Chaos Magick: A Quickie Centered on the 4 RULES

A quickie on Chaos Magick and an implied explanation on why the fuck people who  practice it come off as either too dark and structured or too chaotic and lax. 

Founded by: Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) 

Classified as: Contemporary Magical Practice

The Whole Point of this Post: Chaos Magick is a RESULTS-BASED magic.

Reference: Chryssides, George D. (2012). Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (2 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-6194-7.

THE FOUR RULES OF CHAOS MAGICK

1. THERE ARE NO RULES.

Basically, we don't follow a specific principle; no traditional rules or sequence is mandatory.

2. NOTHING IS TRUE, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED.

The boundaries of what can and cannot be done is up to the practitioner. Wanna mix a few practices from Shintoism with those from Paganism? Aight, my dude. Knock your socks off. You want to support gods who are typically associated with death and darkness, yet you want to keep a plant-life heavy ritual life?  A magician of darkness with a dainty cottage core vibe? We don't see why not (I guess, you can go ask Persephone about that).

3. BELIEF IS A TOOL FOR ACHIEVING EFFECTS.

"It's the thought that counts" doesn't just apply to giving or receiving presents. The reason for the freedom given by ONE and TWO is the THIRD rule. Generally speaking, it matters little which rituals you choose to follow, which principles you set for your chosen practices--- what matters most is what you believe in, and the amount of focused intention you are willing to put into your magick. Perhaps, we can say that Chaos Magick is very "Manifestation-centric".

4. THE FOURTH RULE IS THE FIRST RULE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE SECOND AND THIRD RULES.

All these four rules are linked together. And these set of rules are the only ones you must always remember should you decide to delve into Chaos Magick (if you haven't yet). In other words, delving into Chaos Magick is no different from having a cool teacher enter the class room with no specific lesson plan in hand. And then the teacher tells you that you may choose whatever you want to do with your time, as long as you show up for her class and she manages to get viable results out of you for your score card-- although it goes without saying that you're on your own if you get yourself into trouble based on your independent course of actions.

For those who strictly follow a specific and strict teaching or a set of traditional principles who might hear about Chaos Magick for the first time, they might think, 'Well, sounds like a bunch of baloney'. 

But since the core of chaos magick are these four rules, and considering that many of us are already too far gone into the rabbit hole, we might no longer give a flying fuck about those types of opinions. For many of us, we keep our point of view on magick and manifestations simple: If it works, it works~

-Kara Xin