Editorial Note: What follows is taken from some replies – by Chloe of the ONA nexion WSA352 – to a newbie who enquired (on a membership-only Internet forum infested with ONA people) about The Order of Nine Angles. The replies have been slightly edited for publication, here.
Chloe brilliantly and clearly explains the truth, the reality, of the ONA in words which cannot be misunderstand.
Discovering The Sinister Order of Nine Angles
It’s not like I want you to be some ONA drone… Chances are most of us in the ONA wouldn’t agree much on any issue. Which is how things should be if we actually value our individualism.
What bugs me, and perhaps others here is something which may be called your “outsider” knowledge of the ONA.
Now, as an outsider, nobody here could give two shits about what you think, or assume to know of the ONA. But it becomes a different story when you come to us directly and say: Look, here I am, I’d like to be one of you guys, I’m interested, I want to learn shit, teach me; and Oh by the way, I come with my own preconceived knowledge of the ONA which I randomly picked up from hearing and reading other people’s opinions about you guys and Myatt, and fuck you guys if you tell me what those outsiders – who have nothing to do with you guys – are wrong; because if anybody knows the ONA, its those outsiders and them wikipedia articles!
The first and only significant objective of the ONA for you as a beginner is to surmount Yourself and begin to strive to consciously progress to become more than what you are at this moment. This first step involves you learning to put aside your ego. No amount of reading ONA material will dissolve the illusion of the ego. With Ego there can be no evolution, because all you will be able to see in front of you is that ego you have made an idol of.
You can read all the ONA articles, books, manuscripts you want, but if you have not first killed that ego off, it will always get in your way.
This ego is an illusion which holds onto things it is comfortable and familiar with, such as the old aeon, and things associated with the old aeon: like States, nations, religion, and politics.
This ego needs these superficial unreal things to give itself the feeling of being real. That It is an “American”; that It is a “satanist” or that It is a “democrat,” or “liberal” or whatever. Believing that It is these superficial abstractions, It will defend Itself and Its hold on such abstractions. If you cannot, or are not willing to let go of this ego and its abstractions, then you do not have the essential nature to evolve and progress or change. Not having such quality, you are wasting your time with us.
Reading about the ONA will do nothing for you. Outsiders read about the ONA all the time, and it does nothing for them. This ONA isn’t a library or some tea party. You/we get out there [the real world, the streets] and do shit: for the experience, and the wisdom born from such experience. Which is worth more than anything which has been written. And it’s doing shit out there in the real world – doing sinister stuff – that will break down your ego and liberate you from it.
I personally have very little respect for anything written. These things only generate debates and thinking, and pondering, and talking. The most important, and perhaps the only significant aspect about the ONA, are those things written which are merely instructions to get our asses out there to do things. This in ONA talk is called the Methodology. What interesting theories and principles the ONA has are just products of the causal application of such Methodologies.
We can sit here all day, forever, and discuss and debate about taking out States, and what we should replaces these things with, and whose ideas of utopia we should go along with, but all it will be is just talk – and like in the case of Obama, the new house nigga, just empty promises. And discussions like these don’t make you ONA. What makes you ONA is what you DO.
It’s like a gang. Talking about street gangs all day and the purpose of such a street gang doesn’t make you a gangbanger. Doing shit does. Not just doing random shit mind you. Doing shit with your crew, for your crew, for each other.
This is just to illustrate a point. I’m not saying the ONA is a common street gang. In fact it’s a new type of gang; a new type of gang culture. What I’m saying is that what makes a person ONA is not how many manuscripts, articles, or books he/she has read, or if he/she can debate a mundane on some internet forum. It’s what you do out there. What you do for us. How you live your life.
Just do something sinister. Start off with the basics, and eventually things will fall into place.
Your first few steps are entirely up to you. If you cannot get rid of that ego, and cannot get yourself to do anything sinister (constructive or destructive) in that causal world out there, then this ONA cannot be for you.
What makes the ONA different from other things is that it has acted and does act, and is deed and goal oriented. Whereas other organizations outwardly similar to the ONA are just a pile of writings, which you read, then adopt such new opinions like some dork, and wear some cool new label that makes you feel different from other mundanes who do the exact same shit. What Manuscripts the ONA has [and there are many] are not written with the intent to have sinister initiates debate on and on about them and discuss their merits.
You will not be able to grasp the basic components of the ONA such as Aeonics, Causal, Acausal, Wyrd, and such if you do not experience them or put yourself in a physical situation where you are able to experience such things. If you cannot empirically apprehend such basic components of the ONA, then you do not have it in you to grasp what this ONA is.
What do most ONA people have in common? Besides being somehow affiliated or associated with the ONA? It’s not Satanism. It’s the truth at they are all predators, all sinister individuals. The have the same essential traits and characteristics. The same type of character or personal nature.
Whether known in real life for their sinister deeds, or whether described/disguised in some fictional work, if you study such ONA people carefully you will understand the essence and meaning of what the Sinister Way of the ONA is and what it implies. Then study your own inner person and ask yourself if you resonate with the Sinister. Just because you or some person is in love with Satanism and the LHP, does not make such a person sinister.
Being sinister is a type of person that you already are inside with or without the ONA. This ONA is just a collection of those types of people. This sinister type of person is the type that would devote their lives to try and get people to blow stuff, and maybe even themselves, up. The type to hang out with skinheads or street gangs and “liberate” stuff for money or as a way of living. The type that makes such things as crime, or other “unlawful” endeavours, a pastime or a sport. The type to do cullings, for real. The type who can and who will commit treason and plot assassinations in an attempt to take down some State.
Are these the people you want to be associated with? Can you hang with the game? Do you truly know what your getting into? Is this sinister ONA really for you?
Chloe
WSA 352
120yf
^^^
Enemy of the State
The basic thinking process of anyone who even wants to destroy their ego is that A) They can or have conceived a vision of a better Self; & B) To alchemically transmute/transform into that envisioned new Self, the old “Self” must be given up and destroyed.
Now read that short paragraph over, but replace the word “Ego” & “Self” for “Civilization.”
Are you comfortable with the way our Human civilization is right now? With the way America and the West is? With the way things are going: what we are doing to the earth, the over population, the exploitation and exhaustion of natural resources; expanding deserts, climate changes; can you honest see this mode of civilization go on for another 200 years?
As a developed country of only 300 million, do you know how much Energy and Natural Resources America consumes annually? Roughly 1/3 of the world’s energy and resources, just to maintain its equilibrium.
Big deal right? So what? As long as your fed and happy.
But now we have China industrializing. At the moment what spectacular growth we have seen of China is based 90% on coal. In the near future they will need [like right now] to use other things beside coal to become a developed country. China has 1,000,000,000 people. That’s 3 times the size of America alone. How much energy and natural resources can you imagine a nation that size will consume? Less than America’s or more?
We also have India waking up and industrializing. They also got ONE BILLION. That is also three times the size of America. That is also three times the energy and natural resource demand than America’s.
I’m not a mathematician or anything, but something in that equation doesn’t look right or doesn’t add up; unless we assume that A) the increase in the world’s population has ZERO affect and demand on natural resources [by 2012 there will officially be 7 billion of us]; and B) The Earth will expand and get bigger and a new continent filled with a miraculously staggering amount of oil and fresh water and food with paradisal weather conditions will pop out of nowhere.
It’s like a majority of human kind [thanks to the Magian ethos] are like stupid brain dead kids playing in a sand box, and we just think we can use it and abuse it, and exploit it’s resources all we want to make high definition TV’s and shit; because shit, we all know when we have finished fucking up this sand box Jesus will just fucking come and bring our asses to a new sand box. After all, he did say: In mine Father’s House, there be many Mansions.
Nothing will ever happen in our lifetimes. So we now today can afford to sit back with our bad self and say to others: Pssh, who cares, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Everything will be fine for the next 180 years. We’ll be long dead when the sky falls.
But a car doesn’t need to be broke to run head first into a wall, or drive itself off a cliff. In fact, the better the car works: the sooner we fall off the proverbial cliff.
The issue is how you are seeing what is a “nation-state.” What you have been conditioned to believe it to be. An extension of yourself, as you say.
If we were to pretend that we were Muslim girls who have to wear beadsheets all day, stay inside or get beat, and get thrown in prison for chewing gum, would we see our nation-state as a cool and wonderful extension of ourselves? Cuz shit, every girls want to live that life inside, don’t we.
And you yourself have already said that you do see a problem with Islam.
What if I were to place you [as you are today] into a time machine and force you to live for 10 years in the middle of England as a serf, during the Dark Ages. Can you honestly look at me after those 10 years and say: Yup Chloe, it’s an extension of my inner self. Boy I sure did like being a piece of shit serf with some fucked up religion ruling my every thought and motion from cradle to grave.
You have already implied to me that you know there is something not right with Christianity.
So now to the first point:
In those two above examples, what we commonly know of as a “religion” and a “state” are the same entity/institution.
The Question now is:
What exactly is a “religion” and/or “political regime,” and what are you to this entity?
The very fundamental basic building block of a “religion,” a “culture,” a “tradition,” a “belief,” an “ideology,” is something often referred to as a “Meme” in sociology.
A meme is really simple. It’s anything that can be transmitted from one person/mind to another person/mind via any medium. I’ll give you an example of a very successful viral meme which has literally taken over the world—> 
<— The Smiley Face icon made with a colon and open parenthesis. This simple meme first began as a localized even when some random person thought he’d type a simple replica of a smiley face. That meme exploded over some years and turned into a global phenomenon, and in doing so created a subculture of internet/typing savvy people who not only uses that icon, but knows it’s “esoteric” value and meaning.
The second Question you should keep in mind is: If you did not create that smiley face meme. What exactly are you as a biological organism to this specific meme?
Here’s another meme which is a more specific meme with what is called “genetic coding”—> “Real men don’t hit girls.” Those words, or the actual Thought each word is in your mind, specifically sequenced in that specific order is the Meme and its genetic coding. It can be seen here that this more sophisticated meme not only has the power to control your thinking and behaviour, but that it also has the power to alter others perception of you who are infected by this meme. Thus, if you hit a girl you are vilified and rejected by the infected. Such is the power of this simple meme. What power then would a more complex cluster of memes have?
When many memes are woven together into a Complex it is called a “Memeplex.” An example of a thriving memeplex is Christmas or New Years. With the New Years memeplex, you can actually observe how over time a Memeplex will evolve to become more sophisticated. What was New Years a hundred years ago is not what New Years is to a New Yorker on January 1st today.
This is all a “religion” or “political regime” is, a viral memeplex.
Now it would be easier for you to understand what you are to the memeplex of “Christianity” back in its potent days: You adopt the memeplex and your ego identifies itself with that coding. Then you lose awareness of what you are to this memeplex. You never realize, because your ego prevents you from realizing, that all you really are to this memeplex is a host to something parasitic, which now controls your life. At the end what becomes of you, and what does this memeplex causally materialize?
It causally materializes a condition where you are subservient to priests and a Church; where you not only pay tithes to make other men richer, but you give up your sovereignty to make another human being, or group of human beings more powerful than you. The same group of humans, who now, because you are a slave to the memeplexes they have engineered, have absolute and total power over you and everybody else. We and you know the extent of what power I am talking about during the Dark Ages; and in many current Islamic “states.”
It’s very easy for you as an individual to grasp the concept of being a slave to a “religion” because your mind exists outside the matrix of that Memeplex.
The very fact that you cannot see anything wrong with a nation-State tells me: Morphius, that you are still plugged in. That your ego is immerse still in the Matrix of the memeplex of “nation-States, ” or a “political regime.”
What in essence is exactly a “political regime?” It’s a group of literal random people you do not know, who craft or engineer a memeplex and sell it to you hoping you will plug in or get infected by it.
Such as the memeplex of “democracy.” So you some guys tell you you don;t need a king anymore. and that you have “liberty” and can make your own rules and govern yourself. And you buy it. But then your ego holds onto that memeplex, that abstaction, and you lose awareness.
What have you become to this memeplex – this political ideology? What has this memeplex causally manifested into?
You have become a subservient drone, force to pay tithes/taxes to men you don’t even know, who could care less about you. You have given up your natural sovereignty, and have given that power to a regime that doesn’t even know you are a live. The power to imprison you and take your children and life away if you do not comply with their rules; if you do not do things their way; if you do not see things from their worldview.
From this perspective, in this awakening context, what is the difference between the religions you hate and despise and the State or political regime you adore? In either case, you are a host to a parasitic memeplex, and you end up in the same condition: a captive to an abstract lie. A true prison without walls. And the worse part is, you carry that memeplex and distribute it by infecting other with it. And you would even challenge those verbally or physically who threaten the existence of that political memeplex. Such is evident with your current sentiments to Radical Islam which desires to destroy the West.
You are a slave. Just because you have the “freedom” to choose your own domesticating/ docilizing “religion,” does not mean you are Free. If Satanism were a threat to the security and coherency of a political memeplex, it would not be allowed to exist.
What then is a threat to the psychological coherency of a political memeplex and its causal regime? The things all political regime outlaws: “crime,” and coherent resistance. An example of “coherent resistance” would be the memeplex of “anarchism” as it causally materializes as large protests and demonstrations. You can clearly see in this context where the memeplex of “anarchy” is tolerated by the political entity, and where it begins to become a threat, and how such political entity forces that threatening memeplex back into docile mode – back into a compliant set of beliefs of a fringe group of society.
How is the psychological coherency of a political memeplex to be disrupted then? What examples do we have from which we can learn in this modern age?
I would direct your attention to the political regime of Mexico as it is right now losing a war with a highly virulent criminal organization called the Zetas. Mexico and Russia as they are today: failed states, is something every initiate of the Sinister Way must pay close attention to and study attentively.
If the “state” dislikes “crime” the state fears “organized crime” or coherent acts which disrupts the state’s memetic coherency.
What we know of today as the vilified “gang” and “criminal organizations” in an age past were simply subjugated tribes who were forced to be citizens of some Empire. You understand?
Take the Roman Empire for example. An Empire is basically a political regime which has dominion and power over not only it’s core ethnic race, but other races and tribes. Thus, the Roman Empire consisted of patch works of many races, peoples, clans, and tribes. Some accepted Roman imperialism from the get go, most were subjugated and forced into compliancy.
If a clan or tribe of barbaric Germans living within the Empire of Rome decided that they had had enough and they came together to use collective force, i.e.: use outlaw or “criminal behavious,” to fight for their freedom; what is this but what we call a gang or criminal organization in modern terms?
What exactly then were American Rebels in context to the British Empire, but a gang and organized criminal racket? Organized in the sense that those rebels were coherent and well planned. A racket in the sense that they had to initially engage in “shady business” or criminal business [moonshine in this context] to fund their projects.
You leave a festering criminal organization alone for a while and what do you have? Genghis Khan and his Horde, which evolved into an Empire.
What then is an Empire/State? Myatt says it very clearly: it’s a protection racket You don’t submit and pay taxes, you get punished or killed.
Now, if America were an Empire: a political regime which rules over many nations and peoples. What in Human terms are those “street gangs” and criminal organizations? Disgruntled Tribes. It does change what these things are objectively because we demoralizingly call them “gangs.” These “gangs” still do what infant states and large empires do: collect territory, and use force to collect taxes.
Sans the labels, all this is just the game of human life, as it has been since the dawn of ours species. One gang of people warring with another. Although the times have changes, and the environment has changed, we are still biologically, organically, and psychologically still the same Homo Sapeins genetically wired to play this game.
So now it becomes a choice of who you are down with? What gang you claiming homie? USA or ONA? Who you ready to die for? Everything else is just gravy.
Chloe 352
Order of Nine Angles
120 yf
^^^
Joining The Order
The title “Joining The Order” is a nonsensical phrase in regard to the “Order of Nine Angles,” because essentially the ONA is not an “Order” and there is no such thing as membership. You can’t join something which does not “exist.”
By the word “Order” in general, I would mean to denote a structured, often hierarchal organization such as the Ordo Templi Orientis, the “Masonic Order,” the Rosicrucian Order, the Traditional Martinist Order, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Order of Saint Benedict, et cetera. In this context the ONA is not an “Order,” in fact, according to this general meaning of the word “Order,” the ONA doesn’t even exist at all.
The ONA is more accurately what is known as a “Social Order” which is a sociological concept. Wikipedia explains a “social order” like this:
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Social order is a concept used in sociology, history and other social Sciences. It refers to a set of linked social structures, social institutions and social practices which conserve, maintain and enforce “normal” ways of relating and behaving.
A “social order” is a relatively stable system of institutions, patterns of interactions and customs, capable of continually reproducing at least those conditions essential for its own existence. The concept refers to all those facts of society which remain relatively constant over time. These conditions could include both property, exchange and power relations, but also cultural forms, communication relations and ideological systems of values. – Source
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So basically as a social order, the ONA is designed to memetically transmit something which may be referred to as a “Nine Angles” Tradition, which would include certain basic practices, customs, patterns of thought, ideologies, ethos, world views, and culture, peculiar to this “Nine Angles” Tradition. And like any social order, this ONA thing continually reproduces its subcultural memes over time via a loose collection of individuals who resonate with this Nine Angles Tradition.
Thus, to illustrate the difference between an organizational Order, and a social order, we can use the subculture of surfers as an example. There is no such thing as an “Order of Surfers” where you join or apply for membership to be a genuine, government approved, IRS recognized, authenticated, bona fide, real McCoy surfer. It is simply a social order or a memeplex of certain social and practical memes pertaining to surfing which you simply assume or adopt and put into practice. The social order/subculture of surfing does come with certain shared ideas, common practices; language and vocabulary specific to the subculture, perhaps also common dress codes where certain brand name clothing and apparel are utilized.
You simply “plug” yourself into this social order, put it into practice, and perhaps teach others later. And so through adoption of this social order, application of its activities and practices, and teaching of others, the memetic components of this subculture is reproduced and replicated from one generation to the next; from one person to another. And over such time, new elements may be incorporated while old elements are dropped. But we cannot say that surfing is an organizational entity with elected leaders, and membership cards.
This is pretty much what the ONA is. It is a social order. So there is truth to the idea or statement that the ONA as an Order never existed like the Dominican Order existed or exists as an “Order.” But it does exist in the form of a social order with its own unique traditions or culture, which is adopted, put into practice, and taught to others by individuals who may resonate with its subcultural way of life.
Although the ONA may not have existed as an Order. It does exist and it was designed from the very beginning to be self-replicating over time through “nexions” or those who assume the social order of the Nine Angles Tradition, put the tradition into practice, and teach it to others.
The self-replicating “thought-ware” or program of the ONA is directly embedded into its “back bone” called the Seven Fold Way, or the Seven-Fold Sinister Way, which is a sequence of seven Grades, levels of progression, “stages,” or “degrees.”
Each Grade in the Seven Fold Way comes with certain tasks the “Initiate” executes on their own time and terms. From the get go one of the tasks as an initiate of one of the lowest grades is that you find a partner, initiate this partner into the ONA, and begin practicing certain rites together. So from the very beginning, even if only one person finds the ONA worth adopting and practicing, this person has the task of seeking and initiating a second person into the ONA. A following task of a higher grade in the ONA has the Initiate organize or make from scratch an entire Temple/Nexion; which is a group of underlings, cells, or students the Initiate mentors and teaches into the ONA.
So essentially you do not join the ONA: You make the ONA. In this way, it is not accurate to say that the ONA does not exist, or that it has never existed, or has gone dormant. Simply because the very foundation and back bone of the ONA (the Seven Fold Way) is designed from the very beginning to be self manifesting and self replicating. Even if every present ONA Initiate and Old Guard were to all die, be imprisoned, or just dropped out of the Seven Fold Way, the ONA would still be able to re-create itself because all of the instructions, rites, practices, ideology, world view, the sinister dialectic, and concepts of sinister subversion are all “there.” And as long as there is one person alive who resonates with the social order of the Nine Angles, the ONA will always have a nexion [aperture] to re-manifest itself through.
Even if we say that originally the ONA was just one man [Anton Long] and his ideas, those ideas were engineered to be self creating and self replicating as a memeplex. All thing that exists in our modern world first began as the idea of one man, designed to attract other people who resonate with its essence and potential, and through such people are the ideas of individual men manifest by effort and assertion of causal force in the real world of experience. The cars that we drive first began as an idea in the mind of the anti-Semite Ford; telecommunications satellites which our modern world can’t exist without first began as an idea of some guy, who now also has a “belt” named after him: the Clarke Belt. Christianity first began as an idea of a crazy Jew who thought he was God, and now there are 2 billion Christians. Buddhism first began as the ideas of a Punjabi Beggar, now if we count the Buddhists in Communist China, there are over 1.6 billion Buddhist. Liberty, and the right of the people to govern themselves first began as criminal ideas in Christendom entertained in a group of daring minds. Today most people in the [developed] world live in republics which are free from the tyranny of the Church and Crown. Ideas become things as the mystics say. You become what you think as the Buddha says. It’s very hard to say that the ideas of one man named Hitler or one man named Marx never causally manifested into anything real or measurable.
We as Humans are thinking animals. The “flaw” is that we are not born with ideas already in our heads to think of, interpret the world with, and regulate our actions with. Such that it becomes common practice – even a human necessity – for others who have come before us to create ideas for us to eventually adopt, think with, to influence our world views, and our actions in the causal world: if our respective human cultures and human civilizations are to continue. And if such memeplexes are to evolve, and progress, then there must always be dialectical conflict, where old memes are ruthlessly dethroned by new tested and tried memes. Like the old genes of an aged, impotent alpha male is ruthlessly replaced by a new more potent, more relevant and healthy alpha male.
Of all the hundreds of ONA MSS, and thousands of pages presencing ONA thought-ware; the most simple, revealing, and instructional is the following called “The Complete Guide To The Seven-Fold Sinister Way.” It presents the foundation, the back bone and basic self replicating program of the ONA. You do not join the ONA: You make it.
Chloe 352
Order of Nine Angles
121 yf
Order of Nine Angles
Introduction
The Seven-Fold Sinister Way is the name given to the system of training used by traditional ONA nexions – that is, by those esoteric groups which use a sinister (LHP) Initiatory system based on The Dark Tradition (aka Hebdomary). It is the learning of The Art of Dark Sorcery, by individual Occultists, and thus is the graded and guided practice of The Dark Arts.
The Way is an individual one: each stage, of the seven stages that make the Way, is achieved by the individual as a result of their own effort. To reach a particular stage, requires considerable effort by the individual, who works mostly on their own.
One aim of the Way is to create Sinister individuals – that is, to train individuals in The Dark Arts. This sinister training developes individual character, esoteric (or Occult) skills and self-insight. The individual also acquires genuine esoteric knowledge and that genuine understanding that is the beginning of wisdom.
The Way itself enables any individual to achieve genuine esoteric (Occult) Adeptship – and beyond – and thus fulfil the potential latent within them, and thus they can and do enhance their life, and come to know and then achieve their unique Destiny.
The Way is essentially practical – involving experiences in the real world, and ordeals, as well as the completion of difficult, challenging tasks. It also involves a practical mastery of all forms of sorcery. The Way requires a sincere and genuine commitment, and it is both difficult and very dangerous. Success depends on this commitment by the individual.
The Way is divided into seven stages, and these mark a specific level of individual achievement. The stages are: Neophyte; Initiate; External Adept; Internal Adept; Master of Temple/Mistress of Earth [ or "Lady Master"]; Grand Master/Grand Mistress [ or "Grand Lady Master"]; Immortal. Sometimes, Initiates are described, or known, as “novices”; Internal Adepts as Priest/Priestess; a Grand Master as a Magus, and a Grand Mistress as a Magistra.
All of these stages (with the exception of the stages beyond Master/Mistress) are associated with specific tasks, ordeals, rituals and so on, and a completion of each and all of these (given in detail below under the appropriate stage) is required before the next stage can be attempted. Also, each stage involves the individual in a certain amount of reading and study of Order manuscripts/texts [hereafter "manuscripts" is abbreviated as MSS, and "manuscript" as MS ]. The purpose of this reading and study is to provide a sinister, esoteric, understanding of the tasks, ordeals, rituals and so on of the particular stage being attempted. Each stage represents a development of and in the individual – of their personality, their skills, their understanding, their knowledge and insight.
Before embarking on the first stage – that of sinister Initiation – the individual who desires to follow the dark path of traditional sorcery should gain some understanding of what The Sinister Way is. To this end, the following Order MSS should be read:
* A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles
* A Glossary of Order of Nine Angles Terms (v 2.01)
* The Dark Arts of The Sinister Way
* Our Sinister Character
* An Introduction to Dark Sorcery
An Important Note Regarding Copies of Naos
Facsimile copies (in pdf format) of the original typewritten and spiral bound copies of Naos (as first circulated by the ONA between 1989 and 1992 CE) are now available, both on the Internet, and from several book publishers. All other editions of Naos have serious errors or omissions, and readers are advised to avoid them.
The genuine facsimile copies in pdf format are c. 45 Megabytes in size, and contain: (1) the handwritten words Aperiatur Terra Et Germinet Atazoth on the first page, and the handwritten word Brekekk (followed by an address) on the last page; (2) a typewritten table of contents on page 3 which includes – in the following order – Part One, Part Two, Appendix, Part Three Esoteric MSS; (3) a distinct facsimile image of the spiral binding on the left hand side of every page until p.70. In addition, genuine copies of the original MSS include facsimile images of hand-drawn diagrams, including the advanced Star Game, and The Wheel of Life.
I – Neophyte
The first task of a neophyte [the word means "a beginner; a new convert"] is to obtain copies of the various Order MSS which will be needed. These include: (1)Naos – A Guide to Becoming an Adept; and (2) The Grimoire of Baphomet, Dark Goddess. The neophyte also needs to understand the fundamental concepts of magick, such as “causal” and “acausal” and here a study of the following Order MSS is useful: (a) Chapters 0 and I of Naos; (b) Aeonic Magick – A Basic Introduction.
The second task of a neophyte is to undertake the “secret task” appropriate to this first stage. This task is a necessary prelude to sinister Initiation [ the task is detailed in the MS "The Secret Tasks of the Sinister Way", which is included as an Appendix to this present work].
The third task of a neophyte is to undertake a ritual of Initiation. If you are in contact with a traditional nexion or group, this can be a Ceremonial ritual. If you are working alone, or the group you are in contact with suggest it, it can be a Hermetic one of “Self-Initiation”, as given in detail in the Order MS Naos. There is no difference between a Ceremonial Initiation, and a Hermetic Self-Initiation.
The fourth and final task of this stage involves the new Initiate in constructing and learning to play, The Star Game, details of which are given in the Order MSNaos.
II – Initiate
Tasks:
1) Study the Septenary System in detail [Naos] and begin hermetic magickal workings with the septenary spheres and pathways as described in Naos. Write a personal “magickal diary” about these workings. Study and begin to use the Sinister Tarot [copies of the Sinister Tarot, and study notes, are available from the ONA].
2) Undertake hermetic workings/rituals for specific personal desires/personal requests of your own choosing, as described in Naos. Record these, and the results, if any, in your magickal diary.
3) Set yourself one very demanding physical goal, train and achieve or surpass that goal. [Examples of minimum standards are, for men: walking thirty-two miles in less than seven hours in hilly terrain; running twenty miles in hilly terrain in less than two and a half hours. Cycling one hundred miles in under five and a half hours. For women, the acceptable minimum standards are: walking twenty-seven miles in hilly terrain in less than seven hours; running twenty miles in hilly terrain in less than three hours; cycling one hundred miles in under six and one quarter hours.]
4) Seek and find someone of the opposite sex to be your ‘magickal’ companion and sexual partner [or of the same sex if you incline that way], and introduce this person to The Dark Tradition. Initiate them according to the rite in Naos, or devise your own rite of Initiation (which should culminate in sexual intercourse with your partner). Undertake the path and sphere workings with this partner.
5) Obtain and study (a) the Order MS Eulalia, Dark Daughter of Baphomet; and (b) the Order MS The Deofel Quartet]. A guide to this MS is given in the MSS The Deofel Quartet - Responses and Critical Analysis and The Deofel Quartet – A Satanic Analysis. [Note: Part I and Part II of the Deofel Quartet are intended as entertaining sinister fiction.]
6) Undertake an ‘Insight Role’ [see the Secret Tasks MS [appended below] and the MS An Introduction to Insight Roles (119yf edition)]. This Insight Role is the Secret Task of this stage.
7) After completion of your Insight Role, undertake the Grade Ritual of External Adept, given in Naos.
The stage of Initiation can last – depending on the commitment of the Initiate – from six months to a year. Occasionally, it lasts two years.
Understanding Initiation:
Sinister Initiation is the awakening of the darker/sinister/unconscious aspects of the psyche, and of the inner (often repressed) and latent personality/character of the Initiate. It is also a personal commitment, by the Initiate, to the path of dark sorcery. The dark, or sinister, energies which are used/unleashed are symbolized by the symbols/forms of the Septenary System, and these symbols are used in the workings with the septenary spheres and pathways. These magickal workings provide a controlled, ritualized, or willed, experience of these dark energies or “forces” – and this practical experience begins the process of objectifying and understanding such energies, and thus these aspects of the psyche/personality of the Initiate. The Star Game takes this process of objectification further, enabling a complete and rational understanding – divorced from conventional “moral opposites”.
The physical goal which an Initiate must achieve developes personal qualities such as determination, self-discipline, élan. It enhances the vitality of the Initiate, and balances the inner magickal work.
The seeking and finding of a magickal companion begins the confrontation/understanding of the anima/animus (the female/male archetypes which exist in the psyche and beyond) in a practical way, and so increases self-understanding via direct experience. It also enables further magickal work to be done, of a necessary type.
An Insight Role developes real sinister character in the individual; it is a severe test of the resolve, Sinister commitment and personality of the Initiate. The Grade Ritual which completes the stage of Initiation (and which leads to the next stage) is a magickal act of synthesis.
III – External Adept
Tasks:
1) Organize a magickal, and Sinister, group/nexion/magickal Temple. You must recruit members for this Nexion, and teach them about The Dark Tradition of the ONA. With your companion (or another one if personal circumstances have changed) you must Initiate these members according a ceremonial ritual of your own devising, for which you may use texts such as The Grimoire of Baphomet and The Black Book of Satan for inspiration and some guidance. In addition, you must perform ceremonial rituals on a regular basis. In this Nexion/Temple, you will be the officiating Priest/Priestess, with your partner acting as the Priestess/Priest. Regular Sunedrions should be held, as detailed, for instance, in the Black Book of Satan, as you should regularly perform rituals, both hermetic and ceremonial, for the satisfaction of your own desires and those of your members. You should run this Temple for between six and eighteen months, as you should write and use your ownBlack Book of ceremonial rituals, with some help from the members of your group, if possible, in the writing of this work, and with all rituals firmly based on the non-Magian dark, septenary, tradition of the ONA, and you should use this work of yours in preference to using published works such as the Black Book of Satan.
2) Train for and undertake all three of the following different and demanding physical tasks – the minimum standards (for men) are: (a) walking thirty-two miles, in hilly terrain, in under seven hours while carrying a pack weighing at least 30 lbs; (b) running twenty-six miles in four hours; (c) cycling two hundred or more miles in twelve hours. [Those who have already achieved such goals in such activities should set themselves more demanding goals. For women, the minimum acceptable standards are: (a) walking twenty-seven miles in under seven hours while carrying a pack weighing at least 15 lbs. (b) running twenty-six miles in four and a half hours; (c) cycling one hundred and seventy miles in twelve hours.]
3) Undertake the ‘Secret Task’ as given in the Secret Tasks MS.
4) Study, construct and learn to play the advanced form of The Star Game.
5) Study Aeonics and the principles of Aeonic Magick, as detailed in Order MSS.
6) Study, and if possible practice, Esoteric Chant, as detailed in Order MSS [ particularly in Naos].
7) Study the esoteric traditions of The Dark Tradition, and if so inclined [see 'Concerning The Nexion' below] instruct your Temple members in this tradition.
8.) Prepare for, and undertake, the Grade Ritual of Internal Adept – if necessary choosing someone to run the Nexion in your absence.
Concerning The Nexion:
The Temple [aka Nexion] must be run for a minimum of six months, as you yourself must seek out, recruit, instruct and train, the members of this Temple. There must be at least four other members, excluding yourself and your companion, during these six months, as you must strive to obtain an equal balance between men and women if the Temple is so orientated toward heterosexuality. It is at your discretion whether or not you are honest about your intentions, and inform recruits/potential recruits that this Temple is one of your tasks as an External Adept, and that you yourself are not yet very advanced along the Left Hand Path. If you choose not to so inform your members, you must play the appropriate role. If you are considering keeping and expanding the Temple beyond the minimum period and into the next stage, that of Internal Adept, it is more practical to be honest from the outset. The crux is to decide whether you wish your Temple to be solely for your own External Adept purpose, or whether you want it be truely sinister, with your members guided by you to become sincere and practising dark sorcerers. If this latter, then you must be honest with them about your own progress along the path, and instruct them according to ONA tradition.
After this six months is over – with four or more members and many ceremonial rituals having been performed – you may disband the Temple, if you consider sufficient experience has been gained in magick/manipulation/pleasuring. However the time limit of six months, and the minimum of four other members, must be observed, otherwise the task is not completed, and the next stage – Internal Adept – is not possible. This particular task, of an External Adept, is only complete when these minimum conditions have been met, for such conditions are essential for practical ceremonial experience to be gained.
After these conditions have been met, you may opt to continue with, and expand, your Temple.
Understanding External Adept:
The tasks of an External Adept develope both magickal and personal experience, and from these a real, abiding, sinister character is formed in the individual. This character, and the understanding and skills which go with it, are the essential foundations of the next stage, that of the Internal Adept.
The Temple enables various character roles to be directly assumed, and further developes the magickal skills, and magickal understanding, an Adept must possess. Particularly important here is skill in, and understanding of, ceremonial magick. Without this skill and understanding, Aeonic magick is not possible. The Temple also completes the experiencing of confronting, and integrating, the anima/animus.
From the many and diverse controlled and willed experiences, a genuine self-learning arises: the beginnings of the process of “individuation”, of esoteric Adeptship. [ See, for some basic exoteric guidance, the Order MS Adeptship - Its Real Meaning and Significance.]
The stage of External Adept lasts from two to six years.
IV – Internal Adept
The basic task of an Internal Adept is to strive to fulfil their personal Destiny – that is, to presence the dark force by acting sinister in the real world, thus affecting others, and causing changes in accord with the sinister dialectic of change. This personal Destiny is revealed, or becomes known, before or during the Grade Ritual of Internal Adept.
The Destiny is unique, and involves using the natural, and developed character and abilities of the individual. For some, the Destiny may be to continue with their Nexion, teaching others, and guiding them in their turn along the Seven-Fold Way. For others, the Destiny may be creative, in the artistic or musical sense – presencing the sinister through new, invented and performed forms or works. For others, the Destiny may be to acquire influence and/or power, and using these to aid /produce sinister change in accord with the sinister dialectic. For others, it may involve some heretical/adversarial or directly revolutionary or disruptive role, and thus seeking to change society. For others, the Destiny may be specific and specialized – being a warrior, or an assassin….. There are as many Destinies as there Adepts to undertake them. [For a text appropriate to one such Destiny, see the ONA MS Warriors of The Dark Way.]
While this Destiny is unfolding, the Adept will be increasing their esoteric knowledge and experience through a study and practice of Esoteric Chant, The Star Game,Aeonic Magick. Rites such as those of the Nine Angles will be undertaken. A complete and reasoned understanding of Aeons, Civilizations and other forms will be achieved, and with it the beginnings of wisdom.
After many years of striving to fulfil their Destiny, and after many years of experience and learning, the Adept will be propelled toward the next stage of the Way [ see, for some basic exoteric guidance, the MS Mastery - Its Real Meaning and Significance; and the MS The Abyss where what occurs during Internal Adept is described.] When the time is right, the Grade Ritual of Master/Mistress will be undertaken. The time is right only after the Adept has spent years completing themselves, and their ‘self-image’, having taken themselves to and beyond their limits – physical, mental, intellectual, moral, emotional. Being genuine Adepts, they will have the insight, and the honesty, to know what experiences, and what knowledge, they lack – and accordingly will seek to undergo such experiences, and learn such knowledge.
The stage of Internal Adept lasts from five to eleven years.
V – Master/Mistress
The fundamental tasks of this Grade are threefold:
1) The guiding of suitable individuals along the Seven-Fold Way, either on an individual basis, or as part of a structured Nexion/Temple/group;
2) The performance of Aeonic Magick to aid the sinister dialectic;
3) The creation of new forms to enhance conscious understanding and to aid the presencing of acausal/sinister forces.
Further, and importantly, a Master/Mistress will be using their Aeonic understanding, and their skills to influence/bring about changes in the societies of their time – this is Aeonic Magick, but without “ritual”, as described in Parts III and IV of The Deofel Quartet and in texts such as Eulalia, Dark Daughter of Baphomet. They will also be working to create long-term change (of centuries or more).
Few individuals reach the stage of Master/Mistress – so far, only one to two individuals a century, out of all the genuine esoteric traditions, have gone beyond the stage of Master/Mistress to that of Grand Master/Grand Mistress.
The stage of Master/Mistress lasts a minimum of seven years – when sufficient Aeonic works are completed/achieved, and wisdom attained, there is a moving toward the next stage, that of Grand Master/Grand Mistress.
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Appendix – The Secret Tasks of the Sinister Way
The secret tasks have remained secret for a long time by virtue of their nature – they represent genuine dark sorcery in action and as such often are “a-moral”. Such esoteric tasks were revealed to an Initiate by the Master, or Adept, guiding and training that Initiate.
To understand the nature of these tasks, it is necessary for the sinister novice to be familiar, and in agreement with, the secret teachings themselves, particularly as these relate to culling. [These teachings are contained in such traditional Order MSS as Culling - A Guide to Sacrifice and Guidelines for the Testing of Opfers.For a long time, the matters mentioned in the above secret MSS were transmitted only on an oral basis - it being forbidden for such teachings and practices to be written down or divulged to non-Initiates. However, as explained elsewhere, in several other MSS, this practice has now changed.
Accordingly, this present MS will detail the secret tasks which a sinister novice must undertake as part of their commitment to The Dark Tradition. That is, these hitherto secret tasks - like the other tasks detailed in the MS A Complete Guide to the Seven-Fold Way - are both required and necessary: mandatory if progress is to be made upon the Way. Without them, there can be no genuine achievement along the Way, for it is such tasks which develope that character and those abilities which are sinister and which thus represent the presencing of the dark forces on Earth via the agency (or vehicle) of the individual sorcerer. These secret tasks - and the other tasks - represent the way of dark sorcerer. They are sinister. As such, they a fitting only to a minority: to those who are, or those who desire to become, sinister in a practical way. Some who profess to be sinister - and some who wish to become sorcerers of The Dark Tradition - will hear of these tasks, or read them, and be surprised, perhaps even appalled, particularly by the tasks that involve hunting and killing animals and culling human dross. Such people will say or write such things as "Such tasks are not necessary". By saying or writing such things such people condemn themselves as mundanes - as "ordinary" and weak - as they will show they lack the demonic desire, the hardness, the toughness, the darkness which all genuine sinister novices possess or must develope. The Dark Way is at it is - dark, and dangerous, and full of diabolic ecstasies and diabolic triumphs over the "ordinary", the mundane and those who would keep everyone in servitude and thrall. So it is, so has it been, and so shall it continue to be - to enable evolution, to create what must be created, while the fearful majorities in their sloth, delusions and ignorance continue their morbid, Nazarene-like, sub-human existence.
As has been stated many times, genuine dark sorcery requires commitment - it requires self-effort, by the novice, over a period of years. It involves genuineordeals, the achievement of difficult goals, the participation in pleasures, and the living of life in certain ways. Only thus are self-insight and genuine Occult ability born - only thus is a genuine Adept created.
Neophyte:
Before Initiation - and after undertaking the first task of a neophyte as given in the Guide - undertake the following task:
* Find an area where game is plentiful and, equipping yourself with either a cross-bow or an ordinary bow (a longbow) hunt/stalk some suitable game, and make a kill. Skin and prepare this game yourself (if necessary - for example, a pheasant - 'hanging' the game until it is ready). When prepared and ready, cook and eat this game.
"Game" in this context means wild edible birds or animals such as venison, hare, rabbit, partridge, pheasant, wildfowl. For this task, you are undertaking the role of hunter, using primitive weapons. (Guns cannot be used for this task.) After completing this hunting task, either undertake the next task as given below - which is not obligatory - or repeat the task above, choosing a different type of game.
* Undertake, as a solo hermetic working, either the traditional Mass of Heresy(suitably adapted for such an hermetic rite), and then, nine days later, the Rite of Defiance.
Note: Both the Mass of Heresy and the Rite of Defiance are intentionally heretical in our times; as well as being means of catharsis, and providing a practical means whereby those undertaking them can develope a sinister-empathy with that which and those whom are currently regarded, by Magians and mundanes and in a very practical way, as "evil" and deserving of approbation.
Initiate:
After the rite or ceremony of your Initiation, and following the completion of the tasks as given in the Guide, you should choose and undertake, for between six to eighteen months, an Insight Role [see the MS An Introduction to Insight Roles - 119yf edition].
External Adept:
The following two tasks must both be undertaken successfully.
1) With your Temple formed as one of your External Adept tasks – see the Guide – perform both the Mass of Heresy and The Rite of Defiance.
2) Train several members, and yourself, in the undertaking of the tests relevant to choosing an opfer. Select some suitable candidates for the post of opfer, using sinister guidelines for so selecting an opfer, and undertake the relevant tests on each chosen candidate. The opfer or opfers having been so chosen by failing such tests, perform The Death Ritual using the chosen opfer(s) in the central role. Thereafter, and having completed all the necessary preparations, select a further opfer using Aeonics or sinister strategy as a guide, and undertake The Ceremony of Recalling [see The Grimoire of Baphomet].
It must be stressed that (i) the opfer(s) must be chosen according to sinister principles as given in the appropriate Order MSS; (ii) those so chosen must be tested according to sinister principles as given in the appropriate Order MSS. Furthermore, the candidates for the position of opfer can be chosen either by you, or suggested by a member of your Temple, if those members are following the sinister path in a committed way.
Beyond External Adept, there are no secret tasks of a prescribed nature, for those following the sinister path to undertake.
Order of Nine Angles
101yf
(Revised 121 yf)
