The secrets of magic are universal and of such a practical physical nature as to defy simple explanation. Those beings who realize and practice such secrets are said to have achieved mastership. Masters will, at various points in history, inspire adepts to create magic, mystic, religious, or even secular orders to bring others to mastership. Such orders have at certain times openly called themselves the Illuminati; at other times secrecy has seemed more prudent. The mysteries can be preserved only by constant revelation. In this, chaos magic continues a tradition perhaps ten thousand years old, yet chaos magic has no history. Every culture and generation rewrites the eternal verities of magic in terms of its own symbolism and idiosyncrasies; only the underlying practical techniques of magic really matter. After some centuries of neglect, advanced minds are turning their attention to magic once more. It used to be said that magic was what we had before science was properly organized. It now seems that magic is where science is actually heading. Enlightened anthropology has grudgingly admitted that beneath all the ritual and mumbo jumbo of so-called primitive cultures, there exists a very real and awesome power that cannot be explained away. Higher physics now suggests that the universe runs on something more akin to sorcery than clockwork. The magic art itself is undergoing a profound renaissance. In this new aeon, the thrust of magical endeavor is toward making the actual experimental techniques work regardless of their religious or symbolic associations. The techniques of magic will be the hypersciences of the future. The origin of these arts lies not in medieval or even pagan civilizations, but is to be found in its most developed form in animistic and shamanistic cultures.
✔ Author(s): Peter J. Carroll,Ronald Hutton
✔ Title: Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic (Revised and Expanded Edition) (Weiser Classics Series)
✔ Rating : 5 out of 5 base on (115 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 157863766X
✔ ISBN-13: 9781578637669
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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