# LaVeyan Satanism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/laveyan-satanism/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 116 LaVeyan Satanism The Church of Satan 1966 CE – present · Esoteric / Occult · Living · United States, Europe VIII. POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY — 1945 – PRESENT ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - 1966 CE The Church of Satan founded in San Francisco; LaVey declares it Year One, Anno Satanas. - 1967 CE The first Satanic wedding and funeral draw national press. - 1969 CE The Satanic Bible published by Avon; it sells over a million copies. - 1975 CE Michael Aquino leaves to found the Temple of Set, which is genuinely theistic and regards Set as a real entity — a substantive doctrinal split. - 1980–1995 CE The Satanic Panic. A moral panic across the US, UK and elsewhere alleging a hidden network of Satanic ritual abuse. It produced hundreds of prosecutions, including the McMartin preschool case, the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history to that point, which ended in no convictions. The FBI's 1992 Lanning report found no evidence of any organised Satanic cult conspiracy. Numerous convictions were later overturned; several people served decades for crimes that did not occur. - 1997 CE LaVey dies; a succession dispute follows, resolved under Peter Gilmore in 2001. - 2001–present Headquarters moves to New York; the church operates almost entirely online and continues to refuse congregational structure. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door