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In them, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern. The symbol has been adopted in role-playing games such as Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons , as well as modern occult traditions, where it represents chaos magic , and also as a part of punk rock subculture and branches of modern anarchism .
They described it as a new kind of magical order and a meritocracy with strict admission criteria, where membership was based on demonstrable magical ability, rather than on invitation by members. They described the IOT as a "spiritual heir" to the Zos Kia Cultus and a "fusion of Thelemic Magick, Tantra, The Sorceries of Zos and Tao". [7]
Carroll split the concept of the Holy Guardian Angel in two and speaks of two Holy Guardian Angels. According to his work Liber Null and Psychonaut, one is the Augoeides, a projected image of whatever the magician strives for; [11] the other is quantum uncertainty, which ultimately determines the acts of the magician and is a spark of the only true creative force, the chaos of chaos magic.
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 ]
It teaches magick and Thelema, which is a religion shared by several occult organizations. The main text of Thelema is The Book of the Law. [13] Ordo Templi Orientis was reworked by Aleister Crowley after he took control of the Order in the early 1920s. Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica functions as the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis. [14]
The horizontal columns have many categories pertinent to religion, mythology and magick given in some 32-parts each. The Hebrew alphabet, the tarot cards and the astrological glyphs total 22-each and are given to the paths as a map of the magician's universe.
"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.
Chumbley's work is cited in several journals and books on the occult including The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, a juried academic journal, [22] [23] [24] Ronald Hutton's The Triumph of the Moon, [6] Laurence Galian's The Sun at Midnight, [25] Phil Hine's Oven Ready Chaos, [26] The Pomegranate journal [27] and The Cauldron magazine.