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11:22 pm: Job- The Petal Threatened to Engulf Their Continent
Crowley describes the divine force that manifests itself through the human race as one that is seeking to know itself. Crowley tells us that “God” seeks self-knowledge through His creation by experiencing each human life, through a wide variety of essential natures and existential conditions, “just as one would seek to understand the idea of ‘poetry’ by studying all available poems.”

I thought about this while reading Jung’s “Answer to Job.” Although Jung starts off strong, the fact that he is incapable of regarding God as “Beyond Good and Evil” is somewhat trying. He thinks that God needs to live by his own rules, imposing the democratic value of mutuality on the concept of divine hierarchy, which is not a fit. What God did to Job could be likened to my walking through a spider web, or the ‘infinite wail’ from the continent of the ‘little ones’ Crowley writes about in Liber LXV. Jung asserts that, because he was the subject of this divine assault, Job was ‘morally superior’ to God (!!!) and “the tormented though guiltless Job had secretly been lifted up to a superior knowledge of God which God himself did not possess.” (p.15) Because God broke his own commandments, in other words, Job came to know God better than God knew himself.

Although Jung’s assumptions are grounded in unconsciously Christian herd morality, he does make a valid point. According to Crowley, this kind of divine self-discovery is in a very important sense the POINT of creation. For this reason I think it is only logical to, as Jung does, deny the idea of divine omniscience. The final Revelation is the attainment of divine omniscience. Until then, God is struggling, through creation, to achieve self-knowledge.

I had never really thought about these ideas as a denial of divine omniscience before. I suppose, being free of space and time God is omniscient, but his participation in creation necessarily limits the divine force by IHVH, set in opposition to the image (of an image) of the ALHIM in the line of Adam.

Kinda makes you think…

Tags: aleister crowley, ethics

08:26 pm: Al Khem- Lawrence and Tagore
Warning: Poetry

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Tags: poetry

02:30 am: The Truth About my Cock
I have noticed that there seem to be a few misconceptions about my cock floating around the internet, and I’d like to take this opportunity to clear up any confusion. It’s very important to me that the general public has a full and accurate picture of my cock, so that they understand its place in our culture and civilization. My cock doesn’t know that I’m doing this. If it did, it would probably try to stop me. “It makes no difference what they think about me,” it would say, with that twinkle in its eye, “all that matters is what I think about them.” This is true, but I think its only fair to give people a chance to educate themselves and each other. Please help me spread the word about my cock, so that when the time comes, people don’t have to be surprised and afraid.

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Tags: humor, joking

01:42 pm: Propaganda: Cacogenesis
Fear creates evil in response to a perceived threat. By “evil,” in this case, we mean a deformity, restriction, or misdirection of the individual Will. The frustration and self-loathing caused by this condition of Being, which inevitably leads to the pursuit of false desires and the repression of true desires, spills out of a person at those around them, so we identify fear as the first cause of all hostile acts and thoughts.

Just as a happy and fulfilled individual is pleasant and refreshing to be around, a repressed and self-loathing individual is tiring and irritating to be around. From the smallest acts of petty insult to criminal acts of violence, the ill will that arises between human beings comes from this frustration. I say, “ill will,” not “conflict,” because happy people will still come into conflict because of competing desires, they will still fight with each other over different values, and they will still seek to strike each other down at times. These conflicts can be taken in a sporting sense if one diminishes the sense of “threat.”

The faculty of identity determines “threat.” In the physical sense we are, understandably, accustomed to identify with our bodies. In the symbolic sense we also identify with numerous ideas, images, and representations, and react to attacks on those things in the same way we would to personal attacks on ourselves. When extended only toward certain ideas on a limited basis, we psychologically participate in all of the basic conflicts that the ideas we identify with are engaged in.

The mystical solution to this problem is to identify with No Thing (whether Atman or Allah) and therefore participate in No Conflict, a state often confused with Peace. This state allows an individual to objectively assess questions of value, and takes the personal sting out of the experience of suffering. The magical solution to this problem is to identify with Every Thing and participate equally in All Conflicts, a state that encourages a spirit of healthy camaraderie with one’s fellow man. This allows an individual to objectively assess questions of value, and takes the personal sting out of the experience of conflict.

Tags: ethics, propaganda

02:20 am: Thoughts on Freedom
“We are confronted with the incontrovertible fact: At no time in the history of human society did masses of people succeed in preserving, organizing, and developing the freedom and peace they had achieved by bloody battles. We mean genuine freedom of personal and social development, the freedom to face life WITHOUT fear, freedom FROM all forms of economic suppression, freedom FROM reactionary inhibitions of development; in short, the free self-administration of life.”

-Wilhelm Reich, caps mine, The Mass Psychology of Fascism p. 331

“If human freedom is established as freedom TO, if man can realize his self fully and uncompromisingly, the fundamental cause for his asocial drives will have disappeared and only a sick and abnormal individual will be dangerous. This freedom has never been realized in the history of mankind, yet it has been the ideal to which mankind has stuck even if it was often expressed in abstruse and irrational forms.”

-Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, p. 296

“Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibility. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibility. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be replaced by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”

-Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning p. 155-156

“Each individual must be left free to follow his own path. America is peculiarly insane on these points. Her people are desperately anxious to make the Cingalese wear furs, and the Tibetans vote, and the whole world chew gum, utterly dense to the fact that most other nations, especially the French and British, regard 'American institutions' as the lowest savagery, and forgetful or ignorant of the circumstance that the original brand of American freedom -- which really was Freedom -- contained the precept to leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility of expansion on his own lines to every man.”

-Aleister Crowley, Comment on AL I:31

Tags: axiomatic

08:36 pm: The Astral Light and the Magical Link
In his Doctrine and Ritual of Transcendental Magic, Eliphas Levi describes the phenomena of the astral light. This idea is crucial to any practical understanding of ceremonial magick. Its laws are the laws that govern our effort as magicians, because it is the force that we employ to create change in conformity with our Will. The astral light is, in a sense, the gravity of causality. Magical acts, words, and rituals set this force in motion, and when it comes into contact with the material plane by means of the Magical Link, it makes an impression that can only be filled by the Willed result. The astral light is the medium of cause and effect in the same sense that gravity is the medium of matter and energy.

I submit that the astral light is beyond Good and Evil…

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Tags: aleister crowley, ethics, ngbmii

10:41 pm: Antecedent of Thelema- Relativity and the Hermetic Doctrine
“That which is above is like unto that which is below, and that which is below unto that which is above.” In other words, the form is proportional to the idea; the shadow is the measure of the body calculated in its relation to the luminous ray; the scabbard is as deep as the sword is long; the negation is in proportion to the contrary affirmation; production is equal to destruction in the movement which preserves life; and ***there is no point in infinite extension which may not be regarded as the centre of a circle having an expanding circumference receding indefinitely into space.*** Every individuality is therefore indefinitely perfectible, since the moral order is analogous to the physical, and since we cannot conceive any point as unable to dilate, increase and radiate in a philosophically unlimited circle. What can be affirmed of the soul in its totality may be affirmed of each faculty of the soul. The intelligence and will of man are instruments of incalculable power and capacity."

-Eliphas Levi, Doctrine and Ritual of Transcendental Magic, Cap. I

This idea of the point and its infinite extension, highlighted above, is very clearly a precedent for the cosmology of Thelema outlined in Liber AL, perfected in the Commentaries, and summarized by the basic premise that "Every Man and Woman is a star." People have noted that it bears a great deal of resemblance to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which states that the universe cannot be measured but by choosing an objective point from which to calculate the motion of all other matter and energy, and that any such measurement of the universe would vary according to what objective point was selected. Our own perception is the point from which we measure the universe of meaning that our lives inhabit, and the truth of the revelation of that universe is totally dependent on our own ability to understand the nature of that point of objective reference: the individual Will. Although Crowley brought this idea into the spotlight, the fact that he lived at the same time as Einstein sometimes confuses the issue. Levi clearly equates this idea with the Hermetic doctrine of "as above, so below," insinuating that initiates have understood this simple universal fact, which did not become intelligible to science until recently, for very, very long time.

In the popular consciousness, the God of relativity is, more often than not, invoked to dismiss some imperative as unnecessary. "It's all relative," is usually just another way of saying, "I don't want to do anything about it." Funny that Levi should take the form of relativity that HE describes to indicate that, "The intelligence and will of man are instruments of incalculable power and capacity." If you have incalculable power and capacity, you don't back away from asserting your Will and your values, from combatting ideas and individuals that oppose them, or from working hard to create in your own image. Relativity, such as Levi and Crowley describe, is dependent upon Will, and Will is necessarily an imperative. This kind of relativity demands action. The popular conception of relativity is dependent upon the nihilistic idea of the impossibility of meaning. This kind of relativity demands nothing.

Tags: aleister crowley

01:29 am: How or Why? Existential Psychology and Thelema
In my critical studies of the sexual/political philosophy of Wilhelm Reich, I have constantly been seeking other writers and thinkers to balance him with. Part of this is so that I can gain deeper insight into Reich’s ideas by looking at people like Aleister Crowley, Umberto Eco and even Sammy Gravano in light of what they have to say about the same topics. Another part of that is so that I can enjoy the act of reading without wanting to tear my eyes out with insane rage (Reich helps me write, but I find him trying). I’m working on the second part. At any rate, I’ve recently rediscovered Victor Frankl, who played a huge role in my studies of ethics at University, but who I never really re-read since then. I have a lot to say about Frankl’s ideas as they pertain to Thelema, but this particular section, a quotation from Nietzsche that drives much of his philosophy, really grabbed my attention…

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Tags: aleister crowley, ethics

12:07 pm: The Invisible War- Totalitarianism VS Fascism
In his “Ur-Fascism” essay found in “Five Moral Pieces,” Umberto Eco makes an observation about Italian fascism that, in light of my recent reading of Wilhelm Reich on the subject, I found to be quite stunning. As previously observed, (and more here) Reich posited mysticism as the determining factor of fascist psychology. In Italian Fascism, however, Eco describes a “fuzzy” totalitarianism with no solid ideological core. Of Mussolini, he says that Il Duce, had “no philosophy, all he had was rhetoric,” which lead to a system that was “not wholly totalitarian-not for its moderation as for the philosophical weakness of is ideology.” (p.72) This is an interesting distinction to make, as I have compared Reich’s ideas to the modern liberal secular humanist movement in their nihilistic approach to the questions of mysticism and religion. Is it possible to have fascism without totalitarianism? What are the essential characteristics of each that would allow us to make such a judgment?

The racialist and neo-Pagan elements of Nazism were the “mystical” factor that allowed the Germans to be, not just fascist, but totalitarian as well. The same could be said, according to Eco, for the materialist, atheist factors at work in Stalinist Communism, or the Christian Falangist character of Franco’s fascism in Spain. This lack of higher aspirations and ideals that Eco observes in Mussolini’s fascism distinguishes it significantly from these other contemporary examples. Reich notes that fascism is inherently hypocritical in the sense that it presents a false face to the public, but that isn’t the same thing as lacking an ideological core. The Nazi elites, for example, may have said one thing and done another, but they were very clear what they were trying to accomplish.

In his effort to define fascism as a phenomenon separate from (although often in league with) totalitarianism, Eco looks at numerous salient characteristics of what he calls “Ur-Fascism,” the ubiquitous qualities of fascism. This post examines these, point by point, asking the questions, “do we see these points in Thelema?” and, “do we see these points in the Thelemic Community?” To address the latter issue, I will try to illustrate some of the totalitarian aspects of modern western nihilism as they pertain to Eco’s treatment of the subject.


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Tags: aleister crowley, ethics, invisible war, politics, the invisible war

01:24 am: Propaganda: At your leisure
There is a reason that the Enemy attacks our civilization by occupying our leisure time. Leisure time has been a crucial factor in human innovation. It has been observed that developments like agriculture, architecture, advanced techniques in food storage and preparation, and so on, have had a ripple effect throughout our technological development because they afforded human beings more time to dream, invent, imagine, and so on. You can’t fit THINKING into a fifteen-minute break. If you’re on the hunt, your attention needs to be focused on your immediate surroundings. That’s an important part of the human psyche, but so is thinking. Thinking takes time, specifically, leisure time during which there are no other significant demands on the attention and concentration than the progress of one’s own thoughts.

Although our society is comported to deliver the maximum amount of leisure time for those who are successful, the full force of herd mentality is focused on occupying that leisure time with banal distractions. Television, music, and film have produced some amazing pieces of art, but for the large part they repeat the same childishly didactic moral and emotional themes varied only by minor cosmetic changes in tone, character, and plot. The modern secular cultist’s identity is totally founded on the fiction, music, film, and art that they consume. This consumption devours a large portion of their leisure time, leaving them little time to THINK about the art they’ve consumed. Because of this, although most social activity revolves around the consumption of art, it amounts to nothing deeper than flag waving.

I do not think that this farce is sustainable unless it is deliberately guided. Until then, we have only images, images, images. All without control. This does not mean that the people will wake up, but that the fit might come forth to guide their dreams to a higher place.

Tags: propaganda

02:26 pm: Sexual Revolution- Wilhelm Reich and the Crisis of the Left
One of what I suspect will be several follow ups on this previous post.

Reich and Crowley both agreed on this: that the free expression of the sexual drive was the key to solving the basic problem of the human condition. Reich saw this as a class problem, assuming that a sexually free society would naturally realize his liberal secular humanist utopia of “work democracy.” Crowley saw this as a spiritual problem, believing that a sexually free society would produce individuals capable of wielding causal initiative to the extent that they could master their surroundings, including the inhabitants of those surroundings. These perspectives are intrinsically related. Both thinkers have identified a core source of tension in the human condition, but because of their different attitudes toward the notion of power and the notion of good, they had radically different expectations of it. Both thinkers thought that a sexually free society would be the best society, but where Reich believed it would end social tension and human conflict, Crowley saw it as the force that would set the stage for social tension and determine the nature of human conflict. These are summary characterizations of both perspectives, but not altogether off the mark in either case.

What is the key factor that caused two people to take the same information and draw from it such radically different conclusions?

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Tags: aleister crowley, sexual revolutionii

02:43 pm: Sexual Revolution- The Patriarchal Family and Original Sin
Wilhelm Reich’s Mass Psychology of Fascism is an important book for Thelemites. Reich, like Crowley, saw that the combination of sexual repression and herd mentality was what enabled totalitarianism. Reich believed that the fundamental root of this sexual repression could be found in “mysticism,” which he identified as a necessarily reactionary phenomenon. For Crowley, reversing its attitude toward the sex instinct, and striking from it the doctrine of original sin could redeem mysticism. Reich’s conception of mysticism bears a great deal of resemblance to the modern Liberal Secular Humanist characterization of religion qua religion. It is seen as necessarily hostile to individuality, necessarily hypocritical, and necessarily unable to withstand the natural expression of the human sexual instinct. This last necessity, according to Reich, manifested itself in the Patriarchal family unit, which was the primary instrument of sexual repression. This totalitarian tool imprinted the characteristics of obedience and servility that were essential for fascism to triumph.

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Tags: aleister crowley, sexual revolutionii

03:50 am: Propaganda: The Simpsons and Herd Mentality
The Simpsons was a creation of Matt Groening, who also wrote a comic strip called “Life in Hell,” staring Bongo, the one-eared cartoon rabbit. When Groening created the Simpsons, he touched off an unparalleled television phenomenon. The comic strip “Life in Hell” was a poignant satire of American anti-intellectualism. The television show “The Simpsons” could have, at times, been seen as the same. But the show effectively touched off the biggest mass-media validation of anti-intellectualism in human history, on a level that has been accepted in virtually every class of western culture. I can’t help but think of the scene (I so often think of) of Zarathustra’s followers worshipping the ass at the end of Thus Spake Zarathustra. “Question authority,” has become “D’oh,” and a culture that used to speak in allusions to great literature now uses quotes from cartoons to communicate. There is a strange isomorphism between this phenomenon and the corruption of the Bible by herd mentality.

Like “Life in Hell,” the Bible had a set of values that were practically inverted by its popular manifestation. In Thelema, we are “against the people,” because the people ALWAYS fuck up the truth. Every time the herd accepts a good idea, it essentially becomes the flag for herd values and herd mentality. The values never change, “love thy neighbor,” “we are all essentially equal,” “evil is too powerful to fight,” “we don’t investigate truth, we repeat what we’re told.” These values have existed from the beginning of time, but they have flown a million flags in a thousand nations. The truth isn’t meant for the people. That was the flaw in Protestant thought. A pseudo-Satanic hierarchy of pain, tyranny, and debauchery may have corrupted the Catholic Church, but at least they didn’t unleash the Bible on the common man. This rash act is equivalent to a street person providing a precocious child with a pint of vodka and a pack of matches. They are bound to do bad things with it. This is also why Dave Chapelle went to Africa, if you know what I’m saying.

Satire should require a license. You should have to prove that you are competent to comprehend satire to a registered official before you’re allowed to consume it. This might be my Canadian “big government” idea, but I think that society would be improved to the point that we could legalize several exciting and enjoyable drugs if we put this law into effect.

Tags: ethics, propaganda

01:20 pm: Top Ten Reasons that George W. Bush was not “a Hitler”
Recently there was some ridiculousness in the states that had certain individuals comparing Barak Obama to Adolph Hitler. I’m not really a fan of Obama, but it’s not hard to tell that this is a stupid thing to say. In honor of the memory of George W. Bush, a delta male if ever there was one, I composed this list. Because when people said the same thing about George W. Bush it was just as stupid. Bush wasn’t a Hitler. He was an Eichmann.

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Tags: politics

11:01 pm: Hate Virus:
“The Germans killed the Jews, the Jews killed the Arabs, the Arabs killed the hostages, and that is the news.”

-Roger Waters

I sometimes despair for love.

Whether you look at the contrast between “too cool to feel” culture, and bullshit “emo” pretensions, the world-wide tyrannical hegemony of corporate exploitation, or the general tendency of people, when hurt or betrayed stop trusting in and caring about the people around them, it seems like we live in hard times for love. This Aeon began with a viral infection of racial hatred that, growing and propagating itself through expansion by inversion, continues to this day. An institution of racial hatred created by Adolph Hitler provided the political capital to support the creation of an institution of racial hatred created by David Ben-Gurion, which provided the political capital to support an institution of racial hatred created by Sayeed Qtub and those who used his ideas and the ideas of similar thinkers to form “groups” like Al Qaeda, Hamas, and the Taliban, which provided the political capital for the global expansion of American tyranny founded on racial hatred disguised as humanitarianism. The course of this infection is not complex, nuanced, or difficult to comprehend. It is as simple as water flowing downhill.

The same reaction that individuals have in their personal relationships happens in political relationships between groups, ideologies, and nations. When you trust someone, you risk being hurt. When you love someone, you risk being hurt. When you get hurt, you can, if you're weak, hurt someone else. Misery loves company. Whether we're talking about an institution or an individual, it's an easy choice to make.

Hate starts by giving up on love. By saying, “never again will I take this chance with someone.” Maybe you say, “never again will I trust someone this color/ this ideology/ this religion/ who I have these feelings for,” but this is the first step on a slippery slope. I don’t get it really, because I don’t have that problem. Sure, when I get lied to, betrayed, or have my heart broken, it hurts. But I’d rather take the chance again, and get hurt again, than live life with my heart closed. I was like that for a while, so I know how both ways feel, and you know what? The loneliness of one closed heart is worse than the pain of a thousand heatbreaks. The loneliness of a life without trust is worse than the pain of a thousand betrayals. And the prejudice that comes with tarring every member of one group with the same brush? That’s herd mentality at its lowest.

One thing I’ve learned in my wide travels is that if you treat people with respect and dignity, they usually respond in kind. If they don’t, it’s their problem, and it’s on them. That stuff doesn’t weigh you down if you realize that you don’t have to carry it.

So when I do despair for love, I remember that something that lives and grows in a harsh climate becomes strong. In these hard times for love, the love that we have is even more powerful.

Tags: aleister crowley, ethics

12:12 pm: ?
“The climax of the formula is in one sense before even the formulation of the Yod. For the Yod is the most divine aspect of the Force --- the remaining letters are but a solidification of the same thing.”

-A.C. MTP, Cap. III

If you read “confusion” for “solidification,” I think that this whole fairy tale mess starts to make more sense. This is one of the places that I’m not with Crowley, not because I think that he’s wrong necessarily, but because I think that data, which was simply not available at the time he wrote this, obviates the necessity to redeem this particular formula. He elaborates on the basic method of Gnosticism, based on the relationship between ALHIM and IHVH,

“The Yod will represent a swift and violent creative energy; following this will be a calmer and more reflective but even more powerful flow of will, the irresistible force of a mighty river. This state of mind will be followed by an expansion of the consciousness; it will penetrate all space, and this will finally undergo a crystallization resplendent with interior light.”

-Ibid

that reflects the course of the human experience of creation throughout time. But if existence is a muddle, then isn’t this, to an extent, the “muddling” aspect? And don’t we have another word for that, which might provide further clues to the identity of the force in question?

I can’t help but wonder what kind of role this would have played in this system if there was more information available.

Tags: aleister crowley

01:37 am: The Sin of Onan
The sin of Onan was not, as the vulgar have interpreted it, in the act of masturbation. Onan did not actually masturbate, he pulled out. He had a responsibility to impregnate his brother’s wife, but knowing that the child would come before his own son in the line of inheritance, he elected to spill his seed on the ground instead of conceiving. Onan’s duties came from the code of his tribe, and by disobeying them he betrayed, not just his people, but also the IDEA or SPIRIT of his people.

But what’s the difference between this kind of loyalty and herd mentality?

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Tags: aleister crowley, ethics

10:40 pm: Internet Arguments! They can be about anything!
Check out the exchange of ideas here. I know we've probably all had stupid internet arguments like this, but the one in question strikes me as a textbook case, as such, bears consideration. Watch how, as each subsequent reply is posted, the actual content of the discussion diminishes and diminishes, until it ceases to exist altogether.

Step One: Miss the point.

Step Two: Emotional appeal for clemency. It's just my opinion, not an attack! I'm not trying to attack you! This step should omit any reference to material presented in the post itself, or the reply to step one.

Step Three: Intellectual appeal for relativism and tolerance. There is no such thing as right and wrong, there is no such thing as correct or incorrect. It doesn't matter what you say, it doesn't matter what I say. It's all just an opinion, so what I say doesn't really have to have anything to do with your post, your replies to my replies, or any ideas at all. Stop attacking me!

Step Four: Sarcastic smiley. Usually ;) or :P, but in this case we have a variant I am personally unfamiliar with. There may be some attempt and glibness, or an irrelevant quote as well.

Step Five: Fear, hostility, willful ignorance. Usually manifested in outrage at the persecution being visited on the "victim."

Step Six: Crickets.


I expect this kind of stupidity when I bash the Matrix, Nirvana, Atheism, Liberalism, Secularism, and so on... but Max fucking Hardcore? Of all things, I have to argue about this? Internet, you blow my mind. Like seriously, if any of you out there actually jerk off to that crap, do the gene pool a favor and drink a bottle of drano. Or come to me for an exorcism. There is no third option.

Tags: humor, politics

01:59 am: Propaganda: Will and Consciousness
One point that we cannot overlook is that Crowley considered the True Will to be fundamentally unconscious. The Great Work is less focused on becoming conscious of True Will than it is on removing complexes that impede or obstruct the motion of True Will. Part of that process involves becoming conscious of True Will to an extent, but only to the extent that enables us to recognize what elements of it are dis-eased. As Crowley frequently points out, one is only conscious of a natural function such as True Will (or the breathing, the digestion, the vision, the hearing, etc.) when it is in some way afflicted. Although True Will provides direction there is, as the adept said to the boy on the back of the swan called AUM, “no whence, no wither.” Its motion, although perfectly concentrated in its path, is aimless. It does not have a DESTINATION, but rather, a DIRECTION.  To be “in every way perfect,” True Will must be “unassuaged of purpose, delivered from lust for result.”

This is also why the longing for death is so important to the Thelemite. Will is perpetual, but all things move toward their ends. The end of our individual incarnation is the death of our physical bodies. Even this, however, is not a destination as such. Birth, death, and rebirth are simply, as Crowley says, “incidents in the career of the adept,” as unremarkable and natural as the acts of going to bed at night and rising to face the day in the morning.

The ideal of a final destination of our lives is essentially a trap. In his Letter on Humanism, the philosopher Martin Heidegger makes the argument that the ideology of “Humanism” is essentially a straightjacket (devoutly longed for by the Fuk-U-amas of the world who seek an escape from freedom) because to declare oneself a “humanist” is to set theoretical limits on the human condition and prevent further development. If we know absolutely what “human” means, any development beyond those already understood limits would represent a challenge to this idea of “good.” No meaningful development, progress, or evolution is possible within the framework of this ideology, which sees anything “more than human” as necessarily “evil,” in that it would require a redefinition of “human,” and therefore represent a challenge to the humanist’s ideology. This is much like the idiot wannabe Thelemite who declares that it is his True Will to paint a particular picture, and upon completion hangs himself, leaving a note that says “my work is done, why wait?” 

We might long for death… but death is forbidden…

Tags: ethics, propaganda

09:57 am: The Invisible War: Pakistan and Bangladesh
Pakistan is an interesting case study in Imperial strategic organization. When western corporate forces removed their immediate presence from South Asia and divided up the massive territory that was then called India, the largely Punjabi pro-West Muslim leaders who made up the group that would go on to be the main power in Pakistan was rewarded for their loyalty to the British through two World Wars. When they created Pakistan, the new state was divided into two regions, East and West.

This post attempts to examine the nature of the schism created by political Islam among different cultural and ethnic groups in Pakistan by comparison to the unity created among different cultural and ethnic groups by early Islam.

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Tags: ethics, invisible war, islam, politics, the a is in the p