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To: alt.satanism From: xeper@aol.com (Dr. Michael A. Aquino) Subject: Re: Anton LaVey & a Literal Satan-Devil Date: 02 Mar 2000 18:46:46 GMT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <20000302121710.02781.00002305@ ng-ft1.aol.com>, rmerciless@aol.commit2hell wrote: >>prior to 1975 [Anton LaVey] indeed >>tailored his comments on *any* controversial >>topic to the audience of the moment. > >If that is true, then isn't it possible that the exact >same thing happened to you? Of course. We both shared an interest in this question which was very central to the concept of a Church of Satan, and neither of us was carrying any _a priori_ emotional baggage for a "religious reality" generally. [Both of us had dismissed J/C as absurd when we were children, and we had similarly both explored and been unmoved by the exotic assortment of alternative religions blossoming in the 1960s.] This interest of ours in a "Satan-something" was the result of our shared "sensing" that there was something very real underlying the premise of the Church (which had obviously been created in a much more whimsical way). So our various discussions were not at all a case of one saying to the other "Satan exists!". Rather we would discuss what we had learned or experimented with; and Anton was far more ingenious about this - experimenting with many different "lenses", as it were - than I was. One of his key theories was that *active* expression - such as art, music, utilization of various types of electromagnetic-spectrum energy (Tesla, van de Graaf, etc.) - would bring the Black Magician closer to realization of this reality. My own research tended more to the historical/ archaeological/literary, looking for instances in which various cultures and individual philosophers had confronted this same kind of hypothesis. I did not share Anton's many artistic talents, nor his delightful array of "mad lab" gadgetry, but I did have access to a nice pizza of research resources, both governmental and university. So neither of us bored the other in sharing notes! Michael A. Aquino -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.0.2 iQA/AwUBOL62lWRWyNykJwrDEQKTcACfWkZTJc8faw1/wwYb1qGaM4NteNEAnilp J0jS2OMtjgsbXNoc0YzdNYLI =kVDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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