THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

The high priest cautioned S that becoming My current life is miserable, and IWeak, rejected, I Dejection
a Satanist would be difficult as he would Satanism offers me power and the lonely.
have to renounce his former life, God, and company of people who will accept the
family. For S, however, the prospect of bad parts ofme, rather than reject me.
forsaking his unhappy life did not bother
him, and he longed for power and the
company of people who would accept his
destructiveness.
Rejecting. 37,38
S's ceremonial initiation commenced with [Oral incorporative fantasy ofIOmnipotent,
him swearing to accept Satan as his father, introjectively identifying with an destructive.
Lord and master, and signing a pact to this omnipotently destructive bad object
effect in his own blood. S had to denounce results in the formation of an
Christ, defile and destroy a crucifix. A egosyntonic narcissistic
sacrificial animal was then offered to structure/destructive subpersonality].
Satan, and S had to drink the blood,
signifying the acceptance of Satan and his
demons into his body. When S committed
himself to Satan and invited demonic
possession, he felt a powerful force surge
through his body, and experienced a sense
of omnipotence. He experienced his hate
and cruelty begin to intensify, and realised
he had made the right decision.
Hatred,
gratification.
Destructive bad \39,40,41,
object. 42,43,44
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