A Brief Guide to The Esoteric Philosophy of The
Order of Nine Angles
The ONA has its own, unique, esoteric Philosophy and its own, unique
and sinister, Way of Life - which Way of Life may be considered the
praxis of the ONA, or how ONA individuals live and implement our
sinister way of living and how they become, are of or belong to, the
ONA.
The Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA
The esoteric Philosophy of the ONA is known by several names, among
which
are The Dark Tradition, The Sinister Tradition, and The Sinister
Way, and the fundamental principles of this esoteric Philosophy are:
(1) that the Cosmos consists of a causal continuum [a causal Universe]
and an acausal
continuum [an acausal Universe], with living beings, of various
species, existing in both our own causal continuum and in the acausal
continuum;
(2) that there exists two types of causal being [living and
non-living], differentiated by whether or not these types of causal
being
possess, or manifest, what is termed acausal energy;
(3) that acausal energy - from the acausal
continuum - is
what animates all life in the causal continuum;
(4) that all living
beings in the causal continuum are a nexion - a connexion - between the
causal and the acausal;
(5) the more complex, the more organized, the causal life, the more
acausal energy is presenced
in that life;
(6) our consciousness, as human beings, is a means whereby
we can access the nexion we are to the acausal, and a means whereby we
can form, or pattern, our own acausal energy;
(7) we possess the
ability - the way, the means - of gaining for ourselves more acausal
energy, of evolving and thus increasing our own acausal energy, and
thus of transcending to
live in the acausal continuum.
Hence, The Dark Tradition of the ONA has its own ontology, its own
theory of ethics, its
own epistemology, and its own praxis, which derive from the ontology of
causal and acausal, and from our nature as human beings, which is of us
being a nexion to the acausal continuum.
The Nature of Causal and Acausal
1) The causal, or phenomenal or physical, universe can be described -
or represented - by the
three-dimensional causal geometry of causal Space and by one dimension
of linear causal Time.
(2) The acausal universe can be described - or represented - by an
acausal Space of n acausal
dimensions, and an acausal, un-linear, Time of n dimensions, where n is currently unknown but is
greater than three and less than or equal to infinity.
The causal universe is the realm of causal matter/energy, and the
acausal universe is the realm of acausal matter/energy.
The causal universe is currently described by causal sciences such as
Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy. The acausal universe can be described
by a new science based on the new Physics of acausal energy and thus on
a new acausal geometry, based on a new acausal metrical Space-Time of n acausal dimensions and an
acausal Time also of n
dimensions.
In addition, nexions to the acausal, from our own causal Universe, are
of two types: (1) physical nexions, where a specific region of or a
specific place in causal Space-Time intersects, or is joined to or
with, acausal Space-Time; and (2) living (organic) nexions, where
acausal energy from the acausal manifests in and thus animates a
living, causal, being.
The Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA is thus, when conventionally viewed,
a
new and a rational philosophy.
The Esoteric Praxis of the ONA
Essentially, our praxis consists of:
1) Sinister (warrior) Tribes - those directly living and directly
presencing our
Sinister Way of Life;
2) Traditional Nexions - composed of those undertaking our Seven Fold
Sinister Way in the traditional manner of Left Hand Path seeker, via
Grade Rituals, Insight Roles,
and practical LHP magick;
3) Sinister Empaths (of which the Rounwytha is an example) and esoteric
scientists studying and seeking knowledge of the acausal.
Our most fundamental and long-term practical goals are to create an
entirely new, more evolved human species, and for this new human
species to
explore and to colonize the star-systems of our own, and of other,
Galaxies - to thus create a Dark Galactic Imperium. This will also
require the development of a new
acausal technology, based on the Physics of acausal energy.
Furthermore, we see the breakdown, destruction, and the replacement of
all existing (and mundane) societies - by our new progressive
societies based on our new warrior tribes - as a necessary prelude to
this Galactic aim of ours.
Thus, the immediate and intermediate aims of our sinister Way of Life
are:
(1) to use our Dark
Tradition to create sinister Adepts and, over a long period of causal
Time, aid
and enhance and create that new, more evolved, human species of which
genuine Sinister Adepts may be considered to be the phenotype;
(2)
to use the sinister dialectic (and thus Aeonic Magick and genuine
Sinister Arts) to aid and enhance and make possible entirely new types
of societies for human beings, with these new societies being based on
new tribes and a tribal way of living where the only law is that of our
Dark Warriors, which is the Law of The Sinister-Numen (see Appendix 1);
(3) to aid, encourage, and bring about - by both practical and esoteric
means (such as subversion, revolution, and Dark Sorcery) - the
breakdown and the downfall of
existing societies, and thus to replace the tyranny of nations and
States, and their impersonal governments, by our new tribal societies
and our Law of the Sinister-Numen.
The Esoteric Ethics of the ONA
The ethics of the ONA are based upon our axiom that personal honour -
what we know of as,
or what we term, personal honour - expresses our true nature as human
beings capable of consciously evolving ourselves and the Cosmos. Thus,
personal honour - manifest in our Law of The Sinister-Numen - is a
means to access acausal energy and a means to change and evolve
ourselves in a natural way consistent with our true nature and our true
purpose, which nature and purpose is to know our natural wyrd, to
presence our wyrd: to participate in, to partake of, our own evolution
and that of the Cosmos itself.
All evolution - conscious and otherwise - is darkly-numinous; that is,
it possesses or it manifests acausal energy in particular ways, and
personal honour, as defined by and as manifest in our Law of The
Sinister-Numen, is a practical, a willed, an evolutionary, presencing
of acausal energy.
Our Law of The Sinister-Numen is our guide for our own individual
personal behaviour, and our guide to how we relate to, and should treat
others. It specifies our type of law, and the nature of our justice, as
it manifests the nature, the character, of those of our kind: the Dark
Warrior, someone who lives, and if necessary dies, by the Law of
The Sinister-Numen. (See Footnote 1)
Furthermore, our Law of The Sinister-Numen is manifest - made real and
practical - by means of our sinister warrior tribes, for it is by means
of
these tribes that we can come to know, and to live, our wyrd: that is,
(1) come to discover our true nature, as human beings capable of
consciously
participating in our own evolution and that of the Cosmos, and (2)
actively participate in our own evolution and that of the Cosmos. (See
Appendix 2)
The Esoteric Epistemology of the ONA
The epistemology of the Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA asserts that
there are two distinct types of knowing - causal and acausal -
and that:
A) knowledge of the causal continuum can be obtained by causal Science
which is based on the following foundations:
(i) the causal, phenomenal, universe exists independently
of us and our
consciousness, and thus independent of our senses; (ii) our limited
understanding of this causal ‘external world’ depends for the most part
upon our senses – that is, on what we can see, hear or touch; that is,
on what we can observe or come to know via our senses and by practical
scientific experiments; (iii) logical argument, or reason, is the basic
means to knowledge and understanding of and about this ‘external
world’; (iv) the cosmos is, of itself, a reasoned order subject to
rational laws; (v) that, in competing explanations of events or
observations, the simplest and most logical explanation is to be
preferred.
B) knowledge of the acausal continuum can be obtained by (i) developing
a new Science of acausal Physics, based on an understanding of acausal
energy; (ii) by developing and evolving our latent faculties, such as
that of dark-empathy; (iii) by coming-to-know, and to interact with,
such acausal, living, beings as can manifest - or which esoteric
tradition asserts have been manifest - in our causal continuum; and
(iv) by means of such things as developing a new and an acausal
technology, and thus by exploring the realms of the acausal itself.
According to our esoteric epistemology:
1) Causal knowing is that deriving from causal-based rational
Philosophies and from causal Sciences such as Physics, and this type of
knowing is essentially based on a physical cause-and-effect (in the
case of causal
Sciences) or an abstract cause-and-effect (in the case of causal
Philosophies).
Hence, the type of causal knowing which is the concern of traditional
epistemology is limited, and derives from positing causal abstractions,
and then projecting these abstractions onto things (onto causal beings,
living and non-living). That is, this type of causal knowing denotes
things and causal beings by such causal abstractions. There is then the
assumptions of knowing, and/or of having understood or having an
understanding of, such things and such causal beings. (See Footnote 2)
According to the Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA, the error of all
conventional Philosophies is that they apply, or try to apply, a purely
causal perception - based on a linear cause-and-effect - and lifeless
causal abstractions, to living beings,
such as ourselves. This causal type of knowing is thus un-numinous
(that is, devoid or without acausal energy).
2) Acausal knowing is that deriving from (i) apprehending the
acausal essence of living causal beings; (ii) a study of the nature of
acausal energy, and the nature of the acausal Universe itself by means
of developing new acausal sciences and technologies; and (iii)
apprehending and coming-to-know (interacting with) those living acausal
beings we are currently aware of, or can become aware of in our present
state of human evolution.
The acausal essence - the acausal energy - of living causal beings can
be apprehend, by we human beings, by means of our latent faculties such
as what we term dark (or sinister) empathy.
Our traditional esoteric Dark Arts are one means by which we can come
to know, and to interact with, such acausal, living, beings as can
manifest - or which esoteric
tradition asserts have been manifest - in our causal continuum.
Our very evolution, as human beings - in terms of consciousness,
understanding and knowledge - results from acausal energy, and from us
accessing such acausal energy in particular ways.
According to the Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA, those things, and/or
those creations of our causal Arts - such as music - which we feel are
or which we come to know as numinous, are simply a presencing of
acausal energy by means of a nexion, and thus can be considered as one
type of intimation of the acausal - of the Life there, and of the very
nature of the acausal continuum itself. That is, such numinous works of
conventional Arts have often been a means whereby: (1) some human
beings (through their artistic creations or through their performance
of such creations, their own, or others) can access and presence some
acausal energy; and (2) where those affected by such numinous works of
Art achieve or can achieve some intimation of the acausal. This also
applies to genuine work of Dark Sorcery.
We Are As We Are
The Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA is simply a means; an effective and
practical means to change, to evolve, ourselves and our societies; to
manifest, to present, our wyrd - that is, to know, to accept, to live,
our correct and natural relationship with the Cosmos, with both the
causal Universe and the acausal Universe, and the living beings that
exist in both. This wyrd of ours is most
obviously manifest, in a practical way, through our sinister tribes and
our Law of The Sinister Numen.
The ONA is not interested in proselytizing, in converting others, or
in trying to persuade others - through argument or debate or by
countering distortions and lies about us - to adopt our sinister Way of
Life. We are as we are, representing as we do a specific new type, a
new breed, of human being, a
specific new and expanding tribal family of human beings. Our Way is
the practical
way of deeds, of living our darkly-numinous Way of Life; of increasing
our numbers through the success of our tribes, though drawing others of
our kind to us, and through others being personally inspired by our
example, by our success.
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Footnotes:
(1) One secret of our darkly-numinous wyrd is that our mortal, causal,
life is not the end, but only a beginning, and that if we live and die
in the right way, we can possibly attain for ourselves a life in the
realms of the acausal. Our Law of The Sinister-Numen is the most
practical way for us to do this, to achieve this, for this Law is a
manifestation, a presencing, of acausal energy, and by living in accord
with this Law we are accessing, and presencing within ourself, more
acausal energy, and thus evolving and increasing our own type of
acausal energy.
Acausal energy - that which animates us and makes us alive and which
allows and causes our evolution - cannot by its very nature be
destroyed in the causal continuum. It can only be presenced in organic,
causal (living) beings, or it can be dispersed, thinly, over causal
Time, in the causal until it is re-presenced in
some-thing, or until it returns to the acausal continuum by some means.
Such an achieved acausal existence, for us, is - by the very nature of
the
acausal - time-less, eternal, and not subject to the organic process of
decay that is an inherent part of all causally existing life.
As stated in two other ONA MSS:
The very purpose and meaning of our individual, causal –
mortal – lives
is to progress, to evolve, toward the acausal, and that this, by virtue
of the reality of the acausal itself, means and implies a new type of sinister
existence, a new type of being, with this acausal existence being far
removed from – and totally different to – any and every Old Aeon
representation, both Occult, non-Occult and “religious”. Thus it is
that we view our long-term human social and personal evolution as a
bringing-into-being of a new type of sinister living, in the causal –
on this planet, and elsewhere – and also as a means for us, as
individuals of a new sinister causal species, to dwell in
both the causal and acausal Universes, while we live, as mortals, and
to transcend, after our mortal, causal “death”, to live as an acausal
being, which acausal being can be currently apprehended, and has been
apprehended in the past, as an immortal sinister being..
Thus do we know – thus do we feel – that death itself is irrelevant, an
illusion, a mere ending of a mere causal existence, and that it is what
we do with the opportunities that this, our causal life, offers and can
offer us, that is important. Thus we do not fear death, and instead
defy it, just as we seek to defy ourselves – what we are, now – and
just as we seek to defy the mudanes and all those causal restrictions,
those causal forms, that they have created to make them feel safe, and
secure and content with their mundane un-warrior like merely causal and
thus un-numinous existence.
(2) Basically, causal abstraction is the positing of some "perfect"
or "ideal" form of some-thing, and/or manufacturing some
category which some-thing is said "to belong to, or be a part
of".
Thus, things - beings in the causal - are allocated to, or classified
according to, some abstract category or some abstract
type, and/or compared to some abstract or some ideal/perfect form.
Such categories, and such abstract ideal forms, are then often
incorrectly used to judge some-thing (including, for example, some
living person).
There is thus no direct - and thus certainly no acausal - knowing of
a
thing or of a living human being, as those things and as human
beings are in their Cosmic essence and according to their wyrd,
for the knowing of such
traditional epistemology is only the linear, causal, the distorted
and/or the illusory, knowing of imposed, projected, intermediate,
fallible (often changing), abstractions and categories.
In contrast, the epistemology of the Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA
allows, and is a means of obtaining, a Cosmic (a numinous, wyrdful,
esoteric) knowing,
based as this numinous, Cosmic, knowing is on the combination of
rational causal Sciences and the acausal knowing obtained by such
things as acausal Sciences, acausal-empathy, and the development and
evolution of ourselves and our faculties.
Appendix 1
The Law of The Sinister-Numen
Honour, according to and as defined by the sinister-numen, is a
specific code of personal behaviour and conduct, and the practical
means whereby we can live in an evolved way, consistent with the
sinister perspective, and aims, of our Sinister Way. Thus, personal
honour is how we can change, and control, ourselves.
Honour not only defines our personal behaviour, and imposes upon us
certain duties and obligations, but it also defines us, as individuals
– that is, it is an essential part of our identity, as individuals who
live by the Law of the Sinister-Numen, and it distinguishes us from the
mundanes, from all those who are not-of-us, who do not belong to our
kind. Honour is what binds our tribes; what makes our tribes, what
makes and what marks our new way of living.
For us, our honour is more important than our own lives, and it is
this willingness to live and if necessary die for and because of our
honour that makes us strong, fearsome, and enables us to live life on a
higher level than any mundane. For it is through honour – through our
fearlessness, our scorn of our mortal death – that we come to exult in
Life itself.
Our honour means we are fiercely loyal to our own kind – to those
who, like us, live by honour and our prepared to die for their honour.
Our honour means we are wary of, and do not trust – and often despise –
all those who are not like us, who are not of our own fearsome dark
warrior kind.
Our honourable duty – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to be ready, willing, and able to defend ourselves,
in any situation, and to be prepared to use lethal force to so defend
ourselves.
Our honourable duty – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to be loyal to, and to defend, our own kind: to do
our duty, even unto death, to those to whom we have sworn a personal
oath of loyalty.
Our obligation – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to seek revenge, if necessary unto death, against
anyone who acts dishonourably toward us, or who acts dishonourably
toward those to whom we have sworn a personal oath of loyalty.
Our obligation – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to never willingly submit to any mundane; to die
fighting rather than surrender to them; to die rather than allow
ourselves to be dishonourably humiliated by them.
Our obligation – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to never trust any oath or any pledge of loyalty
given, or any promise made, by any mundane, and to be wary of them at
all times.
Our honourable duty – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to settle our serious disputes, among ourselves, by
either trial by combat, or by a duel involving deadly weapons; and to
challenge to a duel anyone – mundane, or one of our own kind – who
impugns our honour or who makes dishonourable accusations against us.
Our honourable duty – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to settle our non-serious disputes, among
ourselves, by having a man or woman of honour from among us, who is
highly esteemed because of their honour and known for their honourable
deeds, arbitrate and decide the matter for us, and to honourably accept
without question, and to abide by, their decision.
Our honourable duty – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to always keep our word, once we have given our
word on our honour, for to break one’s word is a dishonourable,
cowardly, and mundane, act.
Our honourable duty – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to act honourably in all our dealings with our own
honourable kind; to strive to be fair, and courteous, with those of our
own kind.
Our obligation – as individuals who live by the Law of the
Sinister-Numen – is to marry only those from our own kind, who thus,
like us, live by honour and are prepared to die to save their honour.
Our honourable, our Dreccian, duty – as Dreccian individuals who
live by the Law of the Sinister-Numen – means that an oath of loyalty
or allegiance, once sworn by a man or woman of honour (“I swear by my
honour that I shall…”) can only be ended either: (1) by the man or
woman of honour formally asking the person to whom the oath was sworn
to release them from that oath, and that person agreeing so to release
them; or (2) by the death of the person to whom the oath was sworn.
Anything else is dishonourable, and the act of a mundane.
Appendix 2
Sinister Tribes and The Tyranny of The State
A Brief Diatribe
Our wyrd - our true nature, as human beings capable of consciously
participating in our own evolution and that of the Cosmos - is most
obviously manifest, in a practical way, through our sinister warrior
tribes and
our Law of The Sinister Numen. Furthermore, if we know, and if we
develope, our wyrd, we become, we are, a particular new type (a new
breed) of human being - quite distinct from the mundanes. In essence,
we become Dark Warriors, living and if necessary dying by the Law of
The Sinister-Numen.
Our sinister tribes are a practical, a darkly-numinous, evolution of
that natural tribal instinct that lives within us and which has lived
within us, and which tribal instinct has made possible (hitherto
mostly
unconsciously) our evolution, as human beings. That is, the sinister
tribes of the ONA are a means whereby we can access and increase our
own acausal energy, as individuals, and participate in our own
evolution, and that of the Cosmos. To do this - to know and to live our
wyrd - is to live in a symbiotic relationship with others of our new
kind; to balance our unique individuality with our necessary and
natural and numinous (that is, honourable) co-operation with
others of our kind. For it is such honourable (numinous)
co-operation with others of our own kind (within our own tribal
family) which presences and which allows our own individual wyrd to be
evolved.
In direct opposition to our wyrd is the modern tyranny of The State,
which is
un-numinous and de-evolutionary in nature, purpose and intent. For the
State takes away our natural right of personal honour, and that natural
and evolutionary way of living which is tribal, and replaces honour by
impersonal, lifeless, abstract "law", and replaces tribes by the
impersonal, lifeless, abstract, State and nation, which are - despite
the illusion and pretence of democracy by some such States - are all
run by an oligarchy, for the benefit of that wealthy and privileged
oligarchy.
In place of the natural and personal knowing - the acausal-knowing - of
our tribal (extended) family, there is the impersonal causal lifeless
"knowing" of our place as some mechanistic "citizen" of the State or
nation. In place of the natural loyalty to, and the care of and from,
our own
tribal family - based on a personal, numinous, knowing and loyalty -
there is the division of
us into isolated, un-numinous and de-evolutionary single family units,
dependant on usury, and where our given purpose is to toil for the
State, on behalf of The State, or for ourselves and our single isolated
family unit, and to which State we have to pay, for all of our
working lives, mandatory
taxes, thus making us wage or salary slaves, almost always burdened by
debt.
In place of our natural, healthy, evolutionary warrior way of life -
based on a tribal way of living and the law of personal honour - the
State denudes us of numinous meaning, of wyrd, and provides us only
with
de-evolutionary aims and goals. In place of the glory of a Galactic
Imperium, and the promise of a warrior-won acausal
existence, the tyranny of The State provides us with only causal
illusions and abstractions and meaningless "rewards", so that we remain
tame, domesticated,
animals, paying our taxes, and subservient to their dishonourable
enforcers, the bullies they call the forces of their "law and
order."
Thus, we by our very nature, by our wyrd, are violently, implacably,
and in all practical ways, opposed to
the State and its de-evolutionary self-serving tyranny.
Selected Further Reading
The Meaning of The Nine Angles (A Collection of Texts, Parts One and
Two)
Frequently
Asked Questions About The
Order of Nine Angles (ONA)
The War Against The Mundanes (Anton Long)
The Ontology and
Theology of
Traditional Satanism (Anton Long)
The
Dark Arts of Traditional Satanism (Anton Long)
The Quintessence of the
ONA:
The Sinister Returning (Anton Long)
We, The Drecc. (ONA)
The ONA In Historical and Esoteric Context
(Julie Wright)
A Way of Life (Chloe, WSA352)
ONA Manuscripts
Main Category: Guides to the ONA
Sub Category: Esoteric Philosophy of The ONA
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