Liber Kaos

by Peter J. Carroll

A complete, advanced magical training course for the individual or for groups, with details of the author's magical order, an outline for setting up a temple, and instructions for carrying out the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877287422
• ISBN13: 9780877287421
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

worth multiple reads

I have just recently started reading Peter Carroll over the last few months. After 2 yrs of study and practice of magick, Liber Kaos is the most brilliant and refreshing book on the topic i've read in a long time. His writing is very concise, easy to understand, and are supported with fact. Every writer has their own veiw and experiances that will be expressed in there writing. This book expresses a more open mind than most, and is should be read by anyone devoted to magick. PS- and of course it isn't for beginners, that's why Liber Null and Psychonaut exists. It should be obvious Carroll builds more advanced ideas on each book that has come out.

THE SCRIPTURES OF KAOS

This book consists of 3 parts. The first, Liber Kaos proper, deals with the principles of magic, aeonics and the principles of chaos. It includes Pope Pete's fascinating psychohistory model in which the shamanic, religious, rationalist and pandemonic aeons are measured against the materialistic, magical and transcendental paradigms to illustrate the historical ups and downs of the spiritual worldview. Part two: The Psychonomicon, discusses practical magic, sleight of mind, auric and different types of color magic, from octarine to purple. It also includes the Thanateros ritual, which is a celebration of Chaoist principles and a momentary invocation of the power of chaos itself. The appendices make up the third part of the book and includes Liber KKK: an extended series of magical operations; the Gnostic pentagram ritual; chaos monasticism, and; Liber Pactionis: the structure, rituals and protocols of the magical pact of the illuminates of Thanateros. The text is enhanced by diagrams and two illustrations, and there is a short bibliography which includes Stephen Hawking and Terry Pratchet. Pope Pete certainly provides a compelling read, but I'm not convinced of his premises. As another reviewer has said, chaos only occurs in a localized context. Certain patterns in the universe, like the platonic solids and sacred geometry (the golden mean) seem to indicate the prevalence of order in the larger scheme of things. Call me a heretic or Reform Chaoist if you will, but I don't believe Pope Pete is infallible!

A solid work

This book makes for some profound reading, however some of Carrolls' concepts are a little hard to agree with. A must read for anybody trying to discover what Chaos magick is all about.

Essential For The Serious Student

Less than 3% of all books on magic are worth reading. LIBER KAOS is one of them. The first part of the book attempts to explain magick in terms of quantum physics and chaos theory(interesting...that's all I can say). The second part of the book however,cuts straight to the nitty gritty of how to do magick properly to get results. Step by step procedure stripped of all religious, supersticious, and cultural symbolism and baggage. If you do not study these principles and use them you are shooting yourself in the foot.

Carroll's magickal dissertation

LIBER KAOS is divided into two parts: first, the outline of what Carroll calls CMT (Chaos Magickal Theory) on a scientific basis, borrowing from quantum physics and catastrophe theory. The second part is devoted to the dynamics of practical magick. LIBER KAOS is Pope Pete's dissertation on magick, and should be read by every student of the art of arts.