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deathcultreject
16-01-2008, 04:55 AM
Please pass this around with credit to the author (Kingsley Evans) and also please use it and tell me about the results.

At the end of the pathworking you end up with a (suprisingly powerful) new familiar which can work flexibly with you for a variety of tasks.

Initiators have often been tall and black and mysterious as with Nyaralathotep, and The Black man of the sabbat.

This work uses V from V for Vendetta as an initiator and guide, but it doesn't require familiarity with the character.

It goes well to a track called "dossier" from "Apocalypse Now" but background music can be at the discression of whoever leads the working by reading it. It's best read slowly to give practitioners enough time.

The text . . .

A clockwise spinning chaosphere comes up to you forming a portal.
Everything flickers between scenes and things stabilise with a round doorway in front of you with a red V on it.
The door opens away from you towards a dark quiet alleyway beneath a murky dismal sky.
A tall cloaked figure gestures theatrically urging you to walk through.
As you do so, you notice that his face is hidden under a guy fawkes mask.

He walks you through desolate streets, all windows closed up, everything apart from him seems frightened, and stifled in an oppressive atmosphere, but his presence makes you feel safe.

He takes you to an underground passage and explains that he’s taking you to see your enemies, and that you’re going to see the things that they’re afraid of.

As he walks you through strange chambers of arched sandstone walls, you start to see things out of the corner of your eyes. You pick up strange, elegant and beautiful impressions from all around you.
Some of them feel like memories.

As you walk the passageways open out into wider grey walled chambers; space seems to ripple and change slightly. It seems that you’re moving into a subtly different dimension, where the stuff of reality has more play with the stuff of dreams.

Exuding a strange charisma that seems to awaken you to seeing and sensing and feeling more than you did, the tall figure tells you to prepare to see your enemies, your own personal rogues gallery of what he calls "the citadel".

The roof opens out to a dull twilight up ahead, and rows of what look like wax works stretch out in front of you. The nearest ones look familiar and with your heightened senses you can perceive their hatred and their persecution of thoughts and ideas.
Some of these thoughts and ideas were yours.
Others were meant for you, but you were prevented from hearing them.
Others still were the truth you wanted to know in times when you were lied to, deceived or kept in the dark.

Although they seem almost frozen into mannequins, they emanate oppressive rumbles against your freedom and your freedom of thought.
A thousand failing tactics of censorship and suppression spew forth in an ugly slur of unworthy insults and threats and then thousands more.
A guttural soundscape of the worlds greatest compliments - insults from fools!

You watch them with growing enlightenment towards all this, sensing and understanding the motives and inertia’s which make them do this.
With each insight comes working understanding of these processes of suppression and denial.

The tall figure tells you that they can not kill ideas, and "that which does not kill us makes us stronger"

Around the wax work figures, flitting lights of information become visible, out of their reach, the information they tried to control or deny, the ideas and wisdom they tried to kill.

The hostile rumble grows uglier with frustration as the dancing streams of information grow brighter and more vibrant, tormenting their persecutors, each of them surrounded in a personal hell made of information that they tried to control.

The bright tendrils reach out to each other, joining and dancing and hybridising in a swirling mass of evolving idea.
The wax works grow twisted with impotent hatred, groaning and crumbling as the living idea creature merges into a vast sea of living information. Swirling tentacles of radiant intelligence sweep around as the wax works turn in on theirself collapsing into stumps and melting into pools of nothing.

Demon to some, Angel to us, the tall figure tells you that this is your own personal angel of forbidden information, your genius in the garden of forbidden delights.

Watch as the angel grows brighter and livelier, pulsing with ever changing patterns and fractal forms of information flow within.

It reaches out towards you and it gives you a bold symbol for itself, and it gives you a name for itself.

As you soak in the blessings and wisdom and qualities of your angel, it lights up the world and the sky around you.
Setting you free to understand and to find your way, and at the same time making you humble, with room in your psyche for awe and wonder.

Behind the mask, you can feel the tall figure smiling.
He tells you that you have begun to move like a domino in a chain, but there is still more work to be done.
He points into the distance towards the citadel - the undestroyed system of interacting means of suppression, still directing oppression over the rest of the world.

It is up to you now to find uses for your angel, your new spirit ally; it has brightened your world already, and every time, you use it, it will bring others closer to freedom as well, everyone in their own unique and different way.

The wall behind you flickers, and there again the round door with a V on it. You step through it and it closes.
The disk of the door springs eight arrows and spins again forming a portal, taking you home.

return and rehabilitation or further operations as you see fit . . .

paganus
16-01-2008, 11:53 PM
chaossphere? chaos magic is a recipie for insanity.stay well clear.

deathcultreject
17-01-2008, 01:39 AM
chaossphere? chaos magic is a recipie for insanity.stay well clear.

I don't suppose you could qualify that with something along the line of . . .

. . . oh, I don't know, maybe some facts or some reasoning would be nice.

That looked like dogmatic prejudice and a direct order.

The kind of thing that makes everyone enjoy doing the opposite of what you've told them to do.

paganus
17-01-2008, 07:32 AM
I don't suppose you could qualify that with something along the line of . . .

. . . oh, I don't know, maybe some facts or some reasoning would be nice.

That looked like dogmatic prejudice and a direct order.

The kind of thing that makes everyone enjoy doing the opposite of what you've told them to do.in all mythologies chaos is the enemy of the Gods.and ive seen what happens to peope who go their first hand.ive read your posts,it doesnt seem to have done you any favours..

deathcultreject
17-01-2008, 08:58 AM
in all mythologies chaos is the enemy of the Gods.and ive seen what happens to peope who go their first hand.ive read your posts,it doesnt seem to have done you any favours..

Ahhh, I see.

You missed out "where humans are slaves to the gods"

I'll rephrase it for you.

"In all mythologies where humans are slaves to the gods, chaos is the enemy of the gods."

There. Now you don't have to look silly.

You're welcome.

In Taoism, chaos is called the formless tao and it's friendly to sages and immortals.

In Norse traditions where gods are brothers and sisters to mankind, rather than masters, chaos is called the wierd, and it's infinate possibility, like the dream time in aboriginal myths.

I'm not sure what you're criteria for insanity is, but since you must have read me claim to have been stalked, harassed, frequently lied about, spiked and subjected to abusive attempts at hypnotic induction . . .

. . . let's just say I'm at home with being told it's all my fault.

How would you define chaos magic anyway?

paganus
17-01-2008, 09:07 AM
Ahhh, I see.

You missed out "where humans are slaves to the gods"

I'll rephrase it for you.

"In all mythologies where humans are slaves to the gods, chaos is the enemy of the gods."

There. Now you don't have to look silly.

You're welcome.

In Taoism, chaos is called the formless tao and it's friendly to sages and immortals.

In Norse traditions where gods are brothers and sisters to mankind, rather than masters, chaos is called the wierd, and it's infinate possibility, like the dream time in aboriginal myths.

I'm not sure what you're criteria for insanity is, but since you must have read me claim to have been stalked, harassed, frequently lied about, spiked and subjected to abusive attempts at hypnotic induction . . .

. . . let's just say I'm at home with being told it's all my fault.

How would you define chaos magic anyway?was not implying you were insaneor at fault,just saying it hasnt given you the weapons to help yourself.in Norse mythology Wyrd is fate not chaos.chaos is symbolised by fennir.my definition of chaos magic is that system pushed by pete caroll,phil hine etc. a corruption of Austin.O.Spares system.

deathcultreject
17-01-2008, 09:47 AM
was not implying you were insaneor at fault,just saying it hasnt given you the weapons to help yourself.in Norse mythology Wyrd is fate not chaos.chaos is symbolised by fennir.my definition of chaos magic is that system pushed by pete caroll,phil hine etc. a corruption of Austin.O.Spares system.

Sorry, please excuse my jumpiness.

A good point maybe, but I'm here and talking about corruption in magic communities as I see it, so maybe I have got weapons to defend myself from somewhere.

I'd say the Norns represent fate in Norse mythology, but I could always read more widely, what with a little learning being a dangerous thing, and all that.

Fenis doesn't represent Chaos. He's predictably destructive, but if you're convinced that visualising a spinning chaosphere will unbind Fenris before his part in the cycle, then it's probably better to stick to symbols that you do feel safe with

Some of the chaos magicians from the sixties are still sane now, incidentaly.

paganus
17-01-2008, 10:59 AM
Sorry, please excuse my jumpiness.

A good point maybe, but I'm here and talking about corruption in magic communities as I see it, so maybe I have got weapons to defend myself from somewhere.

I'd say the Norns represent fate in Norse mythology, but I could always read more widely, what with a little learning being a dangerous thing, and all that.

Fenis doesn't represent Chaos. He's predictably destructive, but if you're convinced that visualising a spinning chaosphere will unbind Fenris before his part in the cycle, then it's probably better to stick to symbols that you do feel safe with

Some of the chaos magicians from the sixties are still sane now, incidentaly.:D define sane!

paganus
17-01-2008, 11:00 AM
in my understanding,Wyrd is the web spun by the Norns.

deathcultreject
17-01-2008, 06:58 PM
:D define sane!

Hahaha,

Why do I think that some of the veteran chaos magicians from the sixties are still sane?

They're coherent, they understand what's going on in their surroundings, their view of theirself is reasonably close to what their friends would say about them, they're nice to talk to, and they've got a good sense of humour.
For hippies who ended up in prison (which is where chaos magic came from), they're doing OK.

But the younger magical generation does unfortunately have delusional egomaniacs who stare too much and raise their voice all the time, they bully as many people as they can, and try to manipualte everyone, and it always turns out destructively.

It's not just the chaos current who has them, they're in thelema and 'Stonehenge Pilgrims' as well.

They tend to bring waves of malicious head games with them, and since they're good enough at what they do to form groups around themselves and villify and attack people who it doesn't work on, they can take over anarchic groups and scenes very quickly.
Fluffy anarchists have been going into denial over their agendas for as long as they've been around.

Unfortunately I can't describe their methods here with explainations of how they work, because some people do get a little lightbulb over their heads going "cool" and then the bad guys notice and absorb them and reward them with status very quickly.