The Book of Coming Forth by Night is Michael Aquino's own 1975 founding text of the Temple of Set, the document he presents as received during his break from the Church of Satan, and it sets out Set as a genuinely existing, self-aware entity, a position that puts the Temple at odds with LaVeyan Satanism's atheistic, symbolic reading of its own imagery. As the order's own primary text it is the correct source for that stated theistic position, in the founder's own words. Its limit is that it is a movement's own foundational and revelatory text, not an independent account of the Temple's history or teaching, so a claim about the order beyond what it says of itself needs an outside source.
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Michael Aquino's 1975 founding text of the Temple of Set, read as the order's own primary statement of its theistic position rather than independent scholarship on it. NotesThe Temple of Set's founding text of 1975. Cited as evidence of the order's stated theistic position, in contrast to the atheism of the other Satanist bodies.
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AuthorMichael A. Aquino
Publication Year1975
This entry's own notes already name it: "The Temple of Set's founding text of 1975." The PublicationYear field itself had simply not been set to match. Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names Church of Satan directly: "as received during his break from the Church of Satan, and it sets out Set as a genuinely existing, self-aware entity, a position that puts the Temple at odds with LaVeyan Satanism's atheistic..."
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This source names Temple of Set directly: "Aquino's own 1975 founding text of the Temple of Set, the document he presents as received during his break from the Church of Satan, and it sets out Set as a genuinely existing, self-aware entity..."
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- Literary Works, 13 claims: 6 well-attested, 6 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 12 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Doctrines, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Denominations, 3 claims: 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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