History of Satanism...

Do not expect an extremely detailed history.....
Its not my job to tell you one...
Futhermore...such information can be found easily all over the internet
Its just a matter of whether you want to or not...


What i will do.....
is just to give a brief ...extremely brief history...
Which i hope you will find ....interesting....
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When did Satanism begin??...
It definitely did not exist when christianity was founded....Christianity....i will cover in another page....
If you remember coming across the words..."Temple of Set"....
The religion which we now generally call Satanism may have originated from Egypt...surprisingly it may seem......
The exact origins...i do not know...or care to know....it serves no purpose to me....
It may prove as exciting ...interesting reading material in the future.......

In the old days....centuries ago.....Satanism was seen as witchcraft....witches were seen dancing around cauldrons...
chanting for their " Master"....the devil to manifest and grant them powers......
Babies....small animals were sacrificed....for this worship.........to further enhanced the magick...and strength of the ritual..
None of these were ever found to be true.......hahahaha..."witches" were burned on stakes...
till today...i have never heard of pagans or Satanists committing such acts...atrocieties..in our worship...
Let this be known that Paganism and Satanism are not the same religion....rather...one worships pagan goddesses...whereas the other
chooses not to pray to any idol....


There are many stories throughout the ages....of many personalities....said to be linked in a certain way or directly to Satanism......
For eg.
Eliphas Levi
John Dee
John Milton
Aleister Crowley
And of course...Anton Szandor Lavey

Many Satanic cults were in fact formed....though they were not truly Satanic in nature....thus causing the prejudiced to sink in deeper
with the populace.These "clubs" engaged in heavy drinking and mass orgies....and were thus not considered to be actual Satanic organisations


Then approaching the new age the twentieth century....the "birth" of the founder of modern Satanism....Dr Anton Lavey...
The Largest movement of modern Satanism began in the 1960's in the United States, led by Anton Szandor LaVey, a shrewd, intelligent man with a charismatic persona and an imposing appearance. LaVey founded the church of Satan in San Francisco in 1966, the activities of which became the object of great media attention. As a child he studied music and became interested in the occult.He learned to play the piano at age 10, and at 15 became an oboist for the San Francisco Ballet Symphony Orchestra. He dropped out of high school in his junior year and joined the Clyde Beatty Circus as a cage boy. He had a gift for working with the large cats and became assistant trainer. It was in the circus, working with lions, he later said, that he learned about inner power and magic. He studied criminology at City College in San Francisco, and spent 3 years as a crime photographer Disgusted with the violence that he had seen, he quit and returned to playing the organ at local night clubs and theatres. He began holding classes on occult subjects. From these classes evolved a magic circle, which met to perform rituals LaVey had devised or re-created from historical sources on the Knights Templar , The Hellfire Club, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley. LaVey apparently enjoyed the theatrics of the rituals; he dressed in a scarlet lined cape and kept skulls and other odd objects about. From 1960 to 1966 he developed his elitist satanic philosophy. He viewed the devil as a dark force hidden in nature, ruling earthly affairs. Mans true nature, he claimed , is one of lust, pride, hedonism and willfulness, attributes that enable the advancement of civilization. Flesh should not be denied but celebrated. Individuals who stand in the way of achieving what one wants should be cursed. On Walpurgisnacht (April 30) in 1966, LaVey shaved his head and announced the founding of the Church of Satan. LaVey preached antiestablishmentarianism, self indulgence and all forms of gratification and vengeance. Enemies were to be hated and smashed. Sex was exalted. He opposed the use of drugs, saying they were escapist and unnecessary to achieving natural highs. He did not include the Black Mass in his rituals because he believed the Black Mass to be out of date. The Church of Satan organized into grottoes. A reversed pentacle containing a goats head, called the baphomet, was chosen as the symbol. He wrote a few books...
"The Satanic Witch"
"The Satanic Bible"
"The Devil's Notebook"
"The Satanic Rituals"



Modern day Satanists,Pagans as a whole are always wrongly blamed for devil worship activities.
Satanic religious organizations, such as the Church of Satan and Temple of Set
DO NOT condone the violent blood sacfifices of the cults and are not associated with them in any way.