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Post by stephen on Aug 4, 2021 19:22:20 GMT
On reviewing this concluding chapter in 'Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God' there is much to indicate that it was a product of its times, the vibrancy and enthusiasm of the 1970s with a sense that society was becoming more liberated. Did not all materialise, but one statement stands out above all:
"The essence of Thelema is elasticity conceived as a lightning-swift adaptation to each and every phenomenon. Every event evokes its own unique response. There can therefore be no law, or code of laws, in the sense that set reactions can meet the exigencies of any given situation."
(page 186, Muller edn. 1973)
I take this as living with the flow of the Tao, where every act becomes an intuitive and mindless performance of harmonic activity.
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Post by Michael Staley on Sept 1, 2021 19:13:35 GMT
On reviewing this concluding chapter in 'Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God' there is much to indicate that it was a product of its times, the vibrancy and enthusiasm of the 1970s with a sense that society was becoming more liberated. Did not all materialise, but one statement stands out above all:
"The essence of Thelema is elasticity conceived as a lightning-swift adaptation to each and every phenomenon. Every event evokes its own unique response. There can therefore be no law, or code of laws, in the sense that set reactions can meet the exigencies of any given situation." (page 186, Muller edn. 1973)
Yes, it is an inspiring quote which has always stuck in my mind as one of the best definitions of Thelema that I have come across.
I take this as living with the flow of the Tao, where every act becomes an intuitive and mindless performance of harmonic activity. That's the way that I see it too. The affinities of Thelema with eastern traditions such as Taoism, Ch'an Buddhism, and Advaita Vedanta have long interested me. |
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Post by Gregory Peters on Sept 4, 2021 19:39:32 GMT
On reviewing this concluding chapter in 'Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God' there is much to indicate that it was a product of its times, the vibrancy and enthusiasm of the 1970s with a sense that society was becoming more liberated. Did not all materialise, but one statement stands out above all:
Yes, it is an inspiring quote which has always stuck in my mind as one of the best definitions of Thelema that I have come across.
That's the way that I see it too. The affinities of Thelema with eastern traditions such as Taoism, Ch'an Buddhism, and Advaita Vedanta have long interested me. Indeed, I have long been interested in these similarities as well, and largely started following the various threads and glimmers thanks to Kenneth Grant’s Typhonian Trilogies. |
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