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Magic is an intensely practical, personal, experimental art. Two major themes run through this book: that altered states of consciousness are the key to unlocking one’s magical abilities; and that these abilities can be developed without any symbolic system except reality itself. The magical style of thinking is explored with chapters on random belief and the alphabet of desire. A natural inclination toward the darker side of magic is as good a point as any from which to begin the ultimate quest, and half this book is devoted to the black arts. Independent of ancient dusty books and mystification, the vital elements of many traditions conspire here to create a living art. Chaos magic takes its inspiration from the practical techniques of many historical traditions from ancient shamanism to classical pagan magic to more modern traditions such as the Golden Dawn, the Crowleyan Argentum Astrum, and the Zos Kia Cultus of Austin Spare. This book, written originally as a sourcebook for a secretive group of chaos magicians, is now being released for those who wish to work alone or who wish to establish working chaos magic groups. The word “magician,” like the word “witch,” can apply to persons of any gender. The animism and shamanism of preagricultural societies underlie all magical traditions. They deal with the “forces” and “spirits” associated with natural phenomena, plants, animals, and people. As humans developed agriculture, settled civilizations, and organized philosophies, religions, and writing, they also developed more complicated ideas about magic that often involved more abstract spirits and deities; and they started to record them. Four written sources of magic seem to have had a particularly lasting impact. Ancient Egyptian magic influenced the magical traditions of the pagan Greco-Roman (Hellenic) world and the magical ideas in the Abrahamic monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but perhaps less so than the magical ideas that came from the ancient Persian Empire that practiced Zoroastrianism. Th e words “magic” and “magus” both derive from the magi, the priest-magicians of ancient Zoroastrianism. Tantric magic developed alongside the religions of India, and it includes far more than just the use of sex in both its Hindu and Buddhist forms, for it involves all the senses and facilities and subtle energies of the body. Yoga, in all its forms, constitutes a manifestation of Tantra. Th e Taoism of Chinese civilization developed rich undercurrents of magic. Alchemy, astrology, esoteric martial arts and medicine, feng shui, and sorcery all fl ourished under the umbrella of Taoism. Yet the magical traditions of the East, from India and China, began to profoundly infl uence Western occult thinking only during and aft er the colonial period.