In The Ethics of Thelema, we stated that Liber OZ: does not grant rights; it lists rights that are available to those who are able to enforce them. It may seem ironic to some that many Thelemites – claiming to adhere to “the law of the strong” (AL II, 21) – should exert so much […]

Over on LAShTAL.com, a discussion thread has been started by a fellow calling himself/herself “PropriaDeus93” asking “what Thelema says about animals or what happens to them in death”. The following bizarre response was received: My condolences for the loss of your feline companion. He/she will be with you always, so long as you are bound […]

From private correspondence. The correspondent has been working with some of the ideas on this web site, but remarks: I’m still finding signifacant frustration with getting any kind of grasp on my will … When I try to just be quiet and look at my desires without trying to analyze them, I tend to find […]

Executive Function wrote: If I were constantly to live in the now then I would have developed absolutely no ability to communicate nor make practical improvements to my life. I like my freedom too much to constantly *just* live in the now. There’s a place in the now for consideration of narrower and more limited […]

In the previous entry – which should be read prior to this one – we saw how one of the most fundamental mistakes that the occultist makes is to believe himself to have discovered some truth, where in fact he has only discovered an amusing word game. Having dispensed with the word games, we will […]

Every couple of weeks or so, I get an email from somebody claiming to have discovered some fundamental and important truth or another, particularly if it disagrees with something that I have written here. These “truths” usually fall into one of two categories. The first type comes under the heading of “gibberish”. Not just a […]

It is common for the unthinking occultist (and unthinking dullards in general) to champion the place of “experience” over “reason”, or “theory”, in the acquisition of knowledge. As we have said before, this is not merely mistaken; it is an outright category error. Let us imagine that individual gets into a car accident, and by […]

AL I, 22 contains the following lines: Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. “Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made” is usually interpreted […]

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 […]

The current which has been sustaining the output on this blog, web site and other venues over the last sixteen months or so is exhausted, and as such a period of reduction in activity will now ensue. Updates to the blog and to the rest of this web site will likely continue, but they will […]