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| Satans High Priest | 
 enlarge | Author: Judith Spencer
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
List Price: $23.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 869849
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0671728008
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.155540973
EAN: 9780671728007
ASIN: 0671728008
Publication Date: September 1, 1997
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Condition: Some wear on book from reading, spine creases, wear on binding and pages.
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Amazon.com Review
Intended as a hard-hitting expose of secret cult practices in America, Satan's High Priest attempts to straddle a fine line between fiction and journalism--a line best left to the likes of skilled tightrope walkers such as Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe. The book doesn't really succeed at either, though the story of Joseph Warren's sadistic rise and fall as the "Great One" of a Southern cult is somewhat morbidly fascinating when read as a story that "could happen anywhere." Warren, in his role as high priest to the unnamed coven, delights in rapes and murders, bestiality and necrophilia, and happily involves his entire circle of acquaintances in the small town of Lathrop (the state remains unidentified) in his "shows." To describe the atrocities of this multigenerational death cult, Judith Spencer places men like Warren and his father, Dexter, in their proper perspectives as outwardly normal, well-respected men of commerce. Warren and his brother, Linc, inherit their father's mortuary and dry-goods businesses, and while many of their customers are fellow cult members, life goes on as normal outside the pentagram; Spencer attempts to depict men who would casually gossip as they buy nails or coffee or a pair of boots, after having raped and ritually sacrificed children the night before. The problem for Spencer is that none of this particularly makes sense. She describes dozens of murders, yet offers no particulars or dates or corroborating evidence. Lathrop and Joseph Warren exist in a sort of deep concealing fog, impossible to pin down. Still, despite any doubts as to the book's veracity, it works as a somewhat elevated example of supermarket-tabloid-variety shock journalism. --Tjames Madison
Product Description
Presents the story of Joseph Warren, a small-town businessman from a prominent family who led a sinister double life as the leader of a satanic cult, based on the accounts of his daughter and cult survivors."
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 From the Horses Mouth February 19, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Okay people, you want truth? Here's truth... Yes there are over zealous fanatics out there who kill in Satan's name... But how many has died in this way? How many died unneedfully? Not many, 1 of 3 fanatic Satanists are true Fanatical Satanist, but the other 2 of 3 are nutsos. But then again, if I were to say a Christian who killed people in serial sequence was Christian, I would be stopped, and looked and told "He/She isn't a Christian," there lies what I have said, I, as a Satanist take responsability of saying YES, we do have a problem with Fanatical Satanist. BUT, 90% Christian have very little to say they have a problem with Fanastical Christians who kill in Christ's name. Usually the deaths of Satanic related are SO minute, it pales in comparison to the victimizaton Christian zealous! This book is only a theory of Fanatics in action, and never states a burden of proof! If you question the fact a Chrsitna never murdered, how about the Inquistion under Turquamada's grasp? Or even the Burning Times that burned people who weren't Witches at all? Or the Salem Witch Trails (The Crucible, although a play, is BASED off of true events!). Mumbo-jumbo is spouted only when a person is closed minded, and does not listen to reason! And for that, anyone who closes their mind, is my enemy! This books is a closed mind case, but yet it is not a danger to my beliefs, like the DaVinci Code is to the Fundy beleifs... If someone truly BELIEVES that the Higher Ups were a bloodless cult, they are just as misguided as anyone else, the bloodlessness is there yes, but under a different guise, MONEY. It is just like saying the Masons are evil devil-worshipers, CONSPIRACY THEORIES GOO!!! Most of our greatest Free-thinkers are Masons, that is the true element of Satanism, is not the butchering, or the sacrifices, but the Free Thinking Machine called "QUESTION EVERYTHING STUPID!" I challenge you, dear reader, that you question everything. And look beyond the veil of lies. For everything is a Lie, and the Satanist creates it for his/her own advantage.
Hail Satan
 Let the truth be known... December 23, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I understand that some that read this book are skeptical. One of the areas of confusion is that some wonder where all the bodies went. I can tell you. My whole family were high level Masons involved in a multi-generational Satanic Cult. The main way our cult disposed of bodies, both animal and human:
The cult's main activities took place in the farmlands of Wisconsin (my hometown was La Crosse, WI). There were hundreds of farms that were hidden in acres of corn and various crops. They built both underground networks for rituals and converted barns, silos and homes for rituals/rooms for torture etc... (and yes, in small communities, usually many are involved in the cult. our pediatrician, dentist, my dad's doctor and our pharmacist were all cult members...very clever indeed...they 'hid' all evidence of torture, rape etc... by being our treating doctors, putting in our files only that which was 'normal' for a growing child to experience. multi-generational cults are masters at hiding evidence)
To continue...In one underground room was a large wooden butcher-block table, a man with a leather butcher's apron and an industrial strength meat grinder. All the remains from the nights' rituals/sacrifices/torture sessions gone wrong were brought to the 'butcher'. (in many rituals/sacrifices most of the internal body parts and all of the blood are used/consumed, so there is often not a lot left to destroy) The butcher receives the body remains, and grinds them up into mulch, for lack of a better word. Bones, skin, cartilage etc... are finely ground, then mixed with farm animal manure, then spread on the crops as fertilizer. Healthy corn and no one was the wiser.
That is one of the ways I witnessed how the many bodies were rid of.
The reason i am sharing this, is it is hard enough for our minds to get around the possibility that this does and is happening, all over the world. All of this is real, unfortunately. It is a sad, but true fact of humanity. But the only way to stop it from continuing is to bring it out into the light; To expose it and for people to be aware. Judith wrote a powerful book. She has the courage to tell the truth, even though it is a very sad truth. If we can answer questions with facts that will help your mind understand, then hopefully, this book will be a step in exposing the horrible events and bring them to an end.
Interesting Collection of Assertions July 27, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One can call a story "true", but without any corroborating evidence, it's just a bunch of assertions masquerading as fact.
It's an interesting enough read if you take it as fiction, and I can certainly relate to the "reality" of the different personality types, having been raised by normal-appearing monsters, but beyond that it's all just wild conjecture. Stating that "it's easy to dispose of babies and children's bodies" doesn't make it so. I'd like to know how exactly all those many dead bodies are hidden.
Mind, I'm not saying I don't believe it COULD be true, I"m merely saying, this book "proves" absolutely nothing. I grew up in a place where organized crime made people disappear all the time, never found, just gone. Did they have a vast swamp to dump these bodies in? That would be believable. But we don't know, because the author won't even tell you what state this town of "Lathrop" is in. I'm guessing she didn't really think through that piece of the fiction. Yeah. Fiction. Read this book as fiction, and it's more or less entertaining, if a catalogue of child molestation incidents is your cup of tea.
PURE BOVINE EXCRETA September 6, 2005
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Just look at the author photo in this one. It tells you all you need to know. This is pure factoid crap, by some fundamentalist without the mental part. No facts, no backup, just a wannabe occult "expert" trying to justify her xtian fantasies. Do not buy this garbage, do not buy into this garbage. If you have a bird cage, if you have some fish to wrap, then you might have a reason to use the pages from this tome of twaddle.
Pseudoscience. February 24, 2005
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am a student of sociology and psychology and have studied a lot of SRA/satanic panic literature.
This is perhaps one of the most irresponsible books ever written on the subject.
The concept that a satanic cult could control an entire town by programming them with extremely rare and debately iatrogenic personality disorders is proposterous.
The most wealthy goverments in the world and the most brilliant minds in the fields of psychology have not ever been able to weild this level of control over the human psyche, yet we are supposed to believe some redneck satanist has "programmed" an entire town with idiotic nursery ryhmes, pseudo satanic rituals, and a bunch of other stereotypical SRA nonsense.
Beyond all that this book is packed with all the inaccuracies, lies and sensationalism that has made the whole SRA movement outrageously inplausible since day one.
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