EGOISTICAL EXTRAVAGANCE (This Page)
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Independent Satanists (Detail)
The subversion ideologies of the European Witch Craze included the worshipful ordeal of the Osculum Infame, or 'Kiss of Shame', in which satanists provided to the anus of the anti-God a tonguing of unexplained technique or duration (implying analingus or copraphagia -- the original 'brown-nosing').Its complimentary use here refers to those who make a (Devil's) Mark on the cybernetic and fleshworld walls in their association to the God of this World. They may be serial killers, media-twisting cultists, or dark underworld saints. Their nights may be spent cursing enemies, invoking demons, worshipping the Dark Lord, or any other Satanic endeavour they consider proper.
Self-described Satanists are listed below. Beyond the blatant egoists we showcase, they are taxonomized for the reader displaying a spectrum organizational to independent, conservative to radical, reliable to blatantly false. Posterior to their publications appear known members and personal data (honorable unless convicted, in which case all affiliations related to conventional Satanism known will be presented).
Bare-Faced Satanism
Satanists who are known at large by their legal names or whose actions clearly enable such an identification, plus their wrathful and beneficent photos, and GOOGLE SATANIST NUMBERS! More details if horrible!
"Jeordie White was known as Twiggy Ramirez during his membership of the band
"Marilyn Manson". The pseudonym was created by combining the names of
Richard Ramirez
and iconic 1960s model Twiggy."
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"'That was ... what inspired the song "Satan's Fall" -- discovering LaVey's Bible. The interesting thing is that LaVey's book is not that occult, it's mostly philosophy. In LaVey's Satanism he doesn't say you have to believe in this Devil with horns or whatever. When it comes to the spiritual side, there's just this huge void. LaVey realises, and I have the same feeling, that we're all born different with different needs and ways of thinking. No two people believe exactly the same way. When you realise that, you realise you should take whatever you want, whatever suits you best, whatever feels right for you to believe in. You can pick and choose what you believe. One of the things I consider almost mandatory, though, is believing that there are powers around us.'"
-- "Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship and Rock 'n' Roll", King Diamond interview, quoted by Gavin Baddeley, Hillman Printers, 1999; p. 127.
"King Diamond('s) .... inspiration was Anton LaVey, who Diamond visited in San Francisco (during this visit, the eccentric LaVey regaled his guest with a keyboard rendition of 'Wonderful Copenhagen'). In return, King Diamond received an honourable mention in LaVey's 1990 biography, The Secret Life of a Satanist, as the only Satanic rocker then paying proper dues to the Prince of Darkness."
-- Ibid., "Lucifer Rising", text by Baddeley, p. 123.
"'You could say any concert is a Satanic ritual because you are definitely letting so much energy loose. You could probably turn it into oneo f those most powerful Satanic rituals ever if you did it in the right way. With all of that energy, if it was directed in the right way, my God it could be powerful! But we never tried to do that -- it would be taking advantage of people. We never tried to convert people. I never saw us as priests. I have my beliefs in spiritual things, but they are different from everyone else's. That's where the spiritual void in Satanism comes in again. Satanism is a lot to do with a life philosophy. There are also the steps of how to perform a ritual. But there too you have to be careful. Not just everybody can do it, you've got to have certain features and abilities so you can release the right energies at the right moment. If you can't do that nothing will come out of it. I've performed Satanic rituals at home, but never on stage.'"
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"'...it says in The Satanic Bible, and I agree with it 100 per cent on this point, that under no circumstances would a true Satanist sacrifice a child, or an animal for that matter. So, how could that be true? If kids are turning Satanism into something bad then they must have got it from somewhere else. Maybe the TV preachers in the US, or from the Church, which has always portrayed Satanism in this way. I have nothing against the Christian Church, I fully respect that people are different with different views, feelings and needs. If it feels right, do it. I judge people by their personality, not by their religious beliefs.'
"Do you believe in Satan as an actual entity?"
"'If you're thinking of this guy with horns and a trail who opposes some good force, then no. For me the word 'Satan' stands for the powers of the unknown, the powers of darkness, that are all around us which we can use for our or other people's benefit.'"
-- Ibid., "Lucifer Rising", interview with King Diamond, pp. 127-128.
"In an interview from 2006, King Diamond stated that he does not follow any specific religion, and expressed concern that religion has led so many people to kill and destroy each other. He stated that he cannot comprehend why religion has caused so much death and destruction when it is logically impossible to prove the presence or absence of any god. He states that he has reached a point in his life where he has completely given up believing in anything religious and that he simply does not know what to answer when asked whether he is a Satanist or not."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Diamond#Religious_beliefs
(accessed 4/13/09)
"...there are about as many views on Satanism as there are different types of Christianity (laughs). For me, I was living my life that way before I read that book, you know, "The Satanic Bible" by Anton LaVey, and I think that book was mistitled because once you hear the word Bible people automatically think of religion and it's really not  it's more of a philosophy, really."
-- http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=27693
(accessed 4/13/09)
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"Richard started reading about Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan in San Francisco. He felt compelled to join their rituals, but eventually shunned the organized cult and preferred to be what he termed a 'lone practitioner.' This belief in Satan was not just a whimsy, but a deep-seated belief in the power of Lucifer to protect and empower his disciples.
"He tried to explain it to his sister when she visited him in L.A. and was alarmed
at the changes in him. 'Why Satan, Richie?' she wanted to know. 'Because Satan
represents what I feel. I'm not like other people. I'm different...I've got a
trade. I'm a thief, Ruth...and a good one...I'm not going to any jail.
I'm protected.' ..."
"A burglar, rapist and sadistic serial murderer who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the mid-eighties, he was captured by civilians on August 31, 1985. A self-identified Satanist, Ramirez had actually read The Satanic Bible. His 'calling card' was the inverted pentagram traditionally associated with Satanism, which he left drawn on a wall, or, in one case, carved into the body of a victim. In 1983, he even made a special trip to San Francisco to meet LaVey personally. LaVey was later reported as commenting that, 'I thought Richard was very nice - very shy. I liked him.' "His trial was a media circus. Ramirez would engage in such antics as flashing a pentagram he had drawn in the palm of his hand, shouting 'Hail Satan!' and holding up his fingers alongside his head in imitation of devil's horns. Parts of the statement he made during his sentencing even seemed to echo some of the themes of The Satanic Bible:
I am beyond good and evil.... Lucifer dwells in all of us.... I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society. I need not look beyond this courtroom to see all the liars, the haters, the killers, the crooks, the paranoid cowards.... Hypocrites one and all. We are all expendable for a cause. No one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world which kill in the name of God and country....(Cited in Carlo 1996, p. 395). ..."
"... such individuals [like Ramirez] are criminals who adopt
selected aspects of Satanic ideology as a way of justifying
anti-social acts."
"In 1985, the phrase ['Hail Satan!'] received national news
coverage in the United States when serial killer Richard
Ramirez, known as the 'Night Stalker', shouted 'Hail Satan!'
as he was led from the courtroom, while raising his hand
with a pentagram drawn onto it. Members of Ramirez's family
denied that he said the phrase, believing that he said
'We'll see,' but 'Hail Satan' was still being used by
journalists over twenty years later as being characteristic
of Ramirez. In reviewing whether Ramirez was deprived of his
due process and fair trial rights by being restrained by leg
shackles, the Supreme Court of California itself highlighted
Ramirez's use of 'Hail Satan' to support its conclusion that
the trial court did not abuse its discretion in ordering
Ramirez to be physically restrained during trial."
"On September 20, 1989, Ramirez, was found guilty on 43 counts, including 13 murders. He is currently on death row at San Quentin Prison in California."
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"I am by training a composer; I went to NYU. I have a Bachelor's and Master's in music composition, mostly focusing on orchestral work."
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SUSAN ATKINS - b05-07-48, Susan Denise Atkins
aka "Sadie Mae Glutz",
formerly part of "The Witches of Mendocino" (notoriety), formerly independent
"Atkins came into contact with LaVey in San Francisco after being released from the hoosegow, and danced in a show he organized called the Witches' Sabbath as a blood-swilling vampire. It was a precursor of things to come for the rootless girl. ..."
"Atkins and some other clan members lived in the idyllic artists community of Mendocino in northern California fo a while, but they were busted after distributing LSD to local kid. The Manson-affiliated group was dubbed 'The Witches of Mendocino'" when they went on trial. ..."
"Atkins, Watson and Krenwinkle ...entered the Polanski-Tate home and committed one of the most cold-blooded murders to disgrace the annals of crime, calling into effect the very nature of the human soul. What boggles the mind is the sheer evil of the event, the intensity of the killers as they lay waste to an innocent, heavily pregnant young woman and her three friends. When it was over, the word "Pig" was written in Tate's blood on the front door of the house. ..."
"Atkins claimed that it was she who stabbed eight-months pregnant Sharon Tate to death, a particularly brutal act even within the context of the Cielo Drive massacre in that the group of murderers had kept Tate, who pleaded for the life of her unborn baby, alive to the last. Restraining Tate while her friends were brutally butchered before her eyes, Atkins said that she had coldly told the terrified actress that she would be murdered: "Look, bitch, I don't care a thing about you. You're going to die and there's nothing you can do about it.
"She further testified that she stabbed Tate repeatedly as the dying actress cried out in anguish for her own mother before perishing. She then tasted the blood of Sharon Tate that was on her hand, figuratively sucking the life out of her. It was one of the most appalling stories of its kind, shocking people who had lived through more than half-a-century of mass-murder since the First World War. ..."
"In March 1971, after the longest and most expensive trial in Los Angeles history in which Bugliosi insisted that Manson was a charismatic cult leader who believed he received secret messages from The Beatles' "White Album" -- a veritable demon who threatened the very basis of Western civilization itself -- all four were found guilty of first-degree murder."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1366013/bio
(accessed 11-26-08)
"...convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, including the most notorious, the "Sharon Tate/LaBianca" murders. She was sentenced to death, which was subsequently commuted to life in prison. Atkins has been incarcerated in California since October 1, 1969, having been denied parole seventeen times. ..."
"During her time as a dancer, Atkins met Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey when she was hired for a stage production which featured her as a vampire."
Multiple convictions. Confessed murderer. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Dying in prison of brain cancer.
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Co-founder, Werewolf Order, Abraxas Foundation of Evil, and other organizations.
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If you are a Satanian, please seriously consider taking James R. Lewis's excellent Satanism Survey.
Illustr. credits: 'Beautifying For the Infamous Kiss' is a well-known Witch Craze wood cut, 'Snake Bar Devils' is an improvement by nocTifer on the 'Authentic Candle of Desperation' packaging from Botanica Del Leon Rayon (Mexico), 1998; 'Kissing Cousins' was originally a Tarot Trump 'Devil' drawn by Oswald Wirth, scanned and improved by R. bobo, 2006.
