I never knew who Osho was even. I had heard people talking about him on campus. Then one day one of our brothers at our ‘hide out’ posted a thread on sayings of Osho. I had to read it out of curiosity. After reading the Osho thread, i was shocked to see my own ‘satanic’ thoughts in his. This made me go down to the local bookstore to buy a copy of Osho’s the Book of Understanding, or something. Now there are parts of it I disagree with, but a majority of the book was kickass and insightful in an almost Left Hand Pathish kind of way. So I was thinking to myself: “Osho’s so gansta!” I even went on youtube and watched him speak. Which was when I found out Osho was Indian due to his ‘punjabi’ accent… hmmm I wondered, this is interesting? Who the hell is Osho really???
I did a little google research on my new found hero, and to my horor I learned the fucker was a 1970′s yuppy guru!!!
NO!!! Not Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh!!! Girls, getting infected with 1970′s memeplexes is like walking around with uncool vintage 1970′s clothing where you think its cool, but you’re the only one that thinks that, along with the real old people actually from that era of pre-postteen history – those hippy people.
So I was beating up on myself because I couldn’t believe I actually like what this guru had to say! Rajneesh was a hippy GURU for god’s sakes… from the 70′s! This was cheap I thought. Or I felt violated, like they just changed his name to make it sound less “guruish” and updated his material to make it makes sence and marketable to the modern 21st century brain. I felt like I had been tricked… and what’s worse is the guys isn’t even alive anymore! Just another dead cult nutcase people follow. I might as well follow Jesus too.
I went to bitch about it to Kayla and was going to throw Osho’s book out and de-brainwash myself from this 70′s vintage crap. That’s when Kayla said: “Wait! That’s fucking genius!”
“Genius?” I ask… “More like a marketing ploy! There reselling old era shit in a beefed up, updated, relevant way to make it appealing to people our age.”
“That’s the genius of it. What other guru from the 70′s can you name besides Osho? None, their memeplexes are dead, or don’t sell to us… ONA…”
That’s when the Sinister Strategy light bulb light up, and this ‘girl in think mode’ look came over us. This is when we realized we can do the same thing with the ONA.
Osho is dead. He’s only gansta because his marketers know how to repackage his stuff to a new audience. This insures Rajneesh’s 1970′s memeplex’s survival.
How many punjabi gurus were walking around teaching their watered down westernized Hindu drivel in the 60′s and 70′s? Paramahansa Yogananda… TM… that American weirdo “Sri Herold Klemp” from the Eckankar thingy. None of them lasted. All of there memeplexes can’t attract our young generation because none of us are into that guru bullshit these days. Maybe people back then were into the guru-religions-leader stuff, but our generation, we’re like the “My Generation…” Myspace, MyFM, My Yahoo… it’s got to be personalized or it doesn’t sell. It’s got to add to MY personality, MY character, and MY image, or it doesn’t sell. It’s gotta make ME cooler than everyone else in some way, or it doesn’t sell.
This brings us to another child of the 60′s & 70′s: Satanism. Generically, the Satanism of that era, took on the same look as their new age counterpart. You have a guru – High Priest, and a structured organization to belong to. Some Satanic gurus were more sane than others. I respect Anton LaVey and his sanity over Aquino who claimed that some ancient Egyptian demon came to him in the middle of the night and talked to him, dictating a book. I guess people back then were slightly on the dumb side of the fence. And these satanisms were orthodox and dogmatic. Meaning that what was written is the Ne Plus Ultra of the doctrine. It can’t change or be altered. If you add shit to it than you’ve transgressed the established orthodoxy and are no longer accepted. Orthodoxy equals stagnation. The structured organization such as the Church of Satan and/or Temple of Set has to maintain stagnation of its established doctrine or lose control of its herd. If it loses control of its herd, then the High Priest is assed out of not only an income, but also looks like a loser, and the structured organization dies. Thus it is within an orthodox stagnant institution such as these to prevent change and progression. New comer much conform to the dogma and organization or they aren’t accepted. This is the era most of the ONA first came out in.
But this is an old model from a bye-gone era which do not appeal to the minds of today. We can see this in the increasing number of young people who are even interested in religion at all adopting a more personalized format of old era religions. Even within the genre of satanism, the younger generations are turning to theistic satanism more often because it allows personalization, meaning they can take it and make it meaningful and relevant to themselves.
If anything, the ONA has produced something successful, which was so successful it out grew the ONA: its brand name – “Traditional Satanism.” The Order of Nine Angles can rightly be credited for coining the term “Traditional Satanism” in its earliest manuscripts, but this label has been taken by the theistic movement. I don’t know how that happened, but nowadays when you say you are a “Traditional satanist” it means you worship an anthropomorphic deity named Satan. This is stupid and pure idiocy. I have zero tolerance for the stupidity of worshiping anything. Especially something that cannot be rationally proven.
If Christianity were an insane asylum, a theistic satanist didn’t leave the nuthouse, he just went across the hallway to another room, because “satan” is a part of the Christian matrix. The use of satan and black masses is like a “patient” in the Nazarene Nuthouse using a crow bar to pry his mind out of the asylum and free himself mentally and emotionally from its matrix. Once free, this satan/crow bar, makes a good tool to beat people up with and take apart society brick by brick.
Hence, the term “Traditional Satanism” has been hijacked by a large population of mental handicapped gothchicks and emoboys who think satan is their best friend or something, to whom satanism is something that looks good with their black makeup and funerary wardrobe.
Since us 352 girls are cool. We don’t want to be in any we connected to such social reject. So we first had to rename the Satanism of the ONA for ourselves. We chose “Progressive Satanism.” It wasn’t arbitrarily picked because it sounded cool. We picked it because the very basic fundamental principles of the Order of Nine Angles is Progressive. The ONA deals with the initiate’s self progression. It’s aim is the progression of humanity, and the progression of civilization. Progressive Satanism, then ends up being a very accurate descriptor for what the ONA is actually essentially about. Not only is this the case, but the ONA is unique in that it is also in the business of progressing its own memeplex and system. Anton Long wrote out that the ONA must not only influence change in its initiates and society, but change itself and become different. This essence, or progressive spirit of the ONA is the total opposite of those other stagnant satanisms which teaches “nonconformity” but demands stagnant conformity.
Even though such structured organizations as the Church of Satan, Temple of Set, and all of those Churches and Temples are a dying phenomena; the Satanic Bible by LaVey seems to still sell to the market. Even though the satanism it teaches is cheap compared to what the ONA teaches overall. Why?
Of all the devil bibles and satanic texts written by hopeful High Priests and ilk, why has the Satanic Bible out done all others? It makes you ask the same question when we think about all the hundreds of free manuscripts the ONA and its initiates gives away over the internet. A bigger market, means more minds gives life to your memeplex, insuring your memetic systems survival over time. Why does the Satanic Bible, from a professional marketing perspective, out do it’s competitors in the “black market?”
The answer is real simple. A professional business with a marketing perspective and with Capital on its mind, structured the Satanic Bible whereas the other books of the same genre were written and structure by occultniks and wannabe high priests who lack professional marketing insights.
Marketing your product right is the difference between all those 1970′s hippy guru movements and Osho. Osho’s marketers stripped him of his guruness, and took his words and reconstructed them to tickle the ears of the modern 21st century generation, and they do a damn good job at it. Rajneesh is dead, but Osho is still alive, out doing his rivals.
Now we have the Satanic Bible and Team Osho as a model to learn from, which we in 352 utilize to gain insights from. It’s not just a matter of having cool people write interesting to read remakes of ONA ideals. Updating and revitilizing the ONA will require a whole makeover. A new image, a new name for a revitilized satanism, modernized version of time tested ONA ideals and manuscripts, and a reconstruction of choatitic free floating ONA manuscripts ”out there” into a design compiled to be marketable to modern generation.
We’ve taken the initiative to do just that in 352. Firstly for the survival and sake of our own Nexion, or Temple, or whatever you want to call it, secondly to maybe influence others of the ONA to do likewise, and together as a whole, perhaps we can breathe some vitality and vivaciousness back into the Order of Nine Angles, that it might be also enjoyed by and relevant to the future generations to come… should we desire to actually exist long enough to manifest Imperium.
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For a different perspective on Progressive Satanism: sinistar666.wordpress.com/
WSA
