Aum418: Really, I should have said ‘The highest Sin in Thelema is to restrict Will’ (including self as well as others). This would indeed have been better, but I still don’t think it’s right. “The word of Sin is Restriction” indeed, but there is nothing herein that suggests that “restriction” means “to restrict the will […]

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 […]

Aum418: I think that there is a lot of ‘arguing’ on the subject of the HGA. A lot of over-thinking, over-analyzing, over-intellectualization. The best way would be to see for yourself. This all sounds good and virtuous, but the problem with it is that if you send a man to go see Mount Rushmore when […]

Most people who approach what, for the sake of convenience, I will call “spiritual development”, do so because they are unsatisfied with the way things are now, and they do so in the hope that they will be able to change things into a state that they are happy with, whether that is an actual […]

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 […]

Another old post that deserves reprinting. Absorbed wrote: > I’d like to discuss various manifestations of fear. > The first I will describe as a job interview. Let’s say someone is > going to a job interview and is an extremely nervous person. What > methods could he use to maintain calm during the interview […]

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 […]