Knowing Your Work

The great work is not some social club inhabited by people too timid to present their opinions, to expound on what they know and to challenge those things which, by their understanding, they have determined to be incorrect. Some would have us to willingly deny what we know to be true. "Accept all" is the pass-phrase of those to whom truth is a foreign concept.

What is the first step on the path of the Magus? TO KNOW

If we have certainty rather than faith (I:58) then we can KNOW the Truth.

“Nevertheless have the greatest self-respect, and to that end sin not against thyself. The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.” (Librae 15)

There is a fundamental difference between the life giving harmony of the dynamic tension known as Tiphareth & the muted qliphotic shell resounding of the silence of the grave.

Music: Cawatana - In Your Father's Eyes

Finding an Adept.

Many people will use the argument that because one has not achieved Knowledge & Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel (K&C), or even crossed the Abyss, one cannot determine if another person is an adept.

I must disagree. We know the following automatically. Thelema is something different. Looking over Crowley’s notes (e.g. Magic Without Tears, Ch XLVIII) we find that Thelema is to some extent in conflict with Modern Society. Given repeated verses in Liber AL (e.g., II:25) we can also assume that this conflict is fairly severe.

Given this line of reasoning, which I encourage any & all to continue, it is easy to determine that if something is not in some form of conflict with mainstream, modern society (as was the prophet himself), we can infer that it is not Thelema. The only caveat to this method is from applying a logical fallacy (Affirming the Consequent) to infer that just because something is transgressive of modern society that it must be Thelemic.