Painted in 1982, nearly two decades before he was to become High Priest of the Church of Satan, Peter H. Gilmore was morphing the occult illustration of Eliphas Levi into a truly Satanic figure. From transforming the wings into those of the Chiroptera, to replacing the merely representative phallus with an unabashed erect penis, Gilmore’s painting is fierce and carnal while evoking a powerful mythological effigy.
The image was used as an illustration for Magus Gilmore’s first book The Satanic Scriptures, published by Scapegoat Publishing in 2007. The limited hardback and slipcased editions features this image printed in full color on the case wraps, and all editions feature a black and white version on the first page of the book.

For information on how to purchase this print, visit the Germophilia website!

All the Mysteries of the Universe – Explained! Sort of…

Why are we here, and what are we supposed to do about it? What started the Universe, and was it a mistake? Does God exist, and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives? After exploring the phenomenon of TREKKIES, filmmaker Roger Nygard takes on The Nature of Existence. As he roams the globe to the source of each of the world’s philosophies, religions, and belief systems, Nygard interviews spiritual leaders, scholars, scientists, artists, pizza chefs, and others who have influenced, inspired, or freaked out humanity.

His travels highlight the words of such luminary figures as Indian holy man Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (The Art of Living), evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Chinese Taoist Master Zhang Chengda, Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind (co-discoverer of string theory), wrestler Rob Adonis (founder of Ultimate Christian Wrestling), confrontational evangelist Brother Jed Smock, novelist Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game), director Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back), the body of Pope John XXIII, and Stonehenge Druids Rollo Maughfling & King Arthur Pendragon and many more….

Combining an investigative approach with humor, Nygard offers a challenging, humorous, and enlightening view of humanity. The most important journey we take, may be the journey to find meaning in our own existence.

If you only see one movie this year with all the answers, see The Nature of Existence.

The promotional effort for Roger Nygard’s new documentary now includes clips from the extensive interviews done with the numerous participants covering various topics. While there may have been a broader context in the filmed discussions, the clips are meant to excite interest and controversy.

Here’s one discussing The Devil.

The image of our High Priest is featured for the one about Doomsday.

Magus Gilmore has a page on their site which includes the videos in which his comments have been used.

Click on his image below to see them.

My generation was the first to grow up bathed in the glow from that flickering window into mediated fantasy called television. Aside from the growing repertory of talk shows and forms of entertainment adapted from earlier radio broadcasts, films became a staple to fill air time and provided a steady diet of literature from base B-movies up to high art cinema. The imagery that flashed ephemerally by, and for some time only in stark black and white, formed our collective unconscious of archetypes. My favorites, the ones that remained long after the show time was past, were the monster films.

He discusses recording the sound in cassette tapes to listen to later, before the ability to capture both the audio and video on home recorders. Sneaking out of his bedroom at night, he would watch the horror films that played on “The Late Show” and “The Late, Late Show”.

He sought out the toys of his favorite monsters, and grew most fond of the one he refers to his “patron divinity”, Gojira “King of the Monsters”! His house in Hell’s Kitchen prominently features a number of models of the radioactive reptile, and he’s always excited to see the next movie that tells the continuing story of Godzilla and related daimones.

Magus Gilmore was recently invited to addend a screening of the new giant monster movie Cloverfield. The  film was rumored pre-release to have possibly been based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, or even a new Godzilla movie. A review of his was published on the culture and entertainment web-magazine Buzzine.com.

Cloverfield: Review
Peter H. Gilmore

I just got back from a screening of Cloverfield (digitally projected and looking very sharp). I thought you, my fellow monster fans, might enjoy some of my reactions. There are “spoilers.”

So, in brief, it is a fun “ride” of a movie, worth seeing on the big screen, and the decision to make it a “found videotape” is a gimmick which allows the story to have a very immediate “you are there” feeling. Yes, it could be described as The Blair Witch Project meets the American Godzilla, but it succeeds with this premise, and there were some smart choices made so that it functions satisfactorily for a feature-length movie. At a bit under 90 minutes, it doesn’t wear out its welcome.

It is a bit tedious at the start as the characters are established. They are all dull normals who are conventionally good-looking and witless. Patton Oswalt was on-the-money in his salty, early pseudonymous review–it looked like they were filming the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. No geeks or nerds (or odd-lookers) amongst the crowd. Not a single person who might have actually watched a Godzilla film (the leads are probably all too “cool” to have intentionally seen a kaiju flick). A true Giant Monster Geek would have been a welcome addition. He or she then might have had the savvy to advise the others what actions might be possible in order to get through a giant monster attack. If these vapid folk actually watched the news reports on the TV screens in the background, they would have had more info to work with and perhaps bettered their odds. However, these brain-dead mannequins do everything wrong, so they are essentially a guide for how NOT to survive a kaiju visitation.

View the rest at the Buzzine website.

December 16th, 2007 – Peter H. Gilmore, author of The Satanic Scriptures (ISBN 978-0-9764035-9-3) and High Priest of the Church of Satan, is back in the news this week. A Cortland, Ohio teen sent an e-mail to the Church of Satan last week in which he threatened to kill his grandparents and steal their guns and car.

Gilmore forwarded the e-mail to the FBI, and they contacted local police, coordinating efforts to investigate. After the teen was arrested, he claimed it was all just a joke. During a press conference following the arrest, the police credited Gilmore for his stepping forward to bring this to their attention.

“To send an e-mail making specific threats, to sign your name, that to me is not a joke,” Bazetta Township Police Chief Charles Sayers said.

If it was a joke or a serious threat is still under investigation, but the Church of Satan has been outspoken over the past 40 years about their supportive stance on law and order. Church leader Peter H. Gilmore reaffirmed this position in his just released book, The Satanic Scriptures. Writing on a range of topics in this collection of essays, Gilmore gives a Satanic perspective on related stories, such as the Columbine shootings, demonstrating that Satanism does not condone these murders.

Gilmore said his church discards most of the hundreds of e-mails it receives daily. But this teen’s message stood out, he said.

“I thought it could be a sick joke, but with recent events in Colorado and Nebraska, I thought it was best to play it safe,” he said, referring to mass shootings in an Omaha mall, a missionary school near Denver and a Colorado Springs church that killed a total of 13 people, including the gunmen. It should be noted that there has been no connection in any of those cases with the Church of Satan or its philosophy.

Gilmore said members of his group are epicurean atheists who see Satan as a symbol of liberty, pride, and individualism, not evil. “To the Satanist, he is his own God,” reads a statement on the group’s Web site from Gilmore.

Contact:
Kevin I. Slaughter
Scapegoat Publishing
info@scapegoatpublishing.com
Baltimore, MD

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The collection is illustrated throughout with the artwork of Warlock Daniel Byrd and includes a brief afterword by High Priest Peter H. Gilmore.

To learn more or to see what material has been included, please visit http://www.lulu.com/content/1099456 and click on the “Preview this book.” link, which displays my introduction and the Table of Contents.

HS!Rev. Jack Malebranche
Editor, Lust Magazine

This week on The New Statesmen’s website, their blog “The Faith Column” features a series of essays from Church of Satan priest Umberto Ray on Satanism.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-faith-column

Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Scriptures (in stores October 2007) will be appearing on ABC’s 20/20 this Friday (July 13^th) at 10pm EST, and will be interviewed about his book on Magic Mind Paranormal Research Radio on Monday July 16^th at 8pm EST.