ABSTRACT
The Church of Satan was the main inspiration for modern Satanism. Its founder and leader, Anton LaVey, plagiarized The Satanic Bible in part from the White Supremacist book Might is Right. LaVey welcomed neo-Nazis into the Church, and all four Abraxas Foundation members—who were influenced by Might is Right—were connected to the Church. Michael Moynihan and Boyd Rice were priests; Nikolas Schreck married LaVey’s daughter Zeena; and Adam Parfrey published LaVey’s books. (Schreck both published James Mason in The Manson File and included the neo-Nazi in the documentary Charles Manson Superstar.) In a Church of Satan publication, the group’s future leader, Peter Gilmore, published a review praising Siege. LaVey allowed a quote of his to be printed in the book and gave an autographed copy of The Satanic Bible to Mason.
While the Church of Satan allowed neo-Nazis to be members, it did not follow this ideology, although a number of Nazi-Satanists have. In the 2010s, a different kind of Satanism around the Order of Nine Angles became closely associated with the wave of neo-Nazi groups that were inspired by Mason’s Siege, especially the Atomwaffen Division.
