THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

28. I then got involved with a biker club
and heavy metal band who, unbeknown to
me, were Satanists.
29. They used my New Age involvement to
draw me in. They said that my views on
God were correct, but that God has two
sides - light and dark, good and evil; two
opposites in one God force which was
necessary to bring about a balance of the
universalpower we refer to as God
30. To live a true fulfilling life you had to
serve and do work for the "light ", Lucifer.
The "dark" Jesus was for lazy people who
wanted everythingfor nothing andwere not
prepared to workfor it.
31. That is why Christians don't have the
gifts we have, because they serve the wrong
side, with a dead master, Jesus.
28. 8 began socialising with members of
rock music and a motorcycle clubs, not
knowing at the time that they were
8atanists.
29. Recognising 8's esoteric interests, these
individuals sought to influence him through
the argument that the God-force comprised
a balance ofgood and evil qualities.
3O. 8's new acquaintances asserted that
spiritual fulfilment lay in serving Lucifer,
the spirit of light, and that the opposing
dark Christ figure appealed only to the
indolent and morally inferior.
31. Christians' lack of occult power was
attributed to them serving Jesus, a dead
master associated with the negative spiritual
pole.
32. Atfirst I was sceptical about this, so I 32. 8's scepticism regarding these new
asked my spirit guide about what I was ideas were allayed when his spirit guide
told, andhe said this was correct.
confirmed them to be correct.
33. I had come to trust him fully. He had 33. 8 trusted the spirit guide, who appeared
promised me things in the past and had to have fulfilled his promises to 8.
seemed to have kept his promises.
34. He taught me how to access my inner 34. 8's spirit guide taught him to harness
selfand how to use my spiritual powers to his spiritual power to supernatural ends and
levitate, to astral project, to gain control control other people, a valued ability given
over my own destiny, and mostly to 8's past failures to influence others.
influence and control people, which I
especially loved due to my past inability to
do so.
35. I made friends of all ages from all 35. With his new sense of confidence and
walks of life as I was more confident and intuitive perception of what others wished
always knew what to say to please people. to hear, 8 made a range ofmends.
36. I was twenty-two years old when I f(ot 36. When 8 was 22 years old he knowingly
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