Dear friends, beautiful and happy people,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The fact that in 2023 e.v., during my appearance before the Court of Appeal of Riom, the President of that court felt compelled, in the course of the proceedings, to describe me as “a mixture of Hannibal Lecter, Rasputin and Dracula” did not, a priori, indicate in that worthy magistrate a marked bias in my favour…
That said, his punchline confers upon me, in the context of my present sojourn, an aura of deliciously uncanny trouble, which I systematically abuse :)
For example, a very beautiful guard, — a young woman of sub-Saharan type, — came just now to bring me my mail, while I was immersed in the Holy Books of Thelema.
I turned around, stared at the intruder for a long time, then said in my least reassuring manner: “It is the hour of the Study of the Texts. The Old Serpent does not wish to be disturbed.”
The scene froze my pretty gaoler, to the point that I suspected the beginning of catalepsy. :)
Finally, after an abnormally long time, she handed me, with a trembling hand, an elegantly stamped letter, which came — since we are speaking of pretty Sub-Saharan — from my dear correspondent A.K., who poses me three questions, to which I propose to reply here, in a simple, accessible and punctual manner:
Question 1: What is True Will?
Let us never tire of hammering the fundamentals: True Will is the consecrated translation of “Thelema” (from Greek θέλημα, “irresistible desire”, “will in its pure state”), which means that you possess exceptional capacities which are absolutely unique.
You are a masterpiece — and a masterpiece different from everything that has ever lived in the history of the world.
More than that, the precise instructions you need for your genius to reveal itself have existed from all eternity — they were already with you when you were not yet a guilty thought.
In other words, you have an “animic code” — a code of the soul — as rigorously personal as your genetic code.
You can call it: the special mission you came to accomplish on earth; the divine blueprint that contains the secret method for being perfectly yourself; the master plan of what your heart desires above all.
There is an energy, a vital force, an impulse that is, through you, transformed into action.
And because there is only one copy of you in the centuries of centuries, this expression is unique.
If you repress it (or allow Choronzon — your ego wounds — to repress it), it will never exist again through any other medium.
It will be lost to the world.
Question 2. How would you define the sephirah Netzach?
Netzach is generally summed up by the apophthegm: “Woman is external virtue and internal corruption”, as in the famous Helmut Newton photograph where the leg of a supermodel is X-rayed.
Philosophically, the idea is very Sardanapalian: however ultra-arousing Kim Kardashian’s body may be, it conceals a skeleton.
And psychologically, to quote the Prophet (blessing & worship to him): “With women, the deeper you go, the rottener it gets.”
I have always suspected this Mystery to be, whatever Jung may say, the true cause of the failure of Orpheus, of holy memory, to exfiltrate Eurydice from the underworld.
Question 3: Why does The Book of the Law allude to Voodoo?
The Book of the Law authorises Voodoo and even expressly refers to it (AL I:37), whereas it forbids and even curses Islam (AL III:52), from which we deduce that Rihanna should never have apologised [for her sample reusing words of Mohammed]: she is Barbadian, Caribbean Voodoo is one of the most formidable in the world, and judging by the ugliness of the Arabs who were threatening her at the time, she certainly had not hesitated to cast a spell on them!
The goddess Nuit tells us in substance: there is something with the Mambo Priestesses that you will no longer find, alas! in Janet in burka, nor in the beurettes of France, who no longer want to be called beurettes, but “fully-fledged French citizens with a recent migratory past of extra-European origin” — These people have no consideration for the porn industry: “Rocco Siffredi bangs fully-fledged French citizens with a recent migratory past of extra-European origin” is less catchy as a title…
But it is a good question:
In what way can Thelemites — who naturally tend to dress “like dandies”, to dine “like gourmets”, to behave like “hunting squires and young men about town” (Djeridensis Comment/AL I:51) — possibly be concerned by Togolese animism?
Well, a hunting squire, dandy, gourmet, man of the world, if he’s not a Thelemite, would reply: “in no way” — considering that Voodoo is the religion of sub-Saharan Africa in its most sub-Saharan aspect — that it is a primitive phenomenon, of cargo-cult type, practised by those Blacks who do not benefit from Catholic food aid, nor from Muslim organisations — that only obese American leftists, enrolled in a particularly gay university curriculum like African studies, define it otherwise — that Voodoo focuses exclusively, in practice, on excessive recourse to drugs, on the stabbing of crudely made dolls, on the kind of garish beads that Blacks (and magpies) love to collect, and on rape — that in terms of doctrine, it is clearly intended for beings whose IQ is room temperature — that the social function of Voodoo is to harm enemies (which in Africa means pretty much everyone), to contact deceased ancestors and to facilitate rape — that outside Benin, Haiti, the ghettos of Louisiana, and a few other hilarious lands where the iPhone has not yet replaced the tom-tom, it interests absolutely no one.
Yet I, who am a hunting squire, dandy, gourmet, man of the world and Thelemite, tell you: Voodoo is, on the contrary, an admirable and infinitely worthy-of-respect religious tradition.
Curious, certainly! at first glance, since in its pantheon, calm, gentle and peaceful entities are not necessarily beneficent forces, and ardent, turbulent and rebellious entities are not necessarily evil forces.
But this ultimately refers to fundamental Shumulism: The disease of kindness handicaps existence more than crack addiction.
By saying “the obeah and the wanga” (AL I:37), Nuit encourages us to remain vigilant in the presence of the calm, gentle and peaceful spirits in our lives: they may be agents of influence, of the Paul of Tarsus type, tasked with softening us in order to disable our action.
She invites us to let ourselves be inspired by ancient creator gods and goddesses, who forged, for play, millions of magnificent things using wind, mud, tears and lightning.
She enjoins us to draw from the furious aspect of our nature, the one that led us out of our mothers’ wombs at the hour of our birth.
Meditate upon this, dear friends, and go your gorgeous ways under the protection of that spiritual sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere, and which we call GOD.
Warm kisses from the Bahamas.
Love is the law, love under will.
— ☉ in 20° ♑︎ : ☽ in 24° ♎︎ : ♄︎ : Vxi.
𓄿𓎛𓂧 𓇋𓈖𓏌
