Editing Order of Nine Angles (section)

==Practices==
The ONA presents itself as an elitist group with highly demanding membership requirements.{{sfn|Shah|Cooper|Newcombe|2023|p=5}} The Order advocates an arduous individual achievement of self-mastery and [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] self-overcoming, with an emphasis on individual growth through practical acts of risk, prowess and endurance.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2003|p=218}} Therefore, "[t]he goal of the Satanism of the ONA is to create a new individual through direct experience, practice and self-development [with] the grades of the ONA system being highly individual, based on the initiates' own practical and real-life acts, instead of merely performing certain ceremonial rituals".{{sfn|Senholt|2009|pp=29–30}} Thus Satanism, the ONA assert, requires venturing into the realm of the forbidden and illegal in order to shake the practitioner loose of cultural and political conditioning.{{sfn|Monette|2013|p=86}} Intentionally transgressive, the Order has been characterised as providing "an aggressive and elitist spirituality".{{sfn|Monette|2013|p=85}}

===Initiation and the Seven Fold Way===

The ONA's core system is known as the "Seven Fold Way" or "Hebdomadry",{{sfnm|1a1=Goodrick-Clarke|1y=2003|1p=219|2a1= Senholt |2y= 2013|2p=257|3a1=Monette|3y=2013|3p=95|4a1= Introvigne |4y=2016|4p=361}} and is outlined in one of the Order's primary texts, ''Naos''.{{sfn |Monette|2013|p=106}} The sevenfold system is reflected in the group's symbolic [[cosmology]], the "Tree of Wyrd", on which seven celestial bodies – the Moon, Venus, Mercury, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn – are located.{{sfn |Monette|2013|p=101}} The term ''[[wyrd]]'' was adopted from [[Old English]], where it referred to [[fate]] or [[destiny]].{{sfn|Monette|2013|p=101}} Monette identified this as a "hermetic system", highlighting that the use of seven planetary bodies had been influenced by the Medieval Arabic texts ''[[Picatrix|Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm]]'' and [[Shams al-Ma'arif]].{{sfn |Monette|2013 |p= 106}} 

Senholt argues that the ONA incorporation of "Tree of Wyrd" concept to the "seven fold ways" system were a conscious attempt to differentiate their own teaching from the concept of [[tree of life (Kabbalah)|tree of life]] in [[Kabbalah]] mysticism, as they consider the tree of life to be an Abrahamic Semitic concept.{{sfn |Senholt|2013|pp=3, 249, 256, 269}} The Seven Fold Way is reflected in the group's initiatory system, which has seven grades through which the member can gradually progress.{{sfnm|1a1=Goodrick-Clarke|1y= 2003|1p=219|2a1=Senholt |2y= 2013 |2p= 257|3a1=Monette|3y=2013|3p=95}} These are: (1) Neophyte, (2) Initiate, (3) External Adept, (4) Internal Adept, (5) Master/Mistress, (6) Grand Master/Mousa and (7) Immortal.{{sfnm|1a1=Senholt|1y=2013|1p=258|2a1=Monette|2y=2013 |2pp= 95–96}} The group has revealed that very few of its members raise to the fifth and sixth degrees.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p= 259}} In a 1989 article, the ONA stated that at that point there were only four individuals who had reached the stage of Master.{{sfn |Senholt|2013|p= 259}}

The ONA does not initiate members into the group itself, but rather expects individuals to initiate themselves.{{sfn |Monette|2013|p=96}} It requires that initiates be in a good physical condition, and recommends a training regimen for prospective members to follow.{{sfn|Kaplan|2000a|p=236}}  Newcomers are expected to take on a magical partner of the opposite sex.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2003|p=219}} The practitioner must undertake personal and increasingly difficult challenges in order to move through the different grades.{{sfn|Monette|2013|p= 96}} Most of the ordeals that allow the initiate to proceed to the next stage are publicly revealed by the Order in its introductory material, as it is believed that the true initiatory element lies in the experience itself and can only be attained through performing them.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p= 258}} 

Part of the ritual to become an External Adept involves an ordeal in which the prospective member is to find a lonely spot and to lie there, still, for an entire night without moving or sleeping.{{sfnm|1a1=Kaplan|1y=2000a|1p=236|2a1=Senholt|2y=2013|2p= 258}} The initiatory process for the role of Internal Adept entails the practitioner withdrawing from human society for three months, from an equinox to a solstice, or more usually for six months, during which time they must live in the wild without modern conveniences or contact with civilisation.{{sfnm|1a1=Kaplan|1y=2000a|1pp=236–37|2a1= Goodrick-Clarke|2y=2003|2p= 219|3a1= Senholt|3y= 2013 |3p= 258}} According to Jeffrey Kaplan, an academic specialist of the far right, these physically and mentally challenging initiatory tasks reflect "the ONA's conception of itself as a vanguard organization composed of a tiny coterie of [[Nietzschean]] elites."{{sfn|Kaplan|2000a|p=237}}

===Insight roles===
[[File:Gadewar.jpg|thumb|left|The ONA encourages its members to adopt "insight roles" in anarchist, neo-Nazi, and Islamist groups in order to disrupt modern Western society.]]
An important aspect of ONA practice are the adoption of "insight roles", by which practitioners must adopt a lifestyle radically different to their own. Via experience and adversity, it is believed that these insight roles contribute to the practitioner's evolutionary superiority and thus assists the coming of the new aeon.{{sfn|Shah|Cooper|Newcombe|2023|p=5}}

These "insight roles" often involve working undercover among a politically extreme group for a period of six to eighteen months, gaining experience in something different from their normal life.{{sfnm |1a1=Senholt|1y=2013|1p=269|2a1=Monette|2y=2013|2p=96}} Among the ideological trends that the ONA suggests its members adopt "insight roles" within are [[anarchism]], [[neo-Nazism]], and [[Islamism]], stating that aside from the personal benefits of such an involvement, membership of these groups has the benefit of undermining the Magian-Nazarene socio-political system of the West and thus helping to bring about the instability from which a new order, the Imperium, can emerge.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p=269}} Monette noted a potential shift in the insight roles recommended by the group over the decades. The ONA recommended criminal or military activities during the 1980s and early 1990s. By the late 1990s and 2000s, they were instead recommending Buddhist monasticism as an insight role for practitioners to adopt.{{sfn|Monette|2013|pp=96–97}} 

Through the practice of "insight roles", the order advocates continuous transgression of established norms, roles, and comfort zones in the development of the initiate. This extreme application of ideas further amplifies the ambiguity of Satanic and left-hand path practices of [[Antinomianism#Left-hand path|antinomianism]], making it almost impossible to penetrate the layers of subversion, play and counter-dichotomy inherent in the sinister dialectics."{{sfn|Faxneld|Petersen|2013|p=15}} Senholt suggested that Myatt's involvement with both neo-Nazism and Islamism represent such "insight roles" in his own life.{{sfn |Senholt|2013 |pp= 267, 269}}

===Magick===
[[File:Kali;_standing_triumphantly_over_Shiva._Chromolitho_Wellcome_V0045066.jpg|thumb|The ONA's dark goddess has been described as having "strong parallels" with the Hindu goddess [[Kali]] (pictured).{{sfn|Monette|2013|pp=103–104}}]]
The ONA distinguish between external, internal, and aeonic magick.{{sfnm|1a1=Senholt|1y=2013|1p=260|2a1=Monette|2y=2013|2p=100}} External magic itself is divided into two categories: ceremonial magick, which is performed by more than two people to achieve a specific goal and hermetic magick, which is performed either solitarily or in a pair and which is often [[sex magic|sexual in nature]].{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p=260}} 

Internal magick is designed to produce an [[altered state of consciousness]] in the participant, in order to result in a process of "individuation" which bestows adepthood.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p=260}} The most advanced form of magick in the ONA system is aeonic magick, the practice of which is restricted to those who are already perceived to have mastered external and internal magick, and attained the grade of master.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p=260}} The purpose of aeonic magick is to influence large numbers of people over a lengthy period of time, thus affecting the development of future aeons.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|pp=260–261}} In particular it is employed with the intent of disrupting the current socio-political system of the Western world, which the ONA believe has been corrupted by Judeo-Christian religion.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p=262}}

The ONA utilises two methods in its performance of aeonic magick. The first entails rites and chants with the intent of opening a gateway – known as a "nexion" – to the "acausal realm" in order to manifest energies in the "causal realm" that will influence the existing aeon in the practitioner's desired direction.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|pp=261–262}} The second method involves playing an advanced form of a board game known as the Star Game; the game was devised by the group, with the game pieces representing different aeons. The group believes that when an initiate plays the game they can become a "living nexion" and thus a channel for acausal energies to enter the causal realm and effect aeonic change.{{sfnm|1a1=Kaplan|1y=1998|1p=116|2a1=Senholt|2y=2013|2p=262}} An advanced form of the game is used as part of the training for the grade of Internal Adept.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2003|p=219}}

===Human sacrifice===

The ONA's writings encourage human sacrifice,{{sfnm|1a1=Goodrick-Clarke|1y=2003|1pp=218–219|2a1=Baddeley|2y=2010|2p=155}} referring to their victims as ''opfers''.{{sfnm|1a1=Goodrick-Clarke|1y=2003|1p=219|2a1=Shah|2a2=Cooper|2a3=Newcombe|2y=2023|2p=6}} The group outlined guidelines for human sacrifice in several documents: "A Gift for the Prince – A Guide to Human Sacrifice", "Culling – A Guide to Sacrifice II", "Victims – A Sinister Exposé", and "Guidelines for the Testing of Opfers".{{sfn|Kaplan|2000a|pp=237–238}} According to the ONA, the killer must allow their victims to "self-select" themselves. This is achieved by testing victims to see whether they expose perceived character faults. If they do, it is believed that victims to have shown that they are worthy of death, and the sacrifice can commence.{{sfnm|1a1=Kaplan|1y=2000a|1p=237|2a1=Ryan|2y=2003|2p=54}} 

Those deemed ideal for sacrifice include individuals perceived as being of low character, members of what they deem "sham-Satanic groups" like the Church of Satan and Temple of Set, as well as "zealous, interfering Nazarenes", and journalists, business figures and political activists who disrupt the group's operations.{{sfnm|1a1=Gardell|1y=2003|1pp=293–294|2a1=Baddeley|2y=2010|2p=155}} The ONA explains that, because of the need for such "self-selection", children must never be victims of sacrifice.{{sfnm|1a1=Harvey|1y=1995|1p=292|2a1=Kaplan|2y=2000a|2p=237|3a1=Shah|3a2=Cooper|3a3=Newcombe|3y=2023|3p=6}}

The sacrifice is carried out through either physical or magical means, at which point the killer is believed to absorb power from the body and spirit of the victim, thus entering a new level of "sinister" consciousness.{{sfnm|1a1=Kaplan|1y=2000a|1p=237|2a1=Gardell|2y=2003|2p=293}} As well as strengthening the killer's character by heightening their connection with the acausal forces of death and destruction,{{sfnm|1a1=Gardell|1y=2003|1p=293|2a1=Goodrick-Clarke|2y=2003|2p=219}} such sacrifices are also viewed as having wider benefits by the ONA, because they remove from society individuals the group deems worthless.{{sfn|Gardell|2003|p=293}} Monette noted that no ONA nexion cells publicly admitted to carrying out a sacrifice in a ritual manner, but that members had joined police and military groups to engage in legal violence and killing.{{sfn|Monette|2013|p=114}}

The ONA believe that there are historical precedents to their practice of human sacrifice, expressing belief in a prehistoric tradition in which humans were sacrificed to a goddess named [[Baphomet]] at the spring equinox and to the [[Arcturus]] star in the autumn.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2003|p=219}} The ONA's advocacy of human sacrifice has drawn strong criticism from other Satanist groups like the Temple of Set, who deem it to be detrimental to their own attempts to make Satanism more socially acceptable.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2003|p=219}}

===Sexual violence===

The [[Counter Extremism Project]] reported that one ONA publication was titled ''The Rape Anthology'' and called for followers to seek "spiritual arousal from violent sexual rape".<ref>{{cite web |title=Order of Nine Angles |url=https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/order-nine-angles |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013200546/https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/order-nine-angles |archive-date=2022-10-13 |access-date=2020-07-25 |publisher=[[Counter Extremism Project]] }}</ref> White Star Acception have published material in which they present rape as a regular practice of the group.{{sfn|Sieg|2013|p=271}} 

In 1998, ''Searchlight'' magazine accused the ONA of being affiliated with paedophiles.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p=256}} According to a [[BBC News]] article from 2020, "The authorities are concerned by the number of paedophiles associated with the ONA, taking the group into a different area of law enforcement activity."<ref>{{cite news |last=De Simone |first=Daniel |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53141759 | title=Order of Nine Angles: What is this obscure Nazi Satanist group? | work=[[BBC News]] |location=London |date=2020-06-29 | access-date=2020-06-29 |language=en-GB}}</ref> The Global Network on Extremism and Technology have also reported that the ONA is "adjacent" to the [[764 (organization)|764]] network, which has adopted the ONA's "visual aesthetics" and been associated with widespread [[child sexual abuse]].<ref name="GNET">{{cite web |last=Argentino |first=Marc-André |last2=G |first2=Barrett G |last3=Tyler |first3=M.B. |date=2024-01-19 |title=764: The Intersection of Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and Child Sexual Exploitation |url=https://gnet-research.org/2024/01/19/764-the-intersection-of-terrorism-violent-extremism-and-child-sexual-exploitation/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |work=[[Global Network on Extremism and Technology]] |language=en}}</ref>