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.
Chaos Current / Topic
Ritual
Ceremonial structures, solo and group practice
Wachter's author site. Information on his books (Six Ways, Weaving Fate, Changeable), plus links to his Patreon community and Discord server.
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.
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.
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.
Dave Lee's personal site. IOT founding member and author of Chaotopia!. Links out to his Patreon and Teachable for essays and structured courses.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
An exercise-heavy course built around the Ovayki current, structured around repeated practice rather than theory.
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.
Julian Vayne's Substack. Occultism, psychedelics, and chaos magic; field reports and reflective pieces. Mix of free and subscriber-only material.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A handbook drawing from chaos magic, animism, and folk practice. Covers sigils, servitors, candle work, talismans, and spirit ecology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.