Satanic Bible Excerpts - Part I

I have take a moment to write down the majority of text that I have highlighted in The Satanic Bible - things which struck my interest mostly.

From The Book of Satan - The Infernal Diatribe:

• The pulpit-pounders of the past have been free to define "good" and "evil" as they see fit, and have gladly smashed into oblivion any who disagree with their lies - both verbally, and, at times, physically.


• For I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the "laws" of man and of "God".


• I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commands.


• Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saieth "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe.


• I question all things. As I stand before the festering and varnished facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing scorn: Lo and behold, all this is fraud.


• Too long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought.


• No creed must be accepted upon authority of a "divine" nature. Religions must be put to the question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted - no standard of measurement deified. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy.


• He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom.


• Theories and ideas that may have meant life and hope and freedom for our ancestors may now mean destruction, slavery and dishonor to us.


• As environments change, no human ideal standeth sure.


• Wherever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne, let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for, under the domination of an inconvenient falsehood, no one can prosper.


• Wherever alleged "truth" is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage.


• The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie - the lie everyone believes to be a model truth.


• Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty.


• "Love one another" it has been said is the supreme law, but what power made it so? Upon what rational authority does the gospel of love nest? Why should I not hate mine enemies - if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?


• Is it natural for enemies to do good unto each other - and WHAT IS GOOD?


• Can the torn and bloody victim "love" the blood-splashed jaws that rend him limb from limb?


• Love your enemies and do good to them that hate and use you - is this not the despicable philosophy of the spaniel that rolls upon its back when kicked?


• Hate your enemies with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law.


• He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog!


• Give blow for blow, scorn for scorn, doom for doom - with compound interest liberally added thereunto. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, aye four-fold, a hundred-fold. Make yourself a Terror to your adversary, and when he goeth his way, he will possess much additional wisdom to ruminate over. Thus shall you make yourself respected in all the walks of life - and your spirit, your immortal spirit - shall live, not in an intangible paradise, but in the brains and sinews of those whose respect you have gained.


• Life is the great indulgence - death, the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life - HERE AND NOW.


• Here and now is our day of torment. Here and now is our day of joy. Here and now is our opportunity. Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth.


• Say unto thine own heart, "I am mine own redeemer".


• Stop the way of them that would persecute you. Let those who devise thine undoing be hurled back to confusion and infamy. Let them be as chaff before the cyclone and after they have fallen rejoice in their own salvation.


• Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth - cursed are the weak, for they shall inherit the yoke.


• Blessed are the powerful, for they shall be reverenced among men - cursed are the feeble, for they shall be blotted out.


• Blessed are the bold, for they shall be masters of the world - cursed are the righteously humble, for they shall be trodden under cloven hoofs.


• Blessed are the victorious, for victory is the basis of right - cursed are the vanquished, for they shall be vassals forever.


• Blessed are the iron-handed, for the unfit shall flee before them - cursed are the poor in spirit, for they shall be spat upon.


• Blessed are the death-defiant, for their days shall be long in the land - cursed are the gazers towards a richer life beyond the grave, for they shall perish amidst plenty.


• Blessed are the valiant, for they shall obtain great treasure - cursed are the believers in good and evil, for they are frightened by shadows.


• Blessed are those who believe in what is best for them, for never shall their minds be terrorized - cursed are the "lambs of God" for they shall be bled whiter than snow.


• Blessed is the man who has a sprinkling of enemies, for they shall make him a hero - cursed is he who doeth good unto others who sneer upon him in return, for he shall be despised.


• The angel of self-deceit is camped in the souls of the "righteous" - the eternal flame of power through joy dwelleth within the flesh of the Satanist.