Which one? This is true. But all numbers will imply others. The Pentagram is a type of evolution, development or fulfillment of the Square or Cro...

Hardly. You're sharing word of a labor of love, the content of which is clearly relevant to the site. One of the very first books I ever read on AC ...

I was certainly interested in Jerry's book when it was first announced. As I recall, it hinted at some secret crucial to success in sexual magic hithe...

It's not a question of beer...but cucumbers. I think.

Curious as to what made you feel this way. What turned you off? When I first dropped in to Alobar's livejournal many years back, I was a bit tak...

AL=A Libation

Alobar Greywalker (Bill Siebert) passed away some time ago. I had some communication with the group years and years ago when I aspired to members...

So the word didn't fill him...it killed him?

I would suggest that nothing "shapes Thelema." Thelema is Will and Will IS. Do you mean Crowley's experiences shaped how he molded his (psuedo) Reli...

What were their stories? It sounds like a religious dogma meant to contain and constrain as opposed to a teaching leading to liberation. I'v...

I recently saw a Facebook which asked if Liber AL was UPG. Now, the first time I ever encountered the term "UPG" was here, with a post from Katrice. I...

New trailer. And, perhaps, we can connect the bit about the importance of "how hard you believe" to "inflaming oneself in prayer." Either way, it's go...

I don't know that 2:75-76 is, of necessity, what we tend to assume it must be. Crowley points us in a direction we may already be prejudiced towards w...

I am immediately reminded of the scene from the wonderful film, Ip Man: Kam Shan-chu: My northern boxing has lost to your southern one. Ip Man: N...

We've previously read on these hallowed forums the opinion or perspective point that it doesn't matter whether the cipher has a solution or whether th...

Samson is wrong. Nine ends the cycle. Really, every number is infinite. There is no difference. Or so I've read. 8 could be a nice boo...

Curiously, it is only this particular thread that has the problems described above. All those below read (are viewed) as usual. Not sure if it is an i...

Nope. I am having a hard time reading this myself!

I was alluding to the magical battle with de Guaita, tongue in cheek.

In his "Woolly Pomposities" letter to Cara Soror, he mentions Brunton, Besant, Clymer, Max Heindel, Ouspensky as well as the UB, OHM and AMORC (who he...

Crowley DOES recommend Huysmans' La Bas in his A.A. reading list. Boullan appears in La Bas as the character Dr. Johannes. AC was a teen when Boul...

What is the “Word” of the Aeon? It's not Thelema-that's the LAW. Crowley says the Word is ABRAHADABRA (even less likely to transform the w...

Crowley's projected idea of a single Word is also limiting, esp. in a worldview where paradigm (Aeon) shifts indicate progression and development as o...

In my own experience, I studied with several Rosicrucian Organizations. One of these required no dues nor solicited funds. They made a point of emphas...

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"Moral Nihilism" would seem to imply "Amorality." Which is, of course, different from "Immorality." But neither term seems to fit Thelema or its chief...

Of course. It was a joke. You chided Shiva for using his "WTFs" and I intentionally chose to read the acronym as something it is not with reference to...

And what standards would these be?

But don't animals simply do their will without the encumbrances of human neurosis? There isn't malice in the animal kingdom. Brutality, sure, but with...

But we must ask: Why The Fascism? What about the girlfriend's Will? What about a serial killer's victims and their sundry "Wills?" If the and ...

Hitler, like Manson, offers some element of "surprise" when we were experience his work. These figures are so entwined with evil and death that we exp...

At the start (and AC kicks Liber Aleph off with the theme), QBL is a helpful tool for the Aspirant. At a higher stage of the game, we realize it has n...

Well, this is just the question, isn't it? Does CONSCIOUSNESS require what we regard as “Biological Form?” Crowley, at the very least, entertained the...

That was her name. I read Shrek's interview in Zazen Sounds magazine which I thought was quite interesting. I knew very little about him beforeha...

Tis True. And with the Subgenius also in his resume, we already have a very interesting individual here. I shared this as it might provoke some dis...

Or even the wheat from the chaff. Or burning down the mill altogether.

It can be tamed, and trained to shut up, that is true. In fact, doing so is much of the Work. Crowley himself would seem to think so with some of ...

Do these texts consider the entire Old Testament God to be an evil ensnarer of human souls? 😆

It's sad and unfortunate that he took his life. His suicide has been romanticized by some but it wasn't romantic. Curtis was a passionate poet and Unk...

Because we don't do what we are told, being the petulant Children of the New Aeon who resonate with Crowley's words in "Hymn to Lucifer" wherein he wr...

I certainly hope you'll share a review with us!

So, sometimes a sneeze is accompanied by a direction of higher vibrations. Sometimes a sneeze is used for the ignoble purposes of "Black Magic." A...

Well, as both Peter Carroll and RTC might observe: getting “startled AF” is the Opening of the Gate. What you shove through it is up to YOU. Lots of “...

or Last Rites!

I agree, Katrice. I just wanted to write a couplet-and point out that leaving behind those superficial "likes" for the Authenticity of Will may involv...

What if... Thy Will is thy Like; Thou likest what thou Wilt For this be thy Path; It is how Thou wast built ? After all, would this not descri...

I would agree. I've certainly run into those who feel "Libertinism" is requisite for Paths dubbed "Thelemic" and otherwise. I've known folks in such c...

This used to be a tried and true Masonic principle. As the Fraternity struggled with Membership, it became permissible (and encouraged) to follow the ...

I would guess because the desire originated with the "here" state of consciousness. Originated and returns to it. Crowley, for example, kept doing his...