Аннотация
Anton Szandor LaVey
The Satanic Bible
INTRODUCTION
by Burton H. Wolfe (author of The Hippies, Hitler and the Nazis, The Devil and Dr. Noxin, Pileup on Death Row, and The Devil's Avenger: a Biography of Anton Szandor LaVey)
On a winter's evening in 1967, I drove crosstown in San Fransisco to hear Anton Szandor LaVey lecture at an open meeting of the Sexual Freedom League. I was attracted by newspaper articles describing him as "the Black Pope" of a Satanic church in which baptism, wedding, and funeral ceremonies were dedicated to the Devil. I was a free-lance magazine writer, and I felt there might be a story in LaVey and his contemporary pagans; for the Devil has always made "good copy", as they say on the city desk.
It was not the practice of the black arts itself that I considered to be the story, because that is nothing new in the world. There were Devil-worshipping sects and voodoo cults before there were Christians. In eighteenth-century England a...

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