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Category Archives: Albert Pike
Does Thelema need an ecclesiastical hierarchy? (with my thoughts on how Crowley got it wrong)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. This is an expansion of a discussion I began on Twitter. I posited the following open question: Do you believe that there is an actual need for an ecclesiastical hierarchy … Continue reading
Posted in Adidam, Albert Pike, Animism, Atenism, Baha'i Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Egyptian Religion, Freemasonry, General Mysticism, Hermeticism, Hinduism, Islam, θέλημα, Ken Wilber, Occult, Religion, Scientology, Scottish Rite, Taoism, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Urantia Book
Tagged Aleister Crowley, Christianity, Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, Esoteric and Occult, Hierarchies, Hierarchy, Occult, Ordo Templi Orientis, Protestant Reformation, Religion, The Book of the Law, Thelema, Usenet
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Albert Pike on the Essentiality of Doubt
“Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the … Continue reading
Posted in Albert Pike, Freemasonry, Occult, Religion, Scottish Rite
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The Book of the Law 