About the Circle

How It All Started

In the spring of 2024, three Satanists met each other in a small newly-formed Satanic discord server. By midsummer, the server had exploded due to internal drama, as often happens with these sorts of communities. The three friends agreed they needed a new server, one to suit their own vision for what a Satanic community could look like. Within a year, the community was over 250 members strong, and thriving with daily interfaith discussion, magical philosophizing, and mutual support. The three friends agreed it was time to extend their reach beyond the confines of Discord. They have thus created this website in order to make their community and the resources it as to offer available to all.

About The Founders

Vox Serpentis

Vox (he/him) is a Satanist, occultist, and shitty wizard of well over a decade. He is the glorious leader, the prettiest princess, and a lover of all things pumpkin spice. He enthusiastically plays with plastic war dollies, hits people with swords, and spends more time thinking, tinkering, and theorizing about magick than anyone reasonably should. He is also very humble.

Judged "Most Likely to Start a Cult" by the community at large, Vox's schemes are constantly thwarted by Phenex and Nine, who actually do all the work around here.

Phenex Apocrypha

Phenex Apocrypha (he/it) is a self-identified cradle witch, having been born to Neo-pagan parents and brought up among witches, druids, and mystics. However, in his early twenties, he found himself yearning for a different spiritual home, and swiftly found himself strolling down the path of Satanism. Ever a bookworm, Phenex was surprised to find that Satanism lacked a central canon of holy texts, and ended up being disappointed with many of the books on offer. This frustration led to a discovery of a career and a spiritual calling – libraries. Immediately he began to collect and read every Satanic book he could get his hands on, with the intent of becoming the devil’s librarian, someone capable of helping others track down the resources that would help them along their paths. He was five years into this work when the Circle of the Fallen came to be, and he seized upon the opportunity to become the community’s dedicated librarian and archivist.

Phenex has a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and a master’s degree in library and information science, which he tirelessly puts to work in the name of his career and community. When he’s not playing the serpent offering people the fruit of knowledge, he’s busy spending time with his partners and pets, doing martial arts, or furthering his own spiritual practice.

Phenex put together all of the resources for this site.

Doctor Nine

Nine (he/they) worships at the altar of temptation into sin, the pursuit of the fruit of knowledge, and rejection of authoritarianism in all its forms. He considers himself a transtheistic Satanist, eclectic pagan (mostly Anglo-Saxon flavored), and "more mystic than wizard". He has his volcano lair already picked out for when he decides to assume his final supervillain form and take over the world via education. Nine will show up when anyone talks about math or brains. This is a threat.

Extremely depressed and briefly homeless as teenager, now a relatively successful professional with a Ph.D. in neuroscience and pretty damn good life, Dr. Nine is the mostly likely admin to err on the side of compassion. He does most of the plotting and machinations designed to help the religiously traumatized youth that show up on our digital doorstep. He also hand-coded this website (nice, isn't it?). If you need to contact the resident technomancer and webmaster, you can email him at nine@circleofthefallen.org.

Our Mission Statement

The Circle of the Fallen is an organization centered on the cultivation of communal ties between Satanists of all currents, with a particular focus on theistic Satanism, as it as often been overshadowed by atheistic Satanism in the past. We are, very deliberately, not a church or temple. We do not offer initiations, require certain beliefs or practices, or in any way tell you how you should act as a Satanist. Only you can determine that. We are not here to preach, but to provide a space for Satanists to come together and share space, without fear of judgement or pressure to conform. We operate on a core philosophy of respect towards each other and a desire to see our religion thrive and refine itself into the future. In the ever-delicate balance of maintaining a community based on individualism, we believe the best path forward is only enough structure to maintain peace, and plenty of encouragement so that all may have the chance to embrace their truest Selves. This philosophy is best encapsulated by our motto.

Our Motto

Community Without Command:

Coined by Vox Serpentis, our first declaration speaks to the intentions we started with; the desire for Satanic community without a top-down hierarchy of priesthood or other form of religious leadership. In CoF, no one is considered inherently smarter, more spiritual, or more worthwhile than any other, and all are free to contribute equally.

Wisdom Without Dogma:

Coined by Phenex Apocrypha, this declaration defines our approach to education. Satanism is often considered to be a religion focused on knowledge, and in order for this knowledge to be properly attained, we reject dogmatic thinking and forced compliance. Members of the Circle are free to disagree with each other, to compare theories, and to follow different modes of thought.

Gods Without Masters:

Coined by Doctor Nine, our final declaration articulates the founders’ approach to theistic Satanism. While the three of us do believe our gods are real, we do not see them as superior beings we must bow and scrape before. Instead, we see them as our equals, friends, and mentors. In other words, we have gods, but no masters. While this is a view that the three founders share, you do not have to share it with us to be a member of the Circle - as with all things, we value freedom above all else.