Ben Kissel

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Last Podcast On The Left · Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

It doesn't roll off the tongue.

That's where it ends.

He says that he wants to be called by his proper original name.

What we know as the biblical Satan is actually the ancient Egyptian deity Set.

God of storms and desert, usurper and murderer of his brother Osiris.

Now, the Temple of Set was, against all odds, a relative success, and Aquino continued running the temple for years while maintaining rank in the United States Active Guard Reserve.

Mostly, though, Aquino settled into the role of an academic, earning a Ph.D.

in political science before taking an adjunct professor job at Golden Gate University.

Aquino also continued his fight with Anton LaVey, which some described as an obsession.

It's 700 pages long.

Besides publishing a scathing history of the Church of Satan that debunked many of LeVay's claims about his own biography, Aquino also found and released divorce proceedings, restraining orders, and even bankruptcy filings that all painted LeVay in a negative light.

And you can't fight him because he was the guy that did all the paperwork for you.

He knows everything.

You don't know anything.

Whilst continuing the fight with LeVay, Aquino also became obsessed with Nazi occultism.

See, in 1983, he went on a work trip on behalf of the United Nations to Europe, but he decided to play hooky a bit so he could drop by Wevelsburg Castle in Germany.

If you'll remember, Wevelsburg was supposed to be Heinrich Himmler's headquarters for his Nazi occult Annenerbe Area Knights of the Round Table.

So after sneaking in, Aquino actually performed a magical ritual within the underground ceremonial space that Himmler was planning to use to hold his own rituals.

Oh, yeah.

Well, according to the Temple of Set Wikipedia page, out of this ritual came the second order of the trapezoid, which was a simple repackaging of Anton LaVey's early governing body of the Church of Satan.

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