I have heard of Diane Vera's aspect of Satanism. As a Satanist I feel that rather than giving into "accepted truths" Satan represents putting all religions to the test.
Please understand that as a comrade of the Left hand path I am not attacking your character, but sometimes this happens to religions or philosophies.
Satan's history is in almost all of the world's great religions. Set, O-Yama, Prosperpine, whatever religion is popular at the time there is always an evil imaginary friend/foe to reward the weak people with the good-guy badge. Read Anton LaVey's book The Devil Notebook, the chapter about good-guy badges. Satan never has called for slave worship, like the god of the Jews, Muslims, and Christians.
I have never had any really spiritual experiences in my life, none from Buddhism, Christianity, Wicca, or Thelema. My conclusion is that sometimes when people are desperate enough in a religion they will see what they want to see. The mind will manifest it if a desire borderlines compulsive.
Rather than the faith-based god fearing Christians and the Karma-fearing Buddhists our religion should be based on testing theories (sometimes even ones that claim to be Satanic) and come to a logical conclusion about them. The methods she uses are self induced trances that will obviously involve seeing images in the mind, since one will be meditating on Satan before a deep trance induced.
Scientists have never completely understood why trance images occur in the brain during dreaming or trances, however no recorded people have emerged from these trances with record-able data or powers able to be evident that what they did in the trance-world actually had an effect on the real world.
If one believes that Satan is a real functioning being then it follows that the fictional god of the Christians, Jews, Muslims exists as well. The only way she dodges it is claiming that during meditation "Father Satan" pleads that he a rather misunderstood fellow.
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