← the temple after Austin Osman Spare · 1913
Write a wish. The press strikes out the vowels and every letter that repeats, and binds what is left into one sign that no longer reads as letters, which is the method Spare set out in 1913 and the whole of chaos magic in a paragraph. Then hold the sign to charge it. When the charge is full it burns, and the press forgets it, which is the point: nothing is stored, nothing is sent, and a reload finds the press empty.
write a wish and press it.
The method, as Spare gave it. Write the desire as a sentence, in the present, as a thing already true. Strike out the vowels, then every letter that has already appeared; what is left is drawn together into one figure, letters laid over letters until the eye no longer picks them apart, so the wish can no longer be read and the mind cannot keep worrying at it. Charge the figure: fix on it until nothing else is in the mind, at a moment of exhaustion or ecstasy or simple blankness. Then destroy it, and forget the wish entirely, so that the desire can go about its business below the level at which you would argue with it. Spare's claim was that the forgetting is the active part, and most of the difficulty.
The press does the mechanical half. The letters are reduced the way Spare reduced them, and the figure is composed from their strokes by a rule seeded from the wish itself, each letter turned to one of the eight directions and set a little off the centre so the lines cross and share, with a ring round a long wish and a bar under a short one; so the same wish always gives the same sigil and a different wish a different one. The charging is yours: hold the sign, with a thumb or the mouse or the space bar, and the press counts a few seconds of your attention and shows it as a ring filling round the sign. At the top it goes white and burns to ash, and the press clears itself, the wish with it. It keeps nothing: no cookie, no storage, no request to anywhere. The sound, if you want it, is a tone that rises with the charge and a snap when it goes.
Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy, London, 1913, public domain; the sigil method is in the chapter on sigils, and a scan is on the Internet Archive. The press is this site's own, drawn in the temple's line like the signs and the Monas. One script.