Defining Chaos.pdf

Defining Chaos

byMark Chao

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Chaos,accordngo heOxord Englsh Dconay'means:

1. A gapngvod,yawnnggul,chasm,orabyss.

2. Theormlessvod'ofprmordal maer,hegreatdeep'orabyss'outofwhch hecosmosor

orderofheunversewasevolved.

There are a couple of addonal denons, but hey are rrelevant o hs dscusson. When

chaossused n magc,heresno placeorcon- uson ordorder.

Chaosshecreaveprncplebehnd all magc. When amagcal rual speromed,regardless

of radon' or oher varables n he elemens of peromance, a magcal energy s creaed and

put no moon o caue somehng o happen. n hs book, Sorcery as Vrual Mechancs,

Sephen Macecesascencprecedentorhscreaveprncple.

Iquoe:

"To keep t smple, let us conne our example o ut wo elecons, he ponlke carrers of

negavecharge. Letusayheyareapartofhesolarwnd--beaparcles,astwere--sreamng

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Defining Chaos

outom hesun athousandsofmlesasecond. Sayhathesewo camecloseenough hather

negave charges nerac, causng hem o repel one anoher. How do hey accomplsh hs

changen momenum?

"Accordng o quanum elecrodynamcs, hey do t by exchangng a "vrual" phoon. One

elecron spawns,heoherabsorbs,and so do heyrepel each oher. Thephoon s"vrual"

becausetcannotbeseen byan ousdeobserver,bengwhollyconaned n heneracon. But

tsreal enough,and heemsson and aborbon ofvrual phoonsshow heelecromagnec

neracon operaes.

"The queson whch s elevant o our purpose here s where does he phoon come om. t

does not come out of one elecron and lodge n he oher, as f t were a bullet red rom one

rock no anoher. Theelecronshemselvesareunchanged,exceptorhermomena. Raher,

he phoon s creaed out of nohng by he san of he neracon. Accord- ng o current

heory, when he wo elecrons come close her waveorms nerac, eher cancellng out or

renorcngoneanoher. Waveormsarenmaelyed o characerscslkeelecrccharge,and

wecould husexpecthechargeson hewo elecronso change. Butelecron chargedoesnot

vary;tsalways1602x (-19)coulombs.

nsead hevrual phoonsappearoutofhevacuum and acto readusthesysem. Thesress

spawnshem and byhercreaon shesressreolved".

Ausn Spare underood hs prncple n regard o magcal phenomena long beore scenss

dscovered phoonsorbegan expermensn heaeaofchaosscence.

Ausn Osman Spare- somehsory

Ausn Spare was born at mdngh, Dec. 31s, 1886 n a London suburb called Snow Hll. Hs

aherwasaLondon polceman,oen on nghtduy.

Spareshowed anaural alentordrawngatan earlyage,and n

1901- 1904 let school o serve an apprenceshp n a saned-glass works, but connued hs

educaon atArtCollegen Lambeh.

n 1904hewon ascholashp o heRoyal CollegeofAr. n hatyearhealso exhbed apcure

n heRoyal Academyorherstme.

n 1905 he publshed hs rst book, Earh neno. t was prmarly meant o be a book of

drawngs,butncluded commenareshathowed someofhsnsghtand sprual leanngs. John

SngerSargenthaled hm asagenusatage17. Atan unspeced men hsadolescence,Spare

wasntaed no awch cultbyasorceressnamed Mrs. Paerson,whom Sparereerred o as

hs"second moher". n 1908 heheld an exhbon atBruon Gallery. n 1910 hespentahot

me as a member of he Golden Dawn. Becomng dsenchaned wh hem, he laer oned

CrowleysArgenum Asrum. Theasocaon dd notlastlong.

Crowleywassad o haveconsdered Spareo beaBlack Magcan. n 1909 Sparebegan creaton

ofheBook ofPleasure.

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n 1912hsrepuaon wasgrowngrapdlyn heartworld. n

1913hepublshed heBook ofPleasure. tsconsdered o behsmostmporantmagcal work,

and ncludesdealed nsruconsorhssysem ofsgl- zaon and he"deah posures"hathe

swell known or. 1914-1918 heserved asan ocal wararts. Hewasposed o Egyptwhch

had agreateecton hm. n 1921,hepublshed FocusofLe,anoherbook ofdrawngswh

hs unque and magcal commenares. 1921-1924 Spare was at he heght of hs arsc success,

hen, n 1924 he publshed he Anahema of Zos, n whch he eecvely excommuncaed

hmselfrom hsalseand rendyarsc"rends"and beneacors. Hereurned o Souh London

and obscuryo nd hereedom o develop hsphlosophy,artand magc.

n 1947 Spare met Kenneh Grant and became acvely nvolved wh oher well-known

occulss of he perod. n 1948-1956 he began work on a denve Grmore of he Zos Ka

Culus,whch sreerred o n hsvarouswrngs. Thssunnshed and bengsynheszed rom

SparespapersbyKenneh Gran,who nhered all ofSparespapers. Much ofhsnormaon

was ncluded n mages and Oracles of Ausn Osman Spare' by Kenneh Gran, but here are

someunpublshed workswhch Grantplanso publsh aercompleon ofhsTyphonan seres.

Reerences or hs secon are moly rom Chrsopher Brays nroduc- on o The Colleced

WorksofAusn Osman Spare'and rom ExcessSpare,whch sacomplaon byTheTemple

Ov PsychcYouh ofphoocoped arclesaboutSparerom varousource.

TheMagcofAusn Osman Spare

Spares art and magc were closely relaed. t s repued hat here aremessages n hs drawngs

abouthsmagcal phlosophy.

OneparcularpcureofMrs. Paerson hasreporedlybeen seen o move;heeyesopenngand

closng. Spare s best known or hs sysem of ung sgls. Beng an ars, he was very vsually

orened.

The sysem bascally consss of wrng down he desre, preerably n your own magcal

alphabe,elmnangall repeaed leers,hen omngadesgn ofheremanngsngleleers.

Thesgl musthen becharged. Theresavareyofspeccwayso do hs,buthekeyelement

so acheveasaeof"vacuy"whch can bedonehrough exhauson,sexual releaseorseveral

ohermehods.

Ths creaes a vacuum' or vod' much lke he condon descrbed n he nroducon o hs

dscusson,and tslled wh heenergyofhemagcan. Thesgl,bengnow charged,mustbe

orgoen so hathesub-conscousmnd maywork on twhouthedsaconsand dsspaon

ofenergyhatheconscousmnd subecto. Sparerecognzed hatmagccomesom heub-

conscousmnd ofhemagcan,notsomeousdesprs'orgods.

Chrsopher Bray has hs o say about Spares mehods n hs no- ducon o The Colleced

WorksofAun Osman Spare:

"So n hsartand wrng,Sparespungusn hemood;orshowngbyexamplewhatatude

we need o adopt o approach he angle of depar- ure of conscouness' n order o ener he

nne. Whatpch ofcon- scounessweneed o gan success.

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"Onemutbewaremakngdogma,orSparewento greatpanso excludetasmuch aspossble

o achevesuccessn hsmagc;howeveranumberofbascassumponsunderpn chaosmagc.

"Chaos s he unversal poenal of creave orce, whch s consanly engaged n ryng o seep

hrough he cracks of our personal and collecve reales. t s he power of

Evoluon/Devoluon.

"Shamansm s nnae whn every one of us and can be apped f we qualy by adusng our

percepon/audeand makngourbengreadyo acceptheponaneou. AchevngGnoss,or

hngheangleofdeparureofconscousnessand me,saknack raherhan askll"

Thereareohermehodso ulzehesameconcepthatSpareexplansorus. Magcanssnce

Spare have wren about her own mehods and expanons of hs mehod que requenly n

occult magaznes, mosly n Great Bran. Spare s ceranly not he rst person n hsory o

praccehssortofmagc,buthesheonewho hasdubbed t(appropraely),Chaos.

ChaossnceAOS.

Ausn Spare ded May 15, 1956, but hs magc dd not de wh hm. There have been select

groups of magcans praccng versons of Chaos ever snce, especally n Norhern England and

Germany.

n helae1970s,RaySherwn wasedorand publsherofamagaznecalled TheNew Equnox'

Pee Carroll was a regular conrbuor o he magazne, and ogeher, dueo dssasacon wh

he magcal scene n Bran at he me, hey ormed he llumnaos Of Thanaeros' They

adversed n New Equnox'and agroup ormed. Partofhenenon ofhegroup waso have

an Order where degrees expressed aanment raher han auhory, and herarchy beyond ut

organzaonal requremenswasnon-exsen.

Atsomepon,about1986,RaySherwn "excommuncaed hmsel"

because he elt hat he Order was slppng no he power srucure hat he had nended o

avod wh hs group, and Pee Carroll became known as he leader of The Pac' The OT

connues o hrve and s dened as he only nernaonal Chaos organzaon o dae. The

OT hasalso spread o Amerca,and hasheadquaersn Encno,Calornaand Alana,Georga.

There are smaller groups of Chaos praconers, as well as ndvduals praccng alone. Chaos

snceSparehasaken on aleofsown. twll alwaysconnueo grow,hatssnaure.

t was only naural hat evenually he world of scence would begn o dscover he physcal

prncplesunderlyngmagc,alhough hescensswho aremaknghesedscoveressll do not

realzehathsswhatheyaredong. tsneresnghatheyhavehad hewsdom o call t

chaosscence.

ChaosScence

Modern chaosscencebegan n he1960swhen ahandul ofopen-mnded scensswh an eye

or paen realzed hat smple mahemacal equa- ons ed no a compuer could model

paerns every bt as regular and "chaoc" as a waerall. They were able o apply hs o

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weaherpaerns,coaslnes,all sorsofnaural phenomena. Pacularequaonswould resultn

pcures resemblng specc ypes of leaves, he possbltes were ncredble. Ceners and

nsueswereounded o specalze n "non- lneardynamcs"and "complex sysems" Naural

phenomena, lke he red spot of Juper, could now be undersood. The common cach-erms

hat mostpeoplehave heard bynow; srange aacors, racals, ec, are elaed o hesudyof

urbulencen naure.

Theresnotoom o go no hesesubecsn deph here,and Irecommend hathosewho ae

neresed n hs ubect read Chaos: makng a new scence' by James Gleck and Turbulent

Mrror'byJohn Brggs& F. Davd Pea.

Whatweareconcened wh hereshow all hsrelaeso magc.

Manymagcans,especallyChaosMagcans,havebegun usngheseerms,"racal"and "srange

aracor",n hereverydayconversaons. Mostofhosewho do hshavesomeunderandng

of he relaonhp beween magc and hs area of scence. To put t very smply, a successul

magcal act causes an apparanly acausal resul. n sudyng urbulence, chaos scenss have

realzed hatapparanlyacausal phenomenan naurearenotonlyhenom,butaremeasurable

bysmplemahemacal equaons.

rregularyshesuflesmadeo. Forexample,n hesudyofhearbeatrhyhmsand bran-

wave paerns, rregular paerns are measured om normally unconng organs, whle seady,

regular paerns are a drect sympom of a heart aack about o occur, or an eplepc .

Reerrngback agan o "vrual"phoons,aproperlyexecued magcal releaseofenergycreaesa

"wave orm" (vsble by Krlan phoography) around he magcan causng urbulence n he

aehercspace. Thsurbulencewll lkelycausearesul,preerablyashemagcan hasnended.

Once he energy s released, conrol over he phenomena s out of he magcans hands, ust as

onceheequaon hasbeen ed no hecompuer,hedesgn ollowshepah setor.

The scenss who are workng n hs area would scof at hs explana- on, heyhave no dea

hat hey are n he pocess of dscoverng he physcs behnd magc. But hen, many common

place scences of oday, chemsry or example, were once condered o be magc.

Undersandng hs subect requres, besdes ome readng, a ht n hnkng. We are raned

rom an earlyageo hnk n lnearerms,butnaureand hechaoswhn tarenon-lnear,and

hereorerequrenon-lnearhnkngo beundeood. Thssoundssmple,yettremndsmeof

alogcclassIhad n college. WeweredongsmpleArsoelan syllogsms. All wehad o do was

o puteverydaylanguageno equaon om. tsoundssmple,and ts.

However,trequresanon-lnearhoughtpoces. Durnghatleson overhespaceofaweek,

heclassszedopped rom 48 o 9 sudens. Thecompuerpogrammerswerehersto drop

ou.

Those of us who survved hat secon went on o earn hgh grades n he class, but more

mporanly, ound hat we had acheved a permanent change n our hnkng processes. Our

lveswerechanged byhatonesmpleshtofpespecve.

Chaosscencessll n theprocesofdscovery,yetmagcanshavebeen applyngsprncples

or at least as long as hey have been wrng about magc. Once he pncples of hs scence

begn o ake hold on he hnkng process, he magcan begns o noce everyhng rom he

racal paerns n moke rsng rom a cgaree o he paensofsuccess and alure n magcal

workngs,whch leadso an undersandngofwhythassucceeded oraled.

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