The Garden Of Chaos: Sigil Making for Dummies
A couple interesting sites for the non-artistically-inclined magi::
I’ve been aware of the Sigil Crush app for a while but never the other two. I’ll…

A couple interesting sites for the non-artistically-inclined magi::
I’ve been aware of the Sigil Crush app for a while but never the other two. I’ll…
The Power Of The Witch - British Witchcraft documentary, 1971
An extremely rare documentary about Witchcraft aired once in the UK in 1971. Featuring contributions from Eleanor Bone, Cecil Williamson, Alex & Maxine Sanders, Doreen Valiente et al. Very much of its time and with some very rare footage, also includes reference to the famously unsolved murder of Charles Walton on Meon Hill.
(via chaosgarden)
Throughout the 1920s and 30s, London saw 20 deaths that were simply written off as due to the mythical “Curse of Tutankhamen”, since all 20 had some sort of connection to the opening of the burial chamber of the boy king in Luxor in 1922. But now, one scholar believes the deaths were attributable to occultist Aleister Crowley.
Alan Moore talks about information (by Miles Hingston)
Alan Moore presents the story of his development as an artist, starting with his childhood and working through to his comics career and impact on that medium, and his emerging interest in magic.
Ray Sherwin, The Theatre of Magic, 1981. Traduction française par Spartakus FreeMann, 2011.
via melmothia.net
Probability magic is a new magical model that looks at the universe as a set of probabilities, and as magic being the ability to increase and decrease these probabilities. This is different from traditional magical theory.
Traditional magical theory worked under a cause and effect theory, or action and reaction. In other words the basic idea of magic was that if you do A then B will occur, and so the point of magic was to assign something to the variable B and then figure out what A is. The problem with this model is that there are a lot of variables that effect the operation. Things like the mood of the practitioner, who is in the room, where the operation is being performed, the time of day, the position of the stars, and the physical condition of the practitioner can all have huge effects on whether or not a spell succeeds. So just because A worked once doesn’t mean it will always work, and just because A didn’t work this time doesn’t mean it will never work. Some magicians who are able to succeed at a spell very rarely succeed at it while others are able to get the same spell to work almost all of the time and rarely ever fail.
Probability magic tries to fix this model. Probability magic begins by supposing that all things are possible however unlikely (this is supported by mathmatics and physics). Next it figures that magic is simply the act of changing these probabilities, and this, not variables which are unaccounted for, is why some magicians can only get a spell to work some of the time. Under the theory of probability magic the spell works every time, but it never brings forth the goal. The spell just makes the goal more likely to happen.
« Je dois créer mon propre système ou accepter d’être réduit en esclavage par un autre homme », a dit William Blake. « La magie, pour moi, est une méthode de travail permettant d’explorer d’autres réalités, de briser les habitudes comportementales, de parvenir à s’entendre avec la mort et de se payer une tranche de rire », a dit Grant Morrison. Ce sont les principes de base de la Magie du Chaos : la croyance est un outil, non une camisole de force. Elle est malléable. Elle peut et doit être modifiée à Volonté [sic] pour occasionner des changements en soi-même et dans le monde. Tout le reste – la cosmologie, la technique, la philosophie – est négociable.
Extrait :
En magie, la foi précède la manifestation.
Et ce n’est qu’un point parmi d’autres qui rendent l’évaluation de la Magie par la science ou par la religion contre-nature. Nous voilà donc devant un divorce méthodologique du même acabit que celui qui a divisé science et religion : le caractère radicalement différent des logiques inhérentes à ces grandes approches que sont la science, l’art, la religion et la magie rend l’évaluation de l’une par l’autre aberrante. Ou comme le dit Ramsey Dukes : la religion n’a rien à dire de la science ni de la magie ; la science n’a rien à dire de la religion ni de la magie, etc.
Alan Moore on Austin Osman Spare
Author and magician Alan Moore discusses the virtually unknown but enormously talented Edwardian artist and magician Austin Osman Spare on The Culture Show from the BBC.
(via Zefrem23)
