kaos

Correspondence
How the Chaos current died
Joel—In talking about the death of the Chaos current you said: “People like the iot
tied it all up in what I predicted and called ‘nostalgia magic’ in 1989. But potential
never dies, and one day people may pick up the threads once again.”
Come on bro, don’t just talk it, do it. Haven’t I irritated you enough yet? You killed
it, now resurrect it!
DAVID CANTU
Actually, Stephen Sennitt announced the death of the Chaos current first, in his editorial
in NOX 6 (1988), entitled “Obituary for the Chaos current”, he wrote:
Joel Biroco’s slant on Chaos magic has also been short-lived and by my experience of
him, transcended—if that’s the word. We can see that this may have been planned, but I
suspect he played it by ear. Perhaps at this moment Mr Biroco is happily considering
himself the catalyst that destroyed the empty posturing we have called the Chaos current.
A nod to him on that one, but let me be the first to announce that the Chaos current is
officially dead!
In KAOS 13 ( January, 1989) I said this was a premature ejaculation and I instigated
kaos-babalon or “156 current”, which I had been working on in the background as a
truly “occult” (hidden) current, regarding Babalon as having occult identity with Chaos,
essentially being female and male counterparts. It turned the Chaos current into a
hard-edged and dark sex magick current.
I was very excited by the kaos-babalon development and personally experienced a
tremendous amount of magical power associated with it. I regarded it as the “meaning”
of everything me and Stephen and everyone else had been doing and where it had
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