College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Allowing children to participate in ritual is a wonderful experience, both for you and them. Resh is great and some simple stuff like allowing her to feel a connection to the divine and charging a candle with that energy and lighting it, or a guided meditation. Just keep it light at this point. If you are inclined to take her to Wiccan ceremonies or Gnostic masses those are also great places.I grew up in a household where I participated in magickal ceremony, astral travels, ect from a young age (10 or so), all at my own interest level and when I grew out of it for a time that was that. Kids have a unique ability to connect and should be allowed to exercise their power for as long as they want to.

Thanks for the reply Jim, I was worried for a minute after reading that passage

"Liber Aleph is majorly cool, but by all means ignore the sexist crap that saturates it.

It's only a Class B document"

Hi Jim, you say to ignore the sexist crap without refuting the passage as inaccurate. Something in your wording confuses me, more specifically it's the the "by all means", because I can tell someone who believe the Earth is flat to "by all means continue in that belief" without agreeing with their assertation that the Earth is indeed flat. As for it being simply a Class B document, aren't they held to to be expressive of Briah, enlightened and earnest scholarship? Is this the accepted view of Womanhood in the T.O.T.?

It is indeed easy for a Woman to obtain the Experience of Magick, in a certain Sort, as Visions, Trances, and the like; yet they take not Hold upon Her, to transform Her, as with Men, but pass only as Images upon a Speculum. So then a Woman advanceth never in Magick, but remaineth the same, rightly or wrongly ordered according to the Force that moveth Her. Here herefore is the Limit of Her Aspiration in Magick, to abide joyous and obedient beneath the Man that her Instinct shall divine so that by Habit becoming a Temple well-ordered, comely and consecrated, she may in her next Incarnation attract by her Fitness a Man-soul. For this Cause hath Man esteemed Constancy and Patience as Qualities preeminent in Good women, because by these she gaineth her Going toward Our Godliness. Her Ordeal therefore is principally to resist Moods, which make Disorder, that is of Choronzon. Also, let her be content in this Way, for verily she hath a noble and an excellent Portion in Our Holy Banquet, and escapeth many a Peril that is proper to us others. Only, be she in Awe and Wariness, for in her is no Principle of Resistance to Choronzon, so that if she become disordered in her Moods, as by Lust, or by Drunkenness, or by Idleness, she hath no Standard whereunto she may rally her Forces. In this see thou her Need of a well-guarded Life, and of a True Man for her God.

Is this the current accepted stance of Womanhood in Thelema?