In a previous blog I mentioned briefly that during my first read of The Satanic Scriptures by Peter H. Gilmore, I read about the “Nine Satanic Statements” and decided to write a short blog on what they meant to me in terms of if I could use them or felt they would be useful to influence my planning as well as what my interpretation of their meaning and how I feel I could use that in my work. I used The Satanic Scriptures to find these but the original Nine Satanic Statements were created by Anton LaVey when he initially wrote The Satanic Bible in 1969.

1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence – This is the first on the list and is the begging of a common pattern within satanism, that indulgence and self gratification is encouraged and that you are urged to sin in order to satisfy ones own desires. I feel like this is a common theme throughout my research so far, and even just the first 9 statements and so feel like this will most likely influence my planning in many ways.
2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams – This is actually quite an interesting one, as it pretty much means to live life by ones own desires and beliefs rather than following a religion based on man-made faith.
3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit – This statement is mainly to do with understanding yourself and accepting things about ourselves rather than convincing ourself of things that are undeniably false.
4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates – This statement is pretty much the opposite of the “respect your elders” bullsh*t we are told as children, this instead tells us to only respect or show kindness to those who really deserve it and if they do not deserve our respect why would we give them it. I think this could be a very interesting concept to look at a little more once it comes to planning as I think it could be viewed from a few different perspectives to really aid the storyline of my project.
5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek – This statement could definitely be looked at from different perspectives and manipulated in a way that would give an excuse of violence, something I want to focus on heavily in my project.
6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires – Again, like number 5 this could definitely be looked at from a point of view that could end up condoning violence, so think it may be an important statement to keep in mind if I end up using it in my project.
7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development” has become the most vicious animal of all – Man definitely is the most vicious animal of all, a concept I can really play on when planning and filming my project.
8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification – This statement link very closely and is very similar to the first of the 9, this is about self gratification and satisfaction through ‘sin’ rather than being unhappy in fear of sinning.
9. Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years – This is just tying in the concept of Christianity with Satanism, and will be an important aspect to look at while planning and research becomes more detailed, wether I incorporate Christianity in a large portion of my work or only subtly I feel it is important to use it in some way shape or form.