Peter J. Carroll suggested assigning different worldviews to the sides of a die, and then inhabiting a particular random paradigm for a set length of time (a week, a month, a year, etc.), depending on which number is rolled. For example, 1 might be paganism, 2 might be monotheism, 3 might be atheism, and so on. [12] Liber Null," the first half of the text, is essentially a collection of working notes towards a syllabus in basic magic, it has many weaknesses. It is the sort of system that will work excellently for a certain type of student, and not at all for others, and which can only be adapted for different needs by an experienced Teacher. Indeed, this is the problem with most beginning books on magic; only very rare individuals can apply something directly from a book without interaction with others of varying levels of experience. While the book implies that the student may apply to the IOT, they are notoriously unresponsive (and may have published the book more to discourage inquiries rather than encourage them), and thus "study groups" of varying quality have spring up locally and on the internet. For an extended commentary upon these equations and their uses see Liber Kaos and particularly The Octavo.Note that in all these equations of magic all factors can have a value from 0 to 1.

Pandaemonaeon + PRINCIPIA CHAOTICA By Peter Carroll Chaos Magic for the Pandaemeon In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends … Read More Clarke, Peter Bernard (2006). "Chaos Magic". Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements. Psychology Press. pp.105ff. ISBN 978-0-415-26707-6. The central defining tenet of chaos magic is arguably the idea that belief is a tool for achieving effects. [42] In chaos magic, complex symbol systems like Qabalah, the Enochian system, astrology or the I Ching are treated as maps or "symbolic and linguistic constructs" that can be manipulated to achieve certain ends but that have no absolute or objective truth value in themselves. [ citation needed] Religious scholar Hugh Urban notes that chaos magic's "rejection of all fixed models of reality" reflects one of its central tenets: "nothing is true everything is permitted". [12] Harris, Oliver (2017). "William S. Burroughs: Beating Postmodernism". In Belletto, Steven (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Beats. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107184459. Carroll, an English occultist, founded the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT). The group claims to be a descendant of “witchcraft,” “sorcery,” Aleister Crowley, Austin O. Spare, and Spare’s philosophy of “Zos Kia Cultus.” Thus “the IOT continues a tradition perhaps seven thousand years old.”Hassan I Sabbah: -‘Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted.’ - (Attributed to the Old Man of the Mountains.)

Chaos Invocation, Cultist, Deathrow, Frostmoon Eclipse, Kult, Liber Null, Manetheren, Moloch, Mortualia, Nocratai, Nubivagant, Shadows Ground, Tumulus Anmatus, Pure (live), Ritual Death (live), Tundra (live), ex- Enepsigos, ex- Entropic Degrade Behind Phylogeny, ex- In Extremo Spiritu, ex- Blut aus Nord, ex- Cryptic Wanderings, ex- Fides Inversa, ex- Glorior Belli, ex- Handful of Hate, ex- Macabre Omen, ex- Martröð, ex- Satanic Supplicia, ex- Svlfvr, ex- Αχέροντας, ex- Enthroned (live), ex- The One (live), ex- Violentor (live), ex- Hobbs Angel of Death (live), ex-11 as in Adversaries There's some very interesting reflections on the ego, and it's role in thwarting your magical ability. IIUC, the ego is, of course, not real, but an amalgamation of habits, emotions, memories, and opinions about yourself. All these things can all be changed. Carroll recommends deleting any habit, and installing a new one, just to prove this to yourself. Since any desire on your part is accompanied by the ego's ambivalences, fears, graspings, contradictions, if you try to accomplish any magical aim in a mundane frame of mind your ego is sure to counteract itself - hence the need for meditation to allow your will to exercise itself without the least bit of attachment to the consequences. This really echoes New Thoughts on the need to be absolutely committed to your goal. I rather suspected that he had lost his critical faculties, and friends have confirmed that both Ray and his wife had sunk deeply into alcoholism, poverty, and conspiracy theory, and that their young daughter had become their carer. Having watched my own father drink himself to death decades ago, I concluded that alcoholism results from a Failure of Imagination; failure to realise what it does to you, and failure to imagine doing something else instead. In a technique somewhat analogous to a mathematician using the vast store of axioms, theorems and conjectures developed by other mathematicians and suggested by nature, magicians evoke and invoke various real and imaginary entities, archetypes, and egregores on the basis of the experimental belief that the universe probably contains something somewhere that knows how to do anything, or to confer any knowledge or ability the magician might require.An idea cannot be said to be completely understood till you understand the conditions under which it is not true. Similarly you cannot possess a personality until you are able to manipulate and discard it at will…. Scheme against your most sacred principles in thought, word and deed…. The only clear view is from atop a mountain of your dead selves.” (48) A diverting miscellany of Pop Occult wank templates beloved to obese, ponytailed goth bros. (Imagine Deepak Chopra weaned on White Wolf and Chaosium tabletop RPGs and early Dead Can Dance records.) Metamorphosis may be pursued by seeking that which is not, and transcending both in mutual annihilation.” (41)

Our ego is a fiction of stable self-hood which maintains itself by perpetuating the distinctions of "what I am/what I am not, what I like/what I don't like", beliefs about ones politics, religion, gender preference, degree of free will, race, subculture etc all help maintain a stable sense of self. [45] Cut-up technique [ edit ] For an extensive Grimoire of entities suitable for Invocation and Evocation see https://www.specularium.org/peter-j-carroll/the-epoch Phil Hine has stated that the primary task here is "to thoroughly decondition" the aspiring magician from "the mesh of beliefs, attitudes and fictions about self, society, and the world" that his or her ego associates with:II) The Wand as an instrument of IMAGINATION. Forget about ‘willpower’, you only really succeed if you can summon your imagination to support a course of action.