Beliefs & practices

The Church teaches that the human being is fundamentally a carnal animal, that gratification of physical and emotional appetites is legitimate where it does not harm the unwilling, and that conventional moral systems based on supernatural belief are baseless. Its core texts list nine Satanic Statements, eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth, and nine Satanic Sins (foolishness, pretentiousness, solipsism, self-deceit, herd conformity, lack of perspective, forgetfulness of past orthodoxies, counterproductive pride, lack of aesthetics).

Ritual within the Church is treated as deliberate emotional theatre — intended to focus desire, channel anger, or mark transitions — rather than as an act of worship or supplication. Three principal ritual forms are described: the lesser magic of personal influence, the greater magic of formal ceremony, and the rituals of compassion, lust, and destruction set out in The Satanic Bible.