The Dawning of a New Aeon, the Age of Aquarius, Islamic World Rule and Crappy has been Stars Wasting Primetime and the Man Responsible for All of It

Because of a recent surgery I had about six weeks of being homebound which gave me much time with seemingly little to do. However, it allowed me an opportunity to catch up on some reading; studying the esoteric arts; practicing the Great Work and watching way too much TV. This pot of differing stimuli and some pretty damn good pain killers combined for an illuminating contemplative stew.

This period had a monastic quality which allowed me to reevaluate my life. I strove to become closer to my Higher Power, studied the ancient esoteric mysteries, and sadly, became more familiar with American popular culture. The path of the Great Work is inspiring to me because no matter how far I am from Kether, I know I am moving in the direction of humanity's birthright.

However, the neo-Chamberlain response to the Lebanon crisis is disgraceful. Just as fascist used incrementalism in Nazi Germany the Islamic extremists are following the same pattern. Interestingly, one person that may have set this in motion had great respect for the "Mohamidans" as they were called in his time. Aleister Crowley accepted the mystic practices of the Sikhs and in fact had his most life transforming event in Egypt. By no means was he an enemy of the Arabs or the followers of Islam.

However, Crowley was forty years ahead of his time in the advocacy of Free Love and the ceremonial use of drugs to enhance his theurgical union with his Holy Guardian Angel. While he was not individually responsible for the flower child movement and the ensuing explosion of drug use in the 1960's and 70's he did influence icons of that generation.

Ozzie Osborn of Black Sabbath mentioned Crowley by name in one of his songs and the whole quasi-diabolical persona of that band may have had some inspiration from Crowley. Likewise, Jimmy Page, of Led Zeppelin, was greatly influenced by Crowley. So much so, he purchased the former estate of Crowley near Loch Ness, Boleskine. Page is said to practice the Golden Dawn magic where Crowley first made his name, this is not Satanic worship as many would have you believe.

But how does this lead to the Islamic Jihad for world domination? Well the 1970's started a trend to social liberalism which increasingly offended the ultra-legalistic mullahs of the extremist sects of Islam. It could be argued they should have the right to be offended by rampit drug use, casual meaningless sex, and the alienation of entire generation of our children--many Americans hold the same offense. However, the Fascist-Mullash decided Jihad was the answer to irradicate the great Satan and since 1979 we have seen incremental attacks and aggression on the West and Democracy.

Ironically, Crowley associated himself with the Great Beast, 666, of Revelations. So was Crowley the catalyst for the current extremist Jihad Fascists movement to rule the world? He did break many social conventions that became commonplace occurences in the 1960's by the Social Trendsetters of the Western Culture. Crowley even has a rather fervent cult following that many closed minded religios of all denominations consider devil worshippers or Satanists. So it would seem Crowley is indeed the Anti-Christ prophesised in Revelations--except for the fact that his overriding philosophy flies directly in the face of the Jihad Fascists.

In fact, Crowley had much in common with the Freethinkers of Natural Law of the 1700's: Locke; Adams; Jefferson; Washington; Franklin and Payne. Man has innate irrevocable rights that no man, institution, government OR religion can deny. Crowley believed every man and woman was a star and the summation of his life philosophy was, "Do what thy will, shall be the whole of the Law." Many claimed this was blatant promotion of Anarchy, but Crowley, if nothing else, was an intellectual and deep thinker. His philosophy simply meant find your true will and do all humanly possible to attain one's True Will. There was an addendum to Crowley's Do what they will... and it was "Love under Will, Love under the Law". Crowley was no anarchist, if anything he was a Libertarian (and yes a libertine) of the ilk of the Founding Fathers---inalienable rights that no entity can revoke.

So did Crowley put in place key motivators for what we are now experiencing -- perhaps yes. But he also in his erudite way promoted a philosophy that is held by the majority of Americans not in the strict esoteric sense, but in the sense that we will always reject tyranny and we own guns and know how to use them.

By the way, the real Anti-Christ is Mark Burnett who continues to parade has been celebrities on to his endless reality shows and thereby scarring our collective psyches. C'mon what redeeming factor is there to Chakha Khan showing her pomeranian's best pet tricks or the Dancing Guy from the Mighty Mighty Bostones favorite quilt collection. Enjoy your time now Mark Burnett for the Aeon of the Solar Christ Soul is hence and you will pay for your sins--especially that Clay Aikens thing.

What are our real priorities

I suffered from a couple epileptic episodes in the last few days and was actually hospitalized. This gave me time to think and also watch the cable news stations. One of my priorities is to stop my seizure activity, but I find this increasingly difficult with the apoplectic rhetoric that is issuing from the political camps in Washington.

Can we put to rest the tired rhetoric about our country going to war on the spur of the moment. Every last one of the flaky representatives had the same intelligence that the President had concerning Al Quaeda and weapons development in Iraq. And most of the spineless milquetoasts voted in the majority to go to war.

The Republicans are not guilt free, since from the very top they are trying to run a political war, not a war to win. We are dealing with revolutionaries that have a specific goal. Do we need a revolution? The question can easily be answered by asking yourself if you feel you are really being represented by your political proxies in Washington. Iran is looming....

The student was ready and the Master appeared

I had some life changes in the last two years. Many priorities changed in my life and I was looking at life differently. Surprisingly, I was drawn more to the path of mysticism rather than magic. In the past I was drawn to the Golden Dawn tradition but for some reason I wanted to rid myself of all the ceremonial trappings and meditate to enlightenment.

This introspection was also part of my mundane life. I started questioning why things were the way they were. Why did my property tax go up and why do I need to pay that amount? Why do I need to arrive at my job at eight and leave at five? Why must may taxes be taken out of each check rather than pay at the end of the year?

The result questioning these and many, many more questions was I learned we simply give control of our lives to ruling authorities with much faith and little assurance of our universal and eternal rights. The more frightening point is few these days question "why?". That is when Michael Savage, scurge of the political left and the ACLU, entered my consciousness.

I had heard Michael Savage in the past and quickly changed the radio station. As a native Texan, I had a hard time dealing with his New York City accent and his brash demeanor, I was not ready for the Master. However, I started listening to him on my drive home and more important listening to what he said and realized that Dr. Savage ( yes, he received his Doctorate from UC Berkeley) was practicing something that few did anymore. Dr. Savage was a critical thinker. Trained in the scientific method, he was applying this to his political and world views.

I was hooked. He had reasoned and thought out arguments. He did not spew the Democrat or Republican talking points. This is not to say he did not spew, he did. However, at the end of his rant he would detail why he held the view he was discussing and, amazingly, it was the most reasoned and rational view that had been publicly discussed by all, especially any politician in the last 50 years. Dr. Savage is very intelligent, but, if we all think about what we are going to do or why we do what we do, wouldn't we also have some level of rationality?

Dr. Savage gave me a valuable gift, in fact, a priceless gift, that of using the most powerful gift given by God, the gift of really using my mind, critically thinking. If anybody reads this they may write it off as another right-wing tool to promote the talk show monopoly of the Repbulicans. Interestingly though however, after listening to Dr. Savage and using my brain I quit being a lock-step Republican and now consider myself as a Libertarian/Independent awake individual in God's Universe.

Church/State separation?

As will become clear in the following days, I have experienced some scaring of a Christian sect that had pre-millenial tendencies. In fact, now I would consider myself a believer in God in the western esoteric tradition--whatever that means, but I'm becoming more troubled by the increasing pressure to remove religion from any public event (public in the governmental and general sense). This exclusion of faith seems to be directed specifically to Christians, for now.

The concern is there is no specific mention of separating Faith and State in the founding documents. True, the founding fathers structured the branches of government to specifically not have a state sanctioned Church, e.g. the Anglican Church in Great Britain or the Roman Catholic Church in most of Europe. Notice they did not restrict religion or faith. Indeed, the motivation of many Europeans to come to North America was the ability to practice their religion without persecution (many Wiccans would debate that this was true for all "religions"). But, Protestants, Calvinists, Shakers, Quakers and even Jews had comparative freedom to worship compared to England and the European continent. The distinction is the difference between Church and religion or faith.

Fast forward to the 21st century and we now see any expression of religion or faith is increasingly becoming censored. The mention of God is politically incorrect. Many Christians are quick to point out that the United States was founded on the Judeo/Christian principles. This may be true to in a general sense, but it is also this argument that causes many of the attacks on the Christians' God. There is no doubt that the Founding Fathers generally believed in a God, but with some research one can discover that it was not always the God of the Christian church.

Thomas Jefferson was a Deist. George Washington attended the Methodist church but it has been documented that he never partook in the sacrament. Likewise, Washington was an extremely active Freemason. Benjamin Franklin was a member of the notorious Hellfire Club while in Great Britain. The point is these men believed in a higher power, be it the Great Architect, the Ain Soph or the Big Bang. So this should satisfy most arguments against demonstrating one's faith in a Supreme Being-- except for that of the Atheists'.

To the Atheists the mentioning of God in public places ( the Pledge of Allegiance, In God We Trust on the dollar bill, the Ten Commandments, etc.) , in their view, forces religion upon them. It goes against their beliefs and therefore is a breach of the establishment clause.

Atheists have a set of beliefs and principles. One atheist explained to me that logic and common sense is their Supreme Being. To just have faith to believe in a Supreme Being does not fit into the Logic Matrix of many Atheists. However, logic cannot explain some of the mystical, magickal and metaphysical experiences that have been documented. Aleister Crowley, a self-professed atheist, invoked and evoked spirits, angels, daemons, gods, or archetypical portion of his complex psyche. Whether these were actual spirit beings or projections of his mind these activities do not fit into the Logic Matrix of atheism. Likewise, stigmata, floating, astral travel of yogis, mystics and magicians are not logical. Interestingly, advances in quantum physics may give logical answers to how these "magickal actions" happen. So what's the point?

The point is all humans have a set of beliefs concerning God, religion or faith that will conflict with others. Many Christians would consider me a Pagan, while Pagans would opine that I've just read to many books on Qabbalah and really don't know what are faith and magick. Currently, it is politically correct to exclude the trappings of Christianity from our popular culture. This offends the Christians. Yet, the display of Christian dogma offends the Atheists. The existence of Israel offends many Muslims. Recently, (post 9/11) many of different faiths were offended by Muslims, Arabs or anybody that looked Arabic. And of course we are always pissed at the French.

My point is we have a right, a self-evident product of natural law, to worship... or not worship. We don't have the right to not be offended--actually, true diversity ( the current quasi-religion of many academics and elitist) is many faiths, creeds, races, lifestyles co-existing. Being offended is a natural by product of Diversity and Freedom, which was bestowed upon us by, not the Founding Fathers, but God and all that entails. Do what thy wilt, shall be the whole of the law.