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this tripartite division was reflected in their myth
system. According to one line of thought, in at least
some branches of the Indo-European family two
distinct groups of divinities were worshiped by two
different social groups. In the Persian/Indian wing
of the Indo-Europeans, these two groups were
termed ahuras (Persian)/asuras (Indian) and
daevas (Persian)/devas (Indian). For ultimately
unknowable reasons, but perhaps arising out of
some kind of ongoing conflict between the two
social divisions, the ahuras became the angels and
the daevas the demons in Zoroastrianism, and the
devas became demigods and the asuras became
demons in Hinduism. This confusion is reflected
in modern English, in which the term divinity and
the term devil derive from the same root word,
deva or daeva.
See also Asuras; Hinduism; Zoroastrianism
For Further Reading:
Cohn, Norman. Cosmos, Chaos and the World to
Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
Eliade, Mircea. A History of Religious Ideas. Vol. 1.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Noss, John B. Man’s Religions. 1956. 4th ed. New
York: Macmillan, 1969.
The Infernal Chapel
The Infernal Chapel was founded in June of the
year 2000 for the spreading of Left-Hand Path
philosophy in the southern California area. The
Infernal Chapel is located in Orange County
California and was founded by Reverend Haile,
D.D., the current coven master. The Chapel has no
past connections with any other groups, but Rev.
Haile himself has been in many orders and organizations
from many occult traditions.
The chapel is also a school of the black arts,
teaching many forms of magic, such as Thelema,
traditional Satanism, Setian Magick, Dark
Hermetics, Chaos Magic, and Black witchcraft.
The chapel tries to meet once a month. The chapel
is a mixture of many traditions, not just modern
Satanism. The philosophy of the chapel is a
combination of modern Satanism, as formulated
by Anton LaVey, the tradition of Aleister Crowley,
and Chaos Magic theory as written by the Prophet
of Kaos, Petter Carroll.
See also Chaos Magic; First Church of Satan
For Further Reading:
Infernal Chapel Satanic Church.
http://community.webtv.net/Magus418/Infernal
Chapel.
Ingram Ritual Abuse Case
In 1988, Paul R. Ingram, a deputy sheriff and chairman
of the local Republican party in Olympia,
Washington, became the first person ever to plead
guilty to accusations of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA).
He was convicted and is currently serving a
twenty-year term for the rape of his two daughters,
despite the fact that he almost immediately
reversed his plea. The case attracted national attention.
For people who promote the notion of a
secret, widespread Satanic conspiracy, the Ingram
case became a key item of evidence for supporting
the truth of their peculiar vision. Alternately, for
people who dismiss the reality of Satanic ritual
abuse, the case became a prime example of how
such paranoid thinking can lead to real abuse.
To understand Ingram’s initial confession, it is
important to understand the teachings of the local
charismatic church of which he was a member.
This church taught that Satan could invade the
minds of Christians and influence them to do evil
deeds that they would not later remember
(demons would shield memories of such acts
from the perpetrators). The same church also
played a key role in producing the initial accusations.
During a church-sponsored retreat,
Ingram’s older daughter was told by a woman who
claimed to possess prophetic powers that she had
been a victim of sexual abuse by her father.
Ingram’s younger daughter, also a retreat participant,
later made similar accusations. These initial
claims of sexual abuse were amplified into charges
of Satanic ritual abuse after the first daughter went
through a course of counseling with a therapist
who utilized recovered memory therapy to bring
to light the memories that had supposedly been
repressed. Both eventually told the story that their
father had sexually abused them for years, and that
he and his “poker buddies” were members of a
Satanic cult. Ingram and two fellow police officers
were eventually arrested, although only Ingram
was convicted.