CONTENTS

Chaos Magick: Magickal Terrorism by Marik

FireClown's Booklist of Basic Chaote Books

Notes for the beginner.

Chaos

Chaos Myths

Sorcery

Some Definitions on Chaos Magick

The 12 Principles of Chaos

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 SpareÕs 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.
Carrolls 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 and, in the german language, in Germany.
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 minds 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 magicianÕs 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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This is FireClown's Booklist for beginning chaos sorcerers.

Basic Books

Liber Null & Psychonaut
Peter J. Carroll

This is the best basic intro, goes into much theory and some practice primarily rooted in Austin Spare, Aleister Crowley, etc...gives good info on Chaoist Jargon, such as use of the ideas 'chaos, kia, paradigm paradox modulated, etc. The sigils section is born out of the works of Austin Osman Spare, and are simple and basic. His work on the Alphabet of Desire might mean something to him, but in view of Spare I can't tell where he came up with the stuff. Good practical work in many sections, much odd theorizing, such as what happens to the Kia after death. All and all, an impressive work, which should be read by anyone interested in magick.


Chaos Condensed
Phil Hine

original chapbook, 1992 Phoenix
Publications and Chaos International. I love this book. It is short, extremely practical, often hilarious, and is everything that the book of the same name, published 1995 by New Falcon fails to be at four times its length.


The Book of Results
Ray Sherwin

1978, 1980, 1983, 1992. The '92 edition published by Revelations 23 Press. This is perhaps my favorite Chaotext. Sherwin co-founded the IOT, and left sometime later, I can't recall when. Fifty pages of highly directed, highly intelligent, highly practical work using sigils to perform magick in all areas of life. The Caltrops of Chaos banishing is very strange, though I've never use it to any great effect. "This guy's intense-and I thought I was militant" Fra. Animus Accipio 3* IOT


Stealing the Fire from Heaven
Stephen Mace

privately printed, in New Haven, Connecticut, my copy is Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1984. This is, to my style of work, the most important book on the magick of Austin Spare, outside of the originals. Mace, like Sherwin, has rightly taken the position that Sigils lead to their own system of magick. Mace prepares a fine body of practice, which should suit most solo sorcerers of the Zos Kia Cultus bent just beautifully. Unpompous, clear, concise, self published, everything I want in a book and less. Less Dreck, that is. 106 pages.


SSOTBME
no author (Ramsey Dukes)

1979 Nigel Grey-Turner,London, distributed by Samuel Weiser. This book made me realize I was a magician, not insane. Or at least both a magiian & insane. Great, funny, a Grimoire disguised as an essay, only 96 pages long ( I like short books, and often, short women), as well as the best book to give to people if you want them to think you are smart and goofy, as opossed to stupid and psychotic. Find it. Buy it. Read it blind drunk the first time, maybe the second time too...


Chaos, the Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchy
Hakim Bey

no copyright 1985 Grim Reaper Books. Can more easily be had as part of a longer book, T.A.Z.-the Temporary Autonomous Zone, also Hakim Bey, Autonomedia, sometime in the last few years. Cheap, too. The first is a whopping 46 page large print book, the better be assimilated by blind or really stoned people in ill lit squats. Fine theory/poetry inspirational work, pretty much like one of those 'thought for every day' tomes published by that Twelve Step Publisher. However, there are only thirteen chapters. I expect this is because Bey figured his readers to be unrepentant burnout perverts (UBP), and knows what the memory can get like... The UBP Sorcerers Bible. Read in conjunction with SSOTBME whilst hitchiking across country, navigation courtesy of the Tao Teh King, and you may turn out like me. Highly recomended.


Practical Sigil Magick
Frater U.D., Llewellyn

I sold mine to get Visual Magick. As I recall, a good intro text on sigils, much easier to get but nowhere as good as the Sherwin/Mace combo. Solid work, good writing, someone else can review it, not really my style. Easy to find, though, and well worth reading.


Visual Magick-
A Manual of Freestyle Shamanism
Jan Fries

Mandrake (of Oxford, there are at least two Mandrakes) 1992. This book, however, IS really my style. Probably the best moderately available text on the subject. Fries does not use 'Chaos Magick' as a term, but the sources are the same, and the angle of approach is quite different. Filled with useful technique, sanity (but not too sane) Fries blends Spare/Crowley/Neuro-Linguistic Programming/Behavioral Psych. and paganism into a fine and heady brew for those who work and experiment more than they theorize. 136 pages, indexed.


Chaos & Sorcery
Nicholas Hall
Nick Hall Published 1992.

To my knowledge, there are only 300 copies of this book in English, and I don't know if the German edition ever saw the light of day. (GardenStone's comment: yes, it did.) I hope so, because it is the only book of its kind. A solid, powerful work of sorcery, as defined by the book: "The art of using material bases to enhance a magickal conjuration, the outcome of which is determined by the sorcerer's will." I will quote a quote here, from an unknown source: "sharp, fast, unsentimental". This book is actually enough to get you into and out of all sorts of trouble. Chapter Titles should make the content clear: 1) Tools of Sorcery. 2) Techniques of Sorcery. 3) Malicious Doll Magick. 4) Beneficial Doll Magick. 5) Word Weaving. 6) Chaos and Sorcery. 111 pages, every one devoid of morality, in other words, a truly fine work.


Prime Chaos
Phil Hine
Chaos International,1993.

Excellent work mostly focused on group Chaos Magick, therefore the only work of it's kind to date. One of the most firmly rooted in the modern world texts on Chaoism to be had. I think there were no more than 4-500 made. Sure to be re-released in a big print run in the next year or two. I hope... This book and others by Mr. Hine are why I don't like the New Condensed Chaos.


Chaos Ritual
Steve Wilson
Neptune Press 1994.

This book, I can only describe as 'rad'. I am, after all, a born and bred Kalifornian, and it is therefore permitted. BOOM! Goes this book, heading in a very different way than all other books on Chaos Magick, and a good, helpful, practical and enjoyable ride it is. A strange work in three parts, one of Chaos Yoga (for lack of a better description), another on Medicine Wyrd (Chaos Shamanism) and the third, the Chaoetia, which as you might have guessed, it rather like a Chaos Goetia. Buy This Book, it 'Rocks'.

Send us books and we'll read them.
But we won't promise to review them or like them if
we do.

In Chaos,
Fireclown
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Here, with a different approach from Norway, is Martin Knutsen.....

Here is a small collection of things we did to evolve our head in strange directions.. We do not claim any "majikal" powers, and we are not yet able to make Newt Gingrich explode, but we are on our way. (smile)

1) DO NOT STUDY!
Read books, but do not stop & ponder. Read them through, then lay them aside. Let the info work on your subconscious. Sit down, and try to find the principles that the author wanted you to take in as emic, that is basic facts.

2) Create your own symbol.
Do it on random inspiration, perhaps after a small ritual with mindblanking and candlelight. Make the symbol easy to visualize, a good symbol should intuitively "feel" right. You will know what we mean when you get there..
Scan streetsigns and logos, tatooshpos and grimoires. Do not try to be majikal and "spooky", let it come to you..

3) Meditate in the forest.
Create chains of association, with your home symbol as a moderator/mediator/base for the chain. Let your mind empty, stare at a leaf for hours while doing simple breathing techniques. For every breath , let the sequence of associations run freely.

4) Do not keep a journal.
Fragments of association will come to you when you need them, insights and connections.

5) Be nice and polite.
Fuck hierarchies, at least until you feel certain about where you stand. Challenge people, be sarcastic, see how people react, and tell them politely how you "judge" them from their reactions.

6) Have an "intention " with everything,
wich you formulate and then forget. We strongly suggest people to stay away from the eternal boring egocentric intention of most magickians, that of self-pleasure. Wanking is fun, but we do not think our lifes work should be devoted to it..

7) Study Children.
They already have it..

8) Be friendly, make contacts.
Do NOT insulate your self in some kinda majikal capsule of friends and aquaintances. Experience and cherish life in all its aspects. Love details, see trees for the ultimate works of art they are.

Remember that all organizations based on hierarchy is designed to put YOUR energy into other people's scheme. If you don't know what are other peoples intention, keep to your self. If you are doing business with a magickal son of a bitch, get it in writing :).
Do not buy anything, never trust anyone completely you have not smelled the sweat of for days on end. Don't become another boring egomaniac. There are too many children dying. Be true. Be naive by choice, and watch other peoples reaction. Be in your doing, do with your being, not your intellect.

M.K. Zona Majika Autonoma
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Chaos

CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert & spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins, random & perpetually intoxicated.

Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.

Everything in nature is perfectly real including consciousness, there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
Not only have the chains of the Law been broken, they never existed; demons never guarded the stars, the Empire never got started, Eros never grew a beard.

No, listen, what happened was this: they lied to you, sold you ideas of good & evil, gave you distrust of your body & shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with inattention, bored you with civilization & all its usurious emotions.

There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin--your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.

To shed all the illusory rights & hesitations of history demands the economy of some legendary Stone Age--shamans not priests, bards not lords, hunters not police, gatherers of paleolithic laziness, gentle as blood, going naked for a sign or painted as birds, poised on the wave of explicit presence, the clockless nowever.

Agents of chaos cast burning glances at anything or anyone capable of bearing witness to their condition, their fever of lux et voluptas. I am awake only in what I love & desire to the point of terror--everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain.

Avatars of chaos act as spies, saboteurs, criminals of amour fou, neither selfless nor selfish, accessible as children, mannered as barbarians, chafed with obsessions, unemployed, sensually deranged, wolfangels, mirrors for contemplation, eyes like flowers, pirates of all signs & meanings.

Here we are crawling the cracks between walls of church state school & factory, all the paranoid monoliths. Cut off from the tribe by feral nostalgia we tunnel after lost words, imaginary bombs.
The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden cord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors. If I were to kiss you here they'd call it an act of terrorism--so let's take our pistols to bed & wake up the city at midnight like drunken bandits celebrating with a fusillade, the message of the taste of chaos.
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Chaos Myths

Unseen Chaos (po-te-kitea)
Unpossessed, Unpassing
Chaos of utter darkness
Untouched & untouchable
--Maori Chant

Chaos perches on a sky-mountain: a huge bird like a yellow bag or red fireball, with six feet & four wings--has no face but dances & sings.

Or Chaos is a black longhaired dog, blind & deaf, lacking the five viscera.
Chaos the Abyss comes first, then Earth/Gaia, then Desire/Eros. From these three proceed two pairs--Erebus & old Night, Aether & Daylight.

Neither Being nor Non-being
neither air nor earth nor space:
what was enclosed? where?
under whose protection?
What was water, deep, unfathomable?
Neither death nor immortality, day nor night--
but ONE breathed by itself with no wind.
Nothing else. Darkness swathed in darkness,
unmanifest water.
The ONE, hidden by void,
felt the generation of heat, came into being
as Desire, first seed of Mind...
Was there an up or down?
There were casters of seed, there were powers:
energy underneath, impulse above.
But who knows for sure?
-- Rig Veda

Tiamat the Chaos-Ocean slowly drops from her womb Silt & Slime, the Horizons, Sky and watery Wisdom. These offspring grow noisy & bumptious--she considers their destruction.

But Marduk the wargod of Babylon rises in rebellion against the Old Hag & her Chaos-monsters, chthonic totems--Worm, Female Ogre, Great Lion, Mad Dog, Scorpion Man, Howling Storm--dragons wearing their glory like gods--& Tiamat herself a great sea-serpent.

Marduk accuses her of causing sons to rebel against fathers--she loves Mist & Cloud, principles of disorder. Marduk will be the first to rule, to invent government. In battle he slays Tiamat & from her body orders the material universe.
He inaugurates the Babylonian Empire--then from gibbets & bloody entrails of Tiamat's incestuous son he creates the human race to serve forever the comfort of gods--& their high priests & anointed kings.

Father Zeus & the Olympians wage war against Mother Gaia & the Titans, those partisans of Chaos, the old ways of hunting & gathering, of aimless wandering, androgyny & the license of beasts.

Amon-Ra (Being) sits alone in the primordial Chaos-Ocean of NUN creating all the other gods by jerking off--but Chaos also manifests as the dragon Apophis whom Ra must destroy (along with his state of glory, his shadow & his magic) in order that the Pharoah may safely rule--a victory ritually re-created daily in Imperial temples to confound the enemies of the State, of cosmic Order.

Chaos is Hun Tun, Emperor of the Center. One day the South Sea, Emperor Shu, & the North Sea, Emperor Hu (shu hu = lightning) paid a visit to Hun Tun, who always treated them well. Wishing to repay his kindness they said, "All beings have seven orifices for seeing, hearing, eating, shitting, etc.--but poor old Hun Tun has none! Let's drill some into him!" So they did--one orifice a day--till on the seventh day, Chaos died.

But...Chaos is also an enormous chicken's egg. Inside it P'an-Ku is born & grows for 18,000 years--at last the egg opens up, splits into sky & earth, yang & yin. Now P'an-Ku grows into a column that holds up the universe--or else he becomes the universe (breath --> wind, eyes --> sun & moon, blood & humors --> rivers & seas, hair & lashes --> stars & planets, sperm --> pearls, marrow --> jade, his fleas --> human beings, etc.)

Or else he becomes the man/monster Yellow Emperor. Or else he becomes Lao Tzu, prophet of Tao. In fact, poor old Hun Tun is the Tao itself.

"Nature's music has no existence outside things. The various apertures, pipes, flutes, all living beings together make up nature. The "I" cannot produce things & things cannot produce the "I," which is self-existent. Things are what they are spontaneously, not caused by something else.
Everything is natural & does not know why it is so. The 10,000 things have 10,000 different states, all in motion as if there were a True Lord to move them--but if we search for evidence of this Lord we fail to find any." (Kuo Hsiang)

Every realized consciousness is an "emperor" whose sole form of rule is to do nothing to disturb the spontaneity of nature, the Tao. The "sage" is not Chaos itself, but rather a loyal child of Chaos--one of P'an-Ku's fleas, a fragment of flesh of Tiamat's monstrous son. "Heaven and Earth," says Chuang Tzu, "were born at the same time I was, & the 10,000 things are one with me."

Ontological Anarchism tends to disagree only with the Taoists' total quietism. In our world Chaos has been overthrown by younger gods, moralists, phallocrats, banker- priests, fit lords for serfs. If rebellion proves impossible then at least a kind of clandestine spiritual jihad might be launched. Let it follow the war-banners of the anarchist black dragon, Tiamat, Hun Tun.

Chaos never died.
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Sorcery

THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO PLAY. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity--those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity--those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes.

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

The incremental openings of perception gradually banish the false selves, our cacophonous ghosts--the "black magic" of envy & vendetta backfires because Desire cannot be forced. Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.

No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.

Sorcery works at creating around itself a psychic/physical space or openings into a space of untrammeled expression-- the metamorphosis of quotidian place into angelic sphere.
This involves the manipulation of symbols (which are also things) & of people (who are also symbolic)--the archetypes supply a vocabulary for this process & therefore are treated as if they were both real & unreal, like words. Imaginal Yoga.

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible. The dullard finds even wine tasteless but the sorcerer can be intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
Quality of perception defines the world of intoxication--but to sustain it & expand it to include others demands activity of a certain kind--sorcery. Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao.
Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow-- priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

A poem can act as a spell & vice versa--but sorcery refuses to be a metaphor for mere literature--it insists that symbols must cause events as well as private epiphanies. It is not a critique but a re-making. It rejects all eschatology & metaphysics of removal, all bleary nostalgia & strident futurismo, in favor of a paroxysm or seizure of presence.

Incense & crystal, dagger & sword, wand, robes, rum, cigars, candles, herbs like dried dreams--the virgin boy staring
into a bowl of ink--wine & ganja, meat, yantras & gestures-- rituals of pleasure, the garden of houris & sakis--the sorcerer climbs these snakes & ladders to a moment which is fully saturated with its own color, where mountains are mountains & trees are trees, where the body becomes all time, the beloved all space.

The tactics of ontological anarchism are rooted in this secret Art--the goals of ontological anarchism appear in its flowering. Chaos hexes its enemies & rewards its devotees...this strange yellowing pamphlet, pseudonymous & dust-stained, reveals all...send away for one split second of eternity.
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"...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."
-- Peter Carroll, January, 1992


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.

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.

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!


It begins with knowing how near and how far Whatever is. Then you concentrate on the placement of objects. Take neither nourishment, nor stimulant nor any drug. Use pain, when it comes, as a sharp wedge into the lower half.

Dance. Climb a mountain. Strip off your clothes (read civilization) and break something cherished that owns you as you own it.

Avoid recruiters, and shoo away those who want to "teach you magick". To paraphrase Austin Spare, all any teacher can do is show you your own magnificence.

Examine your obsessions. What are they, really? Fuel. Burn them up and move on. Don't let anything restrict you, least of all "groups" (the shortest path to nowhere). Every group implies hierarchy, whatever their press kits may say, and any structure is a lessening of the degree of freedom. Chaos is the greatest degree of freedom there can be, as it encompasses all potential and possibility.

Turn your will against your fears and your insecurities. Bury yourself. Hang upside-down and sing "Hallelujah" in public. People will think you mad, but what's one more madman, and isn't madness often little more than the folly of genius?

You *are* involved! Everything is involved, and it's really a question of what the nature of your involvement will be. Welcome;

Try everything. Be ye manic!!! We are all our own set of variables, and for each of us there are at least slightly different ways by which we can shortcut cause-and-effect. The only secrets are the ones that have to do with the ways that work for *you*, even if others say you're wrong. All that matters is effectiveness, and the only way to find these keys is to *do*. It takes time, and it takes effort, and maybe even a little bit of your own substance; think of it as an investment, if nothing more. It will, without question, pay off.

But you have to start *now*... because a part of the set of variables is time, and its a very limiting factor.

Lean way back, hold your breath, and count backwards from 418.

It's begun.


"Chaos Theory" is generally concerned with making more complex physical predictions, sometimes based on a "chaos/order" measurement.
"Chaos Magick" may or may not be concerned with utelizing paradigms of "chaos theory" to exert change in accordance with ones telos (in my case it would certainly be the former)...

"Chaos Magick" may also be the latest attempt to appeal to the testosterone junkie set of the magickal community via their lust of destruction, much as other LHP groups (Satanists & sinister Pagans) do in other ways.
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THE CHAOS CURRENT MANIFESTS THROUGH THE ACTION OF INDIVIDUAL SORCERERS. WHILE SORCERERS MAY COMBINE FOR SPECIFIC MAGICKAL PURPOSES, THE GOOD OF THE ONE ALWAYS OUTWEIGHS THE GOOD OF THE MANY.

FOR OUR GROUP PURPOSE THERE IS NO ULTIMATE AUTHORITY, BUT WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE TRUE CHAOTIC NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE MAY AT ANY TIME DEGRADE, DIVIDE, AND DESTROY CAREFULLY DEVELOPED AND ORDERED GROUP PROJECTS.
WE HAVE NO LEADERS. EACH SORCERER IS ON THEIR OWN. GROUP OFFICES ARE HELD EITHER RANDOMLY OR AS TRANSITORY PROJECTS MAY REQUIRE VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION. MEMBERS ATTAIN OFFICES BY DECLARATION. MEMBERS RELINQUISH OFFICES BY DECLARATION, SINGLE COMBAT, OR DIVINE ACT.

THE ONLY REQUIREMENT FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE GROUP IS THE LAPSE OF SANITY REQUIRED TO WANT TO BE A MEMBER OF A SORCEROUS ORGANIZATION AND THE WILL TO PRACTICE STRANGE DARK RITES. HOWEVER MEMBERS WHO DO NOT WISH TO PRACTICE ARE CHEERFULLY ADMITTED AS SACRIFICIAL VICTIMS.

ANYBODY CAN ESTABLISH A (Z) CLUSTER/TEMPLE AND AFFILIATE IT WITH THE MOTHERSHIP OR NOT AS WHIM OR AS DIVINATION BY THE FLIGHT OF SEA BIRDS INDICATES.

EACH GROUP OR MEMBER HAS BUT ONE PRIMARY PURPOSE. BUT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT THAT IS, SO EACH MEMBER OR GROUP WILL HAVE TO DECIDE THAT FOR THEM- SELVES, IF DEEMED AN IMPORTANT ENOUGH QUESTION.

NO MEMBER OR (Z) CLUSTER GROUP CAN CLAIM TO SPEAK FOR THEIR GROUP OR THE (Z) CLUSTER AS A WHOLE, EVEN WITH THE APPROVAL OF SAID MEMBERS. ANY STATEMENTS TO THE CONTRARY ARE DAMNED LIES PROPOGATED BY ASS KISSING FLUNKEYS OF THE DEMON CHORONZON.

MEMBERS OR (Z)CLUSTER GROUPS CAN FUND THEIR MAGICKAL ACTIVITIES ANY WAY THEY CHOOSE. HOWEVER SPECIAL ACCOLADES ARE AWARDED MEMBERS WHO CAN PERSUADE NON MAGICIANS TO SUPPORT THEM. BEGGING FROM OTHER SORCERERS IS CONSIDERED BAD FORM.

THE (Z) CLUSTER, MOTHERSHIP, GROUPS AND TEMPLES ARE PROFESSIONAL MAGICIANS. THEY CAN ORGANIZE THEMSELVES FOR PROFIT, HIRE EMPLOYEES OR GATHER SLAVES AS THEY SEE FIT. THEY MAY ALSO LIVE IN SQUALID, BONE-CRUSHING POVERTY.

THE MOTHERSHIP, (Z) CLUSTER GROUPS AND MEMBERS ARE WHOLLY DISORGANIZED. ANY APPEARANCE OF ORGANIZATION IS A DELUSION VISITED UPON MEMBERS BY SORCEROUS ATTACKS FROM THE LORDS OF ORDER.

SINCE THE Z MOTHERSHIP, ITS CLUSTERS, AND MEMBERS ARE ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTS IN TEMPORARY, TRANSIENT MANIFESTATION, PUBLIC STATEMENTS ABOUT THE Z CLUSTER, INCLUDING THESE, ARE PATHOLOGICAL LIES DESIGNED TO MANIPULATE THE MEDIA OR THE SHEEPLIKE MASSES.
MEMBERS ARE URGED TO PROMPTLY DISAVOW PUBLIC STATEMENTS MADE BY SELF-AGGRANDIZING EGOIST MEMBERS SEEKING ATTENTION.THE Z CLUSTER, ITS MEMBERS, AND THE MOTHERSHIP ARE GENERALLY OPINIONATED ASSHOLES, HAPPY TO ISSUE DOGMATIC ANNOUNCEMENTS ON ANY SUBJECT WHATSOEVER. POINTS ARE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO CAN STATE CLEARLY NONSENSICAL POSITIONS WITH ARDOR AND AUTHORITY.

THE PUBLIC RELATIONS POLICY OF THE Z CLUSTER IS BASED ON UNASHAMED PROMOTION, SINCE ANYONE CAN JOIN THE Z CLUSTER BY A SIMPLE DECLARATION (THE LETTER ÒZÓ SHOULD SUFFICE), IT IS INCUMBENT UPON MEMBERS TO PUBLICIZE THE Z CLUSTER AND ITS MAGNIFICENT JOB IN SUPPORTING THE CHAOS CURRENT AS OFTEN AND IN AS PUBLIC A WAY AS POSSIBLE.

SINCE WE CAME FROM CHAOS AND TO CHAOS WE SHALL RETURN WE TAKE AS A RECEIVED TRUTH THAT OUR SQUALID LITTLE EGOS, AND OUR PETTY BACK BITING ARGUMENTS WILL NOT SURVIVE THE TRANSITION TO RANDOMNESS. CONSEQUENTLY MEMBERS ARE URGED TO RECOGNIZE THIS FACT AND EITHER ACT LIKE ETHICAL HUMAN BEINGS, OR AS VICIOUS PRIMA DONNAS GETTING AS MUCH MILEAGE OUT OF THEIR SELF-CENTERED PERSONALITIES AS THEY CAN IN THEIR THANKFULLY BRIEF LIVES.

The Z(cluster) is a group of chaos magicians who have temporarily aggregated for the purpose of cracking the universal consensual belief structure and thus bringing about the end of the world.
Originating in a cluster of New Orleans sorcerers who are artists, musicians and writers, mostly gay, with a strong contingent from the leather community, the Z(cluster) is an attempt to configure a new form of organization, one that is non-hierarchichal, non-dogmatic, inclusive, anarchistic, and flexible.
The Z(cluster) is open to all.
Membership requires a simple declaration.
There are no dues.
There are no grades.
There are no leaders.
There is no received truth.
Opinions of Z(cluster) members, including these statements, are personal and non-binding and may be adopted or discarded by members as whim or analytic thought provides.

The first node of the Z(cluster), the New Orleans group, has decided transiently to call itself T(word)A(word)Z(word).
Other groups or individuals that wish to align themselves with the first node may do so by naming themselves anything that includes a word that begins with Z.
Readers of this document are now cautioned that this terminology is a viral meme.


Copyright Notice

Products issuing from the Z(cluster) are copyright free, as long as individual members do not state otherwise (incurring, if they do, group revilement).
Copy our products, hack our programs, rip off our designs. You pay the karmic debt (if that's your paradigm). We might subject you to sorcerous attack, but we will not sue you.


This document was edited, and partially written, by marik (Mark Defrates).
More information is available by e-mailing him marik@aol.com.

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