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He said that the new type of Satanist is not ostentatious nor garish, but a substantial, responsible citizen who prefers to keep his Satanism on the inside rather than on his sleeve.

LeVay had also dismantled Michael Aquino's beloved grotto system because the majority of the grottos couldn't get their shit together due to rivalries, scandals, and the general types of antics that one would expect more in a high school glee club than in a satanic mini-cult.

I'm out.

Yeah, it's time to get out of there.

Yeah, it's it's it's really it's it's not just Satanist.

It's any group of people.

Like you get too many people in one place and just for too long.

Everything has an end.

And you kind of just need to say, like, OK, that's enough.

But Anton LaVey saying, like, we're not doing the grotto system anymore.

That was also it seems like the beginning of the split between him and Michael Aquino.

Now, LaVey did continue as a leader of the church, but he narrowed his focus on the more intellectual and, of course, the wealthier followers.

Mainstream fame, as it turned out, resulted in mainstream people all up in your shit.

And from what it seems like, LaVey didn't want to be a mainstream figure.

Instead, it seems like after the Church of Satan began to be far more trouble than it was worth, Anton LaVey became far more concerned with how he could worm his way into Hollywood.

Because Anton LaVey was, first and foremost, an entertainer.

Oh yeah, baby!

Now, LaVey had claimed that he'd worked as a satanic consultant on Rosemary's Baby.

And it was rumored that it was LaVey himself who played Satan during the movie's impregnation scene.

Ah!