I have been enjoying the Glastonbury Occult Conference since 2014. This means that I have now attended eleven of the conferences, 2021 was cancelled due to the pandemic. It has become one of the events of the year that I feel really excited about and a community has developed around this conference. I was very honoured to be asked to deliver a workshop at the Conference for 2026. The ritual part of the workshop, which I later repeated at the IOT event “Chaos Streams beyond the Book,” consisted of connecting with chaos as the source of the multi verse via 108 Salutations followed by a Chaos Kirtan.
With this I am challenging the notion that Chaos magick is a post-modern approach to magick. I feel that chaos magick cannot possibly be bound to this one, single philosophical school of thought. This is because each individual school of philosophy is a paradigm and the core principle of chaos magick is paradigm shifting. Viewing Chaos Magick through one single philosophical lens is also in conflict with chaos magick’s concept of freedom of thought. By viewing chaos magick as solely this or that philosophy, then you are boxing in your range of experiences, instead of seeing the multiplicity of forms that chaos can take. Bearing this in mind, I decided to test my view that chaos magick encompasses a wider range of philosophies. I did this by taking a random philosophical paradigm and doing chaos magick through that philosophical idea for a period of time, then dropping it and moving onto a different one. What I am finding is that, yes, chaos magick is cross paradigmal when it comes to philosophical ideas.
The 108 Salutations comes from my Neo-Platonic experiments of viewing chaos as the monad that led to the creation of the multi verse. As Hesiod said in his Theogony, “In the beginning was chaos” and all that exists came from the chaos void.
I worked primarily with the ideas of Plotinus, who referred to the monad as “The Good” or “The One” and he described this as,
“Generative of all, The Unity is none of all; neither thing nor quantity nor quality nor intellect nor soul; not in motion, not at rest, not in place, not in time: it is the self-defined, unique in form or, better, formless, existing before Form was, or Movement or Rest, all of which are attachments of Being and make Being the manifold it is.” (Plotinus, The Enneads, Sixth Ennead, Ninth Tractate).
That sounds like a great description of chaos to me. Using these principles I mediated on chaos as the monad and all that exists as part of this monad via these 108 salutations which I wrote in a state of trance. Usually having done salutations this is followed by the chanting of a mantra. As this is a chaos magick ritual there is no pre-determined manta, instead a series of random noises are made, which is your individual expression of the sound of chaos, as in this paradigm we are all manifestations of the chaos force. In the accompanying video a series of cut ups is used to express that idea. The video can be found at the bottom of this post.
Statement of Intent- “We are having knowledge and conversation with the creative and destructive forces in the multi-verse that we call chaos.”
1. Salutations to the synthesis of all
2. Salutations to the point of singularity
3. Salutations to that which is not one thing but not of the other
4. Salutations to them that are inside and outside the cosmic dance of time
5. Salutations to the expansion of ever increasing diversity
6. Salutations to the home of entropy
7. Salutations to that which is left and right
8. Salutations to that which is not left or right
9. Salutations to the union of all opposites
10. Salutations to birth and death
11. Salutations to solve and coagula
12. Salutations to love and discord
13. Salutations to the interzone of all
14. Salutations to No Thing
15. Salutations to All things
16. Salutations to the permitter of existence and non-existence
17. Salutations to that which cannot be described.
18. Salutations to the primal point.
19. Salutations to the heart of the cosmic mandala
20. Salutations to the radial explosion
21. Salutations to that which expresses itself inwards and outwards
22. Salutations to the container of no thing
23. Salutations to the infinite possibility
24. Salutations to the junction of duality
25. Salutations to the ever expanding and contracting oneness
26. Salutations to the manifesting of pleasing designs
27. Salutations to the swirling mass of stillness
28. Salutations to the heart of replication
29. Salutations to the mother of shape and form
30. Salutations to the formless
31. Salutations to simplicity and multiplicity.
32. Salutations to the beginning and the end
33. Salutations to that which is not that
34. Salutations to the synthesis of time
35. Salutations to the creator and destroyer
36. Salutations to the source of all sorrow and all mirth
37. Salutations to the octarine light
38. Salutations to the darkness and the light
39. Salutations to the multiplicity of oneness
40. Salutations to the nameless singularity.
41. Salutations to that which expands in all directions
42. Salutations to the dynamic interchange of oneness
43. Salutations to the elemental pool
44. Salutations to the absent presence
45. Salutations to the ancient new born
46. Salutations to the intersecting multiverse
47. The diversity of singularity
48. Salutations to the container without limitations
49. Salutations to the insubstantial substance
50. Salutations to the black white light
51. Salutations to the universal spiral
52. Salutations to the source of Baphomet
53. Salutations to the originator of all principles
54. Salutations to the Mother of the Gods
55. Salutations to the crossroads of all reality
56. Salutations to the well of unreality
57. Salutations to the cauldron of Awen
58. Salutations to the enabler of interactions
59. Salutations to the allower of all possibilities
60. Salutations to the chaos that is true
61. Salutations to truth and falsehood
62. Salutations to the mutating illusion
63. Salutations to the ever moving stillness
64. Salutations to the well of possibility
65. Salutations to the silent roar
66. Salutations to beyond male and female
67. Salutations to the all-seeing blindness
68. Salutations to the source of belief and unbelief
69. Salutations to the scorching coldness
70. Salutations to the turbulent tranquillity
71. Salutations to the vibrating osculating source
72. Salutations to the origin of diversity and sameness
73. Saluations to the over and the under.
74. Salutations to the replicating patterns
75. Salutations to the circulating spiral
76. Salutations to the great begetter and destroyer
77. Salutations to the infinite infinity
78. Salutations to the source of 3.14159
79. Salutations to the creator and merger
80. Salutations to The spinning stillness
81. Salutations to the upwards downwards
82. Salutations to the merging and separation
83. Salutations to existence and non-existence
84. Salutations to something and nothing
85. Salutations to the empty and the full
86. Salutations to the congruent incongruence
87. Salutations to the rising and the falling
88. Salutations to the appearing and disappearing
89. Salutations to the negative and positive polarities
90. Salutations to the becoming and dissipating source
91. Salutations to the fire and the ice
92. Salutations to the cascading, illuminating dawn
93, Salutations to emptiness and fullness
94. Salutations to the enabler of movement
95. Salutations to the order within disorder
96. Salutations to the non-linear, linearity
97. Salutations to the formless matter
98. Salutations to the source of space and time
99. Salutations to the transforming manifestor
100. Salutations to the interdimensional dimensions
101. Salutations to that which is beyond understanding
102. Salutations to the unknowable no thing
103. Salutations to inflation and contraction
104. Salutations to the expansion of space
105. Salutations to the source of quantum uncertainty
106. Salutations to the source of cosmic strings
107. Salutations to the cosmic tunnelling
108. Salutations to the pointless point of it all
Hail Chaos