The qlipoth do not contain any energy. That's what makes them "shells".

There are at least a few temples that perform rites with female members in God roles and male members in Goddess roles, just to mix things up. Not ju...

"Tao" wrote: As I haven't committed to scientific scepticism being the bedrock of my system (nor did ye grande olde Beast, as far as I can ...

"Michael Staley" wrote: "mika" wrote: "True Will" isn't "who you are", it's what you choose to do. It's a verb, not a noun. "...

"Jason Resh" wrote: Of course I didn't mean simply "puzzles" goofball. I'm talking about the obvious reference to the "predictions" within ...

Sounds totally lame. Go with Azidonis' reading list, plus I'd add"Qabalistic Tarot" by Robert Wang. It's excellent.

"Pointy Stick" wrote: I was just asking if anybody knew why that writer seemingly has the elemental associations the other way round to wha...

"Pointy Stick" wrote: I have a copy of the book of formations written by Aryeh Kaplan. In it he claims Binah is fire and Chokmah is water, ...

"Azidonis" wrote: It was a picture. Lighten up. "Lighten up". Now *that's* funny. And ironic, I guess, considering the topic of this thr...

"Dar" wrote: I'm hetrosexual but gender non-conformist, so would that make me Cissexual? It doesn't matter how you define your sexuali...

"Dar" wrote: "mika" wrote: They are not the physical reality which they represent. Assuming these models and physical reality...

"Dar" wrote: My models are not illusions. They are patterns of energy that correspond to sensory and other feedback. You don't seem to ...

Reposting because no edit button and I seriously messed up my quote attributions. Feel free to delete the previous post, Mod. Thanks. "Los"...

Hi. Your description sounds like the Malkuth 'pendulum' swings up and lands at Da'ath. Is that correct? Are you familiar with the 4 worlds aspect of...

"Los" wrote: "Azidonis" wrote: If I'm not mistaken, that's the episode where Bender tries at playing "god" to a race a tiny cr...

"Shiva" wrote: "Los" wrote: The Path is about gradual, conscious liberation from the World.The "path" -- if we want to be kind...

"amadan-De" wrote: The 'inevitablity of conflict' in the human species seems, from the evidence currently available, to be more directly re...

"Azidonis" wrote: I had a friend, a Thelemite, who's response to say homeless people begging for change or what-not, was to push them away,...

"kidneyhawk" wrote: 1) WHAT IS THIS “SECRET?”2) HOW is the “BROTHERHOOD OF MAN” to be understood in context of “Thelema?”3) IS there any re...

"ignant666" wrote: Sorry if I'm missing something, but is there perhaps some contradiction (perhaps resolved above the abyss?) between Life...

"Azidonis" wrote: The mind can choose to not attach itself to the cold, simply allowing the body to run its course while continuing on Its ...

"Azidonis" wrote: In the case of attachment, would you all consider attachment to fear strictly as a case of phobia, or do you think there ...

"Azidonis" wrote: "1. Fear can only be experienced by a thing capable of self-preservation. Whether or not animals that react with fear hav...

"93weeks" wrote: .But making of the tools takes time if one is going to do it in quality. and I have to make the decision from your differe...

"Azidonis" wrote: Hypothesis: Fear is a reaction caused by a misunderstanding of the relationship between one's Self and the feared object....

"Azidonis" wrote: In such a case, a male changing to a female in order to fulfill his Will may not be the best idea. There are other exampl...

"the_real_simon_iff" wrote: Maybe you personally never said that you are correctly interpreting Crowley (though I seem to remember that qui...

"the_real_simon_iff" wrote: with your claim that you "speak for Crowley". Where did I claim that I "speak for Crowley"? Please provide a...

"the_real_simon_iff" wrote: I guess it is now on record that Los, Mika and Erwin do not believe that anything supernatural exists. That's...

"Shiva" wrote: I wonder why so many threads, including this one, rapidly turn into subjective vs objective, intuition vs intellect, reality...

"Camlion" wrote: These are old (dog) bones of contention, but these are the verses with AC's Commentary: What's your point? How do the q...

"tai" wrote: Los,Lets get to the core of the problem. You stated:Similarly, if praeterhuman intelligences were real – and if they were poss...

"gurugeorge" wrote: The thing that's struck my attention is something one of the commentators wrote (someone called Jeremy Jae, no idea who...

"MichaelStaley" wrote: I can't speak for others, Los, but I don't find much of interest in your posts, and have stilll less inclination to ...

"Azidonis" wrote: All of this from a "feminine" word. ... as processed through Crowley.Assuming that Crowley's (and other 19th-20th centu...

"Azidonis" wrote: And it was the Ashkenazi Jews that were settled in Europe, by the way. Eastern and Central Europe, anyway. Large popul...

"M_Rakoczy" wrote: My question stems from having served in Lodge, Working Public Mass and other less visible roles for years and noting - A...

"mikepalm8" wrote: I wonder if he would have liked “Mr Crowley” by Ozzy Osbourne! I imagine he would have preferred Current 93's "Crowley...

"amadan-De" wrote: From this perspective, and using Los' definition of enlightenment in this case, it could be said that certain individual...

"Azidonis" wrote: So, would you all mind explaining what this vow means to you? Both vows or oaths relate to achieving and maintaining a ...

"Azidonis" wrote: I was just saying that maybe eventually the wolves will out-number the sheep. Perhaps... I get where you're coming from...

"the_real_simon_iff" wrote: Do you care to point these errors out to me? Sure.First, I posted comments about how practicing Thelema requi...

"the_real_simon_iff" wrote: "mika" wrote: The whole question of morals and appropriate behavior is irrelevant to, and contradi...

"Walterfive" wrote: There's a lot of Thelemites sitting in prison for crossing that 'very dangerous line.' The right to act as one will d...

"Frater_HPK" wrote: Aleister Crowley, writting Liber Oz, told people what to do. Not quite. He didn't "tell people what to do", he wrote...

"Los" wrote: I think Mika's point is that there isn't one model of behavior that's a "Thelemic" response to such a situation. Each Thelemit...

"Frater_HPK" wrote: My intention was to start discussion about various models of behaviour in various possible situations. What is old ae...

"Walterfive" wrote: Where do the vows to our bretheren end? One's vows end where those vows conflict with that individual's will. "W...

"Nomad" wrote: There seems, in this thread, to be a little confusion between 'Key Scale' and 'Keys of Rota'....The Keys of Rota, on tthe ot...

"ThelemicMage" wrote: Then I am correct to assume that The 14th key our Sir Crowley was referring to was the Empress of the Tarot, that bei...