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Yeah, this is my stylophone feramen. The antenna iss a little wonky on it, so I'm just gonna use the trigger on it. Y you just remember before you listen to this sounds These sounds are so powerful, so esoteric. they in fact may drive you insane. So this is your warning. If you can't handle the Thmon You shut off the radio right now. I mean, they can't handle it because it's, you know, weird I like themon because it's the only instrument you can play with your asshole. Someone hand me with my pants. Oh no, I am running out of blood pressure medication. Oh what a horrible set of circumstances. Where is my heroin? Where is my cit? Where is my career You are not fit to smell my shit. This' like I believe the Thman is the reason like people don't use an orchestra to score a film. You don't need it. You don't need it to have itt dad. Welcome to last podcast on the L, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Marcus Parks badly playing the Thman. Here with me is Henry Zabrowski The man who's just sitting there letting his tongue hang out of his mouth Like half his brain isn't working. It isn't. It isn't's Anders rowsky. And I love the Thman because it sounds like a ghost having an orgasm.. But also Anton Leveay is the only unionized Thman player that was ever in any of these all of these musician unions. He was the only ever full on Union manan Thrman True con man. Yeah.. The Thman is one of the most difficult instruments to play in existence. Go about. You should listen because that was great but she ch listen a real theram. L listen listen to Clara Rockmore. Claraock Listen to Clara Rockmore. it will blow your fucking mind out of the b your skull. right And we have and we have the man who's getting into theramy music over the next week. It's Ed Larson. Oh, how's everyone doing? You had a question. What Is this six six six or six six seven? six six six seven. six sixty seven. Yeah. Okay, o yeah, o yeah, but the thing six seven If this was episode six seven, we would do that. But it's not episode six seven, it's six seven, which is a number most omers can't count to. Yeah. And also we're not Catholic. We don't do six seven. You see the pope? I don't even I'm just even also straight up beginning the Butlerian jihad I don't know what that means Anti Robit like whole thing. It's written by if you remember he wrote this anti AI thing. It started in Dune with the Catholics. We're not here to talk about Dune too much. This is Anton Lvee, part two. Yeah one nerdy thing at a time He, Plean make sure.lean. If you're listening to this Cking is impossible. So when we last left Anton LeVy, the year was nineteen forty seven. According to the tale, LeVay spun for himself, he had become inspired after reading William Gresham's classic Cney novel Nightmare Alley. and instead of spending a life in the chains of the mundane world, LeVy had decided to bet everything on a life in the circus Supposedly, Anton joined the Clyde Batie circus in the spring of nineteen forty seven, where he was given the responsibility of feeding and watering the circus's big cats as a rousustabout and so called cage boy at the age of seventeen. Rousabout by the way is the dudes who set up and tear down the carnival at each town. Oh, okay. And know if you don't water those big cats They don'll grow. I you fucking. They just say small cats.t even thinking about. Well, the b claimed that the head of the circus personally taught him how to use the whip, the stick, the chair, and the revolver to get the big cats to perform. And before long, Anton said he was handling eight lions and four Benal tigers in a cage all at once which is almost certainly a massive exaggeration, to say the very least consonsidering Anton Lee's experience with big cats later on in his life, which will absolutely be discussed later, it seems like Anton did at some point work with bigig cats enough to get a feel for how to train and control them. He was not a count dante, in other words Anton claimed that in order to better work with the lions and tigers, he ate his food with them and mimicked the growling noises as they ate He Lave me alone. This is my soup. I're supp wased eating soup, tiger. Okay, this's my soup. You took a little soup. you got a taste for this. Leave me alone. Now, shut up. me. Hey, Listen got any bread to dip in this soup? Well then I guess we're out at lunch togetheret. Soid he even slept in their cages saidid he get clawed or knocked to the ground here and there, but these incidents were chalked up as quote unintentional mishaps. For those of you that are following along and are also potential students of the Eesoteric, I would submit to you to go and read Michael Aquinos two book long personally published his own version B biography of the Church of Satan and the whole thing because Michael Lkino are fucking homework. Oh yeah, buddy. Because one book's the book and the one the other second book is the book to reference you gott to read when you're reading the first book. Now it's important to remember Michael Lino. So so many footnotes that he had to do a second volume just to hold the footnote of J amendment. Fucking infuriating. For those of you who don't know, Michael Lquino is the Eddie Mster looking man that would eventually spin off from the Church of Satan. He was Anton Leve's right hand man as we'll get into more in the next episode But he wrote in the Church of Satan and he took everything that he could to essentially roast Anton Leveay from the inside out because Michael Aquino, if you do read any of his stuff, he works for the government. He worked in the CIA, he did Ss ops. He's a very crazy looking guy, but he's also Please Hder And when you read it grow your eyebrows like that. Practice. He made his eyebrows all four. So Michael Aquino wrote all this book and he heavily debunks all of Anton Levet's claims. book becausecause he's so bitter because Anton Levet is the bug's bunny to his daffy duck. And as he's wr this whole book He's like Anton Levee, he lied about going to the circus. And he definitely get me effect Mirman R. And it's like, yeah, buddy. we know Anton Levee even said it's a lie. Yeah. You constantly going like, there's just no possible way. He was at the circus. I' like because if you look at the roules of the circus performers that happened at the time, you don't see Tony Levee came in there. Do you I like And it and you're like, bro, you've lost whole fucking point. Yeah ye. But one thing we do know. G Dapffy Duck really captured his essence. It is him. It's good. But one thing we do know, that Anton Lv did in the circus He did learn how to become a master of one of the most powerful and legendary of all organs, Quite possibly the hottest pipes in all existence. Oh shit. Well that organ ps Well At the circus, Anton the V became a master of the instrument most associated with the circus, The mighty Calliopees. Yeah Calliopes, as Anton the V played them, were steam powered organs that used train whistles for their pipes, which made Calliopes so painfully loud that even the smallest of Calliopes could be heard from miles away. Even the smallest. You know the elephants love it. Oh yeah. the horses the lions, the tigers, they love the blast in the face with loud noises and hot steam. Here's an example of a callalliopee from my favorite Calliopee album op Circus Caalliopepe played Out of doors Volume One by Paul Eakins Oh yeah. Doesn't that make you feel good? No, it does.. It sort of feels like the general noise in my head at all times. It kind of feels like me desperately trying to do my taxes whatever It's just any moment of silence I have When I hear music like this, I forget that law exists. just swinging a head. Get out my way. Get out my way. God, I love it so much. I I love Calliopee music. I love that it's your first favorite that's your favorite callalliopee album 'use mine is gettingetting Gapes to Calliopee by Gay J. that Yeah they turn the guy into a Ciopey the Cy player for the circus that had taken in the young Anton Leveay, he was reported I mean They say he was an alcoholic. I think most callalliopee players are alcoholics. Most circus people from this time period are alcoholics. Reportedly this guy leaned on the keys more than he actually played them, which It also sounds awful just to do. In one version of the story, Levey said that one day the Calliopee player was simply too drunk to play and Anton stepped in. In another, far more satanic version of the story, Anton claimed that he was so hell bent on getting behind the Calliopee that he cursed the circus's alcoholic Calliope player who fell ill a few days later And that's also that's going to be a theme you'll see amongst Anton Leveay is him saying, Yes, I cursed him and then everything fell apart. It's like no, mostly it's just people who already had a lot of problems. Yeah and then Life just sort of took care of it for him. S it's gonna to happen to you. Like that's what he did because like I get it because like we all want this. L I do think that every time he talks like this, remember, he's serving a fantasy for you to fulfill. Everybody wants to hear that you can go, I curse you and then you can just move on and do all this stuff. He even knows Anthem Mavee himself knows how detrimental curses are to your own personal health So a lot of the times he talks about this I always say there's always the tongue in cheek thing. Sure. Yeah There's always a little like I gottaume. He became a Kilioe player the same way I became a chef. You just show up to work and don't be the guy on heroin. Yep. Welcome to America. You're hired. Well Anton stepped in, played a rousing version of the William Tell overture, and the alcoholic player was put on permanent sabbatical Anton L Vay was now a performer So after he was elevated to the resident Kalliopee player at the Clyde Baaty Circus, he changed his name from Tomy Levi to Anton Sandor Lvee after his great uncle. performer, he came to be known as the G Zandor And this is a clip of him years later playing a synthesizer mimicking a callaibee. Cool. This is H me Trying to just desperately put together the TV stand in house like going through the forms. This is me looking at IEa forms. Ikea plants d blazes dunder blazes dunder blazesu. I really I'm actually starting to like him now. Yeah Yeah. He's really fun. Yeah, that's part of his like big top nedley. goes on for Good for five minutes. Oh, I was hoping forty. I for this. Yeah. No I do have an Anton Levee album which he plays the organ throughout. It's a really fun album. It's great. It's part of the organ section in my record collection. Which is ample. or section Yeah, loveve them hot pipes Anton LeVay said that by playing live music, he learned how to affect the moods of not just the audience at the circus, but also the moods of the big cats, the elephants, and the human performers. It was said that LeVay had an unusual ability to add special life to the circus performers' acts with his own inimitable style of callalliopee playing But after traveling through much of the American West with the Clyde Baty Circus, Anton settled down in Long Beach, California at the end of nineteen forty seven for a regular gig at the Pike amusement park And through his Carney connections, he joined various traveling shows for small tours up and down the west coast During those days, Lavee met legendary seshow performers like the three legged Francesco Lantini. Francesco Lontini..iousin. And the two faced Bill Dirks. Bill Dirk! You, I'm looking at these for me. These guys are great. I love Bill Dirkks. His little third leg just kind of comes out of his butt A lot of that's really, I mean, when they say like three legged performers, the posters that they painted were beautiful. I have a whole book of them. They're fucking great. All those old sideh posters that are just so massive, but they definitely do a lot of heavy lifting on the imagination. ussually when you walked into the tent, it really was just kind of like a weird appendage And usually and that's the thing is that it was actually so disappointing sometimes that usually the sideshow performers would also have like a secondary act. So you walk in a thing. Yeah, you'd walk in and they wouldn't just be like, oh, you know, here's a couple of conjin twins and they'd always be like, Ohh, here's two conjoined twins who also know how to play the fiddle and sing. Yeah, of course, 'causeuse that's a show. That's your show. Yeah. And like we just watched the Elephantan last night and I cried watching and God, I fucking love that movie.. We just forgot that was the whole thing. the guy ran Hon story Yes. And it's about him searching for pants. It's four and a half hours long. They go to Macy's JC Bany Burlington Cat Factory. But the elephant man, that was whole thing said he didn't have to because of just how he was the only one that wasn't underwhelming No, It was the closer. Yeah. the elephant man was a yeah, goodir old Good old Joseph Merrick But Bill Dirk never experienced the l. O a woman. It's the saddest the ball. It really is Yeah Doid you know how the elephant manan died? Yeah, well, I watched the Bradley Cooper stage version that was fucking awful. Yeah, So he died by the was that the reviews after the fact. I was so close, I literally went what point I' like come to my m. Well li theater No see it. Well, Bill Dirks, he actually just had a severe cleft palleate that went all the way up to splitting his nose into To give the full two faced illusion. he was known as the two faced man. He would paint a third eye on his forehead to sell the act fully. It's fucking awesome. It's like I'm not I's talking about lack of confidence.. Trust buddy. you're ugly. Leveay got to know a particular kind of performer calling himself the human ostrich. I love this act. The human ostrich had the ability to eat and regurgitate almost any object at will Objects made of metal or glass because otherwise you're just watching a guy throw up. Yeah. Although there were some regurgitators who were massively popular and really talic. There was one guy who would swallow and eat like a bunch of fish and then he would regurgitate through a hoop into a fish bowl. That's Yeah, shock. Yes. fish died, but except for fish. Yeah. Fish don't count . Well human ostriches were so named because real ostriches ate rocks to help with digestion. And even besides that, I' D deffinitely going to see anyone who bills themselves as the human ostress just to see what the fuck it is. Oh ye ye. You better be tall. I' ask to give of the elephant man. You just gotta give him a fun name. Yeah pick an animal. Yeah. Especially if he kind of looks like it. That's awesome. Yeah But out of all the sideshow acts that Anton Levee got to know, he paid the most attention to the so called Mitt camp at the Cnival, where fortune tellers read palems. likeike Gim me a mitt. I'm going to read your forte. That's why they would call it a Mit camp. I actually saw this term in a recent carnival movie that I watched called She Freak. fucking amazing. It's a sort of a retelling of Todd Brown's freaks, but yeah they would say it's dude I got off Vinegar syyndrome. It's fucking great. Yeah Yeah. I'll lend it to you Alongside the fortune tellers were the mentalists, who cold red unsuspecting customers to see how much money they could bilk out of them And this Anton the Ve set is where he truly watched and learned Anton Levy was also all about style, and he, like any cultural figure worth their snuff, went through many iterations before finally settling on the Mephistopheles core look that made him famous. In the circus, LeVill modeled himself after film noir gangsters, who wore wide lappeeled, big shouldered suits, pocket squares Panama hats and of course, immaculately landscaped facial hair. This seems to be among the first instances of Anton LeVill truly leaning in playing a sort of villain, or at least appearing to be a villain. And this was certainly something that LeVill would later use while creating the Church of Satan But Besides helping him develop his villain persona, the circus also reinforced LeVy's attitude of hypocrisy concerning Christianity. He said that he would see men Lusting after women at the carnival on Saturday nights as he played Calliopee. But when Anton Levee went in to play organ at the church services at the tent revival the next morning thoseose same lusty men would be in the pews. hypocrisy And that is the key to what really the Church of Satan is all about. It's not really about we keep talking about it. It's really an anti hypocrisy stance. It's about being true to yourself. You know, it's like if you're gonna go out it's basically like Make choice. likeike either you're going to go out and you know, lust after women on Saturday night with carnivals. That's totally cool. That's fine. If you want to do you know church on Sunday and be a pious individual That's totally fine too But don't try to fucking do both. Well, he did both Exactly. a hypocrite. But he also understood He was getting a paycheck. But yeah. he got a paycheck. H's the job. He also understood. like there is I do' think that this is the core to really try to understand of all of this is that this is as deep as it really was supposed to go for Anton Lvee. L this was the beginnings of a Yet we're setting ourselves free. We're trying to get out of all of this stuff. We're trying to because how many times have we seen the issue be You're something that you're not. Yeah. And so you are showing up every day. Why is it such a common thing now that we especially now that we're seeing that the guy that's anti doing anti trans laws is more likely than not using trans sex workers. It's like that's the thing now. like it's it's like the way to be. So this is he kind of u ast that early on. Very much so. Yeah, I mean and it's also a Craowleian idea. You know, like Alistair Craowley would say the same thing. I can't remember the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of like there's no more pain in the world caused than by those who are not true to themselves who are not being their true selves. If you' going against what you're supposed to be That's where you're only gonna cause pain to yourself and to everybody around you, especially everybody around you. I legitimately think the world would would be different. If a time traveler dressed as an artist, went back in time into Adolf Hitler's fucking class, went, took all his stupid ass paintings, put them in a gallery and said, Adolf, these are amazing. And That is literally all he would needed And we would not be here. We wouldn't be dealing with any of that. I think we'd be dealing with different things, but I always find it weird when people say I'd go back in time to kill Baby Hitler. You Kill him as an art student. It's more fun. Oh no. I'll tell you what though. Tal about in the cr. This is really all about killing babies with impunity. That's really what it's about. everybody who says that is just super curious about like wholesale just fucking murdering a baby. And you can do it without feeling any for of guilt if it's at le Yeah, we did have this conversation at home not too long ago and we settled on teenage Hitler. Yeah you settle like you kill him at fifteen. Yeah. Oh that's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. 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Nice LeVveay said that they had an intense love affair that only lasted a few weeks, but that they were very sexually compatible. The owner of the Mayan, however, maintained that Monroe never even performed there, but according to LeVy, when Marilyn Monroe orgasmed, she quote gnashed her teeth And fought it. Well, he wished. He definitely wished because he does we know hekes peepee and hekes farks and he loves his farks. But you know what I really do think that happen is Only if my sin were f youll smell the sin. Sell the sin. Did they not know what creeepps were back then? I think to be honest No, I think that that's what he meant. But you know what I do think is that because he's ana, these stories are like it's not true. I bet you he had sex with really Hopalonchick that looked just like her. And I bet that when he had sex with her, he used that version of that to be the satanic ideal from then on out. Sure. So whatever it was whoever was it he had sex with then, that was like this story, what it is about is the allegorical choosing of the satanic dual other nature. So what he did as a dark weird gross man, right? He idolizes the blonde bombshell as a way to get things out of life very easily. So this is the first thing in his mind. It's like that's kind of what it's about. L it's not about fucking Marilyn Monroe. It's about choosing the Marily Monroe form. I get it. Now following his supposed fucking idiots. Now Following his supposed fling with Marilyn Monroe, Lavee claimed that he returned to San Francisco, where he expanded his professional pursuits to include photography. While still playing organ for local strip joints and private stag parties, Lavet said that he also got a job taking pictures of women modeling clothes and underwear, even though the census lists his status in nineteen forty eight as Unemployed Let's just say a lot of guys who take pictures of women in their underwear are technically by the state. unemployed. Yeah. I'm sure you got cash under the table. Yeah. But regardless of what the paperwork says, the draft was still in effect in nineteen forty eight. So to avoid military service, LeVy enrolled at San Francisco City College as a criminology major Supposedly, this led to LeVe getting a job as a crime scene photographer at the San Francisco Police Department. Now the SFPD has no record of Anton LeVe working for them under any name But Levee maintained that his record must have been expunged. They were ashamed of having Anton Levet on their ranks. But even so, Levey said that his time photographing the grotesque blood soaked bodies of car accident and murder victims led to another revelation In his words, Anton decided that quotes, there's no God There' nobody up there who gives a shit Man is the only God So man was be thought to answer to himself and other men for his actions N, forget about.. forget about.fortunately agree with Auntom Mve. Unfortunately I do have to agree with them. now. A's the very bottom. So this is my belief He looked at the works of Ouiji while he was taking classes as in criminology. Ouigji being the famous crime scene photographer for New York City, fantastic. Now I know, there's a book out of all of his stuff that I have forgot to include into what is the one of the biggest inspirations for Franance O Mevey in the Church of Satan. And it's a book by William Montgomery, the photographer called The Cand to Look became obsessed with this book. It was a thing that William Montgomery, who took these pictures very similar to Diane Arbus Naked. lot of naked ladies, but also like really intense effects, monsters, like very German expressionists and also grizzly things. peopleople deforming these and old stuff and he made them beautiful. And he meilt this whole aesthetics world of like of tips that he wrote in this book and each one of them is Satanism to its core. And so I think that the photography angle is partially his own obsession with William Montgomery that then he fed into he fed these things to his own I did them. Yeah and said, but he's just studied them very thoroughly. Yeah, because it's if you're building a myth like like Anton Leveay was building a myth. like first of all It's the mid twentieth century. Ain't no internet. There ain't no way to check nothing. So if you tell a good enough story and Anton Leve was smart enough to tell a good story where know no one's gonna to question you People are going to pay far more attention to say someone who says I did this rather than, well, I've studied the works of Willi Mkom. Yeah. And they the thing. Nobody wants to hear that. So when you say he studied the works of Ouiji, Ouiji is a photographer, notot like the Ouiji bore? No, no, no.uiji was the name of a crime scene photographer in New York City who Possibly my favorite photographer ever. L he would just the way that he would just show up to a crime scene and photograph it and just the most Be honest, the most beautiful way possible, It's kind of insane. Beautiful and brutal. He would show up to these things He really was this like weird character. And sometimes he'd like show up before the cop set. Oh He's one of those guys like LA confonfidential style. Exactly. Yeah I'm pretty certain that that is kind of based on him. Oh, so he studied the works of Ouigji, but he's such a nerd, he should have studied the works of Wedgie I hate you. He wasn't even interested. He wasn't even interested in the material. said that. interested though. When you explained it, it was interesting. I will say that. It was a ba, but it didn't, you know, it did work on it In Antonvee's personal life, it's known that he married for the first time at the age of twenty one But since it was nineteen fifty one, nobody batted an eye when Anton married a nice fifteen year old middle class girl named Carol Lansing. And after the two of them moved into an apartment near a San Francisco amusement park called Playland, Carol gave birth to Anton's first child, Carla. But while Aunt on the Vay was starting a family, he was also actively seeking out other people who shared his point of view, although he was having a hard time finding his people. He drove to Berkeley, where he found Alistair Crowley's Order of Thalma. But after looking into Crowley's life and workings a little bit deeper, Leavee decided that Crowley was, quote, druggy poser whose greatest achievements were as a poet. then mountain climber Fair enough, I suppose. accccording to him, which just makes all sense. By that point, if you could even see Crowley where at the very end of his life, he was such a heroine addict and such a gross ass fucking guy that but to me, it also formulates the next levels of the Church of Satan. He being there's Alistair Crowley, the man, the most evil man to ever live He walked the walk. He went through the fucking he crossed the rubricon. He met them he met the fucking Aas He did all this shit. Now look at him And it's just like, look he's fucking. He's just fucking, he's basically just some schmuck. that's dying a heroin abuseal and he's just this garbage guy. So of course, like you're like, it must be a lesson. Yeah like there's the grand Magus. Yeah he's just some mumbly fuck who's looking for his next fix. Now while the San Francisco Police Department has no record of Anton LeVvee's employment, it was still the SFPD that seemingly introduced Anton to the next phase of his increasingly spooky career. In nineteen fifty three, Anton Leveay became one of the first ghostbusters in America. Yeah' that's cool. . If you don't think that's cool, you're stupid. G That's your plan. See, according to Anton Levee, he was basically San Francisco's version of the X files. Anytime the SFPD got a so called nut call, like a report of a ghost, a UFO, or a mysterious noise, Sam Fran cops would toss the call to Anton LeVe And we know that this stuff happens because of when we covered the warrants. We like we know that cops do they are people. They're like, all right, you can go look at this weird shit. Yeah Anton would investigate by camping out in haunted locations in a sleeping bag with a camera loaded with infrared film to capture ghosts. And to monitor fluctuations in the pitch and intensity of the hauntings, he used a thermin as a so called intrusion detector. And this Thmin that I have here, it's a styleophone thermin, It's got an antenna It's a little Buggy I'd say, but this is A little bit what it would sound like you're the gost the fuck Tony moves the antenna to the rightank. We know we go to the circus, Tony. I'm having trouble getting fxed. Now what Anton discovered from his time as a ghost hunter was that people would insist on believing what they wanted to believe regardless of evidence Even when Antom would find a real cause for strange noises like old pipes or a settling house, customers would insist on exorcisms to rid them of their supposed polterge Anton, of course leaned in, devising charms and spells for his clients to complete the act But in nineteen fifty five, LeVy had enough of a reputation as a ghost hunter to quit his crime scene photographer gig. Instead of taking pictures of grizzly deaths, Leveey now claimed that he could spend all his time, quote, exploring the Back arts. Yeah! But exploring the bllack arts don't pay a bill. No doesn't, no. tellell me about that. Yeah, Tell me about that. If this is a Black Arts podcast, we wouldn't be one. You know what I' say You know, aure crime podcast to begin with you. Yeah. So Leveay also joined the San Francisco Musicians Union in nineteen fifty five as an organist, which got him a gig playing the Warlitzer organ at a cocktail lounge ominously called The Lost Weekend. O cool. That's really good name for a cocktail l. It's a great cock E exactly where I want to be, dude. And I think it's so I mean, I know I found a picture of it from like nineteen seventy nine. so it survived very long running, you know, San Francisco bar. It's such an interesting thing because he's a ghost hunter who helps people like fix their pipe. So I feel like he's actually helping them fix their problem. Yeah. But like he's fixing the pipe and he's like, a, ghost is gone. Yeah. But dude, think about it That's like the ultimate like thing because you got something. You paid for it He fixed the issue. You know what I mean? everyverybody's happier. you still believe in ghosts. He got money. Everybody's happy. Ghost plumbers. Yeah. That's how it started. That is literally how ghostbusters. I believe it was called ghost smashers. Oh yeah. was the original name. Well it all goes back to the magical principle of doesn't matter if it's real or not O only thing that matters is if it works. Yeah In nineteen fifty five was the year that Anton Levee truly started developing his reputation as a local character in San Francisco. In fact, it's my personal opinion, is and this is just me. I think that all Anton LeVvee ever really wanted to be was a local character. I think he just wanted to be the weirdest guy in San Francisco The thing about being the weirdest guy in San Francisco is that it puts you in the running for being one of the weirdest guys in the world. So when Anton Levet opened the door to local character status, the enterprise sort of ran away with itself within about a decade. Well, I also think you and I kind of picked up on something that I've been thinking about more and more about Anton Levee that I do believe that he wanted to be in the movies. Yes. that is that again, local character was the status he wanted. beinging in the movies was the job he wanted. I think that what we'll see every single thing kind of comes up against that where it think in the very, very end he really just wanted to make art I think well I think he just wanted to make movies and TV. Yeah guy I think that's he just he wanted to be in show business. Did he ever run with like Neil Cassidy or the Dad or anything like that? I mean No, Weirdos doing drugs. He hated hpp. Aon, the whole point of the Church of Satan was anti hippie. Well, he didn't run with Neil Cassidy, but he ran with people who ran with Neil Cassidy, which actually we'll get to one of those people here in a second who actually had sex with Neil Cassidy. Oh. But yeah, who didn't, but you know As far as how Anton became a local character, he did indeed have multiple big cats in his possession throughout the nineteen fifties and sixties. So must have had some experience. He had to have. Yeah. He started with a leopard named Zoltan Smuggled through Burma and then Israel by an associate of Levey's, Zoltan the Leopard became like any other pet in the Levey household. Seemingly, Anton Levey did have enough experience with big cats to train and tame Zoltan the Leopard, because this big cat was safe enough to sometimes take naps with Anton's young daughter Now in nineteen fifty six, Anton's parents bought Anton and his growing family a two story home at five one tw four California Street in San Francisco for the paltry sum of nine thousand five hundred dollars. twoo story townhouse. Wow in San Francisco. ninetine thousand five hundred buckars rent for the fucking place now. God no, it's not. No, It absolutely is not But later, even though his parents bought it for him, Anton Leve would lie and say that he had discovered that this house was not only a former Bordello and spepeakekeasy, But it also once been home to San Francisco's voodoo Qeen According to Levill, his house had at one point belonged to a woman named Mary Ellen Pleasant, who, according to the local press, had been responsible for the deaths of four people, including her longtime business partner, all in the pursuit of Voodon. The rumor was that a servant had seen Pleasant pulling apart the bones in her partner's skull to pick out bits of his brain to use in voodoo rituals. In reality though, this was all just slander Mary Ellen Pleasant was not only an essential link in the undernderground railroad, but she was also one of America's first black millionaires. She was a brilliant businesswoman by all accounts, but Mary Ellen Pleasant didn't take no shit from nobody. Yeah. She was also naturally an abolitionist. And her dedication to the cause was so strong that when the abolitionist John Brown was hanged for insurrection in eighteen fifty nine, there was a note from Pleasant detailing escape instructions in John Brown's pocket Because the people of San Francisco simply couldn't handle that a black woman could be so successful in the mid nineteenth century, it was said in the press, mind you, this is what the newspapers printed, that Mary Ellen Pleasant was only successful because she used voodoo. That's the type of shit they've been doing for all the time like starting with Cleopatra. Well voodoo is famously bad for making money. It's like It's really hestly for all of the magical purposes. It's not super good at it Pleasant actually was a trained Voodoo priestess.kay. Yeah She might have sort of been highly trained in it. I mean, Vudoodoo is a religion just like any other. Of course. And she and the things about M Ellen Pleasant, she had been born into slavery. Her mother was Haitian. her mother had taught her the voodoo practice, but you know Mary Ellenleasant's story is incredible. Yeah, it's amazing.'s a fucking amazing American story. That's a movie. Yeah, that's a movie. But when the press found out about her practice and tried exposing her, Pleasant doubled down and started carrying around a crystal ball as a prop She therefore went down in San Francisco Legend as the city's voodoo queen, The Marie La Vau of the Bay Area And Anton Leveay was trying to capitalize on that spooky reputation by saying that his new house had once been hers. Yeah, it makes sense. whyy not? Yeah. But if it's not true. No, no it's not. No. No it is what are you gonna do. But I also kind of always wondered how he retrofitted his house in the way that he did. Well, that's the thing is While the house did not belong to Mary Ellen Pleasant, it could have been a Bordella Because there's something going on rooms. Yeah. what's that? A lot of rooms. A lot of rooms, lot of secret entrances. a secret passages. Yeah shit. Yeah, hidden passageways. Bedroom had multiple entrances. There were multiple secret entranceways that Levey would later customize that ran throughout the entire house. In other words, Levey saw the possibilities here. So to further advance his local character status He immediately, upon moving in, painted the house's exteriors black. Yeah, it was awesome. This, of course, would be the Church of Satan's infamous black house where Anton would create the church and hold its first satanic black masses. And also it were permanently boarded up permanently painted over and shit. I'd call it the first satanic tourist attraction in history. I would say so, yeah. Yeah. It was a really tiny house smashed in between two giant houses, Wh which is kind of funny too, becauseuse I all the things grew around it and it was just this it's this little two story completely matte black house. And it's gone now. Yeah. Yeahah, ye an empty lot. Paint your house black Well, we actually have competition. Yeah We have a goh house also in the neighborhood So we can't be chasing that dragon and also horrific for temperature herrific for the fucking LA heat bad to do. fucking just drives your bills up. Yeah, I got a Halloween house on my street. It's black with you know, all the molding is painted orange. ye. And know what's also nice you know I found out because I did want to paint it black is that the problem is that you do have to you have to repaint your house like every year. Really? Yeah H. Yeah, it's really expensive. Interesting. You figure bllack would be fine. No, justust coverred with shit. No No, no. No It's a real bad idea. It's bad. Yeah T.on't do it. I wish I could. Well, in the late fifties, the Black House served as a beacon for other people who were into occult and paranormal subjects like Anton. And before long, Leveay had gathered enough of a crew to form a group called the Magic Circle. Of course, he couldn't find them anywhere else, so he made a way for them to come to him. Oh yes. And the magic circle was basically a prototype for the Church of Satan Made up of a bunch of California weirdos who liked to talk about magic with a K, the Magic circle threw parties at LeVay's Black House, where they would perform rituals, give lectures on occult topics, and generally socialize with other free thinkinkers Amongst the early members of the magic circle was a magician and dentist named Cecil E. Nixon. doctor Cecil E. Nixon. doctor Nixon, DDS. His main hobby was the construction of automatons, which in essence are somewhere between an animatronic and a robot, usually made of clockwork Nixon's most famous automaton was IsSIS. IsSIS was a representation of an Egyptian woman who could supposedly play three thousand songs on a zZither that sat on its lap using a complex system of gears, cams, sprockets, solenoids, and electromagnets. Be the way it worked is that the guy would come out He'd be like, okay, let's get the system ready. So he'd first show you all the gears. So you have this lady sitting on top of a box. He'd open up one door and you'd see all the gears underneath it. He opened another door. He's like, this is also where all the gears are. And he open another little door that had like buttons and little things on it. He's like, here's all the controlling mechanisms. Then he'd close it. And he's like, all right Now I gott to go get her prep. turn a big crank. And then he's like, okay, now name a song Yeah, and there there were actually little speakers on ISIS that you would like go down and you would ask for the song that you wanted. That's awesome. Yeah well Not as impressive in reality as it sounds in theory. Shit Just like the realiz Al You're like, you guys are fucking Not as cool as I thought you'd be. J just the sequeled al Qaeda. It's always worse. too much CGI. Well Let's hear a demonstration of ISIS during a televised British magic show in nineteen eighty nine after someone asked the automaton to play homeome on the range And you know what It is It really is, isn't it? It really is home on Mange. It's really not. It's absolutely not in any way whatsoever H on Marange. M More of a liar than Antzma Face. Well those are guys are magicious happen. How it operated. It it happened right Tont with us. We heard it. So for years, everybody said right for years, there were so many people baffled by ISIS. Yeah. and they thought that it was magic and he said like Nixon said I hadd worked on this for twenty years in secret continuing to work on it. it's the mysterious mechanism. The owner of Harris Casino bought ISIS from Nixon and couldn't figure it out. He said he couldn't figure out It doesn't work. How it works is that what happens is is that There's a guy in it. Yeah. And then when you lower the crank, you show all the stuff because that's like the front of where the guy' sitting. And then when you lower when you hit the crank, it lowers the inner working so the guy that's in the clothes box can crawl into this thing underneath ISIS that has this little keyboard in which you try to play the Zither by looking through this little slot with this keyboard. So that's why it sounds like that. Yeah because the guy can barely fucking see and he's trying to do it from the inside in this weird kakamimi is it's shit that's still going on today. I went to the magic castle last night. Oh cool. I it last night. It went last night. It just randomly was there.ly I'm thinking about all the whole episode today. But would you go with N would you go with? With your wife? No go with your wife. I n wife. I named A wife. No I went with Julie's friends. It was like a double date thing And looking a suit and everything. Yeah I put a suit on. Yeah. Yeah. like a big monkey man. and they got a got didn't bring him back to the zoo or anything. see where you're Irma. it's the piano that just plays and what it is is like you talk to Irma and Irma doesn't exist. It's an empty piano, but you speak at Irma and' like Irma, please play I asked for autumn leeaves. I was like please, Irma, please play Autumn leaves. then Irma goes, and then you tip Irma a dollar in her bird cage and it's like, you know, it's just someone watching from another room.. you know but it's very cool. It's very cool. It's my favorite part of the magic castle. Yeah. So if you ever go, you would love Irma. You spend the whole time in there. I know. Yeah. You would love the close magic. All the close magic is my favorite things, but yeah, they definitely will touch your wife Magicians, you can't trust them. No, you really can't. They make their pantnies. Yep, and they make their pantiesesppar L Anton of V's Magic Circle also counted filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger as an early member This marked the first of Lavet's two connections to the Manson family. One of Anger's films, Lucifer Rising starred Manson family member Bobby Beausat, who was convicted in the murder of Gary Himman. That was the family's first victim. Kenneth Anger to me, is also the exact reason why And Toma they was really interested more in getting into the movies. No because Hollywood Babylon. And how they their real' also full of li. It is The real love was the collection of those stories about Hollywood. Yeah. That was their real time passing that they would do. just talking about all these old ideas of like conspiracy theories, like old ideas of like CaB D Mille, like having like a girl mill and like having all these things like if you' ever read Hollywood Babylon, it's so entertaining. Yeah the they should have lived in LA He liked San Francisco. It was his hometown. San Francisco was was still cooler It was back then it was especially. Yeah. But I mean, really when these guys got together, like they talked a lot more about what was the name of the guy that supposedly you know, used the Coke bottle on the girl and almost got it, you know Chris Barley was supposed to play inle Fattybuck They talked far more about shit like Fatdty Arbuckle and whether or not he actually did it than they did about Satan. Yeah. Like that's the type of shit they talked about In Knethnger, Leveey was introduced to the brilliant artist Margorie Cameron, who was also Jack Parson's widow. The Magic Circle also boasted aristocrats, taxidermists, anthropologists, and gastroenterologists as members. In other words, Leveay was attracting intelligent, curious people into his orbit. Leveet was also exploring so called demonic geometry at this time. So he designed an oddly shaped black and red medallion adorned with a batwing demon for the most devoted members of the magic circle to wear These nerds then formed a subgroup called the Order of the Trapezoids. This was a group within the magic circle, and those members would eventually become the leaders in the Church of Satan. ly group was doing with their rituals really wasn't that much different from what the Church of Satan would eventually do. Their rituals helped with professional advances, unexpected rewards, money, sexual romantic satisfaction, or the elimination of their enemies. Butut differently, it was a bunch of nerds focusing their energies so they could get the things they wanted out of life, which is what magic is all about Now order of the trapezoid. I had Natalie and I I had the maid Order the trapezoid pendants for us to wear. right An orrder of the trapezoid all comes from William Montgomery. The idea of what it's considered to be magical interest and the idea of a trapezoidal shape, which is what he uses. But again, it was just the drinking. You know I mean? The order of the trapezoid was just he'd be like, okay, guys leave. We're having the order of the trapezoid secret meeting now. and then they'd like All right, now we can hang.. When you gave that to Natalie, was she like, could you get me something else? No No. No. No No, We're all with the women we're supposed to be with. Yay' like That's what she gets The Aunt on LeVe's first marriage didn't last long. In nineteen fifty nine, when Levey was twenty nine years old He met a seventeen year old girl named Diane Heaggarti, who was going by the name of Diane Von Ju Diane was working as an usher at a movie theater near a bar where Anton was playing the organ, and Anton apparently caught her eye. Shortly after their affair began, LeVvey divorced his wife for Diane. although interestingly, LeVey's daughter, Carla, stayed in the black house with her father rather than leave with her mother He wasn't you know, he wasn't that bad at the time. Yeah. It's probably all the trap doors, she couldn't find a way out. It was fun to. The Diane Hagarti would take LeVay's last name. And while the two would never marry, it is almost certain that the Church of Satan would have never gotten off the ground without Diane's input organization and ideas But just as important was the fact that Diane fully encouraged Anton Leveay to finally become Anton ZXandor Lavee. Oh unless you believe fucking Michael Akino, who's like he talks to pumus his friend. exxplain him how the way to do church things. So they went to the state. They feill out all the paperwork because that's what they do. So it was not his idea at all. It was the other guy's idea. It's like you don't realize, Akino. Like if you were like a fat play and loser, peopleople are just gonna like the other guy. Yeah. This is the whole thing man. Yeah, sure. But guess what? Everybody liked him, bro. Yeah. Everybody liked Anton. No one liked you, Michael. No. They really didn't. You fucking every time you talk, they probably went shhut up, Michael. Shut the fuck up. I hope we never do an episode on him. Oh we will. Oh no, he's coming up next episode. Yeah Hell be a part of next episode Part of an episode. part of an episode doesn't his own episode. God no. No because his sh too fucking boring. And I we are passed as a group I and you can be thanked. You thank us. thank me We're not going to talk about the magical workings. Okay, because we know it bores people. Yeah. because guess what I just tried to do, Read the Temple of Set book And guess what it is? It's about all of his workings to form the temple of set. And guess what it is boring as f. It have nothing happened. H eyes are closed. And onnce Diane moved into the Back House, it became, in the words of author Doug Brod in his book Born with the Tale, quote Cvas on which LeVay could project his wicked, feverish art, creating a total environment out of his grizzliest dreams. Arthur and Diane painted their bedroom glossy red. while the kitchen and living room were just as black as the house's exterior. You'll like this, Eddie. The exception in the kitchen was a mural which featured a cartoon bat demon modeled after Sherabog from the Night Ombald Mountain segment in Fantasia. Oh yeah. Wow, yeah. And what I love is below Sherabog That's where he put all of his organs. I mean, organ in the kitchen is pretty great. Yeah really f it go. Man, I would love if someone played the organ for me while I cook. I know. I had that s. But they then decorated the house with skulls, a full size human skeleton, probably obtained from someone at a San Francisco hospital, taxidermied animals A coffin, a chair that Levet claimed belonged to Rasputin, a coffee table made from a tombstone belonging to some guy named Lucas Machado, and of course, dozens of LeVvey's own paintings I actually look, I couldn't really find Leva's painting. I couldn't either It's insane When you look all it's just, I mean, I guess it's just a Google thing, but yeah, Google is only gives you paintings of Anton Levae. Maybe he never did it and just lied about it. No No, no no, they were everywhere. In fact actually the they might was family. This might have be in in private hands. Yeah, maybe. I mean, I know he was good and the very first press that he got was for his paintings in like nineteen fifty six So they were apparently good. He was a good artist. Yeah was a real skeleton? Yeah, they got a real skeleton. They no one knows where they got it from, but they knew so many people, especially like, you know, they knew gastroenterologists, they, you know, they knew dentists, they knew people in the medical world that you know probably could get them a human skeleton. It was a lot easier to get back then too. Far easier. Oh Yeahah. I just like, you know, speaking of Disney Pirates of the Caribbean used to be all skeletons. Yeah. Yeah, real skeletons.. That was when it was awesome. And then they switched it out when someone was like, this is disgusting. They like what? I mean, it's not that hard. Theres I mean, I know there's a fucking antique store in Pasadena right now if it's selling the skeleton for like two thousand dollars. I mean, I know it's expensive Yeah, but it's not hard to get I would love I want my skeleton to end up in a classroom somewhere. just so like some kid would steal my arm one day. I happy got old Ed is pinky. Wellve also installed a trick bookcase that connected their purple painted sitting room with their bedroom, a replica of King Tut sarcophagus in the living room that also led to their bedroom, and a trap door in a fake fireplace that led to the basement. That must have been so much fun. slide? I know, I hope so. I the ladder Probably a net at the end But basically, I mean, he turned his house into a carnival. It was a spook house. It the whole thing is a carnival spook house because in my view, just about everything, it just keeps coming back to the carnival. For another example, when Diane and Anton had their daughter, they named her after a character from the Cney novel, Nightmare Ally. This child, perhaps one of the most infamous children in occult history was Zena part in the story will come later Aby nineteen sixty, after Levee and Diane turned the Black House into a fun house for the occult, Anton began formalizing the magical lectures he'd been giving casually at magic circle gatherings. He held these formal lectures every Friday night at midnight in his red walled living room Eventually, LeVe opened these lectures to the public, charging two dollars fifty cents per person Friday night Ocult lectures came to be known as the first Black Masses, which were intended to be an inversion of the Catholic Mass Instead of speaking on biblical subjects, LeVy would give lectures on vamparism, banthropy, sideshow freaks, torture methods, sex theories, recipes for aphrodisis, gland transplants on monkeys or goat Cool, Zombies, haaunted houses, ESP, homunculi. basasically it's what people like us have been doing with podcasts for the last fifteen years. But in lecture form. Yeah, and he did it in a cool ass house where the guy dressed up the devil and you're all hanging out. It's awesome. Yeah. D wasas he like playing the organ and stuff all he did it too? I mean, sometimes hed play the organ. Yeah, but yeah, but mostly yeah, they were just these like formalized lectures like Hey, I just I studied vampires all week. Here's what I learned about vampires. Man, I bet that was fun as hell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah for two hundred fifty. Yeah. that's a great Friday night. Des taking it far beyond talk, Anton also held activities at these black masses, like the time one of the members of the magic circle allegedly obtained an actual human leg from a physician Theu supposed leg was cooked in fruit juice, grenadine, and triple sec and served with fried bananas, yams, tonka bean wine, and caterpillars A a lecture on cannibalism was given, it was said that while some in the Magic circle were squeamish about eating caterpillar, they had no problem feasting on human flesh. But if we're being realistic here Probably just pork. It was pork. becausecause in the end we all know that he doesn't believe in human sacrifice. the whole thing it's just like a funny thing to do and it's funny. But it wasn't sacrificed. No. Yeah, it was yeah, it was I think they said it was like it had been amputated or bullshit. somethingomething like It's not real. It's not real. Yeah I'd like to think that it could be. Well, to me, the idea of like the idea that because I held a cannibal dinner. And there's something about that where it's way it's more fun to just be like, we're cannibals. likeike then you don't have to worry about it. It's just fun if it looks like people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah you shouldn't You shouldn't eat people just 'cause it can lead to brain problems. You can get a prry on disease. Yeah. That's the main issue. Same thing with don't eat dolphin either. Yeah. Aot of too much mercury. That's right. That's the main issue. Now once Antthon Levee started opening his home to the public, he also completely transformed his look in nineteen sixty six. Looking to copy the style of medieval executioners, carnival strongmen and black magicians like Alistair Crowley, Anton Levet shaved his head, donned a cloak, and shaped his goatee into an aggressive point Now Lvet claimed that he did this to mimic the Faustian depiction of Mhistopheles, who's usually seen as the devil's liaison or the devil's agent. Or cat? Yeah. Yeah. But it has been noted that Anton Lveay may have taken inspiration from a far less high fallutin source. Instead of Faust It's speculated that Anton Leveay took his look Don Rles Yes, he did he did fucking hockey fuck you want to look good? You know you look like a man. Y! I'm Polish. you doew every time we saw Don Rickles. Just about a month before Anton Leveid debuted his new look in nineteen sixty six, Don Rickles had appeared as a supernatural villain in an episode of a now forgotten Epionage Western TV show called The Wild Wild West, which I watched a little bit of it, kind of seems like a cross between Mission Imossible and Gunsmoke. Interesting. Yeah, it's interesting Whoa, he's so funny looking in this. Yeah. Oh my God, Edie I've never seen him I've never seen him looking like that. That's hilarious. Well, Rickles, in a rare dramatic turn, he played it totally straight, plays a sinister black magician named Asmodus, who uses occult imagery, rituals, and black magic to frighten and manipulate the townsfolk in a typical nineteenth century Western settlement In his episode, awesomely titled The Night of the Druid's Blood, Rickles's character even burned someone alive in a seemingly supernatural fashion. But ultimately, the deaths are exposed as simple murder using smoke and mirrors, much like a very dark episode of Scooby Doo. Wow. That's very cool. I can't wait to watch this. Yeah in the end cannot be denied that while the character design of Asmodeus definitely took from depictions of Faus Mapistopheles, the style of Don Rickles in this role, broadcast just a month before Anton Mveay unveiled his own look, is incredibly similar to Levet's bald headed pointed goatee style. He also looks like what? Like there's also that famous guy was Ming the Merciless was like a thinge. Yeah Ming the Merciless from a Flash Gordon. Yeah. man, you know that pissed Rickles off like the first person that looked like him was like a Satanist. Oh, he probably had no fucking idea. Waitve a guy a Satan See That's better? No Honeard of us? Anyway. Anyway Call me a squirrel Be I'm covered in acorns. That's right. 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This time, Zultan ran out of the house got hit by a car. It's a fucking leopard. Yeah. It' differentiff than a cat. mean It's still like way different than a cat. a c, a cat's a cat. You leave the door open, cat's gonna get out. Yeah leeopard's one hundred and fifty pounds. It's pretty big. I can only imagine the buls of the person who hit the c. a living look! I'd be so scared. What kind of dog is that? Well, Z oldan was killed and buried in Anton's backyard Levet and his family were devastated by Zulttan's death. So in November of nineteen sixty four, a member of the Magic circle bought a baby Nubian lion for Anton Levey. Yeah Anton did such a good job with the first one He so come on, you we've all You know, gotten a pet after the one pet died. Yeah. Yeah of course. Yeah. too be honest, I recommend it. Yeah. When they're leopards. I don't think you have to worry about being like sad like I think you should as soon as your pet dies, get a new pet. Yeah That's my view. Oh yeah, you got Placed a new pet. always done. I have multiple pets and I'm ready for them to die. Yours are staggered outes in generational you get to really play with that. That's awesome. great Waser. Yeah, we do the same thing at our house is It's always going to be two dogs, one young, one a little bit old But you go stagg them so that way you're never without a dog. That's that is ' they're gonna die. Every time. But you know, you never know which one's gonna go. Totsy was supposed to like make it okay for me to deal with Rambo dying, but then he died and she's still around a year later. She ain't going overh. did a fight. She did She's an evil woman, just like her fucking mother. You. makes sense. Anton got a new big cat He got a lion and he named it Togar after the stage name of an Austrian lion tamer Now again, Anton Levee must have had experience with big cats because as opposed to Count Dante who couldn't stop his lion from attacking his students, Levey was able to take Togar to his daughter's kindergarten class for show and tell. it's gotta be something. I mean, this lark was actually reported in the San Francisco Chronicles. That absolutely happened But it was still a kitten at that point. At that point Yeah. But even so, you remember like Count Dante his people would say like every time we tried to feed the cat, you had to hold down all four of its paws because it would scratch the shit out of youa. Anton Levee knew what he was doing. Yeah, Anton Levee is better than Count Dante. Yeah. one thing. Yeah, because Count Dante is a pale c Imitation of Anton Levee And seemingly, Anton Leveay parlayed this lion coverage into getting a part time job writing a column for the Chronicle himself, in which he cemented his reputation as one of San Francisco's weirdest characters. While the column was mostly about his time as a paranormal investigator, it was also where LeVay made his first claims about being a lion trainer carnival organist, a police photographer, and an accordion teacher. that's where he set the lore. Yeah and this legend was set this was before this is two years before he started the Church of Satan. Thesar easier to lie back then. It really is. and honestly, you say that, but it's easy to lie now. You just got to keep doinging. That's the key Eddie never given. E Dig in, never change. Alex Jones fucking sold his family down the river when he broke character. He broke character. That was his biggest problem. Togar the lion was, after all, still a lion. While Togar was well behaved enough where Anton could walk it through his local supermarket just to get a reaction from the public The lion did once almost kill the grandson of the twenty first president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur. Not Chester Arthur. Yeah. I'm sorry. Chter share birthday. I'm attached to him. Wow Well it' Chester Arthur's grandson. I still love him. Yeah Arthur A Arthur. Well President Arthur's grandson was also Chester A. Arthur, but he called himself Gavin set himself apart called himself Gavin Arthur. Great. Gavin Ar Gavin Arthur was yet another fascinating figure in Anton Leveay's orbit. By the mid sixties, Arthur had established himself as both an astrologer and a sexologist. Thank Albert Kinsey, but if he was obsessed with horoscopes. It's perfect time to be a sexologist. It really slash fucking astrology. Yeah, And you know who was like super into ck Gavin Arthur's sexologist stuff is Alan Watz. Alan Watts loved it. L he would write all like and he knew Alan Watts he was like Gavin Arthur was in that scene with Alan Watts and all those guys. Well and you know, Gavin Arthur would call himself the pre hippie hippie. He was active in the early gay rights movement as a bisexual, He was friends with and had sex with various writers amongst the beat generation. That's where Neil Castney came in Yeah came in, came on, came out, whatever Yeah. And he was also an early leader in San Francisco's hate Ashbury scene before the whole thing fell apart. That's what he means when he says he's the pre hippie hippie. He was he was there in the beginning when they were like, okay, there's something going on here. Something's changing, you know, the perspective is changing. and then of course, the hippie movement just did what it did. Yeah. but he was the guy He was one of the guys at the very beginning. That's very cool. And those were the guys that Anton Levee hung out with. And when Gavin Arthur dined with Anton Levee, he found himself suddenly trapped under two hundred fifty pounds of lion. as Togar ripped Arthur's suit to shreds in the middle of dinner. He smelled the president a. Yeah Gotta get to Jester. But ever the wag Gevin later quipped to the Chronicle. This is what I get For not hiring a lion s on. You just seem I guess it is a bit of a snagggle post line. Oh yeah. This is what I got for not hiring a lion at on. suit a lot. at stage right even. sometime in nineteen sixty six, Anton Leveay decided that his profile was not quite high enough. After shaving his head and putting on a cape and devil horns, Leavee officiated a wedding as a high priest of Satan, complete with a naked woman on the altar. The ceremony was of course, both public and covered by the press But after the ceremony Leveay started gaining national attention as both a big cat guy and as a Satanist But his neighbors, instead of going after the Satanist angle They started getting very vocal about Togar. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. There's a lion attacking the neighborhood. We'll deal with the Satan stuff later. seemeems kind of a esoteric issue that we're kind of all sort of trying to sort out. There's a lion on the street. in that house up there. It really does show you everything about San Francisco.'s this great there's news footage, there's archivive footage of people interviewing neighbors and they're like, I don't care about the Satanism stuff. whoo really cares, but this lion keeps stadling my husband when he rows it to I am. It's so loud. He's so loud The walls are so thin. Eventually though, Togar got to be too much to handle because it's always a bad idea to have a lion as a pet. Diane Hagarti tried brushing tabasco sauce on the furniture because Togar kept chewing everything to pieces. and Togar was known to go into rampages within the house that would cost Thousands of dollars to repair. Gotta get the scratching post. G it really does. Yeah. We're scratching cross. That'd be good. Yeah That would be so much for. Uside down cross. Yeah scratch scratch. it's fucking awesome. I should have worked Tthon. Well. read. Now Levet had tried and failed to sell Togar to a circus for five thousand dollars. She should have tried for four. Yeah. Yeah. But after Togar clawed and burst a water pipe one day flooded the basement of the Black House, Levee said fuck it and got on the phone to the San Francisco Zoo that very day to donate the beast. Lave, however, wasn't happy about the circumstances that led to him losing Togar. He said he cursed his neighbors for complaining. I cut a. And many of them thereafter moved away, died or disappeared. I think that mostly that was just what happened with San Francisco. They're also just they were all the people that were complaining were old. and that's what old people do. I c a youu. Also, he got rid of the lion because it destroyed his house. Yeah. It was difficult to do an expensive to keep and it was was comoming out liability was. He had a lot of feelings, he didn't know how to deal with him Yeah. And he also for some reason decided to curse the director of the San Francisco Zoo who are seemingly doing a hon of favor. Yeah. dude, honestly, he's tryady to fucking help, bro Well, Lavet claimed that he put all of his frustrations into a crystal baboon figure in a ritual chamber belonging to a friend. And while we could find no articles whatsoever about this supposed incident, because you'd think the paper would have covered this. Yeah. Levet said that shortly after he made all these curses on the baboon figure, the director of the San Francisco Zoo was killed by apes. Well I just did the whole thing on the San Francisco Zoo and that was definitely not in their list of incidents I don't think he was killed by Apes. Yeah No, if anything he would' have been killed by Tatiana who wasn't born yet. Exactly. Yes. Togar, meanwhile, was renamed Neil. And Nil we're call it a fucking lion Neil, It's a terrible name for a lion. It's a lion. Yeah. And in nineteen seventy two, he was sold to a film director named Noel Marshall who kept Togar in his home in Sheran Oats here in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Oh yeah, it's like I pretty certain I know the house. Yeah, they kept a ton of animals there because Marshall had a thing for lions as well. And in nineteen eighty one, he directed the notoriously disastrous Lion movie Roar. Oh that got Melanie Griffins's dad. Yep, we're gonna get into that right now because the production of this movie Weirdly has an occult angle that has nothing to do with Anton L Vay. becausecause coincidence is something that follows Anton Lveay everywhere. It's just the truth. Yeah. And Togar, by the way was one of the stars of Rar this lion movie, described as both the most dangerous movie ever made and the most expensive home movie ever made, it is fucking insane. It stars Tippy Heendrren from the Birds who was married to Marshall. theirir daughter, Melanie Griffith. She's the co star and Jan DeBont who directed Twister and Speed was the cinematographer on this movie. Wh. It took five years to complete this film because the big cats like Togar were less than cooperative. And as a result, over seventy casting crew members were injured by big cats in both small and nearly fatal incidents during filming. Yeah. A lion cutely named Cerries She bit Tippy Hendren's head hard enough to scrape her skull. Melanie Griffith almost lost an eye to another lion. She had to get cosmetic surgery. I mean, the rumor is, I don't know how true it is, but like that she was almost scalped and like her fuckking top of her head was flopping up and down. Well actually that's what happened to Jen DeBont. Oh ye. Jan Deond. Yeah, I guess it Jan De Bon De Bon. Yeah. yeah, That's happened to Jan D Bonont. He wasn't even a fucking actor. He was the cinematographer He was fully scalped by the same lion that almost ate Tippy Heendren. had to get They said it took two hundred and twenty stitches to put his scalp back on. Also, I gott to say, Roower is unwatchable. He' a bad film. Yeah. Yeah, The director himself almost lost an arm after a lion bit his hand. That was just one of eleven serious injuries sustained by Noel Marshall, including gangrene and blood poisoning from all the bites All this shit took years for him to recover from. Togar was actually one of the lead lions in the movie, but his previous good behavior was forgotten. He bit the assistant director in the throat and jaw before trying to chew off the AD's ears. And this is after the AD accidentally cued and attacked. Yeah that's what would happen. They make one movement hand Mh movement Lion goes. refuse to pay all the animals sag you know rates. That's the problem. the union representative in here and then they fucking just attack. That's how it always is. Believe me, I work with Jeoffrey Tambor. goes on. And this is just a small, small sampling of all the shit that went down during the production of Rar The amount of sheer mayhem around this movie has caused people to call it a cursed production, but it's said that Roar's curse is merely an extension of another movie curse Marshall had funded Roar with the money that he had made as a producer for Exorc hell yeale. And it was rumored that Roar was plagued by the same satanic curse that made the exorcist so difficult to film, which I'm sure was all very amusing to Anton Levepe. I mean, it's just because William Friedin's kind of an asshole. Yeah he's an asshole and he refrigerated the scent and all that shit. and then I mean Rar was ot cursed, it was filled with lions and tigers on literally of thirirsty predators. The exorcist just had a very perfectionist director Yeah that made things hard on the cats. Yeah, it was elephants too. Like an elephant almost killed someone in the film during the filming of Roar. Hell yeah. Yeah get at him. This makes me think a Katie Perry Rar. Oh yeah. I just think of her just fucking just floating through space naked. It I don't know why that's my default. Yeah Well, justust her spinning through space frozen and naked He you. Dad No. If she's frozen and naked in space, she's gonna be dead.. I guess so so Ch. I't really think about it that way A partartntly, the Church of Satan's great success was very much a case of right place, right time. While San Francisco was already well established as a counter culture hotspot by nineteen sixty six, Leveill was also writing a wave of uncertainty sweeping America when it came to the role that religion was supposed to play in the modern world And april eighth of that year, Time Magazine published a now infamous cover story with a headline asking Is God dead? Yeah If you gott to ask, he is. Yeah hasn'tewing up in a long time. Well, the whole point of the article was basically, you know, we used religion for so many years to explain the things about the natural world that we didn't understand. But now that we're in this era of modern science and we understand so many more things than we once did What role does God play? Do we need God anymore? and therefore, is God dead? No. But just asking the question naturally caused a lot of outrage in the Christian establishment and also amongst Christians worldwide But Anthon theveay was paying attention to not only the content of the article, But also the reaction He immediately saw how publicly questioning the Christian God could translate into a lot of attention and a lot of publicity if you did it in the right way So taking inspiration from such occult institutions as the Hellfire Club and Alistair Crowley's Abbey of Falima and then sprinkling a lot of carnival atmosphere over the whole thing Anton Mavee announced the founding of the Church of Satan on Volpurgisnach, nineteen sixty six sixty years ago this month. And it is incredible that all these sixes show up in the same month that we did episode six hundred six six. And while Purchase knock is your birthday. Y. No It's kind of the whole thing. It's really strange. I'll always kind of think about the fact that all of that material was handed to me as I then also was cast on a show in which I played devil and then I dealt with all that. We like it's just it's very funny how it all shakes out. I also think that Antoma was inspired by scientology in terms of the money. Yeah, an understanding that you can do that. That you can just set up a actual religion I'm really excited next episode to talk about Sammy Davis Junior, poor devil and your pretty face is going to hell and how they all come together. I just love Sammy Davis Jior and fucking the whole thing. Yeah Yeah she He sh now, baby. It's amazing. sixix hundred sixty six always was a big day for me too because that was the day I moved to New York City to become a comedian. That's amazing. And my very first apartment in New York City The address was six six six Saint Nicholas Avenue. Saint Nicholas is another word for Santa and Santa is an anagram for Satan. That's dudeuck gu. He fucking made us man f I feel his power fucking b. k. I'm gonna kill God. I' kill God How that? Well Lve declared nineteen sixty six to be Anos Satanis, year one of the Satanic calendar. But considering the year and the city in which it was founded, the Church of Satan was not the party you'd assume it to be The church actually forbade the use of drugs and hallucinogens because they quote impeded the effective control over one's surroundings. Alcohol was allowed, but only in moderation. and it was often served at Church of Satan parties as a concoction called goblin juice, and it was usually served from a toilet So it kind of gave you like there was a hint of like, you know Don't get too drunk. Yeah, you might w to, Yeahah, just he was always about that. He was always like that. He was He's not a teetotaller, but he was close to it. Yeah. Meanwhile, the Catholics are giving wine to children. Yeah, and then the old kids get fucking chlamydia from sharing the goblet with everybody. Yeah. Yeah. and herpes. Yeah Now after the Church of Satan opened its doors, they began attracting misfits of every type, from the mentally ill with delusions of grandeur to curious knowledge seekers who felt like the hippie counter culture was lacking a distinct edge. Leveet, in fact Hated hippies. He called them the final de evvolution of manan. Whatever, bro. No he was I actually saw them He saw them as laz they're lazy. like they're just smo they're just doing drugs and they're not doing anything. Fuck yeah. Well thing hisis real point was, you know what we he was really against was the idea of att the time, the idea of free love.. That is what he was specifically against. Yeah he liked to pay for it Yes. He'd like to be being boo boo, but no his thing was. I don't think you deserve to be loved just for existing The free love movement was all about how everyone should be loved no matter what they do and you create an absolution type environment for anybody that wants to come and kind of try to forgive themselves first and then you guys can all be like this idea that we all should be loved no matter what. Anton Leveay is trying to say, eararn my love. Yeah. And I will say that I believe I could be wrong because I don't know much about Anton Levee. The hippie movement was invaded by bikers and criminals and I don't think this one was. The hippie movement failed They all became fucking bankers get. Yeah. Oh yeah, no they fail completely. Well, and it's also just the simple fact that free love doesn't work. It's actually caused quite a bit of rape. Yeah it did. Yeah. caused a lot of, a lot, a lot, a lot of problems. So it just and that's the is Anton L We did understand people at the very least. He did understand people realized that you know people do need we need rules.. We do need some we need at least a personal code that we need to live by. And but he also understood that Having a deity As the arbiter of those roles didn't work. It's like if you're only not committing crimes and doing horrible things because you're afraid that God will punish you for it, then you're a real piece of shit. Like you need every man and woman needs to do things because it's the right thing to do. They society. Yeah for society. Yeah. And I think the only hippie band that could use the callalliopee was blood sweat and tears. I mean, they wouldnt really be able to back that up because they got the sound Yeah But it's hard It's very loud instrument. loudument It's hard to do. It's like loud man. Whether the people coming to the Church of Satan were mentally unbalanced or merely weird, many of them that were attracted to the Church of Satan, they wanted to use ritual magic to gain successes that they felt they were rightfully owed, but had been denied for one reason or another In one example of a revenge ritual, the congregates would arrive to a satanic black mass dressed as the person they hated and wanted to curse. They would then spend the evening acting and talking like their nemesis. Then at the end of the night, the congregates would symbolically kill their nemesis through the casting of spells. Henry, for example, if he were to do this, would show up act and talk like Ed Red Maine on. I'm a lady. Oh I'm just a lady. Oh don't worry about me. Lady Bict Mon world. So see me in No Yeah, but I do think that magically this kind of makes sense. But you know, what's funny is that L I think you you'd be surprised what you learn walking around in the shoes of the person you hate all night. Pably like I actually bet you end up getting a form of empathy from doing it and that's kind of what he was even saying. like even just the curse part of it. It's not even that, it's more like you need to accept it yourself, like you need to figure out how to get over other people's thoughts of you Hey, man, I'm gonna to hate Jimmy John no matter how many sandwiches I eat. shit. Yeah, and this is it's incredibly nerdy shit, but the idea was that the participant would gain new confidence from the magical act and they would return to the world with the poise needed to obtain success in the realms of money, love, or vengeance deepending on their wish Now one of the things that's often left out of the history of the Church of Satan is that it was co founded and built from the ground up by Laveay's partner, Diane Haggarti Diane took care of the administrative duties at the church, including collecting the twenty five dollars membership fees and producing and distributing all the merch As we all know, merch is key to being sticky. And Diane made sure that Leaveae's books, records, plaques, medallions, and membership cards, everyone loves a lanyard. Everybody likes a lanyard. She made sure that all of that shit made it out to the growing number of Satanists around the country. And so with Diane's help, Anton L Weay became the first person to found an organization that was dedicated to Satan and the delights of the flesh. Basically, Satanism is a sort It's kind of a mix of like Ainran style selfishness and hedonism, but with the caveat, that nothing you do should ever hurt anyone else. Children, especially. The child caveat was added early on, because it seems like Levet predicted the Satanic panic of the eighties in which Satanists would be accused of molesting and or murdering children en masse without a single shred of evidence. Now, it's interesting that a man who married a child wanted to protect them so much. They weren't. They weren't children yet. We just made them kids now. See, I do think the most important thing the Church of Satan enters, which is the thing that I think why it's worth anything is all of the layers of consent. Y. There are in Satanism, there are many, many layers of consent. It is all about you choosing The idea that what Christianity proposes is a boilerplate view of reality. They think that like when you're Christian, that you're just like it's a Christian world and there's nothing you can do about it and you're walking around with these rules created by an arbitrarily by an unknowing, unfeeling deity far above you that you now are supposed to walk around like a fucking puppet This thing is supposed to be like no you choose. Yeah. Yeah. Also it seems like the Church of Satan is better to Far better than. He stole everything from women than ever every idea he had was stolen from women. He loved women truly. and I dou completely understand it. Anton Leveay worshiped women, but and he definitely plagiarized most of his best ideas from women That is true. Yeah. take a bite. Yeah. he's great. we know. he loves what He trusted women Women were an extremely important part of the Church of Satan. He actually viewed women as morally superior to men And and as far as like consent goes, the stuff the Church of Satan was doing like they were talking about ideas of consent in the late sixties that really only became a part of the culture at like just I would say American culture at large in twenty twenty Maybe twenty fifteen, you know, like those ideas of consent, yeah, they were around for a long time. It's just that they were buried in the Church of Satan. Yeah, becausecauseuse the hippie movement was a whole misogynistic thing we didn't really understand that was gimed towards being like, Oh no, man, we all ball each other, man. It's like a lot dangerous people hid inside of the hippie movement. A lot of them many danger. I'm hippy sypizer and I know that's true.arles Manson Number one, ye Now one of the things that made the Church of Satan so successful, both in gaining supporters and in attracting enemies was its effectively spooky imagery, much of which is styled around the sigil of a goat headed occult figure, Bathamet. That's why if you can get a chance the out of print book the commommand to lookook It is all this. It is this is everything. It's the heart of I had no idea. I'm a fucking student of Satanism and I had no idea until I just got this book. Oh yeah The sigil of the Church of Satan, was an inverted pentagram containing a goat's head surrounded by five stylized Hebrew letters that spelled out the words Leviathan, one of the crown princes of hell. Leviathan. It's one of the crown princes of hell. No big deal. But that goat was based on Bathemat Now Baffomet was the right figure for Anton Levee to choose here, and not just because Baathemet is the coolest looking and most recognizable figure in all of Occulta T to jog your memory Bffamette is the hermaphrodic goat headed figure with gigantic horns and wings, sitting cross legged with one hand pointed up and the other hand pointed down. It certainly appears demonic, but it was in no way meant to be a representation of Satan. Every single time I'm gonna to let you know this is one of my fucking biggest pet peeves. that being used as a representative of Satan in a movie, shut it off. That shut off. R shows that everything else is wrong. You've just completely fucked it all up. As soon as you're saying that Baffemets like the devil that it's supped to be scary, the pndagrams are scary, it's like, oh, youre you're a moron. I remember in Boca we had the Christmas tree and then like everyone was like, well, if you're gonna have Chistmas tree, you got to have a menor And then like the Satanist and Bochca got they applied and got a baffomette sculpture in the middle of the same place. That's fun is that Yeahah, that's great. Yeah. I love the BffMette statues around. They're awesome. Yeah actuallyually, I have a baffomette statue in my home. Oh ye. yeah, that my brother in law got me for Christmas. It was great. It wasice trying to see It was very sweet Well, the word Baffemeth actually first appears during the Cusades in thirteen oh seven as a sort of weapon to be used by the French crown against the warriors of the Crusades, the Knights Templar. See, the king of France felt that the templars were becoming too powerful. So he declared that the Templars were worshippping an idolatrous bearded figure called Bathamat. And he had many of the templars arrested and tortured based on this accusation. And you remember the reason why they did that too is because they were running protection for all the treasures coming back from the crusades and eventually they said What if we just keep the treasures? Yeah. And then they just said, then they made him Satanist. It's about money. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's not even Satanist. I mean, it's weird. in reality, Bathamet was a corruption of the medieval European word for Muhammad, who, of course, was worsipped by the other side in the crusades. Interesting. That medieval European word was Mahemat which became Bathamat. Yeah, it's basically saying that they were worshhipppers of Muhammad, but they kind of created a new sort of person. It was ara evil Mhammed. Yeah, an extra evil Muhammad that only the Knights Templar worshhippped. But it was all based on basically Islamophobia The Bathemet came back in the nineteenth century when it was said that he became the subject of worship of another secret society, the Freemasons. O cultist, Ephas Levi, took this rumor and ran with it He gave Bathemet light. He designed the Bathemet we all know today for his eighteen fifty four book, The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic Looking for a figure that would represent a balancing of opposing forces, Levi reimagined Baffemet as a hermaphrodidic winged figure with the head and feet of a goat. He then adorned his illustration with esoteric symbols galore, and in doing so, created one of the most metal images in history. But as far as how Bathemet came to represent Satan, Levi's illustration was simplified and used for the deevil card in the popular rider weight Tarot deeck in nineteen oh nine That of course, sealed Baffemet's association with the Christian deevil This imagery was picked up by Alistair Crowley and eventually Anton LeVay, who both understood how powerful of an image Baffemette was. Leveay also understood how valuable his image of Baffemette was. And in nineteen eighty one, his depiction of the occult figure became a registered trademark of the Church of Satan. Excellent. See, this is the thing. It's not evil Bffamet is the reason why it works so well for esoteric symbolism is because when you look at it, you're like, oh my God, this evil go, this evil horn thing. but it's exactly what you said. It's technically just a symbol of the balance of the flows of male and feminine, dark and light, all of these things. It's about balance. It's not an evil figure at all It just looks evil, which works great for people. And also the deevil card, it's not about something bad happening to you. It's about you getting several temptations and thinking about and possibly changing what you're doing. It's about opening up your mind to other possibilities. Sounds like it's a similar image is justice Certain and justustice doesn't even have her tents out. And she should. She should. If she wanted us to pay attention,llo bad. Why are there no nipples on justustice I mean they're there There's no ts on justice. There can be So sometimes is. S just flop them out. Sometimes they are flopped out.t I remember in high school there there was somebody who got real upset about an exposed nipple on a justice statue. It's just unbelievable. Like you're gonna jerk off to Marble. I guess if you can, good on you. You know, I need more than that. Sction machines, candles Alcohol. How is your suction machine? Is it clean here? It's honestly been struggling. It's really been struggling. I think it's going through depression. You should cloged. Yeah, you should change out the vacuum too. Oh, that' what it is. Yeah. I got it all whamped up. Upon its founding, the Church of Satan almost immediately began attracting celebrities. But the first real celebrity to darken the door of the Church of Satan's black house was seex symbol and all around groovy chick Jane Mansfield. We fucking love Jane Mansfield Busty Bonde, who was far smarter than she appeared, Jane Mansfield was supposed to be twentieth century Fox's answer to Marilyn Monroe But after the blonde bombshell trope fell out of fashion in the nineteen sixties Mansfield started taking risks. She became the first American actress to perform a nude scene in a starring role, which naturally came with a lot of judgment and tut tuts from the general public. This wasn't at all out of character for Jane Mansfield. because she'd already appeared in playlayboy spreads throughout the nineteen fifties. So she was sort of battled like, what the fuck who cares? Yeahay, al ye, I already did this thing. But according to some theories, Mansfield was looking for something to put her back into the spotlight in the mid nineteen sixties. And after being judged harshly for her sexuality Here was Anton Levay, who had founded a church no less, saying that it was allright for you to be yourself Mansfield therefore visited the Church of Satan when she was in San Francisco for a film festival in nineteen sixty six While Mansfield maintained that she remained Catholic, she thought that Anton Levay was a genius, or at the very least, a very interesting person So she participated in a few rituals as a curiosity Jane Mansfield was also highly intelligent in just as self aware as Anton thevee. Two of them formed a sort of symbiotic friendship Mansfield made the Church of Satan sexy, while Anton the Vay made Mansfield a little dangerous. and a little hip. And man, Michael Kkino such a jealous little fuck bitch. That's my whole take on it two because he's like Jane Mansfield she had maybe a sort of passing fancy of Anton. but it was certainly Anton's drive. There was no way Jane Mansfield would ever be into Anton the wayay on its own And was like whole thing being like, you just you fucking unfuckable nerd. It was definitely I do believe it was a two way street. No chicks were in a Kino. Not a single one. Look at his eyebrows. He was like, Yeah. sometometimes I want to fuck the bad boy, dude. Sorry. Mansfield's a good guid Yeah Well, interestingly, while Jane Mansfille's life, it was certainly rocky before she even met Anton Levvee, it truly began falling apart in the most tragic ways after their friendship began See, this is when Anton still had Togar the lion. and Mansfield's young son, Zolan, who just coincidentally had the same name as Ley's leeopard. he became enamored with the lion. So when Mansfield took Zultan to an animal park called Jungleland USA, Zulttan got too close to a wild lion because the kid thought that the big cat wanted to play The lion attacked Bit Zultan hard enough to fracture the child's skull and then bit him again and ruptured a splint. What the fuck. Zultan survived just barely. What happened next though, is shrouded in mystery Multiple versions of the same story and a lot of legends