| From: | Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | wyrm and solarial |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Oct 1993 17:05:43 -0700 |
>Chaotic Mages
>
>"Magic is the channeling of mana through a concerted force of will, trying to
>fool yourself does not work"
>
>So - then what is a chaos mage -
>
>A person who magic uses - there is no force of will there.
>
>A person who wants things really bad and magic happens - this sounds mostly like
>a little child - they want the magic to happen - they think about the effect -
>and possibly a week effect happens. Over time the person 1 becomes a Hermetic
>2 becomes a shaman 3 becomes somehting in between. Either way the person has
>though about what they are trying to do - atleast partially.
>
Mmm. Not right, at least in terms of Chaos magick as I know it
currently. Nor is it appropriate for Chaos to be interpreted as a
"toxic" form of hermeticism. Allow me to extrapolate a little bit (not
much)...
Chaos magick is a set of principles upon which magic(k) is worked: it
involves a very direct intercourse with probability and circumstance,
it follows bizarre and often circuitous routes to and from its
arguments. Its arguments take more of a intuitive style than
deductive; its precepts focus on randomness and the manipulation of
"coincidence." This only treats a small portion of the field
