Being O9A
A Family Guide
Introduction
Since there has been much confusion lately as to what being ONA, belonging to the Order of Nine Angles, or describing one’s self as ONA means – and also as to what exactly membership of the O9A kollective involves – it is fitting that the matter is explained in words that are not open to misinterpretation.
Historically, the ONA was organized into ‘underground’ cells – local Temples, groups, nexions – composed of a small number of individuals personally known to each other. Some cells recruited clandestinely; some did not. Many cells consisted of individuals related to each other so that they formed an esoteric extended family. Most of these cells were in the British Isles, and most followed the Seven Fold Way, with the remainder following the Rounwytha Way. The numbers involved were never large, and all recruits – even blood relatives of already pledged members – served a probationary period during which they were tested and had to accomplish certain tasks, with this probationary period generally lasting for around six months, after which they swore an oath of loyalty to their comrades and pledged themselves to follow the ONA Way.
Thus, the deeds, the accomplishments, of all those involved with the ONA were known to others.
Prior to the mid 1990′s ce, AL personally knew someone or several from most of these O9A cells, with the remainder known to someone who knew AL. Thereafter, from the mid 1990′s ce onward, a few autonomous cells – Temples or nexions – were established, in a few countries around the world, for instance in The Antipodes, America, Canada and certain European countries. These autonomous cells were established by people interested in the ONA who had obtained various ONA MSS – such as copies of Naos and BBS1 – with a few of these people being in communication, by postal letters, with someone from the ONA such as CB.
However, most of these new groups did not last very long, anything from a few months to a few years, with the individual or individuals either founding a new, non-ONA, group, or joining another Occult group, or losing interest in the Occult altogether. Without exception, these groups initially followed the Seven Fold Way, with many using the form of Traditional Satanism, and it was made clear to them that, if the members of these groups and the group itself desired to describe themselves as ONA, they were expected to undertake the Grade Rituals, do Insight Roles, learn Esoteric Chant, and so on. That is, do practical sorcery; live a sinister life, undertake exeatic deeds. They were also expected to provide evidence of their achievements, for example either by publishing (if necessary under a pseudonym) an account of their experiences during the Grade Rituals and Insight Roles, or by sending them to their ONA contact if they had one, which is what most chose to do. A few of these people, inspired by our mythos, came to visit Britain and thence came to meet us personally, as we had hoped some might do.
After around 1998 ce, with the widespread use of the ‘world wide web’ and the dissemination of ONA MSS via that medium, interest in and the influence of the ONA steadily grew, with a few more autonomous cells being established, one or two of which are still in existence. One of these autonomous cells – no longer extant – established an unofficial well-designed ONA website (naszdom) containing a good selection of written ONA material, with most new ONA written material (mostly written by AL) being made available by means of the ‘world wide world’, with many of these newer MSS stressing the importance of ONA-inspired people doing practical sinister deeds given the practical nature of the ONA way.
In addition, electronic mail made it easier for those forming new autonomous cells to contact someone from the ONA, as several of the ONA OG took to using the ‘world wide web’ as a means of propaganda, incitement, provokation, and recruitment, and thus would occasionally participate in discussions on Usenet or, later on, on forums.
However, what tended to happen was that the majority of those who did make the effort to contact someone from the ONA via electronic mail – and who more often than not sought some guidance – did not provide or publish the necessary evidence of their deeds, of their progress along the Seven Fold Way, even though a few of them had proclaimed, via the ‘world wide web’ that they were ONA. Neither did they desire to meet with us personally.
That is, they remained anonymous, unknown to and untrusted by us, with no verifiable deeds to their name, while proclaiming they were ONA or were associated with the ONA. [1] Thus a situation arose when it seemed that anyone for whatever reason or from whatever motive, and anonymously, could claim via the ‘world wide web’ to be ONA or part of the O9A kollective.
Being ONA
While we do not, due to our subversive, clandestine, and non-hierarchical nature, have a conventional membership – in terms of an easily found or public contact address; in terms of application forms, a membership list, fees, and the like – there are certain conditions a person has to fulfil and certain obligations to undertake in order to be O9A and be entitled to call themselves ONA.
Why? Simply because the Order of Nine Angles, as the name implies, is an order; a world-wide esoteric association of individuals who share the same ethos, pursue similar aims and goals, and who are part of or who adopt our particular distinctive culture. This culture has certain traditions, certain standards of personal behaviour.
Our ethos, our culture, is easily recognizable in two things. In what we call our code of kindred-honour, and in the necessity of practical deeds, sinister-numinous – and thence the necessity of pathei-mathos. Our code of honour means a personal loyalty, to people you know and trust; loyalty to people you personally know and trust, nothing else.
To be ONA means to be of our culture, which means – as our code of honour states – we are suspicious by nature, that we judge people only by knowing them personally and according to their known deeds, and that we value practical deeds over and above words.
Thus we judge if they are our kind, if they belong to our culture, by the criteria of: (1) personally knowing them, or (2) by them being personally known to and vouched for by others we know and trust, or (3) by the known public record of their deeds, although in this case doubts remain, with only a qualified acceptance until such time as one or many of us can personally vouch for them. Someone may claim to be ONA all they want – especially via the ‘world wide web’ – but unless or until they meet one of the foregoing criteria their claim has no value, and they themselves have no merit with us.
There is nothing complicated here, nothing that is difficult to understand. Hence if someone does not want to uphold our traditions, does not like our standards of personal behaviour, they are not of our culture, not of our kind, even if they speak, or try to speak, our language.
The Kollective
The kollective is simply our kind co-operating among themselves, sometimes locally, personally, and sometimes with others far-distant by using the ease of communication that the ‘world wide web’ enables. The operative term being ‘our kind’. It does not mean anonymous people calling themselves ONA communicating with other anonymous people calling themselves ONA.
In the case of ‘with others far-distant’ it means establishing a foundation of trust, first. That is, establishing if indeed these others are our kind. Which returns us to either a personal knowing, or having some credible evidence that they are indeed our kind.
In addition, when we state that the ONA is a kollective, and there is no hierarchy, it means a kollective of our kind who know and who trust each other, and who thus are akin to a large extended, world-wide, family. It does not mean a collection of unknown untrusted people ‘on the internet’ who describe themselves as ONA and who communicate and discus things with other unknown untrusted people ‘on the internet’. Thus, when we mean family we mean family: ties of personal loyalty, of duty to those you personally know and trust, and quite often we mean ties of actual kinship, one generation to the next, and of partners, of brothers, sisters, and so on.
Thus our kollective is our personal extended world-wide family – which may well include those in our own nexion, since they are or become our family – plus those, more distant from us, we know or who are known by others we trust, and so on.
Again, there is nothing complicated here, nothing that is difficult to understand.
Conclusion
This all means something quite interesting about the Order of Nine Angles, something that many, it seems have overlooked – enamoured as they appear to be by this new ephemeral ‘internet’ thing and lacking as they do seem to be in certain Occult faculties.
It means we grow and have grown slowly, as befits our Aeonic perspective. Slowly, through personal contact, a personal knowing, pledges of duty and loyalty based on our code of honour; and more recently and sometimes through using modern mediums such as ‘the world wide web’ and electronic mail as a prelude to such a personal knowing and such personal pledges. It means our presence on ‘the world wide web’ had a purpose, an intent.
It means we are something of a large, growing, unconventional family, whose relations and relatives are becoming dispersed around the Earth, and who – unlike many extended natural families – have a shared, supra-personal, purpose and a shared culture.
Naturally, like all families, sometimes there are disputes, as sometimes a young son or daughter leaves home to adopt another culture or none. But by and large the family stays together, because of our culture, our traditions, our practices, our Occult abilities and faculties, our very long-term esoteric aims and goals.
Which is one reason why many of our people have been with us, part of our family, for ten, twenty, thirty years and more, and why we have slowly grown through assimilating their friends, their sons, their daughters, their relatives, their colleagues. And why have recruited, we still recruit and will continue to recruit, in the old-fashioned way, our ephemeral years using ephemeral modern mediums such as ‘the world wide web’ and electronic mail having revealed just how inefficacious such mediums are, in esoteric and family terms.
Order of Nine Angles
January, 123 yfayen
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[1] In a recent article, DL9 provided some pointers as to what was implicitly expected of someone describing themselves, via the ‘world wide web’, as ONA:
First, privately reveal themselves, and thus their practical deeds, exoteric or esoteric or both – that which makes them ONA – to the ONA OG or AL,
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Second, go public, allowing they themselves and their deeds, their life, to be judged by others according to the criteria for what makes someone ONA;
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Third, publish (even if anonymously) enough evidence for critical ONA people and others to judge. Evidence, in the case of esoteric deeds, such as their journal of the Internal Adept rite, photographs of their Star Game structure, recordings of them performing esoteric chant. Evidence, in the case of exoteric deeds, such as an authentic account of many sinister deeds, with sufficient detail that someone knowing such deeds or experienced in dealing with people who have done such deeds (such as police officers or lawyers or forensic investigators) might conclude they were authentic.
In addition, as we have stated many times over the past decade, we do not accord respect to people whose personal character and scholarly/Occult knowledge is unproven, unknown to us, and thus consider the words, the opinions, the views of such unknown, unproven, people – especially if made via the medium of the internet using some nym – as worthless, as having no value.
Thus it really is quite amusing when unknown individuals – often young, often having little or no practical Occult experience, and invariably never having followed our Way to Internal Adept – pontificate about the ONA on internet ‘forums’ and the like. Their pontifications have, in most instances, been written or said before.
Our respect is limited to and reserved for: (1) our own kind whom we know personally, and especially those among us who have attained at least Internal Adept; (2) those with a proven public record of scholarly works; (3) those with a proven public record of sinister deeds, and (4) those who, like their sinister deeds, are known to us personally. By scholarly we mean learned and having undertaken meticulous, unbiased, research over a period of some years.
