ONA Esoteric Notes 103a
A Brief Explanation of
The Dark Tradition, and Sinister Mythos, of the Order of Nine Angles
The Dark Tradition
The Dark Tradition is another term for The Sinister Way: that
individual practical and sinister quest for esoteric knowledge wherein
lies the potential to develope certain esoteric skills and abilities,
and to evolve to become a new type of human being.
In its initial stages - up to Internal Adept - this Sinister Way is
overtly Satanic; that is, a practical presencing of certain acausal
(dark) energies, some of which can be and which have been re-presented
in exoteric causal form as the being who is Satan. Esoterically, Satan
is understood - "known" - to be, according to this Dark Tradition, a
particular acausal entity of a
particular acausal species who dwells - lives - in the acausal but who
has the ability to presence, to manifest, in our causal space. Thus,
the entity exoterically "named" as Satan is one of the most powerful of
The Dark Ones; one of those dark dwellers of the acausal spaces, many
of whom, according to sinister legend, have been manifest on the Earth
in the past, and who can be manifest again in our causal Space and our
causal Time.
In its later stages - toward the end of Internal Adept, and beyond -
this Sinister Way is, becomes, some-thing else: an alchemical amalgam,
a transformation, which takes the individual, through a personal
experiencing of the sinister, of the acausal, beyond all causal forms
and all causal abstractions, to what lies beyond The Abyss.
However, this "beyond" neither means nor implies some kind of mystic
moralizing transcendence beloved of "white light" types. Instead,
it is an immersion into, a living-with, the reality of the dark acausal
presenced in the human form of the Master/Lady-Master and presenced by
them in and through other human beings and the constructs of such human
beings, such as "society". It is a knowing of the
Cosmos as the Cosmos is, devoid of the abstractions human beings have
imposed upon it over the centuries. It is also often a symbiotic
living-with certain acausal entities whom the Master/Lady-Master has
drawn-forth - presenced - from the acausal itself.
One of the aspects of the ONA mythos is that the entity
exoterically "named" as Satan is regarded as not always being presenced
in our particular region of causal Space. Instead, this true "Prince of
Darkness" often works and has worked - or, more exactly, has achieved
things and does achieve things in our causal spaces - by utilizing
certain human beings who, by various esoteric means, have accessed
certain aspects and/or levels of the acausal and who thus have
presenced and who thus are presencing the dark, sinister, energies of
the acausal. Thus does the Prince of Darkness - and other such dark
entities - work through and with such human beings. Thus are we of the
ONA,
and thus are similar groups and organizations, Satanists, when viewed
exoterically, although the real re-presentation - the "name" - of the
entity exoterically known, in the Old Aeon, as Satan, is a certain
esoteric chant
composed of certain syllables which only "names" that entity when
chanted correctly. With the bringing-into-being of a New, and sinister,
Aeon, this exoteric name will no longer apply, and there will be,
instead, a manifestation of the "nameless" acausal reality behind this
exoteric, Old Aeon, "name".
In addition, the ONA does not regard Satan - or any of The Dark Ones,
such as Baphomet - as conventional "gods" or "goddesses", and the term
The Dark Gods is to be understood as but a useful, somewhat Old Aeon,
inherited exoteric term to describe a particular
acausal species many of whom are known to and named by The Dark
Tradition, which species, when manifest in the causal, are certainly
far more powerful than human beings. We of The Dark Tradition do
not "worship" such beings,
and nor would we submit to or slavishly obey them. Instead, we who are
Adepts (and beyond) consider them as our dark companions; our sinister
friends; perhaps our long-lost sisters and brothers; as perhaps our
hitherto unknown mother and father, admired and respected; and we even
sometimes
- for some dark entities - consider them as our sinister lovers. Thus,
our relationship to these beings is certainly not one of fear, or of
subservience.
Furthermore, according to The Dark Tradition, "God" - a God, a supreme
creator Being - does not and never has existed, and is regarded as a
human abstraction, a human manufactured construct, which human beings,
and thus certain religions and theologies and philosophies, have
incorrectly imposed
upon the reality of the Cosmos in a vain attempt to understand it, and
themselves. Thus, our Satan is not subservient to some omnipotent God,
but is instead a true Master of Evil, a Primal Heretic, Master of all
that disrupts the stasis
of our causal existence, of all that challenges and changes us and
inspires us to evolve. In a similar way, our Dark Mistress Baphomet -
the Mother of Blood - is a true Sinister and seductive Mistress, a bane
to all who are cowardly and afraid, and scourge of all who would seek
to deny the uniqueness, beauty and potential of the feminine.
Given all these things, it is thus wholly incorrect to describe the
ONA, and those inspired
by or influenced by us, with the rather silly term "theistic Satanism".
We have our own unique esoteric cosmogony, which posits a changing
Cosmos
consisting of an acausal Universe, inhabited by acausal living beings
of various types and species, and of a causal Universe, which is the
physical world and the physical universe we know from direct
observation, in which there is a planet, named by as as Earth, on which
there is a variety of causal life.
According to our esoteric tradition and mythos, all living causal
beings possess a certain amount of acausal energy, and it is this
acausal energy which makes the atoms and molecules of these causal
beings "alive". Thus, every living being is a type of nexion, a nexus,
between the causal and the acausal, and acausal energy "flows" from the
acausal to the causal. Mortal death is the cessation of this flow; the
closing of the nexus. We human beings - by virtue of our consciousness
- have more of this acausal energy than all other types of living
causal being which we currently know, and, furthermore, we have the
latent, esoteric, ability to access the acausal itself and not only
draw forth and direct some types of acausal energy, but know (make
contact with, or bring-into-being in the causal) certain acausal living
beings. That is, open various nexions enabling such acausal beings to
presence in our causal Universe and on this planet. We also have the
ability to transcend toward and into the acausal itself, beyond our
mortal death, although such an acausal existence is dark, timeless, and
truely sinister.
Magick - according to our Dark, Sinister, Tradition - is simply the
presencing of acausal energy in
the causal by means of a nexion, and one of the primary aims of the ONA
is to return The Dark Ones to Earth, and so disrupt and destroy the
current status quo, to replace it with something sinister, and
thus to
breed a new human species.
The Mythos of the ONA
The mythos of the ONA is both complex and original: that is, hitherto,
genuinely esoteric, especially in its details. This mythos consists of
the legends and stories regarding The Dark Gods (The Dark Ones) - of
the acausal species which includes those, exoterically, named as Satan,
and the Dark Mistress, Baphomet. The mythos consists of various
traditions such as Esoteric Chant and the use of certain crystals in
conjunction with such chants to open various nexions to the acausal.
The mythos consists of The Seven-Fold Sinister Way: a practical guide
to attaining Adeptship, and beyond. It consists of various esoteric
techniques to not only presence - or return - Dark Entities to our
Earth, but also of how we, as individuals, can aspire to and even
attain an acausal existence for ourselves.
Apart from these traditional elements, the ONA mythos now includes not
only certain new techniques and refinements (such as The Star Game) but
also the new rational apprehension introduced by the current Grand
Master which places these traditional elements in context thus enabling
greater insight and more efficacious magick (External, Internal, and
especially Aeonic), with this new rational apprehension being based on
the
cosmogony of acausal and causal Universes, on nexions, on magick as the
presencing of acausal energy in
the causal; on the division of magick into External, Internal, and
Aeonic; on archetypes as living, mortal, beings in our causal psyche;
of the Tree of Wyrd as one causal apprehension of the nexus that is our
own consciousness and psyche; and on many more such things.
This mythos - with its complexity, depth, and especially with its new
rational apprehension - is thus now a very practical and useful means
whereby sinister changes can be wrought, and brought-into-being, in our
causal world, our causal Universe, and an undogmatic liberating means
which individuals can use to change, transform, and so evolve
themselves, in a unique and sinister way. As such, it not only makes
genuine Adeptship, and beyond, open to most human beings, it also
liberates us from the slavery of all that enervates and all - such as
governments, tyrants, laws, societies, morality - that restricts our
development and evolution as unique human beings.
However, this Mythos – and the ONA itself – are still evolving, and
thus changing, because the ONA is now a living-presencing of the
acausal. Thus are new means of acausal presencing – new types of what
the Old Order knew as “magick” – emerging, such as the
sinister tribes of the ONA, which extend and complement other,
existing, and often more “traditional”, causal forms.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
119 Year of Fayen
Further Reading
ONA MSS:
1) The Mythos of the Dark Gods: Beings of Acausal Darkness
2) A Brief ONA Glossary
3) Baphomet: Vamperess
of The Dark Gods
4)
An Introduction to Dark Sorcery
5) The Five-Dimensional Magick of the Seventh Way
6) A Complete Guide to the Seven-Fold Way
7)
Advanced Introduction to The Dark Gods: Five-Dimensional Acausal Sorcery
ONA Occult Stories:
Note: These entertaining short stories are intended to give an
intimation of the true nature of The Dark Ones (aka The Dark Gods)
as recorded in the aural sinister tradition of the ONA.
1) Herewith The Darkness (in three parts, including The
Moon's Tidal Moving, and Dark Acausal Dreams)
2) Cantaoras
3) Jenyah
4) Sabirah
5) In The Sky of Dreaming