True Will (was: More Re Serious How-To Question)

[333]

The word of Sin is Restriction.

...both you guys are saying that the "Love Under Will"
comes about solely _via_ Will, rather than being
coterminous with one's "true" Will.

that makes it something to which to aspire or to attain.
this seems to be the primary interest in this dictum:
from PBRandolph's "Will reigns Omnipotent; Love lieth
at the Foundation" ("Mysteries of Eulis," 1874) to
Crowley's "Love is the law, love under will." this
is put across as a principle of optimizing, in which
the aim is love and the will is the modus operandi.

And, (if you'll forgive a crass metaphor) if a gay Christian,
who wished he could follow the straight-and-narrow path,
came to you, his minister, asking how he might cultivate a
love for women where he was currently only attracted to
men, you'd just tell him "women are like men, just do it"?

no, i would properly inform him that he seems to be
hooked up with the wrong cult of the god, and that
he may wish to reconsider trying to follow out the
godrules of the cult to which we both belong. some
seem to thrive on being in perpetual debt with their
god (always 'sinner'), but others 'get right' with
their Lord and repent, as it were. fit is helpful.

one's religion or one's sexual desire?

there is no single correct answer to this question.
the 'true will' is a projection on the order of a
cosmic plan for theology, or essentiality for natural
magic's 'Doctrine of Signatures'. there is very
little which demonstrates the reality of these, but
all the same, cognitive tools can be quite helpful.

Ultimately, one's "true will" _is_ one's real religion,

an interior facet or principle is one's social milieu?

although knowing that conventional doctrines are hardly
even that for the clergymen who tout them, can be hard
to grasp. Lifeless, preserved in books, they can hardly
ever be a fit for a real human.

a bunch of the nuveaureligions avoid the sin of
proselytizing by issuing a 'born one' cosmology:
"You don't become a Sorceror, you're born one!"

It may be akin to the idea that "truth" is what each
person _believes_ they believe, though it rarely is.

that seems convoluted to me. truth is a matching
quality surrounding perceived expression and one's
experience. it is wholly subjective except where
projected into some fantasy or resting atop sound
empiricism in coalitions sporting engineering feats.

The interest is in what tools can be used for tuning
into what one "would" have be, and then remaining avid
in one's quest to make the "will" turn into what "will"
come to be.

that sounds like 'malleable true will', which is often
at odds with the way the phrase is used (as a kind of
legitimizing manifest destiny -- "No, I will not back
down on this point, as it is my True Will to succeed!").

Unfortunately, the ignorant think that magick is just
a philosophical interpretation of random events, or,

that's because they think of it as only mental.
its character is far more specifiable than this,
as i have tried to make plain.

alternatively, a set of lifeless practices using the
likes of chalk circles on the ground _as_ their tools.

with the Doctrine of Signatures, this becomes science
rather quickly. it is the line between stray medicine
men and societally sanctioned medical establishments.
Thorndike and others have laid up there swords here
and issued catcalls to the occultists.

perhaps the mage infuses the life into the tools and
ceremonies, and their containment of special fluids
is strictly a cognitive tool itself, fantastic and
yet ultimately supplemental.

Invoke me under my stars.

333
***@nagasiva

[Kisai]

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The word of Sin is Restriction.

Act according to your Pleasure.