As I have written previously, it benefits man nothing to share his goals with others. There are a variety of reasons behind this, both scientific and occult, and as such it should be unthinkable to make a public proclamation of your goals for the coming year on social media. What follows, then, is what you should do in private to set and achieve your goals by harnessing the power of chaos magick and focusing your will to effect changes in our physical reality.
Before I continue, I’ll remind you people that I am hardly an expert in the occult. If you have in depth questions after this short explanation of how to set concrete goals for yourself (ostensibly for obtaining and displaying massive physical strength), I suggest you either purchase books on the subject or consult someone more knowledgeable than myself. At some point in the (hopefully) near future I will post an interview with famed occult writer Michael W. Ford, who has written a great deal on magick in general. Until that’s published, here is a little something to get you started.
Per Ford, chaos magick is for all intents and purposes the magickal version of Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do. It was formed by the occultist Austin Osman Spare utilizing components of Aleister Crowley’s work, and the was expanded upon greatly by a some modern occultists a couple of decades after Spare croaked. Not unlike assholes have done with JKD and the visionless, moneygrubbing shitbirds of the strength sports world have claimed about strength training, certain elements of the occult world will have you believe that chaos magick, in stark contradiction to the goddamned name, is actually a set system of magickal practices with dogmatic beliefs. Happily, that is not the case.
“Chaos Magick is not a system within itself. ‘It’ is actually a definition of action, course of study and a non-lineal way of looking at the subjective universe. Everything can be changed, altered and will to become something else. If you are sure it won’t happen, it probably will and can. Chaos Magick can be as dangerous as it is beneficial. It demands a mind which is able to understand the fragile nature of being what is known as ‘I’ and what our potential of growth is. ‘It’ also demands one to ‘Know thyself’” (Ford).
In essence, chaos magick seeks to focus your personal will to effect tangible change on the universe as a whole. Though that might seem ridiculous on its face, a great deal of what is being discovered in the field of quantum physics seems to complement this belief. If you want to look into it, feel free, but as this was intended to be a quick treatment that has already run long I’ll simply suggest that there are books on quantum physics readily available all over the place that will confirm the above statement, as will Peter Carroll’s phenomenal book The Apophenium. In any event, Spare relied on sigils to effect his magic, which he constructed with one of three methods:
- letter manipulation
- art
- music
I am just going to cover letter manipulations here, since it is a simple thing to explain and has been incredibly effective for me. You start by simply making a statement of very specific intent that is bereft of emotional effect or desire, such as:
It is my will to incline bench four hundred five pounds within six months.
Then drop all of the duplicate letters (some suggest you drop the vowels as all), so the intent becomes:
itsmywloncebhfurdvpsx
Rearrange the letters to a different order and then copy that order to a different sheet of paper. Use this if you want to do it online.
uiledpnfroswbyvxhctm
What you’ve got left is the basis of the glyph you’re going to draw, which I am doing in MS Paint simply for the ability to screenshot it, but take the time to use pen and paper like an adult with dignity and self respect. I think the utilization of electronics for this shit removes some of the ritual and deliberateness of this entire process that leads to the effect of it. Trust me, I strip every last bit of ritual out of this shit that I can, because as Stiffler stated in Role Models, people tend to avoid people in capes, and all of the ritualistic shit seems hokey and contrived to me. If that’s your thing, go for it, but otherwise just trust me when I say I have this down to the bare bones
You can twist and contort the letters however you see fit, and after you combine the letters into a glyph you simplify it until it is as simple as possible while remaining something you aesthetically appreciate and don’t mind staring at awhile.
Thus the mess on the left gradually transforms into the mess on the right. Like I said, use a pen and paper. There is no right or wrong here, beyond using your fucking iPad to do this (if you make it on your phone or whatever it is never actually willed to be and remains ephemeral, so the sigil is neither created nor destroyed because it never is.)
Once that is done, you’re ready to begin the ritual.
- Clear your head (which I do using Buddhist deep breathing methods)
- Use a breathing technique to focus (like the ones linked above) while staring at the sigil you’ve created
- Continue going deeper into trace state thinking only about the sigil you have made until it becomes the all-encompassing focus of your attention and will
- You should continue until your can’t keep going, which for the author of the book I have linked in the sources means he loses the ability to focus on his breathing, but for me is usually starting to fall asleep.
- Banish to end the ritual, which for Vitmus is laughing hysterically but for me is screaming along with deathcore
- Destroy the sigil and do not worry about the request anymore. Forget it. If you find yourself thinking about it just let the thought go.
Before you run off half-cocked, there is a bit of practice that goes into this, and I recommend reading up on the subject before you fancy yourself Gandolf or some shit. Andrieh Vitmus recommends starting your sigil magic with shit you don’t really care about and that has a high probability for success before jumping into the bigger stuff, and that’s probably a good idea- author of badass graphic novels like Watchmen Grant Morrisson nearly killed himself with chaos magick after writing himself into The Invisibles (here’s his lecture on chaos magick).
In any event, whatever you do with this information will be vastly more effective than just blabbering about your goals on Instagram, Facebook, and Reddit. So use it or don’t, but go affect the universe and make something fucking happen.
Sources:
Ford, Michael W. Chaos magick and luciferism. Chaostatic. Web. 1 Jan 2019. http://www.chaostatic.com/paradigm/writings/chaos_lucifer.php
Vitimus, Andrieh. Hands-On Chaos Magic. Woodbury: Llewellyn Publications, 2015.
Hahah! My last such ritual (held during the last full moon) was one regarding a strength goal of mine. A big one. As suggested, I’m not going to say what it is, but I will after it happens in April.
Btw, The Apophenion is a genius piece of work, especially the DIY religion and Pantheism parts.
Quality article as always. Best wishes from Transylvania!
Hmmm. I am curious if there are some psychological reasons why this would be helpful. I’m sure there’s benefit to writing down what you want. I think there’s research on that, and I know writing out what I want helps me stay focused. Attaching some kind of ritual to the writing probably cements it in your mind as something worth pursuing. Without a ritual, it’s just note-taking. Re-arrange the letters into an interesting symbol, sacrifice a goat, wear a funny hat and suck your own dick, etc…and now the notes are much more memorable.
nice one – bit far out maybe, but perhaps only because we are so desensitised to our other realms of perception. carl jung argued that ancient symbols, like shields with their symbolic depictions, which can be pretty much read as sigils, attract us and strengthen our resolve and fortitude in combat.
i was just browsing the often-whacky but occasionally spot-on richard cassaro’s website where he made an interesting observation when examining modern-day corporate logos and their psychological co-opting of ancient symbols which connect with our primal subconscious to elicit certain reactions/emotions of which we are completely unaware of (https://www.richardcassaro.com/sinister-corporate-symbols/) – very eccentric in parts, but enough interesting info to ponder.
anyways, good luck with the new site and your sterling content – when you’ve been at it a few decades (i’m 53), then there really isn’t anything new under the sun, but your stuff still effortlessly peaks my interest, cheers fella!
The corporate logos/ancient sigils shit is borderline David Icke stuff, haha. I’ve never heard of Richard Cassaro, but I’ll give him a look. And thanks for the kudos- the strength world is so fucking boring at this point, it’s not hard to set myself apart. It’s goddamned sad the lifting world lacks other personalities who want to make this shit interesting. Instead, it’s just a race to the bottom to release the most hackneyed, lame shit possible. In any event, thanks man. And any more suggestions you have, hit me up!
Playing with toys, check out this school / channel they have some good stuff out on youtube but the forum is well worth it and right up your alley, the head is fairly serious lifter / martial artist
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY6XW8f5JF3q7p0XON08xvg/videos
That looks genuinely interesting. Good looking out!
Cant say as any of this resonates with me, all seems to be on the terrain of imaginary friends in the sky, but I am not mean, if it works for you, have at it.
Anyone can lift weights for a while, maybe even do the gear and get big for a while, but sticking it out like a catholic marriage is not easy, it comes with a hefty price tag, not necessarily in terms of money, and whatever keeps you motivated is a plus.
Meanwhile if you have a few brain cells to rub together, have a bit of materialism;
“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world…
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
That had nothing whatsover to do with will, and as I’ve stated before, taking Marx’s advice on philosophy was like taking a blind man’s opinion on choosing an outfit for a date. The man knew far less than he thought he did. The occult is about harnessing your own innate power, not begging for help from a sky god.
Holy fucking Christ, Steve. I almost hoped you would’ve been confused and wouldn’t be able to find the new site since you’re such a fucking idiot, but here you are.
It was an interesting read, I certainly will give you that.
It does seem a bit out of character with your normal science based faire, and quite honestly rings of a huge helping of bullshit… but perhaps there is just something I’m missing.
The bulk of the work seems to be the mental intention and focus on the goal. Which is to say, I don’t think anything extra, or “magick”, is gained by the sigil burning. The intention and thoughtfulness on the goal combined with the meditation and thinking deeply about it probably accounts for 100% of the effect (although I suppose you could argue that without the ritual and the sigil burning maybe that result wouldn’t be as “hard wired”)
Either way, as I said it’s certainly interesting.
Your opinion is noted but I remain with Dr. Marx and the proletariat. Letter manipulation seems like an utter load of shit to me, on a par with all the other religious nonsense that only serves to hold us back. Angels and devils, all the same to me, bullshit.