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The Rites of
On the altar of the Devil up is down, pleasure
is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom,
and madness is sanity. The Satanic ritual cham-
ber is die ideal setting for the entertainment of
unspoken thoughts or a veritable palace of
perversity.
Now one of the Devil's most devoted disciples
gives a detailed account of all the traditional
Satanic rituals. Here are the actual texts of such
forbidden rites as the Black Mass and Satanic
Baptisms for both adults and children.
Lucifer
The Satanic Rituals
Anton Szandor LaVey
The ultimate effect of shielding men from
the effects of folly is to fill the world with
fools.
-Herbert Spencer
- CONTENTS -
INTRODUCTION
CONCERNING THE RITUALS
THE ORIGINAL PSYCHODRAMA-Le
Messe Noir
L'AIR EPAIS-The
Ceremony of the Stifling Air
11
15
31
54
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
76
106
131
151
173
THE SATANIC BAPTISMS-Adult Rite and
Children's Ceremony
THE UNKNOWN KNOWN
203
219
The Satanic Rituals
INTRODUCTION
The rituals contained herein represent a degree of candor
not usually found in a magical curriculum. They all have one
thing in common-homage to the elements truly representative
of the
other side.
The Devil and his works have long assumed many forms.
Until recently, to Catholics, Protestants were devils. To Protes-
tants, Catholics were devils. To both, Jews were devils. To the
Oriental, the Westerner was a devil. To the American setder of
the Old West, the Red Man was a devil. Man's ugly habit of
elevating himself by defaming others is an unfortunate phe-
nomenon, yet apparently necessary to his emotional well-being.
Though these precepts are diminishing in power, to virtually
everyone some group represents evil incarnate. Yet if a human
being ever thinks that someone else considers him wrong, or evil,
or expendable in the affairs of the world, that thought is quickly
banished. Few wish to carry the stigma of villain.
But wait We are experiencing one of those unique periods
in history when the villain consistently becomes heroic. The cult
of the anti-hero has exalted the rebel and the malefactor.
Because man does little in moderation, selective acceptance
of new and revolutionary themes is nonexistent. Consequently
all is chaos, and anything goes, however irrational, that is against
established policy. Causes are a dime a dozen. Rebellion for
rebellion's sake often takes precedent over genuine need for
change. The opposite has become desirable, hence this becomes the
Age of Satan.
Dire as this appears, yet when the dust of the battles
settles what truly needed changing will have been changed. The
sacrifices will have been offered, human and otherwise, so that
long-range development might continue, and stability return.
Such is the odyssey of the twentieth century. The acceleration
of man's development has reached an epic point of change. The
evasive theologies of the immediate past were necessary to
sustain the human race while the higher man developed his
dreams and materialized his plans, until the frozen sperm of
his magical child could be born upon the earth. The child has
emerged in the form of Satan-the opposite.
The cold and hungry of the past produced offspring to till
the fields and work the mills. Their cold will stop and their
hunger shall end, but they will produce fewer children, for the
by-product of the magician's frozen seed which has been born
upon the earth will perform the tasks of the human offspring
of the past. Now it is the higher man's role to produce the
children of the future. Quality is now more important than
quantity. One cherished child who can
create
will be more
important than ten who can produce-or fifty who can
believe!
The existence of the man-god will be apparent to even the
simplest, who will see the miracles of his creativity. The old
belief that a supreme being created man and man's thinking
brain will be recognized as an illogical sham.
It is altogether too easy to dismiss Satanism as a total
invention of the Christian Church. It is said that the principles
of Satanism did not exist before sectarian propaganda invented
Satan. Historically, the word Satan did not have a villainous
meaning before Christianity.
The "safe" schools of witchcraft, with their strict adherence
to their horned-god-fertility-symbol syndrome, consider the
words
Devil
and
Satan
anathema. They disclaim any associa-
tion. They wish no comparisons to be drawn linking their Mur-
rayite-Gardnerian-"neo-pagan"-"traditional" beliefs with
Diabolism. They have expunged
Devil
arid
Satan
from their
vocabulary, and have waged a tireless campaign to give dignity
to the word witch, though that has always been synonymous
with nefarious activity, whether as witch, or hexe, or venifica, or
other. They wholeheartedly
accept
the Christian evaluation of
the word
Satan
at face value, and ignore the fact that the term
became synonymous with evil simply because it was (a) of
Hebrew origin, and anything Jewish was of the Devil, and
(b) because it meant adversary or opposite.
With all the debate over the origin of the word witch,
and the clear origins of the word Satan one would think that
logic would rule, and Satan would be accepted as a more
sensibly explained label.* Even if one recognizes the character
inversion employed in changing Pan (the good guy) into Satan
(the bad guy), why reject an old friend just because he bears
a new name and unjustified stigma? Why do so many still feel
it mandatory to disavow any connection with what might be
classed as Satanic, yet increasingly use each and every one of
the arts that were for centuries considered Satan's? Why does
the scientist, whose academic and laboratory forebears suffered
from accusations of heresy, mouth platitudes of Christian
righteousness in one breath, while dismissing the concept of
*Controversy over the origin of the English word
witch
is valid when
one considers the etymology of the term in other languages:
venifica
(Latin),
hexe
(German),
streghe
(Italian), etc. Only in its English form
has the word assumed a benign origin:
wicca,
purportedly meaning "wise."
Any debate must center on recent claims that advance a positive and
socially acceptable meaning for a term that has in all ages and most
languages, meant "poisoner," "frightener," "enchanter,'' "spell-caster," or
"evil woman."
Anthropologists have shown that even in primitive societies notably the
Azande, the definition of
witch
carries malevolent connotations. Therefore,
are we to assume that the only "good" witchet in the world were English
witches? This, however, becomes difficult to accept when one considers the
term
wizard,
which stems from the Middle English
wysard = wise,
versus
the Old English
wican = to bend,
from whence
witch
is supposedly de-
rived. All in all, it seems to be an unsuccessful attempt to legitimatize a
word that probably originated by onomatopoeia-the formation of a word
that sounds like what it is intended to mean!
Satan in the next, when the man of science owes his heritage to
what had for hundreds of years been relegated to Devildom?
The answers to these questions can be reduced to a single
bitter charge: they cannot afford to admit to an affinity with
anything that bears the name of Satan, for to do so would
necessitate turning in their good-guy badges. What is even
worse, the followers of the "Witchcraft-NOT-Satanism!" school
harbor the same need to elevate themselves by denigrating others
as do their Christian brethren, from whom they claim emancipa-
tion.
The rites in this book call the names of devils-devils of all
shapes, sizes and inclinations. The names are used with deliber-
ate and appreciative awareness, for if one can pull aside the
curtain of fear and enter the Kingdom of Shadows, the eyes
will soon become accustomed and many strange and wonderful
truths will be seen.
If one is
truly
good inside he can call the names of the
Gods of the Abyss with freedom from guilt and immunity from
harm. The resultant feeling will be most gratifying. But there is
no turning back. Here are the Rites of Lucifer ... for those
who dare remove their mantles of self-righteousness.
Anton Szandor LaVey
The Church of Satan
25 December VI Anno Satanas
CONCERNING THE RITUALS
Fantasy plays an important part in any religious curricu-
lum, for the subjective mind is less discriminating about the
quality of its food than it is about the taste. The religious rites
of Satanism differ from those of other faiths in that fantasy is
not employed to control the practitioners of the rites. The
ingredients of Satanic ritual are not designed to hold the
celebrant in thrall, but rather to serve his goals. Thus, fantasy
is utilized as a magic weapon by the individual rather than by

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