09 March 2025
1Some of this material was originally published in 2019. It’s been repurposed with permission for this essay.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Frankly, if I’m going to start out blunt here, I’m going to say it bluntly: Thelemites have instilled,...
09 February 2025
1The core material was originally written for and posted on May 03, 2020. Updated with introduction, new material, minor corrections, and footnotes in 2025.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. During the COVID lockdown years, I spent some time writing a...
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...
12 January 2025
1Originally written in 2011. Minor textual corrections in 2024.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. “But, but, but … The Comment!,” you say to me. And, in some kind of faux-shock, I offer a sarcastic “Right?” in return. How many times have we heard...
09 January 2025
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. After mentioning my choice to start reading through the Orthodox Daily Office again this year, and having a private query over it, it hadn’t really dawned on me that it might be of interest to others to find various...
