“It all depends on your own acceptance of this new law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of foolish fables beneath the intellectual level of a Bushman and the moral level of a drug-fiend. All you have to do is to be yourself, to do your will, and to rejoice.”
– Aleister Crowley, “The Law of Liberty“

“Thou must (1) Find out what is thy Will. (2) Do that Will with a) one-pointedness, (b) detachment, (c) peace.Then, and then only, art thou in harmony with the Movement of Things, thy will part of, and therefore equal to, the Will of God. And since the will is but the dynamic aspect of the self, and since two different selves could not possess identical wills; then, if thy will be God’s will, Thou art That.”
– Aleister Crowley, “Liber II: The Message of the Master Therion“

“Thelema is a Law encompassing an universal ethic, a revealed religion, postulates of magick, and a philosophy of nature.”
– T. Polyphilus, “93 y’all“

 

“Thelema is an all-encompassing paradigm.”
– IAO131, “Active Thelema, part 1“

“Thelema is a universal philosophy or way of life.”
– Gerald del Campo, “Brief Introduction to the Religion of Thelema“

“Thelema is a philosophical, mystical, and cultural system based upon a seemingly simple premise: that every person is a divine projection of the Universal All and, as such, has within him or her a True Will that is the expression of one’s deepest, most genuine self which acts in perfect accord with Nature. By laboring to apprehend and express this Will, one is able to live a life of greater harmony, fulfillment, and joy.”
– Ash Bowie

“In essence Thelema is a call to radical individual Liberty and Responsibility. It is summed up in the axiom “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.'”
– Sam Webster, “What’s Crowley Got To Do With Thelema, Anyway?“

I maintain that Thelema is first and foremost the formula of spiritual development most suited to our cultural and historical circumstances. It includes a philosophy informed by supra-rational experiences; it provides a basis for sacred observance that syncretizes the best elements of so-called ‘world religions.’ As I see it, Thelema is more Christian than Christianity, and more Satanic than Satanism.”
– T. Polyphilus, “What is Thelema?“