Handy dandy guide for n00bs to various vocabulary used commonly amongst chaos magicians, with the definitions we use for those words, for ease of communicating with other chaos magicians, (not particularly useful in communicating with non-chaos magicians).

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Chaos Magick:

- Chaos Magic(k): A post-modernist school of magical thinking where "anything goes." In this practice we attempt to syncretize and synthesize techniques from various schools, styles and traditions of magical thought and practice in a pseudo-scientific method in order to determine what works best for each individual.

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-Chaos Magician(s): An adherent of the aforementioned school of thought.

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-Chaote: Slang term referring to chaos magicians

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Important Persons:

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- Hassan I Sabah: The guy who said "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted."

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- Helena Blavatsky: Founder of the Theosophical Society. Responsible for popularizing Eastern Mysticism in the west. Most modern magic schools are in some way ripped off from the foundations laid by the Theosophical Society.

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- Aleister Crowley: The guy who said "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of the Law." Former member of The Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn. Went on to write his own customized rituals based on the materials of Golden Dawn. Would later found his own Hermetic Order based on his custom rituals.

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- Austin Spare: The creator of Sigil Magic

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- Peter Carroll: The guy who popularized the term "Chaos Magick" as its own school of thought. Founder of I.O.T.

- Genesis P. Orridge: Founder of PsychickTV and Temple of Psychic Youth. Known widely as an asshole. Would later undergo an extreme quantity of creepy plastic surgery with the end goal of him(her) and his(her) lover becoming identical twins.

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Modes of Magic:

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- Divination: Seeking information. Fortune telling.

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- Enchantment: Seeking manifestation. Spell casting.

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Thoughtforms:

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- Glyphs: The result of writing a "statement of intent" and subjecting that statement to some method of reduction, to result in somewhat abstract components for use in sigil creation.

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- Sigil: An abstract symbolic representation of our intentions, targets, or actions.

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- Hypersigil: A complex sigil containing multiple "lesser" sigils.

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- Servitor: A sigil that is assigned "intelligence" or problem solving abilities.

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- Tulpa: A servitor that is created for the purpose of being an imaginary friend, with little-to-no practical purpose.

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- H.G.A.: "Holy Guardian Angel." A tulpa that is assumed to be a hyper-evolved form of the magician's "true will."

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- Egregore: A servitor with several minds contributing to its creation or evolution.

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- "Gods"/"Spirits": An egregore that is very long lived, perhaps thousands of years old. Most likely predating the birth of the magician.

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Types of Magic:

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- Sigil Magic: This basically refers to all magic, as Sigil is ultimately just another word for "spell."

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- Sex Magic: A magic ritual using sex as the energetic component.

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- Love Magic: Magic to make someone fall in love with you. Known in more modern scholarly circles as "Erotic Binding Magic." Is generally considered immoral as it essentially robs the target of their will.

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- Lust Magic: Magic to make someone want to have sex with you. Similar to love magic, except with the intention of loveless sex.

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Notable Groups:

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- IOT: Illuminates of Thanateros. Peter Carroll's original Chaos magic group.

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- TOPY: Temple of Psychick Youth. Underground punk rock pirate TV chaos magic group from the 80s. No longer active.

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- AIN23: Autonomous Individuals Network. Email based Group created by former members of TOPY who thought Genesis had become a megalomaniacal asshole.

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- CMG2: Chaos Magic Group. Most legitimate Chaos Magic Group on facebook.

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- DKMU: Domus Kaotica Marauder Underground. A facebook group where members of CMG are engaged in a LARP where they pretend to be revolutionaries, pirates, or terrorists.

Sayings:

"Nothing is True, Everything is permitted" - Translation: No dogmatic tradition holds the true secret of magic. One should experiment with various things for themselves.

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" - Translation: Follow your "true will," which can be discovered though various mystical, magical, and enlightenment techniques .

"Immanetize the Eschaton" - Translation: Make the end of the world happen faster.