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Volume Two: Candlemas 1992

CANDLEMAS FETISH RITE
by Frater Rook.232

Introduction

Fetish: An object believed among a primitive people to have magical power to protect or aid its owner.

Fetish is a very broad term, and they can serve any purpose. The purpose of the fetishes created in this ritual is to bring a specific potential that the participants feel within their selves into active manifestation. Writing, money making, and charismatic appeal are examples of these potentials. In this ritual, the participants will be making a hanging fetish that should in some way subconsciously represent this potential. This can be done by incorporating into the design of this hanging objects that represent the potential. Quill pens for writing, coins for money making, or small mirror for charisma are examples. It is suggested that the design not be planned beforehand. Wait for inspiration to manifest. Creation will leave a preliminary charge, but this fetish is meant to be re-charged independently. be creative.

MATERIALS: 1 or 2 sticks, twine, various colors and thicknesses, large beads, stones with holes, etc., interesting vegetable matter: pods, leaves, dread flowers

THE RITUAL

This ritual has been made to fit the Candlemas theme by making it a wedding of potential to active life. Make a fire and lay out materials around the fire pit. All gather around.

Statement of Intent:
IT IS OUR WILL TO MAKE A FETISH THAT WILL ACT AS A RECHARGEABLE SIGIL BY PERFORMING A MARRIAGE BETWEEN OUR DORMANT POTENTIAL AND OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE AND MAKE THEM ONE.

All stare into the flame in the center of the circle. begin rhythmic breathing and empty the mind, till no mind is achieved.

M.T. : MARRIAGE IS BONDING POTENTIAL AND LIFE

Everyone close their eyes. Visualize the light behind the third eye. The light brightens as you breathe in.

M.T. : HAND IN HAND MAY IT CONTINUE BONDING LEADS TO FRUITION

Let the light cascade down your spine and fill your limbs. Feel yourself glowing.

M.T. : COMBINING, THE TWO BECOME ONE.

All open their eyes and begin chanting.

ALL : TRUTH FAILS NOT TO MAKE DREAMS TRUE POTENTIAL NOW MARRY LIFE

[repeat]

As the participants feel the inspiration begin building the fetish/sigil while continuing to chant.

When all is complete:

M.T. : WE WILL DREAM THAT HOPE NO MORE... WE WILL LIVE IT!!!

Laughter banishing.

AUTO-DA-FÉ PATHWORKING
by Soror Severian.427
Based on the Ritual of Auto-da-fé by Pete Carroll

(One should have a sigil prepared for this working.) Breath slowly, deeply. Your body is relaxed, release the tension in your muscles. You are floating.

Open your inner eyes. You are lying in a recently harvested field of corn. As far as you can see are cut stumps of corn plants. The strong smell of the earth fills your nostrils. You stretch in the hot sun.

You look to your right and see a picnic basket. Reach out and open it, feeling the muscles in your body working. Inside the basket are loaves of bread, fresh and aromatic. The smell of the loaves makes your mouth water. Your stomach aches in hunger. You reach in the basket and take a loaf. Suddenly you find yourself stuffing loaf after loaf into your mouth, eating so fast that crumbs are spilling on the damp soil. The bread is quickly gone, but you are still very hungry. Shaking you begin to lick the crumbs from the ground. You find yourself eating the dirt in large mouthfuls, unable to stop even though your stomach is too full and your body aches.

You become intensely aware of every ache and pin of your body. The pain becomes more intense as you continue to eat the warm soil. Your skin tingles as if tiny pins were inserted in it. Exhaustion overcomes you, and you collapse, unable to move. The pain increases, every bone aches, your muscles spasm. As the pain continues to increase you begin to fall downwards.

Dirt falls over you as you sink into the earth. The sunlight is blocked. Your ears, nose, mouth and eyes are filled with dirt as you are pushed downward, but you barely feel them as the pain in your body becomes intolerable. You try to scream but your lungs are filled with dirt.

All sense of motion or gravity is gone. You are surrounded by limitless matter. Your agonizing body is your universe. Just as you think you will go mad with the pain from your body, it is gone. The sigil of earth appears in your mind. You laugh for you know you are not the body which is entombing you. Sensation is gone.

You are standing on a rock beach. The sky is overcast. The air is cold and salty. You are laughing madly, uncontrollably dancing. You jump from rock to rock, overcome with emotion.

You dance down onto a sandy stretch of beach. A crumpled figure lies not far from you. You run to it feeling a sudden unease. As you reach it, the color of its wet hair is familiar. You reach out and turn the face upwards. You give a startled cry as you recognize the face of your lover. You realize your lover is dead. Grief overwhelms you, you convulse in a sob. You have never before known such sadness. You hold the body of your lover, feeling the wet salt stiff clothing against your skin.

After a while you get up, still crying. You walk, aimless, unable to see, not caring. You find yourself out on a point of rock. far below water swirls madly. The tide is coming in with huge waves. You turn towards land and see that you are cut off by the rising water. You are terrified. There is no way back, you know that you shall drown. You are tense with the fear. You slip and fall down into the water. You struggle but the current takes you out to sea. Cold salt water f ills your mouth, you are sinking. You thrash, fear overcoming anything else. Emotion is your universe.

As you are pulled deeper, the water becomes warmer. The sigil of water appears in your mind. The water is body temperature and is limitless. You laugh, for you realize that you are not the emotions in which you are drowning.

You are in a tropical forest. You smell smoke. It is very hot. You are walking down a game trail. You look around at the lush foliage. Every flower, every leaf, see ms sexual to you. Desire is beginning to fill you.

You walk into a clearing and see several naked people. each one of them is different but perfect. They are naked and slowly dancing. Each movement of the perfect flesh arouses you more. The smell of smoke is stronger. One of the dancers passes you so close that naked flesh brushed past your cheek, warm and soft. Your reach out to bring the dancer close to you, but you grasp a burning tree.

A pit of fire leaps up between the people and you. You do not care, desire is so strong that it fills you completely. The dancers are now moving mockingly, making openly sexual moves, embracing one another. You are drawn uncontrollably forward. You fall into the pit of fire, but you have in your arms one of the perfect creatures.

Downwards you fall, but you do not care. The only thing that matters is the body you now hold. The figure burst into flames. The ashes slip away. The disappointment of your desire is so strong that you howl. It aches, but the desire only increase, unbearable. Sexuality is your universe. You are engulfed in flames, limitless flames. The sigil of fire appears in your mind. You laugh, for you realize that you are not the sexuality which is burning you.

You are on a mountain top, sitting on a stone ledge. Fog from clouds surrounds you. You are disconnected from all but thought. Before is a folder of papers and a pen. You take out the papers. A list of questions is on the first page. You must decide the answers and write them down. If you do not the ledge you are on will crumble.

You look at the first question, which asks you to plan the whole rest of your life. You find that you can not concentrate. You are thinking of the last book you read . You try to concentrate on the question, knowing that if you don't plan carefully you shall lie a horrible life. You can not think clearly, for you find yourself thinking about what to do about your current finances. You are so distracted that your head aches.

You look down to the next question, a philosophical one. You must explain your beliefs. An hourglass has appeared along with a note telling you that you must answer the questions before the sand is gone. You are totally filled with other thoughts though. Your mind races trying to organize your thoughts to write them down.

Before you can write a single word, the final grain of sand falls. The ledge crumbles. You are falling, blown by the wind. You can not stop trying to answer the questions. Thought is your universe. The winds are limitless. The sigil of air appears in your mind. You laugh, for you realize that you are not the thoughts which are blowing you.

You are in an octarine room. Before you is a large chaos star. You move towards it, free of your body, your emotions, your sexuality, and your thoughts. Draw your sigil in the chaos star, for you are not bound. You laugh for it is done.

RUNES OF DESIRE
by Frater Talgarth.024

This ritual is inspired by the works by Frater Psyber-Kia (Vortrit) and his creation of the concept of the MASS OF ODHINN (see the TEUTONIC WATCHTOWERS by Frater Psyber-Kia).

Odin is an excellent role model of a magician and serves as a good example of a godforce for Octarine magic. Odin , thru a process of self-sacrifice, produced HIS Alphabet of Desire; what is now known as the runes. The runes have been expanded (corrupted?) and are used now as a system of divination, magic, and philosophy. It acts as a sort of German Qabalah for its adherents. The message seemed to have gotten lost, one must gain the "ruins" for one's self. The key is to find one's own ruins using Odin's grasping of them as a model, not gospel. By ritually going through the process of self-sacrifice as Odin did we can profit and not have a profession of belief. Frater Psyber-Kia's idea of autosexual gnosis as the key to Odin's grasping of the runes shall be used in this ritual, whereas a Black Mirror shall be Mimir's well from which one shall grasps the keys of inspiration.

Before undergoing the rite one should have a sigil prepared for charging; its basic intent is to gain knowledge of ones own Alphabet of Desire. The ritual is designed to be done for nine nights, the first eight nights the magician stops at step 5 and does a GPR. On the ninth night the magician continues on to the Mirror working (alternatively, the entire rite could be condensed in one nights working) and the charged sigil is attached on behind the mirror. One then gazes into the mirror and divines one's "Runes of Desire" using one of two methods. The two methods that can be used to record this information are the free form and the structured. The first is where the magician divines the sigils that come to him and later fixes them to some sort of matrix organization of the desires [such as in Peter Carroll's Liber-Null in the chapter on "Alphabet of Desire"]. The second involves having pre-made sheets with the sigil of the desire n them and the three states of salt, sulfur and mercury also. One will gaze down at the sheet then into the mirror and write down what comes to them for each state and then move on to the next sheet. Any system of organization of desires can work and be adapted.

THE RITE

1. GPR

2. "IT IS OUR WILL TO CHARGE THIS SIGIL"

3. INVOCATION OF ODIN:

English Translation: I know that I hung in the wind torn tree Nine whole nights, spear-pierced, Consecrated to Odin, myself to myself Above in the tree, Whose root no one knows whence it sprang None brought me bread, none served me drink; I searched the depths, spied runes of wisdom; Raised them with song, and fell once more thence.

Listian Version: IS KANO THADATA IS HAGUN ISNOT THEDE ISNOTTHORN TARITEH NOTINEH HAGO THLAEH NOTIS HAGTASIG, SIGEHOS EHIS RITCA EH, KAOTHSIG EHKA OSTIR TIOTHIL OS, MANSIG TIROTH MANSIG OSTHI LEH ISNOT THOREH TARITEH, HAGOTH SIGEH RITOTH TIR NOT OTHNO TEH KANO TSIG HAGEHKA ISTIR SIGRIT OSNOT NOTOTEH RITO THUR HAGTIR MAN FA, NOTOTEH SIGEH MAN LAF IS SIGEH OSRIKA HAGEH THOR ETHNO SIG, SIGI SEH RITNOT OTHFA ISOTH MAN; RITO SIGEH THOREH MAN ISTHOR SIGOTH NOT, OSNOT FAEH LAOTH NO TIKA EHMAN RITEH THOREH KAEH

4. Next charge the pre-made sigil through auto sexual means while visualizing one's self as Odin hanging on Yggdrasil. At climax the sigil is anointed and placed in the back of the Black Mirror if this is the night of gazing; otherwise, set the sigil aside for later and move onto a GPR.

5. If this is the night of gazing, look into your mirror and seek your "Runes of Desire" and transcribe them however you would choose to, then finish up with a GPR.

THE UTCHA RITE

This is an Egyptian Evocation rite for bringing progress, movement, luck and money to the operators. The rite uses the energy of the planets Jupiter and Mercury, corresponding to aspects of the gods Heru (Horus) and Tehuti (Thoth) of the Egyptian pantheon. During the rite, the energy of Jupiter and Mercury is evoked into edible representations of the heart and brain. These may be made of any edible substance; cookies, for instance. To the ancient Egyptians, the heart represented the true will and progress, while the brain was thought to embody the concept of Maat (truth) and represented the actions of movement and intelligence. In ancient times, the heart and brain of the deceased were eaten in an attempt to gain the aforementioned qualities of their previous owners. In this rite you are eating your own heart and brain, which have had the power of Mercury/Tehuti and Jupiter/Heru evoked into them.

THE RITE:

1. Consecration of the working space.

2. Statement of Intent: "It is our will to bring progress, luck, movement and money to our selves."

3. Everyone spins around in circles in the midst of strobe light and/or psycho music in order to gain gnosis in an excitatory manner. During this, the operators will be visualizing the violent removal of their present heart and brain. It is suggested that the heart be felt as torn bleeding from your body and dangling painfully from the chest cavity. The brain should be felt as exploding outward from the skull.

4. When suitable gnosis is obtained, those operators who are still in working condition will promptly collapse at will. The operators then bring their new edible heart and brain before them. At this time the operators may state to themselves what their particular goals are (if they have specific goals in mind).

5. The 1st M.O. begins the Egyptian Evocation of Jupiter and Mercury, Heru and Tehuti. Operators will envision Heru as entering the heart and Tehuti as entering the brain. Heru can be visualized as a strong, conquering, golden hawk-headed being, very sure and strong of will. Tehuti can be visualized as a benign ibis-headed being who embodies truth and intelligence.

EVOCATION

Tep ra-a tu (my mouth speaks) Sah-a ses (my legs walk) Qeb-t-a sa (my arms protect) Pa qer au-t shash (the sky is open) Geb shash mer-t-a (Geb opens my eyes) Anpu ses men-t-a (Anpu strengthens my thighs) Sakhmet tun ua (Sekhmet stretches me) Nuk kher ba (I have power) An ha-t-a (in my heart) An qeb-t-a (in my arms) An sah-a (in my legs) N ari-ab-a (to do my will)

6. The 2nd M.O. begins the second part of the evocation, which the other operators take part in. All parts written in capital english are said by all and will be prompted by the 1st M.O.

2ND EVOCATION

Sper Tehuti ah Heru (come forth Thoth and Horus) Set Sebakau ah Heru-up-shet (Mercury and Jupiter)

COME FORTH TEHUTI AND HERU MERCURY AND JUPITER

Heru n at tuan n ha-t apen (Heru we evoke into these hearts) Er mas pa utcha sep ah user-t (to bring the strength, control, luck, and money) N Heru-up-shet (of Jupiter)

COME FORTH TEHUTI AND HERU MERCURY AND JUPITER

Tehuti n at tuan n utt apen (Tehuti we evoke into these brains) Er mas pa a ah hep-t (to bring the intelligence, movement, wisdom, and progress) N Set Sebakau (of Mercury)

COME FORTH TEHUTI AND HERU MERCURY AND JUPITER (this part continues as a chant until participants are ready for part 7.)

7. Everyone eats the charged hearts and brains.

8. Spastic laughter.

SOME LIBER MMM IDEAS
By Frater Talgarth.024 & Soror Cyllan.771

Liber MMM is one of the fundamental books of the Pact. Within it the reader gets their first glance at the practical workings of the I.O.T. These exercises are sometimes rushed over and progressed through as quickly as possible to get on with latter books and to do some "real magic".

In E.P.I.C. Temple we devote a good portion of our Temple time doing these exercises. Some of our experiments have led us to such things as "intently listening' or "sound concentration" exercises. In this we lie in a comfortable position and just listen to sounds, trying not to form the regular interpretations, but creating a free floating association with the perceived sounds. one gets the strange results of hearing the refrigerator sound like a flock of geese. A variation on this concept of "sound concentration" would be to choose a particular sound, or combination of sounds, to distract the psychic censor. In this, one would devote all of their attention to that particular sound alone, shutting all else out, until it becomes almost (or literally) deafening. One could even chose something as mundane as mind expanding, pre-recorded music.

Other Temples have experimented with the various different sensations of taste while the participants are blindfolded. One could also do experiments with the concept of active touch while blindfolded. Most of us have done the standard staring at an object until it blurs and the primordial flux of information causes us to lose our visual reference.

If Buddhist theory of consciousness is to be looked at, thought itself is a type of sense. one can take a concept in their mind and let a ll their thoughts flow into and relate to that chosen concept. Though much Liber MMM work is based strongly on the pursuit of no mind, "thought concentration" has a tendency to move one toward the opposite - all mind. All the thoughts coalesce into a single pinpoint, leading through a sort of intentional insanity to eventual no mind. Overloading the brain inevitably leads to this state. Also, one may just let their thoughts arise and flow through the body without attaching any feeling or judgmen t to them.

The practical side of these techniques is the realization of the active role of our sense in the creation of our perceived realities. This interaction is an active role and not passive. Liber MMM gives us the knowledge of how to start on re-programming our brains. We are working on a collection of Liber MMM exercises and ask that you send your various ideas t us. We plan to collect and then distribute them to everyone.

WINTER SOLSTICE PHOENIX REVEL
by Sorors Cyllan & Severian

The purpose of this rite is to destroy old patterns, desires emotions, personalities, and/or whatevers in order to use their energy for the creation of something new (as in patterns, desires, emotions, personalities, and/or whatevers).

Traditionally in the Celtic Winter Solstice the "old king" (representing the old year) joins with the "new king" (representing the new year) at death. In this rite Mesopotamian gods are used instead of kings.

The god Anu, god of the sky, is used to represent the past. Uninterested in mankind, he left the earth to the rule of his son Enlil. Enlil, god of storms, creator of mankind, and ruler of the earth is used to represent the future. Enlil took rule of the earth from his father and constantly created changes for mankind.

The rite requires paper, pens, a bowl, a pocket fire elemental, and a Phoenix. The Phoenix which is used in this rite may be made of any chosen material which is malleable but will eventually become set. Air drying clay is an excellent example. One may attempt to make an actual Phoenix-looking thing if one is artistically inclined, but it is not overly important that the Phoenix necessarily look like a bird. It is important that everyone participating takes part in molding the Phoenix with the ashes, even though the task may create interesting color combinations on the hands.

The rite is performed as follows:

1. The space is consecrated.

2. Each person will think of a symbol to represent everything they want to be rid of and a name for the symbol. This symbol is then drawn onto paper. The paper is placed in a centrally located bowl.

3. Everyone begins to circumambulate around the bowl counterclockwise with one hand stretched toward it chanting the mantra NUG DACARTH (a statement for the purpose of bringing forth the god Anu). The 1st M.O. will state the evocation of Anu during this.

4. The 1st M.O. lights fire to the symbols. Everyone should stop saying the mantra at this point.

5. While the symbols are burning, each person will vocalize the name of their symbol toward the bowl, putting all of the energy of the old into the symbols, until the flames have died down.

6. Everyone begins to circumambulate around the Phoenix clockwise, hand outstretched, chanting the mantra DIN CHOG (a statement for the purpose of bringing forth the god Enlil). The 2nd M.O. states the evocation of Enlil during this.

7. The ashes are placed in the Phoenix by the 2nd M.O. The mantra stops. Everyone begins to mold the Phoenix.

8. After the ashes are thoroughly combined with the clay, each person takes a part of the Phoenix (be fair now, kids!). This is molded into a personal symbol to represent the new. While molding, each person will vocalize a name chosen to represent the new symbol.

9. Banishing laughter and party to bring in the new year.

10. Take your symbol home and keep it as a pet.

EVOCATIONS

Anu: ANU, GOD OF THE SKIES WHO FORGETS US AND WHO, LIKE OUR PAST, WE FORGET. ANU, LORD OF THE OLD YEAR, WE COMMAND YOU! TAKE INTEREST! WE EVOKE YOU INTO THESE SYMBOLS OF THE PAST!

Enlil: ENLIL, GOD OF STORMS, TAKE THE EARTH AS YOUR DOMAIN! TAKE OF THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE. BRING US THE NEW YEAR AND WITH IT THE CHANGES WE CREATE! WE EVOKE YOU INTO THIS PHOENIX, THIS SYMBOL OF THE FUTURE!

CHAOISM & CHAOS MAGIC A Personal View by Peter J. Carroll

As there are as many Chaos Magicians as there are Chaoists practising magic, I cannot speak for the subject in general but only for my own Chaoism and Chaos Magic.

However, if you want a one-line definition with which most Chaoists would probably not disagree, then I offer the following. Chaoists usually accept the meta-belief that belief is a tool for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself.

It is easy to see how other people and cultures are the victims of their own beliefs. The horrors of Islam and the ghastly state of politics in sub-Saharan Africa, are obvious examples, but we rarely pause to consider the extent to which we are the victims of our own beliefs, and the ability we have to modify them if we wish.

It is perhaps worth considering the recent history of belief in Western cultures before mounting an attack on the very foundations of the contemporary world view. For about a millennia and a half the existence of "God" was an incontrovertible fact of life in Christendom. It was never questioned or thought to be questionable. Hideous wars and persecutions were conducted to support one interpretation of deity against another. Learned men wrote thousands of books of theology debating points which seem utterly tedious and idiotic to us now, but the central question of the existence of "God" was never considered. Yet now, the belief in "God" as the author of most of what goes on in the world has been almost completely abandoned, and belief in even the existence of an absentee "God" is in most places fading. Satanism as an anti-religious gesture is now a waste of iconoclastic talent. The alchemists, sorcerers and scientists of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance won a stupendous posthumous victory. Their questioning of the medieval world view started a rot that brought the whole edifice down eventually.

We can laugh looking back on it now, but I assert that we now live under a collective obsession which is even more powerful and will appear equally limiting and ridiculous to future historians.

Since the eighteenth century European enlightenment, a belief has grown to the point where it is now so all-pervasive, and so fundamental a part of the Western world view, that one is generally considered mad if one questions it. This is a belief that has proved so powerful and useful that virtually everyone in the Western world accept it without question. Even those who try to maintain a belief in "God" tend to place more actual faith in this new belief for most practical purposes.

I am about to reveal what this fundamental contemporary belief is. Most of you will think it is so obvious a fact that it can, hardly be called a belief. That, however, is a measure of its extraordinary power over us. Most of you will think me a madman or a fool to even question it. Few of you will be able to imagine what it would be like not to believe it, or that it would be possible to replace it with something else. Here it is: the dominant belief in all Western Cultures is that this universe runs on material causality and is thus comprehensible to reason. Virtually everyone also maintains a secondary belief that contradicts this - the belief that they have something called free will, although they are unable to specify what this is - but I will deal with that later.

We spend billions every year indoctrinating our young with the primary belief in material causality in our schools. Our language, our logic, and most of our machines, are built largely upon this belief. We regard it as more reliable than "God".

Now, it has been one of the functions of the Magician to try and break through to something beyond the normal. My own magical quest has always had a strongly antinomian and iconoclastic element, and I long ago decided to go for broke and attack the primary beliefs of our culture. Religion is too easy a target as it is already fatally disabled by our ancestors, the Renaissance sorcerers and scientists. Contemporary Satanists are wasting their efforts. Ideology is thankfully being gradually replaced with economics. The main thrust of my Chaoism is against the doctrine of material causality and secondarily against most of the nonsense that passes for modern psychology.

Anyway, now I have to firstly try and convince you that there is something seriously wrong with material causality, and that there is something that could supersede it as a belief. These are vitally important questions for magicians, for since the demise of essentially spiritual descriptions of magic, the belief in material causality has been increasingly used in a haphazard fashion to form various ill-conceived metaphors such as "magical energy" or "magical force" which are tacitly presumed to be something analogous to static electricity or radio waves. This is, I think, complete bullshit. Magic can sometimes be induced to behave a bit like this, but it is not a very effective description.

Before attempting a frontal assault on material causality I shall backtrack a little to gather ammunition. Few people noticed that in the 1930`s a serious crack was discovered in the fabric of material causality which, on the grounds of faith alone, was supposed to cover everything. This crack was called Quantum Physics, and it was pre-eminently Niels Bohr who, with his Copenhagen Interpretation, poked a finger into the crack and prised open a wrap to reveal a different reality.

Basically Bohr showed that this reality is better modelled by a description of non-material causality operating probabilistically not deterministically. This may sound tame at first, but the implications for our everyday view of the world and for our theories of magic are awesome. It brought to an end the era of the clockwork universe paradigm which began over two hundred years ago and which almost everyone still believes in their guts, even if they cannot formulate it precisely. I urge magicians everywhere to give thanks by drinking what is probably the best lager in the world, for it was the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen that supported Bohr and his colleagues while they did the physics.

The majority of straight scientists find quantum physics as distasteful as a priest would find witch-craft. If they have to use it they prefer not to think about the implications. Even Einstein, who started quantum physics going but made his major contribution in Relativity, felt repelled by its implications, on ground of scientific faith and residual Judaic belief, and wasted much of his later life campaigning fruitlessly against it.

Quantum physics says to me that not only is magic possible in a world that is infinitely Chaotic than we thought, but that magic is central to the functioning of this universe. This is a magical universe not a clockwork one. Causal materialist beliefs were a liberating and refreshing breath of fresh air after a millennia and a half of monotheism, but now, at their zenith, they have become tyranny. Relativity and the fundamental physics associated with it are probably close to a final refinement of the causal materialist paradigm, and as such they now seem a terrible prison. For all practical purposes they confine us to this planet forever and rule out magic from our lives. Quantum physics, which I believe currently to be basically an investigation of the magical phenomena underlying the reality most people have perceived as non-magical for the last two hundred years, shows us a way out.

It may be some time before any significant portion of humanity learns to believe the new paradigm in their guts and live accordingly, but eventually they will. Until then it is bound to sound like discombobulating gobbledgegook or tarted-up intellectualism to most people.

I would like to mention my other favorite iconoclasm in passing without explanation. I reject the conventional view of post-monotheistic Western psychology that we are individual unitary beings possessing free will. I prefer the description that we are colonial beings composed of multiple personalities; although generally unafflicted with the selective amnesia which is the hallmark of this otherwise omnipresent condition. And that secondly there is no such thing as free will; although we have the capacity to act randomly, or perhaps one should say more precisely stochastically, and the propensity to identify with whatever we find ourselves doing as a result.

All the gods and goddesses are within us and non-materially about us as well, in the form of non-local information.

I consider that all events occur basically by magic; the apparent causality investigated by classical science is merely the more statistically reliable end of a spectrum whose other end is complete Chaos. However, I would like to end with a few words about how my Chaoism affects my personal activity in what is ordinarily called magic.

There are for me two main aspects of magic; the parapsychological and the psychological. In enchantment and divination I believe that the magician is attempting to interact with nature via non-material causality. He is basically exchanging information with his environment without using his physical faculties. Austin Osman Spare precisely identified the mental maneuvers necessary to allow this to occur. The maneuvers are startlingly simple and once you have understood them you can invent an unlimited number of spells and forms of divination. The maneuvers are sacred but the forms of their expression are arbitrary; you can use anything at random.

Bohr and Spare are for me Saints of the Church of Chaos.

I consider that when a magician interacts with those apparently sentient sources of knowledge, inspiration and parapsychological ability that used to be called spirits, gods, demons and elementals, he is tapping into the extraordinary resources that each of us already contains. When activated they may also receive some input via non-material causality from outside. Yet since we all contain such a rich multitude within our own unconscious or subconscious and can also receive congruent information from the collective unconsciousness as it were, then the possibilities are practically limitless. Given the correct technique one can invoke or evoke anything, even things which did not exist before one thought of calling them. This may sound like complete Chaos, and I have to report that my own researches confirm that it is!

Chaos Magic for me means a handful of basic techniques which must be adhered to strictly to get results, but beyond that it offers a freedom of expression and intent undreamt of in all previous forms of magic.

Front cover art by Soror Morgana.365 Back cover art by Frater Talgarth.024

Membership Roster
Frater Psyber-Kia.995.2º (nee Vortrit.177),
MT Frater Talgarth.024.3º, IS
Soror Morgana.365.4º, AR
Frater Rook.232.3º
Soror Cyllan.771.4º
Soror Severian.427.4º
*Soror Amenti.027.4º
*Frater ZetaX.190.3º
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