The Satanic Bible: Central Religious Text of LaVeyan Satanism

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Medway, Gareth J. (2001). Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism. New York and London: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814756454. Lévi's Baphomet, for all its modern fame, does not match the historical descriptions from the Templar trials, although it was likely inspired by the "Baphomet" figures depicted in Hammer-Purgstall's Mysterium Baphometis revelatum. [57] It may also have been partly inspired by grotesque carvings on the Templar churches of Lanleff in Brittany and Saint-Merri in Paris, which depict squatting bearded men with bat wings, female breasts, horns and the shaggy hindquarters of a beast. [58] Socialism, romanticism, and magnetism [ edit ]

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Bullonii (of Bouillon), Godfrey (30 March 2018). "Godefridi Bullonii epistolae et diplomata; accedunt appendices"– via Google Books. Taub, Diane E.; Nelson, Lawrence D. (August 1993). "Satanism in Contemporary America: Establishment or Underground?". The Sociological Quarterly. 34 (3): 523–541. doi: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1993.tb00124.x.

Later in the 19th century, the name of Baphomet became further associated with the occult. Éliphas Lévi published Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ("Dogma and Rituals of High Magic") as two volumes ( Dogme 1854, Rituel 1856), in which he included an image he had drawn himself, which he described as Baphomet and "The Sabbatic Goat", showing a winged humanoid goat with a pair of breasts and a torch on its head between its horns (see the illustration). This image has become the best-known representation of Baphomet. Lévi considered the Baphomet to be a depiction of the absolute in symbolic form and explicated in detail his symbolism in the drawing that served as the frontispiece:

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Lewis, James R. (September 2002). "Diabolical Authority: Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible and the Satanist "Tradition" ". Marburg Journal of Religion. 7 (1): 1–16. LaVeyan Satanism involves the practice of magic, which encompasses two distinct forms; greater and lesser magic. Greater magic is a form of ritual practice and is meant as psychodramatic catharsis to focus one's emotional energy for a specific purpose. These rites are based on three major psycho-emotive themes: compassion ( love), destruction ( hate), and sex ( lust). Lesser magic is the practice of manipulation by means of applied psychology and glamour (or "wile and guile") to bend an individual or situation to one's will. Hans Tietze illustrated one, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, in Tietze, Hans (August 1934). "The Psychology and Aesthetics of Forgery in Art". Metropolitan Museum Studies. 5 (1): 1–19. doi: 10.2307/1522815. JSTOR 1522815. p. 1.

Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!

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Main article: Greater and lesser magic LaVey's understanding of magic was influenced by the British occultist Aleister Crowley Between the abolition of the grotto system in 1975 and the establishment of the internet in the mid-1990s, The Satanic Bible remained the primary means of propagating Satanism. [12] During this period, a decentralized, anarchistic movement of Satanists developed that was shaped by many of the central themes that had pervaded LaVey's thought and which was expressed in The Satanic Bible. [38] Lewis argued that in this community, The Satanic Bible served as a "quasi-scripture" because these independent Satanists were able to adopt certain ideas from the book while merging them with ideas and practices drawn from elsewhere. [38]

Myth of the Baphomet". Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon. 2 May 2015 . Retrieved 13 February 2020.

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Gallagher, Eugene (2006). "Satanism and the Church of Satan". In Eugene V. Gallagher; W. Michael Ashcraft (eds.). Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America. Greenwood. pp.151–168. ISBN 978-0313050787. Hodapp, Christopher (2005). "A crash course in Templar history". Freemasons for Dummies. Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing. While modern scholars and the Oxford English Dictionary [34] state that the origin of the name Baphomet was a probable Old French version of "Mahomet", [18] [29] alternative etymologies have also been proposed.The OED reports "Baphomet" as a medieval form of Mahomet, but does not find a first appearance in English until Henry Hallam, The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, which also appeared in 1818.