Project Details
| Project Lead | Larry Roberts (Publisher, Production) Shane Staley (Publisher, Book Layout) |
| Author | Tau To Naas |
| Publisher | Infernal House |
| Released | February 2025 |
| Info | 333-copy limited HC |
| Link | Web Book + Audio Limited Hardcover |
Original Marketing Description
Black Flame: Study & Practice of the Anticosmic Tradition is an introductory text into the occult current of Chaos Gnosticism. Within its pages, the Tradition’s origins and primal influences are described in detail, taking us on a philosophical journey from ancient Babylonia and India to modern-day Sweden. This is a foundational book for one’s practice within the Chaos-Gnostic current, describing self-initiatory rituals, meditations, and exercises.
It is clear that the only way of inserting chaos within the scope of Satanic practice is through the use of its representations, especially those that religion and philosophy use to idealize things like absolute evil, ‘other gods’ foreign to humanity, and the environments of the underworld and hell. However, chaos remains a ‘face without a mask’. This is due not only to the complexity of chaos itself but also to the challenge of formulating it in a system without losing sight of the concrete experience through the principles we use to represent it.
As Anticosmic Satanism does not accept deceptive experiences, the association of chaos with these religious and philosophical representations demands careful and well-studied work. Images of naked chaotic gods, for example, are generally used to represent the idea of non-social beings opposed to human standards. Additionally, images of polymorphic beasts refer to multiple existences in the primal circle of chaos, but they cannot be established and institutionally accepted as chaos.
The idea of anarchy, slaughter, carnage, and hatred also creates numerous imaginary models of what would be the manifestation of chaos. The term ‘chaos’ itself generates these models in people’s imagination. In fact, this is more about the common perception of how aggressively chaos presents itself in relation to the cosmos than about its nature. If we consider chaos as liberation, return, and rest in the whole state of being, then the universe will become a symbol of degeneration, corruption, death, or evil. When this metagnosis of the system is truly achieved, the Satanist understands that chaos is, in fact, as beautiful as the cosmos is deplorable.
