College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

It is even easier than the author suspects.

All one needs is faith. To open the heart.
Unfortunately, we each take far too much pleasure in our own failure

For all that stands between us and our angel, our lord is our self.

"":2eh7dv1p]When preforming the Middle Pillar ritual, we make vibrate divine names of certain spheres that correspond with parts of our body. Some of these overlap with the chakras, some don't.

Should these two systems simply be kept separate?."

I was taught -- and I've found this a useful way to think about it -- that the chakras are closely connected to the physical body (or the almost physical "etheric" body), while the spheres in the Middle Pillar exercise are in the astral. That's why they don't quite coincide.

Personally, I believe in having as many orgasms as possible, yet only achieving orgasm for a purpose. You can learn to have sex and masturbate w/out achieving orgasms. You can keep this process going for an indefinite amount of time. Basically, if you are going to orgasm, direct it towards some purpose, it is extremely powerful. If you want to have sex or masturbate, after "delaying" the orgasm a couple of times, you will have achieved all of the pleasure you desire and most times an orgasm is unnecessary. When you do orgasm though, try to have a real purpose for it. You can use that energy to your "advantage".