The Nazis, in short, were obsessed with legend and magic. Consider the swastika itself: First written about in Germany by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the ruins of Troy in 1868, the swastika was seized on by Hitler—whose birthday falls on Easter Sunday this year—as emblematic of the idealized, quasi-mythical Aryan race he sought to recreate. More to the point, the Nazis were murder nerds, LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they committed very real atrocities. And the same is true of their successors today. Partly aping their dead heroes and partly engaged in a similar delusion—self-mythologizing as the scions of an ancient white race—neo-Nazis are a remarkably myth-oriented bunch. This manifests in a lot of different ways, like engaging in werewolf-themed cultic neopaganism or dedicating themselves to Norse gods. Or, in a recent newsworthy example, following the Order of the Nine Angles, a late-twentieth-century neo-Nazi pseudoreligion that seeks to turn its adherents into racially pure Satanic wizards.
The symbol of the Order of the Nine Angles looks, more than anything, like a mutilated cat’s cradle, just as their ideology is a muddle of inverted myths, profligate cruelty, and pure bigotry. It’s a religion of shock and destruction, and as such, it has appealed particularly to young men—teens seeking to break away from their parents, and aimless mid-twenties men who want to blaze a path of dubious glory by blood.
It’s a religion of edgelords who’ve cliff-dived over the edge into madness.
The chief tenet of the Order of the Nine Angles, though, is chaos. It’s a religion of edgelords who’ve cliff-dived over the edge into madness. The creation of chaos—ideally through violence, particularly murder and rape—is a form of magic, which, if enacted often enough and brutally enough, will destabilize a moral order dominated by “Magian” (Jewish) and “Nazarene” (Christian) morality. The ultimate goal of the Order is a climactic race war, which will usher in a new “Aeon,” or age—in essence, a Thousand-Year Reich. With enough chaos magic unleashed on the world through acts of violence—the more spectacular the better, like Casap’s would-be assassination of Trump—the “Dark Imperium” led by evil wizards will commence.
The movement made the transcontinental jump from the U.K. to the United States by the mid-1990s, but took off in the early 2000s. One early and prominent American branch got the cheesily murderous name the Tempel ov Blood. The cult spread among neo-Nazis on the now-defunct white supremacist forum Iron March; according to Gay, until quite recently, information on the Order was hard to come by unless you already knew what you were looking for, deep in the fever swamps of Telegram. It isn’t, in and of itself, a path to radicalization: It’s a method of making murderers out of those already inclined toward white supremacist ideals; an instrument of self-justification and self-aggrandizement. It isn’t especially innovative, either: The Ku Klux Klan wore robes and called themselves wizards too.
We believe in justice for our oppressed comradesAnd seek an end to the world-widePersecution of National-Socialists.We believe in the magick of our wyrdAnd curse all who oppose us.
There’s been a lot of murder, and a great many terror attempts and attacks, inspired by this ideology.
There’s been a lot of murder, and a great many terror attempts and attacks, inspired by this ideology. It’s been taken up by a number of neo-Nazi groups as their chosen niche sub-ideology, and has inspired lone gunners like Casap, along with multiple rapes and widespread dissemination of child pornography (in keeping with its doctrine of sexual depravity). In 1997, members of a Swedish affiliate group murdered a gay Algerian man in a Gothenburg park, as part of a human sacrifice (which ONA literature refers to as a “culling”). In 2008, eight young Russian Satanists killed four teenagers in the Yaroslavl region, fried their hearts over a bonfire, ate them, and buried the bodies in a peat bog; an ONA cult dedicated to their deeds sprang up in the region. The pace picked up in the 2010s and 2020s; affiliates of the Order were charged with possessing child pornography, planning terror attacks, multiple child rapes, and murders. In 2022, a U.S. soldier and Order member was caught plotting to ambush members of his unit in order to cause “the deaths of as many soldiers as possible.” The same year, an 18-year-old in London murdered two sisters in a park after signing a pact with a demon in blood, promising to “sacrifice only women.”
It’s also a big confidence booster, at age 17, to think you’re at one with the underlying forces of the cosmos. Even if you’re not one hundred percent sold on the “magick” of your “wyrd,” it’s exciting to be part of a secret scary movement that does scary things, and know you can scare or impress people just by being part of it. It’s one thing to post racist things online from the comfort of your home; another thing entirely to embrace the notion that you are a master of magic, a powerful wizard whose bloodletting will usher in an “Imperium” of racially pure enlightenment. To wield that kind of power is to be wondrous; to stride atop multiple planes of reality.
In Westphalia, the Wewelsburg Castle is now a museum of the horrors of the S.S. Despite Himmler’s grandiose desire to drench his murders in myth and mystery, the elaborate occult ceremonies he and his pet clairvoyant hoped for didn’t materialize; there were unfathomable atrocities to commit. Less than a kilometer from Himmler’s faked-up magic playground stand the remnants of a concentration camp where over a thousand people died, conscripted as slave labor to build ever-grander extensions to the castle. The tombs in the great S.S. catacomb are empty; they always were. But the graves are full, the only true monument to the small, sadistic men who dreamed they were the kings of legend. All they ever made was a heap of bones.
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