The Book of Chaos Spells
Evocations: Work
with entities which may be naturally occurring or manufactured.
They may be regarded as independent spirits, fragments or the
magicians subconscious, or the egregores of various species of
life form, according to taste and belief structure. In practice
Evocation is usually performed for Enchantment, in which the evoked
entities are made to create effects on behalf of the magician.
Evoked entities also find some application in Divination, when
they are used to discover information for the magician.
Divinatory Rites: Includes all those practices in which the magician
attempts to extend his perception by magical means.
Enchantments: Includes
all those practices in which the magician attempts to impose his
will on reality.
Sigils: Pictoral,
graphic or mantric glyphs representative of the will of the magician.
Used as a means to circumvent the barriers of the sub-consciousness
and implant desires into the Deep Mind.
Invocations: The
deliberate attunement of consciousness and the unconscious with
some archetypal or significant nexus of thought. The classical
conceptions of Pagan god forms are often used but other principles
may serve. Invocation creates states of inspiration or possession
during which Enchantment, Divination, or occasionally Evocation,
can be performed.
Illuminations: Deliberate self modification by magic and may include
spells of Enchantment cast at oneself to repair weaknesses or
increase strengths, and Divination and Invocation performed for
inspiration and direction.
Pathworkings: Guided
visualization rituals, used as an exercise in manipulation of
altered states of consciousness. Often representative of a journey
or other transformative process.