The Order Of Nine Angles And The Question Of Judgement

The View Of The Inner O9A

"The mistake that some have made, in respect of exoteric axioms such as the authority of individual
judgement, was to believe or to assume that anyone O9A can or should personally interpret 'everything O9A'
before they have acquired the aeonic (supra-personal and empathic) perspective and esoteric understanding
of an Internal Adept and well before they, from the pathei-mathos that results from a successful melding of
the sinister with the numinous, have acquired the necessary balanced individual judgement and discovered
the wisdom that lies within and beyond The Abyss." Wisdom, Logos, And The Inner O9A, KS, RP, et al, 2014

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The foundational Order of Nine Angles (O9A. ONA) principle termed The Authority Of Individual Judgement
is central to the problems currently facing the O9A. Problems described in the 2022 text Paradox Of
Authority In The Longusian Tradition. {1}

However, as with the word 'evil' used by Anton Long as described in my The Order Of Nine Angles And
The Question Of Evil, {2} its esoteric (batin) usage by him is not necessarily the same as its exoteric,
English usage. Exoterically, some of its usages include:

However, when Anton Long and the early ONA used the term it was in accordance with a definition which
emphasised it was acquired by experience. For he wrote:

"A genuine Satanist, on the contrary, has authority by virtue of his or her Wisdom - and has
achieved Wisdom by virtue of practical experience." Letter to a Mr Milner, 14th March 1991 eh.
{3}

In another letter, to a Miss Stockton dated 19th June 1991 eh, he wrote:
 "You ask who has authority in the Order and what this authority represents. Basically, the only
'authority' is that which arises or developes because of experience." {3}

In a letter to Kimberly dated 25th September 1992 eh he wrote:

"What we teach results from our own hard-won experience and insight." {4}

That is, authority is achieved by virtue of pathei-mathos, in the specific case of the O9A through either
the quest, the anados, that is the decades long hermetic Seven Fold Way, or through a years-long
experience in the real-world.

This was explicitly expressed in relation to the authority of individual judgement in a 2014 text with I co-
authored:

"The mistake that some have made, in respect of exoteric axioms such as the authority of
individual judgement, was to believe or to assume that anyone O9A can or should personally
interpret 'everything O9A' before they have acquired the aeonic (supra-personal and empathic)
perspective and esoteric understanding of an Internal Adept and well before they, from the
pathei-mathos that results from a successful melding of the sinister with the numinous, have
acquired the necessary balanced individual judgement and discovered the wisdom that lies
within and beyond The Abyss.

Naturally, such individuals interpretations have occurred, and undoubtedly will continue to occur,
by individuals lacking the esoteric understanding of an Internal Adept and lacking in the wisdom
acquired by several decades of following the O9A path toward, into, and beyond The Abyss. But
that does not make such interpretations part of, or an evolution of, the O9A path, especially as
many such interpretations exclude the esoteric and exoteric aspects of the O9A logos (such as
the O9A code). Rather, it makes such interpretations at best a temporal, minor, and exoteric
aspect of a particular sinister dialectic, and otherwise (i) simply the personal opinion of an
outsider, or (ii) the personal opinion of someone O9A (or formerly O9A) who is not yet – or who
did not become – an Adept and who has yet to acquire, or who did not acquire, from a decades-
long sinisterly-numinous experience, the necessary pathei-mathos. Thus, in the ancestral,
aeonic, and esoteric, context provided by the inner O9A, such interpretations are not and cannot
be, of themselves, O9A." {5}

What The Authority Of Individual Judgement does not mean and never has meant is that anybody,
claiming to be be O9A, and "fresh off the boat" or fresh from being recruited by some Establishment
security agency, can by using their real name or by using some pseudonym claim to speak or write with
"authority" about the O9A. Which is why we have again and again said that O9A folk do not trust anyone
unless they have known them personally for some time or unless they have a plethora of documented
life-experiences and sinister deeds under their real-world name.

Why is why we trust and admire 'Anton Long', for as someone wrote in 2011:

"[He wrote his] stuff while actively engaged in many of the activities he philosophized, from
violence, to insight roles, to subversion to Satanism (under his various pseudo-names). They are
writings born of a man engaging in practical deeds [...] Without the practical experience to go
with it, it's just words on a page. Like most LHP materials. Or to put it in a different context, it's
like trying to truly grasp Musashi's Book of Five Rings, when never having studied a martial art
(particularly a sword art) or been in a fight which had the potential to be fatal. Sure the words
may bounce around in your head, but without that direct experience you'll never truly get them
because they are born of, and written for a mindset that can only be acquired by direct
experience. Those that hate 'doing' almost always feel threatened by such things because one
can't just sit in their house and declare themselves an expert without enormous sacrifice and
actual attainment."

Which is also why O9A folk recently wrote such stuff as A Cautionary Tale, Revisited, {6} which included
the following quotation from an item by Anton Long:

"We are not trusting white-lighters or harming-none wiccans or gullible mundanes or nazarenes.
We are ONA – sinister, satanic; made by practical experience and by undertaking hard
challenges. We have a certain culture. We go by the proven deeds and proven character and
culture of a person and just do not care if they take offence when we point out certain facts
about their cyberwords or about sinister living and our type of person [...]
 Just calling yourself ONA, on the Internet or elsewhere, does not make you ONA – it is practical
deeds, being part of our Occult culture, upholding kindred honour, and tests, challenges, learning
from experience, recruiting others in person, which do. The Internet is just one tool, among
many. Our sinister-numen is not there; our people are not there – except that some of us may
sometimes, and for a short while only, use such an ephemeral tool for some specific purpose.
And what an ephemeral tool it is, Aeonically."

Kerri Scott
November 2022 ev
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URL's valid as of November 2022 ev

{1} The text is included in https://theo9away.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/origin-v1.pdf

{2} https://theo9away.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/o9a-evil.pdf

Also available at https://luxlycaonis.com/index.php/2022/07/24/the-o9a-and-evil/

{3} The Satanic Letters, volume I. https://gawathan.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/satanicletters-1.pdf

{4} The Satanic Letters, volume II. https://gawathan.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/satanicletters-2.pdf

{5} Wisdom, Logos, And The Inner O9A. The text was included in the 2015 compilation The Definitive
Guide To The Order of Nine Angles, Theory and Praxises (Seventh Edition) pp.74-77, available at
https://www.scribd.com/document/217306180/The-Definitive-Guide-To-The-Order-of-Nine-Angles

Wisdom, Logos, And The Inner O9A is included in full in the appendix below, and explains one of the
reasons why I dissented from abandoning the O9A to form the new Hebdomian Way.

{6} https://theo9away.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/cautionary-tale-revisited.pdf

Appendix

Wisdom, Logos, And The Inner O9A

Discovering Wisdom

An important aspect of the esoteric philosophy and the occult praxises of the O9A is the 'internal sorcery'
– termed physis magick in the Naos text – whereby an individual can progress toward Adeptship and
thence to wisdom. For

"the goal of sentient life is to […] become part of the acausal (i.e. 'immortal' when seen from the
causal). Initiation, and 'the Mysteries' (i.e. the seven-fold Way), are the means to achieve this."
Naos, A Practical Guide To Modern Magick, 1989

Furthermore, according to the esoteric tradition of the O9A:

"By the term wisdom is meant not only the standard dictionary definition – a balanced personal
judgement; having discernment – but also the older sense of having certain knowledge of a
pagan, Occult, kind to do with livings beings, human nature, and concerning Nature and 'the
heavens'. To wit, possessing certain faculties, such as esoteric-empathy, a knowing of one's self;
possessing an Aeonic knowing; and thus knowing Reality beyond, and sans, all causal
abstractions." Pathei-Mathos and The Initiatory Occult Quest

Esoterically understood, the O9A is a particular occult path, a particular occult way, which begins with
initiation into 'the mysteries' – into the ancestral and modern occult knowledge and traditions of the O9A
– and which traditions include that 'internal sorcery' whereby an individual can change and evolve
themselves and thus progress toward wisdom. For there is a pagan mysticism and an individual anados,
and which anados is a very personal occult journey, of both esoteric and exoteric experiences and both
'sinister' and 'numinous', that lasts several decades. The term 'sinisterly-numinous tradition' – in
preference to 'the sinister tradition' – therefore aptly describes this O9A path, with pathei-mathos being
one of the various dark arts – one of many occult techniques – used by someone following that particular
path, and which unique O9A path can be considered as either presenting "a recognizable new
interpretation of Satanism and the Left Hand Path" or as being a new occult tradition which is not satanic
and neither of the Right Hand Path nor of the Left Hand Path.

An individual following this O9A path for a certain period of time may well may discover their own
weltanschauung and which personal weltanschauung is, while sometimes confused with the discovery of
wisdom, not yet wisdom because later on – beyond the Abyss – there is, according to a modern Magus,
the necessary individual discovery of lapis philosophicus:

"The 'outer secret' of the inner, the real, the living, alchemy is that the end and the result of both
our apparently separate journeys is the same; the same place, the same understanding, the
same knowledge. For wisdom is undivided, the same for all of us, whatever we believed or
assumed when we began. Or expressed another way, lapis philosophicus is what it is, and always
has been, and does what it does, and always has done, in terms of how it affects and changes
those few who have succeeded in their decades-long endeavour and thus discovered it, and
discovered it where it has always been hidden." Anton Long, Lapis Philosophicus, 2/2/123 yfayen

Furthermore,

"The Occult essence – the ethos, the internal alchemy of individual change during the life of the
individual, the individual discovery of lapis philosophicus, the Adeptus way, the Aeonic
perspective – remains." Knowledge, the Internet, and the O9A

Thus one of the esoteric truths of the ancestral and modern occult knowledge and traditions manifested
by the O9A concerns wisdom and its attainment: what it is, how it can be attained, and that it is neither
the personal weltanschauung that an individual may develop, via personal experience, after only some
years of following the O9A path nor the personal interpretation of 'everything O9A' they may develop
before having melded the sinister with the numinous via The Abyss. Rather, that wisdom is manifest in (i)
that balanced individual judgement that results from a practical experiencing over many years of both
the sinister and the numinous with the consequent pathei-mathos, and (ii) the occult knowing of the
reality behind the appearance of conflicting, ideated, opposites. It was to be a repository of, and to
aurally transmit, this truth concerning wisdom and its attainment, and other important esoteric truths
ancient and modern, that an 'inner O9A' was established and is maintained, and will be aeonically
continued, by means of that presencing of the O9A logos that is the O9A code of kindred honour.

For the mistake that some have made, in respect of exoteric axioms such as the authority of individual
judgement, was to believe or to assume that anyone O9A can or should personally interpret 'everything
O9A' before they have acquired the aeonic (supra-personal and empathic) perspective and esoteric
understanding of an Internal Adept and well before they, from the pathei-mathos that results from a
successful melding of the sinister with the numinous, have acquired the necessary balanced individual
judgement and discovered the wisdom that lies within and beyond The Abyss.

Naturally, such individuals interpretations have occurred, and undoubtedly will continue to occur, by
individuals lacking the esoteric understanding of an Internal Adept and lacking in the wisdom acquired by
several decades of following the O9A path toward, into, and beyond The Abyss. But that does not make
such interpretations part of, or an evolution of, the O9A path, especially as many such interpretations
exclude the esoteric and exoteric aspects of the O9A logos (such as the O9A code). Rather, it makes such
interpretations at best a temporal, minor, and exoteric aspect of a particular sinister dialectic, and
otherwise (i) simply the personal opinion of an outsider, or (ii) the personal opinion of someone O9A (or
formerly O9A) who is not yet – or who did not become – an Adept and who has yet to acquire, or who did
not acquire, from a decades-long sinisterly-numinous experience, the necessary pathei-mathos. Thus, in
the ancestral, aeonic, and esoteric, context provided by the inner O9A, such interpretations are not and
cannot be, of themselves, O9A.

The Inner O9A

The inner O9A – also known as ω9α, and as the 'Falciferian O9A' - are a small, secret, and select, group of
individuals who are personally known to each other, who have all attained at least the Grade of Internal
Adept along the Seven Fold Way, and who possess a noble cultured – a gentlemanly or lady-like –
demeanour, with the majority of these individuals being scholars, artists, musicians, or professionally
connected to established institutions of existing States. Only one or two individuals per decade are
inducted into ω9α, and which secret cabal ensures the continuation of O9A aural tradition as well as
engaging in aeonic sorcery and forming an ancestral repository of esoteric pathei-mathos (O9A, pagan,
and otherwise) with many members being exoterically linked by ties of kinship, or by (not necessarily
always heterosexual) marriage, or by those strong bonds of personal loyalty that an abiding friendship
coupled with certain shared esoteric deeds over several years most certainly develops.

The inner O9A therefore is primarily concerned with aeonic matters (such as sinister strategy and its
implementation by various tactics) and with adding to, via pathei-mathos, the sum total of occult
knowledge and human knowledge in general. It also shapes, and to a limited extent, via being a
repository of occult knowledge (ancient and modern) and of O9A pathei-mathos, 'guides' the outer – or
Vindexian – O9A, and which outer O9A is the slowly increasing and necessary presencing of the O9A path
and the O9A logos by those following an O9A praxis and living by the O9A code. In terms of sinister
strategy, our current iteration is

"where we expand nefariously, internationally, and often in the traditional esoteric manner of a
covert personal recruitment of those with our physis or whom we judge have the potential to
develop our type of physis. In practical terms this often amounts to recruiting (and then testing)
those individuals who are or who may be useful to us in our own esoteric quest and our own lives
and useful to our nexion (as in them beginning their own quest), and/or who may be useful to
the Aeonic aims of the O9A, as for example by them recruiting specific others or by them
'presencing the dark' through various actions and activities." Internus Homo Est Eius Anima,
Documents of the Inner O9A, 123 yfayen

KS, RP, et al, 2014

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