ORDER OF THE NINE ANGLES NAOS A Practical Guide to Modern Magick © Copyright 1989 Thorold West & ONA Edited with an introduction by Michael W. Ford 1 ORDER OF THE NINE ANGLES NAOS A Practical Guide to Modern Magick © Copyright 1989 Thorold West & ONA Edited with an introduction by Michael W. Ford 2 3 NAOS A Practical Guide to Modern Magick Copyright © 2007 by ONA Copyright © 2007 this edition Succubus Productions All rights reserved. No part of this book, in part or in whole, may be reproduced, transmitted, or utilized, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief quotations in critical articles, books and reviews. First edition 2007 Succubus Productions Information: Succubus Productions PO Box 926344 Houston, TX 77292 USA Website: http://www.luciferianwitchcraft.com Website: http://www.vampyreapotheca.com email: [email protected] 4 FORWARD As a long time practitioner of Magick and the Luciferian Path, I first began a study of NAOS in the early 1990’s, when I was just getting started as a student, the ONA was an interesting concept – true chaos in every sense, with a focus from a Satanic view point. NAOS is an often ignored due to the power it can give – or take away. A complete system of Magick; it is what I would define as Chaos Magick in a The Sepentary is an excellent system of initiatory symbolism, however it is powered to either illuminate or destroy quickly – you turn the focus on yourself in every way. As the founder of THE BLACK ORDER OF THE DRAGON, the theory and practice of the path of Vampyrism was partly derived from my own experience in the ONA – I learned by trial and error the path of darkness, which lead me to the Light of Lucifer, from which became LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT. NAOS is a complete grimoire from start to finish – it presents clear associations of past techniques – Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Traditional Satanic Practice. What actually is Satanic practice? It is a process of becoming something better, in the name of self-love and the accountability for your own actions. As a practitioner of The Luciferian Witchcraft tradition, I can attest that the practices in terms of magickal development are similar. While the publisher and myself do not neccissarily subscribe to the ONA’s ideas or methodology, I find the works here to be worth being in any esoteric library. The Esoteric Chant section will be helpful in understanding the use of tone and voice in magick. The Sepentary and the various aspects of Dark Rune Magick will be a powerful source of inspiration to any practitioner. If one has the imagination, or Iblis, then the results will be limitless! MICHAEL W. FORD 2007 5 CONTENTS Forward by Michael W. Ford Introduction by Thorold West Part One Physis Magick : Practical Guide to Becoming and Adept 0 A Theory of Magick I The Seven Fold Way II Stage One: Initiation III Tarot IV Stage Two: Second Degree Initiation V Stage Three: External Adept VI The Star Game VII The Star Game: Esoteric Theory VIII Stage Four: Internal Adept IX Stage Five: Entering the Abyss Part Two Esoteric Sorcery Introduction to Part Two by Michael W. Ford Introduction X Esoteric Chant XI Esoteric Chant as a Magickal Technique XII Frenzy Magick XIII Visualization and Sigil Magick XIV Sexual Magick XV Model Magick XVI Empathic Magick XVII Dark Pathways XVIII The Dark Gods Appendix 0 The Left Handed Path I The Septenary System II Visualization Techniques III Magickal Symbols and Scripts IV Hermetic Ritual of Self-Initiation V Preparation for Hermetic Rituals Part Three Esoteric MSS I. A The Wheel of Life II. B Notes on Esoteric Tradition (Septenary/Star Gates) III. C Esoteric Tradition (Abyss/Alchemical Texts/Tarot) 6 IV. D Notes on Some Terms Used (Archetype/Psyche/Ego/Self) V. E Attributions of the Runes VI. F Musick, Incense, Forms VII. G Symbols and being VIII. H Time and Being IX. I Advanced Star Game X. J The Forbidden Alchemy 7 Introduction The purpose of the present work is to provide a self-contained and practical guide to esoteric magick based upon the Septenary tradition. This hitherto secret tradition (also known as hebdomadry) is here published for the first time. The present work is clearly written, without any mystification. Part One is a practical guide to becoming an Adept and is essentially ‘Internal magick’ – that is, magick used to bring about personal development (of consciousness and so on). Part Two is an equally practical guide to esoteric sorcery and magickal techniques and is ‘External magick’ – that is, the changing of events/circumstances/individuals and so on according to the desire of the sorcerer/sorceress. Internal magick is the following of the Occult path from Initiation to Adeptship and beyond, and in the Septenary tradition this path is known as the ‘seven-fold Way’. Part Three contains a selection of esoteric manuscripts circulated among members of the ONA: they present and explain further aspects of the Septenary system as well as other techniques, both directly magickal and more practical. They are published exactly as circulated. The techniques given in the present work enable any individual to follow the path to wisdom: to achieve that genuine, individual, freedom or liberation – and this freedom is ‘internal’: the emergence of the Adept, that is, the development of insight, both personal and ‘Occult’. Of all Occult traditions, the Septenary is perhaps the most practical and direct as a means of attaining this insight. Thorold West 8 PART ONE PHYSIS MAGICK A Practical Guide to Becoming An Adept 9 0 -A THEORY OF MAGICK Fundamental to magick is a belief that the phenomenal world of the five senses is incomplete. Magickians believe that we live in a world quite different from the one our five senses show to us – they believe that every living thing possesses, because it is living, certain energies which we as individuals can sense and ‘see’ if we become receptive to them. This receptiveness is one of the aims of magickal or Occult Initiation – and may be said to involve the individual in becoming aware of the essence of things that is hidden by their outward appearance (and this applies to other individuals, as well as ‘things’). According to the Septenary tradition, these “magickal energies” possessed by things and ‘life’ derive from what it is convenient to describe the acausal – that is, every living entity is a point or region where acausal energies manifest in our causal, phenomenal, universe, the amount and type of this energy being dependant on the type of entity. These acausal energies (which science because it at present deals only with causal entities and energies, cannot describe) may be said to derive from a parallel acausal universe which intersects our causal universe at certain places. We as individuals, because we possess the faculty of consciousness, re ‘gates’ to this acausal universe. We possess the (mostly latent) ability to ‘open the gate’ to the acausal which exists within our own psyche to draw from the acausal certain energies, and these energies can and do alter in some way both our own consciousness or other entities/energies which exist in the causal. This “drawing of energies”, and their use, is magick. External magick is the use of such energies, directed by individual desire, to bring about changes in the causal; Internal Magick is the use of these energies to bring psychic, internal change. To draw upon such energies it is usually necessary for the individual to use some form of framework or symbolism, and techniques of external magick use such symbolism to bring both apprehension of the energies and their control. Various systems of symbolism exist – most denoting types of energy by gods, goddesses, spirits or demons. In reality, the actual symbols are of only secondary importance, and a Magickian who is following the path to Adeptship will soon discard such sym- bols/names/descriptions (and thus External Magick itself) in favor of apprehending such energies as those energies are in themselves. In the 10