Consider yourself as a Satanist. Suppose for a moment that you have a 
friend that, you know, is planning some action that will hurt someone else.
Should you, as a Satanist:

a) Help him out.
b) Try and stop him.
c) Try and find some way of profiting from his action for yourself.
d) Ignore what is going on.

The answer to that question is "any of the above". Satanism is not a
religion that is going to tell you how to behave towards others. 

Suppose, now, that it is *you* that are planning the hurtful act. Should
you:

a) Enjoy it
b) Not enjoy it.

The question is simpler this time, and the answer is also simple - it is
a). You, and you alone, are responsible for your own actions, and you 
wouldn't be planning the act if you didn't want to do it. There's no point
in feeling guilty about it.


There is a standard "Satanist" phrase that is often trotted out in such 
discussions. It is the one that says you should do what you want, and that is
the whole of the law. I'm not going to quote it properly because I think that 
anyone that uses "thou" and "wilt" in the 21st century is just asking to be 
laughed at. But it _is_, nonetheless, the whole of the law, and a very 
difficult law it is too. Because in order to follow it properly, you have to 
know *who you are*, and *what you want*. Deciding on those things is not easy, 
but the rewards of such self knowledge are immense.


I am not by nature a poet, so cannot summarise whole worlds in a couple
of lines. You are going to have to make do with my reams of prose instead.
I think two key things that come out of the "whole law" are the following:

1) A Satanist finds nothing "unthinkable", either in his own thoughts or
in those of others. You have to face up to the world as it is before you can
act properly within it. Otherwise it is the world that controls you, not 
the other way round.

2) A Satanist never lies to him or herself. Because otherwise it is the lie
that controls, not your own will. This is a kind of failure. How are you 
going to do what you want, then?


I have been a Satanist of some form for the last twenty years. I hope to meet
others of a similar nature (and I have specific wants which will become
clearer). Whatever happens I hope these documents will be of some use to those
that read them.