“The first thought to consider is the wide expanse of all, any and every esoteric, spiritual, religious, scientific or otherwise tradition, thought or concept throughout the long expanse of history. All of these great many cultural and historical traditions, paradigms and systems of belief had evolved throughout near countless ages and not without their multiple upheavals and revisions. All of these together mark, if you would entertain the visualization, many multicolored tools in a very large box called "Everything.” This box includes those things which you might plainly imagine, and not necessarily a part of history as we understand it.
The second thought to consider is that Chaos Magic as a philosophy and mental vantage point, separate from any official group (including the IOT) is the means by which an individual might sift through the box called Everything, picking and choosing whatever tools he might feel are worthwhile to his own individual, artistic, spiritual or magickal progression as a singular awareness unto himself without any bias or prior attachments. He approaches this Big Box as an unbound person, not believing in any of the toys necessarily or for any prolonged period of time, but picks and chooses whichever ones might work for his goals as he sees fit, for as long as he requires them. Essentially, the only belief he requires in order to perform this is the meta-belief that Belief itself can be used as a tool.
Going one step further, even Chaos Magick might be seen as one of the many toys/tools in the Big Toolbox. It is with this method for the liberation of belief, and upon a vantage point that might be equated to an outsider looking in, that he is free to mix and match or create his own world, personal mythology, methods, techniques or paradigms. His very mind and his life becomes the canvas – and He, as the magician (or by any other name), the Artist. He reclaims the birthright of being the central mandala of his existence.
Anything more or less than that begins to tread into the domains of heavier belief, and is ever yours to determine as an individual.“
– Ellis D. Williams
