The Sinister, Archetypes, Forms and Aeons:
All genuine Adepts understand the simple truth that all causal forms -
propounded/described by whatever esoteric Order or group, or manifest
by the creativity/discovery of whomsoever - are but intimations, and
that this especially true of attempts to define/understand The
Sinister/The Acausal/The Dark Gods, all of which are but terms which
attempt to describe Some-thing beyond the four-dimensional matrix.
Magick, the Occult, and especially a genuine Sinister Way, are a means
to move toward experience of this Some-thing, and this experience -
which alone is the basis for a true Knowing - is only and ever
individual: that is, unique to the individual, with such a Knowing
being the essence of the stage beyond what has been called Internal
Adept.
Thus, even such things as archetypes, and the division of our outward
and inner Change into Aeons, are such an intimation, such a symbol or symbols, which
attempt to make accessible to our consciousness what was not accessible
(and thus not-knowable) before. That is, such intimations, such
symbols, are useful and indeed still necessary - until the stage of
Adept is reached. There is then a moving-away from such things toward
an experiencing of the essence. Of course there may (and should) arise
a time when such things are not required, when the Seventh Way of
Five-Dimensional Magick is understood and practised by many - but that is indeed many
centuries from now, given the rather low level of the majority in terms
of genuine understanding and the lack of use, lack of control and lack of
development, of their faculties.
In the meanwhile, genuine esoteric Orders will continue to guide the
few of promise, the few who can be bothered to change and master
themselves, breeding thus an evolved type.
Learning by Experience:
As has been stressed again and again in Order MSS, the only way to
evolve is to experience: to strive forth and undertake practical
magick, practical deeds. To experience magickal energies, and to have
a plethora of both Light and Dark practical experiences.
All words, whether written or spoken - indeed, all forms presenced in
the causal - are only guides; intimations; inspiration, and this
applies to all Order MSS. Some-things have not been said or written
about; some other-things have only been hinted at, while other-things
have been described or symbolized in detail. There is intent here,
which those of genuine insight and genuine magickal skill will perceive
or come to perceive, just as the genuine ones - who do strive forth via
practical experience of the "two worlds" - will be able to work out
certain things for themselves, and thus correct the few "mistakes" or
"omissions" they may/will find in some ONA MSS. If they are not able
to do this, then they have not advanced far enough; or they are among
the failures.
Hence, there will always be some things left unsaid, left unwritten
about, in "public" - and some-things which will only ever be revealed
from individual to individual, or experienced/discovered anew by each
genuine new Adept and each new genuine Master/Mistress.
Beyond the ONA:
Twenty or so years after the ONA first came to "public attention" by
the decision to distribute various Order MSS, there are now several
Sinister/Occult organizations and groups who have derived their
inspiration, their knowledge, and such like, from the ONA, even though
some of these organizations and groups may not publicly acknowledge
this, and even may, sometimes, attempt to distance themselves from
their source by such things as criticising the ONA, or what they see/mis-understand
as its "teachings". Of course, this applies just as much to those
individuals inspired or otherwise guided by the outer, publicly-known, ONA.
This is a natural and expected process, for - as several ONA MSS have
stated - the ONA is in some ways akin to a living-being, in the causal,
imbued as it is with aspects of the acausal (Adepts and even some
gifted Initiates will understand what is meant here). It was given its
current form (and even its name) to be this, among other things.
From these and other emanations, from such other often unacknowledged
presencings of the ONA, there will be new understandings born, new
changes wrought - that is, new causal presencings of the acausal, of
The Sinister, which is all as it should and must be, for the ONA
has indeed opened certain nexions, which openings The Dark Gods have
been waiting for...
Even my own life - rich, diverse, sinister, of both Light and Dark and thus
perplexing to others - is only some new guide, one inspiration, one intimation
of what all genuine Adepts should be. It, like that outer ONA
which is now "known", can and should be surpassed, by others.
The ONA will
continue, evolving, changing, in its own way, for the stage has now been reached when the life that is the sinister presencing manifest in the
outer ONA is a life of-itself, and can thus be
left (exoterically/publicly) without any new writings or any open guidance
being provided, for the "public/exoteric" work has been done. Thus
there will be soon, a return to the dark, to the secrecy of the past -
to that which is the slow, genuine, hidden, and individual, guidance
there has been, for thousands of years. All that needs to be known, for
others to continue along the Way, has now been made accessible, known -
and there are hints enough, especially in some of the more recent Order
MSS, for the gifted to go beyond what-is-publicly-known to what-must-be. Thus,
it is natural and necessary that others are inspired by the ONA - and natural
and necessary that they try to surpass it; that they strive to create
some-thing of their own inspired by the ONA.
Of course, we can expect some, or many, to try and appropriate
exoterically and in public (and probably even in secret) the name of
the ONA, but those of insight, those of genuine magickal ability, will see them
for the impostors, the liars, the weaklings, that they are, just as the
genuine Adepts will - if they have the genius - create some-thing unique, and
perchance describe it by some new name.
As for the inner essence, manifest in the inner, hidden, ONA, it will continue
- reached, accessed, by the very few who have the ability, the desire, to find
it, despite the obstacles they will encounter.
Anton Long
ONA
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