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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by Grant Morrison

PART I - CHAOS is EVERYWHERE

Adventures In Magic

The Dynamics of Sorcery

Initiation

Experiments in Belief

Microaeonics

PART II - DYNAMIC RITUAL

Introduction

Core Elements of Ritual

The Components of Ritual

Example Types of Ritual

Invocation

Evocation

Astral Magics

PART III - GROUP EFFECTS

Introduction

What is a Group ?

Stages of Group Development

Issues Specific to Magical Groups

Running Groups

PART IV - LIBER NICE & LIBER NASTY

Liber Nice

Liber Nasty

Further Reading

FOREWORD

by Grant Morrison

The initiate in the Tibetan Chöd ritual is required to undergo a visionary experience in which the

physical body is dismembered and devoured by demons while the "higher self" watches, unmoved by

the gruesome destruction of its flesh. This type of experience, common to the shamanic tradition,

demonstrates the sometimes violent and uncompromising nature of "spiritual" or "paradigm" change.

Emerging from the eerie lunar zones between the polar fires of punk rock and the Thatcher rave

years, Chaos Magic has grown and multiplied and diversified, evolving out through the minds of its

practitioners; it has no shape, it breeds like a fractal and mutates as it goes. "It" currently embraces

aspects of the Crowley cult, shamanism, NLP, Reichian bodywork, Eastern thought, voodoo,

Situationist theory, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Walt Disney and anything else you might care to

add to that list. Shattering and binding simultaneously, always up for a laugh, Chaos provides one

useful model for the next stage in the collective upgrading of human consciousness.

Early signs may indicate that human society is entering a time in which the creative synthesis of

apparently contradictory positions will become fundamental to our thinking. In the current magical

subculture, no one sythesizes with the encyclopaedic range and creativity of Phil Hine.

Phil is, in my opinion, the foremost interpreter of the chaos paradigm. His researches, in territories

fraught with confusion and glamour, are not only innovative and imaginative, not only free from self-

aggrandizement and dogma, but are also immensely lucid and readable. Phil offers practical,

detailed information on how magic operates and suggests experiments which can (and should) be

duplicated and verified. He never obscures or overelaborates but still manages to astound with the

depth of his experience and the scope of his speculations. Prime Chaos pulls back the moth-eaten

curtains to expose and dismiss much of the pseudo-goth theatricality which still hampers the

understanding of magic, but at the same time, never loses sight of the wonder, the terror and the

awe of true gnosis.

Phil brings humanity, sanity, insanity and wit to a subject which will, I believe, penetrate more deeply

into the fabric of our lives, as science adapts its boundaries to accommodate some of the

conclusions magicians have already reached, and as magic lets go of the "occult" aspects which

once protected its practitioners from the power of a totalitarian church but which serve now only to

obscure.

Direct confrontation with Chaos is unmistakable and available to anyone who is prepared to simply

do the work and open the doors. This book represents the cutting edge of magic theory and practice;

it will provide as many keys as you need but, as ever, the theory may fire the imagination but cannot

in the end substitute for personal experience. Read then DO.

The penis of the President of the USA is the subject of media debate; a British football star

announces to newspapers that five separate demons are occupying his body; a fairytale princess is

killed by cameras. If ever the time was ripe for the wider emergence of the Chaos current, that time is

surely now.

Charles Fort made the gnomic observation that it steam engines when it's steam engine time.

Well ... it's steam engine time and the chöd ritual has already begun for global culture. The world that

was, is now in the process of watching its own disintegration with horror and exhilaration. What

possible transformations lie ahead when, finally, we let the old corpse go?

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

As the roller-coaster ride into the future gathers speed, Prime Chaos is a survival manual for the 21

st century.

Grant Morrison

July 1998

PART I

CHAOS IS EVERYWHERE

ADVENTURES IN MAGIC

I strayed onto the path direct.- Austin Osman Spare

A friend said to me recently, "I'm just not doing enough magical work at the moment." I nodded,

thinking, "Yeah, I've been there." There is a kind of creeping Protestant Work Ethic implicit in modern

magic, a view that you have to work at magic before you get anywhere, doing your regular practice-

visualisation, meditation, daily banishing, muttering your chosen mantra on the train, controlling your

dreams etc.-until it becomes 'hard work' accompanied by a guilt trip if you slacken off or take a break.

Some time ago I was reading a basic magical training programme in some book or other and I

thought, "Yeah, I bet this guy went to a public school"-the kind of place where you get up at dawn for

a cold bath, run round the playing fields and get beaten senseless at every opportunity. The way the

guy was going on, I wouldn't have been surprised if some Archangel had appeared, thundering,

"HINE! You didn't do your daily banishing this morning! Stand in the corner boy until you can recite

all the god-names in Assiah!" That sort of thing.

I hate doing other people's magical training courses, as my natural inclination is to jump around from

one area of interest to another. In the middle of a Tantric phase of magical work, I might suddenly get

a 'flash' insight into some aspect of western Qabalah, and go off at a tangent. Most magical training

programmes don't account for this sort of thing. So I have found that for me, the best way to stick to a

programme is to run away to foreign parts. Nowadays, there are lifestyles package holidays where

you can jet out to South America, tour the local sacred sites in the company of some New Age

'shamanic' teacher, visit a Bruja and have some kind of psychedelic concoction poured down your

throat. Or you can book onto 'magical' tours of Egypt, and discover your past life as a High Priest of

Isis at Giza. This is simply paying to have your fantasies confirmed, and it leads to situations where

New Agers and reformed druids come over to the UK and start burying crystals at sacred sites to

'correct' their alignments. If you really want to have a magical time in foreign parts, avoid this sort of

thing like the plague. Go somewhere that isn't heavily media-saturated. Detached from the cushion of

friends, language, and television, it's much easier to get into magical practice in a big way, partially

'cos it's much easier to find the time. And the whole thing becomes more interesting as you're not

merely doing pranayama three times a day, you're having an adventure! And magicians are larger-

than-life characters. Having adventures is almost mandatory ! I mean, which sounds better, boasting

that you've invoked the great god Pan from a bedsit in Basingstoke, or coolly mentioning that you did

three hours of no-mind meditation stuck in a bunker whilst the PLO launched rockets at the Kibbutz

you were staying on?

If you can't just drop everything and run off to Ibiza, then make doing magic an adventure at home.

And again, this for me is something near to the core of what magic is about -leaming to experience

your world in different ways, if only so that you can start tweaking it gently at the edges. Doing magic

is about being responsive to the challenges of your environment-often a response borne out of

necessity. When you find yourself dumped in Cairo at 4 a.m. with your luggage at the other end of

the city you can begin to appreciate the strengths of a freestyle approach to practical magic which

enables you to shape ideas and approaches and pulling together an ad hoc enchantment to sort out

the situation. The mistake that newcomers to practical magic often make is that, having identified a

problem, they go looking for a 'ritual' or spell which they believe will remove it. Now I've never seen a

spell to 'discover where the hell your luggage has got to' and it's impossible to come up with a

spell/ritual for everything which life might throw at you. So it's more effective, in my view, to be able

to pull 'something' together out of a hat.

Some years ago I was approached by a friend who evinced an interest in practising magic. But, she

said ' she didn't want to bother with the (quote) "boring" preliminary exercises in the books. Now the

generally-accepted received wisdom regarding magical training is that before you can get to the

exciting stuffchatting up gods or summoning things with tentacles-you have to have gained some

proficiency with the basic magical skills of concentration, visualization, mantra, breath control, etc.

Indeed, it's often implied that those foolhardy souls who do leap in, wands blazing, come to grief later

on. So I asked this friend what she particularly enjoyed doing-which for her was going to raves and

grabbing the occasional toy-boy, watching Star Trek and playing Role-Playing Games. Together we

discussed a way of doing magical exercises which she could use whilst having fun. So she could

develop magical skills for getting served quickly at the bar, finding an empty seat in a crowded room,

or sussing out whether someone was offering her an E or a Vitamin C capsule. Okay, not very

spiritual, but she wasn't looking for spirituality as mysticism but some way of relating magic to her

everyday life.

Sidling Towards Magical Practice

Books

Books are often the bête noire of the magician. There's a common misconception that before you

can practise magic properly, you have to have read loads of books. Whilst there's nothing wrong with

reading widely about magic, it can lead to problems. One is that you spend so much time reading

that you never actually get around to trying anything out for yourself. Another is that you can

unconsciously acquire all kinds of opinions-limitations about what you can or can't do, for example-

from them. Timothy Leary once remarked that "dangerous, habit-forming books" should be locked

away. Books are no substitute for practical experience or conversations with other people. So treat

them with respect, but don't worship them. When I was first getting into magic, I would often read a

book, then make notes on what I considered were the key points and practical bits. I then worked

from my notes and not the book. This, I found, was an excellent way of building up a 'personal

grimoire' of techniques and observations. And don't restrict yourself to books on the occult, either.

Most of the key ideas which have influenced my views about magic haven't come from books on

magic.

Keeping a Magical Diary

It's generally accepted that keeping a strict magical diary is a prerequisite for successful practice. But

let's not be too strict about this. There's no point in keeping a strict diary if not keeping up your

entries is going to become a guilt trip for you. Personally, I go through phases when I keep a record

of activities and insights, and at other times, I can't be bothered. It can be useful to train yourself to

remember things-creating association chains using pictures, photos, scents, objects-whatever you

like.

Explore !

It's very easy for magicians to lock themselves into a limited space, retreating from the world at large

into the world of words (be it in books or the internet) and the safety of their own headspace. If you

feel you're slipping into this state, put aside your books and go out and explore! Go for a stroll in the

park, or a walk on your local 'wild side.' Magic is (in my opinion) a process of engagement with the

world at large, not a retreat from it. Seek wonder in what is around you, rather than in dusty tomes or

the astral world-which tends to lack those little things like ants in your sandwiches or dog-turds on

the pavement. Go places where you wouldn't ordinarily go. Crowley said something to the effect that

if a dog disturbs your meditation-shoot it. Why not go and make friends with it instead?

Daily Practice

Again, there are many books on magic which recommend that the student works through a daily

practice routine of meditations, banishing rituals, visualization exercises, etc. The general view

seems to be that doing daily exercises at fixed times builds character and self-discipline. This is fine

if you have a lifestyle which can be easily structured in this way, but many people (particularly those

with children, families or unsympathetic partners) often don't. Fit magic into your lifestyle. For

example, you can easily meditate whilst doing a household chore. I occasionally do quick spells in

the middle of washing up, and they seem to be no more or less effective than when I do the full-on

ritual stuff. I also feel it's important to take time off occasionally and just do nothing. In fact, doing

nothing can be as difficult for some of us as trying to perform some complex mental exercise.

A further issue related to practice routines is that it's too easy to let them regiment your life. Yes, I

could spend years using techniques of dream control until I have complete mastery over my dream-

life. But is this necessarily a good thing? I rather like the unpredictability and weirdness of my

dreams, and don't want to impose too much control over them. I could do a daily tarot spread before

going out every morning, but is it really going to help me in the long run?

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