O9a Compendium of Modern Satanism

Order of Nine Angles - A Compendium of Modern Satanism
The Exeatic Way - A Compendium of Modern Satanism

Contents 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Introduction: Satanism - The Exeatic Way Whose Gonna Run This Town, Tonight? How To Be A Satanist: A Practical Guide Defining Satanism Sinister Demonology Ontology and Theology of Satanism A Short History of Satan The De-Evoluionary Nature of Might is Right Concerning Gods, Demons, and The Origin of Satan The Sinister Feminine: The Dark Goddess as Sinister Archetype
Appendix - Some Terms Explained
Introduction Satanism - The Exeatic Way
Etymologically, -ism - from the Ancient Greek - - implies a doing; an action or actions. That is, a particular deed or deeds. Thus, Satan-ism, correctly defined and rationally understood, is a practical way of life, a doing of certain types of deeds, by those for whom Satan is both guide and inspiration. Who or what is Satan, and what are the deeds, the actions, the way, of the Satanist?
Satan is evil - and this expression defines Satanism and Satanists. To be evil is to be exeatic, to be heretical, to be amoral, to be an outlaw: that is to go beyond
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and to transgress the limits imposed and prescribed by mundanes (by non-Satanists), and by the systems constructed by mundanes and which reflect or which manifest the ethos of mundanes for example, governments, and the laws of what has been termed "society". To be exeatic - to be evil, to be a Satan - is to refuse to submit; to defy even at the cost of one's own life; to prefer death and condemnation to a meek submission. Thus: " To be exeatic is to be satanic in the true sense, the true feeling, of that term to be heretical; to exult beyond the boundaries, the limits, which mundanes have made in order to prevent our [Satanic] kind turning our causal existence into a succession of life-affirming ecstasies." For Satan, par excellence, is the adversary, of the accepted, of the mundane, of the consensus, of the majority, of all laws and of all systems manufactured by mundanes as a means of control and restraint. Etymologically, the word 'evil' derives from the Gothic ubils which meant a 'going beyond' (the due measure) and did not have a 'moral' sense. Only later (under the influence of Nazarene theology) did it acquire a strict moral sense, and became a causal abstraction. As for Satan, etymologically, the word originally derived from the Greek aitia 'an accusation' [qv. Aeschylus: aitiau ekho]. The early Greek form [c. 500 BCE] became corrupted to the Hebrew 'Satan' [ c.350-150 BCE] whence also 'Shaitan'. In Greek of the classical period aitia and diabole [qv. diabolic] were often used for the same thing, particularly when a 'bad' or 'false' sense was required. In respect of the so-called Biblical Satan: There is good evidence to suggest that, historically, the writers of the Old Testament drew inspiration from, or adapted, older stories, myths and legends about a Persian deity that came to be named Ahriman, who could thus be regarded as the archetype of the Biblical Satan, and also of the Quranic Iblis. Similarly, there is evidence that the God Jehovah of the Old Testament may have been based upon myths and legends about the Persian deity who came to be named Ahura Mazda. In what are regarded as the oldest parts of the Old Testament most
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probably written between 230 BCE and 70 BCE Satan is depicted simply as a rather sly adversary or opponent, with a human being who opposes any of Gods so-called (but self-appointed) 'chosen people' sometimes also called a satan. As for The Devil, etymologically early forms of the English word devil derive from the Gothic (e.g. the Old English divul) 'diabaulus' which came from the Latin 'diabolus'. However, the Old English deofel and kindred words like the Old Frisian diovel could possibly be derived from the suffix fel, a variant of fell meaning fierce, savage, wild. Then the original form, e.g. deofel, would mean the fierce/ savage/ wild god. There is some justification for the use of the Latin prefix in this manner e.g. deodand, which occurs in 12th century English.
Thus, Satan is the guide and the inspiration for those who are by their deeds amoral, who desire to be exeatic, who seek in real life and in practical ways to defy and go beyond, who desire to transgress, the limits imposed and prescribed by mundanes - that is, by all those who lack a Satanic spirit, a Satanic character. Thus, no Satanist would respect any 'law', by whomsoever made. Thus, no Satanist would surrender to anyone, whatever the reason; instead, they would prefer to die, laughing and exultant. For a Satanist it is living exeatically moment to moment without care or concern - which is important. Given the exeatic - the defiant - character of Satan and thus of Satanists, Satanism cannot be a religion with all the accoutrements of a religion, such as prayer, worship, faith, hope. For prayer, worship, hope and faith are anathema to Satanists; instead, such things belong to mundanes: those who need security, laws, limits, hope. Instead, Satanism is an attitude to living: a defiant and an immediate and an experiential way of life, and if one desires a modern Western archetype of such an exeatic - such a mundane-defying - way of living then Bonnie and Clyde would be a suitable example, as would be some or many of those who engendered and who participated in riots such as those in London in 2011 CE. Thus, a street gang, some gangsta, in some city is far more Satanic than any so-called organization or group pretentiously describing themselves as Satanist, just as Satanism itself cannot be prescribed, or contained, within some pseudophilosophical babble. For to be a Satanist is to exult, defy, transgress - to become, or to seek to
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become, intoxicated by a moment or moments of living, and all Satanic groups exist only to manifest this, to teach this, to remember this, to presence this, to incite this, to guide individuals toward experiencing this exeatic, this satanic, experience.
This work is a compendium of modern Satanism: that is, a collection of essays which give an overview of the praxis and ethos of those who in our times live in an exeatic way using Satan as their guide and inspiration. Those who live thus - who amorally teach thus - are The Order of Nine Angles and those inspired by the ONA. For the ONA, as a manifestation of Satan and of Satanism, reveal all other so-called (and self-described) satanists for the charlatans, the pretenders, the fakes, the mundanes, they are. For the ONA is evil championing culling, heresy, amorality, revolution, violence, chaos, terror, crime, riot, and defiance of all laws and of all governments. All other so-called groups - from the Church of Satan to the Temple of Set and beyond - are mundanes, who like the glamour of Satanism but who lack the ability, the personal character, the guts, to be Satanic - to do evil - in real life. Not for them incitement of participation in some riot. Not for them the culling of mundanes; not for them the life of the gangsta. Not for them the defiance, the transgression, of a Bonnie and Clyde. To be a Satanist - to live exeatically - is simple, and is illustrated in chapters 1 and 2 of this work: Whose Gonna Run This Town, Tonight? and How To Be A Satanist: A Practical Guide. All the rest, here in this work, is pure incitement to Satanism and/or a remembrance of what modern Satanism really is, in defiance of pretend satanists everywhere.
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Whose Gonna Run This Town, Tonight? Whose gonna run this town, tonight? The short answer: we are, however long it takes to undermine by whatever means the societies of the mundanes and replace their rule of law, and their Police forces, with our law of personal honour and our tribal enforcers. That is the essence of our sinister strategy: to build a new, tribal-based, way of life in the cities, the towns, everywhere; to break down, to replace, what exists now; and to exult in this breaking down, this replacement; to enjoy the thrill of the chaos, the disorder, that we can and should and will cause. For by doing such sinister things we live life on a higher level than the mundanes; we evolve ourselves; we extend and surpass our limits and we most certainly surpass and discard and ignore the limits set by the mundanes and enshrined in their tyrannical laws. Let us be quite clear (again); let us be understood (again): we are sinister, in real life. We are amoral. We are feral. We are not playing some sinister game or indulging in some esoteric rle-play. We are, or aspire to be, outlaws, in real life. We can and will and should use any and every means however such means are described by the ethics and the laws of the mundanes in order to achieve our personal, sinister, aims, and our sinister Aeonic goals. Nothing of the world
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of the mundanes is forbidden to us; nothing of the world of the mundanes should restrict us. In brief, we are new sinister species. A new type of human being. The type who scares the mundanes; the type of being that they fear and dread and who may give their children nightmares, or invoke within those youngsters the sinister desire to be of us, to be like us, to aspire to be like us. For it us, and them: us and the mundanes. Their world, or our new, sinister, world. We desire, we need, real, practical, power: on the streets; in the towns, in the cities, in the villages, the areas, where we reside. We desire to rule, to control, our neighbourhoods, our locality; to establish there our new sinister tribal culture, and we will use whatever means we can and whatever means we desire and which are necessary to establish our feral tribes. We desire in such places to make a name for ourselves; to earn respect and be respected. We have declared war on the mundanes, for they and all that they have are our resource; and all that supports them and their system from their laws, their so-called Courts of Law, their Police forces, to their local and national governments we loathe and detest and regard as our enemy. We are armed and dangerous; and if we are not already so armed and so dangerous, then that is what we aspire to be, and what we should and must be, for we regard it as our natural right as members of a sinister feral species to be so armed, and we would rather die, fighting and laughing and exulting, than submit or surrender to any mundane or to their so-called forces of law and order. The politics of the mundanes their whole system of governance, their ideologies, their religions, their Institutions are irrelevant to us. Such things belong in the past; to the mundanes. Our way is the way of personal knowing; of earning, of keeping, personal respect; of personal loyalty to the members of our own local tribe. Each of our sinister tribes is a law, a realm, unto itself. They set their own limits. They make their own rules; devise their own codes of behaviour. They have their own, individual, tribal aims. They all have their own means, their own ways, of making their mark; of acquiring what they need; of gaining respect and wealth. But they all each and every one of them are of us, part of us, by virtue of the fact we are family: a new, growing, thriving, spreading, species; an extended sinister family bound by loyalty to our own kind; bound by sharing the same sinister ethos, the same sinister and feral nature: the same desire to excel; to exult; to grow, to acquire by whatever means whatever we need to survive, to prosper, to live life as it should be lived. We are a family who knows our own kind; who knows who our enemies are, and who are our brothers and sisters.
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Thus, we are the darkest, most sinister, sorcery of all; Presencing The Dark by our very lives. Anton Long Order of Nine Angles 120 Year of Fayen
How To Be A Satanist The Simple ONA Way
Introduction This Guide will enable anyone to become a Satanist and to practise Satanism. The basic principles and practices of Satanism are outlined in Section Two. Section One Joining The Sinister Elite Step One The Pledge of Satanic Allegiance To become a Satanist you simply make a pledge of allegiance to Satan and pledge yourself to follow the Satanic way of life. This can be done in two ways. First, it can be done by yourself, alone. Second, it can be done with a friend or some friends who also desire to become Satanists. The Pledge of Satanic Allegiance can take place at any time, and anywhere, indoors, or out, and no special preparation is necessary or required, although if desired and practical, it can be undertaken in a darkened area with subdued lighting (the source of which is not important) and with the ONA sigil (if possible coloured purple, on a black background) in a prominent position and drawn or reproduced on some material or on a banner. For the pledging, you and each other participant, if any will require a small piece of white paper (the actual size and type of paper are not important), a sharp knife (of the hunting or survival kind) and if possible, a sheath for the knife plus a small receptacle or container suitable for burning the paper in. You and each other participant, if any then say:
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I am here to seal my Fate with blood. I accept there is no law, no authority, no justice Except my own And that culling is a necessary act of Life. I believe in one guide, Satan, And in our right to rule mundanes.
You and each other participant, if any then make a small cut on your left thumb with the knife and allow several drops of your blood to fall onto the paper. You then place the paper into the small container, and set it alight. As it burns, you and each other participant, if any then say:
I swear on my sinister-honour as a Satanist that from this day forth I will never surrender, will die fighting rather than submit to anyone, and will always uphold The Code of Sinister-Honour.
You and each other participant, if any then place the knife in the sheath (if a sheath is available), conceal or otherwise carry the knife on you, and forever after keep the knife with you, as a sign of your sinister-honour and your pledge of allegiance. The pledging is then complete. Stage Two Living Satanically Living Satanically is simple, and involves: 1) Regarding, and treating, all mundanes (all who are not your pledged Satanic brothers or sisters) as the enemy. 2) Living, and if necessary, dying by our code of sinister-honour [see Section Two, below]. 3) Striving to live each day, on Earth, as if it might be your last. Section Two The Principles and Practices of Satanism The Three Fundamental Principles of Satanism 1) Those who are not our Satanic brothers or sisters are mundanes. 2) By living and if necessary dying by our Code of Sinister-Honour we are the best, the real elite of Earth. 3) A person becomes our brother or our sister by making The Pledge of Satanic Allegiance and by living by our Code of Sinister-Honour.
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The Code of Sinister-Honour Our sinister-honour means we Satanists are fiercely loyal to only our own kind to those who, like us, have taken The Pledge of Satanic Allegiance. Our sinisterhonour means we are wary of, and do not trust and often despise all those who are not like us, who are not of our own fearsome dark Satanic kind. Our duty as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to be ready, willing, and able to defend ourselves, in any situation, and to be prepared to use lethal force to so defend ourselves. Our duty as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to be loyal to, and to defend, our own Satanic kind: to do our duty, even unto death, to those of our Satanic brothers and sisters to whom we have sworn a personal oath of loyalty. Our obligation as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to seek revenge, if necessary unto death, against anyone who acts dishonourably toward us, or who acts dishonourably toward those to whom we have sworn a personal oath of loyalty. Our obligation as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to never willingly submit to any mundane; to die fighting rather than surrender to them; to die rather (if necessary by our own hand) than allow ourselves to be dishonourably humiliated by them. Our obligation as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to never trust any oath or any pledge of loyalty given, or any promise made, by any mundane, and to be wary and suspicious of them at all times. Our Satanic duty as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of SinisterHonour is to settle our serious disputes, among ourselves, by either trial by combat, or by a duel involving deadly weapons; and to challenge to a duel anyone mundane, or one of our own kind who impugns our Satanic honour or who makes mundane accusations against us. Our Satanic duty as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of SinisterHonour is to settle our non-serious disputes, among ourselves, by having a man or woman from among us (a brother or sister who is highly esteemed because of their Satanic deeds), arbitrate and decide the matter for us, and to Satanically accept without question, and to abide by, their decision, because of the respect we have accorded them as arbitrator Our Satanic duty as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of SinisterHonour is to always keep our word to our own kind, once we have given our
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word on our Satanic honour, for to break ones word among our own kind is a cowardly, un-Satanic, and mundane, act. Our Satanic duty as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of SinisterHonour is to act with Satanic honour in all our dealings with our own Satanic kind. Our obligation as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to marry only those from our own kind, who thus, like us, live by our Code and are prepared to die to save their sinister-honour and that of their brothers and sisters. Our duty as Satanic individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour means that an oath of Satanic loyalty or allegiance, once sworn by a man or woman of Satanic honour (I swear on my sinister-honour that I shall) can only be ended either: (1) by the man or woman of Satanic honour formally asking the person to whom the oath was sworn to release them from that oath, and that person agreeing so to release them; or (2) by the death of the person to whom the oath was sworn. Anything else is unworthy of a Satanist, and the act of a mundane. Satan Our Guide To Excellence and To Life Satan is our guide to how we can be the best; how we can live life, on this Earth, in the best possible manner and the most fulfilling way: with ecstasy, laughter, joy, and a proud defiance, including defiance of our own mortal death. For us, Satan is a Dark One an acausal, living, entity who exists in the acausal continuum and Who can, and Who has, in the past, been manifest on Earth. As one of The Dark Ones, Satan is a shapeshifter, capable of assuming other forms, including that of human beings. For us, Satan as did some other Dark Ones came into our causal continuum in the past to guide, and to offer guidance to, we human beings. This guidance was advice, an opportunity not some religious-type of revelation, not some new religion, and not some demand for worship or for a mundane-type subservience. Instead, this advice, from Satan, was how we might become the elite of this world, and liberate ourselves from the oppression of mundanes and from everything mundane and worthless. This advice is enshrined in our Satanic way of living and in our Satanic way of defiance, even unto death. Thus, we abhor and detest by the very nature of our elitist Satanic spirit everything and everyone which or who might enslave or try to control and tame us. Our Satanic spirit is codified and expressed in our Code of Sinister-Honour, and we abhor and detest every law, every type and kind of authority except our
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own, every kind of dogma, every religion (except whatever might prove useful to us in ruling over and controlling mundanes), every rule and every type of government except whatever might prove useful to us in ruling over and controlling mundanes. Thus, we are pragmatic, practical, and adaptable, while always upholding our elitist and hard Code of Sinister Honour. Order of Nine Angles 121 Year of Fayen
Defining Satanism
The Nature of Satan According to the conventional, rather dated, and Nazarene view, Satanism is considered to be the worship of, or the acceptance of the authority of, the being termed Satan as Satan is described in Nazarene scripture, as, for example, the or as an adversary of the supreme Being, often called God. According to a less Nazarene-centric - and more philosophically correct - view, we may define Satanism as the acceptance of, or a belief in, the existence a supra-personal being called or termed Satan, and an acceptance of, or a belief in, this entity having or being capable of having some control over, or some influence upon, human beings, individually or otherwise, with such control often or mostly or entirely being beyond the power of individuals to control by whatever means. Importantly, this definition of Satanism places the entity called Satan into a certain, a specific, relation with human beings - that of powerful entity whom
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human beings cannot really control, whatever means or artifice they may use or devise to attempt such control. This is itself is in contrast to the Nazarenecentric view of Satan, who - while being regarded as a powerful supra-personal entity - is believed to be under the total and final control of the supreme Being, often called God. Thus, in this Nazarene view, human beings can defy or rescue themselves from or be defended from Satan by the supreme Being who will or who can or who may intercede on their behalf, if asked in the appropriate manner and via, for example, "the proper channels" - with the appropriate manner and the proper channels being defined according to Nazarene theology and dogma. Thus, this particular definition, of ours, of Satanism may therefore be regarded as expressing the essence of Satanism itself, without there having to be an acceptance of the conventional notion of human obedience to or subservience to this particular supra-personal entity. That is, a conventional religious element of worship, of theism - deriving from the Magian religious perspective - is neither necessary nor required for someone to describe themselves as a Satanist. [1] Furthermore, our definition of Satanism also leads, or should lead, to a discussion regarding the nature of both existence and being; a discussion much more rational, and far more wide-ranging, than would occur, and which historically has occurred, were one to accept the conventional Nazarene-centric view of Satanism, for that view is restricted, narrowed, by both the nature of Nazarene theology itself and by the reliance upon Nazarene scripture. Furthermore, any definition of Satanism also depends, to some extent, on the necessary enquiry into the origin of the word Satan itself, the de facto view being that Satan is, in origin, derived from a Hebrew word meaning or implying adversary. [2]
The Modern Satanism of Mundanes According to both the conventional understanding of Satanism, and also according to our definition above, modern groups such as the Church of Satan (and its derivatives) and the Temple of Set cannot be considered as Satanist or as somehow representing Satanism, for the simple fact that neither group accepts that there is a supra-personal entity called Satan. For the Church of Satan, Satan is not considered a real supra-personal being, with an independent existence, but rather as some kind of symbolic representation of certain carnal human impulses and desires, and which representation is controllable or which can be controlled by, or come to be controlled by, individuals themselves.
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The central focus of the Temple of Set (ToS) is the figure of Set, an entity (or deity) belonging to the pantheon of Ancient Egypt, and who the ToS variously describe as The Prince of Darkness, as their patron, and who thus could be considered as the possible origin of the Nazarene Satan. As befits their attempt to be all things to all members (and possibly to encourage more recruits), the ToS seems undecided and somewhat befuddled as to whether their resurrected Set is an actual supra-personal, and powerful, deity, or whether he is only a symbolic, or archetypal, and human, representation of certain natural or cosmic forces. [3] This indecision, deliberate or otherwise - and/or spin, to encourage more recruits - is also reflected in their seemingly befuddled views regarding whether or not their Set is benign or "evil", and whether or not we human beings can, through some artifice or other (such as magick), control or at least acquire immunity from the power of this entity, if he or it is indeed "evil" and not benign. However, it becomes quite clear, on studying the ToS, that their entity - their so-called Prince of Darkness - is rather tame, and just acquired a rather bad reputation along the way. Which leads one to ask: if their Set is not the real "evil one" - the powerful living source of such things as terror and suffering-causing Chaos and of "evil" - then who or what is? If the answer is that there is no such physically existing entity, one is led to enquire just what exactly, therefore, is the true nature and importance of their Set, which brings one to the only logical conclusion that, ultimately, for all their bluster and all their pseudo-mystical and metaphysical ramblings, their Set is just another human abstraction, just another symbolic representation of certain natural or cosmic forces and processes. Even were it not, it further becomes clear, on studying the ToS, that their emphasis is decidedly on the "we can control" category, and thus aligns them, on this matter, with Nazarenes, for they have removed the element of real risk, of fear, and of danger that consorting and copulating with demons and powerful non-human supra-personal entities entails, thus placing them - as with followers of the Magian religions, and the CoS - among the category we may term magians-of-the-earth: that is, among those who believe that we fragile, mortal, human beings have the means (from our religions or beliefs or by some artifice or whatever), or we can devise some artful means, whereby we can save ourselves and escape from whatever external power afflicts or may afflict us. This view - common to Magian religions, to the CoS, to the ToS, and to many people who describe themselves as Occutlists - may also be referred to as the hubriati-syndrome [4].
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Thus, not only do both the CoS and the ToS not accept that there is a suprapersonal entity called Satan, but they also ultimately - with their hubriatisyndrome - still adhere to the dogma underlying the Magian religious perspective.
Satanism and The Order of Nine Angles According to the ONA Satan is one being, among other beings, who actually exists in what is termed the acausal continuum [5]. The very nature of this acausal being, exoterically termed Satan - and the very nature of the acausal itself - means that we human beings, however advanced or skilled in various magickal or Occult techniques we consider ourselves to be, cannot ever fully or in any significant manner control Satan, just as we cannot fully control in any significant manner other such beings, such as Baphomet [6]. That is, there is no nothing, no means - esoteric or otherwise - no method, technique, or skill, no secret formulae or chant, no spoken words, no ritual, no "prayer", no supreme Being (such as God), to control such acausal beings and/or which enable us to be safe and secure from them. This is so because of our nature - as fragile, microcosmic beings who have evolved on one planet orbiting one star - and because of the nature of the Cosmos itself, perceivable as this Cosmos is to we human beings as having an acausal continuum and a causal continuum. All we can hope for - through our defiance of our primitiveness, through a desire to evolve, through curing the sickness behind our hubriati-syndrome - is to become like such acausal beings as Satan and Baphomet; to evolve toward them; to come to regard them as our long lost kin, our inspiration, our guides, our sources of reliable knowledge about the acausal.
Thus, one of the many crucial differences between the ONA and groups such as the CoS and the ToS is that regarding the esoteric meaning and significance of magick. For the ONA: " What has hitherto been known and described as magic(k) especially Dark Sorcery, or Black Magic(k) - is one effective means of coming-to-know certain acausal beings, and is thus a beginning to understanding the acausal itself." The Ontology and Theology of
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This is in complete contrast to both the CoS and the ToS, for whom such means as magick are fundamentally a way to control certain forces, and to exult in our individuality. Thus, for them magick is simply one more means for us to impose ourselves (our will) upon ourselves, upon others, upon life, Nature and the Cosmos. That is, their view and understanding of Occultism in general is limited, by, stymied by, their hubriati-syndrome; by their desire and even need to be magians-of-the-earth. This is a lowly, a primitive, a mundane, understanding of the Occult, and especially of our latent human faculties. For the ONA, such means as magick are a way for us to genuinely evolve - to be far more than we are by coming-to-know acausal beings; by experiencing, and beginning to use, acausal energies; by developing such things as our latent faculty of acausal-empathy; and - eventually - by transcending beyond the causal into the realms of the acausal [7]. Thus, in essence, the ONA view is a Cosmic one, encompassing the realms of both causal and acausal, while the views of the CoSers and the ToSers - and others like them (such as the Crowleyites) - is a moribund, Earth-bound, primitively egocentric, view, redolent of the sickness underlying the collection of symptoms we call the hubriati-syndrome. According to the ONA: " Our consciousness, as human beings, is a means whereby we can access the nexion we are to the acausal, and a means whereby we can form, or pattern, our own acausal energy; we possess the ability - the way, the means - of gaining for ourselves more acausal energy, of evolving and thus increasing our own acausal energy, and thus of transcending to live in the acausal continuum." A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles
Conclusion For the ONA, Satan is a real, supra-personal, entity - existing in the realms of the acausal and totally independent of us - whom we cannot fully or in any significant manner hope to control, and who is not subject to some supreme Being, not ultimately subservient to such a Being, because such a supreme Being does not exist [8]. As has been written:
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"It is of fundamental importance - to evolution both individual and otherwise - that what is Dark, Sinister or Satanic is made real in a practical way, over and over again. That is, that what is dangerous, awesome, numinous, tragic, deadly, terrible, terrifying and beyond the power of ordinary mortals, laws or governments to control is made manifest. In effect, non-Initiates (and even Initiates) need constantly reminding that such things still exist; they need constantly to be brought "face-to-face", and touched, with what is, or appears to be, inexplicable, uncontrollable, powerful and "evil". They need reminding of their own mortality - of the unforeseen, inexplicable "powers of Fate", of the powerful force of "Nature"... This means wars, sacrifice, tragedy and disruption...for it is one of the duties of a Satanic Initiate to so presence the dark, and prepare the way for, or initiate, the change and evolution which always result from such things....." To Presence The Dark
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[1] What we may term the Magian religious perspective (or ethos) is inherent in Judaism, in Nasrany, and in Islam. To be pedantic, we use the term Magian in preference to the more commonly used term Semitic to describe the ethos underlying these three major, and conventional, world-views, since the term Semitic is, in our view, not strictly philologically correct to describe such Ways of Life. [2] For a brief, non-conventional, view, see the Appendix, Satan As A Word, below. [3] Here is a typical ToS statement about Set: "Set's...method for Working in the Objective Universe is by providing an insight into the nature of personhood."
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[4] The hubriati-syndrome is the hubris-like belief that we human beings: (1) are, or can be, controllers of what is termed our own, individual, Destiny; (2) and/or that we or we can be chosen/favoured and/or protected by some supreme Being or some representative of that Being; and/or (3) that we are clever enough, or can become clever enough, to devise for ourselves some means to control whatever natural forces we may encounter, including Nature, and possibly (or almost certainly) those forces of a more Cosmic nature. The hubriati-syndrome may be said to be one of the most distinguishing features of magians-of-the-earth, with one symptom of this syndrome being a love for, and a reliance upon, technology; another symptom is a fondness for, and indeed a love for, words and causal abstractions. Here is a typical ToS statement which expounds the type of hubriati view commonly held by magians-of-the-earth: " [A] premise of the Temple is that the psychecentric consciousness can evolve towards its own divinity through deliberate exercise of the intelligence and Will, a process of becoming or coming into being whose roots may be found in the dialectic method expounded by Plato and the conscious exaltation of the Will proposed by Nietzsche..." The magians-of-the-earth are so called because, in actuality if not always in overt belief, such people accept, consciously or otherwise, or are influenced by, the basic premises which underlie the Magian religious perspective. Here is a typical ToS statement which expresses this perspective: "Religious offices [are] conferred by Set alone, and Recognized within the Temple according to his Will. The design, care, and operation of the Temple are entrusted by Set to the Priesthood..." If we re-write this slightly, the connection becomes obvious: "Religious offices [are] conferred by God alone, and Recognized within the Church according to his Will. The design, care, and operation of the Church are entrusted by God to the Pope and Priesthood..." The ToS has Set, a guiding Council of Nine (appointed by Set of course), High Priests, and Temples; the Catholic Church has God, the Pope, Priests, and Churches, who are entrusted with doing God's work on Earth, just as the ToSers believe they have been entrusted with a sacred duty to do the work of Set.
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[5] Refer to the ONA texts The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism and also A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles. Furthermore, it is convenient to describe some acausal entities by the term demons. Nexions are one means whereby entities from the acausal may presence - be manifest, or travel - to the causal continuum, and thus interact with we human beings, on Earth. For a basic understanding of nexions, refer to ONA texts such as The Meaning of The Nine Angles - A Collection of Texts, Parts One and Two. Expressed succinctly: A nexion is a specific connexion between, or the intersection of, the causal and the acausal, and nexions can, exoterically, be considered to be akin to "gates" or openings or "tunnels" where there is, or can be, either a flow of acausal energy (and thus also of acausal entities) from the acausal into our causal Space and causal Time; a journeying into the acausal itself; or a willed, conscious flow or presencing (by dark sorcery) of acausal energies. Basically, there are three main types of nexion. The first is an actual physical nexion. The second type of nexion is a living causal being, such as ourselves. The third type of nexion is a magickal creation: that is, some form in-which acausal energy is presenced or "channelled into" by a sinister Adept However, many acausal entities possess the ability to create their own nexions to the causal - and thus do not require assistance from us, from we who dwell in the causal continuum. [6] It should not be forgotten that according to the ONA Baphomet is an acausal shapeshifting entity and has been physically manifest to us, and can be manifest to us, via a suitable nexion, and has assumed the physical form of (or appeared to us as) a human woman.
[7] For a transcending to the realms of the acausal, refer to the ONA text After-Life in the Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles. [8] " A supreme creator Being does not and never has existed, and such a figure is regarded as a human, a causal, abstraction, a human manufactured
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construct, a myth, which human beings, and thus certain religions and theologies and philosophies, have incorrectly imposed upon the reality of the Cosmos in a vain attempt to understand it, and themselves." ONA: The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism. Furthermore, the belief in this supreme Being, just like the hubriati symptom of the illusion of control of supra-personal entities, is part of the hubriatisyndrome, that illness that makes us, and keeps us, and marks us, as mundanes.
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Satan: A Note On The Word
Satan is commonly regarded as from the Hebrew, meaning accuser. However, the Hebrew is itself derived from the old word that became the Ancient Greek aitia - "an accusation" - qv. Aeschylus: aitiau ekho. The older Greek form became corrupted to the Hebrew 'Satan' - whence also 'Shaitan'. In Greek of the classical period aitia and diabole were often used for the same thing. The word diabolic itself derives from the Greek word diaballo meaning to pass beyond or over, from the root dia through and, as a causal accusative, "with the aid of". Later, diaballo acquired a moral sense for example "to set against" (Aristotle) although it was sometimes used (as diabolos) when a bad or false sense was meant, as for example, a false accusation. The vulgar belief that Hebrew is some kind of pre-eminent, and root, language is incorrect Hebrew is essentially derived from ancient Phoenician, with later contributions from Ancient Greek, which also owed a debt to Phoenician.
Sinister Demonology
The Deception of Modern Magick
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The fundamental mistake that the majority of Occultists of The Left Hand Path, in the West, have made for well over five hundred years is that they have been duped by the pretence that is Magian Occultism [1], especially in relation to demons, and demonology. Consider, for instance, the medieval Grimoires, once apparently difficult to obtain, but now accessible, which purported to reveal secrets whereby a sorcerer could summon, communicate with, and use, various demonic entities. Without exception these Grimoires - from Book of Honorius to Grimoire of Abra-Melin and beyond - are all based on the Nazarene-Hebrew tradition (which includes the qabala) which is why, of course, the majority of them have Hebrew names or names manufactured to be Hebrew-ish. Even today, over a quarter of a century after the Order of Nine Angles revealed the hitherto esoteric tradition of Hebdomadry (The Seven-Fold Sinister Way) this Nazarene-Hebrew tradition of so-called demonology is still regarded as the authentic, and Occult, one. Consider, for instance, a recently (2009 CE) published book, entitled Encyclopaedia of Demons and Demonology, which purports to be an encyclopaedic enumeration of demons, and all of which "Western" demons belong either to the Nazarene-Gnostic tradition or to the Nazarene-Hebrew tradition of the medieval Grimoires and of those, like the Golden Dawn, and Crowley, who uncritically imbibed that distorted Magian Occult tradition.
It is, moreover, highly indicative of the true nature of much vaunted Western Occultists, such as Aleister Crowley, that they accepted, without question, these medieval Grimoires and their Hebrewesque demons. Accepted to such an extent in the case of Crowley that he in his pretension regarded the so-called Grimoire of Abra-Melin (the Yahudi) as an important, indeed a pre-eminent, Western magickal text [2] and from which type of Magian/qabalistic "conjurations" Crowley was able (apparently) to manifest his so-called Holy Guardian Angel (aka his true inner - higher- self) named Aiwass. Thus did Crowley, by means of Magian/qabalistic "sorcery", develope/manufacture (or be gifted with) his Liber Al vel Legis, which somewhat pretentious document was to become his raison d'etre. Or, at least, his excuse for proclaiming himself a Magus and pontificating about the type of Magian magick he believed in and promulgated. That Crowley has, since his death, managed to garnish a following who assert he is a Magus, who proclaim his Thelema is some sort of "new age", and who regard him as some sort of "authority" on magick, merely reveals such followers for the inept Occultists - and mundanes - that they are.
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For the Occult veracity is that anyone possessed of genuine Occult insight, any shred of that dark-empathy that is the foundation of true sorcery, would have not only seen through the posturing of Crowley, but also understood, intuitively or otherwise, the whole tradition of Magian sorcery/magick for the posturing silliness and/or the psychic control that it is.
The Sinister Demonology of Hebdomadry
According to the esoteric tradition of Hebdomadry - claimed by the ONA to represent the genuine Western Occult tradition - demons are a specific type of acausal, living, entity. They do not have Hebrewesque "names"; they cannot be summoned or controlled by any means given in the fake medieval Hebrewesque Grimoires, just as Satan is not related to either the Hebrew Bible or to the ontology and theology of the Nazarenes, and just as - since the so-called God of the Hebrews and the Nazarenes does not exist - Satan is not ultimately controllable by either this God or by humans using some Nazarene mumbo-jumbo [3]. For Satan Himself is a particular acausal being. [4] Demons, esoterically understood, are thus a type of non-human entity, from the acausal continuum, who/which can egress to our causal, mortal, realm, by (via, or through) a nexion. [5] That is, they may be considered to be particular types of acausal energy. Thus, sorcery - esoterically and correctly understood - is (1) the use, by an individual, individuals, or a group, of acausal energy, either directly (raw/acausal/chaos) or by means of symbolism, forms, ritual, words, chant (or similar manifestations or presencing(s) of causal constructs) with this usage often involving a specific, temporal (causal), aim or aim; and (2) the drawing forth, or the presencing of, in the causal and via a nexion, acausal entities. Genuine Sinister Grimoires are thus texts which give instructions as to how such entities are or may be "named" in the causal and how a nexion or nexions to the acausal can be accessed or opened to allow such entities (and/or such acausal energies) to manifest (be presenced) in our causal continuum: that is, here on Earth, or in our consciousness or in the consciousness of another human being or other human beings.
As stated in the MS Copula cum Daemone 0:
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The essence of our sinister Internal Magick is Copula cum Daemone, in either the literal sense of joining with certain acausal entities, or in the psychic sense of nurturing, releasing, and joining with one's inner Baeldraca to thus become a causal-dwelling (but still mortal) sinister changeling. In the case of one's Baeldraca, the joining is begun by the rite of sinister Initiation, nurtured by the journey to External Adept, released by the Rite of Internal Adept, and fully joined (re-united) with one's causal being by a successful Passing of The Abyss. In the literal sense, the joining with certain acausal entities can be done in several ways. First, by invoking them, through Dark Sorcery, into one's own self. Second, by evoking them and then, again through Dark Sorcery, having a candidate (a mortal, willing or unwilling) be a host for the entity so evoked. Third, by opening a collocation of nine physical nexions and recalling The Dark Gods back to our causal realm. A simple example of the first kind is the working with the pathways on the Tree of Wyrd (qv. Naos). An example of the second kind is The Ceremony of Recalling, as given in The Grimoire of Baphomet. A fictional account of such presencings of such acausal entities is given in Eulalia: Dark Daughter of Baphomet, and in the three stories, Jenyah, Sabirah, and In The Sky of Dreaming.
In a quite literal sense, some acausal entities - when manifest in the causal, are demons. Mischievous evil beings who - like most acausal beings - are shapeshifters, and can assume a variety of causal forms, benign, animal, human, or otherwise. Some of these types of acausal beings may have given rise to myths such as Dragons, and to legends about Succubi and Incubi. Some acausal entities, when manifest in the causal, are more akin to the of classical legends - an internal source of energy to guide, inspire, provoke, mortals; or physically-presenced beings who watch over and guard certain sinisterly-numinous places; or beings, temporarily residing in the causal, who can restore the Cosmic balance by making mortals mad or bringing them misfortune or even killing them. Still other acausal entities, of a different acausal (but always shapeshifting) living species, are known to us by such causal names as we have assigned to them through a personal knowledge and past interaction with them - for example, Baphomet, Dark Goddess and Mistress of Earth; and Satan, The Lord of Darkness; both of whom can, if They so desire, join with us, physically, carnally, when They are presenced in the causal, on Earth, in some causal form that is pleasing to them, and
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us, and from which union They may gift us with an acausal, immortal, existence, if that, and we, be also pleasing to them. Thus it is that the term Copula cum Daemone expresses the essence of our sinister Internal Magick, the essence of some of our demonic, dangerous (but often delightful), sinister practices, and also the goal of our Sinister Way, which goal is an immortal existence in the realms beyond this mortal, limited, causal, existence of ours. What requires understanding is that - in complete contrast to Magian Occultism, and the fake medieval Hebrewesque Grimoires, and charlatans such as Crowley - there is no way for us, as temporal mortal beings, to control whatever demons or whatever acausal entities we may draw forth, or presence, in the causal continuum. No "words of power" to control such entities; no "God" to fall-back on; no "circle of protection". No potion, no spell or conjuration to save us, or others. No "secret Grimoire" wherein we can find the means to make ourselves "master" or "mistress" over such acausal energies. For such acausal energies, such acausal entities - of whatever acausal type or acausal species are unbound by the constraints of our causal continuum and certainly unbound by our own puny mortal human nature. For most such entities, from our causal perspective, are "immortal". In addition, once presenced, such entities act - exist, live, dwell - in our causal continuum according to their own acausal nature. The most - the best - we fragile, fallible, mortal beings can do is befriend them, or be their comrades or their lovers, as we can aspire to be or become like them. Therefore, according to our Dark Tradition, we regard both Satan and Baphomet [6] as long-lost relatives (and possibly as potential lovers), to be respected and admired but never "worshipped" [7]. True Dark Sorcery is thus difficult, and very dangerous. It is for those few who dare, who can defy, and who, intuitively or otherwise, can see or feel past the constraints that the Magian ethos - and Magian Occultism - has imposed, or tried to impose, on us. Practical Dark Sorcery is thus not only an esoteric Art, but also a dangerous occupation. Sometimes, it can lead to madness; more often it leads to the person becoming deluded, grandiloquent, and/or descending down to that barbarism where the useful and necessary skills of reason, self-control, and esoteric balance, have been lost. Practical Dark Sorcery is, however, also a means whereby we can understand
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ourselves, develope and evolve ourselves, and also disrupt/change our societies and other human beings and so usher in that new sinister Aeon, that Dark Imperium, which it is one of the aims of a sinister Adepts to bring into being, to the detriment of mundanes and Magians alike.
Notes
[1] In respect of Magian Occultism, refer to the rather jovial text, Magian Occultism, by Ms PointyHat. As mentioned in A Glossary of Order of Nine Angles Terms (v.2.05): The term Magian is used to refer to the hybrid ethos of Yahoud and of Western hubriati, and also refers to those individuals who are Magian by either breeding or nature. The Magian ethos expresses the fundamental materialistic belief, the idea, of Homo Hubris, Yahoud, and the Hubriati, that the individual self (and thus self identity) is the most important, the most fundamental, thing, and that the individual either alone or collectively (and especially in the form of a nation/State) can master and control everything (including themselves), if they have the right techniques, the right tools, the right method, the right ideas, the money, the power, the influence, the words. That human beings have nothing to fear, because they are or can be in control. Magians (as a breed) are a specific type of human being - they are the natural
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exploiters of others, possessed of an instinctive type of human cunning and an avaricious personal nature. Over the past millennia they have developed a talent for manipulating other human beings, especially Western mundanes, by means of abstractions - such as usury and "freedom" and marxian/capitalist "social engineering/planning" - and by hoaxes/illusions, such as that of "democracy". The easily manipulated nature of Western mundanes, and the Magian talent for such things as usury and litigation/spiel, their ability to cunningly manipulate, and their underlying charlatanesque (and almost always cowardly nature), have given them wealth, power and influence. As such, Magians are - currently - our natural and indeed our necessary mortal enemies, not simply because of their cowardice, and their influence and control over mundanes (something we ourselves seek to do to achieve some Aeonic aims) but essentially because Magian influence and control is de-evolutionary in the worst possible sense (breeding as it has and does Homo Hubris), whereas our influence and guidance is and would be evolutionary in the best possible sense; a means to liberate individuals, practically - from the tyranny of causal abstractions - and psychically, to extend their consciousness by, for example, awareness of the acausal and through the sinisterly-numinous goal of leaving this planet, our childhood home.
[2] Regarding the Spelling of Magick. The spelling Magick - as opposed to the previously common Magic - as an alternative word for sorcery, is vulgarly attributed to Crowley. However, that particular spelling dates from medieval times (as does the spelling musick), as a perusal of the complete Oxford English Dictionary will reveal. A spelling, moreover kept alive, over the centuries, by some reclusive Western Occultists who operated in the customary manner of most genuine sorcerers, including those who adhered to the tradition of Hebdomadry, and which customary manner was to pass on their knowledge, and their tradition, in secret, from Master/Mistress to Initiate. Thus, to suggest, as some mundanes do, that anyone who now uses the spelling magick must, in some way, be influenced by Crowley is not only illogical, but also indicative of how such mundanes cannot perceive beyond the Magianinduced false reality they have become accustomed to. [3] For a history of Satan, according to The Sinister Tradition, see the ONA text, A Short History and Ontology of Satan. For Satan, and God, refer to Parts Two and Three of the ONA text The Complete Guide to Satanism (121 yf) (especially the section Defining Satanism).
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[4] For the esoteric tradition of acausal and causal, see the ONA text, The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism. [5] A nexion is a specific connexion between, or the intersection of, the causal and the acausal, and nexions can, exoterically, be considered to be akin to "gates" or openings or "tunnels" where there is, or can be, either a flow of acausal energy (and thus also of acausal entities) from the acausal into our causal Space and causal Time; a journeying into the acausal itself; or a willed, conscious flow or presencing (by dark sorcery) of acausal energies. Basically, there are three main types of nexion. The first is an actual physical nexion. The second type of nexion is a living causal being, such as ourselves. The third type of nexion is a magickal creation: that is, some form in-which acausal energy is presenced or "channelled into" by a sinister Adept. [6] Contrary to the buffoonery of Magian Occultism, Baphomet is - according to the tradition of Hebdomadry - a female acausal entity, described as The Dark Goddess, the Mother/Mistress of Earth. See, for example, the texts, Baphomet: Vamperess of The Dark Gods and The Dark Goddess As Archetype. [7] See, for example, the text The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism.
The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism
The Nature of Reality According to Traditional Satanism
The fundamental ontological axioms of the Sinister Way of Traditional Satanism are: (1) there are two types of being, differentiated by whether or not they possess, or manifest, what is termed acausal energy, and (2) that we can only correctly and currently know a manifestation of acausal energy, an acausal being, through our currently under-developed and under-used psychic faculties.
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Reality, for Traditional Satanism, is postulated to be the Cosmos, with this Cosmos having a bifurcation of being: that is, the Cosmos exists - is manifest - in both causal space-time, and in what we term acausal space-time. Causal space-time has three causal spatial dimensions and one causal Time dimension, and acausal space-time has n number (a currently undefined number) of acausal dimensions (which are not spatial) and an acausal Time dimension. Causal space-time can thus be considered to the phenomenal, physical, universe we are aware of through our senses, and this universe is governed by physical laws and contains physical, causal, matter/energy. Traditional Satanism posits, and accepts, that they are acausal beings existing in acausal space-time ( see footnote 1 ) just as there are causal beings existing in causal space-time, which causal beings include our own human species, and the life which shares this planet, Earth, with us. According to Traditional Satanism, all causal living beings (existing or having their being in the causal physical universe) are understood as a presencing, in the causal, of acausal being (or energy) by the fact that they are alive. That is, all causal living beings are all connexions - nexions - between the causal and the acausal continuums.
The Being of Nature Nature may be defined as that innate creative (acausal) force (or energy) which operates in the physical world, on this planet, and which causes, or is the genesis of, and controls, causal living organisms in certain ways. These "certain ways" are the laws of Nature. The 'evolution of species' is a term used to describe one theory about one of the ways in which Nature is assumed to work, in the causal Universe (the causal continuum). Nature can thus be conceived as a type of being. This does not mean that Nature should be understood in anthropomorphic terms, but rather that Nature is a living, changing, entity: some-thing which is alive; that is, Nature is another example of a nexion - of where there is a connexion between the causal continuum and the acausal continuum. We ourselves, as human beings, are simply - on planet Earth - one manifestation, one presencing, of Nature among many: that is, we are subject to the laws of Nature, the laws which govern organic change and organic life itself. Like all causal life on this planet, we causal beings are born, we grow and change, and our causal being dies, that is, ceases to be imbued with - to be animated by - acausal energy. That is, "we"
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cease to have a causal life. Most Earth cultures had, or have, a belief that Nature is living, and the Mother of, the bringer-forth of, all life. In olden times, Nature herself was often personified in terms of gods, and goddesses. That is, we apprehended Nature in terms of ourselves - in terms of individual causal beings with names, a history and a distinct personality. However, this type of apprehension is no longer necessary nor valid since we have developed, over the last few thousand years, the faculty of pure reason, and the faculty of acausal empathy, and can understand Nature, ourselves and the cosmos beyond Nature, in a natural manner without such intermediate abstract forms. That is, we can now apprehend Nature as Nature is. Hitherto, we projected human-type causal forms onto Nature in an effort to comprehend Nature as we did not possess much of an understanding of the Cosmos beyond Nature and beyond the causal, and how Nature is but part of this causal and acausal Cosmos.
The Philosophy of Traditional Satanism
The essential starting point for a philosophy is to pose, and answer, the questions about the origin and meaning of life - or, more specifically, about our causal lives, as human beings, in the causal Universe, on this planet we call Earth. Traditional Satanism does not believe that we human beings, and causal life itself, was created by some Supreme Being, which supreme Being is commonly referred to as God. According to Traditional Satanism, life evolved naturally on this planet, from finite beginnings we as yet do not precisely understand. The essence of the Traditional Satanism perspective about our origins in the causal Universe is reason - or rather, what used to be called Natural Philosophy: through observation, experiment and the use of reason, or logic, we can understand our world, the causal Cosmos, and ourselves. Thus, Traditional Satanism is, in one important respect, a rationalist Way of Life which accepts: (1) that the Causal Universe (or Causal Reality) exists independently of us and our consciousness, and thus independent of our senses; (2) our limited understanding of this causal 'external world' depends for the most part upon our senses - that is, on what we can see, hear or touch; that is, on what we can observe or come to know via our senses; (3) logical argument - reason - and experiment are the best means to knowledge and understanding of and about this 'external world'; (4) the Causal Universe is, of itself, a reasoned order
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subject to rational laws; (5) our faculty of acausal-empathy is a means for us to know the nexion we are, and how we can discover our correct relationship to all other life. Thus, practical reason - Natural Philosophy - enables us to comprehend the external, physical, causal, Universe.
Furthermore, Traditional Satanism also affirms that the knowledge and understanding of the causal Universe - achieved by means of reason and observation - is not the only type of knowledge and understanding available to us, for there is knowledge and understanding of the acausal continuum, and the acausal beings who, or which, exist (and "live") there, and that our psychic faculties enable us to sense, to begin to know, and are one means of comprehending, acausal Life in all its variety and forms. An axiom of Traditional Satanism is that by developing our latent psychic faculties we can gain a better understanding - and more knowledge of - Nature, of the acausal, and of acausal beings, and thus of ourselves.
The Answers of Traditional Satanism
The Philosophy of Traditional Satanism accepts that the purpose of our mortal, causal, lives is essentially two fold. First, to change, to develope, to evolve, ourselves, and to explore and to enjoy the possibilities that causal life offers for our mortal, causal, life is a limited, finite, opportunity. Second, that if we develope, evolve, ourselves in a particular way - and especially if we develope our psychic faculties - there exists the possibility of us, as a new type of being, living-on beyond our causal death, in the acausal continuum. Thus, the Philosophy of Traditional Satanism asserts: (1) That we human beings possess the potential to participate in and to control our own evolution - that is, we have the (mostly latent) ability to consciously evolve to become the genesis of a new human species, and that genuine esoteric Arts - and especially and in particular The Dark Arts - are one of the most viable ways by which such a conscious evolution can occur; (2) That genuine esoteric knowledge and insight - and thus genuine self-understanding and self-evolution - requires both a development of our latent psychic faculties and a practical knowledge of the acausal continuum deriving from a coming-to-know acausal beings; (3) That what has hitherto been known and described as magic(k) - especially
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Dark Sorcery, or Black Magic(k) - is one effective means of coming-to-know certain acausal beings, and is thus a beginning to understanding the acausal itself. Our psychic faculties include what may be termed acausal empathy (otherwise know as sinister empathy, or esoteric/magickal empathy) and acausal thinking. Acausal empathy is basically sensitivity to, and awareness of, acausal energies as these energies are presenced in living beings, in Nature, and/or presenced in the causal either via some acausal being, or directly, as "raw" acausal energy (that is, acausal energy trying to find some causal form to inhabit). Various esoteric (Occult) means and techniques exist to develope such acausal empathy.
Acausal thinking is basically apprehending the causal, and acausal energy, as these "things" are - that is, beyond all causal abstractions, and beyond all causal symbols, and symbolism, where such causal symbols include language, and the words and terms that are part of language, and what has hitherto been regarded as the terms and symbols of conventional Occultism, for such conventional Occultism is ineluctably bound to causal thinking. Various genuine esoteric (Occult) means and techniques exist to develope such acausal thinking. An important aspect of acausal thinking is thinking in terms of acausal time that is, not in terms of the linear "cause and effect" of the causal continuum, bur rather in what can be inaccurately described in terms of Simultaneity, of there being "action at a distance" unlike in conventional (causal) physics.
The Living Beings of The Acausal
According to Traditional Satanism, there are several types of distinct acausal beings who exist in the acausal continuum, known to us - historically and otherwise - from Adepts who, having developed acausal empathy and acausal thinking, have discovered or come to know of, such beings. Acausal beings are beyond our causal concepts and abstractions. Some dwell (and can only exist in) the acausal spaces, while others can dwell or be manifest in both the acausal and the causal, with there being many different types of acausal entities all of which have their own "nature" or type of being. Essentially, they have no physical form, as we define and understand physical form (for example, a body) although some types of acausal being, who can dwell or manifest or be presenced in our causal spaces, can dwell-within, or presence themselves within or be presenced within, a causal form such as a living body
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or being (including a human being) and some of the acausal beings who can or who have done this are known as "shapeshifters". We cannot "see"or detect (by our limited physical senses or by using causality-based physical instruments) unpresenced acausal beings who may be transiting through or dwelling-within our causal spaces (our physical world/universe) if such beings have not accessed, or presenced themselves, in some causal, living, form (or even, in most cases, even if they have done this). However, some of us (and some other life) may sometimes "feel" or be aware of some such acausal beings: for example, if we possess a certain type of empathy or have the esoteric knowledge to detect some such transiting or in-dwelling acausal beings. Since these acausal beings are beyond our causal concepts and abstractions, it is incorrect to judge such beings according to our limited, causal, "morality". They are neither "good" nor "evil". They live according to their own nature, as acausal beings, just as, for example, a wild predatory animal lives according to its wild predatory nature. According to esoteric tradition, there are some acausal beings who are drawn or who have been in the past been drawn toward our causal spaces (our physical universe/world) because they do or have acquired the ability to "feed off" certain types of emotion (or "states of being") which emotion (or "states of being") are but types of energy. Due to the nature of the acausal spaces (and thus the nature of acausal energy) acausal beings do not "die" as we die and do not "age" as we age. Furthermore, our causal concept of physical travel (or movement) which takes causal time is irrelevant to and does not apply to such beings, due to their very nature as acausal beings. However, most acausal beings are not, by our standards, "all-powerful" and many cannot change or restructure temporal things, just as some cannot transit to ("be presenced in") the causal spaces, or dwell-within causal beings, without some aid or assistance in opening a nexion or nexions (which in many instances is just a direct connexion between the causal and acausal spaces).
According to tradition, some of these known acausal beings have been collectively described by the term The Dark Gods, or The Dark Ones (or The Dark Immortals), and included in this particular type of acausal being is the entity more commonly known to us as Satan, and that entity which we, limited causal, mortal beings, describe as the female counterpart of Satan, who according to The Dark Tradition inherited by the ONA - has the name Baphomet, and who is the dark, violent, Goddess - the real Mistress of Earth (and of Nature) - to whom human sacrifices were, and are, made and who ritualistically and symbolically washes in a basin full of the blood of Her victims. According to aural legend, She - as one of The Dark Gods - is also a shapeshifter who has intruded (visited, been presenced or manifest) on Earth in times past,
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and who can manifest again if certain rituals are performed and certain sacrifices made. Traditionally, it was to Baphomet that Initiates and Adepts of the Dark Tradition dedicated their chosen, selected, victims when a human culling was undertaken, and such cullings were - and are - regarded as one of the prerequisites for attaining sinister Adeptship.
Importantly, Traditional Satanism does not regard Satan or any of The Dark Ones, such as Baphomet as conventional gods or goddesses are understood, and thus as beings to be worshipped, feared, and obeyed in a conventional religious sense. Instead, they are regarded as sinister friends; as new found companions; and may be likened to long-lost sisters and brothers or other relatives; and - in the case of Satan and Baphomet - as akin to our hitherto unknown mother and father, to be thus admired and respected, but never "worshipped". In addition, and in the case of some of these dark entities, they are, or can be considered as, our lovers. Thus, our relationship to these acausal beings is certainly not one of fear, or of subservience.
In addition, the term The Dark Gods is to be understood as but a useful, somewhat Old Aeon (that based on causal thinking), inherited exoteric term to describe a particular acausal species many of whom are known to and named by The Dark Tradition, which species, when manifest in the causal, are certainly far more powerful than human beings. Thus, the conventional names given to some such acausal beings as are known to us, or which have been known to human beings in ages past, are only exoteric names; only imperfect, causal, terms which are useful symbols. Thus, a name such as "Satan" does not fully describe the real acausal nature and character of that specific acausal being, which acausal being has an esoteric name - an acausal name deriving from acausal thinking and acausal knowing - which better describes such a being.
The Question of God
The philosophy of Traditional Satanism does not assume nor accept that there is a supreme Being, or deity. That is, a supreme creator Being does not and never has existed, and such a figure is regarded as a human, a causal, abstraction, a human manufactured construct, a myth, which human beings, and thus certain religions and theologies and philosophies, have incorrectly imposed upon the
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reality of the Cosmos in a vain attempt to understand it, and themselves. Thus, our Satan - our Dark One - is not subservient to some omnipotent God, but is instead a particular type of living acausal being, subject only to the natural laws of the acausal continuum.
The Question of Evil and The Existence of Satan What has been conventionally termed "the question (or the problem) of evil" - by other philosophies and religions and Way of Life - does not exist for Traditional Satanism since Traditional Satanism accepts that conventional morality is a causal abstraction: some causal form, or some dogma, which is incorrectly projected onto the nature, the reality, of the causal continuum, and which abstraction obscures our real, and our of necessity individual, connexion to the Cosmos. That is, conventional morality - like all religious dogma and all laws takes away, or restricts, the inalienable individual freedom of a living human being to be an individual: to be that singular, unique, nexion they are to the acausal. For Traditional Satanism, it is only and ever the individual who - developing acausal empathy and acausal thinking - can directly comprehend and directly implement meaning, whether this "meaning" be described by such limited, causal terms as "morality", and evil and law - based as these causal terms are on the restriction, the oppression, of causal thinking. Thus, Traditional Satanism is a genuine liberation and a genuine evolution of the individual, for Traditional Satanism gives the individual access to the very essence of their own, individual, being: which is the acausal energy that animates them, making them alive, and which is also the apprehension and understanding of them as a unique nexion, of the acausal continuum itself, and of the acausal life that resides there, and which can - in some circumstances - be manifest in our own causal continuum. Hence, a knowing of such acausal beings as Satan and Baphomet are one means whereby we, as individuals, can come to know ourselves, to evolve ourselves, and come to understand the meaning and purpose of our causal, mortal lives: which is to live-on beyond our causal death, in the acausal continuum as a new type, a new species, of immortal acausal being.
This individual and unique discovering of meaning by individuals, this knowing of such acausal beings - this understanding of how and why beings such as Satan exist - is a learning of the Art of Dark Sorcery, part of which learning is developing acausal empathy and acausal thinking, and it is the transmission of
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this dark and ancient Art, and its use by individuals, which is the raison d'etre of that sinister association known as The Order of Nine Angles.
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Footnotes:
(1) For convenience, acausal space-time will often be referred to simply as "the acausal", and causal space-time as "the causal". Also, the causal refers to the causal Universe of causal space-time, and the acausal to the acausal Universe of acausal space-time, with both the causal and the acausal Universes together forming the Cosmos. The causal Universe is also sometimes referred to as "the causal continuum", and the acausal Universe as "the acausal continuum".
A Short History and Ontology of Satan According to the Order of Nine Angles
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A Short History of Satan The story of Satan is vulgarly regarded according to popular and Nazarene belief as making its first appearance in what is regarded as ancient Biblical times, with a short history of, and stories about, Satan being provided in various parts the Old Testament, where Satan is described as a fallen (or rebellious) angel of the supreme deity commonly referred to as God, who rebelled because of His pride. In this story, one of the functions of Satan is to tempt human beings, and lead them away from the teaching, the revelation, the laws, of God. In what are regarded as the oldest parts of the Old Testament most probably written between 230 BCE and 70 BCE Satan is depicted simply as a rather sly adversary or opponent, with a human being who opposes any of Gods so-called chosen people sometimes also called a satan. Over many centuries, both the story and the ontology of the Biblical being named Satan were further developed, particular by Nazarenes. However, there is good evidence to suggest that, historically, the writers of the Old Testament drew inspiration from, or adapted, older stories, myths and legends about a Persian deity that came to be named Ahriman, who could thus be regarded as the archetype of the Biblical Satan, and also of the Quranic Iblis. Similarly, there is evidence that the God Jehovah of the Old Testament may have been based upon myths and legends about the Persian deity who came to be named Ahura Mazda.
The Order of Nine Angles presents a rather different interpretation, and history, of Satan, primarily based on what has been claimed to be an old aural tradition, handed down by a few reclusive Adepts of what has been, variously, called The Dark Tradition, The Seven Fold Way, The Sinister Way, Traditional Satanism, and Hebdomadry.
According to this tradition [1], the being now known by the exoteric name Satan is one of The Dark Gods (a.k.a The Dark Ones), who are entities existing, living, in the acausal continuum [2]. This Satan [3] is The Prince of Darkness and of Chaos, and He along with some other Dark Gods is portrayed as a shapeshifter, capable of assuming human form, Who has visited, or been manifest, on Earth. at various times throughout our human history. Thus, for the ONA, Satan is an actual living entity who lives in the acausal continuum, and Who can by means of various nexions [4] presence Himself in the causal continuum in some physical form and cause, provoke, or be the genesis of, changes there. Furthermore, Satan and other shapeshifting Dark Ones, such as the entity
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Baphomet, known to us in Her female human form are considered as having been instrumental in guiding our conscious development, especially through the Chaos and Change wrought by Satanic Adepts through means such as the Sinister Dialectic. Satanic Adepts and Initiates are thus considered as doing the work of Satan, here in the causal, and on our planet, Earth. One legend recounts Baphomet as the Bride, The Wife and Mistress, of Satan and the Mother of all life on our planet, Earth. Baphomet is thus, according to this legend, that innate creative force, that cosmic energy, which permeates and which guides Nature upward by means of what we humans have termed evolution. According to legend, Satan and some other Dark Ones first came to, or presenced themselves on, Earth to and for us, many millennia ago, at the dawn of our human consciousness. In addition, Satan as some other Dark Entities from the acausal has, by virtue of their acausal nature, certain powers; that is, He as They can provoke, or cause, or be the genesis, of certain changes in we human beings (desired or undesired by us), as well as in our causal world (events on planet Earth). Thus, He as They (and in particular, Baphomet) can interfere in our human affairs, and have interfered in our human affairs, according to Their own nature. This interference is just another way of saying that certain acausal entities possess the ability to change, or alter, in certain ways, causal energy, and causal matter and in particular the type of energy that is our human psyche, which itself is just a mostly latent nexion between the realm of the causal and the realms of the acausal. Satanic Initiation is a means to open this particular nexion, just as living in a Satanic manner keeps this nexion open, expands it, and allows for acausal energy to flow through it, bringing a new type of life to the Satanist, allowing them to presence acausal energy (dark forces) on Earth, and providing them with an opportunity for an acausal existence after their own mortal dying. [5] On The Ontology of Satan and His Name According to the ONA, Satan and the other Dark Ones are simply acausal entities, existing living in the acausal continuum. That is, they are a particular type of natural life in the Cosmos, and were not created by some supreme deity, named God, or whatever [6]. They just are, and live according to their own, acausal, nature, in their own species of acausal Time and in the infinite realms of acausal Space. Unlike ourselves, however who are mortal fragile beings living for a brief period in the causal continuum and thus whose body is subject to the decay caused by the cause-and effect of linear, causal, Time these acausal entities,
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by virtue of the nature of acausal Space and acausal Time, can be viewed as immortal and capable of instantaneous travel, both in their own dimensions, and in ours. Thus, these entities are not what are commonly called supernatural beings they are just a different type of being from we mortal human beings who live in the causal continuum known to us by means of our human senses. These acausal beings do not have, nor need, fragile, organic, bodies such as we possess, although as mentioned they can assume human form, when presenced on Earth [7]. The name Satan is only the traditional exoteric (the common or outer or non-responsive) name of this particular acausal entity. The esoteric name of this entity is a chant (a vibration of a particular frequency and intensity) which when sung or chanted in the correct manner (by two or more human individuals) in a particular type of resonant place where a certain shaped crystal is aligned correctly re-presents the actual, responsive/reactive, human name of the entity. This esoteric (secret and correct) name of Satan is based upon the Greek word that became the word Satan, and, historically, the ONA derives the name from Phoenician and thence, in a variant form, to Ancient Greek [8] a Greek name borrowed and morphed by others, and thence inappropriately appropriated by the writers of the Old Testament, who wrote several centuries after the time of Greeks such as Aeschylus, and Pythagoras. It is quite possible that it was the shapeshifting acausal entity known to ONA myth and legend as The Prince of Darkness, Who interacting with human beings in certain ways in our historical past gave rise to various stories, myths and legends, in many cultures at varying times, including the stories, myths and legends, about Ahriman. Thus, it was some stories about the coming-forth-to-Earth of this particular acausal entity that eventually were used as the basis for the abstract, fantasy, satan described in the Old Testament, redolent as this fantasy was and is with its chosen people, its Prophets, its vengeful supreme Being capable of vanquishing Satan, its sacred texts and God-given laws of a people suffering quite severely from the debilitating disease of abstractionism, manifest as this sickness often is in both the hubriati-syndrome and in feelings of being persecuted. Order of Nine Angles 121 Year of Fayen ^^^^^^^
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[1] As has been written many times in respect of such aural traditions, they are to be judged by each individual, on their merits, or otherwise. That is, no claim is made regarding them, by the ONA, other than that they are aural traditions, and like other folk stories, and other aural myths and legends they may or may not contain some veracity, and may or may not contain accurate or interesting historical information. [2] For the acausal continuum, see ONA texts such as The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism and A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles. For a brief outline of The Dark Gods, refer to ONA texts such as The Mythos of the Dark Gods: Beings of Acausal Darkness. [3] For a brief discussion of the name Satan, see the section On The Ontology of Satan and His Name, below. [4] Nexions are a means whereby entities from the acausal may presence be manifest, or travel to the causal continuum, including Earth, and thus interact with, and affect, we human beings. For a brief outline of nexions, refer to ONA texts such as The Meaning of The Nine Angles A Collection of Texts, Parts One and Two. According to tradition, the vibration of the esoteric name of Satan, in the correct manner in the correct surroundings, opens a particular type of nexion and transmits a human call into the acausal which Satan may respond to. [5] Refer to ONA texts such as After-Life in the Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles. [6] The Dark, the Satanic, Tradition of the ONA states that such a supreme, creator, Being such as God does not exist, and that what we term God is just a human abstraction, an unnecessary human manufactured construct, a myth, which human beings, and thus certain religions and theologies and philosophies, have projected onto the reality of the Cosmos in a vain attempt to understand it, and themselves. [7] For further details regarding the ontology of Satan, refer to ONA texts such as The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism and A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles. [8] For a brief discussion regarding the correct etymology of the name Satan, refer to the Appendix of the ONA text Defining Satanism.
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The De-Evolutionary Nature of Might is Right
The doctrine Might is Right variously expressed in texts and writings such as those by the pseudonymous Ragnar Redbeard, by Nietzsche [1], and by proponents of what is known as social Darwinism is the doctrine, the philosophy (or more correctly, the instinct, the raison dtre) of the cowardly bully for whom instinct, mere brute physical strength, or superior weaponry, or superior numbers, command respect and enable them to intimidate and bully others and so get their own way. This doctrine though unacknowledged is also the raison dtre of the governments of many if not most modern nation-States, such as Amerika, where military might, or sanctions or bribery, are used as a means of making, and enforcing, policy and ensuring the well-being, prosperity, and security, of such entities. Why the doctrine of the bully? Because those individuals who adhere to this doctrine, consciously or otherwise, lack both manners and culture (that is, they lack refinement, good breeding, and self-control) and as a modern archetype they represent nothing so much as brutish talking animals who walk upright and who possess a very high opinion of themselves; and an opinion that is more delusion than reality. Perhaps most importantly, such individuals do not possess that instinct for disliking rottenness that is the mark of the evolved, the aristocratic, the cultured, human being. Thus are they akin to uncultured barbarians. Culture essentially implies four important qualities that such barbarians, such talking animals, lack and these qualities are empathy, the instinct for disliking rottenness [2], reason, and pathei-mathos. It is these qualities that not only distinguish us from other animals (and thus express our humanity) but which
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and importantly enable us to consciously change, to develope, ourselves and so participate in our own evolution as beings. Animals do not have this choice, this ability. Thus, to make the doctrine of Might is Right central to, or an integral and important part of, some Occult or Satanic way or praxis (like, for example, the Church of Satan did and does) is to negate the very basis of such esoteric ways and praxis. For the essence of such esoteric ways and especially of Satanism is to use certain Occult techniques and methods to develope certain esoteric faculties and enable the development, the evolution, of the individual. Where such Occult or Satanic ways may or do differ is in the techniques and methods used and in how development, and evolution, of the individual is understood. Thus, in the traditional Satanism of the Order of Nine Angles, the evolution of the individual is understood as arising from a practical synthesis, via testing personal experience and magickal praxis, of what is commonly, and considered esoterically incorrectly regarded as the opposing opposites of Light and Dark. In addition, for the ONA the development of the individual and the cultivation of their faculties, esoteric and otherwise is indissolubly bound with patheimathos, and with empathy. Empathy esoterically [i.e. 'dark empathy'] is the ground of genuine sorcery: an awareness of both affective and effective change [causal and acausal change] and which awareness is the knowing of ourselves as but one connexion, one nexion, to those energies (or forces) which are the essence of Life and thus the essence of our own existence as a human being. Pathei-mathos means learning from ones own difficult, practical, and testing experience, and which experience by its nature involves hardship, suffering, and an intimation or awareness of the numinous: that is, of that-which is more powerful that we are or we have imagined ourselves to be. Or expressed esoterically, pathei-mathos can be and often is the genesis of empathy: an intimation or awareness of ourselves as but one nexion, one connexion. And pathei-mathos, and esoteric empathy, take the individual far from the preening self-indulgence and macho posturing of the Might is Right types. In the system of the ONA, pathei-mathos is encouraged by the Grade Rituals, by Insight Roles, and by the practice of Culling as Art: that is, culling as a performance extending over a period of causal Time and involving a variety of performers with their allotted rles culling as esoteric Art, and as means of binding and evolving, through deeds done and character revealed, a community of individuals sharing an ethos and belonging to an ancestral tradition. Concerning Culling As Art (ONA text, 122 yf)
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Thus, ONA people develope an awareness of themselves far beyond their own ego and delusions about their self-importance. The awareness of themselves as a nexion, as part of a matrix of connexions involving Nature, the Cosmos, and other human beings, with one expression of this awareness this esoteric knowing being an Aeonic perspective and Aeonic Sorcery. However, those who make the doctrine of Might is Right central to, or an integral and important part of, their Occult way or praxis are merely glorifying the irrational uncultured brute, and maintaining the delusions of individuals regarding themselves, their abilities, and their importance. Thus, such Occult ways propound such guff as Reality is what we perceive it to be, and I command the powers, and I am (or can be) the only deity which matters [3]. In essence, therefore, the doctrine of Might is Right and the belief of pseudosatanists that they should glorify themselves, indulge themselves in an uncultured manner, and do not need anyone or anything except their own strength, will, or abilities is the ethos of the vulgar mundane and especially of Homo Hubris, that new de-evolutionary sub-species and unconnected rootless denizen of the megalopolis. Thus are they not only negating the human potential they possess, they have little or no awareness of their wyrd: of the meaning of Life itself. Hence their ways and their praxis is of the preening individual who has or who may develope some superior abilities or acquire personal power (over others) by indulging in some rites or Occult practices where they believe they can alter or change things in accordance with their will [4]. In this, they somewhat resemble a comic book hero LaVey-man perhaps, who acquires his superhuman powers by wearing a specially crafted medallion with that Magian image of pentagram, Hebrew letters and goathead, on it, and which medallion was given to them by some pompous so-called High Priest and entitles them to prance around in black attire and strike a pose that they think makes them look fearsome. Thus, they see their Destiny in terms only of themselves causally, mundanely as an extension of their ego, with nothing beyond this personal Destiny of theirs. In contrast, for the ONA, our Destiny is bound to and part of supra-personal (Aeonic/Cosmic) wyrd, and which wyrd is manifest primarily and exoterically in the truth of our primal and of our necessary tribal (that is, our connected and cultured) nature, and in the necessary of learning directly, personally, from practical experience. That is, manifest in us, as an individual, being but one nexion; in the tribal law of the Drecc (The Dreccian Code), and in pathei-mathos arising from experience of both Light and Dark. It is this unique combination which is the genesis of our particular sinister culture and enables us to evolve, esoterically and otherwise. For if the ONA is anything, it is the way of a
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particular, and a new type of, culture: that is, a new and evolutionary and esoteric way of living for human beings.
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Notes
[1] Nietzsches approach is one where individual power (as manifest in Wille zur Macht) is central. This concentration on the instinct, or motivation, however derived or manifest, of the individual for control and power aligns him with social Darwinism and the doctrine of Might is Right, despite his attempts to distance himself from Darwins thesis. [2] For more regarding culture and the human instinct for disliking rottenness, see the ONA text Culling as Art. [3] Such things express the attitude and nature of Magian Occultism, for which see the text Concerning God, Demons, and the Non-Jewish Origin of Satan, and the compilation Magian Occultism and The Sinister Way. [4] The definition of magick as altering or changing things in accordance with ones will dependant as it is on mere causal cause-and-effect and the delusion of the self expresses the limited and illusive understanding of those lacking esoteric empathy and the esoteric wisdom born of pathei-mathos. That is, it reveals a lack of awareness of acausality, of ourselves as nexion.
Concerning God, Demons, and the Non-Jewish Origin of Satan
Correctly understood, Occultism is a process of inner and outer alchemical Change. That is, it is an esoteric means (a Way, a method) of change, of
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development, for ourselves as individuals, and for those collocations of individuals which have arisen, such as communities, and what is often termed "society". For hundreds of years, the perception of Occultism in the West, both exoteric and esoteric - and especially the perception of demonology and diabolism - has been that provided by those Western Occultists influenced by, and accepting of, the Yahoudi qabala, and by the theology and ontology of the Nazarenes.
Consider, for instance, the name, history, and origin of the being known as Satan. This being is commonly - vulgarly and incorrectly - regarded as being some "fallen angel" of some monotheistic God written about in The Old Testament of the Hebrews, and which God, being omnipotent, can ultimately control Satan, and which God, through the miracle of the incarnation, has given human beings the means to escape from Satan's influence and control, through, for example, prayer, certain rituals, certain signs and symbols, and even the saying of certain words. From this belief, this attitude, arose the medieval and later Grimoires which, it was claimed, revealed secrets whereby a sorcerer could summon, communicate with, and use (and even control), various demonic entities, but also make some sort of pact with The Devil, Satan. Thus, the summoning of demonic entities could be achieved if one knew the correct signs and symbols, and the name, of the appropriate entity, just as one could - and would - be protected from them if one stood inside some sort of "protective circle", had the right talismans, and said the right "words of command". The underlying raison d'etres here are two things. First, the hubris-like belief that some puny, mortal, human being on some insignificant planet in some insignificant Galaxy in a Cosmos of billions of Galaxies can - without the intervention of God or some powerful deity - control non-human entities such as demons if one has "the secrets" of being able to do so; and, second, that one has, ultimately, God to fall back on - or at least some "good (not-harmfulto-humans) entity" (or deity) who was/is ultimately more powerful that the "bad" ones being summoned. This second reason applied particularly to alleged pacts with The Devil, who it was believed wanted "the immortal soul" of a person, but which alleged soul was (conveniently) ultimately the property of the Nazarene God, with "the sinner" being able to renege on the pact with The Devil at the moment of death if they repented, as per the legend of Theophilus and that of the later Faust.
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Furthermore, from the belief of control, sans God - from the belief of there being "secrets of control out there (somewhere)" - arose the notion of being gifted with such secrets, if not from God or some deity, then from some secret book, or from some teacher, or Master, or advanced Adept, or whatever. That is, that all one really needed - sans the help of God and his minions (including The Devil) was such secrets allied to one's own belief in one's own abilities: that is, the belief one was "special", or somehow "chosen", or that one - some puny mortal - had, in isolation, some sort of cosmic Destiny. However, this hubris-like belief in the esoteric power and ability of puny humans, and this inner certitude that - anyway - they can if necessary always rely on God/some-deity/some-hidden-knowledge/some teacher, Master or prophet, has led to serious problems for modern Occultists.
The Magian Nature of Modern Occultism The essence of Magian Occultism lies is three things: (1) the certitude of being special or chosen; (2) the belief - arising from urban-living - in the esoteric power and ability of puny humans (especially their own abilities); and (3) the certitude (conscious or otherwise) that, even if an outer Dark Power really does exist, the puny human can always fall back on, and rely on, God, or on some deity, or on there being some secrets or some teachings somewhere which can give them (the puny human) control and power over this Dark Power. Some modern Occultists have taken (1) and (2) to extremes, and so have chosen to try and dispense with The Devil/The Dark Power/The Dark Forces/Satan - and also often God - and instead deify themselves, believing such stuff as, " Reality is what I make it or what others have made it, or perceived it to be." They then proceed to use various allegedly magickal or Occult workings (their own or from others) - and/or some esoteric practices cobbled together from world religions and world folklore - in to try and attain and develope their inner deity, their Higher Self, or to try and control and sanctify their own minds, or some such guff. These Western mostly urban-dwelling Occultists have thus tried, by massaging their ego, to remove the sinister power of the numen - the inner and outer Darkness that exists - from themselves, the Cosmos, and their world, and provided their urban life-style keeps them, as it mostly does, reasonably well-fed, sheltered from the elements, well-entertained, fairly comfortable, and removed from the hard learning arising from personal suffering (from patheimathos), then they are fairly safe in, and almost always content with, their delusion.
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Thus do they, in the relative safety of their urban-dwelling world, concentrate on "refining their self", with the aim of bringing their "unique individuality", and more and more so-called individualism, to the world at large. In brief, their Occultism is mundane; worthless; just as they themselves are and remain not only mundanes, but often good specimens of Homo Hubris.
Others modern Occultists, however, for example Aquino of Temple of Set fame, saught to give an alternative account of The Devil/The Dark Power/Satan, claiming, for instance, that He, The Prince of Darkness, was in truth a much older deity, known to the Egyptians as Set. But this type of alternative theory for the origin of The Dark One naturally led and leads to problems regarding ontology - that is, problems regarding the origin and nature of such a deity. Does, for example, the deity actually exist, as a living entity? If so, where? How was the deity created, and can a human being control or escape from the power of this deity? And what of God? Of course, those who prosed such origins had neat, if rather silly, and illogical, hybrid answers. Such as - yes, the deity might (or really does exist) but it also is just an extension of our conspicuousness, our "higher self" (or some such thing); and yes, we can ultimately escape the clutches, the power, of this deity since we have the right talismans, the right rituals, the correct "words of power", and anyway since it is a part of us, we can ultimately learn to control it ourselves; and, finally, that The Prince of Darkness - aka Set or whatever the correct name is said to be - is not really evil, just misunderstood. Thus, as mentioned in the text The ONA, The LHP, and The Temple of Set: The Prince of Darkness, for the ToS [Temple of Set] and for Setians, thus appears as a rather benign, and somewhat mis-understood, figure He who gives the gift of Xepher, provided that no laws are broken, provided the ToS approves, and provided that one holds fast to the sacredness of all life. Especially note that Set gives the gift of Xepher. All this, however, is not only the sophistry of the deluded with their hubris-like, egotistical, belief in the Cosmic power of puny humans, but also the YahoudiNasrany way of thinking, dominated as that type of thinking, that perception, is by causal abstractions, especially that of a group or an individual "being
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chosen" or favoured above others by some deity or by some supra-personal power. Furthermore, according to this abstraction, someone or some group so chosen, can be gifted with "revelations" (or special, secret, knowledge) - as, for example, The Old and New Testaments were "revelations" from God, and as, for example, Aquino was gifted by Set with The Book of The Coming Forth by Night, and Aleister Crowley was gifted by Aiwass (and ultimately by some Egyptian deity) with The Book of The Law; and which gifts allegedly entitle these Occultists to proclaim themselves as "advanced Occultists" (as Mages of a New Aeon); award themselves some self-serving title, pass on "the wisdom" they have received to others, and award these others with titles. It was and it is this type of perception that kept and keeps alive the YahodNazarene ethos, which ethos has morphed into that Magian ethos that blights us now, has blighted us for well over a hundred years, and has totally distorted the Western Occult tradition. In contrast to both types of modern Occultists - the deluded deifiers of themselves, and those gifted with revelations or fawning at the feet of teachers the genuine Western Occult tradition is based on the inner alchemy of patheimathos; that is, on practical experience (light and dark), and the personal often hard sadful learning that only arises, over a long period of causal Time, from such direct and personal experience. The genuine Western Occult tradition thus breeds a critical self-honesty and self-insight, which - along with the development of latent faculties - produces a healthy balanced psyche. In contrast, the Yahod-Nazarene ethos, and the Magian ethos, both breed and have bred the self-satisfaction of being chosen/saved/liberated and the delusion arising from a distinct lack of a critical self-honesty, both of which combine to produce an imbalanced, or a diseased, psyche: those marks of the mundane.
God, and The Non-Jewish Origins of Satan In the Western esoteric tradition of Hebdomadry, the God - the supreme creator Being - of conventional religions including Judaism, Nasrany, and Islam, does not and never has existed, and such a figure is regarded as a human, a causal, abstraction, a human manufactured construct, a myth, which human beings, and thus certain religions and theologies and philosophies, have incorrectly imposed upon the reality of the Cosmos in a vain attempt to understand it, and themselves.
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In the Western esoteric tradition of Hebdomadry, Satan is regarded as the exoteric "name" of a particular acausal being: that is, as a living entity dwelling in the acausal continuum. This entity has the ability to presence, to be manifest in, our causal, phenomenal world, and the ability - being a shapeshifter - to assume various causal forms. Furthermore, in the Western esoteric tradition of Hebdomadry, Satanism is defined as the acceptance of, or a belief in, the existence a supra-personal being called or termed Satan, and an acceptance of, or a belief in, this entity having or being capable of having some control over, or some influence upon, human beings, individually or otherwise, with such control often or mostly or entirely being beyond the power of individuals to control by whatever means. Thus the Order of Nine Angles - based upon and propagating this tradition of Hebdomadry - has a concept of Satan that is different from and independent of that of both Judaism and Nasrany, with this being we exoterically term Satan having no dependence on or any relation to the mythical God of those religions, and whose exoteric name does not derive, as mundanes and Magian Occultists assume and believe, from the Bible of the Hebrews. According to mundanes and Magian Occultists, Satan, as a word, is derived from the Hebrew, meaning accuser. However, the Hebrew is itself derived from the old (in origin Phoenician) word that became the Ancient Greek aitia - "an accusation" - qv. Aeschylus: aitiau ekho. It was this older Greek form which became corrupted to the Hebrew 'Satan' - whence also the 'Shaitan' of Islam. Furthermore, in Greek of the classical period aitia and diabole were often used for the same thing. The word diabolic itself derives from the Greek word diaballo meaning to pass beyond or over, from the root dia through and, as a causal accusative, "with the aid of". Later, diaballo acquired a moral sense for example "to set against" (Aristotle) although it was sometimes used (as diabolos) when a bad or false sense was meant, as for example, a false accusation. In addition, there is good evidence to suggest that, historically, the writers of the Old Testament drew inspiration from, or adapted, older stories, myths and legends about a Persian deity that came to be named Ahriman, who could thus be regarded as the archetype of the Biblical Satan, and also of the Quranic Iblis. Similarly, there is evidence that the God Jehovah of the Old Testament was probably based upon myths and legends about the Persian deity who came to be named Ahura Mazda. In what are regarded as the oldest parts of the Old Testament most probably
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written between 230 BCE and 70 BCE (and long after the time of Greeks such as Aeschylus) Satan is depicted simply as a rather sly adversary or opponent, with a human being who opposes any of Gods so-called chosen people sometimes also called a satan. Thus, it is something of a honour to be called a satanist - someone who opposes the myths, the ethos, of those allegedly "chosen by God" and who indeed, as a natural satanist, pours scorn on the paranoid persecution stories found in the Old Testament and elsewhere, and pours scorn on the very notion of not only some omnipotent creator-being but also on such a being choosing some group of humans as his/its "chosen people". Indeed, we natural satanists - we adversaries of such persecution tales and notions - regard this notion of "being chosen" as a symptom of at best a psychic imbalance, and at worst of a unhealthy, if not a diseased, psyche. In a similar way, we natural satanists regard such persecution stories as a means whereby those with such an imbalanced psyche can escape, in their own minds, from the consequences of their own actions, and which alleged or even real persecution they often use to try and make their victims feel guilty (and they themselves to feel better). Thus, they shift the blame from themselves onto others, and any attempt, by others, to rationally point out their culpability for such wrongful actions as they have committed is meet by the hue and cry of "persecution" and/or by accusations of the accuser being a satan or, more recently, being those modern equivalents of a satan - such as a Nazi or a "preacher of hate" or an "anti-semite".
The Western Esoteric Tradition of Hebdomadry This Western tradition of Hebdomadry - founded on The Seven-Fold Sinister Way - is one which accepts, sine qua non, that Dark Forces exist, external to us as puny mortal human beings, and that these Dark Forces are ultimately not only beyond our own, mortal, means to control, but also not controllable by some omnipotent creator-being named God because such an omnipotent creator-being does not and never has existed, in the Cosmos. Thus, these Dark Forces are not just part of our psyche, our consciousness; just as Reality is not a matter of our own, personal perception. Thus, there are types of living beings who have and who can presence Dark Forces, or who are or who can be such Dark Forces or aspects of them. One of these living beings is the acausal entity that has been named, by us, as Satan, The Prince of Darkness, The Master of Evil, and which Prince of Darkness was not first
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brought to our attention by, and first named in, some fables in some Yahoudi book or legend. The Dark Forces are, moreover, a natural - and currently, a necessary - part of The Cosmos. They are one of the ways in which the Cosmos functions; or, rather, they express aspects of The Cosmos, changing, evolving, living. Crucially, aspects of these Dark Forces are inherent in us, in our being, by our very human nature as causal living beings, as nexions in the matrix that is the causal-acausal continuums. That is, such Dark Forces, or aspects of them, represent Life itself; what animates us, as human beings, and makes us alive, and also what can aid us to Change, to develope, evolve, ourselves, and those collocations of human beings which have arisen, such as communities, and what is often termed "society". The Seven-Fold Sinister Way is regraded as a means whereby we can access, presence, such Dark Forces - both within our own psyche (the nexion we are) and from the acausal continuum. Access, presence - to experience, to learn from, thus enabling us to change, develope, evolve, our psyche, our ourselves, and this world which is still, currently, our home. Given the nature of these Dark Forces, this can be, and most often is, difficult, testing, and very dangerous. But to so access, so presence, such forces by such a Way is necessary, since this Way not only balances and developes our own psyche as individuals, but also the psyche that is Life itself, manifest in the living changing Cosmos.
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The Dark Goddess As Archetype Introduction The Dark Goddess is often called Baphomet, who is described, according to the aural tradition of the Order of Nine Angles, as: a sinister female entity, The Mistress (or Mother) of Blood. According to tradition, she is represented as a beautiful mature woman, naked from the waist up, who holds in her hand the severed head of a man. In former times, as again in this new millennia, it was and it is to Baphomet that human sacrifices were dedicated. However, often as in pre-ONA days (that is, before the tradition was given and described by the ONA name) the Dark Goddess is not referred to directly by name, as, for example, at the end of the instructional text The Giving, where Mallam is sacrificed in a communal ceremony, and where Lianna says, [Satanism] is not the way I follow. My tradition is different, much older. Understood esoterically, an archetype is: a particular causal presencing of a certain acausal energy and is thus akin to a type of acausal living being in the causal (and thus in the psyche): it is born (or can be created, by magickal means), its lives, and then it dies (ceases to be present, presenced) in the causal (i.e. its energy in the causal ceases). Thus the Dark Goddess in general, and Baphomet in particular, can be considered as types of living being, manifest most often in our psyche [1] but also capable of becoming present in our causal continuum [2]. Mythos and Aural Tradition According to the aural history of the ONA [3] the old tradition inherited by the present Grand Master was carried on for many generations by mostly reclusive Adepts who instructed only a select, few, individuals. In addition, it should be understood that: (1) the tradition existed mainly in rural areas of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches; (2) with a few notable exceptions (one being the present Grand Master) all those who guarded and transmitted the tradition, and who instructed candidates, were women; (3) the tradition never called by any particular name or described by any term consisted mainly of esoteric chant; the mythos of The Dark Gods (including tales such as later recounted in the stories Sabirah and Jenyah), certain ceremonies (such as The Ceremony of Recalling), propitiation of certain natural forces by means of communal culling, and so on; and (4) a fictional characterization of one such
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fairly recent Lady Master/Mistress of Earth is the character of Lianna in The Giving, and which fictional work gives a general background to, and a few details about, the old tradition itself. Furthermore, the instructional account Breaking The Silence Down is a fictionalized account of the awakening (the development) of a young Rounwytha, manifest in the character of Rachael [4]. Rachael, for instance, enchants naturally, without words or ritual or ceremonies, and forms a natural empathic link to the area where she dwells, and has (being a Rounwytha, albeit a young one) the natural ability to bring forth, to induce, in her lover (Diane) a deep, intuitive, understanding of the importance of the feminine and of Nature.
Breaking The Silence Down also contains an old, traditional, text celebrating the female:
Wash your throats with wine For Sirius returns And we women are warm and wanton! Before I WAS, you were sightless: You looked, but could not see; Before I WAS, you had no hearing: You heard sounds, but could not listen. Before I WAS, you swarmed with men, But did not enjoy. I CAME, opened my body and Brought you lust, softness, understanding, and love! My breasts pleased you And brought forth darkness and joy (Synestry: The Dark Daughters of Baphomet) Mistress of Earth as Sinister Archetype In contrast to nearly ever other manifestation of The Left Hand Path, in the West and in stark contrast to all other groups who claim to be or who describe themselves as Satanist the ONA has always been biased toward the feminine aspect of The Sinister. For example, a majority of traditional nexions, in both the Old World (England) and the New World (America and Canada) are organized and run by Lady Masters/Mistresses of Earth, just as the ONA has always had many Sapphic nexions (for example, The Dark Daughters of Chaos, in England). Conversely, groups such as The Golden Dawn, the OTO, the Temple of Set, and the Church of Satan, have all been dominated by men and are redolent of that posturing
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masculine Homo Hubris ethos that is anathema to Dark-Empathy and the gentility of the well-mannered Adept. In addition as hinted at in many ONA texts, such as The Rite of the Nine Angles and in The Ceremony of Recalling [5] the ONA emphasizes that it is the female sorcerer (the priestess) who is one of the most important keys to opening a nexion to the acausal, and it is through her that acausal energies flow when a ceremony to open a nexion is undertaken. As someone wrote concerning the depiction of women in the sinister fiction of the ONA: In general, such depictions and the mythos of the ONA in general may be said to empower women; to depict them in a way that has been long neglected, especially in the still male-dominated, materialistic, West. However, this empowerment, it should be noted, is based upon the sinister: upon there being hidden esoteric, pagan, depths, abilities and qualities in women who have an important, and indeed vital, rle to play in our general evolution and in our own lives. Furthermore, it is one of the stated aims of the ONA to develope such character, such qualities, such Occult abilities, in women, and the following of The Seven-Fold Sinister Way is regarded as the means to achieve this. Furthermore, the ONAs depiction of such women its explication of the dark feminine principle is very interesting because it is a move away from, and indeed in stark contrast to, the feminine principle of both the political feminism which has become rather prevalent in Western societies, and that particular feminine ethos which many pagan and Wiccan White-light and Right Hand Path groups have attempted to manufacture. This political feminism is basically an attempt to have women imitate the behaviour, the personality, the ethos, of men which is what the strident calls for equality are essentially about, and as such it is often a negation of the character, and of those unique qualities and abilities, germane to women. The pagan and Wiccan type of feminism is most often about some dreamy, pseudo-mystical vision of a once mythical perfect past or about goody-goody types harming none in stark contrast to the dark sinister goings-on of the ONA feminine archetype, which most obviously includes using sexual enchantment to manipulate those Homo Hubris type men who deserve what they get The Occult Fiction of The Order of Nine Angles
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Return of The Dark Goddess One the primary aims of the Order of Nine Angles is: to use the sinister dialectic (and thus Aeonic Magick and genuine Sinister Arts) to aid and enhance and make possible entirely new types of societies for human beings, with these new societies being based on new tribes and a tribal way of living where the only law is that of our Dark Warriors, which is the Law of The Sinister-Numen. (A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles) It should be noted and needs to be emphasized that the Law of The Sinister-Numen applies to both men and women, and that no distinction is made between male, and female, warriors. That is, the only distinction that matters is living by the code which is the Law of The Sinister-Numen, so that, and for example, disputes are settled by having a man or woman of honour who is highly esteemed because of their honour and known for their honourable deeds, arbitrate and decide the matter. Furthermore, it is possible, and indeed probable, that the new tribal way of living which will evolve and which will replace the lifeless, un-numinous, male-and-HomoHubris-dominated, abstraction of the nation-State will veer toward a new and natural balance between male and female, made possible by the real and natural equality that the Law of The Sinister-Numen manifests and creates, and by the re-emergence of the Mistress of Earth as Sinister Archetype. For, implicit in this archetype as in all those who are Mistresses of Earth (of traditional nexions or otherwise) is that necessary dark-empathy which returns us to a correct understanding and knowing of our relation to other Life through a natural and esoteric resonance with the abstractionless emanations of Nature and the Cosmos. And it is this dark-empathy this natural, wordless, ritual-less, esoteric resonance which is the quintessence of the old tradition, presenced in the character, the very nature, of a Rounwytha. The Mistress of Earth the warrior sorceress is thus, in essence, an evolutionary development of the Rounwytha, where the practical (manifest for instance in the Law of The Sinister-Numen and in an outer sinister life of dark deeds) meets and is blended and balanced with the esotericism of Dark-Empathy. Thus it is that one of secrets of a male Adept (and more so, of a genuine Master) is their unification of the opposites within themselves (for example, and in symbolic exoteric-speak, the archetypes re-presented by Satan and Baphomet), and the emergence from such an alchemical process of a new, more evolved, individual. Manifestations of this new type of male individual (in terms of character) are Dark-Empathy (a natural esoteric resonance and sympathy with
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Nature, other living beings, and the Cosmos), and the nobility (the excellence of personal character) that comes with being cultured and possessing personal manners and yet being prepared to die to save ones personal honour. All of which stand in almost direct opposition to the type of hedonistic male Adept that all others Left Hand Path, and so-called Satanic groups, desire to manufacture and which, indeed, they do manufacture, perpetuating as they do that untermensch sub-species, Homo Hubris. Our archetype of The Dark Goddess our warrior sorceresses are one means by which we ourselves, and our current untermensch way of life may be transformed, for:
and it is through a real pathei-mathos that a genuine alchemical transformation begins. Part of which pathei-mathos is, of course, the Rite of Internal Adept, wherein the faculty of Dark-Empathy can be discovered and cultivated. Thus does the Dark Goddess, Baphomet Mistress of Blood and Mother of Culling come to be both invoked and evoked and so presenced on Earth, since: It is of fundamental importance to evolution both individual and otherwise that what is Dark, Sinister or Satanic is made real in a practical way, over and over again. That is, that what is dangerous, awesome, numinous, tragic, deadly, terrible, terrifying and beyond the power of ordinary mortals, laws or governments to control is made manifest. In effect, non-Initiates (and even Initiates) need constantly reminding that such things still exist; they need constantly to be brought face-to-face, and touched, with what is, or appears to be, inexplicable, uncontrollable, powerful and evil. They need reminding of their own mortality of the unforeseen, inexplicable powers of Fate, of the powerful force of Nature This means wars, sacrifice, tragedy and disruptionfor it is one of the duties of a Satanic Initiate to so presence the dark, and prepare the way for, or initiate, the change and evolution which always result from such things.. To Presence The Dark [7]
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[1] The psyche of the individual is a term used, in the Sinister Way, to describe those aspects of an individual those aspects of consciousness which are hidden, or inaccessible to, or unknown to, the individual. Basically, such aspects can be considered to be those forces/energies which do or which can influence the individual in an emotional way or in a way which the individual has no direct control over or understanding of. One part of this psyche is what has been called the unconscious, and some of the forces/energies of this unconscious have been, and can be, described by the term archetypes. [2] qv. The Grimoire of Baphomet. [3] As has been explained many times, these traditions are simply aural traditions, and may or may not contain certain historical facts, it being for each individual to make their own judgement concerning them, [4] A real-life account of one such similar encounter was briefly recalled in The Girl Goddess, published in the now defunct zine, Exeat. An expurgated version was later published in vol 3, #2 of Fenrir. [5] Where it is written: You who are the daughter of and a Gate To our Dark Gods Kiss me and I shall make you As an eagle to its prey. Touch me and I shall make you As a strong sword that severs And stains my Earth with blood.
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Taste me and I shall make you As a seed of corn which grows Toward the sun, and never dies. Plough me and plant me With your seed and I shall make you As a Gate that opens to our gods! [6] The goddess, Judgement, favours someone learning from adversity. Aeschylus: Agamemnon, 250 [7] For an explication of Satanism in an Aeonic context, refer to ONA texts such as Frequently Asked Questions About The Order of Nine Angles and A Glossary of Order of Nine Angles Terms, where it is stated:
According to the ONA, Satanism is a specific Left Hand Path, one aim of which is to transform, to evolve, the individual by the use of esoteric Arts, including Dark Sorcery. Another aim is, through using the Sinister Dialectic, to transform the world, and the causal itself, by for example returning, presencing, in the causal, not only the entity known as Satan but also others of The Dark Gods. In essence, and thus esoterically, Satanism as understood and practised by the ONA (presenced by means of Traditional Nexions) is one important exoteric form appropriate to the current Aeon, and thus useful in Presencing The Dark. Is the ONA a Satanist organization? Yes, and also no. Yes, because Satanism or perhaps more correctly, traditional Satanism is one of our causal forms; part of our heritage; an important exoteric means to Presence The Dark. But our understanding of Satanism is not that of the mundanes, and in the mudanes we include most if not all of those who now consider themselves Satanists and who thus follow the mundane so-called satanism of the likes of LaVey and Aquino. Traditional Satanism is outlined in such MSS of ours as The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism. The ONA is not just satanic because even traditional Satanism (a term we first used, some decades ago, and now appropriated by others) is only one particular causal form linked to one particular Aeon (the current one). That is, it is only one means, one way, of currently presencing The Dark Forces; of provoking change and aiding our evolution, individual and social. That is, Satanism is but an exoteric (or public) form of the current Aeon an outer shell which just encloses, or which can enclose/contain, some particular sinister, acausal, energies in a certain span of causal Time. Of course, most who today profess to be satanists will have no idea what we are talking about here, which is one reason why they are still mundanes. Thus, we tend now in this the Third Phase of our sinister, centuries-long, Aeonic strategy to use the term sinister instead, to describe ourselves,
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and the ONA itself. Hence, we now describe the New Aeon that we seek to bring-into-being, by our practical subversion and our dark sorcery, as a sinister Aeon, rather than a Satanic Aeon, since the next Aeon will take us beyond our currently limited causal forms (beyond exoteric Satanism), and beyond the abstractions of the mundanes, who so like to pretend they understand some-thing by giving it some label or describing it by some term, some -ism or some -ology. For the reality is that we cannot be defined in the simple, causal, way the mundanes want, and need.
Appendix - Some Terms Explained
Acausal The term acausal refers to acausal Time and acausal Space: that is, to the acausal Universe. This acausal Universe is part of the Cosmos, which Cosmos consists of both the acausal and the causal, where causal refers to the Universe that is described, or re-presented, by causal Space and causal Time. This causal Universe is that of our physical, phenomenal, Universe, currently described by sciences such as Physics and Astronomy. The acausal is non-Euclidean, and beyond causal Time: that is, it cannot be represented by our finite causal geometry (of three spatial dimensions at right angles to each other) and by the flow, the change, of causal Time (past-presentfuture), or measured by a duration of causal Time. In addition and just as causal energy exists in the causal (understood as such energy is by sciences such as Physics) acausal energy exists in the acausal, of a nature and type which cannot be described by causal sciences such as Physics (based as these are on a causal geometry and a causal Time). According to the aural tradition of the ONA, there are a variety of acausal life-forms; a variety of acausal life, of different species, some of which have been manifest in (or intruded into) our causal Universe. For more details regarding the acausal, and acausal life, see the following ONA MSS: (1) The Mythos of the Dark Gods: Beings of Acausal Darkness; (2) Advanced Introduction to The Dark Gods: Five-Dimensional Acausal Sorcery.
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Aeon An Aeon according to the Sinister Way of the ONA is a particular presencing of certain acausal energies on this planet, Earth, which energies affect a multitude of individuals over a certain period of causal time. One such affect is via the psyche of individuals. This particular presencing which is an Aeon is via a particular nexion, which is an Aeonic civilization, which Aeonic civilization is brought-into-being in a certain geographical area and usually associated with a particular mythos. Archetype An archetype is a particular causal presencing of a certain acausal energy and is thus akin to a type of acausal living being in the causal (and thus in the psyche): it is born (or can be created, by magickal means), its lives, and then it dies (ceases to be present, presenced) in the causal (i.e. its energy in the causal ceases). Baphomet Baphomet is regarded as a Dark Goddess a sinister female entity, The Mistress (or Mother) of Blood. According to tradition, she is represented as a beautiful mature woman, naked from the wait up, who holds in her hand the severed head of a man. She is regarded as one manifestation of one of The Dark Gods, The Brideand-Mother of Satan, and Rites to presence Baphomet in our causal continuum exist, for example in The Grimoire of Baphomet. Black Book of Satan The book of that name containing the traditional ceremonial rituals of sinister/Satanic ceremonial magick, used by ONA Initiates. Causal Abstractions Abstractions (aka causal abstractions) are manifestations of the primary (causal) nature of mundanes, and are manufactured by mundanes in their mundane attempt to understand the world, themselves, and the causal Universe. Exoterically, abstractions re-present the mundane simplicity of causal linearality of causal reductionism, of a simple cause-and-effect, of a limited
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causal thinking. All abstractions are devoid of Dark-Empathy and the perspective of acausality, and thus are redolent of, or directly manifest, materialism and the Untermensch ethos derived from such materialism. Understood exoterically, an abstraction is the manufacture, and use of, some idea, ideal, image or category, and thus some generalization, and/or some assignment of an individual or individuals to some group or category. The positing of some perfect or ideal form, category, or thing, is part of abstraction. Abstractions hide the true nature of Reality which is both causal and acausal, and which true nature can be apprehended and understood by means of The Dark Arts, and thus by following the Occult way from Initiate, to Adept, and beyond. According to the ONA, the so-called Occult Arts and especially the so-called Satanism of others are manifestations of causal abstractions, lacking as they do the learning of the skills of Dark-Empathy, Acausal-Thinking, and Sinister Sorcery, and thus lacking as they do the ability to develope our latent human faculties and our latent sinister character. Core ONA Traditions
Also known as The Five Core ONA Principles.
The basic principles on which the ONA is based. They are: (1) the way of practical deeds; (2) the way of culling; (3) the way of kindred honour (qv); (4) the way of defiance of and practical opposition to Magian abstractions; (5) the way of the Rounwytha tradition (qv). Dark Arts The Dark Arts are the skills traditionally learnt by those following the Seven Fold (Sinister) Way, and include Dark-Empathy, Acausal-Thinking, and practical sorcery (External, Internal, and Aeonic). In addition, a sinister tribe of Dreccs (qv) is a new type of Dark Art, developed by the ONA to Presence The Dark in practical ways. Dark-Empathy One of The Dark Arts. Also called Sinister-Empathy (qv) and Esoteric Empathy. The term Dark-Empathy (also written Dark Empathy) is also sometimes used to describe that-which is redolent of the acausal, and thus that-which presences or
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which can presence dark forces (dark/acausal energies) in the causal and in human beings; and thus used in this exoteric sense it refers to that-which imbues or which can imbue things with acausal energy, and which distinguish the Occult in general from the exoteric and the mundane. Dark Gods According to the Sinister Tradition of the ONA, The Dark Gods (aka The Dark Ones) are specific entities living-beings of a particular acausal species who exist in the realms of the acausal, with some of these entities having been presenced, via various nexions, on Earth in our distant past. [See, for example, the ONA MS The Mythos of the Dark Gods: Beings of Acausal Darkness. ] Drecc Someone who lives a practical sinister life, and thus who lives by The Law of the Sinister-Numen (qv) and who thus Presences The Dark in practical ways by practical sinister deeds. A sinister tribe is a territorial and independent group of Dreccs (often including drecclings that is, the children of Dreccs) who band together for their mutual advantage and who rule or who seek to rule over a particular area, neighbourhood, or territory. A sinister tribe is thus a practical manifestation of the Dreccian way of life. Dreccs, and their associated tribe, rarely engage in overt practical sorcery and mostly do not describe themselves as Satanists or even as following the LHP . Instead, they describe and refer to themselves, simply, as Drecc. Ethos Ethos refers to the distinguishing character, or nature, of a particular weltanschauung. The spirit that animates it. Exeatic To go beyond and transgress the limits imposed and prescribed by mundanes, and by the systems which reflect or which manifest the ethos of mundanes for example, governments, and the laws of what has been termed society. Exoteric/Esoteric Exoteric refers to the outer (or causal) form, or meaning, or nature, or character, or appearance, of some-thing; while esoteric refers to its Occult/inner /acausal essence or nature. What is esoteric is that which is generally hidden from mundanes (intentionally or otherwise), or which mundanes cannot
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perceive or understand. Causal abstractions (qv) tend to hide the esoteric nature (character) of things, and/or such abstractions describe or refer to that-which is only causal and mundane and thus devoid of Dark-Empathy. Thus, a form manufactured by an Adept for some Aeonic purpose for example, a tactic to aid strategic aims has an outer appearance and an outer meaning which is usually all that mundanes perceive or understand, even though it has an (inner) esoteric meaning.
God According to the ONA, the God the supreme creator Being of conventional religions including Judaism, Nasrany, and Islam, does not and never has existed, and such a figure is regarded as a human, a causal, abstraction, a human manufactured construct, a myth, which human beings, and thus certain religions and theologies and philosophies, have incorrectly imposed upon the reality of the Cosmos in a vain attempt to understand it, and themselves. Hebdomadry A traditional name used to describe The Septenary System.
Homo Hubris A type of mundane, and a new sub-species of the genus, Homo, which new sub-species has evolved out of the industrial revolution and the imposition of both capitalism and what is called democracy. This new rapacious mostly urban dwelling denizen this creation of the modern West is the foot-soldier of the Magian, and is distinguished by a personal arrogance, by a lack of manners, and by that lack of respect for anything other than strength/power and/or their own gratification. And it was to satiate and satisfy and to use and control Homo Hubris that the Magian and their acolytes (such as the Hubriati) manufactured the vacuous, profane, vulgar mass entertainment industry and mass culture of the modern West, just as it is Magian Occultism, the Magian- controlled Media, and the spin, the propaganda, of politicians who have been assessed and accepted by the Magian cabal, which keeps Homo Hubris almost totally unaware, and uncaring, of the reality of the modern world and of their potential as human beings.
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Hubriati The hubriati are that class of individuals, in the West, who have been and who are subsumed by the Magian ethos and the delusion of abstractions, and who occupy positions of influence and/or of power. Hubriati include politicians, Media magnates and their servants, military commanders, government officials, industrialists, bankers, many academics and teachers, and so on. The oligarchy (elected and unelected) that forms the controllers of Western governments are almost excursively hubriati. Among the abstractions which delude hubriati are the State, the nation, abstract law, and the pretence that is called democracy. Hubriati-syndrome The hubriati-syndrome is the hubris-like belief of some Occultists that we human beings: (1) are, or can be, controllers of what is termed our own, individual, Destiny; (2) and/or that we or we can be chosen/favoured and/or protected by some supreme Being or some representative of that Being; and/or (3) that we are clever enough, or can become clever enough, to devise for ourselves some means to control whatever natural forces we may encounter, including Nature, and possibly (or almost certainly) those forces of a more Cosmic nature. The hubriati-syndrome may be said to be one of the most distinguishing features of magians-of-the-earth, with one symptom of this syndrome being a love for, and a reliance upon, technology; another symptom is a fondness for, and indeed a love for, words and causal abstractions.
Here is a typical statement, replete with abstractions, which expounds the type of hubriati view commonly held by magians-of-the-earth: [A] premise of the Temple is that the psychecentric consciousness can evolve towards its own divinity through deliberate exercise of the intelligence and Will, a process of becoming or coming into being whose roots may be found in the dialectic method expounded by Plato and the conscious exaltation of the Will proposed by Nietzsche
The magians-of-the-earth are so called because, in actuality if not always in overt belief, such people accept, consciously or otherwise, or are influenced by, the basic premises which underlie the Magian religious perspective. Kindred Honour The principle that our kind are distinguished by their behaviour toward each other and by their behaviour toward mundanes.
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Our behaviour toward our own kind is guided by our Law of Kindred Honour (aka The Law of the Sinister-Numen aka The Dreccian Code aka The Sinister Code). Our behaviour toward mundanes is guided by our understanding of them as a useful resource and as useful subjects for whatever causal form(s) we may employ to achieve our esoteric, Aeonic, aims and goals. Law of The Sinister-Numen The Law of The Sinister-Numen (aka The Sinister Code) is a practical manifestation, in our causal continuum, of the Sinister-Numen of those things which can breed excellence of sinister character in individuals, and thus which Presence The Dark in practical ways. The Law also describes the sinister ethos of The Order of Nine Angles. [The Sinister Code is given in full in an Appendix, below.] Left Hand Path (LHP) The amoral and individualistic Way of Sinister Sorcery. In the LHP there are no rules: there is nothing that is not permitted; nothing that is forbidden or restricted. That is, the LHP means the individual takes sole responsibility for their actions and their quest, and does not abide by the ethics of mundanes. In addition, the LHP is where the individual learns from the practical deeds and practical challenges that are an integral to it. Magick Magick (aka Sorcery) according to the Sinister tradition of the ONA is defined as the presencing of acausal energy in the causal by means of a nexion. By the nature of our consciousness, we, as human individuals, are one type of nexion that is, we have the ability to access, and presence, certain types of acausal energy. Furthermore, magick as understand and practised by the ONA is a means not only of personal development and personal understanding (a freeing from psychic, archetypal, influences and affects) but also of evolving to the next level of our human existence where we can understand, and to a certain extent control and influence, supra-personal manifestations of acausal energies, such as an Aeon, and thus cause, or bring-into-being, large-scale evolutionary change. Such understanding, such control, such a bring-into-being, is Aeonic Magick. Aeonic Magick is the magick of the Adept and those beyond: the magick of the evolved human being who has achieved a certain level of self-understanding and self-mastery and who thus is no longer at the mercy of unconscious psychic,
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archetypal, influences, both personal/individual, and of other living-beings, such as an Aeon. Internal Magick is the magick of personal change and evolution: of using magick to gain insight and to develope ones personality and esoteric skills. There are seven stages involved in Internal Magick. External Magick is basic, low-level, sorcery as sorcery has been and still is understood by mundanes where certain acausal energies are used for bring or to fulfil the desire of an individual. Ceremonial Magick is the use (by more than two individuals gathered in a group) of a set or particular texts or sinister rituals to access and presence sinister energies. Five-dimensional magick is the New Aeon magick sans symbols, ceremonies, symbology (such as the Tree of Wyrd) and beyond all causal abstractions, and it is prefigured in the advanced form of The Star Game. Magian The term Magian is used to refer to the hybrid ethos of Yahoud and of Western hubriati, and also refers to those individuals who are Magian by either breeding or nature. The essence of what we term the Magian ethos is inherent in Judaism, in Nasrany, and in Islam. To be pedantic, we use the term Magian in preference to the more commonly used term Semitic to describe the ethos underlying these three major, and conventional, religions, since the term Semitic is, in our view, not strictly philologically correct to describe such religions. The Magian ethos expresses the fundamental materialistic belief, the idea, of Homo Hubris, Yahoud, and the Hubriati, that the individual self (and thus self identity) is the most important, the most fundamental, thing, and that the individual either alone or collectively (and especially in the form of a nation/State) can master and control everything (including themselves), if they have the right techniques, the right tools, the right method, the right ideas, the money, the power, the influence, the words. That human beings have nothing to fear, because they are or can be in control. The Magian ethos is thus represented in the victory of consumerism, capitalism and usury over genuine, numinous, living culture; in the vulgarity of mechanistic marxism, Freudian psychology, and the social engineering and planning and surveillance of the nanny State; in the vulgarity of modern entertainment centred around sex, selfish-indulgence, lack of manners and
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dignity, and vacuous celebrities (exemplified by Hollywood); and in the conniving, the hypocrisy, the slyness, and the personal dishonourable conduct, which nearly all modern politicians in the West reveal and practice.
Magians (as a breed) are a specific type of human being they are the natural exploiters of others, possessed of an instinctive type of human cunning and an avaricious personal nature. Over the past millennia they have developed a talent for manipulating other human beings, especially Western mundanes, by means of abstractions such as usury and freedom and marxian/capitalist social engineering/planning and by hoaxes/illusions, such as that of democracy. The easily manipulated nature of Western mundanes, and the Magian talent for such things as usury and litigation/spiel, their ability to cunningly manipulate, and their underlying charlatanesque (and almost always cowardly nature), have given them wealth, power and influence. As such, Magians are currently our natural and indeed our necessary mortal enemies, not simply because of their influence and control over mundanes (an influence we ourselves seek in order to achieve some Aeonic aims) but essentially because Magian influence and control is de-evolutionary in the worst possible sense (breeding as it has and does Homo Hubris), whereas our influence and guidance is and would evolutionary in the best possible sense; a means to liberate individuals, practically from the tyranny of causal abstractions and psychically, to extend their consciousness by, for example, awareness of the acausal and through the sinisterlynuminous goal of leaving this planet, our childhood home.
Mundane Exoterically, mundanes are defined as those who are not of our sinister kind that is, as those who do not live by The Law of the Sinister-Numen (qv). Esoterically, mundane-ness is defined as being under the influence of, or being in thrall to, or being addicted to, and/or believing in, and/or using as a means of understanding, causal abstractions (qv).
Nexion A nexion is a specific connexion between, or the intersection of, the causal and the acausal, and nexions can, exoterically, be considered to be akin to gates or openings or tunnels where there is, or can be, either a flow of acausal energy (and thus also of acausal entities) from the acausal into our causal Space and causal Time; a journeying into the acausal itself; or a willed, conscious flow or presencing (by dark sorcery) of acausal energies. Basically, there are three main types of nexion. The first is an actual physical nexion. The second type of nexion is a living causal being, such as ourselves. The third type of nexion is a magickal creation: that is, some form in-which acausal energy is presenced or channelled into by a sinister Adept. [For more
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details of these three types see the ONA MS The Mythos of the Dark Gods.] Nine Angles The Nine Angles have several meanings or interpretations, exoteric and esoteric depending on context. In the esoteric sense, they re-present the nine combinations (and transformations) of the three basic alchemical substances, which nine and their transformations (causal and acausal) are themselves re-presented by The Star Game. In the exoteric, pre-Adept, sense, they may be said to re-present the 7 nexions of the Tree of Wyrd plus the 2 nexions which re-present the ToW as itself a nexion, with The Abyss (a connexion between the individual and the acausal) being one of these 2 other nexions. It should be remembered, of course, that each sphere of the ToW is not two-dimensional (or even three-dimensional) and in a simple way each sphere can be taken as a reflexion (a shadow) of another for example, Mercury is the shadow of Mars. In another exoteric sense, the nine are the alchemical process of the 7 plus the 2, which 2 are the conjoining of opposites: and, in one sense, this conjoining can be taken to be (magickally, for instance, in a practical ritual) as the conjoining of male and female (hence what is called one of the Rites of the Nine Angles) although there are other practical combinations, just as each magickal act involving such Angles should be undertaken for a whole and particular alchemical season: that is, such a working should occupy a space of causal-time, making it thus a type of four-dimensional magick which can access the fifth magickal dimension, the acausal itself. A somewhat more advanced understanding of the Nine in relation to a ritual to create a Nexion is hinted at in the recent fiction-based MS Atazoth. Beyond this, the Nine Angles are symbols of The Star Game which itself is sorcery that is, one nexion which can presence the acausal. But even this is only a beginning a re-presentation, in symbols, of what is, in essence, without symbols: a useful means for Initiates, and Adepts, to move toward the new five-dimensional magick embodied in, and beyond, the ONA. Niner -An alternative name for a Drecc, and also for a freelance operative who upholds the core ONA traditions. Order of Nine Angles (ONA)
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The ONA is a subversive, sinister, esoteric association comprising Sinister Tribes, Dreccs, Traditional Nexions, Sinister-Empaths, individual Sorcerers (male and female), and Balobians. One of the primary aims of the ONA is to develope a new type of human being by using and developing our latent abilities (by means of The Dark Arts) and by breeding a new type of individual character, with this new type of character being a sinister one which itself can only be nurtured and developed by practical means and through practical exeatic deeds. Presencing The Dark A term used to describe the manifestation of sinister (acausal) energies in the causal by means of some causal or combined causal/acausal form, exoteric or esoteric. Understood exoterically, To Presence The Dark means to consciously work acts of sinister sorcery by either esoteric means (such as a Rite of Dark Sorcery) and/or through practical (exoteric) sinister deeds where the intent is a sinister one. Understood esoterically, To Presence The Dark means to undertake acts of Sinister Wyrd and thus to work Aeonic Sorcery. Psyche The psyche of the individual is a term used, in the Sinister Way, to describe those aspects of an individual those aspects of consciousness which are hidden, or inaccessible to, or unknown to, the individual. Basically, such aspects can be considered to be those forces/energies which do or which can influence the individual in an emotional way or in a way which the individual has no direct control over or understanding of. One part of this psyche is what has been called the unconscious, and some of the forces/energies of this unconscious have been, and can be, described by the term archetypes
Satan Satan is regarded, by the ONA, as the exoteric name of a particular acausal being: that is, as a living entity dwelling in the acausal. This entity has the ability to presence, to be manifest in, our causal, phenomenal world, and the ability being a shapeshifter to assume various causal forms. [Regarding the "names" of such beings, see, for example, Footnote (2) of the MS The Mythos of
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the Dark Gods. ]

Thus the ONA has a concept of Satan that is different from and independent of that of both Judaism and Nasrany, with this being we exoterically term Satan having no dependence on or any relation to the mythical God of those religions.
Satan, as a word, is commonly regarded as from the Hebrew, meaning accuser. However, the Hebrew is itself derived from the old (possibly in origin Phoenician) word that became the Ancient Greek aitia an accusation qv. Aeschylus: aitiau ekho. The older Greek form became corrupted to the Hebrew Satan whence also Shaitan. In Greek of the classical period aitia and diabole were often used for the same thing. The word diabolic itself derives from the Greek word diaballo meaning to pass beyond or over, from the root dia through and, as a causal accusative, with the aid of. Later, diaballo acquired a moral sense for example to set against (Aristotle) although it was sometimes used (as diabolos) when a bad or false sense was meant, as for example, a false accusation. There is good evidence to suggest that, historically, the writers of the Old Testament drew inspiration from, or adapted, older stories, myths and legends about a Persian deity that came to be named Ahriman, who could thus be regarded as the archetype of the Biblical Satan, and also of the Quranic Iblis. Similarly, there is evidence that the God Jehovah of the Old Testament may have been based upon myths and legends about the Persian deity who came to be named Ahura Mazda. In what are regarded as the oldest parts of the Old Testament most probably written between 230 BCE and 70 BCE Satan is depicted simply as a rather sly adversary or opponent, with a human being who opposes any of Gods so-called chosen people sometimes also called a satan. Thus, it is something of a honour to be called a satanist someone who opposes the myths, ethos, and the holocaustianity, of those allegedly chosen by God.
Satanism According to the ONA, Satanism is a specific Left Hand Path, one aim of which is to transform, to evolve, the individual by the use of esoteric Arts, including Dark Sorcery. Another aim is, through using the Sinister Dialectic, to transform the world, and the causal itself, by for example returning, presencing, in the causal, not only the entity known as Satan but also others of The Dark Gods. In essence, and thus esoterically, Satanism as understood and practised by the ONA (presenced by means of Traditional Nexions) is one important exoteric form appropriate to the current Aeon, and thus useful in Presencing The Dark. Satanism is defined, by the Order of Nine Angles, as the acceptance of, or a belief in, the existence a supra-personal being called or termed Satan, and an acceptance of, or a belief in, this entity having or being capable of having some control over, or some influence upon, human beings, individually or otherwise, with such control often or mostly or entirely being beyond the power of individuals to control by whatever means.
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Septenary A name for the basic symbology (causal magickal symbolism) of the Seven Fold Sinister Way represented exoterically by The Tree of Wyrd, and consisting of seven stages or spheres joined by various pathways. Sinister Of or pertaining to our Dark Tradition, and thus to the five core principles of the ONA (qv). Often used as a synonym for Left Hand Path. Sinister Dialectic The sinister dialectic (often called the sinister dialectic of history) is the name given to Satanic/Sinister strategy which is to further our evolution in a sinister way by, for example, (a) the use of Black Magick/sinister presencings to change individuals/events on a significant scale over long periods of causal Time; (b) to gain control and influence; (c) the use of Satanic forms and magickal presencings to produce/provoke large scale changes over periods of causal Time; (d) to bring-into-being a New Aeon; (e) to cause and sow disruption and Chaos as a prelude to any or all or none of the foregoing. Sinister-Empathy Sinister-Empathy (aka Acausal-Empathy aka Dark-Empathy aka Esoteric Empathy) is a specific type of empathy that which relates to and concerns acausal-knowing. That is, the perception and the understanding of the acausal nature of those beings which possess or which manifest acausal energy. Sinister-empathy is one of the skills/abilities that can be learnt by suitable (but not all) Internal Adepts, and can be developed by those beyond that particular esoteric stage of knowledge and understanding. Some rare individuals (traditionally called by the name Rounwytha) are naturally gifted with Dark-Empathy. Sinister-Numen The Sinister-Numen is the term used to describe that which, and those whom, re-present certain types of acausal energy in the causal. Thus, certain archetypes, and archetypal forms, are exoterically sinisterly numinous, and hence have the ability to influence and inspire human beings as well as, in some cases, having the ability to direct certain individuals beyond
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the ability of those individuals to control such direction. One of the most practical manifestations (the most practical presencing) of the sinister-numen in the causal realm is The Law of The Sinister-Numen, and which Law serves to define, and to manifest, that which is not-mundane, and thus that-which-is-ONA.
Sinister Way A name given to the system of training (magickal and practical) of Initiates used by the ONA. Sometimes also called The Seven-Fold Sinister Way. It consists of seven stages, each represented by a particular magickal Grade. [See, for example, the ONA MS NAOS.] One aim of the Way is to create Satanic individuals. Sorcery Often used as a synonym of magick (qv). Sorcery according to the Dark, Sinister, tradition followed by the ONA is the use, by an individual, individuals, or a group, of acausal energy, either directly (raw/acausal/chaos) or by means of symbolism, forms, ritual, words, chant (or similar manifestations or presencing(s) of causal constructs) with this usage often involving a specific, temporal (causal), aim or aims. [See the ONA MSS An Introduction to Dark Sorcery and NAOS.] Star Game The Star Game is a re-presentation of the nine aspects of the basic three whose changing in causal time represents a particular presencing of acausal energy. That is, the nine re-presents not only the nexion that is the presencing of the acausal evident in our psyche and consciousness, but also many other nexions as well. This particular re-presentation is an abstract one, as distinct from the more causal symbology of The Tree of Wyrd (and of the septenary system itself). The Star Game exists in two basic forms: the simple form and the advanced form, and one of its aims is to develope acausal-thinking (beyond causal abstractions) and thus skill in five-dimensional magick. It can also be played as a game, akin to a chess, and can be used magickally,
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to presence acausal energies. The basics of The Star Game are described in the ONA MS NAOS.
Traditional Nexions A name given to ONA groups (aka Temples) where individuals undertake The Seven Fold Way, and where sinister ceremony sorcery is undertaken. Many (though not all) Traditional Nexions follow the path of Satanism. Traditional Satanism A term, first used by the ONA several decades ago, to describe its own Sinister and Septenary Way, and to distinguish it from the other types of Satanism (such as those of Lavey and Aquino) which were once given public prominence. The term was used to describe the ONA due to the aural, and other, teachings of the ONA: many of which teachings (such as the Septenary system and Esoteric Chant; legends and myths regarding Baphomet and The Dark Gods; and Satanism as an individual Way of personal and Aeonic evolution) were handed down aurally by reclusive sinister Adepts over many centuries. The term Traditional Satanism has since been appropriated by others, some of whom have attempted to redefine it.
Wyrd As used by the ONA, Wyrd is the term used to describe that supra-personal forces (aka energies) which can influence individuals, which non-Adepts cannot control in any manner, which Adepts can discover and to a quite limited extent influence, but which only those of and beyond the esoteric stage of Master/Mistress (that is, beyond The Abyss) can fully synchronize with. Exoterically, Wyrd can be considered to be the Cosmic fates of the individual (note the plural, due to the partly acausal nature of Wyrd), as opposed to the simple, causal/linear, Destiny (fate) of the individual, and which Destiny can be dis-covered by means of the Rite of Internal Adept.
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Appendix The Sinister Code
Those who are not our sinister brothers or sisters are mundanes. Those who are our brothers and sisters live by and are prepared to die by our unique code of dark (sinister) honour.
Our sinister-honour means we are fiercely loyal to only our own sinister, ONA, kind. Our sinister-honour means we are wary of, and do not trust and often despise all those who are not like us, especially mundanes.
Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to be ready, willing, and able to defend ourselves, in any situation, and to be prepared to use lethal force to so defend ourselves. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to be loyal to, and to defend, our own kind: to do our duty, even unto death, to those of our brothers and sisters to whom we have sworn a personal oath of loyalty. Our obligation as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to seek revenge, if necessary unto death, against anyone who acts dishonourably toward us, or who acts dishonourably toward those to whom we have sworn a personal oath of loyalty. Our obligation as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to never willingly submit to any mundane; to die fighting rather than surrender to them; to die rather (if necessary by our own hand) than allow ourselves to be dishonourably humiliated by them. Our obligation as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to never trust any oath or any pledge of loyalty given, or any promise made, by any mundane, and to be wary and suspicious of them at all times. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to settle our serious disputes, among ourselves, by either trial by combat, or by a duel involving deadly weapons; and to challenge to a duel anyone mundane, or one of our own kind who impugns our sinister honour or who makes mundane accusations against us. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to settle our non-serious disputes, among ourselves, by having a man or woman from among us (a brother or sister who is highly esteemed because of their sinister deeds), arbitrate and decide the matter for us, and to accept without question, and to abide by, their decision, because of the respect we have accorded them as arbitrator Our duty as sinister individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to always keep our word to our own kind, once we have given our word on our sinister honour, for to break ones word among our own kind is a cowardly, a mundane, act. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to act with sinister honour in all our dealings with our own sinister kind. Our obligation as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to marry only those from our own kind, who thus, like us, live by our Code and are prepared to die to save their sinister-honour and that of their brothers and sisters.
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Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour means that an oath of sinister loyalty or allegiance, once sworn by a man or woman of sinister honour (I swear on my sinisterhonour that I shall) can only be ended either: (1) by the man or woman of sinister honour formally asking the person to whom the oath was sworn to release them from that oath, and that person agreeing so to release them; or (2) by the death of the person to whom the oath was sworn. Anything else is unworthy of us, and the act of a mundane.
ONA/O9A Order of Nine Angles / Order of The Nine Angles Ordem dos Nove ngulos / Orden de los Nueve ngulos Orden der neun Winkel /
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The Exeatic Way - A Compendium of Modern Satanism

Appendix - Some Terms Explained

Introduction Satanism - The Exeatic Way

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The Deception of Modern Magick

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The Sinister Demonology of Hebdomadry

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The Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism

The Nature of Reality According to Traditional Satanism

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The Philosophy of Traditional Satanism

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The Answers of Traditional Satanism

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The Living Beings of The Acausal

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The Question of God

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