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Peter J. Carroll

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Also known as Peter James Carroll

British occultist

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  • Between spaces
  • Rebels and Devils
  • This Is Chaos
  • Magical AI Grimoire
  • Liber Null y Psiconauta

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United States

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Peter James Carroll (born 8 January 1953, Patching, England) is a modern occultist, author, co-founder of the Illuminates of Thanateros, and practitioner of chaos magic theory. Peter J. Carroll is a leading figure within the Chaos Magic movement. Along with 'The New Equinox" publisher and writer Ray Sherwin, Carroll is widely considered to be the originator of Chaos Magic as an independent field of occult exploration. Carroll and Sherwin created a loosely organized group called the Illuminates

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Quotes

  • Magic is the science and the art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
  • Man considers himself center of will and a center of perception. Will and perception are not separate but only appear so to the mind. The unity which appears to the mind to exert twin functions of will and perception is called Kia by magicians. Sometimes it is called the spirit, or soul, or life force, instead.
  • As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.
  • In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.
  • It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.
  • Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.

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date of birth
1953-01-08
date of death
2026-04-22
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