It is very fascinating to dissect the evolution of Order doctrine and praxis, but it ultimately comes at the detriment of the practitioner to build up and obsess over what has come to be know as the ‘Order of Nine Angles’.

In a way, the order has turned into a MacGuffin, to be chased after by those who wish to uncover some kind of truth about its original form that does not actually exist; or what I feel has become so ubiquitous among the so called ‘satanists’ of today, being the desire to gain some kind of place in the legacy of Order, to take a place in its mythos and perceived shrouded history alongside the likes of Anton Long, Christos Beest, Chloe Ortega and all those who have so influenced the existence of the Sevenfold Way.

But the idea of a true ‘ONA’ has influenced far more than those figures ever have. The Order has become something totally separate from those who engage with it, no longer a construct — it is an object to be attained and lorded over by those so focused on the idea of authority and structure that provides solace in a landscape otherwise defined by chaos and disorder.

The Order was not founded with the intent to limit us, but that is exactly what it has become at present. The desire for purity of authority; a cohesive in-group and the air of exclusivity; and most of all, the inability to separate the formless Sevenfold Way from the ideal of the ONA.