Order of Nine Angles

Symbol of ONA

The Order of Nine Angles (ONA) is a purported secretive Satanist organization, initially formed in the United Kingdom, and which rose to public note during the 1980s and 1990s after having been mentioned in books detailing fascist Satanism.^[1][2][3][4] Presently, the ONA is organized around clandestine cells (which it calls "traditional nexions")^[5][6] and around what it calls "sinister tribes".^[7][8]

History

According to their own testimony, as recounted by Goodrick-Clarke in his book Black Sun, the Order of Nine Angles was originally formed in England in the 1960s, with the merger of three neopagan temples called Camlad, The Noctulians, and Temple of the Sun. Following the original leader's emigration to Australia, it has been alleged that David Myatt took over the order and authored the now publicly-available teachings of the organization which was initially based in the rural English counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire, with Goodrick-Clarke writing that "Myatt evokes a world of witches, outlaw peasant sorcerers, orgies and blood sacrifices at lonely cottages in the woods and valleys of this area where he has lived since the early 1980s."^[9]

According to their literature, in late 2011 the ONA relocated to California under the auspices of a young woman of Thai descent^[10][11][12], and now has associates, and groups, in the United States, Europe, Australia,^[13] New Zealand,^[1] Canada, and Russia.

Authorship

Author Nick Ryan has asserted that Anton Long, the author of the ONA's public tracts, is a pseudonym of David Myatt, a person who was involved with the neo-Nazi movement in England.^[14] This assertion is repeated by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who claims that David Myatt - who had previously acted "as bodyguard for British Nazi Colin Jordan" ^[15] - codified "its teachings into a fully developed system of initiation and training for adeptship".^[16]

Ryan also alleged in his book that Myatt lived in the 1990s on a smallholding in Shropshire with Christos Beest, who has given several interviews on behalf of the ONA ^[6]. Myatt in his autobiography Myngath, and other writings, has denied this and challenged Ryan to a duel for making that and other allegations.^[17][18]

David Myatt has always denied allegations about involvement with Satanism,^[1] the ONA, and using the pseudonym Anton Long, and repeatedly challenged anyone to provide any evidence of such allegations.^{[17][19][20][21]}.

Beliefs

The Order postulates Satanism as an arduous individual achievement of self-mastery and Nietzschean self-overcoming, with an emphasis on individual growth through practical acts of risk, prowess and endurance.^[13] Rites of passage, often connected to promotion in grade level, include spending three months living rough in a forest bereft of human contact,^[1][6] and the assumption of difficult occupations to develop personality and leadership ability.^[13]

Therefore, "[t]he goal of the Satanism of the ONA is to create a new individual through direct experience, practice and self-development [with] the grades of the ONA system being highly individual, based on the initiates' own practical and real-life acts, instead of merely performing certain ceremonial rituals." ^[6] Thus, true Satanism, the ONA assert, requires venturing into the realm of the forbidden and illegal, in order to make contact with the "sphere of acausal, sinister forces of the cosmos."^[13]

In addition, "one of the things that sets the ONA apart from other existing Left Hand Path groups relates to their idea of Aeons which naturally leads to long-term goals (meaning about 3-500 years), that go beyond the acts and lifespan of a single individual." ^[6] Hence the ONA claims that its sinister tribes are an important part of its Aeonic, sinister, strategy to build a new, tribal-based, more sinister way of life, and to disrupt and eventually overthrow the societies of what it calls "the mundanes".^[7]

Another difference is, according to Goodrick-Clarke, that "compared to the eclectic nature of American Satanism, many ideas and rituals of the ONA recall a native tradition of wicca and paganism. The frequent reference to wyrd, the Anglo-Saxon term for destiny, indicates a native pre-Christian tradition, while the rhythm of the seasons is upheld by holding ceremonies at the equinoxes, the rising of stars and other astronomical events." ^[13]

The ONA's writings condone and encourage human sacrifice^[14][22][23]. According to the ONA this "culling" serves not just a social Darwinian purpose, but is also connected to the promotion of a new Aeon: "The change that is necessary means that there must be a culling, or many cullings, which remove the worthless and those detrimental to further evolution."^[24] The presencing of acausal energies, such as through culling, is meant to create a new Aeon, whose energies will then create a newer, higher civilization from the energy unleashed.^[25]

Probably because of the ONA's highly radical stance, there is open animosity between the ONA and "mainstream" Satanists such as the Church of Satan.^[14] The ONA publicly disavows any connection to Church of Satan, claiming the Satanic Bible to be a "watered-down philosophy".^[26]

The Temple of Set proscribed the ONA in the early 1980s for its avowal of human sacrifice.^[27]

Footnotes

References

• Ankarloo, Bengt and Clark, Stuart. The Twentieth Century. U. Penn. Press, 1999.
• Gardell, Mattias. Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8223-3071-7
• Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, 2002.
• Kaplan, Jeffrey, ed. Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc., 2000.
• Lewis, James R. "Who Serves Satan?" in Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 2 (June 2001).
• Lewis, James R. Satanism Today : An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture, 2001, ISBN 1-57607-292-4
• Long, Anton. Satanism: Introduction for Occultists. Thormynd Press, 1992, ISBN 0-946646-29-5
• Order of Nine Angles. The Black Book of Satan. Thormynd Press, 1984, ISBN 0-946646-04-X
• Order of Nine Angles. Naos. Coxland Press, 1990, ISBN 1-872543-00-6
• Perlmutter, Dawn. "The Forensics of Sacrifice: A Symbolic Analysis of Ritualistic Crime", in Anthropoetics (The Journal of Generative Anthropology) Volume IX, number 2 (Fall 2003/Winter 2004) [2]
• Perlmutter, Dawn. "Skandalon 2001: The Religious Practices of Modern Satanists and Terrorists", in Anthropoetics Volume VII, number 2 [3]
• Reilly, John J. Apocalypse and Future. Xlibris Corporation, 2000, ISBN 0-7388-2356-2
• Ryan, Nick. Homeland: Into A World of Hate. Mainstream Publishing Company Ltd., 2002, ISBN 1-84018-465-5
• Senholt, Jacob C. The Sinister Tradition. MA Thesis. University of Aarhus, Denmark. 2008
• Senholt, Jacob C: Political Esotericism & the convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of the Nine Angles. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Conference: Satanism in the Modern World, November 2009. [4]
• Sieg, George: Angular Momentum: From Traditional to Progressive Satanism in the Order of Nine Angles. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Conference: Satanism in the Modern World, November 2009 [5]
• Wessinger, Catherine Lowman. Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence. pp. 317–318. Syracuse University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8156-0599-4

External links

• ONA Authorized website