Satanism
The attention given recently by the mass media to some episodes more or less directly tied to the world of is a symptom and effect of a morbid curiosity exhibited today by many with regard to the occult in general and also to the satanic in particular. All the more urgent then is the necessity of acquiring clear and significant tools for discerning the cause and the forms of this phenomenon. This is necessary also in order to understand its relationship with contemporary culture and the subjective motives which lead people to let themselves become involved in, or attracted by, this dark world. First of all,we need to specify that the term embraces a broad plethora of phenomena, with a ...
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from the context of satanic teaching, and on the other hand, we will describe some of the subjective motives of those who approach the world of .
A perusal of the most significant and widespread works of recent and contemporary clearly brings to light a "Promethean" vision of man, manifesting itself in his exaltation and divinization. "You shall be as gods", promised the ancient tempter, and the promise has remained unchanged for those
inspired by him today. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), undoubtedly the inspiration for many contemporary satanic authors, makes explicit the link between the exaltation of man and rebellion against God, particularly against the God of the moral precepts with which Crowley had been raised in a fundamentalist sect. "there is no law", Crowley writes in his Liber legis, "except 'do what you will'.... Be strong, O man! Desire and enjoy all things of the senses and ecstasy: do not fear that any God will reject you for this. Every man, every woman, is a ...
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a little chapter significantly titled: "Wanted! God dead or alive", in which any type of relationship with God, to whom men turn only for relief from physical evil and pardon for moral evil, is deemed nonsense. The negation of the role of God is the satanic condition for the fulfilment of man, inthe sense that the Satanist has no need to bow his head before anyone and must find in himself all the resources necessary to create his own happiness on earth. "All religions of a spiritual nature", writes La Vey, "are inventions of man", a sort of projection into infinity of his frustrated desires, of all that
man would like to do without being able to. On the contrary, "the Satanist believes ...
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