The Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), is a secretive nazi-occult group with roots in the UK.
According to its own mythology, the group traces its lineage back to ancient Mesopotamia, where it claims to have originated as a pagan cult. In fact, it was founded in the early 1970s by veteran British nazi-satanist Dave Myatt.
National Socialist
Myatt began a long political odyssey in the late 1960s when he joined Colin Jordan’s National Socialist Movement (NSM). From there he moved to the British Movement.
Despite a purported ‘search for truth’ that has taken him to Christianity, Buddhism, radical Islam and Satanism, the national socialist component of his philosophy has never waned.
Myatt’s early writings, heavily influenced by the works of Aleister Crowley and Friedrich Nietzsche, advocated a radical and sinister form of individualism.
Inner darkness
His philosophy centres around the idea that individuals should seek to overcome their limitations and embrace their inner darkness to achieve a higher state of being. This philosophy would later form the basis of O9A teachings.
The O9A is often described as a ‘left-hand path’ organisation, which means it embraces taboo and antinomian practices often seen as morally repugnant by mainstream society. The group has written approvingly of human sacrifice, paedophilia, and terrorism.
Nail bomber
Possibly Myatt’s most notorious claim to fame was to have been one of the main influences on the London nazi nail bomber, David Copeland, who murdered three people and injured dozens in his 1999 bomb attacks on Brixton, Brick Lane and the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho.
Only three months before the first bomb, Copeland had joined the NSM, founded by Myatt, Tony Williams and former Combat 18 leader, Steve Sargent.
Race war
In Copeland’s flat were found tracts by Myatt calling for race war: ‘This means creating tension and terror within ethnic communities and damaging their homes by firebombs and explosive devices. Part of this involves attacking individuals (and killing some of them).’
And it was NSM literature that provided Copeland with the web address to find his bomb-making instructions.
