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Nag Hammadi In Rubber Naught Sparknotes

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The famous German alchemist Basil Valentine first wrote about this mysterious Azoth in the 1659 book Azoth of the Philosophers as following the seven steps of alchemy being calcination, dissolution, separation, conjunction, fermentation, distillation, and coagulation. The same author points out that the image of the Basilisk is associated with the stage of dissolution: Images of Dissolution include retorts, tears, menstruation, floods, melting, orgies, Mother Nature, water springing from the earth, plants blooming with seven flowers, poisonous toads, the King swimming naked, the King and Queen sitting in a bath together, dark dragons, basilisks (winged serpents), and demons guarding secret treasures. In the Hermetic text found in the Nag Hammadi …show more content…

What the book advocates is for the adept to work with “chaos magick,” although the term is never named as such but rather a hodge podge of magical techniques taken from other traditions such as Levi, Crowley’s Thelema and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. While we will not plumb the depths of the beliefs, philosophies and rituals associated with chaos magick, it is built essentially on the consciousness/mentalism model of magic where the subconscious mind is the primary generator of one’s reality while connected to outside powers in the universe that will align certain event and things into one’s life. This model is deeply influenced by the Greek Magical Papyri as well as the Pyramid Texts and the Book of the Dead. In Carroll’s magical system, he would advocate one to reach a state of “Gnosis,” through the means of yoga, tantra, psychoactive substances, sex, chanting, drumming, dancing, dreaming, etc. The aim of the chaos magician is to concentrate on an abstract idea of one’s desire while using one’s altered state of consciousness to bring about subconsciousness into operation for one’s wishes to manifest. The guiding moral compass of the chaos magician is summed up in the antinomian axiom “nothing is true, everything is

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