From tyagi@HouseofKaos.Abyss.com Sat Jun 1 10:07:41 1996 Received: (tyagi@localhost) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) id KAA10629; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:07:41 -0700 Message-Id: <199606011707.KAA10629@jobe.shell.portal.com> Subject: OZzy Speaks: Thelemic Politics (fwd) To: coe@netcom.com (Chris Korda) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Cc: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (boboroshi) From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (boboroshi) Orientation: House of Kaos, St. Joseph, Kali Fornika, US -- Kali Yuga X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 8007 Status: RO 49960601 (5 days prior to the Aeon of the Adversary) (cc'd to Thelema93-L and the Church of Euthanasia) Do as you please, for that is my Law. |From: Jonathon Blake |To: babalon@pobox.com |Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 07:17:11 +0000 (GMT) | I'd rather vote for the party that had open, | honest, reputable drug delaers | and prostitutes on the platform debating party planks, than | the party that clandestinly distributes drugs, rents hookers | out and turns around throwing both drug dealers and hookers | in jail -- unless said drug dealer is sitting in the white house, | along with said hooker. [and] |... |Neither the Democratic Party, nor the Republican Party=20 |believe in Human Rights --- either those defined by the=20 |United Nations, or those defined in the U S Constitution. | xan | Assasination Politics -- the only ethical form of government. Xan's text conforms to what I think of as 'Thelemic political expression' more than any other I have seen regarding psychoactive substances and sexuality within the "Thelemic" (by name) community online or off, and I think its invisibility otherwise may say something about how plainly these issues are popularly related to works attributed to Crowley. It may also be indicative of the general lack of interest in engaging political discussion and activism, rather than talking about or engaging ceremonial or occult activities (esp. online). Grady McMurtry (pastmaster US OTO) was very interested in politics and political systems, as I understand it, perhaps even as relates to magick. I gather that many Rosicrucians and others are fond of this 'Universal Brotherhood' concept, while disagreeing on precisely how it ought be attained in a similar manner to those Muslims who practice jihad as a form of worship. I have no idea how this relates historically to the occult world but keep my ears out for stories. Certainly there is a connection along masonic lines and the martial emphasis among 'Orders' generally. It seems to me that _Liber Oz_ (OZ) is the most direct and clear statement which takes the politics of 'human rights' to their natural conclusion (that of the Greek city-state; 'no-rule', apparently called 'isonomy') in the liberation of the fully-prepared (civilized?) citizen/Thelemite, and it may well have been the vision of the 'forefathers' of the US in the creation of a similar political system (I am not studied enough in either history or politics to know). The book I'm reading now, _On Revolution_ by Hannah Arendt, mentions the concept of isonomy -- it is something we have been attempting within the Haus Kaos for several years now (where human resident = citizen) with mixed success, but it is stabilizing nicely. I tend to push for an expansion beyond 'human', yet understand this will take some time. ;> Where I live in America the government obstructs citizens from exercizing rights guaranteed by OZ (sodomy, self-intoxication, body-modification, necromancy, spiritualism, self-damage, suicide are all illegal in some measure, or gradually eroded through indoctrination) in a parental and intrusive manner only justified when presuming the govt's ineptitude to function temporarily in the protection of the rights we *are* supposedly guaranteed (various others have pointed out the examples of occlusions of American civil liberties guaranteed within the Bill of Rights, as they understood it -- speech, arms, etc.). The promise is that the govt will mature and we are asked to perservere while our society (and the globe) catches up to us. As a Thelemite I accept the task of aligning with the country of my residence (mother/Nuit), seeking out the alternative (father/Hadit) or working for a revolution of consciousness in my present circumstance (child/Ra-Hoor-Khuit) and I take that assignment seriously (choosing the former until recently, the latter more and more often, never desiring to leave). Where psychoactives are concerned within my own country they are illegal and yet apparently readily available, even in more conservative areas. The major problems apparently related to them are *selling them* (which is only a problem because the substances are controlled), operation of machinery and other large containers/vehicles during their use, and the destructive potential of their chemical exposure (damage to body or mind) or physical behavior to self and others (abuse or violence). Yet OZ challenges the listener to *play* as we will, to die how and when we want to (as in euthanasia, the 'good death'), to eat and drink what we will, etc. To whom is this addressed? And how shall that will be determined? Suppose OZ was a political document like the Bill of Rights and the majority of some predetermined district determines the nature of proper conduct (civil morality). Would that not suffice to justify compliance and cooperation with legal systems in the mean time? Oz also asks us to kill "those who thwart our rights". Seen from the standpoint of a government document these might be interpreted as 'any who attempt to interfere with our govt., and if we were really lazy we could accept that all the rights guaranteed in OZ should be fought for by the military/police (against aliens/criminals respectively). The slaves shall serve? I don't interpret it as such a document. I see it as a personal dictum of responsibility for my own life. In this case I must look to who is thwarting my Thelemic rights carefully. The police don't thwart my rights until they abuse their responsibilities, as I see it; their job is to be the messenger of peace in a time of internal conflict which their presence intensifies. I have known a few police/peace officers and been a security guard (only barely related) for a few years, and I think I can make the leap to their position. It is difficult and dangerous, and they are more like a messenger of a political system than the driver of it. Those who make the laws are politically and militarily responsible for *instructing* that those laws be enforced, and, successively, those who elect or encourage the politicians (in some countries a majority of voters or representatives) array in a beautiful diffusion of targets. Thus, some will contend that politicians and activists may be better targets of this kind of self-defense (demonstrated in the Middle-East with Rabin and perhaps in the US with Kennedy and King Jr.). As the poster above said, 'assassination politics' appears to be "the only ethical form of government" supported by OZ. OZ is very revolutionary and extreme in its content and yet it is highly regarded within the Thelemic community of which I am aware and among Thelemites whom I respect most greatly. But what if we aren't an Ozzyian Thelemic? What if we are pacifist and don't want to go about killing all those who stop us from doing the things given as rights within it? Then we are left to 'kill' in a metaphorical sense, through opposition and combat in the field of the political arena according to our ethical standards. I am not ready to literally kill for my rights, but I do see the value of having those who are condemned by the establishment ('drug'-dealers and sex workers as well as any others who are impacted by draconian limitations on our civil liberties) as the forerunners of a Thelemic political platform. Mothers who have had illegal abortions, people who have had their own or assisted suicide attempts thwarted by the law, those who have been prosecuted under sodomy laws, and those who have been imprisoned for the possession of narcotics are the likely the best representatives of human freedom and dignity. Teach masturbation. Eat people, not animals. Save the planet, kill yourself. Vasectomy prevents abortion. Thank you for not breeding. The police are your friends. Real men wear skirts. Free love, right now! tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com boboroshi