What is Thelema?

A presentation from an open house at William Blake Lodge. Uploading it to help Br. James prepare for his "What is Thelema?" presentation at an upcoming open house.

I try to take an approach that keeps Thelema general so it can be approached by those not drawn to magic or not inspired by Crowley so much as by the nature of the concept.

The first half of the presentation kind of meanders a bit addressing pieces of the related concepts so the second half can pull it together and explore the glory which is the apotheosis of freedom.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• freedom
• will
• thelema
• gnosis
• OTO
• americanism
• love
• sex
• initiation
• spiritual growth

[DeadBoyLife]

Excellent talk! Great use of metaphoric tools to communicate what can be complex ideas so that everyone can understand Thelema. Will be thinking about this talk when I prepare to give me own for the my University Student Pagan Society. 93 93/93

[Sigil93]

Would love to see a transcript. This is hard to hear on my speakers.

[Goat777Face]

Moar!!

[horustheantichrist]

This is a very good presentation.

[thiebes]

The reason that it is important to retain Aleister Crowley as authoritative on Thelemic doctrine is that otherwise people will interpret the Law to mean whatever they want it to mean. Like, they could say that Thelema endorses racism or sexism or genocide. It does not, and 666 makes this clear and explains why. Moreover, the commentaries of Aleister Crowley are among the official doctrines of O.T.O. according to its bylaws.

Agape is not mentioned as the Word of the previous Magi in Liber Aleph.

[Jesseh144]

Awesome. Great down to earth talk about the overall philosophy. Loved it.