Stephen Mace - "Shaping Formless Fire: Distilling the Quintessence of Magick"

Magick depends upon no abstract philosophies, and doing it requires neither devotion to any god or demon nor knowledge of the True Keys of the Mysteries. Instead it is a technique for recognizing and manipulating psychic energy, both within the psyche and outside it, and for acquiring the mental skills we need to do this effectively. If the details of this technique can seem involved, well, the psyche is a complicated instrument, and psychic energy is slippery stuff to deal with. We must learn to manage it within our psyches and also to split it off so it can act independently to produce the "meaningful coincidences" we require.

 Magick is a psychic technology, a collection of observations about psychic energy and the techniques for manipulating it. Shaping Formless Fire presents these with a simple elegance that contradicts the notion that Magick must remain a hidden art. There is psychic energy with us and all around us. We use its power to make our worlds, and to master it is to learn how to make the worlds we require. To see it as merely the way we perceive the world is to put ourselves at its mercy, and forfeit its power. (From Amazon.com)

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Stephen Sennitt - "The Infernal Texts: Nox and Liber Koth"

Both NOX and Liber Koth were briefly published as booklets in the mid-1990's by Logos Press and have remained in high demand ever since -- especially by those interested in Chaos Magick. Now, Falcon has made them available in a single volume.

NOX includes 22 Infernal Texts from the Order of Nine Angles, the Werewolf Order, and the Esoteric Order of Dagon by such notables as Phil Hine, Anton Long and Stephen Sennitt. The diverse topics range from "Satanism, Blasphemy & The Black Mass" to "Lovecraft & The Dark Gods"; from "Are You a Werewolf?" to "The Rite of the Dark Star."

Liber Koth is a revolutionary synthesis of Dark magical currents which goes beyond all restrictions and takes us a step closer to Greater Reality. Liber Koth is a book of invocations. It utilizes Lovecraftian symbology including Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, Cthulhu, Tsathogua, and others. "No one can undergo this experience unchanged. It is the culmination of the circle manifestation which the wheel of chaos (Koth) represents." (From Amazon.com)

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Phil Hine - "Complete Chaos International Magazine Articles"

* Update 13/12 - Corrected the down. link.

This is the the complete set of articles contributions from Phil Hine published on Chaos International Magazine. Most of these articles are signed by Phil Hine himself, other ones are signed using the pseudonyms “Kalkinath” or “Cliff Othick”.

 It contains the 24 articles listed bellow:

"Endles rest inscrutable suspense"
"The collapse of the state vector"
"Kundalini - A personnel approach"
"Morons from inner space?"
"Sodomy and spirituality"
"Evocation - A cybermagick perspective"
"Droplets" (Fiction work)
"Mania and gnosis"
"The physics of evocation"
"When egos collides"
"Stirring the cauldron of chaos"
"The destroyer of obstacles"
"How chaotic are you?"
"The cycles of chaos: desconstructing initiation"
"Possession"
"Left handed tantra"
"Evocation without sniffles"
"On the magical egregore"
"Sacred speech"
"Magic for healing: A shamanistic perspective"
"Bhairava: the Wrathful"
"Secrets of hierarchy & letter from a Luciferean"
"The magic of need"

Highly Recommended!!

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"The Octavo: A Sorcerer-Scientist's Grimoire" - Peter J. Carroll

A chaos magick theory of everything. Improbable? And therefore possible! Having followed Frater Stokastikos' journey to perceive the shape of the universe, I've found the developments fascinating, and also impatiently wondered how these new discoveries apply to magick exactly. Well, now I know. In The Octavo Peter J. Carroll expounds a new map of the universe providing no less than a map of magick and therefore reality itself.

Abandon your current perceptions, suspend your disbelief, and rejoice in a viable replacement for that absurd big bang theory: does an exploding singularity make a sound if no-one can hear it? I think not. If your present map of the universe does not get turned completely inside out, it will at least get redefined. But don't panic, because the very first magickal equation, the Spell of the Binding, reassuringly stops our worlds from literally falling apart. And neither will we imminently implode; cue the Spells of the Spinning which account for our ongoing dynamism.

But of course, if the shape of the universe seems so obvious after the first two chapters, why have we spent all this time getting it so wrong? The Spells of Illusion explain our civilisation's folly regarding our misperceptions to date. Then we find out that magick works in this universe because chaos exists. And the Spells of Subtle Magic explain why our whims don't materialize instantaneously.

The next two spells have the most familiarity to me as the core of Stokastikos' earlier published equation of magick: link * probability. Finally we have a practical magickal application for wave functions in the Spells of the Linking. The magickal link has probably suffered the most misunderstandings as one of building blocks in spelling, while the Spells of Impractical Magic show us just how much probability we need (and can do without) for our enchantments. Now that we have most of the theory, we can add the finishing components and put it all together with the Spell of Practical Magic.

The eighth and final spell brings us back to the map where we started. We can navigate any terrain more effectively the better our map. And the same applies to magick. The Spell of the Narration shows us the need to understand the boundaries and somewhat more esoteric equilibrium that ebbs and flows between entropy and negentropy. Only mere decades after Crowley lamented the lack of rigorous investigation into the properties of the aether, Frater Stokastikos articulates a delicious theory of how and why magick works. But this map leaves plenty of uncharted territory (finite but unbounded specifically) for the most adventurous explorers to venture into. Mind the beasties, especially ourselves. With the knowledge of the eighth spell, we can aim for a happy ending - no guarantees of course - but Stokastikos challenges us to ask ourselves what we use our magick for.

After the eight spells, the action doesn't stop. A call to arms no less to avert an apocalypse, or at least choose our preferred flavour. Do you have what it takes to transform into a Knight of Chaos? Add an invocation of Eris for chaotic inspiration, flex your strategic muscles in Sorcerer's Chess and we complete this whirlwind of rebel physics and rebel magick. I can't even begin to explain the maths and physics in the book, and happily I don't need to - Stokastikos does this expertly enough. If you think he has got it wrong, enjoy yourself trying to disprove it.

Of course, the very name of the book The Octavo comes from that parallel Pratchett universe the Discworld. Just as its namesake contains the eight spells which hold the Discworld together, so too does this Octavo hold us in Roundworld. But it also liberates us. What can one say about a book that redefines our understanding of our existence: original, essential, with far-reaching implications? All of the above and much more. Expect a journey through the aeons as well as around the universe, and a tantalising invitation to create our future. By the end of the book, phrases like "vorticitating hypersphere" and "immanentising the eschaton" will seem like your everyday vocabulary. But mind when and where you use them: don't forget what happened to those who first challenged the flat world theory.

Review by Star Anise (Australia), on Amazon.com

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"Pop Magic!" - Grant Morrison

POP MAGIC! by Grant Morrison.

This reproduction is faithful to the edition published in The Disinformation Book of Lies and is not intended in any way to infringe on copyright, but simply desires maximum exposure to those who might not otherwise come in contact with these ideas.

POP MAGIC! is Magic! for the People. Pop Magic! is Naked Magic! Pop Magic! lifts the 7 veils
and shows you the tits of the Infinite.


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"Talking With Gods - Grant Morrison" (Documentary)

Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is a feature-length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the Scottish comic book writer Grant Morrison. Talking with Gods features interviews with Morrison and many his most collaborators, such as artists, editors and other industry professionals.

Among those interviewed are Executive Editor of DC Comics Dan Didio, and Karen Berger - Executive Editor of DC Comics' Vertigo. Artists interviewed in the film include Phil Jimenez, Jill Thompson, Cameron Stewart, Frazer Irving, Steve Cook and many others. The film also features interviews with Morrison's collaborators Geoff Johns and Mark Waid, as well as counterculture personalities like Richard Metzger, Douglas Rushkoff and Jason Louv.

Sure, this documentary has scenes detailing the comic author's experiences with spellcasting, psychedelics, and alien abduction. But essentially it's about a quite ordinary fellow who wanted to make comics and succeeded like a madman. Grant Morrison doesn't fit the profile of your average comics writer, he dresses in very nice suits, looks like he's from the future, and talks freely about past drug use and his unabiding love for chaos magic.

He's ridiculously cool and could be a comics character himself - a feat he routinely pulls off by basing characters on himself and even appearing in one of his early comics. It is interesting the Idea of his work "The Invisibles", an assumed Hypersigil that he empowered while he began to live like the characters in his book. He went to the same exotic locales, imbibed the same substances, and went on adventures to the extent that the comic was as much a memoir as a book following a group of super hip magic anarchists could be.

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Grant Morrison - Disinformation Lecture (Documentary)

Grant Morrison talking at the disinformation talk in about 1999. A fantastic speech by a brilliant character. He talks on The Invisibles, how to use magic to hack into the matrix of reality and expand your consciousness, magic, sigils, hypersigils, and a lot od metaphysical things. It is full of useful information, personal experience & humor which is great if you're interested in consciousness, spirituality, 2012, magic, quantum physic i.e..

I love this lecture. So refreshing and he has that childlike joy too. Brilliant!

Highly recommended!!

You can download the video lecture, and (or) the transcription of the lecture plus an interview on Grant Morrison by Richard Metzger.








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"The Grimoire of Vokaor" - Katara Zunmir

Now, this is a quite interesting work!

Vokaor is an original magical system using the "Primals" of Void, Chaos, Order, Energy, Matter, and Consciousness. This grimoire is intended to give any interested magician the tools needed to use Vokaor and a context for it, beginning with a cosmology and providing the building blocks for the system and how it can mesh with the Great Web of the universe.

I must say that this little book has in it pages, the true concept of what should be the true Chaos magick, since Ms. Katara Zunmir has created a brand new magickal  system. It is worth reading the introduction to understand some concepts that a lot of Chaoist says, but only a few really understand.

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"Philosophy and Practice of Magick" - Peter J. Carroll

At any time in life, but most commonly in late youth, when we have the vague intuition that there is something profoundly bizarre and inconsistent about life, the universe, and everything, there may suddenly be a horrifying or ecstatic certainty that one's own self is illusory, and that reality is also an illusion.One's carefully defended identity seems to be a pointless pretence and an empty shell.The world becomes a cacophony of meaningless sensations.Most people will reject this initiation, and manage to fill their lives and identities with sufficient concerns until perhaps an awareness of mortality reminds them of it again.Those who do drink the poison must seek stronger medicine or become sick or mad. - Peter J. Carroll

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"The Chaos Magick Audio CDs Vol 2 - Liber Bootleg"

This is an interesting CD set. It is a re-release of some out of print cassettes that were previously available. The first disc is introduced as being a collection of basic magick workings. Most of the rituals on this disc are protective rituals that can be used as alternative banishing rituals. The introduction suggests that some of them can be used for basic personal fortification, protection from nightmares, or from poltergeist activity. It also warns against attempting these rituals while heavily under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The first two rituals come from the Golden Dawn. The first being a version of the qabalistic cross, the second being a “Dispersion by Pentagram”. These are followed by “Mass of Chaos C” and a reading apparently from “Theogony of Hesiod”.

An “Asgard Pathworking” is next, which for me is one of the highlights of CD1 of this set. The pathworking takes you on a journey to Asgard where you must pass Heimdall before reaching Valhalla and having an audience with Odin. This is the easiest of the rituals to follow but some knowledge of runes would be of use to the listener.

Next is “Pillar of Chaos” which aims to improve visualisation and can be used to relax and recharge the individual at any point of the day it may be required. It is quite a simple techniques to follow and I certainly found it relaxing.

“The Mummy and The Mirror” is an interesting guided enegry movement, which uses Egyptian mythology and iconography to help one create a protective shell around oneself. I can myself using this ritual a lot as it is easy to follow and works with a paradigm I don’t normally use.

“Green + Black” is an odd ritual that could do with a lot more explanation before I could say much about it.

The cd finishes with a basic gnostic banishing ritual.

All in all I think this is a very interesting CD that could be very useful for the Chaote to get inspiration for new workings if they feel their practice is getting a little stale. The introduction to this cd gives the impression of being an introduction to magickal practice. I thing it does have the potential for this but most of the rituals are not fully explained, which would leave the novice wondering what is going on. If this had been accompanied by a short booklet explaining each track then I would highly recommend it to novices.

CD2 in this two CD set is much better in my opinion. The introduction gives much more insight into what is to follow. It states that the rituals presented are only presented as a historical record of the practices of the individuals at the time of recording. It also suggests that invocation and evocation are exercises not suitable for the beginner who should begin with the other disc.

The first ritual on the disc is “Mass of Chaos B”, which is the mass of Chaos published in “Psychonaut” by Peter Carroll. I always find it fascinating to hear others performing rituals that I myself have engaged in and this is no exception.

The next track is “The Enochian Call of the 10th Aethyr”, which is quite drawn out and is one of the least interesting tracks on this disc, though it may appeal to those iwth an interest in Enochian/John Dee.

“Disursus Cum Daemone” is an invocation of Choronzon to ask advice. Invocation is an area I haven’t yet experimented with so this made for interesting listening. This ritual and the one that follow it are the highlights of CD2, in my opinion.

The next ritual is “Evocation of Tiamat”. For me this is the best of the historical records on this disc. Tiamat is invoked to give advice for the Chaotes present. Tiamat comes across as quite funny and is obviously enjoying the experiment and amused by the humans. This track on the CD alone is worth the money for me.

“Target Practice” is another ritual that is not given much of an explanation but is an interesting listen all the same.

The CD ends with a “Chao/Runic banishing”, which is quite basic and could be useful for those looking for ideas for a personal banishing ritual.

This CD of the two probably offers the most to both beginners and old-hands at the magick game. With the fuller explanation at the beginning of the CD novices will have more of an idea of what is going on and be able to see what kind of things are possible if they stick to their magickal practices. More experienced magickians will get the benefit of hearing other people performing rituals that they may include in their own practice. They may even pick up some different approaches. A couple of the tracks are just entertaining hearing the interactions between the magickians and the invoked beings. I’m glad these cassettes have been re-released in cd form and are more readily available.

If I were to give this a mark out of 10 it would have to get a 7. This would be improved by the inclusion of a booklet explaining some of the nuances of the rituals presented.

Review by Spinal Nature

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"Nocturnicon: Calling Dark Forces and Powers" - Konstantinos

A Dark Neopagan, Konstantinos has been researching the occult and practicing magick for over fifteen years. Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Konstantinos now devotes his time to writing, singing Gothic rock music, and exploring nocturnal life in New York City

Dark Magick in the sense that it is not inherently evil, but something that alot of the contemporary wiccans would shun. So if you are looking for black magick, you will disappointed. Which is why I think the other reviewers wrote as they did.

His magick is usable, and is indeed different than modern magick. I do not consider this a weakness. There are Elements in these rites if you know what you are looking at. However, death, darkness and such are chaotic. Hence the chaotic way of forming the circle. Those who understand the balance of nature also understand that light=order and dark=chaos. These rites were refreshing, and interesting to read. Some people claim he is making his own kind of magick...but is that not we all do when we write our own spells and such? Some claim he is pandering to goth mentality. Well, I suppose you could say that any other wiccan or ceremonialist is pandering to the fluffy bunny mentality also. It is a matter of perspective.

Indeed, a very useful book!

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Khaos For None and All - DKMU

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Phil Hine - An Introduction to Banishing Rituals

If I had a £1 for every person I've met over the years who's said, "oh I don't bother with banishing rituals" - and
then wondered why they started to have problems with their magic - I'd probably have, er..well enough money for a meal in a decent London restaurant. A Banishing Ritual is one of the first practical exercises that you should learn in magic (in my view, anyway), and by doing so, you can save yourself a lot of trouble later on.
Banishing is also known as Centering, which in many respects, is a more accurate term for the exercise.

So what is a Banishing Ritual?

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Tantrum Magick - Phil Hine

The following is the notes for a workshop which was held at the London Ananke conference of
Global Ritualism and Magick on the 10th April, 1999.

This workshop demonstrates some ideas which have recently come up in the work of the
Ganna Chakra – the Tantric magical group that I work in.

Basically, it starts from two related premises:

That gods & goddesses – and by extension – Guru-figures – don’t always behave in the
ways that we might expect them to, and The Ganas – the horde of hobgoblins, spooks and spirits who accompany Shiva.
There seems to me to be a general perception that ‘spiritually advanced’ beings – or if you like, people who are ‘making progress’ in their magical development - have somehow ‘conquered’ their egos – so that they appear calm, placid, and not given to outbursts of temper, irrational behaviour – that they have ‘overcome’ their passions – or have worked with them to the extent that they can ‘control’ or ‘subdue’ them – at least in public or everyday social situations.

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Magical Use Of Voice - Phil Hine

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On Cursing - Phil Hine

Phil Hine - A presentation made at UKAOS 1992

People tend to view Cursing in the same way that they view masturbation. There's a hell of a lot of it goes on, but most people aren't going to admit to it, much less that they're any good at it, or have made a careful study of it. Another common factor between the two practices is that those individuals who come to rely too heavily on either, are generally awarded the same appellation

.... Wankers!

But what, after all, constitutes a Curse?

This (2 fingers) is a curse - meaning, 'may your wife be unfaithful to you'.
"Fuck Off and Die" - a curse
"Have you heard about so & so - they've got AIDS" - a very powerful curse indeed.

In popular Occultism, Cursing is pretty definitely seen as 'Black Magick', except of course when you can justify your reasons for doing it - like the Wiccans who once attempted to Magically attack me because I was plugging 'the Left-Hand Way' in Pagan News

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Ovenready Chaos - Phil Hine

What is Magick? Several definitions float into my mind, but none of them do it full justice. The world is magical; we might get a sense of this after climbing a mountain and looking down upon the landscape below, or in the quiet satisfaction at the end of one of ‘those days’ when everything has gone right for us. Magick is a doorway through which we step into mystery, wildness, and immanence.

We live in a world subject to extensive and seemingly, all embracing systems of social & personal control that continually feed us the lie that we are each alone, helpless, and powerless to effect change. Magick is about change. Changing your circumstances so that you strive to live according to a developing sense of personal responsibility; that you can effect change around you if you choose; that we are not helpless cogs in some clockwork universe. All acts of personal/collective liberation are magical acts. Magick leads us into exhiliration and ecstacy; into insight and understanding; into changing ourselves and the world in which we participate.

Through magick we may come to explore the possibilities of freedom.

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Permutations - Phil Hine

Permutations is a collection of four essays which I feel throws up different perspectives - a ‘window’ if you like - into the diverse forces & feelings which have shaped my approach to magical work and concepts. Readers will discern a strong autobiographical element within these pages. This is a deliberate style, as I have found that the act of unveiling how magic has affected me personally, is a key to communicating the often
abstract ideas which relate to the ‘hidden’ faces of magic - which are often difficult to carry across in bite-sized chunks.
Simply saying “this is how such-and-such should be done” and leaving it at that - is not an approach which works for me. The magical power of ‘concealment’ is well-known. The power of revealing oneself, warts ‘n’ all, is less well-attested.

These four essays reflect different areas of my magical work which I have found, for various reasons, to be at times, problematic. Writing is for me, both an earthing and an exorcism. This collection is not quite ‘practical’ in the same way that my other books are, but nonetheless, I feel that the reader may find some useful points herein, which cross all boundaries of magical activity.

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Counting Coup - Phil Hine

The growth of Chaos Magic has seen a rise of interest inactively researching into Magical Combat techniques and theory. However, I am not proposing that people take out their frustrations on each other (for slights imagined and otherwise) to a deadly extent, but to propose that Magical Combat can be used as a training exercise.
True instances of Magical Combat are rare indeed. In fifteen years of active magical practice I have only been attacked by other magicians three times - and in each instance, was able to do something about it. I daresay there have been more attempts, but seeing as I haven't noticed them, they've either been extremely subtle or, as is more likely, have failed utterly.

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Cacodemonic Copulations - Phil Hine

The subject of Incubi and Succubi and their visitations is rarely dealt with by modern magical writers, although they have been used time and time again by various hacks of the horror genre. Sex-Demons have been banished - either explained away as hallucination or junked as a product of Christian mastubatory mythos. Any occultists this side of the twentieth-century that do mention them, usually do so in the context of
warning against traffick with such entities, believing that the dangers of loss of vitality or obsession is the inevitable result.

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