[Evangelist]

Introduction:

Here you will learn about Satanism from me.
Here you will see a couple of subjects that I will give my opinions on.

The Nine Satanic Statements

1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence.
   
2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams.
   
3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit.
   
4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates.
   
5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek.
   
6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for others.
   
7. Satan represents man as just another animal (sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all fours), who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all.
   
8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.
   
9. Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years
   

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth

1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
   
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
   
3. When in another’s home, show them respect or else do not go there.
   
4. If a guest in your home annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy.
   
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
   
6. Do not take that which does not belong to you, unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.
   
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
   
8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
   
9. Do not harm young children.
   
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
    
11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
    

The Nine Satanic Sins

1. Stupidity — The top of the list for Satanic Sins, the Cardinal Sin. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. One must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.
   
2. Pretentiousness — Empty posturing can be most irritating and isn’t applying the cardinal rules of Lesser Magic. On equal footing with stupidity for what keeps the money in circulation these days. Everyone’s made to feel like a big shot, whether they can come up with the goods or not.
   
3. Solipsism — Can be very dangerous. Projecting your reactions, responses and sensibilities onto someone who is probably far less attuned than you are. It is the mistake of expecting people to give you the same consideration, courtesy and respect that you naturally give them. They won't. Instead, one must strive to apply the dictum of “Do unto others as they do unto you.” It's work for most of us and requires constant vigilance lest you slip into a comfortable illusion of everyone being like you. As has been said, certain utopias would be ideal in a nation of philosophers, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, from a Machiavellian standpoint) we are far from that point.
   
4. Self-deceit — It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!
   
5. Herd Conformity — That’s obvious - it’s all right to conform to a person’s wishes, if it ultimately benefits you. But only fools follow along with the herd, letting an impersonal entity dictate to you. The key is to choose a master wisely instead of being enslaved by the whims of the many.
   
6. Lack of Perspective — Again, this one can lead to a lot of pain. You must never lose sight of who and what you are, and what a threat you can be, by your very existence. We are making history right now, every day. Always keep the wider historical and social picture in mind. That is an important key to both Lesser and Greater Magic. See the patterns and fit things together as you want the pieces to fall into place. Do not be swayed by herd constraints—know that you are working on another level entirely from the rest of the world.
   
7. Forgetfulness of Past Orthodoxies — Be aware that this is one of the keys to brainwashing people into accepting something new and different, when in reality it’s something that was once widely accepted but is now presented in a new package. We are expected to rave about the genius of the creator and forget the original. This makes for a disposable society.
   
8. Counterproductive Pride — That first word is important. Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you’ve painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I’m sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.
   
9. Lack of Aesthetics — This is the physical application of the Balance Factor. Aesthetics is important in Lesser Magic and should be cultivated. It is obvious that no one can collect any money off classical standards of beauty and form most of the time so they are discouraged in a consumer society, but an eye for beauty, for balance, is an essential tool and must be applied for greatest magical effectiveness. It’s not what’s supposed to be pleasing—it’s what is. Aesthetics is a personal thing, reflective of one’s own nature, but there are universally pleasing and harmonious configurations that should not be denied.
   

Satanic Symbolism

As many people have seen before we hold the Infamous pentagram, the are different pentagrams but, the one listed here is the official LaVeyan Satanism pentagram.



You will notice that there is a lot of album covers or artists that use this pentagram for their music such as Slayer.



Let me clarify that though I love Slayer, the band does not represent what Satanism is. They merely used our symbology to appear as rebellious as possible. They are blasphemers, just, blasphemers.
A prime example on why they do not represent Satanism is:
They have a song called "God Hates Us All" we Satanists do not believe in an anthropological entity or deity. The statement "God Hates Us All" falls truly invalid to our philosophy and beliefs which will be mentioned in a few sentences.



The reversed cross is a symbol interpreted to be some type of symbol that people have embraced Satan over. (In Literature of course.) Actually, that is wrong. With Christianity it is seen as the cross symbolic to "St. Peter" since legend states that he was crucified upside down. This request was also down on his own consent, and in no way a form of embracing Satan. This symbol can also serve as a symbol to the pope of the Roman Church. — If a Satanist finds meaning of expressing himself with this symbol, he/she can use it as his or her own free will. The symbol of preference that Satanist use is the Sigil of Baphomet:

The symbol is used as the official membership of The Church of Satan. If you wish to know more meaning, I'd suggest looking here.

The Satanic Philosophy

The philosophy of Satanism is not a very easy thing to explain or follow. We do not believe in good or evil. We only see human actions. In the animal world, we do not consider animals as evil or good do we? Being that we are animals, we cannot classify something as good or evil (of course some actions can cause regret, but regret is something we do not feel in Satanism). We calculate every move and action so it will not cause us grief or pain. Such as an intelligent person plans and executes, a Satanist does the same.
We are very selective over people who we care about and love. In my situation, that is VERY few people. We do not go out and help other people to feel good about ourselves or because a religion tells us to or forces us to. We have no feelings for others outside of our circle of trust and love.
Would I go out and help people for the fun of it? Not really. You see, we as Satanists believe in the morality of "Do unto others as they do unto you." Of course, that can be applied to good actions as well.
If you are kind to me, I will be kind to you. However, if you wrong me, you can expect that same wrong back.
That applies to helping people. We do not ask for help; why should we help others? That's why we have people like Christians and Humanists. They help others. Would you like to see a Satanist in Africa giving food to the needy? No you do not; that is a job for Christians, and they do a great job at it.

Animosity towards Right-Hand Path religions

There is a very popular misconception that Satanists are Satanists only to criticize and judge God-driven religions. People assume we hate Christians, Jews and Muslims. We do not have any quarry against them, as our religion preaches and supports individualism, we really have no desire on hating another religion. We only focus on ourselves. Do we agree with Christianity Judaism and Islam? No we do not. Our bible is not an attempt to blaspheme as much as it is a statement of what might be termed "diabolical indignation"

The fact of the matter is that they are against us, we have been attacked throughout the years. They call us Devil worshipers and that we slaughter babies and animals. As it was made VERY clear on the Satanic rules of the Earth "Do not harm young children."
Perhaps if people did more research they would know that we are against of any violence act towards children or animals. The only time that harming an animal is acceptable is when it is for your own survival.

The Belief of Demons and Deities

We do not believe in any Demon or Deity. The only religions that do believe in deities are Right hand path religions and Theistic Satanism and their denominations.
We do not believe in a paranormal or supreme objects or deities above or below us.

The term "Possession" is shunned by us Satanists as it goes against our beliefs. There cannot be a possession or demonic control over a person when they do not exist.


*This thread was originally made by me and my friend but, since he is not here I took out his contributions thus avoiding drama. Hopefully this thread will be of your likeness and educate you on what Satanism actually is. We do not kill babies or sacrifice goats as the media portrays it.

[Abc]

Thanks, now I know what satanism is.


So, the band Gorgoroth, do they show the true meanings of satanism too you?

[Evangelist]

Thanks, now I know what satanism is.


So, the band Gorgoroth, do they show the true meanings of satanism too you?

Depends. I am a LaVeyan Satanist which is Atheistic Satanism. Gorgoroth, Ghosts, Dimmu Borgir, Marduk, Dark Fortress, Thy Art Is Murder all them could be trying to appear as blasphemic as possible or they could be Theistic Satanists. Either way their choices do not affect me in any way what so ever. As far as my for of Satanism goes? No they are not Satanists.

[Banadmin]

Wow, just wow.

When people hear the word "Satanist", they think everything bad. After reading this thread thoroughly, I now feel if everyone in the world was a Satanist and obeyed the Satanist rules, the world would be in fine order.

Thank-you very much, Evangelist for this thread! :thumb-up:

[Loli]

Wow, just wow.

When people hear the word "Satanist", they think everything bad. After reading this thread thoroughly, I now feel if everyone in the world was a Satanist and obeyed the Satanist rules, the world would be in fine order.

Thank-you very much, Evangelist for this thread! :thumb-up:

Thats how I felt after reading this elsewhere.

Satanism, and just Satan in general procurs a thought of evil, or wrong-doing. Which is sad, after reading this you realize it's really not like that at all.

[Harvey]

Didn't think I'd meet another Satanist here! And it's good you're not a Spiritual Satanist too. :p I actually used to run a Satanism forum but found it was too inactive. :/

[Real_FFF]

All though I dislike some of your sub-philosophies, I can live with you. I will try not to sin, even though I am sure to mess up sometime.
Also: I like your thread; it's very organized.

[Evangelist]

We are the prime example of the of the "It's easier to judge than to understand"
If more people researched what they hate everything will be better.