Principia Chaotica

PRINCIPIA CHAOTICA
Chaos Magic for the Pandaemeon
In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves,
but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize
this is to face a terrible freedom in which Nothing is True
and Everything is Permitted, which is to say that everything
is possible, there are no certainties, and the consequences
can be ghastly. Laughter seems to be the only defence
against the realisation that one does not even have a real
self.
The purpose of Chaos Rituals is to create beliefs by acting
as though such beliefs were true. In Chaos Rituals you Fake
it till you Make it, to obtain the power that a belief can
provide. Afterwards, if you have any sense, you will laugh
it off, and seek the requisite beliefs for whatever you want
to do next, as Chaos moves you.
Thus Chaoism proclaims the Death and Rebirth of the Gods.
Our subconscious creativity and parapsychological powers are
more than adequate to create or destroy any god or self or
demon or other "spritual" entity that we may choose to
invest or disinvest belief in, at least for ourselves and
sometimes others as well. The frequently awesome results
attaining by creating gods by act of ritually behaving as
though they exist should not lead the Chaos magician into
the abyss of attributing ultimate reality to anything. That
is the transcendentalist mistake,, which leads to the

narrowing of the spectrum of the self. The real awesomeness
lies in the range of things we can discover ourselves
capable of, even if we may temporarily have to believe the
effects are due to something else, in order to be able to
create them. The gods are dead. Long live the gods.
Magic appeals to those with a great deal of hubris and a
fertile imagination coupled with a strong suspicion that
both reality and human condition have a game like quality.
The game is open ended, and plays itself for amusement.
Players can make up their own rules to some extent, and
cheat by using parapsychology if desired.
A magician is one who has sold his soul for the chance of
participating more fully in reality. Only when nothing is
true, and the idea of a true self is abandoned, does
everything become permitted. There is some accuracy in the
Faust myth, but he failed to take it to its logical
conclusion.
It takes only the acceptance of a single belief to make
someone a magician. It is the meta-belief that belief is a
tool for achieving effects. This effect is often far easier
to observe in others than in oneself. It is usually quite
easy to see how other people, and indeed entire cultures,
are both enabled and disabled by the beliefs they hold.
Beliefs tend to lead to activities which tend to reconfirm
belief in a circle they call virtuous rather than vicious,
even if the results are not amusing. The first stage of

seeing through the game can be a shocking enlightenment that
leads either to a weary cynicism or Buddhism. The second
stage of actually applying the insight to oneself can
destroy the illusion of the soul and create a magician. The
realisation that belief is a tool rather than an end in
itself has immense consequences if fully accepted. Within
the limits set by physical possibility, and these limits are
wider and more malleable than most people believe, one can
make real any beliefs one chooses, including
contradictionary beliefs. The Magician is not striving for
any particular limited identity goal, rather he wants the
meta-identity of being able to be anything.
So welcome to the Kali Yuga of the Pandaemonaeon wherein
nothing is true and everything is permissable. For in these
post-absolutist days it is better to build upon the shifting
sands than the rock which will confound you on the day it
shatters. Philosophers have become no more than the keepers
of useful sarcasms, for the secret is out that there is no
secret of the universe. All is Chaos and evolution is going
nowhere in particular. It is pure chance which rules the
universe and thus, and only thus, is life good. We are born
accidentally into a random world where only seeming causes
lead to apparent effects, and very little is predetermined,
thank Chaos. As everything is arbitrary and accidental then
perhaps these words are too small and pejorative, rather we
should perhaps say that life, the universe and everything is
spontaneously creative and magical.
Relishing stochastic reality we can revel exclusively in

magical definitions of existence. The roads of excess may
yet lead to the place of wisdom, and many indeterminate
things can happen on the way to thermodynamic equilibrium.
It is vain to seek solid ground on which to stand. Solidity
is an illusion, as is the foot which stands on it, and the
self which thinks it owns either is the most transparent
illusion of all.
The heavy vessels of faith are holed and sinking along with
all lifeboats and ingenious rafts. So will you shop at the
supermarket of sensation and let your consumer preferences
define your true self? Or will you in a bold and
lighthearted fashion, thieve from both for the fun of it?
For belief is a tool for achieving whatever one chooses to
consider important or pleasurable, and sensation has no
other purpose than sensation. Thus help yourself to them
without paying the price. Sacrifice Truth for Freedom at
every opportunity. The greatest fun, freedom and achievement
lies not being yourself. There is little merit in simply
being whomsoever you were destined to be by accident of
birth and circumstance. Hell is the condition of having no
alternatives.
Reject then the obscenities of contrived uniformity, order
and purpose. Turn and face the tidal wave of Chaos from
which philosophers have been fleeing in terror for
millennia. Leap in and come out surfing its crest, sporting
amidst the limitless weirdness and mystery in all things,
for those who reject false certainties. Thank Chaos we shall

never exhaust it. Create, destroy, enjoy,
IO CHAOS!

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Chaos Magic for the Pandaemeon

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves,

but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize

this is to face a terrible freedom in which Nothing is True

and Everything is Permitted, which is to say that everything

is possible, there are no certainties, and the consequences

can be ghastly. Laughter seems to be the only defence

The purpose of Chaos Rituals is to create beliefs by acting

as though such beliefs were true. In Chaos Rituals you Fake

provide. Afterwards, if you have any sense, you will laugh

to do next, as Chaos moves you.

Thus Chaoism proclaims the Death and Rebirth of the Gods.

Our subconscious creativity and parapsychological powers are

more than adequate to create or destroy any god or self or

demon or other "spritual" entity that we may choose to

invest or disinvest belief in, at least for ourselves and

sometimes others as well. The frequently awesome results

attaining by creating gods by act of ritually behaving as

the abyss of attributing ultimate reality to anything. That

is the transcendentalist mistake,, which leads to the

lies in the range of things we can discover ourselves

capable of, even if we may temporarily have to believe the

effects are due to something else, in order to be able to

Magic appeals to those with a great deal of hubris and a

fertile imagination coupled with a strong suspicion that

both reality and human condition have a game like quality.

The game is open ended, and plays itself for amusement.

Players can make up their own rules to some extent, and

cheat by using parapsychology if desired.

participating more fully in reality. Only when nothing is

true, and the idea of a true self is abandoned, does

everything become permitted. There is some accuracy in the

Faust myth, but he failed to take it to its logical

It takes only the acceptance of a single belief to make

someone a magician. It is the meta-belief that belief is a

tool for achieving effects. This effect is often far easier

to observe in others than in oneself. It is usually quite

easy to see how other people, and indeed entire cultures,

are both enabled and disabled by the beliefs they hold.

Beliefs tend to lead to activities which tend to reconfirm

belief in a circle they call virtuous rather than vicious,

even if the results are not amusing. The first stage of

leads either to a weary cynicism or Buddhism. The second

stage of actually applying the insight to oneself can

destroy the illusion of the soul and create a magician. The

realisation that belief is a tool rather than an end in

itself has immense consequences if fully accepted. Within

the limits set by physical possibility, and these limits are

make real any beliefs one chooses, including

contradictionary beliefs. The Magician is not striving for

any particular limited identity goal, rather he wants the

meta-identity of being able to be anything.

So welcome to the Kali Yuga of the Pandaemonaeon wherein

nothing is true and everything is permissable. For in these

post-absolutist days it is better to build upon the shifting

shatters. Philosophers have become no more than the keepers

of useful sarcasms, for the secret is out that there is no

secret of the universe. All is Chaos and evolution is going