• Within the Church of Satan, a Grotto (from Italian grotta, a type of cave) is a clandestine association or gathering of Satanists within geographical proximity...
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  • LaVeyan Satanism is the name given to the form of Satanism promoted by American occultist and author Anton LaVey (1930-1997). LaVey founded the Church...
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    Church of Satan (category Satanism in the United States)
    of Satan (CoS) is a religious organization dedicated to the religion of Satanism as defined by Anton Szandor LaVey. Founded in San Francisco in 1966, by...
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    Satanism refers to a group of religious, ideological and/or philosophical beliefs based on Satan (also called Lucifer) – particularly the worship or veneration...
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  • organization Grotto (Satanism), a clandestine association or gathering Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm (The Grotto), an appendant...
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    Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism. He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals...
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  • The infernal names (category Satanism)
    Satan LaVeyan Satanism Left-hand path and right-hand path Luciferianism Satanism The Satanic Bible The Satanic Temple Theistic Satanism LaVey, Anton Szandor...
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    Sigil of Baphomet (category Satanism)
    iconoclastic philosophy of Satanism." The familiar goat's head inside an inverted pentagram did not become the foremost symbol of Satanism until the founding...
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    interviewed on numerous television and radio programs dealing with the topic of Satanism, including appearances on History, the BBC, Syfy, Point of Inquiry, and...
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    First Satanic Church (category Satanism in the United States)
    1999, in San Francisco, California. The church is dedicated to LaVeyan Satanism as codified by Anton LaVey in The Satanic Bible. The church's stated mission...
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  • practitioners are called Setians. This is sometimes identified as a form of Satanism, although this term is not often embraced by Setians and is contested by...
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  • Greater and lesser magic (category Satanism)
    also as high and low magic or collectively Satanic magic), within LaVeyan Satanism, designate types of beliefs with the term greater magic applying to ritual...
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  • "Let the Games Begin", opens with quotes from proponents and opponents of Satanism with illustrative examples of contemporary Satanic practice. It then provides...
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    Taxil hoax (category Satanism)
    contained fictitious eyewitness verifications of their participation in Satanism. With a collaborator who published as "Dr. Karl Hacks", Taxil wrote another...
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    v t e LaVeyan Satanism High Priest Anton LaVey (1966–1997) Peter H. Gilmore (2001–present) High Priestess Diane Hegarty (1966–1985) Zeena LaVey (1985–1990)...
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    single fastest-growing new religious movement in the Americas. LaVeyan Satanism is critical of Abrahamic sexual mores, considering them narrow, restrictive...
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  • v t e LaVeyan Satanism High Priest Anton LaVey (1966–1997) Peter H. Gilmore (2001–present) High Priestess Diane Hegarty (1966–1985) Zeena LaVey (1985–1990)...
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    more likely to be based on allegations of mysticism, occultism, and even Satanism. Masonic scholar Albert Pike is often quoted (in some cases misquoted)...
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  • six people. Evidence showed that the murders may have been influenced by satanism. In a 2003 drug-related case, the rap artist Big Lurch was convicted of...
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    caused by his appearance on the show. Darski was accused of spreading satanism by his behaviour on stage. That was why many catholic organisations wanted...
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  • Secret Doctrine, and is often presented by Anti-Masons as evidence of Satanism on the part of Freemasonry. This passage is quite regularly taken out of...
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    al-Taym was the beginning of his defeat. He later took refuge in Jezzine's grotto, closely followed by Küçük Ahmed Pasha who eventually caught up with him...
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  • Pierre-Auguste Sarrus, French inventor – Sarrusophone. Satan, Biblical character – Satanism, Satan's bolete Satyr, Greek mythological characters – satire. Muhammad...
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  • Alucarda (category Films about Satanism)
    the convent and causing various clergy to spontaneously combust in the grotto. Upon witnessing Angélica's corpse, Alucarda is suddenly overcome with sorrow...
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  • accusations were about pantheism, rationalism, and naturalism; but not about Satanism. Leo XIII analysed continental Grand Orient type philosophical "principles...
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    began a fierce anti-Masonic campaign homologoating the organization with Satanism and describing it as an anti-Christian cult. Catholic newspapers of the...
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