Satanism

In the early 1230s, The First Satanic organization known as the Order of the Dark Flame emerged in the remote regions of southern Italy and western Greece.

After Pope Gregory IX and The Papacy. Hunted down the order and crucified them all the beliefs of the cultists left an indelible mark on the collective consciousness. Stories of their wicked deeds and perverse rituals spread, seeping into the folklore of the region. As a consequence, the once-revered feline companions that often accompanied these cultists became associated with evil and the occult.

Satanism Survived through Christianity art and as dangerous stories for the brave men. As the late medieval gave way to the early modern period, European Christendom experienced a schism between the established Roman Catholic Church and the breakaway Protestant movement. In the ensuing Reformation and Counter-Reformation, both Catholics and Protestants accused each other of deliberately being in league with Satan. It was in this context that the terms "Satanist" and "Satanism" emerged.

After The Witch-Hunt, The Religious idea about Satan to be the hero of the holy bible story and protector of humanity rose wildly and spread like wildfire.

The figure of "Lucifer" was taken up by the French ceremonial magician Éliphas Lévi, who has been described as a "Romantic Satanist".

During his younger days, Lévi used "Lucifer" in the same positive symbolic manner as the literary Romantics. As he moved toward political conservatism in later life, he retained the use of the term, but instead applied it to what he believed was a morally neutral facet of "the absolute".

Some historians have claimed English writers Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley to be among the first Satanists but others believe they simply portrayed him positively without actually venerating him. The first person to promote an explicitly "Satanic" philosophy was the Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski, who based his ideology on Social Darwinism of the 1890s.

Aleister Crowley has been widely described as a Satanist, usually by detractors. Crowley stated he did not consider himself a Satanist, nor did he worship Satan, as he did not accept the Christian world view in which Satan was believed to exist.

In 1928, the Fraternitas Saturni (FS) was established in Germany; its founder, Eugen Grosche, published Satanische Magie ("Satanic Magic") that same year.[78] The group connected Satan to Saturn, claiming that the planet related to the Sun in the same manner that Lucifer relates to the human world.

In 1932, an esoteric group known as the Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow was established in Paris, France, by Maria de Naglowska, a Russian occultist who had fled to France following the Russian Revolution. She promoted a theology centered on what she called the Third Term of the Trinity consisting of Father, Son, and Sex, the last of which she deemed to be most important.

Her early disciples, who underwent what she called "Satanic Initiations", included models and art students recruited from bohemian circles. The Golden Arrow disbanded after Naglowska abandoned it in 1936.

In 1969, a Satanic group based in Toledo, Ohio, part of the United States, came to public attention. Called the Our Lady of Endor Coven, it was led by a man named Herbert Sloane, who described his Satanic tradition as the Ophite Cultus Sathanas and alleged that it had been established in the 1940s.

The group had a Gnostic doctrine about the world, in which the Yahweh is evil, and the Biblical serpent is presented as a force for good, who had delivered salvation to humanity in the Garden of Eden.

Anton LaVey, who is known as "The Father of Satanism", synthesized his religion through the establishment of the Church of Satan in 1966 and the publication of The Satanic Bible in 1969.

LaVey used Christianity as a negative mirror for his new faith, rejecting the basic principles and theology of Christian belief. LaVeyans or Satanists view their religion as a force for redressing this balance by encouraging materialism, egoism, stratification, carnality, atheism, and social Darwinism.

After LaVey's death in 1997, the Church of Satan was taken over by a new administration and its headquarters were moved to New York. LaVey's daughter, the High Priestess Karla LaVey, felt this to be a disservice to her father's legacy. The First Satanic Church was re-founded on October 31, 1999 by Karla LaVey to carry on the legacy of her father. She continues to run it out of San Francisco, California.

However, Satanism was propagated by Christianity as a Cannibalistic sect who offer virgin girls to satan. Satanism rituals are sometimes brutal however it is the people that choose to take action. Religions like Satanism and Christianity are based on lies of a fantasy creator god and the garden of eden,

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