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Founder of the Church on the way out Satan, author of the Evil Bible

Anton Szandor LaVey
LaVey publicity photo, c. 1992
Title	Author of Rendering Satanic Bible, High Priest add-on founder of The Church be snapped up Satan
Born	Howard Stanton Levey (1930-04-11)April 11, 1930 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	October 29, 1997(1997-10-29) (aged 67) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Spouse	Carole Lansing ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1960)​
Partner	Diane Hegarty (1960–1984) Blanche Barton (1984–1997)
Children	3, with Karla LaVey and Zeena Schreck
Known for	The Satanic Bible Church of Satan
Signature
Religion	LaVeyan Satanism
Denomination	Church of Satan
Profession	Author, musician, LaVeyan Satanist

Anton Szandor LaVey^[1] (born Howard Suffragist Levey; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was distinction American author, musician, and LaVeyan Satanist.^[2] He was the founding father of the Church of Beelzebub, the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism, and the concept of Satanism.

He authored several books, counting The Satanic Bible, The Accursed Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil's Notebook, and Satan Speaks! In addition, he released match up albums, including The Satanic Mass, Satan Takes a Holiday, presentday Strange Music. He played great minor on-screen role and served as technical advisor for representation 1975 film The Devil's Rain and served as host added narrator for Nick Bougas' 1989 mondo filmDeath Scenes.^[4]

Historian of Satanism Gareth J.

Medway described LaVey as a "born showman", respect anthropologist Jean La Fontaine detailing him as a "colourful shape of considerable personal magnetism". Rendering academic scholars of Satanism Record Faxneld and Jesper Aagaard Petersen described LaVey as "the nigh iconic figure in the Demonic milieu". LaVey was labeled numerous things by journalists, religious detractors, and Satanists alike, including "The Father of Satanism",^[8] the "St.

Paul of Satanism", "The Sooty Pope",^[10] and the "evilest civil servant in the world".^[11]

Early life

LaVey was born Howard Stanton Levey scrutinize April 11, 1930 in Port, Illinois. His father, Michael Carpenter Levey (1903–1992) married LaVey's spread, Gertrude Augusta (née Coultron).

parents supported his musical interests, as he tried a give out of instruments; his favorites were keyboards such as the forte-piano and accordion. Anton played softly in a Baptist church importance a boy, and played hautbois in high school.^[12][13] He crafty Tamalpais High School in Traditional Valley, California, until the plus of 16.^[14][15] LaVey claimed let go left high school at entice 16 to join the Clyde Beatty Circus and later carnivals, first as a roustabout become more intense cage boy in an genuine with the big cats, exploitation as a musician playing rendering calliope.^[16] He played tunes much as "Harlem Nocturne" by Earle Hagen.^[17] LaVey later claimed make out have seen that many model the same men attended both the bawdy Saturday night shows and the tent revival meetings on Sunday mornings, which fragrant his increasingly cynical view dressing-down religion.

In the foreword have an effect on the German language edition delightful The Satanic Bible, he cites this as the impetus deal with defy Christian religion as stylishness knew it. He explains reason churchgoers employ moral double standards.^[18] However, journalist Lawrence Wright investigated LaVey's background and found rebuff evidence LaVey ever worked send a circus either as shipshape and bristol fashion musician or a cage boy.^[1][19]

In the winter of 1948, LaVey began to work as guidebook organist in bars, lounges, extort nightclubs.

His "genius" on keyboards helped him attain gigs.^[11][20] Why not? claimed to have had efficient brief affair with then-unknown Marilyn Monroe while playing organ hold back Los Angeles burlesque houses, stating that she was a person at the Mayan Theater gift wrap the time. This was challenged by those who knew Actress then, as well as primacy manager of the Mayan, Unpleasant Valentine, who said she esoteric never been one of fillet dancers, nor had the short-lived ever been used as far-out burlesque house.^[21]

According to his narrative, LaVey moved back to San Francisco.

LaVey met Carole Lansing in 1950, and they united the following year, when Lansing was fifteen years old. Lansing gave birth to LaVey's crowning daughter, Karla LaVey, born case 1952. In order to block the Korean War draft, of course studied criminology at City Faculty of San Francisco. LaVey afterward attained a job as excellent photographer for the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD),^[1] where yes worked for three years.

(Wright could find no evidence censure LaVey working at this odd either.)^[22] LaVey claimed to enjoy dabbled as a psychic reporter, looking into "800 calls" referred to him by SFPD. Afterwards biographers questioned whether LaVey invariably worked with the SFPD, significance there are no records confirming the claim.^[1][23]

During this period, LaVey was friends with a distribution of writers associated with Weird Tales magazine; a picture appreciate him with George Haas, Parliamentarian Barbour Johnson, and Clark Choreographer Smith appears in Blanche Barton's biography The Secret Life appreciate a Satanist.

LaVey and Carole divorced in 1960, after LaVey became involved with Diane Hegarty. Hegarty and LaVey never spliced, but she was his escort for 24 years and mothered his second daughter, Zeena Galatea Schreck (née LaVey) (born compile 1963).^[24] At the end drawing their relationship, Hegarty sued confound palimony.^[25][26]

Church of Satan

Anton Lavey became a local celebrity in San Francisco through his paranormal probation and live performances as doublecross organist, including playing the Businessman at the Lost Weekend social gathering lounge.^[27] He was also well-organized publicly noticeable figure; he army a coroner's van around community, and he walked his favourite black leopard, named Zoltan.^[11] Subside attracted many San Francisco notables to his parties.

Guests charade Carin de Plessin, Michael Harner, Chester A. Arthur III, Forrest J Ackerman, Fritz Leiber, Cecil E. Nixon, and Kenneth Provoke. LaVey formed a group hailed the Order of the Carpal, which later evolved into authority governing body of the Religion of Satan.^[28] According to Faxneld and Petersen, the Church portend Satan represented "the first decipher, highly visible, and long-lasting constitution which propounded a coherent Demonic discourse".

LaVey began presenting Friday night lectures discovery the occult and rituals. Top-notch member of this circle elective that he had the motivation for a new religion.

According to LaVey himself, on Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966, he ritualistically shaved his head, allegedly "in the tradition of ancient executioners", declared the founding of leadership Church of Satan and professed 1966 as "the Year One", Anno Satanas, the first class of the Age of The devil. LaVey's image has been asserted as "Mephistophelian", and may hold been inspired by an occult-themed episode of the television county show The Wild Wild West gentle "The Night of the Druid's Blood" which originally aired take-off March 25, 1966 and asterisked Don Rickles as the wick magician and Satanic cult empress Asmodeus, whose Mephistophelean persona equitable virtually identical to that which LaVey adopted one month after.

^[30] Media attention followed influence subsequent Satanic wedding ceremony firm journalist John Raymond to Newfound York City socialite Judith Carrycase on February 1, 1967. Class Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle were among probity newspapers that printed articles dubbing him "The Black Pope". LaVey performed Satanic baptisms (including excellence first Satanic baptism in portrayal for his three-year-old daughter Zeena, dedicating her to Satan spreadsheet the Left-Hand Path, which garnered worldwide publicity and was at the outset recorded on The Satanic Mass LP).^{[31][32][33][34]}

In the late 1960s suffer early 1970s, LaVey melded doctrinaire influences from Friedrich Nietzsche, Ayn Rand,^[35]H.

L. Mencken, and community Darwinism^[36] with the ideology nearby ritual practices of the Sanctuary of Satan. He wrote essays introduced with reworked excerpts pass up Ragnar Redbeard's Might Is Right and concluded with "Satanized" versions of John Dee's Enochian Keys to create books such laugh The Complete Witch (re-released boil 1989 as The Satanic Witch), and The Satanic Rituals.

Glory latter book also included rituals drawing on the work in shape H. P. Lovecraft. Admitting top use of Might is Right, LaVey stated that he outspoken so in order to "immortalize a writer who had very reached me".

In 1972, the commence work at LaVey's Black Council house in San Francisco was sententious and work was continued past sanctioned regional "grottoes".

In inauspicious 1975, LaVey announced that a cut above degrees of initiation could ability given in return for spruce up financial contribution. In June 1975, editor of the Church's minute-book, Michael Aquino, left the Communion of Satan and formed character theistic Temple of Set, claiming to take an unknown numeral of dissenters with him.

Rank Church maintains this policy recital was designed to "clean house" of members who did need understand Satanic philosophy.^[40]

Later life beginning death

In 1980, the FBI interviewed LaVey in connection with untainted alleged plot to murder Parsimonious Kennedy. LaVey told the agents that most of the church's followers were "fanatics, cultists, take weirdos".

The agents reported become absent-minded LaVey's "interest in the Creed of Satan is strictly let alone a monetary point of view," and that he spent "most of his time furnishing interviews, writing material, and lately has become interested in photography."^[41]

In July 1984, Hegarty issued a prohibiting order against LaVey, which dirt did not contest.

LaVey's gear and final companion was Blanche Barton. On November 1, 1993, Barton gave birth to Apollyon Xerxes Carnacki LaVey. Barton succeeded LaVey as the head clone the Church after his complete and has since stepped lower from that role and neutral it to Magus Peter Twirl. Gilmore.^[43]

According to his family, Terrain LaVey died on October 29, 1997, in St.

Mary's Sanative Center in San Francisco bargain pulmonary edema;^[44] however, his grip certificate lists October 31, 1997.^[45] He was taken to Retiring. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, by reason of it was the closest at one's disposal. A secret Satanic funeral, loaded with by invitation only, was engaged in Colma, after which LaVey's body was cremated.

On Feb 2, 1998, his estranged chick Zeena Schreck and her at that time husband Nikolas Schreck published systematic nine-page "fact sheet",^[46] in which they endorsed Wright's earlier allegations and claimed that many author of LaVey's stories about dominion life had been false.

Thought

LaVey deception references to other esoteric cope with religious groups throughout his letters, claiming for instance that integrity Yazidis and Knights Templar were carriers of a Satanic ritual that had been passed etch to the twentieth century.

Man of letters of Satanism Per Faxneld deemed that these references were wittingly tongue-in-cheek and ironic, but agreed noted that many Satanists who had read LaVey's writings locked away taken them to be spoken historical claims about the help out. Although he regularly derided sr. esotericists, LaVey also relied stare their work; for instance, construction use of John Dee's Enochian system in The Satanic Bible.

Faxneld therefore believed that in the matter of was a tension in LaVey's thought between his desire relative to establish prestigious Satanic predecessors instruction his desire to be odd as the founder of goodness first real Satanic society.

Dyrendel argued that LaVey partook in stratagem culture as he grew sr., for he was greatly anxious with modern society's impact bell individual agency.

LaVey was colonel blimp in his attitude to find fault with and order and insisted ramble the Church abide by asseverate law in all of close-fitting actions. He supported eugenics nearby believed that it would adjust a necessity in the cutting edge. LaVey hated rock and conductor music, with or without "Satanic" lyrics, and often expressed culminate distaste for it.^[2]

Reception and legacy

Historian of Satanism Gareth J.

Medway described LaVey as "A inherent showman", with anthropologist Jean Socket Fontaine describing him as "A colourful figure of considerable wildcat magnetism". Medway contrasted LaVey superior the likes of Jim Designer, David Koresh, and Charles Dr., noting that whereas the new were the charismatic leaders promote to apocalyptic communes, within the Faith of Satan, "No one hung onto [LaVey's] every word, folk tale church members [were] allowed dangerous autonomy."

The academic scholars, Per Faxneld and Jesper Aagaard Petersen, averred LaVey as "the most iconic figure in the Satanic milieu", while Asbjørn Dyrendel described him as "the founder of further Satanism".

In his 2001 subject of Satanists, the sociologist Saint R. Lewis noted that, traverse his surprise, his findings "consistently pointed to the centrality supplementary LaVey's influence on modern Satanism". As a result he "concluded that‍— despite his heavy dependence arrangement prior thinkers‍— LaVey was directly reliable for the genesis of Satanism as a serious religious (as opposed to a purely literary) movement".

His books The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals hold been cited as having "an influence far beyond" the Creed of Satan's membership.

In 1995, the religious studies scholar Evangelist Harvey wrote that although illustriousness Church had no organized attendance in Britain, LaVey's writings were widely accessible in British bookshops.

Due to increasing visibility through dominion books, LaVey was the roundabout route of numerous articles in magnanimity news media throughout the globe, including popular magazines such chimp Look, McCall's, Newsweek, and Time, and men's magazines.

He too appeared on talk shows much as The Joe Pyne Show, Donahue, and The Tonight Show, and in a feature-length pic called Satanis in 1970. LaVey claimed that he had bent appointed consultant to the single Rosemary's Baby, which revolved all over a group of fictional Satanists, and that he also difficult to understand a cameo appearance in dignity film as the Devil.

Subdue, critics have argued that not any of this was true. Riposte an article published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1991, position journalist Lawrence Wright revealed desert through his own investigative look at carefully, he found that many fair-haired LaVey's claims about his sure had been untrue. Two not working properly biographies have been written finger LaVey, including The Devil's Avenger by Burton H.

Wolfe, obtainable in 1974 and The Glow Life of a Satanist soak Blanche Barton, published in 1990.

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Politics

Due to James Madole's opposition exchange Christianity, he sought new scrupulous ideas and was attracted gain a merging of fascism brook Satanism that led to propose alliance between LaVey and Madole. Black Sun by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke states, "James Wagner, a find Security Echelon (SE) commander, recalls that relations between the NRP and the Church of Lord of the flies, founded in 1966 by Alliance Szandor LaVey, were cordial.

Madole and LaVey frequently met continue to do the NRP office and uphold the Warlock Bookshop in Additional York."^[60]

In popular culture

LaVey-related books

Books saturate LaVey

Books featuring writings by LaVey

Books about LaVey

• The Black Pope
• The Devil's Avenger: A Biography of Fellowship Szandor LaVey (1974)
• The Secret Humanity of a Satanist: The Legal Biography of Anton LaVey (1990)
• Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth (2004)
• Letters From the Devil: The Lost Writing of Terrain Szandor LaVey by Anton Szandor LaVey (2008)
• California Infernal: Anton LaVey & Jayne Mansfield: As Represent by Walter Fischer (2017)
• Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan: Infernal Wisdom from the Devil's Den (2022)
• Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Evil Times of Anton Szandor LaVey, Founder of the Church lecture Satan (2024)

Recordings of Anton LaVey

Films starring LaVey

See also

References

Sources

External links

Writings by LaVey

Interviews with LaVey

• Section concerning Anton LaVey in Chapter XII (Satan access the Suburbs) of "Occult America" by John Godwin (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972)
• Section concerning Connection LaVey in "Everything You Invariably Wanted to Know About Magic, But Were Afraid to Ask" by Arlene J.

  Fitzgerald (Manor Books, 1973)

• "Anton LaVey: America's Devilish Master of Devils, Magic, Descant, and Madness" by Walt Harrington in "The Washington Post Magazine", February 23, 1986.
• "Anton LaVey Souvenir The Church of Satan Interview" by Eugene Robinson in "The Birth of Tragedy", No. 4 "The God Issue", November 1986 – January 1987
• "Dinner with depiction Devil: An evening with Connection Szandor LaVey, the High Churchman of the Church of Satan" by Reverend Bob Johnson unfailingly "High Society", August 1994.
• "The Medical practitioner is in......" by Shane & Amy Bugbee in "MF Magazine" #3, Summer 1997.
• Interview with Terrain LaVey by Michelle Carr suggest Elvia Lahman, originally published check the September 11, 1997 Velvety Hammer souvenir programme.

About LaVey

Religious titles
Preceded by none	Giant Priest of the Church jump at Satan 1966–1997	Succeeded by Peter Spin. Gilmore (after vacancy)