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IronWorker
11-10-2004, 08:13 AM
In the 1990s, the face of Satanism has seen some heretical and herd-deflective manifestations, as any revisionist movement of any significance does. We as ideological archeologists pick and choose principles, ethics, and philosophies from sources considered by the masses as either celebrated or abhorrent. (Largely, the latter.) Some individuals, both Satanic and nay, have pondered the questions of compatibility with the growing racialist movement (though not for the racial politics). If this seems strange or unlikely, first consider these words from Anton LaVey:

"From every set of principles (be it religious, political, or philosophical), some good can be extracted. Amidst the madness of the Hitlerian concept, one point stands out as a shining example of this - strength through joy!"

(- from The Satanic Bible, p.82)

One of these philosophical ties that Satanism and many of the racialist movement share is with 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Indeed, Nietzsche proved a profound impact on the writings of both Hitler and LaVey; though, two distinct paths were taken by these gentlemen. (Most notable book: Nietzsche's Der Antichrist.) Michael Moynihan, in his introduction to his interview with Rahowa vocalist and racialist George Eric Hawthorne writes:

"... if you care to go beyond media catch-phrases and actually listen to what he has to say, it would undoubtedly fly right over the heads of most redneck racists or Hitlerian hatemongers, as much as it'd rile up the typical liberal humanist."

(- from "The Black Flame" magazine; Vol. 6, No. 1 & 2, p.40)

Religiously and philosophically, many of those in the racialist movement are blatantly anti-Xtian, choosing to align with the Northern European pagan pantheon. (The World Church of the Creator, a racialist organization, is also a fully legal religion, praising the self as a "Creator" and standing as one of the more fervent haters of the Judeo-Xtian ideology in the racialist camp.) Vampiir Kremator of the band Maschinezimmer 412 summarizes one difference as thus: "Satanism is more of an ideology while Odinism is more spiritual." (- from "Worm Gear" magazine; Issue 4, p.18.) Runes (ancient divination tools of these Northern Euro-cultures) have shown an archetypal/aesthetic and/or symbolic significance to Odinists, Satanists, Nazis, and racialists; sometimes for similar reasons, sometimes not. The war culture of the ancient Norse people is a shining testament to the glory of superior human traits such as intelligence and performance, akin to the cornerstones of Satanic virtue and certain racialist ideals.

I say certain because, in all fairness, every grouping on Earth will attract different types, and not all measure up to high standards. Below the true Satanists of quality are the wannabes, no-brains, conformists, and music subculture-obsessed that any extreme group will find clinging to its legs. So it is with the racialist movement, though seemingly more tolerant of their leeches:

"We have National Socialists, and people who hate National Socialism. We have people who honour the American flag, and others who burn it. We have people that believe in the niceness of White Pride, and others that seethe with hatred and call themselves White Supremacists. We have people that are conservative in their opinions, while others are radical and revolutionary. Some of us want a small piece of America, while others want to conquer the world for our kind."

(- from the Resistance Records website)

One of those revolutionaries in the racialist movement is Universal Order head, James Mason. This National Socialist expresses a fondness for the writings of LaVey (and had reprinted, in the Xtianity issue of Mason's former newsletter SIEGE, a section of "The Book of Satan" from LaVey's The Satanic Bible) though not a fan of encouraging law-abiding behavior:

"Well, I think Anton LaVey advocates good citizenship - using your intelligence and not laboring under any superstitions - but at the very bottom of it, be a good citizen. And I don't advocate being a good citizen - I advocate subverting society... there's a lot of common ground . You maintain a certain kind of standard that's only going to attract a certain kind of person. With him, it's Satanism. With us, it's with the swastika."

(- from "OHM Clock" magazine; Issue 3, p.9)

So, again, it's a matter of taking what you agree with and discarding that which is against your individual nature. Or against nature in general, for that matter. Much is why both racialists and Satanists typically take an anti-Xtian stance: because the Xtian religion (and most of the other "major" religions) is truly anti-nature. (This, again, figures into Nietzschean philosophy, as well as the writings of Ragnar Redbeard. Conversely, this excludes the amass of Ku Klux Klan members, many of whom subscribe to the Xtian Identity movement: a group who believes that the White Race is the chosen people of their god, and that the Jews are descended from "Satan." The largest racialist group to personify this mindset is Aryan Nations.) Both (especially Satanists) despise the allowances given to people who invariably display parasitic behaviour upon society. Intelligence and performance are the standard and immutable rule in Satanism, whereas race criteria come into play (sometimes, in addition to our checklist items) with racialists. Consider the following for either philosophy:

"...we have an obligation to the Nature of which we are a part to participate as effectively as we can in its eternal quest for higher levels of development, higher forms of life. This obligation has been recognized and expressed by our poets and philosophers throughout our history... Nietzsche told us that our first responsibility is to help prepare the world for the coming of a higher type of man. George Bernard Shaw wrote that we are obliged to serve the Life Force in its striving to know itself more fully (i.e.: to achieve higher levels of consciousness)."

(- from the National Alliance website)

Particularly for the aforementioned group, the hierarchy racialists ascribe to this human worth is (perhaps, surprisingly) not just measured from race to race, with the White Man on top. Concerning whites, this uncredited racialist author agrees:

"They [whites] come in many forms. From the overeducated, liberal media prostitutes that grovel before their Ashkenazi masters with offerings of anti-White propaganda; to the soulless materialist men and women... right down to the semi-retarded rural and urban dwelling dirt, there are undoubtedly legions of clamoring fools and character-deficient low-lifes that masquerade as White due to their pale pigmentation... we White Racialists only respect White people that deserve respect, and hold in low-esteem Whites who deserve our contempt. If anything, our recognition of the abundant supply of White losers only reinforces our belief that all men are not created equal."

(- from the Resistance Records website)

Spread to a more inclusive plane, those are truly beautiful, misanthropic words any Satanist could appreciate (and their attribution to Social Darwinism is well implied). Not entirely amazing, this is not the media picture painted side-by-side with the dominant PC-rhetoric in current rotation, from the corporate cable news channels to the "hippest" zines (both illusively priding themselves on "objective" reporting).

And it's this insecurity of the herd and its reflective media that cloud the perception of the nucleus of any being who strives for higher ground. Satanists and racialists are vastly and vehemently shunned by certain parts of society (though, Satanists may get substantially less of this backlash, depending on situation, location, and people). One could say that we are even feared - and for good reason - though not for many of the propagated "horrors." Herein lies a difference between many racialist groups and us: Racialists, understandably so, do not want to be the minority (either racially or ideologically); Satanists, knowing that we are a minority, are quite happy (and often, quite giddy) to be such and, in many cases, encourage the human dross to steer clear of us. For some Satanists, it becomes unproductive to promote otherwise.

To facilitate the elements of attempted (and defensively projected) fear and ostracism toward us (the collective us, mind you), the mainstream media enlist their core troops from what seems to be some centralized propaganda department and direct them to those they can cash in on the quickest: Satanism and racialism are two of the more popular; the more convoluted the definition, the bigger the paycheck. (Just ask Jerry Springer.) Both of us, as if by some incredibly unoriginal group of ad execs, are portrayed as "gang members" (oh, you haven't read the Xtian-aimed-at-law-enforcement propagandist pap trying desperately to peg Satanists as "gang-related?" It's out there, believe me), "hate criminals," and generally of a mindless and uncontrollably violent nature. Resistance Records writes in adequate defense to these claims:

"Television is saturated with violence, and our young people spend endless days playing video games like Mortal Kombat... Hard Metal, Gangsta Rap, `anti-racist' hardcore like Rage Against The Machine, and several other genres of music, are laden with violent images and concepts... but they are afforded artistic license to speak their minds and rise up the Billboard charts with virtually no opposition... to those that claim that White Racialists represent an image that is any more violent than the rest of this demented society, look them straight in the eye and declare them a hypocrite."

(-from Resistance Records website)

Of course, these terms used - hate crimes, in particular - are thoroughly subjective. Hate is fine in this country... as long as its forms fall neatly into the anal-retentive pegholes of social acceptability and political correctness. (And there are comparative levels on which the herd are allowed to judge religions. For example: Xtianity is somewhat okay to pick on; and perhaps moreso with the passing years. However, Judaism is verbotten. Can't scrutinize that religion; after all, "they" had a holocaust, don't you know. Let it be known that this Satanist is fully unrepentant in his understanding that these religions, in a core sense, are two sores on the same infected whore.) "Smash the racists' right to have websites" is okay. "Smash affirmative action" is not okay. If I read the meter correctly, any unorthodox racial viewpoint publicly expressed (especially in our obsessively sensitive American culture) elicits a more emphatic condemnation than murder. Severe, but you get the idea. Free speech is for the fresh-breathed. Democracy is for the pretty people.

And neither of us is, in the largely social sense, pretty. We take that unto ourselves to some degree and, in the Satanist's case, use it to our best advantage, knowing full well an unswerving human truth: Society without its devils (even its [i]White devils) is an unchallenged society: weak, non-analytical, complacent and delusional; and I mean sizably moreso than it already is. Just as Satan, the accuser, will always (yet, sometimes covertly) swing the social pendulum in the other direction every once in awhile in the name of balance, so will racialism ferret out race issues that may be worth looking at, regardless of those who (in cowardice) would rather not discuss anything related to such "sensitive" topics (e.g.: race, gender, class, etc.) for fear of offending someone, presumedly anyone. In this world of say-nothings and safe smiles, I'd rather offend than pretend, at my discretion; the very fire behind both Satan and swastika.

Link: www.purgingtalon.com/nlm/racialism.htm

[b]I heard once that Tom Metzger and Anton Lavey (jew - real jew name: Anton Levy) used to hang out and that Lavey liked to have racists around to increase others perceptions that he was 'evil'. Probably both got some publicity from it. I just find that strange symbiotic relationship fascinating (and also some of this other racialist/ satanist milieu). Doubly so since Anton Lavey was jewish.

.....

Petr
11-10-2004, 08:47 AM
Hanging out with satanists is indeed a truly efficient way for WNs to be considered to be on an irrelevant lunatic fringe by a vast majority of decent Whites.

If that story about Tom Metzger is true, then he is even a bigger fool than I even thought he was.


Petr

IronWorker
11-10-2004, 09:18 AM
Petr, by satanists do you mean it in the judeo-Christian definition that all non-Abrahamic religions are satanist???

I have witnessed judeo-Christian televangelists on the television before railing against satanist Wiccans, Buddhists, and Hinduists so I was wondering if you share their broad judeo-Christian definition.

Petr
11-10-2004, 09:31 AM
By satanism in this context I mean Anton LaVey and other poseurs like him. WNs who associate with such rabble (like Varg Vikernes) are suffering from what FadeTheButcher has aptly called "costume fetishism" and self-implemented marginalization.

In other words, they are puny hobbyists and are never going to make any (positive) impression on the masses.


Petr

Petr
11-10-2004, 10:42 AM
This:

"George Bernard Shaw wrote that we are obliged to serve the Life Force in its striving to know itself more fully (i.e.: to achieve higher levels of consciousness)."

immediately reminded me of this:

http://pasx.5u.com/upload/Lewis%2C%20C%20S%20-%20The%20Screwtape%20Letters.html#15

...

MY DEAR WORMWOOD,

I wonder you should ask me whether it is essential to keep the patient in ignorance of your own existence. That question, at least for the present phase of the struggle, has been answered for us by the High Command. Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves. Of course this has not always been so. We are really faced with a cruel dilemma. When the humans disbelieve in our existence we lose all he pleasing results of direct terrorism and we make no magicians. On the other hand, when they believe in us, we cannot make them materialists and sceptics. At least, not yet. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, belief in us, (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The "Life Force", the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis, may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work—the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping, what he vaguely calls "Forces" while denying the existence of "spirits"—then the end of the war will be in sight.

...

(from C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters")

Petr

otto_von_bismarck
11-10-2004, 04:15 PM
Hanging out with satanists is indeed a truly efficient way for WNs to be considered to be on an irrelevant lunatic fringe by a vast majority of decent Whites.

You are right of course on this issue Petr. Picking the religion associated with evil is not a good marketing strategy.

Edana
11-13-2004, 09:44 PM
Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan was a big publicity stunt. It's showbiz, folks.

neoclassical
11-14-2004, 02:00 AM
Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan was a big publicity stunt. It's showbiz, folks.

Athony Levine, in showbiz? Surely you jest.

Landser
11-14-2004, 03:03 PM
Showbiz? No I think they had some arguable claims against organized society. I think he basically took Atheism to its natural ultra-egotistical and self-centered conclusion.

Edana
11-14-2004, 05:09 PM
He didn't create any philosophy. His stuff was a simple collection of thoughts that other philosophers made up. Let's grab a little dose of Neitzche here... stir in a little Ayn Rand, pilfer some Crowley. Simplify and dress it up - Presto! Church of Satan!

Erzsébet Báthory
11-14-2004, 05:16 PM
Anton LaVey: Legend and Reality
compiled by his daughter Zeena and Nikolas Schreck February 2, 1998

Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-1997), along with Charles Manson, Timothy Leary, and other messianic pop gurus, was a notorious figure of the 1960s' subculture of social experiment. As the flamboyant High Priest of the Church of Satan and the author of the Satanic Bible, he served as an ideal bogeyman for the sensation-seeking American media of that tumultuous period.

His curious celebrity was based largely on a self-created legend. This carefully-orchestrated legend may, in the final analysis, be LaVey's most enduring legacy. LaVey disseminated his legend through interviews with journalists, personal discussion with his disciples, and two LaVey-approved [auto]biographies (apparently ghostwritten by LaVey himself). The first of these, 1974's The Devil's Avenger (credited to LaVey associate Burton Wolfe), embellished on the fabrications Wolfe had already sketched in his introduction to the Satanic Bible. The second, 1990's Secret Life of a Satanist (credited to Blanche Barton, LaVey's live-in secretary and mother of his son), contradicted many of LaVey's own claims in the earlier volume, while putting forth new legends for public consumption. As social historians and scholars of occult movements begin to study LaVey's life and times in an objective historical context, a wealth of information concerning the man beneath the Devil horns has come to light. This brief checklist is a concise guide to separating the deliberate prevarications from the human, all-too-human facts. For brevity's sake, only the most well-known aspects of the legend will be clarified here.

LEGEND: Claimed that "Anton Szandor LaVey" was his genuine birth name.

REALITY: Born "Howard Stanton Levey".

SOURCES: Birth certificate 4/11/1930, Cook County, Illinois. Confirmed by relatives.

LEGEND: Claimed his parents were Joseph and Augusta LaVey.

REALITY: Parents were Michael and Gertrude Levey.

SOURCES: Birth certificate 4/11/1930, Cook County, Illinois. Confirmed by ASL's daughter Zeena and daughter Karla according to her entry on ASL's death certificate.

LEGEND: Claimed he was introduced to the Dark Side by his Transylvanian Gypsy grandmother, who regaled him as a child with supernatural folklore and tales of vampires and werewolves.

REALITY: ASL's grandmother was not Transylvanian nor of Gypsy stock. She was a Ukrainian named Cecile Luba Primokov-Coulton ("Coulton" was Anglicized from "Koltonoff"). Despite his frequent claims, ASL had no Gypsy ancestry.

SOURCES: Relatives, including ASL's parents.

LEGEND: In 1945 the 15-year-old ASL was brought to the ruins of postwar Germany by his uncle, a U.S. Coast Guard officer. There the teenaged ASL was shown top-secret films inspired by Satanic cult lodges and their rituals. ASL claimed that the "German" rituals in his 1972 book The Satanic Rituals were actual transcripts of the filmed rituals he saw as a youth.

REALITY: Young Howard spent the entirety of 1945 in suburban northern California, and never visited Germany at any time in his life. The uncle who he claimed brought him to Germany was incarcerated at McNeill Island Penitentiary for involvement with Al Capone-related criminal activity during 1945, and was never in the armed forces. Allied martial law forbade U.S. citizens from visiting postwar Germany. The "German" rituals in the Satanic Rituals are written in extremely poor, Anglicized German. They are clearly uncredited adaptations of the short story The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long and H.G. Wells' famous novel The Island of Dr. Moreau.

SOURCES: ASL relatives, former wife Diane LaVey, The Hounds of Tindalos, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Satanic Rituals, Church of Satan member Rosalind Herkommer (who translated ASL's rituals into German).

LEGEND: The 15-year-old ASL played second oboe with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, making him the youngest musician ever to play with that prestigious institution.

REALITY: There was no "San Francisco Ballet Orchestra" in 1945. The San Francisco Ballet was accompanied by a local orchestra, whose records show that none of its three oboists was named "Levey" or "LaVey".

SOURCES: San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, San Francisco, California.

LEGEND: In 1947 ASL ran away from home and joined the Clyde Beatty Circus. The Circus employed the 17-year-old as a lion tamer. He then replaced the Circus calliope player, accompanying such famous Beatty acts as the Concellos, Harold Alanza, and the Cristianis.

REALITY: The voluminous Beatty archives show no record of a "Levey" or "LaVey" as lion tamer or musician. The Concellos, Alanza, and Cristianis were never Beatty performers; they worked exclusively for the Ringling Brothers Circus.

SOURCES: Beatty 1947 Route Books, Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin (Wright, "SD", page 67); ASL relatives.

LEGEND: In 1948 the 18-year-old ASL was engaged to play organ at the Mayan burlesque theater in Los Angeles. There he met a young stripper named Marilyn Monroe, with whom he had a passionate love affair in the period before her rise to film stardom. According to ASL, Monroe had resorted to stripping to pay her rent. As proof of his relationship with Monroe, ASL later showed visitors a copy of Monroe's famous nude calendar inscribed "Dear Tony, How many times have you seen this! Love, Marilyn".

REALITY: ASL never knew Monroe. Monroe intimate Robert Slatzer and Harry Lipton, Monroe's agent in 1948, have exposed and discredited this tale. Lipton paid Monroe's expenses, including her rent. Paul Valentine, director of the Mayan Theater, has stated that the Mayan was never a burlesque theater, and that neither Monroe nor ASL ever worked for the Mayan in any capacity. Diane LaVey, ASL's former wife, has admitted that she forged the "Monroe" inscription on the calendar. ASL's former publicist Edward Webber claims ASL admitted he never knew Monroe.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Paul Valentine (Wright, "SD", page #68), Harry Lipton (Aquino-Lipton conversation 12/1/82), Robert Slatzer (letter to Aquino 11/27/82), Edward Webber (interview by Aquino 6/2/91).

LEGEND: ASL was exposed to the savagery of human nature during his stint as a San Francisco Police photographer in the early 1950s.

REALITY: San Francisco Police Department past employment records include no "Howard Levey" nor "Anton LaVey". Frank Moser, who was a SFPD photographer in the early 1950s, said that ASL never worked for the Department.

SOURCES: SFPD records, Frank Moser (Wright, "SD", page 68).

LEGEND: ASL studied criminology at San Francisco City College during the Korean War.

REALITY: SFCC has no record of ASL's enrollment at any time.

SOURCES: SFCC records (Wright, "SD", page 68).

LEGEND: ASL purchased the house at 6114 California Street (which would later become the headquarters of the Church of Satan - the infamous "Black House") because he discovered on first inspection that it was the former brothel of Barbary Coast madam Mammy Pleasant. The house was honeycombed with trapdoors and secret passageways, built by Pleasant to elude police raids.

REALITY: 6114 was ASL's parents' home. It was never a brothel, nor did Mammy Pleasant ever live or work there. ASL's parents first allowed ASL and his first wife Carole to live in the house, then transferred ownership of it to ASL and his second wife Diane in 1971. Such secret passages and hidden rooms that exist were constructed by ASL.

SOURCES: Relatives, San Francisco property records (Michael & Gertrude Levey, Joint Tenancy Grant Deed, July 9, 1971).

LEGEND: In the 1950s ASL traveled to Nice, France, where he recorded an album of organ music under the pseudonym of "Georges Montalba".

REALITY: ASL's first and only trip to France was in the mid-1970s, when his Dutch disciple Maarten Lamers, Amsterdam sex club owner, financed his voyage. The "ASL=Montalba" story appeared in 1989, when a gullible Church of Satan member found a Montalba album and suggested that it was similar to ASL's own music. ASL, never pleased by competition, responded with the preposterous "pseudonym" claim - which is still ardently supported by his posthumous followers.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey.

LEGEND: ASL was the official city organist for San Francisco until 1966, playing for gala events such as government banquets and political meetings.

REALITY: San Francisco has never had an "official city organist". According to ASL's first wife Carole, his only income of $29.91/week was generated by his regular engagement at the "Lost Weekend" nightclub, where he was the house Wurlitzer organist.

SOURCE: Julie Burford, Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California (Wright, "SD", page 68). Carole LaVey's divorce proceeding records (Wright, "SD", page 68).

LEGEND: On the night of April 30, 1966 (the German Satanic festival of Walpurgisnacht), ASL in a "blinding flash" declared himself the High Priest of Satan, proclaimed that the Age of Satan had begun, and founded the Church of Satan as a religious institution.

REALITY: In 1966 ASL supplemented his income by presenting weekend lectures on exotic and occult topics, and by conducting "Witches' Workshops". He charged $2 a head, filling his living room with the curious and establishing a local reputation as an eccentric. Professional publicist Edward Webber suggested to ASL that he "would never make any money by lecturing on Friday nights for donations ... it would be better to form some sort of church and get a charter from the State of California ... I told Anton at the time that the press was going to flip out over all this and that we would get a lot of notoriety". In the summer of 1966, long after the fictional founding-date invented later, a newspaper article about ASL's lectures offhandedly referred to him as "priest of the Devil's church". This mixture of Webber's idea and the newspaper's characterization resulted in the creation of the Church of Satan as a business and publicity vehicle. Jack Webb, a San Francisco Police investigator who knew ASL from the "Lost Weekend" nightclub, also suggested that he should form a church of some kind to exploit his recondite knowledge.

SOURCES: Edward Webber (interview by Aquino 6/2/91), Jack Webb, Diane LaVey.

LEGEND: ASL's trademark shaved head was the result of a ceremonial head-shaving on April 30, 1966, to formalize his role as High Priest of Satan. This ritual was performed in the tradition of the Yezidi devil-worshipping tribes of Iraq, who were said to have carried out a similar ceremony.

REALITY: ASL shaved his head in the summer of 1966 due to a light-hearted dare from his wife. The "LaVey look" had nothing to do with the Church of Satan founding nor any mystical meaning attached to it later. Nor do Yezidi qawwals (religious teachers) shave their heads.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey; Ethel S. Drower, Peacock Angel, 1941; C.J. Edmonds, A Pilgrimage to Lalish, Royal Asiatic Society, 1967.

LEGEND: In 1966 ASL personally designed the Baphomet emblem of the Church of Satan. He owns the right to this design, claiming it cannot be reproduced without obtaining licensing rights from the Church of Satan.

REALITY: The Baphomet emblem used by the Church of Satan was neither original to it nor created by ASL, hence cannot be trademarked. The original Baphomet dates at least as far back as the medieval Knights Templar. The artwork for the current emblem's goat/pentagram first appears in a 1931 book by Oswald Wirth. The complete emblem with the added circles and "LVYThN" Hebrew letters appears on the cover of a book by Maurice Bessy two years before the creation of the Church of Satan. Early photos of Church activities often show ASL or his disciples using the Bessy book as a photo-prop because of its prominent cover-Baphomet, and he included that book in his Compleat Witch bibliography. The Baphomet, including this rendition of it, is clearly in the public domain.

SOURCES: Oswald Wirth, La fran-maconnerie rendue intelligible a ces adeptes - II, "Le compagnon", Paris: Derry-Livres, 1931, page #60; Maurice Bessy, A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural, London: Spring Books, 1964 [the original edition of this work - Histoire en 1000 images de la magie - was published in 1961 by Editions du Pont Royal]; Thomas H. Hilton, Sex and the Occult, Vol. I, Los Angeles: Centurion Press, 1974;Church of Satan members, The Black Flame (a 1980s Church of Satan magazine).

LEGEND: One of ASL's most widely-accepted falsehoods is his claim that he served as technical advisor for the 1968 Roman Polanski film Rosemary's Baby. ASL also claimed to have played the curiously-uncredited part of the Devil in that film.

REALITY: ASL had no involvement with Rosemary's Baby. Polanski's close friend Gene Gutowski (original producer of the film) stated that there was no technical advisor, nor did ASL ever even meet Polanski. Producer William Castle, who details all aspects of the film's production in his autobiography, never mentions ASL. He does describe Polanski's diligence in basing the film exactly on the Ira Levin novel from which it was adapted, eliminating any need for technical advice. The father of the actress who played Mia Farrow's body-double in the Devil scene recalled that a young, very slender professional dancer played the part, dressed in a small rubber suit. In 1971 this suit was acquired by Studio One Productions in Louisville, Kentucky, for use in a low-budget horror film Asylum of Satan. Michael Aquino, technical advisor for that film, examined the suit and concluded that the 200-pound, 6-foot ASL could not possibly have worn it. [The suit was worn by a girl in the Asylum film.] Not a single member of the cast or crew of Rosemary's Baby has ever mentioned ASL's involvement. In 1968 a San Francisco theater did ask ASL to make an appearance at the film's local opening as a promotional event. This appears to have been ASL's only connection with the film that engendered the 1960s' popular interest in Satanism.

SOURCES: Gene Gutowski; William Castle, Step Right Up! I'm Gonna Scare the Pants off America, New York: Pharos Books, 1992; Diane LaVey, Michael A. Aquino (COS, page #17).

LEGEND: Jayne Mansfield, Hollywood sex symbol and actress, was a card-carrying Satanist and had an affair with ASL.

REALITY: Publicity agent Tony Kent, an associate of Ed Webber, arranged the meeting between Mansfield and ASL as a publicity stunt. ASL was smitten with the actress. Mansfield, who made no secret of her many affairs, denied knowing ASL intimately, and no associate of hers has ever confirmed any supposed romance with ASL. In a 1967 interview she said, "He had fallen in love with me and wanted to join my life with his. It was a laugh." According to ASL's publicist Edward Webber, Mansfield would ridicule her Satanic suitor by calling from her Los Angeles home and seductively teasing him while her friends listened in on the conversation. ASL's public claims that he had an affair with Mansfield began only after Mansfield's death in an automobile accident, which he also claimed was the result of a curse he had placed on her lover Sam Brody.

SOURCES: Edward Webber (interview by Aquino 6/2/91); interview with Mansfield quoted in Jayne Mansfield by May Mann, Pocket Books, 1974.

LEGEND: ASL wrote the Satanic Bible, his principal work, to fulfill his congregation's need for a scriptural guide.

REALITY: The Satanic Bible was conceived as a commercial vehicle by paperback publisher Avon Books. Avon approached ASL for some kind of Satanic work to cash in on the Satanism & witchcraft fad of the late 1960s. Pressed for material to meet Avon's deadline, ASL resorted to plagiarism, assembling extracts from an obscure 1896 tract - Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard into a "Book of Satan" for the SB, and claiming its authorship by himself. [Ironically these MiR passages are the ones most frequently quoted by ASL disciples.] Another third of the SB consists of John Dee's "Enochian Keys", taken directly but again without attribution from Aleister Crowley's Equinox. The SB's "Nine Satanic Statements", one of the Church of Satan's central doctrines, is a paraphrase, again unacknowledged, of passages from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The last words in the SB - "Yankee Rose" - have been puzzled over for years by readers. "YR" is actually the name of an old popular tune in ASL's nightclub repertoire.

SOURCES: ASL, The Satanic Bible; Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right, Port Townsend: Loompanics (reprint), 1896; Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (Galt's speech, ca. pages #936-993); "Yankee Rose" by Sidney Holden & Abe Frankl (Irving Berlin Music, 1926).

LEGEND: ASL claimed that at the height of the Church of Satan's popularity there were hundreds of thousands of formal members.

REALITY: Diane LaVey (who administered the Church as High Priestess 1966-1984), Michael A. Aquino (senior Magister of the Church and Editor of its Cloven Hoof newsletter 1971-1975), and Zeena LaVey (High Priestess of the Church 1985-1990) have all affirmed that the figures claimed by ASL were grossly exaggerated. The membership of the Church of Satan never exceeded 300 individuals, several of whom were nonmember subscribers to the newsletter or ASL friends receiving complimentary mailings.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Michael A. Aquino, Zeena LaVey.

LEGEND: ASL claimed to be a multimillionaire, owning three homes in northern California, a convent in Italy, a chateau in France, a fleet of luxury automobiles, a 185-foot yacht, three salvage ships, and other property.

REALITY: During Diane [LaVey] Hegarty's 1988-91 lawsuit against ASL, and ASL's subsequent 1991 filing for bankruptcy, ASL stipulated under oath that he owned nothing more than 50% of the house his parents had given jointly to him and Diane, along with the personal items he kept therein. ASL's final years were subsidized by California state aid. Assessors declared the house to be in such poor repair as to be nearly worthless on the real estate market. Family members have attested to the fact that by the mid-1970s the LaVeys lived in near-poverty, frequently having to rely upon ASL's father's generosity. According to other LaVey relatives, ASL continued to rely on handouts from friends and relatives until the end of his life.

SOURCES: Hegarty v. LaVey (San Francisco Superior Court Case #891863), Anton LaVey Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern California, Case #91-34251), Zeena LaVey, other relatives.

LEGEND: ASL was a close friend of Sammy Davis, Jr. and inducted him into the Church of Satan.

REALITY: Sammy Davis, Jr. was invited to accept an honorary membership in the Church of Satan by Michael Aquino. After Davis sent Aquino his acceptance on March 17, 1973, he was presented with the honorary membership on April 13, 1973 by Aquino and Karla LaVey alone. ASL did not meet Davis until August 1973.

SOURCES: Davis letter to Aquino 3/17/73; Church of Satan Priesthood Bulletin 4/30/73; Aquino, COS, Chapter 23; Sammy Davis, Hollywood in a Suitcase (pre-publication text, printed in Daily News, New York, 9/11/80), Karla LaVey.

LEGEND: ASL presented himself as a loving family man.

REALITY: ASL violently beat his wife Diane throughout their marriage. In 1984 a police report was made describing Diane being strangled into unconsciousness by ASL, who was in such a murderous rage that his daughter Karla had to pull him off Diane and drag her outside the house to save her life. ASL routinely physically beat and abused those of his female disciples with whom he had sex, forcing them into prostitution as part of his "Satanic counseling" and collecting their earnings. In 1986 ASL was a passive witness to the sexual molestation of his own grandson by a longtime friend who was later convicted of sex crimes with minors. In 1990 ASL informed a mentally-ill stalker of his daughter Zeena of her whereabouts and the time & location of a public appearance she was scheduled to make, deliberately endangering her life.

SOURCES: San Francisco Police records of ASL attack on Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey, Diane LaVey, Stanton LaVey.

LEGEND: ASL had a deeply affectionate relationship with Togare, his pet lion.

REALITY: While ASL was always careful to portray himself to the public as an animal lover, in private he was cruel to and neglectful of his pets. When he was given Togare as a cub in 1964, he was ill-equipped to deal with such an exotic, wild animal despite his pretensions as a circus lion-tamer. As Togare became larger and more unruly, ASL frequently used an electric cattle prod to hurt and frighten him into submission. Many animal-rights proponents, including Togare's final owner Tippi Hedren, agree that it is detrimental to a wild animal's development to be raised in a domestic environment. ASL was arrested due to Togare's unruly behavior, and ASL was ordered to donate him to the San Francisco Zoo. After complying, ASL made only two visits to Togare. Due to the trauma of his early life, Togare needed special care at the Zoo and at every animal-care facility in which he subsequently lived.

SOURCES: Jack Castor (Lion Keeper, San Francisco Zoo), Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey, Tippi Hedren (The Cats of Shamballa, McGraw-Hill, 1985).

LEGEND: ASL had a deeply affectionate relationship with his other pets.

REALITY: In the late 1960s ASL acquired a Doberman Pinscher (Loki) as an accent to his "sinister" image. ASL never took the time to housebreak or train Loki, and relegated him to the overgrown and unkempt backyard of the house, regardless of weather. If Loki ever tried to slip into the house for shelter, ASL routinely used Togare's cattle-prod on him to terrify him back outside. In his old age Loki developed such severe arthritis that he could not climb the stairs to the back door to eat, and began wasting away from malnutrition. ASL then gave him to one of his prostitute "students", who at least saw that Loki had a warm, inside home until he died a few months later. During her young childhood ASL's daughter Zeena once awoke late at night to hear slamming sounds and the shrieking of her German Shepherd puppy. Running downstairs, she saw ASL savagely beating the cowering, cornered dog with a wooden plank. When Zeena begged ASL to stop and asked him what the dog had done to deserve such treatment, ASL screamed, "She won't listen to me! I'm going to force her to obey me!" ASL continued beating the dog until her face was covered with her blood, then dropped the plank and left the dog quivering in the hallway, so injured and frightened that she wouldn't let even Zeena come near her. This incident left the dog traumatized for a long time afterwards.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey.

LEGEND: On ASL's original death certificate the date of his demise was recorded as October 31, 1997 (Halloween).

REALITY: An official investigation by the City of San Francisco determined that ASL's actual date of death was October 29, 1997 and that the "Halloween" date had been illegally written on the document.

SOURCES: Death Certificate #380278667, San Francisco Department of Public Health; Dr. Giles Miller (attending physician at ASL's death), Physician's Amendment to Death Certificate, 11/26/97. ____________________

RESEARCH REFERENCES: Wright, Lawrence, "Sympathy for the Devil", Rolling Stone #612, September 5, 1991, Saints and Sinners. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Aquino, Michael A., The Church of Satan. San Francisco: Temple of Set, 1983. We extend our thanks to ASL's relatives and associates who contributed their memories.

ManAgainstTime
11-14-2004, 05:37 PM
Anton LaVey is a Ragnar Redbeard wannabe.

But I do see how social darwinism, satanism and odinism can be intertwined. Actually, that is why I like all three.

Petr
11-14-2004, 06:00 PM
Was Ragnar Redbeard really Jack London's pseudonym?

If so, that loser who died at the age of 40 from booze was hardly any exemplar of "social Darwinism" in his personal life...


Petr

neoclassical
11-15-2004, 03:15 PM
Was Ragnar Redbeard really Jack London's pseudonym?

If so, that loser who died at the age of 40 from booze was hardly any exemplar of "social Darwinism" in his personal life...


Social Darwinism is crazy and he would have opposed it, being a naturalist. That you didn't see this.......

neoclassical
11-15-2004, 03:17 PM
LEGEND: Claimed his parents were Joseph and Augusta LaVey.

REALITY: Parents were Michael and Gertrude Levey.

Levi, eh?

LOL