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The Conundrum Of Myatt And Long

For at least the past thirty years there has been much speculation in books, inarticles in magazines, in newspapers and in academic journals, and latterly viathe medium of the internet about whether David Myatt is the person behind

the pseudonym Anton Long, and thus is the person who founded the occultgroup the Order of Nine Angles (ONA, O9A), authored its esoteric philosophy[1] and at least 95% of its texts from books such as The Black Book of Satan,Naos, the Deofel Quartet, to tracts such as Culling As Art, Guidelines for theTesting of Opfers, Concerning Esoteric and Exoteric Languages, and those inthe 2010 collection The Requisite ONA: A Practical Guide to The SinisterSorcery of The Order of Nine Angles.

While Myatt himself has always denied being Anton Long and challengedanyone to provide actual evidence that he is in fact Anton Long, his denial hasnot stopped anti-fascist groups such as Searchlight and more recently 'hope

not hate' nor journalists nor the majority of modern self-declared Satanistsfrom blithely asserting that Myatt is Anton Long. Neither has Myatt's repeateddenial stayed the hand of those who again blithely, without providing anysupporting evidence state that 'Myatt is a Satanist' and that he was and still is'involved with the Satanic Order of Nine Angles', and therefore knows or is afriend or colleague of or is somehow involved with, or supports the opinions andviews of, anyone anywhere who without any evidence declares themselves to beONA or is by others assumed to be ONA

So common did it and has it become for people to assume Myatt is Long that,as Senholt noted [2], the author Goodrick-Clarke in his book Black Sun: AryanCults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity[3] used the name Myattwhen referring to what Anton Long had written or what others alleged Longhad done, written, or said, without Goodrick-Clarke providing any supportingevidence for his assumptions.

However, as JR Wright mentioned in the 2013 edition of her article David Myatt,Satanism, and the Order of Nine Angles:

"Several academics who have studied the Order of Nine Angles haveconcluded that David Myatt is not Anton Long. For instance GeorgeSieg wrote that the idea that Myatt is Long is "implausible anduntenable based on the extent of variance in writing style, personality,

and tone" between Myatt and Long's writings. Professor ConnellMonette considered it was quite possible that 'Anton Long' was apseudonym used by multiple individuals over the past 30 years, whileProfessor Jeffrey Kaplan asserted that Myatt and Long are separatepeople and that the individual who used the pseudonym Anton Longwas a friend of Myatt's in the 1970s and 1980s." [4]


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As for Myatt, he has from the 1980s on consistently maintained that hisinvolvement with occultism in the 1970s and early 1980s was, in his words,

"for the singular purpose of subversion and infiltration in the cause ofNational-Socialism, with part of this being to spread racist ideas anddenial of the holocaust. Thus one such occult group I associated withwas a honeytrap, and the whole intent was political, revolutionary, not

occult and not to with 'satanism'. It was a matter of using, or trying touse, such occult groups for a specific neo-nazi purpose without anyinterest in or personal involvement with the occult." [5]

Which fact Myatt communicated in the 1990s to Professor Kaplan [6], and toothers [7].

Thus, unless and until someone provides substantive evidence forexample in the form of authentic documents, or video recordings of Myatt atsome ONA ceremony, or verifiable statements by Myatt himself or by the personwho suspected by some to be Anton Long was "a friend of Myatt's in the

1970s and 1980s" then such claims that "Myatt is Anton Long", and that"Myatt is or was a Satanist" will remain unproven, mere rumours and hearsay,and thus will be dismissed by those who use reason and honour as their guides.

For as Monette wrote, "the founder of the [ONA], Anton Long, has remained amystery to members of the movement, as well as to academics." [8]

Which is perhaps as it should be: a mystery, as befits an occult group which somany self-declared modern Satanists following as they do the satanismpropagated by Howard Stanton Levey, by Aquino, and by others seek and havesought to discredit and belittle and who continue to emote that "the ONA is a

joke, a fake" and who declare that it "doesn't exist" despite the fact that theONA is not only a particular and complex esoteric philosophy and thus havingbeen written about in printed books has a place in the domain of reality andthus an objective being, but is also "a movement, a subculture or perhapsmetaculture that its adherents choose to embody or identify with." [8]

Which mystery also befits the persona of Anton Long who in the supposedguise of David Myatt so many self-declared modern Satanists, so manyself-declared followers of some modern Western Left Hand Path, so manyself-declared 'thelemites', and so many others for whatever reason and fromwhat motive dislike and seek to defame, to castigate, and to libel. As Tennyson

once wrote: "the grand old name of gentleman, defamed by every charlatan". Towhich we might add "and defamed by ideologically or financially motivatedhack writers and journalists".

Richard Stirling

January 2016

[1] The esoteric philosophy of the ONA is detailed in the 2013 article The


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Radical Sinister Philosophy of Anton Long: A Review of The ContemporarySecret Society Known As The Order of Nine Angles, which is currently [January2016] available at https://lapisphilosophicus.wordpress.com/about-2/philosophy-of-anton-long/ and archived at http://www.webcitation.org/6ewvIIDOs

That this esoteric philosophy and the praxises derived from it or which'presence' it has roots in European paganism and Greco-Roman mysticism has

been explained by R. Parker in works such as : Alchemical AndHermetic Antecedents Of The Seven Fold Way Of The Order Of Nine Angles(e-text, 2015) and books such as The Pagan Order of Nine Angles, 2015, ISBNISBN 978-1518885143.

[2]The Sinister Tradition. Paper presented by Jacob Senholt at the internationalconference Satanism in the Modern World, Trondheim, 19-20th November,2009. The paper is available [as of January 2016] at http://www.webcitation.org/6bpiHBIrr (pdf)

[3] New York University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0814731550.

[4] The article is currently [January 2016] archived athttp://www.webcitation.org/6ewuZhSas

The references cited in the article are as follows:

Sieg, George.Angular Momentum: From Traditional to Progressive Satanismin the Order of Nine Angles. International Journal for the Study of NewReligions, volume 4, number 2. 2013. p.257.

Monette, Connell. Mysticism in the 21st Century. 2013. Sirius Academic Press.

p.92

Kaplan, Jeffrey. Religiosity and the Radical Right: Toward the Creation of aNew Ethnic Identity, in Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjrgo (editors), Nation andRace: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture. NortheasternUniversity Press. 1998. p.115.

[5] Myatt, David.A Matter of Honour. e-text, 2012.

[6] Kaplan, op cit.

[7] Letter from David Myatt to a Mr. Williams dated July 1994. The letter is

mentioned by Kaplan, op cit, p.125, with Kaplan writing that "Myatt franklystates that his own long history of interaction with England's occultunderground was undertaken in a clandestine effort to influence some of theseadherents to adopt National Socialist beliefs."

[8] Monette, op cit.

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