~ Enoralia ~

chaosgarden:

theepsionicassembly:

A couple interesting sites for the non-artistically-inclined magi::

http://sigilmaker.com/

http://www.waningmoon.com/cgi-local/tools/sigilcrush.cgi

http://17hex.net/sigil/

I’ve been aware of the Sigil Crush app for a while but never the other two. I’ll…

iheartchaos:

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.

Read More

chaosgarden:

Too fucking true.

(Source: blackshaw)

1. Tout ce qui n’est pas égocentrique est mort.
2. Tout ce qui peut être perçu est réel.
3. Tout ce qui ne peut pas être perçu n’est pas nécessairement irréel.
4. Essayez tout au moins deux fois. Cette instruction est incompatible avec des activités comme le suicide que l’on ne peut commettre qu’une seule fois. Les tentatives de suicide sont, naturellement, permises.
5. Ignorez tous les signes de gauche et de droite. Ils ne servent qu’à distiller de la confusion, la droite de la scène étant la gauche de l’auditoire et vice-versa.
6. Baisez avec autant de fantômes que possible.
7. Ne montrez jamais vos talismans.
8. La Volonté est unité de désir.
9. Lorsque vous visitez le convent local, assurez-vous d’avoir un euro sur vous pour la bière.
10. La Magie est un viol de la probabilité.

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.