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Chaos magic, also spelled chaos magick, [1] [2] is a modern tradition of magic. [3] Emerging in England in the 1970s as part of the wider neo-pagan and esoteric subculture , [ 4 ] it drew heavily from the occult beliefs of artist Austin Osman Spare , expressed several decades earlier. [ 3 ]
Three main types of gnosis are described in chaos magic texts: [12] Inhibitory gnosis is a form of deep meditation into a trance state of mind. This type of gnosis uses slow and regular breathing techniques, absent thought processes, progressive muscle relaxation, self-induction and self-hypnosis techniques.
"Playback: My Personal Experience of Chaos Magic with William S. Burroughs, Sr". Ashé Journal of Experimental Spirituality. 2 (3) P-Orridge, Genesis (2003). "Magick Squares and Future Beats". In Metzger, Richard (ed.). Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult. Red Wheel / Weiser. ISBN 978-0971394278.
Spare's technique became a cornerstone of chaos magic. [7] It also influenced artist Brion Gysin, who experimented with combining Spare's sigil method with the traditional form of magic squares: Calligraphic magick squares were one of the techniques most commonly applied by Gysin.
The Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT) (/ ɪ ˈ lj uː m ɪ ˌ n ɪ t s ɒ v ˌ θ æ n ə ˈ t ɛr oʊ s /) is an international magical organization that focuses on practical group work in chaos magic.
Magic, sometimes spelled magick, [1] is the application of beliefs, rituals or actions employed in the belief that they can manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces. [2] It is a category into which have been placed various beliefs and practices sometimes considered separate from both religion and science.
A servitor is an entity "specifically created by the magician to perform a set range of tasks". [1] Phil Hine writes that servitors are created "by deliberately budding off portions of our psyche and identifying them by means of a name, trait, symbol", after which "we can come to work with them (and understand how they affect us) at a conscious level."
In Magick (Book 4), Part II (Magick), Aleister Crowley lists the tools required as a magic circle drawn on the ground and inscribed with the names of god, an altar, a wand, cup, sword, and pentacle, to represent his true will, his understanding, his reason, and the lower parts of his being respectively.