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To: alt.satanism From: xeper@aol.com (Dr. Michael A. Aquino) Subject: Anton LaVey and Satan Date: 01 Mar 2000 03:35:34 GMT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <007b0f84.944a85e4@usw-ex0105-037. remarq.com>, DarkMagus wrote: >Anton LaVey, had at one time, in the early beginnings, >'made a pact with satan'. Anton personally handwrote a Pact with Satan, which I happened to see one evening when he brought up a small strongbox containing it, his personal copy of _The King in Yellow_, and some other very personal items. >Aquino said that ... >Anton later felt that Satan had duped him,.i.e.,had >not lived up to his part,& betrayed Anton. I have never made this statement. >Anton had made this pact on Samhain 1968. I do not know the date of Anton's Pact, except that it was obviously before 1972. To me in our various private conversations and magical workings, Anton was quite sincere about his belief in and devotion to Satan as a conscious metaphysical being. He just as routinely tailored his comments down to the "metaphor" level when dealing with the public [or with Church members who could not handle anything beyond that either intellectually or emotionally]. For such audiences the Church served its purpose as a recreational medium to gradually make "Satanism" more acceptable to ordinary society, which it was well on the way to doing by the early '70s. The actual Satan as apprehended by Anton had little in common with the Judaeo/Christian caricature, and indeed Anton had scant interest in J/C mythology other than as a vehicle for ceremonial fireworks or social satire. The true Satan of the Church of Satan was an intelligence well beyond all such superficialities, for whom even the name was an obviously-human convenience. Anton felt that through his magical workings he would gradually come to see and know this being directly: that his GBM rituals with art, music, speech, action, etc. were all avenues leading towards this central focus, so to speak. After 1975 it is equally clear that he rejected this interest, commitment, and approach adamantly [and very publicly]. Thereafter the Church became just an exotic club in which "Satan" was firmly a metaphor for the excuse of various eccentricities. And that's how the "Church" attracted its post-1975 membership, as I think is reasonably evident from this newsgroup. As discussed in my _Church of Satan_ history and elsewhere, Anton's ideas and beliefs in this regard were important to me because of my own curiosity concerning the architecture of the Universe, the principles underlying Black Magic, and the phenomenon of intelligent humanity. I did not feel then [nor do I now] that it was anything to evangelize or argue about. Persons capable of sensing and apprehending such matters would do so; those who lacked such capacity [or feared and repressed/destroyed it in themselves] would not. That too has come to pass. The "bottom line" to you, methinks, is not whether Anton LaVey believed this-or-that at this-or-that point in his life, nor whether I do, but whether you yourself feel an inspiration to embark on that same exploration, seek that same mystery, find that same Grail. If so, it will be "your first step into a larger universe": _Xeper_. If not, then there remain many ways you can use conventional images of "Satan" for personal expression, hopefully responsibly and creatively. Michael A. Aquino -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.0.2 iQA/AwUBOLyQC2RWyNykJwrDEQLf7gCfUB7TCAGTsc2pl5JW2nSnspgvlBwAoLe5 is6LTifTqdf/A4ATOxgS5i4C =6RWy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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