"Christian Lust for Self-Torture. The major achievement of Christianity was in relocating the arena within which man conducts his operations from the world outside of man to the landscape of the human soul within…The admitted cruelty of the ancient world was then forced to don the guise of the contrite penitent. Antiquity took what was perhaps an excessive pleasure in battle and death; but the self-same lust has characterized the entire Christian era as well, although the Christian has sought to hide his suicidal impulses behind such masks as self-flagellation and asceticism." —Ludwig Klages.
Ancient Persian Satanists maintained that they had to think strategically about darkness. In order to truly affirm Satan, they needed to lure his wrath by strategically make themselves targets. In order to make good meals for Satan, they had to purify themselves, to become decoys. In short, you have to "take a quotidian and in the same degree extremely systematic and institutionalized life as your own life-style...both physically and mentally attempt to be away from defilement." By becoming good meals they release themselves to Satanic ecstasy; they summon Satan...and strategically lure him to tear them to shreds. —Reza Negarestani.