Affirming the Apocalypse Thoughts on Thelemic Eschatology
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Every theology tells a story of apocalypses, of endings, of last things. Some imagine them as cosmic ruptures—trumpets, judgments, cataclysms—while others see them as dissolutions into the quiet of nirvana or the slow...
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Reconsidering the Sphinx A Different View of the Four Verbs of the Mage
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Several years ago, I wrote a series of letters to a Brother on the rays of the Law—light,...
Seven Qualities of Culture He remains an Englishman
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Once upon a time, I had a course in which we were asked to define culture in a way that was both academically accurate and yet uniquely personal. After much study of the resources, I decided mine would read as such:...
A New Aeon Ecclesiastic Rebuilding Trust in Leadership
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I want to make a couple of sweeping statements. They aren’t precisely correct, but they are correct enough to get us headed in the right direction. However, I want to lay down a foundation for what the continuity and...
The Virtues of the Stars Building a Monastic Code
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There was a time when I began examining several fairly intense principles in search of an ascetic approach to Thelema. That ultimately softened and turned toward a more cenobitic-inclined study in the pursuit of a ‘what...
Alethiology, Part 2 Utilizing a Thelemic Therapeutic Orientation
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In Alethiology, Part 1, I laid the foundation for what I believe is the beginning framework for a potential theoretical orientation in mental health grounded in the Law of Thelema. Along with the underlying Thelemic...
The Cracked Mirror A Thelemic Reckoning with the Therapeutic Age
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The clinic has become a stage. Not the one with velvet curtains and orchestral swells—but the low-lit kind, where scripts are repetitive, feelings are monetized, and performance is mistaken for transformation. Trauma...
Swift as a trodden serpent In Response to Fascism
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve written about my thoughts on fascism and Thelema in the past. It should be no shock to anyone that I fall squarely against any form of authoritarianism in our communities at all. A New Manifesto No one is neutral...
Love in the Time of Will Spiritual Development, Discipleship, and the Future of Thelema
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve spent enough time being on the offensive against what I consider to be the termites in the framework of modern Thelema. It’s time to shift gears and begin to lay down a mature vision of Thelema that is both...
Realigning the Aeons, Part I An Integral Approach to Aeonic Theory
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The aeons are something many Thelemites take for granted without realizing just how unstable the foundation of our doctrine of the aeons really is throughout Crowley’s writings. He mentions them now and again, makes a...
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Politics
Will of the Commons Thelema and the Tragedy of the Commons
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...
Thelema and Fascism An Open Letter to Those Who Fail to See
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You ask if the Law of Thelema is opposed to fascism and I must immediately say yes. We live in a time when fascism raises its ugly head and, even now as all eyes turn toward the...
Psychology
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Theology
Doctrinal Triage The Importance of Doctrine in a Time of Spiritual Infancy
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...
The Desert Refuge Revisiting a Lockdown Meditation
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. During the COVID lockdown years, I spent some time...
Cutting Through The Bullshit A Jungle Polemic
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.Crowley, Aleister. 1989. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An...
On the Nature of Death A Contemplative Letter to a Friend
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...
Challenges of a Trans-Tunisian Foundation The Tunis Comment Reexamined
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...
Reading Plans for 2025 Diving Deeper into the Spiritual Mind
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...
Special Dispatch
Pedagogical Perspectives On Thelemic Teachers
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I commented recently that I grew up in a highly conservative Baptist church that was a bit different than most. Unlike in the majority of typical Southern Baptist-affiliated churches of the times, our preacher was...
Eyes Wide Shut Personal Lesson in Ideological Bubbles
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...