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Well Crowley himself didn't fend too well following the book of the law when it came to drugs. In his one decissive interpetation of--and limitation upon--the Book of the Law, one which Crowley never incorporated into his formal commentaries, he spoke of his struggles with addiction in his Thelemic vocation in Liber Tzaba, as in this Februrary 20,1922, entry:
"Mine inmost identity says "To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereon": it is lawful to do this, for to worship Him is to make him manifest, & so to fil the world with Truth & Beauty. But I have erred in going too far; the worship has become forced, & fallen into fanatical frenzy which blasphemes Him. [...] I must justify Him (& myself) by making myself unchallengably master of these "means and grace". I must be as capable of using them, & as confident in my capacity, as an engineer is of handling high explosives; & every piece of work undertaken with the aid of these tools, must prove by its perfection that His precepts & His promises are wrought of Righteousness & tested by Truth."~ page 296, Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt.
It kind of reminds me of what Don Juan spoke once to Carlos Castaneda, after Don Juan had used drugs to loosen Carlos hold on his conditioned reality, 'One doesn't have to use drugs to have a mystical experience, but you were like a brick wall and I had to use something effective to bring that wall down.' (of course I paraphrase here).
Michael Harner and some others, who have used drugs and also drumming and music for healing and altered states say that any state one can reach through drugs, one can also do naturally with the body, mind and soul. Myself, I have done drugs, probably every one of them, in moderate amounts, although I do find drumming to be inspiring for invoking visions.
So does one need to go to the extreme crowley did with drugs, to break our cultural trance conditioning? I mean, that was the purpose, right? Could 'strange drugs' that causes trance also be music and drums, tibetian bowls, didjeridoo, etc? I mean if its only drugs, then perhaps Keith Richards is the only true thelemite around. I know my drug use has lessened now that I am almost 52.
279,
Sunwolf
Fr Sabaechit
Well Crowley himself didn't fend too well following the book of the law when it came to drugs. In his one decissive interpetation of--and limitation upon--the Book of the Law, one which Crowley never incorporated into his formal commentaries, he spoke of his struggles with addiction in his Thelemic vocation in Liber Tzaba, as in this Februrary 20,1922, entry:
"Mine inmost identity says "To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereon": it is lawful to do this, for to worship Him is to make him manifest, & so to fil the world with Truth & Beauty. But I have erred in going too far; the worship has become forced, & fallen into fanatical frenzy which blasphemes Him. [...] I must justify Him (& myself) by making myself unchallengably master of these "means and grace". I must be as capable of using them, & as confident in my capacity, as an engineer is of handling high explosives; & every piece of work undertaken with the aid of these tools, must prove by its perfection that His precepts & His promises are wrought of Righteousness & tested by Truth."~ page 296, Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt.
It kind of reminds me of what Don Juan spoke once to Carlos Castaneda, after Don Juan had used drugs to loosen Carlos hold on his conditioned reality, 'One doesn't have to use drugs to have a mystical experience, but you were like a brick wall and I had to use something effective to bring that wall down.' (of course I paraphrase here).
Michael Harner and some others, who have used drugs and also drumming and music for healing and altered states say that any state one can reach through drugs, one can also do naturally with the body, mind and soul. Myself, I have done drugs, probably every one of them, in moderate amounts, although I do find drumming to be inspiring for invoking visions.
So does one need to go to the extreme crowley did with drugs, to break our cultural trance conditioning? I mean, that was the purpose, right? Could 'strange drugs' that causes trance also be music and drums, tibetian bowls, didjeridoo, etc? I mean if its only drugs, then perhaps Keith Richards is the only true thelemite around. I know my drug use has lessened now that I am almost 52.
279,
Sunwolf
Fr Sabaechit
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