If I want to do write this book as well as I can, I think I'll need to keep personal notes on the written corpus of the Satanic Front. My ideas will likely develop alongside theirs with an inherently asymmetrical evolution due to our divergent theoretical trajectories. In other words, we don't read the same shit so we won't write the same shit.

Section Alpha

The most central motif in the Satanic Front Handbook is a commitment to evil. Specifically "real world evil." There's a couple books on this subject that I'd like to read myself, primarily Literature and Evil from Georges Bataille, as well as The Intelligence of Evil: or, the Lucidity Pact by Jean Baudrilard. I'll try to find some others. Essentially, despite their superficial and propagandistic commitments to evil, I don't think they quite interact with the object of their devotion as well as they could. Evil is immanent.

A further aspect of the works of the Satanic Front is militancy—the construction of a War Machine—the only problem: it consists of an aimless militancy without any kind of clear social or political objective. Occult objectives aren't an excuse for failing to present any coherent objectives. It's the posture of militancy without a concrete theoretical basis to justify its necessity. Satanism will require a war machine to be constructed. But what war machines will have to mobilize against it? Movements are inseparable from countermovements. I'd like to find books on the subject of the historical construction of armies, perhaps something like War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. The military writings of Mao Zedong and Clausewitz will also be necessary to study. Perhaps Water Margin or Paradise Lost.

Similar to other strands of predatory spirituality such as the Tempel ov Blood, the practice of the Satanic Front necessates a becoming-predatory.

The emphasis on physical fitness reminds me to read Lifting the Absolute again. Maybe when I get home later.

A problem I'm having right now is that I don't know if the Satanic War Machine would adopt a primarily nomadic or primarily sedentary formation. The band as opposed to the phalanx. There's an emphasis on maintaining organizational discipline in tandem with mental toughness, but without a concrete goal it's hard to specify what incentivizes anyone to develop said mental toughness. In armies of voluntary civilians, a paramount necessity is the willingness of civilians to die for their country. This Satanic War Machine refuses to attempt to create one.

There's a small section on internal security and its attendent becoming-clandestine and becoming-imperceptible. Another emphasis is on devotional rites in the forms of rituals and bloodletting (and sometimes a combination of the two). Their rituals tend to lack sophistication. I'll need to look towards other examples.

Section Bravo: Initiation