Crowley the Great Beast 666

Where Are We Now?

Loaded questions. Where are "We" now? That's relative. How accurate is our spiritual compass? The needle broke.

I still believe in a version of the Great Work and in my Will. I do not believe, however, in any sort theocracy, regardless behind what curtain the theocrats may hide.

You have to love the hypocrisy of the Wiccans; for all their We ALL come from the Goddess bullshit and "We respect EVERYONE!" In the cold harsh light - they are no better than the Christians they have a lovely tendency to bash.

If you bear a penis? Your boat is sunk from the get-go. Oh sure, you're an equal, just not quite as equal as those with a vagina. Gerarld Gardner or Alex Sanders be damned - Starhawk rules that particular roost.

Mind you, the reverse is true in any of the Ceremonial camps du jour.

To both camps, the only words that come to mind would be "Fuck you and the boats you dribbled in on.."

Look, I've been at this stuff for decades..DECADES and I've found out a lot of things, primarily? Most of it is bullshit. Little people who can't make it to the top in mainstream society, look to find some sort of exalted position in the "alternative" stream.

Talking the talk is a no-brainer as is so blatantly obvious by the self-proclaimed Fraters and Sorors, the Priests and High Priestesses. Walking the walk? Well, babies - that there is another thing entirely. There is no walk per se. Each person has to have the intestinal fortitude to determine their own walk.

The I.Q. over three to be able to discern a lesson when it is being taught.

Who is teaching the lessons? Pfft..damned if I know. I do know, however, that every damn thing that has happened in my life, for good or for ill, has taught me something.

My road has no room for pompous masses or rituals. It has no room for the pseudo-Magus or Adept. There is nothing they can teach me. Nothing. True Will and the Great Work is as individual as DNA.

Taking part in a Neo-Pagan ritual not of my own devising or the devising of one of my family feels as fake as a celebration of a Christ or Santa Claus. Ceremonial rituals? Gnostic Masses? Please. Spare me your pomposity.

Where am we now? "We" are living a moral and ethical life as per "Our" own interpretation of morals and ethics. A life based in rationale, based on learning what the day is going to bring, in the way of life lessons. "We" have learned that an Adept or a HP/HPS exist only in their own minds. "We" smile and nod and walk away, wondering what this introduction can mean in the way of a lesson.

There are no Gods, there are no Goddesses - there are archetypes to which we should aspire but as sentient beings? Nope, sorry. These archetypes exist as lessons of a sort. They exist because "We" created them in our own minds, according to our own needs. They are not universal.

So, I guess "We" have learned much over the years. We have learned that We are the authors of our own destiny, of our own spirituality.
Feel free to read the journey into Thelema beyond this page; it's a lesson if you care to learn it. Learn from my mistakes.

We have learned that there may well be more to this heaven and earth than dreamt of in our philosophies...and when it is time for us to pop that dream, if we have the courage, the intelligence, the rational mind capable of acceptance - we will dream it. We will be it.

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