I had been wanting to read this book for a while because my fascination with demonic themes in literature knows no end. The parody that LaVey makes of religion here is not only sometimes humorous, but also to an extent fairly realistic. I'm speaking from the point of view of an atheist, though, so the way I view this text is very different from someone of an Abrahamic denomination, or someone who actually is a Satanist (who these days refer to themselves as nontheist rather than atheist when this book was meant to be an atheistic parody of Christianity). The main issue that I take with the text is that there is some objectification of feminine figures throughout (specifically in the way rituals are conducted regarding dress code), but there are also examples of empowerment so far as their sexuality goes. The former is the one reason for which I deducted a star from my rating (because equal treatment of the genders would have been even further removed from Abrahamic religion rather than reducing the feminine figure to sexualization), but otherwise the manuscript is beyond intriguing.