11 November 2024
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I grew up in a sheltered childhood. I was raised within a Southern Baptist evangelical environment, but it was a paradoxical mix of standard 1970s end-of-the-world messaging and 1980s Satanic Panic paranoia with a load...
03 November 2024
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Grab a seat. Trust me. I fully admit my ADHD may have hit a ceiling with this one. I am really all over the place. And, for once, I’m not going to apologize for the semi-brain-dump feel of this offering. We’re just...
27 October 2024
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. For as long as I can remember, Thelemites have had one of the worst reputations in all of occulture even before occulture was coined in the 1990s as a term that is still as vague today as it was back then. There was an...
20 October 2024
1Originally written in 2005 as “Operation Doomsday: One Approach to a Thelemic Canon.” Updated in 2022. Minor textual corrections and footnotes in 2024.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Within Thelema, there is no official canon for hierological...
13 October 2024
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. “Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong” [AL 1.40a] Ever notice the difference between the “Great Commission” of Christianity and that of Thelema?1I use Christianity in this essay as the counterpoint here only because...
06 October 2024
1Originally part of a social media conversation in 2018. Updated with new material and footnotes in 2024.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In 1968, the xenophobic, eugenics proponent Garrett Hardin wrote his now-famous article in Science magazine, “The...
