 Throughout the various printings of The Satanic Bible , it has included introductions by various authors . The first edition ( in print from 1969 to 1972 ) included an excerpt from an article by Burton H. Wolfe , an investigative journalist and biographer of LaVey , entitled " The Church that Worships Satan " . Wolfe provides an extensive biography of LaVey and a history of the Church of Satan . He mentions Rosemary 's Baby as contributing to the popularity of Satanism , though he does not claim LaVeyan Satanism to have directly influenced its creation . From 1972 until 1976 , the introduction to The Satanic Bible was a piece by Michael A. Aquino , who later went on to found the Temple of Set with a number of members of the Church of Satan . He gives a detailed analysis of the Satanic philosophies , and dispels myths about LaVeyan Satanism . He explains that it is not " devil worship " , and that LaVeyan Satanists in fact reject the worship of external gods completely . He too provides a brief background on LaVey , explaining how LaVey brought some of the knowledge he had acquired while working with the circus to his religion . Wolfe again wrote the introduction for the 1976 to 2005 editions of The Satanic Bible . It included some of the same content as the 1969 version , with an expanded biography of LaVey and more information on the various conflicts between other religions and LaVeyan Satanism . Since 2005 , The Satanic Bible has contained an introduction written by Gilmore , High Priest of the Church of Satan . In this introduction , he discusses his discovery of LaVeyan Satanism and his relationship with LaVey . He then goes on to provide a detailed biography of LaVey and addresses allegations that LaVey falsified much of the story of his own past . The introduction also provides a history of The Satanic Bible itself , as well as that of two other books by LaVey : The Satanic Witch and The Satanic Rituals . 
