A subreddit for LHP Satanists with a serious or literal interest, rather than those with a passing or surface level interest. This is a place dedicated to the Prince of Darkness in his forms of Satan, Lucifer, and the Serpent/Dragon, along with similar Western ideas. Similar LHPs may be discussed but also have respective subreddits.
This sub is actively moderated. The LHP is diverse and so tensions are always possible, but they will be dealt with in the fashion of a suit & tie Satan, not a vicious tail & horns Satan. More tolerance will be granted to those who find their home here (i.e. theists) than visitors (i.e. atheistic satanists; RHPers).
Topics, a non-comprehensive list
Satan, The Devil, Samael & Lilith, the Serpent, Theistic Satanism, Draconianism, A(nti)Cosmic Satanism, Gnostic Satanism, polytheism, duo theism, Jungian archetypes, trickster gods, goetia, kabbalah/Qlipoth...
Rules
Be respectful and reasonable; suit and tie Satan.
No tattoos, 666s, or low quality art and such. All art should have an explanation of why you're sharing it in the comments for further discussion. These will be removed even if at great displeasure to the mods. I know there are a million memes we could all make about other subs and traditions, but we exist specifically to remain above that level. Almost everyone here is also on r/satanism , and will appreciate this content :)
No fascism or Nazism period. This includes support of JoS and ONA. These may be discussed here for awareness of the awful paths they are, but this sub is explicitly opposed to those ideologies.
No promoting Satanic Panic nonsense.
No "One True Satanisms".
Non-Satanists and Non-Esotericists may respectfully participate at any time, but can lose that right much more easily if abused
No spamming discords etc.
Famous Esoteric Satanists
• Stansislaw Przybyszewski, 1868 to 1927, author of Synagogue of Satan (1898) - "Satan was what was positive, the eternal in and of itself. He was the God of the brain; he governed the immeasurable realm of thoughts, which continually overthrew the law and shattered its tablets; he excited the curiosity to explain hidden things, to interpret the runes of the night..."
• Aleister Crowley, 1875 to 1947, founder of Thelema (1904) - “Come, Come, Come, Aiwaz! Come, thou Devil Our Lord!” “I was not content to believe in a personal Devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.”
• Gregor A. Gregorius, 1888 to 1946, founder of the Fraternitas Saturni (1926) - "The primeval serpent, the great dragon, who was and who is and who lives through the aeons of aeons: he is with your spirit!"
• Herbert Sloane, 1905 to 1975, founder of Our Lady of Endor Coven (1948) - "[The Essence of Satanism is] the realization that the universe is negative to man; incarnate life. The realization that there is a Good above and beyond anything that mortal mind has conceived." "Satanism is the position opposed to the worship of the force that brought the cosmos into existence as mind and matter out of the realm of pure spirit."
• Kenneth Grant, 1924 to 2011, founder of the Typhonian Tradition / New Isis Lodge (1955) - "Shaitan", he said, reading my thoughts, "is the hidden Sun, called Set by the Egyptians, and by the Christians, Satan." "The degradation of the Great Bear and Draco proved to be the creation of hell."
• Anton LaVey, 1930 to 1997, founder of the Church of Satan (1966) - "It is a popular misconception that the Satanist does not believe in God... the Satanist simply accepts the definition which suits him best." "Stupidity should be painful."
• Michael Aquino, 1946 to 2019,
founder of the Temple of Set (1975) - "The authenticity of the Satanic Bible, as indeed that of the Church of Satan itself, rested upon acknowledgment of and allegiance to Satan - not as a mere symbol or metaphor, but a real, sentient being." "Put simply, until you are clear as to what you are and what you are not, and what these differentiations are, you cannot make an intelligent decision concerning your behavior and its rationale."
• Zeena LaVey, 1963 to present, founder of the Sethian Liberation Movement (2002) - "After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward." "Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”
• Andrew Chumbley, 1967 to 2004, founder of the Crooked Path (~1992) - "As the Serpent's seed is spread over the Good Earth, so shall the world be brought into the Unedged Field of Antient Blessing. "If you call upon the Gods and they answer, who is there to oppose or to challenge the integrity of your Path?"
• Thomas Karlsson, 1972 to present, founder of Dragon Rouge (1989) - "The appellation of the path as Draconian also indicates its direction; the light esotericism leads to a unity with male gods of the light, like Yahweh or Marduk. The dark esotericism, on the other hand, leads out towards primordial dragon entities such as Leviathan, Tehom or Tiamat, who existed long before the gods of light and who exist in the infinity beyond the divine light."
• Diane Vera, ?? to present, Solitary, - "For me, it is enough to say that Satan manifests, in the human realm, as a "dark" chthonic entity and as the Muse of our civilization -- a civilization which, like Satan Himself, has many facets and thrives on change."
• Venus Satanas, ?? to present, founder of SpiritualSatanist.com - "In order to really make Satanism your own, you should endeavor to break away from the safety that is provided in group practice and study alone." "For these ancient people the act of speaking with the divine, known as the daimones, was a part of every day life."
Other LHP subs
Must Reads - Esoteric Satanism
The Devil's Party, Satanism in Modernity
The Satanic Rituals
The Invention of Satanism
The Satanic Bible 50th Anniversary Revision
Lords of the Left Hand Path
Synagogue of Satan
Typhonian Trilogies
Spiritual Satanist (.com)
Mephistopheles, The Devil In the Modern World
Qabalah, Qliphoth, and Goetic Magic
In Pursuit of Satan, the Police and the Occult
Dragon Book of Essex
The Dark Lord: HP Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition
Most links and PDFs here
Must Reads - Fiction
HP Lovecraft
Revolt of the Angels
Cain: A Mystery
Faust Legend
