The Solar Phallic King
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Froclown, 93,
"The HGA is constitutes ones individual Spiritual Caste, ones HGA determines if one's true nature is the ardor and manliness of the warrior caste, the spiritual sublimity of the priest, the shrewed correctness of the scribe/clerk, the economic prowess of the merchant, etc."
Why is the HGA about any specific notion such as 'ardor and manliness' or "the economic prowess of the merchant" ? That's an absurd restriction on what an HGA really is. I also see no reason whatsever for your distinction between the HGA and the King, unless it's to fit the HGA into a private and very narrow conception.
I've previously said I completely reject the very notion of caste or anything like it in Thelema in the course of other exchanges - we are ALL royalty waiting to emerge - so it's not worth my rehashing that.
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EM
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The HGA is ones TRUE self, its not just prowess or ardor, but is what makes on man timid, another a hot head. etc.
Its a realization of what one is, the nature of ones Incarnation. To incarnate means to renounce the infinite potential of the continuous all and to take form in one specific particular sort of being. Hadit is Nuit, manifest as a point, by that point accepting one property or nature and rejecting another.
One point can only be here or there, it you are here and there, you are either a line or a self contradiction.
it is not true that everyone is unlimited that would be absurd. The fact than YOU are in any way distinguishable from anyone and anything else means, that you have limit, boarders than define You vs the other. That is the nature of incarnate existence. The Hadit or HGA is the expression of ones particular limits and proper relation to the limits of other particular points. These particulars do always balance out in a homeo-stasis of total equalibrium, to the nothingness of Nuit. But each of us is not than balanced all, we contribute to than state, and we do so only by fulfilling our the role and station of that is proper to our particular manifestation.
While yes each individual is Unique, still general similarities exist as well. Those with short fuses and less dexterity are not suited to working it watch factories, any more than the patient dexterity of the watchmaker is appropriate to the heaven construction work. The simple fact that such factors are genetic, and closed population have developed some of these genetic skills and allowed other to atrophy, means than Race does exist. Race is not merely skin color, it is the Eskimos Genetic tendency to store an insulating layer of fat, it is the short temper of the Iris, the Passion of the Latino. Which are a combination of genetics and local cultures that are symbiotic with the genetics, and the actual land conditions on which these traits came into play.
To mismatch a people, with its culture and land is destructive to the individual as well as his whole race. The globalized world where we are all one HUMAN cattle, stripped of our local culture, taught that our myths, legends and heros are fairy tales to be dismissed and forgotten, taught to forget our ties to our own people and our own history. rooted out of the connection to our homelands, and our pride is our local arts and crafts, displaced by globalist standardization. We become individuals, we may even became Humans, but in such a world we can not be called persons. Stripped of our culture, our history, our myths, our land, we became empty shells, mere humans, with to value or virtue beyond our pragmatic use as a tool or a commodity.
Strip us of King and caste, of race and homeland and you dare to call these empty shells human, and go so far as to rise yourself up as Humanist. I have a better name for this, I call it spiritual Vampirism, the very essence of the Black school, which Crowley was sent to work against, not to be enlisted as one of its ranks, to continue the vampirism of Christ.
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93,
"Strip us of King and caste, of race and homeland and you dare to call these empty shells human, and go so far as to rise yourself up as Humanist. I have a better name for this, I call it spiritual Vampirism, the very essence of the Black school, which Crowley was sent to work against, not to be enlisted as one of its ranks, to continue the vampirism of Christ."
Oh, utter piffle and uncomprehending misrepresentation.
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Any definition of the HGA is inherently self-contradictory and therefore absurd. To define is to limit. And a belief in dynamic evolution is NOT humanism.
Perhaps when we reach the day when the Supreme Guardian of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Babalon 'Babs' Ghotzbadegh announces in Tehran that the citizenry is not living up to its traditional erotic standards; when 14 US Republican Governors in a row confess to having been miserable monogamists all their lives; and the Premier of China, Hong Feng Kuo, announces that he is simply and solely gay, explaining tearfully on TV that "Not everyone can be bi - I know, I tried, and it just isn't my thing!"... then, perhaps, it will make sense to be discussing how we Thelemites will rule the world, and what system(s) we will adopt.
Until then, Bahlasti! Ompehda! We choke on these crapulous screeds! Our only sensible task is personal development, not determining how to divide the spoils we are centuries away from claiming.
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you make the HGA out to be above the abyss, the HGA is YOU yourself, plain and simple. It is not a transcendent of Duality, The HGA is the very foundation stone of duality. It is than fulcrum on which duality in divided.
Nor is thin any sort of political plan of action to take over the world, it is a model of Exactly on what grounds we are to accept authority, and what level of authority we possess as well as what the proper sphere of action in for each individual.
We can not claim that the proper area in which to act is everyone acts in the universe as a whole. That is impossible, each of us as a particular innate ingrained physical and spiritual essence which we are to act upon. Crowley was an expression of Jupiter forces in his incarnation, others may be Mars, or Mercury, some may be water and others fire or air.
it is possible any one might become a mathematics professor against their inner spiritual nature, but it is those whose HGA is strongly expressive of Air and Mercury who finds his self expression balanced in the sphere of Hod, developing theories, rather than the mechanical creations based on math, that a more earth element would devise.
Now Races as a whole tend to have elemental and planetary natures, that is who one incarnates in a particular time and place, in a particular vessel that is genetically and culturally appropriate to the expression of ones spiritual nature.
I am concerned with nothing less, than that we have fitting vessels into which the divine essence can incarnate in the future. Thus the political and social structure on earth must reflect what is above with races and castes that mirror the heavens.
"The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other! "
star and star = castes with in a race or ethnic group.
System and system = Various small self consistent Races with the larger world.
Thus the Social system mirrors the organization of the cells, organs, systems in the body bellow it and the Stars, solar-systems and galaxies above it.
We are cells in an organ, organs in the system, systems in the body (Self-race-world-universal)
We are stars in the solar system and solar systems in the galaxy and galaxies in the universal.
The earth, moon, and sun are all stars, each one is the center in its own perspective, Einstein shows that any point in the center. However which ever you take as center the light comes first from the sun, it is reflected and shared as in the collect from the Gnostic mass.
The King receives the light directly, and gives of life and light to those of us who orbit about him.
every man and every woman is a star, but not all stars are the same nor are they all equal.
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@Frater I-Ness said
"Where do people stand on this issue of the "Solar Phallic King"?"
Sounds silly and limiting. The crowned and conquering child of the New Aeon integrates both male and female energies into itself.
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@he atlas itch said
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@Frater I-Ness said
"Where do people stand on this issue of the "Solar Phallic King"?"Sounds silly and limiting. The crowned and conquering child of the New Aeon integrates both male and female energies into itself."
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Agreed.
The Godhead of every man and every woman is "Solar-Phallic" in that it unites one with the procreative life-will of all things.
One's highest Self of oneself is also the HGA, also the Secret Self, also a King-and/or-Queen... it is that which cannot fall having never been born or died, but permeating and giving Life to all things (righteous shall be righteous still, etc). All things that are impermanent - those of the 4 - will inevitably perish and be subservient (the slaves shall serve the King to do His Will) to the Law of the permanent - that which is hidden behind the 4, the babe in the blue egg, the self which is All things.
All these things are metaphors and symbols - rise up & awake... beyond! beyond!
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Well, it has been said many times that the best form of government is government by the "Good King" - the king that has the best interest of the people at heart. It cuts out all the beaurocracy and all the possibilities of popular ignorance running affairs.
The problem, since the dawn of time, is that "Good Kings" are very, very rare and cannot be produced at will, no matter the spiritual technology that is available (see Babylon, Egypt, Rome). As a result, monarchy, with ALL of human history standing as testimony, always reduces to dynasties, which become, without a single exception in history, self-serving shadows of that rare good king. As a form of government, it has proved itself again and again to be unstable, unsustainable, and undesireable.
The integral part of the equation that Froclown always leaves out is how any "Solar Phalic King" form of monarchy would ensure that each of its kings in succession are in fact "Good Kings." Without this, the ideal of the "initiated monarchy" is merely wishful, idealistic thinking.
- Where does this steady supply of "initiated monarchs" come from?
Does no one seek power nor have the power to usurp power if they are not "rubber stamped" by the initiating bodies? And if so, don't the initiating bodies have more power than the king - deciding who may become one?
- What is the process of stable transfer of power from one unquestionably and plentiful "good king" to the next?
If it's not dynastic and if it doesn't mean we have another war every single time one king merely appears to be weak, then what is it? Is there no selfishness or greed in this utopia? Is there no misplaced power? If not, then why need a ruler?
These are the eternal problems of any ideal of "initiated monarchy," and they remain completely untouched and unresolved in this discussion. How then, can anyone yet take it seriously? If he could answer these two, simple questions (upon which his entire utopia depends), I would take him so very much more seriously. As it is, it strikes me as euphoric idealism divorced from any serious, practical conception of history or politics.
From another angle, it goes completely against the very heart and spirit of the Book of the Law; namely, it suggests that I should view another as "king" and myself as "not king." It tells the "slave class" that they should be content where they are and submit to an outside authority because it is in their best interests - indeed, it is ordained from on High! - even though doing this would be to practice the same "spiritual vampirism" that it is supposedly so against.
"The word of Sin is Restriction"
Government IS Restriction. Govern - "to exercise a directing or restraining influence over."
What does it mean "to be governed" but to be restrained?
The only "proper" government based on the perspective of the characters in the Book of the Law is Anarchy - no Restriction, no "rule," not ever. The Book of the Law is about throwing off restrictions, not creating, organizing, and forcing others to follow them.
I'm sorry, but the weight of the entire history of the human race is in the other side of the balance on this one. So unless there is some truly new idea somewhere in here that *no one *has yet been able to discover, then it's just another old and outworn form that will continue to die whether we choose to debate about it or not...
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just because one workers under a king, does not mean that the Kind forces you against your own WILL. the book of the law cast off restrictions to your own, Will it does nt remoeve all order and reason from the world.
An ant colony for example, some ants are born workers some are queens, some are soldiers others are drones. The leaf cutter ants soldiers have large heads and jaws, they cut the leaves and the worker ants are smaller and faster but have small weak jaws. Part of the genetic programing of those ants is that each one's behaviors are genetically determined to fit their physiology. The queen lays eggs, but she also secretes a hormone that alters the other ants behaviors and keeps them working to bring her food and protect her etc. In bees the queen hormone is necessary to the life of the worker bee that does not produce the chemical themselves. the point being that the ants of bees would all run off on their own rather than act as a social hive if not for the fact that each of the same community have common pheromones and other shared hormones, and that each different type of cast of ant in the colony has a job that is vital to the whle workings. the queen is the common focus of all the others. And the any queens actually select mates to produce the genetic line up she requires, and thus also selects new queens. in bee hives royal jelly is fed to the young to create new queens. these hormones, pheromones and royal jellies, are chemical agents that trigger dormant gene expressions.
In humans and larger other social mammals, we trigger these dormant genes by other cues, by symbols and and ordeals. we imprint our nervous systems as Leary put it by being exposed to certain types of experiences at the right time and place. Our cultures titles and ordeal, or myths, symbols and initiations serve to trigger these genes, in some cases we use symbiotic plant relationships to attain the chemicals drugs, opium, hashish, fermented fruits and grains, which in combination with the race, culture and rituals of the people who traditionally use these methods, we awaken awareness, and dormant genetic processes. and in some of these we awaken kings.
The alpha male baboon for example, is genetically the same as the other males, but once it is in the position of alpha male, its fangs from, its fur thickens, it body mass increases due to testosterone and other hormones released by its recognized social role. the same with wolves. And for humans, it has been shown for example that after receiving a promotion to a more dominate job, from lower to upper management or form grunt to Sargent, men produce more testosterone and become more aggressive risk takers, and I learn from Dr. Drew that penis size increases.
Here we have evidence that social situations, and ordeals, have an effect on self image as well as physiological effects all inter-related.
That each of these adapts a person to a role, that these gene expressions and the social rituals that induce them as well as create meaningful expression of them are necessary to human psychology and proper social dynamics.
In no ways does the fact that a soldier any cuts the leaf and the worker and does not cut leaves does it mean the worker is restricted from cutting, it means the worker has no TRUE WILL to do cutting. It has no ability and it is not part of its WILL. The fact that kings shall be kings does not restrict the slaves from serving. The WILL to be what one is, does not include a right to attempt what one does not WILL, nor to feel ashamed at failure to meet the expectation of a caste not of owns own WILL. The fish may dream of flying, but its HGA (Hadit) is a fishes Hadit and not a birds, if the fish took to flight is wold suffer, and return to the sea. A fish in its true WILL takes comfort in the sea, an if nature made the fish a leader of a school or a follower, That role is the fishes WILL.
A worker bee does not sulk at not being a queen and seek to lay eggs.
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@Froclown said
"just because one workers under a king, does not mean that the Kind forces you against your own WILL. "
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@Froclown said
"The same is True with Slaves [as it is with tractors], their purpose is to serve and thus it is proper that they be USED up as fodder to ones own WILL, a tool run into the ground and used for a purpose that meets its talents. Be they mental or physical skills.
I would go so far as to say ideally with Thelema one self is King and all other humans, animals, objects, beliefs, etc are merely tools to be used, worn out, and cast aside, with no value in themselves but only as means to ones ends. "
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@Froclown said
"Thelema is to do away with all of this [egalitarian notions], and impose harsh standards on others, those who fail to meet up with ones standards are unfit and caste out of the social order. "Kings shall be kings forever, the slaves shall serve" "
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@Froclown said
"the book of the law cast off restrictions to your own, Will it doesn't remove all order and reason from the world. A worker bee does not sulk at not being a queen and seek to lay eggs."
Say one thing, and say it well. As it is, you paint a very conflicted and self-contradictory picture.
Also, your ideal "initiated monarch" is not only a complete douche, but he also apparently fits the DSM IV criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. People don't joyfully serve such cancerous growths. They cut them out even if it means losing their own limbs. You may do a Google video search for the execution of Saddam Hussein if you need clarification about what happens to such "kings."
All that, and you didn't even attempt to answer either of the only questions that matter from a practical standpoint. Allow me to reproduce those questions so as to keep them from leaving the very forefront of anyone's mind:
"***1. Where does this steady supply of "initiated monarchs" come from? **
Does no one seek power nor have the strength to usurp power if they are not "rubber stamped" by the initiating bodies? And if so, don't the initiating bodies have more power than the king - deciding who may become one?
***2. What is the process of stable transfer of power from one unquestionably and plentiful "good king" to the next? ***
If it's not dynastic and if it doesn't mean we have another war every single time one king merely appears to be weak, then what is it? Is there no selfishness or greed in this utopia? Is there no misplaced power? If not, then why need a ruler?
These are the eternal problems of any ideal of "initiated monarchy," and they remain completely untouched and unresolved in this discussion. How then, can anyone yet take it seriously?. . . As it is, it strikes me as euphoric idealism divorced from any serious, practical conception of history or politics. "
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ok, on the firs point. If I was incarnated to serve, my WILL is to serve and I an genetically, culturally, and spiritually adapted to serve. Then my whole sense of self worth and dignity comes from servitude, in ones natural ability. Be that in academic skill, engineering, street sweeping, or butler work. The idea one is still a king in a spiritual sense because your are spiritually acting in line with your WILL, you are boding what you are designed to do. Even if you ae serving at the feet of a tyrant, and this groveling is your true nature, then you are a king and you heart swells with pride every time your maser compliments you. The kings tailor feels his pride when he sees the king looking regal and handsome on he news. The kings personal whore takes pride that her efforts keep the king from sexual frustration which migh lead to mistakes or bad decisions.
anyway. as to how can we create or select the kings or "geniuses" by whose light alone the world progresses I need only point you to the postcard to Probationers of the A.'A.'.
www.geocities.com/nu_isis/pc2prob.html
Thanks partly to William James' Varieties of Religious Experience, I got the idea ofemploying the methods of Yoga to produce genius at will. James points out that various religious teachers attained their power to influence mankind in hat is essentially the same way; that is, by getting into Samadhi. The trance gives supreme spiritual energy and absolute self-confidence; it removes the normal inhibitions to action. I propose then that any man should use this power to develop his faculties and inspire his ambitions by directing the effects of the trance into the channel of his career. (confessions ch 29)
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since we have all read the liberal propaganda against serving, all the modernist notions, that all people everywhere are born to desire absolute liberty and freedom, I will quote another way of looking at bondage. a Dostoevsky sort of view actually.
"We do not choose our Masters nor is it up to us, whether or not we will please them, or to what degree. We must strive be perfection all ways, for anyone. that is part of what is to be a slave. In reconciling myself to bondage I had, also, to reconcile myself to this condition, it is a part of bondage. It is something which the slave must accept. Without it there can be no true slavery. I had accepted this condition, at least theoretically, verbally acknowledging its incumbency on me, in my training. somehow, interestingly, this acceptance too, seemed liberating to me, it made my bondage much more real to me. Too, interestingly, in its way, it also made it seem much more precious to me." ~Page 92- Dancer of Gor
"The only freedom I would now desire," said Mira "would be the freedom to be totally a slave." ~Page 296 - Blood Brothers of Gor
"Surely it is better to have a true man on any terms than to have half a man or no man at all! Men are masters; if the man be strong, the woman must submit. given the opportunity to relate to a true man, few woman will settle for less. Indeed, true women, in the belly of them, desire to submit to true men. It is an ancient instinct bred into the bellies of beautiful, feminine women." ~Page 154 - Slave Girl of Gor
Of course this is fixated on sexual absolutes which I don't agree with, but we might say that some HGA are male and sme female in this Gorean formula, and most are in between. Crowle'y formula of babalon and eroto-comotose-lucdity are very much like unto Gorean submission to enslavement
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Equivocation. Stop it. Say one thing.
Are these people "serving" against their "Will" or aren't they?
Slaves are forced to serve against their will, and you have repeatedly been a proponent of slavery.
Servants serve in accordance with their will, and may cease their serving whenever they wish.
You want to have both together. You want to enslave others (emphasis on "slave") on the basis of their relative weakness and then* justify* it by the rationale that they will be happier that way - as "servants" following their True Will...?!?!? More than that! You continually assert that to prevent them from being enslaved is bad for them as humans.
This is nothing more than a narcissistic dream, a sadomasochistic jerk-fantasy with absolutely NO basis in reality. Froclown, it's getting to the point where I have to ask... do you have Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
If people are that enlightened as to their True Will, why would there be any need to enslave them? Why any need for rulers or even leaders at all? All would be a collaboration.
However, if you are suggesting that these people should be enslaved
simply because one has the ability to enslave them, then just stop making any arguments regarding their True Will. Such an "enslaver" has no concern for a person's True Will. The idea is laughable. -
You are confusing what someone might want, with what their WILL is.
I do not propose that everyone can become enlightened as to their true WILL, that is the problem. Only a few reach the highest attainments, and everyone of a lower grade is reliant on he higher grades to relay the light down from the higher plane.Look at a child, they do not want of wear clothes, they do not want to sit still, they do not want to be quite in the store, they do not want to learn to read, they do not want to do math lesson. However, the parents, if they are good parents with a combination of reward and rod, force the child to it's lessons. The child once tamed and taught civilized, orderly, rational behavior, and the norms and laws of its community, is better off, and is thankful to the parents for not letting it just run wild, only to grow up unable to hold down a job or get along with people. (Yes such training should be also an extension of the child's true nature, don't force a child with bow legs of rickets to run track or race bikes).
Now Some of these children will learn self-discipline and will obey laws because they see it is in their best interest to obey the law, and realize their higher purpose is served by not conflicted too much with the world. But the Vast majority, even in the new aeon, will obey only out of a combination of instilled fear of punishment and a sense that one has a duty to uphold law, just for the sake that it is THE LAW passed down from on high. The first class follow the intent of the law, and even deviate when a situation happens that the law does not apply properly. the second class Obey the letter of the law no matter what, but the more fear driven that duty driven, the more likely they are to break the law only to get away with it.
Actual slaves are rare, but we call them now criminals. Those who have no respect for the laws and customs of the community at all. Who have no respect for its leaders and no sense of self-driven purpose that is in harmony with those around them. We lock these up today, rather than force them to labor for us, probably due in part to the high level of unemployment. However Heracles for example was sentenced to slavery as punishment for murder, to repay the family he had wronged. this as common in the Greek and roman civilization. Also what about prisoners of war and captured terrorists, why lock them up at gitmo, why not make them serve the American economy, put them to work as slaves, they are probably getting death sentences anyway, why not get some repayment in the form of labor out of them, if they are worked to death, so what we were going to kill them anyway. It is only situations like this that I advocate true slavery. Of course anyone who wants to be a beggar and slave worker rather than self supporting is free to do so as well, clean up the streets of beggars and homeless, by putting them to work paid with food and shelter. Clean them up off drugs and alcoholism, bath them, and keep their health up to par. This will prevent violent crimes in the streets, reduce disease, and give the homeless a positive task to perform, rather than harassing people and living in dumpsters.
Rather mostly I advocate a social-economic system of niches, with a chain of command. Where the true WILL can express itself in it's natural sphere of influence. A fish has one place where it fits to be a fish, leave the water is not is WILL, move too deep is not its WILL, more to a place too warm or too cold is not its WILL. Each animal has a place whee it fits. Each human has a place in the society where it fits, where it belongs, a niche or caste, I only propose that we discern scientifically via the methods of Thelema what sort of niches are common and build a social order that creates a place and purpose in a higher collective good, for each niche.
I suppose you oppose the notion of regulation the temperature, saltiness, and depth of a fish tank to fit the sort of fish that will live in it.
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@Froclown said
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Actual slaves are rare, but we call them now criminals. Those who have no respect for the laws and customs of the community at all. Who have no respect for its leaders and no sense of self-driven purpose that is in harmony with those around them. We lock these up today, rather than force them to labor for us, probably due in part to the high level of unemployment."
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@Froclown said
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and those who still possess a degree of manliness become thieves, gangsters, and profiteers over selling sublimative drugs, betting games, prostitution, to the masses who prefer to PAY for easy access to vices, rather than Earn them in battlee"Need this continue??
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There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
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For one their is a difference between running a gang of thieves and being a beggar. Not that either are socially desired.
It is well within the LAW "Do what thou wilt" to be a beggar or a thief, etc. That is not the issue, the issue is how we promote a social system where people can do their WILL and everyone has a place like gears in a clock, or stars in the galaxy.
The WILL of the heart in not like the WILL of the brain nor the WILL of the Liver, but if the heart does not abide by the signals sent by the brain, instead beating at its own pace (I am the heart equal to the brain I need not obey any orders) the blood will flaw erratically, the liver will not be able to filter properly, the blood will carry poison to the brain and the whole body will die.
If the so called lowly cobbler does not build the kings shoes well, the king may stumble on a broken heel and lose the respect of his soldiers, who in turn ignore his battle plan, lose the war, and the whole kingdom is burned to the ground.
Likewise in the body the most vestigial and superfluous organ, the appendix may rupture and poison the whole body, if it is not able to do its WILL, no matter how insignificant than function may seem. The lowest slave fulfilling his function is as vital to the whole as the highest nobleman. Thus to do ones WILL, does not mean everyone is the brain, it means if you happen to be the appendix, be proud of it, be the best damn appendix you can be, for that is your nature and purpose, to do other than this can lead to catastrophe, the knowledge that you hold this power to cause and prevent catastrophe shall be your sense of power and pride. The healthy individual will seek to do ones WILL no matter what it is.
That is to say "Their are no small roles only small people",
Roles are not equal, the body can live if the appendix is removed, but remove the heart or brain and all the rest perish as well.
The rise of thieves I spake of before was because without a king, without a community ideal to serve, these people turn their force into turning profits, to pure immediate material gains. Organs without a body, all claiming that each it its own whole body, and does not need the others, does not need to be part of something, because each is its own whole everything.
Every man is a king, in the reach of his sword arm, the swords of others will mark his limits. Thus are treaties drawn, and communities formed. But not all men are warriors, some can bearly lift a sword, but are quick with the pen, writing verse. Each here is king within the influence of his pen, and can dip his quill in venom to take down a foe, thus creating limits, between scribes.
The doctor is a master of potions and healing arts, but also has the knowledge of what kills the body, thus the doctor finds a sphere of action and sets up his limits. A builder creates buildings in which to live and walls, doors, locks, to set limits.Their are different castes and they have Earned their place in a particular community by way of imposing and removing limits, on each other. Respect for these limits are taught via local rules of manors, norms, titles of respect, etc.
Those who have been limited and have no power to push back the limits are given little or no respect (as it should be). This is the Law of the strong.
Thelema is not about what political limits are put over someone, it is about spiritual limits, super-ego stuff. That is if you are a slave, you are a slave still, but you can do anything you can get away with and feel no guilt, as no GOD will punish you, The law may imprison you, a jealous lover may kill you in a rage, and all than is Lawful under thelema.
All Do what thou wilt, really means is their is no spiritual punishment, no heaven no hell, no God or any other moral principle to obey. Instead we must look to earthly conditions to set our limits. To our biology, and the might of others.
Here is a Christian version of Liber AL.
I GOD have given up on you, mortal men, I am ashamed of you and I offer you no more guidance, you do whatever you want, I have Forsaken you! Now go bugger off.
To which we can either sulk and lament, or we can shout FREE at last, Free at a last, on live by our own principles, not God's standards.
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Yeah, now, see... Something like that seems much more debatable.
I still think monarchy is a dead end for the reasons of sustainability I mentioned. I'm just much more pessimistic about how easy it is to create initiates. I think it requires more than just the science of it. There's a rare personal quality that's necessary. Some people talk about it in terms of karma. I don't pretend to understand it. It's just very rare.
All the ranting against Equality and democracy on principle seems pointless though. It's a distraction from any good points you have.
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what I meant before about using up slaves, is the for example the body does not live for the heart or any other organ, but for the whole body, the heart beats and its beating is USED up by the body for an end that transcends just the heart itself. The WILL of the heart is to beat for beating sake, because that is what hearts do, and part of being the heart and doing good beating is to obey the impulse from the central nervous system. The heart does not mind that it is being used up, that each beat brings it closer to death, because in beating it is part of a higher order, which supports on only itself, but the other organs, and in fact little does the heart know but by beating in one mans chest, it allows this man to provide life necessity for a child and thus one heart beat preserves the beating of another.
The liver the same as the heart has its transcendent role, but its purpose is not the hearts purpose. The purpose of some cells in the body are that when killed by a bacteria they dead cell produces a chemical signal than helps Identify the invader. Much as in Islam we find even young boys who attain a transcendent meaning in suicide, even if their personal life is short, and they die in a gristly way. It is the WILL of some stars to burn out fast.
What Thelema teaches is to feel no fear or guilt, about being who you are and whatever happens to you pleasure or pain in the local life, is irrelevant as the whole is beyond the inter-play of the parts. If you are performing your natural function, even suffering is joy.
The king is vital as both a political and a "spiritual" leader, one who by example as much as lesson, leads the people in rituals that help remind than they are each part of something bigger, and each has a proper place in the larger world, what that place is, and how to sense it. As well as the links between the individuals in the community. Links to the communities history, to the natural world, to each other, and to the social order. The social order which is guided by the King, who is the Lord of the community, who is one with the solar force. Whom the people orbit, and draw strength from.
Is this not what the Gnostic mass is meant to achieve?
Is not first the common man made into a Priest (King)
"I am but a man among men, how shall I be made worthy to administer the virtues to the brethren"
Perhaps the consecration by the Priestess can be studies along with the deliverance of Excalibur to Author by the lady of the lake. As a means to understand how a king is "made".Also realize that never in the whole of humanity mentioned as recipients of the virtues, but rather the brethren who are present at the mass. It would be a rare king indeed who could be worthy to administer virtues suited to all men everywhere. Rather let each group of brethren conceive its own King, and certainly the Mass is catholic, but one can devise local versions on the same theme, more suited to the group. With its own saints and memorable deeds.
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Here is an articles from the Treasure-house of pearls site.
www.thelema.nu/archives/13#more-13
Any time an administration is run by someone without transcendent knowledge of some kind, but instead is just a product of the herd (the masses as Ortega y Gasset calls them) you will see this kind of government. In all cases, the best that could be hoped for is mediocrity. Rarely though do they even reach that height. Look around; what do you see?