Anton Szandor LaVey in a cape and leopard print vest

Self-Realization —The Essence of Satanism by Magus Peter H. Gilmore

Self-Realization —The Essence of Satanism

From Magus Peter H. Gilmore’s new essay:

Satan in mythology and literature was often portrayed as a proponent of the forbidden, the taboo, the clandestine, so he felt that this was the rational and only truly Satanic perspective that must be part of his fledgling organization’s philosophy. “Deviancy” to Anton LaVey was a virtue, not a defamation. And so the Church of Satan as a point of policy has always joyously included the deviants and outsiders on their own terms—the “alien” part of “the alien elite.”

Read the full essay here.

Anton Szandor LaVey in a cape and leopard print vest
Anton Szandor LaVey in a cape and leopard print vest.