The Total Essays of Thomas Voxfire
Copyright © 2004
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Aleister Crowley – Father of the Aeon What makes “bad words” bad? Can we share this beautiful planet? Common mind Concerning ownership Controlling migraines with Yoga Coping with boredom Death (unfinished) Thoughts on Democracy Dominion Eight limbs of Yoga Golden Man Have I been here before? Kundalini Law of karma Passage of Aeons Peer Pressure Raising and educating kids (notes) Something from nothing The Case for Sun Worship The I Ching and Astrology Why gangs? Why we have nuclear weapons Window on the world
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ALEISTER CROWLEY:
Father of the New Age by Thomas Voxfire "Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful..." Liber Al vel Legis, Chapter II, verse 78 (The God Hadit describing Aleister Crowley) In April of 1904, an Englishman named Edward Alexander (Aleister) Crowley entered a room in a Cairo hotel and was dictated a book by a praeterhuman intelligence who called himself Aiwass. This book, simply titled THE BOOK OF THE LAW, laid down a new law and ordained a new age for mankind. This new law was the law of Thelema (ΘΗΛΕΜΑ - the Greek word for will) and stated that Man and Woman are to find and live by their own divine nature. This finding of one's own divinity is to be accomplished by utilizing the dual systems of attainment of Eastern yoga and Western ceremonial magick. This "New Age", technically titled the Aeon of Horus, placed the Hawk-Headed Sun God of Ancient Egypt on the throne of the earth to replace the old God, Osiris. The formula of Osiris, the Egyptian God of the Dead, is Love, Death & Resurrection: the way of the dying and resurrected god of which Jesus of Nazareth is an excellent example. The formula of Horus (or Ra-Hoor-Khuit, as He calls