" LaVey’s bible (1969), members worship the trinity of the devil—Lucifer,
Satan, and the Devil—including nine pronouncements of the devil that Satan
represents:
1. indulgence, instead of abstinence,
2. vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams,
3. undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit,
4. kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates,
5. vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek,
6. responsibility, instead of concern for the psychic vampires,
7. man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse, than
those who walk on all fours, who because of his divine and intellectual
development has become the most vicious of all,
8. all of the so-called sins, as they lead to physical, mental, or emotional
gratification,
9. the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these
years (LaVey, 1969, p. 25).
Holmes (1990), who interviewed two "
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