02 November 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot opens in negation: “Nothing to be done.” Those four words—uttered by Estragon as he struggles with his boot—set the metaphysical tone of the play. The act of waiting begins not with a...
19 October 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. For the past two decades, modern Thelema has been in the grip of an intellectual wasteland. Starting with the rise of Ben Sandler (before he was IAO131) as the brash puppetmaster of dozens of toy soldier accounts,...
05 October 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. No matter where you sit on the political spectrum, the apocryphal Chinese curse is upon us, and we are certainly living in “interesting times.” I live in the United States, so I cannot help but see politics tainted from...
07 September 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It is nifty to say that every man and every woman is a star—self-ruling, radiant, burning in their course. But all stars belong to a universe larger than themselves. Our light is not diminished by this context. It is...
17 August 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Last year, I re-read The Ancient Practice Series and finished with Dan Allender’s contribution to the series, Sabbath. In the foreword, series editor Phyllis Tickle writes, “Interestingly enough, the discipline of...
03 August 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. For an account that hides itself safely behind a nom-de-plume, I often lack a filter when it comes to self-disclosure on many levels. So here’s another piece of personal information for you: I was born deaf. Aside from...
