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, with additions from The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism. 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 material 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, or 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

This writing in particular mentions six grades within the internal structure of the Satanic Front, but doesn't offer any particular details. I can possibly come up with one as a model. There's a mention of the Black Mass but I can probably find the best example from the works of Anton LaVey.

Murnau should also have a Satanic Front altar, complete with a dagger, banner, black and red candles, an obsidian stone, consecrated amulet, a black mirror, and anything else necessary. Some of these are likely Red Lodge holdovers.

Need to remember to accomplish the Serial Killer Rite with Louis Althusser. From reading this I've mostly learned that I'll accomplish a lot more reading about Satanism on my own. There's a rather interesting section on the creation of pilgrimages, I might have to consider writing about this.

Despoiled Oracle Outline

Chapter 1: A character named Ian meets a girl and 2 black clad men at a black metal concert. I'm going to steal the name Lucid Hollow for something.
Chapter 2: A character codenamed Commodus, who I suspect is a stand in for Commandant Cultus aka Anton Blenzig, kills and decapitates a black man.
Chapter 3: In one of the more interesting chapters we see a fictionalized depiction of initiation into the Satanic Front. We learn at the very end that it's written from the perspective of Bartok Lykus, the author of the novel.
Chapter 4: A character named Isaac plans a mass shooting at a megachurch because Roko's basilisk told him to. I haven't figured out why but I find Roko's basilisk less compelling than AxSys in the CCRU writings. There was a brief story of the character going to this megachurch in the past and it made me reflect on my own time in an Episcopal church since I moved to this town. The nonlinear structure of the book is for the best but it wasn't thought through and merely relegated to chance.
Chapter 5: We see Isaac before his mass shooting, coming home to an abusive mother with an electronic music CD that she confiscates and breaks. The atmosphere of this character's house is oppressive and I can relate to his aspirations to create electronic music without any regard for money and fame. The Satanic Front literature should've had music reviews.
Chapter 6: A copy of this chapter was once sent to me by Satanae Manibus, who appears in it.
Chapter 7: Back to Commandant Cultus's boring story. He got some invisibility beans after watering a severed head with brandy. Some kind of weird object grew out of the head after it turned into mulch and it made me think that sacrifice would be more interesting if it had an ecological dimension to it.
Chapter 8: Two boys have found a diary and they're tasked by demons to find and kill the owner. They kill the owner and her family. Boring.
Chapter 9: Bartok Lykus recounts in his journal a ritual involving a porta potty after being sexually assaulted by a succubus that reminded me of a gelatinous hagraven from Skyrim.
Chapter 10: Commodus is in an RV in the Nevada desert playing with a severed head. He's going to plant it in the desert.
Chapter 11: The characters from chapter 8 find the diary in a cafetaria. While in the woods during their lunch break the owner of the diary comes to ask about it but they lie and scare her off. They find a sacred grove of mushrooms after following Satanic garden gnomes and get transported to another dimension. All the references to the Undead Gods and the Nephilim lead me to believe the author is conversant with the works of Joshua Sutter.
Chapter 12: The guys kidnap a congressman and torture him for a Satanic snuff video.
Chapter 13: Bartok Lykus finds himself in a mountain wilderness in Colorado with his "coyotes". Two of them die. For some reason this chapter reminds me about what I've read in Becoming-intense, Becoming-animal in A Thousand Plateaus. My suspicions were confirmed by the title of the rite, "The Bestial Transfiguration." It ends with them killing a couple.
Chapter 14: The last real chapter, and the longest at around 30 pages. This better be good. The more I read this book and it makes references to other media like Mad Max or A Clockwork Orange I start to think that my biggest sin is superficial engagement with works of art. I should write about what everything means to me in as much detail as I can. The chapter begins with the gang returning to their party mansion. They seem to have a toddler around who's called the son of Satan and therefore the Antichrist. He levitates juice boxes with his mind powers. They get a mission from the baby to sacrifice two women they have caged downstairs. They also have a red Satanic caterpillar as a pet. They got one final mission to kill a pregnant woman and her husband with a silver spear. It's never explained why it had to be this particular woman with this particular spear. But, two of them died on the mission which is more than can be said for Iron Gates. Bartok gets bit by a rabid dog and Commodus Blenzig lets a bullet fornicate his grey matter. They drive back to the party mansion but its turned into a giant throne with the Antichrist sitting upon it and their mission is now complete. The chapter ends by saying that they're going to form a Satanic state and storm the gates of Heaven itself. Why do I read this shit?
Chapter 15: Need to read more into the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Need to read Aquino's Mindwar papers.