A debate about Thelema has got me thinking. These are some ideas I’ve had so some time.

I am not a prophet. These words not holy. These words represent beliefs that are malleable and can be refined. There is nothing that is the word, only what the gods speak to us. Even then, those words are for those who hear them alone, and do not apply to anyone else.

I believe Jack Parsons was correct when he said:

“The present age is under the influence of the force called, in magical terminology, Horus. This force relates to fire, Mars, and the sun, that is, to power, violence, and energy. It also relates to a child, being innocent (i.e. undifferentiated). Its manifestations may be noted in the destruction of old institutions and ideas, the discovery and liberation of new energies, and the trend towards power governments, war, homosexuality, infantilism, and schizophrenia.

This force is completely blind, depending upon the men and women in whom it manifests and who guide it. Obviously, its guidance now tends towards catastrophe.

The catastrophic trend is due to our lack of understanding of our own natures. The hidden lusts, fears, and hatreds resulting from the warping of the love urge, which underlie the natures of all Western peoples, have taken a homicidal and suicidal direction.”

The Aeon of Horus has proven to be in the nature of its symbol—warlike, without mercy, and without forethought.

No aeon in our history directly coincides with its revelation. The prophecy either comes before or after the event. 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.

Luckily, the Aeon of Horus is waning. There is every indication that the progress of aeons, like computer processing power, flows exponentially. Using our most familiar aeonic system, if you perceive the Aeon of Isis as goddess centered, hunter-gatherer, pre-history, then it lasted a good 140,000 years. If the Aeon of Osiris is god centered, agricultural, and civilized, then it lasted a mere 12,000 years at the most. How long will the Aeon of Horus last? Will it be a tenth or a hundredth of that ruled by Osiris?

I posit that the next aeon, just on the horizon, is the Aeon of Thoth. The Aeon of Information. The fact you are reading this message gives evidence of this. These words will travel around the world at the speed of light, be translatable into dozens of languages at the click of a button, and copied so many times that no fire or flood can erase them.

The Law of the Aeon of Horus is: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.”

But doing as we will without forethought has proven to be a recipe for disaster. For the survival of our race and our planet, a new way must be found.

I propose that what comes next is not a “Law” at all, but a mantra. A way of looking at things. A meditation. A prism in which we should reflect our thoughts and actions.

KNOW THYSELF IS THE PURPOSE.

LOVE IS THE REASON.

For this simple phrase we should welcome all comment and interpretation.

I believe that we must first know ourselves and understand our True Will, before we act upon it. After understanding, the course we become clear. I believe that love, “the chance at union,” must be the goal.