On 06 Feb,06, at 4:37 PM, Daniel Harms wrote:
> I think there is a difference between LaVey's rituals and the
> occult rituals that came before in terms of performance art.
> Instead of looking at ritual as a means to call up supernatural
> entities, LaVey really did see them in terms of psychological
> effects. Creating a total sensory experience for the participants
> seems to have been his greatest priority - he went so far as to
> compose rituals based around fiction that he found particularly
> evocative.
I agree. When I interviewed Michael Aquino for a magazine article,
back around 1988, he said that that issue was one of the major
disagreements he had with LaVey. Aquino wanted to view Set/Satan
as a deity, rather than as a psychological construct.
Chas
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