Meditation has been incredibly helpful for me. It helps keep my anxiety and my depression under control, and even helps me get through life in a healthy manner. Before I got into Satanism, I was a Buddhist convert, and through that, I’ve had a few years combined of regular practices of breath meditation and koan meditation. Personally, I got a lot more out of the breath meditation, which generally helped me calm and get everything under control, than koan meditation, which just left me restless.

I took a few months off of meditation as I left Buddhism and came to Satanism (my conversion is another story within itself), and have since been resuming a roughly regular practice (still getting in the swing of it, admittedly). However, I decided to change it up and take up mantra meditation, something I had little experience with before. I’ve found very little material on the subject of explicitly Satanic mantra meditation (or Satanic meditation in general, honestly). One I’ve found is Damien Ba’al’s book The Satanic Praxis for his United Aspects of Satan organization, which includes a handful of mantras for meditation, all of which are based on Hindu and Buddhist Sanskrit mantras. Another is from Diane Vera’s Theistic Satanism website, on which one page has a section on meditation, found here, which includes a line called “Sounds”, mentioning mantras. I was a little stunned at the lack of materials, honestly.

These circumstances led me to decide to try and take this up myself. I’ve never had mantra instruction myself besides what I’ve read, but I at least knew what I was getting into. I did some research on general mantra meditation and learned quite a bit, as well as various Sanskrit mantras.

But what about Satanic mantras?

Good question. Obviously, the resources here are exceedingly few, one of which just points in a very general direction towards general mantra meditation. So, here I’ve decided to put up some basic meditation instructions a short list of mantras, including one I haphazardly modified from a Sanskrit mantra. The list is simply of ones that are “Satanist” in some way. Some I came up with, others I found.

Meditation Instructions

Perform any rituals you like to do (banishings, something from TSB, etc.) ahead of time. Take a seat upon an elevated cushion of some sort and cross your legs. Sitting on a chair with your feet planted on the ground is also acceptable. Set a timer for however long you want to sit for. Usually good to start off somewhere in the 10-20 minute range. Set your mind on your meditation object of choice (mantra, breath, etc.) and your intention towards staying with the object as much as possible. If your mind strays, gently bring it back to the object. When the time is up, gently let yourself out of meditation.

Satanic Mantras

Ave Satana

Hail Satan

A preferred demon’s name

Om namah Satana (my own, featuring bad Sanskrit)

Om hum Satana ne (from The Satanic Praxis)

I hope you found this useful and give you some inspiration and ideas. Satanism is a very DIY religion, and there’s no shame in cobbling something together for yourself here. If you wish to share something with me or send me an addition to this list, please feel free to contact me!

EDIT (10/13/19): For archival and transparency reasons, I don’t edit the content on my posts anymore, but will add addendums at a later date. I no longer condone the use of questionable/pseudo-sanskrit like I’ve supplied here both by adding my own mantra (which I no longer use, I use a different one now) and that of Damien Ba’al’s.