College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Very 60s-esque! Thanks for your thoughts. If you come across anything, I'd love to know.

I have never once read Crowley refer to Thelema as a "current." Does anyone know where the use of "93 Current" & "Thelemic Current" originated? Did it come from Kenneth Grant? Is it borrowed from Chaos Magick?

@Arsihsis said

"I'm curious to know if Crowley wrote The Nameless Novel prior to or following his reception of Liber L..."

After. He wrote it while Rose recovered from the birth of their first daughter, which was in July of 1904.

@Aum418 said

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@Maya93 said
"Perhaps it means that the King shows compassion because it gives him personal pleasure, not because he is required to, as in other systems."

Why single out compassion for 'personal pleasure'? I can get personal pleasure from moving my legs around after exercising but I dont think the Law needs to tell me about that... same with 'being nice to people' and such.

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This is a loose interpretation of “vice” on my part, I admit. A literal reading would be that compassion is a character defect or bad habit among kings. I don’t quarrel with that. But, at the same time, a king’s vices are not the same as a peasant’s. A king’s vices are “cloaked in purple,” no? There’s no law above him. His whims are law. I only throw that out because the contrast between “king” and “vice” catches my eye. I stand by the “perhaps” above, though. I’m not confident enough in the theory to defend it too enthusiastically.

I’ve always understood Nuit as 0 and Hadit as 1 (Kether). Certainly, that would better correspond to the vertical/horizontal balance.

Perhaps it means that the King shows compassion because it gives him personal pleasure, not because he is required to, as in other systems.

I could be wrong but I think Babalon and Chaos are Nuit and Hadit as they appear in the middle Sephirot.

The English don’t practice circumcision, so I don’t know why you’d expect he was. But for what it’s worth, in Do What Thou Wilt, Sutin interprets a passage from Confessions to mean that he had an adult circumcision to treat an infection (rather severely!). Either way, Crowley was writing for an audience that wouldn’t have considered the foreskin unusual. And surely it’s a significant enough part of the male anatomy to warrant mention in sex magick instruction! The yogis consider it one the sixteen vital parts!

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

I'm a musician and occultist from the southern hemisphere living now in NJ. Love Crowley, Burroughs, Grant, etc.

Looking forward to the discussions!

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