Love and Will:

 

Love and Will:

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

Objective morality of good and evil such as that given to us by the organized religions of the world, the religions of the slaves, indeed designed to be as the owners of slaves, limit us in our search for divine truth. This truth embedded in the heart of every man and woman can only be found in the immediacy of the divine around us. So, what these religions tend to do is separate us from this union by giving us a made-up set of rules to follow to misplaced attention, in order that we may one day find ourselves seated next to some imagined god. This idea is limiting to the Will, as each’s Will naturally strives towards an impossible end, as it is an infinite end, and it is within the striving or becoming, that we find God inside of our limited selves. The Adam Qadmon and Shekinah are two very important qabalistic principles, that basically can be understood as our idea of what god is, both in its indifferent and entirely personal respects, being the Adam Qadmon. And the Shekinah, who in Thelema is our Mother Babalon, and relates to the Holy Spirit, that inspires Agape, meaning Love of God and for God. These ideas are naturally of such a character that limiting them by analysis seems like blasphemy. Although these ideas have taken on a new meaning in the Aeon of Horus, wherein each and every human being is the Crowned and Conquering Child, a God, or Goddess who no longer needs the superstition of the Old Aeon to maintain a connection with that which is truly divine. Herein lies its own difficulty, which is that of responsibility, as there is no compass in this New Aeon, the shores are yet unexplored, but as ever they are eternal. To find truth without direction is a hard task and so we are fitted with the responsibility to know ourselves at the beginning, hence the self is one’s only map towards truth. Who am I, is to say what is eternity, or what is God?

In order for any of us to find our True Wills we must explore, those things that we love, the things that fill us with joy are hints to the nature of each’s being and after we must look to the things to which we are averse and ruminate on what the reason for the aversion may be. As all human beings are animals, how is it, that another person can find beauty in that by which I am repulsed, what do they see or feel that I don't? This is how we explore the nature of our souls, each of us is entirely unique, and in our uniqueness lies one’s very important relationship with Nature. To fully unite with Nature is the aim of magick, she is our mother; and she guides us through life and often her face provokes panic. We are always reminded by this rumination never to avert our eyes and cower away, to stay strong, as in her lay the gifts of magick power. Perhaps one may admit, that the most terrifying, the most uncomfortable parts of her, are the ones that we must most strive to understand and to fall in love and unite with. This falling in love is continual and it is a struggle, as it should be, indeed it is violent and painful and very beautiful. It is this love of life and struggle, that in a sense must be one’s lover, through whom we continually grow and develop insights that without her, were impossible.  

“Love is the law, love under will.”