The document discusses how chaos and uncertainty are natural parts of life and magic according to mathematical and scientific principles. It explains that small changes in inputs can create large changes in outputs for living systems. The results of magic workings will inevitably tend towards chaos, and any attempts to restore order would interfere with the intended effects.
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Qaballah and Tarot: Qaballistic Magick and Chaos
The document discusses how chaos and uncertainty are natural parts of life and magic according to mathematical and scientific principles. It explains that small changes in inputs can create large changes in outputs for living systems. The results of magic workings will inevitably tend towards chaos, and any attempts to restore order would interfere with the intended effects.
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Yael R.
Dragwyla First North American rights
Email: [email protected] 5,400 words http://polaris93.livejournal.com/
Qaballah and Tarot: A Basic Course in Nine
Lessons
A note on Qaballistic Magick and Chaos
In the mathematical sense, as James Gleick discusses in his Chaos: Making a New Science (http://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/0140092501) , life is naturally chaotic. That is, the more orderly and the less mathematically chaotic the processes in the body of a living organism are, the closer that organism is to death. Optimally, life is a chaotic affair, mathematically speaking, and life-processes naturally tend toward the chaotic in that sense. Mathematical chaos describes systems in which small changes in input make for large changes in output, i.e., where small changes in the conditions to which that system is subject result in large changes in the behavior and state of that system. All living entities, whether individual organisms, ecosystems, or entire biospheres, are just such systems. Magick, as the pre-eminent biological behavior – the Art and Science of causing change in conformity with Will, which is the essence of behavior of every living creature throughout its life, which is always goal-oriented, the goals being those necessary for that creature’s survival and ability to propagate or protect the vehicles of its genes – is in this sense typical of life’s phenomena; its products are chaotic, need to be chaotic in order to create or enable viable outcomes for the goal-oriented behavior of the living organisms that practice Magick. This means that whenever a Magickal artifact is created or used, mathematical chaos immediately begins to pervade it. If this were not so, that artifact or its use would not, could not serve the purposes, the True Will, of the living organism that created or wielded it. This is just as true of Qaballistic Magick as any other Magickal Art: the deployment or use in any capacity of the Tree of Life and Qaballistic knowledge and technique will at once begin to generate mathematical chaos in the world as necessary to achieve the purpose of the Operation. Otherwise the Operation would fail, either not produce any results, or produce results contrary to its purpose. So however tempting it is to try to “restore order” to results of any Magickal Operation that seem to be “too disorderly,” don’t do it. That’s the natural and inevitable way by which Magick brings about its successful results in the real world, and to interrupt that evolution is to derail the results of the Working. In this case, the evolution of chaos in the results of the Operation indicates success rather than failure, and rather than causing dismay, should be an occasion for rejoicing, because it will ultimately cause change in conformity with the Operator’s Will. Eris has been too long unappreciated for Her true niche in the Cosmos and the necessity of Her domain, that of entropy, chaos, and uncertainty. It’s time to begin reverencing Her as absolutely necessary to all aspects of life and its ongoingness, and cherishing Her manifestations when they occur, in Magick and elsewhere.