Third Eye Chimera

And yeah, an apologist for LaVey would point out that this got left on the cutting room floor of "Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey". It wasn't the standard invocation. Maybe it was even done as joke never intended to make it in to the final cut.

But, uh, you know that director that's listed, Nick Bougas? You know what name he also went by?

"A. Wyatt Mann."

If you don't know him by name, the preview image should make it clear you're familiar with his work.

Mann was a kind of cut-rate R. Crumb with white separatist politics who drew dozens of similar cartoons in the late 1980s and early 1990s, many of which were published by the notorious white supremacist Thomas Metzger. The drawings, which typically blame blacks and Jews (though occasionally other minorities, gays, and feminists) for America's failings, enjoy something of a cult following online amongst hardcore trolls and message board white supremacists, who can be very hard to tell apart.

That would be former California Grand Dragon of the Knights of the KKK and founder of the violent white national group "White Aryan Resistance" Tom Metzger, by the way (rest in shit).

There is no shortage of these sort of connections. Heresy Labs' ongoing Twitter thread about it is quite extensive.

Or LaVey's closeness with Boyd Rice of the American Front.

Or Current Church of Satan Grand Nagus Peter Gilmore, being a fan of James Mason’s “Siege”.

Who LaVey also personally thought quite highly of, apparently.

Or Anton LaVey talking about Nazism and fascism.

On fascism

It seems apparent that Nazism and fascism sell. It's too horrible to contemplate (smacks lips). I could write a book - and maybe will – on the repulsive attraction of tyranny. It would speak of aesthetic imperatives and Jewish doctors and lawyers who drive Mercedes and BMWs and latter-day hippies in VW Beetles and WASP Yuppies whose non-lives are perpetuated by every manner of techno-goody cunningly fashioned by sneaky Jap sub-humans. Of all things fascistic, even greater than the forgetfulness of past orthodoxies, the aesthetic of dominance is making its mark. There'll be a lot more to come. I won't even get into the clichéd defense of National Socialism: "There were some important things which should be studied -- we shouldn't condemn the whole thing without extracting the worthwhile." So what else is new? I think young people are doing a pretty good job of extracting the pay dirt from fascism. Unlike the hypocritical Yuppies, they're plugging into what feels and looks and sounds good about it. No guilts, because they weren't around at the time of World War Two. Their parents, most of whom weren't around either, are the Boomer inheritors of post-war jitters and misgivings who had to yell "peace" and "love" until they were hoarse. If a neo-fascist look - and outlook -- makes for men who look like men and women who look like women, I'm all for it.

We could keep multiplying examples, but Anton LaVey is also the same guy who looked at Might Is Right and said, "I could make a religion out of this."

You swim in the circles of white nationalism for a few decades, call your religion a "law and order philosophy", oppose bodily autonomy for people who can become pregnant and support eugenics, and base what you're doing on turn of the 20th century proto-fascism and Ayn Rand, you're more than a little problematic.