Anton LaVey , the founder of the Church of Satan, directly lifted passages from the 19th century proto-fascist book Might Is Right by “Ragnar Redbeard” (Arthur Desmond) and did so extensively and without credit to produce a substantial part of LaVey’s most famous and popular work The Satanic Bible. [skip to comparison][skip to asterisk] This […]

(A Case Against) Identifying with Satanism in the Modern World Zine: [Pages in Order][Two-per-page, print front-and-back, flip-on-short-edge] First, let’s make sure there’s no misunderstanding. Most Satanists do not worship or even believe in a literal, supernatural devil. It is absolutely not the norm for Satanists to abuse or ritually harm children or animals; if anything, […]

There are people who will tell you that to be a Satanist, you have to read Anton LaVey because he invented it, that no such thing existed prior to him. We would not grant that as so. The Satanisms that predated and have rejected his are quite rich. (In our estimation, much richer.) It is […]