The occultist Peter J Carroll has died, best known as one of the founders of the Chaos Magic current. As he reflected last year:'As I turned 72 in January it occurred to me that Chaos Magic really began fifty years ago in a squat in insalubrious Deptford, London, where certain insights emerged during intense study, furious practice, wild experimentation, and meetings with remarkable and/or dubious people'Chaos Magic basically said: - Make spells by any Analogical Process you like. Invoke or Evoke anything you can Imagine. Use any kind of Gnosis that works for you. Select Beliefs for their Utility. Treat Divination as the Imagination of Possibilities. Magic modifies Probability. Specify precisely what Illumination you seek. As such it represents a radical breakaway from the Authority of Antiquity' (Chaos Magic at 50, 2025).Carroll was one of several young occultists who moved to squat in Speedwell House c.1976-78, having previously been involved with an informal group that became known…
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