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.
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