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CHANNELING — Very popular practice of the 1980’s. To channel is to act as an amanuensis or vox for an “etheric world intelligence.” If one acts as such a channel one allows one’s own voice to speak in a relaxed and non-interfering way. The channeler is often not aware of the meaning of the message until it has been completely written down or recorded. The knowledge so transmitted is generally of an intelligence much beyond the channeler’s. Automatic writing and ouija contact were formerly rather rare talents, but almost anyone can learn how to channel. We spend most of our time, in fact, forcing the conscious mind to close (and lock!) doors to the unconscious, to deny intuitions, to ignore telepathic intrusions, to block out all inner and outer “voices.”

CHAOS — The first step away from the Unknown Absolute. HPB says it is “the impenetrable veil between the incognizable and the Logos.” Apart from its ordinary meaning, Grant calls it “the ultimate substance of antimatter.” Its number is 156 (same as Babalon). Mostly what we call “order” is but an arbitrary arrangement of chaotic elements, as when we give an arbitrary frame of stars the name of a constellation.

Chaos is an endless fount of original realities in which anything is possible at random. Who hath in himself no chaos hath no power to create a star! However, since all things are but a repetition of the one, all things have the same creative handle on them. That is, our worlds are unpredictable as to form, but not to content — or vice-versa, depending on the morphogenetic rules. Science says of chaos, “Highs are followed by lows. Lows are followed by unpredictability.” (Which, of course, is to say nothing).

CHAOS MAGIC — Basically, it is that aspect of magic that deals with entering the “abyss” or, on the common level of understanding, facing the unknown. Chaos being simply “The Unknown” as apparently devoid of meaning. Chaos Magic was largely the invention of artist, Austin Osman Spare, in his Zos Kia Cultus. Later a form of Chaos Magick was developed by a few others in the 1980’s, as a form of the magic of solipsism. It is best expounded today by Pete Carroll in his Liber Null and comprises the magic of the “Illuminates of Thanateros,” heirs of the Argenteum Astrum and the Zos Kia.

The very mystery of being itself, says Carroll, is fundamentally connected to how we deal with chaos. We react to chaos by earthing it to its opposite. Once an action or result enters consciousness, then the chaoenergy or “cause” has to be carried all the way through to its end “effect” and hence is already implicitly manifest in the thought, even as it rises. If the impulse, however, is thwarted for any reason or scattered by ignorance, it falls back and disappears into its opposite polarity, its concealment in chaos. Hence pre-meditation is the bane of action and Crowley used to warn against the “lust for results.”

CHAOSPHERE — It is hollow and contains all implements. One of the spikes can be withdrawn as a weapon.

Greg Bear (Aeon) says the chaosphere should be used as the signifier for information that is not accessible to the unauthorized.