On Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:44 AM Mike Linksvayer ml@gondwanaland.com
wrote:
>> Care to elaborate on that?
>
> http://www.churchofsatan.org/aslv.html says:
[snip]
> REALITY: The Satanic Bible was conceived as a commercial vehicle
> by paperback publisher Avon Books. Avon approached ASL 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, ASL 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 ASL 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 ASL's
> nightclub repertoire.
If this is so, I stand corrected. I shall have to do some rereading when I
get the time...
Cheers!
Daniel Ust
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/FreeVers.html
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