[from http://www.nasz-dom.net/saturn/nex-living-edge.html ] Satanism - Or Living On The Edge ONA, 1991eh Genuine Satanists are at the sharp end: they act. They strive for and implement their personal Destiny and they work for the fulfillment of sinister strategy. That is, by their lives, by their ways of living, they actively aid the creative forces of Darkness. Or, expressed another way, they do the work of the Prince of Darkness. In contrast, the dabblers, the pseuds, keep themselves secure in their imaginary and fantasy Satanic worlds - with correspondence, meetings, conclaves, discussions; with performing and writing/reading about worthless Occult rites; with their babbling about their pseudo-mystical fantasies. A Satanist will be living Satanically - and will therefore be dangerous, in the real world. They will do Satanic deeds rather than just talk or write about them. He or she will be, for instance, disrupting society in a practical way, or working to actively create a new, revolutionary society which is more Satanic. They might be real heretics - fighting against the State either politically or via armed warfare if that State (as most Western ones do) upholds the Nazarene sickness of spirit (evident in modern political ideas like liberalism and humanism and equality: the triumph of the worthless at the expense of the noble). Or perhaps they will be aiding the collapse of such a State, and fostering a reaction, by morally undermining it, for example by dealing in drugs or pornography. Or maybe they will be teachers in influential positions, subverting others in secret towards Satanism or those transient forms Satanism often assumes to gain control and influence. Or they might be actively culling the worthless, the scum - by being a vigilante, or a zealous, honourable Police Officer Whatever, they will have a direction, a purpose, an intent which goes beyond the edification of their own ego. They will be working to achieve something great by virtue of which they can excel in their own lives and thus really live to the full. They will be developing and using their potential, their skills - and thus exulting in life, in overcoming challenges. They will be contributing toward their own evolution and that of existence itself because they are harnessing in a practical way the darker forces. This direction, purpose and intent is Satanic strategy, or Aeonics. A rational and thus conscious understanding of those forces which shape and change evolution and the forms assumed by sentient life from individuals to societies to civilizations and Aeons. It is this sinister or Satanic strategy which makes genuine Satanism what it is, and it is knowledge and understanding of this strategy which marks the genuine Satanic Initiate from the imitation. A Satanist not only acts in a certain way - achieving things in real life - but they know what they are doing; they possess perspective. An Initiated knowledge. This `knowledge' is not primarily of the pseudo-mystical kind, to do with rituals or other Occult workings/techniques. Rather, it is primarily concerned with how and why certain things are as they are, and how those things can be altered or changed. In essence, it is about how cosmic forces interact with and change/evolve life - about the mechanisms by which Aeons, civilizations, societies and ultimately individuals grow, are or can be influenced and changed. In the past few decades, many professedly Satanic organizations have arisen, and some have propounded various aspects of the genuine Satanic world-view. But almost without exception they have shown themselves to be lacking in real esoteric knowledge - i.e. Aeonics. Quite often, someone from one of these organizations will sound-off and reveal their ignorance, particularly concerning the actions of real Satanists in the real world. For instance, it has become fashionable in these pseudo-Satanic circles to castigate individual Satanists, or a Satanic group, if that individual or group becomes involved in Politics - particularly if those Politics are on what is often termed the extreme Right. What the ignorant writers and/or speakers in question have not understood, is that such political action is chosen Satanically - to achieve things, both for the individual(s) concerned and for Satanism in general. That is, those who are so involved are so because they are consciously and with ruthless determination aiding the sinister dialectic: i.e. Satanic strategy. They are living on the edge - causing and aiding change/disruption in real life. The ignorance of the pseudo-Satanists is revealed in another area - ethics. There is not and cannot be any such thing as Satanic ethics. What there are, are means to achieve Satanic goals and the means are a matter for the individual Satanist striving to achieve those goals. That is, it is for each and every Satanist to decide, for themselves, what is or is not acceptable. This is so because Satanism, in essence, is individual - it is not nor can ever be, religious in any way. Those who believe Satanism is or should be religious, do not understand Satanism at all. As I have written and said many times, Satanism is an individualized defiance and affirmation: one of the fundamental aims of Satanism is to produce or develop proud, strong, unique, individuals of character who possess spirit or elan, and who possess insight and genuine esoteric knowledge. The aim is not to develop subservient, obedient, sycophants who cannot think for themselves. Satanism aims to develop the instinct and judgment of each person - and Satanists are critical, aware and capable of assessing things and situations for themselves. Or rather, they will be, after appropriate training/guidance. I make no apology for repeating yet again the statement that the religious attitude is anathema to Satanism: Satanism is a rebellion against the religious, dogmatic, instinct. Satanism shuns obedience to a self-appointed authority; its despises the very idea of a religious mandate and it does not idolize anything - not even the individual Satanists of distinction. Satanism is at the very edge, the frontier, of conscious understanding and knowledge and Satanists are the ones who try and often succeed in extending that frontier - in bringing more of the cosmos into conscious awareness and thus control. They dare, defy, are heretical, possess the courage to dream and make their dreams of Destiny real. Because they know themselves, others and the esoteric workings of existence, they are in control, masters. They effect change. And they acquire all these things because they possess perspective, a perspective whose foundation is Aeonics. What, then, is Aeonics? It is an esoteric understanding, and an understanding which in these times of overt and covert Nazarene domination is heretical. It is a knowledge of the processes by which Aeons arise, change and are replaced by another Aeon, and how the creative energies of a particular Aeon are made manifest via a civilization and thus the societies within that civilization and the individuals within those societies. It is also a knowledge of how all these various forms (or causal structures) can be changed - by esoteric or magickal means, and by more practical means. On the purely individual level, Aeonics shows and describes how the psyche/consciousness of the individual is influenced, both directly and unconsciously, and how that individual can be changed or controlled. One form of such change is esoteric development - i.e. the techniques and so on, magickal and otherwise, by which the individual can achieve Adeptship and beyond. One form of such control is via archetypal images. In simple terms, an Aeon is an expression of evolutionary change. In esoteric terms, it expresses how the acausal intrudes upon, and thus changes, the causal. For convenience, the causal may be described, here, as the everyday world - the world of linear time (past, present, future) and three spatial dimensions (height, breadth, width); the world wherein we live out our lives. The acausal may be described, again simply and for convenience here, as the creative energy that drives evolution - i.e. Satan. A civilization - or more accurately, an Aeonic civilization - is how Aeonic energy, or the acausal, is ordered in the causal - i.e. an Aeonic civilization is how change is produced in the causal. Within each such civilization there are societies, and within each society, individuals. All civilizations, Aeons and individuals are examples of organisms - they are born, change and they die (in the causal, at least). These varying organisms are born, change and end in certain ways, and these processes can be studied and thus understood. This understanding gives the means of control. Aeonic civilizations are regarded as being tied to, or part of, a particular Aeon, and each Aeon represents a change in our evolutionary development. Thus, each Aeonic civilization represents a significant step in that development: the invention, discovery of significant things, and the development of a greater understanding - of ourselves and the cosmos. The first Aeon is called the Primal and is dated from around 9,000 to 7,000 BP [where BP represents Before the Present: i.e. c.1990 eh]. Each Aeon, for classification, has a name and is associated with a specific geographical area, a symbol and a magickal working - or how the acausal energy was perceived/understood then. All Aeons, except the Primal one, are linked to a named civilization. Further, each Aeonic civilization possesses an ethos or sense of Destiny. Aeons and their associated civilizations are listed below. Of course, there are other civilizations - but Aeonic ones are the most significant ones because they produce significant evolutionary change by virtue of being a nexion, or nexus, for acausal energy - i.e. one may consider them, in magickal terms, as giving form directly via their structures and peoples, to acausal energy. Other civilizations are linked to or derive from, these Aeonic civilizations and while they may have in some way contributed to some evolutionary change (e.g. in terms of invention/discovery) that contribution is much less than for Aeonic civilizations. Aeon: Magickal Working: Aeonic Civilization: Aeonic Dates: Primal Shamanism N/A 9,000 - 7,000 BP Hyperborian Henges Albion 7,000 - 5,500 BP Sumerian Trance; Sacrifice Sumerian/Egyptiac 5,000 - 3,500 BP Hellenic Oracle; Dance Hellenic 3,000 - 1,500 BP Western Ritual Western 1,000 BP - 500 AP It should be obvious that the esoteric 'symbol' of the Western Aeon is "Satan" - i.e. Nazarene religion/ethics/forms area distortion of the Western Aeon. The exoteric expression of the Western civilization is Science & Technology: the desire to rationally discover and to excercise control over the environment via technology. All Aeonic civilizations end in Empire, and this Empire or Imperium lasts for around 390 years. The ethos of an Aeonic civilization is mostly manifest to (non-Initiate) consciousness via archetypes and a Destiny. These archetypes and this Destiny are different for each Aeonic civilization. The Destiny is of ten enshrined in a literary/poetic/saga-like form, and this form, for nearly all such civilizations is of the hero-motif type: the successful response of a hero or heroes to a challenge or series of challenges. For instance, the Hellenic form was Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid. The present Western civilization is at the stage where is should be entering its Imperium (c. 1995-2385 eh). However, the natural archetypes of the Western civilization have been mostly transplanted by alien Nazarene ones - and its sense of Destiny almost lost due to Nazarene ethics and social forms. As each Aeonic civilization enters its Imperium, the energies of the next Aeon are or can become manifest, via a nexion or Gate (or "sacred site") which channels acausal energy into causal forms. The next Aeonic civilization follows after three to four centuries - i.e. it takes that length of time for the Aeonic energies to effect large-scale changes in the acausal. Or rather, it has, until now. This brief and simplified description of Aeonics allows sinister strategy to be understood. Aeonics describes what has and is occurring in those forces that do mould and have moulded individuals still in thrall - i.e. non-Initiates. The knowledge gained brings a genuine understanding, a perspective. It enables effective sinister magick - it enables the Satanist to act, in the real world, and produce effective changes. To really live - to play at being god: i.e. to be like Satan. It is a fact that most magickal acts are useless - they achieve nothing, except perhaps self-delusion.(Some may achieve a few, external, results edifying to the ego.) And they are useless because few really understand what they are doing. They evoke long dead magickal forms from past Aeonic civilizations - or rather try to; they prat about with archetypal energies they do not understand. They confuse the forms and try to use some from one Aeon and some from another. Or they try and create their own. Or they are fundamentally so esoterically ignorant that they are infused with pseudo-mystical garbage and fanciful aeons and extra-terrestrial beings and/or diabolic entities from obscure and worthless mythologies. The Satanist, having access to the real esoteric tradition, can work both personally and Aeonically. Personally, it means working with the energies/inagickal forms of the present Aeon as those energies/forms are. It means eschewing the distortion which has so affected the Aeon and its civilization. One aspect of this distortion is the Qabala. Thus, any "Satanist" who uses any of the forms or symbols or whatever of or deriving from this Qabala is aiding the distortion and thus in effect undermining Satanic energies/values. That most "Satanists" cannot see this, just shows their lack of real esoteric understanding - i.e. their lack of a genuine Satanic Initiation. One magickal form of the genuine Western tradition, is the septenary. Another is the understanding as `Baphomet' as one name of the dark goddess - the Bride, Lover of Satan. Yet another is the knowledge of the real origins of both the word and the form of Satan - from the Hellenic, to which the Western Aeonic civilization was loosely affiliated in its origins and growth, and from which certain esoteric traditions survived. [The derivation of the word `Satan' is from the Greek [aitia.jpg] meaning accusation. It became the Hebrew Satan, whence also (Sh)aitian.] On the Aeonic level, the esoteric knowledge of Aeonics means the Satanist can judge what to do, and act both in the magickal and the practical sense. Aeonics shows that there has been and is a distortion in the Western energies, and that, given no distortion, the Destiny of the Western civilization was Empire - i.e. the triumph of Satanic values on a world-wide basis for the benefit of an elite within the Western civilization. Aeonics also shows that it is possible at this moment in time to create a nexion and thus draw forth the energies of the next Aeon to effectively create the next Aeonic civilization. Thus, effective courses of action are: (a) aiding the creation of an Imperium; (b) countering the distortion in order to introduce new forms/energies; (c) opening a nexion and thus aiding/creating a new Aeon, consciously. [Heretofore, most Aeons have not been created via magickal intent because the knowledge to do so was lacking.]. All of the above mean changing evolution - societies and individuals - on a significant scale. (a) involves disrupting present societies magickally and practically and aiding Imperium-like forces; (b) involves countering the Nazarene forms and those allied to it, and creating new forms and presencing them via individuals/groups/society etc. All involve aiding Satanic forces - e.g. spreading Satanic ideas esoterically and exoterically; aiming to become/guiding others to become Adepts of Satanic traditions. All involve action in the world. There is much more to Aeonics, and esoteric tradition, than this. But sufficient has been described for the real essence of Satanic living to be understood. A Satanist has a desire to excel - to effect changes; to be significant. They are not content to just live, to just survive. The perspective of Aeonics provides an intent, a purpose, by which they can achieve not only self-excellence but also change existence - fulfill or aid the sinister dialectic. They can help to build an Imperium, where Satanic values can be realized and where combat, war, conquest and exploration can make strong and extend the frontiers, take evolution to its limits. They can ruthlessly undermine and destroy and so aid a change. They can work works of genuine sinister magick and so influence others, create new structures and archetypal forms, and kill and then dismember the corpse of the Nazarene, exultant, as they revel in their mastery... They can, in brief, fulfill a real Destiny. Meanwhile, the pseudo-Satanists can continue playing their pathetic games and fawning on one another, achieving nothing in the long-term and probably nothing in the short-term either. They can continue imbibing the drug of delusion, and so waste their life. Everyone has a choice - only the gifted choose wisely. - Order of Nine Angles - EOF