THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

their Satanic identity secret. I didn't tell
anybody ... didn't tell anyone - that was one
of the things I had to do in order to join
them.
37. In order to become a member, I had to
cut myself and sign a pact with the devil.
This meant, by doing this I was making a
kind ofcovenant with Satan and the cult.
38. A goat was slaughtered, and I had to
drink the blood. This meant that I was
accepting Satan's blood and rejecting the
bloodofGod.
39. I also got a new name, to signify that I
was now a child of Satan and no longer a
childofGod, you see. It's just like when you
get baptised when you're a baby, and get
given a new name.
40. I was given a cross, and I had to spit on
it and then bum it. I had to ... to curse and
swear God, and say three times that the
Christian God was a dead god and no
longer living.
membership.
37. S's initiation began with him cutting
himself and signing a satanic covenant in his
own blood.
38. Drinking the blood ofa sacrificial goat
conveyed S's ritual acceptance of Satan's
blood, and the rejection of the blood of
Christ.
39. S received a new name to denote his new
identity as a child ofSatan.
40. S had to destroy a crucifix and denounce
and denigrate the Christian God.
41. I was given a book that had the "Our 41. S had to read aloud a sacred Biblical
Father" written backwards, and I had to say prayer, corrupted by the order of the words
this out aloud in front ofeverybody. being reversed.
42. Then I had sex with most of the women 42. S was obliged to have sexually
in the coven that night. I had to do this, I intercourse with most of the women in the
had to.
coven that night.
43. Everyone was around a Circle, and we 43. During a ritual in which spirits were
were calling up the spirits, asking them to invoked and invited to possess the
enter into us. I was very new to this, and participants, S consented to possession by a
became aware of a presence in the room. male spiritual presence, who promised him
He said that Satan needed me for his work, power and gratification of every wish if S
and that '" that I'd be very powerful; I'd be allowed him inside his body.
able to get everything I ever wanted if I
invited him into my body. I said 'Yes'.
44. There was a lot of alcohol and drugs 44. S's initiation culminated in a protracted
there, and everyone was enjoying celebration involving alcohol and drugs.
themselves, getting high (laughs). It was one
hell of a party that only ended about ha(f-
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