Prayer is intentional communication addressed to a deity, spirit, sacred power, or ultimate reality. It can include praise, petition, confession, thanksgiving, lament, dedication, silence, repetition, or simple direct speech. In theistic Satanism, prayer usually means addressing Satan or another spiritually real being rather than speaking only to oneself or performing a purely symbolic exercise.
Ritual is patterned action given special religious, symbolic, social, or transformative significance. Ritual can mark time, establish sacred space, communicate with a deity, express commitment, create community, memorialize the dead, enact a transition, or focus attention on a chosen purpose. In theistic Satanism, ritual commonly includes devotional action directed toward Satan or other spirits…
The grimoire compilation known as the Lemegeton, including the Goetia and several angelic arts.
Offerings are objects, substances, actions, or works intentionally presented to a deity, spirit, sacred power, or religious community. Across religious history offerings have included food, drink, incense, flowers, animal sacrifice, money, vows, music, labor, art, and acts of service. In theistic Satanism, offerings are commonly used to express devotion, gratitude, hospitality, dedication, or…
Witch trials produced records of accusations about harmful magic and the Devil. Those records require attention to how testimony was obtained and to the purposes of judges and writers.
A Goetic marquis associated with rhetoric and the restoration of lost honors.
A Goetic duke connected with the speech of animals, enchanted treasure, and reconciliation.
A Goetic marquis with a winged wolf form, described as a fighter who hopes to return to a heavenly throne.
A Goetic prince associated with astronomy, herbs, and precious stones, with changing bird imagery in later reception.
The physician and author whose Pseudomonarchia daemonum supplied an important source for later spirit catalogues.
Ethics in theistic Satanism concerns the moral principles, responsibilities, virtues, prohibitions, and methods of judgement developed by Satanists who regard Satan or related beings as real rather than purely symbolic. There is no universal Satanic ethical code. Theistic Satanism is decentralized, and its practitioners may draw on personal conscience, religious devotion, philosophical individualism,…
Belial appears in biblical religious language and later spirit catalogues. These uses should be distinguished rather than treated as one unchanged biography.
A Goetic king riding a bear, with offices concerning hidden knowledge, treasure, and cosmology.
A Goetic president associated with logic, ethics, plants, stones, longevity, and lost things.
A Goetic marquis in phoenix form, associated with poetry, learning, and a hope of heavenly restoration.
A Goetic duke portrayed as a mermaid, associated with ships, storms, and afflicted wounds.
A Goetic spirit with royal and comital rank, associated with hidden things, walls, and stormy waters.
A Goetic president with a winged bull form, associated with wisdom and the transformation of substances.