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threat to humanity. Satanism, which employs humanism as one of
its main foundations, has developed an even more perverted and
perilous perspective, and has made violence, rage, blood and sav-
agery into its fundamental values.
After Aleister Crowley, Anton Szandor LaVey is the chief ar-
chitect of modern-day satanism. LaVey, noted for his spells and
strange rituals, first founded an anti-Christian group called “the
Magic Circle.” Later, he wrote The Satanic Bible with its famous
nine satanic principles and called his group “the Church of
Satan.” The doctrine of this organization was founded on books
that LaVey wrote (The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil’s
Notebook and Satan Speaks). It is estimated that the Church of Satan
still has about 10,000 adherents throughout North America. Its
doctrines are quite heretical; as the Encyclopedia of American
Religions states:
The basic themes of LaVey’s brand of satanism are self-asser-
tion, antiestablishmentarianism and the gratification of man’s
physical or mental nature. Satan is a Promethean figure, repre-
senting ... the notion that man is just another animal, and so-
called sin which lead to physical or mental gratification. It is
LaVey’s opinion that Satan represents the source of these val-
ues. Rituals are conceived both as psychodramas and as mag-
ical acts that focus psychokinetic force, as in the ritual magick
tradition.
Satanic philosophy is very close to the teachings of Aleister
Crowley in “The Book of the Law”. Each person is seen as liv-
ing according to his own set of rules. 4
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