The Satanic Rituals

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author = Anton LaVey
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Non-fiction, Satanism, Philosophy
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release_date = 1972
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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followed_by = The Satanic Witch

"The Satanic Rituals" is a book by Anton Szandor LaVey published in 1972 as a companion volume to "The Satanic Bible". It is a collection of nine rituals with an introductory essay to each.

It was published by Avon Books as a 224-page paperback (ISBN 0-380-01392-4). It has also been published in hardcover (by Buccaneer Books, 1991, ISBN 0-89966-827-5) and with a textbook binding (by Universe Books, 1978, ISBN 0-8216-0171-7).

=Opening epigraph=

:“The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” — Herbert Spencer

Contents

*Introduction
*Concerning the Rituals
*The Original Psychodrama — "Le Messe Noir"
*L'Air Epais — "The Ceremony of the Stifling Air"
*The Seventh Satanic Statement — "Das Tierdrama"
*The Law of the Trapezoid — "Die elektrischen Vorspiele"
*Night on Bald Mountain — "Homage to Tchort"
*Pilgrims of the Age of Fire — "The Statement of Shaitan"
*The Metaphysics of H. P. Lovecraft — "The Ceremony of the Nine Angles" and "The Call to Cthulhu" (written by Michael Aquino )
*The Satanic Baptisms — Adult Rite and Children's Ceremony
*The Unknown Known

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