Called "The Black Pope" by many of his followers, Anton LaVey began the road to High
Priesthood of the Church of Satan when he was only 16 years old and an organ player in a
carnival:
"On Saturday night I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at
the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing the organ for tentshow
evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same
men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive
them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday night they'd be
back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence.
"I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's
carnal nature will out!"
From that time early in his life his path was clear. Finally, on the last night of April, 1966 -
Walpurgisnacht, the most important festival of the believers in witchcraft - LaVey shaved his
head in the tradition of ancient executioners and announced the formation of The Church Of
Satan. He had seen the need for a church that would recapture man's body and his carnal
desires as objects of celebration. "Since worship of fleshly things produces pleasure," he said,
"there would then be a temple of glorious indulgence..."
INTRODUCTION by Burton H. Wolfe
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
THE NINE SATANIC STATEMENTS
(FIRE)
--BOOK OF SATAN--
The Infernal Diatribe
[I] [II] [III] [IV] [V]
(AIR)
--BOOK OF LUCIFER--
The Enlightenment
I. Wanted!: God - Dead or Alive
II. The God You SAVE May Be Yourself
III. Some Evidence of a New Satanic Age
IV. Hell, the Devil, and How to Sell Your Soul
V. Love and Hate
VI. Satanic Sex
VII. Not all Vampires Suck Blood
VIII. Indulgence... NOT Compulsion
IX. On the Choice of a Human Sacrifice
X. Life After Death Through Fulfillment of the Ego
XI. Religious Holidays
XII. The Black Mass
(EARTH)
--BOOK OF BELIAL--
The Mastery of the Earth
I. Theory and Practice of Satanic Magic:
(Definition and Purpose of Lesser and Greater Magic)
II. The Three Types of Satanic Ritual
III. The Ritual, or "Intellectual Decompression", Chamber
IV. The Ingredients Used in the Performance of Satanic Magic:
A. Desire
B. Timing
C. Imagery
D. Direction
E. The Balance Factor
V. The Satanic Ritual:
A. Some Notes Which are to be Observed Before Beginning Ritual
B. The Thirteen Steps
C. Devices Used in Satanic Ritual
(WATER)
--BOOK OF LEVIATHAN--
The Raging Sea
I. Invocation to Satan
II. The Infernal Names
III. Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Lust
IV. Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Destruction
V. Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Compassion
VI. The Enochian Keys and The Enochian Language
(The nineteen Keys will be listed here in chronological order.)
•The First Key
•The Second Key]
•The Third Key
•The Fourth Key
•The Fifth Key
•The Sixth Key
•The Seventh Key
•The Eighth Key
•The Ninth Key
•The Tenth Key
•The Eleventh Key
•The Twelfth Key
•The Thirteenth Key
•The Fourteenth Key
•The Fifteenth Key
•The Sixteenth Key
•The Seventeenth Key
•The Eighteenth Key
•The Nineteenth Key
INTRODUCTION
Burton H. Wolfe
On a winter's evening in 1967, I drove crosstown in San Fransisco to hear Anton Szandor
LaVey lecture at an open meeting of the Sexual Freedom League. I was attracted by
newspaper articles describing him as "the Black Pope" of a Satanic church in which baptism,
wedding, and funeral ceremonies were dedicated to the Devil. I was a free-lance magazine
writer, and I felt there might be a story in LaVey and his contemporary pagans; for the Devil
has always made "good copy", as they say on the city desk.
It was not the practice of the black arts itself that I considered to be the story, because that is
nothing new in the world. There were Devil-worshipping sects and voodoo cults before there
were Christians. In eighteenth-century England a Hell-Fire Club, with connections to the
American colonies through Benjamin Franklin, gained some brief notoriety. During the early
part of the twentieth century, the press publicized Aleister Crowley as the "wickedest man in
the world". And there were hints in the 1920s and '30s of a "black order" in Germany.
To this seemingly old story LaVey and his organization of contemporary Faustians offered
two strikingly new chapters. First, they blasphemously represented themselves as a "church",
a term previously confined to the branches of Christianity, instead of the traditional coven of