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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]
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]
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, following Spare, sigils are commonly created in a well ordered fashion by writing an intention, then condensing the letters of the statement down to form a sort of monogram. The chaos magician then uses the gnostic state to "launch" or "charge" the sigil—essentially bypassing the conscious mind to implant the desire in the ...
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.
The figure of Baphomet, as depicted by Éliphas Lévi in Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1856), has been adopted as a symbol by adherents of left-hand path belief systems. In Western esotericism, left-hand path and right-hand path are two opposing approaches to magic.
According to Spare, feeding sigils with free belief incubates "obsessions", which in turn gives rise to complexes. [ 7 ] [ 2 ] Peter J. Carroll writes: "These beings have a legion of names drawn from the demonology of many cultures: elementals, familiars, incubi, succubi, bud-wills, demons, atavisms, wraiths, spirits, and so on."
The occult is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms of any otherworldly agency. It can also refer to other non-religious supernatural ideas like extra-sensory perception and parapsychology .