Satanism to me is Anton Laveys primary epiphany laid out throughout the course of The Satanic Bible. When the magus strata gets into specifics due to overly branching out in the doctorine, I tend not to follow it to the letter because I can see when I deep dive I believe that the magus strata contradict the core doctorine in ways. With any organized religion, I believe it’s important to not follow it step by step because if every Christian did exactly like the Bible said or every Muslim did exactly what the Quran says, then you’d have people held in slavery and mass murder, etc on scales far exceeding the extremism we see today. I believe the Church Of Satans texts go along those same lines, particularly when Peter Gilmore takes his hardcore authoritarian stances in the Satanic Scriptures. But as far as the bare bones philosophy of the Church Of Satan, that’s typically what I roll with.
