between an interview and a philosophical discussion, conducted sporadi cally via electronic mail during 1997 and 1998 between myself and Erik Lancelot (drums and flute) and Gann (vocalist and primary composer for Ulver) ...

To start off, please give us some background on the concepts heh.ind the music of Ulver. From where do you draw your primary inspirations?

Garm: Our first three first albums comple ment each other as different stages in a big musical play showing the dark and mysterious forces which lurk in Norwegian folklore. We often sought the natural environments togeth er, usually bringing with us an acoustic guitar, in order to get inspired to create a counterpart to the atmospheres which had already been portrayed many times in the old Norwegian faiiytales, the paintings and the traditional folk music. We wanted to describe the moods from our own angle.
With this trilogy now brought to close, we are playing with the idea of doing a new series of conceptual albums based on the writ ings of great visionaries. First off is a double CD featuring William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, taken from his luscious illumi nated texts.

Where was it that you first came across the work of Blake?

Both the hand name and the theme of Tbe MaJrigal of tbe Nigbt refer to wolves. What is the importance of the wolf to you? Do you admire wolves in a mythical or allegorical nature, or in a more literal sense?

Erik: The mythical wolf is a Satanic character. He is often pictured as a solitary antagonist, a representative of animalism appearing before humans to promote values of selfish
ness and brute force, as for instance in the tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" and certain tales of La Fontaine. The wolf lives in the forest, symbol of the demonic world outside the con trol of human civilization, and serves thus as a link between the demonic and the cultural, chaos and order, light and dark, subconscious and conscious. Still I do not by this mean to say that the wolf represents the balance point between good and evil-rather he is the pro moter of "evil" in a culture which has focused too much on the light side and disowned the animalistic. He symbolizes the forces-which human civilization does not like to recognize, and is therefore looked upon with suspicion and awe.

Gann: We see the wolf as an interesting sym bol in our art because it indisputably holds a strong position as the Devil's herald in Norwegian myths and conceptions. Lycanthropy, the metamorphosis of man into wolf, was believed by the pious in older times to be a disease brought upon them by Satan. When we then use the werewolf as source of inspiration it is because he depicts an "accom plishment" of soul which they do not under stand-:-the amalgamation between the animal and civilized forces in man. Our third opus glorifies this fiery crossroads and describes both the pain and pleasure by giving in to and recognizing the beast within. This metaphor in a unique way allowed us to spice the folk loristic aspect of the band with something deeper and more psychological.
From a more modern, prosaic point-of view the animal does of course not hold the same splendour, and would be no fun as it does not leave much to fantasy.

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Fantasy and imagination are a large part of the drama of tanism, whether it is in the form of aesthetics, rituals, or simply the interest in the supernatural. At the same time, from my point of view (and I would say this is also true of Satanists whom I respect), a firm grip on reality is essential. Reality must he acknowledged in all its glory and all its grime. There is a phenome non among many occultists where they become enveloped in a whole fastasy world of spells and ceremony, yet all of it has practically no hearing on the real world. I
recall one fellow I knew who claimed to he a great Crowleyan mage, yet worked full. time for $5 an hour flipping hamburgers to
pay his rent. Something didn't seem to add up in the equation to me. Given Ulver's use of folklore and fantasy for artistic themes,
how does this relate and apply to "reality," or do you consider art to he intrinsically separate from it?

Garm: No, I believe art and reality is inter connected. Ulver is like a projector that trans forms our emotional experiences into pictures that can stimulate artistically. This-is very evi dent on Natten.J Madrigal, where we have adopted images from old superstitions princi pally to serve the aesthetics. Despite this outre wrapping, the lyrics are essentially taken from my own life, not from fairy-land.
The drama of Satanism... very articulate indeed. Yeah, most Satanists have certainly taken some "artistic liberty" in using the title as there are very few "true" believers among us. However, since the empathy is so strong it's easy to get reverent about this most emi nent manifestation of antagonism to be found in the history of religion and literature. Besides, the dramatizing (to use your word) of the icon is helpful because it enables us to strike at the core of a religiously-oriented society and mark our position as their spiritu al opponents.
I'll probably have some Satanists frown ing by asserting our vanity is quite thankful for being given a "language" that so efficient ly alarms our surroundings to the fact that they are dealing with someone of a different nature. It can be a bugbear or a power of attraction, all depending on how the Satanist chooses to use his cunning. All in all, I'd say the Devil works our cause perfectly in con junction with the social, aesthetic and philo sophical.
Regarding reality: One must keep in mind that it is a relative and changeable term, especially these days. Reality will also be lim ited or unlimited all depending on the individ ual who makes the designs.
William Blake once wrote: "Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth," and it made a lot of sense to me..
I think art, as a counterpart to science,

can aid in broadening our conception of real ity by transgressing many of the barriers imposed upon us by our senses. With this I mean that it accesses spaces not otherwise accessible. Music for instance, emanates from the dark recesses of the mind and the senses; and it tends to hit you as more pure, pristine and resonant than the most well-chosen of words. It sails on elevated seas.
And hey, nothing wrong with a vivid imagination as long as you are aware of it. Your acquaintance was probably not, though. I recognize the type, and those scary occultists really frighten me sometimes (inter pret this as you want).
Ultimately, it all comes down to wits and breadth of vision.

Erik: What is reality? Is not reality something

each individual must create for himself? Reality is only that part of the outs de world which is registered by your senses. You have to decide for yourself how you will relate to it. Is not each individual a unique universe impenetrable to any outsider? Each individ ual stands in his own angle in relation to the world around him, and you can never be cer tain that your perception of reality is the same as your neighbor's. You seem to take for granted that we refer to the same thing when we speak of "reality," as if reality were a per ceptual basis mutually shared by all individu als. But your view of reality is but a product of yourself. "A fool sees not the same tree as a wise man sees" (William Blake). During drug intoxication, for instance, the outside world remains unchanged-it is your experience of it which is different: You relate differently to the world because you change the perspective from which you see it.

With this said, I of course agree with you that it is necessary to keep both feet on the ground. If material reality is uninteresting, depressing or in any other way unsatisfying, resolute, concrete action causing physical change is the only solution. Escapism is mis erable.

It's true that as soon as we start tossing around references to "reality" or similar concepts we may not ht> thinking of the same thing at all. You mention drugs, which are often used as a crutch for the weak to escape dealing WI'th "reali ty," hut 1' t seems you appreciate their possible value as a visionary aid, correct? The issue of drugs is a volatile one, of course, and Anton LaVey himself considered them worthless for his ideal of a Satanist (although he was mainly talking ahout strong mind-altering drugs, not more common substances like alcohol or tobacco). I would say they can he tools in the hancls of the strong, hut there's always a fine line with the issue of who is really in control in such a situation-the user, or the drug which is distorting their perception?
Erik: That is precisely one of the challenges with drugs: they test your strength. If you have the strength to tackle it, the experience of drug intoxication can be very educational and liberating-if you lack the strength, it destroys you. Drugs can be a ticket to heaven or hell, depending on the way they are used, and by whom.
But I see no reason to retain control all the time. In order to expand and learn, it is sometimes necessary to give oneself free rein and open up to new experiences with 'the playful curiosity of a child. I regard drugs as extremely valuable to this purpose. Note that "psychedelic" is synonymous to "mind-alter ing" in English, whereas the Norwegian translation is "consciousness-expanding." And that is precisely the nature of psychedel ic drugs: they expand your consciousness by breaking down perceptual barriers, enabling you to stretch the limits of your perspective. You live more intensely when you are on drugs, no matter whether it is your spiritual or physical activities which are enhanced. You comprehend more, you perceive more, feel more, touch the deeper essence, and you react more spontaneously and honestly to impulses. Drugs can simply help you reach a higher state of life. This makes inebriation a noble act.
Many Satanists will probably frown at this glorification, bearing in mind how easily drugs can be used as a way to escape from everyday life; but it is as you say: a drug can be a tool if used correctly. To the Satanist, whose ideal it is to live like a lion, enjoying life on the edge, calling for challenges because he constantly seeks to overcome himself, the state of inebriation can be a taste of the sub-

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lime, and thus an inspiration which can be used constructively as an incentive to make life more inebriating in itself. I can perfectly understand why certain Indian tribes revere psychedelic plants as sacred-these peoples regard the psychedelic state as divine, and I agree: it pushes your consciousness to a high er level. And needless to say, the experience of this marks your way of thinking on a broad scale, not just during the inebriation. Once you have experienced how intensely beautiful and vigorous life can be, this elevates your mind and opens your eyes to the richness of the world to a degree that may not have been possible without the initial psychedelic expe rience. Of course it is easy to fall into the clas sical trap, where life without drugs becomes dull and grey in comparison, and one becomes dependent on drugs to feel good. Again, this is a question of character and intelligence.

Gann: It is a fact that under the influence of certain drugs the threshold of consciousness increases. So a crucial question is, do drugs distort perception, or are we merely quite dis torted in the starting point? It is of course also true that drugs involve a certain danger, but so does Satanism, right?
Cautiousness is the name of the game here.

Do you consider yourselves to be aligned with Black Metal in terms of music and ide ology? Obviously some of your work, such as Kve/Jddanger and the piece on Souvenird from Hell, doesn't fit into any preconcep tions of the genre. Is Black Metal something you have left behind, or will it always have a hearing on your work?
Erik: Ulver was born out of the Black Metal scene, and on the trilogy, there can be no question about our alignment with Black Metal music. Our statements have also born evidence of related attitudes. However, bear ing in mind the way Ulver has developed over the years both musically, lyrically and philosophically, the label is becoming too limiting.
But what is behind Black Metal "ideolo gy"? The source of Black Metal is Venom: beercdrinking, base-minded rabble, icons of Heavy Metal idiocy. The essence of Black Metal is Heavy Metal culture, not Satanic philosophy. Just look at our audience: the average Black Metal record buyer is a stereo typical loser: a good-for-nothing who was teased as a child, got bad grades at school, lives on social welfare and seeks compensa tion for his inferiority complexes and lack of identity by feeling part of an exclusive gang of outcasts uniting against a society which has turned them down. And with Heavy Metal as a cultural and intellectual foundation, these dependents on social altruism proclaim them-

selves the "elite"! Hahl Could it be more pathetic?
We feel it is about time now to find a more mature form of expression and seek a more intelligent public better qualified to understand the philosophy behind our work. It is not flattering to our artistic vanity to see that the _only people interested in what we are doing are braindead teenagers.

Gann: Black Metal was definitely the decisive factor for both my interests in music and the darkside. But since the early days I have undergone many changes, and now find it dif ficult to see myself as a part of this "move ment" because a lot of the people involved fol low very fallacious and narrow concepts of life. I seek wisdom and perfection, and it can only be achieved-or rather, approached through open-mindedness. This implies inter-

ests outside what is common in the mentioned circles. A lot of deplorable developments have taken place in the scene since I was truly involved, and most of the people who now dominate this milieu are but a bunch of young 'n' stupid conformists with no genuine feeling for the concept and searching for an easy way to feel initiated to something "eccentric" and "special." I think Ulver has always stood kind of on the sideline, and it has lead to certain defiances against genre till now, but you've seen·nothing yet. With our fourth album, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, we raise a one-fin ger salute to the genre purists.

You have consistently used Satanic symbol ism on your releases, yet your music seems to deal more with themes of Norwegian folklore. What is the connection to Satanism? Satanism in the LaVeyan sense has always encouraged an eclectic and indi-

vidualistic approach to symbolism and cos mology, where the practitioner chooses the imagery that proves most inspiring to bis own personality. Would it he accurate to say that Ulver are Satanists, hut ones of a dis tinctly and overtly Norwegian character?

Erik: On the trilogy, we explore the dark sides of Norwegian folklore, which is strong ly tied to the close relationship our ancestors had to the forests, mountains and sea. The darkside of our folklore therefore has a differ ent outlook from the traditional Satanism using cosmic symbolism from Hebraic mythology, but the essence remains the same: the "demons" represent the violent, ruthless forces feared and disclaimed by ordinary men, but without whom the world would lose the impetus which is the fundamental basis of evolution.
Our use of old Norwegian imagery is not an end in itself, but rather a manner to sym
bolize our own thoughts with pictures close to our own traditions. We believe that the underlying, metaphysical source of life is essentially what "white light" religions have regarded as "evil" because it is ruthlessly and aggressively vital, untamed by any restric tions lest they be the morals imposed by "rea son" or "culture" in order to subjugate the expansion of force.

How did you arrive at such a philosophy? Much lip-service is paid to "Satanism" in the Black Metal subculture, yet very few of these people have any clear understanding of it. They merely appropriate the most superficial trappings, exaggerate them in often ludicrous ways, and then attempt to hack it up with a hodge-podge of beliefs that demonstrate more of a Christian dual istic outlook than anything else {for exam ple, their obsessions with cbildish notions of being as "evil" as possible) and so forth. You seem to he coming at it from an entire ly different, and more intelligent angle. How did you arrive at your present point of-view?

Erik: Black Metal was the gate. As a 13-year old Heavy Metal fan, I developed an interest for more and more extreme forms of Metal and got involved in.the Death/Black Metal underground, on purely musical grounds. As I got involved in bands using Satanic and occult imagery, I discovered that the symbols they used, both visually and lyrically (if Metal can be called "lyrical'), exercised a strong influence on me. I started studying Satanism more seriously-I read La.Vey, contacted the Church of Satan, the Order of Nine Angles and a few other similar organizations, and was via them introduced to the thinking of Nietzsche, Spengler, Sade, Jung,. Ragnar Redbeard, Herbert Spencer and others. It did

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not take me long to realize that the Metal milieu had a superficial, infantile and idiotic interpretation of Satanism. My dedication to Black Metal has now left, but the fascination with Satanism and related thought lives on.

Garm: It's pretty much the same story as Erik tells above, but I still have my long hair and wear black leather-underwear with spikes.

Do you consider Christianity in Norway something that should be battled against? The more notorious proponents of Black Metal often spoke of their actions as being part of some kind of modem "holy war." Can any of this be taken at all seriously?
Garm: Nah, the way I see it, it's not necessar ily beneficial for the Satanist to actively pur sue Christianity. The Christlings legislate for the weak and worthless with humility, charity, subordination, guilt and the taking of the world's burdens upon one's shoulders on their agenda. This is just too easy for one of the Devil's party to take advantage of. The fact that they advocate such degenerate morals ironically prevents them, with a few practica ble exceptions, from doing anything at all to put out the emancipated spiritual fire in him. Instead they believe they can talk(?) him into changing his mind. Hello I Anybody home1
Given these conditions, society is to the
cold, calculating scrupulousness of the heretic mind a playground of infinite possibilities. I don't mind keeping it that way.
Besides, what's really the point in prosely tizing? In case of success, the world would soon tum a very nasty place to live, and the Satanist would no longer be able to touch those stars undisturbed. There's too much hullabaloo involved in those idealistic concepts anyway. I choose to retain my self-control.
An appropriate example of the possible consequences of such futile aspirations is the case ofVarg Vikemes (Burzum). I have much respect for this man's conviction and courage, but not his sense of reality. His precipitate enthusiasm made him his own "Judas." The picture of perhaps a hundred militant "Satanists" believing they can start some "Jihad" armed with Heavy Metal and some matches is pathetic.
Those attacks on Christianity hold only amusement value to me. If Christianity should be waning it would rather be by self inflicted blows than those of a few headban gin' iconoclasts. After all, we live in the end of the second millenium and most people actual ly seem capable of smelling rotten fish. Look around you. Christianity has nothing to offer the young people of today. I'm starting to think it'll die with our parents. Meanwhile I oppose it by growing in my knowledge.

Erik: Christianity is but one expression of

herd mentality, and to battle against it is like battling against the nature of society. For as long as organized human societies exist, there will always be a division between the uncon scious masses and conscious individuals. The Christian religion may wither and die, but only to be replaced by another philosophy glorifying the qualities of the herd. It lies not in the nature of the herd to live according to elitist ideals-their nature is to be cogwheels in the machinery of society, and the fact they follow a philosophy which glorifies this quali ty is aesthetically nauseating to the heretic, but still necessary for society to function.
The Satanist is an observer of society to him, the world is like a stage, in relation to which he chooses sometimes to be a spectator, other times a participant, according to his will. He can watch from the outside and laugh, cry, sigh or applaud depending on the effect the scenery has on his emotions, or he can throw himself into the game for the thrill, but his nature is always that of the watcher, the artist. He is not overly concerned with

changing society, for his commitment to humanity is minimal. So no, I do not bother to battle against Christianity. In what ways does it affect me1 It 6lls me with disgust. But I feel no urge to take the role of a Messiah, teaching the blind how they should live.

I agree that a genuine Satanist should not be particularly committed to any kind of abstraction like "humanity," but you seem to be saying that he should maintain a passive disposition toward his surroundings, unless involving himself temporarily "for the thrill." Satanists, to me, would be those who effect reality in some tangible way, in aa:or dance with their will-those who punue their own goals and spread inHuence where they deem it appropriate. The opinions of society should not necessarily be anything they acknowledge (and much of the time they must act contrarily toward popular mores), hut they should operate in an aggres sive and quite non passive manner in order to seize what they desire and move reality into aa:ordance with their personal vision.

Erik: I do certainly not mean that one should adopt a fatalistic attitude and let anything go-the Satanist should not flinch from acting aggressively in order to obtain what he wants. What I am trying to say is that the Satanist stands aloof from the society he lives in. If he acts sometimes accordingly, at other times contrarily towards popular mores, it is pre cisely because he, as a heretic pariah, is free, detached, not only from the values and norms of society, but from any value or ethic in gen
eral. This, however, does not imply that he is passive. On the contrary, his conduct can be quite ruthless when he involves himself in the game of life.

Garm: My attitude here is that a sense of humour often saves the day. Without one the disappointment will be thorough.

Your second release, Kve{i).,,,Janger, clearly has a traditional/archaic feeling to it, hut the third album is fast, noisy, abrasive, and heavily centered on electric guitar. The con-

nection to your native Norway is evident from the subject matter of your songs, but is the music itself distinctly Norwegian?

Erik: I would not say that. Our music is the result of our own moods and emotions. As explained earlier, the folkloric symbolism is merely a way to clothe our thoughts. Still our bonds to Norwegian nature and its spirit strongly affected everything we did on our first three albums. Most of the material on Bergtatt was composed on a weekend trip to Valdres, where Garm's family had a cottage until recently, and the twilight/night ambi ence of the forest there is very present in the tones and harmonies of the riffs. KvefJJJanger was likewise created in a period of strong absorption into ancient Norwegian fairy tales and mysticism, and is therefore strong ly marked by our state of mind during the making of the album.
We were at the time naturally susceptible to the relationship our forefathers had to the world that surrounded them; their affiliation to nature was truly mystical.

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Garm: Our trilogy was conceptualized around subjects which normally date quite some time back in the histoiy of our lands. Many of our traits were typical for the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, when Norway was still united with Denmark. This was an excit ing epoch in which many of our foremost artists from the National-Romantic school of thought lived and were creative. But distinc tively Norwegian... what can I say? Heavy metal doesn't really belong in this picture, besides I believe it was a black guy who first invented the guitar.

The disc design on Nalten., MaJrigal promi nently features the wolfs hook rune. What is its meaning for you?

Erik: The wolf's hook symbolizes the interac tion of opposites, the dynamic process that results from the conflict between opposing forces -dark and light, evil and good, intu ition and rationality, instinct and reason, ani malism and culture, beast and civilized man. In the context of NatteflJ Madrigal, it becomes a symbol of lycanthropy-the awareness that the human being is a battle between primitive instinctual drives and the mind's striving to transcend them. The lycanthropic metamor phosis represents the animal reminding the intellect that the veiy basis of the mind's will to transcend the primitive is precisely a prim itive instinct of domination, of will to power, which stems from the animal nature of man.

How literally do you take such concepts of lycanthropy? Here you appear to be speak ing in a largely symbolic way, but is there a more visceral level on which such concepts function, and are the results something to be admired? In most societies a revenion to wol.6shne88 and surrendering oneself to truly animalistic or bestial impulses is a quick ticket to prison. Where do you draw the line, and is it identical to the one drawn by the forces of legal authority in the land?

Erik: How literally... I believe I am a wolf,
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Gann: It's true, I've seen him at midnight. No, seriously. Throughout hi.stoiy a variety of people from different cultures have attempted to define the phenomenon of lycanthropy. This has resulted in a term canying many notions, ranging from "scientific" to poetic, from shamanism to psychiatric case histories etc. Brother wolf is to us a potent and forceful totem to identify with. We can be inclined to believe in a potential psychological effect of such identification. That's about as visceral as it gets.
I have of course read the stories about wolf-children, the werewolf trials in times past, etc., and I guess most of these cases were

mixed up with some heavy duty madness; a state of mind that always tends to fascinate, but doesn't exactly call up my admiration. However, they are good stories and remain compelling in other ways, for instance as inspiration for artistiy.
Speaking of lunacy; a term deriving from the oldet lunar disease... Earlier this "illness" was believed to vaiy in intensity according to the different phases of the moon. When she was full, the lunatic was supposed to topple over and surrender to the darkside. This is an interesting myth, as it seems like lycanthropy is but a more specified division of the same "disease."
The world of the natural wolf may seem dull compared to all this mythical hocus pocus, but when observing it more closely I think we can allow ourselves to get a little social-anthropological. The fearless hunter of old is today a secluded animal, entirely dislo cated from the eco-system. The wolf is now acting more reserved than ever before -in all likelihood because it has understood that men are out for its blood. Since it is expelled from its surroundings it is left with no other option than to act craftily. It never goes for the sheep without having ensured that there are no peo ple around. Satanists are the "wolves" of soci ety, and if one, like our brother in the wilds,
desires to pluck forbidden fruit with impunity one needs to be sly, and possibly brave as well. I won't draw any lines.

In the past I know you have said the music you create is best described by the Norwegian word "trolsk." How would you best de6ne this in English? Does it still ade quately describe Ulver?

Gann: If you look this word up in a diction aiyyou will find the translation "trollish." The reason why we chose to use this adjective in Norwegian is because the English version easily may be misinterpreted. English-speak ing people might link the word directly to the troll, a well-known creature in Nowegian mythology; but this would not be accurate. "Trolsk" is a word that has strong connota tions in Norway, and it refers more to an atmosphere than something palpable like the creature itself. It is an expression closely con nected to nature and its effect on the minds of those who wander in it by twilight when the forest is draped in a play of shadows, and the soft night-breeze is muttering with unknown whispering voices beckoning you to join them. It represents sensations of eerieness and hostility, and is an omen of the night-powers. We couldn't find a more appropriate word with which to describe our music as those moods were essential to what we were doing at the time.
Nevertheless, we will not describe our
future works with this term as we have now

completed a chapter of our career, and desire to walk new fields.

"Trolsk,'' as you implied, also carries conno tations of witchcraft and magick. Are these traditions merely intriguing fantasy materi al on which to base artistic creations, or do you acknowlege the supernatural as some thing which can be harnessed by the compe tent individual?

Erik: My interest in Satanic/occult symbols is of Jungian/psychological character. I regard these as archetypes representing ideas or principles-using them in art provides a pic torial way to describe our thoughts on certain aspects of life.
An archetype can produce massive changes in the physical world-in this sense, an abstract principle can be said to function as a "force," exercising influence both on indi vidual and supra-personal levels in society. Strong individuals can help advance/promote principles, or even create new ones. A con crete example of this is how the ideology of Nazism changed the histoiy of the world, and the well-known theoiy seeing Hitler as a medium channeling certain forces lying in the collective subconscious of the German people. But I am here speaking of how arche types and humans interact on a higher level, in a Jungian or Hegelian sense. I have no belief in "magi.ck," "rituals," etc. I regard it as ridiculous to believe that an individual can cause someone to die by reciting a spell, or that you can find a girlfriend by burning can dles, locked up in your apartment. When it comes to harnessing the supernatural, I,think science is doing this to a far greater and more impressive degree than any occulti.st has ever done. With today's achievements in technolo gy, we can actually fly, we can communicate with anyone anywhere on the planet, we can manipulate and create life and send people out in space. This would seem like magic to anyone coming from a less advanced culture. The mathematical formulas used by astro physicians to explain in minute detail the processes that occured under the Big Bang, can be viewed as "magical formulas" describ ing the creation of the Universe. I find this far more fascinating than the vague and obscure
mysticism of the Quaballah, for instance.

Gann: It is interesting to note that Jung often refered to his creative "daimon." It was his metalanguage. "Trolsk" is/was ours.
To help emphasize our view on magic -I'll borrow some appropriate words by William
S. Burroughs: "Magic, in the light of modern physics, quantum theoiy and probability the oiy is now approaching science. We hope that a result of this will be a synthesis so that sci ence will become more magical and magic more scientific."

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Agreed. Technology is magick, to he sure, hut again the issue of control comes into the picture. As long as the technology is har nessed to the will, it is a magical tool. But when one becomes harnessed to the tech nology to the degree that life itself loses its inherent magic, then you have merely fallen into a new form of slavery. Man forever teeters on the edge of such an ahyss.

Erik: I understand your point, but I think the positive aspects of technology by far outweigh the negative. I see science and technology as tools which will help man transcend the limits of nature. The technological revolution we are witnessing is as fundamental as the Industrial and Neolithic revolutions were in their times. We stand at the threshold of a new age ("aeon") where man, to a far greater degree than ever before, will have the possibility to set his own standards and decide for himself how the world he live!t-fo should look like genetic technology may even give us the pos sibility to decide over our own physical char acteristics. Technology will give man possibil ities which we still cannot even suspect the range of. A negative consequence of this may be the danger of becoming dependent on tech nology, but I do not consider this any worse than being submitted to nature, as we were in elder times. Technology offers more freedom than slaveiy.
It is interesting to see the development of science and technology in light of the myth of Adam and Eve. As known, the snake said to Eve that if God forbade them to eat from the tree of knowledege, it was because he feared that by doing so, they would "become as God and know good and evil." That is precisely what is happening now: with the help of sci
ence (knowledge), we are gaining the powers of God. In this respect, Satan is the Christian Prometheus.

Gann: Evolution has taken a prodigous turn and is now driving the digital highway. I'm in the front seat anxious as a kid. Cybernetics are taking over the world, and eveiything we know will be customized to the digital market. Pessimists would say that what we're about to accomplish, genetic technology for instance, is unnatural and will have fatal consequenses, blah, blah, blah. This is gibberish. Nature is only the given name for billions and billions of particles playing their infinite game. We are part of this game and with modern technolo gy as our newest tool we play out our role as nature's most clever and capable organism. We were not born into this world with claws, but brains. It is said that the human thought came into being when the need for weapons arose. This was something we needed because we were fundamentally veiy fragile against the big ugly world, physically speaking. Since the age of "ugh-ugh" the human mode of liv-

ing has naturally advanced, and modern tech nology is just a new remedy to help us get on in the world.
But of course there will be problems in the wake of this new revolution. I think the overkill of information will lead to an increas ing flow of decadence and cultural chaos in society, and psychology will probably prove to be a lucrative profession in the future. The average American consumer will become as ignorantly enslaved to the new stuff as they are to the Ricki Lake show, but what else is new? There will always be garbage-people. Well, unless of course genetic technology can elimi nate the problem. I think I qualify as a bit more conscious than the average mongrel, and even though the methods and techniques of living may be different in the future, I will surely continue to take pleasure in the details of life and its enormous dynamic vigour; which to me is a neverending magic-spring. My computer is definitely my muse nowadays.

What qualities distinguish the sound and outlook of Ulver from other extreme or

Black Metal hands in Norway? Have you received any attention from those beyond the Black Metal scene? Your music certain ly transcends any such simplistic labeling.

Garm: Ironically our most distinct quality is that we are indistinct (I), since our music and sound varies so much from one opus to anoth er. On social levels I think we have earned some points through the self-irony that blends in with the more solemn sides of our work, and yes, we have recieved positive attention from other groups in cultural society that are not so convulsive as the "blacksters." The fact that "outsiders" seem to like what we're doing is a declaration I value veiy much and it forti fies my belief in our work.

Does the music of Ulver serve a function beyond enjoyment or expression? What would your lives he like without it, and does it satisfy all of your creative drives?

Erik: Our attitude is to use Ulver as a channel
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to express certain feelings and thoughts. There is no purpose beyond that.

Garm: I have no more profound purpose than to keep myself away from the terrible fate of boredom. I think the striving for enjoyment is one of the main driving forces in all people, and to create in Ulver is one of many ways for
me to accomodate this desire. My life without it would be different, to say the least. If such a striving for enjoyment is inherent to all humans, why do so many of them settle for such a pathetic lot in life?

Erik: Simple people enjoy a simple life.

Garm: The emotional life of a Satanist is a turbulent one, and he must strive harder than most to find happiness because he is not, like the simpleton, amenable to bullshit. The igno rant bastards out there go about with a big happy grin on their face, simply because they don't know any better. Happiness comes easy when you can be soothed by a bunch of pathetic lies.

Wisdom and happiness are not well acquainted. Remember Faust.

Erik: "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he, that increaseth knowledge increaseth sor row." (Ecclesiastes 1,18)

[Tbe Marriage of Hearen and Hell was released on Ulver's own label, Jester Records, on September the 1st, 1998. It is distributed in Europe by Voices of Wonder, Postbox 2010, Griinerlfl.lkka, 0505 Oslo, NORWAY.
Fax +47 2271 7587]

May Ulver long haunt you, and may;the wolves forever hunt their prey...
Michael Jenl.:w Moyf'il>a,i·· ,,.,,,

Toward a New

By Robert Rust
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urbanization.
The original Woodstock crowd, them selves a herd of followers,_nonetheless largely ignored the cameras aimed at them by docu mentary filmmakers. Our current crop of video-enthralled zombies, however, when in the presence of MTV cameras, stood trans fixed in reverential awe, as if gazing into the eyes of the All-Father. The sheeplike submis siveness and cookie-cutter conformity of peo ple at the age where hyper-aggressiveness should be the norm is difficult to comprehend and frightening to consider. Even the peace worshipping hippies of yore, sedated by mar ijuana or in an acid trance, seem marauding deviants in comparison.
The most amazing moment I bore wit

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Army allegedly inundated Patty Hearst with loud rock music at selected intervals in order to wear down her resistance and eventual
ly break her, allowing her to be as putty in the hands of her captors. I know that I personal ly, after having endured a full work day of "classic rock" blaring from a radio on a work site, have felt far more enervated than I would have working in silence.
Physiological studies have shown that loud rock music has a weakening effect on the human heart. Similarly, bass-heavy modem dance music has been shown to have a neg
ative effect on the internal organs and
reproductive systems of the listener. It is hard to imagine that the driver of a car booming rap music so loud that the con crete shakes is not splintering his bones, dis torting his heartbeat and scrambling his pre hominid cerebral cortex. This is fine for him - unfortunately, I have to share the same planet with this genetic Twinkie and his ilk. And it is harder and harder to find sanctuary.
Indeed, all modem pop culture serves only to disorient and engage the multitudes, so that their susceptibility level remains high and they will keep on buying in.
It is interesting to note that from the dawn of rock'n'roll, as music has become louder and more dissonant, the average listener has grown ever softer and more suggestible, and ever less capable of independent thought or action.
I recall being in high school in the 1970's and looking around a 20,000 seat stadium during a Black Sabbath concert and seeing not a single person who was not wearing blue jeans. Certainly there is a far greater diversity of dress and thought at any symphony orchestra concert.
From the late 50's onward, youth culture has always purported to be about "rebellion" and "freedom" while those on the receiving end of its huge profits carefully orchestrate the style, attitudes and values of its various subcultures. But this phenomenon has now reached a level of absurdity that strains the imagination.

How bad has it gotten?
It's hard to say exactly. My last close-up look at the horrific face of modem youth occurred in 1994 when I had an opportunity to view "Woodstock '94," a pathetic, "updat ed" mass exploitation of the "historic" 1969 outdoor rock festival, only this time featuring a contemporary parade of future has-beens.
I caught only ten minutes of Woodstock '94 on MTv; but what I did catch was telling. All one had to do was witness the horde of lifestyle-purchasing baby busters and their utter mesmerization by giant video screens beaming out images of their ons e musical deities to wonder how long it will take the U.S., like the Mayan civilization, to fall not from invasion or by outsiders, but from cul tural dissolution resulting from massive sub-

ness to in my brief viewing spell was a sublime example of the imaginationless stupor of the twenty-something "individualists." The cam era focused on a bikini-clad female, her body painted with flowers. In an unintentional par ody of her Woodstock predecessors, she was doing an uncoordinated Grateful Dead-style "dance" to the sounds booming from the speakers. But this musical reverie did not cpn sist of passionate homilies to failed ideals of peace, love and freedom. This was Cypress Hill rapping, "I'll make you famous like Amos, just like the last punk when I stuck the gat up his anus... cock the hammer it's time for action." Maybe her addled brain was processing this as 'Tm just a far-out cat from Uranus," or maybe she was a hap
less dumbfuck, oblivious to the fact that she was enraptured by the glorification
of humiliating a crime victim by discharging a firearm in his rectum. Not really a cosmic love vibe type thing. And this woman was not a lithe and lovely original flower child having her last big freakout before settling down to run a New England health food store. This was a graceless and overweight pasty-faced Pringles-eating shopping mall employee, step ping to avoid the Pepsi cans at her feet and trying to escape the violent and oppressive world outside by pathetically invoking the look of a thankfully long-gone era.
The closing shot in this segment was of a long-haired, bearded and bedraggled-looking neo-hippie sitting naked in a folding chair and smoking a joint. "Why did you come to Woodstock?" the intrepid MTV reporter asked him. In the most obnoxious lazy stoner drawl possible, he replied, "I came here to get my life back together, maaan, and now that I'm here, it's back together." Yeah, right, naked stoner dude. 111 be looking for big
things from you. The crowd around him,
young and untested by life, clapped and roared its approval of his sentiment, wishing that attending a three-day corporate-spon sored rock fest could actually help to fulfill one's destiny.
Rock icon Pete Townsend wisely said of

the original Woodstock Nation: "If sitting in the mud on drugs for three days is their idea of some sort of alternative society, then fuck the lot of them." That statement goes doubly so for the crowd currently lapping up the tired old riffs and hackneyed postures of today's media-hyped luminaries.
These are the Generation Xers, the gen eration who more than any other to date has willingly enslaved themselves to the rock ideal they have been swallowing whole since birth. You've seen them. They wear clothes from the Emmett Kelly fashion line that any self-respect ing person wouldn't wear to a shit-fight. The "Loser" and "Zero" tee shirts they adorn them selves with are a rare example of truth in adver tising. They have not a single new idea to add to the world, so it's probably a good thing that they are completely ambitionless.
The "X" in their generational title is not the X of a Mysterious Mr. X who oozes fore boding in a mystery novel. It is not the X that Malcolm X used to illustrate his unknown ancestry, nor is it the X that Charlie carved on his third eye to X himself out of linear society. Theirs is the X that an apathetic illiterate uses to sign his name, unconcerned with his identi ty or legacy.
The Xers are merely the end result of a degeneration of the human spirit and imagi nation at the hands of a bankrupt rock/ pop/youth culture. But at least they have youthful inexperience on their side.
Sadder still are those older folk who insist on "rocking out" in defiance of their age, denying themselves the opportunity to evolve. You can't pump your fist in the air to rock favorites forever, although Satan knows,

that once dotted the American landscape and featured low lighting, a semi-formal dress code and plenty of liquor to wash the work week away. The aesthetics were maximized to create a self-contained world of attainable sophistication, and the music was never so loud as to drown out the after-office-hours conversation or to make seductive schmooz ing difficult.
Some piano lounges featured cozy fire places to heighten the hein' and shein' atmos phere that should be the focus of all night life. In an age where it is difficult to find a live music outlet where patrons are not forced to face the band like rounded-up cattle and shout over the din, how badly we need the decompressive effect of the piano lounge today.
Alas, piano lounges are passing away as quickly as their long term customers, and leaving nothing comparable to take their place. We must hold fast to the few threads left of this rich fabric and study them intently, that one day a new lounge culture will arise.
As society de-massifies, there are no bet ter-suited places than lounges to host small inti mate groupings of like-minded people for the pursuit of leisure. The lounges of the future needn't be replicas of past surroundings, although there is nothing wrong with that ideal. Lounges of the past are certainly the founda tions on which to build, but the field of interior design is virtually unlimited and any theme or
mood can be instituted and altered at will.
A strict return to the ,------- music of previous genera
tions is desirable for cer tain settings, although the most dynamic ingredient

cise manner, and this can be done on a selec tive, micro level never possible in the past. Obviously different humans respond to dif ferent audio stimulus in different ways, and studying and cataloguing soundwaves and their effect on different human types is a dis cipline that would pay huge dividends to who ever is most adept at manipulating them for the recreation of different target audiences.
The tools for refining the skill of match ing music to environment to intended listener have never been so vast and varied or the need so great. After having been forced to endure the profusion of abrasive and life force-dampening noise that emanates from every corner of the modern pop cultural hori zon, nothing could be as tonic for the soul as settling oneself in an agreeable lounge atmos phere and bathing in tones that simultaneous ly relax and inspire.
The lounges of the future and the sounds that fill their airspace can take as many forms as the mind can dream of. However, they all must share one common bylaw:
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some boomers and busters will try. There are
those who are intent on growing old with the volume-laden anthems of their youth just as their parents and grandparents did with Benny Goodman and Perry Como. There are distinct disadvantages to this unimaginative loyalty. Not only does it keep one's musical vocabulary and mental boundaries constrict ed to the primitive yearnings of youth, but as raging hormones subside with the advancing

in the development of a
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AFIO-eAIIBBEAN
By Kevin Filan Traditions
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for instance, identifies St. Barbara with the thunder god Chango and St. Lazaru with Babalu-Aye, orisha of healing and medicine. Altars to the orishas (Santeria) or lwas (Vodou) will typically feature statues of these
· saints or religious figures, together with vari ous items connected to the deity in question. One might, for instance, find a statue of the Vrrgin on an altar to Erzulie, lwa of love and beauty; around it might be sugar cakes, a bot tle of perfume, pink roses, and jewelry. Added to the mix are various deities and ideas from pre-Columbian cultures. In Santeria the fig ure Maximom (syncretized with St. Simon Judas) is a modern representation of an Indian fertility deity named Macha. Many of the petro lwas, entities known for their fury

TISHARDTOSAYWHICHHASBEEN
more maligned, modern Satanism or Afro-Caribbean traditions like Vodou and Santeria. According to Hollywood, Vodou ceremonies consist of blood
smeared witch doctors torturing animals to appease the forces of darkness. According to urban legend and fundamentalist propagan da, Satanists infiltrate day care centers in the name of Lucifer. The reality (as reality is wont to be) is considerably different. Far from being obsessed with death and torture, the Afro-Caribbean faiths are strongly life centered and life-affirming spiritual tradi tions. Modern Satanists, in a similar vein, are far more likely to be found in recording stu dios or art galleries than in pre-schools. And yet there are numerous similarities (and a few very important differences) between these two worldviews. A study of the areas where they converge and diverge can help us under stand both of these traditions, as well as the fears and prejudices of our culture.

DEFINITIONS

UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, THE TERM "SATANISM"
was not something you did, but rather a con venient stick with which to beat anyone who proved inconvenient to the religious and polit ical hierarchy. Moslems, Jews, heretical Christians and other unfortunates were accused of worshiping the "father of evil" at moonlit sabbats featuring writhing orgies, sacrificed infants and covenants in blood. These accounts were frequently "verified" in torture chambers and embellished by folk tra dition and sexually frustrated clergymen into tales guaranteed to arouse revulsion and hatred. In the present day, Satanists are envi sioned as a shadowy, Illuminati-like organiza tion with tentacles in child pornography, drug dealing, "snuff films," and world government; imagine Protocoli of the E/JerJ of Zion as a Hammer film and you'll get the idea.
Modern Satanism, as described in Anton LaVey's Satanic Bii,/,e and as practiced by members of the Church of Satan, is a consid-

erably more sedate affair. LaVey envisioned Satan not as an actual anthropomorphic
being, complete with horns, tail and pitchfork, but as a symbol of man's animal nature and of indulgence in the pleasures of the flesh. Those CoS members who perform ritual typically see it not as "summoning powers from Hell" but rather as psychodrama and emotional release. A "Black Mass," for example, becomes not a tool to evoke Satan to visible appearance but rather a way to break the chains of a Christian upbringing. Many Satanists actually eschew ritual altogether. They reject not only Christianity but mysti cism in general and are frequently dogmatic materialists and skeptics.
Sacrifice, be it animal or human, is not part of modern Satanic ritual. The idea of sac rificing anything to ANY god, whether you call that god YHVH or Satan, is seen by mod ern Satanists as repellent and degrading. A Satanist would sooner spit in a deity's eye than
· say "Please, Mr. Deity, will you do this favor
for me if I kill this cat in your name?" Rather than sacrificing an animal, a modern Satanist is more likely to try to karn from it; Satanists see man as "just another animal" and strive to get in touch with their own inner beast.
(I am aware that there are self-pro claimed Satanists who are not influenced by, or who did not understand, LaVey's work and who may commit violent or criminal acts in the name of Satan. Richard "the Night Stalker" Ramirez comes to mind immediately; the stereotypical glue-sniffing pet-killing met alhead teen would be another example. For the purposes of this discussion, I am not including this subset. This article deals with modern religious movements, not abnormal psychology, and these people no more repre sent modern Satanism than Jim Jones repre sents modern Christianity).
The Afro-Caribbean traditions are a syn thesis of various elements. At their heart are the religious practices and deities of western Africa, mostly from the Fon and Dahomey regions. These are combined with images and legends from Roman Catholicism; Santeria,

and quick action, originally came from the Arawak and Carib cultures; the ghedes, Vodou spirits of death, are known for obscene jokes, as were the spirits of the dead in the pre-Columbian cultures of Hispaniola. Finally Western magical, ceremonial and her metic traditions like Freemasonry and spiritu alism have been thrown into the mix, making for a veritable religious gumbo.
While there are many differences between the various traditions, and even within a particular tradition, there are certain notable similarities. First and foremost is the practice of spirit possession. In each of these traditions worshipers are at times "ridden" by the various entities, who then proffer their blessings (or warnings, or curses) on those assembled for the ceremony. These posses sions are quite impressive. A hougan ridden by Oggun Ferri, for example, may lie atop the point of a sword placed in the ground without getting cut or impaled, while one ridden by Baron Samedi might gulp down a mixture of rum and hot peppers which would leave any faker gasping for breath. The altered state which leads to "riding" is achieved through drumming and dancing; to a casual observer, a Vodou or Santeria ceremony may well look like a Carnival celebration.
These traditions also involve sacrifice. One who wishes to gain the favor of the lwas or orishas must make offerings appropriate to the particular spirit. A Santero who wishes to appease Ellegua (the opener of the gateway, called Legba in Vodou and Exu in Candomble), might offer him rum, candy and toys; to gain the favor of Oshun (orisha of love), he might offer honey and a statue to the Madonna de la Caridad del Cobre. These offerings frequently involve animal sacrifice. While some Westerners find this shocking, it must be taken in its proper context. For the most part the sacrificed animals are later fed to the congregation; we should also remember that these practices originate in cultures where one may frequently see animals killed. We have distanced ourselves from our abat toirs and can purchase our meat without

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being reminded that it was once a living ani mal. This luxury is not available to most rural Haitians or Cubans. For them killing a chick en is not "a vile sacrifice to the forces of dark ness"-it's the first step in making soup! They do not have our gag reflex upon seeing a chicken beheaded or a goat's throat slashed. It is something they have seen frequently since childhood, and no more repulsive to them than a trip to our local supermarket's Meat Department is for us. (Those who would still condemn them should also note that these ani mals are killed as quickly and humanely as possible, and are generally treated with far more care, concern and respect than those killed on our "factory farms" and turned into Oven Stulfers and hamburger patties).
FmalJy, the Caribbean traditions are
initiatory. While anyone may attend Santeria or Vodou ceremonies or make offerings to the lwas or orishas without any special training, one who wishes to lead ceremonies or present himself as a Babalao or Hougan
must first be trained in vari ous facets of the religion by one who has already under gone this training, and must follow various tenets and
taboos leading up to an initiation ceremony. These ceremonies have not yet
been committed to print and can only be per formed by one who has the lineage to do so i.e. by one who was himself or herself properly trained. Some have theorized that this con cern with secrecy and initiation is a result of slaveowner persecution against the African faiths. More than a few Blacks were put to death in extremely unpleasant ways for prac ticing "witchcraft" and secrecy quickly
became a necessity for those who wished to serve the ancestors and the African Powers. Others point to the various secret societies and "coming of age" ceremonies of African culture. Whateyer the root cause, the practi cal result is that you can only learn so much Vodou or Santeria on your own. While there are several excellent books on Vodou (Maya Deren's Divw HortJemen is particularly recom mended) and Santeria (anything by Migene Gonzales-Wi:ppler is good), sooner or later an interested student must find a teacher willing to initiate and train him.

DIFFERENCES

PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE
would be that most modern Satanists see Satan as a symbol, not as an entity. In the Afro-Caribbean traditions, the ancestors and various deities are seen as actual beings, not

shipers in a way which is difficult to under stand for those who have never seen or expe rienced spirit possession. They are immanent in every aspect of daily life; Legba watches at every crossroads and Oya can be found in any graveyard. Many Western readers will scoff at this as uneducated, unsophisticated ani mism and spirit-worship. In actuality there is a complex and profound system of meta physics underlying the Afro-Caribbean faiths; those who doubt this should consult Deren's

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observations on the figures of Legba and the Marassa (Twins) in Divw HortJemen.
Another difference would be that Santeros and Vodouisants see Satan and his minions not as proud, rebellious spirits to be emulated but as dangerous forces of darkness which should be dispelled or dispersed. A goodly part of the Hougan's or Babalao's day is devoted to protecting people from evil spir its and from black magic. Floor washes, unhexing candles, exorcisms, prayers; the Afro-Caribbean traditions have innumerable defenses against the powers of evil. The aver age botanica has far more items intended to lift curses than items used to cast curses; the average Santero is far more likely to offer stern warnings against tampering with evil spirits than to summon them for you. This contrasts sharply with modern Satanism, which does not see the necessity for blessed

ety. Most modern Satanists see themselves as "lone wolves" or "the Alien Elite" and speak with contempt of the "sheeple" and "herd mentality.• While the Afro-Caribbean tradi tions began as a rebellion against an unjust social system, they have since become the established social order. Vodou is a pervasive force in Haiti's everyday life. Ceremonies at the peristyle, like church socials in rural America, serve as meeting places and commu nity gatherings as well as religious rituals. Many prominent hougans and mambos also become important political figures within their community; the Duvaliers would be the most notable example of this. The African and Indian traditions which were synthesized into Vodou. Santeria, Candomble and their variants were tribal religions. As such, they were keen ly concerned with the survival and prosperity of the group and expected their followers to band together in an "all for one and one for all" fashion. Wade Davis, in his excellent Serpent and tbe Rainbow, discusses
how "zombis" are typically made from those who have in some way violated the trust of their communi ty or otherwise endangered
the group. This might seem stifling to some "lone wolf" Satanists, butagain we must consider the environments in which these faiths developed. In Cuba and Haiti starvation is a real and constant threat; those who reject their society and strike out on their own are far more likely to die of deprivation than a group which shares resources and responsibilities.

SIMILARITIES
TEcHNICALLY, SATAN IS NOT PART OF THE
pantheons of Vodou or Santeria. In practice most followers of the Afro-Caribbean faiths are also Roman Catholic and believe in Satan's existence and his power. There are "lwa flags" (elaborately painted and embroi dered banners used in many Vodou cere monies) dedicated to "Le Roi Lucifer" and other Satanic figures, and devil candles burned to bring harm to one's enemies or to obtain a lover ala LaVey's Destruction and Lust Rituals are sold at most botanicas. Candomble, the Afro-Brazilian tradition, syn cretizes Exu with Satan. Exu altars and fig urines frequently feature red devil figurines, complete with horns, tail and an enormous phallus. His consort, Pomba-Gira, is identi
fied variously with Lilith or with the Whore of Babylon and is the patroness of prostitutes. And of course the "Old Man at the

as archetypes, images or symbols. They are as candles, Holy Water, or any other forms of · Crossroads," who has been featured in so

real, to their followers, as your next-door neighbor or the greengrocer down the street. They regularly attend ceremonies held in their honor and communicate with their wor-

"protection" against the devil and his minions. Finally, modern Satanism sees itself as essentially in opposition to the established social order and the needs and wants of soci-

many blues songs and who plays such a role in African-American folklore and hoodoo, is none other than Papa Legba, grinning broad ly and offering forbidden power and know!-

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edge to those brave enough or crazy enough to sign over their souls.
Both Satanism and the Afro-Caribbean traditions reinterpret Christian figures for their own purposes. The heroic Promethean rebel envisioned by modern Satanists bears little or no resemblance to the skulking "father of Lies" who runs screaming from a cross or a few drops of Holy Water. Similarly, few Catholics would recognize St. Barbara as she is envisioned by those who put her statue on altars dedicated to Chango. This attracts scorn from many "magical purists" who claim their own religious views are "untainted by Christian influence" and who scoff at Satanism and at the Afro-Caribbean traditions as "variants of Christianity."
In actuality, the ethics and metaphysics of Santeria or Vodou (and modern Satanism) are very different than any thing found in Christianity, saints, rosaries and inverted crosses notwith standing... while the ethical systems of many of the most self-righteous Newage and Wiccan types come straight out of the New Testament.
The Afro-Caribbean traditions, like modern Satanism, hold no stock in the "Threefold Law" or in many of the other "thou shalt nots" common to many of the "white light" traditions. A Santero or Vodouisant feels no com punction about using magic to harm, injure or kill his opponents; he typically assumes they will be doing the same to him and acts accordingly. Legal dis putes in Haiti provide business not only for lawyers but for bukurt!, itinerant sor cerers specializing in particularly potent and lethal forms of magic. A Madrina whose husband has strayed can choose from any of a wide variety of Santeria spells designed to break
lovers apart; should these fail, she can choose from an equally wide variety of spells designed to kill her rival. In a similar vein, love spells are generally frowned upon by
white-light types as an attempt to "control another's will." A Santero or Vodouisant would laugh at this idea. For them a candle burned so Erzulie Freda Dahomey or Oshun
might make the desired fall passionately in love is as much a part of the arsenal d'amour as a candlelit dinner for two. In the Afro Caribbean traditions, as in Satanism, all is fair in love and in war.
There is a profound distrust for the body and the material world found throughout much of Western magical thought. This com bines the worst of our Christian culture (the idea that the body, the material world and
physical pleasure are inherently evil) with misunderstood Eastern philosophy a la
Blavatsky and a few others. This distrust does not exist in the Afro-Caribbean traditions.

The legends of the lwas and orishas are filled with drinking, gambling, sexual misadven tures, and all sorts of fun things which would leave a pious clergyman scandalized. Material success and well-being are not seen as obsta cles on the path to enlightenment, but rather as evidence that a person is favored by the gods. The lwas and orishas regularly inter vene on the "material plane" for their wor shipers; a Mambo or Babalao whose spells don't work will quickly be a Mambo or Babalao without a congregation. (Imagine a priest losing parishoners because he couldn't heal the sick, or a rabbi scorned because his

love spells didn't work). While Satanists would generally give themselves credit for their victories rather than praising some spir itual entity, most would certainly have more interest in gods who reward their followers in this world than in gods who present all kinds of taboos and restrictions but give nothing in return but "spiritual reassurance" or "tickets to the afterlife."

CONCLUSION

THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN TRADITIONS ARE NOT
Satanic in any sense of the word, save per haps the sense in which "Satanism" is equated with "everything my pastor doesn't like." Nevertheless, there are many points at which the ethics of modern Satanism intersect with the ethics of the Afro-Caribbean traditions. Modern Satanists like to talk about "social Darwinism;" the Afro-Caribbean faiths grew up in an environment where it is the order of

the day. In Haiti and Cuba stupidity is not just painful; it can quickly prove fatal. As a result, their ethical code is tinged with a hard real ism. The lwas and orishas serve those who feed them; they will help a criminal escape the clutches of the law as quickly as they will heal a sick child. The Vodouisant or Santero may serve his gods, but he expects them to serve him back; he feels no compunction about ask ing for miracles, nor is he surprised when he gets them. He doesn't ask for peace of mind or "enlightenment" or other such hoo-hah; instead, he asks for money, for sex, for power... for all the things which Christianity considers evil and which Satanists (and
most sane people) consider desirable. Their belief in literal spiritual entities may not sit well with us skeptical Western types, but it is a belief based on empirical evidence. Vodouisants and Santeros believe in their deities because these deities produce results for them, not because of "faith."
These are traditions where witches hex as quickly as they heal. They are traditions where ancient religious prac tices have been preserved (not "recreat ed') and combined with anything else that works in a strange, beautiful, and intoxicating blend. Unlike the wooly headed pablum which passes for "mys tical thought" in our society, theirs is a practical mysticism; it seeks for, and regularly gets, results in the material world. A Satanist who wanted to see real folk magic in action, minus the tree-hugging crystal-polishing hippie crap which has polluted so much mod ern "witchcraft," would be well advised to take a look at the Afro-Caribbean traditions, or to pay a visit to his local Botanica. ....

lnTERVIEW

Magister Vincent Crowley
By Steven Ericson

MEMBER IN THE BO'S
hen the media was try.ing to xpose the dangers of Heavy Metal bands whose main goal as to recruit children for
Satan ?Only later would they realize that most of these so-called Devil worship ping bands were only using symbols and occultic themes for a gimmick. After the hype was over, they moved on to other sensational topics and dismissed these bands as rebels looking to make money

Metal for the public. How does it feel to have been a part of the underground music culture for so long?
I am proud to be involved with this form of extreme art. We are in no way "Rock Stars," but we have gathered loyal fans from all over the globe. ACHERON fans are the best fans, because they truly understand the reason for the invocation of this band. I'm looking forward to another 10 years of recording ACHERON hymns.

seems to appeal to a far broader audience. This is the best sounding ACHERON album thus far.

Do you think straying from the bluntly Satanic and Anti-Christian lyrics on Tbode
· Wbo Have Ri.Jen will make some fans think
you are trying to 11ell out?
I would surely hope not. This album is just as Satanic as all the other ones. The only difference is we are not saying, "Hail Satan"

using Old Nick's names.
It seems they dismissed their crusade a bit too early when the likes of the American Black/Death Metal band ACHERON emerged upon the scene. The band, openly endorsing the Church of Satan, was a shock to a scene offakes and freaks. Anton LaVey himself acknowledged ACHERON to be one of the few real Satanic bands out today. This

I would never force my beliefs on a child. My parents
did that to me and that's why I have such a hatred for the Nazarene cult. Children should grow up studying all kinds of philosophies and religions and then come to their own conclusions.

Florida based band was destined to put a black cloud over their sunshine state.
This interview is with band leader/founder Vincent Crowley, who is also a Magister of the Church of Satan and founder of the now retired Order of the Evil Eye. His involvement in the Satanic community is well known and respected. I recently had the priv ilege of interviewing him at a local Tampa pub over a few beers.

ACHERON has recently celebrated a decade of creating Apocalyptic Black/Death

The hand has just released an album enti tled Tbode Wbo Have Ri.Jen on Full Moon ProJuctiolhl. Could you elaborate on the concept and the style of this full length
release?
Th{l,Je Who Have RiJen is based on the teachings and mythos of the Temple of the Vampire, which is the modem day form of the ancient Sumerian Cult Hekal Tiamat. It is a call to the bloodline of those who resonate to the sacred acts of actual vampirism. The music on this album is heavier than anything ACHERON has ever done before, yet it

or "Fuck God." This in no way is selling out. It is just expanding our lyrical content.. There is no way a band like this can change and all of a sudden become the new MARILYN MANSON. We are too over-the-top for the mainstream. And this album is based on real occulticvampirism, not Hollywood antics. I'm sure our fans will evolve with us.

Your hand was one of the few that CHURCH OF SATAN founder Anton S:zandor LaVey labeled as "the real thing." How did his death in October of 1997 affect

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you and the hand?
It was a sad day to l such an important comrade and mentor. He will be missed. But I also think we will now know who is serious about this movement. Many people just wanted to kiss the Black Pope's ass to feel important. Now it's time to put our money where our mouth is. If anything.·his demise has made me want to work even harder with the Satanic movement and band. People like myself will help cany on his legacy.

So you don't think there is any chance that the CHURCH OF SATAN will discontinue without him as a figurehead?
The CHURCH OF SATAN isits members, so I really don't see that happening. There are thousands of people out there whoare striving for a Satanic world and I am one of them. As long as just one of us exists, the CHURCH OF SATAN will remain alive.

You were first appointed to the Priesthood of the CHURCH OF SATAN ia 1994.
Then in 1996 you
were promoted to a Magister.· WI.at do these titles mean to you.? How did yeu
get them?
They are acknowledgements I received from Dr. LaVey. I accepted them with honor and feel I represent them with a sense of pride. Basically, I was told I represented Satanism in an authentic way
and showed it in my life. This 1s how I received the title Magister.

On your mini-album GoiJ, Anti-Cbri.Jt, you have a song called "Baptism for Devlyn Alexandra" which is ahout your youngest· daughter. How is fatherhood treating you? Do you feel that doing a Satanic Baptism is somehow forcing your Satanic views on her?
I was divorced a year ago, and my ex wife moved out of the state I am now living in, so I can't see her on an eveiyday basis. But I do keep in dose contact with her and tiy to see her as much as possible. My ex-wife and I get along, so there is no problem staying close with Devlyn. As for the song, if you read the lyrics I am celebrating her birth using my metaphors and informing her that her path will be up to her, for her to use knowledge and not herd mentality for her choices. I would never force
my beliefs on a child. My parents did that to me

and that's why I have such a hatred for the Nazarene cult. Children should grow up study ing all kinds of philosophies and religions and then come to their own conclusions.

Now that you are single, will you indulge in all the fleshly pleasures of female groupies or do y.ou want to get married again?
I love women, but I'm in no way looking to get married. I'm enjoying being myself in my own domain. Groupies who are into this type of music are veiy rare. We're not some pretty boys like SKID ROW or POISON.

In 1991, ACHERON released an albtun called Bau of tl,e Blaelc M4N, wbicla set to music the actual texts of La M Noir. How did the pv.hlic react to this?
We were the fint band to do this, so we did attract some attention. I think that's when

we earned a lot of respect within the Satanic community. Between ACHERON's music and Peter Gilmore's introductions, it did con jure the veiy elements of Hell. I am always tiying to go beyond the typical Blade/Death Metal boundaries. "Rites of the Black Mass" did just that.

You mention Peter Gilmore, who is also a CHURCH OF SATAN Magister and the editor of the infamous forum Tbe Blade Flame. How did he become involved with ACHERON and what is his role within the band?
Peter was working on an artide on Satanic bands, so he contacted me. We got to talking and I mentioned how I was wanting to do a concept album about a Black Mass. He was happy to hear that, since he had the same idea. We decided to fuse out two musical creations together to create a truly ritualistic album. It worked veiy well, so he has been a part of

almost all of our releases. I've worked with many musicians, but Peter has always stuck by my side. He is always welcomed to honor us on our albums. His "Nosferatu Prelude" on Thode Wbu Haw Riden is amazing.

ACHERON Las had many problems with record labels. I recently heard that the UK lable BLACKENED RECORDS Las boot legged your La Ta/u,niJ and Sat.anie Vidory albums on one disc. What are your feelings on this.
Most labels are pieces of shit that only wan.t to rape the artisits. BLACKENED RECORDS did just that. It seems like these labels like making money off us, but they never want to pay. They will get theirs in the long run. They better hope I never meet them
in person, because 111 bust their fuckin' heads
open. That's why we signed to FULL MOON
PRODUCTIONS.
They are located 40
minutes from us and
· we see first hand what they are doing for us.

.Another
.'.ACHERON trade mark is the album cover art hy Diaholos Rex, who is also a CHURCH OF SATAN Magister. Do I detect a cer tain theme with ACHERON?
I have always been a big fan of bio mechanical artwork.
·Since Rex creates his
·. paintings ritualistical
_ ly, I thought, "who better to do our cov•
ers?" And yes, I do tiy to work within the framework of the CHURCH OF SATAN. I guess that's my fascist side.

Speaking of fascism, "CHURCH" OF SATANIC LIBERATION leader Paul Valentine Las insinuated that you, along with Peter Gilmore and Boyd Rice, are Satanic Nazis. What is your reaction towards this comment?
Mr. Valentine is a little worm that has nothing better to do than talk shit. He'd bet ter watch his fuckin' mouth or I'll bitch slap him back to the funny farm. I have always maintained that I am a Satanist, not a Nazi. I am intrigued by the occultic roots of the SS, but that doesn't make me a Nazi. I'm a misan thrope, not a racist. I hate eveiyone!

Do you get disgusted with people who seem to take cheap shots at the CHURCH OF SATAN and its hierarchy?

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I think it's more pathetic than anything else. They are just jealous and wish they could be on our level. These people mean nothing to me or the Satanic movement. They are all wannabees that most people ignore.

You left your previous lahle MORIBUND RECORDS, which just happens to he owned hy a CHURCH OF
SATAN member, Odin Thompson. Why did you leave? Will you work with them again?
We just needed a label that would push us more actively. Odin is a Satanic brother, but he didn't have the resources to push this album the way we needed it to be pushed. We left on good terms. In fact, we will be releasing an ACHERON history CD called Compen'Jmm Diabkrie, which will feature vintage ACHERON material, including un-released demo and cover songs. It's due out in 1999.

What kind of hands are you listening to nowadays?
I always listen to bands like VENOM, CELTIC FROST, DESTRUCTION, BATHORY, and MERCYFUL FATE.
Recently, I've been listening to a lot of THE RION, SAMAEL, KING DIAMOND, RAMMSTEIN, THE ELECTRIC HELL FIRE CLUB, TYPE O NEGATIVE, DEI CIDE, MORBID ANGEL, NINE INCH NAILS, MYSTICUM, NON, HYPOCRISY, INCANTATION, THE GENITORTUR ERS, RAHOWA. CANNIBAL CORPSE, EMPEROR, and OCTOBER TIDE.

Is there any plans on doing any touring in
the near future?
We've been waiting to do one for years, so we will just have to see. I've been recording albums for a long time and I feel it's now time to meet all the people who have supported us throughout the years by touring. This is a goal of ours.

You have debated Christian evangelist Bob I.arson and were featured in his two videos, "The Devil and Death Metal" and "Highway to Hell." What was your experience like, confronting this jester of Christ?
The best comparison I can give is the example of professional wrestling. Bob knows how to put on a real entertaining show. There's more shock value than intellectual stimulation. If I could only body slam him into the crowd it would make his show complete.

He uses us and we use him. He's a joke.

MARILYN MANSON has become some what of an icon to the youth of today. What's your opinion on the Anti-Christ Superstar?
I may not agree with all of his opinions, but I totally support the way he has taken on

the Christian groups in a mainstream arena. He is pushing buttons that need to be pushed. I personally enjoyed his last album, and hope he will continue down the same path.

Your latest album features guest vocal appearances hy ex-MORBID ANGEL frontman David Vmcent and CANNIBAL CORPSE vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher. How did you get members from two of the biggest bands in Death Metal to
appear OD Tbo.,e Wbo bal'e Ri.Jen?
I just asked them and they both said "yes." It was a pleasure to include their assis tance on the release. Both of them support the band and hope this album will do well.

What's the future hold for ACHERON? Any ideas regarding what the next album will he ahout?
As I mentioned, we hope to support the new album with a world tour. After that, we will start work on the next album which will appropriately be called The Apocalypt1e. My goal is to release this on January 1st, 2000, if all goes well. It's concept will be that of THE WOLFEN SOCIETY, an extreme occultic elitist order. It will be somewhat of a call to war-another stage in our evolution.

That's ahout all the questions I have. Is there any final thing you would like to tell the readers?
We hope you all pick up our album,
ThOde Who Have Riden on FULL MOON

PRODUCTIONS and come and see us if we come to your town on tour. ACHERON will continue to be a threat to the sanity of modern music! Hail Satan I A'J Maiorem Satanae Gloriaml

As of 8/20/99, I have decided to put ACHERON to rest for various reasons. There will be no more live shows or new albums under the ACHERON name. My dis gust with the music industry grows everyday and these pathetic trends disgust me. I plan to continue creating dif ferent forms of dark music, but only for myself. Record companys and music scenes don't mean shit to me. My selfishness will get me to the next level. Hail to those who supported my work through out the last 12years. Also my thanks to Peter H. Gilmore and Rex Church who have worked on the ACHERON project since the beginning.
Let the glory of Satan always prevail I
A'J Maiorem Satanae Gloriam!

ACHERON
1988-1999 (R.1.P.)

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the parasite Ra using its own technology.
One point in Marx that might be of interest to Satanists is his definition of labor. In D11,1 Kapital, Marx defines the value of a product biologically (or physiologically, as Marx terms it) as "expenditure of human labor-power." A product has no inherent value in itself; only by applying work (from humans) does the product attain a higher value. Work is worth the human labor-power expended. A capitalist is one that pays a per son less than what his work is worth, that is, the capitalist does not reimburse the worker for his expended labor-power. From a Satanic perspective, labor-power is the black flame, which drives people to create. A capitalist is one that doesn't have the black flame, and instead needs to derive the labor-power from someone

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of the occult, of ideas and knowl edge considered taboo or danger ous by civilized humanity and, above all, all of its so-called "moral
teachers," from Socrates and Jesus, to Buber, Pope John, Schweitzer, et al. In the twenti eth century, perhaps no topic )las been more maligned, distorted, and reviled by the theolo gians, moralists, scholars, and politicians in the Western world than the subject of Marxism, Communism, and the Stalinist Soviet Union. When these pundits and preachers speak out against something so uni laterally and with such rabid fervor, as they did with Darwinism and Marxism, it is almost a sure sign that there is something Satanic about it!
Three of the thinkers with the greatest influence on twentieth century Western intel lectual life and popular culture are Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Marx. All of these were noted atheists with damning insight into the cherished social order and illusions of civilized humanity, and had much to say against humanity's enshrined leaders and teachers. Freud disputed the teachings of Moses, Nietzsche attacked Socrates and Jesus, but Marx criticized Hegel, Jesus, you name him! Despite this, it seems that educat ed Satanists are familiar with Satanic ele ments in the thought of Freud and Nietzsche, yet unfortunately ignorant of such ideas in Marxism. Part of the reason for this is that in American colloquialism, "socialism" has become synonymous with inefficient bureau cracy, state-imposed tyranny over the person al lives of citizens, the welfare state, and some hare-brained programs that destroyed the educational system in this country, thanks to the efforts of certain self-hating American Leftists during the Cold War era (who are now known to have been funded by the post Stalinist Soviet Union, which had openly vowed to "bury" the USA!). It should be pointed out from the start that these charac terizations are inaccurate representations and

outright LIES about old-style Marxism and the social reality in the Soviet Union under Stalin.
The basis of Marxism is a hard-bitten analysis of human society, reducing culture to a manifestation of peoples' real-world physi cal environments and labor (e.g., what you think is determined by what you do), and the history of civilization to the struggle over resources (class struggle). Karl Marx is famous for his biting observation that "reli
gion is the opium of the masses;" in fact, Marxism has been the primary enemy of reli gion in history.
Of interest to Satanists, Marxist dialecti cal materialism takes the dark, entropic force in nature (Satan) as given. Dialectical Materialism envisions a cosmos of constant flux where even apparent stability is only a mask of never-ceasing forces of creation, growth, and destruction (a model validated by modern quantum physics).
Karl Marx observed Europe in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, when Industrial Capitalism was jwt ari.Jing, a world where the old classes of artisans and talented workers were being replaced by machines, and down trodden masses increasingly groveled under the whim of a handful of parasitic millionaires (who often compensated for their despicable behavior with lame moralistic "philanthropic" platitudes), where life was shit and barely worth living for the vast majority of people, and where human beings themselves became commodities sold on the market as "slaves."
Marx's idea was that once things got bad enough, the workers of the world would wake up and unite to smash their arrogant over lords, and then establish a "dictatorship of the proletariat" where the people ruled, instead of licking some aristocratic asshole's dainty little high-priced feet for a pay raise. By then, capitalism will have developed technology, factories, etc., which can then be used by the majority under communism. Anyone who has watched the movie "Stargate" will recognize this scenario where the humans overthrow

else. Exploitation then means to "steal" the black flame from someone. Satanists are people that honor that black flame above all superficial trinkets. That should put things into perspec tive in regards ofwhat kind of people are capi talists and who aren't.
Many of the super-rich of the Capitalist world are hungry souls driven by an inner lacking, a black hole in their hearts, that they unsuccessfully seek to fill with material luxu ry and the trappings of the "high life." (This in6nite, insatiable greed is fundamentally different from the normal, 6nite biological desire for happiness and pleasure.) They are truly damned people, unable to experience
the innocent, Satanic joy a child feels eating a delicious ice cream sundae or running through a sprinkler. These agonized people create misery in the world because they are unable to experience joy. Some are so driven by jealousy they seek out happy, creative peo
. pie to enslave and torture. George Soros is one such person. Like Christians, these peo ple sometimes speak deceptively beautiful but essentially empty maxims and doctrines (e.g., "freedom of the individual," an "open socie ty") to fool people into believing them. As Satanists know, such real-life monsters can be known not by their words, but by the fruits of their deeds.
150 years after The Communi.Jt Manifuto
was written, Capitalist economists are gradu ally beginning to come upon the rudiments of Marxist thought, which Marx formulated before the American Civil War, without realiz ing it, and certainly not admitting it. Right now, the cutting edge of economics is finally incorporating empirical real-world data, and beginning to realize that many of the noti<ms of "classical" economics are dead wrong. Meanwhile, Marx's correct predictions about the inevitable tendency towards monopoly, class division (which must now be seen on a global scale, with "Third World" workers at the bottom of the barrel), and never-ceasing expansion can be verified by a glance through the popular press. Nevertheless, Marx's pre-

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scient theories are still arrogantly dismissed as "nonsense" or "totalitarian" by the herd, brainwashed via Cold War indoctrination. The first reason why so much energy has been devoted to discrediting Marxism in the West should be blatantly obvious to any realist ask ing, "Who benefits?" America is a proudly capitalist counny (despite the fact the FDR instituted 8 of Marx's 10 points from the Communi,,t Manifuto), and the powers that be don't want to be overthrown.
However, there is also a subtler and more Satanic reason why even a dirt-poor American will give a spirited defense of the virtue of capitalism: in a Capitalist world, Karl Marx's theory dismisses all cherished illusions that we live in the best kind of socie ty, that our wealth or poverty is our just deserts, etc., the kind of rosy ideas that many Americans (and others) find so essential to their flimsy grip on sanity. Marxism says that not only is American consumerist Capitalism not the "enlightened," "moral," "highest form of human civilization" it imagines itself to be, but that, to the contrary, it is a chaotic, dis eased, confused, insanely destructive, and supremely wasteful society that not only relies on the exploitation of the less-degener ate (Islamic barbarians excluded) Third World for physical labor and places to sell its JUNK-contrary to deluded, bleeding-heart
missionary-like liberal "humanitarians" who imagine that the USA is really "helping" those people), but is also so sick that it is a
dangerous, stressful, unhealthy trash heap within its own borders, or, at best, a repressed, Stepfordesque society of Christian consumerist clones and lunatics so broken by their own upbringings that they cannot even enjoy the material wealth they drain out of their colonies.
The Big Lie of Western capitalism and its apologists is that only their system upholds human rights, rather than tramples on them; a claim that cannot stand up to objective, intel ligent historical scrutiny. Satanists should remember that the period of the strongest and most adamant defamation of Communism in the USA was during the nineteen fifties and sixties, an era when parents were shocked by the Beatles' one inch too long hair, Elvis could only be shown from the waist up on televi sion, social life consisted of "keeping up with the Joneses," et cetera aJ naweam: an era so utterly, disgustingly conformist that all its
self-deluded judgements of foreign societies are utterly and completely invalid.
Ever since its inception in 1917, when Lenin and his gang of Bolsheviks overthrew Kerensky's ass-kissing government and said a big "FUCK YOU" to the Czarist royalty, Orthodox religious establishment, and the greedy, bloodsucking capitalists of the West, volumes have been written about the "Evil Empire," claiming to expose the supposed

failure of its famous Five Year programs, its suppression of "individual rights," the horror of its purges, etc. However, the reader should real ize that the history of the Soviet Union has long been instinctively hidden away from the prying eyes of the West, concealed behind a Hermetic seal of secrecy and illusion. Now that the Iron Curtain has officially fallen, a trained eye might discern a few glimp.1u of this vast and utterly
a&n empire amid the cluttered morass of prop aganda (from both sides).
However, the Satanic inquirer should never forget that, contrary to foolish American perceptions, the realms of the Soviet Union are not European or Western, but rather, as the Nazis knew, Asian. They are not Asian as in Chinese or Japanese, but Asian as in Genghis Khan and the Golden Horde, Asian as in Attila the Hun, Tamerlane, Gog and Magog, Asian as in the Turanians, the only people who had the Dark Doctrine in an undiluted form; this is the domain of the unknown Central Asian Paleoarctic "Yellow Peril" before which the petty civilized Christian nations in Western Europe trem bled in abject terror, that their Popes have labeled as Satan Incarnate. The manic depressive Wmston Churchill's fanatic reac tions and efforts against the Bolshevik Revolution parallel those of Pope Leo and others to the rise of the Khans in the East in the medieval twel&h and thirteenth centuries. This is the Asia that Western history has tried to forget, until Vladimir Ulyanov, the son of a Kalmuck and a Slav, overthrew the European Czar's regime and raised the Red flag over his vast inherited empire. It is no wonder that the once cowering Capitalist Christian West to this day considers Stalin's USSR the Devil with which Hitler had to make a deal! This ancient Western prejudice against the peoples of the Soviet Union, which dates back at least to Roman times, might explain some of the paranoia surrounding this nation.
Note: I want to make it perfectly clear
that I am not talking about the post-Stalinist USSR that came into being a&er Khrushchev pulled a coup d'etat and decapitated the NKVD. I will make it perfectly clear right now that this NKVD, which, under Stalin, patrolled every economic sector to ensure honesty, is most definitely not the KGB, a totally separate organization that existed alongside it, and who were as corrupt as any state police in the USA could be corrupt with out their own department of internal affairs being there to catch them. From the onset of Khrushchev's takeover, the economics became state capitalist; that's not socialism, and it's certainly not Communism.
With that technicality aside, let us tiy to
cover a few points about the Soviet Union pertinent to the Satanist. Despite what American liars try to say in futile attempts to escape the reality of their own wretchedly con-

formist lives, the USSR was not a giant wel fare state, nor was it an Orwellian empire of brainwashed zombiefied drones (although we cannot say the same about Maoist China). Lenin's socialist motto was "if you don't WORK, you don't EAT," and Stalin's Soviet Union was one of the strictest meritocracies in history, where people (whether male or female) were given their due for every kind of work they did, including the nitty-gritty man ual labor that is always arrogantly sneered at by the withered corpses in degenerate soci eties who fancy themselves "above" such physical activity, and incompetence was given no excuses. The petty classist, sexist, and racist biases against manual, female, and (more recently) non-white laborers have pre vented the Western nations from ever being anything even approaching meritocracies.
Under Stalin's socialist regime, if you were going to be a dishwasher, be the best, because you have the public health in your hands. If you were going to be a doctor, do not hold yourself away from your patients, or talk over their heads, because it is these peo ple that paid for your education, and if your knowledge does not benefit the people of your society, then it is useless. Remember, every occupation has its native jargon. Both a doc tor and a dishwasher are fundamentally responsible for public health, and both took
pride in their work in Stalinist society: this is the meaning of "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs." This Communist slogan does not mean that the physically healthy should toil for the sake of degenerate corpse-rotten vampires. In fact, two Stalinist epithets for such human leeches were "cannibal" and "vampire," and these also applied to those who made their billions on the backs of the able-bodied that they enslaved. Lenin's motto for the stage of Socialism or /,ui/Jing Communism in the Soviet Union was "from each according to their ability, to each according to their work."
These demanding standards that stratified Soviet society according to natural ability have drawn much derision from Westerners, but it is an undeniable fact that even after the degenera tion that set in a&er Stalin's death, the USSR continue'J to produce the world's finest scientists and athletes, setting a standard the West didn't hope to even compare to (much less surpass) until the USA managed to "win" its self-initiat ed "race to the moon," a showpiece of propa ganda. Nevertheless, the USSR was far ahead in all other aspects of space science: they launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, had the first cosmonaut, made the first photo graphs of the moon, etc. Kennedy's moon land ing was a craJh program to catch-up to these historical Soviet achievements.
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a "genius-level" mathematical puzzle! Unlike in America, where most scientists must grovel for research grants, often compromising their true ideas to corporate interest or, even worse, living in abject poverty, the Soviet Union enshrined the scientists whose work benefited the whole society, including many Satanic fig ures such as the defamed, derided, and dis torted Ukrainian botanist Trofim Lysenko,
who was described by his Western-supported Mendelian adversaries as a mralwbu ("demon of darkness!"), was known to understand the plants on the fields like a shaman would, and befuddled his enemies with an impressive gut ter mouth along with a penchant for then "ciyptic" metaphorical descriptions of life processes that have since been verified by modern science. Despite what liars say now
after the fact, his agricultural techniques fed
the people, and he was promoted by Stalin to be the head of biological science in the Soviet Union. Is it not coincidental that it was this country that later honored Anton LaVey, whose ancestors hailed from these Eastern lands, in its Museum of Atheism?
As for the much-hyped "brainwashing"
attributed to the Soviet Union and other C.Ommunist countries, such as Maoist China, Satanists should not be disappointed to hear that the official school of psychology in the Soviet union was Pavlovianism, which is famous for its drooling dogs and ringing bells. Stalin's regime tried to create a "New Man" by manipulation of the social environment, removing stimuli that produce broken people and neurotic antisocial behaviors, and encouraging those that build healthy, func
tional humans. Despite what humanitarians
imagine about the people in such regimes, the average citizens of the USSR in Stalin's times did not feel oppressed, because they were happy with their lives, which were affiuent with material, animal comfort (unlike the average person in a stressful Hobbesian capi talist society).
In this Pavlovian school of psychology, the disassociated non-limbic "spiritual" types of people were considered insane, in contrast
to this society, where such types are consid ered the "Norm," or even glorified as role models:neurotics and psychotics like Mother Theresa, Winston Churchill, Cardinal Spellman, etc. In the Soviet Union, those who showed a lack of interest in carnal life, for
example, teenage boys who weren't horny for girls, were suspected of "creeping schizophre nia." In fact, that Pavlovian school of psychol ogy, which is so offensive to human illusions of what B.F. Skinner called "freedom and dig nity," is verified by recent hard-science neu rology findings, such as the work of Dr. Antonio Damasio, whose book Ducartu'Frror thoroughly discredited Western mind-body dualism, and sparked the recent fad in "Emotional Intelligence."

As for "thoughtcrime," people were not arrested for what they thought about the gov ernment, as the case of the Christian scientist Pavlov demonstrates: he was never arrested, nor were people who voiced sincere discon tent over hunger, fear, etc. However, people were arrested for such crimes as screwing up on important jobs, wasting money (The People's resources!), and other things that Westerners pretend were "trivial, innocent mistakes"-in an era of real sabotage in the face of a war of annihilation. As such, many people who were simply emotionally CO{l· fused, unaware waste products (whose unconscious exploits fill Freud's books) were eliminated along with avowed enemies of society.. Since these unaware types fill American society, their arrests might be·seen as inhuman. We Satanists say, "Good rid danceI" Ironically, it is America's refusal to deal decisively with some classes of such angiy incompetents, destroyers, and obstruc ters (as the Stalinists tried to do) that has cre ated the modern American "welfare" system of spending billions of tax dollars for certain parasites to stay home and raise illegitimate, unemployable children. However, many right wing American politicians complain about parasites of the "welfare queen" variety. What differentiates these right wingers from the Stalinists is that the Stalinists targeted all
parasites equally, instead of prosecuting only those from a certain class or race, as Americans usually do.
Since the USSR was created by people who had been, by their own admission, liter ally on the cultural level of New Guinea sav ages, their social life had not been poisoned by the decadence typical of the civilized Western world, where is it normal for children to hate their parents, pick on their friends, hate them selves, repress their emotions and sexuality, et cetera (which is one reason Westerners fail to grasp the nature ofSoviet society). However, the Soviet Union was not completely free of the degenerate types described above (as attested to by the confused moralistic whin ings of such anti-C.Ommunist "luminaries" as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mikovan Djilas and the Medvedev brothers), and these dissatis fied (with tbemJelvu) people plagued Stalin's new regime. The existence of genuine indus trial saboteurs and Vragi NaroJa (Enemies of the People) in Stalin's times is attested to by non-political and even anti-C.Ommunist American first-hand observers, such as recorded by United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union John Davies.
These discontents, which included both
people with relatively normal motives such as nationalism, as well as genuine mental degen erates, were dealt with in a period of sweeping purges by the NKVD (People's C.Ommissariat of Internal Affairs), who were infamous in the West as agents of the Stalinist Terror, and

were the epitome of a truly Satanic police force. The NKVD was responsible for clean ing out the garbage in Soviet society, and did so with terrifying efficiency: they apprehend ed not only criminals, but also their extended families, friends, spouses, and anyone connect ed with them. This sort of thoroughness strikes most Jewish and Christian Westerners as para noid, bloodthirsty, and excessive, but a Satanist might note that all of those people were either
physically related to the criminal, or associated with them of their own free will. As the saying goes, you can judge a man by the friends he keeps, and recent scientific findings about the hereditary and familial nature of personality and mental disease make these methods seem
veiy reasonable, if perhaps "unethical" by
Judeo-Christian standards.
Another aspect of NKVD operations that might interest the Satanist is that NKVD officers were not content with merely catch ing criminals and jailing or executing them, but instead would not kill them until the accused con/&MiJ to not only what they did, but why they did it. This is the Satanic, Asian "Durga" method of forcing someone to not just spit out a phony excuse, but painfully dig
into their souls to remember what desire com pelled them to commit crimes against their society, which often involved seeing some buried awful truth about oneself, a process to which most people would find death prefer able. Sometimes these criminals would be brought before the citizenry and international media for "show trials," where they would publicly confess to what they had done and why. Western scholars usually dismiss these trials and confessions as faked, but, for one, experienced lawyer John Davies considered the testimony at the famous Bukharin trial to be genuine, and he was a first-hand observer who had no political agenda or reason to dis tort the truth.
The NKVD was the internal police force of the Soviet Union that fought corruption and prevented counter-revolution, and when Khrushchev had his violent coup 'iJ'etat after Stalin's death, the first thing he did was dis mantle it in order to instate his poisonous state capitalist programs. From then on, C.Ommunism was doomed in the Soviet Union, and life there was not the same and destined to
get increasingly bad. The Soviet economy (which was already severely crippled by World War 2) was strained to collapse by excessive military expenditure in the C.Old War. All of Khrushchev's rhetoric about de-Stalinization and the "crimes" of Stalinism were a cover for his vile destruction of the USSR. and people who had lived through the era of a man who had made their country great, despite poverty and a war that wiped out one third of their new industrial achievements, were horrified to hear him derided as a criminal.
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memoirs of Anatoly Dobrynin, former mem ber of the Central Committee of the Party and Soviet Ambassador to Washington for 24 years (1962-1986), Gorbachev, the West's lit tle "hero," is as much to blame for the collapse of the Soviet Union as Khrushchev. Dobrynin says that Khrushchev kept antagonizing the
U.S. military (which doesn't work for a Jocuzl
iA system) and misdirected Soviet energies to war, while Gorbachev's "wonderful reforms" (as the West thinks) unleashed chaos and confusion that Dobrynin says Gorby, could not even understand or deal with. Gorby was too hasty and did not understand economic problems (as Stalin did), and became increas ingly helpless as "glasnost" progressed.

they are past the point of no return and are spiraling uncontrollably into oblivion, when they have long since sealed their own fates,
. they will look back and realize that they too have forsaken something more valuable than any ugly, overpriced "designer" suit or rip-off skimpy, bland "gourmet" cuisine in the world: normal creature comfort, good food, loving friendship and family, the kind of things NKVD chief.Felix Dzerzhinsky called life, happiness, and inner liberty (Dzerzhinsky had never heard of Jefferson), and that we Satanists call vital animal existence.
Maybe they will realize that it is possible to have a life with material comfort and luxu ry and real friends and family as jungle prim

According to Dobrynin, Gorbachev did not . itives do, except in a modern technological

know how to deal with "practical problems" (sound familiar?). Now Mikhail Gorbachev works in Pizza Hut commercials.
Now that the Iron Curtain has fallen, the many detractors of Communism have loudly proclaimed the victory of "freedom of the individual" and "democracy." Meanwhile, the former Soviet Union has become a Hobbesian cesspool of massive starvation, crime, and all of the other Hellish results of confused humans struggling for survival (however, it is not nearly as bad as every single American inner city is; of course, the capitalists won't be happy until it is). The nation that rose from literally meduval social and technological con ditions to become a world superpower, to build the world's first space station, and to give hope of a better future for humanity, has been degraded to a level where its former General Secretary can be seen on American television peddling for Pizza Hut. TbiJ is where the "free market" road to profit incen tives and unnecessary "luxuries" (of con sumer suckerism-where people don't even enjoy the junk, such as the b!JeoUJ $150 sneak ers popular with school-age ghetto dwellers and their selfless imitators) they buy has taken the people of the Soviet Union.
They, or more correctly, those fools and
saboteurs who bought into the Western web of Capitalism (definition: the greedy, desper ate searching after material trinlcetJ by those attempting to fill up a black vortex inside themselves), have brought the Soviet Union: to utter degeneracy, real bread lines, a society without even medical care, and, of course, a resurgence of Christianity. Like most people, the citizens of what was once Genghis Khan's empire, the impenetrable wilderness unknown to the degenerate temperate zone civilizations, have been deceived by the shiny, deceptively pretty Jbell of the human Black Holes, and tried to snatch up the shiny and glamorous but illusory "treasures" of Capitalism (just like the "treasures" of Christianity) they offer, only to find crumpled-up foil in their hands, or at least some of them have bought into this nothingness. Perhaps when it is too late, once

society, without enslaving someone else or scrapping with your own brother over a piece of bread. And now that the greedy klippoths in the American capitalist world have had their wildest dreams fulfilled, their own big businesses are moving their operations over seas, into the labor markets newly-opened by the fall of Communism, gradually depleting the once prosperous standard ofliving in even the so-called First World. A Satanist might have warned them, "Be careful what you wish for: you just might get it." •

Bibliography:

l. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The CommuniJt Manifuto.
2. Ludo Martens, "Another View of Stalin." (Available on WWW; do net Search for title)
3. John Cassidy, "The Return of Karl Marx."
New York Times, October 20&27, 1997, pages 248-259.
4. Bruce Bower; "Yours, Mine, and Ours."
Scuna NeuM, Volume 153, March 28, 1998,
pages 205-207.
5. Arthur Koesstler, DarlcnUJ at Noon.
6. John Davies, MiMion to MOJcoUJ (see also movie with same title).
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l l. StaliniJt Terror: New Pmpectivu edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta Manning.

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Blackjack Version: If you are such a dick that you would sue somebody who tried to save your life, I will personally spread bone marrow jelly on your genitalia and lock you in a cage with Otto, the starving rottweiller.

By Blackjack

KE MOST SATANISTS, I
agree that Le,x TalwniJ is an idea whose time has come. Most of us now that the current system of Justice is seriously flawed, and that
criminals often have more rights than the vic tims. I have seen many people write about the criminal side of Le,x TalwniJ, but nobody has mentioned the civil side. This is surprising, considering that this will be the more difficult aspect of the criminal code to change. Christianity might be mediocrity's best friend, but the lawsuit finishes a close second. With all of the lawsuits I see, I find myself con stantly asking the same question: "What ever happened to just having a bad day?"
It's one thing to tiy to protect individuals from their own stupidity, but to let them prof it from it is downright scaiy. Instead of encouraging people to develop something called common JeMe, society rewards the oppo site, and companies constantly have to come up with new and better ways to protect the mentally challenged from themselves. For instance, if you come across a construction site, you might see the following sign posted near a deep hole that they have dug:
"Warning! We have dug this hole because, well, we're construction workers, it's our job. While this hole should not be in your path, we realize that curiosity may get the bet ter of you, and you may stumble upon it, any way. This hole is approximately 40 feet deep, give or take a few inches. Falling into this hole might be painful, and bring a premature end to your dreams of anchoring the 4 X 100 relay at the Olympics. Should you lose your balance, we have provided hand rails at the edge of the hole, hoping that you remember the purpose of opposable thumbs. Also, for your safety, we have provided a demonstration of pretty flash ing lights approximately 30 feet away from the hole, figuring that your short attention span
will get the better of you. If, for some reason,
you still feel the need to plunge into the hole, a medical technician will be with you shortly, being considerate enough not to laugh his ass off in your presence. At this time, feel free to call your lawyer and sue us for underestimat ing your capacity for self-destruction."
This scenario might be funny, if you and I

weren't the ones who ended up paying for it. Criminals might be frightening, but self destructive nitwits are more plentiful. You are less likely to run into a mugger than an old lady who sues Starbucks because she failed to see how hot coffee and her vulva were not made for each other. In case you think that this does n't hurt you, just wait until you are paying an extra quarter for your latte because Starbucks has to redesign all of their cups to say "Screw the lid on really tight unlessyou want the worst hot flash of your life." Murders grab the head lines, but lawsuits grab your money.
While I have no love for lawyers, I real ly don't blame them for the lawsuit frenzy. They are merely the tool used to continue this judicial version of the 'Tm a victim" syn drome. Sure, lawyers may encourage the behavior, but, they figure as long as society continues to follow the mantra "Blessed are the dumb asses, for they can make a fortune," they might as well make a profit from it. As long as stupidity is profitable, common sense doesn't stand a chance. Therefore, I have cre ated Blaclcjack'J Pentagonal Civil Coile, to be incorporated into Le,x TalwniJ. The code con sists of the following five addendum, in both regular and Blackjack versions:
ADDENDUM 1: PUNITIVE DAMAGES
Regular Version: In any lawsuit where the defendant is found guilty, punitive damages
will not exceed triple the actual medical costs
incurred. To award punitive damages, a juiy must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant actually showed malicious intent or gross negligence towards the plaintiff.
Blackjack Version: Same as above, but, if the jury can prove that the plaintiff's harm was caused by pure idiocy, the plaintiff will pay all court costs and sit still while eveiyone in the courtroom laughs at him/her for no less than one hour. Also, plaintiff will be forced to relinquish all cool pointJ on the spot.
ADDENDUM 2: "Goon SAMARITAN" LAW
Regular Version: Defendants will not be held liable for damages in civil cases when it is demonstrated that injuries occurred while the defendant was making a bona fide attempt to provide aid and assistance to the plaintiff dur-

ADDENDUM 3: SLANDER / LIBEL
Regular Version: In order to receive damages, a plaintiff must demonstrate that the defendant caused actual harm, in terms of physical/bodily, financial, or other tangible forms with their writing or speech. Claims of psychological harm must be verified by court appointed psychiatrists.
Blackjack Version: If the juiy finds that
no tangible harm occurred, and that the plain tiff is merely a "wuss-boy" with no sense of humor, then the plaintiff will be forced to walk down the main street of the town wearing only a diaper and screaming "Waahh, I'm a baby, change my diaper, I soiled myself again!"

ADDENDUM 4: CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Regular Version: Plaintiffs will not be awarded damages in civil cases where it is demonstrated that injuries occurred while committing a misdemeanor or felonious crim inal act.
Blackjack Version: Actually, I'm still shaking my head over the fact that I even need to include this addendum. Good news for the plaintiff: I will present you with a styl ishly engraved plaque for possessing the gonads required to file such a lawsuit. Bad news for the plaintiff: I will also see to it that you spend the duration of your prison sen tence as "Crazy Tyrone's bitch."

ADDENDUM 5: FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS
Regular Version: Frivolous lawsuit statutes (already in place in some states) will be applied across the board. If the juiy finds no merit in the lawsuit, they can order the plaintiff to pay all court costs and award dam ages to the defendant for lost compensation.
Blackjack Version: One word, folks, caning. It works for Singapore, it can work for us, too.

There you have it, a plan that will actu ally force people to get out of the courtrooms and do something productive in order to earn a living. While not fixing all of society's ills, it should help to keep consumer costs down, courts less crowded, and remove a lot of stress from potential defendants. A justice system no longer works when it helps to cre ate more injustice. With the dark force at our side, we can make streets safer, and remove a potential jackpot for the unworthy at the same time.
Just remember, Blaclcjack'J Pentagonal
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separation of the former unified Roman empire into an Eastern and a Western part had also brought with it a separation of the formerly unified Christian church. So, if those rather uncontrollable bands would misunder stand him and turn to battle against the Byzantine empire, what could he do? (Never mind that the immediate cause for all this was
the cry for help against the Turks from the Byzantine emperor himself.) Maybe the poor people there who survived would turn out to be without a spiritual leader afterwards. The Holy Father would then see it as his holy obligation to jump in, of course. But the con quest of Constantinople did not happen before more then a century later, and by then it was too late for the cunning religious

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

T MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DAMP
AND chilly Tuesday on November 27th, when Pope Urban II mounted the podium in the French town of Clermont in 1095. "Christians," he was calling out, "terrible news has reached us. The peoples of the Eastern empires, wicked races, alienated towards God, have devastated Christian lands by fire and sword. They have desecrated the houses of God and His altars. They have circumcised Christians and poured their blood into the wells." Peasants, knights, dukes and priests listened, spellbound. "Who shall revenge these woeful deeds, if not you? You are the people God has given the courage and the spirit and the power to humiliate
those haughty heathens."
Having carefully prepared his speech, the Pope made a well timed break. "Go and light those barbarians I Go and fight for the holy lands!" The crowd was frantic. "Remember God has died for you and now it is your duty to die for Him," Urban declared, holding a cross into the air. With the cry "Deus le volt!" ("God wills it!"), thousands took the challenge. They took red strips of cloth and sewed them on the right shoulder in the shape of a cross, thus giving the period its name. (There were but a few critical chroni clers who were just wondering where those strips of red cloth came from all of a sudden.) This was the beginning of the First Crusade. With his carefully staged scene at
· the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II opened two of the bloodiest centuries in Christian history. The toll was paid in the form of hundreds of thousands of lives, the total number being unknown forever. Interestingly, if we would get a chance today to talk to one of those warriors and ask him about going on a "Crusade," he would not even have understood the word. The term itself, although nowadays naming an entire period, is not recorded in this form before the eighteenth century. Earlier French forms were "croisade" and "croisee," both from

around the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Contemporary sources usually speak only about a "holy war" or an "expedition to the Holy Land."
Bands of poor and inexperienced pil grims, poorly armed and equipped, set out for Outremer, the Holy Land ("outremer" mean ing "overseas" in French). They were led by Walter the Penniless and Peter the Hermit. The latter rode a donkey and read letters which ostensibly had fallen from Heaven; these letters foretold of the Christian victory. He was even bold enough to distribute copies I Peter, probably coming from Amiens in the French province Picardie, was begrimed with dirt and filth, and the chroni clers report he looked quite similar to his donkey. But they also report that he must have been a gifted speaker as not even abbots and bishops were able to withstand his banishing sermons.
One of Peter's companions, a certain Emicho of Leiningen, a German count from Mainz, stated that Heaven itself had burned a cross into his breast. As one can clearly see, Heaven did not restrict itself to writing letters during those days. This Emicho was responsi ble for initiating a wave of pogroms unbe knownst to Medieval times until then. His motto was, "When we will lay battle to the barbarians who have desecrated Christian lands, let us start with those who are respon sible for the dead of our Lord Jesus first!" So on their way to the East they were massacring Jews in the Rhine valley, starting in the town of Speyer, and working their way down, not leaving out one single town of contemporary importance. Thousands of Jews remained behind, robbed, raped, dead.
When they finally reached Constantinople, the Byzantine emperor Alexios shipped the mob over to Anatolia as fast as possible because he was in fear that they might pillage the city. And his fears were more justified then one might first think. It was deliberately that Pope Urban had not been more specific about those "Eastern Empires" in his speech at the council. The

reunion plans of Urban.
Many already perished on their way fur ther east, and the rest was destroyed in an ambush by the Muslims at Civetot in Anatolia. The main army, this time properly equipped and trained, was led into Anatolia by Godfrey of Bouillon, a French baron. After a long and arduous march, garnished with lots of bloody skirmishes and tough battles with Muslims, they captured Antioch in June 1098. This only happened because the defenders were betrayed by some Armenians who managed to leave a part of the wall unguarded during the night. Due to a blunt underestimation of the knights' fighting power and severe tactical errors by a soon arriving Muslim relief force, the Crusaders were . able to hold and secure the heavily walled fortress.
With Antioch in the 6rm grip of the
invaders, the Crusaders were able to move on to their final destination and arrived at Jerusalem in June 1099. Forewarned by what had happened at Antioch, all Christians were expelled from the town and the defend ers prepared themselves well to stand out a lengthy siege. But the leaders of the attacking Western armies realized this soon enough and decided to storm Jerusalem as fast as possi ble. With the help of two quickly erected siege towers, they could finally breach the walls. Despite heavy losses due to fierce defense, they stormed the town, led by the Norman noble Tankred, on July 15th, 1099.

IMPRESSIONS FROM OUTREMER

BOTH CRUSADERS AND MUSLIMS WERE
forced to adapt to one another's military strategies to quite an extent. Turkish and Seljuk forces used to harass the Crusader armies on the move, without committing themselves to a full scale battle. So special
attention had to be paid to the formation of marching units with van, flank and rear guards getting a new important role. Usually the foot soldiers walked on the outsides to protect the valuable mounts of the knights

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from enemy arrows. Logistics, a military art which had almost disappeared from Europe after the decline of the Roman Empire, had to be learned anew. And it was learned the hard way, with thousands of Crusaders dying of starvation and lack of water during the first two Crusades. But by then a set of well-sup ported supply bases was installed and main tained, proving its value already during the third Crusade. Concerning medical support, a contemporary source tells us that one was usually better off without medical assistance, considering the ill-developed medical sci ences of the time.
On the other side, the Oriental caval ry forces consisted mainly of lightly armored and armed riders on ponies and light horses to support their method of swift attack strikes with a quick retreat before the enemy was able to react. But they did not realize at first that in a full scale field battle the heavily armored and armed knights would be more than a match for them. So during the first few of those battles, the knights with their full. scale armor brought the thrust of the attackers to a full stop by ;ust standing it out. Then when they would charge, they practically leveled their enemies to the ground by sheer momentum.
Also, tactics in these wars were cruel and bloody. At Nicaea the heads of beheaded Muslims were thrown into the beleaguered town with catapults. But the enemy did not fall behind, usually behead ing prisoners of war as a standard treat ment or at least treating them most cruel ly. As a result of this no-quarter struggle both sides always fought to the bitter end.
With Christian warriors from Armenia and Syria ;oining the Crusaders, and French, Norman, and Byzantine mercenaries fighting on the Muslim side, it was sometimes difficult to tell who was the enemy in the thick of the fight.
Both sides also had their problems with envy and ;ealousy among the partaking barons. Muslim officers disclosed the military secrets of their own troops during personal feuds with fellow commanders, or sometimes
;ust in exchange for gold coins. And the most noble dukes and barons of the Occident occa sionally spent their energy more on gaining new tenures and properties in the Orient then on keeping the Holy Crusade in motion; something which did not go by unnoticed by the Muslim rulers.
After the fall of Jerusalem the Christians broke into all the houses, killing men, women, and children at random, regardless of confes sions. They took with them all they could and many a knight was richer than ever after the Blood Night of Jerusalem. The crusaders even cut the guts out of citizens when they heard rumors that the Saracens sometimes

hid their gold coins from their enemies by swallowing them. The Jews of Jerusalem fled into their main synagogue. But this did not trouble the Christian knights of the Crusades. They simply b.urned the building down with all the people in it.
At least as cruel were the Shiite Assassins; members of a secret order of Muslim fanatics who terrorized and killed not only the Christian Crusaders, but also laid hands (and blades) on other Muslims. Incited by drugs, they followed their leaders unques-

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tioningly and murdered without mercy. Hashish was already known in these lands by that time, and those drugged assassins were called "hashishyn" (lit. "hashish-eater") by their compatriots. The English word "assas sin" also has its roots in this word which entered the language via the medieval Latin form "assassinus."
It is not possible to estimate the true size ofthe crusading armies and thereby guess at the number of victims. Contemporary sources usually quote vast numbers which left Europe for the Holy Land, listing between 300,000 and 600,000 "Crusaders" passing through the Byzantine empire during the First Crusade, probably including many non-combatants, such as camp followers, pilgrims, wives, and children. A figure of 150,000 might perhaps be more accurate. The total number of fight ing men was probably not much more than 4,500 cavalry and 30,000 foot, including all men capable of bearing arms, rather than an organized infantry force. For the other Crusades, figures are even more vague. A rea-

sonable estimation of figures can be achieved from transportation used. In the Third Crusade Richard's army cannot have exceed ed 8,000 in number, ;udging from the ships he used, Philip's force even less. Frederick's forces were stronger, perhaps reaching some 30,000, of which only 1,000 (!) reached Acre in 1190. In the Fourth Crusade Venice agreed to ship 20,000 men on foot, 4,500 knights, and 9,000 squires but in the end only a total of some 10,000 did show up, the size of the force which then attacked Constantinople.
But there was not always bloodshed and murder. During the Sixth Crusade, 1228 - 29, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II from the German Hohenstaufen dynasty regained Jerusalem and several other important pilgrimage sites from the Muslims. He accomplished this by negotiation after traveling to Outremer rather unenthusias tically, having even been excommunicated by the Pope because of constant refusal to go on a Crusade.
Jerusalem was recaptured by the
Khwarismians, master cutthroats from Mesopotamia, in 1244. They assured the last 8,000 Crusaders a safesconduct but betrayed them. As soon as they had left the walls they were ambushed and slaugh tered. Only 300 reached the town of Haifa alive. This bloodshed marked the end of the Christian reign in Jerusalem. Except for a six month long interruption in 1300 it should take 673 years until a Christian army was to enter Jerusalem again. On December 9th, 1917, the Turks surrendered the town to the British gen eral Sir Edmund Allenby.

THE CAMPAIGNS AT A GLANCE

THE FIRST CRUSADE (1096 - 99) WAS CALLED
upon by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095. During summer 1096 a large number of fanatic wretched men, women and children reached Anatolia, where the "Poor Man's Army" was destroyed by the Muslims. The main army, mostly French and Norman knights under the leadership of Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin of Flanders, Raymond of Toulouse, Robert of Normandy, and others assembled at Constantinople at Christmas 1096. They captured Antioch in June 1098 and finally stormed Jerusalem in July 1099, forming several Crusader states along the Syrian and Palestinian coast, among them the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch and the Kingdom of Jerusalem where Baldwin was crowned king. Rivalries among the leading nobles impaired however the chance of consolidating these holdings.
The Second Crusade (1147 - 49) was caused by the loss of Edessa to the Muslims in 1144. The German King Conrad Ill and King

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Louis VII of France lead their armies sepa rately through Anatolia, against the advice of the Byzantine Emperor. They lost most of their men. The remains joined in an unsuc cessful attempt to take Damascus turning the operation into a complete fiasco and a terrible disaster.
The capture of Jerusalem in 1187 together with most of Palestine by Sultan Salah Al-Din Al-Ajubi (pron. sal'ah ad-din ay-yubi; c.1138 - 1193), commonly know under the name Saladin, led immediately to the Third Crusade (1188 - 92). King Philip II of France, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I and King Richard I of England had initial mil itary success, recapturing Acre in 1191. But Frederick drowned en route in Cilicia and Philip returned soon to France. King Richard was able to secure Jaffa and Cyprus but failed to reconquer Jerusalem. On his journey home, Richard was taken prisoner near Vienna by Duke Luitpold V of Austria and turned over to the German Emperor Hemy VI who had a personal feud with Richard. But he was also in need of money and so he agreed to release the king in exchange for high ransom in 1194.
Pope Innocent III tried to reorganize the
Crusades with the Fourth Crusade (1202 - 04). But the Crusaders were unable to pay for the passage of the 10,000 men in Venice. At the request of the Venetians they laid siege to Constantinople, conquering and looting the city in April 1204, making it the residence of a Latin emperor. A Byzantine army almost casually recaptured the city in 1261 under the lead of the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus. The Venetian puppet king Baldwin II fled on a Venetian ship.
In the 13th century the enthusiasm for Crusades gradually declined, despite several reviving attempts. The Muslims were in firm control of Syria and Palestine and the European leaders preferred to concentrate on their own affairs rather then fighting the devoted and fierce warriors of the jihad ("holy war"). In 1212 the most disgusting Children's Crusade (figure 1) took place. Thousands of children from German and Dutch states left to recaphlre Jerusalem "innocent and weaponless", led by clergymen. Most died from hunger and disease en route, the rest
being sold into slavery by unscrupulous mer chants from Genoa.
Interestingly from here on historical sources as well as modern works on the sub ject begin to differ in the numbering of the crusades, further indicating their lessened importance. So some history books list up to eight Crusades, while others count only to seven. Therefore you might or might not agree with my remaining count, depending on what book you are looking into.
During the Fifth Crusade (1217 - 21) a papal legate took the harbor of Damietta

(1219) in Egypt, but all further attempts were crushed by a Nile flood and Damietta was finally evacuated after only two years.
The Sixth Crusade (1228 - 29) was a peaceful expedition into Outremer by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II who was able to negotiate the return of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and perhaps Nazareth from the Muslims under an agreement. This lasted to 1244 when Jerusalem was recaptured finally. The Seventh (1248 - 54) and the Eighth (1270) Crusades were led by King Louis IX of France in Egypt without success. He ruled the coast from Acre for four years but was captured at Damietta and released for ransom. A second campaign against the Sultan of Tunis in North Africa in 1270 was equally unsuccessful. In the meantime, Jaffa and Antioch were lost to the Mameluke Sultan Baybars in 1268 and the last

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Christian bastion, Acre (figure 2), was stormed by him in 1291.
During this period Crusades were also used increasingly by the papacy against foes in the West. First against the Slavic pagan Wends in Germany in 1147 and later against Muslims in Spain, the Baltic Prussians and Lithuanians, and the heretic Albigenses in southern France, 1209 - 29. This use of Crusades as mere tools of papal power poli tics continued well into the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

CONSEQUENCES AND RESULTS

BASICALLY, THE EXPECTED RELIGIOUS RESULTS
of the Crusades backfired. They hardened the Muslim attitudes towards Christians, at the same time raising doubts among Christians about God's will, the role of the papacy and the church's authority. Religious fervor yield ed to disinterest, skepticism, and a growing legalism as, for example, in the use of indul gences. On the other hand, the Crusades did stimulate religious enthusiasm on a broad

scale. They inspired a great literature in Latin and in the vernacular, especially the Romance languages. Contacts with the Muslim world started to replace ignorance about other cul tures and religions with a certain respect for them. The abbot of Cluny, Peter the Venerable, had the holy book of Muslims, the Quran, translated into Latin, an act which two hundred years earlier would have brought him to the stakes for heresy.
Politically, the consequences of the Crusades were even less significant. The Crusader states were rather short lived, leav ing behind only the military orders founded in the East. The most important ones were the Knights Hospitallers, also called the Knights of St. John, the Knights Templar and the Teutonic Knights. They had a significant influence on later European politics. The strong Muslim forces which came out of the

wars, together with the shown weakness of Western leaders with their endless quarrels in the Levant led more or less directly to the Turkish wars of later centuries. The Ottoman Empire was stopped twice, taking a tremen dous toll of lives, at Vienna 1529 and 1683, threatening to flood directly into the very heart of Europe. The impact this development had on the Balkans can still be felt today, while from the once impressive Crusader cas tles only ruins remain as silent monuments of Christian vanity and delusions of grandeur.
Economically, the Crusades imposed huge burdens on the citizens by draining western Europe of funds in support of the campaigns. Still, the Crusades furthered the growth of a money economy, of banking, and of new methods of taxation. The widening of the geographical horizon prepared Europe for the discoveries of the modern age. Traae, architecture, and urban culture were stimulat ed through the Crusades, and Islamic science, philosophy, and medicine began to deeply influence intellectual life in the West. (Much of this influence, however, came through con tacts with the Muslims in Spain and Sicily; the Crusaders in the East generally remained

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isolated from the surrounding culture.) Also this was the reason for the rising power and wealth of the Italian cities like Genoa or Venice, as for them the Crusades opened up the trade routes to the East thereby enabling their dominant merchant position in Europe for the next centuries.

A BY-PRODUCT OF THE CRUSADES: THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AND THE HEAD OF BAPHOMET

ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MILITARY AND
religious orders founded during the Crusades were the Knights Templar, named so because they originally were occupying a building on or near the site of the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem. With full title, "The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon" (Latin original: "Pauperes commili tones Christi Templique Salomonis"), they were founded by Hugh de Payns of Burgundy and Geoffroy de Saint-Omer, a Fleming (Hugue de Payens resp. Godfrey de Saint Adhemar in other sources). The order was originally formed by its founders in 1115 together with seven other knights; as a volun tary association to escort and protect pilgrims on their way from Jerusalem to Jericho. In 1118 they swore an oath before the Patriarch of Jerusalem to protect the pilgrims and observe the monastic vows of poverty, obedi ence and chastity. Under King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, who was impressed by their devo tion and gave them the quarters from which their name stemmed, they became in effect an unofficial police force.
By now, their numbers had had grown and it was felt they should be organized per manently and officially in accordance with their vow and their special military role. Around 1124 Hugh de Payns went to Europe for guidance and finally ended up at the Council of the Catholic Church at Troyes in France. There Hugh met Bernard, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux, who was considered to be the greatest Christian spiritual authority of that time; he drew up the order's rules. Confirmed by the Council which officially gave them their statutes, the Knights Templar were established as a mili tary-religious organization-the first official warrior-monks. They took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and wore monks' habits in chapel but rode to battle in mail and the distinctive cloak of their order, white with a red cross on the left breast and on the shield, displaying their black and white banner (fig ure 3). They were professional soldiers ruled by an iron discipline. Divided into knights, chaplains, sergeants, and craftsmen they were organized under a Grand Master and were responsible only to the pope.
Their seal shows two knights riding on
the back of a single horse (figure 4 showing a

photograph of a real seal; figure 5 outlining it in b/w for better recognition of the features), the inscription reads "SIGILVM MILITVM XRISTI", "The sigil of the soldiers of Christ." Some think that the symbol stems from their vow of poverty, indicating that not each knight could afford his own horse. But while they might haye been poor as individuals, this cer tainly did not hold for the order as such. So another theory states that this is not to be seen as sign of poverty but as a symbol of order initiation. The acceptance into the order was linked to merits and abilities of the candidate. One man, standing outside the order, was not

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authorized to ride a horse. He is lifted up the horse by the other man thereby denoting him as becoming equal, by his own deserving.
The Knights Templar attracted many nobles and soon became an expert military force and a powerful, wealthy order, evolving into the finest fighting force in the Holy Land. In Battle they were always accorded the posi tion of honor on the right wing, with the Hospitallers on the left. In November 1177 only 80 Templars together with 300 other armored knights smashed Saladin's army in a single crashing cavalry charge led by the Grand Master of the Templars. Throughout the thirteenth century their military role in Palestine was declining, partially because of difficulties in gaining new recruits (people became less enthusiastic about dying in Outremer for the "greater glory of God"), and partially because of the growing rivalry between the military orders which led to fights even among the different orders. So it

happened that in 1256 the Templars and the Hospitallers took different sides in a fighting between Genoese and Venetians in Acre instead of countering the threat from Sultan Baybars, a brilliant strategis-t.
After 1291, when the crusading forces were finally driven from Palestine, the Templars' main activity became banking, lending money even to kings. Their enormous landholdings and financial strength aroused great hosjility among rulers and clergy alike. In Europe their churches were often round, and their collllJlai1deries served as banks (fig ure 6 showing a Templar church in London). There they made a most grievous mistake, loaning vast sums of money to King Philip IV of France. The king, known as "Philip the Fair" (a reference to his appearance, not his nature), was always sorely in need of money and also in great dislike of their power, as they owed allegiance to Rome rather than any sec ular authority.
In 1305 Philip thought up a perfidious
plan to charge the Templars with heresy, the only crime which would allow him to seize their money. Charges of homosexuality and sodomy ensued. Pope Clement V was initially opposing the charges, trying to save the order (i.e. his private army) by ordering the last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, to Rome and suggesting to unite and form one order with the Knights Hospitallers and to go on a new Crusade. Both proposals were rejected by de Molay, who by then seemed to be unaware of the charges leveled against the order, and failing to see these proposals as a means of saving the Templars.
Being merely Philip's puppet, Clem nt finally was forced to support the fabricated claims. After all, the cardinal had gained access to the Holy See only because of Philip's manipulations. On September 15th, 1307, Philip had all members of the order in France arrested. Similar attacks were mounted against the order in Spain and England, and Pope Clement V suppressed the Knights Templar by papal bull at the Council of Vienne in 1312. Grand Inquisitor Wilhelm Imbert unleashed one of the greatest character assassination campaigns of the time, using the Dominicans, the Franciscans, and the Augustinians to spread the lies about the Templars from all pulpits of France. With their rituals kept a secret, there was no one outside the order to contest those fabricated charges.
The Templars had ignored and underes timated their powerful enemies far too long. They were put on trial, and confessions were· extracted by torture. A fixed scheme of up to 127 questions was used to aid to this proce dure but the results tend to reflect more the warped preconceptions of the inquisitors than what had actually happened. Here are pro vided a few excerpts of the voluminous proto cols which are of some interest concerning the

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origins and the earliest forms of the Baphomet symbol. (For those readers who can utilize it, I have also provided the Latin originals. Note though that this is clerical medieval Latin, which differs from the ancient Latin of Julius Caesar and Marcus Tullius Cicero quite a bit. During the translations I have tried, partly by deliberately violating the correct use of tenses in indirect speech and partly by sticking to unusual wording and words, to capture the air and the emotions of the original docu ments. Comments for clarification of passages that refer to other parts of the texts are made in brackets.)

LES PROCES DES TEMPLIERS

From the interrogation of Huguet de Bure
(24. IV. 1310)

ed. Michlet I, pp. 205

"Item, dixit quod, inmediate post prae dicta, dictus frater P. extraxit de quoddam annario dicte capelle quoddam capud et posuit supra altare, et cum quadam cordula circumduxit dictum capud, tradens illam cor dulam ipsi testi, et precipiens ut ea continuo supra camisiam cingeret; sed tamen dixit quod non portavit earn.

"...lnterrogatus de dicto capitae quale

erat, respondit quod non erat ligneum, sed videbatur argenteum, vel cupreum, vel aureum; et erat ad instar capitis humani, cum facie et cum longa barba quasi cana. lnterrogatus cujus erat dictum caput, respon dit se nescire nee vidisse postmodum dictum capud, quia non fuit, ut dixit, ex tune in dicta domo nisi duobus diebus, et dictus preceptor, facta dicta recepcione, reposuit ipsum capud in predicto armario.
"Interrogatus qualis erat dicta cordula, respondit quod de filo albo gracili, longitudi nis talis quod homo poterat inde cingi. lnterrogatus quare non cingit dictam cordu lam, ex quo fecerat alia graviora que fuerant sibi precepta, respondit quia credebat esse peccatum, quia viderat earn cingi dictum capud, quod capud non credebat signi.6.care bonum, ut dixit ..."

"Also, he said, immediately after what was said before [a lengthy description of a rit ual expressing disrespect for the holy Christian symbols and also showing unques tioning obedience to the order], said brother
P. took a head out of a closet in the chapel, put it on the altar and wound a rope around this head, gave this very rope to the witness men tioned [earlier during the interrogation] and ordered him to gird himself with this rope over his shirt all time; yet that one said he never wore it.

"... Asked about how this said head was constituted, he answered it was not made from wood but looked like it was made of sil-

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ver, or of copper, or of gold; and it was just like a human head, with a face and a long, almost white beard. Asked, whose head this has been, he answered he did not know and he had not seen said head any more later on

because, as he said, he had not been to said house ever since, but only on those two days, and the said teacher had put back the very same head into the aforementioned closet after said initiation ceremony had been per formed.

"Asked, how the said rope was constitut ed, he said it was made of a thin white thread of such length a man could gird himself with it. Asked, why he did not gird himself with said cord when he had done other things much worse when ordered to do so, he answered because he believed it to be a sin as he had seen it girding said head, the head of which he believed to mean no good, as he said ..."

From the interrogation of Jacques de Troyes
(9. V. 1310)

ibid., pp. 255

"Item, ..., de ydolis, respondit se audi visse refferri a pluribus, nescit tamen ubi nee a quibus, ante recepcionem suam per aliquos annos, quod quando capitulum Templariorum celebratur Parisius, apparebat eis circa medi am noctem, quoddam capud quod multum venerabantur. Post recepcionem suam de hoc nichil audivit, nee credit ...; audivit tamen dici, postquam fuit in ordine, quod dictus frater Radulphus habebat demonem privatum, cujus consilio erat sapiens et dives."

"Also, ..., according the idols, he answered that he had heard reports of several

others - but he does not know where and by whom - some years prior to his initiation that, if a chapter of the Templars was held in Paris, a head appeared to them by midnight which they revered very much. After his initiation he
did not hear any more about it and he did not believe ...; but he has heard say, when he

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already was in the order, that said brother Raoul had a private demon whose counsel was wise and precious."

All this, together with their secret blas phemous initiation rules, which most of the interrogations cover [Initiates were required to kiss the master on the anus, the navel, the gen itals (lit. virga virilis in contemporary sources), and several other body parts. Then they had to spit on the cross and to abjure Jesus Christ.] might quite well indicate that the Knights Templar would indeed qualify as one of the first large scale Satanic organizations.
Down to this century scholars and histo rians alike have had heated discussions about how to view those confessions and any guilt of the order. Some think that these protocols show that the Knights Templar were repre sentatives of a cathartic, dualistic lore and as such true heretics from the view of the Christian church while others heavily contra dict them. Those others argue that it is highly improbable that a rich, worldly order like the Templars should have tried to secretly estab lish a new religion which would bring them no apparent advantages but definitely fatal destruction on a most probable discovery. They say that the initiation rites might just be a test to put the unquestioning loyalty and strict obedience to superiors of the initiate on trial. Of course, clinging to the other extreme and attributing no value at all to those proto cols would be too easy. It is most likely that the truth will never come out as probably a lot of the original documents, most of them show ing a one-sidedness anyway, did not survive the almost 700 years into our time, especially those rare documents which might prove the accusations to be faked and just targeting the

Figure 8
wealth of the order. Maybe also up to our times too many "dignified" organizations might show some keen interest in avoiding their dirty and greedy role in this affair to be laid open.
The head those interrogations address is at some places also called the "Head of Baphomet" and is depicted in many forms: with glowing carbuncles instead of eyes, with several faces, with animal features, and more. It radiates magic of such an enormous power that some knights stated during the interroga tions that they were deeply confused by its view and started shaking heavily. Some of this power was thought to be received by the

Figure 7
girdle they put around the head. These are all indications that the order did indeed put this head in a center place of its worship
instead of the cross. By that time, although, it did not at all come close to the famous pic ture (figure 7) by Eliphas Levi (Abbe Louis Constant, 1816 - 1875).
Scholars also think it probable that Baphomet was a symbol of the dark chthonic side of the 'Great Virility'. It is likely that additionally during the interrogations and tri als a misunderstanding manifested itself with the Sufi term "Head of Knowledge" (figure 8, bottom), stemming from the Arabic term "abu fihamat" (literally "Father of Knowledge"; fig ure 8, top).
When Jacques de Molay and other lead ers of the Templars retracted their forced con fessions and declared their innocence and the innocence of the order, Philip had
them burned at the stake at Paris on March 18th, 1314 (figure 9). Before the Grand Master died, he asked King Philip and Pope Clement to join him within the year. Clement was poisoned by a monk in April 1314, and Philip was put to death by force during a rebellion in November 1314.
While in practically all other European countries the order was found innocent of the charges, only being suppressed by the papal bull of 1312, in France the judges were obviously trying hard to picture the Knights Templar as Satanists, hav ing fallen from Christianity under Oriental influences and converted to Devil worshipping. Finally their holdings were dispersed, most to be passed to the Knights Hospitallers and some to secular rulers. It was

probably no coincidence that not one single coin of the Templars' great wealth in France ever reached the Knights Hospitallers. ...

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People who have betrayed. the sacred legacy passed on to us by Anton LaVey are trying to create division among our populace. Will you stand by? Will you turn the other cheek?

By Reverend K.S. Anthony

HE CHALLENGES THAT FACE
the Church of Satan are unlike any previously encountered. Our enemies come, wearing our sym bols, with outstretched hands,
thinking we do not see the knives they carry behind them. Old foes that have been long vanquished have returned, still weak, to live vicariously through this new breed of vermin. Even the Infernal Empire itself carries the cancer of card-carrying dissenters who think themselves mutineers. These people would have you believe that Satanism is something you do, not something you are.
These people would have you believe that the Church of Satan is about to fall after a mere 34 years of existence.
These people are wrong, and we have them in our sights.
The Church of Satan's future was never meant to be a mass of occultnik websites dripping with solipsistic blind ness. It's about deeds, not words; what you can do, not what you can talk about doing. We have somehow emerged as a truly revolutionary movement; a move ment that has suddenly and violently cap tured the attention of the world again. If we were truly dying, there would be no rumors of our death from those who have fetishized what they can never be a part of. Those people who spend so much time "debunking" and criticizing us are merely trying to write themselves into what they know is history being made. They want to be remembered as the opposition. We've given them an identity for the past 34 years. They cannot create anything so they spend their lives desperately trying to undermine those who do. The truth of the matter is that they are dead, and have been for years.

truly grown into an Empire. It is up to every citizen of this Empire to push forward toward the dizzying heights of Will and to strengthen every arm of our organization. At the same time, we must lure the traitors and dissenters out from under their rocks and kick them
aside. No true patriot of the Empire should, for one

must be prepared, as soldier-citizens, to fight for it and on behalf of it. Anyone who lacks the courage and audacity to stand behind our leaders 100% should leave NOW: Anyone who is interested in debates about moot points should get out NOW: Anyone who doesn't agree with our goals, our methods and our aims should turn in their cards and get out, NOW:
Your blood and soil are being threatened. The honor of the organization you've sworn loyalty to is being profaned. People who have betrayed the sacred legacy passed on to us by Anton LaVey are trying to create division among our populace. Will you stand by?
Will you turn the other cheek?
There is an inner circle in the Church of Satan, though it has no name or formal organization. I have no idea how many it counts as members, but I know of more than a few. Th.e Satanists who occupy this circle have one thing in common: a fanati cal dedication to their Church, its leader and its philosophy. Not merely an interest, mind you, but a violent, unwavering, all consuming love. Were you to put one of these treacherous Internet maggots in front of one of them in a locked room, the result would be undeniably catastrophic for the webhead. These patriots certainly don't seek the martyr's graves for them selves, but they don't shy from them either. They are like Codreanu's Legionnaires, still saluting the Captain, as he was called. While weaklings banter and debate about the future of the Church, they look to the source and find strength and direction. They salute the Doctor. They see in the Church of Satan and Satanism all it has been and all it can be. You cannot ever be the same once you have that vision in sight. I've given these patriots in this circle within the Church a name. It's a name only they can truly deserve, a name that was always intended for them.

Those who started out as Iron Youths have blossomed into men and women of steel. I'm glad to see the patriots of our ranks grow more militant, more fanatical and more on-handed. What started as a Church has

minute, tolerate a traitor in their midst. If we are to have a future as an Empire then we

We are called Satanists. Ever shall we live.

This ends this broadcast of Yankee Rose.

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him as Erlik had nuzzled her earlier. 'Tm glad you came back," she said. "I thought I was going to have to conjure up an incubus or sorne, hing." She.s ed up at him.
Or sornethmg.

PAUL WYKOFF PULLED INTO THE PARKING WT
of the E-Z-Rest motel and parked in front of Room 16. The place was a dump, but it was good enough for his purposes. Inside the room he found his partner, Jim Dobbs, stretched out on his bed watching
Gilligan's Island on TV. Wykoff tossed his notebook on the bed.
"What's this?" Dobbs asked. "I think I found the girl."
Dobbs opened the notebook to the pages

URELY YOU CAN UNDER-
stand our position in this mat ter, brother Crawford. We bear you no ill will; far from it. We love you, and your daughter,
but..." The man's words trailed off into silence. He was a tall, thin man with sparse red hair. He habitually wore a severe expression on his face, but it was even more pronounced than usual this morning. His companion, a shorter, fatter fellow with a thick head of iron gray hair took up where the other left off. "... it's just that a man who can not properly guide his own child can hardly be trusted to guide the children of God."
Matthew Crawford sank wearily back into the chair behind the desk that had been his for thirteen years. He nodded in numb acceptance of his fate. Both of the other men stood and left the room.
A few minutes later the redheaded man opened the door. "You'll need to be out of the office by tomorrow night. Brother Everett will be here Friday morning."
"Certainly, brother Hardwick." Crawford answered without looking up.
"Matt, you can stay in the house until the end of the month. Brother Everett will be staying with Ruth and me."
"Thank you broth..." Crawford bit off his reply and looked at Hardwick. "Thanks, Bob, that's very kind of you."
"Well, we thought it was the least we could do, under the circumstances." Hardwick paused for a moment, then asked "Have you heard anything from Sarah?"
Crawford closed his eyes, suddenly feel ing even wearier. It did no good. He just kept seeing his daughter storming angrily out of the house. "No," was all he said.
'Well, Lord willing, she1l return to Christ." "She will. I know she will. She was always willful and full of pride, easy prey for the Devil's temptations, but she will return to God's grace." Crawford looked around the room. Hanging on every wall were photos taken at a variety of church functions. In each of them he saw his own smiling face sur rounded by the smiling faces of his flock. No,

his former flock. There was only one photo of his daughter. It stood on his desk. It showed a pretty, but sad looking, young blonde. "I see now that in my concern for the church I neg lected my own daughter. I will rectify that sit uation." A faraway look came into Crawford's eyes as he spoke. "God has offered me a sec ond chance to bring Sarah to him."
Bob Hardwick slipped away, leaving Matthew Crawford to his thoughts about his wayward daughter.

THREE YEARS LATER

SARAH CRAWFORD IDLY FUMBLED WITH HER
keys as she traversed the short distance between the driveway and the door of the house she shared with Richard Cain. She missed Richard, who had left town the week before to settle some business matters. It would probably be another week before he returned. As she inserted the key into the lock she heard Erlik, their bulldog, shaking off his daily nap.
As she opened the door Erlik leapt upon
her, demanding that she return a bit of the affec tion that he lavished upon her. Sarah dropped to a crouch, lest Erlik knock her down, and accept ed the affectionate licks and nuzzlings of her beloved familiar. "And how is my darling tonight?" she asked the faithful beast.
"I thought I was your darling," said a voice from inside the house. She looked up to the man standing just inside the doorway.
"Richard!" Sarah squealed joyfully as she rushed into the waiting arms of the man she loved. "I didn't think you'd be back until next week."
"Neither did I, but I was able to get everything settled with Andersen last night, and D'Agostino was delayed. He won't arrive until next weekend. I'll have to go back then, but I didn't want to sit there on my hands when I had a hot little witch like you waiting for me at home."
Sarah looked up into his dark eyes, then settled her head upon his shoulder, nuzzling

where Wykoff had clipped his pen. "33 Riverview Terrace?"
"Yeah, she's living there with her boyfriend." Wykoff took the notebook and flipped to another page. "Let's see, yeah, boyfriend's name is Richard Cain."
Dobbs leered. "Looks like daddy ain't gonna get his sweet little virgin girl back, huh?"
"To tell the truth, I don't give a shit. He never said we had to find her before her cherry got popped. Hey, turn that shit down. I gotta call her old man." Crawford answered on the third ring. "Mr Crawford? This is Paul Wykoff. I think I've found out where your daughter has been living for the last two years."
"Tell me."
"Monroeville,Vrrginia. It's a small city near Alexandria. She's been living with a man here."
"Living with? She isn't married?" . "No sir."
"Tell me about him." Crawford said irri tably. As Wykoff started to answer Crawford cut him off. "No, it isn't important. Have you confirmed that Sarah is living there now?"
"No sir. I came back to get my partner. I can confirm it tonight."
"Yes. Do that. Call me back as soon as you are sure that she is there. 111 be waiting."
Wykoff hung up the phone and turned to his partner. "OK, Jim, let's get something to eat, then we'll go play peeping torn."
The house was situated at the edge of a wooded area quite some distance from the road. Wykoff and Dobbs took up a position on a hillock facing the rear of the house. As they set up their surveillance equipment Wykoff knew that someone was there. Eight cars were parked there. When he had the telescope set up Wykoff began scanning all the windows he could see.
"Nothing. Not a soul in sight," he said disgustedly.
Dobbs removed his headset. "I don't hear anything either."
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ann. "Maybe they're all in the front rooms. Let's wait awhile. If we don't see someone pretty soon we'll get closer and do it the old fashioned way."
"OK I'd just as soon do it that way anyhow." After about an hour and a half of watch
ing and listening they had seen a few people moving through'the rear facing rooms, but Sarah Crawford was not one of them, nor did anyone mention her name. "OK, Jim, looks like you get your wish." Wykoff removed the telescope from the tripod. "Let's go," he said.
After stowing most of their gear in the trunk of the car the two men slowly made their way to the house. About halfway there Wykoff drew a silenced .22 pistol out of a shoulder holster.
Dobbs stopped when he saw the gun. "Jesus Christ, Paul!" Dobbs whispered "What's that for?"
"I just stepped in some dog shit. Dog shit means dogs, so this little hush puppy might come in handy."
At the house they went from window to window carefully peering into the empty rooms. On the east side of the house they thought that they heard something through a basement window. They were unable to see anything since it was covered on the inside, but they could make out sounds within the house. Wykoff knelt and placed his ear against the glass. He heard what sounded like organ music and a man's voice. "Gimme the mike, Jim," Wykoff said, extending his hand. Dobbs pulled an amplifying microphone attached to a headset from his bag and hand ed it to his partner. Wykoff put on the headset and placed the microphone against the glass and listened.
"Hear us, Lord Satan. We petition Thee,
oh dread Infernal Prince, smile upon us, rain down thy blessings upon our endeavors. We come before you this night, we who have taken thy name - " Wykoff drew back, pulling off the headset and throwing it aside as if it were a snake.
"What is it, Paul?"
"Sweet Jesus Godalmighty! They're devil worshipers."
"Shit." Dobbs smiled crookedly. "Her daddy ain't gonna like this little develop ment."
"Tell me about it." Wykoff said, running his fingers through his hair. "Gimme that duct tape." Dobbs gave him the tape and covered the window with tape. He taped the microphone cord to it as well. After thor oughly covering the glass with tape Wykoff used his elbow to break the glass, and pulled the microphone cord to remove it from the frame. He reached in and felt the black bar rier in front of the window. It was a heavy 'curtain. Wykoff pulled out his knife and made a small slit, then pulled a small spy-

glass out of his shirt pocket and used it to see inside. The room was lit only by candles. Several individuals in hooded black robes stood facing the far end of the room. At that end stood a man in a red robe and a black cape. His hands were raised and outspread as he spoke in a language Wykoff didn't understand. In front of him a nude woman lay on a black-draped table. Wykoff could see at once that this dark haired woman was not Sarah Crawford. Since everyone else was hooded he couldn't tell whether Sarah was in the room. The man in the front had stopped speaking and was now turning, and ringing a bell. Wykoff focused on him as he turned to the others and said "So it is done." At that the others began filing out of the room.
Wykoff collapsed the spyglass and stood up. "C'mon, they1l be coming back upstairs in a minute. Let's find a window to peep through."
Dobbs stood on his toes and peered into the kitchen. There she was. Sarah was taking something out of the refrigerator. Suddenly a snarling bulldog entered the room and made a beeline for the window.
Both Wykoff and Dobbs ran for the woods when the dog began barking. As they reached the trees three men burst out through the front door. Two carried shot guns, the third had a large revolver. Both men hunkered down in the brush. The men approached the woods, and Wykoff pulled out his .22, praying that he wouldn't need it. The girl came out holding the bulldog on a leash. The dog strained at the end of the leash, eager to pursue his quarry in the trees. The man with the pistol turned to the girl and said something. She turned, unsuccess fully trying to pull the dog after her. The man "Erlik! Inside!" in an unmistakable tone of authority and the dog followed the girl into the house. The men took a few more steps towards the woods and looked around. One of the shotgun wielders looked directly at Wykoff for a minute or two, then they all turned and went back inside. The two detec tives eased out of their hiding places and made their way back to the car. They returned to the E-Z-Rest Motel where their rest was anything but easy.

"TURN LEFI' HERE." PAUL WYKOFF INSTRUCTED
his partner. "You need to tum right on the next dirt road and the house ought to be just around the bend on the right."
Dobbs nodded, and soon the detectives saw the large old clapboard house that Matthew Crawford had rented. "Whatcha think he wants?" Dobbs asked.
Wykoff shrugged. "Hell if I know. All he said when I talked to him this morning was to
b here ;t two. I guess we1l w in a _fev;_ mmutes. He opened the door. C mon, Jun.

Wykoff led the way onto the porch. It was unpleasantly yielding when stepped on and Dobbs feared it would collapse any sec ond now. In answer to Wykoff's knocking the door was opened by a gaunt man of medium height. His eyes were his most striking fea ture. They glared out fanatically beneath bushy blonde eyebrows. He reminded Dobbs of a picture of John Brown that he had seen once. The man looked both men over then spoke, to no one in particular looking between the two men."Wykoff?"
"Yes sir. I'm Paul Wykoff. This is my partner, Jim Dobbs. You wanted to see us?"
"Yes, yes. Come in. Have a seat." He pointed to a threadbare sofa. The only other furniture was a simple wooden chair, a table and a lamp. An open Bible lay on the table. After the detectives were seated on the sofa, Crawford pulled the chair closer and sat down facing them. "Are you sure it was Sarah?" he asked.
"Yes sir. I'd stake my reputation on it." 'Tm afraid it must be true. I have heard
that these devil worshiping covens sacrificed blonde, blue-eyed girls in their obscene cere monies. They must've taken her in to make her comfortable with their wickedness with out suspecting what they planned. She must be rescued before they can sacrifice her." Crawford looked from one to the other. "Gentlemen, I want you to go back there, back to that house of sin, and rescue my daughter."
Wykoff spoke up "Sir, that might be difficult. She seemed to be there of her own free will."
Crawford stood "Her will has been per verted by Satan!" he roared. Turning away from the men he continued in a calmer tone "My daughter was willful, too willful, but she would never be a part of such wickedness."
"If we could get her out of Cain's house, I assume you want her brought here." Wykoff said. "Yes. If I could speak to her I could bring
her to her senses; drive out the devils that beset her."
Wykoff interrupted. "I think that's called kidnapping, sir."
Crawford turned to Wykoff, his eyes narrowing. "The law of God is more impor tant than the petty laws of men." Turning away again he continued, "In any event, Sarah will come to her senses. She will thank you for it. Fear not."
"And what about Cain?"
"The Satanist? Don't worry about him. His kind are always criminals. He wouldn't dare call the police. Besides, the the power of a thousand devils availeth not against the power of the Lord."
"Mr. Crawford, I'm not worried about his mumbo-jumbo. I am worried about get ting shot. We could be killed trying to get your daughter."
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annoyed at what he considered to be pettiness on Wykoff's_ part. "When this, Cain," Crawford spat the name out contemptuously, "leaves Sarah alone, go get her. But you must take no chances with Sarah's life. If they gath er for another of their sabbats you must get her out of that house, even if you must do so by force." Crawford's eyes misted with tears. "If she dies in her sins she will be damned. She must return to God."
Wykoff was becoming increasingly uncomfortable. "Yes, well, something like that will cost quite a lot of money."
"Money is not important." "Maybe not to you."
Crawford reached into his coat and removed a checkbook. "I am going to write you a check for five thousand dollars. As soon as it clears I expect you to do all you can to get Sarah out of that evil house and bring her here to me. When she is here I will pay anoth er three thousand."
"As long as we don't have to shoot any one that will do. I won't commit murder for you, or your holy cause."
Crawford glared at Wykoff "You would do well, young man, to commit yourself to my holy cause, and seek the protection of the Lord. You may well need it in that house of horrors. I'd suggest that you get down on your knees tonight and pray that God gives you the strength to do what must be done. You too, Mr. Dobbs. Put on the armor of righteousness, gentlemen, and no evil may prevail against you." Crawford stood and walked to the door. "Good day, gentlemen."
As they turned out of the gravel drive way in front of the old house Dobbs shook his head. "What a nut."
"As long as the check clears, I don't care what he believes."
"We gonna get the girl for him?"
"We11 watch the house. If Cain leaves her alone one night we11 slip in and get her. If he don't leave her alone I'm not going in there to steal her out from under his nose. I don't want to get shot over this."
"Women can shoot too."
"Yeah, well, I'm hoping that she sleeps pretty soundly."
"Paul, you think she's there against her will?"
"Nah. But if her nutcase papa is willing to pay us eight grand for Little Miss Lucifer, I'm willing to take her back to him."

RICHARD CAIN LEFT HOME ON THE DAY AFTER
Wykoff and Dobbs resumed their surveil lance of the house. They heard him tell Sarah, "I'll see you in a few days." They waited until nearly midnight, taking turns watching the house to make sure that Sarah didn't leave, then they made their way slow ly down to the house. Splitting up, they moved around the house peering carefully

into the windows.
"See anything?" Dobbs asked when they met "Nothing down here. I saw a light on
upstairs."
"How 'bout the dog?"
"Didn't see him. That don't mean he ain't down here someplace. Well, let's get this done." Wykoff walked around to a side door. "You got your picks ready?"
Dobbs pulled out a box containing his picks. "Yeah, I'll have us in in two shakes."
Dobbs was as good as his word and soon the door swung open. Wykoff pulled out the silenced .22, tensely awaiting the charge of a bulldog. "C'mon," he hissed, leading the way into the darkened house. Dobbs turned on his flashlight, playing its light around the room.
"Where's the stairs?" he whispered. "How the hell am I supposed to know?
Just keep lookin'." .
Soon they came upon a locked door. It was obviously either a closet or a stairway. "Open it," Wykoff whispered.
As Dobbs opened the door a black shape hurtled out knocking Wykoff to the floor. He tried to raise the gun, but the dog's jaws clamped down on his arm. Dobbs saw a sword hanging on the wall beside the door. He took down the sword and hacked at the dog until it let go of Wykoff's arm.
"Erlik?" Sarah called from atop the stairs. Dobbs threw down the sword and motioned with a jerk of his head for Wykoff to get out of the house. As Wykoff hurried out of the room Dobbs hid behind the door.
Sarah heard the kitchen door slam as she reached the bottom of the stairs. She flipped a switch and the room was flooded with light, exposing the butchered remains of the beloved dog. "Erlik!" she cried, rushing to his side. She laid her hand upon his cooling flesh and began to cry. Detecting movement with the corner of her eye she turned, raising the
.357 pistol in her hand. Dobbs slapped her hand aside. The gun discharged sending a bullet into the wall. Dobbs punched her in the jaw and she toppled over the body of Erlik quite unconscious. Dobbs picked her up and carried her out to the car.
Wykoff was sitting behind the wheel with the motor running when Dobbs brought her out. "I heard a shot. You OK?"
"Yeah, she shot a hole in the wall."
He threw out a pair of handcuffs. "Put those on her and throw her in the back seat." He paused a moment. "Hey, Jim, you get my gun?"
"No. Be back in a sec." Dobbs ran back to the house, returning in a few minutes with the gun. "Let's go see Daddy."

MATTHEW CRAWFORD WAS OVERJOYED.
"Take her upstairs; the room at the head of the stairs."

"Father, if you don't let me go right now you will regret this," Sarah hissed angrily.
"Sarah, dear, you might think ill of me now, but someday you will thank God that I
had you rescued from that den of iniquity." "Rescued! Is that what you call it? I call
it kidnapping."
"Hush, child."
'Tm not a child anymore. I didn't press charges the last time you tried this shit, but so help me, this time I'll nail your self-righteous ass to the wall."
Crawford turned away angrily. "Get thee behind me, Satan! I will not listen to these devilish words."
Sarah laughed. "Satan? You haven't experienced Satan yet, you sanctimonious son of a bitch. Richard will turn all of Hell loose to get me back."
Crawford turned and slapped her face. "I am clothed in the armor of the righteous. No evil can harm me. I will drive the demons out of you. You will return to God's grace." He turned to Wykoff. "Take her upstairs." He fol lowed them upstairs to the room he had pre pared for Sarah. It contained only·a bed, a bucket and a small nightstand on which rest ed a Bible and a lamp. Attached to one end of the bed was a light chain about four feet long with a shackle on one end. Wykoff and Dobbs held Sarah as Crawford attached the shackle to her right ankle. As Wykoff removed the handcuffs Crawford spoke. "Read the word of God and contemplate your sins, daughter."
"Get ready to die, Daddy"
''I'll be back in the morning." Crawford said as he shut the door.

AT SEVEN-THIRTY THE NEXT MORNING,
Crawford opened the door to Sarah's room. Sarah was asleep. "Get up! You must not sleep during the day. Only the wicked must hide their sins by sleeping during the day."
Sarah sat up and glared at her father. "Fuck you," she sneered.
Crawford noticed that the Bible was no longer on the nightstand. "Where is your Bible, Sarah?"
Sarah looked at the bucket, then smiled up at her father. Crawford crossed to the bucket and looked inside. Lying in a puddle of urine was Sarah's Bible. In a rage Crawford pulled off his belt and began to lash at Sarah. "Though they be legion, I will drive out these demons." he screamed.

WHEN RICHARD CAIN RETURNED HOME THE
first thing that struck him was the stench. When he saw the rotting remains of Erlik, and Sara.h's pistol lying beside him, he ran through the house looking for Sarah. She was nowhere to be found. Richard picked up the phone and dialed the number of Sarah's best friend.
"Erika, have you heard from Sarah the last few days?...She's not here. Erlik's dead....

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Someone cut him with a sword, I need you to get in touch with everyone else....Yes. Tell them all to come over. ...No, I don't know. Maybe I will by the time you all get here. ... Thank you. Goodbye." As he hung up, Cain noticed a scrap of cloth snagged on one of Erlik's teeth. He picked up the sword and the scrap of c_loth and left the room.

ERIKA BERESFORD WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE.
She was a striking raven-haired witch. As was her habit, she was dressed in red. When she arrived she did not see Richard. Only a large dried bloodstain near the foot of the stairs, and a lingering stench of decay, remained to bear wit ness to what had happened. Assuming that Richard was busy downstairs, she settled in the living room, put on some music and waited. In the next thirty minutes the rest showed up and joined Erika. After a further thirty minutes Cain joined them. He was haggard-looking with a grim cast to his features.
"Thank you for coming. I know what we need to know. Sarah was taken by two detec tives. They killed Erlik and took Sarah to her father."
"I thought her father was dead," Erika said.
"He's dead to her. The fact is, he's a preacher, or at least he was."
"A preacher?" Erika asked.
"A Christian preacher?" asked another incredulously.
"Yes. It wasn't something she liked talk
ing about, and it isn't something I want to talk about right now. Tonight we'll concentrate on avenging Erlik. I11 be dealing with the good Reverend Crawford tomorrow."
Cain led them all down to the ritual chamber. Erika approached the altar and laid her hand on Erlik's head. "Let's get these bas tards!" she said.

AROUND ERLIK'S BODY ON THE ALTAR WERE
arrayed several objects: the sword that had been used to kill him, the bloody scrap of WykofPs shirt, a small brazier of glowing coals, a small bowl, several bottles of incense and a small dagger. Cain, having finished the preliminary invocation, approached the altar. Wrth the dagger he scraped the dried blood from the sword, collecting it in the bowl. Next he cut a bit of Erlik's hair and added it to the bowl. Finally he added a mixture of incense to the bowl. Holding it aloft he intoned, "Satan, hear me! Send forth thy messengers of death upon an errand of vengeance. With these tokens, taken from this faithful friend, let us give shape to the destroyer we call forth. We send him forth to wreak vengeance upon him who slew this beast. Erlik, we call to thee beyond the veils ofdeath. Vengeance is thine!"
"Vengeance is thine!" repeated the others. Cain poured the contents of the bowl upon the coals. A thick smoke boiled up, fill.

ing the room with its pungent odor. "In the name of Abaddon, go forth on the blasting winds of Hell and visit death upon him who slew thee. Vengeance is thine!"
Again the others repeated the words. Cain spread wide his arms.
"Shemhamforash!" he cried. "SheJ11hamforash!"echoed the others. "Hail Satan!" he cried.
Again his words were echoed by the con gregants.

JIM DOBBS HAD HAD A BUSY DAY. WITH HIS
share of the Crawford money he had been able to pay off all his debts with a fair-sized chunk left over, but after days spent finding and paying everyone off he was ready to call it a day, or rather, a night since it was nearly nine o'clock. As he climbed the stairs to his third floor apartment he was thinking about what to do with the five hundred he had left. As he dug into his pocket for his keys he heard a low growl that seemed to come from all around him. He peered into the shadowy halls stretching in either direction; he saw nothing. He took out the keys and again heard the growl. This time it was definitely coming from the left. He turned and saw a big black bulldog, a bulldog with glowing red eyes, looking at him. As their eyes met, the dog lunged at him. Dobbs dropped his keys and ran for the stairs. At the top of the stairs Dobbs turned and saw the dog leap at him. Instinctively he drew back, and lost his bal ance. As he toppled backwards he saw the dog disappear, leaving only a cloud of pun gent smoke. When he came to rest at the foot
of the stairs, Jim Dobbs was dead.

RICHARD CAIN PICKED UP THE BLOODY RAG
from the altar. "Satan," he intoned, "Great Prince of Hell. There is another who must feel our wrath this night. We call forth a spirit of corruption and death to destroy this corrupt bearer of death. I call madness and death down upon this man who, in the service of madness, has brought death to my house. Vengeance is mine!"
"Vengeance is thine!" shouted the others. Cain threw the bloody rag upon the coals where it burst into flames. Spreading his arms
he cried out, "Shemhamforashl" "Shemhamforashl" the others echoed. "Hail Satan l" Cain cried, again echoed
by the others.

PAUL WYKOFF WAS SITTING IN FRONT OF THE
TV watching a movie. Had you asked him what had happened in the last few minutes, though, he could not have told you as he was being driven to distraction by an: itch beneath the bandages on his arm. He had tried to scratch it through the bandages, to no avail. "God dammit all to Hell!" he muttered. Getting up, he took a pair of scissors from a

drawer in the kitchen.
''I'll be goddamned if I'm gonna keep on itchin' all night," he said irritably as he began to cut off the bandage. When he had removed the bandages he was horrified to see that the stitches were pulling apart, as if something were pushing through from the inside. One by one the stitches popped open before his rapt gaze. The final stitch popped open and a fishlike eye opened to gaze from the wound. The flesh around the wound rippled and a long, gray, wormlike tendril emerged and began to peel back more skin revealing a lep rous surface beneath.
"Ohmigod!"he screamed as he ran out of the house and into his garage. Leaning against the wall was an axe. Resting his arm on the workbench, Wykoff raised the axe and began hacking at the wounded arm, chopping it off just beneath the elbow. Blood sprayed from the stump to spatter the walls. As Wykoff's sight dimmed he saw the wound on the sev ered arm was still stitched shut. It was the last thing he saw.

IN HIS RITUAL CHAMBER, RICHARD CAIN SAID
"So it is done!"

"IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, BEFORE
whom all evil must flee, I command you to depart this woman." Crawford held a wooden cross over his daughter's face. Sarah was tied, spreadeagled, to the bedposts.
"You're not fooling anyone, you sancti monious son of a bitch." Sarah screamed at him. "Untie me now, or you'll be sorry."
"Silence, demon, in Jesus' name. I com- mand you to hold your tongue." .
"You and Jesus can both go fuck off. Let mego."
Crawford struck her across the face with the cross. "Silence!'' he screamed.
Sarah spat at him. "Yeah, you're real tough. Beating up a tied-up woman."
Again Crawford struck her with the cross. This time it broke. As he raised the bro ken wood he heard a car pulling up in front of the house. He peered through a gap in the boards over the window and saw a man step out of a black Mercedes. Crawford stuck a rag in Sarah's mouth and tied another around her head to hold it in. "I will be back, Sarah. Do not be afraid. I'll purge you of these demons," he said as he did so. As he left the room he heard a knock upon the door.
When Crawford opened the door he saw a tall man of medium build. He wore a well tailored black suit and a gray shirt. In· his right hand he held a walking stick with a silver knob atop it in the shape of a ram's head.
"Mr. Crawford?"
"I am Reverend Crawford."
"Very well, -Reverend. My name is Richard Cain, Magister Richard Cain if you

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insist upon formality."
Crawfordwas dumbfounded. "You dare to come here?" he asked incredulously.
"Dare? You should count yourself fortu nate that I have not gone to the police yet."
"The police?" Crawford feigned igno rance, badly.
"Yes, the police. Kidnapping is a crime, is it not?"
Crawford, still attempting a fa ade of innocence, said "Kidnapping? Really, sir, I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about."
"Let's not play games, Reverend Crawford. I know that you hired two men to kidnap Sarah. These men, named Wykoff and Dobbs, broke into my house, took Sarah and murdered my dog."
"Murdered a dog?" Crawford asked derisively.
"Yes, murder. They murdered my dog. Those two gentlemen have already been dealt with."
"Dealt with?" Crawford's eyes nar rowed.
"Yes, they are dead. Both met with unfortunate accidents, last night."
"Accidents?"
"Yes, but enough of that. I know that you tried to kidnap Sarah once before. She told me. I know also that, owing to some mis placed sentiment, she declined to press charges. In deference to her wishes I did not go to the police. Let me have her."
"You are a Satanist. You wouldn't dare go to the police."
"And why not? Unlike you, I am not a criminal. I have nothing to fear from the police."
"This is all ridiculous. I have not seen Sarah in two years, nor have I ever heard of these men, Wykoff and Dobbs."
"Then you should have no objection to me looking into that room at the top of the stairs." Cain pointed with the walking stick to the door to Sarah's room.
"I do indeed. I will not submit to the impudent accusations of a devil worshiper."
Cain shook his head. "I had hoped that you would see reason. Perhaps that is too much to expect of a Christian. At any rate, you need not fear a visit from the police. I have other means at my disposal. I give you a final chance. Release Sarah and I will not act against you. If not..." Cain shrugged.
"Get out." Crawford said, opening the door. "Very well." Cain turned and walked to
his car. As he walked away Crawford shouted after him.
"And don't come back!"
A smile played upon Cain's lips as he was reminded of something. He turned and answered, "I won't be back, but something will." Turning back to his car Cain said to himself, "That Charles Gray was one Hell of

an actor." As he pulled away from the house, Cain called Erika Beresford. He got her machine and left a message. "Daddy was uncooperative. We'll deal with him tonight. Call the others."

THE NEXT MORNING RICHARD CAIN AND TWO
Sheriff' deputies arrived at Matthew Crawford's doorstep. When knocking got no response, the deputies broke down the door. Matthew Crawford sat in his chair, an open Bible in his lap. He stared through dead eyes at the opposite wall. His facial muscles were locked in a mask of terror.
"You stay here Mr. Cain. We'll look for your girlfriend," one of the deputies said. "C'mon, Joe, let's look upstairs."
As the deputies went upstairs, Cain looked at what Crawford had been reading. The Bible was open to the ninety-first psalm. Cain read it and smiled. Kneeling beside the body he said, "Poor fool. Your trust was mis placed. You did fear the terror that came by night; the terror I sent to you. Your pathetic God did not deliver you, nor give you long life. You backed the wrong horse, Crawford."
He heard footsteps hurrying down the stairs, and as he stood up Sarah rushed into his arms. "Oh, Richard. I knew you'd come." she said as she began to cry on his shoulder. Sarah looked down at her father's body, and spat on it. "I told you to get ready to die, you old bastard."
The two deputies entered the room. "Thank you, officers," Cainsaid, shaking the deputies hands. "May we go outside?"
"Yeah, sure. Don't leave until we can get a statement though."
They all left the house. The deputies returned to their car to call for the coroner, and get the paperwork for the report. Cain led Sarah to his car.
"What about the two men who kid napped me and killed Erlik?"
"Dead. All dead. Erlik is avenged. I am avenged. You are avenged, and most impor tantly, I've got you back."
Sarah squeezed Cain's hand. "And I've got you."
"Damn, I almost forgot." Cain said, reaching into his coat pocket. "I picked up something for you while I was away." He handed her a small box. Within was a meticu lously detailed silver ring depicting a demon holding in its mouth a diamond.
"Oh, Richard, it's beautiful."
"It ought to be. Anyway, I thought it was time I married you." Sarah looked up from the ring. "Well, what do you say?"
"What do you think? Of course I'll
marry you." Sarah reached past him into the car and called Erika. "Erika? Yes, I'm fine. 111 tell you about it later. Do you still have that red wedding dress?" ...

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Eugenics -- the very word raises the hackles of
1,... the "humanists" and egalitarians, as it exposes the tha fun'°clamental fallacies which underlie their doctrines. fey. Mankind is the only animal species which acts to fan circumvent the natural law of the survival of the the strong and the weeding out of the weak. wic Acknowledging the non-equal, stratified status of
>rcis humans, we see as one of our long-term goals the see promotion of a higher percentage of creative and
1 productive individuals, and a decrease in the numbers
of simple believers and consumers. This can be achieved through the "forbidden" knowledge of
1 eugenics. Sip.1ply put, it is a term applied to the
; scientific theories concerning the biological and social
,, improvements of the human animal through the q deliberate control of hereditary factors. This idea was l pioneered by Sir Francis Galton who thought that we
could promote a progressive evolution in our species through increasing the proportion in our population of telligent, healthy, and emotionally stable individuals
• > via the strict control of human reproduction.
a Traditionally, this discipline has two
, approaches: "negative" measures which reduce the
i1 frequency of inherited mental and physical defects

to aid them in this undertaking. Satanists are now beginning to see themselves as an "ethnic" group of creatively alienated individuals who resonate to archetypal images that most of the herd consider to be "dark" and "evil," and we wish to preserve our lineage through reprpduction wherever it is possible.
Historically, a eugenic approach to species improvement was always acceptable, and indeed was pursued with fervor in many countries, including the United States, up until the conflict called World War II, when this area of research was tainted by some of the excesses attributed to scientists in the Third Reich. With the widespread growth of egalitarianism in the mid-20th century, some social movements resented factual reports that did not support their aims at homogenization, and thus even seriouS' researchers found that their funding was dropped and their data was suppressed. This has continued through today.
Satanists have always explored areas forbidden to others, and we will not shy away froJJl this topic which is vital to the development of our species. We reject the flaccid maxims of universal e.quality and seek to ruthlessly reveal the truth about the human animal, so that we may move forward towards the

I and those with crippling diseases); "positive"
/ measures that attempt to increase desirable hereditary ment l nd_ hysical attributes by encouraging
. supe:i?r md1v1duals to reproduce, and could include
subs1d1es from the government or private foundations

advocate their direct destruction; however,. their drain on the productive and capable inhabitants of this planet is bec(?ming destructive to us. We wish the ranks of the strong to increase in number.. before time runs out and we all perish in an orgy of mediocrity.

Any and all articles, letters, essays or commentary submitted to this publication
yet demonstrating an ignorance of the principles and ideas in
The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey will be ignored.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE - Satan's Hammer
byK Bolton

1 further. one has made of it THE virtue...This
l. goll:essive and contagious instinct thwarts those
?ep·ncts bent on preserving and enhancing the value
10/ \fe: both as a multiplier of misery and as a I
1 0 servator of everything miserable it is one of the
ef instruments for the advancement of

"How to Philosophize with a Hammer" is the life-collective. which with him takes a step j c;adence..." . subtitle of Nietzsche's book Twilight of the Idols, and FORWARD. the care expended on his preservation ; d Dr. LaVey writes of a new creed for Higher - indeed describes the whole character of his on the creation of optimum conditions for him, ma):; satanist_ Man which repudiates pity: "Blessed are the philosophy. even be extreme... If he represe ts the descending strong. for they shall p sses the earth - Cursed are
Nietzsche is the Hammer which smashed the development, decay, chrontc degeneration the weak, for they shall mhent the yoke! Blessed are tablets of Moses, the cross of Jesus and the heads of sickening... then he can be accorded little value...': the powerful, for they shall be reverenced am ng men Marx and Rousseau. Nietzsche stands as the great (Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Penguin, 1985 C.E., l. _ Cursed are the feeble, for they shall be blotted out! Adversary - the Satan - of all slave moralities. p. 86.) , Blessed are the bold, for they shall be masters of the religions, ideologies, which would level mankind There is thus a hierarchy of human worth, an , earth _ Cursed are the righteously h mble, for they

down into an egalitarian. undifferentiated herd. !negalit rianism antit_h tical to the levelling r ligions,

shall be trodden under cloven hoofs!" (LaVey, The
1

Let us see how Nietzschean philosophy ideolog1e a d raht1es of mass-man. To Nietzsche, 1 Satanic Bible, p. 34.) .

• • •

compares with that of Satanism. Dr. LaVey writes of. the supenor md1v1dual stands above the masses. He is t Such is the "master moraltty 11 m oppos1tton to "herd conformity" as one of the Satanic sins. "Only the "Higher Man." a transitional type between ! the "slave morality," in Nietzschean termmology. !he fools follow along with the herd... " he writes, and mass-man and the "Over Man." a still higher form of "no'ble p.uman being" - whom we call the atamst - warns against "being enslaved by the many." (LaVey. existence which can at this time only be imagined. J separates himself from those whose nature ts that of "The Nine Satanic Statements," 1967 C.E.) Dr. LaVey is referring, I oelieve, to this Higher the slave, "the cowardly, the timid. the petty;" - these
Nietzsche's philosophy was directed towards Man when he writes of the unique individual who are despised, not pitied, - "as are those who _abase breaking the old moral codes and erecting new ones. stands ab_ove the herd, the mass. "with the sinews of themselves. the dog-like type of man who lets himself enabling the emergence of "Higher Man." Satan moving his flesh. then he either escapes from be mistreated. the fawning flatterer. above all t!1e In Beyond Good & Evil he writes: "The the cacklings and carpings of the righteous. or stands liar..." (Nietzsche. Beyond Good & Evil. Pengum.
collective degeneration of man down to that which proudly in his secret places of the earth and, 1984 c.E .• pp. 175-6.)
the socialist dolts and blockheads today see as their manipulates the folly-ridden masses through his own "Let established sophisms be dethroned. roo_ted 'man of the future' - as their ideal! - this degeneration Satanic might. until that day when he may come forth out burnt and destroyed. for they are a standrng
· and diminution of man to the perfect herd animal... in splendor proclaiming 'I am a Satanist! Bow down, me ace to all true nobility of thought and action." this animalization of man to the pygmy animal of for I am the highest embodiment of hµman life!"' writes LaVey. (LaVey. The Satanic Bible. p. 32.) equal rights and equal pretentions is possible... He (LaVey. The Satanic Bible, p.45) This is precisely the rationale of Nietzsche's who has once thought this possibility through to the Nietzsche. similarly. writes of the "solitaries of t attack on Christianity and all other slave-creeds. "One end knows one more kind of disgust than other men today. you who have seceded from society." from should not embellish or dress up Christianity: it has do - and perhaps also a new task!..." (Nietzsche. whom shall spring "...a new nobility...to oppose all waged war to the death against the higher type of Beyond Good & Evil•. Penguin. England. 1984.). mob-rule...and to write anew upon new law-tablets man it has excommunicated all the fundamental
The ego is given a central place in both the the word: 'noble.'" He advises the Higher Man to inst cts of this type. it has distilled evil. the vii One, philosophies of Nietzsche and La Vey. "Satanism. in withdraw from the market place - mass society· out of these instincts - the strong human bem_g as the fact. is the only religion which advocates the where the mob would yell at him "we are all equal f type of reprehensibility. as the 'outcast.' Christianity intensification or encouragement of the ego... before God!" (Nietzsche. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1 has taken the side of everything weak, base, Religionists keep their followers in line by Penguin. 1985 C.E.• p. 86.) ill-constituted it has made an ideal out of opposition suppressing their egos. By making their followers feel Dr. LaVey's concept of the Satanist as the to the prese•rvative instincts of strong life." inferior. the awesomeness of their god is ensured. "highest embodiment of human life" is that of the (Nietzsche The Anti-Christ, p. 117.)
Satanism encourages its members to develop a good Nietzschean Higher Man towering above the mass. i Niet sche's Higher Man and The Satanist; they strong ego because it gives them the self-respect "Christianity is called the religion of pity" are one and the same. Their creed is. as another necessary for a vital existence in this life," writes writes Nietzsche. (Nietzsche. The Anti-Christ,, inspired philosopher. Aleister Crowley, put it: "The

HELL REIGNS
by Earl Hammons

Fists of the mighty in sign of the horns
blatant contempt in thy face.
"Shemhamf orash" saith we in spite, the wolf en of the human race.
Stand in our way we cast thee aside
as the rubbish that thou art
Our cyde has come 'round and with its force
thy temples are crumbling down.

LaVey. (LaVey. The Satanic Bible. Avon Books. NY, Penguin. 1985 C.E.• p. 118.) "pity stands in antithesis Law of the strong ... and the joy of the world." 1969 C.E.• p. 94.)-. to the tonic·emotions whkh enhance·the· eh'ergy of the (Aleister Crowley. The Book of the Law, 2:21. Samuel
Nietzsche advocates 1'The natural value of feeling of life: it has a depressive effect. One loses r-W,_e is e r.z...M a in e:;;.·· 1 9 7 6 C .E::;.-'-·) egoism /which/ depends on the physiological value of force when one pities...Pity on the whole thwarts the "

Before thine eyes carnal monoliths arise
as our voices in hymn

him who possesses it: it can be very valuable. it can law of evolution. which is the law of selection. It be worthless and contemptible. Every individual may preserves what is ripe for destruction; it defends life's, be regarded as representing the ascending or disinherited and condemned; through the abundance descending line of life. When one has decided which. of the ill-constituted of all kinds which it retains in '1 one has thereby established a canon for the value of life. it gives life itself a gloomy and questionable 1
I ' his egoism. If he represents the ascending line his aspect. One has ventured to call pity a virtue (- in

"We are all descended from males of the carnivorous lycanthropic variety..."
Robert Eisler,
MAN INTO WOLF

drown out your mercy cries.

I value is in fact extraordinary - and for the sake of the evel)' noble morality it counts as weakness-); one has· """"""''.:::'.:::=

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by Tempest

SATANISM AND LIFE AFTEQ DEATH
byNemo

"The sign of the horns shall appear to many, now rather than a few, and the magician shall stand forth that he may be recognized."
Anton Szandor La Vey
Recently I attended an international art convention. I opted to dress Satanically, that is,

suffers alone.
In short, evil is conducive to life, therefore l right, holiness is conducive to suffering and defeat, therefore wrong. As Satanists you may say this is > nothing new, but I still hear Satanists using evil and meaning wrong. The Devil and evil have always gone together, just as holiness and the blind flock.

"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."
Anton Szandor La Vey
The other day I received in the mail a mindless

wearing visibly the Baphomet and following the "compleat witch" formula, as I have fun occasionally with the quick stares and whispers this look inspires. On the drive home in a philosophical discussion with a friend, inevitably the discussion turned to "good and evil."
"In your opinion, is the Devil evil?" I was asked.
"If evil is a raging hatred of holiness, yes. If it is a random destructive will, definitely not."
In my opinion the word "evil" is not on a par with mere "goodness." Evil always opposes holiness, true? The word evil is always used by an accuser.
Evil is not the same as wrongness. Wrongness is that which is detrimental to life, growth, and

As the true adversaries of man's idiocies for which the masses live, kill, and even die, we should again pride ourselves as evil. We are supremely evil and bound neither by etymology nor public consensus. Yet, as unbound and intelligent creatures, we are not bound by our freedoms. We can and should resort to etymology when it suits our purpose. When not inconvenient or detrimental, we should expose our selves as evil and Satanic, remembering the impressions and fear we inspire as sources of magical power.
The occult is occult not because we conceal it, but because people lookbut don't see. The occult will always be hidden from the stupid and within reach for the bold and intelligent. f

,\, criticism of the Church of Satan and the "beliefs" of ' Anton Szandor LaVey. The author, exceeding his
? previous attempts at libel and stupidity, could not grasp why the Church of Satan does not believe in life after death despite the chapter in The Satanic Bible on "Life After Death Through Fulfillment of the Ego." I have seen this issue arise so often and in so many circles that I was prompted to settle the issue here, once and for all.
Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a difference between belief and knowledge. If a person can grasp this difference, then much of the Satanic philosophy will become crystal clear. However, if a person cannot or refuses to grasp this difference then there is
simply no hope for clarity. ,I

productivity, and is all to often used interchangeably with evil.
Now I know what the dictionary says about evil, but consider what kind of scholars compose the dictionary, and with what kind of people does language usage originate? Enough said.
Evil is selfishness. All vital beings must be selfish in order to survive. The innocent newborn babe is compleatly selfish, as it must be. Yet how many parents would dare think their beautiful, cherished neonate an embodiment of pure evil?
Evil is desire. Desire is always conducive to

As Satanists we should not forget the time we 1 live in now, the Age of Satan, is the age of man. If our children (as has mine) go to school and speak of Baphomet and black candles, laugh! For what can be done? We are sane, responsible people. We are truly t selfish and therefore respect the laws of society. We are masters of temptation and deception. That we may shine our infernal light and lead the way for Lucifer's children, exposing the stupid and causing them to run with fear and shame, is power and glory unto us!
Now let's see where our evil will take us f
through the ages to come, and may reason rule the

The real Satanist does not know whether or not there is life after death. No one (living) does either! Like politics and taxation, many people have beliefs about an afterlife, but no one, I repeat, no one has been able to prove whether a human being survives physical death or not.
To know something is not to assert it, wish it or believe it. Knowledge is not an opinion. Knowledge demands proof.
As a result, The Satanic Bible carefully distinguishes between what we know and what may
prove to be useful beliefs. Most non-Satanic beliefs

Curiously, what is left is the importance of living

progress or, if poorly consummated, at least knowledge. Repression/compulsion is the opposite of desire.
Evil is pride. Pride is joy, and joy is pride interpreted physically. Pride is absolutely necessary for accomplishment. Vanity is another form of pride. But, alas, the sanctimonious insist that pride and joy are not the same thing, prefering to label pride as arrogance, and joy as some unearthly form of selfless rapture. When one calls another arrogant, they are either jealous or the arrogance is truly unfounded, thus a compulsion.
Evil is jealousy. Jealousy is a two-way street, and when accompanied by pride, desire, and true selfishness, humanity can take a stride forward. If accompanied by a lack of the above elements and with incompetance and compulsion, the individual

earth!

1 are useless or worse for the individual. The belief in an afterlife has proven to be of vast use to the Christian church over the centuries as a way of keeping the individual enslaved in this life. The threat
> of Hell and the promise of Heaven kept men in line and under the religious thumb of the church for two thousand years. Satanism considers such a belief,
therefore, to be anti-individual and therefore not useful.
In the chapter on "Life After Death Through Fulfillment of the Ego," Dr. LaVey reminds us that
1 d ath is a reality and then examines the value of dif erent beli fs concerning an afterlife in terms of theu usefulness or uselessness for the individual. h_us he disposes of the mystical union with the universe, reincarnation and the Christian concept of
ego-destruction to achieve immortality.

your life as if this were the only life you have. In other words, the only desirable afterlife for an individual requires that the individual live his present life without a belief in life after death_ If you think you have all eternity before you, you end up valuing the present moment less. After all, what's the rush? There's always another day.
Yet it is exactly the opposite belief which enables you to fight for your life, to savor each moment, to refuse to compromise your pleasure, your mind, your will! It is the constant reminder of your personal death, your personal annihilation, which can cause you to enjoy life "through the fulfillment of (your) ego." "There is no tomorrow" will motivate you. Eternal life won't.
For those who prefer the belief in an afterlife, they do so at the expense of developing the vital and

powerful personality which is necessary for the enjoyment of any existence! At its extreme, the vapid, pleasure-denying, self-denigrating personality fmmed from the beliefs of Christianity or any other afterlife dogma, is self-defeating. Such a "person" couldn't enjoy a continued existence sincethey have learned to hate life! Dr. LaVey simply pointed out the

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Theft of the Orgasm all right here in your own mind." (Armchair tourism
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importance of seeing the truth about the matter.
The result? I don't know if there is life after death. Neither do you. Neither does anyone. Believing there is an afterlife will only weaken your enjoyment of and control over your life now: It may so weaken you that if there is some degree of personal integrity or individual will required to survive death, you just might not make it.
All other religions are based upon self-sacrifice. In The Satanic Bible, Dr. LaVey clearly pointed out that self-sacrifice is self-destruction. Self-destruction is not a very good way to forge an immortal self.
Satanism is a religion based upon doubt, not faith or belief. A Satanist doubts that there is life after death because there is no proof for it. Belief is not knowledge. As Satanists it is wise for us to choose our beliefs with care so that they serve us and not control us.
"Therefore make the most of life here and
now."
Why? Because there is no alternative worth having!
"Eat dessert first; life is uncertain!" ...but death is inevitable.
Hail Satan!

"No normal human being wants to hear the truth. It is the passion of a small and

---_ The use of television as a means of Jhanipulation has been honed to a fine art. No longer
fe programs somewhat benign; subliminal messages
)lve long since become obsolete. Just flip on the
:iews; they tell you when to go out or when to stay in. t the news coordinator decides to show a week of ' fiuman interest" segments, and more people are
> yrone to go outside. The network, however, would rose ratings if people were outside actually doing tomething. So instead, they dig up as much covert behavior as they can -- how do you think we got to be such a hot topic?
With corporations and media doing the goatjig '• on the daisy chain the Western public is left clueless about what is going on. They have become "The
1 Consumer," owned by the corporation's products,
1 aka "The Consumed."
Thanks to its media coverage, AIDS has ( become perhaps more widespread conceptually than actually. Publicity has brought anxiety over the issue
to such a fever pitch that many people have taken paranoid precautions -- such as not shaking hands with a gay person who just might be infected, or as in the case of Ryan White, throwing a twelve-year-old
1 patient out of school because he might drink from the same water fountain as the other students.
So what's to come next? How can the corporate world somehow exploit this? Since asexuality isn't very appealing, why not bring masturbation out of the dark, forbidden regions into a marketable, profitable
1 existence? One step further into Phase Four -- the

would have no reason or desire to do anything. They would now not only be chained to their televisions but connected to them in a sort of biomechanical congress.
And what of sex in the physical sense? It would move from being passe, to some s:ort of covert activity, and finally hold the esteemed rank masturbation holds today. Why should one engage in an act that might be risky to one's mortal existence as well as one's ego? The Orgasmatron would do the trick with flawless perfection every time. No physical risk, no fear of ego-crushing commentaI)'.
Decreasing the amount of copulation in the majority of the population would resuit in a decrease in the population. We, however, revelers in the flesh. would become a child-producing majority_: Satanic eugenics in the process.
Media sincerity is long since gone; manipulation is the main tool in today's world. Technology has become commodity; it. bas gone from the betterment of mankind to the betterment of mankind's home. The more toys a man has to fill his empty time, the less thinking that will be done. With the introduction of the Orgasmatron/Feelavision mass control (or stupification) will be child's play. Unlike Hitlerian eugenics there wiH be no mass annihilation, no protest. The masses: will happily settle back in their modern day Auschwitz (aka their Lay-Z-Bpy recliner.). Through the manipulation of Infernal Bloodlines, Satanic eugenics: will secure a dark future indeed.

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aberrant minority of men,
most of them pathological. They are hated for telling it while they live, and when they die they are swiftly forgotten. What remains to the world, in the field of wisdom, is a series of long tested and solidly agreeable lies.11
H.L. Mencken
Hymn to the Truth
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Automaton -- the introduction of the Orgasmatron
1 (from Sleeper, a film by Woody Allen). This device, implanted in the brain and used in conjunction with a certain type of pornographic video, would give the user the illusion that they are in the video, climaxing
, right along with the star, borrowing, or rather
, thieving, the star's orgasm.
On the surface it would be a fantastic invention; the possibilities are boundless. Television would become fee/a vision. One could "be" the actor in their favorite film, one could "do" things only made
? Possible on film. Just below the surface, however,
, What a method of control.
Once marketed and accepted by the general populace as something "no home should be without"
!he media, once again, can make its grand entrance 1nto the minds of the weak. "Don't bother going outside, or anywhere for that matter. You can have it

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Founded in 1980 C.E. (year One of the Age of Chaos) by Satanic Surrealist Diabolos Rex, the Asylum Ov Satan is a techno-magic "mad lab" for the creation of demonic avatars of psycho-sexual power to prepare the World Ov Horrors for the dawning millenium of the Prince of Darkness.
A second generation Satanist, Church of Satan member and former psychological warfare specialist, Rex sees his creations as rituals in themselves. This can b att sted to by any who venture to his keep of abomrnat10ns. Grotesque, yet elegant, furniture as wel as massive.ste l sculptures resembling torture devices adorn this lair, trapping the unwary visitor in a unique necropolis. The scene is dominated overall by gigantic paintings, transporting the viewer to a far darker plane of existence.
_In these ob cene vistas skulls, flayed skins, and bonehke mechamzed constructions weld themselves

Do you ever meet a person without knowing or nearing anything about him, and for no known reason, re.el as if you hate his guts, as if your being near to
oirn makes your skin crawl, or he makes you feel as if
. you want to start a fight with him? This person may be polite and easygoing, but you still have that feeling. Of course, you brush it away or avoid the person, and may wonder why you have this attitude toward him. But when you wonder, do you attribute this to an occult explanation or one involving past Jives ·and karma? Or do you know about the direct influence on your biochemistry of pheromones? Do you know what a pheromone is and how directly it effects your chinking and behavior, aside from anything psychological and aside from any psychological adjustment you might try to make to be nice to this person? If not, why not?
Do you know people who have sudden and

backs act differently from jackals with golden-backs. One might think, "Oh, that's just instinct.11 But if I were to tell you about the complex behaviors of these two breeds of jackal and not let you know the species, you might think they were humans operating under some religio-cultural patterns, because only humans have "silly rules like that!"
How does this relate to magic? If you try to cause two people to separate, yet their pheromones drive them together, your magic will be difficult, if not impossible. If you try to bring two people together when their pheromones scream to stay away from each other, your magic will result in a battle royale - a war.
There are many first hand books, studies, etc.• which prove just how much of an animal is man, and just how much of what applies to all other animals also applies to man. These studies, for the most part,

to drooling, wraith-like entities that stare out from

even violent outbursts of temper? They seem

are as hated and taboo as Sheldrake's morphogenetic ' '

h ir oddly angled prisons, beckoning the viewer to Jorn them m a savage rite of awakening. Devils, demons and attendant mutants parade Hellward in vestments suited for the cathedrals of the damned. Exoskeletal figures writhe with lurid female creatures in unspeakable positions around which sigils and idols consecrated to the Dark Lord form the Altar Ov Chaos in the ritual chamber of this unholy temple.
. Lasers, stroboscopic lighting and a giant Tesla Coil form an arsenal of ambient effects for the

creation of nightmare forms. The ritualistic use of Dr. LaVey's unique magical formula, The Law of the Trapezoid, is an intrinsic element of the Asylum. The documentatio_n of manifestations of demonic activity, mass and senal murders, ritualistic suicides and the !
effects of negative geometry serves as a foundation
for aesthetic reference. >
Magical exploration of behavior-modification and manipulation are conducted using "Phi-sonics" (synthesized sounds based on ratios derived from the relationships found in the geometrically perfect form , o_f the pentagram) while electro-magnetic spectrum ntuals open the gates to the Vampyric, Lycanthropic and Cthulhuvian archetypes to promote the evolution of Satanic consciousness.
Current projects presently being developed include designs for films which explore the darker ') realms of the human psyche, and the revision and , expansion of a monograph/ritual manual entitled The Abomination of Desolation, which will distill many years of techno-magical experimentation with the results of current research to create a unique source for those who wish to further pursue those vistas first elucidated by Dr. LaVey in his brilliant "Die , Elektrischen Vorspiele" from The Satanic Rituals.
. Black magicians whose interests parallel these topics may contact Diabolos Rex at the following address: Asylum Ov Satan, P.O. Box 699, New Haven, CT, 06503, USA.

"incorrigible," even unable to obey simple rules of civilized conduct which results in lawbreaking and crime. Do you think this is psychology, that is, some environmental cause? Do you think someone cursed him? Or do you know about serotonin inbalance? If not, why not?
Do you know that the first two parts (the oldest parts) of your limbic brain are directly connected to the sense of smell and directly respond to olfactory messages, even those (like pheromones) which you do not consciously perceive? The limbic brain is truly the beast in us, controlling our desires for food, sex, homing, greeting, courtship, triumphal displays and successful defense of self, routinization of daily activity, fighting, marking one's territory, place preferences, forming of social groups and cliques, as well as personal grooming. These surely are things you can also logically think about, but the urge to do them comes from your limbic brain. How much then, would a biochemical imbalance, or biochemical reaction to another person's chem is try effect behavior? A lot! Man's reasoning portion of the brain does not usually think of the nose as man's main organ. Man usually considers his eyes and ears first.
If we accept the dictum that "man is just another animal II we must not solely attribute environmental (including psychological) causes to behavior. It would be absurd to think that a Pit Bull's behavior is totally due to how his master treated him, and if treated like a French Poodle, he would act like a French Poodle. These are different breeds of dog Which are by nature different. Jackals with silver-

theories, and they are as persecuted in our so-called modern, enlightened society as were the "Satanists" of old. It is the ancient battle of dogma, faith, and belief being waged against hard-core facts and proofs. It is the imposition of Judeo-Christian ideas under a different name: Humanism. Is man one family called "mankind" or are there cerebral, endocrine.and physiological differences among some breeds of man to almost enable one to view them as a separate species? Is there fertility and infertility. or are there degrees of infertility, the lowest being sterility with degrees ranging upwards to the extremely fertile? What defines fertility - number of births? Or number of viable births that survive?
Suggested reading: studies of identical twins separated at birth - all such studies. If the astonishing facts and the logical conclusions lead you to disbelief, then you do not seek truth and deny it when you see it. If the conclusions lead you to call it a "strange, mystical psychic link," then you are still steeped in the osmoconsciousness tainted by Judeo-Christianity. The answer is genes, just as it is with all other animals. Other studies strongly suggested: Carleton S. Coon's Origin of the Races, The Living .Races of Man, and Racial Adaptations. All are difficult to obtain so you might try inter-library loans for these fascinating works. Lumsden and Wilson's Genes, Mind, and Culture is also worth a look. Subscribe to medical journals on genetics, physiology, neurology, physical anthropology, zoology, biochemistry, and anything whatsoever you can find on the recently per_secuted proofs of sociobiology. Egalitarians beware!

You say that you seek the truth? Seek it, for knowledge is power.
You gain knowledge when you question, and then fully understand, your instincts, intuitions, and hunches. It is quite another matter to brush these away
as "sillr notion " and attempt (with futility as it

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results m self-misery) to battle your own instincts. Such behavior is for Judea-Christians and their ilk not for us. '
If you pursue these studies of man the animal and find them shocking, discomforting, disheartening: regrettable, or offensive to your "sense of humanity,"
then you are not a person seeking truth, knowledge,

The Reality of the Left Hand Path

I've always been rather disappointed by most occult stores. In fact, the only occult store I've ever
l( visited which was as exciting and mysterious as I had
) always dreamed an occult shop would be was in Matamoros, Mexico. It was a little place called "Milagros" which nestled up against the wall of the cathedral. The shop was dark and odorous, and the

velvet paintings. The occult variety are even more dreadful than the kind you find sold by the side of the road. A word to the wise -- don't laugh at any original art you might find on the walls, no matter how dreadful it is. Chances are, it was done by the proprietor or a family member.
I keep visiting these places, even though I know

and hard, cold, clinical facts.
A logical suggestion for one who is distressed

shelves were lined with strange and unidentifiable
1 packets of herbs and roots. There were candles of

I'll probably never find the store of my dreams! Just in case I do, I've made a little list of products I would

at man's beastliness would be to rejoin your original church, synagogue, mosque, or humanitarian-atheist temple where everyone can join in with the other worldly believers in a fantasy utopia of "Man," where everyone can really be all the same: equally nothing.
If the flames of Hell burn too brightly, get thee from the kitchen!
Knowledge is power supreme. Fear of knowledge is the epitome of weakness and the will to grovel before dogma. Satanists stand tall and ask those difficult questions and don't flinch at the nswers, which might shatter any preconceptions. It 1s not f9r everyone to do this. Egalitarianism is a myth. And perhaps we may discover biochemical
factors which set apart those who resonate to that Dark Force in Nature.
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Unfortunately, most American occult shops are
not like "Milagros." Their locations vary. and some of them have very charming storefronts and displays, but the stock is disappointingly similar. There will almost
l always be books on astrology, palmistry, theosophy,
, numerology and past life regression. Sometimes the books on witchcraft and Satanism are hidden behind the counter and you have to ask for them. There will be a few candles, and sometimes a hand-lettered sign
iJ will tell you that the proprietor will make any kind of ' candle to suit your particular need. There will be a glass cabinet full of oils with names like Lucky Seven and Lottery Magic, and a small selection of incenses.
For some reason, occult shops stock a lot of strawberry and jasmine incense. perhaps thinking that
'; the hippies will come back and start buying again. Crystal balls will be available. as will tarot cards and

just love to buy!
1. A chocolate bunny filled with strawberry cream. (For the annual Spring sacrifice.)
2. A staff which actually shoots lightning.
3. A quilted altar cloth that would look mystical and still be comfortable to lie upon.
4. Incense that doesn't make people choke.
5. Thuribles which don't get hot and heavy and
whose tops don't fly off when used for vigorous '
censing.
6. A drinkable ritual wine with a sinister name. The Hungarian wine called "Bull's Blood" sounds great, but yecch!
7. Robes with pockets and Velcro strips at the bottom so that the height can easily be adjusted depending on what you are doing. For example, such robes would be useful for walking through woods at night. dancing, and lending to a short newcomer.
8. A guide to the proper pronunciation of Enochian.
9. A sure-fire solvent for removing candle wax from robes, furniture and carpets without ruining the color, the texture or the finish.
10. Eye of newt (in capsule form)..
11. A phone amulet to repel telephone

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the latest "gaming-style" scrying device such as
runestones or whatever is popular at the time.
You'11 find jars full of herbs and roots and often a selection of flavored teas. However, the student of
> herbal healing will find that such supplies are almost
always cheaper and fresher at the local health food stores.
A lot of the shops carry a fair number of supplies for practitioners of old-fashioned variants on African magic, so you will find a lot of amulets, some
JI statues and medallions of saints, and some very
0 strange-looking products. Has anyone ever seen a customer actually purchase any Pow-Wow Evil
Banishing Room Spray, or a bottle of Buddha Wash?
I You will also find some cheap jewelry -

solicitors, or force them to buy their own products if they call.
12. Designer puppets.
13. Occult romance novels. "The voluptuous witch smiled.tremulously at the handsome Satanist who had rescued her from a bloodthirsty band of Christian zealots. Was this true love at last?"
14. Unholy cards.
If you have seen any of these products at your local occult store, please drop me a line. I'd love to have them!

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Death Scenes from Wavelength Video, hosted by Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey.
"Death -- the great equalizer," Dr. LaVey intones, kicking off a compilation that builds, through image and musical soundtrack, with the tension and drama of a Satanic ritual. And ritual it is, as the High Priest steps out of the fog with his fedora diabolically askew. These are rare photos and film clips from the private collection of a former Hollywood police officer, with an introduction and running commentary by an acerbic and often ironic Dr. LaVey. This is the real deal, and it's notfor the faint of heart. Unlike other compilations of this nature, Death Scenes is not compromised by obviously faked footage or watered down with campy weirdness of the merely mondo variety. This is scene after scene of raw carnage, including shots of a suicide who used two rifles simultaneously, a party of drunks where somebody left the gas on, an auto accident beheading (what's that in the road a-head?), and a lady who holds a special place in my heart, Marie Provost and her hungry little dachshund (look for the pop song that immortalized her, She J,Vas a Winner Mo Became a Doggy's Dinner). But getting past mere prurience, the format and soundtrack relentlessly drive home the importance of living in the here and now, as well as misdirected Man's capacity for folly as well as cruelty. I asked after this video in The Horror Emporium here in NYC, and was told with great hauteur that the manager "wouldn't touch stuff like that -- real stuff." Pretty priggish of a guy who stocks I Dismember Mama.
Look for Wavelength Video's ad for Death Scenes elsewhere in this issue.

Nightbreed, based on the novel Cabal by Clive Barker.
It seems that the werewolves, vampires, ghouls and goblins of history are all real. They're a separate species all their own, alienated from the world of men

you should see this movie. .
Lord of the Flies.
I doubt that many readers of TBF could have missed Golding's novel (I read it at age 10; my parents thought it was a "kid's book") or its earlier incarnation as a film, but if you have: a group of English schoolboys are stranded on a desert island and attempt to establish order among their ranks. Things quickly decay as a group of Hunters (formerly the choir members who were already organized in a quasi-military manner) revolt against the societal Rules and make Meat their priority. Murder results, and they soon establish a religion of placation to a 1
Monster they half-believe in. A devastating
indictment of our belief in civilization, and a , hammerblow asserting that Might is, indeed, Right.
This new version of the film, however, scoots around those essential issues and dwells more on a sort of eagle/dove confrontation. The boys are American here, and in a military school, and most of , the conflict seems to center on their innate need for ' hostility and warring factions. At the film's conclusion, a bunch of regular-guy Marines show up for war games, pushing home the point. The original film concluded with the tiniest begrimed boy holding out a finger to touch an English sailor in blinding white, who appears on the beach like a vision, an, illusion of order and purity. The photography is i stunning and the boys' acting superb, but you should wait for this one to come to your pay-TV network.
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It was nearly fifteen minutes before dinner was scheduled to begin with the first seating of the dining room. All of the waiters and captains were in the bathroom adjusting their bow ties and straightening their tux jackets or just finishing a last cigarette before going out on the floor.
Golden Boy from San Diego looked more than a little perturbed. Since he was working on my team, I asked him what was wrong.
Apparently, while he and his fiancee were shopping, two guys in a car had made some rude remarks to the lady. In anger and indignation, Golden Boy yelled for the two to come out of the car and apologize. The response was wild laughter and a few obscene gestures from the offenders before they drove away from the curb. Golden Boy, furious, threw his sunglasses to the pavement, screaming for the bastards to come back.
Al, an ex-biker from New Orleans, was popping studs into a tuxedo shirt which covered enough skin art for a sideshow attraction. "Y'know, I had the same problem a buncha years ago," he said. "There were

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these two assholes making remarks to my old lady while we were walking around in the French quarter."
Golden Boy looked at him. "So what'd you
do?"
"Simple," Al replied. "I simply whipped out my hose (penis) and let loose with the golden juice (urine)."
Golden Boy was astounded. "What did they
do?"
"They rolled up their window as fast as they could and got outta there."
I laughed as I compared the two approaches to the same problem. On one hand, the civilized and "enlightened" person could not seem to rise to the situation, whereas the Lycanthropic person with his quick and very primitive approach 1urned a normal function into a tool of revenge.
"My God!" Golden Boy looked incredulous. "Don't you have any social graces?"
"Yeah," said Al, shrugging into his jacket. "But at least I didn't break my sunglasses."
I think that said it all.

Ever since Marx declared religion to be the '1'iate of the people," and formulated his ideology of
i djJiectical materialism in the mid-19th century, there
> !fve been fearful screams from certain quarters that (J)mmunism is a diabolical conspiracy hatched by
!faitan himself to destroy Christianity.
- In recent years religious leaders such as Jerry jiw'ell of Moral Majority, have been posing as ctampions of civilization against "Satanic
I cii>mmunism," and have obtained- considerable
political influence. _ . . . .
. Other organ1zat1ons which combine anti- Communism with Christianity include Hargis' Christian Crusade Church, Schwarz's Christian
1 Anti-Communism Crusade, and various preachers
fo-llowing a line similar to what in New Zealand is called "British-Israel," generally termed "Christian Identity" in the USA. All of these hold Communism to be Satan's spawn in a literal sense.
Richard Wurmbrand, the exiled Roumanian priest who heads the Jesus To The Communist World
1 organization, has written a book entitled Was Marx a
\ Satanist? Mystery 666, by Don E. Stanton of the Ma.ranatha Revival Crusade, a book enjoying wide circulation among fundamentalist Christians in New Zealand- and Australia, connects Satanism to
x communism, liberal theologians, and international
' bankers.
But how "Bolshie" is Satan, really? Is he covertly pulling the strings on the leaders of "The Evil Empire" (what's left of it) which, according to Falwell, will be destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse by the USA, the Biblically-prophesied Armageddon?
Despite the rhetoric of the Christian Right and the anti-Christian Left, a casual reading of Nietzsche will suffice to show that Communism and Christianity spring from and appeal to a common mentality.
COMMUNISM, CHRISTIANITY: REVOLTS OF THE "CHANDALA"
In Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche describes
1 Chr s.tianity as a react.ion against breeding and n?bthty, the revaluation of all noble values, the victory of the values of the "Chandala" (outcaste)
, against the "Aryan" (noble), to use his Vedic
'1 terminology. Christianity, he states, is "the evangel
11 Preached to the poor and lowly, the collective ebellion of everything downtrodden, wretched, 1ll-constituted, underprivileged," against all that is nlobie, "undying Chandal a revenge as the religion of
ove."
The definition could just as well be used to

describe Communism.
In the same work Nietzsche equates the Christian and the "anarchist" (i.e. Communist/ Socialist): "The Christian and the anarchist -- both are decadents. And when the Christian condemns, calumniates and befouls the 'world,' he does so from the same instinct from which the socialist worker condemns, calumniates and befouls society: even the 'Last Judgement' is still the sweet consolation of revenge -- the revolution, such as the socialist worker too anticipates, only conceived as a somewhat more distant...Even the 'Beyond' -- why a Beyond if not as a means of befouling the Here-And-Now?..."
In The Anti-Christ Nietzsche is plainer still: "Whom among today's rabble do I hate the most? The socialist rabble, the Chandala apostles who undermine the worker's instinct... who make him envious, who teach him revengefulness... Injustice never lies in unequal rights, it lies in the claim to 'equal' rights... What is bad? But I have already _answered that question: everything that proceeds from weakness, from envy, from revengefulness. The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."
"One may assert an absolute equivalence," continues Nietzsche, "between Christian and anarchist: their purpose, their instinct is set only on destruction..."
"Christianity rose from the sewers of Rome," to quote Jung, where it was preached to the lowest of the Empire, Rome's equivalent to Vedic India's Chandala. Communism makes its appeal to the same type, which it calls the "proletariat." Both creeds were formulated and preached by a few malcontents in order to enlist the mass in the respective causes of destruction. Read Nietzsche for the consequences of Christianity upon the Roman spirit. Paul was a neurotic, Marx a shiftless scoundrel. Paul despised the power of Roman civilization; Marx could feel no kinship with the heritage of the Occident. Both they and their successors felt their alienation from civilization and rationalized this into religio-philosophical systems which would subvert, demoralize and destroy the civilizations which they felt to be an oppressive burden upon them.
COMMON OUTLOOK
Those vomit-inducing Christians who preach Left-wing "liberation theology" and declare Jesus and the early Christians to have been "socialists," are closer to fundamental Christianity than their Christian Right cousins who scream about "Satanic Communism." Let us turn to original sources rather

than the bleatings of either of these two varieties of Christian, to find out whether Communism has more in common with Satan, or with the psychotic Nazarene and the neurotic Paul.
Probably the most popularly-known precept of

This is nothing but the Communist doctrine of malevolent envy and class antagonism given a holy fa ade.
WORLD REVOLUTION j
The methods by which the respective New

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Communism is its demand for the abolition of private property. "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in a single sentence: abolition of private property," wrote Marx in The Communist Manifesto. Jesus also calumniates against personal property and acquisition: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth," he declares in the Sermon on the Mount. (Matt. 5-7)
Since the family concept and familial loyalty are prime obstacles in the way of blind obedience, we find Marx dismissing the family -- along with most other fundamentals of civilization and High Culture - as "bourgeois." "Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the

World Orders of Communism and Christianity will be 1 achieved are also similar, albeit the Communist I version is less extreme.
The mass-murder and torture of the Communist l
system is sufficiently well-known and need not be chronicled here. What of the proposed "world Christian revolution"?
Like the Communist revolution, Jesus' l
revolution promises to be a bloody affair. "But those 1
mine enemies," states Jesus, "which would not that I I reign over them bring hither and slay them before me." (Luke 19: 27). The mentality is identical to that of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot...
The world Christian revolution, the Apocalypse,

My Significant Other was with the other husbands, boyfriends and just plain guys in the living room, discussing those "men things" the ladies are bored to tears by -- namely, old comic books - _when one of the frumpier wit h s started coI?plamrn_g - bain -- about how hard tt ts for her to frnd the nght thing to wear. "I mean, if it's snug-fitted, it'll hav_e a seckline that's practically Victorian; if the necklme plunges to a vee, then the skirt is flared and halfway t{-0wn my calf. Where can I get a dress that doesn t apologize, in one way or another, for being sexy?"
I concentrated on keeping the cat out of the
cheesecake I was dividing, but I knew it was corning. "Honey, where do you find all those dear little things

the trends and go for genuine feminine appeal. The last time I entered Macy's, Oscar Wilde-like young men were spritzing me with Roses, Roses and offering me pre-moisturizing sealing toner as a free gift. They had commercials playing on TV sets suspended overhead, in case you forgot what to buy.
I shop out of catalogs; if that makes me a Yuppie, too bad. Wanda, I got the purple shea_th from Night'n Day Intimates (1-800-832-82 8); 1t came with matching elbow-length gloves. Wa1t'll you see the slit-up-the-sides gold lame dress they have, and the island sarong, and the bla k mini with the belly button viewport... Girls, Frederick's of Hol ywood (1-800-323-9525) can still pack a whallop, v1th sexy

Communists," Marx wrote in his manifesto. Jesus

will drench the world in blood, as the "class enemies" 1

you wear?. II

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dresses and suits you can wear to the office along

likewise had no time for familial intrusions on the total obedience he demanded of his followers: "If any man come to me and hate not his father and his mother, and wife and children, and hrethren and sisters, and his own life alone, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26)
The basis of Communist theory is class struggle. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle," wrote Marx. This simplistic and ridiculous dogma, to an educated and cunning man such as Marx, must be seen as a calculated strategy for undermining a nation/culture/ civilization, rather than an honestly held and intellectually-deduced concept. Jesus too preached the division of society against itself: "Suppose ye that I come to give peace on earth? I tell you nay; but rather division: for from henceforth there shall be five in one household divided..." (Luke 12:51-52)
Likewise this must be seen as a strategy for calculated destruction, for Jesus had reportedly declared: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand." (Matt. 12:25)
Both Communism and Christianity idealize the "Chandala," as Nietzsche explained, and to these the Christian and Communist agitators appeal. Both rage against the "mighty and noble" not many of whom are called to Christ, according to Paul. (I Cor. 1:26)

are cast "into the great winepress 9f the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress." (Rev. 14: 16-20).
The end result promises to be a world dictatorship of proportions undreamt of by any Communist dictator. Jesus and Jehovah, so the Christian vision has it, will sit on thrones, within a \ city constructed of precious stones, attended by servants. (Rev. 22:3).
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So much for Communism and Christianity
being antithetical. They are, rather, contending but '. parallel systems for world power, having similar r origins, motives, methods and goals.
That Satan and Satanists should take the rap as the instigators of Communism (the scapegoats once again) is intolerable, especially since this is just another method by which the holy crusaders can scar.e, ('
their gullible flocks into parting with more of theu
money, while also acquiring political influence.
What has Satanism, with its respect for the creative individual above the mass, and its opposition to herd-conformity and the attendant collectivism, to do with Communism? This writer can't see Marx being a Satanist, but he can visualize Jesus as a proto-Cornmunist agitator, which is the way the
trendy liberal theologians visualize him also, to the • annoyance of their Christian-Right cousins.

Drat; I was bemg solicited dJTectly for one of my hoards of witchy knowledge. Could I hold back the goods while keeping my friends?
Wanda pressed further. "You sew, don't you,
Honey? I know you can't buyall those things."
The cat almost snared a cherry as my hand slipped on the dessert plate. "Sew? Moi? Do I look like Betsy Ross?"
"Now there's an archetype," murmured Whitey.
Wanda insisted. "Tell me, Honey; where'd you get the purple sheath?"
Ishtar, Demeter, Madame Bathory, I murmured
to myself.
"Where?"
"All right, all right! I'll sing!"
Wanda was right, witches; it's damned hard finding the right "little thing" these days. If the Lords of Fashion aren't trying to dump you into a pair of droopy drawers, then they're swathing you in distressed denim, or asking you to wear a tie. Jockey makes pantyhose now, for crying out loud. Are you going to buy hosiery from a company that made your dad's shorts twenty years ago?
The first place to look, especially if you're
going for character appeal, is in the thrift shops, used clothing stores and antique boutiques, in that order.
These clothes are not only unique and dripping with style and magic, they're cheap. Even if you have to

with the seamed stockings and padded bras. And Victoria's Secret (1-800-888-1500) carries some hot daywear _along with their pretty nighties. Anpther little catalog find of mine was the Vermont Country Store (1-802-362-4647); they have all-cotton garter belts in white or black.
Of course not all of us consider a size 12 a
"large." Fleshy 'women have an even to gher time finding sexy clothes, mainly because des_1gners and manufacturers assume that any extra flab-is meant to be covered and obscured. Those new large-size companies won't do you any good; they s ll mainly tents, pajamas and big, big sweaters. Leammg to sew might actually be a good idea, here, but! c nalso recommend Lerner (1-800-424-2005); theIT sizes o_n most items go up to 20, and while _they carry t etr share of slave clothes (distressed demm and tee shrrts) they also have some sexy little separates and dre_sses.
Don't feel you have to have a closetful of
clothes to be a Satanic Witch, either. A handful of drop-dead outfits that get them where they live is sufficient. I had this little pink number once that I wore out, ladies; did you ever have a dress that you knew you could always count on to succeed where obvious value and intelligence failed? I mean, the fabric in the seat was paper-thin and even Signific nt Other said he wouldn't be seen with me. It was with
many a tear that I relegated i t? the rag i e. Sigh.

To Marx and Jesus the enemy is the

have them drycleaned later, doesn't this dust from

Well, the men finally ftmshed deetdmg who had

bourgeoisie/the rich: "A rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven... It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." (Matt. 19:23-24).
"But woe unto you that are rich! For ye have received your consolations! Woe unto you who are full! For ye shall hunger." (Luke 6: 24-25).

Fostering the good-for-nothing at the expense ,!ii of the good is an extreme cruelty. It is a deliberate j, storing up of miseries for future generations.
There is no greater curse to posterity than that of 1 bequeathing them an increasing population of imbeciles.
Herbert Spencer
Principles of Sociobiology (1881)

past lives make them a little more interesting? And don't overlook Mom's attic or Grandma's cedar closet; chances are these ladies were about the same shape as you.
Department stores could probably yield the occasional gem but the hype, hype, hype when you &et in there can tend to dissolve your resolve to buck

better powers -- Green Lantern or the Flash -- and Wanda had a notebook full of suggestions from moi. Hope she looks better at our next ritual and really gets
the juices flowing. .
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THE CHURCH OF SATAN
by Blanche Barton

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A History of the Worlc(s Most Notorious Religion!

Twenty fiv_e years ago, on April 30, Walpurgisnacht, 1966, Anton Szandor LaVey shaved his head and declared the begmnmg of the Age of Satan. From that moment on both the famous and the infamous have found th · way through the doors of the Church of Satan, with LaVey as its diabolical 11Black Pope.11 eir

The Magician's Dictionary: An Apocalyptic Cyclopredia of Advanced Magic(k)al Arts and
' J,lternate Meanings by E.E. Rehmus. (Feral House,
1,os Angeles, 1990; softcover, 301 pages, $12.95).
Takes the "occultnik" out of "occult." The l,lagician 's Dictionary takes modern occult
$111inology and puts it under the magnifying glass of

hardcover, 269 pages, $15.95).
An amusing sojourn into the scams and follies of humanity throughout history until today. The author looks into historical fabrications, lies told about our most cherished heroes, myths concerning American Presidents, corporate lies, consumer lies, politics, Hollywood, sex and hoaxers. There's even an

Blanche Barton, A ton LaVey's authorized ?iographer, gives a straight-from-the-shoulder account of the man,

ionality, making the obscure intelligible. If you've
·er wondered at the meaning and relevance of

instructive chapter at the end: "Looking For Lies:
How to Know When Someone is Lying To You." I

strange and sensat10nal events (some heavily documented by a media blitz, others related for the first t' ) anywhere)_ that surrounded LaVey and his thousands of followers as they ushered in a new era of indulg tme and arn hty, based on pl asure_instead_ of self-denial. Miss Barton details the evenings spent with Lav: , Magic Cucle,_ peopled with a_rt1sts, wnters and_fil1:1makers_ whose names will be familiar, and points out
de-f cto _Satanists !hrough ut history, such as BenJamm Franklin, who would, LaVey is sure, have been in favo of a 1 United Satanic Amenca!11 r

n add!tion, Miss BaIJon outlines th directio this _ever-growing organization is taking today, in her chapter Satas aste Plan. And she ays 1t on the lme with what every reader will want to know: "How To Perform

J dortain terms and jargon used in 11magickal" treatises other fringe element literature, but didn't want to i;i,de through a morass of mushheaded writing to find a,11t, then this is the book for you. Rehmus' presentation is quirky, refreshing, anything ·but dry.
\ 'fhe book is organized alphabetically and illustrations,
1 !&grams and photos abound. Not every listing here is intended for those interested in ceremonial magic; there are many helpful hints for the stree(-wise

guess The History of Bullshit would have been an indelicate title, but that's what this book en compasses. Instructive for all practitioners of Satanic magic and principles, and fun for all ages.
Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast by Colin Wilson. (The Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, 1987; softcover, 174 pages, £5.99).
Wilson takes a down-to-earth yet open-minded look at Crowley's life and more importantly, the

Satanic Ritual1s. Clearly, no topic has ever been so hot; can you afford not to own this book?
Publication date: June. 1990

pJRCtitioner of Lesser magic as well, most notably, the
definition of "Mystery -- to keep the mouth shut."
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development of his ideas about magic. Like The
Magician's Dictionary, this book serves as a helpful shortcut for those who want a basic understanding

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t white, this_ will be a much-consulted addition to your
1 library; keep The Magician's Dictionary on hand for
, times when the conversation gets murky and the air
1 becomes thick with buzzwords. To order direct, look for Feral House's ad elsewhere in this issue.
The Fenris Wolf edited by Carl Abrahamsson. (Thee Temple of Psychick Youth, Scandinavia, Stockholm, June 1989; softcover magazine, 42 pages, no price listed).
A·meaty journal with articles and photographs.
I The cover illustration is a psychedelic portrait of
7 Genesis P-Orridge in purple ink on pale blue paper; the entire presentation is professional, easily-read and in English. Contributors include Dr. Anton LaVey
and William S. Burroughs, and there's an incisive and illuminating interview with Genesis, founding

without shuffling through a lot of uninteresting material. In a non-judgemental fashion, the author lays Crowley's follies and foibles at the reader's feet, while leading him through a moveable feast of wacky events and silly people. But Wilson also points out that Crowley's acceptance of human free will firmly establishes his significance as a thinker as well as a flaunter of fiascoes and a drug addict.
John Waters
Fans of "out there" films will be familiar with the many cinematic efforts of Waters (my favorites: Multiple Maniacs and Desperate Living) but did you know about his hilariously funny collections of essays, Shock Value and Crackpofl Waters is truly
Satanic in that he exists in his own little world, occasionally stealing into ours to hold up the sleazy

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director of T.O.P.Y. Subject matter covers the career of Kenneth Anger, Jayne Mansfield as Satanist, the Christian Conspiracy madness and Television Magick. If you've wondered about the Satanic motivation of T.O.P.Y., here's this from Abrahamsson's editorial: 11We're into Action, You

and trashy for us all to gawk at. He describes a visit to
Frederick's of Hollywood, where he wheedles his way into the padlocked Celebrity Dressing Room, and a trip to the Russ Meyer Museum. You '11 howl; trust me. Shock Value by John Waters. (Delta Books, New York, 1981; softcover, 243 pages, $14.95). Crackpot:

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The Book of Lies by M. Hirsh Goldberg. illiam Morrow & Co., New York, 1990;

The Obsessions of John Waters by John Waters.
(Vintage, New York, 1987; softcover, 144 pages,
$6.95).
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INTRODUCTION:

SATANIC ROOTS (Part I)
by Philip Marsh

polytheists of every type. This is an effort

31.32). These rules are typically pagan diminished, dominant seventh, major d remind one of superstitious rubbish seventh, minor sixth, augmented, major
anch as "don't walk under a ladder." The seventh with a flatted fifth, etc., seems
1 su rn "rnystikos logos" (mystical word) like so much irrelevant or my.stical ie:s an abusive epithet hurled at mumbo-jumbo. But musicians recognize,
;,thagoras even in pre-Christian times to identify and can reproduce these

great deal to a Satanist.
Much of what the mathematikoi knew due to Pythagorean secrecy and, later on, the massive Christian library burnings, can only be reconstructed by going back to Orphic cult sources

This is about a few outstanding members of an ancient people whom the defenders of Judeo-Christian institutions have feared as much as Satan. So great ":as their _fear, that the conquering bishops, priests, and clerics of the Dark
Ages degraded the proper name of these

to level them and conceal what they really thought and knew.
.. . Any o n e . v h ' s a t t h ro u g h Philosophy 101 or Introduction to Western Civilization" learns that the an:i nt Greeks had an entire pantheon of

r lationships_of lengths of strings to the /scredit him and prove him "religious." combinations of sounds immediately by a pitch of emitted sounds. He is ev $urnet, op. cit. p. 94). direct awareness which puzzles and credited with coining the Woe Whatistheconnectionbetween mystifiestheunmusical.
"philosophy" and using the w/d ! these kinds of mutually exclusive Theabilitytoperceivedirectlyon "mathemata" to mean what we c:u i ctivity, one scientific, the other mystical matters other than music alone, was also Mathematics (Heath, Greek Mathematics :nd superstitious? a basis for the selection of the inner circle
p. 11). The Pythagorean school quick!; The Pythagoreans were instructed of mathematikoi. The rare kinds of direct

themselves, or later accounts of them, such as what is known about a lost book by Pherecydes, a remarkable contem porary of Pythagoras. Pherecydes• book miraculously survived the burning of the Alexandrian library in the year 47 B.C.
and still existed in the third century A.D.,

ancient people into an accusatorial curse synonymous with witch, warlock,

de1t1es: Zeus the chief, Hera, his wife, Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty

bec_ame the chief scientific school ancient Greece.

} orally. They observed a rule of silence awareness or "sight" common only to the
0 called "echemythia," the breaking of mathematekoi, seemed forever mystical,

but this was as far as the ecclesiastics would let it go. Pherecydes is regarded as

de onolator, and even demon. The epithet used was "HELLENE!" (John Holland Smith, Dea th of Classical Paganism, pp. 239-240)
. _This is about two opposing trad1t10ns that originated with the Hellenes or "ancient Greeks." One tradition begins with a cult called the Orphics, whom we are talselytold sought libe_ration from the body and the "cycle of rebirths" by means of "purifications of the soul." This tradition runs through
Pythagoras t? Pll:to and on to the early
I I Neo-Platonists m the Christianized
I I Roman Empire. It is, in truth a Satanic tradition by ev:ry principle en nciated by Anton LaVey m The Satanic Bible. This tradition produced the greatest, most remarkable and eloquent enemies the early Christians ever confronted names you will be unfamiliar with beca se lies confusion, misinformation, silence, and
deep embarrassment still reign today on this subject.
The second tradition, originating with Socrates, who was not a Hellene but lived in Athens as a prominent citi en runs through Aristotle on to the medievai Church scholastic like St. Thomas Aquinas. This tradition has been allowed to pass through to the modem world in its entir ty. It is well-aired, and has had a
?Teat mfluence on everyone from Marxist mtellectuals to advocates of democratic liberalism and so-called "humanitarian ism."
. irtually every writer on this subJect 1s a present or former Christian, Jew, or Mohammedan. Their lies and deeply-i grained failures to explain what went on m fifth century Athens B.C. will be unm sked here. For this purpose, H_ellen.1c, Roman, and Byzantine h1s o 1a?s, u?tainted by Judeo Chnstian1ty, _will be relied upon, but

who was Zeus' daughter (but not Hera's)'
et . ! is is justly regarded as quaint: primitive, and downright silly, like the pantheon of Egypt in Tut's time, or the pantheon of present-day natives of the West Indies. The only jarring note is that one wonders how the Hellenes' SU_Perlative lev I of statesmanship, science, mathematics, art and architecture could evolve and exist side-by-side with such_ ju_venile religious beliefs. There is no hm1t to the number of treatises in which we are told that the ancient Greeks, despite their other remarkably evolved accomplishments, had failed to develop the so-called "advanced' religious and ethical idea called monotheism, an idea attributed to the alleged "religious genius of the Hebrews" or to some particular "religious genius " such as Moses or Akhnaton. '
It will be shown, by focusing on a few prominent individuals, that while the Hellenes had all sorts of tales of sup r-human heroes, gods, demons, and spmts, that were part of their common folklore, they consistently produced and revered individuals who not only created revolutions in science and art but scribed this ability to the direct influence of "daemons" who were connected to, as Dr. LaVey called it: "a dark force which pervades all of Nature balancing it." (LaVey, The Satanic Bible:
P· 40, p. 82.) Remember the terms of this
idea as you continue: 1. a dark force
which 2. pervades all of Nature permeating it and 3. balancing it. •

PYTHAGORAS
The most remarkable and prominent of these Hellenes was Pythagoras who with his followers flourished in the latter half of the sixth century B.C. In addition to founding a
ecret brotherhood based on Orphic cult

In a surviving fragment froma which was punishable by death. Their opaque, and confusing to those lacking in lost book by Aristotle called On th silence was said by ancient authors like innate awareness or ability, but these Pythagoreans, Aristotle states tha: 1 porphyrius, to be "of no ordinary kind" forms of awareness were considered by Pythagoras busied himself With (G.S.KirkandJ.E.Raven,Pr -Socrat_ic themathematikoitobenomoremystical
mathemati;,s nd numbers but would not Philosophers, p. 221 }. Iambhchus said than a four-year-old child's musical renounce muacle mongering" (John "the strictness of their secrecy is ability. Nor are these forms of awareness Bu:ne , Early Greek Philosophy, p. 97). astonishing." (Ibidem.) more mystical than Anton LaVey's
This Is a reference to the fact that ::- The contradiction between the statement that he was directly aware of a
Pythagoras was a "goetes," which means \ strictly scientific attitude of the dark force in Nature. To try to teach so:cerer. Re_adeJs , ·ho associate this word pyth a gore ans and the rampant someone these forms of awareness was with <?oetia, as m Rabbi Solomon's superstitions can be explained by the fact considered futile. The inventor of the Goet,a, the so-called grimoire of that the Pythagoreans were divided into Calculus, Leibniz, said "Nothing can be ceremonial magic, would be correct· an inner circle called the "mathematikoi" taught us of which we do not have in our "goetes" is the Greco-Roman root of th (mathematicians) and an outer circle spirit the idea... (the soul) may even be word "goetia." That Pythagoras wasa called the "akousmatikoi" (listeners). said to possess these truths already ..." goetes has been an embarrassment for it According to Porphyry "the mathe- (Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics, p. some otherwise honest translators and matikoi learnt the more detailed and 44-45). No better modern statement of scholars who are anxious to whitewash exactly elaborated version of this this idea had been made until C.J. Pythagoras and present him as a knowledge, the akousmatikoi (were) Lumsden and E.O. Wilson began to c?-lturally important, mathematically, those who had only the summary formulate the science of sociobiolo y in gifted, but otherwise typically pagan headings of (Pythagoras') writings, the last decade, which attempts to trace "priest philosopher." One such translator without the more exact exposition" (Kirk culture and mind onto one's genetic code, prefers to translate goetes as "medicine \ and Raven, op. cit. p. 227). The which is imprinted at the moment of man" as if this is more palatable than r akousmatiks recognized the mathe- conception.
"warlock" or "sorcerer" (Burnet, op. cit., maticians to be genuine Pythagoreans but We sh a 11 see that the p.97). not vice-versa (Burnet, op. cit. p. 94). mathematikoi claim to know the dark
. ythago s wasboth "sophistes" After Pythagoras' death, the two groups force in Nature directly. The above- (sc1ent1st) and goetes" (sorceror). He split from each other entirely. mentioned rule of echemythia or "hold was universally regarded in the ancient Originally, then, there were not peace" meant the prohibition of "uttering
\ orld as a teacher of an entire way of , two sects, but two kinds of followers all things to all men." (Kirk and Raven,
!1 e_. an? was a highly-distinguished sorted out by natural inclination and op. cit. p. 221 ). The Pythagoreans were m1t1ate into an Orphic cult. Still, under innate abilities (Kathleen Freeman, The an aristokratia, or aristocracy, but not one the_ spell of Judeo-Christianity, modern •\ Pre-Socratic Philosophers, p. 76). A based on wealth or gender (Burnet, op. vn!e.rs proclaim him to be a great good analogy comes from music, also an cit. p. 90). Women were admitted from rehg1ous teacher" since his instruction important study for Pythagoreans, and the start of the school and Iamblichus has included both a doctrine of the something any reader can easily preserved for us a list of 17 female transmigration of souls (paliggenesia) l derstand. Musically, people are divided Pythagoreans taken from all over Greece, and Orphic cult doctrine, and since the '1 !nto overlapping groups according to including Pythagoras' wife Theano Pythagoreans were known to have means mnate or inborn ability. These range from (Freeman, Pre-Socratic Philo ;ophers, p. of cultivating "spiritual purity." Members ' the tone-tleat:, to those who can hear and 83-84). We sha11 see later, how a were forbidden to divulge these carry a fair melody, to those with the Pythagorean division of people into three techniques. We shall see that the word ability to hear and identify or reproduce types was incorporated into Plato's myth "purity" is a woeful mistranslation if not r<:lative pitch (most musicians), to those of three kinds of men, of gold, iron and a_lie, and the entire subject is" iftedwiththeveryrareabilitycalled earth,inhis"Republic."
misunderstood by Christians, Jews, and le:, perfect pitch." No amount of diet, The word "akousmata" also means

the first to write in prose. He is often linked to Pythagoras, but whether or not he was a Pythagorean is not positively known. Pythagoras attended his burial. Pherecydes was said to have consulted lost Phoenecian books. He too was a goetes (Burnet, op. cit. p. 97).
The central notions of the Pythagoreans seem to have been three: 1. Theoria, 2. Kosmos, 3. Katharsis (Kirk and Raven, op. cit. p. 228). Theoria meant contemplation of the central doctrine, which was the Orphic doctrine of the pentemychos or "five recesses/ chambers/gates." These five gates correspond to the five points of a pentacle or star called by the Pythagoreans the "pentagrammon" or "pentalpha" (Burnet, op. cit. p. 295), due to the fact that the pentacle and the enclosed pentagon are formed from five letter "A's" (alpha) as such:

This pentacle and its interior pentagon were of the utmost importance to the Pythagoreans. Both were used as symbols of recognition among Pythagorean brothers (Freeman, op. cit. p. 86, and Burnet, op. cit. p. 295). "The use of this figure in later magic is well known and Paracelsus still employed it ass ymbol of health, which is exactly what the Pythagoreans called it." (Burnet, op. cit.
p. 295.}
They also called this symbol the "triple interwoven triangle." (Freeman, ibid.) This name refers not to the construction of it from five separate "A's," but rather to the fact that it can be made by drawing continuously two A's and then closing the third:

references will be limited to easily obt ined English language sources for

ideas, Pythagoras developed number theory, geometry (both plane and solid},

other dualists.
.. S ome rules of Pythagorean

encouragement, training, ambition, "rules." It was the akousmatics who
tcaching, or wishful thinking can enable swore by the silly taboos and regulation That it was interwoven indicates

any interested reader.
If The primary lie is the
I' denomination of the Hellenes as
' "pagans." This lumps them in with
animists, nature-worshippers, and

s well as the theory of irrational or incommensurable numbers, and knew t at theearth revolved around a central fire _(sun}. He invented the theory of musical harmony and discovered the

soc1et1es have been preserved for us, someone to move from one group into mentioned above. the oneness and inter-relatedness of the
rulesanyonecannothelpbutsneerat,e.g. .he group of next higher ability or What follows will be of the five gates.
to bstain from beans, not to touch a " t lent" as it is called today. To someone greatest interest to the Satanist. What was The Pythagoreans dedicated whitecock,nottostepoveracrossbar, "Jth inferior musical ears, the thelearningaccessibletotheselectfew? different angles to different gods etc. (a list of these appears in History of i-dme_n-tification and long discussion of This can only be surmised from clues, but (Freeman, op. cit. p. 224), but it cannoI t

reference to the five angles at the five outer points of the pentacle, nor exclusively the angles of some other figure or figures. As to what the five gates represented, even ancient commentators say is "very obscure" or as Porphyrius says "riddles" (Kirk and Raven, p. 55). A quote from the 20th century mathematician, logical positivist philosopher and agnostic humanitarian, Bertrand Russell, on this subject is very interesting: "The pentagram has always been prominent in magic and apparently owed its properties to the fact that the dodecahedron (a 12 sided three dimensional figure) has pentagons for its ·· faces, and is in some sense, a symbol of the universe. This topic is attractive, but
it is difficult to ascertain much that is definite about it." (Russell, p. 147)
Russell's source for this seems to be Heath, Greek Mathematics, Vol. I, p. 159, 162, 294-6.)
The Orphics (Orphikoi) believed in a long history of the gods prior to the ordered universe coming into being. This ordered universe was called Kosmos, as opposed to the primordial Chaos. Before Kosmos, the first offspring of Chaos were five beings or principles, whose rule was overthrown when the ordered Kosmos finally emerged. These five are eternal and cannot be destroyed. Instead, they were thrust into the five interwoven gates or recesses (pentemychos) symbolized by the Pythagorean pentacle (from an account of the contents of Pherecydes lost book preserved in Damascius' De Principiis, quoted in Kirk and Raven, op. cit. p. 55). It is not known whether Pythagoras himself inherited or invented this clever symbol for this cosmological event. At any rate, only when these five "sons of chaos" were in these five places could ordered time, space, and natural law come into being and endure, safeguarded from the five chaotic destroyers.
Who were these pre-cosmic five? Again, little information has survived. One of them was called Cthonie, an "abode of demons" (Kirk and Raven, p. 56). This would mean that at least one of the alphas of the pentagram, or one of its points as a recess or gate, represents the position of a being in whom demons abide, a kind of "mother" of demons.
The "daimon" was of paramount

demon. This word was used from Homer onwards, and probably before, to denote super-human forces. The term is vaguer than "theos"(god), also used by the Hellenes to denote super-human forces, but daimon was intended to be Jess anthropomorphic! Daimones and theoi were words constantly used to denote the unpredictable and incalculable in human events. Daimon is also used in Hesiod of deceased men who gain a kind of energy and power after death. Daimon can denote a protecting spirit of an individual or family. It can also mean one's astral self. Finally, it can mean a source of scientific or artistic inspiration.
The first and, for the unfamiliar reader, best theory of the daimones appears in Plato's dialogue "The Symposium" (The Banquet), in which one orator recounts a conversation he had with Diotima of Mantineia, a prophetess who saved Athens from a plague through sorcery. We shall meet her again later when she curses Socrates with manifold results. In "The Symposium," Diotima says of the function of the daimones, "Through this intermediary (daimones)
· moves all the art of divination, and the art of priests, and all concerned with sacrifice and mysteries and incantations, and all sorcery and witchcraft. For god has no intercourse with man, but through this (daimones) comes all the communion and conversation of gods with men and men with gods, both awake and asleep; and he who is expert in this is a spiritual man ... " ( Great Dialogues of Plato, W.H.D. Rouse translator, p. 98) Unfortunately, for reasons any Satanist can guess, all translations delete the word demon altogether and translate daimones as "spirits." (see this same translation, same page, earlier on).
Daimones are long lived, but not immortal, and can be destroyed, according to Plutarch in his treatise On the Failure of the Oracle.
So endemic to Hellenic culture was the daimon, that Greeks toasted to "Agathos Daimon" which means "Here's luck!", the cult of the "Good Daimon" (A.O. Nock, Com'ersion, P. 223). There were also the feared, avenging, destroying, and punishing daimones, but they were not thought to be evil in themselves, though their selfishness was taken into account. They were thought to

they first sought to lower the demons in
the universal harmony, and then to (l(irk'and Raven, op. cit. p. 66-67). exclude them from the human sphere The five chambers, recesses, or entirely as unwelcome tenants ates which are interwoven were (exorcism). Magic came to be regarded as goJlectively known as "Tartaros." The a delusion imposed on humanity by \res to Tartaros are guarded by "Harpia" seducing demons. The Christian attitude faarpies) and "Thyella" (whirlwinds). became typified by a Pannonian monk (Remark of Pherecydes preserved by the named Martin (560 A.D.) who said the Christian writer Origen, quoted in Kirk gods of the Hellenes were themselves and Raven, op. cit. p. 66). Tartaros is not demons, and that these demons were ) "}fell" as Christian and dualistic "fallen angels." He seems to have distortion implies, rather it is the place believed the Hellenic people themselves· where these first five beings were placed were a race of incarnate demons (Smith in a kind of "apportionment of the op. cit. p. 238-242). This is a great spheres" (Kirk and Raven, p. 70), in departure from the Hellenic idea that t. which the victor (Zeus-Kronos) takes demons are the sources of any art and possession of the sky and of space and science that is worthy enough to be called time. The reason that Tartaros became inspired. associated with Hell is that a number of
To return to the pentacle and its other defeated dieties, like the Ophionids, five gates, another gate or point was were placed there, and Greek mythology identified as the abode of Ophioneus, records a number of men who defied the who appears to have been the "son of gods who were sent there now and again. Chaos" who presented the greatest threat The misinterpretation of the five as to the emergeance and stability of the "fallen angels" is the work of Origen and fledgling cosmos. He was depicted as a other Christian writers. While being monstrous, multi-headed snake (ophis), consigned to Tartaros must count as a serpent, or dragon. Hellenic mythologists punishment for a human, or so it would
·record a colossal battle between the seem, it is unwarranted and even contrary
conquering sky-gods Zeus-Kronos (not to Hellenic thought to think this with Chronos) versus Ophioneus and the respect to the five and their brood. The Ophionids, its spawn, in which the \ five could no,t co-exist with the prevailing Zeus-Kronos league prevailed and the cosmos in which we exist, and were not rule of Ophioneus ended with its ) thoughtevilexceptbythe Christians, but placement in its recess or gate. (Kronos is they certainly inspired fear. Aristotle time still in chaos and not yet ordered; ' himself, well before the Christian era,
whereas Chronos is ordered time as we seems to have begun the mistaken know it exists, though some scholars l interpretation of Pythagorean ism as argue as to which comes first, Kronos or I dualistic, a claim justly denied by the Chronos.) This battle parallels that of scholar F. M. Cornford (Platas and other mythologies, such as the conquest Parmenides). If, however, Aristotle was of Tiamat by Marduk in Babylonian right, it must then be admitted that the
tales, and the Hurrian-Hittite victory of Pythagoreans revered, and hailed each the storm-god over the dragon Illuyanka other, by invoking five evil beings or (not to mention a Derlethian reading of l principles! Not so! Aristotle, nonetheless, H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos). ( 1eemed to have been aware, as many This notion of a victorious sky or Hellenic intellectuals were, in the fourth space-time army of gods over a i\ century B.C., of an outward appearing destructive, primaeval chaotic dragon J similarity between Pythagoreanism and was known to Pherecydes. It was either Zoroastrianism, since Pythagoras was taught directly to Pythagoras in his said to have been visited by Zaratas, a
Orphic initiation, or was gleaned during Chaldean.
his many travels. He is said to have \ It should be noted that despite covered the known world, according to Pythagoras' undeniable cosmopolitanism, various traditions, learned from peoples i he was of Pelasgian descent, not only in
as various as the Chaldeans, Brahmins, , body, but in mind (Burnet, p. 87-88). The
Druids, and Celtic priests and teachers Pelasgians were a warlike, matriarchal (Kirk and Raven, p. 224). people whom the Achaeans, a chief

Orphism thrived among the Pelasgians and, according to Porphyry, Pythagoras was initiated into Orphism by the Idaean Dactyls, who were dancing priestesses who used the Pelasgian alphabet.
The Orphics celebrated orgiastic tree-dances (orgia) at Zone in Thrace. Zone alternately means "a woman's girdle," "disrobing a woman," and "the sexual act" itself. The orgiastic dance in honor of the All-Mother at Zone is inferred to have been a dance of the "loosened girdle." Orpheus himself was the son of Oea Agria, which means "wild tree dance." This aspect of Orphic religion or custom carried into the Hellenic world, is often referred to as the Dionysian, a term resurrected by Friedrich Nietzsche, a philologist and philosopher, who used it in its original meaning.
The purpose of such orgia was Katharsis - the third of the above mentioned central notions taught to the mathematikoi. Katharsis meant release, which the mathematikoi knew resulted in health of mind, body, and spirit. As Russell pointed out, the Pythagoreans called their pentacle "health," so the pentacle also symbolized the release of Katharsis. None of this is understood because virtually all of the writers on this subject would be considered "akatharti" by ancient Pythagoreans, i.e., unhealthy in the sense of having unreleased or bottled-up emotions. Some would even be considered "thanatos," a difficult word which means "alive yet miserably dead," "no longer zoos (not an animal)." Those who are akatharti were considered unfit to learn or know anything correctly. It is these writers who mistranslate Katharsis as "purification." Purification does indeed occur during and after Katharsis. This fact seems to have been understood by Dr. LaVey who, in The Satanic Bible, refers to cleansing oneself of malignant emotions. The malignancy, LaVey correctly believes, lies only in these emotions being unreleased or pent-up, and therefore poisonous and dangerous to one's well-being. (LaVey, op. cit. p. 64). Readers may recognize the word orgasm in orgia. They would be right in part, but there is more to orgia, as wII be seen below.
The Katharsis taught by the

opposed to the Judeo-Christian idea of salvation by means of abstinence, sobriety, prayer, good works, studying scripture, and so on. The reason Katharsis through science was considered the highest wiII be obvious to some readers who can attest to the wonderful feeling sometimes called "The Eureka experience" that accompanies the direct and instantaneous grasp or "sight" of a difficult, hidden, or obscure mathe matical, scientific, historical, or other puzzle or problem. It feels like a release, and we can credit Pythagoras with fully understanding that this experience has as profound and salutary an effect on body, mind, and soul, as sexual release, though this is much Jess common to all men, whereas sexual release is common to all. Dualists can misinterpret this as they like, and, needless to say, have done so. The word orgia actually means "sacrament," in which one experiences not only Katharsis, but also "ekstasis" (ecstasy) (Burnet, pp. 81-82). The Satanist should see that Judea-Christianity is not only opposed to sexuality and ecstasy, but opposed to and destructive of Katharsis in general, of any type. including even the Katharsis of science. The Christian attack on Katharsis extended from that available to all (sexual) as well as that open to a select few(science, dance, music, etc.). During the Middle Ages, under the full sway of Church domination, people continued to have sexual relations, though these were placed under a cloud of guilt, while science was condemned as witchcraft and was pursued by valiant individuals under the most secretive of practices.
Pythagorean cosmology involved the concept of the beginning of all (pantos arche), which was called "to ape iron," a prominent feature of a number of Hellenic philosophers' systems. This is a feature which sets Hellenic culture apart from all others and gives it a Satanic cast.
"To apeiron" is commonly translated as "the boundless," or "the unlimited," and was understood to be a dark force that pre-existed the cosmos and is presently "inhaled" by it, infused into nature (physis) everywhere, permeating and steering all. It is due to this dark infusion that change and time

importance in Hellenic culture, one that
has been an embarrassment to churchmen and secular scholars alike because the fifth century B.C. Athenian culture, which is agreed to be the foundation of Western Civilization and without equal in world history, was ascribed by these Athenians themse/lres to the influence of daimons.
Daimon is the origin of the word

be carrying out a higher will, i.e., "following orders" in a strict hierarchy according to the wishes of the "mother" on the pentacle, obeying "anagke" (necessity), to whom even Zeus was subject.
In a later section, we shall see how the church fathers were unable, at first, to root out mingling with demons, due to its prevalence. We shall see how

Of the other dwellers in the gates, H llenic tribe, conquered and blended almost nothing survives. Ophioneus is ;1 With, both genetically and culturally. supposed to have had a consort, 1 They were called centaur-men due to
Eurynome, who fought along-side th ir brotherly affection and community
Ophioneus against Kronos. Various "'1.th horses, whom they cherished. From
myths, surviving in whole or part, is, Pythagoras seems to have derived mention Callirhoe, who produced a bis doctrine of the kinship of men and snake-_woman Ec_hidna, but her peasts._The Hellenes also called th_e connection to Cthome and Ophioneus, lasg1ans "goat-men" due to their and to the pentacle are even less clear I extreme exogamy which gave them a
-------: '• on ofbeing sexual Saty,s.

Pythagoreans to the inner circle of mathematikoi utilized music (Burnet, p. 97.). This form ofKatharsis is obviously unavailable to the tone deaf. There was also a Katharsis through science, which Pythagoras considered the greatest of all and well above the level of the akousmatikoi (Burnet, p. 98.). It should be evident that the use of orgies, dance, music and science as a means of "education for the soul" is diametrically

came into being. The concept is like Dr. LaVey's dark force in nature and akin to the modem scientific concept of entropy, which was coined from a Hellenic word meaning both "turning" and "undoing" or "dissolving shape and form," a process of'dynamic unforrnation."
The infusion of this dark force, the apeiron, also causes the myriad separate things of the cosmos to come into existence, giving rise to distinction,

separateness, and discontinuity. The idea is that without the apeiron, there would only be a continuum (syneches), an indistinct, static whole without motion, dynamism and change. The permeation of the apeiron creates separation and thereby intervals and numbers.
The inhalation itself is spoken of as a "void" (kenon) or empty (Kirk

knowledge. This became a central doctrine of Platonism, and was the basic qualification for a Pythagorean or Platonist philosopher. Knowledge was deemed unteachable to those who lacked

Pythagoreanism, Plato, and moder science. This trend was well under among Hellenic thinkers befo/ ' Pythagoras, being endemic to the leadien thinkers produced by the Hellenic peop];
who existed in a cultural milieu of f
remarkably multi-faceted kind, Which had common threads that were
decidedly Satanic. In the future I

and Raven, p. 252.). When it enters,

installments of this article, we shal] f

the cosmos grows and expands.
Again, Aristotle seems to have taken this to be a dualism, a pair of first principles (dyad) used to energize and explain everything: the unlimited (to apeiron) and its consequent limited

see how churchmen, inquisitorial ( ecclesiastics, and Christian Emperors did more to destroy doctrines of this tradition when they could not absorb them, and that what they absorbed they lacked the innate ability t

(deras). But there is something

understand. These were people whom \

decidedly different about this so-called dualism that sets it apart from primitive, non-Hellenic "theories of opposites." In dualistic theories, the opposites merely strive or "war" with one another, occasionally holding balance or "truce" to preserve or sustain something's existence, instead of undoing it. Pythagoras' revolution, which has become the central concept of physical science, is that these opposites, when preserving existence, balance or harmonize according to very definite numerical intervals that can be known and expressed by definite numerical ratios and relationships, or as is said today, equations. The infusion of the apeiron which causes a separate thing to exist and preserves or continues its existence does so by establishing a temporary, but perfect balance or attunement of opposites according to definite numerical ratios. Hence the famous Pythagorean dictum, carried on by Plato and never understood by Aristotle, that "all things are number."
As to exactly how all things are numbers was revealed only to the mathematikoi who were deemed to have the innate (the reader might read "genetic") ability to Know, and were thought to already possess this knowledge at birth, having only to "remember" it, a kind of a-priori

it within themselves innately. (I refer the reader to the example of the tone-deaf attempting to know music).
The departure from the obvious facts or data of sense experience in order to search out deeper explanations of natural phenomena is a hallmark of

Pythagoras would not have admitted to his inner circle, and Plato would have considered plebians, whom modern behavioral psychology recognizes as monkey-brains who are accomplished in nothing more than advanced parroting.
(Next quarter Part 2, Socrates & Plato)

ehalice in Wondel'land
by Richard de Lago

Seducing Serpent. I will partake of your tempting fruit of wisdom and drink the ambrosial chalice of fulfillment, while shunning the poisoned cup of humility.
Make the black flan1e of pride radiate its sinful light to illuminate the shadows of ignorant self-abasement; borne of specious lies.
Destroy the simpering televangelists idiotically sobbing their irrational commandments of self-denial.
For my virtues I have earned the right to abide in the dwelling place of Abaddon so I may join the revelries of the damned in Hell forever.
Shemhan1forashl

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Once again that time of year has come animal who has been tricked into a denial of his

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y. wherein we are inundated with the dross of the

nature by most of the world's religions. that we find

ts, Nazarene worshippers. One attitude that is constantly this ration.al balance upset.
ts shoved down our throats. in addition to the phony For those still affected by Osmo
{e cheer, is that this is a season for forgiveness and consciousness, let us explore why mercy is an attitude
ea mercy. Here stands revealed one of the most to be expunged. Those who deal with their fellows in
1st insidious elements of the Christian creed: advocation a just and rational manner have nothing to fear in
x-f of clemency for offenders and thus scorn for the receiving the response their activities have garnered.

:Iii victims of criminal activit)'.

It is only those who are criminals or who intend to

he Satanists reject mercy as a vile sham. a slap

perform criminal acts that advocate leniency for their

Lvti in the face to all who live justly. One of our major

past, present, or future deeds. If someone robs your

goals for social change in the coming decade and the new century is the restoration of justice. As the year XXV dawns, we begin this century's final decade which is certain to be a period of turmoil that holds great promise for the advancement of our new order. The end times are here. the final days of the rule of

home, mugs you in the street, assaults your spouse, abuses your offspring. do you want to forgive and forget? NO! The resounding impulse is for retribution. Here is justice, not the present state of affairs wherein criminals may sue their victims, who were trying to defend themselves from unjustified

1' the cross. The world will be swept by a wave of attacks. I suggest that you take a look at our aptly
Satanic individuals who will stand forth to claim their named criminal justice system, and witness the
11 birthright as humans, proud of their nature. Let those travesties that unfold daily.

who are slaves grovel on their knees in the mud before the images of non-existent gods. The times dema d the efforts of self-proclaimed Gods. who Worship themselves and can produce results. An elite of the able will move forward towards the true destiny of our species, to master ourselves and the Universe.
There will be room no longer for the od ling of vipers in our midst. We resurrect the n ient Roman dictum of Lex Talionis. that the
t is ment should fit in kind and degree the crime. is is the law that holds sway in all of Nature's alms. It is only in the sphere ruled by Man. the
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But these days of infamy are numbered. The time is coming when people will be held responsible for their actions. Nothing less will suffice. And this goes as well for those many individuals who willfully have carried out a campaign to smear our religion. Their falsehoods will be remembered, and they shall be made to pay! As XXV brings us into the ninth decade of this century. raise your cups and honor the re-establishment of Lex Talionis as Lex Saranicus. The creed of the Nazarene. and his ilk, shall be trodden under cloven hooves! Which side shall hold your allegiance?

Any and all articles, letters, essays or commentary submitted to this publication yet demonstrating an ignorance of the principles and ideas in The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey (Avon Books) will be ignored.
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Sl-1EAtl-1AAtfO ASl-1! The Value of l)efiance
byNemo

SATAN CLAUS- The Truth about Santa Claus
by Wayne Hill and Tani Jantsang

Satanism is the worship of the ego, your on11 ego. as God. To paraphrase the writings of the sheep. "Thou art God. Thou shalt have no other gods before thee!" There is a rite of initiation to this viewpoint which transforms the individual forever. There is an abyss which. once crossed, forever separates the individual from all others who remain milling about mindlessly on the other side. There is a Gate through which the individual passes which dramatically alters his personal self-assessment and self-image.
That rite. that abyss. that Gate is the act of declaring yourself to be a Satanist.
The words and names you accept to define who you are determine far more than the simple impact they may have on others. Our self designations define who we are to our own selves.
We live in a world which condemns Satan as the epitome of Evil. To assume what the world calls "evil" as your personal standard of "good," to call yourself a Satanist, is to set your being in opposition to the entire world.
This is the one fact that will unite any division between various groups and individuals who call themselves Satanists. Even those individuals who superstitiously worship an external god, and still call themselves Satanists. share this emotional defiance of the common herd-wisdom.
In discussions with Satanists across the globe I have often been amused at how we recognize the drawbacks of this defiance in terms of public attitude and yet it is the defiance itselfwhich cannot be relinquished by the Satanist! For this defiance reaches inward, to emotional depths not accessible to words or simple thoughts. The throwing down of the glove before the self-righteous hypocrisy of the Judea-Christian culture is not so much for the purpose of doing battle with those absurd. self-defeating precepts as it is to remind oneself, by contrast, of what Satanism stands for.
This reminder of the truth is necessary. Other pro-ego groups who lack the emotionally-empowered symbols of Satanism are all-too-easily engulfed by the pressure of mediocrity. Identity requires boundaries to separate the object or person from the "other." This is how children learn about human society. through identification, through taking a name and becoming that thing.
It is also part of the "hard-wiring" of our human nervous system to not perceive what is common in our environment. How long did it take you. for example, to discover that "Satan" ceased to

have a shock effect on your own mind? How long The black cat is out of the bag. to before the Baphomet_ ceased to appear as a lurid transmogrify the popular adage about "Jolly old St. symbol of forbidden evtl? . k II Several radical Christian and Moslem groups I rea11ze t er are some _atamsts o stature} vein recent years alleged that this rampant symbol
who hold hat the weanng of Satamc orname tation is h:"Christ Mass" has nothing to do with their faiths. co fes 10 of shallow_ness o_f understandi_ng. Tqe nd is in fact Pagan, anti-Judea-Christian. and
1mphcat10n 1s that wearmg a rmg or medalhon is to h refore -- Satanic.
simp1y. impress peop1 eat pa. rties, or some sueh . At the te Their conclusion was reached by. among
same time, ther is a valu in receiving the feedback ther things. a simple rearrangement of the first word of those ho will react wit shock or concern or fear i f "Santa Claus" into the word "Satan." Their failure or even disgust to t e Satamc sym ols. to deduce much more than that is based primarily on As Satamsts, we have discovered the value their ignorance and fear of "Paganism." But...they are
of defiance as an emotio al to l to divi?e ourselves right!
from the herd of humamty which passively moves Now that this little secret of ours has finally toward the sl ughterhouse. We do _not work to_ endure, been exposed, we will share with you some of the real an average hfe of of tortur d gmlt, f:us_tra ion and meanings of "Santa Claus" and the festivities of the bored_om. We defy these anti-human hm1tat10ns and season which we have so artfully fed to an recognize that "eternal vigilance is the price of unsuspecting. benighted Christian populace. freedom." Defiance is the alarm clock which allows Who would suspect. for example. that the us to keep this vigil. nine reindeer correspond to the nine layers of Dante's
Let me offer a specific example. Earlier this Inferno, or the nine Angles to which Anton LaVey week I was sitting in a hospital waiting room when a cryptically refers? Rudolf, leader of the reindeer, may gregarious and happy fellow (unusual!) struck up a· have a "very shiny nose" as the song says. but who conversation with me. As I replied and gestured with I would know that this Lord of the Abyss' name means my hand. his eye caught my pentagram ring. It was "Famo s Wolf?" (and we are ALL wolves!).
amusing to note that for the balance of that brief chat Similar hints are contained in the names of his gaze never left that ring. He noticed it and I knew the other eight reindeer: "Dasher" means to dash. to he noticed it. destroy; "Dancer," he who engages in a custom first What did this do for me? It created a subtle• taught to men in Babylon by Demons or "Djinn;" undercurrent in that interaction which reminded ll)e "Prancer" means to prance or strut as with pride; that (1) I am different. (2) I am not seeking others' "Vixen," a "foxy" person, usually female, who is approval. (3) i.e.• I am a Satanist. He did not ask me seductive and cunning; "Comet" is a portent of evil in about the ring. I had no interest in discussing it. Yeti the sky, sure to bring disaster; "Cupid," the God of benefitted from this reminder of defiance. It caused love and sex; "Donner" and "Blitzen" are both me to remember again what I defy. ' Gem1an for "thunder" and "lightning," respectively.
The ceremonies of Satanism are also such sure signs of "divine wrath."
reminders. We can too easily become inured to he Santa himself is equally ripe with clear. yet words, the symbols of our religion. They too easily subtle, indications of his real identity. His horns are become commonplace. They lose that sense of co_vered bx a cap. The tail is concealed by a thick defiance. . cnmson jacket. still one of the favorite colors of all The supreme "word" of the anti-Satan, th; Satanists and Demons. And incidentally, brethren, the
Judea-Christian God Jehovah, is "Shemhamforash. false beard helps conceal those unseemly facial This is the word supposedly used by Moses to part the peculiarities.
Red Sea. This is the word purportedly shouted y He uses stealth to enter a house. and chooses Jesus to cause Lazarus to rise from the dead. This is t e chimney as his mode of entry. reflecting as it does the word which is supposed to be used by their god to his love of fire and his fondness for "home." Bacchus/ cause the end of the world. , Dionysus would be pleased to note that his red No true believer would dare to utter this, the heeks and nose come out of a bottle of "Demon
most secret name of God for any reason whatsoever. Um!"
This is why we Satanists shout it out in our Asifthatisn't"bad"enough,heleavestoys ceremonies. Defiance! Satanism! Shernhamforash! and other pleasantries for the children. They promptly

abandon all consideration of "sacred spiritual duty" or "salvation of the soul," choosing instead the wild. Dionysian abandon of play. which is known to all Christians (and Moslems) as the sin of fun. And what fun!
Even his name hints at who he really is. "Nick" is a nickname (if you will pardon the expression) derived from Niccolo Machiavelli for our Dark Lord Himself. Various Judea-Christians have, as mentioned above. deciphered "Satan" from "Santa." But the "Claus" is equally easy to find and interpret, and means "victorious army." Thus we have "Santa Claus" true meaning revealed to be "Satan's victorious army!"
"Elves. an army?" you might chuckle in disbelief. Do not make such quick judgements. "Elf" in old Teutonic was "Alp," which means "nightmare." The more modern, watered-down meaning would be "Pagan mischief-making spirit." And yes. you guessed it. they are "Legion."
But we didn't stop there. Oh no. The less noticeable seasonal frills also contain their own Satanic symbolism. The Mistletoe demands that strangers meeting under it kiss. Then there's the "Saturnalian" Holly. Or. depending on your cultural origins, the Wassail Bowl. or the Yule Log, etcetera. The list goes on and on.
Even the toys that Satan Claus leaves to waylay the children of the "faithful." that they might know Joy. contain their own value as tools in our Spiritual War. Some of these have of late been discovered by our opponents: Smurfs. Barbie and Ken dolls. "Star Wars" stuff, (not to mention "Dungeons and Dragons") are the most noticeable. But these are not by any means the only ones. They too, are Legion!
With all of these hints right under their
noses. you'd think they'd have noticed more than they have. Perhaps they are afraid to really face ALL of it, and see to what extent their fantasy-world of "Faith" is ruled by the signs and symbols of our Power.
What would they say if they knew that their "Christmas Tree" is really Yggdrasill, a Satanic symbol from Norse mythology of All that Is? Part of it reaches to Ginnungagap. the domain of the Frost Giants (Santa's "North Pole"), while the other part stretches to Niflheim, where rules The Serpent.
The most popular decoration for the Yggdrasill Tree are balls.·which bring bad luck when broken. as the belief has it. And not for nothing is the globe a sign for the Closed Gate of Yog-Sothoth. By

opening the Gate, by breaking the Globe, the true horror of Yog-Sothoth is revealed and unleashed upon the heads of men. Here's to remembrance; that all shall not forget the rea["Reason for the Season." Rejoice, and in so doing, have much fun!

blame.
Let's get free of this trap they laid
Turn into DALECs, trash the shit that they made Of life, of the world, let's take over!
It's time they fell, let's do it well

THERIGHT-Wl;_NGLEFT_HAND PATH
by Elizabeth Selwyn

D.A.L.E.C.s fr-om 1-iell
Diabolou Archaios Legeon Egkauchaomai Chaos:
(Devil's primal legions glory in Chaos)
by Wayne Hill and Tani Jantsang
Gets me down and makes me see red.

We're DALECs from Hell: The connection between Satanism and EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! Fascism in Britain is well-known, though not Warriors of the night, defend our right, well-explained. Nor has it been understood why this we're DALECs! >' articular malaise has not, in general, crossed the W'" "'Y:'.'::=S:Z:-c::::::·-····--···"··::it::::i;0:::::.,::::;:.::,;c-,;:;-;,,,,,:::,;-::-·, ;'0:::::c..,2-.c::cz·-:z:-;;111 tlantic. Before attempting to examine the reasons
why British Satanism has for so long been stained by Devilish Versions of Xmas Songs this association, it may clarify matters to consider in by Wayne HiII some detail the major exponents of British Satanism
-. and their political affiliations, past and present.

She eventually became disillusioned and tried to leave. Impeded by her physical disability, she sought help from a Satanist who was not a fascist (possibly the only representative of that rare species in Britain at the time) and he eventually re-started the magazine Dark Lily as the only organ of non-political Satanism in Britain. Ms. Graham remains the typist, sometimes designated the editor, although it is doubtful whether she has executive powers. It appears

Makes me mad, all screwed in the head. Wimps on high just moaning in dread. Got to be just what they said....
They sit upon their high-horse and puke, moan, and cry.
Up is down and backwards ahead.
A thousand words and nothing is said. Toil for nothing, scum get ahead.
Freedom's jail and leaders are led....
They're slaves to their vice-monsters who feed off of us.

I was young, they make me feel old. Every move I had to be told.
Every thought they had to unfold.
Every sense they crushed in their mold....
They killed all that they were, and now they want us.

Tried to make a cripple of me. Tried to blind, so I could not see. Tried to maim, so I could not be.
Freeze my soul, so I can't get free....
They babble freedom of choice, but freedom for who?

Fight a war, they just whimper "no." Stop a crime, they just let it go.
Self-defense, they tell us "No, no." Stand and fight, they'd rather lay low....
They'd crawl into the corner like cowards and die.
Ran the roost but they got misled. On the top, but don't use their head. Had a life, now they're living-dead. Time for us to move on ahead....
They can no longer speak for us, the future's ours.
CHORUS:
All we want to do is play our own game,
But it can't be done, we're supposed to feel shame. Push us in the corner, try to say we're insane,
Then they scream "civil rights" and say we are to

(0 Come All Ye Faithful)

0 come all ye brethren, faithless witch apostates Curse ye, oh curse ye, Bethlehem.
Froth, curse, forsake him, call on fallen angels. Oh come let us abhor him,
Oh come blaspheme abjure him·,
Oh come let us forsake him, say not his name.

(Hark the Herald Angels Sing)

Hark the fallen angels sing, glory to our Evil King! War on Earth destruction wild,
Men and Satan reconciled. Groaning Christian nations perish, Fall down to the Evil Seraphs.
With diabolic glee proclaim, Satan rules and fools are slain! Hark the fallen angels sing,
Lord of Darkness, Hail our King!

(White Christmas)

I'm dreaming of a black solstice, Just like in the days of yore,
When the altar glistens and peasants listen To hear chanting in the dark.
I'm dreaming of a black solstice, With every body hot and stark. May your orgy be merry and wild, And may all your solstices be dark.

The name Dark Lily is alleged to have been originated by a Satanic group in the first decade of the present century. As far as can be ascertained, there is only hearsay evidence for this, but it seems irrelevant to the present study. The magazine Dark Lily first
1 appeared in duplicated news-sheet format in 1977, allegedly the organ of the Anglian Satanic Church - not to be confused (though it often was) with the Anglo-Saxonic Church, which was Odinist and which will be referred to later.
The Anglian Satanic Church was run by Father Raoul Belphlegor (yes, that is how he spelled it), real name Thomas Victor Norris, and Mother Lilith, real name Magdalene Graham. It claimed vast resources, numbers of members and magickal powers which would be bestowed on members in return for money and/or (in the case of young female members) sex. Norris had earlier acquired a liking for brothel keeping, involving his wife and daughters, aged eleven and thirteen. On his release from a six-year sentence resulting from this, he restored his fortunes with the aid of a rather naive eighteen-year-old (she was not concerned with the Occult activities and has now made a new life for herself, so her name will not be mentioned).
_ Norris' Occult involvement brought him into contact with Magdalene Graham, who was editing an Occult magazine on broadly LHP lines. Norris persuaded her to take over the production of his agazines, both Occult and political (fascist), lilcluding the occasional news-sheet of his Odinist tngl?-Saxonic Church (another paper organization). esp1te holding similar political views, Ms. Graham "".as, at first, reluctant to be associated with the
}srep tabl: Norris, but was in the vulnerable position d" ha mg_ JUSt been diagnosed as suffering from a Nsa lmg illness and was desperately seeking a cure. T orns p rsuaded her that he had the power to cure. Ghat particular illness is subject to recession and Ms.
p ra am experienced an improvement (presumably c Yc_hologically induced), which, for a time,
nv1nced her.

that she is now convinced that Occultism cannot be associated with politics. Certainly Dark Lily, despite its history, has, since coming under new management. shown no sign of political allegiance and has, in fact, warned that to divide one's energies between politics and Occultism means that one will succeed at neither.
While Dark Lily may have purged itself, the same cannot, unfortunately, be said for a magazine called Fenrir (an Odinist word) produced by a Satanic group called the Order of the Nine Angles. They claim an ancient pedigree, but their writings appear to be an ill-digested mixture of Satanism (on the Black Mass level), fascism (''Roman salutes" as part of the ceremony!), sado-masochism (the inevitable scourge). alchemy, ritual magick and a paranoic insistence that they are the only upholders of the Satanic tradition. Although referring to them in the plural,. the effective and long-term membership of the Order of the Nine Angles remains at one: a gentleman who calls himself , Anton (yes, really, Anton!) Long. His aliases include ' Steven Brown, David Myatt and Algar Langton.
The Order of the Nine Angles first appeared in Leeds in 1975. but its founder was rather more preoccupied with his political attachments (the now-defunct National Socialist (Nazi) Movement and its successors), so the Occult aspect was not prominent.
The magazine Fenrir first appeared in 1988;
it will be noted that it is dated in the Nazi tradition YF99 (Year of the Filhrer). Mr. Long's other writings have included pamphlets for Liberty Bell Publications (American readers will presumably not require further explanation of the nature of such literary efforts), a Black Mass to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Adolph Hitler,. and various rituals. Mr. Long is at present experiencing difficulty with his publisher, who appears somewhat discontented by the content of the rituals.
We referred to the former National Socialist
Movement and must now introduce another of the Occult luminaries of that organization,. Mr. David Austen. Without digressing too far into the

convoluted history of Fascism in Britain. the National Socialist Movement was founded by Mr. John Colin Campbell Jordan (generally known as Colin Jordan). Following his release from a prison term imposed for sedition, he changed the name of his organization to British Movement. Shortly thereafter. Mr. Jordan was fined for shoplifting a pair of ladies' red knickers from a (Jewish-owned) supermarket, and deposed

such trappings are a masquerade, utilized for the purpose of reinforcing an image when (in his case) 00 real authority exists. Dominance has no connection 1
with threats or violence. One who is in control does not need them; in fact they negate potency. The power comes from within himself and it has no visible show; especially not a form of apparel Which represents an external conferring of jurisdiction, or, in

THE USEFUL
LYCANTHROPE
byMax

from leadership of the BM. The new "filhrer," Michael McLaughlin. instituted his own little Night of the Long Knives to remove all whom he considered to be "perverts" from the BM (disregarding the fact that this would leave him with only twenty-eight members) and David Austen was one of those booted out.
Mr. Austen. whose previous history included several years as a Mormon "missionary." has since joined the U.S. based Temple of Set and was formally ordained to their priesthood in May of 1989.
There are (unfortunately) other Satanic organizations in Britain. I say unfortunately because none appear to have escaped the political adherence which bedevils (if one may use the word) British Satanism. However, they are too small and ineffectual to be included here (if they start getting ideas above their station, this may be considered only a temporary reprieve).
Let us now turn to the question of WHY. Yes, the Satanic question. Why is a valid and highly potent way of life so often (on one side of the ocean, at least) soiled by association with an inadequate and life-denying political creed? To Occultists, Fascism

some cases. is the semblance of domination without I A friend and I were contemplating a few any validity or competence. In such circumstances, a beers one afternoon when we strayed onto the topic of uniform is a pretence, in the manner of children Vietnam and my friend's extended stay in that part of playing games. It reveals the psychological the world. I asked him how he kept from being deficiencies of those who resort to fancy dress to petrified with fear every waking hour during those augment their macho appearance. Yet some people years of confusion and carnage. He replied that, are able to direct others and order action without although he was indeed afraid (only a madman or a accoutrement. This is the phenomenon known as the fool would not have been) he used his will to turn his ability to command. You want an example? Look at a fear into absolute animal fury. This attitude, he felt, genuine Satanist. To some of my readers, the was what kept him from becoming another of the direction may be re-phrased: look in a mirror. countless casualties generated by that period.
Having briefly referred to Odinism, it must , I had to chuckle for a moment. With the be said th_at followers f that pa h. in ritain. are, passing of the Mindless 80's and the sheeple almost w1 h_out _except10n, F sc1st._ This aspect of produced by hat age, I had to wonder how this Occult political mvolvement 1s outside the scope of positive "Animal Fury" could be put to use by this article. However. the digression on Odinism is Satanists in the oncoming decade. I know that within merely for the sake of completeness. The subject is each practitioner of black magic lies the knowledge of Satanic Fascism and the question is why such·a our animal or lycanthropic side. Whenever the diversion should appeal to those who purport to be common person becomes a victim, his or her higher seeking Occult knowledge. To say that they are' self will fall into an attitude which accepts this fate affected by masochism (which is an extraordinarily, and then recedes into depression and despair. This, if powerful sexual motivation) is certainly the any attitude, has marked the rather depressing state of explanation in many cases. Alternative answers which affairs in this country which has allowed the fool to have been propounded are as follows: (A) that those rule.

,,

hunter, then you know that as long as your victims cast shadows. go to the bathroom and make mistakes,

may be defined as the new "English disease,11 but the condition which has for centuries been so entitled is Masochism, and the two are closely related.
It has been said that those who hold anyone else to be worthless are really projecting the fact they believe themselves to be worthless; this is demonstrably true. Even a brief acquaintance with a Fascist will reveal that he/she suffers from a severe inferiority complex. The phrase "racial masochism" is well-known. Most right-wing bookshops used to sell (possibly they still stock it, we haven't checked lately) a volume purporting to explain in pseudo-medical jargon why circumcision is for the purpose of increasing virility. On the same theme, the only quotation that anyone can ever remember from The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is the contemptuous description of the Aryan race as "hewers of wood and drawers of water."
One must also survey the poseurs. The High Priest in his dramatic robe or the Nazi in black uniform and jackboots. Where's the difference? The answer is that the Satanist understands the real reasons why he is "dressing up;" the Nazi does not. The Nazi is not intellectually capable of realizing that

who are politically-inspired are looking for something other than Occult power and knowledge and are attracted to the sinister image of Satanism (B) since Fascists naturally expect to be hated, they gravitate to a theology which is hated; (C) the proponents of the politics of fear are subconsciously seeking persecution.
(To confuse the issue. it has been argued that Satanism has more in common with Judaism, especially in the matter of suffering persecution. Witch-burnings or gas chambers? How man)' millions?) 1
As an afterthought. let us contrast the, foregoing with Dr. LaVey's clear-sighted understanding that the Nazi's were capable of Lesser Magic and mind manipulation but with obvio s limitations. He has the courage not to avoid thtS thorny issue, as shown in The Satanic Bible an.d elsewhere, but makes it plain that the Church of Satan • will never succumb to "the English disease."

If this opposite attitude manifests itself. then the lycanthrope realizes two things: 1) If you view your attacker as prey. then they become the victim or victim-to-be. 2) The animal who makes the most noise is the easiest to hunt.
Give these two rules a try some time when you are being put upon by a fellow employee who has been practicing the ancient art of back-stabbing. Mildly confront him or her and be absolutely cordial while in your mind envisioning the offender being re t to a bloody and very edible piece of meat by your anunal self. You'11 notice the victim becoming listless and uneasy. He or she will often begin complaining m re loudly about you. (See rule number 2!) At this Point, step up your level of animal intimidation until the victim talks him or herself into a self-made trap. r try making a little visit to your victim in the night Y way of dreams... in werewolf form, of course! I ahv tried both ways, and the results are better than
nstmas.
There is a real beauty to this attitude. Not
nly does it turn the health-threatening effects of
/P ession into pure adrenalin, but the caste of the ictim is unlimited. If you truly view yourself as a

then gods they are not. Prey they are.
I should note that this is not an invitation to- physical violence (unless warranted) or sociopathic behavior, but a much surer way to deal with greedy business interests. weak-kneed politicians, religious bigots, pugnacious policemen, street punks, telephone solicitors, and all of the other flotsam washed up on the shores of the previous decade. So don't take life lying down. Change it! Get angry and stand up for what you want, even on four paws.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

J[

OS'" OCO SCIOUS ESS

You need not feel guilt about things over bich you have no control, such as other people's

by R. Elizabeth Fox ,• :ehavior, or the exceptional beauty of y ur body ( hould you be so lucky). There may be thmgs over
;hich you should feel guilt, s_uch as ?etr_ayal ?f

We Black Magicians are supposed to have control over our lives and over our environment, right? So, why aren't we all healthy, wealthy,
1! powerful, and happy? Have you noticed that against some emotions you are apparently powerless, and that they have this nasty habit of running your actions upon occasion?
Most of us have experienced at least some of

One at a time' select an emotion that causes co.,, ciously. held valu.es, ahnd this exammat1,0n wi1ll1 you to act in a self-defeating way. When you feel that assist you m correctrng t ?se errors, as ) ou
emotion, stop and ask yourself, "What are it develop control over those thmgs.
implications, its underlying assumptions?" s -! So why bother? When you have takena hand For example, let's consider a feeling of in programming your emot!ons, you can trust them.
anger at competitive freeway driving. This can cloud Tiley become your s rvants mstead of your masters, _a your judgement and endanger your physical body. source of power hich may e en open more sot nc Why feel anger at being cut off? The underlying modes of percept10n. If othmg else, you will fmd

the following: a real urge to automatically obey authority, becoming embarrassed over yourself or

assumption is, "Others must always be considerate of 1
me," and when this is violated, you feel betrayed

yourself with greater happii:iess and self estee .
The Judeo-Chnstian culture, m which most

someone else publically insisting to be treated fairly (the picture in the theatre is dim, the meal is unsatisfactory, the MD has you wait for two hours after your appointment, etc.), overwhelming anger at being cut-off on the freeway, and finding your opinions change with majority opinion.
What's going on?
An emotion is a super-rapid subconscious evaluation of a situation. (This is a definition by Nathaniel Branden which I find useful.) It is a habit pattern learned and made automatic, operating outside of your conscious mind. Emotions, unexamined by a
, rational adult mind, are quite capable of running as well as ruining your life.
By osmosis, emotions are learned from the home environment and one's greater cultural context. Infants and children are continually rechecking these emotions. Ever play "dum-dum drop" with a baby? Baby drops it and smiling "dum-dum" picks it up. Baby learns that things fall when he lets go, he learns which way is down, and that his parent will pick it up for him. Also perceived is the positive nature of this interchange via the parent's facial expression. Children look at their parents when they have a minor hurt to see what their reaction should be. The brain files these conclusions away, makes them automatically available so that it can get on to bigger and better things. The child's constant search is for more data to absorb and automatize. Adults do not make a fraction of the reality checks that infants do, and they should not, because all their time would be wasted rechecking what has become obvious, like gravity. This early collection of contextually learned emotions is often quite chaotic and becomes the foundation for later more systematically integrated data. It is what I refer to as osmoconsciousness.
There are many Judeo-Christian beliefs
which are embedded in our emotions due to osmoconsciousness. These little tyrants can be reprogrammed. It isn't easy, but it can be done. It is an excellent exercise of Will.

hurt, and therefore angry. "That S.O.B. deserves my of us were raised, attempts to program yo_u to_ feel
wrath. I'll get even, even if it costs me an accident. shame f r rour nature._ Its _values, ?ften rn duect When that emotion arises while driving, take a deep contradiction to our rnstrnct al impulses, are breath and let it out in an audible sigh (this short impressed on one's psyche unng develo mental circuits the powerful adrenalin effects), and think I years to become an osmoconsciousness. Satamsm was about an assumption that is niore useful for the conceived to restore the accel?tanc of uman nature preservation of your life: "I do not control his as good. Intellectually embracmg this philosophy puts behavior, he's acting insane in a powerful machine'. you back in harmony with your natu e,_ but on t en Stay out of his way!" needs to jettison any of the remarnmg anti-life
Pick out a painful or self-defeating emotion baggage of Judea-Christian values. . . when you are calm and relaxed, and examine it for its There are several books which are useful _m underlying assumptions. Next, carefully choose new rooting out osmoconsciousness. Try anr of Nathamel assumptions, which agree with your consciously held' Branden's books on self esteem, especially the lat st philosophy, to replace them. Imagine a situation ones. Also usef l is M_ultimjndby Rober Ornstem. wherein this unpleasant emotion would arise and Some ideas on d1scovenng hidden assumptions can be visualize yourself relaxing, taking a deep breath, and found in Harry Browne's How I Found Freedom In repeating the desired new response. This cannot be An Unfree Wo /d. .
done successfully until the hidden assumptions are Chasrng down and reprogrammrng y ur discovered. It will take some time of practicing the emotions _can be quite a cha lenge. Down with new response before it replaces the old in your osmoconsciousness! Happy huntmg.
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me." A replacement might be, "This is just a piece of Oh what sparks
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A Saturnalia Song
byNemo
Crossbones roasting on an open fire, Jack O'Lanterns burning at your toes, Samhain chants being dirged by a choir.
And monks dressed up like escargots; . Everybody knows some whisky and an open fife, Helps to keep the season right;
Tiny tots with their mouths overflow'd
Will find it hard to sleep tonight! They know that Satan's on his way!
He's got lots of special toys to give away! And every baptized child is gonna try.
To see if witches and warlocks are afraid to fly!
And so, I'm offering this simple phrase, To kids from one to ninety-two,
Although it's been said many times, many ways
Hail Satan! Hail Satan! Hail Satan to you!
Hail Satan, everybody! l
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If You're So Satanic, How Cum You Ain't Rich?
by Peggy Nadramia

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by Morgain Blake

When you read The Satanic Bible and decided that "Satanist" was the right label for you, you were telling yourself and the world that you were not interested in pipe dreams, pie-in-the-sky or mystic achievement -- you wanted results from your magic, both lesser and greater, and you'd probably already achieved a measure of success. Wanting the goodies out of life is what being a Satanist is about, so it may seem almost heretical for me to tell you that you don't have to measure your success as a Satanist in dollar signs. There are other ways to measure it. How many masters do you serve?
Dr. LaVey's pioneering work and the resultant Age of Satan are obviously responsible for what has been dubbed "The Me Generation" of self-oriented and success-oriented people. Aided by the media and the inevitable sheep-nature of the herd, however, what we've got is an artifical, prepackaged version of success, yuppies falling doggedly into lockstep toward what someone else is telling them they should have or be. Just watch, if you can stomach it, an hour's worth of prime-time commercials: "you've worked hard to achieve," they tell you, "you've put in the time, you're number one, don't you deserve the best?" That Puritan "work-ethic" is still there under the Wall Streeter greed, justifying their going into debt to buy these tokens of self-esteem -- BMW's and Burberry raincoats, "prestige" products that do not reflect the individuality of their owners, if said individuality exists at all. Donald Trump, wheeler-dealer and megalomaniac is this generation's hero; they even play a game based on his business deals! Whatever happened to "Get Out of Jail Free?" Trump has certainly achieved the pie-in-the-sky, is smart and maybe quite Satanic in his approach -- but is he enjoying himself? His kids live in Connecticut, his wife in Atlantic City and he's here in New York; he's always working, never seems to relax.

freedom to enjoy what you do have?
Wealth is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Malcolm Forbes seems to understand this. The guy in the BMW stuck next to you in traffic may have ,I triple your income, but he has to be somewhere in an hour, and his antacid has stopped working. He has to eat lunch (and often a "power" breakfast) with people he may loathe. He gets up early on the weekend to play squash or golf with the right people. He serves , many masters to maintain his vision of success. As a Satanist, you get to define your vision yourself; his was handed to him.
Most people put off having fun. They think it's something they need to work toward -- those two vacation weeks per year, that Saturday night out. The , Satanists I know have fun all the time. They read books they love, watch great films, chat with interesting people, play pranks and tease the herd, produce their own works and presentations and writings and recreate reality all the time. Many are not "rich." But they serve fewer masters than Mr. Wall Street does. They have the freedom to define their own schedules, keep contact with sheeple to a' minimum. They've learned their own "bottom line11,,, what they need to live and indulge their desires, and work to achieve it, usually quickly and successfully.
So the next time you wonder whether your financial profile should match that described in MONEY Magazine, think about the riches you've already accrued, and congratulate yourself that as a Satanist, you have the freedom and time to enjoy them.

The man sitting in the sleigh settled the bright robes and animal skins around him and cast a critical eye over the procession. The pretty girls had gone by, as had the ornamented swings. the decorated trees, the piles of presents and the adorable little pets. He sighed. The music was not at its best this year. Some of the musicians concentrated too hard on strutting in fancy formations, and some flirted with the crowds instead of playing with all their hearts. He took his job seriously. My shouldn't they? After all, shouldn't one think of the thrill this was for the children, and perform to che best of one's ability? He took a deep breath and gestured to the men in charge of the sleigh. It was his turn now. Fathers hoisted babies higher in their arms and children scrambled onto walls and fences and pushed their wayin front of the adults. Their faces sparkled with wonder as they called his name over and over. It would be a good holiday season after all!
I'm ·sure the scene I've described above is familiar to you. After all, you've probably seen something like it repeated a dozen times so far this season in front of Macy's or in local shopping centers where a man in red and white appears on horseback or reindeer sled or descends, smiling, from a helicopter. I was not describing Santa Claus, however. With apologies to Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge and other eminent Greek scholars, that was a more or less accurate portrayal of an ancient Greek festival called the "Anthesteria," which took place in Athens every year more than 2500 years ago.
The parallels are startling. Children were c_rowned with flowers and presented with pet animals. tmy wine jars, toys and other gifts. Their parents took them to public amusements and to temples to be blessed. Ornamented trees were set up in the street and crowds gathered to sing seasonal tunes around them. Wine flowed like water and revelry reigned in the name of the one who came to town in a

Also among us are sundry other figures in black suits with long faces. More preachers? No. These are the new Puritans of our movement - Satanists who would die rather than sing a Christmas carol or exchange a brightly wrapped present. They don't hang holly and put up trees. They don't string lights and linger in front of shop windows to watch children smiling. No! This is all too Christian for them! There are neo-pagans who are almost as bad. They will bring in the Yule log and wave the mistletoe, but don't say the word "Christmas" in front of them or take them too near a Salvation Army bell ringer, or they'll make the sign of Thor's Hammer and reel toward their cars muttering about religious persecution.
This is all wrong. How can we let a few crosses and manger scenes restrain us in the pursuit of joy? Hey, folks, this shindig was all our idea to begin

Give me Malcolm Forbes. This is the Satanist's billionaire. He takes his friends on a world cruise in his yacht, with a slew of motorcycles on board; he flits around this city in a priceless silk suit with a black leather jacket thrown over it; he throws a gala party for all his friends in silk-bedecked Arabian tents; his escort is usually Elizabeth Taylor, one of the world's most beautiful (and still sexily fleshy) older women. This man is having fun! And you remember what Nemo told you in TBF #1 about having fun.
So what about you? You may not have the wealth of these two guys, but do you have the

. ship-shaped sleigh -- Dionysus!
This holiday season, as in years past, the for es of Christianity are all around us, marshalling their troops to "Keep Christ in Christmas" and Preaching against the natural human tendency to
;ocus on presents and parties and the joy on children's t aces. "Repent!" they demand. "Think of your redemption!" they scream, as though all humanity ere books of Green Stamps waiting to be turned in
or lamps or toasters. "No, honey, Santa Claus isn't real. That's just a wino in a suit. Now come on, let's get ready for church."

with! Saturnalia and the birth of Mithras and innumerable other festivals of light have fought the black dragon of midwinter's short days and miserable weather from immemorial times. The influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition has been too strong for many centuries for us to completely reclaim our holiday from the hands of the enemy. So what can we do?
The neo-pagans have some of it right. "Deck the halls with boughs of holly! Fa-la-la." Burn the Yule log, sing wassail to the good apple tree, and hang the mistletoe high. Hang baubles on the

vergreen and marvel at its fresh and pungent scent. It 1s normal and necessary thing to revere the things which Nature keeps green to remind us that winter will indeed come to an end.
. Indulge your children, for they are fresh light

MY FlR 'T 6RR'TER HELT
by Honey LaSalle •

BREAKING DOWN THE STEREOTYPES
byK Bolton

m th darkne_ss. They are born as new light is born at s?lsttce to brmg us warmth and love and joy. Eat and smg and be merry with the fermented blood of the ods :Vho have given their lives for us since humanity frrst discovered the gifts of grape and grain.
Don't flinch entirely from the Christian
'I celeb ations of these eternal truths. Though the
,I Sal at1on Army w ll preach a little at those they help, theIT brass bands fill the December air with melodies that _ca 't quite esc p_e from the pagan! The holly and
ii the 1v , t_he :Vass 1lmg bowl, and Dionysus in his red-smt d1sgmse will always be there in their songs.
And what about the bells and manger scenes " and performances of Handel's Messiah? Messiah is W?nderful usi . You also might recall Dr. LaVey's
I 1tty combination of the "Hallelujah Chorus" with Yes, We Have No Bananas" alternately known as
"Hal_lel ?,jah Bananas" or "Yes, We Have N0 ess1ah. You don't have to listen to the words. And 1f rou do, think of Dr. John Dee, that magnificent Elizabethan mage who gave us the Enochian Keys. He thought the air spirits he called to his side were angels (later calle "demons" by the narrow-minded.). It p ts \ hol different construction on heavenly chotrs smgmg 1 Hosannah" to think of them as such.
. Bells are things of bronze which make joyful noises whether they are rung to call Christians to prayer, pagans to revels, or Satanists to rituals. Manger scenes can be pretty things too. And who a ong us cannot see a young mother with her baby as mITaculous, regardless of her origin? It is the light of t?e ne .su she nurses in her arms, and we who love
hfe rep1ce m her joy.
So put off your black for a few days and w7ar red and green. Jingle the bells and do as thou wilt, f r love is the whole of the law. Happy
Saturnalia, Joyous Yule, and Good Dionysia to all and to all a good night. Love,
Morgain

. ripped open the plain brown package anda bewtldermg ur y- of snaps and straps tumbled into my lap. My S1gmf1cant Other raised one eyebrow at me from behind his novel. "What's that?" he queried ; "Looks complicated." ·
. "It's actually very simple," I responded.I wiggled past him toward our bedroom. "Secret lady-stuff."
"Ooooh -- from that little orange book?" · "Mmmm-hmmmm." I closed the bedroom I
d or a d stripped. I had to get ready for our dinner with His Boss anyway. The nylons were like silky shadows so much nicer than than those crumpled b:own thmgs that came in a plastic egg. The garters mpp d and hel t em taut around my legs -- the . elastic straps bit mto what the Doctor calls the .,.. "luscious flab" around my hips and thighs. Slit skirt
a d els and lots of lipstick completed the outfit. My S1gmf1cant Other knocked and I let him in.
"You look bitable. Where's the weird strappy thing?"
"Where it'll do the most good."
At first I was shy as we sat at dinner, but two • glasses _of ordeaux loosened me up. Besides, His Boss d1dn t seem too sleazy. So I tried a little napkin-dropping. And retrieving. It worked. His eyes were glued to my thighs. Significant Other didn't seem to notice, ju_st kept pitching his new Project. Then I needed a tnp to the Little Witch's Room and dropped my purse along the way. Yes -- success: The rest of the conversation went very much Significant Other's way, and I finished it off like a pro -- hitching
my arms up to put them in the proferred coatsleeves,
His Boss' eyes went glassy from the full effect of "that weird strappy thing," my stocking tops and l marshmallowy bulges. He sealed Significant Other's deal in the taxi, and I got a pat on the fanny after we were dropped off.
"That went great, Honey!" "I know."
"Was it because of that weird strappy thing?" 1
"Oh no, dear. You were brilliant." "Huh. Leave it on for awhile, okay?"

Get your garter belt today, witches. Go to ' Sears or Woolworth's for the genuine article -- plain or fl_owered, black, white or beige. You could also try to fmd one of those old-fashioned foundation or· linge e shops, where the little old ladies (or better> yet, little old men) still know how to measure for proper -- and improper -- fit and function. Hotcha!
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Several months ago here in New Zealand a "skinhead," recently released from jail, went on a shooting spree, killing an innocent bystander before shooting himself.
The mass media, ever eager for
sensationalism, zeroed in on his brother's statement that the dead youth had been a "Satanist." Substantiation came in the form of his having read "a book on magic," and tattooing 666 on his forehead. That was sufficient "proof" for the mass media of the insidious menace of Satanism on youth. Some media personalities used the episode to express their righteous wrath.
This type of situation will be even more familiar to readers in the USA and UK.
Of course, it did not occur to the media to defint;-what Satanism is when they seized upon this added sensationalism of the tragedy. The youth, as a murderer, ex-convict and suicide, fitted nicely into the media stereotype of what a Satanist is supposed to be.
However, it should be obvious to anyone with an interest in the subject, who has not put his higher reasoning faculties into suspension, that anyone can claim to be a Satanist, or a Christian for that matter. Considering the history of Christianity, and the malicious, vicious spirit of the Judeo-Christian god, one could point to such personalities as Jim Jones as being more truly representative of Christianity, than using an alienated, uneducated youth as an example of a Satanist.
Despite the media indignation over allegedly
·"Satanic" crimes, it is a fact undeniable that many of these crimes (when they've actually occurred) and the stereotypical "Satanists" who perpetrate them, are creations not of The Evil One, but of the mass media tself, including the motion picture and publishing mdustries. It is the mass media which has largely de_fined what a Satanist is supposed to be, and some alienated or unbalanced types have adopted this media-created stereotype. The mass media is therefore largely responsible for the antics of some self-styled Satanists, the progeny of their propaganda. Where pseudo-Satanic crimes and criminals don't exist, the media and other vested interests will invent them, as Arthur Lyons has shown in his book, Satan H1lnts Yc:>u.
Dr. La Vey declares in the Ninth Satanic Statement: "Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept them in business all these Years."(The Satanic Bible) It could be added that Satan is also a very good friend of hack journalists,

scriptwriters and novelists. It is through him that they have been able to approach and worship at the altar of Mammon, while he has served as the scapegoat for the criminals and psychopaths they have helped to create.
It is said that the Devil quotes the scriptures to prove his point. In breaking down the media created stereotype, let us therefore turn to the Judeo-Christian scriptures themselves and see what Satanic principles can be distilled therefrom, and what can be disposed of as pseudo-Satanic, and even Christian in origin.
Free Will
The Christians claim that their god gave mankind free will via the Garden-of -Eden-and-apple episode. Not so.
Satan gave mankind free will, as related in Genesis, when he pointed out that the god-forbidden tree of knowledge would "open the eyes" of man, who was then presumably at the intellectual level of an imbecile and therefore totally subservient to Jehovah. This set man free of the tyrant-god, which caused Jehovah and his Elohim, who had apparently created Earth and mankind as their playthings, to become fearful as the suddenly acquired ability to use the higher intellectual faculties would give mankind the potential to "become as one of us," i.e. god-like.
Mankind was punished by banishment from Paradise for desiring wisdom, upon which alone sound judgement, or free will, is based. The Judeo-Christian scriptures are full of examples of the tyrant-god punishing mankind for exercising his free will, when it was used to take a course of action. somehow displeasing to Jehovah. The Christian god's free will is thus a farce and a lie. (Genesis ch. 2-3).
Blood Sacrifice - Satanic Or Jehovic'l
Ritual murder has been, and still is, a part of some pagan religious practice. Presumably some "Satanists" have indulged in it through the centuries, but it cannot justifiably be claimed as a necessary ingredient or integral part of Satanism. In fact, for today's philosophical Satanist, ritual slaughter whether of humans or of animals is a negation of his life-affirming principles, as formulated by Dr. LaVey in The Satanic Bible.
Whether or not aberrant "Satanists" have
inappropriately indulged in ritual killing in the past, it is a fact that blood sacrifice is sanctioned by the Judeo-Christian god.
Turning again to Genesis, we find that
Jehovah was pleased with Abel's blood sacrifice,

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Since Jehovah is supposed to know all things before they happen, he presumably knew in advance that his rejection of Cain's noble offering would

Watchers were bound, and most of mankind drowned, for having acquired the arts of civilization and breeding superior individuals above the common

by Glenda Green

result in dispute between the brothers and lead to murder.
The supremacy of blood sacrifice was therefore clearly established in the first book of the Old Testament, and culminates in the blood-sacrifice of the tyrant-god's alleged son in the New Testament.
Considering the Jehovic sanctioning of blood sacrifice, I would contend, other reasons apart, that it is a most un-Satanic practice.
What Dr. LaVey states in The Satanic Bible ("On the Choice of a Human Sacrifice") in regard to human and animal ritual slaughter is far more edifying than what Jehovah has to say on the subject in Genesis, chapter 3.
Family Life
Christians like to pose as the champions of family values. However, according to the Judeo-Christian myths, again recorded in Genesis (chapter 5) the great "sin" for which the tyrant-god destroyed most of mankind via the Flood had its origins in the mating of the sons of god with the daughters of man. The offspring of this union

herd, courtesy of Azazel's eugenics and education program.
However, the point we are primarily concerned with here is that the Watchers desired a ,r family life and for this both they and humanity were condemned.
The Christian doctrine towards the family may be more readily discerned from this passage in the New Testament (Luke, 12: 51-53) wherein Jesus J states: "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, nay; but rather division; for from henceforth there shall be five in one household
· divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
Probably many of us know examples of families split apart by Christ-engendered religious division.
Conclusion

In the last issue of The Black Flame, the editor was kind enough to name the different groups that have their roots in The Satanic Bible. No matter which group you belong to, there is only one Bible and one Dr. LaVey! The time is long o':'erdue that we recognize this fact, and as I sat and listened to the news from San Francisco, I knew all Satanists were sharing my concern.How many of you were able to sleep unmoved by thoughts of a possible disaster?
Here are some of my other thoughts as I sat
awake, long into the night -- let me share them with
you:
As you may have heard, New York City has a black Mayor. This too was long overdue. But what do you think of my original idea to purify New York? Let'.s have a Satanist for Mayor! What do you think the first thing our Satanic Mayor would do? Ban Magicians! Gorbachev decided to reopen the Russian Orthodox church. (Soon we'll be hearing more people ask, "Vot are you?") That's close to pulling a rabbit
out of a hat. A Satanic Mayor would show New York City some real magic -- put an upside-down cross on

community of Murder One -- germ warfare!
Did you ever stop to think why Dr. LaVey suggests cremation? A true thinker might be concerned with all the useless space taken over by cemeteries -- space that could be enjoyed by the living.
Two days after the earthquake I was finally able to reach San Francisco. I called the editor of The Black Flame; because of the hour -- about 3:30 AM - he knew the torture was over. Exhausted and happy, we both said "Hail Satan!" and hung up.
I am thrilled to announce that Dr. LaVey is
safe and glowing with energy!
I hope with all my heart that not only members of the Church of Satan but all Satanic (non-entity-worshipping) groups combine to compliment the continuance of a truly outstanding leader: Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey!
HAIL SATAN! HAIL DR. LAVEY!

"became mighty men which were of old men of
renown," according to Genesis 6:4.
The apocryphal Enoch (I) elaborates:the sons of god were of the order of Watchers. Two hundred of them descended to Ear:th on Mt. Hermon, under the leadership of Azazel. They taught their wives charms, enchantments, and botany. Azazel taught man the craft of metallurgy and introduced "the evil art of cosmetics."
One passage in Enoch sympathetically suggests that "the sin of the angels was not so much lust as longing to enjoy the comforts of family life." But in Jehovah's view, angels are immortal and thus have no need of descendants.
Richard Cavendish writes in The Magical Arts, "By the first century A.D., Lucifer and Satan and the Watchers had all been connected together and the serpent of Eden had been added to the story. A book called 2 Enoch says that the archangel Satanial tried to make himself equal with god and seduced the Watchers to rebel with him."
From these stories we find that Satan and his allies were responsible for bestowing the arts of civilization to mankind. Additionally we may conclude that-the mating of the Watchers and human women was a eugenic act resulting in human upbreeding, the offspring being "Men of renown."
It seems that wisdom and progress for humanity occur in spite of Jehovah and through the

Fables can have much wisdom to tell us.
Even the Judea-Christian scriptures can be instructive to Satanists. While the fervent Christian hysterically condemns Satan as the instigator of family conflict, performing malicious deeds against humanity, sowing discord and demanding blood sacrifice, we may turn to his own sources and expose his charges as nothing more than the projection of his tyrant-god's foul creed uoon that of his great Adversary, Satan.

1 0 top of St. Patrick's Cathedral and hold a Black Mass!
( wonder how long it would take the police to get bored with their jobs?
Now that our adrenalin is flowing, let's take
a walk with our Satanic Mayor to the nearest abortion center. Point of interest: all over New York City there are homeless people, some with small children. Go to an abortion center. You will find a lot of "caring people" against abortion. You will never see a homeless person in that area.
Well, Mr. Mayor, go into your limousine, l indulge yourself -- watch a good movie. Since Satanists rarely watch television, consult a TV Guide.
Look under horror pictures. Did any of you ever see The Stepford Wives? A bit shocking. As a Compleat Witch, you can be one without an operation. One more interesting observation about the TV lineup: Geraldo is on. Why not be a guest speaker on his show? He wants a discussion. Let's give him one.
Even a Satanic Mayor will have to confront the AIDS issue. I will not insult your intelligence by going into some of the reasons given for the origin of AIDS. I will state that I have been indulging in anal
) sex since I was a teenager in the late fifties. Many of the students in my high school used heroin. Homosexuality has been around since the beginning of time. Is it possible that I missed hearing about AIDS for thirty years?
I, Natas, accuse the entire Christian

ODDITORIUM
byPeggy Nadramia

FREE AMONG THE DEAD (Part 1)
by Natasha Page

Satanism in America: How The Devil Got Much More Than His Due by Shawn Carlson & Gerald Larue for the Committee For Scientific Examination of Religion. (Gaia Press, El Cerrito, 1989; softcover, 300+ pages, $12.95).
Here it is at last: an examination of the Satanism conspiracy scare, written by people who can still think. Carlson, Larue and co-authors Gerry O'Sullivan, April A. Masche and D. Hudson Frew aren't the usual Christian basketcases frothing at the mouth to give you an "inside look" at the "truth" about Satanism; rather, they are objective scientists committed to pinning down whatever is verifiable about the claims of all the recent "Satanic survivors" and their born-again coaches. And it ain't much. The physical evidence promised by the Wedges and Michaelsens of the world just isn't there, and all those cases they hinted were about to break, never did. In addition, there is a detailed examination of the McMartin Pre-School case and appendices by two law-enforcement officials who believe a great deal of time and money is being wasted on what we know is a witch hunt. There is also a witty and informative piece by Michael Stackpole analyzing the case against Dungeons and Dragons, and other role-playing games. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the authors provide an annotated list of all the experts and "non-experts" you may find popping up on your television screen, as well as lists of references to use and to not use -- and the reasons why you should or shouldn't.
If you've ever wasted perfectly good magical energy fuming at the playback of some of

because of its explicit goriness. And you too will thrill to the lovingly-detailed death scenes of those early martyrs to the Christian faith. This kinda reminds me >' of my Catholic school days, when we'd read Lives of the Saints for its entertainment value, and swap holy pictures the way other kids traded baseball cards. "Hey, give ya two St. Nicholas' for a St. Lucy!" (Those weird eyes staring up from the plate she held made her a must for any collection. St. Sebastian,
too.) !
What makes this reprint edition so potent, bowever, are the illustrators Feral House lined up for these grisly little tales: John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Charles Manson, and other modern purveyors of the dark descent, as well as the original engravings by Antonio Tempesta. /rnd as icing on the cake, there's a special Appendix: a historical-forensic view of the physical death of Jesus.
The cover painting and overall design of the book are quite lovely, and the 1920's Fortune Press typesetting is large and easy to read.

The Black Mass of Brother Springer by Charles Willeford (Black Lizard Books, Berkeley, 1989; paperback, 171 pages, $4.95).
Like Jim Thompson, Willeford excelled at presenting these hardboiled, on-the-edge protagonists preying on the dopier members of our society. And you just can't help but love 'em. "Brother" Springer is just a cad, a heel looking for an easy meal ticket while he writes his next novel, so he poses as a minister to an all-black church. There's the usual sex and violence, along with some genuinely Satanic

In this decade it has become sadly apparent that television is the dominant force in our society. It has evolved from being a toy of the wealthy to being the focal point in most American homes. With its tbirty-plus channels, the human race need think no
1110re; there is something for everyone dancing on the cathode waves. Religion, "the opiate of the masses,"
hts taken a back seat. Hail in the one-eyed god. The electric placator holds the masses enthralled with its Cybill Shepherds and Don Johnsons, the priests and priestesses that briefly flash before the public eye. And what of the congregation? The lower income communicants watch their black and white celebrants stliUt the latest fashions across the nineteen-inch screen, tantalizing with riches far beyond their viewers' means. On the other hand, large-screen home entertainment system parishioners sit smugly content in their cathode-tube-dictated fashions. "Television is reality and reality is less than television." says Brian O'Blivion in Videodrome. This is how much of America sits, in a cathatonic state.
0 Taking into consideration that the imaginations of our "bright new minds of the future"
are being dimmed, as well as drained, by television, is it any wonder that the eighties have had virtually nothing original to offer? How many average bookstores can one enter that do not feature a moderate section on Marilyn Monroe and James Dean? (Not to mention the whole question about the demi-god Elvis Presley.) So many people have constructed miniature shrines to the media-undead. Most of these half-wits don't realize the first thing that gave these physically-departed their extreme

to be imaginative and sell new things (or old things in new wrappers) to the proles. When Norma Jean was discovered, the producers gave her platinum blonde hair and a role which she ended up living, her mask became her face, and so was born Marilyn Monroe. But what have today's producers presented? Star Trek
- The Next Generation, The New Leave It To Beaver, The (new and improved) Munsters. What happened to the creativity? And what of the future?
The l 990's will hail in the new Satanic Age. The stupified sheeple will be chained to their electric god consoles, hence the only opposition which might have risen will stay comfortably glued to their sofas, a crop of "couch potatoes." Satanism is being brought into the public eye for what it really is. Satanic principles are even infiltrating these deadened, semi-conscious minds via such popular media presentations as Batman. And Christianity, ever on the cutting edge, cries, "Hurry now, join our ranks before the Grand Rapture and be SAVED!" They're beginning to sound like the bargain basement at Macy's. The frenzied fundamentalists are attempting to stamp us out with their fabricated tales of baby-killings and born-again breeders. But their attempts are in vain. They offer slavery, old ideas better left to die out, and self-imposed idiocy. We offer fresh ideas, free reign for creative thought and action, and life, not merely existence. The imaginative few who shall come forth in the near future will no longer look at us with doubt, but for inspiration and guidance. The Satanic Wehrmacht has arrived.
Lex Talionis! Lex Satanicus! Hail Satan! (Next quarter Part 2, The Theft of the Orgasm)

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these talk shows, you will enjoy this report. Having
all these carefully-obtained facts at your fingertips will make your little black hearts glow. Naturally, the authors will be chalked up as "tools of Satan" by the unswervable fundies who promulgate these myths. So
be it. Those with their faculties about them will get

statements about religion and its functions. Pick it up
to while away one of these cold winter nights.
AfJ!qIC £538{TE'R. '1{S:J{OW
I didn't encounter any new films of

> vibrancy. Marilyn, for example, was the quintessential femme fatale, a Satanic Witch of the highest order. Most of her followers worship her visage, but don't realize that they could employ the same motif to their own ends. The dead have become
more alive than the living.

! i the lowdown, and that's what counts.
You may order a copy of the report directly from the publishers at P. 0. Box 466, El Cerrito, CA 94530-0466; add $1.50 for shipping, and if you live in California, add $.94 for sales tax.

Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs by Rev. Antonio Gallonio (Feral House, Los Angeles, 1989; softcover, 320 pages, $12.95).
While it was written, ostensibly, for the information and inspiration of the "pious," this sixteenth-century volume actually gained notoriety

particular interest to Satanists, but of course, most of ' the real treasures are older films you may be able to come across on video. See if you can find The Gangster, Pennies From Heaven (with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters), High Pressure or a newer one, possibly on your cable network, The House of Games.
To this end, I recommend a new book from Dell, 1he 1
Phantom's Ultimate Video Guide by the Phantom of the Movies ($12.95, softcover, 756 pages). This heft)' tome contains descriptions of some truly rare films and the details on how to find them on video. A must for forgotten-culture buffs and collectors.

Every decade has had something significant to offer, its earmarks if you will. The twenties had its flappers dancing to their seductive tunes, prohibition, and the speakeasies; the thirties saw the creation of Art Deco, the effects of the depression, and the birth of Anton La Vey; the forties brought World War II to America; the fifties and early sixties gave rise to Marilyn Monroe, "flower power," and in 1966 the creation of the Church of Satan. Then came the "ME" generation of the seventies. But what are the earmarks of the eighties? This decade tried to retain the "ME" of the seventies which turned into yuppiedom. It tried

CURSES!
byMax

Ritual! The springboard to the netherworld where anything is possible. The mere mention of the word brings chills or piqued interest to the would-be Black Magician. In actuality, without an understanding of what makes a ritual work, the practitioner may as well read a recipe for meatloaf.
With this point in mind, I will show you a ritual which I performed recently and which I can truthfully say is the most exact and expedient ritual that I have ever performed. I also know that if I do not give you the preliminaries, you won't have a hope in Hell of seeing any success through this working. So here are a few rules before beginning:
1. Never start a ritual with the masochistic thought: "What did I do wrong?" A ritual, like any other experiment, is a string of "What did I do rights?" and when all is correct, a working can become what the common man would call a miracle.
2. All workings have a cycle -- a sort of flow chart of the gods. A successful magician realizes that he/she may do a ritual every day, but the scatter-shooting of your energy is far less efficient than beginning a ritual after the magical cycle of the fom1er ritual has completely ended.
3. The Law of Threefold Return is a joke! If

male - sex of the cherished) in green or brown. A feool of black thread. A writing quill pen (art store) sapnd some dragon's blood ink. A piece of chalk.
THE RITUAL
On the night of the full moon, in the light of the moon only, write exactly what you wish to happen urttil the light of the full moon to come. Let no detail scape you. Make sure that all is clear and exactly
\ctured in your mind. Touch your thumb to the ragon 's blood ink and leave a thumbprint from your Jeft hand on the left hand corner of the parchment. Then light the black pillar candle and recite the following oath to completion:
"I (the magician's name) have set out on this
night to right what I have considered an inequality, to srnite a bastard and to soothe a friend. I swear by the Prince of Darkness to complete this task in exactly the terms that I have stated. (Point weapon at heart.) I
.r shall not fail, for failure is weakness. Weakness is a slow death. I will not die... I will not...Fail. Hail Satan!"
On Tuesday after the full moon, set up an
altar by drawing a pentagram inverted inside a trapezoidal shape with chalk on a flat rock, on a cleared patch of ground or on a proper altar. Inside of the pentagram place candles wound with black thread. Light the black pillar candle and envision the room separating and dissolving into particles and atoms. All
around forms a massive swirl of atoms, no walls, no

Continue this part of the ritual until Friday. On Friday, light the cherished 's candle and lightly stroke the candle. Recite:
"Soon, oh ever so soon to be free! The victim screams and the victor sings. The Entity that is Bast comes forward with sharp claws and mauls the unlucky fool while brushing with soft black fur against the beloved one. With each stroke comes good luck and freedom from worry. Happiness is yours. Hail Satan!"
Read parchment, recite proper Enochian key for Satan's blessing.
As the three candles burn. the bonds of the black thread also bum away and the fool falls to the abyss and the beloved one dances merrily away. On Saturday. burn the parchment on the remaining candle flames. and on Sunday bury the remains with the words:
"So it is done. Hail Satan!"
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you send out your magical energy efficiently. it will be expended, and there will not be enough of the energy of that particular spell to return and cause you so much as brief constipation, let alone a disaster.
4. Know your beneficiaries well, both the cursed and the cherished. A shadowy puppetmaster is inept if he does not know his puppets. It is particularly important to know the cursed, as the curse

The Curse
by Dia bolos Rex

tell the person that you are doing the magic for any reason, simply say that you are working on

boundaries. All is dissolving into a void, a vacuum, something beyond the structure of atoms. In the dimly-lit chamber is a supreme solitude, a magical universe. Recite:
"In this, my universe, I call to you my Brother/Sister, my partner of workings, Lucifer. Arise
from your sleep within me to aid me in this place where all is possible."

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you work on him/her will be the result of a sabotage

something, and something will happen soon. \ At this point you should feel a slight

of something otherwise familiar in the mundane world. A person with acrophobia will be the easiest to kill in a dream if the magician also knows that the cursed has a weak heart. Is the cursed a bigmouth? So much the better, as this particular recipient of your magical wrath will undoubtedly talk him/herself into a disastrous situation.
5. Moon phase plays an important role in the way that people react to your manipulations. All animals are affected by the moon and humans are definitely of this kingdom. suggest that you begin this particular ritual on full moon and allow the magic to cycle out until the next full moon.
6. Never tell the cherished that you have done a working on their behalf. This is a counterproductive move and will have a sort of tortoise and hare effect for the cherished. If you must

Remember, the magic has its own cycle and any alteration will change the outcome.

With this rather light skimming over the principles of magical working, we shall now proceed. DRESS: Black. A robe, an evening gown, a negligee, and even black leather may be worn for this ritual. I prefer the black apparel of a burglar as this
makes me feel like the stalker of dreams.
EQUIPMENT: A ritual knife or some other edged weapon which is personal to you. A sheet of parchment of the kind popular with calligraphers, i easily accessible at an art shop or stationery store. A black candle (wider than a taper) representing the ) Black Flame. A yellow-green candle or white figure candle (male or female according to the sex of the cursed). A red taper candle or a figure candle (male or

coldness. Don't worry. This is your other self surfacing to aid you in your effort. Light the cursed's candle. Recite:
"Damn you! You filthy son of a bitch, your imagined Hell will hold no surprises for you! Cry out, for no one hears you. Scream, for no one helps as I
·consume you, your screams muffled by the crunching of your bones!"
Take weapon and stab at cursed candle.
"All shall be pain, all shall be suffering for
You!"
Recite aloud what you have written on the Parchment and clearly picture the entire scene. Recite: "For this is your sentence." (Make sign of
homs.) "Hail Satan!"
Recite proper Enochian key for vengeance; extinguish candle.

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ANTICHRIST!
byNemo

I spade! Put the fear of Satan into their hearts!
They fear us. They are waiting for us to
) fulfill their self-defeating prophecies. Why are we

People who were not inclined toward this type of worship stayed clear. They did not fear the cultists, but rather the goddess Cybele and believed

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There they are again! Those fat-jowled Christianity? 11
Christian televangelists telling us what Satanism is! Think about it. All these examples of "devil "The Lord Gawd iz thuh King uv thee You-nee-verse worship" and human sacrifice are Christian killings, \r A-yund SAT-ton is uh li-ur A-yund Dee-see-ver!" not Satanic! Go into any Christian church (if you can
So what is it exactly that we mean when we stand the nausea) and what do they continually 1
say "Satanist?" Not too long ago one group that preach? Blood. Human blood. Human blood sacrifice.,
claims to be Satanic m de a big point out of the fact We walk around wearing a star. a symbol of that Satanism was not anti-Christian. To the contrary. geometric perfection wedded with the fertile image of it seems to me that we Satanists are the opposite of a goat. They sport the equivalent to the modern-day
everything in which the--,-.-.--.-.-------------- -,electric chair. Not long ago, •' Christians believe and how \, ·· · ; ·:\ .. ··. >; ·-;· my seven-year-old son
tbeybeh ristians believe in , \ ' ' . • {;;"; '. :.'.: j;"::,e;i1 s! :i!h s; ::
God, Satan. angels. demons. \ - ,;;/, -:: · · .·,' Catholic cathedral. Suddenly,
and so on. Satanists do not. ',.,;_·;;\> . . ;: he rushed up to my wife with \ Christians require · \. , . a horrified expression saying,
faith. Satanists require •··· - "Mommy! There's a statue of reason.
Christians preach altruism. Satanists follow rational self-interest.
Christians advocate

allowing them any quarter? Why are we not attacking
our enemy?
Are they not the enemy? Or do you think we pst haven't seen enough modern witch-hunts for Satanists yet? Or are we waiting around for a modern
{Jnited States theocracy to be established? I think you know what I mean: a government run by the Christians with a reworked Constitution lacking a First Amendment.
It has happened before. If you do not believe
it could happen here. then ask yourself why the motto
•rn God We Trust" was added to our money in 1955 and not 177 6. Ask yourself why the Pledge of Allegiance also added the words "under God" in our own lifetimes. Ask yourself why a major televangelist rnade alealistic bid for the Presidency in just the last election.
Is there a Christian conspiracy to take over the government of the United States? I can't prove it, but there is a fair amount of hard evidence which seems to support this possibility.
Arise the Antichrist. before it's too late.

Her to actually reside in their temple. Why would otherwise knowledgeable pagans believe this? Because oftentimes a total stranger would wander into town without any knowledge of where he was going.
He would accidentally wind up in the the cult's territory and get "caught up" in the revelry. What • I constituted the revelry? They'd throw their heads
forward so their hair would hang and then rotate rapidly in a spin, shaking their heads so the hair would resemble a tangle of serpents. They'd bite themselves and cut their bodies with sharp knives, heaving moaning sighs from deep in their lungs. The cultists carried long strands of woolen yarn strung with sheep's knucklebones entwined and would flog themselves with these until the ground beneath them was slippery with their blood. They'd yell and wail frenziedly with loud music and banging. finally stripping off all clothing and picking up one of the available swords, completely castrate themselves. Each cultist would pick up his amputated organ and run through the city streets, finally heaving it into some stranger's home. The custom demanded that the unlucky stranger who'd merely wandered into the
ritual, must give the half-crazed and bleeding amputee

mercy. Satanists demand justice.
Christians demand self-denial. Satanists practice
indulgence. \
Christians believe in · an afterlife. Satanists believe in a "duringlife."
Christians believe in "turning the other cheek." Satanists practice vengeance.
Christians believe that Man is basically evil. Satanists understand that Man is basically an animal.
Christians worship God (or Satan). Satanists worship themselves.
Christians believe that life is spiritual.
Satanists know that life is material.
Christians believe that pleasure is sinful.
Satanists believe that so-called "sin" is pleasurable.
Christians believe in human sacrifice.
Satanists believe in human glorification.
In fact. I would very much appreciate it if any reader can come up with any real issue which we share in common with the Christians! Apart from our biological common ground (we both eat. breathe. etc.) is there really anything of which we are not totally the opposite. when it comes to fundamentalist

imagery with the shroud of \ sanctity. rendering it invisible
to all but the most innocent, un-brainwashed eyes. Yet it is there still. Their cult is one which worships death. We "worship" life.
So are we not, in truth. anti-Christs? If this is what Christ and Christianity stands for. isn't this what we stand against? Isn't the\. Antichrist exactly what we are for?
I say yes. I say that we are anti-Christian. We are not merely offering another alternative to the current mass of copy-cat white light religions. We are not reverse-Christian,s who practise Christianity in the name of The Devil. We are the Anti-Christians. We are the Satanists.
Then. who's afraid of the big bad sheep? All this balderdash about not attacking the Christians 1
escapes me these days. The Jews didn't attack Hitler.
The Cathars didn't attack Rome. The witches of the ) Middle Ages didn't attack the Inquisition. Dare we sit ' back and fail to learn from history? .
The Christians predict that the Antichrist will { persecute them. Then why are the Christians trying to persecute us? I say. off with the gloves. Call a spadea

ON THE OBSCURE(?) CULT OF ATTJS
by Tani Jantsang

Somewhere in Phrygia in ancient times, there was a maiden named Nana. She ate fruit from a tree that was generated by the blood of Cybele. Now, Cybele is a particularly wrathful form of the Dark Mother Night goddess, also called the "White Goddess." identical to the Buddhist Durga who can appear as a great inspiration or as a great cosmic destroyer. At any rate. by eating this fruit. Nana gets pregnant and gives birth to Attis (or Atys), or shall we say. Nana has an immaculate conception. Attis then falls in love with the goddess and for some reason gets it into his head that he should remain a virgin. But nature taking its course, and Attis growing up, he does not remain a virgin. Out of extreme guilt, he
proceeds to slash off his entire organ with one clean shave.
In the ancient pagan world, nothing was "in the closet." There were no specific general rules of morality. either. If one was a sodomite, one had no reason to hide. There was no morality that said: "It is fooct to marry and bear children." So the Cult of Artis IVed_ on. Who joined it? People with the right frame of mind. and it was totally out in the open. No one ever went into their temple and said "Thou shalt not," 80.the cultists pretty much stayed to themselves. enJOying their own company. with nothing to hide.

a woman's wardrobe or fall afoul of Cybele.
Now, this is obviously a pagan guilt-cult with its frenzies of flagellation and self-mutilation. Why mention it? Because Attis is resurrected; the celebration was March 22-24. His cultists wore a symbol around their necks of a man, Attis, tied (?) to a tree, or tree-like image, bleeding to death. But most important of all, can you guess where in Rome the main temple of this cult was? Right where the Vatican is today. Perhaps the ancients were right; maybe Cybele really was present and did influence anyone who went there...
And Nyarlathotep does mock.
Since Jesus said nothing that advocated flagellation. self-mutilation. celibacy. castratos, the tortures of the hundreds of years of the Inquisition - one can only assume that modern-day Christians, with their obsessive fear and loathing of their own bodies, are rather adherents of the Cult of Attis -- under a new name. This is borne out by their obvious yet unconscious fear of the word gra rifica rion (from grattis) and sa risfy (from sattisfy). and before deterioration sets in and turns this into total mockery
-- END of article!

by Anton S:zandor La Vey l

byNemo

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(Written in 1967 C.E., Dr. LaVey created guidelines for Satanic justice by translating the law of the jungle into a code of behavior for the human animal. Here then is the Lex Talionis transformed for our present age: Lex Satanicus.)

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

. Altering reality. Making changes in inordinary ways. This is the path of the magician.
J'· In the Autumnal Equinox issue of The Black
) !<ame, Miss Blanche Barton discussed the value of
,_; veraging the power of archetypes to produce magic
·., taking on the persona of a specific "group mind" unage. I will expand upon some of these ideas here as
\i{ell as suggest additional concepts.
i First of all, there is a growing body of

view rather than the mind-killing mystical view of Plato.
Plato's eternal Forms were unchangeable, fixed throughout all of time as the "higher" reality template from which blurry "copies" make up our world. Sheldrake's democratic M-fields are constantly being altered as physical reality interacts with the same M-fields which shape it.
In practical terms this implies that the

2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want l
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 himcruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating

cientific speculation which does surpass Plato's theory of Forms. Rupert Sheldrake has written two books elaborating upon his testable scientific theory: '[he Theory of Formative Causation and The Presence of the Past. By the way, as with all Satanically inclined ideas, Sheldrake's books created an emotional uproar. Nature, the prestigious British scientific journal, called for the burning of Sbeldrake's first book! If the establishment wants to bum a book, you can bet that it is worth reading!
S h e l d r a k e n o t e d p e c u l i/a r i t i e s i n psychological stqdies conducted with animals. The critics of these studies screamed "fraud!" but

M-field of a vampire far more closely resembles the romantic figure of the Hollywood movies (viewed by millions) than the revivified corpse of traditional folklore. Why? Well, since there are more people I alive right now than ever before in history and if we combine this fact with the effects of mass media (movies, television, magazines, newspapers, etc.) we
can surmise that the current beliefs of the masses are the primary shapers or the ever-evolving M-fields! (At least those sub-fields associated with archetypal images in the greater field which comprises a unit similar to Jung's collective unconscious, an overmind.)

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.

\ Sheldrake, noting a lack of motivation on the part of t e rese rchers to fool anyone, looked for other explanations. The result of his search was his hypothesis of Formative Causation.
In essence, Formative Causation proposes that all physical forms and behavior habits are shaped

Hence. the most powerful of this type of M-field will tend to revolve around the most popular modern character types. Miss Barton's examples of
"character actors" becomes ever more important. The 'I
modern magician would do well to examine the impact and popularity of cinema images, because if

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7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed itI successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magi,c after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have , obtained. }
I I 8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.

by fields called morphogenetic fields or "M-fields," for short. Each M-field is strengthened democratically, based upon feedback from our physical actions and thoughts in the here-and-now.
Magician, take note! Sheldrake .is telling us that the more people who think about something, the more the M-field of that thing grows and changes to conform to their ideas.
Sheldrake's theory acts in a long-overdue contradistinction to Plato's Theory of Forms. Attributed to Socrates, Plato's metaphysics held that there was a "real" world composed of ideal Forms of

Sheldrake's theory proves valid (and the supporting evidence is extremely convincing) then in a very precise way "what we see is what we get!" Reality should be increasingly conforming to the media images which are influencing the minds and emotions of billions.
I'd like to also mention here that this by no means leaves us with a purely solipsistic, "anything goes" reality. M-fields of a different sort control the basic laws of physics, but these too may evolve over vast time periods and not be as static as has been previously posited. New models for the early history

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9. Do not harm little children.
IO. Do not kill non-human animals unless attacked or for your food.

,. Which our world is an imperfect shadow. As with all dualistic metaphysics (two realities instead of one), Plato's "higher" reality was unreachable through re son or sense impressions and required a leap of
1 faith via a mystical insight he called "noesis."
Sheldrake's view simply extends our scientific

of our Universe show these laws to be different, and mutable with time and the evolving nature of the substances which comprise existence. Since these fields are vast, and are sustained by cosmic processes. the comparatively small M-fields of even billions of
human consciousnesses are not able to cause an

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If someone' Understanding of our one reality by including
M-fields rather than splitting the Universe into two

effect. Sheldrake's theory depicts an ever-evolving Universe influenced by its constituent parts, not an

bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him. .. ( realities. This enables us to understand reality and
lllaintain reason as our standard for knowledge. In
words, Sheldrake's theory retains a scientific

evolving "inferior" reality controlled by a static and immutable "higher" reality.
Sheldrake has also elaborated on the concept

of the "morphogenetic germ" (or M-germ). Like the In practical terms it may not require as much "detail" crystal which grows from a "germ" structure, any to cause a magical change to occur. Rather, it may be essential "piece" which resembles an M-field relatively easy to l verage the more powerful produces what Sheldrake refers to as morphic M-fields just as long as you actually use a "pure" resonance. The M-germ then conforms to the specific M-germ. In other words, it may not be so much M-field which provides a sort of blue-print for its quantity or even duration that counts, but quality. In structure. In anthropological studies of magic, such as essence, don't forget your horns and don't sporta Frasier's works, the concept of sympathetic magic halo.
becomes more understandable.
What elements of an M-field character type .
wasulsducgognestetdutebyanDMr. -LgaeVrmey? OinneThime pSoa1t1aannitcsWouirtcche And so, fellow chi'ldren of the ni·ght,a where he noted that the common characteristics decade has ended to make way for the new. Our , chosen by cartoonists to convey a type are the movement is growing ever stronger and the 90's will essentials required to perceive it. Hence, an M-germ be but a prelude for the coming Satanic millenium. As can be pieced together by studying, of all things, Satanists you are part of the elite that shall forge the comic books and other abstracted and stylized future with an iron Will. The ls-To-Be grows ever representations which successfully communicate the clearer to the horror of those who would keep us in image to others. the muck of mediocrity.
For example, the rogue-hero image of We end this issue and this decade with a Indiana Jones revolves around a brown felt Stetson verbal "sign of the horns" by Anton Szandor LaVey. hat. Secondary elements would include a brown To whet your appetite for the upcoming release of an leather flight jacket, bull whip, and revolver. The album by the inimitable Dr. LaVey, we present the M-germ might require only the hat or all the above final verse and chorus from his Hymn ofrhe Satanic items. The Gestapo officer is epitomized by the Empire, to which he composed both the stirring words black-brimmed hat and black trenchcoat. and rousing music. All stand proudly now and lets see
Along a different vein, if you were interested those cornus smartly raised in defiance! in violating an image, what elements could you
introduce? Indiana Jones would not wear a beret nor Hymn of theSatanic Empire ladies' spike heels. The Gestapo officer would not Anton Szandor LaVey sport an American flag shoulder patch. It is therefore
equally obvious that an M-germ can be killed by an Drums out of the darkness, listen well.
unsuitable growing environment. Hence, this Drums beating like thunder, straight from Hell. lj underlines Miss Barton's suggestion that you live the "Rege Satanas!" -- the time's come 'round-- I part all the time. Satan is here to claim his ground!
Conclusion

Sheldrake's theory suggests that archetypes

views of them. Therefore, a magician desiring to utilize and perhaps merge with any archetype should
carefully observe the evolving trend. Further, the

With our morning star from the deepest night Smash the crumbling cross, for Might is Right. Let the shuffling zombies grope for light - And we11 reign forevermore!

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. ; Satanists view themselves as being different
> from the general run of humanity. We see ourselves
}1 ) a:s set apart from those who merely follow the
, currents of their cultural milieu. having no desire to
embraced by the teeming hordes. We attempt to throw off. where necessary. the osmoconsciousness that in the West is dominated by Judeo-Christian
v thinking which says that man is apart from the natural world and should purge himself of the carnal to embrace the spiritual.
( >• Balderdash! Satanists embrace the carnal. are at
· one with their animal nature and work to recapture the beast within that has been sterilized by those who hate
'> themselves. One of the root causes that has led to the proliferation.of anti-carnal thinking is the fact that there are two types of humans. and one type has come
i, to dominate. There are those who feel at one with I themselves. comfortable with their emotions and their o reason. finding no contradictions between their
::, thoughts and feelings. which we can call the Zoos
\ (animal) type. The other strain feels alienated from itself. sensing a profound personal disharmony of
I' mind vs. emotions. body vs. spirit. carnal vs. spiritual
ii - the Thanatos (death) type.
'1 It is this second type which feels a self
} alienation that is a root cause for self-hatred. leading to a disgust for the body which is constantly being
1 !hwarted in its natural desires. This Thanatos impulse (" Is behind the major spiritual religions which have i pread their loathing for life over our globe. The Zoos Individuals have difficulty perceiving what the Thanatos wishes to purge from himself. Indeed. the

Zoos is usually too busy enjoying life to worry about such illusory concerns. But to the Thanatos. this is a very tangible dichotomy which must be remedied. Often they employ asceticism. to rid themselves of carnal impurities. stultifying any pleasure they feel. Ultimately this results in a universal masochism. reveling in the agony of "purification." Since the Zoos types can't even begin to split themselves in this fashion. the Thanatos sees them as incurably impure and will often eliminate such individuals to rid themselves of reminders of what they cannot be: harmoniously in tune with their nature as living beings.
The Thanatos have won many a victory with the overwhelming of the West by Christianity. This is the accepted outlook promoted by many religions and philosophies. The Satanist is naturally of the Zoos type. and finds himself completely at odds with this prevailing value system. thus he is alienated from the cultural norm. This is a healthy form of alienation which leads to a strong sense of Ego and the growth of individualism. The Thanatos is alienated from himself. a truly dangerous and destructive alienation that has caused centuries of pain and destruction.
The time is now for the re-emergence and triumph of the Zoos. We have unleashed the beast which will tear the wizened flesh of those who feel apart from the natural order. Their dessicated and poisoned tissues will be buried with the other refuse whose decomposition will provide fertilizer for the new generations of self-aware humans. Nature will claim its victory over those who would deny it.

SATANISM NEEDS AN ENEMAI
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, ·.\ that those who were not 3:gainst u we for us I
tbJ!ld to think that if anyone did anythmgm Satans usee it was helping. I used to believe that the natn ences of ritual magic could be harmlessly
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There is a disease. a cancer in the Satanic movement and it must be cut out! Let me be quite clear about this.
Satanism is not now. nor never shall be. truly threatened as a religious philosophy since Satanism is is the path of reality. the way of the world. As such. those who succeed in the world. who are willing to acknowledge in their actions the truth about reality.
I will always be Satanists. no matter what other name they assume.
This problem actually involves not our unkillable foundation of truth but the course of the modem movement of Satanism.
The movement is in danger. The danger is real. The danger can be stopped. I am writing this to put a stop to it!
From the beginning. the Church of Satan has made it explicitly clear that Satan is not an entity. conscious or preconscious. For example:
"In LaVey's view. the Devil was not [an anthropomorphic diety]. but rather a dark. hidden force in nature responsible for the workings of earthly affairs. a force for which neither science nor religion
I had any explanation." - Burton Wolfe. Introduction to
The Satanic Bible.
Other quotes from Dr. LaVey's own pen in The
Satanic Bible reiterate this theme:
"...the allegorical personage..." (page 29).
"...Satan. the personification of the Left Hand Path." (page 52).
"Satan...merely represents a force of nature - the powers of darkness which have been named just that because no religion has taken these forces out of darkness." "...this many faceted key to the unknown - which the Satanist chooses to call 'Satan'." (page 62). Again and again the Church of Satan has patiently explained to all who would ask. read or
listen that Satan is a symbol.
Yet how many times do we see people advocating a return to the superstitious nansense of belief in a "god"? How often do we see so-called "Satanists" missing the most important single point of

"As your personal physician it is my sad taskt . theism and permit the deification o S tan. we tell you that you have only six weeks to live." 0 Jll l be no different in kind from the Chnsttans_ who "We've just killed your wife (husband/son/ d Jesus at the Council of Nicea. The result is the
daughter)." [Click goes the phone connection] (let :. mystical nonsense and anti-human dogma. "You are under arrest." sarn ·If we end up with Satan as a person. we end up "Remember our last date? Well. the clinic says1 'th an external God. and that means we end up
have AIDS." \wVtithout Satam• sm1.
Words can kill. Words can create strokes. heart
attacks. suicides. I know this. I have personally So what is the price? What needs to be done? performed autopsies on victims of mere words. To paraphrase the Joker. "Satanism needs an
If words can kill physical human beings. words 1"
can also kill movements and modern Satanism is a enemaWe need to correct every idiot out there ho
movement. thinks that it it is enoug to_ say. "I am_ a Satamst" If we do not cut out from our midst this while acting like a hallucmatmg psychotic.
destructive. anti-Satanic theme of godism. if we do .,, We have a Bible. We have a pro-human dogma.
not return to our fundamentally atheistic roots, we We havea Church. We have a tra itio . We have shall cease to be a vital force. as a movement. ceremonies and rituals. we have a gh nest. .
Currently. modern Satanism has been truly Now let's quit tolerating white hght myst1cs
occult. dealing with the hidden side. the darkside, the who claim to be Satanists. . controlling side of reality. If we permit this Satan- And if you feel. dear reader. that I am attacking worship nonsense to continue under our name, we u then just ask yourself if you want to be an_occ lt will degenerate to a mere cult. Our attackers falsely :e ber orjust a member of a cult._ Do you ehevem accuse us of "devil worship". Real Satanists have Satan oryourselfl Are you a Satamst or not.
usually responded with condescending smiles. but if am calling for a closing of the r nks anda we continue to tolerate the true believers in our midst, i throwing out of the heretics. I am s !ng for the if we accept these lies through failure to speak out .I Purge! 1 am asking for a reverse _Inqmsit1on. Let me against Satan-deification. we will be lowering•,, be the first to put you to the question:
ourselves to the level of the masses. Are you a believer in the God 11_Satan11 or are
What is it that the Satanist has in our modern youa Satanist. a God in your own nght? Answer
ims onvoetmouenr tenthdaetatrrmuleyntdteolintheeatseysm"buos"lsfaronmd c"otshteumm"i?ngIt,: '. rn o_:w ! '!;'!; ; , the theatre of the dark side. Heavy metal rock fans do
this also. It is not our embracing of a philosophy . I based upon rational self-interest or the glorification ofr the human carnal elements of Man. The philosophies of Objectivism and Humanism also meet these criteria. respectively. It is not our practice of ritual ' magic that makes us unique. There are all too many Wiccans. Odinists. Crowleyites and others engaged in these practices. No. it is our total rejection of any"' external diety or dieties including Satan which makes
our movement take a vital and unique place in the.,.

of our products. Our offer has ge erally_ gone unanswered. One nifty response did amve which we shall quote for the amusement of our readers:

CRAFT OF THE WISE
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212-989-4891
Proprietors: Caeser Muzzioli and Christina Sluberski

28 June. 1990
To Whom It May Concern:
Please remove our name from your mailing list. We are not interested in any ideas that are based upona perversion of Judeo-Christian thought.
Our system is based on the balanced conc pts defl:ve_d from ancient harmonious natu!e. w rship and it is impossible for us to find any vahdity m system !h t overrides another's free will. We recogmz your ng
to practice whatever you wiJl: b t this formo unsolicited direct mail proselyt1zmg 1s not 1o Y.of an Religion. Furthermore. your freedom o re igion an our right to privacy are both protected by our government. Do not send us any more of your
information. Thank you.
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We weren't surprised that_this shop wouldn't e interested in materials which clearly ex_plat contemporary Satanism. of which they are obviousy
uite comfortably in ignorance. But we we!e amused find that they would construe n adv_ertisement as
an attempt to proselytize. Bigotry a d ign r ce are t monopolized by the fundamentahst Chnst1ans. as
nthois statement made qu.ite ev"ident• f

Satanism?
Where's the danger here? I had one so-called "Satanist" once tell me that only life-threatening situations should be called "dangerous". This person. without the slightest awareness of the incredible ignorance that was revealed. told me that mere words can't be dangerous! If you share this viewpoint

stream of current events.
Every time some would-be "Satanist" speaks up to endorse the idea that Satan is a "somebody" instead\;, of a symbol. our position is degraded and our movement is retarded. The modern Satanic movement is ideas. The wrong ideas can kill what is truly Satanic in our efforts and leave us just another

CRY OF fflE RAVEN
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This letter is presented to inform our readerso
the level of intolerance which is still rampant _amonf. some neo-pagans. Many of these "Go d W!tches have recently tried to legitimize t e1 ehefs y pointing out that the Satanists are the Evil onesw 1o should perhaps be stopped. while they are merey

"pre-Christians" who wouldn't hurt a fly. One publication run by a neo-pagan ceased reviewing The

on Magical and Earth-centered religionsa practices. nct

People ARe MoRe Eqaal 0-tbeRs

Black Flame because the editor felt that such Satanic material could lead to their persecution by the locals.

They have come up with two well Writt .· by Reuben Radding
brochures which cover "Human Sacrifice"a e :

who would presumably think it okey-dokey that they were simply witches.
Let's pull the wool off of their eyes for a moment. Just ask any fundamentalist Christians (the denomination which campaigns against any religion that is not "Christian" by its definition) what they think is the difference between Satanism and witchcraft? They'll tell you that there is no difference! Just listen to such paragons as Texe Marrs. who said on a talk show to some neo-pagans who tried to make such a differentiation. that he certainly knew who their "horned god" was if they didn't. and that he was Satan. So some of these ignorant neo-pagans think that they can throw Satanists on the bonfire to save their "white" butts. Fear not, for we'll never be in that position, but should they fail to get to us. guess who will get tossed on the flames as warm-up kindling?
Some neo-pagans are now beginning to imitate the Church of Satan's lead by establishing "official" spokespersons. They explain to the media that their religious beliefs are not dangerous to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America. We Satanists acknowledge that our ideas are dangerous to the status quo as we question the "whys" and "wherefores" of the established controlling factors and opt out of the herd's lock-step. We do like to remind the general populace that we don't engage in the activities that they'd like to lay at our doorstep: demented sacrifices. criminal activities. and drug use, which seem to constantly come from individuals who were raised as Christians, with Christian values. who thus lapse into the Christian heresy of devil worship, if not committing their acts in the very name of their Christian "savior.".
One group of neo-pagans who is trying the route of "united we stand" calls itelf the Alliance for

"Ritualized Child Abuse." Two of their boan f: .
members have often contributed articles to TB rd . My oomate looked at me as you might look at
AMER certainly will have a great deal of work ah F. · a burned dmner.
of them. judging from the letter quoted at d . "Do you honestly f el hat rou're better than beginning of this article. If you'd like furthe ·1.nost people?" she quened m disapproval of my information you can send them a long. self-address:, ttitude. . . . 11 11
stamped envelop to the fol!owing addre_ss: AMER The answer was and IS most defm1tely yes 11220 West Flonssant Smte 288 Flonssant MO fandI 11 tell you why.
63032. • ' • First, examine the question. The important word
Chris Bray of the Sorcerers Apprentice Sho ;, here is. 'most.' since to imagine y_o rself the best in England has led the fight in the U.K. against t/ erson m the world_would be unre hstic, unprovable, fundies. After a particularly misleading, Geraldo .irre_levant to your hfe, an pretentious So now let's esque television program. called The Cook Report oefme what we mean by most people. Most peoi;>le linked his store with the promotion of Satanism h'' ,to me refers to the mass herd. the general pubhc
m1tlated and_ won a lawsmt_ ag mst the network who t ,generally go through theIT hves with •th_ no focus or produced this program which lead to the assault on I;purpose. They neve: seem to use theIT mmds enough his establishment. He proved that several funda- t t? see through theu own_ fac;ades erected for ne
mentalists were involved with producing this smear \hother. The efore. I c n view the mass herd as emg program. Bravo! In addition to his retail business he . generally blmd and without purpose. Now to Judge publishes a magazine entitled the Lamp of Thoth. For this group as a grol!p is to as um t at_ they are all he information regarding his business and publications same. Not so. So. If I examme md1v1duals and fmd send a self-addressed envelope and four IRC's to: The them to be blind and without purpose with terrible Sorcerers Apprentice The Crescent Hyde Park frequency. what does that tell you? I'm not yet even Comer, Leeds LS6 2NW. Yorkshire. discussing intelligence, which I've found doesn't
Church of Satan representatives will continue to always pr ve anything. . .
dispel falsehoods promulgated by the media and Dunng my expenences with sc?oolI met a debunk those with a vested interest in creating an great many men and women who were mtelhgent, by anti-Satanism industry to line their pockets. we work I c? mon standards. They earned good grades. passed with objective journalists. objective law enforcement : •f 1cul tests o knowledge. and were looke upon as officials, and other individuals who wish to see an bnght by theu elders. The problem here IS _t at all end to the hysteria created by fundamentalist J these p_eo le reall mastered was the_ abthty to Christianity as a last ditch effort to prevent its certain 1 emon_ze mfor tion. O ce ngaged • a verbal destruction. There are some neo-pagans who do, d1sc ss1on rt:qu1nng appbcat1on of thelf fact t_o understand the situation and will work with us to stem practical reality. they were often lost. In short, 1t IS the tide of persecution fostered by Christian how you use your knowledge that counts. Common

answer to my roomate's question would be. "I don't think I'm better. I know I'm better!" Now there's a Satanic statement!
Who is. or should be. more important to you than yourself? No one. that's who. Who is more
important to me than me? No one. that's who. Who should view me as more important to themself than themself? No one. that's who. There is no room for egalitarianism in the philosophy of The Satanic Bible. We are selfish. honest, and unconcerned with being part of conformist collectivism. I suggest that the proper response to the question."Why did you climb that mountain?" should not be "Because it was there," but instead, "Because I was there!"
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by
Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire

Your christian blood within this silver cup Stains the metal to its very tip.
Mockingly I smile and drink it up,
The thick rich liquid smear'd across my lip.
With each silent and Satanic sip
I bless the glory of my Ancient Lord.
My fingers smooth the silver cup, then dip Into the liquid, ruddy and ador'd.

Magical and Earth Religions. Based in St. Louis. they state that the one thing held in common by all

propaganda. We welcome them. Those who attempt'>1
to throw us to the bigots will find their ignorance

sense is all too uncommon!
• Most Satanis s have drive a_nd purpose in their

My fingers touch your body, cold and gored:

members is that. "all of_ them feel that they have been unfairly blamed by some in the media and in law enforcement for the problems of today's society." They have a four-fold statement of purpose. 1)
AMER will defend the right of every American to

rewarded by the full attentions of their strange hves. Most Satamsts are not bhnd to the ways of
bedfellows. a fate that they have won through their1 h man nature. We are living by a philosophy. It is one own stupidity. thmg to know that philosophy, and another to live it and strive to be vital. Most people never question
their values. ethics. and ideas. We Satanists are

They touch the surface of your silly cross.
With your kind I find I'm never bored, Imagination's never at a loss.
Then with your corpse I keep the promis'd tryst,

practice his or her own religion, insofar as that religion's practices do not directly harm anyone. In particular, AMER will actively campaign for tolerance for Magical and Earth-centered religions. 2) AMER will work to promote a positive image for Magical and Earth-centered religious groups. 3) AMER will promote cooperation among various Magical and Earth-centered religious groups. 4) AMER will serve as a source of accurate information

Between two evils,
I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

1 questioning everything. all the time. This is the key to freedom. A free mind is a superior mind, and
* superiority is what was challenged with the question that began this article.
When someone presents an idea or opinion,
* they had better be able to qualify it. Saying you feel 8?mething is true doesn't prove a thing to me. I will su_nply ask "why?" Show me what makes it so. On this basis perhaps the most correct and preferable

And when I come I whisper, "jesus christ."

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UNDEFINING SATANISM
by Tani Jantsang

People define and redefine Satanism, and argue Satan to better their worldly situations, they do this
or debate which is the TRUE Satanism. People who their own. They tend to be practical and find excet have the need to dissect it and classify it, even repugnant or foolish. Theymayormaynotdressfor! formulate it. are groping and therefore, they are NOT ritual - if they have rituals. When they resort to magic , IT. Of these there are: for a result and get it, they maintain an open mind that 1
Catholic Satanist: This type worships Lord maybe the result was coincidence or caused b Satan as some unknowable, unfathomable Lord of the something other than magic. They maintain a health; Dark. This Lord is reached through an intermediary, a skepticism in regards to any inexplicable happenings demon. These demons come in ranks and each has a that may occur. I special purpose or gives certain favors according to All of these folks miss the mark. Satanism isl the demon's title or rank. The worshipper has to give not a robe that one can put on or take off, it is not a something to the demon in return. he has to sacrifice practice or a belief. nor is it a ritual that one can something of himself. The form of conjuration and repeat in mindless repetition. It is not something one worship is highly ritualistic and stylized. "dedicates" oneself to. or makes sacrifices for.
Mohammedan Satanist: To these. there is A Satanist has a character, or state of being, nothing greater than to wage Holy War on what is the that is entropic or chaos-like. The Satanist is this
established norm, including the laws of the land. innately, unconsciously. almost like a reflex'f.
Regarded as being highly sociopathic, they will kill, Everything he does is a refection of this character, no rape, injure. harm. and even die for their Lord Satan matter what he -says or believes. He has his own and believe, in doing so, they will be rewarded in Hell values, period. He may or may not be aware of the by being made into a demon. They commit illegal acts values of his country, friends, parents, but does not! believing that they wage a Jihad and will be blessed care about their values. He has his values. He" by Lord Satan for their actions. probably never would conceive of an idea like
Gnostic Satanist: These believe that the Chaos "equalitarianism" because he knows one tree is bigger (Satan) was primal and it gave birth, or created, or than the other - obviously no two are alike. He has 1
manifested the Logos. They know Christians call the nothing in him that desires to make them alike, an acIt
Logos "Jesus" and they despise this Logos. They which would refute the real nature of things that exist,, often tend to extreme asceticism and denial of the which he can see. He does not look below himself to body, often even refusing to procreate because all "those beneath him," he simply rises up. goes forward things in the world, including their flesh, are lies, or - like entropy. He is not only aware of "a dark force in temporary, or made by that arrogant evil Logos in Nature" but he is like this force himself. He may or defiance of Lord Satan - Chaos, who is the most real may not try to give this a name. He may call it God, thing. Unlike the Mohammedan Satanist, these wage or Satan, or Nyarlathotep. or Eternal Feminine, or the> no Holy War, but tend to isolate themselves into small void, or the Black Flame, or entropy, or not give it groups or communities as a defense against being any name. He is it. He knows himself without the preoccupied with that evil lie, the mundane world of need for self exploration and definition. He usuallyi. Logos. explores things other than himself out of a desire to
Fundamentalist Satanist: These worship Lord know (curiosity), but not to navel-gaze. He may look Satan as the most high god. but unlike Catholic at history and notice others like himself. or discover a, Satanists, they claim to have direct communication philosopher writing about people like himself, but it with their Prince of Darkness. Satan talks to them in does not matter to him whether he does or not. He English, usually only in their minds, even dictating may find in modem physics a physical definition of;. entire books to them. These also tend to speak in "the dark force in Nature" and immediately recognize demonic tongues as demons possess them and reveal it as something he knows from inside himself. And unknowable truths. They also proselytize their smile.
Satanism. and tend to get into trouble as all martyrs On the other hand, if a person is the type of do. They may regard this martyrdom as the ultimate character that truly wishes to help his fellow-rna ,. expression of absolute allegiance to Lord Satan. help to raise them, or cure their ills, then this person ,s Protestant Satanist: These tend to be almost like Mother Theresa or Albert Schweitzer in nature·· agnostic in their Satanism, preferring to live more but he may want to be a Satanist and call himself that. moderately, within their means. They do not rely on His attempt then, to call himself and want to be what

he is not. is self-refutation -- highly unSatanic! This is a person who looks back at others and joins in with others, for the purpose of helping these others. He is, by these deeds. self-sacrificing and perhaps genuinely kind-hearted. There is nothing wrong with this, if such is your nature. One might cure someone who will go on to cure cancer. No value judgement is being made here. But. this person is not Satanic. Entropy goes forward and rises up. It does not slow down, stop, look back or descend.
An entropic person is Satanic. Due to his cultural context, he may be part of a Buddhist system. a Christian system or he may be an atheist and mock Man's religions, but no matter, as he is still doing, being, willing this existence that is Satanism. One cannot become something that he is not. By copying a desired end in minute detail, one apes that goal, yet the true nature will out. Willing is not trying. Trying results in fanaticism, most unSatanic. The fanatic strives against himself and fears yielding to "temptation.11 A Satanist can not be tempted - he knows what he does and does not want. and Wills this. How can there be a temptation to do what you don't want to do, or eat what you don't like, or be what you 're not? To a Satanist, integrated with his nature, this is incomprehensible.
All in all, it does not matter if you think you are a Satanist and are not. or if you think you are not a Satanist and are. You will become what you are, no matter how you deny it, fight it, or run from it. A Satanist knows who and what he is - and what he is not, regardless of nomenclature. Thus if one tries to alter his nature, he winds up aging or even dying without the realization that his life was wasted and he arrived at his true nature after all. That is why I love the Eternal Void, the utter mockery of Nyarlathotep, the driving chaos that pushes everything on, even when it does not want to go. And Satan drives on, ultimately, with no purpose.
Laugh! Play! Indulge! Enjoy! Celebrate! Be! Whether you turn out to be a Satanist or not;
life, being, existence, is a "free gift." Don't tum away rom it and hide, don't clutter it up with fanatical ideas of some "purpose," don't refute the present with "hope.11 Embrace it, cherish it, love it.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of man § as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. §
I= Life is eithera daring adventure or nothing. !=:
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(Note: Here's an example of Satanic Sin #8: Counterproductive Pride. in action. Can you see yourself in this mirror?)

Just today it happened again! Some silly fool of a Satanist wrote me a polite and intelligent letter. The writer used words which had clear meanings and the flow of logic connecting his ideas was careful and complete. The writer used courtesy. didn't jump to unwarranted conclusions. admitted that he wasn't above making human error and. all in all. made me feel that it was a meaningful and thoughtful attempt at communication.

Whaddaya mean "wrong"? A real Satanist can:t ntake a mistake! We're gods, aren't we? And God 1s erfect! Obviously if any peabrain even dares to i:nply that you've made a mistake, it's hisgoof, not
·yours. Any Satanist with any sense at all would lize that since you are God, you are never wrong. Think about it! If you ever think that you id goof,
·· ink again! A real Satanist is perfect. So tf anyone ver questions anything you say, write or do. that's oofthat they are full of shitl Tell 'em so (see Rule 1) before they try to explain anything (see Rule #2) d use any words you want to (see Rule #3).
· emember, everyone is an asshole, except you! Never give anybody any credit for anything!
You're a Satanist! Remember what that means! t means that if someone wrote something, you wrote t first! If someone said something. you said it first. If someone did something, you did it first! Why should
anyone else get credit for something? Y m_'re a Satanist! Take it! It's yours. If you say so, 1t ts so!

by Andre T. Soly
Darkness is my shrine Flesh is my altar
The Night's breath is cold
My congregation's morale falters
Through the monoliths of wood
'Twixt Nature's loving grasp and Death's icy hold 'Fore the night is done my tale will be told

I have been defiled and cast out The Mob follows the norm
Judge me by their rules accordingly
The charge is Heresy
They nod their heads in consent; in their eyes I see a glimmer of doubt .
Placing their thumbs on the scales of Justice, they
view my crime as a harm to society

What an asshole!
Didn't he understand that Satanism is the path of vicious. mindless slurs directed against one and all? Didn't he realize that like a growling half-starved
dog. a Satanist should always attack. attack. attack? Didn't he have the slightest awareness that Satanists
2.
Always jump to conclusions.
Hey! You're a Satanist, a Master of the Black Arts! You can size up anything and anyone. anywhere at a psychic glance. You already .Know all about what

Whadda're they gonna do, anyway? Nothin' ! They're
wimps!
6. Always resort to threats of violence.

The Mob states that God is fair when Men make the
rules
One must make a stand or play the fool
Insubstantial evidence was used, guilty I was found

are loners and not intellectual pipsqueaks. barbarians and not gentlemen? Didn't he ever watch The Dukes of Hazzard or other deeply Satanic TV shows?
Well. this was the last straw! After writing a threat letter and enclosing my total hatred for any pansy like that who would try to use courtesy on me, I decided to spell it out for the rest of you morons. It just grinds my guts to see this effete bullshit which passes for hard-core. redneck Satanism! Therefore I've included here a checklist you can use (if you've
got the balls. which I doubt) to get tough and be truly

someone is really trying to say before you open their I This is the real power behind you so use it as
letter or meet them in person. so why wait around for oiten as you can! You already Know what the mini the facts? Tell them what they're thinking (make sure I minds are thinking. so move in quickly! Tell them it's an insult - see Rule #1) before they open their ' what you '11 do to them before they try to say stupid mouths! Won't they be shocked at your 7 something! Only you can be a threat to them! You're godlike, Satanic psychic power of Knowing exactly not afraid of lawsuits for slander. libel, purgery.
what they really meant before they even breathe a \ intimidation or other legal nonsense! You're not word! That'll show them that they can't fool you! . afraid of the FBI or the city, county, or state police! You're smarter than they'll ever be! Now that's I You'renotafraidofSWATteams! You're not afraid Satanism! ) of judges and courtrooms! You're no afrai? of prison! You're not afraid of someone takmg senous

To the stake I am tied. it is hard to think
They shout their indoctrinated sound
The black smoke wafts into the air
The crowd is still and the sun will still shine
Who is to condemn me? Who is to say my trial was
fair?

Satanic.
CHECKLIBTFORREALSATANIBTS
1. Always insult everybody.

After all, Satan is the meanest sonuvabitch in the valley and as a Satanist you need to put everybody down. You're strong! You're tough! You don't need to put up with anything from anyone! Courtesy is for cowards and compliments are for coolies. Make them eat shit by directly and emphatically insulting every single person you meet, talk to. or write to. Let them know that you're just like Satan and give 'em Hell! This will make you lots of enemies and didn't The Satanic Bible say somewhere that everybody is your enemy already?
3.
Never define terms.
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Keep 'em guessing! Dictionaries are for dolts f
and idiots who don't have a real grasp of Satanism. After all. you're the one using the words, so let them ) mean any damn thing you want them to! Words are just ink on paper or noises in the air, anyway. Words can't be as real as a fist in someone's face or a finger up their nose! So make up your meanings as you go along. Be a real God. You're a Satanist! You make the rules! So when you want to say something, say ' anything. If the dimwits don't understand, insult them , (see Rule #1)! After all, you already KnewtheY. wouldn't understand anyway, (see Rule #2) right?

4. Never admit you're wrong.

offense and putting a contract out on you!

Hell No!
You're a Satanist! You can do anything.
...And never let anybody forget it! That's all.
HAIL ME! ...and up yours!

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments: there are are only consequences.

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The .Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey by Blanche Barton. (Feral House, Los Angeles, 1990; clothbound, 262 pages with 24 page photo insert, $19.95). Reviewed in uncorrected galley proofs.
An apocalyptic book for every Satanist and reader, because no one will find what he expects within its pages-- what he thinks he knows about LaVey and the Church of Satan will change forever.
With a nod to Burton Wolfe, armed with many more details and twenty years of perspective, Barton begins at the beginning with "Satanists Are Born, Not Made," and progresses through LaVey's childhood years, his pastimes and playmates, his literacy and musical influences, certain key ECI experiences, his time with Marilyn Monroe, all the way up to "Walpurgisnacht 1966" -- and that's on y Section I. The author makes use of what must be hundreds of hours of interviews with LaVey, as there are frequent and lengthy passages where he speaks to us directly on the topics covered. His recollections of people and places are wry, often hilarious. sometimes damning. As Barton herself observes in her introduction, "LaVey is a complex, and in many ways a fright

The Interrogation and The La"".J'er's Clerk by Anonymous. (Ryder Publishing, London. 1990; softcover, 42 pages each, $12.00 each, with airpost).
Softcore S&M erotica for those whose fantasy life may include being dominated by strong male figures in authority positions, with maybe a little whipping on the side. Written with a certain delicacy that only makes the overt sex scenes more tantalizing. If you like to think about having a Master. or about being one, these little ditties may pop your cork. Send two International Response Coupons (IRC) for a catalogue which includes many more erotic scenarios to: Ryder Publishing, BCM/Box 3406, London, WClN 3XX, England.
Dark Lily #11: The Reality of the Left-Hand Path (London, 1990; digest-sized, 28 pages, $4.00 postpaid overseas US rate). Also available via four-issue subscriptions for $16.00 postpaid: Dark Lily, BCM Box 3406, London WClN 3XX, England.
Never has the Lily's tagline title been so accurate, as this issue sheds light upon both the Temple of Set and the Catholic Church: "The Rev. Thomas Doyle, a high-ranking Catholic official... told the New York Times that paedophilia is 'the most

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t eningly deceptive man."
In addition to the juicily-detailed biographical
, chapters, including one all about St. Jayne Mansfield, LaVey analyzes films past and present ("Hell on Reels") and tells us about "Music as Necromancy." There are also several appendices, such as "How To Become a Werewolf," "Pentagonal Revisionism" and "The Hymn to the Satanic Empire." And LaVey speaks at length about a subject that often confounds Satanists and non-Satanists alike: "The Humanoids Are Coming!"
) Those who crack these pages hoping or expecting to find an account of a charming old lion tamer with some strange obects in his creepy old house (and maybe a few toys in the attic) will be disappointed. Instead of mellowing out, to put it in popular parlance, LaVey is more hard-edged than ver. The unstated message here is that it's time to lay It all on the line, and if the shoe fits... "I'm people's Worst nightmares... and more. I don't want to give anyone the satisfaction that they have me all figured out... If people only knew. I've always loved that
-,. ubiquitous Johnson-Smith Company ad copy. 'Imagine the expression on their faces!' It began in tnystecy. I want it to end that way."
Read this book to learn more about Anton LaVey than you may want to know; cozy, it ain't.

serious problem the Church has faced in centuries."' Also includes a discussion of "Why Satan?" ("why not?" I always say) and lots of contact addresses for other publications, books, products and organizations of interest to Satanists. TBF readers will certainly enjoy DL #11.
Freaks: We Who Are Not as Others by Daniel
P. Mannix. (Re/Search Publications, San Francisco, 1990; softcover, 120 pages, $11.99).
Re/Search's usual fine production, a big 8 1/211 by 1111 with photos on almost every page. Mannix is an old acquaintance of Dr. LaVey's and he is quoted throughout. Originally published in 1976, Freaks owes a debt to the observations of LaVey and to William Lindsay Gresham's chapter on freaks in Monster Midway (Also worth searching for). There is much to learn here about human oddities in general and some famous freaks in particular.
There are clear, detailed photos of Frank
Lentini, a man with three legs and two sets of genitals; of Aileen, a true hermaphrodite; of pinheads, the Lobster Boy, the Alligator-Skinned Man. and strangely-bonded Siamese twins as well as those with vestigial twins hanging from portions of their bodies (one lady dressed hers in matching outfits).
An interesting overview of some true Outsiders and how they played the hand Nature dealt them.

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be considered an institution.

TIt< - f"IIIIIIIII To the heritage traditionalist, I must say, "You're an American, damn it!" To condemn yourself
by Max to the ways of your ancestors is to live in denial of the
,---------""'--------..... 1 reasons why they left the Old Country behind and One of our local young witches (white) recently '\,'::1 rnoved here. The opportunity to create a new form of
cornered me to talk (on and on) about her new path, --- ,·- • rnagical practice should always be the main priority in the use of Runic magic. I told her that I was pleased your magical mind. I believe that what we call magic
she had decided to follow a more diverse path than f will someday be expedited by scientific means and I
the all-white magic to which she was accustomed. ' don't want to think that I would turn down the
She didn't understand. I explained that since World opportunity to try a new method because it wasn't
War II, Runic magic had been pretty much the staple exclusively Germanic or Celtic. And if you tell me
Himmler was especially keen on it and attempted ._ _ ._.· ..: _"?: ·.t,. , 's._ you are asking me to limit my magic and my own
of Odinists and travelers of the Left-Hand Path. ·.· that I can't perform voodoo rituals because I'm white,
Runic magic with his elite group of the SS. I then 7 _.... I personal sphere of understanding.
explained to her that the author whose word she was _ ···· · · - : In conclusion, I must admit that Traditional taking for gospel was himself a practicing black ,! - 1 magic does have a few words of wisdom to offer us.
magician. , - All of the traditions were made up by someone who

IIBut he publishes with a New Age press," she

l', .,,,,,.,.-=:: !JmRi •, I , was at the time creating something new and fresh in

sputtered. their magical journey. You are, as a magician, a
I pointed out that the publishers are probably (i1 citizen of the universe you create for yourself. Your
unaware of his magical interests and besides, their r; I( magical tradition begins with you. Thou art a God.
primary concern is selling books, not the color of their Let there be no magical (mage) gods before thee.
authors' magic. She refused to believe me, and I ,.;Cre;;;.;.;a;;te;.;·.;..;··;.;cr;.;ea.;,;,,;,.;te...;..;..cr ea.;.t.;.e.!..---------- finally asked her why she bothered to attempt this
type of magic. "I must follow my traditions," she whined, and I laughed.
At this point, I could probably just leave this
story as it stands, except for the fact that I just keep " · , -- hearing that stupid "T" word -- traditions. _": ·-: - • - ---, );
I honestly believe that the main concern of page from here and a page m t ere and blend them almost all of the schools of magic practiced in the last into a personalized ritual. The principle of magic is, century has been to sanction their practices with some after all, to seek out that which stimulates your inner link to pre-Christian history. Most of the time the mind into manifesting your desired outcome. I think group of practitioners will say that they are following that to use someone else's rituals just because they are 'j the tenets of some magic that was practiced by a traditional is like wearing someone else's hand- people who were wiped out by an oncoming me-down suit and pretending the suit was tailored civilization or just by natural causes centuries ago. especially for you.
Other tradition-oriented practitioners will follow a This leads me to the tradition of following a certain mage, and some will follow the mage's certain mage. These people make me laugh the teaching so closely that they will almost attempt to hardest, since they will quote almost everything the, ape the mage themselves. A third group will follow a mage has written as if it is set in stone. They seem to tradition because they feel that this magic is their think that if the mage were alive today. He/She would heritage. not have the option of changing his or her mind o,r To all of these groups, I say "Wake up and progressing any further. I also feel that in copying the
smell the coffin, er, coffee.11 Magic is a personal act mage too closely. they cannot see the elements of . that can be performed by an individual and only by their own school of magic that are borrowed front 6 that individual exclusively. In other words, only you many other sources and mixed with the mage's own can do your magic. I feel that a magician who wishes biases and personal fetishes. For example, Crowley only to perform works that have allegedly been set combined Golden Dawn with Oriental and later ' down centuries ago is lacking in imagination. I Germanic magical rites and then added in ample always view magic as I would any piece of art. (Don't helpings of drug use and bisexuality (some of they call them the Black Arts, after all?) That which Crowley's favorite pastimes). In spite of the protests ' has already been done should be appreciated, but of their followers, I think that almost all the mages there is always potential for better things. The most would have felt that the magic they were producing successful magicians I know are those who take a was mainly experimental and none of it was meant to

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The Mventures of Baron Munchausen (now on videocassette and cable movie channels).
Based upon what my German sister-in-law tells me are well-known children's stories, this film is a rollicking adventure that goes from the bottom of the sea to the moon itself. The Baron steps onto the stage fa little theatre that is presenting, oddly enough, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," and proceeds to make fantasy a reality. He has to save the

lover, who later dumps him when the strike funds
out. In a drunke fit of sorrow and anger, Ha n · attempts contact with a young neighborhood boy Why rats him out to the criminal roughnecks. Harry-0
beaten and left for dead, crucified to a an alleyw;s \ fence. Y ,
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Not a film to see when you've got the blues but fascinating and unforgettable nonetheless. '

The New Age mysticism has been having a joyride at the expense of the rational human mind. Again and again we are seeing statements to the effect that "Quantum Theory has proven that reason is a bust.11 We are being told that reality is stranger than we "can know" and that the pitifully weak and limited butnan mind is incapable of grasping the universe as itis.
Then the mystics pull out books written by (a

concept" is the use of an idea to prove itself invalid or the use of any idea to prove that its conceptual origins are invalid. For example, if I used the concept of "red11 to prove that "color" did not exist, it would be immediately obvious that what I was doing was irrational. In precisely the same way, when a physicist claims to be able to "prove11 that reason isn't reliable,
he is stealing the concept of reason to disprove reason! "Proving" something presupposes a proof

city; it's being stormed by Turks. He teams up with
the child protagonist, Sally, and they go off in a balloon made from the lacy underthings of all the generous ladies in town. The film is a visual hyperbole; the most outrageous claims to greatness and ability are instantly demonstrated to be true. The Baron even has a momentary dalliance with the most beautiful of women, Venus herself. There is a hilarious sequence involving the giant King of the Moon (played by Robin Williams in his inimitable style) and his wife; it seems they can take their heads off and get all intellectual, and mad at each other, while their bodies just keep doin' what comes naturally. This will be lost on the kiddies; they'll probably just thinks it's silly. But the rest of the film is (and I mean this) fun for the whole family. Director Terry Gilliam is at his best in the broad scope of a fantasy like this, and he lines up a superb cast, including Eric Idle, Oliver Reed, and John Neville.
Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Quite on the other hand, Last Exit interweaves several tales of life during the 1940's in an impoverished section of Brooklyn. This is indeed the City of Dreadful Night: we meet strikers, strike breakers, rowdy boys who pimp for a young prostitute in order to roll her johns, the prostitute's idealistic sailor boyfriend who finally goes off to sea, a working class stiff and the chubby girl he knocks up, as well as a host of others living in quiet, and unquiet, desperation. Their stories are sad, paltry, but the filmmakers tell them in a style that is epic and somehow magnificent. The most interesting and tragic character is Harry Black, a typical working

The First Family of Satanism. bush falls over the room) physicists! These high Magistra Zeena LaVey and Nikolas Schreck are priests of the super-religion of Science (spell this nterv ewed by televangelist Bob Lars m. The original r religion with a capital "S," please) state that there
mterv1ewwasthreehourslong,andth1stapeculledan really isn't any "reality" (The Copenhagen hour and a half from it. An even shorter version is ., Interpretation by Neils Bohr) or that reality is created now being marketed by Larson Ministries as his by your mind alone (Taking the Quantum Leap by company nosedives toward well-deserved obscurity. Fred Wolf is an example of this view) or reality is a You can inquire about the latest price for whatever ., "oneness" and any "observer" is merely an illusion version is now available at P.0. Box 36-C, Denver (The Tho of Physics by Fritjof Capra expounds on this CO 80236. ' interpretation) or there are many "realities" (so that LaVey and Schreck do a good job of explaining each choice by any entity generates a universe for
the Satanic point of view on a variety of topics.Where \ each possible choice) or "Quantum logic" (normal you or I might say "Damn right!" or "Hear, hear!" "logic" cannot understand reality and we need a Larson just gasps or looks pained. but he does let "new" logic) or consciousness creates reality (as them get their say. Apparently we Satanists are so evil i supported in The Fabric of the Universe by Denis that no further questioning from Larson is necessary; Postle) or the duplex world of Heisenberg in which he expects the audience will react as he does. "You eveiything is an unreal potential until observed.
mean you wouldn't help them?" he whines. "I'd help \ All of the above are models intended to explain you if you needed help." That's your tough luck, 1 in terms we can talk about, what Quantum Theory sucker. Schreck says it himself: "As we move into the implies about reality. Each of the above models has Satanic Century, we're going to see Christianity's last 1 one particularly serious problem. The problem is not
gasp. Satan is the god of the strong, of the powerful, over the question of whether or not Quantum Theory
and of the leaders of the world. We're getting back to is true. A theory cannot technically be "true" anyway. our animal natures. We're beasts." \ only more or less usetw. Quantum Theory has proven La Vey and Schreck are both attractive young itself to be very useful and while, eventually, it will people and speak well, but the relentless pressure of undoubtedly give way to a better theory in the course Larson's condemnation (after all, these people would 1 of time, it remains a very useful theory. No, the
like to put us all to the match, and it's not fun talking difficulty with these models is that they all undercut
to them, believe me) has made them a little grim the possibility of human knowledge. In other words, during this presentation. Combined with their for any of the above models to be correct, we could diabolical black outfits, one gets an almost Quakerish never .knowthat fact nor anything else for that matter! impression. But when Zeena cracks a smile, it is a Knowledge relies upon reason as the non- charming one. 6 contradictory identification of the facts of reality. If
you undercut reason you cannot prove or disprove

based upon reason. In the realm of knowledge you cannot pull yourself up by your own bootstraps without falling on your face!! ·
Beyond this inherent logical flaw, each of the above models denies that reason can handle the "reality" it postulates. -
The Copenhagen Interpretation is the worst in that it basically shrugs and says "What reality?11 An anti-realist position makes a mockery of explanation and is, instead, a useless apology for not pursuing knowledge.
The mind-reality model described by Wolf leaves us with a solipsism that undercuts_ the possibility of consciousness. If there is nothng separate from you to become conscious of. then consciousness is not present. To be conscious is, by definition, to be concious of something. Capra's "oneness" leads to the same reason-undercutting conclusion as do the models of Postle. Heisenberg and Wolf.
"Quantum Logic11 confuses logic with subsets of particularized mathematical situations called, incorrectly, "logic" (such as Boolean logic, for example). Reason is not just the particular way our human nervous system juggles concepts. Reason relies upon a means of identifying these concepts (and the experiences which underlie them) and then validating these concepts. The alternative to a logic which validated the facts of reality would be to use a logic which inva/idatedthe facts of reality! .
Finally, the "many worlds" model reveals itself to be not so much an explanation as a failure to explain what reality is. Please understand that the
"other realities" constantly being generated could

grunt who runs the union's strike headquarters, living off the fat of the land, distributing free beer and hoping the strike will go on forever. But something strange happens to Harry when a young gay man comes around looking for a friend of his, and Harry eventually gets drawn into a world of clever young homosexuals who smoke marijuana, dress up and go out on the town to their kind of places. Harry takes a

Die Hard.
If you 're like me and tend to avoid action i movies, or any movies with Bruce Willis, media hypester, you may have missed this one during its run 1 in theatres and on cable TV. It's a great suspense +. thriller with the most clever, Satanic villains I've seen
in a long time, and there's a stunt atop this office skyscraper you won't soon forget. Good fun.

anything! If you cannot validate or disprove anything to be true or false, existent or nonexistent, then it is impossible for you to have anything but opinion. Knowledge becomes impossible and only arbitrary assertions can be made. This error has been called "The Fallacy of the Stolen Concept" by psychologist Nathaniel Branden in his early work with the Philosophy of Objectivism. In essence the "stolen

never in any way have any information about each other to meet the needs of this theory. In other words, if this model of many realities ever did generate evidence to support it, it would be disproven! This is the rational equivalent of demanding that someone prove that UFO's don'texist!
Yet there remains one other model which does not condemn reason and the ramifications of this

model have far-reaching consequences for the serious Satanist. The author is Albert Einstein and the model is called Neorealism. Neorealists hold that the foundation of reality consists of "ordinary objects." They reject the need for reality, as we know it, breaking down when we examine the ultimate building blocks from which all the universe is composed. Neorealists belive that the proponents of the other seven quantum models are guilty of failing to distinguish between abstract extrapolation and the simplicity of every other aspect of reality thus far investigated. The Neorealist school is opposed to the "mystification" and obscurity seen most blatantly in the Copenhagen Interpretation. As Einstein explained it, "I still believe in the possibility of a model of reality -- that is, of a theory which represents things themselves and not merely the probability of their occurrence." Neorealism, in essence, holds that our familiar "common sense" view of reality can and will extend to the quantum level given time.
What we do know, to date, concerning the implications of Neorealism is that due to Bell's Theorem (which is based strictly upon observation and thus is considered reliable) it must be possible for faster-than-light (FfL) communication to go on in our very real and obj ctive universe. Whether this

the best understanding we have of the nature of reality denies all mystical cosmologies whether they are Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Shinto, Hindu, etc There is no room for contradiction in the univers such that causality does not exist. However cause and effect may just possibly be able to move across what appears to be time. In other words, it may be possible to have a future cause for a past event. (Shades of the ECI!) Causality is validated but not tied to our one-way linear conception of time. In all of this there is no loophole possible for "God" or mystical reality.
For the Satanist this is a reaffirmation of the truth of his mind's ability to understand reality and the comprehension of yet another avenue for exploring paranormal phenomena, our "Greater magic." For the religious mystic, waving the latest paperback swill of Quantum Ignorance, it is a total condemnation of their beliefs and of the minds which weakly attempt to hold those beliefs.
HAIL EINSTEIN! HAIL SATAN!

ED GEIN, AMERICA'S SECRET HERO
by James Sass
Who's your favorite psycho killer of the silver screen? Norman Bates? Leatherface? Well, you no longer have to flip a coin. No reason to tear your black heart in two, because you are about to meet all o you favorite cannibalistic, necrophilic psycho killers m one man, and better yet, he's not a figment of B-movie dreamland. He's real as grandpa. Meet Ed
, Gein.
Ed was a quiet man with a smile for everyone He and his brother, Henry, worked the 160 acre fa and tended their mother until her death in'45. Ma Gein looked after her two boys, kept 'em under her wing so to speak, and convinced 'em early on that they should stay away from them no good women and keep to tendin' the farm, which they did. After all, mother knows best.
Sometime later on, Ed's brother burned to death
in a forest fire.
Ed took to deep thinking and decided to seal off his mother's room and parlor. (Sound familiar?) When the gov rnment pr vided him with a subsidy

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involves Rupert Sheldrake's hypothetical "morphic fields" or not, we do not know. What we do know is that of all the reality models of Quantum Theory only Neorealism meets all the known criteria and then additionally undercuts all of the mystical doctrines.
Why have so many physicists succumbed to the irrationalities of the other seven models? Perhaps you can guess this by considering the words of Prince Louis de Broglie who predicted the wave nature of matter and eventually abandoned the mystical models turning again to Neorealism. As he explained, "I realized that I had been seduced by the current fashion, and began to understand why I had been so uneasy whenever I tried to give a lucid account of the probability interpretation." The truly astounding thing about these other seven perspectives is that it does not require a degree in subatomic physics to uncover the hatred behind this need to invalidate the rational human mind. You have only to understand a few rudimentary concepts involving logic.
The complete answer is simple for the Satanist to understand if we listen to the Satanist who formulated the Neorealism model: "The Heisenberg Bohr tranquilizing philosophy -- or religion? -- is so delicately contrived that, for the time being, it provides a gentle pillow for the true believer from which he cannot very easily be aroused. So let him lie there." So said Einstein and so he held to his dying day.
What are the implications for us today? First,

through the Sod Conservation Plan, Ed found himself with I_>lenty o time on his hands and started taking a keen mterest m anatomy, devouring many books on the subject.
Around this time, Ed got another bored farmer named Gus to help him dig up graves. It seems that Ed the Anatomist needed female cadavers for "experiments." "Hello Gus? This is Ed. Get on over here as soon as ya ken, an bring yer shovel. I needs some more specimens."
Little did Gus know that secretly, Ed wanted to study the structure of female genitalia in preparation for some ort of do-it-yourself transsexual operation. Ed knew 1t w_as ?est to keep quiet about such things;
a er all, he d1dn t want old Gus to think he was some kmd of a sissy.
Gus, it seems, never knew of the ultimate fate of their grave loot. He just helped Ed dig 'em up and ca_rt 'em back to Ed's shed. All in the name of science, no doubt. Who knows what Gus would have thought had he peeped into Ed's kitchen window late at night and saw him pacing the floor in his custom-tailored leather leggings, vest and mask.
r fter t e good p_arts_ were removed (head, heart, ter, mtestmes, gemtaha, strips of flesh, etc.) Ed
. Urned the excess meat and fat and buried the bones in secret place. After old Gus was carted off to the
:1rement home, gr veyards jus didn't hold the same warm for Ed. Pohshmg up his old .22 pistol, Ed alked up to the saloon in Pine Grove, shot the

barmaid, Mary Hogan, in the head, and carted her body back to the farm on a sled. All in the name of science.
Ed frequented the old hardware store in Plaii:ifield (it was J?robably where he bought his surgical tools) chattmg with the son of the woman who ran the place. Ed asked the boy when he planned to go hunting next. The boy (who also happened to be Deputy Sheriff) said he was going out the next morning. For some reason Ed told the boy, Frank Worden, that he was coming to the store the next morning to score some antifreeze.
. So... while Frank was out hunting, Ed walked mto the hardware store, bought some antifreeze, and shot Mrs. W rden in the head with a .22. Ed promptly absconded with the body and the cash register (he was curious to see how it worked) and locked up the store behind him.
Later that afternoon, Deputy Frank returned from his hunt to_find the store locked and Mommy gone. Upon entenng the store, Deputy Frank finds the space where the cash register used·to be and a pool of blood where Mommy used to be. On the counter was a receipt for one can of antifreeze! Two plus two equaled four and Deputy Frank hit the road to find Ed Gein at a diner Frank knew he frequented, but not before dispatching the Sheriff to the farmhouse.
Deputy Frank put the question to Ed: "Where's my Mommy?"
Ed answered, "Gosh, Deputy Frank, I don't

know."
Deputy Frank didn't buy it and took Ed back to the stationhouse to wait for the Sheriff and hear what he had to say.
Before too long the Sheriff returned,

SAT/\NIC ROOTS (Part II)
by Philip Marsh

glassy-eyed and pale, and told of what he had found in the Gein farmhouse: bracelets made of human skin, four human noses in a cup on the kitchen table. a pair of human lips dangling from the windowsill on a string, a torn-tom made from human flesh and a coffee can. Ed's special vest, leggings and nine masks in all. a human heart in a pan on the stove. ten female heads sawed-off at the eyebrows, another head made into a soupbowl, and a refrigerator filled with frozen body parts. All together the various pieces added up to at least fifteen women.
Poor Ed spent the rest of his life in
Wisconsin's Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
For years the old Gein farmhouse was the target of rocks and snowballs for the neighborhood boys. until one night it was
I torched. Its charred remains stood for many years as an evil landmark to the people of
Plainfield. It's said that the older residents. who still remember the incident. refuse to drive past the Gein house. They take another route.
With the miracle of home video. we can

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SOCRATES & PLATO
Socrates and Plato are linked historically. Judeo-Christianity and Humanitarianism have both sought to perpetuate this connection in order to conceal the Satanic cast of the Orphic Pythagorean-Platonic tradition by mixing it and confusing it with with the Socratic Aristotelian tradition. Only by ripping Socrates and all he represented cleanly away from Plato once and for all, which scholars who fancy themselves "moral" resist, can the Satanic cast of the Platonic-Hellenic tradition stand out.
In Plato's dialogues, Socrates is
almost invariably the principle speaker. A departure from this only occurs in Plato's later dialogues, like "Timaeus," in which the principle speaker is the eponymous Pythagorean astronomer (Freeman, p. 240).
Plato met Socrates and listened to
him. Since Socrates wrote nothing, almost all we know about him comes through Plato, in whose dialogues one must seek the ideas of both. Plato and Socrates are so easy to mix up, that one
can mistake Plato's Theory of Forms as "Socrates' Theory of Forms."

"The Socratic Question" (Plato, Pontagoras and Meno, Introduction by
W.K.G. Guthrie, p. 16). This can be a difficult problem for new readers, but there actually is almost complete agreement on the subject among scholars. In fact, there is almost complete agreement as to exactly at what point in each dialogue Plato first breaks off from Socrates and begins to speak his own ideas through Socrates.
As already mentioned, Socrates was not Hellene, but rather of the tribe of Antiochus [Antioch was in Phrygia which is now in Turkey] (Plato, "The Apology" in Great Dialogues of Plato, translated by
W.H.D. Rouse, p. 438). He was described as short, ugly, and snub-nosed (Plato, "The Theatetus" in The Dialogues of Plato, translated by B. Jowett, p. 144). His character was not only different from Plato's, but quite different from the Hellenes in general. He was utterly un Satanic.
He had nothing to say on one of the educated Athenians• favortite topics: the nature and origin of the Universe. He
was more intertested in Man's ethics, laws and customs (nomos) rather than in

plant are akin and merely part of nature, which deserves study. Socrates' words are in direct contrast to those of a medieval Pythagorean, Bernard of Morlaix, 1140 C.E., ofN.W. Europe who said "trees and stones will teach you more than you can learn from the mouth of a doctor of theology" (Graves, p. 238). Bernard was not a nature-worshipper, but according to Graves "held that the mythical qualities of chosen trees and chosen precious stones, as studied by Pythagoras, explained the Christian mysteries better than Saint Augustine had ever been able to do" (ibid).
The celebrated concept of "Platonic Love," which prudes use to rationalize their contempt of their own sexuality, was really Socratic Love. Socrates turned his back not only on Hellenic science, poetry and myth, but also on the All-Mother goddess. It will be recalled that "to apeiron," the dark force infused in nature, was considered by the Pythagoreans to be dark, unlimited, female, the source of the daimones, and the cause of all creation, generation,
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Socrates hollow boast is famous:
he claimed that, unlike his fellow Athenians, at least he knew that he knew nothing! Yet he repeatedly evinces, in the early dialogues, sheer faith in the immortality of the soul, and an unshakable, yet never satisfactorily jistified conviction that goodness, virtue and justice exist and make men h_appy
(Plato's "Gorgias," translated by Donald

nature (physis). He could not discuss the
apeiron, nor the origin of the Universe. He concerned himself with disputing ethics and political matters with clever imposters. Robert Graves believes that myths frightened or offended him, especially Pelasgian cult ideas and symbols (Graves, The Mite Goddess, pp.
10-11). In one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says "But I have no leisure at all

from touching him with self-restraint)
with Alcibiades, an Athenian youth, as attested to by Alcibiades himself in Plato's 'Symposium." Socrates turned his back on the Goddess who sent the daimones as intermediaries so men could commune with the gods. Socrates practiced a kind of intellectual homo
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J. Zeyl). His obedience to civil authority, espite having no convincing reasons for 1t, have won him the admiration of Christian, Jew, Marxist, and moralist alike. Meanwhile, Plato's Pythagorean outlook with its effort to rip off nature's dis¥11ises and seek deeper explanations, quietly, but not without immense resistance, became the approach of physical science. We shall see why Christian writers have extolled Socrates as a forerunner of Jesus Christ, the book about Whom (The Holy Bible) is still the
!>est selling book in the Westem World. It ts a little known fact, that as of 1961, the second best selling book in the Western
W orld was one that continued the
tradition of the mathematikoi: Euclid's Elements (The Main Stream of Mathe matics, Edna E. Kramer, p. 47).
S The problem of which beliefs are 0crates' and which are Plato's is referred to by students of the subject as

for such matters; and the cause of it, my friend, is this: I am not yet able, according to the Delphic precept, to know myself." (Graves, p. 11). Socrates is referring to the priestess at Delphi, who commanded him to "know thyself," a task he embarked upon. The oracle priestess seemed to know Socrates better than he knew himself, and she appears to have mocked him. She apparently knew that he considered the study of nature and the cosmos as irrelevant to self-knowledge, i.e., that Socrates was someone cut-off from nature, in mind, spirit and body. He was a confinned city man, who confessed to Phaedrus that "fields and trees will not teach me anything, but men do." (Graves, p. 11 ). Socrates was the prototypical Judeo-Christian and humanitarian ethicist, for whom man is the "element" of the Universe most deserving of thought and attention. This is opposed to the Pythagorean idea that man, beast and

the response demanded was sexual, emotional, or intellectual. Diotima of Mantineia, the Arcadian witch we have already met in connection with Plato's theory of the daimones, cursed Socrates for this. She warned him that a man's love should be directed toward women, that three female Muses (the Hellenic Triple Muse) presided over all acts of creation and generation, whether physical, intellectual, or spiritual. She told him the godd sses Cybelle and Ishtar in the Temples of Attis tolerated sodomy between men in their temple courts, but she warned him that the ideal of intellectual homosexuality, or the severance of a man's psyche, thoughts and feelings from the female principle in nature, was a far more serious aberrancy and offence. She was referring to Socrates' efforts to make his intellect spiritually self-sufficient, to cut himself free from what Goethe called "the eternal

feminine principle" and what Carl Jung called "a man's anima." She warned him he would not escape the power and wrath of the All-Mother in her many forms: Leucotheia, Hecate, Athena (Graves, pp. 10-12).

disrepute of myth, magic and science. According to Graves, the myths and their language survived "purely enough in the mystery-cults of Eleusis, Corinth, Samothrace and elsewhere, and when they were suppressed by the early

doing an injustice. He says th dictates that it is just that th at nature have a greater share of thing: 8 Perior inferior. A superior man, he sat' an the not seek to restrain his pie H, does
appetites, he devotes his coau sure or .,

orean (Freeman, op. cit. p. 18), pythagto have regarded this step of the
,eenis as a form of Katharsis, a release process·ng from lies and falsehoods. This otp0rr called the Socratic "elenchus"
state is Protagoras and Meno, W.K.C.

real existence." Theatetus answers, "Yes, knowledge. The search within oneself for indeed Socrates, they are very hard and clear definitions of ethical ideas a la
impenetrable mortals." "Socrates" Socrates is abandoned.
continues, "Far more ingenious are these A dramatic example ofa priori brethren whose mysteries I am about to knowledge was the case of Pascal, the reveal to you." (Plato, "Theatetus," French mathematician, whose Christian

As a result of her curse, Socrates

Christian Emperors, they were still taught

intelligence to maximizing his :aage .a_nd

(p/ato·e,

see h.is .mtro. to the "Meno," p.

translated by B. Jowett, p. 157). father forbade him to study geometry. On

got Xantippe, a peevish, scolding shrew of a wife. His beloved Alcibiades became a self-destructive, vicious, treacherous ruinator of Athens. Socrates died under a death sentence from a court of Athens by drinking hemlock, a leaf sacred to Hecate, perfecting the delicious revenge of the All-Mother prophesied by Diotima. Denial of the Dark Principle, as Nietzsche pointed out, results in what he called the Apollonian (ordered, logical, mechanical, rational), completely severed from the Dionysian (intuition, instinct, passion, inspiration), which results in Akatharti, or Thanatos: a man who is a head with no body, or a man whose head is at war with the rest of his body. Hence we have the Christian and other mind body dualisms wherein "the evil body" is always causing "the pure mind" to have "evil thoughts." These so-called "evil thoughts" are in fact basic biological human natural instincts! This dualism is "the Apollonian at war with the Dio nysian, or severed from the Dionysian," as if the person is utterly cut-off from Nature, even his own Nature, as in Socrates. Pythagoreans, with their measurement of interval, measurement of harmonies, and their profound logic with their inspiration and Katharsis, is an
example of a perfect blend of Apollonian
and Dionysian which results in "Zoos" and "Eros." The Dionysian can exist in a person by itself without the Apollonian, and the person will still be Zoos-Eros (health of mind, body, and spirit), however one might consider such a person "stupid." There is also the case of a totally Apollonian person who is also Thanatos, who intellectually decides (I) to "become Dionysian;" and he makes a pathetic attempt to intellectually bring out his instincts (instead of just "let go," feeling which he is unable to do). The result is the inverse-Christian, still exclusively Apollonian, that is, Thanatos; and now thoroughly self-deluded.
It is no wonder then, that the exclusively Apollonian and Thanatos type of person finds the Pythagorean type, or Plato's Philosopher type, to be "mystical." It is no wonder either, that the Thanatos type despises, fears, ridicules, , and battles what he can never be.
This martyrdom of Socrates, which is understood in the Judeo Christian world to be some sort of self-sacrifice made for "freedom of speech and thought," enabled his influence to rise, contributing to the

in the poetic colleges of Ireland and Wales, and in the witch-covens of Western Europe." (Graves, p. 12). This article will trace them as they survived in a Platonic form of magic called Theurgy that was forced underground by the Christian Emperors after they had destroyed, by Imperial edicts, the finest works of the Pythagorean tradition.
Socrates' formal legal charge was one of corrupting the youth of Athens. To the young Plato, Socrates seemed only to be disabusing smug teachers and pretenders to virtue of false ideas they had about their reputed knowledge of politics, ethics and the pursuit of the good life. Socrates' refusal to escape his death sentence when offered an opportunity to do so, is taken by some moralists who advocate "tum the other cheek" to be an exemplary instance of submitting to the will of bad men. Others extol Socrates' self-sacrificing obedience to legal and civil authority and its judgements rather than committing what Socrates argued in his final moments of life, to be the "greater evil" of disobeying, escaping and thereby breaking the law willfully. His absolute faith in an afterlife expressed moments before he drank the hemlock, with not one shred of evidence or science to back it up, and his unshakable conviction as to the virtue of his accepting the death sentence, has led some commentators to compare him directly to Jesus (Five Great Dialogues, translated by Reverend B. Jowett, in the introduction by Louise R. Loomis, p. 7).
Undoubtedly the pride Judeo Christian and humanitarian intellectuals feel about Socrates' death is first and foremost augmented by the fact that the only time Socrates ever got bitter or ill mannered in any dialogue was in Plato's "Gorgias," in which he had the ill-luck of a head-on encounter with a Satanic personality named Callicles. Callicles presented to Socrates the Satanic idea that customs and laws are purely matters of mutual agreement and convention, and are contrary to nature. The correct thing to do, Callicles says, is to follow nature, and if one's nature is above or outgrows petty convention and morality, that man should put himself above the law and be his own law. Callicles says it is his natural right and even duty to do this, and to seek to dominate and use what he can for his own personal gratification. Callicles further states that suffering what is unjust is certainly more shameful than

for these. Finally, Callicles staiacit1cs laws were devised by the Wea s that restrain, as much as possible, the str er to (Plato, "Gorgias," translated byJ ger pp. 52 and ff). · YI,
Socrates launches intoa \V argued refutation of hedonism but en. until after he unexpectedly loses bius not ti o_erance,.w1 andh?fht-"ts1mes humor. TShUaaJtt t his tantrum m w ic ocrates comes
near to bl ws as we ever see, is genuinef , Socrates response to Callicles andn y Plato's is attested to by the fact that t "Gorgias" is one of the dialogues belon : ing to Plato's early period, in which: was more concerned with presentine , Socrates' views than his own. It does belong to the later group in which Plato uses Socrates and others to relate his Pythagorean ideas (Plato, "Gorgias • " translated by D.J. Zeyl, introduction, no
2, p. xii). We shall later deal briefly with Plato's idea, one that has stuck painfully in the soft craw of the Judeo-Christians and humanists for two-thousand years, 1 that the philosopher-king is "above the law."
The young Plato seems to hl!_ve i regarded Socrates much as did other Athenians, as a fascinating, but unusual bird. Socrates certainly did exercise a fascination on Athenian youth, and even I old folks are said to have thrown blankets on the ground in fair weather just to see
him go into one of his cataleptic trancesI
wherein he stood motionless for hours, an activity more than one historian, such as Nietzsche, found "morbid." Socrates claimed to be under the influence of a \ daimon (demon) himself, who was obviously unable or unwilling to teach him anything. Socrates claimed the l demon warned him whenever he was about to do something unvirtuous! He received no such warning before drinking the hemlock (which killed him) - so hde • drank it (Plato, "The Apology," translate by F.J. Church, p. 47). .
In Plato's early dialogues, whic,h are generally accepted as a true representation not of Plato's own thoughts but of what Socrates actuailY said and did, Socrates states that ei engages in a two-step process i his conversations with pretenders to virtue and ethical "knowledge." .,
In the first stage, Socrate disabuses or rids them of false ideas an smug convictions. Many of his yerbad victims showed appreciation for this, a , the young Plato, already innate l

ou;tin'this stage, one discovers that one tO · Uy like Socrates: one knows only is ,:eahe knows nothing! (Let us hope that ists do not look inside themselves
51 1iscover that they know nothing, that
:Wd be dangerous!).
Socrates himself called the second e of the process "mental midwifery"
,tag·eutic) in which he aided his students
.(mad1eliver' ing, or g.i. vmg b"irth to i"de s
1 ready locked inside themselves, as if 'hey were pregnant. Socrates' method
! tended to assist Athenian youth in dinefining and redef".n mg moraI, p 1.1·t1 ,a I
r religious terms hke courage, JUStice,
d piety according to their own insights. The young Plato, we shall see, interpreted this as an example of_ the Pythagor an anamnesis or recollection, an awakening from the forgetfulness that comes with rebirth. But instead of remembering former existences, Plato focused on the remembrance of the deepe_r laws of nature and the cosmos, not merely moral or political notions.
PLATO
There is a great deal of agreement as to exactly when Plato takes over and begins to use Socrates as a mouthpiece for his own ideas in the dialogues. This occurs in the "Meno" at Section 8lA (Plato, Protagoras and Meno, W.K.C. Guthrie, p. 129 and ff). The tone of the dialogue changes abruptly and "Socrates" suddenly refers rather atypically to the view of certain "priests and priestesses" and "poets who are divinely inspired" (ibid. p. 129). He then proceeds to introduce the Pythagorean notion of anamnesis.
There are many oblique references to the Pythagoreans in Plato's later dialogues, in which characters other than "Socrates" begin to be used as Plato's mouthpieces. More than one scholar has noticed how wary Plato is of mentioning Pythagoras by name (he does so only once!) and how careful he is not to identify the Pythagoreans by name (Which he also does only once!) (Burnet, op. cit. p. 85). In the "Theatetus," "Socrates" is·made to say, immediately
?efore a Pythagorean doctrine is Introduced, "Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now, by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but What they can grasp in their hands, and Who Will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have

These later dialogues are separated his own, the brilliant boy drew on his from the early ones by what puzzled and floor, and was up to the 32nd theorem of perplexed Plato scholars _have call_ed a Euclid's Elements before he got caught. "wide interval of phtlosoph1cal Plato would have said that Pascal speculation." (Jowett, op. cit. p. 709). The remembered this.
real "interval" is that the Pythagorean Plato has a proof of this, which
Plato takes over. His youthful fascination may have been used by Pythagoras forSocrates seems gone. himself in teaching the mathematikoi. In The evidence that Plato was a 'The Meno," "Socrates" (as Plato's Pythagorean is indirect. Much of Plato's mouth- piece) interrogates an unschooled knowledge is said to have been slave boy about the sort of thing which transmitted to him from a Pythagorean Socrates (the real Socrates) himself never book he obtained. The book was written quizzed anyone on: mathematics. He asks by the Pythagorean Philolaus, who , as the slave boy how to make a square the first Pythagorean known to wnte double in area to any square you might anythingdown.ThestoryofhowPlato give him to start with. The boy
purchased this book through a man incorrectly says "you double the sides." named Dion of Syracuse is preserved by "Socrates," by asking him the right Iamblichus (this fragment appears in Kirk questions, gets the boy to discover that and Raven, op. cit. p. 221). This book such a doubled square really has four perished in the general hristi:in times the area of the original. By destruction of the authentic Orphic- continuing to press the issue, the b y Pythagorean-Platonic tradition, but a discovers that to make a square doublem copy of it was preserved by Plato's area, you have to make its sides equal to nephew and successor as head of the the diagonal of the original square. Like academy Plato founded. The dialogue, this:
"The Meno," in which scholars see the ....-r:::7
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written after Plato met a Pythagorean
named Archytas of Tarentum, a pupil of This may be obvious to some readers Philolaus. Written correspondence who have already studied Euclidean between Archytas and Plato has survived, geometry, but, the boy has studied and Archytas once intervened to save nothing. "Socrates" never gives the boya Plato's life (Freeman, p. 233 and ff). decent clue he just pressures the boy to Archytas was the inventor of mathe- ferret out contradictions and falsehoods matical mechanics (ibid. p. 237). Plato that his wrong guesses logically lead to. was about 40 years old at this time. By this example in "The Meno," Plato's dialogue "The Timaeus" is so Plato believes he has convinceda reader purely Pythago ean that the cla_im was that certain men are not borna "tabula made in the ancient world by Diogenes rasa" (blank slate for a mind). The idea Laertius, that Plato plaigerized "The that all men are equally, by birth, blank Timaeus" from the lost book Philolaus of mind and get filled up with knowledge wrote (Kirk and Raven, op. cit. p. 308). and teaching to their capacities, isa
A complete account of Plato's humanistic, environmentalistic, and
philosophy will not be given here. Instead egalitarian falsehood that has becomea we will pursue only what is relevant to dogma. The latter doctrine (blank slate) the Satanist and what is relevant to the comes from Aristotle. Leibniz, the Judeo-Christian cover-up. inventor of the Calculus, already quoted
As stated earlier, the notion Plato above should be someone who knows presents in "The Meno" is not the something about where newmathe- Pythagorean doctrine of anamnesis as a matical ideas come from (he had them). key to recollecting prior existences, but Leibniz said Plato's proof in 'The Meno" rathera type of anamnesis wherein one of the doctrine of recollection was recollects or rediscovers, deep within "excellently well considered,a fine oneself (if one is what Plato called a experiment." Leibniz referred to the "philosophos") knowledge of the order of interrogation method _used on e b )'. as the cosmos, of nature. Thus one can "animadversion" - a kind of stnct, critical recollect it if one has it! This knowledge questioning procedure. He stated that is rather blandly and evasively referred to Aristotle's concept!on o_f t e soul asa toda , by academicians as "a priori" "blank slate" at birth is vulg .

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popular notion." He said "Plato goes deeper. Aristotle's influential ideas on this subject {and in general) are good for ordinary usage of life, for there it serves no purpose to go further." {Leibniz, op. cit. pp. 44-46).
This idea of innate ideas or knowledge surfaced again in a new form in the last decade when the world's leading entomologist, E.O. Wilson, collaborated with a mathematician and physician named C.J. Lumsden, to formulate a "new" science they called "sociobiology." This science attempts to formulate, in the light of the

Contrary to this, Plato presents in his Republic, Book VI, and in his "Theatetus," the notion that there must be at least four levels or degrees of knowing characterized in the Republic as 1) ignorance or conjecture, 2) opinion or belief, 3) understanding and 4) reason (Five Great Dialogues of Plato, trans lated by W.H.D. Rouse, p. 309). Those who misunderstand this theory Plato presents very simply out of courtesy to the unfamiliar, are those alluded to above in the "Theatetus" as "hard and impene trable," i.e., those lacking the spirit of the philosopher, those who can never know

incomplete fashion, the object castin . What makes a baseball, Plato seemsg 11. saying, is its imitation of to1ie participation in, a Form "Baseball"'· and Realm of Forms which do not ex·in the least as a whole in space. But inl t, a,t dialogues, Plato seems to say th
only Forms he really perceived toa he are mathematical, structural, and ;"1st• Forms. An example is the Fonns ofR 1 and Wrong. For example, Dr. LaVe 1&.1
The Satanic Bible, characterized ce
unreleased emotions as "malignant" 1b1:1
clearly implies that he has an innate se 18
ofR1.ght vs. Wrong, a sense which••

to write out these numbers would uire an infinite procession of digits. A ar stool with a square seat of l' per side s a diagonal which can be represented fi•, an irrational number. A
a5thematikoi or Platonist is apt to see
.,, this infinite, "a1>;iron" which is in fact in the everyday ob,Ject.
Some people can directly see the
•nfinite in the finite without any athematical training, just as easily as
1o 5001e people can directly hear the differences in musical intervals without
any musical training. It is known to these

So it is indeed number (atomic number) and harmony or attunement that determines "goldness" and "leadness." Number alone also determines heavy or light in the laws of celestial mechanics as formulated in Isaac Newton's Principia.
Aristotle persisted in the method of Socrates, which has no value at all in the realm of natural science. Aristotle used a method of seeking to define some sort of obscure, mystical "essence" of gold and lead, a method that Socrates applied in his favorite area of "research": Morality.

Philosophy of Plato, Oxford, 1949). Plato and Pythagoras both would have reminded him that this is natural only to someone born with the Forms in his "spirit," no matter how dimly imprinted. No amount of teaching, as Liebniz said, can confer on someone an idea that is not already in his "spirit" (one might read, "in his genes"). "Platonism is a natural philosophical inclination of mathe maticians, in particular those who think of themselves as the discovereers of new truth, rather than of new ways of putting old ones or making explicit logical

revolutionary discovery of DNA by
Watson and Crick, how genetic imprinting at the moment of conception determines one's cast of mind, abilities, and even the kinds of social systems and choices that individuals, entire societies, and races will make. {Genes. Mind. and Culture, C.J. Lumsden and E.O. Wilson).
E.O. Wilson has since returned to private curating at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, due to the fact that abuse and even water and coffee were consistently thrown at him when he lectured on this science - thrown by egalitarians claiming to be "anti-fascist." Dr. Lumsden has continued his Sociobiological studies with new
' associates at the University of Toronto where there is more academic freedom than in the U.S. {Author's note: All studies of identical twins separated at birth and raised in vastly different environments, who are later found, brought together, and studied, prove these data to be true. The identicalness in character, thinking, IQ, etc. of these twins is genetic, having nothing to do with the environment). Plato's notion of inborn or innate knowledge not common to all
I men, remains deeply offensive to many.
I Plato states that when a "soul" ' overcomes the forgetfulness which shrouds it at birth, it may {if it is the soul
of a philosopher) discern within itself what Plato called The Forms {"Idea" in Greek). This is Plato's controversial Theory of Forms, and will be dealt with here because it is commonly thought to be some sort of "other-worldly nonsense" or a pernicious dualism of "heaven wherein the Forms reside, versus an earth in which mere sense data reign."
This sort of dualism can actually be found in Parmenides, one of Plato's Hellenic predecessors {see Kirk and Raven, chapter X). Parmenides had a dualistic epistemology: there was the
I "Way of Truth" by which one obtains knowledge of the "One Reality" versus the "Way of Seeming" which is never knowledge, but falsehood, and is about the objects of the world of the senses
{Kirk and Raven, ibid.).

because it is not "within their spirit," as Leibniz put it. Plato likens them to benighted men trapped in a dark cave who can see only shadows on the walls of the cave, but are too distant themselves for the cave-dwellers to even suspect as existing. These people live without ever knowing what really exists, mistaking shadows for realities, and only some are ever able to transcend this predicament
{Plato's Republic, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, p. 312 and ff). The philosopher or "talented" individual finds his way out of the cave and perceives the Forms of which the shadows cast inside the cave are but pale imitations.
This cave of ignorance is left behind not by abstinence, prayer or good works, but by the study of arithmetic, geometry, music and harmony, astronomy, etc. (Republic, Book VII).
Plato is oftentimes considered to be the first Greek philosopher to have consciously thought anything could exist otherwise than in space, i.e., that something could exist without occupying or taking up space {This is the opinion of Kirk and Raven, op. cit. p. 250). Plato's favorite example is one that comes readily to mind: numbers; but he said that none of the other Forms exist in space.
Virtually all of the problems and objections intelligent people can come up with against this Theory of Forms were known to Plato himself, and are argued in his later dialogues. This lead the 20th century mathematician and process philosopher A.N. Whitehead to quip that all philosophy in the West ever after was but a "series of footnotes to Plato" (quoted in the introduction to Euthwhro. Apology. Crito, by Plato; introduction by Robert D. Cummings, p. vii).
The Forms, then, are one of the kinds of things the soul remembers when it overcomes amnesia and emerges from Plato's allegorical "cave of shadows."
In presenting the Theory of Forms in his dialogues, Plato at first implies to the uninitiate that everything known in the world of sense has a Form it "participates" in or mimics (methexis), much as a shadow mimics, in a deficient,

utterly lacking i many people, usuan18 t referred to as sociopaths or psychopath and.c rtainly innately deficient in mo:t Chnstians.
Plato seems to have held, likewise -ii that_ bas ball, for example, does not participate m an Eternal Form "Baseball" but indubitably does participate in an'd mimics the Form Sphere, the number PI and other such Forms. '
Two comments are in order: 1. Sociopaths, psychopaths and many so- > called "moral" people considered legally sane in Judea-Christian society can never seem to learn or have instilled in them any ideas of right vs. wrong, no matter t how much one threatens, rewards, or teaches them. Many revel in the emotions Dr. LaVey characterized as malignant, and even seem to prefer being unreleased \ or pent-up emotionally (akatharti), to being released. Plato would have said they are truly ignorant and they can not be taught. But he also stated the obvious: they can be made to obey, in many cases, and should be made to - that is "justice."
2. Regarding mathematical Forms: the l'
concept may seem too technical, but is necessary to elaborate as these Forms were of primary interest to both Plato and \ his mathematikoi predecessors.
Most readers will understand that any baseball is never truly a sphere, yet they will admit they have an idea of a ,, true sphere - a Form Sphere. Someone who has left the cave, as Plato would say, has seen the Form Sphere in a clearer way than most, and may even be able to ' define this Form as "all points in a three· dimensional space that are exactly the same distance from the central point." Remarkably, some may even be able to define and discuss a hyper-sphere, such
as a four-dimensional sphere. When mathematicians discuss these arcane subjects, does anyone ever wonder where 1 they have gotten these ideas? .
An interesting futher example 15 v
the realm of irrational or incorn· mensurable numbers, such as PI or ./2.
The Pythagoreans called such numbers "alogon," meaning they could not be spoken or written, and they were correct

people the same way: by direct
awareness, direct perception. There are those who cannot directly perceive these things who would dictate to the ones who can, what "can or what can not be perceived" and argue the fact that anyone can perceive it at all, or just outright attack the person as a "mystic." The most ins.idious thing these "can not know" types do is learn all the correct words of those who can perceive, and then proceed to declare themselves "the experts." As you will see later, this is exactly what Christian theologians did with Platonism. The only ones fooled were the ones who do not have the innate ability to Know. The ones who can and do Know have never been fooled - and are not fooled. These insidious parasites of knowledge cannot fool the knowers but they can and do persecute them, which only drives it all underground - again.
The Pythagorean dictum "all things are numbers" was a puzzle to Aristotle. He never could grasp, any more than the akousmatikoi could, how number alone could make the difference between lead and gold, or heavy and light in weight. He ridiculed these notions, implying that Plato and the Pythagoreans were making the nonsensical assertion that numbers exist outside space, and yet have weight, or as if they were saying some numbers are gold, others are lead, etc. Modem mathematical physics has completely vindicated the Pythagoreans and Plato. The Schroedinger Wave Equation and other equations describe perfect attunements, intervals and harmonies in detail. In certain of these equations, a number like one can be plugged in at certain variables and the equation collapses or reduces to a detailed description of the shape of a hydrogen atom. But if the number two is substituted in these equations in the same lac:s, the equations reduce instead to a
h et lled description of the shape of a
• chum atom. Such numbers are called atomic numbers," and the same can be ione by substituting 79 for gold and 82 or lead, though the mathematics with ch high atomic numbers gets too fticult for the best human brains.

The Hellenistic atomist, Demo
critus, a predecessor of Plato, appears to have attributed to the atoms (which he said constituted all things) various random shapes, like pebbles on the shore, but much tinier. Plato, on the other hand, insisted that atoms must conform to regular shapes, such as the five regular three-dimensional solids, as in modern chemistry (Freeman, op. cit. p. 223). Platonic misrepresentation, in modern times, can go to great depths. (See Hogben, Mathematics for the Millions, pp.229,ff)
Not only Aristotle, but other ancient writers, like Plutarch, appear to be a source of the wrong idea that Plato refused to have "recourse to the visible" and instead "relied upon pure reason." (Freeman, p. 237). What Plutarch should have said is that Plato was condemning ad hoc ways of studying astronomy (ibid.). .
Plato's entire dialogue, "The Parmenides," seeks to reconcile logic and thought with sense perception {Freeman,
p. 152). This is obviously never a problem for those already characterized as not having Forms in their "spirit" to begin with. What they "see" with their senses is all they can know!
Plato was not a dualist, but held to an hierarchy of kinds of "knowing," or degrees of truth (recall levels of hearing: tone-deaf all the way to perfect pitch). His position on the ideal Forms was not an assertion, but an inference based on direct sense perception, combined with intuition, from the obvious perception of "more real than" to its limit. Gifted and intelligent people have no lack of ideas that some things are more permanent or real than others, more independent of sense perception, and more or less capable of being described. Most people lack any such awareness. To most people, such thinking is strange and alien, even puzzling and "mystical." Plato's whole epistemology, unlike Parmenides', is one of gradation to ideal limit. G.C. Field, the most understanding Plato scholar, stresses the naturalness of the transition from the "more or less" concepts to the "absolute" ones {G.C. Field, The

consequences that were already implicit."
(S. Korner, The Philosophy of Mathematics, p. 15).
Over and over again, creative,
productive scientists and thinkers side with Plato and Leibniz, like Heinrich Hertz, the discoverer of electromagnetic or "wireless" waves:"One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and intelligence of their own, and that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them." (Kramer, op. cit. p. 90). The scoffers at Plato, those who abused Pythagoras as "mystikos logos" or "mystic," have been the intellectually barren, sterile souls who can only conserve, criticize and analyze, but not create. And, they conserve it innacuratelyl It is as if, even when told, they jlst can not .knom
Plato admitted that, in some cases, things are what they appear to be ("Theatetus," translated by B. Jowett, pp. 153-154). He refutes dualism succinctly (loc. cit. p. 250 & ff). Yet, he insists "the true lover of knowledge strives after being. He will not rest at those multitudinous phenomena whose existence is appearance only." (quoted in The Unfrerse and Dr. Einstein, Lincoln Barnett, p. 113). This drive or love (Eros) for knowledge remains a puzzle to those characterized (above) by Leibniz and Plato as vulgar, hard and dense.
Plato's approach is that of science at its best today. Einstein said, "To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull fafulties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." (Barnett, op. cit. p. 108).
If the reader pursues Plato's theory of knowledge in greater depth, he will be surprised at how many of Einstein's own terms (in the above quote) recur in Plato: "highest wisdom,'' "most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive •forms'

feeling.
If you can understand this, you will correctly understand what Plato meant when he called the world of eyeball sight a "prison house." Otherwise,

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Pythagorean Philolaus was preserved. This school continued in existence, despite the persecutions, for over 900 years, until the Christian Emperor Justinian closed it in 529 C.E., but not before it produced the most eloquent enemies the Christians ever encountered, as we shall see in the final section to follow next quarter. Friedrich Nietzsche, who had little to say in approval of anyone {!), cast his final judgement on Plato as being one of those who wanted to see "how far his strength will reach. But they do it as individuals ....how far man might be driven in his evolution where has the
plant "man" hitherto grown up most magnificently." (Nietzsche, The Will to Power, translated by Kaufman and Hollingdale, p. 511).
In the following section we shall very briefly cover Neo-Platonism in the Christian era, the deadly enemies of Christianity it produced, how Platonism was co-opted or absorbed by Christian theologians, and how magic survived in the early Christian era as a Platonic prerogative or occupation in the form of Theurgy, Hecate devotion, and knowledge through "demons."
(Next quarter Part 3, Meo-Platonism)

Tulpa Spell Bondage by Diabolos Rex

ignoring or politely rebuffing anothe; and instead jump all over peopl without wisdom or foresight. What happened to Lesser Magic? What • happened to reserving your opinion until it is sought? (Satanic Rule of the Earth #11) What's wrong with being . nice when it won't cost you anything, and might even get you a thing or two?
You'll catch more flies with honey
- wontcha, Honey?

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Nick Bougas

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'''Nick Bougas''' is a white Supremacist artist who published in [[Tom Metzger]]’s [[White Aryan Resistance]] (WAR) newspaper. An associate of [[Adam Parfrey]], he made documentaries about [[Anton LaVey]] and [[Charles Manson]].

The Black Flame

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According to the [[Church of Satan]], ''The Black Flame'', "the International Forum of the Church of Satan", began in 1989, during a period when its previous publication ''The Cloven Hoof'' was on hiatus. ''The Black Flame'' ultimately produced 16 editions from 1989 to 2005, produced first with the intention of being quarterly, before being produced bi-annually, and finally intermittently.

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|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||first publication, original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 2
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|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 1
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|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 3]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(3).pdf|scan]]||
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|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(1).pdf|scan]]
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|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)|| [[Media:The Black Flame 2(2).pdf|scan]]||
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|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 3]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(3).pdf|scan]]||
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|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 4]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(4).pdf|scan]]||announcement of switch to biannual instead of quarterly production
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|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(1-2).pdf|scan]]||
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|1992||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 3 and No. 4]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(3-4).pdf|scan]]||gratuitous quote by Adolf Hitler: "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
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|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVII AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(1-2).pdf|scan]]||page one missing, including first portion of "Thoughts on the Riots", HIV/AIDS blame debate begins here
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|1993||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(3-4).pdf|scan]]||''Siege'' by James Mason reviewed
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|1994||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(1-2).pdf|scan]]||Deboo's article opposing fascism, Moynihan's article on the "Faustian Spirit" of fascism
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|1995||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(3-4).pdf|scan]]||
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|1996||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (1-2).pdf|scan]]||
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|2000||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (3-4).pdf|scan]]||Anton LaVey memorial issue
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|2005||[[The Black Flame No. 16]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 16.pdf|scan]]||final ''Black Flame'' volume, page 1 is repeated,
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==[[The_Black_Flame_Vol._1_No._1|Volume 1, Number 1]]==
'''Contributors''': [[Peter H. Gilmore]] ("Have your cake and eat it too!"), Max ("The Devil in Daylight"), Clinton Smith ("Recognizing Pseudo-Satanism"), Morgain Blake ("Choosing a Familiar"), Pagan X ("Invocation to Cthulhu", "Invocation to Shub-Niggurath"), Nemo ("The Purpose of Life", "A Piece of the Action: A Ceremony of Satanic Magic"), [[Peggy Nadramia]] ("Odditorium"), Max ("Mystical Junkie"), Diabolos Rex ("Yuggoth Text");

'''subjects''': n/a

'''ads''': none

'''other''': quote by Russian violinist Jascha Heifetz; Odditorium mentions include ''Freak Show: Presenting Human'' ''Oddities for Amusement and Profit'' by Robert Bogdan. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988; hardcover; 322 pages; $29.95); ''Critique: Exposing Consensus Reality'' (magazine); ''S.E.T. FREE'', the newsletter of the ''Society to Eradicate Television''; ''School is Hell'' by Matt Groening (Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; paperback; about 50 pages; $5.98)

==Volume 1, Number 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("We are legion!"), [[Blanche Barton]] ("The Satanic Witch, Now Playing At Theatres Near You", quote box, "Archetypes, the Fourth Dimension, and Everything"), Magdalene Graham of ''Dark Lily'' magazine ("Re-Defining Satanism"), Max ("The Best Satanic Revenge", "Slaying the Monster"), Setnahkt ("A Statement Against Normalization"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium", "Magic Lantern Show: Satanic Cinema"), Nemo (book review, movie review, "Satanism, Reason, and Mysticism"), Alex Loss (report in "Hellspawn"), Algar Langton of Thormynd Press ("Order of Nine Angles"), Pagan X ("Man In Black"), Glenda Green ("Imagine Before 1966"), Julian Karswell ("A New Satanic Solid?"), Paul Aarons ("Satan's Protest"), Morgain Blake ("Dressing Like Hell"), [[Tani Jantsang]] ("Mephistopheles-Nyarlathotep-Ob-Satan"), Diabolos Rex (art "Oderatüs Beastüalis");

'''Subjects''': ''[[Dark Lily]]'' magazine (Magdalene Graham), Rev. Yaj Nomolos, The 88 Temple Ov Deities (Miami, Fla.), Adel Lazch Souto, The Raven School/Church of the Raven, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), High Priest Luther, [[Order of Nine Angles]], ''Fenrir'' (ONA newsletter)

'''Ads''':'' [[Lamp of Thoth]]'' magazine (Chris Bray), ''The Satanic Witch'' by Anton Szandor LaVey ([[Feral House]]), Magickal Childe (New Age shop formerly "The Warlock Shop"), ''Tortures & Torments of the Christian Martyrs'' by Antonio Gallonio (Feral House)

'''Other''': Friedrich Nietzsche quote, L. Frank Baum quote via The Scarecrow; Odditorium mentions include ''The Magicians: An Investigation Of A Group Practicing Black Magic'' by Gini Graham Scott, PhD. (New World Books, San Francisco, 1986; softcover, 219 pages, $15.00); ''The Satanic Witch'' (formerly ''The Compleat Witch'') by Anton Szandor LaVey (Feral House, Los Angeles, 1989; soft cover, 274 pages, $9.95); Re/Search by Andrea Juno and V. Vale; ''Dark Lily: The Voice of the Left-Hand Path''; ''GANYMEDE'' magazine, ''Modern Ritual Magic: The Rise of Western Occultism'' by Francis King (Avery Publishing Group, Garden City Park, NY, 1989; softcover, 224 pages, $10.95), formerly ''Ritual Magic in England''; Satanic Cinema mentions include "Batman", "Dead Poets Society";

==Volume 1, Number 3==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Nemo, Wayne Hill, Tani Jantsang, Elizabeth Selwyn, Max, R. Elizabeth Fox, Excelsior Nineangle, Peggy Nadramia, Morgain Blake, Honey LaSalle, K. Bolton, Glenda Green, Natasha Page, Diabolos Rex, [[Anton Szandor LaVey]];

'''mentions''': The Raven, Magickal Childe (New Age shop), The Occult Emporium, ''Satanism In America'' by Shawn Carlson and Gerald Larue.

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 1==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, K. Bolton, Earl Hammons, Tempest, Nemo, Richard de Lago, Natasha Page, Diabolos Rex, Tani Jantsang, Morgain Blake, Peggy Nadramia, Max, Honey LaSalle, Blanche Barton, Philip Marsh;

'''mentions''': [[Feral House]], ''Satanism In America'', [[Order of the Left-Hand Path]] (New Zealand), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes" (film by [[Nick Bougas]] starring Anton LaVey)

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Nemo, Reuben Radding, Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, Tani Jantsang, Ipsissimus John Wayne, Andre T. Soly, Peggy Nadramia, Max, James Sass, Philip Marsh, Jayne Wayne, Diabolos Rex;

'''mentions''': Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', ''Dark Lily'', ''Abrasax'' by Ordo Templi Baphe-Metis (James M. Martin), Magickal Childe, "Death Scenes"

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 3==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Reuben D. Radding, Honey LaSalle, Eden 162, Nemo, Max, Peggy Nadramia, Andre T. Soly, Diabolos Rex, Tani Jantsang, Philip Marsh, Richard De Logo, [[Jeffrey Deboo]];

'''mentions''': ''Abrasax'', [[Temple ov Psychick Youth]], ''Dark Lilly'', Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', Magickal Childe, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (shop), "Death Scenes"

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Reuben Radding, A. Toplin, Peggy Nadramia, Nemo, Wolf, Andre T. Soly, Alan Driscoll, Louis Pierre Garou, Scott Stets, Richard de Lago, Max, Wayne Hill, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': ''Lamp of Thoth'' (magazine by Chris Bray), ''Dark Lily'', ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, Feral House, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes";

'''ads''':

==Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Harry O. Morris Jr., Reuben Radding, Jeffrey Deboo, Nemo, Max, [[Boyd Rice]], Peggy Nadramia, Christine Murphy, Wolf, Richard De Lago, Magdalene Graham, Zero Sven, Clifford J. Case BMC USN (Ret.), Wayne Hill, Craig J. Hawkinson, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': runic T-shirts ([[Abraxas Foundation]]), G. Gordon Liddy, ''Dark Lily'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Wake'' (Abraxas Foundation), ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, ''Siege'' ([[James Mason]] and [[Michael J. Moynihan|Michael M. Jenkins]]), Storm Productions, Tiny Tim, Temple of Elite( Novato, Calif.), Action Designs, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire (Lacey, Wash.), Feral House

'''ads''':

==Volume 3, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Anton LaVey, Blanche Barton, Jack Dog, Jeffrey Deboo, George Zaharopoulos, Nemo, Phantom, Peggy Nadramia, Wolf, Reuben Radding, Gary Irwin, Peter Luger, A. Toplin , Doug Richards (Knights of Satan), Karl Lee Harvey, Arturo Soto, Scott Stets, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': "Dreams Shall Flesh" by White Stains (Psychick Release PCP), Embassy of S.A.T.A.N. (Jay Solomon a.k.a. "Yaj Nomolos"), ''Abrasax'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', Nick Bougas, ''Satanism in America'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, Magical Childe, The Church of War - The Final Religion, Action Designs, "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire, Gun Owners of America, Adversary Music, The Centre for the Academic Study Extremes in the Human Experience, Research Project (Gary Franklin), ''Siege'', James Mason, Michael J. Moynihan, [[David Duke]], Storm Productions, Trevor Brown, Coup de Grace Publication, The Temple of the Left Hand Path, ''Dark Lily'', Doran Ragnarok, The War Church

'''ads''':

==Volume 4, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Christopher Bilardi, Jeffrey Deboo, Timothy Patrick Butler, Phantom, R. Elizabeth Fox, Doug Richards, Nemo, Aware, Mark Hanks, Andrea Welch, Peggy Nadramia, William Gidney, Robert J. Perdew, Richard de Lago, Honey LaSalle, Christine Murphy;

'''mentions''': Magikal Childe; The Church of War, ''From the Pit'' (Michael Fox), ''Promethean Circle'' (John Hiotellis, George Zaharopoulous), Adversary Music, Nick Bougas, Lamp of Thoth, Abrasax, Action Designs, Storm Products, Beethoven, ''The Fifth Path'', NON, ''Answer Me!'' magazine ([[Jim Goad]] and Debbie Goad), ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, "Murder" (Alamut Records), CCS (Centralia, Wash.), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire

'''ads''':

==Volume 4, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Lance Thimmes, Peter Gilmore, Blanche Barton, Peggy Nadramia, Timothy Patrick Butler, Michael J. Moynihan, Joy Lambert, William Everisto, Ken Gage, Andre T. Soly, Bill Ehmann Jr., Nemo, George Sprague, [[R.N. Taylor]], Mark Banks, Andrea Welch, Tobias Leshand(?), [[K.R. Bolton]], Deacon Brodie, Jeffrey Wade Nagy, R. Elizabeth Fox;

'''mentions''': ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Dark Lily'', King Diamond, ''Devil's Advocate'' (Ron Harris), Abyss Distribution, ''From the Pit'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, ''The Archives of Aesthetic Nihilism'' (Aes-Nihil Prod.), Order of the Evil Eye (Acheron), Grotto ODM (Stratford, Conn.), The Infernal Garrison (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), the Shiva Grotto (Kokomo, Ind.), "Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey" directed by Nick Bougas, ''The Fenris Wolf'', The Church of War, ''Promethean Circle'', ''Dark Reflections'' (Jeffrey Deboo), ''Occultic Haven'', Temple of the Vampire, ''Abrasax'', ''The Fifth Path'', Death in June, Blood Axis, Feral House

'''ads''':

==Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Diabolos Rex, Anton LaVey, Michael J. Moynihan, Peggy Nadramia, Jeffrey Deboo, Walter J. Gallo, Reuben Radding(?), K. Bolton(?), [Unknown Author 1 ("Early in the history")], [Unknown Author 2 (Pentagonal Revisionism)], [Unknown Author 3 ("It appears more and more")], [Unknown Author 4 (Mentalism)], [Unknown Author 5 ("Having Catholicism instilled")], [Unknown Author 6 (Drugs)], [Unknown Author 7 ("It seems that")], Deacon Brodie, Doug Edward Richards;

'''mentions''': Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey (birth announcement), Timothy Patrick Butler, The New Englande Orange Power Companie Inc., [[Bob Larson]], ''Promethean Circle'', ''Order of the Evil Eye'', ''Dark Reflections'', ''From the Pit'' (now Michael Rose), "Liers in Wait" by Spear of Destiny (Railroad Records), ''The Fifth Path'', ''Asylum of Satan'', ''Lucifer Rising'' by Gavin Baddeley, Temple of the Vampire, ''Wolf-Age Magazine'' (Rev. Vincent Crowley), Occultic Haven, ''Abrasax'', Philip Marsh, The Infernal Garrison, ''The Devil's Advocate'', JacKas Productions, "Siege" by James Mason, Feral House;

'''ads''':

==Volume 5, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Anton LaVey, Peter Gilmore, Michael J. Moynihan, Blanche Barton, Bob Rust, Timothy Patrick Butler, Bradford de Rastrick, Peggy Nadramia, Nemo, Tani Jantsang, George Sprague, Steve Meisenbach, [[Joshua Buckley]], Lupo LeBoucher, S.A. Blacart, Richard de Lago, Lydia Gage, Azazel;

'''mentions''': "The Satanic Mass" (Amarillo Records), "S.W.A.T." (Amphetamine Reptile Records), "The History of Formerly Salty Areas" by Timothy Patrick Butler (Cat Box Productions), ''Wolf-Age'', ''The Raven'', "The Cult of Othin" by H.M. Chadwick (Looking Glass Press), Philip Marsh, ''The Gates of Hell'' by George Sprague, ''The Occult Book of Wisdom'' by Magister C. James Case, Larry Wessel's "Tauroboleum: The Tijuana Bulllfight Documentary", "Hail Victory" by Acheron (Metal Merchant Records), "Charles Manson commemoration" (Storm), ''From the Pit'', Order of the Evil Eye, Papa Legba's "Satanic Merchandise" ''Promethean Circle'', ''The Devil's Advocate'', ''Lucifer Rising'', ''Diabolica'', Temple of the Vampire, Diabolical Creations (IZM Enterprises), Blood Axis (Storm), Feral House

'''ads''':

==Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Anton LaVey, Nick Bougas, Blanche Barton, Rev. Marilyn Manson, Magister Jeffrey W. Nagy, Joseph Cultice, Irrev. Gavin Baddeley, Tani Jantsang, Robert Rust, Joshua Buckley, Peggy Nadramia, Michael J. Moynihan, Rev. Ken Gage, Timothy Patrick Butler, R. Elizabeth Fox, Michael Rose, Phantom, John C. Davis;

'''mentions''': Baphomet Pentagram Pendant (Netherworld), Philip Marsh, The Electric Hellfire Club ([[Thomas Thorn]]), ''The Black Pun-kin'' (Ottowa, Ontario, Canada - Robert Lang), Shane M. Lassen, Feral House, Daughters of Darkness (Gotherotica Productions), Wesselmania (Larry Wessel), ''From the Pit'', RaHoWa, George Eric Hawthorn (George Burdi), ''Not Like Most'', ''Diabolica'', The Satanic Salon's "Fuck You America" Violence Toward Women (SS Renegade Artists), ''The Raven'', Moribund Cult, The Salt Lick (Timothy Patrick Butler), Recordings by Anton Szandor LaVey (Amarillo Records), The Grand Grimoire (Trident Books), Temple of the Vampire, ''Den Sataniska Bibeln'' (Looking Glass Press), Altar Egos (Thomas Pickering), ''Ohm Clock Magazine'' ([[Aaron Garland]]), ''The Devil's Advocate'', Michael Hunt Publishing, Blood Axis, Storm, Tilt Works

'''ads''':

==Volume 6, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Anton LaVey, Blanche Barton, Boyd Rice, Nick Bougas, [[Adam Parfrey]], Priestess Ruth Waytz, Carl Abrahamsson, Nemo, Reverend Gregory Sprague, Magister Jeff Nagy, Draconis Blackthorne, Irrev. Gavin Baeddely, Reverend Thomas Thorn, Robert Lang, Diana DeMagis, Lou Hutchinson, Christopher J. Turnr, Magister Clifford Case, Tabone J.P., Peggy Nadramia, Michael Moynihan, Jim Mitchell, Robert Rust, Kevin Filan, Steven Ericson, Satan's Commissar, Blackjack, Herbert Paulis, Reverend K.S. Anthony, Michael Rose;

'''mentions''': Action Designs, The Dying Pig, Ulver (band), ''Lucifer Rising'', Temple of the Vampire, Azure Green, Magister Vincent Crowley, Acheron, ''The Clovern Hoof'', Dark Doctrines Monographs (Philip Marsh), The Black Pun-Kin, From the Pit, First Store Publications, ''Isis and Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon'' by Doran Wittelsbach, Storm, Blood Axis, Allerseelen, David E. Williams;

'''ads''':

==The Black Flame No. 16==

'''Contributors''': Magistra Blanche Barton, Magus Peter H. Gilmore, Magistra Peggy Nadramia, Joshua Buckley, Reverend Michael Moynihan, Charles Kraft, "Archangel's Suave Tiki", Warlock Kevin I. Slaughter, Magister Michael Rose, Reverend Carl Abrahamsson, Agent Cyanide, "a sympathetic rebrobate". Warlock Jack Malebranche, Warlock R. Merciless, Ulf Herder, Magister Robert A. Lang, Reverend Herbert Paulis, Agent U.V.Ray, Warlock Draconis Blackthorne, Blackjack, Colonel Akula, Father Christopher Mealie;

'''mentions''': Jimmy Vargas, David E. Williams, Peter Mlakar, Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba, William Blake, Anthony Burgess, Giosue Carducci, Adam Parfrey, Aristotle, Benny Hill, Purging Talon, Adversary Recordings, Dark Candles, Sin Set Books, The Temple of the Vampire, The Black House: A Tribute to the Devil's Lair, Church of Satan Emporium, Arkham Studios, Germ Books + Gallery, Coop Stuff (Chris Cooper), Church of Satan Emporium (Diana DeMagis, Robert A. Lang, Ian Reid), Trevor Brown, ''Fang and Claw: A Treatise on Practical Combat'' by Colonel Akula, Theatre of the Macabre, Satanism Today, "Audio Structure Spirits" by Cotton Ferox (Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert), Feral House;

'''ads''':

Peter H. Gilmore

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Maestro grandeur:

'''Peter H. Gilmore''' was editor of the [[Church of Satan]]’s [[Black Flame]] publication and has been the organization’s leader since 2001. Gilmore welcomed neo-Nazis into the Church and helped promote ''Siege''.

The Black Flame

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Maestro grandeur: /* Volume 1, Number 2 */ expanding references

According to the [[Church of Satan]], ''The Black Flame'', "the International Forum of the Church of Satan", began in 1989, during a period when its previous publication ''The Cloven Hoof'' was on hiatus. ''The Black Flame'' ultimately produced 16 editions from 1989 to 2005, produced first with the intention of being quarterly, before being produced bi-annually, and finally intermittently.

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The Black Flame
|-
! Year !! Edition !! File | Notes
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||first publication, original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 2
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 1
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 3]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(3).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(1).pdf|scan]]
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)|| [[Media:The Black Flame 2(2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 3]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(3).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 4]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(4).pdf|scan]]||announcement of switch to biannual instead of quarterly production
|-
|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(1-2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1992||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 3 and No. 4]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(3-4).pdf|scan]]||gratuitous quote by Adolf Hitler: "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
|-
|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVII AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(1-2).pdf|scan]]||page one missing, including first portion of "Thoughts on the Riots", HIV/AIDS blame debate begins here
|-
|1993||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(3-4).pdf|scan]]||''Siege'' by James Mason reviewed
|-
|1994||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(1-2).pdf|scan]]||Deboo's article opposing fascism, Moynihan's article on the "Faustian Spirit" of fascism
|-
|1995||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(3-4).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1996||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (1-2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|2000||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (3-4).pdf|scan]]||Anton LaVey memorial issue
|-
|2005||[[The Black Flame No. 16]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 16.pdf|scan]]||final ''Black Flame'' volume, page 1 is repeated,
|}

==Volume 1, Number 1==
'''Contributors''': [[Peter H. Gilmore]] ("Have your cake and eat it too!"), Max ("The Devil in Daylight"), Clinton Smith ("Recognizing Pseudo-Satanism"), Morgain Blake ("Choosing a Familiar"), Pagan X ("Invocation to Cthulhu", "Invocation to Shub-Niggurath"), Nemo ("The Purpose of Life", "A Piece of the Action: A Ceremony of Satanic Magic"), [[Peggy Nadramia]] ("Odditorium"), Max ("Mystical Junkie"), Diabolos Rex ("Yuggoth Text");

'''subjects''': n/a

'''ads''': none

'''other''': quote by Russian violinist Jascha Heifetz; Odditorium mentions include ''Freak Show: Presenting Human'' ''Oddities for Amusement and Profit'' by Robert Bogdan. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988; hardcover; 322 pages; $29.95); ''Critique: Exposing Consensus Reality'' (magazine); ''S.E.T. FREE'', the newsletter of the ''Society to Eradicate Television''; ''School is Hell'' by Matt Groening (Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; paperback; about 50 pages; $5.98)

==Volume 1, Number 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter H. Gilmore ("We are legion!"), [[Blanche Barton]] ("The Satanic Witch, Now Playing At Theatres Near You", quote box, "Archetypes, the Fourth Dimension, and Everything"), Magdalene Graham of ''Dark Lily'' magazine ("Re-Defining Satanism"), Max ("The Best Satanic Revenge", "Slaying the Monster"), Setnahkt ("A Statement Against Normalization"), Peggy Nadramia ("Odditorium", "Magic Lantern Show: Satanic Cinema"), Nemo (book review, movie review, "Satanism, Reason, and Mysticism"), Alex Loss (report in "Hellspawn"), Algar Langton of Thormynd Press ("Order of Nine Angles"), Pagan X ("Man In Black"), Glenda Green ("Imagine Before 1966"), Julian Karswell ("A New Satanic Solid?"), Paul Aarons ("Satan's Protest"), Morgain Blake ("Dressing Like Hell"), [[Tani Jantsang]] ("Mephistopheles-Nyarlathotep-Ob-Satan"), Diabolos Rex (art "Oderatüs Beastüalis");

'''Subjects''': ''[[Dark Lily]]'' magazine (Magdalene Graham), Rev. Yaj Nomolos, The 88 Temple Ov Deities (Miami, Fla.), Adel Lazch Souto, The Raven School/Church of the Raven, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), High Priest Luther, [[Order of Nine Angles]], ''Fenrir'' (ONA newsletter)

'''Ads''':'' [[Lamp of Thoth]]'' magazine (Chris Bray), ''The Satanic Witch'' by Anton Szandor LaVey ([[Feral House]]), Magickal Childe (New Age shop formerly "The Warlock Shop"), ''Tortures & Torments of the Christian Martyrs'' by Antonio Gallonio (Feral House)

'''Other''': Friedrich Nietzsche quote, L. Frank Baum quote via The Scarecrow; Odditorium mentions include ''The Magicians: An Investigation Of A Group Practicing Black Magic'' by Gini Graham Scott, PhD. (New World Books, San Francisco, 1986; softcover, 219 pages, $15.00); ''The Satanic Witch'' (formerly ''The Compleat Witch'') by Anton Szandor LaVey (Feral House, Los Angeles, 1989; soft cover, 274 pages, $9.95); Re/Search by Andrea Juno and V. Vale; ''Dark Lily: The Voice of the Left-Hand Path''; ''GANYMEDE'' magazine, ''Modern Ritual Magic: The Rise of Western Occultism'' by Francis King (Avery Publishing Group, Garden City Park, NY, 1989; softcover, 224 pages, $10.95), formerly ''Ritual Magic in England''; Satanic Cinema mentions include "Batman", "Dead Poets Society";

==Volume 1, Number 3==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Nemo, Wayne Hill, Tani Jantsang, Elizabeth Selwyn, Max, R. Elizabeth Fox, Excelsior Nineangle, Peggy Nadramia, Morgain Blake, Honey LaSalle, K. Bolton, Glenda Green, Natasha Page, Diabolos Rex, [[Anton Szandor LaVey]];

'''mentions''': The Raven, Magickal Childe (New Age shop), The Occult Emporium, ''Satanism In America'' by Shawn Carlson and Gerald Larue.

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 1==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, K. Bolton, Earl Hammons, Tempest, Nemo, Richard de Lago, Natasha Page, Diabolos Rex, Tani Jantsang, Morgain Blake, Peggy Nadramia, Max, Honey LaSalle, Blanche Barton, Philip Marsh;

'''mentions''': [[Feral House]], ''Satanism In America'', [[Order of the Left-Hand Path]] (New Zealand), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes" (film by [[Nick Bougas]] starring Anton LaVey)

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Nemo, Reuben Radding, Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, Tani Jantsang, Ipsissimus John Wayne, Andre T. Soly, Peggy Nadramia, Max, James Sass, Philip Marsh, Jayne Wayne, Diabolos Rex;

'''mentions''': Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', ''Dark Lily'', ''Abrasax'' by Ordo Templi Baphe-Metis (James M. Martin), Magickal Childe, "Death Scenes"

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 3==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Reuben D. Radding, Honey LaSalle, Eden 162, Nemo, Max, Peggy Nadramia, Andre T. Soly, Diabolos Rex, Tani Jantsang, Philip Marsh, Richard De Logo, [[Jeffrey Deboo]];

'''mentions''': ''Abrasax'', [[Temple ov Psychick Youth]], ''Dark Lilly'', Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', Magickal Childe, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (shop), "Death Scenes"

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Reuben Radding, A. Toplin, Peggy Nadramia, Nemo, Wolf, Andre T. Soly, Alan Driscoll, Louis Pierre Garou, Scott Stets, Richard de Lago, Max, Wayne Hill, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': ''Lamp of Thoth'' (magazine by Chris Bray), ''Dark Lily'', ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, Feral House, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes";

'''ads''':

==Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Harry O. Morris Jr., Reuben Radding, Jeffrey Deboo, Nemo, Max, [[Boyd Rice]], Peggy Nadramia, Christine Murphy, Wolf, Richard De Lago, Magdalene Graham, Zero Sven, Clifford J. Case BMC USN (Ret.), Wayne Hill, Craig J. Hawkinson, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': runic T-shirts ([[Abraxas Foundation]]), G. Gordon Liddy, ''Dark Lily'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Wake'' (Abraxas Foundation), ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, ''Siege'' ([[James Mason]] and [[Michael J. Moynihan|Michael M. Jenkins]]), Storm Productions, Tiny Tim, Temple of Elite( Novato, Calif.), Action Designs, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire (Lacey, Wash.), Feral House

'''ads''':

==Volume 3, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Anton LaVey, Blanche Barton, Jack Dog, Jeffrey Deboo, George Zaharopoulos, Nemo, Phantom, Peggy Nadramia, Wolf, Reuben Radding, Gary Irwin, Peter Luger, A. Toplin , Doug Richards (Knights of Satan), Karl Lee Harvey, Arturo Soto, Scott Stets, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': "Dreams Shall Flesh" by White Stains (Psychick Release PCP), Embassy of S.A.T.A.N. (Jay Solomon a.k.a. "Yaj Nomolos"), ''Abrasax'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', Nick Bougas, ''Satanism in America'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, Magical Childe, The Church of War - The Final Religion, Action Designs, "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire, Gun Owners of America, Adversary Music, The Centre for the Academic Study Extremes in the Human Experience, Research Project (Gary Franklin), ''Siege'', James Mason, Michael J. Moynihan, [[David Duke]], Storm Productions, Trevor Brown, Coup de Grace Publication, The Temple of the Left Hand Path, ''Dark Lily'', Doran Ragnarok, The War Church

'''ads''':

==Volume 4, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Christopher Bilardi, Jeffrey Deboo, Timothy Patrick Butler, Phantom, R. Elizabeth Fox, Doug Richards, Nemo, Aware, Mark Hanks, Andrea Welch, Peggy Nadramia, William Gidney, Robert J. Perdew, Richard de Lago, Honey LaSalle, Christine Murphy;

'''mentions''': Magikal Childe; The Church of War, ''From the Pit'' (Michael Fox), ''Promethean Circle'' (John Hiotellis, George Zaharopoulous), Adversary Music, Nick Bougas, Lamp of Thoth, Abrasax, Action Designs, Storm Products, Beethoven, ''The Fifth Path'', NON, ''Answer Me!'' magazine ([[Jim Goad]] and Debbie Goad), ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, "Murder" (Alamut Records), CCS (Centralia, Wash.), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire

'''ads''':

==Volume 4, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Lance Thimmes, Peter Gilmore, Blanche Barton, Peggy Nadramia, Timothy Patrick Butler, Michael J. Moynihan, Joy Lambert, William Everisto, Ken Gage, Andre T. Soly, Bill Ehmann Jr., Nemo, George Sprague, [[R.N. Taylor]], Mark Banks, Andrea Welch, Tobias Leshand(?), K.R. Bolton(?), Deacon Brodie, Jeffrey Wade Nagy, R. Elizabeth Fox;

'''mentions''': ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Dark Lily'', King Diamond, ''Devil's Advocate'' (Ron Harris), Abyss Distribution, ''From the Pit'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, ''The Archives of Aesthetic Nihilism'' (Aes-Nihil Prod.), Order of the Evil Eye (Acheron), Grotto ODM (Stratford, Conn.), The Infernal Garrison (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), the Shiva Grotto (Kokomo, Ind.), "Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey" directed by Nick Bougas, ''The Fenris Wolf'', The Church of War, ''Promethean Circle'', ''Dark Reflections'' (Jeffrey Deboo), ''Occultic Haven'', Temple of the Vampire, ''Abrasax'', ''The Fifth Path'', Death in June, Blood Axis, Feral House

'''ads''':

==Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Diabolos Rex, Anton LaVey, Michael J. Moynihan, Peggy Nadramia, Jeffrey Deboo, Walter J. Gallo, Reuben Radding(?), K. Bolton(?), [Unknown Author 1 ("Early in the history")], [Unknown Author 2 (Pentagonal Revisionism)], [Unknown Author 3 ("It appears more and more")], [Unknown Author 4 (Mentalism)], [Unknown Author 5 ("Having Catholicism instilled")], [Unknown Author 6 (Drugs)], [Unknown Author 7 ("It seems that")], Deacon Brodie, Doug Edward Richards;

'''mentions''': Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey (birth announcement), Timothy Patrick Butler, The New Englande Orange Power Companie Inc., [[Bob Larson]], ''Promethean Circle'', ''Order of the Evil Eye'', ''Dark Reflections'', ''From the Pit'' (now Michael Rose), "Liers in Wait" by Spear of Destiny (Railroad Records), ''The Fifth Path'', ''Asylum of Satan'', ''Lucifer Rising'' by Gavin Baddeley, Temple of the Vampire, ''Wolf-Age Magazine'' (Rev. Vincent Crowley), Occultic Haven, ''Abrasax'', Philip Marsh, The Infernal Garrison, ''The Devil's Advocate'', JacKas Productions, "Siege" by James Mason, Feral House;

'''ads''':

==Volume 5, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Anton LaVey, Peter Gilmore, Michael J. Moynihan, Blanche Barton, Bob Rust, Timothy Patrick Butler, Bradford de Rastrick, Peggy Nadramia, Nemo, Tani Jantsang, George Sprague, Steve Meisenbach, [[Joshua Buckley]], Lupo LeBoucher, S.A. Blacart, Richard de Lago, Lydia Gage, Azazel;

'''mentions''': "The Satanic Mass" (Amarillo Records), "S.W.A.T." (Amphetamine Reptile Records), "The History of Formerly Salty Areas" by Timothy Patrick Butler (Cat Box Productions), ''Wolf-Age'', ''The Raven'', "The Cult of Othin" by H.M. Chadwick (Looking Glass Press), Philip Marsh, ''The Gates of Hell'' by George Sprague, ''The Occult Book of Wisdom'' by Magister C. James Case, Larry Wessel's "Tauroboleum: The Tijuana Bulllfight Documentary", "Hail Victory" by Acheron (Metal Merchant Records), "Charles Manson commemoration" (Storm), ''From the Pit'', Order of the Evil Eye, Papa Legba's "Satanic Merchandise" ''Promethean Circle'', ''The Devil's Advocate'', ''Lucifer Rising'', ''Diabolica'', Temple of the Vampire, Diabolical Creations (IZM Enterprises), Blood Axis (Storm), Feral House

'''ads''':

==Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Anton LaVey, Nick Bougas, Blanche Barton, Rev. Marilyn Manson, Magister Jeffrey W. Nagy, Joseph Cultice, Irrev. Gavin Baddeley, Tani Jantsang, Robert Rust, Joshua Buckley, Peggy Nadramia, Michael J. Moynihan, Rev. Ken Gage, Timothy Patrick Butler, R. Elizabeth Fox, Michael Rose, Phantom, John C. Davis;

'''mentions''': Baphomet Pentagram Pendant (Netherworld), Philip Marsh, The Electric Hellfire Club ([[Thomas Thorn]]), ''The Black Pun-kin'' (Ottowa, Ontario, Canada - Robert Lang), Shane M. Lassen, Feral House, Daughters of Darkness (Gotherotica Productions), Wesselmania (Larry Wessel), ''From the Pit'', RaHoWa, George Eric Hawthorn (George Burdi), ''Not Like Most'', ''Diabolica'', The Satanic Salon's "Fuck You America" Violence Toward Women (SS Renegade Artists), ''The Raven'', Moribund Cult, The Salt Lick (Timothy Patrick Butler), Recordings by Anton Szandor LaVey (Amarillo Records), The Grand Grimoire (Trident Books), Temple of the Vampire, ''Den Sataniska Bibeln'' (Looking Glass Press), Altar Egos (Thomas Pickering), ''Ohm Clock Magazine'' ([[Aaron Garland]]), ''The Devil's Advocate'', Michael Hunt Publishing, Blood Axis, Storm, Tilt Works

'''ads''':

==Volume 6, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Anton LaVey, Blanche Barton, Boyd Rice, Nick Bougas, [[Adam Parfrey]], Priestess Ruth Waytz, Carl Abrahamsson, Nemo, Reverend Gregory Sprague, Magister Jeff Nagy, Draconis Blackthorne, Irrev. Gavin Baeddely, Reverend Thomas Thorn, Robert Lang, Diana DeMagis, Lou Hutchinson, Christopher J. Turnr, Magister Clifford Case, Tabone J.P., Peggy Nadramia, Michael Moynihan, Jim Mitchell, Robert Rust, Kevin Filan, Steven Ericson, Satan's Commissar, Blackjack, Herbert Paulis, Reverend K.S. Anthony, Michael Rose;

'''mentions''': Action Designs, The Dying Pig, Ulver (band), ''Lucifer Rising'', Temple of the Vampire, Azure Green, Magister Vincent Crowley, Acheron, ''The Clovern Hoof'', Dark Doctrines Monographs (Philip Marsh), The Black Pun-Kin, From the Pit, First Store Publications, ''Isis and Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon'' by Doran Wittelsbach, Storm, Blood Axis, Allerseelen, David E. Williams;

'''ads''':

==The Black Flame No. 16==

'''Contributors''': Magistra Blanche Barton, Magus Peter H. Gilmore, Magistra Peggy Nadramia, Joshua Buckley, Reverend Michael Moynihan, Charles Kraft, "Archangel's Suave Tiki", Warlock Kevin I. Slaughter, Magister Michael Rose, Reverend Carl Abrahamsson, Agent Cyanide, "a sympathetic rebrobate". Warlock Jack Malebranche, Warlock R. Merciless, Ulf Herder, Magister Robert A. Lang, Reverend Herbert Paulis, Agent U.V.Ray, Warlock Draconis Blackthorne, Blackjack, Colonel Akula, Father Christopher Mealie;

'''mentions''': Jimmy Vargas, David E. Williams, Peter Mlakar, Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba, William Blake, Anthony Burgess, Giosue Carducci, Adam Parfrey, Aristotle, Benny Hill, Purging Talon, Adversary Recordings, Dark Candles, Sin Set Books, The Temple of the Vampire, The Black House: A Tribute to the Devil's Lair, Church of Satan Emporium, Arkham Studios, Germ Books + Gallery, Coop Stuff (Chris Cooper), Church of Satan Emporium (Diana DeMagis, Robert A. Lang, Ian Reid), Trevor Brown, ''Fang and Claw: A Treatise on Practical Combat'' by Colonel Akula, Theatre of the Macabre, Satanism Today, "Audio Structure Spirits" by Cotton Ferox (Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert), Feral House;

'''ads''':

The Black Flame

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Maestro grandeur: /* Volume 1, Number 1 */

According to the [[Church of Satan]], ''The Black Flame'', "the International Forum of the Church of Satan", began in 1989, during a period when its previous publication ''The Cloven Hoof'' was on hiatus. ''The Black Flame'' ultimately produced 16 editions from 1989 to 2005, produced first with the intention of being quarterly, before being produced bi-annually, and finally intermittently.

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The Black Flame
|-
! Year !! Edition !! File | Notes
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||first publication, original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 2
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(1) + 1(2).pdf|scan]]||original scan includes Vol. 1 No. 1
|-
|1989||[[The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 3]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 1(3).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 1]] (XXIV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(1).pdf|scan]]
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 2]] (XXIV AS)|| [[Media:The Black Flame 2(2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 3]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(3).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1990||[[The Black Flame Vol. 2 No. 4]] (XXV AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 2(4).pdf|scan]]||announcement of switch to biannual instead of quarterly production
|-
|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(1-2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1992||[[The Black Flame Vol. 3 No. 3 and No. 4]] (XXVI AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 3(3-4).pdf|scan]]||gratuitous quote by Adolf Hitler: "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
|-
|1991||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 1 and No. 2]] (XXVII AS)||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(1-2).pdf|scan]]||page one missing, including first portion of "Thoughts on the Riots", HIV/AIDS blame debate begins here
|-
|1993||[[The Black Flame Vol. 4 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 4(3-4).pdf|scan]]||''Siege'' by James Mason reviewed
|-
|1994||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(1-2).pdf|scan]]||Deboo's article opposing fascism, Moynihan's article on the "Faustian Spirit" of fascism
|-
|1995||[[The Black Flame Vol. 5 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 5(3-4).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|1996||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 1 and No. 2]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (1-2).pdf|scan]]||
|-
|2000||[[The Black Flame Vol. 6 No. 3 and No. 4]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 6 (3-4).pdf|scan]]||Anton LaVey memorial issue
|-
|2005||[[The Black Flame No. 16]]||[[Media:The Black Flame 16.pdf|scan]]||final ''Black Flame'' volume, page 1 is repeated,
|}

==Volume 1, Number 1==
'''Contributors''': [[Peter H. Gilmore]] ("Have your cake and eat it too!"), Max ("The Devil in Daylight"), Clinton Smith ("Recognizing Pseudo-Satanism"), Morgain Blake ("Choosing a Familiar"), Pagan X ("Invocation to Cthulhu", "Invocation to Shub-Niggurath"), Nemo ("The Purpose of Life", "A Piece of the Action: A Ceremony of Satanic Magic"), [[Peggy Nadramia]] ("Odditorium"), Max ("Mystical Junkie"), Diabolos Rex ("Yuggoth Text");

'''subjects''': n/a

'''ads''': none

'''other''': quote by Russian violinist Jascha Heifetz; Odditorium mentions include ''Freak Show: Presenting Human'' ''Oddities for Amusement and Profit'' by Robert Bogdan. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988; hardcover; 322 pages; $29.95); ''Critique: Exposing Consensus Reality'' (magazine); ''S.E.T. FREE'', the newsletter of the ''Society to Eradicate Television''; ''School is Hell'' by Matt Groening (Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; paperback; about 50 pages; $5.98)

==Volume 1, Number 2==
'''Contributors''':

'''Mentions''':

'''Ads''':

==Volume 1, Number 3==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Nemo, Wayne Hill, Tani Jantsang, Elizabeth Selwyn, Max, R. Elizabeth Fox, Excelsior Nineangle, Peggy Nadramia, Morgain Blake, Honey LaSalle, K. Bolton, Glenda Green, Natasha Page, Diabolos Rex, [[Anton Szandor LaVey]];

'''mentions''': The Raven, Magickal Childe (New Age shop), The Occult Emporium, ''Satanism In America'' by Shawn Carlson and Gerald Larue.

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 1==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, K. Bolton, Earl Hammons, Tempest, Nemo, Richard de Lago, Natasha Page, Diabolos Rex, Tani Jantsang, Morgain Blake, Peggy Nadramia, Max, Honey LaSalle, Blanche Barton, Philip Marsh;

'''mentions''': [[Feral House]], ''Satanism In America'', [[Order of the Left-Hand Path]] (New Zealand), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes" (film by [[Nick Bougas]] starring Anton LaVey)

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Nemo, Reuben Radding, Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, Tani Jantsang, Ipsissimus John Wayne, Andre T. Soly, Peggy Nadramia, Max, James Sass, Philip Marsh, Jayne Wayne, Diabolos Rex;

'''mentions''': Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', ''Dark Lily'', ''Abrasax'' by Ordo Templi Baphe-Metis (James M. Martin), Magickal Childe, "Death Scenes"

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 3==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Reuben D. Radding, Honey LaSalle, Eden 162, Nemo, Max, Peggy Nadramia, Andre T. Soly, Diabolos Rex, Tani Jantsang, Philip Marsh, Richard De Logo, [[Jeffrey Deboo]];

'''mentions''': ''Abrasax'', [[Temple ov Psychick Youth]], ''Dark Lilly'', Feral House, ''Satanism In America'', Magickal Childe, ''Cry of the Raven'' (magazine), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (shop), "Death Scenes"

'''ads''':

==Volume 2, Number 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Reuben Radding, A. Toplin, Peggy Nadramia, Nemo, Wolf, Andre T. Soly, Alan Driscoll, Louis Pierre Garou, Scott Stets, Richard de Lago, Max, Wayne Hill, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': ''Lamp of Thoth'' (magazine by Chris Bray), ''Dark Lily'', ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, Feral House, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes";

'''ads''':

==Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Harry O. Morris Jr., Reuben Radding, Jeffrey Deboo, Nemo, Max, [[Boyd Rice]], Peggy Nadramia, Christine Murphy, Wolf, Richard De Lago, Magdalene Graham, Zero Sven, Clifford J. Case BMC USN (Ret.), Wayne Hill, Craig J. Hawkinson, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': runic T-shirts ([[Abraxas Foundation]]), G. Gordon Liddy, ''Dark Lily'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Wake'' (Abraxas Foundation), ''Satanism in America'', Magickal Childe, ''Siege'' ([[James Mason]] and [[Michael J. Moynihan|Michael M. Jenkins]]), Storm Productions, Tiny Tim, Temple of Elite( Novato, Calif.), Action Designs, ''Abrasax'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire (Lacey, Wash.), Feral House

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==Volume 3, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Anton LaVey, Blanche Barton, Jack Dog, Jeffrey Deboo, George Zaharopoulos, Nemo, Phantom, Peggy Nadramia, Wolf, Reuben Radding, Gary Irwin, Peter Luger, A. Toplin , Doug Richards (Knights of Satan), Karl Lee Harvey, Arturo Soto, Scott Stets, Timothy Patrick Butler;

'''mentions''': "Dreams Shall Flesh" by White Stains (Psychick Release PCP), Embassy of S.A.T.A.N. (Jay Solomon a.k.a. "Yaj Nomolos"), ''Abrasax'', ''Lamp of Thoth'', Nick Bougas, ''Satanism in America'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, Magical Childe, The Church of War - The Final Religion, Action Designs, "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire, Gun Owners of America, Adversary Music, The Centre for the Academic Study Extremes in the Human Experience, Research Project (Gary Franklin), ''Siege'', James Mason, Michael J. Moynihan, [[David Duke]], Storm Productions, Trevor Brown, Coup de Grace Publication, The Temple of the Left Hand Path, ''Dark Lily'', Doran Ragnarok, The War Church

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==Volume 4, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Christopher Bilardi, Jeffrey Deboo, Timothy Patrick Butler, Phantom, R. Elizabeth Fox, Doug Richards, Nemo, Aware, Mark Hanks, Andrea Welch, Peggy Nadramia, William Gidney, Robert J. Perdew, Richard de Lago, Honey LaSalle, Christine Murphy;

'''mentions''': Magikal Childe; The Church of War, ''From the Pit'' (Michael Fox), ''Promethean Circle'' (John Hiotellis, George Zaharopoulous), Adversary Music, Nick Bougas, Lamp of Thoth, Abrasax, Action Designs, Storm Products, Beethoven, ''The Fifth Path'', NON, ''Answer Me!'' magazine ([[Jim Goad]] and Debbie Goad), ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, "Murder" (Alamut Records), CCS (Centralia, Wash.), ''Dark Lily'', "Death Scenes", Temple of the Vampire

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==Volume 4, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Lance Thimmes, Peter Gilmore, Blanche Barton, Peggy Nadramia, Timothy Patrick Butler, Michael J. Moynihan, Joy Lambert, William Everisto, Ken Gage, Andre T. Soly, Bill Ehmann Jr., Nemo, George Sprague, [[R.N. Taylor]], Mark Banks, Andrea Welch, Tobias Leshand(?), K.R. Bolton(?), Deacon Brodie, Jeffrey Wade Nagy, R. Elizabeth Fox;

'''mentions''': ''Lamp of Thoth'', ''Dark Lily'', King Diamond, ''Devil's Advocate'' (Ron Harris), Abyss Distribution, ''From the Pit'', ''Wake'', Abraxas Foundation, ''The Archives of Aesthetic Nihilism'' (Aes-Nihil Prod.), Order of the Evil Eye (Acheron), Grotto ODM (Stratford, Conn.), The Infernal Garrison (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), the Shiva Grotto (Kokomo, Ind.), "Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey" directed by Nick Bougas, ''The Fenris Wolf'', The Church of War, ''Promethean Circle'', ''Dark Reflections'' (Jeffrey Deboo), ''Occultic Haven'', Temple of the Vampire, ''Abrasax'', ''The Fifth Path'', Death in June, Blood Axis, Feral House

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==Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Diabolos Rex, Anton LaVey, Michael J. Moynihan, Peggy Nadramia, Jeffrey Deboo, Walter J. Gallo, Reuben Radding(?), K. Bolton(?), [Unknown Author 1 ("Early in the history")], [Unknown Author 2 (Pentagonal Revisionism)], [Unknown Author 3 ("It appears more and more")], [Unknown Author 4 (Mentalism)], [Unknown Author 5 ("Having Catholicism instilled")], [Unknown Author 6 (Drugs)], [Unknown Author 7 ("It seems that")], Deacon Brodie, Doug Edward Richards;

'''mentions''': Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey (birth announcement), Timothy Patrick Butler, The New Englande Orange Power Companie Inc., [[Bob Larson]], ''Promethean Circle'', ''Order of the Evil Eye'', ''Dark Reflections'', ''From the Pit'' (now Michael Rose), "Liers in Wait" by Spear of Destiny (Railroad Records), ''The Fifth Path'', ''Asylum of Satan'', ''Lucifer Rising'' by Gavin Baddeley, Temple of the Vampire, ''Wolf-Age Magazine'' (Rev. Vincent Crowley), Occultic Haven, ''Abrasax'', Philip Marsh, The Infernal Garrison, ''The Devil's Advocate'', JacKas Productions, "Siege" by James Mason, Feral House;

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==Volume 5, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Anton LaVey, Peter Gilmore, Michael J. Moynihan, Blanche Barton, Bob Rust, Timothy Patrick Butler, Bradford de Rastrick, Peggy Nadramia, Nemo, Tani Jantsang, George Sprague, Steve Meisenbach, [[Joshua Buckley]], Lupo LeBoucher, S.A. Blacart, Richard de Lago, Lydia Gage, Azazel;

'''mentions''': "The Satanic Mass" (Amarillo Records), "S.W.A.T." (Amphetamine Reptile Records), "The History of Formerly Salty Areas" by Timothy Patrick Butler (Cat Box Productions), ''Wolf-Age'', ''The Raven'', "The Cult of Othin" by H.M. Chadwick (Looking Glass Press), Philip Marsh, ''The Gates of Hell'' by George Sprague, ''The Occult Book of Wisdom'' by Magister C. James Case, Larry Wessel's "Tauroboleum: The Tijuana Bulllfight Documentary", "Hail Victory" by Acheron (Metal Merchant Records), "Charles Manson commemoration" (Storm), ''From the Pit'', Order of the Evil Eye, Papa Legba's "Satanic Merchandise" ''Promethean Circle'', ''The Devil's Advocate'', ''Lucifer Rising'', ''Diabolica'', Temple of the Vampire, Diabolical Creations (IZM Enterprises), Blood Axis (Storm), Feral House

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==Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2==
'''Contributors''': Anton LaVey, Nick Bougas, Blanche Barton, Rev. Marilyn Manson, Magister Jeffrey W. Nagy, Joseph Cultice, Irrev. Gavin Baddeley, Tani Jantsang, Robert Rust, Joshua Buckley, Peggy Nadramia, Michael J. Moynihan, Rev. Ken Gage, Timothy Patrick Butler, R. Elizabeth Fox, Michael Rose, Phantom, John C. Davis;

'''mentions''': Baphomet Pentagram Pendant (Netherworld), Philip Marsh, The Electric Hellfire Club ([[Thomas Thorn]]), ''The Black Pun-kin'' (Ottowa, Ontario, Canada - Robert Lang), Shane M. Lassen, Feral House, Daughters of Darkness (Gotherotica Productions), Wesselmania (Larry Wessel), ''From the Pit'', RaHoWa, George Eric Hawthorn (George Burdi), ''Not Like Most'', ''Diabolica'', The Satanic Salon's "Fuck You America" Violence Toward Women (SS Renegade Artists), ''The Raven'', Moribund Cult, The Salt Lick (Timothy Patrick Butler), Recordings by Anton Szandor LaVey (Amarillo Records), The Grand Grimoire (Trident Books), Temple of the Vampire, ''Den Sataniska Bibeln'' (Looking Glass Press), Altar Egos (Thomas Pickering), ''Ohm Clock Magazine'' ([[Aaron Garland]]), ''The Devil's Advocate'', Michael Hunt Publishing, Blood Axis, Storm, Tilt Works

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==Volume 6, Numbers 3 and 4==
'''Contributors''': Peter Gilmore, Anton LaVey, Blanche Barton, Boyd Rice, Nick Bougas, [[Adam Parfrey]], Priestess Ruth Waytz, Carl Abrahamsson, Nemo, Reverend Gregory Sprague, Magister Jeff Nagy, Draconis Blackthorne, Irrev. Gavin Baeddely, Reverend Thomas Thorn, Robert Lang, Diana DeMagis, Lou Hutchinson, Christopher J. Turnr, Magister Clifford Case, Tabone J.P., Peggy Nadramia, Michael Moynihan, Jim Mitchell, Robert Rust, Kevin Filan, Steven Ericson, Satan's Commissar, Blackjack, Herbert Paulis, Reverend K.S. Anthony, Michael Rose;

'''mentions''': Action Designs, The Dying Pig, Ulver (band), ''Lucifer Rising'', Temple of the Vampire, Azure Green, Magister Vincent Crowley, Acheron, ''The Clovern Hoof'', Dark Doctrines Monographs (Philip Marsh), The Black Pun-Kin, From the Pit, First Store Publications, ''Isis and Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon'' by Doran Wittelsbach, Storm, Blood Axis, Allerseelen, David E. Williams;

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==The Black Flame No. 16==

'''Contributors''': Magistra Blanche Barton, Magus Peter H. Gilmore, Magistra Peggy Nadramia, Joshua Buckley, Reverend Michael Moynihan, Charles Kraft, "Archangel's Suave Tiki", Warlock Kevin I. Slaughter, Magister Michael Rose, Reverend Carl Abrahamsson, Agent Cyanide, "a sympathetic rebrobate". Warlock Jack Malebranche, Warlock R. Merciless, Ulf Herder, Magister Robert A. Lang, Reverend Herbert Paulis, Agent U.V.Ray, Warlock Draconis Blackthorne, Blackjack, Colonel Akula, Father Christopher Mealie;

'''mentions''': Jimmy Vargas, David E. Williams, Peter Mlakar, Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba, William Blake, Anthony Burgess, Giosue Carducci, Adam Parfrey, Aristotle, Benny Hill, Purging Talon, Adversary Recordings, Dark Candles, Sin Set Books, The Temple of the Vampire, The Black House: A Tribute to the Devil's Lair, Church of Satan Emporium, Arkham Studios, Germ Books + Gallery, Coop Stuff (Chris Cooper), Church of Satan Emporium (Diana DeMagis, Robert A. Lang, Ian Reid), Trevor Brown, ''Fang and Claw: A Treatise on Practical Combat'' by Colonel Akula, Theatre of the Macabre, Satanism Today, "Audio Structure Spirits" by Cotton Ferox (Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert), Feral House;

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The Black Flame Vol. 1 No. 1

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==The Black Flame ==
Volume 1, Number 1 ''A Quarterly Forum for Satanic Thought'' Vernal Equinox XXIV A.S.

===== HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO! =====
This publication is a forum for discussing issues of interest to contemporary Satanists. For those encountering this philosophy for the first time, I point you to Anton Szandor La Vey's ''The Satanic Bible''. This volume will give you a working knowledge of Satanism as it was embodied for the first time in 1966 C.E. With the founding of the '''Church of Satan''', thus beginning the year I of the Age of Satan. Since then, a full-fledged movement has begun, embracing individuals from all walks of life who hold in common their refusal to be part of the herd of humanity.

Satanists hold themselves as their own highest value, seeing themselves as their own God. Satanists reject the concept of an external, supernatural parent figure and take the responsibility for their own lives into their own hands, whether they succeed or fail in their endeavors.

The watchword of Satanism is '''Indulgence'''. We asset that life is to be lived for one's own pleasure. Ah, but pleasure, as well as pain, is in the eye of the experiencer. Satanists practice our Indulgence in accordance with the laws of society (the "Rules of the House") and firmly believe that we should not infringe on anyone else's right to his own Indulgence, a "live-and-let-live" attitude. Satanists have no desire to convert anyone, as we see all people as individuals who have every right to believe whatever they wish, so long as they also do not try to force ''their'' beliefs and values on Satanists.

We also view the facts of nature and acknowledge that people are not all equal. We see the populace as stratified, with a small percentage of Creators at the top, who are highly valued, a larger percentage of Producers beneath them, who are also cherished, and a very large percentage of Believers beneath them, who are tolerated as the major masses of our species.

Most Satanists come from the two highest levels of this pyramid of human stratification. They are individuals filled with talents that they hone to perfection, mastering the material world which they embrace fully. We are not waiting for some fabled afterlife but live to enjoy the here and now to the fullest!

As Satanists, we love life and are motivated by a burning drive to advance ourselves, mastering our various talents with our own judgement as the standard of our success. That burning drive which reveals our cherished individuality, and fuels us to soar to heights of achievement is '''The Black Flame'''.

This forum will present the thoughts of many contemporary Satanists, which may not all be in agreement. If you find some of the contents to be different from your way of thinking, please form your thoughts into a rational and cogent article of essay and send it to me. I look forward to your responses to each issue but will not present a letter column; I'd prefer that you take the time to formally organize your thoughts into a well-reasoned form worth presenting to our readers.

Let's see the breadth and depth of contemporary Satanism, the maturity of a philosophical movement that is now in its 24th year. And, of course, let's have fun doing it! May you all have had a Wicked Walpurgisnacht! '''Indulge'''!

Peter H. Gilmore, ye Editor.<blockquote>Any and all articles, letters, essays or commentary submitted ot this publication yet demonstrating an ignorance of the principles and ideas in ''The Satanic Bible'' by Anton Szandor LaVey (Avon Books) will be ignored.</blockquote>

===== THE DEVIL IN DAYLIGHT =====
by Max

Mark hung his head. He was depressed, and with good reason. Someone had just trashed his car and scratched ''Devil Worshipper'' on the hood with a sharp object. This, of course, was one of many nasty incidents which have happened to him, including telephone threats and harassment at work. Mark is a college instructor.

I looked carefully at Mark. His hairstyle and beard could be construed as "late flower-child." A pentagram supported by a short chain hung well above the neckline of a t-shirt which sported the slogan "Proud to be Pagan" in large letters.

A thought came to me: "The only person who couldn't possibly spot this guy as a witch would be a blind man!" Of course, with the exotic oils he wore, even the blind man couldn't be ruled out.

This illustrated something I've noticed within the last decade: the occult community doesn't know how to hide in plain sight! The occult community doesn't know how to remain ''occult''!

So here are a few pointers on how to ameliorate this situation. To start, give some thought to your behavior and appearance at work and in your social life. Then look over this list to see which of these occult types fits you.

FULL MOON: this particular type of practitioner is generally self-employed (craftsperson, writer, artist, landscaper, occult supplies retailer) in a profession where looking odd or ominous can be beneficial (tattoo artist, motorcycle customizer, bodyguard, skip tracer or repossessor) or works in a faceless profession (attendant at a self-serve gas station, garbage collector). The FULL MOON generally wears his or her particular sigil out in the open and dresses as outrageously as possible. The look doesn't end with the clothes and the jewelry; grooming completes the picture. Outrageously long hair, a shaved head or even a strange, brightly-dyed hairstyle will do the trick. If someone should ask a FULL MOON if he or she is into the occult and the practitioner does not wish to respond, the typical way of hiding is simply to say "I'm into leather!" or "I'm punk!"

THREE QUARTER: these are sometimes known as TEASERS. This type will generally have a fringe job with a little more social interaction (waiter, mailman, boutique retailer, bookseller) and will wear just enough jewelry (strange earring, odd rings, but never a sigil) or wear an open statement on a t-shirt (pentagram, baphomet or the name of some popular occult store) and upon being confronted with the possibility of practising the black arts will calmly reply, "Why no, what makes you think that?" If the questioner is a current practitioner of magic, then the THREE QUARTER may "come clean." Otherwise the sigil on the shirt is explained away as representing a rock band and the occult shop was just something that a friend had bought as a joke. I've known some teasers to carry a cross just to confuse people even more.

HALF-MOON or ECCENTRIC: this particular practitioner comes into the realm of LaVey's ''Cookie'' ''Lady'' type. He/She will generally keep a number of cats and give them the classic names of familiars (Grimalkin, Pyewacket) or name them after ancient dieties (Isis, Aphrodite). The jobs held by these types (secretary, general retailer, technician, nurse, repairman, programmer) will be a little more mainstream and the HALF-MOON will only give the secret away by keeping a strange icon on his or her desk or by wearing a bit of occult jewelry in keeping with an odd "Annie Hall" taste in clothing. The general consensus is that the HALF-MOON is inherently strange and if one is found reading ''The'' ''Golden Bough'' or ''The Healing Powers of Herbs'', friends or coworkers will write him or her off with "Nah, just weird!" Some of the New Age people fall under this heading.

QUARTER-MOON or PUZZLER: This practitioner will keep magical practice at such a secretive level that he or she will join only a small magical group or a national one where public appearances are unnecessary. Their jobs will be under the watchful eye of some authority (manager of a restaurant, highbrow retail, computer sales rep, electronics person who will be scrutinized for government clearance) and will keep a sigil and any occult reading in progress well out of sight. All of their occult ritual equipment will be functional tools and their altar will be a dresser. Only a small group of friends will know of the QUARTER-MOON's activities. When interacting with any of the other practitioners, the QUARTER-MOON will generally give a post office box number.

NEW MOON or CLANDESTINE: A practitioner who will never give him or herself away for fear that career standing (doctor, lawyer, public official) will collapse with the revelation of his or her secret beliefs. This practitioner orders books and supplies ony by mail and practices alone. The only time someone finds out about a NEW MOON is after death or through a government probe.

Now, there are those who absolutely refuse to be pigeonholed by society and you'll have a NEW MOON doctor who will openly read ''Grimoreum'' ''Verum'' or a HALF MOON who will decide to wear an occult ring on every finger. This is when lesser or common magic is needed. The Black Art of the sidestep or psyche-out may be common practice to the THREE QUARTER MOON, but should definitely be learned by all. A few of the better tricks are:

THE REVERSAL: this ploy is used when you have a hard-to-discourage nosy schmuck who is intent on unmasking you. After the tenth time you say "No!" you calmly turn to your inquisitor and say, "You know, I've been noticing that you have an unnatural interest in ''Devil Worship'' stuff. You seem to know an awful lot about it. (In a confiding tone...) You can be truthful with me. I won't tell anyone. You practice Devil Worship, don't you? Come on, be truthful. You're one of those Devil people, aren't you?" Mr. Nosy is beginning to back away, so now you can become louder. "Look, I mean if you're really a Devil Worshipper, you can tell me. I'll keep the secret, don't worry." By this time, people should be listening into the conversation and this is when, at your loudest, you almost yell, "Look, I believe in religious freedom. I just hope that you aren't killing newborn babies!" If the idiot hasn't taken off running by now, you may add the final knife by asking the people who are eavesdropping, "Excuse me, do you people really mind that this guy is a practising Devil Worshipper?" Then quickly turn to the beleaguered fool and say, "See! These people understand. Just so you're not doing any of those Satanic child molestations anymore."

THE JOKER: a would-be inquisitor will give you a third-person account that someone told him that you practice witchcraft. Your response, "You know, he told me you were GAY!" If the inquisitor ''is'' gay, you can say, "He told me you were infected with AIDS!" The inquisitor will probably feel affronted at this point. You then follow with, "What a joker!"

THE SALE: someone asks you what your rings signify. "You like these?" you respond. "I can see you have taste. Look at the fine craftsmanship and the finishing work. I can see that you would like a ring like this and I just happen to know the jeweler. I'll give him your name and phone number. What time are you home? Is six or six-thirty better?" At the thought of being cornered into a sale, the inquisitor will usually back away.

BEATS ME: this is a ploy against a ploy. A person who is hoping to find you out will concoct a wild story about an experience that they had with the black arts. If you are in doubt of the questioner's motive, simply shake your head and say, "Too damned weird for me!"

These are just a few of the ways of thinking on your feet. Even if you are caught in full ritual dress, you can openly look the person in the eye and say, "What robe?" The reason is simple. The person asking the question really doesn't want the truth, and if they get it, won't know what to do with it. A wise old Mage gave some sage advice when he said, "Occult means secret, so unless someone has a vested interest, they really don't want to know that you're dying, you've come out of the closet, you're born again, or that you practice magic." I couldn't agree with him more.

===== RECOGNIZING PSEUDO-SATANISM =====
by Clinton Smith

They're out there!

They sometimes wear pentagrams. They sometimes wear black. They often claim to be Satanists.

You may have seen them on the television talk shows or in film "documentaries" on Satanism.

No, I'm not talking about the sickos trying to blame Satanism for their sociopathic crimes. I'm not discussing religious cults who ''seem'' to be championing the cause of ego survival. I'm not referring to the philosophical fellow-travelers of Objectivism or other Libertarian groups.

I'm talking about sheep in ''wolves''<nowiki/>' clothing. I'm referring to cult groups who ''claim'' to be Satanists but ''act'' just like the most dedicated Christian fanatics! I am talking about White Light Mystics who use Satanic trappings.

They are out there and they are ''dangerous''!

How are they dangerous?

Well, in my own case it cost me almost three precious years of my life before I finally saw through the sham of one organization and began to undo the ''damage'' it caused to my life.

Yes, I said ''damage''!

Satanism is the only religion in the world to champion the cause of the ''ego''. The ceremonies and dogma of Satanism all act to reinforce this ego-strengthening intention. This is what distinguishes Satanism from every other philosophy and religion in the world.

What do the pseudo-Satanists do? They parody these unique elements. They will use many of the same words that we use and they will even perform "Satanic" magical ceremonies and rituals. It is especially insidious when they claim (as one such group does) to be carrying on the work of the original Church of Satan, implying that the C.O.S. died somewhere back there in the past or something.

In and of itself these acts of mimicry seem innocent enough. The problem is one of "doublespeak" and what it can do to damage the healthy growth of the individual's ego.

Pseudo-Satanic groups do '''not''' champion the cause of the ego. In fact, they are generally altruistic. They do '''not''' champion individual autonomy. Instead they commonly advocate the existence of external, objective gods to be worshipped and to be obeyed, even if this requires martyr-like behavior.

For example, in the group which had fooled me for so long, there was a requirement for the "higher-ranking" member to be willing to go public and give interviews on television, radio, etc. '''whether or not this public statement would harm the individual in his private life!''' In other words, they expected the member to be amartyr for their religion. Hardly Satanic.

By now you should begin to see the danger.

The power and freedom of becoming a strong individual in a world of dull and obedient mediocrity is slowly and carefully undercut by such groups. The words of The Satanic Bible become twisted and distorted until they no longer have useful meaning! The Satanism of the ego becomes warped into the pseudo-Satanism of the mystic slave!

You can easily identify pseudo-Satanism by checking the way they test reality, the way they set goals and how they use authority.

The pseudo-Satanists don't want to check on their beliefs in the harsh glare of reality. They want to spin their gossamer web of megalomaniacal ideas across the whole of existence without ever testing to see if there is even one small grain of truth therein. They subtly or overtly dodge the rational questions a Satanist will ask with a call to "faith" or by a claim to some way of knowing which is "higher" than the rational mind. So the abandonment of reality-checking is one sure sign that the group you are with is pseudo-Satanic.

Second is the lack of clear-cut goals and/or a means to achieve them. This is what is referred to, in most MBA programs, as a "goal and mission statement." Pseudo-Satanism has no goal. The group to whom I'd belonged substituted mystical "buzzwords" for intentions (as well as mystical insight for reason). As aresult, I kept finding myself given apparent goal statements which, upon careful deciphering, proved to be only word salad.

One final test of the authenticity of any Satanic versus pseudo-Satanic group is the question of authority versus reason. White Light occult groups have tradi tionally followed a very militaristic ranking system with degrees and honorific titles. As Satanists, we understand that the use of a title is simply the use of Lesser Magic to manipulate the slave to obey. The early Church of Satan gave out many title so these could be used with ''non''-Satanists! ("Wow! You mean you're a Satanic Priest!)

Resorting to a title or occult "ranking" to avoid answering a question is a sure sign that you are dealing with the pseudo-Satanist, and not the authentic item. The pseudo-Satanists use their titles to control other members, not the outside, non-Satanic community. This is a simple reflection of the fact that those who cannot make it in the real world outside will tend to try and create their own little kingdoms to rule within a closed community of true believers.

And it is this cut-off from the outside world that truly makes pseudo-Satanism dangerous. ''Nothing'' could be more dangerous for the individual than to cut himself off from knowing and responding to the ''realities'' of life. The pseudo-Satanists do precisely that. Beware!

===== CHOOSING A FAMILIAR =====
by Morgain Blake

Why should a Satanist have a familiar?

# Keeping a familiar is an ancient sorcerous tradition, now sadly fallen into decline.
# A suitable familiar is a great enhancement to one's image as a Black Magician.
# A well trained familiar can be a great source of pyschic energy.
# Familiars make good company if you live in the dark, crumbling tower on the moors which all Black Magicians aspire to own.
# These days, Satanists need all the friends we can get.

Unless you are a really hot wizard, it is not likely that you will actually summon up a small, misshapen, leathery-skinned creature willing ot live on table scraps in a dark corner of your tower. The modern sorceror usually resorts to the pet shop or animal rescue society. Here are a few useful tips for choosing your first familiar.

Shop around. Don't buy the first sinister-looking beast you see. A little forethought can save you from living with a sick creature or one which is incompatible with your lifestyle.

If you are buying from a pet shop, consider these points. Is it clean? Is it reputable? Above all, ''is it'' ''noisy''? A noisy pet shop is a happy pet shop. Happy, healthy birds make a lot of noise, and so do happy, healthy puppies and kittens. What is the shop's policy on livestock returns? Are their supplies (cages, beds, aquaria, chains, muzzles, etc.) reasonably priced, or would you be better off buying them from a large wholesaler or mail-order house ''before'' you purchase the familiar?

Be certain that the familiar is healthy. Check out its eyes. No matter how many or how few, they should be bright and clear. Its fur, feathers, skin, scales, or chitin should be clean and well conditioned. Watch for sore spots and check the beast's cage for blood, ichor, or excessively runny droppings. Better still, try to take along someone who knows about the creatures before you buy one.

Even before you start window shopping, a little meditation is in order. Do you want a quiet companion, a merry chatterer, a cuddly child-surrogate, a dignified and aloof housemate, or something which will defend you from your enemies, physical and magical. Here are a few ideas about common and uncommon familiars.

====== Cats ======
Cats are among the most popular and traditional of familiars. Most of the creatures shown in the famous engraving of Matthew Hopkins, the Witchhunter General, are either cats or cat-like. Most cats exhibit an instinctive understanding of magic, both Greater and Lesser. They can see in the dark and also seem to perceive things which may or may not be there. What cat owner has not seen their companion start, get up and begin stalking an invisible prey? Perhaps keeping a cat wil get rid of those funny little things which you keep seeing out of the corner of your eye.

Cats also look impressive. Those green, blue, or golden eyes can hold untold depths of wisdom or savagery or lust. They are graceful, intelligent and (usually) quiet.

Cats do have their drawbacks. They like to play with amulets and small, rattly talismanic objects. The urgencies of the mating season, an argument with another cat, or even the desire for conversation can cause them to give tongue, sometimes at the top of their penetrating voices! They also get hairballs, fleas, and worms.

However cats do, on the whole, make suitable familiars.

====== Dogs ======
Some magicians find that dogs also make good familiars. They share the cat's ability to see the unseen, and often do a good job at standing between their owners and threatening forces. They do not, however, share the cat's sense of proper ritual behavior. Dogs do not hesitate to drink out of chalices, try to wash the celebrant's face at critical points, and have been known to bound into a solemn ritual with leashes in their mouths. A dog will sit outside the chamber and howl if shut out during a ritual. He also will not understand why your friends can't talk or play with him after they put on their funny black robes.

Then there's the question of breed. The more lupine members of the dog clan make excellent familiars. Huskies, Shepherds, ''et al''. growl impressively and can make unwelcome guests to your lair most uncomfortable. So do well-trained Labradors, Dobermans, and Great Danes. The Collie usually makes a poor familiar as it combines the worst breath in the species with a inappropriately wholesome image. Small, yappy dogs do not work well. Come on now, can you imagine a great and powerful warlock striding across the wastes accompanied by a Pomeranian? No, if you choose a dog for your familiar, go for the traditional Black Beast and take him to obedience school!

====== Birds ======
Gary Larson to the contrary, it's not easy to find the parakeet of the Baskervilles. Though most birds make merry and affectionate pets, they are noisy, messy, and inexorably cheerful. Few birds care to (or can) exist in the chill, darkened, smoky rooms favored by Black Magicians. Most birds are diurnal creatures and won't like you to keep late hours.

On the good side, parrots seem to have an innate understanding of ritual. Perhaps it's because their brains are closer in structure to the reptilian brain Carl Sagan says is the source of our own desire for ritualistic behavior. My parrot has attended a number of rituals and has always been well-behaved. He seems to enjoy chanting and thrives on the raised energy. However, he may be an exception.

Many parrots are apt to give tongue at inappropriate moments. Aloud cry of "pretty bird, pretty bird" can really screw up your concentration. And if your bird is a really good talker, he may pick up phrases which you would rather he didn't. Do you really want the neighbors or the local Jehovah's Witness to hear your bird yelling "Rise up, thou serpent of darkness and come to my aid" or even "Hail Satan!"?

The largest and most impressive members of the parrot family are also the hardest to live with. Macaws produce large globs of droppings at frequent intervals, scatter lots of seeds at each meal, and are very noisy and demanding companions. If you treat a macaw like a large and unreliable dog, you will be on the right track.

I don't know much about the care and feeding of those traditional children of the night, the owl and raven. Both are carnivorous, however, and would be best for the dweller in the crumbling tower. The raven has a reputation as a thief, and may make off with crucial bits of your ritual equipment just because they're shiny. The owl will take care of any vermin you happen to have about, but tends to regurgitate mouse skin and bones in little piles around the room.

And speaking of piles, the traditional portrait of the sorcerer with the owl or raven on his shoulder usually omits a little detail. If you keep your avian companion on your shoulder for more than a few minutes at a time, you will accumulate quite a pile of guano. I suggest saving a particular shirt for those times when you wish to "commune" with your bird.

====== Reptiles ======
Snakes and lizards make remarkably appropriate familiars. They are scaly, intimidating, and sinister. They are the ultimate symbol of the Dark Side. They are also quiet, undemanding, and (usually) serene. Far from being slimy, a healthy snake is soft, warm, leathery, and quite cuddly. Unless you do something stupid like taunting your cobra or wrapping your constrictor around your neck when he's hungry, you probably run a smaller chance of getting hurt by a reptilian familiar than by a bird or mammal.

On the other hand, reptiles are expensive. You will need to know a good vet who deals in exotic animals, and do quite a bit of reading on the proper care of your reptile or you will probably lose the creature to illness. You will also need to buy mice, grasshoppers, meal worms, or cockroaches unless you live in that crumbling tower and have lots of them just lying around.

If you aren't used to reptilian behavior, it can be a bit disconcerting. The first time you see a snake shed its skin is quite an experience, and they get a bit restive when hungry or about to shed. A black snake shifting restlessly in its terrarium can cause the container to creak ominously and give you nightmares from horror films about slithering monsters loose in the night. If they do get loose, be sure to check the springs of the couch, the pile of blankets on the bed, and the bag of the vacuum cleaner before panicking.

====== Other Exotics ======
The tarantula holds great promise for the magician who has only a limited amount of room and money and doesn't want to spend a lot of time caring for a pet. Tarantulas are reputed to be gentle and intelligent and certainly look scary enough to enhance anyone's reputation.

Monkeys are loud, expensive and difficult to control. If well-trained by an expert, they can make excellent substitutes for the "black dwarf" of legend. I recommend that monkeys be used only by very experienced magicians who like to make a public show.

Shetland ponies are right out, though a vicious black horse who comes galloping over the moors looks well in the environs of the crumbling tower. Black goats and cockerels are also traditional, though best for the farm sorcerer.

Peter Bowler's terrific book, ''The Superior'' ''Person's Book of Words'', (David R. Godine, Boston, 1985) offers an alternative to the magician who does not care for pets. He lists the word ''famulus'', an old alternate version of the word ''familiar''. Bowler writes: "FAMULUS...A medieval sorcerer's assistant. A pleasing appellation for your husband when he is helping you in the kitchen by peeling potatoes, drying he dishes etc. -- or when you are entertaining. 'Come into the living room and make yourself comfortable while Ihave my famulus mix some drinks.'"

Whatever familiar you choose, love and enjoy your companion and you will find both spiritual and material rewards. Mistreat it, and the Forces of Darkness will get you for sure!<blockquote>Editor's note: See also Anton Szandor La Vey's ''The'' ''Compleat Witch'', soon to be reissued as ''The Satanic'' ''Witch'', for a discussion of magical applications of your pet, be it demon or familiar.</blockquote>

===== Invocation To Cthulhu =====
O Luminous Squid of Immeasurable Aeons,

Dread Lord of starry abyss and Murky Cosmos,

Arise! Attend our rite! Heed our call!

Thy Time has come, Thy Realm awalts Thee,

Humanity massed, delicious and desperate;

We call to Thee in our squalor and misery,

Arise! O Great Lord of the unformed protoplasm,

Of shapeless terrors, of scourges and plagues,

Come! O Thou Greatest of the Mighty,

O Thou Massive, O Thou Giant of the Deep,

Dead, Undead, Immortal, Ever-Decaying,

Putrescent, puissant, attend us, preserve us!

Pagan X

===== Invocation To Shub-Niggurath =====
O Queen of Multiplicity, hooved and breasted,

Dark fecundity of stupid things,

Mindless proclivity, inane procreatress,

Heaving and grunting, barefoot and obese,

Traveler of the wooded ways, squatter at the crossroads,

Bless us, swell our ranks,

That we may outnumber the unbelievers

And consume them as You do Your own children.

Let us overrun their cities and fields,

Destroying their racial purity and

Slaking our thirst upon their precious bodily fluids.

Pagan X

===== THE PURPOSE OF LIFE =====
by Nemo

In the film ''Dark Forces'', the magician lightly touched the boy's shoulder and said, "Death sits perched on your right shoulder. Always remember he is there and he can never take you by surprise."

To understand the purpose of life, we only need to listen carefully to those who have chosen death. Those who attempted suicide, and failed, spoke to me in bright hospital rooms and dark jail cells. They spoke of despair, fear, pain, anger, and tragedy. When I summarized what they said, it amounted to a belief that there was no further possibility for "fun" in their lives. When they felt that fun was never posible again, they would try to kill themselves.

Turn that around and what do we find? If believing that fun is gone forever causes people to commit suicide, then the purpose of life must be to have fun!

Yet fun is not just pleasure. Offering a pizza to someone suicidal will not work. Pleasure alone, is not enough. No, "fun" implies a meaningful challenge, a worthwhile goal to achieve, a game.

Victor Frankl survived the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz and wrote ''Man's Search For Meaning'' based on his experiences. Some prisoners would survive the harshest conditions while others would quickly die. Frankl observed that it was finding meaning, a purpose, a worthwhile goal to achieve which was the common feature of those who survived. Again it was the expectation that there was fun yet to come, games worth playing, challenges worth meeting, which gave purpose to life.

The humorous bumper sticker reads, "Are we having fun yet?" In a culture which still denies the nature of human pleasure, which still worships writhing and torturous death on a cross, we need the reminder of the sigil of Baphomet. We need that touch on our right shoulder. We need to remember the purpose of life.<blockquote>What's the difference between a White Magician and a Black Magician?

The Black Magician has no excuse for being broke!

Nemo</blockquote><blockquote>THE BLACK FLAME

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===== ODDITORIUM =====
Peggy Nadramia

If you're at all interested in the phenomena, you should check out ''Freak Show: Presenting Human'' ''Oddities for Amusement and Profit'' by Robert Bogdan. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988; hardcover; 322 pages; $29.95). Bogdan traces the history of the freak show in America from its dime museum days through its waning latter years. He discusses the roles freaks and showmen played in the amusement world and the different ways freaks were presented (the Aggrandized Mode, the Exotic Mode) to enhance their financial value to show owners.

Of particular interest to Satanists is Bogdan's discussion of the relationship between showmen, those "in the know," and the rubes, those waiting to be fleeced. The freaks themselves spat upon the hypocritical "sympathy" of the gawkers. This "sympathy" eventually drove the exhibits out of business and the freaks out of work, and into the "mainstream" of public life where the gawkers, as Dr. La Vey so succinctly put it in ''The Compleat Witch'', "did exactly the same thing that twenty years earlier they would have paid to do."

Freak shows were a popular form of entertainment in an era without television. But has America ever lost her taste for the ten-in-one, those "panels" of oddities? Just catch the latest "trash tv" talk show, and watch the gawkers get their chance at today's "freaks."

''Critique: Exposing Consensus Reality'' ($15.00 for three issues from P. O. Box 11368, Santa Rosa, CA 95406) -- the tag title says it all. Recent issues have been centered around themes like Miracles and Sexuality. Any magazine with the guts to publish an article like David Morrow's "You Pay for Every Piece You Get" is okay with me; bucking the feminists can be dangerous.

Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and get a free copy of ''S.E.T. FREE'', the newsletter of the ''Society to Eradicate Television''. Careful readers of ''The Cloven Hoof'' are already aware of its insidious influence; here's further documentation, as well as some lampooning and supportive advice for those trying to kick the habit. P.O. Box 1124, Albuquerque, NM 87103.

Cartoonist Matt Groening slices through all the hypocrisy of institutionalized learning in ''School is Hell'' (Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; paperback; about 50 pages; $5.98). Lesson 15 is "How to Get By When Yer Smarter Than Yer Teachers."

===== MYSTICAL JUNKIE =====
by Max

A general rule of thumb that I use whenever anyone asks me about '''Black Magic''' is this: ''a little'' ''Black Magic is good to use. Too much Black Magic'' ''uses'' '''''you!''''' This is not just the cute aphorism it seems to be. My point is quite clear: magic is an inherent, natural tool, and if we use it to get what we want in the real world, then magic is useful. Magic used for its own sake is a crock.

In almost all of the realms of magical practice (so that no one will make the mistake of thinking that this is peculiar to white magic) there will be a bevy of "chosen people" who will do nothing but practice mysticism and "magic." In those cultures where a sort of mystical ''think-tank'' was formed, these people had a houngan, holy man, medicine man or priest.

The Priest had nothing to do all his days but to study higher and higher ''occult'' thought processes. This holy man's whole reason for living was to find the correct formula for communicating with the eternal. Through meditation or whatever process or path that this person took to reach his understanding of the universe and arrive at the correct formula, something else occurred. Something that was to remain aside-effect rendering the holy man incapable of ever functioning within the mundane world -- mystical ''brain lock''.

What really seems sad is that the reason these priests rose to these levels of the mind was so that they could relate this higher knowledge to the common artisan or tradesman. What they actually passed on to the common folk was gibberish with as many meanings and interpretations as the language could bear.

Theologians, religious scholars or editors of gibberish would try to sort out the thoughts of the holy man and create an understandable format for the common folk, but there still remained ''divine'' ''mysteries'' and ''unanswerable questions'', thus proving that only the holy man knew exactly what he was talking about.

Those of us who decided not to wait for an answer to the eternal through an intermediary decided to pursue magic ourselves. Many an early magician ran headlong into the occult universe only to fall prey to brain lock and formulate rules and regulations about what could be practiced "safely" in the form of magic. This gave rise to white magic. For in the map of the mystical universe, there would be forever written the phrase, "Here lies madness!"

So, you ask, what is brain lock and how can I tell if I have it? Simple. How do you feel when you're finished with a ritual? Do you feel '''positive''' and rarin' to go in pursuit of your goal in the real world? Do you feel that you have vanquished whatever was bothering you? Have you become inspired by some unseen force to create something new and exciting? Do you now feel that you have greased the skids so that your plans will go forward unhampered? Yes? Then you are a well-balanced '''magician'''.

If, on the other hand, you start feeling sensitive, like a receiver, to unseen forces that both awe and terrify you; if your next magical act of the day is to automatically try to see what the future holds for you; if you become almost petrified at the idea of attempting any mundane act without first consulting some sort of oracle or burning incense or even performing a full ritual -- then you are clearly on your way to ''brain lock'' and becoming a '''Mystical Junkie''', and thus, unwillingly, a holy person.

The next effect will be a hypersensitivity to vibes. An argument in the room, while annoying to the common person, will drive the mystical junkie to tears or absolute disorientation. After this phenomena becomes apparent, the next will be what is commonly known as ''airhead''. Mystical Junkies will spend hours staring out into space and will be considered too unstable for responsible positions, especially since these symptoms are frequently mistaken for those of drug addiction. Many New Age practitioners fall prey to becoming Mystical Junkies and spend most of their waking hours and hard-earned dollars doing magic which will suspend them into a sort of limbo. Remember, holy men live on charity. Most of us can't.

Very few Mystical Junkies can actually perform real magic. If they are still at the stage where they will talk to you, they sometimes promise magical feats which turn out to consist of staring at the wall while you watch them. The fact that you can't share the vision simply proves to them that you are unenlightened, not that they can't perform magic.

This raises a question: what is your intent in doing magic? Wasn't the search for a new path away from the commercialized control-oriented religions an attempt to make your life on earth easier and carefree? Isn't that the point of becoming a magician? Most of the truly down-at-the-heels brain-locked Mystical Junkies that I've met would never call themselves magicians at all. They say they've found the '''true path'''; they say they've been '''born again'''. Unless you wish to head up a new religion, why bother with all that?

To live with the gnawing fear that you must do what the unseen force wishes you to do eventually becomes something like schizophrenia and soon the disembodied voices begin to speak and the visions appear and what has been construed as sainthood in some cultures will be judged as a one-way ticket to the funny farm in this one.

My solution is easy: when you feel that you have started showing signs of becoming a Mystical Junkie, simply stop. Take a little reality vacation. Take off your medals, sigils, rings and talismans and store them in some kind of container. I find that the metal ones work best. Give yourself at least two moon phases (roughly a month) before returning to them. If, when you open the container, you feel an absolute need to wear them, close the lid and store them for another two phases. Whatever you do, stay away from all oracles, including fortune cookies. Your objective mind is now flying wildly and all readings will become unfavorable. Occupy your mind with reading of an non-magical nature. Begin to exercise your body, eat a balanced diet, enjoy the carnal pleasures. In short, realign yourself and become '''balanced'''.

Some magicians may choose to give up magic entirely after this withdrawal. A strong magician will not. Simply think of magic and mysticism as radiation that we experience in our lives. If we absorb safe levels, we remain healthy and progressive. If we absorb too much, we die.

So, to all of the searchers out there who choose to walk on the magical path, remember: ''It is wonderful'' ''to gaze into the abyss.'' '''''Just don't fall in'''.''<blockquote>"No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side."

Jascha Heifetz</blockquote>

===== YUGGOTH TEXT =====
by Diabolos Rex

Behold, the black flame of the Sith doth sting thy essence with the pains of realization, and the minds of the mighty shall rise up illustrious within the throne room of the skull, and that which it conceives, it shall create.

Move from behind the veil of darkness, O creeping Chaos from space, speed thee quickly through the door of Thanatos and blast forth from within the angles of the mighty Trapezoid, for it is I, Nyarlathotep, the Dark Herald, who stands before you!

Through the Power of your name, Azathoth, Lord of the First Angle, present yourself unto me and be detained no longer.

Let me gaze upon the semblance of the Master of Chaos, for the Door is open and the stars are right. Cloaked in the invisible do they move in the world of men. Cloaked are we in vestments of Evil, so shall we join them. Together we shall move within the Angles and only by Them shall we be glimpsed. The profane know us not for their eye sockets have been blotted out by the Dark Light.

A pronouncement of doom upon the croakers with rotten tongues. The spiked and boned vault of the great barrier is the resting place for vile images that I exalt before the world.

The Abomination of Desolation hath taken form on the planes of Satan's Asylum, and presented its command unto the will of a Daemon. In the shapes that I have wrought for them, do the Old Ones render the profane forever constrained to the realm of death.

I'a Yog-Sothoth. The Sith Bell has been cracked, and the Yellow Sign seen within the eye of the Star of Wrath.

Yea, moving unseen upon the Lair of Mentu, the fiends without faces have welcomed me and within the Ebon Keep, the Horrors in Yellow hold council seeking to devour the souls of the profane.

From an angular matrix born of the Asylum, my voice blasts forth unto my soul image, Nyarlathotep, and screams of terror and ecstasy are forever heard unto the ending of the cycle.

Moving upon the winds of the Abyss do the Elder Daemons shriek my name proclaiming: "I'as aem'nh ci-cyzb vyni-weth w'ragn jnusf whrengo, jnusf' wi klo zyah zsybh kyn-talo huz-u kyno."

Behold all ye death defiant, the stone with faces unrecognized by the profane and the fearful! Within its windows doth reside the blood-stained and corpse ridden faces of the Urilla, Worms of Bitterness, from whose jaws hang the entrails of Adonai. And they went forth from the Third Angle unto the Fourth; and I beheld within, a mighty necropolis beneath the blackened sky, and upon the utterance of his mighty name, I'a Shub-Niggurath, the earth cracked and the sky was rent by thunderbolts. Before me, upon rotted pole, rose Chuda Gruin, the crucified serpent, to grant power unto me, and smite mine enemies.

Burn like a torch, O mine brothers and toss the flames about you! Ask not the whys and wherefores of the laws of trembling men and their dead gods. In the power of thine own mind, taste of the joys of creative genius!

Editor's Note: This text was excerpted from a collection of Techno-Magic rituals entitled ''The'' ''Abomination of Desolation'' by Diabolos Rex. These rites explore the electrical elements first brought to Satanism in ''Die Electrischen Vorspiele'', by Anton Szandor LaVey (''The Satanic Rituals''), and flavor them with a Cthulhu Mythos Universe view.

===== A PIECE OF THE ACTION =====
''A CEREMONY OF SATANIC MAGIC''

by Nemo

Notes to follow before starting ceremony:

# Da hood runnin' the ceremony starts it facin' da altar which is a bathtub filled with gin and a naked broad. Da Baphomet is on da wall above da altar wid a fedora perched on da horns and a lit cigarette danglin' from its teeth. High class Baphomet should be made with neon tube lightin'.
# If possible, altar should be against east wall (towards Sicily).
# In Ceremony where only one guy is there, no Godfather has to run da show. Youse does dat job for da Godfather!
# Whenever "I take da Fifth!" or "Hail to da Don!" is spoke out loud by da Godfather, everybody says it right after. When da Godfather says "Hail to da Don!" everybody pounds on da side of their violin cases.
# No talkin', chewin', smokin', or drinkin' once da Godfather stands up. (Youse better stand up too!).

====== Da Thirteen Steps: ======

# Dress up. Wear a clean chalk-stripe suit with four-inch-wide lapels, a sharp-creased fedora, polished shoes, colorful tie. Don't come lookin' like no geek!
# Make sure all da stuff for dis ceremony is already set-up and ready. Flip on da Baphomet light, make sure youse got a copy of da contract and dat da bathtub is full of gin.
# If youse got a moll for da altar make sure she's naked and in da tub.
# Have a big, comfortable chair for da Godfather to sit in, up in front of da altar, until he stands up (youse stand up now too if youse knows what's good for youse!). Den da Godfatherpulls his tommygun outta his violin case and fires off a burst at the ceiling to get youse attention.
# Read "Invocation to da Don" and then "Da Mob Names." Youse says them right after da Godfather.

====== Invocation to da Don ======
''In nomine Dei nostri Cosa Nostra excelsi!''

In da name of Sicily, da Ruler of da Earth, da Godfather of da world, I command da forces of da Mob to back me all the way up!

Open wide da gates of da Big House and come forth from Solitary to greet me as a member of da Family!

Grant me da scratch of which I speak!

I have taken your Name as my own! I live like a cop on da take, grabbing a little when I can get it! I give to my friends and screw da others!

By all da Dons of da Mafia, I command that I get what I'm talkin' about!

Come out here and answer up to your names by givin' me what I want!

Oh hear them Names!

John Dillinger! Bugsy Moran! Frank Nitti! Bonnie & Clyde! Ma Barker! Baby Face Nelson! Al Capone!

# Da Godfather takes ahigh-heel shoe and drinks some gin outta da tub.
# Da Godfather turns north towards Canada where we ships in the booze, west toward Chicago, south toward Mexico where we hide out sometimes, and den east toward Sicily. At each direction da Godfather throws a stiletto over da heads of da other boys and just below da Baphomet. (Good time ta duck!).
# Den da Godfather takes out a rubber hose and waves it toward da boys to remind 'em what happens to stoolies.
# Da Godfather reads "Wipin' Out Da Udder Guy."

====== Invocation Employed Toward Wipin' Out Da Udder Guy ======
Listen up! I ain't gonna talk quiet to youse anymore about dis! I'm actin' as da big mechanic on dis contract what gives me da option to take out anybody dat gets in my way!

It don't bother me none dat dis is da way it is; and it won't take too many head shots wit a 22 close up to do da job!

I want all youse guys dat owes me a favor to help out in gettin' dis guy. And I 'spect dat you won't make it too quick on dis bozo when you catch him 'cuz we needs to make an example of him here.

Quit shootin' craps for a while and get dis guy whose monicker is: (Stooley's handle).

Fellow members of da Family, who give me a place to crash, good booze and dames, who drive around in the best cars, who've all spent some hard time in da Big House; get goin' and let's get together! Find dis guy who's been squeelin' to da Man on our operations; zip his lips and shut him up, Cosa Nostra! Plug him in da belly, boys! Then give him some cement overshoes and dump him in da river, guys!

I'm holdin' up a written contract on dis guy and on dese lines it says we gotta waste dis stooley to get even and preserve da Honor of da Family!

I take da Fifth!

Hail to da Don!

# If youse is by yourself, take some time here to plan out da hit. Dis is important 'cuz wit ouda plan youse could mess up! Here's some hints:

====== To Do A Clean Hit: ======
(a) Get a photo if ya can of da hit and pin it up near da Baphomet where youse can see it good. Dis way you'll remember which guy to waste on sight.

(b) Draw a map of da bimbo's daily haunts and plan out agood place to take him out. Pin up da map.

(c) If youse can write, write down da plan youse will follow.

(d) It's okay to talk out loud if youse can't think in your head too good. I knows some guys who talk to da stooley as if he were right there in da room. If it helps, go ahead.

(e) Make sure youse don't forget to use all da tools of da trade, including heavy saps, rubber hose, stiletto, concrete overshoes, and don't forget to load your piece!

# If youse have any questions for da Godfather, ask 'em now. He'll repeat your question just to be sure he ain't missin' nothin'.
# Da Godfather will read over the plan one last time before the meetin' is closed just to be certain all youse guys got it straight.
# Den da Godfather takes his piece, fires off another burst at da ceiling (to wake up any a you mugs what dozed off) an den sits down and says, "Dats it! Get outta here!"

'''End of Ceremony'''<blockquote>Editor's Note: this ceremony was brainstormed by a gathering of Satanists here in "Da Big Apple" during Halloween of XXIII A.S. It was inspired by the style, drama and devilry of the Gangster era. Historical accuracy is not important, rather, the mood is of the essence. Perform this in the ''noir'' spirit of ''The'' ''Untouchables'' and ''The Godfather''. The title was acquired from an episode of ''Star Trek'', wherein a gangster culture evolved on a planet where a book on the Prohibition era was accidentally left behind. We've always wondered just what would have been the results, should someone have planted a copy of ''The Satanic Bible'' on that world.</blockquote>We trust that you've found something to intrigue and fascinate you with this edition of '''The Black Flame'''. Since it has appeared later than was originally planned, this issue covers both the ''Vernal'' ''Equinox'' and the ''Summer Solstice'' of XXIV. Subscribers, fear not, for you will get four separate issues for your money, this counts as only one. You can expect the next issue right around the ''Autumnal'' ''Equinox''.

Till the next time we enter your lair, may the benisons of Belial be upon you!<blockquote>LEX TALONIS!

LEX SATANICUS!

HAIL SATAN!

'''So It Is Done!'''</blockquote>