"Hail Satan?" (2019)

[EgoDeath]

Page 222 of the book if I recall right he talks about Sheldrake again just as he does in interviews. And Sheldrake is into pseudoscience so that proves my point. I think he even became a born again christian. As far as the Laveyans bragging about ritual magic results from the 2006 event it was in Not Like  Most magazine the issue that focused on that event. And even in more recent years the podcast 9sense did a yearly episode on Laveyan ritual magic including a two hour episode where Laveyans wrote in or called in about results they got from lust rituals curses and compassion rituals.

Want me to give you the sources for Laveyans who believe in spirits and demons and reincarnation and ghosts too because I will dig it all out if I have too?

And on that same page it mentions him ONE time and it says that ritual is simply a tool for therapeutic expression... It also says that ritual is not a fundamental part of being a Satanist. Once again, that some Satanists choose to believe in silly new-age woo means nothing about the organization as a whole. There are biologists that believe in god, that doesn't make biology a Christian field of study. It's also been stated that Lust rituals may simply give an individual enough confidence to approach the woman/man they were lusting after, not that it magically put the other person under a sex-crazed spell.

And if people believe in supernatural beings, they are not Satanists. It states clearly on the CoS website that it is an atheistic philosophy. So, yes. Please "dig up" these specific sources. Also, there is no CoS forum. At least not in 2019.

edit: I think you seem to be missing the "nudge nudge, wink wink" brand of sarcasm often employed in Satanic literature. There are no devils in Satanism, no ghosts, no magic. If someone calls themselves a Satanist and then says they believe in the devil, they are not a Satanist.

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Actually Satan isn't the Hebrew devil and they view Satan as more of an idealist symbol  then a actual being .

My guess is that Belaqua already knows this. But I suppose it's fathomable that he doesn't (just unlikely).

Belaqua's argument seems to contrast some older European Satanists with American Satanists, and according to him, the former is more substantive.

Anton LaVey was the first person to codify a philosophy known as "Satanism." there was no such thing as "Satanism" as a codified philosophy before LaVey.