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  • Satan! Make me Rich (or Popular, or..)

    Satan! Make me Rich (or Popular, or..)

    Satanic HandshakeSo many letters over the years were sent to me by people from all over the world asking if Satan can make them rich, or popular or famous.

    In my experience, life does not work that way. If it were that easy, don’t you think that everyone would be doing it?

    The idea is that you can “sell” your soul (something that is not material) in trade for something that is material. I find that most of these letters come from Africa where folks there seem to be a bit behind the times when it comes to Satanism in general. Not only are they dealing with an ongoing Satanic Panic, it seems most of their information about Satanism comes from Christian sources, unfortunately. And we all know that Christians aren’t the most reliable source of information on Satanism. Overall, though I have met people from all around the world who believe they can “just sell their soul to get rich”.

    What are some of the common themes behind this myth? First of all, we can go back to the tale of Faust. In this German legend, Faust is a successful scholar who longs for riches and fame. So, he decides to sell his soul to the Devil in return for these gifts. The devil sends his emissary, Mephistopheles to make a bargain with Faust to serve the devil for a set number of years.

    Through this tragedy, in the end, Faust is deemed unworthy to enter into heaven and the Devil takes his soul to hell, anyway.  This cautionary tale has been retold many times and usually it shows that it is better not to compromise one’s ethics and morals in return for a quick promise of something that seems to be good. The myth persists however and is greatly misunderstood.

    Another thing to consider is that power and wealth are (according to Christians) seen as a marker of evil, and thus, those who are famous and rich must have signed a pact with the devil to get where they are today. Never mind that they might have actual talent or were born into a position that allowed them to become rich and famous; that doesn’t matter, they are in league with Satan.

    Take a moment to look up any celebrities name and see that there are conspiracy theorists that think they are in league with the devil. A great example, recently is that Taylor Swift is a biological clone or is posing as Zeena LaVey, daughter of the founder of Satanism, Anton LaVey (see: Is Taylor Swift a Secret Satanist at Hubpages).  Other examples which I find to be quite humorous: “Lil Wayne Satanist” search yielded About 80,600 results;  Rihanna Satanist (also, Princess of the Illuminati!) About 156,000 results; (so-called) Proof that Jimmy Hendrix sold his soul with About 458,000 results;  and finally – “famous musicians that sold their soul”  search yielded About 1,870,000 results on google.
    Deal With the Devil
    Satan is not a magic genie that can grant your wishes. Satan isn’t here to cater to your whims. However if you are willing to work hard to get what you want out of life and you decide to align with Satan through a pact it could only benefit you in the long run. It might give you that advantage in life that others don’t have. But such things only come through hard work and dedication and a bit of luck.

    And wouldn’t it be easier just to cast a spell for money? You can check out the Luckymojo spell archive for some quick money spells. You might find better results with easier and quicker spells to get results before you cast that spell to win the lottery though! Life has a way of making things complicated so if you cast a spell to win big money then you get into a debilitating accident, you have your 100,000$ at a price of your peace of mind. So be careful what you ask for, my friends.

     

    And yes commenting has been closed on this blog post…

  • 5 Ways to Get Closer to Satan

    5 Ways to Get Closer to Satan

    Satan
    Over the years one of the most important questions that I have been asked is how to develop a relationship with Satan. If you want to take a spiritual or religious approach with Satanism, having a relationship with Satan can be a rewarding experience, letting you know that Satan is with you every step of the way on your journey down the left hand path.

    Nobody starts out in a religion knowing everything there is to know; nor do we have an intimate relation with our god as soon as we enter the gates of Satanism. A relationship takes time to cultivate. It can be likened to keeping a garden – you must plant the seed, water and feed it, keep the weeds out, and before you know it, you will have a beautiful garden to behold.

    So here are some practical steps towards achieving your goals!

    Develop a relationship – start small and work your way out from there 
    You should consider that a relationship with Satan is a personal experience, so what other people experience in Satanism, or don’t experience, may not be your own experience. Your mileage may vary! So in taking this into consideration, I can only offer generalities regarding a relationship with Satan, and discuss my own personal experience to give you some insight into the process as well.

    My early years of Satanism were filled with worshipful rituals, Satanic music and transgressive acts. This is not so uncommon among new Satanists who are finding their place in the world. I would worship Satan on Saturday evening, gathering my tools and robes, and wondering out to the beach or in my room by the light of candles. It was an interesting experience. Because I am a spiritual person, I had always felt that all it would take would be for me to reach out to Satan [or any other god!] and that being would answer in return – so I never really took it on faith or hope that I would get results. I just threw myself into the work and got it done.  The results never ceased to amaze me!!

    One of the most important aspects of my ritual making was my pact with Satan. First done at the age of 13, I thought that my pact put me in a position of power to bargain with a being that was so hated in this world yet had so much power over it. I would not recommend this to new Satanists of course, because after all this time I can see how much power and energy is in a pact and how that can influence a young Satanist who has not yet learned the ropes yet.

    So start out by spending the next year studying and practicing your rituals, and by then you should have a clearer view of what you want to do with your pact if you so decide to make one with Satan.

    Study the history of Satan in past times and modern times too
    The history of Satan is a long and winding road. It contains interesting insights into the character of Satan through the myths, legends and stories surrounding his name. Beginning with the early gnostics, and continuing to this day, people’s views of Satan have changed and evolved to mirror current events in history.

    In developing a relationship with Satan, its important to consider the history that is behind the name. After all you would not want to get involved with someone if you didn’t know their history, their likes or dislikes, and what they are generally about, would you? That truly would be a leap of blind faith! I don’t recommend blind faith. I instead recommend that you study as much as you can about the history and character of Satan, both in past times and our modern views of Satan beginning with the Church of Satan.

    Develop your own style of ritual – use others as a guide but do what pleases you
    There are many examples of ritual to be found on the ‘net, and in books. Starting with the Satanic bible, we can see a simplified formula that many have found success with. A ritual is like a recipe, it contains essential ingredients that when put together create an interesting and symbolic experience.

    Writing your own rituals is not so complicated. Its important to consider that just because a ritual has been used by others and it carries the powers and energies of those who worked with it before you, it is not necessarily the best formula for your particular situation.

    Here is a basic template:  Most rituals have an opening, a declaration of intent, and a closing. It really is this simple. For instance with an evocation/invocation of Satan, you could prepare your ritual space, make your ritual invocation, declare what you want out of your ritual, and then perform a closing or departing or a thanks at the end.

    Realize that communication is a two way street, watch the signs.

    Signs, you say? Yes, a common experience for Satanists is to have dreams about Satan. How much of this is their own psychology or imagination at work and how much of it is Satan in communication is difficult to say, as dreams are a personal experience. I know for my own life, the dreams that I’ve had about Satan have come at critical times and stages and they have guided me and kept me on the path of Satanism. But just because you don’t have a dream about Satan does not mean that he is not in communication with you.

    Its important to just let go and enjoy your experience with Satanism, instead of obsessing over every little sign and symbol in your life. I’ve talked with new Satanists who’s imagination just goes wild, they think that energies are all around them and every bad experience in life is some way of Satan getting revenge on them for not following orders! Just remember that Satanism isn’t christianity and to my knowledge, Satan isn’t out there giving orders to people and is not seeking revenge on those who “disobey”.

    Its important to keep perspective in this regard and to view your experiences as a part of the whole. Do not take your experiences for granted but don’t obsess over them, either. What you experience in Satanism will be a personal journey, unlike that of any other that you will meet in Satanism.

    Don’t give up! it takes time to develop a relationship. Just like in real life it comes in steps
    You can’t have a relationship with someone without first initiating contact, learning about that person and making an effort to make yourself a part of their life. Satan won’t come chasing after you and there is much work to be done in this regard especially when you are new to the path.

    So take it a day at a time and don’t be hard on yourself, and remember that your experience won’t match what others have gone through. In the end you should make an effort to meditate on Satan or perform rituals in his name, to learn about Satan’s history, and to work at learning about Satanism every day for at least a year before you make a solid commitment one way or the other.

    For more articles on Satanism visit the article section at SpiritualSatanist.com – Read:  Satanic History, Culture and Practice

  • The Devil’s Kiss – Kiss of Shame

    The Devil’s Kiss – Kiss of Shame

    The Devils Kiss Woodcut
    As the image shows in this famous 1500’s woodcut, Christians believed that witches and Satanists would kiss the rear end of the Devil in order to show their solidarity with him. Legends like these are an important part of what Christians believe about Satanists, yet as Satanists we do not have the same understandings that they do. That is because we do not see Satan as the enemy. All the same, it is an important part in the development of the stories of Satan throughout the Medieval era.

    There are also images of Holy Popes kissing the devil’s rear. It is known as the ”kiss of shame” – the “OSCULUM INFAME“. In legendary tales this infamous kiss is what sealed the fate of those who chose to walk in line with the devil. This shameful act sought to identify those that were in league with Satan. Unfortunately such things never occurred and they were just urban myths that were spread throughout christian lands, a useful myth that allowed Christians to unite under the cause of destroying what they thought was Satan’s work here on this earth. In the end, all they did was destroy each other.

    Perhaps it had to do with Christian’s continual obsession with associating the body with either saintly or sinister things. Consider how holy the body of Christ is to Christians. The image of the pallid, dying savior on the cross, his body tortured beyond belief, yet he lived. He entered into the underworld through the cave and rose three days later on what was later to become a celebration of Easter. This holiday was symbolic of the coming of spring, and the ending of winter. It was adopted from earlier religions and created into a christian story.

    There are other associations with the body as well – like the association with the head as the seat of the heart and spirit; the association with the head and things that are on top or above with things that are christian or holy, and the association of the bottom or things below [including the feet] as things of the devil. You see, only sweet things have potential to come from the mouth…but only stinky and sinful things come from those lower parts having to do with sexuality and elimination of bodily wastes.

    Christians really thought that sweet scents and pleasing scents were more divine than those scents that are repugnant or repulsive. We see this in their association of brimstone [sulphour] to Satan, which bubbles up from below the earth and does indeed stink. In this way the Christians weren’t much different than their pagan predecessors in using environmental associations and the body to describe their religion.

    In this we see a map of heaven and hell, and their two entrances. Speak the name of Christ and ye shall be in heaven – kiss the ass[hole] of the devil and be eaten by it’s vicious mouth after death. The ‘Osculum Infame’ was not just a kiss on the cheek of the ass; lets just say that it was supposed to be placed where it counts most! Gross,eh? Its an ugly and improper thing to suggest in general..but then again if you are bedfellows with the devil, whats to stop you from committing an act like that to show that you are indeed in league with Satan?

    Of course it bears repeating that this is a Christian notion rather than a notion of modern Satanists. To be a Satanist is not a shameful thing. Perhaps Christians see us this way, but they have been taught to hate those kinds of things.

    Throughout history, Christians are rather infamous for suggesting the most horrible things possible about those who aren’t part of their religion, such as cakes made of babies, and candles made of their fat, or the ritual slaughter of animals for their blood to use as a drink during rituals.

    Of course none of it was true, but the main purpose was to defame, demonize and insult people of other cultures. This relates especially to the Jewish, and the Christian stereotype of the Jewish looking Satan, including the use of the goat as being symbolic of sin. This type of subversion was further discussed in my other blog post, Symbols of Satan, The Pentagram and the Goat.

    So as you can see, the Osculum Infame may identify what is Satanic to Christians.. But for us, as Satanists its just another lesson in how their prejudice and demonization of others has affected the world for centuries. During the medieval era it was a subversion tactic that served Christians well.

    Dark Moon Merchant
  • Satan – Not My Father – or my Shepard

    Satan – Not My Father – or my Shepard

    Satanic Shepard
    Satan – Not My Father – or my Shepard

    This blog post is about the trend in Satanism where some Satanists choose to relate to Satan as a ‘father god’, and how this trend originated from the practice of inverting Christian beliefs.

    Some Satanists call Satan by the name of “Father”. This addresses the need for Satanists to relate to Satan as a Father God. I think this practice is most likely to be found amongst spiritual or theistic Satanists.

    Why do Satanists need a ‘father god’? Generally, there is no ‘mother god’ in their cosmology, so the idea of a ‘father god’ originating everything in this universe, including ourselves, does not make sense.

    The need to have a father god, originates in the roots of many spiritual and theistic Satanists, when they abandoned their Christian path and continued on with Satanism. They inverted certain values, reused certain ideas, and abandoned other ideas as useless. The bottom line is, Satan as a father god is an inversion (and replacement) of the Christian god as a father figure. A (spiritual) foster father.

    ‘Father Satan’ is also a term that is used within Cult Satanism. In the practice of Cult Satanism, there is a need to unite all who participate under one way of thinking, that way usually being the teachings of the cult or the direction of the cult leader. By creating this kind of father-child relationship, it ensures that there is a solidarity of belief and that all who accept those beliefs are faithful to the idealism of their cult.

    The use of ‘father Satan’ perhaps comes from the saying in Christianity, ‘god the father, god the son, god the holy spirit’, and other sayings like it. The Christian god as a father is a way for Christians to relate to their god as the creator and ruler of the universe.

    It is the backdrop of their Christian mythologies of Jesus as the son of the Christian god. A general Internet search for ‘god my father’ brought up this quote which seems to reflect the sentiment of a lot of Christians – “The sovereign God of the universe is also my loving Father who watches and cares for me moment by moment.”

    A verse like this says to me that the Christians have sought to make their god a spiritual father,
    and by doing this their god becomes a source of guidance. This is the same trend that some Satanists use when they pray to Satan as a father god. They want to accept that Satan is the creator and ruler of the universe, and that their god, Satan is also their spiritual father who offers them benevolent protection and guidance.

    This is at it’s very foundation, again, an inversion of Christian beliefs.

    Since I am examining why Satanists use their former beliefs in a new way in Satanism, it is interesting to me to see how that has been done over time. To me, it seems as if some spiritual and theistic Satanists have replaced the Christian god and inserted a Satanic one.

    I am a spiritual Satanist, and I also am theistic. Yet, I was lucky not to have to be raised in a Christian environment. I have never had the need to address Satan as my father in any prayer or ritual that I have done. It goes against the basic ideas that I have about Satanism.

    Satan, to me, is life, inspiration, direction and motivation. Satan, to me is not something to be entrapped by. Satan to me, is not commanding or demanding. I have my freedom to be able to be my own person, to live my life in my own way.

    Satan, is not always benevolent and loving. I have had to find my own way, make my own mistakes and come to my own conclusions along the way. This allowed me to learn and to develop within Satanism. It benefited me. I do not need a father or a Shepard to live by. And, as a Satanist who is outside of Cult Satanism, I certainly have no use for Christian terminologies that are used in a Satanic way to mold my beliefs according to a cult leader’s desire.

    When Satanists are ready to break out of the cycle of inverting Christian values, they may find that there is so much more freedom, and opportunity to be self- expressive in a personal way. When Satanism can evolve beyond the issues that they seek to break free from, then perhaps Satan will no longer become a ‘father’.

    Instead Satan will be a force, a source of motivation, a reflection of desire, and a reason to live by one’s own will. That is, after all, the goal of Satanism as a whole – to live according to one’s own desires in the best possible way so that life can be enjoyed to its fullest. Under the leadership of Satan as a father god, a Satanist is participating in an archaic style of understanding, and promoting the idealism of Satanism (still in its infancy) trying to break free from its parentage of Christianity.

    My goal in Satanism, after many years of living with it, is my need to be at Satan’s side, as an ally. This precludes the need to be below Satan, as a ‘spiritual child’ or above Satan as a ruler. That is because I empathize with Satan in a spiritual way and I seek to be an ally towards (hir) cause.

    I hope that someday, Satanists will realize their own power within, and they will abandon the father-child relationship. They will break free of this self-imposed dominating relation into a new form of willful self expression. And that they will develop into something unique, special, and worthy, with an inner power that does not need any other leadership but the Self behind it.

    To do that it takes some desire to change, to leave behind the baggage and problems of their former religion, and to enter into Satanism through a new way of living. Of course, we all have to come to our own personal understanding in Satanism, but if that understanding comes from an unoriginal foundation then it might be worth examining it and deciding if the ways of old are still relevant and useful.

    Dark Moon Merchant
  • “Love” is Not a Four-Letter Word – Venus Satanas

    “Love” is Not a Four-Letter Word – Venus Satanas

    Satanic Love

    Thoughts on Satanic Love…
    In Satanism, I have found that some Satanists treat the word ‘Love” as if it were a four-letter word. They say the word with contempt, with disgust. They treat it as if it were not part of the Satanist’s vocabulary. Almost as if it were something to be hated. As if it was a word not to be spoken.

    Is it because some Satanists hold on to their past beliefs of Christianity, and in their struggle to let go of it, they treat all the concepts of Christianity with contempt? Words and concepts like ‘compassion’, ‘forgiveness’, and ‘love’ are seen as a condition of weakness and ignorance.

    Perhaps LaVey had something to do with this contempt for love. Wasn’t it LaVey who suggested that forgiveness was only to be given in a conditional way, to those who deserved it? Didn’t he suggest that hatred for the hypocrisy of Christianity was righteous for Satanists? Do some Satanists, even though they are not LaVeyan, accept beliefs that LaVey introduced into Satanism through his own (hypocritical) philosophy?

    Love is not a Christian concept. It is not owned by Christians. No religion has enough righteousness to own that word. That is because love is a human emotion, not a tool of the religious. Indeed, it has been used in that way – to change people’s attitudes about each other and about life, through a spiritual perspective. But in the end, love is a human condition, and there is nothing more Human than the Satanist who is closest to the realities of life. Isn’t that the ‘Satanic Ideal’?

    The Broken Past Lives On..
    Treating the word ‘love’ with contempt is a social problem in Satanism. Some of us aren’t prepared to live a life outside of Christianity, or to leave that zone of inverse-christian beliefs. So it is only natural for them to only see that word from a certain perspective. To them, it becomes a tool of the weak and the lowly, the end-product of manipulation and mind games.

    It is a social problem because the word is treated with prejudice. If Satanists seek freedom and the ability to live life as they see fit, then why is love avoided or shunned? Wouldn’t it make more sense to explore -why- love is important and how it can be used outside of a Christian perspective? I certainly think so. It’s important to me.

    I wrote this post today because I had asked a question on Facebook, and this question was about how Satanism has changed lives in a positive way. One person replied that he appreciated and enjoyed the love of Satan, and his comment erupted a firestorm of replies that ‘love’ didn’t exist in Satanism.

    I disagree with the idea that love does not exist in Satanism, because in a world filled with possibilities and a life that is truly free, there is room for love. A true kind of love that is not false or contrived, a love that is outside of moral ideals that belong to the religious. If Satanists are willing to deny that love is worthless or has no use in Satanism, then what kind of life would that be?

    If Satanists refuse to change the ideas of the past that only serve to hold them back from enjoying life, then what kind of future will they have as Satanists? Aren’t they just repeating the same mistakes of the past without creating a change that will improve their future? Satanists could be denying the opportunity to enjoy life and give up the worthless ideas and attitudes that don’t work.

    A Love for Satan
    Many of us got into Satanism because we had a desire to experience Satan and Satanism in whatever form that it appeared to us.. and many of us do have a love for Satan who, (for some) has guided us along our path every day since we first began our journey.

    I admit that I also love Satan, and this love is a deep spiritual love that comes from the heart. Satan has always been there for me, but I have always had the freedom to choose how I will live my life. A love for Satan is not a requirement to be a Satanist, but this love for Satan, and love from Satan has been experienced by many of us in a spiritual way. This love only came through time and experience.

    Where Do you Stand?
    What about Self-Love? This is not the same as being selfish – I think that Self-Love is the ability to be honest and true with ourselves, to take responsibility for our actions and to have a genuine interest in making one’s life better each day. Selfish love destroys, but real and true spiritual Self-Love builds something so great that nothing can destroy it. Real and true love, from the heart, from the Will.

    Maybe some Satanists lack that certain kind of confidence, and they do not love themselves. As long as they cling to the shards of their broken Christian past, and they proclaim that love is a four- letter-word, they may never get to experience one of the greatest joys in life that makes life complete.

    The destructive nature of Satanism leaves many in the dark when it comes to love and the expression of emotions in a healthy and balanced way – and I can understand this. Satanism is not an easy path to be on. I think that it is one of the most difficult paths there is. It can build you up but it can also tear you down. When it all comes down to it where do you stand?

    I do not think that Love is a Four-Letter word.

    Satan Be With You,
    Venus Satanas

    Dark Moon Merchant
  • Rituals: Should they be Simple or Complex?

    Rituals: Should they be Simple or Complex?

    Satanic Ritual

    A question from a fan at my Facebook page, about connecting with the force of Satan:

    Hi Venus, Just writing to ask, what are the best ways that you have found to engage with the powers of Satan? I know that there are many ways best suitable for the individual personally, but do you feel that simple methods work better, or is it commonly necessary to practice a more so complex form of ritual magick for even the simplest of encounters with the presence of Satan? Can you be specific? Thank You.

    There are many ways to connect with this force. The best way is the way that works for you. You may have to experiment to find out what this is. It takes time and practice to really know if something is working for you. In the meantime, it can’t hurt to give it a try to see if its something that will work for you.

    You asked about simple vs. complex rituals. I have found in my practices that as time went on, my rituals were very complex and involved, and throughout time, they became more simple and direct.

    For example, my first rituals that I did, were planned to be performed on a certain day, and during that week everything was prepared for it. This helped me to be mentally prepared, too when the time came to do the ritual.

    Also, I would use incantations or speeches that I wrote to use during the ritual, as a way to evoke Satan into my ritual space. Special clothing and music was used to heighten the mood and to enable my mind and spirit to be at one with what I was doing. I have always gotten results from rituals like this. Even if the result was the experience that came from doing it.

    Outside of ritual there were other ways that I used to connect with Satan as well. Things like meditation, being in nature, or listening to certain music enabled me to feel ‘in the spirit’. Reaching out to Satan is easy because that force is always there – you just have to take the time to reach out to it and connect with it whenever you are ready.

    The rituals that I do now are very simple compared to what I have done in the past. I keep a simple altar. You can see the pictures of it at my shop. The rituals that I do now only include the lighting of a special candle, and the meditative focus on the image of the Baphomet. Satan is such an important part of my life that I don’t feel that I need to go ‘overboard’ in my expression, but I do feel the need to give recognition and respect to that force that has helped me in so many ways.

    So my recommendation is to start out with rituals that enable you to reach out to that force. Over time you may feel that you need those same rituals less, or that you want to re-think your approach regarding ritual expression. Whatever you do, your ritual should be personalized, something that you create for your own needs. And don’t be afraid to experiment or to let your ritual work evolve into something as simple or as complex as you need.

    Take a moment to visit my other site, Left Hand Path Books to read reviews on the latest and best books on Satanism, Dark Paganism, Luciferian and Left Hand Path magic!

    Left Hand Path Books
  • Explain Satanism to Me? Reader Q&A

    Explain Satanism to Me? Reader Q&A

    What is Satanism?

    I got a letter from a fan who asked, ‘Could you explain satanism to me?’.. Well, Satanism is complex, and because of this, I offered a very brief overview along with some useful links to various sources on Satanism.

    Satanism as a social movement started in the late 60’s with the creation of the Church of Satan by Anton LaVey, and it has developed into many other forms of Satanism since then. It is complex because it is so diverse, so I doubt that any one letter or post could possibly cover all the information that you need to understand it. Because of this, I am posting some links for you, where you can explore these concepts for yourself.

    Subversion Ideology
    To understand Satanism, it is important to see the difference between the christian subversion ideologies that have been used by the church for centuries, versus the social movement of Satanism that has only existed in society for the past 40 years.

    Taking this into account, you can pretty much dismiss the many stories created by Christians that portray satanism to include anything from folks who are christian but are not from the same sect, to other groups and peoples who are not christian, yet they were labeled as ‘satanic’ by the church, all the way up to the many people who have died under christian accusations of satanism (including the witch trials and inquisitions, for example).

    The Satanism Bibliography
    There is a great bibliography on Satanism that you can find at the satanservice.org site. This bibliography includes many different sources on Satanism, arranged by subject. It includes some documents that can be viewed online. While you are there at the satanservice site, take some time to visit the ‘Real Satanist’ Page, to read about notable public figures in Satanism.

    The Real Satanists Page (nocTifer)
    The Satanism Bibliography (nocTifer)

    The Satanic Bible
    The Satanic Bible is a good starting point for understanding LaVeyan or philosophical Satanism, wher Satan is recognized as a symbol for ‘the dark forces of nature’. This book is generally regarded as a resource for members of the Church of Satan. The secondary book, “The Satanic Rituals” contains information on LaVeyan Satanic ritual. Reading these two books are necessary for understanding Satanism in general. You can find a copy online at these sites:

    The Satanic Bible (Review at Left Hand Path Books, Anton LaVey)
    The Satanic Rituals (Review at Left Hand Path Books, Anton LaVey)

    Spiritual and Theistic Satanism
    In spiritual or Theistic satanism, Satan is recognized as a force or entity that Satanists relate to in a favorable way. According to Diane Vera [of theisticsatanism.com], ‘A theistic Satanist, also known as a ‘traditional Satanist’, ‘Spiritual Satanist’, or ‘Devil Worshiper’, is one who does believe in and worship Satan as a deity, or who at least is strongly inclined in that direction”.

    Some satanists of this variety (like me) are Independent and work alone without belonging to any groups or organizations, and others enjoy being in different Satanic Organizations where they can share common beliefs and practices. Overall, the beliefs of Satanists vary according to what interests them in the occult.

    Here are some reliable resources on spiritual and theistic Satanism:
    Diane Vera, theisticsatanism.com
    My website, SpiritualSatanist.com

    Conclusion:
    Satanism is the focus on Satan through philosophical, spiritual or religious practices. What Satanists choose to believe in and associate with are varied and unique. Some of the common values that Satanists share is the need to be independent, free-thinkers, and of course, a focus on Satan.

    Venus Satanas

    Dark Moon Merchant
  • The Healing Powers of Satan? Reader Q&A

    The Healing Powers of Satan? Reader Q&A

    Satanic Healing
    This letter from a reader is addressing the question of using Satan as a path to healing.

    Hi. I require physical healing. I know Satan can heal me but I don’t know how to communicate with him or his angels. Is it possible to get well through magic or some other way? If yes, please guide me…

    The simplest, most effective way to communicate with Satan is through prayer. Mindful prayer is what connects you to Satan in a spiritual way.

    The issue with Satanism is a unique issue of inversion that isn’t really found in other occult paths. First of all, Satanists have inverted many different values and ideas to create a whole new way of belief. What I mean by this is that ‘light’ becomes ‘dark’, what is ‘bad’ is now considered to be ‘good’ by the Satanist. It is the same with Satan, and the beliefs and attributes that Satanists have described about this spirit or force.

    Some Satanists expect Satan to act as a god that is benevolent, caring, healing.. but this just isn’t the case. Attributing healing powers to a force that is dark and maleficent just does not fit. It just hasn’t ever been the role of Satan to heal – that is, unless this Satanist is trying to invert those values of Christianity to ascribe what was once the role of the Christian god as a healing [loving, forgiving, beneficial] god, projected onto Satan.

    And to me it does not make sense to attribute anything healing to the force of Satan. Demons and gods of this type do not fit into this role. He may be seeking help from a source that can’t help him in the way that he wants and perhaps that is why he has trouble communicating, and getting this to manifest. He could be asking the wrong source for help.

    How many of us have done this? I know that I haven’t. In all my years of satanic practice, I never tried to assume that Satan was a beneficial spirit – but to me this is just common sense.
    I would not seek help from a spirit who’s role or way of action isn’t even related to what I am seeking to manifest. That is like going to a goddess of love to get help with a curse spell! Using a destructive spirit to try and rebuild or heal just wouldn’t make sense to me. It isn’t Satan’s role to heal humans, or to heal anything for that matter.

    What I’ve experienced as a satanist has been a good experience but this is mostly due to the way that I work with entities, and how I allow them to move through my life. What beneficial things have come my way have come to me through magic and other means, along with a careful and considerate use of certain entitles like Satan. If I needed help with things that I wanted to manifest, I would set about to do it for myself through magic and the occult, instead of trying to rely on Satan or any other entity for my welfare and happiness.

    Unfortunately, in dealing with any entity, it seems that they can only do so much for us anyway. Gods, demons and spirits have limitations. That is why it is so useful to learn a magical skill. You may have more options if you knew how to use magic to aid you, and it could help you to be less dependent on Satan or whatever god you worship. These gods aren’t our servants to do whatever we ask them to do, whenever we want it.

    I suggest that this person should seek medical aid first. Then perhaps use magic on the side, to help boost whatever can be done medically. Even a basic use of energy healing could help in this case. I wouldn’t advise waiting, hoping and praying for Satan or any other spirit or magic to replace what should be taken care of by a medical professional. I certainly can’t tell this person how to live, but some things just make sense.

    In the mean time, check out the Lucky Mojo Spell Archive for some HEALING magic that you can easily do for yourself

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  • The History of Subverson

    The History of Subverson

    Satanic Kindred

    The group, Satanickindred.org has written an article, called the ‘History of Satanism’. Let me say at first, that the article itself has no references or source material with it, so I have to approach their writing largely as a matter of opinion instead of fact. What I do not accept is the history that they claim is real, and this history does quite a disservice to what Satanism really is, and what it was in the past.

    What was most striking to me in this essay, was that the people who wrote it seemed to agree with the Christian notion of blood-cult sacrificing Satanists! I know many Satanists who personally would have nothing to do with anything like this, and it is my feeling that the author (Rev. R. Fairhall ? ) agrees with the ideas of the subversion ideology of Christianity.

    This essay will be reproduced in part, as a means of analysis. Under the copyright law, essays and texts are legal to reproduce for the means of education or analysis or for the purpose of criticism. The original text will be in italics, along with my replies below the text, along with credit and a link to the original article.

    Replying to this essay is important to me, and it should be important to other Satanists as well. The main goal of this analysis is to expose the common misconceptions that even some Satanists believe about their own religion.

    Original article can be read here, found at the Wayback Machine:
    Satanic Kindred, History of Satanism
    Author: Rev. R. Fairhall (?)

    The worship of Satan, or the devil, the god of evil in christianity, during the renaissance, witches, along with heretics, were accused of worshiping the devil.

    The Christians do not hold the belief that Satan is a god. Not only that, the witch-hunts began as early as the 1400’s and continued until the 1950’s when the witchcraft law was finally repealed in England.

    Many confessed to it, probably coerced by torture. In popular lore, witches are still believed to have worshiped the devil. (In modern neo-paganism and witchcraft, or wicca, as it is often called, there is no belief nor worship of the devil.)

    There is no ‘probably’ about it. The people who died were innocent, and most who were killed were eliminated so that the church could take their money and property. Along with this the Jewish people suffered as well, many of them being branded as ‘evil’. This was where the Jewish caricature of Satan was developed (having a long nose, being greedy etc.), and Christians claimed that the Jewish attended ‘sabbats’ with the devil. We can read about this in the Malleus Mallefacarum, a text that was used as a manual for the persecution of so-called witches.

    Satanism has been far less common throughout history than many would believe. The Inquisitors and witch hunters of earlier centuries tried to persuade the populace that devil worshipers were everywhere and posed a serious threat to their well being. For about 250 years, from the mid-15th century to the early 18th century, the height of the witch hunts, that argument worked. It is possible that some devil worship may have actually existed in those times, as an act of defiance among those who opposed the authority of the Christian church.

    The writer fails to take into account that there were NO satanists of the time, because the ruling class was Christian. There is absolutely no evidence of their existence, outside of Christian scare stories and witch trial material. Not only that, since the accusations were false, then why would the author agree with the Christians in believing that the people were so-called ‘witches’?

    Satanism as an organized activity did not exist much before the 17th century. As early as the 17th century, however, the catholic church was condemning priests who subverted the magical powers of the holy mass for evil purposes. The Grimoire of Honorious, a magical textbook first printed in the 17th century (but perhaps older), gave instructions for saying masses to conjour demons.

    The grimorie of Honorious was written by a Christian, for use in Christian ritual magic. If the author bothered to read the book, or if the author had any knowledge of Grimoires, they would have known that ritual magic that was used by the Christians was developed from the church’s need to use magic, and much of it was developed from Judaism, hence the Christian manuals of magic available from the 15th ct. onward. And, since the Grimoire of Honorious was written by a Christian, it is not satanic, nor was it ever intended to be used in a so-called satanic context.

    In the 17th century, satanic activities were conducted by christians who indulged in the magical/sexual rites of the black mass, presided over by defrocked or unscrupulous priests. The most notorious of these escapades took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV, engineered by the kings mistress, Madamme de Montespan, and led by an occultist named La Voisin and a 67 year old libertine priest, the Abbé Guiborg.

    The author once again (without clear references) chooses to believe Christian subversion as fact. This story was a fiction designed to sensationalize the church at the time, and it had nothing to do with satanism. It is a Christian fiction.

    There is no reliable evidence of satanic activity in the 18th century. In England, the Hellfire club, a society founded by Sir Francis Dashwood (1708-1781), has often been described as satanic, but in actuality it was little more than a club for adolescent-like men to indulge in drinking, sexual play with woman called “nuns” and outrageous behavior. The Hellfire club, or the “Medmenham monks” as they called themselves, met regularly between 1750 and 1762 in Dashwood’s home, Medmenham Abbey. The members were said to conduct black masses, but it is doubtful that these were serious satanic activities. Similar groups were the brimstone boys and blue blazers of Ireland.

    These so called Satanic cults were little more than a social gathering of men who decided to enjoy their lives through drunkenness and revelry. They did it in secret because they could not enjoy these things within their repressed society. There is no written materials or records of rituals from them, nor is there any proof that they claimed to be Satanists.

    Perhaps the most famous Satanist in the 19th century was the Abbé Boullan of France, who became the head of an offshoot of the church of Carmel and allegedly practiced black magic and infant sacrifice. The church of Carmel was formed by Eugene Vintras, the foreman of a cardboard box factory Tillysur-Seulles. In 1839 Vintras said he received a letter from the archangel Michael, followed by visions, of the archangel, the holy ghost, St.Joseph and the virgin Mary. He was informed that he was the reincarnated prophet Elijah, and he was to found a new religious order and proclaim the coming of the age of the holy ghost. The true king of France, he was told, was one Charles Naundorf. Vintras went about the countryside preaching this news and acquiring followers, including priests. Masses were celebrated that included visions of empty chalices filled with blood stains on the Eucharist. By 1848 the church of Carmel, as the movement was known, was condemned by the pope. In 1851 Vintras was accused by a former disciple of conducting black masses in the nude, homosexuality and masturbating while praying at the alter. Shortly before his death in 1875, Vintras befriended Boullan, who formed a splinter group of the church of Carmel upon Vintras death. He ran the group for 18 years, until his death, outwardly maintaining pious practices but secretly conducting satanic rituals. Boullan seems to have been obsessed with Satanism and evel since the age of 29, when he took a nun named Adele Chevalier as his mistress. Chevalier left her convent, bore two bastard children and founded with Boullan The Society for the Reparation of Souls. Boullan specialized in exorcising demons by unconventional means, such as feeding possessed victims a mixture of human excrement and the Eucharist. He also performed black masses. On January 8, 1860, he had Chevalier reportedly conducted a black mass in which they sacrificed one of their children…..Boullan’s group was infiltrated by two Rosicrucians, Oswald Wirth and Stanislasde Guaita, who wrote an exposé, The Temple of Satan. Boullan and de Guaita supposedly engaged in magical warfare. Boullan and his friend, the novelist J.K. Huysmans, claimed to be attacked by demons. When Boullan collapsed and died of a heart attack on January 3, 1893, Huysmans believed it was due to an evil spell cast by de Guaita, and said so in print. De Guaita challenged him to a duel, but Huysmans declined and apologized.

    Once again, the author decides to take Christian conspiracy theories and weave them into the fake history that he purports is true. There is no evidence of these things happening historically, and to find reference to them outside of Christian literature is difficult if not impossible. This tells me that it is little more than a Christian tale, meant to slander the name of a man who did not fit the church’s idyllic views of what a Christian should be, and at worst, it is only a fiction meant to entertain the morbid curiosity of a repressed culture. This tactic has been used for centuries, beginning with the gnostics who were labeled as heretics.

    In his novel, La-bas, Huysmans included a black mass, which he said was based on his observations of one conducted by a satanic group in Paris, operating in the late 19th century. He said the mass was recited backwards, the crucifix was upside down, the Eucharist was defiled and the rite ended in a sexual orgy.

    I find it humorous that this author believes the words of a man who openly admitted in his life that the story of LaBas was nothing but a fiction. It is sad, sad indeed when Satanists accept the Christian views and stories, and try to claim them as their own history, especially when the stories are nothing more than slander and propaganda.

    By the early 20th century, Aleister Crowley (known as the black pope) was linked to Satanism. Although he called himself “the beast”, used the words “life” “love” and “light” to describe Satan and once baptized and crucified a toad as Jesus, he was not a Satanist but a magician and occultist.

    Crowley did not take the title of Satanist but there were plenty of so-called Satanic elements in his work. He lived in a repressed Victorian society and his hatred towards Christianity fueled much of his work. I would label him as a de-facto Satanist with Thelemic interests, instead. Also, Crowley never labeled himself as the ‘black pope’. He called himself ‘the great beast’ after the stories of revelation from the bible.

    The author then skips ahead many, many years later, until he reaches the era of LaVey, in the 1960s. He quotes a few things from LaVey’s checkered past, which I find to be humorous, because LaVey embellished many of his life stories in order to seem more important and relevant. Regardless of the supposed history (That is clearly uncovered at the COS website), Satanism had no history until the advent of the Church of Satan. It began as one of many social and religious movements in the era. To me, it makes sense, as there was a revival of the occult during this time.

    Film director Roman Polanski hired LaVey for his film version of Ira Levin’s Devil-worshipers, Rosemary’s baby, released in 1968. LaVey portrayed Satan and advised Polanski on Satanic ritual details.

    A friend of mine, (nagasiva, satanservice.org) brought to light the truth about this. Nowhere in the credits of this film is LaVey to be found, and I do not believe that he had anything to do with this film. His involvement was a lie, like many other things in his life that he lied about to take advantage of the gullibility of the members of his org. LaVey never worked for the circus, nor did he work as a crime scene photographer. His family knows the truth, and it is printed at the Church of Satan website.

    A number of other Satanic groups formed in the united states in the 1970’s were defunct by the 1980’s. Nevertheless, Satanic activities remain widespread on both sides of the Atlantic; some experts say they were on the rise as of the 1980’s. The extent of Satanism is impossible to gauge, because of the great secrecy of many orgonizations (sic).

    The spelling in this essay is…. Also, these are very vague comments that do not prove anything about the existence or the history of Satanism. It would have been nice if the author did some research to show what organizations did exist during those decades, and why they were important to Satanism. The ‘secrecy’ and size of Satanic organizations, as written by this author, reminds me of some of the Christian material from the Panic era, where Christian writers attempted to scare their readers into believing that Satanists were around every corner waiting to prey on innocent people.

    There is evidence of small “family traditions” of Satanism, passed down from one generation to another. Some Satanists are associated with Neo-Nazi organizations or sex magic orders. Some Satanic cults are alleged to be involved in drug, prostitution and pornography trade and to have real estate holdings. Members are said to include white-collar professionals. These do not pertain to the modern day Satanists(LaVeyan)

    I would ask, ‘what evidence’? but I know that there isn’t any. This material here seems to be the typical bs, that is spouted by the new-world order conspiracy theorists, who’s Christian aim is to show, to prove that there are Satanists doing illegal activities all around the world for centuries, and also, who have their hands in the government. Again, I would ask for proof, but, alas, there is none to be found, except in the imaginations of paranoid conspiracy theorists. Whether the author agrees with these conspiracy theories is very unclear to me.

    Michelle Remembers (1980), by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, M.D., recounts the terrors Smith experienced as a child of five in Satanic rituals in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1954-55. She said her mother yielded her to devil worshipers, who used her as a living pointer in rituals. She witnessed the ritual killings of animals and infants and was shut in coffins that were put into graves and into which were thrown dead animals. She also watched the cult members attempt to bring life to a white statue of a man with horns. She said she was tricked into defacating (sic) on the cross and was asked to renounce the christian god. Smith descibes (sic) instances in which during the rituals, she witnessed the devil emerge from the fire, a man animal with a whipping, snake-like tail that struck her on the neck and seared her flesh. Fire shot from his finger tips and filled his mouth. He had clawlike hands, steaming nostrils and odd toenails. His shape constantly changed, and he appeared to be apart of the fire. Smith was able to purge her memories in psychiatric therapy at age 28.

    The author never takes into account that the story created by Michelle was later recanted as false, and that ‘recovered memory syndrome’ was the real issue at stake here. Recovered memory syndrome is a psychological impairment caused through hypnosis, most often through the use of suggestive counseling. She had a relationship with her counselor and they co-conspired to make a lot of money from the book sales that ensued. By the time she re-canted it was too late, as the ‘Satanic Panic’ had already fallen out of the limelight.

    It disturbs me that the author here believes Michelle’s false and misleading story to be true. It sets the tone for the rest of the essay..

    Perhaps most dangerous of all are small cults whose members call themselves Satanists and practise (sic) ritual murder and animal mutilation. Such groups are said to kidnap runaway children and the homeless and use them as sacrificial victims, this is known as devil worship by LaVeyan followers. Ex-Satanic cult members have reported gruesome rituals in which hearts are cut out of living victims. Others report that victims are sexually abused before being killed; then their blood is drunk and their flesh is eaten. Women “breeders” produce babies for the “ultimate” and “ideal” human sacrifice. Former breeders report witnessing their babies being skinned alive, eaten, burned, poured in concrete and cut up and thrown in the ocean. Ritual tools are made from their bones.

    Where this author gets his information I would like to know. Maybe I already do know. It was from Satanic Panic material. Just like his belief in the supposed witches and his agreement with Christians on the persecution of witches, he also (sadly) believes the stories of the Christians in this modern era – who would try to paint Satan and Satanism as the enemy, even when there is not one shred of evidence to ever be found. Since there is no evidence that has ever been brought to trial, I wonder why this author thinks that it is valid and useful.

    That is the thing with moral panics, they are incited by the hyper-religious who feel that there is some invisible forces in this world that use people as their puppets. It is truly sad when even Satanists, such as this author, believe these lies.

    In 1985 a ten year old boy in Bakersfield, Califonia (sic), said that he and about two dozen other children were taken to a bad church by some 40 adults, who took off their clothes while chanting prayers to Satan. The children were forced to throw knives at a living baby, which was killed and dissmembered (sic). The children were then forced to drink its blood. Then the boy said that the adults molested the children. Similar cases were reported throughout California, but the authorities found little evidence to support the claims. In 1987 a report issued by the Alberta Royal Canadian Mounted Police suggested that Satanism might be related to unsolved cases of missing children. Satanists where also believed to be responsable (sic) for some grave desecrations (sic) and robbings (sic).

    More Satanic panic material, ripped from the headlines of Christian right wing material, all of it lies.. The money that the Christians made from the panic was unbelievable, and the number of innocent people who were sent to jail and had their reputations ruined for the rest of their lives is unforgivable.

    Many of the people who accused the innocent were untrained investigators, and they had a moralistic christian agenda, and many innocent people were put on trial for crimes that they did not commit. In trials, they pushed for conviction by coaching the children on what to say after they yanked them from their parent’s arms.

    Some people spent years behind bars, awaiting their cases to be brought to trial in kangaroo courts. A kangaroo court is a colloquial term for court proceedings that deny due process to those convicted in the name of expediency. Much of the innocent party’s information was dismissed in court, while the judge and jury depended solely on the testimony of children who were coerced to saying what the prosecutors wanted to hear. The same thing happened in medieval times, during the witchcraft trials, where children made up testimonies and innocent people were burned alive (to save their souls, of course).

    Satanism has been linked to certain oppresive (sic) heavy matal (sic) rock bands and teenage suicides and murders. Some troubled teens apparently turn to Satanism when they feel powerless and abandoned by thier (sic) families, the world and the christian god. They join cults that encourage, or require, them to carry out acts of violence to prove thier (sic) homage to Satan. Drug abuse is common. The ritual violence gives them a sence (sic) of power.

    The accusation of heavy metal and Satanism was another thing that gave the religionists a weapon to use in society, as they claimed that music, movies and comic books were poisoning the mind of the youth. Why this author agrees with this nonsense and tripe is beyond my understanding.

    Author Maury Terry, in the Ultimate Evil (1987), asserts that David Berkowitz, the convicted “Son of Sam” killer who terrorized New York neighborhoods in the late 1970’s, was a member of a Satanic cult that operates in Westchester County and planned the Son of Sam murders. Terry states the cult is linked to a network of cults across the country, with a primary headquarters near Los Angeles, and that Charles Manson may have been involved with it. The cult is reportedly an offshoot of a Satanic group in England.

    Maury Terry is a conspiracy theorist, not a historian, and not an investigator. Things that are written to sensationalize, accuse, and marginalize often sell, and its unfortunate that the public would rather consume these stories than to hear the truth. The truth is, Berkowitz was criminally insane, and judging him, or anyone else on the basis of religious belief is archaic at best, and at its worst, a shame on society and justice.

    LaVeyan Satanists, Neo-pagan Witches and neo-pagans are wrongly blamed for devil worship activities. Several organizations carry on public relations and education programs for the media and members of the law-enforcement community to counteract such accusations

    Unfortunately these lies are still believed to this day, even by some Satanists such as this author. This author’s research was very poor, full of conjecture and assumption, and does nothing to reveal the real history behind satanism and its impact on society.

    Satanic religious organizations, such as the Church of Satan and Temple of Set, DO NOT condone the violent blood sacfifices (sic) of the cults and are not associated with them in any way. According to Aquino, the Temple of Set emphasizes “rational self interest” and taking responsibility for one’s own intellectual and ethical decisions.

    I would like to know if the author includes his OWN org into this definition? He seems to have left that out, and you would think that he would not want his own org. confused with this panic-material and falsehoods that he holds as the truth, as the history of Satanism.

    This article was depressing, maddening. It upset me because I didn’t understand how a satanists would be so willing to accept the false accusations and ideas of Christians. I do not think that Christians have the right to tell us what our history was, nor should we accept their witch hunting materials either from the past or here in the present as some sort of history of Satanism. I also have the feeling that the author skimmed through wikipedia to write this article.

    I hope that my article has come to shed some light on a very dark subject.

    Read the original page here, found through the Wayback Machine

    Also, feel free to read a later post by Diane Vera where she points out how Christians eventually got a hold of this article from Satanic Kindred, and used it as their own propaganda! It was just a matter of time..

  • What Do Satanists Believe About The Afterlife?

    What Do Satanists Believe About The Afterlife?


    I have been asked so many times, what I believe about Satanism and the “afterlife”. People want to know what Satanists believe about hell, and eternal damnation. People also want to know if Satanists believe in an afterlife.

    Answers to this will vary depending on who you ask. Not all Satanists have the same beliefs or ideas about where our spirits may go after we die.

    The belief in the afterlife is a learned belief, something that is passed down through generations. Every culture around the world has an afterlife belief. the Hebrews believed that after death the soul would go to a place called ‘Sheol’ (the grave). However, they don’t have a belief in hell or eternal punishment.

    The Greeks had a place of eternal punishment, called Hades. By comparing the beliefs of the Greek and Christian afterlife, it is easy to see how they are similar. In the renaissance era, some Christians also believed that there were different levels of hell where a person would be punished according to their sin. So beliefs about what the afterlife is, from a Christian perspective, have changed and evolved over the years.

    This is a very simplistic view, that was created to keep people in line with the moral teachings of religion. Of course religion will claim to have the keys to life and death and the manual of life to go along with it. What kind of religion would it be without those things? But the simple truth is, death and the afterlife is a mystery and it has been viewed in many different ways by many different cultures.

    Who’s idea is right? Are the Hindus right? do we all reincarnate into another life? where does the ‘soul’ go? Does the soul even exist? So many questions. no wonder people are confused about this. Still, people have some kind of general idea that we ALL go to heaven if we are good, or hell if we are bad. If only we were allotted this cosmic justice as a reward or punishment. For example, how could Hitler suffer the same fate as mother Theresa?

    Believing in the afterlife is so much more than just a belief. It affects the way people live their lives too. There are two things to consider in this view point: 1. life is not worth living unless there is some reward involved and 2. one must spend their life pleasing whatever god is promising them this glorious existence in the afterlife.

    This causes two things. First of all, many people have been influenced by this idea so they loose interest in this life by not caring about the earth, and others around them. What is promised afterwards seems more rewarding than what is offered in the present. It reminds me of a conversation I had in the chatroom, a Christian was talking about 2012, and how he believed the rapture was going to take him away, so he said that he didn’t care if the earth was destroyed and everything died as long as he could be with his god. To me that does not even make sense. This is the only earth we have and we better do what we can to protect it.

    Secondly, the promise of an afterlife is a ‘conditional reward’, meaning that a person is taught to believe that if they follow the rules of the religion they will get their divine reward or punishment. This afterlife promise becomes the tool of religion to direct and guide peoples lives for as long as they live. Christianity is not the only religion that has done this.

    So, what do Satanists believe about hell, death and the afterlife? I made a video explaining my views on death and the afterlife a few weeks ago, to try and answer some of these views. You can visit the video here Heaven or Hell, a Satanists View or see it below at the end of the post.

    What Satanists believe will vary according to their path in Satanism. For instance, LaVeyans may accept that there is no afterlife at all, there is no heaven or hell. They may also try to live life and appreciate being in the here and now. It is a very materialistic view. Some Spiritual Satanists may believe that they will spend their afterlife with Satan, even fewer accept that they will go to a Christian hell.

    I have a very different view. I have experienced ghosts and spirits. I can not explain their existence but I can say that when you are open to experiencing these kinds of things, they will become more apparent to you that they really do exist. What is also interesting to me is that ghost sightings have been happening all over the world for a very long time. Either it is some kind of mass hallucination or there really is a kind of realm of energy where these beings may exist.

    There are theories on why ghosts exist. For instance, it is said that a person who dies in a violent or sudden way could end up haunting an area, either reliving their experience or making appearances. Assuming that ghosts are real, this idea makes sense because the shock of death or the need to settle a score or to get retribution may be enough energy to keep the spirit of a human manifested into the spirit world.

    Also there are different types of haunting. There are ‘intelligent’ haunting, where the spirit attempts to communicate either through sounds or by moving things, or a signal, possibly related to the poltergeist. There is also the situational haunt which is where the spirit relives the same actions over and over, it becomes familiar to the energy of the area.

    There are measurable ways of detecting spirits, through electronic devices. Its not necessary to use Ouija spirit boards to ghost hunt anymore. The most convincing evidence that I have found is the EVP recording, that records the voices of spirits.

    All of this is very fascinating to me, and it almost provides a scientific explanation of what happens in the afterlife. My idea is that there is NO heaven or hell..and this is why so many spirits and ghosts are left behind to haunt the physical. After they pass away they are expecting to go to that afterlife but they are unprepared to spend their existence as a spirit. The energy of a person or animal is imprinted in the places where it resided during life. This energy is what allows the spirit to be sustained. The longer the energy stays there the more the spirit will manifest.

    Maybe people also add to the energy of the spirit, by interacting with it and giving it energy, either mentally or emotionally. It all comes down to energy and how it manifests. I think there are reasons why spirits exist and there are reasons why they haunt certain places. There is a reason why there are so many spirits now, and these spirits are restless or in distress. Because there is no heaven. They didn’t get what they were promised and they have no peace, no where to go.

    Heaven is of course a convenient lie and it has left so many of these spirits stranded. I do not believe that this spirit afterlife is eternal. When a spirit goes ‘towards the light’ or is helped to the other side, it is dissipated and it no longer exists as a collective energy. The spirit is ‘stuck’ between worlds as it clings to the things that influenced the spirit during life.

    Of course these are all just theories. The ghostly afterlife idea is more interesting to me, anyway.. and its something that can be seen, it is known all over the world. The ghost or spirit is an idea deeper than any religion can claim. What if it’s true?

    So, as far as what I believe about my Satanism and the afterlife:
    No I do not accept the afterlife as promised by religion
    No, I do not accept the religious idea of reincarnation.
    No I do not expect to die and be with Satan for eternity.
    No, I do not expect to be ‘eternally punished in a lake of fire’. Generally, that is a Christian belief.

    Yes I think that spirits/ghosts are real, or at least, real interesting 😉
    Yes, I focus on the here and now and life while I am living.

    In any case, if I am completely wrong about the spirit/ghost afterlife, when the time comes, I have lost nothing by exploring this idea.

    Dark Moon Merchant