In a previous post dedicated to asking "What is magic(k)?" I had offered some very brief considerations of the manner in which successful magical actions always change the self:
"my every action is necessitated by some
previous set of concerns, needs and motivations. These define me, for
the moment, and so my action is only free in certain limited senses. But
the truly magical action, in expanding the boundary of the world and my
sense of self, frees me as well from the structures which previously
defined me.
4. Every achievement of will is the discovery that my will was other than I thought."
4. Every achievement of will is the discovery that my will was other than I thought."
Here I would like to consider, or rather expand, those considerations through a discussion of the occult practice, particularly popular within various forms of Chaos Magic, of the Sigilization of Desire.
