Frater 273 | Reflections on Thelema
Frater 273 writings and books about Thelema, Magick, Mysticism and Art
In all its exceptionality, a clay teapot is not real; what is real is only clay. How would a teapot ever exist without clay? A teapot is just clay formed by Genius in the shape of a teapot. Ice does not exist; there is only water. Ice is only a consequence of Will passing through water, transforming it into ice. It is the same with all the other elements.
Throughout the Probation, an Angel might express his nature in a single moment, in a dream or a lost thought, but in a manner that is completely incomprehensible to the mind of the Probationer.
You can climb into the house of God, but you can also make your house divine if you settle the Lord inside. It is one of the roughest divisions of our Art; on the path of Mysticism and the path of Magick.
Pentacle is an aphorism of Reality, its arabesque miniature. A symbol or picture of the Universe, as the magician sees it, is carved upon the Pentacle. On the first sight, you can ask me how to represent the endless Universe, with all its parts and Realms, upon something so finite, small and seemingly fragile?
Becoming One with the Other Being a totally awkward thing. You are by yourself One, why would you be the same One with someone else?
Lamen is eidolon of your True Nature, your Great Work. It is a specific form of awareness of yourself as a star; it is your per-sonal identity card in the Universe.
Frater 273 | Reflections on Thelema 