'Death of a Chaos Magician'

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A brilliantly composed article shedding light on the Chaos Magick phenomenon, from one person's perspective -

http://theblogofbaphomet.com/2013/09/04 ... -magician/

I find it to be an important explanation and reflection.. for practitioners, would-be practitioners or those simply interested in learning about and comprehending Chaos Magick.



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Thank you for this Noc, I'm going to print it out and read through it now!


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Brilliantly laid out and presented!!

I loved this:
If I work with these states of ecstasy and the expansion of Self that they represent, where am I left in facing the ultimate mystery of death? I find myself in a place of openness – sitting with my own uncertainty and fear, but also open to the possibility of a further becoming and remanifestation that even the Vale of death cannot contain.


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I enjoyed this article very much.
It was well written and thought out. :U
Thanks for sharing!
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I am not impressed: The Forum Minority Report.

1. The Necronomicon is a hodgepodge of "pickings" from "The Black Box" and The Necronomicon is an astral mess that deals with "THe Shells" within the Qlipphoth section of The Qabalah.

2. Austin Osmon Spare, was a brilliant man who talked about aspects of the defined word Chaos as through Greek Mythos, and basically (and happily) took his que from William Blake's 2 books: The Marriage of Heaven & Hell; and, also, The Book of Urizen. And was also involved with 777 by Aleister Crowley and Allan Bennett; also, I would be surprised if he read G.R.S.Mead's Thrice Greatest Hermes; and Herbert Silberer's Alchemy.

3. Nothing has been said here about primordial language, i.e. "superstrings" are now seen in science as the sub-atomic building blocks of life, an sveral of us have actually seen these "supstrings thru the use of Ayuhuasca, and have recognized that these superstrings are totally conscious, and the force that created (over time) All written or scripted languages - sound being controlled by sight.

4. The Chaos Magicians to a large degree have shown no interest in going behind chaos as a shidel for living in a somewhat dangerous universe. And because of this have absolutely no knowledge of the highest level of tantra (Anutarayoga Tantra) and "Beyond Tantra" with the Ati Practices. Thus The do not see the concept nor the reality of Vajrabhairava The Lord of - The Lord of Death - In other words, a Concious being above Death. Nor have they looked into the real world of Alchemy.

5. Chaos as a meaningful concept is simply a word or two that says all is random and even that is not true...To me personally, Chaos as talked about here and other places, is simply a way to walk away from scrutiny, planning, and actually having little interest in Astrophysics that does indeed show and demonstrate order.

6. Chaos Magick is a hodgepodge mixture of some Grimoire Attitudes and Practices mixed with a repressed desire to destroy culture or denigrate what is going on in culture, and is the latest version of Nihilism. And I feel that CHaos Magick's slogan s/b "Nothing Matters Unless I Say So, Ugliness is Cool, Beauty is Ugliness or if not it is not enough ugly to be considered Beauty. And the Concept of Death is Ever Present

7. People have a right to believe this sort of nihilistic word play, but where does it lead? What happiness does it create? What power does it give us? And I do wonder why death and its relationships is so much a part of the Chaos Practicioner's daily life. Every new book I have read on the topic is intellectual, but without any mention of "lasting joy". If my only choice was to be either Sid Vicious or Lenny Bruce.....I would pick Lenny - He was a nice friendly guy and very funny. Whether true or not, it appears (and appearances are important & powerful) that within the ranks of Current Chaos thinking, there is no Compassion.

Envoi: Thre is much suffering in the world. To me it makes no sense to worship the Suffering Itself - Whether that of Jesus or that of the many ordinary people on the street, or the forces that do create suffering.

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A personal view of Kaos, I find that there is beauty in many things, not a big fan of brutality. Though I do enjoy horror movies and novels (contradiction I know). However for me, it is about being honest with yourself. Looking past the limits, and learning from everything, using what you can, and discarding what you do not need. And finally learning to paradigm shift. Not the official definition of Kaos, but my own.


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darklordmidnight wrote:A personal view of Kaos, I find that there is beauty in many things, not a big fan of brutality. Though I do enjoy horror movies and novels (contradiction I know). However for me, it is about being honest with yourself. Looking past the limits, and learning from everything, using what you can, and discarding what you do not need. And finally learning to paradigm shift. Not the official definition of Kaos, but my own.
Your own definitions seem fine to me, but I wouldn't call what you said - as a Chaos form of View. Instead, I would suggest reading a really cool book:

Pragmatism by William James

Also, re Chaos, it would seem to me that instead of all this verbal fruit salad, people so inclined could just read: The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

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Will look into them, thank you Caiyros


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Glad you guys enjoyed the article, it was a nice find.
A lot of people still don't really get what Chaos Magick is or where it came from. I have more quality reads I may be posting in the near future.


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Thanks for posting this article! I am still very much in the beginning stages of learning about all this, and I'd love to read anything else you might be posting in the future.


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