Order of Nine Angles (O.9.A.): Christos Beest and Sinister Tarot

Case : 258. 

The Order of Nine Angles (ONA; O9A) is a Satanic and Left-Hand Path occult group based in the United Kingdom, but with affiliated groups in various other parts of the world. Claiming to have been established in the 1960s, as a exhibiting Hermetic and Neo-Pagan elements in its beliefs and has been described as one of the most extreme Satanist groups in the world. The Sinister Tarot was rendered by Richard Moult, aka Christos Beest, a Shropshire based composer and artist. CB was involved with the O9A from 1989 to 1999. Though his artwork is still appreciated and widely used, Beest eventually renounced the Sinister Quest and has even, though not formally, converted to Catholicism. It was even rumored that the subjects renedered in the Sinister Tarot were in fact, renderings of either purported members of the Order during Beest’s decade long tenure or members of a Satanic Temple that he organized during his own undertaking of the Sinister Path.