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 Illuminates of Thanateros -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Illuminates of Thanateros are an (Occult practices and techniques) occult society that pursues (Click link for more info and facts about chaos magic) chaos magic.
So in 1978 they published a small announcement in their magazine proclaiming the creation of a new kind of magical order, one based on a hierarchy of ability rather than invitation, a magical (The belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth) meritocracy.
The presence of (A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system) hierarchy in the IOT has been the cause of a lot of dispute around it in the chaos magic scene.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/il/illuminates_of_thanateros.htm   (779 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Illuminates of Thanateros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Illuminates of Thanateros are an occult society, founded in 1978, that pursues chaos magic.
The word occult comes from Latin occultus (hidden), referring to the knowledge of the secret or knowledge of the hidden and often meaning knowledge of the supernatural, as opposed to knowledge of the visible or knowledge of the measurable, usually referred to as science.
They called their creation the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT), referring to the dualism of the gods of Death (Thanatos) and Love (Eros).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Illuminates-of-Thanateros   (1632 words)

  
 Chaos magic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He would develop theory and practices which would, after his death, profoundly influence the Illuminates of Thanateros.
Carroll also co-founded with Ray Sherwin the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, or in short form Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT); an organization that continues research and development of chaos magic to the present day.
However, this preference is not shared by all and may be argued to root solely in the symbol's semi-official use by the Illuminates of Thanateros.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaos_magic   (1258 words)

  
 Illuminates Of Thanateros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The IOT has developed the magic which can redesign the human selves, in spite of the natural resistance of the ego and internal environment.
The IOT uses the modern and futuristic technology of Chaos Magic to insure victory over the progenitors of enslave­ment of the self.
Each individual within the IOT adds their own outlook and perception and takes on the illuminated teachings of as many different lands as they feel is necessary.
www.xaosmagic.net /html/articles/iot.html   (545 words)

  
 Illuminates of Thanateros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Illuminates of Thanateros are a dualistic magical order that enshrines the gods of death (Thanatos) and sex (Eros).
Eventually Carroll disassociated himself from the group and retired from active participation, explicitly stating this was not a consequence of disagreement with the state of the Pact but a matter of his personal development.
In the past decade, the Pact of the IOT has toned down its rhetoric and acquired a less outspoken leadership.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/illuminates_of_thanateros   (693 words)

  
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It is with this in mind that the Illuminates of Thanateros has chosen this media as one of the ways to distribute IOT material.
The Illuminates of Thanateros material that has been produced here on "Forbidden Subjects" has been done with the full knowledge of the IOT.
The Illuminates of Thanateros welcomes the opportunity to disseminate the fore mentioned material, on a format, and with a company with whom we share a commom desired goal.
www.textfiles.com /occult/aeonic.txt   (1929 words)

  
 Alt.Magick.Chaos Data
Here is the first public notice of the IOT from "The New Equinox Magazine", 1978.
"Spiritual heirs to the Zos Kia Cultus, the Illuminates of Thanateros are drinkers of the dual ecstacies of the sex and death gnoses.
The IOT represents a fusion of Thelemic Magick, Tantra, The Sorceries of Zos and Tao.
www.io.com /~shub/amc/faq04.html   (501 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Illuminati   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The designation illuminati was also in use from the 14th century by the Brethren of the Free Spirit, and in the 15th century was assumed by other enthusiasts who claimed that the illuminating light came, not by being communicated from an authoritative but secret source, but from within, the result of exalted consciousness, or "enlightenment".
A century later, another, more obscure body of Illuminés came to light in the south of France in 1722, and appears to have lingered till 1794, having affinities with those known contemporaneously in Britain as 'French Prophets', an offshoot of the Camisards.
The occult group Illuminates of Thanateros can be safely assumed to have named itself inspired by this book and claims heritage to the Illuminati at least in spirit.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Illuminati   (6296 words)

  
 Flashback Underground Library
Illuminates of Thanateros 7349 Via Paseo Del Sur Suite 515-205 Scottsdale AZ 85258.
Illuminates of Thanateros c/o Weiser POB 612 York Beach ME 03910 207/363-4393.
The IOT continues to move forward, choosing not to involve itself in the mundane affairs and inane postings that make up the majority of the posts to these Usenet groups.
www.flashback.se /library/001/0058.shtml   (5711 words)

  
 RIOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Reformierte IOT or Reformed IOT was one of several splinter groups of the IOT.
Most members were German ex members of the IOT.
The group quickly dissolved and is now seen by some as an alibi for ex IOT members who would not accept they had been expelled.
encyclopedie-en.snyke.com /articles/riot.html   (80 words)

  
 IOT Society, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Illuminates of Thanateros Austria English and German site with information on the Austrian IOT.
IOT UK Section Contact details for the UK IOT and also includes membership information and links to sites about Chaos Magick.
Temple X A Phoenix, Arizona Temple of the Illuminates of Thanateros - including an extensive library of essays and articles.
www.bpwregina.org /YnBfNTA1NTM4.aspx   (94 words)

  
 IOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
IOT America - The America Section presides over all I.O.T. temples in North America (Canada and United States) as well as the satrapies of Australia and Japan.
IOT British Isles Section - Contact details for the British Isles Section, membership information and requirements, and links to other IOT sites.
KaosGate - The educational outreach vehicle of the PACT of the Illuminates of Thanateros, American Section.
www.stylokna.pl /dir/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Esoteric_and_Occult/Magick/Chaos/IOT   (256 words)

  
 Illuminates of Thanateros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
However, in the early to mid-1990s this Chaos Magic Order began to behave chaotically, and several schisms among the leadership broke the group into factions such as the Reformed IOT (RIOT) in Germany and The AutonomatriX in California.
Eventually even Carroll disassociated himself from the group and retired from active participation, explicitly stating this was not a consequence of disagreement with the state of the Pact but a matter of his personal development.
In recent years the Pact of the IOT has toned down its rhetoric and acquired a less outspoken leadership.
www.theezine.net /i/illuminates-of-thanateros.html   (521 words)

  
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The IOT is seen as the Order for 'serious' Chaos Magicians in the same way that the OTO exists for 'serious' Thelemites.
At the time of writing, the IOT Pact has temples active in the UK, Europe, Australia and America and, despite the apparent hierarchical structure outlined in Pete Carroll's latest book "Liber Kaos/The Psychonomicon", there appears to be much scope for new growths and experimentation within its loose structure.
Some members of the IOT Pact use Laughter as a form of banishing, and of course, there is nothing like laughter to deflate the pompous, self-important occult windbags that one runs into from time to time.
www.textfiles.com /occult/ERIS/cc.txt   (10184 words)

  
 Glossary - exWitch Australia (formerly 'Born Again Pagan')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
An Occult order of Chaos Magick, the name of which is drawn from a corruption of the Greek deities Thanatos, who with Hypnos was the offspring of Nyx and the personification of death, and Eros, the god of love whose mother was Aphrodite.
It was begun as a joke when two prominent authors in the late 1970s, Ray Sherwin and Peter Carroll, published works on Chaos Magick in the name of The Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros jibing at small magical orders with, they claimed, pompous-sounding titles.
In 1986, however, the IOT was formally inaugurated with the charter of training magicians in the system of Peter Carroll, a magician and theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of a proposal that Chaos theory holds the most likely explanation of how Magick actually works.
bornagainpagan.evangel-list.com /Glossary/ILLUMINATES_OF_THANATEROS.html   (335 words)

  
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The introduction and the pages which come before "Liber MMM" introduce the IOT (Illuminates of Thanateros), the Order to which these books were originally circulated.
Carroll wastes no time in announcing the apparent greatness of the Order, saying "The Illuminates of Thanateros are the magical heirs to the Zos Kia Cultus and the A.'.A.'." After this, we find "Liber MMM".
"Liber MMM" is the student syllabus of the IOT, and concerns itself with three major areas: mind control (where Carroll discusses magical trances, and a "metamorphosis of the mind"), magic (mostly based on sigils), and dreams.
www.angelfire.com /mi3/tomekeeper/resources/articles/nullpsyh.txt   (1479 words)

  
 Crisis Magicians
IOT, of course, is 'Illuminates of Thanateros'; the name itself perhaps owing some debt of inspiration not only to Spare, but also to Robert(s) Shea and Anton Wilson, whose conspiracy theorist trilogy 'Illuminatus!' had enjoyed a measure of acclaim, along with its stage adaptation.
The key point about that inaugural stage in the IOT's history is that although it was presented as an ORDER, the structure (like that of SNS before it) was a non-hierarchical DISORDER, albeit that there was no explicit reference to CHAOS.
It may be, when 'The Saga of the Ice' is submitted to a similar critical analysis, that illumination is cast upon the extent to which the abuse of hierarchical power served to mask the reality that this individual was actually wallowing in those very pitfalls he so accurately identifies.
freespace.virgin.net /ecliptica.ww/book/crisis.htm   (3969 words)

  
 Reviews
Coming at you from the Illuminates of Thanateros Section in the United States, Wetzel pulls no punches in this his first work.
Josh has gone into great detail on each of the defined aspects of the applied magical techniques presented, without dictating method, but providing example and direction to achieve the intended results while allowing the magician to maximize their creativity.
This document is a clear example of why I approached Chaos Magic and the IOT in the first place.
paradigmalpirate.chaosmagic.com /review1.htm   (959 words)

  
 Occult Online - IOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The America Section presides over all I.O.T. temples in North America (Canada and United States) as well as the satrapies of Australia and Japan.
The educational outreach vehicle of the PACT of the Illuminates of Thanateros, American Section.
A Phoenix, Arizona Temple of the Illuminates of Thanateros.
www.occultonline.com /component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,175/Itemid,26   (177 words)

  
 Theatre of Magick
The name ‘Thanateros’ is a contraction of thanatos (death) and eros(love), Thanatos being the Sun which dies each day and eros being venus (eros = venus (1.9 = 7x7) on the large scale).
The Candidate, or Illuminate as he should now be called, is led back as quickly as possible to a familiar, comfortable place where he is fed and allowed to sleep for a few hours.
He cannot expect to be suddenly, drastically changed by every act of magick he performs but he can expect the cumulative effect of many acts of magick to bring about the desired result, (however he defines it), whether or not the stated objective of all, or indeed any, of these acts was initiation.
jaq.chaosmagic.com /ToM.htm   (17422 words)

  
 [CTRL] The history & development of Secret Societies in the
The reality today is that these organisations can range from a handful of people performing magic rituals in a bricked-up railway arch, to an annual get-together of the cream of the worlds financiers and statespersons mapping out the economic and political destiny of the planet.
By contrast, the Illuminates of Thanateros, a Chaos Magic "Pact", on the basis of an article published in 'Chaos International' Issue 3, appear to be headed by a Supreme Magus who holds the designation 0 Degree, while new entrants or Neophytes are admitted to the 4th Degree.
German Illuminism was driven underground however, and other species of Masonic/Rosicrucian activity adopted a low profile with the stories of 'secret chiefs' intact.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg24911.html   (4143 words)

  
 Austin Osman Spare
His was the inspiration that led to the formation of the 'Illuminates of Thanateros' (IOT) in England in the late 1970’s and the practice of what is now known as 'Chaos Magic', (see Chaos Magic below).
His work was finally recognized and led to the formation of the “Illuminates of Thanateros” (IOT) in England in the late 1970’s, a traditon practicing what is now known as “Chaos Magic”.
Sherwin formed the "Illuminates of Thanateros" (IOT), a new tradition that became synonymous with Chaos Magic.
www.controverscial.com /Austin%20Osman%20Spare.htm   (2203 words)

  
 KAAOS.org | Chaos Never Died » Defining Chaos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pete Carroll was a regular contributor to the magazine, and together, due to dissatisfaction with the magical scene in Britain at the time, they formed the "Illuminates of Thanateros".
At some point, about 1986, Ray Sherwin "excommunicated himself" because he felt that the Order was slipping into the power structure that he had intended to avoid with this group, and Pete Carroll became known as the leader of "The Pact".
The IOT continues to survive and was identified as the only international Chaos organisation until early 90's.
www.kaaos.org /chaos/definingchaos.php   (2704 words)

  
 illuminates - OneLook Dictionary Search
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illuminates : Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
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 Barbelith Underground > Temple > IOT Conference
IAN READ led the IOT after Pete Carroll retired and then Ian became an Elder himself after 9 yyears in the driving seat.
Chaos magician DAVE LEE is a leading light in the Illuminates of Thanateros.
FRATER ALLOY is the current Section head of the North American Section of the MAgical Pact of the IOT.
www.barbelith.com /topic/16939   (865 words)

  
 Chaosmagic.Com :: The Pact (IOT) - The Story So Far   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 1976 in an abandoned ammunition dump dug deep into a mountain somewhere in the Rhineland, two magicians, one English, one German announced the formation of a magical order with the celebration of a Mass of Chaos in the company of a couple of dozen other magicians.
We left the mountain with no particular idea other than to form an Order such as had never existed before, that would break the existing mold and provide a vehicle for Chaos Magic.
A year later some of us met in a splendid Austrian castle and formally arranged ourselves into the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, using as a basis a simple structure of four grades and five offices that I had devised in the meantime.
www.chaosmagic.com /archives/groups/the-pact-iot-the-story-so.shtml   (1074 words)

  
 Spiral Nature - Magick - Models of Magic
Unfortunately, the full theory and practice of Cybermagic cannot be described here due to lack of space and will thus have to be the subject of a separate article to be published later.
To date the main experimental research work is being done within the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT) and some quite astounding results have already been achieved, especially in the field of language and knowledge transfer as well as magical healing.
In spite of its very modern, untraditionalist outlook the basic principles of Cybermagic may in truth well be the oldest form of magic extant.
www.spiralnature.com /magick/models.html   (2768 words)

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