Chaos Magick

From : Aaron Chia
Sent : Monday, August 21, 2006 8:34 PM
Subject : Special: Chaos Magick

Just in case you think that I am going mad calling myself a Chaos Magician...Read what chaos magick really is.

Aaron
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An Extract of An Email
Written by Sudeep Goyal
Edited by Aaron Chia

I am not sure how much I can tell you about Chaos magic. But, there are few points I would like to put across:

1. It is a special kind of visualization.

2. Idea is to by-pass the consious mind somehow. And therefore, you create sigil or magical words or magical servitors that are 'symbols' to some reality that you want to create or see. This can help you see something in your mind's eye and keep it in mind and help you put your focus on.
You can be as much creattve as possible. You can create all sorts of different symbols, designs as you can. And only your imagination limits that.
I used to imagine a glass of water in my mind and see the water level as defining the level of something that i desired. Sometimes, I simply imagined plucking a flower from my garden of life and throwing it in the river that took it away from me into some remote area to remove something from my life. These are also magical symbols or magical sigils.

3. Banishing is most important. I have learnt this hard. Often when you want something in life, you become obsessed with it. And therefore, even after you have done a ritual around it, you would want to ponder about it, think about. And more you desire, more you are likely to suffer from this disease. And therefore, it always an important discipline to banish, to forget. Forgetting is a very very important art and discipline. Youe ability to forget what you desire most marks your ability to manifest. Often we fail, because we cannot forget. Forgetfulness gives your projected energy and projected thought the ability to become your part organically and simply bypass your conscious mind. If you donot forget it, you are consious of it. And more you are conscious of it, more you are likely to interfere.
Cycling, swiming, walking just happen. You donot have to be concsious of it. Think about how you do it. It just happens. Similarly, it is with magical thought. And therefore, it is very important to banish after you have done some visualization (or ritual).

4. Remember, the realization that 'you can know without thought' has been a profound realization to me. You can be thoughtless and still know. Rather it is thought that stops us from knowing the universe and knowing the higher and unconcious self. It is possible to be void and thoughtless in the day to day life and still be alert and expert in your domain. What do i mean by thoughtless? I mean that you donot identify with thoughts. You simply watch it coming and going. They are different from YOU. They are not YOU. It is not possible to stop the movement of thought (as long as you are alive). But, it is certainly possible to become disidentified with it.

5. Sometimes, it makes lot of sense to have lot of Gods and Goddesses. To live in their world and connect to them. That is what a magic is all about. World where gods and goddesses are all real. And this is why Hinduism is so rich. Sometimes, I have this strong feeling that hindus of the ancient past were very much into what we call magic and therefore, they personified everything. You can thousands and thousands of Gods, Demons and Goddesses. And this rich vocablary can help you connect and play life in a much larger field. I am not sure if you have heard of Hindu Goddess, Kali. But look at her picture if you get the chance to. And you would surprised to see that she looks dangerous and terrible. And still she is worshipped as mother and goddess. The reason is that she is a mother who cannot stand her child like you and me in a terrible and suffering state. Other gods may be gentle. But, she is not. She would come running to you and would destroy everything that would come her way in transforming you and blessing you. She'll drink all your bad blood to purify you. She would cut all the ego daemons (neclace of heads around her) and karmic hands (skirt of hands around her).
And to be able to connect to a rich goddess like this one has made you rich already. To be able to use what others have worked upon (in terms of Gods, Goddesses and Demons) is what magic is all about irrespective of the narrow definitions of religion like hinduism, islamism and christanity. But, see it more as a human experiment and connection of a human to divine.

6. Most importantly, magic is not something you have to sit and do some strange ritual or visualization always. Your every thought at any moment that is coming in your mind is magical. And to become aware of your every moment is magic. To know and to be able to change your thought at will at any moment in time like changing the switch of light is magic. Your ability to be aware is what magic is all about. And this is what it becomes eventually after all efforts . Why? Higher Self is what is the source of every desire and like an ocean everything. And more you are connected to it every moment is defining your life. Every thought therefore is being projected into the vast universe of Higher Self and therefore, is influencing everything. Visualization and magic helps in changing what we call 'Assemblage point'. Meaning a point of perception. To become aware that the point of perception can be changed is magic. And to know that we are neither of this point is everything.

7. Another core idea behind magic is 'identification of ego'. If you think about somebody or something too often, you tend to aquire that nature. You begin to become like that. If you think about God, you become like him. It also depend on how you see him and connect to him. It is possible to see God as mother or a child or even as a wife and then you can relate accordingly, and you would get the response as you see him. If you see your god as child then you would find him reacting to you as a child :) Lots of indian sages in the past have related to god in number of imaginative ways (mother, father, wife, husband, son etc etc). Identification also mean that if you wish to know something or somebody in time and space, you need to identify with it. How do you do that? By dropping your current ego. By thinking about it continously (in trance or ever consiously all the time, if that is somebody you love like money or god or lover or your work). And when you think about it, you remove all other thoughts except that. And this lead to transcending that thought or object of meditation. Meaning suddenly you begin to feel one with it. There may be thoughts or no thought. But you know you are one with it. And once, you are one with it, you know it SUBJECTIVELY. Then you can convert that subjective knowledge into verbal and object knowledge. But, subjective knowledge of identification and feeling of oneness with the goad or traget is errless. Trying to become more objective may make it error prone.

[Aaron: I see Jesus and Buddha as older brothers, and they often tell me what to do in tough situations :]

I have tried to summarize above how I see magic. If you have any particular queries on above or sigilization or anything, let me know. I would like to put your attention to specially 'thought' and 'mind'. Something that we take for granted so often and is not. If you ever get the opportunity to read 'Jiddu Krishnamurthy' in life, do read it please.

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