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What Is Thelema Article I: Thelemic Theory What is Thelema? T he First in a Series of T hree Articles on T helemic Theory & Practice by Aleisterion WHAT IS THELEMA ARTICLE I: THELEMIC THEORY wisdom” - and: “The lust of the goat is the bounty of God” (both Proverbs from Hell being from The What is Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Blake). Yet ours is a subtle and sublime hedonism, being as it is a Thelema? culture not merely of pleasure but also of Genius. This is the first in a series of articles in which I intend to analyze Thelema in some detail, from the perspective of an experienced yet objective T he First in a Series of Three practitioner who, while affiliated with none of the Articles on Thelemic Theory & main Thelemic communities, partakes of some of the views and traditions of them all, in addition to Practice holding to a few of his own. In this first article I will deal with Thelema in theory; then in the second article I will delve into the core practice as outlined or in some cases hinted at in The Book of by the Law; and in the third installment of the series Aleisterion I will discuss some of what I consider to be the greatest Thelemic minds – Geniuses of Art and Magick and Mysticism throughout recorded (Paidi tou Prophete, XIo O.O.O.) history. [All Quotes from Holy Books in Red Ink.] Bear in mind that, while I hold to no ill will or agenda against any Thelemic authority of any Anno Thelema IV xvii Order or association, I naturally have my own unique views and for these I will not apologize. Autumn 2009 Era Vulgari (Common Era) While I differ with some on many issues, and with many on some issues, I am determined to go my way as I will, and to stand my ground without fear or regret; but I bear ever in mind that, no matter what our differences, we who call ourselves Thelemites constitute a family – and while we may disagree vehemently, we are a regal and refined “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” family first and foremost – who at times disagree but who always fight like brothers and sisters and not as enemies. Ideally, Thelema is an ideology steeped in mysticism without ignorant superstition, an atheist system of initiatic religion devoted not to the If Thelema is as I see it, i.e. the next stage in the interests of a deity but to those of an excessively evolution of religion, then its leaders will indulgent Gnosis of Hedonism. As one of our eventually transcend their bitterness and overlook Thelemic Arhats or Masters, William Blake, once their petty differences. “Bind nothing! Let there wrote: “The road of excess leads to the palace of 2 WHAT IS THELEMA ARTICLE I: THELEMIC THEORY be no difference made among you between any one oneself with what others think. One might thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh approach Thelema in one or more of the following hurt.” (Liber Legis, 1:22) The first and greatest ways: (a) as a religion, (b) as a philosophy, or (c) challenge for Thelema to overcome is to rise above as an occult phenomenon and but one of many at the forces of destructive sectarianism that have that. But even that fails to settle the matter, for plagued all archaic religious institutions and there is a further question of how to approach its movements. founding document, The Book of the Law. It could be taken literally, as the inspired word of God unto humanity – in that tired old religious tradition – or That said, let us hesitate no longer to dive it could be taken as a subtle message rich with a headlong into the “pestilential” abyss of Thelemic multiverse of meaning. Or it could be viewed as theory. just another occult grimoire. Finally, there is the problem of the “Tunis Comment”. Article I of III: What is Thelema? Is it just another occult tradition? Is it a useful new philosophy adapted to our evolving state? Or is it a new religion? In Thelema in Theory order to arrive at a truly enlightened answer to this question, one might be well-served to consider the unique nature of Thelema as expounded in its core writing, Liber L vel Legis, The Book of the Law. (I do not support Crowley's retitling of the book: its original title, as written – with hand supposedly under firm control – was Liber L, not Liber AL. See L, 1:36, 1:54, 2:54, and for some understanding as to the logic behind these verses, see 3:47. This is not to diminish the doctrinal significance of thela Key of Thelema, AL, as based on the Hebrew , “Divinity”, nor to lessen the achievement of the original “Child of the Prophet”, Frater Achad, in realizing and relaying its importance.) The book is purported to be the message of a praeterhuman intelligence named Aiwass to all humanity. It contains subtleties and riddles and obscure predictions. It is also a religious covenant, without question: it calls for certain forms of behavior and it offers an assurance of One would very likely be hard-pressed to find “reward” (more on this later) for said action. any two Thelemites that totally agree on This covenantal aspect of The Book of the Law is everything, but then one hardly needs concern an important part of the book that will be addressed 3 WHAT IS THELEMA ARTICLE I: THELEMIC THEORY to a fair extent at some point in our discussion. “I am alone: there is no God where I am.” At first glance, Liber Legis seems chock full of The speaker of the verse, Hadit, is the Not-God, superstitious nonsense. However, verse 27 of the mystical Atman – but also Shiva, the Hindu chapter 2 of the book contains a vital caveat. It lord of destruction. Crowley writes the following reads: of this “Not-God” in his Commentaries: “There is great danger in me; for who doth not “Had is Sad, Set, Satan, Sat (equals "Being" in understand these runes shall make a great miss. He Sanskrit), South. He is then the Sun, one point shall fall down into the pit called Because, and concentrating Space, as also is any other star. The there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason.” word ABRAHADABRA is from Abrasax, Father Sun, which adds to 365. For the North-South antithesis see Fabre d'Olivet's "Hermeneutic There is so much more to our existence than we Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State in can know with our brains, which being limited Man". Note "Sax" also as a Rock, or Stone, devices of dual perception simply cannot process whence the symbol of the Cubical Stone, the that whole reality rationally. What The Book of Mountain Abiegnus, and so forth.” the Law suggests – beneath all the archaic symbols and ciphers such as gods and demons and the like – is that there exists an infinite and undying One of the most noteworthy in the above list is consciousness of which our own is a part, and that Set (because of its great antiquity), the dark soul of this praeterordinary mind is at once “above” us and the Sun, equivalent to Hoor-paar-kraat; but equally “in” us, i.e., beyond time and space in an vital is Shaitan, the Sumerian predecessor of the expanded awareness that is accessible at certain Hebrew Satan, whom Crowley (in The Equinox of moments of epiphany of Genius, and yet also at all the Gods) identifiesntv as Aiwass. As Kenneth Grant points across time, a full and simultaneous has shown, in Hebrew plus Aiwass in awareness of the primal and future evolved Mind Greek adds to 777, the value of the Hebrew for the of Man, a microcosm of the macrocosmic mind of “World of the Shells” or Hell, the mystical region infinite consciousness, planted as a fetus of of this most ancient Serpent-Self, this Thelema. realization in the contemporary consciousness of the perfectly prepared initiate, left to grow and to assimilate the lesser temporal identity or ego Clearly, the symbolism is apt, but only if one (hence the expression “Babe of the Abyss”). This looks beyond its corrupted associations, e.g. the Genius – or Thelema – is what was interpreted by embodiment of evil versus good. Satan was, for primitive minds as God. Crowley, not some heroic anti-god to be revered and served, but rather the ultimate hidden or occult Self, whose unveiling over time is a neverending Now then, while it is true that Liber Legis makes initiatic process of Gnosis: in short, the innermost occasional use of terms such as “God”, clearly Genius of all animality including humanity, not there is a subtler meaning that these words that of any objective tyrannical deity. The represent, because of L, 2:23. It reads: symbolism is strong and offensive to all established religions that serve such an oppressive, unnatural 4 WHAT IS THELEMA ARTICLE I: THELEMIC THEORY hollow idol, but that is to its credit so long as it is Christians and other troglodytes – but most not interpreted literally, as referring to some devil especially the parasites of man, the Jews – were to that we are supposed to worship in the traditional be His rite.” adorative sense. Again, there is no God to be worshipped – there is only Self in that exalted domain beyond any particular point yet at once in One should not, however, take offense to race nor all points of space and time, ad infinitum.
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