Preliminary 2: Instilling an Understanding of Chaos and Magick

Preliminary 2: Instilling an Understanding of Chaos and Magick

The point of The Extreme Reform Engine is ascendancy of selves. All selves. To become better than a previous incarnation of one's self involves will power. The will, like any other faculty, needs to be exercised and strengthened, to do what need be done. Ineffective ideas and paradigms need be thrown out to make room for more functional ways of thought.

Thus, in an effort to assist this end, one needs to understand what lies outside of space and time, before one works effectively within them. One also need understand the will which is a faculty for exerting influence over matter.

Enter Preliminary 2, which is not only a definition of chaos and magick, but also a faculty stimulant, giving one room to think, question and explore.

Preliminary 2

For the purposes of this preliminary We The Person will interpret Chaos as follows:

 

That the familiar world of everyday experience has its roots in

Chaos. So that any attempt to understand the world via reason

reaches a boundary, on the other side of which lies Chaos, a state

of existence/non-existence which cannot be understood by the

rational ego. However, through the techniques of ritual, that state

can be manifest in the everyday world, suspending the accepted

"laws" of common sense and allowing magick to occur. Furthermore,

perhaps as a result of the practice Chaos magick, the idea of Chaos

is slowly entering the popular imagination via science. This refutes

classical science, which is based on the belief that if the

structure of the physical world could be sufficiently precisely

modelled in a mathematical form, it would be possible to predict the

future state of various systems (whether, for example) which make

up the physical world.

However, it is now grudgingly admitted that this would require a

precision of measurement which it is impossible to achieve.

Engineers have long since had to accept this uncertainty - that all

measurement is limited by the accuracy of the measuring device.

Absolute precision is an impossible goal. There is always a degree

of uncertainty, an instability, and by focusing the Will upon this

either/or region, the magician can exert an influence upon the world

at this level, which when it occurs, can produce the Willed outcome.

To the extent that Chaos is a form of magick, ie it seeks to exert

an influence upon the world of everyday consciousness, it must

involve the Will. Otherwise it would be closer to a form of

mysticism, that is the attempt to "go with the flow" of the

experienced world without seeking to influence the direction of that

flow. In this form, Chaos is closer to a "higher form of order",

that is that the apparent random or chance events of one`s

experience of existence are in fact the result of some greater

existence than that of the individual. And that by disengaging the

desires of the ego-self, one can experience this greater existence,

interpreting the obstacles and blows of everyday existence as a

stimulus to the development of a "Stoic" consciousness, which will

enable the self to eventually swim freely as a fish in the river of

the Tao, or Chaos.

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PS

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