Egregore" is an older english word that seems to be fading out of use. It refers to the "spirit of a thing", usually referring to some organization humans create (clubs, states, fraternities, countires, etc.) that summates its principles, beliefs, and goals, and guides people in accomplishing them

A good example of such an egregore is when someone say a project has "taken on a life of its own".


That's a traditional egregore. In chaos magick, it's slightly different. You start out with dumb, unintelligent sigils---these just represent something, but don't actually think. Charge a sigil long enough, and you'll end up with a servitor, which is usually either completely stupid but capable of doing complex tasks, all the way up to being able to think on its own and deduce things in its operation.





But when a servitor gets really big, what happens to it? The moment it becomes more than one person can handle, I consider it an egregore. At this point, it becomes capable of making some of its own demands, guiding its own work (though usually along the lines of the original goal of the people who created it) and in general "taking on a life of its own".


Once you get bigger than this, you get a godform: something that has grown so strong that the people involved with it take up a subservient relationship, often worshiping it, or appealing to it for help.


So you get
SIGIL --> SERVITOR --> EGREGORE --> GODFORM



Big Corporations can be considered a kind of egregore. .... "Legal Entity".....