Check Date

One idea an episode, taken back to what Spare, Carroll and Hine actually wrote. The show is named for the last step of a working: set a date, then look.

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1. Episode 5Nov 3, 20263:17Chaos Magic Is Not Anything Goes: Hine's RulesPeople ask whether chaos magic means doing whatever you like. Phil Hine's Condensed Chaos says no. Three principles that work like a test suite, a record-keeping line from Carroll, and a ten-run exercise.
2. Episode 4Nov 3, 20263:20Spare's Sigil Method, as He Wrote ItAustin Osman Spare's own instructions from The Book of Pleasure, step by step, set beside Carroll's later version. Where they agree, where they differ, and one difference you can test.
3. Episode 3Nov 3, 20263:22Magick or Magic: Why the K, and Does It MatterBoth spellings name the same subject. Where the K came from, what Crowley actually wrote, what two core chaos texts do, and why the definition matters more than the spelling.
4. Episode 2Nov 3, 20263:56Servitor, Egregore, Tulpa, Thoughtform: Four Words, Four JobsFour words for made minds, sorted by who builds them, what they do and how they end. Drawn from Hine's Condensed Chaos, Carroll's Liber Null and Psychonaut, and the standard encyclopedia entries.
5. Episode 1Nov 3, 20263:38Chaos Magic vs ManifestationManifestation tells you to hold the want and keep the faith. The sigil method tells you to compress it, lose it and check the date. What Wattles, Carroll, Spare and Hine actually wrote, and a two-method test you can log.