 Although conceiving of itself as having pre @-@ Christian origins and describing Satanism as " militant paganism " , the ONA does not advocate the re @-@ establishment of pre @-@ Christian belief systems , with one ONA tract stating that " all past gods of the various Western Traditions are rendered obsolete by the forces which Satanism alone is unleashing " . However , Goodrick @-@ Clarke noted that the group 's " ideas and rituals " draw upon " a native tradition " , with references to the pre @-@ Christian Anglo @-@ Saxon concept of wyrd , an emphasis on ceremonies performed at equinoxes , and the construction of incense using indigenous trees , thus suggesting the idea of " <unk> in English nature " . Practitioners undergo " black pilgrimages " to prehistoric ceremonial sites in the area around Shropshire and Herefordshire in the English Midlands . Furthermore , Monette writes that " a critical examination of the ONA 's key texts suggests that the satanic overtones could be cosmetic , and that its core mythos and cosmology are genuinely hermetic , with pagan influences . " 
