Thelemic Writers Wanted! The Future of Applied Thelema
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Things are a’changing. While I’m not going to predict how the chips will fall, this past January, a group of individuals set out on a journey to bring to fruition a vision I articulated last October. I am absolutely...
On the Nature of Masters A Polemic
A Polemic
Building an Oasis Address to the Strategy Summit of a Local O.T.O. Body
Address to the Strategy Summit of a Local O.T.O. Body
The Theology of the Mask and Gun Militarized Enforcement, Contested Narratives, and the Spiritual Shape of Authority
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There are moments when a government stops speaking to people and starts speaking over them. Not in the dramatic, tinfoil conspiracy-theory-generating way, but in the banal, clerical way: policy as weather, force as...
Catechism of Eden An Excerpt of a Tale
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Special Dispatches are one-off releases, without a set schedule, on topics based on observation of something in the community or just personal reflection. They may be polemical or apologetic, or they just may be a...
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...
Liturgy of the Sun A Celebration of the Company of Heaven
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve always felt a deep pull toward the beauty and gravity of Eastern Orthodox liturgy, just as I’m moved by the raw simplicity of Quaker unprogrammed worship. And I’ve always loved the way food becomes sacred in...
Dreaming of an Impossible Future Idealized Thelemic Community Planning
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. This post came up in my personal Facebook memories from 19 March 2022. Yeah. Three years ago! I had been working overnight in a residential youth shelter and was mulling over some ideas of what I thought would make a...
Thelema: A Religion? Who’s Still Afraid of Crowley's Big Bad Wolf?
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Religion, as such, has become one of the largest boogiemen of Thelema since Crowley proclaimed calling Thelema a religion “a rather stupid kind of mischief.”Crowley, Aleister. 1994. “Religion–Is Thelema a ‘New...
Choose ye an island! Rethinking the Future of Thelema in an Unstable World
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I may have fallen off a cliff. Again. I’m not sure yet if I’ve jumped into dangerous waters or...
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...
Learning and Unlearning A Personal Introspective Manifesto
Originally written in 2001. Updated in 2007. Minor textual corrections and footnote commentary in 2024.Now seemed like a good time to bring this back out. Maybe I needed a reminder.Thelema is more than just empowerment. It’s embodiment. It is the embodiment of...
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...