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In 1969, a Satanic group based in Toledo, Ohio, part of the United States, came to public attention. Called the Our Lady of Endor Coven, it was led by a man named Herbert Sloane, who described his Satanic tradition as the Ophite Cultus Sathanas and alleged that it had been established in the 1940s. [83] [84] The group had a Gnostic doctrine about the world, in which the Judeo-Christian creator god is regarded as evil, and the Biblical serpent is presented as a force for good, who had delivered salvation to humanity in the Garden of Eden. [83] [85] Sloane's claims that his group had a 1940s origin remain unproven; it may be that he falsely claimed older origins for his group to make it appear older than Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, which had been established in 1966. [86] [84]

In 2004, it was claimed that Satanism was allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite opposition from Christians. [238] [239] [240] In 2016, under a Freedom of Information request, the Navy Command Headquarters stated that "we do not recognise satanism as a formal religion, and will not grant facilities or make specific time available for individual 'worship'." [241] The word "Satan" was not originally a proper name, but rather an ordinary noun that means "adversary". In this context, it appears at several points in the Old Testament. [12] For instance, in the Book of Samuel, David is presented as the satan ("adversary") of the Philistines, while in the Book of Numbers, the term appears as a verb, when Jehovah sent an angel to satan ("to oppose") Balaam. [13] Prior to the composition of the New Testament, the idea developed within Jewish communities that Satan was the name of an angel who had rebelled against Jehovah and had been cast out of Heaven along with his followers; this account would be incorporated into contemporary texts like the Book of Enoch. [14] This Satan was then featured in parts of the New Testament, where he was presented as a figure who tempted humans to commit sin; in the Book of Matthew and the Book of Luke, he attempted to tempt Jesus of Nazareth as the latter fasted in the wilderness. [15]However, its association with the Devil and with Hell has more to do with geology than anything else. Sulfur deposits are often found in areas that display elevated levels of volcanic activity. They are also found in the vicinity of hot springs. The early modern period also saw fear of Satanists reach its "historical apogee" in the form of the witch trials of the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. [43] This came about as the accusations which had been leveled at medieval heretics, among them that of devil-worship, were applied to the pre-existing idea of the witch, or practitioner of malevolent magic. [44] The idea of a conspiracy of Satanic witches was developed by educated elites, although the concept of malevolent witchcraft was a widespread part of popular belief and folkloric ideas about the night witch, the wild hunt, and the dance of the fairies were incorporated into it. [45] The earliest trials took place in Northern Italy and France, before spreading it out to other areas of Europe and to Britain's North American colonies, being carried out by the legal authorities in both Catholic and Protestant regions. [43] Lucifer" also figured within the esoteric system propounded by the Danish occultist Carl William Hansen, who used the pen name "Ben Kadosh". [69] Hansen was involved in a variety of esoteric groups, including Martinism, Freemasonry, and the Ordo Templi Orientis, drawing on their ideas to establish his own philosophy. [69] He provided a Luciferian interpretation of Freemasonry in a 1906 pamphlet, [74] though his work had little influence outside of Denmark. [74] [75] Aleister Crowley was not a Satanist, but used rhetoric and imagery considered satanic. Wexler, Jay (June 11, 2019). Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are ... - Jay Wexler - Google Books. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503609068 . Retrieved 2022-09-14. It is perhaps these European influences that had some part in prompting Anton LaVey, whose parents had emigrated from Europe to America, into using them as a symbol. The Satanist Interpretation

Contemporary religious Satanism is predominantly an American phenomenon; the ideas spreading elsewhere is an effect of globalization and the Internet. [4] The internet has allowed for intra-group communication and is also the main forum for Satanist disputes. [4] Satanism started to reach Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s—in time with the fall of the Communist Bloc—and most noticeably in Poland and Lithuania, predominantly Roman Catholic countries. [5] [6] Definition Saint Wolfgang and the Devil, by Michael Pacher It has been used as the sulfur symbol in alchemy for a long time before it became the symbol of Satan. There are no records indicating an exact date but it is known to be a very old symbol as alchemy has existed as a discipline since ancient times. The wider and more prominent arm of the Leviathan Cross is situated nearer to the base than the top of the vertical shaft. This is because when Simon Peter, the first Pope, was crucified head-down by the Roman emperor, Nero. Official emblem of the Church of Satan, consisting of the head of a goat transfixed upon a reversed pentagram flanked by the Hebrew letters of the word " Leviathan" (לִוְיָתָן). The right image is the same sigil in cuneiform from the Joy of Satan Ministries, a recreation of the sigil of Baphomet incorporated with cuneiform lettering instead of Hebrew to spell out "Satan", and made after Maxine Dietrich's reinterpretation of the ideology of spiritual Satanism. People wearing a Leviathan cross tattoo usually have it to represent their Satanist faith. However, as it is about rejecting traditional values and rules, the Leviathan symbol makes a really nice rebellion tattoo as well. Not to mention the symbol has nice symmetry and looks good on a tattoo.Religious Satanism does not exist in a single form, as there are multiple different religious Satanisms, each with different ideas about what being a Satanist entails. [156] A minority of Satanists are far-right. [157] The historian of religion Ruben van Luijk used a "working definition" in which Satanism was regarded as "the intentional, religiously motivated veneration of Satan". [18]