Art is the True Empire – An Interview with Christos Beest

The 21 Satanic Points

I) Respect not pity or weakness, for they are a disease which makes sick the strong.

II) Test always your strength, for therein lies success.

III) Seek happiness in victory – but never in peace.

IV) Enjoy a short rest, better than a long.

V) Come as a reaper, for thus you will sow.

VI) Never love anything so much you cannot see it die.

VII) Build not upon sand, but upon rock And build not for today or yesterday but for all time.

VIII) Strive ever for more, for conquest is never done.

IX) And die rather than submit.

X) Forge not works of art but swords of death, for therein lies great art.

XI) Learn to raise yourself above yourself so you can triumph over all.

XII) The blood of the living makes good fertilizer for the seeds of the new.

XIII) He who stands atop the highest pyramid of skulls can see the furthest.

XIV) Discard not love but treat it as an imposter, but ever be just.

XV) All that is great is built upon sorrow.

XVI) Strive not only forwards, but upwards for greatness lies in the highest.

XVII) Come as a fresh strong wind that breaks yet also creates.

XVIII) Let love of life be a goal but let your highest goal be greatness.

XIX) Nothing is beautiful except man: but most beautiful of all is woman.

XX) Reject all illusion and lies, for they hinder the strong.

XXI) What does not kill, makes stronger.

 

Self Survival

The following extracts are taken from the British edition of a small manual issued by an ‘underground’ organization active in Europe in the late sixties and seventies. Although somewhat dated in places, it may be of interest.

I General: Always remember – people betray. Learn to rely only on yourself, not friends, however dedicated they may seem. Sooner or later some friend will fail you. Keep faith with the struggle – before an action is the time to examine any doubts, not after – action is total commitment, when talk and thinking stop…

II Always have an escape route planned, wherever you are and whether or not you are on any action – in confined spaces note exits, entrances and plan an escape if the unexpected happens. Before any action decide – if caught or there is no means of escape whether to shoot your way out or surrender. If acting with others, jointly decide: no weak links…

III Tactical Advance: Always have spare magazine/cartridges/bullets ready – tape spare magazine to butt. Work out line of advance before you move from your position. Weave – don’t move in straight line. Fire two shots then advance. Keep low – hug natural contours if in country (e.g. streams)…

If entering room, keep low – below eye level of anyone standing, sitting inside. Forced entry – best done in pairs: one to break door, other to lay prone in firing position using wall for shield…

IV Shooting to Kill: If being rushed by armed attacker shoot into groin and attacker will drop. To stop reflect shots (instant kill) aim for medulkla oblongata either from side, rear or front: two rapid shots…

To eliminate – two shots into back of head, one slightly upward just above the nape. At a distance (stalking) align centre of sight just off a stationary feature victim will move past. Shoot as victim enters field of view, two shots…

VI Unarmed Kills: * Cord with knot – wrap around neck and pull tight; knot should fit round windpipe. * Hit back of neck then suddenly twist neck with both hands. * Hit windpipe with outstretched fingers. * Place knee in small of back and pull head back sharply…

IX Going to Ground: For the best security go to ground alone or in pairs. As always – prepare in advance. Have caches hidden (arms, food, documents etc.) in places known only to you or your partner. Do not trust safe houses unless you have set them up yourself…

A large city provides a safe retreat. It funds good use in small hotels, guest houses (false name(s), documents) or rent room/bedsit. Prepare a cover-story to explain your presence – do not establish a routine… If funds limited, spend daytime in public areas; at night find isolated spot to sleep – good are entrances to small commercial premises not on main roads. Good disguise is as traveller with rucksack – during day keep rucksack with you or in luggage locker – visit ‘tourist’ sights. Be careful about appearance – keep as clean and tidy as possible. Avoid places where ‘dossers’ gather and where Police patrol at night (city centres etc.)…

If you cannot find work, keep yourself occupied during the day. Believe you may have to spend months alone as a fugitive – the first few weeks are easy because it’s exciting; after, be strong and resolved… Always have a weapon with you – decide before if caught whether to resist: do not alter your resolve… If money is or becomes short live on cold baked beans, dry bread, apples and milk. Change appearance at regular intervals – try and cultivate another accent…

In countryside, only isolated places are any good. Overgrown woods are ideal… Find a spot, watch it for some time and if suitable, build a hide. Good hides are in bracken or bushes. Dig a small trench long enough to lie in and cover…

O.N.A.

The Sinister Creed

 

1. Satan in particular and the Dark Gods in general are a means to self-fulfilment and self-understanding.

2. Only by journeying through the darkness within us and without can we attain self-divinity and thus fulfil the potentiality of our existence.

3. Our rites, ceremonies and practices are all life-affirming, and show us the ecstasy of existence and the self-overcoming of the true Adept.

4. We are feared because we defy and seek to know and thus understand. We rejoice in living: in all its pleasures but most particularly in its possibilities. We thus extend the frontiers of evolution while others sleep or cry.

5. We detest all that enervates and would rather die than submit to anyone or anything – this is the pride of Satan, and Satan is a symbol of our defiance and a sign of our life-enhancing energy. Others see our way of living and our way of dying and are afraid.

6. When we hate we hate openly and with arrogance, and when we love, we love with a passion to match this arrogance: always mindful never to love anyone so much that we cannot see them die, for death is a natural changing of energies.

7. We prepare – through our magick and our ways of living – for the Age of Fire (the Aeon of the Dark Gods) which is to come, when we elitist few shall reach out toward the stars and the galaxies and the new challenges they will bring.

8. Our way is difficult and dangerous and is for the few who can truly defy the matrix of illusions – of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ – that stifle the potentiality of our being.

9. What does not kill us, makes us stronger.

 

Revenge

Central to any civilization and society which is civilized, is the notion of revenge – and central to revenge is the blood feud. When the “State” – of whatever political hue or any large organized governmental structure, reserves for itself the means and control and dispensation of “Justice” then true freedom does not exist: the individual has become controlled and enslaved, if not physically, then mentally.

Any healthy flourishing society not only allows revenge, but encourages it, and any society which does not is already a form of tyranny, however much clever, vapid, intellectual and political words may be used to try and obscure this reality. A healthy society is one that tends to respect the individual right to justice and thus revenge: the two are linked and cannot be separated without destroying both, leaving an empty shell. A healthy society seeks to respect the individual, and extend their responsibilities and duties, and one of the most important responsibilities and duties of any individual is to avenge.

This view is not upheld by many today – and certainly by none who form those cliques of legal and social “professionalism” which infest society today. Instead, the present System seeks to convince us all, from childhood, that only the State has the “right” to deal with “Justice” – and that only this is “civilized”. But if you believe that, you really are ill – one of those pale specimens inebriated by the clever words and ideas of the half-men (and half-women) who unfortunately proliferate today in our comfortable monied societies.

Revenge is natural and necessary. An illustration here might be instructive. A young motorist, high on drink and drugs, deliberately runs down and kills someone: the classic ‘innocent passer-by’. After some trouble, the Police find this driver and he is charged. When his case comes to court, he manages to wriggle out of the murder charge (’lack of sufficient evidence’/some legal problem) and is instead convicted of manslaughter. He shows no remorse. He is sentenced to 3 years in prison. After a little over 2 years he is released, and some months later is arrested for drink driving and driving while disqualified. A few more months in prison. Then he is free. Now, in this instance (and many like it) the relatives of the victim have a duty to kill this piece of scum – and should be ashamed of themselves if they did not. Naturally, they would give all sorts of reasons as to why they would do nothing – but basically they are, if they do nothing, (a) spineless cowards; (b) degenerate bastards who do not care; (c) so ground down by the System, by the lies and propaganda, that their natural instincts have been destroyed. They – one or some of them – should have killed the offender. Naturally, in the feeble societies of the Western tyrannies, had they done so they would – if caught - have faced “Justice” and the legal system themselves: and probably spent longer in prison than the bastard who deserved to die (such is the sickness of the “West”). But, until this whole rotten System is destroyed, they should have used the rules of the System against itself – why not, for instance, run the bastard himself down? You would, if caught, only get a few years. But at least you would be able to live with yourself – still have your honour.

Of course, an impartial assessment (like a Judge) is still necessary – but once judged, relatives are honour bound to act. Anything less is gutless.

Order of Nine Angles

 

A Satanic Master, Revealed

 

(The following extract is taken from the memoirs of a member of the ONA)

I was, and had been for many years, a Satanic Master. What did that mean?

Did it mean I was an egocentric bastard who corrupted others and who followed the path of perversion? Did it mean I dressed in a certain way and cultivated a stereo-typed image? That I was wealthy, and powerful?

Not essentially. It meant a stage, a goal achieved, a way of being, insight …

There can be little that brings perspective and an awareness of meaning (and thus genuine insight) like being in a flimsy tent, in a storm, in Winter, with no food, little water, miles from anyone, with no one knowing or caring where you are, while Fever wrestles with you… Or sitting on warm grass on a warm sunny Spring day by a cross-roads having just been released from drab, dreary and enclosing prison life and realizing you are free, to take any road you choose… Or being in the cold of night trying to run silently from a house where you have shot someone dead and where people are screaming and shouting, knowing that the pursuit will soon begin, again… Or watching while a friend of only a few days but who in those days came close to you having saved your life, dies, his intestines throbbing in the dirt, having been cut from him by a storm of bullets… Or listening with a lover to a spell-binding performance of Beethoven’s Ninth and then carrying that exuberance, intensity and affirmation together as you make exhilarating love and touch the essence…

Years ago, I had attained Adeptship (or ‘individuation’ to use another but less accurate term), a certain synthesis. This meant achieving empathy, skill, knowledge – a balance of conflicting opposites – and this achievement meant a change from what I had been. It was achieved by experience. I had been a fanatic (whether ‘political’ or ‘Satanic’ is unimportant) – hard, ruthless, devoted to action, to experience. To attain more, I had to go further, to bring forth other aspects of myself, some of which were already a part of my character (mostly dormant) and some which were not. Because I was who I was, I did this via extreme experiences: isolation, being a wanderer, a monk… Mostly, this was a conscious decision or process, born from my Occult Initiation and the path I followed. But sometimes it was instinct. The experiences brought more insight, further experiences, and thus change: there was an enrichment, a taking of life into other realms of being. I always believed in myself, always understood I had a Destiny (and Initiation was a part of this) – even if at times I was not quite sure what it was. This is perhaps why I survived.

The core of my story is Satanism – of the genuine type – and to understand me is to understand this much misunderstood way of living. Satanism is the name given to a practical way of living: a quest for achievement, excellence, worth, defiance, where the individual struggles with and against the world, their own unconscious and the primal powers of darkness beyond the psyche. A ‘magickal’ grade or title is a stage of achievement, representing a certain level of insight, skill, experience, knowledge attained.

Thus a ‘Master’ is not someone in a black cloak who stares (or tries to stare) demonically, who pretends to be all knowledgeable and infallible, and who of necessity perverts others. Rather, a Satanic Master (or Mistress) is someone who has attained a certain level of wisdom and experience: he or she will, like all genuine Satanists, be insightful and controlled and intense. The higher (or more advanced) the Grade, the greater these will be. But a Master or Mistress will be something else – natural. That is, possessed of individual character. Spontaneous, because of this. And, of course, still human… A Grand Master (or Grand Mistress) is beyond this, and almost inexplicable.

As a Master, I came to know that my insight regarding wisdom was valid: that there is a sadness in wisdom, in knowing too much, in having seen too much, felt too much. But I did not let this knowledge about wisdom make me sad: except in those few exquisite moments when my being strained to the very limits of existence as I, alone, walked upon some bleak or sunny Moor or distant hill, when I knew what had yet to be achieved, by me and all others; what remains to be explored, discovered; what can be.

I, and others like me, are the darkness which is necessary and without which evolution and knowledge are impossible. I am also my own opposite, and yet beyond both. This is not a riddle, but a statement of Mastery, and one which, alas, so few have the ability to understand.

 

A Cosmic Revenge

“The Master of Magick” – for so he called himself and believed himself to be – smiled, and stretched his tired limbs. Outside, a nearly full moon glowed in the cold air of the early morning twilight of an English mid-Autumn day.

It had been a tiring night for this magickian – with his visualizations, his laughter, and the completion of his sigils. But he himself was pleased by his exertions. As many times before, he had allowed his imagination to triumph over his reality. He truly believed he was controlling events, through his curse and his magickal rites, as he truly believed in the power of his magick. He was laughing, smiling, trickster while his victims the bumbling, unknowing fools.

So it was that he left his Temple room, his sigils parchments and laid himself down on his bed in the sleeping room of his cottage. Outside, a few birds began their Dawn Chorus, as mist formed as if sucked from the very Earth by the slowly increasing light. The Master of Magick was soon asleep, dreaming of tremendous deeds he had done or would do. He was there, a new Merlin who stood unseen but nearby while his warrior followers fought their enemies in the Wildwood – a savage battle of spurting blood, severed limbs and many deaths. He was there, smiling, laughing, as he and his followers feasted their triumph…

His sleep was peaceful, and untroubled, as he himself was warm wrapped in his carefully chosen coverings. In his wakening hours, he did not – and would not until it was too late – feel around him a presence vastly more powerful than his own mind and his own fantasies. He did not, in his wakening hours or even in his fantasies, dreamt while awake or asleep, feel a presence far more demonic than he presumed his own magick to be. Had he felt this, he would have sensed the sometimes terrible awesome Becoming for which one living life-form was at best an experiment and at worst an inconvenience, a failure – even if, or particularly if, that life-form possessed consciousness and deemed itself advanced, powerful and a master of ”magick”.

So it was that when this Master of Magick awoke, he was rested and at peace with himself, unaware of how trivial he was and how, in the end, his life would mean nothing because he had achieved nothing of any significance. There would be no self-awareness, no advancement beyond the illusions he lived with and strove hard to cultivate. There would be no sense of Becoming, no awareness of That which, and Those who, awaited beyond his world and which, and who, were the change, the very evolution of the cosmos and all life within it. Perhaps this particular Master of Magick would live into old age – but for what, and why? Insects sometimes live out their allotted span.

Such thoughts, however did not concern this Master of Magick. He himself did not know that there were no miracles, no divine or demonic manifestations; no great and mysterious secret; no cosmic Law to proclaim. The magick of what was, the magick of this Becoming, was just the advancement, the evolution, the exaltation, the becoming of the life in which this Being which was, this Becoming, manifested itself. Life itself – its change, its consciousness, its evolution toward something higher – was the magick, just as, in terms ordinary mortals might today understand, Satan was, is and will be the very cosmos itself – its Becoming, its life.

Thus, this Master of Magick could do nothing – his curses were without meaning. He could do nothing – nothing at all – against someone who was a manifestation of such a becoming and whose individual will was therefore only a manifestation of what was: the very becoming itself, the change toward something higher. What that someone did, or did not do, was done or not done because Satan himself – the very cosmos itself – willed it or did not will it. Only if this Master of Magick himself became such a manifestation – such a directed will, such a nexus to presence the essence – could he do something against such a person. But then, if he did so become such a manifestation, he would not do it anyway, because he would be them at best, and at worst, their Comrades, striving for the same ultimate and, to the majority, almost incomprehensible goal.

This riddle was the great Secret that his kind sought. Sometimes, one of them found it, but they seldom if ever understood it, even when they realized what they had stumbled upon. So it was that the life of this Master of Magick went on as it went on – as the day itself continued as it does, without any miraculous or even demonic manifestations, and without, it seemed, any “magick” at all.

The revenge of the cosmos would be the utter futility, the utter waste – in cosmic terms – of the delusional life of this “Master of Magick”.

Anton Long, ONA, 107 yf

 

Makrokosmos

Satanic reasoning, and the judgement of a ‘thing’, derive from direct personal experience. Thus, for the Satanist, there can be no real understanding of something until that something is lived. Before then, understanding is merely academic, relying as it does on the validity of sources other than one’s own experience. An understanding of a form cannot be acquired through academic research, since one never lives the form – there is only observation within the comfort and confines (morally and otherwise) of one’s own life, in the same sense as a play or a film is viewed by an audience. For the most part, the student is free to be convinced or not by the evidence studied – there is still the freedom, consciously and unconsciously, to believe whatever one feels comfortable in believing. All there is, is ‘opinion’.

With regard to a form which possesses spirit, elan [such as National-Socialism], there can be no crossing over from the life of the academic into that form via academic study, because the form so ’studied’ is a living one; it cannot ever be really known through words and ideas (such as ‘politics’), archaic folk-tales – or even Art and Musick. It is a revolution of the soul, and as such, true understanding via which a reasoned judgement may be derived, can only be developed by living that revolution; by experiencing the reality of those forces as those forces are – by, essentially, living beyond the confines of one’s own self.

With this living, the life of the individual, both inner and outer, is effected and changed by the experience because the experience is dynamic and direct – it disrupts, and unlike a book which can be closed and put away, it lives within and without the individual every second of that experiencing. There is a deeper understanding gained whereby the force that motivates such a form is fully apprehended, and thus, the various causal manifestations (or ‘histories’), are understood from the context of the essence, and are placed in perspective without the interference of contemporary morality and social sensitivity. Essentially, this dynamic method of understanding is the only method relevant to a form that possesses elan. This approach to learning may invalidate the methods by which the majority seek to establish their right to learn and so judge – but that is the reality. One either approaches learning as a consumer via the ‘definitive’, established approach (i.e. investigation solely via the respected methods of academic bodies – such as ‘universities’), or one seeks the difficult – and sometimes dangerous – path of challenging one’s own reasons for believing (and living!) via practical integration with a particular form. Of course, there are very few who would undertake this direct approach simply because, if they are being honest, they would not wish their lives to be so disrupted – and living life as, for example, a dangerous revolutionary is too frightening a prospect. For the Satanist, it is precisely these reasons which make such an undertaking necessary.

The development of Satanic reasoning is part of the purpose of the Insight Role (qv.). This alchemical method is very hard, as it requires the Satanist to believe in their role – and convince other non-Satanists of their sincerity via practical acts [it is no use just editing a (for example) National-Socialist journal - or writing learned articles for existing journals]. The role usually brings an alienation of occult comrades; family; other friends – sometimes the loss of personal freedom. It severely tests, and thus developes – or destroys – character.

This method is not, as some may perceive, solely a cynical/clever manipulation of a form for selfish ends, whereby all forms are regarded as merely means to be discarded when personally appropriate. An Insight Role teaches empathy – of forces that exist beyond the life of the Satanist, and how they influence the masses, contributing to the evolving of civilisations, etc. There is a real appreciation of the form so lived; an appreciation judged not solely from a ‘Satanic/Sinister’ – or socially conditioned – perspective, but according to the form as that form is, on its own “light” terms. The Satanist is and is not that role: an awareness that is, before Adeptship, quite difficult to live with – and is seldom, if ever understood by non-Initiates.

This is the meaning and purpose of Sinister Magick: to bring a synthesis via the conflict of opposites that exist within and without the Individual. This synthesis is the result of a practical journey, where this bifurcation must still be experienced if the forces that do still exist within the psyche of the Initiate are to be eventually understood, beyond intellectual apprehension, as ‘abstractions’. Thus, the meaning of Satan and the purpose, for Individuals and Aeons, of the Seven-Fold Sinister Way: to undertake acts of positive opposition, ‘blasphemy’; because without such acts of extreme defiance, there is no genuine inner liberation… and so shall it remain for many centuries to come (see also Satanism, Blasphemy and the Black Mass MS).

An Insight Role thus creates a real understanding of Aeonics – an understanding beyond the self, and thus the cultivation of the faculty of Reason, and the glimmerings of genuine Wisdom. As stated, without this (arduous) experience, there is a staying where one is – despite whatever level of intellectual esoteric apprehension gained – centred around a mostly self-indulgent life-style. Essentially, without experiencing this bifurcation, the psyche will not be changed, thus preventing it from travelling towards those realms that seperate the Initiate from the Adept.

ONA, 1997 eh

 

The Song of a Satanist

In an important sense, most of my life represents genuine Satanism in action – a going to extremes, a learning from the experiences of those extremes, and a doing of dark, dangerous and sometimes “illegal” deeds.

This life stands in stark contrast to those of the pseudo-Satanists, some of whom have acquired a notoriety and a ‘fame’. I have – as a Satanist should – been intoxicated by the essence of life itself – by that which inspires, which causes creativity, self-absorption and genius of all great artists be they musicians, writers, warriors, explorers or whatever. I have dared to dream and to defy – and have dared to try and make my dreams and inspiration a reality. I have used my life for some purpose – striven toward goals with a passion that overcomes all obstacles. I have known great love – physical, intellectual, and of the soul, the essence of existence. I have also known the opposite – the sadness that awaits all who venture into the dark starkness of the Abyss within and without. And thus the synthesis of these and other things which is the prehension of wisdom.

This living has been an ecstatic affirmation of existence – a self-surmounting. The goals striven for were for the most part irrelevant: what was important was the striving for something with a passion. For in such striving, in the action in the world so entailed in the striving, there was an intensity which captures the immortal and which re-presents the spirit of Satanism: that heroic defiance which is the essence of all conscious evolution and thus civilization itself.

Such exultation is dangerous. By its nature it is individual. It is anathema to those forms and structures which suck vitality and which by their very existence, level individuals down and break or try to break their spirit. It is Heresy. It is testing – some become possessed; some perish; some are broken in spirit and descend to the mediocrity of the majority; some are caught in the snares left by those who adhere to those things which suck vitality (such as religion and ‘law’ and ethics). But some few survive and prosper and thus inspire others to venture out where no one has dared to go before. And of those few who survive, there are some who can express in words or other mediums (like music) what they have felt, and experienced and learnt – in a way which is easily understood. These few are the really dangerous ones…

It amuses me – and has amused me – when I come in contact with modern, self-professed ‘Satanists’, be such people a part of some ‘Temple’ or ‘Church’ or ‘cult’, or be they working on their own. With a few notable exceptions, these people are ridiculous – for them, Satanism is an intellectual philosophy, a collection of rituals, and/or an anarchic attitude. For them, it is an object of study, and involves meetings, discussions. For them, it is communal, and involves ‘ethics’ and/or a religious approach and attitude. For them, it is a glorification of their ego and a wallowing in the pleasures and wealth this existence can offer: an excuse for self-indulgence and lack of self-discipline.

In reality, Satanism is an attitude to living – and an attitude foreign to these mostly urbanized people who profess to be Satanists. Satanism means living one’s life in a cetain way – achieving things, in the real world by one’s own efforts and because one is exulting in existence itself consciously. That is, one’s life is intentional – a striving toward a higher existence by practical deeds, by overcoming challenges which take evolution to new realms. A Satanist strives to change themselves – and then the world itself. They desire glory, fame – to be significant. They are not content, and even when a goal is achieved, there is a need to find and strive toward another goal, another way of living. There are always new experiences awaiting – new levels of achievement. A genuine Satanist needs action – they need challenges, because they possess within themselves the ‘fire of Satan’, that vitality which is the quintessence of living. This vitality shows in their eyes, their character – it is evident in their deeds.

Fundamentally, one becomes a Satanist by acting like one – by doing Satanic deeds. A Satanist of some experience would say one or more of these things: “I have experienced combat; I have killed; watched comrades die. I have loved – and hated. I have discovered something for the first time. I have been alone for months, bereft of most things, and thus come to know myself. I have faced my own imminent death, not once, but many times. I have achieved things with my body I thought not possible. I have exulted in overcoming physical, intellectual and psychic challenges. I know the passion that motivated Beethoven, Van Gogh, Nietzsche, and I know the feelings and greatness of Caeser, Adolf Hitler and Alexander the Great… I have heard the music of the galaxy and the stars and planets within it. I have been in a Prison cell and known the meaning of freedom. I have culled human dross. I have done criminal deeds – to learn and defy.”

Of course, these things are only examples – there are many more. What is important is that they express real experiences of a dangerous or learning kind: they breed character; they test. They are selective. They are the type of deeds done by individuals with with spirit – the type of understanding such an individual possesses, if only intuitively at first.

A Satanist will live life on the edge – will take up a profession which allows him or her to excel in deeds of action or creativity or exploration, or all of these. They will become experts in their chosen fields – and these fields by their nature will require persons of character and inner strength who prefer to work alone. Fields like assassination; Special Forces; Political manipulation… And then, having achieved, they will move on – to new ways and deeds. Or perchance they will die, defiant to the end.

Whatever, their quality of living will far surpass that of the weak majority. Their experience of both the dark and the light will be deeper, more extensive, and thus will they possess greater insight, a greater understanding, a real depth of character. In contrast, the self-professed ‘Satanists’ will be shallow – all talk, with little or no real experience of living on the edge. They shy away from real self-effort, from real self-overcoming, and build fantasy worlds in which they find comfort. They need the company of others, as they need their ego to be massaged by what they regard as their ‘Satanic peers’. They talk an awful lot with others about Satanism, and probably, having learnt a lot of ‘theory’ from books and various organizations, write their own ‘Satanic’ rituals which they perform with the glee of the necrophilac.

Some of these denizens of pseudo-Satanic organizations and cults will indulge in anarchic behaviour to impress themselves and others. But by so doing they reveal a lack of character – for a genuine Satanist possesses nobility and a self-discipline that others seldom understand. Imitation Satanists make excuses – and devise theories to explain their lack of Satanic deeds in the real world. They have seldom if ever changed themselves to something greater than what they were at Initiation, and they most certainly have not changed the world in any way, significant or insignificant. They have achieved no glory – discovered nothing new; not extended the frontiers of understanding by even one micron. Instead, they wallow in obscure doctrines and consume the drug of self-delusion. To be brief, they have not composed a Satanic song which illustrates their life. They labour, but in vain – Poeta nascitur, non fit.

Most Satanists cannot publish an autobiography, or even have a biography which relates their life in detail while they still live, for the simple reason that it would probably render them liable to prosecution by those asinine guardians of even more stupid system of ‘Law’(plus the fact that most wish to continue their sinister esoteric work in secret, to aid the sinister dialectic). If this threat does not exist, then their life has not been Satanic enough. And, moreover, that life is never completed until causal death – something written at a certain age, should be out of date within few years. If it was not, then again the full Satanic promise of one’s existence has not been fulfilled. The time for the publication of such writings is after the causal death of its subject – although an expurgated version may serve a purpose, for some replete with experiences who wish to express the essence and inspire others to follow and then surpass them.

In my own case, I have written a brief a brief recollection of some of the experiences of my Satanic life, for posthumous publication. But even in that MS, there were many things not recalled, perchance the MS falls into the wrong hands before the right time. Such a recalling – of dark and occasionally ecstatic deeds, most of them “illegal” and all of them “heretical” in this purblind society – will have to await my twilight years and a recounting of them to a trusted Satanic comrade. And even though the MS was written only two years ago, it is already out of date…

And of that living, it is the essence which is important, not especially the details. From that living, I have distilled the quintessence into words which cannot be mis-understood – devising a method by which others may obtain that elixir. I have constructed a guide to the goal, drawn a map and explained the goal in detail, because I have been there. I explored, and discovered. Now others can benefit from the lessons learnt from such a life. Non generant aquilae columbas.

Meanwhile, I anticipate the lies, rumours and distortions will continue, based on jealousy. The small and weak of character have always sought to drag those who are outstanding down to their own level of mediocrity – at least in the eyes of others.

Stephen Brown, ONA, 103 yf

 

Connexyon

Connexyon

 

“Only in our utmost wildest of fantasies and dreams can we even begin to understand”

 

In Praise of War

War is necessary – it ensures the health of a people, and it encourages those warrior virtues which are essential to civilization. When a people, nation or race goes for decades without engaging in a war which involves all or most of the communities of that people, nation or race, then that people, nation or race tends toward decadence – with cowardly scum coming to the surface, the young becoming feckless and undisciplined, and society generally declining. War breeds and reveals character – in combat, there is no where to hide. One either does one’s duty, with courage and perhaps heroism – ot one does not. War is the test of the man. War is natural selection in action – Fate decrees who survives, who is uninjured and who becomes revered as heroic. War makes individuals respect Fate, and thus gives real wisdom – an awareness of duty and responsibility.

Pacifism, and the pursuit of peace as an objective, are decadent – manifestations of cowards and decadents, and of a people and society ruled by cowards and decadents. Of course war creates and brings suffering, injury and hardship – but the hard reality is that such things are necessary. Without such things there is no real wisdom, no real individual character, no real understanding – no awareness of Fate, of those forces which are beyond the individual and which the individual cannot control. Without such things there is no perspective – and what is really important about life and living gets lost in selfishness and a crass pursuit of materialism. Above all else, war breeds nobility. It makes the values of nobility – honour, loyalty and duty – ideals to be strived for and thus encourages civilized conduct among individuals and a civilized society for individuals to live in. A noble individual is someone prepared to fight, and if necessary die, for their folk, race or nation. A peaceful society – dedicated to peace and the selfishness and materialism which goes with it – encourages and creates a feckless, crime-ridden society full of aggressive individuals who use that aggression to achieve their petty, egotistical aims.

War channels the natural and healthy aggression of youth and early manhood in a useful and productive way. The proponents of pacifism and the ‘peaceful society’ believe in their vain arrogance that their abstract, unnatural and intellectual ideas can change what they see as “human nature” – they believe that given sufficient “education” (read ‘brainwashing’) and sufficient social schemes, this aggression and lust for battle can be removed or miraculously transformed into something which they believe is more positive. What these products of late-twentieth century decadence fail in their intellectual arrogance to understand, is that individual nature is only and always changed by real, practical experience of living and never by ideas or any amount of ‘teaching’ and/or social schemes. What little individual change results from such things as ideas, teaching, ‘faith’ and social schemes is only and always pretence – affectation; that is, whatever change such things produce in individuals, such changes are not real – they do not go deep, they are not fundamental, positive changes.

What all this amounts to is that if one places side-by-side a combat veteran, and one of the intellectual pacifist/’social worker’ types which modern society breeds in profusion, then it is obvious to anyone of any real intelligence that the combat veteran is the better person, more in touch with the reality of life, more civilized and more able to cope with life and any change life brings. It is only soft, comfortable modern urban/suburban living which allows the social worker type to flourish – and this soft urban/suburban style of living exists in any civilization only for a short period, for it has within it the seeds of its own destruction. These seeds are the soft individuals it breeds. Civilizations are created and maintained by individuals of character – by warriors, by those experienced in war – they are never created and never maintained by ideas, by bureaucratic types, by politicians, by social schemes and ‘education’. Anyone who believes that civilization depends on clever, fancy ideas and those who propound such ideas or makes their living from them is, quite simply, being naive. The penalty for such large scale naivety as the societies of the West now suffer from, is that slowly descent back into barbarism which has already begun.

The reality of pacifism and other such unnatural abstract ideas, is that they undermine and ultimately destroy that personal or individual character which is essential to civilization. The personal character essential to civilization and a civilized way of life is only and always created by combat – by personal experience of war. A healthy society accepts war and prepares for it. A healthy society encourages warrior virtues and trains its people for combat. A healthy society upholds the war or combat hero as the highest ideal – as someone to be admired and emulated. A healthy society rewards those who have distinguished themselves in battle and accepts such individuals, and only such individuals, as leaders. In a healthy society, young men look forward eagerly to battle.

In contrast, an unhealthy or sick society strives to make “heroes” out of such non-entities as “entertainers”, politicians and successful business people. In brief, a sick society elevates the type of people combat veterans despise – vain, egotistical people concerned for the most part with materialism and/or sickly, pretentious (often sociological) ‘ideas’.

In needs to be constantly affirmed that war and civilization are inseparable. To be civilizing, war has to be for some noble purpose – and this purpose can only be to ensure the survival, prosperity and extension of a particular folk, nation or race. War for a decadent purpose – such as to ensure ‘peace’ – is self-defeating, and produces only degeneracy and decline because such a decadent purpose weakens those fighting and produces an ailing, weak society dedicated to unnatural ideas that make people psychically unwell. Thus, any war which aims to strengthen a particular folk, nation or race is good; any war fought for any other reason – such as an abstract idea like ‘peace’ – is bad. A good war creates, aids and maintains civilization. A bad war destroys civilization.

A good war is morally right – it is a duty. It is a necessity. A good war ensures the health and vitality of a particular folk, nation or race – and thus makes for a healthy, vital society. What we have today – in terms of civilized life and the comforts which go with it – is the result of war. What we have lost and are losing – honour, community spirit, noble character, vitality, purpose – is the result of peace. For too long the pacifists, the cowards, the decadent and the pursuers of selfish, material goals, have been unchallenged. We who believe in war – who know its value and its purpose – have been silent for too long. We need to once again proudly and defiantly sing the praises of war!

-DM

Eclipse

 

I see the woman from the painting, seated in a drawing-room of spacious, Victorian elegance. The curtains, large velvet hangings, are drawn. To one side is a piano on which a nameless person gently plays slow, haunting musick, evocative of the Adagio from Beethoven’s 14th Sonata.

One side of the woman’s face is in shadow; the outer side is marble perfection. She of the large, dark eyes pours a cup of tea, and sips at it. All is done in a cultured, precise manner. She takes up a deck of cards and begins a game of Solitaire, placing the cards deliberately, pondering each one.

The door opens: a gentleman enters. A slight frisson possesses him as he notices the woman – she of the large, dark eyes – seated there. The light from the hallway falls upon her face, and the side in shadow is revealed. It is pocked and gouged, and on her neck is a scar, creating the impression of cracked porcelain. The man sits in a chair beside her. He nervously pulls at his waistcoat.

“Good evening, Lisa.” he says, a note of anxiety in his voice. “Can you find no other occupation?”

“This please me most, at the present hour.” Her voice is cool and mellifluous.

“But…” begins the man.

“There is nothing you can do about me now, Adrian. You created me, yet I am beyond you. I am less and more than your mortal dreams. By these cards, I follow the traces of fate that fix the future. You shall not harm me or interrupt me – you know it is not in your power.”

The man passes a hand across his eyes, and sighs. “If I could just correct these…” he says, reaching his hand towards the unsightly marks on her shadowed side.

“No, I am what I am: incomplete. Yet more potent for that. Do not fear, Adrian, I shall remain hidden upstairs when your guests arrive. Only you may know me directly.”

The man stares at her. At those dark hollowed eyes that must not be held. For when they are so held, strange and disturbing images arise in the mind; images that cannot be controlled. Nightmares or dreams of seduction.

Most of the time – thankfully – she stays in the attic. On a full Moon she can be found sitting by the open window, gazing into the silver perfection. On those nights, shades and shadows, noises and whispers from Aeons, rustle down the corridor, climb the stairs, and haunt the doorways.

One night, he was determined to destroy her – she of the large, dark eyes. He had taken burning candles, but at the door she had addressed him coolly, and he lost all motivation for the act. From the cold spaces, she had addressed him.

The woman represents, it seems, a door into the past, and future. And at the apex where those points meet, she lives in her strange world, neither dead nor alive, within a dimension that seeps into all dimensions. She is an unfathomable quantity that on occasions fills him with a dread. He will never entirely get used to her.

Later tonight, he will go into his room and write in his diary. Write of the evening’s encounter, his fears – the outer images that haunt him. And he will lie down to sleep, still thinking of her soulless eyes, those large, dark eyes that come from a cavernous dark. And as he sleeps, he will dream…

Annia Ashlet

In the Realm of Gods

The very essence of Satanism is that we can become gods: that we can be those future beings who will be revered not only by our own species, but by other life-forms elsewhere in the cosmos. By using only our Will, we can be the indomitable ones destined to carve out the path to the next aeon. By great deeds, we can be the makers of history.

All that has led to this point in time can be surpassed – all that has made great warriorship, heroism, discovery and creativity, can be surpassed, re-defined and re-expressed. All the gods, all the great figures of our history who spawned gods, can be bettered.

We can possess the one real secret guarded by all our past gods: that those gods are but pale imitations of the beings that we ourselves can become. This secret is the grail that sleeps within the soul of our Western Race, and which so many occult forms have failed to wake.

All past gods of the Western Traditions are rendered obsolete by the forces which Satanism alone is unleashing. These are the forces of cosmic evolution, taking the form of the Aeonic Magickian. The cosmos is now seeking to discard the tired old gods of our past, and is hungry for new expressions, to spawn new forms that will begin the next cycle of history.

Fading are the old Earth-bound symbols, giving way to those of acausal dimensions; those numinous forms which presence now the Galactic future that awaits. Rising are the chants of the stars, the wordless ceremonies, the living nexions that are worlds apart from the occult, from the old realms of temples, circles and runic readings.

The Satanist does not need to study or re-enact the past, and indulge in what has long been established: he is that past, the present, and the future. And each new willed act is another re-expression of the essence, another re-definition of cosmic meaning – another dis-covering of the potency of life presenced in each one of us.

Another reminder that individuals do possess the choice to act or not to act for the greater cause of evolution: that each act can matter, can make a difference…

We do not have to simply consume and pay homage to past glorious deeds; to behave as if we believe history itself had now ceased, or has been rendered the future realm of an officially appointed few. Those appointed few are like the old gods of the past: they exist so that we individuals can, through adversity, discover our own potential – the potential that is really one potential: that of the cosmos itself.

Thus, Satanists do not follow gods. So what then of Satan, that greatly misunderstood living symbol? Satan is not tied to cultural phases, and does not in image represent a once great society. Instead, Satan is the timeless flow of the cosmos, seeking existence. Satan is the grail itself, that secret guarded by inadequate gods of our past.

Satan is the very essence of the striving to become a god – Satan is the arrogance within that enables us to leave behind the archaic gods, and to find the courage to be the new gods. Satan is how we live, how we die, and how we shall be after causal life.

Satan is the word that when invoked presences the very essence of our striving and defiance. As a living Being, Satan desires new life, new expression, and the constant surpassing of each shadowy archetype created to represent Him. As living Beings, when we are living right, we are Satan – both as individuals and collectively, as the new species of Human that is yet to be.

Let us stop grovelling to old archetypes, stop forming fan-clubs for the Old Ones, and discard the superstition and academia that is so precious and so useless. We possess the creative genius to set in motion new Earth-shattering forms, and the arrogance to behave as the embodiment of the future that we, in essence, are. The future implies an upward surge away from the near medieval times we still live in, and in this becoming of evolution, we do not need to seek answers from anywhere but within ourselves.

The future gods bear our names…

CB

Atu X – Wyrd

The Forbidden Alchemy

One of the long-term aims of the Dark Tradition is to bring to consciousness for the majority the reality of the force that is Satan. This ‘dis-covering’ will result in the upward evolutionary surge known as the ‘New Aeon’.

A magickal Order, such as the ONA, is only one of several forms by which Satan is presenced – and presenced in the most undiluted of ways, without the obstruction of mortal fears. In one sense, all genuine sinister orders are an invokation to Satan: they constitute in themselves a magickal ritual, with each member understanding the conditions required if the long-term goal of the rite is to be attained. This magickal ritual, being founded upon the uncompromising principles of Nature, contains within it spontaneous or unknown factors which defy the imposition of abstract dogma. By this magickal ritual the unique creativity, the uniqueness of Being possessed by each Adept, is allowed to develope of itself.

But Traditional Satanists also understand that uniqueness of Being to be the Will of the Cosmos itself, and thus certain types of individual creativity are Life made manifest during its course of Evolution – this is to say, in esoteric terms, that certain types of creativity presence the acausal. Practically, the creativity/magick that marks Adeptship is nurtured and expressed by individual defiance – the uniqueness of Being which is Satan.

Because genuine acts of magick presence the acausal, the relationship of magick with ‘the world’ can be said to be “wholistic”: a relationship where the difference and diversity of Nature and ’forms’ exist to enable the spirit (or Being) of the Cosmos to thrive and evolve – ultimately there is nothing which exists external to this continous flow of Change; nothing which can be influenced or changed in isolation. A genuine Adept understands this, and begins to embody in their individual life, this most natural of esoteric paths: the way of empathy. As all genuine sinister magickians are quick to point out, this apprehension currently exists at odds with conventional esotericism. A well-qouted example is the qabalistic approach (as sickeningly influential today as ever) which involves the magickian – or more accurately ’sorcerer’ – in viewing the forces of Nature as seperate, often barbarous material to be dominated and manipulated for personal ends.

A highly evolved esoteric Order would not be characterised by this ‘grimoire’ approach, since such an approach lacks a binding purpose, a great and clear vision which would enable members to transcend the personal and become the organic whole of a true magickal Order – an Order which is the life of the Cosmos manifested in a conscious way, and pertinent to a particular moment in causal time. A profusion of this latter type of magickal Order would be one such result of the New Aeon made manifest.

In other words, what could be described as conventional occultism is that which is swayed by abstract theories over observation and intuition, whilst the genuine Western Way – for which reads ‘the Septenary System’. Traditional Satanism, and so on – is concerned with what actually exists beyond limited personal forms. In real magick, there is an initial attempt to mimic the flow of natural forces, until an integration is achieved and with it, large-scale Willed Change – that is, conscious aeonic evolution. Via this process of magick – still the provence of the select few (Satanists of course!) – the Cosmos can progress to its next stage of existence: to live consciously via its manifestations; to evolve from childhood to adult existence. This is the secret of The Great Work.

This path of genuine magick does not involve however the slavish following of some ‘cosmic doctrine’/mandate, or any other such dogma. It involves the individual in freeing themselves from all influences in order to live, or become, the reality of the forces of Life itself. Thus the purpose of the Seven-Fold Way: to guide its Initiates towards the attainment of self-insight, where the ‘personal’ exists as a method to express the Cosmos, and not as a hindrance – through projections – of the apprehension of Life as a unified whole. The reality can only ever be experienced anew by each Initiate, since this apprehension of Life is a way of Being, and can only, as yet, be partially described by abstract methods. Thus each new Satanist – and genuine Satanic order – is a new manifestation of the living essence: thus there is Evolution.

CB

Physis/The Fool

Posted in Order of Nine Angles with tags O9A, ONA, Sinister Tarot, Traditional Satanism on July 11, 2009 by circleofsevenstars

 

The “I” who is the individual human being can learn and practice the art of making mental and emotional space (psychic sinister space), in a situation in which he finds himself. It would appear self-evident today, that our disturbed world still religiously imbued, needs to be ministered to by strong mind and will and not by muscle alone, whether it be the muscles of an individual’s arm or that of an army’s armaments. It needs to be ministered to by dark men as creatures of clear but black thought and sinister emotion and not merely, or even chiefly by men and creatures of hard fist and cold steel. Mind and fist alike are necessary for the better and the worse in this convulsive period of history.

The individual mind has to be trained as such that every Satanist may really deserve the name of “the Black Knight of the Night”. This is truly my “night vision”, the walk on dark and difficult country roads how large and strange it may be, where small and ultimate details are not visible, only dark shapes within darkness. In this is found the looming shapes of hypocritical society, nations and peoples, religious corruption having led to abandoned values. Failing to see the situation as it is – is failing towards our Satanic call.

To map out what we can do, and what the Satanist as a sinister creative entity has always done, we need to take account of two facts:

1. The fact that the Satanist is a sinister stimulus at large in his environment. His words and acting are, in effect, to speak and act sinisterly.

2. The fact that each Satanist possesses some area of influence, peculiarly of his own. His total personality structure must operate as a sustained evil force in the life of others.

To say, “It doesn’t matter what I do”, as long as it is evil, is absolutely wrong. Our evil intentions must be organised. It is deeply important, then, that we find out as best we can what is true about ourselves on the Sinister Path. It is deeply tragic when we get a completely wrong slant about ourselves, and distort the sinister “I” like pseudo-Satanists do in the process of stirring “chaos” unmindfully in order to speed up that which they have not the slightest idea about. In our effort we, traditional Satanists, are endeavouring a higher civilisation to come, imbued with the energies of the New Aeon. This means, our present must change or be changed.

There is only one passion that satisfies the Satanist’s hunger in his warfare against the present world’s attitude is, in the observance of dark integrity and sinister individuality: “hatred”. To reach this end, the mind has to be trained. Sects as “Scientology” also present in Europe know very well how to train the mind at the expense of the victim: brainwashing. Although we condemn religions and sects deriving from them, there is something in “brainwashing”, although we would not use the word. The mind has simply to be trained.

Ga Wath Am, “the Power within me” is great, is the pathway between the Sun and planet Mercury, and they are one. While through Mercury the mind is sinisterly active, filled with Dark illumination, the relation is established between the personality and the ego, the influence of the Sun is either Dark life-giving or death giving luminary. The mystery of the Sun is the grandest of all the innumerable mysteries of sinister occultism. It used to be called, the “evil eye of the ritualistic Jupiter.” The rays of the Sun are made parallel to the six planets of the Tree of Wyrd.

When the Sun throbs with sinister energy, and its contents thrills under the sinister impulse, then the currents spread and circulate, while evil manifestation becomes reality: the sinister man or woman is born. The Tree of Wyrd consists of the Sun as the central focal point, with its attendant planets, which are held in magnetic rapport in their orbits around that Sun.

Ga Wath Am is in fact related to two triangles all connected with the Sun, melting together as it were two triangles:

(a) Sun, Mars, Mercury.

(b) Sun, Mercury, Venus.

The two triangles constitute one great triangle, with the Ga Wath Am as pathway between Mercury and the Sun. The Sun, as a dictum says in France, “le démon du midi” (the demon of the South). The Sun is not only the heart of the Tree of Wyrd, but is a ruling factor in the Cosmos, to begin with the personal psyche, everything responding to the Sun’s influences. The Sinister man is also motivating its activity, and conditioned by its dark energies.

The Sun has a threefold working on the Sinister Man.

(1) The Sun stimulates the bodily cells and sustains man, affecting all the centres of his constitution.

(2) The Sun gives the Sinister Man the needed energy.

(3) The Sun, the Sinister consciousness, bring him to the awareness that he is another God and Satan alike. The Sun is the great dark illuminator of the Sinister Man, and the Sinister Self of personal psyche.

The Sun is in fact too much the undiscovered planet. In the study of the Science of Triangles, the Satanist must bear in mind, that there is always one point of the triangle which, in a particular crisis or “event in consciousness”, is present the emanating, dynamic energy where the Sun is the main expression.

Ga Wath Am is here the completion of two triangles, the building up of the bridge between two triangles by the initiate. It is the transmission of evil forces on Earth from the two triangle