Anton LaVey

Anton LaVey (1930–1997) was an American occultist who founded the Church of Satan in 1966 and wrote The Satanic Bible, presenting Satanism as an atheistic philosophy and ritual practice.

Diane Hegarty: An American occultist who co-founded the Church of Satan and served as its high priestess. She helped establish the church and participated in its early rituals and public life.
The Satanic Bible: A 1969 book by Anton LaVey that presents the beliefs and rituals of LaVeyan Satanism. It is LaVey’s central statement of Satanic philosophy and ritual.
San Francisco: A city in Northern California known for its diverse cultural, political, and artistic history. LaVey founded the Church of Satan there amid the city’s 1960s cultural ferment.
Ritual magic: The use of prescribed symbolic actions and words intended to produce psychological or supernatural effects. LaVey treated ritual as a means of emotional release and directed self-expression.
Michael Aquino: An American occultist who founded the Temple of Set after leaving the Church of Satan in 1975. His break with LaVey produced the most prominent early schism in organized Satanism.
Church of Satan: A religious organization founded by Anton LaVey in San Francisco in 1966. LaVey gave his ideas an organized institutional form through this church.
Counterculture of the 1960s: A broad movement of social and cultural dissent that challenged prevailing norms during the 1960s. The church’s founding belonged to a decade of experimentation with religion, sexuality, and authority.
Satanic ritual abuse: A conspiracy theory alleging widespread organized abuse in Satanic rituals, which lacks reliable supporting evidence. The controversy is often conflated with LaVey’s church despite the absence of evidence linking it to the allegations.
Aleister Crowley: An English occultist whose writings and magical organizations influenced modern Western esotericism. Crowley’s writings formed part of the occult inheritance against which LaVey developed his own system.
LaVeyan Satanism: An atheistic form of Satanism associated with Anton LaVey, emphasizing individualism, ritual, and human nature. It names the philosophy LaVey articulated and the tradition his writings initiated.

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