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    What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

    Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

    How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

    Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
    How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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    Jim Eshelman
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    I agree that the following is just about as Thelemic a statement as I've ever read:

    "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution..."

    (Do you see the Qabalistic pattern btw... the six ideas centered around Tiphereth?)

    It's all in the implementation then. And one must admit that after 200+ years there is still tweaking required.

    But when compared to the whole course of human history, it has still been enormous progress, a platform for going further. (Churchill, of course, always comes to mind in this regard.)

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    • A Anonymous

      What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

      Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

      How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

      Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
      How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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      Smokey Monking
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      The mad men of a lot of countries envy you yankees for your facility for to have guns. The second amedment, in fact, had originally the purpouse of take care of the population if the government would became corrupt. That way people could defense themselves from opression and so on. I don´t remember the details, but that was the essence, anyway I suppose that it´s well knowed thing. Today there´s the discussion about the fire weapons, but well the thing has got much more complicated than in the past, or that it seems.

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      • A Anonymous

        What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

        Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

        How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

        Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
        How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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        Jim Eshelman
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        @kasper81 said

        "Churchill was an elitist i.e. fascist so I don't get that reference."

        Churchill: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

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        • A Anonymous

          What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

          Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

          How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

          Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
          How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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          Uni_Verse
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          Looking far into the future, the shackle of the peoples shall be their imagination
          The only limiting factor among a succession of infinities
          Moving, along the current, of ideas as the highest priced commodity
          Where economies no longer flow outward, inward
          Through the center, the hearts of the people
          Spawning lovely flowers of dark & dreadful hues
          In virtual temples they gather, to mutter platitudes
          While their great god remains silent in solitude
          Students caught in the rapture vicarious
          They need not meditate, He meditates for them
          THE BLISSFUL DISPORA
          Final gift of the Human Instrumentality Project

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          • A Anonymous

            What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

            Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

            How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

            Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
            How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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            Jim Eshelman
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            Since I introduced him to the conversation, I thought you were asking for clarification on what I meant. I was referring directly to that quote.

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            • A Anonymous

              What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

              Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

              How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

              Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
              How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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              Bereshith
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              @Jim Eshelman said

              "I agree that the following is just about as Thelemic a statement as I've ever read:

              "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution..."

              (Do you see the Qabalistic pattern btw... the six ideas centered around Tiphereth?)

              "

              Though it seems to have been completely overlooked, I find this fascinating.

              I see the six, but I have a hard time distinguishing their direct correspondences to either the planetary hexagram or to the sephiroth.

              Do you see direct correspondences in the statements? And if so, would you mind listing them?

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              • A Anonymous

                What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

                Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

                How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

                Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
                How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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                Jim Eshelman
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                to form a more perfect union = Y'sod
                (cohesiveness of mass-mind, connection at level of subconsciousness)

                to establish justice = Hod
                (the least persuasive, but an easy enough fit when all the others fit: codification, a series of laws - an old usage wherein Hod receives from Diyn)

                to insure domestic tranquility = Netzach, of course

                to provide for the common defense = Geboorah, of course

                to promote the general welfare = Hesed, of course

                to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity = Biynah, of course

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                • A Anonymous

                  What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

                  Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

                  How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

                  Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
                  How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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                  Bereshith
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                  Man... Even just right up the Tree in order like that...

                  Fascinating.

                  Thank you.

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                  • A Anonymous

                    What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

                    Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

                    How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

                    Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
                    How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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                    Jim Eshelman
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                    @kasper81 said

                    "how is Netzach domestic tranquillity? or Hod justice? or liberty Binah?"

                    Netzach is Venus.

                    Hod... I explained specifically.

                    Biynah is inherently liberty - that's the spiritual experience of the grade. But more pointedly, the underlying character motivation of Saturn is personal autonomy. Think of it in the "leave me the F alone to do my own thing" sort of way. (It's a planet of governance, but, when owned, that makes it self-governance.)

                    BTW, if it makes you feel better (or bring it to a simpler framework), don't think of the sefiyroth so much as the planets Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. (Better?)

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                    • A Anonymous

                      What are your thoughts on how to integrate Law of Thelema into western culture toward the governing of a Thelemic Nation on the world stage.

                      Using America or UK as a launching platform for the revolution. Let's say there is a global catastrophe that wipes out half the world's population, destroys the economy and infrastructure, depletes military resources, forcing the West to rebuild society. Let's pretend the presidential figure in charge at the time understands Thelema and wants to rebuild America ensuring True Liberty for real this time. How will that work?

                      How would you change the way the Federal Government operates in order to permit Thelemic Culture?

                      Or, to make the question simpler, let's say you had your own private island nation with a million Thelemites.
                      How do you provide order of government while protecting individual liberty?

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                      pile_of_graemle
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                      @Rudolf Steiner said

                      "If you go back to ancient times - who were the governing types then? Initiates. The Egyptian Pharaohs, the Babylonian rulers, the Asiatic rulers - they were initiates. Then the priest-type emerged as ruler and the priest-type was really the ruler right up to the Reformation and the Renaissance. Since that time the economist has been in command. Rulers are in fact merely the handymen, the understrappers of the economists.One must not imagine that the rulers of modern times are anything but the understrappers of the economists. And all that has resulted by way of law and justice — one should only study it carefully — is simply a consequence of what economically oriented men have thought. In the nineteenth century the “economical” man is replaced for the first time by the man thinking in terms of banking, and in the nineteenth century there is created for the first time the organization of finance which swamps every other relationship. One must only be able to look into these things and follow them up empirically and practically. “
                      "

                      the blind leading the blind!!!

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