The Prada of Satanism [v.3.4]
The silly name of this manuscript itself reveals the most important fundamental essence of what “Satanism” is. As Prada is a high quality ACCESSORY which accentuates your natural body and beauty which expresses the type and quality of person you are to other people; so too is Satanism an accessory; and not your Essence.
Satanism is only a memetic accessory which serves only to enhance or accentuate your natural Being and Essence as a human being in-tune with his/her humanness, Nature, and the Cosmos. It expresses the type and quality of person you are to others. This is to essentially say that YOU as a living human being, endowed by Nature with the instinct and quality of Primal Nature, are NOT what you believe. That you are NOT your ideological opinions. That you are NOT your spiritual or religions or philosophical assertions and concepts. These named things are merely invented tools with which the human animal may use to apprehend the essence of his own Being, Nature, and the Cosmos.
Thus such things as Beliefs are only tools used by the mind for acquiring an understanding of itself and its reality. Your beliefs should not be your Identity, but accessories to your natural Identity. It would be reasonable to understand that how we perceive the world, Nature, the universe, and ourselves, depends on the quality of such Beliefs. Such that how we see things depends on the tool. In the same way that if an astronomer’s telescope had a defected lens, what he sees with that telescope – and the reality he believes to exist on the other side of that telescope – will also be defected.
Belief is greatly important as explained in our manuscripts regarding Wyrd. To briefly recapitulate – what we believe, or how we see the world with our minds, gives birth to our emotions. These emotions in turn inspires, gives rise to, and governs our actions in life. Such actions will manifest causal results. Such that if a person were to believe his race to be superior in some way to others, such beliefs will give rise to strong emotions concerning his own race and other races. These feelings in turn governs this persons actions in life, which yields causal results.
The Magian Weltaschauung
By Magian we mean the beliefs, ontology, cosmology, theology, worldview, and ethos of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and there derivatives. The common characteristics of the Magian Weltanschauung is that reality is “dualized” into two competing and warring factions – Good versus Evil. There is a Good God responsible for all that is good, and an Evil God which is responsible for all the evils that plagues humanity. Humanity is divided into two distinct groups – the “Chosen” and the “Rejected.” To be “Chosen” the Rejected must think, live, and believe as the Chosen does. A high priest and or priesthood usually is the intermediary between the Chosen Good God and the Chosen People.
Such a stupid interpretation of reality is absolutely irresponsible. Rather than understanding that we each are responsible for the results and consequences in our own lives via our actions, and that such actions affects the lives of others. Such that ignorant and stupid actions manifests as hardship and suffering [“evil”], an imaginary god of evil is used as a scapegoat to blame the world’s evils on.
With 7 billion people, each doing something stupid, and with hundreds of States run by stupid people each doing stupid things, it’s not hard for anybody intelligent to understand that it is WE and not some god of evil that is destroying our ecosystem, that creates war, that creates mass poverty. It is the laws we pass that creates crime and criminals not an evil god. As long as we continue to ignorantly blame something imaginary for the evils that exists in the world, and not ourselves: we will continue to destroy ourselves as a species. What is worse is that the Magian belief of a Judgment Day, a heaven, a paradise, or whatever does not help with the destruction of the earth, because why go thru the trouble of fixings something like a dying earth when heaven or 72 virgins is right around the corner?
No amount of prayer to some good god in the sky, or superficial upholding of codes of morality is going to stop this self destruction. Enlightenment will. By Enlightenment, we mean that each individual person must come to the understanding that his and her actions in life not only affects their own lives, but the lives of others.
We aren’t going to go into detail about how destructive Magian ethos is, because we should all be smart enough to open a fucking history book and read about Magian actions and the results of such Magian actions over the course of some 2000 years, and its over all retardation affect it has had collectively on the human species.
So this is the first Duty of a Satanist – To know and understand your enemy. As Satanists we believe that the Magians are the enemies of human kind because of the negative fruits of their collective actions on our species. The second Duty of a Satanist is then – To work to destroy the enemy in all their forms. Not by dressing up like Goths and emos. Not by using some dumb chaos magic to magickally fight the Magian. By practical and pragmatic means. By killing them or using Sinister Cloaking to get others to kill them. By destroying their States and undermining their politics and policies covertly with subversive groups and subversive actions.
Dressing up in the latest Prada and not using it in some way like getting a hot date, is useless. So is being a Satanist, of all you will be doing is wearing a label and carrying around beliefs and opinions. It’s practically useless and pointless. It is what you do with your Satanism, that makes Satanism useful and valuable. In the same way that it is the glamour Prada gives you and what that glamour can do for you that makes Prada worth more than a WalMart outfit.
The Meaning of Satan
“Satan” is a mere meme in a memeplex. By “meme” we mean to sociologically denote anything – such as an idea, a concept, a gesture, or aspect of a culture or tradition – which can be transmitted from one person to another. A handshake is a meme. A wave of the hand that says “hello” is a meme. “LOL” as it is typed which expresses a laugh is a meme. War paint Native Americans use to wear during battle is a meme.
A memeplex is a cluster of memes amalgamated together. In this context a meme is a “gene” of the genetic coding of a “memeplex” which, like viruses can and do infect people, replicate, and spread. Christmas is a memeplex with the songs, the gifts, the décor, the x-mas tree, and so on. Tail gating and football events is a memeplex. If a single gesture is a meme, than sign language is a memeplex. Gang culture is a memeplex. So are Buddhism and Catholicism. A religion, a culture, a tradition, a way of life, are all fundamentally the same thing: a memeplex. Thus we will approach this topic from this clearer perspective, rather than from an uneducated pre-college perspective of “religions,” “sects,” and “cults” which essentially has no meaning on an anthropological and sociological level.
The meme of a “satan” originated with the monotheistic Israelites. Originally the word “satan” did not denote a specific creature or being. It simply meant an “Enemy,” or something that opposes. The word “satan” was often interchangeable with the word “Tsar” which had the same essential meaning. Your enemy in battle was a satan/tsar. Vices are satan/tsar. Disobedience to God was satan/tsar. Thus, in the ONA, when many of us use the term “Satanist” we mean “One That Is An Enemy Of God’s People [Jews/Magian].” In this sense of the word; Satanism in the ONA is the System or Principles of Philosophy of being a Satan [Enemy/Opposition] to the Jews and their Magian Weltanschauung.
Satan is also a word used to denote The Sinister, which is the antagonistic, or force of opposition that exists in Nature and Life which is adversarial in Essence. The Sinister is like a fast flowing river pushing against us in which we must struggle or be swept away. Much like the adversarial quality of Boot Camp, or a University. There is a struggle to go thru Boot Camp. There is a struggle to finish school to get your degree. If you fail to fight the opposing flow, you are swept out of Boot Camp and the University never achieving your potential. In Nature what organisms do not struggle and fight against this Flow to Earn their potential and worth goes extinct. This Natural Oppositional Flow in Life and Nature is Mother Nature’s way of testing all of her species for the best quality life forms. It is Her way of gradually weeding out the weak. Thus Satan, or The Sinister, is the very cause of evolution of Life toward higher potential.
Satan in the ONA also is an exoteric or outer name given to an Living Acausal Archetype in our Psyche which has the ability to precence itself in the causal. This Acausal Energy/Archetype/Being in the ONA is associated with the Dark Sphere of Mercury in the Tree of Wyrd. This Archetypal Entity is The Sinister manifested in and through the Psyche.
If you were to ask me if I personally believe in a “satan” I would answer – Yes and No. No because I do not believe that before the beginning of time, when Satan was born, his mom gave him the Anglicized Hebraic name “Satan.” If you’re gunna believe that shit, you might as well also believe that God actually did give Moses the King James Version Bible in Shakespearian English. I pity you and your “intelligence” if you believe this. I really do.
Yes because I know/feel that there is more to Life than flesh and stone. That this Life Force or Cosmic Essence is feral, beyond human valuations of “good” and “evil,” is constructive sometimes – when it gives life: when trees and flowers grow; is destructive at times – when, thru Nature, a hurricane or monsoon or typhoon kills hundreds of thousands of lives: when fungus, bacteria, and maggots consumes what was once living. I understand that I consciously ascribe the word “satan” to this “Thing” that Life is, and I understand that I ascribe certain values and concepts to this word “satan” which reflects my own feeble apprehension of this “Thing” which is an aspect of the Living Cosmos. This is all I know.
One can reasonably point out that there is only ONE Life, ONE Cosmos, ONE Nature, and that perhaps what I call “satan” is the same thing a Hindu might understand as “Brahma,” or what a Christian calls “God.” This is entirely true. So, with this point in mind, it is easier to understand that we each have our own grasp of “That Which Is Beyond Us.” We each ascribe an idea/meme which we associate with certain values and concepts to this same Thing.
So that, like the clothes we wear, what and how we see/interpret this same “Thing,” reflect what type of person we are and our level of mental evolution and capacity to think and understand. Such that if we were to compare a Christian’s anthropomorphic, bearded, God who sits on a throne with a golden crown, to the orderly universe governed by natural universal laws of a scientist, we can clearly distinguish the idiot from the intelligent one; and we can discern the quality and capacity of each mind – one being clinically retarded, while the other is a highly educated analytical individual.
We use the word “satan” as “Satanists” because as the type of liberated and emancipated people that we are, we understand that Magian ethos is destructive to the human species. We utilize the word because we oppose their idiotic memeplex with a passion, and that “satan” is a symbol of that passionate hatred of all things Magian. If – hypothetically – there were a billion devil worshipers in the world and they were doing the same stupid things to themselves, to everyone else, and to this earth, we would still hate them, and thus utilize “Jesus” instead. The Word is meaningless – The Wyrd is meaningful.
I am not one to believe that ancient humans were primitive lunatics. Just staring at a Mayan or Egyptian pyramid, the mathematics of an ancient Greek, or reading the ancient philosophies of ancient China, tells me that ancient humans were just as mentally – intellectually – capable; if not more; than we are today.
Thus I refuse to believe that ancient humans were also primitive lunatics in regards to what we today call “religion.” The fact that Lao Tzu, Kong Fu Tzu, and the amazing memeplex of Buddhism came out of the minds of people living around and before 500B.C. tells me that ancient humans of such quality were not stupid pagans and wiccans worshiping anthropomorphic gods who danced naked around bon fires like some imbecilic people today. Thus, I do not believe idiots created Judaism and other Magian memeplexes.
Originally “satan” in the mythos of the Jewish Tanakh was not a being or entity per se. A “satan” was anything which distracted you from your faith in God, or something which tested your faith. This can clearly be seen when you actually do read the Old Testament sans the babbling of a psychotic preacher. In the case of the ancient Israelites, a “satan” was anything which caused the Israelites to break his covenant with YHVH – i.e.: breaking the 10 commandments, or worshiping other gods.
There was a practical political reason for the many Laws in the Torah and Tanakh. This was the politics back then, and such sacerdotal laws actually governed a people. As the sacred Laws of Hammurabi and the sacred Laws of Manu governed their respective people. There is also a more human or “spiritual” reason for such laws – in such times when the bulk of humanity were wild and uncultured, such laws defined or created what a Civilized person was, and defines how a Civilized people treats and behaves with one another. In fact the idiomatic meaning of the word “Aryan” in India still means “Civilized” today.
This word “Aryan” now ties these civil code of behavior and conduct with the “Aryan Laws/Path/Way” of the Buddha. If you have never heard the teachings of the Buddha referred to as “Aryan” it’s because you’re ignorant and perhaps assume that the Buddha spoke English. The word “Noble” in “the Four NOBLE Truths,” or the “Eight NOBLE Paths” of Buddhism, in its original language is ARIYA which is the Pali vernacular of the Sanskrit ARYA, from which the English word “Aryan” comes. It’s easier to deal with Buddhism to gain an understanding of what “satan” was, before the Church patriarchs corrupted it because it’s well known that Buddhism does not preoccupy itself with gods, which is to say that Buddhism does not symbolically represent their esoteric wisdom in anthropomorphic symbolism for the common idiots to such an extent as other memeplexes.
The basic reasoning behind the Aryan Way of the Buddha is that your common person is an unthinking imbecile creature – “Anariya” – that must be Liberated from gods and religion thus becoming Enlightened enough so that they themselves understand that via their own BELIEFS, emotions, and actions that they themselves produce their own human suffering and that by changing ones mind – ones beliefs – you change your own life, reduce your own suffering, an ultimately change the world. But this is to much for the idiot anariya to comprehend. Hence the deep shit our species is globally in today.
Thus the Aryan Way of the Buddha gives these common imbeciles a Way to Ennoble themselves – the Four Noble Truths, and the Eight Noble Paths. Which essentially concerns itself with the origins of human suffering and the cessation of that suffering by FOLLOWING the Eightfold Path. The Eightfold Path in turn concerns itself entirely with Right or Correct action and behavior – Right Thinking, Right Intent, and so on.
Meditation, which is a refined form of mental focus and concentration on a concept which helps one on the Eightfold Path is also used. The loyal following of these codes of conduct and meditation of ones actions and their results, annihilates human suffering.
So now we come to a mythos concerning the Buddha. As he was in the forest one day when he was just setting out be become self enlightened the Buddha sat under a tree and began to deeply meditate. Fearing that the Buddha would achieve Sambuddhi [Self-Enlightenment] Mara [the “devil” of Buddhism] came to the Buddha and TEMPTED the Buddha with illusions of power, beautiful maidens and such.
There is no evidence beyond conjecture that the Buddha was ever a real person, and there is no demon named Mara lurking in some astral world. These are metaphors/mythos. The Buddha is simply the individual arhant who “walks” or strives to live that Noble Eightfold Path. “Mara” is simply anything which Distracts or Misdirects the arhant’s mind from that path – the Mundane stuff of life you see?
So we come to the misinterpreted religion of Zoroastrianism. These Christians misinterprets this religion to be some cosmic struggle of a good god named Ahura Mazda against his archenemy Angra Mainyu [Ahriman] – the bad god of evil things. Why is it then that “angra mainyu” means “Incorrect Mind/Thought?” If we remember that Buddhism developed in India by a people who spoke Indo-Aryan Pali, and that Zoroastrianism developed in what is today Iran [Persia] by a people who spoke Irano-Aryan Avestan. We will not only see that these two cultures are neighbors, but that their languages are related also. So it is not hard to understand that Buddhism influenced and inspired Zoroastrianism.
So in Zoroastrianism we have the Ariya [Avestan for Aryan/Civilized] who follow the sacred laws of Ahura Mazda as revealed to the Prophet, which laws civilized and ennobles a people. And we have Incorrect Mind, or wrong ways of thinking which tests the faith of the Ariya from his noble path. In the same sense that Incorrect Perception is the opposite of Right Perception, which leads to human suffering. Angra Mainyu is a metaphor/mythos for that which distracts one’s mind from one’s Noble Path to self betterment.
We know that Zoroastrianism influenced Judaism. By the time of the Israelites, Buddhism had actually already colonized the city of Alexandria in Egypt. I refuse to believe that these ancient Jews were idiot lunatics because I personally disagree with “Zionism.” You underestimate these people – and the human mind and reveal your own primitive level of mind – when you simply believe that their religion was nothing more than burning goats to some bearded Jew in the sky. The human spirit and will to learn and become more than what was, is beyond this stupidity.
Like Buddhism and Zoroastrianism, you have a set of sacred civilizing laws of behavior and conduct in Judaism. And in the Torah and Tanakh, “satan” only appears in stories when someone is being tested of their faith or tempted to break such sacerdotal laws. There is no anthropomorphic creature named Satan. A “satan” originally was anything of the mundane which distracted or tempted the “covenanted people” – those who had made a vow to follow such civilizing laws. In fact, “satan” isn’t even a single being in the Holy Quran. It is in the plural: Shaitans. A shaitan is anything which distracts your mind away from Allah and what mundane – white devilish – things tempts you causing a Muslim to not submit to the Holy Shariah as God gave the Prophet Muhammad. It was only after the literalists of Christianity that “Satan” became the devil we know of today – which has influenced Islam’s current exoteric interpretation of “the Shaitan.”
What Satanism Is In Essence
Satanism as we of the ONA understands our Satanism to be is a Causal Form of an Essence. Satanism is an amalgamation of human thoughts, human words, human concepts which attempts to capture or convey an Essence in and of Nature that has existed before humankind walked the earth. In the same sense that we can say that the spoken and written doctrine of the Buddha is an outer expression of Dhamma [Phenomena]. In Buddhism, the body of outer doctrine is referred to as a Yana meaning a Vehicle. A Vehicle is only a means to convey something. And so although we have different vehicles such as Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana which are very different on the outside level; they each convey the same wordless Dhamma. The difference arises from the fact that such Dhamma must be packages in words and ideas specific to each people and culture. So in the ONA, our Satanism is only a vehicle which conveys the Sinister Essence. Satanism is a means to and end, and not and end in itself. As a vehicle it should lead one to the source and essence. Genuine Satanism as Form/Vehicle must lead the Initiate to the Essence so that the Initiate can Experience and Prehend the Essence Directly. The Essence of the Form is beyond and beneath and before thought, ideation, word, conceptualization, intellectualization, and philosophication. As It is stated Thesis part of the “Seven ONA Fundamentals”:
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Q: What is the ONA?
A: Anton Long once called it an “Intimation.” I call it an approximation.
Q: An Intimation or Approximation of what?
A: Of something wordless. A kind of phenomena or aspect of the Cosmic Body of Phenomena [dharmakaya]. When we speak of the actual “is-ness” of Natural occurring phenomena, or phenomena of Nature, we are dealing with something that has been around long before we humans ever evolved. That’s what I mean when I say “wordless,” having existed before our species put things into words and writing. We often forget that the world and Cosmos was here before us. Most oft we almost unconsciously assume or assume-project our human words and thoughts out into the world and believe that such phenomenal world is made of the fabric of our own words, urban apprehension, and weltanschauung. When we experience or observe such ancient and primeval phenomena, we apprehend such phenomena first in our human thought which is flawed or weak [being the product of a three pound brain], then we degenerate such thought further into words of our various human languages. Hence the descriptors “Intimation,” or “approximation.” For our words and thought are only in reality feeble intimations, feeble human verbal approximation of that which is ancient, pre-human, and primal. The words and the thoughts or ideation such words carry are not the primal essence. Thus, when I say that the ONA is an “intimation” or “approximation” of a “Primal Essence,” or a “Sinister Essence,” those wording and the thoughts they evoke are only feeble apprehensions of a “Something” that has Been, that has Pulsated, that has Undulated in and of the Cosmic Body of Phenomena long before our species set foot on this earth, and this “Something” will continue to Be, Crawl, Haunt, long after we are gone.
Q: What do you mean by “Primal Essence” or “Sinister Essence?”
A: I mean the Crawling Darkness, the hair that stands on the back of your neck, the leaping of hearts, the flush of adrenaline, the beating of tribal drums, the frenzy dance of feral humans around a fire, the spear piercing a chest, the war cry, the scream of terror, the eating of human flesh, head hunters beheading foes, the smell of fear in the darkness of jungles. I mean that Unknown Dark we fear and despise, which we make our religions and gods to give us a sense of safety and protection from. Like children clutching onto a teddy bear to the feel of crawling nothingness in the dark. I mean that Unknown Dark that haunts the depths of our collective psyche, that haunts even our unconscious dreams.
I mean that Dark Something that overtakes a mass of warriors screaming for blood, lost, enraptured in Primeval Darkness. Oblivious to life and loved ones, running to slaughter and to be slaughter. How does one put that Essence, that Phenomenon, that Primal Nature into words? That Primal Nature has been here before us. It has possessed our species since the dawn of our race. Its signature is clawed into the whole history of our species. Our Human history is a literal succession of blood, war, sacrifice, slaughter, murder, plunder, rape, exploitation, domination. We all Flow with the Primal Force of Darkness; or we all “know” – intuit – that this Dark Essence is “there.” We feel it. We fear it. It is nameless, wordless. It is experienced. As all phenomena of the greater Body of Phenomena is experienced, intuited, empathetically felt. Whatever words or forms we try to express this crawling dark in is merely an intimation, an imitation, a rough sketch drawn by the hands of one person. Expressed through the mind of one person.
Q: In what other way is this Sinister Essence intimated in the ONA?
A: At times the ONA refers to this Dark as “The Sinister.” It is the “Dark” which we try to Presence. At times we refer to the various “currents” and archetypes that composes The Sinister via our Mythos as “The Dark Ones,” or “The Dark Gods.” We feebly try to explain the act of our expressing The Sinister, manifesting The Sinister, Precensing The Dark, living in tune to that Dark Essence, allowing that crawling Dark to possess us, as “The Dark Tradition,” or as “The Sinister Tradition.” And sometimes we feebly – exoterically – intimate this, approximate this Essence, as “Satanism.”
Q: What is Satanism in the ONA?
A: Satanism in the ONA is a manufactured outer shell, a construction of wordful attempts at humanizing what is not human. An intellectualization of what is not of human intelligence. Satanism as the ONA understands it is a Causal Form of that wordless Dark Phenomena, or that aspect of the greater Body of Phenomena. It is an amalgamation of human words and thoughts born from feeling, intuiting, and knowing The Sinister via our Dark-Empathy and Acausal Knowing. For those of the ONA, Satanism in and of itself, is not the Essence, not the true actuality, not the phenomenal reality itself. It is a means, a vehicle, a Way of expressing, conveying, the Essence. It doesn’t matter what it is exoterically called if we understand and intuit The Sinister. And so how we of the ONA understand Satanism becomes a test and marker to differentiate between those who can see and understand the Essence beneath the Form. As Anton Long puts it simply:
“The second test concerns the nature of what is termed “Satanism” and what we, of the ONA, call “the sinister”. If they accept or understand “Satanism” as something which can be divided up into categories, such as “theistic” or “atheistic” – and especially if they accept that someone called LaVey “founded modern Satanism” – then they have failed. Furthermore, if they do not understand or do not accept or do not feel that being “sinister” means being sinister on a practical, amoral, level – in the real world by deeds done – then they have also failed our test. [1]”
Q: What is Sinister Nature?
A: When “The Sinister” lives or flows in a person, such that this person exists in a state of Harmony with The Dark Primal Essence, this person can be said to possess a “Sinister Nature.” This Sinister Nature presences or expresses itself through such person’s Being in thought, emotion, word, action, and Ethos. Sinister Nature is thus something that you have. It is a quality or “type” of person that you are. You cannot teach a person how to have Sinister Nature. In the same sense that you cannot teach or give a Warrior ethos to a random person and make him a soldier. In the same sense that you cannot teach somebody how to be suave and romantic. All you can do is give a person the intimation, the imitation, the worded approximation of the Formless so that the person gains a feel for the Essence. All one can do is Guide and show such person a Way or Methodology for such person to directly experience The Sinister himself/herself. For all phenomena in Nature must be apprehended by direct association, direct experience, direct and personal observation. And so the ONA’s Satanism is the Way and Methodology by which the Initiate of the Sinister Tradition is guided slowly into the Dark, to experience the Sinister Essence directly and personally.
Q: The manner in which you explained guiding an Initiate into the Dark side of Life, does this have parallels outside of the West?
A: Most of the time in the East it is called things like Vama Marga, Vamachara, or, Kulachara; or in other words, what I tried to explain above is the very essence of the ancient and traditional Left Hand Path of the Orient. Vama means “Left,” but in some dialects of Sanskrit it also means “Female.” This alluded to Uma Shakti in ancient times who was the Female Left-Side half of Ardhanari. Shiva being the male right side. It was believed originally by the Mon-Khmer Shaktas in ancient times that Primal Nature was symbolically gynandromorphic; having both “male” and “female” aspects in one single body. This was so because it symbolized that Primal Nature – being both genders – is thus Self-Creating and Self-Perpetuating. That Primal Nature literally copulates itself to regenerate itself continuously. Thus sex was seen as the living aperture or vortex through which Primal Nature renews itself.
In ancient times it was believed that the Right “male” half Shiva – known in those times by the Dravidians and Mon-Khmer as “An” and “Kumara” – was the Unmanifested Life Force. The Left female half Shakti – known as Uma and Kumari – was the condensation of this Life Force manifested as the world of phenomena. From this two school of living Life emerged. The Right Handed Path school believed that the world of phenomena was intrinsically evil and an illusory prison of the spirit. The methodology of the Right Handed Path was to reject mortal existence, and strive to transcend the world so that the spirit can merge with the Unmanifested.
The Left Handed Path school of thought believed that it is natural that spirit or Life Force condensates as matter and flesh, thus there was nothing wrong with mortal existence. Mortal existence was believed to be a theater of learning where the newly individualized spirit becomes flesh to learn what Life is. Just because you are alive, does not mean you know what Life is or where it came from or why it is here. Except as a finite causal being, Life and Nature and Natural Phenomena was like a vast primeval ocean. The only way to know Life is to directly submerge into this primeval ocean and struggle to experience every aspect, state, condition, and phenomena of Life. To ride every wave and current in other words.
Thus instead of rejecting Life, the Initiate of the ancient Left Path lived a Life in which the Initiate went on a Quest to “shock” his consciousness awake from the moment and illusion of the Now by struggling to personally experience both the enjoyable Light side of Life, as well as the dangerous and fearful dark side of life. By “shock” I mean that the Initiate will force itself to physically experience and break all taboos and social norms to “shock” or shake itself free from its illusion of the mundane limits consciousness and thus gain Illumination from directly experiencing such phenomena and acts. And so we have many sects and methodologies of the Left Path such as the Kapalas and the Aghoris who may be the two most familiar in the West. For example the Aghori Initiate lives a long life on a Quest to experience every phenomena of the Dark side of Life. He will live in cemeteries, eat dead human flesh, perform human sacrifice, etc. These acts of shocking oneself free from the grip of the illusions of consciousness is not a permanent way of life. These acts are just a means to an end. The End being that at the End of the Initiate’s Left Path Quest, his unconscious true self is shocked and shaken free from the illusion of consciousness and thus come to Realize inside the Nature and Essence of Reality beyond the veils of consciousness. For the conscious mind is the very veil and factor of illusion that restricts the power of the unconscious self from knowing the totality of what is the Greater Reality. For this world we exist in is only a small part and aspect of a Reality or Body of Phenomena which is much larger. By “larger” I mean a Reality beyond the limitations of causal space and causal time, of which this “reality” we are consciously aware of is only a minor phenomenon of. Reality – or rather the Cosmic Body of Phenomena – is not an illusion; consciousness – the conscious mind/self/ego – is the factor of illusion.
So now, if you understand the essence of the Left Path Quest, that it is a means of a human being to shake itself free of the grip of consciousness to Realize the greater reality beyond, we will thus come to understand the basic reasoning or logic behind Right Path methodology. The methodology of the Right Path – because it reject Life – seeks to constrict or restrict consciousness within a fixed “Nowness” or in other words, it seeks to fixate consciousness on “things” in the same way that a dog is tied to a tree so that it cannot wonder to experience the rest of the forest. This act of fixation of consciousness which is the methodology of all Right Paths can be seen in such things as idol worship for example where the conscious mind is fixated on a finite statue. This Right Path methodology can be seen expressed in its methods of adoration of written books, of constructed temples, of veneration of gurus, in the glorification and deification of myths over natural phenomena, of conscious fixation to strict rules of living, of the fixation of the conscious mind on external mythic gods and deities. For all these things perpetuates consciousness and fixates consciousness to things in front of it which it can lose itself in. Consciousness is the veil which separates us from what is Reality.
In the same sense that the amniotic sack a fetus comes into mortal existence inside of is a literal Veil that covers the fetus and separates it from what is beyond this veil. We thus see that when this fetus is “born” into the world outside its womb it breaks free from this Veil which once covered it for nine month. And so, in mystic circles the world over, Divine Illumination is sometimes expressed as a “Second Birth.” This second birth is the breaking of the Veil of mortal and mundane consciousness out of which the unconscious self – the psyche, the citta – enters the greater world Beyond. It may be hard for a Westerner to grasp the idea that consciousness is a veil or what causes the illusion of mortal unknowingness. To illustrate we can imagine that you were born with a magnifying glass glued to your eyes, such that you spend your whole life viewing and apprehending life as images seen through this magnifying glass. Being conditioned to apprehend life and existence via that magnifying glass you Believe that the image you see with it is reality, unconscious of the blurry stuff around you. And so you may even believe that consciousness and reality are the same phenomena, or two sides of the same things. It is not until you shake yourself free from this magnifying glass, that you slowly realize that the world is much bigger then the images seen on the lens of the magnifying glass. That magnifying glass is consciousness, as it is the function of consciousness to focus and fixate. Consciousness or mundane awareness with abstractions are the fetters one must shake oneself free of. This consciousness is like the outer shell of an egg or seed. We come into this causal existence with this shell. As the rootling or chick must struggle to break free from its shell, the individuated entity – a distinct manifestation of the Living Cosmos which we are – must grow out of its conscious shell by shaking free from its confines.
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The Satanist of the ONA must learn to balance their causal knowing and causal thinking of causal abstractions with Dark-Empathy and Acausal-Knowing which transcends causal abstractions, words, and ideation. Pathei-Mathos for the Satanist of the Order of Nine Angles is our Way and Method of Enlightening ourselves via Direct Experience and Learning From Adversity. Knowledge is born from books, words, and text. Wisdom and Understanding is cultivated from Dark-Empathy, Acausal-Knowing, and Pathei-Mathos. We refer to that state of wisdom and understanding as “enlightenment.” Sinister Enlightenment is born from connexion with, contemplation on the Carnal/Causal so that the Initiate organically prehends a deeper Understanding of what the causal is and how it works, and their place in it.
Enlightenment is a process of becoming, a progression or gradual transformation brought about by the cultivation and experience of direct experience of life without moral or religious restraint. The mind must be allowed to be free like a growing child to make and learn from its owns mistakes. It is only from direct experience and the freedom to make and learn from mistakes that one becomes wise. Wisdom is in essence the fruits of direct experience, whereas knowledge is an acquired idea or thought. The difference between someone who “knows” something and one who is “wise” in that something may be illustrated with two people and a single map. One person can read this map and be an expert with it to the minutest detail of every street name and landmark on that map; but the person who takes that maps as a guide and actually experiences the area directly experiences something completely different and from his experience he becomes wise.
“Satan” is only an approximation which represents Nature in all its manifestations: Cosmic nature, earthly nature, human nature, and the natural laws which universally governs nature itself. The mythos of Satan is picked to correspond to nature, because nature itself and all that it is, stands in direct Opposition to religion and religous laws; as well as the laws of morals, and the laws of civilized social-orders such as cities and states. How so? When religion teaches that Man is made in the image of some god, Nature says that Man is a monkey or just an animal. When religious morals states that killing is bad, killing in Nature is what produces life (food and defense). When state law says that you can only marry one mate, Nature states the whole opposite and says marriage and monogamy doesn’t even exist.
The more value we add to the word “satan,” the more it is worth, and the better we can use it as a tool to express who we are as Satanists, and what Life is as we Satanists see it. The basic meaning of “satan” in it’s original Hebrew is “to reject what has been established.” In our case as Satanists, it means that we reject Magian Ethos, their established ways, their established laws, and their established States.
There are two words in Sanskrit related to the phonetic value of the word “satan” – the first is “Satan[a]” which basically means to destroy or cause to fall. Which aptly describes the work and labour of a Satanist who genuinely understands Satanism, and who genuinely understands the meaning of emancipation and liberation from Magian State tyranny. As a side note: there are only three letters in the word “satana:” STN, with little marks at the top to denote vowel values. In the same way that there are only three letters to “satan” in Hebrew: STN.
There is another word related to the letters STN in Sanskrit: Sadhan[a]. The letter “DHA” in Sanskrit and many of its vernaculars and bastard children [such as Khmer] is actually pronounced with a breath as the letter “T” is said in English and not as a “D.” “Sadhana” has many meanings: Realization, Leading To A Goal, To Bring About or Cause To Happen, Effective, Perfection, To Produce, and An Accomplishment. This literally explains the End Goal of a Satanist: Self Realization, Self Betterment, Evolution Toward Perfection.
So, as Satanism is here presented, there is described the essence of a self imposed striving or struggle on the part of the Satanist to surmount himself via Pathei-Mathos, or to progress or evolve himself or herself against The Flow of Nature. It has nothing to do with the worship of a devil. But, such a focused endeavour, as that of self enlightenment and self willed evolution implies a focus of Will and Mind, as well as a practical Way of Life. Such that if something of the mundane world distracts a Satanist from this Sinister Way of life, such distractions becomes a stumbling block to the Satanist’s progression toward her or his end goal doesn’t it? Thus, we have come full circle to the understanding of the esoteric value of what “satan” meant to ancient Judaism. What Ahriman meant to ancient Zoroastrianism. And what Mara esoterically symbolizes in Buddhism.
All we have literally done was rearrange a few literal words around. It is still the same Life. Still the same Cosmos. Still the same Humanity. Still the same quest for Self Realization, Liberation, and Self Enlightenment. Still the same striving to be Honourable – civilized people with our own kindred, Still the same quest to become better then the Mundanes. If you are ONA and you don’t understand what I mean by “Honourable” or think ethics and moral codes of behaviour have no place in Satanism, then go back and read “The Law of the New Aeon,” and “The Law of the Sinister-Numen.”
It is still the same Aryan versus Anariya: as it has always esoterically been throughout time – a struggle between the few Noble and the Common Ignoble Herd. And we still have the same source of distractions, misdirections: the way of the mundanes. It’s just that instead of calling such distractions “satans” we call it “Magian” or “Mundane,” and we have adopted the word “satan” for its many values which aptly describes who we are as Satanists, what kind of person we are, what we do, and who our enemies are in this current age and era. In time, these labels will be dropped for better ones, as even the outer name “Order of Nine Angles” will someday lose its meaning and be dropped for something better.
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