Satanism

Per Faxneld is an historian of religions at Södertörn University, Sweden, where he is conducting a project on spiritual dimensions of Japanese martial arts. He is the author of the award-winning Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture and several other books. Johan Nilsson is an historian of religions at Lund university, Sweden, where he is currently working on a research project about the reception of Buddhism in Swedish Theosophy. He is the author of As a Fire Beneath the Ashes: The Quest for Chinese Wisdom within Occultism, 1850-1949.

1. Introduction
Per Faxneld & Johan Nilsson

2. Eliphas Lévi, La Bible de la liberté (1841)
Julian Strube

3. Jules Michelet, La Sorciére (1862)
Ruben van Luijk

4. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Fredrik Gregorius

5. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (The Theosophical Society), excerpts from The Secret Doctrine (1888)
Per Faxneld

6. Léo Taxil, excerpt from Le Palladium régénéré et libre (1895)
Ruben van Luijk

7. Stanislaw Przybyzewski, excerpt from Die Synagoge des Satan (1897)
Per Faxneld

8. Ben Kadosh (aka Carl William Hansen), Den ny morgens gry (1906)
Johan Nilsson

9. Maria de Naglowska, excerpts from La Lumière du sexe (1932) & "Satanisme masculin, Satanisme féminin" (1933)
Hans Thomas Hakl & Michele Olzi

10. Aleister Crowley, "Hymn to Lucifer" (undated) & excerpt from The Book of Thoth (1944)
Johan Nilsson

11. Kenneth Grant (Typhonian Order), excerpt from "Vinum Sabbati" (1961)
Johan Nilsson

12. The Process Church of the Final Judgement, excerpts from "The Gods on War" (1967) & "The Gods and Their People" (1970)
Fredrik Gregorius

13. Anton LaVey (Church of Satan), excerpt from interview in John Fritscher's Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth (1972)
Cimminnee Holt

14. Michael Aquino (Temple of Set), The Book of Coming Forth By Night (1975)
Cimminne Holt

15. The Order of the Nine Angles, excerpts from The Black Book of Satan (1984)
Fredrik Gregorius

16. Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth (Den Sorte Sirkel / Black Metal Satanism), interview for Close-up Magazine (1992)
Per Faxneld

17. The Satanic Reds, "FAQ for Satanic Reds DL Social Realist Organization" (c. 2001)
Johan Nilsson

18. Thomas Karlsson (Dragon Rouge), excerpt from Kabbala, kliffot och den goetiska magin (2004)
Fredrik Gregorius

19. Michael W. Ford (The Order of Phosphorus, etc), excerpt from The Bible of the Adversary (2007)
Olivia Cejvan

20. Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple), "Church of Satan vs. Satanic Temple" (2017)
Fredrik Gregorius & Manon Hedenborg White