In 1975, after ten years of exploring its identity, the original Church of Satan confronted the limitations of its Jud o-Christian imagery and a dismissal of humanity as a self-indulgent animal species.
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Two other [2-volume] books - The Church of Satan and The Temple of Set - are not only histories but initiatory analyses as well, examining the philosophical and metaphysical concepts which define and energize those religious institutions.
Historical works include The Neutron Bomb (a study of the domestic and foreign politics surrounding the proposed NATO introduction of that weapon in 1977-8) and Extreme Prejudice (a documentary expos\' of the 1986-7 "Satanic ritual abuse" scam at the Presidio of San Francisco.
Aquino generally fall into three categories: historical, practical, and initiatory.
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Volume I is in color
Volume II black/white.
This is a 2-volume work compressed to reduce the 431, 000-word set to below 1, 000 pages.
The text is augmented by 97 detailed appendices on a variety of topics by many different Setians over the years.
Included is also an extensive theoretical discussion of Setian cosmology, philosophy, and magic: the famous "Black Magic" from the Crystal Tablet of Set.
It is more a memoir than a history, because the scope of the Temple and the works of its many Initiates are far too diverse for any single book.
This book recounts the Temple\'s creation and early development, by its founding High Priest, Michael Aquino.
An ethical crisis in that year resulted in the organizational and metaphysical transformation of the Church into the Temple of Set, which in subsequent decades went on to become the preeminent initiatory institution premised upon the affirmation and evolution of the individual consciousness to divine essence and immortality.
In 1975, after ten years of exploring its identity, the original Church of Satan confronted the limitations of its Jud o-Christian imagery and a dismissal of humanity as a self-indulgent animal species
