Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
A neighbor in a casual conversation tells you that you should really observe the news more often where our nation is deteriorating rapidly with assassinations, corrupt ideologies, aggressive politicians, perverts wandering around making conservatives vomit; and callous wars in this or that nation must be protested. My answer is calm and steadfast. I have decided not to bother with news or mainstream media where I prefer to tend my Garden. The neighbor looks at me and nods his head that perhaps a fellow of my age should not trouble themselves with such complexities. After all, what could I know about the world; and how to change anything? Perhaps he observes my Swedish last name; and wonders how someone related to the aggressive Vikings could end his life with something so mundane as tending a Garden? I end the conversation politely not telling him who I really am; and if I told him to inquire of such affairs to Me in three hundred years he would think I was insane. Of course, he would miss the point of such an apparent deviation from normal exchange. After all, he had not read my essay on True Self and Evolution where I explained that we must scientifically study what we are to evolve into as a consequence of being stuck being homo sapiens. The point being, unless we evolve three hundred years from now nothing will have changed nor improved.
A career in magick utters the Tulane University Professor with a raised eyebrow. How is that to accomplish anything? Just what are you bringing to the table? A pious Latin teacher passes by a student reading something on spiritual enlightenment wondering what this aspirant sees in what he is writing; and often enough jumping to the conclusion that if his religion isn’t what he consider religion than this young fellow must be on the road to satanic thinking. Somewhere else a Priest and a lawyer burn books together that they have decided are too dangerous to possess. Some where else a troubled mother goes door to door half insane asking whether any Christians are left in the world. In the Middle East some fanatic cries, “God is good” and murders innocent human beings aping the actions of a medieval madman. Humanity has invented farm technologies like the tractor that can do the work of a thousand slaves and yet we observe ideology, theology, with no apology enslaving the souls of the multitudes by obsolete dogma and insane laws that place demands on private freedom. My word, has anything, anywhere improved?
The news or media continues its onward march of sensationalism with such persistent determination that we wonder who is telling the truth. Politicians huddle together like infant football players only to find their perfect plans are protested by indoctrinated citizens. A study of history to determine how it is that we human beings never seem to end war and atrocity proves futile. Empires arise and fall. Ideologies of any caliber are fired from the cannon of callous or compassionate deliberations only to be absorbed by the sponge of destiny. Men die in wars that are remembered for a time and eventually history dissolves who won; and what its origin was. Nations arise in triumph only to be conquered or altered by the savagery of violent rationalizations. Finally, some Nation proclaims supremacy for a time only to be thrown quietly into the rushing waters of self dissolution over time or realize the best move for survival is to just be another nation. Territory is taken over or lost where tradition of history is meaningless to those who equally argue its possession. The ideology once gold lining the pockets of virtue fall from their pockets only to be observed as fool’s gold. Religion becomes a vampire that steals your freedom and life force. A generation reaches maturity and no one listens so they die in forgotten graves. Corporate executives become machines; and machines become blow up dolls where human exchange has be put to sleep by stupidity or greed. Ecologists and Industrialist clash with representatives in Government; and the return to a green earth moves at a snail’s pace. Science writes published papers that are not scrutinized sufficiently to be anything more than pseudoscience. Poets utter nonsense verses from AI and storytellers lose the skill to give lesson.
Of course, who am I to save these people? Perhaps I shall take a course where I do not try to make my mark on the world but become the future of the human race. Perhaps I shall teach the awakening of empowerment and self esteem letting the slaves die in their pathetic misery. I shall redefine everything based on the unfolding of my True Self; and teach the wisdom of being the center of your circle. After all, no casual observation on my part ever resolved anything so I shall approach everything leaving behind my false self to find my True Will. After all, if nothing seems to be working we have at least learned that we haven’t learned anything from the past.
After so little satisfaction on the goals or nations of those who insist the sky is falling, past philosophers, random wizards, wise witches, hopeless scientists, hypocritical Priests, clever alchemists, greedy sorcerers, the notions of aging conquerors or mystics mistaking their decaying physical bodies for a new concept that “existence is sorrow” or war is hell or old soldiers fade away, and pious monotheistic representatives of dead dogma. Nothing that feels right from the Buddhist, the Taoist or the monotheistic delusions so I shall enter a Path which is consistent with the fiber of my innermost being.
No longer shall futility be permitted to interfere with my True Self; and I shall, I shall proclaim to you a Path beyond the petty thoughts of sidewalk philosophers or those who have retained the letter but have lost the spirit.
Arise as the Master of the forces of matter; and I shall not cease my manifestations, and behold, where ever I sit shall be my Throne; and what I do shall be aligned with my True Will. All the nations of this earth shall know the consequences of the awakening of My magick.
As it is written in Liber Tzaddi, line 40.
“My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.”
Clearly, such notions stir the inmost being where what was once the decaying corpse of mysticism becomes the living life force of reality awakened.
Behold, I am not like the others. I have found doorways beyond your petty delusions.
Love is the law, love under will