Vitriol: A Very Chaotic Scrapbook

by Ray Sherwin

Vitriol is the autobiography of musician and magician Ray Sherwin. It highlights the deceptions used to control the people of the world by governments, banks, religions and organised pharma. Sherwin provides for the first time a history of the early days of Chaos Magick and the Illuminates of Thanateros. He does this as an outsider in the same way that he discredits all organised religion and, in particular, the religious bias which allowed Europeans to invade Palestine and to perpetrate genocide there. He shows, with the help of statistics, how vaccination is a scam, a method for the ruling elite to dumb down and reduce the population. Sherwin sees The Old Religion as the only genuine religion and backs up this thesis with a historical look at Christianity, Judaism and Islam, disciplines which he sees as 'mutable'.

346 pages, Paperback

Published April 29, 2015

About the author

Ray Sherwin is a modern occult author and publisher, and one of the originators of the system of magical discipline called chaos magic. In the late 1970s, he began publishing a magazine called The New Equinox, an irregular journal dealing with Thelemic Magick, Chaos Magick and related subjects. In 1978, he co-founded the Illuminates of Thanateros with Peter Carroll, later publishing Carroll's book, Liber Null. Also during 1978, Sherwin wrote and published The Book of Results. These two books, Liber Null and The Book of Results, were the first books written on the topic of chaos magic.

Reviews

[Aubi]

As an autobiographical and polemical work by one of the true pioneers of chaos magic, Vitriol offers a rare, candid insider's perspective on the early history of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT), the origins of modern chaos magic practices, and Sherwin's later reflections on the movement. It deserves far more attention and readership within the occult community. If you've read it (or plan to), adding your honest rating and review on Goodreads would be a valuable contribution to boosting its visibility. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the raw, unfiltered roots of chaos magic.