To paraphrase Crowley, I’ve never hated the Law of Thelema. I have only hated Horus because war gods are dicks.
“Many would also argue that we just haven’t given Horus a chance. All this bloodshed
is just the growing pains of a new aeon. We only have to wait a bit more before his
illumination shines upon us.
I’m sorry. I just don’t trust a warrior god, especially one with his numbers.
No aeon in our history directly coincides with its revelation. The prophecy either
comes before or after the event. In this case, The Book of the Law comes woefully too late to act as a warning. It is only an explanation, a window into a change of gestalt towards infantilism. Only this child does more than pluck the wings off butterflies.
Hindsight pegs the start of the Aeon of Horus at the Enlightenment. An age that culminates with the rise of Napoleon, who introduces us to the citizen army, so that whole nations can participate in the orgy of bloodshed. Since then we have had:
The Napoleonic Wars: 3.5 million dead.
The American Civil War: 750 thousand dead.
The Russo-Japanese War: 136 thousand dead.
The Franco-Prussian War: 167 thousand dead
World War I: 16 million dead.
World War II: 60 million dead.
And the accompanying Holocaust with over 10 million dead. None of this includes the colonial genocides of indigenous people or all the other wars before, between, or since. This is not a hiccup. These are not growing pains. This is a record indicative of a world gone mad. While war was certainly a constant in the ages before, seldom were they mass slaughter. Ancient wars are characterized by ceremonial combat and fighting between the warrior classes, with the occasional sacking of a city. The main characteristic of modern warfare is the deliberate targeting of civilians for strategic purposes. From those filled with the bloodlust of the Falcon of War, no one is safe.”
Threskionis, The Babalon Current in Modern Magick