True Will - Article Index

Encyclopedia - True Will: Encyclopedia Ii - True Will - Quotations From Aleister Crowley
"The most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own True Will, or of the means by which to fulfill that Will." (from Magi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Book Of The Law: Encyclopedia - The Book Of The Law
The Book of the Law, also known as Liber AL vel Legis, is the text central to philosophical / magical / religious practice called Thelema...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thelema: Encyclopedia - Thelema
Thelema is the English transliteration of the Ancient Greek noun θέλημα will, from the verb ἐθέλω to will, wish, purpose. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thelema: Encyclopedia Ii - Thelema - Critical Study And Diverse Practice
Different organizations and persons (predominantly from Germany) do not see Thelema as originating from Crowley. Rather they see Crowley'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thelema: Encyclopedia Ii - Thelema - Aleister Crowley's Thelema
Thelema is the name of a philosophical/religious system established in 1904 through Aleister Crowley and his wife, Rose Edith Kelly, with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia - Angel
An angel is an ethereal being found in many religions, whose duties are to assist and serve God or the gods. Angel - Etymology. The Engl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thelema: Encyclopedia Ii - Thelema - Thelema And Other Systems Of Thought
Thelema is a mystical/magical philosophy of life based on Will. The individual Will in Thelema is identified with the Egyptian god Had or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thelema: Encyclopedia Ii - Thelema - Doctrines Of Thelema
The central doctrine of this system is that knowing and doing one's True Will is the ultimate purpose and destiny of every being. This is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Holy Guardian Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Holy Guardian Angel - Methods Of Achieving K&c
Crowley said that the Abramelin procedure was not the only way to achieve success in this endeavour: It is impossible to lay down precis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Angels In The Tanakh
The Biblical name for angel, מלאך ('malakh"), obtained the further signification of "angel" only through the addition of God's name, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Holy Guardian Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Holy Guardian Angel - Variations In Crowley's View Of The Hga
Crowley only espouses a view that the HGA is the 'silent self' in his early life. In his seventies, when composing Magick without Tears, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Other Religions
Angels are also a part of New Age beliefs. In Zoroastrianism, the Amesha Spentas have often been regarded as angels, but this is not stri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Christian Views
In the New Testament angels appear frequently as the ministers of God and the agents of revelation (E.g. Matthew 1:20 (to Joseph), 4:11. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Jewish Views
Angels appear in several Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) stories, in addition to the ones previously mentioned above. These include the warn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Islamic Views
The belief in angels is central to the religion of Islam, beginning with the belief that the Qur'an was dictated to the Prophet Muhammad ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Latter-day Saint Views
Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism), and several of his associates, claimed that they were visited by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Other Religions
Angels are also a part of Zoroastrianism (called Amesha Spentas, of whom six are extremely important) and New Age beliefs. Also, angel-li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel - Angels As A Development Step Of The Soul
Some mystics believe, that a soul is growing in steps from minerals, plants and animals to men. When the human body dies, a soul could be...   » Read the article