thumb|One of the principal symbols of the Joy of Satan Joy of Satan (JoS) is a western esoteric occult organization that combines Satanism, the ancient alien astronaut "hypothesis", and antisemitism.Laycock, Satanism, 1981: 5 The Temple of Set and Esoteric Satanism. Other Esoteric Groups It was founded in the early 2000s by Maxine Dietrich (pseudonym of Andrea Maxine Dietrich), wife of the American National Socialist Movement's co-founder and former leader Clifford Herrington. With its inception, spiritual Satanism was born—a current that until recently was regarded only as "theist", but then defined into "Spiritual Satanism" by theistic Satanists who concluded that the term spiritual in Satanism represented the best answer to the world, considering it a "moral slap" toward the earlier carnal and materialistic LaVeyan Satanism, and instead focusing its attention upon spiritual evolution. Joy of Satan presents a unique synthesis of theistic Satanism, Nazism, Gnosticism, Paganism, Western esotericism, UFO conspiracy theories, and extraterrestrial hypotheses similar to those popularized by Zecharia Sitchin and David Icke.
thumb|One of the principal symbols of the Joy of Satan Joy of Satan (JoS) is a western esoteric occult organization that combines Satanism the ancient alien astronaut "hypothesis" and antisemitismLaycock Satanism 1981 5 The Temple of Set and Esoteric Satanism Other Esoteric Groups It was founded in the early 2000s by Maxine Dietrich (pseudonym of Andrea Maxine Dietrich) wife of the American National Socialist Movement's co-founder and former leader Clifford Herrington With its inception spiritual Satanism was born—a current that until recently was regarded only as "theist" but then defined into "Spiritual Satanism" by theistic Satanists who concluded that the term spiritual in Satanism represented the best answer to the world considering it a "moral slap" toward the earlier carnal and materialistic LaVeyan Satanism and instead focusing its attention upon spiritual evolution Joy of Satan presents a unique synthesis of theistic Satanism Nazism Gnosticism Paganism Western esotericism UFO conspiracy theories and extraterrestrial hypotheses similar to those popularized by Zecharia Sitchin and David Icke