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Texture of Sound A Longing for the Imperfect Life

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Before I drop into this, I want to stress that I’m not asserting any kind of authority here when it comes to musical taste. It’s merely my anecdotal way of getting from Thought A to Point B. Music from childhood has a...

Waiting for Godot The Inversion of Thelema

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...

Reclaiming the Mind The Anti-Intellectualism of Modern Thelema

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,...

Nostrum Futurum In Stellis Politics of the Stars

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...

Puer Aeternus Tenebrarum The Dark Side of Peter Pan

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...