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In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.
Peter J. Carroll
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Peter J. Carroll
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 8
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Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.
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The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.
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He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.
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Can we find The Universe in a grain of sand? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.
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In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.
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We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.
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Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
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Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.
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Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.
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The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.
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Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .
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Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.
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We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.
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Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.
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That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.
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No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism?
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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.
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