Chaos & Sorcery

Preface of Peter J. Carroll: The Chaos Current has recently

spawned a number of excellent grimoires by practical sorcerers who write from

hardwon experience. This book must rank amongst the best of them.

I have had the honour of knowing and working with Nick Hall for some years and I

have seen him perform many of the acts of sorcery that he writes of in this

book. The results are often as awesome as is the presence of the man himself.

Having conjured with Nick on many occasions, I would not relish the prospect of

conjuring against him.

Rather than invest belief in abstruse metaphysical theory, Nick has chosen here

to build a system from an eclectic range of practical procedures culled from

many cultures. Informing the whole treatise however is the chaoist meta-belief

that belief structures reality. This is pragmatic magick at its best. Devise or

discover a technique that seems worth investing belief in, and if you can

validate it, include it in your grimoire, without worrying how or why it works.

Many times in the course of reading this text I stopped to make a note of

something that seemed well worth trying out. That, I think, is the mark of a

useful book.

Unless the vast majority of magicians work in complete isolation from their more

public peers, then the ratio of civilians who merely collect magic books to

actual working magicians may be estimated at ninety nine to one. This is a book

for the one-percenters, although it may inspire a few of the rest to actually

pick up a wand for a change. All it takes is guts and imagination, not much

specialist knowledge is required.