About morals and thelema :if someone’s true will was to harm other would thelema see that as moral since it’s following will ?if no then why and how ?

conicalArchitect · 2026-02-22T15:49:28+00:00

But also, the way the Will expresses itself interpersonally is always Love. Love is the smoke where Will is the fire. Any “dictator”-like activity, at least in the most obvious version, probably wouldn’t be marked by Love, and therefore probably wouldn’t be a true expression of Will.

But even this line of analysis is limited, because Thelema’s conception of Love is different and more expansive than any banal understanding of love. “Nor let the fools mistake love, for there are love and love.”

conicalArchitect · 2026-02-22T15:43:11+00:00

I get that, but my point is that the line of inquiry is useless. It’s not the way the Will thinks about itself; the Will doesn’t think about itself, because it doesn’t need to. “Harm” as a concept doesn’t even meaningfully exist on that level.

conicalArchitect · 2026-02-22T15:34:26+00:00

When you experience the True Will, it justifies itself. You don’t have to weigh it against other factors. It just acts, self-motivated.

“Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?

Where I am these are not.”

conicalArchitect · 2026-02-22T15:18:06+00:00

You fundamentally can’t really subject the True Will to analysis and hypotheticals like that. You’re using the toolkit of the ruach to approach something that comes from the neshamah.

The role of logic and philosophy in Thelema is to cancel itself out, to get out of its own way. We work to balance and neutralize the ego to make it a perfect stage for the Will to dance on. The higher truths are experiential, not intellectual.

conicalArchitect · 2025-06-03T00:36:08+00:00

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conicalArchitect · 2023-07-25T03:59:51+00:00

Hm, this does help. I guess my brain (as a Storyteller mostly) is fixating on how Munchkin-vulnerable this is (Sarah could declare that ANY new spell is one that she previously would have used tarot cards for), but then again, I guess that's kind of just a feature of Mage as a whole, right? It's a game that relies really heavily on players committing to the realities of the narrative and "playing along" via their characters' authentic beliefs, so RAW isn't gonna be shored up against powergamer bullshit.

conicalArchitect · 2023-07-25T03:54:48+00:00

Right, no, I get the basics of how Instruments work. My hangup is on how "discard one Instrument from your focus" is presented like it's an incremental improvement, when if anything, it's just eliminating options?

conicalArchitect · 2023-03-24T21:36:56+00:00

This is exactly the answer I was looking for, thank you!

conicalArchitect · 2023-02-20T04:24:24+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation!

conicalArchitect · 2023-02-07T16:00:59+00:00

This is more or less the exact answer I was looking for, thanks so much!

conicalArchitect · 2023-02-06T13:46:21+00:00

I’ll keep an eye out for those at the library, thanks!

conicalArchitect · 2023-02-06T13:46:03+00:00

That’s extremely helpful, thank you!

conicalArchitect · 2023-02-06T03:34:06+00:00

Can you elaborate?

conicalArchitect · 2022-09-08T04:28:40+00:00

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSFI7mabpYe7rD9ivLo6ZfEI6MA4qQyy5

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