The Black Breviary

Description:

Satan is a Hebrew noun, and the noun means one who stands against. The tradition spent two thousand years promoting the holder into a prince and then into the proprietor of a pit. This book restores the post. The Black Breviary is a year of devotions, one page for each of 365 days. Every day gives an engraved plate, a reading that goes through a faith's own scripture and history and says what the record shows, a charge, a rite to carry out, a question for your own journal, and a declaration to say in your own voice. The feasts keep their own dates and take the place of the numbered day, and the day they displace is held for you. The rites are written against eight starting points: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Latter-day Saint, Jehovah's Witness, Jewish, Muslim and no faith. The main text prints the Christian or no-faith rite; every other tradition's rite for each day is at the back, in The Other Rites. Every rite is to be done within the law and without harm to any person, child or animal. No belief in the supernatural is required. The plates are paintings and engravings in the public domain, chiefly Gustave Doré. This book is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0: copy it, change it, print it, sell it or give it away, with or without credit. Free full text at the Internet Archive (the-black-breviary). A free daily version is at blackbreviary.app

subjects: Satanism,  Religion,  Atheism,  Devotional literature,  Apostasy,  Blasphemy,  Ritual,  Paradise Lost

People: Gustave Doré