The Logos Of The Order of Nine Angles

Contents

Preface A Reminder Quintessential O9A The Septenary Anados Adversarial Praxis and Logos of The O9A

Preface

The texts and essays in this pdf compilation have been chosen to provide auseful, concise, insider, and contemporary, overview of 'the Logos' - the uniqueperceiveration - of the controversial esoteric group The Order of Nine Angles(ONA/O9A). As such, the compilation may be useful not only to occult neophytesand novices contemplating following the O9A's initiatory Seven Fold Way, butalso to those who, seriously or just curiously interested in the O9A, seek a moreinformed view, beyond the hyperbole and the polemics and the allegations andthe rumours.

The O9A Way, manifest (i) in their Seven Fold Way and in (ii) their adversarial

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praxis with its 'code of kindred honour', is above all a practical and difficult way.And, although it is only one contemporary occult way, one esoteric quest, amongmany, the O9A do claim that their Way, involving as does an exeatic voyage ofself-discovery, can lead to that rare commodity, wisdom; for what mattersinsofar as the O9A are concerned "is the individual developing, from their ownyears-long (mostly decades-long) practical experience, a personalweltanschauung: that is, discovering their own individual answers to certainquestions concerning themselves, life, existence, the Occult, and the nature ofReality." For it is the finding of such answers - by each individual, via their ownesoteric and exoteric quest and in their own time - which is the real beginningof wisdom.

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A ReminderBeing A Brief Selection of Quotations from O9A Texts

1. The Order of Nine Angles, esoterically understood, is "our sinister ethos, ourtheory and praxis, our esoteric philosophy, manifest presenced, made real inthe causal by those who follow/practice it, those who are influenced by it,those who are inspired by it, and those who use it as a basis for their ownsystem or way or praxis." The Mischievous, Sly, Misleading, O9A.

2. "The emphasis of [the Order of Nine Angles] is on: (1) practical experienceand challenges (Occult, exoteric, and amoral) and (2) on the authority ofindividual judgement. Thus, for the ONA, what matters is the individualdeveloping, from their own years-long (mostly decades-long) practicalexperience, a personal weltanschauung: that is, discovering their own individualanswers to certain questions concerning themselves, life, existence, the Occult,and the nature of Reality." Mythos, Meaning, Acausality, Satan, and Dark Gods.

3. Everything ONA "can and should be surpassed, refined, changed, whenothers discover, experience, and attain knowledge and experience forthemselves." Satanic Letters of Stephen Brown, Letter to Miss Stockton, dated 19th June, 1991ev

4. "The O9A way, as it now exists, is not sacrosanct or dogmatic and (a) shouldbe added to, evolved, and refined, as a result of the esoteric pathei-mathos ofthose who have lived it, and (b) can and should be adapted and developed and

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changed, in whole or in part, by others who are or who have been inspired by orinfluenced by it." Roots and Organization of the Order of Nine Angles.

5. "The esoteric philosophy of Anton Long is one founded on the axiom thatmost individuals have the potential to evolve, to cease to be mundane, and (a)that one means to realize this potential is the occult one of inner transformationcodified, for example, in the Seven Fold Way and (b) that another means is thepractical one of ordeals, physical challenges, exeatic living, and a personallearning from experience, which the ONA has always championed." TheMischievous, Sly, Misleading, O9A.

6. "The essence of the Order of Nine Angles (ONA, O9A) is the internal (the'alchemical') change of the individual, on an individual basis, followed by thedevelopment of their personal character, self-understanding, and the acquisitionof particular esoteric, and exoteric, skills and abilities. The basis of this change,development, acquisition, and self-understanding, is practical exeaticexperience that is, exeatic living, and of necessity both exoteric and esoteric and the always individual learning and knowledge (the pathei-mathos) thatresults from such exeatic living [...] It is for each individual to decide forthemselves the way and the means of practical exeatic experience." Proem O9A

7. Our Labyrinthos Mythologicus was designed to not only test/confuse/select/annoy/jape/intrigue but also to propagate/maintain 'the O9A mythos'. O9A Basics.

Quintessential O9A

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The septenary system of occult correspondences, and the practical, exeatic,seven-fold initiatory way of which they are a part, are unique to the Order ofNine Angles (ONA/O9A), and are represented by a Tree of Wyrd containingseven spheres (seven nexions) named after the fashion of early (c. 9/10thcentury CE) Arabic astrological and alchemical texts from the Middle East andNorth Africa Moon, Venus, Mercury, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn although the septenary system is itself much earlier, being mentioned in the2/3rd century CE Corpus Hermeticum {1} and, before that, in Persian texts {3}.

The whole septenary system is regarded, by the O9A, as a symbolic (orarchetypal) map of the 'world' of the unconscious mind of thesorcerer/sorceress, and the 'worlds' (the realms) of Nature, 'the heavens' (the

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cosmos) and the supernatural, with their seven fold way the progress of theinitiate through the occult grades or stages, from initiate to beyond The Abyss being regarded as a practical guide to attaining knowledge of all these worlds, aknowledge that enables the sorcerer/sorceress to both undertake successfulworks of sorcery/magick (External, Internal, and Aeonic), and to acquirewisdom; that is, enables them to find Lapis Philosophicus, the jewel of thealchemist; the jewel that the Sorcerer/Sorceress seek to discover by means ofDark Arts and which Arts are the true and secret alchemy.

This archetypal map of ourselves, our psyche, and of Nature, the supernatural,and the cosmos, is also re-presented in The Star Game, which is again unique tothe Order of Nine Angles.

According to the O9A, their septenary system, manifest in their Seven Fold Way(7FW), is a Western occult tradition, pre-dating the Kabbalah, and which systemthey have refined and extended in particular ways. One particular extension isthe Star Game; another is the Insight Role.

The ONA's complete system of exeatic occult training and methods ofpractical sorcery including The Star Game are given in the following threefreely available texts:

(1) The Requisite ONA [pdf 49Mb] is a practical occult guide up to and includingthe stage of Internal Adept, containing all the required texts, including facsimileversions of Naos, The Black Book of Satan, The Grimoire of Baphomet, and thecomplete Deofel Quintet.

(2) Enantiodromia The Sinister Abyssal Nexion [second edition, 2013 ev] is thecompanion volume to The Requisite ONA and deals with the Passing of TheAbyss and the occult Grade beyond the stage of Internal Adept.

(3) Guide to The Dark Arts of the O9A provides an overview of the Dark Artsused by the ONA.

The esoteric philosophy, the praxis, the mythos, the aural tradition, and theroots, of the Order of Nine Angles, are explained in the following texts andcompilations some of which deal with esoteric/advanced topics and whichtexts/compilations thus compliment the above three practical guides:

4) Hebdomadry Exeatic Way of the O9A.5) Challenging The Consensus: Essays Regarding Influence, The Order of NineAngles, Satanism, and The Left Hand Path.6) The Septenary Anados, and Life After Death, In The Esoteric Philosophy of

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The Order of Nine Angles.7) Mythos, Meaning, Acausality, and Dark Gods.8) The Rounwytha Tradition.9) Empathy, Pathei-Mathos, and the Aeonic Perspective.10) Glossary of Terms (v.3.07)

These ten works {3} are therefore what a person requires (i) to undertake andfollow the 7FW from its beginning to its end; (ii) to understand and appreciatethe esoteric philosophy and methods of the O9A, and (iii) to place the O9A incontext with respect to other occult traditions. Together they may be said tocontain the quintessence of the esotericism manifest (a) in the ancestral auralpathei-mathos of Order of Nine Angles and (b) in their vast written corpus, andwhich corpus was written by Anton Long over a period of some thirty-five years(1976-2011).

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Notes

{1} First published in Paris in 1554 CE under the title , Mercurii TrismegistiPmander, seu De potestate ac sapientia divina.

Regarding the hermetic roots of the O9A, see the 2013 essay The SeptenaryAnados, and Life After Death, In The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of NineAngles.

{2} Reitzenstein and Schaeder Studien zum antiken Synkretismus aus Iran undGriechenland, (Studien der Bibliothek Warburg), Teubner, Leipzig, 1926.

{3} All these O9A works are licensed under the Creative Commons licenseAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 and therefore can be freely copied and distributed,according to the terms of that license.

The Septenary Anados, and Life After Death,In The Esoteric Philosophy of The Order of Nine Angles

One of the most outr (and neglected) aspects of the esoteric philosophy that

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the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) represents and presences {1} is that the laststage, the goal, of their hermetic initiatory Seven Fold Way {2}, the stage ofImmortal, cannot be attained by a living human being. This means and impliesthat, in accordance with their ancient hermetic tradition, the O9A postulate,accept, and promulgate, a belief in a life - an existence - beyond our mortaldeath, most