Over the past three decades, the sinister worldwide collective which is The Order of Nine Angles has emphasized again and again that (1) those interested in the ONA – as well as recent Initiates of its own sinister tradition – should “work things out for themselves”; and that (2) slavish acceptance of traditions, and slavish following of and obedience to individuals (however esoterically advanced they may appear to be, or even are) are incompatible with the genuine Left Hand Path and especially with The Dark Tradition of the ONA.
In addition, those interested in the ONA and who expect to or who desire to associate themselves with, or become part of, the sinister ONA collective, and thus use its sinister traditions for their own esoteric advancement, have to – by the very real and practical sinister, and elitist, nature of the ONA – possess a certain individual, personal, character or nature.
There are some simple, and reliable, tests available by means of which the individual can determine if they possess the character to become part of a sinister ONA tribe or a sinister ONA traditional nexion, and thus become part of our sinister collective.
The first test relates to a commonly used Occult name and a commonly used Occult symbol – Baphomet, and the inverted pentagram – and the test is to see (1) what the interested candidate understands by them, (2) whether or not they are content with that understanding; (3) whether that understanding of theirs is the same as that commonly assigned to that Occult symbol and that Occult name.
Hence, if they accept or understand Baphomet as some weird figure as portrayed by Levi and others, then they have failed. If they accept and understand the inverted pentagram – and especially that as used by LaVey with Hebrew lettering – as the symbol of Satanism, or even as a genuine symbol of Satanism, then they have failed.
That is, they do not possess the character, or the latent abilities and latent character, of our sinister Dreccian kind. Therefore, we are not interested in them at all, and consider them as – or on the same evolutionary level as – mundanes.
Why have they failed? Because The Order of Nine Angles has set up various things in direct opposition to what has become accepted in Occultism, in The Left Hand Path, and in Satanism. So if someone uses, for example, the “standard” accepted explanation of Baphomet, and LaVeys inverted pentagram, it is a reasonable conclusion that they have just accepted such things as “truth”.
The ONA alternative – the ONA heresy in such matters – should cause them to pause, if, that is, they possess some genuine, innate, Occult ability; if they have the qualities to progress along the Sinister Path, and thus if they have taken the trouble to find what these ONA “heresies” are.
The ONA alternative should set them thinking, for themselves; should point them toward doing their own research, and even using, developing, their latent Occult abilities. This is one of the points why we of the ONA use our distinct Baphomet, and also, of course, one of the many uses of the ONA itself. Opposition; dialectic; heresy; an acausal – sinister – presencing. And so on. Those who understand this – or have an intuitive esoteric feeling about this – do; those who do not, are not of our kind, and we have no interest in them, and no interest in explaining the matter further.
The second test concerns the nature of what is termed “Satanism” and what we, of the ONA, call “the sinister”. If they accept or understand “Satanism” as something which can be divided up into categories, such as “theistic” or “atheistic” – and especially if they accept that someone called LaVey “founded modern Satanism” – then they have failed. Furthermore, if they do not understand or do not accept or do not feel that being “sinister” means being sinister on a practical, amoral, level – in the real world by deeds done – then they have also failed our test.
The third of our simple tests concerns the nature, the character, of a particular individual. This particular individual is considered by many journalists, by some writers about Occult matters, and by many of those interested in Satanism, the sinister, and The Left Hand Path, to be either the founder, or the current GrandMaster, of the ONA itself, or both of these things. Thus, for many people, this particular individual is “the public face of the ONA” even though he himself has always denied being involved with it.
This particular individual has been assigned various labels, various designations, and allotted to various categories, by many journalists, by some writers about Occult matters, and by many if not most of those interested in Satanism or who claim to be involved with or claim to actually be “Satanists”. Thus, the varied, publicly known, life of this individual is used in order to describe or classify him, and the ONA itself, and/or in order to show or to somehow “prove” that the ONA cannot or should not be taken seriously (and is thus not a genuine “Satanic” or LHP group), because, for example, this individual (the alleged founder and/or the alleged GrandMaster of the ONA) was reported to have done something, or was reported to believe something or be involved with something, which seemed or which seems to contradict what most wannabe or self-described “Satanists” consider to be “Satanic”.
Thus, if those interested in the ONA and who expect or who desire to associate themselves with, or become part of, the sinister ONA collective, have this common, mundane, perception and this common mundane and non-esoteric understanding of this particular individual, then they have failed our test. Hence, we have no interest in such people, and, furthermore, no interest in explaining this particular matter further, in public.
That these particular tests are necessary is indicative of how little, esoterically, has been achieved in so-called “modern times”, given the availability of esoteric information and knowledge, especially in the past three decades. It is particularly indicative of how the mentality and the personal character of the mundanes still pervades among esoteric-orientated folk, and how such things as the Internet, and the plethora of books about “Satanism” and the Occult, have (1) allowed so many mundanes to pretend to be Occultists, and pretend to be followers of the Left Hand Path and of “Satanism”; and (2) have contributed to a lack of understanding of, and a lack of initiated perception regarding, the difference between the exoteric (the outer causal form, such as “Satanism”) and the genuinely esoteric (the inner acausal essence, such as “the sinister”).
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120 Year of Fayen
