Fra.Morelia
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What is Chaoism?
Chaoism is a form of esoteric or magickal practice designed to strip away all of the dross from the various forms of practice and retain what is useful and functional. It incorporates psychology, Kabalah, Hermetic Mysticism, Shamanism, Monotheism, Quantum Physics, and the ramblingsof one man generally regarded as the grandfather of it all: Austin Osman Spare.
A.O. Spare was a contemporary of Crowley's who believed, in essence that the theory wa sound, but it was being drowned out by it's ownpomp and jargon. He created a revolutionary concept called sigilization and brought psychology int the fold.
Chaos Magick is not about transcendence, though one finds one has evolved once one embarks upon his/her deprogramming. Chaoism is about results. Getting what you want, desire, need, etc...
Evolution of the self comes persuing these desires, for if one aspires to the wand, in Chaoist thought, one must weed ones garden.
The term Chaos Magick was not around since the inception of the art, but rather it was regarded as simply a streamlined version of existing forms of the occult. It's first true inception as a (dis)organization was with the Illuminates of Thanateros, an England based group led by Peter Carroll in the mid 70s. The term was coined by Carroll, or Frater Stakistikos (we do so love our pompos names)upon the writing of his second book on the issue, Liber Kaos. This is also when it had begun to take on a life of it's own.
Since then it has spread widely, though is still far below the numbers of Wiccans and Satanists (not to compare the two, you can put the hot pokers down now, both of you
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The IOT and many other Chaoist (dis)orginizations have an office called the insubordinate, whose job is to ridicule and question the leaders constantly in an effort to keep them humble and make serving ones own interests innefective and highly costly in loss of face.
SO, back to this hodgepodge thing. How does that work? If a Chaoist thinks somethig has merit he/she will implement it. I have known Chaos Magickians who have done some amazing things with fictional sources such as H.P. Lovecraft's elder god mythos.
Most Chaoist have a secret agenda of self evolution on the back burner, but that is highly personal and not really a polite topic.
SO, how does one start down this path, you surely aren't thinking? Well, I am glad you didn't ask. It is best started with a training regimen eating up at LEAST an hour of the day. This time is spent staring at fixed points, minimizing breathing, not moving, trying not to think, chanting mantras. etc... This is the warm up act, as it is reasoned if you cannot discipline yourself to do these things you will probably self destruct and take out a number of other folks with you.
SO, what about God? Chaoists are agnostic at best. We appeal to various gods as suits our desire when working with psychological functions, but dn't really believe in any save in the capacity that human faith makes them real.
The basic gist of it is this: when you pray you are doing the same thing as a Wiccan who is doing the same thing as us. We simply attempt to make the process logical and scientific.
There are no moral guidelines. If one has the moral bearing of the common barracuda, one will likely be weeded out. Chaoists attempt to police their own so to speak. Ostracism works wonders for maniacs.
That is the gist of it, I will answer any questions as best I may.
Chaoism is a form of esoteric or magickal practice designed to strip away all of the dross from the various forms of practice and retain what is useful and functional. It incorporates psychology, Kabalah, Hermetic Mysticism, Shamanism, Monotheism, Quantum Physics, and the ramblingsof one man generally regarded as the grandfather of it all: Austin Osman Spare.
A.O. Spare was a contemporary of Crowley's who believed, in essence that the theory wa sound, but it was being drowned out by it's ownpomp and jargon. He created a revolutionary concept called sigilization and brought psychology int the fold.
Chaos Magick is not about transcendence, though one finds one has evolved once one embarks upon his/her deprogramming. Chaoism is about results. Getting what you want, desire, need, etc...
Evolution of the self comes persuing these desires, for if one aspires to the wand, in Chaoist thought, one must weed ones garden.
The term Chaos Magick was not around since the inception of the art, but rather it was regarded as simply a streamlined version of existing forms of the occult. It's first true inception as a (dis)organization was with the Illuminates of Thanateros, an England based group led by Peter Carroll in the mid 70s. The term was coined by Carroll, or Frater Stakistikos (we do so love our pompos names)upon the writing of his second book on the issue, Liber Kaos. This is also when it had begun to take on a life of it's own.
Since then it has spread widely, though is still far below the numbers of Wiccans and Satanists (not to compare the two, you can put the hot pokers down now, both of you
)The IOT and many other Chaoist (dis)orginizations have an office called the insubordinate, whose job is to ridicule and question the leaders constantly in an effort to keep them humble and make serving ones own interests innefective and highly costly in loss of face.
SO, back to this hodgepodge thing. How does that work? If a Chaoist thinks somethig has merit he/she will implement it. I have known Chaos Magickians who have done some amazing things with fictional sources such as H.P. Lovecraft's elder god mythos.
Most Chaoist have a secret agenda of self evolution on the back burner, but that is highly personal and not really a polite topic.
SO, how does one start down this path, you surely aren't thinking? Well, I am glad you didn't ask. It is best started with a training regimen eating up at LEAST an hour of the day. This time is spent staring at fixed points, minimizing breathing, not moving, trying not to think, chanting mantras. etc... This is the warm up act, as it is reasoned if you cannot discipline yourself to do these things you will probably self destruct and take out a number of other folks with you.
SO, what about God? Chaoists are agnostic at best. We appeal to various gods as suits our desire when working with psychological functions, but dn't really believe in any save in the capacity that human faith makes them real.
The basic gist of it is this: when you pray you are doing the same thing as a Wiccan who is doing the same thing as us. We simply attempt to make the process logical and scientific.
There are no moral guidelines. If one has the moral bearing of the common barracuda, one will likely be weeded out. Chaoists attempt to police their own so to speak. Ostracism works wonders for maniacs.
That is the gist of it, I will answer any questions as best I may.
