Preface of Peter J. Carroll: The Chaos Current has recently spawned a number of excellent
grimoires by practical sorcerers who write from hardwon experience. This book must rank amongst
the best of them. I have had the honour of knowing and working with Nick Hall for some years
and I have seen him perform many of the acts of sorcery that he writes of in this book. The
results are often as awesome as is the presence of the man himself. Having conjured with Nick
on many occasions I would not relish the prospect of conjuring against him. Rather than invest
belief in abstruse metaphysical theory Nick has chosen here to build a system from an eclectic
range of practical procedures culled from many cultures. Informing the whole treatise however
is the chaoist meta-belief that belief structures reality. This is pragmatic magick at its
best. Devise or discover a technique that seems worth investing belief in and if you can
validate it include it in your grimoire without worrying how or why it works. Many times in
the course of reading this text I stopped to make a note of something that seemed well worth
trying out. That I think is the mark of a useful book. Unless the vast majority of magicians
work in complete isolation from their more public peers then the ratio of civilians who merely
collect magic books to actual working magicians may be estimated at ninety nine to one. This is
a book for the one-percenters although it may inspire a few of the rest to actually pick up a
wand for a change. All it takes is guts and imagination not much specialist knowledge is
required.
