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===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}}