The House of Lucius is offering a series of lectures on chaos magick & the occult, the subjects covered are detailed below.The lectures consist of a series of talks followed by a questions and answer session performed over web chat.
1. The black and white books of introspection, a methods of self discovery, Duration 1 hour. Fr IAO (10 Places available)
2. Runes and Bind Runes, using them just like sigils. Duration 1 Hour Fr Faust (9 Places available)
3. Signalization methods and uses. Duration 1 hour. Fr 1025.( 6 Places available
More have been planned and dates cannot be confirmed but as the places fill we will inform you a of a date
If you are interested in a place please mail us at
houseoflucius@gmail.com
Saturday 4 June 2011
Tuesday 31 May 2011
The HoL web-chat room
The new H.o.L web chat room has been created and we have agreed with Fr IAO that we will hold a series of lectures which will be open to people who are interested.
We will release a list of subject that we will be talking about over the next few months.
If your interested in taking part please drop us a mail at Invite to web lectures
In love & Light
Fr Faust
We will release a list of subject that we will be talking about over the next few months.
If your interested in taking part please drop us a mail at Invite to web lectures
In love & Light
Fr Faust
Meeting Minutes of H.o.L
At the first meeting o f the HoL council the following points were discussed.
Present
Fr I.A.O
Fr Faust
Fr 1025
Agenda
- The criteria of membership.
- The funding of HoL.
- The Rituals of initiation.
- The Basic Rituals.
- Training methods and logistics.
- Curriculum
- The temples of HoL.
- Election of Supreme Magus
- Sigil Work
- Affiliating with the Order of Tahuti
The criteria of membership.
Fr Faust spoke of his hope that all who come should be admitted and that all should be trained to attain the grade that they wish.
Fr IAO agreed and that a brief interview and set of applicant questions should be produced not to screen applicants for suitability but to asses their level of understanding.
All agreed and Fr IAO will produce the questions for the next meeting.
The funding of HoL.
We all agreed that no charge should be made for membership or the service offered by HoL, and that should a funding issue arise a request should be made for donations from the founding members first and the rest of the house later.
The Rituals of Initiation.
Fr 1025 agreed that the initiation rituals need to be revised as the ones used by Fr IAO & Fr Faust we based on their current levels of knowledge and should either be slimmed down to a bare bones or re written.
Fr IAO added that we should make sure that they are suitable for work within the chaos current and that we don’t allow personal dogma to creep in.
Fr 1025 will re write and then experimentation will commence as to their effectiveness and suitability for other candidates.
The Basic Rituals.
All parties agreed that the basic rituals used should be published for all to use. The list to include the rituals used by Fr IAO & Fr Faust during their own personal work, these are:-
· Gnostic banishing rite
· Rite of elemental Equilibrium
· The rite of Fire
· The rite of Water
· The rite of Earth
· The rite of Air
· The opening and closing rituals for the temple
Training methods and logistics.
Fr IAO wanted to make sure that the methods of instruction allowed each student to work under a practicing magician and this would be hard to check. Communication would have to remain important for all those in a teaching position.
Curriculum
Fr Faust wanted to discuss the development of the Curriculum using two documents by Pete Carroll namely Liber KKK & Liber Null along with the personal research of all members. Fr IAO was concerned about copyright and the accusation of plagiarism. Fr 1025 & Fr Faust agreed that this wasn’t what they intended and that the development of the curriculum would only be along those lines.
It was agreed that all parties would develop this and bring an outline to the next meeting.
The temples of HoL.
The Temple of Lucius will the first to be formed on the summer solstice and those founded after will work under its Aegis.
Election of Supreme Magus
None of the current members of HoL want to be elected as SM until a more coherent group has been set up, Fr Faust & Fr 1025 suggested that Fr IAO should be acting SM due to his experience and personal work and his experience of working within an order. As a SM is needed Fr IAO agreed but only for a period of 12 months as of the summer solstice, then he will step down and an election will take place.
Sigil Work
Fr IAO has devised a number of sigils to be used by the House, these are currently been investigated and will be presented at the next meeting.
Affiliating with the order of Tahuti
It was discussed but all members that at this time affiliating with another group may hinder the development of HoL
A.O.B
Grades of members.
Fr Faust provided evidence of his Adept work and initiation to Fr IAO & Fr 1025, this was found to be satisfactory and Fr Faust was granted the grade of Adept. It was also agreed that they should publicly announce their grades within the HoL
Fr IAO: (1) HoL acting (0)
Fr Faust (2) HoL
Fr 1025: (3) HoL
Input from non-members and new members.
Fr IAO advised that he had been contacted by a number of people (6) with a view to joining HoL and that he had received feedback from a few personal friends on the structure and subject to open meeting further changes may be suggested. All agreed that any input from any experienced source would be welcome.
Sunday 29 May 2011
Neophyte work done
Fr I.A.O and myself have now uploaded the neophyte work, we welcome your comments and suggestions. The rest of the grade work simply needs spell checking and sorting out before we can release that.
Anyone wishing to comment please drop us a mail, these will be passed on.We have a meeting on Monday to discuss a few more logistical points and then we are up and running.The Agenda is as follows:-
Fr 1025
Anyone wishing to comment please drop us a mail, these will be passed on.We have a meeting on Monday to discuss a few more logistical points and then we are up and running.The Agenda is as follows:-
- Sigil Work - Fr I.A.O
- Fr Faust- Teaching methods and documents
- Fr 1025- Affiliating with the Order of Tahuti
Fr 1025
Chaos Magick by Ray Sherwin
Article from http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/sher2.html
Chaos Magick has its roots in every occult tradition and in the work of many individuals. If any one person can be said to have been responsible, albeit unintentionally, for the present climate of opinion that person would be Austin Osman Spare, whose magical system was based entirely on his image of himself and upon an egocentric model of the universe. He did not intend that the system he devised for his own use should be used by others since it was clear to him that no two individuals could benefit from the same system. Nor did he fall into the trap of presuming that the information revealed to or by him was pertinent to all mankind as all the messiahs did. Aleister Crowley came to look upon him as a "black brother" purely because he refused to accept Crowley's Law of Thelema, preferring instead to work beyond dogmas and rules, relying on intuition and information uprooted from the depths of self.
The most recent public expression of Chaos Magick has been through the work of the Illuminates of Thanateros, an order which Pete Carroll and I initiated in 1978. Our aim at that time was to inspire rather than lead magicians interested in the Chaos concept by publishing ideas of a practical nature. Our approach differed to Spare's only insamuch as we were interested in group as well as solo magick. The response to our writings was much greater than we anticipated and by 1982 there were groups working in England, Australia, America, Egypt and Germany as well as allied groups such as the "Circle of Chaos" and many individuals working alone.
The difficulties of running such an order soon became apparent. What seemed simple to us, both in concept and technique, was not simple to people who had not suffered the bizarre and arbitary intricacies of what is now referred to as "traditional magick." This put us in an awkward position because it meant that a magical concept which, by our own definition, could not be taught now needed to be taught. Both Pete and I held guruship and hierarchy as anathema yet now we were being expected not only to teach but also to lead.
It has been said that all systems of magick have the same end result. I doubt that this is true because so many systems restrict their practitioners within such narrow parameters of dogma and morality (even if there is no priesthood as such) that instinct and imagination are stifled by rules and doctrines. A path cannot be chosen sensibly until all paths have been examined for comparison and to restrict oneself to one path would, in any case, limit ones experience and modes of thinking.
A solution was eventually to the problem of how to reach that which could not be taught. No rules or instructions were ever given, only suggestions. No mention was made of notions best left for the individual to decide such as reincarnation and the existence or nature of god. Ideas of that nature have little bearing on the performance of practical magick anyway, and individuals practising the techniques rapidly came to their own conclusions. We knew that we were on the right track when we came to collating the information sent to us by individuals and groups. Without exception everyone who sent results to us considered the techniques they had used to be extremely potent but - and this was the important thing - they had all come to different conclusions on matters of philosophy. That they had come such varying conclusions and still wanted to remain within the loose organisation structure we had set up was more encouraging than anything else.
To detail the methods of Chaos Magick would be spurious since they are adequately dealt with in available publications. It would be useful however, to point out a popular misconception which has been unintentionally fostered by people writing in specialist magazines. There has been some confusion about the word 'chaos', some writers believing the word to have been used in this context to express the techniques themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whilst it is correct that some modes of gnosis are effective because they confuse the ratio-cinative functions they ultimately lead to clarity and magicians involved in the Chaos current tend to be meticulous in the way they organise their programme of work. This is a legacy inherited from the "93 system". We formulated the term "Chaos Magick" to indicate the randomness of the universe and the individuals relationship with it. The antithesis of chaos, cosmos, is the universe suitably defined by the successful magician for his own purposes and that definition is under constant scrutiny and may be regularly changed. Chaos is expressive of this philosophy and reinforces the idea that there is no permanent model for the individual's relationship with everything that he is not. The word encompasses not only those things we know to be true but also what we suspect may be true as well as the world of impressions, paranoias and possibilities.
If there were anything such as a Chaos Credo it would run on the following lines: I do not believe in anything. I know what I know (gnosis) and I postulate theories which may or may not enter my system of adopted beliefs when those theories have been tested. There are no gods or demons, except for those I have been conditioned into acknowledging and those I have created for myself. I create and destroy beliefs according to their usefulness. In the words of the wise "nothing is true, everything is permitted" - provided it interferes with no-one.
At the group level obviously a consensus of some sort must be reached. I use the word consensus advisedly because other descriptions such as "shared reality" would be quite misleading since no notion beyond the concrete can be shared. It can, at best, be appreciated. Guidance in technique is always useful but reliance on books, even books on Chaos Magick, is best kept to a minimum in favour of working by instinct.
Group workings usually fall into four categories - experimental, initiatory, repeated ritual and celebratory (for which several groups may come together) although by no means all groups include all four categories in their repertoire. More important for a group working any sort of magick is to build and maintain an atmosphere which excites and inspires the imagination. The groups already in existence have, to a large extent, moved away from the idea prevailing in the seventies that theatrical trappings are not necessary. They tend to use any device which will contribute to the magical atmosphere they wish to create. The traditional magical weapons are sometimes used but, more often than not, quite new weapons peculiar to each group are made. Masks and robes are effective and, therefore, widely used although nudity is not frowned upon (See the "Cardinal Rites of Chaos").
As far as experimental magick is concerned, sigilisation has been the most widely researched subject, but telekinesis, ESP and telepathy as well as many methods of raising power have been looked into in varying degrees of detail.
Chaos Magick is not looking for converts but anyone who is already inclined towards magical adventure and who is prepared to break new ground would be warmly accepted by the existing groups.
Chaos Magick has its roots in every occult tradition and in the work of many individuals. If any one person can be said to have been responsible, albeit unintentionally, for the present climate of opinion that person would be Austin Osman Spare, whose magical system was based entirely on his image of himself and upon an egocentric model of the universe. He did not intend that the system he devised for his own use should be used by others since it was clear to him that no two individuals could benefit from the same system. Nor did he fall into the trap of presuming that the information revealed to or by him was pertinent to all mankind as all the messiahs did. Aleister Crowley came to look upon him as a "black brother" purely because he refused to accept Crowley's Law of Thelema, preferring instead to work beyond dogmas and rules, relying on intuition and information uprooted from the depths of self.
The most recent public expression of Chaos Magick has been through the work of the Illuminates of Thanateros, an order which Pete Carroll and I initiated in 1978. Our aim at that time was to inspire rather than lead magicians interested in the Chaos concept by publishing ideas of a practical nature. Our approach differed to Spare's only insamuch as we were interested in group as well as solo magick. The response to our writings was much greater than we anticipated and by 1982 there were groups working in England, Australia, America, Egypt and Germany as well as allied groups such as the "Circle of Chaos" and many individuals working alone.
The difficulties of running such an order soon became apparent. What seemed simple to us, both in concept and technique, was not simple to people who had not suffered the bizarre and arbitary intricacies of what is now referred to as "traditional magick." This put us in an awkward position because it meant that a magical concept which, by our own definition, could not be taught now needed to be taught. Both Pete and I held guruship and hierarchy as anathema yet now we were being expected not only to teach but also to lead.
It has been said that all systems of magick have the same end result. I doubt that this is true because so many systems restrict their practitioners within such narrow parameters of dogma and morality (even if there is no priesthood as such) that instinct and imagination are stifled by rules and doctrines. A path cannot be chosen sensibly until all paths have been examined for comparison and to restrict oneself to one path would, in any case, limit ones experience and modes of thinking.
A solution was eventually to the problem of how to reach that which could not be taught. No rules or instructions were ever given, only suggestions. No mention was made of notions best left for the individual to decide such as reincarnation and the existence or nature of god. Ideas of that nature have little bearing on the performance of practical magick anyway, and individuals practising the techniques rapidly came to their own conclusions. We knew that we were on the right track when we came to collating the information sent to us by individuals and groups. Without exception everyone who sent results to us considered the techniques they had used to be extremely potent but - and this was the important thing - they had all come to different conclusions on matters of philosophy. That they had come such varying conclusions and still wanted to remain within the loose organisation structure we had set up was more encouraging than anything else.
To detail the methods of Chaos Magick would be spurious since they are adequately dealt with in available publications. It would be useful however, to point out a popular misconception which has been unintentionally fostered by people writing in specialist magazines. There has been some confusion about the word 'chaos', some writers believing the word to have been used in this context to express the techniques themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whilst it is correct that some modes of gnosis are effective because they confuse the ratio-cinative functions they ultimately lead to clarity and magicians involved in the Chaos current tend to be meticulous in the way they organise their programme of work. This is a legacy inherited from the "93 system". We formulated the term "Chaos Magick" to indicate the randomness of the universe and the individuals relationship with it. The antithesis of chaos, cosmos, is the universe suitably defined by the successful magician for his own purposes and that definition is under constant scrutiny and may be regularly changed. Chaos is expressive of this philosophy and reinforces the idea that there is no permanent model for the individual's relationship with everything that he is not. The word encompasses not only those things we know to be true but also what we suspect may be true as well as the world of impressions, paranoias and possibilities.
If there were anything such as a Chaos Credo it would run on the following lines: I do not believe in anything. I know what I know (gnosis) and I postulate theories which may or may not enter my system of adopted beliefs when those theories have been tested. There are no gods or demons, except for those I have been conditioned into acknowledging and those I have created for myself. I create and destroy beliefs according to their usefulness. In the words of the wise "nothing is true, everything is permitted" - provided it interferes with no-one.
At the group level obviously a consensus of some sort must be reached. I use the word consensus advisedly because other descriptions such as "shared reality" would be quite misleading since no notion beyond the concrete can be shared. It can, at best, be appreciated. Guidance in technique is always useful but reliance on books, even books on Chaos Magick, is best kept to a minimum in favour of working by instinct.
Group workings usually fall into four categories - experimental, initiatory, repeated ritual and celebratory (for which several groups may come together) although by no means all groups include all four categories in their repertoire. More important for a group working any sort of magick is to build and maintain an atmosphere which excites and inspires the imagination. The groups already in existence have, to a large extent, moved away from the idea prevailing in the seventies that theatrical trappings are not necessary. They tend to use any device which will contribute to the magical atmosphere they wish to create. The traditional magical weapons are sometimes used but, more often than not, quite new weapons peculiar to each group are made. Masks and robes are effective and, therefore, widely used although nudity is not frowned upon (See the "Cardinal Rites of Chaos").
As far as experimental magick is concerned, sigilisation has been the most widely researched subject, but telekinesis, ESP and telepathy as well as many methods of raising power have been looked into in varying degrees of detail.
Chaos Magick is not looking for converts but anyone who is already inclined towards magical adventure and who is prepared to break new ground would be warmly accepted by the existing groups.
The way forward
The house was originally formed as a loose association of magician from all walks of life and paths, from pagans to thelemites and qabbalists. In the summer of 2009 Stonemonkey and I decided that we would set up a school to simply guide people through the pit falls that we ourselves either fell into or were aware of.
Chaos magick by its very nature is, well chaotic and as such makes a difficult subject to teach, neither myself Monkey or IAO can take full credit for the way this group is run, we have borrowed from Pete Carrols IOT from the system of the A:.A:. and anyone else who has had a good idea about how a school/Order/Group should be run.
Within the next two week we hope to release the final documents of our house and then open it up for public discussion, if your interested in joining us we are looking for experience chaos magician to help herald in a new generation of magicians who hold the principle of nothing is true , everything is possible at the core of their way of working.
If you are interested in working with us as a student or a member of the house please contact us on the following e-mail address
houseoflucius@gmail.com
Chaos magick by its very nature is, well chaotic and as such makes a difficult subject to teach, neither myself Monkey or IAO can take full credit for the way this group is run, we have borrowed from Pete Carrols IOT from the system of the A:.A:. and anyone else who has had a good idea about how a school/Order/Group should be run.
Within the next two week we hope to release the final documents of our house and then open it up for public discussion, if your interested in joining us we are looking for experience chaos magician to help herald in a new generation of magicians who hold the principle of nothing is true , everything is possible at the core of their way of working.
If you are interested in working with us as a student or a member of the house please contact us on the following e-mail address
houseoflucius@gmail.com
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