02 February 2025
1Originally written in 2007. Minor textual corrections and footnotes in 2024.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.2Crowley, Aleister. 1989. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography....
26 January 2025
I pulled a letter out of my archives and decided to share it with you this week. It was written in 2020, around the second anniversary of my dad’s death. I was in the middle of a summerlong experiment of “writing real (snail mail) letters” on various formal topics to...
19 January 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. For decades, the assumption in Thelemic communities has been that everything can be mapped to the Tree of Life. And that may be true. Frankly, Miss. Scarlet W., I don’t give a damn. I think the Tree of Life is the most...
07 January 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Every year, I spend the ‘twelve days of Christmas’ pulling various tarot cards for the Omen Days and then ignore them the rest of the year until the next year comes around to see how well they predicted the year....
29 December 2024
1Originally written in 2015, Updated in 2022. Minor textual corrections, and additional material and footnotes in 2024.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The concept of the so-called True Will can be a tricky little beast. It’s thrown around by many who...
21 December 2024
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Yes, I know this is a day early (and there won’t be one tomorrow because of it), but I wanted to put this out on Yule. Because … reasons. I was originally going to write something deep and wordy for this Yuletide...
