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The Purpose of Ritual, Meditation, and Other Practices in Thelema

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When doing some practice or ritual, if one is a Thelemite then one must always ask this question: How does this help the fulfillment of my Will? Too many times do Thelemites perform ceremonial rituals and yoga practices for some aim other than the fulfillment of their Wills. Thelema often speaks of Initiation, the Great Work, Knowledge and [...]

New Aeon Initiation, Part 3

October 22, 2009 by IAO131  
Filed under mysticism, qabalah, thelema

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4) Self as Redeemer “There is no god but man” — Liber Oz One common attribute of the Old Aeon systems is their insistence on the baseness, sinfulness, and helplessness of humanity. In this view, mankind is naturally in a state spiritual blindness, deafness, and dumbness; we don’t know what is best for ourselves, and we’re aimless [...]

New Aeon Initiation, Part 2

July 19, 2009 by IAO131  
Filed under mysticism, qabalah, thelema

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  2) The True Self contains Good & Evil, Upright & Averse “My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.” — Liber Tzaddi, line 40 Initiation in the New Aeon is “the Child Growing to Maturity” by the slaying of the ego-self whose “death is life to come” for the True Self. [...]

New Aeon Initiation, Part One

June 2, 2009 by IAO131  
Filed under mysticism, thelema

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0) Introduction “In the name of the Lord of Initiation. Amen.” — Liber Tzaddi, lines 0 & 44   A New Aeon was proclaimed and begun in April of 1904 with the reception of The Book of the Law: Liber Al Vel Legis. A New Aeon implies a new paradigm or a new point of view with which to [...]