Anton Szandor La Vey Biography

This author is primarily recognized as the High Priest of the Church of Satan, but also as a writer, occultist, musician, and actor. He authored The Satanic Bible and founded LaVeyan Satanism, a synthesized system of his understanding of human nature and insights from philosophers advocating materialism and individualism, for which he claimed no "supernatural inspiration." LaVey viewed "Satan" not as a literal deity or entity, but as a historic and literary figure symbolic of Earthly values.