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In recent years, the O9A has gained notoriety for its influence on extremist groups like the and The Base . Law enforcement agencies in the UK and US have monitored the group closely, noting that O9A texts often use "Satanic" imagery as a vehicle for neo-Nazi and anarchist ideologies aimed at destabilizing modern "Magian" (a term they use for Western/Zionist) society. Structural Secrecy
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The ONA is highly critical of groups like the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set. They view these organizations as "soft," law-abiding, and pseudo-Satanic. The ONA promotes "culling," a euphemism for the sacrificial killing of human beings, though scholars debate whether this is meant literally or as a psychological test for the initiate. However, the group's literature frequently encourages illegal violence, terrorism, and subversion.
While Myatt has vacillated between different ideologies throughout his life—including radical Islam and his own "Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos"—the foundational texts of the O9A are credited to Long. These writings describe a system rooted in what they call "Traditional Satanism," which they claim predates modern iterations of the occult. The Philosophy: The Seven-Fold Way order of the nine angles
Members are expected to take on "counter-cultural" identities for months or years—such as joining the military, extremist political groups, or criminal underworlds—to gain real-world experience, build character, and "de-condition" themselves from societal norms.
The Order of the Nine Angles remains a shadowy, decentralized network that exists more as an ideology than an organization. While its membership is tiny (likely fewer than a few hundred active individuals globally), its influence on violent extremism is disproportionately large due to the accessibility of its texts online. Most mainstream occultists condemn the ONA as a corrupt and dangerous distortion of satanic philosophy, while security agencies continue to monitor its spread. : In recent years, the O9A has gained
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