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1. 0:00Forget everything you've seen in scary
2. 0:02movies. Hello, my name is Moon and today
3. 0:04we are breaking down two of the most
4. 0:06misunderstood philosophies on this
5. 0:08planet, Satanism and Luciferianism. And
6. 0:11trust [music] me, the real story is
7. 0:13probably nothing like what you think.
8. 0:20>> [music]
9. 0:24>> To really understand Satanism, we have
10. 0:26to go way back long before any official
11. 0:29church even existed. The word Satan
12. 0:31actually comes from the Hebrew word
13. 0:33ha-satan, which doesn't mean an evil
14. 0:35monster. It literally means the
15. 0:37adversary or the accuser. In ancient
16. 0:40texts, he was more like a cosmic lawyer
17. 0:42or a prosecutor whose job was to test
18. 0:44people's faith. He wasn't the enemy of
19. 0:47God, yet he was just the guy who asked
20. 0:50the difficult questions. For centuries
21. 0:52after that, Satanism didn't actually
22. 0:54exist as a real religion. It was just
23. 0:57some kind of label used by the [music]
24. 0:58church to scare people. If you practiced
25. 1:01herbal medicine, followed all pagan
26. 1:03traditions, or just didn't agree with
27. 1:05the local priest, you were labeled as a
28. 1:07Satanist. It was basically a political
29. 1:09tool to get rid of anyone who didn't fit
30. 1:12in, and nobody was actually out there
31. 1:14worshipping a gold-headed demon. It was
32. 1:16just the ultimate boogeyman in the
33. 1:18public's mind. The big shift happened in
34. 1:21the 18th century with poets like Lord
35. 1:24Byron and John Milton. They started
36. 1:26looking at the character of Satan in
37. 1:28literature, like in Paradise Lost, and
38. 1:31saw him differently. To them, he wasn't
39. 1:33a villain. He was a rebel hero and the
40. 1:36ultimate underdog fighting against a
41. 1:38tyrannical authority. This romantic
42. 1:41Satanism wasn't a religion yet, but it
43. 1:44set the stage for seeing Satan as a
44. 1:46symbol of freedom and standing up for
45. 1:48yourself. Then came modern Satanism, and
46. 1:51to talk about that, we have to talk
47. 1:53about one man, Anton Szandor LaVey. Born
48. 1:56in 1930 as Howard Stanton LaVey, he
49. 2:00wasn't just a philosopher, he was a
50. 2:02showman, a musician, and a guy who knew
51. 2:04exactly how to push society's buttons.
52. 2:07LaVey's path didn't start in a cave, it
53. 2:09started in the world of entertainment.
54. 2:12As a young man, he worked in carnivals
55. 2:14and circuses playing the organ, and he
56. 2:17often told a story that changed [music]
57. 2:19his life. He noticed that the same man
58. 2:21he saw lusting over half-naked dancers
59. 2:25at the carnival on Saturday night were
60. 2:27the same man he saw sitting in church on
61. 2:30Sunday morning asking God for
62. 2:32forgiveness. [music] This taught him a
63. 2:34huge lesson early on. Human beings are
64. 2:37hypocrites. He realized that people were
65. 2:39constantly fighting their natural
66. 2:41instincts [music]
67. 2:42like sex, pride, and greed because
68. 2:44religion told them those things were
69. 2:47sinful. So, LaVey thought, why fight it?
70. 2:49Why not embrace it? Through the 1950s,
71. 2:52LaVey started hosting late-night
72. 2:54lectures in his famous black house
73. 2:56[music] in San Francisco exploring
74. 2:59occultism through the lens of
75. 3:00psychology. He realized that people
76. 3:02didn't need a god to pray to. They
77. 3:04needed a ritual and drama to release
78. 3:07their pent-up emotions. Then came the
79. 3:10big moment. On Walpurgis Night, April
80. 3:1330, in 1966, LaVey did something bold.
81. 3:17He shaved his head, put on his trademark
82. 3:20ritual collar, and announced the
83. 3:22formation of the Church of Satan. He
84. 3:24didn't choose the name Satan because he
85. 3:27believed in a literal monster with
86. 3:29horns. He chose it because it was the
87. 3:31ultimate bad word. He knew that by
88. 3:34calling himself a Satanist, [music]
89. 3:36he would get instant attention. It was
90. 3:39the ultimate middle finger to the status
91. 3:41quo of the 1960s. He became a media
92. 3:45sensation, often seen with his pet lion,
93. 3:47or hanging out with Hollywood stars,
94. 3:50proving that his version of Satanism
95. 3:52wasn't about hiding in the shadows. It
96. 3:54was about living life at 100% and being
97. 3:58unapologetically yourself. When LaVey
98. 4:00founded the Church of Satan, he didn't
99. 4:02want to build a religion for the masses.
100. 4:05He called it an underground movement for
101. 4:08the alien elite, people who naturally
102. 4:10stand out from the crowd. The Church of
103. 4:12Satan doesn't do conversations or go out
104. 4:15looking for members. They don't have
105. 4:17missionaries and most of their members
106. 4:20never even met each other in person. It
107. 4:22functions more like a philosophical
108. 4:24society. Inside the church, they
109. 4:26practice something called greater magic,
110. 4:28but they don't think they're casting
111. 4:30fireballs. To them, magic is just
112. 4:33applied psychology. [music]
113. 4:34A theatrical ritual used to release
114. 4:36emotions like anger, lust, or sadness in
115. 4:39a controlled environment. One of the
116. 4:41most misunderstood things about them is
117. 4:43their stance [music] on law and order.
118. 4:45People think Satanism means chaos, but
119. 4:48it's actually opposite. They are very
120. 4:50strict about rules. Follow the laws of
121. 4:52the land, don't hurt children or
122. 4:55animals, and respect [music] other
123. 4:56people's property. But if someone
124. 4:58invades your space or tries to harm you,
125. 5:02you have every right to destroy [music]
126. 5:04them socially or legally. In their eyes,
127. 5:06the world is a jungle and by joining
128. 5:09you're basically saying that you are in
129. 5:11a control of your own life. You take
130. 5:13full responsibility for your mistakes
131. 5:16and you don't need a supernatural God to
132. 5:18tell you what's right or wrong. Fast
133. 5:20forward to around 2013 and a new group
134. 5:23entered the scene, the Satanic Temple.
135. 5:25These guys completely changed the game.
136. 5:27If the Church of Satan is an exclusive
137. 5:30club for individuals, the Satanic Temple
138. 5:32is a political powerhouse. They don't
139. 5:35care about LaVey's rituals or his alien
140. 5:38elite vibes. [music] Instead, they use
141. 5:40the symbol of Satan as a tool for
142. 5:42activism. You've probably seen them in
143. 5:44the news. They're the ones fighting to
144. 5:46put up giant statues of Baphomet next to
145. 5:4910 Commandments monuments in front of
146. 5:51government buildings with the simple
147. 5:54logic that if you're going to allow one
148. 5:57religion in public spaces, you have to
149. 5:59allow them all. The Satanic Temple is
150. 6:01much more focused on science, bodily
151. 6:03autonomy, and empathy using Satan not as
152. 6:06a symbol of me first power, but as a
153. 6:09symbol of the eternal rebel against
154. 6:12injustice. Naturally, there is some
155. 6:14serious beef between these two groups.
156. 6:17The Church of Satan looks at the temple
157. 6:20and says, "They're not real Satanists,
158. 6:22just political activists in black capes
159. 6:24using the brand to push liberal
160. 6:26politics." On the other side, the
161. 6:28Satanic Temple looks at the Church of
162. 6:30Satan and says, "They're stuck in the
163. 6:32'60s playing dress-ups in their
164. 6:34basements while the temple is actually
165. 6:37out there changing laws and fighting for
166. 6:39people's rights." [music]
167. 6:40The Church of Satan is about the
168. 6:42individual privacy and personal success,
169. 6:46while the Satanic Temple is about
170. 6:47society, public activism, and social
171. 6:50justice. When we peel back all the
172. 6:53layers of Hollywood horror or modern
173. 6:56Satanism, at its core, it's a religion
174. 6:58of self. Satanists are almost always
175. 7:02atheists who don't believe in a literal
176. 7:04Satan or God. They believe in individual
177. 7:07power, meaning you are your own God, and
178. 7:09you have total accountability for your
179. 7:12life. They practice rational
180. 7:13self-interest, taking care of themselves
181. 7:16and their loved ones first, and enjoying
182. 7:18[music] earthly pleasures without guilt
183. 7:20as long as they don't harm those who
184. 7:22don't deserve it. Now, to understand
185. 7:25Luciferianism, we have to look at
186. 7:27completely different root story. The
187. 7:30name Lucifer comes from Latin, lux
188. 7:33meaning light and ferre meaning to
189. 7:35bring, literally translating to the
190. 7:37light bringer. [music] In the ancient
191. 7:39world, long before the Bible was put
192. 7:41together, Lucifer was the Latin name for
193. 7:44the planet Venus when it appeared in the
194. 7:46morning sky symbolizing hope and the
195. 7:49coming sunrise. It had zero connection
196. 7:51to a devil or evil. The concept of a
197. 7:53light bringer exist in almost every
198. 7:56ancient culture like the Greek titan
199. 7:59Prometheus who stole fire and knowledge
200. 8:01from the gods to give it to humans so
201. 8:04they could build civilization. For
202. 8:06modern Luciferians, Prometheus is the
203. 8:08blueprint. They don't see a scary demon.
204. 8:11They see a liberator and a spark [music]
205. 8:13of intelligence pushing humans to use
206. 8:15logic, art, and science. So how did a
207. 8:18Roman name for Venus become the name of
208. 8:21the devil? It comes down to a
209. 8:22translation mistake. In the Old
210. 8:24Testament, a passage mocking a
211. 8:26Babylonian king used the Hebrew word
212. 8:29"helel" meaning "shining one". When
213. 8:31translated into Latin, they used the
214. 8:33word "Lucifer". Over centuries, people
215. 8:36stopped seeing it as a poem about
216. 8:38[music] a fallen king and started
217. 8:40building a myth about a fallen angel
218. 8:42turning a name for wisdom into a
219. 8:44boogeyman. To really get Luciferianism,
220. 8:47you also have to understand the
221. 8:49Gnostics, an early group of Christian
222. 8:51mystics who believed the creator of the
223. 8:54physical world was a flawed being who
224. 8:57wanted to keep humanity trapped in blind
225. 8:59obedience. In their eyes, the Garden of
226. 9:02Eden was a prison of ignorance. So when
227. 9:05the serpent appeared, he wasn't a
228. 9:07villain. He was a divine messenger
229. 9:09encouraging Eve to eat from the tree of
230. 9:12knowledge to awaken humanity to its
231. 9:15potential. For a Luciferian, this
232. 9:17represents the birth of intellectual
233. 9:19freedom. In the modern day,
234. 9:21Luciferianism has evolved into a
235. 9:24sophisticated philosophy focused on
236. 9:26spiritual and intellectual evolution.
237. 9:29Anton LaVey was the showman of Satanism.
238. 9:32Michael Ford is the librarian and
239. 9:34philosopher of Luciferianism. [music]
240. 9:36Ford spent decades studying ancient
241. 9:40Persian, Babylonian, and Greek texts
242. 9:42[music] to find the pre-Christian roots
243. 9:44of the light bringer, writing books
244. 9:46explaining that Luciferianism is about
245. 9:49self-deification or apotheosis. Around
246. 9:522014, he co-founded the Greater Church
247. 9:56of Lucifer, which functioned more like a
248. 9:58philosophy lodge focused on
249. 10:00self-mastery, logic, and balance.
250. 10:03Luciferians believe everyone has a black
251. 10:06flame, a spark of divine intelligence
252. 10:08within, and their goal is to fan that
253. 10:11flame through constant learning, art,
254. 10:13and self-discipline. So, if you're
255. 10:16trying to tell them apart in simple
256. 10:18terms, here is how these two worlds
257. 10:20stack [music] up. In Satanism, Satan is
258. 10:22the rebel who says no to authority,
259. 10:25representing the flesh, the ego, and
260. 10:27reacting against suppression. In
261. 10:29Luciferianism, Lucifer is the teacher
262. 10:32who says "Grow." Representing the mind,
263. 10:35enlightenment, [music] and evolving
264. 10:37beyond your basic animal self. Satanism
265. 10:40is more materialistic and focused
266. 10:41[music] on having the best life right
267. 10:44now through power and success, while
268. 10:46Luciferianism is idealistic and focused
269. 10:49on self-mastery through study and
270. 10:51discipline. Satanists use the fist to
271. 10:54fight back against religious overreach,
272. 10:56while Luciferians use the torch to
273. 10:59search for truth in history,
274. 11:01>> [music]
275. 11:01>> science, and the occult. Satanism says,
276. 11:04"Break the chains and eat the fruit."
277. 11:06While Luciferianism say, "Eat the fruit,
278. 11:09but then learn how to grow the whole
279. 11:11forest." At the end of the day, both
280. 11:14paths reject the idea of a master and
281. 11:16put you in the driver's seat of your own
282. 11:19life. Whether you prefer the raw,
283. 11:21rebellious energy of Satanism or the
284. 11:24cold, intellectual pursuit of
285. 11:26Luciferianism, the message is the same.
286. 11:28No one is coming to save you, so you
287. 11:31better save yourself. So, what do you
288. 11:33think? Are you team rebel or team light
289. 11:36bringer? Drop a comment below, hit that
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291. 11:40into the darker side of history, and
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295. 11:49Stay curious and I'll see you in the
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