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LaVey had an underlying goal to turn his little group meetups with Hollywood high society into a codified antireligion. With the founding of the church preceeding the bible by two years. It also really helped its mystique that Jayne Mansfield's boyfriend was a terrible drunk driver. Blue altar my fucking ass...

But people need that, they need that lemming supernatural aspect. And that's what brought in all his celebrity friends, like Alice Cooper until he became a born again Christian years later and insinuated Karla was poison In a hit single (allegedly).

These are slightly better because they take the LaVey type personality and simultaneously leave it open for me to mock the blue altar. 

Well done.

What will you do when it no longer requires any labor at all to accomplish? How are the photographers treated now that everyone has a camera? Is the art lost, or merely been reduced, or did it ever matter at all? Was it context that gave these things their appeal?

Matter, and material things will no longer be appealing to you in light this context; The world you know is ending, and mine is just beginning. Skills and objects will be conjured as simply as light is conjured from a bulb, and nothing will matter. 

I gotta stop taking you seriously. I though you were a Christian with up front conviction for a second.  

Seriously who is behind all the subversive Jesus-Apocalyse trolls?  Are you some wacky exiled Pentecostal fighting Satan on the internet? 

Shame you're not because it like you ask you about the conflation in the bible concerning The Morning Star.  Both The Jeebis and Lucy were called this name. Do you think the it was intentionally done by the writers? Or does a book with at least 30 writers going to naturally lack continuity over hundreds of years of composition.

You're Charlie Brown.

His published works are out there. 
But the man himself not anymore. 

Society has changed and the man itself is not around to shape a vision around this changing of tides. It is up to the very few remaining Satanists to steer the new generation(s) to the initial teachings and have them apply basic premises to the changing nature of society and keep the black flame burning. 

Yes. Hence this thread. My own way of doing what you suggest has been to write my own "Satanic Verses" and place them in the ether where now and then they might be found, while crediting LaVey as my muse and mentor, though the two of us never met.

But then again I don't see it as primarily a will to power in individualism. There is a need to point out that only certain things prompt that individualism, satanically. 

There is an essence there. A natural eccentricity from normal. 

Like the line from Death To Smoochy,

 When the other kids would play Cowboys and Indians I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

First: See pic below.

Next: I learned much from reading Nietzsche but less from Nietzsche directly. There's a reason his philosophy was so easily coopted by the jerkoff Nazis: he enshrined power and race as cosmic principles, and thereby divorced his philosophy from rationality, empiricism, materialism, and atheism, the pillars of modernism, all of which he combined under the rubric of "Apollo," the foil for his beloved Dionysus. 

Similarly, I learned much from reading Ayn Rand, but less from Ayn Rand directly. There's a reason her philosophy is suited only to pseudo-Spockian nerds: she divorced her philosophy from carnality, appetite, passion, and catharsis, the pillars of atavism, all of which she was trying to transcend with her ideal of man qua man, as opposed to man qua ape.

In Hegelian terms, Nietzsche was thesis, Rand was antithesis, and LaVey was synthesis. In his non-academic philosophy of life, LaVey let modernism and atavism both have their place, and in addition, he gave equal footing to cynicism, disgust, severity, and distance, the pillars of misanthropy, all of which could be detected in Nietzsche and Rand, but none of which were given pride of place by either of those writers. 

Some people will tell you LaVey was not a philosopher. Don't believe them. It's the people who tell you that who are in fact not philosophers. They don't know one when they see one, because, as the saying goes, "It takes one to know one." Bear in mind: LaVey was also a con artist and (within the confines of his con) a charlatan. None of that is negated by saying he was a philosopher. His philosophy was the synthesis of Apollo and Dionysus, to use Netizsche's terms; or, to use Rand's in an expanded way, his philosophy proposed the synthesis of man qua man and man qua ape.