ABSTRACT
James Mason called his new philosophy Universal Order, a name suggested by Charles Manson himself. Mason said this philosophy did not “interrupt, or interfere with, or contradict in any way my National Socialist beliefs—it’s an extension of them.” Although vague on its specifics, Universal Order had a spiritual underpinning, despite Mason’s own atheism. It held that there was a current that represented the natural order underneath the corrupt social world, which had been perverted by race-mixing and Jews. Universal Order was also the name that Mason would publish SIEGE under starting in 1982. Although for publicity reasons Universal Order was sometimes portrayed as an actual organization, it never functioned as such in reality.
