“ Sitting here, studying these MS, battling with words on a screen and trying to win this human game; seeing and feeling these archetypes manipulated en mass, this re-ordering and organic change by inert proxy; a living structure engaged in a struggle with flat-dead words, configuring them into itself.
I feel as though I am walking amongst the dead. These cities cannot be killed, because they are already composed of dead matter.
I look around me, and all there is is dead matter. Not growing, not shifting, not developing beyond itself and through others. Its boundaries defined, its limits set. A coffin in a cosmic graveyard, shutting me off from the vital life outside and rotting me by definition. As a corpse, in a suit, under a tombstone; meaning set, only decay to come, nowhere to grow and nothing alive to merge and play with.
Dead furniture, dead words, dead technology, dead walls, dead books. And for what? For re-arranging themselves over-and-over, as if one slow rotting were preferable to another. As if they could, one day, be manipulated into vital life.
What need for them in a living world?
Would there be this chasing, this endless non-resolution and need to fulfill, if life was surrounded by life? Not dis-connected, ostracised from its own abundance by its dead surroundings.
XV, TEAR. This apart. Tears, sorrow. We have lost too much, the connexion is severed. We have elevated the inert above physis, and I am gasping for an air I did not know I needed. An air I have never had, which sustained my ancestors and whose absence is my curse.
I may not be an idealist, but I am a predator; domesticated once, but embracing atavism and training herself to kill. I will embrace human-life again, if only by closing around its throat; by its spilling blood awakening it to its own lost vitality.”
Lyra
(http://www.intpforum.com/showpost.php?p=139974&postcount=13)
While the esoteric philosophy and praxis of The Order of Nine Angles has recently come to the attention of certain academics [1] one aspect of the ONA has so far gone almost unnoticed, even among many aficionados of the ONA. This is the ONA assumption of an afterlife, in the acausal dimensions, and which afterlife is an important, if not to say, crucial, part of their esoteric, their Left Hand Path, philosophy [2].
According to the ONA:
“…the very purpose and meaning of our individual, causal – mortal – lives is to progress, to evolve, toward the acausal, and that this, by virtue of the reality of the acausal itself, means and implies a new type of sinister existence, a new type of being, with this acausal existence being far removed from – and totally different to – any and every Old Aeon representation, both Occult, non-Occult and “religious”. Thus it is that we view our long-term human social and personal evolution as a bringing-into-being of a new type of sinister living, in the causal – on this planet, and elsewhere – and also as a means for us, as individuals of a new sinister causal species, to dwell in both the causal and acausal Universes, while we live, as mortals, and to transcend, after our mortal, causal “death”, to live as an acausal being, which acausal being can be currently apprehended, and has been apprehended in the past, as an immortal sinister being of primal Darkness. ” Anton Long. The Quintessence of the ONA: The Sinister Returning 119 Year of Fayen
This new, acausal, existence is, however, not a certainty, and nor is it given by some entity or some type of being, acausal or otherwise, be that entity named Satan or Baphomet, or whatever. Instead, this afterlife has to be achieved, by the individual, in this mortal – that is, this causal – existence of ours, by practical deeds done, with great emphasis being placed on the practical nature of such deeds. According to the ONA:
” …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……
One secret of our darkly-numinous wyrd is that our mortal, causal, life is not the end, but only a beginning, and that if we live and die in the right way, we can possibly attain for ourselves a life in the realms of the acausal. Our Law of The Sinister-Numen is the most practical way for us to do this, to achieve this, for this Law is a manifestation, a presencing, of acausal energy, and by living in accord with this Law we are accessing, and presencing within ourself, more acausal energy, and thus evolving and increasing our own type of acausal energy.” A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles. Dated 121 Year of Fayen
As to the nature of this new acausal existence which members of ONA tribes might be able to gain for themselves, the ONA says that, currently, we possess neither the language, nor the words, to adequately describe it, although it can be glimpsed – we can acquire intimations of it – if we, for instance, develope our faculty of what the ONA call acausal-empathy, and also if we presence and come to have some knowledge of (by Dark Sorcery), certain acausal entities [3].
The Dark Warrior Nature of the ONA
This afterlife is, for the ONA, inseparably bound up with the ONA’s Law of the Sinister-Numen and thence with the ONA’s sinister tribes. Indeed, one might with confidence state – as the ONA themselves do – that their Way is fundamentally the Way of the Dark Warrior, one of whose primary aims is to fight, in a practical way, for the creation of, and ultimately on behalf of, what the ONA calls The Dark Galactic Imperium.
” Our most fundamental and long-term practical goals are to create an entirely new, more evolved human species, and for this new human species to explore and to colonize the star-systems of our own, and of other, Galaxies – to thus create a Dark Galactic Imperium. “ A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles. Dated 121 Year of Fayen
For the ONA there is a certain scorn of death:
” Thus do we know – thus do we feel – that death itself is irrelevant, an illusion, a mere ending of a mere causal existence, and that it is what we do with the opportunities that this, our causal life, offers and can offer us, that is important. Thus we do not fear death, and instead defy it, just as we seek to defy ourselves – what we are, now – and just as we seek to defy the mudanes and all those causal restrictions, those causal forms, that they have created to make them feel safe, and secure and content with their mundane un-warrior like merely causal and thus un-numinous existence. “ Anton Long, Dark Warriors of The Sinister Way.
In the ONA’s Law of the Sinister-Numen it is stated that:
For us, our honour is more important than our own lives, and it is this willingness to live and if necessary die for and because of our honour that makes us strong, fearsome, and enables us to live life on a higher level than any mundane. For it is through honour – through our fearlessness, our scorn of our mortal death – that we come to exult in Life itself.
This defiance of death is the warrior creed, par excellence, and what makes it dark, or sinister, is that such warriors are of a unique kind, dedicated to their own tribe, and pursuing not only their own goals, but also the sinister aims of the ONA itself, one of whose stated aims is:
“…to aid, encourage, and bring about – by both practical and esoteric means (such as subversion, revolution, and Dark Sorcery) – the breakdown and the downfall of existing societies, and thus to replace the tyranny of nations and States, and their impersonal governments, by our new tribal societies and our Law of the Sinister-Numen. “
According to the ONA, if a person lives – and if necessary or in particular dies – according to The Law of The Sinister-Numen, they are increasing their own amount of acausal energy, and thus enlarging the nexion that they are, and can be, to the acausal. Thus, by living and if necessary dying as a warrior, according to The Law of The Sinister-Numen, a person can not only forge for themselves a new type of nexion to the realms of the acausal, but also pattern, strengthen, and control their own acausal energy (that which gives them their causal life) to such an extent that they evolve, after their mortal death, to become an entirely new type of being, beyond the human.
Thus, while on first consideration such an afterlife may appear as somewhat irrational and mystical, it is in fact a logical and indeed a necessary deduction arising from the fundamental axioms of the ONA’s esoteric philosophy.
Conclusion
While it may seem somewhat strange that a sinister, a Left Hand Path, an organization known as Satanist, should speak and write of an afterlife, such an afterlife – or rather, their unique kind of afterlife – is quite consistent with both their esoteric philosophy, their ontology, and their praxis. For their philosophy is based on the axiom of there existing an acausal Universe, an acausal continuum, and of there existing, in this acausal Universe, acausal beings. In addition, according to the ONA, it is acausal energy, from the acausal, which animates all causal life, including ours.
Furthermore, it is perhaps this belief in such an afterlife – attainable it seems only by dark warriors doing warrior deeds, and dying heroically in pursuit of dark aims – which not only further distinguishes the ONA from all known esoteric groups, but will also facilitate the spread of both the ONA itself, and its subversive esoteric philosophy.
To have people willing to die because of their belief in such an afterlife [4], surely makes the ONA far more sinister than most people already consider it to be.
Richard Stirling
January 2010 CE
Footnotes:
(1) See, for example, George Sieg: Angular Momentum – From Traditional to Progressive Satanism in the Order of Nine Angles, 2009 CE, and Jacob C. Senholt: The Sinister Tradition: Political Esotericism & the convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of the Nine Angles, 2009 CE
(2) For an overview of this philosophy, refer to A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles. Dated 121 Year of Fayen.
For an overview of the ONA and The Left Hand Path, refer to my article The Left Hand Path – A Comparison Between The Order of Nine Angles and The Temple of Set, 2010 CE.
(3) Private e-mail from Anton Long (via ONA member DarkLogos) dated 7 January, 2010 CE.
(4) In one document produced by an underground ONA sect (that is, nexion) it is stated that:
We are of and are called to The Dark Way because we identify with, and we yearn for, the acausal spaces – the acausal realms themselves, which are, to us humans, Dark; beyond the illumination we know from our star, the Sun, and beyond the artificial illumination we have manufactured to light our brief mortal living on this planet we named Earth. We are Dark, here, because it is where we can go – where we can transcend to if we live and die in the rightway – where we are the very illumination that lives there; we are, we become, the very light that travels, traverses, that lives – immortal – within the pure undefiled darkness of the dark acausal spaces. We become acausal stars Galaxies of stars – travelling where we will among the infinite darkness, bringing into being by our very travelling, our very existence there, new life both causal and acausal and in both the realms of the causal and acausal spaces. Thus do we, thus can we, become of those Dark Immortals – the Immortals of the dark acausal realms, and thus can we seed the darkness of both causal and acausal with our immortal living light, bringing thus, causing thus, being-thus, evolution itself. Warriors of The Dark Way
While this may not be, or represent, official ONA policy – if indeed the ONA have official policies – it certainly does seem to capture something of the spirit that might motivate such Dark Warriors.
There’s an interesting, and relevant, item, by The Temple of Them (ToTh), about their aims, and their type of sorcery, at:
http://templeofthem.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/the-sorcery-of-them/
Here are some quotes.
As well as the personal benefits and separate individual approaches and studies of each Sorcerer, the Sorcery of Them has a two-fold suprapersonal Aeonic aim: (1) to unclog the magickal sources of the European ethos and direct their energy to free its genuine individuals from the Magian yoke, (2) and to open the world’s gates for the new Aeon via creating a new human race.
The Sorcery of Them aims at restoring the ancient European social matrix of Sorcerers, Warriors and Farmers for the purpose of social sorcery. The European ethos has never been a warrior ethos only, the warriors came to power when the sorcerers ceased to be earth-bound and lost any interest in social life.
Temple of Them is dedicated to the sorcery approach to the Sinister, not to the warrior one. After all, magick is not for warriors but for sorcerers…
Thus, their focus is upon the European, the Aryan, ethos, and they unashamedly state that: the Temple of Them still regards the white European race as a higher race than the others…
The Living Being of The Folk and the ONA
As stated in several ONA MSS, including the one available here on this blog at
http://darkimperium.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/sorcery-the-sinister-aeons-and-the-psyche-of-the-folk/
an ethnic folk is or can be a manifestation of the living-being that is Nature – Nature in evolution – just as there are folkish archetypes, and folk psyche, with the ethos of the Magian being disruptive of these folk archetypes, these nexions, and generally destructive of all folkish living beings.
Genuine sorcery is or can be one practical means of aiding such folkish living beings, and countering the ethos and the influence of the Magian, with the Magian being the prime cause currently, of the disruption of the numinous, breeding as the insolent materialistic Magian ethos does, Homo Hubris (qv. Myatt’s essays such as Homo Hubris and the Disruption of The Numinous, and especially The Downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris).
The living nature of a folk – as an expression of Nature’s evolution – is outlined in detail in many Reichsfolk essays, and is a fundamental part of ethical National-Socialism. Thus, the ToTh is following, and to some extent evolving, this tradition, of working with, and seeking to evolve, a particular living being of Nature, manifest in a particular folk and its folkish ethos.
But, given this emphasis, by the ToTh on the European ethos, and the assertion of Aryan superioity, the question arises, is the ToTh still an ONA nexion, of the traditional kind that specializes in sorcery as opposed the sinister warrior tribes, and other forms, of ONA magick?
Personally, I would answer in the affirmative (and I for one support such folk-bound sorcery), because each ONA nexion – traditional, tribal or otherwise – is free to choose their own way, and use and develope their own form of sorcery, and these ways include ethical National-Socialism, and thus aiding a particular folk and its ethos and culture.
As it’s stated in the ONA MS, Is The ONA Nazi? -
Yes [we are Nazi], because any and all individuals or groups or nexions of the ONA, or associated with the ONA or inspired by the ONA, are free to use and apply and identify with the ethos and principles and way of National-Socialism, either in its older form (exemplified by NS Germany) or in its new evolved form (such as non-racist, or “ethical”, National-Socialism). The choice – the freedom to choose – is theirs.
Yes, because the causal form of genuine (non-racist, or “ethical”) National-Socialism, esoterically understood, is or can be one presencing of the acausal; one means to excellence and nobility, for all human beings; and one means of creating a socitiey or societies imbued with the Promethean spirit of exploration and conquest.
Yes, because the ONA has in the past and may again use the causal form of National-Socialism, or something deriving from it or akin to it, to provoke or cause or inspire causal change in individuals or society.
But is this concentration by the ToTh on a single folk, and a belief in its superiority, not counter to the work of other ONA nexions and tribes who are unashamedly non-racialist and who eschew what the creator of The Numinous Way calls the “un-numinous abstractions of race and folk”?
Personally, I do not believe there is or will be any conflict, for as Anton Long wrote, quite recently:
We have used and continue to use all forms of magick, as a means of breeding certain types of individuals; as a means of disruption and sinister change; as a means of inspiring and drawing certain types of individuals to us. For each individual there is a type of our magick suitable for them; which can enable them to discover and then strive to implement their own unique wyrd, and which magick, when used by them, will also aid us…
Our attack on the Old Order, on the mundanes and their societies and their governments, is on many levels, just as our esoteric Order – our association of sinister individuals – exists on many levels, each with a task, a goal, and each attracting, evolving, individuals of a certain type, a certain sinister nature. This is how a living-being is: complex; of various diverse forms ultimately (esoterically) co-operating in certain ways (whether consciously or unconsciously) to enhance, to increase, to reproduce and extend, the life of the living organism to which they belong. (ONA: Prophet of Vindex)
Conclusion
What matters, fundamentally, is fighting the Magian, the Old Order and its tyrannical, un-numinous forms. The fluxion of Life – the very presencing of acausal energies via our nexions – will sort matters out, in the realm of the causal, in the world.
That is, as the Old Order crumbles success will go to the strongest, the fittest. That is how life, here, in our world, and always has worked – and will assuredly still continue to work, for quite some time into our future, until we really have changed and become that new higher species, described by Myatt as Homo Galacticus.
Will the triumphant ones be a new Aryan (European) folk, a new kind of Aryan society brought into being by the sorcery of the likes of ToTh? Or will the triumph go to a non-European Vindex and his or her warrior clans through victory in practical combat? And will this non-European Vindex be an Afro-American, perhaps, or someone of Asian ethnicity, and will their triumph be in Asia, or in the urban sprawls of America? Or, indeed, will Vindex turn out, after all, to be of old European ethnic stock – a Serb, perhaps, or a Russian?
The fluxion of Life will provide the answer. Until then we will no doubt dream, be inspired by one mythos or another; or by one type of sorcery, or inspired by the new charisma emanating from some sinister tribe, or, more than likely, emanating from some tribal chief (especially if this chief is some fit warrior chick who has proven herself in combat).
Whatever, it is my personal view that Anton Long (aka Myatt) is being, and always has been, pragmatic – a very practical Occultist, just as his ONA is now and always has been a very practical and an adeptly shapeshifting organization. Thus, we have the resource of his Numinous Way; of his ethical National Socialism; of his Vindex mythos; of his Sinister-Numen (The Sinister Way) and his law of this sinister numen; the sinister methodology of his Dreccian tribes; the assassins of Baphomet; and so on.
Here he is, using this causal form, then that one; adapting here; adapting there; creating some new form or inspiring someone else to do so, and always being rather hard to define, at least insofar as mundanes are concerned, for when asked if the ONA is indeed a Nazi organization, and when asked it is was or was not a Satanist group, the answer on both occasions was – yes, and no.
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It is only fitting therefore that the last word should go to Anton Long, shapeshifter extraordinaire:
Naturally, we do not expect the mundanes – and especially those mundanes pretending to be Occultists – to understand this “yes” and this “no” and how we balance the two because of the sinister dialectic, and how this “yes” and this “no” express the true spirit, the true ethos, the true methodology, of the genuine, amoral, Left Hand Path, of The Dark Tradition itself.
Morgana Sinistra
ONA
121 yf
It is defiance which often drives a Satanist to carry out Sinister acts in this mundane causal world; acts which are dedicated to and are worthy of our Dark Prince and his Bride, Baphomet. Many such tasks are supra-personal in their goals, having a long-term aim of centuries, as is well documented in the various MSS regarding Aeonics.
But central to the personal life of the Satanist in undertaking such works, is the increase of the acausal within; that – via dark deeds – they themselves increasingly open the nexion within themselves, and so evolve to become a type of living nexion.
Defiance is the key here. A Satanist of some experience does not undertake an aeonic task with a view to witnessing causal success in their own lifetime: they undertake the task to defy the System of the Mundanes – and if the odds are completely against them in this, even better. For the act of defiance, even if that results in the death of the Satanist, increases the sinister flow of the acausal in this world.
Take a recent and significant attempt by the Order to earth forces into National-Socialism and to thus precipitate chaos and disruption within the System of the Mundanes. This small, fanatical band were characterized by no compromise and possessed very few resources, and they took on The System as defiant, pure National-Socialists. They took on the System because they wished to presence defiance, and although they had fanatical belief in their cause, it was also understood that the System would strike back with full force. Following a significant assault by our Comrades, the System crushed the movement swiftly. Comrades were jailed, some died, some just disappeared.
Was this a futile act? This is a question which once – such as in the ancestral age of the Vikings – would not occur to anyone to ask. For although individuals may fall, their deeds are remembered and are kept alive by Comrades through the dark ages to come, guarded like a scared flame and used as a source of inspiration. Warriors do not wait for the odds to even up for them – in fact, the more ‘futile’ the chances of causal success, the greater is the acausal glory. It is an insult to those who fought and were jailed and who died to claim such acts came to nothing. For it is in the heroic act of showing the System that we are still defiant warriors which keeps the magick of our Way alive.
The very same of course applies to those who undertake martyrdom operations, who are motivated by hope of reward in Jannah, which makes their acts of defiance heroic, inspirational and (to those ‘in the know’) esoterically powerful, regardless of the immediate causal outcome.
To reiterate: our way is powered by the magick of defiance. We can and should serve as examples of how Satanists should conduct themselves, particularly when the odds of some causal victory against the System of the Mundane are scarce, if indeed non-existent. The act of defiance – living in each moment as a warrior – is the magick of inspiration which chips away at the future, bringing its slow change, and which powers our greater acausal selves.
Eogan
ONA, 121yf
The Difference Between Us
The fundamental difference between us, The Drecc, and the mundanes is that we exult in the physicality of life, of living in the dangerous moment, while they think, dream, and prepare for their future and for their safety.
Thus do we exult in combat, in crime – in walking armed and exulting and fearless into some place and taking what we need to survive. Thus do we live for and plan for some confrontation or other when every second of every moment may be our last or the means of our escape to live again to thrive, to exult, as some higher type of human being.
Thus do we exult in Dance, when music plays, throbbing around and within us, and we and our partner become the very life, the very breathing, of love, passion, joy, exultation and Being, and nothing exits for us in us then except the beauty, the passion, of our bodily movement, our physical exertion, through which and by which and in which and because of which we transcend to a more pure, higher, form of living which the mudanes never know or never even feel.
Thus do we exult in and often need that exhilaration and ecstasy of physical speed when we recklessly drive or fly as we drive or fly some powerful machine which we control by sheer exhilaration and that skill that our kind of life has breed within us – unheedful as we rush forth in our ecstasy of all conventions and all laws that the mundanes have manufactured and put in place and which they try to enforce to discourage, contain and control our kind of dangerous higher human life.
Thus do we exult in the passion of a physical, sexual, joining, and the games we play before in anticipation of such a physical joining; for we love the chase almost as much as we love the union itself. For there is Life, the essence of our human existence, there in such a joining, in such a prelude and anticipation of such joining.
Thus do we exult in the power we feel as we strive against ourselves and all others as we, armed, walk the shadowed silence of some alley in anticipation of attack, prepared and ruthless enough as the predator we are to injure, fight, and kill.
Thus do we exult in opposition to all those forces of so-called “law and order” which the mundanes love and often worship and most surely in their weakness need – for we love to outwit them; to play our games with them, as we love to cruise in anticipation of some armed confrontation with them and our enemies, unheedful as we are of our own mortality, our own death, for is the very possibility of death that enchants and makes us what we are, powerful, strong, fearless, a breed apart.
Thus do we exult in danger and risk and risk our own lives, and that of others, because in such risk and such danger is that exultation of a growing evolving life which changes and which can seed us to be, to become, that higher type of being which the mundanes in their very mundane-ness fear and which they in their fear and in their morbid love of “safety” and of “planning” try and try to outlaw and make “illegal”.
Thus do we live with them – in their world, for now – using them and their life, their society, as a resource, as the resource we need to live life on that higher life that makes us what we are, for now while we have to endure living only on this planet, Earth.
Thus are we outlaws, criminals, terrorists, chancers, explorers, adventurers, racketeers, for we know all the laws of the mudanes for the tyranny they are: a tireless attempt to prevent us from making our life into a succession of ecstasies.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
120 yf
Given below is a link to a pdf file of the ONA MS The Black Book of Satan. A limited number of copies of a typewritten version of this Book were issued by the ONA in 1983 CE.
According to tradition, each Master or Mistress who was responsible for a particular Satanic Temple or group, was given on his or her assumption of that responsibility, a copy of the Black Book of Satan. The Black Book contained the basic Satanic rituals, instructions relating to ceremonial magick in general. It was the duty of the Master or Mistress to keep this book safe, and non-Initiates of the Temple were forbidden to see it. Copies were forbidden to be made, although Initiates above the grade of External Adept were allowed to see and read the Temple copy.
In traditional Satanism (i.e. those using the Septenary System: this system also being known as the Hebdomadry) this practice continued until quite recently when the Grand Master representing traditional groups decided to allow Initiates of good standing to copy the work. This decision was recently extended to enable specialist publication in a limited edition.
The whole text of the traditional Black Book is included in the present work, together with several additional chapters (e.g. Self-Initiation; Organizing and Running a Temple).These additions make this present work a concise practical handbook for those seriously interested in the Black Arts.
Naos
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Given below is a link to a pdf version of the genuine ONA facsimile text of Naos, without the many errors and omissions in all other on-line editions of Naos in both pdf and other formats.
It is a facsimile of the original ONA documents, text, and diagrams, some of which documents and diagrams are handwritten/hand-drawn.
The text was first issued, in a limited edition, by the Order of Nine Angles in 1989 CE, and re-issued in 1990, 1991 and 1992 CE.
Note that the file is c. 47 Mb in size.
Naos: A Practical Guide to Becoming An Adept
This document will only be available, here, for a limited time.
We reprint here – complete and without comment – a rather good and remarkably unbiased article about Crowley and Satanism which was recently published, anonymously, on The Occult Library Website. Kudos to the anonymous author.
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Aleister Crowley and The Modern Satanists
This article examines the views of three well-known modern Satanic organizations and the views they hold of Crowley.
Church of Satan
Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, was heavily influenced by the writings of Aleister Crowley. At times he acknowledges this, although in other places the usage of Crowley’s material is in not mentioned. For example, approximately one third of the Satanic Bible consists of John Dee’s Enochian Keys, taken Aleister Crowley’s Equinox, with a few minor word changes by LaVey (changing heavenly references for Satanic ones.
The US Army Handbook for Chaplains gives that background of the Church of Satan as follows: “The Church of Satan is an eclectic body that traces its origin to many sources – classical voodoo, the Hell-Fire Club of eighteenth century England, the ritual magic of Aleister Crowley, and the Black Order of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. It departs from its predecessors by (1) its organization into a church, and (2) the openness of its magical endeavors.”
However, in his article On Occultism of the Past, LaVey was somewhat critical of Crowley, writing:
“It is bad enough to hear of the ‘great teachings’ of Aleister Crowley — who hypocritically called himself by the Christian devil’s number, yet steadfastly denied any Satanic connections, who wrote and had published millions of words of Kabbalistic mulligatawny, the distilled wisdom of which could have been contained in a single volume of once‐popular E. Haldeman Julius’ Little Blue Books (which sold for a nickel). Strange, how seldom one hears plaudits for Crowley’s poetry, worthy of inclusion with the likes of James Thompson, Baudelaire, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. If Crowley was a magician, it was the beauty of his creative art which made him so, not his drug-befuddled callings-up of Choronzon, et al. Unfortunately, his followers today have taken up his worst, while neglecting his best.”
Further, he suggested that:
“you won’t learn a damn thing in principle from Levi, Crowley, Regardie, … that isn’t extended one-hundred fold in The Satanic Bible or The Compleat Witch…”
It is clear that LaVey derived a lot of his teachings from Aleister Crowley’s writings, even if he was critical of Crowley, the magician. It is perhaps more evident in the split-away group, the Temple of Set, that Aleister Crowley has influenced the development of a number of Satanic groups.
Temple of Set
In the introduction to the hardcover Satanic Bible, Temple of Set founder, Michael Aquino, wrote that “it should also be noted that Satanism is a philosophy of the individual, not of the mass. There are no collective policy statements save the famous Crowley admonition: ‘Self‐deceit is the gravest of all sins.’”
Michael Aquino left the Church of Satan in 1975. After invoking the Egyptian god Set, Aquino was inspired to write his own book, The Book of Coming Forth By Night. As if following in the footsteps of Aleister Crowley, whose Book of the Law supposedly heralded the Aeon of Horus, Aquino declared a new Aeon- the Aeon of Set. Aquino claimed to have deciphered a series of letters and number from the Book of the as revealing:
“Destined First Century heir – Aquino – breaking Keys by doctrines Anton LaVey – great Magus of reconsecration coming Year Xeper – founding his rightful Priesthood – Set – true origin Volume AL.”
In this, Aquino attempts to validate his founding of the Temple of Set by connecting with the lineage of Crowley, even if only by connecting his own founding book on with the Book of the Law.
The Temple of Set has a separate body which basis much of it’s training curriculum on Aleister Crowley’s A.’.A.’. Their introductory material points out that the “primary difference between the Order of Horus system and the traditional A.’.A.’. is that the Order of Horus assumes that its initiates will choose to become ‘Black Brothers’ and enter the City of the Pyramids as self-made and-defined Initiates.”
So the Satanic organizations of Anton LaVey and Michael Aquino clearly accept, to varying degrees, the magical practices and writings of Aleister Crowley. However, not all Satanists or Satanic groups are so friendly towards Crowley or his teachings.
The Order of Nine Angles
The Order of Nine Angles, a British Satanist group, are perhaps the most extreme of the publicly known Satanic organizations. They are highly critical of Aleister Crowley, and unsurprisingly they are equally critical of both the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set.
In their article The Septenary, Crowley, and the Origins of the ONA they write:
“Aleister Crowley is regarded, by the ONA, as a rather conventional … example of what it has been convenient to call The Right Hand Path; that is, the ONA regards him as unconnected with any genuine Left Hand Path or any genuine Sinister Way.”
Some of their criticisms include such this as Crowley’s:
“reliance upon Old Aeon ‘Orders’ and organizations, with their grand titles, their sycophancy, their ’secret teachings revealed only to qualified initiates’, and especially their presumption of awarding titles and magickal grades to others”
And:
“that he never did any dark and sinister deeds – works of genuine evil – and neither did he and does he inspire any such works and deeds, or even the presencing of Chaos or genuine heresy; and (3) the pseudo-mystical ramblings of his (and his followers) which pass for “esoteric teachings”.
Criticizing both Crowley and Michael Aquino they write:
“His Liber AL vel Legis – just like Aquino’s Book of Coming Forth By Night – is a good example of a text produced by an Initiate of the Esoteric Arts. That is, it is a work which is quite representative of someone following the early stages of an esoteric Path.”
Another big criticism of Crowley is that:
“he propagated the corrupt and bastard system of The Golden Dawn, firmly based as that system was on the qabalah, which qabalah and which corruption of it as used by the Golden Dawn and by Crowley, is the antithesis of the genuine Western tradition, which genuine tradition is septenary based.”
Perhaps the strongest criticism of Crowley (and the Church of Satan and Temple of Set) can be found in the article The New Aeon, Mundanes, Vindex and Nationa Socialism, in which they write:
“the so-called traditions represented by such people and such groups as Crowley, the Church of Satan, the Temple of Set and others … with their Hebrew qabala, their Semitic demons, their necromantic ‘archetypes’, their sycophantic religious attitude, their posturings, and their almost total lack of knowledge of Aeonics and Internal Magick – represent either aspects of the de-evolutionary ethos of the Magian or the Magian way itself.”
Note: The Order of Nine Angles use the term “Magian” as primarily as a way of classifying “Nazarene theology and ontology, and … the Qabala, … and the Grimoires associated with it – [that were] mistakenly believed by Crowley and others to be part of the Western esoteric tradition.”
Conclusion
As this article shows, there is no general agreement amongst Satanists as to whether Aleister Crowley was genuinely one of their own. Anton LaVey and Michael Aquino used aspects of Crowley’s writings, while the Order of Nine Angles are scathing in their criticism of Crowley and seek to distance themselves from his legacy. Again, it can only be concluded that there are no-definitive answers to the question of Aleister Crowley being a Satanist. Crowley was certainly a complex character, and very much a human being, who wrote a vast and varying array of works, some of which were contradictory to each other, while others were tongue in cheek and no doubt meant to offend and outrage the audience of his time.
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Source: http://occultlibrary.info/aleister-crowley-and-modern-satanists/
“ [The] ONA was never meant nor designed to be dominated by thinkers and book thumpers. It is designed for the passionate youth who burns for a cause and ACT. Through their action is an end result manifested. Through their action they grow in experience, and with time, such experience becomes wisdom. A true undefiled wisdom not collected from any book of dead letters, but from the very living library of Nature Herself. In many of the vulgar satanisms the very power of youthful passion is rejected for meaningless teenrebellion. They glorify the passionless thinkers instead, as if these “Nodoers” were the apex of human evolution.
If Humanity relied on these passionless Nodoers, we wouldn’t be here today. The ONA is not a Nodoer religion. It’s not a book club or nerd gathering. It was designed to DO. We all by nature start off as not so bright teens ready to burn for something… anything. These are our warriors. Give them something to burn for and let them set the world ablaze. In their youth, they may not be interested in teachings or traditions, but let them be as Nature intended for awhile, to collect their experiences and grow mature. For in maturity, these same mindless, passionate warriors will mellow out and absorb the mysteries of the ONA in rippened age and become Dark Sages.
There is a time and a place for everyone and everything. And because this ONA is a living reflection of Primal Nature, there is within our dark Shadows a place for every age and kind… ” Saturnyanlodge352: Passions of Youth
Sorcery, The Sinister, Aeons, and The Psyche of The Folk:
Order of Nine Angles Esoteric Notes XXIXA
Essentially, sorcery (aka magick) – 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.” [See Footnote 1]
Thus, understood esoterically, an individual represents a willed-evolution: the potential to change and evolve by means of utilizing certain energies, with such change and evolution involving a bringing-into-being, or, more prosaically, a bringing-into-consciousness. That is, a making-conscious of what was hitherto “unknown”, hidden and latent, both within and external to the individual. This making-conscious is the first step – the beginning – of genuine individual magick; the first stage of that Sinister Way one of whose aims is the creation of a new, more conscious, more highly evolved, individual.
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”.
Understood esoterically, an archetype is a limited presencing (a manifestation) of acausal energy, which presencing is limited in causal time. [See Footnote 2]
Fundamentally, the basic task of an esoteric Initiate is to make-conscious – to experience, know and understand – their own psyche, and this, in the beginning stages of magickal Initiation, is done by means of symbols and rituals, both hermetic and ceremonial. That is, the forces/energies, both archetypal and otherwise, are objectified, experiences and experimented with – hence such symbols and tools such as The Septenary System (of correspondences, including the Tree of Wyrd), the Tarot, and The Star Game. To complement this, the individual undertakes “Insight Roles” where they identify with a certain symbolic aspect or aspects, or rôle – and/or a certain archetype or archetypes – and thus experience, in real life, such energies, and their causal effects. One particular aspect, of course, is The Sinister itself, which is manifest in archetypes such as “The Magickian”, The Mistress of Earth, and in Satan.
As stated in the MS The Five-Dimensional Magick of the Seventh Way:
“All magick – external, internal and Aeonic – is but a means to apprehend, experience and presence acausal energies, and thus create/provoke Change. That is, the conventional magick of the Tree of Wyrd, of books such as Naos, of rituals, is but a beginning – through such things, the individual Initiate acquires experience and knowledge, and also develops as an individual: in terms of character. In the simplistic sense, they move, through the Grades, beyond “The Abyss”, toward The Goal, which is the transformation of the individual and the emergence of a new type of being, beyond the Adept.”
Furthermore, the archetypal energies which affect and influence an individual – a non-Adept – are, according to The Sinister Way of the ONA, both personal/individual, and related to the Aeon during which the individual lives. In addition, some of the personal archetypal energies which are manifest, or which can be manifest, in the psyche of the individual, are related to the living-being which is the folkish culture of the individual. Thus, in order to properly progress along The Way toward Adeptship – in order to evolve as an individual – the individual needs to understand, and work with, such particular energies.
The Folk Psyche and Folkish Archetypes:
By virtue of being a nexion, an individual is connected to the causal presencing that is Nature, and to those living-beings which are manifest in Nature. One such living-being is the folkish-culture, the folkish-psyche, to which they may belong – and thus from which they have come-into-being, as an individual. [See Footnote 3] Basically, this is just a precise way of understanding that all non-Adepts are, or can be or will be, influenced by various unconscious archetypal forces deriving from their ancestors, and their ancestral culture (or way of life) – if they have one – and that, whether they know or not (and they mostly do not know) they are connected to such living-beings. Generally, such a connexion (both unknown and made-conscious) is positive: that is, it tends towards an affirmation of life, and provides the individual with access to certain energies which are beneficial to them.
Furthermore, it needs to be understood that sorcery as a Way is neutral – that is, it can be used (or more correctly can be assumed, by those individuals below the stage of Mastery, to be so used) to either aid or harm such connexions, such Earthly living-beings, as human beings are connected to and from which they have emerged, such folkish-culture and folkish-archetypes. It can also, and importantly, be used to create new connexions, new cultures and new archetypes, and thus can bring-into-being new, esoterically-derived (and thus sinister) folk-beings, unbound by older forms.
In practical terms of self-development and evolution, an individual can greatly benefit from knowing, and from direct involvement with, their folk psyche and folkish archetypes: and this is especially true when the stage of Adept is reached and Aeonic workings are undertaken.
However, this is only a a beginning: the making-conscious of what was or may be unknown to the individual; it is not the esoteric, sinister, essence itself. That is, the causal esoteric constructs of folk, the folkish psyche and folkish archetypes, of an individual belonging to a particular folk or culture, are only causal esoteric constructs, and do not pertain to the essence of either The Sinister Way, or impose boundaries, or limits, upon the individual striving along our dark path. Thus, when a certain level of knowledge and understanding is reached, by the Sinister Initiate, and when certain esoteric skills are developed, the individual has the ability, the freedom, to bring-into-being (by whatever means of sorcery) whatever changes, personal, and supra-personal, that they may desire; with such changes being limited only by the ability, the understanding, of the individuals themselves. One such change is the bringing-into-being of new collocations of individuals in the form of a new sinister tribe. That is, bringing-into-being, by whatever means, esoteric or otherwise, an entirely new tribe and thus an entirely new type of folk, and imbuing this new folk with a numinous mythos and thus new tribal (folkish) archetypes. Furthermore, such new tribes – being a conscious presencing by sinister Initiates and Adepts – are themselves not necessarily bound or limited or determined by “ethnicity” (which itself is only a causal abstraction); for there is the freedom to bring-into-being new alignments, new collocations of ethnically diverse individuals to form a new tribe, just as there is the freedom to do the opposite, to form a new tribe, a new folk, based on some already existing ethnicity. For the Sinister Way – being the Way of the evolved, free, individual – provides the individual with a genuine choice.
Aeons, Civilizations and The Presencing of Acausal Energy:
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 [See Footnote 4] is brought-into-being in a certain geographical area and usually associated with a particular people, or folk.
An Aeon can thus be considered to be a type of acausal being [See Footnote 5] manifesting in the causal, and, as such, has certain archetypal energies associated with it: that is, it can to a certain extent be “re-presented”, or apprehended, via causal-thinking, in terms of certain symbols, archetypes, abstractions, myths, rituals, and so on. The living-being which is an Aeon is thus “born”, lives for a specific period of causal time, and then “dies”, as, of course, do the archetypes associated with such an Aeon. Each Aeonic civilization can – according to limited causal-thinking – be described, or re-presented, by a particular mythos, which mythos is a limited causal apprehension of the life-force, of “the soul” or psyche, of the Aeon from which that civilization derives.
Hitherto, we human beings have lacked the ability to affect Aeons and thus Aeonic civilizations. That is, as stated in the MS Aeonic Magick – A Basic Introduction:
“All the individuals associated with a particular civilization – unless and until they attain a specific degree of self-awareness [variously called 'individuation' and 'Adeptship'] – are subject to or influenced by their psyche. This psyche draws its energy from – is determined by – the civilization and thus the aeon. In practical terms, the psyche is a manifestation of the acausal energy that creates/created the civilization…”
However, sorcery (magick) – correctly understood and correctly used – 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, archetypal, influences, both personal/individual, and of other living-beings, since as the folk, and Aeons.
According to the sinister tradition of the ONA, there have been five Aeons, including the current Thorian (or “Western”) one. The current Aeon is, however, unique – for it has, in the last hundred years or so, suffered from a distortion of its life-force, a distortion of its soul. This distortion has been somewhat simplistically and rather graphically described as akin to a “viral infection” which has modified the behaviour of the peoples of the civilization through changing, modifying, and in some cases supplanting, the natural archetypes of the Aeon. In the esoteric sense, this distortion, this infection, can be understood as a natural process affecting our evolution – a consequence of that evolution itself, and such an infection could have certain undesirable consequences for our evolution, and for our ability to free ourselves from those viral forces which are, in essence, de-evolutionary. That is, this distortion, this infection, represents a challenge to the Sinister Way – to magick, to the alchemy of evolution itself.
Thus, one aim of Aeonic Magick is to counter this Aeonic distortion through various sinister strategies; another aim is to consciously bring-into-being a new Aeon: one which will allow us, as human beings, to evolve and fulfil the potential latent within us.
There is thus a real war occurring at present, part of which is magickal, Aeonic and supra-Aeonic: a war, battles, between those who represent the genuine wisdom and understanding and freedom and life-enhancement which genuine magick (with its presencing of the acausal) brings, and those who represent what is fundamentally de-evolutionary, limiting, enervating and stiflingly causal, and who are manifest through and in the distortion of the Thorian Aeon. [See Footnote 6]
The Sinister Way and Our New Sinister Tribes:
In essence, all genuine magick, all genuine sorcery, is Sinister because it is Change: a move-toward a new bringing-into-being. A re-ordering in the causal. That is, it is a presencing of the acausal – from which all that is evolutionary and life-affirming arises.
However, to work - to affect evolutionary Change – such presencings have to be based upon, to manifest, to use, what-is acausal: that is, there has to be a knowing, an understanding, of the acausal as the acausal is; and this understanding depends on the understanding by the individual of they, themselves, as individuals, as they are, and in this self-understanding an awareness of their own ancestral cultures (or cultures) – if they have one – may be important. Without this knowing, this understanding, of the acausal as it is – in both its causal esoteric forms and in its formless, acausal, essence – there has been, is and will be only the delusion of self and at best a stasis and at worst a return to the thralldom of the past.
One new bringing-into-being is – as mentioned above – that of new tribes, unbound (or bound) by already existing causal constructs (such as ethnicity), with these new tribes becoming the basis for a new Aeon – the first ever Aeon unlimited by, and free from, the limiting causal abstractions of all previously existing Aeons.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
118 Year of Fayen
Notes:
(1) q.v. the MS The Five-Dimensional Magick of the Seventh Way. For a basic discussion of causal and acausal, see Chapter 0, A Theory of Magick, in Naos and the MS Aeonic Magick – A Basic Introduction.
(2) It needs to be understood that the ONA uses such terms as psyche, and archetype, in a particular and precise esoteric way, and thus such terms should not be considered as being identical to those used by others and defined, for example, by Jung.
Thus, esoterically understood, 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).
However, it should be remembered that all archetypes are causal esoteric abstractions, which esoteric abstractions re-present or which manifest aspects of (to a greater or lesser extent) the acausal essence, but which are not the essence itself. That is, they are just useful forms, useful constructs, in the causal, which constructs enable us to apprehend, and to a certain extent, to manipulate, acausal energy.
(3) Such connexions, such living-beings as the folk and the folkish-culture which derives from the living of such a being, are only what-are, on this planet where we dwell. That is, they are aspects of Nature: they correctly describe the reality of how the acausal is presenced, in the causal, on this planet, through that living-being which is Nature. In a simplistic, descriptive and old Aeon anthropomorphic sense, such folk-beings are among Her descendants, her “sons and daughters”.
Furthermore, there is a symbiosis involved in such connexions – or, rather, there is now a symbiosis involved as a result of our natural evolution of will and consciousness; a symbiosis between us, our folk-beings, and with Nature, as well as with the Acausal beyond Nature.
However, the folk itself – like an archetype – is only a causal esoteric abstraction; a useful construct, in the causal, which enables us to apprehend, and to a certain extent, to manipulate, acausal energy.
(4) To be precise, this nexion is “a culture” which itself is a living-being, a spawn of a particular Aeon, with the Aeonic civilization itself being a by-product, a manifestation, a stage, of this new culture. However, the general term civilization will be retained, although such Aeonic “civilizations” such be understood in such a context.
Also, note that what is referred to is an Aeonic civilization – not just a “civilization”. q.v. Aeonic Magick – A Basic Introduction.
(5) For a basic introduction to “acausal beings” refer to the MS Advanced Introduction to The Dark Gods: Five-Dimensional Acausal Sorcery which explains the nature of the acausal-thinking (or, more prosaically, the “esoteric/magickal” thinking) that is required to begin to understand such beings: to apprehend Them as they are.
In addition, it needs to be understood that, as explained in many other MSS, there are many and varying types of acausal entities, or acausal beings or acausal forms of life. Some exist solely in the acausal; some can manifest in some ways in the causal, with some such causally-manifesting beings – or forms of life – being in symbiosis with the causal (or rather, in symbiosis with causal life-forms) and thus “dependant” on them to some extent. Some such dependant symbiotic acausal beings may cease to exist (in both the causal and the acausal) when their energy fades and “dies”, while others may return to the acausal to leave only a dead causal “shell” or “shells”.
Further, it should be obvious that the majority of such acausal life-forms cannot and should not be conceptualized in an anthropomorphic way, bound and limited as such conceptualizations are by causal Time and causal Space.
(6) The distortion has been, exoterically, described as “Magian”: as representative of a particular ethos deriving from the psyche of a certain people.
Esoterically, the essence of this distortion is the disruption, and the distorting, of the flow of acausal energy via nexions. That is, the Magian, and their servants and allies, have and are trying to constrain, to limit, individuals to only un-numinous (lifeless; non-esoteric) causal abstractions, many of which they themselves have manufactured as a means of control.
Thus, in place of the freedom of the individual to access acausal energy and use that energy to change, to evolve, themselves and others and the Cosmos itself, there is the tyranny of causal abstractions and thus the abject subjugation of individuals by the psychic chains (and psychic prisons) of such abstractions.
This freedom to individually so access such acausal energy and to thus invoke a conscious individual and supra-personal evolution – whose genesis is self-knowledge via practical experience – is manifest and always has been manifest in all genuine Sinister Ways; in all genuine Left Hand Paths.
