"Satanism is the worship of life, not a hypocritical, whitewashed vision of life, but life as it really is."
- Anton Szandor LaVey
I was born in Battle Creek Michigan, 1965, live in Daytona Beach Florida but have also spent time in Charleston South Carolina and New Orleans Louisiana. My ancestry is documented to the 14th century Netherlands. My earliest ancestor in America, Jan Otten Van Tuyl (1636-1692) was a Dutch fugitive from justice, sentenced in absentia to be executed by sword for killing another man with a knife in a tavern brawl in 1662. His son, Otto Van Tuyl (1661-1705) had been "captured and imprisoned in 1699 as one of Capt. William Kidd's men, but released without bail, to the alarm of the honest merchants and skippers." (N. Y. Col. Docs., IV., 551,623). He turns up again as the commander of a privateer, that was run aground in a storm, in which he and his crew were frozen to death or drowned in 1705. Once in America, my Dutch, Prussian and German ancestors were pirates, privateers, farmers, mariners, and slave owners. My family fought in the Revolutionary War, Civil War (Virginia Confederate), WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. I spent most of my childhood on 100 acres of woods that belonged to my grandfather, until I had to go to school. This is when I first realized how much I hate people. I religiously watched CREATURE FEATURE out of Detroit from 1972-78. I love old Horror Films. It was hosted by THE GHOUL who was either influenced by John Waters or came up with the same ideas on his own, and played background music that was old rockabilly that I would find familiar when I finally heard THE CRAMPS in the 80s. Remember, this was the early 70s THE GHOUL was doing it first. My cousin worked in a garbage landfill and would bring all kinds of crazy things home especially mannequins (this was the beginning of my obsession with mannequins) we would paint them up as if they had been murdered, with blood running out of their nose and mouth, and hang them from the trees or pose them around the woods surrounding our Tree Fort over the swamp on my grandfathers property. Years later I returned to the woods and most of them were still there along with all the appliances, tv sets, etc. that we blew apart with shotguns. I grew up around guns, and am a fanatic when it comes to the Second Amendment. At a very early age my other grandfather took me to the library and hooked me up with a library card. I could check out anything I wanted on the condition that I actually read it. I checked out all the illustrated coffee table books on Horror Films, History, Weapons and Warfare, especially anything to do with WWII and the Third Reich. I did read Alfred Hitchcocks anthologies for young people, and various collections of horror stories that included Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, etc. My family moved to Florida in 1979 where I sporadically attended the notorious Campbell Jr. High School; an insect-infested ghetto gulag surrounded by barbed wire fences in the middle of the projects. I dropped out of school to work full time when I was 15. I spent a lot of time hanging out in bars and tattoo parlors, playing pool, chasing girls, and observing human nature.
"Satanism demands study, not worship."
- Anton Szandor LaVey
When I was a child, I spent hours reading my mothers copy of Rossell Hope Robins Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, looking at the old woodblock cuts and engravings of Levis Baphomet, demons from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, illustrations of witches having sexual commerce with the devil, and graphic block cuts illustrating the torture methods of the inquisition. The book was lost in the move to Florida. The search for another copy led me to a musty old bookstore in what was then the scummiest part of town. Little did I know I would spend many years there, where I would learn the business of dealing in antiquarian books, cataloging countless rare books on all subjects for the now-defunct Antiquarian Bookman Weekly. Starting around 1985, I started my own mail order business selling rare occult, erotica, true crime, and supernatural horror books, mostly to finance my personal library and research.
I affiliated with the Church of Satan in 1992, was appointed to the Priesthood of the Church of Satan by Anton Szandor LaVey in 1996, and to the degree of Magister of the Church of Satan by High Priest Peter H. Gilmore in 2005.
For awhile I was dealing in human skulls and skeletons, and am in a book titled either MERCHANTS OF DEATH or DEALERS OF DEATH, about the business of selling human remains. I gave the author a long interview w/photos - it was allegedly published by a small press in England in the 1990s and Ive had people tell me theyve seen it, but Ive never been able to locate a copy, so if you find one please contact me. I am self employed in my chosen profession. I love my work, and over 20 years my profession, as well as other "hobbies," has brought me into interaction with people from all walks of life: artists, psycho killers, writers, photographers, gangsters, old spies, secret millionaires, mercenaries, scientists, professional thieves, philosophers, hobos, etc. Ive been an obsessive reader since childhood and my self-education is my primary ongoing project. I read A LOT: mostly history, philosophy, science, psychology, political science, criminology, etc. Currently, Im working through the 11 volume Story of Civilization and the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World. I love history. History is pornography for pessimists and misanthropes a record of atrocities, disasters and human stupidity. Politically I am an anti-egalitarian, anti-liberal, anti-socialist, anti-communist (by any other name), anti-religion, atheist, materialist, anti-drug, pro-gun, pro-military, pro-law enforcement, and pro-free market. I live blissfully alone in a haunted 100 year old Victorian house with my cats, books, skulls, mannequins, antiques, feejee mermaid and pickled punk. Thats the short and censored version.
From a relatively insular vantage point, I am watching Western Civilization sink in the rising tide of subhuman scum. Anyone that crosses my line in the sand will not know what hit them.
Molti Nemici, Molto Onore
FACTOIDS:
In various capacaties and projects related and unrelated to Satanism, and under various names:
• Featured in several Central Florida Newspapers and Magazines, for various reasons, moslty business and cultural.
• Mentioned in local and national publications over the years, for various reasons, including Publisher's Weekly and The Village Voice (worthless commie rag).
• Maintained a large high-traffic website for several years that was blocked in the People's Republic of China and other Communist Regimes (for providing anti-communist information and tactical instructions)
• Photographed by Arnold Newman, Tim Page, and Charles Gatewood.
• Published under various names in several high-circulation publications dealing with rare books, self defense, tactical training, and other unrelated subjects.
• Directly involved with introducing two different close family members of two different (but significant) S.E. Asian military commanders to American "intelligence" (with whom they later collaborated to some effect)
• Directly involved (in an advisory capacity) with the adoption of a specific tactical training syllabus by a South American counter-narcotics task force, which was later red-flagged by Amnesty International for "police brutality" and "human rights violations" (which means they were actually accomplishing something)
• Directly involved with several documentary collaborations between historical writers and retired US Intelligence Officers from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
That is partial and as detailed as it gets, unless I know you really fucking well. Take it or leave it.
