Study the sacred texts
written by David Bersson on March 12th,
An CXIV 2017 e.v.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
It should otherwise be an important point to bring to the table of your aspirations of freedom to meditate carefully on the consequences of revealing a system of spiritual enlightenment, an ancient religious philosophy, a method of ancient or modern magick and stripping it of its dogma where the proof its pragmatic will should be scrutinized with the eyes of scientific illuminism.
Clearly, the preservation of those ancient philosophies are most satisfactory to study and calculate the degree of their validity. For if errors have occurred in their protocol most certainly improvement or adjustment to a higher realm of workability should be, at least, be one of the most important goals.
Without a doubt our enemies would not have this so. They would burn down the history of the world and send us back to another dark ages. They would burn libraries, murder children, and proclaim that their way is the only way therefore everyone who would not convert to their path must be, as the habit is repeated, to be burnt at the stake, beheaded, blackballed, slandered and destroyed for simply living a culture or path that they find to be repugnant to their devilish dogma.
Whether it is the inquisition of the Church, or the Jihad of the Caliph, or the King who has sold out to the dominating Church, or the Government who has decided that the people are too dangerous to remain uncontrolled making puppets of the people with communistic law the result is the same. We do not learn from history when such belligerent aggressions are imposed upon the people. We do not progress socially when we stifle the individual's will to seek the holy quest or permit intellectual freedom where the joys of art, poetry, music, love, wine and spiritual enlightenment are permitted to exist free from oppression.
How peculiar it is to proclaim that we tolerate all save those intolerant!
No doubt, in our zealous efforts to resurrect from those volumes of information knowledge that is in danger of going extinct we oft times give information that is considered to be contrary to those who do not perceive carefully on our goals to bring the best of what was, strengthen the will of today, and plant the seeds for the greatest vision of a future to be. We have had the audacity to announce that it is possible to apply the method of science to the aim of religion. Clearly, only a madman would announce such a possibility. Well, if I am what is considered mad than so be it. For the real asylum is the closed mind where the strait jacket of enforced dogma has stifled freedom of growth.
In a sense, this is our vengeance of our enemies that we will not permit the sacred texts to be lost and will actually make them available so that they cannot alter the course of progress. In a sense, this is our gift to the world that we proclaim that the word of sin is restriction and we shall therefore give to the world what has been stolen over and over throughout the ages.
In past ages over and over we observe barbarians destroying those who are innocent and good. Centuries old religion annihilated by cruel overseers. Libraries that held the glory of the wisdom of a multitude of cultures destroyed and for what? That a petty mind might impose upon another culture that it has decided needed to be controlled.
Those who know history might look again at the horrifying actions of a barbarian named Constantine{1} who in 324 e.v. declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire blaspheming his noble polytheistic ancestors. He marches to Dydima, Minor Asia where he maliciously sacks the Holy Oracle of Apollo, tortures to death all the polytheistic priests, and then proceeds to begin the horrifying destruction of the Hellenic temples. Two years later, the evil Constantine destroys the temple of the God Asclepius in Aigeai of Cilicia and many temples of the Goddess Aphrodite in Jerusalem, Aphaca, Mambre, Phoenice, and Baalbek. Four years after that in 330 e.v. he shows up again in Greece and steals the treasures and statues of the polytheistic temples of Greece to decorate Nova Roma (Constantinople), the new capital of his Empire.
Constantine is only one figure of history where entire cultures were either made extinct or nearly extinct by an abuse of power and an ignorance of the importance of preservation of spiritual knowledge. How weary it is that we hear one, one, one all the time forgetting , after all, that polytheistic religion once dominated the world prior to the coming of tyrants like Constantine!
Such mentalities do not stop with the destruction of what they consider to be idols but proceed to raze the entire house of science where civilization itself has to start over again. The tower of free civilization takes time to rebuild. When will you learn to honor that sacred knowledge that is important for the progress of our very species?
What I propose is what we have recommended all along. That the student acquire a general intellectual knowledge of all systems of attainment. If you only take it this far without signing the first Oath of Probation we are at least satisfied that you will not fall prey to a callous attitude to those you have studied. For to study these systems of attainments & sacred texts they are now known & appreciated.
Love is the law, love under will
{1} I never liked Constantine knowing the permanent damage that resulted from his time of sickly, false elite power as the Emperor. You need see the fashion of dress of the Hellenic Priestess with their snow colored sweeping robes, sublime metaphysics and their glorious dedication to their Gods to note how cruel and sadistic was Constantine's murder of this wondrous and innocent Hierarchy of Priests and Priestesses. Constantine mother was, of course, to blame for a great part of Constantine's sadistic behavior. His mother Helen was always a dominating schizophrenic who demanded Constantine be the firm and strong Emperor and grow to real manhood. Naturally, Helen was able to sway Constantine anyway she wanted with her twisted perception of what Constantine did as a man and as an Emperor. Constantine never fought his mother's ridiculous demands. After all, he was mother's little boy trying to prove to all he was a great and mighty conquerer. So Constantine did what any little boy does under the control of an insane mother. He committed genocide to show his mother that he was no longer mother's little boy but a mighty warrior and real man. The delusion of what a real man & conquerer was perpetuated by Helen when she nagged her little boy to become a real man. Being psychologically weak from her years of nagging he proceeded to be directly responsible for the murder & torture of polytheistic Priests and Priestess. The destruction of the old Hellenic Temples was especially revolting where the extinction of the entire religion followed.World peace--- the delusion of weak fools
Written by David Bersson
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
To the average mediocre mind, the hope of war in the world finally being resolved, and international peace awakening is only a prayer to God away. I have this to say to such weak fools. You are not only out of touch with reality, you have ignored the beast in man. Pull your head out your ass and heed my words! The Aeon of the crowned and conquering child is here, and our Warrior God now sits upon the Throne of the Sun God. The choice is yours. You will either fight for our cause or go the way of a slave. The slave mentality who have bent their backs to the yoke of slavery should stop reading here for what I am about to impart will be too racy for the blood of low men. Such low men are driven insane by the spiritual essence of war, which they cannot and will not equilibrate within themselves to balance their being within. Doing so, they stifle their own primal roots and become slave to whatever current consoles them.
It is time for Thelemites to study much more carefully the events of war that are occurring in the world to assist the growth of Θελημα in the world. Unless you gain this essential understanding on how magical currents in the world, dying or being destroyed are reacting to the growth of the Thelemic current, you will not be able to observe phenomenal existence without muddle and confusion. Remember, that the first reaction from the slave herd is to exclaim, "world peace" in panic of the growing tensions arising in different parts of the world.
The will of humanity, aligned to the manifested racial will is presently in direct contradiction. Dispersion manifests as lower, manifested energy of old aeon current as they wander the corrupted ruachs of the random, untrained individual. The Third Chapter has already explained this, as "division hither homeward" where the word is not yet known. The formula of sacrifice of the Aeon of Asar went as far it was necessary to manifest before the season of the last Aeon ceased.
It was a vicious rumor that our civilization has died.
On the contrary, we have announced a new formula to continue our sublime work. Of course, this new formula has been sensed by our opposition in the past and they interpret it as "judgement day". Let them run around in circles with their disordered nephesh and their masturbating ruach, for all I care, for we have announced war to assure the survival of mankind.
It is the will of humanity to go forth with the work of the Law of Θελημα and any contradictions to this Holy Task upset the progress of the manifested racial will to receive it.
Sanity only exists, presently, with those who have drank that great wine we call the Thelemic Current and/or have assimilated themselves in direct communication, realization and aspiration to manifest our true nature and will. The world ignores the Law of Θελημα at its own risk. For war will creep up on those who would ignore the necessity of the will as a factor in the equation of their nature. Beware lest you be slain by the terrorist attack of unawareness of the hatred of your neighbor whose will has been stifled so long that it erupts as a passion of crime.
Peace on earth at this present stage of evolution of humanity is absolute nonsense. On the contrary, even more war than before will be presenting it's razor sharp sword to the world in the years that come. We have too many conflicts of interest, greed, jealous hatred, and extremist fundamentalists with over active and uncontrolled imaginations to contend with to even remotely wish for such a delusion as "world peace".
My Teacher and Hierophant, Marcelo Motta, once expounded to me a significant mystical experience that implied an ultimate state of equilibration of opposites would to be at peace within one's self and be simultaneously at war with the world. The Master Therion stated that the price of existence was eternal warfare, and equilibrated this by stating that price of eternal warfare was also existence. The Book of the Law shows us Nuit as Peace and Ra-Hoor-Khuit as War. Yet we cannot attain to true peace until the Great Wars accomplish the Initiations that Aiwass intends for the world and/or the individual. (Depending of course on a microcosmic initiation for an individual, or a macrocosmic initiation for all of mankind.) Therefore the naive cry for world peace is an absolute misunderstanding of the energy that is being imparted in this present Aeon.
World Peace? Surely, you must be joking! We are in the Aeon of War and much karma is being worked out among many different cultures as they clash and develop different coordinates.
Certainly, all this fuss creates a breed of individual who will be abundantly aware of courage, honor, power, strength, weaponry, survival, life, death and the necessity for a standard level of wealth for basic survival. Conflict, in a sense, builds more character than some peace loving idiot whose muscles have gone soft, and brain dull from such unawareness of the stark reality of the beast and God in man.
The spiritual essence of all this is extremely important to absorb, for all this builds the aura of the magician into the microcosm of the God who rules this Aeon.
Love is the law, love under will
Deducing the Talisman of Change
by David Bersson
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
If one were to eliminate everything from civilization that is incompatible with the Book of the Law precisely what would be forfeit?
We observe that an economic structure would indeed be within limits from the lines that mention gold and business. It is An XCVII at the time of this writing and we may be in for surprises on how a Thelemic economic structure will resemble a contemporary capitalistic system.
We would further observe that the many & the known would be the Government. Rather an engaging perception; considering the multitudes would not know who really ruled them. Our observations might be taken to the next phase where we realize that those who are of us "rule" already on planes. Since the Law of Θελημα at the time of this writing is not established enough where the many & the known are ruling completely; we can only speculate on how Government esoteric is to be determined from Government exoteric. An educational system would unquestionably exist. This is explicit from Liber AL, Chapter I, verses 37 & 38. One can deduce that we will not be a classless society. We will have our beggars, kings, slaves, rich, Priestesses and Priests.
No doubt, it is like the problem of death. We have no proof of the hereafter as a consequence of no one returning. On the same token, we have no proof what a completely Thelemic Society will be like until it is established. The Book of the Law, of course, is telling us; but our comprehension of its passages are still very obscure. The best we can do is look and try to work out its puzzles.
For instance, "jewels" are mentioned in the Book of the Law. We can deduce that a Jeweler and a Merchant of Jewels will be in our Thelemic Society. We further deduce that this Jeweler must abide with and obey the tenets of conducting business well and with business way. We go even further and realize that the rules of business will be embedded in our law system to protect and uphold the Jewelers rights (and other business persons as well, of course) in the Book of the Law.
The Jeweler illustration was easy and logical. It will not always be the case where a few words could be taken several ways. An example would be, "store of woman" could mean a slave market for woman will be customary, or it could be the High Priest of Nuit has numerous Priestesses. You must realize that both connotations simultaneously may be possibly correct. We can only warn against emotional attachment to the interpretation of any one meaning. After all, this would be the beginning of dogma and the death of our fluid perception that is emphasized in the first Chapter, that Nuit is infinite possibility. Either or both interpretations means causes and effects will result in a unique type of society where laws and economics come into the machinery of a unique eco-system.
We can safely deduce that the average human being will be stronger, more prone to meet the ordeals of life and have a greater sense of freedom.
My personal observation is the extraordinary fear people seem to have of each other and how this reflects in our laws, our attitudes and our sense of free movement on the earth. Most people who have slave tendencies are locked into their own slavery so tightly that they cannot see the degree of their restriction. Try to move freely and naturally among fellow humans and you will eventually see this difficulty.
The common man will always presume & assume your will based on his will therefore creating restriction. He does not see that you are both stars upon your course and equally parties of necessity.
Concluding this essay, I will remark that I look forward to the excitement of the future where the changes that the Book of the Law will have transformed the planet into a perfect environment for the evolution of the species we call mankind!
Love is the law, love under will