This strikes me as a purely personal question. Is there an academic
question here?
Al
Caroline Tully wrote:
> In the last year I've reaquainted myself with the Ordo Templi Orientis
> here in my home city (after a hiatus of almost a decade) and I renew
> my participation with somewhat mixed feelings. What do people here
> think of Liber OZ (see below)? What do people think of the OTO? Do you
> think Thelema can be contained in something like the OTO, or would you
> say that the question is irrelavent because its in fact not at all
> contained by /chanelled through the OTO?
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>
> Liber LXXVII
> [Book 77]
>
> OZ: "the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world."
> - AL II:2
>
> "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." - AL I:40
>
> "thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that and no other shall say
> nay." - AL I:42-3
>
> "Every man and every woman is a star." - AL I:3
>
> There is no god but man.
>
> 1. Man has the right to live by his own law-
> to live in the way that he wills to do:
> to work as he will:
> to play as he will:
> to rest as he will:
> to die when and how he will.
>
> 2. Man has the right to eat what he will:
> to drink what he will:
> to dwell where he will:
> to move as he will on the face of the earth.
>
> 3. Man has the right to think what he will:
> to speak what he will:
> to write what he will:
> to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:
> to dress as he will.
>
> 4. Man has the right to love as he will:-
> "take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where, and with
> whom ye will." - AL I:51
>
> 5. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.
>
> "the slaves shall serve." - AL II:58
>
> "Love is the law, love under will." - AL I:57.
>
> Aleister Crowley.
>
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>
> From
>
> Caroline Tully.
>
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