Ben Kissel
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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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But even so, his search for knowledge led him to Anton LaVey.
Apparently, Madol and LaVey met frequently at the NRP office and at an occult bookstore in New York City called the Warlock Bookshop.
They started meeting sometime in the 1970s.
Madol thereafter erected a large satanic altar in his apartment and also played recordings of LeVay's Black Masses at several NRP meetings.
Now, we don't know exactly what Madol and LeVay discussed, but a letter from 1974 does exist between Madol and a Church of Satan member in which Madol asked if a small group of Satanists could help introduce NRP officers and members to, quote, "...more advanced concepts of occult philosophy."
But from what it seems like, the NRP and the Church of Satan, they were both fringe groups who were seen by society at large as evil.
As one scholar of the far right put it, their cordial relationship was basically networking.
The hated hobnobbing with the hated to see if they could gain something from one another.
One is always trying to use the other one, and so nothing gets done.
Yeah.
I like it.
Actually, NRP died real quick after James Madol.
Oh, of course.
Of course.
As far as the fate of the NRP went, it died with James.
When Madol succumbed to cancer in 1979, his mother turned over all of the NRP's so-called records to a staunch French-Canadian Madol loyalist named Jean.
Jean!
Madol's mother handed over all the documents at the memorial service for her son in New York City, but John, perhaps distraught after attending his friend's funeral, he struck a concrete abutment in the highway while on his way home.
John was killed instantly, and the records Madol's mother had entrusted to John blew away like so much litter, thus ending the National Renaissance Party within days of James Madol's death.
That's fucking great.
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