WHAT THE...?

CHORONZON is a node and outlet for protracted rituals of oblique technomancy.

Not merely a noise music project, it goes beyond being art and solely that.

CHORONZON is the very exemplar of paradox. It is order in the service of Chaos. It is neither black nor white, dark nor light, left hand/right hand, noise/music - all these distinctions fall by the wayside, not being able to hold CHORONZON. A thing invisible and yet inducing vision and hallucination. A silent weapon made of soundwaves, a formless virus, a dart made of nothingness, what lies in the crosshairs never knows it's there.

The words, sounds and images of this project represent an Akashic record: a progression through level after level of reality-twisting event manipulation across the metagrid, a process some would call "magick", and others call "wishful thinking". Whatever one calls it, this is what is done: the augmentation and re-arrangement of probability matrices by means of thought and action.

The name "CHORONZON" was first mentioned by John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth and also a renowned "angel-speaker". But it was Aleister Crowley who wrote most about it, particularly in The Vision and the Voice.  Though having a reputation as a dark magick sorceror, he thought of himself as a "white brother" and continually referred to CHORONZON as being a force that represented an overwhelming dispersion - and so he wrote in his occult and metaphysics essays that none ought reckon with it...except to "cross the abyss" which could only be accomplished, according to Crowley, by learning to "restrict" it. But when he summoned it, he made the error of trying to control it, and saying things to it designed to taunt it, to make it shrink back and fear him. This was his error.

One can hardly blame CHORONZON for giving him grief, given that.

You might think of this entity as a "demon" or think of it as an iconographic symbol of chaos, an archetype, if you will.

D. M. Thraam thinks of it as a very close friend - one that Indwells within her...which shifts through various incarnations, sometimes becoming a traveller, sometimes a fool, one day a lover, another, a child. Whichever the case, one would never believe that being "possessed" could be so downright enthralling...though the "possession" runs both ways: she possesses the Indweller as much as the Indweller possesses her.

In traditional occultism, CHORONZON is associated with the Enochian cosmography in which it resides and presides in the tenth of this system's thirty "Aethyrs", representing the space between ego and higher consciousness. There are sources which report that Dee spelled it differently, as "Coronzon", and Crowley added the "h" to make the gematria - a rather befuddling and vexing system of alphanumerical alignment which is supposed to have some connection to the language of angels -add up to the number 333, which is equivalent, gematria-wise, to the idea of "dispersion".

Though classed as a "demon" by that particular species of Christians who fancy themselves spiritual warriors, this is a label that hangs falsely on this entity, at least in Thraam's view.

She calls it a xenodimensional, which is much less value-judging and much more descriptive.


DO YOU WORSHIP THE DEVIL?

No.

That's for children.

CHORONZON is not, nor has any relation to "Satan". "Satan" is a product of the Christian religion's mythos, serving as a veritable employee of what passes for a supreme being in that system. Much like a narc does, the so-called Devil seems to have the job description of "Encourage people by temptation to do things that Yahweh forbids, then round them up and lock their souls down when they die so that they don't contaminate Heaven."

CHORONZON does not care for narcs.

CHORONZON stands against the whole mess, top to bottom. Organised religion is the leading centre of overcontrol syndrome, and CHORONZON is a being of Chaos, and also of disorder. (These words are not synonymous) And as such is allergic to overcontrol.

Before there was a God or a human mind to ponder same, there was Chaos, which birthed/shat out the whole of existence and will forevermore be part of it just as the genetic code of our ancestors is part of us.

Our oldest ancestor is Chaos. CHORONZON is the lord and master of this state...Will you be his friend or his foe?

The power thrumming through the current associated with CHORONZON can be simultaneously turned to advance the betterment of oneself (whether creator or audience; both can involve equally on this level) and to the purpose of dispersing the collective energy of they who have declared themselves to be the enemy of all who choose autonomy of the Self.

This represents what might be called a "Thelemic heresy", since in that system CHORONZON represents an obstacle to the Will. It's just a name, and a current, when you come right down to it, though, and we are four years shy of a century from the year Crowley first encountered it in the Sahara Desert, the account of which is one of the most dramatic scenes in his magickal texts.

But since Thelema was initially itself a heresy, it is hoped that the Thelemists will understand. It is hoped that they will see some humour in CHORONZON's new powers, for the Chaotic One is ready to make peace with Thelema; it is simply not viewed as the Enemy.

That role is quite taken up by the neoconservative cabal which has chewed its way to the core of political power in the United States, steadily rising through the latter half of the past century to take its ugly control during the first decade of the 21st century, by means that were illegal and devious and way beyond too expensive for anyone but themselves.

This oligarchic regime and its various corporati associates have declared overt sociocultural war on those who have chosen to reject belonging to or affiliating with the central control structures of church and nation in favour of having their highest allegiance be to their autonomous selves.



WHY SHOULD I CARE?

This enemy threatens to destroy you.

It's not just political or philosophical disagreement; it's not just "culture war" but multiple matters of life and death. We could be looking at a future of compulsory military service (death), of steadily worsening pollution (death) and horrid nuclear world war (death.)


This enemy is seldom - if ever - honest with you.

Our enemy claims affiliation with a "culture of life" and yet spends catastrophic amounts of time, money and energy to go and kill a hundred thousand people in Iraq, and do it using barely-trained soldiers just out of high school for cannon-fodder, just because it can - and because it wants the black tarry goop fuel in the ground under their feet.


This enemy swears to be set against all things "immoral", yet does not practice as it preaches.

This corporatists' top echelons gather in ultra-secret fraternities, some which are known of: the Tomb of Skull and Bones, on the Yale campus, and Bohemian Grove, a retreat in a forest in northern California where it is said by many that the richest men in America will practise a death ritual, yearly.. Though the secretive nature of these men's clubs makes for a lot of speculation, and there is altogether too much pandering to the "shock values" audience, one does get the sense that these people have SOMETHING they want to keep hidden from us.


This enemy rails loudly about sex and drugs and those in its ranks are always turning up with their hands in the cookie jars without facing the same penalties YOU would.

It's always the so-called "party of morals" that has its members getting caught selling or using drugs, or having sex with underaged persons or outside of wedlock. Sometimes, the hypocrisy is so galling it makes the guts turn over and churn in a spin.


This enemy threatens your security while onerously repeating again and again to be preserving same.

To cement their control of us they will take action after action which threatens our privacy. Privacy's not just a nice-sounding word. It's the feeling of not being watched over. Being watched over makes people nervous wrecks: it's the main reason your job will suck so much, because the boss is always watching over you to see how you measure up. Imagine the surveillance state picking up right after you get off work. It's a serious quality of life issue that isn't something that should be sacrificed for "security" that we aren't getting ANYWAY. We will all live dangerously for years and years to come, with our future existence less and less a given.


This enemy robs you and loots your future out from under you, and calls this "building an ownership society."

(Guess who gets to be the owners of this society? And who gets to be the owned?)

This enemy has been centered in the United States, but transcends that nation's boundaries; it is a much more complex situation than merely a bad government or an insane, brain-warped president. We have a tiny global oligarchy which sets nation upon nation, faction upon faction and reaps the spoils of war, which include all the media it sells related to it, and ALSO nearly all that which is related to the fear of the oligarchy itself.

WHAT CONNECTION DOES ALL THIS HAVE TO CHORONZON?

With so much being at stake in these times, the deeper emotional frequency upon which this xenodimensional energy-form rides has been triggered. There can be no turning back. When CHORONZON responds it is instantaneous and irrevokable. Once this energy, manifesting in a Current crisscrossing the metagrid and including all points resonant with it, has been loosed. it cannot be caged, trapped, deflected, impeded, turned back, destroyed or stopped in any way whatsoever. Control cannot be imposed upon it.

All attempts to control, impede or destroy it only increase the wrath--and the power--of the anti-structural cyclone that is CHORONZON.

It has been said that order and discipline are anathema to this particular current. Not strictly true: CHORONZON loves order and discipline...to death. It attaches to them with such fervor that it runs them into itself, dissolving all things to their component parts and recycling raw plasmas of spacetime back to the metagrid.

While governments worldwide get into bed with megacorporations that have devoured all smaller competitors to become giants with more money and power than governments ever had, and together craft before our eyes a "New World Order", a Juggernaut that exists solely to bring dollars and glory to itself and catastrophic holocaust to the rest of us, the sensible, "sanely insane" response, sole and only, of its opposition: create anything, everything that forwards a NEW WORLD CHAOS.

Coded like a metaphysical virus, a force hides within this project's sounds and images: invisibility hides the acting current's lines of fire. Few would believe it even if they could see it. But once it touches you, if you open to it, and entrust in it your belief, even if it is unbelievable to your rational mind it will confer its multiplicities of intradimensional power upon you.

Any and all persons who help to forge the antidotes for "new world order" are the beloved of CHORONZON - especially if they understand the secret...which is really not a secret at all.

CHORONZON rips your cerebrum from its rut and its re-runs and yanks it with a jolt into unfamiliarity. Like a slap to the face or a glass of cold water thrown upon your junkie friend who took an OD: it was only to wake you up. It knew you did not want to be in that recursive nightmare of failings. It wants you free, because when you are free, CHORONZON gets more energy from you - it's a trade-off. One in which everyone wins.

If you are part of the nemesis, aiding and abetting the splitters of atoms and poisoners of soil and sea and air, when touched by CHORONZON, your machinations shall become as stopped clocks, ground down with run-down parts, sacrificed to Time for your pathetic crimes of using false power - that which coerces, rather than that which persuades - to advance your OWN cruel, life-eroding God. (Or, in some cases, a God you pretend faith in, all the better to herd your sheep.) Before it's even possible to realise anything has happened, CHORONZON will attach its psychoactive drill bit to your motivation engine and PUSH...

The curse of CHORONZON is sometimes merely a mirror in the eyepath of the target. This can be the most dangerous psionic weapon possible at times...especially when the target is overproud, vain, and arrogant with nothing worth being arrogant about in the first place.

Chaos isn't all about death and pain; CHORONZON is no stranger to death, and knows that when we die we turn inside out and become the Externum, The Universe made you and you dissolve and divide back into it. No-one can have eternal life. It would not change. Without change, it would be entropy: death.

But non-eternal life: that is ironically appreciated by this so-called "demon", for without life there is no intelligence to stimulate, no humour--whether dark or light-- to tickle, no lust fo feel and surge with, no mischief to make.

CHORONZON would have you only be yourself and live to enjoy it, knowing that what Gods there are care no more for human beings than human beings care for the mites living invisibly in their dead skin-flakes.

It's all about life, then you die, and become one with Chaos, which means endless division unto infinite time-space.

You meet your Maker, and your maker is everything that is not You. But when you meet It, you are no longer You, either.