by Illuminatus Ipsissimus Blue Heron Man 43218 KSC

Chaos magic has always been syncretic — willing to borrow from anywhere, discard what doesn't work, and build something genuinely new from the wreckage. This 2013 contribution to alt.magick.chaos from the practitioner known as Illuminatus Ipsissimus Blue Heron Man 43218 KSC does exactly that. His technique, which he calls (K)Chaos M(HU)jic(K), encodes magical intent as musical tone: assign the letters of a statement of will to pitch classes via a letter-to-note cipher, derive a melodic or harmonic structure from the result, then perform a ritual using that sonic sigil at the moment of gnosis.

The technique is set within an extended meditation on HU — the primordial divine sound — traced across Sufi mysticism (Hazrat Inayat Khan's sawt-e-sarmad), Tibetan cosmogony (where creation emerges from the breath of the creator as two syllables HU HU), Celtic mythology (Hu Gadam and the Tuatha de Danaan), and Egyptian symbolism (the Sphinx as HU, guardian and protector). The gathering of sources is a practitioner's working library, not academic apparatus: Blavatsky and Crowley alongside Dōgen, the Prajñāpāramitā Sutra, and the Principia Discordia. The closing bibliography lists standard chaos magic texts — Liber Null, Condensed Chaos, Practical Sigil Magic — alongside works on sacred sound and cymatics.

The author signs with HAIL ERIS! and FNORD, placing himself squarely in the Discordian-chaos current. Preserved here as a document of living chaos magic practice in the era of digital music production — when the ancient technology of sound meets the chaos magician's laptop.

Background: HU — The Sound of the Unknown

There are no rules anywhere.

HU: The Sound of the Unknown. Divine Essence.

"HU is the 'vibrational expression' of Cosmic Consciousness." — Suresh Emre

"The Universe was manifested out of Divine Sound; from it came into being the Light." — Shams-i-Tabrīzī

Word origin: God — Our word god goes back via Germanic to Indo-European, in which a corresponding ancestor form meant "invoked one." The word's only surviving non-Germanic relative is Sanskrit hu, "invoke the gods," a form which appears in the Rig Veda, most ancient of Hindu scriptures. (Reader's Digest Family Word Finder, 1975)

"All affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense." — Sri Sayadasti (Principia Discordia)

From The Flaming Door: Mission of the Celtic Folk Soul by Eleanor C. Merry, 1936:

"And that which came to meet the soul (as light and sound come to meet our outer eyes and ears) was called HU, the spiritual world." (p. 137)

"The Mysteries of HU revealed the other pole of human life: the ascent out of the body into the 'glorified' state of expansion of the consciousness in the spiritual world." (p. 153)

"And HU could bring music to the consciousness of waking man and teach it to him, because he himself could hear in sleep the harmonies of the spheres, and his passage from waking to sleeping to waking was unbroken by any obliteration of consciousness. This was always the summit of initiation experience." (p. 165)

From The Religions of Tibet by Giuseppe Tucci:

"The figure of the creator, who corresponds to the Isvara of certain Saivite schools, bears various names, among them sNang ba ód Idan, Kun snang khyab pa and khri khug rgyal po. That which he creates has two aspects, the exterior world (phyi snod) and that contained within it (bcud), a division that corresponds to that between the Indian bhajana-loka and sattva-loka. The cosmology which is attached to this is surely very old, and is throughout constructed on a dualist basis. From the breath which streamed out of the creator there emerged two syllables HU HU, and progressively, the entire universe."

From The Secret Power of Music by David Tame:

"In the beginning was Brahman, with whom was the Word. And the Word is Brahman." — Vedas

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." — Gospel according to St John

As the religions of East and West so strikingly agree: in the beginning was the Word. But exactly what was — or, to use the present tense of the Vedic quotation, is — the Word? The above scriptures describe it as being a part of God, or Brahman. Further, the quotation from the opening of the gospel of St John continues, pregnant with meaning: "The same (the Word) was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."

We have, in these famous, deeply mystical lines from St John, yet another example of the universal ancient belief that God, or a Divine Being, created the universe, and did so by means of a vibratory emanation. This sacred vibration is usually referred to in early Christian texts as the Word. In Hinduism the divine vibration is more usually referred to as OM. Nevertheless, the Word and the OM are one and the same thing. Moreover, a great variety of other terms stemming from the different cultures of ancient times also refer to this same universal, eternal phenomenon. Cosmic Sound, infused with the essence of Consciousness, has been known variously as AUM, AMN, AMEN, AMEEN, OMEN, OMON, I AM, HU, YAHUVAH, the Logos, the Lost Word, and by other names besides. (p. 205)

In Persia the name of the fabulous huma bird is derived from the root Hum, which is related to OM. And tradition has it that should the huma bird alight for a moment upon the head of any person, then it is a sign that the person is destined to become a king. Incidentally, the root HU is a direct reference to the Word of God; and this is most interesting, for this same root is also a part of the word human. In "human," the man portion comes from the Sanskrit Mana, or "mind of the ordinary man." So the term "human" is therefore an eternal reminder of the ancient doctrine: that God is even now in all men, and can be more fully realized by all. (p. 215)

"The forms of snowflakes and faces of flowers may take on their shape because they are responding to some sound in nature. Likewise, it is possible that crystals, plants, and human beings may be, in some way, music that has taken on visible form." — Cathie Guzett

From The Sirius Connection by Murry Hope:

"One of the names of the Egyptian Sphinx was HU, 'the protector'; another was Hor-em-akhet or 'Horus of the Horizon' which immediately connects its erection with those enigmatical 'Sons (or Followers) of Horus' the Shemsu-Hor. Curiously enough, the name 'HU' also occurs in the Celtic myth of Hu Gadam, an Atlantean person from the sea who guided a band of settlers to the prehistoric shores of Wales. There is also an uncanny similarity of sound between the names Hu Gadam and the Tuatha de Danaans (pronounced Tuar-de-Danans), those strange fairy people with magical powers who, according to legend, landed on the shores of prehistoric Ireland." (p. 197)

From The Message of the Sphinx by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval:

"When speaking of the Sphinx, the Ancient Egyptians frequently made use of the Harranian derivation Hwl, but they also knew it by many other names: HU, for example..." (p. 5)

The Relation Between Sound and Silence

We usually think of sound and silence as two opposite concepts. In fact, they are not really opposites of each other. Both sound and silence represent two forms of sounds: sound as we know it represents audible sound. It is the sound of the Known. On the other hand, silence represents non-audible sound. It is the sound of the Unknown.

Silence is the sound of the Unknown.

The Unknown is referred to as "Hu" in ancient spirituality. "Hu" is both a sound and a holy name of God. The sound "Hu" is the most basic vibration in the universe. It is the smallest sound, or the smallest vibration, that is produced whenever an object moves in the universe. Since nothing in creation is in a perfect state of rest — electrons are constantly moving around the nucleus — it is safe to say that there is no place in creation where the sound "Hu" is not produced. Therefore, the real meaning of Silence — which is perfect absence of sound — does not exist in the universe. In this world, when we seek to immerse ourselves in Silence, we are not trying to shut our ability to hear sounds. On the contrary, we are trying to increase our ability to hear a very specific sound: the vibrating sound of the Universe, which is the sound of our inner Soul. That sound is the eternal vibration of Huuuuuu. — Author Unknown

Sawt-i Sarmad — The Sound of the Abstract

Abstract sound is called sawt-e-sarmad by the Sufis; all space is filled with it. The vibrations of this sound are too fine to be either audible or visible to the material ears or eyes, since it is even difficult for the eyes to see the form and color of the ethereal vibrations on the external plane.

It was the sawt-e-sarmad, the sound of the abstract plane, which Muhammad heard in the cave of Ghar-e-Hira when he became lost in his divine ideal. The Qur'an refers to this sound in the words: "Be! and all became." Moses heard this sound on Mount Sinai when in communion with God, and the same word was audible to Christ when absorbed in his heavenly Father in the wilderness. Shiva heard the same anahad nada during his samadhi in the cave of the Himalayas. The flute of Krishna is symbolic of the same sound. This sound is the source of all revelation to the Masters to whom it is revealed from within.

The Sufi knows of the past, present and future, and about all things in life, by being able to know the direction of sound. Every aspect of one's being in which sound manifests has a peculiar effect upon life, for the activity of vibrations has a special effect in every direction. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe. Whoever has followed the strains of this sound has forgotten all earthly distinctions and differences, and has reached that goal of truth in which all the blessed ones of God unite.

Space is within the body as well as around it; in other words, the body is in the space and the space is in the body. This being the case, the sound of the abstract is always going on within, around and about man. Man does not hear it as a rule, because his consciousness is entirely centered in his material existence. Man becomes so absorbed in his experiences in the external world through the medium of the physical body that space, with all its wonders of light and sound, appears to him blank.

The sound of the abstract is called anahad in the Veda, meaning unlimited sound. The Sufis name it sarmad, which suggests the idea of intoxication. The word intoxication is here used to signify upliftment, the freedom of the soul from its earthly bondage. Those who are able to hear the sawt-e-sarmad and meditate on it are relieved from all worries, anxieties, sorrows, fears and diseases, and the soul is freed from captivity in the senses and in the physical body. The soul of the listener becomes the all-pervading consciousness, and his spirit becomes the battery which keeps the whole universe in motion.

Some train themselves to hear the sawt-e-sarmad in the solitude, on the seashore, on the river bank, and in the hills and dales; others attain it while sitting in the caves of the mountains, or when wandering through forests and deserts, keeping themselves in the wilderness apart from the haunts of men. Yogis and ascetics blow sing — a horn, or shanka — a shell, which awakens in them this inner tone. Dervishes play nai or alghoza — a double flute — for the same purpose. The bells and gongs in the churches and temples are meant to suggest to the thinker the same sacred sound, and thus lead him towards the inner life.

This sound develops through ten different aspects because of its manifestation through ten different tubes of the body. It sounds like thunder, the roaring of the sea, the jingling of bells, running water, the buzzing of bees, the twittering of sparrows, the vina, the whistle, the sound of shanka — until it finally becomes Hu, the most sacred of all sounds.

This sound Hu is the beginning and end of all sounds, be they from man, bird, beast, or thing. The Supreme Being has been called by various names in different languages, but the mystics have known it as HU, the natural name — not the man-made — the only name of the Nameless, which all nature constantly proclaims. The sound HU is the spirit of all sounds and all words, and is hidden within them all, as the spirit is in the body. It does not belong to any language, but no language can help belonging to it. This alone is the true name of God, a name that no people and no religion can claim as their own.

The mystery of Hu is revealed to the Sufi who journeys through the path of initiation. Truth, the knowledge of God, is called by a Sufi Haqq. If we divide the word Haqq into two parts, its assonant sounds become hu ek — Hu signifying God or truth, and ek in Hindustani meaning one — both together expressing one God and one truth. Haqiqat in Arabic means the essential truth; Hakim means master; Hakim means knower; all of which words express the essential characteristics of life.

Al-Haqq is the sacred word that the Vairagis, the adepts of India, use as their sacred chant. In the word al-Haqq are expressed two words, al meaning "he" and Haqq truth, both words together expressing "God the source from which all comes."

The sound Hu becomes limited in the word Ham, for the letter m closes the lips. This word in Hindustani expresses limitation because Ham means "I" or "we," both of which words signify ego. The word Hamsa is the sacred word of the Yogis which illumines the ego with the light of reality. The word Huma in the Persian language stands for a fabulous bird. There is a belief that if the Huma bird sits for a moment on the head of anybody it is a sign that he will become a king. Its true explanation is that when a man's thoughts so evolve that they break all limitation, then he becomes as a king.

The word Allah, which in Arabic means God, if divided into three parts may be interpreted as "the One who comes from nothing." The words found in the Bible — Eloi, Elohim, and Hallelujah — are related to the word Allahu. The words om, omen, amen, and amin, which are spoken in all houses of prayer, are of the same origin; A in the commencement of the word expresses the beginning, and M in the midst signifies end; N the final letter is the re-echo of M, for M naturally ends in a nasal sound, the producing of which sound signifies life.

The more a Sufi listens to sawt-i sarmad, the sound of the abstract, the more his consciousness becomes free from all the limitations of life. The soul floats above the physical and mental plane without any special effort on man's part, which shows its calm and peaceful state; a dreamy look comes into his eyes and his countenance becomes radiant; he experiences the unearthly joy and rapture of Wajd, or ecstasy. When ecstasy overwhelms him he is neither conscious of the physical existence nor of the mental. A heavenly bliss then springs in the heart of a Sufi, his mind is purified from sin, his body from all impurities, and a pathway is opened for him towards the world unseen; he begins to receive inspirations, intuitions, impressions, and revelations without the least effort on his part. He is no longer dependent upon a book or a teacher, for divine wisdom, the light of his soul, the Holy Spirit, begins to shine upon him.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Keep chanting the syllable HU while you are in the body. This word HU raises your vibratory rate, which is the secret to inner travel." — Evan T. Pritchard

"Form is Formlessness, Formlessness is none other than Form." — Prajñāpāramitā Sutra

"I try to use my music to move these people to act." — Jimi Hendrix

It is spoken of the Sephiroth, and the Paths, of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things certain results follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them. — Liber O

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. — Zen saying

Great Master Dōgen says: "striking unbounded space and hearing It reverberate" — which is Its continuous, wonderful voice before and after the mallet has struck the bell.

At the tenth door rings the unstruck Melody. The Lord echoes thus in every heart. (Vadhans M. 5)

"Music is the harmonious voice of creation: an echo of the invisible world, one note of the divine concord that the entire universe is destined one day to sound." — Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)

"What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us — it is all music." — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

Reality is the original Rorschach.

"The Keystone... some have called God, some Brahma, some Zeus, some even IAO — but in truth, O Seeker, it is Thy-SELF." — Aleister Crowley

Philosophy

Illumination, like many other things in life, is something only you can do for yourself. No one else can make you happy — while others may contribute to situations in your life that please you, happiness is an internal state and an internal decision you make on your own, regardless of the situations in your life that have contributed to it. So, too, with illumination — while external situations in your life may conspire to show you your own greater reality, the decision to actually see that greater reality is all an internal decision.

While in one sense it is an internal decision, in another sense self-illumination seems very like trying to pull yourself up by your shoestrings: the two opposing forces of "status quo" and "breakthrough" come from the same entity, and neither seems to be stronger than the other. How can you teach yourself lessons that you don't already know?

How do you make yourself think interesting thoughts? Like being told "say something interesting," when you directly go about trying to think "interesting thoughts," you'll probably come up blank. On the other hand, if you pick up an interesting book, watch a stimulating movie, talk to a friend, or engage in some new hobby, you'll find yourself thinking interesting thoughts completely on accident. Illumination is the same — if you go about trying to "attain enlightenment" directly, you'll probably come to a dead stop.

What do we mean when we say "illumination"? It goes by a lot of names: nirvana, enlightenment, gnosis, many others. Whatever you call it, it's an internal state of "being one with God," "being at peace with the Universe." Imagine that you are connected to every other living being on this planet, and imagine the confidence, comfort, and ease that come with that knowing: it's like that.

Curb Your Dogma.

Practice HUmility.

"Be humble for you are made of Earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."

"Every man and every woman is a Star." — Aleister Crowley

"Every man and every woman and every child is an honest-to-god Pope." — Robert Anton Wilson

IT IS MY FIRM BELIEF THAT IT IS A MISTAKE TO HOLD FIRM BELIEFS.

HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!

fnord?

OM — Amen — Hu — Silence into Infinity... (Chaos)

The Operations of Sonic Sigilization

1. Description

The idea that Sound/Silence itself appears as a conception of the Source and Creator/Sustainer/Destroyer of ALL-THAT-WAS/IS/WILL-BE — divine essence (or non-essence), NO-THING, PURE CHAOS, THE VOID — is an ancient conceptualization that runs through the whole history of Magick, Mysticism, Religion, Yoga, Quantum Physics, Chaos Science, Cymatics Research, String Theory, and modern philosophical thought. The idea that functions in THAT, equal THAT, appears as the Key, the taboo against knowing who or what YOU, WE, and the whole of the Multi-Verses really consist of.

This operation attempts to encode intent/will/desire and harness the magickal spirit/energy/psychological properties of Sound/Musick (HU/YOU/Hue) — directing this current into the greater inner vast no-self or the outer vast Ultra Cosmos to accomplish one's will, and harmonize one's DNA, Spirit, Mind, Body. Essentially: work Chaos Magick with Chaos Musick, which we term (K)Chaos M(HU)jic(K). Heart-Chant, Heart-Liberate. Already Free. Do What Thou Wilt.

Hu means "God," which in Chaos Magic = CHAOS.
Man means "Mind," which means roughly = IMAGINATION.

Formula:

INTENT + VIBRATION/FREQUENCY = MANIFESTATION

Or: THINK FOR YOURSELF SCHMUCK!

2. Materials Needed

• A musical instrument: human voice, singing bowl, and/or a program to create or listen to audible Sound/Musick. (optional)
• Sigil-making materials: pen and paper. (optional)

Or simply: YOU — HANDS FREE. Open-Handed Magick.

3. Preparation

1. Visualize or gather materials and form a sigil for "IT IS MY WILL TO ________."

2. Use this key (or make your own) to assign the letters of the alphabet to musical tones:

Pitch:   C   C#  D   Eb  E   F   F#  G   Ab  A   Bb  B
Number:  0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   T   E

0 - C   : A, M, Y
1 - C#  : B, N, Z
2 - D   : C, O
3 - Eb  : D, P
4 - E   : E, Q
5 - F   : F, R
6 - F#  : G, S
7 - G   : H, T
8 - Ab  : I, U
9 - A   : J, V
T - Bb  : K, W
E - B   : L, X

Example: The word AIR maps to pitch classes 0, 8, 5 — a pitch class set [058], or an F minor triad (F, Ab, C).

This assignment is completely arbitrary, formed from atonal set theory and the author's research at the time of writing. One could use any arbitrary method of assigning musical pitches, tones, durations, or rhythms to alphabetical/numerical positions. The layout can also be formatted around a circle, making 12-fold geometries for further sigilization exploration. YOUR Method X is what counts.

3. Use numerology to extract a numerical/gematria equivalent; create a chordal structure, melody, rhythm, loop, pitch class set, riff, lick, pad atmosphere, or other musical form. (optional)

4. Make a mantric form of the sigilized will/intent/desire. (optional but recommended)

4. The Rite

Using the musical material generated from the sonic sigil, create a ritual or experience which aligns with your will/intent/desire.

Choose a sound or musical "slice" to represent your desire. The applications of this technique are infinite. This point instant — i.e., Hu, i.e., YOU, IT, Hue, God, Sound, Mind, Consciousness, Silence, Reality, Infinity, NOW, WHATEVER you want to call it — appears synonymous. Therefore symbolic visualization, linguistic/mantric utterance/vibration can function in creative endeavors. Some would say all things and no-things "consist" of these vibrational matrix/holographic processes. You (Hu) therefore affect "reality" by way of resonance at all times, instantaneously.

NOW, FORGET ALL THAT...

WHEW! (Hu)

Always back to SILENCE.

5. Procedure

0. Banish.
1. Enter a relaxed, hypnotic, meditative/trance/gnostic state.
2. Play musick/chant mantra based on or related to the sonic sigil, with improvisational/chaotic impulses — to clean the slate.
3. Build energy of the piece. (optional: incorporate dance, mantra, activity, improvisation, etc.)
4. Insert the sonic sigil into the piece at the high point — Peak Gnosis — the Golden Section.
5. Release... into Infinity (Silence) — i.e., HU... NOW...
6. Banish.

(Or not! Any usage is possible: healing applications, long-distance work, incorporation of sigils into songs, playing sigils as a loop while asleep, making a ringtone, a CD for the car, etc.)

6. Notes

The results of using this technique seriously can change one's life. For example, chanting daily upon awaking and before sleep — Huuuuuu, or related encoded sound-forms, mantras, affirmations — can realign cells, DNA, consciousness. It literally re-tunes the HU-MAN (Sound-Mind) instrument to the Music of the Spheres, the Musica Universalis; literally hearing the inner Nada and through morphic resonance changing one's body, consciousness, and therefore external reality to one's will, harmonizing with the greater Whole. Awakening higher neuro-circuit activity through sound exploration.

This operation is a very basic layout for what could be vastly creative workings: from simple occulted background sound effects in films and meditative journeying, to full-on Epic Super-Hyper Sonic Sigil Sorcery incorporating visuals into a M(HU)jic(K)ALL Performance encoded with WILL/DESIRE/INTENT.

Love is the Law.

7. Further Reading

• The Mysticism of Sound and Music — Hazrat Inayat Khan
• The Music of Life — Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Heart Sutra
• Nada Brahma
• The Book of Lies — Aleister Crowley
• Traveling the Sacred Sound Current
• The Secret Power of Music — David Tame
• Liber Null and Psychonaut — Peter J. Carroll
• Chaos — James Gleick
• Turbulent Mirror
• Chao Te Ching
• Kaostar!
• Visual Magick
• Arcana V
• Prime Chaos — Phil Hine
• Condensed Chaos — Phil Hine
• Oven Ready Chaos — Phil Hine
• Apikorsus — Thee Unconventional Nuns
• Naam or Word — Kirpal Singh
• Hands on Chaos Magic — Andrieh Vitimus
• Stealing the Fire from Heaven
• Practical Sigil Magic — Frater U∴D∴

"Music is my religion." — Jimi Hendrix

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." — W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming

Love and (K)Chaos M(HU)jic(K).

HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA! FNORD!

BASS :D — OM! — Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Prickle Prickle, Saturday September 21

— Illuminatus Ipsissimus Blue Heron Man 43218 KSC · NO1 · HU

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Archived from alt.magick.chaos. Message-ID: <[email protected]>. Posted September 22, 2013. Archived by the Good Works Library.

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