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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris Durham" data-source="post: 1770311" data-attributes="member: 19629">Pease don't confuse Crowley (Thelema) with Satanism. Modern-day satanists owe as much to Crowley as they do to Darwin and Nietzche, but one is not the other.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. There is no law beyond do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.[as presented to, and scribed by, Aleister Crowley. Just a point of clarification.] Being that the aforementioned law is Crowleyan and not Satanic, and Wicca is just a watered-down, bastatrdized version of Crowley, the vail between their differences is sheerer than you might think.Notice this nowhere says do what you want,  but do what you will. This can be seen as either casually existential or a matter of true will. Will in this sense being a much more comprehensive thing than whim or desire which are often contadictory to will. For example, it is my will to lose weight, but I want a Big Mac. Under "Do what thou wilt," I should should not pig out.It is very often the case that doing one's will requires one to conform to structure. My will is to be a writer, but I don't want to learn to type. I'm SOL then, because not too many publishers accept handwritten manuscripts these days.  Whether I want to or not, I need to learn to type in order to do my will.Such structure can take the form of a "Cult," which (do not forgive me if I offend you, I do not care) is another word for religion, even christianity. It's actually just the word that one religion uses to refer to another (so long as the recipient of the name isn't large enough for the naming party to fear reprisal), but I digress. The difference with such a religion or cult is that its members aren't fanatics. Given discretion in their beliefs, they are much more skeptical of control tactics; they have a bigger BS-sense. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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