Do What Thou Wilt
It is interesting that Initiate was mercilessly accused of plagiarizing Aleister Crowley when his quote was actually worded a little differently. Crowley’s wording was: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
The Initiate stated it this way:
“Do what thou wilt, for all to do as they will!”
It’s kind of silly to accuse anyone of plagiarism when he quotes a famous phrase of which most know the source. For instance, if I say “the truth shall make you free” most will realize I am not claiming to be the first to state it.
The Initiate made the odd statement that he gave out the phrase for a trap to his adversaries. First, one would not expect a brother of light to go about setting traps for anyone except perhaps in extreme circumstances of real conflict.
Secondly, it was kind of difficult to see exactly what the trap was about. My best guess is that he made it close to the Crowley quote so he would be falsely accused of quoting Crowley. Then he can say, “You are wrong sir. I am saying something entirely different than Crowley.”
Sounds like an ineffective trap.
In any case, he did say that his statement had an entirely different meaning from Crowley’s. That said let us examine the statement:
“Do what thou wilt, for all to do as they will!”
It is written so it sounds like people as a whole will be free to do as they will if individuals first follow their own wills.
Unfortunately, this is not true. If the pervert desires to rape a woman then obviously doing what he wills does not lead to the victim doing what she wills for she had no desire to be raped.
If the burglar follows his will to steal your big screen TV then you cannot follow your will to possess it and watch it.
Obviously, this is a deeply flawed statement. He said he was going to explain it shortly, but there was so much conflict on the site that the thread was shut down. It will be interesting to see if the guy surfaces again.
I would guess that he was going to tell us that if individuals are free to do their wills then the group is also free. That is only true though if the will of the individual is in alignment with higher purpose. Those who are not in alignment with higher purpose frustrate the freedom of the whole rather than enhancing it.
There is an interesting teaching by Joseph Smith in this direction. He taught that there were three kingdoms of glory available in the afterlife. The highest, the celestial was likened to the sun. The next, the terrestrial had a glory like the moon and the lowest, the telestial was much dimmer like the stars and in this kingdom each person differed in glory like the stars. What determines which glory we can abide is the law that we are willing to be subject to. To enter the highest glory one must be subject to the celestial laws.
All kingdoms of glory and made so by law and if one cannot abide by law but becomes a law unto himself then he will enter a fourth kingdom that has no glory but is a kingdom of darkness.
Therefore, if a person strictly follows the adage “do what thou wilt” he will eventually wind up in the place portrayed by scripture as “outer darkness.”
Indeed, all we see is created by and functions by law. If nature did not follow the laws of gravity, inertia, repulsion, attraction etc then randomness would be everywhere, hence the darkness.
A reader makes this comment: To me this phrase “Do what thou wilt, for all to do as they will!” means:
“Feel free to exercise your free agency, but in such way so that all the others could exercise their free agency too”.
or:
“Feel free to exercise your free agency, to allow all the others exercise their free agency too”.
I think “for” means “for the purpose of”, “in order to”. I do not think “for” means “because”. However, my English is a second language.
In such interpretation, if a rapist desires a woman [free will of a rapist], but the woman says “Stop it!”, the rapist should stop in order to allow the woman to exercise her free will too.
If this “divine law” is observed, there simply will be no place for rape. [The man can go to a brothel.]
JJ: I would suppose that was what Initiate was trying to convey, but the wording is extremely unclear and confusing if that is the case. If that was the message the wording should have been something like this:
“Do what thou wilt when it enhances the will and freedom of the whole. Otherwise, align your will with the highest known good and execute.”
Question: if our own self, subconscious self or higher self [two different things] steps in, do we label that as 1] soul contact, 2] Higher Self, 3] Holy Ghost, 4] guardian angel, 5] still small voice, 6] Solar Angel, 7] other?
JJ: Think of all the things you bought this last month. They came from a variety of sources but there was one medium that allowed you to make the transactions that gave you power to possess them. That medium was money.
Even so it is with soul contact. This allows us to contact the point which is neither matter or spirit, neither wet nor dry, where magic can be wrought. By raising our consciousness and tapping into the point of interplay a door becomes open so many differing magical things can happen such as:
[1] Contact with the Higher Self
[2] Sensing the Holy Spirit
[3] Tuning into the presence of angels and discarnate entities of high vibration.
[4] Hearing the still small voice
[5] Feeling the presence of your Solar Angel
[6] Inspiration and revelation.
[7] Sensing true spiritual love
[8] Tuning into the Oneness Principle. And more.
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June 10, 2026
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