Intro to Satanism

By: Diane Vera

As promised in the PAGAN RELIGIOUS STUDIES echo, here’s my brief introductory essay on Satanism (though Corwynt won’t be seeing it, alas). I’ll confine myself to discussing serious_occultists who identify as Satanists. I have no interest in the teen-age glue-sniffing “Satin rulz” crowd, who are into “Satanism” as a way to shock the grown- ups, and who usually (as far as I know) outgrow it. Nor am I interested in criminals who say the Devil made them do it (often, I suspect, as a way to get themselves declared insane).