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Chaos Current
A directory of chaos magic.
Chaos magic is a contemporary magical practice that treats belief as a tool and is eclectic in its techniques. This site is a collection of books, essays, blogs, podcasts, videos, tools, communities, and archives.
If you're new to chaos magic, the intro is a place to start.
Suggestions welcome at chaos@chaoscurrent.org.
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A widely cited case study of a group-built chaos magic servitor: Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen and a working group's creation of Fotamecus, a viral time-compression entity. Treats servitor construction, naming, sigil binding, and propagation as practical engineering. Hosted on Chaos Matrix.
Rysen's follow-up to the Fotamecus working: what happens after a servitor is released into a collective, who is responsible for its actions, and how to dismantle one that has outgrown its operator. Hosted on Chaos Matrix.
Stephen Mace's sorcery-engineering text. Treats servitors as virtual mechanics with constructible properties, drawing on Spare's sigil work to outline a complete operative system. A direct influence on both Carroll and Hine. Out of print; canonical record on Open Library.
Peter J. Carroll's own retrospective on founding the Illuminates of Thanateros: the Pact, its early years, structural decisions, and its evolution into a working magical order. Reads as both history and guidance for anyone considering an order. Hosted on the Hermetic Library.
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth's self-description of their non-hierarchical "station and access point" organisational model — a widely known alternative to the IOT's order structure in the 1980s and 1990s chaos-adjacent world. Hosted on the Hermetic Library.