(Note: While this MS assumes some knowledge of the LHP and magick, it may be useful to
non-Initiates/non-Adepts.)
The True Nature of Magick:
Magick, correctly defined and correctly understood, is the presencing
of acausal energy in the causal by means of a nexion. By the nature of
our consciousness, we, as human individuals, are one type of nexion -
that is, we have the ability to access, and presence, certain types of
acausal energy.
The symbols and rituals of genuine conventional magick (as represented
by the ONA) are simply a means to access, or re-present, certain types
of acausal energy. Thus, and for example, the Tree of Wyrd, as
conventionally described ("drawn") and with its correspondences and
associations and symbols, re-presents certain acausal energies, and the
individual who becomes familiar with such correspondences and
associations and symbols can access (to a greater or lesser degree
depending on their ability and skill) the energies associated with the
Tree of Wyrd. The Tree of Wyrd itself is one symbol, one
re-presentation, of that meeting (or "intersection") of the causal and
acausal which is a human being, and can be used to represent the
journey, the quest, of the individual toward the acausal - that is,
toward the goal of magick, which is the creation of a new, more
evolved, individual.
However, such a symbol as the Tree of Wyrd (ToW) - to be a correct and
thus useful re-presentation - must be understood ("viewed") in both
causal and acausal terms. As conventionally described ("drawn") the ToW
is but a static two-dimensional object. A more accurate re-presentation
is three-dimensional. A yet more accurate description is
four-dimensional where the symbols are understood to "flow"/change
according to their nature - and here, the transformations of the
pieces/symbols of The Star Game are the key. The best - most accurate -
description of such a symbol as the ToW is five-dimensional, for Time
has of itself "two" dimensions, or components: a causal one (the
"flow"/change) and an acausal one, which acausal aspect cannot be
understood, or viewed, or even symbolized, by conventional
four-dimensional means. Thus, each individual symbol, or "association"
or "correspondence" is not static and not isolated - they are but
individual, causal, emanations of what is a changing aspect of some
acausal energy, which acausal energy cannot by totally contained (or
"described") by some finite, causal re-presentation.
That is, there is an acausal aspect to all magickal workings, rituals
and "re-presentations"/symbols, which acausal aspect cannot be
re-presented by a mere four-dimensional description or symbol.
Of course, the astute reader will realize that not only is the ToW
itself but one causal, emanation of what is a changing aspect of some
particular acausal energy, but also that we, as individuals, are such a
"thing".
The failure of pre-ONA magick is the failure to understood, to know,
the four and five dimensional nature of genuine magick. On a somewhat
basic level, that is why, for instance, in the ONA Way, there are no
such things as stupid "banishing rituals" - because the individual is a
nexion, before, during and after some causal ritual, which ritual
involves acausal energy.
The Seventh Way of the ONA:
The Way of the ONA is a Way which allows the individual to experience,
to get to know, acausal energy, and to begin the process of
understanding such energy via acausal symbolism. All magick - external,
internal and Aeonic - is but a means to apprehend, experience and
presence acausal energies, and thus create/provoke Change. That is, the
conventional magick of the ToW, of books such as
Naos,
of
rituals, is but a beginning - through such things, the individual
Initiate acquires experience and knowledge, and also develops as an
individual: in terms of character. In the simplistic sense, they move,
through the Grades, beyond "The Abyss", toward The Goal, which is the
transformation of the individual and the emergence of a new type of
being, beyond the Adept. In such a moving, such a development, they
acquire a knowledge, a knowing, of the acausal, which knowledge usually
begins during and after the stage of Internal Adept - and which is
often glimpsed, in some causal way, by some External Adepts who may
thus intuitively grasp the essence of the sinister. Also, in such a
moving, they cause/provoke changes in the causal: that is, they
undertake Aeonic Magick.
The basis for the Seventh Way is, firstly, the understanding of causal,
acausal and nexions, and, secondly, the realization that we, as
individuals, can evolve ourselves in a conscious and rational way.
Esoterically, the name itself - the Seventh Way - is not that
important, and in essence serves only to donate some-thing which is
different from what has existed hitherto. Exoterically, it refers to
the seven-spheres conventionally described by the ToW - that is, to
what has been called the septenary system, which itself is but one
causal, and convenient, means to describe the nexion which we are and
the nexion which is the intersection/meeting of causal and acausal in
our phenomenal world.
What, then, is the acausal symbolism which can aide the process of
understanding and which in itself is an act of magick, a presencing of
the acausal? In its most simple form it is The Star Game - or rather,
the advanced form of The Star Game. But even this is only a beginning -
a mere four-dimensional manifestation. In another form, such acausal
symbolism is The Dark Gods - not as some "name" or "names", and not
even as a vibration/chant of some collocation of letters/names (which
vibration/chant is a more accurate re-presentation than a mere "name").
Rather, the symbolism
is/are The Dark Gods and the energies (the "forces") They Themselves re-present. (1)
But what does all this mean, in practical terms? It means that to presence
such energies the individual has to go not only beyond the "symbolism"
but also go beyond all those things which militate against the "flow"
of acausal energy to the causal. That is, they have to open the nexion
that they are - they become not just some "channel" or "gate" but
rather an aspect of the acausal itself, while such presencing is done,
and while some of its acausal manifestations manifest themselves in our
causal time-and-space. This is the essence of what it means to go
"beyond the Abyss" - achieved by following the Seven Fold Way.
In addition, and of crucial importance, in the practical sense it means
that the effects of genuine magick are not purely causal - they are not
limited to a specific "ritual" or action, and cannot be contained
within a chosen causal form, such as a static image or some artefact.
In a very simplistic sense, genuine magickal energies are
"five-dimensional" - they are akin to "living-forms" which thus change,
may grow (or decay) and which may cause or provoke changes, in causal
time, according to their "nature". (2) Thus, to consider one very
noviciate-like example, when a conventional ritual is undertaken, the
energies involved are presenced both in causal and acausal time -
novices (and even, sometimes, Adepts) usually only consider or feel or
are aware of the causal presencing and the causal effects, which they
often assume they can "control". What they seldom if ever consider are
the acausal effects.
The Nine Angles - Esoteric Meanings:
The Nine Angles have several meanings - or interpretations - depending
on context. In the exoteric, pre-Adept, sense, they may be said to
re-present the 7 nexions of the ToW plus the 2 nexions which re-present
the ToW as itself a nexion, with The Abyss (a connexion between the
individual and the acausal) being one of these 2 "other nexions". It
should be remembered, of course, that each sphere of the ToW is
not two-dimensional (or even three-dimensional) and in a simple way
each sphere can be taken as a reflexion (a "shadow") of another - for
example, Mercury is the 'shadow' of Mars.
In another exoteric sense, the nine are the alchemical process of the 7
plus the 2, which 2 are the conjoining of opposites: and, in one sense,
this conjoining can be taken to be (magickally, for instance, in a
practical ritual) as the conjoining of male and female (hence what is
called one of the Rites of the Nine Angles) - although, of course,
there are other practical combinations, just as each magickal act
involving such Angles should be undertaken for a whole and particular
alchemical season: that is, such a working should occupy a space of
causal-time, making it thus a type of four-dimensional magick which can
access the fifth magickal dimension, the acausal itself. A somewhat
more advanced understanding of the Nine - in relation to a ritual to
create a Nexion - is hinted at in the recent fiction-based MS Atazoth.
Beyond this, the Nine Angles are symbols of The Star Game which itself
is magick - that is, one nexion which can presence the acausal. But
even this is only a beginning - a re-presentation, in symbols, of what
is, in essence, without symbols: a useful means for Initiates, and
Adepts, to move toward the new five-dimensional magick embodied in, and
beyond, the ONA.
The Seventh Way and Satanism:
For the current Aeon, the Seventh Way, exoterically, is the way of
Satanism, expressed in its most obvious way by opposition to the
religion of the Nazarene and by an affirmation, through rituals and
similar constructs, of the energy/archetype commonly known as "Satan".
As explained in various other Order MSS this Aeon (3), left to itself,
will persist - that is, its outer forms and ethos will continue to be
manifest and still hold people in thrall physically and mentally - for
at least another few hundred years, even though some of the energies of
the next Aeon (energies manifest in groups such as the ONA) are
manifest now and will become increasingly manifest. In the practical
sense, this means that individuals, organizations, groups (and so on)
will continue to be influenced/controlled by the forces of the Old
Aeon, and that the forces of the New Aeon will not achieve significant
change, in such forms as "society", for several hundred years, which
change will mark the real arrival of the next Aeon.
Furthermore, there will come a time when the ONA - and the individuals
who are part of it or who are influenced by it - will outwardly shed
the rhetoric, the images, the forms of "Satanism", for such things are
causal emanations tied to a particular Aeon; they are not the
supra-Aeonic acausal essence which we, through the progression of
Aeons, are moving toward and which it is the purpose of genuine
Occultism and magick to move us, as individuals, toward experience of and
understanding of. What will also change are the means - the magick - to
presence the acausal. Thus, there will be a move away from ritual, and
from overt Old Aeon symbolism - and especially from "words" and "names"
(4) - toward a much darker magick: a magick which manifests the acausal
without the need for causal forms, and certainly without the need for
"names". One type of the new magick is The Star Game (the magick of
"Thought") and another is that which returns the Chaos which is, and which is not, The Dark Gods - but there
will be many other types of this new five-dimensional magick, some of which are already
known to, and used by, genuine Adepts of the Dark Tradition.
Anton Long
Morning Rising of Arcturus
(Black Rhadley Nexion) 116yf
Notes:
(1) Part of this re-presentation is, of course, what we term the
sinister - or, more correctly, those energies/changes which when
presenced produce a re-ordering, which re-ordering is most often called
"sinister".
(2) This does not mean, of course, that such energies should be
conceptualized in the Old Aeon way as actual "living-beings" such as
"demons" or such-like, which living-beings have their own "nature". But
such a conceptualization does indeed hint at a much deeper truth, which
in one sense is embodied in the mythos of the Dark Gods, as it can be
used as a beginning to move toward a better understanding based on the
reality of how acausal energies manifest -
and then exist ("live") - in the causal.
(3) To be precise, we should really write: "The distortion which
has
overtaken the Western Aeon will persist..." For, as explained in
various Order MSS, what is manifest now - and has certainly been
obvious to even many non-Adepts in the past five years - is the Magian
distortion of the West, which distortion is evident in the "neo-cons"
of Amerika with its new imperialism which itself serves a very
Zionist/Magian agenda. According to a quite old MSS: "The last
Aeon, the Western whose center is in Northern Europe, is drawing to a
close as its energies fade. The next Aeon, however, has as its centre
not our Earth, but a location in space and until this centre is
reached, the new Aeon will not be possible. However, the Old Aeon has
some 350 years still left to run, and during this period, the energies
of the New Aeon will become more and more obvious as they seep around
the Gate, brought in part by deliberate Ritual by small groups of
Adepts..."
(4) As has been written: "It is not correct to give names to some
things..." For such a naming is a move-away from the essence of the
"thing" that is named - often a mistaking of what the name denotes for
the essence which is supposedly denoted by such a naming. Magick is one
means away from such a projection, such a transference of limited
causal "thinking" - a means toward an apprehension of things, as things
are.
Some Relevant MSS:
1) Aeonic Magick - A Basic Introduction
2) Ritual
Magick: Dure and Sedue
Ceremonial
3) Aeonics: The Secret
Tradition (Part
One)
4) The Aims of the ONA
5) Aeonics: The Secret
Tradition (Part Three)
6) The Nine Angles - Esoteric
Meanings
7) The Secrets of the Nine Angles