A community-maintained tertiary reference on the Temple of Set, directly examined. Its strength is a precise founding date, a named founder and a stated reason for the split from the Church of Satan; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a new religious movements monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesWikipedia's article on the Temple of Set, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for its 1975 founding in San Francisco by Michael A. Aquino, a former high-ranking Church of Satan member who split over LaVey's materialism and commercialisation of degrees; its theistic stance, reidentifying Satan as the Egyptian deity Set; and its founding text, The Book of Coming Forth by Night, which Aquino said he wrote down through automatic writing with nothing overtly sensational about the process.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Set
Source Typereference
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This source names Church of Satan directly: "a stated reason for the split from the Church of Satan; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a new religious movements monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three."
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Satan, Figures This source names Satan directly: "for the split from the Church of Satan; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a new religious movements monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three."
Source Wikipedia, "Temple of Set"Wikipedia contributors
This source names Temple of Set directly: "tertiary reference on the Temple of Set, directly examined."
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Claims Backed By This Source (43 claims)
This source backs 43 claims across the atlas. As facts: 37 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Denominations, 28 claims: 27 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Prayers, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
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