The Satanic Rituals
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Satanism
Associated organizations
Church of Satan
First Satanic Church
Prominent figures
Anton LaVey | Blanche Barton | Peter H. Gilmore | Peggy Nadramia | Karla LaVey
Associated concepts
Left-Hand Path | Pentagonal Revisionism | Suitheism | Survival of the fittest | Objectivism | Might Is Right
Books and publications
The Satanic Bible | The Satanic Rituals | The Satanic Witch | The Devil's Notebook | Satan Speaks! | The Black Flame | The Church of Satan | The Secret Life of a Satanist | The Satanic Scriptures
In popular culture
Allegations of Satanism | Satanic ritual abuse
The Satanic Rituals is a book by Anton Szandor LaVey published in 1972 as a companion volume to The Satanic Bible. It is a collection of nine rituals with an introductory essay to each.
It was published by Avon Books as a 224-page paperback (ISBN 0-380-01392-4). It has also been published in hardcover (by Buccaneer Books, 1991, ISBN 0-89966-827-5) and with a textbook binding (by Universe Books, 1978, ISBN 0-8216-0171-7).
[edit] Opening epigraph
- “The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” — Herbert Spencer
[edit] Contents
- Introduction
- Concerning the Rituals
- The Original Psychodrama — Le Messe Noir
- L'Air Epais — The Ceremony of the Stifling Air
- The Seventh Satanic Statement — Das Tierdrama
- The Law of the Trapezoid — Die elektrischen Vorspiele
- Night on Bald Mountain — Homage to Tchort
- Pilgrims of the Age of Fire — The Statement of Shaitan
- The Metaphysics of Lovecraft — The Ceremony of the Nine Angles and The Call to Cthulhu (written by Michael Aquino )
- The Satanic Baptisms — Adult Rite and Children's Ceremony
- The Unknown Known
