"Face the facts. Mankind is kept
alive by bestial acts."
>>>William S. Burroughs(1)<<<
"We are not contractually tied down to reality; there
is no sanity clause. So if you feel your train of
thought is going to the places where the screaming is
too loud, remember there is always madness. Madness is
the emergency exit." >>>The Joker, The Killing
Joke<<<
"Bring the end of the world as you know it to a place
near you, but hey at least it'll be a laugh!"
>>>Anonymous(2)<<<
There are so many delightful varieties of madness that
one can only conclude that the god(s) of this universe,
if he/she/it/they exist(s), must have truly twisted
sense(s) of humor. Let's explore some of the madness and
then view it in the context of a metaphysical practice
known as CHAOS MAGIC.
So Much Madness,
So Little Time
Infectious Agents
of Madness
One of the latest crazes to hit the media is "mad-cow
disease", otherwise known as bovine spongioform
encephalopathy.(3) It appears that this deadly
neurological affliction of cattle may be linked to a
similar fatal brain malady in humans (Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Disease). Deadly living particles called prions are
smaller than viruses and may be the infectious agent
which links the two diseases. Infected "sheep offal"
(intestines, etc.) used in cattle feed may be the
ultimate source of the disease.(4) The recent scare has
cut off British beef exports and ultimately may result
in the slaughter of Britain's entire cattle industry. In
simple terms, infected brains become laced with holes
like Swiss cheese, and the unfortunate animal or human
dies in agony.
Genetic Madness
Numerous genetic mutations produce mental malfunctions.
One of the worst I remember seeing in medical school was
Hunter-Hurler Syndrome.(5) Children born with this
horrific curse are in a constant rage, and teeth are
often pulled to keep the kiddies from biting off their
own lips and tongue! Fortunately for tormented parents,
it's uncommon for the cursed youngsters to live beyond
their early teens.
Chemical Madness
We've probably all seen reports on the mysterious Gulf
War Syndrome. Veterans of America's attack on Saddam
Hussein's Iraq are believed to have suffered immune
system damage and other long-term effects as a result of
exposure to routine vaccines and smoke from oil well
fires, as well as possible exposure to biochemical
warfare agents. Even more frightening, a new book
describes potential effects on all of us by synthetic
chemicals that damage the endocrine system and may
influence the health, intelligence and fertility of
future generations.(6) By interfering with the body's
signals that guide development before birth and during
early life, these endocrine system disrupters prevent
people (and other animals) from growing up according to
their genetic blueprints. Nasty chemicals that have been
banned in the U.S. still are produced by American and
other companies overseas, and then reintroduced to the
U.S. by smuggling, as contaminants in imported food and
via the global atmosphere. (7)
Overpopulation
Madness(8)
At the turn of the century only 5% of world's
population lived in cities with populations greater than
100,000. Today 45% (more than 2.5 billion people) live
in crowded urban centers. It's predicted that by 2025
more than 60% of humanity (more than 5 billion people)
will be packed together in cities like sardines in cans.
Most of this growth has been and will continue to be in
the developing world, where installation of sanitation
is lagging far behind growth, and resilient microbes are
overrunning the stressed immune systems of the urban
poor.
In general, more than 1 billion people live in
households too poor to obtain enough food for normal
work, and another 2 billion live in conditions described
as "deplorable". Conditions are so bad that ordinary
people in Beijing, China and elsewhere have been driven
to riot by pollution ranging from incessant noise to
choking clouds of dust. It becomes increasingly likely
that masses of the desperate may overwhelm entire
nations and regions. The future is extremely grim.
Violence &
Economic Madness
Violence is certainly not uniquely American, although
we have clearly influenced the rest of the world in
remarkable ways.(9) The Nazis(10) and the Communists of
China (11) and the Soviet Union(12) also have had their
times of darkness. Most of us try to sublimate(13) our
aggressive impulses through movies(14) and
othermeans,but occasionally the festering social malaise
bursts into rancid bloom, as in the recent random
slaughter of Scottish schoolchildren by an angry
loner.(15) We have become so fearful of one another that
laws allowing concealed guns are becoming chic.(16) Even
the standard office or car is no longer safe.(17) With
vampires and other unusual characters roaming the
streets, the average person must feel quite confused and
insecure!(18)
In addition to rampant violence, there is economic
anxiety -- "stagnant wages, income inequality, political
scapegoating and corporate insensitivity" as millions
are fired from their jobs with little or no
notice.(19) There seems to be no end to the downward
spiral.
Psychiatric
Madness
Shrinks are as "nutso" as the people they claim to
treat. When I was in med school, it was common wisdom
that troubled students became psychiatrists in an effort
to solve their own deep-seated problems. (20)
Further, scientific studies have shown that mental
therapy is no more successful than simple self-help in
curing mental problems.(21) Drugs merely control
symptoms without correcting basic, underlying problems.
A recent article summarizes the reasons for the
disrespect that psychiatry has richly earned.(22)
However, there is no shortage of mental illness, whether
properly treated or not; it's been estimated "...that
one in three senior management types exhibits a milder
version of manic-depressive
disorder." (23)
Apocalypse ‘R Us!
Religion is one of society's less successful attempts
at curing cultural madness. The cure is generally worse
than the disease, as evidenced in the poor quality of
religious leaders(24) and in the tremendous havoc
wrought by various religious "witch hunts".(25) Further,
both the logic(26) and the promises(27) of religion are
illusory. Even so, what a neat way to control the
miserable masses by keeping alive hope for a better
existence after death!
Apocalyptic cults and craziness abound as described in
numerous books and articles.(28) Such things have been
common in the past as fin de siecle (end of century)
worries arise.(29) The year 1999 promises to be a real
doozie as it also marks the
end of a millennium when the second coming of Christ is
expected by some.(30) Sadly, virtually all of these
cults arise from the fear and sickness of xtian culture.
Actions &
Consequences
To a chaos magician relaxed in the great flow of life,
all this misery is no more than chaff in the wind.(31)
There is neither evil nor good; at most these terms are
mere subjective valuations of pain and pleasure by the
affected person or group. However, actions do have
consequences! Most of the following conclusions are
drawn from examples discussed earlier.
Jump from a tall building, and you will probably die.
Feed cattle in unnatural ways (e.g., on sheep offal),
and unpleasant consequences such as "mad-cow disease"
are likely. Poison the environment with poorly tested
chemicals, radiation, etc., and genetic mutations and
other massive effects become likely. Overpopulate the
Earth, and we'll all go mad and eventually perish in the
filth. Terrify innocent children and adults in an effort
to steal their wealth and otherwise control them, and
grotesque societal aberrations such as Nazism, Communism
and Capitalism will result in the slaughter of millions
of humans and the ruination of the Earth. Use violent
religions to persecute all who disagree with you or
simply want to be left alone, and serial/mass murderers
and others poisoned by your pestilence will lay waste to
the trust that holds a society together. There is no
refuge anywhere -- not in medicine/psychiatry, cities,
guns, money, religion, or even the grim isolation of
locked fortresses.
The Approach to
Chaos Magic
Aleister Crowley wrote, "Magic is the Science and Art
of causing change to occur in conformity with the
Will.(32) " How does this work for a chaos magician?
Bearing in mind that actions have consequences as
exemplified above, I am an absolute moral relativist.
This is not a contradiction in terms. It means that as a
chaos magician, I choose what works for me, bearing in
mind that as a matter of expediency I do not want to
cause harm to others lest it disturb my own enjoyment of
life. At times I am perfectly willing to use traditional
beliefs and methods, but I avoid attaching any ultimate
truth or meaning to them.(33) Further, I know that
science has found both order in what appears to be chaos
as well as ways to use apparent disorder.(34)
This is the underpinning of chaos magic in a nutshell.
Too simple? The best things often are, and we Americans
spend so much time and energy in the mistaken belief
that life must be complicated (expensive, requiring
extensive effort, etc.) in order to be pleasurable. It's
so easy to miss the real, small ecstasies by focusing on
perfection and large, long-term goals.(35)
Can't get into something simple and basic? Then draw
waaaaaaaay back and grok the big picture. A recent
article indicates that "[h]idden planets may be lurking
around as many as half the Milky
Way galaxy's 100 billion stars...(36)"Astronomers can't
yet see the planets themselves, but they're able to
detect wobble in the motion of stars which suggests
they're being pulled around by planets. I see color
pictures of "pillars" of gas 400 million miles long in
the Crab Nebula and wonder why we get so wrapped up in
trivia. We worry and battle with one another over petty
matters and let the deeper things pass unnoticed.(37)
The lesson? In the big picture, very little if anything
is worth agony. "It don't matter no way, no how," is
what some of my less sophisticated friends say.
Children are the ultimate chaos magicians. They tend to
be healthy because they are so unmolded and
unrehearsed.(38) Pain exists in their narrow worlds, of
course, but not concepts of good and evil until
force-fed by adults. Comedian Robin Williams had the
right idea: he prepared for his role in his new movie
"Jack" by spending several days dressed like a
10-year-old boy. Most of us can't afford that luxury,
but it's an interesting concept. Study a child if you
want to refresh your memories of how things were and
could be if we really believed that actions had
consequences, and if we were truly willing to live a
life of pleasure while balancing it with a genuine
effort not to harm other life forms, including the
Earth!
The Practices of
Chaos Magic
The history and specific practices of chaos magic
(sigilization and many other things) are covered in
great depth elsewhere.(39) If you've got the attitude,
don't sweat the details. Nevertheless, I'll offer a
brief overview of one basic chaos magical practice in
order to give a tantalizing glimpse of chaos magic's
potential.
SIGILIZATION is one of my
favorite techniques.(40) It's well known that
advertisers embed hidden messages (often pictures or
short phrases) in their ads so that viewers, while not
aware consciously of the messages, are unconsciously
both receptive and responsive to them. The classic
example is "Eat Popcorn" flashed for a fraction of a
second during a movie, which then causes viewers to buy
popcorn without knowing why.
A SIGIL is a tool used by
a chaos magician to stimulate his or her own
subconscious to assist in achieving one's true Will.(41)
In a nutshell, the magician expresses a desire both
carefully(42) and succinctly in a word or short phrase,
strikes out redundant letters, and arranges them in a
picture while disguising their original nature as
letters. The sigil is "burned" into the mind by focusing
on it until it can be visualized without effort, and
then it is forgotten. One may in fact forget all about
how and why the sigil was constructed. The idea is to
subvert conscious memory, i.e., to make it impossible
for the conscious mind to produce resistance to
fulfillment of the magician's desire. The unconscious
mind is therefore free to produce the currents that will
cause the magician's desire as signified by the sigil to
manifest eventually in the physical world. A rigid
mindset must be avoided if sigilization is to be
effective. (43)
Interested readers are invited to e-mail the author
at: ChasNemo@aol.com.
 
Web URL: http://members.aol.com/ChasNemo/index.html
References for
Further Study of Chaos Magic
Internet
Sites(44)
"Chaos via Internet - a Link
Collection." Explore chaos science here -- lots of
information on fractals and theory. http://eigsg3.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/visualization/chaos_links.html
"Modern Magic - The Chaos Texts."
Excellent site for basic texts on chaos magic! These
are texts either directly or indirectly related to the
work of A.O. Spare, Pete Carroll, Frater U:.D:. or the
IOT (Illuminates of Thanateros).
http://csbh.mhv.net/~dsprague/modmag/modmag.html. See
especially Mark Chao's "Defining Chaos" at
http://csbh.mhv.net/~dsprague/modmag/chaos.txt.
"Tzimon Yliaster's Tools of
Chaos." Tzimon's a cool guy. His site provides links
to information on chaos magic and science, magic
generally and other interesting items such as
magic-related fonts for printing.
http://www.crl.com/~tzimon/
Printed
Materials(45)
Bey, Hakim. Chaos (1985). Autonomedia, Box 568
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11211. Pseudonymous spiritual
and political writings that almost always provoke
rethinking of the status quo.
Brewster, Charles. Liber Cyber (1991). BM DAZZLE,
London WC1N 3XX, England. Limited edition of 333 copies.
This one is best attempted by students with a background
in math and physics.
Carroll, Peter J. Liber Kaos & The Psychonomicon
(1987). Samuel Weiser, Inc., P.O. Box 612, York Beach,
ME 03910. This classic, seminal work by a co-founder of
the Illuminates of Thanateros has been reprinted many
times. Often praised and attacked, it is recommended
both from a historical viewpoint and to better
understand
doctrinal disputes(46) among chaos magicians.
Dragwyla, Yael. The Spare Sigil: Its Construction, Use
Care and Feeding. Privately printed. This 20-page
chapbook is the best I've seen on the subject. Highly
recommended!
Gleick,
James. Chaos -- Making a New Science (1987). Viking
Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010.
Until this seminal work bridged the gap, it could
generally be said that where chaos began, science
stopped. Recommended for those interested in the science
of chaos.
Hall,
Nicholas. Chaos & Sorcery (1992). Privately printed
edition of 300 copies. A relatively sophisticated
approach to the subject with underpinnings of voodoo.
Hawkins,
Jaq D. Understanding Chaos Magic (1996). Capall Bann
Publishing, Freshfields, Chieveley, Berks, RG20 8TF,
United Kingdom. Available in the U.S. from J.D. Holmes
Bookseller, P.O. Box 623, Edmonds, WA 98020, or from New
Leaf Publications (770/948-7845). This is my personal
favorite, with a nice balance of history, science and
practical magic, plus it's not yet out-of-print! Certain
to become a classic. Highly recommended!
Hine, Phil. Chaos Servitors -- A User Guide (1991).
Chaos International, BM Sorcery, London WC1 3XX. Limited
edition of 300 copies. Small (36 pages) but useful
overview, especially in conjunction with the following
two guides.
Hine,
Phil. Condensed Chaos (1992). Chaos International, BM
Sorcery, London, WC1N 3XX, England.. Limited edition of
300 copies. A concise (36 pages) overview of the
subject.
Hine, Phil. Prime Chaos (1993). Phil's first book on
the subject and quite readable, like all his other
materials. Chaos International, BM Sorcery, London WC1
3XX, England.
Hine, Phil. The Pseudonomicon (1994), Chaos
International, BM Sorcery, London WC1N 3XX, England..
Limited edition of 300 copies. Order it in the U.S. from
Illuminates of Thanateros, 7349 Via Paseo Del Sur, Suite
515-205, Scottsdale, AZ 85258. Explore "darkside" magic
from a Lovecraftian point of view in this small (40
pages) but pithy primer, with strong elements of chaos
such as "purposive disintegration". $8.00.
Houston, Siobhan. "Chaos Magic", Gnosis (Summer, 1995),
p. 55. A highly readable overview which emphasizes the
great individualism of chaos magicians.
Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Loompanics
Unlimited, P.O. Box 1197, Port Townsend, WA 98368.
Discordianism, the Church of the Subgenius and the
Goddess Eris are not strictly chaos magic, but the zany
irreverence puts one in the mood and also portends
deeper meanings! $5.00.
Mace, Stephen. Stealing the Fire from Heaven (1984).
Privately printed in New Haven, CT. One of my favorites,
with strong emphasis on A.O. Spare and quantum
mechanics. Highly recommended!
Mace, Stephen. Sorcery as Virtual Mechanics (1988).
Privately printed in New Haven, CT. Another excellent
discussion of the science of magic. Highly recommended!
Pagani, Paula. The Cardinal Rites of Chaos (1984).
Limited edition of 500 copies. Sut Anubis, 73 Kettering
Road, Northampton NN1 4AW, England. More witchcraft than
chaos magic.
Read, Ian (ed.), Chaos International. BM SORCERY,
London WC1N 3XX, England. This is the longest-surviving
journal dedicated to chaos magick. Highly recommended!
Sherwin, Ray. The Book of Results (1992). I began with
the 1978 first edition. A very nice overview by a
co-founder of the Illuminates of Thanateros. Wisely
suspicious of the "guru system and of magical
hierarchies", Sherwin has come a long way!
U:.D:., Frater. Practical Sigil Magic (1990). Llewellyn
Publications, P.O. Box 64383, St. Paul, MN 55164-0383.
Readily available and with plenty of material for both
the beginning and intermediate student. Highly
recommended!
“All mystical experience is
coincidence; and vice versa, of course.”
>>>Tom Stoppard, Jumpers<<<
“Satan is the lies and the evil
hiding behind those plastic smiles of your Christian
world.” >>>oDdbAll 42 (the nomadic lounge
clown)(47) <<<
“Been there. Done that. Shit
happened.” >>>Anonymous Bumper
Sticker<<<
Footnotes
1. Quoted in the “Darkpaths-L”
Internet discussion group.
2. Quoted in the “Z Cluster” of
Internet chaos magicians.
3. “British link cow disease to
humans”, The Plain Dealer (March 21, 1996).
4. The Plain Dealer (March 27,
1996).
5. “Gulf War veterans,
specialists tell federal panel of postwar ills”, The
Boston Globe, March 27, 1996, p. 30.
6. Theo Colburn et al, Our Stolen
Future (1996).
7. Remember thalidomide, the
tranquilizer that caused babies to be born in the
1960’s with grotesque deformities such as flippers
instead of arms and legs? It’s
now being used to treat AIDS in Brazil and being
smuggled elsewhere, and “thalidomide babies” are being
born in the 1990’s. “Thalidomide returns with new
hope, old fear”, Chicago Tribune, March 11, 1996, p.
1.
8. “Growing pains and strain”,
The Plain Dealer, March 31, 1996, p. C1, condensed
from a longer article in Foreign Affairs.
9. See my articles in EsoTerra 5
(“Serial
Murders & the Satanic/Ritualistic Crimes Myth”)
and EsoTerra 6 (“Violence -- the Sour Cherry in
America’s Pie”).
10. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and
the Holocaust (1996). See also David Pryce-Jones’
review of this book: “The Universality of Evil”, The
Wall Street Journal, March 26, 1996, p. A16.
11. John King Fairbank, China: A
New History (1992).
12. Richard Freeborn, A Short
History of Modern Russia (1966).
13. “Sublimate” means “to divert
the expression of (an instinctual desire or impulse)
from its primitive form to one that is considered more
socially or culturally acceptable.” Webster’s New
Collegiate Dictionary (1981).
14. Examples: the four-movie
“Hellraiser” series, and more recently SAE Video’s
“Death: The Ultimate Horror”. The latter 90-minute
extravaganza will delight most all “gore whores”; call
1-800-666-9061 for more information, or visit SAE
Video’s web site at http://www.deathnews.com.
15. “Gunman turns wrath on
children”, The Plain Dealer (March 14, 1996). Almost
30 5- and 6-year-olds and three teachers were killed
or wounded in gym class. The gunman “...had been
turned down for a job at the school and had become
hostile because he felt isolated in the community”
following accusations of improper behavior involving
children.
16. “Concealed-Gun Laws Give
Businesses the Jitters”, The Wall Street Journal,
March 5, 1996, p. B1.
17. “Working Scared”, Legal
Assistant Today, November/December, 1995, p. 24.
18 “Vampirism, including sampling
blood, is the latest youth rage in the South”, The
Plain Dealer, February, 1996.
19. “Economic Anxiety”, Business
Week cover story, March 11, 1996, p. 50.
20. No, I am not a shrink, nor
have I ever been treated by one, although reasonable
minds might disagree as to whether I should seek
treatment! };-)
21. J. Moussaieff Masson, Against
Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of
Psychological Healing (1988).
22. ”High Anxiety -- In the Name
of Freud, Why Are Psychiatrists Complaining So Much?”,
The Wall Street Journal, December 21, 1995, p. 1.
23. “The Latest Management Craze:
Crazy Management”, The Wall Street Journal, October 8,
1996, p. A23. With so many mentally-disturbed key
executives throughout American life, is it any wonder
that business, religious, political and military
matters are so totally fucked up??? Mental illness,
coupled with rampant crookedness among our leaders, is
the reason why I can say that after more than a
quarter of century working with key people in the
business world, I have never met a decent human being
at or above the level of vice-president in any
organization.
24. The Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and
Tammy Bakker and Oral Roberts scandals are too well
known to require further discussion here. For sordid
yet insightful analysis of the peccadilloes of a
variety of American religious leaders, check out
Lawrence Wright’s Saints and Sinners (1993).
25. See the FMS Foundation
Newsletter (subscription $30/year) for further
information on so-called “False Memory Syndrome”.
People suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder
and other mental illnesses have been persuaded by
unscrupulous ministers, psychologists and police that
they have repressed memories of sexual, Satanic and
other abuses. The FMS Foundation publicizes scientific
research showing that memories are easily influenced
by hypnosis and other techniques. Therefore, memories
cannot be trusted without external corroboration. For
more information, write to the FMS Foundation, 3401
Market Street - Suite 130, Philadelphia, PA
19104-3318, or call them at 215/387-1865.
26. Underlying xtianity is the
concept of a loving, all-knowing, all-powerful god.
How to explain the existence of evil? Either god
chooses to allow evil, in which case he/she/it is not
loving; or god cannot prevent evil, in which case
he/she/it is not all-powerful and probably not
all-knowing. The concept of “free will” seems to be a
cop-out at best (what kind of god would create
imperfect, suffering animals?) and not to correlate
with reality at worst (so-called “oncogenes”
pre-determine that one will develop cancer; that
certainly is not free will!).
27. I have yet to see anyone
comforted by religion in the final hour of death.
28. Adam Parfrey, Apocalypse
Culture (1990). Feral House, P.O. Box 861893, Los
Angeles, CA 90086-1893. See also Paul Boyer, When Time
Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern America
(1992). Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St.,
Cambridge, MA 02138.
29. ”Once more with feeling;
postmodernism and millenialism”, Society, November
1995, p. 32.
30. Technically speaking, the end
of the millennium won’t happen until December 31,
2000, as xtian fear-mongers undoubtedly will hasten to
note when 1999 passes without incident!
31. I want to emphasize that I
have had as much misery in my life as most and more
than many, and being human I have fallen short of my
ideal balance on many occasions, but I “keep on
truckin’”! I’ve come to believe that adversity and
persistence make pleasure much more delightful when
finally achieved!
32. Quoted in E.E. Rehmus’ The
Magician’s Dictionary (1990), p. 139.
33. I do not do rituals within a
circle (contrary to the practice of ceremonial
magicians who want to keep “good energies” in and “bad
energies” out). I also refuse to follow any particular
ritual format (also contrary to ceremonial practices),
since I tend to believe that excessive focus on
procedures diverts energy from achievement of results.
Even my daily life becomes an ongoing “ritual” of
sorts!
34. James Gleick, Chaos -- the
Making of a New Science (1987).
35. Ram Dass, Now be Here, Now
Here Be (1978).
36. The Plain Dealer, September
12, 1996, p. 9-A.
37. I recall a physics teacher my
telling us right before a major exam that it was
foolish to worry about such a small matter in the long
journey of life. “In ten years you won’t even remember
what this exam was about,” he said. He was right!
38. My son, now a Dean’s List
engineering student, came up with this slogan around
the age of 10: “It’s a sick world, and I’m a happy
guy!” Neither overly attached nor detached, caring and
cynical at the same time, he flows contentedly through
life.
39. My personal favorite is Jaq
D. Hawkins’ new Understanding Chaos Magic, In her
previous incarnation as Mark Chao, Ms. Hawkins wrote a
classic essay titled “Defining Chaos”, now on the
Internet at http://csbh.mhv.net/~dsprague/modmag/chaos.txt
40. This technique is described
in much greater detail in excellent resources such as
Hawkins’ Understanding Chaos Magic and Dragwyla’s The
Spare Sigil: Its Construction, Use, Care and Feeding.
My short description is a gross oversimplification.
41. The recognition and
achievement of one’s “true Will” is a subject fraught
with peril (e.g., self-deception) and is dealt with in
great detail in the
writings of Aleister Crowley and many others.
42. If one wants to visit Paris,
for example, don’t use “I want to” as part of your
succinct phrase, lest you achieve a lifetime of
wanting without ever doing it. Just use “visit Paris”.
43. Rigidity can be destructive
whether it is general (as described above in the
attitude one has to the madness of the modern world)
or specific to the desired result of sigilization. Yet
one must always believe (without rigid expectations)
that actions have consequences somehow, even if they
are not immediately apparent.
44. Since printed works on chaos
magic often are issued only in small editions and
become rare very quickly, the Internet is a readily
accessible and inexpensive way to begin study quickly.
However, web sites come and go quickly, so check a
search engine such as Lycos (http://www.lycos.com) for
the latest information.
45. Atlantis Books (49a Museum
Street, London WC1A 1LY, England; phone
011-44-1-71-405-2120) is a sophisticated occult
bookstore which may stock or be able to locate both
new and rare publications dealing with chaos magic.
Highly recommended!
46. Yes, Virginia, there are
doctrinal disputes among chaos magicians, who are the
last people on Earth that one might expect to argue
over such matters. Indeed, the granddaddy of all chaos
groups, the Illuminates
of Thanateros, even has degrees!
47. Quoted in the “Darkpaths-L”
Internet discussion group.
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