The Satanic bible preface
This book was written because, with very few exceptions, every tract and paper, every
"secret" grimoire, all the "great works" on the subject of magic, are nothing more than
sanctimonious fraud - guilt-ridden ramblings and esoteric gibberish by chroniclers of magical
lore unable or unwilling to present an objective view of the subject. Writer after writer, in
efforts to state the principles of "white and black magic",
has succeeded instead in clouding
the entire issue so badly that the would-be student of sorcery winds up stupidly pushing a
planchette over a Ouija board, standing inside a pentagram waiting for a demon to present
itself, limply tossing I-Ching yarrow stalks like so many stale pretzels, shuffling pasteboards
to foretell a future which has lost any meaning, attending seminars guaranteed to flatten his
ego - while doing the same to his wallet - and in general making a blithering fool of himself in
the eyes of those who know!
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