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"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper." -Robert Anton Wilson

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity ! Austin Osman Spare

"Why should you study and practice Magick? Because you can't help doing it, and you had better do it well than badly. Magick Without Tears, I am not concerned to deny the objective reality of all "magical" phenomena; if they are illusions, they are at least as real as many unquestioned facts of daily life; and...they are at least evidence of some cause. The Goetia, It is spoken of the Sephiroth, and the Paths, of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things certain results follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them. "Liber O", "-Uncle AL

EXERCISE -FROM Robert Anton Wilson 10. Believe it is possible that you can oat off the ground and y by merely willing it. See what happens. If this exercise proves as dissapointing to you as it has to me, try number 11 below, which is never dissapointing. 11. Believe that you can exceed all your previous ambitions and hopes in all areas of your life.

"Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds &

objects to bring about desired results." -Hakim Bey The means used and the way it happens are simple, the inverse of scientic. I use a formula, created by instinctive guess and *arbitrarily* formed, not evolved by hypothesis and experiment. The law of sorcery is its own law, using sympathetic symbols.! - Austin Osman Spare!

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is a work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. -Bruce Lee It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin music sculpture writing painting and by magical I mean intended to produce very denite results. -William S. Burroughs, Essay on Brion Gysin in Contemporary Artists Recognition of the root meanings inherent in artistic endeavors can lead an individual to a source of great understanding and power. -R. Kirk Packwood, Memetic Magic "The Enlightened take things Lightly." -?

0. Background: Rule No ! : 0=2 RULE NO 0: YOU MUST KNOW THE RULES TO BREAK THEM. RULE NO ?:There are no rules anywhere. RULE NO 1. "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. KNOWLEDGE SHARED IS POWER LOST."

XAOS - KHAOS - CHAOS & the apparent illusions of Order & Disorder Chaos (Greek "#$%, khaos) refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, more specically the initial "gap" created by the original separation of heaven and earth. Greek "#$% means "emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss", from the verb "&'(), "gape, be wide open, etc.", from Proto-Indo-European *ghen-, cognate to Old English geanian, "to gape", whence English yawn.[1] Hesiod and the Pre-Socratics use the Greek term in the context of cosmogony. Hesiod's chaos has often been interpreted as a moving, formless mass from which the cosmos and the gods originated, but Eric Voegelin sees it instead as creatio ex nihilo,[2] much as in the Book of Genesis. The term tohu wa-bohu of Genesis 1:2 has been shown to refer to a state of non-being prior to creation rather than to a state of matter.[3][4] The Septuagint makes no use of "#$% in the context of creation, instead using the term for $#", "chasm, cleft", in Micha 1:6 and Zacharia 14:4. Nevertheless, the term chaos has been adopted in religious studies as referring to the primordial state before creation, strictly combining two separate notions of primordial waters or a primordial darkness from which a new order emerges and a primordial state as a merging

of opposites, such as heaven and earth, which must be separated by a creator deity in an act of cosmogony.[5] In both cases, chaos referring to a notion of a primordial state contains the cosmos in potentia but needs to be formed by a demiurge before the world can begin its existence. This model of a primordial state of matter has been opposed by the Church Fathers from the 2nd century, who posited a creation ex nihilo by an omnipotent God.[6] - WIkipedia

"The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness." (Hagbard Celine, Never Whistle While You're Pissing, in Illuminatus!) The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. ! Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. - Robert Anton Wilson

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Copyright Robert Michael Place 2000 this article rst appeared in Llewellyn's Magical Almanac

Dening Magic: Magic, real magic, which is not sleight of hand or trickery, is illusive and hard to dene. In Merriam Webster's Dictionary, we nd that the term magic is derived from the Greek "magus," which refers to a sorcerer. The Greeks borrowed this word from Persia where it was the name of a member of the priestly class, which brings out one of the essential problems in dening magic: is it separate from or one and the same as religion? Webster goes on to dene magic as, "the use of means (charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces." This seems to t the common conception of magic. Except that Webster's denition contains the disclaimer "believed." As if to say, "some people believe in magic but we ofcially do not." This brings out the second essential problem. Our culture sees magic as a misconception or false belief. Although magic is an important part of ancient culture and of some modern cultures, and many people in our own culture continue to believe in and practice magic, it is ofcially considered a superstition. Most studies of modern religious thought start with a discussion of the theories of the British folklorist and author, Sir James Frazer, and those of Tylor, the scholar who most inuenced Frazer. In 1890, Frazer wrote The Golden Bough in which he rened Tylor's theories by placing magic on the bottom rung of an evolutionary anthropological structure, which became a major inuence on modern thinking. Briey, the theory states that humans, nding themselves helpless in nature, rst attempt to control nature with magic. As culture advances, humans, realizing that magic in ineffective, abandon it and develop a belief in a higher power outside of their control, which they attempt to appease. This is called religion. When sufcient knowledge of the real workings of the world are attained, humans abandon this second superstition and enter into the wisdom that is called science. In this nal stage, the culture aims at real power over nature. Modern anthropologists have found that the neat sequential structure of this theory is not supported by their observations. Most primitive people believe in a higher power or powers and use both magic and technology (science as power over nature) in conjunction with this belief. The same can be said of prehistoric peoples, ancient Greeks, or modern Americans. Most historians trace the origins of rational scientic thought to the philosophers of the Classical world, such as Pythagoras and his follower Empedocles. Pythagoras is thought of as a mathematician and Empedocles as creating the rational discipline that led to physics. Yet, Pythagoras was the founder of a mystical religious movement and Empedocles, a member of that religion, wrote his theories in the form of poetry and would have called himself a magician. The Pythagoreans seem to be responsible for initiating a religious, scientic, and magical culture simultaneously - one that became the root of modern Western culture. (i.e. the Pythagorean Illuminati or the mathematikoi/akoustimatikoi) ^ -my note As we can see, the distinction between magic and religion seems to be an articial one created in the West. St. Augustine, who lived in the twilight of the Classical age, helped to create the Medieval Christian worldview. He described magic as a continuation of pagan culture and therefore unchristian. His view persisted, and near the end of the Middle Ages, the papal bull of 1320 dened magic as heresy, subject to the censorship of the inquisition. This happened in spite of the of the fact that the essence of the Christian mass is the magical transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, that saints were all reported to have performed miracles, and that many Christians - including Popes - were involved in alchemy and Hermetic tradition, which was considered white magic. In order to think of magic as evil and unchristian, it was necessary to see it as something separate from religion and

Empedocles as creating the rational discipline that led to physics. Yet, Pythagoras was the founder of a mystical religious movement and Empedocles, a member of that religion, wrote his theories in the form of poetry and would have called himself a magician. The Pythagoreans seem to be responsible for initiating a religious, scientic, and magical culture simultaneously - one that became the root of modern Western culture. (i.e. the Pythagorean Illuminati or the mathematikoi/akoustimatikoi) ^ -my note As we can see, the distinction between magic and religion seems to be an articial one created in the West. St. Augustine, who lived in the twilight of the Classical age, helped to create the Medieval Christian worldview. He described magic as a continuation of pagan culture and therefore unchristian. His view persisted, and near the end of the Middle Ages, the papal bull of 1320 dened magic as heresy, subject to the censorship of the inquisition. This happened in spite of the of the fact that the essence of the Christian mass is the magical transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, that saints were all reported to have performed miracles, and that many Christians - including Popes - were involved in alchemy and Hermetic tradition, which was considered white magic. In order to think of magic as evil and unchristian, it was necessary to see it as something separate from religion and redene sanctioned magic as something else - a miracle of God. Although anthropologists do not nd this separation in any other culture, it continues to inuence modern Western scientic thinking. Only instead of evil, scientists now think of magic as an ignorant superstition. I feel that it is impossible to separate magic from the esoteric aspect of religion. By attempting to cut itself off from magic Western culture has vilied and driven underground the esoteric aspects of its tradition. The esoteric is that aspect of religion that has the power to create a personal inner experience, one that can lead to psychic transformation and growth - the quest for enlightenment. As a result, modern Westerners have increasingly turned to other cultures for this experience. Although this outside inuence has been good for the health of our culture, the unhealthy separation from our own esoteric tradition has not been resolved. Next, let's look at how a modern Western practitioner of magic denes it. For this, I have chosen one of the most notorious 20th century magicians, Aleister Crowley. In his Magick in Theory and Practice, Crowley denes magic as, "the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with will." He precedes this denition with the following quote from The Goetia of the Lemergeton of King Solomon. Magic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most divine Knowledge of natural Philosophy, advanced in the works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into nature; they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle. * Crowley even goes on to quote Frazer. Crowley believed that because magic makes use of cause and effect experiments in the practitioner's attempt to control nature and not to the intervention of a spiritual agent, there is a closer analogy between magic and Frazer's nal scientic stage than between magic and religion. Although Frazer, no doubt, would have been surprised to nd his work used to support Crowley's theories, Crowley seems to feel a kinship with Frazer's anti-religious sentiment, and therefore views magic as a branch of science. In fact, his denition is so broad it could include any act of technology or art under the title magic. In his next paragraph Crowley goes on to clarify that this is exactly what he means when he states that by writing his book he is performing an act of "magick" (as he spells it). Aside from not including a disclaimer, Crowley's denition of magic is not that different from Webster's. Although, to Crowley the "charms and spells" of the magician only seem to be supernatural to the "vulgar," both admit that they cause change in the natural world. We can nd this same cause and effect relationship in most modern denitions of magic. BEYOND CAUSE AND EFFECT: I believe that magic is synonymous with what Jung calls "synchronicity." Apparently, I am in good company in making this association, because Carl Jung, himself, has stated as much. In his introduction to the Wilhelm/Baynes edition of the I Ching, Jung says that when we successfully consult this Chinese oracle (which we may consider an act of magic) we are experiencing the principle which he termed "synchronicity." Synchronicity is dened by Jung as a meaningful coincidence of an external event with a psychic event, such as a dream, fantasy, or thought. These events coincide in time in a way that gives them meaning for the observer. That is, they seem like communications between a divine force and ourselves, and they conrm that there is a connection or interaction between our psyche and physical reality. Jung gives a personal example of synchronicity in his memoirs, Memories, Dreams, Reections. First, he describes a dream that leads up to the incident. In the dream, he was introduced, for the rst time, to his inner mentor archetype, a wise old man that he called Philemon. Philemon took the form of a Hellenistic Gnostic who wore an ankle-length robe, had a long gray beard, and had the colorful wings of a kingsher. The following quote describes an event that took place a few days after the dream, while Jung tried to capture Philemon's image in a painting: During the days when I was occupied with the painting, I found in my garden, by the lakeshore, a dead kingsher! I was thunderstruck, for kingshers are quite rare in the vicinity of Z*rich and I have never since found a dead one. The body was recently dead - at the most, two or three days - and showed no external injuries.** We can see that the event described had a magical quality for Jung. It might seem that Philemon had sent the kingsher to Jung to conrm his existence, but Jung feels that these occurrences are not part of a cause and effect relationship. Instead, he insists that they are

took place a few days after the dream, while Jung tried to capture Philemon's image in a painting: During the days when I was occupied with the painting, I found in my garden, by the lakeshore, a dead kingsher! I was thunderstruck, for kingshers are quite rare in the vicinity of Z*rich and I have never since found a dead one. The body was recently dead - at the most, two or three days - and showed no external injuries.** We can see that the event described had a magical quality for Jung. It might seem that Philemon had sent the kingsher to Jung to conrm his existence, but Jung feels that these occurrences are not part of a cause and effect relationship. Instead, he insists that they are acausal acts of pure creation. He adds that when synchronicity happens an archetype - such as the internal mentor - is activated, but we should not think of the archetype as causing synchronicity. Synchronicity is simply what happens when the archetype emerges into consciousness. With this, we are breaking with the previous denitions of magic. They all try to dene magic as a cause and effect relationship instigated by the magician. This is typical of our culture, which is predisposed to view all events as cause and effect. However, here we are coming to a deeper and more profound view of reality. This is where magic lives and this is why I feel that it is connected to the quest for higher consciousness. It seems that if we are going to understand fully what is meant here we must also dene Jung's term "archetype." Archetype is a term that Jung borrowed from Plato. Plato was searching for what is real and constant in the world - he felt that these two terms should be interchangeable. As a result, he did not trust his ve senses to give him accurate information about reality the exact opposite viewpoint from modern empirical science. Instead, he reasoned that the sensual world was entirely composed of temporary, time-bound objects and that the forms or patterns that these objects posses are timeless and therefore real. These are the archetypes. In other words, if we look at our house cat what we are seeing is a creature that will die and disappear in a brief instant when its life span is compared to all of eternity. Yet, this cat contains a form that we can distinguish from other animals and that we can see is consistent with others of its species. If allowed to reproduce, it will pass this form onto its offspring, and they, in turn, will pass it onto their offspring. This form is like an immortal or divine cat, because as long as there are cats, it will not die - this is what Plato calls the real cat or archetype. The real cat is the actual intelligence responsible for the direction of the individual cat's life. We tend to call the decisions that it makes for the individual cat instinct or intuition. Humans are caught in the same illusions about themselves as they are about other animals. The part of themselves that identies with this individual physical life is what Jung calls the ego. The ego thinks that it is in charge because it can manipulate the world to attain its desires, but it can not decide what to desire. This decision is made for it by the real self. Plato said that number is the bases of form and the essence of the archetypes. This view is conrmed by modern scientists who have discovered that this archetypal form is communicated to each living creature through a numerical pattern of molecules, called DNA, which are contained in the center of each cell. It would seem that science has found an empirical location for the acualization of the archetypal self. When we include the observations of modern quantum physicists in this discussion, we nd that the number of electrons and protons in an atom determine what

its desires, but it can not decide what to desire. This decision is made for it by the real self. Plato said that number is the bases of form and the essence of the archetypes. This view is conrmed by modern scientists who have discovered that this archetypal form is communicated to each living creature through a numerical pattern of molecules, called DNA, which are contained in the center of each cell. It would seem that science has found an empirical location for the acualization of the archetypal self. When we include the observations of modern quantum physicists in this discussion, we nd that the number of electrons and protons in an atom determine what substance it will be (another example of number determining reality); but when we try to determine the nature of these subatomic particles we nd that they are made of an illusive non-stuff that can take on the quality of matter or energy. This non-stuff also has the disquieting, acausal habit of slipping in and out of existence, and when we try to prove that it is either a wave or a particle, it can be proved to be either depending on the expectation emplyed by the nature of the experiment. These facts pull the rug out from under our materialistic worldview and show that there is a connection between psyche and matter. In the end, we are left with the fact that all physical reality is the illusive expression of the numerical thoughts of the universe - what the alchemists would call the "Anima Mundi" - and somehow, our thoughts are a manifestation of the thoughts of universe. When Jung explored the unconscious mind, he discovered that at its deepest layer there emerged psychic patterns or personalities that were the same in all individuals and that can be found in religions and myths in all peoples throughout time. He called these the archetypes. At the deepest level of the unconscious, he, like the quantum physicist exploring matter, found that he lost sight of the archetypes as they merged into the vast sea of the collective unconscious. For this, he used the alchemical term "Unus Mundus". When we use an oracle, such as the I Ching or the Tarot, we bring these unconscious archetypes into consciousness through the use of symbols. The archetypes, or we may call them the Gods, are a more immediate manifestation of the place where the patterns are being formed that will become our future physical reality. Therefore, this gives us the opportunity to intervene and create the future that we desire. This brings us back to the initial problem of dening magic. When we perform magic, we use symbols to manipulate the inner world of the psyche, and thereby, change happens in the outer physical world. When we succeed in doing this, the changes seem miraculous - that is they seem to happen outside of the normal cause and effect relationships of the physical world or to intervene in them in some mysterious way. By using symbols to manipulate the psyche we are activating the archetypes in fact in many magic rituals we deliberately contact them as gods, angels, or demons. Therefore, the magical event is the manifestation of an archetype, in other words, synchronicity. As I said before, Jung feels that synchronicity, or magic, is an acausal act of pure creation. This concept is almost impossible for our Western trained minds to grasp. The denitions, which I quoted above, try to explain that magic is a cause and effect phenomenon making use of a force that science does not yet recognize. Whereas, saying that it is acausal is like saying that it just happens, but it seems to us that our symbolic ritual is causing it because these two things always coincide. Is magic just an illusion created by our ego to convince it that it is in charge? When we attempt to full our

them as gods, angels, or demons. Therefore, the magical event is the manifestation of an archetype, in other words, synchronicity. As I said before, Jung feels that synchronicity, or magic, is an acausal act of pure creation. This concept is almost impossible for our Western trained minds to grasp. The denitions, which I quoted above, try to explain that magic is a cause and effect phenomenon making use of a force that science does not yet recognize. Whereas, saying that it is acausal is like saying that it just happens, but it seems to us that our symbolic ritual is causing it because these two things always coincide. Is magic just an illusion created by our ego to convince it that it is in charge? When we attempt to full our desires through magic, it may seem to the ego that it is causing change. However, the very desires that the ego is trying to full came from the archetypes. Perhaps, our magical actions are a manifestation of the archetypes as well. Jung has supplied evidence to support this view by demonstrating that most people perform daily rituals and yet remain unconscious of their symbolism. The simplest way that I can explain acausality is to use the example of meditation. When we meditate, we observe that our thoughts emerge out of nothingness they just appear. We can have thoughts that lead to other thoughts, but when we quiet the mind, we notice that they can just as easily emerge out of nothing - with no cause. This is synonymous with the observation of physicists that subatomic particles emerge out of nothingness. At an unconscious level, the archetypes emerge out of this nothingness also. This void, the Unus Mundus, is the real creative power. This is where inner and outer reality comes from. If we want to effect change, this is where we must go, but when we enter the Unus Mundus the ego dissipates and we go beyond desire. So how can we manifest our desires if we no longer have them? This is the paradox of magic. Magic must take place in the middle zone, where the archetypes emerge out of the unconscious, and our desires are not yet dissolved. Now, in spite of what Jung says, I have found from experience that the archetypes respond to my expectations of them. If I treat them as individual personalities that can cause change, when I ask for their help, change happens through this cause and effect relationship - although, the way that it manifests has startling acausal quality as well. If I treat them as manifestations of the Unus Mundus, then acausal synchronicity happens. Again, It reminds me of the ndings of the quantum Physicists. When they conduct an experiment to prove that subatomic quanta are solid particles, they nd that they are. When they conduct an experiment to prove that these same particles are immaterial waves, they nd that they are. In both cases, reality responds to the expectation of the observer. The observer is intimately connected to result simply by having expectations. This is magic.

footnote* Crowley, Aleister; Magick in Theory and Practice; Castle Books, New York; page IX. footnote** Jung C. G.; Memories, Dreams, Reections; 1989: Vintage Books, New York; page 183.

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footnote* Crowley, Aleister; Magick in Theory and Practice; Castle Books, New York; page IX. footnote** Jung C. G.; Memories, Dreams, Reections; 1989: Vintage Books, New York; page 183.

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Magical obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc., for inspiration. It is the condition of Genius. -Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure

Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love. -Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon To The Hypocrites Throughout the ages, intelligent, afuent, ambitious, and just plain horny human beings have continually sought the alchemical grail the true aphrodisiac. -Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyberculture Sex means cheerfully giving up control to receive pleasure. The less sex, the more compulsion to control. -Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyberculture Sexual arousal is all in the mind. -Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyberculture

ILLUMINATION excerpt from "Prometheus Rising" -Robert Anton Wilson

Neurosomatic brainwashingthe most powerful form of robotizationconsists in temporary activation of the neurosomatic circuit by the brainwasher, together with assurances that only the brainwasher (or the "god" who "acts through him") can turn on this circuit. For full effect, this is, of course, proceeded by normal brainwashing, The victim is rst isolated from his or her previous environment and trained to hook the bio-survival circuit onto the "guru" and/or the Ashram or commune. The emotional circuit is bent and broken by continuous attacks upon status (ego), until the only emotional security left is found in Total Submission to the group reality-island. The re-infantilized victim is then ready to imprint any semantic circuitry desired, from EST to Krishna to People's Temple, etc. The socio-sexual circuit can then easily be programmed for celibacy, for free love, or for whatever sexual game the guru has selected. Then, and only then, the neurosomatic buttons are pushed and ecstasy is "given" to the subject

"by" the guru. Marjoe Gortner, a long-time practitioner of this science, commented ironically in a lm made after abandoning it for a different career, "The marks never realized they could do it" (push the neurosomatic buttons) "for themselves. They all think they need me jacking them off!" Gortner is, nowadays, unusually honest. The average charismatic insists that the victims can never learn to do it for themselves. Neurosomatic brainwashingthe most powerful form of robotizationconsists in temporary activation of the neurosomatic circuit by the brainwasher, together with assurances that only the brainwasher (or the "god" who "acts through him") can turn on this circuit. For full effect, this is, of course, proceeded by normal brainwashing, The victim is rst isolated from his or her previous environment and trained to hook the bio-survival circuit onto the "guru" and/or the Ashram or commune. The emotional circuit is bent and broken by continuous attacks upon status (ego), until the only emotional security left is found in Total Submission to the group reality-island. The re-infantilized victim is then ready to imprint any semantic circuitry desired, from EST to Krishna to People's Temple, etc. The socio-sexual circuit can then easily be programmed for celibacy, for free love, or for whatever sexual game the guru has selected. Then, and only then, the neurosomatic buttons are pushed and ecstasy is "given" to the subject "by" the guru. Marjoe Gortner, a long-time practitioner of this science, commented ironically in a lm made after abandoning it for a different career, "The marks never realized they could do it" (push the neurosomatic buttons) "for themselves. They all think they need me jacking them off!" Gortner is, nowadays, unusually honest. The average charismatic insists that the victims can never learn to do it for themselves.

One of the greatest historical practitioners of this neuroscience was Hassan i Sabbah, who used relatively simple techniques, including, evidently, a time-release capsule invented by the Su College of Wisdom in Cairo. As I describe Hassan's technique based on historical records in my novel, The Trick Top Hat: Two young candidates dine with Hassan; the food is laced with a time-release capsule. When asleep the candidates are taken to Hassan's famous "Garden of Delights." The capsule had released a heavy does of opium and they were quite thoroughly unconscious and unaware of their surroundings. The garden of ofcially known as the "the Garden of Delights" covered several acres. Here candidates were prepared for admission to the Order of the Assassins: they were to become the most feared and legendary professional killers in history. But here also, in this same garden, were prepared candidates for admission to the Brotherhood of Light, the Illuminati. The candidates, in fact, were prepared the same way. They themselves selected, unknown to themselves, which order they would enter the political Assassins or the mystic Illuminati. Both young men were conveyed into the Garden of Delights and placed several acres apart from each other. In a short time, the second stage of the time-release capsule began to work; cocaine was released into their bloodstreams, thereby overwhelming the traces of the soporic opium and causing them to awaken full of energy and zest. At the same time, as they woke, hashish also began to be released, so they saw everything with

exceptional clarity and all colors were jewel-like, brilliant, divinely beautiful. A group of extremely comely and busty young ladies imported from the most expensive brothel in Cairo sat in a circle around each of the young candidates, playing utes and other delicately sweet musical instruments. "Welcome to heaven," they sang as the awakening men gazed about them in wonder. "By the magic of the holy Lord Hassan, you have entered Paradise while still alive." And they fed them "paradise apples" (oranges), far sweeter and stranger than the earth-apples they had known before, and they showed them the animals of paradise (imported from as far away as Japan, in some cases),dates dine with Hassan; creatures far more remarkable than those ordinarily seen in Afghanistan. "This is heaven!" the rst young man exclaimed, in ecstasy. "Great is Allah, and great is the wise Lord Hassan Sabbah!" But, twenty acres away, surrounded by similar lovely ladies and other wonders, the second young man merely gazed about him, smiled in contentment, and said nothing. And then, in both cases, the houris of Paradise, as promised in the Koran, began to dance, and as they danced, they discarded one by one each of their seven veils. As the veils were thrown off, more and more hashish was released from the capsules and the young men saw with greater clarity, felt with deeper intensity, experienced beauty and sexual joy in a way completely unknown in their previous earth lives. Then, as each young man sat entranced by the beauty and wonder of Heaven, the houris nished the dance, and nude and splendid as they were, rushed forward in a bunch, like owers cast before the wind. And some fell at the candidate's feet and kissed his ankles; some kissed knees or thighs, one sucked raptly at his penis, others kissed the chest and arms and belly, a few kissed eyes and mouth and ears. And as he was smothered in this hashish-intensied avalanche of love, the lady working on his penis sucked and sucked and he climaxed in her mouth as softly and slowly and blissfully as a single snowake falling. In a little while, there was no more hashish being released and more opium began to ow into the bloodstream, the young candidates slept again; and in their torpor, they were removed from the Garden of Delights and returned to the banquet hall of the Lord Hassan. There they awoke. "Truly," the rst exclaimed, "I have seen the glories of Heaven, as foretold in Al Koran. I have no more doubts. I will trust Hassan i Sabbah and love him and serve him." "You are accepted for the Order of Assassin," said Hassan solemnly. "Go at once to the Green Room to meet your superior in the order." When this candidate had left, Hassan turned to the second, asking, "And you?" "I have discovered the First Matter, the Medicine of Metals, the Elixir of Life, the Stone of the Philosophers, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness," said he, quoting the alchemical formula. "And it is inside my own head!" Hassan i Sabbah grinned broadly.

"Welcome to the Order of the Illuminati!" he said, laughing. Hassan i Sabbah was not the rst or last student of the ways in which sexuality can be transmuted into fth-circuit rapture. Further to the East, there were Tantric schools within Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, which taught techniques by which prolongation of the genital embrace could explode into dramatic brain-change. In the West, underground cults of Gnostics, Illuminati, alchemists and witches kept similar techniques as closely guarded secrets, for if the Holy Inquisition ever learned of such practices the participants would be denounced as devilworshippers and burned at the stake.

"Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves." - Robert Anton Wilson

CYMATICS VISIBLE SOUND !

The term Cymatics (pronounced sigh-matt-ix) was coined by Dr. Hans Jenny (1904 -1972). It is derived from the Greek word Kyma or ta kymatika meaning; matters pertaining to waves. By the term waves, Jenny was particularly wishing to point towards periodicity or cycles. Dr. Jenny was an Anthroposophist (a follower of the teachings of the Austrian philosopher, occultist, mystic and clairvoyant Rudolph Steiner 1864-1925). This work revolves around the ability to demonstrate acoustic phenomenon, which work was begun in the late 18th century by Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) and then, in the late 19th century, developed further by Margaret Watts-Hughes (using the human voice and several diaphragms) and then taken a stage further by Jenny in the middle of the 20th century. The famous Chladni Figures had previously visibly demonstrated the organising power of sound and vibration. The method was to take a metal plate and to suspend it as freely as possible and then to excite it into activity via the use of a violin bow. Most typically, this was to clamp it at its centre leaving the rest of the plate fairly free to vibrate. Placing some sand upon the surface and then bowing the plate aroused the sand particles into activity and into very beautifully organised regular geometric shapes. Bowing the plate at different points excited other harmonics, which further developed the resulting patterns into different, yet still ordered and repeatable, geometric or mandala-like patterns. Each single harmonic of the plate when sounded created the same pattern, which increased in complexity as one progressed along the harmonic series. (The Harmonic Series is the basis of Overtone Singing - for more read my article on this OVERTONE SINGING) !

A visible sound photograph by Dr. Hans Jenny. ! The harmonic series, or overtones, is likewise a law of nature that follows a strictly mathematical progression for the human voice, strings, and brass instruments.! This series is predictable and ordered and nds its reection within the Cymatics phenomenon. For instance, the rst overtone is known as the Octave, whilst the next overtone is a perfect Fifth and the following overtone is a Fourth. Each overtone produces an interval that gets progressively smaller as the process moves along until they are so close together that the human ear cannot detect the difference. Each succeeding Octave is also divided up in an arithmetic series. That is to say that the rst Octave produces One interval (known as the Octave) and in the next Octave we nd Two intervals, whilst in the next higher Octave we nd Four intervals and the next Octave Eight intervals and so on.! The interval of an Octave is when the note upon which the whole series begins is reached again only vibrating at twice, four times, eight times - and so on - its original speed. Therefore, if we begin on the note C the next Octave is also called C but it is vibrating twice as fast as the original C. If the rst tone is vibrating at 250 cycles per second (cps) then the Octave vibrates at 500 cps, the next Octave at 1,000 cps (4 times the original speed) and so on. The introduction of this Law into Western music is attributed to the great Sage of Samos - Pythagoras (around 600 BC) - and an entire cosmology was further developed around these musical principles, and published in certain of his writings, by the 17th century English Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd (1574-1637).! !

One of the Cymatic images photographed by Dr. Hans Jenny ! Dr. Jenny took the idea of the Chladni plate but went on to excite it using precisely measured vibrations (cps - Hertz) and amplications (volume) via a piezoelectric effect using a crystal oscillator and then to cover the plate with various substances and nally to document his results in both photographs and lms. He researched this phenomena for 14 years. The results are truly awe inspiring, breathtaking, most inspiring and enlightening. The lms in particular are most stimulating. By lming the experiments, we are able to see instances of when forms arise out of chaotic substance and then return back again into what we might term the Virgin Space of Repotentialisation only to come forth again forming the same pattern (providing the tone remains the same). Here we see cyclic phenomenon taking place, where all is in constant movement. Even the regularly formed geometric patterns are shown to be comprised of numerous particles constantly moving within those patterns - like an army of ants walking backwards and forwards along a straight line (demonstrating the Particle / Wave phenomenon).! ! Whilst Dr. Jenny, as far as I know,! didn't apply any of his ndings, regarding the effects of sound and vibration upon physical matter, within the healing realm of sound, yet, nevertheless, he laid a wonderful foundation for that work in respect of making visible the power of sound and its effects upon the world of form and matter. ! "An investigation of the world in terms of cymatics throws an interesting historical light on earlier philosophies resting upon mathematical order and the relationship of sounds, musical tones and words (Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Archytas, Plato, Aristoxenos, down to Kepler and many others). Connections are revealed between such philosophies and the knowledge of cymatic phenomena independently acquired through modern scientic research." ! !

Now it is beyond doubt that where organization is concerned, the harmonic gures of physics are in fact essentially similar to the harmonic patterns of organic nature.... In the rst place, we have the certain experience that harmonic systems such as we have visualized in our experiments arise from oscillations in the form of intervals and harmonic frequencies. That is indisputable. ... If biological rhythms operate as generative factors at the interval-like frequencies appropriate to them, then harmonic patterns must be necessarily forthcoming.!!! MUSICAL SET THEORY

Musical set theory provides concepts for categorizing musical objects and describing their relationships. Many of the notions were rst elaborated by Howard Hanson (1960) in connection with tonal music, and then mostly developed in connection with atonal music by theorists such as Allen Forte (1973), drawing on the work in twelve-tone theory of Milton Babbitt. The concepts of set theory are very general and can be applied to tonal and atonal styles in any equally-tempered tuning system, and to some extent more generally than that. One branch of musical set theory deals with collections (sets and permutations) of pitches and pitch classes (pitch-class set theory), which may be ordered or unordered, and which can be related by musical operations such as transposition, inversion, and complementation. The methods of musical set theory are sometimes applied to the analysis of rhythm as well. Music theorists sometimes use mathematics to understand music, but music has no axiomatic foundation in modern mathematics. Mathematics is "the basis of sound" and sound itself "in its musical aspects... exhibits a remarkable array of number properties", simply because nature itself "is amazingly mathematical".[1] Though ancient Chinese, Egyptians and Mesopotamians are known to have studied the mathematical principles of sound,[2] the Pythagoreans of ancient Greece are the rst researchers known to have investigated the expression of musical scales in terms of numerical ratios,[3] particularly the ratios of small integers. Their central doctrine was that "all nature consists of harmony arising out of numbers".[4] From the time of Plato, harmony was considered a fundamental branch of physics, now known as musical acoustics. Early Indian and Chinese theorists show similar approaches: all sought to show that the mathematical laws of harmonics and rhythms were fundamental not only to our understanding of the world but to human well-being.[5] Confucius, like Pythagoras, regarded the small numbers 1,2,3,4 as the source of all perfection.[6] To this day mathematics has more to do with acoustics than with composition, and the use of mathematics in composition is historically [ ] limited to the simplest operations of counting and measuring. citation needed The attempt to structure and communicate new ways of composing and hearing music has led to musical applications of set theory, abstract algebra and number theory. Some composers have incorporated the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers into their work.[7][8] Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about 1908 to the present day where a hierarchy of pitches focusing on a single, central tone is not used, and the notes of the chromatic scale function independently of one another (Kennedy 1994). More narrowly, the term atonality describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies that characterized classical European music between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries (Lansky, Perle, and Headlam 2001). "The repertory of atonal music is characterized by the occurrence of pitches in novel combinations, as well as by the occurrence of familiar pitch combinations in unfamiliar environments" (Forte 1977, 1). More narrowly still, the term is sometimes used to describe music that is neither tonal nor serial, especially the pre-twelve-tone music of the Second Viennese School, principally Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern (Lansky, Perle, and Headlam 2001). However, "[a]s a categorical label, 'atonal' generally means only that the piece is in the Western tradition and is not 'tonal'" (Rahn 1980, 1), although there are longer periods, e.g., medieval, renaissance, and modern modal musics to which this denition does not apply. "[S] erialism arose partly as a means of organizing more coherently the relations used in the preserial 'free atonal' music.!... Thus many useful and crucial insights about even strictly serial music depend only on such basic atonal theory" (Rahn 1980, 2). Late 19th- and early 20th-century composers such as Alexander Scriabin, Claude Debussy, Bla Bartk, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokoev, Igor Stravinsky, and Edgard Varse have written music that has been described, in full or in part, as atonal (Baker 1980, 1986; Bertram 2000; Grifths 2001; Kohlhase 1983; Lansky and Perle 2001; Obert 2004; Orvis 1974; Parks 1985; Rlke 2000; Teboul 199596; Zimmerman 2002). The emancipation of the dissonance was a concept or goal put forth by composer Arnold Schoenberg and others, including his pupil Anton Webern. The phrase rst appears in Schoenberg's 1926 essay "Opinion or Insight?" (Schoenberg 1975, 25864). It may be described as a metanarrative to justify atonality. Jim Samson (1977, 14647) describes: As the ear becomes acclimatized to a sonority within a particular context, the sonority will gradually become 'emancipated' from that context and seek a new one. The emancipation of the dominant-quality dissonances has followed this pattern, with the dominant seventh developing in status from a contrapuntal note in the sixteenth century to a quasi-consonant harmonic note in the early nineteenth. By the later nineteenth century the higher numbered dominant-quality dissonances had also achieved harmonic status, with resolution delayed or omitted completely. The greater autonomy of the dominant-quality dissonance contributed signicantly to the weakening of traditional tonal function within a purely diatonic context. Composers such as Charles Ives, Dane Rudhyar, even Duke Ellington and Lou Harrison, connected the emancipation of the dissonance with the emancipation of society and humanity. Michael Broyles calls Ives tone-cluster-rich song "Majority" as "an incantation, a mystical statement of belief in the masses or the people" (Broyles 1996, 125). Duke Ellington, after playing some of his pieces for a journalist, said, "That's the Negro's life ... Hear that chord! Dissonance is our way of life in America. We are something apart, yet an integral part" (Ellington 1963, 150). Lou Harrison described Carl Ruggles's counterpoint as "a community of singing lines, living a life of its own, . . . careful not to get ahead or behind in its rhythmic cooperation with the others" (Harrison 1946, 8). Rudhyar gave the subtitle "A New Principle of Musical and Social Organization" to his book Dissonant Harmony, writing, "Dissonant music is thus the music of true and spiritual Democracy; the music of universal brotherhoods; music of Free Souls, not of personalities. It abolishes tonalities, exactly as the real Buddhistic Reformation abolished castes into the Brotherhood of Monks; for Buddhism is nothing but spiritual Democracy" (Rudhyar 1928, 1011). [ ] Just as the harmonic series was and is used as a justication for consonance, such as by Rameau, among others, citation needed the

harmonic series is often used as physical or psychoacoustic justication for the gradual emancipation of intervals and chords found [ ] further and further up the harmonic series over time, such as is argued by Henry Cowell in defense of his tone clusters. citation needed [ Some argue further that they are not dissonances, but consonances higher up the harmonic series and thus more complex. citation ] needed Chailley (1951, 12; cited in Nattiez 1990) gives the following diagram, a specic timeline he proposes:

Timeline of the "emancipation of the dissonance": unison, octave, perfect fth, major third, minor seventh, ninth, eleventh, twelfth and Prehistoric music, music of ancient Greece, Medieval music (c. 500-1400), Renaissance music (1400-1600), Baroque music (c. 1600-1760), Classical music (c. 1730-1820), Romantic music (c. 1815-1910), Impressionist music (c. 1880-1900), 20th-century music.

Cooper (1973, p.6-7) proposes the following timeline: A) unison and octave singing (magadizing) in Greek music and Ambrosian and Greek chant, B) parallel fourths and fths in organum "from c. 850" C) "triadic music; from c. 1400" D) chordal seventh, from c. 1600 E) chordal ninth, from c. 1750 F) whole-tone scale, from c. 1880" G) total chromaticism, twelve-tone technique, and microtones in the early 20th-century. A 1996 book by Thomas J. Harrison, 1910, the Emancipation of Dissonance, uses Schoenberg's "revolution" to trace other movements in the arts around that time.

CHAOS SCIENCE

Chaos theory is a eld of study in mathematics, with applications in several disciplines including meteorology, physics, engineering, economics and biology. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the buttery effect. Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for such dynamical systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.[1] This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future behavior is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved.[2] In other words, the deterministic nature of these systems does not make them predictable.[3][4] This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos. This was summarised by Edward Lorenz as follows: [5] Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. Chaotic behavior can be observed in many natural systems, such as weather.[6][7] Explanation of such behavior may be sought through analysis of a chaotic mathematical model, or through analytical techniques such as recurrence plots and Poincar maps. All methods for distinguishing deterministic and stochastic processes rely on the fact that a deterministic system always evolves in the same way from a given starting point. Thus, given a time series to test for determinism, one can: 1. pick a test state; 2. search the time series for a similar or 'nearby' state; and 3. compare their respective time evolutions.

What is Chaos Theory? Chaos is the science of surprises, of the nonlinear and the unpredictable. It teaches us to expect the unexpected. While most traditional science deals with supposedly predictable phenomena like gravity, electricity, or chemical reactions, Chaos Theory deals with nonlinear things that are effectively impossible to predict or control, like turbulence, weather, the stock market, our brain states, and so on. These phenomena are often described by fractal mathematics, which captures the innite complexity of nature. Many natural objects exhibit fractal properties, including landscapes, clouds, trees, organs, rivers etc, and many of the systems in which we live exhibit complex, chaotic behavior. Recognizing the chaotic, fractal nature of our world can give us new insight, power, and wisdom. For example, by understanding the complex, chaotic dynamics of the atmosphere, a balloon pilot can steer a balloon to a desired location. By understanding that our ecosystems, our social systems, and our economic systems are interconnected, we can hope to avoid actions

which may end up being detrimental to our long-term well-being. Principles of Chaos The Buttery Effect: This effect grants the power to cause a hurricane in China to a buttery apping its wings in New Mexico. It may take a very long time, but the connection is real. If the buttery had not apped its wings at just the right point in space/time, the hurricane would not have happened. A more rigorous way to express this is that small changes in the initial conditions lead to drastic changes in the results. Our lives are an ongoing demonstration of this principle. Who knows what the long-term effects of teaching millions of kids about chaos and fractals will be? Unpredictability: Because we can never know all the initial conditions of a complex system in sufcient (i.e. perfect) detail, we cannot hope to predict the ultimate fate of a complex system. Even slight errors in measuring the state of a system will be amplied dramatically, rendering any prediction useless. Since it is impossible to measure the effects of all the butteries (etc) in the World, accurate long-range weather prediction will always remain impossible. Order / Disorder: Chaos is not simply disorder. Chaos explores the transitions between order and disorder, which often occur in surprising ways. Mixing: Turbulence ensures that two adjacent points in a complex system will eventually end up in very different positions after some time has elapsed. Examples: Two neighboring water molecules may end up in different parts of the ocean or even in different oceans. A group of helium balloons that launch together will eventually land in drastically different places. Mixing is thorough because turbulence occurs at all scales. It is also nonlinear: uids cannot be unmixed. Feedback: Systems often become chaotic when there is feedback present. A good example is the behavior of the stock market. As the value of a stock rises or falls, people are inclined to buy or sell that stock. This in turn further affects the price of the stock, causing it to rise or fall chaotically. Fractals: A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are innitely complex patterns that are that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems - the pictures of Chaos. Geometrically, they exist in between our familiar dimensions. Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full of fractals. For instance: trees, rivers, coastlines, mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc. http://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-is-chaos-theory/ The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am. ! Austin Osman Spare Seven Life Lessons of Chaos Timeless Wisdom From the Science of Change !While humans have had to deal with chaos since ancient times, only recently has science recognized it as a fundamental force in the universe. Chaos theory, originally used to understand the movements that create thunderstorms, raging rivers, and hurricanes, is now being applied to everything from medicine to warfare to social dynamics and theories about how organizations form and change. Chaos is evolving from a scientic theory into a cultural metaphor. As a metaphor it allows us to query some of our most cherished assumptions and encourages us to ask fresh questions about reality. Our modern society has been obsessed with conquering and scientically controlling the world around us. However, chaotic, nonlinear systems - such as nature, society, and our individual lives - lie beyond all our attempts to predict, manipulate, and control them. Chaos suggests that instead of resisting life's uncertainties, we should embrace the possibilities they offer. In this groundbreaking new book, John Briggs and F. David Peat unfold seven lessons for embracing chaos in daily life: 1. Be Creative: how to engage with chaos to nd imaginative new solutions and live more dynamically. 2. Use Buttery Power: how to let chaos grow local efforts into global results 3. Go with the Flow: how to use chaos to work collectively with others 4. Explore What's Between: how to discover life's rich subtleties and avoid the traps of stereotypes 5. See the Art of the World: how to appreciate the beauty of life's chaos 6. Live Within Time: how to utilize time's hidden depths 7. Rejoin the Whole: how to realize our fractal connectedness to each other and the world.

If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed towards chaos, science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing.

Chaos magic, sometimes spelled chaos magick, is a school of the modern magical tradition which emphasizes the pragmatic use of belief systems and the creation of new and unorthodox methods. Although there are a few techniques unique to chaos magic (such as some forms of sigil magic), chaos magic is often highly individualistic and borrows liberally from other belief systems, due to chaos magic having a central belief that belief is a tool. Some common sources of inspiration include such diverse areas as science ction, scientic theories, traditional ceremonial magic, neoshamanism, Eastern philosophy, world religions, and individual experimentation. Despite tremendous individual variation, chaos magicians (sometimes called "chaotes"[2]) often work with chaotic and humorous paradigms, such as the worship of Hundun from Taoism or Eris from Discordianism, and it is common for chaotes to believe in whatever god suits their current paradigm and discard it when necessary. Chaotes can be agnostic or atheist and regard magical practice as merely psychological, not paranormal. Some chaos magicians also use psychedelic drugs in practices such as chemognosticism.[3] AXIOM: "Nothing is True; Everything is Permitted."-Hassan I Sabbah Sigil:"Representation of Will, delimiting Belief and rendering it transvaluative through Desire" (Zos Kia An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare, by Gavin Semple, FLUGUR LIMITED, Oct. 31, 1995) "The Absolute freedom which being free is mighty enough to be 'reality' at any time. Therefore is not potential or manifest (except as its instant possibility) by ideas of freedom or 'means,' but by the Ego being free to recieve it, by being free of ideas about it and not believing. The less said of it (Kia) the less obscure it is." Zos was described as the realization of the self as entity, belief in esh of which "The body of the whole" described each method of focus and realization. Beyond this time, AOS created into day side reality the Alphabet of Desire, a system of point of congress and otherness, a grammar unspeakable yes exceptionally understood in the points of creation and vision. Inspiration against all costs. This system would allow a union of Zos and Kia and behold a view and vision of strength and wonder. Sigils would be designed in a fashion which would describe and incode the actual sigil with the desire of the sorcerer. Once the sigil is designed, one would concentrate it with focusing upon it with a developed gnosis contributed to what Spare termed the "death posture," of which one looses all connection with Zos through extreme discomfort and possibly a black out. The result would be the absorbtion of the sigil until it was forgot by the conscious. The subcoinscious can not operate towards the sigil's goal and purpose until all was forgot by the conscious. This would prove rather difcult for the beginner and only encrypted in Spare's writings of which the aquainted student could understand and learn from this system. A description of the "death posture" was detailed in "The Book of Pleasure": "Lying on your back lazily, the body expressing the emotion of yawning, suspiring while conceiving by smiling, that is the idea of the posture. Forgetting time with those things which were essential reecting their meaninglessness, the moment beyond time and its virtue has happened. Standing on tip-toe, with arms rigid, bound behind by the hands, clasped and straining the utmost, the neck stretched - breathing deeply and spasmodically, till giddy and sensation comes in gusts, give exhaustion and capacity for the former. Gazing at your reection till it is blurred and you know not the gazer, close your eyes (this usually happens involuntarily) and visualize. The light (always an X in curious evolutions) that is seen should be held on to, never letting go, till the effort is forgotten. This gives a feeling of immensity (which sees a small form), whose limit you cannot reach. This should be practiced before experiencing and foregoing. The emotion that is felt if the knowledge which tells you why." Austin Spare also was later adept in the practice of dream control and assuming various god forms thereof. The most signicant forms were of Thanatos and a building association with the Black Eagle. It was by this that Spare was present in the Astral Witches Sabbat, a conclave of desired astrals joined in a blissful union of their belief. Much continues in this latent form beyond this time. Austin Spare's work with Atavistic resurgence has proved well linked with the Zos Kia cultus. Atavisms are a resurgence of characteristics which have elapsed many generations. It is also possible to connect with pre-human embodiments through such elementals. Atavisms exist in the deepest recesses of the mind and often are characterized as half beast, half man. Such creatures do not emerge spontaneously, however can be invoked through several methods of automatic "shamanism" and focus pathworkings.

An article by Kenneth Grant published in Cavendish's "Man, Myth and Magic" further delves into examples of AOS and his magickial abilities. "Spare's 'formula of atavistic resurgence' was based on the use of symbolic pictures, which gave a visable form to various atavistic urges and desires deep within the mind. He claimed that he had only to visualize one of these pictures for the atavistic impulse to surge up. An example which he gave was an occasion when he needed to move a heavy load of timber, with no one to help him. Spare closed his eyes for a while and visualized a picture which symbolized a wish for the strength of tigers. Almost immediately he sensed an inner response. He then felt a tremendous upsurge of energy sweep through his body. For a moment he felt like a sapling bent by the onslaught of a mighty wind. With a great effort of will, he steadied himself and directed the force to its proper object. A great calm descended, and he found himself able to carry the load easily. From Atavism to Zos: Spare's Philosophy and Magic Mark Pilkington

Spare produced three books of magical writing and drawing, Earth Inferno (1905), The Book of Pleasure (Self Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy (1913), which contains the core of his philosophy, and The Focus of Life (1921). At the heart of his cosmology lies the Kia, the state of 'inbetweenness' or 'Neither-Neither' that might be equated in the language of mysticism with the Ain Soph of the Kabala, the Tao, even Jung's Collective Unconscious: it is the one truth, the source of all manifestation, what, if you like, was there before the Big Bang. The other key element is Zos, the human in body and mind, which also served as Spare's magical name. As Nevill Drury puts it, Kia is the Primal Energy and Zos the human vehicle for receiving it. A rm believer in reincarnation, Spare felt that each person's past lives, in a variety of human and animal forms, were retained in the subconscious. This could be tapped into, allowing one to observe and communicate with the many embodiments of the self that dwelt there. It was such inner journeys that inspired the fantastical menagerie of creatures and semi-human gures visible in so much of his art. "Know the subconsciousness to be an epitome of all experience and wisdom, past incarnations as men, animals, birds, vegetable life, etc., etc., everything that exists, has and ever will exist." Spare sought ultimately to pass back through the various levels of being until he had reached the very end, and so the beginning, the Almighty Simplicity. At this point he would be united with the Kia in an eternity of bliss. But, crucially, he also found that by tapping into the energies of these beings, through a method he dubbed "atavistic resurgence", it was possible to attain immense power. ""A microbe has the power to destroy the world If you were to dismember its limb, the mutilated part would regrow, etc. So by evoking and becoming obsessed or illuminated by these existences, we gain their magical properties, or the knowledge of their attainment." Spare is said to have used this technique to do all sorts of wonderful things: lifting heavy objects, mind reading, manifesting hideous thought forms, even magically procuring a pair of slippers for one startled gent, the Hon Everard Fielding (an associate of Bligh Bond. The thinking behind the process is complex, but essentially Spare felt that one's desires could be focussed and embodied as sigils, ideograms composed of words and phrases that encapsulated a wish. These potent symbols were then hidden or destroyed in order to banish them into the subconscious. For example a sigil to acquire great strength was drawn thus:

(Of course not all of us are blessed with Spare's skills as a draughtsman, but it is the process of creating the sigil that is most important to a spell's success). Key to the technique is the action of propelling the sigilised desire into the subconscious. For this to happen the mind must be blank, devoid of all rational thought, images or desires, the practitioner entirely without ego. It was vitally important to forget one's initial desire, allowing it to take root, grow and eventually become real: "When conscious of the Sigil form (any time but the Magical) it should be repressed, a deliberate striving to forget it, by this it is active and dominates at the unconscious period, its form nourishes and allows it to become attached to the sub-consciousness and become organic, that accomplished, is its reality and realization." The best way to achieve this state of void, Spare discovered, was through sheer physical exhaustion, a highly effective method being the time-honoured Tantric tradition of masturbation. He also utilised a form of yogic meditation to induce a trance state in which his body would become rigid and immobile; this he referred to as The Death Posture, the subject of a number of his drawings. At a time when much magical practice involved elaborate ritual, an obsession with occult paraphernalia and often ponderous psychodrama, Spare's solitary, shamanic and, on the surface at least, simple techniques must have seemed nothing short of revolutionary. Certainly they are far more in keeping with his own character, as one who rejected the pomp and glory of the Royal Academy in favour of his own rich inner world. His brief experience of Aleister Crowley's Astrum Argenteum order was evidently not a happy one: "Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is overrun!" he wrote in The Book Of Pleasure. As Lionel Snell writes in Exploring Spare's Magic (from the 1987 Divine Draughtsman exhibition catalogue): "If the extrovert wants to become successful he should hang up "I'm the greatest" posters and constantly afrm his desire, while the introvert would do better to blow his desire on a sigil, and then try so hard to fail that he eventually becomes an underground cult gure." While Crowley may be the most infamous magician of the 20th century, his copious volumes of dense writing are read only by the dedicated few, his rituals practiced by an even smaller number of devotees. In the past twenty years, as awareness of his artistic genius continues to increase, Spare's deceptively simple sigilisation process has been adopted and adapted by a new generation of so-called "chaos magicians", and incorporated into art works, the music of Coil (See FT 142)and others, writing and comics, most popularly Grant Morrison's The Invisibles. Like a buried sigil growing deep in the collective unconscious, Spare's Zos Kia Cultus lives on.

Article reproduced with permission. Fortean Times 144 Copyright Fortean Times. All rights reserved. Images from the John Balance & Peter Christopherson Collection, photographed by Rob Irving The Magick of Austin Osman Spare "I believe in what I want, and I want what I believe in" The magick of the Zos Kia cult is based on a deep understanding of human nature but has little to do with the in most western systems used Quabballah. There are no rites nor dogmatic working procedures in this system. Spare himself learned the basics of magick from a witch, Mrs. Paterson, who allegedly followed an ancient voodoo tradition. She also taught Spare the most important formulas of the witches Sabbath, that was latter frequently mentioned as means to gain Kia or the self. Spare himself thought it most important to access certain parts of the unconsciousness, especially those that are buried deep down in the so called "collective unconsciousness" (C.G. Jung). Basically that means that since all life on Earth can be retraced to a common cell humans carry all the possibilities and forms of nature. Even sabretooth tigers could be reawakened as atavisms. The awakened power is then used for magickal purposes. Spare merged in his system, the Zos Kia cult, the merging with atavisms with the traditions of the dragon cult from ancient Egypt and voodoo techniques. To summon those forces he used sigils, usually build in picturesque form, but also as mantras. Those sigils displayed the atavisms of the unconsciousness.! To this he added his personal alphabet of desire, which letters symbolized various aspects of sexual consciousness. From this letters he formed his sigils which were then activated by what he called the death posture. This posture is best described as emptying the mind, or as a time between times. The psychic censor is a guard that parts unconsciousness from consciousness, and just this guard must be overcome for successful magick. In this state of emptiness sigils take root and have then to be forgotten, which means they can sink into unconsciousness and there start to work. Spare himself suggested that the sigil should be destroyed after the working. Spares' sorcery contains ve elements:

 Will, desire, belief (seen as a unit) Nostalgia, atavistic homesickness Possessiveness and ecstasy Death posture New sexuality People do not need "belief" to work magic. [9] Austin Osman Spare asserts in The Book of Pleasure and various other works that Will formulates Desire which promulgates Belief. The gnostic state[edit source] A concept introduced by Peter Carroll is the gnostic state, also referred to as gnosis. This is dened as an altered state of consciousness that in his magic theory is necessary for working most forms of magic.[6] This is a departure from older concepts which described energies, spirits or symbolic acts as the source of magical powers. The concept has an ancestor in the Buddhist concept of Samadhi, made popular in western occultism by Aleister Crowley and further explored by Austin Osman Spare. The gnostic state is achieved when a person's mind is focused on only one point, thought, or goal and all other thoughts are thrust out. Practitioners of chaos magic each develop their own ways of reaching this state. All such methods hinge on the belief that a simple thought or direction experienced during the gnostic state and then forgotten quickly afterwards bypasses the "psychic censor" (faculties averse to the magical manipulation of reality) and is sent to the subconscious, rather than the conscious mind, where it can be enacted through means unknown to the conscious mind. Three main types of gnosis are described:[3] Inhibitory gnosis is a form of deep meditation into a trance state of mind. This type of gnosis uses slow and regular breathing techniques, absent thought processes, progressive muscular relaxation, self-induction and self-hypnosis techniques. Means employed may also include fasting, sleeplessness, sensory deprivation and hypnotic or trance inducing drugs. Excitatory gnosis describes a mindlessness reached through intense arousal. It is aimed to be reached through sexual excitation, intense emotions, agellation, dance, drumming, chanting, sensory overload, hyperventilation and the use of disinhibitory or hallucinogenic drugs. Indifferent vacuity was described by Phil Hine and Jan Fries as a third method. Here the intended spell is cast parenthetically, so it does not raise much thought to suppress.[10] According to this belief, specic rituals, meditations and other elements of more traditional forms of magic are not to be understood as valuable by themselves, but only as gnosis-inducing techniques. Magical paradigm shifting[edit source] Perhaps the most striking feature of chaos magic is the concept of the magical paradigm shift. Borrowing a term from philosopher Thomas Samuel Kuhn, Carroll made the technique of arbitrarily changing one's world view (or paradigm) of magic, a major concept of chaos magic.[6] An example of a magical paradigm shift is doing a Lovecraftian rite, followed by using a technique from an Edred Thorsson book in the following ritual. These two magical paradigms are very different, but while the individual is using one, he or she believes in it fully to the extent of ignoring all other (often contradictory) ones. Such ideas are inuenced by Tantric practices of breaking down all social conditioning to realize the nature of reality. The shifting of magical paradigms has since found its way into the magical work of practitioners of many other magical traditions, but chaos magic remains the eld where it is most developed. Changing belief systems at will is also sometimes practiced by followers of Discordianism. Some chaos magicians like to operate in what is sometimes called a meta-paradigm. This is much akin to syncretism but with the consideration that exibility of belief is a means of personal power and freedom. A more or less syncretic reality tunneling. Even more removed from this, being a post-meta-paradigmatic view, or an abstention from the notion of any view being absolute, compare Nietzsche's Perspectivism. This utilization and adjoining of various precepts leads to the essence of freedom desired for constructing conditional beliefs upon which energy can then be harnessed most effectively toward the creation of idiosyncratic reality in the kaotic static environment. Emphasis on creative ritualism[edit source] Modication and innovation of ritual take place in all magical and religious traditions at varying paces. In the case of chaos magic, the idea that belief systems and gnosis-inducing techniques are interchangeable has led to a particularly wide variety of magical practices evidenced in large and diverse directories of rituals.[6][11] Many authors explicitly encourage readers to invent their own magical style. [12][13][14] The basic chaos magic training manual Liber MMM, mandatory for membership in the IOT, requires the original creation of a banishing ritual.[6] These are the words of the magi. They are CRUCIAL to proper spell work. To Know: First off you need to know that magic not only exists but that its a workable process. You also have to study and analyze everything that you can about your magical work. Know the SPICIFIC outcome of your magical work and KNOW the EXACT method that you wish to use in your magical procedure.

To Dare: Not only does this mean to get up and actually do the magic but it also means that youre willing to accept the consequences of your magical work. You must be daring in your persistence to do your magical work. You must go through the actions youve prepared and have conviction to see it through to whatever end that you have planned out. To Will: In order for your magical endeavor to work you need to use unyielding will power and strength of character to push things through to the end. Stay the course and follow through no matter what comes your way. You must use your own emotional and soul / ki / will power to see things through no matter the obstacle. Your will is the power the spell work draws from. If that battery is not charged or is used in the wrong way then things simply WONT WORK. To Keep Silent: Out of all of the things in spell work, keeping silent is one of the most important in long term spell work success. After you nish your spell work, consider the matter closed. Worrying about the spell work, talking about the spell work, obsessing about the success of the spell work will dissipate the energy. Which is both counter productive and unsafe. Its unsafe because letting others know about the work that youve done will give others the opportunity to will your spell work to fail. This is either done consciously or unconsciously by those that you tell. This can range from those that will forge a counter spell to those that will just outright doubt your abilities. To know, to dare, to will, to keep silent is simple wisdom with a heavy weight. That wisdom will not only increase the success of your magical work but will also keep you safe from those that wish to do you harm.by popemichael Ask the Pope: Advanced Sigil!Creation This weeks question is a doozy! It is slightly more advanced magical theory than some might be used to, but it contains a lot of metaphysical corner stone basics and practices that can and will help you improve your magical abilities. Q. Whats an advanced and super effective way of making/charging/using/getting sigils to actually work? Whats a good way to track results? A. The best is not necessarily the most advanced. If you keep it very simple and very primal then they are more effective than convoluted. The closer that you get to base instinct the better. Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley in particular knew this and I came to the same conclusion independently as well. While a lot of magicians like to use convoluted methodology when it comes to sigil magics, I like to go with base desires. Everything can be boiled down to a base desire. The trick is guring each one. There are a few key concepts in advanced sigil magic. First off, you have to KNOW that sigil magic works. Any doubt and it will not. Second off you have to know yourself. You get what you mage for. Knowing yourself is FAR more important that most people understand. You literally put your desires into your magic. If you lie to yourself about what your desires are or you dont know your desires then there is no question that it will show. Third, you have clarity. You HAVE to have a clear mind. If you cant do clear mind meditation for at least an hour then advanced sigil magics will be eeting. If you intentions are not specically stated without distraction then disasters occur. Finally, clarity leads to dissipation. After you imbue your symbol into the object (or make the object into the symbol) then you HAVE to forget about it. Walk away and not think about the intention again. If you do not do this then you will sap power from the original enchantment. So forget the desire, forget the ritual, it never happened. Once the process is out of mind and out of sight, your desire will become manifested. The process goes this way in order to override any psychic censor you may have inside your mind. It is far too easy for your consciousness to not want to fulll any desire in order to dissolve any fear of failure. Then again your own self loathing or self doubt could WANT you to fail as well. The best way to see results of this process is to take notes. Document the date time, method, intention, phase of the moon, how you where standing. Make diagrams, charts, graphs, and sketches. Just dont look at them until one year has passed, optimally speaking. Otherwise the whole self doubt thing will kick in. The Secrets of Magic(k) : A Compilation from a few "Fucking Wizards." BEHOLD THE INFALLIBLE LESSONS. Lesson 1: Magick is Real! Footnotes: This is the foremost lesson (or belief) for any Magician. In 10th Century Gematria, "MAGICK IS REAL" equates to 418, the same as ABRAHADABRA in the Thelemic system. The root etymology of this is: "I create as I speak." In the beginning, there was the Word, and the Word was God! Lesson 2: But it does not work all of the time... Lesson 3: And even when it does work, it does not always work well! Lesson 4: Use rational thinking to analyze your dreams, and your dreams to analyze your rational thinking. Lesson 5: To transcend, it is necessary to at rst focus on and enlarge the thing to be transcended.

Lesson 6: Dance! Images are alive, metaphors are dead. Phrases block reective thinking. Imagination came before memory. Lesson 7: The only secret there is to Magic(k) is this: Think of "IT" with utmost peak sincerity (magic, techniques, symbols, or preferred and intended things or feelings) in times of stress or crisis (in your normal life, caused by other things) and you will have done "IT". Lesson 8: Use yourself as if you were someone else (a tool) and occasionally treat others as if they were yourself. Lesson 9: Be not too serious, but not always! Lesson 10: When in doubt, always go with your gut. When in further doubt, hit it with a hammer! Lesson 11: There are exceptions to every lesson (including this one!) Lesson 12: All of the above is most excellent wisdom and you must think of it night and day, meditate on it, live in it, be it - or else you won't regret it (which is necessary!) -Ellis D Williams

Chaos Magick Review: Liber Null & Psychonaut, by Peter Carroll Excerpts by Elendraug i69!

Do nothing is the true Law. abrabrabrabrabrabrabrabrabrabra HAD Contents: Chaos (Kia & Chaos Magic) Magic Gnosis Chaoism Chaos (Kia & Chaos Magic) That which is responsible for the origin and continued action of events. (Pg 28) ...the force which adds increasing complexity to the universe by spawning structures which were not inherent to its component parts. (Pg 28) ...the force which caused life to evolve itself out of the dust. (Pg 28) ...is currently most concentrated in the human life force, or Kia, where it is... (Pg 28) ...the source of consciousness. (Pg 28) ...cannot be known directly. (Pg 29) [gets its name]...from the bizarre and indeterminate nature of the aetheric plane. (Pg 29) [we are]...centers of Kia or Chaos. (Pg 29) All ones thoughts, obsessions, and demons must be reabsorbed before Kia can become one with Chaos. (Pg 40) It is true that the mind must be nally surrendered as one enters fully into Chaos, but a complete and balanced psychocosm is more easily surrendered. (Pg 41) In beginning the great work of obtaining the knowledge and conversation [of our Holy Guardian Angel or Augoeides], the magician vows 'to interpret every manifestation of existence as a direct message from the innite Chaos to himself personally.' (Pg 49) Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos in the multiple forms of existence. (Pg 52) What is a god but man wielding the force of Chaos? To him nothing is true; everything is permitted. (Pg 52) Yet the Great Goddess Chaos will lend some of Her power to those who can become her favorites. (Pg 52) Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself. (Pg 66) ...out of Chaos arise the two prime forces of existence, the solve et coagula of existence. The Light power and the Dark. (Pg 103) It is impossible to understand Chaos, because the understanding part of ourselves is built out of matter which mainly obeys the statistical form of causality. Indeed, all our rational thinking is structured on the hypothesis that one causes another. It follows then that our thinking will never be able to appreciate the nature of consciousness of the universe as a whole because these are

spontaneous, magical, and chaotic by nature.... The universe IS the thoughts of Chaos, if you like. We may be able to understand the thoughts, but not the Chaos from which they arise. Similarly, we may be accustomed to being conscious and exerting our will, but we shall never be able to form ideas of what these are. (Pg 153-154) The force which initiates and moves the universe [Chaos], and the force which lies at the center of consciousness [Kia], is whimsical and arbitrary, creating and destroying for no purpose beyond amusing Itself. There is nothing spiritual or moralistic about Chaos or Kia. We live in a universe where nothing is true, although some information may be useful for relative purposes. (Pg 154) ...the animating force of the entire vast universe is Chaos. It is the inexpressible pregnant Void from which manifest existence, order, and form arise. Being omnipresent and non-dualistic, it is virtually imperceptible, inconceivable, and impossible to visualize... (Pg 157-158) However we choose to see it, the ultimate ground of being is utterly void to our understanding, impersonal and inhuman, whimsical and capricious and far too innite and incomprehensible to be much use as a god to limited dualistic beings like ourselves. (Pg 157-158) The consciousness-force in us that appears as the root of will and perception can be called Kia. This Kia has no form. Any form of innate divinely sanctioned motive that one may seem to have found in it is illusion. It is this void at the center of one's being which is the real Holy Guardian Angel. The psychic censor, on the other hand, is a material thing which protects the mind from magic and from being overwhelmed by the awesome strangeness of the psychic dimension which appears to us as chaos. (Pg 162) We cannot perceive Chaos directly, for it simultaneously contains the opposite to anything we might think it is. We can, however, occasionally glimpse and make use of partially formed matter which has only probablistic and indeterministic existence. This stuff we can call the aethers. (Pg 192) If it makes us feel any better we can call this Chaos, the Tao, or God, and imagine it to be benevolent and human-hearted. There are two schools of thought in magic. One considers the formative agent of the universe to be random and chaotic, and the other considers that it is a force of spiritual consciousness. As they have only themselves on which to base their speculations, they are basically saying that their own natures are either random and chaotic or spiritually conscious. (Pg 192)

Magic [calling]... very unlikely coincidences or unexpected events into existence by manipulating the aether. (Pg 31) The magician can only change something if he can 'match' the Chaos which is upholding the normal event. (Pg 55) Thus does the magician turn that aspect of Chaos which manifests as causality to his advantage, rather than oppose it. (Pg 56) The adept magician however will have so strengthened his spirit by magic that it is possible for him to carry [his personal Kia] over into a new body. (Pg 103) Magic is where science is actually heading. (Pg 111) It is for wizards to determine how that new [alternative] spirituality will manifest. (Pg 114) The methods of magic are remarkably uniform throughout history and across cultures. It is time to unearth them and make them work. Secondly, it is essential that what might be called a spirituality of magic is evolved. Magic must have its own avor, its own worldview, and its own philosophy. There has been a tendency to regard magic as an antique art. (Pg 114) Magic is aligning itself against oppressive forms of order in many elds. (Pgs 113-115) Magic is opposed to psychiatry and medicine designed to patch up the damaged automaton and plug him back into the system. Instead it would rather that individuals learn to handle their own mental self-defense and treat bodies with gentler remedies such as herbs. (Pgs 113-115) Magic rejects politics as no more than some people's perverse desire to dominate others. It does well to dissociate itself from this monkey squabble and advocates instead personal enlightenment and emancipation, which are the only real safeguards to freedom. (Pgs 113-115) Magic is anti-ideological because the main products of ideological solutions are repression and corpses. (Pgs 113-115) Magic is profoundly opposed to religion. Although a religion may appear benign when it is in decline, at least half of the madness and violent deaths of history have been caused by mindless adherence to religions. (Pgs 113-115) Magic is also opposed to the superstition that the world is wholly material and that men's actions are not intimately interwoven with the psychic sphere. (Pgs 113-115) Magic aligns itself to a vision of chaotic good [to oppose repressive forms of order which often impose themselves by evil means]. (Pgs 113-115) Magic's commitment to the good is reected in its concern with individual freedom and consciousness and its interest in all other life forms on this planet. At the highest level this manifests as some unspecied feeling for the "vibes" generated by human thought and action. (Pgs 113-115) The chaotic aspect of new aeon magic is psychological anarchy. It is a species of operation mindfuck applied to ourselves as much of the world. The aim is to produce inspiration and enlightenment through disordering our belief structures. Humor, random belief, counter-information and disinformation are its techniques. (Pgs 113-115) Full rituals of the meditative or ecstatic variety are usually directed towards one of the four objectives: Enchantment - making things happen directly by magic Evocation - making things happen through the agency of various demons and elementals Invocation - the summoning of various entities and thought forms for the inspiration of their knowledge and conversation Divination - obtaining knowledge by direct magical means. (Pgs 118-119)

 The simplest way to orchestrate these rituals for group work is for a presiding ofcer to perform the main ritual sequence and have the participants deliver their visualizations, mantras, ritual movements and invocations on certain pre-arranged cues. (Pgs 118-119) To be effective, the ritual must work like an automatic mechanism in which power can manifest without distraction or hesitation. A variety of trance states from mild suggestibility to deep hypnosis can be used for group magical work. One operator will persuade one or more subjects into a receptive condition by suggestion or invocation, the subject being in a relaxed or lightly drugged condition. The psychic censor is less active in the trance state but often acts to block the awareness of magical events from reaching other lovels. When the trance state is controlled by another person, this problem can be overcome. The trance candidate can be directed to seek information clairvoyantly and to relate it to the operator. Conversely, the subjects will can be directed to perform a magical act that the censor would normally prohibit. (Pgs 118-119) One danger with trance experiments is that the operator's inuence over the subject may gradually extend itself to non-trance states as well. Another is that the memory and imagination can become very active in trance states and begin to delude both operator and subject. For these reasons trance experiments should be performed infrequently and for objective results only. (Pgs 118-119) Magical training is designed to open up the neglected dream level, to provoke an examination of the contents of the robotic level, and to add new programs to it. It should also teach the method of turning awareness on or off at will, and of entering the gnostic level and acting within it. (Pg 123) The normal human life is spent in oscillating between the unconscious and robotic levels, punctuated by odd moments of dreaming and awareness. The magician may well strive to establish a new oscillation between dreaming and awareness with occasional excursions into the robotic and gnostic levels for specic purposes. (Pg 123) Magical attack takes two forms. At long range, telepathic information is sent which makes the target destroy itself.... At short range, it is possible to injure or drain an adversary's energy eld using one's own. This demands close proximity, usually contact. Magical close combat of this type is not effected by mere will or visualization, but by projecting a force that can actually be felt, usually through the hands. More rarely the force can be projected through the voice or the eyes or carried on the breath. The force originates in the navel area and is aroused by the disciplines of breath, concentration, visualization and by sexual disciplines. A part of this force is put into the enemy's body to cause a disruption of the vital energies leading to disease and death.... (Pgs 125-127) As with all things, constructive activities are a far greater challenge to our skills than destructive ones. (Pgs 125-127) Because consciousness does not t into... mechanistic schemes, [scientists] declare it illusory. Magicians make exactly the reverse argument. Observing consciousness in themselves and animals, they are magnanimous enough to extend it to all things to some degree - trees, amulets, planetary bodies, and all. (Pg 151) To explain their occult and mystical experiences, magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems. To the magician it is self-evident that there is some other level of reality than the purely physical. Medieval magicians thought that their powers emanated from God or the Devil. In fact, magic works equally well in any god's name for good, evil, neutral or indifferent motives. (Pg 151) Magic offers an alternative view [of the human experience, than the radical stimulus-response behaviorists or the radical godpuppets of the religious]. Consciousness occurs when the Kia (which is equivalent to free will and perception, but is itself formless) touches the materiality (the ego, mind, sensory and extra-sensory information, etc.). So we have both of these things, but we are neither of them; we experience our being only at their place of meeting. (Page 152) Occasionally consciousness is able to make things happen spontaneously outside the body when it performs magic. Any act of will is magic. Conversely, any act of conscious perception is also magic; an occurrence in nervous matter is spontaneously perceived in consciousness. Sometimes that perception can occur directly without the use of senses, as in clairvoyance. (Pg 153) Magic is not just conned to consciousness. All events, including the origin of the universe, happen basically by magic. That is to say, they arise spontaneously without a nal prior cause. (Pg 153) ...it is very difcult to imagine events arising spontaneously without prior cause even though this happens every time one exerts one's will. For this reason it has seemed preferrable to call this root of phenomena Chaos. (Page 153) Magical, mystical and religious enterprises seek to fulll ve basic human needs, which can be identied as follows: To provide techniques of Emotional Engineering To give life a sense of Meaning To provide some means of Intercession and Intervention To supply an explanation of Death To formulate a Social Structure or Cult (Pg 179) Private religion inevitably evolves into mysticism or magic, and these have a tendency to devolve into new religions. (Pg 181) [To the magician, spirit and matter] are both part of the same thing, and he exalts neither above the other. He rejects no part of his experience. The magician lives in a continuum beginning with the sublime and ineffable Tao/God/Chaos through the mysterious and subtle Aethers to the awesome and strange material world. To the magician, any piece of knowledge, any new power, any opportunity for enlightenment is worth having for its own sake. The only thing abhorred in this incredible existence is failure to come to grips with some part of it. To be able to operate in all spheres, the magician must master the art of either acting without belief or of being able to invest belief temporarily in anything with which he is experimenting. The magician should be equally at home with a crozier, a paintbrush, a test tube, or a wand. In all things he is seeking to bring his Kia into manifestation; for him life is its own answer, and the way he lives it in his spirituality. (Pg 181-182) The magician should be capable of performing any ritual on the astral, that is to say, by the power of imagination alone. By strongly visualizing any of his weapons to the point where he actually hallucinates their presence, he draws both the aetheric form of the weapon and the associated powers within himself into action. Such empty-hand techniques are the mark of the adept. (Pg 189)

Gnosis [state of mind to be achieved/attained] ; no-mind; samadhi; one-pointedness/one-pointed consciousness/single-pointed concentration; stopping the inner dialogue; passing through the eye of the needle; ain or nothing; It is an extension of the magical trance by other means. (Pg 131) Certain forms of gnosis lend themselves more readily to some forms of magic than others.(Pg 35) ...the methods of exaltation. (Pg 35) Gnosis is the mechanism by which Kia draws back from the esh in preparation for the mighty indulgences of magic. A great saving to accomplish a greater spending.(Pg 60) Gnosis, the Alphabet of Desire, and other magical methods tend to liberate.(Pg 90) It is quite simple to state exactly what Gnosis is and how to reach it. Gnosis is intense consciousness of something, including the ideas of self or nothingness. Most extremes of emotionality (and not just the nice emotions) can initiate it, and so can a profound act of single- pointed concentration on something. (Pgs 122-123) This intense consciousness leads mystics into three common errors. It may create the illusion that oneself and the object of contemplation are the same thing. It may lead to the conviction that oneself no longer exists, and it may lead to the obsession that the object of concentration is the supreme thing in the universe. (Pgs 122-123) Magically, Gnosis is the state which most easily allows the will and perception to reach out and touch realities beyond the mind. The contents of gnosis are far less interesting than what can be done with it. (Pgs 122-123)

Chaoism As above, so below I am the universe The life force in us Is the life force of the universe The subtle force in us (aether) Is the subtle force of the universe The gross matter in us Is the gross matter of the universe To Chaos, nothing is true And everything is permitted Though it has limited itself To the principle of duality In building this world For itself (Pg 74) excerpts from : Liber Null & Psychonaut Love is permitted. AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS PSYCHO-MAGICAL PHILOSOPHY by Kenneth Grant

First published in The Carfax Monographs, NO. IV, 1961

Austin Osman Spare, a painter and draughtsman of great skill and originality, carried out researches in the sphere of occultism which have remained until now almost unknown to the world at large. On his death in 1956, however, a great quantity of material was discovered which throws much light on the psycho-magical philosophy, which he expressed largely through the medium of his art. I have presented the main points of this philosophy in a book which is nearing completion (see note 1), but here are some of its essential features minus the large quantity of quotations drawn from unpublished material which Spare bequeathed to me at the time of his death. When referring to himself in relation to his magical philosophy Spare usually identied himself with a concept which he named Zos, and he is alluded to as such throughout this essay.

He explained this concept in The Book of Pleasure (1913) thus: "The body considered as a whole I call Zos"; it was the alembic through which he wrought the alchemy of his art as well as his no less individualistic mode of magic. The symbol complementary to this Zos concept he called the Kia or Atmospheric 'I', which uses Zos as its special eld of activity. The cult of the Zos and the Kia is the cult of the interplay of dynamic forces which are further symbolised anthropomorphically by the hand and the eye. These, in complete coordination, enable the artist-magician to summon hidden images which are latent in the storehouse of cosmic sub-consciousness. Allfeeling Touch and all-seeing Vision are the instruments of that primal id, or desire, which Zos is ever seeking to reify in the raiment of esh. It is Zos's basic theory that all dream or desire, all wish or belief, anything in fact which a person nurtures in his inmost being may be called forth in the esh as a living truth by a particular method of magical evocation. This he named 'atavistic resurgence'; it is a method of wish-fullment which involves the interaction of will, desire and belief. Firstly, the will must be strong enough to probe the depths of latent and cosmic memory until a required atavism is located. Secondly, the desire for reication must be strong enough to clothe the image of the will in a form sufciently attractive to inspire nexus. Thirdly, a quantity of belief or faith must be freed for activity in the latent depths so that profound and nostalgic stirrings of awareness cause a violent series of impacts which create a shock of identity. The resulting ecstasy incarnates the latent desire into patent actuality and power. This is the aim of almost all forms of magic but a difference here lies in the simplicity of the method employed, requiring as it does no ceremonial equipment or the participation of a concourse of adepts. The specic desire for which any given magical operation is designed must be visualised subconsciously, while the conscious mind is rendered oblivious to the process. When any concept intrudes upon the mind it breeds on contact with it, and there always remains part of an idea which, because it meaning is cryptic and therefore enigmatic to the ordinary consciousness, fecundates the subconsciousness. By observing what occurs to this conceptual residue Zos was able to build up a system of sigils which facilitated entry of the total desire to subliminal realms, there to search out its own level and germinate secretly and unobtrusively. Any wish may be given symbolic form, but in this case the form should bear no pictorial approximation to the particular desire in question. By magical means the symbol may then be implanted in the subconsciousness, there to await ultimate extrusion as reied fact after having by-passed the conscious censor and attracted all the necessary elements from the external world. It is, however, of the utmost importance that the conscious mind may conceive nothing from such a symbol. Three methods of awakening subconscious memory-strata have been evolved by Zos: the system of sigils, the alphabet of desire, and the use of sentient symbols. Examples of all three methods may be seen in the accompanying illustration from the author's collection. A brief explanation of their working here follows. The use of sigils: Enshrine your desire in a short sentence; write out the sentence and then put down all the individual letters of which it is composed, omitting any repetition of a letter. When the sentence has been reduced to a minimum number of letters, unite them graphically in one composite glyph which does not suggest the nature of the desire. Then - and this is of great importance - forget the desire and sink the sigil in the subconsciousness. In the alphabet of desire each letter represents a 'sensation thinking,' an aesthetic concept localized in a stratum of past memory appropriate to its form and nature. This subtle alphabet can be used to call forth elemental automata and the spirits of other spheres. The third method evolved by Zos, namely sentient symbols, concerns itself especially with prophecy and divination. By a form of Delphic Oracle involving the use of sigils and by intruding a sigil into the subconsciousness, it is able to think for us, and, if the sigil resumes a query concerning some future event, will breed from its own sentiency the true child of its symbolic parts. If a glyph is correctly constructed so that no superuous elements remain to breed useless ramications, it will - surely as a geometrical symbol give birth to its own truth or answer, for every query whatever has its solution inherent within it. These three systems of symbolism are not the only contribution Zos has made to the eld of practical magic; he also evolved the concept of the Death Posture or New Sexuality, that oblique approach to reality which he calls the 'precarious funambulatory pathway between ecstasies. It is too early yet to say how Zos's inuence will be incorporated into the main body of occultism; it tends rather to dispense with tradition than to draw upon it, stressing the individual and unique approach to reality so that only the mind which is concept-free is great enough to embrace it. Tradition can only be that form of belief which, being xed and past, no longer harbours dynamic possibilities; Zos often refers to tradition as 'the inferno of the normal,' the convention of empty belief or the crystallized belief of others, of our past selves, which can but imprison and not release vitality. Zos locates the apprehension of reality in the lightning-swift 'inbetweeness' reciprocation between the dual terminals of ego and self. Ego being the self as it is at the moment, perpetually melting into a background awareness of an illimitable ego, or self, which is neither

xed belief nor desire toward any other form of energy which is released when the ego breaks up and dissolves. It is, in fact, the 'neither-neither' or Atmospheric 'I' which is both uidic and xed in a unity of voidness free from conception; a state of seity unconceived and inconceivable. Hence the self represents desire; the ego, the belief incarnating; 'Does not matter - Need not be' (a much reiterated formula of Zos) suggesting the thisness of which ego is at any given moment a merely eeting reication of limited concept, bereft of true reality. 'Does not matter - Need not be' signies that which ego cannot contain or conceive. The subject and object, ego and id relationship represents in Zos's doctrine the 'as now' and 'as if' phases of the I's excreation in matter as refracted through the mind. The 'I' is increative, conceptless and ever free; but when experiencing itself in terms of imagined concepts such as time and space it assumes the dual role of ego and id, whose interplay constitutes a symbolic 'rehearsal of reality' in the world of ideas. It is the imagination which is supreme, for without this mysterious power or faculty, which is in a sense the mind-in-movementthrough-time-and-space, there can be no ego and no id, no subjective apprehension of surrounding phenomena and no objective universe of innite variety. The art of Austin Osman Spare is not other than the expression of the Zos through which the Kia rehearses its dream of reality. And to what end? For pleasure. Bliss might perhaps be a more apt expression, although it suggests rather a passive state of acquiescence in intense happiness than a positive and vibrant joy. Ecstasy and rapture are equally applicable terms. The ceremonial magician sets his stage for the rehearsal of reality with all the traditional weapons; but Zos maintains that this is unnecessary mummery, because the apprehension of our greater realities is to be effected consciously through living the symbolic simulations of the ego 'as if' they were real, not as a mock rehearsal, but as a spontaneous evocation within the magic circle of immediacy - now. This resembles but does not equate with the doctrine of Zen Buddhism. Whereas the Zen process shocks the mind into inactivity so that the individualized cosmic energy may ow unhindered into the ocean of absolute consciousness, in Zos Kia Cultus it is the body which is rendered affective to implusions of cosmic wave, so that 'on becoming all sensation' it realises all things as esh and in the esh. The term esh denotes in this context the fully conscious awareness of the Atmospheric 'I' - the 'neither-neither' principle, now, in the all-pervading body of the present. A traditionally symbolic form of this concept is encountered in Tibetan Buddhism under the Yab-Yum image, which is a representation of the Kia rehearsing its blissful contact with the Zos or 'body-considered as a whole.' The Kia is present everywhere, but the immediacy of its realisation is sought through the esh, as in Zen it is apprehended through the mind. The object is the same in both methods, but the means appear to vary. There is actually no difference in the organ of awareness whether considered as body or as mind. A symbol is a certain mystical sense identical with that which it symbolizes. A true symbol should be a perfect vehicle for the sum total of energy which goes to inform it; it is thus equal to that which it symbolizes because its energy becomes innite when belief in it is vital. Belief, to be effective, must be vital, dynamic; it must work subconsciously even to the extent of its denial in consciousness. When it is vitalized by being sunk into subliminal depths it bypasses the ego, is suppressed by the censor and thereby forgotten; hence desire is aroused and this exhausts the conscious content of belief. Absentmindedness then becomes the means of its apotheosis. Zos suggests through ambiguities which do not consciously formulate the object of desire but create its presence by subtle evocations; he is always oblique, never direct, for openly to acknowledge belief allows the ego to conceive from the symbolic form of that with which the poet MallarmZ, whose method of suggestive evocation arouses sensations and meanings quite foreign to the words by which they are seemingly communicated. Two other factors of importance are Free Belief and Exhaustion. Any symbol is a limitation of belief, or energy, by its own particular form and nature. In order to release the energy of belief, its form or symbol has to be destroyed so that the quantity of belief which is enshrined becomes free to merge with the belief-potential of the believer, which is - ultimately - innite. When this is achieved, belief becomes free and vast enough to contain reality itself. One method of freeing belief is by intense disappointment, particularly through loss of faith in a friend, religion, or the shattering of some ideal. When fundamental disappointment is experienced, the symbol enshrining the quota of belief is destroyed. In some cases the individual is unable to survive the disillusionment. But if at times the moment is seized upon and consciously experienced for its own sake, the vacuum attracts into itself the entire content of belief inherent in the person at the time of disappointment. On a smaller scale, though still with great magical effect, the void moments succeeding any type of emotional exhaustion or shock may be similarly utilized. It is preferable, of course, to exhaust the psyche through pleasant means, although - as the Buddha declared sorrow is one of the greatest single factors leading to introversion of the mental faculties to their source, and therefore to the real. So long as the mind thinks, imagines or conceives, there are symbols; and so long as symbols endure, conceptions proceed from them. Freedom from form and its limitations occurs only when the Kia remains alone and when the Zos realizes the extent of itself; for when 'the body as a whole' fully realizes its extent - which is innite and eternal - then is it one with the Kia or Atmospheric 'I.'

Two other fundamental factors that render Spare's system in terms of primal magic, as it were a new obeah or science of resurgent atavisms, are obsession and ecstasy. The subconciousness, impregnated with any given glyph, must be energized obsessively by continual ecstasies, on the theory that the primal depth resounds to old nostalgias reliving their original beliefs. The alphabet of desire, with each letter representing a vital principle, is primarily adapted for tapping deep currents of ecstasy, and when the full owering of the obsessional idea is effected, the explosion of bliss is itself the fullment of Zos. NOTES 1. Published as Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare, 1975. Reprinted 2003.

+,-./012 www.fulgur.org The Formula of Atavistic Resurgence Zos-Kia Cultus !Austin Osman Spare created this Stele embodying the secret glyphs and sigils of the Cultus.

"There is a Grimoire of symbology, of vague phonic nuances that conjoins all thoughts and is the cryptic language of the subconscious world." AOS "I teach the equal reality of all things, man and his illusions: Dreams shall esh ...some day." AOS

Whatever the value of Spares contribution to art and psychology, his contribution to experimental occultism is supreme, for he discovered a method of reifying the dream world under the controlling aegis of the fully conscious will.

KENNETH GRANT Atavistic resurgence, a primal urge towards union with the Divine by returning to the common source of all, is indicated by the backward symbolism peculiar to all Sabbath ceremonies, as also of many ideas connected with witchcraft, sorcery and magic. Whether it be the symbol of the moon presiding over nocturnal ecstasies; the words of power chanted backwards; the back-to-back dance performed in opposition to the sun's course; the devil's tail - are all instances of reversal and symbolic of Will and Desire turning within and down to subconscious regions, to the remote past, there to surprise the required atavistic energy for purposes of transformation, healing, initiation, construction or destruction.

! Kenneth Grant, Hidden Lore: Hermetic Glyphs

EXCERPTS FROM : THE BOOK OF PLEASURE - AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE Kia: The absolute freedom which being free is mighty enough to be "reality" and free at any time: therefore is not potential or manifest (except as it's instant possibility) by ideas of freedom or "means," but by the Ego being free to recieve it, by being free of ideas about it and by not believing. The less said of it (Kia) the less obscure is it. Remember evolution teaches by terrible punishments-that conception is ultimate reality but not ultimate freedom from evolution. Virtue: Pure Art Vice: Fear, belief, faith, control, science, and the like. Self-Love: A mental state, mood or condition caused by the emotion of laughter becoming the principle that allows the Ego appreciation or universal association in permitting inclusion before conception. Exhaustion: That state of vacuity brought by exhausting a desire by some means of dissipation when the mood corresponds to the nature of the desire, i.e., when the mind is worried because of the non-fullment of such desire and seeks relief. By seizing this mood and living, the resultant vacuity is sensitive to the subtle suggestion of the Sigil. 1: All means of locomotion, machinery, governments, institutions, and everything essentially modern, is vital symbolism of the workings of our mind, etc. Note on the Difference of Magical Obsession (Genius) and Insanity. MAGICAL obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc., for inspiration. It is the condition of Genius. Other obsession is the "blind leading the blind," caused by quietism, known as mediumism, an opening out of the Ego to (what is called) any external inuence, elementals, or disembodied energy. A transmutated consciousness that is a resistance to "true" subconscious activity, it being a voluntary insanity, a somnambulation of the Ego with "no form" or control to guide it: hence its emanations are stupid in suggestion, or memories of childhood. Obsession known as or related to insanity is an experience that is dissociated from the personality (Ego) through some sort of rejection. It is sub-crystalline, and cannot become permanently attached to the sub-consciousness, not having exhausted or completed itself by realisation. Depending on its degree of intensity and resistance shown at some time or another, the Ego has or has not knowledge of the obsession; always is its expression autonomous, divorced from personal control, power of direction and timing. Concentration determines dissociation. Enthusiasm for one object seeking completion by identication, sacrices all else, or deliberately forgets. Its separation from the Ego (it becoming equal, or more in bulk than the rest of the consciousness, causes subdivision or "double personality"), is caused by its own intensity or by shock of resistance determined by some incompatibility of the desired or desire. Concentration is dissatised desire, a conict that can never be satised, because of its means. When the Ego, not appearing to have or not knowing the means of fullment, seeks its repudiation, repression, imaginative fullment, or transmutation to escape its worry. None of these is the desire's or obsession's annihilation, but its separation or concealment from the rest of the Ego, its premature subconscious existence. It is held there only when some form of resistance is active, when resistance is dormant- control is given to the presiding obsession, allowing its incarnation in, and swamping of the Ego, which has to live and perform its emotional experience. Disease and Insanity (all disease is insanity) is caused when the disembodied energy has no vital function. It is this energy which is utilised for the vitalization of Sigils. ! Sigils. The Psychology of Believing. If the "supreme belief" remains unknown, believing is fruitless. If "the truth" has not yet been ascertained, the study of knowledge is unproductive. Even if "they" were known their study is useless. We are not the object by the perception, but by becoming it. Closing the gateways of sense is no help. Verily I will make common-sense the foundation of my teaching. Otherwise, how can I convey my meaning to the deaf, vision to the blind, and my emotion to the dead? In a labyrinth of metaphor and words, intuition is lost, therefore without their effort must be learned the truth about one's self from him who alone knows the truth . . . . yourself. Of what use the wisdom of Virginity to him who has been raped by the seducer, ignorance? Of what use sciences or any knowledge except as medicine? Hidden treasure does not come at the word nor by digging with your hands in the main road. Even with the proper implements and accurate knowledge of place, etc., may be but the acquisition of what you possessed long ago. There is a great doubt as to whether it is hidden, except by the strata of your experience and atmospheres of your belief. The pertinent question now proposed by "Thee" should be asked by those desirous of some measure of genius. My answer like the mighty germ is in agreement with the universe, simple and full of deep import and for a time extremely objectionable to your ideas of

good and beauty. Listen, attentively, O! Aspirant, all agog for information, to my answer, for by living the meaning thou shalt truly be freed from the bondage of constitutional ignorance. Thou must live it thyself; I cannot live it for thee. The chief cause of genius is realization or "I" by an emotion that allows the lightning assimilation of what is perceived. This emotion is immoral in that it allows free association of knowledge without the accessories of belief. Its condition is, therefore, ignorance of "I am" and "I am not" with absent-mindedness as believing. Its most excellent state is the "Neither-Neither," the free or atmospheric "I." You remember in your youth the thought "that this world is a curious place" in the emotion when you felt "why" as to whether this life is a reasonable development? What was the cause of this and of your summarily dismissing it from your mind? Again the feeling that the most commonplace object is magnicently strange and the vague emotion of co-relation between the incompatible (exhaustive arguments often see this, but always excuse it); the curiosity and shock with a more intimate association with the wonders of creation. What is it that prevents you following investigation into "what exactly is surprise," etc.? What is the cause of your believing more in God than a dog-ght? Yet you fear dogs more than God! Where is the difference between yourself choked with disquieting piety, and the innocence of a babe? Perhaps in these is the cause of ignorance. Belief is the fall from the Absolute. What are you going to believe? Truth seeks its own negation. Different aspects are not the truth, nor are they necessary to truth. Of its emanations which are you to strangle at birth? Are you illegitimate? You believe in right and wrongwhat punishment will you determine? Can you escape the driving "Must"? Who can escape boredom- without change? Who remain single and content! What man among you is large and free enough to encompass his "self"? Your belief obfuscates lineage. Ambition is smallness- your customed environment. Remember, time is an unstudied imagination of the experienced. What may be called the early experience was its completion, so of learning there is no nis. What you learn to-morrow is determined by what you have done- the accomplished lesson of yesterday. Never learning to-day what you can do to-morrow is called loss, but is theft from time, wholesomeness and rejuvenescence. Repeat this delay again and again till you arrive at spontaneity, chance in safety. The pursuit of learning (believing) is the grotesque incubator of stupidity. If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . however much we so desire, having conicting ideas to rst exhaust. Sigils are the art of believing; my invention for making belief organic, ergo, true belief. When by the wish to believe- it is of the necessity incompatible with an existing belief and is not realized through the inhibition of the organic belief- the negation of the wish, faith moves no mountains, not till it has removed itself. Supposing I wish to be great (is not counting that I am), to have "faith" and believe that I am, does not make me great- even were I to keep up the pretence to the end . . . . it being ceremonial insincerity, the afrmation of my incapacity. I am incapable, because that is the true belief, and organic. To believe differently is but affectation. Therefore the imagination or "faith" that I am great, is a supercial belief. The reaction and denial, caused by the troublesome effervescence of the organic incapacity. Denial or faith does not change or annihilate it, but is its reinforcement and preservation. Therefore belief, to be true, must be organic and sub-conscious. The desire to be great can only become organic at a time of vacuity, and by giving it (Sigil) form. When conscious of the Sigil form (any time but the Magical) it should be repressed, a deliberate striving to forget it, by this it is active and dominates at the unconscious period, its form nourishes and allows it to become attached to the sub-consciousness and become organic, that accomplished, is its reality and realization. He becomes his concept of greatness. So belief becomes true and vital by striving against it in consciousness and by giving it form. Not by the striving of faith. Belief exhausts itself by confession and non-resistance, i.e., consciousness. Believe not to believe, and in degree you will obtain its existence. Timeliness depending on your morality, give to the poor. If the ambitious only knew it is as difcult to become incapable as it is to become great. They are mutual as accomplishments and equally satisfying. The Sub-Consciousness. ALL geniuses have active sub-consciousness, and the less they are aware of the fact, the greater their accomplishments. The subconsciousness is exploited by desire reaching it. So consciousness should not contain the "great" desire once the Ego has wished: and should be lled with an affected ambition for something different, not vice-versa, the inevitable penalty of cowardice lurking somewhere: surely not an inglorious deceit? Genius, like heroism, is a matter of bravery- you have to forget fear, or incapacity somehow . . . . hence its expression is always spontaneous. How simple it is to acquire genius- you know the means; who will take the plunge? The learning of "How" is the eternal "Why"- unanswered! A genius is such, because he does not know how or why. The Storehouse of Memories with an Ever-Open Door. Know the sub-consciousness to be an epitome of all experience and wisdom, past incarnations as men, animals, birds, vegetable life, etc., etc., everything that exists, has and ever will exist. Each being a stratum in the order of evolution. Naturally then, the lower we probe into these strata, the earlier will be the forms of life we arrive at; the last is the Almighty Simplicity. And if we succeed in awakening them, we shall gain their properties, and our accomplishment will correspond. They being experiences long passed, must be evoked by extremely vague suggestion, which can only operate when the mind is unusually quiet or simple. To have their wisdom does not mean the necessity of their bodies- the body modies in relation to "means" (we travel faster than the hunting leopard, but do not have its body), when it is the means it changes accordingly. Now, if we observe Nature, the early forms of life are wonderful in their properties, adaptablility, etc; their strength enormous, and some are indestructible. No matter what the desire is, it always is its accomplishment. A microbe has the power to destroy the world (and certainly would if it took an interest in us). If you were to dismember its limb, the mutilated part would regrow, etc. So by evoking and becoming obsessed or illuminated by these existences, we gain their magical properties, or the knowledge of their attainment. This is what already happens (everything happens at all times)

though exceedingly slowly; in striving for knowledge we repel it, the mind works best on a simple diet. The Key to Prophecy. The law of Evolution is retrogression of function governing progression of attainment, i.e., the more wonderful our attainments, the lower in the scale of life that governs them. Our knowledge of ight is determined by that desire causing the activity of our bird etc. Karmas. Directly our desire reaches the stratum belonginging to those existences that can "y" without wings- so shall we y without machines. This sub-conscious activity is the "capacity," the "knowledge"; all other we acquire is of a negative or manurial value. The virtue of learning and acquiring knowledge by the ordinary means is in its worry and disappointment, of that degree which causes exhaustion: by that the desire might accidentally reach the real abode of knowledge, i.e., the sub-consciousness. Inspiration is always at a void moment, and most great discoveries accidental, usually brought about by exhaustion of the mind. My formula and Sigils for subconscious activity are the means of inspiration, capacity or genius, and the means of accelerating evolution. An economy of energy and method of learning by enjoyment. A bat rst grew wings and of the proper kind, by its desire being organic enough to reach the subconsciousness. If its desire to y had been conscious, it would have had to wait till it could have done so by the same means as ourselves, i.e., by machinery. All genius has an hypothesis (usually natural) in the form of a hobby, which serves to restrain and occupy the conscious mind, to prevent its interference with spontaneous expression. The great Leonardo's mathematics, etc., served to "Deceive" him as such an hypothesis (and as Sigils). Our lives are full of the Symbolism of those predominating Karmas we are governed by. All ornament, useless dress, etc., are such (they please people because they feel the identication), and the means of locating them (Karmas). The symbolism of crowning a man King, is that he, resembling God (on earth), has reached the lowest strata of his sub-consciousness (those one-cell organisms if you like), which predominate as governing his functions. (Of course, those crowned Kings are never such, they symbolise the "hope," not the reality.) Hence the oral nature of and precious stones in design of the crown relate to rst principles. He is King who has reached the dual principle in its simplicity, the rst experience which is all experience . . . . he has no need of crowns and kingdoms. By Sigils and the acquirement of vacuity, any past incarnation, experience, etc., can be summoned to consciousness. It may even happen in sleep in the form of dreams, but this means is very difcult. (Chapters on day and night dreaming for pleasure omitted.) Total vacuity is difcult and unsafe for those governed by morality, complexes, i.e., whose belief is not entirely self-love. Hence this desideratum of Sigils, etc. Know all ritual, ceremony, conditions, as arbitrary (you have yourself to please), a hindrance and confusion; their origin was for amusement, later for the purpose of deceiving other from knowing the truth and inducing ignorance; and as always happens their high priests were the more deceived themselves. He who deceives another deceives himself much more. Therefore know the Charlatans by their love of rich robes, ceremony, ritual, magical retirements, absurd conditions, and other stupidity, too numerous to relate. Their entire doctrine a boastful display, a cowardice hungering for notoriety; their standard everything unnecessary, their certain failure assured. Hence it is that those with some natural ability quickly lose it by their teaching. They can only dogmatise, implant and multiply that which is entirely supercial. Were I a teacher I should not act as master, as knowing more, the pupil could lay no claim to discipleship. Assimilating slowly, he would not be conscious of his learning, he would not repeat the vital mistake; without fear he would accomplish with ease. The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes. Not by obscuring his vision and intention by righteousness. ! Sigils. Belief with Protection. Magickal Obsession. 25 I will now explain their creation and use; there is no difculty about it, how pure and clear it all is . Out of love for my foolish devotees I invented it. All desire, whether for Pleasure, Knowledge, or Power, that cannot nd "Natural" expression, can by Sigils and 26 their formula nd fullment from the sub-consciousness. Sigils are the means of guiding and uniting the partially free belief with an organic desire, its carriage and retention till its purpose served in the sub-conscious self, and its means of reincarnation in the Ego. All thought can be expressed by form in true relation. Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy (all heraldry, crests, monograms, are Sigils and the Karmas they govern), relating to Karma; a mathematical means of symbolising desire and giving it form that has the virtue of preventing any thought and association on that particular desire (at the magical time), escaping the detection of the Ego, so that it does not restrain or attach such desire to its own transitory images, memories and worries, but allows it free passage to the sub-consciousness. 25: By this system, you know exactly what (you believe) your Sigil must relate to. If you used any form stupidly, you might possibly "conjure up" exactly what you did not want- the mother of insanity, or what always happens then, nothing at all. This being the only system, any result other than by it is accidental. Also you do not have to dress up as a traditional magician, wizard or priest, build expensive temples, obtain virgin parchment, black goat's blood, etc., etc., in fact no theatricals or humbug. 26: Free belief or energy, i.e., a disappointed desire, not yet an obsession. 27 Sigils are made by combining the letters of the alphabet simplied. Illustration , the word "Woman" in Sigil form is (example) or (example) or (example) etc. The word tiger (example) or (example) etc., etc. The idea being to obtain a simple form which can be easily visualised at will, and has not too much pictorial relation to the desire. The true method has a much greater virtue, which cannot be

explained briey, being the secret of thought form, as degrees of suggestion, and what exactly is in a name. We have now agreed as to how a Sigil is made, and what virtue it has. Verily, what a person believes by Sigils, is the truth, and is always fullled. This system of Sigils is believed by taking it up as a hobby at a time of great disappointment or sorrow. By Sigils I have endowed fools with wisdom, made the wise fools, giving health to the sick and weak, disease to the strong, etc. Now, if for some purpose, you wanted the strength of a tiger- you would make a sentence such as:- "This my wish to obtain the strength of a tiger." (Message from person who typed up this le: In constructing the sentence of desire, beginning with "This my will," has been said by some to be more efcacious.) Sigilized this would be:This my wish (illustrative example of this part of the sentence) To obtain (ditto) The strength of a Tiger (same as said above) Combined as one Sigil (example) or (more simplied example). 27: There are six methods of Sigils employed in this book, each corresponding to different strata. The one shown here is illustrative and the fundamental idea of them all, from which anyone can evolve his own system. Conditions, etc., or necessity subsequently evolve themselves. Also a person has more power of creation and originality with a limited means of expression. Now by virtue of this Sigil you are able to send your desire into the subconsciousness (which contains all strength); that having happened, it is the desire's realization by the manifestation of the knowledge or power necessary. First, all consciousness except of the Sigil has to be annulled; do not confuse this with concentration- you simply conceive the Sigil any 28 moment you begin to think. Vacuity is obtained by exhausting the mind and body by some means or another. A personal or traditional means serves equally well, depending on temperament; choose the most pleasant; these should be held in favour, Mantras and Posture, Women and Wine, Tennis, and the playing of Patience, or by walking and concentration on the Sigil, etc., etc. None is necessary to him who has (even symbolically) for a moment by the "Neither-Neither" conquered the dual principle (Conception), his Ego is free from gravity. If the Sigil is made an obsession by continual apprehension, its realization may happen at any moment, in the form of inspiration. This is done by reverting the mind to the Sigil when one is extremely worried- the time of exhaustion is the time of fullment. At the time of exhaustion or vacuity, retain only and visualize the Sigil form- eventually it becomes vague, then vanishes and success is assured. by the Ego conceiving only the Sigil, and not being able to conceive anything from it, all energy is focussed through it, the desire for identication carries it to the corresponding sub-conscious stratum, its destination. The Sigil being a vehicle, serves the purpose of protecting consciousness from the direct manifestation of the (consciously unacknowledged) obsession, conict is avoided with any incompatible ideas and neither gains separate personality. It (the obsession) is either gradually assimilated and becomes organic or returns to its original abode, its purpose of illumination served. Hence the mind, by Sigils, depending upon the intensity of desire, is illuminated or obsessed (knowledge or power) from that particular Karma (the sub-conscious stratum, a particular existence and knowledge gained by it) relative to the desire, but not from memory or experience which was recent. Knowledge is obtained by the sensation, resulting from the unity of the desire and Karma. Power, by its "actual" vitalization and resurrection. 28: This is not the passivity of mediumism which opens the mind to what is called external inuence- disembodied energy usually having no better purpose than to rap-tables. There are many means of attaining this state of vacuity: I mention the most simple, there is no need for crucixion. Drugs are useless. Smoking and laziness the more difcult. This knowledge leaves its stratum in company with the energy or desire returning to the Ego. It escapes the Ego's resistance by associating with similar images, memories, or experiences relative (recieved in this life), that the mind contains, and crystalizes itself by their symbolism. Hence most illumination is symbolic, and must be subsequently translated. [Chapters on Symbolism, Automatic Drawing As Means To Art, & Note on Sacred Letters omitted.] -THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

MAYBE LOGIC:! THE LIVES AND IDEAS OF ROBERT ANTON WILSON -- ILLUSTRATED INTERVIEW BOB: As Ezra Pound writes in one of the latter cantos, 'The water-bug's mittens show on the bright rock below him.' DUH! Interaction. You know how the water bug's mittens on the bright rock, without the water bug, the rock, and the sun to cast a shadow, and of course you need a planet that will produce a water bug and a rock, and you need human eyes to see it all. That's Tao-Duh, interacting processing. One of the introductory koans in Zen Buddhism is "Who is the great magician who makes the grass green?" Who is the great magician who makes the grass green? Who creates every reality? The word "yoga" means "union." Yoga comes from the same root as the English yoke: two things hitched together. You need a human brain -- dogs see grass differently -- you need the human brain and the grass, hitched together to make the yoga which we call the greenness of the grass. Everybody thinks it's very hard to be a mystic -- you gotta go through a helluva lot of effort to realize your union

with everything -- but actually you're experiencing your union with everything all of the time. Otherwise, you wouldn't be experiencing anything. You make the grass green. You make your highs and you make your lows. But you don't make it alone. You are making it out of your union with the universe. And so everything is a coincidence of contraries, a coincidence of you being there, and the universe being there.! And everything is one at the same time, because there's no green without the grass and there's no green without you. So the greenness is a transaction that ties you and the grass together. There's an innite expanse of signals ooding into our nervous systems and being processed by our higher neural centers in the brain. We're all organizing and orchestrating according to our own particular life history, our genetic background, our early imprints, our conditioning, our learning, or any re-imprinting techniques we may have learned since then. So we're all living in different worlds. It's astonishing that we can communicate at all. You are the co-creator of the sights you see, the sounds you hear, and your general impression of the universe. Our experiences are generated out of us.! We're not generating it out of nothing, but we are generating it. We are creating the reality tunnel we are experiencing moment to moment. So this total unity between you and the universe, whether you are aware of it or not, the universe you live in is your creation. You're not doing it consciously. When you have seen the one who makes the grass green, it's like meeting your own father in a crowd -- you'll have no doubt whatsoever. Nasruddin went galloping through Baghdad one day on his donkey.! He went up every street and into every alley and across every plaza. Every place he goes, an unending race, a hunt and search. Everybody got curious, everybody came out of their houses, and they were all yelling, "Nasruddin, Nasruddin, what are you looking for?" He said, "I lost my donkey, and I'm looking for it." The donkey represents what everybody is looking for, which is a mystical school.! It's the answer to all the riddles of the universe. And you hunt for east, west, north, south, up, down, everywhere you can imagine, and all the time it's carrying you around. It's the human nervous system which takes out of the innity of the universe the little reality tunnel that you consider reality, which is your creation, which you think is the whole of the universe, unless you went to a Su school, or studied General Semantics, or did a lot of Zen meditation, or dropped LSD once or twice. Then you realize the universe is much bigger and more complicated than any little map we can make of it. The map is not the territory. The words that describe the map are not the territory, are even further from the territory. What I've been trying to do is put the donkey on your back in such a way you'll never forget the master, the great magician who makes the grass green, the one who creates the whole universe you live in.

Interacting processing. Tao Duh! That's all I tune in. Interacting processing. No nouns anywhere. I never met a noun yet. I often thought of myself in terms of that old Chinese proverb, "The wise become Confucian in good times, and Buddhist in bad times, and Taoist in all days." And I've always had a lot more sympathy for those three religions, in quotes, than for any of the Occidental ones, like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all of which seem to me fanatical, intolerant, or violence prone. The Judaeo-Christian monotheistic trip has been the worst nightmare this planet ever endured.! They just never stop killing one another. Meanwhile, the Confucians, the Taoists, the Buddhists, each in their own way have tried to create a peaceful and amicable society. And what I like in Buddhism is the basic idea of forgiveness, because nobody realizes how wonderful it is to develop some talent at actually doing it. Because, the more you forgive, the less burden you got to carry around with you. When you reach the point where you can forgive everybody, you're almost entirely free from burdens. What's important to me at this point in my life? Making really sure that I have forgiven anybody who has ever hurt me or seems to be an enemy, and making sure that I have nothing but forgiveness for everything. I think it's a very liberating experience to realize how little you really know and how much of the time you're just guessing. One thing that makes forgiveness easier, and believe me life without forgiveness ain't worth living, mostly it keeps you from acting like too much of a damn fool if you're not really sure. People who are really sure all act like damn fools at least half of the time. Maybe more than that. I haven't really studied that closely.! I'll have to think some more about that. How often does being sure about everything make you act like a damn fool? BOB: When I call the universe innite, I do not assume it is innite in space-time. But it has innite aspects.! Which means that anybody who looks out will see something different, but anybody else who looks out will come back a day later and look at it again and it will still be different. William Blake said, "I see innity in a grain of sand."! And you can, if you're open enough. Everything that gets into your brain affects your reality tunnel, your world view, or your belief system, which I abbreviate B.S. The three main things I've been trying to teach in all of my books is, "Never believe fully in anybody else's B.S." I don't care if it's Rajneesh, the Pope, L. Ron Hubbard, George Bush, I don't care who it is, don't swallow all of their belief system totally.! Don't go with all of their

bullshit, all the B.S. The second rule is likened to the rst: "Don't believe totally in your own B.S." Which means that, as Bucky Fuller said, "Universe consists of nonsimultaneously apprehended events." Universe is non-simultaneously apprehended. What? Nonsimultaneously ... universe is non-simultaneously apprehended. What? Universe is nonsimultaneously apprehended events.! Which means whatever belief system or reality tunnel you've got right now has to be revised and updated as you continue to apprehend new events later in time. Nonsimultaneously. You can't apprehend, you can't comprehend, you can't perceive, you can't understand the whole universe at once. That requires some thought, and some repetition: "Universe is non-simultaneously apprehended." We go through our life, minute by minute, second by second, day by day, but we're never seeing the same universe that we've seen. If we are, it's because we start paying attention.! That's why you get bored, because you're not paying attention. We can't comprehend the whole universe just right now.! All space-time, how it takes 90 years for signals to get here from Sirius, even, think how long it would take to get here from the other end of the furthest galaxy. So, you know, in terms of our general relativity, it's not the same time everywhere.! So the universe is non-simultaneously apprehended. That means at any particular time we only know part of the universe; tomorrow we'll know more. Maybe not much more; maybe a lot more. Who knows? I might turn on CNN tomorrow morning and nd the greatest scientic discovery of the last ve million years has just been announced. Who knows? And then, again, it may take 20 years for a breakthrough of that magnitude. But scenario universe is nonsimultaneously apprehended, which is why we need Maybe Logic. Our maps of the universe, our ideas should be changing all the time, too. People who claim, "I've got the truth" just don't realize they've comprehended the whole universe simultaneously. It can't be done. It can only be comprehended as part of it. They haven't comprehended everything up to date either because most of them don't know everything that happened up to today. I don't know everything that happened up until this date. And the people who are most sure of themselves know even less than I do in most cases, which means they are really dumb. This is the natural functioning of the human brain.! It's the way children's brains form before they are wrecked by the school system.! It's the way that all great scientists and artists work.! But once you have a belief system, everything that comes in either gets ignored that doesn't t the belief system, or gets distorted enough so that it can't get into the belief system. You gotta be continually revising your map of the world, or you lose more and more contact with reality. Anybody who has a belief system that covers the whole universe, that would be the Roman Catholics, Orthodox Islam, Scientologists, CSICOP, the Marxists, the Objectivists, and most of the assholes, well, what happened is, their brain stopped receiving new signals. Or to the extent that new signals do get in, they all have to be edited to t into the belief system. Now, I've shown you, you can't say all about anything.! You can't say all about the Universe.! You can't know all about this room.! You can't know all about this! And yet we think we know ourselves. What you really are is totally unknown, and by denition, innite, because you can't experience all of it at one time, and you can never know it all at one time. Everyday you can nd new aspects to yourself, if you allow yourself to change and grow. And the best way to allow yourself to change and grow is to realize how little you know, and to pay more attention to what's going on around you.

- See more at: http://www.naderlibrary.com/maybelogictranscript6.htm#sthash.QGjaDWGy.dpuf TOWARD UNDERSTANDING E -PRIME Robert Anton Wilson ! E-PRIME, abolishing all forms of the verb "to be," has its roots in the eld of general semantics, as presented by Alfred Korzybski in his 1933 book, Science and Sanity. Korzybski pointed out the pitfalls associated with, and produced by, two usages of "to be": identity and predication. His student D. David Bourland, Jr., observed that even linguistically sensitive people do not seem able to avoid identity and predication uses of "to be" if they continue to use the verb at all. Bourland pioneered in demonstrating that one can indeed write and speak without using any form of "to be," calling this subset of the English language "E-Prime." Many have urged the use of E-Prime in writing scientic and technical papers. Dr. Kellogg exemplies a prime exponent of this activity. Dr. Albert Ellis has rewritten ve of his books in E-Prime, in collaboration with Dr. Robert H. Moore, to improve their clarity and to reap the epistemological benets of this language revision. Korzybski felt that all humans should receive training in general semantics from grade school on, as "semantic hygiene" against the most prevalent forms of logical error, emotional distortion, and "demonological thinking." E-Prime provides a straightforward training technique for acquiring such semantic hygiene. To understand E-Prime, consider the human brain as a computer. (Note that I did not say the brain "is" a computer.) As the Prime Law of Computers tells us, GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT (GIGO, for short). The wrong software guarantees wrong answers. Conversely, nding the right software can "miraculously" solve problems that previously appeared intractable. It seems likely that the principal software used in the human brain consists of words, metaphors, disguised metaphors, and linguistic structures in general. The Sapir-Whorf-Korzybski Hypothesis, in anthropology, holds that a change in language can alter our perception of the cosmos. A revision of language structure, in particular, can alter the brain as dramatically as a psychedelic. In our metaphor, if we

change the software, the computer operates in a new way. Consider the following paired sets of propositions, in which Standard English alternates with English-Prime (E-Prime): lA. The electron is a wave. lB. The electron appears as a wave when measured with instrument-l. 2A. The electron is a particle. 2B. The electron appears as a particle when measured with instrument-2. 3A. John is lethargic and unhappy. 3B. John appears lethargic and unhappy in the ofce. 4A. John is bright and cheerful. 4B. John appears bright and cheerful on holiday at the beach. 5A. This is the knife the rst man used to stab the second man. 5B. The rst man appeared to stab the second man with what looked like a knife to me. 6A. The car involved in the hit-and-run accident was a blue Ford. 6B. In memory, I think I recall the car involved in the hit-and-run accident as a blue Ford. 7A. This is a fascist idea. 7B. This seems like a fascist idea to me. 8A. Beethoven is better than Mozart. 8B. In my present mixed state of musical education and ignorance, Beethoven seems better to me than Mozart. 9A. That is a sexist movie. 9B. That seems like a sexist movie to me. 10A. The fetus is a person. 10B. In my system of metaphysics, I classify the fetus as a person. The "A"-type statements (Standard English) all implicitly or explicitly assume the medieval view called "Aristotelian essentialism" or "naive realism." In other words, they assume a world made up of block-like entities with indwelling "essences" or spooks- "ghosts in the machine." The "B"-type statements (E-Prime) recast these sentences into a form isomorphic to modern science by rst abolishing the "is" of Aristotelian essence and then reformulating each observation in terms of signals received and interpreted by a body (or instrument) moving in space-time. Relativity, quantum mechanics, large sections of general physics, perception psychology, sociology, linguistics, modern math, anthropology, ethology, and several other sciences make perfect sense when put into the software of E-Prime. Each of these sciences generates paradoxes, some bordering on "nonsense" or "gibberish," if you try to translate them back into the software of Standard English. Concretely, "The electron is a wave" employs the Aristotelian "is" and thereby introduces us to the false-to-experience notion that we can know the indwelling "essence" of the electron. "The electron appears as a wave when measured by instrument-1" reports what actually occurred in space-time, namely that the electron when constrained by a certain instrument behaved in a certain way. Similarly, "The electron is a particle" contains medieval Aristotelian software, but "The electron appears as a particle when measured by instrument-2" contains modern scientic software. Once again, the software determines whether we impose a medieval or modern grid upon our reality-tunnel. Note that "the electron is a wave" and "the electron is a particle" contradict each other and begin the insidious process by which we move gradually from paradox to nonsense to total gibberish. On the other hand, the modern scientic statements "the electron appears as a wave when measured one way" and "the electron appears as a particle measured another way" do not contradict, but rather complement each other. (Bohr's Principle of Complementarity, which explained this and revolutionized physics, would have appeared obvious to all, and not just to a person of his genius, if physicists had written in E-Prime all along. . . .) Looking at our next pair, "John is lethargic and unhappy" vs. "John is bright and cheerful,' we see again how medieval software creates metaphysical puzzles and totally imaginary contradictions. Operationalizing the statements, as physicists since Bohr have learned to operationalize, we nd that the E-Prime translations do not contain any contradiction, and even give us a clue as to causes of John's changing moods. (Look back if you forgot the translations.) "The rst man stabbed the second man with a knife" lacks the overt "is" of identity but contains Aristotelian software nonetheless. The E-Prime translation not only operationalizes the data, but may t the facts better-if the incident occurred in a psychology class, which

often conduct this experiment. (The rst man "stabs," or makes stabbing gestures at, the second man, with a banana, but many students, conditioned by Aristotelian software, nonetheless "see" a knife. You don't need to take drugs to hallucinate; improper language can ll your world with phantoms and spooks of many kinds.) The reader may employ his or her own ingenuity in analyzing how "is-ness" creates false-to-facts reality-tunnels in the remaining examples, and how E-Prime brings us back to the scientic, the operational, the existential, the phenomenological--to what humans and their instruments actually do in space-time as they create observations, perceptions, thoughts, deductions, and General Theories. I have found repeatedly that when bafed by a problem in science, in "philosophy," or in daily life, I gain immediate insight by writing down what I know about the enigma in strict E-Prime. Often, solutions appear immediately-just as happens when you throw out the "wrong" software and put the "right" software into your PC. In other cases, I at least get an insight into why the problem remains intractable and where and how future science might go about nding an answer. (This has contributed greatly to my ever-escalating agnosticism about the political, ideological, and religious issues that still generate the most passion on this primitive planet.) When a proposition resists all efforts to recast it in a form consistent with what we now call E-Prime, many consider it "meaningless." Korzybski, Wittgenstein, the Logical Positivists, and (in his own way) Niels Bohr promoted this view. I happen to agree with that verdict (which condemns 99 percent of theology and 99.999999 percent of metaphysics to the category of Noise rather than Meaning)-but we must save that subject for another article. For now, it sufces to note that those who fervently believe such Aristotelian propositions as "A piece of bread, blessed by a priest, is a person (who died two thousand years ago)," "The ag is a living being," or "The fetus is a human being" do not, in general, appear to make sense by normal twentieth-century scientic standards.

This text comes from: D. David Bourland, Jr. & Paul Dennithorne Johnston, "To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology," International Society for General Semantics, 1991, pp. 23-26

Robert Anton Wilson has published science ction, historical novels, poetry, and futuristic sociology, and he has two plays published. An earlier version of this article appeared in Trajectories, no. 5, the newsletter published by Robert Anton Wilson. Reprinted from Etcetera 46, no. 4 (Winter 1989). Also see Robert Anton Wilson's "Quantum Psychology," (E and E-Prime, Chapter 13, pages 97-107), New Falcon Publications, 1990

The verb forms of "to be" that E-Prime excludes includes the words: "is, are, were, was, am, be, been," and their contractions.

Addendum by Jim Walker Originated 09 Sep. 2001 I have received several emails criticizing Wilson's article where they point out that the use of E-prime seems to make statements unusually longer than necessary. Indeed, all of Wilson's E-prime examples above contain longer sentences than their commonly expressed standard English variants. Please realize that in some cases, especially when explaining difcult scientic concepts, you actually need more words to express a concept accurately and clearly. But in many other cases, E-prime can clarify a concept more concisely with fewer words. It depends on the situation. Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler. In Wilson's examples, he might have chosen to convert, "The electron is a wave," to "An electron appears wave-like." The statement, "The car involved in the hit-and-run accident was a blue Ford," can convert to, "I recall a blue Ford involved in the hit-and-run accident," and so forth.

One critic of E-prime wrote: "A jury will be much more impressed with the statement: 'This is the gun that red the bullet that killed Mr. Jones'" than its E-based: 'This weapon which has the characteristics of a gun has produced the same markings that seem to mar this bullet that allegedly made Mr. Jones appear dead." Of course anyone can force E-prime into a longer form if one wishes, but I could shorten his rst version to a more direct: "The bullet red from this gun killed Mr. Jones." There do, however, appear some forms of expressions that tend to have shorter sentence structures than E-prime constructions. Those expressions usually involve some form of lie, deception or an attempt to convert or convince someone, especially in religions, political ideologies, or advertisements (see below). Another concern I hear from people involves a false belief that those who advocate the use of E-prime wish to change the English language through some form of coercion, or lawful action. Folks, E-prime serves as a linguistic tool, not as an instrument of power. I know of no advocate of E-prime, including its inventors, who desire to change the history of literature or to force people to use E-prime. Almost all of the works of literature, poetry, and religious scripture contain abundant uses of non-E-prime and I've yet to meet an Eprime advocate who wishes to change that. Interestingly some advocates of E-prime claim that if you examine the history of literature, the works which contain the largest number of "to be" words usually involve the most vague or misleading concepts. The works that contain the least number of "to be" words usually come across much clearer. For an example, the preamble of the U.S. Constitution stands as a ne example of natural E-prime. Nor have I heard its advocates demand E-prime for all expressions. In some cases E-prime would hinder the aim of its authors. For example, in the use of colloquial language, satire, jokes, lies, religious scripture, advertisements, or propaganda, E-prime could actually block the author's intent. For example, the Army's motto, "Be all you can be," works as a powerful propaganda ploy to get naive boys to join the service. The motto appears so grandiose, yet what does it mean? The imagination can ll that empty "be" word with visions of heroic battle and grandeur. Converting the motto to E-prime would weaken it to some form such as, "Do all that you can do." Of course "do" here represents what the Army wants you to do such as clean toilets, run until exhausted, or risk death in a war that you haven't a clue about. The Army has recently changed its motto to an even scarier lie: "Be an Army of One." No doubt the Army here attempts to appeal to the individualist but the entire concept of soldiering involves submission to authority, and to follow orders without question. Yet can you imagine what might happen if a soldier actually believed himself as an army? I don't know about you but I'd stay a long distance from him. The little word "is" gets used more than any other word in the English language. This gives politicians, advertisers and scam artists the ability to fool and lie to the public. Since "is" and "be" contain only two letters (or only one letter in contractions), the advertisers can make their lies short and concise. Falsehoods don't need lengthy explanations, and they tend to survive best when shortened to their easiest remembered forms. Below describes some examples of famous advertisement slogans: "Coke is it." (Coca-Cola) "A diamond is foreever." (De Beers Consolidated) "Guinness is good for you." (Guinness) "Plop, plop, zz, zz, oh what a relief it is." (Alka Seltzer) "Don't be vague. Ask for Haig." (Haig Scotch) "It is. Are you?" (The Independent) "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's." (Levy's Rye Bread) "The future's bright. The future's Orange." (Orange) "Where's the beef?" (Wendy's) And here gives some other examples that work better without E-prime (but what in the world do they mean?): "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM...." (God in Exodus 3:14) "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam." (Popeye the sailor man) "The Truth is from thy Lord; so be not at all in doubt." (English translation of the Koran, 2.147) "How are you?" (common greeting) "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine." (folk song by Jimmie Davis) "Will you be my Valentine?" (Valentine saying)

"Is that all there is?" (Song sung by Peggy Lee) Of course anyone can express vagueness and falsehoods just as easily with E-prime, but it wouldn't have the impact without "to be" forms. So if you want to lie, deceive, or convert someone, stay away from E-prime.

Other references on the internet: E-Prime and Linguistic Revision, by C. A. Hilgartner: http://www.hilgart.org/papers_html/091S196.B07.html Quantum Psychology: E and E-Prime, by Robert Anton Wilson (an earlier version of the the above article): http://www.rawilson.com/quantum.html E-prime: The Spirit and the Letter, by Ralph E. Kenyon Jr. http://www.xenodochy.org/gs/e-prime.html Discovering E-Prime, by Elaine C. Johnson http://learn-gs.org/library/elaine-eprime.htm

Books: To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology, D. David Bourland, Jr. & Paul Dennithorne Johnston, More E-Prime: To Be or Not II, by Paul Dennithorne Johnston (Editor), D. David Bourland Jr. (Editor) E-Prime III!: A Third Anthology, by D. David Bourland (Editor), Paul Dennithorne Johnston (Editor) Quantum Psychology , (Chapter 13) by Robert Anton Wilson

Quantum Psychology E and E-Prime In 1933, in Science and Sanity, Alfred Korzybski proposed that we should abolish the "is of identity" from the English language. (The "is of identity" takes the form X is a Y. e.g., "Joe is a Communist," "Mary is a dumb le-clerk," "The universe is a giant machine," etc.) In 1949, D. David Bourland Jr. proposed the abolition of all forms of the words "is" or "to be" and the Bourland proposal (English without "isness") he called E-Prime, or English-Prime. A few scientists have taken to writing in E-Prime (notable Dr. Albert Ellis and Dr. E.W. Kellogg III). Bourland, in a recent (not-yetpublished) paper tells of a few cases in which scientic reports, unsatisfactory to sombunall members of a research group, suddenly made sense and became acceptable when re-written in E-Prime. By and large, however, E-Prime has not yet caught on either in learned circles or in popular speech. (Oddly, most physicists write in E-Prime a large part of the time, due to the inuence of Operationalism -- the philosophy that tells us to dene things by operations performed -- but few have any awareness of E-prime as a discipline and most of them lapse into "isness" statements all too frequently, thereby confusing themselves and their readers. ) Nonetheless, E-Prime seems to solve many problems that otherwise appear intractable, and it also serves as an antibiotic against what Korzybski called "demonological thinking." Most of this book employs E-Prime so the reader could begin to get acquainted with this

new way of mapping the world; in a few instances I allowed normal English, and its "isness" to intrude again (how many of you noticed that?), while discussing some of the weird and superstitious thinking that exists throughout our society and always occurs when "is" creeps into our concepts. (As a clue or warning, I placed each "is" in dubious quotation marks, to highlight its central role in the confusions there discussed). As everybody with a home computer knows, the software can change the functioning of the hardware in radical and sometimes startling ways. The rst law of computers -- so ancient that some claim it dates back to dark, Cthulhoid aeons when giant saurians and Richard Nixons still dominated the earth -- tells us succinctly, "Garbage In, Garbage Out" (or GIGO for short). The wrong software guarantees wrong answers, or total gibberish. Conversely, the correct software, if you nd it, will often "miraculously" solve problems that had hitherto appeared intractable. Since the brain does not receive raw data, but edits data as we receive it, we need to understand the software the brain uses. The case for using E-Prime rests on the simple proposition that "isness" sets the brain into a medieval Aristotelian framework and makes it impossible to understand modern problems and opportunities. A classic case of GIGO, in short. Removing "isness" and writing/thinking only and always in operational/existential language sets us, conversely, in a modern universe where we can successfully deal with modern issues. To begin to get the hang of E-Prime, consider the following two columns, the rst written in Standard English and the second in English Prime. Standard English 1. The photon is a wave. 2. The photon is a particle. 3. John is unhappy and grouchy. 4. John is bright and cheerful. 5. The car involved in the hit-and-run accident was a blue Ford. 6. That is a fascist idea. 7. Beethoven is better than Mozart. 8. Lady Chatterly's lover is a pornographic novel. 9. Grass is green. English Prime 1. The photon behaves as a wave when constrained by certain instruments. 2. The photon appears as a particle when constrained by other instruments. 3. John appears unhappy and grouchy in the ofce. 4. John appears bright and cheerful on holiday at the beach. 5. In memory, I think I recall the car involved in the hit-and-run accident as a blue Ford. 6. That seems like a fascist idea to me. 7. In my present mixed state of musical education and ignorance Beethoven seems better than Mozart to me. 8. Lady Chatterly's lover seems like a pornographic novel to me. 9. Grass registers as green to most human eyes. 10. I think I saw the rst man stab the second man with a knife.

10. The rst man stabbed the second man with a knife. In the rst example a "metaphysical" or Aristotelian formulation in Standard English becomes an operational or existential formulation when rewritten in English Prime. This may appear of interest only to philosophers and scientists of an operationalist/phenomenologist bias, but consider what happens when we move to the second example. Clearly, written in Standard English, "The photon is a wave," and "The photon is a particle" contradict each other, just like the sentences "Robin is a boy" and "Robin is a girl." Nonetheless, all through the nineteenth century physicists found themselves debating about this and, by the early 1920s, it became obvious that the experimental evidence depended on the instruments or the instrumental set-up (design) of the total experiment. One type of experiment always showed light traveling in waves, and another type always showed light traveling as discrete particles. This contradiction created considerable consternation. As noted earlier, some quantum theorists joked about "wavicles." Others proclaimed in despair that "the universe is not rational" (by which they meant to indicate that the universe does not follow Aristotelian logic. ) Still others looked hopefully for the denitive experiment (not yet attained in 1990) which would clearly prove whether photons "are" waves or particles. If we look, again, at the translations into English Prime, we see that no contradiction now exists at all, no "paradox," no "irrationality" in the universe. We also nd that we have constrained ourselves to talk about what actually happened in spacetime, whereas in Standard English we allowed ourselves to talk about something that has never been observed in spacetime at all -- the "isness" or "whatness" or Aristotelian "essence" of the photon. (Niels Bohr's Complementarity Principle and Copenhagen Interpretation, the technical resolutions

of the wave/particle duality within physics, amount to telling physicists to adopt "the spirit of E-Prime" without quite articulating EPrime itself.) The weakness of Aristotelian "isness" or "whatness" statements lies in their assumption of indwelling "thingness" -- the assumption that every "object" contains what the cynical German philosopher Max Stirner called "spooks." Thus in Moliere's famous joke, an ignorant doctor tries to impress some even more ignorant lay persons by "explaining" that opium makes us sleepy because it has a "sleepinducing property" in it. By contrast a scientic or operational statement would dene precisely how the structure of the opium molecule chemically bonds to specic receptor structures in the brain, describing actual events in the spacetime continuum. In simpler words, the Aristotelian universe assumes an assembly of "things" with "essences" or "spooks" inside of them, where the modern scientic (or existentialist) universe assumes a network of structural relationships. (Look at the rst two samples of Standard English and English Prime again, to see this distinction more clearly.) Moliere's physician does not seem nearly as comical as the theology promulgated by the Vatican. According to Thomist Aristotelianism (the ofcial Vatican philosophy) "things" not only have indwelling "essences" or "spooks" but also have external "accidents" or appearances. This "explains" the Miracle of the Transubstantiation. In this astounding, marvelous, totally wonderful, even mindboggling Miracle, a piece of bread changes into the body part of a Jew who lived 2000 years ago. Now the "accidents" -- which include everything you can observe about the bread, with your senses, or with the most subtle scientic instruments -- admittedly do not change. To your eyes or taste buds or electron microscopes the bread has undergone no change at all. It doesn't even weigh as much as a human body, but retains the weight of a small piece of bread. Nonetheless, to Catholics, after the Miracle (which any priest can perform) the bread "is" the body of the aforesaid dead Jew, one Yeshua ben Yusef, who the goys of the Vatican call Jesus Christ. In other words, the "essence" of the bread "is" the dead Jew. It appears obvious that, within this framework, the "essence" of the bread can "be" anything, or can "be" asserted to "be" anything. It could "be" the essence of the Easter Bunny, or it could "be" Jesus and the Easter Bunny both, or it could "be" the Five Original Marx Brothers, or it could "be" a million other spooks happily co-existing in the realm outside spacetime where such metaphysical entities appear to reside. Even more astounding, this Miracle can only happen if the priest has a Willy. Protestants, Jews, Zen Buddhists etc. have ordained many female clergy-persons in recent decades, but the Vatican remains rm in the principle that only a male -- a human with a Willy -- can transform the "essence" of bread into the "essence" of a dead body. Like the cannibalism underlying this Rite, this phallus-worship dates back to Stone Age ideas about "essences" that can be transferred from one organism to another. Ritual homosexuality, as distinguished from homosexuality-for-fun, played a prominent role in many of the pagan fertility cults that got incorporated into the Catholic metaphysics. See Frazer's Golden Bough and Wright's Worship of the Generative Organs. It requires a phallus to transmute the bread into esh because some of our early ancestors believed it requires a phallus to do any great work of Magick.) In Standard English we may discuss all sorts of metaphysical and spooky matters, often without noticing that we have entered the realms of theology and demonology, whereas in English Prime we can only discuss actual experiences (or transactions) in the spacetime continuum. English Prime may not automatically transfer us into a scientic universe, in all cases, but it at least transfers us into existential or experiential modes, and it takes us out of medieval theology. Now, those who enjoy theological and/or demonological speculations may continue to enjoy them, as far as I care. This book merely attempts to clarify the difference between theological speculations and actual experiences in spacetime, so that we do not wander into theology without realizing where we have gotten ourselves. The Supreme Court, for instance, wandered into theology (or demonology) when it proclaimes that "fuck" "is" an indecent word. The most one can say about that in scientic E-Prime would read: "The word 'fuck' appears indecent in the evaluations of x per cent of the population," X found by normal polling methods. Turning next to the nigmatic John who "is" unhappy and grouchy yet also "is" bright and cheerful, we nd a surprising parallel to the wave/particle duality. Remaining in the reality-tunnel of standard English, one might decide that John "really is" manic depressive. Or one speaker might decide that the other speaker hasn't "really" observed John carefully, or "is" an "untrustworthy witness." Again, the innocent-looking "is" causes us to populate the world with spooks, and may provoke us to heated debate, or violent quarrel. (That town in Northern Ireland mentioned earlier -- "is" it "really" Derry or Londonderry?) Rewriting in English Prime we nd "John appears unhappy and grouchy in the ofce" and "John appears bright and cheerful on holiday at the beach." We have left the realms of spooks and re-entered the existential or phenomenological world of actual experiences in spacetime. And, lo and behold, another metaphysical contradiction has disappeared in the process. To say "John is" anything, incidentally, always opens the door to spooks and metaphysical debates. The historical logic of Aristotelian philosophy as embedded in Standard English always carries an association of stasis with every "is," unless the speaker or writer remembers to include a date, and even then linguistic habit will cause many to "not notice" the date and assume "is" means a stasis (an Aristotelian timeless essence or spook.) For instance, "John is beardless" may deceive many people (but not trained police ofcers) if john becomes a wanted criminal and alters his appearance by growing a beard. "John is a Protestant" or "John is a Catholic" may change any day, if John has developed a habit of philosophical speculation. Even stranger, "John is a Jew" has at least ve different meanings, some of which may change and some remain constant, and only one

of which tells us anything about how John will behave in spacetime..... "John is a plumber" also contains a fallacy. John may have quit plumbing since you saw him last and may work as a hair dresser now. Stranger things have happened. In E-Prime one would write "John had a job as a plumber last I knew." Trivial? Overly pedantic? According to a recent article Professor Harry Weinberg -- curiously, an old acquaintance of mine -- once tried to emphasize these points to a class by trying to make them see the fallacy in the statement "John F. Kennedy is President of the United States." Dr. Weinberg pointed out that the inference, Nothing has changed since we came into this classroom, had not been checked by anybody who insisted the statement about Kennedy contained certainty. Weinberg, like his students, got the lesson driven home with more drama than anybody expected, because this class occurred on November 22, 1963, and everybody soon learned that during that class time John F. Kennedy had died of an assassin's bullet and Lyndon B. Johnson had taken the oath as President of the United States. That makes the idea kind of hard to forget, doesn't it? Looking at sample ve -- "The car... was a blue Ford" we might again encounter Bertrand Russell's two-head paradox. It seems a blue Ford exists "in" the head of the witness, but whether the blue Ford also existed "outside" that head remains unsure. Even outside tricky psychology labs, ordinary perception has become problematical due to the whole sad history of eye-witness testimony frequently breaking down in court. Or does the "external universe" (including the blue Ford) exist in some super-Head somwhere? It seems that the translation into E-Prime -- "I recall the car... as a blue Ford" better accords with the experiential level of our existence in spacetime than the two heads and other paradoxes we might encounter in Standard English. James Thurber tells us that he once saw an admiral, wearing a 19th Century naval uniform and old-fashioned side whiskers, peddling a unicycle down the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York. Fortunately, Thurber had broken his glasses and had not yet received replacements from the optometrist, so he did not worry seriously about his sanity. In the Castro section of San Francisco, a well-known homosexual area, I once saw a sign which said 'HALF GAY CLEANERS' -- but when I looked again, it said, 'HALF DAY CLEANERS'. Even Aristotle, despite the abuse he has suffered in these pages, had enough common sense to point out, once, that "I see" always contains fallacy; we should say, "I have seen." Time always elapses between the impact of energy on the eye and the creation of an image (and associated name and ideas) in the brain, which explains why three eyewitnesses to a hit-and-run such as we postulate here may report, not just the blue Ford of the rst speaker, but a blue VW or maybe even a green Toyota. I once astonished a friend by remarking, apropos of UFOs, that I see two or three of them a week. As a student of Transactional Psychology, this does not surprise or alarm me. I also see UNFOs, as noted earlier -- and I do not rush to identify them as raccoons or groundhogs, like some people we met earlier. Most people see UNFOs, without thinking about the implications of this, especially when driving rapidly, but sometimes even when walking. We only nd UFOs impressive because some people claim they "are" alien spaceships. My UFOs remain Unidentied, since they did not hang around long enough for me to form even a guess about them, but I have found no grounds for classifying them as space-ships. Anybody who does not see UFOs frequently, I think, has not mastered perception psychology or current neuroscience. The sky contains numerous things that go by too quickly for anybody to identify them. My own wife has appeared as an UNFO to me on occasion -- usually around two or three in the morning when I get out of bed to go to the john and then encounter a Mysterious and Unknown gure emerging from the dark at the other end of the hall. In those cases, fortunately, identication did not take long, and I never reached for a blunt instrument to defend myself. Whatever my critics may suspect, I never mistook her for a squirrel. If you think about it from the perspective of E-Prime, the world consists mostly of UFOs and UNFOs. Very few "things" (spacetime events) in the air or on the ground give us the opportunity to "identify" them with certainty. In example six -- "That is a fascist idea" versus "That seems like a fascist idea to me" -- Standard English implies an indwelling essence of the medieval sort, does not describe an operation in spacetime, and mentions no instrument used in measuring the alleged "fascism" in the idea. The English Prime translation does not assume essences or spooks, describes the operation as occurring in the brain of the speaker and, implicitly, identies said brain as the instrument making the evaluation. Not accidentally, Standard English also assumes a sort of "glass wall" between observer and observed, while English Prime draws us back into the modern quantum world where observer and observed form a seamless unity. In examples 7 and 8, Standard English again assumes indwelling spooks and continues to separate observer and observed; English Prime assumes no spooks and reminds us of QUIP (the QUantum Inseparability Principle, so named by Dr. Nick Herbert), namely, the impossibility of existentially separating observer and observed. Meditating on example 9 will give you the answer to a famous Zen koan, "Who is the Master who makes the grass green?" It might also save you from frequent quarrels (mostly occurring between husbands and wives) about whether the new curtains "are really" green or blue. Example 10 introduces new subtleties. No explicit "is" appears in the Standard English, so even those trained in E-Prime may see no problem here. However, if the observation refers to a famous (and treacherous) experiment, well-known to psychologists, the Standard English version contains a hilarious fallacy. I refer to the experiment in which two men rush into a psychology class, struggle and shout, and then one makes a stabbing motion and the other falls. The majority of students, whenever that has been tried, report a knife in the hand of the man who made the stabbing (knife-wielding) motion. In fact, the man used no knife. He used a banana.

Look back at the re-translation into E-Prime. It seems likely that persons trained in E-Prime will grow more cautious about their perceptions and not "rush to judgement" in the manner of most of us throughout history. They might even see the banana, instead of hallucinating a knife. Exercises 1. Have the group experiment with rewriting the following Standard English sentences into English Prime. Observe carefully what disagreements or irratibility may arise. "The fetus is a person." "The zygote is a person." "Every sperm is sacred/Every sperm is great/If a sperm is wasted/God gets quite irate." (M. Python) "Pornography is murder." (A. Dworkin) "John is homosexual." "The table is four feet long." "The human brain is a computer." "When I took LSD, the whole universe was transformed." "Beethoven was paranoid, Mozart was manic-depressive, and Wagner was megalomaniac." "Today is Tuesday." "Lady Chatterly's Lover is a sexist novel." "Mice, voles and rabbits are all rodents." "The patient is resisting therapy." "Sin and redemption are theological ctions. The sense of sin and the sense of redemption are actual human experiences." (paraphrased from Ludwig Wittgenstein.) E-Prime The Problem Certain expressions which involve identity and attributes lead us to confusion in our thinking. This sometimes arises because of the verb 'to be.' For example: I am depressed Who am I? He is a criminal It is clear that we should take action. 'I am depressed', implies that I always feel sad, will always feel sad, and I can do nothing about it, 'Is' and 'are', like all present tense verbs, imply no time, no space and absolute truth. 'I am depressed'! abbreviates what has happened in the past. So perhaps it means I felt sad on many occasions in the past, and I feel sad now. Certainly, this meaning upsets us less than 'I am depressed'. The question 'Who am I' seems to me quite meaningless and unanswerable. It appears to ask for something the same as the speaker (the identity function.) and if uniqueness characterises each of us, then nothing can equal the speaker. So the question seems unanswerable. On the other hand, if we ask, 'What characterises me?' then we can list a set of characters, and, in principle, this question has an answer. Similarly, 'He is a criminal' implies that he does, always did, always will do some unstated bad thing. When we say someone is a criminal we associate with that person everything we think about the word criminal. We confuse what we know about the word with the person. It could mean, however, that during his teenage years he stole one thing for a dare and has regretted it since. The use of the imprecise verb 'to be' and its various forms can lead us to false beliefs. In the sentence, 'It is clear that we should take action', we could ask, 'Clear to whom?' Or what is clear? If we eliminate the 'is' then we might say, 'It appears to me that we should take action'. This seems more clear and accurate to me. Because of these problems, followers of E-Prime suggest! removing the verb 'to be' from the English language. This would: Remove upsetting but useless self-talk. Would eliminate metaphysics in its present form. Would prevent us using meaningless 'to be' abbreviations ('This is why ...'). Would remove passives, and make statement clearer by identifying the agent. Of course mainly they argue against the use of attributes and identity, and eliminating the verb 'to be' reducing the problem in a simple

way. It does not completely resolve the issue of attributes and identity, of course. E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be' Eprime does not use any form of the verb 'to be.' Without the verb 'to be' the use of the following becomes difcult: 1. Passives 2. Existential Questions, such as 'Who am I' 3. Progressive verb forms Harold is a man I am a priest so I must be holy. The cat is black In psychotherapy, Patients say to themselves that 'I am stupid', 'I am inadequate', etc. The statements in E-Prime appear more accurate than those using 'to be.' Removing the verb 'to be' also appears to remove much of the conict in these sentences . !How does the verb to be cause problems? I have never really understood the meaning of the verb 'to be.' Many years ago, when I taught the Japanese English, I would usually tell or indicate to beginners that the word, say, 'is' meant '=.' This seemed ne as an expedient, although it was only a rough symbolic representation. When I tried to gure out some meaning, for instance of 'John is good' then none of the denitions of 'is' made any sense to me. To say that 'John has the attribute of goodness' seems to make the whole thing more complicated, and when I sought the meaning of 'attribute' I found I could not reduce it to anything other than a synonym, such as quality, and, of course, 'quality' meant 'attribute'! 'The apple is red' apparently has a clear meaning, in that if I look at the apple I expect it to be red, yet have you ever heard a similar statement and when you looked you didn't think it was particularly red? The speaker actually meant that the apple appeared red to him. Whenever we get more complicated and use statement like, 'Mary is gorgeous,' then the use of the verb 'to be', in this case 'is' can be very misleading. To the speaker, Mary appeared gorgeous at that particular time, and in that particular place. When 'appear', for example, replaces' 'is' then the statements become much less misleading. The use of the theory of attributes cause the problem here. By saying, 'The apple is red', we assume that it has the quality of redness, and that everyone perceives it so. I might say, 'Mm! It appears to be more green to me.' And we have controversy. The statement 'This apple appears red to me at this time and in the position in space, under these lighting conditions' does not create controversy. I may disagree. I may describe the apple as 'green', but because it looks green to me, from my perspective, and it looks red to you, from your perspective, does not mean we disagree. If, on the other hand, we use the theory that things have attributes, then there must be something that distinguishes the object from others - something the object has independently of any observers. So one of us must be wrong. It seems therefore, that by avoiding the verb 'to be' we also avoid disagreement, and may increase rapport. The problem of attributes becomes more important when we use intangible ones. 'The apple is red', illustrates attributes simply, where if I think it IS green, then either you, or I err. The attribute 'wrong' will cause much more controversy! It means that either you or I has the attribute of wrongness. But what does 'wrongness' mean? If we died and our bodies dissected, the dissector would nd no wrongness in either of us! Wrongness is not a physical thing that can be found in us. Clearly, we cannot touch or see 'wrongness'. Can we see wrongness in behaviour? Of course not. We can describe it as a moral quality, but is that something we can perceive? Philosophers believe that the use of attributes can lead us into all kinds of nonsense, and the followers of eprime suggest that by eliminating the verb 'to be', many of these problems can be resolved. In explaining wrongness, I have said that "someone might utter the words, 'You are wrong!'" However, Does that mean I have assumed philosophical nominalism - apart from the words, a class or group has nothing else in common? Although Nominalism appears more rational, it also shows that in trying to eliminate Aristotle, I have introduced another theory (Nominalism). This seems inevitable, after all we always have to make assumptions, but it also brings out the fact that language represents our belief systems, or the belief systems of long ago! When we use the verb 'to be' as an attribute, we imply that things are: Permanent Always true Unchanging Look, sound, feel, smell, etc. the same to everyone. Final Etc. and Lead us to make hasty and premature conclusions. That is, they are objective, absolute, abbreviated and therefore controversial.

Science teachers tell their students that do science in an objective way, and objectivity seems important to them. Yet, it conceals the lie 'that things persist permanenty and absolutely', when humans alone think this. Do those nebulous and airy creatures who live in the asteroid belt have the same physics that we have? Don't we have our viewpoints because we have our eyes, ears and sensors, and with a different biology, we would have a different world view? I think we would! For example, 1. John is a crook 2. Be objective (i.e., do not let your own existence affect the results) 3. Men are selsh 4. Humanity is in decline 5. Alice is so sexy. 6. Bill is my husband 7. I am stupid 8. I want to be self-condent 9. You are so unreasonable! 10. I am a worrier You can imagine the long and heated discussions on 'Men are selsh' and similar statements. However, according to some, the use of the verb 'to be' causes the problem. By eliminating the verb 'to be' we eliminate the problem! Let us illustrate this by translating the above statements into E-Prime. Statements using 'is' in common with many present tense verbs can imply the unquestionable truth of the statement. 1. John is a crook. Last year, John took a tin of baby food from a shop without paying, according to the shopkeeper. 2. Be objective (i.e., do not let your own existence affect the results.) According to me, you should appear objective!!! (According to me, you should simply listen and observe, and keep your personal views out of it!) 3. Men are selsh Harold forgot our anniversary. 4. Humanity is in decline I read a report by a professor saying the world's resources had declined. 5. Alice is so sexy. When I saw Alice yesterday, I felt sexy. 6. Bill is my husband. Because we went through a legal marriage ceremony ve years ago, I refer to Bill as my husband. 7. I am stupid. I utter the words, 'You are stupid' to myself, therefore, 'I conclude 'I am stupid' Or I spent too much money last week. 8. I want to be self-condent. I want to speak up more at works meetings. 9. You are so unreasonable! You appear to me to behave so unreasonably! 10. I am a worrier I picture imaginary things happening and tell myself frightening stories about the future When we translate the 'to be' statements into E-Prime, then they appear to me less absolute, objective and less controversial. Some statement appear complete nonsense. Where they would tend to lead us to hasty conclusions, they become more factual. Should we translate all English into E-Prime Firstly, consider the use of 'to be' in the following sentences: I am working in the garden at the moment. I was walking down the road yesterday when I saw Alice. This time next week, I will be lying on the beach! This use of the verb 'to be' in the progressive senses doesn't appear to involve predication and identity, and does not appear easy to translate without losing important meanings in the language. To use 'continues to ...', etc, makes for strange English! 'At this moment I continue to garden.' Also consider the following: The house was built in 1903. The work has been completed.

The victims were examined at the hospital and sent home. In the sentences, we do not know the doer, or we do not consider the doer important, or if we identied the doer, we might confuse the reader. For instance, we might say: Bill Boggs & Co built the house in 1903. But this might lead the reader to wonder why we mentioned Bill Boggs and to wonder its signicance, when it has no signicance at all. Either we use 'got' as a replacement in these passive sentences, or we reveal the agent: The builders built the house in 1903 (Who else, but builders!) The workers completed the work. The doctors examined the victims at the hospital and allowed them to go home. Does eliminating the verb 'to be' in these make any improvements? If a co-operative built the house, then this appears worth saying, but surely not 'builders' - this seems so obviouse! If a team of housewives completed the work, then this seems interesting and worth noting, but 'workers ... ' If the local mechanic examined the victims, this too appears worth saying, but surely not 'the doctors ...' Having said this, many passive constructions conceal vagueness and possibly mislead so the active expression appears better on most occasions. For example: It is forbidden. It is decided. The matter is concluded. It isn't done. Without the verb 'to be' these statements would be very difcult to express! Yet we could express them as (in one of many ways): The king forbade this. Mr Smith decided this. I have decided to conclude the matter.! According to me, it is wrong. How to translate English into E-Prime Attributes The rose is red. Use 'appears to me/ you/ them', 'seems to me', 'looks to me', etc. appears seems looks etc. to me to them to us to him/ her etc.

1. This is inscrutable. This appears inscrutable to those scientist. 2. The problem is insoluble. The problem seems insoluble to me 3. There is no answer. There appears no answer to me 4. Mary is beautiful Mary appears beautiful to my eyes. Translations into e-prime should be natural. Using appears, etc solves the problem by using ready made solutions. Better solutions would use more accurate language. Identity 1. Be a man! Tell her what you think! 2. Be a good mother! Feed your baby when it cries! 3. Be the monster in the play! Take the role of monster in the play! 1. I am Ken My parents named me Ken. 2. She is an engineer. She has a degree in engineering.

3. This is a toad. English speaking people call this a toad.

Beyond E-Prime ! By J.R. Minja Jaymz E-Prime (E): The English Language without the verb to be imagine a world where maybelogic and e-prime becom the norm imagine a world with the pope saying "maybe an ordained priest can turn a piece of bread into the body! of a dead Jew but the priest needs a Willy for the magick to work" imagine Jerry Falwell bellowing "maybe Jesus hates gay people as mch as i do" imagine a rabbi chanting "Hear O Israel:the Lord God seems one, maybe" imagine every tower in Islam resounding with "There 'is' no god except maybe Allah and maybe Mohammed 'is' his prophet" The world might go stark staring sane? - RAW, Quantum Psychology MLA Course, 13 January 2005 January 2001.! I had just moved from Southern to Northern California and was working full time and and taking a semester off school. !I had also just discovered internet forums and spent several hours a day entertaining myself on Christianity Debate boards, using skills I had cultivated in my high school years as a nationally-ranked Lincoln/Douglas Debater to tear my opponents arguments apart by twisting language (denitions, labels, Aristotelian Logic) and often added insult to injury through subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ad hominem attacks.! I was such a troll and I loved every minute of it.! My English summer class professor turned out to be a brilliant woman who studied linguistics at UC Davis (when the student is ready, the teacher will come?), and she turned me on to Korzybski.! She also goes down in Minja History as the rst English teacher to return papers to me full of red pen always for passive voice and using is too much.! In September I read Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson, and discovered my Cosmic Trigger E-Prime (E).! I started using E as Bob suggested, and I experienced profound changes in my thinking, which affected my thought.! I noticed my satisfaction from debating decrease day by day.! I even reconciled with my very Christian sister who I had stopped talking to 7 years before. I spent a long, long, long time promoting E-Prime (E).! Every class presentation, every report, everywhere I posted online, I usually talked about E and debated why people should use it.! I wished everyone would just use it because using it myself showed me that a lot of the arguments I engaged in qualied as meaningless.! I also wished for it because I wanted people to quit trying to inict their biases on me it only seemed fair to me at the time, since I had stopped doing it to them. !It took a few years, and help from my friends at the MLA in the now-mythic E-Prime Argument to come face to face with my Cosmic Schmuckery in taking the stance I did with E I was, in a sense, telling people what to do.! Then it hit me adhering to anything all the time (even something as incredible to me as E) sure sounds like a good denition for belief, as well. !Some saw me as preaching from an E pulpit, and I soon found I could see their perspective quite clearly.! I had turned E into a dogma, a belief, internally.! And somehow, I had become (in some sense) what I outwardly rejected the most. The revelation stunned me.! Once I realized this, I stopped talking about E.! I even stopped writing in E.! But I didnt stop noticing the proliferation of izes in the communication surrounding me everyday.! And I still felt like anyone and everyone could benet from just trying E for 8 weeks.! But how do I go about promoting something and not sound like Ive turned it into a dogma? !As usual, words from Papa Bob helped me understand more. Brag/incitement: Whether you like modern physics and Budddhism or prefer to return to aristotetlian [faith-based] neurosemantics after 8 weeks of e-prime you will at least unnerstan' quantum/Buddhist perspective and KNOW wot you've rejected

Consider it an exploration, like 8 weeks of Chinese ideogram - RAW, Quantum Psychology MLA Course, January 13, 2005 And the next day<specically regarding E-Prime> when semantic experiments seem useful, some will try them some will only pretend to try them & some will spend 8 weeks explaining logically why nobody shd. try them - RAW, Quantum Psychology Maybe Logic Academy Course, January 14, 2005 ! Im (mostly) done trying to convince people why I think they should try E.! Who am I to try and tell another person whats best for them?! And I also see a number of reasons why Im into E as opposed to, say, conspiracy theories, and Im reminded of how easily I can ridicule unfamiliar realitytunnels, even though mine seems equally absurd to someone on the other end.! Plus, as RAW did after a while, I now use E-Choice.! ! But Ill share, for those interested, some fun (to me, anyway) games and exercises Ive thought up and tried during my years with E.! !(probably not all on my own I could have very likely read these somewhere some time, or something like it, so any unacknowledged credit is merely an oversight on my part) .! Ive listed a couple below.! I may write out more another time.! ! Self-Self-Examination ! Immediately upon waking every morning, spend 15-30 minutes freewriting.! Spend as little thought and energy as possible on this writing.! Think of it as giving a stage to your Prover (What the Thinker Thinks, the Prover Proves), or your subconscious mind, or whatever metaphor works for you.! Try to tap into the transparent thoughts that play a role in your actions and reactions to life. ! Do this as many mornings as you can manage/remember/feel like for two weeks, refraining from reading any of your writing.! ! After the two weeks are up, set aside a block of time to spend reading what you wrote.! Highlight or circle every is-statement (sentence that contains be), or write them on a separate sheet of paper for later study.! Notice reoccurring statements. !!Consider why these izes reside in you. ! See the fnords ! Get a bunch of magazines from different perspectives on a topic, or any collection of essays, or nd some academic articles on the internet and print them out.! I have used Tracy E. Ores The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality most recently and obtained entertaining results.! If youre feeling especially lazy but still want to do this exercise, just grab anything newspaper, magazine, whatever.! Just dont grab any of RAWs more recent books. ! Other tools needed: a set of highlighers, or pens in different colors, or just a pencil ! Read through an article (or 10 pages at a time, if a long book).! As you do, circle or highlight in one color every instance of be you notice.! Underline or highlight in another color those statements you nd you either emphatically agree or disagree with. !

Read through the article again, searching for all the izes you missed the rst time around.! Black out the be and highlight the rest of the sentence.! Why didnt you see it the rst time?! Compare the missed izes and the easily noticed izes.! What differences can you nd between the two groups of sentences?! Develop some theories for why you didnt see some but saw others. ! Notice the frequency of occurrence of be in the essays.! What does that say to you about the writers intent?! How much information did you receive from the essay? ! ! Contemplate the word fnord.! !Ive quoted from Illuminatus! below.! Substitute is for fnord and see if it still has meaning to you. ! I looked back at the paper and still saw the fnords. This was one step beyond Pavlov, I realized. The rst conditioned reex was to experience the panic reaction (the activation syndrome, it's technically called) whenever encountering the word ``fnord.'' The second conditioned reex was to black out what happened, including the word itself, and just to feel a general low-grade emergency without knowing why. And the third step, of course, was to attribute this anxiety to the news stories, which were bad enough in themselves anyway. Of course, the essence of control is fear. The fnords produced a whole population walking around in chronic lowgrade emergency, tormented by ulcers, dizzy spells, nightmares, heart palpitations and all the other symptoms of too much adrenalin. All my left-wing arrogance and contempt for my countrymen melted, and I felt a genuine pity. No wonder the poor bastards believe anything they're told, walk through pollution and overcrowding without complaining, watch their son hauled off to endless wars and butchered, never protest, never ght back, never show much

happiness or eroticism or curiosity or normal human emotion, live with perpetual tunnel vision, walk past a slum without seeing either the human misery it contains or the potential threat it poses to their security . . . ! ! The Writer invites anyone who has a comment, question, or complaint to contact hir at minja23@gmail.com. A fnord is a propaganda word conditioned in the masses from a very young age to respond to, usually with fear, anxiety, or uneasiness, but unable to be seen by the general populace. (This denition originates in the Illuminatus trilogy of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.) Sometimes it's used in a sentence to denote a general conspiracy (often jokingly), or sometimes it's used for no reason, especially by Discordians fnord. I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler fnord A phrase or sentence that doesn't seem to make any sense. It is often used in Usenet and other computer circles to indicate a random or surreal sentence; anything out of context (intentionally or not) may be labelled "fnord". Also: Fnord is that funny feeling you get when you reach for the Snickers bar and come back holding a slurpee. Fnord is the blue stripes in the road that never get painted. Fnord is place where those socks vanish off to in the laundry. Fnord is an arcade game like Pacman without the little dots. Fnord is a little pufike cloud you see at 5pm. Fnord is the empty pages at the end of the book. Fnord is toast without bread. Fnord is a venetian blind without the slats. Fnord is the lint in the navel of the mites that eat the lint in the navel of the mites that eat the lint in Fnord's navel. Fnord is the bucket where they keep the unused serifs for Helvetica. Fnord is the color only blind people can see. Fnord is the the four-leaf clover with a missing leaf. Fnord is the space in between the pixels on your screen. Fnord is the smallest number greater than zero. Fnord lives in the empty space above a decimal point. Fnord is the redundant coin slot on arcade games. Fnord is the founding father of the phrase "founding father". Fnord is the last bit of sand you can't get out of your shoe. Fnord keeps a spare eyebrow in his pocket. Fnord invented the green hubcap. Fnord is why doctors ask you to cough. Fnord uses two bathtubs at once. SOUND

24: It may be done by localizing desire to one sense, hence by this formula using the ear as the vehicle, one hears the most transcendental music ever conceived, being the voices and harmony of every conceivable animal and human existence and so with each sense. - AOS It is extraordinary how the formula of Hermes Trismegistus holds throughout; Magick is but the extension of the microcosm in the macrocosm. And as the macrocosm is the greater, it follows that what one does by magick is to attune oneself with the Innite. "The Revival of Magick" -Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowleycertainly the most skeptical of all mysticswrites forcefully:

For mind and body alike there is no purgative like pranayama, no purgative like pranayama. For mind and body alike, for mind and body alike alike!there is, there is, there is no purgative like pranayamapranayama!pranayama! yea, for mind and body alike there is no purgative, no purgative, no purgativemind and body alike) no purgative like pranayama! In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN. -Donald Michael Kraig, Modern Magick

Intro to: HU : The Sound of the Unknown (Divine Essence)

"HU is the vibrational expression of Cosmic Consciousness." - Suresh Emre

"The Universe was manifested out of Divine Sound; From it came into being the Light."-Shamas - I - Tabriz

Word origin:! God - Our word god goes back via Germanic to Indo-European, in which a corresponding ancestor form meant invoked one.! The words only surviving non-Germanic relative is Sanskrit hu, invoke the gods, a form which appears in the Rig Veda, most ancient of Hindu scriptures. (From READERS DIGEST, Family Word Finder, page 351) (Originally published by The Readers Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville New York,!Montreal;!!Copyright! 1975) "All afrmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense."- SRI SAYADASTI

from The Flaming Door: Mission of the Celtic Fold Soul by Eleanor C. Merry, 1936 "And that which came to meet the soul (as light and sound come to meet our outer eyes and ears) was called HU, the spiritual world." (p. 137) "The Mysteries of HU revealed the other pole of human life: the ascent out of the body into the 'gloried' state of expansion of the consciousness in the spiritual world." (p. 153) "And HU could bring music to the consciousness of waking man and teach it to him, because he himself could hear in sleep the harmonies of the spheres, and his passage from waking to sleeping to waking was unbroken by any obliteration of consciousness. This was always the summit of initiation experience." (p. 165)

It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of a living God.

from The Religions of Tibet by Giuseppe Tucci "The gure of the creator, who corresponds to the Isvara of certain Saivite schools, bear various names, among them sNang ba d Idan, Kun snang khyab pa and khri khug rgyal po. That which he creates has two aspects, the exterior world (phyi snod) and that contained within it (bcud), a division that corresponds to that between the Indian bhajana-loka and sattva-loka. The cosmology which is attached to this is surely very old, and is throughout constructed on a dualist basis. From the breath which streamed out of the creator there emerged two syllables HU HU, and progressively, the entire universe."

from The Secret Power of Music by David Tame In the beginning was Brahman, with whom was the Word. And the Word is Brahman. - Vedas In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. - Gospel according to St John. As the religions of East and West so strikingly agree: in the beginning was the Word. But exactly what was -- or, to use the present tense of the Vedic quotation, is -- the Word? The above scriptures describe it as being a part of God, or Brahman. Further, the quotation from the opening of the gospel of St John continues, pregnant with meaning: The same (the Word) was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. We have, in these famous, deeply mystical lines from St John, then, yet another example of the universal ancient belief that God, or a Divine Being, created the universe, and did so by means of a vibratory emanation. This sacred vibration is usually referred to in early Christian texts as the Word (this meaning of the term having been forgotten or overlooked by most Christians today). In Hinduism the divine vibration is, as we have seen, more usually referred to as OM. Nevertheless, the Word and the OM are one and the same thing. Moreover, a great variety of other terms stemming from the different cultures of ancient times also refer to this same universal, eternal phenomenon. Cosmic Sound, infused with the essence of Consciousness, has been known variously as AUM, AMN, AMEN, AMEEN, OMEN, OMON, I AM, HU, YAHUVAH, the Logos, the Lost Word, and by other names besides. (p. 205) In Persia the name of the fabulous huma bird is derived from the root, Hum, which is related to OM. And tradition has it that should the huma bird alight for a moment upon the head of any person, then it is a sign that the person is destined to become a 'king'. Incidentally, the root, HU, is a direct reference to the Word of God; and this is most interesting, for this same root is also a part of the Word human. In 'human', the man portion comes from the Sanskrit Mana, or 'mind of the ordinary man'. So the term 'human' is therefore an eternal reminder of the ancient doctrine: that God is even now in all men, and can be more fully realized by all. Even as Jesus was also the Christ, demonstrating the unication of the principles of earth and heaven as both the Son of Man and the Son of God, so are all men hu-man; God-man. (p. 215) The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

from The Sirius Connection by Murry Hope From the aforegoing, it may be seen that the leonine archetype assumed great signicance in all Egyptian thinking, from the cosmological to the everyday. Lion gods and spirits were therefore looked upon as the guardians of all places and property, and the heads were often carved to represent members of the family, priests, priestesses, or Pharaohs and their wives. The Greeks called these 'sphinxes'. One of the names of the Egyptian Sphinx was HU, 'the protector'; another was Hor-em-akhet or 'Horus of the Horizon'which immediately connects its erection with those enigmatical 'Sons (or Followers) of Horus' the Shemsu-Hor. Curiously enough, the name 'HU' also occurs in the Celtic myth of Hu Gadam, an Atlantean person from the sea who guided a band of settlers to the prehistoric shores of Wales. There is also an uncanny similarity of sound between the names Hu Gadam and the Tuatha de Danaans (pronounced Tuar-de-Danans), those strange fairy people with magical powers who, according to legend, landed on the shores of prehistoric Ireland. (p. 197)

"Give a monkey a brain and he'll swear he's the center of the universe."

from The Message of The Sphinx by Graham Hancock & Robert Bauval "When speaking of the Sphinx, the Ancient Egyptians frequently made use of the Harranian derivation Hwl, but they also knew it by many other names: HU, for example..." (p. 5)

"The forms of snowakes and faces of owers may take on their shape because they are responding to some sound in nature. Likewise, it is possible that crystals, plants, and human beings may be, in some way, music that has taken on visible form." - Cathie Guzett

The Relation Between Sound and Silence We usually think of sound and silence as two opposite concepts. In fact, they are not really opposites of each others. Both sound and silence represent two forms of sounds: sound as we know it represents audible sound. It is the sound of the Known. On the other hand, silence represents non-audible sound. It is the sound of the Unknown. Silence is the sound of the Unknown. The Unknown is referred to as "Hu" in Ancient Spirituality. Hu is both a sound and a Holy Name of God. The sound "Hu" is the most basic vibration in the universe. It is the smallest sound, or the smallest vibration, that is produced whenever an object moves in the universe. Since nothing in creation is in perfect state of rest (electrons are constantly moving around the nucleus), it is safe to say that there is no place in creation where the sound "Hu" is not produced. Therefore, the real meaning of Silence, which is perfect absence of sound, does not exist in the universe. In this world, when we seek to immerse ourselves in Silence, we are not trying to shut our ability to hear sounds. On the contrary, we are trying to increase our ability to hear a very specic sound: the vibrating sound of the Universe, which is the sound of our inner Soul. That sound is the eternal vibration of "Huuuuuu". - Author Unknown

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire. ! Austin Osman Spare, The Logomachy of Zos Abstract Sound Abstract sound is called sawt-e-sarmad by the Sus; all space is lled with it. The vibrations of this sound are too ne to be either audible or visible to the material ears or eyes, since it is even difcult for the eyes to see the form and color of the ethereal vibrations on the external plane. !It was the sawt-e-sarmad, the sound of the abstract plane, which Muhammed heard in the cave of Ghar-e-Hira when he became lost in his divine ideal. The Qur'an refers to this sound in the words: 'Be! and all became'. !Moses heard this sound on Mount Sinai when in communion with God, and the same word was audible to Christ when absorbed in his heavenly Father in the wilderness. Shiva heard the same anahad nada during his samadhi in the cave of the Himalayas. The ute of Krishna is symbolic of the same sound. This sound is the source of all revelation to the Masters to whom it is revealed from within. It is because of this that they know and teach one and the same truth. !The Su knows of the past, present and future, and about all things in life, by being able to know the direction of sound. Every aspect of one's being in which sound manifests has a peculiar effect upon life, for the activity of vibrations has a special effect in every direction. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe. Whoever has followed the strains of this sound has forgotten all earthly distinctions and differences, and has reached that goal of truth in which all the blessed ones of God unite. !Space is within the body as well as around it; in other words, the body is in the space and the space is in the body. This being the case, the sound of the abstract is always going on within, around and about man. Man does not hear it as a rule, because his consciousness is entirely centered in his material existence. Man becomes so absorbed in his experiences in the external world through the medium of the physical body that space, with all its wonders of light and sound, appears to him blank. !This can be easily understood by studying the nature of color. There are many colors that are quite distinct by themselves; yet, when mixed with others of still brighter hue, they become altogether eclipsed. Even bright colors, when embroidered with gold, silver, diamonds or pearls, serve merely as a background to the dazzling embroidery. So it is with the abstract sound compared with the sounds of the external world. The limited volume of earthly sounds is so concrete that it dims the effect of the sound of the abstract to the sense of hearing, although in comparison to it the sounds of the earth are like that of a whistle to a drum. When the abstract sound is audible, all other sounds become indistinct to the mystic. !The sound of the abstract is called anahad in the Veda, meaning unlimited sound. The Sus name it sarmad, which suggests the idea of intoxication. The word intoxication is here used to signify upliftment, the freedom of the soul from its earthly bondage. Those who are able to hear the sawt-e-sarmad and meditate on it are relieved from all worries, anxieties, sorrows, fears and diseases, and the soul is freed from captivity in the senses and in the physical body. The soul of the listener becomes the all-pervading consciousness, and his spirit becomes the battery which keeps the whole universe in motion. !Some train themselves to hear the sawt-e-sarmad in the solitude, on the sea shore, on the river bank and in the hills and dales; others attain it while sitting in the caves of the mountains, or when wandering constantly through forests and deserts, keeping themselves in the wilderness apart from the haunts of men. Yogis and ascetics blow sing - a horn, or shanka - a shell, which awakens in them this inner tone. Dervishes play nai or alghoza - a double ute - for the same purpose. The bells and gongs in the churches and temples are meant to suggest to the thinker the same sacred sound, and thus lead him towards the inner life. !This sound develops through ten different aspects because of its manifestation through ten different tubes of the body. It sounds like thunder, the roaring of the sea, the jingling of bells, running water, the buzzing of bees, the twittering of sparrows, the vina, the whistle, the sound of shanka - until it nally becomes Hu, the most sacred of all sounds. !This sound Hu is the beginning and end of all sounds, be they from man, bird, beast, or thing. A minute study will prove this fact, which can be realized by listening to the sound of the steam engine or of a mill, while the echo of bells or gongs gives a typical illustration of the sound Hu. The Supreme Being has been called by various names in different languages but the mystics have known it as HU, the natural name, not the man-made, the only name of the Nameless, which all nature constantly proclaims. The sound HU is the spirit of all sounds and all words, and is hidden within them all, as the spirit [is] in the body. It does not belong to any language, but no language can help belonging to it. This alone is the true name of God, a name that no people and no religion can claim as their own. This word is not only uttered by human beings but is repeated by animals and birds. All things and beings proclaim this name of the Lord, for every activity of life expresses distinctly or indistinctly this very sound. This is the word mentioned in the Bible as existing before light came into being: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

The mystery of Hu is revealed to the Su who journeys through the path of initiation. Truth, the knowledge of God, is called by a Su Haqq. If we divide the word Haqq into two parts, its assonant sounds become hu ek, Hu signifying God, or truth, and ek in Hindustani meaning one, and both together expressing on God and one truth. Haqiqat in Arabic means the essential truth, Hakim means master, and Hakim means knower, all of which words express the essential characteristics of life. Al-Haqq is the sacred word that the Vairagis, the adepts of India, use as their sacred chant. In the word al-Haqq are expressed two words, al meaning he, and Haqq truth, both words together expressing God the source from which all comes. The sound Hu becomes limited in the word Ham, for the letter m closes the lips. This word in Hindustani expresses limitation because Ham means I or we, both of which words signify ego. The word Hamsa is the sacred word of the Yogis which illumines the ego with the light of reality. The word Huma in the Persian language stands for a fabulous bird. There is a belief that if the Huma bird sits for a moment on the head of anybody it is a sign that he will become a king. Its true explanation is, that when a man's thoughts so evolve that they break all limitation, then he becomes as a king. It is the limitation of language that it can only describe the Most High as something like a king. It is said in the old traditions that Zoroaster was born of a Huma tree. This explains the words in the Bible, 'Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.' In the word Huma, hu represents spirit, and the word mah in Arabic means water. In English the word 'human' explains two facts which are characteristic of humanity: Hu means God and man means mind, which word comes from the Sanskrit Mana, mind being the ordinary man. The two words united represent the idea of the Godconscious man; in other words Hu, God, is in all things and beings, but it is man by whom he is known. Human therefore may be said to mean God-conscious, God-realized, or God-man. The word Hamd means praise, Hamid, praiseworthy, and Muhammad, praiseful. The name of the Prophet of Islam was signicant of his attitude to God. Hur in Arabic means the beauties of the Heaven, its real meaning is he expression of heavenly beauty. Zuhur in Arabic means manifestation, especially that of God in nature. Ahura Mazda is the name of God known to the Zoroastrians. This rst word Ahura suggests Hu, upon which the whole name is built. All of these examples signify the origin of God in the word Hu; and the life of God in every thing and being. Hayy in Arabic means everlasting, and Hayyat means life, both of which words signify the everlasting nature of God. The word Huwal suggests the idea of omnipresence, and Huvva is the origin of the name of Eve, which is symbolic of manifestation; as Adam is symbolic of life, they are named in Sanskrit Purusha and Prakriti. Jehovah was originally Yahuva, Ya suggesting the word oh and Hu standing for God, while the A represents manifestation. Hu is the origin of sound, but when the sound rst takes shape on the external plane, it becomes A, therefore alif or alpha is considered to be the rst expression of Hu, the original word. The Sanskrit alphabet as well as that of most other languages begins with the letter A, as does the name of God in several tongues. The word A therefore expresses in English one, or rst; and the sign of alif expresses the meaning one, as well as rst. The letter A is pronounced without the help of the teeth or tongue, and in Sanskrit A always means without. The A is raised to the surface when the tongue rises and touches the roof of the mouth when pronouncing the letter l (lam), and the sound ends in m (mim). The pronunciation of which closes the lips. These three essential letters of the alphabet are brought together as the mystery in the Quran. With A deepened by ain the word Ilm is formed which means knowledge. Alim comes from the same, and means knower. 'Alam means state or condition, the existence which is known. When alif the rst and lam the central letters are brought together they make the word al which means 'the' in Arabic. In English all suggest the meaning of the entire or absolute nature of existence. The word Allah, which in Arabic means God, if divided into three parts may be interpreted as 'the One who comes from nothing'. El or Ellah has the same meaning as Allah. The words found in the Bible, Eloi, Elohim and Hallelujah, are related to the word Allahu. The words om, omen, amen and amin, which are spoken in all houses of prayer, are of the same origin; A in the commencement of the word expresses the beginning, and M in the midst signies end; N the nal letter is the re-echo of M, for M naturally ends in a nasal sound, the producing of which sound signies life. The more a Su listens to Saut-i Sarmad, the sound of the abstract, the more his consciousness becomes free from all the limitations of life. The soul oats above the physical and mental plane without any special effort on man's part, which shows its calm and peaceful state; a dreamy look comes into his eyes and his countenance becomes radiant, he experiences the unearthly joy and rapture of Wajd, or ecstasy. When ecstasy overwhelms him he is neither conscious of the physical existence nor of the mental. This is the heavenly wine, to which all Su poets refer, which is totally unlike the momentary intoxication's of this mortal plane. A heavenly bliss then springs in the heart of a Su, his mind is puried from sin, his body from all impurities, and a pathway is opened for him towards the world unseen; he begins to receive inspirations, intuitions, impressions, and revelations without the least effort on his part. He is no longer dependent upon a book or a teacher, for divine wisdom, the light of his soul, the Holy Spirit, begins to shine upon him. As Sharif says, 'I by the light of soul realize that the beauty of the heavens and the grandeur of the earth are the echo of Thy magic ute'. -Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Keep chanting the syllable HU will you are in the body. This word HU raises your vibratory rate, which is the secret to inner travel. Your vibratory rate also determines much of what and whom you experience during the day." - Evan T.

Pritchard "Form is Formlessness, Formlessness is none other than Form." - Prajnnaparamita Sutra "I try to use my music to move these people to act." Jimi Hendrix It is spoken of the Sephiroth, and the Paths, of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things certain results follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them. "Liber O" Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying Great Master Dogen says striking unbounded space and hearing It reverberate, which is Its continuous, wonderful voice before and after the mallet has struck the bell. At the (tenth) door rings the unstruck Melody. The Lord echoes thus in every heart. (Vadhans M. 5) "Music is the harmonious voice of creation: an echo of the invisible world, one note of the divine concord that the entire universe is destined one day to sound."Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) "What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music." Hazrat Inyat Khan (Su Master) (1882-1927) The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of denition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. "The Keystone... some have called God, (Goddess) some Brahma, some Zeus, some even IAO but in truth, O Seeker, it is Thy-SELF." -Aleister Crowley "I myself, have never seen anyone that was not God already."-Austin Osman Spare "What we are looking for, is what is looking."-St. Francis For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conict, chaos, vortexasymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality. ! Austin Osman Spare However, it is only fair to state that God/dess doesn't always say the same thing to each listener, and that other Episkoposes are sometimes told quite different things in their Revelations, which are also the Word of God/dess.

Philosophy: God/dess helps those who help themselves. Illumination, like many other things in life, is something only you can do for yourself. No one else can make you happy - while others may contribute to situations in your life that please you, happiness is an internal state and an internal decision you make on your own,

regardless of the situations in your life that have contributed to it. So, too, with illumination - while external situations in your life may conspire to show you your own greater reality, the decision to actually *see* that greater reality is all an internal decision. That's not to say this is easy. While in one sense it is an internal decision, in another sense self-illumination seems very like trying to pull yourself up by your shoestrings: the two opposing forces of 'status quo' and 'breakthrough' come from the same entity, and neither seems to be stronger than the other. How can you teach yourself lessons that you don't already know? In truth, the situation is a lot more complicated than that. How do you make yourself think interesting thoughts? Like being told "say something interesting", when you directly go about trying to think "interesting thoughts", you'll probably come up blank. On the other hand, if you pick up an interesting book, watch a stimulting movie, talk to a friend, or engage in some new hobby, you'll nd yourself thinking interesting thoughts completely on accident. Illumination is the same - if you go about trying to "attain enlightenment" directly, you'll probably come to a dead stop. That doesn't mean you can't do it alone, though - pick up a good book, watch a good movie, utilize some of the suggestions in this section, and you'll be well on your way. Like illumination, initiation is something you can do yourself. Waving your hands around and reciting magic words won't do the trick, but like in an initiation performed for you by someone else, the arm-waving and word-reciting isn't where the magic(k) comes from in the rst place - it comes from inside of you. The robes, the ritual tools, all of that is dress-up aimed at getting you to the right frame of mind; the frame of mind is the initiation, not the costumes and ceremony. Self-initiation takes a little bit more work (think masturbation compared to sex - sometimes it's hard to forget that this is *your* hand, but if you don't forget and just go with the sensation, you'll never get anywhere with it), but it is possible. You just have to gure out what would get you to that frame of mind. This section isn't just for things you can do alone, though we have emphasized this because of the many inquiries from disconnected Discordians who are looking for things to pull with just themselves to work with. Some of the activities below may involve other people, but the goal is always working with your own head. What do we mean when we say "illumination"? It goes by a lot of names: nirvana, enlightenment, gnosis, many others. Whatever you call it, it's an internal state of "being one with God", "being at peace with the Universe", and a ton of other new agey phrases that sound embarassingly uffy when used in most situations. Fluffy-sounding or not, though, that's about the best way to describe it. Imagine that you are connected to every other living being on this planet, and imagine the condence, comfort, and ease that come with that knowing: it's like that.

Curb Your Dogma. DOING MAGICK MEANS TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY Practice HUmility. "Be humble for you are made of Earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."-? "Stay HUmble for the body returns to Earth, Act noble, the DNA comes from the Stars..."-Author E-Prime Xaospeak 'Every man and woman is a Star."-AC "Every man and every woman and every child is an honest to god Pope."-Robert Anton Wilson And Remember: IT IS MY FIRM BELIEF THAT IT IS A MISTAKE TO HOLD FIRM BELIEFS. HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA! fnord? OM Amen Hu Silence into Innity... (Chaos, Kaos or XAOS)

:) 1. Description: The idea that Sound/Silence itself appears as a conception of the Source and Creator/SUSTAINER/Destroyer of ALL-THAT-WAS/IS (Does!)/WILL (be) DO, divine essence (or non-essence), NO-THING , PURE CHAOS, THE VOID, an ancient conceptualization that runs through the whole history of Magick, Mysticism, Religion, Yoga, Quantum Physics, Chaos Science, Cymatics Research, String Theory, Dark Matter, Consciousness Field, etc. and modern philosophical thought. The idea that functions in THAT, equal THAT , appears as the Key (s/tone?), the taboo against knowing who or what YOU , WE , and the whole of the Multi-Verses really consist of. How IT processes, which means how YOU process. Others believe in prayer . . . . have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? Let it be the root of your Gospel. Oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fullled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking"; by it the female obtains much from man. ! Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company. ! Austin Osman Spare This operation/technique appears to attempt to encode intent/will/desire and harness/recieve/project (?) the magickal spirit/energy/ psychological properties/qualities/information of inner and outer (non-dual) octarine, Sound/Musick (HU/YOU/Hue) Current creation, manipulation and release into the greater inner vast no-self (HU/YOU/Hue) or the outer vast Ultra Cosmos (HU) to accomplish one's will, and harmonize one's DNA, Spirit, Mind, Body etc..... basically work Chaos Magick with Chaos Musick which we term effectively : X(K)Chaos M(Hu)jic(K) or just Hu to make Hu. Heart-Chant, Heart-Liberate. Already Free. Do What Thou Wilt. Love is the Law. A seed is a unit of consciousness that has body, charge and intelligence and tends to develop from potential into the actual under proper conditions. Seeds are created, transmitted and earthed in order to achieve change change in ones world, life, or identity. -Jan Fries, Visual Magick

2. Materials Needed: M(Hu)sickal Instrument, i.e. HU-Man voice, singing bowl, and/or Program to create / listen to audible Sound/M(Hu)sick. (optional) Sigil Making Materials i.e. Pen & Paper (optional) SIGIL MAGICK BASICS: AOS Sigilization Method

The three steps to sigilizing with the AOS method.! 1.The formulation of a statement of intent, capital letters are generally used because they appear more willful.! MY WILL IS TO BE PROTECTED FROM HARM! 2. Cross out any repeated letters! MY WIL* *S TO BE PR***C**D F*** HA**! Resulting in:! MYWILSTOBEPRCDFHA! 3. Now to combine these letters into a symbol. The letters can be ipped, superimposed, linked, or anything else really.! For example, a "W" can be "M" upside down and "E" sideways. The top (or bottom) curve of "S" can be a "D."! "F" can be a part of "E" and so on. After many revisions you end up with a glyph of your desire.!

The means used and the way it happens are simple, the inverse of scientic. I use a formula, created by instinctive guess and *arbitrarily* formed, not evolved by hypothesis and experiment. The law of sorcery is its own law, using sympathetic symbols.! - Austin Osman Spare! Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy ... a mathematical means of symbolising desire and giving it form that has the virtue of preventing any thought and association on that particular desire (at the magical time), escaping the detection of the Ego, so that it does not restrain or attach such desire to its own transitory images, memories and worries, but allows it free passage to the sub-consciousness.! --A.O.Spare, "The Book Of Pleasure"!

OR i.e.

YOU (HU) - HANDS FREE!

Open-Handed Magick

Hu means "God" which in Chaos Magic = CHAOS Man means "Mind" which means roughly = IMAGINATION

Formula: INTENT + VIBRATION/FREQUENCY = MANIFESTATION or THINK FOR YOURSELF SCHMUCK!

3. Preparation: 1. Visualize or gather materials and form SOI (statement of intent) / sigil for "IT IS MY WILL TO ________". 2. Use this key (or make your own) to assign letters of alphabet to musical tones: C,C#,D,Eb,E,F,F#,G,Ab,A,Bb,B 0123456789TE ABCDE FG H I J K L MNOPQRS TUVWX YZ

0-C

-A,M,Y

1 - C# - B , N , Z 2-D -C,O

3 - Eb - D , P 4-E 5-F -E,Q -F,R

6 - F# - G , S 7-G -H,T

8 - Ab - I , U 9-A -J,V

t - Bb - K , W e-B -L,X

i.e. A I R 0 8 5 - Pitch Class Set [058] or iv Minor Triad (F,Ab,C)

(This assignment appears here completely arbitrarily formed, based on atonal set theory, the authors research and needs at the time of this particular writing. One could use any arbitrary method of assigning musical pitches tones durations etc. to alphabetical/numerical positions. The author has labored intensely for years pouring over text, books, websites, etc in search of such information only to nd countless contentious hooligans and their dogmatic ideas proclaiming authority. The discovery of Chaos Magic and subsequent techniques of A.O.S., "free belief" , i.e. "Method X" (Jung) , etc.. have continued to inspire revelations. YOUR "MEthod X" is what counts. This layout can also be formatted around a circle making 12-fold geometries that could have utilization for further sigilization explorations...;)

3. Use numerology to extract numerical/gematria equivalent, create chordal structure, melody, rhythm, Loop, Pitch class set, Riff, Lick, Pad Atmosphere, Etc (optional) 4. Make mantric form of sigilized will/intent/desire (optional but recommended)

4. The Rite: Using musical material generated from the sonic sigil, create a ritual or experience which aligns with your will/intent/desire. i.e. Choose a sound or musical "slice)?(""sample" :) to represent your desire. The applications/implications of this technique are innite. This point instant > ...* ... > i.e. Hu i.e. "YOU" , "IT" , "Hue" , "God", "Sound" , "Mind" , "Consciousness" , "Silence", "Reality", INnity", "Now", WHATEVER you want to call it, appears synonymous, therefore symbolic visualization, languistic/mantric utterance/vibration, can function in creative endeavors, some would say all things and no-things "consist" of these Vibrational matrix/holographic based processes. You (Hu) therefore effect "reality" by way of resonance at all times, places, instantaneously. NOW, FORGET ALL THAT... WHEW! (Hu) Always back to SILENCE

5. Procedure:

00. BANISH/OR NOT!

0. Enter Relaxed, Hypnotic, Meditative/Trance/Gnostic State. 1. Play musick/chant mantra based on or related to sonic sigil but with improvisational/chaotic impulses to clean the slate so to speak. 2. Build energy of piece.....(optional- Incorporate dance, mantra, activity, improv etc. ) 3. Insert Sonic Sigil into piece at high point (Peak Gnosis) - The "Golden" Section 4. Release....into Innity (Silence) ---- i.e. (HU .... I>E> >>> this point instant>>> i.e. YOU .. NOW ... ;) .... :0 5. BANISH/OR NOT!

(or not! ANY usage is possible, healing applications, long-distance work, incorporation of sigils into songs, play sigils as loop while asleep, make ring tone for phone, CD for car, etc...)

6. Notes: The RESULTS of using this technique seriously can change one's life. For example, chanting daily upon awaking and before sleep (Huuuuuu or related, encoded or not, Sound-Forms, Mantras Afrmations etc. appear to have scientic results) can realign cells, DNA, consciousness, basically re-TUNING the HU-MAN (Sound-Mind) instrument to the Music of the Spheres or Musica Universalis, literally hearing the inner Nada and through morphic resonance changing one's body, consciousness, and therefore external reality to one's will and harmonizing with the greater Whole. Awakening higher neuro-circuit activity through Sound exploration. This operation is a very basic layout for what could be vastly creative workings, from anything like simple occulted background sound FX in lms, meditative journeying, path working, group explorations, to full-on, Epic, Super-Hyper Sonic Sigil Sorcery incorporating visuals into a M(Hu)jic(K)ALL Performance encoded with WILL/DESIRE/INTENT. Love is the Law. LOVE OVER LAWS.

7. Further:

The Book (on the taboo on knowing who you are) The I Ching The Works of Austin Osman Spare The Works of Aleister Crowley The Mysticism of Sound & Music The Music Of Life Heart Sutra Nada Brahma The Book of Lies (disinfo / crowley) Traveling the Sacred Sound Current The Secret Power of Music Liber Null & Psychonaut Chaos Turbulent Mirror Chao Te Ching Kaostar! Visual Magick Arcana V Prime Chaos Condensed Chaos Oven Ready Chaos Apikorsus Naam or Word Hands on Chaos Magic Stealing the Fire from Heaven Practical Sigil Magic Milarepa Longchenpa Anything by Sri Ramana Maharishi Anything by Nisargadatta Maharaj Principia Discordia Illuminatus! Prometheus Rising yadda yadda yadda

Music is my religion. Jimi Hendrix

Hidden in the labyrinth of the Alphabet is my sacred name, the SIGIL of all things unknown.

On Earth my kingdom is Eternity of DESIRE. My wish incarnates in the belief and becomes esh, for, I AM THE LIVING TRUTH. - Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon To The Hypocrites

All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughtsas Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away. ! Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming EXERCISE Compare:

EINSTEIN According to general relativity, the concept of space detached from any physical content does not exist.! -Einstein Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.! -Einstein Time and again the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man is able to comprehend the objective world rationally by pure thought without any empirical foundationsin short, by metaphysics.! -Einstein In our thinking...we attribute to this concept of the bodily object a signicance, which is to high degree independent of the sense impression which originally gives rise to it. This is what we mean when we attribute to the bodily object "a real existence." ...By means of such concepts and mental relations between them, we are able to orient ourselves in the labyrinth of sense impressions. These notions and relations...appear to us as stronger and more unalterable than the individual sense experience itself, the character of which as anything other than the result of an illusion or hallucination is never completely guaranteed.! -Einstein The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be nal. We must always be ready to change these notionsthat is to say, the axiomatic basis of physicsin order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way logically.! -Einstein

BUDDHA If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.! -Buddha All such notions as causation, succession, atoms, primary elements...are all gments of the imagination and manifestations of the mind.! -Buddha By becoming attached to names and forms, not realising that they have no more basis than the activities of the mind itself, error risesand the way to emancipation is blocked.! -Buddha I teach that the multitudinousness of objects have no reality in themselves but are only seen of the mind and, therefore, are of the nature of maya and a dream. ...It is true that in one sense they are seen and discriminated by the senses as individualized objects; but in another sense, because of the absence of any characteristic marks of self-nature, they are not seen but are only imagined. In one sense they are graspable, but in another sense, they are not graspable.! -Buddha While the Tathagata, in his teaching, constantly makes use of conceptions and ideas about them, disciples should keep in mind the unreality of all such conceptions and ideas. They should recall that the Tathagata, in making use of them in explaining the Dharma always uses them in the semblance of a raft that is of use only to cross a river. As the raft is of no further use after the river is crossed, it should be discarded. So these arbitrary conceptions of things and about things should be wholly given up as one attains enlightenment.! -Buddha

perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be nal. We must always be ready to change these notionsthat is to say, the axiomatic basis of physicsin order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way logically.! -Einstein

ideas about them, disciples should keep in mind the unreality of all such conceptions and ideas. They should recall that the Tathagata, in making use of them in explaining the Dharma always uses them in the semblance of a raft that is of use only to cross a river. As the raft is of no further use after the river is crossed, it should be discarded. So these arbitrary conceptions of things and about things should be wholly given up as one attains enlightenment.! -Buddha

-Einstein & Buddha : The Parallel Sayings

I bring back the wizards and sorcerers the necromancers the magicians. I practice witchcraft. I set up idols. With a sharp-edged sword I cut through the crowded streets. Comets follow in my wake. Stars make obeisance to me. The moon uncovers her nakedness to me. -Harry Crosby, Assassin Practice is not concerned with metaphysical interpretations of reality, but rather with the tasks and the realizations that one can accomplish only by going countercurrent and by transforming oneself. -Julius Evola, The Yoga of Power I mistrust all systematizers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. -Fredrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself, or rather from the very thought of sin. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless. -Mohandas K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth Now a curse on Because and his kin! -Aiwass (Crowley), The Book of the Law Reality designing is a team sport. -Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyberculture Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results. -Hakim Bey, Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the self-hood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Selfreliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature [italics added]

For now is the time to construct the tools, Their secrets hidden to blinded fools.

To curse, conjure, to chant and be free, As a sorcerer born who holds the key. It is time to visualize my own reality. -Nicholas Hall, Chaos & Sorcery Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt. -Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are A seed is a unit of consciousness that has body, charge and intelligence and tends to develop from potential into the actual under proper conditions. Seeds are created, transmitted and earthed in order to achieve change change in ones world, life, or identity. -Jan Fries, Visual Magick Invoke often; ename thyself with prayer. -Aleister Crowley We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world. -The Buddha Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living. -Phil Hine, Prime Chaos If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -Thomas A. Edison And ags unfurled She and the Sun Are not of this world. -Harry Crosby, Ritual

!!!!I am the power of my desire (ID) Aos I stamp upon the oor. I whirl like dervishes. Colors revolve dressing and undressing. I lash them with fury stark white with iron black harsh red with blue marble green with bright orange and only gold remains naked. I roar with joy. -Harry Crosby, Assassin

Self truth results from the unication of Will, Desire and Belief forced into one thing. By this affectiveness the soul draws near and casts its omniscience over us by inspiration. Aos The Logomachy of Zos

By projecting the consciousness into one part, sensation not being manifold becomes intensied. By the abstention of desire, except in the object, this is attained (at the psychological time this determines itself Aos-The Book of Pleasure .THAT WONDERFUL rst glance at anything which is eeting but, if caught, suspires into great Art. --Austin Osman Spare, The Logomachy of Zos Fill now my soul with symbols of delight: Soft voices and soft ngers and soft charms And the perfume of the lotus in the night. -Harry Crosby, Water-Lillies The last possible deed is that which denes perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors. -Hakim Bey, Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism Life is a cut-up. -William S. Burroughs Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. -Bruce Lee Agents of chaos cast burning glances at anything or anyone capable of bearing witness to their condition, their fever of lux et voluptas. -Hakim Bey, Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go. -Brion Gysin, Here To Go: Planet R-101

Love & (K)Chaos M(HU)jic(K) HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA! FNORD! BASS:D OM! Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Saturday September 21 6:00pm Prickle Prickle ^MAGUS SORCERER Illuminatus Ipsissimus Blue Heron Man 43218 .'. .'. K.S.C. NO1-8-19 HU!