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Causal and Acausal are words we use very often in the ONA to represent certain intellectual and/or “esoteric” ideas unique to our system, or at least unique to Anton Long and whatever system he had an influence upon. But just because we toss a word around intellectually and use it often doesn’t always mean we have an intimate, practical, emotional understanding of what the essence of a word(s) is. To know something from reading it, is far different from that of coming to an emotional realization of it.
To illustrate this point: imagine you had never touched a hot tea kettle before and I were to verbally tell you or write you a message that said: “If you touch a hot tea kettle it will burn.” This statement is what’s called a “meme.” Now you can go around carrying this meme in your head “knowing” that touching hot tea kettles will burn intellectually. You can even make a cult or religion out of it and infect others with this meme and teach them this bit of knowledge you have learn. But you are devoid of a real emotional grasp of what it means to touch a hot tea kettle and get burned. It’s not until curiosity gets the best of you and you physically touch a hot tea kettle and burn your finger does something very special happen. From your direct experience of physically touching that hot tea kettle and experiencing the burn, you come to an emotional realization that it fucking hurts when your dumbass touches a hot tea kettle.
That emotional realization, and the intellectual statement, are two completely different phenomena. The intellectual meme/statement is open to debate, metaphysical speculations, intellectual doubt, and philosophical interpretation. Such as: “She didn’t say what would burn,” or “If the tea kettle were made of wood, then it would burn itself, and not your finger,” or “The kettle and burn are illusions of maya, and therefore not real,” or “If nobody was around to witness the hot tea kettle, would it still be hot?” The emotional realization on the other hand, is wordless and thoughtless. It is a realization based on direct physical experience and it can’t, or does not need to be debated, intellectualized, philosophized, interpreted, or speculated – you touched it, and it burned your damn finger. That process of emotionally grasping for things from direct experience to come to an intimate Realization is called Enlightenment. Enlightenment needs no book or teacher. It only requires you to become fully aware and connected with the natural phenomenal world of experience.
When you’ve fully understood the meaning of the above message, you will understand the crucial fundamental difference between the ONA and pseudo-satanism. Pseudo-satanism, under whatever name, brand, or label, is based on a construct of intellectual memes – ideas, idealisms, concepts, abstractifications, and arbitrary convictions. These are all open to debates, metaphysical speculations, intellectual doubt, and philosophical interpretations. In other words, pseudo-satanism is a group of people dabbling with OPINIONS with which they have no emotional realization of that has no real or genuine connection to the real world of causal phenomena. In otherwords, it is mental gymnastics that has nothing to do with the real world, because it all happens INSIDE the pseudo-satanist’s own head. There is a big difference between your head (subjective) and the world outside your eyeballs (objective).
The ONA is the total opposite. It is designed and it stresses direct experience of the phenomenal word; through it’s ordeals; grade rituals; and practical, applicable methodologies to engineer not only real world results, but the apprehension of an emotional realization of Self, reality and existence. The ONA is then a process of Enlightenment. A process of coming to the intimate and ontological Realization of who we are and what we are in relation to the Cosmos. The Buddha did not become Eng lightened from the reading of a book or being a member of a religion. He gained that Enlightenment by directly immersing himself into the reality of the phenomenal world, exposing himself to the hardships of the people outside his walled kingdom and intimately “feeling,” -grasping – for an emotional realization of what life is in the forest. I use the Buddha here only as an example.
What then is the phenomenal world, or the Causal as we refer to it in the ONA? The word itself gives up its secret. The word Causal is not an esoteric or mystical word used to refer to the natural world because Anton Long thought it sounded cool. It actually describes the essential mechanism of the natural world we physically exist in. A causal system is a machine that outputs something when something is inputted into it. Such as a gumball machine: you put in a coin and it gives you a gumball; you don’t put in a coin – you don’t get a gumball. Another example is your girlfriend: you give her the input that she’s pretty and tell her you love her, and she puts out (such is the ways of a causal entity). In other words the phenomenal world we exist in is governed by a “cosmic law” which gives you what you put into it: For every ACTION there is a reaction – Cause and Effect. AND, because we ourselves are causal organisms, we also function under the same binary principle; as I conveniently illustrated with the girlfriend – and if you have the experience of having one of these you will REALIZE the illustration.
There is something almost sinister about causal organisms living in a causal world. Every time I put in money in one of those vending machines and grab what it gives me, I can’t help but feel like a monkey sometimes. Like I was a dumb pigeon in one of B.F. Skinner’s causal machines where he’s manipulating and conditioning these birds to peck at red and green buttons for food. Or Pavlov’s Dog. It’s like I were a robot that ran on a primitive binary coding. I bring this up for the very intelligent ONA Initiates who can decipher what was just said and learn to take advantage of those unawakened robots.
When we’ve studied and learned the theories of a natural principle, or natural law, we can then put the theory into practice to engineer results. For instance studying the principles of aerodynamics and understanding how wind works and how birds fly – we can use what we learn to make airplanes that takes advantage of a natural principle to reap commercial benefits. That’s the difference between a theory and an applied theory. It’s the difference between a mere belief you carry in your head, and transmuting what you know into tangible results. Just because you know something, doesn’t mean that something is worth anything in the real world. You can be a pseudo-satanist with a 1000 books on the occult and talk a lot about the dark arts, but if what you know has never produced any tangible – practical – results, everything about you is practically worthless.
Learning to utilize the causal principle of the phenomenal world brings us now to what the WSA terms “Causal Tantra.” “Tantra” is like a taco – it’s weird like that. It was imported from a different country, composed of a different people who had a different worldview from the Western/Occidental mind, and it was mutilated to market to the occidental market in the hippy era of the 60′s and 70′s. Just like how the concept of a Mexican taco was imported to America and degenerated into the crap they sell at Taco Bell or Dell Taco; and Orange Chicken isn’t real Chinese food. Tantra in the West has degenerated into some sex act between old hippies looking for “enlightenment” in the rubbing of their hippy vaginas and penises. And when asked what the actual word means, nobody seems to know, or a very imaginative occidentalized meaning is innovated.
Before we can understand what “causal tantra” is, we first have to understand what the word “tan-tra” actually means in context to it’s native Oriental minds and cultures. Fortunately I was born and raised in such a culture. There are two root words in the word tantra: Tan and Tra. The word Tan basically means a Thread or String. Tra is the ancestor of the English word “Through” or the Latin word “Trans” meaning to cross something, go through something, or across something.
Tra is a verb and an adjective. In Theravada Buddhism when the Buddha crosses over to the Other Shore, meaning when he “died” and reached Nirvana he has “Tra.” Tra refers to what happens at the end of an enlightened being’s causal life. In other words enlightened beings don’t die, they Tra – cross over into Nirvana: the formless void; Pure Land.
Tan is a much more difficult word to explain because it is used idiomatically to not even mean string or thread. Tan is the Sanskrit equivalent of the Pali word “Pali” itself. Pali is a dialect of Sanskrit and the language the Buddha spoke and it is the language his essential teachings were written in. The word “Pali” itself literally means a “Seam” or “Weave” as in the Seam of your pants which is a weaving of thread that holds your pants together. To the oriental minds that spoke Pali and Sanskrit their language or the written aspect of language is a string of letters and a weaving of words. If you’ve ever seen written Sanskrit and you see how the letters are connected at the top like a string or thread binding the letters together, you will understand the idiomatic value of the word Tan/Pali. “Pali” in it’s native Buddhistic context thus also refers to the masterful weaving of the Buddha’s word in the form of chants and actual lectures. Tan is also the masterful weaving of words to produce Sanskrit mantras like “Om Mani Padme Hum.”
So when you put those two words together: Tan+Tra, you get a word that means a masterful weaving of words designed to help the reader to practically achieve enlightenment; or literally: the “Transitioning Thread” or the “Thread that causes Transition.” “Thread” here meaning a Thread of scripture, esoteric doctrine, chant, or spell. A Sanskrit dictionary explains the definition of Tantra as: “A loom; warp; groundwork, underlying principle, essence; system; standard; main point; rule, doctrine; manual; section in a manual; a class of magical and mystical treatises; spell[...]” In otherwords, tantra is an esoteric teaching and the practical principles that is associated with esoteric doctrine specifically designed to manifest enlightenment and transformation or transition from one state to another. In the ONA we would understand this as roughly “Internal Alchemy.” So now that we have a genuine understanding of what the word Tantra means, what would the term “Tantric Buddhism” allude to? It alludes to the hidden esoterica, the magic, chants, spells, mystical practices, and secret tradition that progresses one to enlightenment, which lays hidden beneath the superficial form which is observed by the uninitiated as common Buddhism.
When you learn to understand the native idiomatic value of the word tantra, as an Initiate of the ONA, you will begin to realize that the entire system of the Order of Nine Angles is a tantra or a masterful weaving of the words and mind of Anton Long constructed and designed to help the Initiate practically via direct experience, achieve self progression and the progression of society. The ONA is thus tantric in nature. There is an outer, superficial form which the outsider observes and sees, and there is a hidden esoteric essence which the initiate understands to be the true and genuine ONA. The outer form may, can, and will change, but the tantra or esoterica remains the same Dark Tradition. Tantra shares another commonality with the esoterica of the ONA which most adepts who understands its esoterica will recognize. Originally Tantra was a spiritual system developed by the Mon-Khmer Shaktas who believed that Shakti/Energy (our Baphomet) was the central essence of the Cosmos/Universe which is a concrete manifestation of said energy. It sought to reconnect, reyoke – yoga- it’s initiates back with the Cosmos to realize this energy, and through mystical and magical practices teach it’s initiates to use this energy to achieve illumination and affect the material world.
Causal Tantra is then the woven words which describes the causal principles of our phenomenal world and the masterful weaving of action in which those principles are applied to take you physically across from point A to point B. Point B being your end desire. It is a dance of strategic action which engineers or produces your end desired result. Such ONA practices as Insight Role, Shrenching, Shapeshifting, Ordeals, and Grade Rituals; and 352 innovations like Glamouring, Emshifting, and Backmasking are all specialized forms and applications of causal tantra which either helps the Initiate engineer a desired end result and/or helps the Initiate progress towards personal enlightenment.
Superficially, casual tantra can be very simple. If you desire a job, you dress proper and ask businesses if they are hiring, go to the interview and get the job. Your emotions is the basic fuel of causal tantra. Your emotions governs and influences your actions and behavior. If you desire something bad enough, you will act on it and get it. Therefore a weak emotion will produce weak action – input in the causal system, which in turn will output a weak result. Action fueled by burning passion and unwavering determination will thus yield a more powerful end result. The difference is landing a wage earning job, and becoming a self-made millionaire in a decade. The difference is settling for any convenient girl as a girlfriend, to getting the trophy wife of your dreams. The difference is renting an apartment your whole life and owning the home of your dreams. The difference is spending the best years of your life and free time working for someone else, and having all the free time in the world to spend it with people you care about and do the things you want to do. The choice is yours, and it all depends on how much passion and determination you input into the causal system. Emotions is then a very important factor in causal tantra. But in Acausal Tantra your emotions is a barrier that will prevent you from manifesting results.
The word Acausal is much harder to explain as it is used in the WSA. Gramatically it litterally means “Not-Causal.” It implies a system in which the law of cause and effect is nonapplicable. Or the Acausal exists independently outside the jusrisdiction of the causal world or causal phenomenon. An example of an acausal system is your own mind in day dream mode. The “reality” you see and experience in a day dream is acausal in essence due to the fact that the law of cause and effect does not in any way apply to the forms contained in it. This feeble definition would have you think that the acausal is “somewhere” else “beyond” the causal world. But such is not the case.
On a macrocosmic level, this physical universe we exist in maybe causal, or governed by universal principles of cause and effect, physics, thermodynamics, et cetera. But on a Microcosmic – Quantum level- such laws are nonapplicable. The Quantum Flux which is the essential fabric of our physical universe operates with its own set of strange laws that is not causal in nature. To illustrate this when you take a physical rock and you throw it at a physical person, you get a causal reaction: the person’s head bleeds and if he is not unconscious you will reap a reaction to your action: get your ass kicked. In a microcosmic subatomic level, if you threw a hydrogen atom into an oxygen atom, instead of getting a reaction out of the oxygen atom, the two transmute into an entirely different element – water. This is not to say that the Quantum Field is the Acausal because even the Quantum Field itself, as fine and microcosmic as it is, is still energy in motion or manifestation as a “sea” finite quanta of energy. The Acausal is the Supernal Light from which eminates that which coagulates into quantum form and substance. It is the Sublime Morphic Resonance Field “upon” which is “etched” the totality of all that exists and is possible in coherent information form.
A better way to illustrate the relationship between the causal and acausal as we in WSA use the terms is with a computer game or video game. Take Zelda for example. The game you are playing or seeing on the screen is the causal world. It’s based on the same input-output principle. You move your character off a cliff and you die, you punch another character and you get a reaction, and what actions you do in your Zelda world produces results. The acausal of this Zelda world is invisible, independent of the image you see on the screen. It exists as a string or weave of coherent information on the disk – it is the program which lies far “beneath” the images you see on the screen. The two worlds look complete different and opperate on very different laws. There is no form in the Zelda acausal, its just 1′s and 0′s. Nothing moves in the Zelda acausal. Both the beginning and end of the game co-exists simultaneously in the Zelda acausal. The entire game’s potentialities exists all at once. The characters in the Zelda acausal are eternal coherent bits of information which have neither a begining or and end. But – if you alter the sequence of coherent information by adding extra 1′s and 0′s – you ultimately affect what is on the screen – this is then Acausal Tantra. It is the”act” of effecting the causal world by imprinting your will upon or programming the acausal.
The link, wormhole, connection, or nexion between the causal and acausal is the Mind. It is in the mind that the esoteric chants are stored. It is in the mind that the desire to open a nexion occurs. It is in the mind that sensual reality (reality based on the 5 senses) takes form. When an ONA Initiate presences the Dark by the methods and traditions he was taught it is all in reality the firing of synaptic connections which releases what chants and rituals he recalls and preforms, which moves his body and mouth accordingly. His surroundings, his wardrobe, his crystals, even the other participants are in actuality nothing more than firings of synaptic connections and the stiring of electricity in areas of his own brain. because it requires the brain/mind to behold and give form to the causal universe, the mind itself is the connection between what he sees as being the causal and acausal. In the same way that the Operating System of a computer is the actual connection between what images one sees on the screen and the sea of coherent information on the hard drive. The computer screen, computer tower, and operating system are in actuality a single continuum/system. The Acausal, the Mind, and the Causal are in actuality a single continuum/system. Thus, it can be better understood how having more adepts and initiates of the ONA “brings down” more acausal energy to affect the causal world.
The two fundamental components of acausal tantra is Will Power and what the WSA terms a “Thazer,” or a “Diamond Mind.” The mind; or more accurately – it’s thoughts; can be pictured as a cluster of carbon atoms. If the carbon atoms are in no particular coherent order you get a piece of coal. If the same carbon atoms are brought or forced into a coherent order (Order out of Chaos) you end up with something completely different: a diamond. It’ is the same with one’s thoughts. If your thoughts/mind is scattered it is like the scattered light emanating from a flashlight. But when you force or focus that same emanation of light into a concentrated beam you get a lazer. A concentrated “beam” of coherent thought is called a “Thazer.” The Will Power to the thazer is like the amount of electrical energy inputted into a lazer – the more energy – the stronger the lazer.
Emotions has nothing to do with acausal tantra. In fact emotions becomes a wall between your mind and the causal world. This can be illustrated by a pond with fish in it. The fish is your mind, the surface of the pond is your emotions, and the natural surroundings around the pond is the causal world. If the surface of that pond is moving and rippling the fish can’t see the natural surroundings well. If the surface/emotions is moving violently, then the surroundings cannot be seen at all. This is what is meant when someone is “blinded by their emotions.” It is only when the surface of that pond is dead still that the fish can focus its concentration on the intricate detail of the natural surroundings. Only when the emotions are silenced, can the Mind and Will affect the causal.
A better way to explain how one’s emotions can affect and impede the power of the mind and will is by imagining a person with a fear of high places. Place him at the top of a 3 story building and ask him to run and jump the gap that separates the building he is on and the adjacent building. His violent fear completely obstructs the power of his mind and will to even move his own body close to the edge of the building he is standing on. If on the other hand this person has the ability to turn off his emotions and silence it to a dead stillness, he has but to fucus his mind and will on the simple act of running and jumping. Thus, it is no easy task to learn to control one’s emotions.
Silencing your emotions goes against the popular occidental theory of magic, in which it is believed that the stronger your emotions, the more likely your magic will work. This misconception can be explained with another illustration: a boiling pot of water. The water being your emotions. If you had the desire to feel a drop of boiling water on your skin, there are two options you can take to fulfill this end desire. You can wait for the water to violently boil, hold your hand near the pot and wait for chance to pop one of those boiling bubbles to throw a drop of hot water on you. In this first case, the end result is dependent on chance, even if your emotions are strong. The second option is to apply your mind and will to move your finger and lightly touch the water. The second case will guarantee the end result, as long as the mind and will are united and strong.
There is then an obvious other downfall to the concept of occidental “magic,” if you understand what is being written here. The ritualism, incantations, and excitation of the five senses with imagery causes the mind, its thought, and concentration to scatter in every direction but the right one. This environment is not conducive to a thazer. For a thazer to be possible, the thought, awareness, concentration, and will of the mind has to be so focused on the single end desire that everything else around you vanishes. The act of intensely focusing your mind on an end desire is the act of “imprinting” that end desire onto the acausal.
Like causal tantra, 352 has several specialized variations of practical exercises secretly stored in its Opus Vrilis which are acausal tantra in nature. Such 352 acausal tantras as: Raising Leviathan; The Priesthood; Satanic Mentalism; Mahavayuvica; Avayuvica; Death Gnosis; Exmentation; Tapping; and Phazing are designed to help our Disciples master acaual tantra which requires many years of devout “monastic” practice. It takes a monk (Buddhism) many years to learn to silence his emotions and hold his concentration on a thought, idea, or object for hours. This means acausal tantra takes much practice and decades to reach Adepthood. It required the ability to enter a deep trance state via meditation and the ability to hold onto a thought, without your mind wandering for at least an hour. The chantings and mantra a monk recites has no magical value in it. These only serves to help keep certain aspects of his consciousness/awareness busy with an absolutely meaningless task (reciting the mantra) so that the mind does not wander away from what is being concentrated on.
When the mind and will imprints a desire onto the acausal, that end desire doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It comes to you with the change of environment, surroundings, situations, events, in the causal world. It manifests through other people receptive to the emanation of your thazer and will, through coincidences, and serendipity. Thus being active in the real world, and having social skills is an important factor in both causal and acausal tantra.
No loner with bad social skills can really achieve anything in life but depression and psychosis. The same goes for people who live inside their heads and rarely join the rest of us in the real world. If you want life to give you things you actually have to expose yourself to life and learn how it works. This is the main reason d’etre of why the WSA exists – to teach its Disciples how to progressively Master Life. To not only live it to the fullest as the cliche goes, but to also extract out of it all that it is worth. This doesn’t come easy. If it did we’d all be living fulfilled lives in which all our dreams are met. All you are to life is a bag of genes which it uses to continue itself and if you accept your default lot in life, this is all you will basically be. It takes a mobster with her/his proverbial tommy gun who isn’t afraid to intimidate and kick life’s ass to extort and racket it for its abundance and wealth and achieve Mastery of Life. There are many petty crooks in life, but very few Al Capones.
Chloe
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