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Function of Experts

“In the Body every Cell is subordinated to the general physiological Control, and we who will that Control do not ask whether each individual Unit of that Structure be consciously happy. But we do care that each shall fulfil its Function, and the Failure of even a few Cells, or their Revolt, may involve the Death of the whole Organism. Yet even here the Complaint of a few, which we call Pain, is a Warning of general Danger. Many Cells fulfil their Destiny by swift Death, and this being their Function, they in no wise resent it. Should Haemoglobin resist the Attack of Oxygen, the Body would perish, and the Haemoglobin would not thereby save itself. Now, o my Son, do then consider deeply of these Things in thine Ordering of the World under the Law of Thelema. For every Individual in the State must be perfect in his own Function, with Contentment, respecting his own Task as necessary and holy, not envious of another’s. For so only mayst thou build up a Free State, whose directing Will shall be singly directed to the Welfare of all.”

- Aleister Crowley

Without knowing the function of each individual, a body of experts would have to be organized and a proven method that can be applied and tested empirically.

“Experts will immediately be appointed to work out, when need arises, the details of the True Will of every individual, and even that of every corporate body whether social or commercial, while a judiciary will arise to determine the equity in the case of apparently conflicting claims. (Such cases will become progressively more rare as adjustment is attained.) All appeal to precedent and authority, the deadwood of the Tree of Life, will be abolished, and strictly scientific standards will be the sole measure by which the executive power shall order the people.”

If the True Will is ignored, the entire system collapses.

Tearing Them Apart

“Our cognitive elite has been happy to defend political censorship and social engineering. Its members have been conspicuously engaged in every effort to impose secularism and political correctness as a new civil religion. For all their test-taking intelligence, they are the last human beings I could imagine trying to preserve what was once understood as high culture. But then it is hard for me to understand what makes the rising generation tick—harder, that is to say, than being able to explain the nineteenth-century French bourgeoisie, Hellenistic historians, or other groups I have treated in my scholarship. Moreover, the contempt of the new elite for the old civilization has percolated downward with significant results. Just consider the attitudes of those who teach in our schools and of their not very bright students. What I have heard in my classes is presumably what professors at Harvard and Berkeley are able to say with less syntactical awkwardness. It is easy to trace how their rejection of gender roles and other inherited social arrangements (until recently thought to be rooted in nature) has played out at the bottom of the educational food chain. Noticing how our postbourgeois master class attracts intellectually insecure imitators has not enhanced my affection or respect for that group.”

- Paul Gottfried

Common Sense

“Religious movements will grow to the extent that they can generate a highly motivated, volunteer religious labor force, including many willing to proselytise.”

Metaphysical Attacks

“Understand first that the Disturbers of the Peace of Mankind do so by Reason of their Ignorance of their own True Wills. Therefore, as this Wisdom of mine increaseth among Mankind, the false Will to Crime must become constantly more rare. Also, the Exercise of our Freedom will cause Men to be born with less and ever less Affliction from that Dis-ease of Spirit, which breedeth these false Wills. But, in the While of waiting for this Perfection, thou must by Law assure to every Man a Means of satisfying his bodily and his mental Needs, leaving him free to develop any Superstructure in accordance with his Will, and protecting him from any that may seek to deprive him of these vertebral Rights. There shall be therefore a Standard of Satisfaction, though it must vary in Detail with Race, Climate, and other such Conditions. And this Standard shall be based upon a large Interpretation of Facts biological, physiological, and the like.”

- Aleister Crowley

A detrimental dilemma facing Thelemites and the establishment of the Law of Thelema, the continued use of cherry picking and confirmation bias. Instead of having a Thelemic world view, the first principles are ignored and refuted because it doesn’t pander to their prejudices.

Abortion is a perfect example that would become a crime in a Thelemic state and it should be loathed in every Thelemic community. People aren’t just disagreeing with Crowley, they are disagreeing with the values of Thelema which are unequivocal on where people should stand.

If Thelema is only a bland alternative for shame-obsessed Protestants, compassion-suffering Catholics, sorrow-infested Buddhists, and pathetic-counterculture Pagans, it will never amount to anything.

I thought the metaphysics of Thelema made it clear, on why certain points of view are correct and why it considers other points of view to be wrong, which it attacks with force.

Law of Love

“Promulgation is Love.”

“I also love when people hate promulgation.”

“Where can I find more of the hate?”

“If I told you, you would try to assimilate it all for yourself.”

Bringing About Change

“Say not, in thine Haste, that such Stagnations are Unity even as the last Victory of thy free Will is Unity. For thy Will moveth through free Function, according to its particular Nature, to that End of Dissolution of all Complexities, and the Ideals and Standards are Attempts to halt thee on that Way. Although for thee some certain Ideal be upon thy Path; yet for thy Neighbour it may not be so. Set all Men a-horseback: thou speedest the Foot-soldier on his Way, indeed: but what hast thou done to the Bird-man? Thou must have simple Laws and Customs to express the general Will, and so prevent the Tyranny or Violence of a few; but multiply them not! Now then herewith I will declare unto thee the Limits of the Civil Law upon the Rock of the Law of Thelema.”

- Aleister Crowley

Thelema is not an egalitarian doctrine. It secures the general rights for people to do their True Will by not interfering in the Will of other individuals and teaching the fundamentals of minding your own business within an hierarchical model of society. Might is right is denounced because crime isn’t tolerated (nature eliminates the unfit) or the political insanity associated with people wanting their abstract anarchy state to come to fruition. Any laws which violate the tenets of Thelema, they aren’t changed through force of arms or revolutionary paper tigers. It is through being involved in the legislation process, either by influence or direct action that laws are changed.

Removing the Chains

“Also, since these Fetters are as a Bond almost universal, be instant to declare the Law of Liberty, and the full Knowledge of all Truth that appertaineth to this Matter; for if in this only thou overcome, then shall all Earth be free, taking its Pleasure in Sunlight without Fear or Phrenzy. Amen.”

- Aleister Crowley

The impression I get when people bring up hypothetical questions with promulgation or social concerns with the Law of Thelema, it is based on rationalizing their fear. They don’t have an understanding of why Crowley stressed the duty of every Thelemite to promulgate and this attitude prevents Thelema from growing into an influential movement which is one of the intended purposes.

Knowledge is Freedom

“Firstly, then, I would have thee to know that Spiritual Experience and Perfection have no necessary Connexion with Advancement in Our Holy Order. But for each Man is a Path: there is a Constant, and there is a Variable. Seek ever therefore in thy Work of the Promulgation of the Law to discover in each Man his own true Nature.”

- Aleister Crowley

Before mapping out the work ahead of us, we should have gained a general familiarity with the subjects involved. Then comes a general knowledge of the entire system of attainment and the practices associated with this goal. Everyone becomes the decider of their own path through the discovery of their nature. We might lack in experiencing the results of magic or the states of trance through meditation, which has no bearing on advancement if we sincerely do the work. The same Law that brought you to liberty is the germinating seed which will be used to emancipate mankind.

Brimelow’s Review

I enjoyed reading Where Does Sarah Palin Stand On An Immigration Moratorium? by Peter Brimelow. Criticism like this is useful because of the PC nature of American politics.