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Skip to content MENU MENU Home News History Sigil of Baphomet Church of Satan Anton Szandor LaVey Blanche Barton Peter H. Gilmore Peggy Nadramia Affiliation Join the Church of Satan Registered Membership Active Membership The Grotto System Hierarchy in the Church of Satan Support the Organization Theory / Practice Basics of Satanism Nine Satanic Statements Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth Nine Satanic Sins Pentagonal Revisionism Sigil of Baphomet Policy Statements Youth Communiqué Bunco Sheet Drug Abuse Policy Politics Policy Prison Chaplain Info Link Guidelines Essays & Interviews Anton Szandor LaVey Blanche Barton Peter H. Gilmore Peggy Nadramia Great Minds In The World Interviews Sources Print Video Music Artifacts & more Book List Film List Societies Downloads F.A.Q. Frequently Asked Questions Apocrypha Debunked Contact General Contact Form Press Contact & Information Member Links Link Guidelines Search Search Menu MENU MENU Home News History Sigil of Baphomet Church of Satan Anton Szandor LaVey Blanche Barton Peter H. Gilmore Peggy Nadramia Affiliation Join the Church of Satan Registered Membership Active Membership The Grotto System Hierarchy in the Church of Satan Support the Organization Theory / Practice Basics of Satanism Nine Satanic Statements Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth Nine Satanic Sins Pentagonal Revisionism Sigil of Baphomet Policy Statements Youth Communiqué Bunco Sheet Drug Abuse Policy Politics Policy Prison Chaplain Info Link Guidelines Essays & Interviews Anton Szandor LaVey Blanche Barton Peter H. Gilmore Peggy Nadramia Great Minds In The World Interviews Sources Print Video Music Artifacts & more Book List Film List Societies Downloads F.A.Q. Frequently Asked Questions Apocrypha Debunked Contact General Contact Form Press Contact & Information Member Links Link Guidelines Photo Credit: Church of Satan Archives Photo Credit: Church of Satan Archives Photo Credit: Church of Satan Archives Photo Credit: David Shankbone Photo Credit: Church of Satan Archives Photo Credit: Reverend Merciless Welcome to the official website of the Church of Satan. Founded on April 30, 1966 c.e. by Anton Szandor LaVey, we are the first above-ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of Man’s true nature—that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos that is indifferent to our existence. To us, Satan is the symbol that best suits the nature of we who are carnal by birth—people who feel no battles raging between our thoughts and feelings, we who do not embrace the concept of a soul imprisoned in a body. He represents pride, liberty, and individualism—qualities often defined as Evil by those who worship external deities, who feel there is a war between their minds and emotions. As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible , Man—using his brain—invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species cannot accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires. All Gods are thus externalized forms, magnified projections of the true nature of their creators, personifying aspects of the universe or personal temperaments which many of their followers find to be troubling. Worshipping any God is thus worshipping by proxy those who invented that God. Since the Satanist understands that all Gods are fiction, instead of bending a knee in worship to—or seeking friendship or unity with—such mythical entities, he places himself at the center of his own subjective universe as his own highest value. We Satanists are thus our own “Gods,” and as beneficent “deities” we can offer love to those who deserve it and deliver our wrath (within reasonable limits) upon those who seek to cause us—or that which we cherish—harm. Magus Gilmore’s essay “ What, The Devil? ” from The Satanic Scriptures discusses this in greater detail. Suggested Reading Welcome from Our Former High Priestess Membership: Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions Latest News Union of Egoists Presents: With Claw and Fang by Bernie Babcock & Trevor Blake SA1135 We Are Legion A Moment In Time This slideshow requires JavaScript. SUPPORT THE CHURCH OF SATAN! There are many ways you can support the Church of Satan. Visit our support page to learn how. 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