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Life of Adam and Eve

The Life of Adam and Eve is a group of related apocryphal narratives about the first humans. Its versions expand the Eden story through accounts of repentance, the Devil’s hostility, illness, burial, and hoped-for restoration.

Texts & Sources

Temptation of Jesus

The temptation of Jesus is an encounter with Satan in the wilderness narrated by Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Its differing forms connect hunger, divine sonship, scriptural argument, worldly rule, and worship.

Texts & Sources

Grigoripedia

Grigoripedia is the official online encyclopedia of Satano-Grigorism, maintained by members of the Grigorist Temple of Satanael. Launched in June 2026 according to its About page, it documents the religion’s beliefs, deities, scriptures, history, holidays, and terminology from a Satano-Grigorist perspective.

History

Witchcraft

How witchcraft has meant an accusation, a magical practice, and a modern identity, with examples from museums and trial records.

Culture & Ethics

Samhain

The Gaelic beginning-of-winter festival, Irish customs of food and divination, and its place in modern Pagan practice.

Culture & Ethics

Satanic holidays

The different holiday calendars published by the Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple, with dates and organizational meanings.

Demonology & Spirits

Set

An ancient Egyptian deity associated with conflict and disorder, also reinterpreted in modern Setian religion.

Demonology & Spirits

Lilith

Lilith is a figure whose history spans ancient Near Eastern demonology, Jewish folklore, medieval protective magic, Kabbalah, literature, feminist reinterpretation, modern occultism, and contemporary Satanic or Luciferian religion. She is often introduced today as “Adam’s first wife,” but that familiar story is medieval rather than biblical. Earlier sources describe beings called lilith or lilin in…

Devotional Practice

Prayer in theistic Satanism

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.

Devotional Practice

Meditation and contemplation

Meditation in theistic Satanism refers to contemplative practices used to focus attention, examine experience, cultivate devotional awareness, or create a deliberate setting for approaching Satan and other spirits. There is no single Satanic meditation method. Practices range from silent sitting and breath awareness to visualization, repetitive prayer, sigil contemplation, journaling, and extended…

Texts & Sources

Book of Enoch

1 Enoch brings together accounts of heavenly beings, judgment, celestial order, and righteousness. It is a composite work rather than a single continuous biography of Enoch.

Culture & Ethics

Tarot

Tarot developed as playing cards before becoming an influential tool of occult interpretation. The history of the cards differs from later claims about their hidden origins.

Theistic Satanism

Demonolatry

Demonolatry refers to devotion to demons or daemonic beings. Modern accounts vary in theology, authority, and their relationship with historical grimoires.

Theology & Cosmology

Polytheism

Polytheism involves belief in multiple deities. The existence of several gods does not by itself settle their relationships, moral authority, or the forms of devotion directed toward them.

Culture & Ethics

Unverified personal gnosis

Unverified personal gnosis identifies a spiritual claim or interpretation whose source is personal experience rather than established textual or communal authority.

Demonology & Spirits

Cimejes

A mounted Goetic marquis associated with grammar, rhetoric, logic, and hidden treasure.

Organizations & Traditions

Global Order of Satan

A nontheistic Satanic organization whose public principles emphasize self-determination, compassion, and responsibility.

History

Rosicrucianism

Traditions associated with the rose and cross, the early modern Rosicrucian manifestos, and later initiatory societies.

Demonology & Spirits

Asmodeus

Asmodeus appears in the narrative of Tobit and in later magical and demonological literature. His different roles reflect the purposes of those texts.