Ave Satanas

Welcome, my name is Salem Dechant.

[kawaiisatanist]

A List of Websites About Theistic Satanism

Learning about Satanism has kind of become a hyperfocus so I decided to compile a list of websites that have a decent amount of information on them. A lot of these are old websites but the information is still useful. If you have a website to suggest feel free to DM me and I'll add it!

In Satan's Honour - This website is pretty regularly updated and even has a patreon! There are a lot of thought provoking articles and great resources on there.

Theistic Satanism - This website is from like, 2006. But it does have a lot of information on it. Unfortunately, their "other websites" section does include some dead links.

Spiritual Satanist - The website and blog is a great resource and the author is vocally anti nazi. She made a blog post about how nazis don't belong in the community a few years back.

Spiritual Satanist Blog - The blog for the above site! Lots of interesting and useful stuff here too.

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Devil Worshipper - Maintained by the same person who maintains the BGC website. LOTS of great advice, sermons and even has a section for new theistic satanists.

Black Goat Cabal - Now shut down but the websites maintained. Lots of essays, rituals and advice.

In Praise Of Satan - A website about someone's personal journey with Satan. There is an FAQ section along with some other useful information.

[coinfernalflame]

Return

Hello to all of my wonderful siblings out there. I have been gone for a lot longer than I intended, with various things needing my attention more than this account has.

I have gone through several changes in my life: physically, mentally, and spiritually, and I am ready to return to this blog and take it in a slightly different direction.

I will no longer be placing Rev. in front of my name, as I want to be placed on the same level as all of you. I am here to be your brother on this path, not a figure to look up to to help dictate it. While I have many years of being a Satanist under my belt, it no longer felt right to put myself in a position of authority.

Expect within the next few weeks for there to be some changes to the overall look of this account and more active posting.

Ave Satanas!

Salem

[coinfernalflame]

Hiatus

Hello and good morning to all of you. I'm sorry to announce that I won't be very active for a while, as my partner is in a bad mental state and they, along with work, are my priority. I'm also experiencing my own mental issues, which those close to me that follow this blog know of. I hope to queue some posts from time to time, and any asks I receive I will eventually get around to.

I hope that you all stay safe, and that if you are in my position you need to remember to put your or your partner's health first.

Ave Satanas

Rev. Dechant

[the-darkest-of-lights]

[deerhoofandrabbitsfoot-deactiva]

How to Say the Lord’s Prayer Backward

On April 30th of this year, I held a special, solitary rite. It was Walpurgis Night and I wanted to call upon the Horned One, as that is his special time. I live in the northernmost part of New England on a large piece of land, far away from the city and even far away from my own neighbors. That evening I ventured into the woods using only a candle lantern. As I walked, I gathered sticks and small branches for a fire. There is a clearing in the woods that holds a century-old apple orchard. The apple trees are twisted, malnourished, and never bear fruit. There I lit a small fire and, when it was hot, I tossed in some herbs. I recited the Lord’s Prayer in reverse, repeatedly.

.nemAHH revEH ‘dNA revEH ROFE eeROALG uth ‘dNA rehWOWP uth modG’NIKE uth sih ‘nITHE rofe livEE morfe suh re-VIHL-led TUHB nuhs-YATE-p-met ootnih ton suh deel ‘dNA suh tsne-GA sapSERT tath meth vigROFE eew sa sesapSERT re-WAH suh vigROFE ‘dNA derb eelyade re-WAH yade sith suh vig nihVEH nih sih tih sa threh noh node eeb lihw eye-th muhk modG’NIKE eye-th mane eye-th eeb d’o-la-H nih-VEH nih rah chiwe re-THAF re-WAH

I felt as though I was being watched by a million ghostly eyes. As I left, a warm wind rustled last autumn’s leaves on the path behind me. I had wonderful dreams that night and that’s all I’ll say about that. I do have to keep quiet about some things.

I love the practice of saying the Lord’s Prayer backward. I first read about it in Paul Huson’s Mastering Witchcraft, where he prescribes it as a sort of initiation ritual. In The Devil’s Dozen by Gemma Gary (which inspired the rite described above), it is used to call forth the Man in Black. Unfortunately, I have found very few versions of the Lord’s Prayer backward that would actually sound like English in reverse. Most versions I have seen simply print the entire thing backward, letter by letter. But that’s not enough. The word “the” backward is eht. But it is not pronounced “ett.” It is pronounced more like “uhth.” So I took the time and wrote the entire thing out backward phonetically, syllable by syllable. It can be used to call forth the Horned One or the Lady of Fate. It is powerful.

[deerhoofandrabbitsfoot-deactiva]

One of my first posts. I still use this version of the Lord’s Prayer, which includes the “for Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory” bit at the end.

I will attest that my version is the most accurate version of the Lord’s Prayer backwards that I have ever seen, at least from a pronunciation standpoint. I used an app on my phone to listen to myself speaking in reverse and recorded it. Though I suppose this implies you have an American accent.

[7witch]

But man it was so fucking different I don’t know what I felt but it was stronger than anything

So tonight is the first time I said it

I did it in my living room nothing too fancy I just don’t know how I even ended up doing it

Like a sort of trance

It’s definitely something I would surely wanna do again.

[luciferiancraft]

Its so powerful right? I did it a couple months ago and honestly I consider it a top tier spell in itself, good for Initiation, Commandment, and Domination.

[forbidden-sorcery]

Top: the pact of Urbain Grandier, a French catholic burned at the stake in 1634 for witchcraft. Bottom:  the sigil of Silcharde, the symbol at the beginning

Translation of the pact:

“We, the influential Lucifer, the young Satan, Beelzebub, Leviathan, Elimi,and Astaroth, together with others, have today accepted the covenant pact of Urbain Grandier, who is ours. And him do we promise the love of women, the flower of virgins, the respect of monarchs, honors, lusts and powers. He will go whoring three days long; the carousal will be dear to him. He offers us once in the year a seal of blood, under the feet he will trample the holy things of the church and he will ask us many questions; with this pact he will live twenty years happy on the earth of men, and will later join us to sin against God. Bound in hell, in the council of demons. Lucifer Beelzebub Satan Astaroth Leviathan Elimi The seals placed the Devil, the master, and the demons, princes of the lord. Baalberith, writer.”

[puppytube]

My contribution to the Ars Goetia project. Prince Seere, evidently Satan’s personal booty call.

He is a Mighty Prince, and Powerful, under Amaymon, King of the East. He appeareth in the form of a Beautiful Man, riding upon a Winged Horse. His office is to go and come; and to bring abundance of things to pass on a sudden, and to carry or re-carry  anything whither thou wouldest have it to go, or whence though wouldest have it from. He can pass over the whole Earth in the twinkling of an Eye. He giveth a True relation of all sorts of Theft, and of Treasure hid, and of many other things. He is of an indifferent Good Nature, and is willing to do anything which the exorcist desireth. He governeth 26 Legions of Spirits.

mmmmmm mmmm guurrrlll mmmmn mmm mm m m mm

[kviatkovskaa]

[blackthornwren]

“Numerous sources state that one must have a lit candle to raise the Devil, and that words spoken in the dark would have no power. From Denmark, if a man wished to raise the Devil for communication, he was to walk around a church three times, and on the third time, he was to whistle into the keyhole of the church door or cry into it ‘Come out!’ A french method was to go to a four-way crossroads at midnight with a black cock under the left arm, and utter ‘Robert!’ nine times. Then the Devil would appear and take the cock, leaving the person with a pile of money in exchange. A Scottish way was to make a circle with chalk, place a hat in the middle and speak the Lord’s Prayer backwards. There was also the Scottish belief that on each shoulder of the Devil perched two crows that functioned to tell him all of the workings of the world’s affairs.”

— Corinne Boyer, Plants of the Devil, pgs. 134-135

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

William Blake, Great Red Dragon paintings: The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun, The Number of the Beast is 666 and The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, 1805-1810

[coinfernalflame]

I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend and that this Friday treats you well.

I ordered a new and interesting tarot deck today, as I don't quite connect with my other one. When that comes in, keep an eye out for free readings for a short period of time!

Ave Satanas!

Rev. Dechant

[amorphoussystem-deactivated2024]

I want to love an imperfect god:

A god who makes mistakes;

A god who knows sins like sisters,

Who made the queer children in his image

And looked upon his work and saw that it was good;

A god of “Judge not less ye be judged, in which case

Rain your tongues upon them like darts

Until your oppressors lie cowering at your feet.”

I want to love a god who stole me fire

And taught me to make a net;

How to put myself before others

And how to throw bricks at police officers.

A god who walks city streets at midnight

In high heels and glitter

To break bread with homeless children.

A god who displaces kings

And ushers in the winter

Once summer leaves him bored.

“Forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned,” you say,

And he says, “Ooo, tell me more.”

[satanicwarlok]

May I ask what a good offering for the devil may be?

Traditional offerings consist of butter, milk, honey, bread, alcohol (preferably whine, whisky, or beer), and blood.

You could also burn herbs or incense blends in His honor, leave a chalice of water on your altar for Him, or you could place various coins on your altar for Him.

He also greatly enjoys sexual offerings.

You could also recite venerating prayers to Him.

It’s really up to you, and how you choose to honor Him.

You could even present an offering of artwork. I’ve seen people draw or paint or write poetry as an act of worship to Him. In fact, I just got a Sigil of Lucifer tattoo as an act of devotion. It’s up to you.

[betterthedevilyouknowuk]

Ritual Chant of Self Empowerment - DB Salazar

Hail Satan, for he is the embodiment of truth and wisdom.

In wisdom do I find strength, in truth do I find power.

I am a child of the dark, for I am no slave to the will of others.

I am a Satanist, the true embodiment of human life, the enforcer of my own free will.

Only I can change the course of my future, through seeking knowledge and wisdom will I find my path.

I will not encroach upon the freedom of others, as to not forgoe my own.

I am a Satanist, the true embodiment of human life.

I will seek justice, passion and balance.

I will enforce my own free will.

I will follow the path of wisdom to seek higher knowledge.

For I am a Satanist and I will not bow down to any king or god.

As above, so below

Hail Satan

“Ave Satanas, ipse enim est formam veritatem et sapientiam.

In sapientia invenio fortitudo, in veritate invenio virtus.

Puer ego sum tenebris, quia non sum servus erit de aliis.

Ego Satanist, veram formam humanae vitae, enforcer meum liberum arbitrium. Tantum possum mutare cursum meum futurum, per quaerens scientia et sapientia, ego invenire semitam meam in via.

Non intercedere super libertate aliorum, ut non forgoe mea.

Ego Satanist, veram formam humanae vitae.

Ego quaerere iustitiam, passionis et statera.

Ego exigendum mea libero. Sequar viam sapientiae quaerere superiori scientia. Ego enim sum Satanist et non adoretis quis rex vel deus.

Quod superius, sicut inferius

Ave Satanas

[dryadofephesus]

Know Thyself Spread

A divination spread themed around Baphomet, The Sabbatic Goat. This spread is used to get a grasp on yourself. It’s a more harsh/brutally honest so I think it would be good for shadow work as well.

1. The core. The bare basics/core of who you are.

2. Pentagram. What drives/motivates you.

3. Caduceus. You in the present/at the moment

4 + 5. Hooves. What has driven you to this point.

6. Solve. What you need to let go of.

7. Coagula. What you need to embrace.

8+9. Horns. Your deepest desires at the moment.

10+11. Wings. How you can achieve those desires.

12. The Torch. What you need to accept to move forward in life.

[zivyx-deactivated20200628]

Okay this has been bothering me all morning.

You can't come in to a path that, from all the source material, requires effort and resourcefulness and a little bit of tenacity, look around and go "nope, can't do it" and expect results. You can't upend an entire tradition, not do the work (whether out of laziness or incapability), and get mad that other practitioners expect you to put in the bare minimum.

If you can't work within one paradigm, for whatever reason, find another. There are countless magical processes out there or you could make your own.

Stop coming in to other people's homes to raid the pantry and get rid of the furniture then get upset with people for not having it.

[winebrightruby]

The amount of entitlement to look at the requirements for working within a particular path and say, “I can’t do those things. Change the rules so I can still call myself a ________” is just mindblowing.

If someone claimed to have run a marathon because they jogged around their block, because “it’s the same amount of effort from me because I have bad knees and running is hard”, they’d be laughed at and told that’s not what a marathon is.

It’s not elitist to say that certain activities have certain requirements.

It’s not ableist to say that certain activities have certain requirements.

And those requirements are very rarely “x amount of effort”. Shalane Flanagan is a way, way better runner than me. If we both set out to run a marathon, she’d finish literal hours before me and frankly feel better at the finish line. But we would both have run the exact same distance, even though it took me a lot (a lot) more effort. Because running a marathon is not “I ran until I was tired”; it’s “I ran 26.2 miles”.

If you can’t run, you can’t run a marathon.

If you “can’t” do traditional witchcraft, then you’re not a traditional witch. If you “can’t” do ceremonial magic, then you’re not a ceremonial magician. If you “can’t” work magic, then you’re not a magic-worker. 

And if you can but you’d rather whine on the internet about the amount of effort it takes, you’re lazy and making bad choices about how to invest your energy. For your own sake, do better.

[ofluciferslight]

Lucifer is Not a Symbol of Hate.

He is not here to damn you to eternal suffering. Not to cloud your mind and make you blind. Not to take away your freedoms and make you a slave. There is no punishment for disobeying/not following him. And he shouldn’t be used that way. He’s the saviour of humanity. He has freed us and given us knowledge and wisdom. He has opened our minds to the world around us, even past the human realm. He helps us grow and achieve our higher selves. He is loving, strong, and courageous. His light can be felt all around us; a comforting warmth. He makes us strong and brave. He shows us the truth that others hide from us. He is the lightbringer, and the king of this world.