The Satanic Narratives - A Modern Satanic Bible
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4.3 • 48 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The Satanic Narratives – A Modern Satanic Bible is a foundational text thoroughly deconstructing Satan, the adversarial archetype and the individualism of the Left-Hand Path. This updated Satanic Bible marks a reformation in the religion of Satanism, accessible to the average reader and philosopher alike. Satanists who struggled to find meaning in LaVey's Rand-inspired social Darwinism, will embrace this new focus on activism and social justice.
While the skepticism and secular ethics mirror that of Humanism, this Satanic philosophy goes much further: incorporating rebellion, unrelenting perseverance, being the outcast, the individualist, and the adversary. The characteristics of each aspect of the Satan archetype are meticulously explained and linked to the philosophy presented. This not only justifies why it is worthy of the name “Satanism”, but also answers the question of why it can only be called “Satanism”.
Customer Reviews
It was good
It's ok I learned a couple of things from this book.
Gimmicky and shallow
I’ve read this booklet 4 times now, and honestly, it’s just really bad. Its gimmick is the “narratives”, or characteristics of demonized pagan gods applied to TST-style Satanism. I have no qualms with TST’s Satanism, but this book does nothing to differentiate itself from exactly that outside of the titular gimmick. It’s supposed to be a modern Satanic Bible for the author’s organization, but the information, without the narratives gimmick, could be reduced to a short tri-fold pamphlet. Or, really, a hyperlink to TST’s Seven Tenets, which are straight-up reprinted in the book. On top of that, it reads like the author has had no next-to-no experience in philosophy outside of some secular humanism and a blog post about LaVey’s Satanic Bible, so there’s zero depth to it. For someone who styles himself a “philosopher by night”, Damien really drops the ba’al (badum tsh) here, because it reads like your average redditor teenager's grasp of philosophy, i.e. shallow and sad.
If you want a better read on TST-style Satanism, just read Revolt of the Angels. It’s more entertaining, that’s for sure. If you want a better read on Satanism in general, I’m just going to recommend really anything *but* this.