Puer Aeternus Tenebrarum The Dark Side of Peter Pan
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. For an account that hides itself safely behind a nom-de-plume, I often lack a filter when it comes to self-disclosure on many levels. So here’s another piece of personal information for you: I was born deaf. Aside from...
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Storming the Seven Mountains Our Sole Business in a World of Chaos, Part 1
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Our sole business should be to use the Law to reconstruct the world from the chaos into which it is already half tumbled. The world is...
Reconsidering the Sphinx A Different View of the Four Verbs of the Mage
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Several years ago, I wrote a series of letters to a Brother on the rays of the Law—light,...
Seven Qualities of Culture He remains an Englishman
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Once upon a time, I had a course in which we were asked to define culture in a way that was both academically accurate and yet uniquely personal. After much study of the resources, I decided mine would read as such:...
A New Aeon Ecclesiastic Rebuilding Trust in Leadership
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I want to make a couple of sweeping statements. They aren’t precisely correct, but they are correct enough to get us headed in the right direction. However, I want to lay down a foundation for what the continuity and...
The Virtues of the Stars Building a Monastic Code
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There was a time when I began examining several fairly intense principles in search of an ascetic approach to Thelema. That ultimately softened and turned toward a more cenobitic-inclined study in the pursuit of a ‘what...
Alethiology, Part 2 Utilizing a Thelemic Therapeutic Orientation
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In Alethiology, Part 1, I laid the foundation for what I believe is the beginning framework for a potential theoretical orientation in mental health grounded in the Law of Thelema. Along with the underlying Thelemic...
The Cracked Mirror A Thelemic Reckoning with the Therapeutic Age
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The clinic has become a stage. Not the one with velvet curtains and orchestral swells—but the low-lit kind, where scripts are repetitive, feelings are monetized, and performance is mistaken for transformation. Trauma...
Swift as a trodden serpent In Response to Fascism
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve written about my thoughts on fascism and Thelema in the past. It should be no shock to anyone that I fall squarely against any form of authoritarianism in our communities at all. A New Manifesto No one is neutral...
Love in the Time of Will Spiritual Development, Discipleship, and the Future of Thelema
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve spent enough time being on the offensive against what I consider to be the termites in the framework of modern Thelema. It’s time to shift gears and begin to lay down a mature vision of Thelema that is both...
Ethics
Storming the Seven Mountains Our Sole Business in a World of Chaos, Part 1
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Our sole business should be to use the Law to reconstruct the world from the chaos into which it is already half tumbled. The world is...
Seven Qualities of Culture He remains an Englishman
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Once upon a time, I had a course in which we were asked to define culture in a way that was both academically accurate and yet uniquely personal. After much study of the resources, I decided mine would read as such:...
The Virtues of the Stars Building a Monastic Code
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There was a time when I began examining several fairly intense principles in search of an ascetic approach to Thelema. That ultimately softened and turned toward a more cenobitic-inclined study in the pursuit of a ‘what...
Between the Beast and the Bitch A Brief Assessment of Aleister Crowley and Ayn Rand
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I understand that I may lose a few people to this topic, as I usually do, but here we go. Introduction I am generally loathe to tell stories about my adolescence, though in this case, it seems like a good way to...
Eyes Wide Shut Personal Lesson in Ideological Bubbles
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I grew up in a sheltered childhood. I was raised within a Southern Baptist evangelical environment, but it was a paradoxical mix of standard 1970s end-of-the-world messaging and 1980s Satanic Panic paranoia with a load...
Broken Swords & Fallow Fields Will Thelemites Ever Tire of Being Terrible?
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. For as long as I can remember, Thelemites have had one of the worst reputations in all of occulture even before occulture was coined in the 1990s as a term that is still as vague today as it was back then. There was an...
Politics
Storming the Seven Mountains Our Sole Business in a World of Chaos, Part 1
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Our sole business should be to use the Law to reconstruct the world from the chaos into which it is already half tumbled. The world is...
Seven Qualities of Culture He remains an Englishman
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Once upon a time, I had a course in which we were asked to define culture in a way that was both academically accurate and yet uniquely personal. After much study of the resources, I decided mine would read as such:...
Swift as a trodden serpent In Response to Fascism
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve written about my thoughts on fascism and Thelema in the past. It should be no shock to anyone that I fall squarely against any form of authoritarianism in our communities at all. A New Manifesto No one is neutral...
Dreaming of an Impossible Future Idealized Thelemic Community Planning
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. This post came up in my personal Facebook memories from 19 March 2022. Yeah. Three years ago! I had been working overnight in a residential youth shelter and was mulling over some ideas of what I thought would make a...
Choose ye an island! Rethinking the Future of Thelema in an Unstable World
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I may have fallen off a cliff. Again. I’m not sure yet if I’ve jumped into dangerous waters or...
Pit Called Because An Introduction to Wicked Problems
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Let’s get something out of the way first: I have no idea what I’m talking about here. Well, that’s only partially true. I have some idea. But this isn’t my area of expertise. However, I have enough understanding (as a...
Psychology
Puer Aeternus Tenebrarum The Dark Side of Peter Pan
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. For an account that hides itself safely behind a nom-de-plume, I often lack a filter when it comes to self-disclosure on many levels. So here’s another piece of personal information for you: I was born deaf. Aside from...
Storming the Seven Mountains Our Sole Business in a World of Chaos, Part 1
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Our sole business should be to use the Law to reconstruct the world from the chaos into which it is already half tumbled. The world is...
Alethiology, Part 2 Utilizing a Thelemic Therapeutic Orientation
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In Alethiology, Part 1, I laid the foundation for what I believe is the beginning framework for a potential theoretical orientation in mental health grounded in the Law of Thelema. Along with the underlying Thelemic...
The Cracked Mirror A Thelemic Reckoning with the Therapeutic Age
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The clinic has become a stage. Not the one with velvet curtains and orchestral swells—but the low-lit kind, where scripts are repetitive, feelings are monetized, and performance is mistaken for transformation. Trauma...
In Defense of a Rule of Life A Thelemic Fidēs as Action
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. As a Thelemite, I can tell you that I am not all fond of rules. In fact, I dare say if you ask ten Thelemites if they like rules, you’ll get thirteen “hell, no’s” in response. Of course, the irony is that if you ask...
A Way of Spiritual Formation Maturity in the Aeon of the Child
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. If there is one thing that continues to plague my thinking about modern Thelema, it is something a mentor of mine once said—and I’m paraphrasing here—that just because Crowley was a magician doesn’t mean that everyone...
Theology
Love in the Time of Will Spiritual Development, Discipleship, and the Future of Thelema
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve spent enough time being on the offensive against what I consider to be the termites in the framework of modern Thelema. It’s time to shift gears and begin to lay down a mature vision of Thelema that is both...
Realigning the Aeons, Part I An Integral Approach to Aeonic Theory
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The aeons are something many Thelemites take for granted without realizing just how unstable the foundation of our doctrine of the aeons really is throughout Crowley’s writings. He mentions them now and again, makes a...
Liturgy of the Sun A Celebration of the Company of Heaven
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve always felt a deep pull toward the beauty and gravity of Eastern Orthodox liturgy, just as I’m moved by the raw simplicity of Quaker unprogrammed worship. And I’ve always loved the way food becomes sacred in...
Thelema and Authority A Tripartite Approach of Equilibrium
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Let’s talk about a-a-a-authority. I know. I know. It’s a dirty word in Thelemaville. The moment you drag out the word authority people start to think you’re about to slap on the chains and drag them off to the salt...
Mere Thelema Street Theology—A Plain and Simple Thelema
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve offered three weeks of technical theology—doctrine, hermeneutics, and exegesis—which are, granted, a bit simplified for general consumption. But now I want to turn it around and go in the other direction. I want to...
Thelemic Exegesis A Critical Evaluation of the Study of Thelemic Scripture, Part II
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Exegesis in Thelema is not a passive act of textual analysis or mere number crunching but a transformative engagement with its sacred writings. Interpretation, in this sense, is not about imposing external authority...
Special Dispatch
Swift as a trodden serpent In Response to Fascism
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve written about my thoughts on fascism and Thelema in the past. It should be no shock to anyone that I fall squarely against any form of authoritarianism in our communities at all. A New Manifesto No one is neutral...
Liturgy of the Sun A Celebration of the Company of Heaven
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I’ve always felt a deep pull toward the beauty and gravity of Eastern Orthodox liturgy, just as I’m moved by the raw simplicity of Quaker unprogrammed worship. And I’ve always loved the way food becomes sacred in...
Dreaming of an Impossible Future Idealized Thelemic Community Planning
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. This post came up in my personal Facebook memories from 19 March 2022. Yeah. Three years ago! I had been working overnight in a residential youth shelter and was mulling over some ideas of what I thought would make a...
Thelema: A Religion? Who’s Still Afraid of Crowley's Big Bad Wolf?
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Religion, as such, has become one of the largest boogiemen of Thelema since Crowley proclaimed calling Thelema a religion “a rather stupid kind of mischief.”Crowley, Aleister. 1994. “Religion–Is Thelema a ‘New...
Choose ye an island! Rethinking the Future of Thelema in an Unstable World
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I may have fallen off a cliff. Again. I’m not sure yet if I’ve jumped into dangerous waters or...
Reading Plans for 2025 Diving Deeper into the Spiritual Mind
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. After mentioning my choice to start reading through the Orthodox Daily Office again this year, and having a private query over it, it hadn’t really dawned on me that it might be of interest to others to find various...