The Devil's Notebook
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Satanism
Associated organizations
The 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 | Might is Right | Lex talionis | Objectivism
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
The Devil's Notebook is a 1992 book by Anton LaVey published by Feral House (ISBN 0-922915-11-3). Containing the collected wisdom, humor, and dark observations by the founder of the Church of Satan, The Devil’s Notebook was the first original collection of LaVey’s writings to be published in two decades.
In this book LaVey speculates on such topics as nonconformity, occult faddism, Nazism, terrorism, Satanic child abuse, cannibalism, erotic politics, the “Goodguy badge,” demoralization and the construction of artificial human companions. Like P.T. Barnum, Ben Hecht and H.L. Mencken before him, LaVey zeroes in on humankind’s limitless capacity for self-deceit and self-denial. Included are instructions for the creation of what LaVey terms "total environments," or places of magical evocation, where the enlightened may escape the deleterious effects of contemporary existence.LaVey also describes in great detail a ritual on transforming oneself into a werewolf.
