Peggy Nadramia is an American

United States

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 magazine editor and administrator in the Church of Satan

Church of Satan

The Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the acceptance of the carnal self, as articulated in The Satanic Bible, written in 1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey.- History :...

, of which she is the current High Priestess, and in which she is known as Magistra Nadramia, as well as the wife of current church head Peter H. Gilmore

Peter H. Gilmore

Peter Howard Gilmore is an American author and administrator of the Church of Satan. He was appointed High Priest of the Church in 2001 by Magistra Blanche Barton. Within the church, he is known as Magus Peter H...

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Biography

She became High Priestess on April 30, 2002, when she was appointed to the office by the previous High Priestess, Blanche Barton

Blanche Barton

Blanche Barton is an American religious leader who is Magistra Templi Rex within the Church of Satan, and is addressed by Satanists as Magistra Barton.-Biography:...

. From May 2001, she had served as Magistra Templi Rex of the Church http://www.faqs.org/faqs/religions/satanism/cos/.

... we will define what a Satanist is, not Bob Larson

Bob Larson

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 or any other outsider, Christian

Christian

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 or otherwise. We are the first group of people in human history who have come together under that title and taken it for ourselves; we are the archivists of Satanic history and the caretakers of Satanic philosophy, and we will not have others defining, delimiting or categorizing Satanists or Satanism.

—Peggy Nadramia, in The Black Flame

The Black Flame

The Black Flame is a magazine published by the Church of Satan. It was begun in 1989, when the other Church of Satan magazine, The Cloven Hoof, went on hiatus...

(Volume 5, Numbers 1 & 2)

Works

• Narcopolis & Other Poems edited by Peggy Nadramia (Hell's Kitchen Productions, ISBN 0-9623286-1-8, Nov 1989); an anthology
  Anthology
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   of macabre
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   poetry
  Poetry
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   with illustrations by several artists.

See also

• Satanism: An interview with Church of Satan High Priest Peter Gilmore

External links

• Text of Barton's appointment of Nadramia as Magistra Templi Rex
• My Dark, Satanic Love by Magistra Nadramia
• Satanism, Nazism and Fascism by Peggy Nadramia