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Here is the pdf of Satan Speaks! by Anton LaVey. It’s a collection of thoughts from LaVey, kind of like The Devil’s Notebook. In this book you can read about his honest thoughts. It’s very interesting and enlightening. Just trust me and read it.

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If someone were to ask me what I consider the single most contributing factor to my personality. I would have to answer: “Avoidance of the influence of other people.”

Anton Szandor LaVey

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Here is a pdf of The Devil’s Notebook by Anton LaVey. I highly recommend you to read this book if you wish to learn/understand LaVey a bit better. Many people tend to skip this book, but trust me it’s worth your time. 

Like always, I suggest you to also buy the book. Happy reading!

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Anton Szandor LaVey with his lion.

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Anton Szandor LaVey’s last interview. I don’t have the uncut version, if anyone has it please tell me!

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Anton LaVey speaks of his time as a police photagrapher and how it changed his outlook on life and death.

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Here is a pdf of The Satanic Witch that I just wrote about if you would like to have a look. The layout is a bit different from the one I have but the content is the same. I do recommend buying the actual book though.

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The Satanic Witch! An attention-grabbing title, if ever there was one. That said, occultniks and sensation-seekers may be disappointed to learn that the focus of this volume is not spell-casting in the supernatural sense, but in the entirely mundane manner of bewitchment by psychological manipulation – the effective use of feminine wiles, in other words.

LaVey appears to have undertaken a painstaking amount of personal research into typing human beings, the results of which he has condensed into what he calls the LaVey Personality Synthesizer. This is a clock diagram which places various body-types at points on the clock, then assigns various personality traits to each. In summary:

Twelve o’clock (the most male core) represents wide shoulders; long torso; narrow hips; short legs; hard, firm flesh; pioneer; domineering; aggressive; impulsive; always onstage; selfish; authoritarian.

Six o’clock (the most female core) represents narrow shoulders; short torso; long legs; wide hips; marshmallow flesh; fluidic movements; carries things out; consistent; dedicated; receptive; dependable; generous; steady.

Three o’clock (intellectual) represents narrow, stick build; sinewy; no wasist; translucent; social critic; technical; abstract; least social; dour; hair-splitter; clinical; thinker, not doer.

Nine o’clock (emotional) represents thick sausage build; resilient; rubbery flesh; social; sense of humour; agreeable; concrete; doer, not thinker; practical; resourceful.

The primary strength of this book is its frankness. Sexuality is the main focus and nothing is considered taboo. Most interesting of all was LaVey’s discussion of what he terms the Law of the Forbidden. How a mere glimpse of something that’s not meant to be seen will be far more stimulating to a man than a full-frontal nude; the flesh of a woman’s thigh coming into view above the hem-line of her tights as she crosses her legs – this can be more exciting than a woman dancing on a stage with no clothes on.

While the main focus of the book is “lesser magic” (psychological ploys), there is a chapter towards the end on “greater magic,” which reveals many fascinating additions to the information already presented in The Satanic Bible.

LaVey has been known to be dishonest about the details of his past (see The Secret Life of a Satanist by Blanche Barton). The Satanic Witch provides some insight on why he has indulged in myth-making about himself. In a section called “How and When to Lie” from the chapter “Bitchcraft,” LaVey states:

“There is nothing wrong with saying you sang at Carnegie Hall and you could have stood in the doorway at midnight and hummed a few measures, but if you open your mouth to sing at the next party and it sounds rotten, you have, as they say, blown it. If, however, you have sung the lead in your local civic light opera production of Naughty Marietta and were acclaimed as an exceptionally talented singer, and you happen to be at an affair where your quarry will be suitably impressed and possibly arrange for you to go on tour with an important new show, a Type II lie is in order. Tell him you have sung wherever you’d like – before crowned heads, etc., because when he asks you to sing, if you can back your contrived pedigree up with action, those very lies you told will not be questioned and will pay off. If you hadn’t told him, he might never have asked to listen to you.”

I personally love this book, it’s one of my favorite books of all time and I really recommend it! Even though it’s from 1971 it is still so accurate which only shows how right LaVey was all along.