Book

The Way of the Will: Thelema in Action

David Shoemaker, whose Living Thelema lectures and book became the standard modern course in Aleister Crowley's system, gathers here a decade of teaching on Thelema as lived practice. Part one builds the inner theory: advice drawn from the Tree of Life, a full Qabalistic psychology of the New Aeon mapping the nephesh, ruach and neshamah, with its implications for sex magick, then chapters on evil and the shadow side of the magician, the Saturn and Jupiter currents in a Thelemite's life, the ordeals of the A. A. grades from Probationer to Dominus Liminis, creativity, and the worship of Nuit. Part two is practice in detail: four advanced meditations from the Liber tradition, the construction of effective magical invocations, the ritual technology of the Gnostic Mass and how to receive it, the Golden Dawn inheritance in modern Thelema, a healing work with exercise, counsel on finding a teacher, and a moving personal memoir of the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Published by Weiser in 2024, it is Thelema written for practitioners rather than historians.

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