"Thelema" come etica di vita

Thelema e' soprattutto una Corrente, un metodo, un approccio, e non un Ordine di per sé, sebbene derivi da Ordini precisi attraverso i quali la formula del Thelema é stata annunciata al mondo, ovvero l’OTO, o meglio quell’aspetto dell’OTO che ha pienamente recepito il Libro della Legge, e, piú direttamente, l’AA fondato da Aleister Crowley stesso.

Ma la Corrente 93 insegna a trascendere la necessitá di strutture organizzate, di profeti, di maestri, di libri sacri e di metodi dogmatici, per restituire nelle mani di ogni Uomo e Donna la capacitá ed il dovere di autodeterminare, in piena libertá, la propria formula realizzativa. E questo va oltre ció che lo stesso Crowley, in buona fede e comunque portando avanti un lavoro straordinario, intese.

Diventa quindi un ingrediente capace di impostare tutti quei ricercatori e quei sodalizi verso i principi di Luce, Amore, Vita e Libertá che devono illuminare il cammino di ognuno verso l’emancipazione e la realizzazione della Grande Opera.

In questo senso una qualunque esperienza di vita e di ricerca, materiale e spirituale, puó essere “thelemizzata” ed ispirarsi dunque per via naturale ai principi enunciati nel Libro della Legge, e dunque condurre una libera linea di sperimentazione e di evoluzione concettuale e operativa: il metodo é la Scienza, il fine la Religione, e non il contrario.

L’Iniziato é sempre colui che ha scelto – e che consapevolmente conferma con coerenza giorno dopo giorno – di assumere la responsabilitá dei poteri spirituali. Lo fa per se stesso, lo fa per gli altri, colloca se stesso in un disegno piú esteso ed entra in sintonia con Forze, interne e d esterne a sé, in armonia con il Progetto Umano.

Il libero arbitrio é l’elemento da riconquistare e da applicare al di lá di ogni forma di restrizione e Thelema rende piú intenso ed evidente questo aspetto. Con Thelema il potere del libero arbitrio é centrale: ognuno si rende sempre piú conto di essere fautore ed arbitro del proprio destino, emancipato dai vincoli di forze esterne, predatorie e menzognere. Deve ascoltare se stesso, trovare in sé la giusta via, senza interferire e lasciare che altri interferiscano con la propria natura piú autentica, che va riscoperta ed applicata alla realtá del mondo.

Il thelemita puó realizzare se stesso pienamente, come essere umano e divino, ma anche smarrirsi definitivamente. Purtroppo per come siamo messi normalmente nessuna di queste due cose puó succedere.

Thelema si rifá ad un principio di coscienza. Una coscienza che non giudica ma restituisce all’individuo la dignitá di essere e di decidere, che ispira valori, ma non salva, nel pieno rispetto dell’Io-Dio e della Sua libertá.

Il difficile sta nel fatto che l’Amore é sottoposto alla Volontá. Quella Volontá che consente di realizzarsi o di annullarsi. Infatti, l’individuo, da umiliato schiavo-dipendente, illuso dalla sicurezza di una garantita pagnotta rafferma, tanto per continuare a sopravvivere e a servire, puó invece essere imprenditore di se stesso, assumendosi gli onori e gli oneri di essere artefice della propria creativitá risvegliata, cosciente del suo potere ma altrettanto cosciente che rischia del suo: puó cosí realizzare risultati straordinari e assoluti, ma anche sbagliare e distruggersi: sempre meglio che essere “salvati” da chi ti fará pagare il conto per tutta la tua mediocre vita. In questo rischio sta la nobiltá ed il coraggio della scelta iniziatica. Essere liberi non é facile e noi abbiamo dimenticato come si fa e ne abbiamo paura. E’ piú comodo essere guidati nel ripetitivo labirinto di una gabbia che guidarsi liberi nell’Infinito.

Thelema permette di uscire dall’Eden, ancora una volta. Se lo vogliamo.

The Initiatic Schools

The whole of the knowledge that leads towards the real and complete inner Self-Realization of the Being is handed down by the initiatic schools.

An initiatic school is a structure capable to give a complex and concrete system of theoretical and practical teachings to everybody who desires to evolve towards the complete Awareness of itself and of the reality. Initiatic schools work through special methods and contents that we can resume as the following:

1) Adherence to a doctrinal body:
Just like any school, initiatic schools offer a teaching. This teaching is related to a precise doctrinal body which is related to one tradition. Since there are different doctrinal bodies there are also different types of initiatic schools. If, from a certain point of you, the existence of different teachings may look like a division or a sort of fracture between those are pursuing the same aim of the self-realization, on the other hand it is fear to allow everybody to follow its own particular way. The same Centre is reachable by starting from different points and following different directions.

2) Respect for the Free Will:
All the authentic initiatic schools are always respectful of the free will and of all the choices of life. They always provide teachings and tools so that everybody can manage with increasing awareness its own freedom. Therefore it promotes the discussion, the critical judgment and the thought. The teaching of an initiatic school, even though it is precisely oriented, doesn’t restrict the conscience with “indoctrination”: at the opposite, it enlarges the conscience through the comparison and the direct experimentation. For this reasons when you are part of an initiatic school you are not attending a “course” but rather a “pathway”.

3) Any authentic initiatic school is free and costless.

Satan ?

"'There it lies, I think, Damien . . . possession; not in wars, as some tend to believe; not so much; and very seldom in extraordinary interventions such as here . . . this girl . . . this poor child. No, I see it most often in the little things, Damien; in the senseless, petty spites; the misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Enough of these,' Merrin whispered, 'and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves . . . for ourselves . . .'"

An excerpt from The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Everyone can make game of the unknown.

'Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.'

'Will you tell us what the powers are that the adept possesses?'

'They are enumerated in a Hebrew manuscript of the sixteenth century, which is in my possession. The privileges of him who holds in his right hand the Keys of Solomon and in his left the Branch of the Blossoming Almond are twenty-one. He beholds God face to face without dying, and converses intimately with the Seven Genii who command the celestial army. He is superior to every affliction and to every fear. He reigns with all heaven and is served by all hell. He holds the secret of the resurrection of the dead, and the key of immortality.'

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…doubt was a proof of modesty, which has rarely interfered with the progress of science. But one cannot say the same of incredulity…

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Mr Haddo has given you one definition of magic, and I will give you another. It may be described merely as the intelligent utilization of forces which are unknown, contemned, or misunderstood of the vulgar.

S. Maugham, The Magician

The Aim of Magick

A sentence or two written many years ago by William Quan Judge in his pamphlet An Epitome
of Theosophy express so exactly the impression to be conveyed that it is convenient to quote:
"The real object to be kept in view is to so open up or make porous the lower nature that the
spiritual nature may shine through it and become the guide and ruler. It is only 'cultivated' in
the sense of having a vehicle prepared for its use, into which is may descend."
This conception is likewise the point of view of our magical system. The technical forms of
Magick, such as Pentagram and other rituals, astral assumption of God-forms, evocations (though not necessarily to physical manifestation) of elemental and planetary spirits, skrying in the spirit-vision, and the invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel, are all performed with that single objective held ever before one. Theurgy and the exponents of the Eastern mysticisms are thus in complete accord on the fundamental theoretical principles.

The Quest of the Grail

Each one of us has got its own inner Grail to look for. It is that true and clean point inside of us representing our real essence. This essence keeps the power to solve all the contradictions the daily life puts in front of us and to achieve in having an authentic energetic exchange with this life. Often it seems that we and the reality are travelling on totally different plains: we are immerged in the vortex of things that occur around us but we are not capable to contact the real substance of these things and events. It is from the distance between us and the world that all those problems of frustration, adaptation and aggressiveness are born. However, there is a part of our soul from which the exchange and the communication between us and everything surrounding us proceeds and grows up. It is the deep matrix of our comprehension and real happiness.

Socrates said: “Know yourself and you will know the world”.
This is our Quest.

The magical vision of life

Talking in terms of magic and magical thought doesn’t mean to reduce the importance of the rational and material aspect of things: the magical cycle of life doesn’t deny the rational order of the events, but set itself as a precedent cause. Nowadays the human being is used to think in terms of cause-effect and explains the reality by using this logic and denying the possibility of a different possible order. The magical vision of life, that is the idea that the law of the sequence of events goes beyond the cause-effect principle, is just the heritage of ancient cultures, esoteric schools and initiatic societies. Magic, magical thought and magical vision are related with a way of understanding life not just as a casual fluctuation of events which are organised in a rigid scheme of causes and effects, but as a Whole which dynamically interacts with the individual and collective use of the mind. Nevertheless this way of thinking doesn’t deny the evidence of the relation between cause and effect - at a more elementary and immediate level of observation -, but asserts the parallel existence of synchronised different agents which are simultaneously distributed on different plains of our reality.

Meditation is...

Meditation is sitting.
In appearance it is doing nothing. But in this “nothingness” there is intense action: you are cultivating tranquility and awareness.
When you are fully aware and serene, even your action changes in nature: it’s relaxed, free and satisfying.
Even if for an instant you do “nothing” , you will refind yourself in your centre – you are simply existing. You are meditating.
Meditation does not clash with action. It is not a case of “running” away from life.
In contrast, it’s about learning to live.

Aleister Crowley and the Prana-Therapy

Since I created the Horus Centre and the Prana Centre as well underlining my relationship with Thelema, many people ask to me which is the link between pranatherapy (or pranic-healing) and Magick, Current 93 and Master Therion's teaching.
Well, let Him give you some clue...

This is the Dew of Immortality.
Let this go free, even as It will; thou art not its master,
but the vehicle of It.

(Aleister Crowley, The Book Of Lies)


The essence of Magick is to working upon phenomena by spiritual forms of energy…

… matter is nothing but a sensitive symbol of spiritual causes of phenomena.
At this point we may reach out a hand to the East and droll for a moment upon the general theory of Prana. Prana is usually translated “force”. Perhaps energy would be a better term. We cannot say exactly what it is, but it is that which distinguishes live protoplasm from dead protoplasm. It is that - by virtue of - in which things live and move and have their being. It is a form of energy by whose adroit manipulation one can affect the outward appearances, that is to say the physical phenomena which are its reflection in the grossest world of illusion, that is to say, the world we know.
To give a practical example. If a man is ill, they diagnose that the prana in his body is in some way out of order, and they attempt to cure him by teaching him to control his prana by means of various exercises, principally of breathing, for they claim tha the principle vehicle of prana is the breath.

(Aleister Crowley, The Elixir of Life: Our Magical Medicine)