Anton Long and The Law of The Sinister-Numen
There seems to be much confusion – even among some of those who admire the ONA – about the nature of magick as used, as taught, by the ONA with some claiming all magick is out-dated, and now superfluous.
Old Aeon type magick is certainly out-dated, and superfluous. But it depends, of course, on what one means by the term magick. Which is probably the source of the confusion. For instance, we use the term in a variety of ways.
There is our type of external magick, evident in such texts of ours as Black Book of Satan, and Naos, which type of external magick bears some similarities to Old Aeon magick. Then there is the new type of magick of The Star Game. There is the darkly-charming magick of a Rounwytha – of the sinister-empath, who can access and presence acausal energy directly, without some causal form or forms, without words and even without chants. There is the Internal Magick of individual change, evident in some of our Grade Rituals. Finally, there is the magick we have described by the term Aeonic Magick, which Aeonic Magick includes our sinister tribes.
Fundamentally, our type of Old Aeon magick (results/external magick and ceremonial or ritual magick) is only a stage; only a means, for some individuals; with this stage lasting only a few years, at most. The means here is to develope personality and develope certain latent faculties, for instance sinister empathy and acausal thinking. It is or can be also a means to experience the joy of life; to learn to indulge and then learn to control, to discipline, one’s self. In a sense, therefore, this type of magick, this type of practical sorcery, is just an Insight Rôle, or two.
We have defined magick 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.”
The real magick – the real sorcery – of the ONA is its presencing of the sinister-numen (accessing the acausal) via specific nexions which nexions include individual human beings as well as both various causal forms, and partly causal, partly acausal, forms. This is the “new magick” – far beyond the magick known to and used by others, and one of its most obvious outward forms is our sinister tribes.
But 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.
For, as I have said and written many times over the decades, 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.
Thus Vindex and our tribes are exoteric signs of our living, of our acausal presence in the causal world of the mundanes, and of a new type of life coming-into-being on this planet we have called Earth.
In addition, our tract, Whose gonna run this town, tonight? is a concise explanation of who and what we now are; its expresses in clear words the real nature of our new magick, and if some or many – still attuned to or still influenced by or still in thrall to, the old style magick of the Old Aeon – do not understand why this is real magick, then so what? We do not care, and will not bother explaining it to them. It is for them to understand us – or rather, for them to aspire to be of us, to be inspired by us – and not for us to explain ourselves to them.
Like it says in the aforementioned tract:
“We are the darkest, most sinister, sorcery of all; Presencing The Dark by our very lives.”
So, our real magick, our new magick, the essence of sinister ethos (and of our exoteric aims), are presenced in Vindex (in the whole Vindex mythos) and in our new ways of life. These new ways include sinister tribes – Dreccians – and small communities of empaths (sorcerers and sorceresses) as well as our clandestine traditional nexions, one of whose tasks is to train selected Initiates to go out into the world and cause real Chaos, do real subversive deeds, to live and if necessary die – for example, as real assassins – for their own glory and to presence our sinister-numen.
So such individuals, such assassins and the like, have their own creed, their own beliefs, as those following the doctrines of al-Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah did?
Yes, but it is our own sinister creed, our unique beliefs, based on our law of the sinister-numen, and on our own unique ontology.
Which ontology is what, exactly?
The ontology of the bifurcation of Being into an acausal continuum and a causal continuum, with there existing in this acausal continuum – in the acausal dimensions – certain types and species of acausal life, and with our mortal, causal existence, being only a means for us to attain an immortal existence in the realms of the acausal.
With the belief – consistent with this ontology – that one means for an individual human to obtain such an acausal existence is to immolate one’s self via an act that culls mundanes and Magians, or, more specifically, by an act that culls mundanes and Magians who are detrimental to our goals and/or whose culling all sinister individuals would joyfully celebrate, and celebrate because such a celebration of such cullings befits our dark nature.
But always remember that such individuals (the new sinister assassins of Baphomet) who have or who accept such a specific task and role, and who have the aforementioned creed and beliefs, are only one aspect of us; only one (albeit an élite) section of our esoteric association. As I mentioned previously, other sections include those running, who are part of, who are forming, sinister tribes – and sinister empaths, as well other (hidden) working groups.
Ours is an organic process, a sinister process, of change, disruption, subversion, evolution, which will last centuries and whose initial aim is the downfall of current nation-States, by whatever means are useful and effective; whose immediate aim is the emergence of new tribal societies; and whose longer term aim is the exploration of the star-systems and planets of our Galaxy and the creation of new colonies on other worlds.
In addition, this process of change, disruption, subversion, and evolution will present those of our kind, and those individuals drawn to us or inspired by us, with marvellous life-enhancing opportunities: to exult in life, in the very essence of life; to presence darkness; to enjoy the material and pleasurable rewards of this mortal life; to challenge themselves and so change, grow, evolve into a higher type of human being, into a new human élite.
That sounds really Satanic.
It is the very essence of genuine Satanism – of what is beyond the outer, the exoteric, the temporary, the causal, form that is known as Satanism.
That is, it is sinister; redolent of acausal darkness; of those energies, those dark forces, which presenced Satanism on this planet we call Earth.
Which is why we and our sinister kind, our kindred, are beyond, and always have been beyond just Satanism, and yet why we are and have been, in this soon ending Old Aeon, the very essence of genuine Satanism itself.
Which is why we now – as we move toward the beginning of our new sinister Aeon with the emergence of sinister tribes in place of nation-States – that we are beginning to shed the term satanism and instead describe ourselves as sinister, as Dreccian, as Dark Warriors of The Sinister Way, as assassins of Baphomet, as the sorcerers, and the warriors, of Vindex; among other terms.
Vindex – the leader of the victorious tribes in the war against the mundanes?
Yes, the warrior leader who takes on, in a practical war, the forces of the mundanes.
And this leader, this tribal chief, can or could be a man or woman, of any ethnicity?
Most certainly, as has been outlined in various exoteric texts dealing with the mythos of Vindex. And who may arise – or may already be lurking – in any land; in the new land of America, for instance. Or in the old lands of Europe or Russia. Or in Asia. As stated in one of the exoteric texts dealing with Vindex:
” The essence of Vindex and the warrior clans of Vindex is that they are, by nature and way of life, practical warriors of a particular ethos. This means that they not only have a specific and warrior code of personal behaviour, but also that they have a shared culture, shared aims, shared values, and that their culture is something new, progressive, evolutionary, and not based on some Old Aeon abstraction.
This new, and numinous, culture is the way of the clan in contrast to the Old Aeon way of the nation-State; it is the way of individual excellence, where excellence of individual, personal, character is celebrated and rewarded, in contrast to the Old Aeon way of so-called democracy and the celebration of the mundane, the plebeian. It is, basically, the new culture of a new warrior aristocracy where the values of the warrior reign and are prized and where individual character is measured and judged according to these warrior values.
Thus, Old Aeon abstractions such as ethnicity are fundamentally irrelevant as a criteria – for what matters is individual character, individual élan, proved and shown by practical deeds, especially of a warrior nature. For the new warriors of the clans of Vindex, the worth of an individual depends on their personal character, on their proven deeds, and is not based on some prejudice or on prejudging someone according to their assumed or claimed ethnic type…
Furthermore, there is also an acceptance of and a celebration of the feminine, or more particularly, of the female warrior, with it being regarded as natural and healthy for women to train for combat and to fight – and to have the heart and soul of a warrior, with the heroic female warrior being seen as a figure to be admired and emulated.
Hence, Vindex is not bound by Old Aeon abstractions, and may thus be a male, or a female, warrior, and may be of any ethnicity (mixed or otherwise) and may be born (or may already have been born) in any old-style country on any continent on Earth. Vindex is simply the individual, who by their skill, their personal character, their cunning, their intelligence, their warrior prowess, their charisma, assumes the leadership of a warrior clan, or who establishes such a clan; who leads that clan into successful combat after successful combat with the forces of the Old Aeon; and who eventually establishes, and becomes the chief of, an alliance, or bund, or federation, of like-minded warrior clans…
It is quite possible and indeed more than likely, that Vindex will initially become an heroic figure as a result of being branded an outlaw by one or more of the old nation-States; a modern and successful guerilla leader who devises new strategies and new tactics to defeat the armed forces of the Old Order, and which new strategies and new tactics nullify or greatly help to nullify the superior fire-power, the superior technology, the superior resources, that the armed forces of the Old Order possess.
It is also possible, and indeed seems increasingly likely, that the first battles in the coming war against the forces of the Old Order will be urban ones, and develope as a natural consequence of some urban gang gaining practical control of certain urban areas such that they become the effective and the visible “forces of law and order” in those areas.
Furthermore, in its beginnings this urban combat, this war, against the forces of the Old Aeon may well have an ethnic basis – that is, the new urban tribes which fight for territory in a practical way against the Old Aeon forces of “law and order” may well be bonded together by a shared ethnicity (or even by an assumption of shared ethnicity), which bonding will give them several practical advantages.
However, as the war escalates and expands – as it must – and as Vindex emerges, this ethnic factor will recede, for it is Vindex who will and who can, by force of personality and by deeds done, meld together and inspire diverse groups into an effective fighting force, and it is with Vindex, and because of the expanding conflict, that ethnicity will cease to be a factor, being replaced, instead, by a new warrior ethos and a new warrior way of tribal living.”
Source: The Mythos of Vindex, Appendix 1: The Irrelevancy of Nation and Ethnicity in the Mythos of Vindex
Vindex thus may well emerge from one of our sinister tribes, with such a tribe having gradually gained practical control of a specific urban area. That is, the war against the Old Order that Vindex initiates, or emerges from, may well be in its beginnings an urban territorial war between one of our new sinister, urban, gangs and the forces of so-called “law and order” of the mundanes, with such urban gangs being centred around our Law of The Sinister-Numen.
I have heard it said that some of your followers called you – or maybe they were referring to your exoteric alter ego – the prophet of Vindex. Any comment about this?
Firstly, I neither want, nor need, nor desire followers – but if some individuals are perchance inspired by my life, by perhaps some of my writings, or perhaps by some caused form, or by some of the various nexions, I may have manufactured or aided or transformed in order to presence something of the sinister-numen in these Magian-dominated causal times of ours, then that is fine.
Secondly, I am no prophet – I have received no revelation, diabolical or otherwise, from some entity, causal, acausal, or even beyond both the causal and the acausal realms. Neither am I nor do I desire to be some kind of leader or even representative of some-thing. I am just one fallible human being who has had an interesting and diverse life, and which life has been devoted to The Sinister Way, to the genuine Dark Tradition; to striving to make accessible, for others, something of what I have learnt and experienced along the Way; and to striving to presence certain energies or forces which I have encountered and experienced along that Way.
All I have done, can and should be evolved, extended, surpassed, by others. All I have presenced is there to be used, or not, by others as but an experiencing of their own; as but a means of garnishing their own type of understanding; of acquiring their own knowledge; of arriving at their conclusions; of perchance inspiring them to explore and extend their own limits, and so evolve themselves in their own unique manner.
Thus, I am not the leader of that esoteric association known by the exoteric name The Order of Nine Angles. We have no leader, in the conventional, mundane, sense. We do not need such a leader, for that is contrary to our very esoteric essence, our true acausal nature, as Warriors and Sorcerers of The Sinister-Numen.
As for the ONA, I merely presenced certain acausal energies into a certain causal form, a nexion, which came to be called the ONA, and this presencing was done in such a way – the correct way, the secret alchemical way – that, over a certain amount of Earthly-causal-Time, this particular nexion became alive; a type of life – a new type of living entity – in its own right; partly causal and partly acausal. I do not “own” this ONA, this still evolving, this still growing, this still changing, ONA – no one does, or can. Neither can this new type of living entity be constrained or even be “protected” by causal forms, such as – to give a very simple and not very accurate example - by the mundane causal concept of “copyright”.
Now, this origin of the ONA, this type of entity, this lack of causal control by an individual, will either be understood or not. Personally, I do not care if it is not understood. The ONA is, it has been given life, that is what matters, not trying to explain it in words some mundane might understand.
As mentioned several times before, even the exoteric name, the ONA, itself is ultimately irrelevant, although it does currently serve a very useful purpose, and will continue to do so, for a while: until our tribes are well established.
But what about groups such as WSA352, and people like Chloe and Kayla who are on record as admiring you and your works?
A certain admiration is one thing; but being or becoming a follower is something else. As for those two young women you specifically mentioned, they are not “followers”, and I tend to regard them as my honorary daughters; for they are of my own kind, my breed; part of my sinister kindred. But, like all daughters when they reach a certain age, they have their own life, their own individual character, their own aims, even their own perspective.
More importantly, they have their own unique potential, or wyrd – they can and should make their own original contributions to our Sinister Way, and thus themselves be the genesis of the evolution of our Way and of our kind, our kindred. Indeed, they might even now, or in the future, disagree and dispute with me about certain things – which is how it should be – but we would still be family, which is what is important.
For it is the development of our new sinister family, our new sinister kindred, which is both an exoteric and an esoteric priority, manifest as our new family is in our new tribes, and bound as our clannish family is and should be by our law of the sinister-numen.
In essence, therefore, we are – we, our kind, represent – a new culture, here on this planet we have called Earth; and it is the spread, the growth, of this new culture, of our new families, our tribes, which will begin to undermine, in a most important and a very practical way, the way of life, the societies, and the nation-States of the mundanes. This is and will continue to be a subversive revolution against the current Magian status quo and will lead, in the not too distant future in some area on this planet, to a practical armed insurrection, led by Vindex.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
121 Year of Fayen
[...] Thus Vindex and our tribes are exoteric signs of our living, of our acausal presence in the causal world of the mundanes, and of a new type of life coming-into-being on this planet we have called Earth.” – Anton Long [...]