Henry Zebrowski

Yeah, that kind of is the problem.

That is actually the main problem.

I actually don't know, but they were all over the country.

Like I said, there were 25 of them.

I would guess probably New York.

It was New York and the U.K.,

Yeah.

Grottoes also had to make monthly reports about its members, what everyone's up to, how are the rituals going.

And some even had their own local newsletters, like Satan Spawn, Devil's Advocate, Children of the Night, and my favorite, the Typhon Tusk.

Now, as far as Michael Aquino's role in the grotto system went, he handled some of the administration and, of course, wrote the Articles of Protocol for the whole system, which outlined the purpose of the grottoes.

Oh, yeah.

Anytime there's something with the words articles or protocol in it, Aquino's all over it.

Basically, Aquino believed, because he was both an army man and an eagle scout, that people who work in formal organizations can realize their desires for power more easily.

Grottos allowed Satanists to help each other rather than go it alone, and black magic ceremonies were, of course, far easier to pull off if you had friends helping.

But what does that do, Marcus?

Yeah, but that's the thing, just because I'm hanging out with a bunch of people, do I have to put a bunch of rules around it?

Why we gotta fucking all have titles?

Yeah, can't we just hang out?

Yeah.

But even though things were going swimmingly for the Church of Satan on paper, it seems like Michael Aquino's influence in the organization took a lot of the fun out of the enterprise for Anton LaVey, and LaVey began getting disillusioned with the whole affair within just a few years.