Membership
As an organization, we are looking for a very select few, who would be ignited
for the hard work of initiatory practice on one hand, and would be able to
strengthen and help us in our public work on the other.
On a practical level
these people should be prepared to call themselves satanists, i.e. share the
values and practice the keystones described above. Probably they might be
unsatisfied with what existing occult LHP organizations offer, for instance by
their marginality; anti-cosmism; searches of another worlds
; gnostic
overturning of God and Satan; lack of a proper initiatory work; pure rational
and psychological understanding of Satanism; or even exclusion of Satan from
their worldview as claimed by some.
What we expect from our members
- A strong resolve to pursue the initiation, whatever it takes;
- A mind that is flexible enough to learn new approaches, not clinging to a
legacy of already formed, rigid belief systems;
- The patience and the discipline to work diligently and responsibly, planning
for the long term horizon when necessary;
- Ability to cooperate and effectively work together with other like-minded
individuals, developing synergies and not conflicts;
- The ambition and the drive to go for things that many consider impossible.
Member benefits
A membership provides the initiate with the following advantages:
- Guided initiatory practices supervised by one of the order members;
- Access to the corpus of occult literature collected in our large library;
- Community of highly-educated people interested in discussions on occult,
philosophy and science;
- Support in your projects and endeavors, if they match goals of existing
members and Order policies.
We prefer to give out fishing rods rather than fish meals, so we teach the
methods of obtaining knowledge rather than simply pass information. Hence, our
goal is to create equals and not followers. We are helping and encouraging our
members to become self-sufficient individuals that will be responsible for
carrying out their own projects.
Apply
Before proceeding, be aware that our path lies outside human values and
common good. It does not lead to a better life, at least in the common sense of
better
. It is just for those, who have the Lust for more, the Passion to
transcend all boundaries & the Will to follow the path into the unknown – no
matter what it takes.
To become an initiate of the Thirteen please
send us
an essay describing your background, interests and the reasons why you'd like to join the order.
About us
The Thirteen was established at the end of 2013, as a part of aeonic workings by
Azurvan Order mages in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2019 the order
headquarters moved to Switzerland. In 2024 the order become open to public.
Legal structure
The Thirteen operates under the Article 60 of the Swiss Civil Code and is
headquartered in Lucern, Switzerland.
The Thirteen is managed by Azurvan Order, which serves as the
board of The Thirteen and appoints public representatives and other official
roles on the ad hoc basis.
The Thirteen subsidiary Satanic Press, as a digital
publishing house producing and distributing multimedia content (books, apps, music, videos)
on hermetic satanism and related topics.
Azurvan Order
Azurvan Order, also known as Ordo Hermeticus Sinistrum or OHS, is a Chivalric
Order of Knighthood established in 2005 and dedicated to transforming our world using aeonic magic,
technology and science according to the will of its members. As a form of multi-faceted stone of
philosophers, with initiates (facets of the stone) being exclusively Magisters and Mages
of The Thirteen, its mission can allegorically be described as opening the Gates of Infernum and
bringing the Hell to Earth
– which is another way of saying building a civilization of
daemons which are able to rich and rule the stars
.
Meaning of the name The Thirteen
Satanism means development of the Self – much beyond any restrictions and bounds
of the common life. However, development is frequently misunderstood as an
endless cycle
. Modern esotericism frequently takes twelve as a symbol for such
closed cycle (twelve months, twelve hours of the clock, twelve Zodiacal sings)
or completeness (the twelve apostles, twelve Olympic gods, twelve knights of the
round table or twelve members of the jury).
To oppose this “meme” of the cyclic
development and twelve as its symbol, we add another step to the cycle, breaking
Ouroboros and unwrapping into an endless exponential spiral. This is a fractal
spiral of development towards complexity, where the end becomes a totally new
beginning, materia finita becomes materia prima of a new Great Work and not of
the same one. And to be precise, the Sun during its annual path in fact crosses
13 (not 12!) celestial constellations, which are not equivalent but have a
different size: the concept of 12 equal Zodiacal signs is simply contrived.
There are also 13 lunar months in a calendar year: twelve of Lunar months are
complete and the thirteenth is incomplete
– it crosses the boundary between
years and continues into a new year. This strongly signifies the “spiral” nature
of time, rather than a cyclical return to the previous status quo.
Thereby,
thirteen become a numeric symbol for natural and real development, which has the
form of a repeated spiral process, not a cyclical closing.