Midday Thoughts
Crowley personally instructed McMurtry to give "Signs" of the appropriate M.O.E. degrees prior to the performance of Liber Resh (footnote in Book IV). Moreover, one of the requirements for having an O.T.O. Profess House is that Liber Resh is punctually performed by the houses' inhabitants (which means that Crowley expected O.T.O. members to know
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There are basic terms and practices that we - as a group and as individuals - need to be attuned to. Otherwise, "Is it not right that the world would treat the subject with scorn...?"
If we don't acknowledge A.C.'s teachings - including the practices, then I think we're doing ourselves and the membership a rather large disservice.
Again, as the G.M. has clearly noted:
"Our Thelema is that of the Book of the Law and the writings of Aleister Crowley"
and:
"Despite all our individual differences of manner, opinion, preference, interest, and enthusiasm, these are things on which we must agree."
Emphasis mine.
All you or I can do is OUR wills
If you Willingly choose to enter a religious Order such as the O.T.O., then you willingly choose to undergo a course of training. Making an appeal to individuality as an excuse to evade that course of training - After you have made that commitment - suggests to me a conflict.
I am reminded of the end of Liber Porta Lucis...
The religious Order of the O.T.O. isn't for everyone of course. However, its rather bizarre that you would posit that the mission of the Master Therion - which this book is about - might be at odds with that. This is afterall, the same Master Therion who wrote Liber XV...
I just don't feel like (within the context of O.T.O.) we should be attempting to create some kind of "accountability".
You're certainly not alone with this opinion. Check out StevenSteven's reply for an example of where this gets us.
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