The Quintessence of the ONA:
The Sinister Returning
What it is essential to understand is that the ONA is based upon
several
fundamental, and many unique, esoteric principles, which esoteric
principles include the following:
(1) That we human beings possess the potential to consciously
evolve to become the genesis of a new human species, and that genuine
esoteric Arts - and especially and in particular The Dark Arts - are
one of the most viable ways by which such a conscious
evolution can occur;
(2) That genuine esoteric knowledge and insight - and thus genuine
Occult advancement - requires both self-achievement through practical
deeds and a self-honesty, a genuine knowing and understanding of
one's own self;
(3) That the Cosmos may be apprehended through a bifurcation of
both Time and Space, described as such an apprehension is by causal and
acausal Universes, and
that:
(a) we, as living beings, are an
example of acausal energy being presenced in our physical causal
Universe;
(b) all causal life is life because there is an "intrusion" of acausal
energy into the causal - that is, all causal life is a nexion to the
acausal, with we human beings possessing the latent ability to not only
apprehend the nexion we are but also to know and utilize certain
acausal energies;
(c) magick is the presencing, by
us, of certain types of acausal energy by means of a causal nexion,
already existing or one brought-into-being;
(d) there exists, in the acausal Universe, certain types of acausal
life, of diverse species, some of which species we can apprehend if we
possess (i) the esoteric knowledge required to presence such acausal
entities or (ii) the esoteric ability and skill to travel into the
realms of the acausal;
(e) certain acausal entities have been presenced, in times past, on
Earth - and thus become known to human beings, and these include
entities known to us by their exoteric "names" Satan, and the Dark
Goddess, Baphomet;
(f) certain causal - and Occult - symbolism and symbologies may be and
often are useful aids and means for us as human beings to begin
the process of acausal apprehension and the knowing and utilization of
certain acausal ("Occult"/magickal) energies;
(g) our evolution has been, is and will continue to be - until we
evolve to become a more evolved species - based upon what it is
convenient to describe as the sinister dialectic;
(h) the sinister dialectic is a process of disruption, destruction,
re-birth, renewal, heresy, and change; and on the practical level
involves creating, fermenting, and aiding such causal things as strife,
Chaos, revolution, heresy, and culling;
(i) to evolve into a higher species is to evolve toward, and into, the
acausal Universe itself; that is, to become-like The Dark Ones,
themselves; to become both a causal and an acausal species, existing in
both the causal and the acausal.
Thus, two of the primary aims of the ONA are (1) to use The Dark
Tradition to create 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; and (2)
to use the sinister dialectic (and thus Aeonic Magick and genuine
Sinister Arts) to aid and enhance and make possible our evolution
toward the acausal. Furthermore, to achieve these aims will take a
certain amount of causal Time, of the order of several centuries.
Hence, it should be clear - to those possessed of genuine Occult
insight - that the ONA has both an outer (exoteric) and an inner
(esoteric) nature and meaning. Or, expressed in a more truistic, and
simple, way, the understanding and knowledge of the Adept (and of those
beyond) is not that of the the novice and the Initiate. The exoteric
aspect is re-presented in such works as The Black Book of Satan
- and in the ceremonies and methods of traditional Satanism themselves
(including the symbolism of the Tree of Wyrd) - while the esoteric
aspect is re-presented in such ONA MSS as Mythos of the Dark Gods
and The Five-Dimensional Magick of the Seventh Way, and
especially in and by our Aeonic Magick and our practical deeds which presence
the dark. For it is such Aeonic Magick, such practical sinister
deeds, and the creation of genuine Sinister Adepts - over a period of
decades and centuries - which re-present, and which manifest, the true
nature of the ONA.
In addition, three further things about the ONA should also be obvious
to those possessed of genuine Occult insight. First, that - in its
esoteric essence - the ONA is not a mundane Occult Order of the Old
Aeon type. For it is a particular causal nexion, brought-into-being for
specific purposes; and thus is now a living-entity imbued with certain
acausal energies; which entity now has life, a being, of its own, and
which thus is immune to - and not concerned with - the inane criticisms
of the inane, many of whom continue to delude themselves about their
Occult knowledge and abilities.
Second, that by evolution we mean an increase in acausal energies both
within ourselves, as individuals, and as presenced in our causal
Universe (and thus presenced upon our planet, Earth). These acausal
energies cause, provoke, and aid our own evolution, our own change, as
individuals (toward, and beyond, Adeptship), and also cause, provoke
and aid change within those constructs we humans construct, such as
"society" and the "political" - and "religious" - causal forms (or
abstractions) which we human beings (both Occultists, and otherwise)
have used, do use and can use in the service of such evolutionary
change, with such forms only being a causal means, and not
representative of the acausal essence, which acausal essence can be,
and has been, apprehended, and manifest, as Chaos.
Third, that the very purpose and meaning of our individual, causal -
mortal - lives is to progress, to evolve, toward the acausal, and that
this, by virtue of the reality of the acausal itself, means and implies
a new type of sinister existence, a new type of being, with
this acausal existence being far removed from - and totally different
to - any and every Old Aeon representation, both Occult, non-Occult and
"religious". Thus it is that we view our long-term human social and
personal evolution as a bringing-into-being of a new type of sinister
living, in the causal - on this planet, and elsewhere - and also as a
means for us, as individuals of a new sinister causal species,
to dwell in both the causal and acausal Universes, while we live, as
mortals, and to transcend, after our mortal, causal "death", to live as
an acausal being, which acausal being can be currently apprehended, and
has been apprehended in the past, as an immortal sinister being of
primal Darkness.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
119 Year of Fayen