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By: April's Esoteric Book Club pick | Plutonica.net

April's Esoteric Book Club pick | Plutonica.net — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:54:07 +0000

[...] only reason I didn’t include it in my list of “Top 5 Books on Chaos Magick” was because S.S.O.T.B.M.E. predated it, but it will be interesting to trace its influence [...]

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By: Dion Wright

Dion Wright — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:50:59 +0000

What about Stealing the Fire From Heaven by Stephen Mace?

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By: zos

zos — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:41:16 +0000

this essay might be good for further reading of peter carrol

Chaoism and Chaos Magick, A Personal View

http://www.spiritualislibrae.com/chaoism-and-chaos-magick-a-personal-view/

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By: Beth W.

Beth W. — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:18:36 +0000

Ah, that makes sense. My approach was always much more shamanic to begin with, so Fries' book fit right in. I liked "Seidways" and "Helrunar," too, but they were much more specialized in nature.

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By: Psyche

Psyche — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:02:29 +0000

I loved Visual Magick when I first read it nearly a decade ago, and it's one I still recommend to people, especially would-be chaotes as a source of inspiration. However, as Fries dubs his work "free-style shamanism", I kept it off the list. It's a useful book, but I don't see it as a core or foundational text for chaos magick. I didn't include S.S.O.T.B.M.E. by Snell either, as, while it was an influence on the philosophy of chaos magick, it pre-dates it by several years.

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By: Beth W.

Beth W. — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:26:56 +0000

I notice Jan Fries' "Visual Magick" is not in your top 5 (it would be in mine, if I made such things). Have you read it? What do you make of it?

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