THE
MASS OF CHAOS (D)
The
Dungeon/Daemon Psychodrama with added Higher Consciousness
Commentary:
Human
social conditioning supplies, in various measures, the two motive
components
of the will to power, revenge and domination. These can act as
either
daemons or demons.
If we
learn to artfully sublimate and disguise them they act as sources of
motivation
and drive, daemons, which can inspire in all manners of enterprises
with
a power, rival to that of the reproductive urge. So much of human
creativity,
ingenuity, rebelliousness and achievement is fired in part by the
conscious
or unconscious desire to prove others wrong or inferior and oneself
right
or better. If these two daemons are too heavily repressed, then a weak,
unassertive
and insufficiently motivated persona develops. Conversely, if
revenge
and domination assume too large a role in the personae and the selfslips
too
easily into full identification with either of them, then they become
demons,
which act self-destructively. The daemons or demons of revenge and
domination
are in fact a single two-faced entity. The will to revenge arises from
being
dominated, pushed around, ordered and controlled. The will to
domination
arises in response to the often covert will to revenge which arises in
those
others that one wished to control.
Such
daemons or demons are built into our psyches at an early stage of basic
mammalian
power politics during infancy where they constitute a sort of
internal
dungeon containing an oppressor seeking domination and a victim
seeking
revenge. Subsequent conditioning merely overlaps the daemons or
demons
with a veneer of social conditioning, manners, disguises, subtleties and
deceptions
of variable thickness.
The
Mass of Chaos (D) may be performed for several purposes. As an act of
Invocation
it may be performed to remedy conditions of insufficient motivation
or
self-assertion. As an act of Invocation and Enchantment it may be used to
support
the casting of spells for specific acts of revenge or domination. As an
act
of Illumination it may be performed to generate a sufficient gnosis to hurl
the
Kia into the no self, the no-mind, the white light of the void, the creative
void,
the metaprogramming circuit or whatever you wish to call it.
THE
MASS OF CHAOS (D)
The
Rite:
1.
Statement of Intent:
IT IS
MY WILL TO INVOKE THE DAEMONS OF REVENGE AND
DOMINATION
a)
FOR MOTIVATION AND ASSERTION
b) TO
CAST SPELL (S) OF REVENGE AND/OR DOMINATION
c) AS
A GATEWAY TO THE CREATIVE VOID
(delete
as appropriate)
2.
Four notes on a loud instrument.
3.
Visualize oneself in the form of the Daemon of Revenge
4.
Taking a small astral or material dagger or stiletto, trace a square on the
breast,
visualizing it as a black square.
5.
Invocation of the Daemon of Revenge:
Daemon
form visualization continues.
The
Refrain
I'LL
GET YOU BACK FOR IT YOU BASTARDS!
is
accompanied by threatening knife gestures, and is shouted after each line of
the
invocation except the last.
The
Incantation
FOR
ALL THOSE INSULTS I ENDURED IN SILENCE
FOR
ALL THOSE THINGS YOU MADE ME DO
FOR
ALL THAT CUTTING SARCASM
FOR
ALL THOSE ARROGANT COMMANDS
FOR
ALL THAT YOU THINK YOU ARE SO GOOD
FOR
ALL THOSE TIMES YOU HAD YOUR WAY
FOR
ALL THOSE THINGS YOU DID TO ME
FOR
ALL THOSE HUMILIATIONS YOU GAVE ME
FOR
ALL THE PAIN YOU CAUSED ME
YOU
ARE WORSE THAN I AM, TASTE MY BILLIOUS RAGE!
REVENGE!
REVENGE! REVENGE! (stabbing with knife)
6.
Spells may be cast at this point by visualization, sigils or by some other
means.
7.
Three notes on a loud instrument.
8.
Visualize oneself in the form of the Daemon of Domination by rotating one's
head
and one's shoulder by a half turn in the imagination to reveal the other
face.
9.
Taking a large astral or material sword or bludgeon, trace a triangle on one's
breast,
visualizing it as a burning red triangle.
10.
Invocation of the Daemon of Domination:
The
daemon form visualization continues.
The
Refrain
DO
WHAT I SAY YOU LITTLE BASTARD!
is
accompanied by threatening weapon gestures and is shouted after each line
of
the invocation except the last.
The
Incantation
FOR
ALL YOU STUPID DISOBEDIENCES
FOR
ALL YOUR DUMB INSOLENCES
DON'T
LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT YOU IDIOT
FOR
ALL THE TROUBLE IT TAKES TO MAKE YOU SEE SENSE
CAN'T
YOU SEE THAT I KNOW BEST
I
GIVE THE ORDERS AROUND HERE
YOUR
PATHETIC WANTS ARE NO CONCERN OF MINE
I AM
MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU
I
WANT OBEDIENCE AND I WANT IT NOW
I AM
BETTER THEN YOU, TASTE MY CHOLERIC RAGE!
DOMINATION!
DOMINATION! DOMINATION! (attacking with weapon)
11.
Spells may be cast at this point.
12.
Cease visualizations and Banish by Laughter to close, or if an Illumination
rite:
Cease
visualization of the Daemon. Visualize briefly the eight-rayed Star of
Chaos
on one's breast. Seek that void place within from which perspective the
daemons
appear as separate entities which you can remember being. Contrast
the
vividness of the experiences of being them with the vividness of the
experience
of not being them. If necessary contemplate the propositions
I AM
DAEMONS
I AM
NOT DAEMONS
I AM
DAEMONS AND I AM NOT DAEMONS
After
a suitable period Banish by Laughter.
THE
MASS OF CHAOS (E)
Commentary:
Legend
has it that the Greek Goddess Eris hurled down a golden apple marked
KALLISTI
(for the fairest) amongst the Gods and Goddesses to create a riot.
As a
Goddess of Chaos she can be seen as the archetypal muse who brings
inspiration
and creative cganhe through the clash of opposites. Whenever an
irresistible
force collides with an unmovable object, whenever man collides
with
woman, whenever there is paradox, when yin meets yang, in that moment
of
fertile confusion, pregnant with new potential, we detect the hand of Eris
stirring
things up out of pure wanton curiosity. In the manner of a crazed
chemist
she playfully mixes her most powerful reagents to see what explosions
result.
Heedless of the entropy in her wake, she delights ever in the wildness
and
weirdness she provokes.
Eris
is traditionally invoked in the form of a goddess with flaming red
hair,dressed
in a riot of color and carrying an apple marked K for Kallisti and
Kaos.
Her personal sigil is
representing
the two horns of the moon, the horns of the shamanic life force
spirit
and also two arrows meeting in a head-on collision.
She
resumes the qualities of the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar of love and war
who
is represented by an eight-rayed star, kali the Hindu Goddess of Sex and
Death
and by Babalon and Lilith, the hebraic conceptions of wild and
unacceptable
femininity.
The
ancient greeks saw her as the daughter of Chaos and Darkness, the primal
creative
force and the void into which it manifests. They call her a Goddess of
Chaos,
Dischord and Confusion, for in their rigid social paradigm they were
unable
to concieve that one must have Chaos in one's "soul" to give birth to
a
dancing
star, that confusion is a holy state entirely preferable to all fragile
certainties,
and that discord is the precursor of all great synthesis. The universe
is
obviously as confused about itself as we are about our various selves,
otherwise
how could creation and evolution occur?
The
invocation of Eris is a celebration of paradox, of contradiction, of fertile
confusion,
of that which is beyond logic, of those qualities repressed by
patriarchal
regimes and unfairly relegated to the feminine domain, emotion,
feeling,
socially unaccepted liasons, hysteria, enthusiasm and untidiness.
The
Mass of Chaos (E) is most commonly performed by a Priestess, although a
Priest
may take the role if he dares.
During
the cacophony participants shout out any system of belief or beliefs
they
wish, these may be real, imaginary, or nonsensical, or all of these things
simultaneously,
they also may argue two or more beliefs against each other
with
themselves, this practice is particularly useful in solo performance.
Substantial
quantities of screwed up newspaper may be used to mark the circle
and
participants should freely tramp through this during their
circumambulations.
The
Priestess beforehand must memorize the Enochian Incantation and the
Vernacular
Proclamation and indeed the general format of the rite. The Mass of
Chaos
(E) is never read from papers. The consecration is achieved where
possible
with the use of an apple. For example, the apple may be cast into a
sacrament
of a fluid prepared from apples, or crushed underfoot onto a pentacle
or
impaled on a dagger to consecrate it. The seeds of the apple should be
recovered
afterwards and planted or used as Chaos talismans.