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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Church of
Satan is an organization dedicated to the acceptance of the carnal self,
as articulated in The Satanic Bible, written in 1968 by Anton Szandor
LaVey. In the 1960s Anton LaVey formed a group called the Order of the
Trapezoid, which later became the governing body of the Church of Satan.
The group included: "The Baroness" Carin de Plessen, Dr. Cecil Nixon,
Kenneth Anger, City Assessor Russell Wolden, Donald Werby, and Michael
Harner. Other LaVey associates from this time period include noted
Science Fiction and Horror writers Anthony Boucher, August Derleth,
Robert Barbour Johnson, Reginald Bretnor, Emil Petaja, Stuart Palmer,
Clark Ashton Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber Jr. The Church
of Satan was established in San Francisco, California, on
Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966, by Anton Szandor LaVey, who was the
Church's High Priest until his death in 1997.
