“I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.”
- Aleister Crowley
Creating Your Own religion
The Magician creates his or her own religion
“According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion."
- Franz Bardon
You are following an ancient royal tradition. But (at least in today’s age) you have to discover it for yourself. It is occult and hidden.
Aleister Crowley quote about creating your own religion….
There is a tradition, yet the key part is to do it and practice it and make it your own, to innovate and push the tradition forward To make it real for you
And you have to put pieces together since the whole system is not really out there all nicely put together in one package.
You have to learn from various teachers and create your own System
What Damien says about Magical Orders - they are probably not needed in today’s world, but some people have gained valuable knowledge from being in Orders….
The magician creates a model of their reality and lives by it.
A system. It doesn’t matter if the system is objectively real, as long as the system works. As long as it helps, the magician skillfully create a navigate their reality
Create your own religion. Create your own science, life science
Using the tree of life, tarot cards, numerology, planets, zodiac, and astrology, alchemy…… All this is the model, the system, the map, the language and the vocabulary, framework, and the symbols….
As long as your map, system is internally consistent it can work for you
“In the same way, the model of the world we will be examining here is simply a model, applicable to certain areas of human experience and less applicable to others. It is not itself the truth, in any real sense, and to take it as such is to waste most of its potential. Similarly, the wide range of things and beings which play a role in that model—levels of being and modes of action, elements and worlds, Spheres and Paths, spirits and angels and Names of Power—are no more real than, say, electrons or the Gross National Product; they are simply ways of speaking about subtle aspects of the universe we experience each day. This, in turn, is their strength, for whether they exist or not, as Aleister Crowley was fond of pointing out, the universe does indeed appear to work as if they do.”
- Circles of Power, John Michael Greer