A Suggested Satanic Reading List

Vepar in my experience is very much like her domain, the sea - dangerous and fierce, life-giving and nurturing, a being of both creative and destructive power.

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100 Journal Prompts for Luciferians and Theistic Satanists

Who is Lucifer/Satan to you personally and what is his role in your life?

How did you become a Luciferian/Satanist and why do you remain one?

If you were raised in a different religion, what is your relationship to it?

Do you practice magic? If yes, how does it relate to your religion?

Do you work with or venerate demons other than Lucifer/Satan or other beings associated with him? If not, would you like to? Which ones?

Do you consider to be worshipping Lucifer/Satan? How do you personally feel about worship in general?

How do you feel about Christian God?

How do you feel about angels? How about Michael specifically?

Do you work with or venerate any Christian spirits?

Write a Luciferian/Satanist poem.

What aspects of Lucifer/Satan are currently the most significant in your practice?

What symbols are significant to you as a Luciferian/Satanist?

Write a Luciferian/Satanist prayer.

Is there anything you would like to change about your practice? How can you do that?

If you were not always a Luciferian/Satanist, how did you change since you became one?

What is your favorite text relating to your religion and why?

What are your favorite and least favorite fictional depictions of Lucifer/Satan and why?

What has Luciferianism/Satanism helped you with?

What Luciferian/Satanist stories are important to you and why? (ex. stories of the Garden of Eden or the Rebellion of Angels)

Do you listen to music with Luciferian/Satanist themes? Do you feel your religion has any impact on what you like to listen to?

Write a thank you note to Lucifer/Satan.

What do you find to be hard about being a Luciferian/Satanist?

What about being a Luciferian/Satanist brings you joy?

Do you feel alienated sometimes as a Luciferian/Satanist? Do you have or would like to have some kind of community? If you don’t but would like to, how can you find it?

Describe your ideal altar or sacred space.

What songs, if you have any, remind you of Lucifer/Satan?

Is fun a part of your religious practice and why yes or no? If yes, in what ways? If not, would you like to incorporate it? How?

Do you have any Luciferian/Satanist UPGs? What are they?

What are some interesting things about your local devil lore? Research if you don’t know.

If you have any, what are your favorite songs you associate with Lucifer/Satan or your religion in general?

What are your favorite depictions of Lucifer/Satan in visual arts and why? What makes them speak to you?

Your thoughts on Romantic and Socialist Satanism (if you don’t know what they are, research - they are important to the development of Satanism and Luciferianism as religions).

Your thoughts on the Bible.

Your thoughts on Paradise Lost.

Choose a myth involving Lucifer/Satan and reflect on it.

What has Lucifer/Satan done for you and what can you do for him?

Do you meditate as part of your religious practice? Which forms of meditation work best for you, and which do not? Why?

Do you celebrate any festivals or special days as part of your religious practice?

Have you ever done an official dedication? If yes, what did you do and how did it affect you? If not, would you like to?

If you were baptized, have you ever revoked your baptism? If yes, how did you do that and what did it change? If not, would you like to or not? Why?

If you make offerings, what do you like to give Lucifer/Satan (it doesn’t have to be physical)? What do you think he likes to receive?

If you use pre-written prayers, what is your favorite one and why?

Rewrite a Christian prayer. Try to not make it a simple name switch, but something actually fitting the context of your religion.

How do you see Lucifer/Satan? It doesn’t have to be based on visions, you can just describe how you imagine him to look when you think of him. You don’t have to limit yourself to visualizing either, especially if you struggle with it! What scents do you associate with him, for example?

How did your practice change since you have started?

Do you consider Lucifer/Satan to be a deity?

Did you use to be afraid of Lucifer/Satan? What were you afraid of and how did it change? Do you have some remaining fears?

Your thoughts on Hell.

Do you consider blasphemy or inversion a part of your religious practice? Why yes or no? If yes, what is its role?

How can you fight the far right presence and ideas in the Left Hand Path community?

How is your religion present in your daily life?

Do you like complex rituals, or do you prefer to keep things simple? Why?

What aspects of Lucifer/Satan do you feel are most present in your practice? Would you like to explore some other ones? Why or why not?

What do you think happens after we die? Is it important to you or not? Why?

What things about your practice are the most important to you and why?

How would you describe what your religion is about to someone who knows nothing about it?

Where do your ethics come from?

How do your ethics relate to your religion?

What do you appreciate about Lucifer/Satan?

Do you use any kind of divination as part of your religious practice? If yes, what methods work best for you?

How does cultural Christianity affect you as a Luciferian/Satanist? What things you do or beliefs you hold are culturally Christian? If you live in a Christian culture, it’s likely more than you think even if you were not raised in the religion.

If you are interested in Lilith (or any closed figure), what are the qualities of her that speak to you? What open figures with those qualities could you explore in your practice instead? Research if you don’t know.

What does it mean to you to be a Luciferian/Satanist?

Is sexuality a part of your religious practice? What is its role in it?

If you were planning a ritual or any religious activity for a group of people, what would it be and how would it look like?

What non-satanic philosophies and practices do you find inspiring?

What makes your religious practice personal and truly yours?

What would you like to change about Luciferianism/Satanism and why?

What ideas in LaVey’s works do you think are connected to his fascist sympathies and how can you challenge their presence in the LHP community? Do you think you were influenced by them? How can you deconstruct them?

What plants and animals in your local environment are associated with Lucifer/Satan? Research!

What popular ideas in your religion do you disagree with and why?

What texts were influential for you as a Luciferian/Satanist and how?

How can you connect your religious practice to your culture?

Would you like to incorporate your hobbies or interests into your religious practice? How can you do that?

Research and describe a local folk demon or a folk demon from the culture of your ancestors. If you really can’t find one, just describe any folk demon you find interesting.

Describe a Christian story you perceive differently as a Luciferian/Satanist. How and why is it different?

Your thoughts on the concept of sin.

Do you have some personal religious traditions? Describe them.

Do you perceive Lucifer and Satan as the same or different and why?

Does your religion bring you comfort? If yes, how?

Describe a folk story about Lucifer/Satan, preferably a local one.

How do you connect with your own divinity? When do you feel it the most?

Recognizing your inherent worth and divinity also means recognizing it within other beings. How does it affect your treatment of them and do you think something about it should change?

Do you have an interest in the dark and macabre, for example, vulture culture or certain kinds of music? What makes it speak to you? Do you think it intersects with your religion? If yes, how?

Choose an aspect of Lucifer/Satan and reflect on it.

Do you consider yourself a pagan? Why or why not?

Is taking care of yourself a part of your practice? How?

What makes you appreciate earthly life?

If you have ex-Christian trauma, has the religion you practice now helped you? How?

What values and virtues do you associate with Lucifer/Satan? How can you make them more present in your life?

Has your religion helped you with accepting yourself? If yes, how?

What makes you feel connected to Lucifer/Satan?

Are you Luciferian or Satanist? Why are you on this path and not the other? Is there something you appreciate about the other one and would like to incorporate into your own practice? If yes, how can you do that?

What things about Christianity do you think are harmful? What do you appreciate and is it something you would like to take inspiration from? If yes, how can you do that?

Write down some problematic things about your own religion. How can you counteract them?

What good things do you think your religion brings to the world? How can you make the world better as a Luciferian/Satanist?

What makes you proud of yourself?

What brings you pleasure? Do you ever feel guilty for enjoying harmless things? If yes, why and how can you help yourself release that guilt?

What interesting thing about your religion have you learned recently?

What are the subjects in the realm of your religion you would like to learn more about?

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How do non-theistic luciferians work towards apotheosis if they don't even belief in the existence of gods?

Apotheosis does not only refer to literal deification. I’ve found that the number of luciferians who work towards this particular understanding of apotheosis, in which they strive to transcend and shed their own mortality to become literal gods, are few in comparison to those that incorporate apotheosis in their work in a much broader sense, where divinity doesn’t exist solely outside of the bounds of humanity.Instead, apotheosis may mean becoming like God. It may mean taking responsibility of one’s own fate, of refusing to blame or thank anyone/anything for what they have done for (or to) themselves. Apotheosis may refer to self-betterment, in which the vision of your own best self is the divinity you seek to become. It may refer to the godhood that mankind has already made for itself, this strange sort of artificial (but not necessarily lesser) divinity that our own hands have wrought. 

There are so many different things that apotheosis may mean to someone, theism is hardly a requirement. In fact, I think this is an excellent chance to get some discussion going on—anon, perhaps input from others will help answer your question even further.So, I’m opening this up to whoever wants to contribute: What is your understanding of apotheosis, and how do you incorporate it into your own practice?

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Ways to Get Intimate with the Gods

For those special gods in your life. 

Leave space for them on your bed when you sleep

Dedicate a piece of jewelry to them and wear it all the time

When you’re emotional, write a letter to them until your hands start to hurt

Make them a cup of tea and sit down across from it and just talk

Make some time to sit in ritual in silence and just feel them

Wear their colors for them and let them know you did it for them

Orgasms are great offerings

Take care of yourself physically and pamper yourself while you talk to them and visualize them helping you (example: washing your hair, doing your nails)

Magic is made from passion, so when you need an extra kick in the spell, visualize them touching you and whispering in your ear all the passion that you need 

Eat dinner with them

Create a place where you meet in meditation 

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Hi there! So I saw this post and I wanted to ask, how to you view and work with Lord Satan, and how do you differentiate him from Lord/Lady Baphomet? I've always been confused about Satan as a daemon, and never really knew if he was the same as Baphomet or not or how to differentiate them.

I've been wanting to work with Satan as his own deity/daemon for a while now, but never really knew how to go about it.

Really interested to know how you view them both!

~ Many Blessings ~

-Korv Xx

two reflections of one energy. i'd connect lucifer to this, as well (though keep in mind that this is my personal beliefs, and it's alright and even encouraged to form your own - do what feels right for you first and foremost). they're all connected, not dissimilar to the father/the son/the holy spirit all being apart of the same one deity, but being different aspects of said deity. think of them as like a hydra, having three heads with different faces and different brains, and one body that connects them. the heads are their own identities, while also being the same body that connects one to another. i hope that makes sense, because it makes sense to me.

anyway, another way i personally differentiate satan and baphomet is if satan was red, and lucifer is blue, then baphomet is purple - a peaceful middle ground between the two. additionally, if lucifer is more angelic and satan more demonic, then baphomet is a neutral ground between the two. baphomet is also divinely androgynous, whereas lucifer can be seen as being feminine, satan more masculine (though labelling demons as strictly one or another doesn't really slot neatly into my practice, i need to express that. it works for some people, but not for me).

i'm a little dissociative when writing this, so i hope this makes sense. i just want to express differences in order to help you focus on one or another. but again! it's totally fine to disagree with me and/or form your own belief system regarding this. this is solely just how i view it within my own practice.

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Satanic and Luciferian people should do better when it comes to antagonizing marginalized followers of monotheistic religions.

Though not all, many of us may actually believe in or at least include in their practice the idea of an oppressive God figure with a very Christian mythology. For some of us - me included - reinterpreting Christian narratives is a way of working through religious oppression and trauma. But it does not automatically make all Jewish, Muslim, and yes, Christians, misguided followers of a malevolent entity.

Religious people can hold radically different worldviews, and have very different idea of God. You can have your own cosmology without claiming to possess the only universal truth and that all others are wrong and misguided... which such a missionary stance. And you know, telling a practicioner of Judaism how they're really worshipping an evil god and would do better as a Satanist is no better than Christian replacement theology.

And honestly, why does the God those extremely diverse groups of people worship even has to be always one and the same oppressive deity Satanic and Luciferian folks often rebel against? Many of us are polytheistic after all. And even if you're not... just accept the fact that your cosmology is not the only one there is and just let people do their own thing.

Shitting on Muslim and Jewish folks, members of marginalized religions, is not fighting any god of oppression. It is just contributing to human world oppression and bigotry, which is literally the reverse of what a person rebelling against such a god should be doing.

Christianity is a powerful force in our society, and it can often be a force of oppression. I get it, I'm living in a country in which Catholic Church holds major political power. And yet, there are still groups of people, often marginalized, in whose life Christianity is not the same as whatever shit Polish bishops or American Evangelical preachers are promoting.

Honestly, as a marginalized in many ways person with a deep religious trauma, who very much rebels against the being I experienced as the Catholic God, I am pretty sure he's not, of many possible examples, about African American Christian hoodoo practicioner using psalms to help themselves in whatever life matters they need in the racist society that makes it harder for them at every step. He is not about a queer Christian person finding comfort in the understanding of Jesus as the one embracing outcasts, praying to Madonna of Montevergine or exploring queer patron saints. He's just not synonymous to Christianity.

And despite my history with Catholicism, despite the fact that my life is still influenced by the politics of the Church and I hate it, despite everything I think of Vatican, I am also aware some marginalized people for whom Christianity is something much different than it was for me, are Catholic.

You know where I do see the God of Oppression though? In the fucking Joy of Satan, in Anton LaVey's work, in every act of twisting Lucifer's rebellion into authoritarian nazi shit.

It's often neccessary to criticize the way Christianity affects our society. But it should be about fighting oppression, not perpetuating it by antisemitism, racism or islamophobia.

(also stop conflating all of those religions as "Abrahamic")

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It is no secret that angels go beyond the gender binary. Lucifer, a fallen one, is no exception, and as a notorious shapeshifter they can appear however they wish at the moment. (...) But there is more to it, something that goes beyond LGBT characteristics. As beautifully exemplified in their mythos, Lucifer is the epitome of Queer.

More in my new Wordpress post:

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good resources on theistic satanism for beginners?

Books:

- The Infernal Gospel, Rev. Cain

- The Satanic Scriptures, Peter H. Gilmore

- The Unholy Bible - Rev. Cain

- At Satan’s Altar, Marie Ravensoul

Websites: 

In Satan’s Honour

Spiritual Satanist

Theistic Satanism

Black Goat Cabal

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Devil Worshipper

Satan’s Den

Aleister Nacht

In Praise of Satan

Please also educate yourself on how to identify and avoid cults, and be aware of extreme right wing groups including (but not limited to) Joy of Satan and Order of Nine Angles.

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(this is my magic and Hellenic polytheism sideblog)

I like how the description fits both part of my situation and some of the aesthetic stuff I like lol

That said, this type of reading is quite interesting. It's like a first impression but it's your energy.

When I do an energy reading it comes across to me with an item representing each of the 5 senses. Overall it paints a picture of the persons energy

Below is the energy reading for @thirstyvampyre thank you for your patience!

SIGHT: I see a smooth road stretching off into the distance and disappearing over the horizon. There is no one around and it seems a bit unnerving.

TASTE: I can taste the sour/sweetness of a crisp granny Smith apple. The taste brings me a sense of comfort.

SMELL: I smell the scent of burning rubber. It's overwhelming in its assault of this sense.

HEAR: I can hear the low mournful sound of the wind passing through a semi enclosed space.

TOUCH: I feel emptiness. It reminds me very much of reaching out for something to steady yourself but finding nothing there and stumbling.

OVERALL: Overall I am getting the sense that there is perhaps a journey you've been contemplating but haven't embarked on yet because it's one you have to do on your own. There will be things to comfort you along the way once you start but it's very much indicating that you will have to rely on yourself

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It'd probably help to look for specifically themed songs, these pages have some

Is there any satanic music that isn't heavy metal? (Music about satanism/embodies satanic beliefs etc.)

The joke is I listen to a lot of metal so I'm not 110% sure, maybe my followers can help?

I know it's out there but the only thing vaguely not metal I can think of is ghost ^^; specifically He Is.

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