Order of Nine Angles

Order of Nine Angles
One of the main symbols of the ONA
Founding locationShropshire, United Kingdom
Years active1960s–present
TerritoryUnited Kingdom, Russia, United States, Canada, Australia, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Serbia, Poland, Spain, Brazil, Philippines, Iceland, Belgium, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Mexico, Germany, New Zealand and South Africa[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Headquarters:

MembershipIn the thousands[11][12]
Criminal activitiesFar-right terrorism, murder, sexual assaults, child sexual abuse, child prostitution, cybercrime[13][7]
Allies

Far-right combatants

Rivals
Notable membersJarrett Smith, Garron Helm, Jacek Tchorzewski, Andrew Dymock, Ethan Melzer, Egor Krasnov[22][23]

The Order of Nine Angles (ONA or O9A) is a militant Satanic left-hand path occultist and terrorist network that originated in the United Kingdom but has since branched out into other parts of the world. Claiming to have been established in the 1960s, it rose to public recognition in the early 1980s, attracting attention for its neo-Nazi ideology and activism. Describing its approach as "Traditional Satanism", it also exhibits Hermetic and modern Pagan elements in its beliefs.

According to the Order's own claims, it was established in the Welsh Marches of Western England during the late 1960s by a woman who had previously been involved in a secretive pre-Christian sect which survived in the region. This account also states that in 1973 a man named "Anton Long" was initiated into the group, subsequently becoming its grand master. Several academic commentators who have studied the ONA express the view that the name "Anton Long" is probably the pseudonym of the British neo-Nazi activist David Myatt, although Myatt has denied that this is the case. From the late 1970s onward, Long authored books and articles which propagated the Order's ideas, and in 1988 it began publishing its own journal, Fenrir. Through these ventures it established links with other neo-Nazi Satanist groups around the world, furthering its cause through embracing the Internet in the 2000s.

The ONA advocates accelerationism and promotes the idea that human history can be divided into a series of aeons, each of which contains a corresponding human civilization. It expresses the view that the current aeonic civilization is that of the Western world, but it claims that the evolution of this society is threatened by the "Magian/Nazarene" influence of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religion, which the Order seeks to combat in order to establish a militaristic new social order, which it calls the "Imperium". According to Order teachings, this is necessary in order for a galactic civilization to form, in which "Aryan" society will colonise the Milky Way. It advocates a spiritual path in which practitioners are required to break societal taboos by isolating themselves from society, committing crimes, embracing political extremism and violence, and carrying out acts of human sacrifice. ONA members practice magic, believing that they are able to do it by channeling energies into their own "causal" realm from an "acausal" realm where the laws of physics do not apply, and these magical actions are designed to help them achieve their ultimate goal of establishing the Imperium.

The ONA eschews any central authority or structure; instead, it operates as a broad network of associates – termed the "kollective" – who are inspired by the texts which were originally authored by Long and other members of the "inner ONA". The group is composed largely of clandestine cells, which are called "nexions". Some academic estimates suggest that the number of individuals who are broadly associated with the Order falls in the low thousands. Various rapes, killings and acts of terrorism have been perpetrated by far-right individuals influenced by the ONA, with various British politicians and activists calling for the ONA to be proscribed as a terrorist group.

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  6. ^ "Chapter Three, the Order of Nine Angles".
  7. ^ a b Сатанинский поджог в Кондопоге: мальчика сгубили Интернет и вседозволеность [Satanic arson in Kondopoga: the boy was ruined by the Internet and permissiveness]. Moskovskij Komsomolets. 16 October 2020. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Terrorismiin yhdistetty natsisatanismi rantautui Suomeen – Nyt sitä markkinoidaan myös nuorille". Iltalehti. 26 November 2023.
  9. ^ Koch, Ariel (February 14, 2022). "The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism". International Institute for Counter-Terrorism: 11. doi:10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944. S2CID 245950861. Archived from the original on November 16, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2022. For instance, the 'AWD cell' in Finland claimed to be a nexion of ONA in Tampere.
  10. ^ * "[NO] is openly planning to create a hideout and European ethnostate in rural British Columbia favoring exclusively white settlers." – "An American Neo-Nazi Group Has Dark Plans for Canada" Archived 2020-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, Vice, November 11, 2020
  11. ^ "How NYC gun arrest uncovered a huge pedophile Satanic cult". New York Post. 29 September 2023. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  12. ^ Senholt 2013, p. 257.
  13. ^ * "State of Hate 2020" (PDF). Hope not Hate. March 9, 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 2, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2020. Over the last 12 months four nazis convicted of terrorist offences have been linked to O9A, and there are two more cases pending.
    • "Order of Nine Angles: What is this obscure Nazi Satanist group?". BBC News. June 29, 2020. Archived from the original on October 6, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2020. The Sonnenkrieg Division, with its glorification of sexual violence, highlights another disturbing theme relating to the ONA – sexual offending as a way of undermining social norms. ... The authorities are concerned by the number of paedophiles associated with the ONA, taking the group into a different area of law enforcement activity.
    • "High Wycombe neo-Nazi Jacek Tchorzewski jailed for terror offences". BBC News. September 20, 2019. Archived from the original on October 18, 2019. Retrieved June 25, 2020. The satanist text demonstrated a 'marked fixation with blood, the sexualisation of violence, a paedophilic projection of adult sexuality onto children, and with achieving National Socialist political goals through political violence and acts of terrorism'.
    • "UK Nazi Satanist group should be outlawed, campaigners urge". BBC News. July 16, 2020. Archived from the original on October 13, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2020. ONA's Nazi-Satanist ideology, a supernatural worldview that encourages the disruption of society through violence, criminality and sexual offending.
  14. ^ "Backgrounder: Atomwaffen Division (AWD)". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 2019-11-10. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  15. ^ "State of Hate 2020" (PDF). Hope not Hate. March 9, 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 2, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2020. widely reported is O9A's influence on the Atomwaffen Division (AWD) ... AWD has increasingly incorporated Satanic iconography into its propaganda, including images of Myatt, and also promoted O9A and ToB literature on its website ... [even] stronger link existed with the Sonnenkrieg Division ... HOPE not hate is aware of several other SKD activists linked to the O9A.
  16. ^ "Order of Nine Angles: What is this obscure Nazi Satanist group?". BBC News. 23 June 2020. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  17. ^ "Russia sends neo-nazi sabotage group to 'strengthen' and spy on Finnish border". Contando Estrelas. 10 September 2024. Some sources link the DSHRG "Rusich" with an international neo-nazi and Satanic network, the Order of the Nine Angles (ONA), accused of terrorist practices, child abuse and human sacrifice, and which in Russia also has one of its branches in the so-called Ave Satan Legion.
  18. ^ "The Russian Federation sends a neo-Nazi sabotage group to spy on the Finnish border". The Odessa Journal. 10 September 2024. This group, made up of mercenaries with neo-Nazi and neo-pagan beliefs, is involved in serious war crimes that have sparked controversy even within Russia. Some members of the group are connected to satanic and neo-Nazi organizations such as the Order of Nine Angles.
  19. ^ "Putin's Stealth Mobilization". New America (organization). 16 March 2024. We also observed significant overlap between members of [RIM and Rusich] and well-known transnational White supremacist organization Atomwaffen Division...adherents of the Russian Imperial Movement, Rusich and related identitarian paramilitary groups such as...Atomwaffen Division
  20. ^ White, Daniel J., Jr. (16 August 2024). Vanguard of a White Empire: Rusich, the Russian Imperial Movement, and Russia's War of Terror (Thesis). Center for Homeland Defense and Security. hdl:10945/72291. RIM has developed supportive relationships with other transnational violent extremist groups grounded in mutual aid and training. The closest of these connections are with...the Russian neo-Nazi organization Rusich, and the transnational accelerationist neo-Nazi organization Atomwaffen Division...Rusich and the Russian Imperial Movement [have] U.S. nationals sympathetic to their cause [like] far-right organizer Matthew Heimbach and U.S. cells of the extremist Atomwaffen Division.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Upchurch, H. E. (22 December 2021). Cruickshank, Paul; Hummel, Kristina (eds.). "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network" (PDF). CTC Sentinel. 14 (10). West Point, New York: Combating Terrorism Center: 27–37. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022. Finally, the Nordic Resistance Movement also has a long history with O9A that predates its ties to Iron March. Haakon Forwald, head of the Norwegian branch from 2010 to 2019, was a devotee of a Scandinavian O9A current variously known as the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, the Temple of Black Light, and Current 218.88 The magazine of the Finnish branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement featured articles on O9A spiritual practices and on the work of Kerry Bolton of the Black Order
  22. ^ * "When police raided Garron Helm for alleged membership of NA in September 2017, they should have noticed the framed O9A picture hanging above the mantelpiece in his living room. Helm became a strong believer, and described his participation in Prevent, the government's deradicalisation programme, as 'insight'. He is now rumoured to have begun recruiting for his own nexion in the North West." – Hope not Hate, "State of Hate 2020" Archived 2020-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ "Biden pressed to label foreign hate groups 'terrorists': Report". Al Jazeera. April 10, 2021. Archived from the original on July 23, 2022. Retrieved April 10, 2021. The occultist Order of Nine Angles has a branch in the US. US soldier Jarret Smith is allegedly a member of the group