Kunnleik

Introduction

I. Black Propaganda, The FBI, And The O9A

II. A Cautionary Tale, Revisited

III. The FBI View Of The O9A: An Analysis

Appendix: Knowing, Information, and The Discovery of Wisdom

 Introduction

This work contains three 2022 texts which challenge the post-2018 campaign against the Order of Nine Angles (O9A,
ONA) and which campaign is the basis for demands by antifascists, politicians, and others, that the O9A be banned as
a terrorist entity.

Chapter I, Black Propaganda, The FBI, And The O9A, charts the origins of the campaign and its use of the 'black
propaganda' produced and circulated by an FBI informant turned agent provocateur who received US$78,133.20 plus
expenses of $4,378.60 from the FBI for his work between February 7, 2018 and early 2020.

Chapter II, A Cautionary Tale, Revisited, concerns one of the personal qualities praised in the esoteric philosophy of
Anton Long, which is trust based on a personal knowing.

Chapter III, The FBI View Of The O9A: An Analysis, deals with the section Background Of The Order Of Nine Angles in a
2020 affidavit by Special Agent Faye Stephan of the FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force which has been widely
quoted from and paraphrased by the mainstream Media, by independent journalists and by antifascists all of whom
have considered the views and opinions therein to be authoritative and representative of the O9A because deemed by
them to be from a reliable source.

The Appendix, Knowing, Information, and The Discovery of Wisdom, a 2012 text which begins "both the importance
and the usefulness of the impersonal 'world wide web' for esoteric groups - for a living esoteric tradition - has been
overestimated", makes a distinction between the impersonal information presented by such mediums as the Internet
and knowledge personally acquired.

The title of the work - Kunnleik - is an Icelandic word (from Old Norse) used by the O9A to imply not knowledge per se,
but acting on, -leik, or using, a detailed knowing of a particular thing; or using, acting on, a knowing of a particular
person acquired through a personal acquaintance with them.

Frontispiece:
A Modern Depiction of Baphomet, Dark Goddess
(Banais, a painting by Richard Moult)
 Black Propaganda, The FBI, And The O9A

This text concerns the origins of the campaign against the Order of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA) by the Establishment {1}
and which post-2018 campaign is the basis for demands by antifascists, politicians, and others that the O9A be banned
as a terrorist entity.

The campaign was and is based on 'black propaganda' which is material which does not appear to be propaganda;
whose real origins are concealed; which is misleading or designed to discredit, and which gives the impression it has
been produced/circulated by a particular person or persons or by a particular group/organization or by a State-entity.
Black propaganda was used by Allied governments during the First and Second World Wars as well as during the 'Cold
War', and also between the 1950s and 1970s by the FBI as part of a Counter Intelligence Program to discredit domestic
American groups and individuals including the Ku Klux Klan. {2}

In the more recent case of the O9A, the 'black propaganda' was produced and circulated by an FBI informant turned
agent provocateur named Joshua Sutter, who:

(i) in 2014 with the aid of the FBI established Martinet Press to distribute Occult books including Iron Gates
and The Devil's Quran, and
(ii) established a fake Occult group he named the 'tempel ov blood' which he falsely claimed was a chapter, a
nexion, of the O9A, and for which he produced 'black propaganda', and
(iii) was tasked by the FBI to infiltrate the American neo-nazi group AtomWaffen, and
(iv) posed as an O9A member in order to entrap a serving American soldier, Ethan Melzer, into conspiring to
 commit terrorist offences, {3} and
(v) appeared as a witness for the prosecution in the 2021 criminal trial of AtomWaffen leader Kaleb Cole {4}
who was convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

For his work for the FBI between February 7, 2018 and early 2020 American Court records show that Sutter was paid
US$78,133.20 plus expenses of $4,378.60 {5} prior to which he had on his own admission since 2003 received over
US$100,000 from the FBI. {4}

Sutter's 'black propaganda' included the badly-written dystopian novel Iron Gates, literature produced and distributed
on behalf of his fake 'tempel ov blood', discussions with AtomWaffen members in person using his real name and on-
line using a variety of pseudonyms; on-line discussions with others using his real name and a variety of pseudonyms,
and which discussions included some supporters of O9A philosophy such as Chloe of the WSA352 nexion in California
who was apparently duped into accepting Sutter as a bona fide O9A supporter.

The main themes of his post-2014 'black propaganda' were inciting terrorism against Western governments, especially
America; inciting and supporting misogyny, sexual abuse, and rape; and supporting the patriarchal ethos and in
particular the macho principle of 'might is right'. All of which, as explained in several O9A texts  {6} are contrary to the
esoteric philosophy of the O9A, which texts also explain that the Order of Nine Angles is not a group, an organization
with members, as Sutter claimed, but an esoteric philosophy now presenced as an anarchic subculture. {7}

This 'black propaganda' became the basis of the post-2018 anti-O9A public narrative, and formed the core of a 2018
article titled Beyond The Iron Gates: How Nazi-Satanists Infiltrated the UK Underground, on a website devoted to 'rock
music and pop culture', which mentioned Sutter's 'tempel ov blood', which stated that the O9A was a group with
members, and which accused the O9A of advocating rape and "random attacks on innocent victims" as well as having
as a member a person, resident in England, convicted of sexual offences.

This article was also one of the first to employ the fallacy of illicit transference {8} as an anti-O9A propaganda
technique: in this instance (i) by claiming a convicted criminal was a member of the O9A and involved with an O9A
nexion, and (ii) by citing Sutter's material as a source, and (iii) stating that this criminal, his self-described 'O9A
nexion', and such material were representative of the O9A and thus 'proved' the O9A condoned sexual abuse,
misogyny, and terrorism.

The employment of this fallacy became central to the orthodox anti-O9A narrative which has been embellished by
antifascists {9} and publicly repeated ad nauseam since 2018 by antifascists, by journalists, by many politicians, and
by the mainstream Media. This orthodoxy, with its claim that the O9A was a terrorist group which needed to be
banned, was printed in the 2019 glossy magazine by a well-funded antifascist advocacy group {10} whose CEO was an
Establishment figure awarded an MBE by the British government in 2016 for his "services in tackling extremisms" and
who in 2020 received a donation from billionaire Gerald Ronson amounting to £320,000 enabling the CEO to pay
himself a yearly salary of over £100,000.

Apart from the employment of the fallacy of illicit transference another feature of the anti-O9A narrative is the use of
the fallacy of appeal to authority {11} where the comments and opinions of others are used with a person or persons -
be they journalists or otherwise - accepting those comments and opinions about the O9A as gospel and thus
propagating the anti-O9A narrative without bothering to undertake their own research using O9A primary sources {12}
and who thus in over three years have never provided anything to contradict the Establishment orthodoxy about the
O9A, built as that orthodoxy is on Sutter's 'black propaganda' financed by the FBI and on the propagandistic or
personal use of logical fallacies. {13}

Morena Kapiris
July 2022 ev
v. 1.03
°°°

{1} By the Establishment is meant those who in modern Western societies have the power, the means, to influence
and to shape 'public opinion' on matters political and social. The Establishment thus includes politicians and the
incumbent government of America and the governments of Europe countries and often the 'political opposition'; large
often multinational business enterprises; the mainstream Media, especially national newspapers and television news
media; well-funded special-interest advocacy groups both political and business-orientated; established academics
whose work has featured in mainstream publications; and so-called 'independent' or 'freelance' or 'investigative'
journalists whose work is used by and/or praised by the mainstream Media.

The orthodoxy of the current Western current era includes the following: the dogma of racial equality; that
multiculturalism is 'good'; that those who oppose multiculturalism are 'bad' and that their views should be at best
described as "extremism" and at worst suppressed by being made illegal.

In effect, many of the tenets of post-1945 antifascist ideology concerning multiculturalism, racism, and 'extremism',
are now mainstream, part of Establishment orthodoxy.

{2} Qv. https://web.archive.org/web/20120910071729/http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm

{3} See the The O9A And Establishment Propaganda: The Example of Ethan Melzer included in O9A: An Orible
Dragone, https://archive.org/download/o9a-dragon/o9a-horrid-dragon.pdf

{4} https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22006156-0928-con%EF%AC%81dential-source-testimony

{5} https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046907/kaleb-cole-august-13-2021-motion-to-suppress.pdf

{6} See for example Appendix I: Accusations About The O9A, in Boundaries Of O9A Philosophy at https://archive.org
/download/o9a-boundaries-philosophy-v9/o9a-boundaries-philosophy-v9.pdf

{7} O9A subculture is described in detail in the 1520 page compilation Order Of Nine Angles Subculture: A Complete
Guide, available at https://archive.org/download/subculture_complete/o9a-subculture-complete.pdf

This means that the O9A has no leader or hierarchy or organizational structure or regulations or members; no officials;
no one authorized to make statements about or concerning the O9A; no contact address or e-mail; no official website
or blog; and no official, sanctioned, nexions, cells, or chapters.

{8} The fallacy of illicit transference is when a generalization is made from a few specific instances or examples with
the generalization used to pejoratively describe the subject under discussion: as in someone citing a few instances
when some persons alleged to have been influenced by the O9A have committed crimes and then claiming that the
O9A is responsible for such crimes or incites such crimes.

In regard to fallacies used in the anti-O9A narrative see the text Antifascist Fallacies And Silence, https://archive.org
/download/fallacies-re-o9a/fallacies-re-o9a.pdf

{9} One of the propagandistic embellishments by antifascists was associating David Myatt with the orthodox,
Establishment, anti-O9A narrative, qv. (i) The Urban Tale Of Myatt And Long, https://archive.org/download/urban-tale-
myatt-o9a-v5/urban-tale-myatt-o9a-v7a.pdf and (ii) Author Profiling In The Case Of Myatt And Long, https://archive.org
/download/dm-o9a-author-profiling/dm-o9a-author-profiling.pdf

{10} The February 2019 antifascist item contained over twelve basic errors and lies about the O9A, which were
debunked at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20210123114617/https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/fake-news/

{11} The fallacy of appeal to authority - also known as argumentum ad verecundiam - is when someone references
what others have said or written about a matter because they believe or claim that those others are 'reliable sources'
or authorities on the matter.

In regard to fallacies used in the anti-O9A narrative see the text Antifascist Fallacies And Silence, https://archive.org
/download/fallacies-re-o9a/fallacies-re-o9a.pdf .

{12} In regard to O9A primary sources refer to Boundaries Of O9A Philosophy from which this is a quotation:

"Crucial to understanding and appreciating O9A philosophy is the study of the writings of Anton Long,
1976-2012, for they are the primary sources, the only primary sources, of that philosophy. Which writings
were published under that name or using the two pseudonyms which he himself has acknowledged, which
are (i) "Stephen Brown", with reference to the two volumes of The Satanic Letters, 1992, and (ii) "Thorold
West", with reference to the manuscript of Naos: A Practical Guide To Modern Magick, 1989. These primary
sources include those two works, the four novels of the Deofel Quartet published between 1976 and 1992,
The Last Writings of Anton Long published in 2012, and the classic texts The Gentleman's – and Noble Ladies
– Brief Guide to The Dark Arts (2008), Concerning Culling as Art (2011) and The De-Evolutionary Nature of
Might is Right (2011).

Other sources - O9A texts published between 1990 and 2012 - are therefore secondary and tertiary sources
and represent the interpretations and opinions of others regarding Anton Long's philosophy and the Seven
Fold Way that he devised.

For what has hitherto been rejected or ignored by O9A critics, by some O9A supporters, and by all O9A
opponents, is the scholarly detail, the view, that not all O9A texts published between 1990 and 2012 were
written by Anton Long, whomsoever he was. Thus of all the texts in the three volumes of Hostia, published in
1992, only a few have the name Anton Long, or the initials AL, or the name Stephen Brown, attached to
them, and it is an un-scholarly but common mistake to assume that uncredited texts - such as the one titled
Conquer, Destroy, Create in volume II of Hostia - represent his, that is O9A, philosophy." https://archive.org
/download/o9a-boundaries-philosophy-v9/o9a-boundaries-philosophy-v9.pdf

By a scholar - a person who undertakes scholarly research - is meant: (i) someone who undertakes meticulous research
focused on a specific matter or topic undertaken over a period of at least a year using primary source material; (ii)
someone who makes a reasoned, unbiased, assessment of the knowledge acquired by such research, with their
conclusions about the matter or topic being logically derived; and (iii) someone who has language skills enabling them
to undertake their own translations of primary sources if those sources are in a language other than their native one
even if such languages are ancient ones, such as Ancient Greek, which are no longer written or spoken.
Thus, one quality of a genuine scholar is that they do not commit logical fallacies such as those of incomplete evidence
or of appeal to authority or of illicit transference.

{13} The failure by journalists, antifascists and others, to provide evidence for their claims about the O9A is described
in texts such as Order Of Nine Angles Subculture: Following The Evidence, https://archive.org/download/o9a-follow-the-
evidence-v1/o9a-follow-the-evidence-v1.pdf

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 A Cautionary Tale, Revisited

The case of Ethan Melzer {1} is a classic example of: (i) why followers of O9A philosophy do not trust people they have
not personally known for some time; (ii) why the Internet, and especially social media, encrypted messaging
applications and e-mails, are flawed if occasionally useful causal mediums, and (iii) what following an esoteric
philosophy or tradition such as the O9A involves, and in the past has involved, in the real world.

Melzer communicated with people he did not personally know by means of the Internet and as a result of his naivety
he was arrested by agents of the Establishment, charged with and finally pleased guilty to various criminal offences
which will inevitably result in his incarceration in prison for many decades.

For many if not most of the individuals he communicated with via the impersonal Internet were not O9A folk as he
naively presumed:

"Court papers reveal the individuals he was communicating with online weren't members of the Order of
Nine Angles - or 09A - as he believed, but rather, government informants who helped build the case against
him." {2}

Such government deceptions are not unique to America for as reported in the British press in 2021:

"A government propaganda unit has been secretly working to dismantle a British neo-Nazi network linked to
murders and extremist plots around the world, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Undercover agents from the
security service's Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) have been ordered to infiltrate the
far-Right Order of Nine Angles (ONA) movement." {3}

Infiltration by pretending to be O9A on social media, in encrypted messaging channels such as 'Telegram', by e-mails,
and other means. And of course by, in the case of the O9A, producing and spreading 'black propaganda' as the FBI has
done since 2014 {4} and as the British government did decades ago in relation to a politician in Kenya they
disapproved of, as The Guardian newspaper recently reported:

"The Foreign Office's propaganda arm, the Information Research Department (IRD), targeted the Kenyan
nationalist in a three-year campaign run by its dirty tricks section, the Special Editorial Unit (SEU).

A declassified report for June to December 1964 reveals what appears to be the first SEU operation against
Odinga. In October, the SEU produced a leaflet, purporting to originate from the "Loyal African Brothers",
branding the Kenyan leader "a tool of the Chinese" communists.

Declassified files reveal four "black" operations against Odinga. In September 1965, the Daily Telegraph ran a
story headlined "'Revolution' document in Kenya". It reported on a pamphlet issued by the "People's Front of
East Africa" attacking Kenyatta's government as "reactionary, fascist and dishonest". But it praised Odinga as
"a great revolutionary leader" who would be brought to power by a "newly formed People's Revolutionary
Kenya Socialist party".

In fact, it was a sophisticated propaganda operation that increased suspicions that Kenya's vice-president
was in league with communist China." {5}

Qualités Occultes

All this not news to us, for in the aughts Anton Long privately and in 2011 publicly wrote about the perils of the Internet
and how it had become a useful tool in the service of the O9A-pretendu crowd. {6}

In his 2011 article Just Who Do They Think We Are? The Occult, the Internet, and How to Offend People he wrote:

"Some person – using a pseudonym or three – over a period of a year or more develops something of an
Internet reputation among the Internet Occult-pretendu crowd, due to his writings, his e-mail exchanges, his
participation in Internet forums, and the blogs and websites he puts up. He makes various claims about
himself, and about his esoteric knowledge, and passes himself of as, or comes to be considered by the
Internet Occult-pretendu as, an 'adept' of a certain sinister esoteric group.

But the fact is he remains just some anonymous person waffling on the Internet who has no real-world
 reputation for sinister deeds that are verified by mainstream, non-internet, sources, and whose character,
whose culture, whose adherence to our Occult culture, is unknown.

This person and others like him – male and female – may be pukka, but until you get to know people face-to-
face and until they have a known and verified reputation for sinister deeds in the real world, you are and
remain – according to our nature and thus according to the first rule of the Internet version of our sinister
game – cautious, suspicious, and so do not trust them and especially do not trust what they say about their
experiences, their 'achievements', their character, and themselves.

Which means the words and opinions of this unknown person, written or spoken, are just impersonal words
and vapid opinions conveyed by an impersonal modern medium, and have no reality in our esoteric, Occult,
world, just like the person themselves.

Thus this person is and remains just some unknown guy among millions of mundanes posting stuff on the
Internet or in self-published books and zines.

The person only becomes real – seen to be possessed of Occult virtues and Occult qualities or the promise
thereof – when they are personally known to us (thus revealing their true identity, and their skills and
qualities), or when they have a plethora of publicly documented and verified deeds, or when they have
several scholarly works to their credit, although in the latter two instances they still remain personally
untrusted.

For the fact is, 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." {7}

This advice to "do not trust them" until you personally know them went unheeded in the case of Melzer and others,
and even if you do personally know someone "we" O9A folk are and remain suspicious until a long period of causal
time - such as a year or more - has elapsed with many of us not satisfied until we personally have "checked them out"
or have employed an appropriate someone to "check them out".

"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." {7}

Which returns us, as esotericists both O9A and non-O9A, to not only our individual adventures for Lapis Philosophicus
{8} by means such as the traditional O9A Seven Fold Way or the more recent Hebdomian Way {9} but also to our
shared Aeonic perspective where we appreciate our individual lives in terms of Aeons and the continuation of our
shared esoteric culture described as that culture has been by the terms πάθει-μάθος, καλὸς-κἀγαθός, and kindred-
honour {10} with καλὸς-κἀγαθός enshrining noble personal behaviour and thus personal honour.

The discrediting of which slowly developing ancestral esoteric culture was and is one of the aims of the recent black
propaganda of the American FBI and of the British Security Service's Research, Information and Communications Unit.

Kerri Scott
August 2022 ev

{1} For an overview see Omega9Alpha News, Issue 9, August 2022 ev, https://archive.org/download/o9a-news-august-
2022-v1/o9a-news-august-2022-v3a.pdf

{2} https://web.archive.org/web/20220806043054/https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-06-25/army-
privates-plea-shelved-internet-fantasy-chat-defense

{3} https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9107019/Government-propaganda-unit-given-secret-mission-infiltrate-
neo-Nazis-linked-terror-plots.html

{4} Black Propaganda, The FBI, And The O9A, https://archive.org/download/origins-ban-o9a/origins-ban-o9a.pdf

{5} https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/06/revealed-uk-ran-cold-war-dirty-tricks-campaign-to-smear-kenyas-
first-vice-president-oginga-odinga

We would not be surprised to learn that the 1960s "Information Research Department" is now part of, or has been
rebranded as, the Security Service's "Research, Information and Communications Unit".

{6} "O9A pretenders (sometimes termed one of the 'o9a-pretendu-crowd') are those who - mostly via the internet -
claim to be O9A, self-describe themselves as O9A, or who associate themselves with the O9A, and who not only opine
about the O9A - mostly via the internet - but who also (i) lack the self-honesty of a genuine O9A novice/initiate, and
thus who fail to or who cannot admit that their O9A knowledge is limited and that they have a lot to learn, a lot to
study, and a lot to experience, and/or who (ii) fraudulently pontificate about the O9A and themselves as if they had
acquired the learning and the experience of an O9A adept, and/or (iii) whose interpretation of the O9A is basically an
egocentric one, centred around egoism, and (iv) who have a propensity to use vulgar language." Satanism
Plebeianized And O9A Pretenders, p.60, https://archive.org/download/o9a-pretenders/o9a-pretenders.pdf

{7} https://lapisphilosophicus.wordpress.com/about-2/who-do-they-think-we-are/

{8} Discovering Lapis Philosophicus is the aim of hermetic, Occult, traditions such as the O9A Seven Fold Way.

According to the esoteric tradition of the O9A, the term Lapis Philosophicus [post-classical Latin, c. 13th century; qv.
Byzantine Greek: λίθος τῶν σοφῶν] pre-dates the term lapis philosophorum and was used by early writers on alchemy
such as Raymund Lully, and by the Elizabethan Oxford classical scholar John Case in a book entitled Lapis
Philosophicus, Sive Commentarius In Octo Libros Physicorum Aristotelis, published in 1600 CE. The term was also used
by Isaac Newton in a handwritten manuscript entitled Lapis Philosophicus cum suis rotis elementaribus [MS 416, in
Babson College's Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, currently housed in the Huntington
Library, San Marino, California].

Lapis Philosophicus means the "jewel of the alchemist", since the term Philosophicus means an alchemist not, as is
commonly said, a philosopher, just as lapis (qv. λίθος τῶν σοφῶν) when used in Latin alchemical texts means "jewel"
and not "stone".

For O9A aural tradition relates that λίθος as a jewel, or precious stone, was attested by Herodotus, who in The
Histories, Book II, 44, wrote, in reference to "the sacred Temple of Heracles", ἣ δὲ σμαράγδου λίθου λάμποντος τὰς
νύκτας μέγαθος.

Also, as noted in English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language by S. C. Woodhouse, published by
Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1910, λίθος means 'jewel' and was so used by Plato in Plato, Phaedo 110δ-ε: ὧν καὶ τὰ
ἐνθάδε λιθίδια εἶναι ταῦτα τὰ ἀγαπώμενα μόρια, σάρδιά τε καὶ ἰάσπιδας καὶ σμαράγδους καὶ πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα: ἐκεῖ
δὲ οὐδὲν ὅτι οὐ τοιοῦτον εἶναι καὶ ἔτι τούτων καλλίω.

{9} The Sevenfold Seeking And Noesis Of The Hebdomian Way, https://sevenoxonians.files.wordpress.com/2022/06
/noetic-hebdomad-v5.pdf

{10}  An Aristocratic Ethos in Three Interviews With Anton Long, https://archive.org/download/o9a-three-

interviews_202110/o9a-three-interviews.pdf

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 The FBI View Of The O9A
An Analysis

It is interesting and instructive to consider the official US government view of the Order of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA) as
described in a sworn affidavit by Special Agent Faye Stephan, assigned to the FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force,
before Judge Stewart D. Aaron, Southern District New York, on the 4th June 2020. Which affidavit formed a core part of
the criminal prosecution by the US Department of Justice of Ethan Melzer on charges of conspiracy to murder US
military members, attempted murder of US military members, and of providing and attempting to provide material
support in support of terrorism.

A section of the affidavit is devoted to the O9A under the heading Background Of The Order Of Nine Angles and the
views and opinions expressed therein have since 2020 been widely quoted and paraphrased by the mainstream Media,
by independent journalists and by antifascists all of whom have considered those views and opinions authoritative
because deemed by them to be from a reliable source.

The section lists five main points about the O9A, each of which we will consider in turn and in detail, with the list
prefaced by the statement by Faye Stephan that the points are

"based on my training and experience, my participation in this investigation and others, my conversations
with other law enforcement agents and others, and my review of, among other things, publicly available
information."

§ Faye Stephan states:

a. The Order of Nine Angles, or ONA and O9A, is a Satanic anarchist group founded in the United Kingdom
and now operating around the world, including in the United States. The group describes itself as:

A diverse, and world-wide, collective of diverse groups, tribes, and individuals, who share and who pursue
similar sinister, subversive, interests, aims and life-styles, and who cooperate when necessary for their
mutual benefit and in pursuit of their shared aims and objectives . . . . The criteria for belonging to the ONA is
this pursuit of similar, sinister, subversive interests, aims, and life-styles, together with the desire to co-
operate when it is beneficial to them and the pursuit of our shared aims. There is thus no formal ONA
membership, and no Old-Aeon, mundane, hierarchy or even any rules.

Analysis

As explained numerous times, correctly understood the O9A is an esoteric philosophy expounded in the writings of
Anton Long published between 1976 and 2012 and thus "it" - an alleged entity termed the O9A - cannot describe itself
in any way. That esoteric philosophy is only accurately described in and by the aforementioned writings of Anton Long
(AL) which are the primary sources - the only primary sources - of that philosophy. {1} Which philosophy is manifest
and has been manifest for years as a subculture with its own unique lifestyles. {2} 

Since the quotation given by the Special Agent is from a non-AL source it does not accurately describe the O9A; the
source of which quotation - not given in the affidavit - being the text Guide to the Kulture and Sinister Ethos of the ONA
which does not give an author only the attribution Order of Nine Angles, 121 Year of Fayen, and which text is available
at https://web.archive.org/web/20110601042534/http://www.nineangles.info/o9a-kulture-and-ethos.pdf

Thus, the quotation represents a non-authoritative interpretation of the O9A by some anonymous person, since:

"one of the foundational principles of the O9A sub-culture is the anarchist 'principle of the authority of
individual judgment', which means that anyone, associating or identifying themselves with the Occult sub-
culture that is the O9A, is free to interpret and to manifest O9A Occult philosophy in whatever way they
choose. This principle in practice also means: (i) that no author, no individual, no nexion, can present or
represent the view or the opinion of the entity termed the Order of Nine Angles, (ii) that the O9A does not
have, never has had, and never will have an 'official policy' about anything, and never has, and never will
make 'official statements' about anything." {3}

§ Faye Stephan states:

 b. O9A has expressed, among others, Satanic, anarchist, neo-fascist, neo-Nazi, and anti-Semitic beliefs. For
example, in one of its texts, referred to as the 'Mass of Heresy,' O9A claims:

Adolf Hitler was sent by our gods to guide us to greatness. We believe in the inequality of races
and in the right of the Aryan to live according to the law of the folk. We acknowledge that the story
of the Jewish [H]olocaust is a lie to keep our race in chains and express our desire to see the truth
revealed. We believe in justice for our oppressed comrades and seek an end to the world-wide
persecution of National-Socialists.

Analysis

i) The important context of the Mass is not provided, which context is, as stated in its Aim, that it is intended to
"challenge accepted beliefs about recent history; provoke dissent and encourage Promethean challenge - particularly
within the psyche of the individual."

That is, it is not an expression of the beliefs of the O9A but a cathartic psycho-drama, and an act of defiance which "is
illegal in many 'Western' countries" and whose performance "in these times is as dangerous an undertaking as was
performing a genuine 'Black Mass' in the era of Nazarene persecution/witch-hunts."

ii) It is not the O9A who/which "claims" what the quotation expresses but the anonymous author of that Mass {4} with
the views expressed those of that anonymous person which presents their individual and not necessary accurate
interpretation of O9A philosophy.

iii) In respect of the O9A and neo-Nazism see Appendix I, The O9A, Plato, National Socialism, And Nihilism.

§ Faye Stephan states:

c. O9A also has expressed support for the views of Usama bin Laden, the former emir, or leader, of al Qaeda.

Analysis

No citation is provided, and nowhere in the published writings of Anton Long does he express support for the views of
Usama bin Laden as anyone can ascertain by searching the writings of his that we cite in footnote {1}.

If some supporter of O9A philosophy has expressed such a view then it is their personal opinion not the view or opinion
of the O9A, and to use such a personal opinion to imply it is the view of the O9A is to commit the fallacy of illicit
transference. {5}

§ Faye Stephan states:

d. O9A has praised Nazi Germany as a "practical expression of Satanic spirit . . . a burst of Luciferian light –
of zest and power – in an otherwise Nazarene, pacified, and boring world."

Analysis

The source of the quotation is an anonymous text titled The Nazarene/Magian Ethos which was included in the undated
compilation Nexion: A Guide to Sinister Strategy attributed to 'Coire Riabhaich' which is a place in the Scottish
Highlands and obviously a pseudonym.

Since both the text and compilation are anonymous it is not the O9A "praising something" but the opinion of some
anonymous supporter of O9A philosophy and thus possesses no authority in regard to what O9A philosophy does or
does not express.

In addition, the context of the quotation is informative:

"There is another and vital element in this manipulation of the Western psyche by Nazarene/Magian forces -
and this is the guilt induced among the war-loving peoples of Northern Europe about a certain event alleged
to have taken place during the Second World War. Seen in esoteric terms, National-Socialist Germany was a
practical expression of Satanic spirit: led by someone who was able (either intuitively or via guidance) to
utilize acausal energy and 'earth' it to achieve political goals. Viewed in terms of raw acausal energy, NS
Germany was a burst of Luciferian light - of zest and power - in an otherwise Nazarene, pacified and boring
world. This State was thus a direct threat to Nazarene power/dogma/ideas. In the war that was fought, NS
Germany was naturally regarded as 'evil' and had to be totally destroyed. Further, it was quite possible that,
had NS Germany won, a Western Imperium would have become a reality.

Further, the very idea of National-Socialism was an effront to Nazarene domination and had to be destroyed -
uprooted from the psyche of the West. In order to do this, a new myth was invented, and this myth with its
 associated guilt-complex made the resurgence of that idea unlikely. This myth was the 'holocaust'. (Note:
Discussion of this myth - and the fact that scientifically the events described therein are impossible - is
interesting but outside the scope of this study.) What applies in the West regarding racism applies even more
so to this myth - to disbelieve this myth is actual heresy: a heresy actually punishable in many Western
States by imprisonment"

§ Faye Stephan states:

e. O9A claims not to initiate new members, but rather to require members to self-initiate through the
performance of mentally and physically challenging acts.

Analysis

i) The rite of self-initiation is given in Naos, published in 1989 and containing as Naos does facsimiles of typewritten
texts the majority of which are by Anton Long {6} with a slightly modified version of the initiation rite given in The
Seofonfeald Paeth - reproduced in Appendix II - with neither involving "the performance of mentally and physically
challenging acts".

Since no citation is provided we wonder just what Faye Stephan read, by who, or just what she was told about the O9A
by anonymous "law enforcement agents and others".

ii) The O9A has no members since it is the name of an esoteric philosophy manifest as a subculture with its own unique
lifestyles. {2}

Conclusion

It has become obvious that no one - including academics and analysts from government supported agencies - has
undertaken scholarly research into the O9A using primary sources {1}{7} despite the unprecedented publicity the
O9A has received since 2018 and which publicity is entirely based on views and opinions that at best are ill-informed
due to a lack of such research or at worst are prejudiced due to persons having a preconceived opinion about or an
existing bias toward the O9A.

Faye Stephan is, it seems, representative of how such ill-informed views and opinions are formed:

(i) by an acceptance of the mistaken belief, the generalization, that O9A texts written and published by
supporters of O9A philosophy/subculture - and thus not authored by Anton Long - are representative of the
esoteric philosophy that is the O9A;
(ii) that the O9A is an 'entity' which has beliefs and makes claims;
(iii) by using quotations without specifying the context;
(iv) by not providing verifiable citations for some or all quotations;
(v) by not using O9A primary sources; and
(vi) by committing fallacies of reasoning such as making a generalization from a particular quotation or
instance (fallacy of illicit transference) or by not providing "the O9A side of the story" (fallacy of suppressed
evidence) and which side of the story has been publicly and freely available since 2018 in publications such
as Artistic Transgression And Subversion {8}, A Reasoned Response {9}, The Seofonfeald Paeth {10} and,
more recently, in O9A: The Occult Phantom Menace. {11}

That the official view of the Order of Nine Angles by the US governments and by other governments is based on such
ill-informed views and opinions formed by such means no longer surprises us.

Kerri Scott
August 2022 ev
v. 1.03

°°°

{1} Primary sources are original documents or texts or items contemporaneous with the period in question or
produced by the person or persons or event  being researched.

In respect of O9A primary sources:

"Crucial to understanding and appreciating O9A philosophy is the study of the writings of Anton Long,
1976-2012, for they are the primary sources, the only primary sources, of that philosophy [...]

Other sources - O9A texts published between 1990 and 2012 - are therefore secondary and tertiary sources
and represent the interpretations and opinions of others regarding Anton Long's philosophy and the Seven
Fold Way that he devised.
 For what has hitherto been rejected or ignored by O9A critics, by some O9A supporters, and by all O9A
opponents, is the scholarly detail, the view, that not all O9A texts published between 1990 and 2012 were
written by Anton Long, whomsoever he was. Thus of all the texts in the three volumes of Hostia, published in
1992, only a few have the name Anton Long, or the initials AL, or the name Stephen Brown, attached to
them, and it is an un-scholarly but common mistake to assume that uncredited texts - such as the one titled
Conquer, Destroy, Create in volume II of Hostia - represent his, that is O9A, philosophy." The Boundaries Of
O9A Philosophy, https://web.archive.org/web/20220428144722/https://theo9away.files.wordpress.com
/2021/12/o9a-boundaries-philosophy-v9.pdf

For the O9A, the primary sources are:

(i) the typewritten MS Naos: A Practical Guide To Modern Magick;

(ii) the two volumes of typewritten facsimile letters titled The Satanic Letters of Stephen Brown;
(iii) the four novels of The Deofel Quartet: (a) Falcifer, (b) Temple of Satan, (c) The Giving, (d) The Greyling Owl; and
(iv) the texts signed Anton Long in the two compilations The Definitive Guide To The Order of Nine Angles: Theory and
Praxises (seventh edition) and the 2012
archive of the now defunct nineangles dot info website.

All these writings, which amount to thousands of pages, have been publicly and freely available since 2015 and as of
August 2022 are still available:

° Naos and The Deofel Quartet are included in The Definitive Guide, available at https://archive.org/download
/definitive-guide-to-the-order-of-nine-angles_202201/definitive-guide-to-the-order-of-nine-angles.pdf

° The Satanic Letters are available at (i) https://archive.org/download/satanicletters-1/satanicletters-1.pdf

and (ii) https://archive.org/download/satanicletters-2/satanicletters-2.pdf

° The website archive is available at https://archive.org/download/o-9-a-website-archive-2012/O9A-Website-

Archive-2012.pdf

See also Anton Long, The O9A, And The Sinister Tradition in O9A: An Orible Dragone, pp.21-23, https://archive.org
/download/o9a-dragon/o9a-horrid-dragon.pdf

{2} O9A subculture is described in detail in Order Of Nine Angles Subculture: A Complete Guide, available at
https://archive.org/download/subculture_complete/o9a-subculture-complete.pdf

{3} Morena Kapiris, Analysing Anti-Fascist Prejudice And Propaganda In Relation To The O9A, June 2019, in A Reasoned
Response, https://web.archive.org/web/20210515183810/https://omega9alpha.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/reasoned-
response-v9.pdf

{4} The Mass is given in full (pp.757-760) in The Definitive Guide To The Order of Nine Angles: Theory and Praxises
(seventh edition) available at https://archive.org/download/definitive-guide-to-the-order-of-nine-angles_202201
/definitive-guide-to-the-order-of-nine-angles.pdf

{5} In respect of fallacies refer to Antifascist Fallacies And Silence, included (pp.38-41) in O9A: An Orible Dragone,
https://archive.org/download/o9a-dragon/o9a-horrid-dragon.pdf

{6} The facsimile copy of Naos is included in The Definitive Guide To The Order of Nine Angles: Theory and Praxises,
op.cit.

{7} Someone who undertakes research using primary sources is a scholar, by which term is meant: (i) a person who
undertakes meticulous research focused on a specific matter or topic undertaken over a period of at least a year using
primary source material; (ii) a person who makes a reasoned, unbiased, assessment of the knowledge acquired by
such research, with their conclusions about the matter or topic being logically derived; and (iii) a person who has
language skills enabling them to undertake their own translations of primary sources if those sources are in a language
other than their native one even if such languages are ancient ones,
such as Ancient Greek, which are no longer written or spoken.

Thus, one quality of a genuine scholar is that they do not commit logical fallacies such as those of suppressed
evidence or of appeal to authority or of illicit transference.

{8} The O9A: A Multi-Headed Mythical Beast. Artistic Transgression And Subversion, https://web.archive.org
/web/20210516053834/https://omega9alpha.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/o9a-mythical-beast-v2c.pdf

{9} https://web.archive.org/web/20210515183810/https://omega9alpha.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/reasoned-
response-v9.pdf

{10} The Seofonfeald Paeth, https://archive.org/download/o9a-trilogy-print_202109/o9a-trilogy-print.pdf

{11} https://archive.org/download/o-9-a-occult-menace/o9a-occult-menance-v3.pdf
 Appendix I

The O9A, Plato, National Socialism, And Nihilism

It is obvious to those who have studied the O9A corpus from the 1970s to the 2019, 300 page, trilogy titled The
Seofonfeald Paeth, {1} that the O9A considers National Socialism – both as a political ideology and in practice – to be a
useful tool, a means, to be used, via an Insight Role, {2} by individuals who associate themselves with the O9A
movement.

A tool, a dialectical means, whereby they (i) can in however small a way disrupt the status quo and possibly persuade
others to do the same, and (ii) can personally learn from the experience of being a practical, a real-life, modern day
heretic, since according to the status quo – that is, according to all current Western governments and educational
institutions – National Socialism is the epitome of evil with the myth of the "holocaust" a sacred dogma which should
not be challenged, often, in some Western lands, on pain of imprisonment.

As mentioned in the text The Alleged National Socialism Of The O9A, the O9A thus consider National Socialism, and all
ideologies be they political or religious, as an idea, or ideal, ἰδέᾳ/εἶδος, with Plato's ἰδέᾳ/εἶδος understood – via
Aristotle {3} and others – not as Plato himself believed as an 'abstract' (true, ideal) essence or type of being which is
independent of us {4} – but as a posited causal abstraction {5} by someone or by some others. That is, the O9A
conceive of National Socialism, and all ideologies be they political or religious, not as an "essence" and not as
something "true" or essential or necessary, but as a fallible human abstraction, a technique or tool, a φαντασία, {6}
and one which can be usefully used by individuals just as the O9A itself is or can be a φαντασία to be used to achieve
a personal and esoteric pathei mathos. {7}

That this O9A view is an expression, a manifestation, a presencing, of nihilism {8} has so far only been understood by
a select few is, for the sagacious, the Occult cognoscenti, comment enough on our modern Western societies and their
peoples, and comment enough on how the O9A is mis-perceived, especially by those mundanes who call it "neo-nazi"
and campaign against it and who demand it be made illegal as a so-called "terrorist" organization.

Meanwhile, our antinomian and sinister-numinous dialectic, our presencing of a type of traditional Satanism {9} – and
our Satanic mirth – continues.

TWS Nexion
Oxonia
April 2020 ev
v. 1.05

{1} The Seofonfeald Paeth is available at https://archive.org/download/o9a-trilogy-print_202109/o9a-trilogy-print.pdf

{2} See the text Insight Rôles, The Seven Fold Way, And The O9A: The Historical And Esoteric Context, included in The
Seofonfeald Paeth, op. cit.

{3} (i) Metaphysics, Book 1, 987β, (ii) Metaphysics, Book 5, 1015α

{4} (i) μήτε ἑκάστῳ ἰδίᾳ ἕκαστον τῶν ὄντων ἐστίν δῆλον δὴ ὅτι αὐτὰ αὑτῶν οὐσίαν ἔχοντά τινα βέβαιόν ἐστι τὰ
πράγματα, Kratylus 386d-386e, and (ii) which πρῶτον μὲν ἀεὶ ὂν καὶ οὔτε γιγνόμενον οὔτε ἀπολλύμενον, οὔτε
αὐξανόμενον οὔτε φθίνον, Symposium 210e – 211a

{5} The O9A make an ontological distinction between causal and acausal being. A causal abstraction is defined by the
O9A as

"the manufacture, and use of, some idea, ideal, 'image' or category, and thus some generalization, and/or
some assignment of an individual or individuals to some group or category. The positing of some "perfect" or
"ideal" form, category, or thing, is part of abstraction. Abstractions hide the true nature of Reality – which is
both causal and acausal, and which true nature can be apprehended and understood by means of The Dark
Arts, and thus by following the Occult way from Initiate, to Adept, and beyond. According to the O9A, the so-
called Occult Arts – and especially the so-called Satanism – of others are manifestations of causal
abstractions, lacking as they do the learning of the skills of Dark-Empathy, Acausal-Thinking, and Sinister
Sorcery, and thus lacking as they do the ability to develope our latent human faculties and our latent sinister
character." Glossary of O9A Terms, included in The Seofonfeald Paeth, op.cit.

{6} φαντασία, that is, a making visible (of some-thing). A phrenic image, an imagining; a phrenic apprehension of an
object of perception; an ingenious invention or design; a visionary notion, a fantasy.

{7} qv. Notes On The Esoteric Learning Presenced Through Pathei-Mathos, included in The Seofonfeald Paeth, op. cit.
{8} A useful, working, definition of nihilism is "rejection of prevailing religious beliefs, moral principles, and laws,
together with a practical hostility toward accepted beliefs and/or established institutions."

{9} https://web.archive.org/web/20201114152132/https://wyrdsister.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/traditional-and-
modern-the-two-types-of-satanism/

See also The European Satanism Of The O9A, https://web.archive.org/web/20201020094112/https:

//wyrdsister.wordpress.com/2018/05/01/the-european-satanism-of-the-o9a/

°°°

Original Source:
The Order Of Nine Angles: Beyond Nihilism And Anarchism,
https://web.archive.org/web/20210111165605/https://omega9alpha.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/o9a-nihilism-anarchy.pdf

Appendix II

O9A Self-Initiation

The Initiation can take place at any time, and anywhere, indoors, or out, and no special preparation is necessary or
required, although if desired and practical, it can be undertaken in a darkened area with subdued lighting (the source
of which is not important) and with the ONA sigil (if possible coloured purple, on a black background) in a prominent
position and drawn or reproduced on some material or on a banner.

For the initiation, you will require a small piece of white paper (the actual size and type of paper are not important), a
sharp knife (of the hunting or survival kind) - and if possible, a sheath for the knife - plus a small receptacle or
container suitable for burning the paper in.

You then say:

I am here to seal my Fate with blood.

I accept there is no law, no authority, no justice
Except my own
And that culling is a necessary act of Life.
I believe in one guide, Pathei-Mathos,
And in my right to live by the Code of Kindred Honour.

You then make a small cut on your left thumb with the knife and allow several drops of your blood to fall onto the
paper. You then place the paper into the small container, and set it alight. As it burns, you then say:

 I swear on my kindred-honour that from this day forth I will never surrender, will die fighting rather than
submit to anyone, and will always uphold the Code of Kindred Honour.

You then place the knife in the sheath (if a sheath is available), conceal or otherwise carry the knife on you, and
forever after keep the knife with you, as a sign of your kindred-honour and your pledge of initiation.

The initiation is then complete.

°°°
Source:
The Seofonfeald Paeth, p.16,
https://archive.org/download/o9a-trilogy-print_202109/o9a-trilogy-print.pdf

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 Knowing, Information, and The Discovery of Wisdom

Knowing and Information

In my view, both the importance and the usefulness of the impersonal 'world wide web' for esoteric groups - for a living
esoteric tradition - has been overestimated by many people. I remember growing up in an overseas land where there
was no television, where news was received by short-wave radio, and where communication with friends and nearest
neighbours meant either taking the trouble to visit them personally, as there were few telephones outside of the major
cities or towns, or writing then posting a letter and awaiting the reply. Newspapers, when they were available, were
generally a few days old.

Although perhaps difficult for many people, today, to appreciate and understand this meant that one acquired a
particular way of viewing the world and of doing things. The personal way, that often of necessity involved a certain
effort and a certain amount of waiting. For instance, I can remember, later on in another overseas land, waiting weeks
or more usually several months, for a book to arrive; since acquiring knowledge meant finding and asking someone
who knew, or visiting a (usually poorly stocked) library some distance away, or purchasing a book from the nearest
bookshop (also usually some distance away) and often then waiting because the book was not in stock and had to be
specially ordered. Once such information was obtained, available, there then followed a learning of and from it, which
itself took a certain amount of time, followed, in turn, by a period of reflecting upon - and often enjoying - the new
knowledge so slowly and with effort acquired. There was also the feeling that one was on a long journey of discovery
and that there may well be, and probably was, more to be found on a particular subject 'out there' - in some books or
books, to be learned from someone else, or found in some scholarly journal.

This personal effort, this wait, to find and then acquire knowledge was itself instructive, personally beneficial, although
again many people, today, will not understand nor appreciate this older way; a way that, for centuries, formed the
basis for traditional esoteric groups and a way I deliberately made part of The Order of Nine Angles. This is why, for
example, I consider and have always considered that the 'world wide web' is now, has been for a decade or so, and
may continue to be for a while, basically just a useful, convenient, medium for personal communication, a means of
dissemination of information among our people, and a useful accessible informational resource for our people and
others. Anything else - such as incitement of others, the possibility of recruiting a few people using this new medium -
is secondary to this, and always has been.

For example, from the beginning, and for over two decades, when some new ONA MS was written, or when an aural
tradition was written down, it was by means of a manual typewriter, and the resultant sheet or sheets of typewritten
paper had to be photocopied, and then circulated either by means of posted letters or by being personally handed-
over to others.

Now, today, that type of process is used only occasionally, with many of our newer MSS being available and having
been made available on our nineangles website, just as my own 'weblog' (*) allows not only the dissemination of new
MSS but also of occasional articles giving my personal view of certain matters. But what is presented by this new
medium is information, not knowledge. Knowledge of some-thing is - as the Old Icelandic kunnleik suggests - an
intimate, detailed, knowing of and acquaintance with that 'thing', whereas information (enformation) is merely a
statement or a collection of statements about or concerning some-thing.

Or expressed in our now familiar terms, knowledge - as we understand it - is numinous, a part of one's life, whereas
information is lifeless, causal, an outer form. For in terms of esoteric, Occult, matters, to know is both to learn from
personal experience and to place what is so learnt in a particular context, that of one's personal internal and external
journey along the particular way or path that one has, by initiation, chosen to follow.

What has thus occurred is that many people have or seem to have confused information - accessible and
communicated by the medium of the 'world wide web' - for knowing. That is, they by means of some computer monitor
or some other modern means read or access some information about, for example, the ONA and then presume they
'know' about the ONA or have knowledge of an esoteric topic written about by the ONA, whereas all they have done is
make assumptions concerning or form a personal opinion about such matters, with some people even going so far as
to then develop an opinion concerning the person they assume wrote such information.

For the meaning is in, acquired from, discovered by, the personal knowing. By taking the time, making the effort, to
learn; to acquire a detailed, personal knowing of, and then to place that knowledge in the context of one's own
knowledge and that of knowledgeable others and which others one knows and respects personally or who have
acquired respect by virtue of their practical experience and/or their scholarly knowledge [1]. The meaning, the
knowledge, is not in the information; not in the medium that might be used to convey such information.

The reality is that the 'world wide web' encourages a pretentious, spurious, or illusory, 'knowing', the rapid
communication of this, as well as a pretentious, spurious, 'respect' among and of anonymous others - something
especially true regarding the relaying of messages by diverse people by means of some ephemeral 'forum' or
'discussion group' or something similar where those who do not know converse with, and argue with, others who either
do not know or who pretend to know something about that which they have no direct personal experience of and have
not spent years acquiring a scholarly, a detailed, knowledge of. In short, the 'world wide web', while having some
advantages in respect of making information accessible, has the disadvantage of having become the medium of choice
for a certain type of Homo Hubris and for the rapid circulation of their vapid, plebeian, opinions and assumptions [2].

The Discovery of Wisdom

One of the main reasons for the existence of esoteric groups, a clan, such as The Order of Nine Angles is to be a living
hereditary repository of a certain type of knowledge and to personally, directly, encourage some individuals to acquire
the culture, the habit, of learning - practical, scholarly - and thus enable them to move in the traditional manner
toward the goal of discovering and acquiring knowledge and thence wisdom [3]. In the process of this moving-toward,
some of these individuals may or will be changed, and thus become a breed apart, one of our kind; indeed, over almost
forty years, the ONA has had some success in producing some such individuals of our particular, peculiar, sinister kind.
All the 'world wide web' has done - as, previously, photocopied material posted to unknown others did - is enable us to
present information, possibly incite some people, and provide an opportunity, to and for more unknown others. An
opportunity, for some of these unknown others, of learning, and of using, applying, our Dark Arts such as that of
Pathei-Mathos, and which opportunity some have availed themselves of, leading to a few - and only a few - becoming
part of the ONA and thus beginning their own guided esoteric journey according to our sinister Way. That some or
many individuals - using the 'world wide web' to spew forth their opinions and assumptions - seem to have mistaken
the presentation of such information, and such an opportunity, for the ONA reveals something about those individuals,
especially when they congratulate themselves, and are congratulated by others of their ilk, for their pretentious,
illusive, 'knowing' via some ephemeral aspect of something as ephemeral as the 'world wide web'.

As I wrote over twenty years ago:

"Satanism is elitist. It does not compromise – its tests, ordeals, methods and character-building experiences
are severe and will never be made easier to make them acceptable to more people or easier to undertake."
The Hard Reality of Satanism

For the discovery of wisdom, esoteric and otherwise, involves an arduous journey of decades, and which journey is
replete with much practical, personal, learning and many dark experiences.

Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
123 yfayen
v. 1.05

* Editorial Note, 2022. (i) An archive of the now defunct nineangles website is available at https://archive.org/download
/o-9-a-website-archive-2012/O9A-Website-Archive-2012.pdf (ii) A partial archive of Anton Long's now defunct weblog is
available at https://web.archive.org/web/20110903171456/http://antonlong.wordpress.com/

[1] As mentioned elsewhere, by scholarly is meant both learned and having undertaken meticulous, unbiased, research
on a specific subject over a period of some years.

[2] One distinguishing mark of such types of Homo Hubris is their arrogant unbalance, deriving from a lack of pathei-
mathos, that is a lack of certain Occult skills and never having experienced grief, severe trauma (physical and/or
emotional), personal loss, nor an encounter (or many encounters) with the imminent possibility of their own death,
never mind never having experienced over years and in practical ways both the numinous and the sinister. Refer, for
example, to Pathei-Mathos and The Initiatory Occult Quest. [ Editorial Note, 2022. The text Pathei-Mathos and The
Initiatory Occult Quest is available (pp.16-19) in https://archive.org/download/o-9-a-website-archive-2012/O9A-Website-
Archive-2012.pdf ]

[3] As mentioned elsewhere, 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.

Source:
https://archive.org/download/o-9-a-website-archive-2012/O9A-Website-Archive-2012.pdf
(pp.20-22)