WAR MACHINE

3. Now let it be first understood that I am a God of War and of Vengeance.  I shall deal hardly with them.4.  Choose ye an island!5. Fortify it!6. Dung it about with enginery of war!7. I will give you a war engine.- The Book of the Law chapter 3"Aleister Crowley, or whoever wrote these words, advises building a war machine in no uncertain terms.  The war machine, a concept from post-structuralist, guerilla ontologists Deluze and Guttari describes (among many other things) a strategic course of action useful for alchemical transformation."The War Machine and Magick. Tuesday, April 14, 2015The first theoretical element of importance is the fact that the war machine has many varied meanings, and this is precisely because the war machine has an extremely variable relation to war itself.  The war machine is not uniformly defined, and comprises something other than increasing quantities of force.  We have tried to define two poles of the war machine: at one pole, it takes war for its object ... war represents not at all the supposed essence of the war machine but only, whatever the machine's power, either the set of conditions of which the States appropriate the machine ... or the dominant order of which the States themselves are now only parts.  The other pole seems to be the essence; it is when the war machine, with infinitely lower "quantities," has as its object not war but the drawing of a creative line of flight, the composition of smooth space and of the movement of people in that space.  At this other pole, the machine does indeed encounter war, but as its supplementary or synthetic object, now directed against the State and against the worldwide axiomatic expressed by the States.
- A Thousand Plateaus, p. 422
When Robert Anton Wilson taught Crowley 101 in 2005 (the 101st anniversary of the reception of the Book of the Law, aka Liber Al) he asked the group how they interpreted the beginning of the third chapter of the Book of the Law, the one that advocates building a war machine.  A consensus of opinion decided it was a metaphor for a war against the inner forces and resistances (i.e. "nature") that block efforts to work on self.  These resistances can be very strong, hence the need for a war machine; not to make literal war on anything, especially yourself, but to draw a creative line of flight from the old set pattern of things to something new.  The old patterns won't give up without a fight.  The war machine, in this context, requires strategy, subtlety, cunning and panache among other things.  To use the war machine effectively we dissociate it from the common, brute practices and violence of literal war.  Only a few pages before the introduction of the war machine in the second chapter of Liber Al we see the instructions:
Be not animal; refine thy rapture!  If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!
- Liber Al 2:70The War Machine and Magick. Tuesday, April 14, 2015A war machine appears a necessary mechanism whenever something wishes to break out of an established mileau or assemblage of any kind, or in other words, deterritorialize from a particular set, the current assemblage, establish a line of flight, make new connections, form new assemblages and reterritorialize into a different order.  The similarity to ritual magick appears evident.  The candidate for Initiation enters a specially created space, the ritual chamber, mentally and emotionally deterritorializes from consensual reality then establishes a creative line of flight into the magickal domain through the actions of the ritual, makes new connections and hopefully  a new assemblage of some kind takes shape according to the ritual's intention.  This type of activity, along with behavior reinforcement and the formation of different habits can reprogram and/or metaprogram the human biological machine.  It takes a war machine approach along with time and perseverance to make any real, permanent change.
== AQ ==
*AQ-185= War machine; Game breakerCode breaker; Cryptography; White hat; Black hat; Hacker.; ImpatienceImpatience is commonly associated with hackers in popular culture, at least in movies and documentaries; so is speed, in music, movies and other pop culture.; Game rewardA popular trope of movies, and no doubt novels, is someone who breaks a game and gets the ultimate reward of the game or a secret reward; Secret goal; Unknown unknown.; Good ghoul; HypercamoA 5GW level camouflage.; Hexing hex; Lain houseA very cybernetised residence.; 
**Lost timeSignifies e.g. recreation of something dreamt of.; Leaking oilIndirect sign of potence.; First keyConstructing a war machine is the first key to winning a war.; Evocation; DiacriticsCriticising from two perspectives, cf. McNamara, "empathize with your enemy."; Empathise with your customer.; JerusalemRelates to lost time. Jerusalem is a goal in the crusades.; MoralityMorality is essential to a just war.; Nevermind; Necro lord;
**No one kingAnalogical reference to anarchy.; SettingsConfiguration of a war machine; optimising battlespace.; The sixthMay reference the sixth sense, "essential for wining a war."; Intuition.; This is itAttitude essential for a war machine; or the position that often leads to the creation of a war machine; the prefigurative step.; Vlad TepesWar lord; A war machine "made flesh".; RobocaughLike the other aq, leaking oil, this may refer to a risk when running a war machine: the machine is not oiled well enough, it is coughing.; Start gameVariant of this is it.; Tonal magicAnalogizes with war dance; war music; symphony of war; cacophony of war; rhythm of war; OODA loop.; 
* AQ-464=  I will give you a war engine.; Theistic space mormonismSpace mormonism.;
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* War technology; War; Machine
* Accelerationism
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