Thelema-mania
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Thelema as every ideological religion becomes fanatical for those who do not understand it. I do not say i understand thelema or other religions i just want to say how to understand any ideas created by humans at any times. By understanding tree of life we can consist every concenption into it. Curently i try to consist everything i hear from television, people and everything i analyse from their behavour, also what i read from crowley works and christian literature. You can be amazed how many insight i get from last mentioned
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@Follower said
"Thelema as every ideological religion becomes fanatical for those who do not understand it."
I assume you are refering to the religious practitioners when you speak of those "who do not understand" in which case I would have to disagree with you. I have known many a slack jawed Christian and Catholic who knew didly squat about their religion, and understood even less. They were not fanatics. On the contrary, they were complacent sheep. It is those who take the enacting of their beliefs to the extreme that are fanatics. The killing of infedels by Christians and Muslims is not a misunderstanding of their religious tenets. It may be one interpetation out of many for a passage in their respective holy books, but it is fanatical action in accordance to something they understand all too well. Do you think all of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and other catastrophies of religion were just a bunch of misunderstandings on behalf of the practitioners?
Edit: Furthermore, your statement quoted above implies that there is a correct way to interpet any given set of religious beliefs, which there is not.
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"the method of science, the aim of religion"
... a prime tenant of thelema. a lot of people don't want to do the work. i guess they don't get the point.
"religion" has such an odd flavor. i prefer the "hermetic sciences", that way jargon has just a little wiggle room.
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@anistara said
"a lot of people don't want to do the work. i guess they don't get the point."
That is what it seems to be with many I have encountered, the lazy way of blind belief and taking in another's view without any effort. An old man once told me that "any Great accomplishment requires much effort". It seems I have not the inclination for blind belief, I always sought personal experience.
@The Old Guitaris said
" I have known many a slack jawed Christian and Catholic who knew didly squat about their religion, and understood even less. They were not fanatics. On the contrary, they were complacent sheep."
Indeed, as have I. I even had a landlord a while back that was cheating on his wife and would go to church every sunday, also to bible study, with his mistress,
.Yet I have known people who seemed fanatical that where complacent sheep as well, I guess some part of the human psyche has a need to get others to agree to strengthen their blind beliefs. This kid at work would attempt to get me to believe by threats of if I do not accept Christ Jesus into my heart I am going to hell, then I caught this kid stealing from our work place, I ask him is that not a sin when I caught him, he said that all he has to do is pray for forgiveness, and I could not help but to laugh.
I can't say I have met any Thelema fanatics, well except for me when I was in my early twenties, I carried my books around and would talk about what I had found to be the Way, and freaked a few people out when they seen the title Magick, especially when I would talk about the Goetia. Being that at the time I had really just read through them and actually had no personal experience I may have had Thelema-mania.
