Light

The purpose of this discourse is to consider light, darkness, and neutrality. They are all energy. They all interact with each other. These three forces are simply a model of reality. They do not ultimately define reality in and of themselves. Nothing save for direct experience of reality itself can define reality. It comes at you on a multidimensional continuum, and most of the dimensions are not observed by yours truly, though they may be observed by yours faithfully, God.

What a comforting thought that there is a benevolent power that created a malevolent power because he had to in order to create the conflict/dance that facilitates the existence of the universe. I’ve never met such a power, and to have faith in something based on rumors is a tremendously naïve position on the face of it. However, it is sometimes useful to use this faith, and it does produce results when used properly. Monotheism remains an indispensable tool in paradigm shifting.

When one can become a Jew, Christian, or Mohammedan, read the holy book, and experience it, one can see through the priests, and one can understand the underlying unity and balance of the system of the Gods in those tomes despite the control mechanisms of the priests who wrote them. The religions would not have power if they did not contain universal truths hiding among the profane lies of the clergy who have convinced us that the records are more important that what the records are recording. They, along with politicians, have convinced us that clothes make a person.

As Allan Watts pointed out, persona is from Latin. When we say person, we mean persona, or mask. Having studied Latin myself, I can confirm that it does literally mean, through [it] sound, sound travels through it. It is necessary to add words to Latin in order that the meaning can be understood in English; there is a word that is added frequently when reading the myths in Latin or listening to them is performed. A persona was a mask. Old Roman masks have the orifice of sound; they worked as a road cone does in amplifying one’s voice. A person is a mask. Your clothes make up, decorations, and accessories are that mask, or glamour.

Those who disagree should consider that naked people have no authority in any civilized society. Take off your clothes and walk around trying to get things done and see how many days you last before you’re taken to jail or worse. Your clothes are what allow you to function in society, and they are what allow you to be who you are in society. A Turkish scientist once went to speak to some European scientists, he wore traditional Turkish dress, and he was laughed at. When he came back years later in a suit, he was listened to and his ground breaking theory was accepted.

This is actually no great secret. People who pay attention to their dreams will note that they often have dreams of showing up naked to school, business, or other engagements, or where everyone else or everyone is naked. People are told to think of everyone sitting there in their underwear if they are nervous and so on. This fact is advertised to us by the very society that hides it from us. Look around and see how many naked people you see respected in society. It’s not even polite to talk about nakedness, and forget about anything remotely sexual, it’s all taboo.

Nudist colonies cause such a stir. These people were interviewed on talk shows like Donahue and all sorts of accusations were thrown at them from the audience, accusations that could easily apply to them, and with the same amounts of evidence to support either charge. One wonders if this isn’t because a vast majority of society is overcompensating for the sins they commit behind closed doors that they can’t bear the thought that someone else might be getting away with. Their lies reflect their own lies and they can’t stand it.

Janet Jackson’s nipple gets some time of the idiot box and the country is up in arms about the indecency and shock that it caused, and when they get home, they flip through the channels that show the bombing of Iraq, the demonstrations against it, the hushed tones of the VP, and the construct Prez created by his various advisers who has become quite a strong and powerful character in the cast, and nobody really minds that this man just lied to them, and continues to lie to them and destroy the Constitution through psychological, intelligence, and counterintelligence operations on the people in addition to the abuse of the people’s military and the good order and discipline of the United States of America.

This shows you what the people really believe in, and in the end, the people get the government that they deserve. It’s a sad and hard fact. Most people need the system, they need the wars, they need politics, and they need the lies. The deeper into the fabric of society they become, the more dependent upon these processes they become. How many of them can hunt, fish, butcher, farm, survive, fight off a giant cat, organize into groups of six, create fire, use the human ingenuity that has secured us our position at the top of the food chain. Now animals invade our cities attacking people, it’s a strange phenomenon now, but, I predict that it will increase in the future because nobody knows how to deal with the older survival tactics of human life.

Some will say, “We don’t need those things now, we have a system.” What if the system fails? What then? What about roving blackouts? Hurricane? Floods? Earthquakes? Did anyone pay attention to Katrina? The debacle was due to lack of cooperation between the governments at State and Federal levels; one cannot put all the blame on the Prez, which is the easy bullshit non conformists’ easy answer to the problem. The answer is, those people were not adequately prepared to deal with such a thing, and it’s not the Federal Governments responsibility to train them! By putting that on the Federal government, you’re giving them more power to spy on people.

A human is not neutral, perhaps not even when the human incarnation has deceased. There is a relationship between the observer and the observed. Therefore, an observer cannot be neutral. In making the choice to be neutral he still affects the outcome of the observed simply by his presence. This effect may be subtle, even imperceptible, but, the effect is there simply because the relationship exists. Because of this, it is said that neutrality is an excuse to do nothing. They say a lot don’t they?

Yet in the state of no mind, a human can be neutral. He is then filled with whatever is around him. If an observer in a state of no mind encounters a riot, he will become that riot unless instructions have been given to him as to how to react in this situation. The energy can be transformed and utilized as a function of the operators’ choice. This can be thought of as the eye of the hurricane, action and inaction.

A human is composed of light and darkness. A human is a unified entity that is composed to two halves. There is a mirror in your body. The universe is unified and dualistic, as we are, and as everything is. DNA divides, and so does everything else. Thus, we get unity and duality all at the behest of a force that we can probably never know, at least not in our human state.

Energy: An Automatic Writing

A hostile energy was harmonized by a banishing energy.  The banishing
energy re-sequenced into chaos.  Chaos created a psychic energy
interaction, the purpose of which was to gain more insight into the
energies and their synergy.  Will dictated that the interaction should
cease and automatic writing should be utilized by the Chaos to create
the energy paradigm.

The energy paradigm will allow us to transcend the labels of language.
These labels cut reality into un-natural positions.  The easiest way
to demonstrate this is by looking at Euclidean Geometry and Fractals.
In nature, we observe fractals, mirrors, simple code systems i.e. DNA
giving rise to complex fractal, symmetrical, and asymmetrical forms.

Euclidean Geometry is not observed in the universe.  In fact, the only
time I ever saw a line was when a Mathematician drew a line segment
with two arrows pointing out from each side indicating that it went on
forever.  I'm still not sure if I really saw a line, and I'm wondering
if maybe I was conned.

This understanding extends to language.  Forms are created in language
that simply do not exist outside of the construct / convention /
whatever you want to call it.  While it may have been obvious to
humankind at one time that this was the case, it seems to have escaped
the awareness of many, and there are a few who do recognize and ask,
so what?  We need better models.  Did you create the English language?
Whose language are you reading in now?  Whose language do you think
in?  Would it be unfair to say that when you control language you
control thought?

The energy paradigm is a step towards de-conditioning some of the
fixed subjective associations between objects, systems, and events in
objective reality.   Those associations were taught to you, as they
were taught to the people who taught them to you.   By simplifying
life into energy, things can become so much simpler and easier to
understand.

Reality wiggles, and we use constructs to put a net around this
wiggle.  This catches it and forms a grid so that we can navigate upon
it.  Of course, this net is a useful and necessary tool, yet, how many
nets have you woven?  Language is a net of reality.  When we lose
sight of the wiggle, we are lost.  If I were to point at the moon and
you kept looking at my finger, someone might think you are foolish,
but, this is what we do with our models, and it is equally foolish to
some people.

Quarks, neutrinos, neutrons, electrons are all made of something, some
type of energy/force/wave/particle synchronicity.  In this, we can
agree that everything is made of one thing, energy.  Perception and
will also fall into energy itself as the perceptions are formed by
another energy, and will is exerted by energy to another.  There are
many dreams, and a few dreams, and one dream.

By undertaking this automatic writing discussing the events of the
past and what is happening now in the consciousness is important, and
it may help us to better assimilate this energy paradigm.  We know
this is a child's tool, but, we realize that in this we are children
and we must proceed as such.

It is desirable for us to observe the world differently.  Our current
thought process enforces upon us that this is a computer, and that I
am typing into it.  This new paradigm will create process where the
Chaos is manipulating energy to create a pattern of light energy
expressing perception and will.  It makes reality easier to
understand, and allows us to be more in contact with it while removing
the shackles of the previous conditioning.  As one learns a new
language, one's thought processes change, and learning a new paradigm
does the same thing.

The President is a dolt – how can America be a success?

The President is a dolt – so how can America be such a
success story?
Anatole Kaletsky



TWO CEREMONIAL events occurred in Washington on
Tuesday evening that shone a spotlight on one of the
most important but paradoxical features of a modern
democratic society.
The more widely reported was President Bush’s State of
the Union address, a weak and defensive speech even by
his undemanding standards. At the other end of
Washington, meanwhile, Alan Greenspan, the retiring
chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, was bidding
farewell to the institution whose skilful management
of US monetary policy made him the dominant figure in
the world economy for the past 18 years. What connects
these two events is a paradox that has baffled many
people, especially in Europe, ever since George W.
Bush became President.



For the past five years, America has been led by a
president who is clearly not up to the job — a man who
is not just inarticulate, but lacking in judgment,
intelligence, integrity, charisma or staying power.
Yet America as a nation seems to be stronger, more
prosperous and self-confident than ever.

As the State of the Union address made clear,
President Bush has more or less given up on all the
grand goals that were supposed to define his
presidency: social security reform, peace in the
Middle East, even the axis of evil doctrine, which was
supposed to disarm North Korea and Iran. Most
embarrassingly, President Bush seems to have given up
on capturing Osama bin Laden or bringing to justice
the perpetrators of 9/11.

But now comes the paradox. While America has been run
by one of the most doltishly ineffectual governments
in history, it has forged ever further ahead of Europe
in terms of wealth, science, technology, artistic
creativity and cultural dominance.

Why does America’s prosperity and self-confidence seem
to bear so little relationship to the competence of
its government? The obvious answer is that America,
founded on a libertarian theory of minimal government,
has always had low expectations of politicians. In
America, it is not just business that thrives
independently of government, perhaps even in spite of
government. The same is also true of other areas of
excellence which in Britain are considered
quintessentially in the public domain — higher
education, leading-edge science, culture and academic
research. Because Americans expect so little of their
government, they are rarely disappointed. They do not
slump into German-style angst when their governments
fail to find solutions to the nation’s problems.

This anarchic spirit was summed up by Ronald Reagan:
“The ten most dangerous words in the English language
are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help
you’.” In Europe, by contrast, the public expect
government to solve all problems, and the media try to
hold politicians accountable for everything. The
result is a culture of dependency that extends far
beyond the welfare state, to business and to the
worlds of education, medicine, arts and science.

The American approach has a powerful advantage rooted
in human nature: private sector activity is powered by
economic incentives, while the State must operate by
rules and sanctions. Since incentives, as Adam Smith
observed, are much more likely to stimulate creativity
and effort than sanctions, private enterprise tends to
achieve ambitious objectives, while government often
fails.

But while the weakness of US government may in some
ways have helped to widen the gulf of achievement
between America and Europe, there is another and
opposite side to the story — which is where we must
return to Mr Greenspan. American politicians may be
incompetent and venal, even by European standards, but
this is not true of the public realm as a whole.
America has a host of public institutions, ranging
from government bodies such as the Federal Reserve and
the National Institutes of Health to charities such as
the great universities, museums and hospitals, that
are driven by a sense of public service that puts
British and European bureaucracies to shame.

The American system recognises that a capitalist
economy has areas of market failure where incentives
alone will not produce socially desirable results. But
American public institutions try to maximise private
activity and incentives, rather than rein them in,
within their realms — whether it is universities
encouraging professors to start businesses, or health
administrators creating incentives for drugs companies
to do medical research. It is in this respect that Mr
Greenspan most clearly represented the genius of the
American system.

Mr Greenspan realised that his job at the Fed was not
just to control inflation, the goal that other central
bankers recognise. His real task, he explained last
year, was “to achieve the maximum sustainable economic
growth, with price stability pursued as a necessary
condition to promote that goal”. Although a passionate
advocate of small government, he realised that
well-judged public intervention was necessary, not
just to maintain stable prices but also to create the
incentives for private enterprise to accelerate
economic growth. He also understood that the best way
to deal with the imbalances in the changing world
economy was by supporting growth and allowing the
greatest possible freedom for financial markets.
Private investors, he believed, were more likely to
find solutions to the complex challenges created by
globalisation than central bankers or politicians.

But while Mr Greenspan believed that private
incentives solve economic problems more successfully
than government diktats, he also understood that
capitalism works at its best if it operates in a
sound, simple framework of ambitiously pro-growth
monetary policy. His genius was to understand that
public policy could be simultaneously minimalist and
ambitious. In a sense, this is the genius of the
American system. And this is why America does not need
a genius in the White House.


a.kaletsky@thetimes.co.uk

Some friendly advice...

Maintain balance control by allowing your body weight to sink and be carried by deeply flexed knees.

Remember to breathe along with your movement. Unconsciously holding your breath can unknowingly produce unneeded muscle tension, and could result in gasping release of breathe if you are startled or accidentally unbalanced.

Stay alert to the entire scene. Do not become so engrossed in watching your feet that you do not notice other people an elements entering the surroundings.

Use all joints for movement, emphasizing fluidity through the engagement of the ankles, knees, and hips for stepping. Avoid the lazy and dangerous habit of stiffening knees and swinging the entire leg from the hip.

Maintain your weight and balance on your grounded leg while you move the other leg into position to bear the weight. When absolute silence is a must, avoid distributing your weight over both legs at the same time.

If practical, allow your hands to float lightly in front of and beside your torso, one arm higher and one arm lower, to detect possible obstructions before your committed body weight encounters them.

Pause and hold your position if you feel that you have accidentally caused too much noise. Listen for signs that you were heard, such as the movement of others or the immediate silencing of background noise following your slip. Sink a little lower on your knees to physically relax that could normally jump into your body with alarm. Take a deep breathe and release it slowly to further relax. Continue your pause for as long as you feel is necessary to regain composure and allow possible listeners to decide they did not hear anything after all.

Be as patient as possible. If speed of travel is not important, take as much time as you can. Impatience and the resultant hasty movement that it encourages are the greatest dangers to the person who must move silently without detection.

Keep your movement appropriate to your surroundings. Do not go to greater lengths than necessary to conceal your movement, while at the same being aware of what others entering the area may see if they cannot hear. Total silence may not be needed when moving through wooded or densely populated areas where scattered noise is a natural part of the environment. Also be aware that low profile crawling or sliding ma be the only way to move silently without being seen in some locations.

Chaos Magic Theory

Chaos Magick Theory

Fra. Ratatosk, 2nd degree

Chaos Magick remains a unique discipline in the clutter of occult practices, theories and methods, which litter the landscape of modern magical endeavors. It resembles no other system because it purports to not be a system. Chaos Magic eludes the boundaries, clichés and preconceptions, which cling to every previous system of enchantment devised by man. It holds to no dogma, foists no belief or lifestyle upon the practitioner, prescribes no limits to the aspirant, and presumes no one set of beliefs is inherently better than any other set of beliefs.

Chaos Magick arises out of meta-paradigmal theory. Which is to say, that everyone exists within a set of beliefs (a paradigm) and that it takes something greater (meta) to explain the parallel workings of multiple belief systems. Chaos Magick Theory, therefore is only that – a theory. It does not function as a paradigm, a set of beliefs.

An error made by many who have read the works of Peter Carroll, Phil Hine and other chaos magick authors, is to partially digest the writings of these men and then go around claiming to be a chaos magician. Nothing could hold a higher degree of inaccuracy than this fallacious claim. Upon further examination of chaos magick theory, one realizes that its core ideas themselves preclude it existing as a self-sustaining belief system. One may practice chaos magick theory within a belief system (i.e. a paradigm), one may even use the tenets of CMT to create a paradigm and then to dwell within it, however; one cannot live within a meta-paradigm. One cannot live within a theory.

So there really exists no such thing as a chaos magician per se, although, others and I will use that term in order to distinguish practitioners of CMT from other magicians. So how can you tell a chaos magician apart from your run-of-the-mill occultists?

There is a litmus test. Quite simply ask of yourself, or another, the question, "Do you believe in an ultimate truth or being?" A 'wrong' answer consists of "yes" or "god" or "goddess" or "self" or "country" or whatever. A 'right' answer may fall along the following lines: "Maybe" or "no" or "not today", depending upon the respondent.

The litmus test is based upon the oft-coined and misunderstood phrase, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." A statement, which pretty much describes the universe in which we all seem to share an existence in. To some, it means: "Nothing - not even this statement holds objective truth, and therefore every conceivable action can and will occur." To others it means, "The absence of existence (void) exists and therefore reality consists of complete subjectivity." To others, "Everything I've been taught up till now is a lie, therefore I can do whatever the hell I want to do." A license to revolt.

There exist many other possible interpretations of the statement, the above only applies to my so-called "litmus test." Others have stated that it implies: "Believe Nothing, Dare all, on Earth there is no reckoning", and I find this makes sense. Others hold that the phrase is not a rejection of responsibility but a statement of freedom.

To Thelemites restriction is a sin. To a chaos magician restriction means self-imposed limitations in order to fully enjoy life. For a while, a chaos magician may understand that the only thing stopping him or her from committing rape, murder, arson, assault, lies, etc. etc. is him or herself. The chaos magician understands that the only thing keeping him or her from getting killed, raped, set on fire, assaulted, lied to, etc. etc. is the restraint that others impose upon themselves. (Whether or not they understand this.)

Chaos Magick Theory also distinguishes itself from non-meta-paradigmal magical theory in that it first and foremost attempts to obtain results. Chaos Magick itself holds that several techniques have been known to produce magical results regardless of the belief system in which they were practiced. These techniques have been classified under the term "Gnosis" (Greek for 'direct knowledge', connoting 'direct experience of god') and are sub-divided into two categories. Excitatory is best described as pushing physical, mental and emotional limits to their breaking point (without losing complete control. Examples include, but are not limited to: drumming, dancing, chanting, extreme states of anger, fear, etc.. The other category is termed inhibitory, the best example of which is a state of total quittance brought about by prolonged meditation.

What Pete Carroll and other chaos magick authors observed, is that extreme states of consciousness often lead to para-psychological events. That extremes of stress often precluded unexplainable events and happenings. The supernatural intruded upon the lives of individuals who had the capacity of whipping themselves up into a frenzy or of stilling themselves to single-pointed consciousness.

Chaos magic is the conscious effort to harness these states to produce controlled results. While it remains difficult to quantify these results and the states which cause them, chaos magicians will obtain results on a regular basis. A claim which few others in the occult world will make. Chaos magicians might even be the first to respond to, "well prove it", with something besides an evasive answer. Asking a chaos magician to "prove it" just might garner the rather frightening response "I'll see what I can do."

Chaos magicians will also do something that few others in the occult world will do. A chaos magician will take responsibility for his success or his failure to achieve a result. You'll NEVER hear a chaos magician say, "it was not god's will" or "the stars were not right." (Oh alright, you may hear a chaos magician say these things, but I think that they'll be having a laugh.) Chaos magicians also walk through the world gleefully ignoring such 'powerful' lines of dogma like, "that's bad karma dude" or "if you do evil it will come back on you three times."

Chaos magicians practice magic which center on obtaining results. Those results are dependent of several factors; the first is the ability of the magician, the second is the probability of the event occurring naturally. Novice chaos magicians begin by obtaining reasonable results, experienced chaos magicians have been known to do achieve what some might consider impossible.

Paradigmal Piracy

This act of eclectic gathering combined with the habit of never staying within the confines of one paradigm too long, is what we call paradigmal piracy. The chaos magician takes on the belief system necessary to obtain the desired results. As the chaos magician grows within that system he or she will add elements from other paradigms. Conversely speaking, the chaos magician will also ignore or "delete" elements of the paradigm which are spiritual 'clap-trap' or do not produce the desired results.

Chaos magicians may practice the techniques of chaos magick but they must do so within a specific paradigm, which roughly means that a chaos magician must believe in something in order to obtain results. What specifically the chaos magician believes in is entirely up to them. I've seen those that think the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft is a powerful paradigm. Others have worked within the Wiccan paradigm for years and obtained fantastic results. Still others are hardcore atheists (like the author). Chaos magicians are Setians, Satanists, Santeros, Sorcerers, Kitchen Witches, Thelemites, Cabalists, etc. etc.

A simple way of understanding chaos magic theory vis a vis any paradigm is to think of a meta-paradigm and a specific paradigm in the following manner: Consider the paradigm itself as the explanation and the meta-paradigm as the action. Chaos Magick Theory consists of a series of techniques, actions if you will. The results of which depend upon what the practitioner desires as an outcome. The paradigm, and it can be any paradigm, consists of how we explain our universe to others. The paradigm is the why. "Why did you do that?" "Why did you want that?" The meta-paradigm is the how. "How did you do that?" The techniques are devoid of meaning. The paradigm, in many cases, devoid of method. Everyone exists in a paradigm. Some people who exist in a paradigm use a meta-paradigmal theory to move through that paradigm.

Perhaps this is why many occultists who are ONE THING fear chaos magicians. The chaos magician will take what they need from a paradigm and then move on. Don't like something about being a Wiccan? Ignore it! Don't like treating Set as an objective entity while being a Setian? Believe that he is a metaphor.

What rather frightens non-chaos magicians is the ability for chaos magicians to get results while treating the paradigms in which they dwell with such a cavalier attitude. Nothing frustrates a 'true believer' more than someone who acts like a 'true believer', because he has to do it in order to get what he wants; and then is no longer a 'true believer' once he gets what he needs.

While a 'true believer' will stomach the idiocies of his or her paradigm without complaint, a chaos magician will simply ignore them BECAUSE they are idiotic. A chaos magician will never accept, "that's true because I/the bible/the high priestess said so." The chaos magician will treat things as true when it suits him and ignore them when it does not.

The fact that various god forms, egregores, demons and goddesses don't strike down chaos magicians left and right must really be starting to annoy some people! What's worse is that chaos magicians are currently having their cake and eating it too when it comes to the beliefs of others. We take what we need and then move on. Works for you? Maybe it will work for us. Doesn't work for you? Too bad. The chaos magician will move onto something that does work.

Many existing occult groups have come up with tons of useful magical material. The chaos magician should feel free to use whatever system works best for him. The chaos magician should also not hesitate to join a group of non-chaos magicians in order to learn what they are teaching.

One more point on the subject of paradigmal piracy. Attitude is everything. You'll never gain an ounce of real knowledge from anyone or any group by going in cock-sure and know-it-all. Show these magicians deference and respect; many of them have been at this magick thing for decades and could possibly teach you a lot, if your mind is open to it. While their beliefs are a matter of convenience for you; it is a matter of lifestyle for them. I've found many groups open to me even though I was a chaos magician. I was honest with them, up front and they still shared everything.

Nuts and Bolts

As mentioned above, chaos magick theory involves the use of altered states of consciousness in order to effect magical change upon the world. While many paradigms use altered states in order to obtain results, they do so in a rather haphazard fashion usually attributing the results of the magician to "the goddess/god, the stars, true will" and not giving credit (or blame) where it is due.

Peter Carroll outlines chaos magick theory in a precise (and pedantic) fashion in Liber Kaos, with several magical formulas. I like these formulas for their simplicity and the obvious absence of any extraneous forces, but then I'm an atheist magician. I've included them here so that the reader can get a taste of the underlying theory. A far better explanation of these formula comes from the author himself.

M = G x L(1-A)(1-R)

Pm = P - P x M 1/(1/-p)

All factors are between 0 and 1.

M equals the force of your magic. Which is dependent upon your G (Gnosis) and L (magical Link) multiplied by two negative factors. (Things working against you). Your conscious awareness of the desired result (1-A) and your subconscious resistance to doing magic (1-R) -i.e. "Mommy told me magick doesn't work."

In the other formula, P equals the chance the event you desire occurs by itself; (1/(1/-p)) equals the chance that the result you desire will not occur. Pm equals the combination of the Probability that the event will occur combined with your magical effort to make it occur.

So we're really looking at the two steps of magical activity. The first step is "How good was my magical act?" The second step is "Did it work?" These formula have the nice component of including the rather random nature of the universe. For example, you do a really good magical rite.

Absolutely great. However, it was to make the your High School Principle disappear in a big "poof!" on graduation day. As your High School Principle is not in the habit of going "poof!" this event has a ridiculously low probability of occurring naturally, thus dragging down significantly (but not eliminating) the probability of him going "poof!" during graduation.

Regarding the first formula, to get a really good magical result you have to get M as close to 1 as possible. So the better the Gnosis and the stronger the Magical Link, the better. The factors of conscious awareness (1-A) and subconscious resistance (1-R) are factors which must be reduced or brought closer to 0.

As anyone who does magick knows, it is not hard to get a good magical link, if you want something bad enough, odds are you are close enough to get a piece or representation of it. As many chaos magicians know, it is also fairly easy to obtain a state of Gnosis. So these bases are covered. What separates the "men from the boys" are the negative side of the equation. Chaos Magicians are aware of the annoying fact that a lot of things will come to be a long time AFTER we have desired them to be. Conscious Awareness hit 0 and the event occurred. How often have you heard anyone, not just a magician say, "It happened when I least expected it", or, "I had completely forgotten about it, then it happened." No lust for result anymore, objective manifests.

Subconscious resistance is a factor which vanishes with time and success. The more magick you do, the better your results; the smaller this factor becomes. More experienced magicians simply get better results more frequently. They BELIEVE in themselves and that contributes to their success. The same factor comes into play for faith healers – they and the patient BELIEVE that the patient will be healed and thus, it happens.

The second formula brings the capricious nature of the universe into play. Lets face it, we want something bad to happen to someone and it happens. Now, did it happen because we cursed them or did it happen because they finally pissed off one person too many and someone in a bar took a swing at them?

This question should remain an academic one for the novice chaos magician. He should take credit whenever possible. Not in order to build up an inflated ego, but in order to get into the habit of thinking "Heh, I did that!" Slowly wearing down that factor of subconscious resistance in the first formula. With time, and in an effort to stave off megalomania, the more experienced magician should ask themselves, "Did I do that or did it occur by chance?"

The most experienced magicians realize, in my opinion, that magical results are usually a combination of chance and magick. Accepting that things just sometimes happen, but that the magician may also be playing a part, keeps the mind balanced and the goals of the magician reasonable.

Another thing, which the novice chaos magician should keep in mind, uses the nature of the universe to help you achieve the results that you desire. Enchant for events that have a high degree of probability of occurring naturally. This will get you used to success and will allow you to build confidence for more difficult workings. Flowers don't bloom in the dead of winter. Don't attempt to cut your teeth on making the impossible happen, you will fail and your magickal ego will suffer accordingly.

Another gem of wisdom from the mind of the man whose been there before. Don't enchant for something and then DO NOTHING about it. You can't meet the man/woman of your dreams by sitting at home all night, you can't pass that physics test by not studying. You can't get a big pay raise by always showing up late for work etc.. As your workings become progressively more difficult seek to tip the hand of chance by creating "avenues of manifestation" – help the universe give you what you want.

Chaos magick theory is a meta-paradigmal theory. Specifically it contains the techniques necessary to accomplish successful acts of magick. Chaos magick theory will not, in and of itself, make a successful magician. That is up to the practitioner himself. However, there exists within chaos magick theory the idea that only RESULTS are the measure of a successful magician. Results take time, energy and effort. A little fact that many may ignore to their own peril.

Fra. Ratatosk

Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Luminous Superstructure

A Kiasphere is visualized by the Magician. I am not sure if "Kiasphere" is the proper name for this glowing, rotating, dual system structure*. It appeared to me in a cosmic trance party that I was invited to in a dream. I was on the cosmic beach dancing and in communion with the universe itself. Suddenly, in the sky there was a beautiful sphere structure that had lines of latitude and longitude contained within the structure of the sphere. They left wide gaps at their borders created by the four intersections found in all of the patches that constitute its surface. There are other lines that must form some sort of rectangle that is bent and warped somehow so that it surrounds the sphere and rotates in the opposite direction! Through this manner, it oscillates! It glows a deep, penetrating medium blue with strong purple imperfect beauty. The structure is majestic and beautiful and a pleasure to behold. For lack of a name, I call it Kiasphere, but, this has no more meaning than Chaos or God. The name is part of a complex relationship of convenience.

The Kiasphere should be composed of kia molded by the magician for the purposes of banishing, and in creating a kind of status field where nothing happening outside of the sphere at that moment will affect the magician in any way until the kiasphere is given back to the universe with thanks.

For now, the Kiasphere rotates in its binary systematical manner being, in reality, two different systems fused together for the desired length of time. The magician first clears his body and mind of tension, desire, dialogue, and all other constants. He becomes empty. He enters the state known among certain circles in Japan and students of those circles across the seas as "mushin" ( 'moo' –like a cow does, 'shin' –opposite your calf').

Some might have a magical identity that they use exclusively for work, as a ninjya in ancient Japan would when he operated. At this point, after the creation of the Kiasphere and entering mushin, one should change to that identity. At this time, one should evoke the necessary elements to get in character.

In the interests of efficiency, I will shorten the formula for the next part of the process and simplify it greatly from the originally intended text. The magician will look and point in the appropriate direction and give the appropriate grunt for the particular entity being invoked. After doing this, the magician will visualize a ray of light of the appropriate color using the Chaosphere system to determine the entities, colors, and directions with some modifications made by the author.

All of the rays originate from an empty construct 6 inches in front of the magician's heart with a three inch diameter. The rays penetrate the Kiasphere, and when inside they mesh together with it joining the systems. There is no problem if the magician wishes to take time, or say a verbal or silent prayer or incantation and whatever the magician needs to give the grunt that will say it all. The grunt should say it all, so whatever is needed to create that grunt is to be determined by individual discretion and suggestions from valued sources.

The list below shows the directions in the interests of efficiency:

1. down                    –                     ego
2. back                    –                     death
3. right                   –                     thinking
4. random                  –                     love
5. up                      –                     psyche
6. front                   –                     sex
7. left                    –                     health/wealth
8. random                  –                     war

The center of the construct is empty, and that center is placed in the magician's heart. This connects the magician's heart to the Kiasphere which, in turn, connects him to the universe itself. The heart then pushes the sphere up where it jumps out of the head for a moment before descending below the feet and bouncing back up to rest in the hara, an area slightly above your belly button, your center of gravity. *Through this method an axis mundi is created which connects all of the worlds, all of existence, and all of space-time. This is the place where magic can be performed
effectively. One must know that one is doing this, and must assume the responsibility involved with doing such a thing.

The magician then gives some sort of mantra or chant that symbolizes the completion of the axis mundi and the necessary substructures needed to facilitate its creation. The author has always liked, "Look into the eyes of the dragon and despair, I dispel you into oblivion!" The area is clean and ready for you to execute your magic. The actual magic is performed including the gnosis. After the working is complete, the magician stands with great majesty and authority and says "Forget!" , and immediately begins laughing in whatever manner suits the magician. The magician laughs the structure away, and laughs himself into the world where his magical self resides behind the masks.