Theosexuality: a Man’s Perspective

- April 13, 2018April 14, 20180

by Brother Marco I have been following, supporting, and encouraging the writings of Sister Georgia for several months now: as someone who has invested the last 20 years of his life in the Current, I have learned that what it needs is more empowered voices of empowered Women (with a capital

Theosexuality: Sex and Magic

- April 6, 20186

by Sister Georgia On Consent I was accused, in the comments section of my last article on this site, of “going too far;” that my responses to #metoo were too much. That my claiming consent is no longer – was never – always and self-sufficiently ‘enough’ was social justice and feminism gone

A Response to #RespecttheNoinOTO: Consent Culture and Ordo Templi Orientis

- March 11, 2018March 11, 20182

by Sister Georgia In response to the various OTO members' statement on International Women’s Day, and the attempt to unite Sisters under the hashtag, #respectthenoinoto, I recently posted on a Facebook Thelema group the following statement: “I saw the hashtag #respectthenoinoto and my heart broke. And I thought for a long while

Thelemic Values: A New Aeon of Morality

- January 11, 2018January 30, 20181

by IAO131 Ye olde morality Nearly every human alive has heard of the Ten Commandments that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai - the ten "thou shalt not"s. This system of ethics as set forth literally in stone by God and delivered through Moses is practically the perfect symbol of what I

Can a Thelemite be a Liberal?

- January 7, 2018January 7, 20181

by Lon Milo DuQuette Excerpt from Ask Baba Lon: Answers to Questions of Life and Magick By Lon Milo DuQuette New Falcon Publications, 2011 Dear Baba Lon: I have been studying books on the “western esoteric tradition” for a couple of years, and have developed a particular appreciation for Aleister Crowley’s works and

Christmas after the Apocalypse: On Cultural Continuity in Thelemic Communities

- December 23, 20170

by Frater Enatheleme “… the religion which makes England to-day a hell for any man who cares at all for freedom. That religion they call Christianity; the devil they honour they call God. I accept these definitions, as a poet must do, if he is to be at all intelligible to

On Thelemic Orthodoxy

- December 18, 20171

by Rodney Orpheus Author’s note: this essay assumes a rudimentary familiarity with Thelemic literature and terminology. As such it is not intended for a general audience but for those who have some small experience in Thelemic magick, or who have been initiated into a Thelemic magical Order, even at a basic

Yoga and Magick: The Cooperation of Lovers

- December 5, 2017December 23, 20171

by Frater Aletheia A Gestalt of the Goal of the Magical and Mystical Path Yoga constitutes one of two central pillars in the system of practical and spiritual attainment encompassed by the Law of Thelema—the other pillar of course being Magick. From his exposure to Yoga, Crowley took what he thought were

Thelemic Yoga: Beginnings of Yoga

- December 5, 2017December 25, 20173

by Frater Aletheia Yoga and the Disenchantment of the West The latter half of the nineteenth century witnessed an increasing awareness and openness to Eastern religious and philosophical traditions. Along with the founders of the Theosophical Society, Crowley was among the first to adopt yogic ideas and practices into a Western occult

Aleister Crowley on Friedrich Nietzsche

- December 4, 2017December 10, 20171

by IAO131 Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. “Read Nietzsche!” –Aleister Crowley The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche, Prophet of Thelema Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet, and philologist who lived from 1844 to 1900. I will first give a brief biography of this great thinker and then his influence