Satanism, Sacrifice and Crime – The Satanic Truth
Due to the plethora of imitation Satanists who abound today (particularly in America) it has become necessary to openly declare the facts about genuine Satanism in relation to Sacrifice and `criminal behaviour’. Such a declaration will establish for all time a permanent record and will expose the fraudulent ‘Satanists’ for what they are – individuals who like to be associated with the glamour of evil and darkness, but who lack the inspiration, courage and daring to be evil and dark. Furthermore, I repeat what I have written before – Satanism is not now and can never be, an intellectualised philosophy just as it most certainly is not in any way ethical or moral. It is an individualized defiance and an individualized striving which vitalizes, which affirms existence in an ecstatic way – as such, it is a way of living which courts danger, excess. It is not nor can ever be, dogmatic just as it never involves submission to anyone or anything.
For this reason, there can never be genuine Satanic Churches or ‘Temples’ where Initiates conform to dogma or authority – such things are not for genuine Satanic Initiates but for the deluded, those lacking spirit and talent: in brief, for the manipulated, rather than the manipulators.
Sacrifice:
In genuine Satanism [primal Satanism] sacrifice is accepted, and indeed necessary. In former times, it involved both animal and human sacrifice. Today, however, it involves human sacrifice only – since there are an abundance of suitable specimens, due to the increase in human dross.
Sacrifice is accepted Satanic practice for several reasons. First, it is a test of Satanic character – to kill someone on the personal level (e.g. with one’s own hands) is a character building experience, and today enables various skills to be developed (e.g. cunning in execution and planning). Second, it has magickal benefits (qv. the Order MS “A Gift for the Prince”). Third, it sorts the imitation or toy Satanists out from the genuine – the former find excuses and usually retreat to their comfy, intellectualised world of playing at `Satanic roles and rituals’, or they are genuinely horrified and expose themselves for what they are – gutless cowards who lack Satanic darkness.
However, as explained elsewhere, genuine Satanic sacrifice is always done for a reason – a calculating purpose. [qv., for example, 'Satanism, The Sinister Shadow, Revealed.'] It is never strictly personal – i.e. it does not arise from any desire which is personal, whether unconscious or not.
Further, it is accepted practice that the victims, the opfers, choose themselves. Thus, opfers are never selected at random just as they are never children (although occasionally an opfer may be a virgin). Mostly, the victims, whose removal will aid the sinister dialectic, are tested, and only if they fail these tests will they become opfers. The tests, of course, are unknown to the victim. For example, a series of tests, or `games’ are prepared once the victim has been chosen, and each test or game requires the victim to make a specific choice. One choice leads to another test or game. After a certain number of choices of a certain type, the victim is deemed to have failed, and so chooses their own sacrificial death. Most often, the tests are tests of character – those that are shown to be worthless in character become opfers.
Thus, a number of victims are selected – those whose removal will aid the sinister dialectic of history [qv. 'The Sinister Shadow' MS for an example.]. These are then, without their knowledge, tested. If they fail, they become opfers. [See below, under 'Crime', for an example of the kind of tests that may be involved - the ones for sacrifice are, of course, much more 'testing'.]
The actual sacrifice has two forms: (1) during a ritual; (2) by practical means (e.g. assassination/’accidents’) without any magickal trappings. If (2) is chosen, then a ritual of sacrifice may still be undertaken, but with a `symbolic’ opfer (e.g. a wax figurine named after the actual opfer).
The actual execution of the act of sacrifice – whether during a ritual or otherwise – will be carefully planned, and calculatingly done. This planning will mean the death will seldom if ever be seen as a Satanic act even if it has occurred during a ritual. Today, and in the recent past, most sacrifices are of the second type – i.e. acts of execution undertaken by a Satanic novice ‘in the real world’, involving assassination and ‘accidents’ or viewed by others (e.g. the Police) as seemingly “motiveless crimes”. Further, in genuine Satanic groups, the execution of this act is an essential prerequisite to Adeptship.
The aim of the sacrifice can be either (a) part of a dark ritual – i.e. to presence sinister energies in the causal, causing changes in the world, such changes aiding the dark forces (examples would be the Ceremony of Recalling; the Sinister Calling); or (b) as part of general sinister strategy, adduced via Aeonics. [Note: This latter occurs when a novice progresses along the Satanic path according to tradition.]
Crime:
Crime is not an end, but a means. A criminal act is not done because it is criminal but because the act itself has a purpose or intent – the criminality of that act being irrelevant. This purpose is either to aid self-excellence (build Satanic character) or aid sinister strategy.
Basically, an act is judged not by whether it is illegal (and thus criminal) in a particular country, but rather by its purpose or intent. Or, expressed more simply, by whether that act can serve Satanism in general and self-development in particular. An example will best illustrate this.
A Satanic novice conceived the idea of gaining experience by burglary. The monetary benefits were useful, but incidental to the main purpose. As a Satanist, he of course planned carefully and chose wisely. First, the jobs themselves had to be difficult, challenging and thus interesting – they would require careful planning and delicate execution. So he chose Apartments, and entry mainly via windows and roofs – this needed some training and the acquisition of skills, plus daring and courage. Second, the people to be deprived of some of their belongings would choose themselves – they would be ‘tested’ to see if they were suitable victims. The selection would be by character – according to their nature. This required the novice to use his own judgement and instinct. He would select those who showed they lacked character, breeding, nobility – who lacked, in fact, the virtues of a Satanist [Note: One of the best exoteric descriptions of 'Satanic' character - and also of those lacking it - was given by Nietzsche in his 'The Anti-Christ'. The Satanist adheres to a 'master-morality'.]
The novice selected some Apartments in a city where the pickings would be rich. Then he observed the occupants for some time – watching them, their routines and so on. Next, he arranged for the execution of his tests. Two friends (who were actually Initiates of his Order – or rather the Order he had joined) were enlisted to aid him in this. They would appear, on his signal, and seem to rob him as he lingered near the entrance to the building when one of his chosen victims was near. On the first occasion, the victim ignored the ‘robbery’, and continued on his way. On the second, the next victim came to his aid and actually knocked one ‘robber’ unconscious with a punch, albeit for a short time. Thus, the first victim or mark became selected, or rather selected himself by his actions, and it was from his Apartment that the novice stole some things some days later. Of course, the planning and execution of such a test was difficult – requiring acting, timing, manipulation, daring, zest – in brief, experience in the real world. Following this success, he moved to another target and found some new victims for his test. It was interesting that these tests confirmed the novice’s instinctive assessment of the victim’s character – and thus aided his Satanic judgement.
In this example, the burglary was a ‘crime’, in Law – but, in fact, the illegal nature of the act was irrelevant. The act, and its planning etc., aided the self-excellence of the novice, and thus his magickal development, because it was a Satanic act, not because it was ‘criminal’ – that is, it involved danger, required skill, judgement, daring, and it was real. It was, in a sense, a practical ordeal and its Satanic character meant that its victims were victims of themselves: the act was akin to an act of `natural justice’. To some, it may seem a game – and so it was, but one played in earnest, in which losing meant capture and probable imprisonment (factors which made it interesting and worthwhile). And it was only a few incidents in a life crammed with such incidents – at different levels.
Furthermore, this ‘realness’ is important – genuine Satanists involve themselves with the real world, in real situations with real people and real danger. The imitation Satanists play mental and intellectual and ‘safe’ games. The difference is that a real Satanist will actually be an assassin, for example, while the imitation Satanist will dream of being one and will probably obtain a moronic pleasure from watching some fictional story and ‘identifying’ with a fictionalised assassin – or, more likely, will `act out’ such a role in some pathetic pseudo-magickal ceremony and believe he/she has attained something.
Naturally, in the real world things can and do go wrong. But as always, the real Satanists survive and prosper, while the others go under, get caught, give up or are killed. Also, sometimes even the best get things a little wrong – but they learn from their mistakes, they grow in character, in insight, in skill. Genuine Satanists are survivors: they learn and prosper, and die at the right time.
This growth means that a Satanist moves on – there are always new challenges, new delights, new tests of skill, daring, endurance, courage; new insights. A `role’ is only a role – played, then discarded, transcended. Thus, even crime, sacrifice, tests of others, become left behind, given time – they have served the purpose for which they were intended – and a new being is given birth, one more joins the elect. This is simply another way of saying that a Satanist is never trapped by the act, the desires for and against that act, its consequences, or indeed anything to do with that act, whatever the nature of the act. An act, such as a sacrifice or a crime, is a means – to something beyond. All acts are experience. A Satanist is above and beyond acts – a master or mistress of them, rather than a slave to them.
So it is, so it has been and so it will be – for genuine Satanists. Meanwhile, the imitation Satanists will play their word-games, feast on self-delusions, and continue to claim that ‘Satanism’ never involves sacrifice, or criminal acts but is a rather pleasing philosophy which has had a rather ‘bad press’. But, henceforward, anyone who is taken in by these gutless, posturing charlatans will deserve the epithet ‘stupid’.
[Hostia]
Order of Nine Angles
[For further information on Satanism and Human Sacrifice the following ONA MSS are suggested: Codex Saerus, Naos, The Grimoire of Baphomet, Hostia I-III, as well as Hohes Opfer.] Also the following MS by Anton Long may be of some interest to the subject:
One of the practical guidelines of the Order of the Nine Angles is that:
” It is of fundamental importance – to evolution both individual and otherwise – that what is Dark, Sinister or Satanic is made real in a practical way, over and over again. That is, that what is dangerous, awesome, numinous, tragic, deadly, terrible, terrifying and beyond the power of ordinary mortals, laws or governments to control is made manifest. In effect, non-Initiates (and even Initiates) need constantly reminding that such things still exist; they need constantly to be brought ‘face-to-face’, and touched, with what is, or appears to be, inexplicable, uncontrollable, powerful and ‘evil’. They need reminding of their own mortality – of the unforeseen, inexplicable “powers of Fate”, of the powerful force of “Nature”.
If this means killing, wars, suffering, sacrifice, terror, disease, tragedy and disruption, then such things must be – for it is one of the duties of a Satanic Initiate to so Presence The Dark, and prepare the way for, or initiate, the change and evolution which always result from such things. Such things as these must be, and always will be, because the majority of people are or will remain, inert and sub-human unless changed. The majority is – and always will be until it evolves to become something else – raw material to be used, moulded, cut-away and shaped to create what must be. There is no such thing as an innocent person because everyone who exists is part of the whole, the change, the evolution, the presencing of life itself, which is beyond them, and their life only has meaning through the change, development and evolution of life. Their importance is what they can become, or what can be achieved through their death. their tragedy, their living – their importance does not lie in their individual happiness or their individual desires or whatever.” To Presence The Dark
Another of the practical guidelines of the Order of the Nine Angles is that there is no morality – no judgement about what is right and what is wrong – but our own individual one, with that judgement born not from feelings nor from some reaction to some particular event, but from a detached, reasoned, reflexion arising from practical experience. In short, from our own individual pathei-mathos, and the personal unique sinister weltanschauung that we develope from such practical experience, such reflexion, and such pathei-mathos.
The praxis of the ONA – whatever outward form is assumed, from Drecc to Seven-Fold Sinister Way to Niner to Rounwytha to Satanist – is a means to bring such necessary formative practical experience, such pathei-mathos, and thus bring-into-being not only a personal weltanschauung but one which and importantly is sinister, dark. Thus, as one ONA Adept wrote some decades ago now:
“I, and others like me, are the darkness which is necessary and without which evolution and knowledge are impossible. I am also my own opposite, and yet beyond both. This is not a riddle, but a statement of Mastery, and one which, alas, so few have the ability to understand.”
Hence, for us, terms such as ‘terrorism’, inhuman, atrocity, and ‘evil’, have no absolute, abstract, meaning and thus the ONA does not, therefore, condemn ‘terrorism’ or what mundanes regard as ‘evil’. For us, such things are just causal things – a means or a form, and thus can or could bring pathei-mathos and/or aid our sinister dialectic (or presencing of The Dark), or they can or could be a test, a challenge, a sinister experience, too far for someone aspiring to be one of us: someone who thus fails.
In addition, we know that those who, in our own times, bandy such moralistic words about – often when describing some act by some human being – basically fall into three categories: sheeple (Homo Hubris), hubriati, and Magian.
The sheeple employ such terms either because of their conditioning, or because their feelings overwhelm their reason (assuming they have and can use the faculty of reason). In both cases, they have no personal weltanschauung since the living they are allowed in the controlling nation-States where they dwell conspires (has been manufactured) to keep them away from such practical abyssal experiences as might propel them toward pathei-mathos and thence to the truth of individual judgement. Their morality – such as it is – derives from laws made by the nation-State, from their State education, from some religion the State approves of or allows (i.e. which is not a threat to them), or from some political, philosophical, or social theory that again their State approves of or allows (i.e. which is not a threat to them).
The hubriati employ such terms often in some attempt to control and manipulate the sheeple, being pragmatic and hypocritical as they are. For instance, the killing of non-combatants, including women and children (atrocities), by the sheeple under their control or influence (as in the armed forces of nation-States) is denied (lied about), or was ‘unfortunate’ (collateral damage) or is declared ‘lawful’ because of some law they have manufactured or because of some declaration of war they have issued. Thus, they make a distinction between lawful and unlawful killing – which basically means they declare lawful whatever killing happens in the name of The State or whatever they assume might ensure their own continuing power, control, and influence ‘in the name of the people’.
The Magian employ such terms as abstractions of the abstract theories which aid, maintain and develope such entities as the nation-State and the supra-national organizations (such as the UN) they have manufactured in the last century, and which entities and organizations keep the sheeple under control and ensure new generations of Homo Hubris are bred, ‘educated’ and fenced in with laws.
Thus, for the hubriati – and the sheeple – their own nation-States cannot be ‘terrorist’ or support ‘terrorism’. Only individuals – or organizations which their Magian dominated or Magian influenced nation-States do not approve of – can be ‘terrorist’. More recently, the hubriati – with the help of Magian organizations such as the UN – have gone further, and manufactured laws and ‘charters’ and ‘declarations’ which make it possible for them to declare some government they do not approve of as a ‘rogue State’, thus enabling to impose sanctions upon such rogue States, and – if they deem it necessary – invade some country or other and undertake a ‘regime change’, all of course accompanied by massive propaganda campaigns designed to convince the sheeple such regimes are ‘evil’ or ‘terrorist’ or ‘promoting terrorism’ or are ‘undemocratic’ or whatever is the Magian buzz-word of the decade.
The Hypocrisy of Mundanes
There thus develops an utter hypocrisy which the sheeple either are not aware of or which they share in where a nation-State such as Amrika can: (1) invade a land such as Iraq and cause the deaths of over half a million Muslims and ‘justify’ such invasion and such deaths as they accept (which is always far far less than they are responsible for) on the basis of a group killing some three thousand people, and which killing is deemed an ‘evil, terrorist, act’ and (2) slaughter nearly a thousand people in the course of a few years (including hundreds of women and children), by remote controlled unmanned drones, and consistently lie about the scale of the slaughter or blandly claim that the majority of those killed were ‘terrorists’ and thus according to them ‘legitimate targets’, and yet scream loudly about ‘terrorism’ and ‘evil’ when one or two people kill less than a hundred people in a shooting and bomb attack (as in Oslo, Norway).
Unsurprisingly, even most of those deigning to call themselves ‘Satanists’ are exposed as mundanes by their reaction to such individual events and by their tolerance of, or even approval of, such State-sponsored acts. For their reaction is based – as with conditioned sheeple – on some abstraction such as some presumed ‘innocence’ whereas we, as the quote above (from To Presence The Dark) should make clear take the Aeonic, the acausal, the sinister view, accepting there is no such thing as an ‘innocent person’ because everyone who exists is part of the whole, the change, the evolution, the presencing of life itself, and that the only division that matters, that we accept, is the one between us and mundanes. As mentioned elsewhere [1] we define a mundane as someone, over the age of sixteen, who is not one of our pledged brothers or sisters, and the only value we give to mundanes is that of them being a useful resource, for us.
” Their importance is what they can become, or what can be achieved through their death. their tragedy, their living – their importance does not lie in their individual happiness or their individual desires or whatever.”
Thus, if some mundanes are culled or injured in some act by us or by someone else we quite simply do nor care in the way mundanes do (or pretend to do) as we do not indulge in the hypocrisy and the lies of the hubriati. Neither are we concerned with propaganda, with ‘political spin’. We are what we are – sinister, satanic: adepts who desire to Presence The Dark. We are what makes us ONA.
Hence, the only question we ask after such acts is do those culled or injured meet the criteria of mundaneness? [2] and if those culled or injured do, then we judge that act not according to some abstract moralistic criteria, but on whether we as sinister individuals judge it has Presenced The Dark or on whether we, as an individual or as individuals, have acquired or obtained something useful from it – materially, or in terms of, for example, pathei-mathos.
This, of course, is Satanic – although naturally it is a satanism too far, too evil, for the pretentious mundanes who deign, today and in their delusion, to describe themselves as ‘Satanists’.
Anton Long
AoB
Order of Nine Angles
122 Year of Fayen
Notes
[1] See for example the ONA text, dated 122 YF, Children and The ONA.
[2] That is, are they over the age of sixteen and not our pledged brothers or sisters. As mentioned in Children and The ONA, there is some flexibility in this age, with some of our kind regarding it to be sixteen years, others fourteen, and some others eighteen.
