The Art of Reaping
“Come as a Reaper, for thus will you sow.” – 5th Satanic Point; Codex Saerus; ONA
Destruction
The first thing that comes to Mind in most of us when we read the sixth Satanic Point is hell cracking open and destruction running amok annihilating everything. Or the image of the grim reaper running around killing city people left and right. Somehow that’s suppose to sow something… something new born from the ashes of something old. So we mislead ourselves into thinking that one must kill and destroy to give birth to something new. Creation does not always comes from destruction.
In a way, the seeds of something new are sown in the death of the old. As we see in Nature. Old trees and plants, and old animals which die are processed by bacteria and fungus into nitrogen rich fertilizer from which grows a new forest.
Old useless alpha male lions in the Serengeti who have grown old and useless are taken down by new younger males… thus the Pride gets an influx of new genes. This may seem ‘not right’ from a localized Time perspective, but on a chronomorphic level, the old replaced by the new insures Nature that Her parts (a species) continues to exist in great stretches of Time. For Nature – as eternal as She is – deals in increments of great Time… in the millions and billions of years. From such great increments of Time, Nature must test and try life forms and genes to insure that each successive generation inherits the means needed to continue across that great stretch of Time.
Civilization, like a forest or pride of lions, form an aeonic perspective, works in the same way over large chunks of Time. Ancient prehistoric civilizations lost in Time rise and fall… and their people disperse taking their wisdom, knowledge, and experiences with them, from whom eventually is borne new kinds of civilizations. So here we see that the death and destruction of a civilization itself is not the foundation of a new civilization. It is actually the creativity, experience, and intelligence of the people. The destruction – like a blank canvas – only gives them the freedom to express their Minds and creativity. Anyway, from the fall of an old civilization, arises new forms of civilization… and from this there is Progression of Humanity. From the ancient ashes and ancestral wisdom of ancient civilizations came in Time, the kingdoms and empires of Europe. These in turn were disrupted, and destroyed… and from the ashes of these old empires sprouted republics – a new form and species of human civilization. No doubt the civilizations we presently know of such as America, have brought our species very far into the future.
If our species is to continue Progressing forward to actualize our full human potential, we must understand that there must come a Time when what civilizations we know of today shall become Old, Stagnant and Useless… no longer having the potency, inspiration, and influence to captivate our Minds and Dreams… like a stagnant and inert religion. Such civilizational stagnation is like an artery that has become blocked, where the Flow forward has stopped. As cells – which we each are – of such a blocked artery and heart, such blockage of Flow kills us en mass – if not in bodily death, then death in Mind, Creativity, and Potential. The Old and Useless must be destroyed… its citizens (seeds) must be dispersed, and from the casting of such seeds – and the knowledge they each carry – will sprout new kinds of civilizations which will thus keep the Flow of our Progression moving forward.
So we see that in the old ONA of many years back often times pre-occupies its time with designing and strategizing the Hows of such an act of destruction is to be accomplished… like an underground rebel force plotting and planning. Yet, hardly is there ever a manuscript which details the images and visions of the End Result of such dreams and goals that inspires and captivates our minds and emotions. This is an important misdirection of ‘psychic’ energy, which will be talked about later.
The Reaper
This big perspective of Nature, and Civilization, is beyond the individual person. Thus, in a way, the ideation of destroying a civilization to materialize a new one is almost – if not – impersonal… or beyond our direct touch. This concept of being a Reaper to sow and create must be brought down to a more direct, personal, and practical level. Brought down to a level imbued with personal experience, rather than theoretical strategy.
A “Reaper” does not actually denote or suggest someone that kills, terrorizes, and destroys. A Reaper is a Harvester. Harvesting crops takes intelligences, wisdom, and planning. Crops aren’t senselessly cut up and killed. Only the Ripe ones are harvested. What is harvested is usually divided into three portions – a part to be used, a part to be sold, and a part to be sown. A skilled and wise farmer who knows when and how to harvest his crops right, can continue his crops year after year, and season after season. This skilled farmer can take one single corn seed, and when given enough time, he can make it grow into an entire field of corn, to benefit himself, his family, and the market.
To “come as a reaper,” on a personal and practical level, means to think as a harvester… to think first of the End Result – that which shall be reaped – and thus to sow in such a way that yields the desired End Result. As that skilled farmer with that single corn seed does not think of the uselessness of the single seed he has, but rather envisions – aeonically – the End Result he desires… which is a field of corn. So he will sow that seed, with that End Result in Mind, and when that seeds becomes a plant he takes the many seeds it gave and uses it wisely – in tune – to the End Result he has in Mind. This End Result is Wyrd – Fate… Destiny.
Men are subject to or mastered by Fate, whereas Gods are masters of their own Fate and Destiny. In other words, the command of wyrd (or lack thereof) is the “birth mark” of a Mundane/Anariya (cow herder of the gods) and the Drecc/Ariya (the gods… in training). So this is the esoteric and practical meaning of coming as a Reaper – to learn to master our own destiny, by not senselessly sowing seeds aimlessly in life, but to have an End Result always in Mind, and to work accordingly in Life to Reap that envisioned End Result… the Fruition our acts and deeds in Life bares.
Since we exist in a Causal Universe, there is a logical science and mechanics to how causality unravels and to how Wyrd Becomes. There is a Cause – seed-cause – to every Fruit, or End Result, or Fate. The mechanics of the causal unfoldment of Wyrd has been expressed in many ancient culture in many ways. The ONA has its own way of expressing the mechanics of Wyrd, which is rarely spoken about. This subject is something which I personally deem of paramount importance, because when we each understand how Destiny unravels, we can take advantage of the mechanics of causality to manifest in Life a Life we desire to live. Personally, I do not want my future children to be mastered by Fate… tossed around by circumstances like drift wood. I want my future children to have an intelligent conscious control over their innate power to create their own Life… to be Masters of their own Destiny and Reality.
Wyrd
The causal mechanics of Wyrd is esoterically hidden in the Tree of Wyrd of the ONA. The imagery of the “Tree” itself symbolizes the Brain. The Brain itself is the upper branches of this Tree, while the nerves that stretch down thru the spinal column are this Tree’s root system. This Tree is the center of its own universe. This Tree is the center thru which the cosmos literally comes into being. In other words, the Fruit this Great Tree bares, is that which we as living beings experience and observe.
Everything and every aspect of our modern existences once first began as a mere thought – seed-cause – in somebody’s Mind. Everything from the airplanes in our sky, to the internet we use, to the nations we are a part of all first began as an ideation. That seed – ideation – is sown, which grows and causally bares Fruit as experience and observable reality. By “observable reality” I don’t mean to denote the “backdrop” of the jungle, mountains, earth, stars, planets, and galaxies. I mean to suggest the “furnishings” of this kabuki stage we call life that we directly experience and directly observe. It is we who decorate and fill this stage with the furniture and props.
This Tree of Wyrd comes with seven spheres, each sphere representing a planet of some kind, and perhaps the archetypes associated with each planet. So we have as the first sphere the Moon, then Mercury, then Venus, then the Sun, then Mars, and Jupiter, then last we have Saturn. Saturn is the End of Wyrd. Saturn is the Reaper or Harvester. In ancient times Saturn was the god of the Harvest and his symbol was the reaping sickle. These seven spheres of the Tree of Wyrd, thus esoterically explains to us in detail the mechanics of Wyrd… how a seed-thought causally materializes into Fruit ready to be reaped by the Harvester.
The Moon is silent and awe inspiring. Its face, its size, and waxing and waning captivates our Minds. By its changing of faces we are able to figure out the seasons and months. By its orbit, we have the phenomenon of the ebb and flow of the Tides on earth. Thus we may symbolize the Moon with Poseidon/Neptune’s trident, who is the archetype of the Dark Sea of our Psyche, from which all our words and thoughts arises. The Moon also represents the night season, during which we sleep dreaming away under its subtle light. The sphere of the Moon represents Inspiration, Initial Thought that comes to our attention, and dreams or visualization.
Mercury is the messenger of the gods. He carries the words and decree of one party to another. By him, the intentions of the gods are made known. The sphere of Mercury represents Intention or Intent. Here the initial inspirational thought is intentionalized.
Venus is the goddess of Love and Beauty. The sphere of Venus represents Desire & Passion. Desire is the fuel that backs up and moves the intentionalized thought forward. Passion is the Force which makes the impossible possible. Love and Beauty to our species – and all species – is the greatest and most enchanting driving force. How many wars have been fought for Beauty (over a woman). What would we each not do for Love. In other animals, when the season is ripe, no male can resist the sent of a female in heat. It is Desire that drives Nature forward from one generation to the next.
The Sun burns and casts heat. The sphere of the Sun represents the Force of Will and Determination. Here the lunar seed thought, after being empowered by Intention, and fueled by Desire, now burns with Will and Determination. This sphere is the alchemical crucible where the unmanifested seed-thought begins to become a causal phenomenon.
Mars is the god of war. The sphere of Mars is the first stage where the seed-thought takes root in the real world of experience. War, if you think about it is Thought materialized as causal phenomena. War first begins in the Minds of generals ideating, scheming, strategizing, and intelligently planning. Only after such Minds have come to a workable strategy that will yield a desired End Result are the orders given to the soldiers. Then the soldiers executes what were once thoughts, and thru their execution of duties, the thoughts of lofty Minds materializes as reality. How many kingdoms, empires, and republics has our species known that have been born of war? These civilizations born of war once began as a thought in a lofty Mind. The sphere of Mars thus represents Action and the transition of thought-stuff into reality and experience.
Jupiter is king of the gods. His Word is Wyrd. By this I mean that what a King says, orders, commands, wishes, he will get one way or another. As king, what you say and desire, you can expect to receive. It doesn’t matter How to a king. The How is the responsibility of the servants and subjects. All a King is concerned with is getting what he wants. The sphere of Jupiter represents Regal Expectation. That initial lunar thought after coupling with a burning will, and actualized with action and deed, can be Expected to manifest. By regal expectation, I mean to suggest that we each must learn to expect what we wyrdfully set into motion as a King/Queen who has spoken. A King or Queen who has total dominion in their domain, should have no doubt that what they speak, decree, and command should not come to them. It must.
Saturn is the Reaper… Lord of the Harvest. Under his watchful guide and auspice crops grow and bare fruit. The sphere of Saturn represents the Fruition of our thoughts… now ready to be reaped by Saturn’s sickle.
The Work
First the architect is inspired in his Heart to build a Temple. He spends his time Visualizing as best as he can in his Mind’s Eye what he wants his Temple to look like. He will make his Intent to build this Temple. The stronger his visualization and intent, the more Desire is born, which leads into Will and Determination.
This architect then draws his vision of his Temple on his trestle board or blue print. He then Acts by collecting the tools and material and workers needed. He then hands over his vision to his team of workers, and Trusts or Expects his vision to manifest. It doesn’t matter How the workers will do it. All that matters is that the End Results of the finished Temple will look exactly like the envisioned drawing. How is irrelevant. If this architect micromanages the How he only gets in the way of the workers and actually impedes a quick materialization. The Saturnian End Result when the workers are entrusted, is a completed Temple built in the real world of experience which mirrors what once was in the architect’s Mind. This is the causal process of Thought alchemically transmuting into experiential reality.
The How does not matter. Causality is the workmen of Wyrd. Nobody knows “how” causality works in the causal universe. It just does… in the same sense that we know that there are a number of cosmic laws and things that exist such as gravity, electricity, and magnetism. We really don’t know how these things work or why. We have theories, but you don’t have to know how electricity works to use it. You can be a total fool and plug in a lamp and always expect the electricity to turn the lamp on. Who cares How that electricity becomes light… it might be fascinating to electricians, but your average person just wants the End Result – Light.
How and why causality works and exists in our universe may never be known but you don’t have to know how and why to use the natural process of causality. In fact it causes a lot of suffering in Life when you don’t use causality wisely. The causal-seeds you sow – no matter what they are – will bare fruit as your Fate. You each have a choice to either be lame ducks mastered by Fate, or gods who are masters of Fate. When using the natural causal system of the cosmos to materialize your thoughts, no “god of the causal” is used, abused, ordered, or commanded. It is just a natural process. Like jizzing in a girl, you’re not using or controlling some demon of Life to make a baby. When jizz is up in a girl, a natural process just takes place, and you can always Expect the same End Result – a baby. It’s nothing magical, it’s Natural.
That’s the cool thing about Nature – it’s smarter than us. Can you imagine if Nature entrusted us with the secrets of how sperm and egg becomes a living baby… if we had to sit there and consciously divide that zygote into billions of cells, and magically make the baby’s eyes, nose, mouth, and guts? Our species would be extinct in a few years because we are actually not as smart as we claim to be. So who cares – besides biologists – how a baby is made, if you want a baby, you put sperm in a girl and nature just does Her things. Causality works in the same Natural way – stick the sperm-thought of what you want in the womb of Nature and you’ll get want you asked for in a few months. Who cares how it works.
People will ask for proof that causality can be used to manifest thought into experience. The is proof – your own Life’s past experiences. Take the time to seriously and Mindfully meditate for a moment on all of your experiences in Life, and everything that you have from your clothes you wear, to your car, and friends, to your job and wife, or a built body. Take one of those things you Reaped such as your car and work backwards like a detective to figure out what you did to get it. If you honestly do this, you will come to Realize that what thoughts you spend your day time visualizing and imaging, which is backed up by Intention, Desire, Determination, Action, and Expectation, ultimately becomes real.
If you Desire something bad enough, and the Determination is there, you will act it out by seeking it. If it’s a car you will drive around car lots to find the right one. If it’s a girlfriend you will act it out by doing what needs to be done to attract a girl. Likewise, what you spend your time worried about… negatively visualizing and imaging… telling yourself over and over (making the Intention) that you are broke, poor, unhealthy, unloved, will also naturally manifest into your Fate. The Norns are blind, they just weave Wyrd… your own Mind, what visualizations and intentions you fill it with during your waking moments, is the pattern and design that will be woven into the fabric the norns spin.
As A Reaper
As a skilled reaper you begin the Tree of Wyrd backwards with Saturn and determine the End Result you want in Life. Figure out what actions need to be taken… any action or deed that will bring you closer to your goals suffices. Understand that each deed and act bares better fruit when backed up by emotion (Venus). Once you have figured out what each sphere needs to be filled with, you work your way from the sphere of the Moon on up.
Spend about 5 minutes a day vividly visualizing you already having or experiencing the End Result. How is comes to be is not your concern. Don’t try to micromanage something you don’t even understand, you’ll jest get in the way. Usually, what we are most Obsessed over (Sun = Determination/Will) is what we will experience and encounter in Life most often. This requires no rites or rituals, although such things may serve to enhance your emotions and visualizations, determination, action, and expectations. The time just before you go to bed is the best time to do the 5 minutes of visualization, because when you are asleep, you have up to 8 hours of your conscious mind not getting in the way by doubting. The more doubt you have, the less expectation, will, determination, you will have, which affects your actions and desires.
I’ve personally tested this system out over and over again in the real world to know that it works, so I’m not pulling some magical bullshit out of my ass or some book. It’s not magical, it just happens. When it does happened, things come to you thru other people, thru coincidences, and coincidental circumstances. I personally experience these intuitive hunches in my gut after I visualize for something to wyrdfully get it. I’ll feel a pull or tug in my heart area which cause me to think about a place or to go or do something. So I usually follow these tugs which leads me to a person or situation that eventually gives me what I want.
For instance, I get 90% of my books by using this method of visualization and waiting for these tugs. It’s something I have been doing since when I first started college. I would do research and when I get stuck needing more relevant information or reference, I put everything away and spend a few minutes vividly visualizing myself with a stack of books and finishing my research and papers. Then I literally take myself to the library on campus and wait as often as I can. In the beginning I won’t feel anything, but the more obsessed I get over the topic of research, the quicker the tugs come. To help get the tugs coming I sometimes walk aimlessly up and down each isle in a state of obsession.
Then I’d pick up a tug… it’s like a gut feeling, but is a physical sensation in the heart area, as if the area were tightening up or swirling, and this “pulls” you or your Mind in certain directions. So I follow these tugs and pulls, and always – 100% of the time – I end up picking up a book – which usually seems to have nothing to do with my subject… but when I open it and read it, it always has some information that I needed or wanted. I buy all of my books using the same technique. I obsess over a subject for a time, and the tugs makes me drive around different cities to different books stores, and after a while I collect a pile of books all relevant to the subject.
Conclusion
I think this process of Wyrd and Pathei-Mathos together makes a Complete Way of Life. One which is not based on any dogma or doctrine, but on Life and direct Experience. I’ve had the direct experience of making this process of Wyrd work for me. I was originally taught this by a few mentors, a couple of whom were successful millionaires, who learned to make Life work for them thru their own discoveries, tests, and experimentations in life. I want to pass this art and science of Life to my own children someday as a Living Tradition, so that they will have the tools they need to make the best out of Life, and to manifest their full potential in Life. This is the real reason why I stick around the ONA. It offers a fresh medium, with which I can use and work with to pass what I have learned as a Living Tradition, in the same way that it has become DM’s medium which he impregnates with his own Pathei-Mathos – from which we all benefit.
In this sense, the ONA is a very unique system because it is based on the 40 year insights of a living person’s gradual unfoldment, and a culture of sharing insights from personal pathei-mathos in life can be seen being born in the ONA. Slowly the ONA becomes an Ordering of people of like Minds who share their personally insights with other Dreccian – thus creating a real culture and living tradition which has the potential to pass our collective wisdom obtained from direct experience of Life down across the generations.
This process of Wyrd is only one such experience of life. It’s a shame that more people who have experienced this process of thought coalescing into form and experience does not share their experiences with others. I hope that as Time passes, each Dreccian of the ONA will be open to sharing their personal experiences – as DM does – so that a Living Tradition can genuinely be born from which we all can benefit. If anything, it adds a new practical layer to what is already the Tree of Wyrd.
The more you put this process to trial in real life, the more it works, and the more you realize that there is more to Life than meets the eye, and the more you realize that your Thoughts Become Things. It’s as if Life… or the Cosmos reflects what you entertain in your Mind. Or as if there is a place somewhere “out there” where the Mind and Cosmos blurs in a sea of infinite potential, and what you fixate your mind on, becomes real. This must be directly experienced to be meaningful. Reading about it and believing or disbelieving in it will do nothing. Put it to the test.
Kayla 352
Order of Nine Angles
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