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The religion's doctrines are codified in LaVey's book, ''[[The Satanic Bible]]''. | The religion's doctrines are codified in LaVey's book, ''[[The Satanic Bible]]''. | ||
The religion is materialist, rejecting the existence of supernatural beings, body-soul dualism, and life after death. Practitioners do not believe that [[Satan]] literally exists and do not worship him. Instead, Satan is viewed as a positive archetype representing pride, carnality, and enlightenment. He is also embraced as a symbol of defiance against [[Abrahamic religion]]s, which LaVeyans criticize for suppressing humanity's natural instincts and encouraging irrationality. The religion propagates a naturalistic worldview, seeing mankind as animals existing in an amoral universe. It promotes a philosophy based on individualism and egoism, coupled with Social Darwinism and anti-egalitarianism. | The religion is materialist, rejecting the existence of supernatural beings, body-soul dualism, and life after death. Practitioners do not believe that [[Satan]] literally exists and do not worship him. Instead, Satan is viewed as a positive archetype representing pride, carnality, and [[enlightenment]]. He is also embraced as a symbol of defiance against [[Abrahamic religion]]s, which LaVeyans criticize for suppressing humanity's natural instincts and encouraging irrationality. The religion propagates a naturalistic worldview, seeing mankind as animals existing in an amoral universe. It promotes a philosophy based on individualism and egoism, coupled with Social Darwinism and anti-egalitarianism. | ||
LaVeyan Satanism involves the practice of [[ritual magic]], which encompasses two distinct forms; greater and lesser magic. Greater magic is a form of ritual practice and is meant as psychodramatic catharsis to focus one's emotional energy for a specific purpose. These rites are based on three major psycho-emotive themes: compassion (love), destruction (hate), and [[sex magic|sex (lust)]]. Lesser magic is the practice of manipulation by means of applied psychology and glamour (or "wile and guile") to bend an individual or situation to one's will. | LaVeyan Satanism involves the practice of [[ritual magic]], which encompasses two distinct forms; greater and lesser magic. Greater magic is a form of ritual practice and is meant as psychodramatic catharsis to focus one's emotional energy for a specific purpose. These rites are based on three major psycho-emotive themes: compassion (love), destruction (hate), and [[sex magic|sex (lust)]]. Lesser magic is the practice of manipulation by means of applied psychology and glamour (or "wile and guile") to bend an individual or situation to one's will. | ||
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Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to [[Lucifer]], the name of various mythological and religious figures associated with the planet [[Venus]]. The tradition usually reveres Lucifer not as the Devil, but as a destroyer, a guardian, liberator, light bringer or guiding spirit to darkness, or even the true god. | Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to [[Lucifer]], the name of various mythological and religious figures associated with the planet [[Venus]]. The tradition usually reveres Lucifer not as the Devil, but as a destroyer, a guardian, liberator, light bringer or guiding spirit to darkness, or even the true god. | ||
In [[Anton LaVey]]'s ''[[The Satanic Bible]]'', Lucifer is one of the four crown princes of [[hell]], particularly that of the East, the "lord of the air," and is described as the bringer of light, the morning star, intellectualism, and enlightenment. | In [[Anton LaVey]]'s ''[[The Satanic Bible]]'', Lucifer is one of the four crown princes of [[hell]], particularly that of the East, the "lord of the [[air (element)|air]]," and is described as the bringer of light, the morning star, intellectualism, and enlightenment. | ||
===The Satanic Temple=== | ===The Satanic Temple=== | ||