Author Archives: setemheb

Grady McMurtry on the Temple of Set

While flipping through the first volume of “The Magickal Link” I came across the following in Vol. I, No 5 May 1981 in the column “Grand Lodge Report”:  A few weeks ago, the Grand Lodge met with the three principal officers of the TEMPLE OF SET. this body has no relationship to Grant’s work orContinue reading “Grady McMurtry on the Temple of Set”

Thelemic History Reading

The history of Thelema as a social movement can best to understood comprehensively through the following list of resources https://blog.thelema.dev/thelemic-history-reading-guide/ Alan Willm’s blog is an excellent resource for those seeking to understand the A.’.A.’. system and the people who continue to work it. His history guide provides insights from first person accounts from practitioners, non-practitionerContinue reading “Thelemic History Reading”

Other Magi of the Aeon of Horus

By the design of the A.’.A.’. a Recognition was supposed to coincide with the Recognition of another into the Degree you were vacating. Before you could become a Zelator, you were supposed to find someone to take your place as a Neophyte. This design would ensure that a superior could teach something to an inferiorContinue reading “Other Magi of the Aeon of Horus”

To Mega Therion and the Aeon

1909, based upon the Enochian visions described in The Vision and the Voice, Crowley would claim the Grade of Magister Templi within his A.’.A.’. The comment published with The Vision and the Voice in 1911 CE outlines the doctrine of Aeons drawn from the repeated use of the term “Aeon” in his visions and their association with HorusContinue reading “To Mega Therion and the Aeon”

The Beast and the Book

Aleister Crowley’s family had been members of the Plymouth Brethren, a community of worshipers whose Christian doctrine derived from the world of John Nelson Darby (1800 CE– 1882 CE). Like many 19th Century Christians, notably the American Baptist William Miller (1782 CE – 1849 CE), Darby felt that the time of Great Revelation was atContinue reading “The Beast and the Book”

Saturday Quote

Of course the world forces us all to compromise with our environment to some extent, and we only waste our strength if we fight pitched battles for points which are not worth a skirmish. It is only a faddist who refuses to conform with conventions of dress and the like. But our sincerity should be Roman about things that really matter to us. And I am still in doubt, as I write these words, as to how far it is right to employ strategy and diplomacy in order to gain one’s point. The great men of the world have stood up and taken their medicine … Adaptation to one’s environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much harder stuff than the rest that no power on Earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs. Confessions, Aleister Crowley