College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Certainly the LBRP won't interfere, and probably neither. (It's all sort of personal karma stuff, right?)

In general, though, if you are pursuing the Work through A.'.A.'., you should consult your Superior in the Order on this question.

I found my journal entries to be invaluable, especially where I note down specifics of my sitting meditation practice - if you don't note down the details in retrospect they may all seem sort of same (after all - you are just sitting there), but in fact as you look at your entries you will see that there are as many variations of sitting sessions as there are days in an aeon. I find these little variations to be important - there is often a pattern to them that you will likely not recognize unless you are keeping a journal.
Sometimes it's a little insight that comes up that seems very enlightening and if I don't note it down I will forget it, which gets frustrating. Insights get built one on the other, so noting them down is important. For instance your 1st insight might be some observation that will further grow and expand in your 5th insight - for example. If you forgot your learnings from the 1st insight, your 5th one will lose the context for interpretation. This might or might not happen, it's just one of the many possibilities of how things work - at least for me.

Another tremendous benefit is to see your notes when you first started and you compare them to your progress at present time. You might currently feel like you are not getting anywhere because your mind/concentration is all over the place for instance, but then you look back at your notes from a year ago and you discover that you are actually miles away from where you began, and your concentration is actually much better now as opposed to back then - that is very encouraging to see. It really motivates you to just keep on going forward.

This task is extremely hard, the name may be suitable with your identification maybe for couple of months to half year in your case. If i would need to pick one i would pick my general nickname since i have most identification with it.

Like Uni_Verse says. "Love under will" is the Universal Solvent. It is the formula for Free Flow, thus of Nature. Hence it is the antithesis of Restriction. Solve et coagula.

"If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever." AL II:21

"the joy of dissolution all." AL I:30

Welp... books it is, then. 😆

In terms of face-value reading, the "ethics" of Chapter I and II read as diametrically opposed to one another. If they were ethical systems, they would be opposed to one another.

They only make sense together in terms of doing one's Will. That's the only way they align, and it's different for each person. In this sense, I think Thelemic ethics are entirely situational ethics, with their main reference point being the Will of the individual in a particular situation.

Regarding the valuation of different Wills, there is no difference. Regarding the restriction of my individual Will in favor of anything else, damn them.

So, all things being equal, you are perfectly free to do your Will. In fact, that's the only right thing to do.

My stuttering two.

@dr. ski wampas said

"Most of the people on this website do believe that Crowley is a prophet from what I can tell, so you might be in the wrong place. I believe the guy was a drug addict, and a con artist."

All Gods are Truth
All Men are Prophets
All Woman the Goddess

Before starting to design your own rituals maybe you should work towards understanding the mechanics of how they work and what they do. The new ritual is only the final produc of this.

Howdy Eric! Glad to have you!