#Calligraphy #Sigils #Magic #Glyphs #Art #Sorcery #ChaosMagic
Artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) developed his own unique method of creating and using sigils, which has had a huge effect on modern #occultism.
#Spare did not agree with #medieval practice, arguing that such supernatural beings were simply complexes in the unconscious, and could be actively created through the process of #sigilization.
Spare's technique became a cornerstone of #chaosmagic. It also influenced artist Brion Gysin, who experimented with combining Spare's sigil method with the traditional form of magic squares:
#Calligraphic #magick squares were one of the techniques most commonly applied by #Gysin. He would reduce a name or an idea to a " #glyph " and then write across the paper from right to left, turn the paper and do the same again, and so on, turning the paper around and around to create a multidimensional grid... The same techniques and consciously driven functional intention also permeated his paintings.
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In a very real sense, everything he created was an act of #sorcery.
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In chaos magic, following Spare, sigils are commonly created in a well ordered fashion by writing an intention, then condensing the letters of the statement down to form a sort of monogram. The chaos magician then uses the gnostic state to "launch" or "charge" the sigil—essentially bypassing the conscious mind to implant the desire in the unconscious. To quote Ray Sherwin:
The magician acknowledges a desire, he lists the appropriate symbols and arranges them into an easily visualised glyph. Using any of the gnostic techniques he reifies (consider an abstract concept to be real) the sigil and then, by force of will, hurls it into his subconscious from where the sigil can begin to work unencumbered by desire.
