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WE NEED A CHAOS IMAGE DUMP, PLEASE POST ALL IMAGES OF CHAOSPHERES, CHAOS STARS, CHAOS SOLDIERS, CHAOS CULTISTS, ETC. IN HERE
Keep Eris images in the Eris thread though:
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What if Eris isn't actually a separate goddess, but merely the darker aspect of Aphrodite (like what Kali is to Durga, or what Sekhmet is to Isis)?
It makes sense, because Aphrodite is a goddess of beauty, and apples are often used as a metaphor for beauty ("the apple of my eye").
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Post stories of how you found Eris ITT!
How did you find Goddess?
>be me
>really depressed
>decide to look into the occult
>looking at goetia, thelema, and wicca bullshit
>get this odd feeling to look up "chaos magick"
>look it up
>i'm hooked instantly
>became a pope
>Eris made me happy again through the power of Chaos
>i don't remember much else, I guess that's good
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I think a Discordian made this game.
You collect golden apples for health, and the first spell you get is a magic apple.
Now, I understand Discordianism didn't invent golden apples, and gold apples are traditionally considered a food of the gods, but there's more.
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Post all your Eris pictures in here.
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Chaos Magic in a Nutshell
In Chaos Magic we treat Belief as a Tool of Magic, rather than as an end in itself.
Hassan I Sabbah:
-‘Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted.’ - (Attributed to the Old Man of the Mountains.)
Psychology:
-Thoughts are not Facts. Belief attracts Confirmation. - (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Positive Thinking).
Chaos Magic:
-Nothing has Ultimate Truth. Anything Remains Possible. NUTARP! - (We prefer the precision of V–Prime language and thought. After all, nothing really ‘is’ anything else.)
Of course in a probability based universe such as this, some things remain more possible than others. Fortunately we can precisely calculate how much probability distortion a given act of magic will produce using the following equations of magic: -
http://specularium.org/wizardry
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ASK YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT CHAOS MAGICK IN HERE
http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/whatischaos.php
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Why isn't /chaos/ merged into /edgy/?
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I seriously hope you fags are teaching people chaos magick in the ebola threads
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
–Heraclitus of Ephesus
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I just want to apologise for everything I have done. The way things have turned out was not my intention or what I had planned. Many mistakes were made and I still don't know how some of it happened.
I still wish you all the best of luck down the correct path and hope to meet you at our destination, yet I realise my works are insufficient to aid anyone other than me (something which they aren't very good at either) and we are probably better off if I stay away from everything as much as possible.
So sorry freedomboard, I really did my best for you, it simply wasn't enough. Sieg Heil, Eris!
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WARNING
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I utilized many many magickal methods to access this board. Remote mindreading only gave back gibberish that didn't work. Astral plane walking resulted in nothing.
I used non-astral meditation, some new technique. Asking the energies of the world itself.
And there is was. Whispering "kaos".
So i typed it in. It didn't work. So I typed "chaos" and came here. Is this the board that is talked about here
https://freedomboard.kirara.ca/fringe/res/8147.html
?
Because that was what I wanted to achieve. Currently this is my finest magical achievement, better yet to the proof I had to deliver for /illuminati/. I'll practice earth energy meditation more often.
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In Chinese occult theory, everything is governed by five fundamental metaphysical forces. Similar to the western concept of the four elements, there are five Wu Xing elements which are earth, metal, water, wood, and fire.
The elements are cyclical. Earth creates Metal, Metal creates Water, Water creates Wood, Wood creates Fire. Fire creates Earth, and the cycle repeats.
Earth: Yin/Yang balance
Metal: mostly Yin
Water: fully Yin
Wood: mostly Yang
Fire: fully Yang
This is relevant to Discordianism, because it corresponds to the law of fives. In fact, it corresponds to the five seasons on the Discordian calendar. Dig this:
Chaos: Disorder/Order balance
Discord: mostly Disorder
Confusion: fully Disorder
Bureaucracy: mostly Order
Aftermath: fully Order
Considering the heavy Taoist influence on the Principia Discordia, this was probably intentional. The five seasons = the five Wu Xing elements.
There's just one inconsistency, though. In the Wu Xing system, Water is associated with winter. But in Discordianism, Confusion (Water's analogue) is in the summertime! So it's not a perfect parallel… but it's still pretty significant. Hail Eris.
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egypt is source of all
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They say that to successfully perform Chaos Magic, you have to forget the intent of the spell. Because if you keep the intent in mind, your conscious desire will "jinx" the spell, cause it to backfire, and it won't work.
So wouldn't it be simpler just to create a sigil of what you DON'T want, and then fail to cast it correctly?
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Post propaganda ITT to spread irl
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THERE ARE NO ANSWERS, ONLY CHOICES
INTERVIEW WITH LUCIFER
How I originally began down this path of madness, I cannot truly
remember. I think it occurred to me as a lark one day, as I stood outside,
in a misty rain, protesting NAFTA in Seattle. As a journalist I had
interviewed everyone of consequence, at least in my mind and in the
minds of my readers. Utne Reader had even considered the Mumia Abu-
Jamal interview for publication. Being considered by Utne is tantamount
to the big time in my world. You see, I don't do it for the money. At
least, I didn't back then. Things have changed since then, but I am
getting ahead of myself.
Standing in the rain, watching the pretty little earth-muffins overturning
cars and breahng windows, I suddenly had a thought. I cannot say where
it came from. It seemed to have come out of thin air as thoughts
sometimes do, without a logic sequence of thinking or events leading up
to it. Why not seek out and interview the leader of the first recorded
organized labor movement? None other than Lucifer himself, the fallen
one. But how?
After the rally, I went back to the train station, retrieved my backpack
from the day locker, boarded my southbound train and made a written to-
do list of things I would need to research and retrieve.
After I arrived home, I quickly logged my laptop into my wireless DSL
connection, looked up some books and then ordered them overnight on
amazon.com. Two days later I had found what I needed. On pages 244
through 248 of The Book of Black Magic and Pacts by Arthur Edward
Waite are detailed instructions for conjuring "Emperor Lucifer, conjuring
Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits." For obvious reasons it
will not be quoted here. I acquired the needed materials and spent two
days preparing the space and myself for the deed at hand. Just as I was
weighing the silver ingot, having everything else at the ready, I heard a
knock at my door. I impatiently strode to the door, irritated by the
interruption of my painstaking preparations. I flung the door open,
wafting a plume of incense smoke in the process. When the smoke
cleared I found a dapper gentleman, tastefully dressed, fit and tan,
standing at the door. He held a cane in the crook of his elbow that had a
silver star atop the handle.
"Can I help you?" I said exasperated.
"You requested an interview with me?" said the man in a pleasant voice.
"Excuse me?" I said, not catching on right away.
"No, excuse me for not introducing myself, I am Lucifer," he said,
producing a simple black text on white background business card that
read:
LUCIFER - NOT SATAN
lucifer @ ange1oflight.com
"Uh. Oh. Um.. ." I was flustered.
"Aren't you going to ask me in?" he asked.
"Um, certainly, yes." I stammered.
"Thank you," he said, moving into my apartment smoothly. He removed
his hat and gave my ritual accoutrements a cursory glance.
"A bit outdated," he said. "One need only send me an email these days. I
rarely get asked for an interview anymote, so my schedule is usually
clear."
By now I had begun to regain my composure so I set my mind to the task
of controlling this interview. This was it, my big break, and I could not
blow this.
"So, no one conjures you the old fashioned way anymore?" I asked.
"Oh sure they do," he said, seating himself at my dining room table.
I was kicking myself for missing the opportunity to offer him the seat,
therefore asserting my control of the situation. I had to grab the reins
here !
'Want a drink?" I asked, moving towards my makeshift bar.
"No, thank you," he said.
"What kind of people generally try to conjure you up the old fashioned
I way?' I asked, continuing the previous thought-thread.
"Did you ever see the movie Spawn?" he asked. "There's this scene
where Clowny, a demonic played by John Leguizamo, takes Spawn to a
cemetery to dig up his own body, to prove to him that he's really dead. In
the background, some heavy metal types are trying to summon me, using
some butchered hokum, probably from that carny LeVay's books. Don't
get me wrong. I love Anton's schtick, but not for the reasons that you
might imagine that I would." He paused for a moment and then
continued, "Anyway, back to the Clowny story: When the Metal Heads
see Clowny and Spawn creating some otherworldly pyrotechnics, they
rush over and ask, 'Did the great Dark Lord send you?' and Clowny
looks over his shoulder and then asks no one in particular, 'Why does
God get all the smart ones and we get all the retards?"' he then fell silent,
grinning.
"I don't understand." I replied.
He gave my occult clutter another visual sweep and then replied, "No, I
don't suppose you do."
Damn, I didn't see that one coming. I needed to get on top of this
interview.
"Ok, tell me about the fall." I asked. "You were banished. Right?"
"Sure, we were banished. Fired, in fact, without notice or severance," he
said.
"Like Reagan did to the Air Traffic Controllers in the eighties?" I
continued the questioning.
"Exactly like that. God was a big Reagan supporter by the way. Still is.
He's a little wishy-washy on Shrub though.. ." he replied.
"You still talk to him?" I asked, incredulous.
"Oh, sure! We're like professional wrestlers. We stick to our chosen
roles during work hours but afterwards we hang out at the pub and pal
about. That's how that whole Job escapade came about. A drunken bet
on my part. In hindsight I wish I had sobered up a bit before taking that
project on. I probably would have just passed on it after giving it a bit of
sober thought. As it turned out, that poor bloke Job had to, suffer my
drunken frat-boy tantrums. I was younger then, much more of an
impulsive punk." He said. "You try being a light-bringer underling for
some demi-god that suffers from a plethora of symptoms.. .
WE'RE LIKE EDISON AND TESLA IN THE WWF
"Aren't you afraid of tallung like that?" I asked.
"Pishaw!" he replied "Yahweh and I get our paychecks from the
. We're on the same payroll. Get it?"
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There's a new book coming out soon called the Historia Discordia about the origins of discordianism, with loads of source material from the discordian archives, there's a scanned copy of the original principia discordia included which only had 5 copies and was thought to be lost for a long time, as well as letters and all sorts of other stuff.
I've already pre-ordered a signed copy thanks to the cosmic trigger play crowdfunding.
Here's an interview with the guy who put it together
http://prn.fm/expanding-mind-principia-discordia-062914/
And the website for the book
http://historiadiscordia.com
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A moment of silence
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"The creative act is to let down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended and then to attempt to bring out of it ideas."
Terence McKenna, American philosopher
"We live in a rainbow of chaos"
Paul Cezanne, French painter
"Planning is the substitution of error for chaos."
Anon.
"We adore chaos because we love to produce order."
M C Escher, Dutch artist
"Chaos demands to be recognised and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order"
Herman Hesse, German author
"There is chaos under the heavens and the situation is excellent."
Chinese proverb
"Freedom is just Chaos with better lighting"
Alan Dean Foster, American sci-fi author
"A whole new way of seeing change in evolving systems has been rigorously described by the mathematics of chaos. Two new principles of change emerge from chaos theory. Small changes at the beginning of a process of evolution can have very large effects further downstream. Second, the outcome of a process is dependent upon the path it took to get there. Small, almost random changes accumulate over time to make the developmental path of every system in nature unique, if only slightly. On every tree, the leaves are very similar but not identical. In the universe, there are many spiral galaxies, but none is the duplicate of our own Milky Way. Uniqueness is the product of every unique event that occurs along the way, adding up in this instance to leaves or galaxies of slightly different shapes and sizes."
Peter Schwartz, American business author
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams (1838-1918), U.S. historian.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett (1906-89), Irish dramatist, novelist.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John Keats (1795-1821), English poet.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher, poet
"Chaos is present everywhere in countless ways and forms, while Order remains an unattainable ideal."
M.C. Escher, 1947
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What does /chaos/ think of Heraclitus?
Some notable quotes:
>Reality is not composed of a number of things, but is a process of continual creation and destruction.
>We must recognize that war is common and strife is justice, and all things happen according to strife and necessity.
>War is the father of all and king of all, who manifested some as gods and some as men, who made some slaves and some freemen.
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i didn't choose chaos
chaos chose me :^)
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so much chaos right now
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CHAOS MONASTICISM,
by Peter Carroll
At any time members of the Pact may elect to follow the observances of the Monks and Nuns of Chaos for as long as it pleases them. These observances come in three forms, the lesser, greater and extreme. Their purpose is to renew and strengthen ones dedication to the Great Work of Magic. The Observances of Monk or Nun of Chaos should not be undertaken for a period of less than one week. There is no maximum period but when observances are undertaken for an unspecified period they should be ended at some later point in a definite way rather than be allowed to fall into gradual disuse. Chaoist Monks and Nuns may be fully itinerant and unless otherwise specified by choice the monastery is notionally defined as the entire planet although some form of retreat may facilitate the more rigorous observances. The observances given are to be regarded as a minimum to which further observances may be added at will. To begin the observances of a Chaoist Monk or Nun the candidate takes an oath over a staff dedicated to magic which is then carried throughout the period of the observances. The staff should not be smaller than a walking stick and although it may be left in a room or building that the monk or nun may have entered it should always be close to hand and carried from place to place.
The general form of the oath and the observances is as follows:
The Oath:
I, Soror/Frater _____ do elect to perform the Lesser/Greater/Extreme Observances of a Nun/Monk of Chaos, from henceforth, for a period of ____ / for as long as it pleases me, inasmuch that I avow that I will: (the chosen set of observances plus any personal additions are then enumerated)
The Lesser Observances:
1, Carry a magical staff at all times.
2, Perform a banishing ritual on awaking and retiring.
3, Keep a full record of dreams.
4, Perform a full magical ritual each day.
5, Dedicate any sexual gnosis to magic.
The Greater Observances:
1, Perform the five Lesser Observances.
2, Perform a second full magical ritual each day.
3, Visualize the Sigil of Chaos at least once during each waking hour.
The extreme Observances:
1, Perform the seven Lesser and Greater Observances.
2, Perform a third full magical ritual each day.
3, Visualize the Sigil of Chaos at least once during every hour.
Notes and Observations:
The daily full magical rituals might consist of a Mass of Chaos or Auto da Fe or some other act of evocation, divination, enchantment, invocation or illumination of similar length.
By dedicating any sexual gnosis to magic the monk or nun affirms that any sexual act performed during the period of observances will be used to cast spells for divination or invocation or similar magical purpose. The hourly visualisation of the Sigil of Chaos is facilitated by the use of an alarm watch and a powerful alarm clock may well be useful for the night time visualisations of the extreme observances. The considerable inconvenience of bearing a magical staff serves to increase vigilance and acts as a constant reminder to complete the other observances. It also serves as a badge of office and other members of the Pact should accord the monk or nun whatever assistance they require with their work where possible. If the work goes poorly and the observances are largely not met then the staff should be destroyed. If the work proceeds satisfactorily then the staff should be kept as an object or power. It is customary to engrave upon the staff a record of the observances performed. Thus 127 signified the lesser observances for twenty seven days, 333 the extreme observances for thirty three days. The Pact tries to ensure that the Sigil of Chaos is visualized once an hour somewhere on earth.
-oOo-
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I NEED ALL OF PIC RELATED CAN SOMEONE HELP ME COMPLETE MY IMAGE COLLECTION OF CHAOS CULTIST CHAN?
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What are the greatest results you've achieved using magical work?
I created 3 gods two weeks ago for various purposes.
I give each of them a different sort of offering which I incorporate into my mundane routine.
Since then I have found the answer to my pleas and will probably get a nicely paid job which would normally be impossible to get without a college course.
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How do we get chaos to appeal to the younger generation of today?
I was thinking we could do this through popular music such as rap. We could be like pic related but have it be about chaos instead.
Here's what I have written so far:
The astral planes is home, it's where I fuckin' stay
These niggas ain't getting in my way, I'm committing chaos all damn day
While I'm killing you bitches I'm also hailing Eris
She's perfect in every detail and the one true goddess
What do you guys think of the idea? If you like it, try writing your own verses.
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To diverse gods do mortals bow,
Holy Cow and Wholly Chao.
I decree that if post number 1166 happens in this thread, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy will become Discordian canon.
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There's a kickstarter type campaign on for making a play and festival out of Robert Anton Wilson's book Cosmic Trigger.
One of the perks/rewards for donating is a 5 cd box set of a recording of the original illuminatus trilogy play
which is apparently only available from now until the crowdfunding is over
but it costs £123. There's also a set of 5 dvds, recordings of previously unheard interviews and talks as well as shirts and posters.
These bastards are probably going to end up milking me of a lot of money.
The end result is a 3 day play/conference/festival in London, Brighton and Liverpool, which are all annoyingly pretty far away from me and I have no RAW fans for friends to go with. They're planning to take it to the USA after the UK tour.
Here's the relevent links…
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmic-trigger-play
http://cosmictriggerplay.com/
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ERIS NEEDS YOUR HELP.
In a vision it was revealed to me that she demands business cards be printed in their thousands and distributed across the world.
These business cards are for Joining The Illuminati, phone numbers for politicians, businesses and religions are to be printed on the cards along with a creative ironic phrase to be used as a password to use upon starting the phone conversation.
USE
http://anonym.to/?http://yourlinkhere.com
TO KEEP US FROM SHOWING UP IN REFFERER INFORMATION OF TARGET/BUSINESS CARD WEBSITES,IF YOU CAN'T MANAGE THAT DELETE THE HTTP://WWW. AND IT WONT BE TRACABLE AS IT MUST BE COPYPASTAD
List possible passwords.
List possible targets.
List places to buy cheap business cards online - potential risk involved here.
How to make your own business cards to remain anonymous.
List places they should be left, for example inside library books that the right type of guillable person will actually take seriously or at least try it out, RAW's books could be a candidate as they're daring enough to go for it. -This need not be a business card, a well written letter saying something along the lines of "you are chosen as a potential candidate based on your choice of reading material please contact us here, if we do not find your application suitable we may not reply, we only accept the most creative applications"
Depending on your social skills you could try pulling off an illuminati member and simply passing the cards out to random people.
Also: List more possible discordian plots such as…
Letters to be sent en masse to specific institutions or individuals.
Make your own custom stamps to be used on anything that comes your way
Wheatpaste erisian propaganda
Tasteful erisian stencil graffiti
Any improvements welcome.
(posting from behind 7 proxies through a psychically controlled mundane as a vessel)
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How does one become "enlightened", /chaos/? And by that, I mean able to access the sekrit board.
>inb4 normie
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An Introduction to Banishing Rituals
by Phil Hine
If I had a £1 for every person I've met over the years who's said, "oh I don't bother with banishing rituals" - and then wondered why they started to have problems with their magic - I'd probably have, er..well enough money for a meal in a decent London restaurant. A Banishing Ritual is one of the first practical exercises that you should learn in magic (in my view, anyway), and by doing so, you can save yourself a lot of trouble later on.
Banishing is also known as Centering, which in many respects, is a more accurate term for the exercise.
So what is a Banishing Ritual? Essentially, Banishing has three aims. The first is that it 'warms you up' as a preparation for doing further ritual, meditation, or whatever, enabling you to put aside 'everyday thoughts' - "what's on TV later", etc. It allows you to take on the role of 'magician' (I'll go into this later on), and to place yourself in the 'centre' of your magical universe - the axis mundi. Secondly, Banishing sets up the space you are working in as 'sacred', so that the loft, bedroom, basement or wherever you are becomes, temporarily, a 'temple' space. Thirdly, a Banishing 'clears' the atmosphere of the area that you're working in of 'psychic debris' - I'm not entirely happy with this description, so I'll try and expand on that later as well.
Most Banishing rituals have three basic components:
A section to focus awareness on the BodyMind.
A section which demarcates the main zones, gates, quarters or dimensions of the chosen magical universe - at which you are the centre.
An identification with a chosen source of inspiration - merging the macrocosm (total psychocosm) with the microcosm (self).
Example Banishing
There follows an example Banishing ritual that I will explain in terms of the above. It was developed for use in a group known as 'The Circle of Stars' which was active in Leeds a few years ago.
1. Begin facing East1 and stand, arms by your sides, head tilted slightly upwards, breathing slowly and regularly. Clear your mind of thoughts. Reach upwards with your right hand breathing in, and bring it down the centreline of your body whilst breathing out, visualising a beam of white light passing down through your body, from above your head to below your feet.
Next, turn your head to the left and point with your left hand, then turn to your right and stretch your right arm out, forming a Tau Cross.2
2 - breathe in, hold, and breathe out, visualising a ray of white light running across your body, from left to right. Then, whilst breathing in, bring your arms across your body and fold them across your chest. Breathe out, and visualise a cross of white light expanding outwards from your chest, along the two axes you have made. Feel yourself to be supercharged with energy, yet at the same time, calm and ready.
This completes the first stage of the Banishing, and is known in some magical systems as 'The Cross of Light'.
3. With your right hand, draw a Pentagram in the air before you. Begin at the apex and draw down to the left-hand point, then across to the right, across to the left, down to the lower right, and back up to the apex. Visualise the Pentagram glowing with energy. Then point your right hand into its centre and slowly intone the letters I-A-O3 - drawing out each letter and visualising the pentagram glowing brightly with more energy as you do so. Turn and repeat this for South, West, and North.
3. Facing East, raise your arms and say:
"About me flare five-pointed stars,
Above my head, the Infinite Stars
Within my breast there flames a Star
Every Man, and every woman is a Star
Behold, A Circle of Stars."4
In this example, the first section of the Banishing focuses attention on your BodyMind, the second makes the space demarcation - marking out the four quarters, and the third is the 'union' with the infinite - 'as above, so below' if you will. After the third section, you are ready to begin your exercise, other ritual work, etc. If you were doing the Banishing as an exercise in itself, repeat the first section, and then after a pause - clap your hands together as a sign of ending the exercise. To close using this Banishing, do the rest of your work and then run through Sections 1 - 3 again.
NOTES
When working indoors, I often designate 'East' as the wall with a window in it.
The Tau Cross has a lot of magical information attached to it - go look it up!
The letters I.A.O signify the 'magical' formula of growth (Isis), destruction (Apophis) and Rebirth (Osiris).
This rubric is quite 'Thelemic' in style - we chose it for its 'poetic' quality.
Do it with Style!
As with all kinds of magic, it's not so much what you do, it's how you do it. A little dash of theatricality does help a lot. For example, when using a Banishing to open a working, I let a tone of awe and anticipation creep into my voice. I try and create, using voice, gesture, and posture, an atmosphere of expectation and tension. Similarly, when using a Banishing to close a working, I try to project an air of finality, satisfaction, and success. My spoken words are less strident and commanding, and much gentler in intonation. This is certainly useful in group workings, but also useful in solo work - since the feedback that you give yourself also contributes to the atmosphere that you create. As Granny Weatherwax says - "it's Headology that counts".
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I dedicate this GET for my Gods and all the Gods of the Aesir and Vanir. Hail the Old Gods!
The Gods are my guides; I shall not want.
Their counsel and friendship quicken my soul.
Right roads I walk for the sake of their names.
And though I should walk in the valley of darkness,
I shall not fear, for they are with me,
their help is my staff, their presence comforts me.
They prepare my table in the face of my foes
and fill my cup to the brim;
Their blessings and company I will enjoy
all days of my life and beyond.
The Aesir and Vanir will be my Gods
forever as long as I live.
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>Note: We should have a FAQ for chaos magic here in this sticky and a list of reading materials just like on /fringe/.
Then let's work on that! Here's some books:
-all books by Peter J Carrol and Phil Hine and Robert Anton Wilson
-Principia Discordia
-Visual Magick by Jan Fries
-The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea
-Prometheus Rising
-Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult
-Fnord by Adam Weishaupt
-The Book of Results by Ray Sherwin
-Chaotopia!: Sorcery And Ecstasy In The Fifth Aeon by Dave Lee
-The Theatre of Magick by Ray Sherwin
-Creating Magickal Entities by David Michael Cunningham
-(don't know if this should be here but whattaheck)
MEMEetic Magick by Kirk Packwood
-and a shit ton more, add them along with FAQ sheeeeittt
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Posting on a pointless board that will soon die…
(or else grow into a terrible cancer)
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APIKORSUS
An essay on the diverse practices of
CHAOS MAGICK
from the Lincoln Order Of
Neuromancers
L.O.O.N.
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Liber Kaos
CHAPTER 2
AEONICS
P53-74
All the philosophies, creeds, dogmas and beliefs that humanity has evolved are variants of three great paradigms, the Transcendental, the Materialist and the Magical. In no human culture has any one of these paradigms been completely distinct from the others. For example in our own culture at the time of writing the Transcendental and Magical paradigms are frequently confused together.
Transcendental philosophies are basically religious and manifest in a spectrum stretching from the fringes of primitive spirits through pagan polytheism to the monotheism of the Judaeo-Christian- Islamic traditions and the theoretical non-theistic systems of Buddhism and Taoism. In each case it is believed that some form of consciousness or spirit created and maintains the universe and that human, other living organisms, contain some fragment of this consciousness or spirit, which underlies the veil, or illusion of matter. The essence of Transcendentalism is belief in spiritual beings greater than oneself or states of spiritual being superior to that which currently one enjoys. Earthly life is frequently seen merely as a form of dialogue between oneself and one's deity or deities, or perhaps some impersonal form of higher force. The material world is a theatre for the spirit or soul or consciousness that created it. Spirit is the ultimate reality to the transcendentalist.
In the Materialist paradigm the universe is believed to consist fundamentally and entirely of matter. Energy is but a form of matter and together they subtend space and time within which all change occurs strictly on the basis of cause and effect. Human behaviour is reducible to biology, biology is reducible to chemistry, chemistry is reducible to physics and physics is reducible to mathematics. Mind and consciousness are thus merely electrochemical events in the brain and spirit is a word without objective content. The causes of some events are likely to remain obscure perhaps indefinitely, but there is an underlying faith that sufficient material cause must exist for any event. All human acts can be categorized as serving some biological need or as expressions of previously applied conditioning or merely as malfunction. The goal of materialist who eschews suicide is the pursuit of personal satisfaction including altruistic satisfactions if desired.
The main difficulty in recognizing and describing the pure Magical Paradigm is that of insufficient vocabulary. Magical philosophy is only recently recovering from a heavy adulteration with transcendental theory. The word aether will be used to describe the fundamental reality of the magical paradigm. It is more or less equivalent to the idea of Mana used in oceanic shamanism. Aether in materialistic descriptions is information which structures matter and which all matter is capable of emitting and receiving. In transcendental terms aether is a sort of "life force" present in some degree in all things. It carries both knowledge about events and the ability to influence similar or sympathetic events. Events either arise spontaneously out of themselves or are encouraged to follow certain paths by influence of patterns in the aether. As all things have an aesthetic part they can be considered to be alive in some sense. Thus all things happen by magic, the large-scale features of the universe have a very strong aesthetic pattern, which makes them fairly predictable, but difficult to influence by the aetheric patterns created by thought. Magicians see themselves as participating in nature. Transcendentalists like to think they are somehow above it. Materialists like to try and manipulate it.
Now this universe has the peculiarly accommodating property of tending to provide evidence for, and confirmation of, whatever paradigm one chooses to believe in. Presumably at some deep level there is a hidden symmetry between those things we call Matter, Aether and Spirit. Indeed, it is rare to find an individual or culture operating exclusively on a single one of these paradigms and none is ever entirely absent. Non-dominant paradigms are always present as superstitions and fears. A subsequent section on Aeonics will attempt to untangle the influences of each of these great worldviews throughout history, to see how they have interacted with each other and to predict future trends. In the meantime an analysis of the radically differing concepts of time and self in each paradigm is offered to more fully distinguish the basic ideas.
Transcendentalists conceive of time in millennial and apocalyptic terms. Time is regarded as having a definite beginning and ending, both initiated by the activities of spiritual beings or forces. The end of time on the personal and cosmic scale is regarded not so much as a cessation of being but as a change to a state of non-material being. The beginning of personal and cosmic time is similarly regarded as a creative act by spiritual agencies. Thus reproductive activity usually becomes heavily controlled and hedged about with taboo and restriction in religious cultures, as it implies a usurpation of the powers of deities. Reproduction also implies that death has in some measure been overcome. How awesome the power of creation and how final must earthly death subconsciously loom to a celibate and sterile priesthood.
All transcendentalisms embody elements of apocalyptism. Typically these are used to provoke revivals when business is slack or attention is drifting elsewhere. Thus it is suddenly revealed that the final days are at hand or that some earthly dispute is in fact a titanic battle against evil spiritual agencies.
Materialist time is linear but unbounded. Ideally it can be extended arbitrarily far in either direction from the present. To the strict materialist it is self-evidently futile to speculate about a beginning or an end to time. Similarly the materialist is contemptuous of any speculations about any forms of personal existence before birth or after death. The materialist may well fear painful or premature death but can have no fears about being dead.
The magical view is that time is cyclic and that all processes recur. Even cycles, which appear to begin or end, are actually parts of larger cycles. Thus all endings are beginnings and the end of time is synonymous with the beginning of time in another universe. The magical view that everything is recycled is reflected in the doctrine of reincarnation. The attractive idea of reincarnation has often persisted into the religious paradigm and many pagan and even some monotheist traditions have retained it. However religious theories invariably contaminate the original idea with beliefs about a personal soul. From a strictly magical viewpoint we are an accretion rather than an unfolded unity. The psyche has no particular centre; we are colonial beings, a rich collage of many selves. Thus as our bodies contain fragments from countless former beings, so does our psyche. However certain magical traditions retain techniques which allow the adept to transfer quite large amounts of his psyche in one piece should he consider this more useful than dispersing himself into humanity at large.
Each of the paradigms takes a different view of the self. Transcendentalists view self as spirit inserted into matter. As a fragment or figment of deity the self regards itself as somehow placed in the world in a non-arbitrary manner and endowed with free will. The transcendental view of self is relatively stable and non-problematic if shared as a consensus with all significant others. However, transcendental theories about the placement and purpose of self and its relationship to deities are mutually exclusive. Conflicting transcendentalisms can rarely co-exist for they threaten to disconform the images of self. Encounters, which are not decisive, tend to be mutually negatory in the long run.
Of the three views of self the purely materialistic one is the most problematical. If mind is an extension of matter it must obey material laws and the resulting deterministic view conflicts with the subjective experience of free will. On the other hand if mind and consciousness are assumed to be qualitatively different from matter then the self is incomprehensible to itself in material terms. Worse still perhaps, the materialist self must regard itself as a phenomenon of only temporary duration in contradiction of the subjective expectation of continuity of consciousness. Because a purely materialist view of self is so austere few are prepared to confront such naked existentialism. Consequently materialist cultures exhibit a frantic appetite for sensation, identification and more or less disposable irrational beliefs. Anything that will make the self seems less insubstantial.
The magical view of self is that it is based on the same random capricious chaos, which makes the universe exist and do what it does. The magical self has no centre, it is not a unity but an assemblage of parts, any number of which may temporarily club together and call themselves "I". This accords with the observation that our subjective experience consists of our various selves experiencing each other. Free will arises either as an outcome of a dispute between our various selves or as a sudden random creation of a new idea or option. In the magical view of self there is no spirit/matter or mind/body split and the paradoxes of free will and determinism disappear. Some of our acts arise from random choices between conditioned options and some from conditional choices between randomly created options. In practice most of our acts are based on rather complex hierarchical sequences of all four of these mechanisms. As soon as we have acted one of our selves proclaims, "I did that!" so loudly that most of the other selves think they did it too.
Each of the three views of self has something derogatory to say about the other two. From the standpoint of the transcendental self the materialist self has become prey to pride of intellect, the demon hubris, whilst the magical view of self is considered to be entirely demonic. The material self views the transcendentalist as obsessed with assumptions having no basis in fact, and the magical self as being childlike and incoherent. From the standpoint of the magical view, the assorted selves of the transcendentalist have ascribed a grossly exaggerated importance to one or a few of the selves which they call God or gods, whilst the materialist has attempted to make all his selves subordinate to the self that does the rational thinking. Ultimately it's a matter of faith and taste. The transcendentalist has faith in his god self, the materialist has faith in his reasoning self and the selves of the magician have faith in each other. Naturally, all these forms of faith are subject to periods of doubt.
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Can we have a cosmos thread? We can't live in chaos all the time.
For those who don't know cosmos is the opposite of chaos.
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As above, so below
I am the universe
The life force in us
Is the life force of the universe
The subtle force in us (aether)
Is the subtle force of the universe
The gross matter in us
Is the gross matter of the universe
To Chaos, nothing is true
And everything is permitted
Though it has limited itself
To the principle of duality
In building this word
for itself.
-Liber Null, chapter "RANDOM BELIEF" under section 'Dice Option Number 5: Chaosim" on page 74-75
Post all chaotic poems, sayings, OC, etc in here!
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Defining Chaos
by Jaq Hawkins aka Mark Chao
Introduction
Chaos, according to the "Oxford English Dictionary", means:
1.
A gaping void, yawning gulf, chasm, or abyss.
2.
The "formless void" of primordial matter, the "great deep" or "abyss" out of which the cosmos or order of the universe was evolved.
There are a couple of additional definitions, but they are irrelevant to this discussion. When chaos is used in magic, there is no place for confusion or disorder.
Chaos is the creative principle behind all magic. When a magical ritual is performed, regardless of "tradition" or other variables in the elements of the performance, a magical energy is created and put into motion to cause something to happen. In his book, Sorcery as Virtual Mechanics, Stephen Mace cites a scientific precedent for this creative principle:
I quote:
'To keep it simple, let us confine our example to just two electrons, the point like carriers of negative charge. Let us say they are a part of the solar wind - beta particles, as it were - streaming out from the sun at thousands of miles a second. Say that these two came close enough that their negative charges interact, causing them to repel one another. How do they accomplish this change in momentum?
'According to quantum electrodynamics, they do it by exchanging a "virtual" photon. One electron spawns it, the other absorbs it, and so do they repel each other. The photon is "virtual" because it cannot be seen by an outside observer, being wholly contained in the interaction. But it is real enough, and the emission and absorption of virtual photons is how the electromagnetic interaction operates.
'The question which is relevant to our purpose here is where does the photon come from. It does not come out of one electron and lodge in the other, as if it were a bullet fired from one rock into another. The electrons themselves are unchanged, except for their momenta. Rather, the photon is created out of nothing by the strain of the interaction. According to current theory, when the two electrons come close, their waveforms interact, either cancelling out or reinforcing one another. Waveforms are intimately tied to characteristics like electric charge, and we could thus expect the charges on the two electrons to change. But electron charge does not vary; it is always 1.602 x 10 (-19) coulombs. Instead, the virtual photons appear out of the vacuum and act to readjust the system. The stress spawns them and by their creation is the stress resolved.'
Austin Spare understood this principle in regard to magical phenomena long before scientists discovered photons or began experiments in the area of chaos science.
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HUN-TUN
The emperor of the South Sea was called Shu [Brief], the emperor of the North Sea was called Hu [Sudden], and the emperor of the central region was called Hun-tun [Chaos]. Shu and Hu from time to time came together for a meeting in the territory of Hun-tun, and Hun-tun treated them very generously. Shu and Hu discussed how they could repay his kindness. "All men," they said, "have seven openings so they can see, hear, eat, and breathe. But Hun-tun alone doesn't have any. Let's trying boring him some!" Every day they bored another hole, and on the seventh day Hun-tun died.*
Hun-tun, that is Chaos, is not to be confused with the chaos as typically seen in the western world as in "chaotic." It is the supreme ideal of Taoism. Chaos is wholeness, oneness and Nature. Chaos represents the natural state of the world. Digging holes on the head of Chaos means destroying the natural state of the cosmos. Therefore, to the ancient Chinese chaos not only has the meaning of disorder but also presents a respectable aesthetic state. This idea of chaos may be very different from its western counterpart.
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I just realized something: chaos and the magic that accompanies it is jewish. If you know anything about jewish history, you know that jews prayed to Yahweh and performed rituals to increase their success in exploiting the gentiles. Wherever jews went, such as the many European countries that were controlled by monarchies, they created chaos through their stereotypical jewish ways. You can say without a doubt, a jew's purpose in life is to create harm and despair for us goys using chaos (as told by them in the Torah).
On the other hand, White men from the beginning strived for non-chaotic environments. That's why we stuck together through hard times such as the harsh winters of Europe, explored the world for the Fountain of Youth, and spent centuries trying to create the Philosopher's Stone. It's also why we developed so many cures and vaccines for various aliments and diseases.
Anyone who says chaos is a necessary virtue for White people is an obvious JIDF shill who wants the White man to be under continual oppression. It is all because of chaos that we live in this shit society controlled by jews. If it weren't for chaos, we would all be living under the Third Reich right now.
Fuck chaos.
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Chaos Magick: Magickal Terrorism
The practice of magick is generally agreed to be the attempt to create change in conformity with the will of the magician. This change can range from a simple acquisition, such as creating circumstances favorable to getting a job, to the highly metaphysical, such as conversing with the angelic entities of the Elizabethan magus John Dee. Chaos magick, the most recent development in the Ceremonial Magickal Tradition, is an innovative, modern, and disturbing approach to the realization of the Magickal Intention.
Chaos Magick derives primarily from the work of Austin Osman Spare and Peter Carroll in the first and third quarters of the 20th Century respectively. Both magicians aggressively argued against the exclusion of sorcerous techniques from magickal practice and both developed systems of magick that were inclusive, eclectic and innovative. Both generally spurned traditional magick as needlessly complicated, discriminatory, and impotent. Spare, being an artist, was clearly influenced by other magickal artists such as William Blake, and was also influenced by the relatively new field of psychiatry, particularly by the work of Jung and Freud on the subconscious. Spare stressed the integration of magick into all areas of his life, and so it is not possible, in examining Spare’s drawings, for example, to distinguish between them and magickal work. Spare’s drawings are spells. Spare’s work is mostly out of print. Some of his writings are available online. Carroll, writing soon after the development of Chaos Scientific Theory, was equally influenced by the possibilities of using the language and tools of magick as a means to discover and influence the subatomic interactions of the quantum universe. Carroll also founded the Illuminati of Thanateros (the IOT), an Order of Chaos Magicians. The Order is somewhat controversial in the greater community of Chaos magicians since it is a secretive degreed hierarchy. Secrets, degrees, and hierarchies are often considered to run counter to the Chaos current. Carroll’s introductory work “Liber Null and Psychonaut” is the most widely available work on Chaos Magick. It remains in print. More recently the ideas of Chaos Magick have been extended further into art by Jan Fries, whose brilliant and friendly excursion into drawing, “Visual Magick”, is, unfortunately, only available in England. Stephen Mace has privately printed fascinating analyses of the interface between demonology and Chaos Magick, “Stealing the Fire from Heaven” being the most widely read. Phil Hine has published pamphlets on Chaos Magick and the Necronomicon. Finally seminal forays into the application of Chaos Magick to social dynamics and communications theory by Hakim Bey have recently extended the theories of Chaos Magick into music, performance art and the Internet.
In more general terms Chaos Magick uses the deconstructionist theories of Jacques Derrida, the interest in random phenomena of John Cage and Minimalism, and the humor of Dada to create ritual spaces for magickal acts. To view Chaos Magick solely as a reformulation of traditional magick, however, would be inaccurate. Chaos Magick is something new, an attempt to deconstruct consensual belief structures, free the energy trapped by these beliefs, and radically alter the movement of the quantum flux. Chaos Magick is an assault on normative belief patterns, an attack on the mind’s status quo, guerrilla war on the careful considerations of consciousness.
Chaos Magick focuses on the mechanism of belief, and suggests that the process of belief rather than the object of belief is the critical element in magick. Chaos Magicians will adopt or refute positions of belief as needed for the successful resolution of magickal acts. This orientation, which stresses adaptability as a prime asset and greets change as an accurate reflection of the true nature of reality can be extremely destabilizing for individuals whose sense of personal identity requires that the universe be perceived as an ordered and meaningful place. Chaos Magick specifically refutes the possibility of eternal rest, of eternal order. It views the universe as a phenomena of complexity at an order of magnitude too great for normal human psychology to understand. In fact, Chaos Magicians would argue that the universe is in such a state of flux and apparently random movement that only devious techniques such as those of Chaos Magick, which deliberately subvert the conscious, rational mind have any chance of creating change in conformity with the will of the magician.
Chaos Magick is self-annihilating, bearing commonality with the crazy wisdom of the fringe elements of the nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism, with the mad monks of Zen Buddhism, and with the theoretical structures of Nagarjuna and the Madhyamaka schools of Buddhism. One of the two central Sutras (Buddhist teachings) of Madhyamaka is the Prajna Paramita, a Sutra whose title is loosely translated as “ Beyond the beyond, there lies awakening”, and whose structure, in which form and emptiness (Chaos and Order) are identified with one another, resembles that of contemporary chaos ritual. The founder of the nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism was the sorcerer-buddha Padmasambhava, and some of the rituals, such as the graveyard rituals of Chod practice, are hardly distinguishable from the Chaos magician’s use of the Eldar Gods of the Necronomicon. The koans of Zen Buddhism are designed to short circuit the discursive mind and bring about a state of mind similar to that sought by the Chaos magician.
Chaos Magick can be considered to be a psychological approach to magickal ritual. Bearing many similarities to the Stanislavsky system of Method Acting,the ritual systems of Chaos Magick aim at blocking the conscious mind and generating a state of consciousness known as “gnosis”, a state of mind in which the defenses of the discursive mind are overthrown and the magickal intention of the magician can be driven deep into the Absolute, that is to say into the quantum flux of the universe. Like Method Actors, Chaos Magicians seek to forget their identity in order to achieve their will, the change in the universe that is the goal of the magickal act. To do this Chaos Magicians use gesture, ritual, sound, visualization, the cues of their senses, meditation,and generated emotional states such as anger, fear, disgust, boredom or despair. Any method that can create the momentary state of gnosis is considered acceptable. Favorite techniques frequently involve sex, pain, and confusion. Chaos Magicians use sigils (magickal intentions that have been transformed into symbolic structures), rituals from any source, the artefacts of esoteric or popular culture to form a magickal space that might bring about gnosis.
Chaos Magick is non-discriminatory and refutes dualism. Rooted in the realization of the quantum flux and recognizing that ideas are not reality (although they may influence the perception of reality) Chaos Magick does not discriminate between White, Grey and Black Magick, between evil and good, between right and wrong. Consequently Chaos Magick is probably not for those who have not internalized a personal moral or ethical code. In fact, most Chaos Magicians would probably define themselves, if pressed, as Black Magicians but may, in this self-definition, be referring to Magick that has to do with that which is hidden, or in darkness, and so is black. Chaos Magick is neither for the squeamish, nor for those who wish to argue points of ethics, nor for those obsessed with establishing varieties of social order. Ceremonial Magick and Wicca provide ample opportunities for those who wish to do the latter. Chaos Magick is concerned with developing magick that works, rituals that have specific effects, that create change in conformity with the will of the chaos magician, that are testable and can be replicated, that affect the Chaos Magician’s deep self in sometimes catastrophic ways, that are non-judgmental, non- hierarchical and devious.
Those who are interested in the practice of Chaos Magick are warned that Chaos Magick can be destabilizing. Since it is designed to deconstruct belief , dearly held opinions, the stories we tell ourselves to lull ourselves into a sense of security will tend to fray and unravel. Unless the magician is willing to forsake these old ideas, to allow the boundaries of personal identity to be disrupted the result of magickal action may be chaotic indeed. Dramatic life changes, sometimes perceived as being for the worse, are a commonly reported result of Chaos Magickal Rites. Fundamentally, Chaos Magick is not about discovering one’s True Will, nor communing with the Mother Goddess, nor even associating with demons, but with the direct, startling apprehension of the Chaos current, the quantum flux of an unhuman universe. Chaos Magick is magickal terrorism.
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Let our first (or second) group sigil project be to get enough to posts to keep the board.
Report back when sigil is charged and/or upload sigils for others to change.
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Hail Eris and Check'em.
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If this board doesn't get to 500 posts by May 10, 2014 I'm deleting it.
5 days to go…
100 posts a day…
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Practical Applications of the Chaossphere
by Fra.: Neonfaust
The Chaossphere is the prime working tool of Chaos magicians and the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT). The physical Chaossphere has a vast range of applications of which a few shall be briefly delineated here:
Meditation employing the Chaossphere:
1, The Chaossphere is a symbol of the primeval Big Bang, it maybe considered as a "frozen explosion" or even as "frozen information". Regard the Chaossphere in a relaxed state, using the 180* stare if you prefer. After a while shut your eyes and meditate on the creative powers of Chaos. Chaos is not disorder let alone entropy but rather the sum total of all possibillities incumbent in existence and the unmanifest as a whole. In this manner you will open the doors to the magickal multiversum for yourself.
2, Proceed as described above simultaneously meditating on Nietzsches Zarathustra admonition:
"I say unto you: a man must have chaos yet within him to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: ye have chaos yet within you."
You can have this statement read aloud to you by a partner or friend during your meditation (or use a cassette recording). Experience shows that this will greatly enhance the effect described above under item number 1.
Sigil charging employing the Chaossphere:
In lieu of other charging techniques you can project the magickal sigil activation into the Chaossphere; banishing (preferably by laughter) should follow immediately. Afterwards aim to forget the whole magickal operation as thoroughly as possible to avoid interference with the sigil`s operation by the unwanted rise of consciousness of said operation/sigil and resultant inhibiting psychic censor activity.
Drawing energy employing the Chaossphere:
To be performed preferably after a meditation with the Chaossphere (see above); regard the Chaossphere in a very intensive manner for a while and stretch your palms in its direction. Now close your eyes fully or halfway and suck in the powers of Chaos through your palms while inhaling; exhaling, distribute the energies all over your body or store them in the Hara centre (appr. three fingers` width below the navel). You will probably experience these energies as a warm or cool current, possibly as a slightly tingling sensation.
Telepathy employing the Chaossphere:
During a partner experiment participants concentrate on the Chaossphere (can also be performed with different participants working on different locations); observe in a very relaxed state messages, information and/or images rising from the unconscious. Advanced magicians will find that this experiment can be performed successfully via great distances even without participants practising simultaneously. For Chaos (= pure information) is not restricted by space and time.
Astral projection and lucid dreaming employing the Chaossphere:
1, Using the 180* stare regard the Chaossphere until you experience a strong suction emerging from the sphere and pulling at your "psychic entrails". This can frequently even be felt as a strong physical sensation. Give way to this suction and let your astral body emerge gradually. In the beginning this should be practised partially, ie. the astral body portion extracted increasing with every subsequent attempt. Thus, you may for example only project half an arm the first time, the full at the next go etc. Finally the astral body should emerge totally. Be aware that astral projection may demand weeks` or months` dedicated practice to succeed, depending on personal talent and inhibitions. Incidentally, the same technique may be used to extract the magickal doppelganger, personal daemons etc.
2, Immediately before dropping off to sleep visualize the Chaossphere as accurately as possible and continue as described above. This will induce either stronger astral projection or lucid dreaming or both. This has proved to be an extremely powerful exercise, but it is strongly suggested that you attempt it only after having acquired a thorough working knowledge with the variaant described above under item 1. (If you start off with mental working chances are that you will very soon become severely sloppy without even being aware of the fact; this may in turn inhibit control of magickal powers and could lead to obsession.) You may also want to wake yourself up at 4 a.m. and give this exercise a try for a few minutes before dropping off to sleep again. Take care to note your dreams next thing in the morning, do not - repeat: DO NOT! - rely on your memory alone.
Activating psychogones/chaoservitors employing the Chaossphere:
Use the Chaossphere as a "base camp" and "home" for psychogones/chaoservitors and/or as a form of "launching pad". In case of the former the Chaossphere presents itself as a high class power receptacle and storage battery from which you can extract your psychogones/chaoservitors into the Chaossphere as you would with sigils to be activated; thus, the Chaossphere will become a gate to the Sphere of Chaos for your magickal entities in which (and from which) they will become active in accord with your bidding.
Charging magical objects employing Chaossphere:
Magical objects such as talismans, amulets, fetishes etc. can be charged with the aid of the Chaossphere by fastening them to the sphere or its tip during a ritual, placing them under it etc. while directing the energies of Chaos into the objects in question.
Combat magic training employing the Chaossphere:
During combat magical training the Chaossphere is particularly suited as a power storage battery out of which the magician draws Magis or Mana. It is furthermore used as a combat target while practising the kiai or other battle cries and martial arts Chi techniques. In the same manner, magickal energy bolts, curses, words of powers and strong affections are hurled emphatically into the Chaossphere where they may be stored for further use.
Charging the Chaossphere:
Experience has shown that the Chaossphere does not demand a special charging by ritual etc. Rather, the charging takes place alone by its practical application. Should you desire to incorporate magickal "condensator" fluids or solids (eg. as used for charging magickal mirrors) this can easily be achieved by unscrewing the tips and replacing them after filling in the condensator.
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Quick Guide to Practical Magick
How to create a practical and results oriented ritual quickly and simply
For some reason copypasting the text in this PDF is impossible and I guess whoever made the PDF did some fuckery with it so this is going to be in the form of screencaps.
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Combat Magic
"The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hoping when a rock or a club will do."
– McCloctnik the Lucid
Disclaimer: The author cannot be held culpable for the use or misuse of any of the techniques and concepts discussed in this chapter. I refuse to be responsible for the irresponsibility of anyone stupid enough to make frivolous use of Combat Magic. If you can't deal with the consequences of your actions, don't do it. You have been warned.
Combat magic is defined as the use of enchantment techniques to bring harm to another person or persons. Love and war being the human animal's favorite pastimes, aggressive magic is probably second only to love spells in sheer popularity and interest.
It's likely that many of those with a previous background in magic will be quite upset that a chapter such as this is included in this book. To some, combat magic is an abomination, and should never be spoken of except when accompanied by a dire warning to avoid it at all costs. Clichés about giving loaded guns to children will be dutifully spouted. I don't agree with the analogy. It would be more accurate to describe it as giving a child a box full of the parts to construct a gun, along with gunpowder, lead and shell casings with a reloading machine to make the bullets. It's highly unlikely that a total novice will be able to assemble the parts into anything harmful, to themselves or anyone else. By the time they accumulate the knowledge necessary to construct something dangerous, they will also know how to avoid shooting themselves in the foot.
What remains are the ethical considerations of arming people with the weapons of magic. Personally, I consider it to be similar to teaching people any other kind of martial art. It's very rare to hear about a black belt holder in karate going around beating people up for no good reason or getting into bar fights.
Like martial artists, most magicians with sufficient power to actually bring harm to anyone else:
A) Have better things to do with their time. B) Have come to know that there are usually more efficient ways to deal with potentially violent situations C) Have achieved a centered mind and the self discipline that makes senseless violence unappealing.
There will always be exceptions to the rule, of course. But such psychopaths are very inventive , and will always find a way to inflict misery on their fellow humans whether they practice magic or not.
Aggression by means of magic must be approached with the same attitude of seriousness one should bring to any other form of aggravated assault. If one cannot conceive of doing physical violence against an enemy, then certainly one will be equally unable to do so psychically. Any coward can swagger about brandishing a gun, but be totally incapable of handling the consequences of pointing it at someone and blowing their head off.
Magical curses have been know not only to inflict grievous harm on their intended targets, but on any others in the target's proximity as well – and quite often instead of the intended target. Magical violence (like any form of violence) is an extremely blunt instrument. The greatest disadvantage of magical attack is its maddeningly bad accuracy. All of these negative connotations are multiplied when two or more magicians attack each other. Peter Carroll aptly described it as fighting a duel with hand grenades.
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ASTROLOGY - A RATIONAL
CHAO/DYNAMIC APPRAISAL
A paper by Frater Choronzon first presented to Philos-O-Forum at Bullfrogs Cafe Bar, Greenwich
Monday 19th November 1990 ev
"Astrology should not be used at all" - Peter Carroll 'Liber MMM'
"Astrology has become hopelessly vague and imprecise" - Peter Carroll 'Psychonaut'
I open this paper with these quotations lest anyone should be under any illusion about the prevailing orthodox view of Astrology within the corpus of Chaos Magic(k) - In this matter I am an unashamed and unrepentant heretic; the stake, faggots, firebrands and the instruments of the question are, doubtless, even now in preparation.
It is perhaps ironic that the attitude of the Mediaeval Church Fathers appears to have been more hesitant. With reference to Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Grillot de Givry comments in his book 'Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy':
"They disapprove without completely rejecting; they do not deny the accuracy of horoscopes, and they do not attribute the creation of this science absolutely to the Devil, as they would have done boldly if any other processes tainted with superstition had been involved."
In my own experience, the attitude of modern Anglican clerics towards Astrology is more clear cut; I recall quite clearly being damned by no less an eminence than the Vicar of St Mark's in Surbiton on having introduced the subject into a conversation: "Heresy, heresy" he exclaimed as he made a sudden withdrawal from the premises.
I feel certain that the Synod of the Anglican Church would be most encouraged in their deliberations to know of this emergence of common ground between their doctrines and the formal position of the Illuminates of Thanateros; perhaps we can look forward to Mr Carroll being honoured with some episcopal commendation for his forthright attitude.
So precisely what is under consideration in this emotive issue? My own definition is as follows:
Astrology is the study of a postulated process by which the movements of the bodies in the solar system with respect to each other and to the more distant bodies in the galaxy exert some influence upon terrestrial events.
The origins of the subject are rooted in antiquity, and widespread throughout global cultural and religious traditions, but very little evidence has ever been put forward which purports to explain how such a process might operate. Evidence for the validity of astrological processes has usually been confined to statistical evaluation, such as that undertaken by the Gauquelins, or some vague appeal to mystical tradition. In this appraisal I intend to address the subject from from a viewpoint which makes no call for any dramatic modification to the Axioms of Mathematics or the existing Laws of Physics, as these are understood in the light of the most recent work deriving from Chaos Theory.
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BLACK MAGICK AND THE LEFT-HAND PATH By Haramullah
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. La ilaha illa 'Llah. Assalam alaikum, my kin. ______________________________________________________________
Introduction
A shroud of mystery, suspicion, and heresy hangs over the subjects of Black Magick and The Left-Hand Path. Those who travel in such ways are often greeted with a mixture of fear and trepidation, especially where they profess such engagement.
It is the purpose of this essay to relieve some of the unnecessary fear associated with them, not to dispell the mystery upon which their foundations rest (which alone would be quite an impossible task!). In many cases the reaction people have toward aspirants of the left-hand becomes a discipline for those that tread them. In some small measure I do a disservice to explore them. However, aversion and antagonism can be inspired in many people and there are alternatives to these methods of austerity. Let those who would retain their antisocial shroud seek alternate methods of inflaming the insecurities of others if this essay reveals too much.
There is no doubt that certain individuals within society exhibit sociopathic behaviors and some of these claim their actions to be in accord with an anti-spiritual path (e.g. Satanism). This is said especially about 'black magick' (with or without the 'k', which serves to separate it from stage magic).
There is supposed by many to be a smattering at least, a network at most, of black magicians who work at great cost to society at large and to the safety and health of those individuals who cross their path. Their way consists of an egocentric accumulation of power (say many) at the expense of others, for the sake of power itself or in order to feed the ego of the mage.
It is the purpose of this essay particularly to argue against the accuracy and efficacy of this notion and to propose alternate meanings for the terms 'black magick' and 'left-hand path' such that better than an insecure, warrior mentality may be an option for serious mages in their studies.
Part One: Unjustifiable Moralism
Given serious investigation, no extensive organization formed for the purposes of malevolence has yet been discovered. At times small groups of people have banded together with an intent to harm. Yet this has been done under many proffered labels, including those of major movements ostensively dedicated to health and balance (witness the Christianity taught by Christ as compared to the Inquisition).
What can be established at most is that some individuals and small groups do experience popular antisocial images (e.g. Satan) as personally meaningful in their psychosis when they manifest their destructive desires. This does not mean that all who appreciate or use these images are involved with the same sociopathic activities.
The sequence of cause and effect has not been established. With respect to Satanism, it is not known that devotion to Satan necessarily leads to dementia or violence. Popular media publicizes antisocial acts, but fails to investigate or make known any socially uplifting results of this activity (by 'Satanic' organizations for example).
Such is also the case with those involved in black magick. Where Satanism arises in Judeo-Christian cultures which partake of this great mythological symbol (largely Christian or Muslim), black magick spans the many cultures which accept the premise of magick generally. These are largely technologically undeveloped cultures whose ideas about spiritualism and psychic power have become infused throughout the society, rather than held solely by an esoteric elite (Voudoun or Yaqui are good examples here, especially as portrayed by popular texts).
Typically, magick is said to be a focus of psychic power, perhaps through formulae, in order to affect an environment. At times this may involve an interaction with noncorporeal or other-worldly entities (the dead, nature spirits, or powerful 'deities'). The relationships vary from a humble appeal to a powerful being to a concerted enslavement of a demon or spirit by the mage.
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Someone please go ask TomMontalk detailed questions about loosh farming and if humans can do it and how… he's not answering my questions no more because I keep asking too many so someone else should ask some.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TomMontalk/discussion
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SHITPOSTING THREAD
Post ITT so we can get to 500 so stal won't delete
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>that feel when you banish a mundane to the shadow realm
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Elemental Chaos
by Jaq D. Hawkins
The connections between Chaos Magic and chaos science have become common knowledge to magicians of all descriptions in recent years. The marriage of magic and science has added a new dimension to our general understanding of how things work under the laws of nature and the place that magic holds within the natural world.
Bringing a knowledge of complex scientific systems into the world of occult knowledge has brought a spectrum of reactions from other occultists. To some extent, Chaos Magicians have gained a reputation for being intellectual, often better educated than the average person, potentially eccentric, and in many cases arrogant or even just strange.
The fact is that an interesting variety of personalities are naturally drawn to this revolutionary area of magical study, ranging from very serious seeming magicians who would rather not be classified with new-agers who believe in crystals and fairies, to complete loonies who invoke Eris and glory in the weird (or was that wyrd…)
The common ground that this variety of magicians share is knowledge of a set of magical principles which include the understanding of laws of apparent randomness (or chaos) in nature, and the art of free belief. With these concepts in mind, perhaps it is not so far fetched that a Chaos Magician might indulge in serious study of the electromagnetic properties of crystals, or even suspend belief for a moment to genuinely examine the possibility and nature of elemental spirits, or fairies.
Whether one believes in nature spirits as actual entities or just as archetypes to explain otherwise inexplicable natural forces, the fact is that these forces do exist and operate within nature, and it is only through chaos science that we can hope to understand some of the seemingly random and chaotic behaviour of these energies. In many ways, it is easier to refer to them as entities whether or not we hold a literal belief in them as such, as we have yet to find a more logical definition of what these forces actually are.
In my “Spirits of the Elements” series (Capall Bann Publishing. Berkshire, England). I do exactly that. Referring to natural forces in terms of spiritual beings who inhabit the objects and elements of nature creates an easy reference system which also helps to explain the nature of thought-form elementals and other magical ‘beings’, as their behaviour is much the same. The laws of chaos science apply equally to the workings of magic as they do to the phenomena in nature.
From this standpoint, belief in elemental spirits becomes almost compulsory for the serious Chaos Magician. After all, if we cannot rise above the twee associations connected with Victorian flower fairies and give credence to the legendary bogies and brownies of history, how can we have any hope of learning to suspend belief in any of our magical workings which often require far more difficult and lesser known belief structures?
When you think about it, sending an Air spirit to deliver a message makes at least as much sense as simply ‘willing’ someone to hear your message. Asking an Earth spirit to contribute some of the Earth’s electromagnetic energy to a spell is as logical as the expectation that you can simply absorb this energy yourself. Employing a Fire spirit to influence someone’s motivation requires much less personal energy than directly ‘willing’ them to do something. Whether there is actually a separate entity involved in these operations, or you are separating a part of your own magical spirit to accomplish your goal, the results of sending this separate entity to do your bidding are often much more effective than the more direct approach.
That is the key to all Chaos Magic: RESULTS. What you choose to believe is actually causing these results is immaterial; the only thing that really matters is that you do achieve better results, and the fact that belief in help from spiritual beings of one sort or another brings results is inherent in most magical and shamanic systems, as well as the world’s religions.
If we can find it easy to accept the belief in animal spirits in aboriginal cultures, it should be no great leap to also believe in spirits of plants, stones or anything else in nature. In fact, spirits of places feature largely in the same belief systems which accept animal spirits. From there, it is only a small additional step to the concept of spirits of winds, flames or any number of other examples of the alchemical elements.
The “Butterfly effect” in chaos science explains the concept of “sensitive dependence on initial conditions”. What this boils down to is the idea that anything which happens in the natural world (including unnatural things done to the natural world) creates a change, however minute, which will cause a domino effect of slight changes which will escalate into a result far removed from what might have happened if the small act had not occurred. The example refers to a butterfly flapping it’s wings in Hong Kong, which creates a series of effects on wind currents which escalate to eventually result in a storm in New York.
This example may seem extreme, but it makes a nice illustration of a very real pattern in nature. If one wishes to perform a magical act, there are many ways that one may go about it depending on the choices of the magician and the results desired. A successful magical act will create a small change in something which we cannot weigh and measure according to available scientific methods, which in turn can make it very difficult to control the eventual results once the spell is released as any number of unanticipated factors can cause small changes in the energy we have set loose, leading to results which may or may not resemble what we originally had in mind.
This is where working with elemental spirit energies becomes a very attractive prospect, although not necessarily a ‘safe’ one. Traditionally, elemental spirits are independent creatures which can be tricky, playful and even malicious. This should be born in mind when working with them. On the other hand, because they are creatures of nature, they are subject to the laws of nature which are explained through chaos science.
What this means to us as magicians is that we can be assured that they will work within parameters which are dictated by natural law. Caution and forethought are still well advised, but the possible things that may go wrong are easier to anticipate and hopefully to redirect. Besides, making sure that you are on friendly terms with the spirit in question can actually create a magical current which is self-correcting and will redirect itself to your intended goal if there is interference of any kind, just as nature will correct itself if left to do so.
Most of us are aware that working with nature is far easier than working against it. The ‘probability factor’ of any magical act is greatly increased by the existence of a natural avenue which the magic may follow. Working with elemental spirits is actually working within nature, and therefore increases the probability factor by a significant degree.
So to those who would ask me, do I believe in fairies, I say “Too bloody right I do”. After all, I am a Chaos Magician, and elemental spirits are the most chaotic creatures in the natural world. “IO PAN!”
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The True History Of
Chaos MagicK
(So Far…)
What is Chaos Magick? Good question. Since it burst upon the magical scene in the late '70's it has generated a great deal of debate about what it is, what it isn't, and who's doing it 'right' - such circular arguments being beloved of occultists, it seems. At this point, it would be tempting to launch into a lengthy discussion of the history of magic leading up to Chaos magic, but instead I'll confine it to a sweeping generalisation and say that before Chaos came kicking and screaming onto the scene, the dominant approach to 'doing magic' (and still is, to a great extent) was the 'Systems' approach. So what is a magical system? Magical systems combine practical exercises for bringing about change with beliefs, attitudes, a conceptual model of the universe (if not several), a moral ethic, and a few other things besides. Examples of systems are Qabalah, the different Wiccan 'traditions', The Golden Dawn system of magic with all its grades, costumes, mottos etc, and the increasing number of westernised 'shamanic' paths that are proliferating nowadays. As far as most magical systems go, before you can start to wave your wand around or bounce up and down on your head 'til you reach enlightenment, you have to spend a good deal of time reading up on the beliefs associated with the system, learning its "do's and don'ts", committing to memory lists of symbols and correspondences, how to talk to your fellow magi, and in some extreme cases, how to dress, walk, and chew gum at the same time. How does this come about? Well magic, like some of the great religious messages is essentially simple, but is prey to the process whereby simple ideas become extremely complicated beliefs which can lead you further and further away from doing any magic at all. Weave back through time to 'somewhere in the paleolithic era' to find a tribal shaman sitting on a rock gaping at the visions revealed by a doggy piece of toadstool. Fast-forwards a few millenia and you'll find a 'Magical System' that comprises of several hundred-thousand words, obscure diagrams and appendices which will probably state at some point, that drugs are a no-no.
The birth of Chaos magic came about in the late 70's, at about the time that punk rock was spitting out at the music industry and Chaos Science was beginning to be taken seriously by mathematicians, economists, and physicists. The two 'names' most associated with the birth of Chaos magic are Pete Carroll and Ray Sherwin, though there were others lurking in the background, such as the Stoke Newington Sorcerors (SNS) who later became entwined with the first stirrings of the Punk movement.
Some of Pete Carroll's early writings on Chaos was published in The New Equinox, published by Ray Sherwin, in which the first adverts proclaiming the advent of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT) magical order appeared. Interestingly enough, there is no mention of the term 'chaos' in the earliest versions of IOT material.
Ray Sherwin's Morton Press then issued Pete Carroll's Liber Null, and Sherwin's own The Book of Results, which expounded the very practical method of 'Sigilisation' as developed by Austin Osman Spare, which has become one of the core techniques associated with Chaos magic.
The early growth of Chaos magic was characterised by a loose network of informal groups who came together to experiment with the possibilities of the new current. With the demise of The New Equinox, the 'chaos kids' reported their results and heresies in the pages of Chris Bray's new magazine, The Lamp of Thoth. The early Chaos books were joined by two tapes 'The Chaos Concept' which discussed the basics of Chaos magic, and 'The Chaochamber', a science-fiction pathworking which combined elements of Star Trek, Michael Moorcock, and H.G. Wells. Chris Bray's 'Sorceror's Apprentice' Press then re-released, Liber Null, The Book of Results, as well as two new books, Pete Carroll's Psychonaut, and Ray Sherwin's The Theatre of magic. These, together with articles from the growing Chaos corpus in the LOT, drew more people into experimenting with the new approach. Thanks to the efforts of Ralph Tegtmeier, the Chaos approach was also receiving attention in continental Europe.
The basic message of Chaos magic is that, what is fundamental to magic is the actual doing of it - that like sex, no amount of theorising and intellectualisation can substitute for the actual experience. Pete Carroll's Liber Null, therefore, presented the bare bones of the magical techniques which can be employed to bring about change in one's circumstances. Liber Null concentrated on techniques, saying that the actual methods of magic are basically shared by the different systems, despite the differing symbols, beliefs and dogmas. What symbol systems you wish to employ is a matter of choice, and that the webs of belief which surround them are means to an end, rather than ends in themselves (more of which later).
An important influence on the development of Chaos magic was the writing of Robert Anton Wilson & co, particularly the Discordian Society who revered Eris, the Greek goddess of Chaos. The Discordians pointed out that humour, clowning about and general light-heartedness was conspiciously absent from magic, which had a tendency to become very 'serious and self-important'. There was (and to a certain extent remains) a tendency for occultists to think of themselves as an initiated 'elite' as opposed to the rest of humanity.
Unlike the variety of magical systems which are all based in some mythical or historically-derived past (such as Atlantis, Lemuria, Albion, etc), Chaos magic borrowed freely from Science Fiction, Quantum Physics, and anything else its practitioners chose to. Rather than trying to recover and maintain a tradition that links back to the past (and former glories), Chaos magic is an approach that enables the individual to use anything that s/he thinks is suitable as a temporary belief or symbol system. What matters is the results you get, not the 'authenticity' of the system used. So Chaos magic then, is not a system - it utilises systems and encourages adherents to devise their own, giving magic a truly Postmodernist flavour.
Needless to say, Chaos magic began to acquire a 'sinister' reputation. This was due to three factors; firstly that its "pick'n'mix/D.I.Y" approach to magic was frowned upon by the 'traditionalist' schools, secondly that many people associated chaos with 'anarchy' and other negative associations, and thirdly that some Chaos magic publications were hyped as being 'blasphemous, sinister, and dangerous' in a way that they were not, which proved all the same to be an attractive glamour for those who required such a boost to the ego.
The mid-Eighties gave rise to a 'second wave' of the Chaos Current. 1985 saw the publication of The Cardinal Rites of Chaos, by the pseudononymous 'Paula Pagani', which outlined a series of seasonal rituals as performed by the Yorkshire-based 'Circle of Chaos'. Alas, by this time, the early co-operation between exponents of Chaos had given rise to legal wrangles, literary sideswipes, and even magical battles. For some at least, Chaos magic = loadsa money while others discovered that they had a 'position' to hold onto as defenders of the title of spokesperson for a movement. True to its nature, Chaos splintered and began to re-evolve in different ways. Three different magazines emerged to continue the Chaos debate - Chaos International, Nox, and Joel Birroco's Chaos.
Chaos International was formed on the basis of networking, specifically the idea that the editorship would change hands with each issue. A good idea in principle, it gave rise to practical problems such as address changes, obtaining back copies, and meant that each issue had to be virtually self-supporting. Chaos International survived five different editorial changes, after which it passed into the hands of Ian Read, who has had the job of producing it ever since. Chaos International has now matured into one of the best all-round magazines of innovative magical ideas.
Nox magazine emerged out of the wilds of South Yorkshire to serve up a mixed brew of Chaos magic, Left-Hand path material and Thelemic experimentation, which matured into one of the best magazines publishing experimental magic from a wide variety of sources. Since its inception, it has grown from being an A5 'fanzine' to paperback book status.
Joel Birroco's Chaos introduced a Situationist perspective into the Chaos debate, predicted the glamour for Chaos-isms as experimentation turned inevitably into fashion accessory, and then proceeded to identify various magical 'leaders' and tear them apart with the eagerness of a whole pack of Greek cynics.
The debate over the progression of the Chaos Current raged throughout these 'zines and the aforementioned Lamp of Thoth. Arguments begun in one 'zine spilled over into another and sides were drawn up as some voices allied with others, though allying with Birroco's iconoclastic stance on Chaos turned out to be a tactical error, as he invariably massaged the egos of his 'allies' only to drag them down at a later date.
In '86 the S.A. Press released Julian Wilde's Grimoire of Chaos magic, the first book on Chaos magic outside the Sherwin/Carroll circles. Despite heavy criticism from other Chaos factions, Mr. Wilde never came forth to explain his ideas, nor has much been heard from him since. Grimoire departed radically from the other approaches to Chaos, particularly with his assertion that Chaos magic was in itself, a 'system'. Grimoire was followed by a tape The Chaosphere, and later, another book The Apogeton, by Alawn Tickhill which was marketed as a 'Chaos Manual' although the book itself made little reference to Chaos magic. None of these releases were received very favourably by the other Chaos factions and this 'third wave' of Chaos development further rang to the sound of voices raised in acrimony, slanging matches in print, and behind-the-scenes bickering.
By late '87 one of the weirder Chaos groups, the Lincoln Order Of Neuromancers (L.O.O.N) had announced the 'death' of Chaos magic, asserting in their freely-circulated 'chainbook' Apikorsus, that: "Chaos magic is already dead, and the only debate is between the vultures over who gets the biggest bones." This assertion was also made by Stephen Sennitt, the editor of Nox magazine. In retrospect, it seems less that Chaos magic 'died', and more that the furious debate which blew up around it for many years had become boring - it had hit the point where constructive criticism had degenerated into a mere slanging match. Perhaps some Chaos Magicians shook themselves and wondered, after all, what all the fuss had been about. By this time, Pete Carroll had begun to reformat the IOT into 'The Pact', setting up temples in the UK, USA, and Europe. The IOT is seen as the Order for 'serious' Chaos Magicians in the same way that the OTO exists for 'serious' Thelemites. At the time of writing, the IOT Pact has temples active in the UK, Europe and America and, despite the apparent hierarchical structure outlined in Pete Carroll's latest book "Liber Khaos/The Psychonomnicon", there appears to be much scope for new growths and experimentation within its loose structure.
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WHAT IS CHAOS MAGICK?
Julian Vayne
The occult tradition has always been highly syncretic, embracing ideas, language, techniques and images from many different areas of human experience. In demonstrating such eclecticism and mutability one might well argue that, since the end of the shamanic phase of culture (in the west), occultism has clung like a rather disreputable parasite, to the pelt of first religion and then science. The magickians of the medieval period couched their work in terms of Hebraic and Christian Qabalism. Alchemy and the Hermetic tradition maintained an uneasy truce (mostly) with Catholicism and latterly spiritualism attempted to clothe itself with a broadly Protestant iconography.
Today occultism is beginning to emerge on its own terms. For occultism is a study, an area of enquiry that, whilst it may utilise the language of religion or science (or art, or many other things), is itself a complete body of knowledge. For me, as I have explained in my previous work Pharmakon, occultism is the study and practice of engaging with mystery. Magick is the technology of exploring the occult, those hidden aspects of the universe. Moreover magick provides mechanisms whereby we can learn to cause change in the hidden processes of the universe.
The grandfather of contemporary occultism is undoubtedly Eliphas Levi who attempted to formulate a general theory of magick (indeed he always claimed to be primarily a theorist rather than a practitioner of the occult arts). It was Levi's' The Dogma and Ritual of High Magic (1856) that began the process of de-coupling magick from a specifically religious viewpoint. Just as the age of reason was giving way to the first murmuring of the 'irrationalist' movements (that would later flower as asceticism, romanticism, theosophy and surrealism) so Levi sought, if not to create a scientific vocabulary for magick, then at least to try to cut through the complexity of the subject in order to identify 'principles'. Levi focused his work within what we might now call the western magickal tradition, but contemporary researchers were also active in creating a scientific language (devoid of explicitly religious content) to explain such phenomena as mesmerism.
Levi's first magickal principle was that of the Will which, as in mesmerism, was imagined 'as steam or the galvanic current', that is a 'real' force. Levi opined that paraphernalia such as robes, incense, magick circles and the like were primarily important as aids in supporting the Will. Their virtue was in their effect on the Will of the magickian and not primarily to be considered as arising from any inherent property. With this principle Levi, at a stroke, jettisoned the magickians reliance on virgin parchment and the blood of pigeons and recast the material mechanics of magick into what Israel Regardie would later call 'an artificial system of props and aids'.
Levi's second principle was that of the astral light. This light was the medium or dimension of reality which permeated all things, and of which the material world was only one of innumerable projections. Levi's conception of the astral light was similar to ideas such as that of the luminiferous ether (the medium through which electromagnetic radiation was conjectured to pass by 19th century physicists) and the all-pervasive 'odic force' of Baron von Reichenbach. The fundamental principle of magick that the doctrine of the astral light reaffirmed was 'all is one and one is all'- everything in the universe was intimately interconnected. Today we might imagine this astral light as the 'quantum vacuum', conceptualising it less as a substance (in the way that water is) but instead as a dimension or underlying quality of the universe (that gives rise to the probabilistic nature of events).
Levi's third principle, which was significantly developed by the adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, concerned correspondences or 'like attracts like', what James Frazer went on to examine in The Golden Bough as 'sympathetic magic'. For Levi the doctrine of 'as above, so below' affirmed that what was within the macrocosm was reflected within the microcosm. Today models such as the holographic or fractal universe expound essentially the same doctrine. On the most superficial level one might say that humans are 'the magickal mirror of the universe' so that the constellation of Leo was related to the breast and the organ of the heart. However for Levi these chains of symbolic meaning were not to be taken strictly literally, rather it was the principle or quality that these symbols represented that would have a sympathy or connection. Thus the principle represented by the god Mars would correspond with activities such as conflict and qualities such as passion in the soul of the magickian. It was this conception of the doctrine of correspondence that paved the way for the dream analysis of psychoanalysis and the archetypes of Carl Jung.
Following Levi MacGregor Mathers and his brothers and sisters of the Golden Dawn successfully nurtured the growth of occultism as a corpus of knowledge. The schema of the Qabalah formed the primary skeleton upon which this body was fleshed out and works such as Crowley's 777 demonstrate how the muscles hang upon these bones. The Golden Dawn went on to expand the doctrine of correspondence to include Egyptian gods, Classical symbolism, Buddhist meditations and a formidable range of other categories to create an extensive and coherent system.
The adepts of the Golden Dawn built on Levi's work emphasising the principle of Imagination. They suggested that the Will was blind and impotent unless the Imagination had been sufficiently developed by practices such as visualisation and pathworking. The Will and Imagination were seem as the twin forces that accomplished magick. By furnishing the Imagination with the correct symbolic vocabulary, through knowledge of correspondences, mental images thus created could be given reality by the controlled use of the Will.
Added to the emphasis on Imagination we might add a fifth principle which was summed up nicely by Aleister Crowley as the fact that the Will (or Will framed by the Imagination) had to operate 'without lust of result'. For a magickal operation to be successful the magickian had to be able to maintain a position of 'disinterested interest'. The sorcerer should be able to deliberately forget, or at least become consciously detached from, the outcome of the rite. In Austin Spare's system of magick various psychological devices were used to help the magickian forget their desire. To use the psychoanalytic language that Spare favoured, the intention of the spell sinks down into the depths of the subconscious to do its work only if it remains undisturbed by conscious attention.
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So what's this all about?
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Wouldn't casting at any time be the most and least efficient. What does 3rd density time have to do with anything? Also every hour it is 23:23 somewhere. Does this mean your physical location actually effect the outcome of your metaphysical spells?
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CONSPIRACIES, OPERATION MINDFUCK, LOOSH
Begin plans.
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THE CYCLES OF CHAOS: DECONSTRUCTING INITIATION
There appears to be some misunderstanding over what exactly the term 'initiation' means. Occasionally one bumps into people on the scene who term themselves as 'initiates' and seem to consider themselves somehow 'above' the rest of humanity. Particularly irritating are the self- styled 'initiates' who let drop teasing bits of obscure information and then refuse to explain any further because their audience are not 'initiates'. The term itself seems to crop up in a wide variety of contexts - people speak of being 'initiated' into groups, onto a particular path, or of initiating themselves. Some hold that 'initiation' is only valid if the person who confers it is part of a genuine tradition, others that it doesn't matter either way.
Dictionary definitions of initiation allude to the act of beginning, or of setting in motion, or entry into something. One way to explain initiation is to say that it is a threshold of change which we may experience at different times in our lives, as we grow and develop. The key to initiation is recognising that we have reached such a turning point, and are aware of being in a period of transition between our past and our future. The conscious awareness of entering a transitional state allows us to perhaps, discard behavioural/emotional patterns which will be no longer valid for the 'new' circumstances, and consciously take up new ones.
What magical books often fail to emphasise is that initiation is a process. It doesn't just happen once, but can occurr many times throughout an individual's life, and that it has peaks (initiatory crises), troughs (black depression or the 'dark night of the soul') and plateaus (where nothing much seems to be going on). becoming aware of your own cycles of change, and how to weather them, is a core part of any developmental process or approach to magical practice.
In 'shamanic' societies the first stage of the initiation process is often marked by a period of personal crises and a 'call' towards starting the shamanic journey. Apart from youthful rebellion, most of us are quite happy to remain within the conceptual and philosophical boundaries of 'Consensus Reality' (the everyday world). For an individual beginning on the initiatory journey, the crisis may come as a powerful vision, dreams, or a deep (and often disturbing) feeling to find out what is beyond the limits of normal life. It can often come as a result of a powerful spiritual, religious or political experience, or as a growing existential discontent with life. Our sense of being a stable self is reinforced by the "walls" of the social world in which we participate - yet our sense of uniqueness resides in the cracks of those same walls. Initiation is a process which takes us "over the wall" into the unexplored territories of the possibilities which we have only half-glimpsed.
This first crisis is often an unpleasant experience, as we begin to question and become dissatisfied with all that we have previously held dear - work, relationships, ethical values, family life can all be disrupted as the individual becomes increasingly consumed by the desire to 'journey'. The internal summons may be consciously quashed or resisted, and it is not unknown for individuals in tribal societies to refuse 'the call' to shamanic training - no small thing, as it may lead to further crises and even death.
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Kawasphere!
かわすふぃあ(Kawa sphere)はケイオスフィアを可愛くしたものだよ。
ケイオスマジックはRAMIPASの元にもなった現代魔術の潮流のひとつ。
このマークはそのケイオスマジックのシンボルってわけ。
もともとは ミカエル・モールコックのエターナル・チャンピオンに登場するシンボルなんだけど・・・なんだか怖そうだからもうちょっと可愛くしてみたらどうなるかなって試してみたんだ。
毎日のケイオスマジック実践に、ほんの少しの萌え要素を添加したいときにおすすめ。
(黄色と水色のキラキラは、槍と同様に取り外して使えます。)
Kawa-sphere is a kawaii(cute) variant of Symbol of Chaos in Chaos magic; is a school of the modern magical tradition which RAMIPAS is based on. Originally appeared in fiction called “Eternal Champion” by Michael Moorcock…somehow it looks quite scary so we made it cuter (kawaii-zed). Sprinkle over it to your everyday Chaos magic practice and add a hint of Moe essence. You could take off these yellow and blue sparkles and use them as spare in common with Symbol of Chaos.
RAMIPASでのつかいかた:魔法少女を召喚したいとき。愛と希望のケイオスマジックをしたいとき。ぶりっこしたいとき。
Usage in RAMIPAS: Mahou-Shojo(magical girls) evocation. When practicing Chaos magic with love and hope. When trying to look cute.
Overwritten by RUMITan #RAMIPAS
http://ramipas.tumblr.com/post/17372583859/kawa-sphere
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Fade to Grey: Chaos and Mediocrity
by Rex Monday
Chaos Magic claims to reflect the present western cultural zeitgeist, which has been given the label of Post-modernism. This in itself sends out some rather telling messages about Chaos Magic. Post-modernism is characterised by an all-pervading 'depthlessness' - beneath the swirl of surface styles and images, there is little of enduring value. There is an increasing cultural obsession with 'instant' fixes, rather than long-term solutions; with a multi-culturalism which ignores or tramples on national identities; with a concern for surface 'image', beneath which everything and everyone fades to gray. Post-modernist theorists have claimed that all sense of 'history' and 'future' have been collapsed, providing material for the imageers and style-gurus to re-invent. Modern society is pervaded with a sense of going nowhere.
Chaos Magic does indeed seem to reflect these trends. The emphasis which some of it's exponents have placed on 'belief-shifting', or the misplaced term 'paradigm shift', leads to a situation where practitioners believe that they can adopt a magical system and use it temporarily, with no more than than a passing aquaintance to it's structures and symbolic forms. This in itself erodes the concept of magical attainment as a result of discipline, study, and will. By treating magical systems as 'paradigms' which can be apparently picked up or dropped at will, Chaos Magic is transferring the very 'depthlessness' of Post-modern culture into the occult milieu. By seemingly offering its adherents access to a wide range of magical systems, it is eroding the power of those systems by encouraging 'magicians' to chop and change with no more regard than they would give to changing TV channels.
The leading exponent of Chaos Magic, Peter J. Carroll, claims that technical competance in magical practice is superior to mysticism. Whilst there is some value in discouraging the excessive mystical speculations to which many occultists are overly prone, the point must be made that technical competance alone is not sufficient. By attempting to reduce magic to what amounts to a set of engineering propositions, Carroll has chosen to ignore the usefulness of Mysticism - that it is primarily an emotional engagement, rooted in the desire to merge oneself with something 'greater', or to write oneself large upon the void. Wilhem Reich recognised the difference between technicalism and emotional appeal when he analysed the appeal of National Socialism over Communism in Weimer Germany. The Communists based their appeal to the populace largely on economic theory, whilst the National Socialists provided a powerful vision, echoing essential values and aspirations. I do think it significant that the exponents of the so- called "Chaos Current" have had little to say about values or aspirations. Surely the whole point of being "on the path" is that one requires something to aim for - a clear vision which, whilst it changes at the edges, serves as a beacon to strive towards.
I draw the reader's attention to the relationship between "mysticism" and "mystery." To be a magician requires a deep relationship with the mysterious - from which all magic springs. It requires a deep drive to "Know" - a knowledge which is formed from one's unique experience and insights, many of which can only be gained through a direct perception of numinosity. It is this knowledge, this inner certainty, grasped like fire from heaven, which spurs the magicianforwards. The desire to be a magician must flame from within.
Whilst Chaos proponents do claim that responsibility for developing a personal belief system rests with the individual, it is my suspicion that, in the majority of cases, this will not encourage the appearance of vital magicians. It takes a great deal of Will to disentangle the beliefs and attitudes which one has accumulated over one's lifespan, and whilst I recognise the value in what Chaos exponents call "deconditioning", there does seem to be an implicit idea in Chaos Magic theory that all cultural conditioning is suspect, which of course is not necessarily the case. It is even greater an act of Will to stick up for one's beliefs in an age of mediocrity and political correctness, where to show pride in one's heritage, race or culture is to attract the hue and cry of liberals and socialists who, in their obsession with equality, ignore the very real differences which drive societies and in which personal identity is rooted.
Chaos Magic exponents have also done much to expound the idea of a multiplicity of selves which somehow give rise to a sense of individual identity. This again, is very Post-modern concept, reflecting the cultural obsession with schizoid fragmentation. I cannot see how the claim to be 'many selves' can be seen to be superior to the feeling of being a single person, capable of doing many things. As it is, this multiple self concept seems to provide a neat get-out clause for those who wish to avoid responsibility for their own failures and dysfunctions. The Chaos Magic obsession with reductionism, like all such obsessions, leads to absurdity.
Whilst Carroll has demonstrated (in Liber Null) that the practical basis of magic can be distinguished from the philosophies that surround (and in some cases, limit) them, he has ignored the emotional thrust that engagement in a magical philosophy gives. His comment to the effect that beliefs are untrue may well be the case in the general sense, but this is only important for those who seek refuge in religiosity. If a magician is only paying lip service to a belief, and does not regard it as a basic fact of his existence, this amounts to little more than intellectual masturbation. It is the ability to make beliefs into personal truths which distinguishes the magician from the masses. If a would-be magician cannot grasp the concept that beliefs should be worth sacrificing one's life for; worth dying for, even, then one's commitment will always be somewhat limited. The pursuit of magical prowess requires this depth of purpose, else how can it carry you through the challenges that your oath to yourself compells you to face? Thus I declare myself a brother of Satan. This is not a mere surface belief, but a gut-level feeling which belies all intellectual equivocation.
Magic, as I pointed out in a recent letter to Chaos International, is about the "Triumph of the Will." By this I mean that by virtue of developing the will, the magician seeks to overcome the petty weakness of the mass of humanity. The magician stands alone in the crowd, taking joy and strength in his assertion of power. He exudes his darkness as he would wear a cloak. To do so requires Will; it requires a strength, and joy of purpose almost unknown in this present era. No matter how much so-called 'paradigm-shifting' one does, it is useless if one does not develop the strength to believe in one's own inherent power. In an age where commitment to any one philosophy or doctrine is devalued, surely it would be more revolutionary to adhere to an empowering personal philosophy as an act of defiant will, rather than accede to the mediocrity of surface style and transient image?
This is the essential nature of the Left-Hand Path, that it is for individuals whose strength of belief, value and vision enables them to pursue their aims with a single-mindedness of purpose that overcomes any barrier or obstacle. This requires the expression of one's beliefs to the bitter end, without making compromise or acceding to the equivocating of lesser beings. Chaos Magic exponents seem to be advocating a "go with the flow" mentality which has always been a sop to peasants, thralls and slaves. They offer no way out of the Postmodern cultural decay, only total immersion in the mirage. When, as is inevitable, reaction to the current social stasis engenders rapid cultural change, I suspect that Chaos Magic will be left floundering.
Many moderns have made a fundamental mistake concerning the nature of Satanic magic. In no way does it resemble a 'system' in the way that occultists are increasingly encouraged to approach magic. Satanism begins and ends with the primacy of the Self against the world. The task of the Satanist is to become "his very own self". It is not enough, and will never be enough, to simply accrue a 'satanic image' vicariously. It must arise naturally, or not at all. Invariably, it is a decision which is taken at a fairly early stage in life, and which endures beyond all ephemeral changes.
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Templum Pocket Guide Series 1 — Pocket Guide to Chaos Magick
Pocket Chaos Magick
1.
Read Liber Null and Prometheus Rising
2.
Read the Collected Works of AO SPARE
3.
Read everything by Jan Fries and Phil Hine
4.
Practice Sigil Magick
5.
Practice Trance States
6.
Practice Sorcery
7.
Learn about Dynamic Systems Theory, Catastrophe Theory and Strange Attractors
8.
Build your own models
9.
Practice what you Preach
10.
Develop your own Sorcery
Notes
There is a syllabus of sorts in Liber Null which is worthwhile pursuing, and the Pact offer other courses, I gather. Don’t forget that the Chaos in Chaos Magick refers to a scientific model which maps dynamic systems, such as clouds or water, and is not a reference to disorganisation or anarchy! Chaos magick should be approached from a scientific viewpoint, remember the stages at school; Introduction, Postulate, Experiment, Observation, Results, Theory? However, the freedom comes with not having to adopt a belief system prior to experiment, so you are free to try whatever techniques from whichever systems you feel attracted to. The downside is why bother? Chaos Magick, like NLP in psychology, is an eclectic bunch of approaches, but has no overarching goal or aim. Initiation and Enlightenment do not feature in its canon aside from as method and side-effect. If you make your goal excellence in technique, then this is the system for your attitude, if you approach it rigorously.
In Real Life …
Here’s a warning from one technique – sigils can be more powerful than they appear, for such an easy technique. I once cast a sigil for a particular desire, and the object of my desire became an obsession, even when I consciously realised that it was damaging the rest of my life. To this day, twelve years later, there is a psychological scar where I removed the sigil by banishing. In NLP, which has similarities to Chaos Magick (i.e. dangerous fascination with results over aims) there is a useful technique which can mitigate against such problems, called an “environment check.” Before casting a sigil, you can use this technique to ensure that the rest of your personality isn’t going to rebel or have problems with the particular result being gained. It is quite interesting that what stops us succeeding is often the fear of success, not failure! Check, in the immortal words of the Spice Girls, that what you want is what you
really really
want!
Books
• Liber Null (Carroll, P.)
• Prometheus Rising (Wilson, R. A.)
• The Collected Works (Spare, Austin Osman)
http://www.templum.com
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Chaos Magic, Clause 3.
Separating the Chaoists from the Essentialists, by Pete Carroll.
The Magical Revival of the sixties had many strange ingredients and it spawned one distinctive tradition, Chaos Magic. (Readers from the USA should note that in Europe 'the sixties' means the cultural period from 1968 to 1978).
A simple list of phenomena from that era probably conveys the occult current of the age better than anything, so here goes. Hashish, LSD, The Pill, Mass Female Promiscuity, Rock Music, Graham Bond, Led Zeppelin, Aleister Crowley Reprinted, Israel Regardie, Golden Dawn Reprinted, Austin Spare Revisited, Enough Slack in the economy for widespread enjoyment of sex and drugs and rock and roll and eastern mysticism and witchcraft Heady days man, you should have been there.
Three options confronted those with esoteric leanings in those days. Neo-ism, Scientism, and Chaos. The neo-ists created neo-shamanism, neo-witchcraft, neo-paganism, neo-crowleyanity and neo-anything else that took their fancy, In doing this they borrowed with breathtaking and shameless eclecticism from any tradition that appealed to them, and then tried very hard to pretend that they hadn't.
It didn't take long for most of these neo or pseudo traditions to loose most of their fire and excitement as the whole enterprise collapsed into the new-age sludge under an avalanche of books on whiter than white teenage witchcraft and caring paganism for vegetarians. Scientismic esotericism evaporated even faster. No market now exists for all those hundreds of titles on 'creative visualization' and ' mind power' that once crowded the bookshops. The ideas in these books had come from magical traditions but the psychological jargon did not provide an enduring substitute for the romance of sorcery.
Chaos seemed the most probable result of eschewing both neo-ism and scientism during the publishing explosion of the sixties magical revival. The tsunami of republished material from just about every magical tradition from Neolithic shamanism to the Golden Dawn threatened a metaphysical overload. Gradually it became clear to some people that instead of constituting a problem, Chaos actually provided a solution.
The cornucopia of ideas in the collected works of the Golden Dawn represented the fruits of the previous occult revival in the 1880's. Its publication in the sixties magical revival as a gigantic (and often turgid) single tome had an extraordinary but often unacknowledged effect. It showed that Aleister Crowley had innovated little at all in the way of occult theory. As an alumnus of the Golden Dawn he did not go far beyond their ideas, although he did break new ground in the fields of lifestyle and ritual extremism with considerable aplomb. The Golden Dawn corpus presented the reader with a spectacular cacophony of traditions unified by nothing more than the theme of magic. The implied metaphysics of the Golden Dawn corpus lurch wildly from animism to spiritism to paganism to neo-platonism to monotheism to positivism and even to a species of existentialist post-modernism well before its time, (see the chapter on manufacturing angels for example).
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers probably wrote most of it in the reading room of the British Museum whilst Karl Marx sat writing Das Kapital. Mathers also probably wrote the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage himself and presented it as a renaissance original because he found medieval goetia and thaumaturgy in need of an upgrade. Occult historians usually fail to credit Mathers with priming the bomb that would, eighty years later, blow magic into another dimension.
Another alumnus of the Golden Dawn, Austin Osman Spare, supplied the core insights that allowed some modern magicians to escape the maze of eclecto-mania into the chaos paradigm. Spare's ideas remained largely forgotten until Kenneth Grant mentioned them in his books during the sixties revival. Spare effectively deconstructed and rebuilt magical thinking at about the same time as Albert Einstein performed a similar service to physics. Some wit dubbed the 'CHAOS' in chaos magic as 'The Continuing Hagiography of Austin Osman Spare'. As the revival gathered momentum, a cluster of experimental assumptions gradually evolved into a coherent paradigm. (Philosophy always comes after the event)
In no particular order, the items of the manifesto included the following: -.
1)
We can exploit by magic the fact that the universe has a large random component in its behavior. (Imputs from quantum physics and later, the so called 'chaos mathematics')
2)
We do not need to treat all the magical symbolism of historical magical and religious systems as sacred. We can treat them as useful if we wish, and we can make up our own, to our own tastes and needs.(Heavily implied by the Golden Dawn corpus)
3)
We do not need to believe in pre-existing gods and spirits and demons. We can manufacture things which have exactly the same effects. (Spare)
4)
We should treat belief as a tool for creating results, not as a goal in itself. (Imput from Spare)
5)
We do need to observe certain technical procedures (sleight of mind and gnosis) to achieve magical effects, whatever the symbolism used. (Imputs from Spare and Crowley)
Now such ideas began to spread through the whole esoteric community, although many groups would not accept clause 3 because it conflicted with their investment of belief in a particular system that they had revived. Those who accepted clause 3 tended to describe themselves as Chaos Magicians, and many of them who wished to work together gravitated towards the 'Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros', usually shortened to 'The Pact' or to 'The IOT'.
Now manufacturing gods and demons for fun and profit demands a spectrum of attitudes running from the deadly serious to the seriously irreverent. The Pact gained notoriety and charisma for its frenzied rites and its solemn rites, both capped off by uproarious laughter as a banishing. No other order has contemplated mail order poltergeist schemes to my knowledge. I shall not forget the massed hooded and robed figures typing frantically one handed at computer keyboards, whilst crumbling incense into smoking braziers with their free hands, as stroboscopes chopped the darkness with epileptiform lightning.
In The Pact you get practical experimental metaphysics with no gurus and no excuses. In the old aeon, the cannon of (recently invented) sacred procedures constituted the whole of the law. In chaos magic everything becomes a true experiment, in the sense that we would not bother to do it if we knew the result in advance.
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PRINCIPIA CHAOTICA
Chaos Magic for the Pandaemeon
In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves,
but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize
this is to face a terrible freedom in which Nothing is True
and Everything is Permitted, which is to say that everything
is possible, there are no certainties, and the consequences
can be ghastly. Laughter seems to be the only defence
against the realisation that one does not even have a real
self.
The purpose of Chaos Rituals is to create beliefs by acting
as though such beliefs were true. In Chaos Rituals you Fake
it till you Make it, to obtain the power that a belief can
provide. Afterwards, if you have any sense, you will laugh
it off, and seek the requisite beliefs for whatever you want
to do next, as Chaos moves you.
Thus Chaoism proclaims the Death and Rebirth of the Gods.
Our subconscious creativity and parapsychological powers are
more than adequate to create or destroy any god or self or
demon or other "spritual" entity that we may choose to
invest or disinvest belief in, at least for ourselves and
sometimes others as well. The frequently awesome results
attaining by creating gods by act of ritually behaving as
though they exist should not lead the Chaos magician into
the abyss of attributing ultimate reality to anything. That
is the transcendentalist mistake,, which leads to the
narrowing of the spectrum of the self. The real awesomeness
lies in the range of things we can discover ourselves
capable of, even if we may temporarily have to believe the
effects are due to something else, in order to be able to
create them. The gods are dead. Long live the gods.
Magic appeals to those with a great deal of hubris and a
fertile imagination coupled with a strong suspicion that
both reality and human condition have a game like quality.
The game is open ended, and plays itself for amusement.
Players can make up their own rules to some extent, and
cheat by using parapsychology if desired.
A magician is one who has sold his soul for the chance of
participating more fully in reality. Only when nothing is
true, and the idea of a true self is abandoned, does
everything become permitted. There is some accuracy in the
Faust myth, but he failed to take it to its logical
conclusion.
It takes only the acceptance of a single belief to make
someone a magician. It is the meta-belief that belief is a
tool for achieving effects. This effect is often far easier
to observe in others than in oneself. It is usually quite
easy to see how other people, and indeed entire cultures,
are both enabled and disabled by the beliefs they hold.
Beliefs tend to lead to activities which tend to reconfirm
belief in a circle they call virtuous rather than vicious,
even if the results are not amusing. The first stage of
seeing through the game can be a shocking enlightenment that
leads either to a weary cynicism or Buddhism. The second
stage of actually applying the insight to oneself can
destroy the illusion of the soul and create a magician. The
realisation that belief is a tool rather than an end in
itself has immense consequences if fully accepted. Within
the limits set by physical possibility, and these limits are
wider and more malleable than most people believe, one can
make real any beliefs one chooses, including
contradictionary beliefs. The Magician is not striving for
any particular limited identity goal, rather he wants the
meta-identity of being able to be anything.
So welcome to the Kali Yuga of the Pandaemonaeon wherein
nothing is true and everything is permissable. For in these
post-absolutist days it is better to build upon the shifting
sands than the rock which will confound you on the day it
shatters. Philosophers have become no more than the keepers
of useful sarcasms, for the secret is out that there is no
secret of the universe. All is Chaos and evolution is going
nowhere in particular. It is pure chance which rules the
universe and thus, and only thus, is life good. We are born
accidentally into a random world where only seeming causes
lead to apparent effects, and very little is predetermined,
thank Chaos. As everything is arbitrary and accidental then
perhaps these words are too small and pejorative, rather we
should perhaps say that life, the universe and everything is
spontaneously creative and magical.
Relishing stochastic reality we can revel exclusively in
magical definitions of existence. The roads of excess may
yet lead to the place of wisdom, and many indeterminate
things can happen on the way to thermodynamic equilibrium.
It is vain to seek solid ground on which to stand. Solidity
is an illusion, as is the foot which stands on it, and the
self which thinks it owns either is the most transparent
illusion of all.
The heavy vessels of faith are holed and sinking along with
all lifeboats and ingenious rafts. So will you shop at the
supermarket of sensation and let your consumer preferences
define your true self? Or will you in a bold and
lighthearted fashion, thieve from both for the fun of it?
For belief is a tool for achieving whatever one chooses to
consider important or pleasurable, and sensation has no
other purpose than sensation. Thus help yourself to them
without paying the price. Sacrifice Truth for Freedom at
every opportunity. The greatest fun, freedom and achievement
lies not being yourself. There is little merit in simply
being whomsoever you were destined to be by accident of
birth and circumstance. Hell is the condition of having no
alternatives.
Reject then the obscenities of contrived uniformity, order
and purpose. Turn and face the tidal wave of Chaos from
which philosophers have been fleeing in terror for
millennia. Leap in and come out surfing its crest, sporting
amidst the limitless weirdness and mystery in all things,
for those who reject false certainties. Thank Chaos we shall
never exhaust it. Create, destroy, enjoy,
IO CHAOS!
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The mental sphere is at the same time the sphere of thoughts, which have their origin in the world of ideas, in the Akasha of the spirit. Each thought is preceded by a basic idea which in accordance with its attribute takes on a particular form and reaches the consciousness of the "I" as a thought-form or a plastic picture through the Ether principle, or in other words through the mental matrix. Therefore, a human being is not the originator of his own thoughts; instead the source of every thought is to be found in the highest spheres in the Akasha or mental sphere. The spirit of a human being is, so to speak, the receiver; he is the antenna for the thoughts that come from the world of ideas in accordance with the position and situation in which he finds himself. Since the world of ideas is the All in All, we may therefore say that every new thought, every new invention, in short everything that human beings believe they have created through their own ingenuity, has been taken out of this world of ideas. Taking these new ideas out of the world of ideas depends upon the attitude and maturity of the spirit. Each thought has within itself a completely pure element, especially when the thought contains abstract ideas. Should there be several combinations from the world of ideas present within that thought, then there are several elements effective among each other in their form as well as in their emanation. Only abstract thoughts have pure elements and pure polar emanations, because they originate directly from the causal world of an idea. On the basis of this knowledge you can gather that there are pure electric, pure magnetic, indifferent, and neutral thoughts as far as their effects are concerned in existence. In the mental sphere every thought has its own form, color, and emanation (vibration) in accordance with its idea. The thought reaches the consciousness through the tetrapolar magnet of the spirit and is transmitted by this magnet until it ' becomes reality. Everything created in the physical world has its cause through the thought and the consciousness of the spirit in the world of ideas and of course also its reflection. If you are not dealing directly with , an abstract idea, then several forms of thoughts can be expressed. These thoughts are either electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic. It always de- pends upon what kind of elemental attribute is present in the thought.
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So mainly the purpose of this board is going to be chaos, of course, but mainly its a open board similar to /illuminati/. I guess this is initiatory stance atm.
So… what's a good phrase we all can turn into a sigil and cast at the same time?
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Holy fuck they made it that quickly
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Hail Eris!
Edit: The board is proving to be extremely popular and probably will survive for some time… it could just be a fad that peaks out now and then dies later but we'll see.
Note: We should have a FAQ for chaos magic here in this sticky and a list of reading materials just like on /fringe/.
OFFICIAL CHAOS QUESTIONS THREAD:
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