Caroline
The core issue for me is the criminality & child abuse,
the other contextual stuff we maybe all tend to think of as less important,
perhaps underestimating the role external things play in influencing
behaviour?
There may well be some quite antisocial beliefs in Liber Al, Liber Oz
and other Thelemic writing -
I suspect most religious/inspired texts have them - so for example the
Bhagavad Gita appears to advocate
total war but it was the non violent Gandhi's favourite text.
Difference is that Bhagavad Gita is sanctified by time -
so the glosses and interpretations now are as well known as the literal
text.
Even so the moral messages of Liber Al ought to make sense to modern
society -
and maybe they don't. If anything Thelemites often talk of being amoral -
or of the triumph of the will?
We are maybe stuck with a scripture that just isn't subtle enough for
the modern world?
"Love and do what you will"
Mogg Morgan
On 05/02/2011 22:42, Caroline Tully wrote:
> Although it could all be true(ish). It's not the first time nutters have
> gone even nuttier with the help of a religious text.
>
> And that brings up the question, to me anyway: How do we interpret The Book
> of the Law? It's tricksy and poetic, people think they know what it means,
> but do they? Does it mean anything at all?
>
> ~Caroline.
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