Every IOT grade is a costume with a handshake

Chaos magick started as a dare: take what works, drop what doesn't. Then somebody built a ladder, nailed degrees to the rungs and called the result a spine. A spine is what you grow by doing something ridiculous at 3am with a borrowed sigil and a kettle screaming and the room ACTUALLY changes, and no committee can sign that off for you. So I say the IOT gave it a priesthood, and the funny part is that a tradition built on paradigm shifting shifted straight into an org chart. Prove me wrong. Name one result that happened because of a grade and not because somebody sat down and did the work. Better yet, go tonight, skip the initiation, do the working in a bathrobe in your kitchen with the lights off, and come back and tell me which of us the room listened to. Costume.