"Hail Satan?" (2019)

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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.

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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.

Yes they keep mentioning Sheldrake because they believe you can send thoughts to other minds. That is even mentioned in the Satanic Bible by Lavey and that is pseudoscience.  There is no proof at all by real science that you can inject thoughts into the brain of someone to make them do what you want.  

Did you check out the sources I gave you for all the endless bragging about ritual results???  The magazine and the podcasts?

 As far as them believing in ghosts and a spirit world and reincarnation  wow where to begin. King Diamond by far the most famous COS member and the member most respected  by Lavey has talked since the early 80s about being haunted by spirits and demons and even claimed to summon one once. he believes this is due to powers we all have that lives many lives.  You can look up the hundreds of interviews he has done talking about this or if you like I can send them there are many.  Blanche Barton who gave birth to LaVeys last child and is a  very high ranking member in recent years much like King Diamond has seen the spirits levitate objects and heard their voices and believes like King in reincarnation.  She has mentioned this in recent interviews you should be able to find on youtube one with Art bell and the other two I forget the names but can find for you if you wish.   COS Rev Thomas Thorn who is also mentioned in Satanic Scriptures talks openly not only about spirit guides but also about how demons are very real and he summons them and communicates with them!  he mentioned this in a few places including the COS magazine the Black Flame.  Those are just some examples

And what about the Lavey Satanic rules of the earth acknowledge the power of magic or lose what you gained through it! if that is not occult and supernatural then what is?