Toward The Dark Formless
Acausal
I've read several times recently - on the Internet, of course! -
that the Order of Nine Angles is defunct. Do you have any comment to
make about this?
A: If people wish to believe that, fine.
All I will say is that - for many decades now - our membership has been
closed. That is, we have not actively and publicly saught to recruit
members. We are not interested in large numbers of people joining us,
and we have placed many obstacles in the way of people contacting us.
The few that do and have joined us are selected by us if we perceive
they have the right qualities and if they have been tenacious in their
search, and passed the various tests which are part of the selection
process, with these tests being mostly unknown to them at the time they
are being tested. Such tests, by us, continue until they have achieved,
for
themselves, Internal Adept.
Thus, we are elitist, and secretive. For the moment, and for the past
few years or so, we have and have had a slight "public profile" - with
an unofficial Internet website and an unofficial "Internet blog", run
by
a member - but these things are temporary, serving a specific
CausalTime-limited purpose, and when that purpose is achieved then
they, and this slight public profile, will cease. Of course, we will
not make any announcement of this ceasing, at the time.
It should be understood that our goals are of not only decades but of
centuries, and that we act, and plan, accordingly.
What about the people who leave - or who seem to leave? I'm thinking
of people like Vilnius Thornian, who ran the old Nasz Dom website, and
C Beest, who did the Sinister Tarot. Have they really left, and
if so is that a betrayal, and what does their leaving say about the
state of the Order of Nine Angles itself and its method of training?
The question itself reveals something of a lack of esoteric insight and
sinister knowledge.
Over the decades, several people have come and gone - some only
achieved External Adept; a few achieve Internal Adept. Of those who
wander away, and give up or renounce their Sinister quest, one or two
return, having learnt much - about themselves - during their exile.
Yet some of those who wander away or who may renounce their quest may
still have done some useful work; may still have presenced the Sinister
in some way, and thus have contributed something, or affected some
changes, however small. Some of these may even have been manipulated
into doing such things, into contributing such things, by a Master, or
a Mistress, with their leaving or their renunciation a sign of their
failure.
For such renunciations - whatever the reasons, or the reasons such
people
tell themselves - are expected, and indeed natural; part of the
selection process itself. Those who go have failed, and proven
themselves unsuitable; for the real, and the most important test, is
that which lies beyond Internal Adept and which signifies the change
from Adept to Master/Mistress. Of those who thus progress beyond the
Abyss, there have been no renunciations.
Each Grade, of Internal Magick, is thus a test, a selection; and the
move away from each Grade toward the next is also itself a test, a
selection, and one
which lasts many an alchemical season - in exoteric-speak, which lasts
for some or often many many years.
Again, such people, such failures, should be viewed in the perspective
of centuries: of
the progression toward our Sinister goals, our disruption of the Old
Order, our presencings of the acausal darkness, and the emergence of
the
New Aeon, whose Sinister magickal energies are already being felt, by
some, and whose exoteric affects are slowly causing causal changes.
There has been much speculation as to your use of the word "Fayen",
which seems to have replaced the "yf" date code you previously used. Is
there a reason for this change, and what does Fayen mean? Is the change
in any way connected with a move away from NS type politics, which
politics many associate you with?
Firstly, the use of that particular word, now and in the past two or so
years, is
quite deliberate: to mark the beginning of the third stage of one
particular, and
century-long, strategy of ours.
The first part was the codification of what it may be convenient to
call "The Mythos of the ONA". This involved the writing down of the
various aural traditions inherited from the reclusive Mistress who
hailed from Shropshire, and who owned properties in London, Oxford and
Manchester. These traditions involved such things as Esoteric Chant,
The Septenary Tree of Wyrd, legends and myths about The Dark Gods and
Baphomet; culling, various ceremonial rituals, and the Grade Rituals.
It also involved refining and extending the Tradition itself -
developing The Star Game, for example, and writing basic guides such as
Naos. This stage took around a decade or so.
The second stage was, internally, making most of the exoteric Tradition
available by circulating a limited number of copies of various ONA MSS,
and works such as The Black Book of Satan, and Naos.
This created something of a
"public profile" for the ONA, which was intentional. Externally, the
real work of the ONA was continued by presencing the acausal, the
Sinister, through supporting, and creating, various causal "forms",
through opening various nexions, through practical de-stabilization,
through propagating and championing various "heretical" causes and
ideas, and so on: to the greater glory of Satan, one might have said,
and say. This stage took around two decades, or so.
The third stage involves, internally, releasing items and MSS
concerning some of the more esoteric aspects, which esoteric aspects
include such things as: (1) the actual nature of The Dark Gods, hinted
at in stories such as In The Sky of Dreaming and MSS such as The
Mythos of the Dark Gods: Beings of Acausal Darkness; (2) The
Seventh-Way, and the nature of Five-Dimensional Magick (hinted at in
some earlier MSS, which mentioned some of the effects of a-temporal
magickal rites; (3) the reality of The Abyss and beyond, where one goes
beyond words, and causal symbols, such as the Tree of Wyrd, and thus
beyond the opposites inherit in words, names and symbologies.
Outwardly, or externally, the third stage involves continuing to
presence The Dark Forces, via nexions, through supporting, and
creating,
various causal "forms"; through practical de-stabilization, through
supporting and championing various "heretical" causes and ideas, and
so on: to the greater glory of Baphomet, one might, with correctness,
say, and write.
After this - in future decades - as the signs of the de-stabilization
of the Old Order (symbolized outwardly by the so-called, and mis-named,
"New World Order") becomes ever more esoterically obvious and then even
more exoterically obvious, there will that conjoining that can be
symbolized, exoterically, by the union of Satan and Baphomet, and thus
a bringing-into-being (a birthing) of what is Beyond: the acausal
Darkness itself, fully presenced on Earth and in our causal Universe.
To the greater glory of The Dark Gods, and thus the beginning of our
own evolutionary change into a new species.
Thus are some esoteric truths here revealed - for the sagacious.
Furthermore, NS-type politics - as explained many times over the years
- was and is used as a form, as a presencing (even sometimes as a
nexion)
by
Sinister Initiates and Sinister Adepts as part of Sinister Aeonic
strategy, as a work or works of Aeonic magick (or even as an individual
Insight Rôle). It it never was, nor is, the essence of the ONA,
or the
Way of the
ONA: which is essentially to create, to breed, individual individuals
and thence a
new type of human being. Such individuals have gone beyond the
abstractions, the forms, of the Old Aeon, and thus can - if necessary -
use and manipulate such abstractions, such forms (be they
conventionally described as political or religious, or whatever), in a
Sinister,
magickal Way: to presence the Dark Forces.
That many people did not understand this, reveals only the lack of
understanding of those people. That many so-called esoteric Initiates
did not and do not understand this, reveals only their lack of
Initiated understanding, their lack of knowledge of genuine Magick, and
of what it means to be a genuine follower of the Sinister Path.
You have stated - in the recently issued ONA Glossary - that the
term Traditional Satanism, which now is in widespread use, was coined
by the ONA. Is this correct, and does this mean, as some have supposed,
a "worship" or reverence of Satan, as a real entity?
It is correct to say and write that we were the first to use that
particular term, over two decades ago, for the reason given: because of
our inherited aural
Tradition, and to differentiate our really Dark and really Sinister Way
from others, such as the the gabbling posturing ToSers, the
Magian-inspired
crawling Crowleyites, and the sanctimonious egotists who fawned upon
and
followed the Magian clown named LaVey.
To understand Satan - sans Nazarene theology and ontology, and
the silliness of "theism" - is to understand that He is one of The Dark
Gods and thus, according to our Tradition, our Mythos, an
acausal-being, dwelling in the acausal Universe, Who has, at one or
more times in our Earth-bound causal past, been presenced in causal
form, which form can change, since Satan is, like most of that
particular acausal species when manifest in the causal Universe, a
shapeshifter.
Yet there is, for us and others of our Sinister kind, no worship of
such a being; no reverence. Just an admiration, at most, and a feeling
of kinship, such as one might have toward an older brother, or sister,
or a respected and older if distant relative. Or rather, and more
correctly perhaps, such as a desire, such a yearning, for, the
kinship of a long-lost half-brother, or half-sister, given that - for
many - such relatives of ours have been missing for rather a long time.
Thus - and to continue the metaphor - do Sinister Initiates seek to
find such
missing relatives of theirs, and thus do they desire to not only have
them "home" again (presenced on Earth) but also to learn from them so
that they themselves can pass to the stars, and beyond: into the realms
of
the formless, timeless, acausal.
So you still regard yourselves as "Satanists" and still regard the
term "Satanism" as having esoteric meaning?
Yes, and yes. Greek scholars - and lexicographers - will understand
what
-ism (and thus -ist) in this context refers to.
Although, of course, "Satan-ism" is only a beginning: a nexion
to the acausal itself; one causal and exoteric name for a particular
presencing which can begin a particular, and dangerous and difficult,
journey for some humans, to some-where.
I also refer you to my previous answer: the Third Stage, and what is
beyond.
You mean Baphomet, whom you describe as a Dark Goddess?
Indeed, for She is The Mistress, The Mother, of Blood; of our blood,
and of the blood of those who are sacrificed to her, for her, and who
can provide Her with some of the causal living necessary.
Furthermore - and here is another clue - one must view both Vindex and
Falcifer in relation to Her, and, of course, that acausal being whose
exoteric name has been given as Satan.
Since you accept Satan as a real being, what about God? Do you
accept there is a God?
No. We consider "God" to be a myth, an abstraction, a metaphysical
construct if you will, created by the need and the desire of
individuals who have not only yet to face, understand, and integrate,
the darkness, within themselves, but who also - from weakness,
inability or whatever - cannot go beyond such abstractions, such
immature bifurcation into non-living "opposites", to the esoteric
quintessence, which is of the numinosity of the a-causal Sinister
imbued with the essence and the potential of causal life and
causal living. Thus, "God" - as conventionally described - is a symptom
of the human disease of negative-evolution, which is an un-knowing, an
un-feeling, of our human potential, which potential can be unleashed by
the energies of the acausal.
In the same way, the kindred disease of hubris, the disease of the
modern materialistic West, is an outward manifestation of the
still current Old Aeon -
the Magian-inspired and Magian-controlled Old Order - and of those
Aeons that preceded it. Hubris - selfish, blind,
ill-disciplined indulgence and egotistical arrogance - is a lack of
self-awareness; a lack of self-discipline; a pandering to the ego and
its delusions; a lack of esoteric insight; a lack of that perspective,
that self-judgement, that rational detachment, that awareness and
practical experience of the acausal - of The Dark Gods, of Satan and
Baphomet - creates. Or at least can create in those possessed of the
right character, the correct attributes.
Thus do we seek the practical destruction of this Old Order, which
keeps people in thrall, stifles our potential, and which becomes ever
more oppressive and tyrannical with every passing year. This
destruction is necessary - whatever the cost in so-called "human
suffering" - for such destruction is a prelude to the New Aeon which
will unleash our full potential and enable us to become a new, and
higher, species.
You do not therefore accept that there is such a thing as an
"innocent person"?
Here is a quote from a now somewhat old essay of mine, which is
relevant here:
"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
But I still expect the full meaning suggested by the above words will
escape the vast majority of human beings, including the vast majority
who call themselves, or describe themselves as, "Satanists" - which of
course reveals quite a lot about such self-styled "Satanists", just as
the very title of that particular ONA MS, quoted above, reveals quite a
lot about us.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
119 Year of Fayen