Лавей, Антон Шандор

Anton LaVey AKA Anton Szandor LaVey AKA Howard Stanton Levey America 1930 – 1997 Teachers: Luba Kolton AKA Luba Lupscu-Primakoc, Grandmother; Johann Georg Faust; Friedrich Nietzsche; Alisa Rosenbaum aka Ayn Rand; Frank O’Connor, her husband; her disciple Barbara Branden aka Barbara Joan Weidman; her lover, Barbara's husband, Nathaniel Branden; Aleister Crowley; H.L. Mencken; Jack London; P.T. Barnum; H. P. Lovecraft; August Derleth; E. T. A. Hoffmann; Algernon Blackwood; Arthur Machen; Bram Stoker; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly; Montague Summers; A.E. Waite; Dr. William Wesley, hypnotist; Fritz Lang, filmmaker; Albertus Magnus; MacGregor Mathers; William De Laurence; Godfrey Selig; Henri Gamache; Sir Walter Scott; Rasputin ; Count Cagliostro; Basil Zaharoff; Dr. Francis Israel Regardie; Jack Parsons; Clyde Beatty of the circus; George Bernard Shaw; Harry Houdini; Christopher Marlowe; Johann Wolfgang Goethe; Henri Antoine Jules-Bois; Joris K. Huysmans; Leo Martello; Jules Michelet; Ken Kesey; Madame La Voisia; Francois Rabelais; the Marquis de Sade; Hugh Hefner; Machiavelli; Friedrich Nietzsche; The Black Order of Nazism; Canon Neuhauesler; Dom Alois Mager; Bruno de Jesus-Marie; Dietrich von Kroeller of the German OTO; Adam Weishaupt; H. G. Wells; The Brothers Grimm; Richard Wagner, composer; James Thompson, poet; Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Naturalist; Collin De Plancy; Louis Breton; Simon Blocquel (1780 -1863); Harry B. Wright; Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie; Stan O'Dair; T. K. Oesterreich; Trevor Ravenscroft; Robert Turner; Students: Natasha P., Prof. Ben P****'s daughter; Clark Ashton Smith, SF writer; Jayne Mansfield, actress; Victor Houston, her agent ; Roman Polanski; Sharon Tate; Sammy David Jr, singer; Peter H. Gilmore, successor; Wade Baskin; Richard Cavendish; Paul Huson; Burton H. Wolfe; Marilyn Monroe, (claimed 1948); Carin de Plessen; Stephen Schneck; Michael Harner, Shaman; Donald Werby; Willy Werby; Roy Heist; Dr. Cecil E. Nixon, built automatons / robots /puppets; Brooks Hunt; Onezoma Dubouchelle; Dr. Hugo Moeller; Russell Wolden Jr; Dennis Wheatley; Herman Slater;"Spanky"; Monique Van Cleef; Bob Carr; Charles Huntley; Peter Papadopolous; Judith Case ; John Raymond; Joe Rosenthal; Camilla-Marie Chatillon; Sorcha; Rosalind; Lani; Lilith; Art Young; Gavin Arthur; Ira Levin, filmaker; Edward D. Olsen; Assaf Dayan; Lance Gilmore; Gabriél Rojas ; Leonard R. N. Ashley; Ronald Bassett; Candice Black; John Cornwell; ; I. G. Edmonds; Julian Franklyn; Fred Gettings; Robert Goldston; Peter Haining, author; Robert D. Hicks; June Johns; Alan Landsburg; Bob Larson; Theodor Laurence; Gavin Baddeley; Brian Vachon; Denis Hart; Judith Rasco; Daniel Logan; Arthur Lyons; Malcolm Keogh; Charles Manson, criminal; Eric Maple; Robert Masello; Brian McConnell; Donald McCormick; Gareth J. Medway; Gerald Messadie; Mare Romano; Christopher Nugent; Jim Oram; John Parker; Carl A. Raschke; Henry T. F. Rhodes; Peter Robson; Nikolas and Zeena Schreck; F. J. Sheed; Brad Steiger; Sherry Hansen-Steiger, his wife, Researchers; J. Tondriau, & Roland Villeneuve; Robert C Tucker; R. G. Jones; William Woods; Gerhard Zacharias; Christine Trollope; Michael W. Ford of Algol; Lucien Greaves of the New York-based Satanic Temple; Don Webb; J. Finley Hurley;

Friends: Carole Lansing, 1st wife; Diane Hegarty, 2nd Lady; Blanche Barton, 3rd and last lady; Forrest J. Ackerman, Famous Monsters of Filmland; Fritz Leiber, SF and Fantasy author; Kenneth Anger; Hugo Zachinni, Human Cannonball; Fransisco Lentini; Jacob Heilberger; Tempest Storm; Lily St. Cyr; Herb Caen; Jack Webb, actor; Oklahoma GOP Republican-controlled Legislature, who in deciding to erect a Christian monument on Public land, open the door to a Satanic Monument also to be constructed at the State Capitol; Rep. Mike Ritze of OK; Rep. Bobby Cleveland of OK; Brady Henderson, ACLU Oklahoma; Enemies: Michael Aquino of the splinter group, the Temple of Set; Jerry Johnston; Geraldo Rivera; Lady Rowen; Sybil Leek; Jean Dixon; Fred Mullins; Tony Rando ;Sam Brody ; Tim Tate; Organizations; founder of the Church of Satan, 1966; The Magic Circle; Author: The Satanic Bible, 1969; The Compleat Witch, or, What to do When Virtue Fails (aka the Satanic Witch); The Satanic Rituals ( 1972)' The Devil's Notebook (1992); Satan Speaks!, introduction by Blanche Barton, foreword by Marilyn Manson (posthumous). Comments; Satanist as Selfishness; the Carney / Carnival philosophy of Never Give a Sucker an Even Break; Lawful Evil, not Chaotic Evil or Chaotic Neutral; played piano, pipe organ and the calliope; made a living for several years as a photographer for the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD); many of those listed as students were curious reporters looking for scandalous copy and Anton believed Uncle AL's (Aleister Crowley) truism that Every Knock Is A Boost, bad publicity is always good publicity for those he wanted to reach;

Comparing Dante's Satan with John Milton's Lucifer, the Catholic Devil to the Protestant, will be developed in a separate essay, along with the initiated version of the Old Testament story of Job, the Wicca theories of Margaret Murray; The transition from Horned God to Evil Power to Nature Freed; The influence on "Bad Boys" of the 17 and 18 th centuries (looking at you, William Blake and Aleister Crowley); Modern interpretations such as the Ann Randian Selfishness of Anton LaVey to dangerous Cthulhuoid invocations culled from the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey; http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Satanism:_An_interview_with_Church_of_Satan_High_Priest_Peter_Gilmore; http://satanismcentral.com/aslv.html; read him here - http://darkbooks.org/collection/Anton-Szandor-Lavey.html for free, he would want you to do what you felt was best for you, selfishly, without regret. also http://www.home.no/theriksen/The%20Satanic%20Bible.pdf; http://www.cbsnews.com/news/satanists-seek-spot-on-oklahoma-statehouse-steps/ ; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/opinion/why-machiavelli-matters.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0 ; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/books/barbara-branden-biographer-of-ayn-rand-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries ;