Are you new to Thelema?
Are you new to Thelema and looking for good beginner resources? Here is helpful list of beginner friendly books, podcasts, YouTube channels, and other online resources. They are listed in no particular order.
Beginner Thelema book recommendations:
Easier Crowley texts to start with:
* Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley
* Magick without Tears by Aleister Crowley
* The Law is for All by Aleister Crowley
Other great intro books to start with:
* Living Thelema by David Shoemaker
* The Magick of Aleister Crowley by Lon Milo Duquette
* The Chicken Qabalah by Lon Milo Duquette
* The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley by Richard Kaczynski
* Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski
* Abrahadabra: Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thelemic Magic by Rodney Orpheus
* Thelema: An Introduction to the Life, Work & Philosophy of Aleister Crowley by Colin D. Campbell
Thelema resources online:
YouTube channels:
* Maevius Lynn: https://www.youtube.com/c/MaeviusLynn
* O.T.O. USA: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdoTempliOrientisUSA
* Blazing Star O.T.O.: https://www.youtube.com/@BlazingStarOTO
* Horizon O.T.O.: https://www.youtube.com/@horizon-oto
* Sekhet Maat O.T.O.: https://www.youtube.com/@sekhetmaat5987
* Dionysius Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/@dionysiusrogers3548
* Living Thelema with David Shoemaker: https://www.youtube.com/@livingthelema5221
* Temple of the Silver Star: https://youtube.com/c/TempleoftheSilverStar
* Speech in Silence:
https://www.youtube.com/user/speechinthesilence
* Entelecheia: https://www.youtube.com/@entelecheia
* Lon Milo DuQuette - Arcanum Luminarium: https://www.youtube.com/@Arcanumluminarium
* Sword and Serpent Oasis Learning Library
https://www.youtube.com/@swordandserpentoasislearni8589
Podcasts:
* Living Thelema on Apple podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-thelema/id935174735
* Thelema Now:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thelema-now-crowley-ritual-magick/id325185715
* Speech in Silence:
https://www.speechinthesilence.com/
Website resources:
* Internet Sacred Text Archive: https://www.sacred-texts.com/
* Hermetic Library: https://hermetic.com/
* Thelemistas: https://thelemistas.org/en/
* Thelemapedia: https://www.thelemapedia.org/
* O.T.O. Online library: https://lib.oto-usa.org/
* Ra-Hoor-Khuit Network's Magickal Library:
https://www.rahoorkhuit.net/library/ceremonial/
* Zero Equals Two: http://zeroequalstwo.net/
* Qabalah resource: https://nofaithinthehumanrace.com/
* From the Mouth of the Beast. Introductory Thelemic texts:
http://lapis-mercurii.org/motb/
* Occult meaning of colors and high res art:
https://keepsilence.org/colors/
* Scans from the Equinox: https://keepsilence.org/the-equinox/
Thelemic Organizations:
* Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.): https://oto.org/
* Typhonian Order (T.O.): http://www.starfirepublishing.co.uk/
* A∴A∴:
* https://onestarinsight.org/
* https://outercol.org/
* https://www.thelema.org/aa/
* Temple of the Silver Star: https://totss.org/
* College of Thelema: https://www.thelema.org/college_of_thelema/
128 notes
·
View notes
About me:
I'm a solitary practitioner who's came from christianity to buddhism to witchcraft and thelema.
A regular meditator and yoga practitioner.
I don't do spell work, laying my focus on growth and exploration of the self. The Great Work as it where.
I'm deeply inspired by thelema, its cosmology, theology and practices.
Besides that, I'm an out and open gay 🌈 man who loves to hike with his doggos 🐕 , kayaking, reading/watching hard(ish) scifi and fantasy.
I like treating my friends to good homemade food and relating boring facts about history and culture.
0 notes
Tumblr Get To Know Me Emojis
🎨 = Favorite Color(s)?
Soft blues and pastels in general.
🌅 = Early Bird or Night Owl?
Early bird, but not by choice. Career and parenting forced me into short sleep cycles and early mornings. Now it's just how I am.
👀 = Eye Color?
Hazel. They tend to shift with what I am wearing and you emotions. When I am very happy, they are a clear, bright green. When I am in pain or sad, they are an almost white shade of grey. When I am annoyed or deep in thought, it appears a bright blue. When I am ready to break someone they get large dollops of gold and brown.
🤩 = Celebrity Crush?
I have a few. I'll put pictures here.
But Stevie Nicks,
the late Laura Brannigan,
Ann Wilson of Heart,
The Corr sisters,
Orla Gartland, who is one of the most incredible singers out there.
Nathalie Miranda, who has a gritty, passionate voice that blows me away (plus she is just plain sweet and nice and hard working)
Julia Jones (actually being part Native American i am rather drawn to all my relations there),
Tia Carrera (I have a strong attraction and desire towards Asia/Pacific women and men),
Julia Nunes, whose career i have been following since 2008, and is the hardest working, most gorgeous AND talented woman on the freaking planet. There is some REAL brains and guts for you!
Richard Dean Anderson,
and oh my Gods who ISN'T attracted to Jason Momoa?! (Drools)
📺 = Favorite Childhood TV Show(s)?
Battlestar Galactica, MacGyver, Knight Rider
💈= Current Hair Color?
Sandy. It is a blend of grey, silver, blonde, brown, and red highlights
🔐 = Relationship Status?
Open/Poly. Today, as I am writing this, is 28 years married and 30 years dating earlier this year (March 23). I have dated both men and women, and while I still "bi-cycle" it tends to go 40-40-20 one way or the other. (Women, men, other)
🌎 = What Country Are You From?
Same 💩hole I'm in now, United (that's a freaking laugh!) States of America
🙀 = Favorite Scary Movie?
Hellraiser or Event Horizon
🔮 = Advice You Would Give To Your Younger Self?
Oh Gods, REAMS! I'll do that later, maybe even in video form.
🎊 = Favorite Holiday?
Lughnasadh or Mabon
🐉 = Zodiac Symbol?
Virgo in Tropical system, Leo in Sidereal
🏘 = Any Siblings?
I am one of 10 by my dad, but my moms only child
✨ = If You Could Be Any Supernatural Creature, What Would You Be?
Good question. I need time to think about that.
📏 = How Tall Are You?
Five foot none inches aka 175.26 CM
🤓 = Do You Wear Glasses?
No, but I am pretty sure I need them
🍿 = Favorite Snack?
Slices apples, bananas, pears, jellied cranberry sauce, yogurt covered raisins
🐶 = Any Pets?
5 cats. I also have a mated couple of deer who like to come see me and sit with me in the morning. I don't feed them and haven't done anything to make this occur. They just picked me. The coyote pack on Lake Hartwell did the same for years.
👽 = Do You Believe in Aliens?
Seems like an awful big waste of space and probably mathematically impossible for there NOT to be.
🥑 = Favorite Food(s)?
Avocados, pizza, extra sharp Cheddar, grapes, pumpkins, squash, succotash
⏰ = Current Time Zone?
Eastern daylight aka -5 GMT
🗓 = Favorite Season?
Autumn
💅 = Do You Wear Makeup?
Does nail polish count? I have in the past and probably will again. I have no interest nor attachments to gender norms, but I also have 0 desire to do anything out of the way to flaunt them.
💉 = Do You Have Tattoos?
I wish. Too expensive. I want the art in the cover of Liber Aba and a few other things, but just haven't had the means when I had the will.
📍 = What’s The Furthest You’ve Travelled?
Well, my memory is damaged due to a prescription med interaction in 2016, but I can tell you I have been on every Continent except Antarctica.
💔 = Have You Ever Had Your Heart Broken?
Multiple times. If you love for real, you're going to hurt. Brian Moshpit, Danny from school, Shannon from Junior high..you can love and let go, and still find strength in that love while just being happy and hoping they are happy.
☎️ = What’s The Last Text You Received?
A 🤬 advert from Chili's
🏀 = What Sport(s) Do You Play/Have You Played?
I used to play soccer (REAL football!), field hockey, ice hockey, baseball, and golf (terribly! Got called the divot king)
💀 = Have You Ever Broken A Bone?
Have one healing right now, my left foot. I've had 35 total in my lifetime.
❓ = Freebie Question (Ask Whatever You Want)
Fire away. Let's hear some!
Thanks to the following for sharing!
@syven-siren
@serpentandthreads
@a-witch-named-crow
1 note
·
View note
Le 4chan Therians
Perhaps one of the funniest experiences I had during my time on 4chan's occult communities?
Back ten years ago, a guy explained to me an intense series of experiences he had during his occult explorations where (he felt) he'd discovered that he was a hawk on some sort of spiritual level.
He had collections of photos of raptors, trying to figure out which, in particular, type of hawk these visions entailed. He listened to raptor sounds on YouTube? He fully admitted it "sounded like an otherkin thing" and probably was "something like that."
He firmly insisted that, regardless of what he was experiencing, he would never delve too deeply, talk too much, or "get involved with those therians." I was a bit curious, so I asked why.
His reasoning was simply that "otherkin are stupid tumblerinas" and he himself was a legitimate ceremonial magician. He, apparently, had a reputation to maintain in the Aleister Crowley fandom or whatever.
I wonder what happened to that guy. 🤣🤣🤣
31 notes
·
View notes