/lit/ - Literature

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what is it about the occult that makes it so interesting? is it because it teases the line separating religion, mythology, and mysticism?
the occult and esoteric religious worship is embedded with some kind of quality that you dont find in something like LOTR or some random in-game lore about the big bad demon

I've been getting into satanism lately. It's all made up mind you as all religion is, but it's a fun and flavorful larp . The Left Hand Path is very stirnerian. It praises and gives strength to the ego, casting aside the slave moralism and abasement of Christianity aside with contempt. It gives man what he needs not only to survive but to thrive in this one and only earthly existence, power, self-assertion, lawless permission to innovate, transgress, and bypass suffocating norms.

The irony to me is that Christianity and its ilk are the ones that have permitted and engaged in more obscene horrors than any they have attributed to imaginary witches covens and demonic cults over its bloody and hypocritical history. Brutal inquisitions, bloodthirsty crusades, harsh crackdowns on freedom of thought and expression, child abusing priests, burning deviants at the stake, wholesale devestation of heathen civilizations; all with a wicked clarity of purpose and air of condescending sanctimony.

These multimillionaire televangelists are, if anything, good satanists. I will give them that. Incorporating others into web of illusions for their own benefit, seizing wealth, power and authority for themselves so that it can be wielded appropriately. Putting the stupid and servile to good use.

Too much morality is an invitation to weakness and self-exploitation. In fact it is thoroughly immoral, and the enemy of the truth. "Man has a demon in him that needs to be exercised, not exorcised."

Does anyone here know which pieces of the Catholic Church's dogma related to demons (and other beings now popularly thought of as "apocryphal") were published most recently, and where I might find them? Do any seminaries still openly train priests as exorcists? If so, how?

I ask you all to forgive the /x/ish tone of this post. I came here because I am mostly concerned with relevant literature, rather than spooky theories or lore.

What are some good books on Satanism?