ONA - Sorcery and the Esoteric Nature of T he Acausal

Sorcery and the Esoteric Nature of The Acausal Debunking The Chaos

The Order of Nine Angles first used the term acausal nearly four decades ago, appropriating it from Myatt's early work on Cliology and which work of his evolved to become his theory of the bifurcation (and a new ontology) of Being and thence his Physics of Acausal Energy. In these four decades since our first use of this term, there has been much speculation - among both ONA Initiates and esoteric folk in general - about what exactly, in esoteric terms it means, and what, if any, relation this term bears to non-esoteric theories such as Chaos theory and Quantum Mechanics. In particular, when both Chaos theory and Quantum Mechanics were fashionable subjects among mundane and Magian Occultists, attempts were made by such people to explain sorcery in terms of both those subjects, with some books and articles written by some the pretentious Occult illiterati proclaiming such things as "Chaos is the creative principle behind all magic[k]..." and "A Chaos Magician... sees beyond the systems and dogmas to the physics behind the magical force," and even quite laughable pretentious babble such as, "I show how...the three dimensional transactional time in the HD8 interpretation of quantum and particle physics could allow divination and enchantment to occur." Given such babble and such attempts to link sorcery with Chaos theory and Quantum Mechanics and other such stuff, it is not surprising that our use of the term acausal to describe the realm of The Dark Gods, and our use of the term acausal energy presencing via a nexion to define ordinary sorcery, should arouse a certain curiosity among those interested in our Sinister Way.

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Chaos theory, Quantum Mechanics, and Sorcery Let's be clear - talk of there being some relation between sorcery and current physical theories such as Chaos theory, particle Physics, and quantum mechanics, is inane; silly, stupid, and the product of a mundane intellect. Why? Because there no relation whatsoever, since such physical theories are bunk - mere trendy and silly ideas based on causal Time - and because sorcery is not what contemporary pretentious Occult gits think it is. Such physical theories as such gits expound upon are ideas which - in a hundred or two hundred or so years - will be seen as products of inferior thinking, just like the so-called Big Bang Theory with its ridiculous irrational assumptions - and the silly idea of so-called "Black Holes" and the even sillier idea of "dark matter" with its ridiculous ad hoc assumptions which attempt to square an inane cosmological theory with observations - will be seen as pretentious babble, the products of inferior human minds. So, anyone who claims to be a sorcerer and who talks about Chaos theory and quantum mechanics reveals themselves as being not only an Occult charlatan but as possessed of an inferior intellect; as someone who, at best is akin to some urban teenager swept along by some craze and keen to be seen as "trendy" or "fashionable" or "cool" or whatever the latest buzz-word is. Or even worse, someone who desires to be seen as some sort of "thinker" and who needs (despite their protestations) the adulation of being some "Occult guru". For such individuals just cannot think - conceptualize - past the concept of causal Time, as they obviously do not posses or have not developed those skills of our Dark Arts, especially the faculty of dark-empathy, and which particular faculty would have predisposed them toward an esoteric intuition of the true, the esoteric, nature of sorcery, of thus of the acausal, and especially of the nature of acausal Time.

Why are such physical theories bunk? For two simple reasons. First, they cannot explain in any way the fundamental difference between life and inert matter. That is, what, for example, animates or infuses the physical structures of a cell to make that cell alive, and why, for instance, all living matter disobeys the first of Newton's laws. Second, they depend on the simple, Cosmically incorrect, notion of a linear causality, as evident in the use of conventional mathematics, and physical ideation, to describe such theories, all of which theories are based on and
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depend upon equations involving an abstract notion of causal, linear, time - as in differential and tensorial equations involving the variable dt (as in Newtonian mechanics, and in the Schwarzschild and other metrics deriving from the variable ds) - and which linear time cannot even be defined in any satisfactory manner sans causal linearity (as in the definition based on so-called atomic/quantum clocks). Thus, even apparently abstruse notions of Space-Time - deriving from tensorial mathematics, or some other representation - are founded on the simple, cosmologically inaccurate, notion of a causal linearality.

Why is there no link between physical theories - trendy or otherwise - and sorcery? Because the basis of sorcery is some-thing which is alive: to wit, we who practice the dark art of sorcery. Because - esoterically (that is, correctly) understood - sorcery is a living alchemy [Oh look, I am giving away more Occult secrets here]. That is, sorcery is a combination of various aspects, the most necessary and important of which are living beings - for instance, the sorcerer, and the object of sorcery, which is almost always another living being, human or otherwise. Or, expressed more precisely (esoterically) sorcery is - as all Dark Arts are- a means whereby we shed our causal, illusive, form (of separateness) and become of the essence of Life and so can affect other Life, sometimes by becoming or imitating (being a mimesis of or for) other Life for a specific period of causal Time because "we" are the matrix of connexions that is Life in the causal. There is thus the use of energies which are not-causal, since such energies depend on (or derive from) a living being or some living beings and since what-lives, a living being, cannot be explained by causality (linear causal reductionism) or any representation based on such causality, mathematical or otherwise (such as some current theory in Physics). The living alchemy that is genuine sorcery explains why - in the real world we human beings all inhabit (as distinct from our dreams, and the movies) - no sorcerer, however advanced or knowledgeable they may be, can by some "magick" or spell or whatever bring a rock to life and so transform it into some living entity. What a sorcerer can do, in our real world, is affect and so change other living beings (to various degrees), be such living beings human, non-human but of our physical realm (such as animals), or esoteric (of the realm of the psyche, and which psyche includes such non-causal living entities as archetypes). [1] What an advanced practitioner of sorcery can do or may be able to do is affect aspects of larger living entities, such as the living entity that is Nature [2] - and thus may be able, for example, to bring into being, over a natural period of earthly causal Time (that is, not instantaneously), a storm [3].
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Similarly, and in respect of divination, what a genuine sorcerer does is intuit (become in sympathy with usually via dark-empathy) the Destiny (and possibly the Wyrd) of an individual. That is, in exoteric-speak they betake themselves out from the causal realm (from causal Time) and so see (and think) acausally - and often some causal form (such as Tarot images) are used in order to facilitate this esoteric type of seeing and knowing. The living alchemy that is genuine sorcery also explains how such things as an esoteric curse work: that is, not initially by a direct, linear, causality. Thus, the living energy of a human being - that which animates them, makes them alive, and keeps them healthy and alive, is accessed and thence affected or changed by the sorcerer in some particular manner, or some nexion within the psyche of that individual is opened to allow the ingress of other, disruptive (and possible non-causal) living entities. With the effect that, over a certain period of causal Time, that individual is afflicted with misfortune and possibly illness or in some cases even death. Why over a certain period of causal Time? Because the affected living entity lives (has existence in) the causal continuum which constrains their being (constrains the acausal energy that animates them and keeps them alive).

In ONA-speak, a sorcerer is or becomes a particular type of nexion capable of accessing and presencing acausal energies.

The Esoteric Nature of The Acausal

In simple - exoteric - terms, the acausal is a naturally existing part of the Cosmos, and merely the realm or realms or continuum where acausal energy exists, and which acausal energy is a-causal in nature. That is, propagation of this energy does not, or need not, take a certain amount of causal Time, and does not involve, or may not involve, traversing a certain causal distance. Thus none of Newton's laws apply, just as causal theories such as those of entropy or so-called "chaos" do not apply. In esoteric terms, the acausal is the source of all the causal Life we know. That is, it is acausal energy, from the acausal, which animates all causal Life we currently know, and which enables us to change and develope ourselves, acausally interact with other living beings (in one sense - practice sorcery), and do many other things, such as develope acausal knowing, that is, understanding the acausal sans causal abstractions [4]. In another sense, as intimated above, it is a means for us to shed the illusive apprehension of our
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finite causal being. For it is causal abstractions that obscure the nature - exoteric and esoteric - of the acausal, and thus obscure the nature and reality of sorcery. Let us consider the following bit of bunk, from someone imposing a causal abstraction on the Occult; and a bit of bunk typical both of Magian Occultism [5], and of the pretentious gits who prattle on or who have prattled on about Chaos and about sorcery but who so obviously have no understanding of sorcery let alone any esoteric skills or knowledge. Here is the bunk: "There are no gods or demons, except for those I have been conditioned into acknowledging and those I have created for myself." This is the attitude of a limited, and a smug, causal thinking - of assuming the Cosmos is explicable, or can become explicable, by causal theories and causal ideas (by abstractions); that the individual has, ultimately, nothing to fear because "there is nothing really eerie or dangerous or un-human in sorcery and the Occult, it's all imagination or what others have used to scare people or get them to believe some doctrine or what I myself can conjure into being"; and that everything is not only a tool, a means, to be used, but can mastered and can easily, and should be, disposed of, blah blah mundane blah. This is the doctrine of Magian Occultism - that "I command the powers..."; that "I can become powerful enough/knowledgeable enough" to master anything; and that, "given the right tools, the right drawings or blueprints (abstractions) I can cobble my own system together or use something from somewhere else so long as it's useful to me..." This is, ultimately, the urban whine of Homo Hubris - " I'll be safe; or I can make myself safe. I am or can be in control." This, ultimately, is the urban whine of the most pretentious among that untermenschen species, Homo Hubris: "That Reality is what I make it or what others have made it, or perceived it to be, through their causal abstractions."

The acausal, however, allows for no such safety and no such mundane control. It cannot be disposed of if some urban git believes it is no longer useful for them or ceases "to believe in it". It is, most importantly, not a creation of the human mind, of our consciousness. Not a matter of perception. For, acausally, there is no subject distinct from, separate from, an object. For that distinction implies the separation of causality (between subject and object) and the linear movement of causality (some-thing passing from subject to object and vice versa) and also implies a perception (based on abstractions,
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such as categories) as to why the subject is or or may be different from the object. Thus, acausally, there is no perception of an object by a subject, such as ourselves. There is thus no "consciousness" to be individually aware of either such an object or of the subject itself (such as what causally we consider ourselves). There is not even any "change" - or progression or development - since there is no consciousness to perceive it and no causal linearality to measure such change. For, acausally, there is no language as we currently understand language because such language almost invariably (and especially Western languages) require or assume (imply) a copula, which itself implies the aforementioned distinction between some subject and some object, between subject and predicate. Between one existent and another existent, or between one subject and some object with some quality (or category) that has become to be associated with that object. How then can we know and understand the acausal? To be pedantic (or to be esoterically precise), "we" cannot - since there is no you or I or we to apprehend it. But, less esoterically, and thus somewhat exoterically, we can only currently (outside of such Esoteric Arts as dark-empathy) apprehend the acausal by its affects on our causal realm where we have our existence, and thus the most significant affect of the acausal in the causal is, as mentioned earlier, Life itself - the acausal energy presencing in our causal continuum that animates matter and makes that matter a living entity, from the microscopic cell to we human beings to Nature. Thus, we do not need "explanations" - or attempts at explanation - of the acausal by such causal things as "chaos", or so-called chaos theory, quantum mechanics, particle physics, or by reference to any currently existing -isms such as some gnostic or Buddhist teaching or some exposition of some gnostic or Buddhist tenet, or even by some mathematical representation (given the current causal nature of maths). All such explanations or interpretations or comparisons are irrelevant; unhelpful; unnecessary. To know and understand the acausal we just have to engage with it; experience it. No theories; no explanations. We have to cultivate, in ourselves, the faculties of acausal knowing and dark-empathy [6]. We have to thus come to know those causally-dwelling beings beyond our own individual being: the being of archetypes, the being of Nature and the beings that a part of, and not separate from, either Nature or that illusion of apprehension which is of our individual self. We have to become Adepts of The Dark Arts: practitioners of acausal sorcery. We have to evoke, invoke, to presence, those living beings who dwell in the acausal dimensions and who represent a type of Life beyond our causal living.
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In brief, we have to live our life in a different way from ordinary mortals. Which is why we are following The Sinister Way to The Abyss and The Acausal Beyond.

Anton Long Order of Nine Angles 121 Year of Fayen

Notes: [1] It should be remembered that the ONA uses terms such as psyche and archetype in a particular esoteric way. See, for example, A Glossary of Order of Nine Angles Terms (Version 2.01) [2] Technically, and esoterically, Nature is defined as both a type of suprapersonal being, and that innate, creative, force (that is, ) which animates physical matter and makes it living, here on this planet we call Earth. [3] A rudimentary example of this is given in Naos. [4] For causal abstractions, see A Glossary of Order of Nine Angles Terms (Version 2.01) [5] The basics of Magian Occultism are outlined in the jovial article Magian Occultism, by Lianna of the Darky Sox. [6] For a basic overview, see the ONA texts The Dark Arts of The Sinister Way, and Dark-Empathy, Adeptship, and The Seven-Fold Way of the ONA.

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