Order of Nine Angles - A Glossary of ONA Terms

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A Glossary of Order of Nine Angles Terms

Introductory Note: The ONA employs a variety of specialist esoteric terms, such a nexion, presencing, acausal, Tree of Wyrd, and so on. It also needs to be understood that the ONA uses some now generally used exoteric terms - such as psyche, and archetype - in a particular and precise esoteric way, and thus such terms should not be considered as being identical to those used by others and dened, for example, by Jung

Abyss Exoterically, the Abyss represents the region where the causal gives way to, or merges into, the acausal, and thus where the causal is "transcended", gone beyond, or passed, and where one enters the realm of pure acausality. Hence The Abyss can be considered as an interchange, a nexus, of temporal, atemporal, and spatial and aspatial, dimensions. This region is, for example, symbolized on The Tree of Wyrd, as being between the spheres of Sun and Mars, and 'Entering the Abyss' is that stage of magickal development which distinguishes the Master/ Mistress from the Adept. Esoterically, The Tree of Wyrd is itself a re-presentation of The Abyss, as are other esoteric re-presentations, such as The Star Game.

Acausal The term acausal refers to "acausal Time and acausal Space": that is, to the acausal Universe. This acausal Universe is part of the Cosmos, which Cosmos consists of both the acausal and the causal, where "causal" refers to the Universe that is described, or re-presented, by causal Space and causal Time. This causal Universe is that of our physical, phenomenal, Universe, currently described by sciences such as Physics and Astronomy.

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The acausal is non-Euclidean, and "beyond causal Time": that is, it cannot be represented by our nite causal geometry (of three spatial dimensions at right angles to each other) and by the ow, the change, of causal Time (past-present-future), or measured by a duration of causal Time. In addition - and just as causal energy exists in the causal (understood as such energy is by sciences such as Physics) - acausal energy exists in the acausal, of a nature and type which cannot be described by causal sciences such as Physics (based as these are on a causal geometry and a causal Time). According to the aural tradition of the ONA, there are a variety of acausal life-forms; a variety of acausal life, of dierent species, some of which have been manifest in (or intruded into) our causal Universe. For more details regarding the acausal, and acausal life, see the following ONA MSS: (1) The Mythos of the Dark Gods: Beings of Acausal Darkness; (2) Advanced Introduction to The Dark Gods: Five-Dimensional Acausal Sorcery.

Acausal Thinking One of The Dark Arts. Acausal Thinking is basically apprehending the causal, and acausal energy, as these "things" are - that is, beyond all causal abstractions, and beyond all causal symbols, and symbolism, where such causal symbols include language, and the words and terms that are part of language. One technique used to develope Acausal Thinking is The Star Game (qv).

Aeon An Aeon - according to the Sinister Way of the ONA - is a particular presencing of certain acausal energies on this planet, Earth, which energies aect a multitude of individuals over a certain period of causal time. One such aect is via the psyche of individuals. This particular presencing which is an Aeon is via a particular nexion, which is an Aeonic civilization, which Aeonic civilization is brought-into-being in a certain geographical area and usually associated with a particular mythos.

Alchemical Seasons Alchemical seasons are a measure of acausal-knowing, and are known via the faculty of esoteric-empathy. Some alchemical seasons form the natural terran calendar of the Rounwytha and of others of our esoteric kind. Alchemical seasons often 'measure' or signify the change of uxions. For more details, see the ONA MSS Alchemical Seasons and The Fluxions of Time.
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Archetype An archetype is a particular causal presencing of a certain acausal energy and is thus akin to a type of acausal living being in the causal (and thus "in the psyche"): it is born (or can be created, by magickal means), its lives, and then it "dies" (ceases to be present, presenced) in the causal (i.e. its energy in the causal ceases). Balobians Those artists, musicians, artisans, and writers (and similar types), who share or are inspired by the sinister ethos and/or the Dreccian, or Satanic, life-style of the ONA, and/or who share some or all of our aims and objectives, but who may not have some formal involvement with us, and who usually do not publicly claim association with the ONA or with the ONA ethos.

Baphomet Baphomet is regarded as a Dark Goddess - a sinister female entity, The Mistress (or Mother) of Blood. According to tradition, she is represented as a beautiful mature woman, naked from the wait up, who holds in her hand the severed head of a man. She is regarded as one manifestation of one of The Dark Gods, The Bride-and-Mother of Satan, and Rites to presence Baphomet in our causal continuum exist, for example in The Grimoire of Baphomet.

Black Book of Satan The book of that name containing the traditional ceremonial rituals of sinister/Satanic ceremonial magick, used by ONA Initiates. Causal Abstractions Abstractions (aka causal abstractions) are manifestations of the primary (causal) nature of mundanes, and are manufactured by mundanes in their mundane attempt to understand the world, themselves, and the causal Universe. Exoterically, abstractions re-present the mundane simplicity of causal linearality - of causal reductionism, of a simple cause-and-eect, of a limited causal thinking. All abstractions are devoid of Dark-Empathy and the perspective of acausality, and thus are redolent of, or directly manifest, materialism and the Untermensch ethos derived from such materialism. Understood exoterically, an abstraction is the manufacture, and use of, some idea,
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ideal, "image" or category, and thus some generalization, and/or some assignment of an individual or individuals to some group or category. The positing of some "perfect" or "ideal" form, category, or thing, is part of abstraction. Abstractions hide the true nature of Reality - which is both causal and acausal, and which true nature can be apprehended and understood by means of The Dark Arts, and thus by following the Occult way from Initiate, to Adept, and beyond. According to the ONA, the so-called Occult Arts - and especially the so-called Satanism - of others are manifestations of causal abstractions, lacking as they do the learning of the skills of Dark-Empathy, Acausal-Thinking, and Sinister Sorcery, and thus lacking as they do the ability to develope our latent human faculties and our latent sinister character.

Core ONA Traditions

Also known as The Five Core ONA Principles.

The basic principles on which the ONA is based. They are: (1) the way of practical deeds; (2) the way of culling; (3) the way of kindred honour (qv); (4) the way of deance of and practical opposition to Magian abstractions; (5) the way of the Rounwytha tradition (qv).

Culture For us, a cultured person is someone who possesses the following ve distinguishing marks or qualities: (1) they have empathy, (2) they have the instinct for disliking rottenness, (3) they possess and use the faculty of reason, (4) they value patheimathos; and (5) they are part of living ancestral tradition and are well-acquainted with and appreciate the culture of that tradition, manifest as this often is in art, literature/aural traditions, music, and a specic ethos. It is these personal qualities that not only distinguish us from other animals - and from Homo Hubris - here on terra rma but which and importantly enable us to consciously change, to develope, ourselves and so participate in our own evolution as beings. For us, the cultivation and development of empathy is a Dark Art, part of the training of the Initiate. This particular Dark Art is a skill that rites such as that of Internal Adept develop. See, for example, the ONA text Dark-Empathy, Adeptship, and The Seven-Fold Way of the ONA. In respect of 'the instinct for disliking rottenness' see the ONA text Concerning Culling As Art (122yf). This instinct is made manifest - conscious - by means of our code of kindred-honour aka sinister-honour.

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Dark Arts The Dark Arts are the skills traditionally learnt by those following the Seven Fold (Sinister) Way, and include Dark-Empathy, Acausal-Thinking, and practical sorcery (External, Internal, and Aeonic). In addition, a sinister tribe of Dreccs (qv) is a new type of Dark Art, developed by the ONA to Presence The Dark in practical ways.

Dark-Empathy One of The Dark Arts. Also called Sinister-Empathy (qv) and Esoteric Empathy. The term Dark-Empathy (also written Dark Empathy) is also sometimes used to describe that-which is redolent of the acausal, and thus that-which presences or which can presence "dark forces" (dark/acausal energies) in the causal and in human beings; and thus used in this exoteric sense it refers to that-which imbues or which can imbue things with acausal energy, and which distinguish the Occult in general from the exoteric and the mundane.

Dark Gods According to the Sinister Tradition of the ONA, The Dark Gods (aka The Dark Ones) are specic entities - living-beings of a particular acausal species - who exist in the realms of the acausal, with some of these entities having been presenced, via various nexions, on Earth in our distant past. [See, for example, the ONA MS The Mythos of the Dark Gods: Beings of Acausal Darkness. ] Drecc Someone who lives a practical sinister life, and thus who lives by The Law of the Sinister-Numen (qv) and who thus Presences The Dark in practical ways by practical sinister deeds. A sinister/O9A tribe or gang is a territorial and independent group of Dreccs (often including drecclings - that is, the children of Dreccs) who band together for their mutual advantage and who rule or who seek to rule over a particular area, neighbourhood, or territory. A sinister tribe is thus a practical manifestation of the Dreccian way of life. Dreccs, and their associated tribe, rarely engage in overt practical sorcery and mostly do not describe themselves as Satanists or even as following the LHP . Instead, they describe and refer to themselves, simply, as Drecc. Ethos Ethos refers to the distinguishing character, or nature, of a particular
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weltanschauung. The spirit that animates it. See also ONA Ethos. Exeatic To go beyond and transgress the limits imposed and prescribed by mundanes, and by the systems which reect or which manifest the ethos of mundanes - for example, governments, and the laws of what has been termed "society".

Exoteric/Esoteric Exoteric refers to the outer (or causal) form, or meaning, or nature, or character, or appearance, of some-thing; while esoteric refers to its Occult/inner/acausal essence or nature. What is esoteric is that which is generally hidden from mundanes (intentionally or otherwise), or which mundanes cannot perceive or understand. Causal abstractions (qv) tend to hide the esoteric nature (character) of things, and/or such abstractions describe or refer to that-which is only causal and mundane and thus devoid of Dark-Empathy. Thus, a form manufactured by an Adept for some Aeonic purpose - for example, a tactic to aid strategic aims - has an outer appearance and an outer meaning which is usually all that mundanes perceive or understand, even though it has an (inner) esoteric meaning.

Falcifer 1) The title of the rst volume of The Deofel Quartet. 2) The exoteric name given to the esoteric (or "hidden") nexion which is opened by Adepts to prepare the way for Vindex. This nexion - like Vindex - may be presenced in a specic individual, or in a group of individuals. There is a symbiotic relationship between Falcifer and Vindex, who - if presenced in individuals - can be either male or female.

Five Core ONA Principles See Core ONA Traditions.

God According to the ONA, the God - the supreme creator Being - of conventional religions including Judaism, Nasrany, and Islam, does not and never has existed, and such a gure is regarded as a human, a causal, abstraction, a human manufactured construct, a myth, which human beings, and thus certain religions and theologies and philosophies, have incorrectly imposed upon the reality of the Cosmos in a vain
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attempt to understand it, and themselves.

Hebdomadry A traditional name used to describe The Septenary System.

Homo Hubris A type of mundane, and a new sub-species of the genus, Homo, which new sub-species has evolved out of the industrial revolution and the imposition of both capitalism and what is called democracy. This new rapacious mostly urban dwelling denizen this creation of the modern West is the foot-soldier of the Magian, and is distinguished by a personal arrogance, by a lack of manners, and by that lack of respect for anything other than strength/power and/or their own gratication. And it was to satiate and satisfy and to use and control Homo Hubris that the Magian and their acolytes (such as the Hubriati) manufactured the vacuous, profane, vulgar mass entertainment industry and mass culture of the modern West, just as it is Magian Occultism, the Magian- controlled Media, and the spin, the propaganda, of politicians who have been assessed and accepted by the Magian cabal, which keeps Homo Hubris almost totally unaware, and uncaring, of the reality of the modern world and of their potential as human beings. Hubriati The hubriati are that class of individuals, in the West, who have been and who are subsumed by the Magian ethos and the delusion of abstractions, and who occupy positions of inuence and/or of power. Hubriati include politicians, Media magnates and their servants, military commanders, government ocials, industrialists, bankers, many academics and teachers, and so on. The oligarchy (elected and unelected) that forms the controllers of Western governments are almost excursively hubriati. Among the abstractions which delude hubriati are the State, the nation, abstract law, and the pretence that is called "democracy". Hubriati-syndrome The hubriati-syndrome is the hubris-like belief of some Occultists that we human beings: (1) are, or can be, controllers of what is termed our own, individual, Destiny; (2) and/or that we or we can be chosen/favoured and/or protected by some supreme Being or some representative of that Being; and/or (3) that we are clever enough, or can become clever enough, to devise for ourselves some means to control whatever natural forces we may encounter, including Nature, and possibly (or almost certainly) those forces of a more Cosmic nature.

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The hubriati-syndrome may be said to be one of the most distinguishing features of magians-of-the-earth, with one symptom of this syndrome being a love for, and a reliance upon, technology; another symptom is a fondness for, and indeed a love for, words and causal abstractions.
Here is a typical statement, replete with abstractions, which expounds the type of hubriati view commonly held by magians-of-the-earth: " [A] premise of the Temple is that the psychecentric consciousness can evolve towards its own divinity through deliberate exercise of the intelligence and Will, a process of becoming or coming into being whose roots may be found in the dialectic method expounded by Plato and the conscious exaltation of the Will proposed by Nietzsche..."

The magians-of-the-earth are so called because, in actuality if not always in overt belief, such people accept, consciously or otherwise, or are inuenced by, the basic premises which underlie the Magian religious perspective. Kindred Honour The principle that our kind are distinguished by their behaviour toward each other and by their behaviour toward mundanes. Our behaviour toward our own kind is guided by our Law of Kindred Honour (aka The Law of the Sinister-Numen aka The Dreccian Code aka The Sinister Code). Our behaviour toward mundanes is guided by our understanding of them as a useful resource and as useful subjects for whatever causal form(s) we may employ to achieve our esoteric, Aeonic, aims and goals.

Law of The Sinister-Numen The Law of The Sinister-Numen (aka The Sinister Code) is a practical manifestation, in our causal continuum, of the Sinister-Numen - of those things which can breed excellence of sinister character in individuals, and thus which Presence The Dark in practical ways. The Law also describes the sinister ethos of The Order of Nine Angles. [The Sinister Code is given in full in an Appendix, below.]

Left Hand Path (LHP) The amoral and individualistic Way of Sinister Sorcery. In the LHP there are no rules: there is nothing that is not permitted; nothing that is forbidden or restricted. That is, the LHP means the individual takes sole responsibility for their actions and their quest, and does not abide by the ethics of mundanes. In addition, the LHP is where the individual learns from the practical deeds and practical challenges that are an integral to it.

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Magick Magick (aka Sorcery) - according to the Sinister tradition of the ONA - is dened as "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." Furthermore, magick - as understand and practised by the ONA - is a means not only of personal development and personal understanding (a freeing from psychic, archetypal, inuences and aects) but also of evolving to the next level of our human existence where we can understand, and to a certain extent control and inuence, supra-personal manifestations of acausal energies, such as an Aeon, and thus cause, or bring-into-being, large-scale evolutionary change. Such understanding, such control, such a bring-into-being, is Aeonic Magick. Aeonic Magick is the magick of the Adept and those beyond: the magick of the evolved human being who has achieved a certain level of self-understanding and self-mastery and who thus is no longer at the mercy of unconscious psychic, archetypal, inuences, both personal/individual, and of other living-beings, such as an Aeon. Internal Magick is the magick of personal change and evolution: of using magick to gain insight and to develope one's personality and esoteric skills. There are seven stages involved in Internal Magick. External Magick is basic, "low-level", sorcery as sorcery has been and still is understood by mundanes - where certain acausal energies are used for bring or to full the desire of an individual. Ceremonial Magick is the use (by more than two individuals gathered in a group) of a set or particular texts or sinister rituals to access and presence sinister energies. Five-dimensional magick is the New Aeon magick sans symbols, ceremonies, symbology (such as the Tree of Wyrd) and beyond all causal abstractions, and it is pregured in the advanced form of The Star Game. Magian The term Magian is used to refer to the hybrid ethos of Yahoud and of Western hubriati, and also refers to those individuals who are Magian by either breeding or nature. The essence of what we term the Magian ethos is inherent in Judaism, in Nasrany, and in Islam. To be pedantic, we use the term Magian in preference to the more commonly used term Semitic to describe the ethos underlying these three major, and conventional, religions, since the term Semitic is, in our view, not strictly philologically correct to describe such religions.
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The Magian ethos expresses the fundamental materialistic belief, the idea, of Homo Hubris, Yahoud, and the Hubriati, that the individual self (and thus self identity) is the most important, the most fundamental, thing, and that the individual either alone or collectively (and especially in the form of a nation/State) can master and control everything (including themselves), if they have the right techniques, the right tools, the right method, the right ideas, the money, the power, the inuence, the words. That human beings have nothing to fear, because they are or can be in control. The Magian ethos is thus represented in the victory of consumerism, capitalism and usury over genuine, numinous, living culture; in the vulgarity of mechanistic marxism, Freudian psychology, and the social engineering and planning and surveillance of the nanny State; in the vulgarity of modern entertainment centred around sex, selshindulgence, lack of manners and dignity, and vacuous "celebrities" (exemplied by Hollywood); and in the conniving, the hypocrisy, the slyness, and the personal dishonourable conduct, which nearly all modern politicians in the West reveal and practice. Muliebral By the term muliebral we mean: of, concerning, or relating to the ethos, the nature [physis], the natural abilities, of women. From the Latin muliebris. Among muliebral abilities, qualities, and skills are: (1) Empathy; (2) Intuition, as a foreseeing - praesignication/intimation - and as interior self-reexion; (3) Personal Charm; (4) Subtlety/Cunning/Shapeshifting; (5) Veiled Strength. These abilities, qualities, and skills are those of a Rounwytha, and they or some of them were evident, for example and in varying degrees, in the Oracle at Delphi, in the Vestales of Rome; in the wise, the cunning, women of British folklore and legend; in myths about Morgan Le Fey, Mistress Mab, and ; and in historical gures such as Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia, and Boudicca. It is such skills, abilities, and qualities, and the women who embody them, that the Magian ethos (and its abstractions) and religions such as as Nasrany, Islam, Judaism, and the patriarchal nation-State, have suppressed, repressed, and sought to destroy, control, and replace. It is these skills, abilities, and qualities, and the women who embody them, that the distorted, Magian-inuenced and Magian-dominated, Homo Hubris infested, Occultism and 'Satanism' of the modern West - with their doctrines such as the patriarchal 'might in right' or the vapid 'harming none' of modern wicca have also suppressed, repressed, and sought to destroy, control, and replace. Mundane Exoterically, mundanes are dened as those who are not of our sinister kind - that is, as those who do not live by The Law of the Sinister-Numen (qv).

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Esoterically, mundane-ness is dened as being under the inuence of, or being in thrall to, or being addicted to, and/or believing in, and/or using as a means of understanding, causal abstractions (qv).

Naos 1) The name of one of the "boards" (spheres) of The Star Game, taken from the star of the same name: Zeta Puppis in the constellation Argo. 2) The title of the ONA text "Naos - A Practical Guide to Becoming An Adept". 3) According to aural legend, there is also a Star Gate - an actual physical nexion - in the region around or near to this particular star. Nexion A nexion is a specic connexion between, or the intersection of, the causal and the acausal, and nexions can, exoterically, be considered to be akin to "gates" or openings or "tunnels" where there is, or can be, either a ow of acausal energy (and thus also of acausal entities) from the acausal into our causal Space and causal Time; a journeying into the acausal itself; or a willed, conscious ow or presencing (by dark sorcery) of acausal energies. Basically, there are three main types of nexion. The rst is an actual physical nexion. The second type of nexion is a living causal being, such as ourselves. The third type of nexion is a magickal creation: that is, some form in-which acausal energy is presenced or "channelled into" by a sinister Adept. [For more details of these three types see the ONA MS The Mythos of the Dark Gods.]

Nine Angles The Nine Angles have several meanings - or interpretations, exoteric and esoteric depending on context. In the esoteric sense, they re-present the nine combinations (and transformations) of the three basic "alchemical" substances, which nine and their transformations (causal and acausal) are themselves re-presented by The Star Game. In the exoteric, pre-Adept, sense, they may be said to re-present the 7 nexions of the Tree of Wyrd 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 reexion (a "shadow") of another - for example, Mercury is the 'shadow' of Mars.
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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 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 fth 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 ction-based MS Atazoth. Beyond this, the Nine Angles are symbols of The Star Game which itself is sorcery 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 ve-dimensional magick embodied in, and beyond, the ONA.

Niner A freelance operative whose culture is that of the ONA, and who thus strives to live by our Code of Kindred-Honour and whose personal character manifests the ONA Ethos. Also sometimes used as an alternative name for a Drecc, although most Niners, unlike Dreccs, do not belong to a gang, clan, or tribe. Order of Nine Angles (ONA) The ONA/O9A is a subversive, sinister, esoteric association - a kollective - comprising Niners, Tribes, O9A gangs, Dreccs, Traditional Nexions, Sinister-Empaths, individual Sorcerers (male and female), and Balobians. One of the primary aims of the ONA is to develope a new type of human being by using and developing our latent abilities (by means of The Dark Arts) and by breeding a new type of individual character, with this new type of character being a sinister one which itself can only be nurtured and developed by practical means and through practical exeatic deeds. Our aims and goals can thus be achieved in the following manner: (1) By more and more individuals adopting or being inuenced or inspired by the ethos, mythos, and praxis of the ONA (both what it is now and will evolve to be), and thus becoming in personal character and often in life-style less and less dependant on the nation-State, on The System, on abstractions. (2) By the practical actions exoteric and esoteric of those of our kind and inuenced by us.
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(3) By the continuing inltration of our kind into certain inuencing roles and within certain Institutions. ONA Culture ONA culture - often spelt kulture - is the culture of those who adopt or who are born into the O9A way of life, a way of life distinguished by: (1) our ethos [qv. ONA ethos]; (2) our aural traditions, and (3) our ve core principles/ve core traditions.

ONA Ethos The ONA ethos - that which expresses the essence, the spirit, the nature, the character, of our living culture/kulture, of our living kollective tradition - is manifest in: (1) our code of kindred honour; (2) our acceptance that it is the personal judgement, the experience, the free choice, of each individual which is human and important and not adherence to some standard, some rules, some dogma, some morality, of someone else, with this personal judgement replacing reliance on the judgement of others and reliance on the judgement of some external supra-personal authority; (3) our acceptance that it is primarily by pathei-mathos [by learning from direct practical experience, from tough challenges, and our mistakes] that we acquire the necessary personal judgement, the knowledge, and the experience to truly liberate ourselves from the constraints imposed by others and imposed by some external supra-personal authority or authorities. ONA Iterations The iterations are an expression of the natural change, the evolution, of the living esoteric being that is known as the ONA. The rst iteration/phase aka ONA 1 may be considered to be exoterically manifest in the overt and practical traditional Satanism of the early ONA (c.1972-1985 ce) with its ceremonial groups, and in Rounwytha nexions all of whom were in the UK and known to AL. The second iteration (c.1986-2009 ce) aka ONA 2 was most manifest in the Seven-Fold Way and the praxis of individuals, world-wide, establishing their own ceremonial ONA-type groups/nexions. The third iteration aka ONA 3 is that of the current ONA, 2010 ce and > and is manifest exoterically in the move from Satan as archetypal symbol to our female Baphomet (the dark goddess) as archetypal symbol. All iterations - past and present - although dierent in character co-exist within the ONA, just as a mature living being has within it the younger being from whence it matured.
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Presencing The Dark A term used to describe the manifestation of sinister (acausal) energies in the causal by means of some causal or combined causal/acausal form, exoteric or esoteric. Understood exoterically, To Presence The Dark means to consciously work acts of sinister sorcery by either esoteric means (such as a Rite of Dark Sorcery) and/or through practical (exoteric) sinister deeds where the intent is a sinister one. Understood esoterically, To Presence The Dark means to undertake acts of Sinister Wyrd and thus to work Aeonic Sorcery.

Psyche The psyche of the individual is a term used, in the Sinister Way, to describe those aspects of an individual - those aspects of consciousness - which are hidden, or inaccessible to, or unknown to, the individual. Basically, such aspects can be considered to be those forces/energies which do or which can inuence the individual in an emotional way or in a way which the individual has no direct control over or understanding of. One part of this psyche is what has been called "the unconscious", and some of the forces/energies of this "unconscious" have been, and can be, described by the term "archetypes".

Rounwytha The name traditionally given to those few, rare, individuals (mostly women) who naturally possessed the gift of Dark-Empathy (aka Sinister-Empathy aka Esoteric Empathy).

Rounwytha Tradition
Also known as The Way of the Rounwytha.

The muliebral [qv.] tradition or principle which forms the basis for the inner (esoteric) Way of the ONA and which thus is one of the core principles on which the ONA is based. In practical terms, and exoterically, this principle means: (1) a recognition of the need to extend one's faculties by cultivating, developing and using esoteric empathy (aka Dark-Empathy), and (2) the understanding that our Dreccian Code applies without fear or favour - equally, without distinction - to men and women of our kind, and that our kind are judged solely by their deeds and by how well they uphold kindred honour, and not by gender, sexual preference, or by any other Old Aeon categorization or prejudice. Thus this principle means, for instance, that the Vindex of ONA tradition
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can be either a male or a female warrior. Esoterically, this tradition/principle is expressed in the archetype of The Lady Master and in the acausal form (the acausal entity) Baphomet, The Dark Goddess of ONA esoteric tradition to whom sacrices were and are oered. The Rounwytha tradition is the basis for our new sinister feminine archetype, for the new ways of living for women of our kind, and which ways of living involve: (1) Women of our kind living by our code of kindred honour who thus are ready, willing, and able (trained enough) to defend themselves and rely on themselves and thus who possessed attitude, and skill enough, and/or carry weapons enabling them to, defeat a strong man or men intent on attacking or subduing them. (2) Women of our kind placing this personal code of honour before any and all laws made by some State, and thus replacing supra-personal authority (of, for example, some State or institution) with their own self-assured and individual authority. (3) Women of our kind relying on their own judgement, a judgement developed and enhanced by pathei-mathos, by learning from direct practical experience, from tough challenges, and one's mistakes. (4) Women of our kind developing and using their natural, their latent, their empathic and muliebral, abilities, qualities, and skills - such as empathy and intuition.

For more details, see ONA MSS such as 1) Alchemical Seasons and The Fluxions of Time; 2) Denotatum The Esoteric Problem With Names; 3) The Rounwytha Way Our Sinister Feminine Archetype; 4) Diabological Dissent

Satan

Satan is regarded, by the ONA, as the exoteric "name" of a particular acausal being: that is, as a living entity dwelling in the acausal. This entity has the ability to presence, to be manifest in, our causal, phenomenal world, and the ability - being a shapeshifter - to assume various causal forms. [Regarding the "names" of such beings, see, for example, Footnote (2) of the MS The Mythos of the Dark Gods. ] Thus the ONA has a concept of Satan that is dierent from and independent of that of both Judaism and Nasrany, with this being we exoterically term Satan having no dependence on or any relation to the mythical God of those religions.
Satan, as a word, is commonly regarded as from the Hebrew, meaning accuser. However, the Hebrew is itself derived from the old (possibly in origin Phoenician) word that became the Ancient Greek aitia - "an accusation" - qv. Aeschylus: aitiau ekho. The older Greek form became corrupted to the Hebrew 'Satan' whence also 'Shaitan'. In Greek of the classical period aitia and diabole were often used for the same

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thing. The word diabolic itself derives from the Greek word diaballo meaning to pass beyond or over, from the root dia through and, as a causal accusative, "with the aid of". Later, diaballo acquired a moral sense for example "to set against" (Aristotle) although it was sometimes used (as diabolos) when a bad or false sense was meant, as for example, a false accusation. There is good evidence to suggest that, historically, the writers of the Old Testament drew inspiration from, or adapted, older stories, myths and legends about a Persian deity that came to be named Ahriman, who could thus be regarded as the archetype of the Biblical Satan, and also of the Quranic Iblis. Similarly, there is evidence that the God Jehovah of the Old Testament may have been based upon myths and legends about the Persian deity who came to be named Ahura Mazda. In what are regarded as the oldest parts of the Old Testament most probably written between 230 BCE and 70 BCE Satan is depicted simply as a rather sly adversary or opponent, with a human being who opposes any of Gods so-called chosen people sometimes also called a satan. Thus, it is something of a honour to be called a satanist - someone who opposes the myths, ethos, and the holocaustianity, of those allegedly "chosen by God".

Satanism According to the ONA, Satanism is a specic Left Hand Path, one aim of which is to transform, to evolve, the individual by the use of esoteric Arts, including Dark Sorcery. Another aim is, through using the Sinister Dialectic, to transform the world, and the causal itself, by - for example - returning, presencing, in the causal, not only the entity known as Satan but also others of The Dark Gods. In essence, and thus esoterically, Satanism - as understood and practised by the ONA (presenced by means of Traditional Nexions) - is one important exoteric form appropriate to the current Aeon, and thus useful in Presencing The Dark. Satanism is dened, by the Order of Nine Angles, as the acceptance of, or a belief in, the existence a supra-personal being called or termed Satan, and an acceptance of, or a belief in, this entity having or being capable of having some control over, or some inuence upon, human beings, individually or otherwise, with such control often or mostly or entirely being beyond the power of individuals to control by whatever means.

Septenary A name for the basic symbology (causal magickal symbolism) of the Seven Fold Sinister Way represented exoterically by The Tree of Wyrd, and consisting of seven stages or "spheres" joined by various pathways.

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Of or pertaining to our Dark Tradition, and thus to the ve core principles of the ONA (qv). Often used as a synonym for Left Hand Path.

Sinister Dialectic The sinister dialectic (often called the sinister dialectic of history) is the name given to Satanic/Sinister strategy - which is to further our evolution in a sinister way by, for example, (a) the use of Black Magick/sinister presencings to change individuals/events on a signicant scale over long periods of causal Time; (b) to gain control and inuence; (c) the use of Satanic forms and magickal presencings to produce/provoke large scale changes over periods of causal Time; (d) to bringinto-being a New Aeon; (e) to cause and sow disruption and Chaos as a prelude to any or all or none of the foregoing.

Sinister-Empathy Sinister-Empathy (aka Acausal-Empathy aka Dark-Empathy aka Esoteric Empathy) is a specic type of empathy - that which relates to and concerns acausal-knowing. That is, the perception and the understanding of the acausal nature of those beings which possess or which manifest acausal energy. Sinister-empathy is one of the skills/abilities that can be learnt by suitable (but not all) Internal Adepts, and can be developed by those beyond that particular esoteric stage of knowledge and understanding. Some rare individuals (traditionally called by the name Rounwytha) are naturally gifted with Dark-Empathy.

Sinister-Numen The Sinister-Numen is the term used to describe that which, and those whom, re-present certain types of acausal energy in the causal. Thus, certain archetypes, and archetypal forms, are - exoterically - sinisterly numinous, and hence have the ability to inuence and inspire human beings - as well as, in some cases, having the ability to direct certain individuals beyond the ability of those individuals to control such direction. One of the most practical manifestations (the most practical presencing) of the sinister-numen in the causal realm is The Law of The Sinister-Numen, and which Law serves to dene, and to manifest, that which is not-mundane, and thus that-whichis-ONA.

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Sinister Way A name given to the system of training (magickal and practical) of Initiates used by the ONA. Sometimes also called The Seven-Fold Sinister Way. It consists of seven stages, each represented by a particular magickal Grade. [See, for example, the ONA MS NAOS.] One aim of the Way is to create Satanic individuals.

Sorcery Often used as a synonym of magick (qv). Sorcery - according to the Dark, Sinister, tradition followed by the ONA - is the use, by an individual, individuals, or a group, of acausal energy, either directly (raw/acausal/chaos) or by means of symbolism, forms, ritual, words, chant (or similar manifestations or presencing(s) of causal constructs) with this usage often involving a specic, temporal (causal), aim or aims. [See the ONA MSS An Introduction to Dark Sorcery and NAOS.]

Star Game The Star Game is a re-presentation of the nine aspects of the basic three whose changing in causal time represents a particular presencing of acausal energy. That is, the nine re-presents not only the nexion that is the presencing of the acausal evident in our psyche and consciousness, but also many other nexions as well. This particular re-presentation is an "abstract" one, as distinct from the more "causal" symbology of The Tree of Wyrd (and of the septenary system itself). The Star Game exists in two basic forms: the "simple form" and the "advanced" form, and one of its aims is to develope acausal-thinking (beyond causal abstractions) and thus skill in ve-dimensional magick. It can also be played as a "game", akin to a chess, and can be used magickally, to presence acausal energies. The basics of The Star Game are described in the ONA MS NAOS.

Traditional Nexions A name given to ONA groups (aka Temples) where individuals undertake The Seven Fold Way, and where sinister ceremony sorcery is undertaken. Many (though not all) Traditional Nexions follow the path of Satanism.

Traditional Satanism
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A term, rst used by the ONA several decades ago, to describe its own Sinister and Septenary Way, and to distinguish it from the other types of "Satanism" (such as those of Lavey and Aquino) which were once given public prominence. The term was used to describe the ONA due to the aural, and other, teachings of the ONA: many of which teachings (such as the Septenary system and Esoteric Chant; legends and myths regarding Baphomet and The Dark Gods; and Satanism as an individual Way of personal and Aeonic evolution) were handed down aurally by reclusive sinister Adepts over many centuries. The term Traditional Satanism has since been appropriated by others, some of whom have attempted to redene it.

Tree of Wyrd The Tree of Wyrd, as conventionally described ("drawn") and with its correspondences and associations and symbols (see the ONA MS NAOS), 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.

Vindex The name of the exoteric (or "outer") nexion through which powerful acausal energies are presenced on Earth in order to destroy the current status quo (the Old Aeon, now manifest in the so-called New World Order) and prepare the way for - and inaugurate the practical beginnings of - the New Aeon. Like Falcifer (q.v.), Vindex can be presenced ("manifest") in an individual (who may be male or female). If an individual, Vindex is the embodiment of The Law of the New Aeon, which is personal honour [See the ONA MSS The Law of the New Aeon and Tyrannies End: Anarchy, Magick and the Law of Personal Honour]. Used as the exoteric name of an individual, Vindex means "the Avenger", and while it is traditionally (and semantically) regarded as a male name, with the Anglicized feminine form being Vengerisse, Vindex is now often used to refer to either the man or the woman who is or who becomes the nexion.
Vindex is thus the name given to the person (male of female) who, by practical deeds, brings-into-being a new way of life and who confronts, and who defeats, through force of arms, those forces which represent the dishonour and the impersonal tyranny so manifest in the modern world, especially in what it is convenient to call the West.

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The main opponent of Vindex both on the practical level and in terms of ethos is the Magian. T he main allies of the Magian have been the hubriati of the West that is, the vulgar Western oligarchy which had originally bred and maintained the White Hordes of Homo Hubris as toiling-workers, salary-slaves and foot-soldiers for their materialistic system of industrialism, capitalism, colonialism and vacuous (un-numinous, abstract) States, and which hubriati, in the early part of the twentieth-century (CE, or Era Vulgaris), came to enthusiastically adopt and evolve the Magian ethos, until the Magian ethos has, since the ending of The First Zionist War, come to represent the modern West, with the White Hordes of Homo Hubris now eectively the toiling-workers, salary-slaves and foot-soldiers for the Magian, and whose taxes, work and sacrices serve to keep the whole rapacious Magian system alive. The essence of the new way of life that Vindex heralds and implements (the Vindex ethos) is: (1) the way of tribes and clans in place of the abstraction of the modern nation-State; and (2) the way, the law, of personal honour in place of the abstract laws made by governments.

Wyrd As used by the ONA, Wyrd is the term used to describe that supra-personal forces (aka energies) which can inuence individuals, which non-Adepts cannot control in any manner, which Adepts can discover and to a quite limited extent inuence, but which only those of and beyond the esoteric stage of Master/Mistress (that is, beyond The Abyss) can fully synchronize with. Exoterically, Wyrd can be considered to be the Cosmic fates of the individual (note the plural, due to the partly acausal nature of Wyrd), as opposed to the simple, causal/linear, Destiny (fate) of the individual, and which Destiny can be dis-covered by means of the Rite of Internal Adept.

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Appendix The Sinister Code

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Those who are not our sinister brothers or sisters are mundanes. Those who are our brothers and sisters live by - and are prepared to die by - our unique code of dark (sinister) honour. Our sinister-honour means we are ercely loyal to only our own sinister, ONA, kind. Our sinister-honour means we are wary of, and do not trust and often despise all those who are not like us, especially mundanes. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to be ready, willing, and able to defend ourselves, in any situation, and to be prepared to use lethal force to so defend ourselves. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to be loyal to, and to defend, our own kind: to do our duty, even unto death, to those of our brothers and sisters to whom we have sworn a personal oath of loyalty. Our obligation as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to seek revenge, if necessary unto death, against anyone who acts dishonourably toward us, or who acts dishonourably toward those to whom we have sworn a personal oath of loyalty. Our obligation as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to never willingly submit to any mundane; to die ghting rather than surrender to them; to die rather (if necessary by our own hand) than allow ourselves to be dishonourably humiliated by them. Our obligation as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to never trust any oath or any pledge of loyalty given, or any promise made, by any mundane, and to be wary and suspicious of them at all times. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to settle our serious disputes, among ourselves, by either trial by combat, or by a duel involving deadly weapons; and to challenge to a duel anyone mundane, or one of our own kind who impugns our sinister honour or who makes mundane accusations against us. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to settle our non-serious disputes, among ourselves, by having a man or woman from among us (a brother or sister who is highly esteemed because of their sinister deeds), arbitrate and decide the matter for us, and to accept without question, and to abide by, their decision, because of the respect we have accorded them as arbitrator Our duty as sinister individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to always keep our word to our own kind, once we have given our word on our sinister honour, for to break ones word among our own kind is a cowardly, a mundane, act. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to act with sinister honour in all our dealings with our own sinister kind. Our obligation as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour is to marry only those from our own kind, who thus, like us, live by our Code and are prepared to die to save their sinister-honour and that of their brothers and sisters. Our duty as individuals who live by the Code of Sinister-Honour means that an oath of sinister loyalty or allegiance, once sworn by a man or woman of sinister honour (I swear on my sinister-honour that I shall) can only be ended either: (1) by the man or woman of sinister honour formally asking the person to whom the oath was sworn to release them from that oath, and that person agreeing so to release them; or (2) by the death of the person to whom the oath was sworn. Anything else is unworthy of us, and the act of a mundane.

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