I would love to address this subject in some detail, not to try to dispute what any other may personally believe about Satanism or even what Satanism is but rather to present certain facts which I have found from my own personal Satanic studies which have spanned over 40 years or more which I would call BEING there and LIVING it. Recently the Master Councilor of the Brotherhood of Satan came across an article on the Net by Matt G. Paradise of the Church of Satan. I read it in its entirety and found that once again the Church of Satan or at least one of their spokesmen, has decided (twisting the truth) to be the voice of reason and logic for all of Satanism. What the Church of Satan does not realize, or simply refuses to see, is that even Dr. LaVey had many friends that were in the music industry and these friends were NOT members of the Church of Satan, although some affiliated with the COS that actually REALLY did BELIEVE in Satan. Being REAL Satanists (ones that really do believe in Satan as an actual entity), the Brotherhood was NOT concerned with being the first to use the name SATANISM publicly as we have always existed in the Shadows of the Dark Occult Underworld.
The roots of the Brotherhood Tree span as far back as Europe and then to Colonial America and then we spread out across the U.S. Before Dr. LaVey founded the Church of Satan in 1966 we existed although we did not use the name SATAN in public. The Brotherhood is the first of all of the Satanic Organizations that can in TRUTH say all of this and Dr. LaVey simply borrowed from the older sources of Satanism to begin with. Read THE SATANIC RITUALS and you can clearly read where Dr. LaVey states about WHERE the Roots of even his own new form of Satanism came from. The copyright that the CoS claims for the Sigel of Baphomet are completely null and void in the sense that the Baphomet Illustration that Dr. LaVey decided to use for the CoS came from the back cover of an early set of occult encyclopedias which I had read myself in my early days as a Satanist and Dark Occultist. If we wanted to dispute this with the CoS we certainly could. But, we see no reason to do so respecting Dr. LaVey for the many other things that he did to try to make Satanism more acceptable to the public. The Brotherhood on the other hand was never concerned with bringing our Generational and Traditional forms of Gothic and Medieval Satanism into the public limelight for we SEEK ACCEPTANCE from NONE but the Master whom we FREELY SERVE.
Because I am a Generational Satanist that comes from the REAL Old School of Satanism, I know the importance of stating FACTS as I have truly seen them for myself. I am a very Wise Master Councilor that did not go this far in the Brotherhood by being a STUPID person. I know when to be objective about the many facets of Satanism here in present times but I must also make a stand for those that are not yet strong enough to do so for themselves. When I make this stand as I am doing so now, it will always be done with RESPECT even to those that do not see eye to eye with the Brotherhood. THIS IS REAL SATANISM....Understanding that we each as an Individual Satanist have EVERY RIGHT to BELIEVE and to PRACTICE SATANISM IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM AS WE EACH SO CHOOSE. No one has a right to tell you how to practice or in which manner that you may pay worship to Satanas. Any Satanist that says to you that YOUR WAY IS NOT SATANISM has missed the Points of the Horns entirely. FOLLOWING OUR OWN TRUE WILL IS REAL SATANISM.
I can quite agree with the CoS that there will always be Satanists that are still in the very immature stages of Satanism and that these Satanists often only serve to help give us a bad rap. These are usually what I call Satanist wannabes because they really have not yet grown into BEING or BECOMING as a real Satanist will do. This, to the Brotherhood, has been referred to as THE LOWER LEVELS OF SATANISM. Just because a Black Metal Band or a Death Metal Band or a Heavy Metal Band wishes to express their anger and frustration about the hypocrisy and lies of christianity or does any number of Dark Art and Satanic oriented actions on stage as a part of their show, they should NOT be down rapped by the ANY Satanist saying that they are misrepresenting Satanism. The CoS may have the opposite view of this but then their motives must be just a little suspect for the CoS to say that the form of Satanism practiced on stage by the Bands is christian influenced. WRONG!!!! The Bands are performing what the Brotherhood HAILS THEM FOR. For they are NOT AFRAID to OPENLY SHOW THEIR DISAPPROVAL OF the FALSEHOOD OF CHRISTIANITY!!! Should the Brotherhood Satanist or the Satanic Metal head Bands out there openly accuse the CoS as being christian influenced because they use the name CHURCH (A christian term)? Think about this for yourselves as a REAL Satanist should. The answers will make themselves very clear to you when you are able to read the Brotherhood Perspective about all the controversy surrounding Satanic Metal Music and Satanism itself. Even Dr. LaVey ordained Marilyn Manson a Priest of the Church of Satan. Do I see a double standard there?
The Church of Satan, nor any other existing Satanic Organization has the right to tell you WHAT REAL SATANISM IS OR IS NOT. Not even the Brotherhood of Satan. The Brotherhood fully supports many CoS viewpoints (more so the ones that say that we all must be Satanists of Intelligence and Integrity). To the many Bands that take a stand against christianity and support the breakdown of their dead religion, the CoS does NOT speak for Satanism as a whole. Nor will they ever do so. The CoS would have to first accept the first Satanic Truth, which tells us always to BE TRUE TO YOURSELF and to follow your own True Will. THIS IS REAL SATANISM. Do not take everything that you read on the Net as fact. We are no more than glorified animals as human beings; the difference is that we do have the INTELLIGENCE to THINK for OURSELVES. Find for yourself the way of truth, for the answer lies nowhere but within the Infernal Soul of every Individual Satanist. Remember LIBER OZ and then try to LIVE IT. Then you will BECOME a real Satanist. When Satanism (AS A WHOLE) can learn to understand this simple Truth: IT MATTERS NOT WHICH DIRECTION YOU COME TO SATAN FROM, the old school (Satan's Brotherhood) or the new school (CoS), but WHAT KIND OF SATANIST THAT YOU ARE. But this does NOT mean that you should be the judge of other Satanists and to self-appoint yourself as the spokesmen of all of Satanism. The Brotherhood will always try to RESPECT the Church of Satan, realizing the true principles of BROTHERHOOD within our own lives as Individual Satanists that have come together to SHARE POWER........ NOT to HOARD IT ONLY FOR OURSELVES which is the appearance that the CoS members like to make in the public and in the Satanic Community itself.
SATANIC COMMUNITY!!!!!!! This is what the Brotherhood of Satan wants to help manifest for the Satanists out there that seek to LEARN from one another instead of the foolish and childish statements of WE ARE BETTER THEN YOU. IF LIVING SATANISM IS WORSHIPING the DEVIL, then let's just say that I ENJOY GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE and the Brotherhood will FOREVER RESPECT the rights of others to do so in what ever way they wish, which includes the USE OF DARK MAGICK in MUSIC.
Druwydion