There are strange and terrifying powers abroad.
This is no profound insight on my part. We all sense it, to some degree, and apprehend with such faculties as are granted us whatever of the unseen world we are permitted to see.
Whence the great malaise of the modern world, and the tremendous unease and disquiet that troubles even the dullest sorts. Something is “off,” something is not quite right, and now I have seen many who are utterly ignorant of Traditionalism—and some who are even avowedly hostile to the Tradition itself—recognizing that there is a spiritual or, perhaps better, a demonic component to the great struggles of our times.
They are, of course, not wrong.
I have attempted, in my fitful and imperfect way, to explore and explain some of those forces and powers that are leagued against mankind. I have spoken often enough of the Counter-Tradition and the Counter-Initiation, as also of those furtive societies and organizations that seek to further their corruptive and degenerative influence.
I consider this one of my most important contributions, for though the Counter-Initiation is a thoroughly entropic and inversive world-historical force, and acts according to a kind of natural law, nevertheless it can only manifest through the connivance of human agents.
And such is how the modern world—the world of the Counter-Initiation, the world in which we live—came to be. This is an age rife with Counter-Initiatic organizations, ranging from the known and well-publicized—such as, for instance, the Order of Nine Angles (O9A)—to the unknown and secretive, such as the Order of the Red Glyph or the Fraternitas Chnoubis.
These organizations exist on various rungs of the inverted hierarchy, from mere useful idiots at the lowest end, who unwittingly further the ends of the true agents of the Counter-Tradition and Counter-Initiation, to those in positions of high power and trust, who wit well their role in the furtherance of disorder and dissolution.
It is of one of these latter organizations that I would now speak. It is a small and practically unknown Counter-Initiatic society, but it is among the most powerful and influential of them all. In fact, I know of none more powerful…save one other, but of that I will not speak, neither here nor anywhere else.
In any case, I’m talking about the Ordo Dei Nefandi, which may be loosely translated as “The Order of the Unspeakable God.” But the Latin word nefas, whence the gerundive “nefandus” is derived, carries further the connotation of a kind of injunction against ever speaking of or even mentioning the proscribed thing. So perhaps a better translation might be “The Order of the God That Must Not Be Spoken Of.”
The god in question, undoubtedly, goes by many names. It is almost assuredly identical with that which the College of Seth knows as “the Eldritch Entity.” It is likely to be the same as what various Gnostic sects called the Demiurge, Satanas, Yaldabaoth, Abraxas or Abrasax, Samaël, Nebro or Nebruel, the Leontocephaline, and many other names too numerous to record here.
It is also that Unmentionable One whereof the Roman poet Lucanus wrote in the sixth book of his epic De Bello Civile:
“Paretis? an ille“Compellandus erit, quo numquam terra vocato“Non concussa tremit, qui Gorgona cernit apertam,“Verberibusque suis trepidam castigat Erinnyn,“Indespecta tenet vobis qui Tartara; cuius“Vos estis, superi; Stygias qui perierat undas?”[“Wilt thou obey me? Or shall I call“On One at the sound of whose name earth ever quakes“And trembles, who views the Gorgon’s head without its“Veil, who lashes the cowering Fury with her own whip,“Who dwells in Tartarus beyond your sight, for whom you“Are the gods above, and who perjures the Stygian waves?”](Bk. VI: 744-49)
The Ordo Dei Nefandi constitutes a heptad, a group of seven persons who are high initiates in the Counter-Initiation or the Precepts of Subversion. Thus, there are only seven members of this Order, with a new member inducted immediately upon the death of one of the seven. It seems logical that each member “grooms” a new initiate whom he expects to replace him upon his death; however, these recruits, or potential recruits, are not likely to be aware of the existence of the Ordo Dei Nefandi until the moment of their mentor’s death.
I know little else of the details and inner workings of this Order, and anyone who tells you that they know more is almost certainly lying. I suppose I have paid dearly enough, in my own way, for even what little I do know of this sinister group. As to the identity of the members of the heptad, I know absolutely nothing at all. They may be names with which the world at large might be very familiar; or they may be total unknowns. For the moment, they are a mystery, and the heptad works diligently to ensure that it remains this way.
What matters more is the place the Ordo Dei Nefandi fills in the Counter-Initiatic hierarchy. In simple terms, they are very nearly at the top of the heap, which means that they are effectively those who are—in René Guénon’s telling—nearest the bottom in terms of a rightly ordered spiritual and traditional dispensation. They are, in other words, thoroughly materialistic, non-spiritual, and inhuman.
More importantly, they are the hierophants and world directors of the global “cryptocracy.” That is a difficult concept for many to come to grips with; I confess that I have also had difficulty truly assimilating its implications in all their multifarious enormity. But I have been assured by men who are in a position to speak authoritatively of such things that there is indeed a Counter-Initiatic government, so to speak, that in these latter days virtually rules the world and orchestrates its progressive devolution as time converges toward the end of the present cycle.
In this view of things, the horrors of the modern world are not merely incidental, nor are they merely the lamentable but inevitable consequences of a contingent, material existence. Whether it is the multiplying wars, the increasing chaos and disorder, the senseless murders, the rape of women and children, the naked greed and corruption, the sexual mutilation of confused and disordered girls and boys, the mass shootings and mass death events that daily roil the news registers…these are not mere happenstance.
Instead, as I have hinted at before, these things possess an innate invocatory and propitiatory value when dealing with those subtle inferior forces, those “Pestilences That Walketh in Darkness,” that are now freely abroad in the land. And there is nothing surprising in this. René Guénon spoke often of the hardening of that invisible shell that makes permanent the sejunction between man and the higher spiritual world; conversely, as men sink ever further into the Reign of Quantity and become ever more arrogantly materialistic and empirical, so too does the shell that separates man from the subtle inferior forces weaken and crack and eventually fail altogether.
This is the great paradox of the Kali-Yuga. We have never, as a species, been more rational, so we are told; and yet the very embodiment of irrationality wells up from below as never before in our history. And this is where the Ordo Dei Nefandi enters the picture. It is the heptad’s place to invoke and summon forth the Negotia Perambulantes in Tenebris, and to thereby further weaken and sunder the defenses that keep out the Unspeakable One, who has been prowling about the walls like an emaciated and hunger-maddened wolf.
It is easy to dismiss those who claim to see strange things in the skies, or in the woods, or stalking about their homes. It is probable that they are in many cases merely liars and grifters, seeking fame or a quick buck.
But that is not always the case. Sometimes they are earnest and utterly truthful, as I have reason enough to know and believe. Not all the sightings of UFOs, strange giants like the Flatwoods Monster or the Weird Prowlers in Las Vegas, diminutive creatures like the Hopkinsville Goblins or the Little People of Celtic lore, hairy bipeds in the remote forests, or things like Mothman, goatmen, the Dover Demon, or even inter-dimensional beings, are false or mistaken.
These are the Pestilences in the flesh, so to speak, and it is not to be wondered at that the numbers of their sightings have increased in recent years. There will be more of the same, and more to come, as the Ordo Dei Nefandi continues its work in furtherance of the Counter-Initiation. Their goal is to someday admit the Deus Nefandus, the Unspeakable One itself, to our dimension or material plane, or whatever you would call it; and this is corroborated by data amassed by the College of Seth about what they call the “votaries of the Eldritch Entity,” which are working tirelessly to incarnate their especial object of veneration.
I can only say, with the Traditionalists, that they will not in the end succeed. However, in the meantime, organizations like the Ordo Dei Nefandi and their confederates are in the driver’s seat, so to speak, and are steering the world toward its inevitable conclusion; things are therefore likely to continue to get strange, and even stranger…
Great article. I would be very interested (if at some point you feel so inclined) to learn about how you've come to be initiated into so much knowledge, to the extent you can share that.