Tässä oikein mainio Order of Nine Angles järjestön artikkeli, joka hyvin valaisee Vasemman Käden Polun ja Satanismin todellista olemusta.
The Left Handed Path -
An Analysis
ONA
The Left Handed Path and Satanism are related insofar as Satanism is a particular LHP. The LHP is the name given to describe a system of esoteric knowledge and practical techniques - and this system is also known as ‘The Black Arts’.
The Difference Between the Left and Right Hand Paths:
The aim of all genuine Occult paths or systems, whether designated Right Hand or Left Hand, is to achieve or find a certain goal as well as to impart esoteric knowledge and abilities. The goal is variously described (e.g.‘Gnosis’, the Philosopher's Stone, Enlightenment).
However, it has been a common misconception that the RH Paths were altruistic and the LH Paths egocentric - i.e. the difference between them was seen in individual moral terms. Another misconception is in seeing the difference in absolute moral terms - i.e. the RH Paths as representing "good" and the LH Paths as "evil". Recently, attempts have been made to formulate ‘grey’ paths which combine elements of both, and such ‘grey’ paths are often said (by their exponents) to be the "true" Occult way or path.
The reality is quite different. The LH Paths and the RH Paths [hereafter, the singular ‘Path’ will be used, although the plural is to be understood] are quite distinct and differ in both their methods and their aims. The most fundamental difference is that the RHP is restrictive - certain things are forbidden or frowned upon - and collective. That is, the RHP takes some responsibility away from the individual by having a formal dogma, a code of ethics and behaviour and by having the individual participate in an organized grouping, however loose that grouping may be. In brief, the identity of the individual is to some extent taken away - by the beliefs systems which that individual has to accept, and by them accepting some higher ‘authority’, be such authority an individual, a group or an ‘ideology’ (or even, sometimes, a supra-personal Being - a ‘god’ or ‘gods’).
In contradistinction, the LHP in its methods is non-structured. In the genuine LHP there is nothing that is not permitted - nothing that is forbidden or restricted. That is, the LHP means the individual takes sole responsibility for their actions and their quest. This makes the LHP both difficult and dangerous - its methods can be used as an excuse for anti-social behaviour as they can be used to aid the fetishes and weaknesses of some individuals as well as lead some into forbidden and illegal acts. However, the genuine Initiate of the LHP is undertaking a quest, and as such is seeking something: that is, there is a dynamic, an imperative about their actions as well as the conscious understanding and appreciation that all such actions are only a part of that quest; they are not the quest itself. This arises because the LHP Initiate is seeking mastery and self-knowledge these being implicit in such an Initiation. Accordingly, the LHP Initiate sees methods as merely methods; experience as merely experience. Both are used, learned from and then discarded.
Because of this, the LHP is by its nature ruthless - the strong of character win through, the weak go under. There are no `safety nets' of any kind on the LHP - there is no dogma or ideology to rely on, no one to provide comfort and soften the blows, no organization, individual or `Being' to run to when things get difficult and which will provide support and sympathy and understanding. Or which, just as importantly, takes away the responsibility of the Initiate for their deeds.
The LHP breeds self-achievement and self-excellence - or its destroys, either literally, or via delusion and madness.
Further, the goal or aim of the LHP is individual specific - it is the raising of that individual to ‘god-head’; the fulfillment of individual potential and thus a discovery and fulfillment of their unique Destiny. That is, it breeds a unique character, a unique individual. The RHP, on the contrary, is concerned with ‘idealistic’ and thus supra-personal aims aiding ‘society’, ‘humanity’ and so on: the individual is `re-made' by abstract and impersonal farms.
The LHP by its nature means that its Initiates work mostly on their own. Followers of the LHP are masters of their as yet unmanifest Destiny. And while they may accept guidance and advice, they eschew any form of subservience: they learn for themselves, by their own experience and from their own self-effort. This is crucial to an understanding of the true nature of the LHP. The LHP means this self-reliance, this self-experience, this self-effort, this personal struggle for achievement. The RHP means someone else – some individual, or some authority or some hierarchy - awards or confers upon the RHP Initiate a sign or symbol of their "progress". That is, the RHP Initiate assumes the role of student, or ‘chela’ - and often that of sycophant. They rely on someone else or something beyond themselves, whereas the LHP Initiate relies only on themselves: their cunning, skill, character, desire, intelligence and so on. The successful LHP Initiate is the individual who learns from their own experiences and mistakes. The RHP Initiate tries to learn from theory - from what others have done.
Essentially, the LHP Initiate is a free spirit, already possessed of a certain willful character, while the RHP Initiate is in thrall to other people's ideas and ways of doing things.
The notion of self-responsibility is as mentioned above, crucial to the LHP and accordingly any organization which claims to be of the LHP and which does not uphold this in both theory and practice is a fraudulent organization. In practice this means that an organization does not restrict the experiences of its members - it does not, for instance, impose upon them any binding authority which the members have to accept or face ‘expulsion’ just as it does not lay down for them any codes of behaviour or ethics. That is, it does not promulgate a dogma which the members have to accept as it does not require those members to be obedient to what the hierarchy says. There is no "proscription" of certain views, or individuals or other organizations as there is no attempt to make members conform in terms of behaviour, attitudes, views, opinions, expressions or anything else. If there are any of these things, the organization so doing these things is most certainly not an organization of the Left Hand Path even though it may use some of the motifs, symbols and methods of the LHP. Such an organization is instead allied to the RHP in nature – in the effect it has upon it’s members.
In summary, the RHP is soft. The LHP is hard. The RHP is like a comfortable game – and one which can be played, left for a while, then taken up again. The LHP is a struggle which takes years. The RHP prescribes behaviour and limits personal responsibility. The LHP means self-responsibility and self-effort. The RHP requires the individual to conform in certain way. The LHP is non-restrictive. RHP organizations and ‘teachers’ require the Initiate to conform and accept the authority of that organization/‘teacher’. LHP organizations and Masters/Mistresses only offer advice and guidance, based on their own experience.
Satanism:
As mentioned above, Satanism is a particular LHP. Conventionally, and incorrectly, Satanism is described as ‘worship of Satan/the Devil’.
The word ‘Satan’ originally derived from the Greek word for ‘an accusation’. That is, Satan is an archetype of disruption - the Adversary who challenges the accepted, who defies - who desires to know. In essence, Satan is a symbol of dynamic motion: the generative or moving force behind evolution, change.
In reality, Satan is both symbolic or archetypal, and real. That is, He exists within the psyche of individuals, and beyond individuals.
Satanism is, in part, the acceptance of the necessity of change - of the reality of things like struggle, combat, war, creativity, individual genius, defiance. Of the evolutionary and puritive nature of these things. But Satanism is much more than the acceptance of the reality of these things of their necessity. It is also the individual seeking to be like Satan to be Satanic. A true Satanist does not worship some Being called Satan. Rather, a Satanist accepts the reality of Satan [on all levels] and quests to become, in their own life and beyond, a type of Being of the same kind as Satan - that is, to change their own evolution and that of others: to evolve to a new type of existence. The existence can be described by what is known as ‘Satan’. This quest is a dynamic and real one, and it means that those who aspire to follow the way of Satanism go further than others who merely follow the LHP. That is, Satanism leads to new areas of being: it goes beyond ‘the Black Arts’ while having its foundation or ground in those Arts. Part of this is a greater esoteric knowledge(e.g. Aeonic Magick) and part in techniques or methods or create a new individual. The Satanist effectively learns to play at being god.
Since Satanism, as described above, involves the individual questing to become like Satan, it is relevant to consider who and what Satan is.
Satan is the Prince of Darkness - Master of all that is hidden or secret, both within ourselves and external to ourselves. He is the ruler of this world - the force behind its evolutionary change; the ‘fire’ of life. He is Lord of Life - of all the sensual delights and pleasures.
He is also ‘evil’ or ‘dark’ or ‘sinister’ - merciless, ruthless, Master of Death. He can and does promote suffering, misery, death. But all these things are impersonal - they are natural consequences of life, of change and evolution.
Satan, by His nature, cannot be ‘bribed’ or ‘propitiated’ - and neither can His services be bought, by a "pact" or anything else. He is not interested in such futile things. Thus, there can be no such thing as a ‘religious’ Satanism - the offering of prayers or offerings or promises or whatever in return for Satanic favours. Such things imply fear, subservience and those other traits of character Satan despises. Rather, the satanic approach is to glory in Satanic deeds and chants and such like because they are Satanic - because by so doing them there is an exultation, an affirmation and a being like Satan: not because something is ‘expected’ or done out of fear of the consequences. It is by living life, by deeds, that a Satanist becomes like Satan and so evolves to partake of a new and higher existence. Such deeds are those to bring insight, self-discovery, to achieve, esoteric knowledge, experience of the `forbidden', of the pleasures of living - and they are also those which change others and the world and which thus can and do bring suffering, misery, death: which are, in short, evil.
Furthermore, Satan is a real Being - He is not simply a symbol, archetypal or otherwise, of certain natural forces or energies. He has life, exists - causes things to occur - external to our own, individual psyche. That is, our individual wills, or even our individual magick, cannot control Him [as the softee imitation Satanists like to believe]. However, this 'life' is not 'human' - it is not bound by a body or even by our causal time and space. Expressed esoterically, it is acausal.
Satan, however, is not alone - that is, He is not the only Dark, sinister Being who affects our world and thus existence. He has a female counter-part - a Mistress, Lover, Bride. Esoterically, Her name is Baphomet. She is the Dark Goddess.
Thus, a Satanic Initiate is often described as the lover of one or both of these sinister entities - and a genuine Satanic Initiation may be likened to a ritual copulation with either Satan or Baphomet [where the Priest/Priestess assumes the form of the entity]. In genuine Satanism there is no 'worship' of Satan (or Baphomet) - but rather an acceptance of Them as friends, lovers (or, in the early stages, sometimes a 'father' and 'mother' or a brother and sister).
A Satanist thus evolves toward a higher form -and expresses conscious evolution in action. Hence, Satanism is the quintessence of the Left Hand Path.
Evil:
It is a mistake, recently promulgated by some, to see the LHP in general and Satanism in particular as merely a body of esoteric knowledge and/or a collection, of rituals or magickal workings, either of which, or both, may be 'dipped into' for personal edification and to provide oneself with an 'image'.
All LH Paths are ordeals - they involve self-effort over a period of years. They are also dark, and involve the individuals who follow them going to and beyond the limits all societies impose. That is, they are sinister or 'evil', They involve real sinister acts in the real world - not a playing at sorcerers or sorceresses.
Certain individuals and certain organizations who claim to belong to the LHP have tried to dispel the 'evil' that surrounds the LHP and Satanism - by denying the very real evil nature of these paths. However, what do these imitation Satanists, these posturing pseuds, think Satanism is if not 'evil'? If Satanism is not evil, what is? [Or, more precisely, if Satan is not evil, who is?]
The true nature of evil - and thus Satanism and the LHP - has been misunderstood. Evil is natural and necessary - it tests, culls, provokes reaction and thus aids evolution. And to repeat - Satanism is replete with evil: it is evil. Satanists are sinister, evil. They cannot but be otherwise.
Evil, correctly defined, is part of the cosmic dialectic - it is force, which is a-moral: i.e. it is beyond the bounds of 'morals'. Morals derive from a limited (human - or, rather, pseudo-human) perspective, and a morality is a projection by individual consciousness onto reality. Nothing that is 'moral' or immoral exists. All morals are therefore artifice - they are abstractions. Actions, by individuals, which are normally considered as 'evil' are things that are done by individuals against others - that is, evil acts are considered as belonging to us, as a species. It is not considered 'evil' for a tiger to kill and eat a person: that is natural, in the nature of the tiger. What has been and generally is considered to be evil, in humans, is in general nothing more than instinct - or rather, a feeling, a pre-conscious desire or desires.
Such instinct is natural - the actions which result from it can be either beneficial or not. That is, the actions are not `evil' in themselves. They should not be judged by some artificial abstractions, but rather by their consequences - by their effects, which are either positive or negative. However, they can be positive or negative depending on circumstances: that is, the evaluation of them can vary depending on the perspective chosen. This perspective is usually that of 'time'. The only correct judgement about a particular act or action is one which takes into account the effects of that action not only in the present but also in the future, and this latter on a vast time-scale. Thus, the judgement concerning such acts is essentially a-personal - it bears little or no resemblance to the emotional affects of that act in the moments of that act or in the immediate moments following that act. [In the symbolic sense - and imprecisely - such judgement could be said to be that of 'the gods'.]
Real acts of evil are those which are done consciously - and these can be of two kinds. The first are ignorant acts: done from a lack of self-knowledge and usually with no appreciation of their effects beyond the moment. The second are impersonal acts done with a knowledge of the effects beyond that of the moment. The former involve no evaluation beyond the personal feelings; the latter involve an evaluation beyond the personal (although they may still be personal acts - i.e. of benefit to the individual). A Satanic act of evil is of this second kind - they are affective and effective: a participation in the cosmic dialectic. At first, they may not be fully understood -i.e. arise from instinct in the main. But the Satanic intent behind them makes the individual more conscious, more aware of their effects, both personal and supra-personal, thus enabling judgement to be cultivated.
Instinctive acts are not 'evil' - they usually derive from immaturity. Evil acts derive from maturity - but immaturity is required to reach this stage. That is, there is a growth. 'Morality' tries to stifle instinct and thus restricts growth. Satanic acts of evil in effect redress the balance - and allow real maturity to develop.
- Order of Nine Angles -
http://www.nasz-dom.net/
Lisää tietoa löytyy:
http://ona.satanicwebsites.com/
http://camlad9.tripod.com/
http://www.nineangles.info/
The Left Handed Path -
An Analysis
ONA
The Left Handed Path and Satanism are related insofar as Satanism is a particular LHP. The LHP is the name given to describe a system of esoteric knowledge and practical techniques - and this system is also known as ‘The Black Arts’.
The Difference Between the Left and Right Hand Paths:
The aim of all genuine Occult paths or systems, whether designated Right Hand or Left Hand, is to achieve or find a certain goal as well as to impart esoteric knowledge and abilities. The goal is variously described (e.g.‘Gnosis’, the Philosopher's Stone, Enlightenment).
However, it has been a common misconception that the RH Paths were altruistic and the LH Paths egocentric - i.e. the difference between them was seen in individual moral terms. Another misconception is in seeing the difference in absolute moral terms - i.e. the RH Paths as representing "good" and the LH Paths as "evil". Recently, attempts have been made to formulate ‘grey’ paths which combine elements of both, and such ‘grey’ paths are often said (by their exponents) to be the "true" Occult way or path.
The reality is quite different. The LH Paths and the RH Paths [hereafter, the singular ‘Path’ will be used, although the plural is to be understood] are quite distinct and differ in both their methods and their aims. The most fundamental difference is that the RHP is restrictive - certain things are forbidden or frowned upon - and collective. That is, the RHP takes some responsibility away from the individual by having a formal dogma, a code of ethics and behaviour and by having the individual participate in an organized grouping, however loose that grouping may be. In brief, the identity of the individual is to some extent taken away - by the beliefs systems which that individual has to accept, and by them accepting some higher ‘authority’, be such authority an individual, a group or an ‘ideology’ (or even, sometimes, a supra-personal Being - a ‘god’ or ‘gods’).
In contradistinction, the LHP in its methods is non-structured. In the genuine LHP there is nothing that is not permitted - nothing that is forbidden or restricted. That is, the LHP means the individual takes sole responsibility for their actions and their quest. This makes the LHP both difficult and dangerous - its methods can be used as an excuse for anti-social behaviour as they can be used to aid the fetishes and weaknesses of some individuals as well as lead some into forbidden and illegal acts. However, the genuine Initiate of the LHP is undertaking a quest, and as such is seeking something: that is, there is a dynamic, an imperative about their actions as well as the conscious understanding and appreciation that all such actions are only a part of that quest; they are not the quest itself. This arises because the LHP Initiate is seeking mastery and self-knowledge these being implicit in such an Initiation. Accordingly, the LHP Initiate sees methods as merely methods; experience as merely experience. Both are used, learned from and then discarded.
Because of this, the LHP is by its nature ruthless - the strong of character win through, the weak go under. There are no `safety nets' of any kind on the LHP - there is no dogma or ideology to rely on, no one to provide comfort and soften the blows, no organization, individual or `Being' to run to when things get difficult and which will provide support and sympathy and understanding. Or which, just as importantly, takes away the responsibility of the Initiate for their deeds.
The LHP breeds self-achievement and self-excellence - or its destroys, either literally, or via delusion and madness.
Further, the goal or aim of the LHP is individual specific - it is the raising of that individual to ‘god-head’; the fulfillment of individual potential and thus a discovery and fulfillment of their unique Destiny. That is, it breeds a unique character, a unique individual. The RHP, on the contrary, is concerned with ‘idealistic’ and thus supra-personal aims aiding ‘society’, ‘humanity’ and so on: the individual is `re-made' by abstract and impersonal farms.
The LHP by its nature means that its Initiates work mostly on their own. Followers of the LHP are masters of their as yet unmanifest Destiny. And while they may accept guidance and advice, they eschew any form of subservience: they learn for themselves, by their own experience and from their own self-effort. This is crucial to an understanding of the true nature of the LHP. The LHP means this self-reliance, this self-experience, this self-effort, this personal struggle for achievement. The RHP means someone else – some individual, or some authority or some hierarchy - awards or confers upon the RHP Initiate a sign or symbol of their "progress". That is, the RHP Initiate assumes the role of student, or ‘chela’ - and often that of sycophant. They rely on someone else or something beyond themselves, whereas the LHP Initiate relies only on themselves: their cunning, skill, character, desire, intelligence and so on. The successful LHP Initiate is the individual who learns from their own experiences and mistakes. The RHP Initiate tries to learn from theory - from what others have done.
Essentially, the LHP Initiate is a free spirit, already possessed of a certain willful character, while the RHP Initiate is in thrall to other people's ideas and ways of doing things.
The notion of self-responsibility is as mentioned above, crucial to the LHP and accordingly any organization which claims to be of the LHP and which does not uphold this in both theory and practice is a fraudulent organization. In practice this means that an organization does not restrict the experiences of its members - it does not, for instance, impose upon them any binding authority which the members have to accept or face ‘expulsion’ just as it does not lay down for them any codes of behaviour or ethics. That is, it does not promulgate a dogma which the members have to accept as it does not require those members to be obedient to what the hierarchy says. There is no "proscription" of certain views, or individuals or other organizations as there is no attempt to make members conform in terms of behaviour, attitudes, views, opinions, expressions or anything else. If there are any of these things, the organization so doing these things is most certainly not an organization of the Left Hand Path even though it may use some of the motifs, symbols and methods of the LHP. Such an organization is instead allied to the RHP in nature – in the effect it has upon it’s members.
In summary, the RHP is soft. The LHP is hard. The RHP is like a comfortable game – and one which can be played, left for a while, then taken up again. The LHP is a struggle which takes years. The RHP prescribes behaviour and limits personal responsibility. The LHP means self-responsibility and self-effort. The RHP requires the individual to conform in certain way. The LHP is non-restrictive. RHP organizations and ‘teachers’ require the Initiate to conform and accept the authority of that organization/‘teacher’. LHP organizations and Masters/Mistresses only offer advice and guidance, based on their own experience.
Satanism:
As mentioned above, Satanism is a particular LHP. Conventionally, and incorrectly, Satanism is described as ‘worship of Satan/the Devil’.
The word ‘Satan’ originally derived from the Greek word for ‘an accusation’. That is, Satan is an archetype of disruption - the Adversary who challenges the accepted, who defies - who desires to know. In essence, Satan is a symbol of dynamic motion: the generative or moving force behind evolution, change.
In reality, Satan is both symbolic or archetypal, and real. That is, He exists within the psyche of individuals, and beyond individuals.
Satanism is, in part, the acceptance of the necessity of change - of the reality of things like struggle, combat, war, creativity, individual genius, defiance. Of the evolutionary and puritive nature of these things. But Satanism is much more than the acceptance of the reality of these things of their necessity. It is also the individual seeking to be like Satan to be Satanic. A true Satanist does not worship some Being called Satan. Rather, a Satanist accepts the reality of Satan [on all levels] and quests to become, in their own life and beyond, a type of Being of the same kind as Satan - that is, to change their own evolution and that of others: to evolve to a new type of existence. The existence can be described by what is known as ‘Satan’. This quest is a dynamic and real one, and it means that those who aspire to follow the way of Satanism go further than others who merely follow the LHP. That is, Satanism leads to new areas of being: it goes beyond ‘the Black Arts’ while having its foundation or ground in those Arts. Part of this is a greater esoteric knowledge(e.g. Aeonic Magick) and part in techniques or methods or create a new individual. The Satanist effectively learns to play at being god.
Since Satanism, as described above, involves the individual questing to become like Satan, it is relevant to consider who and what Satan is.
Satan is the Prince of Darkness - Master of all that is hidden or secret, both within ourselves and external to ourselves. He is the ruler of this world - the force behind its evolutionary change; the ‘fire’ of life. He is Lord of Life - of all the sensual delights and pleasures.
He is also ‘evil’ or ‘dark’ or ‘sinister’ - merciless, ruthless, Master of Death. He can and does promote suffering, misery, death. But all these things are impersonal - they are natural consequences of life, of change and evolution.
Satan, by His nature, cannot be ‘bribed’ or ‘propitiated’ - and neither can His services be bought, by a "pact" or anything else. He is not interested in such futile things. Thus, there can be no such thing as a ‘religious’ Satanism - the offering of prayers or offerings or promises or whatever in return for Satanic favours. Such things imply fear, subservience and those other traits of character Satan despises. Rather, the satanic approach is to glory in Satanic deeds and chants and such like because they are Satanic - because by so doing them there is an exultation, an affirmation and a being like Satan: not because something is ‘expected’ or done out of fear of the consequences. It is by living life, by deeds, that a Satanist becomes like Satan and so evolves to partake of a new and higher existence. Such deeds are those to bring insight, self-discovery, to achieve, esoteric knowledge, experience of the `forbidden', of the pleasures of living - and they are also those which change others and the world and which thus can and do bring suffering, misery, death: which are, in short, evil.
Furthermore, Satan is a real Being - He is not simply a symbol, archetypal or otherwise, of certain natural forces or energies. He has life, exists - causes things to occur - external to our own, individual psyche. That is, our individual wills, or even our individual magick, cannot control Him [as the softee imitation Satanists like to believe]. However, this 'life' is not 'human' - it is not bound by a body or even by our causal time and space. Expressed esoterically, it is acausal.
Satan, however, is not alone - that is, He is not the only Dark, sinister Being who affects our world and thus existence. He has a female counter-part - a Mistress, Lover, Bride. Esoterically, Her name is Baphomet. She is the Dark Goddess.
Thus, a Satanic Initiate is often described as the lover of one or both of these sinister entities - and a genuine Satanic Initiation may be likened to a ritual copulation with either Satan or Baphomet [where the Priest/Priestess assumes the form of the entity]. In genuine Satanism there is no 'worship' of Satan (or Baphomet) - but rather an acceptance of Them as friends, lovers (or, in the early stages, sometimes a 'father' and 'mother' or a brother and sister).
A Satanist thus evolves toward a higher form -and expresses conscious evolution in action. Hence, Satanism is the quintessence of the Left Hand Path.
Evil:
It is a mistake, recently promulgated by some, to see the LHP in general and Satanism in particular as merely a body of esoteric knowledge and/or a collection, of rituals or magickal workings, either of which, or both, may be 'dipped into' for personal edification and to provide oneself with an 'image'.
All LH Paths are ordeals - they involve self-effort over a period of years. They are also dark, and involve the individuals who follow them going to and beyond the limits all societies impose. That is, they are sinister or 'evil', They involve real sinister acts in the real world - not a playing at sorcerers or sorceresses.
Certain individuals and certain organizations who claim to belong to the LHP have tried to dispel the 'evil' that surrounds the LHP and Satanism - by denying the very real evil nature of these paths. However, what do these imitation Satanists, these posturing pseuds, think Satanism is if not 'evil'? If Satanism is not evil, what is? [Or, more precisely, if Satan is not evil, who is?]
The true nature of evil - and thus Satanism and the LHP - has been misunderstood. Evil is natural and necessary - it tests, culls, provokes reaction and thus aids evolution. And to repeat - Satanism is replete with evil: it is evil. Satanists are sinister, evil. They cannot but be otherwise.
Evil, correctly defined, is part of the cosmic dialectic - it is force, which is a-moral: i.e. it is beyond the bounds of 'morals'. Morals derive from a limited (human - or, rather, pseudo-human) perspective, and a morality is a projection by individual consciousness onto reality. Nothing that is 'moral' or immoral exists. All morals are therefore artifice - they are abstractions. Actions, by individuals, which are normally considered as 'evil' are things that are done by individuals against others - that is, evil acts are considered as belonging to us, as a species. It is not considered 'evil' for a tiger to kill and eat a person: that is natural, in the nature of the tiger. What has been and generally is considered to be evil, in humans, is in general nothing more than instinct - or rather, a feeling, a pre-conscious desire or desires.
Such instinct is natural - the actions which result from it can be either beneficial or not. That is, the actions are not `evil' in themselves. They should not be judged by some artificial abstractions, but rather by their consequences - by their effects, which are either positive or negative. However, they can be positive or negative depending on circumstances: that is, the evaluation of them can vary depending on the perspective chosen. This perspective is usually that of 'time'. The only correct judgement about a particular act or action is one which takes into account the effects of that action not only in the present but also in the future, and this latter on a vast time-scale. Thus, the judgement concerning such acts is essentially a-personal - it bears little or no resemblance to the emotional affects of that act in the moments of that act or in the immediate moments following that act. [In the symbolic sense - and imprecisely - such judgement could be said to be that of 'the gods'.]
Real acts of evil are those which are done consciously - and these can be of two kinds. The first are ignorant acts: done from a lack of self-knowledge and usually with no appreciation of their effects beyond the moment. The second are impersonal acts done with a knowledge of the effects beyond that of the moment. The former involve no evaluation beyond the personal feelings; the latter involve an evaluation beyond the personal (although they may still be personal acts - i.e. of benefit to the individual). A Satanic act of evil is of this second kind - they are affective and effective: a participation in the cosmic dialectic. At first, they may not be fully understood -i.e. arise from instinct in the main. But the Satanic intent behind them makes the individual more conscious, more aware of their effects, both personal and supra-personal, thus enabling judgement to be cultivated.
Instinctive acts are not 'evil' - they usually derive from immaturity. Evil acts derive from maturity - but immaturity is required to reach this stage. That is, there is a growth. 'Morality' tries to stifle instinct and thus restricts growth. Satanic acts of evil in effect redress the balance - and allow real maturity to develop.
- Order of Nine Angles -
http://www.nasz-dom.net/
Lisää tietoa löytyy:
http://ona.satanicwebsites.com/
http://camlad9.tripod.com/
http://www.nineangles.info/
Vastaukset 23
Vanhimmat
O.N.A. on näitä teinien "vakavasti otettavia" truu-iivil-veekoopee-juttuja... joista kellään ei ole oikeassa elämässä mitään krediittejä tms.
että kiitos vain hyvistä nauruista! :D
(Perustaja?)jäsen David Myatt on varmaan ylittänyt jo reilusti teini-iän. Myöskään järjestön toimet eivät ole jääneet pelkästään puheiden tasolle. Esimerkistä minulla on artikkeli, jota en nyt jaksa esille kaivaa. (Aurinko kutsuu!)
Siunausta.
Vasemman-puolen-polku johtaa ykseydestä yksilöllisyyteen, kun taas oikean-puolen-polku yksilölliyydestä yhteyteen/kollektiivisuuteen.
Ei hirveästi jaksa inspiroitua näin mustavalkoisesta hard-soft/black-white/good-evil-retoriikasta kuin ONAlla. Samaa soopaa on Myattin tuutista tullut 80-luvun loppupuolelta lähtien.
Internetissä on useita Myattia käsitteleviä/ihannoivia sivuja, joissa on Myattin natsismi-satanismi-islam-aiheisia tekstejä, runoja yms. "Myatt-tietoa" valokuvia myöten. Näitä sivustoja tehtailee mitä todennäköisemmin Myatt itse.
Oheisessa Left Handed Path-tekstissä ilmenee jälleen myös se, kuinka saatanan heprealainen alkuperä oli antisemitistiselle, Hitleriä ylistävälle Myattille liikaa. Niinpä hän kirjoituksissaan tietoisesti rajaakin sanan alkuperän vain antiikin Kreikan lähteisiin. Tämä sopii paremmin hänen ideologiaansa, vaikka saatanan (ja satanismin) alkuperä on oikeasti läheisesti kytköksissä juutalaiskristillisyyteen.
Kaiken kaikkiaan Myattin eri tekstit alkavat aika pian tuntua pitkäpiimäiseltä jauhamiselta. Ehkäpä muutama nuori ja angstinen poikaparka saa säväreitä ONAn Fight Club-okkultismin retoriikasta, itseäni ei nämä pintapuoliset VKP/OKP-määritelmät ja tolkuton uhoaminen vakuuta.
Oma suhtautuminen ONA järjestöön on se että näen että siinä on paljon mielenkiintoisia elementtejä, joida voidaan jalostaa ja kehittää vielä pidemmälle. Yksi tärkeimmistä ONA:n tavoitteista on luoda ja opastaa vahvoja yksilöitä: yksilöitä, joilla on itsekuria ja jotka käyttävät heidän omaa henkilökohtaista arviointikykyä ja jotka eivät siten turvaudu muiden käsitteisiin, ideoihin, muotoihin, teorioihin, lakeihin tai etiikkaan - ja tähän kuuluu myös ONA:n omat käsitykset. Tarkoitus on luoda yksilöitä joihin ne voimat, joita hallitukset, poliitikot, media, uskonnot ja instituutiot yleensä käyttävät yrittäessään houkutella ja manipuloida ja hallitakseen ihmisiä.
On tärkeää muistaa että ONA on kokoajan kehittymässä ja muuttumassa joksikin muuksi kuin
mitä se on tällä hetkellä. Traditio itsessään on ajaton ja tulee kehittymään - säilyttääkseen ihmisen potentiaalin täyttymisen mahdollisuuksia - minkä tahansa välineen avulla. Pimeä Traditio on minkä tahansa muodon yläpuolella ja on jatkuva liike kohti noita asioita, joita me ei tällä hetkellä pystytä edes kuvittelemaan. "Muodot" ja (kausaaliset) käsitteet ovat aika merkityksettömiä tradition myöhemmissä vaiheissa, niistä tulee jotain paljon perusteellisempaa ja syvällisempää.
ONA:n omaksuma Kosminen Pyörä hienolla tavalla ilmentää juuri tätä pyrkimystä: Se on on sanomaton ilmaisu ihmisen kohtalosta ja edustaa sitä ääretöntä kosmista komennusta, johon ydin ikuisesti virtaa. Se on meidän potentiaalin, tietoisuuden kehityksen loppumattoman kamppailun ja meidän ainutlaatuisen soturi eetoksen symboli. Se säilyttää pyhänä tahtoa, päättäväisyyttä ja pyrkimystä tuoda suuren skaalan muutos. Se
on sekä luominen että tuhoutuminen; elämä ja kuolema - jälleenherääminen ja kosmoksen
valo. Siihen kuuluu viisaus, joka on saavutettu kokemuksessa ja kokemus, joka on saavutettu suurista kamppailuista. Se on kaukaisten galaksien tähti ja valo meidän matkoille. Se on tasapaino - valo ja pimeys, kaaos ja järjestys. Silti se ei ole mikään näistä asioista - se on mikä on näiden asioiden tuolla puolen. Ennenkaikkea se ilmentää sitä mikä Galaktista tai Synkkää (Sinister).
Tulee koittamaan aika kun ONA ja yksilöt - jotka ovat osana sitä tai ovat sen vaikuttamia - tulevat ulkoisesti hajottamaan "Satanismin" retoriikan, kuvat ja muodot, sillä sellaiset asiat ovat kausaalisia ilmentymiä, jotka on sidoksissa tiettyyn Aioniin. Voidaan sanoa että "Satanismi" ja "Vasemman Käden Polku" itsessään ei merkitse mitään. Se on todellinen maailma ja meidän olemassaolo, jolla on merkitystä. Myös keinot ja magia, jonka avulla me tuomme esille akausaalista tulevat muuttumaan. Siten, tulee tapahtumaan siirtyminen rituaalista ja avoimista Vanhan Aionin symbolismista - ja erityisesti "sanoista ja "kuvista" - kohti paljon synkempää magiaa, joka ilmentää akausaalista ilman kausaalisten muotojen tarvetta...
Täytyy myös muistaa että on olemassa muutamia esoteerisiä järjestöjä ja ryhmiä, jotka ovat
saanet inspiraationsa ja tietonsa ONA:lta, vaikkakin jotkut näistä organisaatioista ja
ryhmistä eivät saata julkisesti tiedostaa tätä ja saattavat joskus jopa yrittää etäännyttää itsensä heidän lähteestä esimerkiksi kritisoimalla ONA:ta tai sitä minkä näkevät/väärinymmärtävät sen "opetukseksi". Tätä tietysti pätee myös niihin yksilöihin, jotka tavalla tai toisella ovat ONA:n inspiroimia.
Itse käytän ONA:n opetuksia yleisenä oppaana. En ota kaikkea ONA:n opetuksia liian kirjaimellisesti ja enkä niin sanotusti "nielaise kaikkea kokonaisena". ONA on väline ja antaa filosofian ja metodin jota voidaan käyttää hyväksi parhalla näkemällään tavalla.
Otan siitä ne elementit, jotka näen arvokkaana ja loppuun suhtaudun varkauksellisemmin, tai sanotaanko että en välttämätt ymmärrä tiettyjen asioiden välttämättömyyttä. Eritysesti minua kiehtii ONA:n maaginen puoli ja kosminen visio; matka kohti sitä, josta ONA käyttää nimitystä "Homo Galactica".
Jokaisen täytyy löytää oma polkunsa, käyttäen tekstejä ja muita lähteitä *yleisenä oppaana*, ei reseptinä, jota pitäisi seurata orjallisesti sillä perusteella että että se kuuluu johonkin muinaiseen ja mystiseen "Pimeään Traditioon". Minun ONA kritiikki kohdistuu lähinnä niihin, jotka suhtautuvat ONA:n opetuksiin naiivisti ja liian kirjaimellisesti: ottavat kaikki ONA:n opetukset sellaisenaan ilman tarkempaa analyysiä.
Minun kiinnostus on yksin eetoksessa/hengessä, josta ONA on vain yksi historiallinen esimerkki ja ilmenemismuoto. Vaikkakin olen eri mieltä jossakin asioissa, en halua kuitenkaan väheksyä sitä traditiota, jota ONA pyrkii omalla tavallaan tuomaan esille.
Mielestäni, ONA on tällä hetkellä ainoa "ryhmä" tai "järjestö", jonka älykkyys on tehnyt minuun suuren vaikutuksen ja joka tuo esille ns. "Vasemman Käden Polun/Satanismin/Pimeyden" filosofiaa, henkeä ja metodeja aidommin kuin mikään muu tuntemani järjestö tai ryhmä.
Mutta jokainen muodostakoot omat johtopäätelmät ONA:sta & Myattista tai niinkuin eräällä Myatt sivulla kirjoitettiin että ehkä se mitä ajattelemme Myattista kertoo enemmän meistä kuin mitä se kertoo Myattista.
Myöskin nämä pari sitaattia ja artikkeli saattavat myöskin osaltaan selventää joitakin asioita:
"The reality of the present is that the majority of people are far from human maturity, living as they do like human children in adult bodies, in thrall to their passions, desires, and easily
influenced and swayed by other people, by rhetoric, by Media manipulation, by unconscious energies, and other such things.
A truely mature human being is one who has mastered themselves; one who can know and experience great sorrow, great happiness, great joy, great suffering, but who remains strong despite such things. Such a mature individual is unique, and truely free. This does not mean some kind of selfish, anarchic, self-indulgence. Rather, it means personal honour, for honour is the beginning, the foundation, of human freedom, for individuals and society itself.
One of the signs of our immaturity is that most of us need to assign labels to ourselves and others, for this gives us a sense of security, of identity. It enables us to believe that we "know and understand" other people. For a mature individual, the labels of society are irrelevant.
Thus, in my own life I have been many things, according to conventional labels: Satanist; Catholic monk; Muslim; National- Socialist; pagan; convict; terrorist; assassin; Taoist; criminal;
poet; mercenary. And so on. But these conventional labels are irrelevant.
The error is that life, being in essence acausal, cannot be described in the finite causal terms inherent in all such labels, categories, concepts and isms. To so describe it, is to limit and mis-understand it: to impose a causal perception upon what is not- causal.....
One of the fundamental aims of the ONA is to change individuals through the Art of Internal Magick: to bring them to, and beyond, the stage of Adeptship. For thus will they develope into mature
human beings. The second fundamental aim is for the ONA, and such Adepts, to change this world. One important means of such change is through the dissemination of ideas, ideologies, and what has been called archetypes, for these ideas, ideologies and archetypes are - if correctly created and disseminated - living beings: manifestations of what I have called acausal energies. As such, they possess magickal energy: the power to motivate, to inspire,
individuals...." - Presencing The Dark: The Weird Life of Anton Long, Anton Long"
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Richard Stirling sanoo eräässä haastattelussa näin:
"Thus - and to confuse those still in thrall to Old Aeon modes - the esoteric is the key to understanding Myatt. But it is an esoteric Way devoid of the conventional labels that many have sought to attach to the Way he has been following, for he has gone far beyond these labels, so far, in truth, that he created a new Way, imbued with the very essence of the acausal. The conventional labels, such as "the satanic" - applied by journalists and those who stilll have to think, and be, in such outmoded terms and ways - have been transcended. They are no longer necessary, nor can they correctly describe what-is.
The Way is highly individualistic - that is anarchic, in the correct sense of that term - in that it seeks to create, and develop unique individuals who are no longer in thrall to their own desires, their own unconscious, no longer in thrall to archetypes, or to ideas, forms, and abstractions, past and present, and who know governments, of whatever so called political persuasion, and nation-States, for the impersonal inhuman, anti-evolutionary, unfree, tyrannies they are or will become.
In the process of his quest, Myatt has made conscious - explicated in a rational way - those things which make us human and which possess the potential to evolve us further, and such evolution, of the individual, is the essence of his Way. That is, he has returned genuine freedom to us, explaining that real freedom involves us being responsible for ourselves, and having not only the resourcefulness, the intelligence, to survive, but also the vision - the empathy - which is the beginning of genuine personal honor and the
essence of our very humanity. This arises from practical experience - from the practical synthesis of opposites. Naturally, those tied to the Old Aeon ways of thinking, and of being, will assume or believe there is a dichotomy here. But, of course, they are incorrect - because the very
terms of their thinking are flawed. In the same way, one might argue - with justification - that the ONA is, and is not, a Sinister organization, and is, and is not, an Order.
Thus, Myatt has championed Islam - and especially Jihad - to counter-balance the hubris, the tyranny, of the modern West with its inhuman abstractions, its hypocrisy, its State-sanctioned terror, its nation-States, its plebeian materialistic dishonorable un-numinous ethos, sensing or knowing the threat that radical poses to this tyrannical, almost world-embracing, but most certainly anti-evolutionary, order. Thus, he has championed National Socialism over and above the insipid so called liberal democracy which festers in the body-politic of the West, which liberal democracy is undoing the work of
Nature and championing the common, the plebeian, as opposed to the best, as opposed to excellence. Thus, he has championed an esoteric Way which is dark, sinister, dangerous and practical and which requires self-discipline, to counter the mumblings of the wishy-washy white-light wiccan-type phantasists, and to counter the fake Satanists. Thus, he has championed the ethic of personal honor - of the duel - to balance the insistence by our tyrannical States that their impersonal laws and their bullying Police forces are "the law" and represent "true justice". Thus, he has championed the empathy of The Numinous Way to counter-balance the subsuming ethos of material progress and world-wide destructive capitalist development. And so on, et cetera. This is a genuine Mage, at work, and at play." - Richard Stirling, Questions About David Myatt.
http://www.geocities.com/davidmyatt/questions_myatt.html
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Legends, Myths, Tests - and Laughter
Let us not forget that the Sinister Path involves a lot of fun - a lot of laughter and pleasure - as well as a certain dark, and sometimes even grim, striving. There is and should be ecstasy; exultation - as there must be, beyond the stage of novice, the ability, as I have wriiten elsewhere, to not take one's self too seriously: to have fun at one's own expense.
It is one of the many signs of the failures - of those who pose at being Satanists - that they take themselves too seriously, and can become obsessed, with themselves, with others, with "things". Our way means self-understanding and self-honesty - we have to know, and admit, when we are wrong and so - knowing and admitting - we can move on, learning from our errors of experience.
Those along our Way should always test themselves - as those, being guided, will sometimes be tested. Always, there should be questions, a striving to understand, to know, to not be satisfied with what is given, or read, or shown, or told. What is important is the practical experience, the following of the Way, the learning that results - nearly everything is a form, a presencing, and thus only a beginning, a move toward that genuine understanding which is beyond all causal forms.
Thus, legends, myths, traditions - even those of the ONA! - may be interesting and they may (or may not) possess some aspect or aspects of a certain causal truth, often limited to a certain causal time. Mostly, such things are tools, a means - to create what is beyond them, which is of the essence from which such "things" derive. All these things should therefore be related to this, their context. But it is up to each and every novice, and Initiate, to study such things - to analyze them, and to form their own conclusions about such things. Their conclusions may be wrong - but so what?
There is a real truth in the seeming riddle that the ONA is, and is not, a tradition. Like a numinous musical creation, there are many layers, just as many and diverse "meanings" can be projected onto the ONA. But in the end even the ONA, public or esoteric - what is found or given or discovered by each new Initiate and Adept - is but one means to take us from this lowly causal existence to the realms where true magick and real living begin..... And what fun can we have on the way!
"One of the least-known but important signs of a genuine Adept of our Dark Tradition, our sinister way, is the ability to not take one's self too seriously - to laugh, at one's self, and especially at others: those who fall for the japes, the games, the riddles, the tests, that we as Adepts set for neophytes, for the poseurs, for the supine masses. For we revel in such things, in such games, which we create and play for our own amusement, and that of others like us, just as we love to be changelings and cause confusion, misunderstanding, doubt, uncertainty - and, occasionally, the light of insight, dawning as it can and does upon one person possessed of our own evolutionary and magickal abilities, perchance propelling that person towards us and our ways..." (The Laughter of the Adept)
Anton Long
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Katso myös:
http://ona.satanicwebsites.com/septenary/saturn/eira__a_satanic_guide_to_future_magick.htm
http://ona.satanicwebsites.com/septenary/saturn/exeat__the_sinister_western_tradition.htm
http://www.nineangles.info/five-way.html
http://www.nineangles.info/return_dark.html
Harvinaisen fiksu kirjoitus, josta näkee että tiedät aiheesta harvinaisen paljon. Sanon kuitenkin, että tällä foorumilla tietosi jä älykkyytesi menevät kuin helmet sioille.
No, kiitos nyt ainakin siitä, että pistit vaivaa kirjoitukseesi. "Pikkuisen" lyhyemmin voisit kuitenkin kirjoittaa.
Yleisesti ottaen ONA kuitenkin kuulostaa kaiken kuulemani perusteella taas yhdeltä pseudo-satanistiselta hengelliseltä järjestöltä. Ja hengellisyyshän ei missään nimessä kuulu satanismiin, sillä eihän sitä ole olemassakaan! Itsensä kehittäminen "korkeammille tasoille" vastaa ikävästi itämaista transendentialismia joka saa aikaan akuutin halveksunta-reaktion.
ONAn projekti tai sen edustama linja ei sinänsä kiinnosta, mutta huomioni kiinnittyi Lightbearerin kommentissa ilmenneeseen "hengellisyyden" ja "itsensä kehittämisen" halveksuntaan. Haluamatta suuremmin arvostella ketään yksittäistä henkilöä, "Light-bearer"-nimimerkin omaavan luulisi hieman kuitenkin kykenevän arvostamaan kehittymistä kohti "korkeampia tasoja" ts. pyrkimystä entistä parempaan ja tehokkaampaan oman itsensä ilmentämiseen psykofyysisenä kokonaisuutena. Siitä "itsensä kehittämisessä" yleensä on kysymys, kielikuvista huolimatta. Tämä ei sulje pois elämästä nauttimista, mutta laveylaisen satanismin korostama hedonistinen elämysten keräily ja sokean ylimielinen "vain minä merkitsen"-asenne, vaikuttaa aika köyhältä kokonaistarkoitukselta elämälle.
minäkin kiinnitin huomioni. Ihmisessä tapahtuu jonkinlaista henkistä kehitystä väistämättä ja luulisi satanistin nimenomaan jopa pyrkivän siihen. Tai ainakin minä pyrin. Hengellisyys ei välttämättä tarkota UFO-ukkojen kanssa paneskelua tai todellisuudesta irtaantumista. Ihmiset saa nautintoa ja päräyttäviä kokemuksia eri asioista, joku naimisesta, toinen meditoinnista. Eikö satanistin pitäisi seurata vaistojaan ja tehdä sitä, mikä hyvältä tuntuu?
Taisin ilmaista pointtini vähän huonosti. En tarkoittanut käytönnön itsekehityksen, esim. kuntoilun, opiskelun yms, olevan mitenkään huono asia. Päinvastoin, be all you can be on satanismin keskusideoita. Mutta sitten kun aletaan puhua aktuaalisten saavutusten sijasta "korkeammista tasoista" ja ei-materiaalisesta kehityksestä niin liikutaan heikoilla jäillä.
Hengellisyys tarkoittaa minun kirjoissani fyysisestä irrallista kokonaisuutta, sielua etc. Realistisesti tällaista ei ole, vaan ihmisen koko henkinen(mental) olemus perustuu täysin hänen hyvin materiaaliin aivoihinsa.
Ja mainitsit elämän tarkoituksen? Elämällähän ei tieteellisesti ole mitään muuta "tarkoitusta" kuin jatkua replikoiden itseään. Kaikki muu on omaa valintaa: joidenkin elämän tarkoitus on kerätä kaikki Pokemonit, jonkun nähdä kaikki maailman ihmeet ja jonkun vain ansaita rahaa.
"Mutta sitten kun aletaan puhua aktuaalisten saavutusten sijasta "korkeammista tasoista" ja ei-materiaalisesta kehityksestä niin liikutaan heikoilla jäillä."
Korjaan lainauksella:
"Tasks:
3) Set yourself one very demanding physical goal, train and achieve or surpass that goal. [Examples of minimum standards are, for men: walking thirty-two miles in less than seven hours in hilly terrain; running twenty miles in hilly terrain in less than two and a half hours. Cycling one hundred miles in under five and a half hours. For women, the acceptable minimum standards are: walking twenty-seven miles in hilly terrain in less than seven hours; running twenty miles in hilly terrain in less than three hours; cycling one hundred miles in under six and one quarter hours.]"
http://camlad9.tripod.com/brief.html
Mitä tulee pseudo-satanismin määrittelyyn ja vähän muuhunkin aiemmin käytyyn keskusteluun, niin ehkä seuraava artikkeli antaa jonkinlaista selvennystä asiaan:
A Treatise Against Modern Satanism
Vilnius Thornian, ONA.
May 31st, 2001 ev
Prelude to Hell
Many are and have been surprised by the Order’s assertion that Satanism goes beyond the selfish egotism others have established under the guise of "Satanism." The real essence of Satanism is in the experiencing of existence, through the many important tasks that face an initiate or adept, as laid out in the Seven-fold way. Satanism is a path to enlightenment and personal empowerment that far exceeds the long winded hallucinations of the occult world.
The most obvious, and most ridiculous avenue for the disease of self-delusion are the "learned" and opinioned satanists of the Internet. On the internet, one may throw a dime in any direction and hit square in the forehead one of these deluded "satanists," using their keyboard as a soapbox to educate the world on their weakish system of belief. These are the types that amount to 90% the world of "satanists." Those who will never bloody their hands, take a real chance with real consequences, create real and intensely profound works of art, play a chaconne on an instrument of their own making… They are letting their front of selfishness and intellectualism prohibit them from experiencing the real perils of existence. They are those who cannot question even their own motives, even if it means an important catharsis, but are driven rather to be a rebel only when it is easy, and to adopt what is "morally right" whenever presented with a slight dilemma.
One important thing the internet has accomplished, is to de-mystify the ridiculous image these pseudo-satanists have created for themselves through playacting. Anyone who now looks at what "satanism" has become over the internet would be hard pressed to see it with any sort of seriousness. The pretense is so thick one could stick a knife in it, and so transparent one could miss it entirely. It should be painfully obvious to anyone even slightly perceptive, to which organizations I am referring – and I won’t take any more time addressing this.
Fugue
What the surface of satanism has served to do, is to encourage others to find something more attractive, interesting, and daring. To find the real essence of Satanism, to reveal and confront their shadow, and begin a black process of spiritual alchemy.
Our tradition, the Dark or Septenary Tradition, has been for many one of mystery for many years, until in the 1980s, the Grand Master representing Traditional Satanism decided the time was right to make the tradition available to all. It was in keeping with this decision, as the present outer representative for the order, that I released many hitherto unreleased and difficult to find manuscripts on the internet at Nasz-Dom. This was done partly to inspire new initiates, partly to preserve the tradition, and partly to further its expansion into America, which has been one of my chief intentions in my offer to guide those of potential through their initiation and further.
It takes more than a cursory reading of the documents to understand our tradition in a reasonable capacity. It is through the trials and tribulations, the failures and triumphs of initiation that one may begin to see the light of the cosmos for which our way is a gate. Other initiatory systems lack mostly in their lack of emphasis on physical real world experience. To explore the shadow self means little if simply playing at a game, if one is within safe means, taking no chances. It is the integration of the darkness into one’s actions, and thus the genuine experience of terror that brings true understanding. A Satanist is calculating and daring, ready to explore and promote that which breaks down the system, and make a real strike against that which stifles the evolution of life. Often time, at the expense of the life of the worthless dross – indeed, those whose selfishness holds them in thrall to their ego and their petty comfort of life.
It is only through the experience of real and genuine darkness, through the abhorrent discomfort one must endure that we may be hardened to achieve a balance of existence, a harmony of the spheres, where we may thus overcome the confines and control of that which has tried to stifle us since birth. It is only through experiencing the realness of both life and death, that we may come to a reasonable though intuitive understanding of existence, and then push it forward.
Our path’s specific intent is to guide each initiate through their awakening and understanding of the cosmos, so they may advance the human race to the next step of its existence. This involves drastic measures – and real and tangible terror - the only kind that can bring real insight; the only kind that can expand the boundaries of existence and bring us toward the next step. What this infers, should not be under-estimated.
Allegro
It is obvious that our path differs greatly from the boring and petty first phase sort of Satanism exhibited by most. I must make a point however, that the indulgence and ego-gratification one must go through (add blasphemy, angst, etc) is an important catharic step – but only that, a step toward something greater. That the world of "satanism" is mostly caught up in this preliminary step is really not the annoyance one might think it, but rather it provides, especially in its apologetic current state, a good cover for the genuine Satanists to work under.
I am greatly amused by the controversy amongst other "satanists" regarding our Tradition, which is telling of their lack of both confidence and genuinely Satanic character. One such form that often brings heavy controversy is that of Temple 88 – a facet of our tradition that involves intensive promotion of Aryanism/National-Socialism, which is an important aspect of both personal development and Aeonic strategy. As the perceptive will guess, this partly involves a coming to terms with the current heresy of heresies – often proven to be a point of contention with many, yet an essential overcoming. It is telling that most cannot view this in something other than the terms they are brought up with, and choose not to face such a heresy with questions as to their motives. This is as far as I shall delve into this buzzword, except to point out the fact that Aryanism is a form to be used, and that our tradition cannot be confined within this or any such form, since it exists beyond all such things and is as a hand reaching toward those future forms that at present cannot be fathomed. Our tradition is timeless, and will henceforth remain underground, and ever present.
With one last personal note – I am privileged to have seen the direct effects initiates of our tradition have had on the world as a whole, and to continue to be a part. Seize the day!
Vilnius Thornian
Hei Nythra,
kirjoitit:
"Tulee koittamaan aika kun ONA ja yksilöt - jotka ovat osana sitä tai ovat sen vaikuttamia - tulevat ulkoisesti hajottamaan "Satanismin" retoriikan, kuvat ja muodot, sillä sellaiset asiat ovat kausaalisia ilmentymiä, jotka on sidoksissa tiettyyn Aioniin. Voidaan sanoa että "Satanismi" ja "Vasemman Käden Polku" itsessään ei merkitse mitään."
Voisitko kertoa tästä lisää ja ehkä antaa esimerkkejä siitä, millaisia "satanismin ylittäviä" muotoja ONA sitten käyttää/aikoo käyttää? Toistaiseksi retoriikka on hyvin tyypillistä pompöösiä Saatana-elitismiä, aivan kuten omalla kornilla tavallaan myös aivan toisentyyppisten jenkkisatanistien "material wealth"/"indulgence"/"man is just another animal"-retoriikka. Jos todellisuuden ilmentäminen on se juttu, miksi turvautua ismeihin kuten satanismi ja kansallissosialismi?
Itselle nauraminen on tervettä. Mutta jokseenkin samantyyppistä amerikkalaishenkistä misantropiaa edustaa oheistamasi artikkelin toinen puoli ONAn asenteesta, jossa naureskellaan ylimielisesti muille. Tulee mieleen amerikkalaisen misantroopin, Ambroce Biercen väite siitä, kuinka "onni syntyy toisten ihmisten kurjuuden tarkastelusta".
Vielä eräs kysymys: miksi magian tulee olla "synkkää"? Tämä tuntuu olevan ONAlla myös aika turha itseisarvo.
"Jos todellisuuden ilmentäminen on se juttu, miksi turvautua ismeihin kuten satanismi ja kansallissosialismi?"
ONAhan ei itsessään edusta mitään ismiä, mutta pitää kansallissosialismia tämän ajan eetoksen vastakohtana ja siten se edustaa harhaoppia. Myöskään itse Saatanaakin pidetään väliaikaisena ilmentymänä tietyille voimille. Teesi antiteesi = synteesi.
"Vielä eräs kysymys: miksi magian tulee olla "synkkää"? Tämä tuntuu olevan ONAlla myös aika turha itseisarvo."
Eniten tämä "synkkyys" ilmenee Anton Longin teksteistä ja josta esim. pseudonyymillä Christos Beest kulkeva Herra yritti johdatella organisaatiota poispäin. "Synkkyys" ja "pahuus" kuuluvat enemmänkin initiaatin alkupään intresseihin, jolloin hän tutustuu omiin (piilotettuihin) ominaisuuksiinsa. Tästä eteenpäin hänen tulisi kuitenkin toimia moraalisesti korkeammalla tasolla (ns. aionisesti ja evolutionäärisesti.)
Richard Sterling/Christos Beest, joka on mm. ONAn vanhan "Self-Immolation Rite"-pathworking-kasetin ja "Satanic Tarot"-korttien tekijä, on muuten oikealta nimeltään Richard Moult. Moult aloitti "uransa" Wiccana (!), mutta Myattin tavattuaan siirtyi ONAan. Asuu edelleen "syrjäisellä mäellä Shropshiressa, lähellä Walesin rajaa".Shropshiren seutu on ONA-myytin ja magiikan keskeinen territoorio. Eli sinne vain ONAsta innostuneet pyhiinvaellukselle ja ko. miehiä etsimään. Ei mikään ylitsepääsemätön tehtävä, kun kyseessä ei ole mikään miljoonien asuttama metropoli.
Moultin taiteilija-säveltäjä-sivusto löytyy osoitteesta:
http://www.gazetree.com
Musiikkia voi kuulla täällä:
http://www.myspace.com/richardmoult
Immanentin materialismin tms. varaan rakennettu maailmanselitysmalli ei pidä sisällään magian mahdollisuutta, joten minua ihmetyttää, miksi tuota pitäisi "satanismiksi" tai vielä omituisempaa, "vasemman käden polun" filosofiaksi sanoa, kuten moni satanisti näyttää tekevän. LaVey kirjoitti 60-luvulla hieman runollseen sävyyn, että ihmisiä kiehtoo leikkiä Paholaisen leikkikaluilla, mutta kieltää hänen olemassaolonsa. Itse hän toki teki myöhemmin samoin.
Magian tarkoituksena ON saavuttaa "korkeampia" olemassaolon ja tietoisuuden tasoja (toki samalla voi halutessaan pyrkiä edistämään magian avulla maallisempiakin pyrkimyksiä). Tästä saattaa olla täysin turha muistuttaa, mutta niin kauan kuin "satanismi" junnaa minä-maailma-eläimellisyys-nautinto-freudilaisuudessaan, se on lähinnä säälittävää, muka-kapinallista ja elitististä "pimeään" estetiikkaan puettua pinnallista leikkiä vailla autenttista sisältöä.
Vasemman käden polun periaatteiden aktualisoimisen myötä aukeava näkemys (ja kokemus) maailmasta ja ihmisestä ei ole yhtä kuin biologinen maailmankatsomus. Se ei ole sitä ollut historiallisesti eikä ole sitä tänäkään päivänä. Syyn tähän tietää jokainen, joka ryhtyy käytännössä ilmentämään noita periaatteita omassa elämässään.
Ja mitäkö ovat nuo periaatteet? Siitä en enää ehdi kirjoittaa, mutta eiköhän fiksummat löydä nämä olemassaolon avaimet aivan omin avuin. Kaikkea informaatiota ei kannata antaa kuin lusikallista ruokaa lapselle. Miksei? Se ei edistä lapsen kykyä oppia syömään omatoimisesti...
onpa virkistävää lukea postejasi. Harvinaista järjen ja kokemuksen kautta saavutetun ymmärryksen liikettä listalla, jolla totta vieköön on aivan liikaa näitä tynnyrin kolistajia ilman todellista substanssia.
tuntuu olevan korostetussa asemassa satanismissa. Näin ei olisi, jos satanismikin ei olisi omalla tavallaan henkinen polku. Sillä sanoohan sen jo järkikin, että magia vaatii tietoa elämän lainalaisuuksista ja henkistä kypsyyttä.
"Tulee koittamaan aika kun ONA ja yksilöt - jotka ovat osana sitä tai ovat sen vaikuttamia - tulevat ulkoisesti hajottamaan "Satanismin" retoriikan, kuvat ja muodot, sillä sellaiset asiat ovat kausaalisia ilmentymiä, jotka on sidoksissa tiettyyn Aioniin. Voidaan sanoa että "Satanismi" ja "Vasemman Käden Polku" itsessään ei merkitse mitään."
Tällä viittaisin lähinnä seuraavaan tekstiin:
"Furthermore, there will come a time when the ONA - and the individuals who are part of it or who are influenced by it - will outwardly shed the rhetoric, the images, the forms of "Satanism", for such things are causal emanations tied to a particular Aeon; they are not the supra-Aeonic acausal essence which we, through the progression of Aeons, are moving toward and which it is the purpose of genuine Occultism and magick to move us, as individuals, toward experience of and understanding of. What will also change are the means - the magick - to presence the acausal. Thus, there will be a move away from ritual, and from overt Old Aeon symbolism - and especially from "words" and "names" (4) - toward a much darker magick: a magick which manifests the acausal without the need for causal forms, and certainly without the need for "names". One type of the new magick is The Star Game (the magick of "Thought") and another is that which returns the Chaos which is, and which is not, The Dark Gods - but there will be many other types of this new five-dimensional magick, some of which are already known to, and used by, genuine Adepts of the Dark Tradition." - The Five-Dimensional Magick of the Seventh Way, Anton Long
Uusien muotojen luominen on todellakin tärkeää - täytyy tapahtua kehitystä, joiden avulla päästään vielä paremmin käsiksi voimakkaisiin akausaalisiin energioihin. Tradition nykyisessä muodossaan edustaa satanismia, koska saatana on vielä osa tätä sivilisaatiota ja sen Aionia, ja tämä tulee jatkumaan vielä muutaman sadan vuoden ajan. Tämä Olento (Being) ilmentää tämänhetkisen sivilisaation Kerettiläisyyden eetosta.
Tämän tradition metodeja ja tekniikoita ei pitäisi muuttaa (ainakaan tahallaan muutamaan kymmeneen vuoteen) tai korvata muilla keinoin. Ulkoiset muodot (jotka nousevat ennen tai seuraavan Aionin aikana) tulevat nousemaan maagisten energioiden ja aikomuksen yhtenäisestä pyrkimyksestä ja Tien muotojen muuttumattomuus (kuten tekniikat, rituaalit jne) mahdollistavat tämän. Nämä uudet luodut/kehittynet muodot tulevat rakentumaan sen pohjalle mitä on jo olemassa eikä heikentämään sitä. Kaikki muu on sitä että yksilöt leikkivät magialla (ja erityisesti Aioniikalla) ilman että saavuttavat mitään tai että ymmärtävät mitä he ovat tekemässä.
Kun me kehitymme, me matkaamme kohti akausaalista aspektia, mutta suurin osa ihmisistä on sidoksissa kausaaliseen maailman ja sen eri muotoihin ja ilmiöihin. Siten, tarvitaan myöskin enemmän kausaalisia ilmentymiä parantamaan tasapainoa ja aloittaa muutoksen ja kehityksen prosessi kohti akausaalista/numinoosia/kosmista aspektia. Tietyn vaiheen jälkeen voimme ymmärtää akausaalista ilman kausaalisten muotojen tarvetta. Tämä tietoisuus on kausaalisten käsitteiden ja kuvien yläpuolella.
Eli, toisin sanottuna se ilmentää akausaalista tietoisuutta, eikä ole siten sidoksissa fyysisillä aisteilla havaittavaan kausaaliseen maailmaan. Se on ainakin ensimmäisen sadan vuoden ajan numinoosi symboli, koska tämä uusi "satanismin ylittävä muoto" ilmentää uuden tyyppistä Olemusta (Being) ja elämää. Silti tähän uuteen ilmentymään ja eetokseen tulee sisältymään se mikä silloin tulee olemaan "vanha" Saatanan arkkityyppinen kuva. Tavallaan voida sanoa että tämä uusi Olemus tulee olemaan Saatanan lapsi, joka on kasvanut aikuiseksi.
Jos hylkäämme sen mitä NYT tuodaan esille tämän muodon kautta (Satanismi) tarkoittaa se sitä että hylkäämme sen mikä tulee syntymään Satanismin jälkeen - ja siten sen hylkäämistä mikä yksin varmistaa uuden kehittyneemmän ihmislajin syntymisen. Ja mitä tulee näihin "satanismin ylittäviin muotoihin", niin niistä ei ole kirjoitettu mitään, eikä niistä tulla kirjoittamaan mitään. Ne ovat sellaisia asioita, jonka jokaisen itse kokee ja löytää. Erilaisia tekniikoita ja menetelmiä on jo olemassa kuten Tähti Peli ja Esoteerinen Laulu, jotka ovat askeleita kohti tulevaisuuden ei-maallisia, kosmisia, maagisia tekniikoita.
Voidaan todeta että alemmilla tasoilla meidän tietoisuus on sidoksissa erilaisiin kausaalisiin muotoihin ja käsitteisiin. Korkeimmilla tietoisuuden tasoilla tämä tietoisuus on monimutkaisempaa eikä ole sidoksissa meidän perinteisiin aisteihin tai kausaaliseen tietoisuuteen.
Myöskin aiemmin linkittämät tekstit antavat jonkinlaisia vihjeitä (Eira, Exeat jne). Myöskin seuraavat tekstit saattavat selventää joitakin asioita:
http://www.nineangles.info/interview_long3.html
http://ona.satanicwebsites.com/septenary/moon/darkness_is_my_friend__the_true_meaning_of_the_sinister_way.htm
http://camlad9.tripod.com/beyond_adept.html
http://www.nineangles.info/notes21.html
Ja yleensäkin uusimmissa kirjoituksissa löytyy ihan mielenkiintoista (uuttakin)asiaa ja näitähän tekstejä siis löytyy erityisesti tuolta nineangles.info ja camlad9 sivustoilta.
Yleensä inhoan laittaa viesteihin pitkiä muiden kirjoittamia kirjoituksia mutta kun se kerran näyttää olevan suosittua tässä niin heitetään mukaan jokin hyväkin kirjoitus. Kirjoittaja on CoS:in magister joten ottakaa ad hominemit valmiiksi.
Recognizing Pseudo-Satanism
Nemo
They're out there!
They sometimes wear pentagrams. They sometimes wear black. They often claim to be Satanists.
You may have seen them on the television talk shows or in film “documentaries” on Satanism.
No, I'm not talking about the sickos trying to blame Satanism for their sociopathic crimes. I'm not discussing religious cults who seem to be championing the cause of ego survival. I'm not referring to the philosophical fellow-travelers of Objectivism or other Libertarian groups.
I'm talking about sheep in wolve's clothing. I'm referring to cult groups who claim to be Satanists but act just like the most dedicated Christian fanatics! I am talking about White Light Mystics who use Satanic trappings.
They are out there and they are dangerous!
How are they dangerous?
Well, in my own case it cost me almost three precious years of my life before I finally saw through the sham of one organization and began to undo the damage it caused to my life.
Yes, I said damage!
Satanism is the only religion in the world to champion the cause of the ego . The ceremonies and dogma of Satanism all act to reinforce this ego-strengthening intention. This is what distinguishes Satanism from every other philosophy and religion in the world.
What do the pseudo-Satanists do? They parody these unique elements. They will use many of the same words that we use and they will even perform “Satanic” magical ceremonies and rituals. It is especially insidious when they claim (as one such group does) to be carrying on the work of the original Church of Satan, implying that the C.O.S. died somewhere back there in the past or something.
In and of itself these acts of mimicry seem innocent enough. The problem is one of “doublespeak” and what it can do to damage the healthy growth of the individual's ego. Pseudo-Satanic groups do not champion the cause of the ego. In fact, they are generally altruistic. They do not champion individual autonomy. Instead they commonly advocate the existence of external, objective gods to be worshipped and to be obeyed, even if this requires martyr-like behavior.
For example, in the group which had fooled me for so long, there was a requirement for the “higher-ranking” member to be willing to go public and give interviews on television, radio, etc. whether or not this public statement would harm the individual in his private life! In other words, they expected the member to be a martyr for their religion. Hardly Satanic.
By now you should begin to see the danger.
The power and freedom of becoming a strong individual in this world of dull and obedient mediocrity is slowly and carefully undercut by such groups. The words of The Satanic Bible become twisted and distorted until they no longer have useful meaning! The Satanism of the ego becomes warped into the pseudo-Satanism of the mystic slave!
You can easily identify pseudo-Satanism by checking the way they test reality, the way they set goals and how they use authority.
The pseudo-Satanists don't want to check on their beliefs in the harsh glare of reality. They want to spin their gossamer web of megalomaniacal ideas across the whole of existence without ever testing to see if there is even one small grain of truth therein. They subtly or overtly dodge the rational questions a Satanist will ask with a call to “faith” or by a claim to some way of knowing which is “higher” than the rational mind. So the abandonment of reality- checking is one sure sign that the group you are with is pseudo-Satanic.
Second is the lack of clear-cut goals and/or a means to achieve them. This is what is referred to, in most MBA programs, as a “goal and mission statement.” Pseudo-Satanism has no goal. The group to whom I'd belonged substituted mystical “buzzwords” for intentions (as well as mystical insight for reason). As a result, I kept finding myself given apparent goal statements which, upon careful deciphering, proved to be only word salad.
One final test of the authenticity of any Satanic versus pseudo-Satanic group is the question of authority versus reason. White Light occult groups have traditionally followed a very militaristic ranking system with many degrees and honorific titles signifying “mystical” achievement. The Church of Satan has few titles, and it grants them to those members who earn them through real world accomplishment. As Satanists, we also understand that these titles may also be used with non -Satanists! (“Wow! You mean you're a Satanic Priest!”). Thus, one use of a title is simply as a “Lesser Magic” tool to manipulate the slave to obey.
Resorting to a title or occult “ranking” to avoid answering a question is a sure sign that you are dealing with the pseudo-Satanist, and not the authentic item. The pseudo-Satanists use their titles to control other members, not the outside, non-Satanic community. This is a simple reflection of the fact that those who cannot make it in the real world outside will tend to try and create their own little kingdoms to rule within a closed community of true believers.
And it is this cut-off from the outside world that truly makes pseudo-Satanism dangerous. Nothing could be more dangerous for the individual than to cut himself off from knowing and responding to the realities of life. The pseudo-Satanists do precisely that. Beware!
Paljon puhetta, vähän asiaa. Koko ONA litanian voisi tiivistää siihen että "VKP on moraalisäännöistä vapaa suuntaus". Newsflash?
Kotkavuoren VKP-kirjassaan antama määritelmä on laajempi, syvällisempi, selkeämmin esitetty ja käyttöarvoltaan huomattavasti yllä olevaa parempi.
Alkaa tässä ylipäätään usko mennä yksi kerrallaan kaikkiin ns vkp-organisaatioihin tai haaroihin. Ainoastaan Setin Temppelin suunnasta en ole kuullut mitään mikä tökkisi vastaan. Pitäisi varmaan tutustua lähemminkin.
Näistä linkeistä löytyy tietoa siitä kuinka ONA:n opetukset eroavat Setin Temppelin ja muiden (esim. Crowleyn) opetuksista:
http://camlad9.tripod.com/sbrown1.html
http://camlad9.tripod.com/sbrown2.html
http://ona.satanicwebsites.com/septenary/mercury/the_book_of_coming_forth_by_night_-_a_brief_satanic_analysis.htm
http://ona.satanicwebsites.com/septenary/mercury/crowley_satan_and_the_sinister_way.htm
Kuules nyt "homo galactica", tai enemmänkin "homo erectus maximus".
Jos messiaasi jauhaa tällaista roskaa kuten "The word ‘Satan’ originally derived from the Greek word for ‘an accusation’", niin kannattaisi varmaan vaihtaa kirkkoa. Muutenkin teksti on täysin roomalaiskatolisen kirkon propagandaan rinnastettavissa olevaa evankeliointia.
Säälittävää.
Sanan "Satan" etymologia:
Satan: proper name of the supreme evil spirit in Christianity, O.E. Satan, from L.L. Satan (in Vulgate, in O.T. only), from Gk. Satanas, from Heb. satan "adversary, one who plots against another," from satan "to show enmity to, oppose, plot against," from root s-t-n "one who opposes, obstructs, or acts as an adversary." In Septuagint (Gk.) usually translated as diabolos "slanderer," lit.