On this day 40 years ago, Dr Anton La Vey gave us a simple philosophic framework which told us what we already knew – that the things which nurture us, make us strong and give us pleasure were good, and the things which brought us suffering and frustrate our desires were bad.  He told us that as long as we didn’t harm others that hadn’t first interfered with us, we were free to follow our will to power.

He also told us how to access the power of the occult without the need for mumbo-jumbo, arcane rituals and ridiculous paraphernalia.

This credo would have been contentious enough within the context of 1960s flower-power, but Dr Lavey chose to call his movement Satanism.  The overturning of the the teaching of the established church, which had perversely asserted that suffering and weakness were good and strength and power was bad,  was sufficiently controversial without attaching the baggage of the Hollywood/Dennis Wheatley image of Satanism – drinking blood, and the sacrifice of humans and animals.

However, Lavey was right in identifying his movement with the Biblical antagonist and opposer – there have always been elements within society who are outsiders, rebels, dissenters and just plain difficult.  His movement was for such as these  - the children of Leviathan, whose realm is always dark and hidden from sight.

Dr Lavey always said that not everyone who agreed with his philosophies would become card-carrying Satanists – after all, such people are unlikely to be joiners.

Consequently this site acknowledges Dr Lavey’s movement, along with other thinkers and writers such as Nietzche and HL Mencken, although it is not in any way affiliated with the Church of Satan.

OPUS DIABOLI is therefore a site for the discussion of contemporary themes from a perspective, where the following values are held:

· The assertion of the will to power
· The removal of all barriers to personal responsibility
· Individuals should rise or fall according to their abilities alone.
· Creativity, intelligence, aestheticism and elitism have given the world everything we call civilisation and should be take precedence over bogus notions of equality, egalitarianism and so-called human rights. 

Contributions are particularly welcome from those in positions of influence within contemporary society:- business people, artists, communicators and people who run and shape the government and public services at both national and local levels.  The time has come to build cities within cities and civilisations within civilisations—as those who have opposed us have built throughout history

Walpurgisnacht 2006