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Recommended Reading

Reading is a truly Satanic activity. Prose, poetry and plays have inspired our thoughts, encouraged our imaginations and deepened our empathy. These works have particularly inspired us as they have also informed and inspired our Satanism.

You can listen to a podcast episode about the influence of prose, poetry and plays on our Satanism on this Devil’s Library episode.

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Notable Works by ‘The Romantic Satanists’ And Their Descendants

Cain: A Mystery by George Gordon Byron
Prometheus Unbound, Queen Mab and The Revolt of Islam all by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Consuelo by George Sand
Inno A Satana (Hymn to Satan) by Giosuè Carducci
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
Hvem är du Lucifer (Who Are You Lucifer?) by Ernst Hellborg
La Sorcière (The Witch) by Jules Michelet
La Révolte des Anges (The Revolt of the Angels) by Anatole France
Enfants de Lucifer (Children of Lucifer) by Edouard Schuré

Notable Political Works That Utilised The Miltonic Satan

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin
God and The State by Mikhail Bakunin
Concerning Justice in the Revolution and in the Church by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The Sorceries and Scandals of Satan by Henry M. Tichenor

Academic Papers/Books

The Devil Is Red: Socialist Satanism in the Nineteenth Century by Per Faxneld
Romantic Satanism and the Rise of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry by Adriana Craciun
The Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron, and the Adversary by Fred Parker
The Promethean Politics of Milton, Blake, and Shelley by Linda M Lewis
Satanic Feminism – Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth Century Culture by Per Faxneld
The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading against the Grain by Jonathon Sears
Romantic Satanism – myth and the historical moment in Blake, Shelley, and Byron by Peter A. Schock
Introduction to Romantic Satanism by Michael Osiris Snuffin
The “Baphomet” of Eliphas Lévi: Its Meaning and Historical Context by Julian Strube
The Satanic Epic by Neil Forsyth