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“Couch?” I asked

“Certainly”

“Ladies first”

I watched as she went to the couch, and sat down, pulling one leg up under her The he as she walked She really was s, at least on a superficial level Though, as ere both beginning to learn, there was a lot more to life than that I sat down on the other end of the couch Still not sure about her comfort level

“So, Lucifer is a metaphor?” she asked

“Yes, alical Be they monotheists or Satanists”

“Theological Satanists?”

“Yeah Basically they’re inverted Christians, who have read and believed the Bible and decided ‘I’ Satanists They give the rest of us a bad rep”

“What are you?” Rachel asked, curiously

“Modern LaVeyan Basically, we take the basic principles of the original Church of Satan, including the Seven Tenets, while alsoParticularly in terly hu he wrote the tenants in the late sixties but still had so he was born in the thirties In er”

She took ato process the new information which I would have to be the first to admit came a bit fast and furious I lost both a filter and all sense of tis I cared about I also tended to start shouting as well Rachel wasn’t reeling back in abject terror so I didn’t think that had happened I was doing my best not to scare her

“What are the Seven Tenets?”

“The core principles of the LaVeyan school Similar to your Ten Commandments only shorter”

“Do you knohat they are? I mean all of them?”

“Sure Um, let’s see One should strive to act with cogle for justice is a necessary and ongoing pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions The body is inviolable, subject to one’s will alone The freedo the freedom to offend

“Beliefs should confor of the world, one should take care to never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs People are fallible, if one makes a mistake one should do one’s best to rectify it Every tenet is a guiding principle, designed to inspire nobility in action and thought”