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Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law

“Boldly defying Crowley’s warning not to comment on the Book of the Law, Ipsissimus Don Webb provides in-depth interpretation from both Black and White Magical perspectives, including commentary from Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996. Webb examines each line of the Book in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, existentialism, and competing occult systems such as the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought. Discarding the common image of Crowley formulated in a spiritually unsophisticated time when the devotee of the Left-Hand Path was dismissed as a selfish evil doer, Webb unveils a new side of Crowley based on his adoption of the Loki archetype and his aim to become a vessel of love for all humanity. In so doing, he shows how the Book of the Law is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths and reveals how Crowley’s magical path of mastery over the self and Cosmos overthrew the gods of old religion, which had kept humanity asleep to dream the nightmare of history.

“Providing in-depth analysis of Crowley’s sources and his self-identification with the First Beast of Revelations from a profound esoteric perspective, Webb takes his views out of the Golden Dawn matrix within which he received the Book of the Law and radically recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation.”


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Ipsissimus Webb’s teaching - as well as Ipsissimus Aquino’s - has been instrumental to my own Understanding of Thelema - The True Law of Liberty - and the Work of the First Great Beast in the context of the emerging Aeon. I know this will be a worthwhile read and respectfully encourage anyone curious about the teachings of Crowley as relevant to the present day to consider giving it a look.

XEPER::REMANIFEST::REYN TIL RUNA

Brother Virgil

Source innertraditions.com

There Are No Infallible Gurus.

“In the divine realm was I of company to ArchAngel Lucifer next only to ArchAngel Michael, and as ArchAngel Masleh would be to God, so I desired to be to Lucifer. But the Lord of Light admonished me, saying, Lose not thyself in the Will of Lucifer, for I am not God and will offer thee no blissful nirvana […]” 

 — The Statement of Beelzebub, from The Diabolicon by Michael A. Aquino


“I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.”

— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley

 

“Verily, I advise you: depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zarathustra! And better still: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he hath deceived you. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends. One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a student. And why will ye not pluck at my wreath? Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you! Ye say, ye believe in Zarathustra? But of what account is Zarathustra! Ye are my believers: but of what account are all believers! Ye had not yet sought yourselves: then did ye find me. So do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account. Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.”

 — Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

 

“Look, you’ve got it all wrong. You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody! You’ve got to think for yourselves! You’re all individuals!”

— Monty Python’s Life of Brian

 

“Think for yourself, schmuck.”

— The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Lucifer, The Mentor of Saul Alinsky, Who is the Mentor of Obama

Start Panicking! Repent! Buy Gold! (And now, a word from GoldBunker.com…)

You can almost hear the subtle hiss of the Serpent today as these secularist unbelievers seek to destroy our historic Judeo/ Christian values and push for a secular, godless state and world.

Not a good year to be a slave to the chains of Faith.

Source freerepublic.com