Saintstephen
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saintstephen, born in Burbank, California in 1960, was a dedicated practitioner and disseminator of chaos magick. saintstephen is credited with the formation of numerous regional temples in the United States of America, the most notorious being the Black Hole Sun temple, chartered in Seattle, Washington in 1987.
A rabid proponent of a far-left handed magickal style dubbed chaos orthodoxy, saintstephen was mostly interested in raw technique leading to observable results, rather than the ethics, religious philosophy, or scientific theories surrounding magick.
He developed a personal style of magick using skepticism rather than belief, spending long months in monastic discipline, followed abruptly by great fleshy indulgence and laughter. As a teacher, he developed numerous methods for detecting fraudulent claims and sloppy thinking recorded in his students grimoires. He was generally considered a harsh master.
He worked as a paranormal investigator in the late 1980s with renowned Russian psychic Uri Geller, later studying under mentalist and "psychic to the stars" Thomas Grey Sexton.
He was a master charlatan, and a card-carrying member of The Church of Satan.
In what might be his most famous contribution to the chaos meme, he stood up at conclave in Seattle in 1989 and announced, "F@ck Is The Law. F&ck Under Fist".
He currently divides his time between a modest residence in Agate Beach, Washington, and a compound in the Rocky Mountains.
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Books
saintstephen published three books on the subject of magick:
The Black Book
The Unspeakable Polysphere Argot
Nand/Nor
saintstephen also published anarchist pamphlets under the name "Rasputin J. Svengali":
No More Light
Author! Author!
Breaking the Back of the State
Black Moon Magick
The Not
In Your Own Hands
References:
1. Biographical data courtesy Joye Ann Utley Cook.
The Gardener Family Photo History (1993), p. 362-367.
2. Anarchist Pamphlets from the post-punk era.
West Coast USA, Michelle Trudeau. [5]
3. "Seattle Underground." D. S. Andersen.
Issue 35/Cause Rag, 4 Feb 1994. [3]
4. "Temple of the Blue Dog Archives".
(1997) Ch. 11, Fck is the Law, Entry from 1989, p. 206-23.
