Vilaven: Was Thelema just another expression of “choose your own path”, in so many ways? I’d honestly struggle to think of something that is more completely opposite to what Thelema really is about than this idea. Papanick: If it’s not exactly that, then what is it? Let’s assume you did fall into “Will, Resh and […]

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 […]

magispiegel: The fact that you mention, that it is just a matter of making slight querky changes to the petty ego…(doing this, doing that etc.) and then Kaboomm!, Realisation! Godhead!… you have made contact with your ‘Magickal Will’!, Erm. No. The attainment of the Magickal Will is an occult process, it is an alchemical process…it […]

magispiegel: The Keys to the Magick of the ‘Will’ are not found in the stanzas that you have quoted above, but are found through the study of the science of the occult forces which exist within our being…the occult anatomy. Now this is exactly what I am talking about. All this flowery talk about “the […]

Hairetikos: So I’m curious to know what other Thelemites think about this. Is television antithetical to the discovery of your Will? I don’t care, but I’m going to hijack your topic, in an attempt to get some sort of substantive technical discussion going. The concept of will, or the “true” will, is obviously fundamental to […]