Anton LaVey

Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible (1930-1997) · United States · Writers · Died at 67

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He founded the Church of Satan in 1966, wrote The Satanic Bible, and spent three decades as American culture's self-appointed Black Pope - a showman who turned devil worship into theater and individualist philosophy into brand.

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1997Died29 October 19971969“IT is a popular misconception that the Satanist does not believe in God.”In their wordsWANTED! God dead or aliveRead the whole statement

“The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.”In their wordsThe Satanic Bible (1969)Read the whole statement

“Self-sacrifice is not encouraged by the Satanic religion.”In their wordsThe Satanic Bible (1969)Read the whole statement

“The only way to determine if you are being vampirized is to weigh what you give the person compared to what they give you in return.”In their wordsThe Satanic Bible (1969)Read the whole statement

“Satanism does not encourage orgiastic activity or extramarital affairs for those to whom they do not come naturally.”In their wordsThe Satanic Bible (1969)Read the whole statement

“The Satanist believes in complete gratification of his ego. Satanism, in fact, is the only religion which advocates the intensification or encouragement of the ego.”In their wordsThe Satanic Bible (1969)Read the whole statement

1930Born11 April 1930

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Anton LaVey, 1959

Anton LaVey and Diane Hegarty feed their lion, Togare

Anton LaVey and Togare the lion

Anton LaVey shows a woman Togare the lion

LaVey officiated Satanic wedding, 1967

San Francisco Examiner photo of Satanic marriage

Satanic wedding, UPI

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Anton LaVey

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IT is a popular misconception that the Satanist does not believe in God.
1969, WANTED! God dead or alive, Own words
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon.
1969, Book I, Section I, Own words
The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.
1969, The Satanic Bible (1969), Own words

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Born Howard Stanton Levey on April 11, 1930, he adopted the name Anton Szandor LaVey and built a public life around provocation. He established the Church of Satan and codified LaVeyan Satanism - a secular, atheistic creed wrapped in occult pageantry. His books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Witch, and The Satanic Rituals, laid out a philosophy of self-interest and ritual as psychodrama. He released three albums, played a minor role in the 1975 film The Devil's Rain, and narrated Nick Bougas' 1989 mondo film Death Scenes. Scholars called him "the most iconic figure in the Satanic milieu," a man of "considerable personal magnetism." He died October 29, 1997, having spent his life as both the most reviled and most quotable Satanist in America.

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In common with Anton

Anaïs NinAlso in Magick Lantern Cycle (1974)

Tom SkerrittAlso in The Devil’s Rain (1975)

Eddie AlbertAlso in The Devil’s Rain (1975)

Bobby BeausoleilAlso in Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)

Boyd RiceAlso in Speak of the Devil (1995)

Edmund PurdomAlso in Witchcraft '70 (1969)

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