I’ve added A Thelemic Primer to the writings section of the site. This primer explains briefly, and in simple language, the fundamental concepts of Thelema as described on this site.

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 […]

A recent discussion over on heruraha.net about reincarnation saw Jim Eshelman make the following statement in response to the statement that “There are innumerable arguments against reincarnation”: Which I’m not going to rehash or enter into. My experience confirms to me, with certainty matching or exceeding that of any other certainty in the whole range […]

In The HGA as an individual, we touched on the difficulties involved in assessing communications from the “Holy Guardian Angel”, however one defines that. In this entry, we will look more closely at the idea of the “external praeternatural being” theory. In his Confessions, Aleister Crowley writes the following: To return the the general question […]

A recent thread over on LAShTAL.com has been discussing the highly suspicious account Aleister Crowley gave about the “reception” of The Book of the Law. One part of the thread has morphed into a speculation as to the nature of “Aiwass”, prompting Ian Rons to write this: I myself experienced something akin to this once, […]

I’ve uploaded a new essay entitled “Fundamentals of Thelemic Practice”. It is available in HTML format and in PDF format. HTML format will be available presently. It’s also available from lulu.com in printed form or as a free PDF download.

On a recent reply to a post on John Crow’s blog concerning values, “Keith418” posted this: Where do values like this come from? Many of us suspect a transcendent origin for certain values. “The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is as it is and happens as it […]

On a lighter than usual note, this entry will consist of a review and discussion of John Crow‘s “The Missing Calls to the Great Work”, an interesting and thoughtful essay in an otherwise uniformly disappointingly lacklustre and low-quality second edition of the “Journal of Thelemic Studies” magazine. In the essay, Crow summarises some points relating […]

In One Star in Sight, Crowley writes of the grade of Magister Templi: The essential Attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. This entry will deal with the question of that “annihiliation.” In The Khabs is in the Khu, we presented a model of the self – […]

Stoicism was a Greek school of philosophy which flourish from around the beginning of the third century B.C.E. until the sixth century C.E. It was highly influential, and became “the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the Greco-Roman Empire.” [Amos & Lang] It is of interest because many of its tenets bear a […]