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Recognizing and Responding To The Adversary of the Abrahamic Faiths and All of The Adversary's Servants, Slaves, and Allies. Part 5/13.

“If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one—probably a child—who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.” ― Stephen King, It

“Someday you're just going to go too far and that will be the end.” ― Stephen King, It

On February 2, 1998, Anton LaVey's estranged daughter Zeena Schreck and her then husband Nikolas Schreck published a nine-page "fact sheet", in which they endorsed Wright's earlier allegations and claimed that many more of LaVey's stories about his life had been false.

LEGEND: In 1945 the 15-year-old Anton LaVey was brought to the ruins of postwar Germany by his uncle, a U.S. Coast Guard officer. There the teenaged Anton LaVey was shown top-secret films inspired by Satanic cult lodges and their rituals. Anton LaVey claimed that the "German" rituals in his 1972 book The Satanic Rituals were actual transcripts of the filmed rituals he saw as a youth.

REALITY: Young Howard spent the entirety of 1945 in suburban northern California, and never visited Germany at any time in his life. The uncle who he claimed brought him to Germany was incarcerated at McNeill Island Penitentiary for involvement with Al Capone-related criminal activity during 1945, and was never in the armed forces. Allied martial law forbade U.S. citizens from visiting postwar Germany. The "German" rituals in the Satanic Rituals are written in extremely poor, Anglicized German. They are clearly uncredited adaptations of the short story The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long and H.G. Wells' famous novel The Island of Dr. Moreau.

SOURCES: Anton LaVey relatives, former wife Diane LaVey, The Hounds of Tindalos, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Satanic Rituals, Church of Satan member Rosalind Herkommer (who translated Anton LaVey's rituals into German).

LEGEND: The 15-year-old Anton LaVey played second oboe with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, making him the youngest musician ever to play with that prestigious institution.

REALITY: There was no "San Francisco Ballet Orchestra" in 1945. The San Francisco Ballet was accompanied by a local orchestra, whose records show that none of its three oboists was named "Levey" or "LaVey".

SOURCES: San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, San Francisco, California.

LEGEND: In 1947 Anton LaVey ran away from home and joined the Clyde Beatty Circus. The Circus employed the 17-year-old as a lion tamer. He then replaced the Circus calliope player, accompanying such famous Beatty acts as the Concellos, Harold Alanza, and the Cristianis.

REALITY: The voluminous Beatty archives show no record of a "Levey" or "LaVey" as lion tamer or musician. The Concellos, Alanza, and Cristianis were never Beatty performers; they worked exclusively for the Ringling Brothers Circus.

SOURCES: Beatty 1947 Route Books, Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin (Wright, "SD", page 67); Anton LaVey relatives.

LEGEND: In 1948 the 18-year-old Anton LaVey was engaged to play organ at the Mayan burlesque theater in Los Angeles. There he met a young stripper named Marilyn Monroe, with whom he had a passionate love affair in the period before her rise to film stardom. According to Anton LaVey, Monroe had resorted to stripping to pay her rent. As proof of his relationship with Monroe, Anton LaVey later showed visitors a copy of Monroe's famous nude calendar inscribed "Dear Tony, How many times have you seen this! Love, Marilyn".

REALITY: Anton LaVey never knew Monroe. Monroe intimate Robert Slatzer and Harry Lipton, Monroe's agent in 1948, have exposed and discredited this tale. Lipton paid Monroe's expenses, including her rent. Paul Valentine, director of the Mayan Theater, has stated that the Mayan was never a burlesque theater, and that neither Monroe nor Anton LaVey ever worked for the Mayan in any capacity. Diane LaVey, Anton LaVey's former wife, has admitted that she forged the "Monroe" inscription on the calendar. Anton LaVey's former publicist Edward Webber claims Anton LaVey admitted he never knew Monroe.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Paul Valentine (Wright, "SD", page #68), Harry Lipton (Aquino-Lipton conversation 12/1/82), Robert Slatzer (letter to Aquino 11/27/82), Edward Webber (interview by Aquino 6/2/91).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey was exposed to the savagery of human nature during his stint as a San Francisco Police photographer in the early 1950s.

REALITY: San Francisco Police Department past employment records include no "Howard Levey" nor "Anton LaVey". Frank Moser, who was a SFPD photographer in the early 1950s, said that Anton LaVey never worked for the Department.

SOURCES: SFPD records, Frank Moser (Wright, "SD", page 68).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey studied criminology at San Francisco City College during the Korean War.

REALITY: SFCC has no record of Anton LaVey's enrollment at any time.

SOURCES: SFCC records (Wright, "SD", page 68).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey purchased the house at 6114 California Street (which would later become the headquarters of the Church of Satan - the infamous "Black House") because he discovered on first inspection that it was the former brothel of Barbary Coast madam Mammy Pleasant. The house was honeycombed with trapdoors and secret passageways, built by Pleasant to elude police raids.

REALITY: 6114 was Anton LaVey's parents' home. It was never a brothel, nor did Mammy Pleasant ever live or work there. Anton LaVey's parents first allowed Anton LaVey and his first wife Carole to live in the house, then transferred ownership of it to Anton LaVey and his second wife Diane in 1971. Such secret passages and hidden rooms that exist were constructed by Anton LaVey.

SOURCES: Relatives, San Francisco property records (Michael & Gertrude Levey, Joint Tenancy Grant Deed, July 9, 1971).

LEGEND: In the 1950s Anton LaVey traveled to Nice, France, where he recorded an album of organ music under the pseudonym of "Georges Montalba".

REALITY: Anton LaVey's first and only trip to France was in the mid-1970s, when his Dutch disciple Maarten Lamers, Amsterdam sex club owner, financed his voyage. The "Anton LaVey=Montalba" story appeared in 1989, when a gullible Church of Satan member found a Montalba album and suggested that it was similar to Anton LaVey's own music. Anton LaVey, never pleased by competition, responded with the preposterous "pseudonym" claim - which is still ardently supported by his posthumous followers.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey was the official city organist for San Francisco until 1966, playing for gala events such as government banquets and political meetings.

REALITY: San Francisco has never had an "official city organist". According to Anton LaVey's first wife Carole, his only income of $29.91/week was generated by his regular engagement at the "Lost Weekend" nightclub, where he was the house Wurlitzer organist.

SOURCE: Julie Burford, Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California (Wright, "SD", page 68). Carole LaVey's divorce proceeding records (Wright, "SD", page 68).

LEGEND: On the night of April 30, 1966 (the German Satanic festival of Walpurgisnacht), Anton LaVey in a "blinding flash" declared himself the High Priest of Satan, proclaimed that the Age of Satan had begun, and founded the Church of Satan as a religious institution.

REALITY: In 1966 Anton LaVey supplemented his income by presenting weekend lectures on exotic and occult topics, and by conducting "Witches' Workshops". He charged $2 a head, filling his living room with the curious and establishing a local reputation as an eccentric. Professional publicist Edward Webber suggested to Anton LaVey that he "would never make any money by lecturing on Friday nights for donations … it would be better to form some sort of church and get a charter from the State of California … I told Anton at the time that the press was going to flip out over all this and that we would get a lot of notoriety". In the summer of 1966, long after the fictional founding-date invented later, a newspaper article about Anton LaVey's lectures offhandedly referred to him as "priest of the Devil's church". This mixture of Webber's idea and the newspaper's characterization resulted in the creation of the Church of Satan as a business and publicity vehicle. Jack Webb, a San Francisco Police investigator who knew Anton LaVey from the "Lost Weekend" nightclub, also suggested that he should form a church of some kind to exploit his recondite knowledge.

SOURCES: Edward Webber (interview by Aquino 6/2/91), Jack Webb, Diane LaVey.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey's trademark shaved head was the result of a ceremonial head-shaving on April 30, 1966, to formalize his role as High Priest of Satan. This ritual was performed in the tradition of the Yezidi devil-worshipping tribes of Iraq, who were said to have carried out a similar ceremony.

REALITY: Anton LaVey shaved his head in the summer of 1966 due to a light-hearted dare from his wife. The "LaVey look" had nothing to do with the Church of Satan founding nor any mystical meaning attached to it later. Nor do Yezidi qawwals (religious teachers) shave their heads.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey; Ethel S. Drower, Peacock Angel, 1941; C.J. Edmonds, A Pilgrimage to Lalish, Royal Asiatic Society, 1967.

LEGEND: In 1966 Anton LaVey personally designed the Baphomet emblem of the Church of Satan. He owns the right to this design, claiming it cannot be reproduced without obtaining licensing rights from the Church of Satan.

REALITY: The Baphomet emblem used by the Church of Satan was neither original to it nor created by Anton LaVey, hence cannot be trademarked. The original Baphomet dates at least as far back as the medieval Knights Templar. The artwork for the current emblem's goat/pentagram first appears in a 1931 book by Oswald Wirth. The complete emblem with the added circles and "LVYThN" Hebrew letters appears on the cover of a book by Maurice Bessy two years before the creation of the Church of Satan. Early photos of Church activities often show Anton LaVey or his disciples using the Bessy book as a photo-prop because of its prominent cover-Baphomet, and he included that book in his Compleat Witch bibliography. The Baphomet, including this rendition of it, is clearly in the public domain.

SOURCES: Oswald Wirth, La fran-maconnerie rendue intelligible a ces adeptes - II, "Le compagnon", Paris: Derry-Livres, 1931, page #60; Maurice Bessy, A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural, London: Spring Books, 1964 [the original edition of this work - Histoire en 1000 images de la magie - was published in 1961 by Editions du Pont Royal]; Thomas H. Hilton, Sex and the Occult, Vol. I, Los Angeles: Centurion Press, 1974;Church of Satan members, The Black Flame (a 1980s Church of Satan magazine).

LEGEND: One of Anton LaVey's most widely-accepted falsehoods is his claim that he served as technical advisor for the 1968 Roman Polanski film Rosemary's Baby. Anton LaVey also claimed to have played the curiously-uncredited part of the Devil in that film.

REALITY: Anton LaVey had no involvement with Rosemary's Baby. Polanski's close friend Gene Gutowski (original producer of the film) stated that there was no technical advisor, nor did Anton LaVey ever even meet Polanski. Producer William Castle, who details all aspects of the film's production in his autobiography, never mentions Anton LaVey. He does describe Polanski's diligence in basing the film exactly on the Ira Levin novel from which it was adapted, eliminating any need for technical advice. The father of the actress who played Mia Farrow's body-double in the Devil scene recalled that a young, very slender professional dancer played the part, dressed in a small rubber suit. In 1971 this suit was acquired by Studio One Productions in Louisville, Kentucky, for use in a low-budget horror film Asylum of Satan. Michael Aquino, technical advisor for that film, examined the suit and concluded that the 200-pound, 6-foot Anton LaVey could not possibly have worn it. [The suit was worn by a girl in the Asylum film.] Not a single member of the cast or crew of Rosemary's Baby has ever mentioned Anton LaVey's involvement. In 1968 a San Francisco theater did ask Anton LaVey to make an appearance at the film's local opening as a promotional event. This appears to have been Anton LaVey's only connection with the film that engendered the 1960s' popular interest in Satanism.

SOURCES: Gene Gutowski; William Castle, Step Right Up! I'm Gonna Scare the Pants off America, New York: Pharos Books, 1992; Diane LaVey, Michael A. Aquino (COS, page #17).

LEGEND: Jayne Mansfield, Hollywood sex symbol and actress, was a card-carrying Satanist and had an affair with Anton LaVey.

REALITY: Publicity agent Tony Kent, an associate of Ed Webber, arranged the meeting between Mansfield and Anton LaVey as a publicity stunt. Anton LaVey was smitten with the actress. Mansfield, who made no secret of her many affairs, denied knowing Anton LaVey intimately, and no associate of hers has ever confirmed any supposed romance with Anton LaVey. In a 1967 interview she said, "He had fallen in love with me and wanted to join my life with his. It was a laugh." According to Anton LaVey's publicist Edward Webber, Mansfield would ridicule her Satanic suitor by calling from her Los Angeles home and seductively teasing him while her friends listened in on the conversation. Anton LaVey's public claims that he had an affair with Mansfield began only after Mansfield's death in an automobile accident, which he also claimed was the result of a curse he had placed on her lover Sam Brody.

SOURCES: Edward Webber (interview by Aquino 6/2/91); interview with Mansfield quoted in Jayne Mansfield by May Mann, Pocket Books, 1974.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey wrote the Satanic Bible, his principal work, to fulfill his congregation's need for a scriptural guide.

REALITY: The Satanic Bible was conceived as a commercial vehicle by paperback publisher Avon Books. Avon approached Anton LaVey for some kind of Satanic work to cash in on the Satanism & witchcraft fad of the late 1960s. Pressed for material to meet Avon's deadline, Anton LaVey resorted to plagiarism, assembling extracts from an obscure 1896 tract - Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard into a "Book of Satan" for the SB, and claiming its authorship by himself. [Ironically these MiR passages are the ones most frequently quoted by Anton LaVey disciples.] Another third of the SB consists of John Dee's "Enochian Keys", taken directly but again without attribution from Aleister Crowley's Equinox. The SB's "Nine Satanic Statements", one of the Church of Satan's central doctrines, is a paraphrase, again unacknowledged, of passages from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The last words in the SB - "Yankee Rose" - have been puzzled over for years by readers. "YR" is actually the name of an old popular tune in Anton LaVey's nightclub repertoire.

SOURCES: Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible; Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right, Port Townsend: Loompanics (reprint), 1896; Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (Galt's speech, ca. pages #936-993); "Yankee Rose" by Sidney Holden & Abe Frankl (Irving Berlin Music, 1926).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey claimed that at the height of the Church of Satan's popularity there were hundreds of thousands of formal members.

REALITY: Diane LaVey (who administered the Church as High Priestess 1966-1984), Michael A. Aquino (senior Magister of the Church and Editor of its Cloven Hoof newsletter 1971-1975), and Zeena LaVey (High Priestess of the Church 1985-1990) have all affirmed that the figures claimed by Anton LaVey were grossly exaggerated. The membership of the Church of Satan never exceeded 300 individuals, several of whom were nonmember subscribers to the newsletter or Anton LaVey friends receiving complimentary mailings.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Michael A. Aquino, Zeena LaVey.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey claimed to be a multimillionaire, owning three homes in northern California, a convent in Italy, a chateau in France, a fleet of luxury automobiles, a 185-foot yacht, three salvage ships, and other property.

REALITY: During Diane [LaVey] Hegarty's 1988-91 lawsuit against Anton LaVey, and Anton LaVey's subsequent 1991 filing for bankruptcy, Anton LaVey stipulated under oath that he owned nothing more than 50% of the house his parents had given jointly to him and Diane, along with the personal items he kept therein. Anton LaVey's final years were subsidized by California state aid. Assessors declared the house to be in such poor repair as to be nearly worthless on the real estate market. Family members have attested to the fact that by the mid-1970s the LaVeys lived in near-poverty, frequently having to rely upon Anton LaVey's father's generosity. According to other LaVey relatives, Anton LaVey continued to rely on handouts from friends and relatives until the end of his life.

SOURCES: Hegarty v. LaVey (San Francisco Superior Court Case #891863), Anton LaVey Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern California, Case #91-34251), Zeena LaVey, other relatives.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey presented himself as a loving family man.

REALITY: Anton LaVey violently beat his wife Diane throughout their marriage. In 1984 a police report was made describing Diane being strangled into unconsciousness by Anton LaVey, who was in such a murderous rage that his daughter Karlahad to pull him off Diane and drag her outside the house to save her life. Anton LaVey routinely physically beat and abused those of his female disciples with whom he had sex, forcing them into prostitution as part of his "Satanic counseling" and collecting their earnings. In 1986 Anton LaVey was a passive witness to the sexual molestation of his own grandson by a longtime friend who was later convicted of sex crimes with minors. In 1990 Anton LaVey informed a mentally-ill stalker of his daughter Zeena of her whereabouts and the time & location of a public appearance she was scheduled to make, deliberately endangering her life.

SOURCES: San Francisco Police records of ASL attack on Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey, Diane LaVey, Stanton LaVey.

LEGEND: Anton LaVey had a deeply affectionate relationship with Togare, his pet lion.

REALITY: While Anton LaVey was always careful to portray himself to the public as an animal lover, in private he was cruel to and neglectful of his pets. When he was given Togare as a cub in 1964, he was ill-equipped to deal with such an exotic, wild animal despite his pretensions as a circus lion-tamer. As Togare became larger and more unruly, Anton LaVey frequently used an electric cattle prod to hurt and frighten him into submission. Many animal-rights proponents, including Togare's final owner Tippi Hedren, agree that it is detrimental to a wild animal's development to be raised in a domestic environment. Anton LaVey was arrested due to Togare's unruly behavior, and Anton LaVey was ordered to donate him to the San Francisco Zoo. After complying, Anton LaVey made only two visits to Togare. Due to the trauma of his early life, Togare needed special care at the Zoo and at every animal-care facility in which he subsequently lived.

SOURCES: Jack Castor (Lion Keeper, San Francisco Zoo), Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey, Tippi Hedren (The Cats of Shamballa, McGraw-Hill, 1985).

LEGEND: Anton LaVey had a deeply affectionate relationship with his other pets.

REALITY: In the late 1960s Anton LaVey acquired a Doberman Pinscher (Loki) as an accent to his "sinister" image. Anton LaVey never took the time to housebreak or train Loki, and relegated him to the overgrown and unkempt backyard of the house, regardless of weather. If Loki ever tried to slip into the house for shelter, Anton LaVey routinely used Togare's cattle-prod on him to terrify him back outside. In his old age Loki developed such severe arthritis that he could not climb the stairs to the back door to eat, and began wasting away from malnutrition. Anton LaVey then gave him to one of his prostitute "students", who at least saw that Loki had a warm, inside home until he died a few months later. During her young childhood Anton LaVey's daughter Zeena once awoke late at night to hear slamming sounds and the shrieking of her German Shepherd puppy. Running downstairs, she saw Anton LaVey savagely beating the cowering, cornered dog with a wooden plank. When Zeena begged Anton LaVey to stop and asked him what the dog had done to deserve such treatment, Anton LaVey screamed, "She won't listen to me! I'm going to force her to obey me!" Anton LaVey continued beating the dog until her face was covered with her blood, then dropped the plank and left the dog quivering in the hallway, so injured and frightened that she wouldn't let even Zeena come near her. This incident left the dog traumatized for a long time afterwards.

SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey.

LEGEND: On Anton LaVey's original death certificate the date of his demise was recorded as October 31, 1997 (Halloween).

REALITY: An official investigation by the City of San Francisco determined that Anton LaVey's actual date of death was October 29, 1997 and that the "Halloween" date had been illegally written on the document.

SOURCES: Death Certificate #380278667, San Francisco Department of Public Health; Dr. Giles Miller (attending physician at Anton LaVey's death), Physician's Amendment to Death Certificate, 11/26/97.

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TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 883: Isaiah 17:4 In that day, The mass of Jacob shall dwindle, And the fatness of his body become lean: Isaiah 17:5 After being like the standing grain Harvested by the reaper--Who reaps ears by the armful--He shall be like the ears that are gleaned In the Valley of Rephaim. Isaiah 17:6 Only gleanings shall be left of him, As when one beats an olive tree: Two berries or three on the topmost branch, Four or five on the boughs of the crown--declares the Lord, the God of Israel. Isaiah 17:7 In that day, men shall turn to their Maker, their eyes look to the Holy One of Israel; Isaiah 17:8 they shall not turn to the altars that their own hands made, or look to the sacred posts and incense stands that their own fingers wrought.

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505 by artic monkeys is giving me vibes of Lord Tower and Mayan i have no idea why

#the tarot sequence #Lord Tower #Anton Saint Joshua #Mayan Saint Joshua

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MyTower (Mayan and Lord Tower) could be one of the best examples of-

Childhood friends-to lovers

PINING

Suffering due to duty and/or rash decisions (ahem Lissa and Dalton)

PINING

Having to watch the one you love marry someone else

Being very close to each other all day everyday but being unable to be together

PINING

Almost actual telepathy (I will ramble about this one one day)

And Old Married Couple.

Does this post have a point? Nope. Am I desperately holding out hope for canon MyTower? Oh yes definitely.

#mytower #anton saint joshua #mayan saint joshua #the tarot sequence #kd edwards #addam protection squad #luci has thoughts

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Anton Saint Joshua and Mayan Saint Joshua. Lord Tower and his Companion. They have had to kiss at least once in all the four or five centuries they have lived right?

Well, they did. 3 times at least, if you could believe it.

(3 times Anton and Mayan kissed when they were not supposed to and 1 time they said " Screw it" and kissed in front of everyone else.)

×The perfect @helllucifer wrote this and I am honored to be her beta, this was a wander to begin and I hope it's gonna end in tears on my part because Luci promised to make me cry hehe

#cindy midnight thoughts #the tarot sequence #THE TAROT SEQUENCE #Mayan Saint Joshua #Mayan #Anton Saint Joshua #Anton #Lord Tower #Tarot #K D Edwards #The last sun #The hanged man #The sunken mall #Fanfiction #Fic

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AN AMERICAN SATAN - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: Omnibus Entertainment

SYNOPSIS: In 1966 in California a former organist and lion tamer named Anton Szandor LaVey founded the Church of Satan. Over the years it has often been surrounded by mysteries, scandals and moral panics. In this documentary some of today’s active members of the church and other free-styled Satanists share their views, memories, ritual practices and personal stories about how they got involved with Satanism. They discuss the false myths that still surround the movement. It is an immersive journey into one the most fascinating phenomena of American religious pluralism.

REVIEW: As a New Yorker, a horror fan, and a member of several literary genre organizations you would assume that I most likely would be aware of the Church of Satan, “The Satanic Bible,” and Anton LaVey. In fact I am. However, I first encountered “The Satanic Bible” as part of a world religion class that I was taking my junior year at an all boys Catholic School. Later on I became acquainted with Peter H. Gilmore, who was the head of the New York Chapter for the Church of Satan and was editing a small press horror journal at the time. Through our friendship I came to know other members of the church. In the late 80’s I had the opportunity to interview Anton LaVey, once live on air and the second pre-recorded and edited, for the radio station I was working at. So I was eager to view AN AMERICAN SATAN.

Aram Garriga’s documentary does an excellent job of painting a well developed portrait of LaVey through archival recordings and interviews of people who had direct contact with him and knew him well. The film also lays out the founding of The Church of Satan, the splinter groups that formed, and where the church stands today. It’s interesting to see how it evolved from its Californian roots to now have its foundation on the East Coast in New York.

The film helps put LaVey’s life in context. Still many of the things LeVay claims about his past as shown in the archival footage is not disputed. Many researchers have tried to substantiate his claims of working for a carnival/circus, as a photographer for the San Francisco Police Department, or working as an organist at the Mayan Theater during burlesque shows, but none of it could be substantiated beyond a reasonable doubt. While the film offers no rebuttal to his claims, it is clear from old footage and the interviews that he was “quite the showman.” Not only did he create flair and theatrics to his rituals. He was a charismatic character that could muster an audience.

The film does a nice job of placing the founding of the church within the historical context of the 60’s and 70’s, and you can understand it as a reaction to the philosophies of free love and American puritanism creating so much noise that LeVay was reacting to. If the following years of hysteria caused by “Rosemary’s Baby,” The Exorcist,” and the rise of so called secret satanic cults and child abuse that plagued the talk shows had never happened he very well might have gathered a larger following. LeVay took to the stage and defended his belief system. The showman was in the right place, but at the wrong time. He became the public’s poster child for what they want to believe. Still, it did not inhibit him.

Garriga does an excellent job of contextualizing the man, the events, and the current state of the church he founded. It’s interesting how the Church of Satan is still out there in the world but is not so much in the public’s zeitgeist. In some ways the film serves as a reminder of its existence. That there are still practicing members and other splinter groups. In examining where things stand now, it seems that the church has almost returned to its founder's roots of his self claimed experiences with the carnies and sideshow performers.

AN AMERICAN SATAN is an entertaining and thought provoking look at a period in time which gave rise to a more self fulfilling belief system born out of a frustration with the Catholic religion and church goers with double standards. It’s interesting that years later the 1987 film “Wall Street” gave us the clean cut Wall Street trader Gordon Gekko who uttered, “Greed is good!” One of many beliefs of the Church of Satan, but it received a different reaction. AN AMERICAN SATAN offers viewers a challenge to understanding what we believe in light of who is delivering the message, its packaging, and branding. It might just be that the Church of Satan isn’t what we ever needed to fear.

CAST (Interviewees): Peter H. Gilmore, Stanton LaVey, Aden Ardennes, Adam Cardone, David Harris, Heather Harris, Michael Antony Mandrake, Ruth Waytz, Peggy Nadramia, Raul Antony. CREW: Director - Aram Garriga; Screenplay - Aram Garriga & Xavi Prat; Cinematographer - Benet Román; Score - Erisian, Aram Garriga, & Xavi Prat; Visual Effects - Abel del Castillo & Laurent Pallarès. OFFICIAL: N.A. FACEBOOK: N.A. TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/ER8nyYPO11o RELEASE DATE: Digital Platforms April 27th, 2021

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike) Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

#film review #movie review #an american satan #aram garriga #omnibus entertainment #anton szandor lavey #church of satan #joseph mauceri #joseph b mauceri

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MY FRIENDS, LOVERS, TEACHERS, and FAMILY

By Will B. Torres

For years I've been surrounded by my friends. I stood next to them as equal. My best friend, my lovers, my ex-lover, my first girlfriend (yes, I had one back in the days), my rivals, my colleagues, my co-workers, my mentors, my students. I never saw black as "Them," it was always "Us." I've always stood side by side and never knew what hate against black lives was until 1992.

Even though my 7-year-old self didn't understand what social injustice was, I felt what the four cops did to Rodney King wasn't right. I also wished all the riots happening around my neighborhood would stop. "Violence does not solve any problems," thought my 7-year naïve Mayan self. Unfortunately, America opened my eyes to all the injustice the cops have committed to black lives:

Trayvon Martin (Age 17, D. 2012)

Jordan Davis (Age 17, D. 2012)

Renisha McBride (Age 19, D. 2013)

Erick Garner (Age 27, D. 2014)

Michael Brown (Age 18, D. 2014)

Jamar Clark (Age 24, D. 2015)

Philando Castile (Age 32, D. 2016)

Anton Sterling (Age 37, D. 2016)

Ahmaud Arbery (Age 25, D. 2020)

Breonna Taylor ( Age 26, D. 2020)

George Floyd (Age 46, D. 2020)

AND MANY MORE…

I always thought that my silence and my prayers would make injustice go away… it's still the same. Each year I would say to myself, "This is the last police brutality"… It never was the last.

What I've seen throughout the year has made me angry, has made me upset, has made cry, and yes, has even made me want to burn down buildings because that's the only way society will listen. You know what! we are listening! the whole world is listening!

I feel to the pain that goes through each person marching the street asking for justice for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor and all the black souls who lost their lives from a dirty, racist cop.

This Mayan man stands up for the right of black lives, so the next generations of brown kids, white kids, black kids, or any kid growing up in America doesn’t witness all the injustice done by cops throughout the years…

I take it back; I want the future generation of kids to know all the injustice black people had to live through. I want the future generations to know that I, nor my friends, lovers, family, and teachers, did not stay quiet and fought for equality for every black human in America. I want our future generations K-12 to learn about all the injustice black people had to endure from dirty, racist cops through a Social Justice Class taught by our black teachers, professors, and doctors.

While I am just a small voice among other great people making a change, today and until my last breath (which is hope is at age 101), I STAND NEXT TO MY BLACK FRIENDS, LOVERS, TEACHERS, & FAMILY.

#blacklivesmatter #writer #lovewins #justiceforgeorgefloyd #justiceforbreonnataylor #lawriter #gaylatino

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independentartistbuzz · 2 years

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Legendary NYC Rock Outfit URSA MINOR Reveals "Stardust" Video

Legendary NYC Rock n' Roll outfit Ursa Minor share their latest video for "Stardust," today.

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h3V_LjpGC Ursa Minor originated in NYC in the late 90s, coming out of the fertile downtown scene of musicians transcending the usual boundaries of folk, rock and jazz. Michelle Casillas worked as a sound engineer in the late 1990s and early 2000s at Tonic, the now defunct home of New York’s underground music scene. As an artist she sang on scores of films by Elliot Sharp and productions by Anton Fier (Feelies, Golden Palominos) while playing sideman, collaborating and recording with other local artists. Inspired by the freedom and diversity of the music she was hearing, Michelle formed Ursa Minor with guitarist Tony Scherr (Bill Frisell, Feist, Willie Nelson, Lounge Lizards), drummer Robert DiPietro (Elysian Fields, Norah Jones), and bassist Rob Jost (Imogen Heap, Bjork). Ursa Minor’s debut LP Silent Moving Picture - a stark Fender Rhodes based record - was released by Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, on Smells Like Records. Their second album, Showface (Anthemusa), took a punchier rock turn with driving guitar rhythms and expansive arrangements. Ursa Minor’s current LP release, Sian Ka'an (Mayan, pronounced See-AHN KHAN, meaning “origin of the sky”) was inspired by a visit to the protected biosphere reserve on the Yucatán peninsula. Travels along the coast inspired a series of songs and photographs brought on by the raw intensity and untouched beauty of the region. The wonder of this place heavily influenced the writing and sound of the album. Sian Ka'an is a return to the barebones vulnerability of the first album, with new resolve, tranquility, ferocity. The band ranges from feral polyphony to hushed stillness; a ballad of the mystery of the natural world. Sian Ka’an was produced by Tony Scherr, recorded analog to Otari 8 track by Derek Neivergelt, mixed by New York musician/producer/engineer Mark Plati (Bowie), and features special guests violist Caleb Burhans (John Cale, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, the National, Arcade Fire) and organist Todd Caldwell (Crosby, Stills, Nash). Find Ursa Minor via: Website www.ursaminor.info Facebook www.facebook.com/ursaminornyc Instagram www.instagram.com/michellecasillasnyc Twitter www.twitter.com/URSAMINORNYC

#ursa minor

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metamorphorestworld · 3 years

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