Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
Phil Hine
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 1935150669
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Condensed Chaos provides a practical introduction to Chaos Magic, one of the fastest growing areas of Western Occultism. Through it you can change your circumstances, live according to a developing sense of personal responsibility, effect change around you, and stop living as a helpless cog in some clockwork universe. All acts of personal/collective liberation are magical acts. Magic leads us into exhilaration and ecstasy; into insight and understanding; into changing ourselves and the world in which we participate. Through magic we may come to explore the possibilities of freedom.
From the author of Prime Chaos and The Pseudonomicon.
First Lord's Fury (Codex Alera, Book 6)
The Hero and the Crown (Damar, Book 1)
Castle of Wizardry (The Belgariad, Book 4)
Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights
stages, which I will explain using the acronym S.P.L.I.F.F. S—Statement of Intent P—Pathways available? L—Link intent to symbolic carrier I—Intense Gnosis/Indifferent Vacuity F—Fire F—Forget STATEMENT OF INTENT The first stage of the process is that you should get your magical intent clear—as precise as possible without, at the same time, being too overcomplicated. Vague intentions usually give rise to vague results, and the clearer the initial statement of intent is, the more likely you are to
that this is not the case. The iceberg of individuality arises from the medium of mind which we all share. The iceberg itself can be seen as a complex lattice, composed of the interconnected psychic structures, from which arises the sense of personality, and our sense of unique "I-ness". These icebergs are not immutable or static entities (though we tend to regard ourselves as such). They are continually being shaped by experience. One might even say that Magic, as a way of inducing change and
the process of becoming more adaptive to experience. One of the more subtle 'defenses' that it throws up is the sneaking suspicion (which can quickly become an obsession) that you are 'better' than everyone else. In some circles, this is known as 'Magusitis', and it is not unknown for those afflicted to declare themselves to be Maguses, Witch Queens, avatars of Goddesses, or Spiritual Masters. If you catch yourself referring to everyone else as 'the herd', or 'human cattle', etc., then it's
events. In mask-work, rather than trying to think yourself into the role of the mask, as might be suggested by its appearance, a trick is to stop thinking, and let the mask do the work. The masks personality may arise from the Deep Mind, while the waking awareness is distracted. This can be done by humming loudly to block thoughts while donning the mask. PRECAUTIONS Mask-work needs to be approached carefully if it is to be done at all. It is a powerful aspect of dramatic experience and should
need no utterances from rebel angels to announce the uncertainty of the future. Although it is ever the folly of the young to sneer at the mistakes of their forebears, let us not forget that, in essence, their magics worked; that we are here. Even now, I feel the stirrings of the next generation of magi, and it is my fervent hope that they too will surpass the present generation; that they will not be seduced by the past, but will take magic forwards. Just as the transcendental emphasis of the