Liber Null and Psychonaut
The Practice of Chaos Magic
Revised and Expanded Edition
by Peter J. Carroll
“The most original and probably the most important writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley." — Robert Anton Wilson, author of Prometheus Rising and other works
Peter J. Carroll’s classic work has been profound influence on the Western magical world and on the practice of chaos magick in particular. In Liber Null and Psychonaut, Carroll presents an approach to the practice of magic that draws on the foundations of shamanism and animism, as well as that found in the Greek magical papyri, the occult works of Éliphas Lévi and Aleister Crowley, and the esoteric meditative practices of classical India and China. Also very much at work in the text are 20th century scientific ideas of quantum physics and chaos theory.
The result is a profoundly original work of magical studies that also includes a selection of extremely powerful rituals and exercises for committed occultists with instructions that lead the reader through new concepts and practices to achieve Carroll’s definition of magic itself: the raising of the whole individual in perfect balance to the power of infinity.
Revised and Expanded Edition
This Weiser Classics edition is a thoroughly revised republication of Liber Null and Psychonaut, first published by Weiser in 1987, and includes a new foreword by Ronald Hutton, a leading authority on modern witchcraft and paganism.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
LIBER NULL
The Quest
Liber MMM
Mind Control
Magic
Dreaming
Liber Lux
Gnosis
Evocation
Invocation
Liberation
Augoeides
Divination
Enchantment
Liber Nox
Sorcery
The Double
Transmogrification
Ecstasy
Random Belief
The Alphabet of Desire
The Millenium
Liber AOM
Aetherics
Transubstantiation
The Chaosphere
Aeonics
Reincarnation
PSYCHONAUT
Introduction
New Aeon Magic
Group Magical Experiments
Levels of Consciousness
Magical Combat
The Rites of Chaos
The Mass of Chaos
Initiation
Exorcism
Extreme Unction: The Final Enchantment
Ordination
Magical Time
Chemognosis
Magical Perspectives
Chaos: The Secret of the Universe
Baphomet
The Psychic Censor
The Demon Choronzon
Animism and Shamanism
Gnosticism
Occult Priestcraft
Magical Weapons
Magical Paradigms
Anecdotes
Catastrophe Theory and Magic
Catastrophe Theory
Chaos Theory and Magic
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Paperback Edition
224 pages. Matte, textured printed card cover.
ISBN: 978-1-57863-766-9
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Press, reviews, endorsements
“There have so far been three leading theorists of modern Western magic: Éliphas Lévi, Aleister Crowley, and Peter Carroll.”
Ronald Hutton, author of The Triumph of the Moon and other works
“The most original and probably the most important writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley.”
Robert Anton Wilson, author of Prometheus Rising and other works
"Peter Carroll has successfully broken down many of the patterns that so many magicians cling to. Liber Null and Psychonaut—written not only for students of chaos magic, but to separate the necessary from what may be the unnecessary formula of magick—covers much new territory. Carroll has taken methods from Austin Osman Spare, shamanism, paganism, and Chaos science and synthesized them into a new system of practice."
The Portal
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About the Author
Peter J. Carroll is an English occultist and writer. He has authored six books, including Liber Null & Psychonaut and Liber Kaos. He is past Grandmaster of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, Chancellor of Arcanorium College, Acting Marshall of the Knights of Chaos, and a Bard of Dobunni Grove. He maintains a personal website at specularium.org.
