The natural world
Most Thelemites have a love for the natural world, since the will is the interaction between it and their selves. This love is not of a sentimental, “environmentalist” or Luddite nature, however. The Thelemite considers humankind to be as much a part of the natural world as anything else, and that his own impact on it is no less “natural” than the construction of an ant-hill or a beaver dam. Therefore although he will not consider the human race to be parasites upon the face of the earth, he will tend to have an affinity with the “non man-made” world since spending time with it, outside of the turmoil of human society, impresses upon him his own position as a natural being.
In particular, the Sun — at the centre of the Solar System — is viewed by many Thelemites as a symbol of his own “true self” around which his mind, body, personality and character gravitate. In its religious aspects, Thelema has the characteristics of solar and other nature-based religions, and in this sense has something of an affinity with pagan religions, although the moral teachings of the latter often conflict with Thelema's amorality, such teachings being considered by the Thelemite to be “unnatural” in the “man-made” sense.
