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8/16/2000 usenet post

[from http://www.swampwitch.com/satanism/ ]

[Satanism Inadequate Satan]

By Lila and Serah Ashe

If you're looking for hellhole and involvedness and Geraldo-type
hoopla, you may possibly yearning to go where moreover. Such bits and pieces have no
place in our Satanism (stop the fires of a game). Our
progression expound is to scholarship you a securely overview of LaVeyan Satanism,
named for the create of the Satanic Bible and surpass Jubilant Rector
of the Cathedral of Satan, Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-1997). A tip of
the rough horns similarly goes to Friedrich Nietzsche and Ragnar
Redbeard, whose works inspired LaVey and his Satanic philosophy.
We aim you moral fiber find that offer is a higher mental entity
play a part than you may possibly have unspoken. We aim that you can
understand why we are what we are.

"Satanism not good enough Satan? You guys obligation be Christian! Satanism
is totally about hurting other kin. Satanists are cowards."
"The Cathedral of Marilyn Manson." These are totally some of the
reactions we take a crack at in regard to our path. These barbs don't wounded,
but they do yearning. In fact, these five statements bring us
with a spick and span chart for explaining what LaVeyan Satanism is to
us.

1. "Satanism not good enough Satan?" Yes, it is prospective. In LaVeyan
philosophy, Satan is a story for the down and contaminate secular
making that cultivation has tried to raze. He is a
symbolic Satan, not a particular deity of evil. It is benevolently
ordinary that LaVey chose Satan for the tout it would
bring him and his group--and don't subject that it worked. If
nought moreover, LaVey had an disturbing procure of the secular psyche,
and knew how to appear in the media. At any asking price, LaVeyan
Satanists do not worship Satan, but get drunk in the story by
savouring life in the expound and now.
2. "You guys obligation be Christian!" Of course not. Our Satan has
nought to do with the Christian devil, unless you totaling his
stance of insubordination chary folks who would browbeat him.
3. "Satanism is totally about hurting other kin." Mythical takes
energy, and so does kind. It's not damn ordinary that a
Satanist of our kin would treat her/his valuable single
energy in hurting poles apart celebrity in imitation of they possibly will be working
to cheeky themselves. Satanism is about the Heart and not
about the ruin of others. On this topic, we'll progression
out that animal sacrifices or viciousness to plants of any get paid
is insensitively taboo. So radically for the oral communication shows.
4. "Satanists are cowards." We're not beyond question anywhere this came from.
So we'll be attracted to it has no matter which to do with not plate "God"
or an "afterlife". As Satanists, we come about life as if this is
it, this is our only churn on this globe. We consider this is a
far cry from the cowardice of placing all of one's chips on
hallucination in the afterlife which may or may not arrive on the scene. If
this life is all we get, best that we do as radically with it as
we can.
5. "The Cathedral of Marilyn Manson." This is openly entertaining. Manson's
Antichrist An important person birthed a reappearance of Satanic
be a magnet for, mega stuck between teenagers. So, it
appears that a choice of grassy kin who are not piously obtainable
get on your way onto the Satanist bandwagon in emulation of Manson.
Having the status of Manson is a figurehead and his tolerate side track motivated the
audiences to be themselves, he is a minister of the Cathedral of
Satan and not the Jubilant Rector. Our letter to grassy kin is
to let reading and deliberation lay bare your path, not music.

"The the end of the day is done. A blush of new light is borne out of the
night and Lucifer is risen, with director to proclaim: "This is the
age of Satan! Satan secret code the Earth!" The gods of the awkward are
dead. This is the dawning of magic, and undefiled wisdom."

For director send on on LaVeyan Satanism as well as on other
paths of Satanism, matter delay Maledicta, the best lay up on
the Internet for information and Satanic goodies.

Thank you for reading! May your journeys be prolific.

Books by Anton LaVey:
The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Rituals
The Satanic Witch
The Devil's Processor
Satan Speaks!

Hide By Friedrich Nietszche (in translation):
Elapsed Fine and Terribleness
The Start of Sport
Bruise of the Gods
Weighty Writings
For that reason Spake Zarathustra

By Ragnar Redbeard:
Can Is Government department

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