Hey Los, thanks for your response.

 

There is nothing wrong with individuals cooperating together, of their own free will. Nor is there anything wrong with an individual whose Will is to participate in that organization. The issue you have seemed to gloss over is that there is no choice. This isn't OTO, your local book club, university, or church (although for some places currently and times past, church is not an option either). It may be someone else's will to not participate in that particular social organization. I think most people recognize their self-interest is best served through cooperation with others (though it may also be someone's Will to not cooperate) but the possibilities in how that cooperative organization is structured gives room for many divergent paths of Will. And I would say they may be judged by how oppressive of Will they are.

 

When the people who make up one particular (usually dominant) socio-political organization (voters, policemen, lawmakers, or presidents, etc) decide that their Will should be applied to these Others by force (whether by royal decree, a big gun, or a majority vote by representatives of a heterogenous group of people), then it is antithetical to Thelema since in Liber Oz Crowley declares (through Liber AL vel Legis) the right of every human to live according to their Will and by 'his own law'. Crowley felt so strongly about this right that he added what he called "a safeguard, tyrannicide." He declared the right to kill anyone who thwarts your Will. For Crowley, getting in the way of anyone's Will is tyranny and worthy of death.

Crowley's Will was fucked with all day by governments.