Liu
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I actually don't know much about their actual practice since so far I've mostly read their theoretical texts (i.e. literature related to the MLO/TotBL mostly focused on describing philosophy, myths and metaphysics) and lyrics of bands of that inclination (there are quite a bunch, so one might even say that music is a common practice among chaos-gnostics).How does that play out in terms of their practice?
Who knows in what way lyrics are a proper source. As an example, one could consider "Underneath the Cenotaph" by Watain to be about a dream journey/visualization on the subject of death with the help of certain qliphotic symbols/entities, but how exactly (and if) such would be actually done by them, I can't tell.
Watain - Sworn to the Dark - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
Also, at least in interviews I read I have noticed a certain reluctance among many to share much about their spirituality since they don't want to waste time on explaining it to mundanes. Haven't bothered contacting any personally so far. I know one chaos-gnostic personally, but he seems to be mostly a novice still and currently more busy with his life than with any religious practice.
The Thursian (i.e. Norse) chaos-gnostic Vexior has a short chapter in his book Gullveigarbók on his own practice. It was a combination of meditating in nature, sacrificing/worshiping/chanting and rune magick.
You can find the book here:
Gullveigarbók by Vexior
It's the chapter II: Fjølkyngi
Also other books list rituals, but at least some don't seem like the most realistic ones, in terms of ingredients So that doesn't look like a good source on actual every-day practice.
The practice there seems to be restricted to chants and sacrifices to a variety of entities and rituals to ask those deities for help with stuff. No specific recommendations in terms of other practices, except for, develop you own system.
It's also been a while since I read most of that, so maybe I forgot about something like that which they did mention.
Entities they work with are for example Cain, Tanin, the spirits of the Qliphoth, several Sumerian spirits/deities, the norse Thurses, ... i.e. pretty much the same that any LHPer would typically choose.
It seems like a rather venerational path, which makes sense in so far as the goal is to help or urge one's deities to end the world and make all become one again. I don't know however whether they all consider that to be the literal goal or more of a metaphor for something psychological.
Since the MLO is influenced by the one group we are not allowed to discuss in this DIR, I suppose they also take inspiration in regards to actual practice from that.