Suffering:

 

Suffering:

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

"Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far."

Fredrich Nietzsche:

Anyone can agree that the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha are perfect, indeed it is a flawless doctrine. The doctrine states that life is suffering, and that desire and attachment leads to suffering and the only way to escape suffering is to detach from these, relinquish desire and follow the path of Buddhism, which demands adhering to the moral injunctions of Buddhism. Although for this doctrine to validate itself one must buy into the idea that suffering is something that needs to be avoided. Herein lies its fundamental flaw, as in death we all escape this suffering and there is nothing in death. So, worshipping death, or nihilism is contrary to the feeling of anyone who finds the experience of life to be divine, that the phenomenological experience itself is divine and that the world around us should be embraced and not escaped from. The doctrine opens up the idea of good and evil and assumes a holier than thou attitude from the start and actually misses the mark completely. There is no maturation for any individual without conflict, and the aim is not to find inner peace, the aim should rather be to find harmony with the universe around us. Withdrawing from the world and proceeding with an endless inner dialogue in the most peaceful of surroundings, is no way dissimilar from locking oneself up in a mental institution, crazy people are also scared of everything. It is a doctrine of cowardice and slavery, and indeed as Crowley mentions in Liber Aleph, and the only thing Buddha is credited for was giving us the nature of consciousness, the precepts and the noble truths, the doctrine, is not what he is venerated for in our tradition.

Every man and every woman is a universe, we, each, are a microcosm fully imbued with all the elements that pervade the macrocosm. Within us there is violent conflict between these elements, this conflict should be stilled and once it is stilled, we come to the Great Work. The same nature of conflict is present all around us, through Magick we learn that the character of the conflict changes as we change ourselves, hence we are indeed reflecting what is happening internally and changing objective reality as we harmonize the elements inside of ourselves. War is good for progress, it is a fact that cannot be argued against, and the same is true for inner conflict, reflecting the suffering of life. Without it we do not learn, we do not grow, we merely accept the basest nature of ourselves, and the whole idea stands in conflict with what life is. Life, which is change includes adapting and growing, the nature of the universe is evolution, or constant change. Nature does not make mistakes, thus the Buddhists insisting that being alive in this horrible world of suffering is a mistake, is the big mistake. When two forces unite in conflict, the battlefield is made fertile and new life springs from the decay, the same is true for any country that lies in ruins after a war, it is built anew to greater prosperity. Herein lies the Formula of I.A.O. Isis, Mother (Life and Peace), Apophis, Conflict with the Elements, Embracing Suffering (Decay) and Osiris is the flowering of the New Life. A magician knows that the intensity of the ordeal will equate to the level of change experienced, so that while the universe is destroying itself, he basks joyfully in the knowledge, that it is his Will that is done. Suffering makes us stronger and increases the circumference of experience to include a more complete perspective of divinity, thus from the start of one’s incarnation as a magician, there is no aim to escape suffering, but to seek it out and to overcome it by uniting with it, thus learning from it, to be fortified by experience and transcend it.

One may conclude that the nature of Being is never changing, Anata the highest aim of Buddhism remains the same for everyone and that its realization is incumbent to everything that experiences incarnation, so instead of just Anata, the Will is important. What every particular individual does with his incarnation is important, thus Being becomes his canvas, as he aligns his aspiration with the divine Will and becomes a hero with the courage and conviction to embrace pain and fully appreciate his freedom.  

“Love is the law, love under will.”