About NYC Satanists, Luciferians, Dark Pagans, and LHP Occultists

We welcome Satanists, Luciferians, "Dark" Pagans, and "Left Hand Path" occultists of all law-abiding kinds who live here in the New York City metropolitan area.

There are many different kinds of Satanism, Luciferianism, Dark Paganism, and LHP occultism. For our purposes a "Satanist" is anyone with a favorable view of Satan, including both theistic/"traditional" Satanists and atheistic/symbolic Satanists, "Devil worshipers" and "self worshipers," LaVeyan and non-LaVeyan. Likewise by "Luciferian," we mean anyone with a favorable view of Lucifer, who may or may not be seen as the same entity as Satan. By "Dark Pagan," we mean any Pagan who is dissatisfied with what one sees as an overly "white-light" image projected by most modern Pagans, and who feels that more "darkness" (whatever one perceives that to mean) is needed at least for balance. By "Left Hand Path," we mean any occultist who identifies as LHP, which usually refers to forms of occult practice that are both "dark" and highly individualistic.

We welcome all kinds of people in the above categories, excluding only those who practice or advocate violent criminal activity for alleged magical purposes or in the name of any religion or god.

For now we're just having informal get-togethers over dinner at a fairly inexpensive coffee shop in Manhattan. If enough of us show up at least a few times in a row, we will soon begin to have more formal meetings with announced discussion topics.

Eventually I hope our Meetup group can give birth to some congregations that hold rituals. (Since our Meetup group welcomes adherents of many different kinds of Satanism, Luciferianism, etc., it would not be feasible for us to aim to form just ONE local congregation holding rituals that all of us would feel comfortable with. So, hopefully we can form several congregations representing several different paradigms.)

The organizer, Diane Vera, is a non-LaVeyan theistic Satanist and founder of the Church of Azazel, of which she now aims to organize a local congregation in New York City. If you are interested, please join the separate Meetup group for the Church of Azazel proto-congregation, New York City.

Since 2002, Diane Vera has maintained a major website on Theistic Satanism in general, including a page for theistic Satanists in and near New York City. She also runs some Yahoo groups for theistic Satanists, including Theistic-Satanists-NYC.