The Christian position on “sin” is best summed up in Romans 7:14-25: For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that […]

Recently, a private correspondent asked me the following question: You’ve taken a lot of time explaining Thelema. However, there is something that’s been gnawing at me for some time now, and is possibly the most fundamental of all for this subject… “What’s the point of it all?” There’s a part of me that is wondering […]

Imbolc heralds the arrival of spring in the traditional reckoning of the seasons. The name probably derives from associations with the first lactation of ewes, connecting it with new-born lambs and the return of new life, just as Samhain – the preceding cross-quarter day – is primarily associated with death. We could categories three stages […]

As the Sun enters the cadent decan of Capricorn, the winter solstice is approximately twenty days behind us, and the days are slowly beginning to lengthen. Because of seasonal delay – the fact that the ground gives off more heat than it absorbs for a period after the shortest day – the coldest day of […]

[From private correspondence] Correspondent: What exactly is ‘permanent’ in each person? Their existence as a unit. When someone dies, the story of their life is written and sealed. What they did, what they were, the sum totality of their lives isn’t going to change, ever. It is fixed. This is why “death is the crown […]