postmodern Satanism

“how to” textbooks concerning themagickal art, we are confronted with avariety of systems dependent on faultycosmologies, primitive metaphysics,undue fear-mongering, and all-aroundignorance. For example, the aspiringmagician is often presented at theoutset with something called the lesserbanishing ritual of the pentagram(LBRP), and instructed to perform thisat both the open and close of anyritual act, almost as if it werecomparable to brushing one’s spiritualteeth. And in fact, this is how it isoften represented: “don’t forget tobrush after every meal!”. But if weexamine the basis for such a stance,we can see that it is based in anundue fear of the metaphysical -grounded in a system which is overlyangelic (see above on the distinctionbetween the angelic and the