“Test always your strength, for therein lies success.” – 2nd Satanic Point, BBS, ONA
The essence of “strength” can be summed up in the word “Unshakable.” An unshakable Pillar or Oak Tree compared to a flexible or bendable sapling is strong in character. The use of such imagery as an exemplar of what strength is may be misleading to some. Actual strength also incorporates adaptability – durability – endurance. It does not imply an inflexible nature of resistance. If that Oak Tree does not learn to adapt to a strong wind, and bend with it, it will break. When this wind stops, that same Oak Tree returns to its original position. In its ability to adapt, and return to its original nature, there is unshakable endurance… such, is the essence of Strength.
This thing we call Strength is a triune entity. There is the Mental, the Emotional, and Physical Strength. The sum of which make a single person. What we Think gives rise to what we Feel. What we Feel influences what we Do, how we Act; and those actions in turn materializes causally as that which we experience – the End Results of our actions. In this light, we are only as Strong as our weakest link. If one of these three aspects of Strength is weak, the chain is broken. No matter how physically powerful you are, under the right conditions of mental and emotional torture, you will break.
Just as a body builder must exercise and push the limits of his physical force to build physical strength. So also can mental and emotional strength be exercised – its limits pushed – to produce an unequivocal mind, well regulated emotions, and a fiercely burning passion. Thus, what tests our endurance and the very limits of our strength, ultimately makes us stronger in the end. Fear is the only limit, to how far a man can go. No matter how muscular and athletic you are, and how refined your mind is… if you have a fear of heights and were asked to jump the roof of one building to the next, you will incapacitate yourself. Thus, it must be understood that Fear is Man’s Great Enemy, which limits his progression and strength.
Fear alone has limited us and enslaved us as a people. Fear of the unknown… Fear of hell fire and damnation enslaved our people for 2000 years under the Magian Mythos of the Nazarene. Because we were mentally week to over come such beliefs. Fear of kings alone subjugated us under tyrannical monarchs. Because we were too weak to overcome that emotion and idea. Fear of the unknown… of not knowing how to pay our bills, make our own money, makes us slaves to corporations. Fear of the State alone… and its illusory power over us… is what limits our people from materializing our human potential, and the full potential of our human civilization.
Fear – or lack of it – is the essential factor which separates us and our Kind, from Homo Hubris. It is Homo Hubris… gripped with Fear like perpetually paranoid meerkats… that remain stagnant and obedient. It was Homo Hubris and his Fear of hell and God, that gave power to the Church during the dark ages. It was Homo Hubris and his Fear of monarchs, that empowered the tyranny of feudal states and serfdom. It is their Fear of these distant… abstract States… that empowers these Nations… Nations which not only dulls and jades our very Humanness, but is also destroying our very species and the earth.
Thus, from time to time, Mother Nature Herself… in Her Natural Primal Wisdom… places us in situations and events far out of our comfort zone, to force us to face our fears. To face violence, storms, heartbreak, loneliness, tyranny, oppression, poverty, famine, hatred, genocide, et cetera. Such tests of Nature breaks the weak… and those who endure – facing such fear – surmount what they once were, and becomes a new person… one more wiser, insightful, stronger. It is through such Ordeals, Struggle, Trials, Tests, Tribulations – such Ennobling Kampfs – that we become more than human… a Fearless Noble Breed of Man.
This Order of Nine Angles to us is then like a Boot Camp which… like Nature… teaches us to face our fears and push our limits Beyond… thus Ennobling us in mind, heart, and body. The Initiate of the ONA (and our Disciples) must understand that Evolution is a Self Imposed Initiative. Only in a given species’ struggle to endure, and adapt to what Nature forces onto it, does a species change over causal time into new creatures. The struggle of the first fish to walk on land to survive over causal time became amphibians and reptiles. The struggle of the first ape to walk up right to compete with other apes, in time, became us. Evolution is Willed and striven for. It does not happen “naturally.” Insects and microbes that attack plants don’t just “naturally” become resistant to pesticides. It is the Will to endure and struggle to survive that initiates change and evolution.
If we understand this as insightful Initiates… we will understand the value in testing our own strengths in the arena of Life. The Ordeals of the ONA’s Grade Rituals and their respective Tests are only the beginning. The Sinister Way is a Way of Life, and that Way of living is one of constant self initiated struggle to go beyond what fears and limitations we have, or what has been imposed upon us by an outside force. This is not to suggest an aimless struggle for the sake of strength itself. It is a purposeful Kampf, such as the endurance test a swimmer would put himself or herself thru to swim across the English Channel, to fulfill an objective… a willed outcome. In doing so, not only do we grow in strength, but there is a growing toward a distinct destination as well. Thus are there the many edicts of the Order which urges each Initiate to test its limits, embrace current Heresy, face danger, Act, and Disrupt.
Mental Strength:
The practice of training a Strong Mind begins with Doubt. The weaker the doubt, the weaker the realization. The greater the doubt, the greater the realization. In doubting, even our very own existence and the nature of reality, do we begin the process of self enlightenment. It must be understood that if we do not enlightened ourselves, that someone else has. Such a mind which is incapable of thinking for itself, and doubting what other say or teach, is weak.
Experience is the second step to cultivating a Strong Mind. It is thru our direct living of life via direct immersion, that we each collect experiences. From these experiences we collect, the contemplative mind grows the more wiser and insightful.
Questioning is the third step to cultivating a strong mind. Such questions that arises from Doubt, and questioning our experiences we have collected. What is that which Doubts? What is that which experiences? What is that which is being experienced. Where is the Observer which is experiencing? Am I experiencing the experience or is my body? Am I that which Doubts, or is it my brain which doubts? If I perform an action, does it produce a reaction? If I desire a certain result, what must I do now to manifest it?
Contemplation is the final step to cultivation of a Strong Mind. Contemplation of our doubts, experiences, and questions thru concentrating our mindful awareness in quiet meditation and internal dialogue with oneself. To answer our own questions with our own insights we have gained from our experiences, with intuition, with a struggle to apprehend the essence of things to gain a genuine understanding of such things.
With the Outer Forms and exoterica of the ONA set aside, these Four Principles are the foundation and essence of the Seventh Way and its Methodology. Thus, there are no leaders or authorities in the Seventh Way to teach or dictate. There is only this fundamental essence and your own striving… your own doubting… your own experiencing… your own questioning… and your own contemplations. There is only your own tests and trials… your own becoming.
Emotional Strength:
If the body were a horse cart, the emotions would be the horses. An individual with no control of his emotions, has no true control over his actions, for it is the emotions that governs what we do and how we behave. Thus it can be simply understood that if the Initiate learns to be Master of her/his own emotions, that she/he will be Master of his/her own Life. If you do not learn to control your own emotions, you are only reacting emotionally due to an outside stimuli. Thus outside forces and other people in essence controls your actions and behavior.
Emotional Strength begins with Detachment. This is not a permanent detachment. Your emotional detachment to temporal things and stimuli is practiced and held only until you have learned to hold your emotional state no matter what the situation.
The second step is Willed Evocation. By this we mean to say that the Initiate trains itself to evoke a desired emotion. Understanding that what we think and imagine influences our emotions, it won’t be hard for the initiate to learn to begin to evoke desired feelings. The feeling of burning passion and determination is crucial to success in life in whatever arena. Determination here means the unshakable Will and desire to complete an objective, or manifest a goal, without change of heart or mind no matter what situation or obstacles one may encounter.
Thru control and regulations of emotions the Initiate learns to wyrdfully manifest a desired objective by controlling the very source of action. Control and regulation of the emotions is the fundamental force and fuel of the Methodology of the ONA, without which, your actions are empty motions.
Physical Strength:
The Methodology itself is not only the means by which we accomplish our goals; but it is the method by which we initiate self change within ourselves via action, the facing of our fears, leaving the confines of our comfort zone; utilizing our Sinister Dialect, Strategy, Insight Roles, or a modern Heresy to push our own limits. The Methodology in action puts us in the position of pushing our limits, forces us to take risks, and perform Sinister deeds, which is not only our work, but our personal means to progressing ourselves, thru our own acts and merits.
Sinister Kampf:
Such practical tests of our mental, emotional, and physical strength, when cultivated and Lived engineers gradually over time a new human being, one that is more refined and Noble than the common breed. A Noble Breed that does not Fear, but is Feared. Not by what has been written or spoken, but by what our deeds and Sinister Cloaking manifests – what we are capable of.
In the long process of surmounting ourselves by placing ourselves into ennobling struggles, and ordeals… in testing the limits of our strength and pushing further to reach for the unreachable… is there an internal alchemy. From this Triumph of Will – the Will to Become… do we genuinely transmute inside progressively, where we become individuals who are genuinely Master of our own Life and Fate… and Master of the lives and fate of others. Only in this way… via a Natural Progression, can we gradually and permanently evolve our human civilization toward its highest potential.
Kayla 352
Order of Nine Angles
120 yf
