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force their beliefs on their son because, “he is more
likely to rebel, much like many children who have
Christianity thrust on them turn to occult religions
during their teen years.”
Major issues for Satanist parents are the potential
harassment their children can face at school
and the fear they might convert to Christianity.
One Satanist mother named her son Lucifer—an
unfortunate choice in terms of the harassment he
received as a result. In another exchange from “Ask
Grandma Gynna,” Satanist parents ask if they
should allow their thirteen-year-old son to attend a
Christian church with his friend. After receiving
such advice as, “You should let him go and hope
you’ve raised him with enough common sense that
he will see the religion for what it really is,” they
decide to let him attend church. In their follow-up
note to Gynna, they express relief after their son
returned home bored with the whole experience.
Satanists have also had to deal with the lack of
such basic materials as children’s stories relevant
to their religious tradition. A different section of
the demonolatry website presents the following
creation story, submitted by “Lissa P.,” as a sample
bedtime story:
Billions and billions of years past, our world
never existed. However, in another place in the
vast recesses of our universe, or perhaps even
on another plane of existence, lived the
demons. The demons, being wise and
powerful beings, and able to harness the
elements and powers of the universe, kept
mostly to themselves, from what we are told.
That is, until they heard something distant
and disturbing. From the blackness in our
corner in the universe something wondrous
occurred. There was a storm in the blackness,
of fire and debris, an implosion, a rumble, and
from it was birthed our solar system. The
demons heard the commotion, and by
bending time and space, ascended to the new
system. As they touched each mass the
elements blended together and dissipated. But
then the demonic elements (Lucifer,
Leviathan, Belial, Flereous, and Satan) touched
the earth and, because of its existing
condition, the combined elements created an
atmosphere that would harbor life. It was
Satan who told his hierarchies they should
protect all life that began here. For he was fully
aware that the demonic elements, all parts of
the whole, were responsible for its creation
and all life upon it. Since then, any human
who chooses to recognize the demons for who
and what they truly are—will understand. The
demons are more than willing to teach and
guide us if we only ask. After all, they are
largely responsible for our existence.
The editor comments that “this particular
story is a wonderful way to introduce your child to
elemental Demonolatry and the big bang theory
without the typical religion vs. science conflict.”
The editor concluded by soliciting other original
children’s narratives from website visitors.
See also Demons
For Further Reading:
“Ask Grandma Gynna.”
http://www.demonolatry.com/parenting/gynna.
htm.
“Bedtime Stories.”
http://www.demonolatry.com/parenting/stories.
htm.
“Satanic Parenting.”
http://www.swampwitch.com/isabal/parent.html.
China
The Chinese have demons, but no figure corresponding
to a Western Satan. Nevertheless, there is
a significant body of belief and practice associated
with such evil spirits, referred to as kuei in
Chinese. Fear of demons is significant enough to
support professional exorcists who drive the
spirits out of spaces as well as out of people. As
described in V. R. Burkhardt’s Chinese Creeds and
Customs, exorcisms of dwellings involve elaborate
ceremonies that include admonitions for the kuei
to depart: “Evil spirits of the East get you back to
the East, or the South return thither. Let all
demons seek their proper quarters and vanish
forthwith”(Burkhardt 1953–1958, vol. 2, 143).
Exorcisms of individuals possessed by demons can
be even more dramatic, as reflected in Peter
Goullart’s account of an exorcism by a Taoist exorcist
in The Monastery of Jade Mountain: