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Church of Satan
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HOMEPAGE Official Church of Satan Website – churchofsatan.com (https://churchofsatan.com)
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Discover the Church of Satan: principles, history, philosophy, and official resources from the original organization established in 1966 by Anton LaVey.
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HOMEPAGE (https://churchofsatan.com) Official Church of Satan Website – churchofsatan.com
Founded on April 30, 1966 c.e. by Anton Szandor LaVey, we are the first above-ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of Man’s true nature—that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos that is indifferent to our existence. To us, Satan is the symbol that best suits the nature of we who are carnal by birth—people who feel no battles raging between our thoughts and feelings, we who do not embrace the concept of a soul imprisoned in a body. He represents pride, liberty, and individualism—qualities often defined as Evil by those who worship external deities, who feel there is a war between their minds and emotions. As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man—using his brain—invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species cannot accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires. All Gods are thus externalized forms, magnified projections of the true nature of their creators, personifying aspects of the universe or personal temperaments which many of their followers find to be troubling. Worshipping any God is thus worshipping by proxy those who invented that God. Since the Satanist understands that all Gods are fiction, instead of bending a knee in worship to—or seeking friendship or unity with—such mythical entities, he places himself at the center of his own subjective universe as his own highest value. We Satanists are thus our own “Gods,” and as beneficent “deities” we can offer love to those who deserve it and deliver our wrath (within reasonable limits) upon those who seek to cause us—or that which we cherish—harm. Magus Gilmore’s essay “What, The Devil?” from The Satanic Scriptures discusses this in greater detail. [IMG: Art Deco Bookend - Left] [H2] Suggested Reading Welcome from Our Former High Priestess Membership: Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions [IMG: Art Deco Bookend - Right] [H2] Latest News [H3] Music to Celebrate Juneteenth! [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] We Are Legion [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] A Moment In Time This slideshow requires JavaScript. [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] SUPPORT THE CHURCH OF SATAN! There are many ways you can support the Church of Satan. Visit our support page to learn how. Donate Now
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SUB-PAGE (https://churchofsatan.com/frequently-asked-questions/) Frequently Asked Questions – Church of Satan
Antechamber to “Frequently Asked Questions” This document will continue to be updated as specific questions arise which need to be addressed. The answers here are often brief and can be explored more thoroughly if you take the time to read through the rest of our official web site—www.churchofsatan.com—and books such as The Satanic Bible and other works by Anton Szandor LaVey as well as The Satanic Scriptures by Peter H. Gilmore. At times we will point you directly to essays on our web site as you should read the information published there on that topic. The questions and their answers have been organized into broad sections listed below. You can either proceed directly to a section to see if your question is there, or you may use the search function on this site to zero-in more quickly. Reading the entire FAQ will provide you with a great deal of information about Satanism and the Church of Satan. [IMG: Art Deco Bookend - Left] [H2] Suggested Reading Theory / Practice In The World The Sinister Screen Church of Satan SETI@home Team [IMG: Art Deco Bookend - Right] [H2] ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? From time to time, you may find yourself with a question that is not addressed in the F.A.Q., or literature. We welcome all intelligent and informed questions. You may submit your question via our web form found on our contact page, or via email at [email protected]. [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] We Are Legion [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] A Moment In Time This slideshow requires JavaScript. [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] SUPPORT THE CHURCH OF SATAN! There are many ways you can support the Church of Satan. Visit our support page to learn how. Donate Now TweetMore Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
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SUB-PAGE (https://churchofsatan.com/contact-us/) Contact the Church of Satan – Church of Satan
We ask that you read our FAQ and look through the majority of this web site before asking questions, and there is much information here as well as directions to the detailed writings which will give you a full account of our philosophy and practices. We suggest that if you wish to learn more, you follow your reading here with The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey followed by The Satanic Scriptures by Peter H. Gilmore. If you do reach a point of misunderstanding, you may encounter some of our officials on the web, or you may contact our representatives using the form below. Journalists seeking media representation should use our Press Contact Page. If you find our philosophy to be of interest you might enjoy our comments and bulletins on Twitter. Our News page is always up-to-date. Our official Facebook presence is here. We also maintain accounts on YouTube, Vimeo and Instagram. Any other social media accounts you might come across are unauthorized. The adamantine Gates of Hell are hereby thrown open—boldly stride within and learn about the “Feared Religion,” or slink away and sustain your ignorance. The choice is yours—let the games begin! If you have a serious and educated question, you may contact us via this form however there is no guarantee of a response. Most questions we receive are addressed in our FAQ, so please be sure to search it before submitting this form. Inquiries for information already in the FAQ will not be responded to. [H2] Contact Us [IMG: Art Deco Bookend - Left] [H2] Suggested Reading Frequently Asked Questions Church of Satan Affiliation Registered Member Application [IMG: Art Deco Bookend - Right] [H2] NOTE The Church of Satan does not send out postal mail or e-mail to individuals who have not previously contacted us themselves. If you receive any postal mail with our New York City return address but a postmark showing it was not sent from New York City or e-mail which by studying the headers clearly has not come from the Central Office in New York City, then you are the victim of someone committing fraud. Please inform us as well as your local postal authorities and action will be taken. [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] We Are Legion [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] A Moment In Time This slideshow requires JavaScript. [IMG: LaVey Sigil] [H2] SUPPORT THE CHURCH OF SATAN! There are many ways you can support the Church of Satan. Visit our support page to learn how. Donate Now TweetMore Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
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SUB-PAGE (https://churchofsatan.com/history-sigil-of-baphomet/) The History of the Origin of the Sigil of Baphomet and its Use in the Church of Satan – Church of Satan
[IMG: Church of Satan] Symbols generalize what words specify. They allow the expression of general ideas which represent the immutable laws of human thought. They do not have a determined and invariable value, on the contrary, they are susceptible to being considered from multiple points of view, giving rise each time to analogous but different interpretations. Therefore, it would not be possible to state everything that a symbol can mean. In a symbol there is never anything other than what one can see in it. Symbolism is a writing that must be learned to read. That is why symbols are not a dead letter, as a Thinker and a true Initiate can say. —Oswald Wirth Le Live de L’Apprenti - Manuel a L’Usage des Noveaux Inities The Apprentice Book – Manual for the Use of New Initiates Page 77 (Lodge Travail & Vrais Amis Fideles, Paris, 1894) There have been many rumors and claims regarding The Sigil of Baphomet, and here we recount the Church of Satan’s discovery and use of this powerful image. Prior to the worldwide press given the Church of Satan—and later the publication of The Satanic Bible — the now familiar goat / pentagram / “Leviathan” graphic had not been used as the prime symbol for Satanism. Our younger readers may find this hard to believe, but it is a fact. Examine the literature and imagery predating the founding of the Church of Satan in 1966: Satanism is usually denoted by inverted crosses or crucifixes and blasphemous parodies of Christian art. There are also images of goats and devils, and demons—along with their sigils from grimoires—all used to represent the “satanic.” However, the complete graphic which we now call the “Sigil of Baphomet” only became associated as the foremost symbol of Satanism after the founding of the Church of Satan and Dr. LaVey’s use of it. From its inception, the Church of Satan has been constantly spotlighted in print, film, and television media all over the globe, so this was to be expected. The word “Baphomet” dates back to records of Templar trials, and there are ongoing discussions concerning its derivation and meaning. However, there is no clear evidence that the symbol which we in the Church of Satan call “Baphomet” is similarly derived; the evidence, if any, has not yet been released in any public forum. [H2] The Unholy Genesis of the Sigil of Baphomet A discussion concerning the symbolism of pentagrams is contained in Eliphas Lévi’s Dogme et Rituel de la haute magie (1855-56 & 61, translated into English by A. E. Waite under the title Transcendental Magic). There are no accompanying illustrations. Here is the English translation of the quote: [H3] CHAPTER 5—THE BLAZING PENTAGRAM The Pentagram, which in Gnostic schools is called the Blazing Star, is the sign of intellectual omnipotence and autocracy. It is the Star of the Magi; it is the sign of the Word made flesh; and, according to the direction of its points, this absolute magical symbol represents order or confusion, the Divine Lamb of Ormuz and St. John, or the accursed goat of Mendes. It is initiation or profanation; it is Lucifer or Vesper, the star of morning or evening. It is Mary or Lilith, victory or death, day or night. The Pentagram with two points in the ascendant represents Satan as the goat of the Sabbath; when one point is in the ascendant, it is the sign of the Saviour. By placing it in such a manner that two of its points are in the ascendant and one is below, we may see the horns, ears and beard of the hierarchic Goat of Mendes, when it becomes the sign of infernal evocations. The pentagram or pentalpha is a symbol which has long been affiliated with demonic activity. From at least the early Middle Ages an entire genre of ritual magic handbooks and manuals has claimed to originate from King Solomon based, no doubt, on his legendary reputation for conjuring and employing demons in the construction of his temple. Among the oldest of these grimoires is the Testament of Solomon dating from perhaps as early as the First Century BC. This text includes a diagram of the pentalpha and relates that Solomon had a ring inscribed with that symbol which gave to him the ability to call forth demons and to have them work his will. The image in the manuscript shows the star point up. Inscribed on a ring however, the direction of the point might be immaterial as it could be perceived either way. What was the source for this symbolism presented by Lévi in this work? Scholars researching the sources for his writings might be able to trace this. As far as we now know, the first printed artwork for an image of a goat face in a five-pointed star appeared in an engraving on page 387 of the 1897 book La Clef de la Magie Noire, by French nobleman and occultist Stanislas de Guaita. The book was part of his multi-volume Essais de Sciences Maudites which not only put forth some of his own occult ideas underlying his establishment of a group of Rosicrucians but also served as a platform for his share of the accusations of Satanism that he and his enemies—such as Là-Bas author J.K. Huysmans and friends—were publicly throwing at each other at the time. De Guaita wrote that he considered Eliphas Lévi to be one of the greatest geniuses of the 19th century so it is not surprising that he would take one of Lévi’s concepts and embellish it further. Lévi mentions the demon Lilith in the above passage and the de Guaita image incorporates her name into the graphic along with that of Samael. In different places Lévi calls Samael both a white-light genie of Mars as well as the Hebrew name for a demonic force. Lévi makes no mention of Leviathan but the de Guaita image is encirlced by this name in Hebrew script. In describing the graphic, de Guaita only slightly expands on Lévi and says nothing about Samael, Lilith, or Leviathan. After describing the point-up pentagram as a white-light symbol of man “voluntarily rejoined in the providential plan,” de Guaita notes: “But oriented in the opposite direction, the pentagrammatic Star is nothing more than a symbol of iniquity, perdition, blasphemy: its two points in the air become the horns of the foul Goat threatening Heaven, and whose head is framed with the stellar pentacle, with its low ears in the side branches, and its beard in disorder in the single lower point. [Page 386]” This engraving may have been taken from elsewhere or it may have been created by de Guaita’s secretary and assistant Oswald Wirth. In addition to creating illustrations for de Guaita, Oswald Wirth also wrote and illustrated more than a dozen of his own books on occult topics including alchemy, astrology, the tarot and particularly Freemasonry. His critically acclaimed tarot deck of 1889 is still sold commercially today. In a number of his books Wirth presented his own original rendering of the goat head and pentagram image and identified it as his own by discretely including his “OW” initials just above the goat’s head. For example, he included it in his 1909 book on Hermetic symbolism, Symbolisme Hermetique dans ses Rapports avec L’Alchemie et la Franc-maconnerie, Paris: Librairie Initiatique, pp.102-103. He wrote that the reversed Pentalpha is “the darkened star of base instincts, of the lustful passions that subjugate animals; hence, it has been seen as the symbol of a goat’s head.” [IMG: Symbolisme Hermetique dans ses Rapports avec L’Alchemie et la Franc-maconnerie, Paris: Librairie Initiatique, pp.102-103] A more deliberately rendered version of the design appears in Wirth’s 1924 edition of the second volume of his three volume set of handbooks for Freemasons. (La Franc-Maçonnerie Rendue Intelligible à ces Adeptes, Deuxième Partie: “Le Compagnon,” Paris: La L. Travail & Vrais Amis Fideles, 1924, page #47). After the Masonic initiate of the 2nd degree navigates five introspective journeys, he arrives at “True Enlightenment” symbolized by the Pentagram. Then Wirth repeats the Levi assertion that point-up the pentagram represents goodness and light while point down, “the diagram of a goat’s head” represents “the coarse instincts and the lustful ardor which subjugate the animals” representing what is “brutally instinctive in animality.” Most interestingly, however, he then reveals that the two draw on the same magical currents. “An identical universal force is also at play in both cases: it adapts and polarizes inversely, that is all.” [IMG: La Franc-Maçonnerie Rendue Intelligible à ces Adeptes, Deuxième Partie: “Le Compagnon,” Paris: La L. Travail & Vrais Amis Fideles, 1924, page #47] Three years later, Wirth included the diagram in his 1927 book about the tarot in the section describing The Devil card. Originally titled Le Tarot: Des Imagiers du Moyen Age, the book’s (somewhat faulty) English translation is in print today as The Tarot of the Magicians (Weiser, 1985.) [IMG: Le Tarot: Des Imagiers du Moyen Age] In contrast with De Guaita and Levi characterizing the symbol as categorically evil, here Wirth decades later offers a more balanced interpretation of it and its associated power. The vibrational tension of this aura depends on the vehemence of the infernal fire that burns within us (Baphomet's red head, the black pentagram in the diagram). Without diabolical fervor, we remain cold and powerless¹: we must have "the devil in the flesh"² to influence others and thus act outside of ourselves. This action is exerted through the limbs of the great fluidic phantom, and more specifically through its arms, which are not without reason tattooed with the words: COAGULA, SOLVE. The Weiser English version erroneously translates “impuissants” as “important.” “Le diable au corps” is the title of a scandalous 1923 French novel about the love affair between a teen boy and a young wife whose husband is away during WWI. It refers to rather raw carnal lust. Lévi’s description can also be seen as a clear influence in Paul Jagot’s Science Occulte et Magie Pratique (Paris: Editions Drouin, 1924, page #172). As can be seen below, it is figure number 24 and is labeled “the pentagram espressive of subversion.” How the author came by this image is unknown to us. Note as well that the star itself is “open,” rather than composed of five “alphas.” Next we find on page 47 of the Handbook of Magic & Witchcraft by Charles W. Olliver (Rider & Co., London, 1928) an appropriation from La Clef de la Magie Noire, shown below left. Olliver’s book is highly derivative of prior works and it is clear that he simply lifted the images from de Guaita, subtracting the surrounding circles and Hebrew characters. It is referred to in the text as the “Inverted Pentagram of Black Magic,” and is coupled with the “Pentagram of Appolonius,” shown above right. The unadulterated de Guaita images re-appeared in a book by Maurice Bessy: A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural (English first edition 1964, French first edition: Histoire en 1000 Images de la Magie, Editions du Pont Royal, 1961). The graphic image in the Bessy book (English edition, page 198 under the heading “Satanic Sciences”) has a caption which reads: “624-625. Pentagrams are the result of obscure numerological speculations. The five-pointed star, for example, seems to be characteristic of the Christian era, while the cross is the symbol (amongst others) of the figure five: four arms and the centre. By a strange coincidence, the Holy Spirit, the United States, and the U.S.S.R. and Islam use the fivepointed star as their emblem. (The opposition of good and evil is indicated through the inverted triangles).” The above illustration is to the right of this caption. As in all prior appearances of this and similar renderings, nowhere in this book is #625 referred to as “The Sigil of Baphomet.” For the actual cover of this hard-bound book, an artist rendered symbol #625, minus the words “Lilith” and “Samael,” and it was printed in white on the black cloth cover. It is very striking. During his years of research into the “Black Arts,” Anton LaVey had come across this book and added it to his collection. So when he chose to metamorphose his magic circle, “The Order of the Trapezoid,” into the Church of Satan, he decided that this particular symbol was the one which most fully embodied the principles which were the bedrock of the first aboveground Satanic church. The pentagram (pentalpha) comes from the Pythagorean tradition. The goat’s or ram’s head within it refers to the Goat of Mendes, a symbol of the Egyptian Neter Amon, who was called “the hidden one, he who abides in all things, the soul of all phenomena” and is thus the closest Neter to the Dark Force which is seen by Satanists to permeate and motivate all nature. The two concentric circles which contain the word “Leviathan” written in Hebrew (starting at the lowermost point and moving counterclockwise) stem from the traditions of the Ophite (serpent) Jews, and this is the essence of the Dragon of the Abyss, descended from the Babylonian goddess Tiamat, sometimes symbolized as an ouroboros (a serpent biting its own tail forming a circle). Thus, in one sigil, we find a confluence of several cultures’ approach to embodying what we call Satan. It is this cover art which was enlarged for a plaque and placed above the altar in the main ritual chamber (as well as a second one set above a lower-level altar) in the first infamous Black House. That the original source for this symbol was the Maurice Bessy book was well-known among the members who attended rituals at the Black House during our formative years. The book was constantly being perused by them, and was often used as a prop in photo shoots (minus the dust jacket which did not include this symbol). Anton LaVey never claimed to have designed the Bessy version of this symbol (as falsely stated by some of our detractors). In its early days, the Church of Satan used the version seen on the cover of the Bessy book on its membership cards and stationery as well as on the medallions which were created both by hand and by professional manufacturers. Indeed, there were many variations, based on the skill of the renderers as well as on the resolution for detail of the means used to create the final product. While The Satanic Bible was being written, it was decided that a unique version of this symbol must be rendered to be identified exclusively with the Church of Satan. The pentagram was made geometrically precise, the two circles perfect, the Hebrew characters were distorted to make them look more sharply serpentine and “corrupted with time,” while the goat face was redrawn with particular attention paid toward the eyes. The original highly-detailed artwork was first used to create altar plaques which were available only to local Church of Satan members (later, in February of 1970, they were made available to the general membership). This new version was then used on the cover of the groundbreaking LP, The Satanic Mass (©1968), produced by the Church of Satan. In addition to a
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Your Diagnosis
Before revealing the machine’s verdict, predict the BS score for each signal. Higher = more BS (more fluff, less verifiable substance). Drag each slider, then submit to compare your judgment against the engine.
Information Density
0 / 30
Read the Narrative & headings: do hard facts (prices, dates, numbers) outweigh fluff power-words?
Semantic Coherence
0 / 20
Compare the homepage promise against the sub-page reality. Do they hold the same line?
Trust & Proof
0 / 20
Weigh review mentions against actual external proof links. Claims without verification = theatre.
Commodity Fingerprint
0 / 15
Check headings & narrative against the industry clichés in the setup above.
Identity & Authority
0 / 15
Inspect the schema: is there real Organization/Person identity with sameAs links, or gaps?
Your predicted BS score
0 / 100
Stuck? Reveal the heuristic lens — how the deterministic page-auditor reads each signal (no AI, pure pattern rules)
These are the structural rules a local, deterministic auditor applies — the same lens you can use to judge each signal. They describe what to look for, not this company’s result.
Information Density
Classify each sentence as substantive or hollow. Grounding markers — numbers, currencies, dates, technical units, named entities — outweigh marketing adjectives. When fluff sits right next to hard evidence, the fluff is forgiven.
Semantic Alignment
Pull the main entities out of the H1, then check whether they actually recur through the body. A page that announces one thing and then talks about another drifts. Headings with no real sentences underneath read as pseudo-substance.
Trust & Proof
Count trust words (review, testimonial, rating, verified) against real outbound proof links (Google, Trustpilot, Clutch, G2, Yelp). Lots of trust language with zero verification links is trust theatre. Unlinked logo galleries count against it.
Commodity Fingerprint
Look at how much sentence length varies. Natural writing varies its rhythm; templated or mass-produced copy is statistically uniform. Very low variation reads as commodity content — unless unique named entities break the pattern.
Identity & Authority
Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.
Want to apply this lens yourself? The free BS Indicator Chrome extension runs these heuristic checks live on any page. Bear in mind it is a single-page, deterministic tool — it relies only on pattern rules for the page in front of it and does not perform the cross-page semantic correlation this audit uses, so its readout is a starting lens, not the full verdict.
B
BS Level
Religion, Spirituality & Faith Organizations
37.1 Avg BS
Based on 73 businesses audited.
BS Detector
Religion, Spirituality & Faith Organizations BS: Church of Satan (churchofsatan.com)
https://churchofsatan.com
📍 Industry: Religion, Spirituality & Faith Organizations
12
BS / 100
This is a high-substance, low-BS site that functions as a historical archive rather than a conversion-focused marketing tool. It avoids all 2026-era industry clichés and maintains a brutalist, evidence-heavy approach to its identity. The distance between what the site claims and what it proves is nearly non-existent.
Info Density
Power-words vs. Substance ratio.
4
13% BS
Semantic Coherence
Homepage promise vs. Sub-page reality.
2
10% BS
Trust & Proof
Verifiable evidence vs. Trust Theatre.
3
15% BS
Commodity Fingerprint
Detection of industry clichés/templates.
1
7% BS
Identity & Authority
Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
2
13% BS
Integrate a published financial transparency report to the Support page to satisfy the proof expectations for religious organizations. Update Schema JSON-LD to include SameAs links to current leadership’s verified professional profiles or literary portfolios. Replace stylistic H2 markers like A Moment In Time with descriptive headings that improve structural navigation for researchers. Link the Donate Now button to a page outlining the specific governance and accountability structures for funds received.
The site fits the religious organization category but serves as a subversion of industry standards. It employs the structural forms of a faith community—doctrines, suggested reading, and affiliation procedures—while explicitly rejecting the generic welcoming claims common to the sector.
“The low score of 12 is driven by the extreme information density and total absence of industry-standard jargon. The trust and authority pillars were the only sources of minor points due to the lack of external verification for donation usage and the small unlinked review counts.”
Verified Analysis Date: June 20, 2026
© 1EuroSEO Independent Evaluator — Non-Sponsored Result
Analysis Disclosure & Source Attribution
This training module utilizes a snapshot of public data from Church of Satan, captured on June 20, 2026, to demonstrate how machine logic evaluates different types of business narratives.
Purpose: This data is presented under “Fair Use” / “Educational Exception” for the purpose of forensic semantic analysis, allowing users to compare human intuition against machine-generated evaluations.
Notice to Church of Satan: This analysis is part of a non-adversarial audit conducted by 1 Euro SEO. The results provided by 1EuroSEO are intended as professional feedback to help improve any website’s machine-readability and authority signals. The 1EuroSEO BS Detection Tool is a free tool, and anyone can test any company to see how their content is interpreted by AI models.
Any company can use the insights for free and improve its voice by comparing it to industry clichés or competitors. When a company has updated its content, it can always submit a new audit request, which will be reflected in a new current score.
To all users: You are encouraged to visit the live site at https://churchofsatan.com to view the most current version of its content and learn from the source what this company is about and what it offers.