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The Satanic Golden Rule.
The Satanic Golden Rule is that of Lex talionis, retribution: “do unto others as
they do unto you” 38 . While the law is most obviously applied to smiting those
that strike you, it also means respect and compassion to those who deserve it, but
only to those who deserve it 39 . Typically, a Satanist would divide all of humanity
into those whom a Satanist respects, those whom are held in contempt, and the
overwhelmingly vast majority that have no contact with the Satanist. The
unknown majority are owed nothing (in contrast, the Christian is admonished to
act charitably to all humanity), the contemptibles are owed destruction while only
those that are respected have any call on the Satanist’s affections, and only then if
the Satanist feels if it is deserved at the time. LaVey felt that too much strength
was wasted on supporting those who were nothing but burdens and dead weights,
both to the individual as well as across wider society. Dead weights only hold the
individual, so to realise ambition such dead weights must be removed 40 .
Man, the Animal.
One of the most important ramifications of the adoption of a materialist
philosophy was the espousal of the idea that Darwinism was fundamentally right,
Humankind is “only another form of animal” with “no ultimate morality other
than the law of the jungle and no purpose other than the survival of the fittest” 41 .
This means ‘natural’ human emotions such as lust, anger, hate, love and so on,
were natural and not to be repressed or denied expression: that is the province of
those who preferred to wear hair shirts rather than silk ones 42 . It was also an
espousal of social Darwinism and, effectively, a caste and eugenic system 43 .
38 LaVey, Satanic Bible, p.51
39 Ibid. p.64
40 Ibid. pp.75-76
41 Lewis, ‘Diabolical Authority’, p.4; LaVey, Satanic Bible, p.83
42 LaVey, Satanic Bible, p.110
43 Barton The Church of Satan, p.62
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