 Either to meet length requirements set by the publisher or out of agreement with the ideas , LaVey and Hegarty borrowed heavily from writings by other authors . These included a social Darwinist book published in 1890 entitled Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard , as well as Dee 's Enochian keys from Aleister Crowley 's The Equinox , modified to replace references to Christianity with those to Satan . Some accuse LaVey of paraphrasing the Nine Satanic Statements from Rand 's Atlas Shrugged without acknowledgement , though others maintain that LaVey was simply drawing inspiration from the novel . LaVey later affirmed the connection with Rand 's ideas by stating that LaVeyan Satanism was " just Ayn Rand 's philosophy , with ceremony and ritual added " . 
