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.