LaVey, Anton

Anton LaVey
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Name	LaVey, Anton Gender: M
Birthname	Howard Stanton Levey
born on	11 April 1930 at 03:10 (= 03:10 AM )
Place	Chicago, Illinois, 41n51, 87w39
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Steinbrecher
Astrology data	20°45' 26°22 Asc. 23°55'

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Anton LaVey (publicity photo, circa 1992)
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Biography

American author, musician, and Satanist who was the founder in 1966 of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism. He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible (1969), The Satanic Rituals (1972), The Satanic Witch (1989), The Devil's Notebook (1992) and Satan Speaks! (1998). In addition, he released three albums, including The Satanic Mass (1967), Strange Music (1994) and Satan Takes a Holiday (1995). He played a minor on-screen role and served as technical advisor for the 1975 film The Devil's Rain and served as host and narrator for Nick Bougas' 1989 mondo film Death Scenes.

As a child of seven he studied the supernatural, moving into black magic by high school. He was a high school drop-out to hang around pool halls. Musically gifted, he become the second oboist in the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra at 16. Joining the circus in 1947 he became a lion trainer, calliope player, hypnotist, palmist, phrenologist, magician and a burlesque accompanist. He held many jobs throughout his life, including being an assistant criminologist in the San Francisco Police Dept. in 1951.

LaVey established the Church of Satan in San Francisco on 30 April 1966, holding Friday night seminars where he displayed his full drama with a flowing cape and macabre decorations. His mass included a nude woman draped over the alter and he reportedly served a baked cadaver at one time. Not averse to publicity, he displayed his pets that included a tarantula, a leopard and a lion His cult celebrated carnal indulgence, vengeance and the rule of Satan. With charismatic power and keen intelligence, he was typecast as the Devil in the movie Rosemary's Baby.

In 1950, LaVey met Carole Lansing. They married the following year, when Lansing was fifteen years old. Lansing gave birth to LaVey's first daughter, Karla LaVey, born in 1952. LaVey and Carole divorced in 1960, after LaVey became involved with Diane Hegarty. Hegarty and LaVey never married, however she was his companion for 24 years and mothered his second daughter, Zeena Galatea Schreck (nee LaVey) (born in 1963). LaVey's third and final companion was Blanche Barton. On 1 November 1993, Barton gave birth to Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey. Barton succeeded LaVey as the head of the Church after his death.

His death certificate reported that he died at 8:45 AM on 29 October 1997 in St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, of cardiac arrest. He was 67.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• friend relationship with Anger, Kenneth (born 3 February 1927)

• lover relationship with Monroe, Marilyn (born 1 June 1926). Notes: Rumoured brief affair

Events

• Family : Change in family responsibilities 31 July 1952 (Birth of daughter Karla)
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• Family : Change in family responsibilities 19 November 1963 (Birth of daughter Zeena)
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• Social : Joined group 30 April 1966 (Incorporated satanic cult)
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• Death by Heart Attack 29 October 1997 at 08:45 AM in San Francisco (Age 67)
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Source Notes

B.C. in hand from Steinbrecher.

Categories

• Traits : Mind : Education limited (High school dropout)

• Traits : Personality : Attention seeking (Ballyhoo, bells and whistles)

• Traits : Personality : Charismatic (Hypnotic leadership)

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Heart disease/attack (Fatal heart attack)

• Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Black Magic (Satanist practitioner)

• Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress (Had a small role as the Devil)

• Vocation : Entertainment : Circus/ Animal acts

• Vocation : Entertainment : Magic

• Vocation : Entertainment : Voice-Over (Narrator)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Oboe)

• Vocation : Law : Security guard (School crossing guard)

• Vocation : Occult Fields : Palmist

• Vocation : Religion : Cult leader (Satanic Church)

• Vocation : Religion : Metaphysical (Satanist)

• Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy (Satanic Bible)

• Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession

• Notable : Book Collection : Crime Collection