Anton Channing

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In addition to his role as a webmaster for kiamagic.com and being a founding member of the KIA Illuminated Adepts, Anton Channing is the author of Kaos Hieroglyphica: Alchemy for the new Aeon. He also had several rituals published in the Chaos Cookbook (ed D J Lawrence), wrote the forward to Jaq D Hawkins Chaos Monkey and was one of the 23 authors whose stories comprise Liber Malorum - Children of the Apple. He also writes an infrequent blog on http://serpent.antonchanning.com. His illustrations appear in his own book and Chaos Monkey, both of which also feature is art on their covers. Additionally a couple of his illustrations also appear in the second edition of Understanding Chaos Magic by Jaq D Hawkins.

Contents 1 Magical Currents 1.1 Catholicism and Christianity 1.2 Black Sun and Blood Moon 1.3 The Hermaphrodite 1.4 Other 2 Articles 2.1 Minor Arcana: Pagan Teenage Voice 2.2 Quest Magazine 2.3 University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire website 2.4 Pagan Dawn 2.5 kiamagic.com 2.6 Chaos International

Magical Currents

Throughout his life he has worked with a number of magical currents, many of which are still to some degree important to him.

Catholicism and Christianity

Brought up in a family half Irish Roman Catholic, half Anglican, the mysticism of the Christian tradition, and the power of the Saints continue to play an important role in Anton's magical practice. Whilst he considers himself both Catholic and Protestant, he rejects the authority of any priesthood or preachers, seeing in them a corruption of what he sees as the true revolutionary and anarchist message of Christ. In this his Christianity is probably closer to Gnosticism and Voudoo, although it also draws influence from the Hermetic Protestant mysticism of D A Freher and the Philadelphia Society. He also suspects some ancestral link on his paternal line to the Reverend William Ellery Channing, founder of the Unitarian church.

Black Sun and Blood Moon

In the early 1990's, probably strongly influenced by the imagery described in the book of Apocalypse (aka Revelation), Anton's artwork displayed two main themes, a black, or eclipsed sun, and a bleeding moon. These powerful images continued to prove a significant current on his magical journey, although often in altered forms. As his interest grew in the pagan current and lunar goddesses for example, he depicted the lunar goddess crying tears of blood. As his interest grew in Chaos magic he became fascinated with similarity of the sigil of chaos to a black hole, although when he designed the first logo for KIA, he made the central circle red, like a blood moon. In 1999 he performed a working under the August eclipse in Plymouth, which he celebrated by creating an image of the Egyptian god Set holding the eclipse aloft, surrounded by the words 'The Eclipse Set things Straight'. As his interest in alchemy grew his depictions of the Oroborus were often red, and he learned of the black sun's use as a representation of Negrido. He makes use of an obsidian sphere as a focus point on his altar.

The Hermaphrodite

Anton works the Hermaphrodite in various guises, including Baphomet, Ardhanarishvara, Slaanesh, the Oroborus, the Scarab, the Beast with two backs and Pangaea.

Other

Other currents important to Anton include Alchemy, Hermeticism, Sorcery, Paganism, Zos Kia, Thelema, Kabala, Free Illuminism, Serpents, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Entheogenic mysteries and Love.

Articles

Anton has decided to publish several of his articles here in the wiki, and open them for potential improvement by his readers! Indeed he is intrigued to see what might happen to them once he does. Hell, he may even edit them himself they are so old he probably doesn't agree with half of what he said any more! Still, each article will start off as the original, so that anyone can go back and see what the original was like at any time, as it will always be the oldest in the revision history.

Minor Arcana: Pagan Teenage Voice

I was very young when I wrote these, so be kind! --AntonChanning 08:30, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

• Liber Minor Part 0 - The Ethics of Chaos
• Liber Minor Part 1 - The Chaos Approach to Magick
• Liber Minor Part 2 - The History of Austin Osman Spare style Sigils In Magick
• Liber Minor Part 3 - The Importance of Magickal Training
• Liber Minor Part 4 - Liberation and the Law of Paradox
• Liber Minor Part 5 - Introduction to Discordianism and Eris, Goddess of Chaos and Confusion
• Liber Minor Part 6⁶⁶ - Baphomet, The Devil The Horned God and the Anti-Christ
• Liber Minor Part 7 - Monas Hieroglyphica and Alchemical Mercury

Quest Magazine

• Uncertainty, Chaos and the Atheist Pantheon

University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire website

• Magick and Technology (No longer available from the University website).

Pagan Dawn

• A Post-modern Perspective on Elemental Spirits

kiamagic.com

• The Cybermorphic Kaosphere System

Chaos International

• The Kaosphere and New Aeon Alchemy