BARBIE & BUSINESS

Yes indeed… Trailer Trash Barbie. What a concept!

I was walking down the barbie doll aisle in a local Target just checking out all of the new types of barbies coming out with a smile on my face knowing that what I was looking at weren’t the dolls my mom or grandma played with. I was thinking about how barbie evolved over time, and I opened up my trusty business and marketing book “Brand Hijack; marketing without marketing” by Alex Wipperfurth and read a chapter on the stupidity of Mattel Incorporated in not being able to see a good thing when something good and revolutionary comes its way. It made me think about this cesspool we are in called Satanism, and all the “big corporations” involved. When I say big corporations I mean the big original three that started all this shit way back before I was born, to which everything that came afterwards are mimicks: 1) the Church of Satan; 2) the Order of Nine Angles; & 3) the Temple of Set. When I say cesspool, I mean to say that today’s Satanism is like a big swimming pool party, and a lot of geeks and wimps have come in and took shits in the pool, and I’m getting the fuck out and taking my Satanism with me… to a cleaner water hole… like the spa across the street in the business or commercial district. If you guys wanna come – come; if you like being knee high in crap, stay. All I know is I’m leaving for cleaner pastures, and I’m taking my entire Nexion with me.

So lets talk some business about Mattel. I’m going to teach or present my perspective on things by using not another occult book, but a real book on real subjects, then translate it into Satanic shit for those who can’t see the Light themselves- Brand Hijack; chapter 3, pg. 32 (‘A marketers guide to serendipitous Hijack’):

“” About a decade ago, the powers-that-be at Mattel got all bent out of shape. Consumers had started interpreting the world of Barbie to their own liking rather than following the company’s operating instructions.

“” Across the globe, adult fans of the cultural icon began to do what little girls had done for ages: play with her. They gave Barbie an updated look. They fashioned her new clothes, created accessories, cut her hair, and applied make-up. They threw Barbie-themed parties and formed Barbie clubs. They read Barbie magazines and catalogs. They spent thousands of dollars collecting versions of the little plastic doll and every product associated with her. For a while, fashion show parties were all the rage. Guests would design an outfit for Barbie and make a duplicate for themselves. Then they’d walk the catwalk with their creation.

“” Mattel must have been thrilled. Or so you think. “”

SLAPPing a Hijack:

“” Sadly, the folks at Mattel provided a textbook example of how not to handle a serendipitous hijack. You see, they couldn’t resist the urge to control the Barbie world. The company launched one of the most aggressive, ill-conceived, and largely unsuccessful campaigns against copyright and trademark infringement to date. In so doing, it passed up the opportunity to let some of Barbie’s most loyal consumers direct the evolution of the blonde bombshell into the next millennium.

“” One of the company’s target was Paul Hanson, a San Francisco artist who exhibited his own sub-genre version of Barbie at a Castro street store. When Mattel executives learned about Trailer Trash Barbie and Big Dyke Barbie, they were not excited or even amused. Instead of celebrating this risque artist for reclaiming Barbie in a tongue-in-cheek, au courant way for a very specific audience, they sued him. [...]

“” And Hanson was only one of thousands of Barbie fans to be affected by Mattel’s attempt to put a stop to the fun.

“” Shockingly, the company went after its most devoted consumers. It stopped fan clubs from using the Barbie name in charity events. It also tried to put the leading collector’s publication out of business. [...]

“” Mattel’s copyright crusade has won it nothing but bad press, courtroom humiliations, and a “Pink Anger” rebellion from Barbie’s alienated fan base. In one trademark infringement case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, an appellate judge labeled Mattel “Speech-zilla.” Anti-Mattel websites still litters the internet. Mattel is identified as one of the most flagrant abusers of SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation), which has been outlawed in several states. [...]

“” Mattel simply did not understand the power and inherent value of a consumer takeover. Instead of trying to stop Hanson, David, and others from adapting the brand to fit their worldviews, the company should have embraced its new market of devoted brand enthusiasts. In their misguided attempt to exert control over a forty-something-year-old cultural icon, Mattel missed the boat entirely. “”

Lets ask a few dumb questions first after reading this:

1) What happens to a company that fights and sues its fan base? – it starts losing its market.

2) What happens when a company loses it’s market? – new companies which are perceptive to that market’s desires will come in and offer the desired product.

3) What happens when a new company which is empathetic to its fan base, which feeds the passion of the evolving market, steps in and corners the market? – the old company eventually will go bankrupt.

This is how business works. Its a delicate balance between a conservative/traditional executive board and a progressive/evolving fan base. When that balance is disrupted, business goes to shit. This balance is lost in some of the three big companies of Satanism. Lets take the Church of Satan for example because it is the best known.

Back when the Church of Satan came out with its satanism, it had a wild fire fan base. As the organization of the CoS began to grow selling its satanism and books, it’s fan base also gradually began to progress and evolve. What happened to the evolving wants of it’s fan base? The developing unique worldviews of it’s fan base was interpreted as a challenge to it’s product (its satanism), and its authority. Instead of feeding the flame of passion, the CoS ridiculed its most creative fans in hopes to maintain a monopoly on satanism. This unintelligent action causes schisms and division.

It’s alienated market began to form their own churches and satanic organizations with new idea to cater to a new generation. This is the state satanism as a sub-culture is in right now. Many different “denominations” and sects, each with a unique perspective and approach to satanism. Because of this the Church of Satan is becoming increasingly more alienated from the new emerging market and it’s product is become more and more irrelevant. Like AIG, bankruptcy is in the near future for the Church of Satan (like it hasn’t already come). Schisms and independent mimick institutions are not a sign of enthusiasm. It is a sign of dissatisfaction, and most times it is competition.

There still is a large untapped market for Satanism. There are still a billion people lost in Christianity, and another billion lost in Islam. As science and secularism grows more ubiquitous, these people, or their children will need a tool to divest their minds and emotions of the contamination of their past irrational Magian religion.

How about the Order of Nine Angles? Nexion like this one (352) may not be traditional and may not follow the company’s instruction manual exactly; but why do Nexions like 352 come into being? Is it a schism or a sign of dissatisfaction? No, it isn’t. It’s a passion and enthusiasm. Like the creative fan base that took an old idea of Barbie and innovated her to fit their own personal modern worldviews.

The question then becomes: How will the O9A as a ‘whole’ deal with such a creative and innovative passionate and loyal fan base? More will emerge. Will it be like Mattel and the Church of Satan and go SLAPP happy attempting to control its product. Or will it feed the fire of enthusiasm and creativity? From a business point of view the choices the O9A as a ‘whole’ will make is a matter of life and death – and future relevancy. It’s a matter of becoming an institution which burns with a large creative loyal fan base, or fracturing from dissatisfaction – eventual bankruptcy – meaning the shareholders (membership) of this company of ours will liquidate their assets and investments.

Fortunately for the O9A, the “founder” of this company (Anton Long) built in a few mechanisms which insures a continual evolution, creativity, and progressive innovation happens to the O9A. As the O9A progresses in time towards Imperium, so will its outer – exoteric form – progress and evolve to adapt to and meet the times, needs, and conditions of each era, generation, and worldview. The O9A of 1970 C.E. and the O9A  of 2300 C.E. will, and must look outwardly very – extremely – different; but beneath the outer form is the same Dark Essence, the same acausal life, through which the same Dark Ones manifest.

Esoteric Tradition – Synistry

Dark Gods:

These are ‘living’ entities which exist in an acausal space-time. They may be likened to “anti-matter” as against the “matter” which exists in our causal space-time – thus, their intrusion into the causal, disrupts. This disruption is primarily psychic because the psyche of an individual by its nature intrudes or is a part of the acausal. The entities can assume physical forms, but only briefly ~ and then only when a nexion is fully opened. And where the causal and acausal intersect on Earth.*

The Dark Gods do not have ‘forms’ as understood causally ~ because a physical form is a causal thing, and they are beyond the causal. Neither do they possess ‘feelings’ etc. as we understand the terms. They are on the edge of even an Adept’s comprehension [in terms of understanding them].

They can act [i.e. have effects in the causal] via individuals who can access them – or ‘Presence’ them.

It should be understood that the Dark Gods are not ‘the acausal’ itself. They exist in a part [or one realm] of the acausal – that is, they exist, have life or being according to the nature of the acausal. The acausal is ‘beyond causal time’ and does not have a spatial 3D geometry. Other beings probably exist in other acausal dimensions – but of them there is no knowledge.

When an Initiate accesses the acausal – increases the acausal aspect of their consciousness – they are extending the range of their being: i.e. evolving , creating new aspects of consciousness. This is one of the aims of the seven-fold Way – and of all real magick. A part of this, may involve confrontation with some of the ‘Dark Gods’.

In conventional terms, the Dark Gods are evil, sinister.

*Such as ‘magickal centres’ associated with an Aeon – or the finding of such places. It is possible to create such a place – and this is one meaning of such rituals as the Ceremony of Recalling with Sacrificial Conclusion.

The Western Aeon:

As far as Adepts of the sinister tradition are concerned, there are only two realistic options: the creation of Imperium [the fulfilment of Western wyrd via a practical form], or disruption of existing forms with the aim of undermining and destroying Nazarene/ Magian influence, leading to chaos from which a New Aeon will emerge, this Aeon being Satanic. The latter involves the ‘pruning’ of unnecessary elements on a large scale – the creation of an elite capable of making the Aeon a reality. The first involves the creation/aiding of a practical form – and presencing magickal energy into it. It also involves creating the right psychic conditions – within and external to individuals. Some of this is directly magickal, involving magickal energy accessed via rituals etc.; some of it is providing/creating/making available the information and forms of the sinister. The practical form is either directly political, or ‘religious’.

Both involve a more widespread dissemination of the sinister tradition and creation of new forms for its energies.
Traditions and New Forms:

As mentioned elsewhere, maintaining the tradition (as explicated in such works as The Black Book of Satan, Naos, The Deofel Quartet and Hostia) and making it more widely available, is important – and indeed essential. This is because the use of the tradition, in whole or in part [e.g. rituals from the Black Book] by others outside of it being drawn into the tradition, makes those others ‘channels’ for the sinister energy the tradition represents. That is, they ‘presence’ sinister energies in a precise and particular way and thus fulfil sinister strategy. The tradition has been given its present form [as explicated in the various books and MSS to achieve just this (as well as other things).

However, the creation of new forms is important and indeed vital - there must be a continuing evolution. These forms will further access the sinister, and presence it-The tradition itself serves as a Way - both for individuals, and aeonically: it enables the achievement of individual Adeptship, as well as the fulfilment of the sinister dialectic of history. This will be so for the next few centuries - until the New Aeon becomes a reality. That is, its methods and techniques should not be changed (at least not intentionally by those of the tradition for the next few decades) or 'superseded' - as a way of creating Adepts etc. This is not a question of 'dogma' but rather strategy, as mentioned above. It is vital that this and the reasons for and beyond it are understood by those of the tradition. The external forms [such as arise prior to and during the Aeon] will only arise from an initial coherence of magickal energies and intent – and it is and will be the unchanging form of the ‘Way’ [techniques, rituals etc.] which will enable this. The new forms created/evolved will add to rather than undermine what already is. Anything else is simply individuals playing at magick (and particularly playing at Aeonics) without achieving anything and indeed without understanding what they are doing.
Initiation and Beyond:

The quest of an individual can only and ever be individual; that is, unique. The quest, made possible and aided by the tradition, develops the individual, enabling individual wyrd to be understood, and lived. It is also makes possible Immortality (qv. Acausal Existence – The Secret Revealed).

Beyond a certain level, Initiates guide themselves – learning from their own real-life experiences. That is, they have acquired sufficient self insight and honesty to enable them to do this. When this stage is reached [toward the end of External Adept for some; during and beyond Internal Adept for others] there should be still a following of the ultimate goal – a striving for the Abyss and beyond, although this ’striving’ will be more balanced than hitherto. This does not mean the individuals become or develop their own ways of achieving that goal ~ that is, not undergoing the Grade Rituals of Internal Adept and beyond according to tradition because they believe they are not necessary or that they have/can create (d) other means. Should they do this, they will not achieve the specific goal of the sinister way – but rather something else entirely, or else nothing. The reasons should be obvious from the above (Traditions …).
The Aim:

Wisdom. And its living, enabling the last stage (into the acausal…). This means self-understanding and supra-personal understanding. An apprehension of the world and its forms as they are ~ a rational knowing: and what is necessary for change, aeonic and otherwise. This knowledge is sometimes sad, and often born from ordeals and having lived the Abyss. It never confers wealth nor privilege, and seldom imbues one with ‘happiness’. It is beyond words, but can sometimes be transmuted into a form enabling some others to apprehend if only in part its essence. This aim takes causal time – usually c. 20 years from Initiation (if the Way is followed) – and lies beyond the Abyss. It is balance, beyond opposites; a new way of being.

Order of Nine Angles

RETURN TO THE DARK:

Esoteric Notes XVII

The Sinister, Archetypes, Forms and Aeons:

All genuine Adepts understand the simple truth that all causal forms – propounded/described by whatever esoteric Order or group, or manifest by the creativity/discovery of whomsoever – are but intimations, and that this especially true of attempts to define/understand The Sinister/The Acausal/The Dark Gods, all of which are but terms which attempt to describe Some-thing beyond the four-dimensional matrix.

Magick, the Occult, and especially a genuine Sinister Way, are a means to move toward experience of this Some-thing, and this experience – which alone is the basis for a true Knowing – is only and ever individual: that is, unique to the individual, with such a Knowing being the essence of the stage beyond what has been called Internal Adept.

Thus, even such things as archetypes, and the division of our outward and inner Change into Aeons, are such an intimation, such a symbol or symbols, which attempt to make accessible to our consciousness what was not accessible (and thus not-knowable) before. That is, such intimations, such symbols, are useful and indeed still necessary – until the stage of Adept is reached. There is then a moving-away from such things toward an experiencing of the essence. Of course there may (and should) arise a time when such things are not required, when the Seventh Way of Five-Dimensional Magick is understood and practised by many – but that is indeed many centuries from now, given the rather low level of the majority in terms of genuine understanding and the lack of use, lack of control and lack of development, of their faculties. In the meanwhile, genuine esoteric Orders will continue to guide the few of promise, the few who can be bothered to change and master themselves, breeding thus an evolved type.

Learning by Experience:

As has been stressed again and again in Order MSS, the only way to evolve is to experience: to strive forth and undertake practical magick, practical deeds. To experience magickal energies, and to have a plethora of both Light and Dark practical experiences.

All words, whether written or spoken – indeed, all forms presenced in the causal – are only guides; intimations; inspiration, and this applies to all Order MSS. Some-things have not been said or written about; some other-things have only been hinted at, while other-things have been described or symbolized in detail. There is intent here, which those of genuine insight and genuine magickal skill will perceive or come to perceive, just as the genuine ones – who do strive forth via practical experience of the “two worlds” – will be able to work out certain things for themselves, and thus correct the few “mistakes” or “omissions” they may/will find in some ONA MSS. If they are not able to do this, then they have not advanced far enough; or they are among the failures.

Hence, there will always be some things left unsaid, left unwritten about, in “public” – and some-things which will only ever be revealed from individual to individual, or experienced/discovered anew by each genuine new Adept and each new genuine Master/Mistress.

Beyond the ONA:

Twenty or so years after the ONA first came to “public attention” by the decision to distribute various Order MSS, there are now several Sinister/Occult organizations and groups who have derived their inspiration, their knowledge, and such like, from the ONA, even though some of these organizations and groups may not publicly acknowledge this, and even may, sometimes, attempt to distance themselves from their source by such things as criticising the ONA, or what they see/mis-understand as its “teachings”. Of course, this applies just as much to those individuals inspired or otherwise guided by the outer, publicly-known, ONA.

This is a natural and expected process, for – as several ONA MSS have stated – the ONA is in some ways akin to a living-being, in the causal, imbued as it is with aspects of the acausal (Adepts and even some gifted Initiates will understand what is meant here). It was given its current form (and even its name) to be this, among other things.

From these and other emanations, from such other often unacknowledged presencings of the ONA, there will be new understandings born, new changes wrought – that is, new causal presencings of the acausal, of The Sinister, which is all as it should and must be, for the ONA has indeed opened certain nexions, which openings The Dark Gods have been waiting for…

Even my own life – rich, diverse, sinister, of both Light and Dark and thus perplexing to others – is only some new guide, one inspiration, one intimation of what all genuine Adepts should be. It, like that outer ONA which is now “known”, can and should be surpassed, by others.

The ONA will continue, evolving, changing, in its own way, for the stage has now been reached when the life that is the sinister presencing manifest in the outer ONA is a life of-itself, and can thus be left (exoterically/publicly) without any new writings or any open guidance being provided, for the “public/exoteric” work has been done. Thus there will be soon, a return to the dark, to the secrecy of the past – to that which is the slow, genuine, hidden, and individual, guidance there has been, for thousands of years. All that needs to be known, for others to continue along the Way, has now been made accessible, known – and there are hints enough, especially in some of the more recent Order MSS, for the gifted to go beyond what-is-publicly-known to what-must-be. Thus, it is natural and necessary that others are inspired by the ONA – and natural and necessary that they try to surpass it; that they strive to create some-thing of their own inspired by the ONA.

Of course, we can expect some, or many, to try and appropriate exoterically and in public (and probably even in secret) the name of the ONA, but those of insight, those of genuine magickal ability, will see them for the impostors, the liars, the weaklings, that they are, just as the genuine Adepts will – if they have the genius – create some-thing unique, and perchance describe it by some new name.

As for the inner essence, manifest in the inner, hidden, ONA, it will continue – reached, accessed, by the very few who have the ability, the desire, to find it, despite the obstacles they will encounter.

Anton Long
ONA
116yf

SHADOWSCAPE:

ONA Esoteric Notes XXI

(Note: This MS was written for those approaching the stage of Internal Adept.)

Beyond the Individual, Toward the Abyss:

In a somewhat simplified sense, before the Adept there is a concentration on the self: on the desire, the will, the personality, the skill, the Destiny, of the individual. After the synthesis that creates the Adept, there is an increasing awareness of the acausal – of how each individual relates to the acausal.

Part of this acausal awareness is some understanding, and experience, of Aeonics – of Aeonic Magick, and thus of the symbolism, the forms, of such things as Aeons (1). Another part is some understanding of the Nine Angles, of The Star Game, and of what has been symbolized by the mythos of The Dark Gods.

The ONA has stressed again and again – both exoterically and esoterically – that the Adept is only a stage; that what has been called “individuation” is only another beginning; that there is more to genuine magick, to the Seven-Fold Way, than the lower, exoteric magick of individual desire and Destiny; that there is more to existence than the exultation of the “individual”. However, this does not mean some kind of denial of life, of the kind often associated with “white light” groups, organizations and dogma. Rather, it means an expansion of the individual – an awareness, a practical understanding, of the potential that we, as individuals possess. This is a new alchemy – indeed, it is the essence of what genuine alchemy is, and one of the tasks of a genuine esoteric Order such as the ONA is to teach this alchemy, to guide others so that they have the possibility of becoming part of an altogether different species of life than that evident in most who mistakenly dignify themselves as “human”.

In effect, the individual, as existing now – up to and including the Adept – is still bound to the causal, and to the re-presentations, the forms, of the causal, as well as to those symbols and forms which often can presence the acausal, the sinister, in the causal. That is, their perception, for the most part, is still of the flow of cause-effect, of causal time, with all that this implies in terms of “results” and “desire” and “individuality”. Beyond Adept there arises an empathy with the acausal, and thus a knowledge of how the acausal transforms as the acausal transforms, beyond symbolism, forms, names, abstractions, and such things as mythos.

What such things are, beyond, have not been written about, nor will be they written about – they are experienced by the Adept who is moving toward and beyond the Abyss: to and into the experiencing, the knowing, of the acausal devoid of causal “forms”. At best, someone who has gone that way before may guide, or may hint at some things, and that is all. For it is the experience, the knowing, that is important – not the words, of others.

For the Adept, there is an increasing appreciation of the acausal, and one practical aspect of this is the knowledge of how Change occurs, through nexions (2) – and what, in the practical sense, nexions actually are.

That is, there is some understanding of how, sometimes (depending on the nexion and on the particular presencing of acausal energy) such changes as are esoteric are slow, by causal standards, as measured by the causal life-span of individuals. Thus, in the particular case of some Aeonic Magick, the Adept learns how it takes decades, and often a century or more, for the effects of that magick to be “visible” on a scale large enough to produce certain causal, and affective, changes. There arises, thus, the apprehension of the Master and the Mistress – of those who, being beyond the Adept, re-present almost another form of living.

Thus, the Adept also comes to understand how certain causal forms, chosen to effect Aeonic Magick, are only causal forms – that they are not the essence; that they are only like exoteric shells which shells non-Adepts see and which such non-Adepts often confuse for the essence, and indeed often confuse for the aims of a group, an Order, a sinister presencing such as the ONA is. Thus do such non-Adepts mis-understand not only such groups, Orders, but also Aeonic Magick itself, confused as such non-Adepts are by the appearance of the individual, of their self, and mistaking, as they often do, the sinister for such a self, for the desires, the joys, of such a self. In one symbolic sense, Aeonic Magick – and its causal effects – are but an extension of the causal-living which is an individual.

In the personal sense, the Adept is drawn toward the understanding that the sinister itself is supra-personal – not some causal abstraction which they as mere Adepts, can totally “control”. Hence are they moved toward a genuine knowing of the sinister, toward a genuine experience of what is hidden behind such things as The Mythos of the Dark Gods, and thus are they conveyed toward an experiencing of those shadowscapes where such “things” dwell and have Their being.

The Knowing of Forms:

As has been mentioned above, and elsewhere, many times: many non-Adepts, and even some Adepts, sometimes confuse a tactic, a form, for the essence. That is, they fail to appreciate what is being done, and why it is being done. Sometimes, non-Adepts even mistake an Insight Role – undertaken by an Initiate or even an Adept – for the “views”, or whatever, of that Initiate or Adept, and thus castigate that individual! Consider, also, the incitement to action, to disruption, to practical change, which occurs in many of the exoteric (3) ONA MSS, and which sometimes might take place in some Temple (Nexion) or some Sunedrion by such a thing as an individual giving an emotive speech. This individual may even be regarded, in the conventional sense, as “advanced” (that is, beyond Adeptship) and thus may not be “expected” (by non-Adepts) to still use such emotive rhetoric or such forms.

There is, in such circumstances, a rather conventional, non-Initiated projectionism at work here by those who mis-understand such things. That is, a failure to go beyond appearance, and forms, to the sinister essence. A failure to understand that a tactic is just a tactic, which may or may not be useful, and which may be abandoned if it proves to be unsuccessful, or used again if it proves of some value. A failure to understand that such things may be some form of sinister manipulation, or some effect of Aeonic Magick, or even some form of Aeonic Magick itself.

One mark of a genuine Adept is their ability to see beyond such forms, such tactics, to the essence – to the sinister magick often at work in such things. Another mark of a true Adept (and those beyond) – as has been written many times – is the ability to appear as different things: to be a shapeshifter, a chameleon.One mark of a non-Adept is their sometimes willful refusal, or their lack of ability, to distance themselves from their own prejudices, their own views, their own opinions, and from the abstractions they have come to depend on and which they use to “interpret” the world and individuals. Often, such abstractions are inherited from the “society” they live-in, or from some dogma they have accepted, or from some ethos or form which, often without their knowing, holds them in thrall. However, such is the rather low state of most “human beings” that this wallowing in such things – this reliance on such things, this inability to strive toward Adeptship, this lack of perception of the essence, and this lack of knowing the sinister – will continue for some causal time; many centuries, in fact. It is one of the aims of all genuine esoteric Orders and groups to be there to guide, and aid, those who are ready: those who desire to move-on toward the next stage in our development, as beings. Genuine Magick is the means by which they can do this.

Anton Long
116yf

REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM:

Historical Addendum: reductio ad absurdum:

The individual responsible for the present codification of ONA (in the form of the seven-fold way, Star Game etc.) does not claim any supra-personal authority for that codification (in the form of Satan/Set or an extra-terrestrial intelligence) or indeed for the creativity, which was its essence. Neither does he claim any authority via having belonged to some ancient and mysterious group whose “Master” taught and Initiated him.

The truth is simple, and a little ordinary. He was fortunate perhaps in spending most of his childhood and early youth in Africa and the Far East where, in the former, he grew up among people who believed in pagan practices and witchcraft, and, in the latter, he came in contact with many and various traditions including LHP Taoist magic and Martial Arts. All this formed a somewhat unusual education (there is no claim to being “Initiated” into any form) and provided a continuing interest in esoteric arts. This curiosity, interest together with his keen intellect, enthusiasm and zest for danger let him to, in later youth, to not only seek out LHP groups in Europe but also into many interesting and diverse experiences, and in the late sixties he was Initiated into some LHP groups/underground Satanic Temples. His diverse experiences then and later (some dangerous, some at variance with prevailing social dogma, many dark, some heretical) provided useful background for an Occult and personal synthesis and led to him taking responsibility for a small LHP group. The teaching of this group were rather garbled, full of mystifications and occasional insights, but they did provide some basis for creative extension. Thus, the new synthesis that was the seven-fold way was created. The original LHP group had no historical significance and did not claim among its former members any person of significance on any level – it was simply a reclusive circle of a few individuals oriented toward the Black Arts whose teachings (such as they were) centred around a septenary approach to magickal alchemy and a “mythology” about the Dark Gods. (It should be noted that the other LHP groups he joined derived their magic from a mixture of Crowley/Golden Dawn/demonism or were rather boring, lacking Satanic zest).

In the early years of the eighth decade of the present century a decision was made to publish the tradition of this small group (the ONA – as it came to be called some decades earlier) together with the new codification. Some of the traditional material concerned Sacrifice and some related to the Dark Gods mythos.

No one within this group believes these traditions and methods are unalterable or invested with “supernatural” authority. As expressed in such published works as “Naos” and “The Black Book” they are a practical method of achieving magickal Adeptship and extending consciousness into the next stage of its development.

Thus the ONA has no structure because no structure is needed – its members may guide others if those others wish, such guidance occurring because those members have themselves undergone (to a greater or lesser extent depending on their own personal development) the tasks of the seven-fold way and can thus offer advise from experience.

It is as absurdly simple as that.

ONA 1989 e.v.

^^^

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Kayla onanxs

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