THE
NINE
SATANIC
STATEMENTS
1. Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence!
2. Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual
pipe dreams!
3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of
hypocritical self-deceit!
4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it,
instead of love wasted on ingrates!
5. Satan represents vengeance, instead of turning the
other cheek!
6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible,
instead of concern for psychic
vampires!
7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes
better, more often worse than
those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his
"divine spiritual and intellectual
development", has become the most vicious animal of
all!
8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all
lead to physical, mental, or
emotional gratification!
9. Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had,
as he has kept it in business all
these years!
(FIRE)
THE BOOK OF SATAN
THE INFERNAL DIATRIBE
The first book of the Satanic Bible is not an attempt to
blaspheme as much as it is a statement
of what might be termed "diabolical
indignation". The Devil has been attacked by the men of
God relentlessly and without reservation. Never has there
been an opportunity, short of
fiction, for the Dark Prince to speak out in the same
manner as the spokesmen of the Lord of
the Righteous. The pulpit-pounders of the past have been
free to define "good" and "evil" as
they see fit, and have gladly smashed into oblivion any
who disagree with their lies - both
verbally and, at times, physically. Their talk of
"charity", when applied to His Infernal
Majesty, becomes an empty sham - and most unfairly, too,
considering the obvious fact that
without their Satanic foe their very religions would
collapse. How sad, that the allegorical
personage most responsible for the success of spiritual
religions is shown the least amount of
charity and the most consistent abuse - and by those who
most unctuously preach the rules of
fair play! For all the centuries of shouting-down the
Devil has received, he has never shouted
back at his detractors. He has remained the gentleman at
all times, while those he supports
rant and rave. He has shown himself to be a model of
deportment, but now he feels it is time
to shout back. He has decided it is finally time to
receive his due. Now the ponderous rulebooks
of hypocrisy are no longer needed. In order to relearn the
Law of the Jungle, a small,
slim diatribe will do. Each verse is an inferno. Each word
is a tongue of fire. The flames of
Hell burn fierce . . . and purify! Read on and learn the
Law.
THE
BOOK OF
SATAN
I
1. In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up
my voice that you may hear. To the
East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the
South I show a sign
proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!
2. Open your eyes that you may see, Oh men of mildewed
minds, and listen to me ye
bewildered millions!
3. For I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world;
to interrogate the "laws" of
man and of "God"!
4. I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why
and wherefore of your ten
commandments.
5. Before none of your printed idols do I bend in
acquiescence, and he who saith "thou
shalt" to me is my mortal foe!
6. I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your
impotent mad redeemer, and write
over his thorn-torn brow: The TRUE
prince of evil - the king of slaves!
7. No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling
dogma shall encramp my pen!
8. I break away from all conventions that do not lead to
my earthly success and
happiness.
9. I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the
strong!
10. I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah,
and pluck him by the beard; I
uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!
11. I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically
whited sepulchers and laugh with
sardonic wrath!
THE
BOOK OF
SATAN
II
1. Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid
incompetence hanging on a tree.
2. I question all things. As I stand before the festering
and varnished facades of your
haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of
blazing scorn: Lo and behold; all
this is fraud!
3. Gather around me, Oh! ye death-defiant, and the earth
itself shall be thine, to have and
to hold!
4. Too long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize
living thought!
5. Too long right and wrong, good and evil have been
inverted by false prophets!
6. No creed must be accepted upon authority of a
"divine" nature. Religions must be put
to the question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted
- no standard of
measurement deified. There is nothing inherently sacred about
moral codes. Like the
wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human
hands, and what man has made,
man can destroy!
7. He that is slow to believe anything and everything is
of great understanding, for belief
in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom.
8. The chief duty of every new age is to upraise new men
to determine its liberties, to
lead it towards material success - to rend the rusty
padlocks and chains of dead custom
that always prevent healthy expansion. Theories and ideas
that may have meant life
and hope and freedom for our ancestors may now mean
destruction, slavery, and
dishonor to us!
9. As environments change, no human ideal standeth sure!
10. Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a
throne, let it be assailed without pity
and without regret, for under the domination of an
inconvenient falsehood, no one can
prosper.
11. Let established sophisms be dethroned, rooted out,
burnt and destroyed, for they are a
standing menace to all true nobility of thought and
action!
12. Whatever alleged "truth" is proven by
results to be but an empty fiction, let it be
unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the
dead gods, dead empires,
dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!
13. The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy,
the sanctified, the privileged lie -
the lie everyone believes to be a model truth. It is the
fruitful mother of all other
popular errors and delusions. It is a hydra-headed tree of
unreason with a thousand
roots. It is a social cancer!
14. The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated,
but the 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!
15. 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
1. "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?
2. Is it natural for enemies to do good unto each other -
and WHAT IS GOOD?
3. Can the torn and bloody victim "love" the
blood-splashed jaws that rend him limb
from limb?
4. Are we not all predatory animals by instinct? If humans
ceased wholly from preying
upon each other, could they continue to exist?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. 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!
8. He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog!
9. 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
1. Life is the great indulgence - death, the great
abstinence. Therefore, make the most of
life - HERE AND NOW!
2. 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!
3. Say unto thine own heart, "I am mine own
redeemer."
4. 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.
5. Then all thy bones shall say pridefully, "Who is
like unto me? Have I not been too
strong for mine adversaries?
