a quote from the Master Therion
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
Let's open up our eyes to the dangers and difficulties of savage behavior. How then, does a Thelemite perceive something as savage?---after all, we do worship the God of War and the Third Chapter of the Book of the Law is filled with apparently uncivilized slashes of the sword.
To begin, we must assert---right from square one--- that our perception of good and evil are defined in a completely different sense than some old aeon diehard who perceives not the proper God upon His Throne.
Thelemites refuse to deny what they essentially are in the sense of biological will. We also refuse to find contradiction in our affirmation that we are, indeed, stars upon our course through the universe assimilating everything and taking those experiences we encounter and consolidating them within to the equation reduced to a point-event. Yes, and of course we call the sum of these experiences a point-event, Hadit. Moreover, our biological will is as important to recognize as our spiritual will to properly view the known universe through the eyes of truth and reality. The biological will in a woman is to give birth to a child. The biological will of a man is to lust after and seduce the woman. It is also the biological will to eat and release waste material. To ignore the biological will is to end the species. It is to be out of alignment with the will to exist into the future. So much for the old aeon idiocy of sex and lust being an essentially savage nature. Without it the race dies! As Thelemites, we must realize that to deny our savage selves is the old dirty, smoking kettle of rotten rubber that stinks the world of hypocrisy.
After all, what could be a more hypocritical a view point of phenomenal existence than ignoring our sharp teeth that imply we are meat eaters or ignore the spiritual wonder of the naked stars indicating further that we are, after all, creatures of spiritual curiosity.
We must examine all our so-called savage tendencies with open eyes, and understand what we really are to assure ourselves that our will is genuine and honest. Witness for yourself the popularity in modern theater with blood sucking vampires, cannibalism, mass murder, monsters that stalk and kill, and other select reminders of our savage nature. We go to a horror show to "be scared" as if to return ourselves to a dark and primal state which deep within we recognize is still a part of our essential natures. We allow our mind to experience through the theater those past and primal tendencies that do not result in life threatening reaction on this plane---and yet give us that strange thrill as we take advantage of modern technologies that have made modern theater a strange return to our primal past.
Volition over emotion is a standard mode of self-control to cleanly perceive our inmost natures without fear or overreaction. Note, however, that controlled release of emotion, which seems to be (at least at first glance) the opposite side of the coin, may also be as essential to the awakening of our inmost selves to experience the truth of our will.
I would, therefore, recommend very highly to the would-be initiate whose feet are not yet calloused by experience on the path, to map out a series of meditations that directly confront those savage tendencies that are blended with such unique perfection with the spiritual in the Book of the Law.
In terms of the initiate reaching Tiphareth completely attuned to the truth of the spiritual balance of the Sun, you must have meditated as deeply on "torture" as you have "caress" to be assured an ample and honest perception of the universe.
Noted that to observe a truthful universe with open eyes we must not only sooth the savage beast but stimulate him. It only becomes worth it when you apply all this and initiation really awakens. Then, you will finally see the point and awaken to a much more balanced and useful state of consciousness.
Love is the law, love under will