An early chaos magic primer compiled by the Lincoln Order of Neuromancers. Sigils, ritual, magical weapons, techno-shamanism, and titan-gnosis.
Chaos Current / Essays
Essays
Writings on chaos magic
Burroughs extends the cut-up method from the page to tape recorders and mass media, using recorded sound to scramble systems of control.
A doctoral dissertation on how chaos magic, which presents itself as anti-authoritarian, still leans on authority and tradition, especially in sigil work and appeals to non-human agents.
Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen's account of a working group building Fotamecus, a viral servitor for stretching and compressing time: construction, naming, sigil binding, and spreading it.
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.
Peter J. Carroll on founding the Illuminates of Thanateros: the Pact, its early years, structural decisions, and how it became a working order.
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth describing its non-hierarchical "station and access point" structure.
Venkatesh Rao on egregores, hyperstition, and chaos magic meme-work, with Kek, GameStop, and QAnon as examples of collective reality-making.
Sable Aradia (Diane Morrison) on group thoughtforms, drawing on Stavish, William Gibson's "semiotic ghosts", and the overlap between tulpas and egregores.
Peter J. Carroll on apophenia, seeing patterns in randomness, as what makes divination work. Carroll ties it to the Apophenia godform and to chaos magic's sigil and probability work.
A chaos magic essay sorting sigils, servitors, egregores, and godforms along a scale of made entities. Credited to "Marik" by community convention.
Carroll's eight-colour magic system from Liber Kaos, including the godforms for each colour: Apophenia, Babalon, and the rest.
Erik Davis's essay that grew into the book TechGnosis. Davis follows the mystical and magical threads in information technology, from medieval memory arts to cyberspace.
Essay on the modern corporation as a deliberately made egregore existing across physical, data, and aetheric space.
Michael Szul argues that AI will come from occult-minded programmers, not government labs or hackers.
Crowley's instruction in Bhakti: how to choose a deity, build a devotional practice, and use that devotion to power magical work.
Post on building Baphomet as a godform for modern practice, as a counter to what the writer calls the Mundane Spell of consumer reality.
Phil Hine's essays on magical evocation, including constructed entities and servitors. Hine draws on Spare, the Abra-Melin system, and the industrial art movement.
Post on Red War Magick, Dave Lee's term for offensive magic, with the UK anti-fracking campaign against Cuadrilla as a worked example.
On why group practice is worth doing, then a walk through a group-built chaos magick tarot deck with readings of individual cards.
Spare and Frederick Carter on automatic drawing as a magical and artistic method. The technique later became the basis of Spare's sigil work.
Hawkins on magical healing and when it's right to step in, comparing Wiccan healing practice with a chaos magic view of acting on someone else's situation.
Jaq D. Hawkins on progression sigils: using a series of sigils for a multi-step intent.
Frater U∴D∴'s five models of magic: spirit, energy, psychological, and information, plus a meta-model for switching between them.
Jaq D. Hawkins's short essay on chaos as the creative force behind magic, not disorder. Hawkins works from dictionary definitions and a Stephen Mace quote on the physics of sorcery.
Burroughs's short essay on the cut-up technique developed with Brion Gysin in 1959: take written text, cut it apart, rearrange the pieces.
Grant Morrison's essay on pop culture, comics, rock stars, brands, and advertising as modern sigil making and egregore building.
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 on the Sacred Alphabet, the Alphabet of Desire, the Death Posture, and the original sigil method.
Carroll and Kaybryn's chaos magic system: aeonic theory, a modern pantheon, and ritual practice, with a 54-card Altar Icon Deck.