Expressed simply, the New Aeon is the Aeon of a new type of human being; an evolution of ourselves; the birth of a new human species.
As mentioned in several Order of Nine Angles MSS, the basis of the next – the new – Aeon will be a move toward genuine individuality (manifest exoterically in the only law being the law of personal honour) and a move away from the lifeless abstractions of the Old Order, manifest as these abstractions are in such things as nations, States, and impersonal large governments. Thus, there is a rejection of applying abstract, lifeless, categories to people, and “the world” in general, and a rejection of all the old tyranny of ideas and ideals; a rejection of old forms such as “politics” and “religion”; a rejection of all -ologies and -isms, with individuals ceasing to identify with such lifeless things, such lifeless abstractions, ceasing to judge by them, and ceasing to be involved with them. There will be, instead, a self-independence and a self-responsibility, arising from self-knowledge (what we who know term esoteric, Initiated, insight), and an acceptance of each individual as a unique being with a unique, individual, identity, and thus a move away from living in large lifeless cities and large towns, and toward instead a living in small, “folk”-type, communities will will be often, or mostly, rural.
All this is rather futuristic, and will take a certain amount causal Time – of the order of several centuries – to be brought into-being. In practical terms there is a move away from the duality inherent in all lifeless abstractions. Thus, individuals will no longer think in terms of such dualities; no longer be motivated by such dualities; or seek to identify with what is abstracted or deemed to be a type, or the type (the archetype), of one polarity. Hence, in the New Aeon, the individual will aspire to be only themselves, and not be guided by, or manipulated (by others), not aspire to be some stereotype; nor identify with some archetype, or with some commercialized “norm”. Thus, expectations will be personal, and arise naturally, internally, and not from any external source. There will be, importantly, a rejection of assigning abstractions, such as “good” and “evil”, to anything and everything, and instead only a reliance on personal, individual, judgement based on a direct and personal knowing.
Magickally, the New Aeon is the Aeon of numinous magick – beyond word, ceremonies, ritual, chant (and so on) – and manifest in a natural empathy with esoteric energies, and thus a use of those energies via the faculty of empathy. One aspect of this new magick is prefigured in The Star Game (with its numinous symbology), which “Game” enables the development of the ability to think, to-be, beyond the causal forms and restrictions of the Old Order.
Chaos, Aeons, and the Destruction of the Old Order
For the New Aeon to become manifest, for the new ways of living, of being, of thinking, to become real for large numbers of peoples, the tyranny of the Old Order has to end. Individuals have to – in increasing numbers – reject the lifeless abstractions of the Old Order, and instead adopt the life, the ways, the modes of being and of thinking and of living, appropriate to the coming New Aeon. Esoterically, this means Initiates and Adepts adopting the new type of magick of the New Aeon, and this requires the development of latent Occult abilities which development arises most naturally from a letting-go of what the Old Aeon has interposed between us, as individuals, and Life, and thus an awareness, for example, of individuals, of Nature, of the Cosmos – an awareness of their “energies” – as these beings are, in and of themselves. Currently, the Seven-Fold Way is one means to do this.
However, the Old Order is not just going to die; it is not about to die; and in order to understand it – and thus understand how and why the New Aeon can arise – one has to have or develope a certain, Initiated, esoteric understanding. This understanding is manifest in Aeonics, which reveals that the Old Order is akin to a living-being, and thus has a life, a purpose, a wyrd, of its own.
Understood esoterically, the current Old Order – the Order of nation-States, of politics, of dogmatic religion; of colonial wars and conquest; of individuals subservient and in thrall to some abstraction and some lifeless supra-personal government and law – is a natural product of the ending of the current Old Aeon (the Thorian, or “Western” Aeon), and, left to itself, such a life-form would be affecting and interfering in the lives of individuals for around another two or three centuries or so. Then, a New Aeon would arise, with new ways of life, a new ethos, and a new type of “order” would begin, imbued with the “life-force” of the living-being of the New Aeon. Thus would this new living-being grow, affect people, live and change – and then slowly fade, to die, when another beginning would (or should) arise.
But, we have now reached the stage of our evolution, as conscious beings, when we have: (1) the knowledge, the insight, to know and understand this process; to know and understand such living, supra-personal life-forces which influence, affect, and – to a certain extent – control non-Adepts (control through such things as archetypes, ethos, mythos, and so on); (2) the (Occult) ability to be able to intervene in this cycle of Aeonic change, and thus bring-into-being new forms; new types of Aeonic life.
This Initiated (esoteric) insight and knowledge reveals two things. First, that the current Old Order has itself been changed, transmuted, distorted, from its natural state, and it has thus become very different from what it should have been (which was to be a prelude to the New Aeon itself). In practical terms, its ethos – its very “life” – has been infected by a kind of virus, or (to use another similitude) it has been manipulated by a kind of genetic-engineering appropriate to such specialized life-forms (See Footnote 1 below). Second, that our development of technology (and other things) enables this Old Order (and those consciously or otherwise using it) to have more control over, more direct affect upon, both the outward life, and the very psyche, of individuals.
These two factors mean several very important things, among which are: (1) that the life-span of the Old Order has been extended quite significantly; (2) that individuals, instead of liberating themselves and moving toward the next stage of our conscious evolution, are being increasingly controlled, manipulated, and subject to a tyrannical way of life; and (3) individuals, per se, increasingly have less opportunities to escape the thralldom of the Old Order, and little opportunity to effectively, and in practical ways, fight its ever-increasing tyranny and control.
Hence, instead of presenting opportunities for change, instead of being the genesis for evolutionary change, instead of slowly declining and giving way to a New Aeon (See Footnote 2 below), what exists now – and affects and afflicts the world – is stifling real change; and de-evolving individuals; and growing in strength, in its thralldom. Thus, in order for the New Aeon to now arise, this tyrannical Old Order has to undermined and destroyed, and this undermining and this destruction has to be both practical and esoteric.
Esoterically, this undermining is, in part, a championing of Chaos: of whatever challenges or distorts, or fights, or can infect, the ethos, the life, of the being which is now this Old Order, and part of this is championing that which, and those who, re-present an evolutionary form of the Thorian ethos. Practically, this undermining and destruction can be aided and brought about by two things. First, by championing the New Aeon and its practical manifestations, such a new ways of living external to the Old Order (small communities of esoterically aware and esoterically inclined individuals); and secondly, by open and direct conflict – social, military, political and religious – with the forces and allies of this Old Order. But, on the practical level – affecting the whole planet – it is only through the emergence of a new Imperium, which restores and which extends the Thorian ethos of the current Aeon as a necessary prelude to the New Aeon, that the Old, now Magian, Order will be defeated.
Imperium and The New Aeon
Imperium is a prelude to The New Aeon, for it is the alchemical crucible which will create not only the conditions, esoterically and exoterically, for the New Aeon to arise and flourish, but will also be the practical genesis of that new human type, that new human species, who and which are the essence of this New Aeon, this new type of life.
According to the ONA mythos, the New Aeon will only arise and be the norm for people when we have begun to seed ourselves among the stars, just as the New Aeon can only survive and flourish and be the genesis for even greater evolution when we have established divergent, independent, new, communities both on Earth and among the stars. Thus, the Imperium will build – will be – the practical foundation upon which and from which this human seeding will be built.
But, for Imperium to be, there has to be Vindex: a man, or woman, of wyrd, who initially re-presents a new and evolutionary form of the genuine Thorian ethos, but who becomes (or rather, gives rise to) the archetype for the new human type, the new, evolutionary, human species, and who thus is the inspiration for the New Aeon itself. The esoteric reality – the esoteric truth – is that Imperium is and will be a living-being, a new and unique type of life, a new type of nexion, initially embodied in and by a living human being, but becoming, over causal Time, a being of its own. Hence, without this living beginning – this human-being of wyrd – this will be no Imperium, just as this Imperium is, esoterically, and correctly, a Dark Imperium because it is so living, in its beginning and its changing and evolution, having been so inspired, so brought to life, into-being, by the work of Initiates and Adepts of The Dark Tradition, the living tradition, which Initiates and which Adepts understand and know all life for the presencing of the dark acausal energy that it is.
Without Vindex, there can be no Imperium, and no practical defeat of the Old Order in the near future, and thus no emergence, some causal time later, of the New Aeon itself; no evolution of ourselves, as human beings; no new human species. There will only be further de-evolution; a morbid tyranny; and our dreary end upon a dying planet.
All esoteric Orders of The Dark Tradition – all Initiates and Adepts, working alone or together, and following our sinister path – are willing agents of Chaos, acting for the emergence of our Dark Imperium, and thus aiding, from the destruction of the Old Order, a New Aeon of genuine evolutionary change where we will be, and evolve – and have our being – among the very stars of the Cosmos.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
120 Year of Fayen
Footnotes:
(1) Esoterically, this change, this modification, this distortion (or infection) is described as Magian, having occurred under the aegis (both consciously and otherwise) – and for the benefit of – Yahud, with part of this change occurring by what has been exoterically described as “social engineering”, for which see, for example, the exoteric text Vindex: The Destiny of The West.
(2) As explained in many esoteric MSS, without this Magian distortion, without this infection, of the ethos, the life, of the current Thorian Aeon, we should now be in the beginnings of a Thorian Imperium, which Imperium would have been the necessary prelude to the New Order, and thus the beginning of our change into a new, more evolved, human species. However, the forces of this incipient Thorian Imperium were exoterically defeated – on a practical level – by the de-evolutionary Magian and their allies.
