Phil Hine's "Prime Chaos: Adventures in Chaos Magic" (1993/1999/2023)

Tempe, Arizona, US.: The Original Falcon Press (book, magick), 2023.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.625", 256 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-935150-67-1.

Prime Chaos: Adventures in Chaos Magic by Phil Hine, as published by The Original Falcon Press (Tempe, Arizona, US) in 2023 as a fourth revised edition. This was first published by The Original Falcon Press as a second revised edition in 1999, after a 1993 Chaos International Publications first edition.

The cover shows William S. Burroughs’ painting “Creation of the Homunculus IV”, credited within. In addition, this book is dedicated to Burroughs and contains a blurb by Burroughs on Phil Hine’s Condensed Chaos at one of the final pages.

Shoaf II.417.

Contents:

• Foreword by Grant Morrison
• Introduction
• Part I – Chaos Is Everywhere:
• Adventures in Magic
• The Dynamics of Sorcery
• Initiation
• Experiments in Belief
• Part II – Dynamic Ritual:
• Introduction
• Core Elements of Ritual
• The Components of Ritual
• Example Types of Ritual
• Invocation
• Evocation
• Astral Magics
• Part III – Group Effects:
• Introduction
• What Is a Group?
• Stages of Group Development
• Issues Specific to Magical Groups
• Running Groups
• Part IV – Liber Nice & Liber Nasty:
• Liber Nice
• Liber Nasty
• Further Reading