Philip M. Hine is a Britishoccultist and writer. He became known internationally through his written worksCondensed Chaos,Prime Chaos, andPseudonomicon, as well as several essays on the topics ofchaos magic andCthulhu Mythosmagic. He has facilitated workshops and seminars on modern magical practice in America and Europe and contributed to a wide range of occult journals, having been most active from 1986 to 1996.
Growing up inBlackpool, Hine became involved with chaos magic theory inWest Yorkshire in the 1980s. This was after he "picked up the fabled white edition ofLiber Null byPeter J. Carroll"[1] at Sorcerer's Apprentice bookshop. During the early years of his studies of psychology and sociology he was influenced by the works of the Swiss psychiatristC. G. Jung.[2]
Hine was a founder and co-editor of occult magazinePagan News in partnership withRodney Orpheus.[3] Hine subsequently published a series of booklets onurban shamanism in the late 1980s.
His earliest popular work was a small pamphlet[4] which outlined a brief and simple definition of magic, a brief history of the school of practice calledchaos magic, and an outline of some of its basic approaches, which presented a number of simple techniques. This was followed in 1993 byPrime Chaos, which focused on the construction and uses of more formalised ritual techniques
In 1995, he expanded his earlier pamphlet under the same title,Condensed Chaos. This book focuses on the basic techniques and the style of doing magic that has become associated with chaos magic. It has been described byWilliam S. Burroughs as "the most concise statement of the logic of modern magic".[5]
Hine finds that the definition of "black magic" has been convoluted by people who define practices that they disapprove of as "black magic".[6]
As of 1997 he resides inSouth London.[1]
Hine is bisexual.[7]
This essay was written in 1991 as part of a presentation for the Talking Stick discussion forum in London – at the time I was identifying as being Gay, and have since settled on identifying as Bisexual.
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