Stephen Flowers studied Germanic and Celtic philology and religious history at the University of Texas at Austin and in Goettingen, West Germany. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 in Germanic Languages and Medieval Studies with a dissertation entitled Runes and Magic.
Acknowledgments
Preface: Under the Lens of Reason
Introduction: An Untimely Meditation
1 The Left-Hand Path
2 The Eastern Traditions
3 The Roots of the Western Tradition
4 The First Millennium
5 The Path of Satan
6 Lucifer Unbound
7 An Interlude in the Absolute Elsewhere: Adolph Hitler and the Modern
Mythologizing of Evil
8 The Occult Revival
9 Anton Szandor LaVey and the Church of Satan
10 Michael A. Aquino: The Temple of Set
Afterword: Terminus Viae
Appendix: The Urban Legend of Satanicism
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
