That's right: Life causes change in conformity with its Will to survive and reproduce successfully.

Now, Thelemites everywhere will scream, "You stole that from Aleister Crowley, and that's not funny!!!." No, I didn't. I know what he taught, "Magick is the Art and Science of causing change in conformity with Will." But that's also the ( Read more... )

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When asked to explain why the new Age of Aquarius is so horrible, rather than being replete with sweetness-and-light and all that good stuff, New Agers "explain" that it's still the Age of Pisces, that the Vernal Coleur (the point in the sky occupied by the Sun at the first moment of Spring) has not yet advanced all the way back through Pisces to ( Read more... )

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Aleister Crowley is billed as "the wickedest man in the world." His teaching "Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law" is used to support this idea. But for some reason, nobody adds the other half of that teaching, "Love is the law, love under (True) Will," which puts an entirely different cast on it as well as on Crowley himself, to the ( Read more... )

I've been reading Michael Gruber's Tropic of Night, a stunningly good novel of suspense. On pages 80-81 I encountered the following, part of a lecture given to a college audience by anthropologist Marcel Vierchau ( Read more... )

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