*Chaos MagIck had its inception in the late 1970s when PeteCarroll began to meld together elements of GoldenDawn ceremonial magick, Thelema, TaoIsm and TibetanBuddhism in his articles for the magickal journal, The NewEquinox. The inspiration for this synthesis was the work of the obscure, early twentieth-century artist and sorcerer AustinOsmanSpare. Spare had developed what he called the technique of SentientLetters. PeteCarroll reformed the technique, and the sentient letters were recast as 'sigils'; they became the basis of a system which aimed to generate results through the application of undogmatic magickal technique.* http://www.barbelith.com/cgi-bin/articles/00000004.shtml

*"Chaoists usually accept the meta-belief that belief is a tool for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself."* PeteCarroll in http://www.spiralnature.com/magick/chaos/

"A Personal View":http://www.paganlibrary.com/reference/chaoism_chaos_magic.php by PeteCarroll: *For about a millennia and a half the existence of "God" was an incontrovertible fact of life in Christendom... I assert that we now live under a collective obsession which is even more powerful and will appear equally limiting and ridiculous to future historians... The dominant belief in all Western Cultures is that this universe runs on material causality and is thus comprehensible to reason... The main thrust of my Chaoism is against the doctrine of material causality and secondarily against most of the nonsense that passes for modern psychology...Few people noticed that in the 1930`s a serious crack was discovered in the fabric of material causality which, on the grounds of faith alone, was supposed to cover everything. This crack was called QuantumPhysics, and it was pre-eminently NielsBohr who, with his CopenhagenInterpretation, poked a finger into the crack and pried open a wrap to reveal a different reality... The majority of straight scientists find quantum physics as distasteful as a priest would find WitchCraft... Quantum physics says to me that not only is magic possible in a world that is infinitely Chaotic than we thought, but that magic is central to the functioning of this universe. This is a magical universe not a clockwork one... I consider that all events occur basically by magic; the apparent causality investigated by classical science is merely the more statistically reliable end of a spectrum whose other end is complete Chaos.

PrincipiaChaotica http://www.spiralnature.com/magick/chaos/principiachao.html - *The purpose of ChaosRituals is to create beliefs by acting as though such beliefs were true. In Chaos Rituals you Fake it till you Make it, to obtain the power that a belief can provide. Afterwards, if you have any sense, you will laugh it off, and seek the requisite beliefs for whatever you want to do next, as Chaos moves you...  Magic appeals to those with a great deal of hubris and a fertile imagination coupled with a strong suspicion that both reality and human condition have a game-like quality. The game is open ended (InfiniteGame), and plays itself for amusement. Players can make up their own rules to some extent, and cheat by using parapsychology if desired... Philosophers have become no more than the keepers of useful sarcasms, for the secret is out that there is no secret of the universe. All is Chaos and EvolutIon is going nowhere in particular... Sacrifice AbsoluteTruth for FreeDom at every opportunity.*

http://www.kaaos.org/chaos/definingchaos.php

http://www.kaaos.org/chaos/

http://www.occultresearch.org/chaos_magic/chaosfaq.htm

*"The first stage of seeing through the game can be a shocking enlightenment that leads either to a weary CynicIsm or BuddhIsm. The second stage of actually applying the insight to oneself can destroy the illusion of the soul and create a magician."* - PeteCarroll, quoted in "Why Chaos Magicians Are Such Assholes":http://www.occultresearch.org/chaos_magic/chaosass.htm

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