Frequently
Asked Questions About The
Order of Nine Angles
Version 1.07
What is the ONA?
The Order of Nine Angles is a sinister esoteric organization, a
sinister Way, a sinister methodology, and a sinister mythos.
Thus, it is an esoteric association of individuals, world-wide, who
use, or who apply, or who are inspired by, its sinister methodology,
its sinister mythos, and/or its sinister Way. By esoteric association we mean
something different from an association
as understood by mundanes and as manifest in the mundane world of the
mundanes. We mean an association of clandestine cells, for the ONA is
organized, in the mundane world, on the basis of (often clandestine)
cells. This is because of the overall subversive nature of the ONA
itself.
The Sinister Way of the ONA is evident in its Seven Fold Sinister Way,
as manifest in manuscripts (MSS) such as Naos, and in the work of
traditional ONA nexions (or "groups").
The sinister methodology of the ONA is manifest, for example, in what
we call sinister tribes, and in the striving, by individuals, to live
in a sinister way and to Presence The Dark: to do works of dark,
sinister, sorcery, often by their practical deeds which deeds take
them beyond the bounds, the limits (moral, legal, and otherwise), set
by mundanes, and which deeds can enable them to consciously evolve to
become a different, higher [more sinister], type of human being.
The sinister mythos of the ONA is evident in stories such as Eulalia: Dark Daughter of Baphomet;
and is briefly outlined in the MS
The Dark Tradition, and Sinister Mythos, of the Order of Nine Angles
(Esoteric Notes 103a).
The Sinister Way of the ONA is based upon the principles that (1)
genuine esoteric knowledge and insight - and thus genuine
Occult advancement - requires both self-achievement through practical
deeds, and through a self-honesty, a genuine knowing and
understanding and control of
one's own self; and (2) the necessary evolution of the individual can
be achieved by a willed self-overcoming and the acceptance of hard,
difficult and dangerous challenges, both esoteric and practical.
What are the aims of the ONA?
Three of the primary aims of the ONA 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;
(3) to aid, encourage, and bring about - by practical and esoteric
means (such as 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.
How can I join the ONA?
There are three ways of joining - or becoming part of - the subversive
ONA. The
first, and perhaps the easiest, way, is to, by yourself, just start
using and applying the sinister methodology of the ONA, and/or follow
the Seven Fold Sinister Way, using the guidance of practical works
such as Naos, and the original (first) Black Book of Satan.
The second way is to seek out a traditional ONA nexion or an ONA Adept,
and then follow or apply or put into practice the guidance that may be
offered. This is similar to the first way, although here the individual
usually has some practical guidance and practical advice from someone
who has been involved with the ONA for some time and who, as a
consequence, has done practical sinister stuff, magickal and otherwise.
Note that in both these cases, the individual - when sufficient
practical experience is acquired - can establish their own ONA nexion,
if they so desire.
The third way - and the most sinister and the most practical - is to
find and join an existing ONA tribe, or to form, or to become the
founder of, your own sinister tribe by applying the sinister
methodology of the ONA, as given, for example, in MSS such as We, The Drecc, and Dark Warriors of the Sinister ONA.
Our tribes, by their very feral nature, are territorial, and local -
they live and thrive in a certain geographical area, or a certain
'hood,
although some are now beginning to form alliances with other similar
groups in other areas, or have expanded their operations and territory,
and so can be found spread over several localities. In some ways, many
or most of our sinister tribes are a new type of gang culture, and most
of them are urban-based.
In all cases, one does not join - or pay membership fees to - some
central ONA headquarters, or some ONA command, because, as mentioned
previously, the ONA is
organized, in the mundane world, on the basis of what are often
clandestine
cells because of the generally subversive nature of the ONA
itself, and because (expressed in rather esoteric terms) the ONA is an
organized presencing of acausal energy through
that nexion which is the ONA, which presencing is a willed, or
directed, act of dark (sinister) sorcery.
In all cases, "membership" is earned through hardship, experience, and
practical deeds, for the individual becomes of the ONA by their
practical deeds and because of their sinister experience, their
following of our dark and sinister esoteric path; that is, because they
are, they become, living examples - living nexions - of the sinister
itself.
I have heard it said that the ONA is defunct?
The ONA is thriving. Expanding; changing; evolving. Just because most
of our members or associates - or any of The Old Guard (OG) - do not
deign to partake in Internet discussions on some mundane forum or
other, does not mean the ONA is defunct. Similarly, just because
someone such as Anton Long keeps a low (and clandestine) profile, never
ever now gives public interviews, and can only be contacted by trusted
ONA
members of long-standing, does not mean that he has "left", or that he
has changed his "life-long commitment to the sinister way".
The mistake here is the silly mundane presumption that for some
esoteric group, today, to be considered to "exist" it must have some
thriving blatant Internet presence, or some snail-mail address, or some
public "representative", or to have some books published by some
mundane publisher; or have some commercially available merchandise or
some trade-marked logo; or be officially "recognized" by some mundane
authority or other.
The majority of those who are part of or who are associated with an
existing traditional ONA nexion (group/Temple) remain hidden, as those
nexions themselves remain hidden; for that is how it has been for many,
many, decades. And that is how most of our sinister work is undertaken
- covertly, in secret.
In addition, some of our tribes do not overtly, in public, present
themselves as "sinister" or openly affiliate themselves with the ONA.
They just get on with their subversive job of subversion; of being
feral; of being real outlaws; of living on the edge; of gaining control
of their own local area; of making money for themselves and their
tribe; of gaining respect among their own communities; and of generally
being a pain in the ass for their local mundanes and for the "law
enforcement" agencies of mundane "law and order". That is, they are
living the sinister way, not writing about it; not talking about it, on
the Internet or elsewhere.
Furthermore, we have a variety of nyms,
now
-
some
still esoteric; some just emerging into the light of the
mundane world, such as Dreccian. Thus, some of our tribes, and some of
our traditional nexions, will use one of these nyms, instead of using
the traditional term, and title, ONA.
The confusion about being "defunct" arises, quite often, because the
ONA is a subversive, sinister, organization operating on the basis of
(often clandestine) cells, and because the OG really have gone back
"underground", to continue their sinister work, in secret. And also
because, of course, the ONA is a shapeshifting sinister entity, in the
world of the mundanes; as befits a sinister, subversive, heretical,
revolutionary, group.
What do you mean by mundanes?
We mean any and all of those who "are not of us". Those who do not
belong to or who do not associate with our sinister tribes, our
traditional nexions, or who do not share our sinister ethos, or
our sinister way of life.
We call them mundanes, because that is what they are - mundane. They
are ordinary; they engage with and live in the mundane world of
everyday
work, and they have mundane goals. They accept the status quo; they pay
their taxes. Even the "rebellion" of some of them is no real rebellion
against the mundane ethos of wage and salary slavery, no real rebellion
against the laws and ethics of the mundanes, of The State; no real
rebellion
against The State itself, and against the organized forces of mundane
"law and
order".
The fundamental difference between us and mundanes is that we
demonically aspire to be more than
we are, and we are tribal and individualistic; we are warriors. In
contrast, the mundanes seek safety and security and the "order" that
comes with Police forces and with State or government-made laws, and
with large, organized armed forces. They also accept impersonal Courts
of Law where some abstract, government-made so-called "justice" is said
to be obtained. In contrast, we accept that the only law
is the warrior law of personal honour: that we are responsible for
ourselves, that we have a right to the natural justice of revenge,
retribution, a fair fight, and personal duels; and we refuse to
surrender this responsibility of ours to anyone
else or to any organized force, or forces, of mundane "law and order",
such as law-enforcement agencies or government so-called Courts of Law.
Thus, we accept that our sinister
tribes have the right and the duty to make their own laws, to dispense
their own justice, to defend themselves with deadly force, and to
have their own territory where they are the law. If they want to
co-operate with others, it is their decision - and cannot be imposed
upon them by some outside agency or by some abstract law. Thus, we
accept that we can only give our loyalty to someone we know personally,
and that we have a duty to be loyal to our kind, to those of our
"family", to those of our kindred, our tribe. And we would rather fight
and die than surrender to any mundane or allow any agent of a
government to take away our honour and our dignity. And so on.
Mundanes do not like this genuine individualism; this tribalism; this
proud ethos of personal honour before, and above and beyond, and in
place of, State/government, law.
We know our kind; our kind can find us. And it is our kind that the
mundanes fear, and rightly so.
Is the ONA a Satanist organization?
Yes, and also no. Yes, because Satanism - or perhaps more correctly,
traditional Satanism - is one of our causal forms; part of our
heritage;
an important exoteric means to Presence The Dark. But our understanding
of
Satanism is not that of the mundanes, and in the mudanes we include
most if not all of those who now consider themselves "Satanists" and
who thus follow the mundane so-called "satanism" of the likes of LaVey
and Aquino. Traditional Satanism is outlined in such MSS of ours as The Ontology and Theology of Traditional
Satanism.
The ONA is not just "satanic" because even traditional
Satanism
(a term we first used, some decades ago, and now appropriated by
others) is only one particular causal form linked to one particular
Aeon (the current one). That is, it is only one means, one way, of
currently presencing The Dark Forces; of provoking change and aiding
our evolution, individual and social. That is, Satanism is but an
exoteric
(or public) form of the current Aeon - an outer shell which just
encloses, or which can
enclose/contain, some particular sinister, acausal, energies in a
certain span of causal Time. Of
course,
most who today profess to be "satanists" will have no idea what we are
talking about here, which is one reason why they are still mundanes.
Thus, we tend now - in this the Third Phase of our sinister,
centuries-long, Aeonic
strategy - to use the term sinister
instead, to describe ourselves, and the ONA itself. Hence, we now
describe
the New Aeon that we seek to bring-into-being, by our practical
subversion and our dark sorcery, as a sinister Aeon, rather than a
Satanic Aeon, since the next Aeon will take us beyond our currently
limited causal forms (beyond exoteric Satanism), and beyond the
abstractions of the mundanes, who so like
to pretend they understand some-thing by giving it some label or
describing it by some term, some -ism
or some -ology.
For the reality is that "we" cannot be defined in the simple, causal,
way
the mundanes want, and need. Thus - and to consider a relevant example
- most mundanes want, and need, to classify or to define someone such
as "Anton Long" by whether or not that person adheres or - or rather is
seen,
by mundanes, to adhere to - some already existing -ism or some -ology. Thus, they the mundanes
become confused,
perplexed, when such a person seems to adhere to several of those
supposedly conflicting -isms or -ologies at the same time, or seems to
move easily from one to another; and thus do they, the mundanes, in
their confused perplexion, readily reach for a ready-made explanation,
and project upon that person some other mundane term, believing by
describing this person by such a term they have "understood" that
person. Hence, the mundane is relieved, satisfied, comfortable again
with themselves and their world.
Thus, the ONA now uses the understanding of a person such as "Anton
Long" (whose public persona
is now well-known) as a basic but effective test of mundane-ness,
especially among
those who describe themselves as Occultists and "satanists". Have these
"Occultists" and "satanists" the instinct, the occult ability - the
innate character of one of our
sinister kind - to see beyond mere causal form, to the acausal, and
thus perceive the reality of one shapeshifting sinister individual? In
time, we - our world-wide sinister kindred - will have more such
individuals with a public persona whose life can be used as a test of
mundane-ness
Where can I find out more about the
ONA?
Currently, there is an unofficial ONA
website, and a semi-official ONA
weblog (which is not regularly updated), as some of our nexions
(tribal
or traditional) have weblogs, such as WSA352. There was also an
older, unofficial, website (camlad9),
which gave some of the more exoteric
ONA material related to Satanism, but it was shut down - censored - in
October of 120 Year of Fayen because the ONA material there was,
according to the mundanes, subversive and "dangerous". Most of the
material on the censored website is, however, available elsewhere on
the Internet, and in printed books.
In addition, there are some individuals who publish collections of ONA
material, and ONA books, such as the lulu-dot-com based Heresy Press,
and ixaxaar dot com.
One important attribute of the ONA is that we do not believe in
the mundane concept of copyright, so that all ONA works can be
redistributed, and re-printed
and re-published, with anyone free to print them and even charge money
for
them if they want to make a profit.
Some photstat copies of some original and older ONA items - as issued
by the ONA in the 1980's and 1990's CE - are now available, often in
pdf format. These copies of originals include Naos, The Satanic Letters of Stephen Brown,
and
the
original
Black Book of Satan.
There may arise a time - soon, or not so soon - when we no
longer have even an unofficial ONA website or an ONA blog, so that the
neophyte and the curious will have to rely on either the sites and
blogs of one or more of our cells, nexions or tribes, or do some
practical research for themselves in the traditional, non-Internet, way
of finding and reading books and articles, and finding and asking
"those who know".
What is the official symbol of the ONA?
We have two main, exoteric, sigils or symbols. The first relates to our
Sinister Way, to causal and acausal and the Nine Angles, and is usually
represented, in a two-dimensional way, as below:
The second, given below, relates to our sinister mythos, and is
associated with Baphomet, whom we regard - in contrast to all other
Occultists - as a female acausal and sinister being, who can manifest
in the causal, and this sigil is known both as The Sigil of Baphomet,
and as The Dreccian Moons of Baphomet.
What is the true origin of the name
Order of the Nine Angles?
The Order of Nine Angles is only our exoteric name, and the
origin of the term Order of Nine Angles - or as some people
write, and, say, The Order of The Nine Angles - has been explained by
us, several times. For instance, in the "Crowley,
The
Septenary,
and
The
Origins of the ONA" section of the
Order
MS The Septenary, Crowley, and The
Origins of
The Order of Nine Angles. It is also briefly discussed in our A Brief ONA Glossary as well as in
the humorous article Ingrowing
Angles (by Ms PointyHat).
There are several other Order MSS where the term is discussed, and
those genuinely interested can seek those other MSS out and read them.
Mundane
Occultists, of course, will continue to make their spurious and silly
claims about the supposed origin of the outward, exoteric, name of our
subversive organization.
How can I contact someone from the ONA?
The simple answer is that you cannot; unless we want to contact you for
some reason, because - for instance - you had made a name for yourself
by doing practical sinister deeds, or because you might have strayed
into territory run by one of our tribes, or if you had some particular
esoteric ability or some practical skill which we, or one of our
traditional nexions, or one of our tribes, might find useful. Even
then, of course, you would be tested, and would remain untrusted
until you had been blooded (British English) or hazed (US English) and
taken a binding oath.
ONA
120 Year of Fayen
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