I think Crowley means chastity in the sense of the chapter with the same name in "Little Essays Towards Truth":
"Chastity may thus be defined as the strict observance of the Magical Oath; that is, in the Light of the Law of Thelema, absolute and perfected devotion to the Holy Guardian Angel and exclusive pursuit of the Way of the True Will."
@Mephis said
"The Book, or Books, are called the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, and were printed in Europe around the 18th century, and became popular among European immigrants who practiced folk magic."
My ancestors some 4 generations ago came from Germany to Brazil. They were farmers with no education living in the middle of nowhere, so I guess no access for reading. I remember my dad telling me a story he heard from my grandfather that besides the first five books in Old Testament, there were the sixth and seventh. If a person read them, the devil itself would appear in front of you. 
I know both are deeply involved, but I like to think of Thelema in two aspects:
a) True Will; discovering your true nature and doing your True Will. The knowledge of all aspects of your own being. The practical work the A.'.A.'. system proposes we do. "Who am I? Where am I going?".
b) A religious and philosophical system, including the ideas of Secret Chiefs, Aeons, praeter-human beings, feasts, prophets, a new formula, Holy Books mysteries and interpretation, thelemic morals, etc. "From where did I come?" Things more inclined to make people act like fanatics (I don't say this is the general rule, but it happens a lot, don't you think?).
I would call the Do-what-thou-wilt Thelema and the attached "religious" system Crowleyanity. (I am not using this word as an offense.)
Well, we could say he "rewrote" GD as A.'.A.'. (revised & expanded! 
). He took off everything he thought was unnecessary, from group work to grade rituals, and so on; and keeping things as 0=0 (671) and 5=6 (120) formulas, the book of balance (30), etc., and adding stuff like Yoga. I don't know why he changed his mind about group work with O.T.O. Because of money income?
@David S said
"Do this, and you will be the talk of your town. You'll get laid and find true love. You'll have a reason to talk to that cute guy/girl you fancy."
LOL. I suggest Mystery Method.
@Jim Eshelman said
"During my tenure as Chancellor of the college, I doubt we ever will do that. (We might. "Never say never," etc.)
Nothing replaces direct, in-person connection. It's not about data (which you can get from books). It's about direct contact. (The occult principle is called impaction.) Ultimately, that's the stuff that matters IMHO."
Somewhere here you said you wrote a full correspondence course. If CoT and ToT teachings never spread in non-personal forms, I hope you release that course as an alternative 
@P is for Pomegranate said
"(EDIT: just saw you're in Portland, can't help ya there. The lineage I'm working with is based out of the Midwest--unless of course the traveling was possible for you, the majority of the work is at a distance anywho)"
BTW, it would be nice if CoT worked this way because today we can use tools like Google Hangout, FaceTime, Skype, etc. I still hope someday they will open online classes. Seckler was worried about finding hard-working people and teaching them face to face, today we can do that through Internet.
Some inspiration:
My name is Alan Michel, but my father calls me Michel and my mother and friends call me Alan.
Reading you short biography and issues, I suggest you look for psycotherapy (Regardie gives me a thumb!). It does not hurt and help us to find where the real problem is. It also gives us a big help in the first A.'.A.'. steps – usually people have a problem to look within themselves.
Nice to meet you!
@Archaeus said
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@Ethar said
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
@Jim Eshelman said
"Probationers are always given the chance to betray the Order. That's their challenge."
Hmm, that's interesting. What would qualify as betraying the Order? Simply abandoning the work?
Love is the law, love under will."
Could be anything, my own involved people trying to convince me that my Branch of A.'.A.'. was a 'fake', and trying to get me to renounce it in order to join their own Branch which they posited as the 'real' A.'.A.'."
That's interesting, this same kind of "temptation" happened to me in a different way. I started to pursue every kind of lineage looking for the "right one", until I realized that what really matters is my own Work. No lineage would make me attain if I did not do my own Work, not even Crowley himself. I have seen others falling in the same point. Some of them changed to new lineages, others simply left all A.'.A.'. working saying the Order is not active anymore.
This is how I see the Lesser Ritual of Pentagram working (besides Qabalistic Cross and invoking of LVX):
http://www.meneed.cn/imglibs/images/227-29b613c6-3602-4a9d-acb0-53f96757b030-big.jpg
Imagine you are the plate (Microcosm) and have one element at each hollow space. Some spaces are more complete than others. Some of them could be overfilled. Invoking would fill or complete any empty space, while Banishing would clean anything exceeding the allocated space and hole. In other words, Invoking would complete any gaps in your Microcosm, while Banishing would clean and balance anything that is too much.
Usually the elements manifest themselves as moods (sentimental, dispersive, angry, and so son), so I use to work LBRP to bring myself back to track when I feel unbalanced. That is my practical daily view of this practice, but there is also the spiritual effects upon which I am not an expert to comment.
I don't see Lesser Pentagram as "not elemental", I see it as working entire elemental system at same time. To work with one element in turn, then I would use Greater Ritual.
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@Alan Willms said
"Dar es Allarah, sure. But later I will try to do another test with embed fonts inside ePub file and then converting to MOBI. If it works, then it would be possible to use Enochian and other symbols fonts."
Fascinating! That would be really cool if it works Alan. "
It works fine with ePUB, even in iBooks (see iPad screenshot: cl.ly/image/092V251D0A2q ), but KindleGen and online convertors do not seem to recognize such "special" fonts and/or right-to-left text mixed with left-to-right.
I will try to find a solution to properly convert. May be Kindle online convertor for Word files works fine, but I am not sure how to test there.
P.S. In the screen shot the spheres of Kether and Malkuth seems strange because my CSS file sets sans-serif font to span tags inside td. Enochian special font have been set with @font-face property.
@Jim Eshelman said
"Another holdup so far is that Amazon's documentation isn't the best. I'd only like to do it if all features could be enabled - the buttons that automatically jump section heads, etc. But I can't find anywhere in their Guide how to execute those functions. Their pov is mostly "throw it into our interpreter and automatically post it to the site" (without even seeing and restructuring it first ???)."
Prepare MOBI file from ePUB, Word, etc., impor to Kindle software (on Windows, Android, Mac, etc., I do not mean Kindle hardware) and test how it will look like.
James, I did a test using an ePub file converted to MOBI (Kindle format). Hebrew worked fine, but words were ill positioned. For example, YHVH ALHIM would become ALHIM YHVH. May be it is a bug with converter software, or I should use HTML dir attribute to correctly handle such hebrew sentence. I will try again when I would have more time.
Dar es Allarah, sure. But later I will try to do another test with embed fonts inside ePub file and then converting to MOBI. If it works, then it would be possible to use Enochian and other symbols fonts.
@Jim Eshelman said
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@Alan Willms said
"You do not need special fonts for most of alphabets, like Hebrew (קבלה) and Greek (Θελημα). Use UTF-8 charset instead. Arial, Times New Roman, and most of the popular fonts already have them."
I don't think that expanded-page font is available on the Kindle."
Let us see, I will test on Kindle.
Anyway, everything works fine on iBooks with ePub files.
You do not need special fonts for most of alphabets, like Hebrew (קבלה) and Greek (Θελημα). Use UTF-8 charset instead. Arial, Times New Roman, and most of the popular fonts already have them.
@Sameck said
"I do not understand ...."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Company
Welcome, brother! I hope to see you soon and have some beers with you. 
Not everybody lives at a paradise like you.
@v0rtex666 said
"One question I have had though, is being the ritual is a ceremony requiring multiple officers and sentinels, etc. How does one perform the ritual for a individual? I'm sure it is quite an experience with the full temple and assembly...but its not clear how a sole practitioner can pull it off."
I have not used this way yet, but you could check “Self-Initiation Into the Golden Dawn Tradition” (Chic & Tabata Cicero).
@Frater INRI said
"Invoke more frequently."
Is bhakti-yoga the key?
@Jim Eshelman said
"These four Names all relate, by their numeration, to the inherent geometry of the Pentagram (which is all based on the Fibonacci series of numbers, the basic geometric formula for the actual structure of things in nature)."
I had no idea. Living and learning. I will try to solve the puzzle, if my math skills allow me.
Edit: found explanation: .scribd.com/doc/19167032/The-Stone-of-the-Wise 
@Avshalom Binyamin said
"Why? "Fourfold" means there are four parts. There are four words in Atah Gibor Le-Olahm Adonai."
Then four four-lettered names. 
It seems, to me, that the full sentence breaks the harmony of the ritual, so I use to vibrate AGLA, although keeping in mind the full significance.