Post by Raj Don Yasser on Feb 21, 2017 3:39:06 GMT
This question is primarily for Michael, since the question relates to a section from the essay The Heart of Thelema, and I'm sure other folks can provide some feedback. On the first page of the essay we read:
This essay focuses rather narrowly on the idea of True Will, the essence of which lies in Going rather than Being. Its symbol is the ankh, the crux ansata, the ankle-strap, the Egyptian symbol for going.
Are these terms, Going and Being, equivalent to the terms found in Theravada Buddhism, Being and Becoming? In Julius Evola's The Doctrine of Awakening he devotes a chapter to the way of Being versus Becoming, although he favors Being over what he terms the "inferior path of becoming".
This essay focuses rather narrowly on the idea of True Will, the essence of which lies in Going rather than Being. Its symbol is the ankh, the crux ansata, the ankle-strap, the Egyptian symbol for going.
Are these terms, Going and Being, equivalent to the terms found in Theravada Buddhism, Being and Becoming? In Julius Evola's The Doctrine of Awakening he devotes a chapter to the way of Being versus Becoming, although he favors Being over what he terms the "inferior path of becoming".