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To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (nigris (333)) Subject: Personal Maturity and Thelemites (was More questions...) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:44:04 -0800 (PST) 49991105 IVom Bryce: # If, as Thelemites, our goal is to come into communion with our # True Will: to what extent do we leave our issues behind? coming into communion with true will is one of a number of goals important to the Thelemite. there may be many different steps along the way to this communion, such as a knowledge and conversation with one's holy guardian angel. there may be applications of the true will such as participation in the Great Work of the cosmos, joining or creating some Inner or Outer Order, promulgating the message or principle of the Aeon in a Word or Act, etc. personal issues factor into the development of the Thelemite dependent upon hir ability to integrate all manner of qualities into a sustainable whole. for the magus liabilities become assets and what once seemed a curse becomes a virtuous strength. some issues will be left behind as a dead skin shed, others will be carried into the Great Work with pride. # Will we still experience the emotional and psycho-social # ramifications of our baggage, but be able to see past all of it? # Or, will we simply be detatched enough to not live in our egos # at all? the spiritually adept become aware of their limitations and 'baggage'. some iron out difficulties these cause through a variety of clever deceptions and bootstraps, others reveal their humanity to the world and can become despised as 'not truly adept'. those who progress on all levels (rare, it seems) mature or self-actualize beyond the largest problems (with or without assistance) and may make due with the rest, focussed in areas which do not bring them up (in which case they cease to be 'problems'). Thelema is centered upon healthy egotism. Instructions lauding the destruction of the ego, transcending the ego, removing the ego, or shifting out of ego-operation are disempowering social schemes, often with a side-benefit to some industrious leader and prophet. all Thelemites operate from the ego. the egoless are beyond the realm of 'will' and therefore become as the sociopath and idiot or the ipsissimus and wandering sage: amoral, unpredictable, and obscure. blessed beast! ______________________________________________________________________ (333) nagasiva@luckymojo.com; http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html I don't read everything here; cc me if you absolutely want a response.
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