![]() ![]() ![]() The Satanic Bible has been in print since 1969 and has been translated into various languages. LaVey and the church espoused the view that "Satanists are born, not made" that they are outsiders by their nature, living as they see fit, who are self-realized in a religion which appeals to the would-be Satanist's nature, leading them to realize they are Satanists through finding a belief system that is in line with their own perspective and lifestyle. Prominent Church leader Blanche Barton described Satanism as "an alignment, a lifestyle". The Church of Satan rejects the legitimacy of any other organizations who claim to be Satanists, dubbing them "Devil worshipers". It has also been described as an "institutionalism of Machiavellian self-interest". Lewis even described LaVeyan Satanism as "a blend of Epicureanism and Ayn Rand's philosophy, flavored with a pinch of ritual magic." The historian of religion Mattias Gardell described LaVey's as "a rational ideology of egoistic hedonism and self-preservation", while Nevill Drury characterised LaVeyan Satanism as "a religion of self-indulgence". Petersen suggested that LaVey viewed his religion as "an antinomian self-religion for productive misfits, with a cynically carnivalesque take on life, and no supernaturalism". In their study of Satanism, the religious studies scholars Asbjørn Dyrendal, James R. ![]() The anthropologist Jean La Fontaine described LaVeyan Satanism as having "both elitist and anarchist elements", also citing one occult bookshop owner who referred to the church's approach as "anarchistic hedonism". Religious studies scholar Eugene Gallagher. For LaVey, Satanism is also the religion of the playful provocateur anything that will shock people out of their unthinking adherence to the status quo is worth thinking about or even doing." "In LaVey's way of thinking, Satanism is both a distinctly new religion, which he himself, without any false modesty, invented and the continuance of an ancient tradition of opposition to the status quo. Lesser magic is the practice of manipulation by means of applied psychology and glamour (or "wile and guile") to bend an individual or situation to one's will. These rites are based on three major psycho-emotive themes: compassion ( love), destruction ( hate), and sex ( lust). Greater magic is a form of ritual practice and is meant as psychodramatic catharsis to focus one's emotional energy for a specific purpose. LaVeyan Satanism involves the practice of magic, which encompasses two distinct forms greater and lesser magic. It promotes a philosophy based on individualism and egoism, coupled with Social Darwinism and anti-egalitarianism. The religion propagates a naturalistic worldview, seeing mankind as animals existing in an amoral universe. He is also embraced as a symbol of defiance against Abrahamic religions, which adherents criticize for suppressing humanity's natural instincts and encouraging irrationality. Instead, Satan is viewed as a positive archetype representing pride, carnality, and enlightenment. Adherents do not believe that Satan literally exists and do not worship him. The religion's doctrines, codified in LaVey's book, The Satanic Bible, are based on materialism, rejecting the existence of supernatural beings, body-soul dualism, and life after death. In the coming years, members of the church left it to establish their own organizations, also following LaVey's ideas, among them John Dewey Allee's First Church of Satan and Karla LaVey's First Satanic Church. In 1975, LaVey abolished the grotto system, after which LaVeyan Satanism became a far less organized movement, although it remained greatly influenced by LaVey's writings. A number of these seceded from the church to form independent Satanic organizations during the early 1970s. The church grew under LaVey's leadership, with regional grottos being founded across the United States. His ideas were heavily influenced by the ideas and writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Ayn Rand and Arthur Desmond. ![]() state of California through the founding of his Church of Satan on Walpurgisnacht of 1966, which he proclaimed to be "the Year One", Anno Satanas-the first year of the "Age of Satan". LaVey established his movement in the U.S. ![]()
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