Tell me brother are you free?
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:24 pm
I see this blurb to promote Thelema a lot and for awhile I thought "hmmm how true to follow my TRUE WILL and be that which I am! I sought this will for a long while, and then I came back to the Book of the Law and read what it says about the will.
The Will in Thelema is impulse. Its about instinct and "doing" and not thinking. This isn't free will, its being subjected to whatever it is that conspired to create you into the person you are at that moment, and for anyone that does not reflect and use reason, this is a matter of choices made by someone else. Knowing thyself is not doing this kind of will. This kind of will is reactionary, and is flawed... because who is the "perfect" person? He doesn't care about perfection, though, and believes that you are what you become- and if you become a demon because of your environment then you were meant to be one- and they deserve you to be one to them. This is not freedom, it is not rebellion, it is not taking ones fate into ones hands- it is dharma and destiny, and it is the caste system of the Hindus (in a spiritual sense) and it is a failure.
If you want to be free, if you want to truly navigate your own fate- you need to reflect and to pause, and to become a "dog of reason".
The Will in Thelema is impulse. Its about instinct and "doing" and not thinking. This isn't free will, its being subjected to whatever it is that conspired to create you into the person you are at that moment, and for anyone that does not reflect and use reason, this is a matter of choices made by someone else. Knowing thyself is not doing this kind of will. This kind of will is reactionary, and is flawed... because who is the "perfect" person? He doesn't care about perfection, though, and believes that you are what you become- and if you become a demon because of your environment then you were meant to be one- and they deserve you to be one to them. This is not freedom, it is not rebellion, it is not taking ones fate into ones hands- it is dharma and destiny, and it is the caste system of the Hindus (in a spiritual sense) and it is a failure.
If you want to be free, if you want to truly navigate your own fate- you need to reflect and to pause, and to become a "dog of reason".