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EVOCATION

A Cybermagick
PersPective

by Phil Hine
then be questioned spirit 'would various-gimoires, -^-o-."T evoked' a qualities, and how we could evocation of spirits from the The picatrix or N&ronomi- about In one such as the Key or sotomon, -which imptoue"upon- ttt" i'uo"ution-environment' i' the spirit vassago about the con, is an aspect -*'n*oofy injrance' rn"i. perceived as having ; 'lil,"r'r;i ,i*J rot evoking him' He made reply by

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,tra-ditional' grimoires and, followiog u"J"io"no 'uott'iiiJt'"i" led us to feel that the experience o[ Vassago' and analysis of our findings, "r"ut"-"-!"n"*t 1ni-ig1"iti*itptn*ent!-This foi ou, po*t-*odJrn era' '**pu't'J'-';-*ere'ousiOe approach to Co"riu-roitable as we go the series of evocations Iidedless to sav' things did not "*t"irv planned. various modifications to the we workings was drawn from the God-forms' our flrst senes of *oluruiiotir.-in:uo"ution of appropriate evocatory our-first rrsser Key of solomon. i{o*'' prior to beginning the of spirits spirit vassago, *u,^-o;rfor,n.o -t;io make thJconiuration triangle, erc.-'Jusr pror"{ rradirional u*ng"rri"oi-oitir"t", or Andromelius Lasier' During an iucn were'..mJr"roit the con1o see whar happened, as it ,uo"uiion oi- ctasygtauolas- we oreceded Unsealclear definition; uisions that the working tacteo un ii'io"ation of chuot' 'The h azy the spirit caued V;tiit*" whic'h was originally designed ilg of vitality (1 exnerienced a lowering oi Erii workings' As we did this' a 'diained'), headaches-and.pre-flu-ti5" 'yq3pt*t we windstorm blew up about the house we were -u"i a couple of Oays loffo*iig' In view'of'this, trt! spirit we were attempting to cirile and ::'.k41;' ind out of the triangle' It construcred a permanent ni?r..i"a .rules, in the Lesser Key, anoa-lt workings ine to the "ooiur.t that the- energies created by the ouilined in the lrssE, abilitv to manrwEre conducted in the fashion ":t::^_ vortices was impeding the soirit's dropped we- ctoieO tfr'"t' tn" windstorm and constrainS to the f"rt, l-o triangle' Using the long conjurations came through into the is exhilarating. u*.yilnd itte ipirit that the spirit given in f,tiJ"ns ,*ih u, these led ui to postulate by degree of conservatism The long senrences, plng*lpd. gitticar quou,"iol,-d;kly lrspirits tended ro a cerrain *fiictr they could be ment names of God airo ou.1' "i#";tTreteri'wilrrin pitclr, a1{ on"" it't imparted to us raises excitement to a fever ca'eo ioitr. The visions rhar rhey then be can be discerned, it must which the *n"Jrffiineoptimumenvironmentforconjuration within the Triangle of Art. The shapes iJr"iiu.o o.n"i,"ry-belonged to rhe 'baroque' school of o[ incense' lots of parapherspirits assumed i"re ,arety gxacjr_1.fi", generally but i1g^iirt'] "tli;:";;"ds within the L.esser Key (her;after LK), nalia etc. had apDeared similar. we rounoTtrit L-n", u spirit Demons & Data Processing oti"rlio"f us in a particutarloi., tnrn it more ai'in.-rit* that all this was going on' I was shape in subsequent

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being force-fed the mysteries of programming in COBOI4 whilst my colleague was being initiated into the subtleties of DBase III applications. It is unsurprising then, that we began to analyze our findings in terms of data processing. When writing a program in COBOI there are four 'chapters': 1,. Identification- Program name 2. Environment- Hardware & Peripherals
3. 4.

Data -

Procedure-

Variables
Functions

These 'chapters' struck me as being essentially similar to the stages in creating/conjuring a spirit: 1. Identification- Spirit Name & Sigil 2. Environment- Qualities which enable it to carry out tasks Variables: Time, operational 3. Data parameters

sigil, functions, and able to process differing variables. The conjurations serve to 'fire' the program-spirit, and set it working on a particular (user-defined) operation. The ritual celebrants, acting within the parameters of the ritual procedure, form the input device. The output device is the
world.

Specific areas of function This led to two diverging, yet allied, threads of research. The first was concerned with the creation of Chaos Servitors using sigils and symbolism as a kind of programming language (see Chaos Servitors: User Guide) and the second, to explain this analogy in terms of systems such as the LK. Developing the data-processing analogy further, we began to look at the LK in the sense of being a program environment. Each of the 72 spiria can be taken as a program shell, with a particular name, 4.

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spirit-executive. In the LK this would be a demon-prince, and any specified number of its servitor-legions (each spirit in the LK usually has many thousands of followers). The whole matrix of spirits would then act as a large program, composed of many subroutines, all working according to differing situational variables. Having so far theorized, it was time to alpha-test this system. We initially though of creating a circuitlike matrix of talismans and binding each demon in its place. We considered the LK too unwieldy for such an approach, and decided to use instead the Enochian system for an easy generation of task-specific spiris. We took two situations to affect; one, the generation of media interest in a certain magickal system, and the other, improving the self-confidence of a depressed friend. We took these situations, flowcharted them in meticulous detail, and, things being what they were, never got
around to doing the conjurations.

Imagine then, our surprise when, within the time-envelope we had specified, the two 'spells' which we hadn't bothered to ritualize came about! It has often been observed that precision of intent in acts of sorcery is paramount - that vague wishes get
vague results.

In these acts of 'flowchart' magick (and subsequent experiments), it seems that the key is the rigorous analysis of the situation and the identificainteract. Once finished, the whole thing can be shoved in an envelope, and left in a drawer, and forgotten. The

tion of specific variables and how they

Multi-Variable Magick Most magickal operations are designed to be a single-shot. That is, a single result is conjured for. What, we considered, would be the approach for handling a wide variety of variables within a complex event. The next data-processing idea we chose to look at was that of flowcharting different variables within an event. According to the LK and appreciated. similar grimoires, 'demons' have a hierarchical nature, and appear to function best when assigned specific duties. Many of the spirits of the LK have Chaos International is available ftom: governance over science, mathematics, etc., so we Atlantis Bookshop, 49 a Museum St, l-ondon. discussed the idea of setting spirits to 'count' Compendium Bookshop, 234 Camden High St, specific variables, which could be anything from the I-ondon. NW1. passage of time, to self-statements in a subject. Golden Dawn Books, Unit L5, The C-orn Exchange, Our basic approach was to look at a complex Flanging Dirch, Manchester. situation, identify all possible variables which could Id Aromatics,12 New Station St, Ireds L. be 'tweaked' in favour of the intended result, and Mercurius, 29L Portobello Rd, London. W11. assign a spirit to each variable, organizing them Skoob Two, 17 Sicilian Ave, I-ondon. WCLA. using a flowchart, and firing the whole thing using a \ilatkins, 15 Cecil C-ourt Rd, I-ondon.

'program' can be set to lie dormant until a specific condition manifests, such as an appfopriate astrological conjunction. The program could be considered as a cybernetic equivalent to the 'Astral Machines' refened to by some occultists. We are curently developing these ideas by translating the flowcharts into sigil circuit-diagrams, following Spare's Alphabet of Desire. If anyone out there wishes to experiment with this paradigm and share results, then conespondence would be greatly

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