Dr. Michael A. Aquino’s experience on the North Solstice of 1975 CE, or the Year X of the Age of Satan, as recorded in the Book of Coming Forth by Night, has dramatically clarified the doctrine of Aeons, Magi, and Words. I will not be going into a complete account of this text, what led toContinue reading “Ra-En-Set and the Aeon”
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Feedback on LaVey Writing
Someone who identifies as being involved with the Church of Satan asked me in a private discussion forum: “Is it normal for [Setians] to have a hard time moving on from Satanism? They’re free and clear, why bother addressing Satanism at all?” One of the running themes in Foundation is a process of cultural collapseContinue reading “Feedback on LaVey Writing”
Saturday Viewing
My Lack of Respect for Anton LaVey as a Person
picture and caption from The San Francisco Examiner November 28, 1989 I mentioned yesterday that my sense of Anton LaVey has changed. The most significant of these has been in the last two years while researching the various people who were instrumental to the early “Magic Circle” phase of his career and, frankly, finding thingsContinue reading “My Lack of Respect for Anton LaVey as a Person”
LaVey’s Greater Magic Reconsidered
While the purely psychodynamic interpretation of LaVey’s methods fits with the agenda of his apologists uncomfortable with the magical aspects of LaVey’s Work, it does not match his sense of what he was doing. He was axiomatic about the importance and value of Greater Magic to create change beyond mere psychodynamics, making it a foundationalContinue reading “LaVey’s Greater Magic Reconsidered”
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