# Chaos Magic · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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The Canon · No. 120
Chaos Magic
Chaos magick
c.1976 CE – present · Esoteric / Occult · Living · UK, US, Europe; largely online
VIII. POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY — 1945 – PRESENT
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1913 CE Spare publishes The Book of Pleasure, containing the sigil method.
- 1976–78 CE Carroll and Sherwin found the Illuminates of Thanateros; Liber Null published.
- 1980s CE The movement intersects with industrial music and the British underground; Genesis P-Orridge's Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.
- 1990s CE Condensed Chaos and the internet spread the techniques far beyond any organisation.
- <strong>1994–2000 CE</strong> Grant Morrison's comic The Invisibles functions as both a chaos magic text and a mass-market vehicle for it; Morrison publicly describes using sigils to influence the book's own commercial success.
- 2000s–present Sigil practice becomes the default entry point for a generation of self-taught occultists; it spreads through internet forums and later through TikTok, largely detached from any of the source material.
- 2010s–present Pop culture magic — working with fictional entities — becomes mainstream within the milieu, and meme magic enters political discourse in ways its originators did not anticipate.
### Sources
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