"Do What Thou Will Shall Be The Whole Of The Law" ?

Question

What comes next ? And from where ?


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Answer 1

It's not Wiccan. The Wiccan Rede is "And it harm none, do as though wilt." It stresses examinging the repercussion of your decisions before actually acting upon them.

The quote you give is from Aleister Crowley. It is called the Law of Thelema: Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law. Law under will. Every man and woman is a star.

"Will" here means what Crowley called the "True Will." This is a person's true purpose and calling in life. He stressed that one should always live in accordance with this true calling. One's true calling is divine in nature and one should not let others get in the way of that calling.

This does not mean you're allowed to do whatever you want and claim its your true calling. Your true calling is not something that you make up but is something integral about you and your existance. It's something you have to discover. Following your calling also ultimtely brings you into greater harmony with the wider world.

Answer 2

its "do what thou wilt"
mr. crowley was refering to wilt chamberlain
who had sex with 20,000 women
because he did whoever he "wilted"




Thelema is also an initially fictional philosophy of life first described by François Rabelais (16th century) in his famous books, Gargantua and Pantagruel.[4] The essence of this philosophy was summarized in the phrase "fay çe que vouldras" ("Fais ce que tu veux," or, "Do what thou wilt"), and this philosophy was later put into practice in the mid 18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood at Medmenham.[5]

This Thelemic Law of Rabelais was revived by Aleister Crowley[5] in 1904 when Crowley wrote The Book of the Law, which contains both the word Thelema in Greek as well as the phrase "Do what thou wilt." From this, Crowley took Thelema as the name of the philosophical, mystical and religious system which he subsequently developed, which includes ideas from occultism, Yoga, and both Eastern and Western mysticism (especially the Qabalah).[6] Thus Shri Gurudev Mahendranath, in speaking of svecchachara, a Sanskrit term which he considered the eastern equivalent of the term Thelema, wrote that "Rabelais, Dashwood, and Crowley must share the honor of perpetuating what has been such a high ideal in most of Asia."[5]

Answer 3

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
"Love is the Law, love under Will."

Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

Answer 4

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

93.

IT's NOT Wiccan in the slightest!

Wiccan rede: (which is NOT "harm none") http://www.paganlibrary.com/ethics/wiccan_ethics_rede.php

The Law of Thelema (which the quote is from):
http://www.religioustolerance.org/thelema.htm

Answer 5

It comes from Wicca, but it's not the whole story. You only got half the quote.

The Wiccan philosophy basically says that you indeed have free will, a belief shared by christians.

And that as long as what you're doing harms no one, it's all good. That seems like a license to do whatever you want doesn't it? But wait, there's more.

"Harm no one" also includes you. So drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex, gambling, right off the bat go out the window.

Then there's activities that harm others, and even plants and animals.

"Do what thou wilt" becomes very restrictive in practical application.

Answer 6

Love is the law.... and its from Aleister Crowley

Many Wiccans have adopted it as their own ethical code... so researching Wiccan ethics might be a good idea.

Answer 7

Aleister Crowley said that

Answer 8

If you can figure out what that means, then more power to you. You quote a verse out of conrtext and pretend that it has some meaning all on its own. The verse gets "meaning" from the context from which it comes, but many Christians "pretend" that each and every verse has meaning all on it's own. That is nonsense...

Ron.