Chaos Magick and Luciferism
by Michael Ford
Confusion is the result of a system of failure. In order to build and proceed into any
useful areas one must be willing to strip away belief that have been programmed since
birth. We all have this challenge, as within modern society this is a consistent and often
reoccurring problem. When Peter Carroll, Ray Sherwin and others began working with
something they would later call, Chaos Magic, the potential they continued from what
Aleister Crowley and Austin Spare developed was so bright it was often overlooked.
Austin Spare in undoubtedly the grand father of Chaos Magic, while he had no idea at the
time of his magickal importance. During the 80’s a re-publishing awakening of material
by Spare was on the upswing, remaining from such publishers from the 70’s like 93
Publishing, who issued several important pieces of Spare’s work along with numerous
titles from Aleister Crowley. Christopher Bray, the owner of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
bookshop spearheaded the resurgence of Spare in the early 80’s with “The Collected
Works of Austin Osman Spare”, which gave a seminal kick in the pants to many
individuals who were looking for new ways within Magick to explore and exceed.
Chaos Magick today essentially is a system derived from many individuals, formed
into a new method of sorcery. Chaos Magick is a TOOL, not a structure. Many
techniques and traditions are brought into this effective form of sorcery yet anything at
anytime can be changed, altered or more or less “form fitted” to achieve the results
desired.
Chaos Magick is formed from many traditions, in the current age it seems almost
perfect. There is nothing which would be denied or ignored due to dogma. The system of
Chaos implements the foundation of change and progression. While the foundations of
Chaos are within the components of Aleister Crowley (who might have been a chaos
magician himself), Austin Osman Spare and Macgregor Mathers (default for the Golden
Dawn and his various translations of manuscripts) Chaos has spaw