Thelema Means Freedom!

By Frater Pyramidatus
Brian Adam Newman 2011
1. In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth, and send forth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave
the soul. Yet therein is the Mystery of Redemption.
Why I wrote this paper:
This paper is an apologetic almost. At the time of writing, the 18th of March 2011, there has been a
recent scandal about Ritual Abuse in Wales which I looked at in a local internet caf, from the
mouth of a Liverpudlian Christian man on www.youtube.com. I then went home and read some of
Fritz Springmeier's literature hoping to find some advice on how to deal with the voice in my head
that does nothing but swear hatefully and encourage divisive thinking. After all this bashing of the
occult world in general, the whole notion of organised occult conspiracies led me to doubting
perhaps my own chosen Path of Thelema, and specifically The Abbey of Thelema. And so my
psychological and literary defences kicked in and I turned this piece out in three hours, in one go;
seemingly without even considering the points therein. However, these are thoughts I have been
harbouring for years. I do not pretend to be a Thelemite beyond reproach. I am quite ashamed, at
times, of my past, but my Path is a Path of self improvement despite what I may have done years
ago. I do not pretend to be a Holy Man of God, I am human and I am fallible and quite weak. A
Christian would rightly say that men should not follow their own hearts and perhaps that is true.
But I am not. I am trying to be a Thelemite, I am not really seeking my own whims as such. A lot
of Thelemities say that Do what thou wilt does not mean do what you like, but from above the
Abyss these two terms are the same. I simply have to go with my own convictions. But the point is
that I am trying to defend my religious beliefs with axiomatic truths and statements that seem to be
watertight. However, in practise I am just human and not as axiomatic as the words I churn out. I
just want to respond to the case in Wales, and state that not all 'occultists' are purely evil. It is easy
in the age of limitless internet information to find equally limitless evidence to prop up your own
convictions and/or obsessions; and this is the real danger. The truth is you can believe whatever
you want to believe, in time. But for me to found an Abbey of Thelema, I need other people to
believe in a system so recondite and esoteric, so subtle and fierce, that I find myself quite alone.
However, here is my defence of my religious beliefs, for all to scrutinise:
What do you mean? 'Thelema means Freedom'?
Thelema believes that individuality is sovereign. Every man and every woman is a star. We do
not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism or discrimination on ethnic or national grounds.
Thelemites make great use of Magick and Qabalah. However, Magick is simply applied
psychology, as Qabalah is a foundational school based on number. Both Magick and Qabalah are
neutral forces and can be used for good or evil. A Thelemite by definition should not interfere with
other people and should certainly not expose others to either hypnosis or drugs. Do what thou
wilt shall be the whole of the Law. This is confirmed through antithesis, ie. you should not
interfere with others, and especially other peoples' decision making processes. Thelema is creative,
it is a religion largely based on Qabalistic poetry, and it encourages full creative force in others on a
therapeutic level. Self expression is sacrosanct and the sovereign right of all men, women and
children. Thelema, when properly practised is obviously a threat to the mind control agendas of
certain historical groups for the following reasons:

The Practise of the Magical Diary This prevents false memories forming, it provides a practical
record of people, places, dates, addresses etc. The New World Order is constantly monitoring
people while constantly preventing them from making a consistent record of their daily lives, even
though to keep a consistent record is simplicity itself. The magical diary builds up a cohesive
record of facts and places, and a catalogue of insights. It also prevents the aspirant from being
'framed' by the authorities because he or she can prove that he or she was not compromised in a way
others might try to pretend he or she was compromised. It also proves the aspirant is keeping a
record of truth, whilst the clandestine Satanic network never records anything they ever do on
paper.
Meditation Thelema encourages the practise of meditation to enable the aspirant to control their
own minds at will. The end result of practising meditation is the realization of Timelessness. This
state results in the aspirant becoming spiritual in nature, and they then dissociate from the Pain
Factory we call 'Earth'. The New World Order fears people who are genuinely spiritual, and they
are constantly seeking to divorce us from Nature.
The Exponential Study of Qabalism As stated above the Qabalah is a system which in itself is
neither good nor evil, however most of the people Adept in the art are consciously or unconsciously
working for their own self interest. The benefit of studying Qabalah to a great degree of flexibility
and fluency is that the control codes that may have been set up in your early life are easily
scrambled. Humanity is in the main controlled by words, covert or overt, and the person with a
high vocabulary, secular or occult, is far harder to control. The Dark Adepts have utilised their own
bastardised version of the Qabalah to keep others under the whip. They fear the Qabalist who is
truly fluent as they know full well that control codes can slip easily away in the mind of him or her
with a great and subtle vocabulary. This is the reason why hypnotists use scripts and contrived
designs rather than creative poetry. Again Thelema is a religion based on creative and poetic
Qabalah, that encourages creativity of all kinds as a therapeutic and cathartic tool.
The Study of Logic The New World Order utilises as system of control known as the Hegelian
Dialectic. This is explained as 'Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis'. It is a crude yet devastating way of
hurting people. In the Freemasonic world this is known as 'Ordo ab Chao', which is Latin for 'Order
from Chaos'. In the Tarot it is known as 'solve et coagula' which is Latin for 'dissolve and
coagulate'. In military language it is known as 'divide and conquer'. David Icke refers to this
pernicious dialectic as 'Problem-Reaction-Solution'. All this nonsense is the enemy of True Will, as
the will must be one and not two. Thelema espouses the study of philosophy, and such terms as
'syllogism', 'sophistry', 'hypocrisy', 'ontology', 'teleology' and so on. A fundamental idea in Thelema
is that 'every idea contains an inherent contradiction within itself', which may sound like madness.
However this is true from the standpoint of enlightenment. Reason is ultimately futile, it collapses
ultimately. The truth is that humans do things for emotional reasons and them rationalise them later.
The Dark Adepts know this well. Typically the Dark Adept will seem to offer you many choices,
but he knows that you will pick on of the said choices, and that all will lead to your eventual ruin.
For instance, if someone said, Do you prefer whiskey or wine? you might think that they are
presenting you with freedom of choice, when, however if they really had your best interests at heart
they would say, What is your favourite thing about alcohol?. This is a facile example of the
Hegelian Dialectic. The Dark Adepts constantly think in binary, and try to suck you down
somehow. Thelema expounds basic training in philosophy to help you see if a person is a Sage or a
Savage.
The Belief in God Frater Pyramidatus at the time of writing is a long way from God. His
subjection to mind control has been quite complete, he hears a voice in his head that constantly
swears. He is alone and struggling. However, in the Holy Books of Thelema we find the word
'God' written several times. And I would like to imagine that every time this word is mentioned it is

mentioned in an extremely positive context. We can only assume that if God is mentioned in a
religion's literature in a positive light then said religion is monotheistic. I do not believe the Dark
Adepts believe in anything except their own misplaced powers and obsessions.
The Study of Comparative Religion The psychopaths that run the show here on Earth are quite
happy to pit people against each other on religious grounds. For instance a war has been waging in
Europe for hundreds of years against people who believe Jesus Christ of Nazareth had children, and
people who do not believe Jesus Christ of Nazareth had children. Thelema encourages the study of
comparative religion, especially along Qabalistical lines, which seeks parallels between faiths
separated by the gulf of culture, and of course divided by the unfathomable labyrinth of different
tongues. Most religious wars are based on cultural expressions of faith, such as dietary habit,
clothing, marital laws and so on. These cultural differences often have no connection to the
religions they are associated with. Thelema studies the parallels between faiths and seeks to find
the Truth, and does not concern itself with labelling, and exploiting the neuroses of psychopathic
clerics and overeducated professors. Religion was designed to ease cerebral congestion and help
people to live together, not to encourage schizophrenia and sectarianism. To call oneself a
Thelemite on would arguably have to be grounded in Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam,
Hinduism and many other Paths. The Dark Adepts simply wish to encourage conceit on religious
lines, hoping that some minor point of dogmatic schism will lead to the first drop of blood, sexually
repressed instincts to the full sweep of the sword, and then the good old fashioned instinct for
revenge will surely do the rest.
Esoteric Analysis of Christianity The Holy Bible is required reading in Crowley's Order. It is
stated that the Hebrew and Greek originals have Qabalistical value. Crowley states in Magick
Without Tears that the Legend of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth is a great example of
the White School of Magick. He also states that Thelema is the purest from of the White School.
He states that Christianity, through differing factions has become fragmented and lost in scholastic
bickering. Crowley's motto as an Adept had a Latinised form of 'Christ' as part of it. Crowley's
idea of Christianity was very twisted because he was traumatised by his early upbringing by certain
people and he came to loathe what he perceived as Christianity. He came to loathe the
congregations as sanitized livestock, and the preachers as ego trippers. However, he did appreciate
the fundamental truths of Christianity such as words like 'love'. Indeed if 'Do what thou wilt shall
be the whole of the Law', and 'Love is the law, love under will', then if that love is under the
statement 'Do what thou wilt', then the whole body of teaching of Thelema could be described as
'unconditional love'. (Frater Pyramidatus writes this as he is subjected to psychic abuse, and vitriol
of the most unproductive kind, and swearing voices that simply to not go away. It seem as though
the voice in his head is the diametric opposite of unconditional love. But he writes on.)
Mystery is the Enemy of Truth The constant tool of the Dark Adepts is to stop people thinking
out loud. The moment a Dark Adept realises he has put a thought in your head you are scared to
express, then they use that like a tool, or rather a worm, to manipulate you. The whole psychology
of superficial division goes on unabated. Crowley indeed told people exactly what he thought of
them. The only defence against this is to avoid such types. They will suck your life like leeches. If
you find yourself in the presence of someone who you are afraid to tell the truth to then simply
leave. Or say something like, I do not want to tell you my opinion. Or perhaps, I am frightened
to express myself. etc. It that doesn't work and you really can't avoid them, then play them at their
own game and make them keep the thought in their own stupid heads that you are spiritually purer
than them and watch them wriggle around like worms. They feel not. Thelema tries to arrive at
truth, even if that truth is philosophical at best, or based on logical contradiction.

The Practice of Ceremonial Magick The planet called Earth at around 2011 is becoming
increasingly dependent on machines that we do not understand. This is axiomatic. The people
pulling the strings are perhaps one in a million. This is not a democracy, nor an aristocracy, nor
meritocracy, it is a technocracy. We are becoming increasingly reliant on gadgets that we have no
comprehension of. In contrast Thelema teaches Ceremonial Magick, and this requires
determination, will, focus, yet more importantly in this connection a knowledge of crafts closely
linked to the Earth such as herbalism, wand craft, dowsing, astrology and so on down the line. The
technocrats are useless without their gadgets, whilst the Ceremonial Magician is not. There is here
a difference between sorcery and Magick, but generally even sorcerers will fare better when
someone pulls the plug. Frater Pyramidatus has used computers extensively but only in the main
for research purposes and to write books that deal with the Hermetic Arts and thus to provide a
lifeline to those completely swamped in technological and computerised mayhem. A religious
system that encourages traditionalist ceremonial prepares the Individual for the time when the plug
is pulled (Apocalypse), whilst the fat cats that rake in profits from useless virtual novelties are
simply waiting for their victims to take the inevitable plunge. Let's just say the Eskimo will do
better than your average 'code monkey'. There is of course much middle ground, and is not illegal
to learn about fishing online, nor will you be arrested for playing chess online with a guy from
Egypt, nor will you be evicted for playing Mah Jongg with a lesbian that lives in Glasgow. But the
middle ground is vanishing.
The Theory of Information Doubling The human race is being swamped in information. I would
hazard a guess that the amount of inventions we have are doubling around every three months.
There is a theory that in 2015 or thereabouts, there will be a flashpoint of knowledge where human
information will be doubling so quickly, something like every second, that all previous ideas and
notions of reality will be off the cards. So what kind of information will be prevalent after this?
The largest self referenced body of knowledge. You might say scientific knowledge is the most self
referenced but this is actually the opposite of the truth, because scientists depend on specialisation
of fields. You have experts in rhinoceros excrements; the breeding habits of earwigs; the moons of
Jupiter; the psychology of Portuguese transsexuals; the interaction of haloperidol and lorazepam in
overweight teenagers; experts in one of any innumerable alphabets and so on into unfathomable
depths. It is almost a universal requirement in most university seminars to say the words, Well I
must admit this is not really my area, however I must say... So we will be lost in a sea of
disconnected knowledge. So obviously Thelema, as a self referenced body of 'general knowledge',
a truly encyclopedic school of initiation, tailored for everyone, will triumph ultimately.
And so I end this short paper. All I can say is that Thelema is a White School, although the mud
thrown at it still sticks. Frater Pyramidatus is divided in himself as yet, but he fears not the
whitewash. He strives for silence and dissolution in the infinite. But the thrusting point is beyond
his own sardonic narcissism. He is engaged in founding an Abbey of Thelema, and although he
may not be building it brick by brick he hopes his small reformatory for lost souls such as himself
will do some good. In his researches he has not uncovered a Thelemic Abbey that does 'exactly
what it says on the tin' so far. This is because the mass media is forbidden. In an age where the
micro media and the mass media are exponentially fusing into a hideous All Seeing Eye, he thinks
that they probably wish to be left alone. The absence of something in existence either means one of
two things: a) an absolute non requirement of the said thing, or b) a desperate need of the said thing.
Reading the above ten points you might come to the conclusion that the latter is evidently true.
Does this world really need another 20 000 computer programmers? Or 15 000 translators?
Perhaps we need another type of profession that lives between the hordes of so called 'Christian'
swarms and the Dark Adepts that joke and giggle in their squalid palaces as they languidly pull the
strings. It's up to you to decide. But just remember the next time someone shakes your hand, looks
you in the eye and says, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, that he or she might be
telling the truth! Thelema means Freedom!