A 24-card divination deck. Each card pairs a recognizable life situation expressed as a tech metaphor with a systems-theoretic reflection on the pattern.
Chaos Current / Everything
Everything
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.
Chaos Magic!!! — Peter Carroll's course at the Maybe Logic Academy No longer available
Gabriel Kennedy's firsthand account of Peter Carroll's chaos magic course at Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy. Walks through the seminar's group practice methodology, exercises, and the dynamics of online magical instruction.
A modern reference book on egregores. Not chaos magic native, but frequently cited in current chaos discourse on group thoughtforms and corporate or national entities. Mark Stavish writes from a hermetic and Western mystery tradition position.
Venkatesh Rao's lay essay threading egregores, hyperstition, and chaos magic meme-work into a single readable frame. Covers Kek, GameStop, and QAnon as worked examples of collective reality-making. Public post on Rao's Contraptions Substack.
Synthesizes Stavish, William Gibson's "semiotic ghosts", and the tulpa/egregore overlap into a working theory of group thoughtforms. Sable Aradia (Diane Morrison) writes from a Wicca-leaning position; the piece itself is squarely on egregore theory. Hosted on Patheos.
Crowley's commentary on the Thoth Tarot, illustrated by Frieda Harris. The canonical Thelemic tarot text and a reference point for many chaos magic decks. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Peter J. Carroll on apophenia — the perception of patterns in randomness — as the cognitive mechanism underneath all divination. Connects divinatory practice to his Apophenia godform and the broader sigil and probability work of chaos magic. Hosted on Specularium.
A widely circulated 1990s chaos magic taxonomy essay distinguishing sigils, servitors, egregores, and godforms as a continuum of constructed entities. Bylined "Marik" by community convention; formal authorship not established. Hosted on Chaos Matrix.
Carroll's standalone presentation of the eight-colour magic system from Liber Kaos, including the godforms assigned to each colour: Apophenia, Babalon, and the rest. A chapter-length godform reference rooted in the chaos current. Hosted on the Hermetic Library.
Joshua Wetzel's chaos magic training grimoire, written from an IOT-member position. Substantial sections on godform construction, invocation, and the eight-colour pantheon. Print-on-demand via Lulu; canonical record on Goodreads.
Luxa Strata's podcast on magic, art, and ritual, framed through chaos magic and experimental audio-magick. Episodes mix conversations with practitioners and crafted audio pieces. Distributed via Apple Podcasts.
Douglas Batchelor's topic-based show on magic, the occult, and the weird. Batchelor self-identifies as a chaos magician turned necromantic ritualist; episodes mix interviews and solo treatments of practice.
Andrieh Vitimus's chaos magic podcast, running alongside his book Hands-On Chaos Magic. Interviews and discussion of technique, paradigm, and the contemporary scene. Distributed via Apple Podcasts.
UK podcast on mysticism, magic, and high strangeness. Long-form interviews with practitioners and writers in the chaos-adjacent occult orbit. Hosted by Peter C Hine and Stephen James Buckley (no relation to Phil Hine).
Darragh Mason's podcast on folklore, esoterica, and spirit work. Mason is co-creator of the Sigil Engine; the show's guest list regularly includes chaos magic and chaos-adjacent practitioners. Distributed via Spotify.
Cassandra Snow and Siri Vincent Plouff's show on folk and chaos magic from a queer liberation lens. Started in 2025. Distributed via Apple Podcasts.
James Ellis's long-running interview show on fringe philosophy, weird literature, accelerationism, and occulture. Reaches chaos magic through the accelerationist-occult crossover rather than directly; chaos practitioners turn up as guests.
Miguel Conner's long-running show on gnosticism, hermeticism, and the reality-hacking lineage that runs through Philip K. Dick, Jung, and the wider occult. Chaos magic appears at the periphery.
Denis Poisson's YouTube channel. Occult book reviews and a bi-weekly Esoteric Saturdays segment, with sustained chaos magic coverage.
Justin Sledge's academic YouTube channel on the history of magic, alchemy, and kabbalah. Not chaos magic itself, but frequently referenced by practicing chaos folk who want historical grounding.
Phil Hine's Substack, a companion to enfolding.org. Tantra, queer occulture, and chaos magic at his own pace. Mix of free and subscriber-only material.
Julian Vayne's Substack. Occultism, psychedelics, and chaos magic; field reports and reflective pieces. Mix of free and subscriber-only material.
Carl Abrahamsson's Substack, named for his long-running occulture journal. Magic, art, psychology, and the contemporary occult-cultural conversation.
Peter Grey's Substack on magic, witchcraft, and nature. Grey co-founded Scarlet Imprint and writes from a sabbatic witchcraft position rather than a chaos one. Included as a contemporary occult voice that chaos practitioners read alongside their own.
Gordon White's Substack, companion to the Rune Soup podcast. Posts on practice, consciousness, and the wider weird. Mix of free and subscriber-only material. Archive of writing through 2026.
Free I Ching reference and three-coin reading app, using an original public-domain English translation of Richard Wilhelm's 1924 German edition.
The long-form essay that seeded Davis's 1998 book TechGnosis. Excerpted in Flame Wars (Duke University Press, 1994). Traces the mystical and magical undercurrents running through information technology, from medieval memory arts to cyberspace.
Erik Davis's active Substack. Ongoing dispatches on consciousness, technology, culture, and weird California at his own pace. Free posts alongside subscriber-only material.
Reads the modern corporation as an intentional egregoric entity that persists across physical, data, and aetheric space. Originally published on Key23 Occulture; archived on the Hermetic Library.
Essay arguing that artificial intelligence will emerge from the work of occult-minded computer programmers rather than from government labs or hackers. Originally published in Konton magazine; archived on the Hermetic Library. The archive tags the piece with "egregore".
Short video essay in which Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) walks through what egregores are and how to think about them.
Crowley's technical libri on the method of Bhakti: how to choose a deity, structure a devotional practice, and use that relationship as the engine of magical work. A canonical reference for godform practice. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Post framing Baphomet as a synthesized godform for contemporary practice: a deliberately built deity constructed as a counter to what the writer calls the Mundane Spell of consumer reality.
Collection of essays written between 1988 and 1995 on the practice of magical evocation, including work with constructed entities and servitors. Draws on Spare, the Abra-Melin system, and the industrial art movement. Full text on the Internet Archive.
A 2013 post on Red War Magick, a term Dave Lee uses for offensive magical practice. Uses the UK anti-fracking campaign against Cuadrilla as a worked example.
Argument for the value of collaborative magical practice, followed by a walk through a collaboratively built chaos magick tarot deck with divinatory readings of individual cards.
Leary's exposition of the eight-circuit model of consciousness. Picked up by Robert Anton Wilson in Prometheus Rising. Retitled Info-Psychology in the 1987 revision. Full text on the Internet Archive.
A short text by Austin Osman Spare, published 1927. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
A 1921 book by Austin Osman Spare. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Early essay on automatic drawing as a magical and artistic method, co-written with Frederick Carter. Describes a subconscious technique of mark-making that became the technical basis for Spare's later sigil work. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Short essay considering magical healing and the question of when intervention is appropriate. Contrasts Wiccan healing-oriented practice with a chaos-magic view on the ethics and limits of acting on another person's situation.
Two-part technique essay on progression sigils: using multiple sigils to represent sequential or multi-step intent. Originally published in Chaos International. Linked page is Part 1; Part 2 continues from there.
The essay that introduced the five-models framework for understanding magical practice: spirit, energy, psychological, and information models, plus a meta-model that treats them as interchangeable tools. Short, widely referenced, and free to read online.
A short essay framing chaos not as disorder but as the creative principle behind magical action. Draws on dictionary definitions, a quotation from Stephen Mace on the physics of sorcery, and Hawkins's own reading of the current.
A group chaos magic blog by Julian Vayne, Steve Dee, and Nikki Wyrd. Mixes field reports, technique pieces, and reflections on magical culture and practice in the contemporary British chaos scene.
Part III of Magick (Liber ABA). Covers ritual technique in depth: banishings, invocations, the construction and use of magical instruments, the Mass of the Phoenix, and Crowley's theory of magical energy. An upstream reference for anyone working with structured ritual. Full text on the Internet Archive.
A system of correspondences mapping the Tree of Life to colors, herbs, gods, perfumes, and many other categories. Compiled and annotated by Crowley from Golden Dawn source material and Allan Bennett's earlier tables. Widely used as a reference by practitioners across traditions. Full text on the Internet Archive.
Burroughs's short essay on the cut-up technique he developed with Brion Gysin in 1959: take written text, cut it apart, rearrange the pieces. A direct technical influence on chaos magic sigil practice and on the later work of Genesis P-Orridge and Grant Morrison. Hosted by UbuWeb.
Browser-based cut-up text generator modeled on the Burroughs and Gysin technique. Paste source text, run it, and read the rearranged output. The parent site collects related word and language tools in the same tradition.
Four-hour video of the Disinformation Company's 2000 counterculture conference in New York. Includes Grant Morrison's Pop Magic! talk alongside Robert Anton Wilson, Kenneth Anger, and others. Archived on the Internet Archive.
Longer-form talk by Grant Morrison at the Omega Institute on magical practice, sigils, and the writing of The Invisibles as a magical working. Archived on the Internet Archive.
A single volume chaos magic book by Alan Chapman. Structured around a small set of principles and practical exercises. Full text is available on the Internet Archive.
Morrison's essay from Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult. Argues that pop culture, comics, rock stars, brands, and advertising function as contemporary sigil making and egregore building. Available in full on the Internet Archive.
The Invisibles Paid
Morrison's comic series, published 1994 to 2000 by Vertigo. A conspiracy-occult epic whose plotting, characters, and sigil work draw directly on chaos magic. Morrison has described writing the series as itself a magical working.
The founding primer for modern chaos magic technique. Sigils, gnosis, the magical pact, the practice of magical psychology. This 2022 Weiser Classics revised edition adds a Ronald Hutton foreword. Full text on the Internet Archive.
An introduction to chaos magic covering sigils, gnosis, banishing, and basic ritual, built around practical exercises. Plain language, short chapters. Full text on the Internet Archive.
Carroll's second major book. Covers aeonic theory, magical mathematics, and the Illuminates of Thanateros training system in detail. Full text on the Internet Archive.
Hine's companion to Condensed Chaos, published around the same time. Covers ritual structures, evocation, group work, and possession in greater depth. Foreword by Grant Morrison. Full text on the Internet Archive.
The Book of Results Paid
The first published book on chaos magic, written and self published by Ray Sherwin alongside Carroll's earliest work. A short, sigil focused primer that codified Spare's method for the new current.
A practical guide to sigil work covering multiple methods, construction, charging, and firing. Includes exercises and variations.
An exercise-heavy course built around the Ovayki current, structured around repeated practice rather than theory.
A handbook drawing from chaos magic, animism, and folk practice. Covers sigils, servitors, candle work, talismans, and spirit ecology.
Thirteen essays by current chaos magic practitioners, edited by Carroll, with a foreword by Ronald Hutton. Contributors include Aidan Wachter, Carl Abrahamsson, Dave Lee, Ivy Corvus, Julian Vayne, Lionel Snell, and others.
A short beginner's guide in the Pagan Portals series, structured in two halves: theory and praxis. Covers basic chaos magic concepts and introductory exercises.
Snell's 1974 essay arguing that magic is a fourth mode of perceiving reality alongside science, art, and religion. Predates the chaos magic movement and influenced it directly.
Peter J. Carroll's site. Home of essays, announcements, and excerpts from his books.
A short statement of chaos magic as practice. Carroll defines magic as the use of imaginary phenomena to create real effects and outlines belief as a tool, gnosis, and the magical link.
Spare's foundational treatise covering the Sacred Alphabet, the Alphabet of Desire, the Death Posture, and the original sigil method. A direct source for the chaos magic sigil tradition.
Dave Lee's personal site. IOT founding member and author of Chaotopia!. Links out to his Patreon and Teachable for essays and structured courses.
Wachter's author site. Information on his books (Six Ways, Weaving Fate, Changeable), plus links to his Patreon community and Discord server.
Long-running show by Gordon White, running 2014 to 2026. Conversations with practitioners, academics, and outliers about magic, animism, and spirit work. Broad in scope but rooted in chaos magic methodology. Archived, not ongoing.
Alexander Eth's Western esoterica podcast. Primary focus is ceremonial and grimoire magic, with chaos magicians appearing as guests alongside Solomonic practitioners, scholars, and spirit workers. Long form interview format.
Lionel Snell's short video essays in the Ramsey Dukes voice. Philosophical discussions of magic, many filmed outdoors.
Interactive sigil generator. Type a statement of intent and the page converts your keystroke timing against Crowley's Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni into a unique glyph.
Reddit's main chaos magic subreddit. A general discussion venue covering beginner questions, technique discussions, and debate about what falls under the chaos magic umbrella.
An early-web chaos magic library dating from the 1990s. Hosts foundational essays by Carroll, Hine, Frater U∴D∴, and others. Served over plain HTTP, so browsers display a "Not Secure" warning.
Joel Biroco's occult magazine, founded in 1985 with the final issue (#14) in 2002. The archive hosts back issues and historical material on the 1980s and early 2000s occult scene.
The Discordian holy text by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst), with a foreword by Robert Anton Wilson in later editions. Discordianism is a philosophical influence on chaos magic.
Carroll and Kaybryn's chaos magic system, combining aeonic theory with a contemporary magical pantheon and ritual practice. Includes a 54 card Altar Icon Deck. Originally published 2014; significantly revised 2025 by Mandrake of Oxford, which is the current print.
An online magazine covering chaos magic philosophy, interviews with practitioners, and related occult news. Editorial format with multiple contributors.
Academic and philosophical podcast hosted by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel. Topics include the weird, the occult, divination, and the limits of rational thought.
Ki'a Dragon's chaos magic podcast, running 2009 to 2019 with 23 episodes. Topics include paradigms, intent, sigils, and related practice. Archived, not ongoing.
Dr Angela Puca's YouTube channel. Academic treatment of esotericism, witchcraft, paganism, and shamanism, with interviews of practitioners including chaos magicians.
A browser based toolbox for practical magic. Seven sigil methods (Spare, planetary kameas, Rose Cross, Witch's Wheel, and others), tarot and I Ching decks, runes, a Dreamachine, pathworking exercises, ritual guides, and cut up tools.
Reddit's general occult subreddit. Broader in scope than r/chaosmagick, covering questions across traditions.
The British section of the Illuminates of Thanateros, a chaos magic magical order founded in 1978. The site hosts essays, event listings, membership information, and a record of the section's work.
Preserved materials from the Temple ov Psychick Youth, Genesis P-Orridge's late 20th century psychic magic network. Bulletins, sigil sheets, and ritual documents. TOPY practices influenced the broader chaos magic scene.
John Bruno Hare's long running esoteric library. The chaos magic section includes Carroll's Liber Null excerpts, a "Defining Chaos" essay, and related texts. Spare's writings are hosted in a separate section of the same site.
Hakim Bey's 1991 manifesto on ontological anarchism and temporary autonomous zones. Widely circulated in the 1990s and 2000s chaos magic scene as cultural and philosophical context.
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