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 […]

Aum418: All this thinking about what Thelema IS might be considered the fall of Because. Depends what you mean by “thinking about”. These folks who ask “is such-and-such an act ‘Thelemic’?”, presumably with a view to providing an answer to the question “should I, as a Thelemite, therefore do and/or support such a thing?” are […]

Thelema is, at the end of all analysis, an individual rather than a social philosophy, and the concept of “ethics”, as commonly understood, is wholly absent from it; as Crowley says in his “new comment” to AL II, 28: There are no “standards of Right”. Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own […]