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Summary: A Very good read for a beginner
Review: Anton Szandor LaVey's book_The Satanic Bible_ is a very good, oversimplified but brilliant `bible` for a beginner Satanist or anyone juat interested to understand one of the most maligned philosophies in the world. It is a book that describes, in simple language, Satanism;both the philosophy and the rituals. It is a must for a wannabe Satanist;a TRUE Satanist interested in the LaVeyan point of view-A MUST ... ... ...
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Summary: An interesting explanation
Review: This book covers a side of human nature that has been revealed anew by the author. People need to express their base passions, while at the same time they need their rituals and icons. "Satan", according to LaVey, is the iconoclast of the base(and sometimes cruel) passions that drive men and women in their quest for pleasure that God, it is perceived, denies them of. According to LaVey, Satan, rather than being an adversarial force seeking the downfall of mankind, is a force for carnal pleasures and rather than seeking to subjugate mankind to evil, seeks to free him of the restraints of conventional morality and, in a sense, deify man rather than God. While on philosophical grounds I may disagree with LaVey's premise, it adds a whole new side to the debate of what is the nature of man.
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Summary: Beyond enlightening
Review: This is without a doubt the greatest book I have ever read. It is very straigtforward, but I don't think its for everyone. If you are the typical mediocre human you may not even understand it, but if you're tired of religions that are full of hypocricy and guilt stained restrictions this book just may rip the wool from your eyes. enjoy.
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Summary: The Satanic Bible
Review: LaVey proves how hypocritical society is. I love it. The book even changed my beliefs on some things. I wish Chrisitians would stop and think for a moment how the Christian culture was defunct long ago. Hail Satan!!! The Rev.
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Summary: Don't have any sense
Review: I'm a pesquisator, and this book don't have any sense because he wants to turn satanism on humanism( there is a point on the two things(the wish of freedom(specially from God)). The format and the paper quality is very poor. If you buy you will regret as I am.
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Summary: Fun little book. Scares roommates away.
Review: Ah, Satanism, the boogyman of a thousand movies and a million sermons. The gnashing of teeth, the evils of no self-control, the biggest influence in modern arts. One must admire Anton Levay for taking this fictitious religion and making into something tangible. A performance artist of the highest order (one of his best essays is the one about hosting a Christian trying to save you complete with badly fitting robes, bubbly smoky drinks, and Disney music) Anton Levay proceeds to throw a mirror to centuries of repression and gives a philosophy that is mostly Nietzche with a little Sade and Freud thrown into the mixture. This wouldn't be such great stuff if Levay didn't also have the rituals thrown in. A particularly hilarious one has the men talking about their rods of power and the women chanting about their quivering loins. Whether you read this as a parody of CHristianity or the neo-pagan movements (granted this book predated Starhawk and Buckland's Big Dumb Blue Book, but it's quite contemporary and is honestly trying ot be funny), a philosophy or just something to prove that you are evil but not as evil as the Crusaders, it's a fun book with a lot of hype. Nothing too serious, but it scares your fundamentalist roommate - and for that alone it's worth the cover price.
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Summary: The Satanic Bible
Review: This book is very interesting and logically explains the basic principles of humanism adapted into a religion with a anti-Christian, anti-right hand path, and anti-religious statements in between. The sections on lesser and greater Magic are also very interesting. Particularly interesting is LaVey's "new translation" of the Enochian Keys. Although not likely, this could be the truest translation. I have not tried any of the rituals suggested, so I don't know if they work. The sections about the psychological significance of ritual and man's need for dogma are very interesting. Upon reading this book, I realized that these principles of self preservation and delight in humanness are the same principles that are practiced by myself and countless others around the world without any affiliation with the Church of Satan. This book, will not satisfly those who wish to find out about the Satanism of the media with its spurious claims of human sacrifice, rape, etc., but I strongly recommend that everyone read this book to learn about philosophy, gain a new outlook on life, and to realize that not all Satanists (traditional Satanists worship the devil in the fullest sense and may offer sacrifices) worship Satan per se or offer sacrifices.
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Summary: a good read
Review: I liked the book because it's "logical", but it's not open minded enough for me. Worth reading yes! it's interesting, I heard about what it was like from a friend and read it just out of interest. I don't want to say too much, make your own conclusions on this book. I'm not making any.
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Summary: Having Missed the Point...
Review: Anton Szandor LaVey was nothing more than a performance artist. He believed in the human "self," not a god nor a devil. Unfortunately, his work is misread as people try to make his artwork a literal part of their lives. This is the public's mistake. Karen Finley, another performance artist, is misunderstood for her aggressive feminism. Because of her art, she continues to receive ridiculous death threats as she takes the role of a misogynistic male in her obscene interpretations. Finley and LaVey are simply artists and nothing more. The problems regarding their work are how we reflect in the mirror they hold before us. Appreciate it for what it is.
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Summary: The Satanic Bible
Review: A Masterpiece of original thought most of the human herd cannot concieve of! Dr.Lavey was an iconoclastic genius,and it is unfortunate he has left us.This book changed many of the conventional problems I had in viewing this hodgepodge society,and it continues to offer such a refreshing remedy for those brave souls whom step out of lockstep from the Orwellian "Global Village" the Government wants us in............ -Ken Knight(author of CRYPTX)
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