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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]
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 ]
Essentially, chaos magic consists of a set of techniques for deliberately engineering synchronicities. [17] As Carroll makes clear in later texts, magical "results" consist of "meaningful coincidences" or "a series of events going somewhat improbably in the desired direction." [18]
In chaos magic, playback is a form of magical practice developed by William S. Burroughs, ... Gnosis (chaos magic) Kia (magic) Sigil (magic) Synchromysticism; References
Pages in category "Chaos magic" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Gnosis (chaos magic) I. Illuminates of Thanateros; K. Kia (magic) P.
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."
The Traditionalist School philosopher Julius Evola, in his Revolt Against the Modern World, referred to an elite of spiritually aware people, who keep Tradition alive, [8] [9] as "those who are awake, whom in Greek are called the εγρῄγοροι", [9] apparently alluding to the Watchers, [8] and the most literal sense of their name, which is "wakeful" or "awake".
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.