카오스 매직: 철학 및 실무 개요

### 카오스 마법의 이해: 철학, 관행, 영향력
* 🎭 "진실은 없고, 모든 것이 허용된다"라는 문구는 왼쪽 길의 철학적 토대에 뿌리를 둔 **카오스 매직의 정수**를 담고 있습니다.
* 📚 1970년대 영국에서 피터 캐롤과 레이 셔윈이 창시한 카오스 매직은 **불필요한 의식과 엄격한 위계질서를 거부**하는 것이 특징입니다.
* 🔮 수행자들은 모든 잠재력이 존재하는 혼돈의 원초적 상태를 활용하기 위해 **노시스라고 하는 의식의 변화된 상태**에 접근하려고 합니다.
* 🌀 카오스 매직은 **알리스터 크롤리와 타문화권 샤머니즘**에서 영감을 얻었지만, 복잡한 이론보다는 실제 적용을 강조하며 마법 수행에서 진정으로 효과가 있는 것에 초점을 맞춥니다.
* 🌌 물리적 세계를 거부하는 영지주의와 달리 **카오스 매직은 모순을 더 깊은 이해와 자유를 위한 기회**로 여기며 이를 포용합니다.
* ⚡ 카오스 마술사는 종종 자신만의 신과 마법의 대응을 만들어 **기존의 전통이 아닌 혼돈에서 힘**을 얻으며, 마법과 과학을 현실을 이해하는 상호 연결된 길로 여깁니다.
* 🧙 카오스 매직의 철학은 **기존의 규범을 무너뜨리는 우상숭배와 종교적 경계를 초월하는 보편적인 지혜**를 추구하는 샤머니즘적 관습 사이를 오가며, 마치 **샤머니즘적 관습에 비유**되기도 합니다.
* 💬 Angela는 시청자들이 이 주제에 참여하도록 초대하고, 향후 영상에서는 **카오스 매직의 다양한 측면**을 더 깊이 파고들어 커뮤니티의 상호작용과 지원을 장려할 것이라고 제안합니다.

카오스 매직은 개인이 모순을 받아들이고 실용적인 마법을 위한 자신만의 신념을 형성할 수 있도록 도와줍니다.

“Nothing is True, everything is permitted.” That’s from Assassin’s Creed, right? Wrong! That’s just about the essence of Chaos Magick! [music] Hello everyone, I’m Angela, and welcome back to my channel. Your online resource for the academic study of magic and magic-practising traditions. Today we will introduce Chaos Magick and its core philosophical underpinnings. I will make a separate video to address the main practices found in Chaos Magick. Also, my lovely Patrons and a viewer in the comment section of my previous video have highlighted the similarities between the philosophy of Nietzsche and that of the Left-hand Path. I agree and believe that there are a few key elements of the Nietzschean philosophy found across Left-Hand traditions, and although I initially thought of covering them in this video, I then realized the matter deserves a video on its own. So, stay tuned for that because it’s coming very soon. Now,

let’s move on to the Philosophy of Chaos Magick, shall we? Chaos Magick is a magical practice that appeared in the United Kingdom in the 1970s as part of the magical subculture, and it's now considered by most as a Left-Hand tradition. The name “Chaos” refers to the state of undetermined, unmediated, the very root of yet unrealized potentials – which practitioners can reach through trance states and altered states of consciousness, otherwise known as gnosis, which in ancient Greek would be pronounced g’nosis. Although the founding Fathers, who set the premises for this tradition, are Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, and Kenneth Grant, Chaos Magick was formally created in the 1970s by Peter Carroll and Ray Sherwin, the two magicians who formed the Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, also referred to with the acronym IOT.

This order still stands as the most popular formalised group of Chaos Magick, even though nowadays many Chaos magicians practise in independent groups or just by themselves. Chaos Magick stands in-between witchcraft and ceremonial magick, with substantial influences from transcultural shamanism. Even though its theoretical framework draws massively from Aleister Crowley, Chaos Magick firmly rejects whatever they perceive as unnecessary ritualism, hierarchy and strict rules to abide by. Chaos Magick prefers to focus on practical aspects of the magical endeavour, trying to avoid superfluous theorisation and complex rituals. The idea here is to go straight to the essence of what works. On this note, Peter Carroll complained about “armchair magicians”, too concerned about theorising about magick rather than actually performing successful rituals. Thus, the IOT was established with the aim of stripping down magical theory to its basics,

to those practical elements which make magic work. Peter Carroll has drawn parallels himself between the historical Gnosticism and Chaos Magick, perhaps overemphasising the gnostic concept of breaking the boundaries created by the physical world to reach a higher spiritual state. However, there are substantial differences between Gnosticism and Chaos Magick which need to be highlighted. While both ideologies seek to break through a perceived dualistic reality, in Gnosticism we have a rejection of the physical world in favour of its counterpart, whereas in Chaos Magick we find a total immersion in the physical, to its very core, to then access the spiritual. As Woodman explains, ‘Human alienation is – in Chaos Magick – a result of being trapped in a culturally-determined, Aristotelian-dualistic mode of thought.’ Here, freedom is not found in rejecting one over the other but in embracing the contradictions, endorsing paradoxes, and all the contrasting beliefs and views which people have been

conditioned to see as either/or. The principle of non-contradiction set by Aristotle as the founding element of our reasoning is here seen as a chain that human beings need to free themselves from. The practice-oriented approach, endorsed by Chaos Magick, is also linked to their view of the metaphysical world. If nothing is true, everything is permitted and contradictions are not even an issue… well, everything you believe is because you choose to. And that choice is instrumental to the aim you want to achieve. You can believe in one or multiple Gods and in none at the same time. As a result, things are only true as long as the Chaos magician deems them useful or instrumental to the set purpose. There are Chaos magicians who even make up deities from TV shows and movies or make up their own magickal correspondences – instead of following the ones found in the books. And this is because the power comes from that state of

Chaos, which is primordial and full of potential, not by any other human-created means or rules. Furthermore, most “Chaos Magicians see magic and contemporary scientific theory as two sides of the same coin, as both offer access to the primordial states of non-being.” In Chaos Magick, we find psychological interpretations of demons as hidden aspects of the psyche and accounts of contemporary scientific discoveries, for instance, from quantum physics – as means to explain occult phenomena. When it comes to how Chaos Magick relates to the wider esoteric milieu, as Colin Duggan highlights, we find two apparently antithetical tendencies, called Perennialism and Iconoclasm. On one hand, we have an iconoclastic tendency, as Chaos Magick tears down, derides even, the established, the dogmatic and the conventional. This is called iconoclasm because it refers to destroying images, icons, idols of religious culture.

On the other hand, there is an appeal to tradition, which is sought as a form of legitimization. However, in Chaos Magick, with its notorious rejection of religious and spiritual establishments – this translated into the concept of Perennialism. As I explained in more detail in my video on the New Age movement, the idea of a Perennial Philosophy conveys the existence of an eternal truth or wisdom that is trans-historical and trans-cultural. Deemed as a form of wisdom underlying all dogmatic religious systems, which have come and gone over the ages, this label-less tradition is seen by Chaos Magicians as no one's property and accessible to everyone. This primordial, unstructured, and open-access wisdom is perceived to be found in shamanism. In the Liber Null and in the Psychonaut, Peter Carroll mentions that all shamanic cultures share the same methods: a concept we also find in Core Shamanism and that the secrets

of magic are universal and very practical in nature. Phil Hine emphasizes even more, in his three-volume work “Techniques of Modern Shamanism,” the relation between Chaos Magick and Shamanism. By endorsing the view of the Shaman, portrayed by Mircea Eliade, Phil Hine sees the shaman as the first primordial magician. So, what they are trying to say here is that you don’t need to abide by any rules of any occult order or religious group because the knowledge of magic underlies all religions and can be accessed regardless of specific affiliations. Thus, they say, free yourself of the burden of dogmas and go to the core, as shamans used to do before any established religion was even born. You can access the trance states, the realm of chaos - where everything is in its potential state and you can turn into reality whichever possibility you choose. This, however,

(I need to say that) draws on a romanticized idea of Shamanism (which is quite popular amongst transcultural Shamans), but you find that academic debate in a different video. There are lots of philosophical and practical elements in Chaos Magick which I was not able to include in this video, otherwise it would've been a million years long. But if you like the topic, I’d be happy to make more videos on Chaos Magick in the future. Let me know in the comments which part of the video you liked the most and what you’d like to see next on the channel. Also, if you like my content please help me out by sharing my videos around, as this allows me to make more videos for you guys! A shout out to my new Patrons, Andrew Ogilvy and Will Lowe. I hope I pronounced them right. Thank you so much for pledging to my Patreon, it means the world to me!

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CHAOS MAGICK explained. Philosophical Features.

Angela's Symposium

카오스 매직은 1970년대 영국에서 마술 하위 문화에 뿌리를 두고 등장했으며, 현재는 좌파의 전통으로 간주됩니다.

"카오스"라는 용어는 수련자들이 트랜스 및 노시스라고 알려진 의식의 변화된 상태를 통해 접근하는 결정되지 않은 잠재력을 나타냅니다.

이 전통은 알레스터 크롤리, 오스틴 오스만 스페어, 케네스 그랜트에 의해 창시되었으며, 피터 캐롤과 레이 셔윈이 타나테로스 일루미네이트의 협정을 통해 공식적으로 창시했습니다.

카오스 매직은 주술과 의식 마술 사이에 있는 대중적인 관습으로, 타문화권 샤머니즘의 영향을 받았습니다.

불필요한 의식과 위계질서를 거부하고 실용적인 측면과 성공적인 의식에 중점을 둡니다.

이 이데올로기는 물리적 세계에 몰입하여 영적인 것에 접근하고 모순과 역설을 포용함으로써 이원론적 현실을 돌파하고자 합니다.

카오스 매직은 진리는 주관적이며 개인의 선택에 따라 달라진다는 비모순의 원칙에 도전합니다.

수련자는 여러 신을 믿거나 믿지 않을 수 있으며, 카오스 상태에서 힘을 얻습니다.

이 접근법은 마술과 현대 과학을 연결하여 악마에 대한 심리적 해석을 제공하고 오컬트 현상을 설명하기 위해 양자 물리학을 끌어들입니다.

카오스 매직은 모든 독단적인 종교의 근간을 이루는 영원하고 보편적인 지혜를 제시하는 영원주의 개념을 받아들여 전통적인 종교와 영적 체계를 거부합니다.

이 비정형적이고 라벨이 없는 전통은 누구나 접근할 수 있는 것으로 간주되며, 샤머니즘은 그 지혜의 핵심 원천입니다.

카오스 마술사들은 마술의 비밀이 보편적이고 실용적이라고 주장하며, 교리를 버리고 혼돈의 영역에 접근하고 원하는 현실을 구현하기 위해 트랜스 상태를 추구해야 한다고 주장합니다.

이 비디오는 샤머니즘의 낭만화된 사상과 타문화권 주술사들 사이에서 인기를 끌고 있는 샤머니즘에 대해 설명합니다.

시간 제약으로 인해 포함하지 못한 카오스 매직의 철학적, 실용적 요소에 대해서도 언급합니다.

크리에이터는 시청자에게 향후 영상에 대한 생각과 요청을 공유하고 새로운 후원자에게 감사의 인사를 전합니다.