Ben Kissel
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 21 Jun
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Last Podcast On The Left · Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard · 19 Jun 2026
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Michael Aquino, playing the Martin Luther role in this situation, believed that simply selling ranks was dishonorable and corrupt, because what was the point of doing the reading if someone could just buy their way into a magic circle?
But even though Michael Aquino offered alternatives, LeVay refused to back down on the plan.
So, Michael Aquino left the Church of Satan, along with a fair number of other Satanists who were also becoming disillusioned with LeVay, to start their own movement, called the Temple of Set.
Being more focused on magical ritual and practice, Setianism has been described as more esoteric Satanism, as opposed to LeVay's rational flavor.
The Temple of Setbook is... I would say Michael Aquino is no crazier than a priest.
Oh, my God.
Always, always, always, always.
That is always the rule.
Yes.
Now, within a year.
of his breakup with LaVey, Aquino wrote a new manifesto claiming that it was born entirely through automatic writing, just like Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law.
But Aquino was a nerd who didn't have a sense of humor, so he was not prepared for all the ejaculate jokes that would no doubt be made when he named the foundational text for his new satanic religion, he named it The Book of Coming Forth by Night.
Hey, man.
The book of coming forth by night, yeah.
Sure.
No, of course he stole it, but it's, he just, you gotta, you gotta look at it and think like, okay, no, I can't do that.
Read the book.
People are just going to make a bunch of cum jokes.
Yeah.
It's super dumb.
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