Center of Pestilence
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@Los said
"The most important takeaway point is that if you seriously find yourself hesitating to do what you authentically want to do because some book has some apparent ill-defined "rule" against it, then the message of the Book of the Law has not gotten through to you yet."
I agree with this mostly, except I don't think the comment is ill-defined, I think it is very well worded. I see it acting as a filter, anyone who can't wield sharp enough discrimination and relate it to the text it's attached to has, as you suggest, not absorbed the message of the Book. Anyone who is looking for a book to follow slavishly should burn it and forget about Thelema until they can stand on their own two feet.
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One thing I would like to point out, is the comment says "discuss the book of the law", implying not merely some comment on it, but a back and forth communication between two or more people, creating a community of people discussing the book of the law. As, a result, no one is being shunned by all, by virtue of the fact the members of this community are speaking to one another.
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@Frater Horus said
"Verily everything is true."
Indeed.
But not everything is useful.
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In '98-ish, I wrote a research paper in a cultural anthropology course called Magic, Witchcraft, & Religion where I explored the Tunis Comment (how ironic is that?) and decided it just meant understanding The Book of The Law is a non-verbal, ineffable, intuitive, archetypal, meditative type of thing. You can try all you want to make sense of it with logic, reason and language (and probably even math), but, ultimately, it's comprehension is a "mystical" process.
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@Los said
"The most important takeaway point is that if you seriously find yourself hesitating to do what you authentically want to do because some book has some apparent ill-defined "rule" against it, then the message of the Book of the Law has not gotten through to you yet."
I'm inclined to agree with this, but I'm not certain it's the most important takeaway point.
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@landis said
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@Shunyata said
"All reality tunnels are false."
Including the reality tunnel that views all reality tunnels as false?"to quote another holy book (Liber Principia Discordia
)"All reality tunnels are true in some sense, false in some sense, and mysterious after another sense all together"
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@ldfriend56 said
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@landis said
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@Shunyata said
"All reality tunnels are false."
Including the reality tunnel that views all reality tunnels as false?"to quote another holy book (Liber Principia Discordia
)"All reality tunnels are true in some sense, false in some sense, and mysterious after another sense all together""
That's obvious. [to some]
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**pes·ti·lence **
noun
1.
a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
2.
bubonic plague.
3.
something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.From the viewpoint of the old Aeon, we are the disease, destroying it. We are viewed as "evil", "satanic". We become Hadit, a "center" of this change, this destructive power of the new Aeon. So, for those who get it, we should totally DISOBEY the comment. Be part of the epidemic!
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@Jason R said
"**pes·ti·lence **
*nouna deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
2.
bubonic plague.
3.
something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.*From the viewpoint of the old Aeon, we are the disease, destroying it. We are viewed as "evil", "satanic". We become Hadit, a "center" of this change, this destructive power of the new Aeon. So, for those who get it, we should totally DISOBEY the comment. Be part of the epidemic!"
Now you get me!
"You're saying 'centre of pestilence' like it were a bad thing."
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.... -