The Devil's Notebook - Anton Szandor LaVey by VJ Gwalt

The

Devil's

Notebook

Anton Szandor LaVey

The Devi's Notebook

Anton Szandor LaVey

Feral House

The

Devil's

Feral

Notebook

ÂŠ 1992

by Anton Szandor LaVey

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Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Blanche Barton and

Adam

tence that brought these writings aboveground.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Anton Szandor LaVey

Parfrey for the assistance and insis-

Dedicated to the men. whoever they are

Whoopee

;

who invented

the

Cushion, the Joy Buzzer, and the Sneeze-0-Bubble

and

John

Taliaferro

Thompson.

By Anton Szandor LaVey 77; e

Satanic Bible

The Satanic Rituals The Satanic Witch The Deinl s Notebook

About Anton Szandor LaVey The Secret Life of a Satanist The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey (by Blanche Barton)

The Church of Satan (by Blanche Barton)

The Devil's Avenger (by Burton Wolfe)

Speak of the Devil (a

video documentary by Nick Bougas)

Contents

Introduction (by

Adam Parfrey)

Foreword (by Anton Szandor LaVey)

A Medicine On

for

Melancholy

the Importance of Being Evil

Duck-billed Platitudes

The Goodguy Badge

The Church

of Satan, Cosmic Joy Buzzer

By Any Other Name The Combination Lock

33 Principle

Ravings From Tartarus

The Importance

of Keeping a Secret

Occultism for the Millions

The Blow-Off,

or,

Kroger Babb,Where Are You

Now That We Need You? The Whoopie Cushion

Shall Rise

Again

The Threat of Peace Curses by the

Dozen

Hatha Toilet Seat Meditation Eustress, Vampires,

and Vicariousness

Million dArlequin, Vesti la Giubba, et

Nonconformity: Satanism's Greatest

59 al.

Weapon

How to be God (or the Devil)

Fernando DePlancy: An Intimate Glimpse of a Little-Known Satanist

Erotic Crystallization Inertia

Evocation

Chamber

Music

for the Ritual

Hymn

of the Satanic Empire

Evangelists vs. the

Some Evidence

79 82

New God

of a

New

Satanic Age, Part

84 II

Sweet Slavery

Confessions of a Closet Misogynist

Pentagonal Revisionism:

A Five-Point Program

Destructive Organisms

Make

Clothes

the Slave

Babbitt's Last Stand

100

Gifted Sensitives

103

Let

Entertain

You

104

Insane Ramblings

108

Law

111

of the Trapezoid

Two Wrongs Make

a Right

Summertime

117 118

How to Become a Werewolf: The Fundamentals of Lycanthropic Metamorphosis;

Their Principles and Application

Time

The

120

to Start Kicking Ass

126

Merits of Artificiality

130

The Construction of Artificial Human Companions

133

Misanthropia

139

Diabolica

143

Sntrofcuctum

Although

his

books have sold over a million copies, the publishing

industry has chosen to ignore

Anton LaVey. The book

Publishers Weekly, has never reviewed a publication

trade publication.

by or about Anton

LaVey. Aside from the occasional hysteria-inciting pieces that attempt to 'expose** or 'debunk" the

electronic

founder of the Church of Satan, the print and

media have chosen

to enforce a blackout

the true nature

of his writings. Most of the so-called "alternative"" press has taken the lead of the mainstream press not to confront the

LaVey. to wish

him

into non-existence.

In a word. fear. ridicule. id.

The

The mainstream

work or

life

of Anton

Why? fears Christian

opprobrium and

politically correct individual fears the rapacity of his

own

Occultniks are threatened by LaVey's refusal to indulge their pen-

chant for obscurantist mumbo-jumbo. In our increasingly regimented egalitarian society,

LaVey's flamboyance

be shunned, cut

down

someone

of Anton

to size. Unlike today's

Anton LaVey does not allow Joe Citiworkaday drabness. To the contrary.

blue-jeaned, homiletic politicians,

zen to

feel

comfortable in his

Whenever Joe

Citizen confronts the spectre of this contemporary

the Merciless, he

reminded of forbidden pleasures

cowardly to grab, of a izations,

life

Joe Citizen pins

righteous derision

on the

he was too circumspect a

Goodguy Badge on

that

Ming

he was too

to live. In his rational-

his lapel

object of his discomfort. "That

and

projects

Anton LaVey,

he's nothing but a joke, a big phony!"

Perhaps

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

it is

time LaVey

acknowledged

for his

many

contributions

language (he coined the term and concept "psychic vampire,"

among many others), to noir and psychotronic film (thanks to LaVey the public has become aware of such classics as Freaks and Nightmare Alley ...

he also provided several of the more celebrated photos in Kenneth

Anger's Hollywood Babylon), to music (the rediscovery of intensely evocative tunes from the 1930s and 1940s), to the construction of

artifi-

rial

human companions

development

(LaVey's creations have inspired research and

in the fields of robotics

and

teledildonics),

and

to erotic

though commonsense primer, The Satanic many women to become secure in their femininiman has so well illuminated the shadow purpose of West-

politics (LaVey's singular

Witch, has influenced ty).

ern

other

life in

the latter half of the twentieth century.

As LaVey has stressed over and over again. Satanism heavy metal music or the deity.

These are

of Satanism involves a far tik

sacrifice of children or

antics for the

weak and

difficult

not about

animals to a horned

confused. Anton LaVey's brand

and bracing task

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

realpoli-

application of principles that favors accomplishment over con-

sumerism and individual power over herd mentality. LaVey's Satanism eschews nition.

all

pandering to

fads.

It is

less a

movement than

have one suggestion. Read LaVey for what he

what others say he

is.

May the

scales

fall

a call to recog-

says,

and not

from your eyes.

Adam Parfrey October 1992

for

Jyorciuuri)

It's

amazing

known

how much

when

grounds,

fear

invoked in others by the presence of a

who

People

Satanist.

never advertise their religious back-

confronted by a "Devil worshipper" suddenly become

How often see crosses around the necks of those who've been informed of my arrival â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as like Lugosi's Dracula, will be rendered

devout.

if,

powerless.

And when

nervous sweat really term ever applied.

I'm not fazed by such precautions, the aroma of

fills

the room.

then that

It's

feel sadistic,

that

love to see those dusty crucifixes salvaged from the

bottoms of bureau drawers, unworn since catechism. The evangelical

bumper

stickers that

crosses.

The

might

just as

well say "kick me." The

pathetic victims of Christian

little

gold

propaganda wearing the sym-

bol of their role model's death around their necks like tiny electric chairs or gas chambers or hangman's nooses, actually believing

My possible

them. Protect them from what?

Wearing

a display of

dormant

and sure

as their advertised

What

like to

I've

is it

cordiality

them

allows

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

deodorant

to ask

be frightened of intangibles?

always had

faith

I've

share of very real threats to

will protect

and friendship? be safe

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

as safe

about Satanism.

never known, because

serenity.

took up

Satanism not out of desperation but logical dismay that there were so

many

short-sighted people around me.

found myself removed. And outcast.

the

"just,"

cowering ones,

was

the "good," the "righteous"

wanted no

brand of Satanism

and exercises designed

and motivation

conditions. Satanism

means

prideful

were exemplified by the

It is

a studied

the opposition"

easily

from

that

set

a conta-

have termed

most stimulating under

are effected u

and contrived

to liberate individuals

gion of mindlessness that destroys innovation.

discipline

the ultimate conscious alternative to herd

thought "Satanism" because

and thereupon

a Satanist.

part of them.

mentality and institutionalized thought. of principles

thought, acted,

and behold,

name.

Self-

under stimulating

and epitomizes

all

symbols

of nonconformity. Satanism calls forth the strong ability to turn a

liability

into an advantage, to turn alienation into exclusivity. In other words, the

reason

it's

called Satanism

because

it's

fun,

it's

accurate,

and

it's

pro-

ductive.

The following sense. Each

segment

written as the gradually.

mood

have meant

a Satanic literary exercise in the strictest

or fancy. Each

was

whether spontaneously or

itself,

given to whether or not what was written

offensive, pleasing, or

set to

whim

an indulgence of a

No concern was

Each was

or idea manifested

would be good, bad, print.

and pieces representing 25

collection of essays, bits

years of diabolical thought,

paper because

even whether

to refrain

would see

from doing so would

self-denial.

Essays that are bitter were ness, the setting,

form and

composed with

need

style landing as the cards

tional or theoretical essays

emerged,

first

to ritualized bitter-

were

as ideas

dealt. Instruc-

which had

Some have been gathering dust for included because timing demands that they be

recorded, then as written essays.

many

years and are

released.

they have been updated

slightly,

has necessitated that comparisons be drawn.

because popular

Devil's

contain divergent observations and paradoxical theories. Like it is

consistent in

its

folly

Notebook must life itself,

inconsistency.

Anton Szandor LaVey Durango. Mexico 31 August XXVII

Anno

Satanas

The

Hell

Devil's

must be

Notebook

a pretty swell spot,

because the

guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to

keep everybody

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Al Capone

else out.

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At no time

Western

civilization has

contrivances calculated to

Â§

man accepted so willingly

weaken and destroy him.

Many persons have found tious

these

years,, as

we approach

the supersti-

dread of the coming millennium, to be the most tumultuous period

of their

lives.

Upheaval, depression, disillusionment, paranoia, anguish,

anxiety, illness,

and every other

poem,

sort of malaise imaginable. Yeats'

"The Second Coming,"' expresses the social climate well. Surely an explanation, or at least speculation,

examine some

Let's

ety.

universal

enemy

Hence enemies,

threats,

diversity of sources

which

overseas war

progress

occupy the minds and emotions of

soci-

and other problems must emerge from

Media

re-

easily relatable.

either real (newscasts) or

series. This is

all-time zenith. Prime-time

and

are timely

crisis,

documentary features and

a personal level, patriotic or otherwise.

enforcement of fears and anxieties dispenses suspense and

in order.

ingredients.

which involves Americans on There

fictional or

considered "entertainment," not

demoralization. If

for

complaints are voiced that streets are unsafe to

swimming, and even grazing

Mutilation"), safety7 of

ization

laid unsafe for

where can one expose

his or her

stroll,

cows

surfs unsafe

("Satanic Cattle

puny human form?

In the

an automobile? Perhaps, but what of the subliminal demoral-

coupled with a sense of

false security that

mandatory safety

devices provide?

Despite rapid and radical advances in medicine, ple sick? Emphasis

posed

on prompt detection of

to prevent serious illness.

why

certain

With everyone

are

more peo-

symptoms

sup-

listening for internal

14 The Devil's Notebook

and pondering each

gurgles, feeling for lumps,

pain, hypersensitivity

cannot be avoided. Does a consuming concern for diet and exercise

make

for healthier living than sitting in the car

Which

takes a greater

toll

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

cal-pumped chicken, mercury-saturated

you

are a law-abiding citizen,

home and

your

gun and

you

are

fish

who

made

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or the foods themselves?

concerned about the safety of

to feel like a criminal

are henceforth categorized as a "crazed

day Night entious,

family,

Though you know you

Special."

you

gobbling Big Macs?

fear of the effects of preservatives, chemi-

own

you

gunman

with a Satur-

and consci-

are responsible

are demoralized into stigmatization, nonetheless.

bygone

days, before

you were demoralized by

halitosis or B.O. or unsightly

static cling,

snaps or non-Sanforized Gaposis.

was

How

would be if one needed only to fret over such trivial social Now, in addition to ring-around-the -collar, you are confronted by threats to your immune system, germ warfare, telephone bugging,

easy

ostracisms.

new

cancer viruses, conspiratorial politicians acting as decoys for the

Real Rulers, governmental breakdown, danger in the streets, on the free-

ways, the

beach, rising costs of food, gasoline, higher taxes, and

at the

unknown!

your front yard?

another world watching? Are UFO's about to land in

And to The Good

the threat of Satanism

is still

fine scare

copy.

How

immunize yourself against the great

Process) which 1)

Recognize

inexorably reaching for

trating according to

is:

a collective

phenomenon,

man been

human

thermostats and their behavior.

so controllable and easily

programmed

while foolishly considering himself more sophisticated than in his

self-perpe-

from the perceivers. Norbert Wiener would be

current examples of

Never before has

D.P. (Demoralization

plateau?

Malthusian law. The separation of the strong from

the weak, the reactors

delighted

what

its

any time

development.

Avoid popular amusements. Take a lesson from the

ostrich,

whose

head-in-the-sand attitude has been universally ridiculed.

an essential ingredient of demoralization, existentialism

a perfect vehi-

cle. "Live for

today

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; don't think about the past or the

misapplied to "Dwell on today." tions.

either benefit from,

go out of your way

must

timeliness

future'"

has been

respond

imminent

cope with, or succumb

them. But don't

all

encounter any potential problem or worry

situa-

you

need

down. TV

lyrics

you

consider

whatever you buy,

programmed, and stop

to the

popular?

Does

You

popular.

all this

inte-

Stop and

it is.

imply

that

one

you

out.

Satanist.

mally dealing with the present, and dwelling to play the intrigue or crisis

and outrages. Patronize

that

who

Seek out persons

now. Films and

figure that

Break out of the D.P. time/space warp by

you need

"concerned'' music

they are "stylish

see, listen to, or

it's

to be.

Even the clothes on your back

fare.

or not, so are you.

because

all activity just

should come easily to a 3)

into the herd unconsciously,

assumed

and hannonies unconsciously gauged

plays are simply variants of grate

Pop music

either.

you News-

do, either. They'll bring

medium

not the "entertainment"

papers and periodicals aren't with

who

Don't socialize with those

not.

Medicine For Melancholy 15

which

realistically

the past

and mini-

and

future.

game, look back on past scandals out of vogue or not yet in vogue.

are not harbingers of present mores. Discover

and share pastimes unrelated

to current phobias.

Surround yourself with

reminders of another social climate and contemplate them as you would a crystal ball.

The trend towards

against the D.P.'s.

Its

only flaw

nostalgia

that

an understandable rebellion

too has

become

fashionable and

only softens the impact of hardcore downers, which occupy prime-time in

our present

and

lives.

Reflect, instead,

upon

personally gratifying things

situations, rather than those labeled "nostalgia" or "collector's edi-

tion."

Yes. for in

realize

how

tough things have been for

of you this year,

any such softening up process very few are unaffected. Out of the

which slouched towards Bethlehem

chaos, the rough beast in the

many

Year

One

be born

learning to stand, to walk anew, and His footfalls are

random upheaval. The Tenth Key has manifested itself in the rolling thunder which has darkened the sky for Satanist and non-Satanist alike. It is for Satanists to know the whys and wherefores of their sor-

creating

rows.

And realizing

that, like all their

Frankenstein â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they

our

own

...

kin

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cain. Prometheus, Orpheus,

are. in part

or in whole, responsible for

problems and those of the multitudes. An overview

to survival,

and what has been sown

the garden east of

Eden

will

essential in

have thorns. Whatever the blossom, what-

ever the harvest, the future belongs to us.

Rege Satanas'

soon be reaped. The roses

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VOLUMES HAVE CHARTED THE HISTORY OF MAN'S CRUELTY AND TYRANNY.

many have considered

the essential role of villainy in

human

HOW

develop-

ment?

impartial survey

would no doubt

hero. While fusty religionists

still

qualify the villain as

cast Satanists in the old,

mold,, the readily obtainable literature of

inspired change in religious thought.

by modern theologians? Of course

who becomes

unsung

convenient

contemporary Satanism has

Can we expect such an admission

not.

It is

always a

villain,

however,

the catalyst for change.

Consider these

still

"the world's wickedest

fresh examples:

man," the

likes

Aleister

Crowley had not been

of Gerald Gardner and Margaret

Murray could not have stepped onstage for purposes of "enlightenment," and Dennis Wheatley might be a starving hack. They identities to

a furor,

and had not been

One and (and

its

Crowley's outrages.

the Hell's Angels

ritualized in

owe

their

had not caused such

motion pictures

The Wild

Scorpio Rising, a "clean, wholesome" interest in motorcycling

billions in profits)

would not have evolved. The glamour of evil, spawned the present bike movement. Pollu-

not fun in the sun, secretly tion reduction,

economical transportation

motorcycling are piety devices.

•Politically Correct." If Hitler

who light,

other rationales for

Joseph McCarthy had

would be no movement of

had not singled out the Jews

the

for discrimina-

nation of Israel might never have been realized.

For every Charlie bristle

all

the late Senator

not performed his auto-da-fe there

tion, the

—

Manson

there are a million solid citizens

who

can

with righteous indignation over his crimes. The same fine folks

stand idly by while a

little

old lady

being

mugged

broad day-

not wanting to "get involved," invariably alleviate their cowardice

by hollering

their

Remember, there

up with

it.

heads off for stronger legislation against crime. no misfortune so great that somebody else can't put

A lain ic.

villain is said to

be bad, but an apathetic drone

must be stigmatized so

that his

far

worse.

vil-

who implement a change in affairs What sets human reaction in

for "progress."

which

force

opponents can be considered hero-

These heroes are simply reactors

sometimes mistaken motion?

the Importance of Being Evil 17

either intrinsically or contrivedly considered

"evil.

In order for evil to serve

The lowest

would-be

level

an admirable purpose, Satanist

tence by committing "evil" acts

who

—

certainly considered evil

tion

a large scale.

He cannot

rightly

be considered

The more grandiose

The small-time

"evil"

deed

for the

unless his act of villainy his

by serving

reac-

consists of

no productive

reac-

more beneficent he

to society.

only the microcosm in which he operates,

considered so heinous that

normal sphere of influence.

endowed with the mantle not come forward to serve

day

Simply moronic.

evil.

the villain, the

villain affects

As has been

— nevertheless exerted

by many

The creep whose

all.

Huey Long and George Wal-

pulling the wings off a butterfly invariably causes tion.

justifying his exis-

most deluded of

the

amply proven, Deep South renegades lace

must have method.

thinks he

When

of devildom. However,

spreads beyond

— such

a real villain

—

embodiment of evil

as a convenient

the goodguy's cause

a villain attains universality,

does

there-

person must be developed

and sometimes invented. If evil

least

were by chance eradicated,

the race

would

die of inertia

...

under existing standards of mental and emotional development.

That the

villain is the

a rather quaint

most formidable enemy of boredom was proven

manner by

ing that the populace

a short-lived tabloid called

was weary

Good News printed just that two or three issues before its not Good news is only really good to those

der, rape, war, riot,

scandal and catastrophe. valiantly lasted

untimely demise.

Why did

directly involved. xMost

die?

people lead such

only bad news makes them feel

better. If

futile

for anything else,

assurance that he

which

Were

not for an

been born.

demn

lives that

he can

rest well

he might

the great savior

just

with the

most cases equates with

evil to rail against

Yes, Evil

most.

"good,"'

and useless

not better certainly gooder.

one cannot gain recognition is

Feel-

of the standard journalistic fare of mur-

— good news.

Good Sews.

"right".

as well never have

and sustainer of those who con-

$ucH-WHe&

spfotitufceS

Woe rich get richer and the poor gpt poorer.

The

rich

can only get

get richer, but the poor, having

richer. If diligence will

not do

it,

little

or nothing to lose,

then charity

will.

All the world loves

lover.

Bosses hate lovers because they can't keep their minds on their work. The loveless hate lovers because they are envious. Even lovers

have

little

patience with other lovers.

They consider

another's choice of

love object inferior to their own. IN

We best things in They may be

free for you, but

life

are free.

somebody else

paying for them.

Honesty Should read, "Credibility

the best policy.

the best policy." IN

Beauty

A balm

for the ugly,

The

their condition.

who

plain

only skin deep.

cannot help but harbor

and ugly often mask

tuous or affable facade which

hostility

sometimes mistaken

for

because of

behind an unc-

inner beauty."

If at first you

sure

way

don t succeed,

and try again.

of making a pest of yourself. Better: if at

succeed, wait and see what happens.

approach.

try

If still

unsuccessful, try

nothing happens,

someone or somewhere IN

first

you don't

try a different else."

Duck-billed Platitudes 19

There If

substitute for

you are what others expect of you,

how little you

do.

hard work. it

matters not

how much

WooDcynj $abge

Sl|c

Man

a selfish creature. Everything in life

a selfish act.

Man

not concerned with helping others, yet he wants others to believe he

Inasmuch

as selfishness

Devil's work, the

and

piety

akin to pride, and vanity considered the

rule of the prideful

with a

charity,

Man cannot until

first

is is.

Goodguy Badge

make an

exhibition of

to pin to his lapel.

progress one step further towards his

own godhood

he removes that Goodguy Badge.

Mankind's true saviors are not those those

who

have enabled

man

who

led exemplary lives, but

pose as Good. Through the cause he

provided against himself, Hitler enables countless millions to become righteous.

Any semblance

to dull the luster of the

of goodness detected in moral enemies seems

Goodguy Badge. Goodguy

Saints are often only

winners

in abstinence contests. Perceptive scholars

dents of

human

stu-

nature aver that most of history's saints have surrepti-

tiously indulged in

the naive

and objective

life's

rewards while offering another public picture to

and conditioned multitude. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch had

not yet written Venus in Furs, yet religious and secular Severins were a zloty a dozen.

The

from being the best friend the Church has ever had,

Devil, aside

also bestows

upon

allegory the Devil

the individual his mantle of Goodness. In whatever

becomes

conjured, he

the reaction device for those

who need him the most. Intrinsically evil people are often hypocrites who make a show of their Goodguy Badge; without an enemy to plague them they could never in any believable sense become Good. This

not to say that one should not be angered at an injustice or

speak out against whatever violates one's the law of self-preservation. But the selection of an

we must

security.

enemy.

the

first

law,

consider the motives behind

enemy. Perhaps nothing more

the threat of not having an

That

threatened beyond

The Goodguy Badge

having a pain, you

If,

your body

why

torment to another area of

inflict sufficient

easy to pretend that the original pain was never there.

it is

The Goodguy needs This

bad guy

enemy

his

to ease the pain of his

never perish, for

will

own

he did

inadequacy.

would bring

about great internal pain. Without a cause to take his mind off his

wretchedness he would be

care

little

validity as

they

are,

whether they

human

but by

beings

who

live

little

or die, an

no accomplishment, those

enemy

essential. Their

measured not by what they can do or

who

they are against! Paradoxically, these are the hyp-

who shun any

ocrites

own

lost.

For the bored and simple, those of

who

manifestations of "negative" propensities. Their

vocabularies are turgid with terms like "true," "charitable," "integrity," "spiritual," "equality,"

"Humanity," "moral," "ethical," "rehabilitate,"

"understand," "empathy," like the fellow

The majority

who

etc.

ad infinitum. Some of these Goodguys,

wants to put pants on dogs, are rather transparent.

are not.

purpose here

make

hitherto undetectable

Goodguys

as visi-

made the lady with the closet full of frankfurters. When Goodguys are not only spotted but ridiculed for the of their badges, man will have come a big step closer to the

ble as Freud

self-appointed ostentation

accurate evaluation of personality.

The paramount need been

Ami

Need

Sharfstein (The

ties Press, Inc., 1954).

ples;

good.

to believe in

however,

to Believe,

One need

one's faith in a

If,

something

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; anything â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has

by psychologists Mortimer Ostow and Ben-

definitively explained

New

York: International Universi-

not believe in a set of religious princi-

lump of mud

sustenance enough, well and

a set of religious tenets

between "good" and

"evil,"

addressed. Those

who wish

weighty with contrasts

the adherent's pietistic requirements

"respectable" people must be

to gain

acceptance from so-called

Good. Their

telegraphed in subtle ways, however.

must be

self- righteousness

It isn't

enough

must be

to greet everyone

with a cheery, "Hello, I-am-a-good-person-so-you-must-accept-me," but

by wearing one of the many Every peer group has thy gain

available

its

Goodguy Badges.

own Goodguy

Badge. The genuinely wor-

through individual strength of personality and accomplish-

ment. The rest attempt to gain chologists call this "identity."

by attaching

Man

a label to themselves. Psy-

either establishes his identity through

22 The

Notebook

Devil's

through a collective

self or

phenomenon

often referred to as a "cause."

Celebrities will often use a "worthy cause" to bolster a

which may have been

originally built

shaky identity

individual ability. Public figures

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or

Goodguy Badge out of pragmatism. It is clear that the Great Man is doing absolutely nothing of a

simply wear a should be

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

gen-

uinely charitable nature.

Although ful

a truism that every act

and some are even beneficial

to others.

a selfish act, not

are

all

Goodguy Badges

dencies which are often harmful and usually devoid of tangible tion for their existence. Rational self-interest

seen for what

is:

self-interest.

That

harm-

exhibit tenjustifica-

a virtue, but should

predominant theme of

the

Satanism. Irrational self-interest and undeserved self-righteousness are,

the other hand, hallmarks of the

Goodguy Badge.

Religion, having created billions of "undeserving" or "unworthy" fol-

lowers,

number one wholesaler of Goodguy Badges.

the

Christian

become outmoded and unbelievable, even to the most feeOne wonders, "How is it possible for people to be so stupid

doctrine has

bleminded.

as to believe the lies they are taught

that

among

vided, the most obvious

and personal repressions,

Christianity provides

dogma

Beyond

has pro-

its

horrors

an ingredient essential to

Goodguy Badge.

away with more problems than when he arrived, the makes him feel glad that he arrived in time. New Age "psyclient

chics,"

aware

fortunetellers. In believing their

the other hand, simply betray the diminishing quantity of self-

own

bullshit they

ous Goodguy Badges, as do the other assorted

ed and

Could

priests?"

carnival fortunetellers call a similar ploy "casing the mark"

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sending a fortuneteller

and

the easiest to overlook?

the masses' emotional equilibrium: the

The old

ministers

the psychological crutches that Christian

healers

who

have "received

applying religious trappings

just as

don conspicu-

seers, prophets,

their gift

channel-

from God." They are

surely as did their hair-shirted

Anchorite ancestors, and strive for similar sainthood.

The Goodguys are everywhere. Turn on the TV. Within ten minutes a

commercial

charities:

will dramatize the pleas of

one of

a thousand "non-profit"

such charities are spark plugs of the nation's economy.

easy to see why. The donor charity

spends ninety

ment draws

Goodguy saves tax percent of the money on

inflated salaries

and receives kickback

It's

The

recipient

"overhead.'*

Manage-

dollars.

tribute

from vendors,

The Goodguy Badge 23

who

in turn are

their

Goodguy

given dispensation to swell up with pride because of

government instead of to taxpaying

bargain. If

the

affiliation. If

a charity, his status

his

money

directly to the

would change from Goodguy

boob, and such a demotion would cost him more

He would have

be crazy not

Goodguy donates

the charities

donor donates

time instead,

choose the Goodguy that's all right too.

justifying the cost of building facilities

in the

route.

They

assist

and the spending

of operational expenses. English nobility are

by conducting guided and

times forced to maintain their ancestral castles

tours,

complete

some

cases with ghost noises

Nothing so fey in America. The palaces of the once

rattling chains.

immensely wealthy

are being converted into "foundations." In

instances the original families stay put, simply yielding a

many

few rooms

volunteers. In other cases the foundation receives the property lock,

stock and barrel, taking the distressed

former owner becomes a Goodguy, a

new

high-rise or

rid of his

two

surly servants.

um's wing

off the back-tax hook.

with his

condominium. Chances are good

The

Goodguy funds

he was glad

that

white elephant where he rattled about for years with one or

has reached the point where he wants the very

thing that his wealth alone

While he's

owner

retiring

still

may have

neglected to bring: recognition.

breathing, he can donate his great paintings to a muse-

namesake and bask

that bears his

Charities solicit those

known

Goodguy glory.

have an overabundance not because

know if the "philanhuman monster. Chari-

they can afford to give more, but because they thropist" ties

does not

give,

choose slogans

those

who

miserliness.

refuse

The

like,

them

trick of

will

be depicted

as a

'You can't afford not to give," implying that will receive

playing

can scarcely afford to plays on the

some

sort of retribution for their

acts of generosity

guilt of those

Mail-order evangelists have been

known

from those

who

who can. to bulkmail solicitation

brochures depicting a bunch of bloated-bellied "orphans" standing in

from of

their foundation's "buildings" in

Guatemala or Biafra or

New

Delhi. Investigation might reveal that the foundation's masonite sign

covered "New Era Export Co.,

Ltd."

and those

kids' faces

beamed

not for

the Lord's blessing but for the quarter's worth of legal tender promised

them

for posing.

24 The

Notebook

Devil's

Goodguy causes provide and not

unlimited opportunity for hanky-panky,

of the fiduciary variety.

just

a volunteer of sterling

moral

propensities meets another equally proper (and equally married) co-

worker under physically stimulating conditions, place in the supply

course: both parties share a

merger might take

A rationale will be available, of common goal. Charities are as much an

room one

night.

opportunity for social contact as the most blatant singles club or dance course, but allow the joiner to be a

Goodguy

instead of a wallflower or

creep.

Who

could not find

admirable to want to save humanity?

And

ani-

mals and trees in addition? Or, Satan defend us, the desire to save the

madman who thinks in terms of ruling the world and the equally daft individual who wants to save are usually one and the same: those who wish to rule the world usually go about attaining world? Actually, the

their goal in the guise of saving

it.

Power-mad Goodguys sublimate these through warfare or help save

world

desires

trying to help rule

through egalitarian

politics.

These

Goodguy badge without taking on the responsia figurehead. A Goodguy who helps to save the

in the guise of

an ecologist simply becomes a microcosmic god

helpers can wear their bilities

liabilities

serving a macrocosmic client. It

seems

people

that the

who

holler the

most about ecology

are the least capable of actually contributing to the planet's develop-

ment. Quite obviously, the

will

The armchair to

birth control.

Make

start is to

eliminate the source of

people. Get rid of people and

of the problems they so desire to eliminate.

rid

be horrified

place to

The problem of course

the problem.

you

first

liberals

who speak

implement the

They

shout,

reverently of ecological duty

totalitarian

"Power

would

requirements of compulsory

to the people!"

Power

do what?

a bigger mess?

Where

are

all

the

little

pedaling by the luxury car

sweat decorating

his

men

with big ideas? There goes one now,

showroom on

forehead

his

mountain bike, beads of

like translucent jewels.

Here comes

another putting by in his sub-compact. Neither has any more self-aware-

now than they did decades ago when they tooled along in their 300 horsepower monsters. The man on the bike is wealthy. The one in the ness

small car

not. Mr. Cyclist rides

one of

his

Goodguy Badges and

gets

The Goodguy Badge 25

man

healthier in the bargain. Little

Goodguy badges and can

actually afford to maintain

Turn back the clock and

would buy

in little car rides in

one of

his

it.

another kind of logic. Nobody was unsafe, embarrassing and

listen to

small car because

unheard-of. Only youths and eccentrics rode bicycles. Youths because

they weren't old enough to drive, and eccentrics because

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but anyone who was Are

adjust to

once

fell

assume

that

environment?

its

had

a health faddist

man

was healthy

a nut.

the only living organism that cannot

bugs actually

thrive

the pesticides that

them, will man's body not accept pollutants, chemical preserv-

atives, etc., as

another development of his "natural" evolution?

Why

health food stores? Could

are

from

the most sickly-looking people the ones usually seen emerging

that their stringent dietary habits fail to

immunize them from "poisonous" foods they

are

on occasion

likely to

ingest? If

ecology Goodguys want to practice what they preach,

establish colonies in

undeveloped areas and maintain them with

contact as possible with the outside world.

and they

are to

be admired. They

veloped environment. But they environment, however. life

of the

It is

Goodguy, the

That missing ingredient I

will tell

you

stand

There was a hermit

Once each

this for

year,

little

ance.

new

in the

all

badge meaningless.

the

while.

who first

lived in a

deep wood

day of May, he would

Then he would go back

one

in the

year.

among

maypole dance

fifth

in the clearing at the

year of regular appearances, he

the townspeople. In

Soon the hermit became

it became a feamake his appear-

fact,

ture of the festivities to gather in wait for the hermit to

in their

20 years, and the only reason he was ever seen

the children held a

institution

for exactly

edge of the wood. After the

became an

so,

an audience.

be seen again

He had done was because

his

little

from an unde-

one thing lacking

which makes

have done

the most important ingredient of

the wood's edge for a

woods, not

are creating a society

will find

lack of

a story.

near a small town.

A few actually

them

let

the town's best-known celebrity, solely

the strength of his yearly appearance.

On party

the 21st year he did not appear. Near panic ensued.

was formed and

the

woods

scoured. The hermit

be found. The townspeople sadly returned

to their

was nowhere

homes and

stores.

26 The

Devil's

Notebook

The next day, the hermit came walking down Everyone ran up

him and

told

him of

main

the

their

town.

street of

how

concern and

glad

they were to see him. They insisted that he stay in town and not return to the

woods ever

again.

They not only took care of him, but elected

him mayor.

He was

not really a hermit, though, nor had he ever been one.

human

hermit lives alone, without

contact. That

patience and a responsive audience.

became

He was

man

simply had

infinite

good showman who

a politician.

some

"hermits,"

all

wearers of

Goodguy badges need an

ence. Just as an evangelist needs an environment of sinners in

Goodguy

operate, the ecology the obvious

closest thing to

air

and

healthful living, blind

unabashed slickerism many

A "man of God"

even easier than

Goodguy Badge

which

nudist camps.

in the evangelist's tent.

victims

audi-

requires a polluted urban area. Despite

abundance of sunshine, fresh

men seldom join The

a hustler

rustics

can witness

can fleece unconsciously willing

peddling non-Godly wares. The

that the evangelist supplies in

exchange

for his thievery

minimum of guilts will become their own victims, and their few inner demons will become the engine for various excesses and vices. Those whose guilts are greater are more ensures his success. Those with a

guarded

in their actions.

They

are always looking for

someone who

will

take advantage of them. I

have heard

many men and women

conning me, but

find

confess.

so entertaining

know he

(or she)

really don't mind."

When

these people are berated for their lack of discrimination or poor judg-

ment, they invariably

The

sin-killing

lowers

demand

and plush

become

preacher that

all

the

attracted to their exploiters.

the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing: his fol-

he be

so.

Despite the luxury

living quarters affected

by these

cars, clapper clothes

types, the cliched criticisms

prompted by these accoutrements rarely discourage the faithful. The more grandiose the crusade, the more satisfied are their customers. The guilty are relieved of their guilts

and

inhibitions

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially

in the

violent forms of religious ecstasy.

What,

will

be asked,

so terrible about such an arrangement?

Nothing. Nothing but self-deceit.

good, the vicious

man

God and Jesus maketh the evil man man grateful, the victim happy.

kind, the smitten

The Goodguy Badge 27

What would happen if those divine names were no longer potent to placate the weak and inadequate? What of the future, when deceit and treachery will be as easily read as one's name and address? When victims, however willing, will be seen as they are victims. enough

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

When will

wish

self-deceit

show

can no longer go unrecognized by others, no one

himself as a fool. Vehicles for self-deceit will either be

employed within one's

private

chamber or

publicly presented as amuse-

ments â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nothing more.

Ominous prophesies

New

unfounded.

of an

potential thought policeman.

motivations as

Goodguy

will

visible in

tion or protective

good guy

will

be seen

How refreshing

will

become

easy to assess another's

The badge of the

every mannerism, and no amount of affecta-

plumage

will disguise character flaws.

for his inherent

And

goodness no matter

the truly

how

"evil"

may be.

his superficial trappings

"thought police" will prove to be

to tell the color of his eyes.

elite

findings in character analysis will render everyone a

would be

to hear a political candidate say:

don't believe in God, but in the protection of citizens' health and

safety.

plan on placing

what funds

friends in executive positions.

can get away with, but see that the

rest is

will

pocket

spent on neces-

You will have no voice in my decisions any more than you ever had. You will have to accept my judgment, which you will, so long as you are reasonably comfortable, have freedom of movement and opportunity for advancement. If I succeed in fooling the sary social improvements.

have themselves

public, the public will

sion,

crooked will try to

any

keep

politician

all

to blame. For

can be. Despite

of you as

happy

as possible."

warn you

that

unsavory profes-

Stye

L\ 1966 the

<£f)tt*cf)

Church of Satan was born, a witch named

membrane began

America, and a placental

which was

who

those

be called

"the occult

thickening over the land

the

back of

magazine cover

man's destiny, attended flying saucer conventions, held

at spiritualists'

and read

"closed circles,"

to sleep in their

about strange doings

flats.

their daily

who shuddered

Dennis Wheatley was a blighty hack

Englishwomen

Sybil leaked

movement." Sure, there had been

sent to a Rosicrucian scribe

for the secrets of

hands

§atan t

horoscopes.

pudding-faced

renegade named Seabrook wrote

among werewolves and

lady vampires (and, inci-

whose Asylum was the original Cuckoo's Nest), and two guys named Symonds and Mannix chronicled, respectively, the exploits of

dentally,

man in the world" and the Hell Fire Club, one could and Seventh Books of Moses and the Alhertus Magnus in they were called paperbacks. An old man named Roy

"the wickedest

obtain the Sixth

paper before Heist there

made good copy selling "mummy's dust" to was an occult movement before the Year One

a slumbering

wino

shifting position in a

detailed chronology

witchdoctors. Sure,

—

movement

doorway.

required to

illustrate the

events of the past

ten years. Concurrent with the increasingly liberal social climate of the 60s,

many former

in polite society,

ished,

taboos became relaxed. The Dark Side displayed

where beatnik poets and bongo drummers had

where witches and

tarot readers

itself

flour-

held court. To most theologians

only a single entity was responsible for everything from prophesy to meditation.

matter

how innocuous

titioners disclaimer, the Devil

was

concerning the occult than any other classic

an esoteric

act or voluble

to blame. "Satan" teaser.

its

prac-

headed more copy

TV-movie adaptations of

Gothic ghost stories were pushed as "Satanic. " Despite indignant

attempts to differentiate witchcraft from Satanism, the public insisted

The Church

lumping them together

of Satan,

Cosmic Joy Buzzer 29

and eager suspension of

in a willing

disbelief.

Despite curanderas murmurings of "God given powers," fundamental'

ists still

denounce them

movement and minions

as part of the occult

Satan.

The is

lack of imagination

and staying power of the occult movement

who fill

showing through the veneer of the incompetents

the varnish peels away, the occultist's image has

become

a psychical Ellis Island of refugees

occult scene. Displaced persons

who

As as

its

The Church of Satan could

ridiculous as the bible-thumping evangelist's. easily

ranks.

become almost

have

and emigrees from the covens, 90-day

lost their

magi weary of pondering the Enochian Keys and Crowleyanity, chasuble queens

wiccans

who

make

in the Catholic

bosom

find that the Goddess's

who'd be better Desert, pyramid

who

Atlanteans

couldn't

has run dry, Egyptoids

and Hardy's Sons of the

off as Shriners or in Laurel sitters

Church, woebegone

who've gained nothing but claustrophobia,

get seasick, UFO-ites

who've redefined

gravitational

law

but can't chin themselves, witless wizards, sex-starved witches, destitute diviners, pshort-psyted psychics

nomenon

that,

because of

its

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

all

the growing residue of a phe-

very popularity,

HAD

to lose the

magic

purported. Satan translates to ten.

mean

"opposite," lest the Satanic Bible

The essence of Satanism

dulum swinging

some new

what

tips the

in the other direction.

are so often harsher than the

ence-horror

fiction.

That

why

who had been enmeshed

kid myself into thinking

it's

forgot-

pen-

the facts of Satanism

registered in the

scene. Interest in the Church of Satan has never

ever before

starts the

most Gothic melodrama or speculative

This actual harshness

applicants

balance and

in the

been

sci-

dismay of

waning occult

greater, but

don't

because people are more enlightened than

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only more disillusioned and/or bored.

realize that with the decline in the occult

movement

Nonetheless,

as a credible identi-

human

ty factor,

we have been

potential

from the aforementioned categories, as well as "non-joiners"

who had been

blessed with an influx of salvageable

waiting until the dust settled. Thus, the elitism

envi-

sioned in the beginning has materialized fourfold. In ten years of existence, the Church of Satan has fueled a philo-

sophical counterculture which could have,

baby out with the bath

water.

unchecked, thrown the

invoked imaginative permissiveness,

30 The

Notebook

Devil's

and forced

rational self-interest,

dying theology into ludicrous

last

ditch behavior (witchmobiles, papal pronouncements, etc.) or running-

scared reinterpretation (suddenly "keeping up with social changes'). also

pumped

hordes of creeps up

developed leaks or

their

till

busted.

just plain

newly-discovered godheads

The ad

sections of Fate magazine

contain as prolific a source of gifted psychics, institutes of cosmic con-

and pushers of awareness

sciousness,

can be found

in the contact

columns of swingers' tabloids or underground newspapers. Add the parasitic fringe:

the "ex'"s

who

seek recognition as ex-witches,

ex-Satanists,

exorcized, or any other wish-they-could-have-but-couldn't-cut-it types.

movement has provided

Yes, the occult

countless persons with delu-

sions of adequacy.

Why

has Satanism succeeded? Because from our earliest

through the Satanic Bible, infallible

own

we have made no

literature,

grandiose promises of

enlightenment and emphasized that each must be his or her

redeemer. That the extent of one's superiority

by one's human

potential. That "Satan"

(if

accepted by each according to his or her needs. That the beginning, that

the

way

it is

now.

any)

governed

a representational concept,

the

way it was

have rejected

that

which

becomes faddish while championing the unfashionable. When the "monkey see, monkey do" syndrome appears, even on the Left Hand

Path, then

don't.

cerned the worst categorization,

bear

development.

have

in the best

confounding

— Satan —

In looking

utilized the best

and gained through each. labelers,

controversy in

knowing

that the

dis-

have defied

one

label

itself.

back over a decade, It

from the worst and

easy to isolate each phase of our

has been not only rewarding as a lesson in behavioral

psychology, but has inadvertently served as what sociologists refer to as

an "unfunded research

The let

First

project."

Phase, Emergence, crystallized the Zeitgeist into reality

loose the knowledge of a Satanic

founded

body

politic into a

ready but dumb-

social climate.

The Second Phase, Development, saw an organizational and tional

—

expansion as a

a variety of

human

institu-

result of carefully stimulated exploitation attracting

types from which to

distill

a Satanic "ideal."

The Third Phase, Qualification, provided establish the tenets of

sufficient elucidation to

contemporary Satanism, contrary

to prior or cur-

The Church

The Satanic

rent misinterpretation.

Bible,

of Satan,

Cosmic Joy Buzzer 31

Satanic Rituals, and Satanic

Witch might have been conveniently overlooked, but were readily

who

obtainable to any

methodology.

chose

to gain

knowledge of our doctrine and

— often

aura of respectability prevailed

overcompensation

—

to a point of

counterbalance inaccurate presumptions by the

outside world.

The Fourth Phase, Principle as a

means of

encouraged dispersion and the Peter

Control,

from Phase Two.

isolating the "ideal" evaluated

De-institutionalism separated the builders from the dwellers, thus

sion

—

filter-

— or persua-

ing and stratifying what began as an initiatory organization into a definite social structure.

The

Fifth Phase, Application, establishes tangible fruition, the

begin-

ning of a harvest, so to speak. Techniques, having been developed, can

be employed. The Myths of the Twentieth Century are recognizable and exploitable as essential stimuli.

Human

foibles

may be viewed

with an

understanding towards radical embellishment.

The Ides of March had spent its

climactic. At

razor in the waters of

would

times wonder,

Did

was being properly

Symbolism,

madness and

the equinox

Zamzam and embarked upon things have

a ritualistic catalyst help to

destiny

its

dusk on the eve of the new Satanic Age,

ritual,

been any convince

this

dictate.

will

When

becomes

Yet there will always be a Dark Side. to the abyss of difference,

who

have

some-

fashionable, It is

always exist and

accordance with

dominant is

the natural Satanist

whether

cultures.

no longer

occult.

who will be

abstract or concrete.

tarried these past short years in fixed abstractions

warmth provided by

ened, they

ceremony?

you must perceive

reject in

your needs. Countercultures invariably wind up

Those

role.

Pyrrhonic devil that his

Satanists

such things and having perceived, select or

feel the

new

know

exercised?

develop or wane as conditions

drawn

produced

immersed

different without

ceremony, totem and taboo

the occult (hidden)

their

can

temporal identities cooling. Fright-

not what icons to take up, and are befuddled with

devaluated doctrines and constrained by programmed hypotheses.

Many

will

become

name. Others

will

"Satanists,"

who would once have shunned

the

continue to eschew the name, yet survive on the by-

products of Satanism, as they have unwittingly (or unadmittedly) done

32 The

Devil's

in the past.

Notebook

who are the lost, the we have prepared a place.

For those

the ambivalent,

The past decade has been remained

loyal to

gratifying.

thank

become

when

show

a part of us in

grateful for evil

the

we be

got

the road,

will!

"Evil"

is still

Living well

of those

Satanists first

in this best of

all

in the

backwards, and

the best revenge against

all

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

and

revel

worlds, World without end. Remember, the

99 years are always the toughest.

Rege Satanas!

with

just plain orneriness,

adversity. Love, laugh, fancy, create, innovate, reap

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

have

you who have since

"Live" spelled

is still

who

the feedback any

who were and

mind, body, or out of

your support. live

all

through the years and given

symbolic leader requires. To those of you beginning

disenfranchised, the bored,

Mm*

«t) Sftty Ctfjcr

Many

who

are those

study the art of the children of darkness,

themselves by the names of witch and warlock

call

read the

tals,

tarot,

In the in

name

all

than the

at the Devil's

who

inquisitor.

phy

game and

take the Devil's

suffered and died as the agents of the Devil

— must be

game

their

their folly

Jew, or Buddhist. More cowardly

who

whining informer

flagrant

— those who would deny the

called to task. Greater

strictest Protestant, Catholic,

are they than the

who

at crys-

crumbs of power

ages past, the present band of heretics

Devil, yet play His

gaze

by divers means, and seek success through

divine

paths of magic. All these play tools in their quest for

who

plucked

hypocrisy than he

at the

who

sleeve of the

reads pornogra-

order to warn others."

"in

These are the pursuers of dubious power the searchers

for riches,

the buyers of "hidden secrets/' the purchasers of "short cuts," the snivel-

ing

army of

ties

life

who

the have-nots

themselves deserving of the boun-

feel

but have found no miracles

in the

churches in which they

prayed.

now we

see

them

as they

swarm about

us,

purchasing the jour-

nals of deceit, the source-books of diabolical supplies, the catalogues of

the magical

art.

They

more. They study the the spells

read, rites

and

and contemplate, and read some

read,

of Lucifer and the mysteries of creation and

and charms, and they

themselves by innocuous names.

call

And they play at the games which caused our forebears

be tortured

agents of Satan.

And what do Infernal

they do,

now

and

which

safe

and

clear to use His Great

the opportunity to take

world

— they do not

and

sisters

triumphal mockery of

its

killed their brothers

cast that creed before the

age of unreason. But no aloft

Name? They deny Him! They have

the very creed of defamation the past

that

thrust the bifid

and shout: "He has triumphed! Rege Satanas!" His

barb of Satan art

and works

34 The

Notebook

Devil's

which brought men safety.

But no

and thumbscrew, can

to the rack

who

denied. Denied by those

now be cry

learned in

up His

and

art

ply His work.

dens they say the

In the safety of their flimsy their parlors they

aines and places

push the

call forth

dead and even wear

In the

calls.

and read

their planchettes

the horns.

warmth of

and

cast the

Seldom

in these

the cards

new

Satan found. For these are the frightened mystics of the

and the trembling cowards scurry round the openings

Christianity,

the Grottoes of Hell.

And

vermin, they furtively nibble

newly-emerged Devil-wisdom.

do they

Little

upon

the

realize the folly of their

cowardice.

Ages come and ages go, and cycles reverse themselves with the

wondrous periodicity that only upon the upper world.

nature can sustain, and

play the game of self-denial in its traditionally simplistic showed themselves consistent in their Christ-mongering can

find absolution

from

who

But those

their sins within

RIGHTEOUSNESS besmirch

Knew

our

play the Devil's the

fold.

Game

yet cloak themselves in

names of those who bore

brand and tongs and gazed upon

their

work

that

the

mark of

dead and dying with curses

they not, the tortured, that one day

Devil's handiwork; the

Knew

walk

who

Those

forms, and

spoken.

now we

was grounds

men would

for rack

and

softly

ply the

cradle.

they not. the Knights of the Temple, that one day

men would

fashion spells in the clear moonlight, free from the snare of the heretic-

hook; yet deny and denounce the benediction of Satan!

The tongs have gathered lack of oiling. iron

maiden

rust,

and the racks

the arts

their spikes

from

and the

cold and yearning for a lover to embrace.

The ghosts of the Devil-bought destruction

snarl as they turn

The morningstars have dust between

and march

forth.

And

will take

their

the instruments of their

prey will be those scavengers of

which once meant Devil-wisdom, and

to this

day remain

such. Let

known

that every

man who

delves into the

must give the Devil and His children the due deserve. Satan's

Name who tion await!

Name

will

not be denied! Let no

plays His winning

game

arts

of darkness

their years of

man shun

infamy

mock

His

or despair, depletion, and destruc-

$fje ÂŠomfchwtiott Socfe ^tittctyle

Magic

a combination lock.

lock will open.

Seldom

appearance might be sary to

open each it

are

each tumbler falls into place, the

any two locks the same. Their physical

identical,

but the combination of numbers neces-

different.

who

with both individual magical workings and those

may appear

attempt them. Goals lar in training

and outward

No one can

and magicians

identical in nature,

any

characteristics, but there

teach another a combination that

not work. Each person possesses his

own

his

similarity stops.

own,

inclinations, his

and so he must ascertain what works best

for him.

about any combination which

intrinsically esoteric

simi-

for

own

There

would

Gestalt,

nothing

will lead to

ulti-

mately successful working unless one considers the keeping of the secret combination esoteric, for

is literally that.

known, Greater (ceremonial) magic acts

which

and of themselves would

be carried out without necessary to

make

awareness of

his

ritualistic

the truth

simply a means of formalizing elicit

trappings.

attention

Hence

were they

chamber

a ritual

the practitioner feel like a magician, intensifying

own

potential

(if

potential, reinforcement supplied

can be superfluous. tacks: the

It's

Once one understands

any

exists).

the trappings of a ritual

chamber

down

to brass

only then

when one can

get

his

Combination.

Spatial concepts contribute three

The fourth dimension

dimensions

exists in time. If the other three

placed in correct combination, then the fourth "supernatural"

phenomena occur

each instance the must be present

to the

dimensions are

may be

obtained. All

within the fourth dimension, hence in

spatial or physical

in suitable

Combination.

boundaries of three dimensions

combination to effect said phenomena.

Every occurrence happens somewhere. combination with the magician serving as a

It is

that

catalyst,

"somewhere,"

which makes

the

untoward occur. "Somewheres" need not be specialized enclosures

36 The

Notebook

Devil's

the obvious sense, but can be fields,

woods and

cliffs, streets,

rivers, as

well as structures.

rainbow

Just as a

where"

apparent

rainbow its

field, is

would no longer

from

composed of harmonics of

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

afar

yet

pot of gold waiting at

still

base,

its

exists.

The

'some-

it is

to enter into

The only way

visibly exist.

light,

our vantage point; though were

relative to

fable of the rainbow, with

mans

the story of

delusion and dis-

appointment. The magician must realize that his search does not end

the rainbow. There are

needed

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he must bypass

rainbow

the base of the

for a controlled

curricula for

a certain

book

at a certain

"somewhere" over

for the

such a search. The combination

working might place the magician not only

diverse places, but in diverse positions

its

to see a

and

acts.

He might need

to read

time in a certain place. Each acts to drop a

tumbler in the combination lock.

How doesn't.

They discover him

ye shall find"

One can

The

"truth"

confronted by them.

will fall

recognize them

acts of

magic

just

seem

you

become

though

That

can one recognize such combina-

Or when ones ego must be

mage? is good practice for letting important mind might be attained, but accomplish-

to recognize

by. Peace of

be missing.

ones

ultimate peace of

mind

rests

upon

the ful-

peace of mind accrued by desensitivity to

The ultimate letdown, which is bound make one even more prone to ignorance. Then, contradic-

to occur, will

tory

to "happen."

which bring them about go unrecog-

How

the key.

fillment of certain goals, the

the obvious

blind to even the most obvious motivations and actions?

Choosing not

will

on deaf ears.

sets of circumstances

strong and secure to

ment

"Seek and

when

sensitivity to

threatened by the accomplishments of another,

things pass

will find.

can be screamed from a thousand rooftops, and unless

nized. Recognition

when

seek until he drops and pass up the

The most profound

tions

responsive to their appearance. Senlooks, the less

a platitude as half-truthful as "the truth will

convenient to hear

because the

make you answers many times

he hasn't the

The harder one

sitivity is essential.

free."

One

does one go about discovering these combinations?

and emotional

tragically fleeting.

may

seem, ignorance will become one's sole intellectual

salvation. Parallels in the foregoing statement, as related

to organized religion,

should be amply evident.

%vom %attavn&

SRcrtungs

Probably the most oft-asked question Satanic magic

"Why doesn't my

is,

My answer to Once

to you."

this

question

a ritual has

much whether

ritual

receive

seem

from practitioners of

have any

invariably. "Because

been properly performed,

effect?"

matters so

much

should not matter

or not you see results, for you have supposedly attained

— through surrogate means — your

original intent.

Having "gotten

out of your system should free you from further concern. This can be

likened to an ambivalent feeling towards sex immediately following an

exhausting and rewarding sexual experience.

The

way

surest

of succeeding in cursing an

enemy

to find a

new

and equally questionable enemy immediately following the curse you have thrown enemies,

this

your

enemy.

first

you

should present no problem.

are inclined towards If

not, there are

making

hordes of rep-

rehensible people walking the streets in any community. As potential

enemies go, the supply Stasis

working

concerned. Always

desire in dragged-out bits

system, even seclusion.

if it

means

Burn every

you no longer

How

exceeds the demand.

always a deterrent to magical success insofar as dwelling on

the object of your

on your

far

care,

bit

and

Creativity

pieces. Ritualize

come

be for

new

one.

the

when

When you

tricks

which can be

are in the process of creating level,

not on a rote or

Your mind cannot be possessed by one thing and yet

thoughts

in the likeness of

— unless the object of your creation happens

your obsession. Here

hands can create

dexterity as to

out of your

and painful

to you.

something your brain must function on a creative repetitive one.

of desire out of your system, and then,

will

on. Never dwell

isolating yourself in obsessive

can one avoid caring? There are many

employed.

entertain

move

a facsimile of the desired objective with

be convincing then

find an ideal combination,

good

as done.

such

38 The Devil's Notebook

method

If this

employed,

need

follows that the original

longer of serious consequence, for your creation has sated your desire.

Thus you no longer require what your produce. To oversimplify (though

want money and cannot get

originally intended to

do not advocate such

action): If

you

and you create an approximation of

— sometimes called counterfeiting — the material rewards

money

received could well equal those you

money. Your need

for the real thing

Epicurean masturbation one's ego flaws have fantasy

was

ritual

infinitely

would

a perfect

been overcome,

superior to a lousy

had you acquired

get

no longer

example of

may be Yet

lay.

real

matters. this theory.

realized that an

how often we

Once

artificial

observe the

eternal sexual chase temporarily cease with an "any, old port in a storm" partner. Further frustration ensues.

Them

that has gets. Until

taking

someone

one

that

out, you're not

all

know

one has

You

else's either.

much

never

get.

create your

And you

own.

you

the reason white witches' curses

es" their dastardly act of cursing

guilt to call

for

which the

bounce back.

— whether fact that a

these

—

observe a

re-internalization of the

problem

was performed. Have you noticed how white witches

— are perennially

"Traditional." "Gardnerian", etc.

"issues?" Their

indeed threefold guilt-producing

engendered by constant rite

themselves "white witch-

thereby ensuring the backfire of their curses. Here again static situation

don't get

can't figure

of a magician.

consumed with enough

crones are

he'll

morass of secular dissension

common enemy exists

—

raising

tempered by the blessed

the Satanist.

The fact that we have not gone out of our way to stress a difference between witchcraft and Satanism seemingly their favorite topic

—

indicates our emancipation

from the need

"the Other." Satanically speaking, "It" is

take

sor

for

whatever

what Thomas Szasz terms is

we're for

— because

the harbinger of reaction. Magically speaking however,

Groucho Marx's stand

in the film

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, he

I'm against

as a fulcrum point

(Satanic) direction.

—

Horse Feathers, where as Profes-

sings his nihilistic credo, "Whatever

it is,

it!"

In this sense

they are

we must

"It"

from which

Thus

(mediocrity, fashion, the status quo. etc.) to

launch the pendulum in the opposite

realize that "issues"

— human

are not only transitory but easily predictable.

ideals that

$l)e

Sm^ottancc

Secrets are Power.

power with

When you

of ^eejrincj a

divulge a secret, you barter the potential

of your hidden knowledge for the fleeting ego boost that

its

revelation.

It is

a natural urge to

closing something thought to

weak or waning. The

want

to impress others

made

The

first

secrets.

one up someone

can reveal, with

technique to a the

same

man who

disis

else.

kind assures the

teller

A renowned

continued application without giving the game away. cert pianist

comes

be of value, especially when self-esteem

disclosure

There are four kinds of

Secret

relative security, secrets of his

its

con-

keyboard

has never touched a piano.

pianist confides

an escapade

bushes with a nine-

in the

year-old boy, however, the most unaccomplished acquaintance suddenly

has

power over him. The

latter revelation is

the second type of secret,

which often enables one to wield power over another, regardless of social, mental, or economic differthe "skeleton in the closet" secret

ences.

Employed

means of control,

for financial gain, it

constitutes extortion.

Wielded

Unfortunately, a guarded principle

often usable by persons of

scant accomplishment, hence the stringent security maintained vators

and

inventors. This

variety, the revelation of

by inno-

the third type of secret. Unlike the

which can undermine the

the third will allow any novice to duplicate that ited to the savant.

The guy who

finds

dropping an inexpensive capsule in

far less likely to

second

stature of the teller,

which was fonnerly

he can double his gas tank

his car's

be revealed than

lim-

mileage by

a classic example.

Such procedures are invariably discovered rather than imparted. ple formula

as a

merely vampiric ego-sustenance.

sim-

complex one. But

the

simplest fonnulas are usually the most elusive.

The fourth

variety of secret

that

employed

in interrogation

and

espionage techniques; the 'revealing" of a useless piece of information in

order to

elicit a

valid disclosure. In other words, an

worthless item for a genuine one.

exchange of

40 The

Notebook

Devil's

To sum up

the foregoing:

better to conceal. its

telling.

teller

The

upon

type of secret

first

The second type

safe to reveal but

undermine

certain to

a valid secret possesses a tangible

knowledge. Awareness of

this treasure

strength that will project to others. Even

gives if

and viable com-

who

lack his

him confidence and

he does not employ the

ready accessibility contributes to his security. Children soon

its

from other children by

find that they can elicit attention (and candy)

announcing,

"I've

got a secret."

Some Means of Ensuring Fear:

revealed

what the

a prurient or larcenous nature.

The holder of

subject

a trick of lesser or manipulative magic,

modity and therefore wields the upper hand over those

secret,

its

third variety will allow the receiver to duplicate

has done. The fourth

preying

The

the

self-destructive

a Secret

Will be Kept

threat of dire consequences, should the secret

most

common

made

people laws are

that

person

means.

be broken and

fine

method, except for many

secrets

will find a fertile

meant

be divulged.

playground for

his masochistic

tendencies by revealing secrets, for he places himself in a precarious position for retribution from others. tion while receiving the

expose.

who

induces both

hostility

and

accompanies

gratification that

rejec-

grand

positions himself as a hero, thus qualifying his potential

punishment nuns

ego

martyrdom.

have observed

this

type of behavior in

run away from a convent only to look forward to penance

imposed upon them once they

Hysterics have joined the Church

return.

of Satan, defected, revealed what they supposed to be secrets, and tremblingly waited for a closed limousine to abduct a secret lair

where they might be made

them and bring them

endure

fierce

and delicious

punishments. Fear of retribution alone

The oaths taken

at fraternal

probably the

and occult

least effective deterrent.

initiations

implying that the can-

didate will be torn asunder should he divulge secrets are virtually worthless since

assumed such mayhem

will not actually occur.

upstanding and respectable an organization, the present. Fraternal orders usually despite their bloodthirsty oaths.

less validity

depend upon

The more such oaths

the next category,

The Importance

Ostracism

2) Ostracism:

a very real threat.

Keeping a Secret 41

To work,

the keeper of

must place no small amount of dependency upon the fellow-

a secret

employ

ship his comrades provide. Fraternal groups especially in communities

this deterrent,

where ostracism can mean business

loss in

addition to social rejection.

Some

secret orders

impose

means

of indiscretions. This

a sort of "statute of limitation" as a result that

the candidate's trustworthiness

found lacking, he

will find himself limited to a

classified material

that

not known.

Once

such a separation process

advancement

has

The obvious disadvantage of ostracism environment.

while residing where he security.

however, he

many

general knowledge

that

dependent on

its

effectiveness

beans

his brothers for

far-fetched or

Hence many

padded with

demeanor, would hesitate to describe

antics,

nation

women,

ride a goat, urinate

somehow guarantees

a secret in the

would

The most first

effective

The

place.

enough

its

down

Many lodge

and respectable

wherein they were made to the floor,

The

fact that

lie

in coffins, etc.

you want people â&#x20AC;˘discover''

be taken out of context.

ensure secrecy

to not divulge

greatest magical secrets are those that,

from the

discovery

contrived use as a

still

such

teller. If

secrets,

magician would

he would not wish to

such secrets are never a desirable

told.

They

human

are only

occurrence

means of exploitation and control.

Tlje

them

way

to divulge

alienate him. Consequently,

ensures

that they will

alienate the listener

respect a student

discovered.

rituals

look

been surround-

within context, have symbolic meaning, but a casual expla-

4) Silence:

let

asinine antics,

lest their listeners

it,

valid secrets have

brothers, especially those of a highly businesslike

told,

emotional and

the trappings of an apparently laughable nature.

Such

lim-

to acquire fresh recognition.

about revealing

for their lunacy.

dress

paragon of discretion

Should he move away, with no thought of returning,

will think twice

ed by

A member might be

will often spill the

3) Ridicule: If a secret

on them

become

anyone with an eye towards

exists,

will exercise discretion.

ited to a social

economic

lower peer group where

Discovety

Game

wholeheartedly accept what you have to

a la the Easter

Egg method. Now. you

all

offer,

remem-

42 The

Devil's

how

ber

Notebook

the Easter

than anyone else

Egg Hunt worked. Somebody got up

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and went out with the eggs

discovered by the kids.

be found, but not without

them

in places

early

were

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

earlier

later to

same

where they could

a bit of a search.

could hardly wait to get started. Of course they

All the kids

arrived at the

or she hid

that

location.

None

of them

went

all

to another site, unless

they were awfully stupid or misdirected by a scurrilous chum. As each kid discovered an egg, he would holler with joy. Occasionally a parent, upon seeing their offspring's discovery from the sidelines, would holler too. The child who amassed the greatest number of eggs usually received some sort of recognition, often a hollow chocolate bunny.

You know

as well as

about the

that those kids couldn't care less

eggs once they got them home. Pop invariably got them in his lunch

box

week.

for the next

The point is that a false demand can be created where there is absolutely no need for a product, simply by creating an opportunity for discovery.

John Doe

finds the opportunity to discover something so attractive

because he has

not, will not,

and could not discover anything on

his

own in a lifetime. What's worse, a tiny voice inside lets him know So when someone comes along who provides an opportunity to ameliorate it.

an inherent lack of perception, the opportunity

what you have the magic

just read,

word

coasider

how

the

"discover." "Discover this

and dime

level that

seized.

you doubt

Hidden Persuaders employ

new

commercial, and one's unconscious leaps to the nickel

taste treat" cajoles the lure, the

a loftier plane drove

same

lure

Ponce de Leon,

Sir

Richard Burton, Leif Erikson, Columbus, Peary, and the Shadow, who, several years ago in the Orient learned a strange the

power

cloud men's minds.

and mysterious

secret:

ÂŠcculttem for

9JltUion0

tfje

HAVE ALWAYS HARBORED A NATURAL REPUGNANCE TOWARD FADS.

most rewarding and exhilarating

becomes

interest

a fad.

its

WHEN

THE

evocative

enjoyed by the few are diminished by mass acceptance. This

qualities

must not be confused with being jaded. To be jaded does not imply

many others

are doing the

ulation in

Often one can become jaded with something, only to

return to

it.

after a

same

thing, but that

one no longer

passage of time creates the reawakening

that

finds stimlater

known

nostalgia.

Occasionally

eyes will

light

hearing or reading about dis-

covery or innovation on the part of someone engaged of the

unknown. This

trait is

analogous

Promethean individual there prowess

magic by

are a

hundred others "proving" If I

few seek

fairies in their

There

nothing wrong with

sitting in

his singular pursuit,

pyramids or constructing

orgone accumulators, any more than eating banana But

you fancy yourself

of your investigations.

going along with a

forth as arcane.

movement, they

or skydiving.

the merits

are neither innovative nor farsighted. Just

fad.

prime example of occult

methodology

splits

a magician, don't flatter yourself

You

their

faddists' chicken-with-a-beak-on-the-line

tendency

When Wilhelm

grab up anything that has been set

Reich was "discovered" by the occult

failed to recognize that, as

page of The Satanic

many have pursued

Bible,

theories

knew more

advanced

stated

the dedication

than cabinet-making.

The Cancer Biopathy?

has attempted to duplicate Reich's "cloudbusting" and to relate

rainmaking principles of Charlie Hatfield or aboriginal shamans?

knows

their

hear of a person look-

am amused at own gardens any longer.

ing for fairies in his garden, at least

For every such

pyramids, building orgone cabinets, pho-

sitting in

tographing leaves and tracing Dracula's past.

for

in the exploration

to true Satanism.

good case

of "character armor"

when he

sees

it?

How Who

to the

Who

Or has

44 The

Devil's

Notebook

expanded upon The Function of the Orgasm? Because enclosures are all the rage and occult journals expound their ramifications (so long as they arc pyramidal), Reich's following

cinch that

Its a

you read

largely limited to cabinetmakers.

an occult periodical or paperback,

That should be your cue to avoid such

everyone's doing

it.

you be relegated

to the

same readership

stuff, lest

As time proceeds, the

level.

becomes the Kirlian photography of today. The Ouija board becomes the mind machine unit, complete with flashing red LEDs and "subliminal'* sound. And turbaned East Indian swamis move aside for "psychic rescue squads.*' Mediums? Channelers. table-tipping of Annie Besant

It still

auras.

takes far to

change

famous singer

will

practice

and

skill to

fodder for nincompoops, and

its

only merit

detracts

knowledge

will

from estab-

seldom be

as such.

personal delvings can be considered occult in the true sense

of the term only

they remain outside the pale of supernormal faddism.

The would-be innovator source material akin to

asks, "If interests,

cannot find food for thought

where

analogy that one does not "find" one's

Magical

that

cannot rightly qualify as an occult

phenomenon, and I have never claimed

in the

like,

Pop occultism

obvious sources. The very phrase, "popular occult movement,"

a contradiction in terms. Satanism

Ones

predictions

difficulties this year."'

lished religious mores. Occult (hidden)

found

make

a transmission than to

have marital

type well than to read

power

ly situations,

self.

One

creates

found

ones

self.

accrued by reading unlikely books, employing unlike-

and

extracting unlikely ingredients, then utilizing these ele-

ments for what would be considered observed the

then?*'

The answer

results of

'occult** ends. After

one has

such creative unions, what was originally consid-

ered "unlikely" will be seen as the most easily understandable methodology.

Slje ÂŠtoto-Off

For creating

intrigue,

an ambiguous statement

to the straightforward one.

others

become

enetnitely preferable

intrigue created, the

what you have

frantic

to offer. For example, as a

am sometimes asked about sex orgies by the deeply frustratA knowing wink will do more to get them slobbering than any

Satanist,

ed.

The more

to partake of

amount of

lurid description.

explicit vistas I'll

would be

senseless to improve

upon

the

provided by modern pornographers.

never forget a

what was known

man I worked with on

as a "'sex

show." Not

lot

who ran

be confused with

a "girly

a carnivals

back

show." the "sex show" consisted of a tent lined with medical posters ostensibly demonstrating the

wonders of the human reproductive

sys-

tem, the ravages of V.D. and the breasts and buttocks of Hottentot

women were

in various stages of

exhibits: a

development. Behind roped-off sections

waxen two-headed baby (known

"pickled punk"), a couple of "medieval" chastity belts

in the trade as a

(made by

Tuc-

son sheet metal worker), an array of tongs, forceps, catheters, and breast

pumps (under

glass), a

reproduction in

wax

of a noseless face of an

unfortunate syphilitic gentleman, and other educational wonders.

"doctor"

would

get the rubes into the tent

bally platfonn with a rather sleazy

uniform two sizes too small and

by appearing on the

blonde wench dressed

in a nurse's

need of laundering. With

dented

reflector fitted to his forehead and a stethoscope around his neck, the

surgical-smocked doctor would blame the microcephalic condition of a pinhead, borrowed here from the sideshow, as a result of improper genetics.

The pinhead, standing

the doctor's side,

would simper inno-

46 The

Devil's

Notebook

nodding

cently,

its little

didn't sell medicine, as

with a

far

cranium

unknowing agreement. The doctor to, and proceeded

one might have expected him

more sophisticated game.

After the customers filed into the tent to

and the miracle of

life,

minute guided tour ended

ed with

a brief discourse

be seen through next to where

the

hung

Doc was holding where

last

view the

secrets of

really begin.

at the

court.

the yokels

While the marks were

mankind

When

the ten

exhibit (the pickled punk, present-

on improper sex education),

a tent flap

his living quarters,

would

the magic

dim glow could

extreme rear of the museum,

Presumably, the

were inclined

furtively looking

light

came from

peek through.

through the

lit-up flap, the

doctor was beginning his big pitch. Since the audience consisted only of

males (which was usually the case), maybe they would

see

like to

first-

modern method of sexual hygiene." In hushed tones, the doc announced that they would be shown practices and things which were to be avoided in order to maintain a sound mind and body. hand

"the

Those

who

"chanced" to glance through the tent flap during the

Doc's build-up saw the aforementioned dirty nurse reclining on a shab-

by cot reading

movie magazine, her ample thighs revealed above the

A small nightstand next to her carried an immense On the wall, directly above the nurse's cot, was pinned a

tops of her stockings. jar

of Vaseline.

slightly

whiter piece of bedsheet, suggesting a motion picture screen.

The remaining area was occupied by about twenty folding

chairs.

folding card table stood against the tent wall opposite the cot, support-

ing a scuffed movie projector. that

From what was glimpsed,

this

was

show

should not be missed.

The small knot of rubes

that

had remained

were by

to listen/peek

time hanging on to the doctor's every word, who announced "limited seating available for the show about to begin in the inner tent." Seats were only an extra 50 cents, but the lecture and demonstration was this

"only allowed to be

shown

to serious students of

art,

anatomy, or medi-

cine."

Perceiving the gleam in the eye of serious students,

Doc then made

the final pitch before bringing out his roll of tickets. "Well, fellows,

you're going to see something today that you'll

long as you forward, as

live!" if

all

can say

remember

As the words were being spoken, he cautiously bent

to better

observe anyone

who

might have crept into the

The Blow-Off 47 tent unnoticed.

then

see and closed his other ;

outstretched middle finger for

lifted his

hand

into a sheath

jecting finger three or four times, slyly

further enticement

ets off the roll fast

was

enough.

which he

winking

required.

And when

slid

he did

all

over the pro-

so.

The doctor couldn't

the audience finally

rip the tick-

found them-

was nowhere to be seen; she was outDoc warming up a new crowd while an

selves seated, the overripe nurse side

the bally platform with

assistant materialized within the "auditorium/'

What

the rubes did see

was

l6mm movie showing

and subsequent incubator care of an

delivery

infant,

Caesarean

followed by a

superbly acted Office of War Information produced drama, a tender story of a

who

meets a

girl

a furlough,

and neglecting

to obtain a

rubber contracts a social disease. The fifteen-minute epic ends with

five

glorious minutes of tight close-ups of oozing chancres, eaten-away palates

and running

sores.

unconsumed popcorn, sno-cones and orange drinks had been abandoned under the seats and at least one rustic lad had fallen ill. None manifested disappointment that the show was over. By

the

end

all

The doctor in

some

shall

on ambiguity, and tlety,

remain anonymous, for he

large hospital.

the

One need

suitably dispensed.

thing for

certain,

mystery

now may

be practicing

however: prurience thrives

everyone's

life

demands sub-

mtyion

2l)c ^Ijoovic

Nor long ago

Mm %ntit

Z\)<il\

was told of an enterprise

of Pie-Kill Unlimited/' That noble venture,

New York called

whose motto

"Agents

"Have

Will Travel," specializes, for a fee, in performing edible indignities likely candidates. In addition to pie-in-the-face attacks, they

services as seltzer-water barrages

and squirt-gun

Pie,

upon

render such

contracts. Their tactics

are in the strict tradition of past experts like the Three Stooges, Laurel

and Hardy, and Mack 'Tie-Kill*' is

Sennett.

ticing Satanists

among

dedicated,

pomposity. Which brings

should consider

other things, to the stamping out of

an important factor

in their

world view: comedy.

The twin masks of tragedy and comedy other duality. Yet

the

mask

tragic,

most

and those

who

tragic lives. In

frequent the

to a successful working,

solemn

one cannot

humor can

ritualization

ritual

worn most

unfulfilled

any

often for

always a

little

bit

chamber most, often lead the

order to generate an emotional response conducive

circumstances, should one

Frequently

exist as irrevocably as

of tragedy that

magical means. Desire for that which

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one which prac-

humor. Nor,

easily extract

most

try.

serve to alleviate or attain a situation before

becomes

relevant or required. Unfortunately for a

humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric. Someone once commented to me that a sorcerer without a sense of humor would be intolerable. I agree and will add that, in addimultitude of occultists,

tion to being intolerable,

he would be incompetent.

Candidates for pies-in-the-face are more plentiful than ever. Less

messy but equally inhumane an entire trunk

full

of the

indignities are easily

weaponry of

humiliation, gathered from

places and spanning a 50-year period, 1900-1950 practical trickery.

implemented.

have

many

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the golden era of

The Whoopie Cushion

Shall Rise Again

human digniwas neglected for the serious protest. The change was needed but something was lost in the process, as is usually the case. Now fun is poked at institutions rather than at individuals. A sort of collective humor has replaced what was once a personalized After 1950 people started getting crazy notions about ;

ty,

and the

practical joke ;

Mad and

pratfall.

the National

Lampoon, entertaining

as they are

;

have

provided a like-minded readership with universal victims. The butts of

no longer

jokes are

selected with careful deliberation, but are ridiculed

en masse. Purveyors of joke items

Johnson, Smith

600-page catalogues to customers, but logues. sit

upon

Co. no longer send

past glories with thin cata-

when seers like Jeanne Dixon will Whoopie Cushion or Poo-Poo Cushion, as it made of rubber. When the victim unsuspectingly

time approaches, though, a ^2953. ("The

sometimes sits

live

upon

called,

the cushion,

than described.

gives forth noises that can be better imagined

mail postpaid. Xo. 2953. 251") All

not

lost.

of solemn and humorless victims are being primed for not only

host '

Pie-

Kill" but Poo-Poo Cushions, Joy Buzzers. Black-Eye Telescopes, Trombone Xose Blowers, Itching Powder, Rubber Chewing Gum, Dribble

Glasses,

and Squirting

Stickpins.

Too long have curses and anger been wasted on deserving victims whose most devastating insecurities could be brought forth by a harmless practical joke one which a more secure person would accept with mild annoyance at worst and amusement at best. Those who

—

deserve ridicule have been living in a climate that provides relative

immunity while

their

pomposity has gone unchallenged and even

encouraged. Satanists are anathema to the pious, the sanctimonious,

and

the hypocritical.

Satanists

They should

also

be the nemeses of the pompous.

— Atten-shun! Right shoulder Whoopie Cushions! To the

— harch!

rear

Stye $f)f eat of

"ElJSTRESS"

^eace

A TERM THAT DESCRIBES AN EMOTIONAL STATE OF FUN-FEAR OR

pleasurable discomfort. Although they are antonyms,

what begins lives in a

programmed

ment wherein of

can lead to

as distress

series of distresses

fears, a social

environ-

and comfort are only present

security

how

live their

a certain

amount

crisis prevails.

The human mind abhors problem. Every or conditioned is

and

shall see

most people

eustress. Since

cell

vacuum. Wild animals have no such

of their brains functions. Only

a necessary survival

the only animal

who

when

engram replaced by

domesticated another.

Man

must be continually reminded of existence. Any

happen lest life How many times is

sensation will do. In other words, something must

become not only meaningless but genuinely painful. the expression heard. "What's happening?"

tence eagerly sought by

satori-like Shangri-La exis-

many would be unbearable

because of the pressures of peace but by the

inability of

realized.

Xot

most minds

independently devise enough thoughts to maintain mental stimulation.

—

become such a normative and therefore comfortable it has become necessary to people's existence. A paradox has evolved wherein humans are constantly bombarded by stress Stress has

way

life,

situations ing. This

who

that

(which they crave) and then cautioned

tional stress amidst a society

and empirical

A conscious

which

reducing emo-

fosters habitual stress

can only com-

attempt

on the hypocrisy of the human race. History evidence more than bear out any rantings may add. Part at

service to "freedom" is

their crav-

frustration.

have written

length

of that great hypocrisy

ness

reduce

remarkable sequence can be likened to the weekday sinner

goes to church each Sunday.

pound

man's

— especially contemporary man's —

and human

dignity,

when

sustained by a series of masochistic maneuverings. This

distress

becomes so commonplace

that

lip

in reality his self- awareis

where

represents comfort, security

The Threat

and

Such

fun.

Peace

the evolution of eustress from an otherwise distressful

situation.

Blatant examples of this transition are most context.

The pleasure/pain

activity.

What

factor

the entire basis of sado-masochistic

a child receives

Here

we have

hands of someone

who

a basis for eustress

attention except

little

ment, that child begins to court punishment. at the

an erotic

invariably begins as an unpleasant experiences evolves

into eagerly-anticipated gratification.

phenomena.

common

though punish-

punishment

stimulating, the attention

received

well worth

it.

Substitute that microcosmic situation with a

adult

macrocosmic one

world and without any overt sexual connotation. Here's the

pic-

ture:

A man nition.

feels insignificant.

made

or a token

insignificant. feel pride in,

his firm has

TV show

through

with

whom

has a few heroes

all

Unbeknownst

to himself,

talk

killers

show

host.

either

better

insignifi-

sports fig-

lives vicariously

because he

not that he's

and

benign or

he feels insignificant, maybe,

just

is.

dumber than some of

as himself.

evil,

are him. They're getting attention. He's

Chances are good some of them spotlight,

little

he feels

Still,

(and unrecognized identification) with

feels insignificant. Well,

grammed

identify.

feels a

he sees on the news. But good or

and

it's

feels

he experiences his viciousness vicariously

"'angry" indignation

none of these people

It's

he can

or thinking of him.

malignant,

maybe,

still

But he sees a

like a jackass.

whom he sees on other TV shows:

the friends

consumer power

of them.

through his

not.

his

family which he might be able

makes him feel

tough cop or a late-night

ures, a

because of

demands were placed upon him which he

while watching the guy on cant.

overpopulation and under-recog-

bestowed upon him. He

married and has a

less

loath or unable to meet. This

guy on

to feel like a big shot

which

title

There

those getting

are, in their

own

But there's only room for so

all

the attention.

way,

many

just as

pro-

stand in a

be able

some kind

he's left out.

What does he do? What pinch himself and

know he

trouble, great or small,

alternatives are is still

and receive

there?

open

He can

attention.

him

get into

The only drawback

to that

52 The

Devil's

that he'll

Notebook

have

which may be

answer

less

involved" in something

enough

world-shaking But

own

talks to

make

friends (and enemies)

situatioas is

get

grab his emotions

problems are apparently

mind occupancy. They're not

And nobody he

level.

way

serious

about them gives

shit.

crises of a local,

national or international nature, he can find plenty of

share gripes, is

for full time

will

he burdens himself with common-denominator

state,

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; anything â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that

to qualify his existence. His very

good enough

not

and encounter

a lot of questions

cope-able than his ennui. The other

and generally

company,

feel as

though

All Right.

has chosen a

life

of eustress and the safety which accompanies

dangerously unpro-

in preference to the solitary distress of living a

grammed

Why

life.

man's unprogrammed

this

it,

life

dangerous? Either

because he has problems which are not universal enough to share, or because

his

mind

him out of his

such a vacuum

Now, somewhere out about

that

own

its

resources cannot pull

feeling of insignificance.

mans need

and are more than willing

for eustress,

Aside from being rather profitable, misdirection,

whafs

process for something

really else.

Someone, somewhere,

who know

there exist pretty sharp cookies

happening. Everything

You have been

who

supply

masks, through the gifted

on the take

set up. is

You

things, find great fun in that

and take very seriously

that

are being set up.

not missing a

trick in the

which you should soberly

which should be

ridiculed

it.

a softening-up

book. You have been conditioned to look in the wrong direction

wrong

art

at the

evaluate,

and laughed out

of sight and sound.

Getting back to planned problems for entertainment and enjoyment:

The soap opera eustress needs.

a masterpiece. Its

epoch where "women's work

cides over being "compromised'' it

was

bored

right.

"shit

concurrent with

personal headaches in an

never done,'" childbirth deaths and

sui-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there were no soap operas. Not

that

Simply that no matter

woman may

usurping daily

evolution

When women had enough

how

devoid of imagination or

how

have been able to be, there was no chance of

work" requirements. Only the wealthy or spoiled

could afford to be bored.

When message

radio inaugurated the soap opera, the

(ah, misdirection!)

and

women who

medium became

the

listened while perfonning

The Threat

chores were already being processed into a

their

Peace 53

new form

of con-

sumerism. The troubles they heard were more interesting (and romantic) than their own, but they were troubles just the same. Hence, another woman's problems became a vicariously glamorous substitute for what

could with luck, be the

The genesis of

listener's.

;

well defined.

doing

open

so.

Now, most who view them

the soaper

neither

toil

pretty

nor spin while

but simply absorb the blissful turmoil and sexy anguish, wide

for the inculcation of the real substance of the

advertised.

show: the products

And

that they are

the supreme irony is that the viewers prefer to believe more independent and emancipated (like the women on

the screen) than ever before. In the Satanic Witch's considerable exploration into the world of eustress, the thrill rides of

amusement parks

Sociologist Marcello Truzzi participated in a ers

which was narrated by Vincent

ments notwithstanding,

was

the most "dangerous" rides

warnings. nuts

who

When let

are cited. In the late 1970s,

documentary on

Price. Dr. Truzzi's

interesting for let

go of the

killed.

point

is,

stupid, careless, irresponsible

himself. Fun-fear with

If I

were

life

rail

persons

despite repeated

even though coasters were

and eustress the motivating factor weren't honored if the "ride at your own risk" ty-tested,

and devalue

to see certain

safety

worked carnivals and parks, there were always the the wrong places. Sometimes they would fly out and

even get themselves

ity

rollercoast-

perceptive com-

in riding,

safe-

and lawsuits

sign

was displayed, the

member of society was

not protected from

complete safety has helped

to foster irresponsibil-

and property.

to build a rollercoaster.

and audible warnings

would be shot through with

hang on and not stand up while the

visual

car

motion. Anyone failing to comply with the very real warnings would hurl to the ground. Eustress

the unexpected.

would then

turn to distress

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

distress of

<ÂŁm$e3 ty fyt Soften YOU

HAVE BEEN CURSED. EVERY DAY YOU ARE THE RECIPIENT OF VERY REAL

and magically formidable

curses.

One who

versed in the psychology

of hexes generally evaluates them in terms of highly personal attacks,

based on

real or

imagined

you curse anoth-

injustices or slights. In short,

someone attempts

er to get revenge, or

you

to curse

for the

same

rea-

son.

In the sending of a curse,

must be the motivating

tion

random

one should

really

formed. The same text also is

presumed

factor. If

that a strong degree of

mean

it if

states,

any form of

though, that

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what

qualities are also

ritual

constitutes a deserving victim?

covered in the Satanic

Assuming someone

tune

tellers actually

A really

be told what

guilts

and

fears

and court

we know,

tactful fortune teller or

most

those

words they can be

and generally behave

failure.

moment they walk though

tidings to a client,

credible source will

the standard of

The reason

can curse people much of the time

benign or even

bad

harbor

will attract disaster

seer's clients are "ripe" the

per-

not a deserving victim, though, they can be

to act unreasonably,

manner which

Bible.

easily modified into a reasonable facsimile. In other

in a

magic

you curse someone

What

undeserving, nothing will happen.

"deserving"

set

emo-

one simply goes about throwing

hexes, supposedly nothing will happen. As the Satanic Bible

explains,

who

it is

for-

because the

the door.

psychic will never foretell

because a dire prophecy emanating from a

likely

happen. The

fact that a client

about to happen guarantees the

reliability

wants

of whatever

to is

forecast. Let's

multiply this principle to a high social power, with media the

medium and its

own

tion

the public as the sitter or client.

public unused to doing

thinking looks to diverse authorities for guidance, not to

amusement. The general public

is,

men-

quite literally Easy Marks, Unlim-

Curses by the Dozen 55

Hence

ited.

why

easy to understand

;

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and

prepackaged

someone

Each day you are bombarded with

news

good news"

working

are

a truism.

dire

prey upon.

doesn't

their jobs.

ill

sell.

tidings.

takes "bad news''

"No

More people and

The more bad news you hear

more depressed you become. Other people's bad news on you. Problems beget problems. Everywhere you turn, you

read, the

rubs off

reminded of one of the myriad hazards

are

concerns and fears are

warnings and

Good news

media-related jobs than ever.

emergencies for them to keep

and

their

else, profitable to

You

or domestic tranquility.

economic

to health,

supposed

are not

stability

be simply aware or

prepared for unpleasant contingencies. You are supposed to be scared shitless. It's

but like

easy to scoff and say,

or not,

don't

let that sort

of thing get to me,"

does.

Theoretically, people should live longer because of medical

advances over the past half-century. With

consumerism should have made

its

should have made people smarter and more

Contemporary pulpit-pounders blame moral fiber and relaxing of that

absurd claim

thing

that

you

you see or hear

will

feel

guilt

enough to say, K I will plunge headlong into the hype of the outside world won't get to me,"

Brainwashing

naturally are of

and the more

intelligence can

effect

the only filled

doomed

sub-human

someone were hon-

the

whole

thing

would

to failure.

mentality. This

individual of average

Those

"spiritual value."

for

who come by

a brutal, insensitive

human

world

survival.

When Barnum

born every minute," he hadn't foreseen the

Malthusian population increase of a century I've stated,

enough

populated, the greater the diversity of deceits and

it is

declared, "A sucker

at all in

spiritual values' just

manner by which an

with

scams and setups become necessary

ened; there are

any value

be ignored; and you may go about acting

a first-class sonofabitch with immunity. But then,

its

breakdown of

about anything you do: any-

est

be a contrivance and

all

are zealously self-righteous

any

people

ever.

spiritual values." If there is

you won't

nut,

education

articulate. Instead,

and more tongue-tied than

are feeling sicker, sadder

be a religious

creature comforts, mass

lives happier. Egalitarian

later.

opportunities for individual expression haven't less-

just

more people around. Each,

scrambling for survival. The Western world

in his or

her

a giant flea

own way,

market of con-

56 The

Devil's

Notebook

hawking

flirting interests

point of free enterprise in

their wares.

by necessity, one of the

are.

Competition

beyond

far

the

conservative sense; and even though you

its

exploiters,

you

are also,

from someone

else's standpoint, a victim.

You may be completely solvent financially with an increasingly sucby the effects of mass media in other ways.

cessful business, yet cursed

Your family or spouse may be an insurmountable problem. Or you might be worried sick about heart attack, cancer, cystic

fibrosis,

multiple sclerosis, sickle cell anemia, etc. Listen kiddies, the

AIDS,

day when

family problems were as simple as in-laws, poor school grades,

unwed

motherhood, reform school and adultery, pale by comparison

to the

profound traumas suffered

now

domestically where none should even

exist.

The big latter

of yesterday were tuberculosis

killers

and

constipation, the

being the most hyped. Sure, people died of other things, but

weren't hexed into them ahead of time. They used to go crazy from masturbation,

was claimed, and some most

The medical profession has the power

likely did

to cure, but

its

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from worry.

propaganda tech-

niques are flagrant curses. Christianity

still

harbors formidable opposition to birth control, yet

whines about the plight of neglected children (where missionaries are running the

tries

underdeveloped coun-

hospitals). â&#x20AC;˘"Sponsor a foster

child" exhorts a Christian '"charity." If they really thing, they stifle

would

being

elements of their

wanted

own

religion

do some-

who would

you haven't guessed by now, the name One Hand, Take Away With the Other. You are beaten down by the very thugs who will then come to nurse your

mandatory

of the

fight those

game

birth control. If

Give With

wounds.

Satanists,

you

are just a tiny step closer to honesty, a

wee

bit

tougher in the will department, and slightly more sensitive as a barometer.

In this

being a

world of sameness, you are outrageously different

Satanist,

and

that alone

quite a distinction.

and freedom from thought-pollution you can ed by wholesale hexes you will be. ality

The more

just in

individu-

retain, the less affect-

6at^a

toilet 3cat Attestation

The best place to meditate and

toilet seat

on the

a stout lock

pot. If

you have a comfortable

thoughts might emerge. Martin Luther dreamed

sitting

There the

That

no place where one

why

telling

what

great

Protestantism while

we know what

a big

became.

that

toilet,

tainly

the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and

movement

the door, there's

as receptive to outside influences as

with immersion in a hot bath second and the shower

phone

a long-awaited

call

third.

or ring of the doorbell will cer-

occur under those conditions. The greater the

state of relative

helplessness one enters, the greater the receptivity.

Requiring the most privacy, surpassing both bath or shower, the

toi-

impressions and influences. Those

let is

unexcelled

who

allow others to witness them in the bathtub, shower, or even

engaged

to receiving

in attracting outside

sexual intercourse, will usually draw the line

audience on the

tige of isolation available in

Pressure

toilet.

toilet is

and physical

tension. Genitals are completely

soundproofed, or outside noise

any

orifice.

hold back

may

The

at all

freely

when

comes

most sacrosanct ves-

relaxed while sitting on the throne, eas-

and unhampered by clothing or pressure.

bal utterances

the

an otherwise crowded environment.

the vertebrae

ing both mental

The

the

chamber

exposed

sufficiently

attains sufficient decibel levels, non-ver-

proceed

infantile release of

any intensity or

pitch,

and from

what we have been conditioned

other times provides a psychological as well as physio-

logical catharsis.

With such conducive conditions brain will function input.

Many do

freely

their best

releasing outflow.

to relaxation

and range

and

receptivity, the

further afield for informational

reading on the

toilet,

absorbing input while

58 The I

Notebook

Devil's

once knew an elderly hermit, a

miniature castle in the

woods

brilliant

scholar

who had

built a

of northern California. Until his retire-

ment, he had operated a large chain of theaters in England. After coming to the U.S., he purchased a small plot of land in the

redwoods and

single-handedly constructed a fairy tale castle from odds and ends. Tiny gables and

rose above the stone

filiate

and wood dwelling, which held

four small rooms.

To simplify plumbing and butane kitchen and

toilet facilities,

which he dined

in front of

dinner off to one side,

hermit," despite being tually, the iconoclastic

it.

move

his kitchen

opportunity, Diocletian,

The Sales.

Thus he could the

sit

the

completed meal on

toilet,

old gent died, his

little

castle

intellect.

and dirty

Even-

demolished, and a

its site.

and

would

toilet.

like to eat

Nero did

toilet is

his

prepare

to the table

an impeccable dresser and a great

Perhaps he had more than

bined

he combined

from the surrounding area spoke derisively of "the

sup. Neighbors

split-level built

installation,

the stove next to the John, with the table

just that

more than

convenience in mind when he comwonder how many people, if given the at the same time as eliminating. Caracalla, and more. just

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

a throne.

It is

a sacred

chamber. Vale Chic

Wkaviomnt&&

($u&tre&& f %$ampivt& f onb

HAVE STATED, THE PARADOX WHERE MORE PEOPLE ARE "TALKING" DARK

down, and sideways, but fewer than ever

forces up,

night people, provokes speculation.

body's talking, very few are doing. More time with aficionados than in enjoying the

are actually living as

The moral here is

that

spent comparing notes

a kind of security blanket, real displeasure ensues

confrontation with the truly outre or bizarre. as

and

safe

and see

atre

It's

and

guilts that

when

there

the safety of the exit

Amusement parks have always served

movie

coaster

how

Nocturnal non-involvement It

the-

how

outside.

life

the roller

designed to allow for "daring" fun-fear By contrast, the unex-

pected experience, no matter

ness.

and "normal"

same purpose and

the

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there are

reasonable hour, of course

hardly any more all-night theatres). After the film ends, no matter frightening, there

fun to be scared, so long

predictable. For example, a person can enter a

a horror film (at a

every-

hobby per se.

In a puritanical society filled with the sort of fears

become

when

easier (and

through science

trivial,

fiction,

gothic

due

largely

presumably

horror films. Vicarious outlets

can be

terribly unsettling.

omnipresent vicarious-

safer) to live out nocturnal fantasies

romance and

abound

the aforementioned spate of

every facet of popular culture,

be they comic books, music, or parapsychology. Wherever the dark side of

human

experience can adapt to vicarious expression, the

be shelved.

will

most, do

has been observed that those

the least.

It is

certain that the

same

who

talk

"real thing"

about sex the

principle applies in other

areas.

There

compounds alist.

nothing "morally wrong" with vicariousness. Only rather than relieves frustration

helps

when

the vicarious

is it

when

harmful to a true individu-

one recognizes

his

own

vicariousness.

though no one else need be the wiser. Many of the most esteemed business and professional people have built their entire reputations on carefully

disguised vicariousness.

60 The

Notebook

Devil's

There

between vicariousness and sublimation. Both are

a thin line

forms of substitution. The vicarious one substitutes another's

own

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he

someone

lives off of

be he

finds in another person

When

he becomes downright

ous,

and assumes

and must sink or swim according

wooden duck

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; then,

when

that role, usually in secret.

however, he

imitative,

no longer

to his ability for mimicry.

the fox

Hence

are content to imitate a handful of basic types.

imitative, his

mimicry

character is

anonymity and

applause and individuality

lust for recognition,

As things have worked

pretending to be someone life

so outlandish that he becomes a travesty.

on one hand and

the other.

fly

a shortage of real

In today's society people paradoxically desire safety,

security

can't

many people

not a creature of mediocrity, and even

vicari-

One

coming, be unable to

away. We are plagued with an age of "sameness" because so

"characters."

for his

life

What he cannot or will not

else's identity.

else.

out,

most

The dilemma

live herd-like vicariously

much in the drone Any costume

not so

of the herd but in the limited selection of role models.

party amplifies the

last

statement.

ous role models are always tective lid

blown

The insane

are

heavy-footedly. That's

will tell

you what

vicari-

when

the pro-

the shoes of their role

models

demand than

others,

masquerade.

off for a

Costume shops

in greater

likely to

why

wear

nut houses are likely havens for Napoleons.

Jesus Christs, Hitlers, and in recent years, Lucifers. In between the herd-

person and the Napoleons are those

who

have worked

their vicariousness

into gratifying sublimation.

Have you ever noticed how most

cops look and

ones on TV

act like the

police

plainclothes

shows? Which came

first?

astute when he proHe only went halfway,

The answer should be obvious. Oscar Wilde was claimed his famous reversal. though. People imitate a

life

"Life

which

follows is

art

art."

form, an

with. In short, they are imitations of a fabrication.

Sublimation

becomes ogist: a

in its

purest form

around

meddler

The

list

grows quite

studying to be a mortician

to the question, after

That

begin

foot fetishist

into intimacies, a priest or psychiatrist: a racketeer, a

to be a mortician?" ies."

often self-realized.

redundancies.

a shoe salesman; a necrophile. a mortician; a prostitute, a sociol-

"legitimate" businessman.

who was

artificiality,

Human

what

much

many

knew

young guy

years ago. People always got

verbal detouring,

The reply was. "Because

known

long.

like to

as "pulling the rug out

"Why do you want play with dead bod-

from under."

Stilton

Wt&ti

ft'ttrieqiiiit,

@iubfta t

But the theater

itself

its

most ego-gratifying way.

The world

a stage

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

players are necessary foils for the

sands"

that for

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gene Fowler

its

maxim

closely rivals

a star" Reality,

however,

central casting office.

but few qualify as bonafide actors. Most are

spearcarriers. supporting players

selected with care.

this

man and woman is

democratic in

far less

puny

itself

becomes an anticlimax.

lpsissimus Crowley's "Every like the theater,

"The world's a stage, and we're all actors."

It has often been said,

Interpreted in

seems

drama of life

against the hourly at least

A mammoth

in short

few

;

reactors.

true actors,

Although these

even they must be

spectacle employing a "cast of thou-

not necessarily good, any more than

world made better by

overpopulation.

The big trouble ta

be fool

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

is,

Jimmy Durante used

get inta de act." Satanism has to step

stage,

his fellow creatures.

has

done nothing

left

him

has no

God

the

to say,

at his

lousy jokes nor

Thus Satanism serves ;

nod approval

mercy of the severest

have often said

critics

who

at his histrionics.

Consequently

see

as a short-cut to gods-

that the popularity of occultism

and the wan-

ing of orthodox religion can be attributed to the "do-it-yourself-God factor.

Man

feels

he can control

at least in

and

kindly deity will

as the Great Separation Process.

Satanism can be disastrous for those

manship.

would-

smiling from the balcony

providing him with even a scant round of applause.

chuckle

"Everybody wants

to discourage the

part his

own

kit"

destiny, rather

than the Greyhound Bus deity doing the driving for him. As such, occultists in general in a

and

Satanists in particular place themselves

manner never before

seen.

stage

62 The

Notebook

Devil's

Obviously one alternative to obstacles arising from such "mastery" of one's self

grab a spear and

try to

support the leading players as

competently as possible. Another alternative pletely

and become

to leave the stage

part of a discerning audience.

other escape from the drama

to leave the theater.

The

third

com-

and only

What then can one

do? Search for other spectacles and amusements where a measure of recognition or

at least

enjoyment might be found? Impossible. The

World Stage never varies

its

presentation.

To become an

actor

one

must be unique. To become a reactor one requires sensitivity. To become a member of the audience requires discrimination. To leave the theater means annihilation of mind and body. Yes, the just as

we'd are

world

phony

all

the faith.

better

can be. For the world to

come

likely to

Barnum and Bailey world, become any more truthful,

not simply a stage, but a

to grip with the facts.

have the scales

fall

from

like to think that Satanists

their eyes.

helps

me keep

92oncoitformttt)

SatantSm'S ÂŽrerttcÂ§t

An individualist must always

own world, not one created by be plenty of people who will share

live l\ his

others' standards.

There

a nonconformist's

world with him and be

will

always

might be to have others share

The Other.

lar

culture might

person

for

as the

maverick

who

described by

its

semantic designa-

comfortably accepts the dictates of popu-

be sympathetic or even enthused about Satanism, but

he cannot be termed a

be responsible

happy

his.

The very essence of Satanism tion,

2BeaJ)ott

Satanist.

for reaction

true Satanist,

even

unspoken, must

and change.

has been argued that conformity

Some

agrees with one's digestion.

comfortable, and so

is.

if it

individuals cannot eat whatever

placed before them, however. Unfortunately, a starving person will usually eat indiscriminantly.

and once

his belly

full

even begins

to like

it.

Most people, being emotionally starved animals, lack imagination and personality

and

are content to accept

unless, of course, they are told they certain issues.

cency to a

for a

must worry or become angry over

different than

programmed compla-

should not allow himself to be programmed by others. He

fight tooth

freedom of

him

imposed upon them,

real Satanist.

Satanist

should

Planned protest

whatever

and

spirit. It is

nail against

it.

for that

the very denial of

the greatest

life itself,

wondrous, unique experience â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not

enemy

to his

which was given

for imitation of the color-

less existence of others. If

the definition of magic

accordance with one's

will,

methods, be unchangeable,"

working

"the

change

in situation or events in

which would, using normally accepted it

would seem

that

any successful magical

an act of nonconformity. The greater one's natural degree of

nonconformity, the greater are one's magical powers. One's

will, partic-

64 The

Devil's

ularly as

Notebook

pertains to magical success,

an important commodity. But

strong-willed should not be confused with willfulness. Just about every-

one nowadays

Its

an extremely

zombie, blustering along on wills

willful

Grim determination abounds, but

not their own.

comes second-hand.

motivation does not emanate from the creative region of the brain,

only the response centers.

A person devoid cial.

which often

become "spepretense of infallibility. Combine work harder

of special ability must

an abrasive

results in

the overachiever's pseudo-specialty with his hauteur of all that's

freeze-dried nonconformity.

nonconformity

planned or put-on nonconformity dictable antics of

heavy-handed

is its

Satanism's strength,

greatest weakness.

The pre-

"Satanists" are quite profitably exploited

foresee a return to slavery, once

become more

will

than a

desirable to

thing's a big deal,

Now

there

worthless. In

ratio of

masters to slaves

slavery exists.

The

barter

and human

desirability will

who can accomplish things will be who simply exist and collect their checks.

reversal of sacred or tiresome standards, is

coming

into

its

own.

puffed-up inadequacy without buying power seeing the following slogan:

Anyone's identity

knowledge

that

rests

"It is

upon

better to

When it is

recognition,

this

realized that

useless.'*

appreciation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; existing.

in short,

We know

money

multitude can purchase buys them their illusory identity. The

there a

believe there

is.

Or do

demon within each of them jabbing a pitchfork of doubt? is. That is why they're quick to air their feelings, that they

believe "something

what

that a

circulating.

multitude actually buy into the notion that they are important. they?

attitu-

why the

a liability, you'll begin

be used than

he or she has a reason for

demand,

whether they are

multitude exist for no other reason that to keep the

What

the better part of true nonconformity. That's

reverse status of the slave

today

does, but in a

be of value. Then, those

dinal or sensory,

and every-

taboo: out of earshot, out of mind.

no buying power, only

rather than those

fact,

a self-realized, pleasing slave

that everyone's a big shot

doesn't appear as

Only the term

half-assed way.

When

money becomes

become

incompetent master. The

silly,

an unrecognized lampoon.

the

non-Satanists. I

and

infallibility,

lacking to complete the profile of contemporary "cool"

They

are

wrong," even though they can't quite identify

smugly pleased

that the jobs they goldbrick

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Nonconformity: Satanism's Greatest

which could be done

in a fraction of the time

such a good wage. They're leisure-time ety of industries), yet they are

Weapon 65

by fewer people

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; pay

activity oriented (vital for a vari-

nagged by

the thought that "something

wrong. That "something wrong" inadequacy,

despondency based upon

a feeling of

compounded by illusions of worthiness and pretensions of human beings will be barter. It's time humans

importance. In the future,

became accustomed

it.

,$<m> to be

Wo&

Those with illusions of omnipotence should consider the prerequisites If you really have some handy guidelines:

for deification.

are

Don't advertise. Just

let

the

makings of a Higher Being, here

your presence be known. Never, under

any conditions, go around proclaiming yourself the recognize you as

known

tion

fic-

as Christ

There are plenty of followers

who

because he doesn't have

will advertise his existence for

him, not to mention attesting to personal acquaintanceship. first-rate devil,

for

must

such. The reason the God of the Christians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the â&#x20AC;&#x201D; doesn't make regular appearances concerts,

book-signing parties or backyard barbeques to.

Devil. Others

others will

do your

advertising for

you

are a

you (whether you ask

or not).

Never be fashionable; always be mysterious and enigmatic. his gods, and his gods are never trendy. You

Remember: man follows never met a

been

God who wanted

said that "The Lord

pected catastrophe 3)

works

why it has Or why an unex-

be one of the crowd. That's in mysterious ways."

called "an act of God."

You must be

sources

creative.

Take inspiration from the most sordid

necessary, but never imitate. Rip-off

artists

cannot proclaim

themselves divinities because they lack the originality or creativity to

come up with 4)

you

fresh ideas, let alone

You must have

can't

style. Class.

new worlds. Be

reserved.

be decorous around other people,

Show some

how

restraint. If

can you maintain

order and control? 5)

find

sense of

comic

humor

relief is a dull

a must; a

god who

Jehovah and most

can't laugh at himself or

definitely un-Satanic.

Always harbor some doubt, even about yourself. The booby filled with megalomaniacs who are cocky sure of their own

hatches are

How

omnipotence.

A modicum

the sort of self-awareness

be God

(or

the Devil) 67

of self-doubt in the

god business adds up

most mortals

which leads

lack,

our next

decree. 7)

Be aware of your own

proclaimed dead Valhallas

many

mortality.

Understand

that

times throughout history. That's

and Avalons and lands

gods have been

why

they have

Nod. east of Eden.

You must be perceptive enough to see things as they really are, might have been taught by others who stand to gain from your ignorance. Yet to better understand the ways of man and deal with him, you must be able to suspend your awareness of what's really hap8)

not

how you

pening and see things through pid

will serve

if it

pissed

you

words, learn to be stu-

best.

merciful, especially

off. If

his eyes. In other

really

when

you're happy, but cruel

wield any power, people

you're

will realize the benefits

gained by contributing to your happiness, or the tough luck that can befall

them by

getting

you

sore.

Hit Stttttnote OHtmJjge of a Stttle-^noton

®atam$t

doubtful that most readers of occult literature will come

name Fernando DePlancy. The man and

across the

known

in the fields of

lore of ceremonial

works

his

are well

microbiology and genetics; few seekers of the

magic

are,

however, aware of the vast contributions

he has made.

DePlancy was born tember

28, 1887. His

when

humble parents

mother,

Felicia,

and

on Sep-

in Lisbon, Portugal,

father,

Humberto, were getting

in years

are to believe historians, Fernando's parents felt ill-equipped to raise

their child,

last

of eight children,

was born.

England and took up residence a short distance from Black-

to Fernando,

mentor

who

operated a small roadside pub. Unbeknownst

MacGregor Mathers

— was

— who was

become

a frequent visitor to the tavern.

Aleister

seems

exactly

No one

how much magical curricula Fernando underwent.

In 1905, at the age of 18,

Fernando emigrated

the train depot.

Meanwhile he devoured

he could lay

his

all

Unable

baggage boy

to America.

afford college, he took a position in Buffalo, N.Y. as a

that

Crow-

likely that

Mathers initiated the lad into the mysteries of the Golden Dawn.

knows

Azores after finding a maiden aunt to young manhood, Fernando and aunt

to the

Soon growing

pool with a couple

ley's

Fernando, the

and migrated

care for him.

moved

little

books on

scientific

themes

hands on. One such volume was Captain John G.

Bourke's Scatologic Rites of All Nations. Chapter 24, 'Obscene Survivals in the

Games

of English Rustics," especially intrigued him, as did the

chapter containing extracts from the writings of Dioscorides and the

views of Galen in connection with the medicinal use of cerumen, or ear

wax. He read Rosinus ,;

there

was

Lentilius'

Physico-Medicarum, which

a certain old hypochondriac, of fifty or more,

to ease himself of

relates that

who,

an obstinate constipation, for more than

in order a

month

Fernando DePlancy 69

drank copious draughts of worst

his

own

urine, fresh

and

hot, but with the

results."

Young DePlancy

Leaving his job

dling.

his studies,

destiny promised

felt his

which by

at the

had developed

that time

Drawing again from

tation.

Franz Paullini's Filth

Lentilius.

all

of his time to

to the level of

experimen-

DePlancy discovered Christian

Pharmacy (published and

available English translation (by Smith

and could not be

more than baggage han-

railway station, he devoted

in Frankfurt, 1696).

Pratz)

left

much

The only

be desired

upon. Several bouts with insomnia inspired

relied

Though he found his sleep improved, his dreams got worse. Nightmares were preferable to sleeplessness, and so DePlancy extracted from the same sourcebook a remedy for vertigo which had been disturbing him since DePlancy

fell

to ingest

donkey dung

from a hayloft

as per Paullini's directions.

as a child. DePlancy's discovery of the medicinal

value of peacock droppings deserves more than a cursory glance:

dormant association of

gests a long

moon

this

sug-

bird with both Satanism

and

we know, was the bird that drew was as much a lunar deity as Diana.

worship. The peacock,

and

of Juno,

that

goddess

the car

Taking one-gram doses of the droppings improved DePlancy's condition to

such an extent

and stand

that

he could climb to the roof of

edge without the

at its

his nocturnal rooftop vigils that

repute. With the

no shades drawn,

washroom. Soon

and relieved

himself.

entered to answer the

DePlancy began in recollection of

tioned

book on

the reputation of being a

was apparent

man appeared before

Moments call

lodging

Fernando espied the lighted window of

which had

a neighboring building,

was

slightest dizziness.

his

was during one of

after

left,

house of

that the lighted

ill-

room

the squalid toilet basin

a rather

dowdy woman

of nature.

to reel.

Not from any sordid sexual motivation, but

what he had read on page 337 of Bourke's aforemen-

scatologic

rites. It

was

a personal letter

from Professor

N. Horsford of Harvard University to Captain Bourke stating,

have

man who is acquainted with the peculiarities of Parisian Life, that there are men who are in the habit of swallowing the scum which they obtain from street urinals, and they are known as Les mangeurs du blanc. It was at that moment of heightened

been

recently informed,

epiphany be.

that

Fernando DePlancy grasped what

his life's

work was

70 The

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Devil's

Sometime

expand

his

afield than Buffalo,

New

his theories

modest research fund from

whorehouse, where he had persuaded the lady

engage him

as a part-time janitor

remuneration was small,

order to

he must venture further

York, set out to tour the back roads and

byways of America. He had saved ings at the

DePlancy, feeling that

in the spring of 1910,

knowledge and develop

and

stiff

his earn-

charge to

towel collector. Though his

DePlancy was more than rewarded by certain

were germane

will

not bore the reader

with unimportant details of his departure and

first

stages of his travels,

other than to mention that while in Peoria he

was robbed of

activities that

a pickpocket

who

sat in the cubicle

hended

deftly

to his studies.

his wallet

reached into his lowered trousers while he

of a public

toilet.

week

in the

The "crapper-worker" was appre-

same lavatory, but having spent DePlancy's money was unable to make restitution. That justice had been served and the culprit sent to jail was of little help to Fernando's pocketthe following

book. Fortunately he had pinned a reserve supply of cash to his undershirt,

and with

that

sum was

big breakthrough

able to proceed

came

in Arkansas,

famous author and chronicler of

latrinalia,

his journey.

where DePlancy met the

Chic Sales. Together DePlan-

cy and Sales explored their interests as far West as Waco, whence

DePlancy proceeded alone

to El Paso.

was

in this city that

Fernando

discovered the delights of the beer from the country south of the border.

Known

was substantially different from the English ale to which DePlancy had become accustomed in his youth. Interestingly, the Latin name for beer or ale is cerevisia, which would seem to be a derivative from the name of that goddess employed in her libations, and held sacred as the means of producing the condition of inebriation, which in pagan nations had been looked upon as sacred. Exploring this custom as

ceweza,

of antiquity, DePlancy remained in El Paso for the better part of 28 years in relative obscurity,

consuming

large quantities of

ceweza.

government official in charge of recreating an authentic American slum for the Federal Building exhibit at the forthcoming In 1938, a

World's Fair in San Francisco espied DePlancy in a drunken state sleeping under the urinal in the

gently with his foot, he

mens room of a local cantina. Prodding him awakened Fernando, who wakened and

explained that he had fallen asleep from the fatigue of his research. Within 24 hours, both scholar and sponsor were headed for California

a Santa Fe

Pullman

car. It

was contracted

that

throughout the dura-

Fernando DePlancy 71

DePlancy would

doorway of the prowas to be a theatre, where every two hours a film, One Third of a Nation, would be shown to visitors touring the mock slum. While the film presentation was in progress, DePlancy would be free to "take a break," as it were. As it developed, Fernando discovered means to peep into the restrooms of the attraction, and did so whenever time and circumstances permitted, thus furthering tion of the fair

posed slum complex. Adjacent

recline in a littered

to the tableau

his research.

now be wondering what bearing

The reader may and

lifestyle

had

do with

his

In 1943, at the age of 56,

checker

Sam

become

to Satanism.

Fernando DePlancy was working as a

aircraft plant in

(he had since

Fernando's studies

subsequent contribution

tool

Burbank. California, helping his Uncle

war

a U.S. citizen) with the

effort.

One

and cheerful young lady approached him with a request for a monkey wrench. Something about her face seemed familiar. As it turned out, she had sat next to DePlancy on a bus the previous day. They exchanged pleasantries and in the course of conversation she morning

a bright

revealed that guardian

at the

band was

was her great-uncle who was young Fernando's roadside pub in England. The young lady's current hus-

a flyer with the R. A.

Aleister Crowley.

(which was the young ies of the

and the

The two became

Grampian

lady's

name)

initiated

the

way

relate to

established,

for the stuff of

DePlancy

into the myster-

DePlancy imparted

new friend. A

and soon the two,

which

removed of

during which time Beryl

Flagellants while the older

essentials of his years of research to his

had indeed been

third cousin twice

fast friends,

ritualistic alliance

in concert,

latter-day journalists

were paving

would be

able to

an emerging Church of Satan. Unfortunately, Beryl returned

England only

to discover that her marriage

been deceived. She

later

was

married a pathetic young

invalid

and she had

man and was

subse-

quently murdered by John Christie of the infamous 10 Rillington Place.

Fernando DePlancy, having become

a full-blown admitted devil-wor-

was killed on August 14, 1945, when he was struck by a flying toilet which had been ripped loose by a victory celebrant and thrown from the balcony of the theater in which he sat watching God is My Co-

shipper,

Pilot.

(Orotic (ÂŁrtyÂ§taUt$attott Sncttia

That which

pleasing to the eye gives joy,

and strength gives

life.

receive pleasure in

diverse means, but the most conscious of is

and joy

a visually-oriented animal.

all is

gives strength,

many ways and by Man

through eye-appeal.

establishes standards of visual attrac-

tiveness of an inflexible nature.

the standards he has set forth for

beauty are modified by fashion or social change, he will never be quite as

happy

as before the

change more, he social circles

In this

way he

abound out of

maintains his

As he grows older and

now

vitality, albeit vicariously.

'good old days"

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; days

compound

Out of

"good old days,"

out-datedness

How often when

With

his cronies

style!

How

fortunate for the inmates of senior

only on their backs.

girls

keeping them

Little

alive.

when an aging person loses interest in have grown up and his vitality decreases, he

his children

citi-

some semblance of the do they realize that this

seen that

who

share his nostalgia, and their clothing

zens" centers that they can maintain at least

very-

styles

replete with the sights so

so sadly changed. His pals and the elderly

in the old

style.

place.

substance of his joy by retreating into

where he might reminisce of what once made him happy.

will talk of the

dear to him,

change took

will cling to the

life,

will

community and suddenly become revitalized. Theowould be assumed that such an atmosphere would hasten

enter a retirement retically,

the death process,

add

to the inertia of old age.

invariably occur? Because the aging person

controlled environment, one

where there

Why

does the opposite

suddenly thrown into a

visual

imagery con-

ducive to his excitement and enthusiasm than the outside world. Stylishly

out of

much with

style, it

becomes fun

for the codgers to look at

must have been fun

lust at the girls,

And what about

and the

girls

in their

each

other,

younger days, the boys gazing

longing for the boys.

the small towns, those places bypassed

ways where octogenarians dominate

the landscape, the

little

the free-

jerkwater

Erotic Crystallization Inertia

towns where nobody ever seems ety over

what

will alter the visual landscape,

freedom from

pain, illness

places are completely

and only accepting

and death. From

inert: cars are

down. Much time

torn

where they

to die,

all

And what

The

crotch-

that

which promises

a visual point of view, these

20 years old,

buildings are ever

spent on porches and park benches, around

pot-bellied stoves, at the bus depot, wherever there

seen!

seem so

going on in the world, fighting over any change that

something

seen? The same things that have always been seen.

inhabitants of such a place might not live to

be 100 years old

(although there exist such environments in which numbers of incredibly old people abound).

appears

however, that in

certain,

static

environ-

ments there are more old people per capita than within a constantlychanging scene. in

such places while

need not

be.

be argued

will

that

it is

natural for old people to live

young persons. This

but

The main reason young people leave such environments

stifling to

it is

because they can't cope with the old dainful of the '"progress" that

The old

farts.

folks feel equally dis-

manifested in youthful styles

alien to their visual joy associations as their stodginess

Under such prevail. Let us

own

a totally compatible visual

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

to the

conflicting standards of visual exhilaration,

be nearly so happy

true,

fully as

young.

no one can

atmosphere were

not forget that the young of today are crystallizing their

visual standards of beauty.

fogeys. In time they will

Soon enough they

band together

will

in retirement

become

the old

communities and

old people's homes, reminiscing and surrounding themselves with accoutrements of their youth. Places live

where people

even longer

selves.

live

longest are space-time warps.

young people dressed and looked

The chronological change

culprit here.

With each

new advance

back another way insofar

accompanies

that

as longevity

They could

exactly like them-

style

change

medical science, there concerned. While

men

the

a set-

sci-

ence discover cures, they also discover means of communication and travel that

open wide

existences.

the very isolation that harbors uniquely collective

Thus Shangri-Las are turned

into Manhattans

and germ-

laden, dying 90-year-olds are turned into germ-free, smog-smothered,

anxiety-ridden dying 60-year-olds Just as fashion centers of the

unchanging environments

exist as

world promote the quick death, so hubs of longevity. The most deadly

74 The

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Notebook

and the fashion industry has perpetuated one of the

the half-truth,

lie is

most eloquent of

all,

namely

new approach

that a fresh,

one young. The fresh approach does keep one young, fresh,

young and

The

manner ly

the person

vital in spirit.

freshest thing that that

what keeps

man can

an old

see

a pretty girl dressed in a

reminiscent of his youthful erotic crystallization. Erotical-

stimulating but also emotionally acceptable. Likewise, an elderly lady

will zestfully witness a attired in the

handsome young man

manner of

("fresh

the suitors she once attracted. She can (and

does) vicariously maintain an aura of attractiveness

such a man, and her very

tain

is this

young blood"

when

confronted by

very aura, constantly recharged, that will sus-

life.

When the world one loves is seen to be dying, the viewer dies a little A great American painter, Reginald Marsh, exemplifies this tru-

with

it.

ism. Every

the

most

day

until his

earthy,

death

the age of 56, he sketched

and painted

sweaty and lusty examples of humanity he could lay

his

eyes upon. His productive voyeurism led him through the entire spec-

trum of cheap clubs,

cafes, carnivals,

amusement

parks, skid rows, exclusive

opera openings, coming-out parties and everything in-between.

jammed with

His super-realistic canvases were

the kind of people he

loved to watch in the environments he loved to haunt.

his closing years

the changing scene. difficult to

approached, Reginald Marsh grew depressed

New styles were emerging and now became it

immerse himself

in the vistas

drawn, both in his paintings and

women and

pot-bellied

era of the 1950s,

and

men were

summed up modern

drink,

art as

...

modem

lumpy

a false front")

Grace

masters ("Matisse draws

became exemplified as no sex, no

"high and pure and sterile

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

no muscles."

Marsh's "out of date" feeling reached to take part in

ular

His canvases of

too unappealing for the "think thin"

Kelly/Ivory Soap look. His disdain for

from which he had so long

life itself.

his floozies violated the then-current

like a three-year-old, "Picasso

New

art

symposium. The

first

its

zenith

speaker,

when he was asked

who was

a then-pop-

York painter, enthusiastically championed current trends.

Then followed

a professor

who

mentation in visual appeal. At

He stood on

last

the platform for a

advocated

new and dynamic

experi-

was Reginald Marsh's turn to speak. moment, as if trying to collect his

Erotic Crystallization Inertia

thoughts.

down and

sad look of resignation appeared in his eyes as he gazed

the audience.

The talented watcher of his innermost

life-giving scintillations declared softly,

tury;'

and

sat

down. He died

not a

man

secret lusts

this

cen-

shortly thereafter.

n Anyone who change

Man

his

mode

satisfied

with the

way

of living. This includes

the only animal

who

things are going

style,

reluctant to

fashion and environment.

has been carefully taught to be discontent.

What is even worse, man is the only animal who has been educated on one hand to be discontented while religion has programmed him to remain static, inert and complacent. Small wonder he is such a mass of frustrations. If

content with the

and change coerce him he

malcontent

for small favors

things are going, the priests of fashion

and unnecessary modification.

wishes to escape from the world he feels

into unwilling

who

short-changing him, he

way

and await

told to accept things as they are, his better life in a future paradise.

be thankful

evocation

The average person has one major flaw that pegs him as a perennial adolescent once he leaves his childhood. ticipate in or to

And

that

the inability to par-

experience anything resembling a personality that

diverges from his immutable emotional crystallization

adolescence. This crystallization

carried with

strapped knapsack which contains

tightly

tive to his

narrow

The more

man

lesser

open

field of

all

him

the time of his

an unyielding,

of the limited elements rela-

emotional response.

limited one's "bag" the easier

to see what's inside.

The

readily advertises the contents of his bag, leaving himself

manipulation on the part of the wizard. The wizard, having

ascertained the substance of his quarry's limited emotional stimuli, needs

simply to drive his attack

home

without concern for the possibility of his

quarry defending himself. The magician,

the other hand,

able to

respond to diverse situations with balanced emotional involvement. magician

attacked through his emotional attachment to

one

situation,

he can escape the attack by involving himself in another equally com-

The

pelling situation.

lesser

becomes befuddled when,

man

winning the higher

man

higher

man

never realizes

after first

over,

many

settings

mind

child

not

nowhere

be seen.

the delights of

any connection they might

bound by

that ensnares the lesser elder person.

They enjoy

"bag.*'

situations irrespective of

have with one another.

only to find that the

in for the kill

no longer running with him and and

and consequently

"doing his dance'' and temporarily

moves

Children have not yet packed their

this,

the bureaucracy of the

Each child

minute renais-

sance man. It is

one thing

be narrow-minded out of choice, but quite a

ent thing to be narrow-minded

broad-minded.

adulthood there later in

life.

when one

has never

known how

differ-

been open-minded in the early stage of good chance to become selectively narrow-minded

a person has

Bigotry

exhilarating

taken

up with

careful deliberation

Evocation 77

and

only self-destructive

when

ingrained as part of the personality.

It is

between indulgence and compulsion. Indulgence can be controlled: compulsion controls. One of the greatest magical devices the difference

therefore

become open

but close-minded

The

lesser

to gratifying emotional stimuli like a child,

when the whole

man equates

will

everything in his

tion that

happen

being.

horses are his thing, he has

must be employed.

be strapped inside

little

the standards of emo-

use for auto races.

by Bach and Baroque splendor but cannot and Western music. The

life

realm of

his ''bag." his constipated

relate

sight of a pith helmet

moved

emotionally to Country

and the words of Kipling

evokes no vision or sense of a barracks near the Khyber.

How many situations move you to emotional response which borders on

total identification

totally

how

with the given situation? Test yourself to see

you can become

sounding board for random

be as

situations;

one. so to speak, with the total emotional response from a situation

which needs but

and wizards

cue to get into motion. This

a subtle

what children

find easy.

Before anyone can expect to progress in magical prowess, he must

expand

his

expand

the consciousness quickly

consciousness but not

at the

and

expense of

major emotional response possible, and that responsible for the changeover the drug

There

only one

fly in this great potential

future.

exercise will

fortune.

make

hope. Oh,

Drugs

make only one

God

for the

directly

itself.

sea of ointment.

does not already respond to the varying stimuli of

no amount of

his emotions!

effortlessly but

life

it?

trying.

magical

Reading

moires. taking metaphysical study courses, self-help programming, philtres,

smokes or whatever

not already! ate a art

One cannot

will

one

around him, then

possible. Pathetic, isn't

how man will keep

gri-

pills,

enable him to love that which he does

teach receptivity to sensation, but one can cre-

conducive environment in which one might prepare himself for the

of evocation.

The essence of any magical working

more important ment than

all

complete evocation.

the "occult"

knowledge

in the world.

How

pitifully

capable of a strong evocation! The most wonderful thing of ity to

enter another dimension

wholeness of

to experience total emotional response to one's environ-

that other

all is

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; another realm of being â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and

realm to the exclusion of

all

few are the abilfeel the

other environments.

78 The

Devil's

Music rhythm

Notebook

most

the

musical selection.

up by

the pattern of

meaningful idea never

life

moved by

enough people are become sonic

these compositions, the selections

repository for the accumulated emotions of

all

those affected by them.

Becoming an all-encompassing sensing element back of a

associated with the

nor does the emotional

dies,

response generated by certain compositions. inspired or

body

effective tool for evocation, as the entire

helplessly taken

particular composition

can yield a

to the collective feed-

total evocation.

With certain exceptions, the best place to produce such an evocation is

a hard-walled, vast enclosure that will trap the music, just opposite to

way

the

that a

pentagon of mirrors

will

send forth imagery.

"live"

enclosure producing echo and reverberation will reflect the substance of the music, forming a

and

trap."

A sound

trap has

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both are devices employed

effect as a light trap

of thought matter,

"sound

whereby

feelings, situations

much

same

the

for the internalization

the ecstatic evocation will ensue. All actions

and environments associated with the music

involved contributes to the wondrous synthesis that becomes your evocation.

The acoustics of

the bullring, the circus tent, the ice-skating rink,

the vaulted cathedral render

all

The sound-reten-

excellent sound-traps.

tion of a ballroom, auditorium, theatre, etc.,

such that combined with

the emotional stimulus present (a partner dancing closely in one's arms, a tragic play,

an heroic spectacle,

strong evocation that most

etc.),

the nearest approximation to a

humans might approach

will

be achieved.

Evocation through musical internalization demands concentration.

The more people present

the less chance the magician has to properly

experience the music, with the possible exception of the concert

which

built for this express purpose.

greater the magician

distracted

from

The more extraneous his evocation.

factors, the

Though enjoyment

might be heightened by listening to music with kindred souls, to achieve ecstasy

when one

hall,

easier

it is

not concerned with what others might

think.

Profound emotional response to music does not necessarily make an evocation, but an evocation

evocation

this case),

which

always a profound emotional experience.

entire state of being, triggered

in itself

tion subsequently attained.

but a

distillation

a "key" (music in

or capsule of the

total

evoca-

SWusic Jyor

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tljc tfiitunl

Music that accompanies your ritual must intensify the emotions necessary for the particular working. Music other languages,

like all

a language in

and,

itself,

used indiscriminately, becomes both insincere

and meaningless. The most popular selections soon burn themselves out through overexposure, and only a period of time

can they assume

when

they have gone unplayed for

classic status.

pleasing musical selection can easily

become

compulsion. Eventually, through constant play,

Any

habit can be

music for the a fresh

ritual

you

reaction must

a habit, in fact, a

will lose

appeal.

its

broken by overexposure. Therefore, when selecting chamber, you must be able

and enthusiastic manner. For

selections

find emotionally exciting

be put aside and preserved

hear and react to

reason

this

enough

recommend to

evoke

that

any

decided

for ritualistic purposes.

Without a doubt the most effective selections are not those which foster introspection, is

the difference

music

but those which convey an image. This,

essentially,

and "magical" music.

"Mystical"

between

"mystical"

and does not impinge

retentive in nature

sciousness. "Magical" music attacks your senses

emotional response.

Any music which can be

being consciously aware of nature,

even though

its

itself

upon your con-

and impels a decided

listened to without

your

presence can be considered mystical in

tempo may be

fast

and

its

volume

loud.

Music commonly heard piped into public areas is generally programmed so as to exert an influence on the hearer even though he is not listening. This type of music

utilized for lesser magical

purposes

(maintaining production flow, inducing eating and drinking, stimulating

shoppers to buy, ends; those

who

etc.).

hear

The musics provider employs it

are controlled

it,

towards magical

rather than using

con-

trol. If

tion.

you

are

unmoved by

music,

not always due to a lack of emo-

Perhaps you cannot separate and

isolate varying frequencies of

80 The

Devil's

sound

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Notebook

in short,

you may be tone

deaf.

emotional response to

vari-

ous musical tones occurs when a unique combination of space, time,

and sound converges erly functioning

into a single unit.

even plants) has within is

Each

living creature with prop-

sound receptors (including animals, its

tuned depends upon

being a "tuned" set of

many

and

birds, fish,

"strings." Just

how each

contributing factors, both hereditary

and

environmental. Let us say, in order to simplify matters, that there

a separate chord

tuned for each emotional response. In "lower" animals and is

less of a diversity of

and pain makes

a cat purr,

to their internal lyre,

Humans have added

fight.

makes

certain chords

such as sentiment, which sometimes appears as

do other animals (though,

Certain intervals of

And

plants, there

pain. Pleasure

and pain. Humans'

more complex because humans experience

stimuli than

effect.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only pleasure and

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a combination of pleasure

nostalgia

chording

chords

sound

alas,

the reverse

internal

a wider range of is

often true).

are almost universal in their emotional

they can be formulated. Hence, there are compositions

which are relatively made to order for ceremonial use. Though there is some divergence of response between Eastern and Western ears, certain combinations of sound engenders

atavistic

responses analogous to

all

human beings. Which musical First

though

all, I it

selections

may

involve editing.

lem by accompanying the playing in order that tially

matic

may

creating the music pilot",

would

choose

would combine passages from rite

for ceremonial purposes?

several compositions,

even

often solve this time-consuming prob-

the organ.

have recorded myself

experience the additional satisfaction of par-

which

required.

and pre-recorded music

The organ

put on "auto-

issues forth or an assistant takes

over.

For a Gothic the organ

mood which will enhance an

works of Bach, Couperin,

perfect. Faure's

archetypical Satanic Mass,

Vidor, Franck,

and

Palestrina are

Requiem and Pavanne likewise.

For a less-traditional yet strong element of solemnity,

movement from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, If

you wish

the second

second movement

Funeral and

Tri-

to invoke feelings of power, nothing

can

from Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, or

umphal Symphony.

the

try

Berlioz'

beat the following: the opening measures of Gomez' Overture to

Music For the

Guarany, the crashing climax to the ners overture to Tannhaiiser, and

first

his

Ritual

Chamber

Wag-

act of Puccini's Turandot,

Magic

Music and Ride of the

Fire

Valkyries from Die Walkure, the finale of Lalo's Le Roi d'ys, the

Napoleon Bevonulasa from Kodaly's Haryjanos, The Great Gate

Kiev

from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and Also Sprach Zarathustra

by Richard

Strauss.

between power, compassion and sacred love can be

transition

effected

by compositions

Handel's Largo from Xerxes, the Trio and

Apotheosis from Gounod's Faust, Va Pensiero from Verdi's Nabucco, the

Overture to von Flotow's Martha, Sibelius' Finlandia, the "Dracula"

theme from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, the same composer's overture

Romeo and Juliet, Wagner's

Liebestod from Tristan

and Isolde, and

the

Granadinas from Callejo-Barrera's Emigrantes. For purely sensual purposes, the unholy musical Orff's Carmina Burana and Samson and Delilah

be Ravel's Bolero, Saint-Saens'

These are but a few of the seemingly endless

trinity

surely must

the Bacchanale

lists

from

of suitable musical

random and based upon productive past use. I have excluded evocative music of a more popular nature because, like

selections,

everyone

chosen

else,

have

personal favorites which are readily identifi-

able with meaningful situations. Perhaps

you, and

will

be seen

responsive individuals

that

many

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; favor

the

one day

Satanists

same

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

tunes!

shall share

like other

them with

emotionally

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by Anton LaVey

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comes as no surprise that the televangelists are being cashiered on fronts, either

all

through scandal or absurdity. People are wising up

about the Swaggerts and the Roberts and Bakkers only because

them

for

be allowed

time

wise up. Why? Because the Christ-sellers were

beginning to compete with the very god that they were employing: TV.

Church was the great controller

In previous centuries, the

morality, stifling free

and music. Today we have

art

all

great

television dictating fashions, thoughts,

once did the Church, using many of the same

attitudes, objectives as

techniques but doing

so palatably that no one notices. Instead of

have fear of being judged unaccept-

by our peers (by not wearing

the right running shoes, not drinking

"sins"' to

able

dictating

expression and posing as conservator of

keep people

in line,

the right kind of beer or wearing the

wrong kind

of imposed insecurity concerning our

own

Christian sole salvation concept, television

exposure to

TV can the sins

don't have to

was too much work.

trol

and church comes

presence from the

tells

people

Borrowing the

that only

through

of alienation and ostracism be absolved.

go out

that

of deodorant), and fear

identities.

early

Sunday mornings

Now all we have

to get religion

click the

—

remote con-

Were intimate with television's comforting moment we pop out of our mother's womb; indeed, to us.

TV is omnipresent, shadowing us more than the obsolete God shadowed Joan of Arc. There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall now they're even small

—

enough

to carry in

your pocket

tioned part of everyday

our

the

screen —

When God Almighty, the

hand,

and

all that's

Church based

It is

an unques-

Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with in

flipping channels (chapters

flashing

life.

TV Guide concordance

like electronic rosaries.

its

maintain the illusion of choice

verses).

important

doesn't matter what

that the

TV stays

mandate on the Holy Bible

on.

as the

word

brought out the doubters because their claim

The New God 85

Evangelists Vs.

betrayed a glaring lack of

logic.

The Holy Fathers devised

masquerades

as •entertainment/' there's

no room

for doubt.

premises are being advanced, so no one has any cause to

how much

ter

the necessity

hopes of covering up the inherent problems. But when TV

for "faith" in

a free thinker

ence of television in your

you believe you

life.

No absurd No mat-

resist.

are. there is

To deny TV now would be

the influ-

still

as atheistic as

denying the existence of God.

Ingersoll

had

Naturally the televangelists

be cut

The ends

the sheep from the shepherd.

off

— they were

alienating

same as they always have been. Sheep must be kept in line and encouraged to deposit money in the right places. But the televangelists became too greedy in their invoking of God, siphoning off too big a chunk of money for themare the

selves.

That's

why

"Good" and

the present "religious war"

"Evil."

It is

isn't

being waged between Media (the State)

Churches (Catholic and otherwise)

who

atheistic

them

ing

game.

— we have learned how own

at their

are tying

of valuable property and assets. As Satanists, realizing this early in the

between any forces of

vs.

millions of dollars

have the advantage of

has never been enough for us to be to

smash

game, using the

religious ignorance

beat-

own manufactured

Christians'

fears to destroy them.

can use

propaganda machine. The stage

as a potent

the infusion of true Satanic philosophy ing) music to

accompany

set for

and potent (emotionally

inspir-

and pentagrams. Instead

the inverted crosses

of holding our rituals in chambers designed for a few dozen people are

moving

their fists

into auditoriums

crowded with

;

ecstatic Satanists thrusting

much

forward in the sign of the horns. As

"bad press" as the

— — mention of The Satanic Bible only

Church of Satan has received from the media over the past few years Satanic child abuse, sacrifices, etc.

points people in our direction. Perhaps that's the plan, after

The key don't try the

to use television

new

stuff

If it

out the window,

do in

devices. vital

and

must allow

living

stratification to

it.

Munitions makers

takes turning your televi-

be reckoned with, and must not be taken

sion to the wall or throwing to

and not be used by

out on themselves.

all.

it.

develop so

can be established and maintained.

are adversaries

by our own that a

infernal

world

for the

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The Satanic Bible I provided some example of how modern was modifying itself to keep in step with diabolical advances. Now it's time to recognize yet another manifestation. Many of you have already read my writings identifying TV as the new God. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now television is In

Christianity

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

New Satanic religion.

the major mainstream infiltration of the

The

birth of

The

icance.

TV was

first

April 30th, 1939, at the tion has

television.

now

are

New York

World's

been so gradual, so complete,

need

don't

a magical event foreshadowing

Satanic signif-

Since then,

Fair.

that

no one even

church any more; they get

What began modestly

satellite sishes

replacing crosses

its

commercial broadcast was aired on Walpurgisnacht,

as rabbit ears

and antennas

on top

TVs

infiltra-

noticed. People

their morality plays

top of family

sets

pridefully dominating the skyline,

of churches. The

set,

or Satanic family

has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the

tiny,

altar,

fuzzy

screen to huge "entertainment centers" covering entire walls with several

has

monitors.

become

What

in itself a

started as

an innocent

replacement for real

respite

life

from everyday

life

for millions, a major reli-

gion of the masses.

The consumer society

society in

once governed by

which we

religion for

ing the holy bible, right or wrong,

buy and what not tates

were

infiltration,

to buy.

in fashion it's

liable to

an extension of the

centuries. Instead of obey-

now instructs what to tolerated when scriptural dic-

as the

Word. Now, thanks

don't believe in God. " But

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not conforming a â&#x20AC;&#x201D; be punished with is

many

live is

advertising

Atheism wasn't

and accepted

safe to say,

now

to Satanic

modern heresy

television lifestyle, not accepting television truths as

much

righteous enthusiasm as ever.

Some

The

clergy of the

particular,

who

Evidence

New

Satanic Age, Part

religion are those entertainers, newscasters in

Word from

nightly spread the

The network newscasters

High

are the

Priests

their cathode-ray pulpit.

and High

Priestesses of

Satanism, bending the minds of viewers to the requirements of con-

sumer marketing. The

local newscasters are the parish priests, yawking,

ribbing and emoting over the latest local tragedies. Celebrities, whether local or national, are cloth.

part of the hierarchy of the church,

on scenes of devastation

arriving to report all,

all

men

There should be no complaint regarding network High

of the Priests

in white stretch limos. After

same

they are royalty within the Church and should be accorded the

privileges as a visiting Pope, Cardinal or Archbishop.

There

no way

a person can escape religion as long as he

living

environment. Situation comedies, dramatic series and soap

in a religious

operas are broadcast day and night seven days a sustain the lifestyles of the parishioners, practiced daily devotions.

God. As

to the Christian

week

and

to activate

where before only

fanatics

The masses committed only one day, Sunday,

I've said before, the

TV Guide

the

new

con-

cordance. Tabloids and news magazines supply the instructions for pious

living.

devotion has become so pervasive that even motion

pictures are today presented in the

same

fast-cut, limited

information

style.

As the Satanic

stratification increases (aided

machine), one of our tasks

people according to stimulators,

their

develop a graduated system to type

lifestyle.

can be identified by the

At the bottom

the

level of

perfect a

Someone

that

and support it is,

lows everything

keeping

his free time

opposed

person

who

does something

that

doing things should receive respect

how productive his activity is, how solitary how disruptive is.

lives his life for television. Like a religious nut,

going on in the media and doesn't find

anything

their

knowledge

They

should be regarded as the most highly evolved.

know

others.

influence.

stimulation.

proportion to

The TV Junkie sary to

skill

spends

how benign

TV saturation and

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the vegetable. At the top â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the ultimate provider of Con-

trary to prevailing Christian values, a

hone and

Various levels, from spectators to

Compleat Spectator

Compleat Entertainer

the

by the diabolical

else.

Many TV Junkies

to themselves

fol-

neces-

are not satisfied with

and force

are comparable to the zealots

acumen Good Book

their slave's

who carry the

88 The Devil's Notebook

around with them, preaching the Word of the Lord to each and every person they encounter.

The well-known Couch Potato inhabits the next

He's an invet-

level.

who has the TV going all the time like talking wallpaper. Perhaps he has TV screens within screens, or two or three sets blasting at once. He is equivalent to the bible reader who has the erate

watcher, one

Good Book

present at

one on

the living room, er reachable

Junkie, the

list is

Although

and cannot or media

the

input.

times, in every

his nightstand,

toilet.

Couch Potato

Next on the lar basis.

all

one handy

Though not

The small-time

anoth-

in the kitchen,

TV range.

who

the casual Christian

Christian,

bibles in

quite as evangelical as the

rarely strays out of

will not entertain

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ornate family

room

watches on a

nevertheless influenced

fairly

regu-

television

anything outside the parameters of

parishes, inhabited

local newscasters,

are the "true believers." Finally,

done

get the professionals

who

and because of the nature of

giosity,

atop this spectrum of

sit

their jobs, realize

reli-

what must be

to maintain their professional or occupational status. Like highly-

placed Vatican leaders, they never really believe what they're saying.

Once

it's

been resolved

in a Satanist's

able proponent of Satanism in to

remove himself from the

Rabbi or minister that

its

The lower clergy can deny the television,

much

in his secret

his parishioners to

that

practical form, then

firing line,

who doesn't,

he admonishes

most

mind

life,

adhere

a very

he may want

like the Jesuit priest or

go along with every

rule

to.

truth about the devilish plot

but identification has been made.

work-

will

be impossible

behind to dis-

pel the equivalents that I've pointed out. They'll have a hitch in their

brain every time they report er

them

actions

Priests of Satanism.

more It

and behavior toward us

Satanic hysteria,

knowing we consid-

cannot help but influence their in the future.

attitude,

3toeet SfoUerty

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what a waste of precious masochism that

Sainthood, martyrdom

could instead be directed towards the most profane infatuation. Love

cannot exist without

known each

role

;

a master/slave relationship.

would not

only role which can be

But who. having

desirable

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nay, the

felt.

even the master

In love,

find slavery the

constantly monitored by the contrivances

necessary to sustain slavish adoration. Far better to experience anguish.

To be ria,

requires

effort,

demands no

loved, feelings must

criteria,

be rationed. To

imposes no

love, the

total

limits.

doors of hyste-

madness may be flung open.

fantasy,

Pick an idol, grovel well and suffer in ecstasy.

be idolized four-fold by

others. Just

make

Then you

in turn will

sure your love object

not

too rationally chosen, for compulsion and rationality seldom coexist. is

easier to love a tyrant, a nitwit, an anomaly, than perfection, for the

masochism of love demands debasement unobtainable through

sterling

sources.

The pure

are admired, but never desired for anything other than as

soap for the soul.

It is

one, and in foolishness

little

young

love, being the

In essence,

ber me.

translation.

fool

how

adolescence

As one grows tively.

the imperfect that

it is

a fool of

return to childhood.

worth a ton of hoary profundity. That

most

older,

compels and makes

irrational, is the

why

most consuming.

one does not love longer. 'Recognize

stronger, only

me,

my love."

more collecbut "Remem-

loves." Vision turned to reverie unfortunately suffers in the

There

may be no

fool like

fun, for the foolishness

fraught with desperation.

an old fresh

fool,

and

but being a young

invigorating,

no matter

a (<1osct SRiSor^mSt

(foiifcosioit* of

HAVE LONG HELD W. SOMERSET

and whatever

certainly a first-rate Satanist, tions

may have

in spite of

—

been, he really

his casting of

his stories, those very

MAUGHAM

own

HE WAS

sexual preoccupaof

weak, wanton, yielding and

—

rather than

fallen

women

females became stronger than his male characters.

show from

Maugham's debauched

Lost,

his

knew women. Because

Like Milton's heroic Satan stealing the

Paradise

HIGH ESTEEM.

floozies

the

Heavenly hosts

emerged with stronger

personas than his conscience-stricken, meaning-of-life seeking heroes.

Somehow,

reducing

women to weak

and vulnerable

creatures, humil-

iated as only a confirmed misogynist could portray them,

evoked an that

essential as well as eternal female.

makes

It is

Maugham

that very essentialness

a well-adjusted, heterosexual misogynist a

bulwark against

most devastating form of defeminization.

the

misogynist requires an imperfect and flawed yet feminine form of

woman

in order to properly exercise his disdain. His disdain

course, based ates

jealousy.

dualistic yearnings

overtly

and

mannish or dominant

it's

far better to

be used than

pubescent excesses and youthful errors never the type

always met that

enough

dates

types.

women

Eventually

becoming

a slave to

home

was

a to

have

— since

meet

was

their folks.

elicited a certain

fact

appeal to

therefore understandable that aggresis

such a creature) gravitated to me.

was, because of

like a contradiction in terms, if

womanizer.

my enthusiasm

demandingly masochistic women.

which can be depleting

cre-

for exploitation. In

useless.

— been

undoubtedly

(yes, there

realized that

critter

prearranged and clandestine places. The

as a "heavy"

Sweet Gwendolyn sively passive

that girls felt secure bringing

appeared

woman

simply contemptible as a useless

too proud for burden and not attractive other words,

is,

is.

also a very real

unrecognized and unchecked.

and

naivete,

that

sounds

phenomenon,

Confessions of a Closet Misogynist 91

There

a great deal of

misunderstanding about misogyny similar to

misunderstanding of sadism. As related

that of the stock

The Satanic

Bible,

an epicurean sadist does not go about insulting people, pulling

wings

off butterflies, or tossing

An obnoxious person awareness

banana peels

in front of senior citizens.

invariably a latent masochist with

that his baiting

demeanor

ance. Similarly, an apparent superstud insulter of his

women who

vocabulary with offensive terms for female genitalia

homosexual

lorn

who

little self-

simply punch-in-the-nose insur-

harbors no love/hate feelings for

sprinkles

usually a for-

women. He

only aggravated by them because they are in competition for his

He may

strongest cravings: other men. to himself, so

he gravitates

and they

ally latent lesbians,

not even admit these yearnings

man-hating women, usu-

to correspondingly clinically

swing together amidst groups of

other "liberated" souls.

true misogynist

a straight

for women and realizes woman wields, secretly admires

pushover nine

before

captures him.

By reducing

finds himself in the role of a tyrant. erate tyrant, but

sive

too often a

all

women

really loves

will

it.

him of the

be argued

not

at stake,

a truly femi-

woman

to a role of servitude,

let

him

an expan-

effect

essential to his masculinity.

By not

benign and consid-

consideration goes a short way.

little

He con-

displaying archetypical signals of

ultimate expression of his masculinity.

that the foregoing only indicates insecurity of one's

masculine prowess or self-doubt. This

man

a potential

power, and seeks to capture

He wants

and pleasing sexual delineation

this

but the poor things won't

sequently hates them for femininity they rob

— because he — resents the power

man who

not the case, for prowess as a

but rather identity and counter-identity of a harmo-

nious nature are threatened. The desired merger

one of

a Yin- Yang

correspondence. It

might be

fair to state that a

misogynist

often really punishing the

—

whom

•pure*"

female for the sins of the impure" pretender

would

either feel patronizing ridicule or else inflexible anger. Speaking

for

Maugham's type of woman, just as the types depicted by Rubens, Renoir and Reginald Marsh. They are considered "com-

for myself,

idealize

mon*' types, but are actually quite

voluptuous

woman

uncommon. A

with a personality to match

soft, yielding,

a rarity

nowadays.

92 The

Devil's

Notebook

With an overabundance of the opposite kind, Pan would be hardpressed for

nymphs and could not be blamed

his syrinx

went

flat.

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SRetrigfiontem

$toe -^ourt program

In recent years we've wasted far

too much time explaining that Satanism

has nothing to do with kidnapping drug abuse child molestation, ani;

mal or child

sacrifice,

or opportunists rational

would

philosophy

something

for

or any

that

;

number of other

like to credit

that millions of

us with. Satanism

people adhere

lines that are clear, concrete

and

Each

what we're

just

explaining our

set of goals

whether they wish

reflects attitudes

— guide-

which allow oth-

to align themselves with

necessary for Satanic change to take place.

'doing.'' here's the

ready

that will effect significant changes.

The following Five -Point Program ers to decide

a life-loving,

Now we're

to.

goes quite a few steps beyond

Every revisionist movement needs a

principles.

not.

acts that idiots, hysterics

Satanism or

When

asked

answer:

— The point on which others ultimately — only mediocThere can be no myth of equality Stratification

for

and supports the weak

rity

rest.

all

translates to

the expense of the strong. Water

must be

its own level without interference from apologists for Xo one should be protected from the effects of his own

allowed to seek incompetence. stupidity. 2) Strict

their

taxation of all churches

—

churches were taxed for

income and property, they'd crumble overnight of

lescence,

and the National Debt would be wiped out

their

own

all

obso-

as quickly.

The

productive, the creative, the resourceful should be subsidized. So long as the useless

and incompetent

are getting paid they should ;

be heavily

taxed. 3)

into

tolerance for religious beliefs secularized

law and order

issues

— Re-establishing Lex

complete overturning of the present Christian ideals,

where

in-justice

the victim/defender has

and

incorporated

Talionis will require a

system based on Judeo-

been made the

criminal.

94 The

Devil's

Notebook

Amnesty should be considered for anyone in prison because of his alleged "influence" upon the actual perpetrator of the crime. Everyone is influenced in what he or she does. Scapegoating has a

life,

tian

means of survival

for the unfit.

become

way

As an extension of the Judeo-Chris-

cop-out of blaming the Devil for everything, criminals can gain

even

leniency,

praise,

by placing blame on

a convenient villain. Follow-

ing the Satanic creed of "Responsibility to the responsible," in a Satanic

everyone must experience the consequences of

society,

actions, for

good or

Development and production of artificial

The forbidden

his

own

ill.

An economic

industry.

everyone "power" over someone cally feasible slavery.

And

the

human companions

—

"godsend" which will allow

else. Polite, sophisticated, technologi-

most

and the

profitable industry since T.V.

computer. 5)

The opportunity for anyone

behavioral standards of same — trolled

ones. al

to live

within

Privately

environment of

total

to the aesthetic

and

owned, operated and con-

environments as an alternative to homogenized and polyglot

The freedom

well-being.

to insularize oneself within a social milieu of person-

opportunity to

feel,

see and hear that which

aesthetically pleasing, without interference lute or detract

This cacy. So will

mandatory adherence

his or her choice, with

from

from those

who would

most pol-

that option.

the encapsulated version of the current thrust of Satanic advo-

when somebody

be qualified to

tell

asks you, "Well, what

him. To further explore

Satanists do?",

some

you

of these points,

read the following.

This

When

Must Never Happen Again

a point of critical

the "package"

came

mass

in will

the cliched "This Must Never ries

never

reached sell

— the point of no return —

any more. There

Happen Again." But

and evolutionary strangulation to focus them

will

always be

takes painful

memo-

into an effective

warn-

ing.

The American

Civil

War

— the destruction of Atlanta,

against brother, son against father, wreaking carnage

ground. This must never happen again

brother

on common

Pentagonal Revisionism 95

— mechanized warfare,

The First World War crushed on foreign

hometown boys by metal monsters. This must never happen

soil

again.

The Second World War

— holocausts and nuclear leavings.

This

must never happen again.

War—

The current Third World

human

locusts overrunning the

world, necessitating the thinning out of populations because the Rule of the Fool has, for the tion

time in history, threatened to destroy

first

and evolution. This must never happen

accommodate war be resolved?

Until space colonies

how will

this

Technology has

left

human

again!

the teeming,

propagation of consumers

How

humans

the cost of

huddled masses,

self-awareness in the dust. Surely,

would be simpler and more economically could not survive.

civiliza-

to isolate

practical to continue the

human

evolution. But the earth

and evolve genetically superior

the great task of stratification.

Space Ghettos

we all must become "productive members of sociA universal society? A stratified society? A personallysociety?

has been said

ety."

What

chosen society? "No," comes the reply from the ty,

"the society

no more Rome ferent in

you in

live

which

most ways

— when

within to

— ways

as the

dictators of acceptabili-

Rome.

." .

But suppose there's

Romans? Suppose Rome

that really

count

dif-

— than Hong Kong, Mexi-

co City or Los Angeles? stratification

means

whatever you wish. Bet

ghettoization, let

let's

have different

be. Call

insularism

rules for different people,

providing there are different environments. Regulations imposed

who thrive in a who have chosen to lead a monastic life. Nor should the of a monk be imposed on those who prefer to spend their

tions

upon

cesspool should not be imposed upon

the dwellers

those

—

restric-

time in

the drawing room. Let's face

suits

— most people

them, and they thrive

cloning, they cannot

with

its

are locusts, part of a herd. it.

Herd behavior

Through chromosomal and conditional

be otherwise. The solution

new kind of ghetto,

regulations, restrictions, status symbols, incentives

and benefits

96 The

Devil's

tailored to

Notebook its

tion has

even though

produced a very

withstanding,

new

the

large ghetto, but ghetto

dampen

must not be

easy.

Space limitations

The

desirability of

The herd has been softened up

the enthusiasm of these pioneers

When ghettos become any

cost.

by the term

"new frontiers."

the mainstream of society, islands of individu-

cannot help but harbor an at

it is.

ghettos will be space ghettos.

"space ghetto." Better to refer to

ality

however,

media since the days of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. But

please, don't

tioned

all,

occupies most of the land. Mongreliza-

Outer Space migration has made to

Above

inhabitants' needs.

called a "ghetto,''

elite.

And

that earthly elite

must be sanc-

§e§tntcttoe

who

Vandals, those

destroy and deface objects and property other

than their own, should,

punished

©tgmu§m§

in a fitting

when apprehended, be

manner.

a painting

slashed, the perpetrator of that act should to deface, the defacer's

irregular

its

in a

be eviscerated.

museum

paint

used

countenance should be permanently dyed in an

and repellent manner.

wantonly ripped up by the of

destroyed, or at least

hanging

a carefully

roots, the culprit's

tended shrub or plant

arm should be ripped out

socket.

No one dalism

destroy.

has the right to harm or destroy another's belongings. Van-

seldom motivated by

who

Those

but simply an urge to

profit or revenge,

degree of respect for inanimate things as the do for cry out

their acts to

show

same themselves. They

indulge in gratuitous destruction

the

be destroyed.

Vandalism has for too long been paid scant attention, simply because, "after theatre seat."

all, it's

It's

only a tree or statue, windshield, schoolroom, or

assumed these

things can be repaired or replaced,

unlike crimes involving bodily harm. But the value of a painting which

has been slashed should be recognized for more than

its

worth. Inanimate though

ers'

pleasure

defaces

— and

is,

the painting contributes far

life itself

— than does the

monetary to oth-

living creature

who

it.

Immunity from punishment goads the vandal tive lifestyle.

ment, to the

"thrill" killer

be apprehended,

pursue

his destruc-

only slightly removed, and often identical in tempera-

he'll

who knows that even if he should draw much of a sentence. The latent killers

of animals,

not

on animals or inanimate objects because, quite simply, they can get away with it. If these destroyers hate themselves so much, proclaiming their uselessness by wanton acts of cruelty to organic take out their self-hatred

or inorganic things, then they

be perennial open season.

make

ideal

game

for

which there should

makt

(floHjcs

t\)c

ZUm

The consciousness of being perfectly well dressed

may

bestow a peace such as religion cannot give.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Herbert Spencer HOW

OFTEN HAS BEEN HEARD THE EXPRESSION, "A SLAVE TO FASHION."

now

once described a fop or clotheshorse

become

one. Fashion in clothing has

type of "police

state''

uality. Ironically,

formist,

applies to practically every-

a tool with

who

to individ-

unwittingly playing right into the hands of the puppet master.

the past he

Just as

to create the

fear the worst, the self-professed non-con-

mistakes mediocrity for individuality, and

temporary

which

dreaded by most as an impending threat

those

WHAT

all

the while he laughs at

becomes an unwitting embodiment of the worst kind of conkitsch.

one

will

pay plenty

for a

economy and will pay anything

new economy

to get

ever clothing standards are foisted

it")

car ("Americans love

so will most conform to what-

upon them, so long

it is

accompa-

nied by a convenient rationale. Consider the development of trousers for

women.

came with "emancipation." Even though

were becoming

looser,

women

dom of movement." Through worn

started

sexual mores

wearing trousers for

the 1940s to the present time

their "free-

women have

pedal pushers, and whatever else was in

slacks, capris,

style,

long as they could spread their limbs in comfort. In so doing they have established a standard of prudery that

would make

Victoria look

bawdy

by comparison. Amidst carefully programmed porn, a

slick

primness unrivaled in Western culture. In

become accustomed and

proctologists.

human

genitalia in

to depictions

their

most aseptic

all

exists

today

freedom people have

once only accessible

One can purchase its

and abundant,

manner of

to gynecologists

material depicting

glory. Yet try to catch a glimpse of

Clothes

bare leg on a

woman

ticoats couldn't

much

down

walking

Make

the Slave 99

the street. Turn-of-the -century pet-

a better job of concealing a nasty ankle or calf so

as a shapeless pair of pre -washed denim.

portraying the labia of emancipated

when

lady display an inch of bare thigh

Photo essays abound

women, but where

in public dares a

not swimming, playing tennis or

sunbathing? Saint Pantihoes doth protect her upper limbs from the gaze of the heathen. Lust

comes packaged

an instruction book, a

sensitivity class,

automated grope session, a chess-like game played by robot-like

Homosexuals

pants.

games, but

The referees have

their

own

played by robots, for their

own

rules

are the referees.

theirs are less often

(which they themselves have made) are the most conducive

ed behavior. Sounds leather,

contradictory? Not really. Amidst

SM, posturing and drag,

sexuals have not been

duped by

heterosexual stupidity and

who

any attempt to change

and are the

the prudes,

pliability.

is,

all

Homosexuals

sex.

Homo-

beneficiaries of

are the only

people

more hung-up than

rest are

they don't

to unaffect-

the plumage,

an aura of gut-reaction

have approached sexual freedom. The

ever before, and the sad thing

partici-

know

and would resent

their situation.

The growing acceptance of homosexuality (which was needed to decrease the birthrate) manifested its influence on standards of dress and physical desirability. Soon men appeared more feminine and

women more began

masculine, and a monster called

to creep forth.

and the

woman

sex differentiation'"

the 60s, classic archetypes of comeliness

reversed. Most likely, the feature,

;

man would make

a better

could easily pass for a

man

woman, if

were

feature for

she added a

little

fake stubble or beard.

The

true act of

blasphemy

achieved more by violating certain stan-

dards of dress than by political dissent, as Herbert Spencer proclaimed.

You may

think

you

are protesting social inequity or sexism

by wearing

poverty-chic or gas station elegance. Patched, faded, ragged, stained,

wrinkled or drab. re-creation,

you

can't exercise a

keen sense of innovation or to wear a uniform. Perhaps

may have dawned on you

and patched mechanic's jumpsuit or some other frayed uniform of the dehumanized. Who says 1984 hasn't come home to a frayed

roost?

mmtrz 8<tÂŁt Stairt Everybody loves a winner. Everybody loves a loser as well. The

known

in-betweens, the neglected nonentity

who

those

receive

like hell to get more.

Nobody

cursed by a mediocre

lifestyle

more downtrodden than he

One

A guy

gratuities.

as the middle class, are

with a

little

him anything

gives

money must work

for nothing.

affluent than

is,

richer.

The

of course, accurate.

is.

consantly hears that the middle class pays the

which

one

he can progress only by appearing either

The

rich get richer

bills for society,

and the poor get

struggler gets nowhere. Religious orders have thrived

...

contrived poverty by posing as beggars in dire need. Welfare recipients

never worry where next month's rent will

eschew

driver's insurance),

traceptives, education, legal aid,

can wear

food stamps, and more. Furthermore,

rags,

go unwashed,

sit

lie

creases need be kept in trousers, grease

and

rips

upholstery, easily

ground, or rooftop.

may go unmended, food may be

sorship,

it.

austerity

boosted by

the floor,

to lose

one need not

feel like a big shot

Then he

clothing,

that

cannot

slightest talent will is little

glam-

this lifestyle attracts aid,

spon-

for there

affluent circumstances,

whose

acts of charity.

The lowest have nothing

and poverty,

The humility implied by

and support from those

self-esteem

himself.

spilled over garments,

be replaced, often by the same method. The

or to obscure

can

floor,

and dust may decorate

and rugs with impunity. Nothing can be stolen

soon be recognized amidst

sleeps

from, have cars (but

appearance frees one from the rigors of good grooming; one

destitute

tears

come

medical care, color TVs, grass, booze, con-

when he

and everything

to gain.

When one

pipsqueak

fear falling out of bed. is

around those

will react to his feelings of

who

have

less

than

grandeur by patronizing the

nonentity, not realizing that his inferior probably has greater security

and comfort than

himself.

Babbitt's Last

The lowest pay no

taxes, are dismissed

from

tithings

can be extracted from them by

factors of religious charities.

however,

and other

jury duty

public servitude, yet are provided with police and

protection.

fire

religions, yet

Stand 101

they are the bene-

they form the most ad hoc religious body,

presumed poverty ensures them cooperation from

their

tax

boards, enabling them to extract tax-free plunder from others. They are truly a privileged class.

Because a loser

threat to anyone,

ideal candidate for

by those who

love and kindness, bestowed in even greater abundance

consider weakness a virtue. At the other end of the spectrum, a winner is

respected and

somewhat

who

ready supplicants

however

Those

and because he

do much

will

lends identification.

slightly,

he desires something and nition.

feared,

who

soon popular but

later

That

price.

broke.

To know him,

popular hero need but hint that

understand the poseur's need

advantage by raising the

at the top, will find

to curry his favor.

be provided by one

will

why

Whoever can

who

wishes recog-

impress will take

full

money

are

a fool affect a

and

his

convincing impres-

many

sion of wealth, culture and influence, however, will find

bestowed upon him. Others of

and

lesser bearing

by charging

Persons

less

high circles

than normal. live

a tacit understanding that

something to be discussed and displayed tle

necessity to their

own

ize a certain restaurant

the celebrity celebrity's

and

name

his

not see him coming"

unconsciously ''buy" an ego-gratify-

raise the price, but instead will

ing affinity

favors

will

sovereignity.

to the

lower

A famous

classes,

personage

money but of

lit-

will patron-

where an anangement has been made permitting

entourage free meals in exchange for the use of the

column

items,

which seldom neglect

a big tipper (encouraging social climbers to

mention

that

Most

likewise).

importantly, a celebrity's presence adds prestige to any establishment.

There are strong both the lowest

class

similarities

and

between the bestowal of

the highest.

rather trades his stature for his gifts

The public

benefits to

figure gets

free,

which are provided by those who

require his presence or sanction, that they might collect from the struggles.

take

The

strugglers

money

other forms of forts to

pay the

rich

man's

bills as

well as the poor's.

make money, but when money becomes

wampum

will sustain the adage.

accrue additional comforts;

less valuable,

takes creature

power begets power:

may

com-

influence pro-

102 The Devil's Notebook

vides greater influence. These things

money must I

at least

with money, but

To obtain and

acquire,

one

present an image of either poverty or affluence.

foresee a time

when

the "upper" class will flourish

ed form of barter while the iower" each according

State,

may be obtained

not mandatory for their attainment.

to his ability

class will

a sophisticat-

be provided

and needs. There

will

for

by the

be no "middle

class." If

one of the lower

come

the ordered

and dependent

unit cannot provide

able. Lest this

read

and anguish are vails in the

be a

life

provided the lower

In such a society a certain degree of strife ily

ability,

dependence upon the

Conversely,

impositions

upward-motivation with

State and move to the higher member of the higher class finds discomfort in the made upon him by his peers and surroundings, he will wel-

will discard his class.

class displays

Utopian fantasy,

should be realized that

essential to a Utopia since a touch of

most habitual

true Utopia, for

sadist.

would

class.

Where the fammust be made avail-

exist.

controlled outside turmoil

it,

like a

must

Utopia without problems

lack the dilemmas

void of intellectual lethargy and ineptitude.

strife

masochism pre-

and scandals

would not that

fill

the

GHfteb Scnsittoc*

Most occult

who

types

sensitive as a toilet seat.

call themselves "sensitives" are about as

One who

ceptibility to external stimuli.

often introverted.

or she

ness that characterize those

A few

truly sensitive

sensitive person

would

has increased susself-conscious

lack the colossal gall

and

who freely proclaim themselves

seers through the ages have realized

another person as their "front man." John

Jeanne Dixon had Ruth Montgomery.

One

this,

and

assertive -

"sensitives."

and wisely engaged

Dee had Edward

Kelly and

of the pair can then stick to

being sensitive while the other takes care of public exposure. I

have found the most highly-touted

"sensitives" to

be the

thickest-

skinned, densest, most parsimonious, callous and insensitive specimens

of humanity one could encounter. In certain circles

used

job,

you could become

son

isn't

psychic.

good

And they are

be said

either a

that

usually stupid as well.

you couldn't get

a legitimate

crook or a preacher. Nowadays

for anything else,

he can become

a per-

pusher or a gifted

Set Wit ÂŠntcttttin tyou

There are many fine techniques for maintaining yoijr identity as a

The best

Satanist without placing yourself in the role of entertainer.

method

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and

The

result

definitely not entertaining. For

The key even

consists of shattering another's cherished preconceptions

series of disappointments.

thrive

an uncertainty

your victim,

boredom. Most people welcome

insults.

There are those

who

that

is.

Some

a challenge.

find

unnerving

will

stimulating simply

soaking up another's presence without a word being spoken. But no

one

likes

There er

boredom. is

not a single person

who

not bored by something. Discov-

what bores another and you needn't worry

that

you. Since most people's entire lives are occupied

boredom, you or not

as a Satanist constitute a

you welcome

bly discovered,

that attraction

has

its

by attempts

tremendous

How many

someone

totally

same gathering boasts someone not only

receptive but stimulating. Clearly,

who is

Whether

another thing. As you have proba-

times have you been trapped into talking Satanism to

sponsible listener

to relieve

attraction.

advantages and disadvantages.

uninteresting to you, while the

vampirize

will

you who

bored and your

irre-

entertained.

Discourage the pest by boring him more than he bores you. Answer his questions

with long rambling narratives that veer completely away

from the topic

that

but

rupt,

insist

you'll get to

nothing

to interest

him so

greatly.

him

Don't

let

him

inter-

your story with apparent enthusiasm with

he must hear your every word.

the attitude that

him

seems

finishing

soon

you

finish

your

cut

in, tell

train of thought.

There

tries to

an excruciatingly dull and jargon-loaded digression

turn off the most persistent social parasite. If

you

are a natural

bore but have chosen to become a Satanist

order to compensate for your lusterless personality, read no further.

Let

you don't want

money

The sudden phone

you

found

It's

him

tell

like the caller

who

the building

won't

fire.

let

you get

The solution

where you

are concerned, yet expects

must attend

return. In other

something

words,

lie.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

I'll

pest

shows

instruction

on how

of the party. As a

but

little

responsibil-

Your conscience shouldn't bother you

how

bit.

interesting,

acceptable and entertaining. Emily Post and Dale

attractive, stimulating,

party,

problem

Leave him and don't

Carnegie are simple variants of 199 Ways To Pick Up

life

for the

one

phone

Cut him off with.

in return.

right back.''

With few exceptions, self-help books teach us

need

is "just

off the

in the Satanic Statement, "Responsibility to the responsible,

instead of concern for psychic vampires.'' ity

employ

a parasite,

or forgetting to have put

contingency encountered while attempting escape

question."

even

call,

You 105

Entertain

parking meter are the more obvious escape mechanisms.

in the

difficult

spend valuable time boring

the element of escape.

rest assured,

Girls,

Most people be the

to secure invitations to parties, let alone

known you

Satanist,

will

you may not be the

of the

life

arouse no small amount of curiosity and

speculation.

Don't entertain Jesus freaks by debating with them. Logic will get

you nowhere, nor

quoting scripture. You present a challenge to

will

those convinced of your malevolence. They secretly nourish the that

you

will

hope

submit to a long-winded exchange on theology followed

harrowing display of diabolical blasphemy. Give them nothing.

there are

no witnesses, maybe you might want

they bargained

for,

but

that's

to give

them more than

another story altogether.

An effective way to deal with "entertain me" types is the put-on. I'm many of you have practiced it in varying degrees: describing orgies, human sacrifices, cattle mutilations, etc., to wide-eyed listeners. The sure

problem with the put-on

that the

need

to believe

drastic

manner, send them away with

But

foolish,

you employ

which

left

their

will

have neither

still,

cherished fears

the put-on method, your quarry will

albeit in a

intact.

left

feeling

almost as unsettling as being bored. After assuring

themselves that you will

must be

so strong, enter-

You disappeared from them. You will

tainment/fear will linger long after your departure.

disappointed, bored or

make an

with a feeling that

entertaining or amusing pastime, they

who

have provided you with

distilled to:

Act deadly serious but

is is

amusement. The formula can be

they

106 The Devil's Notebook

appear

what

our visually-oriented world, looks mean

The "convinced or gimmick

everything.

ishness

Remember,

silly.

to guarantee a feeling of fool-

call "Satanic kitsch."

room with the most hokey Halloween bric-a-brac you room is red and black. If you can find a day-glo red, so much the better. Fill the chamber with as many obviously plastic artifacts as you can find. Halloween is the perfect time to stock up on Decorate

can

Make

find.

aibber bats,

and black

sure the

Halloween every

Above absolutely

and the

plastic pitchforks,

cat cutouts.

all,

Remember,

don't forget Jack-o-lantern

like,

you're a Satanist

it's

supposed

night.

while "entertaining," keep a straight face! Evidence true sense of

humor other than monster movie host puns show you "really do have a sense of

a nine-year-old level, just to

humor"

relief.

media start,

folks

and

with a sigh

civilians usually point to others,

serve your guest a Bloody

Mary with Lugosi aplomb.

Furnishings should be in awful condition. Try to seat your victim in a

lumpy armchair with

a strategically sprung spring

position while talking should, naturally,

be upon

(To construct such a throne, attach doodads

and

skulls to the top

from

and

like bats

and sprinkled with

silver

his ass.

devil heads

dais can

you can

fabric.

afford; or

woman,

Your shoes should be

the tasteful garments,

wear

and wrinkles, crooked seams and be pulled. Wear

you can keep

slightly

a straight face, stick

your forehead while your victim

at least

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

askew

just

some

isn't

rich fabric

and skimpy model showing

fit

Over

as possible.

Not a well-made cape of

thin

well-tai-

ensemble of good

and neat

as classic

a cape.

and quality workmanship, but a

a tasteful

be made

glitter.)

should be incongruous. Wear the most conservative,

Attire

Your

a seedy throne chair.

and arms of a regular armchair.

packing crate painted

lored suit

and

poking

creas-

one loose thread pleading

enough

be unnerving.

plastic suction

cup horns on

looking.

For background music try Disney's "Sounds of the Haunted Mansion"

album

or, if

you can

Grieg's "Hall of the sion, as

it's

record. Assistants

it,

the Portsmouth Sinfonia's version of

Mountain King." Don't use the

effective to frequently leave

can be employed

can keep a straight short or long

find

face.

Your

and droopy) of

to flip the

provided that they too

should wear

similar quality

or a taped ver-

your throne

to advantage,

assistants

ill-fitting

robes (too

and workmanship

your

Let

cape.

They should stand about looking

Now

the time

when you yank

You 107

Entertain

is humanly possible comments and answers.

sober as

while you entertain your victim with "sincere"

your victim has departed but

When

the carpet out from under.

is still

within earshot bellow forth the

loudest and most delighted laughter you and

hand can produce. Continue your whooping

whomever may be on you

until

are certain your

victim has vacated the immediate neighborhood.

I'm aware of the objections to the preceding technique.

argued

that instead of

convinced

making your victim

that Satanists are

fraternal convention, that

feel foolish,

might be

go away

beliefs seriously

You may strive. If

formed, a put-on can do more harm than good. That to select a victim

smug, despite

has a sense of

who

his

humor and

improperly per-

why

essen-

it is

conspicuously patronizing or condescend-

professed "sincere

interest.

a discriminating eye,

opinion of you will soar and

he'll

most

likely

your victim

you may be sure

want

imbued with

what he deserves:

It is

tip

that rare sort of perception,

a terrifying thing

to affiliate with you.

be fooled by

who knows

when

others.

a fool

will

not

have given him

ridicule.

the animals laugh

from Harlequin and the Joker.

likely to

and you

really

that his

Don't hold your breath, though. Chances are good your victim

exactly

and

feel that antics

aforementioned are a mockery of Satanism and can only under-

like the

mine the kind of dignity towards which we

ing;

will

better than raucous lodge brothers at a

you don't take your

therefore aren't worth taking seriously either.

tial

To be

you

the hunter.

imitate a fool well,

you

Take

are not

bluntly, albeit unoriginally: "A fool

indeed a wise man."

3n£mte

Myths are

DiftiitbUitg*

necessary. So are \lvnmade disasters. Natural disasters

Manmade

bring people together, without need for contrivance. ters

—wars, scandals, dilemmas of — must be contrived, nourished, and above inquisitions,

plots,

myths

all,

all

disas-

—

sorts

mob

they are essential to man's emotional needs. They are narcotic. The requires regular doses of scandal, paranoia

boredom

and dilemma

to alleviate the

of a meaningless existence.

What begins

as a seedling of reality germinates into a full-blown

myth, which in turn picks up constituents along the substance to

way who

confer

it.

One morning

in the sixth

decade of the 20th century of the

common

era a sanctified leader

was assassinated under circumstances

observers, both learned

and

nificance.

were convinced bore

casual,

large-scale conspiracy

was presumed.

— an

Master of a sect of the Knights Templar

neered the

sacrifice in

Hiram

seriously,

Clement and Philip the

burned

alive the

that

political sig-

In reality, the

Inquisitor General

Grand

— engi-

accordance with a tradition demanding a three-

fold sacrifice to avenge a grave injustice. Rites of

self-sustained, for

The

Inquisitor General took the

and brooded upon the dynastic Fair,

man who

which

in the 14th

held his corresponding

The Inquisitor General knew

that those

rule of

Pope

century tortured and office.

who

stood for

all

and exalted damsel

— one

a small part of his alter-ego.

To add

despised had caused the death of a

fair

whose demise had

killed

insult to injury, the

murder of the Angel from the Abyss was sanctioned

more than

by one who would usurp his Inquisitors throne, if permitted. In his mind dwelt the essence of DeMolay, just as others have harbored within themselves the engrams and cellular

memory

gone before. Crazy? Of course. Only small supposed folh'.

who have and insignificant men are of kindred ones

harbor such quirks. The great are thought to be

The moderately wise man knows

different.

He knows

immune that

are

Insane Ramblings 109 all

crazy, but stronger personalities shelter

And

the strongest

entire

men

cry in secret

world of sham and fakery, there

that

greater truth.

monarch whose

revels

crowd

in the

month of November,

The monarch whose

in his papal chariot.

charitably attributed to him,

thronging

grotesqueries.

inside the most. In this

the death of the exalted damsel rode through the

day

had prompted

more elaborate

and hurt

mob was

the

were unlike those so

rebels

and whose gaiety was unbridled. The

long amassed before the Green and cap 'ring upon

the Knoll.

That morn, a secret password

moved from lips

to waiting ears.

of Hiram Walker for Tubal Cain to toast the Morning

Hiram Walker was

delivered.

tramps the world.

And

dead began fice until,

glow

bloom anew.

fifth

wind

that

Verily,

grew with each succeeding

sacri-

and

softly

might depose the

sterile virgin

Rose of the World.

the

Emperor of

the

Hidden Realm, sensed

and bore himself nigh unto

the

Kingdom of Shadows, Having wreaked his the second tribute was

Grand

that unfoldment, that

Star.

a volley of shots rode the

then the rose which had been over one year

unrecognized,

as the

And

A fifth

Inquisitor, the

he might culminate

his three-fold retaliation.

prime vengeance in Dallas, a time passed exacted in that very

city

until

from where She was taken. And with the sec-

ond. Azrael came forth from out of the East to bear the sin for the mob.

Moon,

Shortly thereafter, as the Earthlings approached the tent

that very

maid who deigned murky waters.

all

Night.

Yet

its

And

comely

the Assassins, having witnessed the certitude of

then departed his office and

moved

into the

Deepest of

And

war ended.

own

dear

hard by his departure swelled a clamor.

mob cried for blood. And now the mouth of my raving still

with a blighted consort perished neath

to dally

The Grand Master of his vindication,

a dark por-

eve didst verify the third impending doom.

the

approaches

its

tail

and

jaws snap hungrily to grasp that barbed appendage.

"MYTH!"

among them

cries the

that

A still,

mob. "Give us MYTH!"

whimpers,

cajoling, "Truth

But a deafening roar ascends,

heard

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;make the myth be

true."

small voice

reiterating, elaborating, "Tell

us a scandal

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of mafia and CIA! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of Watergates and chaos and assorted "Of shortages and impeachments and

silent

deaths by

crises!"

secret means!"

110 The

Devil's

"Frighten us

Notebook

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with depression and

lapse of social structures states

and economic

and Cromwell reborn!

night.

breaking.

You have had enough scandal to think about.

But remember,

all this is

madness.

and the impending

col-

extinction! Tell us of police

Worry

Terrify us!

have told enough for one

The dawn

inflation

us!

TELL US!"

Sato of

We all react to what we behavior, so

Others disturb is

the

Whether you

and shapes. Some make us

Fear of

Hence we give our

would

attention

first

nature's highest

to sensory impres-

failure, fear

of lack of recognition, identity, acceptance. Fear

unknown. These

persist well

fundamental fears of starvation, harsh elements, and other

fears

have been pushed deep

into

our subcon-

did not fear the passage of time and death, nothing

Any shape

or spatial concept that triggers fear could therefore be

evil,

yet without such

"evil,"

there could also be

progress,

only complacency and stagnation. Needless to say, the fearsome fascinating

What shapes is

intensify fear?

pleasing,

because

points in drawings.

also

and awesome.

Those which are overbearing, unbal-

anced, jagged, confusing. The reason a triangle or pyramid in

Here

much

get done.

considered

form

good.

the prime mover.

more obvious physical scious.

feel

or not, the fear response

once, far back in racial memory,

of loneliness, rejection, annihilation, the after the

easily aroused. Since self-preservation

law, fear motivates.

admit

like to

sions that represent things that feared. Fear

$tttye$oi&

Just as sounds and odors influence our

visual patterns

us.

one most

see.

tfje

lot

its

perfect

complete, like the imaginary vanishing

has been written about Egyptian pyramids.

why:

They

are

awesome because they

are so big, but are pretty because

they are a perfect form. 2)

They

are Egyptian,

and the Egyptians were supposed

be smart

fellows. 3)

lot

of questions and theories can be connected with them.

Statements #1 and #2 are easy to understand. Statement *3 presents great riddles, like:

112 The

Devil's

Notebook

Why were

Because they looked good

pyramids

monarch desired without

built in that

A: Pyramids

built as big as a

fear of toppling over.

Why were they built? were the WPA

Q:.

shape?

way and could be

that

programs of Ancient Egypt. People had

be kept busy during slack periods, and monumental egos had to be

Had

served.

been

been radio or TV, smaller monuments would have

there

built.

What can they tell

That people were pretty

The way

us?

much the same

pyramid looks doesn't

spiracy theorists. Put the

an unconsciously scary image, ridge

really

same shape

a dragon's back.

then as they are now.

upset anybody, except con-

like the teeth

of a

The pyramid range

single vanishing point. Triangles

row and you saw or shark, or

in a contiguous

which

also disturbs since

get the

has

are imperfect are also dis-

turbing, especially in groups.

The most disturbing shape of perfect trapezoid

mid or

triangle

frustum.

all is

a trapezoid in

its

myriad forms.

a frustrated pyramid. In fact, the place

lopped

off to

make

a pyra-

actually called the

here, solid as can

a trapezoid

trapezoid says to the unconscious,

where

more massive than an ordinaiy block, but something's missing and it bothers you.'' Of course, you know what's missing: a triangular top, like the one with the eye on the back of a dollar bill. Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away be,

from the

real thing: the big trapezoid

cians are masters of misdirection

knew a

beneath

All

competent magi-

who

designed the seal

it.

and the Masons

thing or two.

Angles are space-planes that provoke anxiety

harmonious with natural

visual

behavior. Exceptions occur

orientation â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

where

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

will

that

is,

those not

engender aberrant

a sort of reverse polarity exists in a

Law

I've

places

Trapezoid 113

extreme mental imbalance or perversity, or perhaps even and awareness.

creature:

extreme

of the

rationality

always been interested in alleged haunted houses, strange

where unease was

present,

where murders and

were

suicides

fre-

quent, uninhabitable but seemingly innocuous areas and buildings,

abodes of consistent

such places, curious of them.

was

their origins

mansard

had

lives

been drawn

earliest years, I've

and circumstances associated with

by scenes of Mayan and Aztec temples, of

fascinated

drilling rigs, of trestles

ings with

occupants whose

failure to dwellers or

previously been tranquil. Since

oil-

and wartime bunkers, of lighthouses and build-

And

roofs.

of objects, too: the old-style coffin like an

elongated hexagon, the 1936 Cord sedan, the Baguette diamond, the slanted blade breaking the

symmetry of the

guillotine.

During the course of investigating alleged haunted houses or

areas,

person's

soon dismissed the prevailing

"spirit" restlessly

hanging about.

living entity's violent or tragic

the house

itself

was the

physical environment

alyzed or intensified I

was led

all

superstition,

occurred to

acts

blight-

deceased

even

that

demise provided a "haunting," perhaps

catalyst for their misfortune.

itself

i.e.,

played a major

committed

its

common

contemplate the

seemed

The place

role.

that the

either cat-

precincts.

denominator

that

all sites

outre or disturbed behavior possessed. In each case angles were present that violated either topographical or architectural tion.

symmetry and perfec-

"Comfortable" or psychologically secure configurations were either

lacking or subservient to planes that inspired hostility and I

examined

fear.

of cases dealing with structures supposedly haunted

files

or cursed with continuing failure, death, financial loss, insanity,

Many were

tragedy. ers

were

not.

A mansard

the haunted house.

fashion?

visually aberrant in the

Good

roof

Why did the

fairies' castles all

and gently rounded

de rigeur artists

flagrant manner.

every

artist's

fire,

Oth-

conception of

automatically render

them

in that

were depicted as having peaked towers

arches. Jolly elves lived in cottages with

corners and cake icing roofs. The quility in

most

good

snug and womblike homes with curlicues cut

Bluebeards and Frankensteins

all

rounded

folk dwelt in Graustarkian traninto the shutters.

lived in stark, monolithic,

and

grotesquely bastioned abodes. Frankenstein created change and reaction

by duplicating God's handiwork.

114 The

Devil's

The on

ers

Notebook

architecture of war: medieval storming towers, the martello tow-

and the

the English coast,

latter-day "mystery towers" resting

the sea bottom offshore, the Maginot

and Siegfried

marine sheds, pillboxes, bunkers, tank of armored vehicles and

marker

the very lavastone

traps, the deflective

sloping sides

gas chambers, atomic reactors

turrets,

in the desert

where

the

first

Manzi sub-

Lines, the

atomic

— and

bomb was

exploded. War creates change.

The mad buildings and Bosch;

in the

works of the painters of

the erratic sets in the schauerfilmen of

reaction, Breughel

Germany

Nosferatu, Metropolis; the bizarre staging of Nijinsky's capering; the truncated volcanic

—

Caligari,

suprahuman

eminence from which Disney produced

Tchort in Fantasia's '"Night on Bald Mountain;" the architecture of the

Bauhaus

— of Gropius and Poelzig — and Frank Lloyd Wright, the long

cursed pioneer, whose houseboy went berserk

seven persons and of Wright's fated

set fire to the house, exactly

when

killed

the construction

excursion into trapezoidal design was completed; the

first

Midway Gardens

The

and

at Taliesin

ill-

resort in Chicago. Art creates change.

of violence and sacrifice: the temples of the xMaya and

altars

Aztec magicians formed of trapezoids and sustained by the

sacrificial

blood of the chosen ones, the truncated pyramids upon which hearts

were cut from

living victims

and held

Hapikern. The same temples Mitchell-Hedges crystal

was autonomously tures

— Lepenski

The

aloft

citadel of

was

And

the

which

the tower in Lovecraft's

and send

its

Haunter of the Dark,

influence and the Great

forth their earthly emissary.

of Huxley and Lovecraft and Orwell and the devasta-

tion brought forth dalos.

in Bolivia

skull cults of neolithic cul-

Hacilar in Turkey and Jericho in Jordan.

the brine harken

literary rites

and

where the Yezidi towers of Satan beamed

wherein the shining trapezohedron beams

The

to Quetzalcoatl

Iskanwaya

The necropoli of

the world

forth their influence.

Old Ones from

and hot

visible in the striations of the

Vir in Serbia with every building in the settlement

trapezoidal in form, as

The same area of

skull.

Satanic.

made

by the angles

rites,

Frank Belknap Long's Hounds o/Tin-

in fact, of Quetzalcoatl

join the rites, in fantasy, of writers

and Hapikern and Mendes

who know

not the substance of their

own mediumship? In 1962

isolated

suppositions and distilled them into what

tenned "The Law of the Trapezoid."

had ample evidence

that spatial

Law

concepts were not only able to effect those

confrontations, but far

who were

Trapezoid 115

of the

involved in visual

whom

insidiously, other parties with

viewer came into contact. As in any form of contagion, family, friends,

and co-workers are affected by

The most tion

stoical

had

that subtle aberrations

nizable

and overt

signals of anxiety projected

another.

person can be drawn into a chaotic

surroundings are sufficiently disturbing. Often

his

and

tranquil

more profound

situa-

discovered

effect than readily-recog-

spatial distortions.

room, apparently perfect in

ual scene of violence.

would be

rectangular form,

its

a habit-

Other rooms in the same building would be con-

room would on joined would often

spicuous because of their lack of disturbance. The "mad"

be discovered a string

have one wall

slightly off vertical

suspended from where the wall and

well

rest

away from

ceiling

a small weight

The other walls might be

in perfect

often noticed that the aberrant wall

had been

the baseboard.

alignment. In such cases,

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

painted a different color or wallpapered, the occupant being uncon-

scious of why.

aberrant area in a

room might

also contain articles or

furniture held in less favor than other belongings.

Where an

entire building

rooms

replete with

nooks

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

rical,

assailing

would be

odd and obtuse

blighted,

would

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or

occupants from within

or foreboding exterior, affecting those

else

who

would appear

entered and

be crouching, almost

have

beast waiting to spring, yet not be seen as such

asymmet-

erratic,

left

the

many exam-

premises on a regular basis or lived in visual proximity. In ples a structure

either

angles, useless or impractical ells or

some

strange

multitudes. Other

buildings hinted at faces.

On that,

the

cliffs at

the

end of Manhattan near

when viewed from the

any adverse

effect

river,

resembles a

negated, relegating

the Cloisters

skull.

Likewise, a wildly distorted house in Beverly Hills

house"

so overt in

its

grotesquerie that

elicits

It is

house

so obvious that

charming

to a

known

eccentricity.

as "the witch's

enthusiasm rather than

unconscious revulsion. Contrast such structures with others whose physical aspect

actually disturbing but architecturally orthodox.

The John Hancock Center its

black splendor,

spectacle with

its

Chicago looms

like a

Martian sentinel in

sloping sides and dark color presenting a brooding

twin devil horns/ antennae bisecting

uing the frustum up and away into the sky. That

its

top and contin-

history

already

116 The

grim is

Devil's

is,

Notebook

A newer and

me, quite understandable.

San Francisco's Hyatt Regency Hotel

The

Art

Deco treatment

streamlined distraction from

of the

at the foot

far

madder building

of California Street.

Golden Gate Bridge provides

hidden angles of unrest and the

its

invisible

trapezoid formed by an imaginary line between the towers and each

end of

With

the roadbed.

setting sun,

its

orange-red color of madness glinting in the

has attracted a record

other places in the world.

find

number of

interesting that

depart from areas near the bridge towers

where

its

influence from within

There are objects,

too,

its

suicides, rivaled

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the

precincts

whose presence

by few

most of the jumpers

foci of the trapezoid,

most strongly manifested.

an area continually

affects

those in attendance. The shape of a piece of furniture, the configuration of a painting, a mural, an appliance, certain "jinxed" automobiles, the angles inherent in or from the

all

coffins viewing

end (new

them

either

from the top (old

style)

style).

Natural formations in the terrain of land areas or inadvertently aberrant landscaping can cause emotional imbalance

dance of disturbed individuals can add up psychotics and Reichian

DOR

and ensuing

acts of

combined with an

violence. Anxiety-producing spatial dimension

to a

wood

filled

atten-

with both

(orgone starvation, or life-consuming

atmospheric malignancy). the

and

Law

either

while

still

of the Trapezoid

heeded or

utilized,

known, recognized when

is it

will save

much

serving as a catalyst for change. Like

how

fold,

depending on

fold,

depending on whether a thing

it is

like the first crystalline fusion of

end, the Alpha and

mids and look

Omega

fire, its

applied. Like the sun,

all

to the trapezoid,

atoms,

its

powers are twopowers are two-

growing, grown, or dying. it

will

matter. Avert

and you

applicable,

hardship and tragedy,

shall

And

be the beginning and the your gaze from the pyra-

be moved.

two Wrongs If

gets

Wrong

gotten away with, and someone else repeats

away with

a Right

it,

Righter each time ical rights,

becomes

SRnftc a Otig^jt

birthed into existence.

and also

The Wrong becomes

succeeds. Inasmuch as victors always assume histor-

be any other way. This

can't

not to imply that anything

noble through repetition, only that successive

intrinsically

acceptance of anything confers rectitude.

There

no such

thing as "moral" Right. There

only true Right, the

balance of the Natural Law, Lex Talionis, versus acquired Right,

bestowed by popular consensus and usage Morality

human

(the rules of the

Game).

invention conferred by the self-serving interests of

the sensually impoverished.

We or

must constantly confront decisions of whether

the Rules of the

always prefer the

Game.

way of the

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; beating them

Either

way

Law, but

will

it is

by the Law Of the two, I

to live

"Right:'

often riskier and

brutal.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

requires more planning, own game time, strategy and money. That's why in all issues enforced by false moralisms and specious Rules of the Game but unfettered by legalities I apply my own rule, which is: "There are no rules."

The

latter

you

yourself, thrall,

create a

however

disarms,

new

at their

rule

and

self-serving.

takes hold,

Whatever

you have made

prevails,

terrifies, frightens, controls,

a Right for

overwhelms, holds

constrains, enslaves, or oth-

erwise contributes to man's masochistic needs will always be accepted as Right.

No amount of lip

past has proven, If ly,

a thing or

service to the contrary can eradicate

and the present

lend Nature a

act

naturally

what the

intensifies.

Wrong, a

helping hand â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Satanist will

try,

albeit secret-

circumstance permits.

Summertime

Summertime and the living

Summertime

lousy. I hate summer.

urban areas

psycho-time. In rural areas

it's

no worse time

mer

"gaiety"

Christmas "joy"

a maladroit ritual

not alone.

and

and gangbang-time.

for tragedy than the sticky heat of

frantic attempts at pleasure.

I'm

mosquito-time, sunburn/heatstroke -time,

pollen-time, litter-time, boredom-time, vandal-time

There

And

riot-time, tourist-time, pollution-time

summer, or

for

an odious duty, but sum-

performed with calculated chaos. Per-

sons of refinement prefer the other seasons, which progress through

days

their

Despite nature's tantrums during other

less heavy-footedly.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;man has made summer

snow

seasons, be they storms, floods, ice or

Taking the warmth nature has provided, he

his personal disaster season.

has fashioned for himself an environment where his mindlessness flourishes most.

found their

the only season

It is

boorishness in grand

an atmosphere

style.

virulent,

through October,

summer

and the nights

who

would enjoy spring more were its

may be

have

human

not

locusts thriving in

considered) than the

violent in themselves, but

sumI

A sunny autumn day has a relaxed purity, a my autumn runs from August and winter, from November to February. My favorite

tranquility.

aspect of

Those

year can celebrate

an incubator for personal malaise and discord.

autumn and winter mellow

best.

As with the ancients,

that

longer.

the Solstice the days finally

The best thing about any day

into night, the dark mantle for

rest of the

far deadlier (if radiation levels are

worst blizzards. Other seasons is

validates slobs.

impending plague of summer with

for the

mer

which

behavior repugnant the

civilized

whence

many, and understandably.

all

It's

is its

grow

shorter

gentle lapse

secrets evolve. Winter time

hell

a Tartarus that causes havoc. But

within a snug harbor, winter can be the great season of contrast.

those parts of the world where nature

summer has no place, save for has cheated humankind by inject-

ing regional and regular fog and rain.

noir world, the sticky glare of

ardent supporter of controlled

Summertime 119

environments, ber,

which

easily

call

years ago

fashioned a room, a true

still

Room

consists of an exact duplication of a

sound brick and

daisies

ritual

The Cornell Woolrich Memorial Hotel Room.

have been named The Weegee

Room. but

many

building.

The walls

are

cham-

could as

The Reginald Marsh seedy hotel room in an old or

papered with faded yellow

a bluish carpeting clashes pleasantly with the brindle col-

ored woodwork. Outside the single

window

always night and

always raining, and an intermittent flash of a neon sign pulsates, and on

mahogany bureau an old veneered

a butt-scarred lost love

which ports a

rest

bears the inevitable chintz spread, and a nightstand sup-

lamp and ancient portable

prints of

radio plays songs of

and after-the-war dreams. The wood-grained metal bed upon typewriter.

And

the artwork; framed

sad flowers trying to look cheery, a musty landscape with lead-

and a Moran cowgirl sitting on the hang on wire hangers on wire

sky, the casino at Catalina island,

corral fence.

hooks, and

A few

clothes (vintage)

on one dangles

the fragrance of every such

the obligatory shoulder holster.

room

that ever

scent of the wet pavements beyond.

The famous or notorious love night or more.

The pretentiously unaware

The mind

all,

was mingles with the sweet this room to a few.

have shown

and understand

cannot get out soon enough, which

Above

suits

is its

it,

and want

spend a

are repelled, sickened,

and

fine.

own place, and

in itself

can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell ofHeav'n John Milton, Paradise Lost

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

ÂŁ)Oto to ÂŁljc

become a 2ÂŽef etoolf

^mtbamcntois

Anyone

human

of Stjcatttljro^tc $)htan\ovpl)o&\d;

a potential werewolf. Under emotional stress civilized

and

qualities regress to basic animal reaction,

potential physical

change

a threshold of

reached.

Temperament People

who

be thought

normally behave in a coarse and boorish manner would

be bordering on an animal

plete transition relatively effortless. This

state,

hence making a com-

a fallacy, for churls consider

themselves as humans the highest and most noble form of

almost animals that

would be

One who go

part of his

are

so they dare not "go over the brink/' for

has only risen to the curbstone dares not return to the gut-

the way.

all

They

abhorrent.

Only the higher man can metamorphose,

ter.

all of the time,

life.

He knows he

So a transition

compunction. Manifestations of

as his

ego

will

allow him

circumspect and cultured the greater

animalism can be entertained without this

phenomenon

are abundant.

The

most polished individuals become the most degraded when the proper opportunity presents

itself.

There

no drunk

quite so sloppy as a rich

drunk. Analogies of such polarities are endless: drunk as a lord, Dr. Jekyll

and

literary,

mal

Mr.

Hyde, Count Dracula, Jack London,

etc.

In virtually every

stage or motion picture treatment, the lycanthrope

state

depicted as a

human

in his nor-

of warmth, understanding, sensitivity and

intelligence.

The

three principal emotions of sex. sentiment

considered as triggering mechanisms, as

will

and wonder may be

be shown by the following

formula by which one can effect the change from

man

into beast.

How to Become

a Werewolf 121

Environment Everyone has foreboding that

some time

is felt

that

shadows, watching, ready

ed house, perhaps

doned

quarry. In

or other

someone

to spring

a lonely path

many

cases

it is

wandered

into an area of

or something

and devour. Perhaps

through the

known

trees,

such

lurking in the it

was

a desert-

possibly an aban-

or discovered that such areas

have witnessed death of an unexpected or unusual nature, or perhaps

mayhem,

rape, or other violence. All actions involving intense or

increased production of adrenaline

the part of either victim or perpe-

trator (lust, terror, aggression, defense, etc.)

followed by detumes-

cence in the form of varying degrees of receptivity (shock,

total

submis-

sion, unconsciousness, death, etc.).

The to

polarity that

such an atmosphere has undergone can be likened

an area where heavy concentrations of

electricity

have accumulated

and discharged repeatedly, thereby recycling the ionization of the atmosphere in a chaotic and disturbing manner. The attraction of tern.

such an area proceeds from

its

initial

'charge'

and

spatial and geometric pat-

This can be likened to an existing feeding trough to which animals

come from

miles around and dine

the carcasses of their predeces-

sors.

The sado-masochistic dichotomy, with

its

needs for expression,

keeps such an area well-stocked with both hunters and hunted. The hunted are drawn sive

thrill

such a spot because of the frightening yet submis-

obtained from the environment. Predators then

drawn by

the ideal hunting conditions

come

forth,

and abundance of game. Often,

however, the hunters have not originally entered the preserve as hunters, but as fear-inspired searchers after If this

appears far-fetched, consider a

thrills.

phenomenon common

dren on Halloween or on any other night where the setting

to chil-

is right.

The

child deliberately goes out expecting to be scared, succeeds in being scared, then considers

how much

he has been purged of

his fear-needs.

the next child

who comes

along

fun

might be to scare others, once

then becomes the hunter and

his quarry.

The

entire

phenomenon

akin to a recognized psychological manifestation of those ly fear a situation

encourage

its

while

occurrence.

the

same time doing

all

who

in their

outward-

power

122 The Devil's Notebook

Preparation

game

This children's Halloween

necessary area

gives us the clue to the role change

lycanthropic metamorphosis. Briefly,

you know

be trauma-producing with the

being frightened. Allow yourself to be frightened.

"Accidental*' victims are

always thus

supplement your

Get the

attired.

be frightened

victim, allowing yourself to

Allow yourself

attain

an orgasm by whatever means

to virtually

make your subsequent

shake apart with fear and

may be

all

fear

and

spot. This

uneasy

first

resist the

incident in

that

You

will

soon

beckoning you

When you

each

find your-

the

same manner. You

more profound than

the

will find the

first,

due

second

to the anxiety

has developed over the past days.

In the truest sense, forth

felt.

itself,

temptation to return to your danger spot, repeat

much

foray into the area even

and anticipation

possible

attraction will increase with

succeeding day, ideally bordering on compulsion.

the

fled the scene of your

go home and ruminate over what you

back to the blighted

you can

much

necessary, for this will

discover that a sort of magnetic pull will manifest

unable to

lycanthropic changeover easier.

you have released

self

arti-

feel of the place as a

much as you can.

fear with a sexually stimulating feeling, so

better.

terror/ecstasy,

fullest intention of

necessary wear

conducive to the most submissive or vulnerable image.

cles of clothing

After

thus: Enter the

it is

you have been performing

your energy into a

living,

breathing environment. That environ-

ment, because, of continual taxation absorbing energy from those

a ritual of sending

upon

its vitality,

attracts and,

acts as a vampire,

once having

attracted,

con-

tagiously ensnares for future sustenance. Wilhelm Reich called such areas

DOR,

indicating a persistent starvation of orgone or enervation of

the atmosphere.

Such areas

are atmospherically

hungry and

in their bar-

renness cry out to be fed. All alleged haunted house and terror spots are reinforced eties of

the accumulation of energy supplied

occupants and anticipation of

sive thoughts of those

visitors to return,

much

quent need point

you

time as the

first,

owing

to quickly exercise/exorcise

are

i.e.,

the anxi-

the obses-

who have been affected.

The second time you enter your chosen spend

them by

area,

you may not be able

your increased fear and subseit

and remove

prepared for the metamorphosis

yourself. At this

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; unless you find the

How to Become

second time

and crave

a "charm,

ecstatic heights, in

enough, or else there before you can

which case you

your fears

to greater

and

either haven't scared yourself

chance for role-change. In other words,

is little

become

to entertain

a Werewolf

the hunter,

you must

have aroused and

first

then exorcised a need to be the victim. If

you

are a habitual "victim''

be frightened and

desire to

into a situation

it is

wise to proceed with caution. Your

ensuing manifestations could impel you

its

whereby you could be severely

injured or killed.

If,

how-

ever, you are able to meet your fright-needs and exorcise them, then go

to the next step:

Metamorphosis Attire yourself in a

manner conducive

to the

change

that

Legends of Berserkers donning the skins of wolves and bears

effected.

hold substantial meaning, in view of the importance of costume in Dress in the most stereotyped, "corny'' manner

you wear

a potent

element

complete transmogrification. This

metic or sympathetic magic exemplified (as above, so below).

wear the mask of

wolf or the skin of a beast,

ritual.

as the second skin that

preferable

her-

you

if it is

not

genuine, as you can better infuse a facsimile of the chosen animal with

your

own

personality, while

species represented. print, for

what you

drawing from the known

The skin or mask become as you merge with

will

Enter the blighted area with eager anticipation. the spots

another

it.

When you

where you would have previously been

allow yourself to revel in the thought of

terror

attributes of the

will serve as a catalyst, a blue-

how

the

terrifying

they were to feel the same fear you had

approach

most frightened,

felt,

would be

plus the

added

with an actual manifestation of an unfamiliar and grotesque crea-

ture. In short,

now

your role

to contribute to the

fearsomeness of

the place.

The vated.

stage has

been

set

and

all

necessary components have been

You have experienced intense

intense fearsomeness in the

almost dropping

down on

form of

fear,

all-fours

the implications?

your turn to manifest

Allow yourself

to slouch,

all-fours at times. Children are quite profi-

Remember when? You've also no doubt. Did you ever consider

cient in their approximations of animals.

romped on

now

bestiality.

acti-

with a dog or

cat,

124 The

Sniff the

you

Notebook

Devil's

stand.

savoring

air,

and the smells of the environment

there are trees around, get close to them, touching them,

pawing them, climbing and shaking them. emulate an animal.

grunt

roar,

everything possible to

are in a building, urinate against a wall or

you

Remember, wild creatures are not housebroken!

the floor.

which

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; make

all

the unsavory

Snort, snarl,

sounds you want.

As you progressively become more imbued with the sensation of

being an animal, you responding

in a

will actually feel certain areas of

manner

become haunches. Your arms

will

become

that crave to grasp at the nearest thing.

Your

facial

become more

frequently.

You

you

cracks,

legs will

forelimbs for claws or

Your countenance

will

paws

change.

muscles will begin to twitch in bestial grimaces. All of your

senses will

full.

your body

human anatomy. Your

alien to the

will

acute.

become

are indoors,

you

below boards. You

You

will

need

to urinate

moon,

especially

if it is

will feel the

fascinated with the

seek to explore behind things, into closed areas,

will feel a desire to snuffle into

burrowing your head and body.

you

feel sexual desire,

will

should perceive another person ly to

who

in a rapacious

mind must

The impulse

refrain, taking

to attack will

make up

transformation where control

this is

who can enter the Game

you

your spot, while

essential, unless

as the

for their lack-

be present, but your higher

over and holding you

allowing you sufficient impetus to release yourself. This

partner

might not normally appear sexual-

you, the nature of your transformation will

ing attributes.

manner, and

one

hunted and revel

the case, then complete sexual assault can

with a willing in their roles.

be manifested.

sufficient restraint to attain sexual release without

still

the stage of

not,

an attack upon the

Victim" must be exercised.

At the

moment

of orgasm, a complete and irrevocable encompassing

of the animal within must occur, with whatever

may

ensue.

It is

at this

should be unfortunate (or fortunate?) enough phosis,

you may be assured they

will

as hide

and hunted

to this level

is,

one

ritualistic

it.

exercise

between pre-

of course, the basis of such children's

and seek, where one

witness your metamor-

never forget

This entire principle, carried out in a cast hunter

abandon

tune that the change will take place, and

games

child revels in being frightened while the

other delights in terrifying, often with both roles interchanged within a

How to Become single episode of the state,

game. As children are naturally closer

It is

an animal

might

the transitional nature of children that

makes

ideal teachers.

Once your

transformation has been effected (remember, the most

profound manifestation can only occur

after sufficient build-up),

yourself to "come down," having retreated

you can unconcernedly drop your exercise

well,

to the

floor. If

and go

ritual,

to sleep.

state,

nourishment.

have consumed a vast amount of

logue to your

you have done

your normal

The tremendous build-up and discharge of energy state will

allow

necessary to a place where

ground or

you should, upon returning

feel the desire to partake of

fill

so they are well qualified to teach us means by which

bring ourselves closer.

them

a Werewolf 125

calories.

and completion of the animal

reaching

this

So the obvious epicycle,

to eat

your

Siiuc to Â§tavt

Lest

forget, Satan

the accuser, the challenger of moldy opinion

and tiresome concepts. pulling

all its

tional witch

fticliiiifl

its

senescence, Christianity seems to be

old chestnuts out of the

hunt ever. Hysteria

and creating the most

fire

irra-

not only heeded, but encouraged.

Indeed, one wonders about the unquestioning gullibility of not only the general public but specifically those in positions of authority.

Children are enticed coct

damaging

lies

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not by

about

their

hexagram or octagon becomes

Satanists,

own

but by authorities, to con-

Any

parents.

a "Satanic'* symbol.

star, circle, triangle,

The

list

of accursed

objects grows: stained glass, ceramic cats, a solid color bathrobe, leather clothes, rock recordings (especially

Bible

crime If

discovered,

played backwards).

becomes proof

that

its

known to man. and exposed, the

the foregoing lies are challenged

declare that the exonerated Satanist Christian) variety Satanist,

who

hysteric will

not a real or "classical" (read:

steals babies, molests

and chops up animals. The nuts who indulge

and

kills

posing as Satanists in order that they early parole. "Organized groups"

of their "secrecy."

they

try

may be

A new

try.

"specialist in the research of the Satanic

new name

for a hellfire

his or her shingle as

one of these

prove he

an authorized, accredited

eous

and the

an insecure asshole has a few

Fear of Satanism life. If

But

profession has appeared, the occult," actually, a fancy

"experts," though, of course,

unproductive

their "sacrificial victims."

and brimstone preacher. Anyone can hang out

impressive is

jive artists

"converted" and earn an

can never seem to be found because

Nor can the bodies of

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; oh, how they

children,

in the foregoing are

repressed hysterics relating wild masturbatory fantasies or

how

a Satanic

reader perpetrates every

good way

letters after his

it's

name

liar.

to spice

they can't feel important,

up an otherwise at least

dull

and

they can feel right-

in their gutless crusade against a fashionably fiendish

enemy.

Time

Ass

bringing Satanism to the millions, the most strident and mindless

elements from the ruins of Christianity are showing

their faces.

Now

the worst that traditional religion can produce.

some

to Start Kicking

it's

They

are

time to kick

These remnants of festering Christianity have attempted

ass.

place us in a defensive position,

answers for

when

their irrational behavior.

The

our position to demand

antics of Satan-baiters

can only

obscuring the socially redeeming qualities wrought by Chris-

succeed

tianity's

two thousand year venture. They have not succeeded

Satanism a bad name: quite the contrary,

in giving

Christianity they are

besmirching.

We do on

not molest children or sacrifice animals. But

the kind of creeps

who

accuse us of doing

so.

it's

open season

For them, torture

smokescreen,

too sweet.

For centuries, Satanism has been a paper

tiger, a

straw man, perpetuated for the vested interests of Christian dogma.

Never before had organized

Satanists

come

forth to challenge the con-

— Tom — Shaw, Twain, London, Wells but they posed

venient falsehoods. Sure, there were the Devil's advocates Paine, tle

Ben

Franklin,

lit-

threat to Christianity as a whole. But

when you

get

many thousands

—

of kids cheering real Satanic symbols and giving the sign of the horns

now that's is

a real threat!

The squealing gerous.

It's

When

book

written

and re-read by millions

read, translated,

Christian creep

plenty dangerous but not because

ous because

much

encourages

who

all

act

easier to control.

Satanism

group

activity.

originality

that's a threat! is

dan-

of orgies, infant stealing,

titillations.

Satanism

danger-

over herd mentality. Large masses

and think within

a prescribed set of options are

And exploit.

dangerous

between two people

a Satanist, for Satanists.

correct in assuming Satanism

animal mutilation or other unimaginative

of people

— now

in that

encourages strong relationships

rather than mechanical adherence to

Loyalty to a

mate or friend — even

pet —

programmed is

more dan-

gerous to a despotic regime than enthusiasm for "causes." Satanism

dangerous for the economy in able

and useful

artifacts

that

advocates conservation of enjoy-

of the past rather than acquiring the

new

for

newness's sake.

The it

frantic

little

Christian believes

heavy metal

a convenient target for his hysteria.

It's

dangerous because

easy to single out Black Sab-

128 The Devil's Notebook

bath, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister

and

all

commen-

the rest for asinine

but what about the Satanic music of

taries,

Liszt,

Wagner, Saint-Saens,

Beethoven, Mussorgsky, Paganini, Mendelssohn? Perhaps warning

works of Cole

ers are in order for the

Jerome Kern and living

Rogers and Hammerstein,

Porter,

whose

Berlin,

stick-

"Stay

Down

Here Where You

Belong features a good guy Devil proclaiming, "You'll find more hate

up there than you "Get Thee Behind

will

down

And what about such

below."

Satan," "Old Devil

day." "Perfidia," "Temptation," "Taboo,"

Moon," "Satan Takes a Holi-

and

lest

forget, Frankie

Laine or Edith Piaf belting out Shanklin's "Jezebel." Songs

understand,

lyrics

you can

hear. If a

formance of "Jezebel" or "Stay concert, I

must

tunes as

you can

that

performer were to do a "new" per-

Down Here Where You

Belong"

at a

rock

could precipitate a Satanic revolution.

now address

who view the new Dark Age own past influence and future

the fear of Satanists

with trepidation or alarm. Look to our

potential to recognize our power. Consider the air time allocated to evangelists.

One can

turn

the

any time of the day or night and

receive overtly Christian (read: anti-Satanic) propaganda.

a lesser

level are the investigative reports (anti-Satanic), dramatic fictional pre-

sentations (anti-Satanic), "factual"

news coverage

"spiritually uplifting" specials (also anti-Satanic).

media are no

different.

The lower the

(anti-Satanic)

and

Radio time and printed

class of audience, the

irra-

tional the pitch.

bait or a "grabber," Satanism

iconographically

formulaic regularity, like a picture of Marilyn Monroe.

whack

the slobs with

How often have

seen

concepts

have

set forth in

detractors?

article

no uncertain

in doubt,

Satanism

Or even

my own image used as

an exploitative television segment or

to the

(When

MM or Satanism.) What might happen

were given the media time enjoyed by our fraction thereof?

employed with

bearing no resemblance terms.

One must

stumble upon the Satanic Bible in order to absorb Satanism in form. The greatest threat of Satanism

known.

a regularly

scheduled Satanic

Yes, the

Remember,

power it is

literally its

true

when the truth of it becomes TV show were aired, it would

wipe out the flannel-mouthed evangelists overnight. so fearsome that

a tiny

a lead-in

hold a power

cannot be afforded a voice. is

our hands.

are,

more than

ever, the accusers.

our position, our role to serve as tribunal to those

who

Time

to Start Kicking

Ass 129

pretentiously play-act as nemeses. The thought of answering their "accusations," of defending our position, Let's

put them to the

wherefores of their

We must

And show them

that

can contend with

banishments. It's

open season.

That's

it.

demand

the

whys and

scourge unreason with

the ridicule they deserve.

their old teachers didn't anticipate.

books

must become an absurdity.

intenogate. Let's

silly hysterics.

inquisitorial intensity.

what

test. Let's

There

real devils that

are

nothing in their rule-

do not succumb

mythic

ÂŁ(je 9Werit3 of Sltttfictalitt)

Man can

he must be as

phony

shown every indication that Barnum and Bailey world, just he won't have it any other way and seems to

be easily fooled. In fact, he has

fooled. it

complains,

can be," yet

survive best under the

most

Only when one can

"It's

artificial

fully

ful

magical

know something as real as

needs be. But

everybody has imagination

and often

can one have and hold

thing not being

phony from

a natural

artificiality as

life

more than completely

ability. Artificiality is

disappointment

stalls

conditions.

superior development of intelligent

fore-

to be.

the outset, your imagination can

some

power-

honest;

what they appear

does require imagination. Believe to

you

make

or not,

degree.

it doesn't take much imagination to be fooled, either by someone else. But imagination is taken into the realm of crewhen you infuse the unreal with a reality which will be satisfying.

Granted, yourself or ativity

Masturbation

the closest

most people ever get

theologies which are dependent

faith,

into reality, masturbation

act that

exchange. Knowing eradicate

shown

its

full

upon based on

raises the debatable

few can

well that masturbation

contest: sexual

"pretend" does not

practice. In fact, the selfish nature of masturbation has

produce more intense orgasms than the

then becomes the real thing, where orgasm It

to that stage. Unlike the

which

"real thing."

concerned?

has been argued that masturbation can

become

habitual

or even negate healthy relationships with real people. Well, I'm glad

didn't stop, judging

sexy in recent years.

I've

who

in the

looks department.

deliberately

and

whom

them

dearly.

women I

love

make themselves

my fantasies. nature has been I

eschew

women

physically drab so they will be

appreciated for their minds and not viewed as objects. They are as

base as

men who go

dull

damned

from some of the sorry specimens touted as

never been disappointed by

I'm not antagonistic towards

unkind

been

What

overboard

in their pursuit of

off-

seemingly masculine

The electives, believing that

any sign of culture or

Merits of

Artificiality

sensitivity will

mark them

A man can be very strong and resourceful, and still and sensitive. A woman can be physically glamorous as well

be gentle

as pansies.

cally

131

as physi-

capable and mentally advanced.

But what of the urges in the loins of millions

who know

better but

yield to inferior people because, visual animals that they are.

means

a lot?

They wind up enmeshed

in dreary relationships

plumage because

they are constantly trying to fool themselves into believing their mate either

more capable or

have only begun

and not pretend

Sex

exciting, but

women.

cially for

who

have

little

than he or she really

a relationship with sexual

that anything

genuine

fully evaluate

intelligent

more would

is.

needs as the prime

exist,

they could factor,

they could more care-

quality7 in another.

companionship

often

How many women

more meaningful, espe-

seek companionship with

men

or nothing to offer other than physical presence? That

surely social masturbation.

Many

you have known of

the

and promote the manufacture of

and

television

Church of

Satan's goal to

develop

human companions. Movies pump for years for a development

artificial

have been priming the

as inevitable as the automobile or airplane.

Individuals throughout history have sculpted or pieced together physical likenesses of humans, but have

accompanied by music and constructed

done so

automata usually

for eccentric aristocrats.

As an

art form, contemporary sculptors like Duane Hansen, John deAndrea, George Segal and others have exhibited to shocked and gradually accepting audiences. PVC iove dolls" have proliferated in the back pages of men's magazines, and always with a plain brown wrapper

approach. Tne Church of Satan the threads

on one of the major

the

first

organization to pull together

industries of the future.

The taboo against androids for companionship has persisted largely due to the Frankensteinian or Pygmalionistic "'imitation of God"' trauma. This reason,

more than any

from proceeding with such

other, has

a venture.

impeded major manufacturers

Other economic factors must be

considered as well. The purchase of automobiles, electronic leisure products and other ple

'"status"

purchases will diminish

become more impressive than

ly tried to impress.

the real ones the

when

artificial

consumer

peo-

has usual-

132 The Devil's Notebook

as Satanists

can really throw

answering the usual, "What ture artificial least

one

human

your

own

all

You can counter

a "We'll see..."

time.

Satanism

curve to expectation about?" with

few years

beings," followed by, "In a

living with you."

wry smile and

knowing

full

the "Oh,

when

"We manufacyou'll

have

won't!" with a

well that you're a prophet in

can assure you that peoplemaking requires a

lot

imagination, skill patience and resourcefulness than rewriting the

Enochian Keys or preparing for an authentic Babylonian

lust ritual.

Not long ago one of my close associates mused, "I wonder what some of our members will come up with in the way of innovation on their own, once the cat is let out of the bag. Can you imagine a convention of Satanists, all accompanied by a humanoid of their own creation?" I must admit, that would create some real speculation other than the tired "Devil

The

worshipping" thing.

field

so fresh, so wide

tation, that a Satanist

open

for

development and experimen-

with some background in

electronics, mechanics,

woodworking,

plastics,

arts, crafts,

sewing,

etc.,

computers,

can readily

become a pioneer in a unique field. What can you do to help? Experiment on your own and let us know about it by way of descriptive text regarding materials and construction techniques, accompanied by photos. If enough Dr. Frankensteins put their minds together, a better product will evolve.

world the creation of replacement or supplementary human beings is the most Satanic activity possible. This is not meant as a In today's

replacement for the philosophy of Satanism as outlined in The Satanic Bible.

It is

contemporary vehicle

for

it.

$lje <ÂŁ<mÂŁtructt<m of Artificial V>miimi (Toutyanion*

The means by which a humanoed may be constructed are the choice of materials will allow. In the past,

were fashioned of

metal, the sections of the

artificial

as diverse as

human

body joined

beings

as in a suit of

armor, or else were formed of rubberized cloth or actual rubber stretched over a skeletal framework.

was contained

The mechanism

actuating the robot

inside.

The most rudimentary android need be nothing more than convincingly visual

and

humanoid

the prime appeal of the chaser's "other half." sight," that

There

tactile substitutes.

which

nothing wrong with

lies in its

approximation of the pur-

As nature has intended us

most

this,

to fall in

enthusiastically seen will

iove

at first

be enthusiastically

accepted. Artificial companions that are pleasingly heard, smelled and felt

also constitute positive selling points. But that

ion looks right In such a

artificial

compan-

of primary importance.

new

industry there

no immediate need

for

planned

obsolescence, as the opportunity for constant improvement remains fresh

and untapped. As competition between humanoid-producing

tories develops, so will greater elaboration

Initially there will

androids, especially

and

be some reluctance the part of persons

intricacy of the android.

admit to the use of

who most need them. Hence

concealability should be considered in the

initial

development of

humanoids. Despite the ads one sees of actually grotesque dolls

accompanying gentlemen

to the

fac-

swimming pool and

inflatable

parties,

it is

doubtful whether the egos of the purchasers reached by such ads have actualized that level of public insouciance, practical jokers excepted.

Many er,

early androids will

undoubtedly be relegated

foot locker, or space under the garage

be brought out "when the coast

clear."

to the

bureau draw-

workbench when not

in use,

134 The Devil's Notebook

Before embarking on the project of building a humanoid, consideration

should be given to the maker's requirements, needs for secrecy,

and available

and

talent

materials.

you want companionship of

modern

purely visual nature, techniques employed by utilized. Figures

may be carved

and

lack of pliability

worst,

and

you

essentially a display

a discarded or

to build.

unlikely that

will

spend a great deal of time on a

will find

damaged mannequin

thin,

one

cast

from

torso, legs, arms,

be aquiline or

wants a seductive-faced

woman

detracting from the clothing string ify

beans

much

save

living persons, but

many

are

facilitate

dressing them.

No store its window

and men's bland.

sterile,

or compelling-faced

plates in

and neck. Male man-

man

hung upon them. Unless your

women and fashion

time

use as a base upon

your esthetic demands.

ideally suited to

nequins are invariably thinner than normal to faces tend to

will

so as to best display clothing, and

abnormally lengthened in the

crea-

mannequin when completed.

Mannequins are generally

you

Most are extremely

Women's

are easi-

softness, along with a limitation of

your requirements are largely voyeuristic, you

by obtaining which

with various plastic

and other methods

plaster,

The main disadvantage of making your android from such

body movement. At ture that

varieties of plastics available. If

wood and sculpting

figures in

Papier-mache,

fiberglass.

ly learned.

materials

many

method, several good books on the market provide

on carving

instruction resins

this

sculptors can be

of wood, styrofoam blocks cemented

together or cast or molded in the

you choose

men, you

will

taste

have

runs to to

mod-

any mannequin.

Though

mannequin makes

ally limited to

a suitable base,

its

movements

rearrangement of arms and hands.

are usu-

have found

that

because parts are interchangeable (arms, hands, upper and lower halves of the body), spare parts add to the

flexibility

of positioning.

humanoids were constructed from mannequins which ting pieces out of legs, arms, necks fiberglass or Celastic.

and

and then adding

you

are content to limit

companionship,

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

this

My earliest

sectioned, cut-

torsos, rejoining

compound

over areas built up with various materials. In grotesque and beautiful people

them with

of resin and talc

manner I created some

just like real folks.

your

doesn't matter

artificial

how

humans

to purely visual

stony their surface.

can be

The Construction

depending upon your

painted,

of Artificial

Human Companions 135

ability, as realistically as

any

being

living

might appear.

you want

shake hands with your creation or give

little

squeeze, however, you'd better have a highly developed imagination or

your bubble

and

will burst. Flexibility

tactile

realism are obvious

improvements on rigidity. There are three basic methods have employed to achieve these ends: a skin filled with air. a skin filled with I

stuffing

and

molded substance which is

Let us consider the type

ing advertisements of

purveyed by sex-aid mail order firms

what appear

featur-

be ravishingly glamorous crea-

The purchaser excitedly opens

tures.

soft to the touch.

package

his

to discover a thin

BVD) suit of long pink underwear with a stiff mask top. He tremblingly unpacks the plastic leotard and finds

vinyl (PVC. not

attached to

its

which he proceeds

a valve into

And he

tion.

and

Any resemblance

to a

pure-

make your own

inflatable

companion you can do

cutting vinyl sheeting with a combination tool that both

electrically

welds a seam

would, marking where the seams

in the desired location. live

joints ,

model much and

pins (make sure they are outside the lines leaks')

be a thalidomide hydro-

voluptuous damsel

sport a vaginal orifice (or plastic watch-pocket)

sonable figure, pin the vinyl on a

have

from hyperventila-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or other "improvements."

thighs

you want

better job slices

girl.

Some models

mental.

until dizzy

rewarded with what appears

cephalic glamour

between the

blow

and cut and weld the

of construction are head, hands

get a rea-

dressmaker

Remove

darts will be.

you have marked or

The problem areas of

vinyl.

and

as a

feet.

the

you'll

this

type

The head and neck must be

constructed separately, then fitted as snugly as possibly into the neck

opening of the vinyl skin and glued with tight seal. If rest

you attempt

of the figure,

will

same with hands and flippers.

make

look

feet.

like either a

They

Stop construction

plastic

head by

the

will either

the wrists

cement the

to ensure

same method

air-

as the

hydro- or microcephalic. The

resemble picnic hams or tiny

and ankles and

insert rigid

ankles and feet in addition to separate hands fitted and joined at the wrists.

These can be

the joints as

cast

from

life

or salvaged from a mannequin. Seal

you did with the neck.

barely detectable, as vinyl sheeting

place

If is

you're careful the joints will be

extremely

thin. In a

prefer the back of the neck, as a wig will cover

convenient

it)

place the

136 The Devil's Notebook

valve used for inflation either to repair

beach

inflatable toy

toys.

Any

electric

welding or

plastic

cement used

toy department will yield an inexpensive

from which the valve may be removed.

Don't be discouraged

your

first

attempts don't meet with your

expectations, as experimentation and innovation will be your best

The main disadvantage of the

teachers. to

remain

any fixed position due

The human body

in.

android

inflatable

ton.

Tendons hold limbs and surfaces

human

actions.

with stuffing, allows for its

lack of concealability.

taut

some of

people

lack.

stuffed figure takes

suitably distrib-

main disadvantage

Its

needed

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an

much space type,

attribute

as a bonafide

flexible

enough

compress somewhat, but nonetheless must be reckoned with

are worried about storage

facilities.

can be stored in a small box,

human. Unlike the hard-surfaced mannequin to

as a skele-

construction, a skin filled

these factors.

inflatable doll

known

and weight

The next method of

drawer, or carried about in a shopping bag until real

inability

comprised of diverse degrees of density and

muscle tone, not to mention an ingenious framework

uted for

is its

to the equal distribution of air with-

A stuffed android can be

you

constructed

with or without a skeleton, though an internal framework will eliminate the unnatural stasis inherent in an inflated product.

A basic

skeleton

may be

constructed from dowels or metal or plastic

tubing. Joints for hips, elbows, knees, etc.,

and pinning or with commercially

may be

available ball

fashioned by slotting

and socket

hangers approximating shoulders and pelvic region

wood, from which arms and

human anatomy.

used

for

and should be studied,

have found

efficient substitute for a spinal

column

gooseneck lamps or

the pelvis board

that the is

most

the torso

glued, like electrically

human

skin,

welded

and

a length of flexible tubing such

electrical conduit.

One end

fixed to

and head may be positioned

The outer skin may be any type of material of

as should, of

easily obtained

and the top end goes through the shoulder board

up into the head. Thus manner desired.

Two

cut from

legs are suspended. Marionette construc-

tion techniques are invaluable

course,

joints.

may be

that

right

any

can be sewn or

vinyl sheeting. Vinyl lacks the resiliency

however, that either rubber sheeting or stretch fabrics

provide. Cut the pattern for the upper torso separate from the lower torso

and

legs.

As with the

inflatable doll, forget

about the head and

The Construction

hands

until later, as these

of Artificial

can be problem

which

wrists with a sleeve-like extension to

hands. As with inflatable humanoids.

When

pre-formed feet and ankles.

must be done before the stuffing

neck and

areas. Close the will

be added the head and

have found

Human Companions 137

best to insert rigid

constructing a stuffed figure, this

inserted,

pushing the

feet,

which

are

attached to the ends of the calf "bones,** into the outer skin, which has

been formed much

like the feet of children's sleepers.

per (or velcro to fasten the two body sections together )

method not only allows

amount of stuffing has been

ed, but provides access to the innards of

add various "organs,"

Faces can be cast from

flexible latex

man

your dream clay,

make

a cast,

amazing

ingenuity.

little

persons using established moulage pro-

mask can be laced

concealing the laces. Thus

you can simply replace

live

insert-

your creation, should you wish

either simple or sophisticated.

what can be accomplished using

cedures.

zip-

the waist. This

greater ease of stuffing both sections, closing

the zipper gradually until the proper

have used a at

you

tire

to a faceless head, the

wig

of one face or basic expression,

with another as easily as tying your shoes.

woman

not available for casting, sculpt

and search no more. Wigs can

either

him

be pinned

to the

head or fastened with double-sided adhesive tape or velcro. Plastics,

which

are highly toxic

facilities for ventilation,

worked by

cell flexible

able in sheet or block form,

and carve with an

and can be

PVC

electric knife.

industrial conditions.

polyurethane foam realistically

wrap your armature or skeleton with

Either

a hobbyist with limited

may be employed under

However, open or closed

easily avail-

employed

as 'flesh.**

or laminate entire blocks

The finished body can be given

a 'skin"

applied with double-sided tape or covered with a suitable body

stocking.

Electronics can easily be incorporated. Voice

challenge whatsoever. the speaker a slot

mechanisms

are

have concealed small recorders into heads with

opening under the wig. Pre-recorded cassettes inserted into

under the

hairline provide a convincing audible effect.

Odors associated with humans are simple

to provide, using per-

fumes, colognes or worse.

entire congress of penises, vulvas, vaginas, scrotal sacs, breasts,

nipples, etc.,

may be found

any sex goods

store or catalogue.

With

138 The

Devil's

Notebook

few exceptions, they

human forms where 1

are

they belong.

have great respect for those

companions, crude

to their desired image.

as this, innovation

who

might

as they

small step closer to playing

man

disembodied. Let us rejoin them to the

all

pioneer their

initially be.

God and

creating

own

They

man

woman

With a creative outlet as cloaked

may now

run rampant

human have come a

artificial

will

according

age-old taboo

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more so than any artform

has yet known.

The

bizarre twilight

world of the

ventriloquist, the

puppet-master

and the dollmaker can perhaps be understood through other than the minds of psychologists. The acceptable schizoid element the

one

that selects

our mates

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has a

fresh,

all

of us

new, open portal

through. Through surrogates the race will survive.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

to pass

9Wi6cmtf)to$na

Mencken

myself.

would

others.

they I

live for pleasure.

pleasure as those acts

whims

of others. Invariably, is

don't

There are I

perform

my own whim

rather create pleasure according to

to the

wind up

no push/pull.

It is

than

entertaining

only

pull,

and

the pulling.

find greater

much

Or educating them. There

artifacts, for fact,

my way.

stands in

few persons who can give me be subjected

the right to be a lonely man."

said, "I reserve

crave companionship.

can enjoy

me with

Why do created,

their

in inert figures, animals

presence and there

very stimulation in accordance with

their

provide

companionship

and speechless

no psychic

drain. In

my tailored ideals,

they

not only entertainment, but food for thought.

prefer androids to

programmed and

many

humans? Androids can be

"real"

utilized exactly according to the master's

whims. They require no energy-consuming interaction a non-existent ego. Yet

in order to salve

even the semblance of an ego can be

an android via actions and words

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but always

Makers requirements. They can be shelved when they grow brought back out

when

needed, modified

built into

according to the tiresome,

appearance, and destroyed

without moral conscience. They are ideal companions. They never talk back, unless you want content. Insofar as

them

work

to,

yet

you can

non-humanoid machines or humans of machines of greater ship

when

tially,

intelligence.

cast in the physical

most people

really

have

Most human games,

them

your

heart's

limited intelligence operating

Androids offer splendid companion-

semblance of human beings. And for

to say, they

all

might as well say nothing. Essen-

they are merely decorations in a

what might be construed

insult

concerned, that can be performed by either

room

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; humanoids

to alleviate

as loneliness.

interaction, being nothing

no waste of time

to their survival, for they

more than small

to those so engaged.

would

die of

It is,

boredom

talk

and

in fact, necessary

otherwise. To the

140 The

Notebook

Devil's

Maker, the archetype, the self-sustainer,

waste of the most precious thing in his in "being liked" It

interaction

usually a

Time spent

could better be devoted to liking being.

expound these attitudes. I do not search for a am loved by one who treads the stars. In addition, I can do

easy for

beloved, yet

human

vital existence: time.

as well as be.

can honestly say,

cannot be interdependent.

that

am." Unless one can, he

One must be whole

before one can be alone

and yet not alone.

What keeps me going? What justifies my existence? That which sustains me is the knowledge that, were I to fall prey to trouble, to fail, to sicken, to die, it would please so many people that my strength is in my existence.

When

think of

all

who would

those

rejoice at

energized and strengthened to the extent that malaise.

not

It is

mankind

love for

mankind's resentment of me.

masses in general and those

discomfort,

might overcome any

that sustains

me, but rather

My disdain and contempt for the mediocre who calumniate me in particular angers me

to regeneration.

right

important

have made for myself, by not what

for others that

can do, but by

how

be resented, maligned, misunderstood

seldom hear me complain about my lot, for it is according to my precise design. Even if it were not, I doubt that I would gripe. I hate complainers. Nobody gives a shit about anyone else's grievances. When one caterwauls his troubles to another, it simply weakens and hated.

You'll

the complainer in the listener's eyes. Far better to arouse further antago-

nism by disappointing your detractors by your I

refuse to sicken because

will

refusal to display unease.

make my enemies

healthier.

break off relations with any worthwhile companion because

refuse

if I

did

would make others' loneliness more bearable. I refuse my sorrow to be known, for my sorrow is another's joy. I even dislike showing wrath, for to

one who receives I

kill

and

tear at his

my wrath would brighten his heart. Typhon, who can rage and snarl and try to

attention,

bull terrier,

while wagging his

snarl

admire

little

tail. It is

opponent.

patently sport

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; enjoyment â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

great lesson can be learned

for

him

from him.

will not give his victim the satisfaction of thinking that, in his rage,

he might be unhappy.

more because

his victim

the contrary, he

can never be

a blight to his victim

satisfied as a

masochist

all

the

satisfied

Misanthropia 141

another's drubbing. Unless

you can

making your antagonist

rejoice in

by the humorless wrath The sobriety of your anger will increase your

miserable, your antagonist will sap your vitality

he has incurred

in you.

unintended charity with each blow you it.

Through

practice,

now enact my fonnula

able sport so automatically

and

defy

wishes of

ill

and you

be lesser for

will

of turning rage into enjoy-

effortlessly, that

another to reap pleasure from

sible for

strike,

seldom,

ever, pos-

my anger.

enemies by rejoicing

in their discomfort. If

If I need do nothing make enemies, I am indeed fortunate, for to know me is to hate me. One hates what one fears. He who is feared has power. I am lucky. I have acquired power without

did not pain them,

save exist in

conscious I

effort,

should not be

but simply by being.

never die because

will

enemy.

their

present form in order to

death would enrich the

unfit.

could

never be that charitable. Is

irony that the only times

someone

else?

appears that

Or does

have progressed

evil really

when

conquer goodness

prime mover, while goodness

evil (fear) is the

have hurt

in the is

end?

compla-

cency and stagnation. Goodness invokes either approbation or saccharin

contempt. Evil creates action and reaction. Without

would have died long

Not

ago.

that that

that, the

would have been so

race

terrible,

—

those perwould have meant the extermination of the Devils sons who love life enough to want to consciously experience its pleasures, the pleasures they devise and discover on their own.

save

when I had certain befuddled ideals, might have found John Donne's No Man Is An Island justification of mediocrity inclusive of myself. "Because people need people," is now too little jusOnce upon

a time,

tification for their existence. ple.

need persons

The word "people" has achieved an

repugnant.

—

There are some

men who

are pieces of the continent

they be

—

certain persons, not peo-

egalitarian connotation

are islands, entire of themselves, but

—

parts of the maine.

washed away by

find

most

a clod — and clods

the sea, the mainland

richer, albeit

If a promontory were washed away, then some small alarm might be caused if one's manor built from unique efforts stood upon

smaller.

it.

But no man's death, save he

who

stands

by me, diminishes me. Other

men's deaths make the earth a sweeter, finer place for those

who

have

142 The Devil's Notebook

the capacity to relish each

death enriches me.

can size,

at it

moment

be richer

for

whom

the rope.

spent upon

it.

Each useless drone's

involved in growth, and the incompetent dead

best provide fertilizer. Then, will

know

to pull

in soil

the bell

though the land may be

and lusher tolls. It tolls

in visage. Therefore,

because someone

lesser in

never send being paid

SinboUca

never met a person

who loved everybody I didnt dislike. ft

What good

are friends

they can't do you any good? ft

Man

prides himself

nature, yet

on being

when he chooses

the only animal

do so he

who

can modify

his

called a phony.

The hunter must hunt. The moment he stops he becomes

the hunt-

ed.

H Strive, reach, take.

Then you

shall not

be taken.

H After an inferior will

remain as

man

has been taught a doctrine of superiority he

inferior as

assume himself

he was before

be superior, and attempt

With each

employ

will

merely

his recently-

own kind whom he will then consider his inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique

learned tactics against his inferiors.

his lesson.

;

bunch will be reduced to a pack monkeys gamboling about on an

role, the entire

of strutting, foppish,

self-centered

island of ignorance.

There they

will play their

who was and will

games under

the supervision of their keeper,

always be a superior man.

Never enter a business deal with anyone

who has less

than yourself.

H Distrust "experts'" unless

obvious that their expertise

off.

paying

144 The

Devil's

Notebook

Be wary of advice from one

who

less successful

than yourself.

m W.C. Fields used to advise, "Never smarten up a chump.''

have known the dire consequences that can ensue

modicum

acquires a

The world

is full

because creeps,

become

He must

a simpleton

of sophistication.

of creeps. Creeps are beings who, as Thoreau said,

out their lives in quiet desperation.

live

when

It is

best to leave

them

that

way,

energized with a soupcon of self-importance, often

shit-disturbers.

Creeps can be contained and seldom cause trouble to anyone but themselves. Shit-disturbers are impossible to deal with in a civilized

manner. Stay clear of shit-disturbers.

Self-improvement books:

M those who need them

won't read them or

heed them.

H Don't help

someone who has proven himself

a consistent failure in

the past.

Definition of

don't

Good and

n Good

what you

like. Evil is

what you

like.

Too much freedom responsibilities that

The can

Evil:

dangerous

true test of anyone's

utilize

what he

who

to those

cannot cope with the

accompany independence.

worth as a

living creature

how much

has.

Those who come begging for help want to hear that I can help them. They don't really want to be helped, though. If they could stop searching for help they

would

such dire consequences.

die of satisfaction. If I

even begin

don't want to implement

to help them, they will

soon

me and try to make trouble. Therefore, I tell them I will help them, them promises, and let them fall before their ships come in. In that way, I do truly help them. I save them for future failures. hate

sell

Diabolica 145

Each misdirected (Popularly expressed

act of

compassion

a waste of magical energy.

"No good deed ever goes unpun-

the phrase.

ished.") ft

Anyone who

retains acquaintances as friends, particularly those

are in constant disagreement with him,

anyone

or feeding a masochistic need.

else,

There There

who

either incapable of attracting

H are many who would take my time. I shun them. are some who share my time. am entertained by them. I

There are precious few

who contribute

my time.

dear to you, transfer your

cherish them.

M When

quarreling with

someone who

mutual wrath to someone you

and you

dislike,

be surprised

will

the

results.

Hair

man's chest

thought to denote strength. The gorilla

most powerful of bipeds and has

on every

hair

place

his

body except

for his chest. ft

Bertrand Russell has equated logic with mathematics. brain and

its

equate the

potential with the thing called "soul" or "spirit." ft

Large breasts are associated with feminine

women,

regardless of the

slenderness of their hips. The capacity of a milk container cannot be told

its

outside dimensions. Femininity

by generous

hips.

Guess you can

tell

favor

accurately displayed

women with big

asses.

The Holy Bible has been contradictions.

don't object to

and confuse. As an objection

historic

its utility

and

pose has become exhausted.

by scholars because of its selffor it was designed to confound

criticized that,

propaganda document

it is

re-interpretation long after

unexcelled. its

original pur-

146 The

Devil's

Notebook

self-preservation

which

validate

its

the highest law, the "self" has

existence.

The

Stimulation.

first is

own

its

The second

laws Iden-

tity.

n Man

whom

the only animal in

the law of self-preservation

enacted

he has willingly subjected himself to the machinations of his

after

destruction.

martyr

man who

allows others to atone for their guilts

feel-

ing sorry for him. Each constituent of the martyr enters a contest to see

who

can wail the loudest and the longest. The winners are those with

the guiltiest conscience.

Control, religious or political,

demands

must

be enslaved. Only when

exist

because the populace

feels sufficiently enslaved

the dissenters produce their collective grunt. Dissension

of assertion. Assertion

can

weak fonn

weak fonn of creation. JW

Egalitarianism

whim bers.

its

most

As provender,

spring lamb.

a condition

inferior

whereby

their flesh

will

governed by the

lies

inferior to that of a

an area of the world

unprocessed egalitarians have made

where

society

members, whose strength

is it

solely in

good

num-

heifer or

dung heap, you can be sure such manure be spread

so. Let

do some good.

Nature, in her ineffible wisdom, wastes nothing. Seemingly useless

but parasitic or destructive persons should be used like clay pigeons: for target practice.

The most

efficient street cleaner in

egalitarian society

a riot gun.

K When people ask me, "What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?", my answer is, "If don't, someone else, perhaps less qualiI

fied, will."

The end

History has proven that qualification

justifies

the means.

based on acceptance.

The

Right, like water, seeks

its

own

level.

to the operations of Satanic Forces.

asked.

Merits of

Man's consent

It is

not required.

Artificiality

147

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not even

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