The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey (Summary)

Summary:
– Note: I’m going to try my best to keep out the parts where the book tires to discredit other beliefs.
– History of LaVay working in the circus, becoming a magician’s assistant, studying hypnosis and the occult, enrolling to be a criminologist.
– LaVey’s Satan is “the spirit of progress, the inspirer of all great movements that contribute to the development of civilization and the advancement of mankind. He is the spirit of revolt that leads to freedom, the embodiment of all heresies that liberate.”
– Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those
who deserve your love, but never turn the other cheek to your enemy!
– Satanism does not encourage orgiastic activity or extramarital affairs for those to whom they do not come naturally. It sanctions any fetish or deviation which will enhance your sex-life, so long as it involves no one who does not wish to be involved.
– The part on psychic vampires was very detailed about using reciprocity and being a leech in a way.
– The only time a Satanist would perform a human sacrifice would be if it were to serve a twofold purpose; that being to release the magician’s wrath in the throwing of a curse, and more important, to dispose of a totally obnoxious and deserving individual.
– The Satanist does not hate himself, nor the gods he might choose, and has no desire to destroy himself or anything for which he stands! It is for this reason he could never willfully harm an animal or child. But when choosing someone to sacrifice, it goes along the lines of … When a person, by his reprehensible behavior, practically cries out to be destroyed, it is truly your moral obligation to indulge them their wish.
– The highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one’s own birth. Other days celebrated are Halloween, solstices and equinoxes.
– Talks about the 19 Enochian keys and how saying them in Enochian will have so much more power.

The 9 Satanic Statements

1. Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence!
2. Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit!
4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted
   on ingrates!
5. Satan represents vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek!
6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible, instead of concern for
   psychic vampires!
7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more
   often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine
   spiritual and intellectual development”, has become the most vicious
   animal of all!
8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical,
   mental, or emotional gratification!
9. Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years!

Blessed are the following:
– Strong, powerful, bold, victorious, iron-handed, death-defiant, destoryers of false hope, valiant, those who believe in what is best for them, the man who has a sprinkling for enemies, mighty-minded.

Cursed are the following:
– Weak, feeble, righteously humble, vanquished, poor in spirit, gazers toward a richer life beyond the grave, god-adorers, believers in good and evil, lambs of god, he who doeth good unto others who sneer upon him in return, they who teach lies for truth and truth for lies, thrice cursed are the weak whose insecurity makes them vile.

3 Types of Satanic Ritual
– Sex ritual to make someone fall in love.
– The compassion or sentiment ritual to help others or oneself.
– The hex, curse or destroying agent. A ceremony used for anger, annoyance, disdain, contempt or just plain hate.
A word of warning is given to those who would practice these arts from the expense of getting what you get to accepting a person’s death without remorse.

5 Ingredients used in the performance of satanic magic
a) Desire: If you do not truly desire it, don’t attempt to perform a working.
b) Timing: The most effective time to perform a ritual would be 2 hours before the recipient awakens. It is immediately before and after the period itself that the average woman is most sexually approachable. You must never sleep, never daydream, never be without a vital thought, and never have an open mind. Then you shall be protected from the forces of magic.
c) Imagery: Dolls, drawings, painting, clothing, scent, etc. You must create the situation you desire on paper, canvas, by the written word, etc., in as overstated a way as possible, as an integral part of the ceremony.
d) Direction: To dwell upon or constantly complain about the situation upon which your ritual would be based only guarantees the weakening of what should be ritualistically directed force, by spreading it thin and diluting it. Once the desire has been established strongly enough to employ the forces of magic, then every attempt must be made to symbolically give vent to these wishes IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THE RITUAL – NOT before or after!
e) The Balance Factor: Know the self and if you are capable of such power. Success in magic requires balance or harmony with nature and not against it so don’t go overboard.

Devices used in a satanic ritual
– Clothing: Black robes by male. Sexually suggestive for female. Amulets of the pentagram and the like.
– Altar: An altar of flesh and blood usually a nude woman is used.
– Symbol of Baphomet.
– Candles. No more than one white candle (used for destruction of enemies) and all black candles.
– Bell. Used to clear and purify the air of other sounds.
– Chalice.
– Elixir. Doesn’t have to be wine, whatever ones preference is fine.
– Sword.
– Phallus. Represents generation, virility, and aggression.
– Gong.
– Parchment. Made from the skin of a sheep but not only killed for skin but for food.

Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue

– The 9 Satanic Statements
– Fire: Book of Satan
The Infernal Diatribe

– Air: The Book of Lucifer
The Enlightenment
I – Wanted!: God – Dead or Alive
II – The God You SAVE May Be Yourself
III – Some Evidence of a New Satanic Age
IV – Hell, the Devil, and How to Sell Your Soul
V – Love and Hate
VI – Satanic Sex
VII – Not all Vampires Suck Blood
VIII – Indulgence… NOT Compulsion
IX – On the Choice of a Human Sacrifice
X – Life After Death Through Fulfillment of the Ego
XI – Religious Holidays
XII – The Black Mass

– Earth: Book of Belial
The Mastery of the Earth
I – Theory and Practice of Satanic Magic: (Definition and Purpose of Lesser and Greater Magic)
II – The Three Types of Satanic Ritual
III – The Ritual, or “Intellectual Decompression,” Chamber
IV – The Ingredients Used in the Performance of Satanic Magic:
A. Desire
B. Timing
C. Imagery
D. Direction
E. The Balance Factor
V The Satanic Ritual:
A. Some Notes Which are to be Observed Before Beginning Ritual
B. The Thirteen Steps
C. Devices Used in Satanic Ritual

– Water – Book of Leviathan
The Raging Sea
I – Invocation to Satan
II – The Infernal Names
III – Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Lust
IV – Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Destruction
V – Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Compassion
VI – The Enochian Keys and The Enochian Language (The nineteen Keys will be listed here in chronological order)

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