Satanism: fascist Satanism: The Order of Nine Angles (ONA; O9A)

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The Order of Nine Angles (ONA; O9A) "represent a dangerous and extreme form of Satanism"[1] and first attracted public attention during the 1980s and 1990s after being mentioned in books detailing fascist Satanism.[2][3][4][5] Presently, the ONA is organized around clandestine cells (which it calls "traditional nexions")[6][7] and around what it calls "sinister tribes".[8][9]

History[edit]

As recounted by Goodrick-Clarke in his book Black Sun, and by Professor Connell Monette,[10] the Order of Nine Angles assert that they were formed in England in the 1960s with the merger of three neopagan temples called Camlad, The Noctulians, and Temple of the Sun. Following the original leader's emigration to Australia, it has been alleged that David Myatt took over the order and authored the now publicly available teachings of the organization which was initially based in the rural English counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire, with Goodrick-Clarke writing that "Myatt evokes a world of witches, outlaw peasant sorcerers, orgies and blood sacrifices at lonely cottages in the woods and valleys of this area where he has lived since the early 1980s".[11]
According to Monette,[10] they now have associates, and groups, in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Egypt, Australia, and Russia.

Authorship[edit]

Author Nick Ryan has asserted that Anton Long, the author of the ONA's public tracts, is a pseudonym of David Myatt, a person who was involved with the neo-Nazi movement in England.[12] This assertion is repeated by both Senholt[13] and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, with Goodrick-Clarke writing that David Myatt – who had previously acted "as bodyguard for British Nazi Colin Jordan"[14] - codified "its teachings into a fully developed system of initiation and training for adeptship".[15]
According to Senholt, "the role of David Myatt is paramount to the whole creation and existence of the ONA", and "Myatt's life-long devotion to various extreme ideologies has been part of a sinister game that is at the heart of the ONA".[13] This claim is supported by Per Faxneld who writes that "the ONA despises ethical behaviour, and its main ideologist David Myatt has actively participated in violent neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorist groups. The motivation for these acts is a wish to bring down the 'old order' [...] His text defending suicide attacks was featured on Hamas' website, and he was invited to speak at extremist mosques. Even more astonishing than [his transition from neo-Nazi to Muslim] is that it seems both his Nazism and Islamism are merely instruments for the ONA's underlying sinister esoteric plots.".[1] Of Anton Long, Monette writes "[having] fluency in the classical languages (Greek and Latin), as well as Arabic and possibly Persian, [and] possessed of a gifted intellect and apparently a polymath, his works include not only the public mystical teachings of the Order, but also several thousand pages of text on ethics, honor, and several novellas of 'sinister' fiction. While Long writes primarily in English, it is clear that he draws inspiration from not only British but also international sources; not infrequently, his texts include passages of Classical Greek, as well as Sanskrit and Arabic spiritual terms." [10]
David Myatt has always denied allegations about involvement with Satanism,[2] the ONA, and using the pseudonym Anton Long, and repeatedly challenged anyone to provide any evidence of such allegations.[16][17][18][19]

Beliefs[edit]

The Order of Nine Angles present "a recognizable new interpretation of Satanism and the Left Hand Path",[20] and postulate Satanism as an arduous individual achievement of self-mastery and Nietzscheanself-overcoming, with an emphasis on individual growth through practical acts of risk, prowess and endurance.[21] Rites of passage, often connected to promotion in grade level, include spending three months living rough in a forest bereft of human contact,[2][7] and the assumption of difficult occupations to develop personality and leadership ability.[21]
Therefore, "[t]he goal of the Satanism of the ONA is to create a new individual through direct experience, practice and self-development [with] the grades of the ONA system being highly individual, based on the initiates' own practical and real-life acts, instead of merely performing certain ceremonial rituals".[7] Thus Satanism, the ONA assert, requires venturing into the realm of the forbidden and illegal, in order to make contact with the "sphere of acausal, sinister forces of the cosmos".[21]
In addition, "one of the things that sets the ONA apart from other existing Left Hand Path groups relates to their idea of Aeons which naturally leads to long-term goals (meaning about 3-500 years), that go beyond the acts and lifespan of a single individual".[7] Hence the ONA claims that its sinister tribes are an important part of its Aeonic strategy to build a new, tribal-based, more sinister way of life, and to disrupt and eventually overthrow the societies of what it calls "the mundanes".[8]
Another difference is, according to Goodrick-Clarke, that "compared to the eclectic nature of American Satanism, many ideas and rituals of the ONA recall a native tradition of wicca and paganism. The frequent reference to wyrd, the Anglo-Saxon term for destiny, indicates a native pre-Christian tradition, while the rhythm of the seasons is upheld by holding ceremonies at the equinoxes, the rising of stars and other astronomical events."[21] Furthermore, Monette writes that "a critical examination of the ONA's key texts suggests that the satanic overtones could be cosmetic, and that its core mythos and cosmology are genuinely hermetic, with pagan influences." [10]
The core mystical tradition of the ONA is the Seven Fold Way, also known as the Hebdomadry: "The Seven Fold Way is essentially a hermetic system that defines itself as being deeply rooted in Western occultism, and provides a path to ascension that is exceptionally difficult in physical and psychic terms. The seven stages of the Way are (1) Neophyte, (2) Initiate, (3) External Adept, (4) Internal Adept, (5) Master/Mistress, (6) Grand Master/Mousa and (7) Immortal. Yet unlike other degree-based systems, the ONA does not offer initiation to its students; rather, the students must initiate themselves through personal grade rituals and challenges [...] Grade rituals (meaning the rituals of passage) for the fourth stage (Internal Adept) involve living in complete isolation for at least one season, as well as being able to cycle, run, and hike considerable distances. Each grade thereafter requires increasingly difficult challenges, culminating in the 5th grade (Master) with the mystic having to undertake physical challenges comparable to a triathlon, as well as having developed/learned several esoteric skills along the way. One of the most challenging aspects of the Seven Fold Way is the insistence on learning through adversity, known in Greek as pathei-mathos." [10]
Within the initiatory system of the ONA, "insight roles play an important part [...] Undertaking an insight role means gaining real-life experience by working undercover for a period of six to eighteen months, challenging the initiate to experience something completely different from their normal life both to 'aid the Sinister dialectic' and to enhance the experience of the Initiate."[13] Therefore, "through the practice of 'insight roles', the order advocates continuous transgression of established norms, roles, and comfort zones in the development of the initiate [...] This extreme application of ideas further amplifies the ambiguity of satanic and Left Hand Path practices of antinomianism, making it almost impossible to penetrate the layers of subversion, play and counter-dichotomy inherent in the sinister dialectics."[22]
In addition to insight roles and other occult training, the ONA initiate is also expected to study and practice The Star Game, a three dimensional system of Occult correspondences used as a form of aeonic sorcery,[23][24] the advanced form of which is part of the training of what the ONA call the grade of Internal Adept[25] and which three dimensional game for two players[26] David Myatt invented in 1975[27] to be, according to Goodrick-Clarke, an esoteric part of "the graded hierarchy" of the ONA and the training for adeptship.[28]
The ONA's writings condone and encourage human sacrifice.[12][29][30] According to the ONA this "culling" serves not just a social Darwinian purpose, but is also connected to the promotion of a new Aeon: "The change that is necessary means that there must be a culling, or many cullings, which remove the worthless and those detrimental to further evolution."[31] The presencing of acausal energies, such as through culling, is meant to create a new Aeon, whose energies will then create a newer, higher civilization from the energy unleashed.[32] However, the ONA "despise animal sacrifice, maintaining that it is much better to sacrifice suitable mundanes given the abundance of human dross".[33]
Probably because of the ONA's highly radical stance, there is open animosity between the ONA and "mainstream" Satanists such as the Church of Satan.[12] The ONA publicly disavows any connection to Church of Satan, claiming the Satanic Bible to be a "watered-down philosophy".[34]
The Temple of Set proscribed the ONA in the early 1980s for its avowal of human sacrifice.[35]
In recent years, according to Senholt, "ONA-inspired activities, led by protagonist David Myatt, managed to enter the scene of grand politics and the global 'War On Terror', because of several foiled terror plots in Europe that can be linked to Myatt's writings".[13]

In popular culture[edit]

The Satanic 'Order of Nine Angles' are the leading protagonists in the 'Jack Nightingale' series of novels by Stephen Leather, published by Hodder & Stoughton. These novels include Nightmare (2012) andMidnight (2013),[36] with another novel in the series, Lastnight, published in January 2014.[37]
The ONA, fictionalized as 'the Order of Nine Angels', are also the Satanic protagonists in the 2013 novel Child for the Devil by Conrad Jones.[38]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b Per Faxneld: Post-Satanism, Left Hand Paths, and Beyond in Per Faxneld & Jesper Petersen (eds) The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity, Oxford University Press (2012), p.207. ISBN 9780199779246
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b c Ryan, Nick. Into a World of Hate. Routledge, 1994, p. 53.
  3. Jump up^ Lewis, James R. Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture. Abc-Clio Inc., 2001.
  4. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun: Aryan cults, esoteric Nazism, and the politics of identity, NYU Press, 2002, pp. 215-216.
  5. Jump up^ Ankarloo, Bengt and Clark, Stuart. The Twentieth Century, U. Penn. Press, 1999, p. 113.
  6. Jump up^ Frequently Asked Questions About The Order of Nine Angles
  7. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Senholt, Jacob C: Political Esotericism & the convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of the Nine Angles. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Conference: Satanism in the Modern World, November 2009. [1]
  8. ^ Jump up to:a b Angular Momentum: From Traditional to Progressive Satanism in the Order of Nine Angles
  9. Jump up^ Documents of The Inner ONA
  10. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Connell Monette. Mysticism in the 21st Century, Sirius Academic Press, 2013. pp. 85-122. ISBN 9781940964003
  11. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun: Aryan cults, esoteric Nazism, and the politics of identity, NYU Press, 2002, pp. 215-220.
  12. ^ Jump up to:a b c Ryan, Nick. Into a World of Hate. Routledge, 1994, p. 54.
  13. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Senholt, Jacob. Secret Identities in The Sinister Tradition, in Per Faxneld and Jesper Petersen (eds), The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780199779246
  14. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism, NYU Press, 2000, p.215
  15. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun, NYU Press, 2002, p. 217.
  16. Jump up^ "David Myatt - A Matter of Honour". Retrieved 2012-10-10.
  17. Jump up^ The National-Socialist (March 1998, Thormynd Press, York, England).
  18. Jump up^ "The Ethos of Extremism". Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  19. Jump up^ Professor Kaplan in his Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture, Northeastern University Press, 1998, ISBN 1-55553-331-0 states that Myatt and Long are two different people, and that the individual who used the pseudonym Anton Long was a friend of Myatt's in the 1970s and 1980s. This view is supported by Michael Newton who, in his Ku Klux Klan: History, Organization, Language, Influence – published 2007 by McFarland & Co (Jefferson, N.C) ISBN 978-0-7864-2787-1 - wrote that "David Myatt, a British neo-Nazi [only] collaborated with leaders of a Satanist sect, the Order of the Nine Angles".
  20. Jump up^ James R. Lewis and Jesper A. Petersen (editors). Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press, 2014. p. 416. ISBN 9780199315314
  21. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun, NYU Press, 2002, p. 218.
  22. Jump up^ Per Faxneld and Jesper Petersen, At the Devil's Crossroads in The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2012, p.15. ISBN 9780199779246
  23. Jump up^ Senholt, Jacob. Secret Identities in The Sinister Tradition: Political Esotericism and the Convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of Nine Angles, in Per Faxneld & Jesper Petersen (eds): The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity, Oxford University Press (2012), p.260. ISBN 9780199779246
  24. Jump up^ James R. Lewis & Jasper Aagaard Petersen: The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism, Prometheus Books, 2008. p.625. ISBN 9781591023906
  25. Jump up^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, 2002. p.219. ISBN 9780814731550
  26. Jump up^ Jeffrey Kaplan & Tore Bjørgo: Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture. Northeastern University Press, 1998. p.116 ISBN 9781555533328
  27. Jump up^ "The Star Game - History and Theory". Retrieved 2012-11-10.
  28. Jump up^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, 2002. p.218. ISBN 9780814731550
  29. Jump up^ http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/tdi.htm "The Dark Imperium", essay by John J. Reilly.
  30. Jump up^ Perlmutter, Dawn. "Skandalon 2001: The Religious Practices of Modern Satanists and Terrorists", in Anthropoetics Volume VII, number 2
  31. Jump up^ Long, Anton. "Darkness Is My Friend: The Meaning of the Sinister Way", 1996.
  32. Jump up^ Lewis, James R. Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture, Abc-Clio Inc., 2001, p. 197.
  33. Jump up^ "Praxis and Theory of the Order of Nine Angles". Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  34. Jump up^ Susej, Tsirk. The Demonic Bible, Lulu Press, 2006, pp. 35-36.
  35. Jump up^ Satanic Letters 1
  36. Jump up^ "The Jack Nightingale Collection". Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  37. Jump up^ "Stephen Leather - Lastnight". Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  38. Jump up^ Conrad Jones. Child for the Devil. Thames River Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0857280077

References[edit]

  • Ankarloo, Bengt and Clark, Stuart. The Twentieth Century. U. Penn. Press, 1999.
  • Gardell, Mattias. Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8223-3071-7
  • Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, 2002.
  • Kaplan, Jeffrey, ed. Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc., 2000.
  • Lewis, James R. "Who Serves Satan?" in Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 2 (June 2001).
  • Lewis, James R. Satanism Today : An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture, 2001, ISBN 1-57607-292-4
  • Long, Anton. Satanism: Introduction for Occultists. Thormynd Press, 1992, ISBN 0-946646-29-5
  • Monette, Connell. Mysticism in the 21st Century, Sirius Academic Press, 2013. pp. 85–122. ISBN 9781940964003
  • Order of Nine Angles. The Black Book of Satan. Thormynd Press, 1984, ISBN 0-946646-04-X
  • Order of Nine Angles. Naos. Coxland Press, 1990, ISBN 1-872543-00-6
  • Perlmutter, Dawn. "The Forensics of Sacrifice: A Symbolic Analysis of Ritualistic Crime", in Anthropoetics (The Journal of Generative Anthropology) Volume IX, number 2 (Fall 2003/Winter 2004) [2]
  • Perlmutter, Dawn. "Skandalon 2001: The Religious Practices of Modern Satanists and Terrorists", in Anthropoetics Volume VII, number 2 [3]
  • Reilly, John J. Apocalypse and Future. Xlibris Corporation, 2000, ISBN 0-7388-2356-2
  • Ryan, Nick. Homeland: Into A World of Hate. Mainstream Publishing Company Ltd., 2002, ISBN 1-84018-465-5
  • Senholt, Jacob. Secret Identities in The Sinister Tradition: Political Esotericism and the Convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of Nine Angles, in Per Faxneld & Jesper Petersen (eds), The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780199779246
  • Sieg, George: Angular Momentum: From Traditional to Progressive Satanism in the Order of Nine Angles. International Journal for the Study of New Religions 4, no. 2 (2014): pp. 251–282.
  • Wessinger, Catherine Lowman. Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence. pp. 317–318. Syracuse University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8156-0599-4

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Neo-völkisch movements, as defined by the historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, cover a wide variety of mutually influencing groups of a radically ethnocentric character which have emerged, especially in the English-speaking world, since World War II. These loose networks revive or imitate the völkisch movement of 19th and early 20th century Germany in their defensive affirmation of white identity againstmodernity, liberalism, immigration, multiracialism, and multiculturalism.[1] Some identify as neo-fascist, neo-Nazi, or Third Positionist; others are politicised around some form of white ethnic nationalism oridentity politics,[1] and may show right-wing anarchist tendencies.[2] Especially notable is the prevalence of devotional forms and esoteric themes, so that neo-völkisch currents often have the character ofnew religious movements.
Included under the neo-völkisch umbrella are movements ranging from conservative revolutionary schools of thought (Nouvelle Droite, European New Right, Evolian Traditionalism) to white supremacist andwhite separatist interpretations of Christianity and paganism (Christian Identity, Creativity Movement, Nordic racial paganism) to neo-Nazi subcultures (Esoteric Hitlerism, Nazi Satanism, National Socialist black metal).

Nazi Satanism[edit]

Further information: Theistic Satanism
Among the terms used are Nazi Satanism and Fascist Satanism. Sometimes these groups self-identify as "Traditional Satanism" and consist of small groups in Norway, Britain, New Zealand and France, under names such as Black Order or Infernal Alliance, which draw their inspiration from the Esoteric Hitlerism of Miguel Serrano.[3] Uww, founder of black metal fanzine Deo Occidi, denounced Anton LaVeyas a "moderate Jew", and embraced the "esoterrorism" of the Scandinavian Black Metal milieu. Small Satanist grouplets catering to the black metal Satanist fringe include the Black Order, the Order of Nine Angles (ONA), the Ordo Sinistra Vivendi (formerly the Order of the Left Hand Path) and the Order of the Jarls of Baelder.[4]
The chief initiator of Nazi Satanism in Britain has been alleged to be David Wulstan Myatt (b. 1950), active in neo-nazi politics from the late 1960s.[5] The ONA was allegedly led by Myatt[6] who converted toIslam in 1998, but renounced Islam in 2010[7] in favor of his own Numinous Way philosophy.[8][9] Myatt however has always denied any involvement with the ONA and Satanism, and repeatedly challenged anyone to provide any evidence of such allegations.[10][11]
The Order of Nine Angles "represent a dangerous and extreme form of Satanism" [12] and first attracted public attention during the 1980s and 1990s after being mentioned in books detailing Satanist and far right groups.[10][13][14][15] The ONA was formed in the United Kingdom, and rose to public note during the 1980s and 1990s. Presently, the ONA is organized around clandestine cells (which it calls traditional nexions)[16] and around what it calls sinister tribes.[8][17][18]

Order of the Jarls of Baelder[edit]

The Order of the Jarls of Baelder (OJB - which was dissolved in early 2005) was a British neopagan non-political and non-aligned educational society founded in 1990 by Stephen Bernard Cox who was briefly associated, in the 1980s, with the Order of Nine Angles,[19][20] Cox having published the ONA's book Naos in 1990 under the imprint of his Coxland Press[21] and also, in 1993, Antares by the ONA's C. Beest.[22]
According to Anti-fascistische Actie Nederland, "The Order of the Jarls or Baelder belonged in the nineties of the last century to the international network of satanic Nazi organizations which the Order of the Nine Angles (ONA) played a pivotal role." [23]
The OJB - (Jarl is Scandinavian for earl) - which was renamed the Arktion Federation in 1998 - was also described by Partridge as a fascist Satanist group.[24] However, according to the OJB these allegations are incorrect. Instead, the OJB claimed to have advocated pan-European neo-tribalism, which involved celebration of the rich tapestry of cultural diversity of humanity, study of Aryan traditions and heritage, pursuing the "aeonic destiny of Europe" and the emergence of the elitist super race, as an element of the unfolding of variant global/continental cultural forms. The activities of the OJB, which functioned as a spiritual and heritage group for people of any race or religion, included such activities as rock climbing, hang gliding, hiking, and the study of runes.[25] Gay members were encouraged to join because it was felt they added to the male bonding of the organization. The OJB symbol formerly consisted of the valknut combined with the Gemini sign within a broken curved-armed swastika.[26] Its symbol was later changed to a representation of the world tree embracing the yin-yang and maze with sun and stars.

Nordic racial paganism[edit]

Further information: Germanic neopaganism, Neopaganism in German-speaking Europe and Viking revival
As defined by Goodrick-Clarke, Nordic racial paganism is synonymous with the Odinist movement (including some who identify as Wotanist). He describes it as a "spiritual rediscovery of the Aryan ancestral gods...intended to embed the white races in a sacred worldview that supports their tribal feeling", and expressed in "imaginative forms of ritual magic and ceremonial forms of fraternal fellowship".[27] The mainline Odinist, Asatruar and Germanic Neo-Pagan community does not hold any racist, Nazi, extreme right-wing or racial supremacist beliefs, and most Neo-Pagan groups reject racism and Nazism.[28][29][30]
On the basis of research by Mattias Gardell,[31] Goodrick-Clarke traces the original conception of the Odinist religion by Alexander Rud Mills in the 1920s, and its modern revival by Else Christensen and herOdinist Fellowship from 1969 onwards. Christensen's politics were left-wing, deriving from anarcho-syndicalism, but she believed that leftist ideas had a formative influence on both Italian Fascism and German National-Socialism, whose totalitarian perversions were a betrayal of these movements' socialist roots. Elements of a leftist and libertarian racial-socialism could therefore be reclaimed from the fascism in which they had become encrusted.[32] However, Christensen was also convinced that the diseases of Western culture demanded a spiritual remedy. Mills' almost-forgotten writings inspired her with a programme for re-connecting with the gods and goddesses of the old Norse and Germanic pantheons, which she identified with the archetypes in Carl Jung's concept of the racial collective unconscious. According to Christensen, therefore, Odinism is organically related to race in that "its principles are encoded in our genes".[33]
The Ásatrú movement as practiced by Stephen McNallen differed from Christensen's Odinist Fellowship in placing a greater emphasis on ritual and a lesser focus on racial ideology. In 1987, McNallen'sAsatru Free Assembly collapsed from prolonged internal tensions arising from his repudiation of Nazi sympathizers within the organization. A group of these, including Wyatt Kaldenberg, then joined the Odinist Fellowship (as its Los Angeles chapter) and formed an association with Tom Metzger, which led to a further rebuff since "Else Christensen thought Metzger too racist, and members of the Arizona Kindred also wanted the Fellowship to be pro-white but not hostile to colored races and Jews".[34] A series of defections from both of the main US-based organizations created secessionist groups with more radical agendas, among them Kaldenberg's Pagan Revival network and Jost Turner's National Socialist Kindred.[34]
Kaplan and Weinberg note that "the religious component of the Euro-American radical right subculture includes both pagan and Christian or pseudo-Christian elements," locating Satanist or Odinist Nazi Skinhead sects in the United States (Ben Klassen), Britain (David Myatt), Germany, Scandinavia and South Africa.[35]
In the United States, some white supremacist groups—including several with neo-fascist or neo-Nazi leanings—have built their ideologies around pagan religious imagery, including Odinism. One such group is the White Order of Thule.[36] Wotanism is another religion that has appeared in the US white supremacist movement, and also utilizes imagery derived from paganism. Odalism is a European ideology advocated by the defunct Heathen Front.
The question of the relationship between Germanic neopaganism and the neo-Nazi movement is controversial among German neopagans, with opinions ranging across a wide spectrum. Active conflation of neo-fascist or far right ideology with paganism is present in the Artgemeinschaft and Deutsche Heidnische Front. In Flanders, Werkgroep Traditie combines Germanic neopaganism with the ideology of theNouvelle Droite.
In the United States, Michael J. Murray of Ásatrú Alliance (in the late 1960s an American Nazi Party member)[37] and musician/journalist Michael Moynihan (who turned to "metagenetic"[38] Asatru in the mid-1990s),[39] though Moynihan states that he has no political affiliations.[40] Kevin Coogan claims that a form of "eccentric and avant-garde form of cultural fascism" or "counter-cultural fascism" can be traced to the industrial music genre of the late 1970s, particularly to the seminal British Industrial band Throbbing Gristle, with whom Boyd Rice performed at a London concert in 1978.[41] Schobert alleges a neo-Nazi "cultural offensive" targeting the Dark Wave subculture.[42]
Mattias Gardell claims that while older US racist groups are Christian and patriotic (Christian Identity), there is a younger generation of white supremacists who have rejected both Christianity and mainstream right-wing movements.[43] Many neo-Nazis have also left Christianity for neopaganism because of Christianity's Jewish roots, and patriotism in favour of Odinism because they view both Christianity and the United States government as responsible for what they see as the evils of a liberal society and the decline of the white race.[44] Kaplan claims that there is a growing interest in one form of Odinism among members of the radical racist right-wing movements.[43] Berger judges that there has been an aggregation of both racist and non-racist groups under the heading of "Odinism", which has confused the discussion about neo-Nazi Neopagans, and which has led most non-racist Germanic neopagans to favour terms like "Ásatrú" or "Heathenry" over "Odinism".[45] Thus, the 1999 Project Megiddo report issued by the FBI used "Odinism" as referring to white supremacist groups exclusively, sparking protests by the International Asatru-Odinic Alliance, Stephen McNallen expressing concern about a "pattern of anti-European-American actions".[46]

Tempelhofgesellschaft[edit]

The older Tempelhofgesellschaft (THG) was built in the 1980s by a few members of the nazi "Erbengemeinschaft der Tempelritter". The leader of this group was the former police man Hans-Günter Fröhlich who resided in Germany/Homburg. The group had close links to the German-speaking far-right network. Its first publication was Einblick in die magische Weltsicht und die magischen Prozesse (1987).[47]
The younger Tempelhofgesellschaft was founded in Vienna in the early 1990s by Norbert Jurgen-Ratthofer and Ralft Ettl to teach a dualist form of Christian religion called Marcionism. This one was a part of the main THG/Homburg. The group identifies an "evil creator of this world," the Demiurge with Jehovah, the God of Judaism. Jesus Christ was an Aryan, not Jewish. They distribute pamphlets claiming that the Aryan race originally came to Atlantis from the star Aldebaran (this information is supposedly based on "ancient Sumerian manuscripts"). They maintain that the Aryans from Aldebaran derive their power from the vril energy of the Black Sun. They teach that since the Aryan race is of extraterrestrial origin it has a divine mission to dominate all the other races. It is believed by adherents of this religion that an enormous space fleet is on its way to Earth from Aldebaran which, when it arrives, will join forces with the Nazi Flying Saucers from Antarctica to establish the Western Imperium.[25][47] Its major publication is called Das Vril-Projekt (1992).
After the THG had been dissolved, Ralf Ettl founded the Freundeskreis (circle of friends) Causa Nostra. It remains active and maintains relations to far-right publishers like the Swiss Unitall-Verlag.[47]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 6.
  2. Jump up^ One example is the neo-tribalist paganism promoted by Else Christensen's Odinist Fellowship(Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 261).
  3. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 106.
  4. Jump up^ Introvigne 2002: 148.
  5. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 216.
  6. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 218.
  7. Jump up^ http://www.davidmyatt.ws/biog.html#N11a
  8. ^ Jump up to:a b Senholt, Jacob C: Political Esotericism & the convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of the Nine Angles. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Conference: Satanism in the Modern World, November 2009. [1]
  9. Jump up^ The Numinous Way of David Wulstan Myatt
  10. ^ Jump up to:a b Ryan 1994: 53.
  11. Jump up^ The National-Socialist (March 1998, Thormynd Press, York, England).
  12. Jump up^ Per Faxneld: Post-Satanism, Left Hand Paths, and Beyond in Per Faxneld & Jesper Petersen (eds) The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity, Oxford University Press (2012), p.207. ISBN 9780199779246
  13. Jump up^ Lewis 2001.
  14. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 215-216.
  15. Jump up^ Ankarloo and Clark 1999: 113.
  16. Jump up^ FAQ About ONA
  17. Jump up^ Angular Momentum: from Traditional to Progressive Satanism in the Order of Nine Angles
  18. Jump up^ Sinister Tribes Of The ONA
  19. Jump up^ Long, Anton: Bealuwes Gast – Of Mythos, Sorcery, and a Mad Mage, Thormynd Press, Third Edition, 2011 ISBN 978-1-257-89657-8
  20. Jump up^ Arkadiusz Sołtysiak. NEOPOGAŃSTWO I NEONAZIZM. KILKA SŁÓW O IDEOLOGIACH DAVIDA MYATTA I VARGA VIKERNESA. Antropologia Religii. Wybór esejów. Tom IV, (2010), s. 173-182
  21. Jump up^ Order of Nine Angles: Naos, Coxland Press, England, 1990, ISBN 1-872543-00-6
  22. Jump up^ Antares, The Dark Rites of Venus, Coxland Press, 1993, ISBN 1-872543-27-8.
  23. Jump up^ "Pieter Zoomers: De mystieke vrienden van een spritueel blad". Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  24. Jump up^ Partridge 2005: 230.
  25. ^ Jump up to:a b Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2002). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-3124-4. (Paperback, 2003. ISBN 0-8147-3155-4.)
  26. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 224.
  27. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 257.
  28. Jump up^ http://www.heathensagainsthate.org/
  29. Jump up^ http://www.angelfire.com/wy/wyrd/antinazi.html
  30. Jump up^ http://www.angelfire.com/wy/wyrd/odinvsnazi.html
  31. Jump up^ Subsequently published in Gardell's Gods of the Blood.
  32. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 261.
  33. Jump up^ Christensen 1984.
  34. ^ Jump up to:a b Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 262.
  35. Jump up^ Kaplan and Weinberg 1998: 88.
  36. Jump up^ Berlet and Vysotsky 2006.
  37. Jump up^ Kaplan 1997; The New Barbarians (Southern Poverty Law Center intelligence report, Winter 1998). Since the Alliance's foundation in 1988, Murray has emphasized that it "does not advocate any type of political or racial extremist views or affiliations" towards sympathizing Neo-Nazis.
  38. Jump up^ 2003 interview with the German esotericist magazine Der Golem
  39. Jump up^ "Wulfing One" 1995 (interview with Michael Moynihan in EsoTerra magazine).
  40. Jump up^ Zach Dundas. "Lord of Chaos: ACTIVISTS ACCUSE PORTLAND WRITER AND MUSICIAN MICHAEL MOYNIHAN OF SPREADING EXTREMIST PROPAGANDA, BUT THEY'RE NOT TELLING THE WHOLE STORY". (Willamette Week culture feature, available online: [2])
  41. Jump up^ Coogan 1999.
  42. Jump up^ Schobert 1997a (with Moynihan's reply) & 1998.
  43. ^ Jump up to:a b Kaplan 1997.
  44. Jump up^ Gardell 2001.
  45. Jump up^ Berger 2005: 45.
  46. Jump up^ CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions) news release, 10 November 1999.
  47. ^ Jump up to:a b c Strube, 2012

References[edit]

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David Myatt (born 1950) – also known as David Wulstan Myatt[1] and formerly known as Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt[2] – is the founder of The Numinous Way,[3][4] a former British Muslim, and a former neo-nazi.
"A British iconoclast who has lived a somewhat itinerant life and has undertaken an equally desultory intellectual quest, Myatt is emblematic of the modern syncretism of radical ideologies",[5] and regarded as an "example of the axis between right-wing extremists and Islamists".[4][6] He has been described as one of the more interesting figures on the British neo-Nazi scene since the 1970s.[7][8][9][10]
Before his conversion to Islam in 1998,[11][12][13] Myatt was the first leader of the British National Socialist Movement (NSM),[3][14] and was identified by the British newspaper, The Observer, as the "ideological heavyweight" behindCombat 18.[15]
At a 2003 UNESCO conference in Paris, which concerned the growth of anti-Semitism, it was stated that "David Myatt, the leading hardline Nazi intellectual in Britain since the 1960s [...] has converted to Islam, praises bin Laden and al Qaeda, calls the 9/11 attacks 'acts of heroism,' and urges the killing of Jews. Myatt, under the name Abdul Aziz Ibn Myatt supports suicide missions and urges young Muslims to take up Jihad. Observers warn that Myatt is a dangerous man..."[16] This view of Myatt as a radical Muslim, or Jihadi,[17] is supported by Professor Robert S. Wistrich, who writes that Myatt, when a Muslim, was a staunch advocate of "Jihad, suicide missions and killing Jews..." and also "an ardent defender of bin Laden".[18] One of Myatt's writings justifying suicide attacks was, for several years, on the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing) section of the Hamas website.[19]
Political scientist Professor George Michael writes that Myatt has "arguably done more than any other theorist to develop a synthesis of the extreme right and Islam".[20]
Myatt came to public attention in 1999, a year after his Islamic conversion, when a pamphlet he wrote many years earlier, A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution, described as a "detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection",[21] was said to have inspired David Copeland, who left nailbombs in areas frequented by London's black, South Asian, and gay communities.[22] Three people died and 129 were injured in the explosions, several of them losing limbs.
Since 2010 Myatt has written extensively about his rejection of both Islam[23] and his extremist past,[24][25] writing that: "What I [...] came to understand, via pathei-mathos, was the importance - the human necessity, the virtue - of love, and how love expresses or can express the numinous in the most sublime, the most human, way. Of how extremism (of whatever political or religious or ideological kind) places some abstraction, some ideation, some notion of duty to some ideation, before a personal love, before a knowing and an appreciation of the numinous."[26]
In addition to writing about Islam and National Socialism, Myatt has translated works by Sophocles,[27] Sappho,[28] Aeschylus,[29] Homer,[30] translated and written a commentary on the Greek text of the Poimandres section of the Corpus Hermeticum,[31] and written several collections of poems.[32][33] He has also developed a mystical philosophy which he calls both The Numinous Way[34][35] and the Way of Pathei-Mathos,[36] and invented a three-dimensional board-game, the Star Game.[37]

Personal life[edit]

Myatt grew up in Tanzania, where his father worked as a civil servant for the British government, and later in the Far East, where he studied the martial arts.[20] He moved to England in 1967 to complete his schooling, and has said that he began a degree in physicsbut did not complete it, leaving his studies to focus on his political activism.[38] He is reported to live in the Midlands and to have been married three times.
In 2000, British anti-fascist magazine Searchlight wrote that: "He does not have the appearance of a Nazi ideologue ... [S]porting a long ginger beard, Barbour jacket, cords and a tweed flat cap, he resembles an eccentric country gentleman out for a Sunday ramble. But Myatt is anything but the country squire, for beneath this seemingly innocuous exterior is a man of extreme and calculated hatred. Over the past ten years, Myatt has emerged as the most ideologically driven nazi in Britain, preaching race war and terrorism [...] Myatt is believed to have been behind a 15-page document which called for race war, under the imprint White Wolves."[39]
According to Professor Jeffrey Kaplan, Myatt has undertaken "a global odyssey which took him on extended stays in the Middle East and East Asia, accompanied by studies of religions ranging from Christianity to Islam in the Western tradition and Taoism and Buddhism in the Eastern path. In the course of this Siddhartha-like search for truth, Myatt sampled the life of the monastery in both its Christian and Buddhist forms."[40]
Political scientist Professor George Michael has written that Myatt is an "intriguing theorist"[20] whose "Faustian quests"[20] not only involved studying Taoism and spending time in a Buddhist and later a Christian monastery,[41] but also allegedly involved exploring theoccult, and Paganism and what Michael calls "quasi-Satanic" secret societies, while remaining a committed National Socialist.[41] Myatt is also alleged to have been the founder of the occult group the Order of Nine Angles (ONA/O9A) or to have taken it over[42] and written the publicly available teachings of the ONA under the pseudonym Anton Long.[43] According to Senholt, "ONA-inspired activities, led by protagonist David Myatt, managed to enter the scene of grand politics and the global 'War On Terror', because of several foiled terror plots in Europe that can be linked to Myatt's writings".[44] David Myatt has always denied such allegations about involvement with the ONA,[23][45][46] and using the pseudonym Anton Long.[47][48]

Political activism[edit]

Myatt joined Colin Jordan's British Movement, a neo-Nazi group, in 1968, where he sometimes acted as Jordan's bodyguard at meetings and rallies.[49] From the 1970s until the 1990s, he remained involved with paramilitary and neo-Nazi organisations such as Column 88 and Combat 18,[50][51] and was imprisoned twice for violent offences in connection with his political activism.[20]
Myatt was the founder and first leader of the National Socialist Movement[52][53] of which David Copeland was a member. He also co-founded, with Eddy Morrison, the neo-Nazi organization the NDFM (National Democratic Freedom Movement) which was active in Leeds, England, in the early 1970s,[54] and the neo-Nazi Reichsfolk group,[55][56] and which Reichsfolk organization "aimed to create a new Aryan elite, The Legion of Adolf Hitler, and so prepare the way for a golden age in place of 'the disgusting, decadent present with its dishonourable values and dis-honourable weak individuals'".[57]
Of the NDFM, John Tyndall wrote (in a polemic against NDFM co-founder Eddy Morrison): "The National Democratic Freedom Movement made little attempt to engage in serious politics but concentrated its activities mainly upon acts of violence against its opponents. [...] Before very long the NDFM had degenerated into nothing more than a criminal gang."[58][59] Myatt, writing in his autobiography Myngath, admits that during this time he did organize a small gang "whose aim was to liberate goods, fence them, and make some money with the initial intent of aiding our political struggle." Myatt was subsequently arrested in a raid by the Yorkshire Regional Crime Squad, and imprisoned for leading this gang.[23]
It is also alleged that in the early 1980s Myatt tried to establish a Nazi-occultist commune in Shropshire,[10][60] although Myatt denies this allegation, claiming that his aim was to establish an agrarian community solely based on the Nazi principles of Blood and Soil[23]and which project was advertised in Colin Jordan's Gothic Ripples newsletter,[61] with Goodrick-Clark writing that "after marrying and settling in Church Stretton in Shropshire, [Myatt] attempted in 1983 to set up a rural commune within the framework of Colin Jordan's Vanguard Project for neo-nazi utopias publicized in Gothic Ripples".[62]
Michael writes that Myatt took over the leadership of Combat 18 in 1998, when Charlie Sargent, the previous leader, was jailed for murder.[20]

Alleged influence on David Copeland[edit]

In November 1997, Myatt posted an allegedly racist and anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution on a website run out of British Columbia, Canada by Bernard Klatt. The pamphlet included chapter titles such as "Assassination", "Terror Bombing", and "Racial War".[63] According to Michael Whine of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, "[t]he contents provided a detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection with advice on assassination targets, rationale for bombing and sabotage campaigns, and rules of engagement."[21]
In February 1998, detectives from S012 Scotland Yard raided Myatt's home in Worcestershire and removed his computers and files. He was arrested on suspicion of incitement to murder and incitement to racial hatred,[23][64] but the case was dropped because the evidence supplied by the Canadian authorities was not enough to secure a conviction.[63]
It was this pamphlet that, in 1999, allegedly influenced[65] David Copeland, the London nailbomber - who was also a member of Myatt's National Socialist Movement - and who planted homemade bombs targeting immigrants in Brixton, Brick Lane, and inside the Admiral Duncan pub on Old Compton Street in London, frequented by the black, Asian, and gay communities respectively. Friends John Light, Nick Moore, and Andrea Dykes and her unborn child died in the Admiral Duncan pub. Copeland told police he had been trying to spark a "racial war."[14]
Following the conviction of Copeland for murder on June 30, 2000, after a trial at the Old Bailey, one newspaper wrote of Myatt: "This is the man who shaped mind of a bomber; Cycling the lanes around Malvern, the mentor who drove David Copeland to kill [...] Riding a bicycle around his Worcestershire home town sporting a wizard-like beard and quirky dress-sense, the former monk could easily pass as a country eccentric or off-beat intellectual. But behind David Myatt's studious exterior lies a more sinister character that has been at the forefront of extreme right-wing ideology in Britain since the mid-1960s."[66]
According to the BBC's Panorama, in 1998 when Myatt was leader of the NSM, he called for "the creation of racial terror with bombs."[67] Myatt is also quoted by Searchlight as having stated that "[t]he primary duty of all National Socialists is to change the world. National Socialism means revolution: the overthrow of the existing System and its replacement with a National-Socialist society. Revolution means struggle: it means war. It means certain tactics have to be employed, and a great revolutionary movement organised which is primarily composed of those prepared to fight, prepared to get their hands dirty and perhaps spill some blood" (Searchlight, July 2000).

Conversion to Islam[edit]

Myatt converted to Islam in 1998. He told Professor George Michael that his decision to convert began when he took a job on a farm in England. He was working long hours in the fields and felt an affinity with nature, concluding that the sense of harmony he felt had not come about by chance. He told Michael that he was also impressed by the militancy of Islamist groups, and believed that he shared common enemies with Islam, namely "the capitalist-consumer West and international finance."[68][69]
While, initially, some critics - specifically the anti-fascist Searchlight organization - suggested that Myatt's conversion "may be just a political ploy to advance his own failing anti-establishment agenda",[70] it is now generally accepted that his conversion was genuine.[71][72][73][74][75][76][77]
Following his conversion to Islam, Myatt dissociated himself from nationalism and racialism, and both as a Muslim and subsequently openly stated that racism is wrong.[78][79][80][81]
As a Muslim, he travelled and spoke in several Arab countries,[82] and wrote one of the most detailed defences in the English language of Islamic suicide attacks[83] - having become an advocate of such attacks[84][85][86][87] and defended the killing of civilians in such attacks.[88][89] He also expressed support for Osama bin Laden,[90] and the Taliban,[4] and referred to the Holocaust as a "hoax".[13] An April 2005 NATO workshop heard that Myatt had called on "all enemies of the Zionists to embrace the Jihad" against Jews and the United States.[91]
According to an article in The Times published on April 24, 2006, Myatt then believed that: "The pure authentic Islam of the revival, which recognises practical jihad as a duty, is the only force that is capable of fighting and destroying the dishonour, the arrogance, the materialism of the West ... For the West, nothing is sacred, except perhaps Zionists, Zionism, the hoax of the so-called Holocaust, and the idols which the West and its lackeys worship, or pretend to worship, such as democracy... Jihad is our duty. If nationalists, or some of them, desire to aid us, to help us, they can do the right thing, the honourable thing, and convert, revert, to Islam — accepting the superiority of Islam over and above each and every way of the West."[13]

Departure from Islam[edit]

In 2010, Myatt publicly announced that he had rejected Islam,[92] having developed his own weltanschauung,[35][36][93] writing that "the Way of Pathei-Mathos is an ethical, an interior, a personal, a non-political, a non-interfering, a non-religious but spiritual, way of individual reflexion, individual change, and empathic living, where there is an awareness of the importance of virtues such as compassion, humility, tolerance, gentleness, and love",[94] and that "living according to the way of pathei-mathos [...] means being compassionate or inclining toward compassion by trying to avoid causing, or contributing, to suffering".[94]

"The Numinous Way" and Pathei-Mathos[edit]

Myatt describes the Numinous Way as "the result of a four-decade long pathei-mathos and [...] the often difficult process of acknowledging my many personal mistakes",[95] and writes that it is an apolitical, and individual, way of life,[96] based on empathy and πάθει μάθος, pathei-mathos,[96] where race and the concept of the folk not only have no place[97] but are regarded as unethical abstractions.[35][96]
He defines pathei-mathos by saying: "The Greek term πάθει μάθος derives from The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (written c. 458 BCE), and can be interpreted, or translated, as meaning learning from adversary, or wisdom arises from (personal) suffering; or personal experience is the genesis of true learning."[98] Pathei-Mathos is thus an aspect of or element in the Numinous Way, although the former term comes to predominate over the latter in Myatt's writings beginning 2012.
Myatt writes that "the numinous sympathy – συμπάθεια (sympatheia, benignity) – with another living being that empathy provides naturally inclines us to treat other living beings as we ourselves would wish to be treated: with fairness, compassion, honour, and dignity. It also inclines us not to judge those whom we do not know; those beyond the purveu – beyond the range of – our faculty of empathy".[99]
Myatt links his Numinous Way to Hellenistic philosophy and places it in the Western philosophical tradition.[35][36]

Selected bibliography[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Some accounts give Myatt's middle name as William, such as the 1998 edition of Searchlight magazine [1] and Black Sun: Chapter "Nazi satanism and the new Aeon", Goodrick-Clarke, 2002. But, these accounts are seen as unreliable as the authors have allegedly never corresponded with Myatt. However, several authors did and confirm his middle name as Wulstan, namely Michael, George. (2006)The Enemy of My Enemy and Kaplan, Jeffrey. (1998) Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture, Northeastern University Press, 1998, ISBN 1-55553-331-0. Additionally, there is Myatt himself (q.v. his poetry and Greek translations).
  2. Jump up^ Myatt originally changed his name to Abdul-Aziz (which he has penned articles under) but has been accused that he was trying to hide his identity so on the advice of an Imaam he added the ibn Myatt so people would know who he was.[2]
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b Langenohl, Andreas Langenohl & Westphal, Kirsten. (eds.) "Comparing and Inter-Relating the European Union and the Russian Federation", Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, November 2006, p.84.
  4. ^ Jump up to:a b c Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 142ff.
  5. Jump up^ Jon B. Perdue: The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism. Potomac Books, 2012. p.70-71. ISBN 9781597977043
  6. Jump up^ Mark Weitzman: Antisemitismus und Holocaust-Leugnung: Permanente Elemente des globalen Rechtsextremismus, in Thomas Greven: Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus? Die extremistische Rechte in der Ära der Globalisierung. 1 Auflage. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14514-2, pp.61-64.
  7. Jump up^ Arkadiusz Sołtysiak. Neopogaństwo i neonazizm: Kilka słów o ideologiach Davida Myatta i Varga Vikernesa. Antropologia Religii. Wybór esejów. Tom IV, (2010), s. 173-182
  8. Jump up^ Agnieszka Pufelska: Der Faschismusbegiiff in Osteuropa nach 1945 in Die Dynamik der europäischen Rechten Geschichte, Kontinuitäten und Wandel. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010. ISBN 978-3-531-17191-3
  9. Jump up^ Jeffrey Kaplan (ed.). David Wulstan Myatt. In: Encyclopedia of White Power. A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA 2000, p. 216ff; p.514f
  10. ^ Jump up to:a b "Right here, right now", The Observer, February 9, 2003
  11. Jump up^ Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 147.
  12. Jump up^ Greven, Thomas (ed) (2006) Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus? Rechtsextremismus in der Ära der Globalisierung. VS Verlag, p.62
  13. ^ Jump up to:a b c Woolcock, Nicola & Kennedy, Dominic. "What the neo-Nazi fanatic did next: switched to Islam", The Times, April 24, 2006.
  14. ^ Jump up to:a b Program Transcript: 'The Nailbomber'", BBC Panorama, June 30, 2000.
  15. Jump up^ Barnett, Antony. "Right here, right now", The Observer, February 9, 2003.
  16. Jump up^ Simon Wiesenthal Center: Response, Summer 2003, Vol 24, #2
  17. Jump up^ Myatt was described by author Martin Amis as "a fierce Jihadi". The Second Plane. Jonathan Cape, 2008, p.157
  18. Jump up^ Wistrich, Robert S, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, Random House, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4000-6097-9
  19. Jump up^ Durham, Martin. White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics. Routledge, 2007, p.113
  20. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 142.
  21. ^ Jump up to:a b Whine, Michael. "Cyberspace: A New Medium for Communication, Command and Control by Extremists"
  22. Jump up^ "Panorama Special: The Nailbomber", BBC, June 30, 2000.
  23. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e "Myngath - Some Recollections of A Wyrdful and Extremist Life". Retrieved 2013-02-06.
  24. Jump up^ "Understanding and Rejecting Extremism". Retrieved 2013-02-06.
  25. Jump up^ "De Novo Caelo". Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  26. Jump up^ "Pathei-Mathos - Genesis of My Unknowing". Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  27. Jump up^ J. Michael Walton: Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.206, 221, 227
  28. Jump up^ Gary Daher Canedo: Safo y Catulo: poesía amorosa de la antigüedad, Universidad Nur, 2005.
  29. Jump up^ J. Michael Walton: Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.206
  30. Jump up^ Smith, S: Epic Logos, in Globalisation and its discontents, Boydell & Brewer, 2006
  31. Jump up^ Myatt, David. Poemandres: A Translation and Commentary. 2014. ISBN 9781495470684
  32. Jump up^ "Selected Poems". Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  33. Jump up^ One of Myatt's collection of poems is mentioned by former White House speech-writer Ben Coes in his novel Power Down ISBN 9780312580742
  34. Jump up^ Senholt, Jacob C: Political Esotericism & the convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of the Nine Angles. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Conference: Satanism in the Modern World, November 2009. [3]
  35. ^ Jump up to:a b c d "The Development of The Numinous Way". Retrieved 2013-01-18.
  36. ^ Jump up to:a b c "The Way of Πάθει Μάθος". Retrieved 2013-01-18.
  37. Jump up^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, 2002. p.219. ISBN 9780814731550
  38. Jump up^ Myatt, David. "Towards Identity and the Galactic Empire". 2009-10-24.
  39. Jump up^ Searchlight, July 2000.
  40. Jump up^ Kaplan, Jeffrey (2000). Encyclopedia of white power: a sourcebook on the radical racist right. Rowman & Littlefield, p. 216ff; p.512f
  41. ^ Jump up to:a b Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 143.
  42. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun, NYU Press, 2002, p. 218.
  43. Jump up^ Ryan, Nick. Into a World of Hate. Routledge, 2003, p. 54.
  44. Jump up^ Senholt, Jacob. Secret Identities in The Sinister Tradition, in Per Faxneld and Jesper Petersen (eds), The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780199779246
  45. Jump up^ Ryan, Nick. Into a World of Hate. Routledge, 2003, p. 53.
  46. Jump up^ "Myatt and the ONA". Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  47. Jump up^ "The Ethos of Extremism". Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  48. Jump up^ Professor Kaplan in his Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture, Northeastern University Press, 1998,ISBN 1-55553-331-0 states that Myatt and Long are two different people, and that the individual who used the pseudonym Anton Long was a friend of Myatt's in the 1970s and 1980s. This view is supported by Michael Newton who, in his Ku Klux Klan: History, Organization, Language, Influence - published 2007 by McFarland & Co (Jefferson, N.C) ISBN 978-0-7864-2787-1 - wrote that "David Myatt, a British neo-Nazi [only] collaborated with leaders of a Satanist sect, the Order of the Nine Angles."
  49. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. "Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism", NYU Press, 2000, p.215
  50. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clark, N. (2001) pp.215-217 Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. (chapter 11 in particular)
  51. Jump up^ Lowles, N. (2001) White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18. Milo Books, England; this edition 2003
  52. Jump up^ Arkadiusz Sołtysiak. Neopogaństwo i neonazizm: Kilka słów o ideologiach Davida Myatta i Varga Vikernesa. Antropologia Religii. Wybór esejów. Tom IV, (2010), s. 173-182
  53. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clark, N. (2001) p.50 Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity
  54. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clark, N. (2001) p.217 Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity
  55. Jump up^ Jeffrey Kaplan (ed.). David Wulstan Myatt. In: Encyclopedia of White Power. A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA 2000, p. 216ff; p.512f
  56. Jump up^ Taguieff, Pierre-André. (2004). Prêcheurs de haine. Traversée de la judéophobie planétaire, Paris, Mille et une Nuits, "Essai", pp. 788-789
  57. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clark, N. (2002) p.223. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press.ISBN 0814731244
  58. Jump up^ Spearhead. April, 1983
  59. Jump up^ See also David Myatt and the Occult-Fascist Axis, in the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, No. 241 (July 1995), pp.6–7, where it is stated that NDFM members, including Myatt, were involved in a series of violent attacks on coloured people and left-wingers.
  60. Jump up^ The Promethean Peregrinations of David Myatt
  61. Jump up^ Searchlight, #104 (February 1984) and #106 (April 1984(
  62. Jump up^ Goodrick-Clark, N. (2002) p.222. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press.ISBN 0814731244
  63. ^ Jump up to:a b Vacca, John R. "Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation", Charles River Media, 2005, p.420 ISBN 1-58450-389-0
  64. Jump up^ "Cyberspace: A New Medium for Communication, Command and Control by Extremists". Retrieved 2011-05-05.
  65. Jump up^ Mark Weitzman: Antisemitismus und Holocaust-Leugnung: Permanente Elemente des globalen Rechtsextremismus, in Thomas Greven: Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus? Die extremistische Rechte in der Ära der Globalisierung. 1 Auflage. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14514-2, pp.61-64.
  66. Jump up^ Sunday Mercury, July 9, 2000
  67. Jump up^ "Insert title here". BBC News. Retrieved 2006-05-01.
  68. Jump up^ Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 144.
  69. Jump up^ ibn Myatt, Abdul-Aziz "Autobiographical Notes", Revised Yaumul Ahad 3 Jumaada al-Awal 1428. 2009-10-24.
  70. Jump up^ Amardeep Bassey (2003-02-16). "Midland Nazi turns to Islam". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 2006-05-01.
  71. Jump up^ Miller, Rory (2007). British Anti-Zionism Then and Now. Covenant, Volume 1, Issue 2 (April 2007 / Iyar 5767), Herzliya, Israel.
  72. Jump up^ "Common Motifs on Jihadi and Far Right Websites". Retrieved 2007-03-23.
  73. Jump up^ Steyn, Mark (2006). American Alone, Regnery Publishing, USA, p.92. ISBN 0-89526-078-6
  74. Jump up^ Amis, Martin (2007-12-01). "No, I am not a racist". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2010-04-23.
  75. Jump up^ Amis, Martin. The Second Plane. Jonathan Cape, 2008, p.157
  76. Jump up^ Alexandre Del Valle - The Reds, The Browns and the Greens or The Convergence of Totalitarianisms
  77. Jump up^ http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/images/stories/pdfs/unlocking_al_qaeda.pdf
  78. Jump up^ ibn Myatt, David Myatt: From Neo-Nazi to Muslim 2 Shaban 1428
  79. Jump up^ ibn Myatt, Nationalism, Race, Culture and Islam 28 Jumaadi Al-Thaani 1425
  80. Jump up^ "Concerning Extremism and Race". Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  81. Jump up^ "Race and The Numinous Way". Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  82. Jump up^ Mark Weitzmann, Anti-Semitism and Terrorism, in Dienel, Hans-Liudger (ed), Terrorism and the Internet: Threats, Target Groups, Deradicalisation Strategies. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 67. IOS Press, 2010. pp.16-17. ISBN 978-1-60750-536-5
  83. Jump up^ Mark Weitzmann, Anti-Semitism and Terrorism, in Dienel, Hans-Liudger (ed), Terrorism and the Internet: Threats, Target Groups, Deradicalisation Strategies. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 67. IOS Press, 2010. pp.16-17. ISBN 978-1-60750-536-5
  84. Jump up^ "Questions Regarding Martyrdom Operations". Retrieved 2012-09-23.
  85. Jump up^ "In Reply to Sheikh Salman bin Fahd al-Oadah". Retrieved 2012-09-23.
  86. Jump up^ "Are Martyrdom Operations Lawful (According to Quran and Sunnah)?". Retrieved 2012-09-23.
  87. Jump up^ where he states: "In respect of Sheikh Abu Baseer at-Tartusi, I incline toward the view that he might be mistaken in some of the things he has said, especially in relation to martyrdom operations in Dar al-Harb. For instance, he has spoken about some such operations being haram because they can or might or have resulted in the death of "innocent" people, and involve the Mujahid in "suicide". I have written several articles striving to express the view that I myself incline toward - such as "Thinking Like a Muslim" and "Are Martyrdom Operations Lawful According to Quran and Sunnah?" (the publication of which on the muslimcreed website was, I believe, one of causes which led the kuffar to close down that site) - which view of mine is that such operations are legitimate, according to Quran and Sunnah, and that it is an error to apply the terms and concepts of the kuffar, such as "innocent" and "civilian", to Deen Al-Islam, and that using such terms amounts to an imitation of the kuffar."
  88. Jump up^ "Deen Al-Islam and the Question of Civilians". Retrieved 2012-09-23.
  89. Jump up^ ibn Myatt Thinking Like A Muslim, In Reply to Sheikh Salman b. Fahd al-Oadah, Concerning Al Aqd Al Amaan: Covenants of Security
  90. Jump up^ ibn Myatt, Abdul-Aziz - "Why I Support Sheikh Usama bin Laden (Hafidhaullah)", 18 Thul-Hujja 1423. 2009-10-24.
  91. Jump up^ Karmon, Ely. "The Middle East, Iran, Palestine: Arenas for Radical and Anti-Globalization Groups Activity".
  92. Jump up^ Myngath - Some Recollections of the Wyrdful Life of David Myatt, Thormynd Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-557-56804-8
  93. Jump up^ The Promethean Peregrinations of David Myatt
  94. ^ Jump up to:a b Conspectus of The Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos
  95. Jump up^ "The Numinous Way of David Myatt". Retrieved 2011-09-17.
  96. ^ Jump up to:a b c "Recuyle of the Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos". Retrieved 2013-01-18.
  97. Jump up^ "Race, Folk, and Clan". Retrieved 2013-01-18.
  98. Jump up^ "Pathei-Mathos The Greek term πάθει μάθος derives from The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (written c. 458 BCE), and can be interpreted, or translated, as meaning learning from adversary, or wisdom arises from (personal) suffering; or personal experience is the genesis of true learning. When understood in its Aeschylean context, it implies that for we human beings pathei-mathos possesses a numinous, a living, authority. That is, the understanding that arises from one’s own personal experience – from formative experiences that involve some hardship, some grief, some personal suffering – is often or could be more valuable to us (more alive, more relevant, more meaningful) than any doctrine, than any religious faith, than any words/advice one might hear from someone else or read in some book. Thus, pathei-mathos, like empathy, offers we human beings a certain conscious understanding, a knowing; and, when combined, pathei-mathos and empathy are or can be a guide to wisdom, to a particular conscious knowledge concerning our own nature (our physis), our relation to Nature, and our relation to other human beings, leading to an appreciation of the numinous and an appreciation of virtues such as humility and εὐταξία." http://perceiverations.wordpress.com/about-2/some-terms-explained/
  99. Jump up^ "Summary of the Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos".

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. (2001) Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press ISBN 0-8147-3124-4 ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 (Paperback)
  • Kaplan, J. (1998) "Religiosity and the Radical Right: Toward the Creation of a New Ethnic Identity" in Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo (eds.) Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture, Northeastern University Press, 1998, ISBN 1-55553-331-0.
  • Kaplan, J. (ed) (2000) Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc., 2000; AltaMira Press. ISBN 0-7425-0340-2 pp. 216ff; pp. 235ff; pp. 512ff
  • Lowles, Nick. (2003) White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18. Milo Books ISBN 1-903854-00-8
  • McLagan, Graeme. (2003) Killer on the Streets. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 1-904034-33-0
  • Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas
  • Ryan, Nick. (2003) Homeland: Into A World of Hate. Mainstream Publishing Company Ltd. ISBN 1-84018-465-5
  • Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz. Neopogaństwo i neonazizm: Kilka słów o ideologiach Davida Myatta i Varga Vikernesa. Antropologia Religii. Wybór esejów. Tom IV, (2010), s. 173-182
  • Weitzman, Mark: Antisemitismus und Holocaust-Leugnung: Permanente Elemente des globalen Rechtsextremismus, in Thomas Greven: Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus? Die extremistische Rechte in der Ära der Globalisierung. 1 Auflage. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14514-2

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