College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Oui c'est ca.

I like how you put that, calling a spade a spade.

My problem is with all the other sheep who don't.

But sheep don't speak, so I don't know why I mention it.

Liber Oz is an anarcho-capitalist statement, if universalized to all people, would be an ethical system for people to live:

hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib77.html

I saw nothing in this statement about the initiation of force. Which is the claim of government. "The divine right of kings" to "the divine right of the elected by a 51 percent majority"

Thanks for the feedback!

I agree with your definition. I will probably lurk some more in the Thelema sub-forum before I start any conversation as the last thread I went through there was controversy galore for me to aid my digestion for now, not without its fiery and contentious debate.

On the issue of "Crowleyianity", I'm guessing such a thing is possible, as anything is possible, I did not come to be interested in Knowledge to have Faith.

45 of the Book of Lies hit home for me when I first read it. "I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning."

I must not be interpreting it entirely correctly. (I'm sure I don't interpret anything entirely correctly at the moment.)

Does that pertain to mental slavery, perhaps?

Mental servitude, to an idea, a fixed way of thinking?

I agree.

This was beautiful, Jim. I suspect you are correct.

The Internet is the Law in action, for now. Most barriers to knowledge at the moment are unrestricted to those in the West. We can speak unrestricted, soon, perhaps we will be able to transfer wealth, unrestricted, without interference, id est bitcoin.

Information permeates the young and the old, now. If there ever would be the time of the Hierophant, this would be it.

I am curious, what precipitated the impulse for the change?

Well, that's what I mean. The only Law is Do what thou wilt. The law of any man can only be valid to another if it is the will of the slave who follows it. "The slaves shall serve"

Am I interpreting that correctly?

What is hilarious to me, thinking about it today, my interest was "cute" at first, but the more I learn, more I realize it's all true, more my jaw drops. I reread the Comment on the Book of the Law again with Eyes instead of Lids. "We are Children"

The only Law is Do what thou wilt?

That must by definition be political anarchism, mustn't it?

Allo mon freres.

I had been listening to the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast for years now, hearing him mention Aleister Crowley and the idea of the Great Work from time to time, when I listened to the Wasserman podcast describing the rough outline of what Thelema is about. Shortly thereafter, I was wandering through the local bookstore when I found a copy of The Book of Lies waiting in the stands for me for about five dollars. I read it and reread it which led me to a number of other associations which led me to hermetic.com --- finally a compendium of Crowley's copious writings within my grasp.

I started my interests in mysticism when I was around 14, after a consciously induced astral projection experience. I bought Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics and began meditating and trying to consciously put myself into a deep enough trance state again to consciously astral project. Then I was introduced to Cannabis and from 15 to 23 my connection with the Spirit evaporated into dust. So, during this time I set my major subject of study to psychology.

When I was 23 my father died of cancer, icing a cake of "Fear and Trembling; Sickness unto Death" that I had been slowly manifesting over the previous decade. The rug had been swept out from under me, and that is where I reside now. I can't help but contemplate Life and Death. It forces me to do so. The mystical path sucked me up the river of its own accord.

I decided to call myself "Le Premiere Homme" firstly because I'm enamored with the French language at the moment, and secondly because I am currently beginning at the beginning --- Asana after reading the first section of Book 4. And I guess, in a way, I feel like I'm beginning again. Crowley is, for me, a light in the darkness, the contrary of everyone I talked to about him that would tell me that he was a satanist, baby-killer, pervert, and all that nonsense.

The intro to Magick in Theory and Practice was an eye opener for me. I've always seeked self-control, the affirmation of life, the higher planes of experience, amidst the wasteland of my birth into modern american life. I feel in my bones that there is a Way, but it is like grinding one's way through swamp and mud, insects and vermin chewing at every turn. I am infinitely grateful for the Work of the Great Beast.

I know so little, and there is so much to know. So I begin again, at the beginning...

Anyway, I thank you for approving my membership. Never in the history of Man have such resources been so readily present for our elucidation.

Be Well.