“He shall everywhere proclaim openly his connection with the A.'.A.'. and speak of It and Its principles (even so little as he understandeth) for that mystery is the enemy of Truth.”--Liber…
Yesterday I wrote a singularly unpopular post on Love—what is meant by Love in The Book of the Law. Almost nobody wants to hear that the ordinary love, the one limited…
Too many A.’.A.’. applications present a slick, buttoned-up picture of a generic spiritual seeker. One of the questions we ask—and recommend everyone ask themselves regardless of whether they’re interested in joining…
Christopher Reed Johnson, Head of the McMurtry A.'.A.'. Joining the A.'.A.'. makes you aware of things that you didn't notice before. It affects your whole perception of reality. It seems like…
Reading Christopher Reed Johnson's emerging introductory essay to J. Edward Cornelius' Book of Archai has been helping me clarify some big existential answers about Thelema. When I wrote The Snake Who Made…
“Admittedly, in August of 1985, I went into a total emotional tailspin. Like a child without a father, I felt lost thinking about Grady’s death. I had no direction and I…
(with Pertinent Events Regarding the O.T.O.)updated 1/6/25 e.v.downloadable pdf of the timeline that followsJanuary 1, 1915 – Aleister Crowley grants Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad) a patent to establish Agape Lodge…
With his Inner Order, A.'.A.'., Aleister Crowley departed from teachings of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In particular, he proved that it is possible for a human being to…
The Angel, Uncaged Guardian Angel by Pietro da Cortona, 1656 In the last blog post, The Unknown Angel, we discussed how Aleister Crowley invented the term "Knowledge and Conversation of the…