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93 • Author of “Fresh Fever from the Skies” and other books on Thelema • Founder of Thelemic Union

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Ah yes, the guy who posts insults and immediately blocks me so I cant respond is definitely not the coward in this situation…
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Thelema is an all-encompassing paradigm, including metaphysics as its first principles, from which flow its teleology (your purpose), ethics (how you should act), and soteriology (how you transcend your mundane self and achievement enlightenment thru the path of the Great Work).
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Reducing Thelema to “its just Liber OZ”, “its just about doing your thing,” “its just about ritual magick,” etc all oversimplify what is a complex, coherent system.
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The first principles of Thelema: 0 — Nuit & Hadit, the ultimate Naught as supreme reality, unextended in any categories. 1 — The unity of the Star, 1-in-3 and 3-in-1. Horus, Chaos, and Babalon. 2 — The manifested world, duality, self/microcosm separate from not-self/macrocosm
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In my latest video, I deep dive into the debate on how Crowley should be viewed by contemporary thelemites, should we love him, should we hate him, or should we forget him? Watch it now: youtu.be/UVqUWhkHZww
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“Agapé… ‘Love is the law, love under will.’ …This love is not a sloppy feeling of maudlin sentimental kindness.” —Aleister Crowley
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NOX is hidden in the Mark of the Beast. The cross in the circle represents the union of opposites but also conceals the word NOX in this way. (Pictured: Crowley’s handwritten notes about this sigil)
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Boomers: The Old Aeon generation.
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Happy Summer Solstice. Im happy to announce The Sphinx, a totally free website for practicing Thelemites. It is meant as a tool for study and spiritual practice. Enjoy… the-sphinx.org
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My will is true, my aeon is new, and my woman is scarlet.
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People who can’t teach Thelema teach occultism. Youll find them teaching about the 4 worlds, qabalistic color coding, ritual directions & attributions, and things you generally can look up in 777 instead of Thelema itself.
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Thelemic ritual is the physical embodiment of the underlying first principles of its metaphysical Structure
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When Thelema as a culture is not aware of its own first principles, it drifts toward reflecting the current over-culture's values and beliefs rather than its own. The ideas remain but their meanings are unconsciously redefined to match prevailing cultural norms.
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A solar doctrine is its own center of gravity, with orienting truths that resist being bent by current fad or fashion. Without these first principles, Thelema runs adrift and says nothing the culture hasnt already said to itself... It becomes ikigai with pentagrams.
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This is one core reason for the importance of clearly establishing the first principles of Thelema. Without this axis as a firm foundation, the center will naturally be filled in by culture, by consensus, and by what is socially expedient rather than what is Thelemic.
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Attainment in Thelema is annihilation, not accumulation. Initiation is not the hoarding of grades, titles, and magical implements, because nothing possess-able can survive annihilation. Attainment is the radical opening of the soul to the divine of the Angel and the Abyss.
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So if anything, Thelemic attainment is primarily a dissolution of boundaries, a destruction of identity in a way. Crowley made 2 spiritual experiences the center of his system of enlightenment; not stages of knowledge or power but crises of encounter with an overpowering divine.
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666 is not Aleister Crowley’s persona. Aleister Crowley is 666’s persona.
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