From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@gondwanaland.com)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 11:44:59 MDT
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:15:21AM -0700, Technotranscendence wrote:
> On Monday, September 03, 2001 11:20 PM Joe Dees joedees@addall.com wrote:
> > If you wanna become familiar with Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy and
> > cannot fins a copy of ATLAS SHRUGGED or THE FOUNTAINHEAD, read
> > Anton Szander levay, who ripped off her version of ethical egoism as a
> > framework for his books on satanism (or setianism).
>
> Care to elaborate on that?
http://www.churchofsatan.org/aslv.html says:
LEGEND: ASL 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 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.
SOURCES: ASL, 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).
-- Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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