magispiegel: The fact that you mention, that it is just a matter of making slight querky changes to the petty ego…(doing this, doing that etc.) and then Kaboomm!, Realisation! Godhead!… you have made contact with your ‘Magickal Will’!, Erm. No. The attainment of the Magickal Will is an occult process, it is an alchemical process…it […]

magispiegel: The Keys to the Magick of the ‘Will’ are not found in the stanzas that you have quoted above, but are found through the study of the science of the occult forces which exist within our being…the occult anatomy. Now this is exactly what I am talking about. All this flowery talk about “the […]

Hairetikos: So I’m curious to know what other Thelemites think about this. Is television antithetical to the discovery of your Will? I don’t care, but I’m going to hijack your topic, in an attempt to get some sort of substantive technical discussion going. The concept of will, or the “true” will, is obviously fundamental to […]

Aum418: All this thinking about what Thelema IS might be considered the fall of Because. Depends what you mean by “thinking about”. These folks who ask “is such-and-such an act ‘Thelemic’?”, presumably with a view to providing an answer to the question “should I, as a Thelemite, therefore do and/or support such a thing?” are […]

Another one. > > “He [the HGA] is not, let me say with emphasis, a mere abstraction from > > yourself; and that is why I have insisted rather heavily that the term > > ‘Higher Self’ implies ‘a damnable heresy and a dangerous delusion.’ > > “If it were not so, there would be […]

Since it’s topical, here’s a reprint of a similarly themed but less verbose post I made back in May 2006, in a thread entitled “The Nature of God”, which has affectionately become known as “Erwin’s Khabs & Khu post”: First, definitions. The “Khabs” is the individual essence, an individual’s true nature. Since nature depends entirely […]

AL I, 8 is the first verse of many we come to in the Book of the Law that frankly looks odd. “Every man and every woman is a star” we can grasp. “Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!” is obscure, but parses without much difficulty. But “The Khabs is […]

“The Comment” to the Book of the Law contains the following sentences: The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire. Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to […]

Thelema is, at the end of all analysis, an individual rather than a social philosophy, and the concept of “ethics”, as commonly understood, is wholly absent from it; as Crowley says in his “new comment” to AL II, 28: There are no “standards of Right”. Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own […]