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Thelema Exercises

Version 0.2

Release Date: 4 December 2009

Contents

Contents............................................................................................................................ 1

Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2

The Value of the Will......................................................................................................... 3

Awakening the Will............................................................................................................ 4

Disciplining the Will ........................................................................................................... 5

Taking Control................................................................................................................... 6

Conquering Worry............................................................................................................. 7

Willful Control .................................................................................................................... 8

Developing Strength of Will............................................................................................. 10

Exercises of the Will in Daily Life .................................................................................... 14

Saying Will ...................................................................................................................... 16

Cultivation of Will ............................................................................................................ 18

Cultivación de la voluntad ............................................................................................... 20

Irresistible force versus immovable object...................................................................... 22

Training The Will ............................................................................................................. 24

Developing Will Power and Self Discipline ..................................................................... 25

Will Exercises The Work: ................................................................................................ 27

Appendix 1: The Will ....................................................................................................... 28

Appendix 2: The Magical Will.......................................................................................... 37

Appendix 3: Will .............................................................................................................. 39

Appendix 4: Imagination ................................................................................................. 42

Appendix 5: Will & Imagination ....................................................................................... 44

Index ............................................................................................................................... 46

Thelema Exercises

Introduction

The word thelema (θέλημα) is classical Greek, signifying the appetitive will

(desire) and sometimes sexual desire. In early Christian writings the word to

usually refers to the will of God, but is also for to the human will, and also the

will of the Devil.

In the Renaissance, Dominican monk Francesco Colonna wrote the

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , in which the protagonist, Poliphilo, has two

allegorical guides, Logistica (reason) and Thelemia (will or desire). Colonna’s

work was influential on the Franciscan monk Francois Rabelais.

In the 16th century, Rabelais wrote two novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel, in

which he featured a fictional Abbey named Thélème . The only rule of this

Abbey was “ fay çe que vouldras ” (“ Fais ce que tu veux ,” or, “ Do what thou

wilt ”).

In the mid 18th century, Sir Francis Dashwood inscribed the adage on a

doorway of his abbey at Medmenham, where it served as the motto of The

Hellfire Club.

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) was an English occultist and writer. In 1904,

Crowley claimed to have received The Book of the Law from an entity named

Aiwass, which was to serve as the foundation of the religious and

philosophical system he called Thelema .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the was a great deal of interest in the

human will, with numerous books appearing and proposals for a psychology

of the will. From various sources, magical to mundane, exercises have been

written so that individuals may become aware, experience, and develop their

will.

Psychosynthesis, a branch of Transpersonal Psychology, features the

concept of will as a central function of the human psyche. Roberto Assagioli,

founder of the Psychosynthesis movement, synthesized his spiritual wisdom

with contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological knowledge, writing a

book entitled The Act of Will. In this book, a culmination of Assagioli’s lifelong

research into the Will, he proposed the Will Project to thoroughly investigate

all aspects of the Will.

It is from these and other sources that the following exercises have been

taken (some slightly adapted), and released into the public domain in an act of

goodwill, that anyone interested in personal development may benefit from

inclusion of these exercises into their daily life.

- The Editor

Note: Exercises are currently organised in the order they were ‘discovered’. Future revisions

will most likely rearrange them in a better order.

Thelema Exercises

The Value of the Will

by Will Parfitt

Relax and centre yourself. Think of times in your life when you have missed

an opportunity or caused pain to yourself or someone else through your lack

of will. Picture these events as vividly as possible and allow the associated

feelings to affect you. Now write down a list of these times in your life with

which you have just connected. Let yourself really desire to change yourself

so that you have more will.

Reflect on all the opportunities and benefits there would be both for yourself

and others if your will was strengthened. Think clearly what these advantages

would be, then write them down. Allow the feelings aroused by these

anticipated advantages to really affect you. Feel the joy that these

opportunities could give you, the satisfaction you would feel if you were

stronger willed. Let yourself really feel your desire to become stronger in this

way.

Finally picture yourself as having a strong will. Imagine yourself acting in

every situation with firm decisions, focused intention, and clear awareness.

Visualize yourself walking, talking, sitting and simply being in a way that

exhibits your mastery over the will. You are strong, yet subtle, firm yet kind,

acting with skill and discrimination. Realize you can use this technique to

strengthen your will whenever you choose.

Source:

Psychosynthesis: The Elements and Beyond (ISBN 0-9552786-0-0) p. 64

Online References:

http://www.willproject.org/wiki/Purpose_and_the_Creative_Will

http://www.willparfitt.com/

http://www.psavalon.com/

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