Marilyn Manson and other satanists...

Anton Lavey founder of the Church of Satan.

“Urban Warfare … Another effective warfare agent is the individual annihilator a person so frustrated with the injustices of the “justice system” or by the petty tyranny of contemporary life that he grabs an armful of guns and starts shooting into the nearest crowd. The serial killer -a contemporary phenomenon – cannot be overlooked. These incidents are often labeled “Satanic” or “cult” crimes, and will increase as a method of population reduction.” – Anton LaVey, from “Apocalypse Culture”



Aleister Crowley, an Important Influence

The modern day father of Satanism and Occultism in the Western World is Aleister Crowley, who called himself the most evil man alive and also the Beast 666, as Manson refers to himself sometimes. The Beast 666 of the Bible was to herald the onset of the Apocalypse. Crowley had a great impact on Rock music of many genres, as well as on the larger counterculture movement that arose in the 50’s and 60’s. Aleister Crowley was trying to found a new religion. He was wanted to bring on an apocalyptic transformation to the “Age of Horus” by means of sexual rituals involving orgies and bestiality. He was said to sacrifice a goat exactly at the point of climax while the goat would be poking his wife. There were rumors of human sacrifice at his short-lived Temple of Thelema in Sicily, Italy, before he was expelled from that country by the dictator, Mussolini, who apparently did have some standards. There does not seem to be any direct evidence that Crowley practiced human sacrifice. However, he did talk about the benefits of human sacrifice as the most powerful form of sacrifice and also who would make the best candidate for sacrifice (male babies). See Crowley’s book, “Magick in Theory and Practice” for more details.”

Here are a few quotes from Crowley’s “Liber AL vel Legis” or “Book of the Law” that Crowley said was channeled to him by a demon. Many satanists consider the Book of the Law to be sacred scripture.

III, 11: Worship me with fire and blood; worship me with swords and with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me; let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, O warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat!

III, 12: sacrifice cattle, little and big; after a child.

III, 18: mercy let be off; damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them!

III, 24: The best blood is of the moon, monthly; then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven; then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers; last of some beast, no matter what.

III, 34: Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust and worship of the Snake another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globed priest another; sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign.

The current Church of Satan says that they are not to be a direct offshoot of Crowley’s organization, the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), which had a lodge in the Los Angeles area up until shortly after WWII, but there has been much personal contact between the two groups and also with the Manson Family, when they were still active. It seems that LaVey did not want to acknowledge that he got many of his ideas from the OTO, just because he did not want to share credit. There is much commonality and much influence came from the OTO. The OTO lodge in Los Angeles was most closely associated with a Engineer at the Joint Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, named Jack W. Parsons. Understanding Aleister Crowley’s beliefs and goals and the later Satanists and occultists that he influenced may help provide a better understanding of Marilyn Manson. All of these occult groups, the Manson Family, the OTO, the Church of Satan, some Nazi elements and other occult groups such as the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a doomsday cult that was an offshoot of Scientology, and the current Church of Scientology have had many interconnections and commonalities. All of them except the Nazis can trace the lineage of many of their basic beliefs back to Aleister Crowley, who was called the “Wickedest Man in the World” and “The Beast 666″.

Manson again.

Brian Hugh Warner claims that he took the name “Marilyn Manson” for “artistic reasons”. However the “make-believe” Marilyn Manson also has several real, if indirect, connections to the real mass murderer, Charles Manson via close personal associates. For example, an early mentor, Boyd Rice, visited Charles Manson in prison and said that he discussed common goals with Charlie Manson with regard to the then budding neo-Nazi movement in California in the 1980’s. Charlie Manson was an occultist and a “Satanist”. Susan Atkins, a Manson Family member that participated in the Manson mass murders, worked at one time for Anton LaVey, the leader of the Church of Satan, before she joined the Manson Family. The underground filmmaker, Ken Anger, who was a member of the OTO worked closely with Manson Family member, Bobby Beausoleil. Charles Manson studied Scientology in prison and had a relationship with the Process Church of the Final Judgement, which was an offshoot of Scientology. That is just a couple of examples, but the point is that these occult groups were all interconnected and had connections to the entertainment industry. There were many people in these groups that were friends of the Manson Family then and a similar group of people that still have a fascination for Charlie Manson and his philosophy still exists today. In the book entitled “Art That Kills” by George Petros, Marylyn Manson is quoted on page 35 as saying:




“I want to make a point of saying that many Charles Manson references are our references to his strange-yet-genius gray matter….. I’m bringing his strange thinking into the real world. And sometimes it’s neither a tribute nor a criticism; it’s just putting it back where it belongs.”- Marilyn Manson (aka Brian Warner)