"Anton Szandor LaVey - The Satanic Bible" - читать интересную книгу автора (LaVey Anton Szandor)

lie that even intelligent persons accept as fact - the lie that has been
inculcated in a little child at its mother's knee - is more dangerous to contend
against than a creeping pestilence! Popular lies have ever been the most potent
enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut them
out, to the very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch.
Annihilate them, or they will us!

THE BOOK OF SATAN

III "Love one another" it has been said is the supreme law, but what power made
it so? Upon what rational authority does the gospel of love rest? Why should I
not hate mine enemies - if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?
Is it natural for enemies to do good unto each other - and WHAT IS GOOD? Can
the torn and bloody victim "love" the blood-splashed jaws that rend him limb
from limb? Are we not all predatory animals by instinct? If humans ceased
wholly from preying upon each other, could they continue to exist? Is not "lust
and carnal desire" a more truthful term to describe "love" when applied to the
continuance of the race? Is not the "love" of the fawning scriptures simply a
euphemism for sexual activity, or was the "great teacher" a glorifier of
eunuchs? Love your enemies and do good to them that hate and use you - is this
not the despicable philosophy of the spaniel that rolls upon its back when
kicked? Hate your enemies with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one
cheek, SMASH him on the other!; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation
is the highest law! He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog! Give blow
for blow, scorn for scorn, doom for doom - with compound interest liberally
added thereunto! Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, aye four-fold, a hundred-fold!
Make yourself a Terror to your adversary, and when he goeth his way, he will
possess much additional wisdom to ruminate over. Thus shall you make yourself
respected in all the walks of life, and your spirit - your immortal spirit -
shall live, not in an intangible paradise, but in the brains and sinews of those
whose respect you have gained.

THE BOOK OF SATAN

IV Life is the great indulgence - death, the great abstinence. Therefore, make
the most of life - HERE AND NOW! There is no heaven of glory bright, and no
hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is
our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour,
for no redeemer liveth! Say unto thine own heart, "I am mine own redeemer."
Stop the way of them that would persecute you. Let those who devise thine
undoing be hurled back to confusion and infamy. Let them be as chaff before the
cyclone and after they have fallen rejoice in thine own salvation. Then all thy
bones shall say pridefully, "Who is like unto me? Have I not been too strong for
mine adversaries? Have I not delivered MYSELF by mine own brain and body?"

THE BOOK OF SATAN

V Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth - Cursed are the
weak, for they shall inherit the yoke! Blessed are the powerful, for they shall
be reverenced among men - Cursed are the feeble, for they shall be blotted out!