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Xervean United States. Dec 01 2009 23:19. Posts 682 | | |
Before beginning I will say that I have decided to do a series of these blogs on a variety of topics that interest me. Such as religion, philosophy, psychology, physics etc. Obviously there may not be widespread appeal but I think some people will find my posts helpful. I definitely would have 2 years ago. So without further ado.
I have made the decision to eliminate all negativity from my life in 2010. This is my new years resolution. However I am not waiting until new years I will begin now. Time is merely an illusion anyways and there is only the moment of now.
Why do I say "Thelemic" purge. Well Thelema is a religion developed by the legendary occultist Aleister Crowley. He is probably best known for the song by Ozzy titled 'Mr Crowley". And for being on the cover of the Beatles Sgt Pepper album. There are many legends surrounding his life. Most of which that he founded satanism and was an extremely evil man who sacrificed children and animals and had massive orgies. Obviously he didnt found satanism that was Anton Lavey (and he doesnt even believe in Satan). And if he had sacrificed children he would have went to jail. The children sacrificing rumor arose from his writings but what he was actually talking about was a sex magic ritual involving his semen.. hence dead children. At the time he wouldnt have been able to get published if he had said anything about sex or masturbation. But the press had no problems with him writing about killing children haha. Some occultists do sacrifice animals and guess what they eat them afterwards. In fact this is exactly what the Indians used to do with Buffalo. They would use every piece of the buffalo in their lives. This is no different than a Christian praying for his food. Just instead of thanking God they are thanking the animal for giving his life so that they could live. The reports of the orgies are likely accurate however.
Dont want to talk to much about Crowley but I will say that basically he was a ceremonial magician. He was initiated into the order of the golden dawn and was later kicked out for causing dissension among the ranks and trying to rise to the top and take it over and get all the hidden knowledge that they had. Shortly after he was expelled from the order he went out on his own and created his own order the AA and later became the leader of the OTO. After marrying his first wife they went to Egypt and slept in the Great Pyramid. Later they were in a museum in Cairo in front of a statue that happened to be exhibit 666 and she had a religious experience. In the hotel room she was supposedly taken over by a higher human intelligence and dictated to Crowley the book of the Law. The book became the basis of Crowleys new religion Thelema as well as the focus of the remainder of his life. The general idea of the creed is "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the Law, Love under Will". Now by this he doesnt mean do anything you want. He means that you should follow your true will and be true to yourself and not to social conventions. Crowley is a very interesting character who got a kick out of bad press and misconceptions. He felt it was better to be infamous than not famous. There are even rumors that he was a spy for the British government during WW1. Someone wrote a book about this and its pretty interesting.
The word Thelema actually means "WILL". Crowley throughout his life would do things to train his Will. He believed his will to be supreme. He would constantly take heroin and then quit cold turkey as an act of will. Another thing he did was to pick a word say "I" and not use it for weeks at a time. If he would mess up and talk about himself in the first person he would cut himself with a razor blade he kept in his pockets. This was in an effort to train his mind to always stay mindful.
Obviously I dont plan on cutting myself. I think what I will be doing is pinching myself if I catch myself say anything negative. I will use absolutely no curse words. Not say a bad word about anyone. And say nothing negative at all. This is what I will be undertaking during the next year and beginning now. This will help me stay positive and happy all day long and improve every aspect of my life.
And no im not an occultist, just very interested in all forms of religion and philosophy.
Love is the Law, Love under Will!
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Loco Canada. Dec 01 2009 23:26. Posts 21015 | | | |
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| fuck I should just sell some of my Pokemon cards, if no one stakes that is what I will have to do - lostaccount | Last edit: 01/12/2009 23:29 |
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Xervean United States. Dec 01 2009 23:33. Posts 682 | | |
I have heard of him but havent read his stuff. I'll def check it out! |
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Xervean United States. Dec 01 2009 23:48. Posts 682 | | |
Loco have you read any Carl Jung? I am in the process of collecting his entire collected works. His stuff is so amazing. |
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Loco Canada. Dec 02 2009 00:04. Posts 21015 | | |
I haven't read any of his works, but I've read plenty on him. I highly respect the man. |
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| fuck I should just sell some of my Pokemon cards, if no one stakes that is what I will have to do - lostaccount | |
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Loco Canada. Dec 02 2009 00:12. Posts 21015 | | |
I'll be one of the only followers of your blog by the way, lol. I've thought about making blogs related to this but most of this is too uninteresting for the people here. I've studied Advaita deeply and some Buddhism and eventually got into occultism. I was always interested in philosophy and psychology and I found that occultism seemed to bring everything together so well with an added mysterious touch to it, as well as a lot of practical things to apply to ones life. Just reading about philosophy and learning how to apply them to better one's life is completely different. I don't subscribe to psychology anymore (for the most part) and am interested in The Great Work. It has helped me as a poker player as well and I've used sigilization in the past few months with very positive results. I've never played this well and won this much before, you should look into it. |
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| fuck I should just sell some of my Pokemon cards, if no one stakes that is what I will have to do - lostaccount | Last edit: 02/12/2009 00:18 |
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Maynard! United States. Dec 02 2009 00:30. Posts 4453 | | |
Dude you sound pretty crazy. I love it. |
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| Now I really am a busto. Thanks FTP. | |
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| | On December 01 2009 23:30 Maynard! wrote:
Dude you sound pretty crazy. I love it. |
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