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Contents
§ Editorial Preface
§ The Satanic Bible
§ The European Satanism Of The O9A
§ Understanding Neo-völkisch Satanism
§ The O9A And AWD – A Summary
§ Another Academic Misinterpretation Of The O9A
§ Let Us Be Honest
§ Theory Of The Holocaust
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Editorial Preface
Presented here are seven antinomian essays previously published on the T.W.S.
Nexion wyrdsister weblog. Four of the essays concern the difference between (i)
Satanism as understood and advocated by the Order of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA)
and (ii) the 'modern American' type of Satanism manufactured by Howard
Stanton Levey - better known under his aliases of Anton LaVey and Anton
Szandor LaVey - and propagated by him and by his Church of Satan.
The two essays by Rachael Stirling - titled The European Satanism Of The O9A
and Understanding Neo-völkisch Satanism respectively - are particularly
heretical and controversial dealing as they do with National Socialism and
opposition to those who for millennia have considered themselves as "chosen"
by their monotheistic God, Jehovah. Equally heretical and controversial - if not
more so - are the polemic Let Us Be Honest and the essay titled Theory Of The
Holocaust.
The fifth essay - Another Academic Misinterpretation Of The O9A - references
primary sources and details the errors made in a 2017 academic paper which
analysed the Order of Nine Angles document The Culling Texts.
As the TWS essays were written at different times and by various authors there
is some overlap of content. The weblinks cited in the essays were valid as of
May 2018 ev. We have corrected a few typos of the weblog versions of the
essays.
T.W.S. Nexion
129 yf
Introduction
The following article, first published in 127yf under the title On Hangman's Acre, {1} illustrates
the thesis in the essay The European Satanism Of The O9A (see below) about the fundamental
difference between the "folkish" Satanism of the Order of Nine Angles and the materialistic,
mundane, 'satanism' propagated by Howard Stanton Levey.
Furthermore, as the author of On Hangman's Acre wrote in the essay On An Exeat Weekend In
Rural England, it is
"no coincidence that some O9A folk from other parts of the Isles of Britain – or from
the USA and Europe – take the trouble to visit rural south Shropshire and some
rural parts of Herefordshire.
To intuitively feel the aura – as when night falls – of such places as Corndon Hill,
Hell Peak and Hangman's Acre (near Norton) is to appreciate a different way of
living, an older more pagan tradition, where awareness of the supernatural existed
(and exists) alongside generational folk myths and legends, bringing thus an
appreciation of acausal Time and how over centuries communities of humans toiled
and developed a certain balance between themselves and Nature.
It is then easy, for example, to see how and why O9A rites such as Internal Adept
exist; what the Camlad (or Rounwytha) rite of the Abyss does; what Esoteric Chant
really signifies and presences; what lies beyond the mythos of The Dark Gods; why
the religion of the Nazarene is unbalanced; why the O9A has a specific esoteric
vocabulary; what the O9A's Labyrinthos Mythologicus is all about; and why the
Seven Fold Way is a modern anados, balancing Insight Roles (often in the modern
urban world) with such development of esoteric empathy as the rite of Internal
Adept, the practice of Esoteric Chant, the playing of The Star Game, and the rite of
the Abyss, produce.
To travel to, to then dwell for a long weekend or longer, in such places is to know
beyond words; to thus find such answers as place the O9A into the correct, a
particular Aeonic and folkish, perspective, and to appreciate how and why it is so
very different from, and independent of, all other contemporary occult groups and
movements." {1}
T.W.S. Nexion
129 yf
{1} Haereticus: Satanic Polemics Of A Propagandist. The two volume work is available at
https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/haereticus/
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For decades the sagacious have known that the mass produced and
much hyped book The Satanic Bible written by Howard Stanton Levey, the
Yahodi, and infested as it is (like the works of Crowley) with Hebrew names,
was not only an unoriginal mishmash of ideas plagiarised from other authors
but also did not represent Satanism – modern or otherwise, and as an occult
praxis or a personal philosophy – in any way at all.
Thus, as noted in Part One of these Satanic Polemics, (i) "in practical terms –
despite all the puffery surrounding him and his brand of so-called satanism –
Levey eulogized some of the types of people you'll find in jails and made them
(at least before they got caught) into some sort of human ideal of – the
archetype for – his brand," and (ii) that a satan is "some human being or beings
who 'diabolically' plot or who scheme against or who are 'diabolically' opposed
to those who consider themselves as 'chosen' by their monotheistic God," that
is, opposed to the Jews.
In addition, the archetype of Satan was – before Levey made him materialistic
and plebeian – always associated by his occult admirers either with the heroic
figure of Prometheus and/or with the elitism, the manners, the life-style, of
those who were aristocratic by nature, in terms of character. Which character,
for instance, predisposed men to be chivalrous toward women and to treat them
as equals. As the pseudonymous Anton Long wrote,
"Outwardly, in terms of persona and character, the true Dark Arts are
concerned with style; with understated elegance; with natural
charisma; with personal charm; and with manners. That is, with a
certain personal character and a certain ethos. The character is that
of the natural gentleman, of the natural noble lady; the ethos is that of
good taste, of refinement, of a civilized attitude […] Inwardly, the true
Dark – the sinister – Arts are concerned with self-control, discipline,
self-honesty; with a certain detachment from the mundane." {1}
"One of the manifest errors – distortions – of the Left Hand Path, and
of the Satanic, Magian Occultism so prevalent in the West, in the past,
as still now, is its patriarchal nature and the fact that it is dominated
by the de-evolutionary doctrine of so-called 'might is right' and thus
dominated by and infested with male specimens of Homo Hubris who
have no sense of honour, no culture, no empathy, no arête, little or no
self-honesty, little or no manners, but who instead possess a bloated
ego and a very high opinion of themselves." {2}
Despite all this, Levey has been lauded as "the founder of modern satanism"
with his book used as a guide to 'satanism' by those who declare and have for
decades declared that they are 'satanists', with it being common practice – by
most academics and such self-declared 'satanists' – for all non-Leveyian
Satanists and Satanic groups to be regarded as having been inspired in some
way by Levey even if their occult praxises and/or their occult philosophy differs
in every respect from the mish-mash produced by Levey.
Indeed, this lauding of Levey the Yahodi, and this practice of opining that all
modern non-Leveyian Satanists and Satanic groups were influenced by him and
his book has now become a dogma, the accepted orthodoxy, a prevailing
assumption, even though – and for example – not one person academic or
otherwise has, using primary sources, provided any evidence that the occult
philosophy of the pseudonymous Anton Long or the occult praxises of his Order
of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA) are indebted in any way to Levey. For were
latter-day satanists or academics to study primary O9A sources {4} in a
scholarly way they would find an esoteric philosophy, and occult praxises, which
are completely independent of not only Levey the Yahodi, but also of the
Magian-grimoire and qabalistic, traditions of the likes of Crowley, Aquino, and
the 'Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn'.
Hangman's Acre
Here, in such Marcher places as these in the Isles of Britain – the still rural
borderlands between Shropshire, Herefordshire and Wales – there is a reminder
of an almost lost pagan past and especially of that connection to the
supernatural (the acausal) realm wherein dwelt such supernatural/acausal
beings as Satan, reminder as such beings were of our own place in the cosmos
and thus of how the 'magick' of the medieval grimoires (with their Hebrewesque
demons) and the 'magick' of Crowley et al was and is so grandiloquent and
delusional as to be laughable. As Anton Long noted:
There is also here, in such places, a reminder of what some old ONA stories –
such as the one titled Hangster's Gate, set in a place not that far from Much
Wenlock – evoked: a local rural world where offerings were still made to that
other hidden world to ensure personal and family well-being, and good crops,
and healthy livestock. Offerings made because of feeling, knowing without
words, that we are nexions: connected to and between two worlds. A feeling, a
wordless ancient knowing, that the materialistic, egoistic, 'satanism' of Levey
the Yahodi would destroy and has destroyed in those who have taken his
dehortations seriously.
In contrast, what the O9A does, has done, and can do, is bring back that sense
of belonging; that wordless knowing, and which can presence again such
connections – such sinisterly-numinous connexions – as can place us in
perspective and by which we, as individuals, can via an occult anados change
ourselves: that is, consciously evolve.
Haereticus
127yf
{1} The Gentleman's – and Noble Ladies – Brief Guide to The Dark Arts . 119
Year of Fayen. The text is included in the compilation The Joy of The Sinister:
The Traditional Satanism Of The Order Of Nine Angles, available at
https://wyrdsister.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/joy-of-the-sinister.pdf
{3} Some Questions About The Order of Nine Angles (2016). Part One. e-text
(pdf), 2016. As the O9A have noted, some of the texts from this Temple of the
Sun were included in the microfilm that, in the early 1990s, Anton Long
supplied to several academics including Professor Jeffrey Kaplan.
{4} Sources such as are contained in the compilations The Complete Guide To
The ONA (seventh edition, 2015, 1460 pages) and The Esoteric Hermeticism Of
The Order Of Nine Angles (2016, 159 pages).
{5} Copula cum Daemone 0, e-text, 121yf. Editorial Note: The text is included –
under the title Copulating With Demons – in the 2015 pdf compilation available
at https://wyrdsister.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/noble-dark-arts.pdf
The European Satanism Of The O9A
An Heretical Presencing
O9A Satanism
That the Order of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA) have an understanding of Satan and
of Satanism that is the diametrical opposite of the 'satan' and the American
'satanism' propagated by Howard Stanton Levey – and those inspired by or
following Levey-type 'satanism' {1} – is neither generally appreciated nor
correctly understood given that, according to the interpretation of the TWS
Nexion and some other nexions, O9A Satanism is exoterically – in a practical,
outward, non-Occult way – manifest (presenced) in the National Socialism of
The Third Reich and in the revisionist National-Socialism (the neo-nazism) of
the Reichsfolk movement based as the Reichsfolk movement is on folk
communities, clans, and tribes, as opposed to the concept of The State which
was the basis for the National Socialism of The Third Reich. {2}
For Levey and his followers, 'satan' is a symbol of the carnal, the selfish, the
egoistic, nature of human beings, with 'satanism' understood as manifesting the
raison d'êtres of 'might is right', of 'lex talionis', and of ideas such as Ayn Rand's
Objectivism. {3}
Thus the O9A rejects and repudiates the raison d'êtres of 'might is right', of 'lex
talionis', and of ideas such as Ayn Rand's Objectivism, describing them as
plebeian and stating, for example, that the principle of 'might is right' is the
instinct, the raison d'être, of the cowardly bully and the rapist. {9}
A European Satanism
In contrast to the "Ayn Rand with trappings" egoistic 'satanism' of Levey and his
followers, the Satanism of the O9A presences what fascism, and the National
Socialism of The Third Reich and the National-Socialism of the Reichsfolk
movement, presenced and presences: the classical, the Greco-Roman, and the
Western (the European, Faustian) ethos. Which ethos is essentially pagan. {10}
"to refer to the hybrid ethos of Yahoud and of Western hubriati, and
also refers to those individuals who are Magian by either breeding or
nature. The essence of what we term the Magian ethos is inherent in
Judaism, in Nasrany, and in Islam. To be pedantic, we use the term
Magian in preference to the more commonly used term Semitic to
describe the ethos underlying these three major, and conventional,
religions, since the term Semitic is, in our view, not strictly
philologically correct to describe such religions." {12}
Thus, when academics, and others, describe the O9A as representing "Nazi
Occultism" or as espousing "neo-nazi beliefs" they are, in essence, correct even
though the O9A understanding of the National Socialism of The Third Reich is
quite different from the pervasive modern, Magian derived, image of National
Socialism, founded as that image is on 'the holocaust' and which 'holocaust' the
O9A describe, in their Mass of Heresy, as "a lie." {13}
That denial of 'the holocaust' is now a criminal offence in many European and
other lands (such as Canada) with offenders liable to imprisonment for years, is
sufficient of itself to express the fundamental difference between the
antinomian Satanism of the O9A and the "total satisfaction of the ego" satanism
of Levey and his followers. For, in the modern Western and Magian influenced
world, public dissent about no other event in the entire history of humankind is
punishable by State-sanctioned imprisonment.
Rachael Stirling
T.W.S. Nexion
1st of May, 129 yf
2018 ev
v.1.04
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{1} Levey is better-known by his alias, Anton LaVey.
{3} Levey once described his 'satanism' as "Ayn Rand with trappings," qv. K.
Klein, The Washington Post, May 10, 1970: 'The Witches Are Back and So Are
Satanists'.
{4} In respect of this archetypal Satan, refer to the O9A text The Geryne of
Satan and which text explains the historical usage of the terms Satan in the
Greek text of the Septuagint, and of Satan and Satanism in the English
language. A copy of the text is available at
https://omega9alpha.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/o9a-the-geryne-of-satan.pdf
{6} That both Howard Stanton Levey and Ayn Rand were of Jewish descent may
or may not be relevant in assessing the "Ayn Rand with trappings" satanism
advocated by Levey, hyped as both that 'satanism' and Levey have been by the
mainstream Media, in modern academia, and by self-described latter-day
'satanists'.
{8} Refer to the 2017 text Western Paganism And Hermeticism, which
describes such ideals in an exoteric context. The text is available both as a
printed book, ISBN 978-1986027809, and as a gratis open access document at
https://regardingdavidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/myatt-and-paganism-
v4-print.pdf
{9} How To Distinguish The Order Of Nine Angles. The O9A text is available at
https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/distinguishing-the-o9a/
For the pagan nature of the O9A, refer to the 2015 O9A text The Pagan Order
Of Nine Angles, included in the compilation The Esoteric Hermeticism Of The
Order Of Nine Angles, which compilation is available from
https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-esoteric-hermeticism-
of-the-order-of-nine-angles/
{11} The five principles are outlined in the Glossary of ONA Terms (v. 3.07)
dated 123 Year of Fayen.
{13} Refer also to the text The Theory Of the Holocaust which is included in the
O9A compilation Magian Occultism and The Sinister Way: A Collection of
Heretical Texts from The Order of Nine Angles. Note: it is a criminal offence –
illegal – to distribute and/or to publish that text and that O9A compilation in
many Western, and other, countries.
The term Neo-völkisch Satanism is an apt term to describe those Occult groups
or individuals or musicians who identify with or who align themselves with or
who are inspired (i) by Satanism in particular and/or The Dark Arts of sorcery in
general, and (ii) by either the National Socialism of the Third Reich or by the
folkish evolution of that National Socialism as manifest, for example, in
'neo-nazi' groups such as Reichsfolk with its emphasis on folk communities,
tribes and clans as opposed to the concept of The State, and which concept of
The State was the basis for the National Socialism of the Third Reich.
However, as the furore over alleged links between the American neo-nazi
political group AtomWaffen Division (AWD) and the Occult group the Order of
Nine Angles {1} has revealed, there is a general lack of understanding of what
the Satanism of Neo-völkisch Satanist groups and individuals actually is.
For there are basically two types of Satanism: (i) the 'modern American'
type manufactured and propagated by Howard Stanton Levey (the Yahoudi) -
better known under his aliases of Anton LaVey and Anton Szandor LaVey - and
(ii) the 'traditional Satanism' as manifest in the Occult philosophy and the praxis
of the Order of Nine Angles as developed and expounded by the pseudonymous
"Anton Long" which is widely believed to be {2}{3} a pseudonym used by the
neo-nazi extremist, and "theoretician of terror" {4}, David Myatt.
The Satanism of Levey is based on the premise that Satan is a symbol of the
carnal, the selfish, the egoistic, nature of human beings, with satanism
understood as manifesting the raison d’êtres of 'might is right', of 'lex talionis',
and of the individualistic ideas expressed in Ayn Rand's Objectivism {5}.
This type of Satanism promotes "the total satisfaction of the ego" {6} and
obeying the law of the land {7}.
Thus, for the O9A, a satanist is someone who is heretically opposed to those
who believe they are the chosen people of God/Jehovah, with O9A satanism
understood as an antinomian - amoral - means to exeatic personal experiences
which shape and evolve an individual's character and understanding. {8}{9}.
A Contrast Of Lives
Levey, for instance, boasted that as a seventeen year old he worked in the
Beatty circus and handled lions and tigers, although circus records from that
time showed that no one named Levey or LaVey worked for them. He boasted
that he had worked as a photographer for the San Francisco police department
although they had no record of anyone called Levey or LaVey working for them.
Levey boasted that he had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, and yet again there is
no documentary evidence to substantiate his claim. He boasted that he worked
in a burlesque theatre called Mayan and met Marilyn Monroe there whom he
claimed worked as a striptease artiste although the owner of the theatre at the
time - Paul Valentine - denied it was a burlesque theatre, stated Levey never
worked there, with there also being no documentary evidence that Monroe
worked there as a striptease artiste.
Thus the life of Howard Stanton Levey does indeed exemplify his type of
Satanism: hedonistic, egoistic, boastful, materialistic, and showmanry. In
common parlance: all mouth and trousers.
In contrast to Levey, "Anton Long" - aka David Myatt - is a "principal
proponent of contemporary neo-Nazi ideology and theoretician of revolution"
{10}, was "the mentor" who drove someone to kill three people {11}, who
before and after 9/11 publicly praised bin Laden and al Qaeda, called the 9/11
attacks 'acts of heroism' and urged the killing of Jews {12}, who preached "race
war and terrorism" {13}, who wrote "a detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist
insurrection with advice on assassination targets, rationale for bombing and
sabotage campaigns, and rules of engagement" {14}, who travelled and spoke
in several Arab countries about Jihad {15}, who was a bodyguard of England's
principle neo-nazi activist, Colin Jordan {16}, who took over the leadership of
the violent neo-nazi group Combat 18 when its previous leader was jailed for
murder {17}, who is an "example of the axis between right-wing extremists and
Islamists" {17}, who is a Martial Arts expert {18}, who was imprisoned twice
for violent offences in connection with his neo-nazi activism {17}, and who in
1998 was arrested for conspiracy to murder and for other offences {14}{19}.
The life of Myatt does indeed exemplify O9A Satanism: actually or potentially
harmful, destructive, pernicious, baleful, misleading, deadly; bad in moral
character; malevolent, offensive, sly; and hard and difficult. In common
parlance: extremist, violent, and terrorist.
Neo-völkisch Satanism
Since for the O9A a satanist is someone who is heretically opposed to those who
believe they are the chosen people of God/Jehovah, it follows that an O9A
satanist is (i) opposed to such "chosen" people, to their ideas, to their ethos, and
(ii) supportive of - or at the very least understanding of and not opposed to -
those, such as National Socialists following the example of the Third Reich and
those following the folkish evolution of that National Socialism as manifest in
groups such as Reichsfolk, who support National Socialism.
For one of the foundations of both German National Socialism and of post-WWII
manifestations of National Socialism was and is opposition to such "chosen"
people, and opposition to their ideas and to their ethos, evident as those ideas
and ethos are in the modern world in Zionism, in the Zionist entity that
currently occupies Palestine, and in their stated claim that
"The Jews were chosen to act as pathfinders for the world, and Israel
has a special place as an instrument to effect the Jew's social
engineering upon the world." {20}
Which "social engineering" refers to both (i) government and State efforts
(through for example laws, centralized planning, and propaganda) to influence
the attitudes and ideas of people and the structure of society, and to (ii) efforts
by the Media and special interest groups to bring about certain changes in
society.
In regard to the Jew's (the Zionist) latter-day social engineering one has, for
example, (i) mandatory State-enforced "remembrance of the holocaust" and
mandatory State-enforced lessons for schoolchildren about the "evils of
Nazism", (ii) making holocaust revisionism (denial of the Shoah) and promotion
of National Socialism illegal in many Western and other lands, and (iii) agitating
for and introducing laws defining and making "racial hatred" - and thus "anti-
Semitism" and opposition to the "chosen" people - a crime punishable by
imprisonment
Furthermore,
"From Judaism have come two religions: Christianity and Islam. It's
third and latest child has not been a religion but an ideology:
Marxism." {21}
Conclusion
That Howard Stanton Levey (the Yahoudi) and his so-called 'satanism' have
been so hyped - with the O9A Satanism either ignored or pejoratively dismissed
- is surely one more example of Zionist social engineering and of how so many
self-described neo-nazis seem to have been duped by Zionist propaganda.
Rachael Stirling
T.W.S. Nexion
129 yf
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{1} See the article The O9A And AWD – A Summary. Available at
https://wyrdsister.wordpress.com/2018/03/24/the-o9a-and-atomwaffen-
a-summary/
{2} Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2003). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism,
and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press.
{3} Senholt, Jacob C. (2013). Secret Identities in the Sinister Tradition: Political
Esotericism and the Convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism, and National
Socialism in the Order of Nine Angles. The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity.
Per Faxneld and Jesper Aagaard Petersen (editors). Oxford University Press. pp.
250–274.
{5} According to Levey, his satanism is "Ayn Rand with trappings," qv. K. Klein,
The Washington Post, May 10, 1970: The Witches Are Back and So Are
Satanists.
{8} The Place Of Satanism in the Order of Nine Angles, in The Joy Of The
Sinister: The Traditional Satanism Of The Order Of Nine Angles . e-text, 2015.
Available at https://regardingdavidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/joy-of-
the-sinister.pdf
{10} Michael, George. The New Media and the Rise of Exhortatory Terrorism.
Strategic Studies Quarterly (United States Air Force), Volume 7 Issue 1, Spring
2013.
{12} Simon Wiesenthal Center: Response, Summer 2003, Vol 24, #2.
{20} Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Dr. Jakobovits, The Guardian
newspaper (London), 7th August 1982.
{21} Rabbi L. Blue: To Heaven with Scribes and Pharisees. Darton, Longman &
Todd (in association with the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain). 1975. pp.
22-23.
Such tactical and Aeonic/strategic considerations are part of the O9A's sinister
dialectic.
{23} Refer to the 2017 text Western Paganism And Hermeticism, which
describes such ideals in an exoteric context. The text is available both as a
printed book, ISBN 978-1986027809, and as a gratis open access document at
https://regardingdavidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/myatt-and-paganism-
v4-print.pdf
Recent Media stories about the American based National Socialist group
AtomWaffen Division (AWD) – implicated in five murders between May 2017 to
January 2018 – with evidence emerging that several members of that group are
associated with the Order of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA) has led not only to
mention of the O9A in the Media but also to an upsurge of interest in the O9A
itself.
In addition there has been an often hostile reaction among many self-described
"neo-nazis" to the alleged presence of "satanists" and to the O9A in the modern
NS movement, a reaction based almost entirely on a lack of knowledge both of
the satanism promulgated by the O9A and of the O9A itself, leading to such
self-described "neo-nazis" basically repeating Media propaganda.
In this article we provide a summary of "the story so far" and also outline – from
our perspective – the nature of the satanism promulgated by the O9A and the
nature of the O9A itself, contra Media propaganda.
Reportage
From all the reportage of the AWD and the O9A over the past few months we
have selected the three that have not only generated the most interest but also
been quoted or mentioned or paraphrased in many subsequent reports.
§ The most balanced (unbiased) and factual item was by the US-based, and
anti-fascist, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), published on their Hatewatch
blog on February 22, 2018 under the headline Atomwaffen and the SIEGE
parallax: how one neo-Nazi's life's work is fueling a younger generation .
"In online neo-Nazi circles, satanic texts are providing the most fodder
for debate. Many are unsure and others angry about what Atomwaffen
now represents. Two of the three texts in question are The Devil's
Notebook by Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, and Hostia:
Secret Teachings of the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a three-volume
collection of manuscripts penned by O9A members. They comprise
codices of O9A's beliefs and practices.
Decades ago, the O9A allegedly came under the control of infamous
British neo-Nazi David Myatt, who converted to radical Islam, but
renounced his conversion eight years later and returned to esoteric
spirituality. The group holds an important position in the niche,
international nexus of occult, esoteric, and/or satanic neo-Nazi
groups.
The information is accurate, and also balanced in that the larger context – for
example, the book Siege by James Mason – is allotted more space than the O9A
with the SPLC correctly prefixing the rumour associating Myatt with the O9A
with "allegedly."
§ The second item was a two-part article on the ProPublica on-line news-site by
Ali Winston and Jake Hanrahan, with the first part published on January 26, and
the second part on February 23. The articles concentrated, newspaper-fashion,
on the deeds and views of individuals, with the alleged link between AWD and
the O9A not mentioned.
§ The third item, by Kelly Weill, was published on The Daily Beast, an on-line
American news and opinion outlet, on March 22, 2018 under the headline
Satanism Drama Is Tearing Apart the Murderous Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen.
The article was devoted to the O9A and to the reaction of some self-described
neo-nazis and purported AWD members to the news of the association between
the O9A and AWD. She wrote:
"Atomwaffen is an extremist group that received national attention
after being implicated in five murders from May 2017 to January
2018. But even before the most recent slaying, Atomwaffen was under
fire from others on the far right who claimed the group was actually a
mouthpiece for the Order of Nine Angles, a satanic group that
encourages members to infiltrate extremist political movements,
whose members might be susceptible to conversion.
In contrast to the more factual SPLC report, and academic studies {1}{2}{3},
the O9A is described in the Weill article in typical journalistic-style – weasel-
words, derogatory, no sources – as "a fringe occultist group".
In addition, the author blandly repeated the canard that O9A members are
"called Noctulians" thus revealing a lack of knowledge about the O9A. Basic
research would have revealed that the term Noctulian refers to a pre-O9A
Fenland/Cantabrigian pagan tradition {4}.
As quoted in our compilation titled The Order of Nine Angles And National
Socialism,
Furthermore,
"The Order of Nine Angles (O9A, ONA) is a sinisterly-numinous mystic
tradition: it is not now and never was either strictly satanist or strictly
Left Hand Path, but uses 'satanism' and the LHP as 'causal forms';
that is, as techniques/experiences/ordeals/challenges (amoral and
otherwise) in a decades-long personal anados (quest) to engender in
the initiate both esoteric, and exoteric, pathei mathos, and which
pathei mathos is the beginning of wisdom.
However, others identifying with or associating themselves with the O9A do not
share this interpretation. Some interpret that esoteric philosophy as
anarchistic; others as nihilistic; others as elitist in a cultured and aristocratic
way.
"One of the many interesting things about the Order of Nine Angles is
the diversity of opinion and interpretation among those who associate
themselves with the O9A or who follow or who are inspired by the
esoteric philosophy of Anton Long […]
TWS Nexion
March 2018 ev
Notes
{1} "The ONA has produced more material on both the practical and theoretical
aspects of magic, as well as more ideological texts on Satanism and the
Left-Hand Path in general, than larger groups such as the Church of Satan and
the Temple of Set has produced in combination [which] makes the ONA an
important player in the theoretical discussion of what the Left-Hand Path and
Satanism is and should be according to the practitioners." Jacob C. Senholt, The
Sinister Tradition, International conference, Satanism in the Modern World,
Trondheim, 19-20th of November, 2009
{2} The ONA represent "a dangerous and extreme form of Satanism." Faxneld,
Per. Post-Satanism, Left-Hand Paths, and Beyond: Visiting the Margins . The
Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2013. p.207
{3} In 2013 Professor Monette estimated that there were "over two thousand
ONA associates" – Mysticism in the 21st Century. Sirius Academic Press, 2013.
p.89 – with Professor Introvigne writing – Satanism: A Social History. Leiden
and Boston: Brill, 2017. p. 359 – that if Monette's estimate was correct, then the
ONA is "the largest Satanist organization in the world."
{4} See, for example, the 2013 O9A text Authority, Learning, and Culture, In
The Sinister Tradition Of The Order of Nine Angles from which this is a quote:
"The O9A, as it now is and as it has been during the past four
decades, is the accumulated occult pathei-mathos of Anton Long and
of those whose ancient pagan, hermetic, and satanic, traditions
(Camlad, Noctulians, Temple of the Sun) he inherited and/or
personally studied and learned from […]
There are serious flaws with the essay and which flaws undermine the
argument and conclusions of Campion. The flaws are:
(i) The Culling Texts, and the O9A advocacy of culling, are taken out of context,
which context is not considered nor referenced by Campion, and which context
is (a) the sinister-numinous and esoteric philosophy of the O9A, and (b) that an
actual culling is advocated as one part of the training germane to one early
stage of the O9A's Seven Fold Way, that of External Adept.
(iv) Campion relies on the opinions of others regarding the O9A and Myatt – on
secondary and tertiary sources – rather than referencing readily accessible
primary O9A and Myattian sources, thus revealing a lack of scholarly research
and the commission of the fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam.
(v) Which lack of scholarly research using primary sources results in factual
errors and further undermines the academic credibility of the essay.
Esoteric Context
As a study of the complete ONA corpus from the 1970s to 2017 – or at the very
least a study of such O9A texts as the 1460 page seventh edition of the Guide To
The Order of Nine Angles: Theory and Praxises together with the 159 page The
Esoteric Hermeticism Of The Order Of Nine Angles – would have revealed, the
documents included in The Culling Texts are propaganda and polemics
specifically designed to entice, to separate the O9A from the 'satanism' of Levey,
and to justify and explain culling for O9A initiates, novices, and prospective
candidates, dealing as those texts do with just one aspect of Traditional
Satanism and relevant as they are to only the first three stages of the O9A
Seven Fold Way: Neophyte, Initiate, and External Adept. This caveat applies to
some other O9A texts such as Hostia, and The Black Book of Satan, as well as to
the O9A's Traditional Satanism, for such Satanism and such culling are only a
"part of the 'sinister' aspect of the sinisterly-numinous tradition: a necessary
and novitiate pathei-mathos, a modern rite of passage." {1}
Beyond those three initial stages, are the personal, the very individual, ordeals
of the Rite of Internal Adept – living alone in a wilderness area for at least three
months – followed by experiencing various 'numinous' ways of life, followed,
some years later, by the Rite of the Abyss where the candidate has to endure
living a solitary and chthonic existence for a lunar month. Such personal,
longsome, ordeals remove the O9A initiate so far from any and all forms of
Satanism, and from egoistic imaginings of being "pre-eminent, superior, and
entitled", that they, as various O9A texts explain, emerge to a world beyond the
illusive abstractions of apparently conflicting opposites, such as "good and evil"
and Right Hand Path and Left Hand Path. {2}
In regard to esoteric context, Campion does not mention the salient fact that
"the ONA has produced more material on both the practical and
theoretical aspects of magic, as well as more ideological texts on
Satanism and the Left Hand Path in general, than larger groups such
as the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set has produced in
combination [which] makes the ONA an important player in the
theoretical discussion of what the Left Hand Path and Satanism is and
should be according to the practitioners." {3}
Since the documents included in The Culling Texts are propaganda and
polemics and are appropriate only to the first three stages of the O9A Seven
Fold Way, the intent of their authors is propagandistic and polemical and
appropriate to O9A Neophytes, Initiates, and External Adepts {4}.
In addition, and as noted in the O9A text Lambasting Levey And Aquino: The
Polemical Satanism Of The Order Of Nine Angles, many of those who have
commented on or who have decried O9A polemics have apparently failed to
understand
Thus, when the O9A write about 'the sinister dialectic' they are
generally referring to meaning (2) in the context of esotericism; hence
their term 'the sinister-numinous' to express that clash of apparent
opposites (with the resultant personal pathei mathos) which is
inherent in the O9A seven fold way and also part of O9A aeonic theory
and O9A aeonic strategy."
Therefore, Campion's argument that the intent behind those culling texts was to
make the ONA seem "pre-eminent, superior, and entitled" – and Campion's
conclusion that the texts are simply "the product of imagination" – are specious.
However, Campion is correct in claiming that such texts are desecrational – "an
attempt to disrupt communication and cause confusion" – since, understood in
the context of O9A praxises, they form part of the O9A's Labyrinthos
Mythologicus, and which Labyrinthos Mythologicus
"From its inception, the Seven-Fold Way was intended to see most fail,
to see most crumble under pressure, by a reluctance to try again, by
carelessness leading to mental or physical injury or destruction. It
should be clear to any objective and intelligent student of the
materials (not to speak to a practitioner, I presume) that personal
discernment is the foremost of all ONA requirements, once a holistic
and balanced view of its rather wide assortment of ideas throughout
the decades has been at least partially digested. To even suggest that
the failure of many (most?) ONA would-be initiates is a sign of failure
of the system, or to suppose that the bickering between
ONA-inspired/derived groups implies an alarming state of affairs
threatening to take it down, is to not to be able to see beyond the
proverbial nose." {6}
Factual Errors
Knowledge of primary O9A sources would have revealed that (i) in the context
of the Seven Fold Way the O9A rejects the doctrine of Social Darwinism, and (ii)
that the fundamental O9A principle of "the authority of individual judgement"
means that O9A cells, groups, nexions, and individuals, are free to self-identify
with fascism and National-Socialism (as the Italian Secuntra and the British
TWS nexions do) or with other -isms such as anarchism. As the TWS Nexion
recently noted:
This record of early and often violent political activity – including a term of
imprisonment for leading a 'skinhead' gang in a violent attack, and acting as
Colin Jordan's bodyguard {13} – is documented in mainstream sources.
{14}{15} In addition, in 1972 Myatt became Leeds Branch Secretary of
Jordan's BM. {16}
As noted above, Myatt's radical activism began in 1968, not in the early 1990s.
Furthermore, Combat 18 was not a "skinhead group" but was mainly composed
of members of "football firms" such as the Chelsea Headhunters. {17}
§ Campion writes, "The bomber acquired the guidelines from the ONA's
website."
Conclusion
In the O9A Seven Fold Way – a decades-long individual Occult quest (anados) –
a culling is one of the tasks/challenges, a learning experience, that an External
Adept is expected to undertake, often done as part of an Insight Role. The
individual then moves on to other tasks/challenges which include the Rite of
Internal Adept.
The essay by Campion ignores this necessary esoteric context; highlights yet
again the unscholarly nature of the research by most academics into the Order
of Nine Angles, and how some academics, when writing about the O9A, commit
various logical fallacies. {25}
Unless and until academics or others conduct detailed research into the O9A
using primary sources, using those sources to formulate their own conclusions,
then the O9A will remain misrepresented with its detailed esoteric philosophy
and its innovative sinister-numinous praxis, the Seven Fold Way, ignored.
Kerri Scott
T.W.S. Nexion
129 yf
v. 1.05
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Notes
{1} O9A 101. Included in Quintessence Of The Order Of Nine Angles, available
at https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/quintessence-of-the-o9a/
{2} Refer to such O9A texts as (i) Anton Long's The Enigmatic Truth and his
Lapis Philosophicus, both dated 2011; (ii) the second (2013) edition of Anton
Long's text Enantiodromia – The Sinister Abyssal Nexion, and (iii) R. Parker, The
Sinisterly-Numinous O9A, 2013, available at
https://wyrdsister.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/the-sinisterly-numinous-
o9a-v4.pdf
{3} Senholt, Jacob. The Sinister Tradition. Satanism in the Modern World.
Conference at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway, November 19-20, 2009
{5} https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/labyrinthos-mythologicus/
See also the relevant sections of the book Satanica Eresia – Una Guida al
Satanismo published by the Italian Secuntra Nexion, 2018, ISBN
978-1986070034
{7} Monette, Connell. Mysticism in the 21st Century. 2013. Sirius Academic
Press.
{8} A primary source in this respect is Myatt's 2012 essay A Matter Of Honour,
available at https://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/about/a-matter-of-honour-2/
In addition, Part Three of the 2018 O9A compilation A Modern Mysterium: The
Enigma of Myatt And The O9A provides a selection of texts which describe the
evidence which has been presented – including by some O9A supporters – which
seems to contradict or cast doubt upon the claim that Myatt is or was the
pseudonymous Anton Long. The compilation is available at
https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/myattian-mystery/
{12} How To Distinguish The Order Of Nine Angles. The O9A text is available at
https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/distinguishing-the-o9a/
See also (i) Anton Long, The De-Evolutionary Nature of Might is Right, 122 Year
of Fayen, and (ii) Anton Long, The Gentleman's – and Noble Ladies – Brief Guide
to The Dark Arts, 119 Year of Fayen.
{13} Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the
Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism, NYU Press, 2000, p.215
{15} David Myatt and the Occult-Fascist Axis, in the anti-fascist magazine
Searchlight, No. 241 (July 1995), pp.6–7
{16} Jackson, Paul. Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement, Bloomsbury
Publishing, 2016, p.174.
{17} http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/programmes
/2001/bnp_special/roots/1992.stm
{20} The Toronto Star, 19 July 1996. Hate groups using B.C. Internet site.
{21} The Globe and Mail, 28 April 1998. Notorious Internet service closes.
{23} 'The Satanic Bible' in The Invention of Satanism, Oxford University Press,
2015, pp.98-102
{24} Aquino, Michael. The Church of Satan. 2013. Two volumes, ISBN
9781494447335 & 9781494446963
{25} The essay The Peculiar Matter Of Myatt And Long in the O9A compilation
A Modern Mysterium: The Enigma of Myatt And The O9A provides a few
examples, such as Massimo Introvigne committing the fallacy of illicit
transference and Senholt the fallacy of Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.
Let Us Be Honest
We are sick and tired of hearing and reading about the 'holocaust', the Shoah
(which now even has it own yearly semi-religious and 'official' remembrance
day) given that, as a comrade recently said to us, we should also – for cosmic
balance, for fairness – remember just how many millions of German civilians –
women, children, old men – were (i) killed and suffered because of Allied air
raids during World War Two; (ii) died of starvation in the last years of that war
and the years immediately following it; (iii) died in and suffered because of the
forced expulsion of Germans from the Eastern territories in the years between
1944 and 1950; and also remember (i) just how many German women were
raped by advancing Soviet troops between 1944 and 1945, and (ii) just how
many German soldiers were summarily executed by Soviet troops or sent to
endure years of suffering in Soviet labour camps.
Do these millions of German victims have their own remembrance day? No. Are
there hundreds of books and documentaries about these German victims? No.
Do schoolchildren in the West have lessons about their suffering? No.
Instead, we in the West are regaled every year, every month, every week, almost
every day, with stories and propaganda about the Shoah (i) as if to remind us
that self-described Zionists had and have a continuing "right" (with the help of
America and Britain) to occupy Palestine and dispossess – and laud it over – the
Palestinians; and (ii) as if native Europeans – and diaspora Europeans in lands
such as America and Canada and Australia – cannot learn about and value their
European cultural heritage and cannot live only among their own folk according
to their ancient European traditions because to do so is "racist" , or "fascist", or
"nazi" or is "hate speech" and will lead to another 'holocaust' even though there
is no scientific evidence whatsoever that the foundation myth of such a
holocaust was feasible {1}. As stated in that referenced article: "the onus of
proof for the theory of the holocaust is upon those who have made [a] specific
scientific claim, and their proof can only be by scientific means. All the other
circumstantial evidence which it is alleged 'proves' the theory of the holocaust
(such as alleged eye-witness statements; confessions obtained during
interrogations), are irrelevant because a particular scientific claim has been
made."
That even publicly questioning the veracity of the historical event termed
the 'holocaust' is illegal – a criminal offence – in many Western lands should be
sufficient to raise concerns about its veracity and raise questions about why
belief in this one historical event is mandatory in such European and
non-European lands. Is there any other historical event – in the whole history of
humanity – where dissent about its truth is illegal and punishable by
imprisonment? No.
It is as if belief in this one historical event has become a religious dogma, with
dissent and heresy punished. As if those who are remembered on Holocaust
Remembrance Day have or should have "a special place" in our hearts while the
millions of Germans and others who suffered and who died because of Allied
and Soviet actions and policies are less worthy of being remembered, even the
numbers of Germans and others who suffered and who died because of Allied
and Soviet actions and policies arguably number more than those who allegedly
died in the 'holocaust'.
In political terms, the 'holocaust' has become a stick to beat those Europeans
who express pride in their own folk and in their folkish traditions, and who
desire to live among their own folk in communities composed of their own kind.
A stick used exclusively against White folk. For exclusive Zionist communities –
as in the Zionist entity occupying Palestine – are positively encouraged, just as
exclusive expressions of Black culture and other non-White cultures are
encouraged, with exclusive expressions of White culture deemed to be "racist"
or "fascist" or "nazi" or "hate speech" and censored and outlawed. What utter
hypocrisy covered up by propaganda, by compulsory indoctrination of
schoolchildren, and by tyrannical, oppressive, laws.
J.B.
2017 ev
{1} This foundation myth of the holocaust is that millions of people were
systemically exterminated in 'gas chambers' by the use of Zyklon B. The
heretical article The Theory of The Holocaust – see below – describes the lack of
scientific evidence for this claim.
Editorial Note: The following highly controversial and most decidedly heretical
essay was first circulated in the 1990s (ev) and although anonymous it has been
attributed, without any supporting evidence, to David Myatt with the suspicion
being that he wrote it during his association with Combat 18 and around the
time he also (allegedly) wrote the terrorist manual Practical Guide to Aryan
Revolution {1}. A copy of that manual was found, in 1999, by police in the flat
of David Copeland {2} who planted three nail-bombs in London killing three
people and seriously injuring dozens of others. The manual has been described
as the inspiration both for Copeland's bombing campaign {3} and for at least
some of the actions of the Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund terrorist group
{4}.
The Theory Of The Holocaust merited a mention in the fictional short story
Selann written by Rachael Stirling and published in 127yf. {5} The story
includes an extract from a letter purported to be by Myatt himself. Although
probably artistic fiction, the letter does seem to express the essence of Myatt's
idealistic writings about National Socialism which he published between 1984
and 1998 {6} and is therefore worth including it here as it is also provides the
relevant background to the The Theory Of The Holocaust essay.
The essence is, for example, in the beautiful Alison Balsom playing -
with organist David Goode, of Eton College - the Concerto in D major
by JS Bach in the Sophienkirche in Berlin. There is so much
numinosity in such a performance, in such a place, in such music, in
the individuals presencing there that beautiful music. Something so
ineluctably Western, cultured, and civilized.
Thus we felt we needed to, we desired to, preserve such beauty, such
numinosity. To give our unique culture - such beautiful people, such
music, such places - a chance to survive and flourish amid the
barbarism we found, experienced, in our lives and which barbarism
we knew existed all around us, internally in our own lands and
externally among other less cultured peoples..."
TWS Nexion
129 yf
°°°
The so-called holocaust of the Jews during World War Two is not a "proven fact
of history" – it is a theory. The central premise – the fundamental assumption –
of this theory is that a million or more Jews were killed in "gas chambers" using
Zyklon B. This claim has been made for over fifty years, and it is claimed as the
main method of killing. [1]
This is a particular scientific claim, about how a certain chemical agent works
(or worked) under certain very specific conditions. That is, it is a claim that
Zyklon B – a pesticide used to fumigate clothing in order to destroy lice, and
which releases hydrogen cyanide gas (HCN) when exposed to air – was used to
kill human beings in so-called "gas chambers".
Some of the particulars of this claim are that the whole gassing procedure
(gassing and venting, from the introduction of Zyklon to the opening of the
doors) only took one hour at most and often much less time, and that the
majority of the killings took place in what looked like "ordinary shower baths"
with concrete floors, and occurred even when the ambient temperate was lower
than 15 degrees Celsius. Other particulars of this claim are that those opening
the doors after this short length of time, and those removing the dead bodies,
wore no protective clothing at all – for example, no "gas masks" in case any
residue of deadly gas was present, or in case the Zyklon B pellets used were
still producing deadly HCN gas.
This very specific method of killing either worked, as described in the so-called
"holocaust literature", or it did not work. If it did work, then the method used is
scientifically repeatable, reproducible, via experiments. This is how science
functions, and how such claims about a scientific matter are settled. It is
scientific evidence, provided by experiments, that matter. [2] This particular
scientific claim about how people were killed by Zyklon B – a claim made by
those who believe in the theory of the holocaust – has yet to be experimentally
verified, according to scientific criteria. Therefore, it is correct and reasonable
for people to doubt the veracity of the theory of the holocaust that many people
believe in until such time as this specific scientific claim is verified by
experimental means.
All the other circumstantial evidence which it is alleged "proves" the theory of
the holocaust (such as alleged eye-witness statements; confessions obtained
during interrogations), are irrelevant because a particular scientific claim has
been made, and if this claim is shown by scientific experiments to be false, then
all such other evidence which seems to support the theory will have to
re-examined, re-interpreted, and/or rejected.
The onus of proof for the theory of the holocaust is upon those who have made
this specific scientific claim, and their proof can only be by scientific means.
Those who doubt or who are skeptical about this theory of the holocaust (for
whatever reason and from whatever motive), do not have to prove anything, for
as it says in Al-Majallah al-Ahkam al 'Adaliyyah, "The burden of proof is on him
who alleges."
This claim could easily be tested by scientific experiments, which would require
the re-construction of an alleged "gas chamber" – as described in the literature
of the holocaust theory – and then introducing Zyklon B into this chamber, by
the means alleged to have been used according to the literature of the
holocaust theory. The chamber would then be vented – using the type of fans
alleged to have been used – and then opened, and then tested for any residue of
HCN gas. Note that, for the experiment to be valid, all the "experimental
apparatus" used would have to constructed according to details given in the
extant literature of the holocaust theory, which details derive – or are alleged to
derive from – eye-witness statements, confessions of suspects tried for
involvement in the alleged holocaust, and from whatever German technical
plans or documents that survived from the time which gave details regarding
the building of shower-baths in labour camps such as Auschwitz. [3]
The experiments would be conducted using several variables. For instance, (1)
With an empty chamber, at various ambient temperatures. (2) With the door
being opened at the times claimed by the holocaust literature – from one half
hour after introduction of Zyklon B, to around one hour (the maximum time
claimed in the holocaust literature). (3) With a chamber full of experimental
"dummies" simulating human beings crammed into the chamber, and repeating
the variable mentioned in (1) and (2).
To meet acceptable scientific criteria, the results would have to be reproducible
by others, as the experiments themselves would have to conducted openly, with
impartial, neutral, observers present, and all the findings openly published.
That no such scientific experiments have ever been conducted – or are even
planned – is extraordinary, given:
1) That the theory of the holocaust is taught as "fact" in schools and colleges
around the world;
2) the billions upon billions of dollars invested in and by the "holocaust
industry" for over half a century, and the plethora of "holocaust memorials"
around the world;
3) the continuing imprisonment of those, including scientists, who have logically
and rationally expressed public doubt about the theory of the holocaust;
4) the use of this theory to aid the establishment of a modern non-Muslim nation
in the lands of the Muslims;
5) the conviction – on purely circumstantial evidence – and the subsequent
execution and imprisonment of dozens and dozens of people, in the last sixty
years, for "participating" in this alleged "holocaust".
Thus, to repeat what we wrote above, it is correct and reasonable, and indeed
rationally necessary, for people to doubt the veracity of the theory of the
holocaust until such time as the specific scientific claim, made by the believers
in the theory of the holocaust, is verified by experimental means. Until such
experiments are conducted, it is also correct, fair and reasonable to call for an
immediate end to the irrational and criminal persecution of those who doubt the
theory and who ask for scientific proof of the theory.
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Notes
1) A million or so, alone, is claimed for Auschwitz. This is what is taught now in
schools, everywhere; see, for example, the school lesson plan, Learning and
Remembering about Auschwitz-Birkenau, produced by the Yad Vashem
organization in occupied Palestine.
Thus, all persons who now accept or who believe in the modern theory of the
holocaust, are implicitly accepting, on faith or trust (and rather illogically), that
this so far unproven scientific claim is true.
These experiments also showed that what does affect the release of HCN gas is
the ambient temperature, with the granules releasing more HCN gas more
quickly at higher temperatures, and releasing "most" of their gas – under ideal
laboratory conditions – in just less than an hour when the temperature was 20
degrees Celsius, or higher. Given that the ambient temperature in the alleged
"gas chambers" was often much lower than 20 degrees Celsius – according to
accounts contained in the holocaust literature of the holocaust theorists – it
would be expected that it would be well over an hour before the Zyklon B
pellets released all their HCN gas. Which would mean the pellets would still be
producing deadly HCN gas when the door to the chambers were opened.