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College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Thelema

Q&A and discussion on the world view encapsulating humanity's current stage of evolution

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  • Liber L or Liber AL

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    I think about this frequently. Jung was highly fascinated by the Nag Hammadi Codex after it was discovered. If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend it.

    In the Gospel of Thomas (perhaps one of the most popular writings in the Codex), the figure of Christ describes Thelemic ideology well before Crowley's time. So much so that more than a few in my life have argued Thelema is just an updated form of Christianity. The Gospel of Thomas includes descriptions by Christ that we are to discover our own unique connection to divinity, live in relationship to that divinity, and ignore those who claim to know better. Christ calls for a very personal relationship with the divine that does not require one to practice Biblical exegesis, or that strange spell "in Jesus's Name..." that the Church so adamantly grasps to. It is no wonder the Codex was hidden at the onset of Christian imperialism.

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    As someone who adores Carl Jung, I thought I'd add my own thoughts for the sake of records keeping.

    In response to the first point, Jung was describing the New Aeon as an age of relativity. In other words, To enter the New Aeon, Jung's writings imply that without any external institutions, traditions, and/or powers for the common folk to fall back on, we are left with empiricism. Crowley seemed to think similarly. If this idea is an interesting one, I highly recommend a book called Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson. It offers a highly concise and entertaining guide to train the mind to experience as a scientist. It does so by targeting the thing we all use to think, language.
    In practice, empiricism looks a lot like the Chaos Magick maxim, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." (My Qabalistic thinking cap says, "Naturally, Nothing IS true, because Nuit describes herself as Nothing!")

    In regards to the second point, yes, Abraxas, though a solar deity, is a description of the Supernals in my understanding of Jung's work. Abraxas was described by Jung as the ultimate unification of opposites. Abraxas appears to Jung as the Lord of the Light and the Darkness. Abraxas is fundamentally beyond human comprehension because Abraxas transcends reality. If I remember correctly, in Jung's Sermons, he talks about how the average person is incapable of handling the reality that if "God" is all powerful, that means "God" causes all of the problems of the world just as much as all of the goodness in the world. His descriptions of Abraxas are similar to ancient Greek descriptions of Hekate, who both creates and destroys in her wake (many ancient Greeks believed Hekate to be similar to our descriptions of Binah).
    Jung was highly aware that the transcendent denies all descriptions, because to describe a limitless being would inherently limit it. In that regard, Abraxas is similar to Nuit in that we can't really "talk" about Abraxas. However, even Nuit limits her expressions in the Book of the Law to Joy, and so Abraxas seems to describe the interplay between human rationalism (which was traditionally seen as the Great Father) and chaos (which was traditionally seen as the Great Mother).
    To further complicate the discussion, Crowley argues that there has been a polarity shift in the New Aeon, to where the Father principle is now Chaos (Therion, the Great Beast), and the Mother principle is structure (Babalon, the Scarlet Woman).

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    It is Open Source, and none of it is particularly specific to me.

  • Soror Meral on Success(ion)

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  • Polytheism or monotheism?

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    From my POV, Thelema is Pantheistic, which is a form of Monotheism. Considering Thelema with the lens of Spinoza's ethics makes a lot of sense.

  • Self initiation or the method of A.A.

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    @Heg said

    "Thank you Uni_Verse. I'll try not to build a high expectation but my curiosity is already at the peak of Himalayan Mountains. 93. "

    Ah ~ ha !
    I stands, a bulwark
    against my exuberance
    with a command :
    "NO SPOILERS!"

    (psst… between Me & You, enjoy ! 😀 )

  • Coronavirus and Thelema

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    A moment for the spinning globe to slow may be an expression of our collective Will.

    In modern society people are constantly bombarded with information, rarely, if ever, granted the opportunity or taking it to process.

    You are only restricted if you resist.

    In the binding,
    Straight jacket and gag;
    I found freedom
    Closing my eyes
    To listen

  • Principles of SHH! : Thelemic ?

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    @Hermitas said

    "Universal military draft? Or, what’s the intent there?"

    Para-military.
    The intent to bring every individual together, in service to the State ;

    @SHH! Manifes said

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    For the betterment of humanity, whether you like it or not !"

    As, according to the "Dolphin"

    @SHH Manifes said

    "To the State, there is ONLY:
    Citizen, Non-Citizen, Child;
    A persons individual identity
    is secondary to their service
    to the people,
    who as Sit-Zen-Tree-
    provide the conditions
    for its existence
    "

    That is to say, less poetically, a persons identity and survival as an individual being entirely reliant on the existence of a "Society" serving it should be their utmost priority.

  • Book of the Law edited by Jerry Kay?

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    Here is another one. In the comments someone says that Jerry Kay did the cover illustration as well.

    www.facebook.com/208699115818311/photos/a.209810419040514/3333614009993457/?type=3&theater

  • The Aeons and Precession

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    Thankyou, Hermitas, for that reference. As you say, it doesn't throw any light on my question, but it was an interesting thread to read.

    Best wishes,

    Michael.

  • Nietzsche

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    @Hermitas said

    "
    @LD330 said
    "I want agon to stop."

    Then everything stagnates and dies."

    Exactly. That's why I think he meant a particular instance of Agon, rather than the general concept of Agon.

  • Are Adepts obsessed with Adepthood?

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    It's just that some stars are dimmer than other stars, and some stars are bound to other stars, and some stars have planets that orbit them and some don't and we simply must accept that.

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    Oldfriend56, I came across the work of these people from Norway, you might find it interesting:
    Thelemic Perspective on Sexual Alchemy
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FfOyfa4l_k&t=26s

  • The symbol of Thelema

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    @Hermitas said

    "I has recieved THELEMIC orders to this book and exterminate it’s wordses from the mass internet collective conscious mind.

    The Grand High Illumanatix have the Masons and the Vermin to not read this books which exposes the truth of all the darkest top secrets for GLOBAL mind contol."

    LOL 😆
    (I did laugh out loud)

    @Takamba said

    "This might seem off topic but I say it is not. This is actually an ample opportunity to discuss this topic. The value of one's ability to write coherently, in a manner that is as equally communicable to the reader as it is to the writer, is an indication of the type, kind, and quality of MIND behind the writing. So, with brother FiatYod I agree. Judge the messenger by the message.

    The MIND, the SWORD, the ability of the mental faculties, is a required tool of magick. Its quality will determine the quality of the results. How the MIND works, what it accepts as evidence, what it calls research and study, what it practices and where it mispractices are all indicators of the results that should be expected. With brother FiatYod I agree.

    Judge Internet Idiots as ye will."

    This guy is rather challenging to judge. There are some videos and emails from which one can see that he does possess some knowledge and understanding of Qabalah, Magick, esoteric traditions from various places around the world, etc.
    On the other hand, there are emails like the one regarding which I've created this topic...

  • Expanding universe & 2:3

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    Marvelous! 🆒

  • Thelemic interpretation of The Divine Comedy

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    On dual wings named vairagya and viveka we flew, in the blue...

    We flew unto Ourselves; we flew unto that ever-present Night of peerless silence.

    "Who art thou that dost float and fly and dive and soar in the inane? Behold, these many æons have passed; whence camest thou? Whither wilt thou go?"

  • What's wrong with this picture?

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    @DragonKing418 said

    "So the photo is fake then?

    Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk"

    Nobody has claimed it is fake or not fake. This is not the place to be certain of that (unless digital image experts exist here or someone who was there is here or someone who knows of another photo this is smear of is here).

    There is that which we won't know from this point of view, if the image is as it actually occurred or has been doctored. Look beyond this website for those answers. I'm sure they can be determined.

    "What is wrong with this picture" on the other hand is a rhetorical device of instigating argument about other types of "believing." As in, "how dare he claim to be a believer?" wrong.

    To wit I reply, how dare you?! 👹