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In 1976, Hubbard ordered a secret research project into the teachings of gnostic groups. He had already carried out a project to determine which of his ship's crew members were "soldiers of light" and which "soldiers of darkness". The latter group were apparently promoted. Jeff Jacobsen has provided insight into a possible connection between Hubbard's OT levels and gnostic teachings (103). Jacobsen quotes from the third century Christain gnostic Valentinus: "For many spirits dwell in it [the body] and do not permit it to be pure; each of them brings to fruition its own works, and they treat it abusively by means of unseemly desires". Jacobsen goes on to cite the gnostic Basilides, man "preserves the appearance of a wooden horse, according to the poetic myth, embracing as he does in one body a host of such different spirits." Jacobsen points out that multiple possession seems to have been considered normal by these gnostics. Possession equates to madness in orthodox Christianity, and examples of multiple possession are rare (the Gadarene swine for example). Jacobsen draws other interesting parallels between gnosticism and Scientology.

Another former Sea Organization member affidavited a meeting in the 1970s with an old man whose description fitted Hubbard's. She claimed to have been taken to the top floor of a Scientology building by high-ranking officials and left there with this man, who performed the sexual act with her, but very slowly (104). Indeed, in the way advocated by Crowley and called karezzo. No outside witness has corroborated this statement.

I have already said that the public and private faces of Scientology are very different. The vast majority of Hubbard's followers are good people who genuinely believe that the techniques of Scientology can help the world. Most are ignorant of the hidden Fair Game teachings. Hubbard presented himself as a messiah, as Maitreya the last Buddha, but in fact he was privately a highly disturbed and frequently ill man. There are a number of reports of his drug abuse. He advocated the use of amphetamines (105). He admitted to barbiturate addiction (106) and was also at times a heavy drinker. His treatment of those around him was often deplorable. Although holding himself out as an authority on child-rearing, his relationship with his children was genuinely dreadful. He disowned his first son, barely saw his first daughter, denied paternity of his second daughter, and Quentin, the oldest son of his third marriage, committed suicide. Quentin had reached the highest level of Scientology twice. He was a Class XII auditor and a "cleared theta clear", but he was also a homosexual. Hubbard was publicly homophobic - saying that all homosexuals are "covertly hostile" or backstabbers. I have received alarming reports of his sexual behaviour. I must emphasise that these reports are not corroborated, so can only stand as allegations. One Sea Organization officer claims to have witnessed a sexual encounter between Hubbard and a young boy in North Africa. Another claims that Hubbard admitted to a sexual relationship with one of his own children. It is impossible to substantiate such reports. But such behaviour would be in keeping with an extreme devotee of Aleister Crowley who said that in the training of a magician "Acts which are essentially dishonourable must be done." (107)

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In conclusion, I believe that Hubbard was a classic psychopath. Some trauma in infancy separated him from the world and made him unstrusting of other people. This developed into a paranoia, a need to control others. He created a dissociated world, inhabited by the Empress. Bear in mind that he actually saw the Empress in full colour, and that she spoke to him (108). From his comments about automatic writing and speaking, it could be averred that Hubbard was in fact "channeling" the Empress. Hubbard separated off a compartment of himself calling it the Empress and gave in to its urgings. He lived a life of dreadful contradiction. He claimed expertise in all things, but factually was a failure at most. Some will see him as having a psychiatric complaint, others will believe that he invoked the very devil, or Babalon, and was possessed. Hubbard's own belief lives on with all of its contradictions in his teachings. Ultimately, as Fritz Haack put it, Scientology is twentieth-century magic.

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Footnotes
Atack, Jon, Lyle Stuart Books, New Jersey, 1990.
Sigmund Freud, Clarke Lectures 1-3, in Two Short Accounts of Psycho-Analysis, Penguin Books, London, 1962. Cf Hubbard, "Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health" and "The Dianetic Auditors Course".
Hubbard, HCO Policy Letter "Keeping Scientology Working", 7 February 1965.
e.g., acknowledgments lists in Hubbard's "Science of Survival", 1951, and "Scientology 8-8008", 1952. Phoenix Lectures, p.264.
Grinker and Speigel, "Men Under Stress", McGraw-Hill, New York, 1945.
Sargant, "Battle for the Mind", Heinemann, London, 1957. Hubbard had a copy of this book on his library shelf in Washington DC in 1958. It also has relevance to other aspects of Scientology.
Hermitage House, 1950.
Fodor, "The Search for the Beloved - a clinical investigation of birth and the trauma of prenatal conditioning", Hermitage House, 1949.
Wolfe & Rosenthal, Hypnotism Comes of Age, Blue Ribbon, NY, 1949; Young Twenty-Five Lessons in Hypnotism, Padell, NY, 1944. Both recommended by Hubbard in Research & Discovery, volume 2, p.12, 1st edition.
Jeff Jacobsen has written two interesting papers relevant to any discussion of the origins of Scientology. Dianetics: From Out of the Blue, The Skeptic, UK, March/April 1992, which discusses the origins of Dianetics and The Hubbard is Bare, 1992, a more general discussion including comments about Crowley and gnosticism. I have worked for some time on a set of papers which discuss Hubbard's plagiarism, as yet these are unavailable.
A Piece of Blue Sky, pp.119 &125-126..
A Piece of Blue Sky, p.128.
See particularly the chapters on Bergson and Spencer.
See also Jacobsen's The Hubbard is Bare and Bent Corydon's L.Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman? Corydon relied upon excellent research by Brian Ambry but also upon L. Ron Hubbard jnr, whose credibility is questionable. See also L. Ron Hubbard, jnr., A Look Into Scientology or 1/10 of 1% of Scientology, manuscript, 1972.
Hubbard, "Dianetics: the Evolution of a Science" originally printed in Astounding Science Fiction, May 1950. Republished by AOSH DK Publications Department, 1972, quotation from p.56, see also p.59.
Burks, "Monitors", CSA Press, Lakemount, Georgia, 1967.
King, Francis, The Secret Rituals of the OTO, C.W.Daniel, London, 1973.
Revelation, chapter 17.
Secret Rituals of the OTO.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, Castle Books, New York, p.88.
Magick in Theory and Practice, p.120.
There is contention between the various OTO groups about the Book of Babalon. Its existence is sometimes denied, and the OTO New York have claimed that only a fragment exists (published in Parsons, Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword, Falcon, Las Vegas, 1989). I have read three versions of the manuscript, oneis the Yorke transcript, another is un-named. The third was published in vol.1, issue 3 of Starfire, London, 1989.
published by Isis Research, Edmonton, Alberta, 1980, ed. Plawiuk.
Professional Auditors Bulletin no.110, 15 April 1957.
Author's interview with 15th degree Rosicrucian, 1984.
Hubbard, Philadelphia Doctorate Course, lecture 18 "Conditions of Space-Time-Energy".
Philadelphia Doctorate Course, lecture 18.
Philadelphia Doctorate Course, lecture 35.
Philadelphia Doctorate Course, lecture 40.
Hubbard, Philadelphia Doctorate Course, lecture 1, "Opening: What is to be done in the Course".
Thoth Tarot Deck, US Games Systems, NY, ISBN 0-913866-15-6.
Crowley, The Book of Thoth, Samuel Weiser, Maine,1984. First edition 1944.
Book of Thoth, p.75.
Book of Thoth, p.76.
Francis King, The Magical World of Aleister Crowley, Arrow Books, London, p.56.
Crowley, Confessions, Bantam, New York, 1971, p.693.
e.g., Book of Thoth, pp.136ff.
Cavendish, The Magical Arts, Arkana, London, 1984, p.304.
A Piece of Blue Sky, p.99.
Francis King, Ritual Magic in England, Spearman, London, 1970, p.161.
Litt, in Church of Scientology v Armstrong, vol.26, p.4607.
Hope, Practical Egyptian Magic, Aquarian, Northants, 1984, pp.39 & 47.
HCO Policy Letter, Penalties for Lower Conditions, 18 October 1967, issue IV.
HCO Executive Letter, Amprinistics, 27 September 1965.
e.g. HCO Policy Letter, Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists, The Fair Game Law, 1 March 1965. The offending part of the text was read into an English court judgment (Hubbard v Vosper, November 1971, Court of Appeal). In USA v. Jane Kember & Morris Budlong, in 1980, Scientology lawyers admitted that despite public representations Fair Game had never truly been "abrogated" (sentencing memorandum, District Court, Washington DC, criminal no. 78.401 (2) & (3), p.16, footnote). The Policy Letter which did eventually cancel it, of 22 July 1980, was itself withdrawn on 8 September 1983. Unknown to most of its adherents, Fair game is still a scripture, and according to Hubbard's Standard Tech principle binding upon Scientologists. Hubbard issued a murder order in 1968 under the name "R2-45" (The Auditor issue 35). Thankfully, this order was not complied with.
See for example the technique called False Data Stripping and Hubbard's comments on controlling people through contradictory instructions.
Interview with Robert Vaughn Young, former Hubbard archivist, Corona del Mar, April 1993.
Affirmations, exhibits 500-4D, E, F & G. See Church of Scientology v Armstrong, transcript volume 11, p.1886.
Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology Dictionary, Church of Scientology of California, L.A., 1975, "theta", definition 6.
The Babalon sign with a theta at the centre of a 7-pointed star is found in many of Crowley's works, e.g. The Book of Thoth. The winged sign of the OTO and the use of the theta sign can be found in various places, e.g. Equinox - Sex and Religion, Thelema Publishing Co, Nashville, 1981.
Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary, definition of "Operating Thetan".
e.g., PAB 91, The Anatomy of Failure, 3 July 1956. See also definition of "Tone 40" in the Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary: "giving a command and just knowing that it will be executed despite any contrary appearences"..
Philadelphia Doctorate Course, lecture 18.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.xii.
e.g., Dissemination Drill, CCHs, Opening Procedure by Duplication, Mood TRs & Tone Scale drills, TRs 6-8 , TR-8Q , the FSM TR "How to control a conversation".On the OTVII practi sed upto 1982, the student was expected to telepathically implant thoughts into others.
Technical Bulletin of 22 July 1956.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.xiii.
ibid, p.xiii.
ibid, p.xiv.
e.g The Tone Scale. For a discussion of Scientology beliefs, see A Piece of Blue Sky, pp.378ff.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.xvi-xvii.
ibid, p.419.
ibid, p.9.
e.g., Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.xxiv.
e.g. Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.228. Hubbard Have You Lived Before this Life?, Church of Scientology of California, L.A., 1977, p.3.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.50.
ibid, pp.50 & 228.
Hubbard, Phoenix Lectures, Church of Scientology of California, Edinburgh, 1968, Scientology Axiom 1, p.146.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.30.
ibid, p.63.
Phoenix lectures, p.175
Phoenix Lectures, , pp.173ff, Scientology Axioms 26 & 27.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.110.
ibid, p.121.
ibid, p.143-144.
Phoenix Lectures, p.180, Scientology Axiom 35.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.144.
e.g., ibid, p.147.
ibid, p.153.
Phoenix Lectures, p.180, Scientology Axiom 31.
Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p.251. Hubbard, PAB 1, General Comments, 10 May 1953.
Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Falcon Press, Phoenix, Az, 1983, pp.xii, 26, 407 & 440. Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary, definitions of "word clearing". Korzybski also advocated understanding of words.
Crowley, Magick Without Tears, p.11.
HCO Bulletin, Confidential - Resistive Cases - Former Therapies, 23 September 1968.
e.g. Hubbard, HCO Policy Letter Routine three - Heaven, 11 May 1963 and the original preface to The Phoenix Lectures, Hubbard South African Association of Scientologists, Johannesburg, 1954: "God just happens to be the trick of this universe", p.5. In HCO Bulletin Technically Speaking, of 8 July 1959, Hubbard said "The whole Christian movement is based on the victim ... Chrisitanity succeeded by making people into victims. We can succeed by making victims into people."
What is Scientology?, Church of Scientology of California, first edition, 1978, p.301.
H. Spencer Lewis, Rosicrucian Manual, AMORC, San Jose, 1982.
Modern Management Technology Defined, definition of Church of American Science.
HCO Policy Letter, Former practices", 1968.
HCO Policy Letter, Heaven, 1963.
cf Hubbard's use of "wall of fire" to describe OT III & OT V. These may also be compared to gnostic ideas.
The RTC symbol is frequently used, e.g., What is Scientology?, 2nd edition, 1992, p.92.
Magick Without Tears, p.259.
Cavendish, p.243.
Paul Bracchi, The Cult and a RIght-Winger, Evening Argus, Brighton, England, 4 April 1995.
Letter to the author. Sklar's book was published by Crowell, NY, 1977. It was originally released as Gods and Beasts. See also Gerald Suster Hitler and the Age of Horus, Sphere, London, 1981.
This symbol is frequently used, e.g. What is Scientology?, 2nd edition, 1992, p.358.
Suster, Hitler and the Age of Horus, p.138.
Francoise Strachan, Casting out the Devils, Aquarian Press, London, 1972. See also Alexandra David-Neel Initiates and Initiations in Tibet, pp.168-169.
e.g., Magick in Theory and Practice, p.16.
The Road To Freedom, BPI records, L.A., 1986.
The Hubbard College Lectures.
The Hubbard is Bare.
Affidavit of Ann Bailey, p.34.
e.g., Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health, Bridge, L.A., 1985, p.389 or AOSHDK, Denmark, 1973, p.363. See also the Research and Discovery Series.
The Research and Discovery Series, vol.1, first editon 1980, Scientology Publications Org, p.124.
Magick in Theory and Practice, p.339.
Hubbard ordered that new dust sleeves should be put onto his books after he'd released OT3, in 1967. These book covers are supposedly meant to depict images from the 36 days of implanting and will supposedly compel people to buy the books. The cover for Hubabrd's Scientology 8-80, Publications Department, AOSH Denmark, 1973, shows a winged couple. The woman could well be the Empress. A similar design was used on the dust sleeve of Hubbard's Scientology 8-8008 in the 1990 Bridge, L.A., edition.

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Arthur Edward Waite
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Arthur Edward Waite in the early 1880sArthur Edward Waite (October 2, 1857 - May 19, 1942) was an occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.

Born in America, and raised in England, A.E. Waite joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1891 and also entered the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia in 1902. When he became Grand Master of the Order in 1903, changing its name to the Holy Order the Golden Dawn (or, possibly, the Independent and Rectified Rite of the Golden Dawn), many members rejected his focus on mysticism over magic, and a rival group, Stella Matutina (Morning Star), split off at the urging of poet William Butler Yeats. The Golden Dawn was torn by further internal feuding until Waite's departure in 1914; a year later he formed the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. By that time there existed some half-dozen offshoots from the original Golden Dawn, and as a whole it never recovered.

Waite was a prolific author of occult texts on subjects including divination, Rosicrucianism, freemasonry, black and ceremonial magic, Kabbalism and alchemy; he also translated and reissued several important mystical and alchemical works. His works on the Holy Grail, influnced by his friendship with Arthur Machen, were particularly notable. A number of his volumes remain in print, the Book of Ceremonial Magic, The Holy Kabbalah, and New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry having seen reprints in recent years.

Waite is best known as the co-creator of the popular and widely used Rider-Waite Tarot deck and author of its companion volume, the Pictorial Key to the Tarot. This was notable for being one of the first decks to illustrate all 78 cards fully, not just the 22 major arcana. Golden Dawn member Pamela Colman Smith illustrated the cards, and they were first published in 1910.

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Esotericism
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References
Waite, Edward. Inner and Outer Order Initiations of the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn. (Canada:Burnaby, 2005) ISBN 0973593172.

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Anton LaVey
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Anton Szandor LaVeyAnton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey on 11 April 1930 – 29 October 1997), was the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, author of The Satanic Bible, founder of the religion known as Satanism.

He claimed no supernatural “inspiration” for this religion, but rather synthesized his understanding of human nature and the insights of earlier philosophers who advocated materialism and individualism. LaVey viewed Satan not as a literal deity or entity, but as a historic literary figure symbolic of Earthly values.

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1 Biography
2 Criticism
3 Books by LaVey
3.1 Books featuring writings by LaVey
4 Books about LaVey
5 Filmography
6 Recordings of Anton LaVey
7 External links
7.1 Writings by LaVey
7.2 Interviews with LaVey
7.3 About LaVey

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Biography
Born Chicago, Illinois, the son of a liquor distributor, his family soon relocated to California where LaVey spent most of his life (in the San Francisco Bay Area). His ancestry could be traced to a mixture of French, Alsatian, German, Russian, and Romanian stock. His parents supported the development of his musical abilities as he tried his hand at various instruments, his favorite being keyboards like the pipe organ and the calliope.

Anton regarded his development as being heavily influenced by dark literature and legends, horror and science fiction pulp magazines, the works of Jack London, film noir, German Expressionism, and historical figures such as Cagliostro, Rasputin and Basil Zaharoff. Apparently once as a child he discovered an aborted fetus in a coffee can behind a building. He also cited his eastern European grandmother's stories and folktales as influential.

LaVey's biography tells of his dropping out of high school to join the circus and carnivals, first as a roustabout and cage boy in an act with the big cats, later as a musician playing the calliope. LaVey later noted that seeing many of the same men attending both the bawdy Saturday nights shows as well as the tent revivalists on Sunday mornings supported his increasingly cynical view of religion. He later had many stints as an organist in bars, lounges, and nightclubs. While playing organ in Los Angeles burlesque houses, he reportedly had a brief affair with the still-unknown Marilyn Monroe, a claim that was later challenged by some.

According to his autobiography, LaVey moved back to San Francisco where he worked for awhile as a photographer for the Police Department. He also dabbled as a psychic investigator, looking into "800 calls" referred to him by the police department. Later biographist have questioned whether LaVey ever worked with the police, as there are no records substantiating the claim. During this time, it has been alleged, he was involved in underground Zionist groups in San Francisco which helped smuggle arms to the Irgun during the Israeli War of Independence.

LaVey met and married Carole Lansing, who bore him his first daughter, Karla LaVey, in 1952. They divorced in 1960 after LaVey became entranced by Diane Hegarty. Hegarty and LaVey never married, but was his companion for many years, and she bore his second daughter, Zeena Galatea LaVey in 1964.

Becoming a local celebrity through his paranormal research and live performances as an organist (including playing the Wurlitzer at the Lost Weekend ****tail lounge), he would attract many San Francisco notables to his parties. Guests included Carin de Plessin, Michael Harner, Chester A. Arthur III, Forrest J. Ackerman, Fritz Leiber, Dr. Cecil E. Nixon, and Kenneth Anger.

LaVey began presenting Friday night lectures on the occult to what he called a "Magic Circle" of associates who shared his interests. A member of this circle suggested that he had the basis for a new religion. On Walpurgisnacht, 30 April 1966, he ritualistically shaved his head, declared the founding of the Church of Satan and proclaimed 1966 as "the year One", Anno Satanas—the first year of the Age of Satan. Media attention followed the subsequent Satanic wedding ceremony of Radical journalist John Raymond to New York socialite Judith Case on February 1st, 1967 (photographed by Joe Rosenthal). The San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times were among the newspapers that printed articles dubbing him "The Black Pope".

LaVey performed Satanic baptisms (including one for Zeena), Satanic funerals (including one for naval officer Edward Olsen, complete with a chrome-helmeted honor guard) and released a record album entitled The Satanic Mass.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s LaVey melded philosophical influences from Ayn Rand, Nietzsche, Mencken, and Jack London with the philosophy and ritual practices of the Church of Satan into essays introduced with reworked excerpts from Ragnar Redbeard’s Might is Right and concluded it with “Satanized” versions of John Dee’s Enochian Keys to create books such as The Satanic Bible, The Compleat Witch, (rereleased in 1989 as The Satanic Witch), and The Satanic Rituals.

Due to his increasing visibility through his books, LaVey was the subject of numerous articles in the news media throughout the world, popular magazines such as Look, McCall's, Newsweek, and TIME, in men’s magazines, and on talk shows such as Joe Pyne, Phil Donahue, and Johnny Carson. He also appeared in a feature length documentary called Satanis: The Devil's Mass in 1969.

Hegarty and LaVey separated in the mid-1980s, and she sued for palimony. The claim was settled out of court. LaVey’s next and final companion was Blanche Barton, who bore him his only son, Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey on November 1, 1993. She succeeded him as the head of the Church after his death.

An eclectic individual, LaVey was fond of music, painting, antique automobiles, firearms, and animals (particularly the big cats). He was an accomplished musician and made recordings of traditional music on which he played all the instruments on his keyboard synthesizers. LaVey also painted as a hobby throughout his life. Over the years, LaVey attracted a number of notable allies and associates, including celebrities such as Jayne Mansfield, Sammy Davis Jr., King Diamond, Robert Fuest, Jacques Vallee, Marc Almond, Aime Michel, Boyd Rice, and Marilyn Manson.

Anton LaVey died on October 29, 1997, in St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco of pulmonary edema. He was taken to St. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, because it was the closest available. The time of his death was listed as the morning of Halloween, which has since, for reasons open to speculation, been determined to be off by two days. A secret Satanic funeral for LaVey, invitation only, was held in Colma, and his body was cremated. His ashes were not buried, but were eventually divided amongst his heirs as part of a settlement, on the assumption that they possess occult potency, and can be used for acts of Satanic ritual magic.

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Criticism
In 1998, estranged daughter Zeena Schreck and her husband Nicolas Schreck released a document titled "Anton LaVey: Legend and Reality". It claims LaVey deliberately misrepresented a number of the facts of his life. In "The Georges Montalba Mystery", LaVey’s biographer, Blanche Barton, replies to these accusations.

Among the accusations:

Anton's former wife Diane claimed that she forged Marilyn Monroe's autograph and inscription to Anton, which he had used as his proof of his affair. According to the Schrecks, Harry Lipton, (Monroe's agent) also denied that a tryst between Monroe and LaVey could have been possible.
The San Francisco Police Department reportedly have no record of Anton LaVey ever working there in the 1940s, although some have pointed out that such antiquated records are far from complete. There are similar claims and rebuttals about some of LaVey's circus jobs.
Zeena disputes LaVey's claim to have played on an obscure LP of organ music credited to "Georges Montalba" in the 1950s, but gives no proof for her position.
Anton LaVey claimed his Church had "hundreds of thousands" of members at the peak of its popularity. Zeena insists "The membership of the Church of Satan never exceeded 300 individuals". Blanche Barton maintains that both figures are exaggerations but that LaVey's is far closer to the truth.
A number of charges of violence and sexual perversion have been leveled against LaVey by the Schrecks, who cite "San Francisco Police records" as their source, though these records have not appeared in print or on the internet to accompany the accusations.
Most of the accusations the Schreks level towards LaVey were taken from a 1996 Rolling Stone article by Lawrence Wright. The Schreks, like Wright, offer no evidence to support their claims. Blanche Barton has pointed out, as have other critics of Zeena Schreck, the incongrous intensity of Zeena's zeal to tear down her father's reputation and to attempt to contradict virtually everything he ever said. Barton further notes, responding to Zeena's claims in an open letter to the SF Weekly, "Like so many celebrity kids, she’s built an identity for herself by painting her father as a lying, abusive, talentless, selfish S.O.B. ...She finds great joy and satisfaction in trying to discredit her father, and, by doing that, gains praise from all the wrong people, who have their own agendas which she’s feeding. She was more than willing, however, to acknowledge Anton LaVey as her father when it came time for the division of his assets after his death, even though she’d refused to speak to him for the last seven years of his life, and gave herself credit for killing him with a "ritual curse".

Preceded by:
Church established High Priest of the Church of Satan
1966-1997 Succeeded by:
Blanche Barton
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Books by LaVey
The Satanic Bible (Avon, 1969, ISBN 0380015390)
The Complete Witch, or, What to do When Virtue Fails (Dodd, Mead, 1971, ISBN 0396062660); republished as The Satanic Witch (Feral House, 1989, ISBN 0922915008); re-released with an introduction by Peggy Nadramia, and an afterword by Blanche Barton (2003, ISBN 0922915849).
The Satanic Rituals (Avon, 1972, ISBN 0380013924)
The Devil's Notebook (Feral House, 1992, ISBN 0922915113)
Satan Speaks!, introduction by Blanche Barton, foreword by Marilyn Manson (Feral House, 1998, ISBN 0922915660)
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Books featuring writings by LaVey
"Misanthropia," Rants and Incendiary Tracts: Voices of Desperate Illuminations 155

resent, edited by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey (Amok Press and Loompanics Unlimited, 1989, ISBN 0941693031)
"The Invisible War," Apocalypse Culture: Expanded & revised edition, edited by Adam Parfrey (Amok Press, 1990, ISBN 0922915059)
"Foreward," Might is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest by Ragnar Redbeard, LL.D., edited by Katja Lane (M.H.P. & Co., Ltd, 1996, ISBN 0915179121)
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Books about LaVey
The Devil's Avenger: A Biography of Anton Szandor LaVey by Burton H. Wolfe (Pyramid Books, 1974, ISBN 0515034711, Out of print)
The Secret Life Of A Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey by Blanche Barton (Feral House, 1990, ISBN 0922915121)
Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth by Jack Fritscher ; featuring Anton LaVey (University of Wisconsin Press : Popular Press, 2004, ISBN 029920300X, hardcover, ISBN 0299203042, paperback)
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Filmography
Invocation of my Demon Brother (short, uncredited role as Satan, 1969)
Satanis: The Devil's Mass (featured, 1970; released on DVD by Something Weird Video, 2003)
The Devil's Rain (technical advisor, role as High Priest, 1975)
The Car (creative consultant, 1977)
Doctor Dracula, aka Svengali in the USA (technical advisor, 1981)
Charles Manson Superstar (research consultant, 1989)
Death Scenes (narrator/host, 1989)
Speak of the Devil (featured, 1995)
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Recordings of Anton LaVey
The Satanic Mass, LP (Murgenstrumm Records, 1968; re-released on CD with one bonus track, "Hymn of the Satanic Empire, or The Battle Hymn of the Apocalypse," by Amarillo Records, 1994; Mephisto Media, 2001)
Answer Me/Honolulu Baby, 7" single (Amarillo Records, 1993)
Strange Music, 10" EP (Amarillo Records, 1994; now available through Reptilian Records)
Satan Takes A Holiday, CD (Amarillo Records, 1995; now available through Reptilian Records)
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External links
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Writings by LaVey
The Nine Satanic Statements
The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
The Nine Satanic Sins
Pentagonal Revisionism: A Five-Point Program, 1988
The World’s Most Powerful Religion
Enochian Pronunciation Guide
Letters From The Devil from The National Insider, Vol. 14, No. 17, April 27, 1969.
On Occultism of the Past from The Cloven Hoof, September, 1971 c.e., Volume Three, Number Nine.
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Interviews with LaVey
Section concerning Anton LaVey in Chapter XII (Satan in the Suburbs) of Occult America by John Godwin (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972)
Section concerning Anton LaVey in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sorcery, But Were Afraid to Ask by Arlene J. Fitzgerald (Manor Books, 1973)
“Anton LaVey: America’s Satanic Master of Devils, Magic, Music, and Madness” by Walt Harrington in The Washington Post Magazine, February 23, 1986.
“Anton LaVey / The Church of Satan Interview” by Eugene Robinson in The Birth of Tragedy, No. 4 “The God Issue”, November 1986 - January 1987
"Dinner with the Devil: An evening with Anton Szandor LaVey, the High Priest of the Church of Satan" by Reverend Bob Johnson in High Society, August, 1994.
“The Doctor is in......” by Shane & Amy Bugbee in MF Magazine #3, Summer 1997.
Interview with Anton LaVey by Michelle Carr and Elvia Lahman, originally published in the September 11, 1997 Velvet Hammer souvenir programme.
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About LaVey
Anton Szandor LaVey: A Biographical Sketch by Magus Peter H. Gilmore, on the Church of Satan's official website.
anton lavey by Alex Burns at disinformation.
Anton Szandor Lavey: In memorium
Anton Szandor LaVey tribute
Anton LaVey at the Internet Movie Database
People of Significance entry for LaVey
Ding Dong.. The Witch is Dead ~ A Tribute to the Late, Great Anton Szandar LaVey
Anton LaVey entry on NNDB
Short biographical sketch with particular focus on his influence on Marilyn Manson, taken from Spin magazine (Feb. 1998, pg. 64).
"Has the Church of Satan Gone to Hell?" by Jack Boulware SF Weekly, Jun 17, 1998
http://www.unimarburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/lewis3.html Lewis, James. R., "Diabolical Authority: Anton LaVey, the Satanic Bible and the Satanist Tradition," in The Marburg Journal of Religion, v.7 no.1 (Sept 2002)
Introduction to The Satanic Rituals, by Burton H. Wolfe, 1976
In Memory of LaVey (Russian web-page)
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