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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Set https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Set The Temple of Set is an occult initiatory order founded in 1975. A
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Set https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Set
The Temple of Set is an occult initiatory order founded in 1975. A new religious movement and form of Western esotericism, the Temple espouses a religion known as Setianism, whose practitioners are called Setians.
The Temple was established in the United States in 1975 by Michael Aquino, an American political scientist, military officer, and a high-ranking member of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan.
Dyrendal 2012, p. 379; Hume & Drury 2013, p. 151.
Dyrendal ISBN 978-0-19-518110-4.
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Born in 1946, Michael Aquino was a military intelligence officer specializing in psychological warfare.[12]
Gardell 2003, p. 290.
Gardell, Matthias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3071-4.
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Aquino possessed a P.h.D. in political science and this formal education was reflected in the way that he presented his arguments, in which he draws broadly upon Western philosophy and science.
Hume, Lynne; Drury, Nevill (2013). The Varieties of Magical Experience: Indigenous, Medieval and Modern Magic. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press. ISBN 978-1-4408-0418-2.
Aquino, Michael A. The Church of Satan. N.p.: The Author, 1989.
https://www.amazon.com/Michael-A.-Aquino/e/B01GEWRIMU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share https://www.amazon.com/Michael-A.-Aquino/e/B01GEWRIMU%3Fref=...
- AndrewBissell 5y agoSome additional good reading on Aquino here: http://visupview.blogspot.com/2017/04/ http://visupview.blogspot.com/2017/04/ "... A three-year-old girl, reportedly molested at the Army's Presidio day-care Center in San Francisco, had fingered Aquino as the same 'Mikey' who photographed her in the nude and sexually abused her in a black-painted room with a cross on the ceiling. On August 14, 1987, Aquino's home was raided by police detectives, FBI agents, and members of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division. Several carloads of 'evidence' were seized and what Aquino called a 'modern witch-hunt in the most classical sense,' but no charges were ever filed against Aquino or any member of his church. In April 1989, Aquino filed formal complaints against to SFPD detectives involved in the raid, and police commissioners sustained the complaints in November 1990. Detective Sandi Gallant was 'counseled' to avoid derogatory comments on Aquino's church or lifestyle, while Detective Glen Pamfiloff got a written reprimand for his conduct on the 1987 raid." (Raising Hell, Michael Newton, pgs. 19-20) ... "We are fortunate that the Auschwitz taboo prevents people from looking too closely at... Nazi Germany, or from experimenting with any of its regular governmental doctrines. Because they work. They are the essence of true political power. Anti-Semitism is irrelevant to them... It is ironically true that a right-wing backlash in the United States – which is what the neo-Nazis are hoping for – would wipe them out first. If an American Fuehrer does appear, he won't be wearing a uniform with a swastika armband. He will wear a business suit, and he will be calling popular attention to the patriotic virtues in 1776." (Michael Aquino, taken from Arthur Lyons' Satan Wants You, pg. 174)