We have touched on the much-abused “a curse upon Because” and “reason is a lie” phrases from the second chapter of The Book of the Law in a number of places, including The fallacy of “experiential knowledge” and Sun enters Cadent of Aquarius, but we’ve never given them a thorough treatment in one place, so […]

[Read part one] [Read part two] If moral realism is the idea that moral propositions express objective facts, moral anti-realism is the idea that they do not. Anti-realism can take three potential forms: moral statements are propositions which express subjective facts (individual subjectivism); moral statements are propositions which are false (error theory); or moral statements […]

[Read part one] We need to begin by addressing in more detail the philosophical objection we alluded to in the preceding discussion before we proceed too far into a discussion of meta-ethics. As we saw, some people fundamentally object to this type of philosophical analysis on the grounds that they know perfectly well what they […]

Ethics may be defined broadly as the study of values as they relate to human conduct. The subject matter is extremely broad, and the field has historically been divided into through main categories: Normative ethics is the study of what should be done, the study of what it is that makes an action `right’ or […]

In chapter 43 of Magick Without Tears, Aleister Crowley dealt with the question of what order of existence “angels” belong to, and particularly “whether they are liable to accident, misfortune and the like.” This chapter has caused some of the most mischief in terms of encouraging fanciful and supernatural interpretations of Crowley’s work than almost […]

A repost from LAShTAL.com. “gurugeorge” wrote: It’s the “inner man” who is aflame with this mystical Love of All, not the body.mind, which follows the laws of physics, and does well to follow the (just) customs of its people, etc. Agape is mystical love, higher grade love. It’s not making nicey-nice to entities that are […]