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Encyclopedia > The Satanic Rituals

The Satanic Rituals is a book by Anton Szandor LaVey published in 1972 as a companion volume to The Satanic Bible. It is a collection of nine rituals with an introductory essay to each. Anton Szandor LaVey (11 April 1930 - 29 October 1997), born Howard Stanton Levey, was the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, author of The Satanic Bible, and creator of the religion known as as LaVeyan Satanism. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The Satanic Bible The Satanic Bible is a book writen by Anton LaVey in 1969. ... 9 (nine) is the natural number following 8 and preceding 10. ... A ritual is a formalised, predetermined set of symbolic actions generally performed in a particular environment at a regular, recurring interval. ...


It was published by Avon Books as a 224-page paperback (ISBN 0380013924). It has also been published in hardcover (by Buccaneer Books, 1991, ISBN 0899668275) and with a textbook binding (by Universe Books, 1978, ISBN 0821601717).


Opening epigraph

“The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” -Herbert Spencer

In literature, an epigraph is a quotation that is placed at the start of a work or section that expresses in some succinct way an aspect or theme of what is to follow. ... Herbert Spencer. ...

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Concerning the Rituals
  • The Original Psychodrama — Le Messe Noir
  • L'Air Epais — The Ceremony of the Stifling Air
  • The Seventh Satanic Statement — Das Tierdrama
  • The Law of the Trapezoid — Die elektrischen Vorspiele
  • Night on Bald Mountain — Homage to Tchort
  • Pilgrims of the Age of Fire — The Statement of Shaitan
  • The Metaphysics of Lovecraft — The Ceremony of the Nine Angles and The Call to Cthulhu
  • The Satanic Baptisms — Adult Rite and Children's Ceremony
  • The Unknown Known

Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy which explores, through action, the problems of people. ... A trapezoid (American English) or trapezium (British English) is a quadrilateral two of whose sides are parallel to each other. ... Night on Bald Mountain is the common name for , a tone poem by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, a Russian composer and member of The Five, Mily Balakirevs group dedicated to producing a distinctly Russian kind of music. ... Shaitan (شيطان) is the devil or the enemy of god in Islam, equivalent to Satan in Christianity. ... Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of first principles and being (ontology). ... H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... The Great Old One. ... Baptism is a water purification ritual practiced in certain religions such as Christianity, Mandaeanism, Sikhism, and some historic sects of Judaism. ...

External links

  • The Satanic Rituals, (PDF, click here to view as HTML.
  • The Satanic Rituals

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