Big thanks for making things feel so clear and so...close to one! I've started living thelema as truly as i Can since the day I left a certain Order and decided to anihilate everything I had learnt after a deep crisis. As I started digging deeper and deeper, with no specific purpose and the less influenced possible, it came Naked...and i've melted into what seemed to have been built by a mind like mine.... for a mind like mine 😊
Happy 149. Okay, so I've now finished the book. There is an OTO in my hood. How do I actually join? Do I go as a mendicant or something? Also, this vid got me to order your book. Very down to earth, though I do love the abstraction of the Book of the Law.
On the secret being "not Thelemic" - Crowley apparently came to this "secret" independent of the O.T.O. and it was only Reuss recognising it that led to Crowley's initiation into O.T.O., so I think it's fair to say it is in fact Thelemic. Additionally, when you see the near constant references to it in myriad different technical libers (albeit in blinds - as Crowley was staunch in his oaths), you see how key it was to his whole system.
That depends on whether the story Crowley tells about this in Confessions is accurate. If it is accurate, and Crowley stumbled upon it unwittingly, then whether it's "Thelemic" really depends on how it is connected with the essence of Thelema. If the story is not accurate-which it probably is not-then Crowley learned the secret through his correspondence with Reuss. Either way, he only understood the significance of it in 1912, and once he did, he began to express it in his own terms. This has practical import. You can still be a Thelemite if you don't resonate with the solar-phallic mysteries of OTO. That particular symbol set is a lot less important in AA, for instance.
Hello. I'm a 51 year old gay man. When I turned 30, the universe basically let me know I'm really an immortal God having a mortal experience. 😮. Here's the deal. I LOVE doing meth and then having sex with invisible people. Or even vampires or Angels, etc etc. The meth magnifies my ability to imagine. But the fantasy is always ruined because I get paranoid half way thru. I start having HELL thoughts. Then my bliss and joy tank down into fear. I haven't done meth for over two years now. I'm contemplating doing it again. Do you have any thoughts on this? I get mad! I'm a supreme being. Why can't I just have fun drug masterbation sessions. Why are there all these damn consequences!!!! 😢
Big thanks for making things feel so clear and so...close to one!
I've started living thelema as truly as i Can since the day I left a certain Order and decided to anihilate everything I had learnt after a deep crisis.
As I started digging deeper and deeper, with no specific purpose and the less influenced possible, it came Naked...and i've melted into what seemed to have been built by a mind like mine.... for a mind like mine 😊
Happy 149.
Okay, so I've now finished the book. There is an OTO in my hood. How do I actually join? Do I go as a mendicant or something? Also, this vid got me to order your book. Very down to earth, though I do love the abstraction of the Book of the Law.
On the secret being "not Thelemic" - Crowley apparently came to this "secret" independent of the O.T.O. and it was only Reuss recognising it that led to Crowley's initiation into O.T.O., so I think it's fair to say it is in fact Thelemic. Additionally, when you see the near constant references to it in myriad different technical libers (albeit in blinds - as Crowley was staunch in his oaths), you see how key it was to his whole system.
That depends on whether the story Crowley tells about this in Confessions is accurate. If it is accurate, and Crowley stumbled upon it unwittingly, then whether it's "Thelemic" really depends on how it is connected with the essence of Thelema. If the story is not accurate-which it probably is not-then Crowley learned the secret through his correspondence with Reuss. Either way, he only understood the significance of it in 1912, and once he did, he began to express it in his own terms. This has practical import. You can still be a Thelemite if you don't resonate with the solar-phallic mysteries of OTO. That particular symbol set is a lot less important in AA, for instance.
Missæ is pronounced "mees-eye", as Æ has an "i" sound in Classical Latin.
Hello. I'm a 51 year old gay man. When I turned 30, the universe basically let me know I'm really an immortal God having a mortal experience. 😮. Here's the deal. I LOVE doing meth and then having sex with invisible people. Or even vampires or Angels, etc etc. The meth magnifies my ability to imagine. But the fantasy is always ruined because I get paranoid half way thru. I start having HELL thoughts. Then my bliss and joy tank down into fear. I haven't done meth for over two years now. I'm contemplating doing it again. Do you have any thoughts on this? I get mad! I'm a supreme being. Why can't I just have fun drug masterbation sessions. Why are there all these damn consequences!!!! 😢
Learn to do it without props.