Incredible research! I was sucked into the OTO during my pagan life and it was a tangled mess of ever evolving self righteousness. When I stood back with a lens of Christ for the first, all of these spaghetti tendrils of gnosis are just a writhing agony of a fallen world.
This is an excellent reference, which illustrates Christ's opposition to the Lawmaker. He destroys the very foundations of Mosaic Law. Christ was condemned by the Law. But his death and resurrection fulfilled Christ's words when he said he would "bind the strong man and plunder his goods". Christ becomes Kyrios - of the living and the dead.
Great research. The emphasis on spiritual autonomy is good but creates a number of pitfalls which can lead to a "Protestantism gone-wild". Personally I am not against Christian antinominalism but at least there is a number of historic guides in place. In the last century or so all sorts of odd fusions have occurred some not so good such as the emerging of hubris + solipsism which breeds a sort of body worship that is akin to archon veneration. If we don't pay attention to the ancient traditions (as you have) and try to invent our own based on urges and emotions we will end up with the Romans.
Is the Demiurge evil, arrogant, or blind? Because of the fragmentary nature of our scripture it will be up to us to sort it out. If Yahweh is the model you are using then “arrogant “ might be a good choice.
Belief in literal evil Demiurge is just an absurd, but sadly many people takes Gnostic texts too literal. Personally I hold Hermetic/Bardaisanite view on planetary forces as agents of God. Yahweh is not a creator in any way and just a pretender.
I guess it’s not taking the texts literal. Paul always talked of reading scripture allegorically. Remember, Bardaisan taught that darkness has no ontology. It is an abyss of ignorance of what is true/good. I know what position you are taking and I respect your polytheistic position. I guess, the demiurge is the ignorant one. And Jesus says himself; Yahweh is a murderer and a liar. I would agree with Jesus on this point.
Yahweh turned his father's creation into his own playground, it's so obvious if you read OT from right perspective. This is also problem with many people who thinks OT is all about Yahweh, Sethian texts are interesting if you read them from perspective of old Hebrew beliefs and some Qumran stuff as well. Look at Isaiah 45:7 from Bardaisanite perspective btw.
You superstitious people are amazing; can't see the Divine in much at all, as you put it in some supernatural world, and can't see it all around you.
The Problem of Luciferianism and the false Left-Hand Path
Social Media and the Internet in general, has created a 'Wild West' for misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and conspiracy theories that not only make it difficult for people to take advantage of the great promise of Social Media and the Internet, but can destroy the truth of history by providing false facts that create ridiculous movements in spiritual pursuit. Sometimes the problem itself in terms of the Western Mystery Tradition has started long before the Internet had become a gleam in the eye of its creators, which specifically applies to the movement called Luciferianism and the Left-Hand Path. This is a fantasia that has caught fire with neophytes and those completely ignorant of the history of Occulture, which in some cases is even bringing harm to people caught up in its frenzy.
The modern Occult movement called Theosophy, no matter the brilliance of Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, has been completely corrupted and compromised by the likes of Annie Besant and Alice Bailey, as they introduced fraud, fantasia, Spiritualism and Christianity into its doctrine; completely confusing its symbols and the symbols of the Western Mystery Tradition. Worse than the messianic worship that they promulgated in their doctrine of a 'World Teacher,' and worse than the false 'Hidden Mahatmas' that also contradicted the teachings that the true 'Hidden Mahatmas' or 'Secret Chiefs' gave to Madame Blavatsky, was the corruption of Hindu teachings that they brought to the West, and the ridiculous Spiritualism that they introduced to replace Occult practices. This has led to what is now a truly big business that operates in billions of dollars, called the New Age.
The false ideology of the New Age has infiltrated more than Theosophy, but also what today is called Wicca and Paganism; particularly, but not limited to the dangerous idea of polyamoury. Now, in itself, there is nothing so much wrong with someone taking on more than one lover; so much everyone is emotionally available to such. But in that, it is not so simple as it may sound; there being many subtle and unconscious difficulties in maturation that need to be overcome, with our cultural conditioning at the center of these difficulties. But worse, as these polyamoury cults rise up in the midst of other movements, such as Wicca, et al., shaming and other forms of manipulation lead to myriad forms of sexual abuse that abound especially in the denigration of women. And we know of several women that have been severely hurt by this; it usually being the case that the women are the ones that become hurt in our culture.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky is one of two major proponents of the Western Mystery Tradition in our time the other being Aleister Crowley; founder of the movement called Thelema. A major writer in this movement, Kenneth Grant, like the Theosophists, introduced misinformation on Hindu teachings; particularly the Vama Marg, as the so-called left-hand path of the Tantrics. Tantric sexual practices involved whether or not the male adorers of the female object of veneration lie down on her left or right side; touching her sexually to release their sexual energy, or not touching her and holding onto their sexual energy. But in the case of the Vama Marg, the so-called left-handed ritual involved the whole of a community, and is outside the theme of this essay. This all has nothing to do with ascending the qabalistic Tree-of-Life, which these Luciferians have mixed in with their overall ignorance.
The Western Mystery Tradition has nothing to do with god worship and the ignorant fear of God. So what this Luciferian movement has done is confused the symbols of Hindu Tantra with Western Occult practices and resurrected a dead god for their worship. So indeed, they're not practicing Occultism, but establishing a new superstitious religion that is as outside the Western Mystery Tradition, as the Christianity they are fighting against in their Manichaen ideology of a war involving an ultimate evil against an ultimate good. They are simply changing the gods that they classify as good and evil; making the Christian good guy, the evil one and the Christian bad guy, the good one. And what they start with in their so-called Luciferianism is a pubescent rebellion against their Christian upbringing. Worse, we see their young mislead adherents in their evangelicism, running around granting each other "Dark Blessings"--completely childish.
In actuality, what both Madame Blavatsky and the Master Therion teach; according to the qabalistic pursuit of the Western Mystery Tradition, that one must first become an adept and then undertake and fail the 'Ordeal of the Abyss'--that then only, one becomes a 'Brother of the Left-Hand Path.' So it is impossible to subscribe to following the Left-Hand Path as an ideology or spiritual practice; the teaching that one could do such, being a confusion of the symbols of the Western Mystery Tradition and the Qabalah (not to mention a complete misunderstanding of Hindu Tantra). This in Liber Trigrammaton is the openly defiant act of the Black Brothers, and we urge the reader to carefully study the teaching in this Holy Book of Thelema. These brothers are not the same as the 'Brothers of the Left-Hand Path,' as the latter will still serve mankind; despite their Will. The Black Brothers do not act in service to mankind; but only to themselves, being the shut-ups discussed obliquely in chapter 89 of Crowley's Book of Lies.
Bro, if you don't like ideas presented in the article, why do you even running your mouth then? Go and preach your materialistic philosophy on your own substack.
Brother, Thelema is, at best - an intellectual emptying which makes room to be filled with something more insidious that inflates all the ego of man on its way.
You can find some interesting stuff within Thelema, but on the other hand it's free for all no holds barred approach, which ultimately is more bad than good.
When I was in it, I found to be like a ritualistic sandbox. There was so much to explore and without boundaries or moral quandry or even responsibility. But there was a conversation I had with a Thelemic brother when we talked about whether or not it was right to murder as it says in Liber OZ (" Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.") and we got caught in a loop of "if it is your will, under love, then [x outcome]". I felt it was just wrong to position yourself as being above others, let alone murder them for not understanding something we could barely explain to each other. I deeply worry about the gnostic path as it can be a Rorschach text for the worst parts of our broken human nature.
Personally I'm looking on Thelema though Christian Gnostic/pagan perspective like Hadit representing divine spark within creation and Nuit material creation itself, which goes inline with ancient beliefs where God was associated with spiritual and Goddess with material.
Some time ago I've read Daat Darling's post here on substack where she said that hedonism blocking people from discovering their true will when it's just her subjective opinion and she cannot be fully sure if such lifestyle really blocking someone from their true will. Not even to mention that entire concept of true will itself is purely subjective, so nobody should blame Crowley for not discovering his true will when you cannot be sure if it's even possible at all.
I think the entire notion of what makes 'free will' is that you can never truly take hold of it no matter how you chose to dance around the subject. Hence the strength and purpose it has when it is your will to chose Jesus above all other things of this world and the outer. Thelema is dog water. Crowley was such a backwards, selfish and rudderless man. He was the perfect vessel for what came out of him. And what was created was an organization with subjective ranks to command its subscribers (ie free masonry) and a power structure that would be dedicated to a deity seeking influence and a return to power. Hadit and Nuit are just Adam and Eve rebranded to suit the Egyptian Pantheon and lift up Thoth. Where they get a say on what is will, let alone what is just and right, baffles me in the legions of gnosis. One of the post powerful parts of Christianity is that it is all encompassing of all four forms of justice; distributive, procedural, retributive and restorative. And that it can show its work in the history of the supernatural Bible (especially if you move off of the Masoretic text). Do you know Dr Michael Heiser? He's an ancient languages professor who has utterly unlocked the supernatural worldview of the Bible. Baffling for me as an ex-occultist how it was casually forgotten by dogma for the last 1500 years.
True will is not the same as free will, it's something you must discover at first and then follow it like becoming great architect for example, at least this is what materialistic oriented person would say, because spiritual one could take completely different understanding of this term. That's why I've said this is purely subjective.
Crowley obviously was not a perfect man and he never claimed to be one, I see some value in his writings, but I'm not Thelemite at all.
Idk from you got this idea that Hadit and Nuit are rebranded Adam and Eve.
Your ideas about the Left Hand Path are entirely incorrect. The LHP is in the Western Mystery Tradition, about someone who has failed the ordeal of the Abyss. He or she is then called a Brother of the Left Hand Path. The populist ideas on this have been created out of ignorance. I deed, there is no Left and no Right in this matter.
Incredible research! I was sucked into the OTO during my pagan life and it was a tangled mess of ever evolving self righteousness. When I stood back with a lens of Christ for the first, all of these spaghetti tendrils of gnosis are just a writhing agony of a fallen world.
Thanks, this is going to be archived. It was written during a very difficult period of my life.
You can keep this for others.
The Ophites saw the war between the NT and the OT. Mat 10:35
They went beyond Marcion.
The NT makes more sense if we use the Ophite framework
This is an excellent reference, which illustrates Christ's opposition to the Lawmaker. He destroys the very foundations of Mosaic Law. Christ was condemned by the Law. But his death and resurrection fulfilled Christ's words when he said he would "bind the strong man and plunder his goods". Christ becomes Kyrios - of the living and the dead.
Great research. The emphasis on spiritual autonomy is good but creates a number of pitfalls which can lead to a "Protestantism gone-wild". Personally I am not against Christian antinominalism but at least there is a number of historic guides in place. In the last century or so all sorts of odd fusions have occurred some not so good such as the emerging of hubris + solipsism which breeds a sort of body worship that is akin to archon veneration. If we don't pay attention to the ancient traditions (as you have) and try to invent our own based on urges and emotions we will end up with the Romans.
Do you believe in evil Demiurge and his Archons?
Is the Demiurge evil, arrogant, or blind? Because of the fragmentary nature of our scripture it will be up to us to sort it out. If Yahweh is the model you are using then “arrogant “ might be a good choice.
Belief in literal evil Demiurge is just an absurd, but sadly many people takes Gnostic texts too literal. Personally I hold Hermetic/Bardaisanite view on planetary forces as agents of God. Yahweh is not a creator in any way and just a pretender.
I guess it’s not taking the texts literal. Paul always talked of reading scripture allegorically. Remember, Bardaisan taught that darkness has no ontology. It is an abyss of ignorance of what is true/good. I know what position you are taking and I respect your polytheistic position. I guess, the demiurge is the ignorant one. And Jesus says himself; Yahweh is a murderer and a liar. I would agree with Jesus on this point.
Yahweh turned his father's creation into his own playground, it's so obvious if you read OT from right perspective. This is also problem with many people who thinks OT is all about Yahweh, Sethian texts are interesting if you read them from perspective of old Hebrew beliefs and some Qumran stuff as well. Look at Isaiah 45:7 from Bardaisanite perspective btw.
You superstitious people are amazing; can't see the Divine in much at all, as you put it in some supernatural world, and can't see it all around you.
The Problem of Luciferianism and the false Left-Hand Path
Social Media and the Internet in general, has created a 'Wild West' for misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and conspiracy theories that not only make it difficult for people to take advantage of the great promise of Social Media and the Internet, but can destroy the truth of history by providing false facts that create ridiculous movements in spiritual pursuit. Sometimes the problem itself in terms of the Western Mystery Tradition has started long before the Internet had become a gleam in the eye of its creators, which specifically applies to the movement called Luciferianism and the Left-Hand Path. This is a fantasia that has caught fire with neophytes and those completely ignorant of the history of Occulture, which in some cases is even bringing harm to people caught up in its frenzy.
The modern Occult movement called Theosophy, no matter the brilliance of Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, has been completely corrupted and compromised by the likes of Annie Besant and Alice Bailey, as they introduced fraud, fantasia, Spiritualism and Christianity into its doctrine; completely confusing its symbols and the symbols of the Western Mystery Tradition. Worse than the messianic worship that they promulgated in their doctrine of a 'World Teacher,' and worse than the false 'Hidden Mahatmas' that also contradicted the teachings that the true 'Hidden Mahatmas' or 'Secret Chiefs' gave to Madame Blavatsky, was the corruption of Hindu teachings that they brought to the West, and the ridiculous Spiritualism that they introduced to replace Occult practices. This has led to what is now a truly big business that operates in billions of dollars, called the New Age.
The false ideology of the New Age has infiltrated more than Theosophy, but also what today is called Wicca and Paganism; particularly, but not limited to the dangerous idea of polyamoury. Now, in itself, there is nothing so much wrong with someone taking on more than one lover; so much everyone is emotionally available to such. But in that, it is not so simple as it may sound; there being many subtle and unconscious difficulties in maturation that need to be overcome, with our cultural conditioning at the center of these difficulties. But worse, as these polyamoury cults rise up in the midst of other movements, such as Wicca, et al., shaming and other forms of manipulation lead to myriad forms of sexual abuse that abound especially in the denigration of women. And we know of several women that have been severely hurt by this; it usually being the case that the women are the ones that become hurt in our culture.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky is one of two major proponents of the Western Mystery Tradition in our time the other being Aleister Crowley; founder of the movement called Thelema. A major writer in this movement, Kenneth Grant, like the Theosophists, introduced misinformation on Hindu teachings; particularly the Vama Marg, as the so-called left-hand path of the Tantrics. Tantric sexual practices involved whether or not the male adorers of the female object of veneration lie down on her left or right side; touching her sexually to release their sexual energy, or not touching her and holding onto their sexual energy. But in the case of the Vama Marg, the so-called left-handed ritual involved the whole of a community, and is outside the theme of this essay. This all has nothing to do with ascending the qabalistic Tree-of-Life, which these Luciferians have mixed in with their overall ignorance.
The Western Mystery Tradition has nothing to do with god worship and the ignorant fear of God. So what this Luciferian movement has done is confused the symbols of Hindu Tantra with Western Occult practices and resurrected a dead god for their worship. So indeed, they're not practicing Occultism, but establishing a new superstitious religion that is as outside the Western Mystery Tradition, as the Christianity they are fighting against in their Manichaen ideology of a war involving an ultimate evil against an ultimate good. They are simply changing the gods that they classify as good and evil; making the Christian good guy, the evil one and the Christian bad guy, the good one. And what they start with in their so-called Luciferianism is a pubescent rebellion against their Christian upbringing. Worse, we see their young mislead adherents in their evangelicism, running around granting each other "Dark Blessings"--completely childish.
In actuality, what both Madame Blavatsky and the Master Therion teach; according to the qabalistic pursuit of the Western Mystery Tradition, that one must first become an adept and then undertake and fail the 'Ordeal of the Abyss'--that then only, one becomes a 'Brother of the Left-Hand Path.' So it is impossible to subscribe to following the Left-Hand Path as an ideology or spiritual practice; the teaching that one could do such, being a confusion of the symbols of the Western Mystery Tradition and the Qabalah (not to mention a complete misunderstanding of Hindu Tantra). This in Liber Trigrammaton is the openly defiant act of the Black Brothers, and we urge the reader to carefully study the teaching in this Holy Book of Thelema. These brothers are not the same as the 'Brothers of the Left-Hand Path,' as the latter will still serve mankind; despite their Will. The Black Brothers do not act in service to mankind; but only to themselves, being the shut-ups discussed obliquely in chapter 89 of Crowley's Book of Lies.
Bro, if you don't like ideas presented in the article, why do you even running your mouth then? Go and preach your materialistic philosophy on your own substack.
Brother, Thelema is, at best - an intellectual emptying which makes room to be filled with something more insidious that inflates all the ego of man on its way.
You can find some interesting stuff within Thelema, but on the other hand it's free for all no holds barred approach, which ultimately is more bad than good.
When I was in it, I found to be like a ritualistic sandbox. There was so much to explore and without boundaries or moral quandry or even responsibility. But there was a conversation I had with a Thelemic brother when we talked about whether or not it was right to murder as it says in Liber OZ (" Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.") and we got caught in a loop of "if it is your will, under love, then [x outcome]". I felt it was just wrong to position yourself as being above others, let alone murder them for not understanding something we could barely explain to each other. I deeply worry about the gnostic path as it can be a Rorschach text for the worst parts of our broken human nature.
Personally I'm looking on Thelema though Christian Gnostic/pagan perspective like Hadit representing divine spark within creation and Nuit material creation itself, which goes inline with ancient beliefs where God was associated with spiritual and Goddess with material.
Some time ago I've read Daat Darling's post here on substack where she said that hedonism blocking people from discovering their true will when it's just her subjective opinion and she cannot be fully sure if such lifestyle really blocking someone from their true will. Not even to mention that entire concept of true will itself is purely subjective, so nobody should blame Crowley for not discovering his true will when you cannot be sure if it's even possible at all.
I think the entire notion of what makes 'free will' is that you can never truly take hold of it no matter how you chose to dance around the subject. Hence the strength and purpose it has when it is your will to chose Jesus above all other things of this world and the outer. Thelema is dog water. Crowley was such a backwards, selfish and rudderless man. He was the perfect vessel for what came out of him. And what was created was an organization with subjective ranks to command its subscribers (ie free masonry) and a power structure that would be dedicated to a deity seeking influence and a return to power. Hadit and Nuit are just Adam and Eve rebranded to suit the Egyptian Pantheon and lift up Thoth. Where they get a say on what is will, let alone what is just and right, baffles me in the legions of gnosis. One of the post powerful parts of Christianity is that it is all encompassing of all four forms of justice; distributive, procedural, retributive and restorative. And that it can show its work in the history of the supernatural Bible (especially if you move off of the Masoretic text). Do you know Dr Michael Heiser? He's an ancient languages professor who has utterly unlocked the supernatural worldview of the Bible. Baffling for me as an ex-occultist how it was casually forgotten by dogma for the last 1500 years.
Heiser is great. I have followed his work from the day he started the Naked Bible podcast.
True will is not the same as free will, it's something you must discover at first and then follow it like becoming great architect for example, at least this is what materialistic oriented person would say, because spiritual one could take completely different understanding of this term. That's why I've said this is purely subjective.
Crowley obviously was not a perfect man and he never claimed to be one, I see some value in his writings, but I'm not Thelemite at all.
Idk from you got this idea that Hadit and Nuit are rebranded Adam and Eve.
What are your beliefs btw?
Your ideas about the Left Hand Path are entirely incorrect. The LHP is in the Western Mystery Tradition, about someone who has failed the ordeal of the Abyss. He or she is then called a Brother of the Left Hand Path. The populist ideas on this have been created out of ignorance. I deed, there is no Left and no Right in this matter.
How anyone from the LHP can be dogmatic about what LHP is or is not, is entirely contradictory to the very foundations of the LHP.
Better look at your own church, which is de facto atheistic.
"I deed" = Indeed
It’s just a concept based on the research I have done on ophite and Canaanite beliefs ☺️.