A Beginner’s Guide to Satanism (How It Changed My Life Completely)

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How Satanism changed my life

Introduction
Becoming a Satanist is often misunderstood. Normies think its about darkness chaos or rebellion.
In reality satanism is a lifestyle upgrade, you ascend your whole life.

Since starting my journey everything improved:
Im better looking better than ever
Im making more money than ever
Im fucking more foids than ever

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1. Mindset Shift: The First Change​

The moment you become a Satanist, you stop living for external validation.
You learn:
-Self-respect over self-sacrifice
-Logic over guilt
-Discipline over excuses
This mental shift alone puts you ahead of most peoplepsychologicaally.

Result:
clearer decisions
less anxiety
more assertiveness

2. Financial Improvement​

One of the biggest surprises is how Satanism affects your income.
Why it works:

-You stop believing in waiting for rewards later
-You focus on results, not morality-based limits
-You negotiate better, quit underpaid work faster, and take smarter risks

Which leads to:
-higher salaries
-more side income
-better money discipline

3. Physical Appearance & Aura​

Another effect: your appearance improves.
-Confidence changes posture
-Discipline improves grooming and fitness
-You stop neglecting yourself

Once you listen to me you ascend:
-sharper facial expressions
-better eye contact
-stronger presence in rooms
Which automatically leads to you fucking more foids.


4. Most Important: The Rituals
The most important rituals you should learn are the Greater Ritual, Lesser Magic, destruction and compassion rituals, and self-dedication ceremonies to understand and practice them properly, I recommend reading The Satanic Bible by Anton La Vey.

 

[sistersu]

I can relate to some of what you describe, particularly the mindset shift. Even without doing rituals, studying Satanism and occult philosophy has changed the way I think about myself and my life. I’ve become more focused on self-respect, personal responsibility and questioning ideas I had simply accepted before.

That said, LaVeyan Satanism isn’t really my path. I don’t see Satan purely as an archetype or symbol; I believe Satan can be understood as a real entity. My own interests lean more towards Lucifer, although I’m still learning and figuring out exactly where my path will take me.

So I definitely recognize the “lifestyle upgrade” aspect you’re talking about — I just arrive at it from a rather different spiritual perspective.

 

[Hasuna]

Awesome! I just finished reading Anton LaVey's book and I can say it changed me a lot. Very similar to you. I also recommend reading "Might is Right", it's one of Anton's inspirations.

I didn't do the rituals because they seemed like a lot of BS tho, how did they go for you? Are they really worth it?

 

[Wintruz]

Im fucking more foids than ever

I am dying!

On the broader point, I remember, in my late teens, the enormous sense of turbo-charge that came from my entry into diabolism and, to be fair, yes, it did cause me to "level up" from an inherited perspective (we'll come back to that). My intellect was like a monster unleashed (my memory and reading speed and comprehension became almost superhuman), sexual allure increased, the sense of "mission" and clarity are also compelling to other humans who don't have that certainty. In short, I was a young, intoxicated Prince of Darkness about town, with all the fun that involves. Then three things happened...

After a few years of everything I touched turning to gold, I had a spectacular, unexpected and deeply painful loss. I applied the old methods more ardently than ever. The rituals became more intense, the "lesser black magic" techniques more sophisticated, the Will to Power bordering on fanatical. Still, it didn't change things. I existed as a scream into a void that, for the first time in years, simply told me "No. Not this time". I turned to my teacher, my own personal Emperor Palpatine, and asked him what was happening. He sat me down and made me watch the film version of The Masque of the Red Death (though not a "good film", essential viewing if you're serious about Satanism, of any kind, long-term). There, Prince Prospero is a diabolist who lives in his own self-contained, self-created world of pleasure. Through his diabolism he manages to keep away the plague that's ravaging the world until, one day, the magic stops working and Death enters his palace. The message is clear: self-realisation is powerful but it's not the only force at play in the universe. There are other forces and, sometimes, they are stronger. That realisation violently overthrew the purely Nietzschean idea that all existence is simply a question of Will.

Secondly, I noticed something else: at precisely the age when I entered diabolism, "normies" who had delayed their rebellion until later in their teens (or even twenties) also had a serious "levelling up". I had simply been too self-involved to notice. I don't mean "rebellion" here in the comic book sense but in the sense of individuation, the sense of "mother/father/society are wrong about things" and taking ownership of themselves. When this happened later in the teens, it came with intellectual and sexual agency that were not present earlier in the teens. To the outside, this looked a lot like "Wow, what happened to Johnny/Rebecca?". It turns out anger is a Hell of a propeller. In addition to this, I learned about what psychologists call "hedonic adaptation", the idea that a major change (such as a religious or worldview conversion) can bring about an intense flourishing for a while, before things return to baseline. In other words, those becoming Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, also experience significant "levelling up" for a few years. Christians sometimes call this the "honeymoon period". I had both of these well-known biological and psychological processes happening at the same time, it's just that my version of Dumbo's "magic feather" was a black Maserati rather than a crucifix.

Lastly and most importantly, I eventually realised that for all of its supposed questioning of premises and purported individuality, the basis of Satanism is largely predicated on an inherited worldview. This isn't just LaVey, it's much older. The Faustian does not truly question their society. They actually believe in what the architects of society tell them to such a degree that they would trade their "soul" for what society has deemed to be valuable (money, a certain kind of beauty, fame, etc.). What is presented as rising above the herd, is actually about being seen by the herd while belonging to it more than ever.

 

[Frater M.M.]

I turned to my teacher, my own personal Emperor Palpatine, and asked him what was happening. He sat me down and made me watch the film version of The Masque of the Red Death (though not a "good film", essential viewing if you're serious about Satanism, of any kind, long-term). There, Prince Prospero is a diabolist who lives in his own self-contained, self-created world of pleasure. Through his diabolism he manages to keep away the plague that's ravaging the world until, one day, the magic stops working and Death enters his palace. The message is clear: self-realisation is powerful but it's not the only force at play in the universe. There are other forces and, sometimes, they are stronger. That realisation violently overthrew the purely Nietzschean idea that all existence is simply a question of Will.

He sounds like he was a great teacher. I'm a fan of The Masque of the Red Death, seen it loads of times. It reminds me of RWS Death card.

Lastly and most importantly, I eventually realised that for all of its supposed questioning of premises and purported individuality, the basis of Satanism is largely predicated on an inherited worldview. This isn't just LaVey, it's much older. The Faustian does not truly question their society. They actually believe in what the architects of society tell them to such a degree that they would trade their "soul" for what society has deemed to be valuable (money, a certain kind of beauty, fame, etc.). What is presented as rising above the herd, is actually about being seen by the herd while belonging to it more than ever.

Well, yeah, that's the problem with competing with or even constantly comparing yourself to the "herd" (or even just viewing people as the "herd"), for me: you're still stuck in the same framework as them. My take is self-respect, self-discipline, grooming, a good sex life, having money are all good things to have and aspire to but once you turn them into status competitions or who has the biggest number, it just makes you a slave to the scoreboard. Sometimes I do "normie" things and sometimes I don't; some "normies" have far more successful lives than me and some don't. It's all good as long as I'm developing and following my own values and goals at my own pace, IMO.

 

[frater_pan]

I am dying!

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After a few years of everything I touched turning to gold, I had a spectacular, unexpected and deeply painful loss. I applied the old methods more ardently than ever. The rituals became more intense, the "lesser black magic" techniques more sophisticated, the Will to Power bordering on fanatical. Still, it didn't change things. I existed as a scream into a void that, for the first time in years, simply told me "No. Not this time". I turned to my teacher, my own personal Emperor Palpatine, and asked him what was happening. He sat me down and made me watch the film version of The Masque of the Red Death (though not a "good film", essential viewing if you're serious about Satanism, of any kind, long-term). There, Prince Prospero is a diabolist who lives in his own self-contained, self-created world of pleasure. Through his diabolism he manages to keep away the plague that's ravaging the world until, one day, the magic stops working and Death enters his palace. The message is clear: self-realisation is powerful but it's not the only force at play in the universe. There are other forces and, sometimes, they are stronger. That realisation violently overthrew the purely Nietzschean idea that all existence is simply a question of Will.

Good points.

However the movie Masque of the Red Death, to me, makes the specific point that Prospero is punished because he was cruel. That he was a Satanist seems to me to have been secondary. Death might have entered the castle anyway. But Prospero didn't set up a utopia powered by Satanic power. He tried to set up an island of safety but one where he could indulge his cruelty with abandon. And that was the main reason he was punished. To me the movie is potentially extremely subversive for that reason.

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Awesome! I just finished reading Anton LaVey's book and I can say it changed me a lot. Very similar to you. I also recommend reading "Might is Right", it's one of Anton's inspirations.

I didn't do the rituals because they seemed like a lot of BS tho, how did they go for you? Are they really worth it?

A lot has been written about LaVey (to say the least). One close critic claims that his magick was "performative". However the word of Indulgence or to a lesser extent the word of Assertion helped bring about a new Aeon. So even if his magick had been performative he would still be a Magus (IMHO), just on the mystic side.

Some/Many/Most/All (?) of the rituals were written by Michael Aquino and he for sure was a magickal Magus.

The rituals probably don't work for everyone , since no magick does, but it seems to me that they have a high hit rate from what I have seen. They are a form of mangled Enochian invocation afterall, and one could argue for and against based on that alone.

 

[r4zorenigma]

Former satanist here. Was full blown, evoking demons, performing daily rituals, and apart of a serious coven.. What I learned: you don't need to align with any type of fictional or religious based idealogies to empower yourself to your godly nature / to be an effective co creator in this reality..

Why I left: The coven I was apart of had alot of hatred toward religious people.. alot of ego amongs our elders/high priestess.. Some of the rituals bordered on kinda crazy.. tasks given to coven members were questionable, etc.

Satanism in its origins itself worships a fictional character.. Spiritual satanism is all about empowering oneself but falls under ego worship.. it can be very harmful for some..

I recommend you find a healthy relationship with your ego and learn that humility needs to temper the ego .. MIddle Pillar Path is the best for a reason. Nothing you said in your post needs satanism to occur.