Chaos magic
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Chaos magic, also spelled chaos magick, is a modern tradition of magic. Emerging in England in the 1970s as part of the wider neo-pagan and esoteric subculture, it drew heavily from the occult beliefs
Austin Osman Spare in 1904. His ideas formed the basis of chaos magic.
Heptameron magic circle
Austin Osman Spare
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Austin Osman Spare was an English artist and occultist who worked as a draughtsman, writer and painter. Influenced by symbolism and Art Nouveau, his art was known for its clear use of line and its dep
Chaos magic
…of magic. Emerging in England in the 1970s as part of the wider neo-pagan and esoteric subculture, it drew heavily from the occult beliefs of artist Austin Osman Spare, expressed several decades earlier. It has been characterised as an invented religion, with some commentators drawing similarities between the movement…
Spare's Portrait of the Artist (1907). An "important self-portrait", it would later be bought by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
"Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy", an image taken from The Book of Pleasure (1913). now owned by The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History