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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 ]
It is the official symbol of the Illuminates of Thanateros, a magical organization dedicated to chaos magic. [ 3 ] The symbol's first appearance in a commercial role-playing game was in the Dungeons & Dragons supplement Deities & Demigods , which featured gods and monsters from Moorcock's books.
In chaos magic, gnosis or the gnostic state refers to an altered state of consciousness in which a person's mind is focused on only one point, thought, or goal and all other thoughts are thrust out. [1] The gnostic state is used to bypass the "filter" of the conscious mind – something thought to be necessary for working most forms of magic. [2]
In chaos magic, playback is a form of magical practice developed by William S. Burroughs, primarily as a way of placing curses on people or places. [1]
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."
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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. The idea was first announced in 1978, while the order proper was formed in 1987.
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