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

"People, organizations, nations are making millions of dollars off us. What
would they do without us? Without the Church of Satan, they wouldn't have
anybody to rage at and to take the blame for all the rotten things happening in
the world. If they really feel this way, they shouldn't have blown us out of
proportion. What you really have to believe instead is that they are the
charlatans, and they're really glad to have us around so they can exploit us.
We're an extremely valuable commodity. We've helped business, lifted up the
economy, and some of the millions of dollars we have generated have in turn
flowed into the Christian church. We have proved many times over the Ninth
Satanic Statement that says the church - and countless individuals - cannot
exist without the Devil."

For that the Christian church must pay a price. The events that LaVey predicted
in the first edition of The Satanic Bible have come to pass. Repressed people
have burst their bonds. Sex has exploded, the collective libido has been
released, in movies and literature, on the streets, and in the home. People are
dancing topless and bottomless. Nuns have throwm off their traditional habits,
exposed their legs, and danced the "Missa Solemnis Rock" that LaVey thought he
was conjuring up as a prank. There is a ceaseless universal quest for
entertainment, gourmet foods and wines, adventure, enjoyment of the here and
now. Humanity is no longer willing to wait for any afterlife that promises to
reward the clean, pure - translate: ascetic, drab - spirit. There is a mood of
neopaganism and hedonism, and from it there have emerged a wide variety of
brilliant individuals - doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, writers,
stockbrokers, real estate developers, actors and actresses, mass communications
media people (to cite a few categories of Satanists) - who are interested in
formalizing and perpetuating this all-pervading religion and way of life.

It is not an easy religion to adopt in a society ruled so long by Puritan
ethics. There is no false altruism or mandatory love-thy-neighbor concept in
this religion. Satanism is a blatantly selfish, brutal philosophy. It is based
on the belief that human beings are inherently selfish, violent creatures, that
life is a Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest, that only the strong
survive and the earth will be ruled by those who fight to win the ceaseless
competition that exists in all jungles - including those of urbanized society.
Abhor this brutal outlook if you will; it is based, as it has been for
centuries, on real conditions that exist in the world we inhabit rather than the
mystical lands of milk and honey depicted in the Christian Bible.

In The Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey has explained the philosophy of Satanism more
profoundly than any of his ancestors in the Kingdom of Darkness, while
describing in detail the innovative rituals and trappings he has devised to
create a church of realists. It has been clear from the first edition that many
people want to read this book to learn how to start Satanic groups and ritualize
black magic. The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals are the only books that
have demonstrated, in a way that is authentic and true to relevant traditions,
how all of that can be done. There have been many imitators, never attributing
their source, and with good reason; because once the shabbiness and shallowness
of the imitators have been compared to LaVey's pioneering work, there can no
longer be any market for the ripoff artists.