evilshould ideally be an act or acts that engage a large number of people, the world if possible.

I am a registered member of the Choctaw tribe of Oklahoma. I enjoy all the benefits that registered Native Americans can claim, I can vote in tribal elections, and I even receive the monthly Choctaw newspaper.

outside factors are influential, including government policy, isolation, language, social norms, and education

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resulting in a loss of cultural self

resulting in a loss of cultural self

The Christian Bible is full of examples

With magic, the individual takes on an active role in manipulating his or herenvironment or others in the process of realizing his or her desire.

LaVey's Satanism is a religion based on a philosophy which promotes self indulgence. Thisdoes not mean to imply, however, that everything is acceptable behavior or that the Satanist hasan unrestricted and perpetual open season to do whatever and whenever he or she desires.

Could it be that among the psychologicalcrutches that Christian dogma has provided, the most obvious is the easiest tooverlook?

es, evil isthe great savior and sustainer of those who condemn it most.1

a womanneeds a man for only a man can offer and supply a woman things that no other woman can

"...The 'enlightened'man, who doesn't place any stock in 'superstition,' relegates his instinctive fear of any curse tohis unconscious, thereby nourishing it into a phenomenally destructive force that will multiplywith each succeeding misfortune

According to LaVey, there are no differences between white and black magic except in thehypocrisy of the white magician

The whitereligionists perpetually suppress the egos of their followers, while Satanists advocate strongegos, for it is a strong ego that is essential to a vital existence in this life

According to Christianity, God is ubiquitous, merciful and to be feared by the faithful.

The god you save may be vourself. In the line of true satanic thought, LaVey instructs thereader that he or she is his or her own god which the reader has created.

If anything is used too freely, it loses its meaning.

he third and most important difference is that the Church of Satan rejects the belief in anyspiritual entity other than man, be that entity God or the Devil. Satan is used as a religioussymbol, for Satan is symbolic of the material world of man and his carnal nature. This symbolshould serve as an entirely internal mechanism, as a philosophy, a way of life, rather than anexternal entity due worship. "We are no longer supplicating weaklings trembling before anunmerciful God who cares not whether we live or die."23 Satanists believe in God, but God, likeSatan is only a balancing force in nature.

First, it denies all affiliation with any other Satanic cults or groups both in philosophy or practice.LaVey's church has fueled a philosophical counterculture. The Church of Satan does not activelyrecruit and actually discourages the practice of recruitment.

This is in direct contradiction to the Christian Bible and faithwhich teach Jesus' death and resurrection signaled the end of the reign of Satan on earth andthe certain death of Satan in the future (Revelation 20:7-10).

"Generally speaking, however, sociologists of religion breakSatanists into three broad categories that overlap with those of CRI. Arthur Lyons summarizesthese as follows: ‘As it emerged in the mid-1960s, contemporary Satanism can be divided intothree distinct realities: (1) Solitary Satanists, (2) 'Outlaw1 Cults, and (3) Neo-Satanic Churches.'"1

LaVey's Satanism is the true Satanism.

The Satanic tradition has been earnedalmost totally by the imaginative literature of non-Satanists-primarilyconservative Christians, who describe the practices in vivid detail in theprocess of denouncing them. That is to say, the Satanic tradition has beencreated by generation after generation of anti-Satan writers. Sporadically,groups and individuals have tried to create groups which more or less conformto the Satanism in Christian literature

Dedicated to the true satanic witch and allthe countless people who, history reports,were brutally murdered at the hands of theignorant and intolerable.

Art is theft.

Are we not all predatory animals by instinct? If humans ceased wholly from preying uponeach other, could they continue to exist

"People, organizations, nations are making millions of dollars off us. What would they do withoutus? Without the Church of Satan, they wouldn't have anybody to rage at and to take the blame forall the rotten things happening in the world. If they really feel this way, they shouldn't have blownus out of proportion. What you really have to believe instead is that theyare the charlatans, andthey're really glad to have us around so they can exploit us. We're an extremely valuablecommodity. We've helped business, lifted up the economy, and some of the millions of dollars wehave generated have in turn flowed into the Christian church. We have proved many times overthe Ninth Satanic Statement that says the church - and countless individuals - cannot exist withoutthe Devil

"For one thing," LaVey explained himself, "calling it a church enabled me to follow the magicformula of one part outrage to nine parts social respectability that is needed for success. But themain purpose was to gather a group of like-minded individuals together for the use of theircombined energies in calling up the dark force in nature that is called Satan."

It was an old religion, older thanChristianity or Judaism. But it had never been formalized, arranged into a body of thought andritual.

Out of it came my biography of LaVey, The Devil'sAvenger,

LaVey, seeming to laugh at them if not spit on them in contempt, emerged from between the linesof newspaper stories as a black magician basing his work on the dark side of nature and the carnalside of humanity. There seemed to be nothing spiritual about his "church"

judged not by its quality, but by the authenticity of the artist

First, there's the primal need for confession,

have therefore altogether declined to enter regularly upon this defence

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keenly interested to find out that others see the real differently from us.