Welcome.
I'm glad more people are choosing to study our path and join in on the work done for advancement.
If you need any sort of help, feel free to use the Chat feature, ask in a Forum post, or message members like me. You can message members only after a certain amount of messages sent in the Forums, for safety reasons, but members who can DM can start a DM with you in case you need anything.
Here are great places to start:
The 40 Day Meditation Program, by High Priest HoodedCobra. It's a great place to start learning some of the basic practices and the like.
If you are especially new to witchcraft and meditation of any kind,
HPS Maxine's 6 month Training program is incredibly good at making sure you are focusing on the important beginner skills, like trance and visualization.
Practice what is found in both of these.
Rituals in order to connect to the Gods:
JoS Rituals has our huge collection of Rituals that the Clergy has created with the guidance of the Gods themselves.
Satan's Absolution Ritual and Satan's Psalm can be done in order to familiarize yourself with Father Satanas' presence.
The Heroic Ancestors Ritual is also very good to do early on, to teach you the value of your ancestors and following in their footsteps.
You can do the Rituals to our highest Gods, Baalzebul, Astarte and Azazel as well, then pick whichever you feel drawn to or Gods you have studied in the past. Just don't overdo it, you want each Ritual to have some weight to it, and to give yourself time to ponder on the effects.
You can study information further by accessing all our sites, such as satanslibrary, the three "exposed" sites on the Abrahamic religions, and the entire
joyofsatan.org site.
If you are certain that you want to follow the ancient Gods in the path of advancement, and have learned enough to rationally rebuke all lies spouted by Abrahamic nonsense, you should do the
Rite of Dedication, which will protect you and connect you to the Gods.
It is normal to not want to make this commitment without some level of proof, so it's not bad to try the meditations and Rituals and see for yourself that they are true and beneficial. The meditations themselves are very good for anyone to do, and anyone can benefit from knowing the Gods.
But once you are past the point of "dabbling and trying things", and you're aware that these tools genuinely help you advance, and you're aware that the enemy doesn't want us to advance, doing the Rite of Dedication is important to show that you are serious and mean well.
