Chade wrote: I wonder how plot devices such as fate developed. Tom wrote: Here’s my theory: Growth and development follow very obvious patterns again and again. So it’s easy to imagine that this pattern is repeated in the events of our lives as well as in the development of our bodies. Just as the child […]

Original poster wrote (responding to a citation of this post): Interesting, although I’m sort of grasping at the concept. It gives me the idea that, since the true nature is clothed in self-awareness (er,that’s how it reads to me, I’ll happily be corrected if I’ve picked itup wrong), one may be able to develop another […]

Tom wrote: I think it’s a good idea to distinguish between “awareness” and “narration”. What is often referred to as “self-awareness” is the ability to conceive of oneself as a character in a story and to narrate the events which happen to this character. Awareness, on the other hand, is our response to our environment. […]

The true will is the will of the individual essence of which what we commonly mistake for our selves is but the vehicle. The perceptions of this vehicle are “conditioned” by many things, social influences being one, but just the nature of its own mechanics gives rise to most of its problems. It’s not a […]

Vilaven: Was Thelema just another expression of “choose your own path”, in so many ways? I’d honestly struggle to think of something that is more completely opposite to what Thelema really is about than this idea. Papanick: If it’s not exactly that, then what is it? Let’s assume you did fall into “Will, Resh and […]

Aum418:It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people’s business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path…the original brand of American freedom — which really was Freedom — contained the precept to leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility of expansion on […]

Aum418: Really, I should have said ‘The highest Sin in Thelema is to restrict Will’ (including self as well as others). This would indeed have been better, but I still don’t think it’s right. “The word of Sin is Restriction” indeed, but there is nothing herein that suggests that “restriction” means “to restrict the will […]

magispiegel: The fact that you mention, that it is just a matter of making slight querky changes to the petty ego…(doing this, doing that etc.) and then Kaboomm!, Realisation! Godhead!… you have made contact with your ‘Magickal Will’!, Erm. No. The attainment of the Magickal Will is an occult process, it is an alchemical process…it […]

magispiegel: The Keys to the Magick of the ‘Will’ are not found in the stanzas that you have quoted above, but are found through the study of the science of the occult forces which exist within our being…the occult anatomy. Now this is exactly what I am talking about. All this flowery talk about “the […]

Hairetikos: So I’m curious to know what other Thelemites think about this. Is television antithetical to the discovery of your Will? I don’t care, but I’m going to hijack your topic, in an attempt to get some sort of substantive technical discussion going. The concept of will, or the “true” will, is obviously fundamental to […]