A repost from LAShTAL.com. “gurugeorge” wrote: It’s the “inner man” who is aflame with this mystical Love of All, not the body.mind, which follows the laws of physics, and does well to follow the (just) customs of its people, etc. Agape is mystical love, higher grade love. It’s not making nicey-nice to entities that are […]

A recent discussion over on heruraha.net about reincarnation saw Jim Eshelman make the following statement in response to the statement that “There are innumerable arguments against reincarnation”: Which I’m not going to rehash or enter into. My experience confirms to me, with certainty matching or exceeding that of any other certainty in the whole range […]

In The HGA as an individual, we touched on the difficulties involved in assessing communications from the “Holy Guardian Angel”, however one defines that. In this entry, we will look more closely at the idea of the “external praeternatural being” theory. In his Confessions, Aleister Crowley writes the following: To return the the general question […]

A recent thread over on LAShTAL.com has been discussing the highly suspicious account Aleister Crowley gave about the “reception” of The Book of the Law. One part of the thread has morphed into a speculation as to the nature of “Aiwass”, prompting Ian Rons to write this: I myself experienced something akin to this once, […]

On a recent reply to a post on John Crow’s blog concerning values, “Keith418” posted this: Where do values like this come from? Many of us suspect a transcendent origin for certain values. “The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is as it is and happens as it […]

In One Star in Sight, Crowley writes of the grade of Magister Templi: The essential Attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. This entry will deal with the question of that “annihiliation.” In The Khabs is in the Khu, we presented a model of the self – […]

Yes, the fundamental postulates of that philosophy being the non-existence of objective moral qualities of any kind, and the natural conclusion that the “proper” course of action for any given individual is therefore that course of action which is most natural to him, as opposed to an alternative course of action which is mandated by […]

Chade wrote: I have no way of knowing what’s happening right now. My senses can only pass a limited representation of what has just happened onto mybrain. That’s what I mean by not being fully aligned. The best I can do is try and interpret it while, to borrow Erwin’s phrase, ignoring the crap spinning […]

From private correspondence. The correspondent refers to my essay True Will, quotes AL I, 42-44, and asks “Why then, in so many circumstances, did so many people oppose Crowley or come into his way with an unfavourable outcome for him?” I presume you are referring to “no other shall say nay,” here. My essay The […]

Erwin wrote: The way to discover [the “true will”], essentially, is to stop paying attention to the things that distract you from it. If you stop paying attention to those things, the will makes itself known without any effort required to dig it up. Halla wrote: I see what you mean. Unfortunately one may also […]