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Dark Side Of The 60s

[...] as it has been observed by probability theorists, the largest proportion of the truth arrives as a
faculty of coincidence. [...]

[...] To fully appreciate the law of synchronity -- the meaning that can be revealed by an inadvertent
encounter, or a chance event -- it is necessary to put aside all rational logic of reasoning to
concentrate instead on the accidents and chances that provide new ways of understanding. The
hazards and casualties that happen to us are intelligible only within a system of meaning, and
meaning is the products not of individual minds, but of relationships. It is this pattern of relationships
that both defines the individual and is defined by him, and it is this complex of affinities that perishes
with death. The law of synchronity is grounded in this dark arrangement of contingencies. As
Confucian scholar Wang Fu-Chih puts it, "only a man of highest integrity can understand this law;
basing itself on its revelation he can grasp the symbols, and observing its small expressions, he can
understand the auguries".

In other words, the devil is in the details.

- Brottman, pp. 33-34

1969 is remembered, not only for being the year of the first Moon flight, but also for
the gruesome murders committed in California by Charles Manson and his bunch
of crazed disciples, called the Manson Family. For many observers this marked the
end of the 60s 'Flower Power' and the hippie culture of peace and love, and also
the entering into the grimmer era of the 70s, 80s and 90s. The Manson murders
also whetted the morbid public appetite, indicating the dark side of the 60s, which
remained there under the decade's sunny and carefree outlook. It is also a story of
strange coincidences and synchronities; with occult connections and rumours of
conspiracy abounding.

'The Age of Aquarius' was the utopian project prevailing in the minds of the youth
of the 1960s. No more society's 'games', no more 'hang-ups', no more 'Man', no
more repression, no more war. Mind-altering substances, occultism, free love and
rock music would pave the way for the new Aquarian society, out of the grimness
and darkness of the Age of Pisces, the sinister Kali Yuga period of the Hindus,
Philip K. Dick's 'Black Iron Prison'. The hippies would embrace both J.R.R.
Tolkien's Luddite pastoralism (where magic was ever-present, and not yet
suffocated by the 'satanic mills' as described by William Blake and the crude
machinery of Industrial era), and Marshall McLuhan's techno-utopian 'Global
Village' with its trans-continental electronic neuro-circuitry. The time was right for
the sages, visionaries, revolutionaries, idealists and dreamers but also for the
snake-oil merchants, sideshow hucksters, rip-off merchants, opportunists and false
prophets.

Charlie Don't Surf

Born in 1934, Charles Manson spent his first term

in reformatory school at the age of nine. By the
time he drifted to San Francisco in 1967, Manson
had spent most of his adult life in jail, mostly for
such offences as car theft and credit-card fraud.
He also worked some time as a pimp. He found
himself in the midst of the new 'psychedelic'
culture. The hippies of the Haight-Asbury district
took LSD, smoked pot, and called themselves
'flower children'. No one cared that Manson had
been a jailbird; on the contrary, it was regarded as
being greatly to his credit. Manson was older than
most of the 'drop-outs', and girls seemed inclined
to regard him as a father-substitute figure.
Runaways began to gather round him, and soon the Manson menage in the Haight
district seemed to be full of emotionally deprived girls and admiring youths
(Manson seems to have been bisexual). If they had never read the 60s counter-
culture philosopher Herbert Marcuse, they nevertheless practised his idea that
sex could be used a a form of 'unrepressive sublimation' to unfold our higher
possibilities.

By 1968, Manson was trying hard to move into the pop music business; Manson's
'Family' even moved for a time into the luxury home of a member, Dennis Wilson,
of a successful group called The Beach Boys, best known for their odes to
California beach life and surfing (later on, Wilson claimed that he had inadvertently
"founded" the Family with Manson). Manson lived with Dennis before the murders
for about six months. He saw himself as a would-be singer-songwriter. He
recorded several songs in Brian's home studio, and one of them, 'Never Learn Not
To Love' (originally titled: 'Cease To Exist') was even released as the B-side of a
Beach Boys single and on their album 20/20. Manson's lack of success, though,
seems to have made him increasingly embittered. The 'family', now numbering
about thirty (and including children) moved out to a ranch owned by an old man
named George Spahn, and lived there in exchange for cleaning out the stables.

With so much drug-taking, violence was inevitable. In July 1969, Manson shot a
black dope-dealer named Bernard Crowe in the chest; in fact, Crowe recovered
and decided not to go to the police. Later that month, Manson and his friend
Bobby Beausoleil tried to persuade another drug-dealer, Gary Hinman, to
finance a move to Death Valley; when Hinman refused, he was tortured, then
stabbed to chest and left to die. On the wall above his body, Beausoleil wrote
'Political piggy' in blood -- intended to lead the police to the belief that the Black
Panther movement was responsible. Manson's plan was to cause a revolution by
setting whites against blacks (whom he detested).

On 9 August 1969, four Manson followers -- three girls and a man -- drove out to a
house in Benedict Canyon which had been earlier rented by Terry Melcher, the
son of Doris Day and a man in the pop music business (he had produced among
all bands like The Byrds) against whom Manson had a grudge. Melcher was an
independent producer working with the Beatles' Apple Records label, and the
Beatle-obsessed Manson thought he would get a recording contract through him.
When Melcher didn't sign Manson, he became an object of Manson's wrath and
probably Melcher was supposed to be one of the victims, but Manson didn't know
that Terry had split from that house three months before. Anyway, that Hollywood
mansion at 10050 Cielo Drive, Los Angeles, was assaulted by Manson's disciples,
who brutally butchered a group of people, who were spending some time there;
among them the current resident Sharon Tate, a film actress and the wife of Polish
film director Roman Polanski; Tate being at the time pregnant with Polanski's
child.

At the time Polanski was in London, but Sharon Tate had three guests to supper,
two men and a woman. Afterwards they took MDA, a psychedelic drug, and went
into various states of dissociation (Tate was not under influence because of her
pregnancy). As the Manson Family members entered the drive, they encountered a
youth who had been visiting the houseboy; he was shot in the head. Then they
went into the house and killed Sharon Tate and her three guests. The men were
shot, the women stabbed to death. The next morning, a maid ran screaming into
the street after finding the actress and four others slaughtered in a grotesque
scene. The word 'Pig', written with Tate's blood, was found from the murder scene.

Bodies were scattered about the lush green estate. Sharon Tate, who was 8 1/2
months pregnant, had been stabbed to death, then hung from a rafter in the living
room. Also slain were Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune;
Wojciech (Voytek) Frykowski, a Polish friend of Polanski's; Jay Sebring,
hairdresser to the stars; and Steven Parent, a young man shot while leaving the
cottage of his friend, the caretaker.

The murders created the sensation Manson had hoped for; the following day, the
'family' watched the television news-casts with satisfaction. By that evening, every
gun and guard dog in the Los Angeles area had been bought by frantic
householders. Manson decided to strike again while the iron was hot. That
evening, after taking LSD, he led six followers to a house in the affluent Los Feliz
district of Los Angeles, the home of a supermarket owner, Leno LaBianca and his
wife Rosemary. Manson walked into their bedroom with a gun and tied them up,
then sent in three followers, who stabbed the LaBiancas to death. They wrote
'Death to pigs' in blood on a door, and 'Helter Skelter', Manson's code word for the
revolt that would occur when the alarmed whites rose up against the blacks.

But the rising failed to occur; Los Angeles was too accustomed to mass murder to
over-react. In the following month, the 'family' moved out to the remote Death
Valley. When Manson set on fire a bulldozer belonging to the State rangers, the
police raided the ranch and arrested all the hippies. And after more than a month in
jail, a family member named Susan Atkins, who had taken part in both sets of
murders, told her cell-mate about the killings, and word leaked back to the police.

Charlie Guenther was the man who really broke the Manson case. He worked the
Gary Hinman job for Los Angeles Sheriff's Homicide and busted Manson acolytes
Mary Brunner and Bobby Beausoleil, who had written 'Pig' and 'Political Piggy' on
Hinman's walls after they killed him; similar slogans were scrawled at the Tate-
LaBianca crime scenes. Guenther went to LAPD and laid out the Hinman murder.
Brunner and Beausoleil were in custody during the Tate-LaBianca time frame.
Guenther told the LAPD to check out their friends at the Spahn Movie Ranch. The
LAPD ignored Guenther's advice. They solved Tate-LaBianca by fluke luck several
months later.

The trial that followed was one of the longest and most expensive in Los Angeles
history. Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor -- who later wrote the book Helter
Skelter -- called the killings "probably the most bizarre mass murder case we've
ever had in America." Charles Manson did his best to turn it into an indictment of
society and his judges, explaining that the murders had been committed out of
love. Asked if she thought the killing of eight people was unimportant, Susan Atkins
retorted by asking whether the killing of thousands with napalm was important. In
her memoir, "Headline Justice," reporter Theo Wilson recalled a 10-month trial
with "testimony that went from horrifying to ludicrous ... witnesses with names like
'Lotsapoppa, Snake and Ouisch' ... threats of self-immolation and other destruction
... a defense attorney disappearing, his drowned undiscovered until many months
later on the very day that the defendants received death sentences from the jury."

Manson's three women co-defendants, Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and
Patricia Krenwinkel, were convicted with him after taking the stand and
attempting to absolve him by admitting their own deadly deeds. Another defendant,
Charles "Tex" Watson, was found guilty in a separate trial. Their death sentences
were commuted to life when the death penalty was briefly outlawed in America in
1972.

President Nixon had denounced Manson even before he and his five co-
defendants had been found guilty, and predictably, Manson became a hero of the
West Coast 'underground' network. But the trial had the effect of convincing the
rest of the world that the whole movement of social revolt was a form of mindless
emotionalism whose arguments defied logic; it produced, in fact, precisely the kind
of revulsion against the left that the McCarthy witch hunts had created against the
right in the 50s. A suitable scapegoat is always needed, and in America, at least,
the Manson family had discredited 'revolution', as the writer Colin Wilson
concludes.

Web of Coincidences

One aspect of Manson's philosophy especially puzzled me: his strange attitude toward fear. He not
only preached that fear was beautiful, he often told the Family that they should live in a constant
state of fear. What did he mean by that? [ ... ]

To Charlie fear was the same thing as awareness [ ... ] The more fear you have, the more
awareness, hence the more love. When you're really afraid, you come to "Now". And when you are
at Now, you are totally conscious.

Manson claimed that children were more aware than adults, because they were naturally afraid. But
animals were even more aware than people, he said, because they always live at Now. The coyote
was the most aware creature there was, Manson maintained, because he was completely paranoid.
Being frightened of everything he missed nothing.

- Bugliosi: p. 320

As most people know, the star of Roman Polanski's 1968 horror classic
Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow, is the ex-Mrs. Woody Allen (and the ex-Mrs.
Frank Sinatra). There's a connection to her and the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls,
starring Sharon Tate (who had also been in Polanski's vampire spoof Dance of the
Vampires the same year) -- one of Tate's co-stars in the film, Barbara Parkins,
was best known from TV's soap opera Peyton Place, which had made Mia Farrow
famous. (At some point, Farrow allegedly feared she would be the next victim of
the murder spree.)

So, if we look closely, we'll find a connection between Peyton Place, Valley of the
Dolls, Rosemary's Baby and Charles Manson!

Then to The Beatles: 'Helter Skelter'

and 'Piggies' were some songs off
The Beatles' White Album (1968),
which inspired the murder spree of
the Manson Family, who slaughtered
Sharon Tate, who was the wife of
Roman Polanski, who directed
Rosemary's Baby. (Manson and his
followers believed the songs held in
them some hidden messages,
specifically meant for the Family.)
Furthermore, as peculiar
coincidences go, The Beatles had
Mia Farrow as one of their
companions on their famous 1968 excursion to India, and John Lennon of The
Beatles wrote 'Dear Prudence' (also a song on White Album) for Mia Farrow's
younger sister Prudence Farrow (on a lighter note, "Prudence" was also the name
of puppy Polanski gave to Sharon Tate). Sadie Mae Glutz was the alias given to
the Family member Susan Atkins by Manson even before the appearance of the
White Album song 'Sexy Sadie' -- which was directed toward The Beatles' one-time
guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, with whom they felt disappointed. Ironically, also
Sadie/Susan would let Manson down by carelessly talking about the murders to
her cellmates, which was eventually used as a proof in the trial.

It is claimed that at a party in California in 1973, Lennon went berserk, hurling a

chair out the window, smashing mirrors, heaving a TV against the wall, and
screaming nonsense about Roman Polanski being to blame. And to give a sinister
end to the story filled with synchronities (allegedly Lennon and Ono had their own
interest in the occult), John Lennon was shot in 1980 in front of the Dakota Building
(picture on the right) in New York -- which was used when filming Rosemary's
Baby. Also, Rosemary LaBianca was another victim of Manson's murder spree,
which in press would later be called the Tate-LaBianca murders. Mark Chapman
was the name of Lennon's killer -- Winifred Chapman was the maid who had first
found the bodies at 10050 Cielo Drive.

The Beatles members had frequented London's Indica Books and Gallery (this is
where Lennon met Yoko Ono), which opened in 1966, where also Roman
Polanski and Sharon Tate visited as regular guests -- the film-maker then directing
in England Dance of the Vampires (a.k.a. The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967), with
his future wife starring.

Thematically, there are some similarities between Dance of the Vampires and
Rosemary's Baby, which seem all the more significant in the aftermath of what
happened. In the former film, the suckers of blood are triumphant in the end,
spreading evil to the whole world after heroes have failed to stop them; in the latter,
the ultimate purpose of all diabolic rites is achived -- the Devil is come among us.
In the former film, Polanski's character Alfred is -- even more chillingly in the light of
history -- late to save Sharon Tate's Sarah from the vampires; in the latter, Guy
Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) is willing to sacrifice his wife, Mia Farrow's
Rosemary, to give birth to the Devil, and in the process gain worldly success
himself. In Dance of the Vampires, the community of vampires gains victory; in
Rosemary's Baby, the coven of witches and Satanists celebrate their Year One by
the birth of Devil's offspring.

Furthermore, it should be noted that Krzysztof Komeda, who composed music for
Rosemary's Baby, died soon afterwards in curious circumstances because of the
head injuries received during a drinking binge, adding to all notoriety gained by
Polanski's 1968 film.

1966: Year One

1966 seems to be a crucial year in this story. In March

of that year, John Lennon gave his interview to a
British journalist, the Stateside results of which
seemed to be somewhat unfortunate for the Beatle.
When syndicated to the USA that summer, this
statement given in the interview by Lennon infuriated
the conservative religious right: "Christianity will go. It
will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm
right, and I will be proved right. We [The Beatles] are
more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will
go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them
twisting it that ruins it for me." In the South, where
rock'n'roll had exploded with Elvis during the previous
decade, mass burnings of Beatles records ensued.

In April 8, 1966, the Time magazine had published its famous "Is God Dead?"
issue, also featured in Ira Levin's original book of Rosemary's Baby and the film.
The question appeared on the cover of the magazine in bold red letters on a jet
black background. (In 1882 Friedrich Nietzsche in The Gay Science had a
character called "the madman" running through the marketplace shouting "God is
dead!", but in the book, no one took the madman seriously.) The Time magazine
article reported that a group of young theologians calling themselves Christian
atheists, led by Thomas J. J. Altizer at Emory University, had claimed God was
dead. As was the case with US reactions to Lennon's Jesus statement, this hit a
cultural nerve and in an appearance on The Merv Griffin Show Altizer was greeted
by shouts of "Kill him! Kill him!" (Altizer continued to develop an increasingly
apocalyptic theology but did not receive a grant or much attention since 1966.)

As is fitting, Anton Szandor LaVey, who founded The Church of Satan (which
ideology was somehow Nietzschean with all its elitist "superman" overtones) in that
same year 1966, appears uncredited as an actor and a "technical adviser" on
Rosemary's Baby -- a film which theme is connected closely with Satanism. LaVey
had launched his Church of Satan on Walpurgisnacht, 30 April, 1966. Some
famous Chuch members were, among all, Sammy Davis Jr., and there has been
some talk of Jayne Mansfield's connection with LaVey, which has been
subsequently denied by all parties concerned. There were also LaVey connections
to the Family members, especially Susan Atkins, who had worked previously as a
go-go dancer at LaVey's Topless Witches Review show as... "Sharon King".

The Beatles and "The Aquarian Conspiracy"

The first United States-grown rock group of that [psychedelic] type, the Grateful Dead, was
generated as a British intelligence operation by the Occult Bureau of [Aldous] Huxley and [Gregory]
Bateson out of the Palo Alto Veteran's Hospital where they were doing LSD and related
experiments.
- Why would British intelligence want to put out a rock group?
This is part of the Satanism business. Call it the counterculture. Call it the Dionysius model of the
counterculture. Rock [music] is essentially a revival of the ancient Dionysic, Bacchic rituals. Lots of
people for long periods of time in that kind of particular rhythmic ritual which was probably struck
upon empirically many thousands of years ago for this type of cult. It does have a relationship to the
Alpha rhythms of the brain. It does produce these sorts of states. If combined with a little alcohol
and more, shall we say, mood shaping substances, with youth, with funny sex, this does produce a
profound change of a countercultural type.

Another word for it: New Age. The longer term: Age of Aquarius. People were experimenting with
various utopian models, constructing small groups experimentally which were considered New Age
types.

- Lyndon LaRouche on the 60's counter-culture, rock music, LSD and the occult (see also this...)

It's understandable that the whole 1960s cultural upheaval was to cause worry
among the more conservative commentators, who didn't understand the new
sounds, styles and ideas, and greeted them as the heralds of something more
sinister than merely as some passing fashions or fads. Such conspiracy buffs as
John Coleman (in his Conspirator's Hierachy - The Committee of 300) and
Lyndon LaRouche, quoted above, go as far as to claim that "Beatlemania" and
the subsequent rise of countercultural rock movement were in fact meticulously
constructed by Tavistock Institute, a cover organisation of British intelligence
service MI6, as to subvert American culture and institutions. This whole affair
would be a part of the larger countercultural "Aquarian Conspiracy" instilled in
Britain against America...

Coleman goes as far as to confuse music of The Beatles with the "atonal" 12-tone
music of 1920s German composers like Arnold Schönberg, and claims that the
acclaimed cultural critic Theodor Adorno actually wrote the lyrics for The Beatles!
The next quote is probably the most telling of Coleman's attitudes towards the
whole rock music culture:

Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute, came other
"Made in England" rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write their cult lyrics and
compose all the "music." I hate to use these beautiful words in the context of "Beatlemania"; it
reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used when referring to the filthy interaction between
two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To call "rock" music, is an insult, likewise the language used in
"rock lyrics."

- Dr. John Coleman: Conspirator's Hierachy - The Committee of 300

If you hate The Beatles, popular music and youth culture, fair enough, but at least
get your facts right.

To have some counter-balance here, the writer Alex Constantine claims in his
Covert War Against Rock that rock artists with connections to counterculture, such
as Lennon, were systematically harassed and persecuted by US authorities and
covert operations like COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS. So, both right-wing
and left-wing conspiracy fans would indeed have a field day with this case.

Manson's Influences?

Manson is known to have dabbled with Scientology, but it seems his involvement
has been brief. Vincent Bugliosi claims also that his teachings had some surprising
similarities to those of The Process Church of the Final Judgment, the notorious
occult sect of Robert de Grimston.

In 1963, Grimston, then known as Robert Moore and Mary Ann Lean had met at
the Hubbard Institute of Scientology, on Fitzroy Street, London. Both were training
to be "auditors". They married soon after, and in 1964 left Scientology to set up
their own system, Compulsions Analysis. They also adopted the name de
Grimston. In 1966 (the same year LaVey also inaugurated his Church of Satan in
San Francisco), the cult decamped to Xtul, Mexico, on the north coast of Yucatan.
There they apparently discovered Satan. Returning to London in 1967 and funded
by a member's inheritance, they turned their Mayfair mansion into a Satanic
palace, with all-night coffee bar, movie house and book store, where they sold
issues of their magazine, The Process, devoted to Hitler, Satan and gore.
Processeans went around in black capes, turtlenecks and silver crosses. They held
telepathy classes and preached the coming apocalypse. They approached pop
musicians as possible converts. Mick Jagger's then-girlfriend Marianne Faithfull
posed in the infamous 'Fear' issue of The Process magazine in 1967. The
legendary bandleader Graham Bond got also involved with The Process and died
in mysterious circumstances under a tube at Finsbury Park station. Late '67 The
Process hit the States, in LA sidling up to members of the West Coast rock
establishment -- and Charlie Manson.

"Learn to love fear" was one Process teaching. "Soror H" wrote in a Process
newsletter from London: "Manson was clever in his choice of beliefs: the whole
Beatles Helter Skelter thing was, of course, a model to instill the PROCESS into
his followers, who were more likely to respond to such 'turned-on' symbols than the
more traditional ones. The whole thing was a scam; a guru trick, but Manson's
intention was to open up the occult centres of perception by a unique pop-based
outlook influenced primarily by the PROCESS." Later on, it was denied, though,
that Manson would ever have been an actual Process member, but it's possible the
Church's teachings may have influenced him. It has to be remembered, though,
that the late 1960s spawned various occult and "satanic" cults of which The
Process and LaVey's Church of Satan were just some examples. Something was
obviously in the air...

The CIA Connection?

Operation CHAOS, launched in 1968, was the Central Intelligence Agency's

response to civil unrest and cultural upheaval. The targets of CHAOS -- as was
also the case with FBI's COINTELPRO -- were the political dissidents such as the
Black Panthers, politically active hippies and public figures such as rock musicians,
and the "restless" youth in general.

The use of informants and provocateurs was part of a massive sub rosa campaign
to subvert the forces of dissent in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Joining in the
CIA and and the FBI in this effort was an alphabet soup of federal agencies: the
Internal Revenue Servive (IRS), the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
(BNDD), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HWW), the intelligence divisions of
all the military services, and numerous local police forces. Over a quarter of a
million Americans were under "active surveillance" during this period, and dossiers
were kept on the lawful political activities and personal lives of millions more.
Those affiliated with black militant, antiwar, and New Left groups were prime
targets of dirty ticks and other underhanded tactics designed to stir up factionalism
and "neutralize" political activists.

The CIA had studied the effects of LSD since the 1950's as means of mind control
and "unconventional warfare". It was the medical tests conducted by the Agency
that first launched LSD into the youth counterculture, through such enthusiastic
advocates as Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. And consequently, what could be
better "human guinea pig farm" for the CIA than Haight-Ashbury, the epicentre of
60s psychedelic counterculture?

It is suggested that Manson had contacts with the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic's
personnel who conducted government-backed tests on human behaviour, one of
them Roger Smith, Manson's parole officer when he was released in prison March
1967. Also Dr. David Smith of the Clinic, according to Vincent Bugliosi in Helter
Skelter, "got to know the [Manson] group through his work in the Haight-Ashbury
Free Clinic". LSD was instrumental in Manson's power trip and "guru" trip, for his
followers to slavishly follow Manson's murderous instructions.

Mid-summer of 1969, one month before the Family massacres, Operation CHAOS
went into the most tight security mode -- just another coincidence? To what extent
were the CIA aware of Manson's plans?

Manson had had contacts with his victims beforehand. He had met Abigail "Gibby"
Folger, the wealthy coffee heiress found dead at Cielo Drive, at the home of the
Mamas and Papas member Cass Elliot (who had also been approached by The
Process). Folger doled out cash to Manson on occasion, then stopped; the result of
which was that Manson turned against her. When Manson lived in San Francisco,
Folger loaned $10,000 to the Straight Theater at Haight and Cole Streets. Manson
then lived on Cole Street, on the same block as the Process Church. Folger also
funded Timothy Leary, the underground film-maker Kenneth Anger, and the
Process Church in the establishment of the "Himalayan Academy", not far from the
Esalen Institute; Manson being a hanger-on at the Himalayan Foundation (a covert
CIA lab?), where he in fact first time may have encountered The Process.

Earlier in the summer of 1969, Abigail Folger had retreated to Big Sur, on the
California coast, at The Esalen Institute, a place for intense psychotherapy for the
wealthy. She had registered as a volunteer social worker for the Los Angeles
County Welfare Department. In 1968, Folger attended fundraisers set up by her
mother to aid the Haight-Asbury Medical Clinic around the same time many of the
Manson family women were being treated there. Despite all her good-doing (or
probably because of their burden) Abigail Folger had somehow fallen into the
darker side of the jetset life. She was, more involved in the drug culture that was
becoming more prevalent, undoubtedly from her association with Wojciech
Frykowski, who was heavily into drugs at the time of murders. The weekend she
was in residence, Charles Manson was an invited guest.

Lucifer Rising

The underground film director Kenneth Anger was Anton Szandor LaVey's one-
time associate and a devotee of the infamous early 20th-century occultist Aleister
Crowley (whose portrait had appeared on the cover of The Beatles 1967 album,
among the celebrities appearing with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band).
Anger himself makes another interesting late-60's occult connection -- also with his
close dealings with The Beatles' biggest "rivals", The Rolling Stones -- and would
later write in his notorious Hollywood Babylon:

The '69 Tate massacre was not Old Hollywood. What befell the red house on Cielo Drive resembled
the devastation caused by a jet plane crash: the Bad Ship Lollipop piloted by Uncle Sugar. Charlie
Manson -- deus ex-garbage can. Wasted lives makes waste, not tragedy. This was the Benedict
Canyon where [the "Golden Age" Hollywood film actor] Paul Bern shot himself; his noble shade now
has mixed company.

Actually, Kenneth Anger plays a part in this story. Anger's one-time lover, musician,
hippie, bisexual rogue and the future-devotee of Manson, Bobby "Cupid"
Beausoleil had been a guitarist in an early line-up of Arthur Lee's Love. 1967,
Anger lived with Beausoleil in San Francisco in an old house where Russian
Embassy had previously resided. There they devoted themselves to some hands-
on experience of Crowley's so-called "magick" -- a practice Beausoleil may have
put to unsavoury use as a henchman for Manson, when he murdered Gary Hinman
at the start of the Family's spree.

Beausoleil was supposed to perform at San Francisco's Straight as lead guitarist in

the September 21, 1967 celebration of "The Equinox of the Gods" with his band,
the Magick Powerhouse of Oz. The 11-piece rock ensemble (11 is a powerful
number in Crowley's cabalistic system, symbolising the double phallus of
homoerotic sex magic) was formed by Kenneth Anger to create the soundtrack for
his forthcoming occult film: Anger planned to film the event as the focal set piece of
his Lucifer Rising, where Beausoleil was going to play the lead. Lucifer Rising was
supposed to depict the downfall, in Crowleyan terms, of the oppressive Aeon of
Osiris (or Christian era), and the movement into the Aeon of Horus (or Lucifer) --
the Crowley-Anger version of the Age of Aquarius, supposedly.

However, Bobby Beausoleil vanished before the evening was through, stealing
Anger's van and several cans of film containing practically the entire master rushes
of the film, 1600 feet of footage. Furious, the occultist Anger was promptly hexing
Beausoleil with the deadly "curse of the toad". Oblivious, Beausoleil sped off
towards LA, but his car broke down just outside an isolated ranch in the middle of
the Californian desert. There, Bobby was met by a bevy of spaced-out hippie
chicks who invited him to stay. He willingly accepted their hospitality and that of the
ranch's owner -- Charlie Manson. The rest is, as they say, history.

Anger would create out of the material he had remaining from Lucifer Rising
another short of his, Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), where also Anger's
friend Anton Szandor LaVey appeared. For Invocation Mick Jagger created some
eerie drony sounds with a Moog synthesizer. In the film Anger uses superimposed
footage such as magical symbols and talismans projected onto actors, spliced and
repeated footage of soldiers leaping out helicopters in Vietnam to create a
backdrop of violence and chaos, and the shots of the Rolling Stones performing in
London's Hyde Park. Towards the end of the film Mick Jagger is seen holding a
child. Bobby Beausoleil's eyes are superimposed on its face, then on the faces of
Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg, thus forming a kind of rock'n'roll pentagram.
In a final puff of smoke a voodoo doll appears holding a sign that reads: "ZAP
YOU'RE PREGNANT -- THAT'S WITCHCRAFT".

Invocation of My Demon Brother: Kenneth Anger as The Magus, Anton Szandor LaVey as Satan. From the same film: Bobby
Beausoleil as Lucifer.

Kenneth Anger and the Stones members had met in London 1967. Author Tony
Sanchez, one of the group's friends, describes that Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger
and Keith Richards (who attended Polanski's and Tate's wedding in 1967), and
their girlfriends Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg, "listened spellbound as
Anger turned them on to Aleister Crowley's powers and ideas". Anger had wanted
to cast for Lucifer Rising Mick Jagger as Lucifer and Keith Richards as Beelzebub,
but the Stones weren't keen on the idea. Anger claims Jagger agreed at first, then
changed his mind.

Anita Pallenberg had met the Rolling Stones in 1965. She immediately began
sexual relations with three out of the five members of the group. Anger,
commenting on Anita, said, "I believe that Anita is, for want of a better word, a
witch.... The occult unit within the Stones was Keith and Anita.... and Brian Jones.
You see, Brian was a witch too." Anger says Jones had a third nipple, on his inner
thigh; the extra nipple traditionally considered a certain sign of being a witch.
Sanchez writes of Anita Pallenberg in his book, Up And Down With The Rolling
Stones,' "She was obsessed with black magic and began to carry a string of garlic
with her everywhere -- even to be -- to ward off vampires. She also had a strange
mysterious old shaker for holy water which she used for some of her rituals. Her
ceremonies became increasingly secret, and she warned me never to interrupt her
when she was working on a spell." He continues, "In her bedroom she kept a huge,
ornate carved chest, which she guarded so jealously that I assumed it was her
drug stash. The house was empty one day, and I decided to take a peep inside.
The drawers were filled with scraps of bone, wrinkled skin and fur from some
strange animals."

In 1967, the Rolling Stones released an album titled Their Satanic Majesties
Request. The next year they would follow with 'Sympathy For The Devil', a key
track on their Let It Bleed album, inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master
and Margarita, and probably by their deals with Kenneth Anger.

Later on, the Stones members' relations with Anger turned sore. Keith Richards
and Anita Pallenberg were due to be wed by Kenneth Anger in a dawn ceremony
on Hampstead Heath, until one morning when Richards came downstairs to find
that the front doors of his house had been taken off their hinges, painted gold and
then replaced. Convinced there was no way Anger could have got into the house to
do this, Richards called off the ceremony, though Anger later claimed that Richards
knew all along and had even given him keys. Jagger also became reticient, burning
all his occult books.

Ironically, it was Bobby Beausoleil who would eventually compose music for the
later version of Lucifer Rising (which premiered not earlier than 1980, starring
Marianne Faithfull), while in prison for Manson murders, after Kenneth Anger had
fallen off with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, who was supposed to score the film.
Talk about the power of forgiveness on the part of Anger...

Sharon Tate Meets the Ghost of Paul Bern

The supernatural trappings of this story certainly don't stop here.

Kenneth Anger tells in his Hollywood Babylon about the 1932 suicide of movie
agent Paul Bern, Hollywood's "Father Confessor". Bern's compassionate nature
had earned him this title, and may have well been one of era's famous film star
Jean Harlow's reasons for marrying this physically unprepossessing intellectual,
twenty-two years her senior. Bern was studio boss Irving Thalberg's assistant at
MGM and had been instrumental in bringing Harlow to the Culver City factory.

The odd couple was married on July 2, 1932. Two months later, on September 5,
1932, the butler found Bern's body in his wife's all-white bedroom in their benedict
Canyon Mansion. He had shot himself. He was nude, sprawled in front of a full-
length mirror, drenched in Jean's favourite perfume, Mitsuoko, shot through the
head by a .38 pistol which lay by his side. Jean Harlow was visiting her mother at a
time.

The butler did not notify the police but phoned MGM instead. Soon Louis B. Mayer
and Thalberg were on the scene. Mayer found a suicide note on top of Harlow's
vanity table. It seems Bern had a sexual problem and that he had tried to effect
intercourse by artifical means, with a realistic phony phallus. Despite Mayer's initial
attempts to hide Bern's note, he turned it over to the police by the insistence of his
studio publicist. The next day Bern's first wife, a blonde would-be starlet Dorothy
Millette drowned herself in the Sacramento River. Later on, there was some
speculation that Paul Bern's death might have been a murder.

By 1966, Bern and Harlow's Benedict Canyon mansion at Easton Drive had ended
up to Jay Sebring, the "hairstylist to stars", who was an ex-boyfriend of Sharon
Tate's and one of Cielo Drive's 1969 fellow murder victims. Tate was house-sitting
this same residence one night while Sebring was away for business. She was
awakened by an intruder in the bedroom.

Tate later told columnist Dick Kleiner, "I saw this creepy little man. He looked like
all the descriptions I have ever read of Paul Bern." The ghost began to run around
the room haphazardly, clumsily bumping into furniture and cursing loudly, while
blood spurted from the hole in his head. Frightened, Tate hurried downstairs only
to be confronted by the horrifying apparition of someone bound to the newel post,
with his throat slashed. Tate later said that she somehow knew that the mutilated
figure was Sebring. Then, the apparition vanished.

In 1969, when they were found, Tate and Sebring's bodies were bound by a nylon
rope hanging from a roof beam. Sharon Tate had unknowingly seen a vision of her
fate in 1966.

All Of Them Witches

As for Roman Polanski, Mikita Brottman's Hollywood Hex accounts how less than
a year after his eight-months pregnant wife was knifed to death by the Manson
Family, Polanski commenced filming William Shakespeare’s bloodiest play,
Macbeth (1971). Notoriously, there's been talk of the "Macbeth's curse",
misfortunes that have reportedly happened during the theatrical productions of this
play. (The theory goes that Shakespeare included actual black magic spells in the
incantations of the play's weird sisters. Those who appear in the play or those who
mention the play's name within the confines of a theater, other than on the stage,
risk having these evils brought down on them.) While the filming proceeded
smoothly for the most part, eerie parallels between the screenplay and the Manson
murders first raised eyebrows among the crew and, later, among critics. We are
reminded how Sharon Tate, was hanged before being stabbed to death, and how
that image (a body thrashing at the end of a rope) became a dominant visual motif
in the movie. The famous "out damn’d spots" scene in which Lady Macbeth tries to
expunge the blood on her hands also takes on double-meaning when we read that
Manson’s followers tried to wash their own blood-stained hands at a near-by
garden hose minutes after murdering Polanski’s wife. There are countless other
parallels: the notion of a fetus being "untimely ripped from his mother’s womb"; the
description of small children being massacred (which Polanski visualizes with
copious blood); and ultimately, Shakespeare’s description of Scotland as a
lacerated woman and "each day a gash / Is added to her wounds."

Brottman claims that Polanski’s macabre vision of Macbeth owes its existence to
Charlie Manson. One is the product of the other. Or perhaps, and this is the heart
of the argument, they are both products of each other. They both come from some
strange well of supernaturalism. And, as Brottman suggests, their ultra-violent
images intertwine until we can’t tell them apart. When actor Terence Baylor as
MacDuff was supposed describe the death of his wife and child, Polanski
instructed him, "You’ll do it this way. I know."

The Age Of Aquarius Turns Into The Age Of Antichrist

Anton Szandor LaVey claimed to have cast a venomous curse on the hippie
culture he loathed. This happened in a ceremony entitled 'The Rising Forth', which
took place on that same fateful night of 8 August 1969. A black-clad group
gathered in a candle-lit chamber to launch this hex with the words: "Beware, you
psychedelic vermin! Your smug pomposity with its thin disguise of tolerance will
serve you no longer! We know your mark and recognise it well. We walk the night
as the villains no longer! Our steeds await and their eyes are ablaze with the fires
of Hell!" Woodstock in August 1969 had almost coincided with Manson murders
that LaVey claimed this magical working had triggered.

Also the arrest of Family members in late took place about the same time with the
disastrous Rolling Stones outdoor concert of Altamont in 6 December 1969, which,
with the death toll of three and over a hundred injured, marked for many the end of
the era of peace and love. The Hell's Angels were hired to act as "security", but
finally it was the audience who needed security from the rampaging Angels, who
kept assaulting crowd members. As the Stones launched into their song, 'Under My
Thumb, audience member Meredith Hunter pulled a gun; the Angels claim he
aimed it at Jagger, wearing sorcerer's robes with the Greek letter Omega (the last
letter in Greek alphabet, meaning also "the end") adorned over it; others claimed
Hunter was defending himself from the Angels. Within moments Hunter was
swamped by Angels, who stabbed and kicked him to death. The Stones stopped
playing, Jagger -- unaware of what had just happened -- remarking: "‘Something
very funny always happens when we start that number".

David Dalton wrote on Manson:

When you need a monster one will appear. The one thing that most determines the way we think
about Manson was his timing. He is a demon of the Zeitgeist, immaculate in his terror and
confusion. Appearing with almost supernatural precision in the last months of the '60s, he seemed
to call into question everything about the counterculture. His malign arrival synchronised so
perfectly with America's nervous breakdown that is hard not to bestow occult meanings on him.

The idea was that he was merely a projection of our darkest thoughts is a card he played ruthlessly.
He endlessly toyed with the idea that he was just a mirror, a materialisation. Manson's cobbling
together of hippy philosophy -- apocalyptic prophecy, Zen paradox, radical politics, pop occultism,
acid logic, hipster jargon -- was seamless and so mesmerising that any challenge would ricochet
back on you.

The canonization of Manson by certain segments of the counterculture was a

measure of how desperate and bitter people had become in the final days of the
1960s. Tuesday's Child, an underground paper in Los Angeles, named him Man of
the Year and ran his picture with the word "hippie" as the caption. The
Weathermen went a step further by lauding Manson as a heroic, acid-ripped street
figher who offed some "rich honky pigs"; the Weatherpeople proclaimed 1970 "The
Year of the Fork", after the instrument of LaBiancas' slaughter.

Vincent Bugliosi goes as far as to compare Charlie Manson to Adolf Hitler (known
also for his occult interests); it is known that Manson himself was fascinated with
Hitler and the Third Reich. What made both Hitler and Manson (morbidly) intriguing
was the inexplicable and hypnotic -- if not downright demonic -- charisma, and the
influence they exerted over their followers. In a typical twist, Manson compared his
position to that of the US President, who sent young Americans to be killed in
Vietnam. Unlike in other known case histories of serial killers, who mostly were
loners acting individually, Manson knew how to delegate.

Family Legacy

There are also some bizarre afterwords to this story, as the popular culture's
infatuation with Manson still goes on.

Trent Reznor, the main man of the industrial dance act Nine Inch Nails, claimed
that he had -- totally without his knowing, he insisted -- rented the same Cielo Drive
mansion (which address had now, for understandable reasons, been changed) to
record NIN's 1994 album Downward Spiral, whose many songs, such as Piggies
and March of the Pigs, were closely entangled around Manson mythology.

Furthermore, Reznor claimed, many freak occurrences happened during the

recording of album, such as various electric devices turning on and off without any
visible reason; strange dark figures seen on the surveillance monitors, and other
classic haunted house phenomena detected. Was this just a sick publicity stunt
from Reznor, trying to milk on Manson's popular counter-culture status, or was
there actually some truth behind these claims; this probably can't be said for sure.

Later, Reznor produced in the very same Hollywood Hills house another shock-
horror rock band, which called themselves Marilyn Manson -- that was also the
artist name of their flamboyant leader, one Brian Warner, who, suitably, had once
been Anton Szandor LaVey's pupil...

Nowadays the ex-Cielo Drive 10050 mansion has been totally demolished, with a
new construction all over the site. The address is now 10066.

As for Charles Manson, now in California's Corcoran State Prison, he is still said to
get four fan letters a day; more mail than any prisoner in the United States.

Recommended reading

"Democracy's Baby", an essay by Jason Wynd (sadly offline now) tells one
version of what might have happened: was the Manson case just an intricate
Manchurian Candidate or even a Kennedy assassination-type of plot to put an end
to the 60's counter-culture by demonising hippy? Or was even more involved
there?

Conspiracy theories abound: it was just too convenient for the Nixon regime -- let's
get a gang of crazed hippies on LSD to murder a bunch of Hollywood celebrities,
add some Beatles quotes in the whole messy soup (remember Lennon's anti-
establishment stance), and voilá: you have successfully discredited the whole
1960s counterculture.

And to think of all supernatural and occult connections of this story -- is there really
some of kind of curse or just bad karma? There are just too many strange
coincidences around. One thing that is sure is that the investigations will go on at
the pHinnWeb Bunker...

Bibliography:
 Kenneth Anger: Hollywood Babylon. (New York: Dell, 1975)
 Gavin Baddeley: Lucifer Rising. Sin, Devil Worship & Rock'n'Roll. (London: Plexus Books, 1999)
 Mikita Brottman: Hollywood Hex - An Illustrated History of Cursed Movies. Creation Cinema
Collection #13. (London: Creation Books, 1999)
 Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter. The True Story of the Manson Murders. (New York:
WW Norton & Co, 1974/1994)
 Ivan Butler: The Cinema of Roman Polanski. (London/New York: Zwemmer-Barnes, 1969)
 Alex Constantine: The Covert War Against Rock: What You Don't Know About the Deaths of Jim
Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Bob Marley,
Peter Tosh, John Lennon, The Notorious B.I.G. (Venice, CA: Feral House, 2000).
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 Erik Davis: TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. (San Francisco:
Harmony Books, 1998)
 James Ellroy: My Dark Places (London: Century Books/Random House, 1996)
 Mia Farrow: What Falls Away: A Memoir (New York: Bantam, 1997)
 Simon Goddard: Luck of the Devil -- Kenneth Anger. Uncut, January 2002, p. 108.
 Gary Valentine (a.k.a. Lachman): Season of the Witch. Mojo, September 1999, pp. 78-89.
 Gary Valentine Lachman: Turn Off Your Mind. The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age
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 Colin Wilson: A Criminal History of Mankind (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984/1990), pp. 625-630

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Anton Lavey

THE TRUTH ABOUT SATANIC CULTS

One of the delusions that we will clear up at the outset of this expose is the lie that leading
Satanist’s do not believe in or truly worship the devil. First of all it should be understood
that Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan viewed Satan as a true entity that he
truly worshipped before his death. Anton LaVey deceived a lot of people who joined the
Church of Satan by claiming that Satan only represented the repressed forces of nature but
was not a real entity. In my interviews with former Charles Manson family member Susan
Atkins, who is still in prison after being convicted of eight murders, Atkins blew the lid off
of Anton’s lie. As a former associate of Anton LaVey’s, who danced for him and spent
personal time with him before joining the Manson family, Atkins was privy to
conversations with LaVey before he became popular. Atkins told me repeatedly that while
LaVey promotes a watered down, palatable form of Satanism to the ignorant masses which
he is deceiving, he acknowledged the exact opposite to her and to his inner core of Satanist
in the church of Satan. Susan Atkins told me that LaVey told her emphatically while she
was in his home that they truly worshipped Satan as a real entity and as the one who began
the initial rebellion against God. Atkins also stated:

Susan Atkins
“Anton told me that as a Satanist he does believe in the God of the bible but he refused to
worship him and made a conscious decision to worship Satan instead.” (Personal interview
with Susan Atkins)

We have pictures of Atkins with LaVey in his ritual chamber when she associated with the
Church of Satan. LaVey was aware that few people were ignorant enough to truly turn their
lives over to Satan, knowing that they would not only be allowing themselves to be
deceived by their worst enemy but that they would spend eternity in the fiery torments of
hell. LaVey therefore presented a seeker sensitive, user-friendly form of Satanism in the
hope that it might appeal to the masses he was seeking to deceive. LaVey sought to put a
spin on Satanism as a kinder and gentler form of Devil worship claiming that Satan merely
represents a force in nature and that rather than Satanist’s sacrificing animals and little
children they are animal activist who love children. All of this was done to garner unwitting
recruits. For starters, one should never trust a Satanist. Satanist’s view lying to be among
their highest virtues as do true Christians truth. LaVey and other Satanist serve the one who
Jesus repudiated as “The father of lies”. (John 8:44) It would be just like the father of lies to
cloak his religion in non-reality. Satan has long been about deception and has successfully
deceived many recruits into believing that they are simply worshipping a symbol rather
than a reality. Satan relishes in such ignorance. Atkins’ testimony that LaVey was
deliberately duping Satanists in the outer circle is corroborated by evidence from LaVey’s
own admissions. LaVey let his guard down when responding to other Satanist that
considered him, “not extreme enough”. LaVey, while in a defensive mode, admitted that
the image that he presented publicly was deceptive, declaring:

“If they’re at all intelligent [other true Satanist] …they’ll realize that there’s only so much I
can say publicly…I will not advance things in print which make my position untenable…
How long would the Church of Satan have lasted if I hadn’t appeased and outraged in just
the right combination? It required a certain amount of discretion and diplomacy to balance
the outrage.” (Lucifer Rising, p. 133)

Purposeful deception is needed among leading Satanist to enslave those who they recruit as
unscrupulous and unsuspecting pawns who feel more comfortable believing Satan is a
symbol for force. Few Satanists realize the evil intentions among the inner core of Satanists
and how they view lower initiates as mere puppets to be used and later discarded. Those in
the higher echelon of the movement are often aware of the nature of Satan and the demonic
realm that they serve. Notwithstanding they are often bound and blinded on another level
because they have become addicted to the power that Satan deceptively promises. Kenneth
Anger, who was a cofounder of the Church of Satan with Anton LaVey, used a similar spin
on Satanism, as did LaVey. Kenneth Anger stated in the 1960’s, in his film, Lucifer Rising,
that, “Lucifer is the light god, not the devil,” (From the jacket of the film Lucifer Rising).
This delusion that Lucifer is really the God of light and not Satan should not surprise us as
God’s word warns that Satan himself “masquerades” as an “angel of light” to draw the
unsuspecting into his evil web and that his agents do the same:

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising,
then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their
actions deserve.” (2 Corinthians 11:13-15)

Kenneth Anger

Years later, after Kenneth Anger had deceived multitudes of people into thinking they were
worshipping the supposed “light god”, an entity that was not really Satan, Anger
“confessed” that Lucifer whom he worships had always been the historical “Satan.”
(Lucifer Rising, p. 47) It was too late though for many Satanists who had been deceived
and long before died in their sin and are in hell right now. It is too late for the multitudes
that are now cursing Satan, Anton LaVey and Kenneth Anger from the place of
indescribable and horrific eternal torment. It is not to late though for the reader who may
have been deceived by the same lie and yet still has a small window time to turn from Satan
to Christ and be saved. It appears that Marilyn Manson is merely playing the same mind
game with his fans as did LaVey and Anger. Besides following LaVey who deceived his
followers, Manson admitted, “I’ve taken a lot of my inspiration from Kenneth Anger.”
Sadly, while the leaders among Satanists realize that Satan is for real, many who swell the
ranks of their churches have been duped into believing that they are in some nature religion.
They are taught that either a real Satan does not exist or that hell will not be all that hot.
This of coarse is sheer non-sense! Anton LaVey himself was severely deceived as he stated
in his Satanic Bible that he would reign with Satan in hell. Anton now realizes he was the
most deceived of all. The Scriptures are clear that Hell was created as a place of torment for
Satan and his angels. (Matt 25:40-43) Moreover God’s Word declares that Satan will be
stripped of his power and rendered “weak” and “covered with worms”. Satan will be
rendered one of the weakest and most pathetic beings is the universe, an object of ridicule
and scorn by those who were deceived by him. Those who have been deceived by him will
marvel that this once powerful fallen angel has been rendered powerless and will mock him
as a “carcass trodden under foot” in their torment. (Isaiah 14:9-19) So even leaders in the
church of Satan who are deceiving their initiates are themselves deceived, believing that
they will have some place of power in Hell. As the apostle Paul prophesied:

“Evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.” (2
Timothy 3:13)

Richard Ramirez

Richard Ramirez, known as the night Stalker, was deceived by Anton LaVey’s assertion in
the satanic bible that Satanists could reign in hell. Ramirez believed that his human
sacrifices to Satan would earn him a place of rulership in hell next to Jack the Ripper and
other serial killers. (See our article on Ramirez) Further evidence of what leading Satanists
really believe is proven by in admissions by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino of the
United States Army. Aquino was a leader in Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan and said to be
LaVey’s “second-in-command” before he broke off to begin his own satanic order called
The Temple of Set. Aquino ended up taking several of LaVey’s followers with him. The
Temple of Set would eventually attract the likes of Anton LaVey’s daughter Zeena LaVey.
So rabid a Satanist is Aquino that he had the number 666 tatooed on his scalp. The Temple
of Set proclaims that Set, another name for Satan, is a real entity and is a name for, “The
oldest known form of the Prince of Darkness.” Aquino seems to have been under the
conviction that society had become so jaded that many of those in the outer circle of
Satanism were ready to worship Satan as a real entity. Aquino believed it was time for
Satan to come out of the closet in all of his naked deformity. Aquino even took the more up
front view of Satanism to the television airways where he virtually admitted that Satan is a
real entity and that many are in the dark as to whom they are really worshipping, including
millions of New Agers. On Oprah Winfrey, Aquino acknowledged that they are following
the infernal being that orchestrated the initial rebellion against God, the creator of the
universe. Aquino admitted to Winfrey and the television audience made up of millions that
they are following Satan who initiated the original rebellion against God:
“We believe that this quality [to oppose God’s natural order] in the human soul that makes
it different from all other life forms…was deliberately inculcated in humanity in its distant
evolutionary past by an active agency that is acting in defiance of the universal norm
[God’s moral law]. And that agency has been caricatured…as Lucifer, as Satan, and in the
greatest antiquity by the ancient Egyptians as Set.”

Michael Aquino

Aquino went on to describe how they believe that they as Satanist are now becoming god’s.
This was at the heart of Satan’s initial rebellion and now Aquino was parroting the essence
of Satanism, which is a desire to usurp the true and living God’s authority and follow Satan
into God realization. “We are not servants of some God,” declared Aquino; “we are our
own god’s!” Oprah Winfrey appeared to be shocked to find out that this was exactly what
she believed as a New Ager, failing to realize that the New Age movement has it roots in
Crowleyan Satanism even as Aquino’s Satanism. We have already proven beyond a
shadow of a doubt that Crowley was not only a confessed Satanist but that he was the father
of the Hippie movement from which popular New Age teachings first became entrenched
in Western civilization. (See our expose on Aleister Crowley) Almost gasping for air,
Winfrey declared in response to Aquino’s assertion:

“Well, the way you explain this is very the way a lot of people who are into metaphysics
now and the New Age movement and New Age thinking, they say the very same thing. Are
you saying that it’s the same?”

Aquino, without skipping a beat, said “Yes” to Winfrey's question, implying that New
Agers and Satanist are on the same wave length in their rebellion against God and in their
quest to achieve god-hood as they follow in Satan’s footsteps. He only clarified that most
New Agers are not aware that they have joined a satanic rebellion against God and that
Satanists know what’s going on. Aquino stated:

“Yes, except that I would say we [Satanists] have a more precise grasp…We would say that
we understand what’s actually happening a little better than many New Agers.”
Much to Aquino’s chagrin the Temple of Set would find out that even as debauched as the
world has become most people are still smart enough not to knowingly serve Satan and end
up spending eternity in hell. After bringing Satan out of the closet The Temple of Set failed
to enlist the large amount of recruits they apparently hoped for. In their failure to acquire
more recruits they changed their method of evangelism and returned to a formula more in
keeping with that of the Church of Satan. Today the Temple of Set like the Church of Satan
espouses a more palatable seeker sensitive form of Satanism so as not to scare off potential
recruits. The result is that Satan is once again cloaked in ambiguity and the song remains
the same as inner circle initiates are deceiving outer circle initiates.

Winfrey was surprised that Aquino as a confessed Satanist would try to deny the hard facts
of the evil behind Satanism when Aquino stated that they as Satanists have “nothing to do
with evil,” she said:

“It’s just difficult for me to understand that the devil is a good thing…that Satan isn’t evil,
which is the opposite of what everybody in this world has been taught…”

Winfrey went on to exclaim:

“In every state of the nation authorities are investigating some form of what they call
satanic activity…Children are telling the same stories about infants being murdered before
their eyes in strange devil rituals. The list of bizarre stories goes on and on.”

Not surprisingly Aquino tried unsuccessfully at this point to put another typical spin on
Satanism by claiming that they are not into such things. Even as leading Satanists like to
hide the fact that they are truly worshipping Satan so it is that they seek to deny that
Satanists sacrifice humans including children. The truth of the matter is that Aleister
Crowley, whom Aquino acknowledges, had an incredible influence on Aquino and the
Temple of Set, not only taught his followers to engage in child sacrifice but admitted to
sacrificing scores of children himself. We have fully documented this fact in our article on
Crowley. After Aquino made the false claim that Satanist don’t really sacrifice children a
law enforcement officer spoke up and stated:
“To say that there are no bodies and that these [Satanists] are not committing crimes is the
farthest from the truth…in every case that I’ve investigated, now extending over 200, I
have found this particular book [The Satanic Bible].”

At this point the investigator held up a satanic bible. In the satanic bible LaVey seeking
“not advance things in print which make my position untenable” lest he find himself behind
bars, stated that his followers were to commit human sacrifices by proxy:

“We perform human sacrifices, by proxy you might say—the destruction of human beings
who would, let’s say, create an antagonistic situation toward us—in the form of curse and
hexes, not in actual blood rituals because certainly the destruction of a human being
physically is illegal.”

Note that the only reason LaVey concedes that he is not publicly advocating actual physical
human sacrifice is because it is against the law, implying that if they could get away with it
they would do it. In fact LaVey takes credit for the death of Jayne Mansfield’s and her boy
friend and Lawyer Sam Brody, stating that it was a result of a ritual curse on Brody, and
Mansfield happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. LaVey also believes that
he was responsible for the Manson family murders. Manson was heavily influenced by the
satanic cult known as the Process. The Process also acknowledged that Satan is a real
entity. Their particular twisted spin in an effort to get unwitting recruits was not to pretend
Satan was not a true entity but to claim that Satan was actually a Jesus loving devil. The
Process claimed that they Jesus and Satan had reconciled and that all would work out well
in the end for everyone including Satanists, because Jesus had supposedly forgiven the
devil. Ridiculous as this spin was it proved successful in garnering more than a few
recruits. The bodies have piled up and the idea that Satanism is not behind the death of
countless multitudes of innocent people is a lie only believed by the incredibly naive.
Manson who was a confessed Satanist was responsible of up to 35 murders if the
admissions of some of his former followers are to believed. Charles Manson, whom
Marilyn Manson cites as one of his preeminent inspirations and a brilliant philosopher, has
stated, “Jesus Christ is for real and so is that other guy [i.e. Satan].” Charles Manson knows
that Satan whom he serves is a real entity and has been more candid than has his follower
Marilyn Manson. Son of Sam who was part of a Process coven made up of 22 Satanists and
connected to several other satanic covens also murdered several people at the direction of
the coven. We show his video taped admissions in our video They Sold Their Souls for
Rock n Roll. (full length version) Richard Ramirez who followed the satanic bible and met
with Anton LaVey before his satanic killing spree killing 20 people. Ramirez even went so
far as to torture his victims and made some “swear to Satan.” Between Manson, Son of
Sam and Richard Ramirez alone we have dozens of murders in the name of Satan. We
could easily add to this list case after case that could easily fill a book but we have more
than sufficiently made our case for those who will honestly look at the evidence! We have
now seen conclusive evidence that the most influential and notorious satanic leaders have
had a campaign to dupe their followers into becoming unwitting followers of Satan himself.
We have seen not only their admissions but the deceptive web they have spun to prey on
outer circle initiates.
Dear reader, if you have been deceived by any of the aforementioned Satanists, we plead
with you to recognize the magnitude of the deception at hand. We plead with you to
recognize that which is obvious to all of us who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Jesus
Christ promised that he would not cast away any that would come to Him. (John 6:37) Turn
to him now before it is too late. Your life is very short and Satan is playing for keeps and
your soul is his prey. Wake up and turn from these demonic parasites that prey upon your
souls and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ who loves you and died for your sins so you would
not have to go to hell. It is not by accident that you are reading this article. God is seeking
to use this article to open your eyes to a deception that has deceived you for too long. Do
not bet your soul on Satan, he is the ultimate loser! Don’t gamble, you will surely lose! The
odds are too great, the stakes are too high and eternity is far too long. Cry out to God right
now and receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you do He will miraculously
deliver you from demonic powers. He will deliver you from Hell and give you a new
destiny. He will deliver you from the penalty of death and give you new Life. Hope to see
you in heaven!