There can be no question about it:  men have been liberated by the feminist movement.  Liberated from the responsibility of providing care, liberated from social obligation in the treatment of women, liberated from the need to protect, and most of all, liberated from the expectation of maturity that was measured by a man’s ability to meet these ( Read more... )

When is it appropriate to adopt an inclusive and exclusive perspective?  An exclusive perspective is demanded by reason, by any coherent telos, by any comparative system of values and anything which provides a context for contrast.  The final "goal" of mysticism must come into contradiction with this, however.  In order to complete this task, one ( Read more... )

The Chapter on the High House describes the activities of those who are the elites in Atlantean society. This house was also the container for "the living Atla" to which Crowley associates numerous appelates, most significant I suspect being "To Her," a reference to AL I:77, although the reversal of the subject (from "To Me") should indicate that ( Read more... )

"But in an attempt to deprive the act of all accretions that would profane it, the Fathers of the Church added in spite of themselves other accretions which profaned it more.  They tied it to property and inheritance.  They wished to serve both God and Mammon."  -Aleister Crowley, Energized Enthusiasm ( Read more... )

"It was the final integration of all sciences. In method it's theory was differentiation, in theory it's method was integration ( Read more... )

"Of course, no more than one seventh of the wisdom is ever confided to one of the Seven, and the Seven meet in council but once in every thirty-three years. But its preservation is guaranteed by the interlocked systems of "dreaming true" and of "preparation of the antinomy." The former almost explains itself; the latter is almost inconceivable to ( Read more... )

The next section of Liber LI describes the characteristics that are generally ascribable to the race of Atlas. I do not think that I am amiss to say that the dichotomy between the characteristics of the servile race and the race of Atlas (quite aside from the practices of the Magicians of Atlas and the inhabitants of the High House) present clearly ( Read more... )

"It's essence is to train a man to be anything by training him to be it's opposite. At the end of anything, think they, it turns out to be it's opposite, and that opposite is thus mastered without having been soiled by the labours of the student, and without the false impressions of early learning being left in the mind" -Aleister Crowley, Liber ( Read more... )