Sinister Tribes, Sinister Individuality, and The Sinister Way
Why the creation of sinister tribes, when the nature of a tribe is so counter to individual evolution?
Because individual evolution per se is not the goal. Rather, it is the evolution of the individual in synchronicity with the evolution of our species and the Cosmos – because we individuals are a symphonic synchronicity and thus partake of and importantly can bring-into-being the evolution of the Cosmos. That is, the individual is but a nexion: an affective and effective means of synchronicity, of Change (and thus a connexion to, and part of, the living being that is Nature, that is Life presenced on this planet, Earth).
For the aim is not the glorification of the individual – the reinforcement of their ego and of the delusion of our separateness – but rather the development of new faculties, of a new type of individual for whom there is both causal and acausal knowing, and thus an Aeonic perspective.
Acausal knowing brings the uncovering of this esoteric truth of the individual as a living nexion – and thus of how they are not, and will not be, an isolated being. This knowing of being such a living nexion is the knowing of our true human nature, and of our cosmic, supra-terran, and acausal, potential.
Part of this discovered truth is that of how such small tribal communities are – or rather can be – living beings; a new type of living consciously presenced by us in the causal, and a type of living which aids the evolution of the individual in the aforementioned manner. That is, such communities – such tribes (and there are various types of tribes) – are a type of cosmic sorcery, an esoteric symbiosis, by means of which the individual can interact with Nature and the Cosmos (and other human beings) in ways necessary for Aeonic Change, with such interaction being beneficial to individuals in terms of their psyche, their knowing, the development of their faculties, and so on. Or, expressed another way, such tribal communities provide opportunities which enhance living and life in ways which change, evolve, Life itself and individuals themselves.
The notion of the so-called deification of the individual derives from the flawed and delusional system of the Magian, and is a manifestation of the basal error of causal abstraction [1]. For this notion – this delusion – separates the individual from their own living psyche and from the livings beings to which the individual is connected (such as Nature, the Cosmos, all Life). That is, ways based on such Magian abstractions close the nexion that the individual is to the acausal – to Nature, the Cosmos – with the result that there is at best a stasis, and at worst, a de-evolution of the individual, down to Homo Hubris. Of course, individuals with such closed nexions seldom if ever know this, since they are subsumed by delusions and by the unbalanced arrogance so typical of Homo Hubris and those who have never felt, in their being and sans all abstractions, the Life that is manifest in Nature, in the Cosmos beyond Nature, and in the acausal.
In contrast to Magian delusions, a genuine esoteric Way is a means of dis-covering these connexions, aiding and developing them, thus enabling the true evolution, the living growth, of the individual in symphony with such beings. Hence, tribes are another living means of becoming connected to Life and to – and then manifesting – the potential within us as individuals.
It is thus a question of seeking and attaining an esoteric, alchemical, balance within one’s self – by esoteric and practical means and thus of a knowing of Life, of beings, beyond – and then using this necessary practical, individual, foundation to partake of new ways of living, new practical experiences, as the next and necessary beginning which is a genuine cosmically and acausally involved and involving evolution.
For one should ask – what is evolution? There is the causal-only lifeless abstraction called “evolution” as understood by the Magian and the likes of urbanized Homo Hubris, and then there is the living alchemical evolution of esoteric Change, of esoteric symbiosis, understood by those who, if only intuitively at first, have empathy enough to feel the living beings beyond themselves, manifest most often in the past in a certain esoteric and nameless knowing of Nature, and which knowing was and is manifest in the Rounwytha.
What do you mean when you say deification of the individual derives from the system of the Magian?
We use the term Magian to refer both to the hybrid ethos of Yahoud and of Western hubriati, and to those individuals who are Magian by either breeding or in character. In essence, the Magian ethos represents the hubris of the tyrannos, where either some deluded oligarch or some oligarchy seeks to constrain, stifle, control or breed mundanes for their own deluded, egotistical, materialistic ends, or where deluded mundane individuals preen and pride themselves that they are important and “in control”.
Often, the two types feed off each other so that there is or there developes a dependency of the deluded, and often the two types manufacture some or more causal abstractions which feed their own delusions and which maintain their mundanity.
In Occultism, the Magian ethos is evident, for instance, in the materialistic pseudo-Satanism of LaVey and his followers; in the abstract, non-numinous, pseudo-intellectualism of Aquino and the Temple of Set; in the posturings of Crowley the charlatan [2]; and in the mundane sillyness that is so-called chaos magick [3].
As I wrote in my essay, Concerning God, Demons, and the Non-Jewish Origin of Satan, Magian Occultists:
” Try and dispense with The Devil/The Dark Power/The Dark Forces/Satan – and also often God – and instead deify themselves, believing such stuff as, ‘Reality is what I make it or what others have made it, or perceived it to be.’ They then proceed to use various allegedly magickal or Occult workings (their own or from others) – and/or some esoteric practices cobbled together from world religions and world folklore – in to try and attain and develope their inner deity, their Higher Self, or to try and control and sanctify their own minds, or some such guff.
These Western mostly urban-dwelling Occultists have thus tried, by massaging their ego, to remove the sinister power of the numen – the inner and outer Darkness that exists – from themselves, the Cosmos, and their world, and provided their urban life-style keeps them, as it mostly does, reasonably well-fed, sheltered from the elements, well-entertained, fairly comfortable, and removed from the hard learning arising from personal suffering (from pathei-mathos), then they are fairly safe in, and almost always content with, their delusion.
Thus do they, in the relative safety of their urban-dwelling world, concentrate on ‘refining their self’, with the aim of bringing their ‘unique individuality’, and more and more so-called individualism, to the world at large. “
Furthermore:
What requires understanding is that – in complete contrast to Magian Occultism, and the fake medieval Hebrewesque Grimoires, and charlatans such as Crowley – there is no way for us, as temporal mortal beings, to control whatever demons or whatever acausal entities we may draw forth, or presence, in the causal continuum. No “words of power” to control such entities; no “God” to fall-back on; no “circle of protection”. No potion, no spell or conjuration to save us, or others. No “secret Grimoire” wherein we can find the means to make ourselves “master” or “mistress” over such acausal energies. For such acausal energies, such acausal entities – of whatever acausal type or acausal species – are unbound by the constraints of our causal continuum and certainly unbound by our own puny mortal human nature. For most such entities, from our causal perspective, are “immortal”. Sinister Demonology, ONA, 122yf
Thus, the essence of Magian Occultism lies in the delusion that incompetent, mundane, human individuals are, can be, or should be, masters of everything and can thus control anyone and anything, if they have the right Occult techniques, the right “words”, the right “rituals”, the right “beliefs”, the right “understanding” of some so-called esoteric doctrine manufactured by some person or some group.
In contrast, the essence of The Sinister Way lies in the knowing, from direct practical personal experience, of the sinister power of the numen; that is, of ourselves as one microscopic nexion, and thus as one connexion to the acausal, and which dangerous acausal we cannot fully control or even currently correctly comprehend by means by words and language but which we can aspire toward by using The Dark Arts to first balance and then evolve ourselves.
In ordinary, modern, life, the Magian ethos is evident in Homo Hubris with their delusion of being “free, independent” beings while they are, in reality, but minions, drones, of The State, obeying (or forced to obey) the satraps of The State (the hubriati) and striving for material (un-numinous), Magian-given, goals.
Thus, the essence of Magian ethos in modern life lies in the delusion that human individuals are, can be, or should be, “free” and masters of everything, and thus can and should control anyone and anything (including Nature), if they have the right machines, the right laws, the right type of government, the right economy, the right type of State planning, the right type of organizations.
Our practical Sinister Way is a means for us, as individuals, to discover, know, to feel, to experience, the sinister numen, the essence, sansall mundane and Magian abstractions, then use that knowing, that experience, to become not only a new presencing of sinister individual being, but to participate, to aid, in the sinister evolution of all Life, and thus in the change of the Cosmos itself. Our tribes, our clans, our nexions, are just practical ways to do this, to presence the sinister-numen within and exterior to ourselves.
Hence our vision is Aeonic, Cosmic, and of a new type of individual, manifesting excellence of controlled and developed character, and of a new species of human being dwelling among the stars systems of our Galaxy and of other Galaxies. In contrast, the vision of the Magian, and of mundanes, is mundane and material and terran and focussed on preening their ego, indulging themselves, on petty squabbles and petty power on this small peripheral planet named Earth.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
122 Year of Fayen
Notes
[1] Causal abstractions are defined in version 2.07 of A Glossary of Order of Nine Angles Terms.
Basically, abstractions re-present the mundane simplicity of causal linearality – of causal reductionism, of a simple cause-and-effect, of a limited causal thinking. All abstractions are devoid of Dark-Empathy and the perspective of acausality, and thus are redolent of, or directly manifest, materialism and the Untermensch ethos derived from such materialism.
[2] In regard to Crowley, see for example the ONA MSS The Septenary, Crowley, and The Origins of the ONA and The Book of The Law: A Sinister View.
In regard to the Temple of Set, see for example the ONA MS The ONA, The LHP, and the Temple of Set.
[3] Regarding the mundane pretentiousness of so-called chaos magick, see the ONA MS Sorcery and the Esoteric Nature of The Acausal – Debunking The Chaos
