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Michael Angelo Aquino (October 16, 1946 – September 1, 2019 [1]) was an American political scientist, military officer and Satanist. He was the founder and high priest of the Temple of Set . Aquino was also a specialist in psychological warfare for military intelligence and an officer in the U.S. Army .
Aquino established his Order of the Trapezoid at Wewelsburg castle in Germany (pictured) Many members of the Temple had voiced their opposition to Aquino's position of power within it. [36] Aquino relinquished his office of High Priest in 1979 to Ronald Keith Barrett, [37] who produced an inspired text of his own, titled The Book of Opening the ...
Michael Angelo Aquino, the editor of the church newsletter and a fairly high level leader in the church, who disagreed with LaVey's changes, left to found the Temple of Set, taking a significant portion of the CoS leadership with him. This schism involved the largest Church branch, the Nineveh Grotto in NJ, and the Lilith Grotto in NY, among ...
Aquino faced a jail sentence of between 70 and 87 months plus a $250,000 fine. On July 17, 2007, he was sentenced to six years and four months in prison by U.S. District Judge William H. Walls. [ 5 ]
Thomas Aquinas OP (/ ə ˈ k w aɪ n ə s / ⓘ ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian [6] Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, [7] as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. [8]
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.
In 1980, Vallely co-authored a paper with then military PSYOP analyst Michael Angelo Aquino, founder of the Satanist Temple of Set as his commanding officer in the 7th PSYOP Group, titled From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory. MindWar is defined as "the deliberate aggressive convincing of all participants in a war that we will win ...
to the more accurate "The Temple of Set was founded in 1975 by Michael Aquino (who was charged with child molestation though the charges were dropped), and a group of other members who left the Church of Satan organization because of disagreements with its administration and philosophy." Other changes are visible in the page's history.