Happy Boxing Day! How do I sum up what I learned by reading this text? I guess I’m conflicted. The second half of the Satanic Bible definitely surprised me. It ended up being a decent ritual handbook. The first half reminded me of that-one-guy from high school that was always-mad-at-something and definitely had good ideas […]
Day 5: The Book of Leviathan MERRY CHRISTMAS! Okay, well, where do I begin with this? The Book of Leviathan continues the theme of ritual but then takes a sharp turn to the occult. That’s not a surprise. Satanism is occult? Oh no! Though this represents the largest portion of the book by page count, […]
Day 4: The Book of Belial We’re getting into what I would call “Applied Satanism” in the Book of Belial. I’ve been pretty hard on this book so far — and to be clear, I still find it to be an adolescent screed — but this section is pretty useful if you want to be […]
Days 2 & 3: The Book of Lucifer I think it is worth remarking how easily I put this book down and walked away from it. In this COVID world with political turmoil, I didn’t really want to read the rantings of Anton LaVey. Were they hard to read? No. The writing is not difficult. […]
Day 1: Introductions, Satanic Statements, Book of Satan Reading the Satanic Bible in your therapists waiting room will get you some weird looks. Just sayin. So here I am reading this infernal text and, well, it’s off to a weird start. I expected this book to have a lot of ego in it. I didn’t […]
I’ve wanted to read the Satanic Bible for a loooooong time. What better time to read it than the early days of Advent as the Christmas season unfolds?! I like the juxtaposition. Just in case, I made some images of Anton LaVey in a jolly good festive mood. I lent a copy of the Satanic […]
The Mormon scriptures were a fascinating body of texts to experience. I think they merit a deeper sociological and anthropological study from a non-believer perspective. Sure, there’s been some studies, but they often lean toward disproving the religious claims. I don’t care about that as much (though the lack of evidence for LDS claims is […]
Days 12, 13, 14: Doctrines & Covenants 1-138 Vacation, a sick dog, losing a dog, and grief will delay any project or spiritual practice. It’s funny, it’s during those times that we really need our practices. I still read the LDS scriptures amidst a month of difficulty as we lost our dog to a brain […]
Here’s how it went down. I came into my home office around midnight. I turned on the softer light in the room — it just felt right. I cleared away the meditation cushion and set up near the ottoman. An ottoman makes a great mini-altar to pray at in case you’re wondering. I opened up […]
Day 11: Book of Mormon, Ether & Moroni And it came to pass, I did reach my journeys end…at least with the Book of Mormon. Here I am with plenty of questions, new insights, and some understanding for this unique American religious expression. I can’t rest easy, yet, though. I still need to read Doctrines […]