In my role as a mentor, I like to ask people to understand what they are looking for. They don't need to tell me, or anyone else, but they should know themselves. You may find yourself on the following list, or you may not. It may be bits and pieces of several different reasons, which is fine. Whether you wish to share that here is up to you. If you don't find yourself on this list, then I'd appreciate knowing what you are looking for, whether in a comment here, or a private message, all comments are welcome.

I think that most who follow Satan fall under some branch of "Rejecting Society's Rules" AKA "The Forbidden."

• Have turned to Satan out of a disappointment with the face you are expected to wear, and with how other people wear it.

• Revenge against a society which betrayed its own rules toward you.

• Belonging to yourself. Knowing that only you have the right to make decisions about what is right for you and again, rejecting the common rule imposition of most faiths.

• Individualism. Wanting a unique relationship with the divine which is not a cookie-cutter copy of everyone else's faith.

• Sex, drugs, and dozens of other so-called deviances. The need to break free of artificial constraints on what we are permitted to enjoy and by which we are allowed be made happy.

For some, it's pursuing a more logical philosophy. Wanting to embrace the spiritual, but finding too many flaws in how faith has been presented. Simply looking for a higher power that makes sense rather than requiring us to turn a blind eye to the holes.

For a group it's the concept of the fallen angel. That God exists, and is powerful, but has not treated us as it purports we ought treat each other. The idea that Lucifer has supplanted God as the being which cares about us.

There are many possibilities, these are only what I have seen more than once and can recall in this brief writing.

Thank you all for taking the time to read this, and may Satan guide and protect your spirit, always and forever.

Lukas