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- The Wishing Well -or - Releasing The Butterfly of Chaos
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- by Frater Choronzon
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- The general function of a Wishing Well is understood from an early
- age by most people. The user projects some required outcome of
- events, or "wish" into the well, perhaps accompanied by a symbolic
- financial donation, and waits for events to take their course.
- Similar properties are attributed in popular tradition to acts of
- cutting a birthday cake and breaking a wish-bone while devouting
- certain species of poultry.
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- In every sense, the act of making a wish using any of the above
- ritual props is a magical operation though experience suggest that
- Wells tend to be more effective than both chicken bones and all but
- the most esoterically decorated cakes in achieving the intended
- result.
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- As of late, many Wishing Wells have been withdrawn from public
- access; and, moreover, recent opinion polls have indicated high
- levels of dissatisfaction with the scarcity of wish-fulfillment
- opportunities, particularly among vegetarians. This paper attempts
- some analysis of the dynamics involved in successful wish-making,
- and offers a ritual procedure which readers may find useful pending
- the launch of another "Wishing Well Withdrawal" from the public eye.
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- Anyone who has studied non-linear dynamics (or Chaos Mathematics) as
- applied to the interaction of complex systems (for instance life-in-
- general) will be aware of the extreme sensivity of such systems to
- initial conditions. This is illustrated by the so called Butterfly
- Effect; a model of the process by which a butterfly flapping its
- wings on the Carribean Islands can set in train a series of
- atmospheric interactions which may culminate, after some elapsed
- time, in the occurence of a hurricane in London.
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- The hypothesis in this context is that the ritual act of making a
- wish sets up initial conditions for a Chao/dynamic process which
- culminates, after some elapse time, in the occurrence of whatever
- event was the original objective of the wish; hence the subtitle
- "Releasing the Butterfly of Chaos". Atmospheric effects are often
- synchronous with successful magickal operations as was observed, for
- example, by those who were present for (or within earshot of) the
- 4,000 watt "Enochian Verse Recital" in South London, 17.30 Hrs,
- Monday, 28 May, 1990; but where magic is concerned the atmospherics
- are felt to be little more than by-products of casual sequence which
- is primarily electromagnetic in character.
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- The actual process by which a successful wish is transformed into
- its outcome is, of course, magic; at least in the sense that modern
- TV receiver might be acknowledged as such by Agrippa or Abra-Melin
- the Mage - Was there ever a more effective acrostic "for divers
- visions" than an infrared remote control?
-
- A detailed explanation of how the magical process appears to work
- would fill a book (reasonable offers from reputable publishers
- accepted); suffice it to say that no rewrite of either the Laws of
- Physics or the Axioms of Mathematics is required, and to mention
- that the Astrological elements of the hypothesis will form the
- substance of a paper to be presented to a forth coming meeting of
- the "Talking Stick".
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- For the purpose of this exercise, the process may be appropriately
- visualized by consideration of nothing more complicated than a
- humble smoke-ring. In mathematical terms this is a Torus (a ring-
- doughnut shaped structure) which has a clearly defined, coherent and
- self-contained existence for an extended period within a
- fundamentally chaotic matrix; ie. it can hung around for several
- seconds retaining its structure in the turbulent air of a
- smoke-filled room. Such ordered structures fall quite naturally out
- of the Chaos Mathematics which models the behavior of gases and
- liquids (Fluid Dynamics for the technically inclined). Examples of
- such ordered structures in a chaotic environment abound, and not
- only on this planet. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, for instance,
- has been in existence at least since Galileo observed it in 1610,
- though the chaotic nature of that planets atmosphere was not
- appreciated until the flypast of the Voyager spacecraft of 1979.
-
- A perfect smoke-ring requires very little expenditure of energy to
- be brought into existence, though that energy, in the form of a
- controlled pulse of gas projected from its creator lips has to be
- quite precise - ie. smoke-rings don`t always work, particular if
- someone is watching, and the best ones of all usually happen quite
- by accident! Significantly, the only way an observer can know if a
- smoke-ring is there because it has smoke in it. If an identical
- pulse of gas is projected from a non-smoker, the Toroidal ring
- structure will be established in the just the same way within the
- atmosphere, but its presence is almost impossible to detect, even
- with the most sophisticated of scientific instruments.
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- The atmosphere is not the only chao/dynamic envelope surrounding our
- planet; there also exists the magnetosphere, which we perceive at
- ground level as the earths magnetic field. At present it exerts a
- force which causes a compass needle to point approximately towards
- the North Pole.
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- The magnetosphere extends out into so-called empty space well beyond
- the atmosphere of the planet, and is anything but static in
- character. Complete polarity reversals can occur. A record of these
- is preserved in the sequence of North and South oriented volcanic
- rocks which have been mapped in the ocean floor extending outwards
- from mid-oceanic ridges, such as that which runs the lenght of the
- Atlantic. The magnetosphere exhibits its own "weather" patterns
- which, like the atmospheric weather, are driven primilarily by
- radiation from the Sun/Solar Winds. Magnetic and electric storms
- which affect TV and radio reception are a phenomena of
- magnetospheric weather, and interaction between the magnetosphere
- and the atmosphere can result in phenomena such as the Aurora
- Borealis or Northern Lights. Other manifestations include ball-
- lightning and St. Elmo`s fire.
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- The ritual procedure put forward here postulates a process whereby a
- sudden pulse of electro-chemical energy, through an operators
- nervous system, establishes a magnetic structure which is the
- mathematical equivalent of a smoke-ring. It is suggested that this
- can occur on the onset of orgasm or accompanying a powerful
- martial-arts styled shout or KIAI, by a process akin to that of the
- Faraday Induction described in any half-decent textbook. The
- "magical" part of the process involves injecting a
- flash-visualisation of the eventual desired outcome of the magneto-
- smoke-ring as it is being established. The rest of the process of
- wish fulfillment is left to the wondrous dynamics of Chaos. It may
- be helpful for the operator to face towards the geographical
- (magnetic) North Pole.
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- If performed as a solo working, this ritual may usefully be preceded
- by a banishing and visualisation exercise. The ritual text is
- written in the Enochian language of the angelic calls which were
- devised or discovered by Dr. John Dee in the 16th Century. In the
- sense that Enochian can be seen as a system of control (or cyber-)
- language for "life, the universe, and everything" it has many of the
- characteristics of a computer programming language. Among such
- properties would be those of recursive self-reference (ie. the
- ability to modify itself), and some of the phraseology of the
- preamble to the ritual is designed to apply ideas developed by
- Douglas Hoffstadter in his book Godel, Escher, Bach to the Enochian
- language. Specifically, the text of the ritual should increase its
- own potency with repetition.
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- After the Enochian preamble, the participant(s) should make a
- vocalized statement of a "wish" or willed endpoint for the working,
- at the same time strongly visualizing the desired outcome. This
- "wish" may be of a benefic or malefic intent, but beware! the
- Enochian preamble carries a force of personal honor, in wishes of a
- dishonorable character they are likely to backfire.
-
- The pre-climatic mantrum "Zarzas Zarzas Nasatanata Zarzas" is held
- to be untranslatable. It is, by tradition, a formula which opens the
- Gates of Hell or the Abyss; in this context it is used to invoke the
- dynamic process of Chaos by which the wish can be fulfilled. Some
- occult authorities, Crowley among them, assert that the Zarzas
- formula is dangerous and advise against using it. Modern Chaos
- magicians do not share that view and, besides having employed it for
- years with no particular ills impacting the user, is consistently
- been found to enhance the effectiveness of most categories of
- magical working.
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- The final climatic KIAI may be shout such as that projected by a
- martial arts practioner in the process of shattering a concrete
- block (or someone`s sternum), or else an exaggerated cry of orgasmic
- ecstasy. Prospective participants with orgiastic inclinations may
- care to experiment with variant techniques to effect the final KIAI
- exclamation which sets the magical "butterfly effect" process in
- motion. For example, the Enochian couplet following the statement of
- the wish might be committed to memory by operator of either gender,
- and repeated while other participants stimulate that operator to a
- frenzied pitch of ecstasy, culminating in the final KIAI. Such
- variants are for the more experimentaly inclined, but it is the sort
- of experiments which magicians of an unhibited frame of mind (or
- body) may find it enjoyable to carry out as an end in itself. Any
- feedback on results would be welcome!
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- ...continued by ritual text...
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- Ritual text / Enochian Invocation:
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- COMSELH I P MALPURG DSI
- The circle with eight fiery darts which is
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- DRILPA EMETGIS DE CHAOS
- the great seal of chaos
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- AS IOADAF DE TOL GLO
- was in the of all things.
- beginning
- T I TA HUBAR BLIOR
- It is as a continual of comfort
- burning lamp
- NONCA GMICALZOMA CRIP I CORAXO
- to you of power & but is as thunders of judgement
- understanding & wrath
- CIAOFI DE PAR AG IAIADIX
- to the of them of no honor
- terror
- SOLPHETH BIEN:
- hearken to my voice:
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- VOMSARG IADNAMAD GOHULIM:
- unto every one of you of undefiled knowledge it is said:
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- "OI EMETGIS LONSHI OVOF SA
- "This seal of power may be in
- magnfied
- MIAN I SAPAH DE OI
- continuancewith the mighty of this
- sounds
- LU IA HE BAHAL"
- song of honor cried with a loud voice"
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- VLCININ DS I ZA ZAZ
- Happy is s/he who has framed
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- ANGELGARD MANIN PRGE
- thoughts in the mind with the fire
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- ANANAEL PI
- of this secret wisdom, s/he
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- I VGEG T CAPMIALI FISIS
- is become also successively to execute
- strong
- BUTMONA ATH OD AMMA EMNA:
- By mouth the works and curses herein:
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- >> MAKE YOUR WISH HERE <<
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- SA CHAOS ANGELGARD HARG
- Into chaos the thoughts are planted
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- OD IONAS AZIAGIAR.
- and they will become like unto the harvest
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- ZARZAS ZARZAS NASATANATA ZARZAS
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- !!! KIAI !!!
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- * Origin: ChaosBox: Nothing is true -> all is permitted... (2:243/2)
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