Black Order (Satanist group)

The Black Order are a Satanist group based in New Zealand. Political scientists Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg characterised the Black Order as a "National Socialist-oriented Satanist mail order ministry".[1] However, in 1995 the anti-fascist Searchlight organization, following an investigation, described it as part of a functioning international Occult-Fascist Axis. [2]

Origins

The Black Order was founded in New Zealand by Kerry Bolton as a successor to his Order of the Left Hand Path.[1] Bolton had connections to other Neo-Nazi Satanist groups, being the international distributor for the English-based Order of Nine Angles.[3]

According to Goodrick-Clarke, "in 1994 Bolton set up the Black Order, which claimed a global network of national lodges in Britain, France, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Germany, the United States and Australia, dedicated to fostering National Socialism, fascism, satanism, paganism and other aspects of the European Darkside". [4] Its quarterly membership bulletin The Flaming Sword and its successor zine The Nexus contained interviews with, among others, James Mason, George Eric Hawthorne, Michael Moynihan, David Myatt, and Miguel Serrano, and its articles included studies of Thulianism, Himmler’s Wewelsburg, tributes to old SS leaders, "a reprint of the ONA Mass of Heresy [and] contributions from David Myatt on the galactic empire, aeonic strategy and the cosmological magic of National Socialism." [5]

In 1996, a U.S. branch of the Black Order was established.[1] In summer that year, they began publication of a magazine, Abyss.[6] The U.S.-group subsequently fell out with that in New Zealand over the latter's acceptance of homosexual members.[6] The U.S. group considered a name change to the White Order as a result of this schism.[6]

The name "Black Order" was then adopted by ideologically similar groups around the world which had no formal connection to Bolton's group.[1] In Sweden, a Black Order was established by Göran Gullwang, which attracted public attention after Gullwang and other members murdered several gay men in Gothenburg.[1] In 1996 this Swedish group again attracted media attention when several of its members were arrested for sexually abusing young girls in a ritualised context in which they also drank the girls' blood.[6]

Kaplan and Weinberg described the Black Order as "a remarkably influential purveyor of National Socialist-oriented occultism throughout the world."[7]

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Kaplan & Weinberg 1998, p. 143.
  2. ↑ David Myatt and the Occult-Fascist Axis, Searchlight, July 1995.
  3. ↑ Goodrick-Clarke 2003, p. 229.
  4. ↑ Goodrick-Clarke 2003, p. 227.
  5. ↑ Goodrick-Clarke 2003, p. 227-228.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Kaplan & Weinberg 1998, p. 219.
  7. ↑ Kaplan & Weinberg 1998, p. 144.

Sources

Gardell, Matthias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822330714. 
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2003). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0814731550. 
Kaplan, Jeffrey; Weinberg, Leonard (1998). The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813525648. 
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