/r/thelema

Photograph via snooOG

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

A subreddit for all those interested in undertaking The Great Work; Aleister Crowley's Thelema, members of Ordo Templi Orientis, Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, A.'.A.'., and allied organizations. Also open to commentary and debate from those of other religions, philosophies, and worldviews. Check out https://thelemicunion.com/new if you're new to Thelema.

Love is the law, love under will.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

A subreddit for all those interested in undertaking The Great Work; Aleister Crowley's Thelema, members of Ordo Templi Orientis, Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, A.'.A.'., and allied organizations. Also open to commentary and debate from those of other religions, philosophies, and worldviews.

New to Thelema?

Related subreddits:

Love is the law, love under will.

/r/thelema

51,199 Subscribers

0

Not a Thelemite, just interested in the general occult; The link between Choronzon, the fabric of reality, and psychedelics...

Choronzon was described by Crowley as a demon who was the antithesis of being, one who is without self, the shapeless void screaming out different obscene form trying to become reality.

Now, one could argue that Crowley himself at the time was under heavy influence of drugs. Deliriant tropanes and cocaine can make for a hell of a synthetic visual experience, and this was a common theme of Crowley's.

Now, i delved psychedelics, and heavy drug use in general for a solid 15 years of my younger life, 8 of which was extreme and i can honestly say i;ve experienced every substance there is out there aside from obscure modern opioid/benzo/cannabinoid/cathinone research analogs. Anything available pre-2012 has gone into my system on more than one occasion.

Psychedelics outlasted everything else. Ibogaine itself got me clean off hedonistic and recklessly abusable substances in 2015, and i've continued being involved with the plant medicine side of things, even facilitating for into the hundreds at this point transformative and healing experiences with ibogaine, ayahuasca, and mescaline. Lsd and mushrooms have their space, but aren't in the same wheelhouse for me.

Anyways, what im getting at, is on multiple flood/breakthrough experiences, i;'ve expwerience reality as an amorphous blob of shapeless shadow/smoke. Tendrils of conscious chaos that contain all object creation blossoming forth screaming for corporeal form then crashing back into it's self abyss. To me, i always took this to be the absolute primal being and energy of reality being expressed.

This isn't isolated. This is a feature of any and all psychedelic states once one goes far enough. Years ago, i found out that supplementing heavy cholinergic compounds (choline being your neurotransmitter that forms memory) in otherwise blacked out psychedelia from over the top dosing allows one to retain full lucidity and memory of these experience that one would otherwise entirely blackout from intensity.

Each time has ended up in me meeting this chaotic "non-being" that is all "beings."

The more i learn of the Choronzon mythology, the more it makes sense that this is a potential answer. This isn't some standard visual, this is a visual, tactile, audible, sensory filled experience of seemingly non-self consciousness that's otherwise indescribable to me.

I'm not some burnt out person event though i have the history i do, i've been relatively clean since 2016, hold master's in pharmacology and a PhD in neuroscience specialized in addiction neurobiology.

In chased this field because of my own past, and wanting to understand my brain, but the psychedelic experiences i've had on top has undoubtedly made me chase down answers for this aspect of it all too.

If anyone here would have any comments, insight, or rebuttals to this, i would be most interested to hear what you say.

If you read this all, thanks for letting me ramble, just genuinely interested in this concept.

0 Comments
2024/03/29
10:35 UTC

9

M.

2 Comments
2024/03/29
05:59 UTC

1

Thelemic Perspective on Life and Death- Minute Thelema

Delve into Thelema’s views on Life and Death, highlighting its perspective on existence and the afterlife. Thelema sees life as an opportunity for growth and discovering one’s True Will, and death as a transformative continuation of the soul’s journey. We’ll explore Aleister Crowley’s teachings, presenting life and death as parts of a continuous cycle. Tune in for an insightful look at Thelema’s take on life's and death's roles in our spiritual evolution.

93 93/93

https://youtu.be/tKUDyluTfpw?si=-dKfIirUWNsmXvah

0 Comments
2024/03/29
01:42 UTC

6

Hilary Clinton does “Satanic Aleister Crowley rituals.”

So, I’ve seen some posts on the conspiracy side of the internet claiming that there’s evidence that Hilary Clinton has been doing Satanic Aleister Crowley rituals.

If all she’s doing is the LBRP and Resh, I’d be kinda underwhelmed and disappointed.

Maybe she does the occasional LBRH or the Star Ruby as well?

Which ones do you think she does?

If anybody in this sub is down, maybe we can join her in her pursuit of K&C

54 Comments
2024/03/29
00:37 UTC

2

Thoughts on Qabalah?

Wassup y'all, I hope everyones commitment to the great work has been going profusely well, It's definitely a rocky road at first and extremely complicated but as I evolve my knowledge and understanding further I am noticing a tremendous difference in my life...I am making this post to gain an understanding of what other peoples experiences with the Qabalah in relation to Thelema have been like....I've just started reading Qabalah texts and it's a little confusing trying to put the theology of Thelema and Qabalah together as a beginner, I'm just looking for more insight into how the 2 of them are similar and/or different. Is the Tree of Life the only similarity or is it deeper than that? I find that both religions resonate with me deeply and I like how the theology isn't based on pure faith, it can be understood even more clearly through proven facts from science, physics, astrology, psychology and nature itself.

13 Comments
2024/03/28
22:08 UTC

2

Where to find the information about Thelema's gatherings, events? What is the best forum/online community after Lashtal.com (and r/thelema)?

2 Comments
2024/03/28
21:09 UTC

34

NUN: Death

Liber Arcanorum

  1. A, the heart of IAO, dwelleth in ecstasy in the secret place of the thunders. Between Asar and Asi he abideth in joy.

  2. The lightnings increased and the Lord Tahuti stood forth. The Voice came from the Silence. Then the One ran and returned.

  3. Now hath Nuit veiled herself, that she may open the gate of her sister.

  4. The Virgin of God is enthroned upon an oyster-shell; she is like a pearl, and seeketh Seventy to her Four. In her heart is Hadit the invisible glory.

  5. Now riseth Ra-Hoor-Khuit, and dominion is established in the Star of the Flame.

  6. Also is the Star of the Flame exalted, bringing benediction to the universe.

  7. Here then beneath the winged Eros is youth, delighting in the one and the other. He is Asar between Asi and Nepthi; he cometh forth from the veil.

  8. He rideth upon the chariot of eternity; the white and the black are harnessed to his car. Therefore he reflecteth the Fool, and the sevenfold veil is reveiled.

  9. Also cometh forth mother Earth with her lion, even Sekhet, the lady of Asi.

  10. Also the Priest veiled himself, lest his glory be profaned, lest his word be lost in the multitude.

  11. Now then the Father of all issued as a mighty wheel; the Sphinx, and the dog-headed god, and Typhon, were bound on his circumference.

  12. Also the lady Maat with her feather and her sword abode to judge the righteous. For Fate was already established.

  13. Then the holy one appeared in the great water of the North; as a golden dawn did he appear, bringing benediction to the fallen universe.

  14. Also Asar was hidden in Amennti; and the Lords of Time swept over him with the sickle of death.

  15. And a mighty angel appeared as a woman, pouring vials of woe upon the flames, lighting the pure stream with her brand of cursing. And the iniquity was very great.

  16. Then the Lord Khem arose, He who is holy among the highest, and set up his crowned staff for to redeem the universe.

  17. He smote the towers of wailing; he brake them in pieces in the fire of his anger, so that he alone did escape from the ruin thereof.

  18. Transformed, the holy virgin appeared as a fluidic fire, making her beauty into a thunderbolt.

  19. By her spells she invoked the Scarab, the Lord KhephRa, so that the waters were cloven and the illusion of the powers was destroyed.

  20. Then the sun did appear unclouded, and the mouth of Asi was on the mouth of Asar.

  21. Then also the Pyramid was builded so that the Initiation might be complete.

  22. And in the heart of the Sphinx danced the Lord Adonai, in His garlands of roses and pearls making glad the concourse of things; yea, making glad the concourse of things.

7 Comments
2024/03/28
09:24 UTC

21

Well, I feel stupid 😁

So all this time reading Crowley as he used the term higherself, holy guardian angel, and Genius, I had always thought he used genius in line with the psychological model as an aspect of the self, like Einstein was in touch with his genius, the best part of himself where he excelled. 30+ years and I learn that genius is the singular of jinn and also means guardian spirit or guardian angel and it is in the dictionary as such 🤣.

Learn something new every day, I mean contextually the idea remained to find your purpose, but I just always thought it was an out for steadfast adherents to the psychological model instead of another word for a spirit or that it was related to jinn at all. That we use the singular for jinn to describe exceptional ability, in fact implying that their skill is supernatural is kind of interesting. Or that it is yet another esoteric term normalized or commercialized like logo.

Just one of those things I never looked deeper into because I thought the definition was obvious and modern as few words are 😁. Just had to laugh at my own ignorance and share my "uh duh" moment. Not quite as good as aha! But it will suffice 🤣. So many rabbit holes.

24 Comments
2024/03/27
23:16 UTC

8

How has your regular practice changed since starting down a Thelemic path?

Hello,

Over the years I've strayed away from daily meditation and Asana practice. But I've added on anointing myself in abramelin oil daily and doing a Reguli ritual in the morning before my day starts with an occasional reading of a chapter of one of the holy books.

How has your practice changed?

5 Comments
2024/03/27
20:08 UTC

1

Thelema recovery

Does anyone have experience with applying the principles of Thelema to the 12 steps?

5 Comments
2024/03/27
18:47 UTC

28

Our Man in Cefalú

Do you know what it takes to get to The Abbey of Thelema? Pure Will.

8 Comments
2024/03/27
17:59 UTC

7

What are the Essences of Each Sephirah?

What are the essential qualities of each of the 10 Sephiroth, and/or where can this information be found? Specifically, I'm seeking some keywords that illustrate the essence of each in order to apply to apply to interpretations for the Minor Arcana.

Beyond the rough English translation of each Sephirah e.g. (Kether: Crown, Chokmah: Wisdom, etc) I've found this information to be either absent or in scant inconsistencies (between different authors) and/or redundant overlaps with other Sephirah.

Whereas I could just not be comprehending enough, I have read and have not found satisfactory information for this in the following books:

Chicken Qabalah (Otherwise a great introduction to Hermetic Qabalah)

Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot (Another good book by LMD, but oddly this seemingly fundamental information seems lacking considering it should be an integral part of establishing any meaning for the Minor Arcana)

777 (I usually get this book suggested when I ask this question. If the info is there, site page numbers, because I haven't found it. Yes, there are correspondences, but correspondences are not what I'm looking for. What rock , angelic Choir, animal, etc are not the essential character of the Sephiroth, they are categorized correspondences)

776 1/2 (See reasons above)

Liber Theta

The New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot (Chapter 1 is probably the best streamlined explanation of how the ToL and Tarot relate, but again, this information—the essential qualities of each Sephirah expressed in a few keywords—isn't really there.

The Qabalistic Tarot (Surprisingly absent)

Living Thelema (Chapter 1 is a good introduction to Qabalistic principles, but again, this information seems absent.

I read DF's Mystical Qabalah years ago, so I'd have to read it again to disqualify it as well.

I want to be wrong about this, so please point this out if I've been foolishly blind to this information in the books I've already read.

18 Comments
2024/03/27
10:50 UTC

27

SAMEKH: Art

VII

  1. Then in the might of the Lion did I formulate unto myself that holy and formless fire, קדש, which darteth and flasheth through the depths of the Universe.

  2. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the earth melted into a liquor clear as water.

  3. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the water smoked into a lucid air.

  4. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the air ignited, and became Fire.

  5. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh, O Lord, the Fire dissipated into Space.

  6. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh, O Lord, the Space resolved itself into a Profundity of Mind.

  7. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the Mind of the Father was broken up into the brilliance of our Lord the Sun.

  8. At the touch of the Fire Qadosh the Brilliance of our Lord was absorbed in the Naught of our Lady of the Body of the Milk of the Stars.

  9. Then only was the Fire Qadosh extinguished, when the Enterer was driven back from the threshold,

  10. And the Lord of Silence was established upon the Lotus flower.

  11. Then was accomplished all that which was to be accomplished.

  12. And All and One and Naught were slain in the slaying of the Warrior 418,

  13. In the slaying of the subtlety that expanded all these things into the Twelve Rays of the Crown,

  14. That returned unto One, and beyond One, even unto the vision of the Fool in his folly that chanted the word ARARITA, and beyond the Word and the Fool; yea, beyond the Word and the Fool.

2 Comments
2024/03/27
09:39 UTC

0

Love Is The Law - The Seahorses

John Squire a Thelemite then? Or just a poser?

1 Comment
2024/03/27
02:13 UTC

0

Is Ozzy disrespecting Crowley on that record?

I don't know what to make of Ozzy or Crowley.

29 Comments
2024/03/27
02:10 UTC

48

March 26: A’AYIN, The Devil: Liber A’ash

7 Comments
2024/03/26
15:51 UTC

30

A'AYIN: The Devil

Liber A’ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici sub figurâ CCCLXX

  1. Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested! Above thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk.

  2. Thou art blasted and black! Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub.

  3. Up! The Ruddy clouds hang over thee! It is the storm.

  4. There is a flaming gash in the sky.

  5. Up.

  6. Thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an æon and an æon and an æon. But thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not.

  7. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F.I.A.T. is enthroned on the day of Be-With-Us.

  8. For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. Set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of M.A.A.T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple of A∴ A∴, whose name is Truth.

  9. Now in this is the magical power known.

  10. It is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. It is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea-captain.

  11. Also it straineth like a hound in the leash.

  12. It hath pride and great subtlety. Yea, and glee also!

  13. Let the Magus act thus in his conjuration.

  14. Let him sit and conjure; let him draw himself together in that forcefulness; let him rise next swollen and straining; let him dash back the hood from his head and fix his basilisk eye upon the sigil of the demon. Then let him sway the force of him to and fro like a satyr in silence, until the Word burst from his throat.

  15. Then let him not fall exhausted, although the might have been ten thousandfold the human; but that which floodeth him is the infinite mercy of the Genitor-Genitrix of the Universe, whereof he is the Vessel.

  16. Nor do thou deceive thyself. It is easy to tell the live force from the dead matter. It is no easier to tell the live snake from the dead snake.

  17. Also concerning vows. Be obstinate, and be not obstinate. Understand that the yielding of the Yoni is one with the lengthening of the Lingam. Thou art both these; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on Mount Meru.

  18. Now shalt thou adore me who am the Eye and the Tooth, the Goat of the Spirit, the Lord of Creation. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore.

  19. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three.

  20. There is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine honour.

  21. All holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments.

  22. These animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child.

  23. All corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. All lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him.

  24. I am the hideous god, and who mastereth me is uglier than I.

  25. Yet I give more than Bacchus and Apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse.

  26. Who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites.

  27. I am concealed with all concealments; when the Most Holy Ancient One is stripped and driven through the marketplace, I am still secret and apart.

  28. Whom I love I chastise with many rods.

  29. All things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me.

  30. For there is no holiness where I am not.

  31. Fear not when I fall in the fury of the storm; for mine acorns are blown afar by the wind; and verily I shall rise again, and my children about me, so that we shall uplift our forest in Eternity.

  32. Eternity is the storm that covereth me.

  33. I am Existence, the Existence that existeth not save through its own Existence, that is beyond the Existence of Existences, and rooted deeper than the No-Thing-Tree in the Land of No-Thing.

  34. Now therefore thou knowest when I am within thee, when my hood is spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned Indus, and resistless as the Giant Glacier.

  35. For as thou art before a lewd woman in Thy nakedness in the bazaar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra or a Deva.

  36. And in all shalt thou create the Infinite Bliss and the next link of the Infinite Chain.

  37. This chain reaches from Eternity to Eternity, ever in triangles—is not my symbol a triangle?—ever in circles—is not the symbol of the Beloved a circle? Therein is all progress base illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike!

  38. But the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the Great Goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, Amen!

  39. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as an harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils.

  40. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the End is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is water in the cavern of the glacier, and water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and through the ramparts of the hills and through the plains, and water at the mouth thereof when it leaps forth into the mighty sea, yea, into the mighty sea.

3 Comments
2024/03/26
09:17 UTC

49

Jack Parsons book

13 Comments
2024/03/26
05:51 UTC

0

Where would one acquire a Bolometer?

As noted in a comment I have seen to the cry of the 2nd aethyr.

14 Comments
2024/03/26
03:35 UTC

10

Western Sex Magick Recommendations

I’ve seen people recommend Secrets of Western Tantra by Hyatt, but I’ve seen varying opinions about it.

Do you recommend it? Or do you have better books that would help me getting started in western sex magick techniques and exercises?

21 Comments
2024/03/26
01:12 UTC

5

I was looking into articles on spermo-gnosticism and I came across this paper which might of interest.

Link to the article >> http://dirikum.org.rs/207/1/Radulovic%20The_Sexual-Mystical_Sophianism_of_Dimitr.pdf

Sexual-Mystical Sophianism of Dimitrije Mitrinovi The Sexual-Mystical Sophianism of Dimitrije Mitrinović by Nemanja Radulović

2 Comments
2024/03/25
10:56 UTC

32

PEH: The Tower

Liber VII Ch 1

  1. My God, how I love Thee!

  2. With the vehement appetite of a beast I hunt Thee through the Universe.

  3. Thou art standing as it were upon a pinnacle at the edge of some fortified city. I am a white bird, and perch upon Thee.

  4. Thou art My Lover: I see Thee as a nymph with her white limbs stretched by the spring.

  5. She lies upon the moss; there is none other but she:

  6. Art Thou not Pan?

  7. I am He. Speak not, O my God! Let the work be accomplished in silence.

  8. Let my cry of pain be crystallized into a little white fawn to run away into the forest!

  9. Thou art a centaur, O my God, from the violet-blossoms that crown Thee to the hoofs of the horse.

  10. Thou art harder than tempered steel; there is no diamond beside Thee.

  11. Did I not yield this body and soul?

  12. I woo thee with a dagger drawn across my throat.

  13. Let the spout of blood quench Thy blood-thirst, O my God!

  14. Thou art a little white rabbit in the burrow Night.

  15. I am greater than the fox and the hole.

  16. Give me Thy kisses, O Lord God!

  17. The lightning came and licked up the little flock of sheep.

  18. There is a tongue and a flame; I see that trident walking over the sea.

  19. A phœnix hath it for its head; below are two prongs. They spear the wicked.

  20. I will spear Thee, O Thou little grey god, unless Thou beware!

  21. From the grey to the gold; from the gold to that which is beyond the gold of Ophir.

  22. My God! but I love Thee!

  23. Why hast Thou whispered so ambiguous things? Wast Thou afraid, O goat-hoofed One, O horned One, O pillar of lightning?

  24. From the lightning fall pearls; from the pearls black specks of nothing.

  25. I based all on one, one on naught.

  26. Afloat in the æther, O my God, my God!

  27. O Thou great hooded sun of glory, cut off these eyelids!

  28. Nature shall die out; she hideth me, closing mine eyelids with fear, she hideth me from My destruction, O Thou open eye.

  29. O ever-weeping One!

  30. Not Isis my mother, nor Osiris my self; but the incestuous Horus given over to Typhon, so may I be!

  31. There thought; and thought is evil.

  32. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! it is enough.

  33. Fall not into death, O my soul! Think that death is the bed into which you are falling!

  34. O how I love Thee, O my God! Especially is there a vehement parallel light from infinity, vilely diffracted in the haze of this mind.

  35. I love Thee.

I love Thee. I love Thee.

  1. Thou art a beautiful thing whiter than a woman in the column of this vibration.

  2. I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above.

  3. But it is death, and the flame of the pyre.

  4. Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my soul! Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light.

  5. When Thou shall know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in Thy great N. O. X.

  6. What shalt Thou be, my God, when I have ceased to love Thee?

  7. A worm, a nothing, a niddering knave!

  8. But Oh! I love Thee.

  9. I have thrown a million flowers from the basket of the Beyond at Thy feet, I have anointed Thee and Thy Staff with oil and blood and kisses.

  10. I have kindled Thy marble into life — ay! into death.

  11. I have been smitten with the reek of Thy mouth, that drinketh never wine but life.

  12. How the dew of the Universe whitens the lips!

  13. Ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother Supernal, begone!

  14. I Am She that should come, the Virgin of all men.

  15. I am a boy before Thee, O Thou satyr God.

  16. Thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure — Now! Now! Now!

  17. Io Pan! Io Pan! I love Thee. I love Thee.

  18. O my God, spare me!

  19. Now!

It is done! Death.

  1. I cried aloud the word — and it was a mighty spell to bind the Invisible, an enchantment to unbind the bound; yea, to unbind the bound.
3 Comments
2024/03/25
09:15 UTC

5

Resh for the Eclipse

I have been diligently doing Resh. Not always exactly on time but I get them all in everyday. I happen to be in the path of the solar eclipse on 04/08/24. I was thinking about doing an alternate Resh during the totality. Would you do something like this? If so, what would you say?

12 Comments
2024/03/24
15:33 UTC

27

March 24: TZADDI, The Emperor: Liber Tzaddi

Emperor Major Arcana by Me

3 Comments
2024/03/24
14:20 UTC

7

Did Crowley try to join a Masonic Lodge?

If so, what happened?

20 Comments
2024/03/24
11:26 UTC

Back To Top