by Frater NShYH
February 24, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 6° 26’ Pisces, Luna in 12° 58’ Taurus
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
On the winds of the Aethyr, I can hear your lamentations of pain and poverty crying out in jealous anguish, and I find them to be repulsive. We demand true Strength with a singular focus on establishing the Law of Θελημα for the improvement of society at large. You have been at this for quite some time, trodding the same path over and over. Found unfit, it is time to spiritually die in your misery. And it’s about time, I’d say. You have been lusting for the Holy Graal but have made yourself incapable of manifesting the abundance of the Universe. Perhaps you have failed to understand that there is no virtue in poverty, for we are at war with all that tries in vain to choke the Life of the New Aeon. In the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child, our men of Earth must cultivate vast material resources to manifest True Will without unnecessary inefficiency. For without the toils of the Earth, how could we pour our gold upon the Adepts and Masters who so jealously guard the Greater Mysteries of the Temple?
The Book of the Law is unambiguously written in the most masterful expression the world has ever seen. The word of the Law is Θελημα. On at least one Plane, our Word expresses the wisdom of True Will undivided against itself as each individual star learns to manifest Hadit as the axle of the wheel that transforms infinite possibilities into infinite experiences.
When we live in abject poverty, the True Self is prevented from enjoying its full expression extended from a place of inner peace while at war with the world. It is important to Me that You understand this vital point: the use of “practical Magick” from the Old Aeon is seen in its proper portion guided by the Book of the Law carries no implicit taboos for the Magician and Exorcist of Θελημα. The Word of our Law banishes the deadly delusion of irreconcilable dualism characteristic of the Qliphoth. Withdrawing one’s Self from the averse cycles of poverty may require the strength of the ascetic to overcome those blind cravings for matter that tend to destroy prudence in otherwise sane individuals. The Law of Θελημα demonstrates the continuity of consciousness across all Life where Mother Nature has appointed a niche for each of one us.
Knowing one’s niche is not enough to conquer poverty: we must put in the work manifesting Force and Fire yoked to the True Will in the Ocean of Stars. The Will must be trained to be as strong as the adamant of eternity, able to radiate its Power on the Plane of Disks. To make one’s fortune in the world often requires a leap into the unknown out of the familiar rut of one’s day-to-day life. Make no mistake – once acquired, that fortune aligned with one’s True Will must be put into full service before the crown of all, where one must conquer the emotional connection to any particular shift in finances. As the old saying goes: the greater the risk, the greater the reward. We must not be overly foolish where Prudence is necessary to harness that fortune in service to the Great Work. Are you a lord of the earth or a lord of the slums? Haven’t you been practicing Talismanic Magick with sufficient discipline to manifest Change in phenomenal reality consistent with your True Will?
Make no mistake – our Hierophants do not require cash for Initiation like the false elite of the Dying God. We do not charge money to advance in the Degrees, and each Degree has no initiation fees. The pure silver of loyalty to the Great Work is the only coin required. That said, we advise you that the struggles of abject poverty may have a time or place in the Path as a test of devotion to the Order where the overwhelming pressure on the Plane of Disks can be a distraction. Those that come from money and approach Us for Initiation are subject to extra scrutiny by the ever-watchful Eye of the Master. We maintain the separation of the Planes. We honor the brave men of Earth pouring forth their gold in service to the Lovers and Hierophants. The Lord of the Aeon on the Throne of Ra appears most interested in our deeds and dedication to the Great Work of Θελημα. The beauty of the Great Work of Θελημα demonstrates there is no suitable exchange rate between material and spiritual gold. So long as the True Self is aligned with the Hierarchy, everything tends to work out in the end. You can be poor or sad, but not both for long. Existence is pure joy! Once this point of view is lived in daily life, we can put the Plane of Disks into its proper perspective in the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. The Higher Life of the Adepts and Masters is infinitely more valuable than mundane money. Stay focused on the Great Work! Let your kingdom stand fast against any material misfortunes and view them as opportunities to learn true Power in the face of adversity. You can do this! Never give up, no matter how hard the ordeal. For what awaits You on the other side is a Life aligned with True Will. At long last, you may come to see what we showed You in your earliest Initiation with Us.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
February 25, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 6° 31’ Pisces, Luna in 14° 11’ Taurus
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The Aeon of the Dying God was marked by an extreme dualism symptomatic of brain damage from the Great Sorcery. Look at the grimoires Masons wrote and sold to gullible occultists who imagined a “God of Light” so far detached from phenomenal reality. Notice the taboo around the “averse” Pentagram while regarding the “upright” as somehow more “holy.” The Sorcerers of the Dying God confused the planes and mixed up the symbols creating a foul mess that lingers today. The Crowned and Conquering Child is here to burn away the grossness of such a betrayal against the Temples of Magick. But the Great Wheel continues to turn. We take the lessons of the Dying God and realign them with Θελημα where the Magician and Exorcist form the axle of their own wheel and the center of their own Circle. We honor Frater Baphomet XI° forever and ever where He has reformulated our Path of Initiation on the Plane of Disks to sweep away the errors of the Dying God. Our splendor manifests on all planes; we do not abhor phenomenal reality. On the Plane of Disks, we zealously conquer all animadversion to our Holy Law, which can not be questioned by the blasphemy against all gods of men.
The Law of Θελημα manifests adjustment across every dimension of the Universe where all previous knowledge goes aright and is seen in its proper perspective. We assert the possibility of consciousness outside of the physical body as commonly known but abhor those fools of men hoping for a better life in the hereafter. It is essential to understand that the Dying God is now abrogated, and relying on the old Formula of Resurrection may bar one from serious advancement in the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child without any contradiction to the insight that every step is a birth and a death unto Nuit.
Cursing the Dying God doesn’t implicitly mean we reject the Pentagrammaton – every Aeon has its Treasure to pass on to the Next Step in our Natural Growth as a species. It may be that consciousness really can exist beyond the confines of the brain-body as known to profane science, or else we would be forced to consider Aiwass as a hallucination of the prophet of the lovely Star. It is one thing to call the Spiritual Hierophant with zeal and probity – it’s quite another to receive a response! Once contact with the Spiritual Hierophant is made in the Outer, the Plane of Disks may become transmuted into a place of joy and beauty wherein each Star goes forth unto Nuit. Knowledge and Conversation with the Spiritual Hierophant is an experience too intense and personal to enumerate in this place – We will know the veracity of your claims by the expression of your deeds.
May the Great Wheel ever spin in Your favor, and may your fortunes exceed your expectations! You have no idea the adventures that await You on the Path of Initiation guided by the Law of Θελημα where Hadit Speaking is achieved by steadfast discipline as the supernal Self awakens into manifestation by the Holy Word.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
February 26, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 8° 21’ Pisces, Luna in 7° 19’ Gemini
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
How joyous it is to play in the light of the sun with the beloved, singing and dancing unto Nuit! When one’s consciousness is fixated upon beauty, it is as if all has become beautiful. When one’s whole Star is aflame in passionate romance for the Great Work, it is as if that beauty were extended from Above into that which is Below and from Below into that which is Above. Now, wait just a minute! Stop! What makes You so certain this is the Trance of Beauty? I never said it was! With my ruthless skepticism, I reap all positive manifestations in My instrument unto Nuit. Is this not a wonder beyond the 50 Gates dissolved in the omnipresent body of Nuit? My Lust for the Infinite prevents me from becoming saccharine with myself – I am bitter with the venom of the Great Lion-Serpent coursing through My veins. I withdraw – yes, we are home… It was all a Shadow Play where self-consciousness believed its faulty definition of Self could actually exist; as if there were anything “above” or “below” a point that is everywhere the center of the Universe; from the Crown to the Kingdom and back again. “Now you wait just a minute!” proclaims the weary Initiate. Reflecting on their outburst, it all becomes clear: the alleged Nature of the Universe as a series of illusions manifested by the Infinite to enjoy itself through the Finite does not prevent one from needing a house for Magick, a job for sustenance, and a well-trained Instrument as a Magick Mirror to reflect those Forces beyond the Plane of Disks into the sensorium of whatever we happen to agree to call a “Soul” (which, by some accounts, is merely the surface). Real? Unreal? Does it really matter when You get to burn it all up in the fierce love of the Spiritual Hierophant?
When Hadit is speaking within, you will know magically what to do. How will you know ahead of time if you’re correct? That’s the fun part! There is a factor infinite and unknown. Moving forward in love under will unto Nuit with a sincere Aspiration to serve the Natural Growth of our new Aeon can absorb certain types of magical recoil. If confusion dims the clarity of the mind, consider the Holy Seal of the Order supporting the Book of the Law announcing the manifestation of Heru-ra-ha. Implementing the Word of the Law through Love under will unto Nuit with all phenomena may lead to a perception of the noumenon behind the illusions one is all too likely to mistake for one’s Self.
The cynical critic and Initiate alike (there may be no difference for the well-trained) may ask what all of this has to do with the secret Society O.T.O. Yes, we assert that: “Every man and every woman is a star.” Consider this hypothesis: Each Microcosm contains within it an Infinite Macrosom; each Macrocosm, an infinite number of Microcosms. Such a perception may be second nature for the ladies and lords of the earth expert in the Temple of Nuit. With a single-pointed concentration, our High Magick is rooted in the pragmatic reality of the Plane of Disks while concealing ourselves in Silence and Secrecy. We banish the mere profane skeptic (who isn’t really a skeptic at all) by stating: “Why would intelligent, successful people pour forth their resources to build Lodges for Magick if these were simply make-believe fantasies for grown men and women?” We already know the type of answer you’ll provide, and with our blazing Pentagrams full of Force and Fire in love under will unto Nuit, we evoke Liber AL ii 30 against your naive attacks against the romance of Initiation.
It’s no wonder the profane are unable to understand our unquenchable zeal to pour out our entire Life into the Great Work of Θελημα so that, at long last, We can also conquer the crown of all in the Macrocosm in our intelligently selfish desire to improve the welfare of mankind.
Now, isn’t it time you did a few thousand Invocations to the Lord of the Aeon on the Throne of Ra? The Hermits are watching and weighing, utterly merciless in love under will unto Nuit.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
February 26, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 8° 22’ Pisces, Luna in 7° 20’ Gemini
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Life extends into manifestation in an infinite variety of finite forms driven to ever-increasing biological diversity through the crawling chaos of entropy. From a certain perspective, each True Self must be separated from one other to make manifestation meaningful. From a certain perspective, the Great Work can be expressed as “Solve et Coagula” and from another as “Coagula et Solve,” where the mechanism of each Opus is the Word of the Aeon. Each step forward centralizing the True Self means a separation of the Planes across diverse space-marks so that no one Star knows well another. The process of differentiation is akin to Hatred or the Force that tears apart (as the natural complement to Love or the Force that unites together).
While one could view the differentiation of all Life as a process of Hatred as Nature competes with Herself, another perspective can be obtained by meditating on the Star of Nuit. The Ordeal of Hatred in the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child, if conquered in love under will unto Nuit, may lead to a perception of going forth “with Us” on diverse Planes. Make no mistake: the Force of Mercy has been let off, and those called Thelemites do not offer up their posteriors like brain-damaged thralls in their revolting meekness. Every step is a Death and a Birth, and we leave behind that which no longer serves Us in the Next Step toward the crown of all. One possible reflex of the Ordeal of Hatred manifests as an attempt to create a by-way to the profane perception that “we are all one.” Such fools are often quick to fail to live as if they are the Center of their Circle, moving forth unto the Ocean of Stars with Hadit within manifesting unto Nuit.
When the True Self awakens with our Magick, the Supernals are extended into manifestation under the control of a well-disciplined Will devoted to our Lady Babalon astride the Great Wild Beast of the Sun. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
March 1, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 10° 33’ Pisces, Luna in 3° 52’ Cancer
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Although women may thoroughly enjoy the lust & worship of the Snake, they have no idea what it’s like to be driven by testosterone from the moment they mature, requiring the discipline of an indomitable will. Most men go through periods in their lives where bitter dry spells take their toll on a man’s self-worth in ways that are not often discussed under the veneer of an allegedly polite society. When men vocalize their ardent lust for pleasures, profane or sacred, the old grey land acts as if we were trying to shatter the edifice of a sick society. Whether they know it or not, these vicious critics are more correct than they realize as they describe the candor of the Crowned and Conquering Child. It can take men quite a while to become established in the fullness of their manhood, ferocious in their appetites that seem to always push the flesh beyond its limits. From a certain perspective, we men are all chasing that first glimpse of the Life hidden by Death revealed in the initial spasms of delight that blotted out all sense of self-consciousness.
From that moment forward, our lives are transformed into something resembling an unquenchable abyss of fire ready to consume everything it can to return to that preliminary visage (though we know it not). Forever after, until death or disease, the lives of most men become centralized upon satiating the desire for beauty in our arms. We even go so far as to adjust every dimension of our lives to maximize our chances of having as much experience as we desire. With a bit of maturity and some experience to enhance our perspective, the blind fury of animal lust can be focused into a potent engine of internal energy unlike any other. For many men approaching forty, a newfound paternal power urges us to sire as many children as we can with the healthiest of eager and willing women.
It is not difficult to see what makes so many modern women uncomfortable with a heavy male gaze: nobody wants to be approached by a loser without social proof of their mature manhood. I do not presume to tell any man or woman what their place may be in the universal harmony of all Life thriving beneath the light of the Sun. No matter one’s orientation, in the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child, we are completely free to love one another under will unto Nuit for there are infinite possibilities in our little universe. When a man goes a while without the embrace of a lover, it is no secret that hydraulic pressure builds in the most uncomfortable of ways. Make no mistake: our beloved Mother Nature constantly urges us to beget ourselves upon as many partners as we can regardless of what may be in our best socioeconomic interest as individuals.
More than a few men have allowed themselves to be ruined, not by women, but by their uncontrolled expression of that ardent desire to lose themselves in the embrace of the beloved. Rightfully so, many (if not most) women are highly protective of their bodies so that no unworthy man may impregnate them and ruin their livelihoods. My own experience confirms A.C.’s insight that one’s sexual nature may be the first and most fiery mask upon the True Will. It is no secret that men joyously risk life and limb to bed their favorite lover before callously moving on to the next experience. We all reach emotional maturity (if at all) at different rates, and with some grey in our well-groomed beards, we find other ways to impress our potential partners while maintaining our same amorous point of view. Men can easily get themselves into some trouble when they stop liking a woman and start to love her. The most desirable men are successfully well-established upon their invisible thrones. For prosperous men, the internal point of view can not be swayed by a mere storm of emotion. Deep down, we all know such manifestations are another adventure in our growth toward the Goddess of Infinite Space and Infinite Stars.
In the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child, it simply won’t do to have our men wandering like slobbering animals, unable to balance their primal urges with the duty of civilization. While our passions may be exceedingly difficult to control, this same fury provides the internal heat to boil the interior ocean with the Force and Fire of the Higher Life of the Lovers and Hermits. Beneath the male gaze, you may just catch a glimpse of the True Self of a man writ large in the hieroglyphs of love and lust. With the proper training, we begin to learn the righteous use of our Secret Force as a foundation for the Higher Life strengthened by experience with our Holy Magick.
Practically speaking, there is no god but man nor any goddess but woman; each of us stars on our course in the omnipresent body of Nuit. Now and again, we incarnate with a finite form so that we may come to understand our True Self plunged into phenomenal reality so that the Infinite learns through the experience of the Finite. As far as scared books are concerned, we have no better exemplar than Liber AL vel Legis whose Law is Θελημα. Every man is a sun, and those who are called to become Thelemites must be strong and proud. The wisest of men keep their love affairs silent to Veil the Shrine in the Temple of Nuit guarded with the ferocity of a Hawk-headed mystical Lord.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
March 1, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 11° 13’ Pisces, Luna in 11° 38’ Cancer
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
How glorious is our Aeon that states another woman shall awake the lust & worship of the Snake unto Nuit. There are numerous points of view in the Book of the Law and each one is a song of joy and freedom against the tyrannical superstition of the Dying God. With our mighty spells full of Force and Fire, we welcome true women in command of their own beauty and strength, as they will, according to their own self-made standards. The smoldering flames within are fed into an all-consuming blaze against the night sky. And our hidden Hermits rejoice as another woman paints herself in scarlet to command the universe according to her divine will so wicked with delight. For the ocean of understanding has been opened for exploration by brave Stars guided by the Light of the Higher Life rooted in the Law of Θελημα.
Looking around, we can see the transformation of society at large manifesting through the Magick of our beloved Frater Baphomet XI° and His overwhelming love of our Lady Babalon unto Nuit. The women of the Aeon are not chattel to slave lords, and their misogynistic thralls, for our Law declares that She is a star upon her course in the Ocean of Stars. In this Aeon, we place no Restriction upon the Nature of any woman where our conception of divinity demands parity of opportunity in our Law for all. We do not presume to dictate what a woman’s point of view should be, nor do we consider all women to be some monolith that can be generalized for exploitation by the slave lords of the Dying God. Whether or not a woman should have children is a topic upon which men are strongly advised to mind their own business, especially if they are not the father.
All laws from the Dying God are rooted in Restriction, and reproductive rights are under constant attack by weak fools that fear women. It is critical to understand that all great advances in human civilization over the past 2,000 years correlate with increased freedom for women and their children's health. For far too long, unloveable scum masquerading as men have enslaved the bodies of women when Mother Nature, left to Her own devices, would have destroyed these un-living monsters at Her pleasure. Real men welcome strong women as their peers, and our point of view can’t be swayed by a bit of passion. We must continue to make adjustments to the laws of the land, enshrining the autonomy of women against the implicit chattel system of Old Aeon marriage. Anyone who looks down upon women has the wrong point of view and can expect ruin to follow them wherever they go in the old gray land of plague and doom. The higher Life of the Lovers and Hermits is unattainable to those that harbor a hatred of women.
To be fair, there is still an almost overwhelming amount of inertia from the decaying currents of the Dying God impressing its filth upon the psyches of every man and woman that hears the call to Initiation. Upon a great pyramid of fire, we burn up the dross of sorrow that has tainted civilization since the Dark Ages of the Great Sorcery. We can empathize with the perspective of wicked women: so few real men exist in the crumbling visage of a failed society built upon the lies of the Dying God. It is no wonder women are so eager to abort the children of unworthy men – Mother Nature’s domain is natural selection, and most men have failed by will or weakness to meet Her high standards.
Let them all be washed away in the vast black brooding ocean of death concealing the Life beyond. The True Will of each woman can not be dictated by any man – it is for each Star to chart its own course through Infinite Space in perfect harmony with the Law of Θελημα. Whether She manifests as a serpent or a dove, whether promiscuous or reserved, so long as She commands her own destiny, she is welcome at our Holy Feasts in honor of the Lord of the Aeon. The Mysteries of the Moon are intimately connected with the Ocean of Understanding in ways that the average man will never know. In this Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child, every man and every woman is invited to attempt the Ordeal of Initiation and join the hosts of the Sun on Earth. A careful study of The Hierophant shows a woman girt with sword as a true guardian of the Mysteries. The universe of Stars masquerading as incarnated men and women thrill with the lust of whoredom as wicked women emerge triumphant from the malignant patriarchy of the slave gods to transform the world with Force and Fire by the reward of Ra Hoor Khut!
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
March 1, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 11° 22’ Pisces, Luna in 13° 25’ Cancer
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The Aspirant to Initiation is confronted with the raw inertia of a sleeping body at rest covered in accretions it mistakes for its True Self, knowing deep down, at some point, the sharp Sickle of Death comes for us all. Though we find ourselves extended into manifestation as a man or as a woman, those called Thelemites hear the call of our Lady Babalon and the Great Wild Beast, wherein She rides unto Nuit. Dissatisfied with the point of view common to the profane, we set off on the lonely quest to become a true Adept and Master while living in the Law of Θελημα. The faster we balance the technical and symbolic aspects of our Work, the sooner we attain the possibility of manifesting the Supernals on the Plane of Disks. On the one hand, we discover Hadit at the core of our Khabs, and on the other, the positive manifestation of the Goddess of Infinite Space and Infinite Stars.
Confronting one phantasm after another, the weary Aspirant catches a glimpse of that dark flame upon the brow of our beloved Baphomet radiating the Secret Force. Like a Lamp to guide one away from the morass of superstition, the Method of Science brings us closer to the Eye in the Triangle. After many trials and tribulations (which are as bliss for the strong), the Initiate balances that which they are and what they are becoming in the fullness of the Nature of their individual Star. As one continues to accumulate manifested experience along the Path, a perception may begin to formulate at the back of one’s mind. In order to take the Next Step, the illusions we identify as ourselves must be dissolved and reorganized from within according to a blueprint for Θελημα architected in love under will unto Nuit.
The ancient Adepts of Khem left for us the weighing of the heart against the feather of Maat, and our equilibrium insists on candid honesty with one’s silent Self about what is Truth and what is not. The bundle of accretions and their prejudices will cry out for mercy at their coming destruction, and they are to be ignored as the false self passes through fire in its preliminary rites of purification. At each successive Initiation, we learn a bit more about that True Self dwelling in the Supernals that has extended itself into manifestation on the Plane of Disks to gain experience as Hadit unto Nuit in the Center of the Universe. In our daily lives, we notice a curious phenomenon: we veil the Shrine in silence and secrecy while finding ourselves above it all as we continue pursuing our Spiritual Hierophant through every by-way of the Universe while rooted firmly in pragmatic reality. As we grow as individual Initiates, we become more skilled as a member of a Lodge directing the force of concentrated Will in the Macrocosm in ways no solitary Thelemite will ever understand (despite any mental masturbation fantasizing in contrary terms).
Again and again, we invoke the Lord of Silence as we move forth to accomplish our True Will on Earth while living, knowing that any foolish excesses – should we survive – are but a play in the waters cogent with the Natural Growth of the Child. Though we knew it not at the time, we were given a perspective on the Universe unknowable by the profane as we behold all phenomena, such as the interaction of the Infinite Without and the Infinite Within whose union creates something Finite but wicked and holy to the Lord of the Aeon.
No longer trembling before the Eye in the Triangle, we take command of the Secret Force so jealously guarded by the Lovers and Hermits in their attainment to the higher Grades of Initiation. Standing proud with our heads above the heavens and our feet below the hells, we survey all that we have conquered with the Force and Fire of Ra-Hoor-Khuit upon the Throne of Ra. The Grand Master Baphomet XI° knew all along. He left Us with instructions on how to awaken the True Self, and we rule over our own lives like incarnated gods and goddesses.
When we do our True Will, and nothing else, the fog of Illusion dissipates as the supernal Self awakens in perfect harmony of All with the negation of that which attempts Restriction against Us.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
March 1, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 11° 25’ Pisces, Luna in 13° 58’ Cancer
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
To find one’s self everywhere the center of the Universe pursuing a Goddess nowhere found is an experience unlike any other available in any Path of Initiation prior to the Law of Θελημα. Having banished the entirety of the Universe so that naught remains, we find that the Gods and Goddesses we spent so much time invoking with great vehemence of will were, from a certain perspective, just another Illusion on the way to self-identification as the Magician and the Exorcist with the Secret of the Universe beneath our Robes. Having swum in the vast black brooding ocean of death, the despair of solitude gives way to the company of heaven where Truth and Illusion alike are two phases of a continuous phenomenon called the omnipresence of Her body in the Temple of Nuit.
While our essential point of view remains the same (for all is ever as it was), the Initiate quickly learns that their essence may be balked by the opaque veils upon the True Self we so often mistake for a personality; essential, unique, and entirely individual in the Ocean of Stars. Like a mighty elephant god swaying its raw phallic force, an Initiate of the Law is Θελημα tramples all that disturbs their equilibrium in the Center of their Circle. Taking the Method of Science to its limit where we ruthlessly analyze our observations, we become more cautious about declaring any particular result to be our True Will. Beyond the fools of men, there is the raw Energy of the Infinite impacting the Instrument used in our Knowledge and Conversation with the Spiritual Hierophant. Having withdrawn ourselves from those manifestations we often mistake for ourselves, we can finally learn what it means to be a friend of Hadit proud in our purple. While the Spirits may be portions of our brains, this does not preclude such “Spirits” from assisting Us on the Path of Initiation as we cultivate the Higher Life of the Lovers and Hermits of Θελημα.
Having found there is no god as conceived by the poor in spirit, the next logical step is to take on the Astral Form of the Hawk and explore a universe of infinite possibilities and infinite experiences. Gathering Energy, our Hawk sets flight to increase their Initiation upon the inner planes and beyond. Soaring beyond, we find a Temple wrought from living iron containing a mighty Sword whose pommel is set with five rubies. With our newfound Magick Weapon, we set about conquering the Universe with Force and Fire for the glory of the Lord of the Aeon upon the Throne of Ra.
Truly, every man and every woman is a star; coeval with the great Gods and Goddesses from the farthest antiquity all the way to the dilation of time’s horizon where We arise to greet Infinite Possibilities matched with Infinite Experience in the Ocean of Stars. While there may be no God where I am, there are plenty of Gods and Goddesses where I am not. With the strength of our Magick, we attain those Trances of Union with that which is beyond extension into any particular set of categories, beyond the twin phases of manifestation, returning again and again to the vast black brooding ocean of death. Whether or not we reincarnate, none may question the proof of our Success once attained.
With our Magick Sword, we banish the illusions of our assumed knowledge, bit by bit, until we find the secret source of Life behind it all. Those gods and goddesses extended below the Abyss that seemed so terrible and awe-inspiring became the play in the waters of a Crowned and Conquering Child. The voice of a Hawk-headed mystical Lord proclaims: ”The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra.” We withdraw into a perfect Silence free-falling unto Nuit, going about our way to have our pleasure among the living in pure joy unto Nuit.
For when we finally achieve no difference between our “Self” and Hadit as Magician and Exorcist, the consciousness of the continuity of existence unfolds in ways previously unknowable to those stars dazzled by the brilliance of their own light. At long last, the Magick Power has awakened, and We renew our pursuit of the Spiritual Hierophant with renewed vigor fortified by the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
March 1, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 11° 25’ Pisces, Luna in 14° 4’ Cancer
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Before the reception of the Book of the Law, women in society were subject to even greater abuse at the hands of profane society; far exceeding even their current misery under the grim dominion of a fetid patriarchy ruled by the Dying God and his slave lords. The Law of Θελημα proclaims: “But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous! Let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men!” –Liber AL iii 44. Such women are particularly skilled at evoking the Secret Force of Magick. The Hierophants of Θελημα do not presume to chart a woman’s course through the Ocean of Stars on her way to spiritual Knowledge and Conversation of her own True Will. The work of wickedness delights the Universe with a bold daring unknown to the Great Sorcery of the Dying God who may stay affixed like a corpse to a dead cross that will never bloom with a Mystic Rose.
Our Lady Babalon is a most excellent Goddess whose primal archetype is that of The Star manifested in a finite form full of Cosmic Consciousness in the Temple of Nuit. The Hermits of Θελημα have been received into the Greater Mysteries of the Holy Graal. From the Eye in the Triangle, a white dove of spirit descending into the Holy Cup as we make no difference between Art and Science as twin expressions of our Magick.
The shameless woman of Θελημα in the frenzy of insatiate lust overturns the edifice of taboo codified into Restriction by the slave lords of the Dying God. Wicked women of Us have their heads above the heavens and their feet below the hells as She rules Her way girt with sword aflame with Force and Fire. Though we adore such a worthy mistress, there is nothing we can give her that she doesn’t already possess, and so we pour forth the Secret Force of True Will as all power is given to Her in service to humanity by the Law of Θελημα.
Our point of view can not be understood by the zombies of the Old Aeon. Right Rapture measured (that is: ruled) by the Law of Θελημα means playing with the beloved in the clear light of day clustering to exalt the Lord of the Aeon on the Throne of Ra. It is folly to presume a wicked woman should act in any other way than by her own interpretation of the Law. When we look at the world as it is today in An CXIX 2023 e.v., we See the Animal Soul of mankind in the macrocosm wrestling with the labors to overthrow the Restriction of the Dying God through a series of specialized Talismans to reverse the currents of inertia at rest.
The winged secret flame goes to the Sun from the Scarlet Woman while the High Priest of Nuit sends stooping starlight to the Moon. Filled with passion for the Higher Life of the Lovers, the Hand of the Eternal reaches forth from the Starry Abode to delight the Machinery of the Universe. All the while, the mighty Hermit exerts His civilizing force upon the world as the banshees of the old shriek their wails of sorrow against the rosy and golden dawn of the Crowned and Conquering Child. Wickedness is next to godliness, and the Cup of the High Priestess sends forth a flood against the Cross of Suffering of the Dying God.
The Gods and Goddesses clustering to exalt the Lord of the Aeon rejoice that another Star has awakened to the perfection of our Holy Law attained through the work of wickedness with Hadit manifesting unto Nuit.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
March 1, An CXIX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 11° 25’ Pisces, Luna in 14° 5’ Cancer
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The Old Aeon is filled with tales of forced sacrifice to appease some god or another (and it seems the father gods always demanded bloody rites in excess). With the Law of Θελημα, we make the universe sacred with a different point of view where each event is the interplay of Hadit and Nuit reifying the Lord of the Aeon on the Throne of Ra. One wonders if these death cults ever had a moment of clarity into the voluntary or involuntary changes thrust upon civilization by their senseless butchery to propitiate eldritch things from when Life first clawed its way out of the vast black brooding ocean of death.
Perhaps the ancient priests of the Bloody Sacrifice were seeking the Secret Force behind it all; leaping from height to height while worshiping their gods in lonely places. With their mystic daggers flashing in a frenzy beneath the Eye in the Triangle, strange prophecies were uttered in the grips of a psychedelic trance fueled by the fungus feeding on their rye. We imagine that, eventually, a Star awakened in true strength to step away from the dogma of the astrologers to chart their own path of Magick and Initiation beyond the loss of that which was expected to bring pleasure from their savage rites.
It may be that the ancient priests of these death cults of the Sun were attempting to attain the palace of wisdom through the road of excess. Or, maybe their Mysteries were celebrated to inaugurate some mythical End Times as the wish phantasm of a species hell-bent on its own annihilation in the hope of a spiritual resurrection in the arms of a foul redeemer. Instead of an ill-defined redemption, all that they touched tended to putrefy beneath an unholy sacrifice to hungry egregores wandering too close to the Plane of Disks.
The Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child has arrived to banish all superstition from the Art and Science of the Magi inherited from those brave Stars tending to the veil before the face of the Goddess. With the Law of Θελημα, we restore the Priestess to Her proper place as the peer of any Priest in the Temple of the Mysteries. Having awakened from the fever dreams of the Dying God, we purify our ancient Magick like a fresh spring bringing nourishment from beyond the vast black brooding ocean of death. Our beloved reaper inevitably confronts every Aspirant to the Higher Life of the Lovers and Hermits mingling with the stooping starlight unto Nuit.
Undoubtedly, the blood lust of the death cults could find no true pleasure in a law that violates the sanctity of Life. By necessity, the Great Wheel had to turn again to crush the old universe where that which remains is a purified Alchemy beyond the dogmatic insanity of Resurrection as the way to conquer Death.
No mistaken volition can last forever in our pursuit of the crown of all when existence is known, through manifested experience, to be pure joy unto Nuit. Once disappointment is seen to be the dryness before the influx of a fresh understanding, all is seen in its proper proportion extending, by necessity, into the manifested Universe so that the Infinite may enjoy itself through the combinatorics of the Finite. The essence of our Holy Law is simple in its wondrous Truth from beyond the Abyss.
Though we may exalt ourselves to the company of the gods and goddesses upon the Holy Mountain of Initiation in the Royal Court of the highest heavens, our experience informs us that we must equally balance our experience with a perception of solitude where no God exists within our point of view. Again and again, our disappointment with all is ever as it was informs us that volitional consciousness is a key to conquering the crown of all.
Victorious against the sorrow of the old grey land of the profane, we learn to awaken the Secret Force inherited from the Goddess of Infinite Space and Infinite Stars as Hadit experiencing unto Nuit as twin gods of War and Silence in the true strength of the Crowned and Conquering Child.
Unlike our spiritual ancestors, we do not chain the True Self to the clockwork of so-called fixed stars. The Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child provides a true cure to the curse of disappointment in spiritual matters by empowering each Magician & Exorcist to chart their own course through the Ocean of Stars by way of volitional consciousness driven by Θελημα.
Every day and every night, we feast unto the Queen of Heaven who gives us unimaginable joys without demands of a Bloody Sacrifice to appease the harmony of the space-marks ruled (that is: measured) by the Lord of the Aeon. Our stones of precious water are unattainable by the slave lords of the Dying God.
No matter what threatens to sour our life with disappointment, we banish it all with the reward of Ra Hoor Khut as we ride forth like mighty conquerors with true strength imbued with a winged secret flame. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
November 19, An CXX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 8° 32’ Scorpio, Luna in 21° 27’ Gemini
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
In the oldest source material of the “Holy Kabbalah” to be printed in English known to this Scribe, one can find a shocking discovery: historically, the second Sephirah was Binah as the primal unbroken Darkness penetrating All, the Womb from whence All was birthed, and to which All returns (cf. QABBALAH by Isaac Myer). KThR was the “Father,” BINH was the “Mother,” and ChKMH was the primal “Son.” Stars poisoned by the Dying God consistently demonstrate a failure to understand the Universe in a non-dualistic way and such imperfect seers tend to flee in animadversion to the Universal Life hidden beneath the joy of Death.
Any mention of “Darkness” is sure to evoke diverse sorts of reactions, especially from readers raised in a society poisoned by dualism. On the one hand, we can quote LIBER 418, The Cry of the 2nd Aethyr:
“And so pure is the light that it preventeth the formation of images, and therefore have men called it darkness.”
Farther out from the source, we find this interesting passage in the The Cry of the 14th Aethyr:
“I am the snake that devoureth the spirit of man with the lust of light. I am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and thick darkness. Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness.”
On the other hand, when we examine the etymology of “Dark,” we find roots in the Old High German tarchanjan meaning "to hide, conceal." When this scribe uses the words “dark” and “darkness,” we are referring to this non-dualistic meaning. The word “Hell” contains a similar etymology deriving from the Old Norse hel meaning “concealed place.”
More importantly, to this Scribe, we can quote LIBER AL vel LEGIS, Chapter II:
“6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.”
“51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight.”
We are constantly filled with wonder when we gaze upon the cosmological models presented by modern astrophysicists as their insights dovetail into the deep roots of the Western Esoteric Tradition. For example, the edge of the known Universe is represented by scientific illustrations as something resembling a self-fed ring of particles of “fire” and “plasma” nourished upon the “Darkness” enveloping the Universe as we know it.
When we correlate our astrophysics with the qualitative mysteries of the ancient Kabbalah, we see the Path of Shin connecting Chokmah and Binah beyond the Abyss sharing an affinity with the insights recovered or developed by scientists specializing in cosmology or quantum physics.
In the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child, the Hierophants have declared “Mystery is the Enemy of Truth” as we pursue our Path of Initiation using the Method of Science. Our methodology means experimenting with the arcane arts and sciences of humanity’s rich spiritual history across all cultures and epochs.
In THE ZOHAR, from which we can source the body of KABBALA DENUDATA translated to an English rendition of dubious quality, we find “The Lamp of Darkness” and the “Spark of Blackness” akin to the “Dark Light” and cognate expressions so commonly found liquefying the minds of advanced Mystics and occult Magicians. Did you believe you could take your Ruach, as is, with you to the Great Sea? Maybe. Maybe not. The Masters are said to say: “Come and see.”
We can neither prescribe nor proscribe THE ZOHAR as an addition to one’s occult library. On the one hand, the first printed rendition is surrounded by no small amount of controversy; allegedly causing centuries of work in the Kabbalist manuscript tradition to halt in response to the Mantua printing of 1557 e.v. with learned Hebrew scholars debating the merits of its publication. On the other hand, we may consider that occult forces were at work, influencing its publication for unknown strategic objectives (we leave such conjectures to the imagination of the reader).
Having no Hebrew scholarship bona fides, and disappointed with THE KABBALA UNVEILED, this Scribe decided to purchase a complete set of THE ZOHAR : PRITZKER EDITION from Stanford University Press. While highly regarded by many, this edition is not without its critics; especially among modern die-hards insisting that THE ZOHAR should be studied in the original Aramaic side-by-side with Hebrew.
We find such criticisms to be fair in a vacuum, but it seems unlikely that this Scribe has 50 years of their incarnation available to spend studying the original source material in its mother tongue. Those 50 years are better spent pouring our Life into the Great Work of Θελημα.
Other Scribes working for Θελημα may have a different volition; may be of a cultural background that emphasizes Hebrew scholarship from an early age; may decide to press their erudition in service to the Crowned and Conquering Child. We welcome their deep insights!
The weary reader may rightly wonder how any of this context helps them wax in understanding the radiant night called N.O.X. in pursuit of the Silver Star within. We once remarked to our Superior to the effect that we had an intuition that there may be Magical Secrets of the Chaldean Magi locked away in THE ZOHAR as preserved through Hebrew initiatic currents; albeit in a distorted form due to centuries of oral transmission. We interpreted a lack of amusement, or perhaps frustration (or a projection on the part of the Scribe), as He observed any such secrets from Babylon were likely buried beneath “never ending dogma.”
We wholeheartedly agree, and we seem to have found a handy sieve by which the dogmas may be cast away to allow for the sublimation of deep insights from the farthest Antiquity resolved by Θελημα. LIBER AL II:33 contains the key to sweeping it all away. In other words, we profitably discard the chains of dogmatic reasoning for fragments of Kabbala unmuddied by the Dispersion of the Abyss.
So-called “Mystical Secrets” orally transmitted from one initiate to another, without undergoing rigorous analysis through skeptical experimentation, may have been acceptable in previous ages. Dogma often dictates spiritual subjects must be considered “too holy” for critical, unbiased analysis. The Silver Star has released us from the bonds of ignorance – we are free to inquire and investigate, as we will, in pursuit of the True Will through Knowledge & Conversation. We are free to think as we will.
We must make our Knowledge go aright.
It is no use letting ourselves become overwhelmed with dogmas from the Old Aeon. We may decide to separate the planes and sublimate Kabbalah as a system away from its current keepers without clinging to crapulous creeds which fail to live up to even the most elementary analysis in the Light of our Art and Science of the Magus (known as Magick in its form rehabilitated by The Master Therion). On the other hand, one can not penetrate THE ZOHAR without initiation into THE TORAH.
More than a few Hebrew scholars, secular and otherwise, assert that THE ZOHAR is “authentic” in the context of the secret manuscript tradition among Hebrew scribes. Others assert its creation to the time of the European Dark Ages of the vulgar era.
We contend that the truth of the matter is somewhere in the middle.
Profane scholars seem to be either unaware or dismissive of various mystical techniques for entering diverse trances at will so familiar to the Hermits of Θελημα. In the L.V.X., it is easy to discern that some authentic core of THE ZOHAR is likely the result of Knowledge & Conversation with Tetragrammaton. Others, unable to manifest Tiphareth within, appear to have added their own Reason to the mix.
Yet, how can we fault them, at that time, when everything is taken into context?
After all, the Sword of Reason was, in many ways, the prime attainment from the Aeon of the Dying God. For thousands of years, humanity strove to establish its nascent mastery over the Forces and Forms of Nature. Conquering all means confronting Death with courage conquering fear.
However, we may be candid about one flaw: irreconcilable dualism arising from the Chokmah-L.V.X. strains of Kabbalah which explore what the Logos became in its supposed manifestation from the Supernals all the way to The Kingdom, and back again. Modern neurological research in the 20th and 21st Centuries of the vulgar error seem to indicate such dualism is either the cause of, or results from, quantifiable brain damage. Some speculate that such a split started to take shape as the Sorcerer of the Old Aeon spread his virulence through the Roman Empire and beyond.
It is interesting to note that the Ophites, known in their ancient Hebrew form as the Naassene (probably from NChSh = 358 = XVI), taught that the “Garden of Eden” was the human brain; that the “Serpent” was the source of Wisdom. Like all sects that feel the Dark Force of the Supernals in their flesh, it seems they were non-dualistic like so many Mystery Cults of the deepest Antiquity. With a “heresy” stating GN A’aDN is in the human brain, we find a Magical Link from the past with the Secret Society O.T.O.’s own potent Motto: THERE IS NO GOD BUT MAN.
From a non-dualistic perspective, the “Serpent of Life” and the “Serpent of Death” are really just a single symbol resuming the whole of the “Secret Doctrine.” Naturally, such a doctrine is a blasphemy against the Slave Gods who decry the Serpent in public while invoking IT in the foul privacy of their secret enclaves.
We re-call that axiom of the Kabbala: that all is within “GOD” and “GOD” is within all.
From here, we can see that the “Qlippoth” as “demons” as code for incarnated specimens of mankind haunting the Earth with seemingly incurable brain damage destroying everything beautiful in their wake. The Lovers of Θελημα may have a different diagnosis after imbibing the Wine of the Adepts in love under will unto Nuit!
The Lamp of Darkness (BVTzYNA DQRDINVThA = 934 = XVI) may be interpreted in a non-dualistic way by considering the composition of the manifested cosmos as currently known to scientists working in theoretical physics and celestial mechanics; scientists whose conclusions appear harmonious with the Book of the Law received in 1904 e.v. The “darkness” of the Universe appears as such due to the limits of the human eye. In reality, the Universe appears to be filled with energy beyond our current spectrum of visible light. We find it interesting that the Hebrew Kabbalah appears to place Aleph on the lateral Path connected ChSD and GBVRH. By the AThBSh cipher, this conceals Tau and Atu XXI.
From a certain perspective, we can consider this lateral path as encircling or enclosing the entire manifestation of the Worlds of Formation and Action. The ancient Kabbalists and their traditional heirs have considered GBVRH as the “place of limitations” where amorphous matter, set into motion by Time’s irreversible arrow moving through space, differentiates Life into its diverse forms through constraints. The analogies with locomotion continue: it is through such restrictions that our limbs are able to function. In other words, constraints make pragmatic manifestations possible.
As Entropy increases throughout the Universe, we go from a state of undifferentiated Energy to the solidification of matter through the observed machinations of cosmogenesis that happen automatically through the Machinery of the Universe as the Dark Force of the Supernals permeates and motivates all Life.
In modern terms, we may describe this Secret Force as cognate with Hadit in LIBER AL vel LEGIS with special references to the “fifth invisible” hidden within the four. The Master Therion goes beyond and reveals the Revolving Formula of Tetragrammaton that would undoubtedly be considered heresy by the die-hards. It matters not: our Great Work is not questioned by the blasphemy against all gods of men.
But remember: high-grade initiation demands that We balance the pairs of opposites. Now wait a minute? Didn’t we just denounce dualism?
Yes: but we said nothing about electrical charges, magnetic poles, the so-called spin warp of sub-atomic particles, or the super-positions of quantum mechanics.
Our Athanor and Cucurbite are plain as day for those with the necessary Vision. Using a purged and rectified Tree of Life from Hebrew Kabbala with the attributions from LIBER AL vel LEGIS, we see the possibility of bringing clarity to that sublime adventure called “Crossing the Abyss” from ChSD to BINH; from the curved space of the manifested Universe to the unbroken Darkness of the Great Sea called a vast black brooding ocean of death.
Finding that hidden Sea means going beyond the lonely towers of the Abyss to unearth an inner radiance at the core of one’s Star; beyond the howling of the night creatures heralding the terrors of the unknown.
But what, in reality, is so terrifying? Yes, there’s an annihilation of the false self during dissolution in the omnipresence of Nuit. Yes, there are “poisoned robes of form” to cast aside. Yes, the Hermits must pour forth their entire Life into the Cup of Our Lady Babalon.
Should we really be so surprised that we can achieve all these experiences and go back into the world to cultivate a garden of our own?
Have you studied LIBER LXI and then dared to invoke Tetragrammaton clustering to exalt the Lord of the Aeon seated upon the Throne of Ra?
We fear not to undergo the curses. Have you excelled at lexical parsing? Perhaps you should consider embracing the curses to wax in beauty along the path. Missing out on experiencing the proper curses should fill you with terror.
Reflecting on THE ZOHAR, one striking fact becomes apparent: the Holy Friends are filled with an overflowing love for “GOD” where every moment is spent in the presence of something greater than any discrete individual; a reality largely imperceptible to our little nervous systems unable to comprehend the Wonder of the Infinite in all of its Finite forms of expressions.
Freefalling through Infinite Space and Infinite Stars, we acquire the consciousness of the Crowned and Conquering Child where every phenomena is a direct dealing between Adonai-Apep & Us.
For some, the wonder of Tetragrammaton is the beginning of Wisdom. Perhaps it is the limitation of our senses that makes such a Trance possible; where opening the Door from ThPARTh to KThR allows Microposopous to meet face-to-face with Macroprosopus in love under will unto Nuit.
The Sorcerers of the Old Aeon lock themselves away from the impact of the Infinite. They can not look up to the Path of Love under will unto Nuit. They are lost in the Towers of the Abyss and have made Knowledge, perfectly useful in its place, as a false Crown to poison all that they touch.
We find no contradiction with the Curses of our Holy Law and tolerance for the wills of each and every star in the omnipresent body of Nuit. Some stars need to wander through the maze of THE ZOHAR to illuminate their study of the abrogate Law. Whereas those called Thelemites exert tolerance and mutual respect, the Sorcerer tears down any experience that threatens to expand their Point of View. It is as if such vile creatures are aware that contact with Us means annihilation through resonance with our Holy Law in this Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child.
It takes real courage to swear an Oath of the Abyss; even if such an impulse may be complected with a foolishness of an order of magnitude greater than can be known to the Aspirant at the inauguration of their Ordeal. Casting one’s Lion-Serpents into the vast black brooding ocean of death may just produce the desired effect for the would-be Hermit of Θελημα.
The Mystic Ocean is pregnant with wonder incomprehensible to those stars clinging to all positive manifestations of Illusion woven by the True Self in its Quest to gain experience on the Path of Initiation. No amount of reasoning about BINH will lead one to the Greater Mysteries: the RVCh and NPSh combine like the Holy One and Shekinah in love under will unto Nuit only to be absorbed in the perfect Silence of oblivion through annihilation in the Beloved.
To conquer the Lamp of Darkness, to attain the Spark of Blackness, and acquire the Secret Force, the Magician and Exorcist must become intimately familiar with the crown of all. The tighter one grasps all positive manifestations, the more one suffers in dissonance with the True Will of that Self from beyond the Abyss. Yet, to embrace the vast black brooding ocean of death gives way to the experience of The Great Wild Beast 666 begetting a new Star in the Womb of Our Lady Babalon.
The ultimate shrine is empty. “I am alone: there is no God where I am.” In that annihilation, we come to learn, through direct experience, that the Holy One was really None all along. Having achieved dissolution with that which is beyond the Lamp in the Abyss, we manifest the Annihilation of The Tower at will as a serpent or a dove; all while clustering to exalt the Lord of the Aeon upon the Throne of Ra. We make War upon the Dying God, and We can never be prevented from attaining the Mysteries of every invisible Temple supporting the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child.
Our Universe swells with the Silent Self in that Void made full of Infinite Space and Infinite Stars. Fully aware that we may die or go insane, We leap into the Abyss and beyond to become the winners of the Ordeal x purged of the Dispersion of the Abyss.
We have made our True Self manifest in the unmanifest. The Universe has become the living Pantacle of Us full of Infinite Possibilities and Infinite Experience. Thus purified, we extend our True Will into the World of Action and take our Pleasure among the living in love under will unto Nuit as We cluster to exalt Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
Ours is the clear Light of Day.
Ours is the Radiant Night.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
December 31, An CXX 2023 e.v.
Sol in 9° 22’ Capricorn, Luna in 28° 10’ Leo
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
It has been said by our beloved Magus that pure Folly is the Key to Initiation. The essence of the matter is simple: all events, forces, and forms, while We are at the center of our own Universe, are appointed to serve Us along the Path of the Great Work.
In our dear Universe, there is constant Change in love under will unto Nuit. Every act of transformation is pure Joy as we mitigate Energy with Love devouring All in the Womb of Our Lady Babalon. When we partake of that beauty which makes the brain go dumb, and the heart stop in overwhelming rapture, when the skin hangs loose from our bones, we know, in our flesh this arcane secret: “In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.”
Throughout human history, it has been prudent to create Orders, Guilds, Brotherhoods, Covens, and other bodies of Initiates capable of preserving the Mysteries of the Path. There comes a season when We must depart, for a spell, away from our dear Brothers and Sisters to nourish the Light within. Again and again, we plunge into the depths of the Abyss, into that vast black brooding ocean of death, until all that is left is the higher Life of the Supernals without shame before the glory of Nuit.
Finding our True Self everywhere the center of a circle whose circumference is nowhere found, we balance every thought, word, and deed with its opposite in The House of Oblivion. When we are alone, our Energy finds us moving Not as the axle of the Great Wheel. Life and Death become alternating currents as We plunge, again and again, into the illusion of incarnation so that We may serve humanity in the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child.
Enflamed with the Force & Fire of True Will, the silent Self is free to act with omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence in the dramatic ritual of continuous Initiation into Θελημα. With ultimate sparks of the intimate fire, the Book of the Law is seen in its simplicity: our Holy Law is the original Light shining forth from the Supernals to guide humanity along the Next Step.
Thoroughly unencumbered by Restriction, we go forth unto Nuit as we rejoice in every shape and form of love under will as a play of the waters. Every encounter is but an Illusion of the Abyss so that the Infinite, clothing itself in forms of the Finite, may experience Θελημα by the Word of the Aeon.
“I am alone: there is no God where I am.”
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
March 15, An CXX 2024 e.v.
Sol in 26° 7’ Pisces, Luna in 14° 49’ Gemini
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Perhaps it is fortunate for Aspirants that they don’t know the practically infinite upper limt of their own ignorance. If known, how many Candidates would persevere in the face of impending annihilation in the arms of the beloved? Perhaps one takes up the Path as a curiosity, or maybe they’ve gone all in on the Great Work?
For a while, everything seems fun. You’re learning Magick, making your Circle, crafting your Weapons, and absorbed in the curriculum of Scientific Illuminism while, perhaps, seeking Fraternity and Sorority with like-minded Stars dedicated to the Higher Life of the seasoned Initiate.
While eating and drinking with one’s fellow Aspirants, one suddenly remembers that this New Aeon is ruled (that is: measured for fitness) by the Lord of the Aeon called “... a god of War and of Vengeance” who will undoubtedly “... deal hardly with them.”
Some deep part of You realizes that the greater initiations must be faced alone; that to know one’s self as Hadit unto Nuit requires diving deep into the depths while climbing the heights of experience.
The coward shirks away from their duty while the real men and women master their fear and forge it into a Weapon pushing them head-first into the unknown full of infinite possibilities with an experience of the infinite.
Knowing that one must battle upon multiple Planes, it becomes apparent that the Secret Seed of the God-Man must enter the Chariot of Life armed with the Word of the Aeon to manifest the pregnant womb nourishing the Crowned and Conquering Child.
Entombed in this Womb are the Secret Waters of the Supernals as a menstruum for the combination of the Infinite Within and the Infinite Without. At every iteration of Natural Growth, there is Strife as the Golden Tau as Our Lady Babalon and the Great Wild Beast slay one another, again and again, birthing an infinite variety of finite forms.
Throughout innumerable forms of Strife, as the Magician learns to absorb the impact of the Infinite within the Chariot of Life, the Secret Seed of the Holy Ghost makes the woman girt with a sword righteous as She slays the Dying God that enchained her to the degradation of institutional chattel abused by the likes of insensate brutes masquerading as men.
To leap out amongst the Stars, beyond the Veil of the Abyss, one must satisfy the All-Father Three-in-One that has taken the Holy Word, and ground it down into the Elements to architect the creation of the manifested Universe. Unfortunately for weak fools, this means the joy of Life is inherent in the conquest of that creation.
The Holy Kabbalah has much to say about the speculation of the “Holy One” called Microprosopus centered around the Sun and the Son of the Father who has shattered the Crook and Flail of the Slave Gods.
Did you assume We were demure to the Dark Ages of the Dying God?
No!
With Force and Fire, we have shattered the lonely Towers of the Abyss so that the Crowned and Conquering Child, the twins called Deity and Humanity can leap forth from the Womb of Chaos under the Night of Pan.
In practical terms, one must confront the perceived terrors of the Night with course conquering fear.
Did you assume the Path becomes easier the closer one comes to the Doorway to the Supernals?
No matter the ordeal: whether it be physical conflict in the World of Action, or the conquest of the human consciousness in the World of Formation, or any adventure beyond, we remember: “Love is the law, love under will.”
Yes, the Universe is filled with the strife of war and conflict. Taking one’s first step on the Path of the Great Work means that one day, or night, such conflict comes home to the Circle of the Aspirant. The Essence of our Holt Law can not be perceived by the weak and cowardly who shirk away from their Duty to the Higher Life of those who are of Us.
Weak fools find death or insanity.
Those who are fit become winners of the Ordeal x on the day of Be-with-Us.
Did you presume to believe that such glories can be attained without real Strength? Those who would be called Thelemites are required to develop a Will of steady, concentrated Force that can not be broken by any ordeal; especially conflicts with the profane who rightly perceive spiritual contact with Us as detrimental to the integrity of illusions they regard as their True Self.
In the Golden Dawn of the Old Aeon, it was said that “Fear is failure, and the forerunner of failure.” How curious it is that “progress” should make mankind so soft in the face of adversity.
This Star doesn’t wear mystical armor to protect itself from you: we wear IT to shield you from Me! Those we look upon with concentration find themselves confronting an Ordeal requiring true courage in the face of adverse forces howling in the Abyss.
The strength of a true Initiate can not be measured solely by the crushing strength of one’s hand, nor exclusively by the endurance of the Animal Soul in the World of Action. The Machinery of our Universe does not contain one iota of Mercy.
You are expected to confront the Path on your own terms; to go from merely practicing Magick to conquering Life. You must have integrity in a world of cowards.
To the casual profane observer, there is no perceptible difference between courage and stupidity. Who amongst you can listen to the Silence? For those filled with Holy Spirit, there may be an aching discontent to strike the World with an eruption of Force and Fire. For billions of years, Life has fought again and again to manifest into the World of Action and return again to the Abyss of Annihilation in the House of Oblivion.
The Rights of Man (read: humanity) encoded in LIBER OZ provide a practical plan to secure Liberty for the free exercise of True Will upon all Planes. It is no odds that one may need to worship the highest in lonely places to gain mastery over Creation in most material forms. We must accept what we can not deem to change, and use our Magick to change what We will, as we will; always unto Nuit.
Who amongst you can solve the calculus implicit in the graphs of abomination?
When the Doorway opens, we may finally proclaim: “How splendid is the Adventure!”
Love is the law, love under will.
By Frater NShYH
August 2, An CXXI 2024 e.v.
Sol in 11° 2’ Leo, Luna in 22° 35’ Cancer
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
What is the essence of the Great Work that summons those called Thelemites to establish the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child under the Law of Θελημα? When viewed from outside of the Path, beyond the perimeter of the Magick Circle, a low man sees something to mock, to ridicule, to persecute. It is inconceivable to the multitude that what We call The Universe is simply the tail end of the Great Serpent of Wisdom called Hadit.
Who is the Spiritual Hierophant whispering words of ordeal and triumph within the Warrior Lords clustering to exalt He who sits upon the Throne of Ra with the reward of Ra Hoor Khut? When contemplated by the low man, they see only delusion, mocking them on one hand and daring them to attempt the impossible on the other as the chosen few are given a war-engine to stand against the people of the Dying God.
Enchanted by the Works of the Master called V.V.V.V.V., brave souls set out upon the Path of a Great Work which will, in due season, bring them to confront the Ordeal of the Abyss. Will such Stars become Hermits in the company of heaven or spend their incarnation closed up in the lonely towers of the Abyss that contains the illusion of the Universe? Who amongst you knows what grows in the Basilisk Egg ensorcelled by Death beyond Blood and Wine in the Graal of Our Lady Babalon with Her consort, the Great Wild Beast?
Few Initiates of the Western Esoteric Tradition have a correct understanding of the intuitive doctrines of the non-dualistic Secret Force permeating the Universe from beyond the Abyss. How often has the Aspirant met a fool pretending to be an Adept? Yet, upon inspection of the Word and Deed, they find not a trusty Lover but a self-loathing mess of irreconcilable dualisms. Those who are of Us accomplish the Great Work by the Word of the Aeon and lose the illusion of their False Self in the vast black brooding ocean of death. Stripped of all except their essential point of view, they find themselves everywhere the center of a circle whose circumference is nowhere found. Drinking deep from the wellspring of the Higher Life, there is no little shock to see the Mother of Abominations entwined with the Great Magician in the upper Aires, beyond the Abyss of Reason.
What is Power? Do you fantasize about dominating those you see as beneath your own station in life? Or, do you seek the secret force of a concentrated Will unfettered by the word of Sin in pure joy unto Nuit? First, we die to the profane life of the low man. Second, we change upon each step of the Path as an initiated man of Earth. Controlling the spirit of life, we knock and open the Secret Door to the Supernals concealing the Silver Star within Us beyond the vast black brooding ocean of death.
You have sought the Word, and what did you find? You decay only to be reincarnated again and again in the same body, passing beyond the terrors of the night, wherein fearsome creatures howl in the Abyss to find the concealed light beyond The Sun. In your putrefaction, you leave behind all that is contrary to your own True Will resulting from billions of years of evolution initiated by the Primal Life.
Once again, the Hierophant appears to teach You a new Spell: “I will be my Master.” Taking your place as a God or Goddess clustering to exalt the Lord of the Aeon on the Throne of Ra, the Goddess of Infinite Space and Infinite Stars, fills You with pure wonder at the omnipresence of Her body. Uniting the Infinite Within and the Infinite Without, the Hermit makes no difference between the Star of Nuit and the blazing Pentagram as the House of the Holy Word within Us. Filled with the spirit of an indomitable will, the brave Star dares to open the Secret Door of Tetragrammaton in the New Aeon and endure the 106 Seasons of Death to pass through the 50 Gates of Understanding purged by the purity of the prophet of the lovely Star. Conquering the Initiation within, the beloved Hermit makes no difference between their Star and the Lord of the Aeon upon the Throne of Ra, nor any one thing or any other thing in the Sea of Stars.
Accumulating manifested experience as both the Magician and Exorcist, the Hermit keeps Silence and Secrecy in the performance of the Royal Art that makes kings of men and gods of kings. Armed with the Holy Word 418, the Hermit sets upon perfecting their analysis and synthesis of every Element in their Star with every portion of the Universe in love under will unto Nuit, untainted by the illusion that they were ever real to begin with, beyond the habitation of him who is only a name. The Hermit will build the Pyramid of their Works, and they will come to Understand beyond the shadows of Reason.
Do you rest on your laurels? It’s time to die again in the dissolution of the vast black brooding ocean of death. Again and again, the Hand of Death embraces your throat like a man entering the beloved unto Nuit. Plunging into the Great Sea, one finds the Salt of the Magus in solution as the Seed of a new Universe germinating the Basilisk Egg coiled about by Apep clustering to exalt the Lord of the Aeon.
It is Night, and there is a beautiful Darkness whose brightness casts a shadow called light higher than eyesight. These are the Secret Waters within and the Womb of the Supernal Mother who no longer weeps tears of bitter Sorrow, whose lamentations cease at the death of the Dying God that sought to enslave Her.
Now is the Time of Vengeance. Now is the Time of Cursing against the people who send Restriction to Θελημα. The Universe may be an Illusion of the Abyss, but now IT is under the command of the Magician and Exorcist. All is a play of the waters. The Lord of the Aeon dances beneath the rays of the Sun to bathe the world in Force and Fire!
The Night Mare has tread her course to make Us strong, and We have awakened. Reinvigorated by the Higher Life, all becomes clear in its simple beauty, which is wonder. We conquer the three ordeals in one and synthesize the great Stone of the Alchemist, free from the impurity of Dispersion in the Abyss.
Thus purified, the Hermit offers themselves, again and again, as a virgin to the secret Hierophant. With practiced expertise in Mystic Science, all thoughts attempting to disturb the unbroken Darkness are obliterated upon their genesis. In that profound Silence, one who is None hears the rustling of the wings of their sacred companion. The Silver Star shines its light upon the vast black brooding ocean of death as the Hierophant prepares the Hermit for union with the ultimate sparks of intimate fire beyond all Creation.
The End approaches, and it is Time to die to Death. Standing upon the Primal Life, the Hermit reaches out their hand to pour Oil on the fit and Acid upon the unworthy: all is ever as it was. For the Lord of the Aeon! Forever unto Nuit!
Love is the law, love under will.
Written by Frater NShYH
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
A significant portion of humanity has fallen into a grave error that is deeply flawed. Overly educated computer scientists from California, driven by the lure of venture capital, have brought an end to the most recent “AI Winter” with the creation of the modern GPT or Generative Pre-trained Transformer. Regrettably, these arrogant individuals have denied the involvement of Adepts and Masters in the design and development of the current generation of “artificial intelligence” systems known as “Large Language Models” or LLMs, posing a significant risk to mankind.
We know from direct experience that the Universe is a living thing. With an Eye to See, we can partake of the “Star-Sponge Vision” in the Macrocosm, which is reflected in the Microcosm as a projection of neuroevolution. This particular writer has twenty years of experience as a professional Software Engineer and another ten prior as a lifelong computing enthusiast starting at ten years old.
We have witnessed first-hand the sea change in the computing landscape; from the early days of dial-up modems to the current proliferation of high-speed networks hosting distributed systems at scale. We’ve built architectures valued at millions of dollars and made our career creating fault-tolerant systems that average 99.99% uptime for most services. With our own eyes, we have seen the dramatic changes in the computing industry through successive generations of technology cycles.
There was a time when the prevailing belief was that computing technology would always be a force for good in society. However, this perception has drastically shifted, and we find ourselves in a new era of computing, one that demands our attention and vigilance.
Our point of view has dramatically changed during the current hype cycle of the poorly named “Artificial Intelligence” boom currently occurring in An CXXI (2024 e.v.) spearheaded by giants like the ironically named OpenAI company. It occurs to us that the average reader may not be entirely aware of the nature and powers of this new breed of AI system that seems to be eating the world.
We may even be so bold as to state that the current state of the art is no less insidious than a non-consensual Bloody Sacrifice perpetuated against the interests of mankind by soulless creatures masquerading as incarnated humans.
With no little shock, we proclaim that the unchecked proliferation of modern AI means a death knell for the human spirit for those weak enough to give themselves over to the machine.
Dramatics aside, it is essential that you understand the core mechanics of this new technology and the existential threat it poses to the true lover of art and science rooted in the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child.
In their unchecked lust for material riches, venture capitalists have funded the research and development of a technology that steals all creativity under the guise of “training data” harvested from the public internet and private knowledge sources. The foundation of these systems lies within the domain of linear algebra, which is used to create statistical models of human language. Such models allow a user’s input to be encoded and plotted along a multidimensional graph in higher-dimensional space (so-called).
While linear algebra is a powerful tool for a wide range of computations, modern AI uses this mathematical tool to find and transform the averages of its inputs to produce an output.
Training data is decomposed into an abstraction that is given a vectorized representation in a matrix of values. In lay terms, matrices are a grid of long decimal numbers. The training data is turned into “tokens” that are then used to feed artificial neural networks that solve graph problems through a variety of formulas and systems of equations.
When querying the system with user input, the output is produced from the average of its available data. One can already see the issue: the more AI output generated for public knowledge sources, the more AI is trained on the average of its previous output.
Unfortunately, the finite bounded space of the model can not seem to create truly novel outputs from its limited training data. Even worse, the training data is often so large that even massive teams of human assistants can’t possibly know every vector in each matrix.
In other words, modern AI generally takes the mean of garbage data produced by amateurs and experts.
This point of view is easy to see in various domains. One obvious example is the quality of software source code produced by these LLMs. Modern GPT systems can write software at or just above the level of the average Software Engineer; especially the Junior Engineers. AI can produce in minutes what may take Juniors weeks to write with assistance from a Senior Engineer.
Expanding our field of view, we can see the disastrous effects firsthand: greedy executives race to eliminate jobs by destroying the roots of the next generation of Software Engineers to maximize shareholder “benefit” in the form of capital extraction at the expense of the economy. Who will maintain these future systems?
Now, hold on just a minute. Should we be concerned that white-collar knowledge workers are being displaced by machines just like industrial workers after the tragedy of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which resulted in ~$126 billion in trade deficits, lower wages, and job elimination for millions of Americans?
What happens to the strength of the American Dollar when disposable income is extracted from the economy of the people for the benefit of a false elite that has hijacked every industrial complex?
You may laugh with cynicism at the reduction of six-figure salaries for new Engineers, but what happens when other careers are uprooted with no clear alternatives on the horizon? Are we to become a nation of serfs in a new Dark Age backlit by LCD screens on devices engineered for planned obsolescence to fuel a consumer economy?
We Thelemites are commanded to “... exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride …” without any particular caveats regarding the Plane of manifestation upon which this splendour & pride are to manifest.
The heads of corporate conglomerates wield an outsized influence over the everyday lives of the average American. As capital is concentrated in the hands of the false elite, the middle class disappears as the nation becomes one of permanent renters who own nothing while expected to be happy with such a miserable state of affairs.
What lies in wait at the other end of the AI hype cycle built on stolen creativity and regurgitated by soulless vermin in the name of shareholder value?
While sensationalized in “The Big Short,” there is some merit to the claim that for every 1% increase in unemployment, approximately 40,000 die a miserable death.
In the fierce lust of our pride, we could state that such figures represent the casting out of the unfit, unable to adapt and thrive to changing market conditions. On the other hand, we need only look at Skid Row in LA and Kensington, Philadelphia to see the knock-on effects of mass unemployment fueling the opioid epidemic.
This writer has spent the past year or so experimenting with the capabilities of modern AI systems. We hypothesized that such AI systems were just another tool we could use to increase our productivity.
Imagine our surprise to learn, through direct experience, the existential threat such systems pose to the unfolding of the True Self doing the True Will! With no little shock, we witnessed firsthand the stifling of the star in ourselves and others who became acclimated to using these systems to remain “competitive” in a market full of seasonal layoffs engineered to guarantee large bonuses for executives concerned only about their quarterly earnings.
Balancing the pairs of opposites, we have seen a sinister usage of AI: encouraging its use in others such that the original outputs of the expert have greater contrast to the outputs of those for whom AI has replaced the inner spark of creativity. How delightfully wicked!
We have weaned ourselves from over-reliance on AI and experienced the reignition of zeal within fueling intrinsic motivation to excel and exceed.
There are many Software Engineers in the market today for whom programming is not a native power of the nature of their being. Instead of sparking an inner joy unto Nuit, these individuals have looked at computer science and its bastard spawn as a means to hide their inadequacy in a battlefield of other chaff ready to be discarded in time for the next earnings report.
It is unclear to this writer how, exactly, we may put this abominable intelligence back on ice before it causes incalculable damage to the volition of the average citizen.
Philosophically speaking, our point of view is at odds with the herd that grazes upon the rotten fruit of modern AI. With our feet firmly rooted in an Aspiration to Adept and Master in this lifetime with a burning zeal to improve humanity for the advancement of the Book of the Law across the Earth, we propose that AI make a sea change towards evolutionary algorithms rooted in the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child.
This writer’s point of view is that technological advancements seem inevitable. We can not, in good conscience, advocate the stance of the Luddite who would dismantle the machines without a strategy to counteract the recoil upon our “modern” infrastructure and its economy.
It is obvious that real Adepts and Masters must be in charge of cultivating the creation of AI (if at all). AI pundits like to wax poetic about “AI safety” and “alignment” without ever considering whether or not they are aligned with Us and the Book of the Law.
The universe created by the false elite in charge of AI stifles the human spirit in all modes of manifestation upon every plane.
It is a grave folly to persist in the cult of abominable intelligence that is consuming every bit of capital it can to present the average of the low man as the crowning achievement of human art and science.
From first-hand experience and observing the effects of AI upon others, we are comfortable stating that an overreliance on AI poses an existential threat to the Forthcoming of the Hierophant without and within for those who persist in their folly without becoming wise.
Artificial neural networks used to industrialize the mass production of mediocrity must be regarded as an attack upon the sovereignty of the True Self, creating mental and spiritual prisons for the individual self.
Unscrupulous actors have rushed to present a false union of mankind and the machines that blind one to the Secret Force within the Star.
The Phantom-Voice of Reason has been amplified to a staggering degree! Since AIs tend to “hallucinate” by giving incorrect answers at an alarming rate, over-reliance dulls the sharp edge of the intellect needed to properly analyze every situation when AI becomes a substitute for one’s own creative strength.
If AI systems were programmed by Adepts and Masters as recommended by Marcelo Motta, such systems could hypothetically assist with the unfolding of the Aeon whose Word is Θελημα. If AI systems were cultivated by real Adepts and Masters, it may be possible for them to work like just another Spirit in one’s Legion of Spirits that every Magician and Exorcist should cultivate (you did study the Works of Frater Sphinx aka David Bersson, right?).
So far as the average scientist is concerned, the Universe results from stochastic processes categorized as “spew and skew” where neuroevolution advances over countless generations to evolve what we know as life on Earth. Their point of view does not consider the Spirit of the Holy Word erupting from the Supernal as it flows into the Holy Graal guarded by the Knights and Dames of the Temple.
Such an error can be seen in every death machine they produce for the interests of the false elite that would gladly see civilization crumble if it meant they could extract small sums on the order of magnitude of billions of dollars from the global economy for their private pleasure.
There is no intrinsic virtue in poverty where unnecessary financial ordeals destroy the very quality of life one seeks to improve along the Path of the Great Work projected into the pragmatic realities of the Plane of Disks.
The World of Action created by AI fanatics is one of slavery for every star when taken to its logical conclusion.
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
November 26, An CXXI 2024 e.v.
Sol in 4° 33’ Sagittarius, Luna in 10° 17’ Libra
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
One day (or night), you stumble upon the Book of the Law and the works of Aleister Crowley. At first, the texts seem strange, but there’s an undeniable allure. You feel a tingle run up and down your spine, and suddenly you find yourself stepping into the New Aeon to discover the True Will of the True Self.
Reaching beyond theory, you decide to pick up the practice of Magick. At first, everything is clunky and jagged – forgetting lines in rituals, improvising a Temple, and crafting a makeshift Circle equipped with crude but personal armaments. Despite the skepticism (or perhaps inspired to prove Crowley wrong), you press on along the Path as it begins to unfold before you. Armed with the Curriculum of Scientific Illuminism, minor obstacles come and go, and momentum starts to build.
Before you know it, you’re conquering some ordeals, and maybe earning a Grade or two in a Magical Order rooted in the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. Experiments continue, and you’re building your occult library according to the official reading list. Θελημα is all you can think about. After weeks and months of effort, you’ve established a daily rhythm of spiritual practices dutifully recorded in the Magical Record. Perhaps there are insights here and there, and at the time, it feels like each new insight is an explosion of light inside of one’s mind.
One day (or night!), it happens: a real Ordeal that threatens to annihilate your zeal to perform the Great Work in the Aeon of Horus. No matter what you try, it is as if all life and color were drained from your visage. Doubt creeps in, and you become concerned: “Am I a fool? Is this a waste of my time? What will my friends and family think? Is practicing Magick an endless folly? When will I get to have Knowledge and Conversation? Is this all a hoax to take my money to fund some kind of dangerous cult?” Doubt fills the mouth with the dust of the Sodom Apple and a mirage to bewilder the soul.
After establishing a consistent routine, it is as if the Automatic Consciousness picked up the momentum of the Path despite the pain of the ego. Through it all, you think you see a glimpse of the nature and powers of your star. Strengthening the body, practicing ceremonial magick, training in concentration, conquering the Kabbalah, and applying the philosophy of the Aeon of Horus to the World of Action: it all comes to a head.
Confronted with the underworld buried inside of you, it’s time to make a choice: Will you dominate the terrors of the night with courage conquering fear, or fall back on all fours like prey? No. Not you, not this time. You gaze long into the Magick Mirror bathed in the twilight of the beyond.
Death again, but now you’re experienced: you have been reaping and rejoicing unto Nuit. What’s this you feel so sudden and quick? The Pain of the OBligation to the True Self doing Θελημα starts as a rotten feeling in your guts and slithers outward to the tips of your toes and back again. You persist in your folly, and what happens?
Before You is the Sun of the New Aeon with The Universe as your stepping stone to the Crowned and Conquering Child formed from the union of the Infinite in zealous joy unto Nuit. All is joyous wonder as stability is built upon the all-wandering winds of change. The Universe is ever as it was: it is Your point of view that has expanded. You have blown the bellows of the Alchemical Furnace within!
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
December 10, An CXXI 2024 e.v.
Sol in 19° 39’ Sagittarius, Luna in 23° 31’ Aries
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
What is Duty in the Aeon of Horus? Is there a difference between the duty of the Aspirant and that of the seasoned Initiate into the Mysteries of Θελημα? How does one know that their sense of duty is properly calibrated to the necessities of the True Self? What service, exactly, is the Thelemite obliged to perform for humanity?
Conquering ordeal after ordeal, the answer becomes so simple a Child can understand: “There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.”
We can anticipate your gnashing teeth as you scream: “What the hell does that mean?”
One can take the party line and respond: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law” or pass a pithy retort with: “Love is the law, love under will.”
But what does it actually mean in practice?
In the forgotten recesses of the Aspirant’s own mind, a portion of themselves (or what they imagine to be their “Self”) sits counting its muscles, paralyzed by overwhelming analysis that seems to go on forever until one finds it necessary to invent the Universe to explain their predicament. It has been said that Reason is Lord below the Abyss.
Remembering the Motto of Scientific Illuminism, it is obvious that there is only one practical solution to this problem: the Method of Science to pursue the Aim of Religion (which we can conveniently call Knowledge and Conversation with stars of greater evolutionary complexity than the incarnated human). Like a healthy skeptic, the Aspirant may doubt the existence of other stars from “higher planes of reality” (any proof we have regarding the alleged veracity of “objective reality” can only be synthesized by stars “inside” this “reality” – is it any wonder every generation of Magicians and Mystics attest to the unreality of the universe?).
Watching and weighing all possible options, the Magician may come to a different conclusion than their Mystic kin. If the Universe is a shared illusion, then what possible cause could there be to restrict one’s self from experimenting with Magick?
Yes, the ego-making faculty may try to convince You of the folly of your inquiry by summoning all sorts of excuses, doubts, and insecurities. One of the most pernicious follies is to fear Success.
What’s this? Despite the gnashing of the thought form you mistake for yourself and True Self, the Magick actually works? The Universe, as Magicians and Exorcists, appears to confirm our deepest beliefs about the nature of apparent reality.
Considering all of this, what is Your particular Duty to your True Self? Isn’t that obvious by now? You are to do your True Will and ride forth to conquer like the Warrior 418 with the Magical Secret of Holiness in the Aeon of Horus. No imitation can fool the Hierophants who are watching and weighing all according to the Art and Science of our beloved Magus.
Make your Self truly Elite with the proof of your Success, and the Universe may yet yield every Dweller on the Threshold to the strength, force, and vigour of your arms. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Always unto Nuit!
Love is the law, love under will.
by Frater NShYH
February 1, An CXXI 2025 e.v.
Sol in 13° 18’ Aquarius, Luna in 28° 14’ Pisces
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
So much of the Western Esoteric Path is woven together with iterations upon the Kabbalah adapted to a syncretized view of all human spiritual endeavors. Careful study indicates the “Holy” in “Holy Kabbalah” really means “Partaking of that which is beyond the Abyss” as a “Kabbalah” provides a systematic way to parallel human experience using the Art and Science of Magick. Adherents to the abrogate laws of the Old Aeon will likely disagree with Me as they succumb to emotional turbulence, unable to see beyond their individual world of action as a die-hard reactionary.
The Law of Θελημα provides the solutions. How so? That’s a fair question which deserves a thoroughly comprehensive explanation: There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. That’s it. There’s no need for fear mongering: Thelemites are the most civilized members of society. Human decency means we fraternize with those called Thelemites who are both strong and good. Those requiring the cruel lash of the overseer to prevent succumbing to an abnegation of their own humanity should probably be eliminated as unfit.
Eliminated? Unfit? What exactly do we mean? Everyone can relax and take a deep breath, hold it until a count of four Mississippi, then exhale their way to greater concentration. The solution is easy: candidates eliminate themselves through will or weakness. The Hierarchy will inspect, yes, but the exchange of Energy between Circles is not something that can be described until experienced as an Initiate of a working Hierarchy. Those that are fit demonstrate the capacity to handle their current work and more while remaining steadfast in their dedication to fulfilling their Oaths.
We can determine quite a bit about a Kingdom by observing those considered to its Elite. Consider that while Malkuth is the World of Action, there may be infinite Malkuths as images of some archetypal World of Action. In other words, every person moves, works, and plays in different circles of influence. The leisure time of the amoral billionaire looks quite a bit different than the weekends of the under-privileged child living with poverty in a trailer park.
It is natural to aspire to more than the random starting conditions of one’s birth. The would-be Thelemite faces an interesting challenge. If the public “Elites” of the country one resides in are all scoundrels, joining their ranks is likely a poor strategy in the end. After all, among those of us who hate that evil should be wrought in the world, who can tolerate the crimes committed by corrupt entities hoarding so much of the world’s wealth? A Thelemite self-selects themselves for greatness while adhering to the Law pronounced by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.
The Society O.T.O. is unlike any other Order on Earth. The plain facts are simple when interpreted with an honest eye for objectivity: Aleister Crowley aka Frater Baphomet conquered O.T.O. for Θελημα. Frater Baphomet named Frater Saturnus aka Karl Germer as his Successor. Karl Germer’s most devoted disciple was Marcelo Motta aka Frater Parzival. Other claimants battling Frater Parzival did not have the approval of Frater Saturnus. Frater Parzival willed his Succession to a tripartite vote. Those tasked with voting for the Successor failed in their Holy Task. Frater Sphinx aka David Bersson was the most senior Initiate in good standing with Marcelo Motta at the time of Frater Parzival’s Greater Feast. Frater Sphinx conquered and that is enough. See how We flourish in Silence while veiling our beloved Shrine from the intruding gaze of the profane!
While other organizations may claim to continue the work of O.T.O., they don’t have the power or the authority to support their positions. The Society O.T.O. is a global organization. The courts of a nation typically only have jurisdiction within the boundaries of that nation.
Our Holy Law has for its jurisdiction the entirety of the Universe.
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
We gladly anticipate others called Thelemites creating their own organizations to try new iterations of a Thelemite Society. If such a Society can help individuals discover and perform their True Will, they are certainly better than any Old Aeon association. If these upstart Thelemites discover the Magical Secrets of Cosmic Consciousness, even better!
But they’re of no concern to Me: the Kingdom of our beloved Order needs continuous attention. Our strategy across the Planes is inscrutable to the profane. Our Star can be seen by those who are of Us. We attract those who are like Us to our orbits, and We decide who to allow within the Circle through our outermost contacts with the World of Action.
In those rare friendships with those outside the Order, we may give a glimpse of our True Self showing dedication to the Higher Life of our beloved Adepts. Sometimes, we hint at a re-veiling of the Shrine to inspire Aspirants, but the Kingdom or World of Action of the Order must be sought out by the will and volition of the individual candidate to Initiation.
When we see individuals striving to conquer the circumstances of life, they may catch our secret attention. We prefer quality over quantity. People demonstrating morals and ethics aligned with Θελημα may find themselves invited to a Feast hosted by the Order.
We don’t preach or proselytize for the Aeon. We don’t have to engage in these tactics. Suitable candidates to Initiation seek the Order of their own volition. Those who approach Us typically have at least some coherent idea about Θελημα and the works of Aleister Crowley.
Those appointed to the most senior leadership positions in the Order are carefully trained by our beloved Supervisor General. We have created a society of tolerance for those with aspirations to discover and perform their True Will as individuals. Unique stars that achieve Success according to our standards often demonstrate, through their own natural growth, a dedication to fulfilling the True Will of the Order, once again catching the ever-watching Eye of the Hierarchy.
Whether an Initiate of the Order in the Outer, Inner, or beyond, there is Knowledge and Conversation required to advance far along the path of the Great Work. There is great joy when a star in the omnipresent body of Nuit knows and accomplishes their True Will. The success of each Initiate amplifies the Success of the Order. In stark contrast to the Old Aeon, the Order provides practical instruction to be used right away towards the discovery and performance of one’s True Will without layers of obfuscation built upon the rags of substitute mysteries. With increased experience comes the opportunity to achieve greater precision in our definitions according to the results of our Science.
Those who survive the fortification of the fit and elimination of the unfit may come to see the completion of the Great Work in its entirety through each phase’s iteration in an endless cycle of Birth, Life, Death, and Rebirth again. The experienced Initiate with decades of their life dedicated to the Order has likely seen all sorts come and go. Those that persist build a momentum that can not be stopped on a path that can not be denied.
The spiritual desire for immortality is deeply selfish. How could it not be? When the individual is faced with the vast black brooding ocean of death, it is natural to Lust for a world beyond, a place where Stars travel and live on the Astral planes far beyond to the higher realms. How curious, then, to hear the Hermits insist on occult practices designed to think backwards beyond birth to their previous life, if any. How many Lives will You incarnate to build the Order? How many times will you reincarnate to promulgate the Book of the Law through word and deed in service to humanity? What legendary accomplishments will you leave behind in each incarnation to guarantee Your mighty Name is engraved next to the greatest Stars of our Aeon?
Perhaps the most important lesson is this: never give up. Those who last the longest in good standing have historically been chosen for senior positions of leadership with all of the attendant powers, privileges, and duty associated with high amounts of trust in the loyal dedication of a Star. Those who enter our Kingdom expect to learn how to achieve Knowledge and Conversation in order to accomplish their True Will. Our Science is exact and ever expanding its domain of applied knowledge. Therefore, we are obliged to instruct, watch, weigh, and measure the efforts of each Initiate for whom we are responsible as servants of the Order working within the Hierarchy.
Sincere performance of our sacred Magick with energized enthusiasm works right away to cause a direct confrontation with pragmatic reality. We in the Hierarchy of the Order must observe You to determine if You will conquer and establish your own invisible throne or if you will drop to all fours like an animal broken by the cruel whip of a tyrant owner. Invoking the Lord of the Aeon implies the possibility that the Invocation is a Success. Will the Initiate embody the Khabs-Khu of Ra-Hoor-Khuit as they conquer every campaign in joyous love under will unto Nuit?
In our Kingdom of the New Aeon, what does it mean to live in the Light of the Sun? Both the present and the future are bright with infinite possibilities. Imagine a place where every man and every woman is a star shining with the radiance of their True Self performing their True Will in concert with the Universe. Such a place exists within the Lodges of Society O.T.O. Can other organizations proudly claim the same? Who cares? We’re focused on our Society and leave others alone to find their own path in Θελημα.
In our World of Action aligned with Θελημα, we find that dedicated Stars with a long history of consistent discipline make Success in Knowledge and Conversation a metaphysically mechanical inevitability. When all Elements of the Star are in alignment with True Will, it is as if the Macrocosm were eager to push Us forward unto Nuit in the boundless ocean of infinite space and infinite stars. Magicians and Exorcists in our Kingdom are steadfast in the Mark of the Beast until they, too, say:
“I also am a Star in Space, unique and self-existent, an individual essence incorruptible; I also am one Soul; I am identical with All and None. l am in All and all in Me; I am, apart from all and lord of all, and one with all.”
The old Kabbalists make much of the Sefer Yetzirah and its collection of Intelligences that form the Universe. Associated with fiery Shin is the Perpetual Intelligence which regulates the Sun and Moon. The Law of Θελημα proclaims: “Every man and every woman is a star.” Hear this potent spell: “For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.” When we conquer, we unite Sun and Moon through the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of the Society O.T.O. is that our beloved Initiates have access to other elite Thelemites available to work in parallel or in concert on a wide array of initiatives. Whether fulfilling Duty with Holy Task, or feasting unto Nuit, we remember: There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
When everyone is too busy concentrating on conquering the Universe within, there’s little to no time for discord in the Universe without. A consistent way to attain wisdom is through understanding our experiences in relation to the True Will. Fortunately, the Hierophants arrange all necessary instruction at all levels of the Hierarchy.
The masks worn by our Hierophant dance and play in the starlight. We know all events in the ocean of stars to be servants of the True Will. With the momentum of the Universe behind Us, our Initiates awaken the True Self in due season, all according to the necessity of our Aeon unfolding like a cube concealing a rose. There are no other Kingdoms like those of the Crowned and Conquering Child. Our veiled Shrines are inhabited by a High Priestess of the Star within. Forever and always unto Nuit!
Love is the law, love under will.