The Tradition Of The Sinister Way (ONA).
The simple, yet unique and straight to the point writings such as this following one is one very attractive feature of the ONA which I admire. It’s devoid of any mystical or magical “mumbo-jumo” if you will, which you more than often find in other forms of Satanism or “occult” systems.
I would have to say that such pieces as the following from the ONA had more an influence on me and us/352 than the Black Book of Satan and Naos. We hold Hostia in a more higher or lofty regards, but only because of its straight to the point practicality. This is not to say that there is nothing valuable in the other writings eminating from ONA. But when you are a group which has developed from one that was “street” oriented and as a member you needed to get something done or acquire something, most likely a direct methodology based on planning, and action produces the fastest and most fruitful real world results as opposed to preforming some magical ritual, summoning dark forces, and waiting around for things to happen. For example, if we had a Sister whose boyfriend dumped her and hurt her, and we wanted to retaliate to teach the fucker a lesson, the best practical method of fulfilling this desire would be to fill a car up with some boy cousins, and lynch the fucker senseless; rather than sommon some demon to do something to the dipshit.
In 352 the Seven Fold Sinister Way is written in short hand as: 7v. The V stands for the Sanskrit word “Varna” meaning a Rank, Step, Level, Social Strata, or Caste which alludes to the 7 Grades of the Seven-Fold Way; which is probably the greatest utilizable tool A.L. gave to “Satanism.” The idea that you need to get off your ass and do something is revolutionary in religion in itself.
This ”thing” we call “religion” is somethng of a mental puzzle or a thing which distracts a mind from the natural world. How so? Well, first the simple equation for basic ”causal existence” is like this: YDA->I / E<-TFW : whereas “TDA” = Your Dumb Ass; “I / E” = Inside and Experiencing; and “TFW”= The Fucking World. Its real simple, everything else doesn’t belong in the equation. If yu try and shove something else into that simple equation, you set it of balance and end up with what we called a “Fucked Up Equation” or if you will: A Fucked Up Life; such as this one: YDA->I / E +h? = TFW. The alien variable ”h?” represents the question: How the hell did this happen though, or how did we get into the fucking world anyway?
This is what is called an ”Opened Stupid Equation” because since the question has been asked, it leaves it open for dumbasses with an active imagination to put their own explaination in the “h?” variable’s place. Thus the equation becomes stupid like this: YDA+TFW= (h?+G) x (h?). The G factor being “god” or Mythos. You notice that the I/E for direct experience is moved out of the equation and more questions have been introduced. What does this end you up with? It ends you up with a life distracted and seperated from the natural world. By Natural World we mean everything outside your fucking head and window. It doesn’t matter if you are a hermit, christian, satanist, jew, or computer programmer because in all these cases, the individual’s mind has focused its awareness inside it own head. This is called “Softcore” which is from the word “Software” as opposed to the “Hardware” or nuts and bolts or life and existences, which 352 refers to as “Hardcore.”
In a Softcore mind, the individual is more concerned with the software of reality: the thinking and why’s and theories, which produces no tangible results. Adding energy to the intangible only increases the intangiblity. Thinking produces more theorems. Religion produces more myths. At the bottom of the Softcore totem pole is the metaphysical and occult softcore intangibles; because thats just the stupidest shit a mind can waste its time on. Shit that have no real fucking relevence to the existing natural world such as questions like: If a tree fell and nobody was around… like who the fuck cares? Or magic squares with numbers inside drawing down the powers of planet Jupiter… what the fuck does a fucking drawing have anything to do with the real world and experiencing it directly? Opinions, and convictions are softcore entities also that distracts a mind from the existing natural world. Why? Because the mental conviction that a world exists, being an idea composed in the mind, has nothing to do with the existing natural world. If you stop thinking about your conviction of the world, the thought fades and no longer exists, whereas the earth will continue to exist even if you are dead.
This brings us to the difference between a “Softcore Satanist” and a “Hardcore Satanist.” The Softcore Satanist is one with his head up his ass and a big mojo bag of intangible softcore shit like a lot lot of opinions, theories, convictions, ideas, magic, whose religious practices consists of dressing in black robes, vibrating his upper digestive tract to a drawing of a pentagram pasted to his closet door in hopes that some demon thing will come play with him. Or just a computer jock Satanist who has only books and convictions. In either case the softcore Satanist is just as far removed from the real natural world as a christian is. So what the fuck is the difference? The softcore shit may be a little different between a satanist and a christian, but it manifests the same shitty results: separation of the conscious experience from natural reality.
By Hardcore Satanist we don’t mean a Hell’s Angel or some lifer in prison. Its just a “Satanist” who is immersed in the natural world – that is, the hardware of life and reality. Think animals and children. Sure children ask questions about the reality they exist in, but do they make a fucking religion out of it and tree hug the answers. No, they learn it, know it, set it aside, and go play. This is not to say that a Hardcore Satanist shuns thinking. As a human animal he would not be here if his animal ancestors had not developed the intelligence to think, plan, and organize. That’s all the mind is good for. Just because your computer has technically evolved to install a lot of software, doesn’t mean you should install whatever software is out there. Some software are cheap and useless; some are designed to make a profit for the programmer, some have viruses in them.
The Seven-Fold Way of the ONA is an ingenius method of extracation. By that we mean, its like the Jaws of life or a can opener, and it opens your head up and pulls your ass out and throws you into the real world. It helps a Softcore Satanist gradually become a Hardcore one who is immersed in the real world, and who knows how to produce real world, hardcore results. Consider the Seven Fold Sinister Way like Alcoholics Anonymous. When you are addicted to alcohol and the only reality you know is a drunk one, or one seen with a constant high alcohol blood level, you need to gradually heal yourself from that addiction by following the 12 steps to sobriety. When you complete the 12 steps, you become a new person and experience life as it is without the mental blur.
You as a religionist of any kind are addicted to intangible mentality, and this addiction keeps you removed from the natural world, or keeps you from experiencing it as it really is: without the mental blur of the Softcore shit. The “Seven Steps” to Existential Sobriety are here then presented for you, to help heal you from this dibilitating disease:
The Tradition Of The Sinister Way (ONA):
The essence of genuine Satanism can be simply stated: it is a way to inner development, the goal of which is a new individual. This way involves three essential stages and these exemplify the spirit of that way and the individuals who follow it.
The first is direct experience, the second is direct practice and the third self-development. The first involves direct experience of both the external ‘world’ and the inner (or psychic) ‘world’ through striving to achieve certain goals both practical and magickal. The second involves using ‘practical’ (or causal) and `magickal’ (or acausal) energies to manipulate others, situations and energies in a practical way – producing changes in accord with certain goals. The third involves beginning the process again but starting from the new level of self-understanding and ability attained – pursuing different (and probably more complex) goals
A Satanist is an individual explorer – following in the footsteps of others (and perhaps using their guide books) but always seeking further horizons, daring to defy convention (in ideas as well as in morals and attitude) yet part of an evolutionary succession enabling what is experienced to be understood and become beneficial. For this reason, a genuine Satanist understands tradition as important and necessary – the culmination of centuries of insight and experience; a useful guide which enables further progress and exploration: a starting point for that inner and outer journey which is begun by Initiation, as well as a map of the way chosen and followed.
This tradition is not sacrosanct – but it does possess a validity until the individual reaches the stage where the unique genius within each individual has been brought to fruition enabling the creation (from experience and self-insight) of a unique way and a fulfilling of a unique Destiny. In magickal terms, this is the stage of Internal Adept, where that unique Destiny is made known (dis-covered) and where the individual Initiate has developed the talents necessary to fulfil it by a following of the previous stages – a stage reached from between three to five years after Initiation.
The tradition (explicated in the ‘seven-fold sinister way’) provides only a beginning – it is for the individual to go beyond it, toward the dangers and rewards of the Abyss. It is, however, necessary – since it is, in one sense, a ‘short-cut’: enabling self-development to be achieved far quicker than would be the case without it as well as fully enabling the explication of individual potential. This does not mean that following it is easy – the path may be shorter, but it is just as dangerous (and in some places, more so). It is a mountain path to the summit rather than a meandering valley path, and enables the horizon, the other mountains waiting to be conquered, to be seen – as they cannot be seen from the wooded valleys below.
But each new Initiate must walk this path – alone. And for each it is a new experience, a process of direct learning and a personal achievement, for only a very few have ever ventured that way before and stood atop the summit that is ‘Internal Adept’ to see in the distance the still higher peaks that wait beyond the Abyss.
What is important is following that path – and going beyond it, toward the Abyss – actually undertaking the journey and experiencing in real time what is encountered and seen: of being taken to the very limits of your endurance and abilities. No one can do this for you – just as the path does not lead to some pleasant grove where you sit at the feet of some ‘Master’ listening to their past experiences and fables. It does not involve you staying comfortably ‘at home’ with the security of your known world and friends and ideas, just as it is not a ‘mental’ journey done in comfortable surroundings and with no physical effort or danger. It is practical, and direct – and involves physical and psychic hardship, and while you may be a little soft when you start, you will not be so when you succeed, just as if you believe you are tough enough now, you will be rudely awakened.
Is this what you really want?
ONA
(Originally issued 1984 eh)(a la Pointy)
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE SEVEN FOLD SINISTER WAY:
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Introduction The Seven-Fold Sinister Way is the name given to the system of training used by traditional Satanists. It is the practice of Satanism, by individual Satanists, and thus expresses Satanism in action.
The Way is an individual one – each stage, of the seven stages that make the Way, is achieved by the individual as a result of their own effort. To reach a particular stage, requires considerable effort by the individual, who works mostly on their own. One aim of the Way is to create Satanic individuals – that is, to train individuals in the ways of Satanism. This Satanic training developes individual character, esoteric (or Occult) skills and self-insight. The individual also acquires genuine esoteric knowledge and a genuine understanding. The Way itself enables any individual to achieve genuine magickal Adeptship (and beyond) and thus fulfil the potential latent within them – thus they can and do enhance their life, and achieve their unique Destiny. The Way is essentially practical – involving experiences in the real world, and ordeals, as well as the completion of difficult, challenging tasks. It also involves a practical mastery of all forms of magick. The Way requires a sincere and genuine commitment, and it is both difficult and very dangerous. Success depends on this commitment by the individual. The Way is divided into seven stages, and these mark a specific level of individual achievement. The stages are: Neophyte; Initiate; External Adept; Internal Adept; Master of Temple/Mistress of Earth [ or "Lady Master"]; Grand Master/Grand Mistress [ or "Grand Lady Master"]; Immortal. Sometimes, Initiates are described, or known, as “novices”; Internal Adepts as Priest/Priestess; a Grand Master as a Magus, and a Grand Mistress as a Magistra.
* The Sinister Path: An Introduction to Traditional Satanism * The Essence of the Sinister Path [contained in Hostia - Secret Teachings of the ONA] I – Neophyte The first task of a neophyte [the word means "a beginner; a new convert"] is to obtain copies of the various Order MSS which will be needed. These are: (1) The Black Book of Satan – A Guide to Satanic Ceremonial Magick; (2) Naos – A Guide to Becoming an Adept; and (3) Hostia – The Secret Teachings of the ONA (Volumes I & II). The following MSS (contained in Hostia) should be particularly studied in order to gain an understanding of traditional Satanism and its methods: (a) Selling Water By The River; (b) Satanism – The Sinister Shadow, Revealed; (c) Guide to Black Magick; (d) Ritual Magick – Dure and Sedue Ceremonial. The neophyte also needs to understand the fundamental concepts of magick, such as “causal” and “acausal” and here a study of the following Order MSS is useful: (a) Chapters 0 and I of Naos; (b) Aeonic Magick – A Basic Introduction. II – Initiate Tasks: Understanding Initiation: Satanic Initiation is the awakening of the darker/sinister/unconscious aspects of the psyche, and of the inner (often repressed) and latent personality/character of the Initiate. It is also a personal commitment, by the Initiate, to the path of Satanism. The dark, or sinister, energies which are used/unleashed are symbolized by the symbols/forms of the Septenary System, and these symbols are used in the workings with the septenary spheres and pathways. These magickal workings provide a controlled, ritualized, or willed, experience of these dark energies or “forces” – and this practical experience begins the process of objectifying and understanding such energies, and thus these aspects of the psyche/personality of the Initiate. The Star Game takes this process of objectification further, enabling a complete and rational understanding – divorced from conventional “moral opposites”. III – External Adept Tasks: 1) Organize a magickal, and Satanic, group/magickal Temple. You must recruit members for this Satanic Temple, and teach them about Satanism. With your companion (or another one if personal circumstances have changed) you must Initiate these members according to the ceremonial ritual in The Black Book of Satan as you must perform ceremonial rituals on a regular basis. In this Temple, you will be the officiating Priest/Priestess, with your partner acting as the Priestess/Priest. Regular Sunedrions should be held, as detailed in the Black Book of Satan, as you should regularly perform rituals, both hermetic and ceremonial, for the satisfaction of your own desires and those of your members. You should run this Temple for between six and eighteen months. Concerning The Satanic Temple: The Temple must be run for a minimum of six months, as you yourself must seek out, recruit, instruct and train, the members of this Temple. There must be at least four other members, excluding yourself and your companion, during these six months, as you must strive to obtain an equal balance between men and women. It is at your discretion whether or not you are honest about your intentions, and inform recruits/potential recruits that this Temple is one of your tasks as an External Adept, and that you yourself are not yet very advanced along the Satanic path. If you choose not to so inform your members, you must play the appropriate role. If you are considering keeping and expanding the Temple beyond the minimum period and into the next stage, that of Internal Adept, it is more practical to be honest from the outset. The crux is to decide whether you wish your Temple to be solely for your own External Adept purpose, or whether you want it be truely Satanic, with your members guided by you to become sincere and practising Satanists. If this latter, then you must be honest with them about your own progress along the path, and instruct them according to ONA tradition. After these conditions have been met, you may opt to continue with, and expand, your Temple. Understanding External Adept: The tasks of an External Adept develope both magickal and personal experience, and from these a real, abiding, Satanic character is formed in the individual. This character, and the understanding and skills which go with it, are the essential foundations of the next stage, that of the Internal Adept. The stage of External Adept lasts from two to six years. IV – Internal Adept The basic task of an Internal Adept is to strive to fulfil their personal Destiny – that is, to presence the dark force by acting Satanically in the real world, thus affecting others, and causing changes in accord with the sinister dialectic of change. This personal Destiny is revealed, or becomes known, before or during the Grade Ritual of Internal Adept. The stage of Internal Adept lasts from five to eleven years. V – Master/Mistress The fundamental tasks of this Grade are threefold: Appendix – The Secret Tasks of the Sinister Way The secret tasks have remained secret for a long time by virtue of their nature – they represent genuine Satanism in action and as such often are “a-moral”. Such esoteric tasks were revealed to an Initiate by the Master, or Adept, guiding and training that Initiate. Neophyte: Before Initiation – and after undertaking the first task of a neophyte as given in the Guide – undertake the following task: * Find an area where game is plentiful and, equipping yourself with either a cross-bow or an ordinary bow (a longbow) hunt/stalk some suitable game, and make a kill. Skin and prepare this game yourself (if necessary – for example, a pheasant – ‘hanging’ the game until it is ready). When prepared and ready, cook and eat this game. * Obtain from a Nazarene place of worship some ‘hosts’ as used in their perverse and sordid rituals. If you are seeking Initiation into an established ceremonial group/Temple, this will probably be your task of fidelity to that group/Temple, with the hosts being used in the celebration of The Black Mass. If however you are undertaking a Self-Initiation (as given in The Black Book of Satan) then immediately following that rite of Self-Initiation you should trample on or otherwise defile these ‘hosts’ (e.g. by urinating on them) saying as you do so the following: “By this deed I pledge myself to counter Nazarene filth, and give myself, body, blood and soul, to Satan, Prince of Darkness.” You should then burn the hosts or what remains of them by placing them in a vessel containing flammable liquid and setting this alight, laughing as the burning seals your gesture and your oath. Initiate: After the rite or ceremony of your Initiation, and following the completion of the tasks as given in the Guide, you should choose and undertake, for between six to eighteen months, an Insight Role [see the MS Insight Roles - A Guide]. External Adept: The following two tasks must both be undertaken successfully. 1) With your Temple formed as one of your External Adept tasks – see the Guide – perform a Black Mass using hosts obtained by one of the newer members of this Temple, or obtained by a candidate seeking Initiation. -ONA- Hi, my name is Chloe and I’m addicted to softcore bullshit. Have you guys ever heard of Don Quixote de la Mancha? He lost himself in an active imagination and appeared crazy to sane people. Softcore people are crazy.
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