On the Lost Dedication to The Satanic Bible

From Wikipedia's page on The Satanic Bible

Dedication
Long since removed from contemporary printings of the book, the first edition of The Satanic Bible contained an extensive dedication to the thinkers who influenced LaVey.

The primary dedication of the book was made to Bernadino Nogara (misprinted as "Logara"), Karl Haushofer, Rasputin, Sir Basil Zaharoff, Alessandro Cagliostro, Barnabas Saul (Dr. John Dee's first Scryer), Ragnar Redbeard, William Mortensen, Hans Brick, Max Reinhardt, the American Sociologist Orrin Klapp, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Nietzsche, W. C. Fields, P. T. Barnum, Hans Poelzig, Reginald Marsh, Wilhelm Reich and Mark Twain.

The secondary dedication included Howard Hughes, Marcello Truzzi, Marilyn Monroe, William Lindsay Gresham, Hugo Zacchini,[1] Jayne Mansfield, Fredrick Goerner, Nathaniel West, Horatio Alger, Robert E. Howard, George Orwell, H. P. Lovecraft, Tuesday Weld, H.G. Wells, Harry Houdini, Togare (LaVey's pet lion) and The Nine Unknown Men.

These are the foundational influences upon contemporary Satanism. Learn their names and their lessons and you will never be sorry.

For many years, particularly since the death of Anton Szandor LaVey, numerous groups and individuals have risen to proclaim themselves "Satanists." Yet time and again a serious investigation into their beliefs, practices and attitudes suggest that they have no grasp at all of even the most basic principles of what being a Satanist are. Many of these groups are little more then personal cults made using the name of Satan. Others are more insidious, looking to warp minds towards their ultimately life-denigrating aims.

This will end.

As the late Terence McKenna was fond of saying, "If the Truth can be told so as to be understood it will be believed." All the more, the truth will out. It is with these idea in mind that I have begun this blog.

I am unconnected to any Satanic group. I am uninterested in their internal politics.

I have no axe to grind nor desire to lay undue praise upon the late Anton Szandor LaVey. I seek only to preserve what was good, expose what was bad and hopefully illuminate the unexplored depths of his thoughts.

By the Horns of Creation and Recreation, and in the name of Satan, let us begin.

In nomine Dei nostri Satanas Luciferi excelsi!

Open wide the Gates of Hell and once more let the Ravens fly forth!